The Express. — London, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1851. react of all the authorities which he deems necessary. The requisitions may be addressed directly to ell the officers, commanders, and functionaries, who are obliged to com ply immediately therewith under the penalties established by the law. The l'resident may delegate his right of re qutsitioa to the questors, or to one of them." This, the Ordre holds, is identically the same in (substance with the proposition of the questors. But the fact is that the motion of M. Ban and his colleagues foists in a foreign element, which is neither contained in the constitution nor in the quoted decree of the Constituent. The 32nd ar ticle of the constitution says: "The Assembly fixes the amount of military forces established for its secu rity, and disposes of them." Neither here, nor in the decree of the Constituent is there a single clause which enables the Assembly . to appoint the com mander of the troops it requires for its protection. But the bill now brought forward by the questa* introduces a clause empowering the President of the Assembly "to designate the officer charged to com mand those troops." This is a decided attempt to encroach on the prerogative of the executive power in its most important functions. Thus while the President of the Republic, keeping strictly within the letter of his attributions, is daily menaced by the parliamentary organs with the bugbear of impeach ment. trial before the High Court, committal to Vin cennes, and what not, the official representatives of the Assembly present a bill violating the constitu tion, and containing an aggression upon the righted the executive which amounts to nothing more nor less than high treason. The Sleek sacs that it would have applauded the questor& bill hiid it been proposed a ft er the reviews of Satory, or even after M. I.kon Faucher's speech at ltheitns. But it opposes such a move at the present 1 moment, as really directed against universal suf (rage, and because there is no symptom that the President is in any way conspiring against the state. It is evident, from the identity of argument and similarity of language used upon this subject by the four papers mentioned above, that they must ham received a mot dordre, and been inspired at theism source. We have in this proposition of the questors the renewal in a more aggressive form of the attacks of the Committee of Permanence founded on the plot of Allais last vear. At that period the President I insisted upon the dismissal of I. Von, the Assem bly's commissary of police. In order to vindicate his authority and dignity as the head magistrate of the nation on the present occasion, Louis Napoleon in all probability, insist on the dismissal of the questors. The committee of parliamentary initiative at a meeting this morning. heard the observations of the Minister of the Interior upon the quistors' bill, and adjourned till this evening, when the minister will again attend. To-night a general meeting of the demoemticparty will take place, in order to deliberate upon the situn ation, and upon the course to be pursued with regard to the elections of November 30. In the Assembly's sitting of to-day the discussion of the budget of the interior was resumed. M. Schteleher proposed to add two chap ters, granting succour to political convicts and to the wounded of June. M. Passy reminded the house that these chapters had been struck out by a vote of last year, as holding out a premium to civil war. The amend ment of M. Schadeher was rejected by 109 votes against 209. The last chapters of the ministry of the interior were voted without debate. The ministry of commerce and agriculture followed, without raising any incident of interest, and having been completely voted, the budget of public works was entered upon. Interpellations were accepted by the minister of the interior for to-morrow, relative to the assault during the vacation, by gendamies, upon M. Sartin, representative of the people. To-morrow will also come on the debate on the Lyons Railway. The convocation of the electors of the Seine for the 30th of November is a measure which has been the subject of much conversation without its motive yet having been penetrated. The conservatives point to the election as an oceasion for the democratic non abstentionists to vote in favour of M. de Thorigny. But that minister is as little likely to become a fa- vomit° with the Left us any of his predecessors. It would take the genius and resolution of a first-rate statesman to wrestle with the torrent of bureau erotic reaction in which a French Minister of the Interior is by the force of circumstances placed. M. de Thorigny has giten to-day a fresh prod of his incapacity to resist the stress and bias of o ffi cial traditions. 'There was a meeting yesterday of the Association of Musicians. Some stanzas had been written by Victor Hugo for the occasion. The audicucc ' waiting an hour for this.pro• of the revolution and of society, for he has reconciled the two. He Las deserved well of the rich, of the poor, of the public peace, sad of France, which, of all modern nations, will stand distinguished as the nation of universal suffrage. Ile gives the President credit for patriotic motives, but kit% supposing him to have been prompted by mere verso , nal interim,. maintains that he has still dune well, for he has learnt that honesty is the best policy. HI. Lamartine then attributes the failure of every government from 1789 to 1848 to the wantof thegreat saving principle of universalsuffrage. To that principle proclaimed on February 25th, 1848, at the Hotel do N tile, by men without authority but not with out wisdom, it is (he says) alone due that the republic—a most improbable form of government—continues to exist in spite of menaces. It was the force of that principle which suppressed all communist sedition in the time of the con stituant, chastised u a sacrilege the attack upon the As sembly of May 15th, 1818, caused the constitution to be ac cepted by reluctant royalists without a murmur, presided at the orderly election of December 10th, and procured Louis Napoleon to be hailed as President of the Republic by his most determined opponents, of whom H. Lamartine was one. The reason of thin success of universal suffrage he states to be, that it is a principle, whereas everything else is but fiction and expedient. It is a principle fallen from heaven, the true divine right, which was lost and is found. After this warm tribute to universal suffrage, and to the President for adopting it as his flag, M. Lamartine proceeds, however, to blame very severely the terms in which the message announe(s the change of policy. lie accuses the President of flattering the passions and panic fears of the majority, and of betraying an excessive per sonality in his real or affected anxiety for France, if she should not revise the constitution in order to give stability to some one person. He ridicules the allusion of the mes sage to a general European conspiracy, and (amends that the radical revolutions dreamed of by sonic few