The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

Osman was a good one, but he was afraid they would not legislate effectually on that point in that house. (Laughter.) O. GREY said that the crime of conspiracy was in eluded in the bill. Mr. HUME advocated the °Sloe of a public prosecutor, gad said he thought the time had come for such an appoint ment in this country. After a few words from Mr. DZEDIES, the bill was Pass ed ' AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BILL. . _ . Postponed WI the ;Or May. S'FAMP DUTIES ASSIMILATION BILL. The above bill Iw•xd through committee, and was re ported. THE PROPERTY TAX DILL. Second reading postponed to Monday, the 28th inst. SALE OF ARSENIC DILL. Read a second time. EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL. Passed through committee. INHF.MNITY DILL; Paned through Cee - n — niitec,ane was reported. ADVLILTISINti VANS, AND °TILER. STREET NUISANCES. Col. SIBTIIORP moved for a copy of the instructions 'Seen by the commissioner% of the police to the police officers, relative to the preventing obstructions and other nuitances caused by the large travelling barrel-organs and advertising ...ens in and about the metropolis. The Isom. and gallant member, after referring to his former question to the right Loon. gentleman when he had thought it his duty to bring the subject under his attention, quoted from the copy of ss letter he held in his hand, which had been tent to him, and which he remembered seeing in the rimes some time ago, relating the circumstance of a gentleman having been thrown out of hi. gig when driv ing along the Strand, ley one of these advertising van.: in conmequence of winch he became extremely ill. 'rho other night he had endeavoured to call the attention of the governew nt to this subject generally, with the view of abating intolerable nuisances of this kind, and when be mentioned the subject to the right honourable gentleman he found him extremely anxious, as he always was to du whateser lie could, to correct any museums and evils in this metropolis. (Meer, h e ar.) At that time the right hon. gentleman had stated that an order had been gisdn to the Olt the 21st March, rela tive- to this matter, is answer to which a letter which had been sent by order of the police commissioner., elated Whitehall, March :21, intimating that " the police had no authority to present playing music in the streets." And yet the right hon. gentleman had said in his epee eh that purh an orate keel been given, and the letter he had ro was dated six days eubsespient to the right hon. Lemuel's botitit.stion. Sir li. GREY could assure the hon. and gallant gentle- Sian that he wan very d , sirou., consistent with the law, to rannro any of the obstructions complained of. Wilk Il• the letter of the _lst of March, be (Sir 0. G▪ re coold state that the apparent difference between the letter and the stab molt he hail male uro , e thus : It had la, es stated in the neveppfspe re that he (Sir G. Grey) bad and that °niers heel been given to put a stop to al street nuisineve-, whereas he had said that may servant, owner, or 04-copier of property resold complain of any nuisance to the parties, and if they refused to remove them, they eOlll4l male a complaint to the police, who would in terfere if it were a ease within the law. The order of the 21st of Merck was not an onler to prohibit all street nui sance., but to prohibit and order the removal of all such obstructiow nts ae were thingennin or ob structise to the thoroughfare.. Ile had no o b jections to the 'return asked. Mr. BRO'rIIERTON hail hail complaint. made to him of the into rborenet of the hon. and gallant otlirer reganling street name , . If the loot. tool t:.‘ll tot uffirer (Cutout I Sib thorp) resod raj.) Ow tool,. they t lean:lit that he should not latorfere a ith the injoyments of the poor, for Street Maxie was un enjey me nt to lies paw aithuut it le ing a nui.snee to any .011... 110 . (Mr. Broth, eta's) was glad to bear that the nght hon. hap meet (Sir 11. Grey) had n o t given order. for the le moval of all street nuisance., but he (Mr. Bru shertoon) lenevosl that the police hail been more anise titan they ought to have le en, a n d the pour ought not to be deprived of the.e enjoyments which the hon. and gallant officer could afford to pay foe at the opera-house. (Laughter.) co o l. SI ISIIIGRP bail no doesn't that the hon. member (Mr. Brothertoo) lead received complaint. on the subject, an d i n • might orris e m an y more, I.ut lie (Col. Sibthorps plimaired him that he would lin 7°4.4 in doing his duty ill Order that the inhabitant , might be secured frum danger to their live'. (laughter.) The return was ordered. l'Otelts• RATE AItILEAILS —IRELAND. Mr. 1111i(i1Nh moved for a return of the: MIMS due for poor rate a : , to mill for the let el iy of April last, in the union of Castlehor ; distinguishing the names of the parties ing the at.ti the ..... unt den by each, not only of the rate lea struck, but 460 of the arrears. The return was unlvred. ST. ALBANS F.LECTTON. Mr. AGI.IGNIIV prtsentell a petition to the house (the purport of which did not transpire), eon la half ed . litany I:11mMs. Ile moved that it be printed with the votes and taken into cobeideration tomorrow or rather this day, at Sae o'clock. The motion having been agreed to, the house adjourned at one Velma. Vbe Court. The Queen le 111 a 'Court and Privy Council at 3 O'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckinghlun l'alace. At the court tin Arelthi-liop of Canterbury hail an audi tor• of the queen, and pftscutcal an aililnws to her Majesty Ca (hurrh , 'tension. Mr. William Page Wood, Solicitor-G.nrral, was pre wilted to 'lie duce o at 311 audience hr the Right llon. Sir George Grey, ti.C.ll„ her Ilajoity•s principal Siwretary of State fur the llono Department, and hail the honour of knighthood ...Infernal upon hint by her Majesty. Mr. C a.' Jame. 'turner was prconti dto her Majesty at an audi.-ue•c..m hi. appointment as Vice-Chancellor, by Secretary sir George Grey. The Vice-Chancellor received from the Ilueen the honour Of knighthood. The Privy Council was attended by Prince Albert, the Lord (loin ellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secre taries of State for the Ilione, Foreign, and Colonial De partments. the President of the Board of Control fur the Affairs of 1111“.1. the I•ll.liicelli.r of the Duchy of Lunerter, the Lord St: wand, end the Lord Chamberbun. Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, and Sir George Jame. Turner, Vbs.