The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-31 00:00:00

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The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Vvdeo, Pernam buco, Bahia, Ma tetra, and Buenos Ay res, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th January. The overland closed mails, cia Marseilles, to the Mediterranesn, Egypt, Aden. Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, Me., will be made up on the evening of the 7th January. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 7th January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advartintee its intended for The Express, lundon evening gave., mast be at tbe Office by Two o'clock on the day of publication. MGM WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tin DAL —MCCOLOM 40 min. peg 0 ; Afternoon, 7 min. past 1 LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 31. PRESIDENT POLK'S rapid experience in statesman ship is fully evinced in his present Message, so widely contrasted with the sweeping, the arrogant, and belligerent documents which, in the first flush of power, he gave to the world. His cue is now to plead, not to menace ; to sophisticate, not bluster. Instead of the slasher of the south-west, he appears in the character of the lawyer of the north-east ; keen, plausible, insinuating ; making out the best possible case, with little regard for truth, but in no very offensive tone. The difference is owing, no doubt, to the circumstance that, in his first message Mr. Pout was speaking at Europe, and appealing in the same moment to war passions at home, and to the mob which cherished them. He has now little to say to Europe or to England, which has allowed him, in a military and territorial sense, to have his own way. The war rabble have had enough of volunteering. Mr. Pout, therefore, has got a purely Yankee audience to address, and not a vulgar one either. lie suits, in consequence, his tone and his logic to those on whom the carrying out of his measures depends, and he has doffed the robe of a con queror for the purpose. The President, however, still addresses poor Mexico, much as the wolf addressed the lamb, with strange hypocrisy. The ancestors of the lamb, he de clares, always behaved scurvily to wolves, maltreated, robbed them, and refused satisfaction. The Spanish mode of raising revenue, adopted by the governments Which succeeded each other m Mexico, proved neces sarily onerous to American traders, adventurers, and pedlars. All kept an account of their losses, and such demands amounted to three millions of dollars. It is characteristic enough, that Gen. J.icKsos was the first President who determined to enforce these claims, and the conqueror of Florida was doubtless a claimant too formidable for Mexico to meet by a plump denial. It higgled and hesitated, and craved delays, but JACKSON and VAN BUREN pressed and threatened, and a sum was at length extorted from Mexico, which President POLK magnanimously passes altogether sub silentio. Now, the nature and justice of these American claims, as well as the coercion put upon the Mexi cans, appear clearly enough from demands, quite analogous, made by the French. The French govern ment claimed, we believe, 600,000 dole. as indemnities for damage and losses suffered by French citizens. They bombarded St. Juan d'Ulloa, landed at Vera Cruz, and their bully ing, with the persuasions of other powers, induced Mexico to consent to pay the indem nity claimed. The sum was brought to Paris, a com mission appointed to distribute it, and the result was, that there did not appear claimants for more than one-half. The French treasury pocketed the rest : but LOUIS PHILIPPE has been heard to admit that it was a most nefarious transaction; and that if ho had been fully aware, he would never have allowed a French gun to be fired against Mexico in such a cause. So much for indemnities for losses, extorted by cannon, and computed by the cennoneers. The next count in Mr. PoLic's accusation refers to Texas. He asserts that it made part of Louisiana, and Was comprised in the territory sold by NAPOLEON ! We shall not waste time upon this question, it being clear to all who have studied it, that the valley of the Mississippi was the extent of the French claim. And it is perfectly well known that the Americans in the heat of 1819, under no pressure, but merely from a sense of justice, admitted the Sabine to be the true boundary between the two empires, " renouncing for ever all their rights, claims, and pretensions to the territories lying west and south of the above line." Such are the words of that treaty, containing a most formal renunciation of those rights which Mr. POLK puts forward. The next argument goes upon a very different sup position, and founds the American right upon the independence acquired by Texas, as merely a federal portion of the Mexican empire. Yet, what fuller proof can exist of Texas extending only to the Nueces, than the fact of the establishment, iu 1824, of the republic of the Rio Grande, comprising the states of Trunau Cohahuila, and Durango. This re p ublic extund to as, the Nueces, and the Texans accepted the frontier, and aided their brethren of the Rio Grande, in defending it. After the battle of San Jacinto, the Texans claimed to the Rio del Norte ; but who can doubt that such a frontier was, at least, an uncertain and disputed one Whatzver was the opinion of the American Execu• Live, and of Congress, with respect to the exact posi tion of Texas, certain it is that the American forces, under General TAYLOR, did at first respect the territory claimed by the inns;Mexica that he did not advance from Corpus Christi but obedience to com mands given in consequence of the Mexican govern ment refusing to admit an American envoy, Mr. SLIDELL, to negotiate questions which the Mexicans would not moot. The American advance from Corpus Christi to the Rio del Norte must have been either the peaceable taking possession of a territory considered their own, or it was a hostile advance into a disputed territory. Mr. POLK represents it as both one and the other a manifest absurdity. The advance of General TAYLOR pro duced war; the advance was avowedly made in revenge, because the Mexicans would not admit Mr. SLIDELL and his propositions. The war was there fore evidently provoked by the Washington govern ment, the Mexicans being evidently prepared to remain passive, had they not been bearded and attacked. This is the weak point of President Pout's plairloyer, and will give rise, no doubt, to the principal portion of the ensuing debate. - Mr: POLK's assertion, that the refusal of Mexicans to receive Mr. SLIDELL was a just cause of his marching onward and provoking war, reminds one of the very different conduct of general JACKSON. Under his Presidency the Mexican government refused to treat with an American envoy, Mr. Ponismr, nay, insisted on his recall.; and General JACKSON, though not admitting the justice of their complaint, still aceeded to it, re called POINHETT, and contented himself with de. ploring the irritation of the Mexicans, bat never thought of resenting or avenging it. The arguments by which the President follows up his denun,iations are completely destructive of all the rights of independent nations and of the rules of their intercourse. His accusations of PAREDEB, praises of HERRERA, and hopes of SANTA