The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-07 00:00:00

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But it is understood that others of more weight and po terry have inspired the counsels of the Consults. Austria forbids the journey—confidentially protests wine the repetition of the political error of Pius \lll.—filially deprecates the presence of the "Holy Father " at the coronation feast of the Prodigal Son, whil4 his own Kaiser, the eldest son of the Papacy. has not been so honoured. 'f he offer so equalise the favours shown to the two Imperial Crowns, by making a coronation visit to Vienna as well as Paris in the same year, is said to have rather aggravated than appeased the jealous ire of Austria. Would Rome ungratefully thus level the pretensions of legitimate right and elective sovereignty? Had it been a lloußuo' who urged the unusual request on the part of France, Austria would have resisted its concession. But that a man who ostentatiously boasts himself a parvenu king should demand this special act of Pontifical consideration, stirs the slow blood of the MEW of HAPSBURG, and sets in mo'ion every artifice of German and Italian diplomacy. And not without success ap parently, tor we learn from the accounts last received from Home that in a Special Consistory, held for the purpose of advising the POPE on this and other matters, a large majority of the Cardinals gave their opinion against compliance with the wishes of the French EMPEROR, and in accordance with those of the court of Vienna. _ The relations of Bonapartism with the Papacy have, from first to last, been characteristically fitful and capricioul. From the day when NAPOLEON I. rudely forced the hand of the POPE to sign the treaty whereby the conquests of the French Republic were recognised in Indy to that on which he induced the same PONTIFF to perform the ceremony of his coronation in Notre Dame, a period not much greater intervened than that which has elapsed since his imitative nephew told the National Assembly of Prance and the courts of Europe that a French ex pedition had been sent to Rome to maintain repub lican institutions there. While engaged in laying the foundations of his throne, the first NAPOLEON courted the favour of the Church, and lavished honours and emoluments on its priesthood. But no sooner had the temporary purpose been served, than the self-appointed sword of the Church was turned spent it. NAPoLeos demanded that the same Pore who had crowned the ♦irtuous JOSEPHINE should sign the cruel and undeserved decree f. r her divorce. In vain the powerless PONTIFF pleaded that such a dispensation would be uncanoaic.il and beyond his power. The sword of the Church was inexorable. Sacraments, like treaties, wore with him but moves in the game of ambition, to be sustained and held good only until subsequent moves rendered them useless or inconvenient. This last and worst concession to Bonapartism was also made, bat made unavailingly, as we know; fur within a brief space the self-humiliated PONTIFF was torn from his own dominions to be detained for months and years • state prisoner in one of the Imperial palaces. The Privy Councillors of the Quirinal may well avert their eyes from the mementoes that mark a Papal progress to Paris. A French garrison is within their walls; they daily feel the embarrassment, created by its presence there; yet they dare not ask for its recall Meantime, Louts Nsrot.zon boasts that he has girded on the sword of the Church, and every now and then he delights the ears of the fanatical by making it rattle in its scabbard. He decorates him self with the title of Lord Protector of the Holy Plates; interdicts the circulation of free-thinking books; scoffs in state papers at the keretical faith of the widowed mother of the heir of ORLEANS; and inaugurates his reign as Emperor by the molestation of Protestant congregations, by persecution of their pastors, and the shutting up of their schools. If he cannot be devout, he will at least show the world he can be intolerant. Nobody suspects the Nephew of bigotry any more than they suspected the Uncle. Religion in the policy of Bonapartism is a matter of police, not of moral persuasion, Two Bishops who recently incurred the Imperial displeasure by mani festations of a non-juring tendency In favour of the Bouanoxs, were deprived of their sees and sentenced to esclusiokunder the title of animism do St. Dieu. Thome, on the contrary, who mainfmt confidence in the existing order of things restive abundant marks of Im perial approbation, and, as in the days when the first Nazoison chose to be in good humour with the Church, tkeir shrines and schools reoeige rannificentdo nations from the had of the State. Whatever be his ulti mate aim, it is manifest that NAPOLEON 111. aspires to become the imperial head of Roman Catholic Chris tendom, and thus to rival the qui-religions power which the GEAR wields over ell who are in commu nion with the Greek Church. The dreams of Tilsit are not yet forgotten. A common interest hostile to liberty of thought and freedom of religion inspires the military Monarchs of the East and of the West. Rivalry may again, as formerly, bring them into an tagonism, but it may also bring about again, as it did flve-and-forty years ago, a anion of counsels and complicity of designs hostile to European tranquillity. Everywhere throughout Southern and Central Europe, things are drifting towards that struggle of great e prin ciples which men fondly imagined had ht out and ended at the close of the eighteen th century in Piedmont, in Hungary, in Poland, in Spain, in Belgium, and now in France itself. Premonitory symptoms of the approaching conflict between ecclesiastical authority and the liberty of the laity were observable towards the end of the first NAPOLEON'S reign. When he had used and flung away the papal crosier he professed him self the impartial friend and protector of all creeds among his subjects, and hence it was that during the hundred days the Protestants were supposed to favour Bonapartism in preference to Bourbonism. They suffered accordingly after the second restoration, and until the revolution of 1830 the clause of the charter which guaranteed freedom of faith and worship was virtually a dead letter. It must be said to the credit of the wily LOUIS PHILIPPE that during the eighteen years in which he held supreme power in France, no man could justly com plain of being aggrieved for conscience sake. The heir to the throne sought a Protestant bride in the House of Mecklenburg, and the Minister who for the longest period directed the counsels of Louis PHILIPPE was sometimes in the bitterness of party conflict reminded that be was a Huguenot. Should the day ever come when another struggle shall take place between the old and the new dynasty, it will be strange if we should see the parts reversed, and behold the BOURBONS taught at last by adversity to honour liberty of conscience; while the cause of Bonapartism becomes identified with that of ecclesi astical intolerance. Tin COBDEN AND BROTRERTON CORRESPONDENCE. —General Brotharton has written the following letter to Mr. Cobden.