The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

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Alterman, Cs. 51;48. uoicoasow—llsrolas, M. 1184 Aftensoca. 14 110. LONDON, YUBSDAY, JANUARY 21. Tne present House of Commons has already lost GS unusual number,of those whose ability, station,or ex perience rendered them conspicuous at its first convoca tion. A sudden and mysterious fate has btreft both sac tons Lf the opposition of their respective leaders; while other causes have occasioned the removal from the ministerial mks of the most popular of whig nobles, and the most admired of recent Irish orators. The more literal tory party in the lower house have now unstained another loss by the accession of Lord LIN COLN to the decal honours of NEWCASTLE and NOT TINGHAM To tir.imate the effect which the circumstance in question is likely to produce on the fortunes of the Peelite party, it would perhaps b. necessary to know a little more clearly than we profess to do, what its actual leanings sod intentions are. The equivocal position in which it has stood during the last four year., between its rivals in office and in opposition, had grown daily more irksome and less calculated to inspire general confidence, even before the death of bir ROHERT Part. Toe protectionists were getting tired of being periodically tantalised by broad hints and bland invitations to re-union ; while the smaller tenants of the Treasury beach were frequently filled with apprehensions of an immigration that must ine vitably lead to the eviction of many of them from their unimproved holdings. Both, however, appear to have been premature in their anticipations. The Peelites chase rather to sing "how happy could we be with either!"—than to take part le rmanently with ore or other. They loved to show their power of malting each in turn preponderate, &Gawk reserved right was thrown alternately into the doubtful scales. Some times they even hesitated not to divide their favours, aid while Sir Isms GRAHAM and Mr. CARDWELL walked into the New Lobby, Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. BTDNEY HERDERT walked into the Old. Bat the pulse of human patience and the course of hem= events does not admit of the indefinite pro longation of such a state of things. Sir ROBERT personal position had contributed not a little to its continuance so long. It was impossible for him to be anything less than prime minister ; and neither of the numerically powerful sections wanted him in that capacity. To bays led any fatal assault on the whig cabinet would have unavoidably brought upon the ex premier the humiliation of being disowned and deserted by two-thirds of his followers on the field of bootless victory. And to have lent the constant combined faros of his adherents to the present ministers, would speedily have destroyed the individuality, and thereby the importance of their position. Sir ROBERT was too skilful a tactician to commit either blunder. His obvious sins was power—real, practical, substantial power—that which' a man feels when be makes his assent indispensable to measures, and which reoders it perilous to force the adoption of any proposition that he thinks fit to condemn. This great and pal pable power of arbitrament he undoubtedly exer cised, however forbearingly, to a great extent, from 11440 to 11430. But there were many symp toms manifest to attentive observers towards the close of last session that a change of tactics had become csay.idabls. What that change would have been bad Sir ROBERT lived another year it were idle to conjecture now. But, confessedly, the lament able event of last July tended directly to emancipate his disciples from an allegiance that could only have been maintained by an open alteration of conduct on the part of the lamented statesman. la a minor degree the elevation of Lord LINCOLN to the House of leers may possibly contribute to the same result. So long as he continued in the Cons- Mons it would have been difficult for Mr. GLAD3TONE to have assumed the undisputed tradership of the party; yet nobody who recognises the claim of genius as paramount in such matters, can hesitate to own that the versatile and elcquent representative of Oxford University stands forth among hie political assodates, facile prineepe. For we do not regard Sir Jame OSAMU u any longer one of the party. It is someyeare now since he cut the Carlton. Day by day he has drawn closer to the " friends of his youth." Ot late he has hardly ever voted with the AsiILZYS, GOVLUCJINS, and Musician, but on nearly every subject involving great principles against them. Sir JAMES may not chose to be called a whig, and he may not choose to be called a radical, bat for want of a more definite denomination he may for the present be termed a liberal unatlarba Meanwhile the new Duke of NIWCASTI.F. will pro bably muse • conspicnous place in the I touseof Lords. He is kno Tll to possess great industry, no ordinary de gree of aptitude for business, and we are bound in candour to add no common atock of political courage. His leanings have been hitherto rather too doctrinaire. Like others of his class and standing he has often seemed to take infinite pains to show that he dimwitted from the blockheads and bigots whom he had been taught by has foolish old father to admire— not open the plain reasons that made liberal men eschew their blundering and perversity, but upon some crotchety notion that nobody could understand. This Ault wu observable in every act of the Pulite party. They were not afraid to do right, but they were horribly ashamed of acknowledging them selves converts to the political faith they had so long and nescrupulonsly opposed. Hence the dreary and dreamy lucu brations in which they strove to make out a Denies of special pleas, where the simplest and shortest avowal of honest conviction would have dooe them far more service and far more honour. But • new epoch is opening in parliamen tary history, and the undeniable talent. and attain ments of this section of politicians eminently fit them to take a decisive part if they themselves evince decision. Energy and experience they do not wont. Debating and deliberative powers they certainly possess. Ore thing only they have hitherto seemed , to lack,—faith in great principles, and in the eventual certainty of a great and distinctive line of policy to vindicateitselfaudexalt its authors. No nombeeof small quarrels with the whip about detail., or repetitions of their moms for swerving from the twice on points now fixed and settled, can compensate for the want of individuality and obviousness of aim. Mere negatives will not do. Not to be tories and not to be radical, and yet not to be whip, is really as well a. literally to be in popular estimation nothing at all. 