ANNA, represent the President of the United States in the singular light of making war, not upon Mexico, but upon particular parties and statesmen in Mexico ; very mean, personal, and unwarrantable way of pre senting and regarding so great a question. We utter this judgment more in a spirit of criti cism than of antagonism. For certainly the mode in which President Poui takes up and treats the, to us, more interesting question of international trade, disarms every feeling of rivalry or hostility. Were such principles as those of President Pout's, Message prevalent, it would be little matter over what shores or ports the flag of the Union floated. We could scarcely have expected to find the prin ciples so very recently triumphant with us, so speedily and so fully re-echoed from the chair of the Washington executive. It is a proud triumph for those who won, and for those who carried, free trade. The language of the American President on this point has all the calmness of strong and irresimina stible conviction. There is no party, no personal recri tion in it, and it constitutes such an appeal to the public of the United States, as appears perfectly irresistible, as it is irrefragable. But the commercial policy of which President POLK has hoisted the flag, in amity with, and in response to, our own , is a subject not to be disposed of in a few paragraphs. The financial statements of the Message are more cheerful than rumour led to suppose. The Presi dent represents the war estimates as consider ably short of the amounts with which Mr. WEB STER alarmed his New England audiences. At the same time the President insists on having the credit, withheld last session, of two millions of dollars, evidently to satisfy the Mexican army. This shows the conviction of the American government still to be, that the aid of SANTA ANNA may be reckoned upon to bring about a treaty of peace. THE humanising influences of art upon the popu lace are beginning to be admitted in theory, but little is done to bring them into practical operation. The presence of the fustian-coated artisan or lounging Guardsman in the National Gallery, sometimes serves as a text for a dilettante or a humanitarian, but your average Englishman no more dreams of any good to be derived by such persons from pictures or statues, than he can detect sermons in a Lord Mayor's show, or discover an educational influence in the parade of RICHARDSON'S booth. The Houses of Parliament are in much the same predicament. A few of their num ber really believe that art has an aim beyond the filling up of an idle moment with a transient and picktooth pleasure. Concessions are made, from time to time, with a sort of contemptuous tolerance to these enthusiasts by their more practical companions. Schools of design are founded and helped with grants of public money. In this, to be sure, the economy of the house is lulled with the tradesmanlike sop that such schools will make us independent of foreign taste and artistic culture. We have seen money granted in prizes for cartoons Cid specimens of fresco painting. We have a National Gallery, with its annual grant, and its porn-curante trustees. We have a British Museum, enriched chiefly by private taste and muni ficence with some of the noblest marbles of the highest Athenian schools. Your PEELS, and MORPETHS, and MoNTEAOLES, and even your HUMES, in a spirit altogether at war with penny wisdom, get up from time to time to de fend the grants for these and similar objects against the estimates-economy-man for the time being, and the majority generally back their representations. The bulk of our public men do not, speaking truly and soberly, care one straw about any such business. Whatever be the amount of public coarseness and indifference in matters of art, it is more than accounted for by the apathy and ignorance on the subject, amongst the governing class in England. This is true, in despite of unrivalled private galleries, collected by English taste and resources, and not withstanding the existence among us of a small but highly . cultivated body of connoisseurs, not to be out done in knowledge by any unprofessional class in Europe. If anything were required, besides our public monuments, to prove the absence of general artistic cultivation or concern about matters of art, in this country, it is supplied by the mal-administration of our museums and galleries. No country, in which art was cared for by the represented or their repre sentatives would sanction the present management of the National Gallery, which falls short of its duties or violates them, in every particular of its action. It destroys good pictures by cleaning : elevates bad ones into the best places in its wretched rooms : accepts, as gifts, works altogether unfit for a national collection: re fuses the best pictures when offered to it ct fair prices, and buys the worst at extravagant sums. The defects of administration in the British Museum are less apparent. There the collection, as compared with the National Gallery, is permanent. Additions are made from time to time (as lately of the Lycian marbles), but the transactions as to purchase, or re jection of works offered, are little before the public. But the absurdities of the Library-arrangements for the new catalogue have been admirably exposed by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, and there can be little doubt that in its other departments the Museum exhibits the same ignorant and blundering procedure as the National Gallery. Thus the Etruscan collection, which had an archreological and artistic value—when the sarco phagi with their deposits were shown in Pall-mall, in rooms painted and arranged to imitate the vaults at Volci or N olaterra—has lost most of its significance since its purchase by the Museum, now that the sar cophagi have been placed in one room, the urns in another, the bronze ornaments and utensils in a third, while the copies of the wall paintings have disap peared altogether. This present Christmas has shown a singular piece of carelessness or stupidity in the authorities of both great national collections. Boxing-day, the national holiday, fell this year on a Saturday. Thousands of holiday-keeping artisans, with their wives and fami lies, flocked, as, to their credit they have ever done since the privilege was allowed them, to the National Gallery and the British Museum. At the former they were met by closed gates, and could not obtain even the boon of an answer. At the latter, querists were informed that the Museum was always closed on Saturdays. So is the National Gallery as a general rule. But, surely, on this particular Saturday, an exception should have been made. Here were some twenty or thirty thousand people shut out from a ra tional, humanising, to some an ennobling, pleasure, from the carelessness or blockheadedness of the officials, with whom Saturday is Saturday, be it never so much boxing-day. If the exclusion was in tentional, it was ill-judged and unjustifiable ; if acci dental, it was stupid and unkind. The attendants at these places have their regular holidays, and no great amount of work while on duty ; but the poor artisans with their families have, many of them, but this one week-day in the year to enjoy themselves. Who knows how many sorry hearts were made by Saturday's disappointment, or how many poor men's holidays had a shade thrown over