—" Travellers' Club, Feb. 3, 1853.-84: I have this day received your reply to ray letter of the 29th alt. As say sole objeet m taking up year &Osage was to Manyear sincerity, which I haws now done, I, therefore, de accept your bond. Bat of course, I nevertheless NM Mid myself boiled strictly to perform my part of the viz, the payment of the weekly subieription to r iellia ManaLror Infirmary, sad I have aceordiusly directed sayer/Misr to wait upon yours, sad give him all the sans factory security he may require for the due paymeat of this aubscription, from this . day henceforth , which, be li eve me, I shall always feel ratified in paying in support of such benevolent nut:town, and to which I shall add a donation of 51., transmitted to the tressurer.—l am, sir, your obe • dint servant, T. W. Bit9TRItaTON. To E. Cobden, En." FRANCE. PAUIS, ICXDAT Eveataa. l To-day's Moniteur contains a long review of, with copious extracts from, Mr. Cobden recent pamphlet, and also the correspondence with Gen. Brotherton on the apprehensions of French invasion. The' writer maintains that the views taken by Mr. Cobden are .t.uhstantially correct, and joins him in adjuring the ministers of religion and ad who value the peace of the world to combat the warlike propensities of the English people, and to preach goodwill, peace, and charity. The Emperor yesterday gave a private audience to their Serene Highnesses the Princes Frederick and Christian of Schleswig Holstein. . . . The telegraph is iiow established between Calais and Boulogne. His Majesty has consented. on the application of the archbishop, to become godfather to the great bell of Bordeaux, and has requested the mayor to repro sent him in the ceremony. The Poetmaster•General has given notice that the mail packet boat for Italy, which usually leaves on the 29th of each mouth, will this month be de- spatched on the 27th. Consequently, all letters for the Italian States must reach Paris not later than the 2-ith instant. While the streets of Paris are crowded with holi day folk, looking at the Bred Gras and the masquers of the Carnival, the few people in the way of hearing political news arc under the influence of excitement of a very different kind. This morning, at about six o'clock, a number of arrests were ef fected under circumstances close resembling the ar rest of the generals that preceded the coup detat. Bodies of police, supported by a military force, knocked simultaneously at the doors of a consider able numbeiof persons of;the highest respectability, and took them from their beds to a prison. How many have been arrested I know not, and I am un able to state the precise cause. It is reported that a legitimist conspiracy has been discovered, aided by correspondents of foreign journals. Some people say that the legitimists and Orleanists are equally im plicated, and that the conspiracy may be called a fusionist one. The names of the persons arrested that have reached me are M. Tanski, a Polish re fugee, but a naturalised Frenchman, one of the editors of the Journal des Debuts ; M. Pages Dupont, a well-known writer in the Union ; M. Carpelez, a correspondent of the Gazette d'Augsbourg ; the Duke of liovigo, formerly editor of the suppressed journal the Corsaire, M. Simon, a correspondent of the Tri bune of Liege, and of the Parlamente of Turin, and M. Meyer, said to be a writer in the Petrie. But I have also heard in many quarters of a far more im portant arrest than any of the above, that of General de St. Priest, an eminent member of the late national assembly, a man of high family and character, and one known to be in the confidence of the Count de Chambord. The report that he is arrested is so widely spread that I should not hesitate to affirm the fact were it not that the other names cited to me are all those of journalists, and I therefore conceive it probable that the demon stration may be one against newspaper correspondents only. I have heard special reasons for the arrests alleged with regard to all the persons I have men tioned, General de St. Priest only excepted. M. Tanski, of the Debate, is in the habit of sending poli tical information abroad. He is known to be on terms of exceeding intimacy with M. Collet-Maygret, the Secretary of the Prefect of Police. I sin informed that of late they have rarely missed passing their evenings together. The inference drawn from this circumstance is either that M. Tanski has betrayed the confidence of the Secretary of Police, or that he has been arrested for form's sake, and will soon ex perience tie benefit of the peculiar protection under which he has been acting. Either of these 'apparitions may be very unjust towards M. Tanski ; but I state the impression prevailing in political circles. M. Pagda-Dupont, of the Union is suspected of having sent information to the Casette de Cologne, as is also the Duke de Eovigo. I think there must be a mi,teke in the supposition that the M.:Meyer arrested is the well known Bonapartist' writer in the Petrie. I have not met with any one who knows M. Simon,said to be a correspondent of a Belgian and an Italian journal. The affair is eagerly canvassed, and the French correspondents of foreign journals are naturally in a state of great apprehension. The Emperor, accompanied by the Empress, came from St. Cloud to the Tuileries yesterday, to preside at another council of ministers. The ministerial dif ferences seem to have been patched up for the pre sent, for when the council broke up the following note was sent to the Moniteue: la spite of repeated contradictions, rumours of a minis terial modification an again circulated. These reports, which there is nothing to authorise, are entirely without fouadatioa. The peculiar wording of this note is to those ac customed to the phraseology of the Moniteur a con firmation of the truth of the reports in circulation. The rumours, as may easily be conceived, were un authorised, and as M id. Foull and Persigoy consent to pull together a little longer, they are now with out foundation. 