The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

Zia ervrefio. ) 'ORRESPON DENTS. •pro a= ri11...W.1 • 1 ... I,spres.." isalsuuaz the raw liorairir. ... 7 Tends, Asti Yrittor Pied, :la WEN !CI The Itstreor,"Levtow ...attar ape., •" 3, , !yo 0r.... - , 10, Dat.rwrie.orrst, !T Two o'clock oa the II 4 ro...twawa. WAlEtt AT I.ONDON BRIDON. 7 ,. f: —M 2. 2t. 2).. I . -h. 4046.—.--Aiwesson. St. oar LqNDON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9. Tile decree of the Austrian Government, which sequestrates the property of the Lombard nobles Do w in exile, appears to some of our contemporaries to be en act of singular impolicy and injustice. We I admit its injustice and its impolicy, but we can see in it nothing singular, or out of the usual course of , Austrian a dministration in Italy : On the contrary, it seems to be only in keeping with all the ruthless sod whites promediegs which have taken place in that unfortunate country during the last three sears. The only difference appears to be, that Counts LITTA and 0.1:COME0 are persons of old family and large fortune, while the crowd of previous victims have been citiaens and students of the middle ranks of society, or persons whose education and circumstances render them still more deplorably helpless as out casts in a foreign land. The friends of reaction and allies of foreign Absolutism in this country have not only looked on unmoved while thousands of generous and devoted men have been driven from their homes and forced to seek here a refuge from death—but they have om itted no opportunity in Parliament and in the press of outraging the feelings of these defenceless ta,,ritives and of parading their sympathy with the triumph of their persecutor& As every movement towards liberty in Isis was the object of unceasing ridicule and invective, so each succeeding act of Royal perfidy, whereby the concessions then extorted were gradually resumed and the broken fetters of the people rivetted anew, were palliated and approved by our oligarchy and their organs as proofs of return ing wisdom and security. To what extent the lan guage thus publicly held in England by politicians and journalists may have contributed to encourage the crowned conspirators of Europe in their crusade against freedom, it is difficult to say. But assuredly the language to which we have referred has been well calculated to serve such a purpose. Nor, with hardly an exception, has its tone been varied to the present hour. In the House of Peers, no phrase .more decent or more deliberative than that of assas sin is applied by our philo-Austrian legislators to the men whom the cruelties of Ranrrzsior have bewil dered aud misled. It was but the other night that Lord LYNDIII:IIsT questioned the Government as to its readiness to turn spy and detective in aid of that of Vienna. And on a subsequent evening Lord NALYEAII'ItY manifested his impatience to learn whether there was any truth in the report that MAZ wit had been permitted to take refuge on board an English ship in the Gulf of Genoa. The noble ex-Secretary for Foreign Affairs did not attempt to conceal his disappointment and vexation, if i: should turn out to be true, that the fugitive chief of the democratic party had not been left to his fate on terra, irma. The Minister could only declare that he had as vet received no information on the subject, and the humane ex-Secretary will, therefore, hare the pleasure of renewing his manly and gener ous question on a future day. The Times, however, is greatly scandalised, be cause certain noblemen of Lombardy, suspected of sympathy for Italian nationalism, and for the eman cipation of their country from the brutual yoke of the foreign soldiery, are now included in the indis! criminate proscription and plunder which the ven geance of the eeinet of Vienna has ordained. Far be it from us to slight the sufferings, or trifle with the wrongs, of the aristocratic Liberals in question. We stop not to ask, for we care not to know, what inadverteneies of langungsr they may have been betrayed into with reference to the misery and degradation of their country. Since the failure of the Milen insurrec tion of 1848, Counts Dna and BORROMEO, with several others of' similar rank and fortune, have been but too glad to live in peace and comparative safety in Piedmont. Their properties remained unseques trated, and it is possible that, in the intercourse they must have maintained with their families and connexions in their native province, some casual expression may have been detected through the glass lid of the Post-office, which, unexplained and tangos, lilted, may have sufficed to give a colour of provoca tion to this new outburst of tyrannical resentment. Condemned unheard, and even unaccuscd before any legal tribunal, the unfortunate persons alluded to are precisely in the same position as the family of Oa- LEANS, whose private property, by a similar act, was last year confiscated by the Emperor of the FRENCH. And as on that occasion, so also now, our contemporary, who had month after month stimulated and encouraged the counsels of the counter-revolution, and treated with indifference the political sufferings of crowds of low degree, is seized with a paroxysm of indignation because afe individuals of high blood and princely fortune have had their ancient caskets rifled by the spoiler. To us it is a matter of no importance what the social rank of the victim in any case may be. Our abhorrence of the system which condemns men in their absence, upon real or pretended evidence which it da res not to produce, and which if produced it would not suffer to be questioned or rebutted on behalf of the accused, is equally intense, whether the absent victim be a l merchant of Milan, a professor of blantua, or a proprietor of domains on the shores of the Lsgo Maggiore. But after all there is a difference be- tw.re property and life. The objects of the new 1 confiscation are, for the preient at least, in the en joyment of personal safety. But who is safe within the iron frontier of Austrian Italy? Who knows —that will dare to tell—how many innocent, or but passively compromised, persons of humble sta tion, have perished on the scaffold within tho last three weeks under the sentences of drum-head courts martial It is easy to talk indignantly of tho as- , 1 sassioation of sentries in the confusion of an abortive insurrection. But who will affix the proper epithet to the torturings and executions by authority which' we chronicled not long ago in these columns? Or who, that has the happiness to live in a land of se curity and freedom, will venture to measure nicely the deg ree of exasperation and despair with which such scenes must fill the breasts of those who have witnessed and survived them? The true test by which all just and generous men will i try the conduct of the Italian people