The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-04 00:00:00

Importenoe, and he hoped an early day would be axed, in preference to ping Into committee now. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the house would not object to go into committee on the bill now, as he was unable to fix any other day. The house then went into committee. Clause I was agreed to. On clause 2, Mr. HEADLAM moved to add an explanation of the word " commissioner," as follows :—" Any , country commie aioner of the,Court of Bankruptcy having jurisdiction in the town where the principal office of the company is " The SOLICITOR G ENERAL objected, on thesituate. ground that this would occasion much expense, and that the law proceedinn would be much better conducted in London. Mr. HUDSON desired to bring justice home to every man's door. He thought the proceedings would be beat conducted in the country, and he supported the amendment. Mr. AGLIONBY also supported the amendment, on the ground that the practice in mestere' offices in London wee excee dinly objectionable. He suggested that the govern ment sho g uld consider the matter, and that to afford them an opportunity of so doing the chairman should report progress and ask leave to sit again. Mr. STUART supported this view, and, after some fur ther observations, the proposal waa agreed to, and the chair man reported progress and obtained leave to sit on a future day. STAMFORD ELECTION PROCEEDINGS. Mr. W. P. WOOD intimated that it was his intention to bring forward the consideration of this subject on Friday week, when the noble lord at the head of the government had consented to give him precedence before taking the other orders of the day. The house adjourned at 10 Wastes to 6 o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. Horsa or COMMONS (290). —Bill to appoint com missioners to inquire into the existence of corrupt practices at elections lot certain boroughs. The preamble states tkat sorrupt practices appear to have prevailed at certain borough elections from the reports of certain election committees, and that it is expedient that certain parties (names left blank) be appointed by the Queen, with consent of parliament, to be commissioners for the purposes of the act.—See. 1. The speaker may fill up vacancies and appoint additional com missioners on the rote of the house.—bee. 2. The commis sioners to take an oath defiddi before the presiding judges of the common law courts at Westminster.—Sec. 3. Two com missioners are to form a quorum, and simultaneous inquiries may be made by different sets of commissioners.—See. 4. The crimmissioners may appoint clerks, &c.—Sec. 5. The inquiries are to be prosecuted in the order of a schestule annexed to the act.—See. 6. The commissioners are to hold courts of inquiry on the spot. Sec. 7. They are to report from time to time to the crown. Sec. S. Their reports are to be laid before parliament. Sec. 9. Power is given them to summon witnesses. See. 10. Witnesses im plicated in corrupt practices to be indemnified ; but not without a certificate from the commissioners. Sec. 11. The commissioners are to examine on oath. Sec. 12. A penalty is to be inflicted for nonattendance or refusal to give evidence. Sec 13. A penalty is imposed on false swearing. Sec. 14. Commicioneta to have five guineas a-day while engaged, and to he allowed for clerks, &c., and travelling expenses. Sec. 15. Any action against commi•sioners or any persons for anything done in execution of the let must be brought within six calendar months. Sec. 16. The powers of this act may be extended to other elections. Sec, 17. The act may be amended or repealed this session.— Sehedide.—First part : Great Yarmouth, Derby, Horsham. Second part : Kinsale, Carlisle, Lincoln, Harwich, Bewdley, Aylesbury. Vie Orproo. )(AILS. The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monti Video, Pernam buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenas Arm, will be made up us the evening of the 4th May. The mails for Briush North America, and the United States, will be mode up ea the evening et the sth May. The overland closed mails. eta Mareedles. to the Molitervanelin. Egypt, Aden. Orylos, ludic , lac., will be made up on the swain of the ath May. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madeira, PAM, and Gibraltar win be made up on the morning of the fith Ma.. The West India Mai* euluding Bermuda, Nissan, Havanm, Mondurits, New Chivas; Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and including them fur Madeira, Jactuel, Carthagena, Santa Martha, C apes, Panama, West Coat of South America, and St. Juariale- Nit:mos, will be made up on the morning of ths I; th May. The overland mails fin Gibraltar, Malta, Greeos, the haven !glade, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, rut Southarap toa, will be made up on the morning of Ms 2Oth May. Tie mails for New South Wales, Van Diernan's Laad, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of tits 31st May. The mails for the West Cow of Africa ad Madeira will be made yea the evening of the 3lst May. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1547, to the DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eighl w inga of the number Loved to the Morning Herold, M Chronicle, and Morning Pog o ALL PUT TtXICTIISIL In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, THE EXPRESS 778,714 Which wu more, we believe, than were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Paper'. IS I 0 13 WATZI AT LONDON IRMO B. D•ll—limieg. 23 mi. 3.5. 2. =I. plit 3. Triness••—Norous. 10 W. J . pan 3. LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY 4.1 WE have compared the position o f the p resent governmeut to that of those successive ministries, which held power in France during the reign of Louts XVI., vainly striving to mend large abuses with petty reforms, seeking to pump from an exhausted nation into an empty treasury, and in the midst of alt this incapacity and real reason for despair, endeavouring to persuade the country that it must not apply a finger of its own to the task of government, which had best be left in the French case to the despotic crown, as in ours to the as pre- dominant aristocracy. A tory contemporary compares and contrasts the r esent French National Assembly with our House of Conmons. It is rather premature to judge what the National Assembly may do, but of this we may feel certain, viz., that it will do something, and that what ever it does will be done strenuously and decidedly. There is no comparison between it and our House of Commons, which much more resembles the Assembly of Notables called by CALONNE,than it does any repre sentative body that before or since met in France. The characteristics of the French Assembly of Notables were, that they represented a mere class, and that the very class which was the cause of all the evils and inequalities complained of. It was evident they could only do good by waiving their exclu sive privileges, and legislating largely against their own interests, summoning a really popu lar • representative body to complete the work. But this the Assembly of Notables shrank from. The financial embarrassment, the weight of the debt, the poverty of the exchequer, the determination of the people to pay no more taxes, and of the parliament not to register them, so frightened and perplexed the Notables that they knew not what to do, and wrung their hands in hopelessness and avowed igno rance. The British parliament and Lord .100r4 Ens mlLL, in the matter of the income-tax and the deficit, have done precisely the same thing. Neither have the courage to look the financial difficulties in the face, to recommend large retrenchment, or come forward with a wise and well-reasoned scheme, calculated to persuade and reconcile the great tax paying body to those sacrifices necessary to the existence and vigour of a government. If in their treatment and consideration of finance the British parliament and administration resemble the French Assembly of Notables, and CALONNE, the feebleness is no less striking in the great question of Ireland. Our own opinion is, that the present parliament, and consequently the govern ment dependent upon it, can no more do justice and restore peace to Ireland than the 600 