The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-26 00:00:00

BUSINESS OF THB WEEK IN THE LORDS. MONDAY, Aran. 21. NOTICE OF MOTION.—The Yams. of Westmeath, to mew re solution deciding that the erindria laws of laadlord and man& to Ireland require lam-diate tension and amendment (Leeds sum soosni) ORDERS OF THE DAY. —Win.. RFADINO, —Army Service DI (Lards sweinowd.] Newmarket and cherterford Railway Bill. 03113ffimilM.—Oisloos Duties; Harhouro Meta. and Pied Omar; Pomba Harbor of Refuse and Breakwater ; ROL Raroar.—Dandspasy mad Ifuloi•ency MU (No. 2). (Arneedonants). Tama Radwww.—Vesacions *Moss (protection against) ; 'wol vest Debtors Ads Anosedwest ; TUESDAY, API2I. 27. ORDER OF 711 E DAY.—Sidsou ftwoona.—Enewsbered Mates (Ireland) &11. THURSDAY, Aran. is. ORDERS OF THE DAY.— Stao.a Rename -- (Lords Mal mesed].—Poor Relod (Ireland); sod Landed Property(lreland); Bllis. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE COMMONS. MONDAY, Aran. 26. ORDERS OF THE DAY. —Committ,es of Ways and Moons, and of Supple • and Report or Supply ; Csnunittet on Railways, Piers, aid IdarbeUrs (beland). Imes Mamma.— Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) ; illintios and Proatltutien Prevention; Tr inemee of binds (Soot hing); Heritable Securities for Debt (Scotland) ; Burgos's Tenure (allawd) Moe Ounneraceset.—Service of Heirs (Scotland); Crown Marten =); Pi Gan; Custody of Offenders; Regiettering Births), Be. ); Marriage (Scotland); Naval Service of Boys; Priam. Bill. Ttem Rsum•o.— Luaauc Asylums 8111. = j [oral Jon. Hrs.= to Report of Resolution on Education; 2. It diatom Piers, and Haellows. Committee thereupon: 3. Prison. Bill, Committee: Oa= or Offenders Bill. Committee.]CES OF MOTIONS ARISING ON ORDERS OF THE DAT. --lIMPORT or Sorri.r.—Sir W. Molesworth to move that any regula ting which exam& Roman Consoles boa. participating in any grant otilikassaßlF hr pawpaw Medication are ioexpedient, and ought 14•Iniell. Itt. Swart t ii••• that, in diotriets of ore there to ale alma roodebto Moor s•pport , children whine permits object be Had of nil:foto btruedmi there received, may be admitted WON. subject to It. Lessner Aarl.vals BILL—Mr. Nichol' to mote addtonal clause.—Rnonereanco Blom% se. (`kortosn).— In ping jots committee) kb. Hume to more that Within be referred CS mien committee. On committee) Mr G. Chet to move that Mom 12 be struck out. War. oilrr Norms. oe Mortoa.—Mr panel polities Wm Mary Young, of Fineham. Norfolk, .— of the 011111allt et • metitrate. Mr. Osborne to ask the CliaroM•r oftli• Noleeepar opoil••• about aticanms to blab rallwarn Mr W. lismirelMa to mon bill for consolidating provision. in win entitanotilag pantos. Malin la tonne; the same, to move bill for mineolidath= WOOMeteries Acts. Mr. Hawes, to move MB to mead Wet. TUESDAY, Aram 97. NOTICES OF MOTIONS.-411x C. Napier, to more bill to amid Me timmen•eadistnent sat Sir. m. elsoissoky, to mow. t4ll be me alb bodies. loom of oidotbilaml people% to treat Celt their Mom Be Ms imlamolioomont *Ma P... &rope, to mow Mn is salmi ilto goodoitom of the Farina Annalty AM. her. lariWaltWO, mow 1111 to art the realmoolioa dwaste boob. Mt. IMMO, Orono Mn to AIM the direrkaimMos dada oat— mewl losor. De. loonimg, to move rmobatims omsounomdlog • re M Eilimel MO= 01 mai pil m lthe, the may to mow ma Wino bar *Ow* ker le twee Mimi min. Mr. Horarti, to owe - aeon demo in favour at drat low Zoo. Ma Mum. Is MI titivation to a Jamoina palm Mr &A 11•66. ti • ille d it tree labour. Capt. Moe to m he lob om s Waling to Theta. Viscount lagettrolomao• far oti otomarmlosso .111 oltairalty Main to dr 7botin ftwoode to mon far Media Moan to the poor-law Word of wismow. Mr. Hsmo to moo slx list of mad tapers hid Woe Ss moot of bantam of Mahn has Company by the Board otOon- Yid ghee Ile gaming glib. mg I and 4 Will. I'e. sir C. Nagar to Motothottlio wear et /.Moiled Stanwood, respecting the cons. =Wiesen of Ilion aull Finsbury sewers, be printed with the oda. Mr. flimsily Om to nombote select committee on Smithfield motet. ORDERS OF TIM DAY.—flocoon Ruolsol,.—SoUthlmploa Cue. gamin Goa Li& mr Mk! ; Removal .troendment WEDNESDAY, Aran. 29. ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Socoso Ruoucna—Juvenlle Offenders atija=l debate); Rating of Tenements (No. 2); Roman Catholic Teats; Tenants (Ireland): Poor and Highway Rate. Exemption; Chanty Buildings; Parliamentary Elections; Agri orators' Matattiot ; Cconamosers.—Poor Rate. (Ireland); Quakers' and Jews' Mar riage.; Bob. NOTICE OF MOTION ON ORDER OF THE DAY.—Poon Rare, (lasturri).—Mr. P. Swope to move additional Name.' • THURSDAY, Arm 29. NOTICES OP MOTION&—Dr. Bowring, to mows semiotic= to IBa Abet that IlV id of the , bic ib iLmenne should be deducted gresdem Is ler bile arr. Mr. Home , to more for ris=y Mollie of Ilie —y 1832. Mr. Etwall, tocall le Ihe 'dime Woo Ihe Arliever Union Committee. Mr. ID/BSlMinn. WOW' bt asiestamMee to i dm Into the present E y * villa ungpoil Egger are Captain Pe r meg he Mem of Mr melee in Vice-Ad. Owls iit Oige et Gni Zoe and fit. Mire; Mr G. =.4110 Ewell' ar simigisindea et Mega pore law.; Mr. Mow le ge sepal Net Ilmovel Ad etS aid 9 Vic. ; Mr. l ime d ane WI le relmilgie weaeliossatng privilege. an British aid lest Ilie ewe, le more Mil to permit British spirits 11•10 amMIME mg veregegr bead for mportation. -- - - FRIDAY, Arun. 90. OMENS Or THE DAT.—Becomo 11\401110. —Emit:drib:el Cam islidarat MIL alinneemnua—Pannitalant of Vagrants, go. (Ireland); Poor NOlWlr a lel:=4r. Danban, to more for melon we gibe an Eng& asikallaral osmalinlon. HOUSE OF LORDS. llmmo in fewer ri reSoeeti re;disi oiCustoute Duties BiU, end spinet the Duke of Mantrose's modes foe referring it to a select geningttes.—Ayes, S 7; Wee, U. AYES. leett SARIS MOONS. 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" Earl of CharierUlm Lord De Lido OElliWhen 7:erter Wil Lord Willoughby Earl of Mumtaz Mosby Earl Whim Lord Shrilled Lord Portmaa Earl of Oxford Earl Radom Earl . oi= u Mac, °Minh= Earl r HOUSI OP 901i1110N8.7EDIMATION. Dieneou - 1; i..R d rr laiies;eofiaiiii "ail" the g rant eibeeetion miegs WWII= Qua= That it is agelimt NON say gist kr et the goteds sullgies lllNCrbre g , gnorldea ANN bit nolte, rierr im egels rosdrgsst Ni smieleses, the mieNNlNelt meg. =IN ell lostreelais saw Or religious Noel' tioriM to elms pereets cry sigma to the retigkrat doutriass 12 sue selisds.—Ayes, 2N Noes, 74. ATU - - - J. nomad, J. K. Pdeadratea, Tin. Yid &shin. 0. , raz T.D. J. IL B . Howard, E. G. B. Pedlar, J. Adana, T. D. 180.11adour , O. Pallas, J. W. Aderattry, C. B. Thwombe, R. H. Pldllpp,Blrß.B. p.m, H 00.061. Dudek Ado. ape, VW P 1 1•11141, J. P. intirorsia, E. Drift Or D. lioNit, fdr R. H. Itioltwief a A t. Orpt.N.Da Ptra, C. 0. Jr,Jone,W. ara ltr i ,i, Pm. Mal.Mr J. 8. Jam Mr W.C. Pear ,IF.A. 181110, Col. Eldaolia, Via Jere* 1111 J. . W. Monday. D. Rowtea.llr P. JoBl4, Ur W. Prorkdroa, E. D. Waft H. Eddy% Th. Jaws, Ogre. Paw, P. loaa, P. T. Rotoida, W. "abortions, H. Erlrll4, W. mr. Hard" J. 1 H. m . o. w. L W. Penman, lar R. Low, Ma C. L BA X. NA J. MEE& B 4 E. Ward, Major Zebeada, R. H 0. Lob, O. C. loodaly„ J. Idlo, Player, J. lawares, fax C. Ilaraidt, C. O. = w . P. la, W. Liowtn, Earl • Rama, J. Id. 0. Pa, I L Loday, Cot. End, C. E. Bwititar,MwCap.ltwook CIL 111 6 , J. Itsowl, Lord J. Ibilbanto, J. Oat^ T. M. Ilbowelay, 'f. M er lde d d , C. JdadoNao W.B. 0111, T. litalande,W.P. C. Zafflndis, P. dliab Capt. TWA 1). A. amid, a. Ostim, Ma. Mk" Tied. 10011, am. Y. ;Mal" H. Oars, K. T. deyeaor, H. R. Owl, L. W. Oar% 800. R. 11.1. 