The Express. — London, England, 1852-05-31 00:00:00

vie ervrroo. TO CO OItBSPON MINT:4. ire %towers." cootaforse • ire ram. rowel. Co " rovalle." Br porbitoood .er7 Toads, of Vrbday .lam, la %km, . lowL AO. war...oft Win tort 4nr "The Itortooh*Lorodoft 'Testes mar, rt.,. the 11. hooverlonstoort, Ivo Vida* eft Or dor for oterftoftbob. MOM wATEIL AT LON 110•4 BRIDOZ v.• 1)..-114r.0w Ob. O a... .. Afternoon. Oti It.. 1 olooaow—AMrarao, I. lk. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 31. Ova despatches in anticipation of the India mail have brought full particulars of the first grand act of OW new tragic drama of War in Burmeh. The forces of the English and of their new foe met, and of course the latter were scattered under a very shower of deadly missiles—their batteries destroyed, their people slain, and their guns captured. Rangoon is in our hands, together with Materban, and the flying Burmese have long since conveyed the news of our prowess to their king—if the parasites of an Asiatic despot have the courage to reveal such a truth to their master. On the II th of April, at haltpast 9 in the morn ing, the English vessels anchored off the stockades, when the Burmese opened a tire, that was returned with such effixt that in ten minutes the powder magazine of the principal stockade blew up—a shell front the English having fallen into it. The enemy's tire was soon silenced, and at a quarter-past ten—that is in three-quarters of an hour—the squadron thought further expenditure of ammunition unnecessary, and ceased firing also. Men were afterwards landed to burn the stockade, which they did, and the steamers then stood up the river. Other stockades shared the fate of the first. Short and ineffectual attempts, on the part of the Burmese, to stay the progress of the English squadron, were in each case followed by a fire from the ships that soon silenced the guns on shore. The upper and chief defence of Rangoon received the compliment of a complete shelling—an operation that seems in one case to have been performed upon • place deserted by the terrified inhabitants, but In another instance to hare told with terrible effect. " For forty-eight hours," says one of the officers engaged in this throwing of shot and shell, " the Burmese saw nothing but falling stars and meteors. They certainly must have thought us devils, for shells, shrapnel, carcase, and rockets were flying, were falling all round them ; and the place actually stinks from the dead and dying." All this shows the inability of the Asiatics to stand against the soldiers, and seamen, and warlike appliances of England ; but that which follows shows us an enemy more deadly than the Burmese, and one beforewhom our best troops will,—it is feared,—in too many cases be forced to succumb. That foe is thedwiers, which had broken out among the troops on shore, and had also made its appearance on board the squadron. Officers and men had already fallen vic tims; and such as the news is it is just what was foreseen and foretold—and just whet occurred during the last war in the same place. The troops of Bormah quailed under English discipline and valour ; but both those admirable qualities availed nothing before the deadly influences of the climate. "This is a most beautiful country—green forests, trees and verdure on all sides," says ow of the actors in the warlike drama. Yes. That beautiful green tells the story of the damp earth—the burning sun overhead does the rest. Many a score—it may be hundreds or even thousands should the war be longed—of brave men will find fever and a grave in " that most beautiful country—all verdure " —looking so bright but being in truth so deadly to all strangers. Certain members of parliament were congratu lating themselves on the prospect of a speedy termi nation to the Burmese war. The news of the defeat of the enemy and our occupation of Ran goon, indicates anything rather than a rapid peso.. Ungrateful as is the part of a political prophet, we will venture to foretell that we are entangled in long and costly hostilities; and that Burnish is—as some time ago we wrote—if not nearly invincible, at least most troublesome and costly of conquest. The guns are taken, and large numbers of the enemy have have been swept into eternity by the cannon of oar fleet. In other words, they, in the pride of their barbarianobstinacy, havedared to meet us in delibe rate fight, and their audacity has been bitterly punished. Rangoon is in the occupation of our troops; but the towns generally are built of timber—the natives have no costly furniture, nor gilded saloons, and it will, therefore be impossible to raise • reasom, or compel satisfactory compensation from the capture of small Burmese towns. Hence it follows that their occupation may be more barren to us than was the conquest of Moscow to NAPOLEON. He lingered in the north until the first warning snow shower had fallen, and we—remaining in the low lands of the river—shall vainly struggle against the insidloas ague, and still more deadly cholera. Next we may mom on to Prome,thestocksdes will be fired andagatssamethoosandsof the Burmese may . bernas saered ls pitched battles we must be victorious, but in • skirmishing warfare the native is our equal, for the dusky skin assimilating to the colour of the jan gle, places the naked barbarian on an equality with the red-clad British soldier. The poisoned arrow is in forest warfare as fatal as the musket ball. Stock ades may he stormed but they can be rebuilt as fast, if not issear, than they can be destroyed. Rangoon, then, is ours. But there we must either halt or sail back to Bombay. For beyond • certain point the river is not navigable to large steamers, and hitherto we have no flotilla. We may seize the country boats, but our progress must be slow when sailing up stream in the season of the monsoon. Now granting that our general did march upon the capital extrieate his troops from the low alluvial tracts —slid reach the higher plains, we are not yet dis posed to admit that the occupation of the capital would neceiearily terminate the war. In Burmah, as in the Panjaub, we meet a difficult people. We threw the Sikhs into difficulty—we were beaten by this Afghans. Effectually to subdue the Bonuses we meet still pursue oar suooessful plan of raising up albs. from amongst our enemies. Oar motto is divide the enemy and fraternise with the section now, whether slaves or serfs. Large numbers 7s w ise a r :Class have sought protection in our frontier 'Mega"; and more than once the Burmese go vernment has shown an inclination to remonstrate Z u. net the shelter given by u s t o th e i r f ug iti ve out - If oar