members can I take'wings and fly over the Bt George's Channel. All that parliament can do in that great case and origin is to peddle and trust to circumstances, and gain time—time, as things go, being more a loss to them than a gain. They may go on extending a bit of the electoral franchise or scrap of municipal rights, mulcting the land lord somewhat, menacing him much, patting the peasant on the head, and flattering the priest. But all these small, and scattered, and bit-by-bit remedies won't do. They merely go to swell the pride and the power of those disgusted with British connexion and abhorring English predominance. All this might satisfy some twenty years ago, but in these times the only way of keeping Ireland is by a large measure of equality—a measure such as no minister durst avow, and no parliament like the prevent would ever de bate. If England, therefore, by a large measure of leeteeal reform and a totally new legislature does not oome,to the fair consideration of the Irish question, Ireland will be lost. The C tLONNES and the NECKERE, and the Notables, cannot keep or save it. If we go from France and from Ireland to other great questions, to the state of the working classes, to the condition of the hind, and of the laws by which it and the class which live by itaprefits are entrenched, can any rational person suppose that aHouse of Commons elected like the present, can face or solve these great questions? Above all, there is our foreign policy, our relations of trade and amity with Other aonnWee. Is it not evident that what we call onr foreign policy, our bold front, our negotiations and interferences, our menaces of hostility and pro mises of support, are one and all nothing but a mighty sham ? As long as this policy deve lops itself merely in foolscap and protocols, it is all very well; but does not every one see that on the least risk of its beooming se rious, our foreign minister would be left to his arm-chair, without the least command over the ener gies, or resources, or passions of the country P With the finances in the state they are, we maintain that Ragland has, and can have, no foreign policy. It is a luxury we cannot pretend to y--a op we cannot gratify—a pride and a pretension that we have neither the desire nor the claim to exercise. This, we maintain, is both degrading and dangerous : de grading, because it renders our diplomacy an impo sition and a fame ; dangerous, because it may betray us into a war, which the present system has neither the power nor the resources to maintain. In every department of the administration, in every pogtion of the national policy, parliament and govern ment have come to a nonplus —have reached a barrier impossible for them to surmount. We do not blame the whigs more than PEEL, nor l'iret more than STANLEY; for all, successively and together, have brought us to this state, out of which this same government and assembly of high born and high-placed notables cannot extricate us. They . see tho present difficulty as well as we. Yet how do they face it ? In utter stillness, per plexity, and paralysis; in an expectance that the torrent will roll by and let them pee dry shod over, without turning aside to overwhelm them. They are living on chances, trusting to the chapter of accidents, buoying themselves with small expedients, and trembling before the future, which they durst not trust. It is the old position of France under the notables, with the clever CALONNE striving to satisfy all the world and make both ends meet. There is, in reality, but one source of safety or possibility of refuge, and that is to call in the country fully and seriously to the aid of its present race of perplexed and baffled politicians. A real electoral reform, a now parliament, a multitude of councillors in which is wisdom, in stead of an aristocratic clique, in which dwell but prejudice and panic, this is the true remedy, with out which national bankruptcy, disturbance, and dis grace are inevitable, and without which the dismem berment of the empire and the dissolution of society are not improbable results. To the examination of the bill to inquire into cor rupt practices at borough elections we brought a strong predisposition to welcome it as a step towards the puri fication of the House of Commons. After a minute and unbiassed scrutiny of it, we regret to have the conclusion forced upon us that it can be of no earthly use. Whether considered with respect to what it will immediately accomplish, or with respect to indirect but inevitable consequences to ensue from its being passed, this is the only judgment that can be delivered upon it. The immediate effect of this bill's becoming law will be the creation of • new paid commission. It will authorise the crown, with consent of parliament, to nominate immediately some half-dozen commissioners, to whom the House of Commons may from time to time add others. These commissioners are to proceed forthwith to collect evidence relating to the nine cities and boroughs named in a schedule to the ac:. And " in case at any time hereqfter any election com mittee " shall report the existence of corrupt practices at any election, and the House of Commons resolve that further inquiry ought to be made, the Speaker may appoint two commissioners, in terms of the act, to conduct it. These commissioners (two being a . quorum, and different sets autho rised to carry on simultaneous inquiries) are to hold courts of inquiry within the culprit 12eroughs, "or within ten miles thereof," and to con tinue sitting day by day until their inquiries shall be ended. They are to be armed with all legal powers necessary to compel parties to give evidence. They are to report from time to time to the crown. and each report is to be laid before parliament withie, fourteen days, if it is sitting at the time, and if ' i t is not, within fourteen days after its next meetir, g . Th e commissioners are to be paid five guir.eas each fur d eir every day that they are activeme.oyed, travelling expellees ; and the e y are to be em an pow th ered to appoint and dismiss clerks, messengers, &c., who are also to be duly remunerated. Of the use to be made of the information thus col lected. the hill contain. nn hint; hot any portion acquainted with parliamentary tactics must see at once that nothing satisfactory can follow. That the systematic corruption which has prevailed in the nine boroughs named in the schedule, at lent since a seat for one of them (Horsham) was bought by Sir SAMUEL ROMILLT in 1807 for 2,0001., has suffered no abatement by the Reform Bill, is already as certain as the in quiries of any . commissioners can make it. They are charged, indeed, to report " the names of all persons whom they shall find to have been gui lt y of corrupt practices ;" and this will, no doubt, add many piquant passages to the chronique scandateuse of electioneering immorality. But the debates which arks upon such reports will inevitably degenerate into special pleadings as to whether the individual con stituencies are sufficiently guilty to deserve extinctiorr; I into party contests to get their electoral privilege transferred to this or t' other community, according as either party may think it possesses influence; and into personal attacks and recriminations. The reports of the commissioners, therefore, will only afford addi tional opportunities to the members of the House of Commons to waste more time in those mere party / struggles and indecent persoaal brawls, in which they ' waste too much time already ' • add to those deluges et useless and unreadable blue books with which every session inundates parliament ; and increase the num ber of those standing paid commissions, which have of late years become so effective an instrument for baying active and unscrupulous ministerial agents among the young men of talent, education, and limited means. This is all that the bill, should it become law, can accomplish directly and immediately. The ulte rior consequences of its becoming law have more of promise in them. There is a possibility that the clauses empowering the Speaker, when authorised by the House of Commons, to appoint commissioners " at any time hereafter" to investig ate . allegations of corrupt practices " at any election," may bring their scrutinies