1 am informed that Cardinal Donnet, the Arch bishop of Bordeaux, will supersede M. de Rayneval as ambassador at Rome. M. His de Butenval, the newly appointed French minister to the court of Brussels, is not expected to go to his post till towards the end of the month. The reason stated for this delay is that the Duke de Bas sin°, who has not yet presented his letters of recall to King Leopold, cannot leave his duties as Grand Chamberlain for several days to come. Twelve new carriages have been ordered for the Imperial Coronation. In the list of the amnesty published on Friday are to be found many names of men dead more than a year ago. On Friday the Emperor and Empress came from St. Cloud on horseback, to inspect the improvements going on in the Bois de Boulogne. The Bois being I now the property of the city, it was the duty of M. Berger, the Prefect of the Seine, to receive their Majesties, but being ill, he sent his son, M. Amedee Berger, in his stead. The Emperor, accompanied by M. Be r, jun., and M. Hittorff, the contractor for the works, minutely inspected the sites of the pro tled improvements, and explained the plan to the Tt uil ling of Naples has testified his sympathy for M. de Mumps', the Minister of Police, by sending him the grand cordon of the Order of St. Constantine. PARIS, 111.701 DAY ETIXIXO. After a further examination of the amnesty list, I am still unable to discover more than a very few names of the slightest notoriety. In the whole list of the department of the Seine, which includes Paris, M. Vida, late a captain in the 9th Hussars, and M. Bizet, a barrister, are the only two persons at all re markable. Among the 4,312 are three members of the Constituent Assembly of 1848, M. Antonin, of the Benches du Rhone, who was interne (forced to reside in a place indicated by the authorities) ; M. Paget- Ogler, and Mule, of the Haute Garonne, the former transported to Algeria, the second interne; and seven editors of the departmental journals—M. Oustry, principal editor of the A veyron Republican, trans to Algeria; M. Desolme, journalist at Phi exiled; M. Noakes, journalist at Condom P e ers), transported to Algeria; M. Amouroux, jour nalist at Chateauroux, first exiled, then interv:i : M. Viochot, ex -journalist at Dijon, inlerni ; M. Du portal, ex -journalist at Tou louse, transported to Algeria; and M. Jolibois, ex-)jou rnalist at Colmar, I interne. The names of the individuals am nestied are divided among 68 departments. The 17 departments of Aisne Calvados, Charente, Charente Inferieure, Corsica, Cotes-du-Novel, Finis tere,llle-et-Vilaine, Loire-Inferieure, Lozere Manche , Moselle, Ouvre, Pas do Calais, Hautes-Pyrenees: Seine Inferieure and Vienne do not figure in the list. In each of the seven departments of the Centel, Loire, Mayenne, I ndre and Meuse, Haut Rhin, Somme and La Vendee, but one name appears; in the Bore and Loin, Correze, Morbibau and Tarn and Garonne there are three ; in the Ardennes Sluice, and Loire, and Bu Rhin four ; and in the Meurthe and Haute Sims two only. The procession of the Beeuf-Gras, which until last year has been prohibited within the walls of Paris since 1848, is to be celebrated with all due splendour during the present carnival. To-morrow, Sunday, the cortege will start from the Abattoir-du-Roule, at 10 o'clock, and paesthrough the Faubourg St. Honors, Place de la Madeleine, Boulevard des Capueines,Piue Neuve des Petits Champs, Marche St. Honore, Rue de Rivoli, Place du Louvre, Pont Neuf, and after going through various streets in the Faubourg St. Germain, will return over the Pont do la Concorde, to the ' Champs Elysies, and thence to the Abattoir. On Touiday the osealcade will start at the same hour from the Abattoir, and pass through the Rue de l'Arcade, the Rue de la Ma deleine,. the Faubourg St. Honote, the Rue saint Honore, the Place VeuclUme, Rue Csatiglione, Rue de Rieoli, stopping at the Tuileries, Palate Royal, Place des Victowes, Pointe St. Biotech., Rue Ram buteau, Rue St. Martin, Boulevard St. Denis Fan ' burgh St. Denis, Faubourg Montmartre, and 'Mehra by the Rue St. Loeser, and Rue de la Pepiniere to the Abattoir. On both days the processions will j stop at the different embassies and the hotels of the different ministers in i.s mute. The three heroes of the fete—Pere Tom, Shelby, and St. Clare—hare been purchased by M. Bellamy, the Emperor's butcher, of the Marche St. Honore. The proceedings of a court-martial, held in Paris on Thursday last, present some remarkable features. Sergeant-Major Bonnetaux, of the 6th Light In !ratan., was tried upon several charges, accusing him of robbing the regiment of munitions of war, detain ing the soldiers' p iy, and various other crimes. The counsel fur the defence boldly declared that the real offence of the sergeant-major was, that on the 2nd of December, 1851, he voted against the President of the Republic. It appeared that prior to that time he had borne an excellent character in the army dur ing nine years' service. Since the 2nd of December he has been put on the defaulters book by his colonel, for alleged breaches of dis cipline, no less than 99 times. On the trial it was proved, and admitted by the prisoner, that from 150 to 200 cartridges remaining in his possession from a quantity served out for ball practice had been re moved by him from the barracks to the house of one of his friends. In explanation of the removal he said that, there being an irregularity in these cart ridges remaining unemployed, he had takes them away until after a barrack inspection, about to be made by the colonel, intending to bring them back afterwards. The respectability of the sergeant major and his family connexions made it in the highest degree improbable that he had taken the cartridges to sell. But his vote on Dec. 2, and the supposed socialist opinions of the person in whose house he had deposited the ammunition, led to the suspicion that the abstracted stores were intended for insurrectional purposes. The court-martial, by a majority of 5 to 2, pronounced him guilty of stealing munitions of war, but unanimously acquitted him of all the other charges. He was, however, by a mino rity " de f of 3 against 4, only sentenced to a year's imprisonment, a punishment manifestly inade quate to the grave offence with which he was charged. The difference of opinion in the court-martial with re• gs rd to the principal count, the ci rcu instances of the case, and the fact that the court unanimously disbelieved a mass of evidence tendered by soldiers, who supposed that any accusations against a comrade in disgrace would be favourably listened to, tend to confirm the argument of the counsel for the defence, that the negative vote of Dec. 2 was the real origin of the prisoner's misfortunes. In execution of the decrees of the 22nd January, 1852, imposing on the Orleans family the obligation of selling all their real propeity within a year, the forests of Bourbon-Laney and Bruadon, in the de partment of the Saone-et•Loire, were sold a few days ago. The former fetched 900,000 f., which, it is said, is about its real value; the latter 2,800,000 f., which is much under the estimated value. Accounts have been received of the arrival of the steam frigate the Labrador, which conveyed Abd-el- Bader and his suite to Turkey, at Mondania, a port in the Sea of Marmora, where the ex-Emir was to land, and proceed to Browns. The Tribunal of Commerce yesterday decided a question of some importance to the holders of rail way shares. A tradesman named Brocquet, of Clicy la-Oarenne, was on the 15th June, 1851, robbed of three shares, Nos. 18,438, 18,437, and 18,438, in the Strasbourg and Bile Railway ; and, as the robbery was clearly proved, and as, moreover, no application had since been made for the dividends on the shares, he demanded that the company should give him three duplicate shares, and pay the dividends be come due since June, 1851. The company opposed the demand, but the tribunal granted it. THE =PRESS, MONDAY EYENIgG, FEBRUARY 7. 