The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-20 00:00:00

gilt enwefiL TO CORRISPONDINTIII. • Sesusi Milos of The Exporms." smislinst the mos swish Ossotte." pslillthel empty Noisy esd Mir, sled. Is Vas be pea. Sehetulemestalslesdad fag .118 Lamm; Laden Swabs pow, spa be . at dr Oa os 10, Braisrisslessi. Ity Two Wink IS es day pstalkeliss. MOE WATER AT LORD°, BRIDGE. Ts ft Daa—Nosalag. 116.1 f.. lb. Wis. loassairaw--RavAis. 71.47. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 20. Tut news from the scat of war in Burmah is what might have been anticipated. The troops are hold ing Rangoon, and, soldier-like, in spite of bad water and worse climate, are making the best of their position there. Expecting a visit from the GOVERNOR•GENERII, they have been exerting their ingenuity for his and their own entertainment, by getting up some private theatricals. In the hot swamps of Burnish, and in the eternal snows of the Arctic Seas, English soldiers and sailors contrive, at times, to while away the tedium of inaction in this way. Mock heroics and comic songs keep the blood stirring until the time comes for real work ; but com mon as this mode of killing time may be, the remark of the correstoadent who tells the story seems natural cnoug : " Who," he aye, " would have supposed, a few months ago, that in the month of July, Iso'.l, a body of British officers would ba per forniing on the boards of a theatre in Rangoon, and that among the spectators would ba the Governor- Goners: of India t Three months hence probably theatricals will be got up in Prome—aye and at Ave too, perhaps in the King's palace." Whilst the main body of our troops were thus inac tive, a small force was detached on board "a little feet" to sail up the river to reconnoitre Procne. 'lbis, was done, it seems, at the earnest recommendation of the Commodore, and somewhat against the views' of those by whom the war is directed. The vessels set otf under command of Captain TAILLETON. A glance at the map of Burnish will show our position at this time in that country, and will indicate how far we have bold of the river-outlet of the country. It will seen also how the river has two channels above Rangoon, in one of which—the main stream—it ap pears there is always water sufficient (or vends of amaiderable draught, whilst the other is full of aback, and is usually dangerous. When Cap tain TAMA:TON was on his way, ho learned from saws friendly satires that on the main river there were heavy batteries and other warlike preparations to own, his advance. With a manses eptited• be ma swarm accordingly. The rains bad swelled boa stream to Ina a degree that the river was 1$ het above be moml beak sad the srdi parity shallow beaash than beeweing awripkb • be took that ooarss, sad wighsat the Me el a sigh teas peeved the wade width moo ledawisil to poem( hi. ela Mae age be had mob hie way to Pease Cy to the savigatiee el the dream The Dem mess at that piste were dearly wepagerel he the arrival of the Meths force —their ststimdm win bet feebly mased. and the plan ow takes by the with the loss et sae smarm killed and three= wersaded. The spoils el this may victory wore 28 vas, laeledlag some mortars—all Icemen away in Sabato. elbse a Mg in Prome of 24 hours. But now awes *eyelet of the affair : °Se dillbreet is the climate up there, that actually ant wee Mowing about, which shows how little rain bad fallen rl . Captain Tarleton (says the cony ependent) y regretted he had not a regiment with him , that his :norrections did not admit of going higher up, for, from what was there lesrat, it mime Oa between Promo and Ave than weal have been nothing found to prevent the latter place being attained. It does indeed seem a thoumad pities that his wishes could not have been carried intereffte'. Such a more now would bring this un eafitfactory e.rpeditims to a close in three months mod less. By the tedious and systematic (f) swami V a march it will take a year at the very Gast le de so." A little farther on we find it stated by the rime i intelligent authority " The river is said to hare risen 18 feet, since the I commencement of the rains, and all the naval I authorities declare there is water enough to float any steamer here, not only to Promo, but to An, if need be. Why not then take advantage of the mum ? Why not send up as many man as can be spared at once, with instructions not to stop at Procne, bat go straight to the capital? One European regiment I and two native corps, with a company of artillery, ! is ample for the protection of Rangoon, which is, you may say, nnder the guns of the shipping—be- I sides which we are in a friendly country, and cannot I be surprised, and u long u our steamers aro weed ing their way towards Ave, there is no cheesed a ' concentration of force against us here. • • • AU the natives on the banks of the river told our people in the steamers, that between Proms and Ara there was not a Burmese army of any descrip tion to stop us. So evident is it that the Barmen have not reckoned on the facility with which ow steamers can make way against the stream, and so fully have they reckoned on our adopting in this war the same tedious system of an advance by land, in which they were able so to harass ns is the hut, and which very system our commander proposes to adopt. If his ysdpoint does not alter, may it be overruled, is the Ernst wish of every one who has the interests of this lam at heart, and the speedy termination ar tie war, (leach it can be called. And why doss set the asesamader push up to Ave ?—why is wet Promo, the hey of the river, takes and /Aid ?