The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-31 00:00:00

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Mame, MI arc Oa meg asm meet Ileturder Se prise of the LIMN will be nmegere. at brewers. ADVMI S I: I IECTIL The gnat site of the WititITION SIMS at a seam mot SWIMS aderbsers. mhertioemile mast be at Sergio, la Wllistrior• eh Or balm ftid is timp Maw( of oath Friday, to mare Mortis is the amber 161. legewimg Sy. vase,se, Bouveri4otriet. ilesbarset. Efte erprefils. TO CORRESPONDENTS. PeeertbesesP Weeded Pr "Tee lepreee," Larks Itemize paper, art be et the Ogee. 104•46141211111, by Tye &elate an the dey et validation. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIM!. Ter Dev—ilerabsir, lb. 43er. ...eltereeee, Stu Ore. To.reamow—llarallag. 410. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31. Al.nosr every arrival of les from Rio de Janeiro has brought reports; of negotiations for the re newal of definite commercial relations between this country and its third best foreign customer , the empire of Brszil. At one time the basis of a new treaty is said to have been "greed on ; at another the text is reported to be under consideration ; at a third Mr. HUDSON, the British minister, is described as on the point of signing and sealing he lug-expected document. But no treaty comes. For nearly six years cm trading relations with Brazil have been unregulated by a single stipulation ; the millions sterling . of British property in that so described lawless empire are unprotected by any of thus international provisions cm which for centuries the world has laio so much stress; and the only safeguards of our ac ive com merce with the great ports of Rio, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Para are our strength and what is much better, the good sense and self-interest of the Brazilian people, the stability of their government, and the general sufficiency of its laws. And the probability is, that no treaty is coming ; for the best of all good reasons, that in the present state of our relations with Brazil on other matters, it is not the inter at of its government to give us that commercial security which such a treaty chiefly would establish. The Brazilians do not retaliate on our com merce for diplomatic and military outrages, because by retaliation they themselves would be the greatest sufferers. But they keep our trade in that state of uncertainty which the means of retaliation, and the threat to exercise it, involve. And thus the govern ments of two great trading countries, whose interests are reciprocal, are to be sten playing at the noble game of fast and loose. This, no doubt, is very pretty practice for diplo macy ; but it is nevertheless very sorry work for patio's. It cannot be creditable for a country like England to rely for safety in its trade with Brazil men ly on the necessities of that empire's financial and geographical position; to say to its statesmen, as we practically do, "If you raise your impost on British goods, they will be smuggled is, nevertheless, and our trade will not suffer, whilst your revenue, almost en tirely depeedent on customs receipts, will;" in short, to force oar trade on Brazil, whilst we are harrying her coasts as if they were encrusted with nests of pirates just as thus of Peru am with cuts of guano. There is something in all this well calculated to impress the world with the truth of what France charges as against England, viz., that calico is at the bottom of all our policy. But Brazil persists in carrying on the slave trade. No doubt of it ; rn spite of all that our cruisers are doing, in spite dour capturing, sinking, and break ing up some throe or four hundred Brazilian vessels of all sorts and sizes since 1843 ; in spite of the har bour of Jamestown, St. Helena, being actually filled with their floating timbers ; in spite of our invading Brazilian waters and battering down Brazilian forts, Lagos and the Bights send to and land in Brazil as many slaves as it can well take ; and sometimes more, for Brazil, we observe, finds it profitable now and then to export a few to Cuba, which seems to have almost given up the direct trade with Africa. The slave trade at present flourishes in Brazil against not only the political interests and the settled policy of the existing cabinet and legis lature, but notwithstanding the active repression of the Brazilian navy. For there is in Brazil a strong and growing feeling against the accursed traffic throughout the empire on moral grounds; and though, perhaps, moral considerations do not prevail in the councils of the EMPEROR or in the chambers of the legislature, it is very certain that political considerations of national importance are titers producing the same effects as morality out of ' dues. In Brazil, as in most states, there are two political parties, called in European parlance the conservative , sad the liberal, but differing widely from European equivalents or signification. Conservatism there means a policy tending to centralise and strengthen the imperial government at Rio de Janeiro, and to repress the power of the provincial as semblies. Liberalism, on the contrary, aims at increasing provincial and diminishing central au thority. Now, however valuable local munici palities in Europe are, we meet recollect that in Booth America civilisation ants commerce have been retarded by the continual splitting sod division of states, and that hitherto union has been one of the chief and exceptional characteristics of Brazil. Can. sequently, conservatism there is associated with im perial unity. At present it is quite predominant in the cabinet and the legislature. The strength of conservative principles is is the native Brazilians, who are generally cultivate(' and Outer"; whilst the strength of liberalism is in the Portuguese, who are powerful is the great ports of the empire, who there carry cm grand commerce, inclusive of the slave trade. The political opponents of the present Rio cabinet are, therefore, the slave 1 traders. The first consequence of this antagonism has been the suctment of the New Slave Trade Law in July last, which we have before described. In conformity with its stringent provisions, the imperial govern ment has Waned very forcible instructions to all its functionaries to rower by every means in their power .laving adveataree to Atria' ; has announced the intention to peessests with the utmost rigour all offences, of which it can produce evidence, against the new law, and has commissioned some six or seven ships of war to capture and bring in for trial all the slavers they can take. Noe has this small squadron been idle. Already it has seized several slave ships; and in one of them wee found Seuhor Foresees, the brother of the notorious person of that name. Though the government directed his prose erotica, the evidence against him proved inconclusive. Bat, resolved sot to be defeated by legal chicanery, the Rio cabinet has directed him to wind up his attire, and within four months to quit Brasil. Now all this is an entirely new policy in Brasil. It may please our anti-slavery party, or rather oar Kest Indian party, whit now occupy the shoes of their old and defunct opponents, to discredit its