'Ti. time to be something positive and palpable. If the Peelites CU not devise a distinctive course, which will engage wen's feelings and attract men's hopesand sy mystifies, they had better make up their mind. to join with some other notion at once atd thoroughly ; for to con tinuo in these times in shallow water is the way to make an comesional splash, but not to swim no strong Of 0011114110110 We own tint to us nothing would be more grateful than to se. a noble competition for power between toe or more sections, each resting its claim on the advocacy of great principles of progress and reform. Manifestly it is for the interest of the country that there should be such bidding. and counter-bidding. for its confidence; and independent of all party obligation., we should tusentedly rejoice to see ass , MUNI•o... THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21. 1851. like those we have already named availiag themselves GERMANY. of the tensions that cannot fail to be presented ere long, to lead opinion boldly, and to vie with their for- The German papers bring no news of importsn midable but faltering rivals for tie reward of popular The coronatton anniversary of the King of Prussia l\ esteem. Bit an army may be kept in winter guar- was celebrated ea the 181 h at Berlin. The King bad tees too long ; and it cannot march without • 8 tg. on the ccmisioo devirsted about 230 parent, at the What the Newcasie standaediehkely wise we khow head of whom was M. Manteuffel, with valise' orders. not, but sure we are that it is high time it should be A banquet afterwards took Oiliest the palace, and the unfurled. -.King, a proposing* teat, imegretulsted the country - that the disastrous principles of the year 1848 bad not Ix America has been tried the great experiment of reached the heart of the people. The Austrian troops allowleg not merely the tallest freedom of Tell:zit-Ass had LIU t4-' cross le. Ahmt 360 mad had opinions, but the fullest development and organise, crolood Oa the 17th. Tue Schleswig-Holstein &raw were retiring behind the Eyder, and the Danish out tion of sects and churches, formed by , or bps twos, those opinions. In France there seems to he pests bad fallen back. The disbanding of the Schles going on a hied of analogous experiment , which is wig - Holstein forces will commence almost imme not merely the toleration of all kinds of political diately. opinion, but the liberty for these several political • sees to form clubs and parties, and to strive, the one for a certain kind of government and king, the other for a different government and a different king. Each political votary is allowed to pour forth his vows before the throne of his choice. And DI. BERSTER claims the right of going to Wies baden, and M. Titans to Claremont, without affront or prejudice to the heir of NAPOLEON as the chief of the republic. In order to complete this political coe mopolitiam, it would be necessary to extend the same tolerance to the socialists : but it seems that no poll ti ;al creed is to erjoy toleration there, unless it Can prove that it belongs to In bonne sot-lief. General CAVATONAC may declare himself a republican, M. BERRTER a legitimist ; but if any one should think fit to cry Vice la Seriale, he is to be forthwith sabred or The Minister of Commerce had an interview on the 16th, at Berlin, with the Premier, on the subject of Zollverein affairs. It is the general belief that on this point M. Menteuffel will not yield to Austria; bat it is much to be desired that an understanding should be come to with the S!ener Verein, of which, also, there is a good proe;:ect. There is another good bit of news, if it should be confirmed, viz., that agri cultural and commercial affairs. instead of being re presented, u new, by two ministries, are about to be placed under one and the same central adminis tration. . . . . . . ----- The government has submitted to the chambers a new press law, which increases the strictness of the octroyed laws of June 30, 1849, and June 8, 1850. The old laws and the new bill await alike the discus sion of the chamber, since the former have no legality without its sanction. The chief grievances of the press, besides the censorship, consist in the excessive responsibility exacted of editor, printer, and pub lisher; the hindrances opposed to the dispersion of newspapers through the post; and the withdrawal of offences against the press laws from the cognisance of a jury. The ordinance of June, 1849, knows nei ther caution-money, nor exclusion from the Poet- Office. The supplementary ordinance of Jane, 183 ), on the other hated, provides that the postal admini stration may decline the receipt and execution of orders to supply newspapers, according to circum stances. Whether this provision shall be maintained in the new press law depends upon whether the ordi nance of Jane, 1850, may be adopted in connexion with the law of December, 1850, or not. In the draught of the new law, a paragraph provides that only such newspapers as have been once con victed shall be liable to exclusion from the Post-Office. According to the ordinance of June, 1849, the editor of a journal is re quired to send in an early impressson signed with his name, to the chief of the local police. The new law extends this obligation to the publisher or agent. The ordinance of June, 1849, requires the ad dress of the printer and pubtisher to be printed on every journal. The new law requires that the name of a certain editor shall be affixed to every paper. Such person must be in fall possession of civil rights, and live within the jurisdiction of the Prussian courts. The ordnance of 1849 cowslip, as provisions on the subject of caution money, those first introduced in the supplementary ordinance of Inns, 1850, and are retained an the new law. Periodicals not treating of political or social questions are exempt from the necessity of caution deposits. The ordinance of 1849 refers a great number press offences to a jury ; the new law makes all offences, the punishment of which is less than imprisoment of six weeks or a fine of fifty dollars, and are brought within the competence of the police court. For our part we entertain great doubts of the pos sibility of political tolerance, carried to the degree claimed by Menem BaRRTER and TRIERS, at least in a country and amidst a population that is at all in earnest in these matters. But in France, where the great mass of the population care and know as little of the Duke of BORDEAUX as they do of the Lyme of THIBET, and where no class of the popula tion feels for the ORLEANS family aught but indiffe rence, an individual declaration of allegiance to them is not more daemons than Mormonism or socialism would be with us. Napoleoniem was a popular sen timent of other importance and magnitude, and one that might have been appealed to for any purpose or to any extent. From the revelations of M. Tutees in his speech, it is evident that Louts NAPOLEON was fully sensible of what he ought to do, and how he could beet evoke this sentiment, which was by a military demonstration abroad, the liberat ing Italy for example, or a great conciliatory and po pular policy at hums. M. TRIERS avows that he and his friends strenuously dissuaded the President from entering upon such policy. He recommended