barbarian enemies should take warning from their recent fight with troops on shore, and remain beyond reach of our artillery, they will pro long the war, and their eventual defeat will be due as mach to political tact as to the gallantry of oar soldiers. A clever governor at the Cape would have con quered the Reifies, not by regiments of the line, but by the hands of Hottentots or African tribes. So in Burmah. If pitched battles are avoided, our troops must not be uselessly sacrificed by exposure to savage butchery in the jungle, or to the mias ma of the forests. The oppressed should be raised against the oppressors, the thousands upon thousands of Burmese serfs should be armed and let loose upon the government by whom they have been injured. Any discussion of the mode in which this new war may be best pursued, must not, however, be per mitted to keep out of sight the way in which the hostilities were brought about. On this subject it is the duty of government to give an early and ample explanation. Human life must not be lavished in the verdant swamps of Burmah, nor treasure be belched oat of the iron mouths of bombs and carronades, without ample justitiezition. That justification we impatiently await at the hands of ministers. A SOUND SLLY.PER.—An adroit burglary had been effected at Dundeswick. Nome villains effected an entrance late the house of Mr. Jonathan Renton, farmer, and besidis ransacking the drawers, &e., succeeded in taking Mr. Renton's troasers from under kit pillow while he was asleep, and easistying them of their content., oonalting of 45 1 . eld. Though Mr. Renton, his wife, and child, were la the bed, fr ander the pillow of which his trou sers were taken, it seems that not one of them we. du. turbe.l Five pound. reward has been offered for informa tion respecting the hurelers.—/weds Mercury. °MUT °Kinser Docus.—On Thursday the new Dock at Ureat Ortumby was opened with the formalities usual on such oceiciion.. Meveral vessels at one time en tared and began to thieharve and Wt., in cargoes. The number of persons present upon the quay of the docks at the moment of opening yea. eariouly estimated at from Ave to six thou. ind, and the scene wan one of the Fayed which Grimsby ht l doyley...l for year.. Ain,, 04 ,, the coulEasy is the town sad surveying the wires we ob.crren the Earl of Yarborough, and a select circle of fiend., g a d sagiaeseing and ennaereial vasasgen.—ilail Pecker. FRANCE. • PARIS, SAW' Reign. The Mani:ear contains tikda followink iii niarkable declaration : • \ Some foreign journals endea rto gen - credit foe the report that the northern powers, Ia the peevisbm of cer tain eventualities, would be ready to renew the coalition of 151.5, and that they have determined beforehand the limits beyond which 1. ranee would not be permitted to modify her goverment This report is false ; the eventu alities which are the pretext for it have no probability. Nothing indicates the necessity fur any chanre whatever in our institutions. France enieys the most complete tran quillity. All the powers keep up the most amicable relations with her, and they have never toads lam pro tension than at present te interkre with oar internal regime. They know that France would, in cam of need, mum her rights to be respected, as she respects those et other imbues', but them rights are neither threatened see disputed. Let fallen panics rely as formerly on foreign intervention to cause the triumph of their pretensions over the national will; they will Had that these old tactics will have no other result but to make thorn still more odious to the country. Thus the official organ of the government declares that the eventuality of establishing the hereditary empire by an appeal to the people is not by any means probable. I said the hereditary empire, be came tt,e note attributed to M. de Nesseirode, which has been published, admits that the assumption of the imperial dignity for life might be tolerated. Tile note of the Moniteur also says that nothing foe the moment indicates the necessity even of maki Louis Napoleon emperor for life. We know what is meant by the " necessity" here spoken of, as it was defined by the speech at the Tuileries on the 29th of Nlarch to bo a conspiracy, whether emanating from the royalists at socialists. But small as is the net result of this note, it is made still smaller by the notorious practice of the present government to use these semi-official paragraphs for the purpose of throwing dust in the eyes of people, and lulling those parties whose vigilance might cross its designs into a false security. How many times were the reports of coup d'ogtair contradicted by semi official paragraphs before Dee. 2 ? But when an oath itself was spontaneously renewed at the moment when its violation was contemplated, what faith can be placed in the assurances of the Moniteur I Some persons have noticed the absence of the word eon muaiqed at the close, is lessening the authority of the note. But this seems a captious objection ; and and the note must evidently be regarded as fully official _ _ _ A paper of Athens, in the service of Russia, called the Sleek, has published an important document, purporting to be a firman of the Sultan concerning the privileges of the Christian sects at the holy places, addressed to Has Pasha, governor of Jera' s salem. This must not be confounded with the treaty signed by the Porte with M. de Lavalette, the French ambassador. The firman published by the Sleek is, in fact, an order to the pasha to preserve the 'tutu quo, and is evidently intended to reassure the Greek schismatics and their protector, Russia, by proving that no privilege whatever has been gained by the Latins in consequence of the French negotiations. Atter stating that the pretention of the Latins to perform their ceremonies exclusively in different chapels of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the church or the Virgin's nativity, and other holy places, was quite inadmissible, the firman goes on to say : " The rights granted to the Greeks, subjects of my puissant empire, and confirmed by mo in virtue of imperial decrees, of which the maintenance and preser vation are one of the chief objects of my royal solicitude, having been sole-mei ap roved by me, it is not permitted to any one to aedertake any act what ever contrary to the present,dssidoo." This shows that the French ambassador at Constantinople has been completely bamboozled ; and that while he thought to be achieving great concessions fee the Latins, and great triumphs for French , did not succeed in changing the N jot. This discovery has been a heavy Meer to the pride of the government; and