sincerity. Bat when it is seen that the repression of the alive trade is becoming in Broad a piece of party 'ad political tactics, more disinterested Unarms than our old alaveholders will find MI immense point ir*sed. And the troth is, that were it not that the Breath= navy is at present re spired at the mouth of the Plate to protect the im perial interests there, a much larger force would be employed in repressing the slave trade on its own somata. This, however, requires a little explanation. Beermly had Owes best securely settled in the go veseirnent of Moat* Video, in conaequenoe of our treaty with Roue, than he proceeded to levy inordi sate emtribetiou on the rural proprietors I he quer *" hfstroOps on them; he refused to allow them to olooffhtee their own cattle without his • • perranewa Ili This tin hod tt o kis hastiolosiso gookally took I the hides and left the 0v.,.... , —,-- their slanghtered cattle. UT of Pe them exactions was an i me,mdily of the great proprietors : dler-Bande '0(4;411 are Bramlians ; and whelp Pejo neural:Q.o'e, they received assistance .from withal. ,the trigillint et the Brazilian province of the Rio Grande. However, with the help of Rog" ORlar put down sod angel narily punished this revolt against his oppression.. Heels( done so, he then complained to the Rio cabi net of the part it. subjects had played in the .8 air. 'ln easmquence, ne4otiatioes arose between the two governments; and they were in pacific progress at Monte Video, when ROSAS chose to interfere at Rio. In language violent and threatening, his minister at that port demanded redress for alleged menage against the government of Monte Video, with which Buenos Ayres bed nothing to do, within four and twenty hoots. To this the Rio cabinet, in dignified terms, replied that Buenos Ayres was not concerned in the questions under discussion at Monte Video; and placed his passports at the &posed of Rosas's representative, who thereupon left Rio. The consegoence is, that Bruit on the one hand, and Bosnia Ayres and Monte Video on the other, are prepariog for war. Already the former is reported to have concentrated an army of 12,000 tom, to be augmented to 20,000, in the province of the Rio Grande • and the greater part of its little fleet has been ordered to cruise off the Plate. Buenos Ayres and Monts Video are making corresponding efforts. And thus there is a strong probability of a renewal of that war which, on the mediation of Lord PONSONBT, formerly terminated in the peace of 1829. Unfortunately, the definite relations which were contemplated by Lord PONSONIIT'S Treaty of 1829 have never been concluded between Monte Video and Brazil ; tia frontiers are still unsettled ; all the ele ments of disturbance are now just as rife as they were before prolonged hostilities had ex hausted the two countries; and there is really serious apprehension that after an armistice of 30 years' dans.ton, the ambition and restlessness of ROSAS will renew that war, at a time, too, when Brazil and hu manity need above all things peace. As, however, by the treaty in question, war could not be renewed except on six months' notice not only between the belligerent countries bat to the mediating power, hostilities will not, it is to be presumed, be commenced until Lord PALMERSTON shall have an op portunity of reconciling these foolish differences, the consequences of which—if they find vent in war—on the payment of Brindled dividends no one understands better than the noble Foreign Secretary ; for it is only by husbanding its resources that Brazil can make those payments in pesos ; what will become of them in case of hostilities, it is not difficult to conjecture. THE 'squires of Bedfordshire have, it is understood, had some little d:fficolty in pleasing the farmers as to their candidate for the seat in the representation of that county, left vacant by Lord ALFORD'S untimely death. This man was a doubtful protectionist, that • confirmed Peelite; a third, though fond enough of high reels, would not vote for an immediate return to act of parliament prices ; a fourth was unpopular as a landlord. Many were called, but few liked. Until at lent the squires, in a desperate fright lest they should not be first in the field , and that the Bedford shire Whigs would occupy the ground they hesitated to occupy, selected the high sheriff of the county, Col. Gitrtx ; the proprietor of a small paternal estate on which he resides—a gentleman of popular manners and antiquated prejudices ; not disagreeable personally to his neighbour the Doke of BEDFORD, and generally palatable to the tenantry ; in short, a " good fellow," with very bad political principles—just such • man as may be found by scores in the House already ; capital rank and file foe Lord STARLIT to command, and Mr. Disatett to fugle to; • dummy, • pawn, a piece to be moved just as Mr. FORBES MACKIINZIE receives orders or Major BERERFORD chooses to direct. If county representation have to continue • poli tical sham in Bedfordshire ; if the Duke of BEDFORD and Mr. WHITBREAD have to return one member, and the tory squires and parsons the other, Colonel GILPIN is probably as good as another political nonentity. He will delude the farmers quite as well as any other can didate that can be presented to them. But if, after re turning him, they find themselves just as far off better times next year as they are now ; if they send him to parliament and never hear anything more of him until he return at • general election to say he has been in the house all the interval though they never heard of it, the blame is their own. They can, if they will, see what county members general'' , are ; how respect able and how useless ; and in adding to the already ponderous mass, unleavened county representation, they ought to know that they are only confirming their own helplessness ; only increasing the ridiculous ness of their own position ; only retarding their own progress and that of the country generally; without in the least advancing protection. Why, it was but the other day that Mr. FERRAND told the Yorkshire farmers at Pocklington, the great squires and land-owners were deceiving, delud ing, and acting treacherously by the tenantry of the country* And what so dull a man U Mr. FERRAND can perceive, ought surely to be apparent to less excitable people. Yet here are the Bedfordshire farmers falling into the squires' trap, simply bee Mee it is well baited with that political impossibility-- protection. By bawling out protection, Colonel GILPIN will secure their votes; but in the House of Commons he will support whatever line of policy Lord STANLEY chooses to lay down ; and though protection may occasionally be on the tip of Lord STANLIT's tongue, it would be the farthest of all propositions from his heart, were he minister to -1:11017011. The stupidity of this confirmed delusion on the farmers' part, is becoming a serious refit ction on the national character. Powerful as they ought to be in the counties if they had a tithe of the spirit of their countrymen generally, the farmers of England have not in the House of Commons a single member who really and truly represents them. Every class in the community has a mouth-pit en there, but the tenantry