The Express. — London, England, 1851-07-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P. HOUSE OF COMMONB.—SiachasT, JOLT 12 ' The 111.11•111 1 took the chair at 12 o'clock. MILITIA BALLOTS SUSPENSION BILL. This bill was nod a third time and pored. 1 TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL. The amendments on this bill were considered and agreed le. To he mad a thied time on Monday. oryzaia, BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 2) BILL This bill wee read a emend timer. WOODS, FORMS, Is., BILL. Os the order er for elf far the third reading at this bill. Lend DUNCAN add he did net rise to appals the M but as ths contrary r Under kis thanks to the whin to the bead et the savossiest he the kind essablesellea he bad glees is the pro ber le had made. He trusted Sat by weseelleat provieieas made. w astaese the Grown would be relielest to milessla the mews is "low dear. He had great i g=e Nice that eerie die last year no less than bed lame paid has the chequer by the improved mmunimea• of the menees. Re , teered hie thanks else tr the Is lard at the bead Odes ! department for the able saner Is which be bad draws up the bill. The bill was then read • third time and pared. CIVIL BILLS (IRELAND) BILL. Oa the order of the day for the third reading of this ball, Mr. S. CRAWFORD said he could not allow the third reading of this bill to pew without renewing his protest against certain words in the 73rd clause, which placed the tenant from year to year under the additional power that this clause would possess against him. And he renewed his protest now because the noble lord at the head of the government was not present at the discussion of the amend ment of the honourable and learned member for Dundalk. He protested against this clause ; they had not legislated on the whole matter. There was another obaervation he would make—that additional power was given to landlords, with regard to those tenants whose holdings were under SOL a year. The law ought to apply to all alike. lie hoped the noble lord would at least say what steps the government would take on this subject nest wasiost. Mr. SCULLY joined in the hope that the noble lord would give them some swamies that he would bring in a bill on the whole eabjeet next year ; it ought net to be treated in this one-handed sraartr. After a few words from Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. G. A. Ha milton, and Mr. Goeid, Lord J. ItUSSELL said he was wry kr the absence of bar right hon. the Chief neentary for Ireland, hut be was too unwell to attend. With regard to the question now before the house. he should say it had been frequently considered by the government, god It always appeared to th' in that an amendment of tie law in this respect was moth regrind. It was apparently a privilege for the tenant that he should not be ejected without a considerable time elapsing, some ern months or more, before the notice took (fleet. In fact, it was a hard ship upon him that the landlord should be compelled to Rise a notice every six months. This was the view which appeared to have been taken by the house in the lint in stance by a majority of 33, and subsequently, an a division im the clause drill, by a majority of 23 to 18. The hon. ',mauler fur Rochdale had asked him two questions—why h. hail not intnelaced a Landlord and Tenant Bill this sea. mon, and what hr intended to 4,0 in this respect neat ses sion. With regard to the first of these quelitions he need not enter into any ezplanation. It must be obvious to the Ivo, gentleman and to other hon. members why it we. that they were not able to bring in more bill.. but with regard to the second question, he must remind the house that no agreement had been arrived at as to any plan for improving the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland. Thome who had extreme views—ex inane eh sirs which amounted to this, that the property of the landlords should be transferred to them—hail been so persevering in their attempts that they had prevented any such agreement, and there was nothing that the government would he able to propose which would go much beyond giving facilities by which the landlord and the tenant might agree as to giving security to the tenant as to any improve ment that might be made. He mast say that what ever might be said with regard to Irish landlords, he did not think that any general observations against them were just. There were severe expressions applied to certain lantllonls which were not more than adequate, hut to apply tie., espies...4mis to other landlords would ore doing them a great injustice. Ile was convinced that instead of hem-lilting the landlord and tenant, by intro during a law which would lead them to insist upon certain rights, the landlord having certain property which no par k:agent could take away, such a law instead of improving the present state of things, would m ake' it worse. Ile was induced to ably thus much, because, after all that had jetseil, he thought it would be doing wrong to hold out the expectation that government was going to bring in a bill which would entirely settle this question with regard to a mettleinent of which they must, after all, look to an im provement in the state of society in Ireland rather than to any legislation. Sir C. BURRELL protested against the attacks which bail been made upon Irish landlords, and csipccially for their being alravt. es. The fact wax, that they were driven from the country by threats of being murdered. Ile attri buted the gnat emigration from Ireland and the depressed state of the tenantry and millers there to free trade. After u hew word. from Mr. I'. BVTLEI4, deprecating the harsh language which had been used against tho Isiah landlords, The bill wan read a third time. On the question that the bill do pats, Mr. *CULLUM moved to omit in clause 100 the words " other than in ejectment and replevin " Ile said they had struck off outs protection of the Irish tenant by depriving him of the right of notice to quit. What he now asked was that in the county court the tenant should have, as in Kiialand, the right of having a jury if he chose. Mr. !LATCH ELL opposed the motion. If they were to have a jury in all these canes instead of the county court being a court for obtaining spevaly decision great delay and expense would be occasioned. After a few words from Mr. Reynolds, Lord Naas, and Mr. W. S. Crawford, The house For the &amendment 6 Against it 6l-0 The hill then !lard. ECCLESIASTICAL RESIDENCES (IRELAND) )4E: This bill was read a thin) time passed. CM' IIrIIES AND CHAPELS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was rrad a thin! time andwiaseal. UNITED OYENULAND AND IRELANI BILL This 1111 crosscut a third time aad passed. MIMIC lIEALTII ACT. Mr. C. LhW obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the mode or asiie.oing tithe rent char.tev under the Lighting and Watching .{et, and the Public Health Act. The house then adjourned at halt-past 2. PARLIANIENTARY COMNIITTEES. ELECrioNCOMMITTEE. On Saturday the members of this committee, con si.tlng of Mr. Liveries, chairman, Sir 11. Willoughby, Mr. Ktrsliaw, Mr. Arkwright, and Mr. Fergus, met at the usual hour. James Woods, of Harwich, examined by Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, Q.