The Express. — London, England, 1851-09-22 00:00:00

Elie •xlfeols. TV Urn5etzt0r............ A leseed 2Aldes et " The Tapeem." eeeAeal !he IMMO 1 1. 11 • 11 1 . • fieselle." Y pettlehei clef, Timis, eel Trfray elele, la tine he fp& A !magmata hiteaded " The Uprose' lodes Vain, pow, mast be ot tba Oise, 10, bcorporioatroot, W Toro .'N. * ea Oa all of polilrollos. !TIER WATER Al Ems Tansamoir—Morsin. OL LONDON BRIDGE. he Attarnara. 111. tee. he Alternate. OIL 2311. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. LAST week produced two remarkable addresses of members to their constituents. The one was very long, very . finehy, very ambiguous, and altogether of class politics. The other quiet and pithy, plain as home-spun, addressed to the people at large, and pointing out their true and universal interests. On the first of these the press has amply commented, to expound the moral or refute the assumption, of the l i lion. member for Bucks. The address of Mr. HVIE to his constituents at Montrose spoke for itself, needed no glow, and however easy to abuse was difficult to refute. Mr. Mau spoke but a few words, but they were ample enough to comprise the wants and expecta tions of the people. It is remarkable that Mr. flume and Mr. Instisett should agree upon more than one important point. Both, in tact, set out by the decla ration that the people of England wore over-taxed, and were prevented by this over-taxation from com peting with the United States, and with other lightly burdened countries. The remedy of Mr. DlifttELl was to take the burden off of corn, in order to place it upon cotton, and render the producers of food easy and prosperous at the expense of the consumers. Mr. Hume thought it infinitely better to alleviate the burdens upon both; which he proposed to do by admitting to their shareoLirolitiml power those who were employed in theproduction of both ; and not merely the landlords an capitalists, but the indus trious many- those multitudes who swelled the re ceipts of indirect taxation, and even of direct—those who bore the greater share of the burdens com plained of, but who were allowed no voice in alle viating or distributing them. Evily machine in this scientific country, said Mr. Here, is in perfection, except one, and that is, the taxing machine, which grinds the poor and spares, the rich, and causes discontent in all, since from legisla tion being avowedly an struir of class ascendancy, no one is content with the balance of taxes, but all and each, even the most favoured, cry out that they are robbed. To simplify the taxing machine, and make every one contented with it, by allowing every one equally to put their hand to it, is Mr. Huxt's remedy. People in this country pay taxes chiefly as oeeupants of houses. Let every householder then have a vote in town and country, and we should add, every person whose means render him liable to household rating. 'Mere can be no difficulty in as certaining the lodgers that have been yearly domi ciled, and have means fully equal to household ex penditure. The income-tax ussessors, as we see by their interrogatory, find out such tenants ; and why, therefore, should the electoral register ignore them ? Household suffrage is a great name and a great principle. It favours no class, and allows the dependent of the squire to approach the hustings with his vote, as well as the operative of the factory. The wealth, and power, and goodness of the employer will in all (1341:3 have their weight. We are far from seeking to destroy the influence of wealth and station. But, in order that such influ ence be not tyrannically aimed, and the possession of a vote by a humble man not turned to his en slavement, the ballot must accompany the extension of the franchise. On this, too, Mr. Heat dwelt. Compare his wide principles with the narrow advocacy of Mr. illif- MIMI, who would oppose everything that tended to weaken the agricultural interest, and who was ready to hearken to any plan of pretended reform thatwould extend voting to dependent tenants, provided they had no ballot to screen them. In another thing the members for Montrose and Buckinghamshire fully agreed, which was that the business, aim, and scope of parliament was essentially taxation; and that quec tions of reform, of which the result would be but to change the b alance of different interests and classes its parliament, were in reality financial questions. Electoral reform is in fact the first clause of an English minister's budget. It is reform. and not the reason of right, which must decide whether thirty out of fifty millions arc still to bo raised by indirect taxation from the poor, or whether fairer proportion may not be raised by direct taxation from the rich. This may have been a question of political economy and fiscal science, but it is no longer so. It is a ques tion of franchise, a contest of whether consumer or producer shall predominate in parliament. it is a ques tion of town and country, land and money. Reform in fact is at the bottom of everything political. The ignorant may treat reform as a theory, or an abstrac tion; but the well-informed are aware that it is the moat practical and vital question of the day, the very key to every sum in pounds, shillings, and pei.ce raised try taxation. On tisk& Mr. lOsitsata and Mr. Resit, though -alicakinr4 at different extremities of the island at the same 'Lime, were fully in accord. And it is time for the public to be alive to a truth, fully fe ) 1 and admitted by politicians. The tory and the reformer each drew their conclusions and took their measures, the one to admit of no change that was not in favour of the immunity of rent, the other to press for such a re-distribution of the franchise as would give the industrious and the consuming popula tion some equitable share in deciding the nature and amount of taxes, and examining the proportion levied on each class. . _ . . This, no doubt, will be the great point of the joint tiseal and reform struggle. Ministers arc no doubt prepared to schedule A and to schedule B a certain number of boroughs. The Tinto, like single-speech liseturins, has had one bit of inspiration, and that was to tell us that boroughs with three or four hun dred voters would no longer be tolerated. But if , the seats thus taken away are to be divided, as in the Brat Reform Bill, between counties and towns, so as to strike a balance between landed and civic interests, then will gross injustice be done, and no remedy whatever applied to the crying evil of the system. 