—and why is sot a rapid and esseadal dash up the river resit to Ars, and this we mottled at once in the espial ci the Harms, kiss? We have again and spin aided attendee to the bee of life in the lad war k lib sem matey wooed by tedious winds= ea chum—by dandy .arches is the swamp—end by breed see moats melee a burning um. We ought not to have got entangled in this wars brat having began it, oar seat duty is to tended, it se rapidly, honourably, and wfisly as we aim, There is too much cause to fear, bowiwAthat our slim is Laths renders warfare and preitelde he thus concerned in it. prinneeey, wealth—all bot h =to Ow those espied in them. ad who missy with 116; sad the leasers are tee shin is Rnem to the twisty nand ties Me the evise ins. Oer bike araistitne ban a t non tenbeep—peine beams nine tend= tine it miss deli sad didealdie, yet nese *see dn. Bede_ seer_ Lm added to one debt, lad impendird Yet the Oefittecnt-OzumL seder wine nik and the Coeptenpas-ui-Caur rein ?ban linden. a great slice of new territory is acquired, are rower — tied both in soandisg hewer and in solid essie—se es we go mortgaging and involving our Indian domi nion—it may be beyond ultimate redemption. Wears like a spendthrift who borrows upon his own estate at 6 per cent. to boy a neighbour's land widish pays 3—the more land we get the poorer and hoe independent we become. But still the game ass stied by eseesesive governments as though as day was never to arrive. This explains, doubting, , the reason why Capt. TAILLETON'S little fleet WWI " reluctantly despatched u,p the Imweddy—this explains why be had not with him the minuet sod the battery that would in all probability have es abled him to push up to Ave, and Milker a blow likely to finish the war in three maths. A war is too good a thing to be mid is that time. Short wars are Ism pleasant and peltable to some ease than king sew The present Emperor of ittlilltAlt is TO girded by a large portion of those over whom he rules as an usurper. The Peguans have long been rips fee revolt. Many of the inhabitants along the COWS, of the Irrawaddy have proved their friendly feeling towards the English—as wit ness. fee instanee, the information given to enable Captain TAILITO2I to outlook the batteries prepared for his especial desires the. Wife a force of steamers to push up the river, leave a garrison at Prone (a very much healthier flees than Rangoon or Bassein), and then make their some for Ave, there can be little doubt but that the Iwo scald be brought at °nee to time. It is very probable his people would embrace the opportunity of the Englide invasion to depot him, and elevate in his steed a man willing to grant them an extension of wo Mular Pn - Tilsit*. A prince so chosen be too , the 05 18 4= ItIPT7 ready to become the ally d by whose instrumentality he bad amine. hie Ron. We might then atipiliate pr the free so tuns of the ricers, with permanent pommies of Proms or such other port as would sisals us te maintain this new opening for civilised and cirilidog can. mere.. Such a consummation might probably be secured in three months, and would bo the best and wisest of all things open to us—would cost least blood, least treasure, and do least wrong. But then it would be urged that a prompt steam expedition up the river, though terminating the war honourably and profitably, and without laying additional intern brances on India, would enure so sew territory. Bo- nod a strong fortor so we should have made a conquest h.commerce only—not for piseamen. We could not land from the busts men enough to make a large accession to our dominion,—nor would the results seem showy enough to secure more titles and pensions for the chief commanders. Therefore we must have a tedious, costly, deadly cumpaign ir by land, though to compass it may raise still ' the debt of India; may keep sailors idle in well-manned steam•ships, and soldiers risking ague whilst killing time with private theatricals at Rangoon. Lord lisLuousts wishes to stay longer in India, but he will not be permitted to do so. The present bliniateis will take care to send out a new &irontor-General before lung. India is too large a pear not to be plucked for the benefit of some powerful supporter, or—what is more probable—to buy off some formidable and needy opponent. Bat whoever the new Ruler of Hindustan may be, Let us—opponents as we are of the Tories—give that Tory a morsel of ad vice by which ho may gain the applause of all good men of all parties, and raise the prosperity of now half-bankrupt India. Let him believe that England is more likely to benefit by maintaining the Burmese Empire than by annihilating it. Our true policy is to secure the free navigation of the rivers—and that only. Fresh territory makers more debt—it always has done so—and impoverishment is weakness; weak ness fore-runs decay and downfall. May the day be long distant that sees the decadence of our real power in India,—and that decadence is postponed by those who secure the vitality of our Empire by preventing its emasculating extension. TOE Duke of WELLINGTON is still Oar almost undivided attention of the gene i and while the corpse of the great soldier no. buried, few of the ordinary topics of Wing rem likely to make much impression on the pahis nigh Tho Indian mail; causes little agitation, thee& a Burmese war is in progress i LOOM Miro:mites imperatorial aspirations swans so emotions in the breasts of the AIM, while the conqueror of bis made madam un buried. The sawn has bees es.* pain for the het six days the details—es sterting altos of any osessoss—of the life of the seemsebi whiter, and it byelaw meek war the Same of the stirring day Is messy mask Or met the other seldom aro bins Sm. We haw me slaw het the showed sea is all the wadi" thee we be& to abate Ss maw and the rime of his twee keen& Is the funeral es be riblis, at the of the oration ? It is sew my generally maimalMg Net this will be the ewe. Upon the wrredies that all theatres' awmat shall be ___hula NM that the Germs" he emdastel in a norm welly of the occodes, of a past =don highs apse conqueror, any objection that may be " Meet against the principle of retie ham& in general is likely to Asseshe little attention. It is certain that a w ed lathes exists in certain erwhes in avow dap wonment, and if it turns WHIN hie holing SEIM ddent with that whisk lido Se wade of these who were in habits of smidell illememese with the departed, there is sewielyelyeeew it is argument on the subject. Say eie desek calculatior that the eNek of a home would be to draw an immure asi~ of rumens to the metropolis, and the s to sem ja Awe impales to trade at a time ef the year ideate jemeally re markable only he dulness. "Thp Mei would be import sot seseglthe seemese WS lbws Se matinee hundreds who wadi admit& shy dived until the ammummet of the swim If the ro wel 'heal weber lasts, it is not likely that lbw or Om medtitsalso who wilt swarm le hem he.. and watering lard. will hew Lai awi lbw may be, t • soma 4 sewed Ant the s it is that the death eves of it here gets esmehow mixed ar with the views mei eldhe businem at sands mesh Lewin, however, these eadistatiess oat of the rhegrit obe :Et st. dethitied in whisk of eat edifices the sienna of the Dm ars to be ' Pada, ay Westmiestse P Now, without mama to any tweaked or rah.