them by the unexpected refusal of the bluff gentleman in livery at the gate of the Museum ? These things may seem trifles, but they indicate a want of thoughtful ness and sympathy, which it is peculiarly irritating to see at a time of general rejoicing. . It is probable, that if a single person in authority had thought of coupling boxing-day and the poor man's two gratis exhibitions in London, this absurd ex clusion could scarcely have taken place. It could hardly have occurred had the visits of thousands to these places, on our rare holidays, ever suggested the thought that here was a means of instruction at command, which should be kept always in the reach of the poor, and of which they should in every possible way be encouraged to avail themselves. Who can say how many an extra shilling was spent in the gin-shop and \ public-house, to make up for the balked en j o y ment of - the pictures and statues, and natural history of the national collections? the IN the dark ages, when a conjuror wished to im pose on a credulous multitude, his first step was " to cast a figure." In our days casting figures is the cabalistic process by which statisticians impose on themselves. Mr. Euw.tan BtINES believes that he will demonstrate the inutility of State interfe- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1848 rence in the ness of education, ing that there already bu e si xists a sufficient amou by nt show of school accommodation in the country. This is a matter perfectly indifferent to the issue; if his calcuematical lations wer e correct to the very ac me of math certainty, they would only prove that the interfe rence of government is not necessary for the erection of schools in wealthy manufacturing districts. Sup posing Dr. VAUGHAN to have conceded this position, instead of controverting the accuracy of Mr. BAINES'S calculations, the question of state interference in the nagement of a system of national education would neither have been advanced nor retarded I one jot ; schools are no more education than I knives and forks are dinner. The question does not arise whether there are sufficient means in Eng land for the right and effective instruction of the rising generation, but whether those means are so applied as to attain the desired end. We should be much more disposed to complain of a superabundance than of a deficiency of means; our complaint is, that these means are perverted to evil, and misapplied to wrong. There are schools that, instead of an educa tion, give a miseeducation ; and every such school, instead of flourishing in a statistical return as a posi tive agency of good, should occupy the place of a negative quantity in an algebraic statement, or of the debts in a merchant's ledger. The amount of mis educating. schools must be separated from the amount of educating .schools in order to ascertain the extent of the provision made for the effective instruction of the people. No one but a bewildered statistician could have dreamed of uniting the two together, and setting forth agencies of evil as part and parcel of the means by which good is to be accomplished. Were we called upon to substantiate our case in a court of justice, Mr. EDWARD BAINES would be one of the first whom we should place in the A itness-box ; his evidence simply comes to this, that school accom modation exists, but that the people are not educated. Such being the result of the existing no-system, we say that a system should be devised to adapt the means to the end—to prevent the useless expenditure of money, the waste of labour and of time, and the multitudinous forms of costly exertion expended in the purchase of absolute failure. Nothing but the strangest obliquity of intellect or perversity of heart could resist such a conclusion ; and had not Mr. BAINES completely mystified himself by his conjura tions with figures, he must have reached it as directly as Dr. VAUGHAN. But our case is much stronger; mis-education is not a merely negative thing—it is something more than the absence of a good education—it is a positive evil ; it is the presence of a fearful wrong. Ignorance is not the mere absence of all knowledge, as folly is not the mere absence of all intelligence ; but igno rance is depraved knowledge, and folly is depraved intelligence. Let Mr. BAINES go into any one of our prisons, and enter into conversation with any one of the juvenile delinquents classed under the category of ignorant. He will find him sullen and suspicious, for he has been trained in both qualities, and has been taught to use them as a tortoise does his shell, for the protection of weakness; he will find his mind destitute of principles, but amply stored with preju dices: the young criminal has little acquaintance with religious doctrines, but he is tolerably familiar with vulgar superstitions : he probably knows nothing of history or geography, but he is familiar with the ex ploits of all the thieves in the county, and could, if he pleased, describe the localities of the best managed robberies in the neighbourhood. His state of knowledge is as much the result of training as that of the captain at Eton, or the senior wrangler at Cambridge ; it is as artificial and factitious as that of the lawyer, the physi cian, and the engineer. For his suspicions were not born with him; his prejudices did not unfold themselves spontaneously in his mind ; his supersti tions have not been self-developed, and his intelli gence in felony was not perfected without labour. Here then is an obvious result, not of non-education, bat of mis-education, and this mis-education is as ob viously the result of the no-system advocated by Mr. BAINES. There is no more common error than to imagine that negative names always indicate non-existences ; they very frequently describe things as positive and as real as their opposite; because the negation is used only in a limited sense and merely denies a special form of existence. 'rho man we call "an unbeliever" may possibly reject the creed which we have adopted, but he must in doing so believe a great many other things to which we would refuse assent; infidclit3 may ' be the result of excessive credulity—the man who re jects the gospels as inspired books receives them as forgeries. We know that vice is a reality as well as virtue, that crime has an absolute existence as well as rectitude, and it requires very little acuteness in any one but a statistician to discover that ignorance is just as positive, as palpable, and as substantial a thing as knowledge. There are schools for ignorance, systems exist for depraving the intellect not less than for cor rupting the heart, efficient means are at work for training to dulness as well as to depravity. But these schools, these systems, and these means are actually items in Mr. BAINES'S calculations of the existing amount of the provision made for the educa tion of the people. "The landlord has robbed me of a thousand pounds," exclaims a statistical priest in the " Beaux' Stratagem." " How do you make that out ?" asks an astonished bystander. " Oh," says the worthy father, " there was five hundred pounds 1 owed him, and five hundred pounds I intended to owe him." We could wish that Mr. BAINES had adopted better . formulte of calculation than those borrowed from Father Foigard. In the natural progress of dis cussion the question of national education has as sumed a new aspect