and their leaders s this—how bog should we continue loyal or submissive under such rule? We glory in the memory of our own re sistance to kingly power, but what were the suffer ings of our forefathers in 1641 or what their appre hensions in 1688 compared with the blinding and blighting oppression under which Northern Italy wntlies at the present day? To seek to cast the odium on MAZZINI of having drawn down the late decree of confiscation on the noble Lombard families, who are now refugees in Piedmont, is wholly vain. If in reality they were ignorant of the meditated outbreak, or un to:cremated by approval in the design, it is manifest that no palliation can be found for the Pillage to which they are doomed in anything that may have occurred recently at Milan or elsewhere. And if, upon the other hood, there should, irs any instance, be a semblance of truth in the allegation put forth by ItaDetzsur, to the effect that these aristocratic exiles were aware of the revolt intended, and had aided in its preparation, lien what becomes of the shower of :legislative and :t vary missil es di rec t e d aga i nst t h e poor an d friend s_ men who, at a distance of a thousand miles their bleeding country, would thereby appear to have only fallen into the same error regarding its readiness for revolt, which men of property and in telligence committed living c l ose t o i t s f ron tier ? Trft Hit %TER; ALMalltit'sES.—The Drapers' Com te 4„. yhave ensued to he ere c t e d t wo w i ngs to t h e i r alms situate in King Henry's-road, Ball's-pond. The d now presents a pleasing appearance, and will rublitional seeommoda , ion for IS poor members. It WI be ready for occupation in the cosine of the present I fttb. 'I be society of bookbinders, whose almshouses are Whisted at the same locality, have, throat)]. the liberality of t hew subscritars, been enabled to add one wing, afford °l mom for eight poor persons. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1853. ITALY. Titters from Turin state that an indescribable agi tation has been produced in that city by the news of the Lombard spoliation.. We have before remarked that some of the emigrants whose property is seques trated have obtained naturalisation in Piedmont, and have thus become Sardinian citizens. As they have thus acquired a right to the protection of the govern ment of that state, the new decree is of a nature to raise serious difficulties between the cabinets of Turin and Vienna. It is said that the Sardinian cabinet has already demanded explanations of the Austrian government. At Turin the confiscation is regarded as the most insensate act which a government desi rous of retaining a footing in Italy could perpetrate, as it drives into the ranks of the insurgents the only class which was wanting to make the revolutionary party co-extensive with the entire nation. The Opinione of Turin states from Milan, Ist in , stant, that the . provinces of Milan and Como are to receive a large increase of troops, orders having been given to prepare new quarters for them. The same paper states that Marshal Itadetzky has ordered the Lieutenancy of Lombardy to report to him on the property of the 200 principal inhabitants in each of the provinces under his jurisdiction. Emigrants, persons excluded from the amnesty, and those who have been allowed to divest themselves of the quality of Austrian citizens, arc to be comprised in the list. The Milan Ga:ette publishes a decree of the 28th ult. ' by which Count Strafe,ldi, Imperial Lieutenant of Lombardy, gives a first warning to the Corriere i del Lario for disrespectful observations contained in it against foreign governments. The Messaggere di iforlena states, without giving a date, that martial law has been proclaimed at Forli, but simply as a precautionary measure. The Parma Gazette of the 18th ult. publishes a decree, in which the Duke of Parma names Ham Thomas Ward, at present his Plenipotentiary at Vienna, to the post of Minister of his Household. The correspondent of the Berlin lire= Zeitung affirms that the police of Turin have been diligently searching for M. Mazzini, convinced that he was in that city. He adds that Count Appony, the Austrian minister, had thanked the government for this service. been sentenced by the court-martial to be hanged, persisted nevertheless in wandering about the coun try, organising a second revolution, and raising a guerilla troop, which was to be the avant garde of the new movement. With this intention, continues the sentence, Roszlopy recruited among the boldest ,of his fellow-revolutionaires, bought horses, arms, and accoutrements, and having lost some of his men) who were surprised by the gendarmerie at Kehl , kemet, withdrew to the Bakony Forest, in order the better to collect his forces. Here he resolved to supply himself and his troop with necessaries by falling with his band upon the pro perty of true and faithful subjects of his Majesty the Emperor, whom they called traitors to Hungary. In one of these attacks the proprietor Gindly was killed, and although Roszlopy was not present, of his complicity in the affair there can be no doubt. On the 16th of November, 1852, he was at length cap tured and sent to Vienna. Samuel Sarkuzy, a private soldier on leave from his regiment, the fourth and last prisoner, is said in the sentence passed upon him to have gone to and fro from the Bakony Forest to Pesth, carrying mes sages and enlisting recruits for Itoszlopy, the prisoner before mentioned. The crimes of high treason having been proved against the prisoners before the court martial, they were executed on the 3rd inst. at Teeth : Juhbal, Roszlopy, and Sarkiay by hanging, and Andrasffy with powder and ball. The Post-Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, under date of l'esth, 28th ult., says:—" It is stated, not as a rumour but as a positive fact, that the day before yesterday the Provost of the fortress of C3morn was brought here heavily ironed, and lodged in the new prison. He allowed himself to be drawn into a con spiracy with the state prisoners in that fortress, the object of which was to deliver up the place to the Magyars. The Commandant Field-Marshal Si manich was to have been assassinated, and the small arsenal pillaged, in or der to furnish arms to the libe rated prisoners. One of the latter, being troubled in his conscience, discovered the plot by a letter which he addressed to a person high in office, and thus prevented the calamity." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. To-day the Siecle received a " warning," in con sequence of an article deemed offensive to the go vernment. A decree in this morning's Moniteur announces that Chinese crapes, imported from the British do minions, will no longer be subjected to thu restrictive ordinance of 1826. In the !sitting of the Germanic Diet, on the sth instant, the reinforcement of the federal military service was negatived. liThe suppression of the inspectors-general and ape cial of police in the departments has been considered as one of the first steps towards the suppression of the departmeut of police itself. It seems to be doubtful whether the ministr7 of police will be abolished, though certain modifications may be made in the manner of working its machinery; and in any case no changes of any importance will probably be made until after the report of the Commission of Inspection. In consequence of the changes that have been re cently made in the Ministry of the Interior, and which were noted at the time, that department has not yet got into its regular course of business. Con siderable changes are about to be made amongst the sub-prefects ; some are to be removed altogether, and others merely transferred from one place to another. It may be easily supposed that the place-hunters arc on the alert. Among the rumours of the day is one which says that the Empress Eugenie is in an " interesting state." The rumour has not yet, I believe, found its way into the papers, but it is currently spoken of among those whu are familiar with the people of the court. It is said that letters have been received here within the last two days from Vienna which speak rather discouragingly of the effects of the Emperor's wound. In these letters it is stated that the sur geons were not at first aware of the extent of the hurt, and apprehensions are expressed that not only the optic nerves, but that the spinal marrow, has been injured. It is not said that the Emperor's bodily strength will not be re-established, but it is feared that his intellect has been, and will be, se rious'y affected. The telegraphic despatches, however, speak of his daily improving health, and one of them states that the Emperor, having been informed that the mother of the assassin Libenv had been dis missed from a situation that she held in a family in one of the provinces, on account of the crime of her son, has settled upon her a pension for life. A trifling improvement was observable on the Bourse to-day in the prices of the Bentes generally, for the end of the month, as compared with yester day; but there was no substantial advance in the cash quotations of any description. The Four-and a-Half per Cents., which closed yesterday at 104 f. 70c., left off at 105 E for the settlement ; while the closing price of the same stock yesterday for cash I was 106 f. 50c., and to-day 104 f. 70c. The Three per Cents. also were reported 15c. better for the ac count, being last called at 81f. Bank Stock closed at 12,760 francs, which marked a further decline of Of. There was nothing of importance transacted in rail way stocks to-day. PARIS, Moslems Eve:ciao. The long-pending question of the forfeiture of their caution money by the railway companies that failed to fulfil their engagements in 1847, is defini tively settled to-day by a decree in the .illoniteur, which I have already mentioned, unless in deed the companies should prefer the hopeless chance of litigation to the offer now made them by the government. The decree, after reciting that the caution-money of 1,500,000 f. deposited by the company of tke railway from Fampoux to line brouck ; of 10,000,000 f. deposited by the company of the railway from Lyons to Avignon; and of 11,000,000 f. deposited by the company of the rail way from Bordeaux to Cette, were declared, on the 21st of February, 1848, forfeited to the govern ment for the non-fulfilment of engagements by the companies; and after stating that " the said forfeiture provided for bv the cakiers des charges was in conformity with law, but that, as regards equity, and for the sake of public credit, it is necessery to moderate the rigour of it " enacts that the .Minister:of Finance shall, by way of a compromise, be authorised to restore to the said com panies, the half of the capital of their respective de posits. The decree allows interested parties three months to decide whether they will take advantage of this measure, on condition of desisting from all ex isting pretensions and proceedings relative to the caution money ; and it declares that the portions of the caution money not restored shall be definitively acquired to the public treasury, and be entered as receipts in the budget of the present year. I have heard that some of the Bordeaux and Cette shareholders are disappointed, and talk of prosecuting before the Council of State an appeal yet pending against the decision of the Council General of the Haute Garonne rejecting their claims in tote. The general feeling on the Bourse to-day was, however, that the half of their money was an unexpected Godsend; and this is proved by the considerable rise which took place in shares of these defunct companies. An extraordinary sensation has been created in political circles to-day by the news that a field officer of the staff, of high standing, has been arrested under circumstances of a most painful nature. The fact is beyond doubt that Colonel de Sercey of the staff, the son of the well-known Admiral de Sercey, is at this moment in the prison of the Abbaye, and it is under stood that he is about to be called upon to explain his conduct in a pecuniary transaction before a military court of inquiry. The current story is this:—Some time since Colonel de Sercey harrowed a sum of 150,000 francs from M. Achilli Morisseau, a former editor of the Assembled!: Nationale, upon the repre sentation that he wanted the money to invest in a lucrative commercial undertaking. He offered the name of Marshal Prince Jerome Bonaparte as a surety for the repayment of the loan. M. Moris seau was so satisfied with the statement made to him that he advanced the large sum required. Ile time fixed for the repayment has long since elapsed, and M. Morisseau now openly asserts that Colonel de Sercey never had in contem plation any such undertaking as he spoke of, that he wanted the money to relieve himself and a friend from embarrassment, and that in short he obtained it under false pretences. It is not to be supposed that Prince Jerome could have assumed the legal liability of a surety, for if he had of course the money would have been paid on the first demand ; but it is un doubtedly part of M. Morisseau's charge, that he made the advance under the impression that the credit of the ex-King of Wurtemberg was part of his secu rity. In this state of things, Colonel de Sercey was engaged to be married to a daughter of Madame Murat, the widow of the Murat who acquired some notoriety as a deputy under Louis Philippe. M. Morissean, finding it impossible to obtain his rights as a creditor, caused his wrongs to be mentioned to the lady's family, and applied to Colonel de Sercey a term too harsh to be repeated. In consequence of this insult he received a challenge, to which