of the kingdom. The house is full of squires, barristers, merchants, manufacturers, lords, idlers, place hunters; it has even its doctors and its attor neys; but not a tenant farmer. And yet numeri cally they are the strongest political interest in the kingdom. The farmers appear to deem it treason to think of retnreing one of their own class to the legislature. The cemsequecce is they are mis represented by squires. But there are few Gaut farmers fitted for par liament. No doubt of it; still there are some; and Bedfordshire has one in Mr. LATTIMORE. Now, why won't its tenantry return him as their representative? The small manufacturing interest that there is in the county, viz., at Luton, would aid them: the Doke of BEDFORD, who is a really liberal minded man, "a Whig and something more," could hardly refuse hie assistance ; and, with the help of the WHITBREAD family, themselves sprung from trade, ft would be possible for Bedfordshire to send Mr. LATTIMORE to the House of Commons, and to leave Colonel GILPIN at home. The trial is worth making; even if it fail. Mr. LATTIMORE lie, to be rare, a free-trade farmer. But, now that free trade is the law of the land—now that a return to protection is politically impossible— now that the questions of immediate interest to the tanners are confessed by Mr. Dtenarit and Lord MALKESBURT to be, not protection, but the incidence and weight of taxation, an intelligent free trade farmer would surely be • much fitter representative for an agricaltural comity, than a mere party quire? Party politics have never done anything to relieve the fiscal pressure on the farmers; and yet, in Bedford shire, there they are about to rend to parliament a member whose only recommendation is his exclusively party character. What folly ! It is such men as Mr. LATTIMORI that the House of Commons is most in want of—men that in their own atfairs have thought for and acted for them selves—men of practical earience in the operation of the poor-law, in the acteai plight of the agncultural Jaboneer, in the eiteet on Genevan of the law of dis tress, in the dealings between landlords and tenants. In Mr. Poesy scientific agriculture Is well repre sented; in other members high and expensive and wetly farming u a model is represented; but the hones needs at least one business tenant farmer to let it into the thousand secrets, thoughts, wants, and wishes of that class, of which at present it knows nothing. We cannot, of course, expect our nomination of Mr. LATTIMORE to be very popular amongst the tenant farmers of Bedfordshire; but there is we know in many parts of the county a strong desire to propose him &I lad Won's leeswoxi 0ad.4.14 we c THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E#MiNG, JANUARY 31. 1561. 1118 vb s lraulge la it, a &etre that will :Or sympathy out el the' county, if it only tile form aid force d iction. , • , Altillft has not donned me zany years in Ireland ‘, a deisfonstration is every way mdse, remarkable than that which took place a few days since in Dublin on ' the subject of centralisation. In England so many other topics of interest engross the attention of our ; political thinkers, and furnish themes more captivat- 1 iog to our political talkers, that we have paid bat little heed to the growing tendency that hes long ' been manifesting itself towards the gradual absorp tion of authority and it:fiance in the hands of an offi cial bureaucracy. What with questions of free trade, and questions of taxation, plans of colonial and plane of electoral reform, sanitary organiestionsand religions trcubles—we have really hardly had an hour's leisure to think of administrative policy, or to inquire whither its changes are tending. Occasionally indeed some isolated voice has seemed to come as from one preach ing in the wilderness, warning us to beware of in sidious evils and cumulative dangers to be appre hended from allowing too many concerns to be guided and governed by too few hands. But changes that in this country have been pointed oat as illustra tions of the tendency have generally been such as afforded positive relief from the pressure of local mischiefs; and the remote result is never an attrao ties subject of contemplation to the English public mind. Nevertheless it is indisputable that serious and various steps, difficult now to retrace did it seem desirable, have bean taken towards the re-edifiation of llowningetreet on a scale and in a style of political architecture of which our grandfathers had very little conception. We are far from saying that all that is novel in the present powers exercised by the Treasury, the Privy Council, the Home Office, and the Board of Trade is span to reasonable objection. Many local abates, otherwise perhaps uncontrollable, have doubtlese been thus brought within limits, or checked in their mischievous development. Every dispassionate ob server will freely admit that this is true. He will be very apt to come however to the conclusion at the same time that as an segmentation of power for good can seldom be conferred on mortals without the hazard of enhancing their capability of doing evil, so it behoves us to guard with jealous care the new trusts we have coteerred, lest they be reduced into what the lawyers call "absolute possession," to our ultimate logs and injln ury. Ireland the progressive concentration o: power in the hands of the imperial executive, has naturally been looked upon at all times with more suspicion and dissatisfaction. The want of a prosperous and numer ous mercantile class in the Irish metropolis renders the position occupied by the professional and the official classes of society, all the more' . marked and conspicuous there; and the withdrawal of even minor functionaries or the infringement of' ' even subordinate jurisdictions of the courts of equity and law, has never failed to provoke feelings of irri tation and ill will. So long, however, as the work of centralisation was carried on in apparently *peyote matised detail, the discontent of those whosedirect in terests were alone perceptibly affected, did not appear to be contagion,. Nor was anything of popular sym pathy evinced. One office after another was abolished or traniferred in different departments without en listing any sentiment of general concern; and successive statutes were suffered to pass both Houses of Parliament almost without debste,whereby co-ordinate or even aireciprocal jurisdiction was given in particular matters to the courts of Westminster. The more sweeping projects recently conceived for the entire abolition of a distinct executive and of in dependent tribunals of the higher clue in Ireland, startle the indifferent, rouse the torpid, and tho roughly rekindle the passions of the excitable of every class in the community. For diversity of inter ests and feelings combined in perfect unity of sentiment and purpose by the universal presence of a sudden and unlooked for emergency—there has rarely been wit netsed a more singular manifestation than that of Monday last. Peers and commoners of both sides is politics, municipal authorities of the capital and of nearly every town and city in the island, gentry and traders, protestants and catholice, for once agreed in one