The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-29 00:00:00

seeks or actions of of the ministers would have been shown urs before all Europe. And when the organ ef such a governsh gent pre sumes to stigmatise as a body of liars 18 Eugli dolmen of unimpeachable character, and forming a highly re spected branch of the British service, it is difficult to suppress a strong feeling of ind i gn ation. Among the English resi dents in', Madrid there a but one feeling Bayonne ae It outrage e o anti insult to themselves and to their government. is onf the many instances which the Spanish govern ment has recently given of the spirit by which insults hea they ped upon sre lc ', tua t e d towards the Engl ish. The gross our minister here I have a l re ady alluded to. Considering these repeated d emo nstrations of hostile feel ing aga inst the English by the governm ent of Narvaez, and the absolute power with which that p e rson is at present in vested, the total absence of all British *hips of war from the coast of Spain, which could afford protection to the many English inhabitants of the principal ports in case of a revo lutionary outbreak, is a fact which demands serious conside ration. I b,lieve at Mr. ulwer has in his late destches to Lord Pslmerston th 13 drawn attension to this subject ; a pa nd in all probability a portion of the squadron under Sir Wm. Parker, consisting of a frigate and a few brigs will be de tached, so that an English ship of war may t be stationed at Barcelona, ano ther at Malaga, and anoth A royal decree of some importance has been issued through the Ministry of Finance. The vast amount of arrears of taxes due to the Treasury is well known. The decree forgives 70 per cent. of such arrears up to the end of 1843, provided the remaining 30 per cent. be paid in metal before the lit of next July. Amara subsequent to the com mencement of 1844, will not be distrained dayroe 30 per cent. be paid in metal before the same . Those of the former class of debtors who do not pay the 30 pee cent. will render themselves liable for the whole amount ; and the latter, in the some ease will subject themselves to distress for Ithe remaining 70 par cent. Other decrees are published in the Gazelle, granting Fulgosio, Captain General of Madrid, the grand crow of San Fernando, and promoting to the rank of mariscal de campo, the Brigadiers Calonge, Soigne:, and Le err rsendi. The carnets web r Beanies, who haecently penetrated through the Pyrenees from France, have any bad a brush c onse• with the Queen's tresops, near Sagas, without result of quence. datedttecl Idasgoret has issued a carlist pro clamation April 1, which contains no now feature. rtolt heioir:oduiot7no f t01d,,,d,ec0..a::"1: ':_a) a 1. o d o r when I withth explainedt,young regard ar r0 ,,,..5tp , i toh:, ~, seeking ,d:ht,: a ti r eir t : itc. irhedi ifmanhiga first u llt oc there. :y h :yb of l efoo e wi a nvl loue g .., jt. government. influenceh ...: s: , r nt ittti nhi si Still, upon your among uni ~,,It oo on‘etrmv, calling::. rthi We i : Idne defy rnea it:f, , yi not becomeePhateii i r c e: ht h is b h:, i nI , ion ii at r bt ihnh l h aoueoai grifftnv have obliged succeeded dn e eh.mubewd:t , Y e 'lPa d : aodria II: . u e opinion . crt i o t dei h n e r °a:DiYem:Y k t no c a h wlwt o i Queenfui n d:tlii7 v ,i, . i yoe n eEi l ocrwo , c l t u c i fssum n r ' b 'l r ' e ben eaf ri:y'cdretuoc great ta suffrages a y hu e. fge:ea b u n i:: s ct t i f to lt i. , h sr mhha faa t r jt T a‘ , i t h. , n t hm al nd h ' en e m oa i dd r e ab t irifi bo ilooh f s s y nt e l Thh rt o :s a r lfe t uTe t g aeseteondaise:sk of some I : gi pi agitated. . e r .T h combination, p. that which since iii ~. was ioc, hwrih married, pni, might e hmh at e p r p n hhi: b lahr: l y e : i, might ,teuhemen i. ,b e foun d position of being reunited by the b t the e princes, necessary m beeae af havingreducedd advantages being deplorable ta i o n bee tl t t e o p h s ' ar e '' . ; law, cannot be thought of ; Spain is deprived of the politiesl tore hu-band of the Queeu m princes ~ f the Seani.,h race, wheat no law, renunciation, , the treaty had deprived of their ultimate rights of successiona oe the throne of Sp ,in, the choice of the Ctn. en (at least far o as the exclusion of the three sons of Don Carlos was in " opse ration and force) csmir to le between the Duke of Cadiz op e Duke of Seville, and the C aunt Trapani. You know, th me ; al f ruw w : a ugra r a ti ly iuti s aap e oi r o t f o ' nn l i d t inost a m p tjA in it v i w 'l a' contributed,e e g ny m n h y . a i le t n u g l i. r f , a . l ° : f ti ih yle ; n is i , and that of the Queen your daughter, I have eer e t ee il"7l,l deary .e u e u niece, t that h.. quality as Spaniards, born and educated in Spain, gave le lit ved them worthy of the Queen's and your choice falling ad li v u 4n t Ug you e them m Il them . w should prefer your own brother; you have even stated that this preference had ofun been expressed by the Queen y it depended on us, to; facilitate a Union which you sppenred da t u o g y des h m i tc r i e d a a , n u d n d u w th r , haiitnchtow we as ru closec re sp ec ts. parents e ti t.oh . hi ~a Bu t n si d he o it ti i r e h n u e "eve: ifwithout e done ti to share never en tere d your t e o n t de attention, the i d r n o m t n o the ug h e o n : up:he have l u t e t w i a o gl n ru,l c dc f y. prince, an entire stronger to Spain, of the Queen your daughter, or to transfer the crown into a family other than its own. It is for the interest of the crown, for yours, and for that of Spain, that I ie. lonely repeet this counsel to you. leis not the less the interest of France, which is so deeply interested in the greatness and the prosperity of Spain, to preserve that lively fliend,hip which has united the two countries to this day, which is now so precious to both, and so necessary fur the mainte nance of the peace and repose of the world. I pray you, my dear niece, to he my interpreter both with the Queen sae the Infanta, your beloved daughters ' in expressing to them, on my behalf, me wishes f or their happiness, and the affee -1 tionate friendship which I entertain for them from the depths of my heart; and, for yourself, believe the sincerity of the sentiments with o ut ich I subscribe mesele my very deer 'Ott, r and niece, yuMaierty's most affectionate bro ther anti wick, Louie Pewee& TO HIS ?SSA ESTY THR KING OP THE TRENCH. Madrid, June 23, 1846.—My yery dew Uncle,-1 re ceived yesterday, by M. Brrsson, the letter which your Ma jesty had the goodness to address to me, awed the 16th of the prevent month. If, every time that I receive these marks of your goodness, I feel the most lively satisfaction, I cannot conceal from you, my dear uoc!e, that this, which I have just received, his at this time proved to me a great source of bittermes, because I perceived by your words that your heart has been irritated and wounded by the language and the controversy which has arisen in the differ ent journals, in consequence of the article wri'ten by my se cretary, M. Rubio. lain motive in writing that article was pure. He would never have written if a deputy (sic), who has the fortune to approach you, and to be your minister, had not dared to pronounce, in the Chamber of Deputies of France, words which could be interpreted here in a sense very unsatisiactnry to myself. You know, my dear un was cle, the preference which welled given to mybrether Trapani the result of the conferences at Eu; and it toss to this fact, too well known, that M. MOO.> wished to refer, and not to other matters, for he knows how to respect kings and royal persons as a good and true Spaniard. You have had the goodness; my dear uncle.verecell tome the different conversa tions we have had en Tamale respecting the marriage of my daughter. Our hearts were there open. Your niece spoke there with all the freedom that your goodness and friendship permitted to her. Yes, I recollect, with sorrow, that it was there I was made to perceive the utter impossibility of a marriage between my daughter and one of the princes of your family. In such a union I thought I could seethe happiness of my Isabella ; and it was only her happiness and that of Spain which I sought, and shall Peck, in her mar riser. A prince who may render both Spain and my daughter happy was, and is, my principle. If a Bourbon combines these qualities, I prefer him; if not, I should prefer another prince ; for it is my duty to consider this question as a mother and as as a a Spaniard. I doubt not that your excellent heart father, and your love for France, will make you recognise the justice of these sentiments in the heart of a mother aud of a Spaniard ; and that y ou may be sure no other interests, no hostile fee lin g s, could make your rims interests, act in the manner that it has been erelcaeouree to mak edu e you believe. A catholic prince, religious, moral, cated, is what I desire for my Isabella, provided she be content with