in time to bear upon such constituencies as that of West Gloucestershire, or that of belkirkshire. And whenever the corrupt and oppressive conduct of the masters of county constituencies come to be unveiled, some more comprehensive and thoroagh-going. measure of reform will be in evitable. Again, the devolution of the function of receiving evidence in extreme cases of electoral, corruption upon parties not members of parliament, might possibly . lead to its being devolved upon extra parliamentary independent officers in all cases of coo tested returns; and this, again, might lead to the es: tablishment of an independent permanent tribunal for deciding all election came. But the prospect of these consequences being realised is so remote and so uncertain as not to counterbalance the direct and im mediate mischief which the bill, if allowed to become law, must entail upon the country. The only benefit the community at large can de rive from this measure has been already obtained. The House of Commons, b r allowing it to be brought in, have admitted that extensive and dangerous cor- ruption pervades our electoral system. The country at large does not care, and does not need to care, for the exposure and punishment of individual delin quents. What it rtquiree is such a re-modelling of the electoral system as will mininnee the possibility of corruption. This bill is a fair sample of the only kind of parliamentary reform that is to be expected from parliament itself. The liberal members have been taken in a trap set for them by the immense majority who are resolute to uphold the existing sys tem, because it works well for them. They have taken the professions made by this majority of a wish to correct proved abuses for sincere, and have set out to catch concessions which will prove so many poli tical ignes fatui. The course to be pursued by reformers out of doors is obvious. Leave members of parliament to them selves to battle about this bill, and try in vain to work it should it become law ; and join with caul, inflexible determination in the movement which has begun out of doors for obtaining a real and thorough reform of parliament. It is in vain that the obstractives, and all who are interested in perpetuating the present oligarchical and corrupt system, seek to represent that movement as a mere factitious show, got up by organised agitators. Even though there were any weight in the remark that the most prominent of the leaders were also leaders in the anti- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1848. oorn-law movement, that cannot account for the I simultaneous expeesaions of opinion in so many dif ferent par% of the hingdom, Birmingham took but a ' slight oni.listlms • part in the peoomdinp of the league, yot_Birmiagham has basis eve more prompt and dodde4 at the present cocoa* than Manchester. The meeting at Leader, which elicited a sympa thetic response from one of their members, was not got up by any anti-corn-law organisation. Among the three hundred and forty-nine electors, at whom request the Lord Provost of Glasgow called a meeting fee the 3rd instant, to petition for " a full, fair, and free representation of the people in the House of Commons," we have not found any of those names with which the zealous and effective co-operation lent by that city to the League made os familiar. The same remarks hold good of the meetings at Bradford, Exeter, and elsewhere, and of the inchoate movement at Lincoln. And above all, the plan of reform sug gested by Earl STANIIOrR (which we publish today and to the consideration of which we will devote the space and attention it deserves at an early opporta nity) proves that a conviction of the necessity of an immediate and extensive change in our electoral system is felt by members of the privileged aris tocracy as well as by the commons. When such a deep-rooted, wide-spread belief that participation in the elective franchise ought to be greatly extended without delay, and that the mode of exercising it ought to be changed so as to diminish the chance, if not destroy the possibility, of corrupt or oppressive in fluence, pervades all classes, it would be worse than waste of time on the part of the people to allow themselves to be diverted from their great object by such a trifle as the measure we have now been ex posing. It is a mere " tab thrown out to the whale." NEWS FROM PARIS. themeless in flank before the latter could have disturbed the Tuscans. The Austrian retired within the fortress, and the affair terminated in Use exchange of some cannon shots between the &ems and the Piedmontese army. No obstacle has been presented to the march of such reinforcements es might cross the Po to join Charles Albert. P.S. Since writing the above I have received letters from the head-quarters of the Sardinian army at Val legio, dated the 27th ult. The army had crowed the Minoio, and wee advancing to the Adigo. On the 26th, Gen. Broglie, commanding the 3rd division, hearing that a corps of Austrian Infantry and Hussars were near Villafrancat advanced in that direction with a battalion of the brigade of Savoy, and a squadron of Nevares° cavalry. At the sight of these forces the Austrians beat a retreat, and withdrew in good order until they reached Somme Campegna, whore, being attacked, they were completely routed, leaving 9 wounded and 24 prisoners, and 2 horses. On the 28th it was intended to fix their head-quarters at Somme Campagne, within seven miles of Verona. General Allemandi has written a letter to the Milan Gazette, which announced his arrest, expla natory of his conduct. lie declares that it was at his own request, made in consequence of his desire to retire, ho not having received reinforcements promised him from Bresc a, that an escort had been given on his return to Milan. GERMANY. POLAND. By the information despatched from Cracow on a the 26th ult., it memo, as we stated yesterday, that skirmish has taken place between the populace and the troops, in consequence of the refusal of govern ment to allow Polish emigrants not natives of Cracow to remain in the town. Barricades were erected, and several rockets are said to have been thrown from the castle. Pesos was eventually re stored by the emigrants voluntarily removing. Oen. Castiglione is said to be wounded. The Polish emigrants already assembled at Cracow number more than 1,200,m05t of them in a deplorable state of embarrassment. On the 25th ult. these un fortunate men made a very significative demonstra tion, and at which the whole population of the town assisted. The Austrian commissary, M. Krieg, having given orders to permit no more Poles coming from France to enter the territory of our republic, a column of 730 of them was stopped on the frontier. UNITED STATES -MEXICO, The Hibernia, Captain Shannon, arrived yesterday at Liverpool from New York, having left that city on the 19th. 'l'he dates from the capital of Mexico are to the 30th of March, and from Vera Cruz to the 3rd of April. The Hibernia brings 95,0001. or, freight. All civil authority had been turned over to the Mexicans in the cities of Mexico, Vera Cruz, and Tampico, pur suant to the terms of the armistice. The greatest dissatisfaction was felt at this, especially in Vera Cruz. Since the Mexican authorities had been re stored to power Paredes had attempted a revolution, and was reported to have been arrested by order of the government. The conviction was strong that the Mexican congress would have met at the end of March, and that they would ratify the treaty. The court-martial on General Scott was continuing according to latest reports, and Mr. Triat had been examined. It was stated by the commander of an American frigate, which left Vera Cruz on the 2nd of April, that General Scott had arrived there from the capital. Santa Anna designing to leave Mexico, in the I latter part of March one of his agents obtained a pass-i port from the American commandant at Orizaba, and went down to Vera Cruz to charter a vessel for him, and it was said that he had succeeded in securing a brig, which was at last accounts lying off Antigua, about 12 miles north of Vera Cruz. There Santa Anna proposed to embark, and thence sail for Jamaica. Col. Hughes, Governor of Jalapa, had an interview with him at his hacienda of El Encero. He