disordered brains form no rational cause for alarm. Ile maintains that France proved in 1848 the honesty and good sense of the masses. Ile argues from the actual state of all European notions, that the word was never more safe than now from demagogic conspiracies. England, he says, laughs at all the elements of revolution, leaving them to be neutralised by the wise and politic liberty allowed by her really hereditary republic. Ile objects to the use in the message of the sinister word " Jacquerie," the exist- ence of which in France he tctally denies. The article concludes with an exhortation to the President to dispel the one great danger which elands the horizon, by declaring that lie will not accept an unconstitutional re election, and expresses a belief that lie will yet make that declaration. The Jwirnal du Cher of Friday states that several new arrests have been effected at Saint Arnaud, and amongst them is M. Itollet, a member ot' the council general of the Cher, arrested on the charge of being implicated in the riots in that department. In execution of the law voted on June 13 by the Assembly, relative to the national guard, the bu reaux of the prefecture of the Sane arc nt present actively employed in a complete reorganisation of, that institution on new bases, better calculated than the old ones to secure public order. The authorities placed over the national guard of Paris have been almost unanimously of opinion that it would be ad visable to act on Art. 119 of the law, which accords to the government two years for the reorganisation of the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th legions, at present dis solved. The general service will be thus, it is true, somewhat more onerous on the other legions, but still less so than it was before 1848, in consequence of a greater number of posts being now occupied by the troops of the line. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. closed nt 9).30, without change from yesterday ; the Three per Cents. fell 10e., and closed at 35.70. The railway market presented little variation. FRANCE. PARIS, TCSSDAY ETZNING. The committee appointed to examine the electoral law, after having examined this morning the Minis ter of the Interior, heard the reading of M. Daru's report, which concludes in favour of the rejection, pure and simple, of the government's bill. The committee agreed to refer to the committee on the Nlunicip.il Hill those modifications of which it con ceives the present electoral system capable with ad vantage to the public. M. Nlob-, president of the committee on the new electoral law, informed the Nlinister of the Interior, at the elms: of the sitting of Saturday, that the com mittee had come to their resolutions, and had named its reporter, and requested that, if the minister wished to give any explanations, he would do so as soon as possible. M. de Thorigny r c. ,(c com mittee that he would at tend un the following day yesterday). The consequently assembly at three o'clock, but the minister not attending through some misunder. standing, the meeting, after waiting half an hour, broke up. The Minister has since sent a letter to M. NIOIC, expressing his regret at the misunder standing winch prevented his attendance, and stating that he held himself at the orders of the comm Um Yesterday was the anniversary of the Ifith Bru maire, a revolutionary date, in which the parliament seems continually to apprehend that Louis Napoleon seeks a pattern for the completion of his ambitious policy. The Pith Brumaire of Mil has indeed gone off without any rwsp djtat ; but it was selected, not perhaps without design, by the President to receive the officers of the garrison at the Elysi.e. This cere mony, quite conformable fur the rest to official usage, was distinguished by a very remarkable address from Louis Napoleon which has excited much sensa tion as a political demonstration. The officees having been introduced by General Magnan, the President addressed to them the following speech : Gentlemen,—ln ri ceiving the officers of the different regiments of the amply who succeed each other in the garri son of Paris, I congratulate myself on seeing them animated with that spirit a hick was our glory, and which now con stitotes our security. I will not speak to you, therefore, either of your duties or of discipline. You ave always performed your duties with honour, whether in the land of Africa, or the soil of France ; and you have always maintained ilkeipline intact in the midst of the most difficult trials. I hope that these trio:. will not return, but if the gravity of eireeni stances should renew thorn, and compel me to make an I appeal to your devotedness, I am sure that I should not be disappointed, because you know that I demand no thing that is nut iu accord with my right, recognised by the constitution, with military honour, and with the in terest of the country ; because I have placed at your head I men who hose my entire confidence, and who merit yours ; i beta..., if ever the day of ' - should arrive, I will not brought about that investigation into the Customs as . s . slay of danger. . _ , _ .... ----- _ _ as kept du as th . e . ak. .omens which have precedail me have done yet only partially finished by a committee of the I wilt not ray to you, " March. land I will follow you,' - i higue. At last it was announce d that M. c }louse of (' um butt wat Guy to )uu, " 1 march, follow me." - 1 horigny had prohibited the recital of M. Victor In February loot the first and strongest . of these I lugo's song. Ihe idea of the Parisian democracy The officer+ presented to the President were to inforniatioos was tried before the Lord Chief Baron voting for such a minister to be their rt•presentative the number of five or six hundred. They met at the and a speeial jum. It consisted of eleven counts ;it • cannot be entertnintal fora moment. On the other fuileriese and fade heat thence through the Champs charged the compiny with pilfering 8,0011.15. of sugar ay. ," to the Elyse':e, and thence to the Ministry hand, one cannot perceive without regret the jacobi and 2541 cwt.