possibly sonsloeliollll complica tion may arise out of the double Armen of the Porte. We may, therefore, look forward to fiercer scuffles than ever in the holy places between the Greeks and Franciscans; and perhaps a French squadron may appear nff Jaffa to maintain the rights of the latter. lo that case Russia would come to the noose of the Greeks, and a pretty quarrel might mow is which the Ottoman empire might allegather ihapper. The Petrie says ea t_Jiis Moss' Our correspondent at thisolpie meths of our em- Mael Meting displeased at the term et the Oman which regedeM certain privileges of the salsatethe worship at Jerusalem. Oa this *abject it has hew theerved to as, that the lireasio het a eesesq•s•es of the imegeseat esa eluded by the lympis de Lathiethe Omer et the oar lies. Their midis being MGM upset a sew basis, it be rme seemary able to regulate that of the Otesk ssbhe mdse. If, however, there is any posed thr embity i tons last art a subject of diseatisfaction for Frerre, who was the organ of Christianity, we are assured that the ethithe Porte, acting with its accustomed loyalty, will attend le mg just reclamation on our part. Fresh negotaiillem have ban opened. It will be becoming to await the brae of them with confldenee and with moderation. In the corps legidatif to-day the bill for a supple mentary creditof 360,,000fr. for the amelioration of the So e, was discussed. M. Nouprecle com plained that there bad been no preliminary official inquiry. Without opposing the bill, he would state his opinion that it would have been better to have employed the money in improvements, founded upon surveys and estimates, than to make a canal which would be of no use. M. Godelle, the councillor of state, officially supporting the bill, said that the Sauldre canal, now proposed to be finished, bad been voted 611 an urgent measure by the constituent as sembly, without any previous surveys, it was true, but upon the obvious necessity of the thing. The several articles were then voted, and the bill was carried upon a division by 187 Totes against 3. Eleven councillor general of the Lire having omitted to take the oath within the prescribed time, have been struck off the list. They are MM. Bertholon, ex-representative, now in exile; Gaston, banished to Savoy; Eyma rd: Duvernay, Bertrand, Sulkier, Regoier, Roget, Dutrait Desoyes, Saint- Rename, ex-representative, Michel Ladiehire, and Levrat. MM. de Lfhen, Le Bihan, Chaumont, and Germain Bente, councillors-general in the Nord; M. Prudhomme, ex-representative, councillor-general in the Haut-Rhin • and M. Bigot, ex-representative councillor - gene ral in the Mayenne, have refused the: oath. M. de Putoret, the well-known legitimist, who was said by the government journals to have taken the oath in two capacities, has caused the re port to be contradicted in the Auemblee. M. Eugene Burnouf, member of the Institute, per petual secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, professor of Sanscrit at the College of France, and inspector-general of Superior Instruction, died yesterday. The anadutionnel, after quoting from the Ami de /a iteligion the paragraph respecting the bill on public instruction, says :—" It is now certain that, in consequence of the opposition which this bill has encountered in various quarters, it will not be pre sented to the legislative body this session, and that the question is thus adjourned till next year." The Mottileur publishes the returns of the customs land indirect taxes for the month of April, which amounted to 14,244,917 f., or 4,567,797 f. more than in the corresponding month of 1851. The receipts for the first four months of the present year amount to 46,773,364 f., an increase on the same period of 1851 lof 10,347,119 f. At the Bourse the Four per Cents. rose 15c., and closed at 100 ; the Three per Cents. 10c., closing at 711. 05c. Marseilles Railway rose 15f. ; Orleans, I If. 28c. ; Tours and Nantes and Bordeaux, 3f. 75c. each ; Central, 21'. 50c. ; Itouen, 3f. 7.5 e. ; St. Ger main fell sf. PARIS, SUNDAY EVIIININO. The rigorous treatment of foreign newspapers by the minister of police is really become a serious grievance, and is the more disgraceful as tho organs of the French government do not hesitate to direct the grossest attacks against all neighbouring coun ties in which free institutions are maintained. The Independaite Belye has been seized two days run ning—why no one knows. But if the Belgian paper bad dared to write one tenth part of the abase so well merited by the French government,which M. Grimier de Cassagnac has written, in the defiance of all truth, justice, and decency, of the liberal government of Belgium. the Independanre would never have been permitted to cross the French frontier again. A more atrocious instance of the cowarily bulleying system which is kept up by the French government towards its weaker neighbours eon hardly occur than this confiscation of the Belgian journals for allud , log to what goes on in the Corps Legislatif at Paris, while the semi-official organ of the French OVell:11111011t has the effrontery to threaten Belem :21 with the excluijou of her manufactures, TER EXPRESS, MONDAY Wei pelP•lll44oflr4ol4 seams Atio era n? l ogtty Ipt;1 and thip liberal Seise.", inn nbili , 1 'retti t ri e f i n t: parliament and ssiteipZit ea . The Cuestiiettiensel perialls iteeft to . this bas y. an g heigeve to as iependetit while It inserts at- the same moment a commutigief front the .11oniteur, declaring that France is todjealons of her own independence to mix herself up with the internal affairs of Spain or any other couitry. Nothing cadhe more diametrically opposed tkaa the minium sad the practice of the French government ; and the pro djgal profusion with which it can .utter of fi cial declara tions, hourly belied by as own acts and by the len gpage of its organs, evinces a systematic disregard of truth, which should forearm the most credulous with distrust. Thus no more value can be attached to yesterday's official disavowal of imperial schemes, than that of the day before, with regard to interfe rence in the domestic concerns of foreign nations. A grosser case of such interference can scarcely oreeur than to dictate in a minaterial organ,with wares arena*. to an independentoountry a mune repudiated by a vast majority of its inhabitants . Accordingly we see the Belgian press up in arms against this insolent pre tension. The INdepeadase thinks it would be quite as reasonable for England, Holland, and Prima to insist upon the election of liberal deputies in Bel gium as for France to demand the triumph of the eatholics; and quite as just for the former