Louts NAPOLEON to take to pleasiart the Assembly, not the people. The result LOUIS NAPOLEON now finds to be, that he has lost ground with the people, destroyed the Napoleonic sentiment in the masses, arid allowed it to evaporate, whilst all his obsequious ness to the majority of the Assembly has not won for him either gratitude or attachment. Seldom has there been pronounced a more able or plausible speech than that of M. TIIIERS. For its complete success this alone wee requisite, that people should forget every other speech that M. Times had ever made. This pliant orator came forward on this, his last exhibition, as the champion of true republi canism. The republic, he acid, was the only neutral ground on which conflicting parties could agree. And the crime of Louts NAPOLEON, according to M. THIER4, was hie being false to this neutrality, and to the abnegation which all other parties observed in their adhesion to the republic. But who does not recollect M. THIERS'S speeches of one and two years back, in which he reiterated every contemptuous and hostile expression towards the republican form of government ? These denunciations of the republic were followed up by M. THIERS'S pilgrimage to Claremont, which could not have been a mere pretext of friend. ship; for no two men hated each wher, or vilipended each other more, than Louis PHILIPPE and M. Tnteas. Their meeting was a reconciliation, not a continuance of friendship, and that reconciliation must have been for political ends. The pretence that M. TUTEES went to Claremont and sate between the Duchess of ORLEANS and the Comte de PARIS, with-- out such an act or position bearing a political mean ing, is one of those barefaced pieces of hypocrisy and humbug that would not be tolerated in any other lati• tude save that of Paris. We see nothing in Louts 'NAPOLEON'S conduct that was not infinitely fairer and more constitutional than the conduct of Messrs. BERRTER and THIERS. lodepen bat of their pilgrimage to pretenders,their whole policy has been to base the government upon the army, to sesupy the; great towns by an overwhelming military force, and, under cover of this military force, abro gate the popular rights guaranteed by the constitu tion. In the present debate M. TRIERS avowed that to have aided this, and rendered it possible, was the great merit of CHANGARNIER. And yet, whilst MM. THIERS and OUIZOT'S friends thus bared their influence and their policy on military support, it was to be denied to Louts NAPOLEON to endeavour to conciliate or gain military voters. Louts NAPOLEON wants to be re-elected ; it is not an ti republican to entertain such a wish. He has canvassed provincial populations and the military masses, of which each soldier has a vote; whilst the general offi cers, NEI:MATER and CHANGARNIER, forbade any military favours or acclamations on the part of the soldiers towards the PRESIDENT. We admit that his mode of winning the soldiers was no very noble one. Sendirg them to Rome to wash Italian freedom, and then dose them with ebampagne on the plains of Versailles, are not the reads to greetings or heroism. But the ways of the majority of the Assembly were just as mean, just as illiberal, just as criminal, in making power depend on military support, and far more treasonable to the form of government which prevailed, and to which in conformity they had sworn allegiance. The result of the debate appears to us favourable to the PRESIDENT, and damning to the monarchists. In the first place the latter have only carried a vote of censure on the ministry by means of the democratic arid socialist votes ; secondly, in knocking down ministers they have knocked down but so many nine pins. For as the rule is to employ second-rate men, a relay of such ministers can be found every week. But the most striking phenomenon is the small sym pathy that exists between the Assembly and the pun lie. With a tempest in the one, a perfect calm reigns in the other. Whilst the barometer in the Hall of Sitting sinks to a point denoting the fiercest convulsion of the elements, stocks rise upon 'change. And whilst parliamentary politicians declare that all is lost wish CLIANCARNIRR, monied and mercantile folk congratulate themselves on having got rid of a troublesome fellow. The PRESIDENT of the REPUBLIC is thus beginning to appeal to, and find support from, a clam hitherto averse to him. His first policy on his promotion ought certainly to Dave been a popular and a con ciliatory one. He trusted M. TIIIERS, however, and thus disgusted the people. The next class that LOUIS NAPOLEON devoted himself to please were the con servative and monarchist politicians of the Assembly. In this, too, he failed, for their allegiance and aspi rations were elsewhere. He has now the chance of appealing to and winning a third clue, that of the independent citizens. 1 his neither can he succeed in, if he display a contempt for civic virtue. Prodigality, disorder, tastes that are military without being heroic, and domestic without being moral, in fallibly disgust the middle class. And without winning the support and the respect of some large civic class, altogether independent of the suspicious adherence of mere soldiers, Louts NAPOLEON will not succeed even in his re-election as president. His conduct his, however, of late, been marked by great prudence and firmness; and even his words are fraught with sagacity. When it was antounced to bins that the Assenab:y would place CHANGAR sun at the head of fifty thousand men, the pßialover is said to have replied, that CHAN- T GARNISH. would find no army to combat, and that if the Assembly surrounded itself by 50,000 men, he would dismiss his very sentinels, and trust to the people of Paris for hie defence. There is a temper ' and a policy in such replies, which constitute Loom iNarottoN as no ordinary antagonist. And we meat say that his recent acts and words display him in a light superior to the brawl, the passion, and hypo crisy of the chiefs of the Assembly. the .Oar correspondent writing from Dresden on Jan. 16, says : - " Prussia may be said really to poems' nice lives; for while its existence is not merely threatened, but has actually received what in any other German state would be a death blow, the commercial arrangements for Germany provide a test to heal the wound and to restore strength to the political frame. The death blow I speak of is not so much in the concession which Prussia has been compelled to make to Austria in Heise, and in the reorganisation of the confede ration, but in the introduction of an Austrian army into territories north of Prussia, which were formerly declared to be entirely under its influences, and in the spparent exclusion of Prussia from the negotia tions which are pending with Denmark. The Pens sism commissioner seems to possess equal authority with the Austrian in Holstein, but the Prussian am bassador in Copenhagen is said to know nothing of the negotiations which are being carried on between that city and Vienna. This expulsion of Prussia from a