-Chancellor, were by command of the Queen sworn of her Nlayesty's most honourable Privy Council, and took their places ut the board. The lion. V.. Bathurst w as the clerk of the council in waiting. The Qui im gave audiences to Sir George Circe and Lord John Itusw 11. The court was attended by the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain. the Marquis of An glesey, gold stick in waiting; the Earl of I.istowel, lord in waiting ; Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edward Bowater, groom in wait ing, and Col .1 Wylde, groom in waiting to Prince Albert. Prince Albert received the foreign commioioni rs for the Exhibition of IS.II at Buckinglianepalare yesterday at four o'clock. Ilia Royal Highness was attended by Colonel Wylde and Colonel the Ilou. C. piny. he commissioners were iwserully intnaluevil to Ibis Royal Hightails. by Earl Granville. The commioioners prewentirl were: IM.Salland rouse de Lamornaix, Commissaire Woieral du fiouverneruent Francin , ; Mr. 7.111111.311, CIIM0111.1111: 111:TU11111k' Cl ll'Egyprt lb. Charles Cowlick, Chairman of the Austrian Committie, and Dr. William Schwarz. Austrian Commissioner ; Baron Stein, t'ionmissaire des Zollveriens; M. I'. Kamensky, Commiraire Rowe; Mr. Edward Itinnle, United States Conamissi ttttt and Mr. John R. St. J,'hn, United States ; Senor. Itain.m de Echevarria, Ramon de la Sacra, and Isaac th. Villanueva, Spanish Commissioners; Mr. F. G. Camp and M. U. Gossocus, Cosomissaires de Ronan& ; Mr. C. Cuvlits, l'ommissaire Beige ; M. Gustave Doerstling and Dr. Nt. S. ylfarth, L1..11., Royal Saxon Commissioners ; M. Schiennimer and M. C. Ilranil,Commissaires du Gouverne =mit Wortemberg ; M. Roessler, Commissaire pour he Grand Melo , do Dere; Chevalier Li:twist', Cummissaire Datreonlinuire de ha Sardaigne ; Professor l'h. Corriili, Commissaire du Gouvernement Torun Profiwsor Dr. Bailey. C mioaire de lu ConVaration Suisse ;M. P. (Rapt. Commis...lire de firke; Ilamila Elmeaddcm, l'ro- Cominissaire tie Tunis ; and Mows Santillana, Interprke Su l'ionmissaire Tunisien ; and M. L. l'iglhein, Commit- Balm de Ilambourg. The Prince of Wales, the Triflers' Royal, and the younger nivaihers of the Royal Family, took their usual pony anil walking exercise yesterday in thy gardens of Buckingham l'idsuo. Prince Albert. attended by Lieut.-Col. lion. A. Gordon, rode out on horseback yesterday morning. 'Phe rtsval dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace ineludedihe Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance krelll/11 Goner, the Earl mid Counter of Mulgrave, Vis count and iwountess Palmerston, Lord Ileyteshury, and Scar-Admiral Bowles. A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Corn- I =1%40D for the Exhibition of 1811, was held yesterday ut the Hoard of Trade. There were present: Earl Granville, Lord Overstone, Sir A Spearman. Ban., Mr. l'eto, :SI.P., Kr. Cuba', Col. Rend and Mr. Itowring (secretary). Mr. John W9od, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue. :Intl Mr. 'Fount, had an interview yesterday with the Commissioners of Railways, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exche quer at his official residence in Downing-street. The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission had • meeting yesterday at the Board of Trade. Present :—Earl Granville (chairman), lion. W. Cowper, M .1' ~ Sir James Gordon, K.C.11., Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., Captain Stephen.on Ellerhy, and Lord Hobart (secretary). Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue, and Mr. Pressly, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and also K the Governor of Sierra Leone. Tne yew CLIPPER Snirene, dm beautiful vessel arrived in the Mersey from Aber deen, wherein was built. She is intended for the China trade, and dumb of comparatively small tonnage, lIIP2MIT- Iag only 4Nf. m she forms a splendid contrast with the AlllefiCSl2 built ship the Typhoon, lately arrived in Liver- owl. On her arrival opposite th., landing stage, the ebryeolite dropped anchor, and attracted the admiration of crowds of spectators by the beauty of her form, and her Mayans and man-of-war like appearance. She is ship- Tigged, her tall and tapering spars slightly raking aft. and to altogether a superior specimen of the skill of the Aberdeen ehrtimddere. THE ART JOURNAL end ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE- —ALVEMTISZAIVITS for Ispertion in the MAY ro . i . o c !zta m i t x . :; ,..,, : iE ha g i zzig:d p c a l i rrlated c Z;lS l Ltr adidiLelrrib Cite vrarctoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Second E :Non •f " The Express." detaining the mherening's 't G.irette," pub.i.bol tile, Tuesday anJ Friday nit, in nine foe poet. Adveitisersents intended for "The Express," London Evening paper, must bee' the *oboe, 10, 800, fl.. by Two o'clock as the day of publication. DIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TM, IMT —Norma& lb. 235. AftlTlo3ll, lb. 44111. To•r.►msw—Mormiml, lb. Tot Afterasao, sk. am. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 15. BISHOP Pittu.rorrs has again this year, as he did last, disturbed the repcse and humiliation of Passion Week by a monster letter of discord, addressed to his clergy. lie therein denies the royal supremacy in matters ecclesiastical, as held and accepted by all our great jurists and worthiest divines; therein he practically repudiates the statute of Kiug WILLIAM that abo lished the Court of Delegates and tiunderreil its ap pellate functions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; therein he announces his intention of refusing institution to benefices in the see of Exeter of all clergymen holding opinions similar to those of Mr. Goanam, on baptism, though the law of the land has decided that they are entitled to such institution ; therein he charges against the Primate of the church of England the deliberate and wilful inculcation of doctrines that are heretical; therein lie declares " popular protestantism" to be " far more pernicious than Romanism itself ;" therein he censures the efforts (feeble enough, it must be confessed) of the episcopal bench to bring about ritual conformity, and so cloak and conceal doctrinal diversity ; and, as if all this were not outrage enough on the law, the religion, and the peace of the realm, therein he states his determination to hold a synod of his clergy, therein he summons such synod to meet in the cathedral church of Exeter, therein he lays down rules for the election of clergy to constitute the synod, and therein he proclaims thut no definite resolution of such synod can be adopted without his episcopal coneurreiite. Such is the preparation of this unruly, ambitious, and intolerant prelate for the celebration of Easter, MM. At the very time the QUEEN has recom mended to the Episcopate of the English church, that it shall allay dissensions and (-impose strife therein, the Bishop of MEIER declares that he will violate the law of the land, make his cfniscienee over ride the judgment of the ultimate Court of Appeal in ecclesiastical affairs, and will exercise an authority unknown at any time of our history to the Bishops of the church of Englatil This announcement brings natters to a crisis between the Crown of England and Dr. l'ufm.rous. For, if he can, of his episcopal authority, and by a power in his episcopal character of which the constitutions of this kingdom contain no trace, cull together a synod of his clergy, then it is obvious that there is an ecclesiastical power in the church of England above the laws of the land—then it is clear that the QUEEN is