the choice, for I do not conceive that a as mother h the right to interfere with her daughter's heart free -1 dem in such circumst ances. I appeal to your excellent if I can do otherwise. You tell me in your letter that neither you nor your government have ever had the thought of im posing anything either upon the Queen, upon Spain, or myself ; and that it was in the wa y of advice for our interests, ' and for the interests of Spain and France, that you told me that the marriage of my daughter should be with a Bourbon. I shall be very happy if those interests can be conciliated, for I yield to no one in • desire to see the two nations prosper, always united. I thank your Majesty for the sentiments you hays expressed towards my children, and I offer to you their homage. Believe, my dear uncle, the affectionate sen timents with which I subecribe myself your most affectionate and dutiful niece, MARIA. CHRISTINA. LETTER TROY LOUIS PHILIPPE TO CaIERN CHRISTINA. Nenilly, June 30,1816. —My very dear Sister and Ni ece, —lf the publication of M. Rubio aroused painful feelings within me, which I thought it as well to express to you, I avow that I do not find in the letter I have just received from your Majesty that satisfaction which 1 sought for. You speak to me of ' the speeches of fd.Thiers as being called foe some public explanations from your secretary. You alone are, doubtless, able to form a jitigment on the necessity of such explanations ; but I, in my turn, may find it strange that, when it is a notorious fact that there is not the slightest unison b e tween me and M. Thiers, nor between him and my government, which he is well known to oppose, we should find ourselves exposed to assertions as false as those of which I complained to you myself. But what weuld you have me think to-day, my dear sister and niece, when I find the following sentence in the l e tter you have just addressed to me ? Yoe are " aware, my dear uncle, the preference g iven (glean arait , r esult donnee) to my broth er Trapani was the of the conferences held at En, anti it is to this too well known tact that M. Rubio alluded, and not,to other things; for be knows how to respect kings and royal personages like a good and true Spaniard. I must recall to your memory, as the above sentence shows me that sour recollections to Ennaar quite complete and exact, that the preference given brother, the Count of Trapani, bears a date much an' ins to at the visit which the Queen of En g land deigned top sy me Eu, and I may add that you know, or at least that you ought not to have forgotten, that you manifested a desire for Rik preference before the time when the King of Naples, your brother, recognised your august daughter ; and that it M i accordance with this desire, manifested by youra jWesty, n that we set on foot the negotiations at Naples, which ended in that negotiation. I must also tell you, my dear niece, that these friendly visits of the Queen of Eng land to Eu were by no means what are styled conferences in diplomatic language; and although the two Ministers of Foreign Affaircs, who to were u in our suite, naturally took advantage of the occasion des the political interest of the two countries, it is nevertheless a well-known fact that no protocol, or any other notification whatsoever, was made in consequence thereof to any other power, and that assuredly the Spanish government did not receive one from either of the two governments whose mi nisters met at Eu. But this supposition of conferences held at Eu implies a still more etriking contradiction than all the °there ; for if such con fererce had really taken place it would have consisted only of France and England, na t ur ally follow that it the preference given to Count Tra pani, or all other p rinces, descendants of Philip v., coo really the result of the coeferencee at EU, 'England would have acted conjointly with Franco in this pretended coercion exercised towards Spain, and your Majesty to im pose upon them, in favour of the Prime, your brother, that preference which, according to M. Rubio, has made you suffer a martyrio ter.sisiga But there is another fact which bears upon the thi I "es_ to recall to your memory, namely, that when in our Moto co nversations I convinced yo u that, notwithstanding all our affection for you and for the Queen your daughter, it wet not amongst my sons that a husband for her was to be foun h d, your first thought fell very naturally upeu your brother, t r Count D'Aquili, the elder brother of Could q Trapani , oes at it was onl when d'Auila bad declined h tlte verturoes made y to him by the Count King of `Sa l k., con e formate to your wishes, and long before his departum for th Br e ut that the King of Naples , took upon himeelt to or Uo,u; Trapani of ur intentions respecting him. It is %beret!, , in vain, my dear niece, that i endeavour to make out wili M. Rubio means by the " Solemne redo data so2.2st el origen yel spay° de aquella candidature. 6 compowd his refutation of the speeches of M. Thiers, ~0 not Matticiently calculate the tearing of his insinnan eoe coma,wl ia: lw becauseish to all o te is l o l o you t o aP ho e e s thiefo, het d w e r en si ster .sM. .t :i s : and of the serious embarrassments which he putef impossibleou in endeavouring to exempt you from • elist ov a& to deny, in a ciudidateship which _ so Doi happily, and I believe most unjustly, the ohject of hS definon ofour duties is very incomplete. p.,_7....r,-, doubt, "as a mother and as a Spaniard , " e or . , te willingly ; but be it expressly understoed that it ti o nie luoniseneos'thihvoe'esq..sueeYdtoiaousatooefllstmhpeossissrde'mmaryiyd.agearejeifooorthieQuee' etonhgaltsosyelsbellaa:i_eti::ll.ga..:; especielly as 's Queen:elether of the reieninsg e tl a ir. : Spain," and with due coneideration in their Mi ms t, o,‘: the great interests which appertein to an *et sotto be rear itneertanee. Marriages of this incur,. arc h no oe tsiaistedsoai.ssteprsis.thateo siumfopleicciressiivir,,,st streooli and btaoility to het throne, be amine marriage uf a Queen of SAM in litt'el°noweretullerti?grnhretteilulthov:.:osolttf:;;U;'. s hake its its foundations. Aod to proem and validity, the choic e of i Quo▪ must bring and rally round her th tothe of thos , nationsl man to knowbett er than I do , but respectito ion cannot have forgotten what you has our frien wh at conversations. It is also i is a tu what marriage ge the s t r icted cc Inyour letter apply, which appear to e choice of a husband for your aug hadear niece, I will tell you frankly n I feel for you and yours tt affection, on the other hand feelings for the family. from whence sur d, and which is endearta to a and ii na that it would be pr,•eisely as i and an allied King. that 1 should us. , Induce both parties to rejec ou t ld a boon.cn w hich, accoid in g to me, w what they would have vainly Hatt. could hare obtained. It i, because 1 the sad om.equ,nccii which the 01110 R future happines; of the Clacen your t your family, aril, not the least, fir Monarchy also, that I do not desire to of my silence in a circum s wis ta nched e ` tug gra , the contrary, I have gi 'solemnity that I can nttach to it, COitil Believe always the sinceri• y of my roe friendship which I bear towards you beloved children that I love them tr consta nt oljeet of my wishes and my and the prosperity of Spain !—I. am, il ic's, your Majesty's very affection Louts PIiILIPVE. TO HIS ILAJESIT TILE KING I Majesty,—l hope that your Majei stant devotion, if I venture to truu but my heart, which is devoted to ye mence t h e new year with pain, if I I renewing to your Mnjeaty the sincer an imate me in p ra y ing tor your Ma Deign to aceept, also, m , h o ps sr .d the re s p ects which, on ti r,. and all my little family p sa m e f our tender and respectful a ant prayers, and to for yourr an yo u r de ar f an be for you trouble, t hat any howeve r small it our eicellent heart, or sadden yi off for the happiness of all, but es to the number of whom I am prow dear u ncle, these sentiments, diets tender, and by gratitude the nu Tdsjesty's hand, and subscribe lir ' affectionate and devoted Tieee, TO MEE MAJESTY MAN My dearest Sister and Niece,- the kind s entare you have expres of the new year. Be emoted th the welfare of your Majesty are i cert. You may also teat assured' in your little family ; and I beg o thanks to the Duke of Ri gnz .use which you have conveyed to me would be always delighted to se Must say that I percave with 1 b Sp a in is still prolonged; for your experience, and of your nu utility to the Queen, your Lam Ming her husband, besieged lances (lira itlements) of every put to those crises, th.ne conti can devoted to thedn done l u l e Queen and total e! the Cortes, which like these, no action of revolutionary ol elemen rei gn in the august househd c never forget that theirs is the e they follow, I will venture to i vice, the example of their aged and may they leave to Spain, as ousregiaproles,which may cuari of Spain against all the macbin tea! I cannot conclude tali' le well our new message is going posed, and give us the utmol aeu daughter tenderly ; we ha may b e assured that she has he in Paris, complete success.