'l'he consuming, the in dustrious, the commercial population of this country is huddled by millions and by thousands in a few cities and towns. But this population forsooth is not to be represented, because it is agglomerated; whilst the land, which is not peopled. and which is often so barren as to make a rotten borough of a county, this forsooth is to be fully represented,—as if apace, and not either population or wealth, was the basis of representation. We agree with Mfr. HUME is thinking that population should be the first ele mem io the distribution of the franchise, the more es alb as property and population in England are in allibly found together. Woby no means want to park the country out in parallelograms, or even make a rigid allotment of members to population ; but some approach to a fairness of representation and of balance must be made, if the people of this country and its several interests are to remain contented with and attached to the constitution. under which Cardinal WISE, ■ , 1;4 appeared before the Slortmain and Charities Committee of last session were peculiar. In his cele brated " Appeal to the People of England," and generally throughout tho controversy consequent upon his assumption of an absolute and unfettered metropolitan dominion over this kingdom, his Emi nence had given a bold challenge to all the world, del) ing them to show that to himself or his fellow- culprits, or even to the hierarchy over which they were set, any temporal advantage whatever could,' by any possibility, redound from the audacious men sure %%huh the Roman court had been induced by their misrepresentations to adopt. The challenge was accepted, but the challenger shrunk front the contest. Day after day, as our readers will remern- Am, there appeared in our columns the specific details of fraud and impostures of which the history of the papal aggression consisted, and with which Roman cstholics themselves had supplied us. We also showed, on the same ant horitY, that the direct tendency and aim of this scheme,mcscalled a hierarchy, was to break into the sanctity of trusts and testaments, to change the destination of rights of English priests and laymen to the cupidity and ambition of their prelates, and to vest in the latter, without control, or even the possibility of control, whether in the spiritual forum, or in that of the QCEEPI'II court of justice, the immense mass of endowments, whether consisting of real or personal estate, out of which the charitable and religious institutions of the English Roman catholies—between whose practice and that of their' Iri , h brethren, there is, in this respect, a very wide difference—had been for the last three centuries sup ported. We conceal nothing. Even the documentary evidence, verbose and unwieldy as we sometimes found it, was given to the public in the very shape in which we ourselves had received it from our Roman catholic correspondent. To charges so specific and so substantiated no spe cific reply was attempted ; and as for the documents, so far from their authenticity being doubted by an) one, it was expressly admitted by our old friend Dr. Dor; %ran, the only cardinal polemic who had the courage or the honesty to refer to tho documents at all. The cause, in fact, was so entirely undefended that the cardinal appeared to hay° been advised by his " learned relation and friend," Mr. Serjeant SIILE, into the opinion that it was better to let judgment go by default, and find out, if possible, some flaw by which to upset it afterwards. Under some such impression at least Mr.IIEADLA3I himself must have been in " the merry month of May" last, when, according to the minutes of the committee's proceedings, he departed from the usual course of summoning the eminent prelate peremptorily to attend and be examined at the pleasure of the committee, so fur as to write a courteous note to the " Right Rev. NICIIOLAS WISEMAN, D.D." requesting to know whether it would suit him, and when to attend for that pur pose. Much amazed must Mr. Mama-It have been to receive in reply the cordial assurance of the car dinal's readiness—indeed, his deep and heartfelt anxiety—to give all the information in his power, and to aid in every way the researches of the com mittee. "Only," added his Eminence, with child like simplicity, "not in person." He had no wish to intrude himself upon the public. l'rivacy he loved, in retirement he delighted; ostentation was to him intolerable. Besides, he knew a man who knew more than be did about these matters, and that man he wished to have examined in his place. Mr. Htsfit..tu and the committee appear to have been quite enchanted with these favourable disposi tions of the cardinal, and to have lost no tune in turning them to advantage. " I am directed by the committee," quoth Mr. HEADLAM, "IO i/B• quire the name of the individual in question." stgain his Eminence writes back to say that the aforesaid individual is Mr. HART'S°, for yews Ile solicitor; the Mr. HARTING, in short , to whose as -I tounding views on the casuistry of certain practical questions now pending in the controversy, de jastitut et jure, we lately had occasion to refer. The com mittee, however, innocent of all knowledge of Mr. I Ilaarise ' or his opinions, or his practice, assented to the cardinal's nomination and summoned his solicitor. Alas! for the honour of the red hat and the purple pall! Twice was the examination of' Mr. HARTINO postponed for insufficiency and evasion; until at length, on the third occasion, the committee, heartily sick of the ignoble business, and moreover feeling certain that the suppressed information was either obtained or obtainable in other quarters, postponed it sine die, and for ever. Some points, however, were established against his client. It was not true, foe instance, that the relation of solicitor and client had existed above three years and a half; it was not true that he knew so much as his client did about the matters in question—" he had not the means of knowledge "—it was not true that his client had authorised, much less requested, him to waive on his behalf the privilege of "professional confidence;" it was not true, lastly, that, if the cardinal himself were there, he would give the committee the infor mation which he had pretended to offer them ! [Hawrisui Q. 2,23, 2,331—A, 2,710, 2,722, 2,849—A) The only thing, in fact, which the cardinal had gained, or indeed had set his heart on gaining, by a course of procedure so damaging to his reputation for honour and fairness, was (line. The FABI.tN policy of Mr. HARTING had made it impossible for the committee to review the indulgence so impru dently granted to the cardinal, and to deliberate in summoning him to appear in person. It was well known that the committee would not sit late in that