The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-BATURDAY, Auctsr 20. PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT. The protracted session of 183 Y-3 was brought to a close to-day, when parliament was prorogued by commisaien. The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chauetlior, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Beeadalbane and Marl Granville. The Royal Commissioners having taken tht it seats imme diately under the Thsone, arrayed in their scarlet robes, the Commons were summand to the bar by Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Bleck Rod, and very shortly ap pitied in eunsiderstile numbers, headed by their Speaker. The body of the house was occupied by • few ladies, and there were only six ;were present. The royal assent was given to upwards of 80 bills. The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the royal speech, which was puhlished in the Express of Saturday. The commission for the prorogation of parliament was then read by one of the clerks at the table, alter which The LORD CHANCELLOR declared it to be her Ma jesty', royal will and pleaeurs that the parliament should be prorogued until Thursday, the 27th of October neat, and the parliament was prorogued until tnat day accordingly. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATURDAY, Ato. 20. The Spits kik took the chair at half•pa+t one o'clock. Mr. A. PELLAI'I' presented a petition from inhabitants of Clerkenwell against the opening of the Crlstal Felice on Sundays. NOTICES OF MOTION. . . Mr. It. h 10010; gave notice that early next session be should move fur leave to bring in • bill to make provision for the better lightkg and watching towns corporate in Ireland. Mr. I. Burr give notice that early neat session he should call the attention of the home to the reports of the eumwittees on the Mayo, Clare, Cork, and Sligo election., and that he should move for a select committee to consider the nrceinity and expediency of adopting some provisions to steers freedom of election in Ireland. Mr. EWART gave notice that early next session he should move for a select committee to consider the cape dieacy of siluptiag a sync m of examination of candidates for the pxhlic service._ . . . Colunt 7 l SIBTHOKP gave notice that early neat session he should renew his motion for the reduction of the duty on Jiro insurances. Mr. M. CHAMBERS gave notice that early neat ses sion he should call the attention of the house to the subject of treaties and conventions between France and England in NIS and 1818, fur making compensation to British subjects whom prop. rip was confiscated in the French revolution, and that he shiuld muse a resolution that the national good faith requires that the just chime of Baron de Bode which have been established after long and protracted in quiry should be satisfied. Lord U. STUART gave notice that early neat session he should move (or a solsct committee to inquire into the cost, meant, nonce, and general administration of the Metropo- litan Folic*. THE CAPE. In reply to a queetionliomgTiffi L. EVA2IIII, Mr. F. YELL said the boundary of the Cate colony was one thing and the boundary of the Queen's dominions another. There was a broad belt between them, and the great struggle in the war was to dislodge the Kars from this mountain range ; and for this purpose .General Cath• mart made the Amatola mountains a crown reserve, and with the view of preventing the Kaffir' occupying them, be established one or two fortified posts. Under the shelter *Mew fortified posts there would be villages in one or two places. The government bad not disallowed any pro posal of General Cathcart's, but they had not sanctioned it, sad the teases why they had net sanctioned it was that the machos ealibt be premature. RETURNS ORDERED. On the motion of Mr. Fitascit—Copy of memorandum by Msjor Kennedy, late consulting engineer of the govern ment of India, on the question of •general system of rail ways for India, referred to in the minute by the Governor- General in Council of the 20th day of April, 1863, relative to railway undertaking la that country. Oa the motion of Mr. Pnu.arr—Returns of the number of pupil teachers, male and female, in England and Wales, who have, uy to the present time, completed their term of apprenticeship under minutes of the Committee of Council me Education ; of the number of such pupil teachers, male end female, who have relinquished the vocation of teaching ; sad, of the amount of public mosey paid to such last men• dosed pupil Wavier', and to sehooliaastan and schoolmis tresses, in respect of their instruction. Copies of correspon dence between the C o mmittee of Council on Education, And the promoters of the National and British Schools at Blain., Monsoutnabire ; and, of correspondence between their lordship. and other parties than the promoters, in re-' tenses to the said school (a 1 the several documents to be arranged in one series, according to the order of their dates). Returns of the names of all lunatic asylums, linseed house, sad registered hospitals, for the reception of boa persona, in England and Wales : Of the date of every visit made to each of such places by the Cemeadmiemsea in Lanny, with the nsmee:of the isemmimiesses making sash Owl visits: Aad, cep) of the meet Mend by the said enamissionen in the vtsisees book es seek of each visits. Bennis sheering the amount of 'whin money expended in the purchase of the site and maks of the Kneller Hall Training School : Of the smut of public money madly expended is defraying the salaries of the officers of the said training school ; Of the aneireat of public money ex pended in defraying the cost of the establishment of the said training sehoohincluding the maintenance of the oMoen and students: Of the amount paid by students, or by (Aker parties on their behalf, in respect of their training in the said training school : and, of the average number of students is the said training school during each quarter sines its opening for the reception of students. On the motion of Mr. 01.tvzia.a—Return of the number of liefnCes issued to authorise the sale of wines, distinguish ing the wholesale and retail; also the same with regard to spirits for the years 18.50, 1831, 1852, and 1863, throughout the United Kingdom. LIBRARY OF THE HOUSE-THE MILITIA. Lord 1). STUART said, as then was no bueiness before the bolas' he would eat the attention of the goverament to the library. It was a beautiful room, but it was most hp movement. sad even daagerous to persons ming it, in eon sequeami of the impassibility of getting at the books with out a ladder. While rorrehing • book Mr. Wright only saved himself by a meet perilous lisp, which excited the alma of those who witnessed it; sad ass of the servants