- 1 my dearest sister and niece, ye brother and uncle , Louis Pin ----- VENEZUELA. — Varicn in on between General Mona public, and General Pat's, an aeries of despatches from the fi minister of war at Caracas. of particulars of mantas in enemy, although Pees has not he w e found. According to tl at length, however, to the officer' of Monsgas, and a novel incident in his career hero of tile Apure. The cog place at Camber°, near th from the small town of to the accrnint the troops of thoae of Munoz 4 0 0 only. I former were routed and " fact nor the particulars, howl of a despatch from Munoz, t the day, but rest on the rent deserter from race, and snot mender Domingo Potence. wants confirmation. A Ter: last New York papera melt chant just arrived from C account with being a fabric , torious, and in or about short time will suffice to det correct version of the affair sir Robert Peel arri' and bad the honour of Jo The Right lion. Baronet a visit to her Ma jesty and . The Marchioness of Queen, arrived at Osborn The following order James's Palace , Aiwa 29 . been commanded to anus the drawing-ruums , and.] Buckingham Palace, thni sinus of giving encourag the United Kingdom, ai commercial depression, British manufacture." The Queen Dowal Marlborough house, Pa Majesty was attended Howe, Bart of Denlngt Bedford, Sir David Da The Duke Bernard and Edward and Prince li Weimar, also armed at A Cabinet Connci Poreign-office : it was s Lord Chancellor, the 1 Grey. Viscount Palmer the Exchequer, the La the Right lion. 11. 1 hours. The Lord Mayor, M.P., and Mr. Jones John Russell yesterds; street, to preseut an upon the sufficiency the 10th inst. for thl Despatches were the Colonial-office for provinces. Mr. John Thor Stamps and Taxes, 1 Chancellor of the Ex. TILE RIB AND . 01 vacant by been the demise stated, confem on the Duke of Arm knights of that and Moray, was tilled up kousie, the Goverco: DOWNING -s'i been pl, osed to app . Right Hon. R. EL , Brooke, EA., Eijal Tenor of Bombay 0. Grey l Esq.. 0 ' velyan, rag., ASSil' Sir B . I. Routh, Hen. J. Stephen, Major Gen. . Lkut. Col. De ordinary mernh or knights comma Bath. Her Majesty h Napier, C. 8., to 13 Ilion of the secon most honourable Her Majesty h Cowley, Lord W Germans, Lieut. G. E. Anion, I Esq.; B. Chadw Milne, Ea t .: Sn monde, Kt., It.lN BK.; S. ti. Bou Ht.; Lieut.-Ca J. Rowe, Kt.; Sir R. I). Georg civil division of mid most honou DOWNING-:. pointed Colonel yenta and Coo British Guiana let Re fit. of Lit Drags. to Be oi.r. Sad Drag. (hi. who ret.; Lieut. vice lacy. . , I , 1 2 TH matter of comparative indifference. It may be a mans Thc Inlit erprefso. cy l i i i i i i g h d a irz a t i a m n eo n s's e P i d pe ( r e a l e ; n C t 'a r Y n i e u rfae s e u t (la ra o i fi e se ) ho i l t d m s u a l- t ------------- frage) ;it may be his having learnt and his continuing rep NAILS. to exercise a visible trade (occupational suffrage); or slob The mule for New South Wales. Tan Dienthes use ssa New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the let May. it may be his having received a certain amount of in- wo Toe mad, re. the West Coast of Antos sad Madeira will be meek struction (educational suffrage). In our opinion one the up ea the even nit of the Ist May. . and all of these would be found to give pretty nearly cat The West India Mails, era Bermuda, Num% Henna% Headman, New Orleans, yea Crua, Tampleo. and Porto 11505. and the saute amount of electors, and include pretty see excluding those for hlaeleire, J3C115.1. Cartbagena, Santa limas." Chegree, Panama, \Teat Coast of South America, and St. J11....1.- nearly the same individuals. Our preference would the be decided by reference to their comparative simpli- rib Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 2ad May. The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Mends, city Egypt., Aden, Ceylen, ladle, lieng.Kone, and Chum, via Southend.- and avoidance of chicane and expense in the matter of registration. The great question is, after all, MI we, will be made up on the more of the 3rd May. The mails tor the Braxds, the Myer Plate, Monte Video, Pawn. IlOt so much what extension we ought to have as what ea birc Bahia, Madeira, and Buenoe Ayres, will be mode up on the we can get; and provided the extension be real and lie mews sr the 4th May. effective , we are little disposed to be critical on the lai The mans for Brine. North America, sea the triimi Wales, it N, will be made up ort the evening of the soh May. point where stops. The overland dated null", ma Maremlice, to the Mediterranean, The de,gree of suffrage extension being de- ni Egypt, n o des . Ce l li. lathe, lions-hong, dre., will be made up on the termined—the qualification for electors being re •ftengotaci:lo: *Y O to Llaben Made i ra, Cadiz, and Gibraltar determined on—we see little further difficulty se will be made up on the morning of the 3th May. e. in the way of union. That arising from the Ft --------- respective preferences of the more timid and the si NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. radical reformers for triennial or annual parliaments m The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the is more apparent than real. The favourers of annual ee Stamp-othee, during 1547, to the parliaments in most cases cry for them because they e , DAILY NEWS was .......... 3,447,00 9 think it makes them appear bold, thorough-going, re- jt This, we believe, Li within eight per . cane . of the number formers, w ithout having deliberately examined what s Issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and their effect would be. The truth is that they would p Morning Post, ALL Tin Tonelnita. render short parliaments entirely illusory. 'rhe num- a In addition to thong above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, ber of keen,. active, indefatigable politicians is sodety v THE EXPRESS 778,714 is comparatively few. An immense majority are con- e tented with giving their assent to what the busy a Which • more we believe, Man were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. bustling politicians say and do. They soon tiro if /, ----------- too much work is exacted from them. Annual else- r EaseromOur aitentian has been directed to a typographical tions would, after a few recurrences, so disgust them, c error in the letter of Mao," published on Thursday., where the sub- with the trouble and worry, that the management i Wren" et " 1 ." fcc " ''" ""*"'" ' l ' 7 m" l '' o f ' 4 ""`"". m g g i g? of elections would be left entirely in the hands of ) million , of pounds. The error in no way affects the subect,u t . local cliques. A designing, self-seeking, politician I eSiJti sa l --- ---- would find an easy seat for life secured with much HMI wATEC AT LONDON BRIPOZ. less trouble under a system of annual elections than T.. D.-31.aing.15 •0. pm. 10 , Ah...n.5.1.....510. To-stossoir,-11.....2.7 wee.. ii: ariesses. e ...see le under one at which they recurred less frequently. For the sake of ensuring an expression of the real ----_----._ -- voice of the public, it is desirable that while the par- LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 29. liamentarY term of seven yea rs, which, if it does not r . guarantee i r responsibility, creates a se nse of it LEtCL,TEit has declared itself emphatica ll y in equally dangerous, should be shortened, the dura- favour of the attempt to efface the growing alienation tion of parliaments should not be so far abridged as between the reformers of the middle and working to render elections a mere form. A fixed ter in of classes by co-ope . ration fur further constitutional re- three yettrs would, we are convinced, be found to work form. The sentiments expressed at the great meeting well, and it is that, in favour of which a great many in that town, which was reported in the Express reformers have already declared themselves. of ses erdas - , and the hearty concurrence in On the other points of complete electoral reform we them expressed by Sir JOSHUA WALMALEY, in the see little chance of discrepancy. As to the necessity letter to his constituents, which we publish this day, of the ballot all sincere reformers have long been I allow that non-electors, electors, and representative are agreed ; and if secret voting is to be a reality, a aa one on this subject. Little doubt can now be modification of electoral districts and the abolition I felt as to the views entertained by the provincial of all small constituencies are indispensable. As for reformers of the urgent necessity of identifying the the property qualification of members, its non-exist- legislature more entirely, in opinions, interests, and ence in Scotland, and its systematic evasion in other feelings, with the people ; and the meeting which is