71d1:4 1 1 . offmn, R. IL Es:: C. onto; Blrl. Mworre. L;ralLII•18, J. A. .0 miry, Marg. cam* lid of lloodwooB,BlrW. tt l'' Illoalio, W H. , lar J. T. .....""... T . tv,....._ Illiontraa Ito 0. =lr. am, /Wu. - - -. ,C. C. Clelmodiad„ T. Moe, r...: ''' WWI, End .1.. Carawheb, O. H. Orisor, Uri. Mlles, W. Wad% H. Ogles,, R. B. Ilds, R. B. Mamba& J. H. 11.01, B. Odr, vie. Heiybartio, Id. Morgan, O. 11Zot, C. R.N. =or, LA.J. Halsay, T. P. Morpeta, Vac. Tamed. IL W. W. D. ica,W.J. Magri, Floc. E. Tollowsilll7. =R. , A.lbodblaa, Ld. C.Moady, E. M. Tolloaroba,J. .1.,. W. Harr. girl. More, Col. Treed,. la°. Clork, 84 0. Ham" 0. 0. Newdegate. C. N.Traom girl. =rd. lam. Rm. Csp.Newpori, Vide. Vora of H. C. R. Haves, B. Newry. Thome Tam; IN W . OM% Mr C. IL Ileallosta, 81rW.NI, Rt. HBJ.VIRIon, Theoadt Owing, AM. Harp, G. H. derreys, Lard Wvida, J. L Owry, H. lionapa, E. XerflimAilost. Waddinlia.l.ll. , Lard Heolvy, J. W. 011rlis. A. S. Ward, Z. O. E t. WY. ildatort, 8. O'Clomor Da Misr% W. W. 0. Mk Led F. Ogle, 8. C. H. Woddleraw, 8. W. fflora, Bin J. Ord, WiWara Wood, Ur C. Cap. Hem Ilk J. Owaleton, Lord Wood, Col. T. . A. I. Hope, A. °maid, A. Wecenter, Marq. =W. J. W . Z.W. Ogren, Sir J. E. J. Iced Rake, C. W. Toted, H. =P : . . Hein" C.W. G. Pakingtoo, Sir J.Hill, Lord U. ff. NOEL Aoboaby, H. A. D'ltyaroort,C.T. R. Rooludr i. dawdecog, WA. Duke. Br J. Wm. W. Dam, O. ic ,,. :' ll ' =;."*P. P. "'"be, T. . J. H. a.. 11111dwd, E. 0. mr-..7 . • ••••=;.11.C. Wdriiry, 1ira.C.. 11 ".....,... ..........y, ~. dot Sr O. =R I F, : Etz a. m larg.d, ilbia t B. namely. 3 .. 8. Illetralag, Da. Emir, W. Harbero, T .A . Vlllien, ""' Haa. C. adobe, Jdra Rams, Mr De L. Mitchell. . 4 v,,t,,. , j . a . BroMilneerat, J. Emir', W. Moat; G. Watley, T. Brotbertoo. J. Man, Hon. liMerrle, P. w.u.„ R. 8i.... W. L,,u,O.W.ldrorta, 0. P. Warhertea H. awn% R. D. diebarac, T. MOW, Oellegboa, D. Onager, T. C. O'Coaaell, H. J. wtl'.Lmd, W. Cbaporo, B. Hall, eir B. Oetoroe, R. Yorke, M. B. J. Raba& J. DOW, Orardrad, W. & 11 11 .:M A- A. Palma. Cafe. 111 , 11.1316. deny, B. Hearbooar, J. Perim*, R. Clay, Mr W . Dieltmeed, O. H. Hem, Bit R. Puldord, IL Droroan,like. Doraddrwar, J. Hiadley, C. Bememrat.—ln oar report of Mr. Trelawny's speech of Friday emoting cm the government education grant, be le mode to oloiem to him " any wort of secular oducetion in oehoolo." It abeeM hive been ratgicnsa education. ght epproqi• The ode be Mr* Cl= o libea. Nader% Culls, end Gibraltar ell bomb wp en Übe nth useih The =Ng br Kew &Mb eh& Via Dames Laa4 god New &Alta/ MK be me de up es legeeembg of the ski AWL Ile t =UN emellep Dem he blade., lismareese. sad ekeWeeme ekloft vlll be mei up ho ea ihr etersiss fiche Lie My. evalseil Oftrelle Ifielte.ampere, Isar liamiu WIZO4III. Haeokeeper eh, Soulbempl" wen the waft etthe Itap. The mile lir Mae Nut& and the United Sista& IS low& up MI the or= L e r& . The voila lie litzfie, 160 Sher Plate, Monte Video, Pena., 4 111 :b*. m ...vad balm Kral. be mode up ea the era llmi elentiel elie via Marseilles, to the Mediterremen, =KANN OINKIN lad* Hong Kong, &e., wtil be made up on the eftheedi Nap. TO CORRESPONDENTS. e.• Athertiminewbo laileaded tot TA. litsprom, London evening ma, emit be at tht• On by Two o'clock co the day of publzatlon. DIOR WATER. AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tau Doe-ilantes. 35 notn. past II ; Afterneon. 0 min. past 0. To-lfoonew—btarring ; 5 rata put 0 ; Afternoon, 17 min. peat 0. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 26. THERE cannot be a doubt that the establishment of a anion settlement would be a very great boon to the labourer, and that it is the greatest of absurdities to go about preaching and acting upon the principles it free trade, when free trade in that precious comma- Mr, labour, is denied to the large mass of our pore lataon. At the same time, we are very far from gong the length of those who seek to detach altogether the labouring classes from the soil, from fixed residenoe, and from local ties, and organising them as a band of gipsies or nomado class, never settled in any habita , non more fi xed than encampment, and always ready ' to move about in search of employ, as gipsies do in search of provender. We do not at all admire this ideal of an industrious population, which is highly demoralising and de grading, and which has a strong tendency to pro duce that vicious state of labour and employ, which gives spurts of work at two seasons a year, sending thousands long journeys to seek it, and leaving them to find a home where they can, and veg. tate in the chimney-corner during the dead seasons. We may not be enamoured of small holdings, eir peasant proprietors, nor prepared to insist that ea{ rood should maintain its man. But each tract IP land should, if not by law, at least in fact, maintain a certain proportion of labouring population, ma the more fixed a certain number of families, or hest I of families, were thereon, the more comfort, the mess morality, the more link would exist between the and the soil, the peasant and the landlords. Defend us from a nation of navvies, wandering from plus Is place, herding in the suburbs of towns, or e in the vicinities of desultory work ; what= thing, were the principles of Chartism,communins, or systematic anarchy, instilled into the minds, and fostered by the wants, of such a wandering and reels. less population ! These very evils, to be sure, which we dread u the effects of a too extended settlement, have been found to be the results of a too limited one. Proprietors have been induced by the selfish economy of parish rating to detach the peasant from cottage and from garden. Would union rating act as an efficient remedy? In some degree it might, but, we fear, not at all in the degree which Mr. CHADWICK so fully depicted is his speech to the farmers not long since. The wish and the interest will still remain to rid the union of trupeynumcrary hands. Indeed, the . . entire scheme would fail, vales such a wish and power did survive. And were both effective, 111110 M exclusiveness might tell as hardly on the poor a, ever pariah exclusiveness has don.. One of the probable results of union settlements, which most recommends the idea, is, that they would remove a great cause of rivality and struggle be tween town and country, would level the walls which rise around the former, and sever the ideas and interests of squires and burgesses. In soon places, indeed, the agricultural spirit and interests would predominate, but in others the municipal in fluence would prevaiL And the amalgamation would be productive of mutual benefit. If towns, however, were taught to make common cause with landed proprietors, in the effort to clear unions of supernu merary hands, in obstructing the building of new habitations and the extending facilities of location and employ to the labouring class, the latter would find its difficulties more augmented than diminished by the alteration of the law. Notwithstanding these fears, the project of a union settlement cannot but be universally recommended, and indeed cannot be delayed, except by the diffi culties of proportionate rating. Should such a law be found to produce the same or similar evils, and to create serious