not, in ordi- nary acceptation of jurists and in natural signification of the words, the head of the church of England. Then it is must certain that the bishops and clergy of that church have au authority and possess a jurisdiction practically irresponsible. The principle that runs through and directs and governs Bishop l'im.i.rorr's letter to his clergy, and this propcsation to hold a synod, is simply rebellion --rebellion clothed in antiquarian research, and draped in pretensions of ecclesiastical freedom; but nut the less rebellious in principle because advanced in the narue of religion, and on behalf of what is called the liberty of the church. The royal prero gative over the church of Englund—the supremacy of the sovereigns of this realm in affairs ceelesian tical—is, rightly and properly and philosophically considered, one of the must precious inheritances of the people of England, and will continue so as lung us they have a state church. It is with such a church their bulwark and mainstay against the spirit of priestcraft, the intolerance of church men, and the supernatural pretensions of ecclesias tical organization. It was founded, or rather it grew, and was consolidated, to resist and keep within bounds those monstrous claims over the minds, the intellect, and the consciences of men, which have characterised priestcraft in all ages; it was re-asserted and made more predominant than ever at the Reformation in this kingdom, in order the more effectually to guard and protect the com munity in all times to come from the tyranny, am bition, and error then overthrown ; it was then especially developed, for the purpose of re straining episcopal ambition and synodical autho rity; it slumbered as an unmeaning phrase whilst the church of England was humble and obedient; but now that pride and haughtiness and priesteraft have again entered into that church, the Royal MI.. premavy is once more a great and a living popular symbol—the formula and expression of religious hberty—the outward and visible sign of freedom of conscience and the exercise of individual thought — the T of all that " popular protestantism " which, in the opinion of Bishop Puttcrorrs, "is fur more prejudicial than Itomanion," because it liberates us from priestly pretensions, whilst Romanism en slaves us to church domination. It is in this sense that the Royal supremacy has been accepted by all our great authorities. Listen, for example, to the raiiwiale given of it by Sir MtenaEt. Fosrea, in the inestimable criticism to which, at the suggestion of Lord Chancellor llattnmess, he subjected the pre sumptuous learning and the sacerdotal pretensions of Bishop GIBSON'S " Codex :" I may venture to affirm, that the divine right appropriated to eceleseutics is the cursed rout of bitterness whence the papal supremacy sprung. And if a principle of the right of jurisdiction anderned from the civil magistrate doth not always lead to the popery of the Church of Rome, it leads to a state of things equally mischievous and more absurd-1 mean a popery at our own doors. Our ancestors at and about the Relormation bad this notion of the matter ; and therefore they did not content themselves with barely abol- Wang the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome ; but went to the rout of the evil, and declared that all jurisdiction, as well ecclesiastical as civil, is vested in and delegated from the Crown. This supremacy, like all other prerogatives of the English crown, is, of course, limited by law; it does not pretend of its own mere force and notion to ail or alter the articles of the church, to vary its services, or to settle dogmatically controversies; its design and object is to preserve what has been ar ranged, to maintain order, to protect existing rights, and to repel ecclesiastical aggressions. Though ap parently rarely exercised, it is nevertheless m con- stunt operation ; for it is a perpetual restraint on the deliberations of the clergy. It is expressly laid down, in the " Royal Declaration" prefixed to the "Articles of Religion," that convocation itself has no authority to deliberate, except on the license of the crown under the broad seal previously obtained, and that subscription to the articles is to be accepted as proof " that none intend any desertion of the articles aforesaid." If then the highest assembly of the clergy cannot deliberate without the royal licence, how much less can any inferior assembly have the power to do so? If the . primates cannot call the convocations of their provinces together for the purpose of deliberating, by what authority can Dr. PititLeurrs call an assembly of the clergy of his diocese? Mark, too, the purpose for which 'he has summoned a synod. It is to supersede, annul, and render void the other great principle just mentioned; it is to reject subscription of the articles as evidence of ecclesiastical devotion to the church; it is to im port into the church the doctrine that the will and whim and caprice of each bishop is to supersede such subscription ; it is to nullify the royal declaration that subscription is a proof "that uone intend deser tion of the articles aforesaid;" and so to place the clergy of the kingdom at the mercy of its episcopacy. All other parts of this letter, all its other offences, all the bishops intemperate language, his remorse less slanders of Archbishop SunsEa, his vile impu tations against that venerated prelate, his coarser invective against Archbishop Mesos.ave, his crafty patronage of Bishop . Btomristu, his insolent repudi- Mims of protestantism, his wily defence of excessive ritualism, his preposterous—though, for his own pur poses, his logical—claim for the church of England of all the forms and usages of the church before the Reformation, not then specifically condemned and purged away—all these, each scandal enough to bear down any other prelate, !sink into insignifi cance compared with the audacity of his summons I to his clergy to meet him in synod without the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1851. license of the Crown. Here at once he comes into collision with the state ; here he is at issue with the royal prerogative ; here he is aiming at giving a , practical, effective, real action to the pnneiples he has only before propounded in words ; here he seeks at I obtaining from his clergy an assent to opinions, ! which assent, when obtained, he means to apply in justification, not merely of restricting the spiritual freedom of all the clergy in his diocese, but of cur tailing the rights of patrons in dealing with the tem . porul affairs and property of the church. lie is, in short, trying to do in the established church that ' which Cardinal WISEMAN has not yet dared to attemptinhisvoluntarychurch. Willtheerownsubmit to so flagrant an attack on its prerogative as this? An attack, too, for which Bishop PIIILLPOTTS with all his research can produce no authority, for which he has no precedent, on behalf of which the utmost that he can say is, that Bishop IiALL thought dioce san synods " ht and desirable," and that Dr. THOMAS JACKSON, in