as it comes to be better under stood. When (awe men axe thoroughly convinced that some process, either of education or mis-educa tion, is constantly and necessarily moulding and form ing every individual mind in the community, they have reached the important discovery that their choice does not lie between something and nothing, bat between something absolutely good and something absolutely evil. Simple as is this discovery, it is one which Mr. BAINES has yet to make. All his calculations arc based on the erroneous supposition that he has only to compare a positive with a negative, and he there fore compounds his positive of all agencies, good, bad, and indifferent ; school accommodation is the be-all and the end-all of his inquiries, but whether it be an accommodation for training to igr.orance or to learn ing, to depravity or to rectitude, is a matter of too little importance to attract the - notice of a sublimated statistician. The choice then propounde?, to us is between a sys tem and a no-system ; and to decide it we need only ask ourselves whether we are satisfied with our no system ? Has vice seneoly abated,—is there a per ceptible diminution ie. the number of juvenile delinquents in towns, and a palpable increase in the supply of skilled labour? Do we find less of stolid prejudice in oar rural districts accompanied by a marked improvein ent in all agricultural and farming processes ? If these improvements exist, they are capable of bei.ng tested and established by statistical tables, and such tables would have the merit of bear ing on the question in issue. We repeat what we have said before, that calculations of the amount of school accommodation have ea little to do with the supply of the educational wants of the country as cal culations of the amount of table accommodation have to do with the supply of food during a famine. The Paris press has begun to sound the note of preparation for the approaching session, and a move ment is visible in all the ministries. Solicitude and I apprehension are apparent on the brows of the great public functionaries. The great questions of the day will be those of the foreign relations; compared with them all domestic questions at present sink into com parative obscurity. The railways will probably receive some attention, and evoke some criminatory speeches from the opposition. But the internal policy of the country cannot give rise to a division. Some of the journals of Tuesday affirm that M. Guizot will so manage matters that the explanations on the marriage question will be postponed, so as to force Lord Palmerston to deliver his explanation before he can receive from Paris a report of that which will be given by M. Guizot in the Chamber of Peers. The Journal des Debats professes an impatient desire for the arrival of the moment when the Minister of Foreign Affairs will have an opportunity of dis pelling the clouds which surround this diplomatic and international question. " A great session," it says, " is about to commence, the greatest apparently that has occurred for fifteen years. It is from the foreign policy that it will receive its importance. An immense task will devolve on the illustrious man who directs the foreign affairs of France." But the Journal des Debals feels assured I that that statesman will not be below the level of his France " With M. Ginsot for minister," it e xclaims, ••• France need not fear any rivalry either of argument or of eloquence." La Freese contradicts , apparently upon autho rity, the statement that the article on the Cracow affair, which has lately called forth so much and so severe comment in the journals of Paris and London said to be extracted from the Austriats Observer, has any official character. 'The Eeprils Public of Tuesday says that Queen Victoria has again made known her fixed determina tion not to accept the cadeaux usually tendered to her upon the jour de ran, from the Tuileries. The King and Queen of the Belgians were to have left Paris for Brussels on Wednesday morning by a special train. It was announced that the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier contemplate a visit to the King and Queen of the Belgians in the course of the next month. They will peas a fortnight in Brussels. A report was spread at the Bourse on Tuesday that Lord Normtuiby had signified his intention of declin ing to join the corps cliplopnotique on Friday, at the Tuileries, in offering their felicitations to the King.i or n consequence of the papal nuncio, who, as the seni member of the corps, would present the address, entertai n ing the intention of ngratulating Louis Philippe on the marriage of th e Duke of Montpen sier. This report was attended by a slight decline of the funds. It was, however, stated later that at the particular desire of the King no allusion would be made to that event in the address, and that upon this understanding the British ambassador would appear on the occasion. The prorogation of the Cortes at Madrid to the 31st, —mentioned in our Madrid correspondence of yester day, the ostens ble cause of which was the obstructed state of the roads,—is differently interpreted by the Opposition journals, and ascribed to the difficulties created by the ministerial crisis; but against this it is asserted that M. Isturitz having determined, in compliance with the desire of the Queen formally ex pressed, to submit his public administration to the judgment of Congress before retiring, there seems to be no object in the adjournment for five or six days. It is not doubted now by any party that MM. Isturitz Sanz, and Caneja, will retire after the opening of Congress. M. Castro y Orozco will no doubt be elected to the presidency of the elective chamber by a large majority. M. Pacheco, the candidate of the Puritans, and M. Cortina, the candidate of the Progressistas, will divide the opposition. On the 22nd, a meeting of the moderate party among the deputies was held to decide upon the course to be followed at the com mencement of the session. The event which engrossed most attention was the triple election of M. Olozaga. It was said that an authorisation to enter Spain had been forwarded to him at Bayonne. The following are the chief provisions :—At the meeting of the Moderado deputies above mentioned it was decided that measures shall be taken to secure the union and coherence of the party. Another meeting was to take place before the opening of the Cortes: A private letter states that, in consequence of the conciliatory tendencies of the ministerial party, the co nservative fraction of the Chamber will not hesi tate to support the Moderados, in order to oppose more effectually the Progressista minority. It was expected that several of the Conservative deputies would attend the next meeting of the Moderados. The Curlists continued to agitate, and it was ex pected that some attempt would be made by them before the close of the year. The Madrid Gazette of the 23rd instant publishes a royal ordonnance, in virtue of which the Bank of St. Ferdinand continues to be the bank of the government, and will open a credit equal in its total amount to the Budget of 1847. ROME, DEC. 15. You have been in possession of the dismissal of the Governor of Rome, Monsignor Marini, of whose poli tical tendencies and obstructive obstinacy some idea was given in a former despatch. His successor has since been announced in