('., deposed to going to the hustings on the day of polling for the purpose of recording his vote, at a few minutes lwfure tour u clock, when there was a great noise and " bully bully." Voices in the crowd cried out to the mayor to put the bribery oath, mingled with exclamations of " what s clock," and while this was going on a number of persons were actively engaged in pulling the hustings down, it being then about three and a quarter or four minutes to four o'clock, as witness observed by the church clock, which was about lUU yards off. Afraid that the rafters might rattle down upon his head, witness and a number of others, including the mayor, effected a retreat forthwith to the outside, where there were some hundreds of people. consisting of the lowest rabble, making a riot. Cessesantiord by Mr. James, Q.C., for the sitting mem her—Dol nut delay voting until four or five minutes before four o'clock for any particular reason. Thought it as good for the purls.... as any other time. Had been premed by several to vote, but told then, he should not hurry. Knew West the barber• but did not tell hint he did not care for either party, or that he would not vote unless he was mid. Went to the polling booth with Bowler. About a minute might have elapsed between the period of the poll clerk writing his name and the hustings toppling down. The clerk had only time to write " James Woo," but would not swear that it was at that identical time the voice cried out, Put the bribery oath." Hy four o'clock the major part of the hustings was dews. Mr. Bagshawe, the present 1111.11211 CT for Ilarwich , had very mach pressed witness to give his tote. Mr.Abry. fanner, living neer Harwich, examined by Mr. }indwell.—Was present at the period of polling, and it was between three and tour minutes to four o'clock by the church clock, when the hustings were being pulled down. They were demolished almost instantaneously. Did not on the declaration of the poll at the Town Hall hear any thing about its premature closing. Mr. J. C. Cobhold. M.l'. for Ipswich, voted at the last election. Left 1.01:14011 for that parpoec on the day of poll ing by the eleven o'clock train, and arrived at Ipswich at a quarter ast 2 o'clock. Left Ipswich by steamer at half past 2 o 'clock, and reached Harwich at a quarter before 4 o'clock. Immediately repaired to the hustings, holding his watch in his hand all the way, the people telling him be would be " too late." It then wanted a quarter to 4 o'clock by Greenwich time; but by Harwich tune about 6 minutes on his getting to the poll. Immediately after he had recordist his vote a wene of confusion occurred, and the beatings were deamlished, and on looking at the church clock on his way to the Cups Hotel, he found it wanted three minutes to 4 o'clock when some men passed him, dragging with them the boards of the hustings, some people also observing, " they've closed the poll before 4 o'clock. Cross-examined by Mr. James, Q.C., as to the position and appearance of the clock at the time.—lt had been a custom—whether more hono ure d in the breach than th e observance could not say—in Harwich for many years for the bargemen and sailors to take the materials of the muting' down and apropriate them a. perquisites. The minutes were marked on the clock. Major Bowness• examined.—Deposed that he was walk zwith 1114 wife about RE yards front the husti ngs on t h e ling day, when he heard some men o b serve. * It is not hour o'clock, and they are pulling down the hustings." Looked at his watch, chic hustings then being nearly down, and it wanted four minutes to four o'clock. Looked at the church clock, and it was the same. 1 Some reporters for the prom were then called, and con firmed the evidence of the preceding witneum—Were seated in the usual place appropriated to the pre uon the-se 000iii0o4 what they were satUanly startled by the falling Cite erpreols. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4 Mewl ?Atlas . - f "Ti. iepress,' ;- etzetets he Noe melees rt Garrett," sa pablirled every Turley led Friday .*; la time Ire pot. etteer,trraersta Intruded for " TM Empress," Leaden Evening yew, meet be et tits °glee, to, Benveriheweee, by Two Vibe& ea the es, el pabliestere. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Ti.a DA —Vorateg. fl. 410. Arteries" 3k. fa. To-.101101I—Morsist& 31. Ns. .... Artemis. 35. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 14. SOME time ago an action was brought, at the in stancy of the Board of Inland Revenue, against the publishers of Mr. DICKENS' Household Narratire. The board maintains that this periodical, though published monthly, is to all intents and purposes a newspaper, and cannot legally be published without a stamp. The action instituted on this ground is for the reeovery of penalties. Before we proceed further, it may not be amiss to remind the readers of some circumstances attendant on the bringing of this action. It was not without reluctance and misgivings that the Board of Inland Revenue attacked the HoweAuld Narrative. But the board had been attempting on the same plea to suppress one or two publications, which resembled that of Mr. Itlexrcs in this respect at least, that they were published once a month, contained matter usually found in newspapers, and were unstamped. The proprietors and publishers naturally complained that others were not so strictly dealt with as they were, and pointed to the Ilintseho'd Narrative as an example. The board felt rather nervous. Mr. DICKENS is rather a popular character; his !mixt-hold Norman., was an interesting and popular compilation; and no one could find any offence in it. But the publica tions which the board had assailed had been started to advocate certain administrative and constitutional reforms, and it was feared that to allow a publica tion of a leas decided political character to escape, would have an awkward look for government. So, with a groan and a grimace, the board reluctantly gave instructions to prosecute the Howe:hold Nor- Now fur the result. On Thursday last Mr. Baron P.% Ft 1.4 after pronouncing judgment in two or three cases in the Court of Exchequer, intimated that the opinion of the court was divided in the case of the " Attorney-Genend e. Bradbury and another," and that it must therefore stand over till next term. Is not this a pretty account of the way in which the press is treated in a country where every party and faction vies with every other in professing love, esteem, and veneration for the liberty of the press? here we have the Board of Inland Revenue first shaking a law for imposingeertain duties upon news , papers over certain periodical organs of associated reformers, in order to terrify them into silence, next we have the law officers of the crown instructed to commence legal proceedings for the recovery of penal ties under the same law, against a publication which even they admit to be in every respe c t useful and meritorious, merely to preserve the consistency of the Board; and then we have the Court of Exchequer, after puzzling themselves for months to find out the meaning of the law, so equally divided in support of contradictory interpretations of it, that they cannot pronounce judgment. An unintelligible statute is enacted by the legis lature, and enforced by the Board of Inland Revenue, partly to extract money from the pockets of pub lishers and proprietors of periodicals which contain political news, and partly to enable government to put down any such periodicals as they may find troublesome to them. And yet we are asked to be lieve that the press in this country is free ; that the press is cherished and upheld in its freedom; and, above all, that whig statesmen, in or out