loud and long continued shout of resentment at the proposition of the measures we have named, and enthusiastic resolves to resist their realisation. We are neither disposed to endorse all the arguments, of to approve of all the terms which appear to have been used on the occasion. But we own that we are not surprised at what has occurred, nor shall we marvel if the flame shall rise higher than, for the peace and well-being of the United Kingdom, it is desirable that it should do. The unanimous voice of an entire people for or against any measure in which they are or believe themselves to be deeply interested, is a thing not to be disregarded. Even where the source of apprehension is unreal in part or altogether, no man of sane mind can behold an entire community " set fairly by the ears." Bad passions thrive apace in such weather; and we kaow by sad experience that their roots take firmer hold of the soil than wholesome and nutritious plants. Every day that is spent in the agitation thus formidably initiated, postpones for months, perhaps for years, the establ shment of a per manent good understanding between the two countries. If for 00 other reason, therefore, it will become the imperative duty of the government to declare definitively and distinctly, as soon as parlia ment re-assembles, what course they mean to pursue on the two questions—the continuance of the Civil establishment, and the curtailment of the Judicial establishment in the sister kingdom. To vacillate or trifle would be wholly unpardonable. One way or ' other, ministers most make up their minds to go. But, for oat own part, we have never hesitated to declare our dieapproyal of the centralising schemes propounded last session. We have long thought that a better distribution of authority has become indie ' peasable tor good government. We think the central executive of the empire has already more patronage than is good for either us or them. We think they have already more power than they can use with advantage; and we desire to see both their power and patronage lessened, in order that it may be more fitly and appropriately shared by the various com munities and races of which the empire is made up. The present reins of rule are unequal and entangled ; but any rash attempt to draw them tighter is likely to make them snap. RIITZAL or VIZ WINDOW TAX AND PALE Th7lll6.—Os Wednesday afternoon a public meeting was held at the Town hall, Hull, for the purpose "of concerting the moat efficient plan of obtaining the removal of the window tax and paper duties." Mt. Alderman Ortaltam, waa called to the chair, rind resolutions and a petition in accordant* with the objects of the meeting were adopted.— Easters Ctiorties Herold. . CALLS TO Tllll BAR, LIN0011.(41)-INN.—Tha Hilary Term calls to the bar of tits• H big Society of be cola's-Ma, WWI made yesterday (January 30), and they comprise the after•morationed gentleman :--Denby P. Fry, Esq. • 81. Hemp *Mart, Beg ; Whoa T. Jenkins, Ran ; Thoes A. Corlett, jun., Req. ' • Alexander H. Jenkins, Y.A. ,• James T. Hopwood, Req. ; Robert W, Gilbert, hi A.; and William Freeman, Req. Dui Poole LAW BoAkb AN) MR PARISH OF HAUL/MONS —R eptanl tonosithee of the directors and gnu- dime et the poor of Dlar7taboos ham been held to eonsider the alleged Insufficiencyud unwholeumenesa of the dietary of the workhouse. It was ultimately resolved to give the mann discretionary power in the iliatilbution of food to the 2:tdand jollies for a fortnight; and alms that such dinner. be agreed twice a week, and four ounces additional broad ebould be given with tha soup. MT - WRECK or THE "NEW COMIZRCIAL " ON THE lintasone* 'Rocca.—Yesterday at the fortnightly meeting of the committee of the Itoyal National Institution for the pre• earvatioiThf life from ship'wrak, held at the dikes, Greet Winchuter street, after awarding various aurae to boats' (wows for rescuing lives from shipwrecks, it was agreed that thetgold thadallian of the society should be presented to Captain* Morro Devise, RN , inspecting commander of the Penzance auks, ea a mark of their appreciation of his gal• lent and' Misname ezertiotta to proceeding with his boats crew to thellriesou rocks in a tremendous sea, and, at the istainebt pail of his life, Ming • rocket appustus from his boat, and thereto,* being the happy instrument of rue eaag froth' their perilous position the master of the brig, NeMCommerseal; wraked at that place on the inst. Each of the roar boatmen is to be presented with • ' ellTer medallion. The committee also agreed that the gold medallion of the Institution should be prevented to Mr. T: 3 Forward, itaiiihander of the revenue cutter Sylvia, in ackaowleopsent of hie intrepidity and self-devo tion on that distressing '00E411011; and his boars crew of dee pereoss'ai . each to be ptieleated with the silver medal, sad the tenliftlamen and the miner ars awarded ilk in east- donation of their daring and valuable esetreesi; rese;ing the poor asthma Irons a tooting piece of the wreck. Cep taln D Mee has, it appears on thre e different former owe. eine, beim mounted with le silver medal Otitis imisiestieue which sem selected more meritorious sets for the diatribe- I, tistosextbd. of iti hosenty sad peesaiuy nvarda *ma those jut SPAIN, ELDILID, JAL . , The /liaising will make known te-morrow to the oosinittee of the budget all the rebuses and econo miesowhioh It eontemplates. The English minister gives to-morrow a grand diplomatic dinner. MADIIIIS h.i. 25.—'Puree per Cents., 34 11-16; Olter Bolas, 34 sub, 34 11.16 paper. !oar per Cuts.. 13. Fin per Coats., 131; after Boss, 13f paper, 131 cash. Coopote 7f ; after Delia, 71 OWL PailiTill 4; after Boles, 4 Baak of St. Ferdinand, 96i. Eaehatige on Lon don, 60.65. ITALY. A letter from Turin, of Jan. 25, says :—The Cham ber of Deputies hu voted the Lsw of Subsidiary for the benefit of officers who took pert in the defence of Venice. GERMANY. FRANKFORT. Very little doubt can now be entertained that the provisional central power organised at Dresden, osten sibly to meet a sadden emergency, is really a plan for superseding the conferences, and the provisional cha racter of the institution is a mere pretext. The Frank fort correspondent of the Cohere Gusette writes to the following effect, under date Jan. 27 : We are given to understand here, from the beat-informed circles, that the new Provisional Central Power will be established at latest towards the middle of next month. This interim Is to be constituted esuntially in accordance with the ritolution of the compact (Vertrag) of the 30th Sep tember, 1849. It will be associated with • military dictatorship, in order that, in ow of any menacing disturbances in neighbouring states, all may be fully prepared to meet them. There is hardly a doubt that Frankfort will be the seat of the new power. His Royal Highness the Prince of Pr%lrate, and his Anal Hi4h- nem the Archduke Albrecht of Austria. are, we are positively assured, to be investel with the executive authority. The Dresden conferences will sew so soon so the Prooisoriuns is established ; but a Diet, fully representing all the govern 'tents, will continue the " revision " of the Band constitu lion in Frankfort. As the "narrower councils" have pro voked so much opposition, and the "grouping system " of M. von Piordten has fallen to the ground, nothing remains but a return to the old Diet. In perlits, the question, we hear, has been already mooted, as to who will reps. seat Prussia at the Diet in case Count Alvan'ellen should decline doing so. Lieut.