obstacles still, in the way of proem.' ing or allowing fit locations for the labourer, the rta medy in a national rate is at hand, and may even ast as a salutary check upon union, displaying an 011111► rigid or exclusive spirit. Bat though strong advocates for the union, the workhouse, and its test, as applied to the able bodied, we are still strongly impressed with the necerrity of district or parochial boards for succour ing the distress and sickness of the aged and lama of the known and deserving poor. We are not anew's, of the host of objections which instantly start up; wit ellsidesene of them on Saturday. Bat it is quite evident fiat Oar present poor-law, if worked up to its avowed sample, is too severe, eapecially towards the abed !Ed sad infirm, and grates on the feelings of the ties in a degree toooffensive to be durably tote u rfeti7. And the proof is, that it is not executed, ex , fts it certain union. and districts, where rigour infathW side by creating obloquy, and, bursting forth in souse exposure or scandal, bringing disgrace on the whole system. To reconcile the population to the Poor-law, it will not do for each pariah to depute one guar dian to the same board, that one guardian being the arbiter of life and death, happiness and misery, to the poor of his locality ; not indeed arbiter, for his utmost favour by the poor-law can be but prison and provision, with separation, esolusion, and all their concomitants. To establish a union rate, and at the same time allow parish expenditure, would indeed necessitate a potent cheek, not impos sible in the power of a parish overseer deputed by the union. However desirable may be union settlements and anion rates, we are confident that parochial boards ought not to be altogether done away with. In a military point of view, the news from Ame rica, which we published on Saturday, presents the forces of the United States in Mexico pretty mach "as they were " when the intelligence previously re oeived by the Hibernia left them. General Scorr, in the south, with a land army of some 12,000, and a naval squ adron carrying some 350 guns, had invested Vera Cruz and San Juan d'Ullos, which he expected to take in a month at furthest. General TAYLOR, in I the north, with an army of 5,000 men : bad beaten off SANTA ANNA'S attack, and was about to fall back 14 .4 l * or the purpose of re-openin&his line of communication with the Rio Grande. The time ' required for effecting this task is not specified. Taking into account the garrisons at Matamoru, Camargo, and Tampico, and the reinforcements arriving, some 20,000 United States troops, backed by a strong squadron, were dispersed over a tract of country which extendsfrom the 19th to the 26th degree of north lati tude, and which is from April to November the seat of the romito prielo. In the middle of March, these forces had a good month's work before them ere they could "et about ascending the rugged and abrupt acclivity over which only two roads prac ticable for wheeled carriers lead to Mexico Proper. But if the military attitude of the United States in relation to Mexico had undergone little alteration, a marked change was in progress in the poitical. The government at Washington was preparing to carry into act a scheme of which the first not very obscure hint is to be found in a letter addressed by the Secretary of War to Ostleral TAYLOR 00 long ego I . as the 22nd of geptember last. I The scheme alluded to is briefly v, follows: It is p rov awd at Washington that the United States " army tad Pan' ahoahl seise every important op et and place upon the Gulf of Mexico, or California,er the Pacific, and open the way through the interior for the free transit of imports and expects." The " ports and places" thus occupied are to be " opened, while our military occupation may continue, to the commerce of all neutral nations, as well as our own, in articles sot contraband of war, upon the _payment of prescribed rates of duties." It is only the foreign trade to the ports, however, in which neutral nations are to be allowed to participate —" It is recommended, for reasons of obvious safety, that the Mexican coasting trade should be confined to our own vessels, as well as the interior trade, above any pert of entry in our possession." The duties are to be collected by " the commandant of the post, wheibst naval or military, aided by the paymaster or parser r sad the moneys are to be accounted for, not to the treasury but to the secretaries of war or of the navy respectively." This scheme is so far matured and advanced towards being carried into operation, that on the 23rd ult. Mr. President POLK addressed a formal official letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, requiring him to prepare schedules of duties and regulations for their enforcement The requisition was complied with on the 30th of the same month ; and in the letter which accompanies the documents the Secretary of the Trea sury explicitly declares, that the object of the govern ment in collecting these duties is " for the benefit of our own government and people, to sustain the war and prevent to that extent new loans and increased taxation." Ile adds ; "In view of the fact that government is thrown upon the ordinary revenues of peace, with no other additional resources but loans to carry on the war, the income to be derived from the new system, which it is believed will be large, if these regulations are adopted, would be highly important to sustain the credit of the government, to prevent the embarrassment of the Treasury, and to save the country from such ruinous sacrifices as occurred during last year." This colossal scheme of commercial and finan cial regulation sounds like a man talking in his sleep. Where are the men and ships to come from which are to occupy all the ports of Mexico from San Francisco to Tehuantepec, and from Campeachy to Metamoras ? Assuming, for argument's sake, that the productive industry of the United States could bear such a drain upon the adult population, and the pockets of the citizens the coat of outfit, what is the anomalous position in which the govern ment at 'Washington would be placed by executing this project? It would occupy the ports of Mexico in order to maintain in each of them corporations of smugglers to carry on a contraband trade with the Mates of the interior of Mexico. American citizens alone are to be allowed to participate in this smuggling traf fic, but citizens of all nations are to be permitted to carry supplies to the smugglers,on the payment of cer tain customs and tonnage dues. The revenue collected is to form a treasury apart—or rather two treasuries, one naval and the other military—over which the constitutional finance minister of the United States is to have no control. The officers of the American army and navy are to collect the moneys and pay their men, and account only to the secretaries of war' and the navy. The American commandants at the ports, and the American citizens in exclusive enjoy ment of the coasting and inland trade of Mexico, will have an interest in perpetuating this state of affairs. The citizens of the Mexican confederation and the traders of Europe, Asia, and South America will be placed at the mercy of a holy alliance of American smugglers and military and naval tax-gatherers. It does not appear by what process Mr. President POLK contemplates