the reign of JAMES 1., " remembered with y of heart the synods of the clergy in which he was bred." Forgetful, however, that the church itself, in convocations of both provinces, only a few years after JACKSON wrote, repudiated, in the canons of 1640, this very right of calling svnods, as the following passage from the first canon abundantly shows: The power to call and dissolve councils both national and provincial is the true right of all Christian kings within their own tcrr tories. And, when in the tint tintec of Christ's church prelates used this power, 'twas therefore only because in those days they had no Christian king. And it was then so only used is times of perseeution, with suppo sition (in case it were required) of submitting their Wry VMS to the very laws and commands even of those pagan princes that they might not so much as seem to disturb these civil government, which Christ came to confirm, but by no means to undermine. This is both the law of the church and the law of the land. The QUEEN, and the quEEN alone (her Ma jesty being, we suppose, even Bishop PitiLLevers will allow, a Christian sovereign) has power, and au thority, and jurisdiction in tins realm to call synods of the church either in its provinces or its dioceses. And, when Dr. PitaLeorrs states that he has sum moned a is nod of his clergy to assemble in the Cathedral of Exeter, there to protest against the law of the land as administered by the QUEEN herself on recommendation of the Judicial Committee of her Privy Council in the Goitictst cose— , there also to de ' liberate on "other matters whether affecting the church at large or our own diocese in particular,"— lie hats announced a breach on his part of the royal prerogative so flagrant and audacious as cannot be endured; he has called together an assembly so illegal as to require the intervention of the police for its dispersal. SENHOR BRAVO MURILLO has certainly a fair excuse to present to those very justly discontented holders of the public debt of Spain, who resisted the offers lately made to them as insufficient and dis honest. Ile and his administration have just been very nearly overthrown by the parties in opposition, which objected to his scheme as Mr too favourable to the foreign creditor. It is unpopular in Spain, it appears, at least in political circles, to pay the foreign debt at all. And of course such honest financiers as Senhor Moc are ready to make politi cal capital out of repudiation, mid oust the minis try for having dared to propose any thing in the way of a proposal for settling the debt. this is very disgraceful on the isirt of MON, whose principle seems to be that there shall be no financial operation except such us he is allowed to finger. At whatever unfair or unfavourable terms BRAY° MURILLO proposed to pay the interest on the debt,' and however repudiating his proposition of the out• standing interest, still he made no selection of con tractors or 'special holders of any particular kind of debt to favour, es Senhor MON did in the creation of his Three per Cents. Ihetvo Mumma:is scheme of adjourning the payment of the Three per Cents. to future years and throwing the Coupons overboard almost altogether—this, however unsatisfactory to the creditor, was evidently more than the old packed Cortes would tolerate. The military and the floc parties united to defeat it, and throw out the ministry along with it. But this has led to the very best nsult, a dissolution of the Cortes. Spain will now have the opportunity of returning a body of representatives who shall truly express the feelings of the country. The military party, which presided over the lust elections, and intimidated the citizens to elect the goverioneut candidates, is now out of power. And although the army and Senhor BRAVO Mulatto arc Moderados, they are not of the old dietat sial school. There does not reign that fear of insurrection and disorder, which prevails in France, to throw the electors and the elected of that country into one of two extremes. There is room 1 and there is calm in Spain to permit of the wen dancy of a really moderate and liberal party, which shall obliterate and übsorbthe old and now idle distinc tion of Modreado and Era Ma". When NARVA kr/. him -1 self for sonic time before he fell,was very willing tohave allied with the Exaltados, could that party, so many of whose eminent men he bud proscribed mid even executed, have forgiven him, there can be no harrier towards a fusion of parties, should the result of a general election render it favourable. It would be too much to hope for great progress in commercial liberalism, as well in political progress, from the next election. The very advances which the towns and districts of Spain have made of lute Tenn' have still left some one or two, or at most a knot of capitalists, lords each of his district. In no country have the aristocracy of wealth so completely taken the place of the aristocracy of birth as in Spain. And the influence of the one great merchant, the one great landowner, is irresistibly predo minant. Such a government as that of 'NARVAEZ might silence or neutralise the few of these magnates that were liberal or hostile. In most eases, he allied with them, and favoured them. And we need not say that one of their demands has been, and will be, commercial monopoly. No free trade, no British cotton, no English iron, will be, as it has been, their cry ; and how fur the influence of government and of more enlightened statesmen will be able to overcome such interested retrogradism is more subject of anxiety than of hope. One cir cumstance indeed is good, that the stupid predos miumwe which France has hitherto exerted over Spanish councils must be much diminished; and such questions as those which Mr. Ax nEnsos urges for the doing away with the differential duties so unjust to English shipping, or that the bondholders, with the aid of our foreign secretary, may urge for a fair settlement of their claims,—these will find in future governments a I inure favourable car than in past ones. Spain, too, may stand in need of foreign aid. Her hold of Cuba is manifestly insecure. To keep there an amount of military force at all times capable of defending it were merely to consume its resources, and cat up a fruitful source of revenue. It would be 1 more efficient and economic to depend for its safety on a combination of foreign powers, guaranteeing it to Spain. In return for which Spain must at least act honestly by the subjects of those powers, who in past times lent Spain and its constitutional govern ment and dynasty their money. We should be sorry indeed to see an English am bassador interfering, identifying himself with any party, or lending his support to any . mi nistry. Spain is out of such leading-strings. But we may expect more advantages here after from the legitimate exercise of diplomatic influence. We are glad to see that since the retire ment of NARTAEZ, we have heard less and less of the private doings and intrigues of the court. I'revious to the general's fall, we had the QUEEN, and the QUEEN