fell from a height ea a seal *kettle and smashed it. He heard from every pasta esasected with the library that the architect, although he had made a most beautiful room, had paid no atteation to the muds and requirements of those who used it. What was wanted was a gallery half way up the room, which would amble them to get the books without risk elite sad limb. liar. hi. MlLitlifr said he wee * ate of the library cow ahem. The settee led aot bees breeight before them. but their Wattles timid aow be dimmed to it. Sir DR L. 11,4131 S lamaired whether the materials at the camp at Chebitem woad be eat apart hr the use of adlitia museum The 'militia befog disponi is publici tAir a peat interferes** with theirimprovemest sad Lod PALKIIISTON mid he was quite aware that la. deammiegee lei less *wedded is the metropolis by the eats et balled, the silliefe. sag the etteetios of void be direelei te the added With regard Wigelllltollog et the am dide le (Led D. Stuart) he was =ewe OM is that lishilag stilltarlashea had bees le delestest. sal the he shish the rie kidded bed wali deib :Me thought de aehle lord's asspealipt irdkept in these ahead _ry Is the limn vas a psi ems • dr. F. WIWI( add es his sods friend had trod hie attention is the library might he cell hie anemias to the been. The solleld ends of Mil andel had Weddle set be better dip bake, de di *dm Lord P ALMS um m—ki hods! the caddy, d Ist Is Debt. te_ egos sod let la sir / - ----- - OMNIBIJUIP. Cokeel surrsoulTarb;Wited the soble lord (Lord redeeentea) would Wee We eseidersttaa the peopiiety edoptiag mew to eshree the midair op and setting down essaihue pereasen at IM Mee trued et the middle of the . - --_. __ ___ lOW. Lord PALMERSTON said ho had giros 'Monodies to the Coorairiosor of Polio. to eadoavoar to osoomplig that object as far as the law woald pariah Ida to do so. POSTAGE PACIIITIZIL Mr. I. BUTT embed if any thief. had hem doss to m iaow. the amplainto et the want st pawn postage facilities in the goads of Ireland. Mr. J. WILSON admitted that aras of tho soniplainto on this suldeet whim\ bad bees made hei nee hose without fossidatisy but ha bast tag in banes of the Post-once that it wealißoult sad @inset ispeedble en mown of misting anbana to mks arnagesaoste bearsdletoly rail ways wage apes. AM them those VIM Maier &Scully. The lbw ef nativity did set afford the same asemmodatioa that arc adiasd is sib sewn,. At the roses duo there had beat a gees* dial dome is obviate these dillenlasa. Perhaps the bean weld anew hies to point est ens sr two facts Mats. is the post-eilles which were 1181ransky latarsetiag M the pails at lam% Bo bight Warm due hoses that eengpaing Irak 1846 which wear Ivo or six years after the had come but fall operation, the daily eust al 7 Yw at ~present passing through the General Poshease Wel 641,000 additional, and of newspapen up wards of NAM Mee daily. Tahiti( the three periods of 1841, 1846. obi 1663, the saatter of letters which passed *rowel die Poseailles in the last week in Jane in each of thele pion was: In 1641, 3,773,000; iw 1846, 5,053,000; ded_la HA they had increased to 7,700,000 ; so that since 36111 the number Dilaters had lambed 2000,000 • week. lbw lehe the resthless/ sidet Matra signetess Om Aar separate NOW 1 1 := Istilet t lad the er* Whin clerks la 1846, the somber nee WAS ;in the Wm um you 61,000. Then there was asslhse Esierthewth the army order !terrines; apes whisk thew iths a pot L Mt the whets menu whisk pawed e wee N11,0 , 111e1152 it was 10,40=r; sad th year it would be of 10,000,00 W. if it west swat its present rase. Ile these facts were a sail- ' sleet apology, if any wen stred. w fir any defleiesey in the Post- ) but he odd seet the noble :old who was at the hoed ef the ise end Mr. liowlaed Bill were is sw4tatheebe every possible (sanity, and ethselehy is the *nth ennisad. RUSSIA AlfD 7 111RX1V7.:1113 . DANUBIAN PAINCIPALITIBL Mr. M. MILDER rood tit* WAD lori (lAN Passer dos) if be ins Mb le Slot mirmosos tso bow all to too moral tooldosso while otoortaised rwrio% N Ow tootootios of r ee Dosn iat biss Priadr/i ties, so as to st stile parliament to be prorogued w bout society. To this one point the attestion of the country was mainly directed. Lord I'.tI.NtItItSTON said the answer as to the ennfi• deneo of her Msjisty's government may be given iq the shortest possibly space—namely, their belief that parliathent may be safely prorogued uhder present Circumstances.' With regent to the evacuation of lbs prineipalities. I nth only say that I eon confident that the Emperor of RY4IOIII, having that due regard fur his buns'', and character which every sovereign of a greet cannery meet Missy* be Inspired by, will take the earliest opportunity after the settlement with Turkey, and of his osu accord sill make a merit of evacuating the principalities without the slightest delay. That is my confident expectation and belief. The noble lord had scarcely concluded, when Irak Rod " was announc•-d, sad Sir Augustus Clifford, the Veber of the Work Rod, entered the house and summoned the members to the House of Lords to hear the commission read for the prorogation of parliament. The Soesazit accompanied by thl the members in the house, then proceeded to the 11-Juse of Lords, and en their return, . . The members stood round the table, and the Sra.sazu read her Majesty's Speech. The SPEAILIta then shook hands with the mensben individually, who thereupon departed, and thus ended the mai= of 1843. iYVrIwtOA• THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 22, 1853. Any decree of the Conference or the Synod impairs none of the rights of the citizen. Now in consequence of the union between the Church and the State in Eugl.tnd, it is not impossible thst de crees lamed by the former may trench troy ma terially upon the rights of every one who is anima -I ber of the latter. It is only necessary to allude to the Braintree case to prove this assertion. his true that this case has been decided against the party which advocated the right of a minority to make laws for a majority, but it is no less true that this result has been only obtained after a tautest of years. And it is not less true that there are many other cases in which the law made for churchmen exclusively is made to bear with full force upon dissenters. The instant that dissent became a power in the land this anomaly began to be felt in its fall force. What then was the course pursued by our legislators ? Did they determine to crystallise all the old ordinances—did they decree that, like the laws of the Medes and the Persians, they should be susceptible of no change? Had they so little faith in the worth and power of the dominant church that they supposed that it could not be supported except by a legislative machinery of the Churzh's