the person of a native of Palermo, Grazzolini, now acting legate at Ancona, where he was sent on the late outbreak, and won golden opinions: he had previously been at the head of the railway board here, and shown business habits of the first order. As this office is of the utmost I importance to the progress of internal improvement in the capital, much satisfaction is felt at so judicious a selection. The removal of Marini was a measure which evinced a bold determination on the part of Pius, but what follows, unless explained to you, would seem to be in contradiction with that display , of energy. This very Marini is to be the, first, and as yet the only cardinal of his creation ! He received the official communication yesterday ; next week he gets his hat. Commentary of a very bitter sort will be made on this promotion throughout Italy; but the facts of the case will ultimately become known and go far to exculpate his Holiness. It appears that Marini, who belongs to a respectable family, had a younger brother who was seeking the hand of a daughter of the princely house of Chigi, and to enable him to make a suitable settlement on the occasion, the elder brother, who inherited all the entailed property, renounced his claims by a solemn deed, and contented himself with whatever provision he might earn in his profession as a churchman. Under the old I.ginte he could not be displaced from the governorship without receiving a cardinalship on retirement, with its usual allowance of 4000 dollars a year from the treasury. Deprivation of office under the new arrangement reduced him to actual beggary, having burnt his fleet a la Scipio as related above on entering the church. Much sympathy was accordingly felt for him by the aristocracy of Rome, and many a fair suppliant has made exertions in his favour with the powers around the throne. The princely house of Sacripante, very influential with the Pope, has been indefatigable ; and even Count Rossi has been induced, by some mysterious agency, to in tercede on his behalf. The result is merely an in dication of the good nature and kind feeling of Pius, and must be distinctly understood as such, not as a token of altered policy or subserviency to Austria,l as it would seem to the uninitiated. ; In reference to the above-mentioned pension of 4,000 dollars a year, which every Roman cardinal draws from the common exchequer (Foreign cardinals must contrive to keep their red hat in proper trim at their own expense), it would appear to be and is in reality, a rather heavy item of expenditure in the pontifical budget. Yet you would be wrong in think ing that the resources of St. Peter's patrimony are not adequate to the full expenditure of the papal system, under proper management ; and that management, I am happy to know, is about to be witnessed without much external manifestation. It has been admitted to be a proper maxim (one I believe of Rochefau eauld's), Qu'il fart lacer son linge sale en famine, and you will learn with satisfaction that a secret and confidential commission has lately been named by his Holiness to investigate every branch of ecclesiastical revenue, the rent-roll of every convent, hospital, confraternity, every canonry, chantey ; in fact, to overhaul the whole financial re sources of the Roman district. Other districts will come next. This secret committee is composed of Cardinals Micara (General of the Capuchins), Bianchi (ditto of the Benedictine Camaldulese monks), Osteni (Prefect of the "Bishops and Re gulars"), and finally the late Prime Minister Lam &uschini. The most searching powers have been given to this committee, and woe to any abuse, or dilapidation, or malversation which may ceme under their notice. A consolidation of various institutes, and a severe economy throughout, will, it is under stood, produce an aggregate of surplus to the treasury sufficient to meet all pressure, so as to obviate the re currence to loans for the future altogether. And though what follows more properly belongs to the money market article of your paper than to its political correspondence, the attention of buyers and sellers in the public funds of European states would do well to consider the new aspect of things in Italy, and the relative stability of the various governments, whose prospects have of late been materially changed. The price of the Roman funds (Five per Cents.) has, for the last ten years, remained unaltered, at from 100 to 102, or thereabouts, even during the precarious rule of Gregory, whom the slightest breath of popular re venge would have dethroned in a twinkling, at any general outbreak on the Rhine, the Po, or the Bosphorus. Still, he managed by borrowing and patchwork to keep up the papal credit, which never sunk below par. At the present juncture of ponti fical prospects, and with the stability which a whole people's enthusiasm must necessarily add to " that divinity which doth hedge a king." I should not won der to see the Roman Five per Cents. advance at least nmiolim.... to the price of the French ditto, which are now quoted at 116-117, and which have been not long ago as high as 120. Verb. sap. The only markets for Ho mans is Milan or Paris, but any intelligent broker might bring them into Capel-court. As a trifling indication of the Pope's anxiety to bring his states into better unison with the other of civilised communitie s of Europe, the great clock the Quirinal Palace marks the hours no longer in the old-fashioned and exploded system of 24 hours con tinuous, but in the double duodecimal used on your side of the Alps. It is an humble effort to teach his ltomans the " time of day." The houseroofs are all white with snow, an unusual siht here : a remini scence of Christmas to us of the Nogrth. FRANCE. TILE Wurnza.—STortms. — Accounts reach us from all parts of Frtince of the severity of the sea son. The hurricane which visited Bordeaux on the night of the 22nd extended to Toulouse, and made equal ravages in that town and neighbourhood. We do not learn that any person was killed, though several were injured in dif ferent degrees. The rain fell heavily, and the Garonne rose sensibly. A letter of the 21st, from Saint Jean de Luz, gives a sad account of disasters on that coast, from the vio lence of the weather at sea. Abut a fortnight before eleven vessels sailed from Bayonne, bound on different voyages, the weather being then favourable; but the gales coming on, five of them, after sustaining the fury of the wind and waves which afterwards arose, and continued fur seven clays and nights, made their way into the port of Passages in a shattered con dition. One, belonging to that port, was still missing, and feared to be lost. The three first that came in had been struck by lightning and greatly damaged. Three of the re turned ships were able to start again on the 20th for *Havre, their original destination. On the 21st all the fishing-boats belonging to Socea went out, but were overtaken by a storm, and placed in imminent danger. One of them was driven on a bank, and instantly dashed to pieces ; another was seen from the shore in great distress, but was saved by a boat manned by forty bold sailors. When brought in, the crew of the fishing-bo .t were exhausted with cold, hunger, fatigue, and despair, having 100 all their sails and oars. A letter from La Rochelle states that, dur ing the 22d and 23d, a heays gale was felt on that coast. The streets of that town were transformed into perfect lakes, chimneys thrown down, and trees torn up by the roots. Several vessels, among which ate three English, are sail to have been wrecked on the Isle de Re. A ship avid a lugger, coming from Bordeaux, are also among the number. Two government steamers and one hund.ed men were sent firm Rochefort to assist the Clulteaubriant, a vessel of from 1,000 to 1,100 tons burthen, which had gone on shore near that port. It is feared that many more casualties will be heard of.