his answer was that until Colonel de Sercey had paid the 150,0001. in full, he would not recognise him as a per son entitled to appeal to the laws of honour. Colonel de Sercey being thus unable to obtain satisfaction by the pistol, took the not uncommon course ip such circumstances of resorting to a cudgel. Ile waylaid M. Murisseau, and as the latter, accompanied by his wife, was entering his house, No. 50, Rue Buse du Rempasit, at about half-past seven in the evening, he struck a blow at him, which fortunately only hit the door-post. M. Morisseau, thus driven to extremities, applied in the first place to the Prefect of Police to protect his person, and in the next laid a full state ment of his case before Marshal Magnan, as Com mander-in-Chief of the army of Paris. lam given to understand that Marshal Magnan attempted to I dissuade M. Morisseau from prosecuting the affair, on account of the great scandal it would occa sion ; but, ultimately, M. Moriaseau persisting, the Marshal said he could not do otherwise than sift the matter to the bottom, and the arrest of Col, de Sercey followed this determination. Captaia Plee, who has long filled the functions of judge-advocate before courts-martial in Paris, is ordered to investi gate the affair. Monseigneur Mathias, the Archbishop of Avignon, has pronounced in favour of the Univers, Mean while the religious war rages as hotly as ever. The Archbishop of Paris has appealed to Rome against the last pastoral letter of the Bishop of Moulen. A telegraphic despatch from Toulon states that Generals de Gastee and D just embarked Montauban have embarked for Civita Vecchia with orders to proceed I to Rome. GERMANY. ALARMS OF THE GERMAN GOVERNMENTS. M. Mazzini's views of the volcanic condition of European states appear to be fully adopted by the German governments. To Hungary, Bohemia, Aus tria Proper, and Italy, countries in which we have had to report conspiracies and arrests, are now to be added Bavaria and Baden, as the following letters show : MUNICH, MARCIE 1. Yesterday General Flottow visited the troops seve ral times in the barracks, harangued them, and ex horted them to persevere in their sentiments of fidelity to the King. It was at first thought that an enseule was apprehended, but it was soon afterwards ascertained that the General's counsels were intended to fortify the minds of the soldiery against the in fluence of certain proclamations which had arrived from Lindau, and been distributed in the garrison. NUREMBERG, MARCH 3. Measures of precaution have been adopted hero by the military ; cartridges have been distributed to the soldiers; the posts have been reinforced, and the town has been patrolled by light horse. The officers have received orders not to leave the town without the permission of their superiors. Some arrests have been made at Farth. BAMBERG, MARCIL 2. Yesterday the military authorities maintained the special measures adopted the preceding evening; patrols traversed the streets, the posts were rein forced, and the troops kept under arms. . _ . _ . At Lindau, in one night, all the houses in which Bavarian officers were lodged were marked with a red cross. Precautions were immediately taken. SPAIN. MADRID, Mince 3. The Ministry have sustained a defeat in the Senate. The four secretaries elected belong to the Opposition. The Senate refused to admit the new senators before the constitution. The Three per Cents. were at 43. HUNGARY. EXECUTIONS AT PESTI!. The official Vienna Gazette, of the 4th inst., con tains the sentences as well as announces the execu tion at Peeth of four HunJarian prisoners of note. Of these the first mentioned, Karl Juhbal, is described as having formerly been a professor of mathematics, and also a tutor in the family of Kossuth. After the sup pression of the revolution Juhbal (wo follow the official statement), knowing that Kossuth in his retreat at Kutahis cherished designs of a new attempt to overthrow the dynastic supremacy of the Hapsburgs in his country, and that he maintained emissaries, who went to and fro throughout the country, wrote exciting and inflammatory articles which he caused to be printed and circulated. In the month of August, 1851, he received from the hands of a confidential agent of Kossuth a circum stantial and detailed plan according to which the revolution was to be carried out. The same agent brought letters wherein certain persons were desig nated to important posts in the new insurrection, and others were accredited and invested with autho rity by Kossuth. About the same time Juhbal re ceived the visit of another emissary, one Andrasffy, formerly a lieutenant of the Hungarian guard, but who having escaped from Turkey was travelling under the pseudonym. of Alexander von Neuberg. This person's work was to seek out there certain guerilla leaders at that time lying concealed with their bands in various forests, and to make arrangements with them respecting the service which they were to render in the coming revolution. Two other emissaries are also named with whom Juhbal held interviews, and one of whom, described as the most dangerous agent of Kossuth, communicated to him a plan of his own, found at Juhbal's house by the police, for a new geographical division of the southern portion of the Austrian monarchy, and also a seditious address to the women of the land. The papers found on this person also showed that be had sent off many messengers to Kossuth, and upon the whole was a very active par ticipator in the work which was to prepare a new revolution. Karl Andrasffy Devenynibala, the second prisoner, mentioned in the course of the foregoing sentence, is described as having been at first a cadet in the imperial cavalry regiment, and afterwards a lieute nant in the 14th hussar regiment. Tho beginning of his misconduct was his unauthorised withdrawal from the imperial army, just as he had been promoted to command, a squadron, and his adherence to the rebel forces, with which he served until the end of the Hungarian campaign. Having concealed him self for some time in Hungary, after the end of the war, he fled to Turkey, and there entered into com bination with other rebels to form Owls for the renewal of the struggle. Disguised as afore said, he came back to Hungary, sought out the guerilla chiefs, delivered messages to various per sons at Czegled and Pcsth, and there received money and proclamations which ho watt to distribute. From thence he travelled to Debreczin, and had interviews with Professor Csanyi, a person devoted to the revo lutionary cause, came beck to Penh, and on the 2nd of December, Ha, was arrested there. Kasper Itoszlopy, the third prisoner, described as a landed proprietor, advocate, and magistrate of Marizalyen, embraced the cause of the revolution in 1849, was appointed one of the committee for the defence of the country, and entrusted with the