own ? Not at all. Seeing that whatever hold the Church, represented by its working clergy, might have over the minds of the nation, the Church in Synod assembled seemed very likely to forfeit it, they very wisely elected to suspend the operation of the latter and give fall scope to the development of the former. And who will say that they were wrong? Who will say that since the working clergy have taken the cause of the Church of Eng land in their own hands, that Church may not become infinitely more powerful for good than it was when its representatives were squabbling in the Lower House in the days of HOADLEY ? Nevertheless there is a large clue of members, who, however well disposed, seem determined to cry out, "Leave the Church to take care of itself ; give as the Convocation." To this class the scene in the Jerusalem Chamber, on Thursday last, mist afford matter of serious consideration. Taey have been moving earth and heaven to resuscitate the dead corpse of a legislative body which expired more than a century ago. They managed, in fact, by desperate efforts to communi cate a sort of galvanic life to the said body, and pre dicted that it would live on in spite of the solemn verdict of the most capable of all juries —the Ration itself—that it was to all purposes dead. They deter mined not to believe this. Tho Convocation was prorogued on the 16th of February last to the 18th of the present month—last Thurs day. Every one knew very well that this late date was chosen in order to get comfortably over the business of the Session, and that in fact the day named was to be a day for prorogation instead of business. Fortunately for the friends of Convoca tion, the Session has been unusually long, and the 18th fell two days before the Session was concluded. Taking advantage of this, a few of the forlorn hope of Convocation assembled in the Jerusalem Cham ber on Thursday, and pretended that they were there for despatch of business. They knew very well that they were taking advantage of an accident, but they still determined that they would make the most of :L Their plot was signally defeated. On arriving in the chamber they met nobody but themselves at first. After a short delay comes Dr. WORDSWORTH to the expectant party, who after, we suppose, bidding them good morning, gave them to understand that they had come on a fool's errand ; that although he had dropped in to look at them, they must not think that he had anything tosay —far from it. Nevertheless, he might mention by the way that the Prolocutor—in lay language, the Speaker—was staying with him as a friend, and had requested him to say that it would not he expe dient for him (the Prolocutor) to attend, as there was no House on account of the absence of the Arch bishop. In other words, Dr. PEACOCK, the Prolocu tor in question, who is known to be the most amiable dignitary in the kingdom, hinted in a roundabout way that the nineteen or twenty gentlemen who were occupied—like the frogs in the fable—in. the vain endeavour to inflate themselves to the size of the great English Church, had better depart without making an exhibition of themselves. As the process of self-inflation is not by any means an unpleasant one, these clerical repre sentatives of their fabulous predecessors begged with great dignity to know why they were to be squeezed down to their natural dimensions. Could there be no House without the Arch bishop P Dr. WORDSWORTH believed not. The Prolocutor had come to his house yesterday, and sent a inane to Mr. Drxx, the Archbishop's Regis trar, to know at what time he (the Prolocutor) should appear at the Jerusalem Chamber, to preside over the important meeting of the Lower Chamber of the Clergy of the Church of England. The answer was a verbal one. Mr. DYKE was not ►t home; he was not in London. A pretty menage when the exist ence of the Church of England was at stake. A gleam of comfort, however, broke out. Dr. Woanswoara had seen a letter directed to an offioer of the Church, the purport of which he had no objection to commu nicate to the meeting. The writer had immured his friend that the Archbishop would be there at three. Fancy Colonel 811T1101P telling a score of the man. bees of the House of Commons, assembled at the commencement of the session, that it was uncertain whether the SPIL&LER would be down at the House to-day, but that a Mr. Joins had sent a door-keeper of the House a prints letter to my that the Quurt would be at the House of Lords at three! There is very little doubt that the members would cry out, like the members of Convocation, that they had been treated with very little courtesy, but at the same time there can be no doub that the ;Hones of Commons being a real thing, while the Hones of Convocation is a phantom, the former would take oar* to have its grievances redressed, while the latter must put up with whatever measure of ridicule attaches to its position. The termination of the affair was worthy of the beginning. When the Prolocutor met the recalcitrant members, he good-humouredly smiled at their impatience. When the Archbihaop met them at the appointed time, at three o'clock, he prorogued them to the 10th of No vember without naming any hour for meeting ; and in spite of the remonstrances of the members, refused to appoint any. Does any advocate of Con vocation dare to flatter himself after this that life will be breathed, into the old mummy of his adoration ? Had Convocation been a real thing—had its friends constituted a real power in the land—were they the genuine repreeentants of the whole English Church, would the Heads of that Church have dared to treat it with such little respect ? Let them take these events sea demonstration by fact of what we have long endeavoured to persuade them by reason ing, that Convocation, in its old form at least, is ex tinct, and that they would be far better occupied in breathing life into the actual movements of the Church than ini endeavouring to impress a question able vitality upon it by the introduction of an anti quated organisation. TUE VALUE OF LAND IN LAscssmaz.—The Duke of Hamilton'. Lancashire estates were put up to sale a few days ago, and the greater part dis posed of to local purchaser,. Upwards of 360,0001. were realised by the sale, and the average rate of purchase was quite 32 years. TO COEUZIPON I h$ TS. • -m uti ?aloft el. 'lle, flepreee." costaintse ria nay rendre'. 4 (.134 •.te," p 41a:utzed Ina/ revise etiLL le that !ur & • wlll%. "Ito , intended 'cc The r :pre.," Lee lea it, paper, ow,' 40 at tLe I aßas, In. ii....ivene-Creet. 14, o On thil lay et pab.o*.unr. MICM WATER AT I.ON UON TiRIDOIL TAD 1444-14ortalas. 41. 13 n.. A rarenos. U. Mu. 41. 4m. .--.„ Alterases, $l. ha. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22. THERE is a tenacity of purpose about certain classes of Americans that is at times more than annoying— it has not untrequently (in private life) been known to teaze men into the surrender of just rights. The question of the fisheries in the waters of the British provinces of North America is eminently calculated to give scope to the peculiar genius of such worthies, and acoordingly it would be folly to look for an early final settlement of it. They will at least keep arguing it for years to come. But their latest device is really a little too gross and glaring. A semi-official manifesto on the subject will be found in another column, extracted from the New York Herald, for Europe, of the 10th inert. It is very imposing—in every sense of the word. It would appear from this document that the Ame rican and British Governments have all along been in error in assuming that it was competent to them to arrange this vexed question of the fisheries by ne gotiation. The fisheries, it appears, of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy, and, in short, all the coasts of the British American provinces, are not public, but private, property. They be long, we are told, to an individual who is pleased to assume the designation of Earl of STIRLING, and who claims them in vir tue of a grant, from JAMES VI. of Scotland, and FIRST of England, to Sir WILLIAM ALEXANDER, first Earl of STIRLING, whom he affirms to be his ancestor. This person is said to have transferred his rights to , an American company, which is about to fit out a fishing vessel to try the question. If the British authorities interfere with this craft, the American Law Courts are to be appealed to, and in the event of their deciding in favour of Lord STIRLING and his company, the Government at Washington is to be called upon to support the decree : and according to the writer in the New York Herald, large conces sions on the part of Great Britain, or war between the two countries, must be the result. It is not unlikely that this intimation of impending hostilities from the other side of the AtlantiF will add materially to the anxiety with which Ministers are watching the blackening cloud that hangs over the Euxiae. It is not the first time that claims derived from the first Earl of STIRLING have been attempted to be made the basis of a joint-stock company. The pretensions of the former speculation were, however, modest in comparison with this, which proposes to set na tions together by the ears. It was merely an attempt to wrest from the colonists of Nora Bootie we ste lands which it was proposed to confer on the red-handed baronets who derive their title from that province ; and ended in burning the fingers of certain High land Magnates who fancied that these lauds might be made available as a bait to lure across the Atlantic poor tenants whom they were bent upon evicting. There is very little reason to apprehend that the soi disont Earl of STIRLING will ever present himself to a Washington Government, armed with a decree of an American wart of law in his favour. In the first place, he will find some difficulty in making good his claim to inherit any patrimony that may have belonged to the first Earl of Brumuro. He is one of a few claimants of Peerages, and many claimants of the minor honour of Barcnetage, in Scotland, who are allowed, without sny ekes in quiry, to assume titles because there are no estates claimed along with them, and because no one having much interest in preventing a man from calling himself what he pleases, protests against the assumption. Again, it would not be easy even for an undoubted heir of Sir WILLIAM ALEXANDER to make good a title to whole provinces of waste lands, seeing, in the first plum, that that wcethy never fulfilled the condi does of the grant ; in the second place, that Canada wai occupied by France before the grant was made to hiss by the English King ; in the third place, that Nova Bootie and New Brunswick were in the unchal lenged possession of France for more than a century after his claim had lapsed for non performance; in the fourth place, that he contrived to extract compensation from the French Court for agreeing not to trouble them with his representa tions; and, lastly, that unless the titles of every landowner in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick who does not derive from Bir WILLIAM ALEXANDER or his heirs are to be declared bad, the title of the whole public of thee* provinces to the exclusive right of fishery on the coasts, as recognised by the law of nations, is unassailable. Any parties in America disposed to take shares in the Stirling Fishery Company will do well to weigh ' ' beforehand. As to the sereeei. big about war between England and America on sock a plea, it is too ridiculous to deserve a moment's consideration. It is, in the present threatening circumstances of European politics, like the moping and mowing of the Clown in a tragedy of SNARES rim or CALDERON beside the hero in whom is concentrated the tragic interest of the piece —like the jesting of the Fool in the face of Lear's madness. IT has fallen to our lot several times to direct the attention of our readers to the ill-advised attempts of certain parties in the Church to revive the old Con vocation. It is to no purpose to urge, as several most distinguished members of the High and Low ' Church clergy do urge, that a Church which has no independent deliberative, legislative, or executive functions, is no church at all. It matters little that we are taunted with the Wes leyan Conference or the Itoman Catholic Synod. Both the Conference and the Synod may deliberate and legislate, and enforce the multi of their delibe ration and legislation, as far as they are able. But it will be remembered that the efficiency of their legislation depends entirely upon the voluntary con sent *of those over whom they claim jurisdiction. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. It would appear that since the intermarriage of the bones of Hapsburg and Cobourg (the two houses, which agree in extending their power rather by matrimonial than by belligerent engagements) the Belgian journals are to be harassed by being made the mouthpieces of the Austrian government. At least, we find in the Independence Beige of Friday last the Austrian version of the story of the Servian troubles. It is smooth and plausible. According to the Belgo-Austrian narrative, the troops at Austr►a are actually concentrated on the Servian froutier ; but M. de Brunk had forestalled - ' Reschid Pasha's demand of an explanation by volun teering the information that Austria had deemed it necessary to be prepared for all con tingencies, but that not one Austrian soldier should' set feet on Ottoman ground without the consent of the Porte. It is not, however, attempted to be denied that the Austrian consul-general at Belgrade may have used different and ruder language to Prince Alexander; it is only alleged that if he did so he exceeded his instructions. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived, via Trieste, dated Constantinople, 13th : " The Council has deliberated on the note of the Powers ; it is disposed to propose the acceptance of it to the Sultan." We learn from St. Petersburg, under date of the 12th, that the Emperor had just reviewed the troops at Zarskoe Solo, and ordered a silver rouble to be given to each soldier as a mark of his satisfaction. On the 9th the Emperor reviewed a fleet off Cron stadt, and on the following day it ei.t:red the port for the winter. The latest accounts from the Black Sea state that the north west winds began to prevail, and impede navigation. For the last two months a north east wind, always good at this season of the year, has permitted a great number of important cargoes to leave the port of Odessa ; but within the last few days the winds have been continually bad, and several vessels anchored at Penderaklia and other points on the coast exposed to the west have been forced to put out to sea to avoid injury. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY EVININO. The Emperor and Empress left St. Cloud at about half-past one o'clock to-day, for Dieppe, where they were expected to arrive by half-past fire o'clock. Their Majesties will take up their residence at the Hotel de Ville, which has been fitted up for their reception, furniture, and hangings having been sent for that purpose from the garde meuble. On the ground floor of the building will be the waiting room and dining room. The first floor, the windows of which look on the roadstead, will comprise the apartment of the Empress, the bed room and the cabinet of the Emperor, and the bed rooms for the aides-de-camp and ladies of honour on duty. The large library on the second floor will serve as a second cabinet for the Emperor. Wooden barracks have been erected in the garden of the Hotel de Ville and on the beach opposite the gates, for the accommodation of the squadron of guides, which has been sent to Dieppe to act as escort to their Majesties during their stay. All the ships of war on the Channel coast have received orders to assemble at Dieppe to-morrow. Letters from Dieppe speak with astonishment of the wondrous preparations made in an incredibly short space of time by M. Visconti. In 36 hours the architect of the Louvre, and the projector of the un paralleled nts of Monday last, transformed the dingy Hotel de Ville of Dieppe into a palace so mag nificent that the Emperor when he dines there to day may fancy himself at St. Cloud. These wonders have not been worked without the use of large ma terial means. A whole army of carpenters, morons, decorators, painters, joiners, locksmiths, asphalte . ..yen, gardeners, &c., under tho orders of two of M. Visconti's architects, MM. Laudieu and Joly have been sent from Paris. The telegraph has been constantly at work transmittirg orders to the director of the Garde Meuble and the relgisseur of the Tuileries, and every train has brought down piles of luggage for the imperil use. 80,000 f. of cabinet- era work alone hu been done in three days. All the carriages in the town of Dieppe have been pressed into the service of M. Visconti, who encamped upon the scene of action, and reposing at night upon a hammock issues his orders in true military style. The mayor and sub-prefect are wild with excitement. The municipal council at first voted 100,000 f. for the reception, then thinking that not enough, they gave the mayor a carte blanche, and although the Emperor has intimated that he desires to have no triumphal entry, no speeches. and no official costumes, the town will doubtless contrive to spend a good deal of money. A steeplechase is spoken of with a prize of 10,000 f., 8,000 to be given by the city and 2,000 by the railway compan7. A ship launch, that was to have taken place this week has been put off in the hope that their Majesties will witness it. Visitors are already flocking in, and beds are not to be got at any price. I think it well to mention, for the benefit of English tourists, that in all probability no strangers will be allowed to enter Dieppe during the Emperor's stay, unless they are provided with passports perfectly en regle. Nothing is known with certainty as to the duration of the imperial visit. The Dieppe people hope it may last three weeks. The Emperor will pro bably make excursions to different towns in the northern departments, while the Empress re mains for the benefit of the sea air. A bathing pavilion has been erected for her. PARIS, EITSDAT EVENTS°. A message from Vienna to this date, states that the affiancing of the Emperor of Austria with the second daughter of the Archduke Maximilian of Bavaria took plies at Isehal on the 19th of August. The Emperor and Empress arrived safely at Dieppe at five o'clock yesterday evening. The Municipal Council received their Majesties in a saloon in the station prepared for the occasion. On descending from the state carriage the Emperor squeezed the hand of the Sub-Prefect, and received from the Mayor the deed of gift of the Hotel de Ville made by the town to hie Majesty. Their Majesties left the station for the Hotel de Ville in an open caleahe and four, preceded by the authorities on foot. Not having been at Dieppe I cannot pretend to describe the reception, but the govern ment organ, the ?eerie, says that the the peo• pie were in a state of delirious enthusiasm, their ac clamations were "furious, intense, continuous" showers of bouquets and crowns fell from the windows upon the imperial heads, and the " flue of the aristo cracy of Europe" strained forward in wild transport over the baloonies, electrifying the populace by their cries and gestures. The Emperor was radiant with gladness and joy, and triumph beamed upon the countenance of the Empress. I must leave you to judge of the truth of this highly-colored picture, but, as an "honest chronicler," I cannot avoid mentioning a recent fact within my own knowledge as an instance of the way in which "delirious enthusiasm" is got up in France. Nogovern ment hack could overpraise the arrangements of the fête of Monday last. Everybody is agreed that they were admirable, and that the result was the most perfect metropolitan entertainment that was probably ever seen. But not content with this M. de Persigny set the telegraph at work to inform all the prefects in France that when, at four in the afternoon, the Emperor and Empress drove out in the Champs Elysees, the population could not restrain itself from open demonstrations of intense affection, and their