countries tx to close their territories against the Be • com merce in case their demands were not corn • with. Meanwhile, the applause bestowed by t clerical organs in Brussels upon the article of M. de Cea sagnac, and the flattery with which they prostrate themselves before the government of Loa Napoleon, is a significant symptom of the dangers whit* me nace the independence of Belgium, and a fresh in stance, if more were wanted, of the tendency of Romaaism to denationalise a people, uproot all : patriotie feelings, and invoke a foreign despotism. The Princess de Lieven, whose devotion to Russia equals her friendship for M. Guizot, is on the point of leaving Paris for the watering places of the Rhine. The intimacy which this female politician has all at once struck up with the Marchioness of Douglas, cousin of Louis Napoleon, portends an alliance with Bonapartist ideas, which is the more worthy of note as the princess is at the head of an influential coterie, and assembles in her *aims the heads of the fusionist party. A dinner was given on Friday, by Lady Douglas, in honour of the princess who met upon this occasion Baron Heeckeren, fresh returned from his diplomatic mis sion, and M. Achille Fould, together with several of the ministers. The Elysee, it would seem, does not despair of enlisting the services of this diplomatic lady as a mediating influence with Russia and the German courts, whose summer visits to the baths are ever pregnant with political schemes. MM. Paul Fabvre and Mathieu Bodet, counsel of the Orleans family in the affair of the Con lit, have distributed to the members of the Counsel of State a pamphlet of observations on the question at stake, which is headed with the following apt quotation from the conversations of the Emperor Napoleon : " Property means the inviolability of property in the person of its possearee. Even I, with the numerous armies at my disposal, could not take away a field ; for, to violate the right of property in a single in stance is to violate it in all." M. Dupia, the elder, has taken the oath of fidelity to Louis Napoleon, as councillor-general for his department, the Nievre. The Union announces that M. de Fallon intends to lead henceforth a life of retirement on his estate in the Maine-et-Loiret, and to occupy himself only with private studies. The letter of General Leflo appears to-day in the Conatifishonnef. It seems that the government is less thasnidled with its tone than with that of the other expatriated generals ; and it swears by no means impossible that the ex-questor will be allowed to retain his pay. The journey of the President to the south is put off till September. In the meantime he will shortly remove from the Elyse(' to fix his residence for the summer at the palace of St. Cloud, which has been during the last throe month pretty frequently the object of his drives. No papers will appear to-morrow in consequence of the feast of Pentecost. The Oboorratoor Bilge has been seized again this morning. The elan-frigates Oomer, Sane, and Descartes, left Tenon ea the 25th to join the squadron of evo lution l the Mena waters. M. de la Itonciere-le- Noury, emitted principal staff officer of the 'qua kes, basins ent in the Goren. The Charlemagne, expand balk keen the Levant, will meet the squa dron at Alikeen the course et next month. M. de Foinpremx has refund the oath as coun cillor ironed awl manksipeteenneillor in the Loiret. The egoism Mame plaid yesterday denote a sore esmalissabie esenswelel ONlstiorstion during the moth el April than hen boom nom in say month kr ommy past. The receipts yips import% for amounted to 14,245,060 f., while in Ape% 861, they were bet 9,667,000 fr.; and in April, 1850, only 8,990,000 fr. This large increase ernes in great part from the sugar duties, amounting to more than 3 millions; but the improvement upon meet other articles is not less marked. The increase in cotton is from 44,330 metrical quintals to 74,334; in wool, from 7,604 to 15,096; in raw silk, from 420 to 945; in cabinet makers' wood, from 2,397 to 5,151; in cochineal, from 7,708 to 10,969; in indigo, from 395 to 644; in pit coal, from 170,061 tons to 21 4,918. In other merchandise, of secondary importance the la crosse isfor the most part in a corresponding proportion. Cast iron, sinc, and flax are exceptions to the general movement These important materials are princi pally supplied by Belgium, and it has been conjec tured that the expection of changes in the tariff upon the expiration of the commercial treaty in August next, may be the cause of the comparatively small importation. It is, however, more probable that the deficiency is attributable to simple commer cial fluctuations for the quantity imported during the last four months is at least equal to the imports of the corresponding period of 1861. The export returns are in general equally ratisfac , tory. The principle articles in which a hailing off is perceptible are " modes," machines, and corn. The unusually large exportations of all sorts of grain in the early part of the year entliciently accounts for the reaction in this particular. But in all the staples ' of French manufacturing exportation, linens, cotton., and woollens (cloth, however, excepted), the increase is remarkable, and such as to prove the existence of great industrial activity. In wines, brandies, madder, skins, prepared and manufactured, porcelain, books , soap, salt, glass, and crystal, the augmentation is very sensible. In silks and refined sugars there is a slight diminution. The navigation returns outwards and inwards show an increase of 71.000 tons, of which 26,000 is the proportion attained by the French flag, a proportion exceeding its average share in a general movement. