The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

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We cannot notice, in any way, any communication that is sent to us anuoymoualy ; but those who choose to address us in confidence will And their confidence respected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. Advertisements intended for The Ewes+ must be at the Office Ly Two o'clock on the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TiE DAY.—Morning, 52 nun. put 4 ; Afternoon, 12 min. put 5. Touoznow.—Morning, 53 mm. put 5; Afternoon, 55 snn. put 5. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 26. TILE question of the Succession to the Duchies of Slcswig-Holstein is one of very great importance. It is serious in itself, as its result may be the dis memberment of an ancient monarchy. It is serious, also, as it threatens to annihilate a country which commands the key of the Baltic ; and to reduce to insignificance the weight of those Scandinavian coun tries, which once were able to check and counterba lance Russia itself. But it is yet more serious, as threat ening to set the Eastern powers at variance with one another; and to awaken conflicting interests between countries and races, the political connexion of which has since 1815 been held tight by the bonds of one pervading despotism. Same years ago, the Emperor of Russia gave kis daughter in marriage to Prince FREDERIC of Hesse- Cassel, son of the King of Denmark's sister, and pre sumptive heir to the Danish throne. German jealousy was much awakened by this. Upwards of one-third of the population of the monarchy is to be found in the Duchies of Holstein and of Sleswig, the race and tongue of which are German. It accord ingly soon came to be mooted, how far the Prince of Hesse, whose claim was derived from fomalcs, could succeed to the Duchies of Sleswi ,, and Holstein, limited, it was alleged, to heirs-male. As we ob served in a former article, Kiel, the capital of llol stein, being a German town, and containing a German university,—the professors and lawyers, who form one profession in Germany, turned their learning, acute ness, and zeal to the question, and decided that Sleswig and Holstein should remain German. That is, in case of the Prince of Hesse succeeding to the crown of Denmark, that the Duchies should go to the Due of AUGUSTENBURG, the next heir-male. Professional zeal alone, however, would not have raised so formidable a political party for the severance of the Duchies as that which now clamours for it throughout Germany. The fact is, that the Zollve rein, and with it the public mind of the Germans, as well as the Cabinet of Berlin which seeks to head it, have been on the look out for a seaport worthy of Ger man nationality and trade. Hamburg has too many motives for remaining free, to afford a hope of its speedy junction with the Zollverein. Prussia has therefore cast its eye upon Kiel as a spacious and excellent port, on the Baltic certainly, but having a complete and valuable ship canal, connecting it with the ocean. If Kiel becomes the port of the Zollverein, Hamburg could not long hold out. It would be forced either to abandon much of its trade, or to hold its ground by declaring itself a member of the great German commercial union. The celebrated Heidelberg address, or answer of the professors to the Danish King's letters patent, fully avows these motives. " Shall we," says that document, "in these times of a young awakening consciousness in Germany, submit to the disruption of a part of the German soil, and- of a territory that is 'the fondling of two seas ; ' that commands the mouth of the Elbe; that can render useless the possession of the Sound ; that, more closely bound to Germany, is capable of at once giving an incredible impetus to our commerce and commercial marine; but which, on the contrary, if aban doned to Denmark, would become, together with Denmark, nothing more than a football for the great continental powers, wh have au interest in watching over the straits of the Sound." On this appeal one might observe, that if Germany is determined on claiming and re-conquering every province where the German tongue and race survive, it would be more valiant and righteous to demand Livonia and Courland from Russia, and Alsace from France, than to threaten Denmark with annihilation by the disruption from it of Sleswig. All the petitions and pleadings sent forth by the champion of separation, cite the case of Hanover and Great Britain. What similitude can there be between countries divided by large tracts of land and sea, the princes of one of which were promoted to be kings of the other, little more than a century back, and where every interest of either country prompted disunion ? How compare such a case to that of Denmark and the Duchies? countries which have for centuries formed one State under one