month. Another delay of a few weeks, or even of one week, might make it impossible for them to adopt, or even consider the much dreaded report upon the evidence. The opportunity was tempting, and the object most important. On the very day that the committee, after several adjournments, had resolved, by a large majority, against Mr. KEOGH, to summon the cardinal, his Eminence evading service of the summons left London for the Channel Islands, and from thence escaped into France. It is true that better advised than Mr. Wanorrr, or more probably being made sensible that be had effected his object, he afterwards submitted to the jurisdiction he ha at fi rst contemned, and yielding obedience to the rieremptory mandate of the Commons, appeared at the bar of the committee some fourteen days too late. But then his object was effected. Those four teen days, but for him, would have been otherwise 'Tent. The examination of " the Right Rev. Dilemmas WISEMAN, D.D.," which lasted out the whole of the 17th July, 1851, closed the sessional labours of the committee. No time was left them for the preparation, the circulation, and the con sideration of their report, even although a quorum of their numbers at that advanced period of the year could with certainty have been relied on. There I was nothing for it but to report evidence, and to ask leave to be re-appointed next year. Thus far the cardinal's dodge had proved suceesaful! Only thus far. There remain the facts of the case, upon which the public will be able to form its own judgment. There remains also the official record of the sayings of the cardinal himself, when under examination. It is hard to conceive a more palpable case of self-crimination than this, or a less wise—we do not mean cunning—criminal than the cardinal. In the art of self-defence, it is his fate to be for ever overreaching himself. His policy is too far-fetched for the English meridian—too finely drawn for the rough utilities of life. He had a plain course before him, but he managed to shut his eyes in time to miss it. He was there, no longer to inform the committee —the time had gone by for that—but to clear him self. The evidence which at an earlier period the 1 1 committee wanted from him, and would have gladly L received, had been obtained from other and more trustworthy witnesses. These, in rendering their testimony, had grievously disparaged him. Every tale they told in some way or other, and either more or less directly, impeached the credit and character of himself and the cur i a he served. Of these he possessed the most recent, and also the most detailed accounts, thanks to the zeal and industry of his friends, and particularly of his attorney, 3lr. ammo, who generally managed to attend the committee, and was never without accurate and en tire beeviates of its proceedings. Any other accused mooa . coming forward at the eleventh hour under such circumstances, would have made a merit of necessity, and made boldly that which, at the first hour of the day, Cardinal WISEMAN professed him self willing to make, a clear and unreserved state ment of his own case in that point of view in which he desired to place it. The Cardinal did just the contrary. He deliberately receded from his own express, repeated. and recorded declarations ; he re fused to answer all questions in general, and every one in particular. (Wisest %X, Q. 3,192) Ho dis avowed even the statements of his own attorney and witness made on his behalf (Q. 3.312-17) ; and when interrogated as to the specific charges against him : self, thought it safe and honourable to decline all specific forms of defence and to content himself • in every case with an appeal to character, or a general denial of the truth of the charge "as stated." Of the effect of such a denial our ' readers will best judge from one specimen. It had b een stated by the Rev. Mr. M MOM', a ltoman ea. tholic priest. that the Cardinal, in the prosecution of his great scheme of power, had within a few days I before his examination employed not only cajolerics, but menaces, with certain eeclesiastied trustees of sprit y funds to the amount of 200,000!. and more, Is order to obtain the absolute surrender of their trusts, and the transfer of the money to his own un controlled disposition ; that one of these trustees, the Rev. Mr. ROLFE, " died last week in consequence of the annoyance and mental anxiety- felt at the de mand;" that another of them, the nee. Dr. Cox, President of Old-Hall-Green College. had refused to eumply, and that " the consequence of such refusal THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING; SEPTEMBER 22, 1861., bad been the loss of the mitre of Southwark, which the clew et the London district were exceedingly an=ions that he, and not Dr. GRANT, the new bishop, 'shout receive." This statement being read over to his Eminence by the chairman, and the usual question being asked, the former angrily exclaims -0 I only wish to say, that that statement, from the beginning to the end of it, is one tissue of untruths — every word of it." Bat being further asked, "Have those efforts been made?" his wrath subsides at once, and he answers timidly, "not as stated there--certainly not. I have made no efforts which have not been carried out." Premed a little further he again falls back upon the seeress , expedient, and says, "I am again obliged to decline entering into any explanation with respect to my transactions on this su b j ect. rtsemsx, Q. 3,319-24.) It only remains to be ere added, that within three weeks after this exami nation was taken, Dr. Cox was further deprived of the presidency of his college, and the brother of the deceased Mr. ROLFE, also a priest, in London, was ousted from his benefice. The result, therefore, of the Cardinal's evidence is very different from what he in his indiscreet, not to say indecent letter to the Caen journals proclaimed it. He has not succeeded in preventing the com mittee from " getting much out of him." In absurd and inveterate hatred of plain dealing he has again overreached himself. The committee gave him the opportunity, much needed, no doubt, of setting right an aspersed reputation. He declined to use it; pre ferring to leave unanswered the grave, unequivocal, and well-sustained charges which the accusers had publicly preferred. What they . are we shall have an early opportunity of examining. Be they . what they may, their truth, as against Cardinal IVISE MAN, may now be taken to be established. Some uneasiness on this score is said to have been recently oiuced by the Cardinal himself. After the committee had closed its inquiry—after the evidence had been reported to the house —and when