MOTH ER, and the KING CONSORT dragged forth every week before the public as the actors in some sorry squabble or discreditable plot. Since con stitutional government has become more a reality, r all this has disappeared, the scene of the great litical drama being transferred, as is right, the saloons of the palace to the halls of the Cortes. There was a spice, indeed, of the old in trigues, in the opposition of Senhor Most, and the defection of Senhor NEGRETE, one of the cabinet. But the prompt resolution which dismissed him mid dissolved the Cortes shows, that there are civilians still in Spain who can unravel the Gordian knot of politics without the sword, and crush intrigue with out brutality or bloodshed. LEITH DISTRICT OF BURGHS. —Tho Lord Adro- Tate Monereiff, Esq.) delivered addresses on Thursday and }rids,. last to the electors of Leith, Newhaven, Mus selburgh, and Portobello, in explanation of his political sentiments; and resolutions to the effect that his lordship was a fit and proper person to represent the constituency in parliament were adopted at all the meetings. No other candidate has taken the field, although Mr. John Mitchell, the Belgian consul at Leith, bas hinted that he has some ' intention of coming forwald. REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. From Lisbon, we learn by the Tay, that a revolu tion had broken out in Portugal, headed by Sal danha, who was in command of about five thousand troops. The government troops were in pursuit of him. The Bntish squadron, which was about to sail, had been detained, at the urgent request of the Portuguese government. The revolution had arisen for the purpose of putting down the government of Cabral. Our correspondent writes as follows: LISBON, Aram 9. The revolt has taken place. Saldanha went to Mafra, where the regiment there stationed immediately joined him, the troops at St. Übes making a corresponding movement, and placing themselves in march for Santarem, with the accession of the troops from Leiria. Clovernment are at their wits-end, the Queen obstinately persisting in supporting the Count de Thomar come what may. The municipal guard, it is supposed, can relied on, but it is determined to send troops to Santarem to encounter the revolters, and the King is to try his hand in the strife, as it is said he is to command the Queen's army. Bank notes are already 7) per cent. discount, with something like a panic attached to everything. There seems as deep-rooted a feel ing against the Queen as against the Count de Thomar, and I feel persuaded that if the Qu_en remains tsventy-four hours in her obstinate humour the revolters will acc..pt of uo terms which arc not accompanied by her abdication. Another letter of the 9th says : It is said that the 4th cavalry at Santarem refused to join Saldauha, and were marching to Lisbon. It is also reported that the 11th infantry at Etrenos and the sth cavalry at Elora, had revolted, and were marching to join Saldanha at Santarem, but nothing certain is known. After a cabinet counsel had been convoked, the council of state was assem bled. The chambers have been prorogued till the 2nd of June. Two corps of infantry, with one of Cacadores, em barked in steamers to land at Villa Nova, to march upon Santarem. The king mnsort, with all his staff, as well a , the Duke de Terceira, left at the saute time; and a corps of horse artillery took the road to Santarem. It is impossible to say how the affair will end, but great hopes are enter tained that the influence of tho king-comort will bring it to an end without bloodshed. It is extraordinary that the people witness all these move ments of troops with a total apathy, only lamenting the mi,fortunes brought upon the country. It is supposed the guarantees will be immediately suspended. The friends of Sahlanha,knowing his rharteter,seent not to sympathise with the movement, remembering how a similar one ended in 1837. _ Many reports arc afloat respecting the troops at Oporto, but nothing positive is know. SPAIN. MADRID, Arlin. 9. Many of the deputies are on the point of quitting Madrid to canvass their constituencies, with a view to re-election. The Marquis of Mirattorcs is spoken of as likely to succeed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Castillo y Aycusa is on the point of quitting for Rome. FRANCE. PARIS, Momnay EVENING. The Assembly has already, de./itch', entered on its vacation, the benches being mostly empty, and the business of no importance. The prospective pause has caused a corresponding abatement in the Lien mony with which the orhinet des riyorcitx has been assailed b y the legitimists and socialists. M. Faucher, on taking possession of his post, im mcditely issued a manifesto, stimulating the prekets to be on the alert, and not to spare the iod towards the demagogic party. The new Minister of the In terior was seen at the lust sitting to shake lauds with Changaruier, an event which, seriously, gave a lift of seventh centimes to the ltentes. The ministers of transition seem in general as con tented to resign their thorny seats as the country mouse was to get away from the city feast hack to his uuiet hole. M. de ltuyer is no sooner reinstated in his dignity of Pro cureur-general of the Court of Appeal than his old announcements of reception , eights reappear in the legal organ, heat. M. de Crouseilhes, the TICW Minister of Public Instruction, seems to stand the shock of the severe attacks made on him by the Opinion Pahlire with firmness; but,. henceforth, having voted agamst the censure of the Pith Jan. and for the dotation, and, lastly, accepted office in the teeth of the violent legitimist oppositior, he tan no longer be considered as retaining a vestige of sympathy with his former party. The liactio de Paris propounds, as a feeler, a scheme for convoking an extraordinary session of the municipal councils before May 15 to decide whether the constitution ought to be revised or not. A plain " Yes" or " No" on this question, without mention of the prolongation of the President's powers, is to be the object of the meetings. The semi-official organ of the Elysee infers, from the enormous majority which would decide in the affirmative, that the revi sion might then be undertaken without scruple by a simple majority in the Assembly. The opening of the holy Week was solemnised yesterday at Notre Dame with the accustomed pomp, by the Archbishop of l'aris; and the ancient ?cliques of the true the crown of thorns. and nails, cross, were eurtied in procession. All houses, omnibuses, and stalk were adorned with sprig* of box, which replaces in the north the symbolic palm. In the south the olive is used. ....