communicating a legal appearance to such a monstrous arrangement. From the con cluding paragraph of his letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, it would almost appear that he intend' forthwith to give directions to the war and navy de partments to carry his project into operation. If so, it will be for the citizens of the United States to con sider whether their president does not thereby exceed his constitutional powers. The secretary of the treasury says that the measure is calculated to " sus tain the credit of government," and not obscurely hints that it has become n thus to bolster up " the credit of government," use " govern ment ie thrown upon the ordivary resources of peace, with no other additional resources but loans to carry on the war." In other words, because the cabinet proposal to impose a war-tax on tea and coffee was re jected—because congress standing upon their constitu tional right, refused the head of the executivegovern ment the supplies he asked—he, by an extra-constitu tional (ifuot a contra-constitutional) act, bas determined to procure the supplies in defiance of them. The chief magistrate of the union is about to raise money for governmental purposes without the consent and co operation of that body in conjunction with which alone he can legally raise it. And he is leaving con s peas out of his councils, not because there is no time to consult it, but with premeditation. The scheme for collecting a revenue at the Mexican ports was matured in the council at Washington in September last : why was the assent of the congress, whisk has since met and separated, not asked ? On the assumption that President POLK intends to postpone his taxation and regulation of Mexican com merce, until:he has got leave from congress to impose it, the question will still remain whether foreign states are to submit to such an infringement of their neutral rights ? President Pout's scheme would confer a monopoly of the coasting and inland trade of Mexico upon the citizens of the United States. The occupation of the Mexican porta with the view, and in the way he proposes, would be, de facto, a blockade of the whole line of coast, not for the legitimate purpose of bringing the war to a dose, bat for the purpose of converting the interior of Mexico into one vast Paraguay, for the emolument of United States volunteers and retail dealers. The impracticability of the scheme, and its incon sistency with the constitution of the United States, and with the principles of international law— are no security against its being tried. It is, in fact, not new, but only a new reading of the old declaration that no European state has any right to interfere in American politics. Hitherto the government at Washington has advocated the adoption of this maxim as a means of ensuring inde pendence to all American states: now it confesses that it is meant to prevent European powers from protecting other American states when attempts are made to subject them to the Union. The scheme, though impossible to its full extent, may be attempted so far as to cause much hardship and injustice. WE have more than once adverted to the extreme importance of a regular and abundant supply of cot ton, to insure the permanent prosperity of eur great manufacture. In corroboration, we have only to refer to the statistics of the cotton trade by Mr. J. BAYNEB, republished a short time since in the Express. By these it appears that the consumption of cotton in England for the last thirty years has increased at the compound ratio of 6 per cent. each year, thereby doubling itself every twelve years; and that the con sumption for the year 1848 was estimated at 612,000,000 lbs. The consumption has also increased at a similar rate on the continent, and in the United States at the rate of 7 per cent. The supply, how ever, from various causes is not expected to increase in proportion, or to be greater in 1847 than it has been during 1848, when there were consumed in Oteat Britain Of United Stake sodas 1,611,440 baked =an. each. Bread 19 FAA Win 115,730 11,600 .4 re i t indica .„ ” maid 1,594,100 Lab, or 30,SSS heir. per week. This enormous import must be increased to quanti ties still more proffigious if the manufacture is to advance in anything like the ratio it has hitherto done. But the cultivation, it is supposed, will not in crease in America at the rate which is required to meet the expected demand, partly owing to the low price of cotton, and partly to the greater attention likely to be given to the cultivation of bread stuffs, and to the production of sugar. It is possible, also, that the rich lands of the Mississippi and of Alabama may become less productive from continued cultiva tion, and if production thus becomes more ex pensive, the price of the raw material will be still further enhanced. Brazil might greatly increase the supply of cotton, but than a fresh impetus has been given to the production of sugar, while that of cotton has for many years made but small progress. Egypt has advanced rapidly in the cultivation an% of superior kinds of cotton, and will ' nhably, with judicious . rnanagement, produce st ill larger quantities. But India ,ialked to of the country most capable of supplying the expected de ficiencieeof America. The supply, however, has hitherto been deficient in quantity and inferior in quality, tat=some conceive that the country is not only of producing greatly increased quantities, but also at such a price, and of so good a quality, as to assist in keeping down the price even of American cotton, which now controls that of all others. The grounds, it is true, of this expectation are not made sufficiently clear; for if we look to the results of experience we do not find a steady increase in the imports of Indian cotton, neither can we say, as has been stated, that there has been a gradually diminish ing supply. But we observe from the lately pub lished returns that the characteristic feature of this supply is its irregularity—moderate at first, then suddenly increasing, and again as rapidly dietinish ing, as if the country had become exhausted by a sodden effort. During the last two cc three years the supply has certainly been less than it was ten years ago, and much smaller than it was from the years 1816 to 1820. Various causes have been assigned for this diminished import. Some ascribe it to the land-tax of India, and others to the want of roads in India. A few think that un suitableness of soil, or unfitness of climate. may pre vest a regular increase of cultivation. The gradual extension of opium culture iu the interior, co-operatiog with the extended cultivation of sugar and of the areal grains near the more populous coasts, has been thought to explain the anomaly. Others have been of opinion that the badness of particular seasons renders the produce too uncertairfor the supply to be regularly depended upon. Thus, too much or too little rain in the season of cultivation may equally prevent the production of cotton, and either a good or a short crop may be followed by so much drought during the season of transport, as to afford insufficient pasturage for the millions of bullock& re quired to convey the cotton to the coast. The damage caused by the mode of transit on bullocks, as well as the plunder by boatmen when at the coast, have all been stated to conspire in producing an irregular