went out with two compani<e of dragoons and one of artillery to meet him. The details of the interview are not known. Some accounts state that Santa Anna had actually.surrendered himself to General Butler, and received passports to enable him to leave the country • but they want confirmation. The propeller Massachusetts arrived at Vera Cruz, on the 2nd, from New Orleans, having on board Mr. Clifford, associate commissioner for securing the rati fication of the treaty. General Valencia bad died of apoplexy on the 25th, at Mexico. Intelligence from Yucatan to the end of March gives a disastrous account of the state of affairs there. Tt.e Indians, according to all accounts, commit the greatest atrocities, and their rallying cry is, " Destruction of I all races but the Indian." Wherever they gain possession. the towns, villages, and flourishing haciendas, or agricultural estates are destroyed ; and of the inhabitants none are spared but a portion of the ferna'es for usage worse than death. Mere than a hundred towns and villages, 500 haciendas, and 1,000 ranchos, or smaller estates„rpread over half the territory of Yucatan, have fallen into The hands of toe Indians. This territory contained a population of more than 250.000, of whom 180,000 were Indians: the remaining 70,000 being of the proscribed colours, white, mestizos, or negroes, have either been put to death or have fled in utter destitution from their homes. The savage barbarity of the Indians has led them, in some cases, even to eat the white infanta whom they had slain. The principal chief of the In dians is Jacinto Pat. The second in consequence is Chi. Each hits a standing force under his orders of about 12,000. They act in concert. Numerous smaller hands are scattered over the country, each under its separate leader, all animated by the common sentiment of extermuiation of the whites and mmtizos, and murdering, burning, and violating, in terrible rivalry of each other. On April 1 a vessel arrived at Vera Cruz I with despatches from Commander Bigelow, governor of Yucatan, to Commodore Perry. It was said that the people of Campeachy, a fine old Spanish town of 15,000 inhahitanta, the seat of no inconsiderable wealth and luxury, was in great panic at the approach of the Indians. Commander Bigelow had sent off the Iris steamer and schooner Falcon to give continuum, and if necessary a refuge, to the inhabitants. The Vesuvius bomb-vessel had already been left off Cam peachy, with that view, by Commodore Perry, on the occa sion of his recent visit in the steamer Mississippi. Laguna, in possession of the United States, will at any rate give re fuge and protection to all who may flee thither. The inha bitants even of Laguna have become terribly affrighted for their personal safety. Meetings were held and addresses sent to Commodore Perry, praying that he would in no event evacuate the island-net even should peace be made between Mexico and the United States. They set forth, in the most moving terms, their desperate situation, and the probable success of the savages. The U.S. steamer Iris was to sail from Carmen for Sisal, to take off the inhabitant* of Sisal, and transport them to Laguna, to prevent them from being massacred by Lie Indians or driven into the sea. The le'ashington Union of the 14th publishes despatches, received from Commodore Perry, who was with the steamers Mississippi, Scorpion, Iris, and Waterwiteh, and the bomb brig Vesuvius, looking alter American interests at Yucatan, seriously threatened in the disordered state of things there. Commodore Perry writes that he had had an interview with Governor Mendes, whom he represents to be an intelligent and energe tic person, ardently attached to the present exist. ing institutions of the country, but entertaining, in common with his coad j utors in the government, serious apprehensions that these institutions cannot much longer be sustained without prompt assistance from some foreign power. The successes and outrages of the Indians have been such that the whites have become panic-stricken, and seem to have lost all courage and all hope of checking their advances. ____.... Under these circumstances the authorities are at a loss what steps to take—and the commodore writes : DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Application has been made to me for men and munitions; but, --- however I might he disposed to take upon myself the responsibility of Letters from Copenhagen of the 27th state that suca mesonues in aid of the defence of these unhappy people against the exterminating cruelties of as uncivilined and ruthless enemy, the M. Orla Lehmann arrived there on the 26th.—The &pruner.% is aware that I hove not the means of extending Donee. Berlinyer Zeitung, without entering iuto any particu- lion beyond the range of the Buns of the one or two Pullet vessels that ling, states that the intelligence which he has brought censid.a,loileulievespgazddiefroin the ssoa p be rer ve tforce t o4 en th tt e r reg t uadron h Lar=e y . is satisfactory. communicated with the government at Washington, end I may mon The Fadrelnndet gives extracts from letters ad- exi l ic: ii int i rue s instructions upon the subject. dressed to the Duke of Glucksburg , which were found Gov. Mender. has declared to me that, failing to obtain aid from the at Flensburg; one of them is from his wife, a daugh- united States, he should apply to other powers ; and, as • last resort. ter of King Frederick VI. ; the other from his bro- wieitip,;,:rlepoc,rwevruwocattlnd. wo co uld o t ter , up e t a in it , ;o d v e e r re p i r g o n t g tt o oc f the . state to thcr, Prince William, who is in the Austrian service. On the evening of the 9th of March, the Spanish brig of Both' of them express disapproval of his proceedings, war Juanita, and the Chur, arrived at Seal. The Com and in favour of the Schleswig-Holstein cause. The mender of the Juanita, D. Ramon Quintero, brought des. same journal contains a communication, in which it is patches to the government from the authorities of Havana. stated that as soon iii it is known for certain The principal of them came directed b the Governor and that the Haase Towns have joined in war against r a ti l' i h t he s of ti e:t at e oo ls m lanll y fi n f g C or ii i . lg, o t l h e elo r un ni t a tc o o t y, tt i t n e Denmark, the royal ships-of-the-line will receive capital of that island, relatLto furnishing aid to this state, orders to take possession of all German vessel. with- now in such a pitiable situation, in consequence of the war out distinction ;and that they will not escape with a waged by the Indians against the whites, he sent this cam- LOMBARDY.—At the date of our latest intelli- mere embargo, but that they will be unconditionally on e ets to . the go v e cavalryr n - in u n i c a t i o n by the commander delivered f or t e hrz valet of war, sent to S m ise on lg f u;_ r ti o rlc ton,, board t o d genes the Piedmontese army and its Lombard auxi- condemned. 'fhe communication goes on to say that mu be ske e ts iv and b ay onets , liaries were still in their position on the right bank of a blockade of the Elbe, according to the definition swords, two twelve pound howitzers, tome email carronades, the Mincio, having possession, however, of the bridges established by the rights of nations, would offer so and 200 quintals of powder ; all these articles being worth where they had constructed " totes du pont." The many difficulties, not only in a political but also in a 22,161 dollars 76 cents. The supreme authorities ot the , Mincio, it will be recollected, flows from the southern naval and military point of view, that, without re- Island of Cuba, elm mate in theirwommunication, that the powera w of ro h n e o r t sCottlinctiMearetenty;searetreseerointiattitvhesomatot tfhoart, extremity of the Lego di Garda, washing the towers fraining from the occasional bringing up of individualplace , of Peschiera directly south to Mantua, through a ships, the Danes will, in the main, limit themselves to nish the mono asked by ?lie government Yucatan, adding distance of something less than twenty leagues. supporting the operations of the land army by the that in famishing them succour, the suthorities acted lade- Verona is some ten orfifteen leagues east of Peschiera. slime of the line. pendently of any selfish or political consideration, havirg These three strong places—Mantue, Verona, and The meeting of the Diet was opened on the 26th only humanity at heart, and wishing to save the inhabitants Perchiera—thus form a triangle, one side of which is at Itoeskilde by the royal commissioner, Count Spon- of all classes and conditions from the fate with which they the Mincio. neck. The speech . from the throne treats the opposi- were threatened by the Indians. The comoionder of the Juanita stated that in a few days the corvette, Luisa Fer- The Austrian forces under RadetskY are collected lion of Schlessmg-Holatein te the incorporation of nanda would arrive with various arms and munitions. in three bodies, one occupies Mantua, another ie eta - Schleswig with Denmark u open rebellion. The We copy from the North American of the 21st ult. the tinned in an entrenched camp immediately under the councillor of state, M. Schonen was; nominated te- latest news from the Pacific . We have news from Lower walls of Verona, and the third occupies Peschiera. sident of the assembly, and 'Professor Clausen ben &ali e California 1 . 