*. of cocoa from its customers , and , var. Meal style of the socialist poet's later e ff usions. The with tainting payment of the duties thereon ; and ''''' song in question ends with the following sinister diss The most remarkable feature in the above document after an investigation of eleven days' duration figurement of the popular muse: "Oh tyrants, the is the ambiguous facility with which the appeal to the and an expenditure of not leis than 20,4)001. of aziple sings as the lion roars" —a sentiment better devotion of the army may be construed as referring the public's and the dock's money on the cane, the t L ecuming the mouth of Hinton than that of the poet equally with the designs of the parliament and to ult was a verdict of guilty of not entering two orator of the Peace Society, in the midst of the Kit h those of e seditioua democrats. But no one boxes of sugar without, however, any intention of century. The government might have put off the can doubt that the sense of the speech, although evading the ditty ; and with respect to the cocoa,elections of the Seine until the 15th of January . , and looked under a possible application to insurgent on nine out of the eleven counts, a verdict passed for socialism, is in reality pointed against the legislas has been therefore blamed for the gratuitous inter the company. Substantially, therefore, the Customs' tore • and in this light the address must he accepted pulation of a contest, which can only agitate case entirel'y broke down ;' displaying, however, inpublic opinion. But I believe the secret of the time as th e' counterstroke of the p ro p osition of the quest the attempt to support it an exercise of arbitrarytors It is equivalent to a declaration that Louis fixed will be ;found ill this: The elections will take . power, ot reliance on the evidence of dismissed tier- place according to the law of May, and therefore Napoleon will not allow the parliament to appoint a yants, of unjuatitiable suspicion, and of libellous and the great bulk of the democratic party will abstain. commander to the troop; which it is entitled to de seatielaloux clumps against a great company whose Hence the contest will lie merely between the par. mind for its protection a declaration which may be existence was a huge profit to the revenue, quite un- liament and the President, who wishes, probably, to made all the more safeiy at the present moment as Ileled in our courts of justice. The result of this elicit a decisive demonstration of public opinion there ap ,in spite of the adhesion of MM. Ber trial rendered the demand for a parliamentary in- inst his adversaries. It is only unfortunate that ryer and Mola to the opposition policy of M. Thiers, a ;r l quiry irresistible ; and how in the inquiry the Cu,- v ery N . Billault was not selected for the candidate of the little chance of its being carried, even with the tone. fared is hot too well known . In ats counie thegovernment instead of M. de Thorigny, who seems . ohiectionable and unconstitutional clause withdrawn ; chairman and secretary of the London Docks were hitherto in no degree above the common stamp of in mil every probability of the motion not bet/ examined: taken into eon. uueratioa , and therefore not referr yellemetice they protested their innocence of all theinto its old tone of bitter opposition to Louis Nn lo a committee. Much noise is made about the Custoina' charges, and enlisted the sympathy of the loon, and disclaims all concession to a government omission of the words " recognised by the con- , a , .' . committee. as they hail pies Musty done that of th e trreacemably committed to repressive principles. stitution," which follow the mention made by ',oldie, fur the peraccution they were suffering.ln noticing one feature of the message, the allusion, the President of his " r i g h t " in the copies When parliament rose, the reputation of the Cus- namely , to the necessity of referring the presidential of the address delivered yesterday to the Balkan de toms sits at zero ; and from its ill repute the Tree- election to the parliament, in the event of the first Paris and ifonitenr de Soir, while that qualifying sums also auttired. Both departments were at issue candidate not obtaining two millions of votes, the expreaaion is inserted in the Paten.. The AssentbVe . with the mercantile community ; and that comma - Valletta! draws attentian to a point which seems to thus accounts for M. do Thorigny's absence from the nity was represented by the two dock companies.l have escaped a due degree of public attention, and 1 ,.., committee on the electoral law, be which h e Au attempt to recover the ground they for " - was lis certainly slurred over iu the message. The first had .--- engaged to appear. Immediately after the delive wens., however, to have been resolved on; and, on 1. .3' candidate must, according to the .17th article of the of the speech, a cabinet counsel assembled, wherein pretence of understanding what it was their duty t o constitution, obtain the absolute majority . of votes it was resolved to urge the l'resident to insert those have been perfect itiaaters of before, viz., the dock and at least two millions of suffrages. It is well to words as a propitiatory concession to the Assembl y; system, the Chairman of Customs and one of thebear this in mind, as the number thus required is and, in the meantitne, a message was sent to delay Secretaries. of the Treasury began to visit and exas nearer four millions than two, even according to the the publication of the Pntrie. But the fact is, that mine the London Dta.k... 'There they met and were present electoral lists. the words arc by no means material, as the President thrown into intercourse with the chief officers of the . I If I am to trust the Constittitionoci, a very ire I can have no right but that which he receives by the docks; regret was expressed at what had occurrred, portant schism has occurred between the clubs of the : constitution. It is, however, provided by the 50th i and hopes of accommodotion were held out if t he tue des Pramides and Rue de ltivoli. A deputa article of that charter, that the President "disposes docks would only admit that the Customs had a legal lion of t im e former, consisting of Odilon Barret, of the armed have, without ever being able to com right to make the seizures litigated. With a mar- Nlontalembert, de Broglie, and Daru was appointed mend it in person." Hence the concluding sentence vellotui disregard of se hat was due to their own elm- by the former club to treat with the board of the Rue of the address, •• 1 march ; follow me," is =tier ru Maki upulou,ly assailed, of what was due de ltivoli, in order to moderate the ardour of the oppo- I , held to be in contradiction watt the constitution. to the mershants whose property was in their cus- sition evinced by M. Berryer and his adherents. But in phraseology of this sort it is impossible to say , Cody. and of what was due to the entire trading These peace-makers experienced so dry and harsh a! what is literal and what is figurative. Taken broadly, nitamunity which had risen in their defence reception on the part of the legitimist committee,' the arose need not haply the President's presence on ats one man against the Customs tyranny, that they could not even explain the ulterior objects the field at the head of the troops, but simply the dock officers were weak enough to listen to the continuing t o his jof their mission, but broke up the conference, and " dispose of theta "according to voice of the charmer ; it was arranged that a letter "s'l retired in disgust. In the meeting which took place his constitutional prerogative, and not flying ; of a penitential character should be written, that on Thursday night, at M. Darn's, the deputatiou ex from Paris in a post-chaise to leave a clear field to • minimal line of s'. should be submitted to, and lained the nature of the rebuff they had met with the dictatorship of General Changarnier. The .18- Heat there own the pr.ssecution should be quashed; ' fn attempting to negotiate for the reconstruction of sentbVe contains