Sovereign. Of all countries, Denmark has certainly suffered the most from the long and dreadful struggle which opened the century. Coerced by NAPOLEON ; its fleet destroyed by us, for this its misfortune, not its fault; 1814 found it the ally of NAPOLEON, and it was mulcted accordingly. Norway was torn from it, and only at the last, did it receive some indemnity in the duchy of Lauenberg, one of those districts which Prussia would now take from it. For our part, we think it important that the power which guards the Sound, and can open and shut the Baltic, should be possessed of that degree of import ance which begets and implies independence. If the Prince of HESSE, or any other prince, should find him self King of DENMARK shorn of Slesvrig and Hol stein, and lord of about a million of subjects, nothing is left for such a king but to consider himself the vassal of Russia, and to be the janitor of the Baltic for the Czars. Such a contingency was provided against in 1814, when Denmark first received Swedish Po merania, and afterwards Lauenberg, and when the king was made a member of the German confedera tion as Duke of HOLSTEIN. The Bing of DENMARK does not threaten to un-Germanise Holstein. On the contrary, it is his interest to keep up and strengthen those links which bind him to the Germans, and which give him a claim to German weight and protection. It is most selfish and impo litic on the part of Prussia and the Zollverein to seek to undo the work of 1815; to endeavour to snatch from the crown of Denmark, provinces which for centuries have belonged to it ; and by so doing, to fling the Scandinavian islands and Jutland to seek anti-German alliance and protection. For the present, however, the German Diet has suspended the controversy. It maintains the right, always undoubted, of Denmark to Sleswig. And it enjoins the King of DENMARK to respect the right of the agnates, or descendants in the male line, in Hol stein. In the letters patent the King of DENMARK did respect these, for he stated his opinions as uncer tain. It is remarked that in the future fate of Hol stein, Kiel, the chief bone of contention, stands apart ; Kiel being, as COIE informs us, " that portion of the Duchy of Holstein which descended to the line of Holstein-Gottorp, and belonged to PETER THE THIRD, as part of his hereditary dominions. In 1773, the Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA ceded it to the King of DENMARK, in exchange for the countries of Oldenberg and Delmenhorst." England guaranteed the exchange. The most desirable result of the quarrel would, no doubt, be the succession of the Duke of AUGUSTEN BERG to the throne of Denmark as well as to the Duchies, by which all contention between the pro vinces would be removed. This would leave Den mark constituted as it was in 1815. It is, how ever, not to be hoped that the Prince of Hesse, who claims the Danish crown by right of his mother, would renounce it, whilst his close connexion with the Emperor of RUSSIA gives him authority and power to enforce his rights. TnE inquest on the sufferers by the late accident on the Great Western having terminated, we are left free to canvass its details. We must confess that the im pression left upon our minds is unfavourable, both to the engine-driver and to those who are entrusted with the management of the railway. There can be no doubt that the train ran into the tender. This is the deliberate opinion of Mr. Bt:sn, a competent and dispassionate witness, who had carefully examined the spot where the ca sualty occurred, and heard the evidence of the by standers. The facts stated by eye-witnesses bear out this opinion. The engine-driver received a shock which threw him backwards; the superintendent of the station saw fire flashing from both sides of the train immediately after he heard the crash ; the buffers of the tender were cut through. These facts are irreconcilable with any other assumption than that the tender had received a severe concussion, and that the blow came from behind. It was conse quently only from the train that the impulse can have come. The cause of the train running into the tender is quite as obvious. The engine-driver stated on his examination that the engine at the time of the acci dent was moving slower than usual. He also stated that when he " slowed " he had given nu signal to the guard to put on the break. The guard had observed nothing uncommon in the rate of the train's velocity. The train and the engine were moving at different rates of speed, the hindermost and heavier of these two bodies with the greater. In such circumstances the crash was inevitable. What was actually witnessed by the spectators con firms this inference. The comparatively light body, the luggage van, was lifted by the pressure of the two heavier bodies several feet into the air, and ne cessarily fell back upon that which