1863. SPAIN. A letter from Cadiz, of January 25, says that Don Jog Maria de Qaesads, a brigadier of the royal fleet, and one of the most accomplished officers in the Spanish navy, has just received orders from his government to visit the naval arsenals of France and England, to study the improvements recently made in ship-building and in the application of the screw to cream-boat.. M. de Queaada will leave Cadiz in a few days for France, accompanied by the Duke de Tarancon, a captain in the navy. A telegraphic despatch, dated Madrid, January 30, announces that the Spanish government had re plied to the dilatory plea of Narvaez, by an order enjoining him to leave immediately for Vienna under pain of being regarded u a rebeL By a despatch from Madrid, dated Feb. 1 we learn that the funds continued to rise ; the Three per Cents. were quoted 421, and New Deferred 231. Money wu abundant. GERMANY. BERLIN, Fax. 1. M. Von Bruck's negotiations have come to a close. The draft of a commercial treaty between Austria and Prussia, to,zether with their respective depen dents, lies ready for ratification. The second Chamber voted on the 3rd inst. the bill which abro- gates the communal law of 1850. There were for the repeal 184; against it, 142 votes. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FIIIRVARY. The ninth corps of the army is ordered to hold itself in nadiness to march towards the Turkish frontiers. ITALY. ROME, JAN. 31. The follies and pities of the Carnival commenced on Saturday, with but moderate enthusiasm, the pro hibition of masks, the presence of foreign troops, and the political condition of the country, acting as dead weights upon the volatility customary amongst the Romans at this season. Foreigners in general, and the English especially, not having the same motives for depression, are hard at work pelting each other with bonbons and bouquets, or lime dust and flour, or eggs, as the case may be, andare undoubtedly the most vigorous actors on the Corso. The presence of the Ring of Bavaria has given an additional impetus to the balls and receptions of the have ton. His Majesty danced last week at the of the Duchess of Poli, daughter-in-law of rMarino Torlonia, and M. de Boutenief, the Rus sian envoy, and yesterday evening honoured with his resence the fancy ball in Louis X IV.oestumes, given by his own ambassador, Count Spaur,who selectealunday for his entertainment, in order, as is suspected, to escape the infliction of two or three hundred Eng lish guests in his saloons. General Gemean's balls have been likewise given on Sunday, probably from the same benevolent motive. The general is likely to have the pleasure of remaining in Rome for a fortnight longer, his successor not being expected until towards the middle of February. The new director of police, Monsignor Manteucci, has stated it to be his intention, if nothing sinister happens during the carnival, to relax somewhat of the rigour of the precetto, which now acts as a sort of ban upon so many Romans, whose political opinions are ob noxious to the government. As an earnest of this dawning clemency, some of the young men, who, by the tenor of their precetto, are prohibited from being out of their houses after sunset, have received per mission to attend the theatre, one at a time, and upon evenings specified by the police authori ties, this treat being granted them by the truly paternal government of his Holiness much as an indulgent father relentingly affords his naughty boys the rapture of a Christmas .panto mime upon their promising to mind their Latin and Greek in future. Not to hear Verdi'. new opera was, perhaps, in the opinion of a music-loving race, a chastisement too severe for even political delinquen cies. That successful composer has taken his leave of the Roman public, after every possible demonstra tion of applause, showers of gold and laurel crowns at the theatre, torches and bands to conduct him home. His triumph, however, proved fatal to the liberty of the bellfounder Lucenti, one of the many persons subject to the precetto, who was summoned to the theatre in order to tune the great bell, which is introduced with such magic effect in the third act. The bellfounder lived opposite the theatre, and thought that, although after sunset, he might ven ture out upon so urgent an occasion I meanwhile, however, as ill luck would have it, the police paid , him a domiciliary visit to see if he was all safe, heard that he was out, arrested him in the midst of his harmonious operations, and carried him off to prison. Several Roman ladies have been recently sum moned before the assessor of police, Dandini, to answer for the grave offence of having collected money, wherewith to alleviate the sufferings of some of the political prisoners, and to succour the desti tution of the wives and families of political exiles. The assessor assured the ladies that it was the ex press command of his Holiness that they should de sist from such nefarious practices, and threatened them with severe police penalties in case of disobedience. No clue has yet been obtained whereby to discover the poisoner of the Marquis Randini and his family, who are all extremely ill from the effects of the suidimate of mercury so unconsciously and re peatedly imbibed. The marchioness's maid and the man-servant of her uncle are in prison upon suspi cion, but have confessed nothing. . . The Eight Hon. Mr. Nichol, one of her Majesty's privy councillors, and lste M.P. for Cardiff, died at his residence in the Via Sistine, on the 27th instant, and was interred in the Protestant burial ground, near the Pyramid of Caius Cestus, on the morning of the 29th. Many English residents, amongst whom the deceased was much esteemed, attended the funeral. _ _ Exchange on London, 4851. Roman Consols, 94. TURIN, JAN. 30. The King's pardon has, as I had anticipated, been Frauted to Mr. Mazzinghi; and a circular has been issued by the Minister of the Interior, directing the various magistrates in the state to proceed in future with less rfgour against dissenters from the Romish church. The matter has besides been laid before parliament by the Deputy Brofferio. The galleries were crowded with people. Mr. Brofferio exposed the atrocity of both the prosecution and the sentence in so very im pressive and eloquent a manner, that his motion de manding " that government should without delay abrogate the barbarous old penal code still in vigour, and form a new one in accordance with our present constitution," was carried unanimously, and amidst universal approbation ; upon which the ministers formally declared, that a law to that effect would be brought forward the next session. The family of Cereghino, mentioned in my last as having been arrested and imprisoned on the 20th inst. at Favale for reading the Bible by Diodati, are still in prison. It is hoped they will be treated more humanely upon the circular I have mentioned being received by the local magistrates. Count Cavour is recovering his health, although he is still very weak, having been bled five times. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 22nd ult., in the National Gazette of Berlin says :—" A firman of the Sultan abrogates the most important part of the tanzimat, that is, of the constitution of the Turkish Empire. The governors of provinces are restored to the plenitude of their powers. The Christians, hitherto feebly protected, are again menaced with the arbitrary rule of the Turks. Some journals pre tend that this firman confirms the triumph of the conservative .party in Turkey, but such is not the case, as it is personal interests which have triumphed. Feed Effendi, who some months back wanted to force the Viceroy of Egypt to adopt the tanzimat unreservedly, has himseif communicated to the diplomatic corps this firman, which annuls, so to speak, the fundamental law." Accounts received from Constantinople via Trieste, and dated the 22nd ult., state that the exchanges upon foreign capitals were rising. London was quoted at 1191; Marseilles, 192; Vienna, 453; and Trieste, 448. Abd-el-Kader left the Turkish capital for Broussa on the 16th. The French vice-consulate there had been constituted an ordinary consulate. I Ali Pacha, formerly Grand-Vizier, Minister of Fo reign Affairs, had been designated to the government of Smyrna. The depredations of brigands in the environs of the latter town had not ceased. A band had carried off to the mountains a young man em ployed in a French mercantile establishment from the village of Koukloudja, at half a league from Smyrna, and had extorted from his parents a sum of 250,000 piutres (69,0001.), under threat of putting him to death, and sending them his head. He was three days in the hands of the gang, and during that time was subjected to gross ill-treatment. Complaints were made of the government for not taking mea sures to put down the hand. MONTENEGRO. The rienna Owens publishes the following from Montenegro. It is dated generally MONTENEGRO, JAN. 25. The brave Woiwode of Grahovo defended his forti fied house until the 19th, on which day, at 4 in the afternoon, it was taken by storm. Nearly all the lhouses of Grahovo are destroyed by fire. Dorris Pasha has published a 'proclamation to the Oraho• vians, summoning them to return to their homes. Fifteen of them have taken refuge in the Austrian territory, and are now at Crivoscie, having surrendered their arms to the authorities. No operation of importance has been carried on in the Czerninska nalna. Prince Daniel has expressed to the inhabitants of this nahia his deep regret at the lose which they have sustained by the burning of Ylisichi and Karughe. In exhorting them to de fence, he reminds them of their ancient renown and their brave exploits at Zabljak. On the 16th the inhabitants of Bielopaolech came to an engagement with the Turks; the latter were repulsed, and lost 150 men, with a number of horses, and much ammu nition. The Turks, on their retreat, set fire to the hamlet of Martinochi. The Turkish troops stationed at Nikitsch have advanced into Montenegro, and burnt the monastery at Ostrog. Prince Daniel, upon' hearing of this, went to meet them with 4,000 m►en. Outer Pacha is at present at the head of 20,000 men, near Spuss. The Frankfort Gazette states that it has good authority for predicting a favourable termination of General Leiningen's minion to Vienna. Turkey, it is said, finding herself under the necessity of accept ing mediation either from Russia or Austria, prefers that of the latter, as the power exercising the least influence over the Montenegrins. The Augsburg Gazette of the 3rd says :—" The Woiwoge of Orahovo has been made prisoner by the Turks. The Montenegrin districts on the left bank of the Rieka have been occupied by the Turks, but the mountainous part of the country is still free." TUNIS. A letter from Tanis, in the Akbar of Algiers, states that the Bey has discharged one half of his troops in order to lessen the burden of taxation. A CHILD POISONED WITH SWEISTMEAT/L—On Sa turday evening Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Ship Aground public-house, Broad -street, Hateliff, on the body of Murphy Donovan, aged ail months, who died from the deletanous effects of a composition ornament sold at the shop of a confectioner.—Julia Donovan, of No. 8, Orchard, Cock-bill, Rataliff, stated that the deceased was her son. He was perfectly healthy until Saturday evening, when he partook of • small quantity of sweetatuff. On the following morning the child was seized with violent vomiting and purging. Witness called in a surgeon, who asked her what the deceased bad bean sucking, when ahe told him " Only a penny Napoleon made of sweetstuft" The sur geon prescribed for the deceased, but the symptoms in creased, and the child expired on Tuesday morning in great agony. Coroner—Where did you pur chase the figure? Witness—At the shop of Mr. Moffatt, the costa:timer, in High-street, Shadwell. The figure was painted various colours. Mr. Hobert Mack, No. 164, High-street, Shadwell, surgeon, said that when he was called to the child it was suffering from violent vomit ing and purging, accompanied with cholic pains in the bowels, etc. Witness asked the mother what she had given the deceased, and she replied "A penny Napoleon." The figures were covered with a composition called " Scheele's green," which contained a metallic irritant poison of a deadly character. The deceased certainly died from inflammation of the stomach