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. TUE CASE OF EDWARD MURRAY. ROME, May 24. We have as yet no official communication from the government of his holiness with respect to the course it intends to pursue in the case of of Mr. Edward Murray, but from private sources it may be inferred, with tolerable certainty, that his trial has not been conducted with such strict regularity as to warrant his sentence being carried into execution, even unto death in spite of the remonstrances of the British government and the petition for mercy addressed to the Pope by British subjects in Rome. I mentioned in my last that Murray had been sent out of Rome, u was supposed, for execution, and that he had got as far as Spoleto, in company with his fellow prisoners. Ito arrived at Ancona on the evening of the 16th, and the British consul in that city, Mr. Moore, applied to sec him on the following morning, but the authorities answered that their instruction* were so rigid that they could not comply with his request, assuring him, however, that all proper attention should be paid to the comforts of the prisoner consistent with his strick confinement. The nature of the sentence has not been intimated at Ancona, but Mr. Moore is, of course, perfectly well acquainted with it, and should the extreme penalty be threatened, it is probable that he would, under the present circumstances, op pose, it an far as lays in his power, by • vi gorous protest. On the return to Ancona of Moirsignor Amici, the, papal commissary extraordinary for the province of La Marca, Mr. Moore will press his claim for a personal interview with Murray, as that reverend prelate will doubtless - MAY 31, 1852. be" liggid -.' --. ,widt full instructions liefir •to ad; lwhereas rlOal astliorities are go tieckdonnaby tit* retriet in ens ninis of. their superiws, that they dor., lolled of nu infrastion in Mr. Moore's favour. L Mr. kr reeboeii kiss had several personal 'interviews with the • finder-Secretary of State, kfonsignar, Berardi, and has been assured by that prelate, as understand, that hi. Holiness is in possession of the netition, and will jako t favourable view of the pri sonfre• ease if . aa„d Asaentient safes amongst the judges allow him to do so without going against " re fr ananinfous opinion. It .is pretended in the' tory of State's •oflos that the sentence given b the Consults Tribunal iii not as yet known, but 1 as abbreviation of the probeedingi is promised ere Wng for the istlataction of the British government. ' Mr:Moore, on Wog refused admittance to the pri sins to see Murray, requested the authorities to communicate their refusal to him in writing, but' this they also declined doing. He had therefore no alternative left but to await the arrival of Monsignor Amici, who is expected in Ancona about the end of the month. The government of his Holiness is very uneasy at the intelligence of the frequent conferences between Louis Napoleon and some distinguished members of the Italian liberal party, such as Cernuschi, Masi, and Caftans°. Similar confabulations can bode no good to the Holy See. Exchange on London, 495. Roman Consols, Five I per Cent., 96. NAPLES. The French fleet left Naples for Palermo on the 20th. PIEDMONT. In its sitting of the 25th, the Chamber of Deputies of Turin pawed the bill concerning ports and coasts by 90 votes to 20. M. Mellana addressed a question to ministers, requesting diem to state the line of policy they intended to follow, particularly with respect to finance. No direct answer was given at the time, but it was understood that Chevalier Cibrario would state his views in the following sitting. TUSCANY. FLORENCE, MAT 23. Yesterday Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer had a private audience of the Orand Duke, to deliver his creden tials as minister plenipotentiary to the grand ducal court. AUSTRIAN ITALY. The Augsburg Gazette states that by order of tho military governor of Venice, and from political mo tives, the Wellachian Prince Ohyka and his tra velling companion the Baron de Braudner have been arrested at Venice. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Notwithstanding the recent asserted reconciliation of the opposed members of the Prussian c►binet, new reports of ministerial disagreements and intended resignations appear in various Oermsn newspapers. F. F. Bodelschwingli and Westphalen are the minis teas whose retirement is said to be probable. BERLIN, NAT 27. The Emperor of Russia left Berlin by special train today, on his return to Warsaw. On the 25th inst. a sitting of the Zollverein'm con ference took place, when the Bavarian commissioner renewed his motion, that the negotiations be heed on the ; Vienna drafts of treaties, copies of which, with all accompanying documents, he formally handed over to the president, who took them for the purpose of reporting on them to the Prussian government, at the same time referring to the explicit declarations already given on the subject by M. von ManteuffeL It is still quite impossible to say what will be the issue of the pending negotiations about the Zoll verein, because it is impossible to say how far the protectionist states will push their opposition to Prussia, and how far Prussia will allow itself to be pushed away from the course evidently prescribed by Its financial and political interest.. At this moment the members of the Darmstadt coalition are making a show of keeping their ground. Several of the commissioners here ueembled declare in pri vate circles that they have positive instructions to abide strictly by the Darmstadt resolutions, come what may. Others, on the contrary, hint that they are instructed to take • high tone till matters grow critical, but then by all means to abide by the Zoll verein. It may, perhaps, be shrewdly suspected that this is the real tenor of the instructions to all the commissioners of the coalition states. The principalities of Neufchatel and Valengin, in Switzerland, have long been dependencies of the crown of Prussia, but threw off their allegiance in 1848, and were formally received as cantons of the Swiss republic. Though the possessions were of no real importance to the welfare of the Prussian people, the Prussian crown will of course not rest as long as it has any prospect of wresting back whatever it was obliged to give up to the revolutionary movement. The Kreutz Zeitung writes : "It II notorious that negotiations in London havo been airrying on for some time past regarding Neufchatel. We hear that an agreement has been come to touch leg the manner of settling the matter." From this, people here conclude that the British g overnment has consented to a forcible intervention to Switzer land on the parr of Austria and Prussia, unless Neufchatel and Valongin be willingly given back. It would be a hard thing for the burghers of those cantons to be separated from their countrymen, put under a Prussian government, and subjected to • Prussian garrison. Is London the place for concoct ing such measures? It was not so in Palmerston 's time. )(LT 28. The momentous news about Neufchatel is fully confirmed. All the journals repeat this morning the notice which I reported yesterday evening. The Zeit, the conductor of which is nearly connected with M. von Manteuffers bureau, writes: " We state, on positive information, that in London the great powers have concluded a compact, whereby the pos. wagon of the principality of Neufchatel is guaranteed to the crown of Prussia." A semi-official paragraph in the Patric (of Pans) says: A German newspaper has announced that the »presenta tive. of