—We learn from Cherbourg that the rain, which commenced on Sunday, had not ceased to fal: on Wed nesday.—Several parts of the town of Rennes are :nun dated, and at the quays the water is within less than a metre of the top. In the night of the 22nd there was a violent thunder storm, which lasted nearly three hours, and which was attended by heavy squalls of wind, which shook many of the houses to their foundations. The light ning was very vivid. The rain fell in torrents. On Sunday morning, as a diligence was proceeding on its journey near Verdun, a man was discovered frozen to death on the road. Ills dog was lying on his breast as if to warm him, and it was not without much resistance on the part of the faithful animal that the conductor could remove the body to a house near the spot. In levelling some ground last week at Bec-Hellouin (Seine-Inferieure), there was found a leaden box containing some bones, and bearing the following inscription engraved on the lead : Ossa illustrissima D. D. Mathildis Imperatricis infra majors alum reperta 2 mart : 1654, in rodent loco collumta Bode mense etimno. Matilda was daughter of Henry 1., King of England and Duke of Normandy. She was the widow of Henry V., Emperor of Germany, and mother of Henry 11., King of England and Duke of Normandy. She died at ouen, in 1167, and was buried in the church of the priory of Notre Dame, where her tomb bore the following epitaph : Ortu manna vim major, sec maxima Partu Ilia jatet Ilenrici fills enema Purees According to the Chronicles of the Abbey of Bec-Hellouin her remains were removed to that abbey, and buried near the altar. Two Lyons gentlemen, returning a few days back from Paris by the diligence. had alighted near Arnay-le-Due to walk up a hill, when suddenly several wolves issued from a thicket by the road-side, and for some distance followed the travellers, who were without any mea..s of defence. At last one of the gentlemen conceived the idea of smoking a cigar, the light of which had the effect of soon driving off their unpleasant attendants. The travellers reached the diligence without further molestation. We gave last month an account of the trial, before the Correctional Tribunal of Lille, of four persons em ployed on the Northern Railroad on a charge of having, by their negligence, caused the dreadful catastrophe at l ampoux. The defendants were M. Petiet, an engineer, Hovelt, an inspector, and two mechanicians named Bolu and. Duthoit. The trial, which lasted for several days, ended with a judgment in which the tri banal declared that the cause of the running off the rails, which led to such dreadful results, remained conjectural, and therefore it acquitted all the defendants, The Procureur-du-Itoi having appealed against the judg ment, the cause came again to a hearing on Wednesday last before the Cour Royale of Douai, which, after a trial of four days, has confirmed the decision of the lower court as re gards Hovelt and Bolu, but has found Petiet and Duthoit guilty of homicide by imprudence, and neglect of the regu lations of the company. Petiet has been sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and a fine of 3,000 fr.; and Dnthoit to the same imprisonment and a fine of 100 fr, Considerable interest has been felt during the last fortnight in the state of the Malaunay viaduct, on the Havre railway, loaded as it is with the enormous dead weight in sisted on by the Pouts et-Chaussees, to prove its strength. The various changes of the weather, consisting of severe frost, thaw, rain, and now frost again, not having in any way affected it, the works are considered to have borne the trial victoriously, and any apprehension of danger that may have existed has been removed. STATE OF FRANCE.—The session which opens on the 11th of January will, we need not say, offer a powerful interest. Foreign affairs will occupy the principal part, and, with respect to domestic questions, we see nothing but rail ways that calls fur the attention of the Chambers. Every ono allows, or at least all sensible and impartial men allow, that if it is desired to finish what has been com menced, less onerous conditions and more certain advantages must be offered to the companies. A year back nothing but profits was seen in railway undertakings, and these profits had assumed in certain imaginations proportions beyond calcu • lation. In fact, it has been impossible Tor many adjudica tions to take place; the companies which were to hurry in to share amongst themselves the millions that were flung at their heads, did not come forward. Each made his calculation ; the profits vanished as if by enchant ment, and the charges frightened the moat intrepid specula tors. The greatest part of railway undertakings are suffer ing more or less. We will not at present enter more deeply into this question ; but, to use the consecrated phrase, there is something to be done. It will be said that we are defend ing here the interests of the bankers and capitalists, but we care not for that. We believe we are defending the interests , of the public, who want railways well constructed, well kept up, well worked. As to hankers and capitalists, we have never been able to perceive what the public or the statecould gain by repulsing or ruining them. This, then, is the domestic question which calls for an urgent solution, and which will necessarily take its place in the legislative deliberations of this year. Other questions, we are aware, hat, last year been placed on the order of the day, such as those of postal reform, the stamp-office, the tax on salt, &e. We ourselves, i year back, were of opinion that some of these reforms were ripe ; we were in hopes that the session of 1847 would not pass over without that which has been attempted with success in England being introduced—we mean postal re form. A bad harvest and the deplorable severity of the autumn, force us to renounce the hope. With the charges imposed on the treasury by the inundations and the dearness of provisions, no one can think of diminishing the public reve nues. Every experiment would be rash. The financial status quo is required by the commonest prudence. A crisis exists lets profound, we believe, and less alarming than certain per sons arc pleased to represent it; but still the risk of augment ing it cannot be incurred by attempting experiments. i Reforms, even those which appear Or: beet, have need of one condition to succeed—namely, opportuneness. This condition cannot evidently suit any reform this year. Let us have patience, then ; the occasion will again present itself. There remain foreign affairs. We need not call attention to their importance. All Europe is still in com motion from the destruction of Cracow ; every one knows that the Spanish marriages have produced between the cabinet of France and that of England a discussion which in a fortnight will become a public one. It will be a solemn moment when both parliaments open, nearly at the same time. That moment we do not dread ;we rather await it I with impatience. There are people who imagine, and per haps hope, that these debates will separate the two countries still more from each other, to render their rupture more inevitable, more profound. We think and we hope the con trary. We are convinced that the facts will gain by being known, that the diffisulties will become smaller. in the open day of the tribune, and that the real interests of the two countries, the causes and permanent reasons which tend to bring them together, not having to combat but a passing irritation and frivolous rancour', will easily assume the upper hand.