-Gen. Selagyneky, and Lieut.• Gen. Reyher have been named as persons likely to receive this miuion. The same correspondence adds that in diplomatic circles the necessity of making Rendsburg a diet fortress, has been much insisted on, in order dually to extinguish the jealousies of Schleswig-Holsteia and Denmark on this subject. AUSTRIA. It seems that centralisation was Schmerling's stumbling-block. A letter from Vienna, of Jan. 26th, says: It is thought that the retreat or M. Schroerling betokens some relaxation or the centralizing principle, and that some cinceasione wtll be made to the national opinim, in adminis trative affairs on this subject. TILE DUCHIES. The entry of the Austrian troops into Hamburg is described in the following telegraphic despatch : HAMBURG, Jaw. 29. Two thousand Austrians arrived here to-day. The day after to-morrow the two commiuioners will open the new government. Their minicen ate to he Blohate, Heintz:, Malmrce, and the Syndic Prehn. Bznxin, JaN. 29.—Voluntary Loan, 10G1 ; New Loan, Four and a-Half per Cents., 100; National Debt, 841; Com mercial Maria. Society's Premium, 128 ; Bank fibers', 951. VtiNNA, Jan. 28.—Five per Cent. Bletalliquite, 941; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 831. Bank Shares, I 1142. Exchange on London, 12.42. FRANCE. PARIS, WZDNIMAT E,•NINo. It is said to-day that the Dotation Bill will be pre sented by the ministry of transition. It seems probable that some day next week will be fixed for bringing forward this question. Not the least event of the day is a vigorous sketch by Lamartine of the late crisis, destined later for his own paper, the anseiller the People, but communi cated in the meantime to the more widely circulated columns of the Constitutionnel. He begins by pitying the " buffoonery " of parties calling themselves re publican going to accept their ballot ball from the hand of avowed friends of the house of Orleans. He then traces the history of the coalitions of 1829,1838, and 1818, which destroyed the governments of Charles X. and Louis Philippe. Auguring the same destructive results from the present coalition, which counts among its leaders the very same names of Thir rs, Berryer, Durant,, he says: Two or three days ago, all was calm, credit, work, trade, hope. But this did not suit the game of the enemies of the republic. They wanted • storm: but for a storm you must have a cloud. Their cloud was the Committee of Permanence. Here he traces a famous picture of the blindness and deafness of that sentinel of the consti tution to the glaring and loud intrigues of the Or leanists and legitimists ' to the comings and goings to and from Claremont an d Wiesbaden, to the celebra tion of a high mass in the chapel of the very Tuile ries by order of the commander-in chief, while the vigilance they displayed in watching the least move ments of the Bonapartist/ was really wonderful. And how (he says) did it watch the Empire? ! you hays only to open the minutes—they are a chef d'aigurre of inanity and solicitude; from each page there arises an odour of police from the hands of such or such subalterns; there are gossippings put into reports, half confidences, night patrols; the phantoms of an autumn evening seen by the fireside. One had beard say, another had fan cied he bad seen, this one imagined that be had sus. pedal, that one was surprised not to have remarked ; such a one felt the necessity of calling on the con spirator, the Minister of War, to ask him frankly if he were not conspiring—Another to make hint promise to give nothing more then the simple ration to soldiers thirsty from the march ; another to wait patiently for the coming review to ascertain it really, yea or no, the republic will that day be coati-noted—determined, co doubt, to denounce the coneyi: racy ear it should be iciromplish•d; In short, things that are really prodigious in keenness, tact, logic, and sagacity. And all sods by the famous assassinstioe. But the general commanding the troops, according to these minutes, was present as some of the sittings. Re necessarily tresquillined the ammittise, for he had only to speak, and there would have been no reviews ; or he would only have to and his retirement would have revealed the supreme peril. At the instant the Assembly would have been convoked, and the conspiracy would have been crushed by the weight of a radon which will :rave none of such this. But no, the parlia ment is not convened, and nothing is said, bat there are whis perings which ate the denunciations of silence. Well, let us reason closely, and say the truth to the Permanent Committee. Thin truth is one of two things : either the Permanent Com. mittee saw crime, in the acts of the Executive Government during the absence of the Amiably, and in that case it is inexcusable for not having at the seam moment sounded the constitutional tocsin of alarm, and recalled the Assembly to revert, beard, and pulverise the coup digit ; or the Persia sent Committee say only phantoms, sad in that case why be, it j ined in a chorus with the retrospective coalition which has jut denounced the soi distant conspiracies of the Recently* Government to the Assembly, has agitated the people, eatad a panic in the Republic, suspended affairs, divided the two powers, whose harmony is the necessary midi. tion of all good, and whose conflict the condition of all evil ? Either the committee was very blind two months ago, or is very mute at present. Let it reply if it can. Here, then, was the cloud all charged. Now fur the storm. Well, at a moment when the country was in the enjoyment of supreme tranquillity, eight or ten active, able, eloquent leaders of the Orleanist party blase out in sadden rage against the executive go- vernment for its " audacity" to exercise its constitu tional prerogative. They dart to the tribune like Mirk Antony at the death of Cesar, and raise the cry of the country in danger. OE they go into their bureaux to appoint a committee of pub lic safety. And the poor dull republicans of the tiers-partl filth into the snare like oxen to the slaughter-house. The committee pro- posed a resolution, which was a rupture between the two constituted powers that made up the re- Vablic. He opposed the resolution in common with 2E5 others, and he was hooted right and left for his pains. A general (supposed to be Bedeau), to whom be was alm in the habit of listening with atten tion, walk up and down in the corridors of the chamber while be (M. Lamartine) was speaking. Another of those genUsmen who shake their fists at ideas and shrug their shoulders at convictions and independence assailed him with sue of those apos trophes which cut short all speaking. He descended deafened from the tribnne,bnt not convinced. Meanwhile a consummate orator, the spoiled child of coalitions, made ono, more with the highoot sad most charming variations his deentneil {molt of four 'coalitions. Changing the name