the house itself was on the eve of prorogation, his Eminence is said to have written to Mr. IlLtectit, asking the insertion of some letter or other in his evidence which he had not produced nor even mentioned to the committee when under examination. The appli cation was of course rejected; bet it is said that when the committee is re-appointed next year the opportunity will be offered to the Cardinal of pro ducing the letter in person, and of being cross examined with regard to it. Should that desired event take place, we trust that some single-minded member of the committee will refesh the memory of the eminent prelate by reading over to him the solicitor's bill of costs, in the matter of the arbitration between the late Bishop GRIFFITIIS, on the one side, and himself and his late colleague, Bishop W.it.sn, on the other. The arbi tration had reference to filthy lucre, the produce of the spoils of an inheritance. Beth sides appeared by counsel. Cardinal WtseNtis, not satisfied with his counsel, made a long speech in his own behalf, "proving theologically," says a correspondent of ours, " from what I can remember of it, that a bishop ought not to perform an agreement, if it were more to his advantage to break it." Now the Cardinal, being examined by the com mittee as to this matter, makes answer thus: " I did not argue it. I was simply present. I do not remember that I spoke. I bad my own opinion on it." (WIsEmAN, Q. 3,373-7.) The circumstance in question occurred in 1841. The bill of costs for that year contains an item which we are authorised to publish. It is as follows: "17 August, 1841. Attending the sixth meeting of the arbitrators at GILEEN'S Hotel, self and clerk, front 11 till 4 o'clock, when the Rev. Mr. ROBSON addressed an argument to the arbitrators on the ecclesiastical canons on the subject of legacies, to which Dr. WISEMAN replied on belsafqf Dr. W.ttsit, and the meeting was adjourned till half-past 10 o'clock to-morrow !" Clearly it will be the duty of the committee to refresh the Cardinal's memory on these points, and we trust that they will be afforded the opportunity to discharge it. THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. On the Bth of this month we published a list of arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel, for the express pur pose (es it was stated) of testing the soundness of the law laid down in the following circular of the Board of Inland Revenue to country newspapers, and parti cularly to the 2llaidatigiv Gazette: It having been the practice of mine of the publiehers of newspapen of inserting a list of " Arrivals at Hotels," I am directed to laurel you that the advertimument duty attaches to such announcements in respect to etta botel • and that any such list, with the hotel named, will be charged if it appear after this notice. It has not been our habit to give prominence in this newspaper to that description of news which consists of arrivals and departures, but as constant opponents of the advertisement duty, we felt that we were bound to resist every extension (which ap peared to us to be illegal) of a tax already painfully oppressive, and were glad to be enabled to fight the battle of the contemporary press on a question which was not in itself of so much importance to ourselves. In reply to our inquiries whether the authorities at Somerset House intended to charge the proprietors of this journal with advertisemout duty in conse quence of the list of arrivals so inserted in this paper, we have received the following communication : Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Sept. 13, 1851.—1 have laid before the board your letter of the 11th instant mutating . to be informed whether an article which appeared in the Daily News of the Bth instant having reference to certain announcements of arrives at the "Cla rendon" Hotel is considered liable to the advertisement duty, and in reply I ass directed to acquaint you that it is not intended to charge the announcements in question to Ithe advertisement duty.—l am, air, your obedient ser v►nt, THWILAJ KZOCIU. It will be seen from the letter of Mr. Keogh that the view taken by the proprietors of this paper, and confirmed by the eminent counsel to whom the question was submitted, has been acquiesced iu by the Board of Inland Revenue, and we presume that their threatening notices may bo considered to be withdrawn. It is to bo regretted that any attempt should have been made to extend the operation of this oppressive act, unless the alleged construction were clear and indisputable ; and the present instance, while it shows the importance of resisting every such at tempt, confirms our belief in the erroneous interpre tation which the Board of Inland Revenue asenb2s to the Advertisement Duty Act in other particulars, and which it may be desirable to bring to an early decision. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY ETZSINO. The government continues, in defiance of common sense, justice, and public opinion, its infatuated crusade against the press. Procureur of the Republic has had the Armament du Penple of Thurday evening seized at the poet-office and at the office of that journal, and has ordered a prosecution to be commenced against the responsible editor, for publishing a letter from M. V. Hugo, and an article bigned by Auguste Vacque rie, the editor in question. The AeMement is prosecuted under the charge of making an attack on the respect due to the law, an apology for acts designated enlace or misdemeanours by the penal code, and provocation to civil war. The Presse of yesterday has been also seized for publish ing the letter above alluded to, and for adding an article signed E. de Girardin. The latter paper is prosecuted under the charge of making an attack on the respect due to the law, and an apology for acts designated crimes or inisdemcaaoure by the penal code. There might be some apology for exercising a rigorous surveillance over the press were the country in a state easily inflamed by democratic rhetoric. But this is not the case. Never were the masses more tranquil, public spirit lees excitable and turbu lent. The ferrctings of the police produce, it is true, a few illiterate seditious circulars, and detect here and there secret societies and clandestine depo sits of arms. But a letter of Victor Hugo, or an article by Girardin, neither stimulate nor encourage such illegal proceedings. On the contrary, these two eminent representatives have constantly preached patience to the people, and pacific opposition. Neither in the letter nor in the article prosecuted in these two papers is there to be found a word that passes the bounds of