-Journal des Dbats. PRESENT EXTRAORDINARY TO THE KING AND QUERN or THE FRENCH. —A Bouquet de Gibier monstre d la Soyer was forwarded from London to Paris on the 21st of December, by the well-known gastronomic regenerator, M. Soyer, of the Reform Club, and presented to their majesties on the 24th in the morning, at the palace of the Tuilleries. Their Majesties were delighted with the novelty and elegance of the composition, and, after a long examina tion, the King ordered it to be carried to the apartments of her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, who was exceedingly pleased with it, and afterwards the whole of the royal family were summoned to see the bouquet. To give an idea of the composition of this splendid innovation, the following description, perhaps, will be interesting to the public : The height of it was about ten feet, and wide in proportion; the frame was richly covered with Christmas holly, laurels, misletoe, and evergreen, with a great variety of winter flowers. There were 22 head of game, consisting of larks, snipes, woodcocks, teal, French and English partridges, grouse, widgeons, wild ducks, blackcocks , pheasants, a leveret, a hare, and golden plovers. The interstices were lightly filled with wheat and oats, and the whole ornamented with tn-coloured ribbons. THE RIVAL DENTISTS.—Every amateur of mural these r er ea tseenpair d edi t hi l: tis e atge r ic i s i t ' oh al froeht e :a l f. a th2ioa rds tteg.etuhiuvezthui,. . )si been confined to the exterior J William Rogers, of Osanores celebrity, at del of 1.1, g an in f tie, e e h s. o a t Iv. icdagreementalreadyo means, or sounded i r e literature g h bee o thee t e ot exotic, c e u t,: ,, a r t se sepht pa eloi t o o t r .h r ot ja ma, other Paris anle Paris. mustoa s th f o.e indigenous , f . art artificialbasoe f They in those of the law courts , and were heard again on liat w u i raii in the following . cause : M. Rolland, the butchei also a celebrity in his way, although his fame and 14 appointment of royal purveyor to the British Qu e , urper o h ßo f av lla e th o b e e d e .e n ho . acq use co u n i d r i e n d a t oo b h y r e . m rul r e e which he resides. In July last, M. Fattet took Se, lord should not let any other apartment to a dentist; a s , does it 'appear ' that M. Rolland had any intention to bre a k his word ; but in spite of his good faith his tenant M. Fattet, was soon involved in tribulation by an unlooked for event. The tenant of the first floor, a Madame Delareches Laguerie, had obtained the permission of M. Rolland to let a nd.booien p arofirsg a t r dh t tte: o rr f tthmwh it a:npj to laacq.atacem an teud.u E no n e gli u s i h n, iam an il a y ss o is t tan gr t ande or .. ee comarm : acwr ie te; Mine. Delaroce had been deceived ; the English huffily we M. s William Rogers. Judge pet o o h :f ea h at i o uo ' r r'fpt.rtutirehtmoo' first l a kl i tt e l : th t7 f ewsi. M e wh en sts slave du celebre Willi.m Roger's, veritable inmate,. des Dents ()senores." M. Fattet, however, resolved to mak e head against the storm. He healed an announce. went in the following terms :—" Fattet, dentate, in.. venteur des Dents O.,snores, previent le public de ae pas se tramper. Sea halms et cabinets soot au deuxiems stage, 36.3, rue St. Honore." Nor was this all. He pl aci d at the door a man in the uniform of a hurear, to cited= the applicants for the rs al Osunores that they were to he obtained only on the second floor. el Jacquin, by w a y of reprisal, did the same. If any person tain t to th e house, whether for one or the other of the rival tooth drawers, or for anybody else, he was addressed by the buzzer Fattet in the following way : " Monsieur, muster as deuxieme," whilst the humor Jacquin shouted : " Mm sieur, ne confcndez pa., c'est au premier. N'ayez pee peur, nous arrachons sans douleur." All this was not very agreeable either to el. Rolland or his other tenant s , and cones quently , he gave M. Jacquin, " eleve d u e eleb re William Rogers,' notice to quit. H. Fattet, on the other hand, brought an action against M. Rollend, with a de. mend of 10,000 f. damages, fur breach of contract in letungal • a p a rtment to another dentist. M. Reiland attacked lE ms D e laroche-Laguerie garage ie, and to comp e l h er to ex e 34. Jacquin. These actions cone to a hearing .n Satur ay before the civil tribunal. M. Jusseau, the counsel of M. Rolland, pleaded in defence to the suit of M. Fattet the per fect good faith of hi, client, who had, he said, been deceived by Mme. Delaroche in favour of M. Jacquin, who was in reality only the prete-nom of M. Rogers.—M. shoudets, the counsel of M. Fattet, demanded the 10,000 f., and the immediate expulsion of M. Jacquin, who, he said, was not only the prete-nom, but also the &mystique, of M. Rogers, and had been placed by the latter in the house solely fur the purpose of deinz . 113.'1117 to M. Fattet.—M, Vincent, the counsel of Madame Deleroche, said that his client had also been deceived, M. Jacquin having con cealed the fact of his being a dentist, and represented him. self as the agent of an honourable English family. H. Poullain Deladreue, the counsel of M. Jacquin, declared that his client was neither the cat's-paw nor the /errant of Mr. Rogers, but a dentist operating on his own account. The President of the Tribune], interrupting . M. Poullain, and alluding to some production of H. Jaequan, said, " Yon call this man a dentist ; why, he does not even know how to spell." Addressing M. Jacquin hiartelf, she presid, et asked what he bad to say to the declaration of Mad nue Delaroche, that he obtained the apartment as the again of an English family. Jacquin replied, "La famine, c'etait mos '— " Have you not (said the president ) be; n servant to Mr. Rogers ? Have you not even carried in the street upon your back a placard announcing the °senores teeth ?"—Jacquia replied in the negative ; he had been, he said, a pupil of Mr. Rogers. The next question elicited a reply winch convulsed the court with laughter.—" Was it not you who stood at the entrance of Rollaud'e house dressed as a hussar to conduct persons to the first floor."—Jacquin replied, "Fattet having placed a hussar on the ground-floor, I placed myself there in competition. Beginning in business, gentlemen, cannot afford to have a great number of persons in their pay."—M. Fattet address, d the Courtin support of his claim, and attacked Mr. Rogers, who was present, beinz made a party to the suit with Jacquin. He asked him if he could deny that the day he had vained kis action with him (M. Fattet) lee had given a splendid supper in the apartment hired by Jacquin, and regaled the company with a prodi gious quantity of claampagne.