the great powers in London have signed • protocol, which completely recognises the rights of Prussia to the canton of Neufchatel. We believe we know that this news, reproduced this morning by several Parisian journals, is singularly exaggerated. We are assured that negotiations have been opened, but that no decision ha. as yet been arrived at. VIENNA, IdAT 26. Besides the New Silver Loan, there is talk of another loan of three millions sterling (thirty mil lions of florins) concluded at London with the houses of Rothschild and Baring. BREMEN. The Weser Gazette states that numerous arrests took place on the 24th inst. at Bremen, in conse quence of the discovery of the statutes and rules of an association called the League of Death, together with poignards, pistols, and other weapons. The prisoners had been taken to the Hotel de Ville, and great excitement prevailed a the city. In compliance with the demand of the federal council the cantonal government at Fribourg has released the prisoners taken up in consequence of the late events, without imposing any conditions. The first consequence of this proceeding was a meeting ' held at Fribourglon the 27th by the liberated mem bers of the committee appointed by the popular as sembly at Poiseux. The grand council at Fribourg was convoked on the demand of • portion of its members. It is said that the supporters of the government are disposed to make some con cessions to the clerical party. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 25. A royal decree, dated Aranjuez, May 21, grants to the Minister of Finance a supplemental credit of a million of rests for extraordinary expenses attending the conversion of the debt. This decree will be sub mitted to the Cortes for confirmation. It is considered certain that towards the end of June or the beginning of July the government will dissolve the Chamber of Deputies, and convoke new one, invested with full powers to modify the political laws if necessary. DEATH OP Ma. FIRLDIOI.—Mr. John Fiehlen, late member for Oldham, is added to the somewhat long list of tlotofth men who have lately pained from the scene of life. Mr. Fielden died on the 28th of May, "in a spirit of tranquil resignation." , , 'At• • - 'N.. ! 1 '' . - TURKEY. Om Pails correspondent writee : The Sieils, of Athena, containing the Erman of the Ulnae, whleb poeussa the steam quo in the holy places, has been veiled at Maryville, by order of the Prefect of the Boucher du Rhone. The tenor of this Hyman is in accordance with all tho recent reports from Constantinople. I sent you 'yesterday a paragraph from the; Petrie, by which it appeared that this journal had learned from its own correspondent there, that the French embussy was discontented with the conduct of the Porte with regard to the holy places. It was added that " fresh negotiations" had been opened upon the subject. The Patric seems to have made an indiscreet admission. In a semi-ofticial article today, it affects to doubt the authenticity of the Orman, and sadly discrediting its ow n correspondent," endeavours to make it appear that everything remains in staid quo, as settled by the Marquis de Lavalette: Some journals her thought fit to give publicity to a trans lation in French of a finnan of the Sultan relative to the holy plates. This translation, printed, was also addressed t, us, r a supplement to a Greek journal, the Sleds, published is Athens. But we thought it prudent to wait until accurate information should enable us to lodge of the authenticity of that document. We consequently abstained from reproducing it, and we shall nut give the text of the finnan which settles the question of the holy places, as agreed with our spares sador, the Marquis of Lavalette, until it reaches us through the more certain channel of our own correspondence. AMERICA. The British and North American Royal Mail steamer Europa, Capt. Lott, arrived at Liverpool last evening, at 6 o'clock, with the usual mails from the United States and Canada, 126 passengers, and 576,000 dollars in silver specie on freight. The Europa left New York at noon on the 19th, and on the same night met the Royal Mail steamer Africa, of the same service, hence for New York, and which would therefore reach her port on tho next morning. On the 20th passed a large screw steamer, supposed to be the City of Manchester. Yesterday morning met the steamer America, which sailed from Liverpool on Saturday, off the Skerries. The U.S. mail steamer Atlantic, Captain West, arrived out at New York on the 19th, at 9 , p.m. Amongst the passengers by the Europa is Mr. Feargus O'Connor, M.P. The proceedings in Congress are of little interest ; nothing had been done in the matter of the proposed extended grant to the Collins line of steamers. In the Senate on Monday, the 17th instant, an important bill in regard to the compensation of members was introduced. It provides that each senator and representative shall have 2,000 dols. per annum, with 20 cents per mile, the distance to be computed by the " air line." Another and more important feature is, a deduction of ten dollars per e s ia a r a :r absence, except in cases of sickness. The proposed is equal to sixteen months session for each Congress, or 22 dols. per day for the short session. It is hardly probable that the bill will be put through its session. The Senate passed the bill in aid of a railroad from the Wabash to the Mis souri River. Mr. Borland then finished his speech against the grant to the Collins steamers, and the Senate adjourned. Mrs. Adams, the venerable relict of the late John Quincy Adams, ex-President of the United States, died at her residence, in Washington, on the 15th instant. Kossuth was at Albany, where he was well re ceived. New England has done well for Kossuth in the expression of sentiment, but better still in the way of " material aid." Between New York and Boston, on the way through New England, the contributions and receipts of meetings amounted to 2,430 dole. The Boston receipts have been 5,700 dole. ; from West Brookfield, 50 dole.; Bangor, Maine, 200 dole.; Charlestown, 375 dole. ; Lowell, 12 dole. 75e. ; Lynn, 500 dole. ; and Salem, about, 1,000 dole.