11 to the 2.Aied frigates FebriLam tt i l en fro ce m aa N d lazdelan to The Sardinian army and its allies manceuvre within vice-president. The president proposed an address to were at Mazatlan, a large portion r the crews of both els the area of the triangle we have indicated. They have the King, and another to the army, both which were sets being on shore garrisoning that place, which has been completely invested Peschiera commanding the road unanimously adopted. held eines November. The sailers have done a large v g e o, u r n i teer , between it and the entrenched camp under Verona. A telegraphic despatch received at Alton* gives amount of work in fortifying the place. The ports of San They make frequent reconnaissances through the information that the Danes were pushing on towards everythingßlw and Man o hanillo t werz o lolo t ra n blo ck aded. In tipper California country on the left bank of the Minoio, lying between Tender°, in order to get into Ripen. They are cut .iorc tosnd 70 quie t . Califurnia7to w pn n t dow t ri n f.h a e Mantua and Verona, where, according to the latest off from communication with Alsen. Their 'batteries who have been very active, and Dave generally annoyed our advice., they encounter no enemy. Mantua is not at Holnis had been taken. Count Charles Moltke had men garrisons at La Paz and San Jog, but in completely invested, for sorties have been attempted been summoned to the presence of the King of Den- all the numerous attacks our garrisons maintained and executed on its southern side. mark at Frederica. their positions and repulsed the enemy. At L a Paz, Lieutenant-Colonel Burton ' with two companies of Thus situated, both armies have been for some time An officer of the Danish navy , who had arived at the C a lifornia Regiment, after he had main tained ; inactive. Radetaky acts on the defensive only, await- Hamburg by way of Malmoe (the steamer to Lubeck a siege for three weeks, organised a storming party under Big the expected arrival of Gen. Nugent from the having ceased to run), brought information from captain Steel, who was succee-ful in taking the enemv's Frioul. Charles Albert manceuvres, but ventures no Copenha g en that two I)anish ships of war had left works, and their flag wits taken by Sergeant Scott. The whip Clene, , Captain s d . a F t . Du La r a n z t, ab sr u t by Com. Shuhrick serious attack, awaiting the reinforcements which he the day before (the 28th) to blockade the Elbe, so 1 expects daily to cross the Po, coming from the that they would probably make their appearance ' e r ' ne ra m ' a , n _ y entirel y withdrew from LA Paz, t an ti l is co t n in ce e ntr an ate a d t t e l Roman, Tuscan, and Neapolitan States. The most before the port on the 30th. It was not sup Posed, their forces, in number about suo, upon the poet at San serious movement lately made by the Piedmontese however, that more was contemplated than the stop- Jog, commanded by Lieut. Charles Heywood, United Statasl army consisted in an advance under the walls of page of German vessels, the effects of which would be n ay, v with a detachment ol sailors and marines, numbering, Mantua, towards the right bank of the Po. sufficiently disastrous. l, about 70, and some native California volunteers. This manceuvre had for its object to defeat the sue- A despatch had been delivered to the senate from The guerillas captured Petted Midshipman Duncan, and Watley, a sergeant of the California Regiment, an d five cess of a sortie of 6,000 men, which had been attempted the Prussian government requiring the detention of mar i nes, Captain Dupont, hearing that Lieut. Heywood , from Mantua, with a view to cross the Po, at Borgo- all the Danish vessels in harbour, but by, good was hard pressed, and had lost two valuable officers, February, just at suadown, and found all centrinufication Forte, and advancing rapidly on Guaatala to attack in management they had been got beyond the Hamburg . sailed tor San Jog, where he arrived on the 14th of dankthe Tuscan auxiliaries who were advancing tothe inrisdittion before the orders could be carried into cut off with the town and garrison, situated two miles river. The mancouvre of Charles Albert oompletelyde- effect. This was considered to be fortunate, as any from the beach, but the discharge of the garrison feated the project,fotohis forces chewed themselves in unfriendly step against the Danes could only tend cannon told that the fight was going on, and when night mash &position that thevaust haTetakeatheAestrims still mete to oomproxaime the interests of Ileaarg• dose te the flash of assisetey was pereepsible, Captain PRUSSIA.—We have received our usual files of German papers. Those from Berlin are to the 30th. A sort of rapture has seized upon the usually staid population of Berlin, in consequence of the Intelli gence received of a great victory won by the Prussian over the Danish troops. At the theatre the news was received with loud acclamations, the actors and audience both joining in the song " Was let dam Deutaohen Vaterland." There has also been, in honour of the event, a grand review of all the troops stationed in the neighbourhood of Berlin. The Prussian State Gazette contains a proclama tion from the Minister of the Finance, stating that the numerous applications which have been made to i his department for the opening of a voluntary . loan were submitted by a cabinet council to his Majesty, who gave his sanction to the same. After commend ing the patriotic zeal of the donors, the proclamation goes on to say . that the contributions may be made in current coin, in gold or silver in bars, and in articles ofold and silver. Reports from Posen are as melancholy as ever. Bloody scenes, engagements between the landwehr and the military, excesses of the populace against the life and property of the Jews and Germans, are the order of the day. In many parts the Polish nobles are pressed to the uttermost by the armed peasants, who demand the immediate fulfilment of the promises made to them in the beginning. A letter from the managing partner of the Bank of Schaffhausen, now in Berlin, announces the gratify- 1 ing news that the state will guarantee 50 per cent, of I thu debts of the concern, to be repaid in the course of ten years, and the family will advance the other moiety, so that all the creditors will now be paid in full. The neas has given universal satisfaction, as it will tend more to restore confidence, and to set some of the unemployed factories on the shores of the Rhine again at work, than almost any other measure that could be devised. It has also been stated that Von Wittgenstein has accepted the office of Chief President of the Regency of Cologne. AUSTRIA.—By a decree published in the official Vienna Ga:ette of the 28th ult. all corvees and feudal ties on the peasantry of Carinthia will be abolished from the Ist of January, 1849. BRUNSWICK.—The Duke of Brunswick returned to his capital from Schleswig on the 23th ult. lie was received with acclamation. BADEN.