of office, are par excellence the champions of this free press. The provisos in this law, difference of opinion upon which disenables the Court of Exchequer to pronounce judgment in the case of " the Attorney- General a. Bradbury and another," are not the only puzzling and inexplicable parts of it. The law im poses certain restrictions upon the publication of what is called " news." But the law does not con descend to define what constitutes news. For aught that appears the incidents and events of last year or last century may be news according to the construc tion of the law. Again, the law imposes a certain duty upon advertisements published in newspapers and other periodicals. But the law does not define what constitutes an advertisement, and often have we known advertisement duty charged upon what luckless editors and publishers co n s idered were mere matters of news. Apart then altogether from the injustice of the' law respecting newspaper stamps and advertisement duty, this branch of the law is vexatious and oppres sive from its obscurity and confusion. It is a myste rious code, out of which adroit lawyers may at any time extract materials for a rod to whip any pub lishers or authors who have incurred the ill-will of a government. Matters standing thus, it is with no small surprise that we have heard the rumours that are abroad as to the conduct of those members of the committee of the house of Commons on the taxes on knowledge, who are understood to represent the views and wishes of government. It is reported that they arc strenuously exerting themselves to cram down the throat of the committee a report deprecating, or rather denouncing, any change in the law imposing taxes upon newspapers. While one of the supreme courts at Westminster is pretty unequivocally de claring that the law is unintelligible—in other words, that it is full of traps and pitfalls for honest and independent men—our liberal and reforming govern ment is straining every nerve to keep this law unal tered; and its law officers are endeavouring to exact penalties by means of it. THE spirit of clique is inveterate. It is oligarchy carried to a species of fanaticism ; and the love of domination degraded into meanness. As nothing is too large for aristocratic ambition, so nothing is too small fur the cupidity of clique. Its appetite is in- satiable, and its digestion omnivorous. The only limits of its rapacity seem to be, in a country like ours, the number of its own branches and their capa bility of bearing the golden fruit engrafted on them. There are not ELLiors and GRES'S enough to carry all the spoil. Hence it becomes necessary to have two or three auxiliary cliques--families connected more or less intimately with the chief men of the feast, whose business ancl privilege it is to gather up such fragments as occasionally remain, so that no thing be lost. The house of niters is one of these, aad a dainty boas has just fallen into its supplemen tary basket. The Comptrollership of the QUEEN'S Household, vacant by time death of theIIOO.WILLLOI LASCELLES, has been given to the Earl of MULGRAVE. The noble member for the snug borough of Scarborough is one of those useful adherents of an oligarchic government *of the roof ; succeeded in reeking their snaps; and, on turning resural, saw the raayor and towl-silerk toe rat*, peculiar fa, than which they had to_bis _extricated by ets r:. Did sat when the poll we[ Heeled at the tom hear any obleetion to the effect that it was armed pre-,, .stately. The venous authorities during the mese at the killings sathiablal up the books and made of. The towe ls& about INV the sire of the committee-room, was osommod M adbaation, and, after eorluierewing their way theougli the owed, °sly succeeded in hearing one or two akiMlosmerks from Mr. Crawford Pampeas, keeper of the church clock. Had charge of the desk ea the day of polling. The minutes were mated thiman, bet being under repair the clock did not ctrane Weseaathisad by Mr. James—lf any person bad di/- =sworn (so sworn by the witness Bowler) that they the clock Mike on that day at tear o'clock, it was ostros,as it did use strike until the Sotooky following. The doh au a " go shied" ono when lagged order, but it had sot been very maim dot lie wallah ea the polling day by the church clock. and the Sather gabs& between two and Ihe Wastes as the latter in the 24 boner It wanted one mins* and • bolf to four o'clock whoa witness sew the m iresti r su at heing =down. then at otheitheahlo heath sailed on the committee to decide this a lettho petition first, without going into the other contained in it, and deferring their decision till Allialli ea all the points. Mr. James, on the other hid. sostended he the entire closing of the cue, and that his leased friend should either withdraw the stigmas and allegations contained in the peti tion altogether, or give counsel for Mr. Crawford every op portunity of vindicating their client. The room was cleared, and the committee decided that on their reassembling this day counsel for the petitioners should close their case on the allegation of the premature and un lawful closing of the poll. THE EXPRESS, , MONDAY EYEifiNG, JULY 14, 1851. wham votes are never missing when the Treie whistle is heard, and whose voice is mew l when the pledges of ministers auto ilossien after caseate, in w ith t h e "residue of the whig life i, the new official has been found voting on all sate of questions and at every hoar of the day and nit, undoubting, diligent, and dumb. not complained; nobody has though t it asking the resson ho w4; and these, if any there have been, who ever t t at all of the was, have con tented themselves with the explaaskey meollection, that the undemonstrative earl was the eon of our ambassador at Paris, and that of course he could not do otherwise than he did. We don't mean to enter here upon any examina tion of the question what he has mutely contri buted to do or to hinder being done by others in his representative character. We do not at this moment call to mind anything very singular or remarkable one way or other in that respect. Probably a retrospective analysis would show that Lord MULGRATE has done neither more nor less than scores of other young gentlemen of quality on both sides of the green table have been doing, and will continue to do, so long as the constituencies of towns and counties are fools enough to elect them as their representatives. That is another affair. What we have more immediately to deal with, is the particular fact that Lord JOHN Russell. should insist upon keeping up at the public charge a sinecure office called the Comptrollership of the Royal Household, in order to have it to give to such a political non entity as the individual we have named. If it were not a sinecure, it could not and would not be so bestowed. Among the " hereditary birds of prey," as Sir JAMES GIttIIAM used formerly to designate the bureaucrats of birth, there are but few gifted by Providence with brains sufficient to discharge the duties of any really responsible station. But then the offices that imply intellectual capacity are com paratively few in number, and the few clever or adroit personages of the privileged caste take care to clutch these for themselves. The science of clique con sists in maintaining and monopolising for the dull and dependent swarm of relatives who surround them, a vast secular hierarchy. with a still vaster subordina tion of benefices abroad and at home—the stipends attached to which