- sigma claims tithe two cathedrals, bat Wary treat ing the sullies as a matter of pubis EIENEEIEESE, Itimeweieleered that if orals seentlees multi- Wm Mho wadi amebic to catch a mpse of a wsweely—te have witnessd which would form an epdi Ila each person's 116—only a smell haetion weld le able to stagy tlido deems, it weld be a des* alimpaimmt. • mierow strip at the peps less, mid mei dwelt allied behind keg Ikea of hiseamiliers awl_ risme, me not be tae swelehes; bet Si stesmeahl should be so a as to pm throe& vas and expansive sheets, when the remibility Nehhising a comprehend,. view of 1 the lade groesdioa at various points is aseleniable Thai trim satisfaction would be seemed. These we few precedents by which the waded of a phis heard of this kind can be regulated. The last home of a Comasandev•in-Chief was that of the Doke of Yosx. The lost tensed of a groat hero was that of 2411/11031. That of the Duke of Yoke coed esereely be mad public. That of Lord NEU= athe strictest sense of the word, end 'otiose. It is sore than reelable es sore the circle of hie Mediate hie*, the oily real mown he the leer tithe Debi d Toix were his maid ceeditors, who saw in his departure the last hers rands ef a dividend sa their respec tive chinos. The haste of Net.sow, NO the con trary, was asseseraied literally sad ast meterhed cally by the teen of the maths. The Pease of Wm.= sad theDthe el threentikethe were dewed to weep at the cenehesien of the esetwey, repressed mare asserahl than is the Mom of Prie, th then, e Wisp of the natio y nal hat. The the grief m at the femoral of the Dyke et Illbuntwoo wilt' less eldest is very probable. The eireemetseess of Nsiaost's death were mare calsaisted to whose an appeal to strong meths then them at heft the death of the Dow. NILSON died in the Wig el a terrible war. The mind of all rfwere at the time *mg to tl! .. nt i st he safety of the was mmi =as a nation wee he . 7 &117e; el the inhabitab l e were in M *EM at stake On the wad hero did all ams dhpusi them eis. He Si whet We m to end resew of him. bath wee ager sham prise d Ws Illa Al tam wep demo Ass 4 dime die, shoal haw liesa whet he &Sem% sees bet in.. Net the mid of aelt bad Wee dm all weem Ili le mei se in the perms/ MIL The desliata wide Ss II was et the Wile deerson allewei II ede keg pot Ma his dwelt shear as fle limy yowls. aw leg* Ns sewed of his surd& We have sees izist Xs park* laileadag in idlleadee. he home one al dimmest pereler we thu d Comet with may, Ismail with rework rased with the allestiseeks of his sweesign, ad enjoying all Sr hit a period whisk hes minded bey it lbe eiredelleas of his desemt Meek thee es am her grid The remise falai will be. a mommid de b bot it will maim from diet seme meet hams all weliewallbsted mils at the bred* dwe whose Wee hes wearied so vast a gem he the history , d the dos. Oamide- Mises 4 this mare will ashisistidgh men the Wei 4 New who will him the megement el As cwessay. At • thee 4 timal pais andleadat las that Winr*r NN imillksalll kis mac exhisiereems h is demeMedia llislis e feeling is =MI sod way id ex pected. P at other smarms would appear 1 1=1, diked mark. If NAPOLEON, fait leilemu du ited w the had cr battle of one of his great lb, Fru& nation would have been so much mad that no amount of extravagance in the show of raid would have ap peared absurd. Whea t bows% Louts Pesters and Prince JotNents idle to ellisavour to wow what migAt hare bees Se eased wow _hr an enormous wets of hid ddb, bled pink THE EXPRESS, MON DAY t pts itba.; Ivelwieoi.pashb as pd et limas = all peerible simpes,Lthey committed an at which even Prftamin laughed. Let dos treasum this fact. There was too nine& honest soeverta the,hneral of NILO= Y 6 admit ci people qsaadaniag very minutely the geed taste of the ear which carried the coffin being "modelled at the ends 'in imitation et the hall of the Victory, its head towards the horses being ornamented with a figure of Fame; the star carved and painted in the naval style, with the word, Victory' in yellow raised letters on the lantern over the poop; the oak placed on the quarter-deck with its Dead toward the stern," Ac. All this, which appears something after the maser of naval funerals at • minor theatre, might pass unnoticed at a time of deep excitement, but it must not serve as a model now. Let Wzmino- TON be buried with as much ceremonial as is required—with, all due solemnity—but let there be no theatrical mummery. Many who will follow the DUKE to the grave or who will witness the ceremony, will doubtles.: be struck with the centred between this fimeral and that of the last Commander-in-Chief. The Duke of YORK went , to his grave, and none of the sympathies of the nation were with him. He had gamed little but discredit as a soldier, and he had earned nothing but ill-will as a man, from his recklemness in incurring debts that he could never pay. lie was a Commander-in-Chief simply because he was a prince of the blood. The ease is altogether different with the Duke of WELLINGTON. He was made Commander -in -Chief because he was the greatest soldier in the country. Nobody could find fault with his appointment, and no one has dared to find fault with the manner in which he has filled it. There is no painful sense of in congruity either in the Duia's position or his conduct since. Surely this ought to be a warning to those who concur in recom mending the nomination of the next Com mander-in-Chief. The English people are wonder fully sensitive as to the went of fitness in any parti cular appointment. Let not any ill-judged ces of a summer to the Duxe wound their feelings in this respect. Let the new Commander-in-Chief be a soldier, and one who knows and likes his duty. It would be a strange compliment to give the Duke of Wzmasorox • public funeral and then to job the post he has left vacant FRANCE. PARIS, 8171t1MT Evvirso. The latest said astices of the President's jour ney are two Whirrs*, despatches from St. Etienne, dated yesterday ermine. Ths Ant of these is as follows: aminoso et the Prime late St. Ed's= W Wes wasallikisat. TM whole Lee of the Forts sesorst 09 1•90 mods to owe la the arg, width woo with leimphel tram awl dleasoolot with limo out psuatals. Aa Immo growl *stated tre ipso the road et Boma& to tbe spot where at Mime of the Loire atesasbist to the amber of about UM mates the .rd et their laselsra, with Imam ore thak bud, alai/ to hit the osagrataktlatis tithe pot holoatalal airy. Praia this riot as hr as the Rog de Ville, the ohm of " Vivo Na. polosa,' , " Vivo rammer," Viva le Baum: de Is Frown " reeraumlet ; the nest anhydride tramps/et tit set ow to break he& • peat stroke et wan= awaited the arrival of the head of the able ate toaster of as hoor's walk from the dty; amp hailautelot, is order to neeire him, a triwar bso arta is as& Mae, pa .