parts of the United Kingdom, show it to be a farce. about to be held in Middlesex will show that the ,----------- same earnest aspirations after further reforms predo- minate among the reformers in and around the A KIND of agitation is getting up in the columns metropolis. of some of our contemporaries for altogether nullifying We use the term reformers of the working classes the control of the committee of the Council of Educa- in preference to chartists, because we believe the tion in repo stribution of the funds to national schools, latter leads to much misconception. Universal suf- and of ring those schools, or at least all new ' huge is naturally desired by most of the politicians of ones, completely independent even of the protestant the class who do not possess the electoral qualification laity, and dependent, not only in the matter of moral prescribed by the Reform Act—by all that numerous and religious instruction, but in all matters, on thc portion who have little or no hope of ever attaining clergy, and finally on the bishop of the diocese. to it ; but as to the charter, we suspect that those whe There is perhaps no power or potentate in thee adhere to it from study and conviction are a compa- realms whew irresponsible aathority is eyed with e ratively limited number of the elite of the working much ill will and disa the bishop. W, classs. niversal sffrage and annal prliaments commented the other day on the ppro bation as varying charate have e been U articles of the u political creed u of these classes and spirit of episcopal government and decision! evr since the ressure which succeeded the close tending so much to discredit their wisdom andisi of great European war tuade them reformers to terestedness. To give not d merely the management n e a man. The charter was received favourably by them the clergy or of the religious tenets in schools, In as embodying these two articles, but, further than also the control over what lay discipline and educi to ascertain this, few of them had troubled their tion is given in national schools, to the bishop of tf • heads with it. The charter was drawn up some ten diocese, would be an extension of irresponsible at years ago by Mr. LOVETT, the late Mr. O'CONNELL, thority highly dangerous erous to the to the welfare of tl tt and Mr. ROEBUCK , and received and adopted by a schools, and equally dang aof number of leading radicals, both of the working and bishops. There axe malcontents enough amongst tl k middle classes. It was prepared under the impression laity, even of the episcopal persuasion, tot render that by presenting to the legislature and the public highly advisable to liberalise and relax, her tie a definite and matured plan of further reform to tiglsten, the ligatures of episcopal j . urisdiction. ight become a standard round which all The Committee of Council, in its minute of Novel who m were dissatisfied with the short-comings of ber, 18 le, made the utmost concessions, and allow : . the Reform Bill might ultimately be rallied. About the most ample latitude school to episcopa lt g l and ave clericalt o ur the time the charter was published with thi s view, diction over national s. there were two entirele independent movements bishop the power of final decision ia all doubts a making by the radicals in different districts. The differences respecting the moral as well as the I Birmingham radicals, under Messrs. Meetee, SALT' ligious instruction and discipline of the fiche COLLINS, &e., had declared iu favour of universal The rest, that is the lay education, is left to suffrage, and appealed to the country at la r g e for aid. decided b y the local committee of manageme • Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR had put himself at the head consisting of the clergy and other members cho of a similar movement of which Leeds was the centre. by the subscribers. The chief se of the powe The superior ability with which the charter was com- this committee lies no doubt in theexercimi nonation of posed induced the radical leaders in the different local'- schoolmaster, who must be a member of the Chu ties of England to accept it as their common manifesto of England. Now,the struggleevidently is, whether —though we remember Mr. O'CoNeoe was violently appointment, with the whole control of lay educat opposed to it at first. liutin tlae agitation which ensued, tantamounteventothesuppreasion of italtogether, s its intelligent and well-informed authors soon found the not be vested in the bishop, leaving no control eitle lead transferred to violent declaimers—many of them the subscribers or the central committee of educe: recruits from the ()emelt and Reveen STEPUENS The latter only pretend to control by the grantir anti-poor-law agitations—who, knowing little, and aid to such schools as its inspectors report we caring less, about the charter, talked nothing but and the refusing it to those in which the spite torches, blunderbusses, and pikes. The burning of education is illiberal, faulty, or remiss. It is . the Bull-ring at Birmingham, and the insane attempt . . in this respect that the central . committee sec of Frost at Merthyr Tydvd, were the rerlts; and desires control. .And yet the high churchmen il' throughout England chartism and physical force a clamour against the board, as if it i ' became identical in the minds of the alarmed middle pursuing a stringent system of centralist 11 1 classes; and to this day too many of the loudest pro- and evoking the decision of all differ fessing chartists will be found to sympathise with the from the bishop to themselves. If it were advocates of physical force, and to know little of the would be but the transference lof decision on we charter beyond the name. and non-religious matters of education from an ~, Keeping these things in mind, it must be obvious sponsible to a responsible authority, which we S I l 1 - that the task of the dispassionate among the reformers think a grit advantage. But the board by no I \ g 1 of the working and middle classes, who are now seek- pretends to this. It merely objects to the a ing to unite both in a common movement, ought not to parliamentary grant of money being absorber i be set about as a negotiation how much of the charter the already large mass of episcopal patr can be accepted by the former—how much toncnceded and at the same time closing the door a '.. by the latter. This would be sore to lead critical all introduction or increase of lay edu, and polemical controversies, and such are always We By the vote of Inst session, parliament gave bie to end in leaving both parties more irreconcileably new profession—that of public teacher. The hardened in their own opinions. The business of the objection of the dissenters and the liberals leaders in the new movement is to devise some plan creation was, that these teachers, when they be of reform which would demonstrably tend to to the Church of England, would be affiliated strengthen materially the popular interests in the clergy, would be given even a clerical grad House of Commons and which is likely to receive a that they would be made to swell the ranks of large adhesion both ' fromaniongst the already enfran- pal servitors, instead el being the educational ft! chised and the still unenfranchised classes. Such a plan, arks, paid and directed by the nation. The gore adopted after mature reflection, and after duly feeling strenuously contradictedany such purpose or the public pulse, ought to be launched upon its bility, and succeeded in carrying its bill so own merits—as something that can be obtained the understanding that the independence of the ii and is worth obtainin g —without reference to master's profession was to be upheld. The high any earlier plans of reform that may have men, however, seek already to annul this corn i , l been brought before the public. Without asking any —to break through that fair and liberal tin crew man to declare that it is an unex cept i ona ble scheme and, in fact, what they propose is node —without asking any man to a lter his convictions of than to keep up government grants, at I the superiority of so me other scheme in favour of them to the bedding of a system i which he may aleady have declared—the public at luntary and uncontroled education. We i large ought to be r called upon to support it earnestly proposals to prevail, we need not say that and energetically, as something attainable that cannot vitable result of them would be the very . cor fail to be productive of tangible and extensive good. what churchmen seek, viz., the adnussic ii The greatest difficulty will be found in fixing upon voluntary system of education. If goverr a generall accetabl qualification for the exercise of national control is be to bo overnn the elective fran p chise e . The gulf which the prevailing national aid must annulled too annulled ~ T he whol organisation of manufacturing induatry has opened of public education falls to the ground; tin between the capitalist