all come out of JOIIN BULL'S breeches pocket. Lord NORMANDY has been paid during the last five some 70,000/. or 80,0001. for doing us the ro ar no s ur to live luxuriously at Paris, in the name and as the representative of the people of this country. At the instance of the select committee on salaries it has been decided that a couple of thousands a year less may very well suffice for his ex cellency's diplomatic needs in future. The govern ment have, doubtless, been convinced that in sulkily yielding to the recommendation alluded to, they were guilty of • grievous wrong to their expensive friend the marquis. Accordingly they seize upon the first opportunity to compensate the injured PIIIPPSES by making Lord MELGRAVE Comptroller of the Household. It could not be as a reward for public services rendered by himself, for literally he has rendered none. It could not be with a view to any services required to be performed, for the office is almost a nominal one, and, without meaning to say anything personally harsh of its new occupant, nobody ascribes to him any peculiar brilliancy of in tellect or habits of thought that would fit him to dis charge onerous duties were there any such to discharge. It cannot be as a mark of public gratitude to b in father ; for no man, even among the whigs, has been more amply and lavishly paid for whatever good he may have performed than the Marquis of SORMANBT. Three years governor of Jamaica, five years viceroy of Ireland. two years secretary of state, and five years ambassador at Paris—there is not, perhaps, in the whole list of public servants an indi vidual who has during the last twenty years received anything like the amount of public money which has fallen to the share of Lord NORM tNDY. Nor have other favours been wanting. In 1838 he was created a marquis, and in 1849 he received the garter. One of his brothers has for several years held an office in the household, and another has been provided for abroad. It cannot, therefore, wo presume, be regarded as in any degree the result of a sense of gratitude that this new per quisite has been conferred by our discriminating Prime Minister on the heir of the fortunate family. We have no doubt that it is referrible to some more general principle. In default of explanation, our surmise is that— strange as the coincidence may have been, and diffi cult as it may be to account for it—there was not, at the moment when the vacancy occurred, any RussELL, ELtior, HOWARD, or GREY, who could be appointed to fill it. In the best regulated cliques accidents of this kind wit sometimes occur; and, when they do, there is obviously nothing fur it but to step forth into the ante-room of oligarchy and select some of the outer cliques that are always in waiting for such a contingency. This is the least violation of the sacred rule of monopoly, and natu rally, therefore, suggests itself. Why should those who drive so lucrative a trade in public expenditure wish it lessened, or popular control over it increased ? lisneelketh prosecuted with no less rigour than if they windy istended to propagate the doctrines 00El• tailed la suck paiiiiations. per%commit* an the budget has decided on pro to the Assembly to reverse its vote on the elsens introduced by M. Charsmante into the sugar bill,which subjects the spirits extracted from beet rooaiselasses to the same duty as colonial rums. The Nositewr yes not spoken yet on the 'abject of General Baragasy d'Hilliers. There is to-day a breathing-space before the strug gle on revision. The first speech of note to-morrow is to be that of M. Payer, who brought forward a motion fee partial revision, and will speak against the motion of the committee. A meeting of the Left has been held to determine the order in which their avatars shall speak. M. Charles Lagrange, who scrambled so valiantly for an early inscription at the tribane, has been, notwithstanding his shrill expos tulations, in accordance with the suggestion of M. Cremieux, deposed from his rank and superseded by M. Michel de Bourges, who will come next to Gravy, the alter idem of Cavaignac. Pascal Duprat, Victor Hugo, Favre, Charras, Emanuel Arago succeed. The peak of the Mountain is not satisfied with this arrangement, and wish to put forward M. Marc Dufnusse. The debate will not probably outlast the week. The AssemM.se Nationale contains an article of some importance on the visit of the legitimist trio to Claremont, dwelling upon the great significance of this fact, which is to be treated, not as an accident collateral to a curious inspection of the London Ex hibition, but as a serious, deliberate transaction, long prepared, and pregnant with grave results. The strictest reserve is kept by the three delegates, who report not a word of the conversation which occurred during a long interview, and simply affirm that they are satisfied with the result of their journey. As for all the gossip which has been printed about this trip, it is full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations. The answer given to-day by the AssembMe Na tionale to the Times on the policy of the northern courts, reads like a page torn from earlier numbers of the latter journal, before it appeared in the sheep's clothing of an assumed liberalism, and made the notable discovery that the pressure of the Russian and German powers was only paving the way to fresh disasters in Italy. The death of the celebrated discoverer of the daguerreotype took place nearly suddenly at Brie, the village near Paris. He distinguished himself early as a scene painter by the happiness of his effects of light and shade. The Chapel of Glen thorn, at the Am bigu,the ltisingof the Sun in Lea Mexicains, weresa luted by the audience with enthusiastic applause. His inventive genius then erected the Diorama. Every one rememlaers the series of enormous pictures ofcathe drals, of Alpine scenery, producing almost the effect of illusion upon the spectator, and diversified by magical changes of light, which M. Daguerre exhi bited in the Regent's-park. Later, he succeeded in immortalising his name by fixing the images of the camera obscure , and realising in an instant effects which leave at an immeasurable distance the most elaborately finished engraving. Mr. Jerningham, charge d'affaires during the ab sence of Lord Normanby, has presented to the Mi nister of Foreign Affairs the Queen's answer to the President's letter of recall of Pd. I)rouyn de l'Huys from his temporary mission at the court of Great Britain. The envoy of Wurtemberg has notified the mar riage of the - King of Wurtemberg's daughter Augusta with the Prince George of Saxe-Wismar. Four generals of brigade, St. Arnaud, Iklarue, Renaud, and Lacoste, have been promoted to the rank of generals of division. _ The (7ouneili of arrondissement arc appointed to meet on the 4th August nest for the first part of their session, which is to last not more than ten days. SPAIN. Telegraphic despatches received in Paris from Madrid, dated the 12th inst., at 6, p.m., announce that articles 1,2, 3,4, and 5, the most important of the project of law on the settlement of the debt, have been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies. MADRID, JrLY B. The Cortes are not to be prorogued this month. The Queen wishes the notice of her interesting state to be deferred for another month, that is until the 10th of August. Madoz has finished his speech against the bill for the settlement of the debt, and Martinez do la Rosa is speaking. The democratic party has published an answer to the manifesto of M. Cortina. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY ETU:VINO. With respect to the rumours in circulation as to the dismissal of General Baraguay (Millers, and his replacement by General Castellanc, notwithstanding the statement of the amatitutionnel affirming this change, I believe that I am justified in saying that as yet no official decision has taken place. A cabinet council met yesterday to consider this question, and I reported the proposal which was made as to an exchange of places. To-day a fresh council has been held on the same subject, but the resolution arrived at has not yet transpired. The Moniteur of to-morrow is expected to put an end to all doubts. In the meanwhile the following para graph has appeared in the Constitationitel:" General Baraguay d'Hilliers is replaced in his command by General Castellanc. General Carrelet is to resign the command of the first military division, and re place General Castellano at Lyons. General Bara guay d'Hilliers, who is suffering from an affection of the liver, is about to proceed to the baths of Aix, in Savoy." The preface of M. Thicrs to the pamphlet-edition of his speech is an important addition to that protection ist manifesto. I send a pretty complete summary of this supplement, which is given out as a reply to the various commentaries which the views of M. Thiers have met with from all quarters. To-day, in the sitting of the Assembly, M. Chapot moved for the production of the minutes of the pro ceedings of the committee on revision. The motion was adopted; and the minutes were ordered for printing. It was agreed to papa to a second delibe ration on the bill of M. Baze for interdicting the street-sale of newspapers. A string of motions with out importance were disposed of. Cardinal Wiseman is announced to have turned up at Caen. where his eminence suddenly appeared to the astonished natives on the 9th inst. The Constiestiennet was fined 500 fr. to-day for publishing a letter from Berne, signed only by one of the rAideteurs. '4.l)agnerre, the famous fixer of the images of the camera obscure, died suddenly yesterday at the age of 61 - . The afontieur contains a tabular statement of the imports and exports of France during 1848, 1849, and 1836. The total value of the imported merchan dise in 1830 is 31,232,0001.; in 1849, 31,192,000/. ; in 1848, 22,264,0001. The total value of merchan dise exported in 1830 is 44,940,0001. ; in 1849, 41.288,0001. ; in 1848, 33,348,000!. The tonnage of shipping employed in importation wa s in 1830, 837,326 tons in French bottoms, and 1,231,437 tons in foreign ; in 1849, 837,'3-13 French, and 1,049,946 foreign; in 1848, 823,318 French, and 936,717 foreign. SCNDAT EVENINO. Fould has given way on the subject of the loan, and consented to contract a loan, but only of three millions sterling. The committee of revision met yesterday to verify the composition of the minutes of its two last sit ting.% which report the answer of M. Leon Faucher to the sub-committee of revision, and that of M. de Tocqueville to M. Odilon Barrot. M. Odilon Barrot has presented the report on the cantonal province of the Municipal Bill. In consequence of the publication of the bulletins of the committee of resistance in the conservative press, the Monitettr contains a warning that news papers which insert seditious manifestos will be GERMANY. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated the 10th inst., says:—" A decree on the press has ap peared. In substance it decrees that all foreign periodical prints may be forbidden at a moment's notice. Austrian prints can only be suspended after due notice given two months beforehand. They may, however, be suppressed instantly by a minis tenet order." The Independence Beige, of yesterday, has the fol lowing telegraphic despatch : BERLIN, JULY 12. The Prussian Gazelle of this day contains the following important declaration It announces that franc and England have protested at Frankfort against the continuance of the Prussian pro vinces and of Posen, in the confederation, as also against the total incorporation of Austria. Prussia herself desks the separation of the Prussian pro vinces and of Posen ; but, in concert with Austria, she has declared that this question, as well as that of the total ht corporation of the last-named power, are two internal ques tions for Germany, and that no foreign power has a right to interfere. SECESSION FROM THE CHURCIL-It if; stated that the Rev. John Henry Wynne, 8.C.L., has been deprived of his fellowship of AU Souls' College, Oxford, in consequence of his having declared himself to be no longer in communion with the church of England. The proceedings in this matter have been delayed by Mr. Wynne's lengthened absence on the Continent causing an uncertainty in com municating with him. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S CATTLE SHOW. —The annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, at Windsor, commences to day. During Friday and Sa turday the cattle were introduced into their places in the show-yard, and on Saturday evening the last of them had arrived. The judges were to begin their labours of exam ining the stock and awarding the prizes this morning ; and it is understood that her Majesty and Prince Albert will visit th show•yard in the course of the day. In the course of the afternoon, when the judges have delivered in all their awards, the public will be admitted on payment of a fee of 10s. each—members of council end gov e rnors of the Society for 2s. 6d. To-morrow the show-Yard will be opened at a charge of fts. each. On Wednesday the price of admission will be reduced to 2s. 6d. ; and at Jour o'clock in the afternoon the annual dinner will take place in the pavilion. On Thursday the price of admission will be re duced to Is., and in the evening the stock will be re moved. On Friday the general meeting of the members, in the Guildhall of Windsor, will close the proceedings, as far as the society is concerned. A FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT happened on Sable day afternoon on the Pontop and Shields Railway, at Eden hill, about six miles from Chester-le-street. Recently a quans city of irou•stone has been sent west, and as the incli ne a t Twale-bank was made with the object of running coals east east and hauling empty waggons west,a locomotive engine was engaged to assist in hauling up the iron-stone. On Satur day week a new engine, NO. 119, was sent from the works at South Shields for that purpose. About half-past 1 on Saturday. afternoon, the work being nearly over for the week, this engine was running single and unattached from the bank-top west. There were four persons, besides the engine-driver and stoker, sitting upon it. It was going at a pretty smart pace along the top of an embankment, at &place called Eden - h ill, when one of the railssprang out of its chair, and instead of dropping into it again jumped to one side, and in a moment caused the engine to plunge over the embankment, a height of about twelve or fourteen feet. Two of the men, the fireman and a person named Swinburne, partly jumped and were partly thrown from the engine to a considerable distance. With the ex ception of injuries to their faces by being thrown violently to the earth, they were not seriously burst. After this the engine fell with its funnel towards the embankment, and then rolled over on its side, burying the other four men under it. There were a few men about