opposed the least resistance to its weight, the weak wood-work of the passenger carriage. This collision, by which two men lost their lives, was caused by the neglect of the engine-driver. lie abated the speed of his engine to a greater extent than usual, uud he gave no signal to the guard to reduce in a corresponding degree the speed of the train. The deliberate untruth which the engine driver told on his examination before the inquest, shows that he was conscious of his culpability. He per sisted in denying his belief that the train had run into the engine. Why ? Because he knew that if he admitted it had, he admitted the occurrence of an accident consequent upon his own neglect to give the guard due intimation to reduce his speed. But though the engine-driver is the direct and imme diate cause why the accident happened, the managers of the railway are responsible for its having proved so terribly fatal. The concussion was not so violent as to have produced the effects it did, had not the luggage-van—a body so light as to be necessarily pressed upwards in a collision between the train and tender, and so heavy as to be sure, when thus uplifted, to come crashing down through the weak wood work of the passenger-carriage--been placed, immediately and alone, between the tender and a carriage full of pas sengers. To the culpable indifference to consequences which directed or allowed such an arrangement, is the fatal nature of the accident to be attributed. We have no wish to aggravate the culpability of the parties. We would rather use the sensation which the harrowing details of this casualty have excited in the public, to stimulate action with a view to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents. From the table which we published on Thursday, it appears that the ratio of accidents in railway travelling, which in 1843 had been brought as low as one to every four millions of passengers, had in 1845 risen as high as one in every half million. The excitement in the public mind occasioned by the high ratio of accidents in 1840, had frightened railway proprietors and managers into such habits of precaution, that casualties were rarely heard of. As the outcry against them has diminished in consequence, they have again grown careless. The trial of the driver of the engine which caused the fatal accident on the Eastern Counties Railway in July last, reported in our paper of to-day, reminds us of a case in which the safety of the passengers was still more glaringly disregarded : in which a company, to increase its profits, systematically re ductd its expenditure to an extent incompatible with due provision to prevent fatal accidents. Some pres sure upon these companies more persistent and equable must be introduced, if we would have safety in railway travelling. Surely, in the mock respon sibility enforced by such a trial as that to which we have referred, there is no guarantee for the security of the public. The company prosecuted; and the opening charge of their counsel was a panegyric upon the prisoner. The company were afraid to irritate their scape-goat, lest his counsel should retaliate (as he did, nevertheless, and with justice) by laying the blame at their door. This consideration induced us to throw out it hint on Thursday that the appointment and control of the preventive police of railways might with advantage be transferred from the companies themselves. We threw it out as a hint for consideration, in order to begin that preliminary discussion in which alone an adequate measure can originate. We must confess that the objections to investing Government with the management of the preventive railway police which have yet reached us, are far from convincing. They rest on the assumption that it must be ill-managed. But only the pressure of public opinion can make either Government or the Companies manage it well : and in the case of the companies there is the bias of private interest counter acting this pressure, while in the case of government there is not. A police appointed by private indivi duals is necessarily a partisan body; it is only a slight modification of the anarchical system of taking the law into one's own hands. That ineffable body of rural police, the corps of gamekeepers, presents a " case in point." NOTHING else could have been expected from the state of affairs in Mexico, save the restoration and re-instalment in office of the only man who has dis played energy in that country. We may add, that nothing else could have been hoped. The blots on SANTA ANNA'S character are indeed but too prominent. Corrupt, selfish, despotic, tricking the army by the forms of representative government, and coercing all freedom by the army,—SANTA. ANNA can in nowise command admiration, except as an ener getic soldier, who has given proofs of military zeal and patriotism, and whose contempt for his countrymen