—Thu Prositsai soseived at el: the autherithe sad mobilo Otte serestikomeat. At ems Imo alleatod • Mawr at the Sold 4, Vile. The w= is Itelkilla t ulast. oveopettweo tit wimiews aro el* mot peaosti. ant joy h *mid am all fens. At seek weds= woo Use , / un " Vire ilha rear' " or " Vivo Nepalese." Weal est Irersee,rt all ds. Europe, meld vitas this darks MosikarMea of =la _ _ _ Otter lespetise have been received to-day, from whisk an gathered the following rainier, of the sestinnation et the President's After the dieser at the Hotel de Ville at St SReataa hut night, the Prises assisted at the firework,. The crowd acknowledged his appearance with c ri es of " Vire " Napoleon! Vire rEmperenrr The President then returned to attend the ball given by the municipality. and received a similar ovation from the superior clans. This morning the Prince attended mass at the church of St. Etienne. When he came out the people uncovered, and greeted him with the usual acclamations. He started for Lyons at eleven, and received on his way the homage of the industrial populations of St Chamond, Rive-dallier, and Givers, at the latter of which places the train stopped some minutes. Finally, amid the crash of military bands and the salvos of artil lery, the President entered the walls of Lyons, at two this afternoon. Immediately after having re ceived the civil and military authorities, who waited he him at the terminus, the President mounted on horseback and rode to the prefecture. Acclamations of " Vire rEmpereur!" greeted him as he rode thlongh the streets of Lyons. It may appear surpri sing that what occurred only an hour ago at Lyons amid be known already at Paris beyond strictl Adel mute& Bach is the istelligmee to me, and I ham every roma is Mime ite skirmish the pripMIII el the verge inlaid doubt hes enable these who were se disposed M Ism off mesh news for th e het telegraphic received Arm Lyme. Certainly it appears little Isar than miratedoes that events which took plan an km ago in a city more than 300 miles al Amid already have flowed into extra-official channeled itheingence. The grand fete, it seems, is to be et Teskaeh At first the municipality voted little more than a thousand reads sterling for the pageantry and fire works which are to celebrant tka ProsiatraPs arrival. Whether at their own armed. er more palpably sti mulated by Wats that the hems to be swaged to their port under the Mere empire, may &jowl glom the =Area of their primal zesestlea or the Presideat, the masicipal emacil have isereased their cait e r tio rte from 30,000 f. to 100,000. placards were posted at Bourses and Nereus, and several arrests (the exact number is not mentioned) have taken plus is both town. It is ileallynttled that M. Goodehasx is to be the candidate or the espabikaa party for the 4th elee- i total district at Paris. M. Curnot has again been milled upon by several sinters to corns forward, bat hes positively &disked. by a letter in whisk he re quite all his Meads to vele kr M. Gloaishaux. No republican maitre be the other maw is Paris Is yet openly I. the Sold. The two severmaset candidates are IL Oarmala Thithealt, that at the chamber d marmsess, sal v l it = Jar. IlArviuum ivionr!o. Some excitement wee cued. a few day. dace, at Aubikre (Pe d y-de-Difeee) on the twedion of the municipal elections. Sewed perms, who bed less struck elf the list of eddied preemie* lideuelvas to give thdr votes, whisk weeded by theampe. On being inhumed id the het, the Omeabeety Police ol assegai premed to the Rat, min sr rested ease of the parties, who bed dna to cedes a ildtarbance. In the swain t= mislay when ordered a petrol to go through the dun, when two shsts wets Sad at them, whisk slightly weeded sa 'dabber of the place who happened to be pith* 0a tile following by the Procureur d the lispaWhe strived, and, alit sup mining tab the eihir Weed thirteen warrants, flu of which were executed. During the day . General 4fteemis. eddeanding the division, amved with a ilsbniment el ravel , and, finding a number of pea* asembled, them as follows;—" Tedeeddy pen diedirbaness took place in this ataseam, wliak are quite out if season : the time der essidist orgies and assusiaation is past ; as an avid* vein lately said—let the wicked tremble. Hewn, thinibm, for at the first manifestation re premiss will 1 m terrible. You see thou howitzers, they dill %ease of need know how to burn down you bassi. Move, and you will see that I am • man if my ward. We Ain sot wait far yen to ' come to seek we, it is we sibs will seek yyoa Tell this to the ef erne The erred lidded with deep to the speech et& Gomel, sad soon altered& ilkdsreed. The Mahler of the interim has addressed the fol- I low* chewier to the Prefects of the Delpertments : The a suds for the Iteney et the p i inse l =ces lin tirs: permit the petiole ef evea the mete* tlegeolosale le those Beak wild the Pare will I, p ea to Al die imps at whit& be wee 0110111111 i to omt their to item. You are, therefore, essaseted cot to • quit year t daring the jemmy. TM town Collongee, seer Lyons, appears still ; to nada the peace sentiments which it manifested in the thys if the revolution. It his just re-elected the mum id mail installed in 1848 by M. Em• by tba love The trial Ittiae-Bland eted whisk las bee/twine dissolved Ina r 1r enepiratas at the Roe it In , seesawed in the pel:- aided to-day. ISlttsen of the sae &Nan to terms of OM to throe years, and in various mews to 1,0•0 francs. Two Asa were su*mad to The walla 111111aars, polieWitlataletine daulisio," Vivo la itie was to two years' impriei, mod SOO francs fine. 7111110, a young medial plestltioner, was condemned to two years' 'spa s want a nd I,ooofr. fin. The Austerlitz line-of-battle ship lilted with an auxiliary sorew,wu launched at Modipag on Wed nesday morning in presence of M. Dam, the Minister of the Marine, the naval, military, sad civil authori ties, and an immense concourse of Another screw line of battle 4 11 % the day before yesterday added to the Frani navy by the launch of the Jean Bart, of 100 ma, at Lonent, which went off with perfect SUCCOII4 and amidst the enthusiastic shouts of thousands of spatters. SEPTEMBER 20,' 1852. BELGIUM. A tcygraphie despatch was received on Saturday in Pans, stating that, by royal decrees, the resigna tion of M. Frtre-Orban has been accepted, and M. Liedta has been charged provisionally with the Ministry of the Finance. The Chambers are con voked for the 27th inst. M. Camillo, an attach, of the Belgian embassy in Paris, arrived at Brussels on Tues&y, stayed two days, and then returned. Ilia