an article headed "The Proclaina- and this asieidal abandonment of the pub li c eaum the old club of the conseil &Mat on the basis of a Son of the lath Brumaire," in which it attacks the was actually sanctioned by the directors: notwith- common conservative polies. They proposed Leon President with a violence worthy of the days standing their chairman had repeatedly pledged him- Faucher for vice-president, but were told that after of the Napole.n and the Peuruir. The Ordre self nut to ;accommodate or compromise these *condo- . the ex-minister's Bonapartist display at Rheims it reechoes the same arguments. The D'Aitts and lons prosecution*. was impossible to support him. No better rano; gives the a dd ress without remark, reserving Well -towards the close of October, withoutsuccess attended their recommendation of l'eupin f fi re i ther re possibly or to -morrow. The almost identity ! taking any external advice, without giving a hint and Berard as secretaries. Be Kcrdrel and Gri ef the articles of' the principal organs of the par k a- the other duck company, without consulting molt were the candidates of the coalesced parties merit at present indicates the close understanding their parliamentary friends, this letter was written; of Thiers and Berryer. The divisions of the party which prevails between Thiers, Mole, and Berryer. cautiously and skilfully. It contained, however, of order were seen in the moult—Faucher was thrown De Broglie fi ghts sh y of the extreme opposition the requited aulmission, only too plainly expressed,out on one side and Kerdrel on the other. The pro of this triumvirate; and the Ds , bots does ROL hesitate that, iu respect of some of the goods, ihere might position of the questors was condemned by the meet to cull the proposition of the questors a measure of _. have existed legal grounds o f seizure on the in g and a resolution was taken to vote against it. the most deplorable unseasonableness. ground of irregularity. 'that was enough, and far , I The POse contains a long article by M. Lamar morebrought than enough for the Customs and the Treasury. tine, headed •• itettections on the Message," intro round in favour of Louis Napoleon by this aggressive 't lie latter seized like an eagle on the expression art o f the parliament, which must either be the pro - lucid by the following affecting letter to M. de la irregularities; held it to admit and include every. Gut nicre: thing. to be a complete justification for all th a log" eto revolution or a humiliating defeat of the Chained by illness to my bed, without moviment, aggressors. The commercial dosses charges and imputations made against the Dock arc alwa y s ta- without sleep, and for nineteen days and nights without vourable to an energetic assertion of an undivided Company. tor the harshness with which rho prose- _ tarn. food, I have Just had read t.? me the message and the sitting. adieu lead been conducted; to be • proof of the "'''' ; 1 end, savour to dictate the myna-mss that I have received " necessity' . of the poccedings: and that the objects I The Ordre defends the proposition of the questors. , I . . n. ... Irons them. Give them to your readers fur what they are. Oa the 11th of May, 1:418, the Constituent Assembly ; those proceedings aimed at had been attained. So iI V aYri whi the 'n features of M. La rtine's a decree , which contains the following i tu ... , give you . irate mein it, • - t ' my lords" read the unhappy eons , portent awe:i " Ilefleettons : pony, whore honour lead thus been betray . ed. • • sting- I P un. i In order to provide fur the internal sail external security! The article begins by an enthusiastic eulefty of Louis Na. nig lecture, raised Sir THOMAS FasmaNTLE a r .- of the Natiooet Assembly, the president of the Assortshl y . pol eon s in hi s l character of the restorer of universal suffrage. named Ise of id. to 100 L, required all the goods seised h a . the s i g hs to s „ ti s se t h e armed force, and the concur- Lucia apo eon, says .At Lamartiue, has deserved wet both SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 5. The Chambers were opened today by a decree of the crown. There was no speech. A vote of thanks to the army and the inhabitants of Cuba was moved by Benavidcs, and carried unanimously. The minister has refused to suppress the Naeiwi on the demand of the Pope's nuncio, on account of the general indignation caused by the suppression of the Eurya, the radical evening paper. Ifowever, the Narly and four other morning prints have had informations filed against them by the fiscal. GERMANY. VIENNA, Nov. A. The Emperor returned t, Vienna yesterday morn ing early, and had interviews immediately afterwards with Prince Sehwarzenbcrg and General Kempen, the commandant of Vienna. in chronicling his return the official lithographed correspondence dwells with great satisfaction on the loyal demonstrations made m Galicia, and considers that the Emperor has shown great desire to do all in his power for the re spective nationalities, by graciously receiving what ever manifestations of a national character have uvcurred during his journey. Field Marshal Ilaynau has found it impassible to keep the property purchased in Hungary with the sum of money presented to him by the Emperor. Ills desire to part with it is announced to arise from the I absence of labour and the difficulty of procuring it ' from other parts of the country. It may be true that the labourers have refused to work for their new neighbour; they have, however, dune more. llaynau has failed to get in a single crop of any kind. Every thing has been destroyed by the peasantry, the crops above and in the ground have been wasted by fire or other means, the buildings burnt down, and every method of agragrian outrage adopted in order to make the place too hot to hold him. They have suc ceeded. BERLIN, Nov. 5. of the continuance of The formal the Zollverein, on the occasion of Ilanover's entrance into it, must necessarily take place before the com mencement of next year, for by the original treaty it appears the annexation of a new member must bo published at least three years before its expiration. fhe Zullverein Congress will not meet till next year. Whether Hamburg and Bremen will join it is yet doubtful. The small kingdoms were deeply offended by the secresy with which the September con vention was concluded, and are no friends to a measure which presses them somewhat into the back . ground. The financial embarrassment of Austria, however, . makes any commercial alliance with her for years very improbable, and their own interests will bind them still, though perhaps reluctantly, to the Zollverein. Bavaria cannot either free herself from it ; it may be does not wish to do so, though a favourer of protection and by political instinct attached to Austria. All south-west Ger many, therefore, it may be said, is safely locked up in Ithe Zollverein for a long while to come. Saxony is no doubt entirely in the Austrian camp; her menu factures find their best market eastward. Yet, this would be a matter of slight importance if the Prus sian policy could be firmly depended upon. Indeed l it is said by many well-informed persons, that the treaty of September is spoken of in the highest poli ' tical circles as an event that may remain quite barren, that may never be brought into practical operation, and that a new cabinet in Hanover on the death of the King may altogether frustrate all its Ipurposes. This, however, though often said in the newspapers, I take to be croaking, for the prospects of the Zoll and Steureverein union, arc certainly the most cheering that Germany at present enjoys. The rdsige Zeiermy says that the principaily of Schaumburg Lippe has brought to conclusion nego. I tiations with Hanover for joining the Zollterein, and I that ratifications were exchanged thereupon on the 23th of last month. The same paper adds that be twcen Hanover and Oldenburg a convention to the same effect is also about to be effected. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The appointment of General Bardenfleth to the I command of the Holstein contingent has by no means the importance that was at first attributed to it. From the beginning there has been no intention to circumscribe the Danish supreme authority. It was always intended that the Holstein contingent should be commanded by Danish officers. The fact has nothing in common with the pending negotia , lions. At the very moment that it takes place, the great German powers have determined that the federal troops shall not be withdrawn from the north till all the Danish and Duchy affairs arc satisfacto rily terminated. In the popular chamber ( Volksthioge ), on the Ist inst., M. Kampman demanded from the ministry I further explanations upon the state of negotiation with foreign powers, and also a fuller statement ofl the policy it was intended to pursue. It was pro pose(' by the government that communications to this effect should be made in a secret sitting; lint this being objected to, it was agreed that on the 4th the chamber should decide whether the discussion of this subject should be open or secret. Meantime, if one may judge by the Berlivachen Zeititng, the people are much exasperated by the demands made by the great German powers, which they are, by this I and other papers of the same colour, recommended most vigorously to withstand. ithr ervregili• TO CORRESPONDENTS. • Irma f Tbs Farms." *fatal 1• be was safeiffro tfas.aw," r wait-eta tam, Tusagay sad • *fiat, fa NN tfe pow. 401.4111010,141111ateseted for ..71fa Omsk" Larks Emilia, pow, woo Ir a tam mate. 10, trooorwrior. lot Two o'clock ea Ur MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tins D.l—afuntlng, 5 1o• 1531. .Afterfase. SOS. Tassaiww—Mcgnind, sr. 47.2. Attars% 416 4a. LONDON. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 11. ON Thursday last her MAJESTY'S Treasury, through the columns of the Globe, announced that the Court of Exchequer would receive no further trouble from what are called the Dock Cues ; as the Consnanies proceeded against by the ATTORNEY OESERAL had made their peace with the Customs. Now Thursday last was the 6th of November; and the correspondence out of which this announcement (but partially accurate as we shall see) sprung only terminated on the 4th of November. The Treasury, therefore, lost no time in announcing what was true, and in adding to it a little more than the truth. And from this haste, and the triumphant manner in which the fact, and more than the fact, was so precipitately made, it is to he inferred that the Trea sury (sadly scandalivd by the late mercantile revolt against, and the subsequent investigation into, the Customs obstructions to commerce) is of opinion, that by this conclusion it will regain some of the cha racter lately lost. A correct acquaintance with the circumstances of the case will not, however, support any such opinion; but will rather lead to the conclusion that the Treasury has, in an undignified man ner, snatched • victory over one of the Dock Companies, to which the ompany was exposed by its own functionaries trilling with its honour and reputation, and uhandonitt„o the high position it had previously assumed in its defence of an unparalleled prosecution. Ike Treasury announcement, we have said, is only partially correct. The ATTORNLT-GENLItAL had, it will be recollected, proceeded against both the Lon don Dock Company and the St. Katherine's Dock Company, and the compromise so announced included both companies. This, however, is not the case. The St. Katherine's Docks have not been convicted of any offence against the Customs laws; they have hitherto resolutely defended their integrity, assailed by the Customs; as yet they have had no correspon donee tending to any admission that they have any offence or irregularities to compromise ; and though, down to Thutstlay last, the authorities of the St. Katherine's Docks had every reason to suppose that they were acting in accord with the func tionaries of the London Docks, the announce ment of the eit,hc bok them as much with surprise as it did the commercial community of Lon don generally, whose champions in this matter the 'sock Complain" hall assumed to be; and it is, we are told, only to-day that the directors of the St. Katherine's Docks will have an opportunity of con sidering the effect which this desertion of the other company will have on their defence. In considering it they must nut forget that the public cause is now in their keeping; and they ought to know that if they persevere in defending it and their own charac ter they will be fully supported and amply Monk ventml fur all the tradde and coat they will be put to. Against the London Dock Company the Anon- PISY•6I:NeIt vi. had litd no fewer than sixty seven informations imputing • under all the violates forms that legal ingenuity could give to the charges, almost every species of of fence, that could he perpetrated within the walls of a dock and of bonded warehouses, nut merely against the revenue laws, but against their ewe none's interests. They had, if these information,' con tained the truth or a tithe of the truth, cheated the Customs and plundered their employers; they had given a premium and a reward to their servants for their ItUtTl!"s it, these frauds; and had made large profits out of other people's property. The charges meant this, or they meant nothing. The character of the London Delis fur common honesty and bare integrity, to say nothing of honour and high morality, I was therefore impeached. In this spirit the London hocks amplest and defended the prosecutions; they appealed to and neeived from the City support and sontideneo in this attack on their very existence; they pointed out the immense depreciation of their capital (probably not less than •itio,ooo/.) it had in volved; nod they . and . their complaints chiefly to be re-entered for duty, insisted on regulations for the prevention of future irregularities, and relying on the company's penitential assurance of better con duct hereafter, pardoned it for offences which it had failed to establish before a jury. This astounding answer from the Treasury brought the director, of the London Docks to a