Majesties'carriagewas literally borne on the shoulders of the people. Now the dry fact is, that all the ticket porters of Paris, the " forts de la Halle," the costermongers, and the innumerable small people that are forced to have " medals" from the police, received orders from M. Pietri, the prefect, to be in the grand avenue of the Champs Elyse°, at the hour when it was known their Majesties would pass, and the volume of their sweet voices was the sole solid foundation of M. Persigny's despatch. According to present arrangements, the Emperor will return to Paris alone in three or four days, and set out almost immediately afterwards for Lille and the camp at Heltaut. Preparations for his reception are already making at Lille and St. Omer. After his excursion in the northern departments, his Ma jesty will rejoin the Empress at Dieppe. In • letter to the Mayor of Perigueux, Marshal St. Arnaud, in excusing himself from attending the inauguration of the statue of Marshal Bugeaud, on September sth, says : Lis Majesty, the Emperor, has disposed of me for that period, and it was even with the greatest difficulty that I obtained permission to absent myself for a few days from the Ministry-at-War, to preside over the Council. General of the Girond., from the t 1 st to the 2.5 th of this mouth. Several foreign general officers have arrived in Prance to see the grand manceuvres to be executed in the presence of the Emperor, at the Camp of Helfaut. _ _ The circus ordered by the Emperor to be built in the camp of Satory for the amusement of the troops will very soon be finished. 'f he construction is con fided to M. Souhart, a chef-de•battalion of engineers, who on Friday last summoned to his aid M. Arnault, the director of the Hippodrome, with whom he three hours in consultation. The Emperor , passed himself furnished the plans. The circus of Satory is ! intended to emulate the vast Roman amphitheatres. There will be eighteen rows of turf benches capable of accommodating 13,000 spectators, so that the whole army of Satory will be able to see the games at the same time. The Hippodrome company will perform there by the Emperor's orders. Shortly before the Emperor and Empress left St. Claud they made an excursion to the barracks on the height of Mont Valction. The Empress, who had never been there before, was greatly struck with the beauty of the view. Their Majesties visited the casemates, powder magazines, and the men's rooms. The court journals say that finding her appetite sharpened by the keen air of the hill, the Empress asked the soldiers if they had any thing to offer her. Thine was nothing in the barracks but regulation bread an 1 cheese, and of this she ate heartily, the Emperor sharing with her the frugal repast. His Majesty on the recommendation of the commandant of the tort, took down the names of two old soldiers for the military medal. On Sunday last there were bull races at Beau caire, that day having been chosen by the municipa lity for celebrating the Emperor's Ike. The amuse ment had gone on for au hour and a half without any accident, when one of the bulls dashed furiously into the midst of the crowd, and tossed three men in the space of as many minutes. One of them is in a moat dangerous state, and the other two are severely wounded. The Mayor instantly put a stop to the sport. The first express train to Cologne, in 13 hours, left Paris this morning. This train will go to Brussels in 7w. 15x. every day. Au immense number of people left Paris for Brussels by a pleasure train last evening, to see the nuptial fetes of the Duke of Brabant. The Indepcndancc Beige says, but without suggest ing any reason for the tact, that M. A. Barrot, the French Minister in Brussels, will be the only mem ber of the corps diplonnaique not present at the royal marriage. The Mondeur promulgates the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded between France and the republic of Chili on the 13th of September, 1846, together with additional articles signed on the 30th of June, 1832, which treaty and additional articles were ratified on the 12th of May, 1833. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Piedmontese Gazette, of the lith, publishes a royal decree granting, according to the law of the 2.;th of May last, 409,863 f. for the current year, to the curates and vice-curates of the Island of Sardinia, the said sum being intended as a compensation for the suppression of tithes. TUSCANY. The Parlament° of Turin states, from Florence, that Guerrazzi was still in prison on the 14th, and that the day of his departure was not fixed. The same paper publishes a private circular addressed by the Prefect of Florence to the Gon tidonieri of his province, informing them that the electoral system, as applied to municipal bodies, so far from answering the expectations of its advocates, has met with universal disapprobation among the people, who have protested against it by not voting. In consequence of which, the govern ment has been induced to consider the question in order to introduce a better system, and the Gon falonieri are recommended to suspend the electoral operations until further orders. The Monitore Tuscan° of the 12th contains a cir cular addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the superior authorities of the Grand Duchy, stating that apprehensions have been ~n tertain.4 .ospeatio ti the scarcity of the harvest, but they have turned out to be premature. Nevertheless, the authorities are recommended, in case such apprehensions be realised, to follow the rules laid down in certain decrees of 1815 and 1847. We find the following in the Parlamento of Turin of the 17th :—" A correspondent of the Bilancia states that a demonstration took place at Leghorn at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the works for the enlargement of the port of that city. It is stated that two incendiary balls were thrown against the residence of the grand duke. There must be some exaggeration in this statement ; but it is more than certain that popular coolness was manifested by the town not being illuminated, owing, it is said, to the Gonfaloniere, who is much beloved by the citizens of Leghorn, not having been invited to the ceremony." NAPLES. The King of Naples has issued a decree, dated Ischia, the Bth, taking off all duty on foreign corn, barley, oats, pulse, and flour, until the end of De cember. The Eco dell' Esperienza of Naples of the 10th announces that M. Bermudez de Castro has delivered to the King of the Two Sicilies his letters of cre dence as Spanish ambassador to that court. GERMANY. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of August 15, in the New Gazette of Prattle, says: There have been several cabinet meetings held here in the course of the week en the affairs of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, his Majesty having expressed a desire to see the council of ministers come to some definitive resolu tion on the subject. Chevalier de Burger is to set out be fore long for Greets, and from demos will proceed to Lom bardy. Count de Rechberg is net to return to Lombardy, bat will be charged with a diploma& mission in Germany. Count de fkressaldo is it:posted Isere next week, and will then be sent off for Greets, of whisk place he has been named governor. Within a short time the price of corn has risen here in an extraordinary manner. Proclamations have been issued against registers, yet notwithstanding that measure, an extensive association, principally of Jews, has been discovered here, for the patpoes be*g up all the corn they could lay hands on, and Om kel*bi it in store, waiting for famine prices. Not content with en tering into such a speculation, they busied themselves in disseminating calumnies against the finanoss of the state. The authorities have taken measures to put an end to such abuses. PRUSSIA. The superior authorities of the circles which form the administrative divisions of the Prussian monarchy were up to 1848 elected by the landowners, subject to the confirmation of the King. This privilege, which was suppressed in 1848, has just been re established on the proposition of the Minister of the Interior. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. LIVERPOOL, tD AY. At an early hour this morning the British and North American Royal Mail steamship Asia, Capt. Lott, arrived in the Mersey from New York, which port she left at 12.35 p.m. on the 10th inst., with 84 passeng and 421,900 dots. in specie on freight. She passed the Royal Mail steamship America, for Boston, on the 14th, and the United States Mail steamship Pacific, for New York, on the 16th, both from hence. The United States Mail steamship Baltic, from here, arrived at New York on the 7th inst. __ . The Washington correspondent of the New York Herold gives some extraordinary information regard ing a new claim for the disputed fishing-grounds. BAs ant new element—most extraordinary in its character, and of portentous upect—has been introduced into the great controversy about the fisheries, the announcement of which will cause greater agitation and excitement than have et any period hitherto been manifested on the subject. A new and formidable claimant for the fisheries is in the field. The 4overument has been notified that an American com pany—lncluding, it is said, amongst its members a distin guiehed statesman, one of the most prominent bankers of Washington, a former assistant•secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and several leading capitalists in Wall • • street—make exclusive claim to all the fisheries now in con troversy between the United States and (heat Britain, under title derived from Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Dovan, Hereditary Lieutenant-Omni and Lord Proprietor of Canada and Nova Soria, and that the "la. pony purpose testing the legality of their claim ray fitti ng out a vessel manned by American seamen, aud despatet iu g her to the fishing grounds claisn.al exclusit fy by Great Britain. or by granting licenses to the American iisheraten of Mal bleheAd and Cape Cud to prosecute dolr business on al! the coasts of Canada, Nova Scoti i, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island, being more th m 3,000 mil e . in ex tent, in spite of what they pronounce the diplomatic blunder of 1818, by which the United States, lifter uhtainiug from Great Britain the concession of the right of fishing on cer tain coasts of Newfoundland, on the shores of the !ga g m en Island, and the soutl!ern coasts of Labrador, renou nce f or ever the liberty of fishing within t tree miles of any other part of the Britisii coasts in America, or of curing or drying fish on them. The company say that if the title to the fisheries is in Lord Stirling, and nut in the British government, he has the undoubted right of transferring it to American citizens, who, if disturbed in the right thus acquired, may demand the protection of the United States, which will be boundto see if the title is good, and, if so, to defend it. A collision may be anticipated ; and, should the administration decide to sustain the rights asserted by the company, the Britian government must make largo cow:cubists, or war soma probable. Lord Stirling is now in Washington, whither he is said to have come by advice of some of the killing statesmen of Great Britain, who thought this the place most edema tageously to assert his rights. He is a man of venerable appearance, some seventy years of age, of dignified and courteous manners, and of seeli•established personal honour and integrity. He is accompanied by his son. Lord Stir ling claims as heir of him ancestor, Sir William Alexander, of Menstrie, Scotland, Viscount of Canada, Viscount and Earl of Stirling, and Earl of Govan, to whom royal charters under the great seal were granted, which were recognised and confirmed by act of parliament in the presence of King Charles I. These are all on record at Edinburgh 16th Sept. 1621—Original charter of Nova Scotia. 12th July, 1623 —Charter of Nova Damus, of the lands, lordship, and barony of Nova Scotia. 3rd May, 1627— Charter of the country and dominion of New Scotland. 2nd February, 1628—Original charter of Canada, including fifty leagues of bounds on both sides of the River St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes. These charters gave the Earl of Stirling vast and administrative powers. He was made his Majesty's hereditary lieutenant-general ow r the whole countries of Nova Scotia and Canada. He was also made justice. general, high admiral, lord of regality, and hereditary steward. The power was conferred upon him of making officers of state and justice, of conferring titles of honour, of coining money, and the privilege of making laws con cerning the public state, good, and government of the coun. try. Ile had the power of appointing 00 baroneta, called baronets of Nova Scotia, who were to take precedence of all other baronets. Under this power the first earl actually made over 100 baronets ; nearly fifty of the present baronets in Great Britain hold their titles from patents granted by the first Earl of Sterling. The charters of Nova Scotia and Canada give to Lord Stirling, his heirs and assigns, the complete right of fishing witoin six leagues of the shore, on precisely the coasts which we have relinquished; an went of coast of over three thousand miles in length. The chine, of Nova Scotia, after giving the boundaries of the country granted, including New Brunswick, proceeds in these words:—" In cluding and comprehending within the said