journey is, doubtless, connected with the negotiation on the subject of the commercial treaty. SPAIN. The Gazette of the 14th states that her Majesty has ordered that English ships are to be treated in the porta of the Peninsula and the adjacent islands, upon the same footing as Spanish ships, with respect to the payment of port and navigation dues.rlit regulation takes effect es from September 2, the day on which official advioes were received, that Spa nish ships would enjoy similar privileges in British P°lll* ITALY. PIEDMONT. The King of Sardinia arrived on the 12th at Casale, in order to witness the groat military ma mourns to be executed before that newly-fortified place. The town was spontaneously illuminated. His Majesty received the authorities, whom ho in vited to his table. The Duchess of Genoa arrived on the following day, when the manceavres commenced. A hostile army was supposed to attempt a surprise upon the tete du pont on the other side of the Po, not knowing that Casale was well garrisoned; but the attack was repelled. On the second day the opera tions were directed to a certain point of the river to prevent the enemy from crossing it. The manceavres are under the direction of the Duke of Genoa. STATE TRIALS IN TUSCANY. The Opinione of Turin, of the 14th, publishes the following letter, which was read in the sitting of the 9th of the Royal Court of Florence, in the matter of Guerrard and others. It had been addressed by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, when at Santo Stefano, to the diplomatic body, and the public prosecutor had obtained nappy of it from the British embassy. The letter is as Mows:— "The amber sf the Monitore Hweae, of the Bth of February, only mashed me last night. I have learnt from that amber that ea the above. meatless& da a Tuscan parelleirmel gerammemmg. oesaposed of , Ouernai , and Xrass4was Behed ; being lest proclaime d the plight is the Chamber of Deputise, and then pro s to and uaselleseuely approved by both Chambers. n the GSM parte that paper there are several things which I emir* fain ee inneeroot. What I acknowledge as true is the Win sea dmisistica I seat to Montanelli on the night MMe 7th, Weigh the Silas poet-Alec After what is ramtined is theft Assimmemb, It is useless to repeat here that the mem whisk homed ate to have Florence and Siena resulted from the seemeity I was in of defending the liberty of my vote in a matter of the highest importance, and front my desire set to leave the way open to fatal reactions. It I. twee Mss evident that I could not ex plicitly paint et the moment of my departure, the place of may without endangering the safety of my Wag eid kr from comfortable journey. But my formal intention not to leave Tuscany evidently multi from the letter I wrote to Montanelli; and, in fact, es long as I mom= at Santo Stefano, I outset be said to' have absta lay seantry. This locality appeared to me, on hada/ _Man, es being the moot eligible in point of security and beedma, which were guaranteed to me by a semi of H. B. M. navy, which, having been amiably offered to me, was anchored in this port. I have thought it my duty to inform the diplomatic body accredited in Tus cany, or which you are a member, of them circumstances, that you may communicate it, as I request you to do, to your government. lam convinced you will not enter into diplomatic relations with the provisional government esta blished at Florence, but that you will prefer keeping up year relations with me and my legitimate government, as yen have done hitherto to my great lathfaction. The pre sent letter shall be followed by an sot of retest, which I intend to publish shortly. I shall be to send you a copy of it. " Porto San Stefano, Feb. 11, 1849. (Signed) " Lioroxn." At the sitting of the 11th of the Ronal Omit of Flereses, in the case of Gasman' and others, the mosikeee while wee addressed to Europe in 1849 by the peer*lscall meverasteat of Tuscany was read ; after wbish Chinreisl woes and observed, that eines the prosecutor had ibeiled the margi sal notes to he read, shish occurred pieris be the demo nists relaMmte Me gem it was but right ChM the iambi enjoy the eine vilege ;he theauhre that the ogle *Sal be glad whieh was is rr a he esergin of Me desument now Indere the wart. The sleek Mingled, and reed the weeds : ap fat the handwriting of hlnelsealli" The sinkslsla, mined la the As mo. es ankle of the Minas Ifessilen of the 216 of March, let 9, was read, in Oldish the government adverted in severe terms lean nUmb beasisi is the this existing paps galled the Rappi•lsn, awl written , against the gemminses, awl ser la i r It owed it " to his vh rws=ear, mad to theisetho_blighlyglbsi writer " la goalies, ee men that °Maud had remand the expressiess eigested I. be Ms week entilMl liastoes moo& Chao or Italia. This _..,.ties assleed some inte rest arson/ tho hearers. No father iseibmt 41 WAS oc curred daring the remainder of the sitting. • GERMANY. ZOLLVEREIN. BERLIN, Bare. 17. The splitting d the Zoilvorein is here regarded by many people as accompli . . On the 15th inst. the tern ast ia the last Prussian declaration for re ceiving the sedition's reply, as sitting of the confer aise inn • seovened, the representatives of the scathes sides deelared that they had received no instruct:lam bat hoped to be furnished with such in a week's the. The ministers of the coalition go vernments are now assembled at Munich for the purpose of preparing their reply, having deferred, as it seems de signedl y, their deliberations till after the lath. Thepdoin government, however, knowing that the coalition has received instructions feta Austria again to give an evasive re ply, and to renew its demand for negotia- Wm with Austria simultaneous with the ne =for renewal of the Zollyerein, and seeing, , that no approach to a desirable settlement is being made, has resolved no longer to be a party to negotiations equally derogatory and futile. The Pruden government, oonsecrently, convoked this menu( only the representatives of Hanover, Olden amoserkk, and the Thuringian duchies, and deehrod to them that it will henceforth confer only with them on the formation of the &tare customs' union, and of course rigidly adhere to the sti pulations of the September treaty. This is, indeed, a momentous step. But its success mainly depends on the measures which may have been taken for securing the firm adherence of Hanover. It is to be hoped that M. von Mantouffel has given the Hanoverian government, as be has been repeatedly urged to do, a full guaranty that it shall not