—Mr. Rogers said that all M. Fattet had declared was false, that Jacquin had been his pu pil, as Fattet himself had been ; that he had nothing to do with J acqu in's establishment ; and that if he had taken chasm pagne there, that regarded ',Wady but himself. Mr. Rogers admitted, however, that he had been frequently to Jacques's apartmew, but said it was to take work to him to perform, as he did to other pupils, with the exception of M. Fattet, whom lie had turned away because he was a clumsy hand. After much more recrimin ties, which excited great nierrimew, M. Cremieux addressed the Court for Mr. Rogers, who, he said, was a stranger to the proceedings of M. Jacquin. 'The court, however, came to a decision that Jacquin was merely the agent of Rogers, and ordered that Rogers and Jacquin should pay all the costs of the suit, led give up the apartment within three days. The demand for damages against Si. Rolland was dismiss' d, and Madame Delaroche was authorised by the court to retain in her hands as an indemnity a sum of 1,600 f. paid as rent in &thence.— Galimn BE us LGICM.—BaussELs, DEC. 29.—1 t az g am iin from a statement in a ministerial print, that the Exportation Society will be allowed to export goods ere& to European markets, but on the two following conditions Ist, to purchase the goods directly from menufacturms merchants. by public contract ; and 2nd, to export ody after orders received—that is to say, not to send out goods on com signment. It was at first thought that the society would be limited in its operations to the exportation of limns (the dis tressed state of the Flanders, the seat of the linen trade, being the ostensible cause of the formation of the welet)) : but it has been decided to allow the company to ext at all other kinds of tissues, provided they be manufacture in the pre. sent centre of the linen industry, as well as tithe' produce on commission, at the risk and peril of the producers or the purchasers. The head office of the directors will be established in Ghent, but an agency will be opened at Antwerp. The capital is fixed at 6,000,000 francs. The government will fur nish '2,000,000 towards that sum, and guarantee,during the first three months an interest of 41 per cent. upon the remain ing four millions. In ease one-third of the capital should be lost, the company will be dissolved, and the loss will be suffered by the government upon the capital it has advanced. The capitaL therefore, of t shareholders will he safe at all innards. The affairs of the company will be managed by directors, under the surveillance of a certain number of com missioners, one of whom will be appointed by the govern ment. It is proposed by some capitalists to form a ship building company, and to trade in their own vessels en com mission. The capital is fixed at four millions of francs. Their Majesties are expected to return to Brussels to-morrow night, or early the next morning. It is asserted in well-in formed circles that the King will shortly leave for England. The dinner to Sir Hamilton Seymour, the newly-appointed minister at the Court of Lisbon, took place this afternoon. It was panty attended. SWITZEHLANI).—The frost has been so intense, that at Neufchatel, last week, the thermometer fell to 21 degrees below zero of the Centigrade scale (174 below zero of Fahrenheit). On the banks of the lakes the thermo meter stood at 20 Centigrade. We find also, by a letter from Florence of the 19th, that the weather has been very severe there. There had been a heavy fall of snow, and the ice was so firm that skating took place daily ; two sledges also were seen—a very unusual sight for the Florentines — driving through the streets. Our correspondent describes the frost at Florence as being of Russian severity. ITALY.—Row..—Excessive cold, accompanied by snow, has succeeded the inundations. The inhabitants, un accustomed to such a temperature, have suffered considerably. A commission has been appointed to provide for their wean. The Pope subscribed 2,000 scudi from his private pure. On the occasion of a recent visit of the Pope to th e church of the Holy Apostles, the students of the University preen themselves in a body, and made two requests-- 1 . Thet library might remain open on Thursdays , on which day t e students had most time for reading ; 2. That two new pro: fessorships might be created, one of political economy, sad another of medical jurisprudence. The first request.wm immediately granted , and the second his H oliness said he should take into consideration. The first number of the Contemporaneo, a journal in defence of the ideas of proem , : appeared on the 12th. It is in large type, and published every Saturday. A letter from Leghorn, dated 16th inst., saTs :-- 1 An edict of the Grand 'Duke has been put up on the pnecips e Duchy of Lucca, falling, according to the final act of the Congress of Vienna, to Tuscany, the debt' made in that m hseao u nu ar dld is thh o l f tt t h h :, e town, denoting that the succession to duchy, as well as all contracts for state or private possereien i t rec tor ct ed nt . rac h tC o d Pes an ar te;i e o l rl P y res b " y of Lucca, have nothing to fear, as it has been guaranteed 0) Lucca will be reimbursed. The shareholdcrsihelf rpuethheeetabeSpeer.l loan,ceD n ake dian of contracted someEste. Years since by letter to one of his friends in France, in which is the folio! in g passage :—" The article which the journals hseeper_ SILVIO PELLICO.—SiIvio Pellico has addressed s . liaised about my pretended journey (to the chateau of ee re; Lsmartine) has deceived many persona. Alas ow l from haying the happiness of going to render homage to y I r k poet—far from basing the delight of seeing scarcely able to breathe after taking the slightest exercise' ‘ the Grand Duke,_ if I were able to travel I should rather go into a rm clr mate than into France. Italy is in its habitual 'e t e te much less agitated than some people wish it to be I?ela t e v r too " is—those, I mean, who do not view it closely, ". d f bops much importance to partial wrongs and Oilmen Perfect contentment is nowhere to be found on the tae of the e in ar w th h ; lo b h ut eh th er e e e Di ou l n oss tries ier t i o ta less irreligion than elsewhere, with sufficient activity the men's minds to cultivate as much as in other coustri_c___ sciences and arts. But, will the balance of power e t l a rl ret yi be preserved ? The great states seem to be acting t were about to come into hostile collision, but wit the reseal tad be war ? Perpetual peace is an illusion in which p Adieu, dear friend. Let us r.ray one for the other. rt. to anyGEßMANY.—Thehowever, ne r si t e m r o d ure wel d l an upo d n be tio p n re , flecterredh;trvedm and' less Wa—eubee,tehell bible total annihilation of the very AMC of Po o land ! transformation of the so-called kingdom of P Russian province, in January next, has attracted ee, stten e Hon of the Germanprees. The Cologne Go:ette, e l In o l re tl th : ; l3'ub .: ' e instant, has the following remarks upon the sub t j ct been " it was not Cracow, at least it is Warsaw whi h chows the turbac look when to be. that the C< Warn • have and to fensivl Eligh &ufi P. Lest, t 150 of the w alone , ment. the egric, ciinsi Him will Ass some nine tap men pro' cur: imp Zell ilpe or tl awl raisi war will the ,