raising of the landsturm, or mili tia, on the Lower Danube. Ho was (says the sentence) one of those who, by his energy, gave a most powerful impulse to the resolution. After he had published in April, 1849, a most violent address to the dwellers on the other side of the Danube, in which ho spoke very disrespectfully of the imperial house and its army, and called upon all persons to arm against them, he set up (it is said) a terrorist tribunal, compelled people to contributions, and to the reception of Kossuth notes, and frightened respectable persons by sentencing them to death, afterwards setting them at liberty. Having been arrested and brought to prison in April, 1850, he contrived to escape, and having TURKEY. The principality of Servia is still the theatre of Russian intrigue. A let‘er from Belgrade states that four agents of the Czar, ull Russian officers, had been arrested while secretly agitating in Servia to bring about a movement in favour of Montenegro. One of these agents, Captain Jekols Gregorewitch, was disguised as a priest. The Servian President, Goraschanin, sent them at once into Bulgaria under escort. M. Neuelrode has since demanded the dis missal of the President, and his replacement by a M. Wallisch, a partisan of Russia, but the Prince refuses to sacrifice a faithful minister. THE UNITED STATES. We add the following to our yesterday's summary of news received by the Niagara: The news in Congress is not important. General Pierce. on being officially notified of his election as president, gave the following reply : " You will please communicate to the respective houses of Congress my acceptance of the trust con fided to me; and, at the same time, express to them my grateful acknowledgments, and assure them of the deep sense of obligation with which I regard this manifestation of confidence on the part of my countrymen, and it will be my earnest desire to prove that their confidence has not been misplaced." Nothing certain was known about the cabinet. In addition to former statements, it is uow reported that Mr. Buchanan will be appointed minister to the court of London. Mr. ex-President Van Buren, with his son, Mr. M. Van Buren, will leave the States next month on a tour in Europe. The trial of the caloric ship Ericsson, on the 16th February, appears to have given the most ample satisfaction to all who were on board. From the time of her leaving Sandy Hook till she reached the mouth of the Potomac she ran in the face of a succes sion of heavy gales, and though frequently pitching her bowsprit under water, her engines performed with the utmost regularity, and her wheels made six and a half revolutions per minute. Only one fireman was on duty at a time, and her machinery was con tinually in motion for a period of 73 hours. It is, however, quite certain that in point of that great re quisite, speed the Ericsson is quite a failure, at least so far as this trial trip is demonstrative of her powers. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, with her husband, Dr. Stowe, and some other members of their family, proceed direct to Scotland by the steam-ship Glasgow, which sails from New York on the 26th of March. California dates of the 2nd February have been received in New Orleans, only 18 days from San Francisco. They were brought from Acapulco to Vera Cruz in 51 days, and thence by steam-ship Albatross to New Orleans, being the shortest time on record. The mining intelligence is of a highly favourable character. The census returns show the present population of the state of California to be 224,000. The markets had been unfavourably affected by unusually large marine arrivals. Flour and provi sions generally had declined from the late exorbitant quotations, good sweet Sour being now quoted at 20 dollars a barrel. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. - -------__ _______ Nnw Yong, Fan. 23. MONIT.—The market closed lower for sterling, with but • moderate amount of transactions. All the leading bankers were drawing freely at 10f, and some at 10 per cent. First class commercial bills were sold at 01 per cent. The im porters are too busy paying up duties to remit largely by this steamer. There was an increased supply of mercantile and southern bills on the market, giving an impression that exchange may decline somewhat, which feeling also tended to check remittances. Francs, 5 12f to 5 Ilf. Corrox —The market here is unsettled and quotations nominal, closing as annexed, with sales for the past three days of 2,000 bales : MIXT IXVISPOOL CLAMIFICAM3V. New Worm Other sad Tow. Galt Ports. Atlantic. Inferior OOO3. - DOM. Low to good ord lll to 9 Itj 9 51T449 Low to good mid 9to ley 9 to tel 9to 10 Slid. fair to Mir Il to 19 101 to 11 101 to It Freight to tresrpool—Entragemnits at 3.16 d. BILEADSTUYIti.-111 breadstuffs there hes been but little done, and prices are quoted lower, Western Canal flour being quoted at 6 dole. to 5 dole. 120. steady ; Indian meal, 3 dole. 371 e. to 3 dole. Me. PU011610:45 had been in good demand, and prices pretty steady. FRIBIGHTB.—With a better supply of vessels the engage ments of the last fortnight have been on easier terms, but ct the close of business yesterday there was less roam, and the rates asked were—to Liverpool, 21. 9d. to 3e. per barrel on flour, and Bd. per bushel on grain; London, 3s. ditto, and Bd. to 9d. ditto ; Glasgow, 3s. 3d. ditto, an€l9d. ditto. TIIE WEST INDIA MAILS. ARRIVAL OF THE ORINOCO. Yesterday evening the Royal West India mail packet Orinoco, Captain Horst, arrived at South ampton and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. Dennehy, ILN., Admiralty agent. The dates of her mails are :—Vera Cruz, ,th Feb. ; Tampico, 10th ; Havana, 15th ; Jamaica, 12th ; Demerara, 23th ; Trinidad, 11th ; Barbadoes, 13th ; Antigua, 12th ; Martinique, 12th ; Grenada, 11th; Porto Rico, 13th ; St. Thomas, 21st ; La Claps, 9 th. The Orinoco brings 50 passengers, among whom are :—Captain Harnett and ensign Laughlin, 2nd West India Regiment ; Lieut. Cromartie, R.N., Mr. Strutt and Mr. Poison (and wife), stipendiary magis trates ; Mrs. (Consul) Lloyd, from Bolivia; Messrs. Carrington, Esterby, Rev. Mr. Osborne (died 27th Feb.), Mr. Ar:nstrong, Miss Barton, Mr. Loparano, and sundry other foreigners. The freight on board consists of 1,413,106 dole. from various places ; 45,000 dole. are on account of the Mexican dividends ; 340 serous of cochineal, 4 perms of Jalap, •11 wrong of indigo, 9 cases of balsam Tutu ; pearls, value 3,500 dole, ; 102 bales tobacco, 69 large cases cigars, 3 bags pimento, 79 bales sarsa parilla, 9 boxes beeswax, 26 kegs ginger. The yellow fever had nearly disappeared in the islands and Royal Mail steam-packets, as also in her Majesty's ship Dauntless. MEXICO. The Orinoco brings news from Vera Cruz down to the 7th of February. The Mexican Republic was in a greater state of