question which her ministers and her generals have swayed for more than two years, is Edna reward for their pusillanimous and absurd conduct in refer ence to it ; bat the humiliation of the national feelings of honour and self-respect which is conveyed in the employment of Prussian soldiers to build the bridge across the Elbe for the Austrians to march into Hol stein, which the bayonets of the Prussian army would have united to Schleswig had the government acted honestly and manly—the deep humiliation which lies in these acts could alone be inflicted under circumstances in which the majority of a nation look with apathy on the acts of its gorerr meat. These acts, however, have not that effect on the existence of Prussia which the calling :n of French aid to assist in quelling an outbreak in Ire land, and the conveyance of French troops in English steamers for this purpose, would have on England. To us it would be a deathblow ; but to Prussia it is not. Austria cannot subject or confine the elasticity of which the independence of Prussia is possessed; and though her Slavonic bayonets put down constitu tional quarrels in Hesse and Schleswig Holstein— though her diplomatists oust their Prussian colleagues from negotiations which the latter have hitherto led, and though her political influence in the smith and central Germany reigns paramoent, the spiri: of com merce watches over Prussia, and lends her monarch and his councillors the ways and means by which to escape the consequences. Surely no monarch and no ministers of modern times have more disgracefully or more short-sightedly neglected the advantages which nature has placed in their hands." DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. It seems that at the urgent request of the Stadt holder Bef , eler, the state council resolved that before they came to any decision they would inform them selves distinctly as to the state of the army, and of the military chances in their favour in cue of resist sues. Sealer travelled with the minister of war to Itendsburg. Here on the evening of the Bth a council of war was held. It was composed of the Commander in-Chief Horst, of brigade chiefs, and other officers of high rank. Three questions were put to them : Ist, du attack upon the Danes? 2nd, if resistance towards the executive forces was possible? 3rd, what was the temper of the army? The answers were as follows: let, offensive operations against the Danes in the pre sent weather could not be undertaken; 2nd, that the army consisted of 40,000 men; that part of this force must garrison Hendsburg ; that with the remainder a strong position might be taken up at Odesloe, where defence against a much more numerous force might be maintained; but that 3rd, the political sentiments of the great majority of the o ffi cers were such that they would not bear arms against the German confe derate troops. Such was the result of the council of war. Henry von Gagers drew up the report of it. Semler returned to Kiel, and the breach which caused his retirement immediately took place between him and the other Stadtholder, Revertlow. The following is the answer of the Statdtholdera to the Diets' Commissioners : The regency of the duchies of Schleswig and Hol stein has submitted the communication received from the honourable commissioners empowered by the German Bond to • conscientious examination, and, in accordance with the with of the National Assembly, loses no time in acquainting the honourable commis sioners with the resolutions they have adopted. The rights of those lands and of their princes, vio lated by Denmark, have been acknowledged by Ger many, and defended by German arms. The treaty of pew concluded July 21st, 18d0, is the name of the German Bond, reserved these rights, and left the duchies to make them good against Den ' mark by their own valour. The contest has been continued almost to this hour. The duchies remain firm and true to the assertion of their irrefragable rights. Seeieg that the German Bond now feels k eel, called on to a xecute the proviei mu of this treaty, and has promised to guard the rights of the duchy of Holstein, and to maintain the ancient and rightful connexion between the duchy of Schleswig and the duchy of Holstein, the regency has no hesitation in declaring its rea diness to comply with the summons San DRAGOONS. This reginatct, which left Unimak w October for avekete, is to remain at Woeo•tr bd to replete the 9 h Lesesre, and is sot to proceed to aesthete. os the burseks at that station an hot yet fit In owspation by ths troop. [ contained in the communication made by the honour able eonamissioners in the name of the Germanßued dated the 6th ult., and further defined in the letter of the 7th ult. In conformity with the resolution, orders have this day been given to the general commanding the national artily to lay aside all hostilities forthwith. With respect to the other requirement., compliance with which the German Bend has made contingent on the simultaneous withdrawal of the Danish troops from South Schleswig, the Regency hopes to be able to make an early report. The rights ot the federated duchy of Holstein, and of the duchy of Schleswig associated with it in descent and privileges, have hitherto been steadfastly defended. The Regency places these rights and the welfare of the lard under the protection of the Ger man Bund, which on the other hand is bound to afford security and fair representation to every member of its confederacy which willingly obeys hoarders. The Regency of the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. (Signed) RLVENTLOW, FRANCK; KROIIN, Rid, Jan. 11, liK5l. REMIT, FONTZNAY. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY MORNING. The Moniteur con'ains the following arum= merit: " All the ministers have handed in their resigna tion to the President of the Republic. This resigna tion has been accepted. The former members of the cabinet will continue to despatch affairs till the ap pointment of their successors." The resignations of the ministers were not ac cepted by the President until last night. M. Fould will, it is thought, retain his place in the next cabinet. On Saturday night the conference of the ministers with Louis Napoleon lasted till eleven, and then broke up without soy conclusion h l / 4 ving been arrived at. Yesterday morning a fresh council was held at the Elyse-, which lasted from eleven till half-past one. The resignations of ministers were not yet accepted. Then MM. Leon Faucher and Darn were sum moned to the Elysee. The result of this conference was not decisive ; bat the resignations of the minis ters were accepted in the course of the evening. The analysis of the division on Saturday presents the following results. Of the 416 ewes obtained by the majority, 222 belonged to the Left, 135 to the L 8 to the party of M. Thiers. M. Jules de Lasteyrie has addressed a letter to the Ordre, proving that the documents which he read to the Assembly emanated from the society of the 10th December. PARIS, MONDET EVENING. To-day, at