and the operative classes, has waster is flung back to be the church cler superinduced so much ignorance of the real hedge teacher, without a prospect or a p chracter of the lattr, that muc timidity will and education relapses to a nullity, which is be n found to prevail among the middle classes in times when all c lasses discuss and intim: at the prospect of any Fred extension; and no social movements and political revolutions. timid or petty extension will be worth the makin. On the other hand, a not unnatural jealousy will -e__-- --- ' -- - - disincline the unentranchised to listen to any lunita- MR. IitRKE ROCHE, the member for the lion of the electoral privilege. That the unenfran- Cork, has published a short, but most s chised classes have a power in the country is obvious letter calculated to produce much brothels to every man who listens to the deference with the south of Ireland. For many years SI which they are uniformly talked of in the legisla- has represented an the ancient county house n u an po Ter tore — who looks to the numerous measures pro- ciples. ea, d pounded by legislators of all shades of opinion, with most extensive e states, the hon. member 1 a view to benefit or please them. And this power been ranked by the repeal party as or they are perfectly aware they owe to their union—a trump cards. A zealous ally of O' Cost union of which the common character of being non- haying very few sympathies with men o electors is the great cement. They distrust any pro- rank and fortune in Irelend, Mr. Rome posal to admit a portion of them onlY, within the been associated with estreme views in Ire electol pale : those who are to be left - out lest their And so far as personal feeling and spect interests should cease to be cared for; those who are to I sections go, it is very evident that he be taken in lest the offer should be a rare to break repealer. He is not, however, resolved up their union, and then continue their exclusion. 'or assist in plunging his country \ This natural jealousy can only be neutralised by an archy. On the contrary, with a honest and fair support of such an extension of the highly creditable to him (in a letter, suffrage s will cofer it upon a sufficient number of the this - day publish), he has torn the ma working a class o n enable the sentiments and interests anarchists, and expesed in stinging la , I of that class to be felt in the legislature to an extent selfishness and folly of the crazy mount that, by checking th mere class views of those who try to goad the Irish into insurrectio , at present constitute e the legislature exclusivsly, will bakes their wickedness, and in a mare annihilate mere class legislation. If this be effected, claims himself a foe to the detestable , t t the attention paid to the interests of the class will dis- bowed by the revolutionary faction in arm the personal discontent of the ambitious exc'hded will have no fraternisers either from of dangerous consequences ; and will a m p l y viridie,te A m erica, and I will have no pike murrai those who accept the compromise. As h to at is t to to succeed the potato rot and to - . The t: . i a n k e e is . 0 shall be the test of electoral capability, s a abandon 1 1 ... ihi 1 • . 'HE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1848. Wrangel and Prince Radsiwill being there. Col. Bonin took up his quarters at Dannewerk and Husby. General lialkett, with a portio pos t ed e 10th army corps, which had not been engaged, was far back at Stentenmiihle, in the neighbourhood of Duvenstedt. The PrU.vian ri wing, under the orders of Prinee Frederick, consisting of d regulars and 1,100 volunteers, carried on operations during the acme day (the 23rd). They proceeded front the environs of Wittensee through Eekernfiorde, Osterby, and Kosel, to the Schlei. They passed the water at two different places, at Missunde, where the corps of regulars of Zastrow crossed, with four cannon , a nd further to the right, near Stubbe, where the volunteers crossed. The latter met with n o resistance in crossing, but opposed to the Zrerrow regiment of regulars was a cor so me an with two cannon, who impeded their passag for time, but were ultimately dislodged, with the assistance of the volun teers who bad passed at Stubbe. Nothing further was known of these troops at Schleswig on the I Ith, they r.e.t having, up to that time, joined the main body there. The conflict at and around Schleswig. it is confessed, was a bloody one, the Danes having a strong position, and doing great execution with their artillery and riflemen before it was carried. The Dance had from 10,000 to 12,000 men ; the force of the con feder .tion was the greatest, but it was not all engaged ; four Pruasian regiments of the guard and line formed the bulk of the attacking army. The loss of the l'russians, as far as can be gathered horn the unautlienticated accounts, is about 300 men killed and wounded, principally of the 2lid and 20th regiments. tip to the morning of the 24th, 116 wounded had been brought into the Rendsburg hospital ; that of the Danes is n - t yet kno wn, but probably, having fought comparatively under corer, it is not so great. A letter from Hamburg of April 25 says : A private communication considerably reduces the number of the killed and wounded at the battle of Schleswig. In the 20th and 30th Regiments there are from 150 to 200 con sidered unfit for service, including 50 killed. In the Empe ror Alexander's Regiment there are 9 killed and wounded. 120 Danish prisoners are shut up in the fortress of Gottorp. The following official despatch was forwarded by Gen. Wrangel respecting the taking of Schleswig : Heed-quarters, Stlile,wig, April 23, ISM II o'clock at night.— To the l'ruvivionai Government of the Duchy of Schlevwigalolatem. — I have the honour to transmit to the Provisional Government m the ful intelligence that, a ft er an obstinate engage vent of several Ituuns the franca have &en defeated, an 4 the city of schleswig, so far as the Gottorp &Macadam'', fell into our havoc Mout 2 o'clock this aftermion. The attack wee afterwards renewed by the left wing, whereby toe city of neh'e , wig was surrounded, and our troops wasppene trted as far aa the Chatucke ut Flensburg. At alf-past 7 batGe av In coneequence of the encompassing of the city, the castle of Cottorp was evacuated by the Danes.— (Signed) Von WW401.1,, Royal Prussian (kn. of Cavalry. The letters and journals describe the joy of the Schlcswigers at their deliverance as excessive ; they have had to support a Danish army for 1.1 days, and it was becoming a grievous burden. The people, too, suspected of German tendencies, were not on a very cordial footing with their guests, and their absence is no doubt felt as a relief from restraint and guarded Though a sincere repealer, I am not prepared to seek for a triumph for my principles in a bloody battle ; and I believe that even a triumph for repeal, where wealth and intelligence are at one side, and want and ignorance upon the other, woald produoe evils more permanent and poisonous than trebly distilled imperialism." lie reminds the catholic priesthood that the democratic incendiaries seek to usurp their clerical authority . as tribunes of the people, and, in plain language, points out the hor rible consequences of an Irish insurrection. This bold and vigorous letter does much credit to Mr. Bonne ROME. There are peculiar reasons why suc h s entiments, coming from such a quarter are likely to tell with peculiar force in the south of . Ire land. Mr. BOCIIE is descended from ono of those Norman-Irish houses, who became " Ilibernicis hiber niores," and gave many prominent leaders to Irish rebellions. In the bloody struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the family of Fermoy (Roche) bore a conspicumus part It is resent not sixty years since the grandsire of the p member was tried by court-martial, for being con cerned in the cause of the United Irishmen. 'fhe evidence brought against him was so false and per jured that even a hostile court acquitt Matte accused, who was, however, very obnoxious e ruling 1, powers in Ireland. Mr. Roma has, therefore an hereditary right to offer an opinion u p on the' wisdom or propriety of a rebellion. To a re peal based upon the principles of Gest .'