suffer any loss of revenue by the secession of the southern states, or, in other words, that he will waive the impolitic secret clause of the September treaty, whereby the bonus to Hanover of 75 per cent. in the sharing of the common customs' revenue was to be reduced, in the event of such secession, to about 25 per cent. The next step for Prussia is, however, l at once to come forward with a very considerably reduced tariff, which would secure the adherence of the Hanoverian people and counterbalance any appre hensions on the part of the court of Hanover about Matti Of f V 4 without the support of any other minor drmala the union with Prussia. Till each • re tariff is braised 'forward, the splitting of the in cannot be regarded u afait accompli, nor will Prussia have effectually saved itself from Am triab nets. An order of the day by the Czar, issued on the 7th, relieves the cavalry general Tchernyscheff of the duty of Minister of War, which he has performed for five-and•twenty years. The general will continue to discharge the functions of President of the Council of the Empire, whatever they may be, in this aristo cratic state. Prince 1)olgoroull► 1., a former adjutant of the war minister, is raised to the head of his de partment. Generals Berg I. and Ignatietf I. are named members of the Council of the Empire, and a long series of promotions takes place among the superior officers of tho army. CHINA. The following is from the Orerland Friend of Chitsa, of July 23 : His Excellency Buen, the Literary Chancellor of Kwangse, has mode the following report to the Emperor relative to the bad management of affairs and seizure of territory by the rebels in that pro vince. The report runs as follows: That in the 27th year of Tams-kwang (1847) Lny-tsae how made a disturhance i n Kwang-se, on which occasion many of his followers escaped punishment, and afterwards by the carelessness of the district officers, many good men were led to join the insurrection. The anger of his Imperial Majesty being then roused, be thought not of the expense but sent the great General Sae-shang-ah, to cut off the ribs* thiokiog by a single arrow (i.e., by the slightest movement of the army) to establish his authority. Bat on arriving in Kwang-se, Sae-shang-th could not continue a single scheme to overpower the rebels; undentandinp only how to deceive the court—one day he would report a victory, widen the next the rest merit ermine officer--411 of which was false. Yung pen-chow, in sizes mere ball, was encompassed by the rebels for several months, although above 100,000 sol diers were collected from all quarters to overpower them, yet, Instead of exterminating the rebels, they suffered them to march quietly away to Kwei lin too, which they imme diately attacked. The writer therefore humbly prays that the said great general for having deceived 11. 1. Majesty and involved the people in calamity by his mismanagement be dealt with according to law. On the arrival of the Lieut. G eeeee or Tsowminghoo, ho also proved utterly useless, for he kept his troops in encampment, and, listening to the words of the Censor Choceke, dui nothing but drill the troops in their camps, and so wasted the money of his county in vain. On the 16th day of the 2nd moon, the rebels marched from Yunggan, without any hindrance from the imperial troops. On the 26th day of the unto month they came to Yangu, and Pihsha, on the 27th they reached Luhtang, on the 28th Leangfung, and on the 29th they got to the pro vincial city Kweilinfoo, which they attacked for several days. Had it not bee n for the email of the commander in -chief, to the protection of all the gate', the provincial city would certainly have been taken possession of by the rebels.—The writer has been obliged to refer all this, pray ing that your Imperial Majesty will examine the affair. 113PESIAL 31HICHIPT IN REPLY TO THE *BOTH. In reference to the report of Lion, the Literary Chancel lor of Kwengse, on acoount of the gram mismanagement on the part of Sae-shantpali, and the loss of some territory through the carelessness of the Lieutenant-Governor Tsow ming-heo, I ought certainly to deal with them according to law. Chooke, the Censor, for advising such careless ma augment of the army, is ordered to be dismissed from his office ; and all those officers who have been meritoriously reported by Bee ehang-ah shall not be promoted for the present, but will be duly rewarded after the complete destruction of the rebels. The extermination of the rebels shall in future be under the direction of Chung„the governor of Haman and Boo pib, and Choi), the Commander in Chief of Roman. As for the great General Sae.Shang-ah, and the Lieutenant- Governor Tsow-ming-heo, they will be placed in the re spective camp., to try what they can do ; and if they will not exert their utmost strength to cut off the rebels they shall really be punished as they deserve, aad then it will be useless (or them to say they have not been duly warned. —ltespect this. CEYLON. (Wealth* Colombo Monthly Eraminer of Aug. 14.) The event of the month has been the opening of the council on the 4th instant by his Excellency Sir George Anderson. His Excellency's speech indicates a healthy state of the public finances. On the finan cial year 1851 there was a surplus of 20,0001. of revenue over expenditure; in the first quarter of the present year a surplus appears of 11,00 W., from which, by almost invariable rule, we expect the year's finuoe will meet all requirements without an overflowing treasury. The balances in the hands of public departments were in favour of government on the Ist July 00,0001. more than on the lat January, a statement, however correct, we ,consider most fallacious if supposed to indi este our financial position. On the strength of the surplus revenue, the cinnamon duties are about to be abolished under the usual ten months' notice. We hope it may achieve for the interests concerned in the production of the seice all that those who have agitated for the abolition expect. His Excellency gave the programme of a very extensive law reform ; a new Custom's Ordinance greatly needed, and a Bankruptcy Ordinance yet moro re quired, our last legislation in bankruptcy bearing date in 1836. His Excellency intimated the intention of substi tuting a moderate wharfage rate in lieu of port dues, which latter were to be abolished in order to en courage the resort of shipping to the port. The rates of wharfage which are published with the New Custom Ordinance aro found to be very immoderate, and will not only replace the port dues, but