legitimate discussion. Yet not only are two widely-spread journals confis cated, their subscribers throughout the country de prived of their daily paper, and the proprietors visited with loss; but trials are instituted in which every effort will be made by an unscrupulous public prose cutor before a complaisant court and a packed jury to imprison as long as possible and fine as heavily as possible the unfortunate yi , rant, whq has nothing whatever to do with the composition of the offensive articles. The persons of the writers are inviolable in their character of representatives; and of course the ministers would never demand from the Assembly authorisation to prosecute them, for so com pletely are these acts of persecution reprobated by public opinion that three-fburths of the chamber would be against them. A prac tised lawyer sits in the advocate-general's office whose function it is to pick out of the democratic papers all expressions to which he can apply the pincers of the severe enactments against the press. If every article written by a marked republican were revised before publication by a lass yer it would be still impossible to guard against the malicious spirit of captious chicane which presides at this inquisition; and least of all is it possible to protect the prosecuted against the invariable sentence of condemnation pro nounced by a Seine jury. The accusation of ex citing to civil war is simply ridiculous. The other accusation of apologising for an act qualified by the law as an offence is, owing to a singularity in French jurisprudence, most easy to be made. In England, pending a trial, it is un lawful to write anything calculated to intimidate or influence the judges. In France, on the contrary, before judgment is pronounced, the press is free to make comments, but judgment once given all criti cism is illegal. It may be proved to demonstration that a witness was perjured, a judge bribed, the law wrongly laid down, or the jury mistaken, the verdict is nevertheless to be reputed infallible, and any hint that an innocent man has been sent to gaol is severely punishable. This in some measure ac counts for the silence of the Paris press when a verdict has been obtained against one of their fraternity. Meanwhile the ob ject of the government in pursuing such a mistaken policy is not obvious; for no class of the public can accept such unreasonable persecution as a service rendered to society. On the contrary, the result is to exasperate those men whose counsels to their own party have been hitherto calm and pacific. I notice to-day two very distinct and categoric de durations in the organs of two important parties. The Union states emphatically in contradiction to the Bulletin de Paris, that the party of I'l. Bcrryer will not support an unconstitutional candidature; and the Natwsal declares that the Mountain will not vote for the revision of the constitution at any price, even with the condition of the abrogation of the law of May. These two declarations go far to cloud the prospects of the Elysk. Great divisions are said to agitate the ministry on the subject of the law of May; and even MM. Faucher and Baroche, who have declared that the law in question is the flag of the ministry, arc represented as admittin ,, modifica tions. Whether these will go far enough to satisfy the Assembly is as yet a problem. On its solution must turn the fate of the cabinet. PARIS, SUNDAE EVENING. The Mnniteur contains a decree repealing the ap pointment of Admiral Valliant, ex-Minister of Ma rine, to be Governor-General of the Antilles. Admiral Valliant remains charged with the government of Martinique, and with the command of the naval station of the Antilles and of the Gulf of Mexico. M. Aubry Bailleul, captain, is appointed Governor of Guadaloupe and its dependencies, in the place of Colonel Fieron. Upon the demand of the French government the government of Chili has suppressed the duty of tonnage imposed on French vessels by the decree of November, 11150, as well as the additional duty of 10 per cent. imposed by the same decree. The latter ' duty is not to be applied to merchandise imported directly from France in French bottoms, even when the merchandise is not French. The differential duties are to be restored. This concession was made on the 3rd of hue last, by the Minister of Finance, at Santiago. Stir Court. BALMORAL, FILIDAY, Strr. 19. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, went out riding yesterday. Prince Albert went out deer stalking. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess or Kent, Baroness Spaeth, the Right lion. Fox Massie, sad Sir Edwin Landseer. SATURDAY. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Itoyal, went yesterday to the top of Loch napir, where the royal party had luncheon. The Mar &scams of Douro was in attendance on her Majesty. Sir Edwin Landover left Balmoral yesterday for Lagga nauld. APPOINTYENTS.—WiIIiam Walker, Eaq., Govern ment Secretary of British Guiana, is appointed Lieutenant- Governor of that colony in the event of the death or during the absence of the governor. The lion. Julian Fane, Attache to her Majesty's Mission at Berlin, is transferred to the mission at ienna in the mote espacity.-06serecr. The New York Ocean Steam Navigation Com pany's mail packet Herman, Capt. J. D. Wilson, from ,iew York, arrived at Cowes on her way to Bremen, at 1 p.m. yesterday, with dates New York, Sept. 6. She bnugs thirty passengers. The freight on board consists of specie value 260,000 dollars, and 200 packages of sundries for Bremen. THE INDU3 LEFT SOUTHAMPTON on Saturday with the overland India mail. She took out 120 passengers, amongst them were Messrs. Borthwick, Bidder, Swinburne, Rouse, Duff, Chaffin', Vaughan, Harrison, Hardcastle, Stanton, Graham, Pringle, Preston, and Rushton, who will be the engineering staff for the formation of the Egyp tian railway. their instruments and apparatus for carry ing on operations between Alexandria and Cairo weighed several tons. Among the p.usengers also were Generals M.Neile end Godwin, and Lord Lurgan, aide-dc-camp to the latter; Dr. Young, and four native servants, who brought over the howdah and other presents from the Nissan to the Queen, and which are now in the Great Ex hibition, and two parsecs. Amongst the cargo of the lu das were 115 boxes of specie. SPAIN. MADRID, Seer. 15. After many days of political stagnation, rumours of different kinds begin to circulate respecting the anomalous position of the Bravo Murillo cabinet. The state of Europe has for some time past kept Queen Christina, the sovereign de facto of this country, in a state of constant fluctuation. Without daring