trade, and hence a deficient supply. We almost wonder that SCHONBEIN has not been accused of con suming the cotton, and that Eibibuit viva carbeuus alba foam. Without denying in Colo the influence of the above and other assigned causes, we cannot perceive that they sufficiently explain the marked peculiarity of the imports of Indian cotton, that is, their great irregu larity. Of the causes enumerated, some are fiscal, others physical ; • few are permanent, others occa sional ; but the irregularity of supply, as far as this country is concerned, is constant. After an attentive consideration of the subject, we find that the ryot has but small encouragement to increase his cultivation. I Tiie expected produce of his field is often sold before even the seed has been put into the ground, and he usually pays usurious interest—that is, from 24 to 30 per cent —until his crop is gathered, or until the advance has been repaid. The village banker, a capitalist usually of but small means, either sells his cotton to brokers, or contracts with brinjarries, or carriers, to convey it on their bullocks to the coast. The merchants at Bombay, whether European or native, purchase their cotton for export either to Canton or Liverpool, but the quantities purchased will depend entirely on the prices likely to be obtained at either place. However low may be the prices at Liverpool, the cotton of India has still a value of its own, and will therefore be retained either for con sumpdon in the country of its growth, or for export to China : hence we shall have a diminished supply when prices are low, and an increase when they rise. In comparing the prices of cotton at Liverpool with the exports from India, we observe that the latter have been large whenever the former have been high, and that a fall in the value of cotton in England has been immediately followed by a diminution in the quantity exported from India. Though the fall in price has been, upon the whole, gradual, yet it has also been very irregular, so as, in a great measure, if not entirely, to explain the irregularities of the imports into this country. This we shall endeavour afterwards to prove, and also inquire whether it be susceptible of a remedy. Our Madrid letters of the IRth are occupied, like the press and people of that capital, with the dissension existing between the Queen and her husband. Her Majesty's ceasing to appear in public with her consort, and only with his father, the Infant, led to such disagreeable rumours that Queen Isabella besought her husband to give them a tacit contradiction, by going with her publicly to mass at the church of the Mocha, in order to silence these injurious and discreditable rumours. Don Francisco at first reluctantly promised to do so ; but, when the hour of departure came, he withdrew to his private apartments at the remote end of the palace, from which no persuasion could draw him. The Patriarch of the Indies, the highest ecclesiastical dignitary in Madrid, presented himseltand used the strongest remonstrances. His efforts, however, were fruitless, and the Queen was compelled to leave the palace as usual with her sister-in-law and father-in-law. The origin of these fatal dissensions is variously stated ; but we have rea son to affirm that they date from the very morrow of the marriage. They have, nevertheless, been recently aggravated by the peremptory dismissal of the Chris tina-CamarWa and French agents from the palaoe and the cabinet. Don Francisco chose to identify himself with these, and opposed their removal. It was reli ance on their relations with him which produced the unbecoming manifestations reported on the occasion of their dismissal. We mentioned on a former day that M. (Homage, when honoured by the gracious and kind personal reception given to him by the Queen, craved the honour of an audience of the king. This favour was peremptorily refused. The complications of the palace spread their ramifications into the cabinet and the chamber; Don Francisco openly supports the op position. Mean while,the Moderado party have not aban doned the hope of recovering office ; they push their in trigues in every quarter : they menace the Queen with deposition, and desire to retain Don Francisco as a substitute for her. Every movement of Isabella is spied into ; her most unguarded words are noted, and made the sabaect of malignant comment. The position of the cabinet is admitted on all hands to be one beset with difficulties. Further reports of a ministerial change are also stated. It appears that M. Salamanca insists on the necessity of pro pitied gg the liberal party in the chamber by re calling , and restoring him to his rank and honours. To such a measure the other members of the cabinet are opposed, fearing to exasperate ,ui the conservative party. The resignation of M. set ea was accordingly spoken of ; and it was said that he would be replaced by M. Reynoso, who had been recently elected to the vice-presidency of the chamber by the combination of the ministerial and progressista party. The present cabinet can only command the neces sary majority by conciliating a certain portion of both progressistas and moderados. Of the latter they can have no hope ; and the liberals, therefore, feeling their power, cannot be expected to refrain from its exer cise. They have made, it is said, a sine gnei now of the recall and restoration of Espartero. There is one point, however, on which the puritan ministerial party and the progressistas are in complete accordance, and which may keep the moderadoe out of offioe—it is, the cordial hatred which they bear to French in fluence. It is said that General Narvaez had re nounced his intention of accepting the French em bassy. This decision is ascribed to the pressing soli citations of MM. Mon, Fidel, and Martinez de la Rosa, who declared that his departure would be re garded as the signal for the complete dissolution of the conservative party, at the very moment when this party are making the most energetic efforts to recover their place in the government. The King Consort, it was said, intethred personally in this negotiation, pledging himself, if Oen. Narvaez would consent to remain and take the active direction of the party, that he would spare no exertions to pro mote its influence. The Paris journals of Friday have reached us. As was fully expected, the project of M. de Remusat, for the exclusion of placemen from the French representa tive chamber, was lost on a division, which took place on Thursday evening, the general result of which was stated in our Paris correspondence on Saturday. The opposition journals of that day give the following analysis of the vote :—Majority : placemen, 129; inde pendent deputies, 90—total, 219. Minority: pkcemen, 34 • independent deputies, 136—total, 170. Absent: placemen, 29; independent deputies, 41—total, 70. Untill92 placemen can be induced to vote themselves out of the chamber, there is little hope of this reform being realised. The present result justifies the ob servation of M. Tillers, that " the majority consists of government functionaries." We no- ticed on Saturday the complaints produced by the slow transmissiot of the London mails to Paris. This has, however, in another point of view, given round for serious remonstrance. It appears that individual banking houses and financial speculators avail them selves daily of the facility with which they can anti cipate the mails and carry on operations on the Bourse, to the detriment of those who are compelled to await the regular despatches arriving through the post-office. The direction of the Northern railway having been chanted with permit ting express engines to be used for this purpose, have disavowed the practice, declaring that the only express engine ever expedited on the northern road was that which brought to London the king's speed,. on the opening of the chambers. It appears, how. ever, that individuals who choose to incur the expense of a courier may receive the London papers of the preceding day at half-past two, and sometimes even at a quarter before twelve, whereas the letters and despatches are not delivered by the Post-office until the next b:grtting but one, and even then as late as ten o'clock. Le 3 iirk says that M. Duchatel has induced his colleague, M. Guizot, to confer the embassy at Madrid on his brother, M. 