.is, and achieved by the peaceful policy of O'CoNNELL• Mr. Rome is consistently attached. But to • repeal ruinous to civilisation, destructive of pease and property, he is decidedly opposed. A nationalist in his sentiments, in a struggle against anarchy and mob law, he will support the muse of power, because, in the long run, it will bo the best for the people. And we are convinced that his bold and manly letter will confirm many a waverer in the right course, and e ncourage the rational and hon est to oppose the selfish —the violent—and reckless. We are glad to see that Mr. ROCHE in his idea of " property" distinctly recognises " labour"—a species of property which , as h e j udiciously indicates, w be the first to suffer from a bloody struggle. The lower classes would find " a pike murrain worse than the potato rot ; and wo are glad to see the case put plainly before them. It is good that even a sin gle one of the Repeal M.P.'s has spoken out his mind frankly. The popular party in Ireland must be rescued from the wicked projects of the confederate factionista A reaction is beginning t o set in against the anarchical party, and we would wish that the intelli gent and rational liberals of Ireland would unite in making a demonstration of opinions similar to that of Mr. Roche. " When bad men conspire, good men must combine." There is an urgent neces- d sity for We affairs of the popula r party in Irelan being administered with energy and prudence. The remarks which we recently made on what we ventured to call " gradual repeal, or the concession to Ireland of those useful measures for which repeal is desired by the intelligent," have attracted at:matron in many quarters. It were to be wished that the idea of a" Iteform of the union" could be substituted for the vague and unattainable idea of " repeal." While Irishmenare utterly disunited on the subject of repeal, there is hardly any subject on which they might be made more readily to unite than in calling for a re form of the union. The protestants will never call for repeal, as they do not wish to hazard their lives and properties ; but they are as much interested as the cltholics in many the meauresis which may be in uded under union of I reform. t beginning to be ad mitted in high quarters that the union has not worked well either for the interests of the empire or of the sister island, and theremedy.can only be sought for in a reform of the union, and not in a repeal, which would only make matters worse. Parliamentary reformers did not pro pose to destroy the old H ou se of Commons ; they only sought to reform it, and they succeeded. So in the same way . the imperial reformers must re vise, repair, and improve the connexion between Great Britain and Ireland, and not cut it asunder with reckless and ur.thinking violence. We are sa tisfied that a powerful and most influential popular party in Ireland might be raised on the principle of 1 calling for a reform of the union. With such a party the liberals of the empire could act in harmony and sympathy. In such a connexion, men of rank and for tune could honestly come forard ; and from th e e ow objuld ects soug ht by such a partw y the Irish peopl have a fair reason for hoping an increase of prosperity, and an elevation of their coun try. It is upon some such scheme of politics that we should like to see a party of true united Irishmen, and not that parody of a national part which is up by Messrs. O'BRIEN and NIITCLIEyLL. other farce. lumns ing moral the but tuca the an the the A the Ater it than iorem lowed the and re- school. t to be ;ement, chosen wer of If the _,oarch lether the location, 1 -. shall inutellianctr to g i°n of • BlTWsitEleelniOi of , only GERMANY. BADEN.—A letter from Carlsruhe,of the 24th, says that Friburg, where the insurgents have entrenched themselves, was attacked by General Hoffman, at the bead of the Baden troops. Forty or fifty of the in surgents were killed, and the rest dispersed. Recker has been ordered to quit Basle. PRUSSIA. —From Berlin, of the 21th, we learn that the Diet has sent Senator Banks to London to try to come to some armngemeat respecting the seizure of Prussian vessels by Denmark. raise , was centralisation, fferences re so, it weighty an are , should means annual Abed into patronage, e against location. birth to a The great to this DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES, SCIILESWIG AND FLENSBURG TAKEN THE PRUSSIANS. We have received the Hamburg papers of the 25th, which give full details of the battle between the Prussian and the Danes, the s e; trance of the for urmer into Schleswig , an d subseqetly into Flensbg. We gather the following details from the journals. On the 22nd General Von Wrae.gel issued the following order of the day Chief Comma , dof the Duchies of flehleswig-Ifoistein. Order of the say.—By a resolution of von confssleration, the chief com mand of the German troops ssembkd in the duchy of Holstein has been committed to e. I have this day undertaken the command. The cbiel of the staff Mahe Prussian Maj,ir-Genertil Von Stockh until whose expected arrivd that set vice will be performed by Major Yon leirchenfed. The commanding ether of artil lery, who is expected this evening, is the Prussisn Colonel Von Fidler. As officers of the ordnance, the command is to be undertaken by a Hungarian and fieble,wig-ilolotein officer. The staff guard is committed to the Prussian troops. At the commencement of hostilities the following procla mation was issued S e ldiers,—The rights of Germany have been violated by the Danes, and it is your resol v e to mamma them. Maytag been appointed your general In command by the Germanic confration I coider it a peculiar honour to be permitted to lead on tootis combat. The tried valour ot yourselves anti of your leaders is a pledge of the result. on ward for Germany! This be henceforth our ow to. And with God for our guide, the victory is ours ! All had our opinion fatherland, all hair Germany, and now, onward. ftensburg. April 22, 1818. The noyal Prussian General tit Cavalry, Von WRAN,I.L. The Schleswig Holstein Gazette gives the following account of the battle on the 23rd: About 5 o'clock the Prussian columns advanced from all points. The Danish advanced posts, which were at Kropp, retreated on the road to Schleswig, being taken by surprise. The Germans pursued them until they came before the in trenchments at Dannewerk ; ae they reached this point at about 9 o'clock, the general march was beaten in Schleswig. and the Danes, who for two days had been alarmed by false intelligence of the arrival of the Prussians, were taken by surprise at their sudden appearance. The Prussian Hussars commenced the attack, and the fortification of Dannewerk, on which the Danish artillery was placed, was taken by the Prussians at the point of the bayonet, a:ter the battery had , been silenced by the fi.ld pieces of the Hanoverian comics gent. The Prussians then separated, Colonel Bonin taking the left towards BLIStOri, General Wrangel taking the road direct to that place with two regiments of guards. Bustorf was defended on the part of the Danes by three battali , ns, with artillery, which they had placed n the st r eets. The combat lasted a lo n g time, Col. Bonin a i tacking, on his part, with cannon; but the guards, under General Wrangel, had but two cannon and no a mmunition. Rtinforeements, how ever, soon came up. Th e s harpshooters of Neufchatel drove back the Danes and their battery, and they retired from Bustorf and Frederichsherg, tewanis the Schloss. The Prus sian Guards,taking breath,pre‘sed forwardsto theheights. The Danes retired, part to th^ right towards the Sehlei, and those who did not save themselves by swimmiog were shot or drowned. The dead lay thick around, and 30 or 40 men were taken prisoners. Bustort and Friedrichsterg were in the hands of the Prussians at about two o'clotk, pm% The guards then occupied the town, wid began the attack against the castle of Gottorp, which the Danish guard, about 500 strcng, held. It had keen contemplated by the Danes to blow the castle up as they retired, but the waters of the Sehlei being rendered exceedingly high by an east wind, the powder in the mine was rendered wet and useless. In the meanwhile Colonel Bonin had led his troops in a westerly direction towards the town of Schleswig, and kept up a severe tire of artillery and sharp-shooting from the woods between Schuby and Schleswig. The 2nd Pomeranian Regiment VMS severely treated here, and lost 100 men. The tight was also very bloody in the Thiergarten behind Gottorp, and the showers of grape from the ca•tle closed the Braektow sharpshooters to retire, their captain von Hellmundt being shot in the arm. The castle of Gottorp was evacuated by the Danes about eight o'clock in the evening, but the Prussians did not occupy it for fear of mines. Then Sehleswig was won, and the masscs of the Dinish troops retired. The Prussian headquarters were established on the 23rtlin Schleswig, Qen. 4y belonged affiliated to the grade, and of episco -1 function government Or pout solely on the school- church compromise derstanding ; nothing less and turn of vo 'ere such A the Inc. . ) - contrary of admission of a government or vernment and Thole system the school lerk or the profes.ion, is frightful luence great the county of significant, ial effect in Mr. Itocnt: repeal Kin d possessing has always one of their /NNELL, and of his own has always Irish politics. :illative con : is a sincere ed to plunge r into an a boldness 'ter, which we mask from the language the tntebanks who ioa. lie re dy style pro designs liar . Ireland: "1 Lrom France or terrain in Ireland is come for men sides