anarchy than ever. President Ceballos, who followed General Arista in the govern. ment, had dissolved the congress by force of arms, while they were occupied with his trial for high treason, in having proposed to change the constitu tion of the country. The despised and fugitive con gress assembled in a secret place, and declaring Ce ballos a traitor, named as president of the republic Mr. Mugica, the governor of the state of Puebla; but he declined in consequence of some other states having already recognised Ceballos. The ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico, however, would not recognise him and on the ith of February the inhabitants of Vera Cruz declared themselves in favour of General Santa Anna, and sent a deputa tion to Cartagena to call him back to his country. The principal reason that Vera Cruz declared against Ceballos is, that they do not believe that he will sus tain the lowering of the duties and taking off of many prohibitions. Tampico is of the same way ot thinking. It must be expected that Ceballos will have taken measures to declare these ports shut and not allow the entering of goods from them into the interior. However, hie energy in having dissolved the con ;retie, had given satisfaction to the richer part of the inhabitants; he will not be able to count upon the aid of the commerce, as he had not taken off the high duties in the interior, which, under the deno mination of an 8 per cent. equals 40 to 50 per cent. on the value of prints from England, and which duty had been lowered by the revolution in Guadalagara at once to 3 per cent. 'f he trade in the capital of Mexico, and in all the places in the interior, in consequence, was null —as, besides, there was no circulation of money, the governments for many months having only paid a trifle to the employes, notwithstanding they had deprived already the creditors of the interior debt of the mortgage they had on the import duties, which brought these six per cent, bonds down to the scandalous price of 10 per cent., whose value, 12 years ago, had been 50 to GO per cent. The Orinocco brings 45,000 dole. for the Mexican bondholders, as the revolutionary parties in Vera Cruz and Tampico, until then, had respected the different mortgages on their custom-houses. CANADA. QUEBEC, Faa. 19. The Canadian parliament has again commenced its session in this city. The whole of the members are not yet assembled, and very little business has been done. Not much political feeling appears to exist; the prominent topic of interest being railroads. The reformers are much elated with the despatches of the new colonial secretary on the subject of the Clergy Reserves. It was read in the Legislative Assembly by the speaker, a couple of days ago, it having I been sent down in a message from his excellency the Cover- nor-general. The reading of this despatch created much sensation, which was manifested by clapping of hands and loud cheers. On a motion for printing the document, Mr. Hincks (the Canadian premier) expressed his gratification at the " sound constitutional doctrines" which it con tained. Other gentlemen on his side of the house echoed his remarks. No member on the conservative side mid a single word. Sufficient time has not elapsed to learn what will be the feeling of the country on the subject. It seems to he generally understood that a tubular bridge will be built across the St. Lawrence at Montreal. The government have signified their approval of the subject. The weather is cold, but very fine. NORFOLK ESTUARY. Yesterday the committee on this bill met, Mr. George Carr Glyn in the choir. Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C. (formerly Mr. Hope), opened the case for the promoters of the measure, who seek power to divert the waters of the river Ouse into Marsh Cut, and extend time for embanking and reclaiming lands to eight years. Mr. Serpent \Vranghem, Mr. Paget, and Mr. Wells ap peared for the Eau Brink Drainage Vompanies, who oppose the 1 4 11 .1 n the ;mind that tha 'Lew works would magi::.';; affect the drainage of the district. THE AFRICAN MAILS. PLYMOU TH. TUESDAY, 11 P.M. The African Navigation Company's steamer Fore runner, Commander J. B. Atkins, arrived this even ing, at eight o'clock. Left Fernando Po, Jan. 30th ; I Lagos, Fab. 4th; Cape Coast Castle, 7th; Sierra Leone, 14th; Goree, 21st ; Teneriffe, 22nd; and Ma deira, 28th. Has 70 tons of palm oil, 25 tons of gin ger and pepper, 15 tons of bee s wax, 35 bags of cochi neal, and 2,000 ounces of gold. On the outward passage Commander Lynch, of the United States navy, went in her from feneriffe for Jamaica, where she joined the United States ship-of-war, John Adams, and proceeded down the coast vie Sierra Leone, to survey and find a suitable place to which the Americans could emigrate. At Fernando Po—her Majesty's steamer Electro, barque Gambia, and brig Daisy. At Cameroons, Jan. 30th—barque Garoon, brig Mary Mohawk, and Timhuetoo. At Old Calabar, Feb. Ist—ships Africa and Tapley, barque Decima. At Bonny, Feb. 2nd— ships Elizabeth Bibby and Polonia, barques hoe and Cleopatra, brigs Swiftsure and Mary Ann, schooner Visitor. At Lagos—her Maje s ty's brig Britomart and steamer Electro. Italian brig Indicator; Hamburg brig Julia, Hamburg, Time, Asia, and Portuguese schooner Belos. At %Vhydah, Feb. 4th, French brig of war Messenger, and British barques Anna Watson and F *m. The African mail packet Faith arrived at Sierra Leone, all well, on 17th Feb. HEAVY Show-FALL IN FRANCE.-The depart mental journals of France give accounts of accidents in various places in consequence of the ity of the weather. An individual was found dead on the 2nd in the snow near Beaufort (Jura), and another in the mountain of La Latelle, not far distant. The postman from Pontarlier to Chem pagnole, having been obliged to take the bags on foot in place of in a mail cart, found on hie way in the snow the dead body of a man, near Dompierre • and two other dead bodies near Censeau, the latter being those of a poor woman and her son, a boy of twelve years of age. All c inmunis cations between Pontarlier and Switzerland were nut a stop to, as also those between Champagnole and Lons le-Saulnier. The snow was to such a depth on the road to Geneva that the mails were fifty hours behindhund, and the country postmen could not do their service. In the department of the Ain, a man of 35 years of age, who was proceeding from Chavannes to Sffiignat, was so overcome by the thick snow falling around him that he sank exhausted on the toad, and was only dis covered the next morning. By prompt aid his lite was saved. A considerable number of birds have been found dead, whilst others have allowed themselves to be taken with the hand. One man brought not loss than 000 of various kinds to Beurges. A servant man of M. Bertrand, of Serres, who was sent with a large loaded cart, drawn by four horses, to Vic (Meurthe), being surprised by a heavy storm of snow, not far from Arracourt, finding it impos sible to get the horses to draw the cart farther, thought it hut to abandon the cart and save the horses. It would appear, however, that he must have fallen with the horses soon after into a deep ravine, covered over with snow, as he was found there dead the next morning, two of the four horses having also perished. In the Vosges, a postman was found dead in the snow, in the canton of Dompierre, his leather bag being firmly secured under his coat; and in the canton of Barney a poor little sweep was found lying dead in a heap of snow. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY. - The annual general meeting and thirty-first election of this society took place at the London Tavern, on Monday, to receive the report of the committee and appoint the officers for the year visiting. The report congratulated the subscribers ott the prosperous condition of the society. At the annual dinner, at which Douglas Jerrold, Esq., presided, the suns of 4001. was realised, and there had been an increase in the amount of annual subscriptions and donations amounting to within about 171. of the sum paid for pensions. The legacy of the late Ilenry Fley, Esq., had been invested with the Commis• sioners for the Deduction of the National Debt, the interest of which would be devoted to the formation of a " Fley pension" of 71. 12s. per annum. The committee had added 4701. 14s. 10d. to the funded property (2211. 14e. 10d. being for interest), and makin g th e w h o l e amoun t invested 6,2371. lie. 24., bearing interest at the rate of 31. 16s. per cent., with the exception of 2541. Four pensioners had died during the year, elle of whom had reached the age of 82. From the financial statement it appeared that at the last report there was a balance of 501. 15s. 61d ; since then had been received, subscript:one and donations, 5581. 8s Gil.; anniversary dinner (net profit), 3921. 15s. ; Printers' Dra matic Association, 191. Gs. Bd,• interest, 221/. 14s. ; legac, of the late Henry Fley, Esq., with interest, 2511.; maleing the total receipts 1,4911. Os. 61d. The expendi to.re left a balance in hand of 155/. 17s. 31d. The report was received and adopted. The meeting proceeded to the election of four pensioners on the general funds, the candi date fifth on the poll to the Whittingham Pension, and the male candidate nett highest on the poll to the Fley Pension. FEES IN TIIE COURT OF CIIANCERY.-Yeaterday a parliamentary paper was printed, showing the state of the suitors' fund and the suitors' fee fund of the Court of Chancery. The excess of fees above the charges on the suitors' fee fund, for the year ending the 26th November last, amounted to 3,2:i51. IS, 3.1., the charges bting 132,0911., 16s. 3d., and the receipts 135,3471. 14s. 6d. The fees were very considerable in the cour e of the year. In the Masten' offices they were 35,816'. 6.. 2.1., and is the Taxing Masters' o ffi c e s 23,651/. trs. 11d. Thefecs paid into court during the :;:liad from the 25;11 November, 1851 : to November last, amounted to the enormous sum of 1 136,8381. Bs. 8,1. Vbc Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Hoist and the Princess Alice, took a drive in an open landau and four ye-terday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie and Captain the Hon. Dud :ey de Hos. attended on horseback. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Captain the Hon. Dudley de Hos. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Gibbs, visited the United Service Institution, Scot land-yard. yesterday a ft ernoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Ilohenluhe, and attended by the Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Eieanor Stanley, the Marquis of Ormonde, Colonel Bouverie, and Capt. the lion. Dudley de Ros, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance at the Palace on Monday eveuing, and performed the following compositions: Ovel We, D doe Blanche " aoleidieu. Pot ?oath, curearo " Peplum.. Selection... Heyde," Pee Redouble The Countess of Charlemont has relieved the Countess of Desert in her duties as Lady-in-Waiting to her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade laide of Hohenlohe, visited the Duchess of Cambridge yes terday, at her residence at Kt w. The Countess of Lichfield was prevented by indisposition from dining with the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Monday. A deputation from the Hyde Commissioners, with respect to the application of the l'ublic Health Act to Ityde, had an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their office, Whitehall. The deputation were introduced by Colonel Vernon llarcourt, M.P., and consisted of Mews. Dashwood, Stephens, H. Stephens, J. Dash ! wood, G. Rendidl, and J. A. Hearn. A deputation from the town council of Portsmouth also had an interview with the General Board of Health. The deputation consisted of the Mayor of Portsmouth (Mr. Sti,ant), Mr. Alderman Bramble, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Howard, town clerk. Mr. Archihald Hastie, M.P. fur Paisley, had an inter view with the Right lion. E. Cardwell yesterday, at the Solid of Trade. A deputation consisting of Messrs. Gurney, Hindley, Jae. Bell, G. Huelay, Sir Edward Buxton, and M. Charuerov row, had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yester day at the Colonial-office. A deputation front the Commissioners of Portsmouth, from the guardiatis, nal from a public meeting of the inha bitants, had an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health. The deputation consisted of the Mayor of Portsmouth, Messrs. D. Levy, John Edwards, M. Solomon, H. F. Gauntlett, W. H. Dere, and Dr. Blundell. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta, the Lord Hi g h Commissioner of the lonian lshuids, the Governor of New Zealand, and the Governor of South Australia. ..... Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governors of Cey lon and Hong Kong. (TROY LAST NIGHT'S OLZITTIL) LORD CIIAMBERLAIN'g OFFICE, MARCH B.—Order, for the Court's going into mourning on Thursday nest, the 10th inst., tot his late Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, : The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans, and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords, and buckles. The cuurt to change the mourning on Sun day next, the 13th inst., viz.: The ladies to wear black silk of velvet, coloured ribbons, fans, and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stud' waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And un Thursday, the 17th inst., the court to go uut of mourning. LORI) CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 17.