'Finnerty Duchatel, at present the prefect of Toulouse. The circumstances attending the admission of Gen. Munoz, husband of Queen Christina, to the modern noblesse of France, are reported to have produced some feeling of dissatisfaction on the part of the Queen Dowager, who thinks that the Muntperusier dower should have given her a claim to greater concessions than those which have marked the granting of the dukedom of Montmorot. The following is the ver sion of the affair given by L' Union Atonal-Algae, a journal which is generally well informed on the movements of the c6terie of the Hotel de Courcelles. It is not on the other side of the channel alone that the en (era. cordiate kas been so roughly shaken. The touching friend ship which has so long existed between us and Maria Chris tina has seemingly lost some of its cordiality. In support of this opinion we quote information we have received from an authentic source, and which explains the sudden coolness which has sprung up between the Tuileries and the Hotel de Coureelles. When about six weeks since political circum stances compelled the widow of Ferdinand VII. to seek an asylum in France, her first care on arriving at Paris was to solicit from the French government some high mark ot dis tinction for her second husband the Duke of itianzares, which would sound well in Spain, and counterbalance the bad effect produced by certain malicisAis rumours. The demand was most gallantly met by the im mediate offer of some noble title, the heraldic rank of which was left to her frea choice. A dukedom was in conse quence selected, and the choice graciously assented to, but here the concessions stopped. Maria Christina having expressed a great desire that the new dukedom should bear the historical, and, in France, popular, name of Malmaison, she was mortified on receiving the reply, though expressed in the most courteous terms, but so clear as not to be misin terpreted, that her request could not be granted, as bring likely to rufile the susceptibility of the French nation. Other, more or less plausible, reasons were given for not selecting the names of Saint Philippe, and Saint Amelie, proposed for the unhappy dukedom, which was dually obliged to put up with the name of Montmorot, a vulgar name enough, and which has no other signification than to point out the vicinity of a French estate bought with good Spanish crowns out of the royal privy puree of Spain. Our Paris correspondent writes, in a postscript, that he has just learnt that advioes were received on Satur day afternoon at Paris of the debercation, at Lisbon, of English, Spanish, and French troops. He has been unable, however, to obtain further details. A consi derable fall took place in the fonds on Saturday. The impression we have so often mentioned, of a loan, there is every reason to believe correct; indeed, that mea sure has become inevitable. BERLIN, Aram 19. The Allgemeine Preustische Zeitung has at last pub lished the debates on the project of address in reply to the King's speech, and the official report of the proceedings fully confirms ray statements respecting the independent and forcible language of several speakers. At the very commence ment of the adjourned discussion, some skirmishing ensued between the marshal of the diet on one side, and a (remit num ber of members on toe other, respecting the precise terms in which the motion for a reply to the royal discourse was worded—the former asserting that the motion on the previ- sus day was to the effect that an " address of thanke" be presented, and the latter insisting that ne mention was made of this weed " thanks." One of the deputies ( Herr Von Bockum-Dolffs) asserted that it was the marshal himself who introduced the word " thanks " into the mo hon. The marshal attempted peremptorily to put a stop to further remarks on the 'object, by stating that, according to the rules or the diet, no discussion on the minutes of • sitting could take place in the suoccediog one. He then de dared, automat much confusion, that the minutes were approved of. This decision, however, of his highness, did not prevent further allusion to the subject. Herr Von Saacken accused the Allgemeine l'reussieche Zeitung of luring inserted, in its official department, a statement which would give the public • false idea of the nature of the proceedings ia that assembly, inas much as it was asserted that the diet had resolved to vote as address of thanks. " The Diet," observed the speaker, " had certainly resolved to thank his Majesty for having convoked here all the representatives of the people ; but had mot agreed to a vote of thanks without at the same time expressing the opinions which prevail amongst the public. He (Herr von Sucker) would beg that either the official report should be given faithfully, in order to avoid misunderstanding, or not at all." Herr Hansemaos (the deputy for Aix-la-Chapelle) remarked, that he had not hoard the word " thanks" mentioned in the motion, and expressed the hope that for the future the official reports of the proceedings would be more correct. After some mem bers had stated that in their opinion the word " thanks " was really mentioned, the discussion on the incident in ques tion terminated. The project of address, which was drawn up by the com mittee of the diet, waa then read. A long and interesting debate ensued. The royal commissioner (the Minister of the Interior) contended that no rights, as guaranteed by for mer laws, had been violated in the patent of the 3rd of F e b. He enured the members of the United Diet, however, that if they could devise better modes than existing ones, (of ren dering the law of January 17, 1820, and the patent of February the 3rd, more conformable one with the other) the government would gladly agree to them, provided the modes devised were in unison with the institutions and welfare of the oountry. (Cries of " Bravo.") The royal commissioner ' begged that members would not cheer him. He had not got up to excite cries of " bravo," but to give expression to his innate convictions. His excellency then proceeded to combat the draft of the address, on the ground that it laid claim to rights which were not Fuarautted, by existing laws. He amerted that the patent of 1. ch. 3 granted privileges to the diet, ouch ea the power of voting or refusing taxes, and the right of petition, which were not mentioned in former statutes, and that the King had