in politics. intercourse. The Schlevrig-Holstein Gazette of the 2lth says : With the deepest regret and feeling of shame at the con duct of our owe countrymen, we publish a 1, tier from a German officer, dated Schleswig, April 21: " Scarcely was the battle of Schleswig ended, when we everywhere saw Schleswigere on the field plundering the dead. The Danes at Flensburg had invariably thrown a handkerchief over the face of the dead, and had mounted sentinels, who, however, ware net in every case able to prevent the occasional pill ige of a watch or money. The Germans had neglected to use the precaution, and their negligence was fearfully avenged. The German rabble plundered the dead; nay, is it not probable that many who were severely wounded were treated is a like manner by the impious horde, and stripped to the very shirts. I never witnessed a more fearful scene than the array of corpses in a barn. ?deny ot them were naked. The officer had nothing but his shirt and coat — everything else was gone. troweers, shoes, stockings, nay, everything that was available was gone. These marauders are a di , grace to the war. The sight was horrible, I shall never fe,rg , t it. In the name of humanity, 1 intreat that measures be taken to prevent the recurrence of such atro cious scenes. The letter is written from the camp on the first vivid impression of the revolting scenes. A letter from Itendsburg, April 21, says : The Danes quitted Schleswig yesterday, at II at night ; they had retired from 'their post at Gottorp some time be fore, and at daybreak this morning the German flag was flying from the tower. The storming of the fortifications before Schleswig . east a great number of lives. Many wounded belonging to the two regiments of the Prue eian Guards have been brought in—among them three officers. Tho right wing of our army crossed the Schiff{ at three pointy, the boatmen and sailors of the locality giving every Resistance to the opera tions. They constructed& num ber of rafts, by which 1,00 men coßamuld be o carried over at the same time. At one point the volunteers en gaged and repulsed a body of Danes, takir g from them two field-pieces. From the left wing of our army we have not yet any certein information. As it includes a large force of cavalry under the command of the Duke of Brunswick and Prince Waldemar of Schleswig.Holstein, it is concluded that it is already far in advance, in order to be able to cut off the retreat of the Danes. Many Danish prisoners and wounded men have already arrived here ; among them two officers of a dragoon regiment that has suffered severely. The more wealthy among the Danish party in Flensburg have packed up their articles of value and fled into Denmark. Tke fugi tives from the towns of Schleswig at present here are pre paring to return to their homes in their now liberated country. Another communication from Itendsburg, dated 10 o'clock at night , of t he 23rd (Sunday), gives the fol lowing particulars : The first day of Banter of the present year will occupy a remarkable place in the history of Schleswig• Holstein. At two o'clock in the afternoon • report was spread that the Prussian troops forming the advanced guard had reached the town ot Schleswig, and were then under the fire of the Danes. I went to Kropp, in order to have a nearer view of the scene of action ; and I am able to furnish the following details:—On the road to Kropp I was met by eight or ten waggons, containing wounded men belonging to the Prus sian Fusiliera, with some Danish soldiers also among them ; farther on a troop of Denish prisoners on foot, guarded bv PC11991111 soldiers; it consisted of about 30 men. I gatherea from them that the Danneeirk-dam, where the Danes had constructed strong defences, was stormed by the Pf1.111861:11, and carried, after great loss of life, chiefly an the Fran ion to i and Alexander Regiments. Falling back from this posit Bustorf, a village in the vicinity of Schleswig, the conflict was again renewed by the Danes with great obstinacy. The road through this village to Or: town of Schleswig was de fended by several pieces of cannon, but they could not resist the attack of the Prus sian cavalry supported by a battery of flying artillery. The Danes were driven from this position abo, and retreated through Schleswig. An hour afterwards I heard that Fredericksberg, one of the quarters of orSchlep nig, had been taken b y our troops in Bustorf two three houses were set on fire by the cannonade. The intelligence from Copenhagen states,_ that a grea t number of Prussia n shi p s are detained in the road in consequence of the embargo ; they are chiefly from the south, and more are continually arriving in ignorance of the measure. A telegraphic despatch received at Altona on the evening of the 2-Ith, announces the entry of the German troops into Flensburg, on which town they advanced, after taking possession of Schleswig. No details are given, and it is presumed they met no opposition. A letter from Copenhagen. dated April 22, says, "The health of his Majesty was so far improved, that t he intended leaving Fredericia for Odensee in course of a few days. Orders have been received at that place respecting his Majesty's arrival. TILE SPANISH MARRIAGES. The fourth number of the Phew Retrospective, published at I'aris by M. Taschereau, contains the follow ing interesting correspondence respecting the Spanish mar riages : 1.1.T1F.R FRONCHCEEN CHRISTINA TO LOME PHILIPPE. Madrid, this 15th December, 1814.—T0 11. Tho t h K li e g n of the French, my beloved u ncle. Sire. — which your Majesty has always manifested towards me en courages me to present to you my respects and my con gratulations on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke d'Aumale. I hope that this union may prove a source of happiness for all the royal family, but more especially for al your ojesty and for my. dear aunt. We are approach ing also the holy festivals of Chtistmas and the New Year, and I now p a y you my respects for those days. I can never forget the pleasure I felt in spend ing them near you, near aso estimable family. I trust one day to see that , h app i ne ss renewed. If my duties retain me at present near m y beloved daughters, I hope that, soon as our wishes are accomplished, I may be able to fly to you, personally to renew the expression of my sentiments. What those sentiments are is no secret toou y ; you ma I y thofferefore believe in the sincerity , an d accept of the wishes er up f a TOII, especially on the occasion of the coming holy testi vats: I have another act of duty to fulfil t o wards you, my dear uncle ; it is to inform you of my marriage with the Duke of Itianzares. I believe that you know it already, especially through my excellent aunt the Queen ; but I should feel wanting in my duty if I omitted to take this step myself towards you. My dear aunt regarded this resolution of mine with that mater nal goodness natural ta her, and whieh gave me infinite joy. I doubt not but this step will be equally well received by you, whose kindness towards me ie of so long standing. The Duke of !Women has come in for his sha tare of of this kindness; and believe me, my beld uncle, the gratitude and respect he feels for you are profound. You may always rely upon his sentiments as upon mine. I hope that your health is as good as I wish it to be for many a long year to come. We enjoy, thanks be to the Almighty, this blessing, and I have tne gratification to behold my daughters happy. They send you their homage and congra tulations, uniting their wishes to those offered to God for your Majesty's welfare, by her who kisses a thousand times the hand of your Majesty, and is happy to be y.ouece.— r MaMautjesty'a s most affectionate, r respectful. ectful, and obedient ni Cu iIiSTIN A. jTo the otigiaal of the above letter a note is added in the handwriting of the secretary of the ez-King, M. Fain, as follows :—" The K ing replied by an autographcomplimen tary- letter on the 24 February, 1845." The following tramlation was also found in the portfolio a To THE EDITORN OP THE " IiERALDO. " Madrid, June 6, 1816.