—A letter from Schopfsheim, dated April 27, says that a battle has taken place near Dassen bach, between the Wurtemherg troops and a column of between 800 and 900 German workmen, arrived from France, under the command of Harwegh, in which the former were victorious. Twenty-three in surgents were killed, and 200 were made prisoners. lierwegh, his wife, and Bomstedn, a subordinate offi cer, took flight. Most of the insurgents have returned to Switzerland, or to Alsace, by way of Huningen, where they have been disarmed by the Swiss and French authorities, according to the recent decree of the French Provisional Government. The chiefs of the insurgents, Ilecker, Doll, Ileinzen, and lierwegh, are at Huningen. There was a large band of republicans still moving about in the vicinity of Friburg on the 27th, but the general opinion was that they must shortly fall into the hands of the troops, who were everywhere upon the alert. At Mannheim the bridge of communica tion between the two shores of the Rhine, which was destroyed during the recent conflict, has not yet been restored, and the communications are very much in terrupted. Large bodies of armed men, supposed to be French, have recently , been seen near the frontier moving towards Switzerland. HESSE I)ARMSTADT.—At Darmstadt there has been a collision between the infantry and cavalry, in which the former had 3 and the latter 11 wounded. NASSAU.—An attempt was made on the night of the 28th at Wiesbaden to obtain possession of the powder magazine, a body of rioters having disarmed the sentinels; but the citizen guard was on the alert, and having loaded a cannon with grape shot, and pointed it at the mob, they dispersed without doing l an y damage. BAVARIA.—The Queen of Bavaria was delivered ' of a prince on the 27th. 4, PARIS, WIDNEADAY, 10i, A.M. The effect produced by the manifesto posted through Paris on Monday afternoon, and signed by Barbee, the colonel of the 12th legion of the national guard, consisting of 28,000 men, which 1 noticed in my letter of that evening, has been most unfa vourable. The funds yesterday, as will be seen, declined, and the fall is ascribed to that manifesto, aggravated, nevertheless, by the still more incendiary articles which appeared simultaneoudy and subsequently in Lo 16:Artne. This journal has always been the special organ of M. Ledru Rollin, and since the revolution has been considered as the semi-efficial organ of him and his party. The object of these manifestos is to make it appear that the bourgeoisie in France—meaning by that term the portion of the population p-asessing education and property are banded together for the systematic op premien of the other portion of the population that live exclusively by the produce of their bodily labour. It is openly declared that the existing laws having been made exclusively by the one clans, without the participation or acquiescence of the other, ought to have no force ; that, therefore, the labour ing classes are not only relersed from all obedi ence to any other laws but those of God and nature, but that these very laws justify them in rising agaiist those they call their oppressors, and if their demands are not granted peaceably, then, say the Re/Orme, and the Society of the Rights of Man, " To arms ! citizens , to arms!" A report prevails this morning that the signature of 13arbes was affixed to the above-mentioned proclama tion, or manifesto, without his knowledge or consent. No disavowal on his pant, however, has yet publicly appeared. A number of officers of the 12th Legion, com manded by Rubes, called at the office of the Consti totionnel yesterday, and affirmed that if such were the true sentiments of their colonel, they would feel tt emselves compiled to separate from him the moment that he would openly sanction the abandon ment of order yd the laws. It issa .p that this manifesto has become a subject of lep investigation at the Palais de Justice. '.se learn that the government learning, at last, all '.tie gravity of the state of affairs at Limo es , decided, yesterday, in council, that troops should be imme diately despatched to that city, to assist the commis sioner with an imposing military force. The colonel of the national guard, M. Raybaud, is to be tried by a council of war, and M. Talandier, substitute of the procureur-general, is dismissed from his functions. The government has also decided that a consider able sum shall be put at the disposition of the com mtssary, to open national workshops. By these memures order will soon be restored, and security afforded to a terrified population. The Societi• des Droits de Fllomme,finding that the bills which they had posted on the walls had been all torn down, yesterday had the contents (the Declara tion of the Droita de I'llomme, by Robespierre) printed in the form of a hand-bill, and hawked about the streets. A letter has been addressed to the Minister of the Interior by M. Etienne Arago, M. Augusto Fortelle, and M. Landrin, begging that their names may not be included in the list of the representatives of the people, who may receive the emolument fixed on to be paid to them ; the reasons assigned by them for the application being, that as they are already in re ceipt of salaries from the government for the situation they respectively fill under it, they could not con sistently receive any further emolument as representa tives of the people. The Muniteur du Soir says :—" We have been in formed, in a manner that appears indubitable, that Gen. Duvivier has asked for permission to resign his post of commander of the Oarde Mobile. The reasons assigned by the general for this step are, it is said, that a representative of the people ought not to be in Paris at the head of a military force, and that such representative ought not to devote to other functions a part of the time which ought to be appropriated in its totality to the National Assembly." The Bank of France has issued a notice, declaring that it will now discount bills on Lille, Rouen, Havre, Toulouse, Marseilles, Lyons, and Orleans, and that it will give its own notes for those which have been issued by the banks of the above-named towns. The Madrid mails of the 28th ult. have arrived. Despatches had been received on the 27th at the Fo reign-office, which were understood to be in answer to former diplomatic correspondence, and conveyed the fullest approval of Mr. Bulwer's conduct. MADRID, APRIL WI4-71tres per Cents, 22 acct.; after 8., 21Inash; 22 paper; Five pit Cents., 131 paper ; after 8., LH, cash , 5 paper • attar 8., 41 cash; Coupon*, 9 paper ; Bank of St. Ferdinand, ex dm, 94 cagy 100 paper. Exchange on London, at 60 dare, 42 paper. Dupont decided to wait until early daylight, and they foal all his disposable force, which amounted to 100, l l ' making 101, At early daylight the force was on the bu s k . • The serf being low favoured their landing, and with a fe w pounder they were soon in column and on their march m the rescue of the garrison. The guerillas, anticipttine th e landing of the crew of the Cyane, had taken their pea*, daring the night, the route affording them abundant cove, The column had proceeded but a s hort distance before the guerillas opened their fire, which was continued upon the column during their entire march to the garrison, Won which they had to storm several houses of the town, whiel e the enemy had poseeslion of, in which they were aided byth e garrison force, which sallied out, joined in routing *A i enemy, pursued and drove them from several eminencesfros e near the town. The enemy then formed in a plain ep ee to the ship, at what they conceived to be out of reach ae her guns, but some well-directed shot and shells dee great execution and dispersed them. The garrison we e found in a most exhausted state. Lieut. Heywood Whim so closely pressed that he was driven in with the curtel, wh en a large number of the inhabitants had sought refuge. Rs had been besieged 21 days, and his provisions were nearly exhausted by his sustaining the inhabitants. For else day s some of them had been outside the buildings, and disea se was fast generating. Passed midshipman T. htlAnehm had been killed on the 11th Feb. The water had been eat off, and the garrison was in the most deplorable state, eg the 101 that so gallantly landed, it is marvellous to state only four were wounded, basing sustained a heavy fire for two miles from covered