to decide frankly in favour of a system of concessions, and not possessing the energy that is required in the system of resistance which Narvacz so strenuously held up, Queen Christina and her camarilla have, during the whole summer, adopted an expectant policy. The Bravo Murillo ministry, created and sustained for the purpose of getting through the knotty question of the public debt, the overthrow of Narvaez and his overbearing colleagues, and the nullifying of the pianos, has fulfilled the ob ject of its mission, and has, up to the present time, staved off the difliculties to come. But now that the rigours of the season have passed, and with them the lethargy that in this country is to be taken into account in affairs of every kind, now that political men of every kind are flocking back to the capital, the Queen Mother and her friends begin to see the necessity of preparing for the re-opening of the Cortes, of finding new means for meeting the terrible deficit in the finances, a deficit that the imminent necessity of augmenting the military resources of , the Antilles renders still ireater. The Queen Mother has already brought ',to play those strate gic resources of domestic intrigue in which she has so often succeeded. Cortina, who was her constant guest at La Granja, and who has professed himself tired of the mode of . political agitation in which his life has been frittering away, has published I his political manifesto, in which h e hid es his epos tacy under a cloud of words; Gomez de Soto has been won over, and even Mendizabal has just received an immense service. This celebrated ex-minister has, since the years 1820 and 1813, been owing very con : siderable sums to the state, sums which had been de ' posited with him, and at the same time he is a state creditor to a heavy amount fur supplies furnished at the above-mentioned epoch. His accounts have been I audited exactly as he himself could have desired : 30 millions of problematical credit have been s e t aminst T his 30 millions of liabilities. Mendizabal thus • gained, General Espartero has been next thought of. correspondence between him and the Q ueen I A Moth er has taken place, and it is asserted that the .iveteran has received orders to come t o 'Ma drid. Bravo Murillo has shown much dis taste for these measures, but Bravo Murillo is a very different person from his iron-willed predecessor Narvacz, and the Queen Mother has in sisted upon Espartero's coming to Madrid. Narvacz, "emi t" is es ci: w pec ho ted h we e re re bef at ore the so end an o s f to t us he m to on se th n . I d him tn i away, have either- outgrown their fears, or, as they say, desire that that personage may present himself once more on the political stage, in order that, led away by his ambitiou, he may give them a pretext to avenge the many affronts they have suffered from his hands. Another rumour, which, if true, is not without importance, I must not omit to mention. The lofty palace of Buena Vista, where the once famous Godoy, the Prince of Pence, took up his residence,and where General Espartero lived during his regency, has for some years b een occupied by the War Department. Orders have been given for the War-office to take another residence, and the old palace is to be fitted up with uncommon splendour for the reception of a high personage. As it has not been given out who this high personage is, all kinds of reports obtain. Some say that the Queen of Por tugal thinks of abdicating and accepting an asylum here, others that the palace is being fitted up for the , 1 Montpensiers, or for Don Enrique, the King's brother ; but the report that obtains most credit is that the Prince of l'arma is about to come to Madrid, charged with a mission from the absolute courts, who are bent upon persuading the Queen of Spain to do away with the constitution, alleging that such a measure will be received with as much indifference by the public as the concordat, which by the bye, the government has not yet dared to put into execution. As all these news are without that confirmation that can give them great value, political men look with no small anxiety to the ministerial papers, and above all, to Christina's print, the Espana, for some indication of the intentions of the government. The leading articles of the latter paper , for the most part written by Christina's private secretary, show a tendency towards a concessionary policy. Cortina is strenuously defended against the attacks of his old friends, and free trade is advocated. The I.'spana of to-day earnestly recommends that in the present state of affairs with the United States, a demon stration of all parties should be made in favour of government. The news of the easy victory . obtained over the American invaders have been received with no small exultation ; the boasting of the American papers, and the obvious contempt they have always demonstrated for the personal courage of the Spanish race having long ulcerated the public mind. Some uneasiness is being felt here on account of the news having arrived that Adminil Bus tines is proceeding with dangerous zeal in the performance of his duties. lie has fired upon and considerably injured an American ship laden with flour, and bound to llavannah. The vessel, it appears, did not heave to as hailed to do. After being rigorously searched, she was ordered to return to the United States, though she had nothing on board that could justify suspicion. It remains to ' see how brother Jonathan will behave when he learns these transactions. The American minister ICa.;llad frequent conferences with the Minister of Foreign Atthirs these few days. A reinforcement of 4,000 men has been just sent to Cuba. The following is an extract from a private letter : MADRID, Seer. H. I learn that the Spanish government has adopted a high tone towards that of the United States ; and as public feeling is decidedly in favour of such a line of conduct just now, it will render itself popular by so doing. Moreover, it counts upon the support of the British and French governments : hence proba bly its pugnacity. bespatchcs are on the point of being transmitted to the Spanish minister at Washington, directing him to protest in the strongest terms against the supineness of the American government in having permitted a second marauding expedition to attack Cuba, and to demand satisfaction for the outrages the Spanish consul at New Orleans has been sub jected to by the annexationists. I have just been assured upon good authority that Genera, Aupick, the French ambassador here, has ad vised the government to oiler the command of Cuba to General Narvaez. ITALY. LOMBARDY. - - The Emperor