the bank-top at the time of the accident, and the alarm being given, they were soon on the spot ; the intelligence of the accident being also seat to an adjoining colliery village, the villagers, men and women, shortly followed. Every exertion was made to rescue the poor fellows buried under the engine, but it was a considerable time before this could be done , as the engine weighed some seven or eight tons, an d took some time to lift. Two of the poor fellows—John Mann, an engineraan ; and William Richardson, a bank-rider—were quite dead when taken out, and were bruised in a most shocking man ner, the side of the engine having fallen upon them. A young man named George Moffett (a fitter) and a pitman hayint fallen where the pressure was less violent, were dug out with each a broken thigh. It is expected that an in que.t would be held on the bodies of the two men killed to-day. INDIA AND CHINA. [IT ILIIICTAIC 71011 ova OWN CORRESPONDENT. MARSEILLES, Jinx 13. The Calcutta mail has arrived. No news of im portance. Trade was very dull. The Bombay Mail has not arrived at Marseilles. Our telegraphic despatch from Trieste on the I Ith gives the latest dates from Calcutta of the ith June, Bombay ell Madras 2nd June, and Hong Kong 23rd May. During the monsoon no direct communications could be had with Bombay. India was tranquil throughout. Tho governor general was still at Simlah. The missing steamer from Ceylon had arrived at Bombay. Disturbances still prevailed in China. Commerce was dull. Exchange on London, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 31,d. A further telegraph is as follows: " ALEXANDRIA, JOLT 6. " The Oriental arrived on the 2nd at Suez, with 50 passengers, bringing adviees from Hong Kong of May 23 ; Calcutta, June 3 ; and Bombay, June 2. The Haddington reached Calcutta On June 2. "The Govern;r-General had left Simlah to pass the summer months at Chence, on the frontier of Thibet. "The money market at Calcutta was easier. Freights 41. and upwards. "The disturbances in China appear to be gaining ground. " Exchange at Canton on London, 4s. Bd. to 4s. 80. Freights, 21. 10s. to 2/. 1.55. "BOMBAY, JUNE 2. " India is fluid. There are prospects of a rich harvest in grain. " It was said that General Fraser, the resident at Nizam, would resign. " Lord and Lady Falkland are gone to the hills, so has Sir J. Grey. The weather is sultry at Bombay. The monsoon had not yet set in. The islands are healthy. Commerce is dull. No change in bills, prices, or exchange. " Advices from Ceylon confirm the acquittal of Captain Watson." AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. Yesterday afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey, from New York direct, which place she left on the 2nd 1: inst., with the usual mails front the United States and the British provinces, and having on board 93 'passengers, and a large amount in specie on freight, with a guood general cargo. The iboyal Mail steam-ship Africa had arrived at New York at 10 o'clock on the morning of tho Nia gara's departure. The news by this arrival is more than usually scanty. The ..New York Tribune reports that "every thing is in a state of Midsummer tranquillity in our immediate vicinity, while our advises from distant portions of the country are almost entirely barren of important intelligence." Sonic interest has been excited in New York by a requisition from Mr. Bulwer, the British minister to the United States government, for the extradition of a deserter from the British army in New Brunswick. 'rite accused is charged with stealing sundry arms and equipments, in order to make his offence in dictable under the conditions of the treaty. lie is a man of some intelligence, and conducted his own cause at the primary examination with a good deal of shrewdness. The decision of the court had not been rendered, but it was supposed that the accused would be discharged. The National Intelligenerr (Washington) says: The balance of the fourth instalment of the indemnity to Mexico was paid at the Treasury on June 2S, amounting to 1,815,400 dolt. The whole amount of the instalment was 3,360,000 dole., of which upward of 1,400,000 dols. had been previously paid during the last two months, on the presentation of the regular receipts from the Mexican go vernment; and the above balance, which completed the full stun, was paid in Mexico on the 30th May, the period stipulated in the treaty. The warrant for this payment was the largest in amount which has been issued by the treasury for a considerable time, and it was settled by a treasury draft on the assistant treasurer in Boston for 1,000,000 dolt., and on the assistant treasurer at New York for 811,400 d ole. The gain to the treasury on the pay ment of this instalment is 117,000 dols., being three-and a-half per cent. upon its full amount, which was the bonus allowed by the parties who contracted to make the payment at the city of Mexico for account of the American govern ment, in consideration of being reimbursed in the United States. During the last week treasury drafts were likewise issued upon the sub-treasury at New York to the extent of 1,100,000 dole. to meet the semi-annual interest nn the pub lic debt, payable the Ist July, making, with the Mexican indemnity, nearly 2,500,000 dole. in specie which will be paid out from the sub-treasury iu that city in the early part of the present week, besides 1,000,000 dols. at Boston. I Thest heavy payments cannot but have a favourable etli.nt upon the money market. 'fhe New York Tribune, under the heading "Im mense Fraud upon Government," has the following We are in possession of the name of a party who is charged with having committed a fraud on our general government, under which he has obtained nearly a half million of dollars without a shadow of right. The whole evidence by which he obtained this immense sum, he is stated to have con fessed, was false, and the government are now in possession of the information which will probably lead to the ar rest of the guilty party, who is about to leave the country for Europe. For prudential reasons we suppress, fur the present, the name of the party implicated. The same paper mentions the suspension of the houses of Hulburt and Co., and the banking house of It. Kandon and Co. It was expected the liabilities would be paid in full. According to the Tribune there is no reason to doubt that a secret expedition has been organised in the southern part of California, for the purpose of a foray on the .Mexican provinces of Sonora and Lower California. The scheme, we have good authority for believing, is not a recent one, but has been contem plated by a certain class of persons in California for two years past. Now, however, the designs of these freebooters (we can find no more appropriate name) seem to be tolerably matured, and the existence of the organisation is openly admitted. From what we learn through private sources, there seems to be a want of decision among the members of the expedi tion as to where they shall make the first demonstra tion. Sonora and Low.