—Gentlemen, —As the words pro nounced in the Chamber of Deputies of France, on the 27th ° l i e d M a a s y t r , a b y y i l l ' t. h T e h fi ie e rs la , o o f nio n f j may . give rise to a renewal of ancient and unjust accusations against the queen-mother—accusations which never had any other found.tion than the ignorance of facto incompatible by their nature from publicity—it is impossible to remain silent eictsturmet.theiluuseternio-musomtheemr b:nrsd's any longer ; for, besides the danger of seeing public opinion herself attacked in her personal sentiments before a respect able body, whose discussions certainly deserve an echo in Europe. M. Thiers affirmed, without hesitation, and with out expressing that courteous doubt which the subject and the circumstances seemingly commanded, "that the queen. mother nourished in her heart au unqualified hatred against the sons of her eater; and that, dominated by that melancholy sentiment, she turned towards Naples, to seek for Count Trapani as husband for her daugh buted ter." Whilst the blindness of party apirit has attri , to the queen-mother , in this serious affair, views baud on ' political calculations, more or less pr , udent, or on family ' affections, essencem ess excusable (svouables), to allow time to reply in pr of the profound silence of those who might so easily defend this august princess, would be at- I tended with the serious inconvenience of infallibly mislead ing public opinion on a subject which touches so nearly the royal dignity. To-day, however, when speaking before a French chamber of the marriage of the Queen of Spain—of a question which, though diplomatic, is not the less essen daily a national one—M. Thiers has asserted that its most serious ( faneste) complication arose from the hatred nou rished iii the heart of the queen-mother ; the honour of that princess, and of those who flatt er themselves to have a lways loyally . served her, d em ands that this unjust ac cusation, arising from a petty and vu lgar senment, launched against a person who so little deserves it, either as a queen or as a mother, should be refuted. Surely, as a queen and as a mother, she ought to he allowed to form a free judgment of the conrenance or the impossibility of each of the ca ndidates for the hand of her daughter ; but she has not, nor ever will have, any other ob ject in view than the welfare of that people whom once she governed, and it is the highest considerations of the public interest alone which can snake her reject certain candidates. But, thank Heaven, those diplomatic and political difficul ties will not be increased by those implacable hatre wh ds m which are not entertained by tab illustrious princess, i illus trious misfortunes have not caused her to repent of her cle mency : the reason is as simple as it is honourable—it is that the queen-mother does not know what hatred is. Instructed by a long and painful experience, beholding from the height of her greatness the spectacle of our misfortunes, in commu nication with the leading men which, in each contingency, every shade of opinion sent to the throne as the faithful ex premien of their views, it could not escape her observation that in every faction there are men and doctrines deserving of approbation ; that each has hod his day of triumph, ef error and misfortune ; that sincerity Is to be found amongst them all, and that where sincerity exists party spite is only an additional error which the vulgar regard as a political creed which becomes the haunt of low and vulgar ambitions. Aral when such is the opinion who of this s august princess on all these opposed fa h MADRID, APRIL 22. caused so much disoedee in the kingdom, and of whom The famous procession of Good Friday, which the there isp perhaps, not one who has not offended her, at government at first thought of suppressing, c a m off without least by distrusting her intentions, is it credible that she the least disturbance. should have consulted those hatreds and angers, and not The provisional governments of Milan and Venice have the most high iuterests of the government, to guide her acknowledged Isabella 11. in the grave question which is to ensure the personal A secretary of the Spanish embassy at Naples has arrived happiness of her daughter, and to which the country has here on some mysterious mOsion. attached so many hopes of glory ? The reply cannot be The Hera/do affects to be in high glee at the first successes doubtful, especially as it is expected from the judgment of Charles Albert against the Austrians, and inserts a letter of Spaniards, and not from that of the French deputy. from Turin, which represents the Sardinian government as It is truly astonishing that the man who endeavoueed to extremely disposed to contract intimate relations with the explain in a manner so little honourable the aversion of her court of Madrid, to which it was appointing an ambassador, Majesty to the cauffidateship in question, should not have with a staff o fd, secretaries and attaches. General Narvaez be-en more exact in his positive affirmations that the queen insults the English government, and fills his papers with mother ardently desired a Neapolitan candidate fur the abuse of the French republic, and attempts to compensate hand of anteshr daughter. It is a.stonishing that the such furious blunders by conciliating the Carlists and sage historian so well versed in the policy ot the day, should patronising Italy. Naples has appointed Serra Capriole have gone s back to find the origin and the suppwt given minister plenipotentiare at Madrid. to the candidate which he deplores BO much. A solemn light Seven millions of reale in gold until and media onz is are will, however, soon be thrown upon this serious affair, which said to have been sent away Prod during the first weeks tias shaken the union so necessary to the moderate opinion, of April. and has deprived it of the name of a party, so useful in the I enclose a proclamation of the Madrid insurgents which hour of struggle, and the singular martjrdoro of this august was very liberally distributed yesterday among the crowd. It ptincess will cease—amartyrdom which can only be endured is in the worst possible taste—indeed, an inconceivably on the steps of a throne-40 suffer calumny without being wretch , d production for the advocates of so promising a able to reply to it. It is true that the distance between the cause to put form. I have already animadverted upon the illustrious 'French deputy and the modest writer of theme brutal covandice of ind:cating Maria Christina as an object lines is eminent :bat with truth on my side, and when my of vengeance to the multitude, heart tells me that the cause I defend is noble and gene. A letter from Bayonne in the ',resold° of Thursday con- roue, I never hesitate before the quality of my adversaries. talus toe fallowing passage, which deserves particularly the —I am, &c. (Sianed), AN. 31. ELVBIO. attention of your teaders, from so ocandalons an attack upon to Hilt MAJEATT OCEEN MARIA CHRISTINA. an English gentleman, universally respected by his country- Neuly, June 16, 1846.—My dearest Sister and Niece, — men resident in this capital, being inserted in the recognised It is with astonishment, mingled with a sentiment which my organ of the government: friendship for you prevents me from expression more dis " Yesteraay at daybreak two extraordinary couriers arrived tinctly, that I have read the letter which the private secre from Madrid. The first was English, and on his way drone tarp of the Duke of Rianz ins has inserted in the Madrid the most absurd news in the world. This csused not the journals, signed by himself. Nobody hiss been able to leer surprise surprise to sensible persons, who, accustomed to he cover the end of 'fie insinuations contained in that document way which the messengers of the English embassy at upon the origin of what is called the candidateship of your Madrid have of always giving fate news, either from a pro- brother, the Count de. Trapani, for the hand of the Queen, pensity„ to lie (por o fi cion a mentir) or perhaps from me- your august dauglitzr. In fact, the discussion which the ttves still worse, believed not a word of what he said." publication of thus letter has occasioned in the public jou! , The government organ thus designates as a liar the nate proves that no one could have been mistaken that the Queen's messenger, who passed through Bayonne on the design of these insinuations was, not only to attribute it to 16th; and as a set of liars, that body of the * British public myself personally. as well as to my government, but service to which he belongs.. No one in England requires also to have it believed that it was imposed by us against to be told that the carriers of the despatches cf British mi. I your opinion and contrary to your will. These user \ nisters are selected from the class of gentlemen. They are I uons are so totally false that I am unable to tolerate , highly paid, their trust being one of great importance. I them, and I now demand justice for them. I think I Many of them are halt-pay officers. Their number being ought, my dear niece, to notice here some facts upon the extremel limited (only la); their employment is a most accnraey of which you will not refuse to bear your arduous one, and no body of public serYants are harder testimony. At the time you were here in the midst ot us, worked. The Ileraldo is * the organ of a government that and even before we had with you those frequent convene got smuggled into power under sir the most dis- lions, those interchanges of confidence which our mutual reputable, and whose motive for closing the Cortes was to feelings teem a so pleasing to us, you did not cease to ex shirk a debate, in which the scandalous stock-jobbing tans- pets your desire that it was one of my sow who should. Inc