positions, which they could only 'mind. fectually return : nevertheless their fire told, and the enesa suffered great loss. The garrison was abundantly suppliaa with provisions and the euerillas had retired. In congress at Washington the only point of in. Wrest Me been the passing through the house of the International Postage Bill, giving the departmeut, under the direction of the President, a retaliatory power over the government of Great Britain ...pol l th e subject of international postage. The chairautia the Poet-office committee informed the house that the committee had under consideration a bill designed t o modify some of the more obnoxious provisions of the present Post-office law. There is a majority in the house in favour of a uniform postage much below the present rate, and ere long there will be a reduction, beginning with fic. for all distances, and ending with 2c. or 3c., with a uniform rate of newspaper po s t age of lc., and all newspapers to go free in the counties where they are printed, or for the distance of 30 miles. The committee on post-offices have already been in structed upon this last subject ; but, though in. structed, are understood to be opposed to the provision. The enthusiasm raised by the French republic seems unabated. A large meeting and illuminatiou took place in its honour at Washington, on the 13th. Mr. Henry Clay has written a long letter, in which he states that he will leave to the national convention, about to assemble in June, the consideration of hie name in connexion with that of others for selection as candidate to the Presidency. A letter from Washington of April 18 says : On Saturday night a large party of slaves escaped in a m eet and set sail for Philadelphia. A steamer being chartered and armed, pursuit was given, and they were overtaken near the mouth of the Potamac river, where they were captured without resistance. This morning they were brought beck to the wharf, when the whole party, captain, crew, sad seventy-seven negroes were lodged in gaol. The greatest excitement has been occasioned, and the white men were only saved from the violence of the crowd by being taken to prison in hacks. the vessel was the Pearc Captain Sears, of Philadelphia. 10 o'clock, p.m.—There an intense excitement in town, in consequence of the absconding of the slaves recently captured in the Bay. Thi evenings large crowd assembled in front of the office of tha New Era newepaper, and commenced throwing mime" breaking windows, doors, Btc., but the progress of tle, mob was finally stayed by the arrival of the police, NV:, di by , efforts of sundry citizens, who made addresses or, th e ' oce , sion. Still hundreds lingered about the buil , '„i ng , till tan were driven home by a drenching rain. The matter was brought before rl d e h ouse a t w as h. ington on the 18th, when i 1:. Giddings, of Ohie, moved to suspend the rules, in order that he might offer a resolution for the woointment of a select com mittee to inquire why '.he seventy men, women, and children were cast into poison that morning for attempting to escape from the bondage in which the were held, and wtso were found iu the schooner Pear down the Potoraae river.—Objections were made, the motion amid great laughter. A letter from Pittsburg of the 12th ult. says: Our c;:iy this morning was visited with no leas than five terribly, destructive fires. By the first fire twenty-six hauw were destroyed ; four houses were consumed by the second; by the third four houses were destroyed; by the fourth, two; by the fifth, three stables and a dwelling. The five fires were raging in different parts of the city at the same time, prods.- ing the utmost consternation, as the belief was general that it was the act of incendiaries. The lots must be immense, although no correct estimate can be made at present. For tunately there was no wind, or half the city would sow be a mass of smouldering ruins. The fires are completely sub- COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. CANADA. —An extra of the Official Gazette has been issued, containing a royal proclamation for the reguls. tion of the quarantine establishment at Grosse Isle during the ensuing year. The orders are most stringent. Every vessel having more than thirteen passengers on board is to anchor at the quarantine ground; if there ha- been any disease on hoard during the voyage, or if the vessel has sailed from any port where infectious disease prevailed, the read is to undergo • thorough purification, and the dirty emi grants are to be landed on the island, and they and their clothing and baggage to undergo a compulsory scrubbing. The islaud is placed under the authority of a military PM-, mandent. It is stated that the new legal enactments re specting emigration will increase the passage money from Ireland to America to 61., at the least, per head. A rather cold easterly wind arose on the afternoon of the 10th of April, but the weather was again mild next day, and the snow and ice were fast disappearing. Wheel car. riages were generally in use. The country people say them will be but little sugar made this spring, although the nights are frosty; which they attribute to the small quiddity of snow in the woods. Wild pigeons had made their appear ante, which is very unusual at this early period of the season. NOVA SCOTIA,—The legislative session hos closed. The Nova Scotian of 19th April, says respecting it: The legislative seesion just terminated has been moat satisfactory le the administration and their supporters, and highly beneticial to MS country. The liberals can point with triumph tom eir la and la creasing majority in the assembly, and the vigorogoverumen rge an d l a reflect their opinions. Never in the history of this country were a many important and valuable measures crow Jed into so brief a period. The old lantimarss of toryissi have been almost obttu-rated is a few brief week; and the government of the country settled upon the ter' perishable constitutional principles enured to the people of Ultima by the revolution of 1680. Henceforward responsible government is Neva Scotia will be a great fact. Those who fill the chief departments of the country must enjoy and centime to command the confidence of the crown anti the pew* The machinery ag it ation vernment may be considered end.earl4 perfected, and for organic changes at an congratulate the country on th see results, and also upon a number of measures of • practical character introduced and matured by the ge , vetninent. Notwithstanding the conservatives were in power O 1 the assembly met, and elections to be held is mid-winter, the *Mei. nistration haveoarried their Civil List Bill, reconimmeted the remiss departments, sad provided for a stringent audit of public me ows. They have Mao passed bills to make the judges independent of the crown, foe regulating emigrant vowels and passengers, for meetings electric telegraph, fur reducing the rates of postage, and for antra tieing the tiwunesi of the crown land department, and diminLybA the expenses thereof. These arc among the measures of the NS session of the reformed parliament—measures which Cannot fail ts have an important bearing upon the future prosperity of the oniony. NEW BRUNSWICK.—The St. John Weekly _ . arerve r of April 1S states : His Excellency Sir Edmund Heed end Lady Head and family, ab companied by the Lion. Hugh Johnston, the Hon. IL L. Hammed. Haps, he., arrived at Fredericton about six o'clock on Monday evening, the lOth inst. They were met a few milesbelow thatcity hy several gentlemen who bad gone down the road to meet his meek (ency and escort him to the seat of government. Sir Edmund, as entering the city, was cheered heartily by large crowds of the Mali tomtit Fredericton collected at different corners, sad the deim lam most cordially acanowledfed. His exoelksmy proceeds& imp:sang* to government house. Tuesday, at two Oink. pas. Wigs the Timm of this morning) his excellency attended et the amp. oil chamber and took the oaths of office. Th e rein wen Ind ep many of the most respectable inhabitants of the city and faun sections of the province, and a large concourse of spectators The royal artillery were oat and flied a salute. Immedia tely the ceremony his excellency was introduced to the membe2ts executive council and to the heads of department., judge , , in the bar, and many private gentlemen. His excellency's appri , g, and his manner is affable and courteous." Pr Tritflowing paragraph appeared in the Frekriebi Reporter of 14th April We team that nothing definite has been done in the present lON of the executive council towards the organisation of the new men. meat. Another council will be called early in May, when the tent appointmenta so long epoten of will probably be disposed of. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.—This profile was suffering severely from dearth. Meetings had Unable to deliberate on the best means of affording relief. Oa .19 13th of April the House of Assembly went into comma*. resume the consideration of the necessity of imposing sa bargo on agricultural produce. After an animated diner cussion and several amendments proposed and rejected, dle following resolution was carried by a majority of 15 to 6. Resolved,—As the *Moe of this *aureate., that it is indispos► bly necessary to prohibit the malting and distillation of grins, melee exportation from this island of all grain, meal, dour, and potatoeasse the first day of ]July next; but that the executive government be N W powered to suspend the operation of ..he let to be pawed for that PO' pose at any time after the Ist day of June next, if they shall drag necessary so to do. A committee was then appointed to bring in a bill in pee" nuance of the said resolution. The chairman of the com mittee reported a bill prohibiting the exportation of lig+ cultural produce, and the same was read a first and sewed time, and ordered to be eugrowed and would, it Ir y ex pected, finally pan the house the next day. Tut DEATHS IN LONDON during the week el.. April 29, numbered 966, the average being 913. Typhus still prevalent, ar.d scarlatina is likewise unusually don* tire. The number of births for the week was 1,511. temperature. 44 dcgs. GHAT'S INN, MAY 3.—The tm d ername d Res tlemot were this day celled to the degree of barrister-atlaw bythil bon. society of Gray's Inn, via.: H. N. Cur, &4, I I Ucalina i X+9•, sad IL C. It. bwaboy, J..* rbe Cott The Queen and Prince All Dowager yetterday at Marlborou • an d his Royal Highness also te Colonel the Hon. C. Grey and (}orlon, the equerries in waiting, .•t The Duchess of Kent and teeter visited the Queen yesterday , The Royal dinner party t es terday, included the Duchess • S u therland, Lady Augusta Br ~ Viecount Clifden, and Capt. F. S. •• . The Duchess of Kent visit yesterday at Marlborough House. The Prince of Prussia N!. Duchess of Cambridge yesterday with their Royal Highnesses, a • Prince Frederick of HMS% at Re e. THE CHARTIST The delegates met ct the n terday, when, after the formal MDouall moved that a program• prepared oy a committee to be a,. • • the suggested subjects for COP t lowing : Reports from delegates on the slat enabling the Msembly to give !anew.; ganaration of thee/121114 body. Polo grace to other parties seeking a refoi Shatter. Great social grimness : Crime; the remedy. Great politic franchise; oppressive and unequal to sisl, Mail, and pension lists; toe natii Industrial questions : Labour and c.• • i• machinerv—,u effects. Commercial ; h . reney question. National education. Free prom The most approved mode ..f bier Majesty. After considerable discussion thn an amendment, proposed by Mr affect that the programme should • oalculated to ensure the charter b. bat with the understanding tha• liberty to bring forward any of the siring the usual notice. The future policy of the ci a cussed, but without arriving at • adjourned at the Mose of the me. • One of the delegates for the Ti the injury done to the cause by r body of staunch reformers were ~e in opposition to the Northern •cs Mr. O'Connor in his true colours, able to take a position among the • - gate said the Northern Star hod for an assembly in the first insta illegal; he for one therefore *Mite support uf such a man as Mr. O'C• adjourned. - . NEWSPAPER TA XES.—II believe the report) that goverr in • newspaper stamp to the price • f bring down the advertisement .1u aixpence.—Derby Mercury. LONDON A99OCIATTON F TR Tacna. —On Tuesday the an, ua was held at the British, Mr. P. Graham in the cha r. report of the committee for th that the society had been maki objects, and had been found to • portance to the trading commie. the :society was establishirnt i the character of persons seeuin result bad been that the socie • persons who were either twin . had been increased, during the 17,600. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BI anniversary meeting of this •oci • Exeter-hall, and was, as regards the greatest religious re•union of the venerable president of the which hs was supported by his Canterbury, the Bishopsof No theater, the Marquis of Cholla. cheater and Harrowby, Viscount clergymen and gentlemen.—Dr. sequence of the noble president lordship's opening address, then port, which deecnbe-d the society of the world : The entire receipts for the year . 90,1461.8.. 4d. The total AIM sprat. the society is 43,9311. 16s. I Id., Mel buttons from auxiliary societies : sk of Olt. 12m5d. The receipts for B 46,1591. Ifs. sd. The issues of the to 1,114,067, , Miran the deposit°. depots abroad, 288,708. The total 90,885,837 volumes. The caper nit 105,0421. 19s. Id., being 14,8981. la sratety is under engagements t The Archbishop of Canterbury report, and Lord Morpetheecon having bet n adopted, Lori Be of Cholmondeley presided duri ceedings.—Resolutions in fort • were supported by the Biskip • gymen and gentlemen, and the WEST LONDON LITE • CTIANTCIS' INSTITUTION. — The stitution was celebrated ye.ter some lecture-hall of the s. tie • Chelsea. Lord R. Grosvenor, sion. After the usual preli.• honoured, the chairman p , op. namely, The prosperity of Scientific, and Mechanics• In_ enlarged on the advanta - tes properly condicted,were c ,Ic future welfare of the emp re tion and the moral culture of tutions like that were likely • no man had a right to se • brother's keeper," or, " I to ' with my own," because tae from the neglect or ignorance should he given to all to d each, in order that the wh. themselves of them. The W • was one calculated to carry o wished it every prosperity •• its welfare. It had all tne was confined to no one cl who wished to participate i responded to the toast, the institution had cone rr the inhabitants of Che drank were the various or: boo, " The Clergy," " TI e Education of the People.' • dinner, and amongst th• se Irons, Vicar of Brompion ; Lloid, Req.; F. B. Wale b 130VERNE89ES' Be' E ' fifth anniversary festival • Tavern, where a large nu • dinner. Mr. Rice Trevo- p acknowledged the health 0 renee, C. 8., that of the a .• proposing the toast of the e vcrnesses' Benevolent In .to on its behalf. He stated t • in 1843. Its objects were : to governesses in distress : • nesse', by election, out ef a the establishment of a pro annuities by ladies,upon I' d set of parliament ; the pro the intervals between Ml , ' of a system of registra io college for governesses, qualification ; and lastly . asylum. He stated the: • the past year inveetigakd relief, and had made gr in amount of stock invest. t f • ties was upwards of 14,1• A 20 governesses. Near!. it vident annuities • and upwards of 33,0001. Ah• noshed in Harley-street. governesses had fou d 2,600 governesses but • branch :.had been comtne with situations without be erected immediately. • The college, the Chainna • and enrolled amongst us guished men in the lite • already been given &nor shortly be commenced o • Lion. The society had to 3,600 governesses : a from the crown he end enabled to carry out thei acclamation, and was io man, proposed by Mr. F • of toasts, including thit that a fancy fair woe' I next, on behalf of the J aged asylum, in the Fp • The subscriptions ann Ml_ l lB6l, THE LITERARY d*.S' POLAND.—The siztee .t of this association was Duke street, Bt. Jame .* esij'arr T ehfue z ! . f etab: ; E:r:iguhrd ll :: th r rintictit . Boef : 4 W reso uPloa:Pfuelfs i ellan'muO rt irt i lbht ! ' l ll.l. , : ''' t :o : t.: af t • i a it L i s r uU: t nt , hfaoe i nefw n imrh t et.° h °:""sPec e nu°s p lray res t ti e : n dses". . which had excit• • saw i s t i , s i s t i f/ s eeecled t e chato her • • Ties