the full right to confer on a committee of the diet all the powers which were guaranteed to the general body itself. - . _ _ Mere Von Beckerath, in reply, alluded to that portion of the law of Jan. 17, 1820, which was left unfulfilled in the patent of Feb. 3, and contended that, according to the *sprees declaration of hie late Majesty, the provisions of the former law were irrevocable. He differed alto gether from the preceding speaker, with respect to the interpretation to be given to certain portions of the law of 1820, and asserted that the acts of the Germanic confederation itself guaranteed to all German states a representative government, to which the right of pe tition was necemeuil attached. The speaker proceed e d to say that the law of Jan. 17, 1820, pointed to an imperial assembly of the States---an assembly giving the idea of unity and indivisibility—whereas the patent of Feb. 8 held out the possibility of the division of the present assembly into three separate bodies, the diet proper, the united committee of the diet, and the provincial diets. He contended that the nailed eommittee could not be considered as an imperial assembly, and, in corroboration of his assertion, quoted a royal ordonnance of Dec., 1843, addressed to the Rhenish provincial diet. " The committee that drew up the draft of the address," continued tho speaker, "deemed it n to wepress in it not only the thanks of the diet, t emm o m g Majesty, for having convoked it, bat also to set forth in it those rights which have been granted in former laws, laws with which the patent of Feb. 3is not in unison. The righte which previous statutes have conferred on the nation form its noblest pomesaion, and it is a duty imposed on us not only by written laws, but by high principles of morality to preserve those rights inviolate." The speaker who con cluded his address by an eloquent appeal in favour of Ger man unity and brotherhoed, was warmly cheered. The offi cial organ of the government does not state so, but such well the PIN. The Royal Commissioner again addressed the diet, in order to peeve that, although the government were bound to lay a yearly account of the finances before the United Assembly of the States, it did not at all follow that the diet should be eenvoked every year. _ _ Herr Carophausen expressed the opinion that Prussia re quired • strong-and powerful monarchy, and that his pre sent Majesty had dens mask towards the development of the Premien nation. He contended, however, that a yearly account of the finances could not be laid before the diet, unites that diet were assembled every year; for (such are Ids own words) "an assembly that is not assembled is no assembly." It certainly requires " no ghost from the grave " to tell us that—but MUM claque. He then proceeded le slate that there were not only three bat five subdivisions of the representative system, as eat forth in the patent—the united diet, the unites committee of provincial states, the deputation from the states, the provincial states, and the separation of the states and the provinces. Those sub divisions (be added) weakened the government. He strongly objected to the remaining restrictions imposed on the diet, and after asserting that the majority of the meal times of the diet sat in it by virtue of en elec tion, and that the electors had a clear right to demand from their representatives the maintenance of all existing rights, concluded by giving in his adhesion to the draft of the address. Prince Lychnowski (a member of the upper house) stated he could not vote for a mere address of thanks any more than for en address of mere complaints, for the former would induce the king and the public in general to believe that all the wishes of the nation had been fulfilled, and that it had attained the very height of human felicity, " And," added the prince, ' such is not the cam " (Doi Goa ! dos ist eicAt as). Whilst the latter would be a crime, inas much as grateful thanks assuredly ere due to the royal legislator for having laid the foundation stone of • lasting constitution. The diet, however, was 'bound to speak the truth to the king—(cheer)—for the highest loyalty wee involved in the greatest truth. "The further we advance in parliamentary existence," continued the noble speaker. " the greater our duty becomes to draw near to the forms of the parliamentary nations which, in the legal exercise of tnsir rights and privileges, have preserved and strengthened their liberty, and promoted the grandrur of their people. A glance at • long tree and kindred nation, which unfolds its victorious banner on every sea, will serve to confirm my assertion." (Cheers.) The Count Von Arnim (Minister of State), objected to portions of the draft of the address, and moved the amend ment as stated in my conispoadeftot of yesterday. BOMB, anis It. The Hon. Mr. Temple had a long private biter*, with Pius IX. on Monday, and appzently hue,' transacted business to his satisfaction, return" 4 yew s ; day to his post at Naples.. Whether he inearre', ti t penalties of prcernueare I know not, but his br ot h, Lord Palmerston has, no doubt, a bill of indemnity ea ' an d d r y i n hi s portfolio. He wa s i ntro d uced by old lieW ner, the Hanoverian envoy. What a farce King Cumberland, of orange-lodge renown, ah os bil the channel through which the Pope is to b e communication with the representatives o f s C 0.,; who reigns, at home and a b roa d , over ungise„ Roman catholic subjects. If our intercourse with Rome is in f avourable pr. geese, a recent step on the part of your Brita " vicars apostolic " nei crtheless likely to „ evi an awkward impediment. You arc aware thd e ar , functionaries, originally four, were doubled d the last years of Gregor:, and England i s 1 4 divided into eight quasi-epic opal districts, viz., /err ,. politan, York, Lancaster, northern, WesteeD, e n midland, and Wales. Not siiiisfied with this a tation of their numbers, th e v i car i a l b ody is just , ter in the attitude of Oliver Twist "asking for more Their new demand is, to hive their Gees standi England no longer vicarial —i. e., removable et th e simple will of the Vatican—hut eloces3e, with pr. manent, "ordinary," and irresponsible jarisdictioa If this were a mere matter of honorific title, sad approximation on the part of the Euglish Ho ok catholic prelates to the plenit 3de of hierarchy exi s t, ing for the brotherhood in Inland, it would be oden. sive only in the nostrils of jea!ous bigotry. The kw * olfactones of Dr. Philpotts night snuff the lat est brimstone, and the steadier hlomfield might obj ect , according to his never-to-be-e-irgotten axiom, the " wax candles might be placed on the altar provide/ they were not lit up !" but th e p rocee di ng is dee* objectionable on other grounds ; u seriously aff eet t s , the Roman catholic body, cler g y as we ll as laity, a England. 