the commencement of the Assembly's sitting, the house was observed, contrary to expecta tion, to be unusually thin and calm. There were no groups on any side. Of course there was no lack of ministerial lists in circulation. That which obtained most credit was as follows : President of the Council and . Minister of Justice, Odilon Barrot ; Interior, Leon Faucher; Public Works, Daru; Foreign Affairs, Lahitte ; Public Instruction, Dumas; Finances, Fould; Marine, Dupetit Thome; Commerce, Bon jean; War, General Magnet!. MM. Baroche and Rouher sate alone on the bench of ministers. MM. Darn, Leon Faucher, and Dumas were in their usual places. M. Barrot was on the bench of the committee charged with the examination of the bill to be discus-ed on parliamentary privilege in regard to arrest and imprisonment for debt. M. Madier de Monjau opposed the bill of the com mittee amid the total inattention of the house. Another ministerial list now circulated, in which 0. Barrot retaining the presidency of the council, the portfolio of Justice was given to M.Casabianca, of War to Oen. Oadinot, and of Commerce to Thoutnine-Des mazaree. M. Faultier then occupied the tribune, but was not listened to with more attention than hie pre decessor. MNl.Parieu end Fould took their seats on the bench of ministers. The latter conversed for some moments with M. Dupin. General ltegnault de St. Jean d'Angely appeared at the sitting. After talking a considerable time with General Oudinot, he went to take his former seat as representative. The general debate having closed, the house entered upon the discussion of the articles. Emile Leroux and others presented an amendment proposing that a representative may be arrested for debt without the authorisation of the Assembly. This was opposed by the reporter, M. Moulin, and rejechd by the Assembly. M. Bac moved an amendment, proposing that no representative should be liable to arrest during the duration of his parliamentary mission. This amend ment having been developed by its authors, amid the noise of conversation, was finally rejected by 469 against 201. Notwithstanding the turmoil in the upper political regions, commercial affairs are so steady as to move aurpriee. The Fives rose to-day Isc. on the closing Price of Saturday, and closed at 94fr. 950. The Threes closed at sGfr. 90c., with a rise of 10e. The President has been making some steps in an economical direction. This morning he caused several of his sixty-three horses to be sold, and dismissed many of his servants. General Narvaer arrived in Paris this morning. It has been rumoured that he is to succeed, as ambass►dor, the Duke of Sotomayer, who is said to have been recalled to Madrid. P.S.—M. Odilon Barrot disappeared from the Assembly at four o'clock. The report circulated that he bad been summoned to the Elyse.. Benue PARIS, Jr.. 20. I For For Account. I Money. Openingilitibent.l Lawlor.' Orman. 3 per Cents. ....... ." ,369011 56 &S 83 66 90 83 34 90 5 per Cents.. 1 94 90 94 80 95 0 94 73 94 95 I per Cents. NereLoan 1194 SO 9l 75 94 85 94 73 94 83 3 per Conti. do. I „11 et 56 80 „ . 16 par Dents 1 82 0 10 Llottanse on bounce : at 40 t, :4 95; IM dye, , 24 774. " Wean, 3, 1840 100) Sow. Naples Rastas ... 97 23 Mona,. Ds. 6 1342 Do. 41 ... , e Ditto, d 0.... 1830 71 „ „ Do. 2 l .O , Treasury Isalls 4 Piedmont spm Cents. 85 10 ~ Bank Shama 22 Boos.—Veraillin (right bank), 168 75 ; ditto (let bank), 162 60; Paris and Orleans, 845; Paris and Rouen, 870; Rouen and Havre, 267 60 ; Marseilles and Avignon, 187 60; Strasbourg and Bele 141 25 ; Centre, 385; Or leans and Bordeaux, 396; Nor th, 467 50; Paris and Stras bourg, 351 26; Tours and Nantes, 246 25; Dieppe and Picasso, 195. MADRID, JAN. 14.—Three per Cents., 33 5.16; after Bolt, 331 to 3.16 cash, 335.16 paper. Four per Cents., 121. Fire per Cents., 121; after Boles, 121 paper, 12; cash. Coupons, 61; after Bolas, 6; cask. Piastres, 3j paper; after Balsa, 3 1316. Bank of Bt. Ferdinand, 94 oaf& Es change on London. 60.65. CEPHALONIA. We learn, via Malta, that her Majesty's steam packet Triton, which reached that island on the night of the 10th January, brought accounts of a threaten ing of fresh disturbances at Cephalonia, given rise to by the return to his constituents of the representative for that island, whose motion for the annexation of the lonian blends to Greece has recently led to the diaeolution of the lonian parliament. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Spiteful was immediately ordered off from Malta to Cephalonia. She left on the evening of the 11th, and the Scourge, war-steamer, and one of the ships•of-the-line, under the command of Sir Wm. Parker, are preparing to follow, to support the lord high commissioner in any measures he may deem it fitting to adopt. cONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 4. The Emir Becbir, who, during 60 year., Played le important a part in Syria, died during the last week at Kadi-koni, a village on the Boephorns. His funeral took place on Wednesday. His eldest son, Halib, and younger son, Emir, who had both embraced Islamism, died a few days before him. Izzet Pasha is appointed Governor of Damascus, NEW YORE, JAN. 8. Jenny Lind is now on her way to Havana. M. Monnot, the proprietor of the New York Hotel, has sailed for that place, to superintend her table. He is another Boyer, and eminently snocesaful. We havejnet beard of the closing of the American protestant chapel in Rome. It bu excited the most intense indignation here. The catholic clergy are allowed the most unbounded liberty here, and are always preaching up toleration. This act shows their perfidy. They demand everything, they yield nothing. I should think the protestants of England would at least "make a note" of the transaction I allude to. Everything catholic and generous is ex pected of them—bat they never an expect any favours from Rome. "It is not in her wey." WEST INDIES. A letter from Kingston, Jamaica, of December 31, says : "Oat of a small population,say 40,000, we have lost at lust 4,000. But in Port Royal the mortality has been more &feral; out of shoat 900 of the in habitants of Poet 110ya1,430 at least have fallen vic tims to the cholera. Oa the north aide of the island—Montego Bay and Falmouth—the scourge is still raging in all its malignity ; and the mor tality in Montego Bay, amongst the children, is greater than it has been in any other part of the island. One esta•e in St. James, about nine miles from the town I have named (" Latium Estate," I think), lost all hands on the property except the book-keeper and over seer, who fled in terror, leaving unioterred about thirty corpses. The ordeal through which we hive passed has disclosed to na scenes that the greatest enemies of the island could not have supposed to exist. We have witnessed a degree of immorality, on the part of our people, that makes one shudder to contemplate. The greatest heartless's( as has been exhibited by hundreds. A man refused to assist in placing the corpse of his wife within its coffin, unless he