coasts and their circumference, fr m sea to sea, all the continents, with riven, brooks, bays, shores, ill sods, or s-as, lying near or within si: leagues of any part of the same, on the west, north, or east side of the coasts; and from the southeast, where lies Cape Breton, and the south part of the same, where is Cape Sable, all the seas and islands southward witl.in forty leagues of the coast thereof," &c. And the charter proceeds to grant to Sir Williasn'Alexander, his heirs or assigns, among other things, all " marshes, lakes, waters, fisheries, as well in salt water as in fresh, of royal fisheries, as of others," ai.e. (marressius lanthasaquir pica ii•mibus tans in aqua safra glans resents tam regalluns piacium quasi aliorum. - ) The charter also refers to under takings which the grantee may make with " divers of our subjects and others, who probably shall enter into contracts with him and his heirs, assignees, or deputies, for lands, fisheries," &c. . . It is illeged that, 1. Courts of competent jurisdiction have judicially' esta blished that the present Earl of Stirling is lineally de scended from the first Earl of Stirling, and the real heir to his titles and estates 2. The titles of the present Earl of Stirling have been officially recognised on the most solemn occasions in Eng land and Scotland. It is further alleged that the Earl of Stirling's name was inserted upon the great roll of the peers of Scotland, in 18.51, a roll inscribed in the archives of the King at Edin burg, drawn up by order of the House of Lord, entered upon its register, and transcribed upon its minutes. Since that period the Earl of Stirling has voted again at the gene ral elections of 1835 and 1837. His name is also entered on the list of those peers who competed at those elections-- lists recorded in the royal archives of the upper house. From these lists result , the proof that from 1825 to 1837 the present Earl of Stirling, always recognised in his rights, voted during a period of twelve years as a peer of Scotland, without effective protest. And also that he was not only recognised by his peers and the magistrates and courts of Edinburgh, but that the Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, Earl Grey, the prime minis ' ter, the Lords of the Committee of Council, in the King's name, corresponded officially with the Earl of Stirling, and addressed him by his title. John L. Hayes, Esq., counsel for Lord Stirling, states that in an interview had with the Hon. Robert J. Walker, late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Walker said that prior to his departure for Europe be had, at the request of Lord Stirling, examined the case, and although his multiplied engagements prevented his having been professionally employed as counsel, as Lord Stirling desired, be (Mr. Walker) entertained an undoubted c..nviction, which was confirmed by conversation relative to the cue with several distinguished persons, during his late visit to England and Scotland, of the heirship, identity, and legal rights ul Lord Stirling. I, myself, have had an interview with Mr. Walker, and he informs me that Mr. Hayes's statement is true and correct. As further development/ take place you shall be first in formed of them. The Washington Union sustains the conduct of Commander Ingraham in the Smyrna affair, and maintains that he was not only authorised to resort to amicable interposition, bat that it was his duty to his government to exert just as much power as was necessary to arrest the Austrian outrage and prevent its consummation. A serious collision occurred on the Camden and Amboy Railroad on the 9th, by which four persons were killed and 20 wounded. Intelligence received from the fishing grounds creates considerable uneasiness. Some 13 or 20 vessels have arrived there from Gloucester, Mass., Newcastle, N.H., and Kittery, Maine, armed with muskets, oarding-pikes, cutlasses, and swivels, de termined to fight if interfered with. Heavy opera tors have laid up their vessels at the wharves, em ployed their men on shore, and invested their money in new movements. Collisions are daily expecte d. The eastern people are said to be satisfied with reci procity, but are all in arms against the registry of British vessels to control the coasting trade. It seems that the fishermen are certainly armed, re ports to the contrary notwithstanding. The North American and European Railroad Com pany's opening celebration takes place on the 14th September. Messrs. Jackson, Betts, and Stephenson will be present. St. John, N. 8., papers of the Bth inst. are received. A letter from Prince Edward's Island says that fires have been fearfully raging in the woods during the put week. Some farmers have lost houses, barns, fences, and all their crops, and very few have escaped without losing some of their fencing and Frain; a great number of sheep have also been lost; in fact, the extent of all the damage done cannot yet be ascertained. The Miramichi Gleaner says that mackerel are very abundant there, and the fishery generally, though not an extraordinary one, is de cidedly better than last sesson. The yellow fever continues to rage fearfully at New Orleans, and has also appeared in Mobile. A party just arrived from Fort Mackey at In dependence, report large numbers of Indians await ing the movements of Major Fitzpatrick, who was to distribute goods and presents among them the day after the party left. The report of a great battle near Fort Kearney, is confirmed by some returned Kioways, according to whose account the Sioux and Cheyennes arc al most rubbed out. The arrival of the steam ship Star of the West, puts us in possession of California dates to the 16th of July, sixteen days later. Nothing of very strik ing importance in the way of news has occurred since our last advices. A correspondent of the Shasta Couri, r, writing from Pittsburg, a mining town in the northern part of the state, says :—" Quite an excitement was pro dnoed here a short time since by the discovery of rich diggings in the hill this side of Rich Gulch, just where the trail crosses the Gulch. As high as six dollars were taken out in one bucketful of dirt. The depth to the rock is about three feet. People 'run all tight' to secure claims, and a friend who was on the ground early on the following morning informs us that he saw some ten or a dozen notices within a few feet of each other, having been posted in the dark." About a week since a company of four English. men took out two pounds of gold near the mouth of Rich Gulch. A packing road is about to be opened from Pitts burg, across the Trinity mountains, to Scott's Valley. The first of this season's overland immigration has reached Sacramento. 'Mr. Isaac Evans arrived across the Plains on Monday, July 6. He left St.