and intestines produced by such a powerful poison as was placed on the figure as a colouring. The jury returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased died from the deleterious effects of a poison called Seheele's green,' which he sucked from tke surface of an image which had been sold to the mother as an eatable material, and that great blame attaches to the vender for selling such poisonous articles." The Coroner was directed by the jury to write to Mr. Moffat to caution him against selling such materials in future. AMERICA. LIVIII!POOL,SuxDAY EvrNixo. By the arrival in our river this evening, at seven o'clock, of the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Arabia, Captain Judkins, we have received New York letters and papers to the 27th January, inclusive, on which day, at noon, the Arabia left New York, with 63 passengers and 130,000 dol lars, in specie, on freight. On the 24th ult. the United States Senate received a message from the President, giving the correspond ence of Mr. Abbott Lawrence. the former ambassador to the British court, and others, with the English government relative to the posture of affairs in Cen tral America. The whole of the documents were ordered to be printed. In the House of Representatives, a committee had agreed to a bill for a commercial reciprocity :with Canada, and a settlement of the fishery question. On the 23th, Messrs. Soule and Case delivered speeches upon the Cuba question, in which they sup ported the Munro doctrine, protesting against Euro pean interference in the further colonisation of the American continent. By later advices from Mexico we learn that Vera Cruz and Castle Ulloa had joined the insurgents. President Arista had resigned, and left Mexico on the 6th. Clavellas, judge of the Supreme Court, bad been appointed president pro tem. The government troops were beaten in a regular battle, and the revo lution was declared to be completely triumphant. All parties were looking for the return of Santa Anna, with a reinforcement of both money and men. When the Arabia left New York business was brisker; stocks were buoyant, and in good demand. The Money Market since the departure of the previous steamer, had been very easy ; money was plentiful, and could be obtained at very moderate rates ; the general trade of the country was reported to be in a very satisfactory condition. The market for breadguffs was very unsteady, owing . to the advices from hence by the Europa ; prices inclined to recede, and very few transactions can be reported. Western Canal Flour was quoted 5 dole. 50c. to 5 dots. 621 e. per barrel, barely sup ported. Oenaessee prime wheat, 1 dol. 28e. to 1 dol. 30e. per 601bs. Indian corn, round yellow, 1 dol. 16c. to 1 dol. 18e. per bu shel, very firm; ditto southern white, 68c. to 70c. per bushel. Indian meal, 3 dots. 75c. to 3 dots. 874 e. per barrel. The cotton market at New York had been very in active, owing to the Europe's news, and prices had slightly receded for most descriptions; the sales had been very limited, holders were disposed to recede a quarter cent, and the following are the quotations: —New Orleans, middling fair to fair, 111 c. to 111 c. per lb.; Uplands ditto, 111 c. to 111 e. The provision market was steady, at the previous quotations. Freights were unchanged, flour to Liverpool being 2s. 9d. to 3s. per barrel ; grain, 9d. to 94d.; and cotton, Id. to 5-16 d. per lb. Exchange on London was _quoted 1091 to 1004 . very steady; on Paris, 5.13 ; Hamburg, 361 to 361 and Bremen, 791 to 80. Zbe Court. WINDSOR, FIN. 6. The Queen and Prince, with the royal children, walked in the grounds adjoining the castle this morning. The whole of the visiting company have left the castle to "ill' Queen and Prince Albert honoured Mr. and Lady Mary Labouchere with a visit at Stoke Park yesterday. SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert dined with the Duchess of Kent yesterday evening at Frogmore. The dinner party to meet her Majesty included the Prin cess Adelaide of Hohenlobe, Ins Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Fenny Howard, Baroness Speth, Earl Somers, Lord Alfred Paget, the Hon. A. Gordon, and Sir George and Lady Cowper. Divine service was performed in the private chapel of the Castle this morning.—The Queen and Prince, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice were present, with the ladies and gentlemen• in-waiting, and the household. The Duchess of Kent took the Sacrament of the Holy Communion,which was administered by the lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley, who performed the service. Prince Albert presided, on Friday, at the Council for the management of the Duchy of Cornwall, at the ducky office, The Honourable Henry Brand, M.P., Mr. Frewen, and a Deputation of hop grow. sir, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing.street. A Deputation of Coachmakers had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing -street, upon the subject of the taxes on carriages, with a view to remove the exemptions and effect an alteration in the scale of taxation. The deputa tion was introduced by Mr. Master:nen, M.P., and Sir De Ley Evans, M.P., and was accompanied by Mr. Chambers, M.P., Mr. Phinn, M.P., Sir J. Duke, M.P., and Mr. Hartley Kennedy. The deputation consisted of Messrs. L. J. Leslie (Chairman), Turner, of the firm of Wybum and Co.; J. W. Peters, of the firm of Peter, and Co.; J. Rob son, Jun., of the firm of Robson and Co. ; E. Booker, of the firm of Booker and Sons; T. Rowley, of the firm of Cook, Rowley and Co.; G. A. Thrupp ; G. Shilltheer, Honorary Secretary of the London Committee; Mr. Wil liams, of the firm of Waddell and Williams, of Birming ham ; Mr. Healey, of the firm of Bennion and Heale, of Liverpool ; and Mr. J. S. Smith, of Canterbury. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and Mr. Prosily, met the deputation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A deputation from the parish of Lambeth, on the state of the sewers, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston on Saturday. The deputation consisted of Mr. William Williams and Mr. Arthur Wilkinson (members for the borough), Captain Wood (magistrate of the county of Surrey), Mr. Robert Taylor (churchwarden), Mr. Thomas Denyer (overseer), Messrs. Septimus Hodgson, Thomas (ii es, and Jamie Lemon (surveyors of highways), Mr. Thomas Roffey (clerk to the surveyors), and Mr. H. Aker man (aalistant surveyor). A deputation from Camberwell New-road, emulating of Messrs. John Coles, Robert Taylor Hunt, John Matsui, and William H. Watson, had also an interview with the noble viscount on Saturday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers present were: the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Duke of New castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, the Right lion. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The council sat four hours. Earl Granville arrived in town from Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough, on Saturday morning to attend the cabinet. The Duke of Wellington has consented to become colonel of a volunteer rifle corps, to consist of • thousand men. It is understood that the government has given their consent to the enrolment of this body. Ma. CHARLES DICKENS wishes us to contradict the paragraph (quoted from the Derby Reporter), relating how 3001. had been presented to In•pector Field, late of the detective force. Mr. Dickens says "The statement is unimportant to me, but as it might cast a slur on the con duct of a most excellent officer in the discharge of his duty, I beg you to do him the justice of contradicting it, on my assurance that it is one or the most extravagant inventions I have ever seen in sly life, without a scrap of truth for its foundation." BLOCKADE OP VERA CRUZ.—The Mexican govern ment has published the following decree :—" Article 1. The port of Vera Crua is closed to foreign commerce and the coasting trade. Article 2. The merchandise introduced into the above port, from this date, is prohibited being conveyed into the interior, under penalty of confiscation. (Signed) PRlZTO.—Mexico, Dec. 30, 1852." THE LATE EARL OP BEAUCHADP.—Tho late Earl of Beauchamp has left property to the amount of up wards of 700,0001. His executors are the Hon. Colonel Scott (brother to the Earl of Clonmell), the Rev. Thomas Philpott, and Mrs. Hitching (the early friend and protege of the late Countess.) By his will the earl has made Colonel Scott heir to all the landed estate not entailed with the title. 20,0001. is left to the present countess, to whom his lordship was married in 1850, in addition to her jointure of 2,0001. per annum ; 20,0001. to Mrs. Hitching ; 2,0001. to the Rev. Mr. Philpott; 2,0001. and 1001. per annum, to Miss Thomas, companion to the late countess. Annuities are likewise provided ti several old and faithful domestics. 60,0001. is to be expended in building and endowing alma henna at Maddresfleld for decayed and destitute agricul tural labourers. The personal property is estimated at about 400,0001., of which sum at least one-half will fall to the residuary legatees, Colonel Scott and Mrs. Hitching, besides the sums invested for the several annuities and the countess's jointure, when those investments shall lapse to the estate. The entailed property goes, of course, with the title, to his lordship's heir, his brother, the present Earl of Beauchamp. THE BURGLAR KILLED NEAR BRIGHTON.— A coroner's inquest was held on Friday, at the Buckingham Arms, before F. 11. bell, Esq., coroner. After hearing the evidence, the coroner stated that the general rule of law was, that killing a man in the commission of burglary was justifiable. Did the jury think there was anything in this case to make it an exceptional one ? " No, no, no," re sounded through the room, and the verdict was then agreed to of " Justifiable homicide." EXHIBITION OF MODERN ARTISTS AT Tiis BRITISH INSTITUTION. This Exhibition isreniarkable for theabsenee ofany. thing strikingly effective or the reverse. It is, infects rather dull, elthoug h the aye ge merit of the pictures exhibited may perhaps be more than usually high. The great predominance of landscapes over subjects of more human interest assists the somewhat satiate lent effect of the whole collection : and these land scapes, numerous and highly meritorious as many of them are, have the disadvantage of quite a singular similarity in character and choice of subject. The Stanfield type has numerous illustrations ; and the Creswick, Denby, and Copley Fielding styles are still more plentifully represented. The sprinkling of R.A.'s and A.R.A.'s is very light, and consists, for the moat part,of works that diminish one's regret that there are no more of them. UM "La Contadina" is a head deficient in beauty and interest; and Pickers. gill's companion pieces, "An Archer," and "A Lady Hawking," are open to the same complaint, with the additional one that the artist has erroneously striven to give a couple of obviously modern portraits the poor and unreal interest of an exploded costume and occupation. A. Cooper's picture, called "Cutting off the Retreat " has the fault of not sufficiently explain ing itself, even with the help of the title. No. 1, "Dort," by Stanfield—to take the pictures that have attracted our attention iu their order on the walls—is, like all this artist's paintings, full of acute material perception and good sense. These, however, are qualities which grow wearisome after a time; " enough" of them is better than " a feast." Stanfield's pictures are invaluable as faithful records of historically interesting places; but " the li g ht th a t never was on sea or land," which those who are the greatest in art know how to express on canvas, is necessary to ren der the interest of any one painter's work inexhaus tible. We find much more of this quality in an artist of a lower name than Stanfield's—T. Denby, who has contributed u very beautiful work to the present exhibition. No.lo, " Recollections of a Vene tian Canal," by J. Holland, is a spirited little piece of painting, and has a much more Venetian look about it than ninety-nine of a hundred of the representations of Venice. No. 49 is a " View in Eskdalo," by Copley Fielding, which will delight all lovers of our English mountain scenery. No. 71, a " Winter Sunset," by C. Branwhite, is a very highly finished, and, in some respects, highly successful landscape. The cracked and semi transparent ice on the river, and the cold glow of the sun on the objects in the foreground, are points deserving especial attention. No. 114 is a fine " View of Snowdon," by Copley Fielding. 130, " The Critics," by T. Earl, is a very clever and emus- . ing picture of two terriers engaged in contemplating an engraving from a celebrated picture by Landseer. 