-- M. de Genniny is reinstalled in his former office of ltet,eiver-(knend of the Seine Inferieure. M. Duelere, formerly a republican, and close friend of the National, now a Bonapartist, is spoken of as the candidate to be supported by the govern ment fur the Landes, in the elections ut• the 11th of April. General Darrieu will take the field against him on the parliamentary side. A census of cattle is ordered in each commune throughout France, simultaneously with the quin quennial census of the population, which falls this year. There was a full of 20 centimes in the Fives to day, which closed at 93, and of 15e. iu the Threes, which closed at 57.45. The bill of the government for completing the railway from Paris to Lyons, was distributed to-day. The duration of the concession is fixed at 99 years, and 4 per cent interest is guaranteed during 50 years. The company undertakes to terminate at its cost, risk, and peril, the railway comprising the trarers . c from Lyons to Pcrrache ; to share half the expenses of the construction of the terminus on the peninsula of Perraehe, and to build at Vaise, wholly at its own cost, a roofed station for merchandise and travellers. Independently of these expenses, valued at from 80 to 90 millions, the company engages to reimburse to the state on the works executed one hundred millions of francs. The periods of payment are more favourable for the government than in the proposals hitherto made by other companies. Twenty millions are to be paid into the treasury before taking possession ; twenty-two millions before the end of next year; and the surplus is to be made payable in ten annuities, by means of negotiable bonds, bearing four per cent. interest. If the state concede the prolongation of the Central Railway as far as Rouanne, the communication by this way be tween Paris and Givors cannot be terminated before the completion of the railway from Paris to Lyons, and its connection with the railway from Lyons to Avignon. Barring this stipulation to guarantee the Lyons Company from the competition of the Centre, the interests of the latter line are not touched, and the government is free to grant the prolongation of the central line Irons Moulins to Itouanne. The line is divided into four sections : 1. From Paris to Chalon ; 2. From Chalon to Macon ; 3. From Macon to Vaise; 4. From Vaise to l'crrache. 'l'he company undertakes to execute the works in such time that the second section shall bo opened and working at the expiration of three years, the third and fourth at the end of five years from the date of the decree of'' concession. The execution of the section from Vaise to Pcrrache may be prolonged to the term which shall be fixed for the completion of the line frun Lyons to Avignou. Such are briefly the heads of the cahic•r des charges which the company of French and English capitalists in dicated by Magne has offered to accept, and which thi: Minister of Public Works recommends , the Assembly to ratify. An incident occurred to-day in the Assembly which shows how the legislature is prepared to deal with petitions for the immediate revision of the con stitution• and the prolongation of the President's powers. Such a petition having been read in the report on petitions, the Assembly immediately voted the order of the day without debate, because the constitution having fixed the legal period of the revision of the constitution, and prohibited the re-election of the present President, the petition was unconstitutional. The Assembly adopted by 586 votes against 28 the bill granting a credit of six millions of francs for the continuation of the works of fortification at Cher bourg. N. , thing further of consequence occurred before the sitting broke up. GERMANY. The Second Chamber of the Prussian Parliament has adjourned until the 24th inst. The Krettz Zei tung of the 11th inst. has been confiscated. The Austrian cabinet has returned a satisfactory reply to the Prussian proposition respecting the Frankfort Diet. Prince Wittgenstein, the minister of the i royal house, died on the evening of the 11th inst. NEWS FROM TIIE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We learn by the steamer Thy, which arrived last night at Southampton, that the I'ropontis, with the Cape mail, was to leave St. Vincent on the 31st of March. She has probably reached Plymouth by this time. Her captain refused to leave any one of the Cape journals on board the Tay, for fear the latter should reach England first. It was ascertained, how ever. that Sir harry Smith had been successful with the Kaffir., and had assumed the offensive. The Captain of the Propontis lent to one of the officers of the Tay a paper containing the latest offi cial news from the sent of war. As soon as he had read it, it was demanded of him again. Our South ampton correspondent says :—" 1 have just seen that officer. who states that information was sent that a Cape village was about to be attacked by a noted Kaffir chief, whose name he forgets. and that the Katfir,4 were routed with tremendous slaughter, and the chief killed. The success of the British troops was so signal and important that there appeared an impression at the Cape that the war had virtually terminated, or, at any rate, that it could not continue much longer. This information was printed in a journal expressly to be sent home by the Propontis." In reference to the " village" here referred to, it may be observed, that when the advices last received left the Cape, it was expected that Fort Beaufort would be attacked. It may be that this was the attack stated to have been so snceessfally repulsed. BRAZILS. The Royal Brazilian mail-packet Tay, Capt. Chap man, from the Brazils, arrived at Southampton last night, and landed her mails under charge of Lieut. John Davie, R.N., Admiralty agent. 11cr dates arc— Buenos Ayres, Feb. 27; Monte Video, March 2; Rio, March 1•i; Bahia, March 19; Pernambuco, March 22 ; Saint Vincent, March 30 ; Tencriffe, April 4; Madeira, April 6; Lisbon, April 10. She brings diamonds and irarls, value 8,200/.; and specie to the value of 2,1910/. ; lx•sides large quanti ties of ipecacuanha and cochineal. The Tay brings a large number of passengers, amongst whom arc some slave dealers expelled front the Brazils. Our correspondent at Rio writes as follows : RIO, M A iu•n 15. From Rio we have little news to send you by the Tay. The Fos rnment is doing its utmost to suppress the slave trade, and our authorities, evidently ronvinced of its good filth, and satisfied with the efforts it is making, have wisely salamis' their irritating measures—indeed the ve• best understanding in supposed to exist between Mr. Hud son and the Brazilian Minister. This in no it should he; the Brazilians themselves are the only people who have Ilse power to extinguish the traffic entirely, and now that they have taken the matter in hand, we may look forward con fidently to the issue. The naval foree destined for the River l'late, under the command of Admiral Grenfell, is now ready for sea. It is composed of the following vessels:—Frigate: Constitucao. Corvettes: Bahian°, Unido, and lle•stiore. Barque: Be renice. Steamers of War: Minim°, Pedro Legando, Recife, and Ciolfinho. They mil for the river on the 2llh. Some dissatisfaction has been expressed by our merchants here with the arrangements of the R.M.S.P. Company : the old dincanled West India boats have been put upon the station, and the arrangements are altogether had,—for instance, the out mail leaves Southampton three days before the arrival of the mail from Rio, thereby rendering it impossible to receive answers to letters, except by the packet leaving 21 days afterwards; the fart is, such answers will be received through the medium of the Pernambuco clippers anti Brazilian roasting steam-v....An, as heretofore. If we arc to have steam communication at all, it seems to be only' reasonable that we should enjoy the advantages of a short course of post which usually attend it. The yellow fever has made its ap,u•arane•' on board the vessels m the harbour, but the number of d aths has never exceeded eight per day, nod ou shore scarcely uuy easel have as yet been reported. 