—making 11,530 dole. New England has in two weeks con tributed for Hungarian liberty. From New Jersey the entire amount received by contributions and from meetings was 1,629 dole. There had been three later arrivals from Califor nia, viz., by the Illinois, Daniel Webster, and the Sierra Nevada. The latest dates are to the 18th of April, and the amount of specie was very large. The papers give a favourable account of the mining interests, and of the prospects of business in the larger cities. The interior continues to suffer from Indian depredations. The markets at San Juan were glutted with goods of all kinds, and there was a great scarcity of seamen among the shipping, owing to desertions. A piece of gold, weighing 305 ounces and 11 dwts., solid and shining, was found near Sonora. This is the largest lump of pure gold ever found in Cali fornia. WEST INDIES. From Kingston (Jamaica) we have advice. to the 11th inst. They are, however, uninteresting. The Journal says there will be an unparalleled falling off in the sugar crop. Freights: England, 50s. to 60s. for sugar and coffee. Havannah: The sugar market had been in an ex cited state. Exchange on London, 91 per cent. pre mium. Freights dull. Another expedition from the United States was talked of, of which Venezuela was to be the rendezvous. SOUTH AMERICA. We have dates from Valparaiso to the 10th of April. Cambriaro and several of his fellows had been executed. The demand for freight to England was decreasing. Guano had been taken at 655. per ton. The Chihan government had taken two millions dollars stock in the Santiago Railway. Vera Cruz letters to the 10th iast. state that great excitement prevailed at the capital, in consequence of a conspiracy against the government having been discovered. A conducts had left for Vera Crux with 1,400,000 dollars. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The commercial accounU from New York and other cities are encouraging. Business wss very good when the steamer sailed throughout the Union. The money market had been very eery, money being obtainable on moderate terms. . _ The market for bread stuffs was verb unsteady, owing to the nature of the English advice,. Prices inclined to recede further. Western Canal flour, 4 dole. to 4 dole. 121 e. per brl.; Indian corn, round yellow, 64c. to 66e. per bushel, steady ; Indian meal, 3 dots. 23e. to 3 dole. 371 c. per brl. The cotto market at New York is reported brisk, with a good amount of business doing at advanced prices. New Orleans and Mobile, mad fair to fair, 101 e. to 111 c. per lb., or a rise of 10. ; Uplands and Florida, mid fair to fair, 10c. to 101 e., or a rise of Ic. per lb. There is no change to report in freight. Provisions dull. Mesa pork barely 181; prime, 161. Busidem in elating' on London was rather flat, at 110/ to 1; Paris, 6.16 ; Hamburg, 36 to 361; Bremen, 781 to 1. IMPROVEMENTS AT TUE BANK OF ENGLAND.— The Governor and Directors of the Bank of England have caused a fountain to be constructed on a space of ground ad joining the Bank parlour, which will be in operation in the course of a few days. The arcs on which it is situated was a vacant site, but it will he converted into an ornamental garden, which will bo t considerable improvement to that part of this eztensive building. Tho basin to receive the water is circular, and about 1 t feet in diameter. It is formed of Portland stone, and presents a very neat and chaste appearance. The jet will be about 20 feet in height, the water being supplied from tanks on the roof of the bank. LAw•surr ABOUT A HAT.—Tho Civil Tribunal of Chateau Tbierry has lately had a rather singular cue brought before it ; the object in dispute being neither more nor less than the hat worn by the Emperor Napoleon in the Russian campaign. Thin relic of the emperor fell into the possession of the late N. Berard, his valet-de•chambre, and the litigants are the widow of that gentleman, who claims a right to retain the hat, and the other branches of the family who demand that it shall be sold with the other property, and the proceeds go into a common fund for division. Counsel on both Bides were heard, and the court, after a short deliberation, decided that the hat should not be so.d with the other property left by the deceased, but be put up for sale amongst the members of the family themselves, and remain in the possession of the widow until that should be effected. -------- FATAL COAL PIT ACCIDENT NEAR ROCIIDALR.— An accident, which caused the death of two persons, oc curred on Tuesday evening last at the Captain Fold Colliery, near Heywood, in the township of Castleton. On that day the waters of the river Roche, which runs through the estate adjoining the colliery, burst into some old workings, and the pressure becama so great as to break down the barri , ra between them and the Captain Fold colliery, which is worked by the Heywood Coal Company. About thirty persons were then in the pit, but all, except three, sue• seeded in escaping unhurt. The pumps were set to work, but it was four hours before the water could be ejected. One of the sufferers narrowly ',reaped drowning, being shut up by the water in a place where the force of the atmospheric air kept hack the water so as to allow breathing apace. The dead bodies of hie brother, Daniel Heywood, aged 13 years, and Robert Kershaw, a single man, aged 25 years, were taken out afterwards. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. THE KAFFIR WAIL—ARRIVAL OF Slit H. SMITH. PoIasMOUTII, SI*NbAY. The Gladiator, steam-ship, Capt Adams, arrived at Spithead at five o'clock this afternoon from the Cape of Good Hope, having on board General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.8., late governor slid commander-in-chief of that colony, end Lady Smith. The Gladiator put in at Torbay yesterday afternoon, where she landed her mails and government de spatches, the latter under the care of Col. Garvock, military secretary to Sir IL Smith, and by whom they were conveyed by rail to town at 81X o'clock last night. The Gladiator sailed again for this pot this morning. She left the Cape of Good Hope (Table Bay) on the 18th of April, called at St. Helena on the 2;th, Ascension on the 3rd of May, Porto Grand, SL Vincent, May 14, and Madeira on the 22nd. The Kaffir war is reported ar having been nearly brought to a close by Sir Harry . Smith prior to his leaving ; the result of the operations detailed by the last mail having had the effect of indneing the chiefs to sue for peace. In consequence Sir Harry had entered into negotiations with them, and these were being continued by his successor Major-Gene ral Cathcart. There had been no collision between the British and Kaffirs since those already reported, although there had been some desultory skir mishing ; we have not, however, learnt of any loss of life on the part of the Britsh. It was strongly hoped that the negotiations fur peace now going forward might be successful, but sonic fears were entertained as to whether or not this would be the case. Major Oldrich has come home with biz 11. Smith. The gallant general and his lady are in excellent health and spirits; they