sense of what they had done. But too late.' In vain they referred the Treasury to the persona arrangements out of which the correspondence arose; in vain they repu diated the interpretation put on their letter ; in vain they protested against the injustice of a money fine ; in vain expressed their conviction that they had grounds of action against the Customs officers who had seized the goods : all in vain. The Treasury, on their own supplication, had pardoned them, and would condescend no further correspondence. " (Jo and sin no more," was the only consolation they could screw out of " my lords." lAnd thus kicked and spurned by the Treasury, they have disgusted the mercantile community, whose interests they have sacrificed. They have s. ent 13,000/. in obtaining a verdict substantially in their favour, and have then abandoned the verdict they obtained. In the selfish expectation of promot ing their ow n interests, they have left the St. Kathe rine's Docks in the lurch. After rousing City indigna nation in their behalf, they have yielded to the tyranny of the Customs, against ahieh they excited it ; and having selured the co-operation of a large and independent party in the House of Commons, I they have given up the cause which they themselves put in the hands of that party. What apology to Mr. NiltellELL, who so zealously and ably, at their own request, took up their griev ances and brought them before the committee of the House of Commons—what justification to the public —what explanation to parliament—the London Dock Company can possibly offer for this conduct, remains to be seen. TURKEY We have received our letters and journals from Constantinople np to the 25th ult. A lettor of the 16th ult. from Trehirond announces that the Shah's troops had entered Herat. Mehemed Pasha, seraskier of the army of Arabia, and Mehemed Pasha had embarked on board the same steamer for Beyrout. Vassif Mehemed Pasha, governor of Belgrade, and M. Petronowich had arrived at Constantinople, sum moned, it was supposed, to give explanation upon the insult offered to the F.nglish flag in the person of M. Fonblanque, British consul at Belgrade. Two hundred of the captive Bosnian 'rebels were conducted on the 23rd to the Porte, to be examined before the council of state. UNITED STATES. The New York Herold states that the cause of tho delay in the departure of the steam-ship Atlantic, on Saturday, arose from the nut of the crank pin becom ing loose. She had proceeded sonic distance outside the bar when the disarrangement occurred, and though but of a trifling character, Capt. West, with his usual prudence, thought best to put back to have it fixed. A meeting held in Faneuil-hall, Boston, on the evening of the 27th, for the purpose of petition ing the executive to apply to the government of Great Britain for the pardon and release of Smith O'Brien and the other Irish patriots, was largely attended. Governor Boutwell presided, and speeches were made by 11. F. Hallett, Charles L. Woodbury, Colonel Isaac 11. Wright, and others. The meeting adopted the form of an address to President Fill more, praying him to make application in behalf of the Irish exiles. Advice's from Mobile to the 25th state that the yellow fever has made its appearance in that city, and caused much alarm. The Board of Health bad met and reported the disease as not on the increase, but advised all strangers to stay away. Subjoined arc the details of the loss of the Henry Clay, on Lake Erie, and great sacrifice of life: The propeller, Henry Clay, Captain George Collard, had on board thirty pawn's, including the crew and One female passenger. At 12 o'clock, on the night of the 23rd, when oil Long Point, and laying side up in the trough of the sea, the captain lashed himself and the female to the jib stay, and the crew all Dated themselves to the rigging. In 20 minutes after the boat went to !dews, the deck and cabin came off, and the boll turned bottom upwards. The cap tain could not unlash in time, and went over with the hull. David Keefe, whcclman, the only hand saved, jumped oil the wreck and got hold of the pilot house deck, with nine others, and held on till daylight, when he found all but the 11rst mate and second whechnan washed oft. They after wards secured a pole and a piece of carpet, which they raised for a sail, and held on till 8 o'clock Oho wind and sea still high), when the brig, John Martin, bore down and threw ropes to them. Kea: caught one, and was dragged a quarter of a mile before he was got ahounl of the brig. His two companions could not catch the ropes, and nothing more was seen either of them or of the raft. Captain Cunard was formerly an officer of the 'fcaan navy, and the inventor of the signal 'macre. now usod for distinguishing vessels at sea. The Ilcury Clay was bound thr Ogdensburg, with a cargo of Hour. Many disasters have resulted from the storm which swept over Lake Eric. On the night of the 23th, about six miles from Cape Cod, while blowing a gale, the steam-ship William Penn, which left Boston at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, came in collision with the schooner Itolleisle, of Pi ovineetown, just return ing front a whaling cruise of seven months, with about 30 barrels spent oil. The schooner was struck on the starboard bow, so that she keeled and rolled ' over. There were 20 persons on board the schooner, ' seven of whom jumped err buru•d the William Penn, nine were taken front the wreck, and tour were lost. HONDURAS. 'We have news front Belize, I londuras, to the 4th October. The Superintendent of Belize returned on the 3rd from a tour to Amlxgris Island, where it was re ported the inhabitants had hauled down the British flag. Ambegris Island is situated at the mouth of tho Bay of Espirito Santo, commanding the entrahee to that bay and the river Hondo, extending into the heart of Yucatan. ..... The Honduras fraldonan, of the 27th September, gives the following particulars of the affair : Rumour has it that our neighbours of Yucatan have taken forcible possession of the Island of Ambergris, and hoisted thereon the Mexican flag, and that an armed force of 240 men are stationed them. This island has been in the hands of the British settlers, and considered as English property, for upwards of 20 scats: how the Yucatanians have then ven tured to take such a step,as it is reported they have,mast be a matter of surprise: to all. Tut even it they laid a claim to that island, it would have been but common courtesy to have made their demand in n proper and formal manner, prior to adopting the harsh, and it may be said, unwarrantable, measures they have done ; for it is scarcely to be believed that had they any title or right that they would have al lowed the British to sold un .isturbed possession for such a length of time, without a murmur or word. His Excel lency her Majesty's Superintendent has, however, pro ceeded to that place to ascertain the facts relative to this report, and will, nu doubt, Itlie the proper steps to make himself fully acquainted with the subject, and act accord ing to the emergency of the case. It is scarcely to Is' be lieved, however, that so gratuitous an insult should have been offered to the British N ig, when so unealb d Cur ; al though it merely carries out the old saying of •• give an inch and take au ell ;" fur, loon being allowed to hoard British vessels in going up the river Hondo, confiscate their goods, and make- prisoners of their persons, they now wish to seize on their lands. On the return of his Excellency the particulars of this transaction may tran spire, when we shall have much pleasure in laying them before the public. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, Nev. 10. For MSS• I I For Account. P er Pcta* oix.ning Iligtrer.! 55 73 t i 55 75 / 53 75 / 55 65 I 35 70 00 40 ! 50 00 00 90 30 Do 50 S iee Genie ... 3 per Cents. Neer 4 per Cents. 13 pm Crate Exchange on 1.01000 meg, 24 214; 91.1 days, 25 t. Belgian, 5, 1840 Do. 5, 184 Roman Loan, 1831 731 Do. 44 Do. 24 .. Piedmont 5 p..M. 79 25 .. hank Shores PARIN Nov. 10 .— Versailles (right bank ), —•, ditto (left Mak; 214; raris and °elem.., 4.62 Su ; Parin and Roues, SC7 So; Rouen and Havre, 2u7 54; lanreeille., and Manion, 210; edr Le bourg and Bale. 118 75; Centre, 42n 2..; Boulogne and Amiens, —; Orleans end Bordeaux, —; Northern. 454 75; Pori. and ,trins bourn, 333 73; Tows and Santee 255 ; Monoreau ami Troyes, 2 1 . MADRID, Nov. s.—Three per Cents., 36; after Bolsa, 36. Four per Cents., 134 ; after BoLsa, Five per Cents., 16! • after B o lsa , 16 ! paper. Coupons, 84-; after Boise, SI. Passives, 64; after Boise, 6 5-32. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 99 cash. Exchange on Loudon, 50.60. (By Elettiic Teltgrapb.) ANTWERP, Nov. 10.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 71:. Five per Cent. Ardoins, 131.. Three per Cent. Intcrieur, al Russian Four-and-a-Half per . Ccnts., Exchange on London, 23.25. But.:sset,s, Nov. 10.—Belgian Five per Cents., 981 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 90; ditto Two and-a-Half per Cents., 491. Exchange on London, 25.23. AMSTERDAM, Nov. B.—Five per Cent. Metal liques, 69,1 ; Five per Cent. Ardoins, 131 ; Three per Cents. Interior, 34 9-10 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 991; Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Integrals, 67 3-16. Exchange on London, 11.821. VIENNA, Nov. 10.—Five per Cents., Metalliques, 911; Exchange on London, 12.48 ; on Paris, 133. Agio on gold, 32 ; ditto on silver, 27. HAMBURG, Nov. 10.—Three per Cents. Inte rior, 321. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1161. FRANKFORT, Nov. 10.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 71. Three per Cent. Interior, 341. Exchange on London, 119:i ; on Vienna, 92,1. BERLIN, Nov. 10.—Voluntary Loan, 102 1 .; Na tional Debt, 881. Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russian, 101:!. THE STRr.F.T-TUMEILING NUlSANCE.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held an ingue-t at the Duke of Kent, Cross street, St. Gorge-in-the-last, on the body of Robert Steven. aged 7 years, who raided in Church-road, adjoin ing. Deceased was in the habit of tumbling along by the side of omnibuses, Bre., in the Commercial-road, for the pur pose of obtaining money finm the passengers. A few days ago he complained of a pain in his neck, and on Thursday afternoon he was taken ill, and died suddenly. He was previously attended by a medical gentleman, who was of opinion that the practice of resting on his head and turning lualbody over so repeatedly had produced an effusion on the brain.—TheC ironer remarked that thin practice of tumbling was most dangerous, and that the police ought to interfere to stop it. Verdict, Visitation of Clod." WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Great Western, Captain Woolley, arrived ut South ampton last evening, bringing the usual British and foreign West India and Mexican mails, in charge of Lieutenant I'urver, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates arc as follow: Greytown (Mosquito), Oct. 6; Chagres, 10 ; Carthagena, 12 ; Santa Martha, 10; Vera Cruz, 8 ; Tampiw, 5; San Juan (Porto Rico), 17; Kingston (Jamaica), 14; lkrbice, 11 ; George town (Demerara), 12 ; Port of Spain (Trinidad), 12; Tobago, 12 ; Grenada, 13 ; Curtain, 13 ; St. Vincent, 13 ; Ilarbadoes, 14 ; St. Lucia, 14 ; Martinique, 15; Guadeloupe, 15 ; Dominica, 1.3; Antigua, 16; Mont serrat, 16; Nevis, 16; St. Kite+, 16; Tortola, 16; St. Thomas's, 19; Fayal, Nov. 3. The Great Western has experienced strong easterly winds, with a heavy sea, and was obliged in conse quence to put into Fayal for a supply of coals. Sho brings 55 passengers and the following on freight : Specie from Tampico, value 27,616 dots.; from Vera Cruz, 131,69 d dols.; for account of Mexican divi dends, 20,943 dole. ; from the Pacific, 37,909 f rom C a lif o rnia, 190,1403 dols.; from Carthagcna, 34,826 dols.; from Jamaica, 7,786 dols. ; from Pavel, 1,365 dols.; from other parts of the West Indies, 30,995 dols.; the total value being 483,919 dots., or 96,800!. sterling, of which 171,201 dots. is in silver, and 30'9,748 dots. in gold. The Royal mail steamer Trent was at St. Thomas. The Medway was passed at sea on the 11th ult., by the Great Western, en mule for Chugres. The Dee, with the outward mails front Southampton, left Fayal on the 12th of October, having put in there fur coals. _ _ _ A letter dated Santa Martha, Oct. 9, gives an ac count of a serious attitir arising out of a quarrel be tween a merchant and a custom-house officer in that place, which ended in the latter being so danger ously wounded by a pistol-bull that he lay three weeks without hope of recovery. Thu letter ends as follows : The news here from the provinces is highly favourable to the government. The town of Medellin, in Antioguia, has been taken, and the insurgents, commanded by General II arcro, have laid down their artitk, to the number of 1,000; 600 more hare Ilea to the mountains in different directions. General Borrero himself ma:king his c,cape as he best could. There woe nut any severe lighting, and the revolu tionary effort appears to he entire,y supprts,d. A letter, dated Grey Town, Oct. 6, says: The route from this town to the Pacific is attracting a large number of pmseugers to aid from Caliternia as it has di:tined advantages over the Panama route. The San Juan River is navigable the whole distaitee ' with the ex ception of about two hundred yard., where there is a rapid called the Castello Viejo. At the foot of the rapid pas sengers have to distembark front the steamer, walk or ride a distance of 200 yards, and re-enthark in another steamer, which they hare succeeded in carrying up the rapid, which strainer takes thent up the river into the Lake of Nicaragua, a distance of thirty miles, and across the lake to Virgin Bay, a further distance of sixty miles. From this place to San Juan del Sad, the port on the Pa cific, is a distance of twelve miles. The road is mostly level, and in the wet 5C11,4111 vet, muddy, but infinitely su perior to the Cruces and Gorgoua roads, on the Panama route. It being the wet season, and the water in the river being consequently high, the