of Austria went on the lith instant from Verona to Mantua, and returned in the evening to Verona. On the 18th he left the latter city fur l'cschicra, and was to sleep at Rive. The Milan Gazette of the lath publishes a notifi cation from Lieut. Marshal Schulzig, commandant of the fortress of Mantua, announcing that Count Alexander Arrivabene, late lieutenant in the Aus trian army, has been condemned by court-martial to be hanged, for having written and spread an article entitled " The Secret Agitators," containing injurious expressions against the government, and, moreover, for having a stiletto and a tricoloured scarf in his possession; but that the punishment has been com muted Into that of two years' imprisonment, in con sideration of the said Count Arrivabene having fought bravely on the Austrian side in the late war of Italy, although he knew that his father and bro ther were fighting on the other side. NAPLES. Our correspondent relates, in his letter of the 14th, some proceedings of the government in relation to Mr. Gladstone's letters, and instances several facts calculated to throw fresh light on this subject of con troversy:. The Pope has granted power to the King to appoint the Archbishop of Naples. The King has left with a body of troops for Maid, in which neigh bourhood some fresh shocks had caused damage on the tith. ROME, Slot. 10. Whatever may be said as to the more moderate proceedings of the priestly party here, it is pretty evident that it is still progressing, and by no small steps either, in its course of severity. Whether it is advancing on the road to triumph, or to that of ruin, m many suppose, remains to bo seen. It began its mow with banishment and deposition from employ ment, but the former was only for such as were not included in what some have been pleased to term the amnesty, and the latter was not had recourse to until some sentence had been passed, the supposed result of proper examination. At the present moment, however, even those who are comprised in the amnesty are liable to banishment at the mere will of the police, and parties arc deprived of their situations without the unnecessary formality of pre vious investigation, as has happened to several persons of my own acquaintance —among others to Dr. Caval lini. A short time ago, it is true, some young men were condemned to 20 years of the galleys for having gunpowder in their possession for Bengal lights, and others underwent the same punishment for having extinguished a few matches; but no one, as yet, had been condemned to suffer death for offences purely political. The French mado this their great boast, as an evidence of their benign influence; but the priests have just now given them the lie direct in this matter, for they have condemned to death Signor Salvatori, municipal magistrate of Giulianello, near Agnani, solely because he conscientiously discharged his duty. It appears that in this commune, in the time of the republic, there existed a society of San fedists, which Salvatori felt himself officially called upon to look after ; and as they did not confine Ithemselves to words only,but were speedily approach ing to deeds, as was the case also in general of the neighbouring communes, he judged it best to refer their proceedings to the superior authorities, which very shortly had recourse to energetic measures. Among the leaders of the society, as might be ex pected, there were several priests, on whose persons were found not only treasonable papers, but also the seal of their society, bearing a death's head and po4nards. One of these priests was condemned to , suffer death, and it is to appease the manes of this I Sanfedist that the present victim is to be immolated, though in no other country possessing a shadow of justice would he have been deemed deserving of any punishment at all. His lawyers, to whom his family have paid more than a thousand crowns to conduct his defence, gave them great hopes of his acquittal, but such is the mystery that here envelopes all pro ceedings connected with politics, that it is not known whether even a single word was uttered in his behalf. If Mr. Gladstone would visit Rome and take the trouble to look a little into our criminal courts, ho might relate more extraordinary matters than all he has told us respecting Naples. lie would find that an accused person, after several months of imprisonment, is at length visited by a ma. gistrate, who commences by asking him if he knows why he has been arrested, hoping by the interrogatory to elicit some particulars that may still further criminate the prisoner, who after a ' short:examination is again locked up in his dungeon, there to remain til the day of trial. In the mean -1 while an advocate is provided for him, which in these political cases is nothing more nor less than a cruel mockery, since although he is made acquainted with the general nature of the charge against tho prisoner, he is furnished with none of the particulars, and is moreover sworn not to divulge it to him; and it is only on the day of trial that the prisoner learns the nature of his accusation. He is not even allowed to see the witnesses who depose against him, and those who conic for ward in his favour arc heard or not, us the judge may think proper. Everything is carried on with closed doors, and the sentence, except it be that of death, is never made public till it be put into execu tion. An exception, however, occurred in the case of the poor wretch who was sentcnc.l to twenty years of the galleys for having extinguished the allumette. The journal of the priests, with its accus tomed regard to truth, stated, in its number of the Ist September, that this punishment was rtv.