167, by G. Jones, the " Village of Waterloo in 181 S, with the ion in which the Duke of Wellington slept the night before and after the battle," is a pleasing and interesting trifle. The artist has known how to invest the scene with a singularly appro priate and contrastive air of humble rusticity and quiet. Mr. G. E. Herring contributes some noteworthy landscapes. No.lBo is one of them, and in speaking of it we will call attention to a fault which nearly all our landscape painters occasionally fall into. It is that of neglecting to consider what weather is the best offset of the particular scene to be painted. "Bor. rowdale," the subject of the picture before us, is per• haps the most gloomy spot in England. It is one of nature's grimmest ruins, uud ought to have a stormy sky above it, if not the hurricane in its very heart. Such a scene loses immensely by the superincura hence of a commonplace and peaceable sky. E. J. Niemann has avoided this fault in kis contributions, particularly in his large and attractive picture of " Moss Troopers," wherein the more subtly dismal phenomena of cloud, land, and water, are all in good sympathy with each other, and with the nominal subject. No. 292, the " Salmon Trap, Glyn Lleddr, North Wales," by J. Holland, is worthy of the painter of the fine little Venetian glimpse al ready noticed. No. 331, called "' Just Out—the Tale (Tail) of a Teal'—Quarterly List of New Works on Natural History"—is a representation of two kite' who have made a simultaneous pounce upon a who has left his tail in the possession of his now quarrelling attackers. It is a forcible work, hut not pleasant ; one's commiseration for the poor teal is too strongly called for by the pitiable plight in which he is depicted. No. 428, E. Leer's " Mountains of Thermopylae," is a striking work, and will add to Mr. Lear's already well-established fame. And, best of all, to our mind, is T. Denby's " Moonlight Feast,* a heron devouring frogs by moon and glow -worst light. This is an exceedingly poetical picture, and has a mystery of calmness and quaintness about it which it is impossible to describe. DINNER TO DISSENTING M.P.s.—A grand dinner is to be given on the 16th inst., at the Milton Club in Lon don, to the protestant dissenters who are members of the House of Commons. Dissenters from all parts of England will attend the banquet. AN AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANT SHIP.—The CallioßY, a government emigrant ship, left Southampton on Friday last. She is a new vessel, of about 800 tons burden. She took out about 330 emigrants, chiefly poor mechanics and artisans. The married people and children are togethei; the single women were all placed aft by themselves, and the single men forward. A number of persons visited the Calliope previous to her departure to see the arrangements for the comfort and subtistence of the poor emigrants during the voyage. The tops of the tables at which the emigrants sit at meals slide up and down on upright poets, in order to make more room for walking about. The place for living and sleeping appears to be well ventilated from the upper deck. The emigrants were on board the Calliope several days before she started. At dinner time crowds of them were assembled around where the rations were cooked and served out. Each family or party Is known by a certain number, and corresponding numbers are found on wooden tallies attached to nets in which po tatoes are boiled. The meat (boiled beef) was served out in tin dishes. The provisions served out were of good quality. The Calliope is bound for Melbourne. THE ORLEANS PROPERTY. Several packages containing articles of vertu end property of value have ar rived by a steamer from France, addressed and consigned to hie royal highness the Duke d'Aumale. These valu ables have been forwarded to this country from the chateau of Chantilly, for the ex-royal family of France• THE LATE SUSPICIOUS CASE OP DROWNING:so On Friday afternoon the adjourned inquiry as to the cause of the death of Jobs William Kennon, who was drowned at Blackfriambridge, on the 20th December last (as reported in our last), was resumed before C. J. Cantor, Eq., coro ner, at the Druid's Arms, Straitamouth, Greenwich. The inquiry, ea will be recollected, was adjourned for the pur pose of a poet mortem examination being made, and also for the attendance of a City police constable, it being supposed that deceased was drowned in consequence of being knocked into the river by a blow inflicted with a piece of wed thrown at him by some person at Capel's wharf. The first witness examined was City constable 339, who deposed to being on duty on Illackfriambridge on the day in question, when, seeing some coal-heavers near the Fleet ditch, he went down and inquired what was the matter, when he was in formed that a boy had been drowned, and a girl was painted out to him as having been playing with him. He low diately had the drags provided, and on his return found that the irial was gone. In answer to inquiries, he denied ever having told the father of deceased that the girl in formed him of his son having been struck by a piece of coal on the head, neither did he know that tech was the ease. Messrs. Sturton and Hollingsworth, surgeons, deposed to making the post mortem examination of the head, on the left side of which they found a wound, which might have been inflicted by a piece of coal coming in contact with any thing at the time of the accident, and which wound, fpgm the appearance of the blood, they had no doubt was caused before death, Mr. Hollingsworth adding that in the wooed there was some gritty substance, but he could not say that it was coal dust. This being the whole of the additional evidence, the coroner remarked that the jury could do no other than return art open verdict, which was accordingly done. The father of the lad made a complaint to the co roner, at the conclusion of the cue, of having to pay a sum of Ws. to the parish undertaker for the picking up and washing of the body of his son, which he was informed was excessive. The coroner remarked that be had nothing to do in the matter, and advised him to apply to the Board of Governors on Tuesday next. —Kentish Mercury. - - - TILE ANGLING SEASON.—On the let of February commences the season for salmon fishing. The Pr'et" of the year do not seem to be brilliant, at least none of the papers notice the premonitory signs of a fruitful season. `III the Ness hardly a fl..h has been seen to rise since autumn, and it is hard to say whether the numerous floods in the river may be advantageous or the rerun to the spawnilog beds.—Caledonian Mercury. THE GREAT WESTER. DOCKS.—The works are rapidly progressing. The directors have just made a fresh call of 11. sa. per share ul 51. SHOCKING DEATII AT WHITSTABLE.—An inquest was held here on Tuesday, by Mr. Delasauz, on the body of Ann Woodcock, the wife of a labouring man. It appeared that she had been, at an early hour in the morning of the previous day, strolling on the sea shore in quest of copperas stones, and, owing to the denseness of the tog, did not per ceive the rising tide till she was com:,letely surrounded, when she attempted to escape, but .:14 drowned. Some folks heard her screams, but did not arrive until too late, when they found her a lifeless corpsc. Verdict, " Acei dental death." Deceased has left sevi Gaulle.