—Notice is hereby given that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will, by the desire of her Majesty, hold a levee at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on Wednesday, the 9th of March next, at two o'clock. It is her Majesty's pleasure that presentations to his Royal Highness ut the levee shall be considered equivalent to pre•.entation to the Queen. Addresses to the Queen may either be forwarded to her Majesty through the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, or may be reserved until her Majesty shall hold • levee. FORIsIGN-OFFICE, Msacn 4.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Nathaniel Solomon ar Consul at St. Helena for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. _ _ DOWNING -STREET, MASCR 7.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert Charles Chester Eardley- Wilmot, Esq., to be Clerk of the Executive Council, and Lieutenant Andrew Clarke, R.E., to he a Member of the Legislative Council, of the Island of Van Diemen's Land ; also been pleased to appoint William Allcot Radcliffe, Esq., to be Crown Surveyor for the Turks and Caicos Islands; also been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Christopher Sayers to be Deputy Commissary General for the Island of Ceylon ; her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint James Christopher Davidson, Esq., to be Clerk of the Peace for the district of George, Cape of Guod Rope. - - BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCH B.—Ria Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to appoint Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood to be Clerk Marshal to his Royal Highness, vice Lisutenaat•tleneral Wemyss, dect.ased. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. The official report says :—Though the weather has itely assumed a milder character, the high mortality that prevailed throughout last month discovers no abatement; on the contrary, it exhibits a great increase. The deaths in London were 1,011 in the last week of January; since that time they have steadily increased till the number registered in the week ending lot Saturday amounts to 1,427. The present return shows an increase of 83 above that of the week immediately preceding. Persons of all ages have suffered; of the 1,427 who died, 573 were children under 15 years, 460 had attained that age, but were under 60, and 37J were 60 years old and upwards. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number of deaths was 1,045, which, if raised in proportion to increase of population, gives a mortality of 1,150 for last week. The actual number, therefore, ex ceeds the estimated amount by 277. Taking the same three periods of life as above, it appears that the mortality of the young is 13 per cent., of the middle-aged 22 per cent., and of the old 41 per cent. above the corrected average. In comparing the present results with those of the pre vious week an increase is apparent both in zymotic diseases and those of the respiratory organs, but principally in the • former. Fatal cases of typhus rose from 46 to 69 ; of measles from Bto 16; of pneumonia, from 93 to 108; of phthisis (or consumption),from 147 to 160; while the num ber of persons carried off by bronchitis was in both weeks the same,namely,2l2. Twenty-twocasee occurred from diure tic!' in the week, which is more than usual at this period, and one, that of a boy, aged 10 months, at 10, Arbour street West, Mile-and, is returned as "choleraic diarrhoea (6 hours)." Last wedr the births of 861 boys and 810 girls, in all 1,671 children, were registered in London. The average number in eight corresponding weeks (1845-52) was 1,469. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.663 in. The mean temperature of the week was 35.3 deg., which is 4.6 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years. The mean daily temperature, which was 31.6 deg. on Tuesday, when it was lowest, and was 8-4 deg. below the average, rose to 43.9 deg. on Saturday, or 4.1 deg. above the average. It was below the average on every day except Saturday. The mean dew point temperature was 29•'2 deg. The wind, which blew from the north or north-east at the beginning of the week, changed on Tuesday to south-west; on Thurs day it again blew from north-cast, and at the end of the week returned to south-west. TRAINING REFUGE FOR ORPHANS AND GIRLS. Yesterday afternoon the annual general meeting of the friends and subscribers to this valuable charity, was held in the Mar ylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, Edward-street, Portman-square, for the purpose of receiv ing the report of the committee of management, for the election of officers for the gear ensuing, and upon other business ; Sir JOHN DEAN Pent. being in the chair. The HON. SECRETARY (Mr. Maxwell) then read the re port, which stated that the institution, situated in Dorches ter-plate, Blandford-square, has now been in operation for two years, and the proceedings of the past year have been the meat satisfactory of any since the commencement of this attempt to rescue poor girls, such as are received into the refuge. The report, after calling attention to the diffi culties with which the institution has had to contend with, proceeded to state that " nine girls have been sent to ser vice during the past year, two have left in consequence of ill health, live have returned home by the desire of their parents to attend them in sickness, or for other circum stances, and three have left of their own accord. Of the twenty-seven remaining, the majority had either lost both or one parent; some have been in prison, some found in the streets without any kind of home to shelter them selves in, and the majority of all of them are of that class that could not be received into any asylum, but those that partake of the character of ragged schools. The girls, besides the usual routine of education in reading and writing, arithmetic, and needlework, are taught to wash and iron—all their own elithes, besides those of the matrons and assistants, being washed by them every week. The n average number of inmates during 183 l was 17, and that during 1852 was 23. The report concluded by calling upon the u: moved port v t ea to by Mr . r the i com mittee to R still further extend the benefits of the refuge. The balante , increased sheet showed the total receipts from all sources to amount to 3941.175. Old. The public report,fohaving be and seconded by the Rey. R. Ditini N. - wag C J. Nuillnno, arrie d nem. con. The meeting having been addressed by hies Joseph Payne I the barrister, Mr. E. A. eCh plerson, Mr. J. Maxwell , D r. tanks was I Daniell, and other g en tl eman, a vote of h passed to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated, GLASGOW AND SOUTH - WF:STERN RAIL ir Traffic for Oig 'fret ntlaa Itaroh a4l : : 2; • ar corresponding weeklin last year, 3,746/. Os. lid.; incrl, 3741. 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