-arded in consequence of the accused having attempted the life of the party ; whereas the accusation does nut even allude to violence, but simply to the act of ex tinguishing the match in the hand of his friend who was about to light a cigar. The Austrian mili tary tribunal for a similar offence, accompanies! with personal violence, awarded to the otfender only forty days' imprisonment. Yet, in the face of all this, the (Veers is astonished that there should be an ambassador at Rome who could publicly protest against such nn act of injustice, and threatens, moreover, to publish his name, as if lie had been guilty of some heinous crime. Equally atrocious is the condemnation of the master of the café to five years of the galleys for deposing that, in his opinion, the whole affair was only a 4oke be tween the two young men. You may imagine from this how little encouragement there is to come for ward to give evidence in favour of the accused. A young man, only 18 years of age, of the name of Apolloni, was accused of having assisted in burning the carriage of Cardinal Scram. lie brought for ward seventeen persons, all highly respectable inha bitants of the piazza where this auto do ft took place, and who all deposed that Apolloni was not present at it. The judges decreed that the assertion to the contrary of two of the cardinal's servants was more worthy of belief. Apolloni, then, to clear himself effectually, proved an alibi, show ing that during the whole of that day he was with his battalion of the national guards defending the walls of the city, and he mentioned the names of his companions in arms who were at his side; upon which the Judge l'asqualoni, with a noble indigna tion, exclaimed that it was an indecent procure, and that no faith could be placed on the word of a man who acknowledged that he was in arms against his legitimate sovereign ; whilst, on the contrary, the witnesses against him were above all suspicion. The other judges immediately joined in chorus, and the unfortunate man was mercilessly found guilty. We repeat that if Mr. Gladstone were to come to Rome, he might convince himself that on the re gister of the prison of Monte Citorio alone arc in scribed the names of 3,745 prisoners who have been sent there since the Ist of January last. He might see also in the Roman prisons many unfortunates who have languished in them several years without having been brought to trial, and 80111 C even without having . undergone a single examination, as is the case with the dragoon Offidani, who has been 27 months thus incarcerated in a dungeon. Capanna was thrown into prison immediately after the entry of the French ; he was arraigned before their tri bunal, and condemned to imprisonment for life ; he appealed to the Court of Cussation, which set aside the judgment, hut the French gave hint up to tho priests, who still retain hint in confinement. Gran doni, a colonel of the National Guard; Constantini, an officer of the Roman legion ; Caravacci, Dr. Corsi, and Pestrini ; have all been imprisoned two years, and have only undergone a single examination. So much for . justice in the city of Rome--facts which Dr. Valen, with all his assurance, can never contra dict. _ _ But one condemnation, which has only been known since yesterday, and which has caused the most painful sensations throughout the city is that of Col. Calandrelli, Minister of War under the re public, whom we have repeatedly had occasion to mention, as a distinguished engineer and artillery officer, who performed prodigies of valour dining the siege of Rome. 'Mc process against him is a tissue of the lowest intrigues and the basest re venge. Will it behelicved that this honourable man, through whose hands enormous sums have passed in his official capacity without a shadow of suspicion as to his integrity, has been accused of having stolen some books front the ecclesiastical academy, and has been condemned as a common thief to twenty years of the galleys? This accusation, equally cruel and absurd, and which rested its only chance of being believed upon the fact that Calandrelli was beguiling his imprisonment with some literary labours of an historical nature, has nevertheless been his ruin. Ho had plenty of time to escape, and his friends fur nished him with ample means of doing so, even after he was thrown into prison—hut he constantly refused, trusting in his innocence and despising the idea of running away from a charge of theft. lie had not borne sufficiently in mind the implacable nature of priestly vengeance. His double sentence was read to him a few days ago—that condemning him to death was graciously remitted, thanks to the good offices of the King of Prussia in his behalf ; but by virtue of the other he was forthwith sent off to Ancona, chained to a sanitary officer of the name of Itipari, condemned like himself to the galleys for 20 years, and in company with two others, likewise chained together, and both condemned for political offences— , one to death, the other to ten years of the galleys. Of these last two the names have not yet transpired, such is the secresy with which these matters are conducted ; but it is conjectured that the unfortunate who is condemned to death, and who is described as a remarkably fine and handsome young man, may probably be the deputy Paella. Among the devastations which the republicans have been accused of is to be reckoned the destrue i . Bon of the guillotine, the wood having been burnt t and the axe thrown into the Tiber. The restorers of order have, however, re-established it, and in order to 3 prevent its being so easily demolished at any future r period, have taken the precaution to rebuild it of cast iron. GERMANY. VIENNA, Styr It. Archduke Albrecht has been appointed civil and military governor of unfortunate Ilungary—an ap pointment of small promise for the inhabitants of that groaning kingdom. The character of the new governor is a guarantee that the iron rule under which Ilungary suffers will be redoubled rather than relaxed. Archduke Albrecht is a revengeful, arro gant, tyrannical man ; whose disposition has caused him much unpleasantness, when commander-in•chief in Lower Austria. Ile it was who commanded the troops from whose muskets the first shots were fired upon the people in the month of March, 1848. Sub sequently he was sent into Italy to avoid the conse quences of this act : he remained there until the be ginning of last year, when the army in Bohemia was placed under his command.. The numerous execu tions which have taken place in Prague between the end of 1849 and now arc attributed to his unmerciful disposition by the public. The Ilungarians will not receive mercy nor gentleness at his hands. Telegraphic despatches announce the arrival of the Emperor at Verona. To-day is the last day for which is allowed the extra per centage offered by the finance minister for early subscriptions to the loan of eighty-five millions, and it is anticipated that the bankers of Vienna will to-day put their names down for the amounts they intend to take. All reports respecting the largo amounts which are said to have been subscribed arc false. Up to last night, or rather this morning, the sum of 11 millions had been subscribed within the empire, while as nothing is known of the amounts taken in the largo money markets of Europe, they are supposed to bo small, or the government would speedily have published the fact. The bankers of London and Paris are expected to contribute little or nothings and from calculations which hare been made on accurate data, it appears that the whole amount subscribed in Frankfort and Amsterdam, to- I