of the King into that of the President, he caught up the republi eats, hushed, dandled, caressed, fascinated them, and led them off to the snare to the sonde of that flute which gave the tons to the popular orators of the time of the Oracetd. " L'empire est fait," he aim out; and when the charmed republicans have got their feet into the coalition, he drew the cord. I. mays M. La mortise, tell you "Le tour mat fait." Now they had to choose between the dictatorship of the President or a royalist convention. Such was the pass to which these precious pretended republicans of the tiers-parti had brought the republic. Finally, M. Lamartine as cribes all the evils from which France has suffered for flve-and-twenty years to two parties. One, he says, is the party which kicks away the ladder by which it gets into power, and leads the press and par liament to the assault of the government when they are no longer at the head of it.. The other is that small fraction of the republican party which takes its name from a newspaper (the National). The Assembly met at noon in its bureaux, to ap point a committee for examining the petition of M Limon for authorization to execute a warrant of arrest on M. Mauguin. The majority of the bureaux were in favour of granting the authorization, only it was thought that the committee should examine care fully all documents connected with the debt, and endea vour to make out as distinctly as possible the real origin sf the prosecution. To day the President's last message appeared pla carded about Paris. PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. The uppermost question of the moment is the dotation, a bill for granting which, it is said, will be presented in the course of next week by M. de Ger miry, the new Minister of Finance. It is still opposed with obstinacy by the legiti mists, but a change may be operated in the tactics of M. Berryer when the bill comes on. There was a meeting yesterday evening of Legiti mist representatives in the Rue de Rivoli. Two questions were diecussed, the dotation and the repeal of the electoral law of the 31st of May. The dots tion met with almost unanimous opposition. As to the law of the 31st of May, the proposition for repeal was rejected by a majority of six votes. It was reported last night that M. Mauguin, the representative whom M. Cheron wants to arrest, had fled to the frontier. Yesterday, M. Weise& received the personnel of hie ministerial department. M. Mammy, the chef de cabinet of M. Bombe, retains his place. M. Lomas also remains as general secretary. PARIS FUNDS, JAN. 30. ' Three per Cents. Five per Cents Bank Shares 67f. 80c. 96E 35c. ..2.242f. 300. Our Paris despatches of last evening have col mved. UNITED STATES. The City of Glasgow, screw steamer, commanded by Captain Mathews, arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning from Philadelphia, whence she sailed on the 16th inst. She has thus made the passage under fourteen days. In the session of the senate on the 15th, Mr. Clay pre tented three petitions from Indiana, praying that congress would adopt some steps to remove all those fret coloured people in the United States who were willing to go to Aines, and that provision be made for their support for one I year after their arrival there. Also • petition from Rhode Island, praying that more effectual means might be adopted for the suppression of the African slave trade. The peti tioners depicted the horrors of the trade in vivid colours, and represented that the measures adopted by Great Britain, France, and the United States, by keeping up squadrons on the coast of Africa, had proved a failure. That the only effectual remedy for the suppressith of the African slave trod* was the encouragement of eblishing colonies all sloeg the coast of Africa. The colonies now there, within their limits, had wholly suppressed the trade, and they occu pied one-third of the coast. The petitioners asked that a line of steamers, or of packet vessels, might be established to ply be tween so.d America the coast of Arica. Mr. Clay said these petitions had suggested to him the importance of the subject. He alluded to the report lately sent to the Senate by the state department, in which it appeared that the importation of slaves into Brazil, Cube, and other southern countries, had increased immensely. That trade was mainly carried on by American vessels. Ninety three American vessels cleared within year one from ports in Brazil for the coast of Africa. Those American vessels were sold in the Brazilian parts on condition that they be delivered in ports on the coast of Africa. The vessel, therefore, while actually sold, sailed to Africa under the American Hag. When arrived there the captain saw the agent to whom he was to deliver the vessel. Re then informed his crew that the vessel was sold— that a new crew was to be shipped, and the American dog was to come down. Toe poor sailors had the alternative to remain and perish front want on the coast of Africa, or to ship and navigate the vessel with a cargo of slaves to Brazil. It had been tenons. mended as a means of breaking up ttis proceeding, that the United States should reins° to grant sea letters, or other documents, allowing vessels to sail from any of these ports to the coast of Africa, for there was no trade to carry them there except the slave trade. All agreed that the squadron on the coast of Africa had been a failure, so far as stopping the slave trade ; at all events, it was ascertained that the good results had not been equivalent to the great cost and sacrifice of health and life in keeping the squadron up. The United States keep up the squadron oa the coast of Africa under the eighth article of the treaty of Washington, amounting to a force of eighty guns ; and also a squadron on the coast of Brazil. These squadrons cost half • million of dollars annually, besides a great sacrifice of life and health. Re thought that if these squadrons, as they did not prevent the trade, were withdrawn, there would not be such • sacrifice of Afiicien lives. He thought there was ao effectual remedy to suppress the slave trade but the occupation of the whole coast by colonies, and thus stop the trade at home and oa its threshold. By the treaty of Washington, the United States was only obliged to keep the squadron on the coast of Brazil for five jean. Those live years had long since expired. It was a question of financial economy whether that squadron should be kept up at such an expense, and the lives of gallant sea -1 men be jeopardised and sacrifice d, when no good fruits follow. There was no project of the age equal to that of transporting with their own consent, to the coast of Africa, the people of colour. What was to become of them in the states ? In Washington, under the eye of Congress, their numbers had been doubled in the last ten years. Many of the states of the union had ',treacly adopted legislation for their exclusion, and prohibitions against them had been adopted in several state coastituti no. Whet, in the name of humanity was to become of them. Nothing could be done for their relief exempt to transport them to the home of their ancestors. It would benefit the whites at the north, the slaves at the