'I he " vicars " have not had the grace, in seeking to better their own condition, to raise up by one com mon effort their " beloved clergy," wh o are et present dismissible at caprice like themselves. They seek not the salutary control of a diocese a dean and chapter, according to the canonical arra: gemeuta of catholic christendom : they do not relish the assistance of irremorable rural deans appointai for length of ser vice, learning and piety ; no claims of porochi,l au thority, as in Ireland, enter into their project for the " good of the church." So far in spirituals; but here's the rub! in tempo ralities they want to " carry the bag," and to get transferred to their single separre names the pure and simple proprietorship of all thi landed and funded property now vested in lay or clerical trustees for Roman catholic purposes throughout Great Britain. These accumulated funds, the legacy of by-gone piety, have long been coveted ; and as the law of England not sweep away these solemn trusts at the biddim the vicars, it is sought to carry the object into dm by the spiritual weapon of excommunication and ghostly terror, should Propaganda give powers is wield such questionable thunder for such still man questionable PurposesConeiderable and rents are held by lame" in various countries in:trust for Benedictine and ]emit missions, but as these corporations are powerful at Rome, no attempt is made just now at usurpation in that quarter. The other lay patrons of Roman catho lic living', holding such patronage according to the canonical usage of all catholic countries (in right of original grants from the pockets of their ancestors) us all about to be despoiled of their immemorial rights, unless, being made aware of what is brewing in Rome, they instruct Roman lawyers and agents to resist the palpable spoliation. The system by which the vicars themselves are created, is an anomaly unknown to c etholic christen dom. There is no election by a pa' °chid synod, es in Ireland: no principle of dello- rkiniori. Caprice and cabal influence is the result,andr. snot mediocrity and cunning will be sure to rise ever the heeds cl such men as 'ASGARD, under the ihrseat Gramm ment In feet, anderstrappers at . P. opsganda settle justthe s aa piri th tus e il y ar li a k ir: : o n f or Grea is t it ßn un tam der, l od d her colonies thus I subaltern functionaries (who have the power of sup. pressing or distorting correspondence) are Macon. sible to persuasions of an arithmetical character. Brunetti, long secretary for British and colonial affairs, has been at last noticed to quit, and goes to some foreign post. Monaig. Corboli, whose uprightnew and integrity are unimpeachable, is spoken of as his successor in Propaganda. I regret to announce that Gibson's statue of the 1 1 Queen, which left our quay, in a barckoa,for Civita- Vecchia, to meet the Peninsular and Oriental Coy pany's steamer for Southampton, missed arriving. oak casing, stuck in the mud at Ostia, and lies thee a The nd to sm t al li l e b irre g a e t ,o w w ei i g ng ht to of t th he e lo mar w water w in ith th its e T ize iber bi; still. Such are the inconveniences of greixtues, u Boileau curiously observes, speaking of Louis XIV, on the Rhine banks, while his army was forcing the Painfle• Le grand rod s adadreat War C011r•r. Se plaint de au grand., caw rallaeae 'war' FRANCE.—PARIS, APRIL 24.—The return of the customs revenue of France for the first quarter of the pm sent year wee published in the Moniteur of Friday. It appears from this document that there is a serious tion in the tenths as compared with those of the last two years. The total receipts of the first quarter. of the tlues years areas follows First Quarter of 1845 1646 , 1847 ~ ~ Deficits of 1647 as compared with MD • 1.7004447L .... 3 . 131 , 442 . A portion of this diminution of revenue, as mowed with 1846, is of course ascribable to the admission of gnu ID the prawn t year free of duty; but this does not apply to 1845. In the latter year, the duty received on gram was only 216,501 f.; whereas, in the present year, its amount we. 699,814 r., being more than three times the former moat. The falling of, therefore, in the cucoms of 1817, as compared with 1845, is not, as the French journals infer, to hi 66 ' cribed to the discontinuance of the duty on grain. In 144, however, five millions of francs were received for ditty 55 grain, an amount greater than the comparative dad mency. The articles upon which an incrents of maw is observable in the preseutquarter are, cast iron, owl, win coffee, copper, and oleaginous grains. On 000011 sad wont there is a considerable falling off, indicating the proms under which industry suffers in the present aim. A review took place in Paris on Friday. The ctrgwere ranged in the Court of the Tail/ries, the Plain rrouael, and the quay from the Poet Royal to Pont du Carrousel. The Kim attended by the Doke do Nemours, d'Aumale, and de ILontpeasier, Disko Mark , of Wurtamberg, Primes Frederick of Sale/wig Histale, the Minister of War, and (knouts Sebastiani and nipien, rode along each line, receiving the cheers of the an is hs posed each regiment. Returning from the quay, Yin Ma jesty took his station in front of the centre pavilile of the palace, where the whole of the troops filed off Wow WIN after the Ring bad conferred numerous crams oa di s!t officers and non-contraimioned officers of the wend me' agents. The Osiris, French post-ofhoe demur, seeded • Frioul on the 19th, (men Malta. Among the Sir Thos. Whtabon, late commander.in-chid at tiesm.. army of Bombay, and his family. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident *pod 41 . Friday on the Northern Railroad. At half-past fear la e• morning, while the Goode carriages were being p l aced ststYtr the shed at the St. Juat station, the Brussels train came and though, being warned by the signal., it had s speed, rata on to the waggoos, enisbed one, and dram lee others off the rail; but, as the pace had become merrily, the shock was scarcely felt b the train itself. TVs, YIP ever, occasioned a delay of two hours. At the moment Ibis all was cleared, and the train was again starting, a MAW ployed by the Post-office haring o ffi ciously interfrallit spite of the opposition of the railway men, was sial. tween two buffers, and was seriously injured by the on' pression ; indeed it was reported shortly after the WOO that he was dead. THE BEAUVALLON DUEL.—The appeal of 3 d'Hcqneville) to the Court of Caseation, against the dernios of the Cour Royale, sending him for trial before the Cart of Asusea, for perjury in the trial of M. Beauvallon for M. Dejarrier in a duel, was heard on Friday, and re SPAIN.—The Foment°, of Barcelona, announce the arrest of the celebrated colecilla, Joie Bosch y Musk called the Penitent of Finestras," and chief of one ofd's Carlin bands of 20 men. He is to be oonveyed to Gwen, hi be judged by a court-martial His arrest was effected by 1118 inhabitants of Lampeardan, aided by the authorities. GERMANY.—Paussu, Beaux APRIL 20.—A Bodelschwingh will shortly be appointed Chancaller of thi kingdom. Phis dignity has not been conferred on as]) Pr* man minister since the death of M. Voa Hardeabargr Aligemeine Prelate. Zeitssng. HUNGARY.—The Allgemeine Zeitung, under do data of Vienna, April 16, says that disturbances have adm plum at Prague, owing to the number of hands throws eat of employment. The military was called out, and it is laws that blood was shed. RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL. German J0141,14i of Brussels has the following from Bet dated the 18th The Russian embassy has just rests despatches from St. Petersburg, to the following efface The Emperor Nicholas is to arrive at Warsaw on the 2301 inst., to make a stay of three days; Poland i• ta WI! viceroy, in the Freon of the Orand Duke Micheal THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1847.