are expected to land here to-night, and take up their residence at the George Hotel. The Megurra troop-ship, having invalids on board, had left the Cape for England, and had arrived ut Ascension, which late she was to leave tw o or three days after tho Gladiator. The Myrmidon and Jackal were at Ascension ; the Harlequin had sailed from that place. At St. Vincent, the Gladiator found the Brazilian war-steamer Amazonas, on her way from liverpool to Rio, having put in for coal. This vessel, it will be remembered, was built in Englund for the Brazilian government; her passage out to St. Vincent is described as being of an extraordinarily rapid character, she having made 13 knots per hour. INDIA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. TILE WAR IN BURMAII. CAPTURE OF MARTABAN AND RANGOON. We have received our usual despatches and jour. nabs in anticipation of the overland mail. The dates k are: Bombay, May 3; Calcutta, April 24. , Our Bombay correspondent writes as follows : BOMBAY, Mar 3, 15;2. Up to yesterday, not a single line of intelligence of ' any sort from the force in the Burmese waters had been received for 18 days, and people began to be apprehensive that tardiness had taken possession of the leaders of the expedition. Luckily this was not • the ease. Her Majesty's steamer, Rattler, with Admiral Austen on board, reached Diamond Harbour ! on the 23rd ult., with new s o f th e capture of Ran goon oa the 14th, and Martaban on the sth, April, which was sent up to Calcutta by the electric tele ' graph. 'The following is a summary of the accounts of the affair which have reached Bombay: The Burmese at Rangoon commenced the attack ' on our fleet on Easter Sunday. We were obliged to return their fire, which seems to have told upon our shipping. the Monday morning there was a clear landing for our troops, who advanced with ease, until they met with a pause at the white Pagoda, or whit* house. During the pause our men suffered much. The stockade was well defended, but Major Fraser is said to have been in first. The Great Pagoda was beyond, and was not taken warn ingly till Tuesday. We have possession of some 130 guns. The Burmese fought with unexpected determination. Out lose killed and wounded about 150. Among the casualties, Liest Donaldson, Engineers, killed; Lieut. Dorin, Lieut. Trevor, severely wounded; Capt. Blundell, wounded. Rev. Mr. Baker, who exerted himself in tending the wounded and burying the dead, died soon after of cholera. The troops will not move on to Prome. They are quar tered in the pagoda and priests' houses, and in good mili tary position. The Burmese are saptiosed to number about 25,000. Their artillery well managed, and the musketry at Martaban was very heavy. This morning's post has brought the following : Martaban was captured on the morning of the sth, without our losing a single man, so well was the plan of operations concealed from the enemy till pat ' into effect. Great resistance appears to have been offered at Rangoon, and our casualties are numerous. The weather appears to have struck down as many as the enemy's guns. Majors Griffiths and Oakes, Madras Army, and Captain Hing, 80th foot, died of coup de soleil and cholera, and the latter disease was making sad havoc both ashore and afloat. There has been further skirmishing on the north west frontier, not far from Peshawur--as we must continue to expect periodically, so long as wo occupy the country. About the 6th inst. an attack had been made on a village named Uddezaiee, sixteen miles Loom Peshawur, by a body of Afreedies, who were beaten off by the villagers. The attackers lost four killed and loft two prisoners : the defenders had three killed and nine wounded. On the 31st March the enemy again descended on the villages of our allies around the fort of Shubkudur, when the sth troop of the 7th cavalry was ordered out, under command of Lieut. Tottenham, to drive them off. The gallant young officer appears to have acted with the greatest judgment, and get between the Momunds and the mountains, occupying the only two paths by which they could escape. On finding themselves thus hemmed in the enemy fired a volley into the cavalry and scampered off, when Tottenham gave the word to charge, and showed the example, but his recreant and dastardly troop refused to fol low him, and the enemy escaped. The young officer's feelings on the occasion may be most easily imagined; but four of his men would obey his order to 'barge; some say, indeed, that on receiving the tire of the Momunds they actually turned tail and fled. An inquiry into the matter had been ordered at Peshawur, but the cowardly rascals are sure to escape punishment. An outpost, some four miles from the fort, had been attacked on the 11th, but kept its ground gallantly. On the ap pearance of the largo body of the enemy above referred to, the outpost was called in. On the 14th, two guns and Jackson's Irregulars left Pestle wur to reinforce Sir Colin at Shubkudur. On the 15th, the enemy in full force came down on the fort : the gallant Sir Cohn went out to meet them with 200 of the 15th Irregulass, 100 of the 7th Cavalry, and two guns, followed by some infantry. The enemy did not like our appearance, so they retired to the moun tains, followed by us. At 4 p.m. the force turned to retrace its steps home again, when the enemy also turned and followed us, but would on no account come to action. Sir Cohn allowed them once or twice to approach within range of Ids guns, which then opened on and surprised them OW Our force returned to camp at 7 p.m., the 15th having had three killed and eight wounded. and several horses killed and wounded, by a concealed party of the enemy from a nulla (ravine), along the bank of which t h ey were proceeding. One - horse artilleryman was also wounded. The enemy left some 30 or 40 dead on the field. The guns had ex pended some 76 rounds of grape and shot each, and it was believed a large number of the enemy must have been wounded. The force took up a position for the night in the village of Shubkudur, where the enerry managed to set fire to the hedge and some houses, but were speedily put to flight by a gun trout m the fort. On the 16th , six hundred of leer Majesty s:lrd, mounted on one hundred elephants, left Peshawar, accompanied by the other four guns of ' Waller's troop (2nd of let brigade), for Shubkudur, where they arrived the same night. A company of the 23rd N.I. had escorted their lat,orage, besides which two companies from the '23rd and 25th had been sent out, together with the remainder of the 29th. Our latest news from Shubkudur is to the 17th : the enemy, to tho number of 6,000, were 1