south, and greatly improve the condition of the poor crea tures themselves—for, if they remained in America, they must continue to be a degraded race. No one—no section, or state or country could be injured by their coloaization on the coast of Africa. If they could only give up the prejudices and unhappy causes of the agitation which had so long disturbed them—if the people of the north would only per mit the people of the south to conduct and manage their own domestic aff.irs for themselves—if they would only consider that it slavery be an evil, it is confined only to the people of the south—if they would join in this grand scheme, this only effectual means to benefit the free segues, ow much peace and harmony would result? He moved, and the memorials I were referred to the committee on commerce. At New York on the 16th inst. the walk of sin four-story buddies, fell in Twenty-first-street, between Fifth and Sixth avenue. By this accident it is estimated that at least twenty lives have bean lost. A large number 'Apennine were seriously injured. Sin dead bodies had been taken from the ruins, and carried to the station-house. It is supposed that the accident is the result of bad mortar, used in the erection of the building. ... The commercial intelligence wu anticipated by the telegraph brought by the Mat mad. ;tie Court. WINDSOR, The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes. The royal family took walking and pony exercise in the Slopes and Windsor Perk. Prisms Albert went oat shooting this morning, attended by the Marquis of Ormond., Col. the lion. Cantos Grey, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and Lieut. Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Marquis and MarchOnese of Salisbury, the Marquis of Angle**, and Lady Adelaide Paget, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl and Comical. of Wilton, Viscount and Viscountess Sydnty, and Sir Jobs are expected to arrive at the Caslts ts-day on a visit to the Queen and the Prince. The Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening will include the Dashes, of Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Lamson (tower, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, toe Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget, the Marquis end Marchioness of Stafford, Lady Fanny Howard, Buenos. de Speth, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, Viscount and Viazonntess Sydney, and Sir John Ronald,. A deputation, oonsieting of Mr. Meeterman, M.P., Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. Mr. Deputy Peacock, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. Deputy Lott, Mr. Blake, Mr. Water low, the City Iteinembranosr, Mr. Dew (oWf clerk), and Mr. Haywood (surveyor), had an interview with Lord Joh& Russell and Sir George Grey yesterday, at the official mildew* of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing. street. Lord Ashley had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at Ws official residence in Downing -street. The Biahop of Norwich had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. Mr. Tancrad, MP, had also an interview yesterday with the ricks b oo. bermes, at the H0w411,4" LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. - - &STINGS IN BANCO.—Baroas LORD C I, Ma. Jvinca PATTIODII. MB. JaaTlCa COLVAIDDR, AND M. !VATIC% WIONTNAN. THE QUIIIIN D. Tali INK•BITANTa Or HOLBICC.— JCDOMENT. Lord Campbell now delivered judgment in this ease, and said that it had been conceded that the pauper had lived for five years in the pariah from which hewn removed, and that be could not be legally removed, onleu an interrorion of such a residence had taken place. It had been assumed that the pauper was removed from the respondent parish, the intention being that he should return to it when he came out of prison. The point as to the interruption of the ?Ml dance was then raised, and it woo argued that absence by imprisonment was to be considered a, an in•erruption. The court Saw no reason for taking suck a view of the cue, whilst the danger of attempting to destroy the right by imprisonment was no reason against such a construction. Some of the authorities which had been referred to would rather lead to the conclusion that .imprisonment would in terrupt the residence; but, when the cases were looked Into, it appeared that such a rule had not keen laid down. If die court were to decide that the power of removing a passer from a parish would be done away with by every Wapiti:fit ment, the pauper would be too much restricted; and doe court had come to the decision that their judgment should be against the appellant parish under the circumstances whit* had been stated in the argument. Judgment for the appellant parish accordingly. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. MAAStON.UUOUSE. A THIRTY Id tut 37 bit Jris Losoox.— fr. Batley, en elderly man, of gentleman appearance, was brought up on the following charge W. Brown, cab-driver, stated :oat on the previous day he was on the stand in Coventry street, when he ob.erved de fendant looking towards him. Witness maid, " Cab, your honour ;" and defendant, nodding assent, got in and desired to be driven to Bectforibequare, from thence to Knights. bridge, back to. Piccadill, then to Battersea; next to Commercial-road Bast,. back again to Battersea; then to Old Brompton; again to Bedford-square ; then back to Not ting tall, when the gentleman said he thought the hoses wanted a little rest, end he and witness had some ale toge ther and smoked a pipe. Then, atter calling spin at Old Brompton, he drove him to some dining rooms re Cheapside, and attar dinner strove defendant again to Commercial road East, and then back to the dining-rooms, when witness asked defendant to discharge him, as the hone was rather tire d—(laughter)—but he refused until witness had taken a note to his private house at Camberwell. The Lord Mayor-1 think your horse must have bean tired. Wny how many miles had you driven Witness replied about 30 miles; and added,that defendant did sot wish to ride to Camberwell, but wanted witness to take the note over in the cab, which he refused, and as de fendant would not pay the fare he was given into custody. The defendant kept on during the recital interrupting, and applying the terms " liar" and " fool," and occasionally driving the policeman with his elbow, and esbibitiog many other eccentricities. The whole scene thus kep: the court in a roar of laughter throughout. On being ordered to pay 21e. for the cab fare, and 'is. 6d. for the driver's loss of thee. tee tumid all his pockets inside out to show that he had us money. It appears that be ;is respectablylconnected, and by a pass book found upon him a balance is shown at his booker's. Ile retired from the bar is eustody, to arrange ;for payment, in default of which the lord mayor, to bin surprise, told hint he must go to gaol tur a month. The money was shortly paid. TUE WINDOW Tex.—A spirited and unanimous meetieg in favour of a repeal of the window tax was held under the presidency of the mayor, in the Guildhall, Ply mouth, on Wednesday. INQUEST ON CAPTAIN ROUTLEDGE.