-r Calfornia lie both before them, divided only by the Californian Gulf. Dates from Venezuela to the 3rd ult. state that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to assassinate the President. AMERICAN MARKETS. NEW YOSK, JELY 2. Business generally has been rather more active of late than Y usual at this semon of the year, and there in every prospect of a good fall trade. The country merchants have arrived in greater numbers than mull, mid have already made their appearance In our dry goods and grocery stores. The exports during the month of June were to a fair extent, although the dolma in cotton restricted shipments of that staple. Dols. The value of domestic merchandise was 3,773,289 Foreign do., duty free 36,433 Do. do.. dutiable Specie 6,462,367 Total 10,564181 Goessusest merit*. sod the preprimelel steels have been firm, end esseldireldeleveetereete be.. hess made on foreign account. The Misr aseerlgthme hum undrape= mweldenble fluctuation, but A IM er r e tb= les less rather languid, and rates am lam& plemllleg, tI 1 ; fiesss, kei for 60 clay Mile. There are emisleleelle Mgr d deprendes* several branches of industry messsle d id* ea mwsingessimig isoweeta which may be tram* se the semismsesiss of the pees* erlameretal policy of the United *Ms mil Ne arm Our mama kola foreign countries for the Ihselyesr emilogyrerdey, moot bll *art of two hundred an d thirty Mills* et ernalin Weal der exports, exclusive of the rre does meths ale met gistrataly ensued those of loot year ; but allow leg en hundred eat fifty lathe* of dollars as the 'zones of the year laSO-1, here we have a balance against us of eighty re Woes of dollars in a single year. CorroN.—(From Stewart's Circular of July 2.) • Wa. viz: Orlealmviz.: growth/of At. No Alabama N. °rime% 'Unit porta & Temaessee. Tema & Sto. ',cleft. bile. —to !i —to 8 —to 8 ''''' Goodlelow t b a o 1 9 9i t t: 1 9 0 1 10e to Middling loir lO to 101 101 to 104 11 to 1 11 Mg to r lOl 10e 104 to WI 111 t o 1 • • 22 tate nwainaL nominal. nom naL lam lamb to Great Britain since Sept. 1. 1850, 1,270,000 boles; cor- AeMrr date, la* year, 090,000; ditto year before. 1,470,000. ow York and ports o• receipt, 270,00 d ; correapondlng dates beet per. 549,000; ditto year before, 200,000. Become at ports shwa Omit L 1530, 1,2C7,000; oarrespooding dates last year , 1,976,6 , 00; dato year before, 1,616,000. Esparta from United State; since Sept. I, 1630. 1,791,000; corresprodingdatee lain year, 1,266,000; ditto year before, 1,117,000. Betelpts slue July I, 2,000; exports, 1,000; taken by spinners, 1,000; taken on spemention sham Ist inst., 1,000; whole stork in city, in all hands, 40,000; amount= sale, 10,000. Freights : To Liverpool, 3.32 d. to 3-16 d.; Havre, le.; Hamburg, ic.; Holland sad Belem. ; Breatan, le, Rreavr or Tali MAIMS?. last Teepees were per Arta, ae lath uIL Phase that date, a steady, rod beancon has been transacted in thin market, at price. d , By hardeoine mall grades, and amounting. on an average, t' a fat quarter rest improvement in the fort. nieht, to vihieb my quotsti as at top are graduated. The stria for th 6 Best week were 9,11', bales. toe the record, tip to lest evening, 11,000 bales. The prepeeta for the next crop continue good. The only eowpialnte, except than 'dieing from the beckwurdnee of the eyeing are of drought, end In mime Factiona this hag, d iubtha., bad an Injurious effect, and will certainly eircusteribe the yield. Genial rano are much required at this time all over the cotion-growing emetics. The wish for a large crop for the next buainess seasen to so universal with the m rpctile community, that It is possible the public mind already favours an unattainable flgur.. The developments, up to the. time, do not warred the expectation 'of a yield equal to '4B, 'l9, when our largest delivery woo made, and yet we certainly have no season to apprehend that It will be km than the present one. BASAUSTUPTS.-(Front Circular.)-New York, July 1.-The last fortnight ban been productive of a considerable chance In the market for breadstuffls, and my quotations on flour Are advanced about 23e. per barrel, chiefly on the lower and medium grades. From ell parte of the country there continues to he received the moot gratifying accounts of the appeeraace of the coming crop of wheat, and in the southern state they are now baud, engaged in harvesting in excellent condition. Indian corn has also improved in once. owing lea measure to the limited suppliesof a Pound deccription, and to the Winn of speculator. in ehing runt reels ft r the month of The exports from thin port to Great Britain and Ireland, fur the fort. night ending on the 27th of June, consisted of 22,176 barrel* Flour, 31,243 burial, Wheet, ITo Liverpool. 210,344 bushel* Indian Corn, 6,977 barrels Flour, To London. 4,938 herds Flour, jTo 7,177 burecia Indian Corn, 300 barrels Corn Meal, 1 Glargow. To beard. 3.3,k30 buckets Indian Corp, 4,413 barrels Flour, To other ports in England. 8,194 betels Indran Corn, Penra.-Fresh ground lots are not plenty, and net an improving market holders are not ready rollers-there wan rather lees buoyancy yesterday, without any material change in pre-es. The quotations are 4 dots. 120. to 4 dole. 23c. for Canadian in bond; 4 dole. 121 e. to 4 dots. 234. for straight and (reel State 4 dole. tic, to 4 dole. Inc. for mixed and straight Western and Mic higan; 4 dole. 23e. for Ohio (which i, in demand); 4 eulibllie. to 4 chi.a.a7ic. for pun.: Gennetrase. southe ns brands ore in loiter request, at 4 data. Vie. to 4 dole. 30e. for Baltimore, Alex indria, and Georgetown, Oa. Rye flour is dull at !dole. 374 e. Corn soul, 3 dole. to 3 dole. 12Se. for Jere,' and Brandy. wine. Grain : Wheat it more firmly held at 110 c. to 113 c. for (Penne ete. nee. to 101 e. for Canadian in bond, Ohio 9*. to 9*. Syr in selling at 73c. to 74c. Barley in nut of Seitl.oll, and dull at 75c. to 374 c. Oats are 41e. to 444. for northern. Indian corn to in an unsettled state, and prices to-day rather nominal-the tales being princapay to petit* cootrieto at the end of the month. Mixed western may be quoted at toe. to 61e. Round yellow, 59e. to 60e. White le scarce, at 62c. to 630. Vies is quiet. Dry cod, about 1,000 rite. PPM at 2 dale. 931 e. to $ dole., and 300 Mb M.. 11 mackerel, N 0.3, on private term.. Moen see vary dull ant heavy. The attack ls large, insisting of 62,436, and 0,417 boric -toeiethr r 71,:51, and in increasing. The trade in full : 3.000 Buenos Aim, 201 b. to 311 b., cold at 14e., 6 months; 1,000 Buenos Ripe, 141 b., set Life.: and 11,nial Itio Grande. in Salem, on NOS York account, to tiro to an up.river tonne, at 13e., allowing • decline of Ic. The receive ahise • telling off from het year. The imports in June, 18.31 and 19:0. are tar : 1831, 7.4431; 1810. 14,044 ; and from January to 30th June, in ruch year, they are 1811. 675,e12; 1830, 722,420; ,bowing •di cline of 111.934. With a dimin s. lion in the receipte, there to more than a corresponding diminution in the demand, . dull and declining. The *lock is on the increase. No active demand ie now anticipated until the sod of the Ur nth. Lion is inactive. Holders are firm at I &la. 73c. tut Galena, 4 dale. toe. for English, and 4 &le. rkle. for :vanish. Arnra.—Tbe market b rteatly, but quiet. Sales of 50 bble. at 5 dole. for pate, and pestle at 5 des. 34 - e. Matsu v.—The market to et ode, with sale. of 220 brig at 23i for Ohio, and 24 for orison. U: udge la quiet, at 23c. to 23ic. Caovolotre.—Our m .rket for pork ix:minute very dull and orient. OM. and orlon; nominal for new wee, at .4 dub. Ws, and do. prime. at 12 dole. n 74.3. Beef in inactive; rain. of 100 brio. in loin ut 9 dials. to 11 dole., and prime. 5 plus. to 6 dole. Cut meats are heavy; sales of 50 1. b de. horns at 7i ehouldeis at 61e. to 6le. Beef hams are steady; rake of 100 bble. at 11 dal,. 