yield probably an income of 10,0001. The whole proceed ing is calculated to stir up the remonstrances of the trading community. Time before the departure of the mail will not permit of any demonstration, but there is no doubt the resistance to this new, and, when the facts are examined, injudicious tax, will be determined. A vote of 2,0001. will be asked for to complete the Gampolla and Yattiantotte Road not yet finished. The quarantine ordinance emaculated of the chief ruomatradatious of tho committee of investigation Ms bees brought forward. The supply ordinances are pee sued, and the usual hopes and wishes ex gruresd for the good effect of the deliberations of the couneil. _ _ The quarterly returns for the port of Colombo (says the Observer) enable us to predict with certainty that the crop of coffee, plantation and native, for the year ending 10th October next, will be the largest ever shipped from Ceylon, fully reaching, if it does not exceed, a total of 400,000 cwt. The brig Hebe was lost in a plc about the middle of the month. Ono life was lost, that of a seaman who volunteered to swim ashore with a rope. Tho cargo, chiefly cocoa-nut cil, was saved almost unin jured, and subsequently tho hull and tackling of the wrecked vessel were odd at good prices. Th ELECTORAL REVISION AT MANCHESTIIL-.. The business of the court of revision fee this borough was brought to a conclusion on Friday. As might have been anticipated the course adopted by the overseers of Chorlton upon-Medleek, by not transferring to the register the names of these composed householders who had not claimed to be rated was the cause of nearly all the claims for that town ship being struck off, very few of the claimants being in attendance. The number of claims for this township was 2,000, bat for the reason we have stated not more than 'sixty or seventy were substantiated. The total number of claims substantiated for the entire borough on the part of the Registration Amociation is 122 ; and on the part of the Independent Committee, the organ of the party which put forward Messrs. Loch and Denman so candidate- at the late election, 40; making the liberals gain 82. But it must be borne in mind that about 3,000 names have been added to the register by the overseers of Manchester, Hulme, and Ardwick, under the Compound Householders' Act, of whose polities there is no indication. The objections, amounting in all to 76, were made entirely on the part of the Registration Association, end the number sustained was 66 RINDSBIIRG AND 'DENNING RAILWAY.—The offi cial journal of Copenhagen publishes • royal decree, by which an English company is authorised to form a railway from ltendsburg, in Holstein, to Ensum, in Schleswig, and from Boum to 'Droning. The works ere to be concluded in two years. The concession is made for 100 years, but is to be confirmed in every new reign. REMARKABLE PROCEEDING IN JERSEY. The I Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey has issued circulars to the island constables to furnish a census of all foreigners end refugees in the island. This census must contain the names, residences, professions, and social +Wu' of such persons, whether they are married or single ; whether they hold passports, and if so, the date of them, and whether they are from their own countries; whether the foreigners are in the employ of any family, and whether such families are British subjects ; awl also whether the foreigners or re fugees are in lodgings or occupy houses. These circular have caused a great sensation and disapprobation, both in Jersey and Guernsey. The vice-consuls for Franco in the islands, who have always been natives or Englishmen, have been turned out, and Frenchmen have been appointed to emoted them. THE GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA, Port Phillip (Melbourne and Geelong) papers to the end of May notice with elation, the rapid strides the colony is making. The extensive properties of Messrs. Callan and Edols, at Geelong, were sold by public auction, and brought remarkably high prices, as a few items will show. A lot of 48 feet on Yarra street, depth 99 feet along Little Fyan's-street, 21. 2s. per foot; 65 feet on Maylop-street, nearly opposite the theatre, by depths of 78 and 90 feet, 111. per foot; 17 acres, 2 roods, 19 perches, fenced, with house, slaughter house, &c., adjoining the estate and mansion of J. F. Strechan, 3,2001. ; busi ness premises in Corio-etreet, 4,1001. In Melbourne property). valued at about 13 per cent. higher, eo that intending colonists may gather from the above, that good plots of ground are not a whit less valuable than English soil. The Govern ment Gazette of May 26th contains a notice, mating that it is intended to apply to the Legislative Council for an act to incorporate a company to be known as the Melbourne and Mount Alexander Railway Com pany, the association to be invested with lull powers to borrow money, and acquire and hold 'awls, and compulsorily purchase the same for the purpo,e of eoostructing the railroad. The anti-transisa tation movement is not overlooked: the agitation, indeed, is stronger than ever, and there appears to be but ono feeling in the colony on the subject. The Legis lative Council of Victoria has reiterated the desire of the colonists that convict importation shall cease. The petition agreed to at a monster meeting held at Melbourne on April 2nd was couched in the most determined language, going so far as to declare that should the imperial government persist in forcing con victs on the new colony through Vin Diernen's Land it must inevitably drive them to seek refuge Iran such heartless tyranny and oppression in nattunal in dependence. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. ..... Accounts received to the end of May notice the unabated feeling of the free colonists against the continuance of the transportation system. It is noticed in the Launceston Chronicle that the quantity of land in preparation this year fur cultivation is considerably less than that of former years. The gold fields have attracted so many of the lahouting classes from their ordinary occupations that !he farmers have, in numerous instances, followed their uncertain and hazardous track. In the interior desertions are daily taking place. All who can seem bent on making the experiment to get rich. The remaining population will reap a reward more certainly by following the plough and scattering, the seed. Larger demands will be made up 'II this colony than were ever before known. The Le,gis:a turn was further prorogued to the lsth gbe court. BALMORAL, CELT. 17. Her Majesty and Prince Albert remained at the Shiel of Aut ns Giutheach yesterday moraine, the lion. Mary Seymour being in attendance on her Majesty. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred went yesterday to liirkhall and the Linn of Muick, attended by Mr. Gibbs. The express conveying the news of the death of the liske of Wellington reached her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday afternoon, when on an expedition to the Dbu Loch, west of Lech Muick, which place they had reached from Aut na Guithsach. tier Majesty and his Royal High ' nen were deeply grieved at the receipt the mournful intelligence, and immediately returned home. Orders were immediately given fur countermanding all invitations to the Castle. The Countess of Desart has left Delmore', and been sue. ceded in her duties u lady in waiting W her 1114isty by the Viacountese Jocelyn. Despatches were received at the Colonial.ofiee on Satur day, from the Governors of Hong Kona, Ceylon, the Mau ritius, Labuan, Malta, and from the Lard High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches were sent off on Saturday to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong Kong, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF OXFORD. OXFORD, SEFf. IS. The names of several distinguished noblemen bare been mentioned in reference to the important o:fico of chancellor of this university, now vacant by tho death of his Grace the Duke of Wellington. Amongst them are the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Devon (High Steward), the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Car lisle, and the Marquis of Blandford ; but from what transpired at a meeting at Oriel College on Friday, Lord Derby's friends quite expect that a contest will be avoided. The Duke of Newcastle has many supporters. At that meeting the Ilishap of Oxford was present, and a feeling was manifested in favour of Lord Derby, as the most eligible candidate. Of course the friends of the Duke of Newcastle do not agree in this. The resident members of convocation favourable to Lord Derby have adopted a similar proceeding to that adopted on the decease of Lord Grenville in 1834. On that occasion a declaration was issued, numerously signed, beaded by the venerable Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen College, in favour of the immediate nomi nation of the Duke of Wellington, which no doubt had the effect of preventing a contest. A declaration hjust issued, headed by the same divine, may probably ave a similar effect in this instance to that obtained on the last. During long vacation but few members of convocation are resident in Oxford, and this is the reason assigned for the short list of names appended to the declaration in favour of Lord Derby. The election will take place early in next term, which commences on the 10th of October. The pre sent Vice-Chancellor would in the ordinary course of events resign his office a few days before term. Pro vision, however, is made by the statutes of the uni versity for his continuance in office until a chancellor is elected—a chancellor being indispensable for the appointment of a new vice-chancellor. The Rev. R. L. Cotton, DM., Provost of Worcester College, is to be the sew occupant of the latter post. iATION OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS. Mr. Stuart'. acceptance of the Vice-Chancellorship having created a vacancy in the representation of this borough, and Mr. B. H. Banbury, the late member, having declined to contest the borough, an invitation was sent to J. A. Hardcastle, Esq., the late member for Colchester, and that gentleman has accepted the invitation, and has rowed an address to the voters of Bury. Mr. Llardcastle on Thursday morning commenced an active canvass, ac• companied by the leading members of the whig party, and was well received by the liberal electors. From the well known liberal principles of the hon. gentleman, and his not being a stranger to the town (he having been educated at King Edward's Grammar School), it is expected that the comuig contest will be very close, the last election having been—in spite of all the influence used by Mr. Stuart's friends—lost by only nine votes. Mr. J. H. I'. Oakes (son of a banker in the town), is the Derbyite candidate. PROGRESS OF COTTON MANUFACTURES. --- The 'prosperity which has attended the cotton manwhieturea during the last three or four years has, very naturally, given an impulse to their extension. Mr. Leonard Homer, the inspector of factories, states, in his report of November last, that up to that time 81 new factories had been built or set to work in the course of the year (that up to October 31st, 1861) in the district of which Man chester is the capital. These establishments employed steam power equal to 2,240 horses; beside which there had been an enlargement of mills within the same period to the extent of 1,477 horse power. The total increase of steam power within that single year was therefore equal to 3,717 horse power, and calculated to give employment to about 14,000 additional workpeople. "That the profits of fac tories continued, on the average of years, to be abundantly remunerative," Mr. Horner thought, " these facts of the in vestment of fresh capital in them abundantly proved." Since then capital has become still more abundant, whilst the means of otherwise profitably investing it have probably somewhat decreased, and that the building of factories is on the increase will not therefore be a matter of surprise. The following details will be found of interest, as at least afford ing a goad indication of the progress which is making. Tut: New Puwct Fore AUSTRALIA.—On Satur day orders were received by the superintendents of the various divisions of the metropolitan police, from the com missioners, to inform the men that six would be selected from those in each division who wished to become candi • elates for the service in Australia. There are seventeei divisions, and the number thus formed will consist of picked men, not above five years in the police, end presumed to be well acquainted with their duties. Each man will under take to remain five years, or incur the penalty of .501. ; pay, 7s. fhb, per day ; passage and all expenses paid. PROLIFIC WILEAT.—A gentleman at Monte has favoured us with a sample of wheat grown upon his Lam, a single grain of which produced 72 lull grown items, rJe tuning 2,862 grains. In addition to the above th,re were 13 stems which had not come to maturity.-11',3 C +math Independent.