steamers have at present no difficulty in navigating it, bet whether they will be able to do so when the water has fa len the next season will show. The passage from Grey Town to Sun Juice del Sud is 40 doh. ; this includes a riding mu!c from Virgin Bay to San Juan. Passengers' baggage is charged at the rate of 10 cents. per lb. '1 here were live vessels with passengers expected at San Juan on the _2nd September. J.I.IICA. The Dispah in of Oct. 11 has the following: There are at present three vacanckv in, the council, caused by the death of 1)r. Robertson and Mr. Bernard, and by the appointment of Mr. Bravo to the office of Auditor-General. One of these vacancies, it liar long been said, is about to be tilled by Mr. Jordan, one of the mem bers for this city. A second lies, it in said, and we believo with truth, been oll.rcd to Mr. Porteous one of the mem been for St. David, who, we Imre reason to believe, has accepted the appointment. We have limed a third name mentioned as likely to occupy the other seat, but the bailie motives which induced us to with hold the publication of the rumour with respect to Mr. Porteous 's elevation, prompt us to silence in respect of the probable occupant of the third vacant seat at the council board. Tine elevation of Mr. Jonluu to the board of council will create a vacancy in the representation of thin city, which there in every reason, to believe will be by James Davidson, Erg., than whom a better can tilde could scarcely be chosen. For St. David's, where another vacancy will be occasioned by the elevation of Mr. Pottcour to the council, there is every prospect of another active contest. Mr. Nunes, it is an nueuccd, will ante more try his luck, and bar already, if rumour is to be believed, commenced his canvass . . In op position to him, the coaxer eativ., party are about to propose Jeremiah Leaycralt, Esq., a gentleman canceled with the 'wish by properly, and largely interes•cd in the colony. - - - - - - On a subject already alluded to in our columns the same journal of Oct. U says : The carriage of his Excellency the governor, lately &s -trained fur the amount of income-tax assessed against him by the vestry of St. Catherine, hes, it ',elute been actually brought to the hammer, and old by auction to the highest and bist bidder for u paltry sum, falling short by lit. of the amount of the tax ; and, we may presume, by many time; the sum of its actual value. Nis Eseelleney, it would appear, has preferred to allow the law to take its coarse. ill•te34 of resorting to the usnal course of a replevin, in order to try the legality id thin assessment which he dis putes. What step his Excellency will take, now that matters have proceeded to thin extremity, we are not aware, but it is probable the affair will bccume a subject of repre sentation o the colonial °Nice, and it is not unlikely that it may yet be the subject of reference to the legislature. It will be time enough to consider this circumstance when the occasion arises, meanwhile we have to deal with the matter itself. Whilst we deeply regret this occurrence, as one likely, we fear, to recoil at some future day on the colony itself, it iS imp,issible nut to see in it irrefragable evidence of the almost universal unpopularity of the iodic ideal whom not even ex alted rank and station could shield from inn indignity which would only be resorted to in the ease of a private person with pain and regret. We sec in it undoubted proof that, aftera residence among U. of nearly five years, Sir Chas. Grey has so contrived to ielmiuister his government as to he now lite raliy without a political friend. We arc satisfied we dial be uucontradieted from any quarter, when we state there never yet has been a governor of Jamaica—bad as many of our governors have been—toward: whom so extreme a course would have been taken as that to which we this day direct public attention. Many governor; have been unpopular with one class or :mother, lint none ever AO completely suc ceeded in driving from him the confidence and the sympathy of an entire community. There cm be no doubt in the world that this antagonistic relation between the governor and the governed has induced the catastrophe now under consideration. The distress and sale of his excellency's personal equipage, under circumstances which are already ' known, may be looked upon as nothing short of a deliberate vote of want of confidence on the put of the whole public. The act itself, hunk us it iv, and unparalleled, speaks the \Mice of the people, and say; that Sir Charles Grey, the nominee of the worst minister that ever held the mi. °ilia portfolio, cannot be any longer our governor. Nor is it likely that, after such a significant proof of the feeling of the public, Sir Charles Grey cm long be retained in his present station. No individual can efficiently administer a govermueut who has ceased to possess the confidence and respect of those over ahem he is placed. We may regret —we do regret :he particular mode in which a want of con fidence and respect has been expresseal, hut the fret still remains, and it seems scarcely possible that, utter what has taken place, the government of this island can lie retained in the hands that now hold it. Let us only hope that the Sit. Catherine's "levy " may not operate seriously to our disadvantage in the selection of a successor. Heavy rains in the island had led to many ac cidents, one of which in St. Thomas-in-the-East, proved fatal to a gentleman of oho name of Little john. The paper above quoted says : " Her Majesty's brig Helena, It;, Commander Ireourey, at present are this station, is ordered home to be paid oft, her time of service having expired." The weather is described as having been " favour able and congenial to the interests of cultivators." A case of poisoning by arsenic had led to the advo cacy in the Jamaica papers of the enactment—" In this island of the statutory provisions now in force in England for restricting the sale of arsenic and other poisonous drugs. It is very much to be feared that deaths by poisoning arc far more numerous in this island than is generally conceived." BRITISH GUIANA , A meeting of the planting interest had been held at Grorgetown,which was numerously attended, at which two resolutions were passed by overwhelming majo rities, the first of which expressed the satisfaction of the gentlemen present at the plan of reform in their institutions brought forward by the Governor in tho Court of Policy on the basis of the resolutions agreed to by the absentee proprietors at the London Tavern on the 4th of April last ; and the second of which earnestly pressed on the court and tho government the imperative necessity of adopting early measures for the continuance of immigration. late Court of Policy met on the 30th of September, to discuss the proposed reform in tho constitution of the colony, and the second reading of the measure, after some opposition, was duly carried—one petition only against the change being presented to the court from residents in the colony. The court on the fol following day was engaged with the Immigration N