1 refer you to the enclosed price-current for the state of our money and other markets. But little business his been doing since the nailing of the Teviot, and there is a down ward tendency in the prices of all our produce. [For commercial intelligence sec hut page.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC. The American mail-steamer Arctic, Captain Luce, arrived at Liverpool last evening, at a quarter past seven, with the usual mails, 113 ixissengers, 200,000 dollars, and 3731. sterling in specie on freight. The Arctic left New York ut noun on the 2nd inst., and has experienced head winds and adverse weather all the voyage. When the Arctic left, the steam-ship Baltic, which sailed hence for New York on the 22nd ult., had not arrived at that port. The American adviccs by this arrival state that a reaction against the Fugitive Slave Bill had strongly set in. The Ohio legislature had passed resolutions by a large majority iu favour of a repeal of the obnoxious law, or, at least, a great modification of it. The denial of juries to slaves put upon their trial was condemned in a very emphatic manner. In addition to this expression of feeling from one of the most important states of the Union, a state couven tion fur Massachussets (without respect of party) had been called, to assemble in Boston on the Nth of April, to express the feelings of that state in favour of the repeal of the Fugitive Bill. In Mississippi, measures have been taken for a thorough organisation of the Union party. Dele gates have been chosen to a state convention for the nomination of a state ticket. The Southern Rights party are forming a similar organisation. The old party lines are abandoned, and the question of slavery made the exclusive issue. Jenny Lind had arrived at Nashville, and was ex pected at New York en route to London in May. The Virginia legislature has passed resolutions in opposition to the disunion measures of South Caro lina, and expressing an unwillingness on the part of the people of the state to take any action calculated to destroy the integrity of the Union. The legislature of sew Jersey hare enacted a law prohibiting the employment of children under ten years of ago in factories, and providing that ten hours shall be considered a legal day's labour iu all manufacturing establishments. A collision took place between two steamers on the Ohio River, below 11 - heeling, by which fifteen lives were lost, and one of the beats completely de- - - stroyed. Our whims from Texas relate principally to the Indian difficulties, but give no news of importance. A public dinner has been given to Daliel Web-ter, at Annapolis, Md. by the delegates of the State Con vention. It was attended by a large number of dis tinguished citizens. The packet-ship Washington arrived at New York on March 31, with 961 pa...mongers, making a total, including the officers and crew, of 1,010 persons, the largest number probably ever conveyed across the Atlantic in a single merchant vessel. A fatal conflict had taken place on the Erie rail road, in the state of New lurk, in which several Irish labourers were killed. The riot took place in consequence of an attempt to prevent labourers working when others had struck for higher wages. I The Sheriff of Ocnncssee county had called for 200 stand of arms to preserve order. Large numbers of passengers to the Crystal Palace were about to leave New York; few berths were vacant in the steam-ship Canada, from Boston, on the 9th, and the Baltic, from New York, on the 16th inst. It is stated that several leaders of the Irish Directory in New York were among the inteaded voyagers. The construction of the Erie Railroad was to be completed by the lath of this month, " and," in the figurative language of the Tribune, "by the let of May the iron horse that quaffs the waters of the Hudson in the early morning will ere nightfall cease his toils upon the far distant shores of Luke Eric." In anticipation of the opening of the road, the directors of the company have made arrangements to ticket passen gers and check baggage through to Chicago, Detroit, Cleve land, Toledo, and other places on the lake. On the arrival of the trains, the steamers at Chicago, Queen City, or Key stone State of the Detroit line, the Empire, Saratoga, or Alabama, of the Cleveland or Toledo line, will be in readi ness to convey passengers directly throti;h to those plae;.s. The steamers Albany, Diamond, and Fashion will also form a line between Dunkirk and Cleveland. landing at the in termediate ports. These steamers are all first-class are fast sailers, and have superior accommodation. When these arrangements are completed, it is intended to convey passengers from this city to Dunkirk in sixteen hours (night line eighteen hours); to Cleveland in twenty-six or twenty seven lours; to Detroit in thirty-six hours; to Cincinnati in forty hours; and to Chicago in forty-eight or fifty hours. The President has officially recognised G. Aikin as British consul for California, to reside at San Francisco. . . _ —.— Generals Scott and Cass bad been nominated for the presidency—the former by the Wing Convention, in Michigan, subject to the decision of the National Convention. _ . . Our athiees from Yucatan represent the situation of the Peninsula as daily becoming more deplorable. The apathy of the inhabitants encourages their ferocious enemies in their efforts to exterminate the white race. A conspiracy was detected on the Pith of February in the city a Merida. It was formed by the convicts in the city prison, in conjunction with sonic of the soldiers. The plan was arranged to re lease the prisoners, assassinate the city ottlecni, and then plunder and burn the town. The plot was dis covered a short time before it was to have been car ried into effect. The ringleaders were arrested and condemned to death, but the execution of the sea- mice has been postponed, and the case kat since been transferred to the city of Mexico, and still remains undecided. --- At :New York adtices had been received from layti to Feb. 6. Tlw island was in a state of general tranquillity. The report of a sanguinary engagement betwetm the Hayti:ins am! Dominicans appears to have been without tbuntlation. The eonferenet-s be- tweet' the American agent and the British and French consuls have thus far lud to no &sided ...... .... halts. It is thought that a plan was on foot for the union of the two parts of tho island under