—Yesterday ?Jr. W. Carter held an inquest at Horsentonger-lane Gael, on the huffy of Frederick William, alias Captain, Rut ledge, who died in that prison on the 29. h, while awaiting his trial on a charge of bill swindling. Eliz.beth B.Jut- ledge, of 123, Iligh-rreet, Walwortb, widow of deceased, said that her husband was 62 years of ago. They had lived apart 23 years. She had alwapa understood from him that he was a merchant's clerk in the City. Believed he waa captain in the Somersetsliire militia, now disbanded, sad had seen the commis ion, but could not remember by whom it wu signed, or what was the name of the commending Officer. 7 She had not visited deceased in the prison, being . _ uninformed of his illness, nor did she learn his decease bat through the papers. Witness last saw deceasid about a month ago, when he called upon her ; he was then excee&. ingly ill from nervous excitement.—Mr. John Keene! governor of the gaol, said that Routledge was admitted on the 10:11 of January, on a reamed from Lambeth Police Court, and appeared very well till the 13th. F. 11. Cooper, turnkey, said the deceased was admitted into the infirmary on the 13th, complaining of • pain in hi.. side. He was then in a very debilitated state. On Saturday the '2.sth, as he lett the infirmary for Lambeth Police Court, he walked to the prison van with a firm step, but appeared much exhausted on his return. Oo Sunday afternoon be was very low, but no danger was apprehended until Monday morning, when .a low fever cams on, and Routiedge expressed a tear that he should never rise from his bed. He continued to sink throughout Tuesday, and on Wednesday morning expired soon alter 8. Retied previously on several occasions expressed hie gratitude and satistsc•ion c‘icerninet his treatment since he had been an inmate of the prison. Wiatour H • Esq , surgeon to the prison, con firmed the statement of the last saltness. Deceased had died of typhoid fever, brought on by great mental anxiety. He was sensible to the last moment. The Coroner having summed up, the jury immediately returned a verdict of " Natural Death." COME-MARTIAL UPON LIEUTENANT WM. II CCU- INSLEY, R.M.—Oa Wednesday, • court martial commenced at the Ruyal Marine Barracks, Stooehouge, for the trial of First Lieutenant William Hutchinson, Royal Marines, on charges of couauct unbecJzaing the character of a geatli.man, in having, on the evening of the 15th day of January, 1841, in a public bill room, at Plymouth, used highly offensive and disrespectful longu■ge to his superior officer, Captain Joseph Francis Brittais, of the Royal Marines—and in having, at the time in question, outside, and in the vicinity of the public ballroom above-mentioned, deliberately kicked and used abusive language to the said Captain Joseph Ftalleil &intim, such conduct being subversive of good order and military discipline. The court was composed of officers of the Royal Marines. Before the swearing of the members of the court, the prisoner questioned the formation of the court, whether it was • naval or military courtmartial ? The court declined to answer the inquiries of the prisoner, but thought itself competent to proceed with the trial. The prisoner then objected to the jurisdiction of the court, on the ground that at the time of 'the alleged offence he was borne on the books of U.M.B. Impregnable, and therefore amenable to naval law, and to the orders for the regulation of the naval service ; and further, that at the date of the order for the court he was on duty on board the ship. It the court should decide upon proceeding with the trial alter consideration of this objection he abeuld proceed under protest, and he should use thin objection for the purpose of defence, and, if need be, to upset any verdict which the court might come to. The court overruled the objection, and on the swearing of the court the prisoner objected to Captain Elliott on the ground that he had spoken strongly as to his conduct on this particular occasion. As, however, he had been told this in confidence, he could not produce evacuee, and the objection was withdrawn. The only witness examined was the prosecutor. The court requested that the evidence should not be published until the proceedings were closed; but we may state that the affair arose at the Royal Western Yacht Club Grand Fancy Ball. Both parties were friends of very old standing ; and on the night of the ball, in conse quence of come cosivensuon that the prisoner had with some other friends, he, " out of a lark," called the prosecutor to him, and said, " Rare, here's that wife of yours flirting away with Tokenism." In the excitement of the moment, Capt. Brittain replied, " It is like your impertinence, and it is • damned lie." The prisoner, in • threatening manner, re quested toe prosecutor to leave the room, whims he old, and on his descending the stairs, while prosecutor', back was against him, the prisoner kicked him, exclaiming, with an oath, "Take that," adding something which wee inaudible to Captain Brittain. The court adjourned at four o'cloi.k to the next day. TUE FLYING Flell.—The following is an extract of • letter received in Devonport from H.M.S. Flying Fish, dated " Off Porto Novo, November 2, 1850:"—" We have bad a most anxious and exciting chase after • slaver for two days, and only barely succeeded in capturing her yesterday afternoon by dint of nine hours' hard pulling, in two four oared gigs, with • broiling hot sun over out men's heads, there being just sufficient breeze to propel the vessel about two miles an hour; the slaver increased her speed to three miles an hour by tne use of 16 or 18 sweeps. Two or three of our men tainted at their oars, and the soiddys in the boati were obliged to pull and spell with them. The slaver woes. far off that we could not me our boats when they got along aide, and, • squall coming on about the same time, we imagined that they must have got up with her, the saver's sails being from this cause hid Gout our view. We were in no small state of anxiety just then, as we had only 10 or 12 men in the boats, and we felt certain the slaver's crew was upwards, or fall, 20 in number; and uncertain were we of the issue of • struggle, if these fellows had determined on de fending their vessel, after the long pull our men had had. Oar feelings may be better imagined than described, on the squall clearing off, at obeerving the vowel running down towards us, with our boats towing astern. The prize turned out to be a beautiful schooner Rained the Mosquito, with 21 men on board, prepared for slaves only, but she had been a very saccemfal read, heretofore, having made four or tie. succueful tripe , and had landed 1,200 slaves in the Brazil. We have,. however, spoilt her fun for the future. We send her off this evening to Sierra Leone ter condemnation. Thi is oar seventh prise." VACANT COLOMELCIIIe.—We believe it is decided that Major General D'Aguilar, C. 8., the colonel of the 58th Regiment, is to be removed to the 23d Regiment. Major-General Attehmuty, C. 13., on the staff at Bombay, and Major-General Wynyard, C. 8., on the stall at Sydney, New South Wales, are to be the new colonels. Major- General Auehmuty is to succeed to the 65th, and Maier- General Wynyard to the 58th. These appointments wig LI/MI*1) 1 7 NNW la telitiks's MAW" (Nog..