1,..rd is very quiet; Faits of 140 Ice, at 81e. to 9n. Barer io steeuty, but dull; Pc. to 13a. for Ohio. and loc. to 14e. f.r State. Cree.e b tractive. at So to 7e. it Is rather better; 111,000 gale. have been sold at 6501. to tllv. for English, closing at the higher mot. The Palen of last week arc Tenured at t5O tune, which boo cleared the market memorably. hales. 100 Inble..elected Whale at 43e. Tie woo in dull. The mock in the inepecti• n wareholine this mem ing was asfollow.:—July I, Kentucky. 5.1'42 hhde.: Virginia and N. Car dim, 592; Ohio. 3; Moreland. 21. Total, 0,503. 'I he deliveries have heel. 1. 0 05• receipt., 801. The WCe of the !art few days aro 10 hhds. Virginian Lug.,lot On. 21 Kentucky, bt e. 30 none. Florida. Ike. to !lc.; 50 bales Havana on private WIMP. Connecticut is held by epeculatoni above the market. liaste.—The market is st 'arle, with a fair demand. Sales of 100 bales of good Amienetn w Itot . .ell at !21 dole, in lots. Fairoure.—Shipownere were asking ;increased rates. Flour to Liverpool, Is. 9d. to 20. per barrel; grain to Liveriuol, fol. to tlid. pet tineheL NEW ORLE.ASts, June 30. Sales of cotton this morning amounted to 2,i110 bake middling, at :ie. to Air.; fair, lie. to la's_ Flour is firmer; Ohio, 3 dole. 49e. M. Lout., 4 dole. to 4i. it,rt, nothing &tog; mats told Ml 4 d ots.; ehou:d. re, cols. Freights: Cotton, to Liverpool, ac.; New York, 4e. To New York: Floor, S.e. Exchatigenterting • 9toll ; New Vast eight, par to porn Sum.—July I.—Cotton: Thin morning Mel were deposed of; yesterday, 2,800; mortly for England, waiting Africa'. prices. Raton is firmer; ribbed shire, Plc.; port, 14 dole. to 14 did.. Sic. for mere. Corn, prime white, 34c.; yell ,w, See. Exchange.: Sterling unchanged; New York at sight, quarter dimount. CANADA. The Attorney-General has announced, in the Ca nadian parliament, that the French party intend to oppose the secularisation of the Clergy Reserve. This announcement, it is supposed, will lead to an agitation for dissolving the union of the provinces. A motion has been made in the Legislative Assem bly, by Mr. Mackenzie, for the abolition of the Court of Chancery, with a view of investing equity juris diction in the law courts. The motion was resisted by the ministry, but the court was feebly defended by its advocates, who could allege nothin g in its behalf except that it had nut yet had a fair trial under its present constitution. The members of the bar wero unanimously opposed to the court on the ground of its enormous expenses and ruinous delay. The motion was finally lost by a vote of 31 to 30. Great com plaints is made that the question was decided by the votes of Lower Canada members, while the court is confined to Upper Canada. The bill introduced into the Assembly by Mr. Ross, for vacating the seats of members who have been guilty of treason, has been modified by the mover. It now has only a pro spective reference. Our correspondent writes: TORONTO, JUNE 28. The question of the clergy reserves was brought before the Legislative Assembly on Monday last, on the mo tion of the lion. Mr. Price, Commissioner of Crown Lands, for an address to the Queen, thanking her for the despatch in answer to the address of last session upon this subject, and praying the passing of an act to place the disposition of these reserves under the provinci a l c o n t ro l, on the condi tion that the rights of incumbents shall be respected. This address will of course pass, us the house can hardly do otherwise after the vote of last session, without stultifica tion ; but it will not be until after a long debate, as the feelings of the different parties arc very strong. WEST IN DIES. The Niagara brings later dates, received in New York by the British mail-steamer Merlin, from St. Thomas and Bermuda; the former to the 21st, and the latter to the 26th ult. The Bermr«lian says: We are happy to be able to record that the severe drought which has prevailed throughout these islands for the lost three months, was relieved on Saturday night last by the fall of a heavy shower of rain ; and, since then, more co pious showers have visited the whole country, diffusing a refreshing coolness through the atmosphere and invigo rating the parched and drooping vegetation. Considering the people of these islands are just fairly em barked in agriculture, after years of an apathetic course with reference to that noble pursuit, we may with pride congratulate the country on the results of the crops of the present year. The following statement exhibits a compre hensive view of the returns up to the present time: ' EinkaT4. r&LCII. Arrow 'Awl lbs. 101,100 duls. 37,1567 Potatoes, 3,474 tibia. cleared out, to which add 306, ascertained to be (Tilted in the above (sunny, and 220 Wbe stripped in a few days bele 5,931 1,798 01210 nm, (use half at Ss.,remalnder at 2.s Gd.) lbe 1,000,e00 2,333 Tomatoes: Quant.ty cleared. 4,413 boles; add 430 put aboard vemelv after clearance 6Es. 4,6413 2,341 Total value of produce exported dui/. 67,199 1.301/1.C3 03 lILND. ow Root—evtlroated value of dolt, 12,090 Omiasa—may "WOO lba. at 2a. (4. YaypaM_aays,ooo bat.. J, 125 1,500 —l3,ess Total value of the produce rabed ibis tenon dole. 80,1314 We (Bermudian) copy the following account of an earth quake in Guadaloupe —This day, 16th of May, 1851, Point-a-Pitre has had to undergo a severe trial. At sixteen minutes after 9 in the morning a violent shock of earth quake was felt, its oscillations being from S.E. to N.W. It was preceded by a rumbling noise like that of thunder. Its duration was of about one second. It were impossible to describe the impression made on the population by this shock, recalling, as it did, that of the Bth of February, 1843. Fortunately, at Point-a. Pitre we have no serious damage to deplore from it ; our wooden buildings having withstood the shock, not one having fallen. At two o'clock iu the morn ing there was a slight shock ; and at Si min, past 9 another was felt; and then at 1.5 min. past 10 a fourth shock, ac companied with a noise strong enough to create deep anx iety. In a moment the whole town was on the alert; and after the principal shock, at 4.5 minutes past nine the cry of fire was heard, the shops were immediately closed, and the people thronged m the direction of the alarm. Fortunately there was nothing of consequence. A coal-pot, overturned by the shock, had communicated fire to some pieces of wood in a house in the Rue d'Arbaud, near the Tabanon wharf, but it was discovered iii time, and extin guished. We repeat, then, ;that, for this time, Point-i- Pitre has escaped free. heaven grant that we may not have to record some heavy disaster as having befallen either our wretched plantations, now in the height of crop, or our sister colony of 3lurtinique, or some of our neighbours, the Bri tish, Danish, and Spanish colonies.—P.S. Since the fore going was written (1 p.m.) some fresh shocks, of considerable violence, have succeeded—one at 59 min. past I, another at J 8 min. past 2. We lear n th a t severa l estates at l'etit Bourg, Goyanc, St. Mari e , and Capsterre, have incurred a good deal of damage. It is added, that the new bridge at Capsterre has suffered much injury, and a house at the Abymes has been thrown down. The following additional particulars are extracted from a private letter:—" Point-a- Pitre, May 20.—The earth conti nue d t o qua k e , though with less violence, up to half-past seven o'clock, a.m., of ' the 17th inst. It is unnecessary for me to paint the con sternation into which they were plunged —you may more easily imagine it. Some families had to take refuge on .