was paid to do so, and he is only one of many who are equally barbarous. One shudders at the thought. The greatest misery and destitu'ion prevail, and those who can afford it have their charitable feelings taxed to the utmost extent." BARBADOES. Barbadoee papers do not contain much of interest. The weather in the island is thus spoken of by the Globe of the tad inst. :—" Since six o'clock on Thurs day evening a very large quantity of rain has fallen, accompanied with more thunder and lightning than is usual at this season ; and up to the hour at which we write (one o'clock Monday afternoon) the weather still continues wet, and with very little appearance of an immediate change. As yet the cants have sus tained no injury, and may even derive considerable benefit from the drenching they have received, should the present humidity be followed by a few of our cus tomary sunshiny days." Tae sanitary commissioners appointed by the governor were most industriously engaged in causing every part of the island to be properly purified ; the " bard lahour prisoners" from the gaols were em ployed on the TRINIDAD. The Port of SpaiiCd.;zeite;iquaints us that his Excellency Lord Harris has caused circulars to be written to the respective wardens, calling their at tention to the possibility of cholera reaching that colony, and desiring them to impress on the miLds of the inhabitants of their wards the necessity of ex treme cleanliness in their habitations, and of the early removal of all filth, and the filling up or drain ing of all pools of stagnant water and other noxious matter. DEATH AND BURIAL OF GENERAL BEM. A letter dated Aleppo, Dec. 10, gives the following painfully interesting particulars of the end of this brave soldier:— o A higher power has interpcsed to determine the duration of poor Bean's detention in this place. I have just returned from his funeral. You know I stand very little upon cere monies, yet there is a melancholy pleasure in observing the rites paid to a fellow exile by foreigners in a strange land. Bem'e sickness was neither very long nor painful ; a month before his death he was riding out. Some slight attacks of fever gave him no anxiety; and he could not be persuaded to take any medicine until three or four days before his death His dwelling lay very low between gardens near the banks of a river. According to the unanimous opinions of physicians the spot was exceedingly unhealthy. Their admonitions, however, were disregarded. Every physician told him that his frame, weakened with wounds and hard ship', had not vital force sufficient to withstand an attack of fever, which would be dangerous to a strong man, and which might in all pre,babil.ty be avoided by leaving his unhealthy dwelling. In the evening he complained of pains in the abdomen; about eleven he said he felt better, and slept with few intermissions until two, when he died. At ten next mernieg, so we went to visit him, his body ley ex tended on a Kier, sod several persons were enacted in washing and dressing the corpse, while mollalts were praying around. The washings ended, the body was wound in a sheet and placed in a coffin, at the foot of which hung his fi z. A coloured shawl was spread over the coffin. A mili tary interment is a thing unknown in Turkey ; however, on this occasion. Kerim Pasha, the com mandant, the French and English consult, many offi cers, and en immense crowd of soldiery, assembled. The 1 procession moved on without much order. From twenty to thirty violist's marched fleet, and began a monotonous anti Mental In illaha iliaha. We carried him to the door, and would hays gone further to his place of rest, but Turkish etiquette forbade. A great rush took place, and every one wan anxious to catch a lest glimpse of the coffin. Strong divisions of military were posted on the line of !procession, many of the soldiers of which pressed forward to carry the man, even old Kerlin Pasha would insist upon bearing a band. Near Friedhofe the coffin was deposited in the grave of a taint, where prayers were said. Arrived at the grave the body was taken out of the coffin and deposited in a grave fire or six feet deep, the head lying towards Mecca. The threads by which the winding sheet was secured were then cut, and the grave was filled up with large Sat stones. The promise, which Bem had often repeated of I its to relate to us the entire history of hie life, has not been fulfilled. It is rated that he was only 56 years of age, although he appeared much older. His body wee uncommonly weakened, but his restless spirit retained its force and vivacity to the last. From the moment of hie transition to lelamism, all his efforts were directed to make hie knowledge and experience useful to his new fatherland, and the Sultan, whom he greatly esteemed. I can say very little of his political belief: it is certain that he was anything but a de and bated socialism. He was heart and soul a soldier. The aims which he set before himself be followed up with great perseverance. His conversa tion was lively and intelleetual ; he was especially lively when speaking in the French language, of which he was completely master. He bore his detention with great resignation, and was quite resolved to close his tumultuous life here. He had laid the foundation of a saltpetre manu factory here, and bad sent specimens of his manufacture to Constantinople, whence he was empowered to proceed with his works on a great scale at the cost of the government He was also requested by the government to give his super intendence to a large manufactory of arms." Irbe Court. WINDSOR, MONDAT, Jew. 20. Her Majesty walked this morning in the Slopes, accompanied by the Duchess de Nemours end the Duellers d'Aumale. The royal family took walking and pony exer cise in the grounds around the castle. Print'. Albert went out hunting this morning, accompanied by the Duke de Nemours ■nd the Duke d'Aumale, and attended by Major. General Wemyss and Lieutenant. Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Countess de !fondly paid her respects to her Majesty and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle this morning, end in the afternoon left the Castle accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemoun and the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale. Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey will have the honour of join ing the royal circle at dinner this evening. Her Majesty's private band will attend in the castle after dinner. A cabinet council was held yesterday afternoon at Lansdewne•hoaee, Berkeley scriare. It wee attended by Lord John Ruuell, the Lard Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Eal of Carlisle, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, and the Marquis of Clauricarde. The council sat two hours. _ _ Mr. A. J. Valpy attended at the Home-office yes tarday, to present an address, through Sir George Grey, to the Queen, from Bueklebury, Berks. A meeting of the finance committee of the royal commission for the Exhibition of 1551, wu bald enterday at the Board of Trade. There were present Esrl Granville (Coairman). the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir Alexander Spearman, Bart., Mr. Cubit; Colonel Reid, and Mr. Bow ring (Secretary.) Mr. Anderson, M.P. for Orkney, had an interview at the Treasury yesterday with the Right H3ll. W. G. Hatter and Mr. G. C. Lewis, Lord and Lady John Herself left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to the Right Hon. the Speaker of the Home of Commons, at his seat, Heekfield-plaee, Hants. Mr. Heathoote, M.P. for Tiverton, had an inter view yesterday with Sir George Grey at the Homs-ofee. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council), is indisposed, with an attack of gout. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. We are glad to state that Lord John Rtissell has uoaolicitedly appointed the woad am of Mr. Dauglae Jerrold to a elerkstup in t►e Treasury. A morning paper bas 0 reason to believe that the address in reply to the speech from the throne will be moved by the Marquis of Kildare, and seconded by Mr. Pete, M.P. for Norwiab." LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE RAILWAY.—It is now certain that the works on this line will commence lame• diately, and that we may look forward with covalence to the opening of the railway to Newtownlinisvady. Mr. M'Cormick, the cootractor ' has purchased Lishally Rosie and lands, and Mr. George Greene, his agent, bought the farm nearly adjoining it at 9301. at Walters' Austion Mart. ' This farm is hold under lease renewabl.., at the rent of 141. de. Gd., and contain. 32 acres of land. The first fruits of the openin g of the railways is the enhancing of the value of property in their vicinity, this firm having ban sold at about 28 lean' pulthsa:.—Derry Standard. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX. Yesterday a public meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of Merylebone, was hslel in the large ;era attached to the workhouse in the New road, to peti. lion for the total repeal of the window tax Tim meeting was attended ,by deputations from Islington, St. Anne's and others of the metropoli par ishes, that parish, that for Islington cams in procession, mat.y of the mem , bees wearing blue soarn, on which were ir teribed in Imp white letters" unconditional repeal," " no surrender;" the carriages which conveyed these pattern. n to the semi of action being placarded with bills bearing &smilax mottoes. There were about 800 persons prevnt, and amongst the gentlemen Oa the platform were Sr J. Duke, II P., C. Lushinaton, Esg., M.P., W. Williams, M.P., W. tdowatt. E.g., M.P., Sr De Lacy Evans, M.P. &s , Mr. NICILOLAY of Oxford street, was Voted to the chair, Re observed that they were called together for a very p a s• ticular object, one that affected not themselves only but tin whole country. Many members of Parliament had bees invited to attend, end letters from some whom he would read. The first was from Lord J. Russell, dated 'beefless's street. The noble lord had been invited as one of the metropolitan members .and certainly this time he had had the court. ay to Rive an ins oar which he had not had on previous occasions. The letter was as to:lows: Hownirg•street, Jan. 16. slll.—l am desired by Lord John Russell to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 15:h last., and to state that it will not be in his power to attend the meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of Maryle,one on .11onday, 20th inst.—l am, &c., Aarncn RIABELL. M. Capel, Esq. He would read another letter from one of their repre sentatives, Sir B. Hall, dated Llanover, Abergavenny,Srurday, Jan. 18,11 o'clock. I have jolt received a letter r.questii g my attendance at a public meeting to be held the day eta tomorrow, in favour of the total, immediate, and unc.ndiional repeal of the wiadow tax._ Agreeing u I do most entirely in the object of the meet itip, I regret that it is utterly impossible for me to be present. A very few days will int between this and the meeting of parliament, when I must leave my home for several months, and you may naturally suppose that during this very short interval, every moment of time is occupied. I hop* therefore that umy constituents must know hoe very sincere and asalous a supporter I have been of the object they have now in view, 1 may be ex used attendance at the meeting; but they may us:. assured I shall vote as I always have voted, not merely for the en•ire rep , sl of the window duties, but for the unconditional repeal of that tax; and if it is intended to ionic,' a tax uprn houses, I shall be ready to give my vote against any such proposition. The inequality and injustice of that tax, remains fresh in our reculliction.—l have the honour to be, sir, yours faith fully, B. HALL. To the Chairman of the meeting. Letters had also been received front Mr. Thrmas Duneombe, M.P., Mr. Wilcox, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Sir J. Cockbarn, the Lord Mayor of York, and other gentlemen. all expressing full concurrence in toe object of the meeting, and giving reasons for not attending. Amongst these was one from Mr. Hume, which was Loa lengthy to read, but in which that hon. gentleman pledged himself to du ell be could in parliament to remove the odious window tax. (ilear, hear.) Meetings like the present, unanimously expressing the voice of the people, had an influence which no ministry could resist. This was happily the peaceable course which the constitution of this country allowed, and which kept us tree from those scenes of anarchy and blood shed to which other nations had of late been exposed. Peaceful agitation was the weapon with which we combated the government. That agitation had area :y begun against the window tax, and it would continue till the object they had in view was achieved. Let them remember what agitation had done in past years in removing odious and unequal fiscal burdens. Let them recollect how successful it had been in the cue of the corn laws. (Hear, bear.) And depend upon it, if cor &latently and perseveringly followed out it would be equally efficacious now. (Hear, hear.) Mr. FREETH moved the btu resolution, which de clared the tax to be wrong in principle and unequal and oppressive in its operations, and pledged the meeting to spare no exertion to procure its total and unconditional repeal. Mr. MILDULL, of Oxford street, seconded the resolu tion. If be understood the purpose of the meeting aright, it was to avow what a minister bad once deprecated the ignorant impatience of the people under taxation. (Hear, h. ar.) They were impatient of all taxation—•.f all taxation kept up to enable young princes to play the field-marshal in Pt cenix.park, and to afford t.) the juvenile members of the aristocracy the opportunity of disporting themselves in the commission of tree Guards to the admiring gaze of the lady visitors of Hyde Park. (Hear, hear.) Lord DUDLEY STUART said—l am with you in this movement as fully and as heartily as it is possible for any