the govern ment of the Emperor Faustin. From Carthagena w•e learn that on the 25th of February a second shock of earthquake was ex perienced at Santa Martha. Several houses were much mju►ed. (For markets see last page.) CANADA. The Canadian government WenlB net as yet to have resolved on the expediency of closing the Welland ('anal, since vessels from the States had passed through. The fire-school principle had been adopted by the trustees of 'foronto. The high church party havo made their last move for a share of the clergy reserves. This is a proposal for dividing the lands among all denominations in proportion to their numbers. The scheme will be tested at the next general election, though it is supposisl there is no prospect of its suc cess. The writ fur the Iliddemand election has been issued. _ . A postal arrangement has been effected between the Lnited States and Canada, which is to be carried into effect without delay. Sealed bags are to ho made up for the principal offices un each side of the line, with the saute rate of pi)stage, that is, five watts front and• part of the United States to the line, and five cents to any place within the province. The correspondent of the New York Tribune writiii us follows to th! - .t journal: Tonemro, MAttett '27.—For two or three days past them has been a current rumour here that the government had under consideration the expediency of clueing our canals against American vessels. information on the sub ject hal been anxiously sought by Americans interested in the lake and canal trade; but no satisfactory UtlaWer bad been elicited. The only answer that our government has vouchsafed has been an assurance that the matter was under the consideration of the cabinet, and that no &Unit: course had been determined upon. Some gentleman front Oswego are in town, seeking from the government au explauatimt of its intentions ou this subject. In the meantime, there is a rumour that orders have been given to the government to close the Burlington Canal to American vessels, This canal intersects a narrow wind bar which forms the Burlington Ilay, on the border of which stands the city of liantilton, at the western extremity of Lake Ontario. The deliberations of the government on this subject arc the result of the re fusal by Cungnfa to grant a reciprocity of trade with this province. Public disappointment here is strong; but whether it would willingly seek gratification by retaliating on the Americans for their illiberal commercial policy towards this province is another question. I doubt go• vernment would be sustained in such a policy; and I am not yet satisfied that they will ultimately resolve to adopt it. 'rho Welland Canal opened on Tuesday. Navigation to the head of Lake Ontario is open, but no bout will health) to enter Kingston Bay for probably a week yet. The Jouroial o f Education, published this day, contains a large numbee of extracts from the reports of local superin tendents, received at the education department, it,,,,, which it appears that the free school system is being adopted in many parts of Upper Canada. There is scarcely any oppo sition to free schools from any quarter. The question has not been mixed up with politics, and free wheels appear to have the support of all parties, indifferently. It dues not appear that the imps riul government has any idea of extending to Canada the principle recently applied to Australia, of requiring the colonists to sapient the mili tary stationed among them. On the contrary, while all tho ngulars are kept up, a scheme for settling pensioners in the province is about to be carried into ellivt.—These pension ers, being unfit fur active service, will be statiutud at differ ent towns in the province, to be ready to be called upon in cave of emergency. The thing is being done very quietly, and almost without so much as eliciting a remark front tho Canadian press; but to my thinking it smacks a little of premeditated coercion.—Much rejoiced would the Cautulians he if the military were withdrawn, as in the case of Austra , IM. Their presence is a source of demoralization; their ex . travagance and idle habits being copied by that apish por tion of the community that delights in silly parade and empty show. Tottosro, Aran. l.—Messrs. George Thompson, M.P., and Frederick Douglass are here. They lecture on slavery to-night and to-morrow. Mr. Thompson comes at tho special invitation of the anti-slavery society of Canada. Navigation to Kingston will commence to-morrow. WEST IN MES. We learn by the Arctic that the British mail steam-ship Merlin arrived at New York on the Ist April, from St. Thomas, 22nd, and Bermuda, 27th ult. She carries files of the Bermudian and ilvtif Govite to the 25th ult. The drought at the islands had been relieved by copious showers of rain. Tho Legislative Assembly was to meet on the 7th inst. The schooner Henry Lea, of linindywine . Del., was brought into Ely's Harbour on the 22nd of March, by Capt. Staples. .It appears that the Empire City, on her last passage to Chagres, fell in with the schooner, in lat. 34 deg. 45 mitt., abandoned, with her main mast gone, fore-top mast broken off, and otherwiso damaged. lier hatches were off, and water was get ting into her hold. She had evidently been stripped, previous to being abandoned. From the circumstance of a bill of lading having been found on hoard, signed " Livingston Smith," and dated Philadelphia, Jan. 30, 1851, for a cargo of' coals for New l ork, toge ther with a bill of parcels, dated New York, Feb. 21, 1851, it is presumed that the vessel was returning to Philadelphia from New York. Captain Wilson, of the Empire City, ordered her to be burned, but at Captain Staple;' request, he was put on board, with a man and boy, and succeeded in making his way to Bermuda. From Jamaica we have journals to the 13th inclusive. On the 14th the Conway arrived from St. Thomas with the outward mails of the Thames, which arrived out in 21 days from Southampton, after a very rough passage. The Great Western Wll3 daily expected from Vera Cruz. NEWSPAPER STAMPs.-11te following aro the terms of the order of the House of Commons on thin aub ject:—Ordered,—That a select committee he appointed to inquire into the present state and operation of the law rela dye to newspaper stamps; also into the law and regulations relative to the transmission of newspapers and other publi cations by post, and to report their opinion thereon to the house. The committee consists of the Right lion. Milner Gibson, chairman; Messrs. Tufuell, Ker Seymer, Rich, Stafford, Cobden, soil G. A. Hamilton, Sir Jos. NVidnisley, Sir Thos. F. Lewis, Mr. Chichester Fortesque, Col. Mare, Mr. Shafts Moir, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Sotheron, and Sir Wm. I'dolcsworth, with power to send fur persons, papers, and records. CHELTENHAM HOTEL. Yesterday his Honour Master Brougham, eller finally settling the list in this mat- ter, declared a call of 301. per share, payable to Mr. Mut ton, the official manager, on the bah of May, to discharge the liabilities, amounting to about 20,0001.