man to be. And I hive now only come forward to tell you so,beeause I think it is due to this meeting that I should do so, not that you need soy assurances from me as to my opinion on the subject, for my votes, often repeated, in t .your of the total repeal of the window tax, are before you. Probably the con stituency of Marylebone know that their present members have always, es long as they have had the opportunity, raised their voices against this odious tax, and 01 you may depend they will always continue to do as long as that tax remains. (Cheers.) I need not go into any argument at this time of day to prove that this tax ought to be repealed. (Hear.) It has been condemned over and over again, year after year, even before the commencement f the present century. The window tax n. ver was a po pular tax, and it is impoesible it ever could be so, for it is necessarily unjust, unfair, and oppressive. (Hear, hear.) It was first imposed with the house tax in 1696, but, at that time the windows were rated only as a criterion of the value of the house. The people have never cess.d to protest against this impost, and again and again it has been altered —sometimes commuted, sometimes augmented. Mr. I'itt was the man by whom it had been increased, and that against the universal cry of the country. A similar cry of con demnation was raised now, and with this difference in the result from what it had in Pitt's time—that whereas then it had failed, now it would be successful. (Cheers) Whenwe next appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he will not meet us with a no. I believe he dare not do so. (Cheers.) We have borne this tax far too long. In my opi nion the people have been to blame for suffering it so long to remain. But it becomes the more intolerable now, inasmuch as those who now wield the govern ment of the country were themselves while in opposition amongst those who were loudest in their denunciation of it. For my part I Anil be happy to stand up in parliament as your representative , to oppose the tax in every possible way. (Cruets.) I can also answer for my hon. colleague, whose letter has been read, and from whom I have also received a private letter, expressing his entire and hearty concurrence in our obji ct. On the last occasion when the proposition for &ha liehing the tax was made, we stood together and voted together in opposition to the tax, and had every metropolitan member at .ended and done the same on that occasion, a different result might have followed. (Hear. hear.) My hon. colleague then stated that during the 20 years he had eat in the house, he had never omitted au opportunity, whenever the subject was brought forward, of recording his vote against the tax. You may be assured then, that those who represent you will do all they can towards the entire abolition of a tax which presses on you so shamefully and en unjustly. (Hear, hear.) I look forward to the session of 1861 as one, that, as compared with previous sessions, will at least have a glorious commencement. I expect to see the Chancellor of the Exchequer coming forward at once on the opening of parliament and declar ing that there shell be an end of the window tax. (Cheers, and a voice," I wish we miy get it.") That is my hope, and that also is my opinion. (Hear, hear.) But if I should bin deceived in my expectations, the right hon. gentleman may be certain we will offer such a determined opposition to him and his financial measures, that, despite his intentions, be will find himself compelled to come beck to that point, and to do justice to the popular demand. Sir BE LACY EVANS said that be also had opposed the window tax for 20 years, but so long had it been under die. cumion that it would not be necessary for him to go into any detailed arguments against it. There was only one topic to which it would be necessary for him to allude. The tax itself was doomed, if they were to believe the journals sup posed to be en the confidence of the government; but with the announcement of its fall came another announcement of sinister import, namely, that it was to be replaced by what was termed a moderate bones tea. (No, no.) He agreed in that expression of dissent, for he looked upon the house tax as nothing but a modification of the present obnoxious impost. Besides, they had already a house tax in the property tax. (Hear, hear.) He had not a good opinion of Chancellors of the Exchequer generally, but he believed the present to be one of the best of the lot. Bade the best.") But he could not give him say support in proposal of that kind. Seventeen years ago he had headed as agitation for the repeal of the house tax, and therefore it would be most inconsistent in him to support its re Imposition. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion, this was the point to which, leader present circutnatencess, public attention should be dieectel. It wee said, forsooth, that the deficiency must be @applied. He doubted very much whether there would be any deficiency, but if there should be, there were many ways of supplying it without interfering with the health or comforts of the people. (Hear, hear.) In the first place, there was en ascertained surplus of two millions; but even if they had not, still was the public expenditure to be economised. (Cheers.) Seeing that there were so many speakers to address them, be would not be extravagant in expenditure of their time, but would confine himself to again directing their attention to the insidious proposition of • house-tax, about which so many ingenious feelers were being thrown out. (Hear, bear.) Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P. said he had heard the Chan cellor of the Exchequer say t hat there was nothing new to be said on this subject. He could confirm that opinion, because he bad been engaged for 2,5 years in advocating the aboliion of the window -tax, although never with so much hope as at the present moment. A substitute for the tax was proposed, but, in his opinion, little less objectionable than the tax itself. He contended that no substitute was itinerary, bat that, as in former came, every reduction of particular taxes would only increase the general re•enue. He hoped that the Howie of Commons woald go for the repeal, not only of We, but of many other taxer. (" Stop the supplies.") Well, he was quite ready to do so if necemary--(loud cheering)—but as the Chancel lor of the Exchequer wan holding oat the olive branch, he would not throw out any threats until they were absolutely necessary. (Hear, hear.) Ha•ing alluded to the budget of 1835, and the large increase in expenditure which had •inee telt, a place, amounting to 1 millions in the • ori,,us departments, Mr. Williams concluded by stating that if the Chancellor of the Exchequer should consult him, he would be able to thole him many methods of supplying the place of the window tax, and many others of which the people were complaining of so loudly. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then yut and carried unanimously.