and their would-be free institutions is perhaps founded upon too just an idea of the worth lessness and unfitness of both. Like all energetic men of the Spanish race, however, SANTA ANNA seems actuated by an ardent desire to maintain:theiinde pendence of his country against foreigners; and if this could best be done by war, he is the very man to undertake it. But age and expe rience temper such desires; and SANTA ANNA has declared himself ready : for peace, unless his countrymen are eager for war. This they are far from being. It may be considered probable, therefore, that the new President or Dic tator will make as good terms with the United States as he can, and apply himself to the re-organisation and government of so much of the country as a treaty may leave him. It is to be feared, that California is lost to the Republic, and Santa Fe too. The Americans have taken the former; not, it would appear, by open violence, but by the old trick of fraternisation; by exciting the people themselves. This saves appearances and fends off remonstrance. As to PAREDES, he disappears, like so many cyphers of his kind, the inept representative of an inane party. PAREDES and his friends may have been more attached to constitutional freedom and civilian pre eminence than SANTA ANNA. But; in truth, the country which cannot defend its independence is unworthy of freedom. The remark need not be limited to Mexico.= It applies as fully to its mother-country, Spain, which is quite as disgracefully sinking under the French yoke, as Mexico under that of the United States. What renders this more disgraceful to the Spaniards is, that it is the military party amongst them, who, for epau lettes and cordons, surety of pay and quietness of life, thus forswear their country's first virtue, and .subject it to a foreign Court. The Mexican military have some excuse in necessity, and the Mexican deputies some excuse for inertness and despair in their poverty and paucity, as well as in their isolated position and the active energy and numbers of their foe. Spain has no excuse for setting so base an example. A few more years' persistence in such courses, and the powers of Europe can no longer put t.ny faith in the possibility of the Spanish race preserving its freedom. The only anxiety will be to procure for such people something like independence ; without caring or striving to elevate them to the higher blessing of freedom, which they seem incapable of defending, practising, or even comprehending. It is mortifying to witness this. It is worse than mortifying to perceive that every race whom we undertake to help to constitutional freedom, falls out of our leading-strings, and throws itself prostrate. But we must resign ourselves to let these things be. We cannot open an infirmary for the cure and sup port of every political patient who will not take care of himself. We cannot act as crutches to every lame and impotent race. We must not seek to communi cate life to such a dead body as Turkey, to such a slumbering one as Mexico, to such a corrupt one as Spain. If we embrace the cause of every falling race, we shall not have strength for ourselves ; and by spend ing sympathies vainly on worthless races abroad, we may unfortunately come to be less zealous for freedom at home. If the Spanish race is to be blotted out, like the Turks, from the list of those which are capable of freedom and self-existence, in either the Old World or the New, we must resign ourselves to the consum mation. In one hemisphere, at least, it will be to the advantage of the Anglo-Saxon race. ERRATA. —ln yesterday's leading article com menting on the newspaper stamp duty, an unconscious over-statement of the amount of saving on the reduc tion of the fourpenny stamp was made. It could have been little more than a fifth, whereas we stated it at four-fifths, of a penny. The mistake arose from confounding a fraction with the whole sum in the calculation of the discount. This savitrz of a fifth of a penny, however, on a daily circulation of twenty thousand copies, would leave a clear profit of five thousand a-year. In the same leader, the men tion of the T'imes of fifty-seven years ago as " a single folio sheet little more than a fourth of the size of our paper of to-day," should have been printed " little more than half the size of our paper of to-day." But this was an error of description which did not affect the argument. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP.—The steam giant of the ocean, now aground in Landrum Bay, has been rather unfortunate from the commencement of her career. This is not her first casualty, and there is a disposition, in certain quarters conversant with such matters, to construe the occurrences in a sense favourable to certain objections previously entertained and expressed. It is objected that steamships trans cendingcertain limits of bulk, become disproportionately difficult of management in bad or blowing weather to smaller ones. Again, it is objected that the screw-pro peller is not so safe and powerful an instrument of pro pulsion, so far as yet perfected, as the paddle-wheel. It is observed that the same causes which would unship, carry away, or damage a rudder, might so derange or damage the screw as to render it totally unservice able. The loss of a rudder might be repaired, and the keel of a ship destroyed might be replaced by a false keel ; but the screw, in a similar case, it is said, could neither be repaired nor replaced. It remains to be sees how, in the present instance, the screw of the Great Britain may have fared ; and whether it shall be sufficiently service-worthy to carry the ship out of her dangerous quarters, when the tide shall be full enough to float her. Whilst upon this subject, it may not be out of place to observe that, the tenor of recent experiments in the United States, as well as steam-boat practice there, would seem to establish the fact that anthracite is mach superior to bituminous coal for generating steam. It was found on trials carefully made, that whereas 11b. of Lehigh anthracite evaporated 9.52-1001bs. water; the Nova Scotia bituminous coal, so highly spoke's of and esteemed, evaporated only 4.47-100. The supe riority of the anthracite results chiefly, as averred, from the superior quality of heat produced, partly from the greater facility with which the heat is brought into action. The vast quantity of smoke and gas emitted from bituminous coal carries off with it a great proportion of heat, which is so much waste. The superior speed of American river and other steamers using anthracite, is accounted for from these circumstances; and it is contended that if the same fuel were applied to Atlantic navigation, the same results of b pt‘ and economy would be attained. The anthracite coal, it is contended, is worth more than double the weight of bituminous coal (Nova Scotia) fer generating steam. It is incontestable that the American steamers attain a rate of speed much surpassing what is known here. We have received by our usual express the Paris journals of Thursday, with our private correspondence. The Montpensier marriage, and the escape of Count Montemolin, are still the two great topics of the day in Paris. The Debats accuses the Opposition of giving up the honour of the nation to party spirit, of seeking its arguments in the English newspapers. "The angry opinions," it adds, "expressed by a por tion of the English press, will find no echo in the breasts of such a wise people as the English." It concludes by saving " The Duke de Montpenaier marries in Spain; he es pouses the sister of the Queen; his marriage is glorious for the dynasty, glorious for France; it happily puts an end to the question of the marriage of the Spanish princesses, which appeared like a gauntlet suspended over Europe ; it secures two things—the triumph of constitutional principles and the perpetuity of French blood in Spain. Every one feelsand appreciates the grandeur of this alliance. The Opposition alone, in all its shades, and according to the measure of the parties which compose it, exclaim, blacken, threaten, excite the Spanish Profiressists to arms, partake in and foment the jealous spite of some foreign journals." The same journal, alluding to the rumour in Madrid that the Duke de Montpensier intends to refuse any dotation from the Cortes with his bride, says : "Great news! M. Bremen, at Madrid, has received orders to declare that the Duke de Montpenaier renounces the dotation which might be voted to his future bride! This generosity, it is said, must confound the entire opposition of Spain. It is enough, in fact, to excite ecstacies ! But let us look a little further. Ferdinand left to his two daughters 17,000,000 of piastres, which is equal to 85,000,000 francs. The Spanish treasury has hitherto assigned to the Infanta an annual provision of 250,000 f. Would it continue this to a Princess who has become a Frenchwoman? This is very doubtful, for no one can tell how the next elections for the Cortes may go. At all the events the discussion of this unpo pular marriage would be renewed. It is consequently an hypothesis which has been yielded to. But the moiety of the 8:1,000,000f. is a reality carefully preserved. Besides, in 13 years, 42,500,000 f. must have been greatly increased. This is an invincible temptation—so many derniers already securely and productively invested! What! when the Spa nish treasury is largely in arrear, and when the claimant is out of Madrid, must a regular formal demand of payment be made by a summoning officer ? Oh, tie ! no; we will behave nobly. We will relinquish the provision of 250,000 ft., and be content with the private fortune ! Why, however, is it carried to only 30,000,000 fr. ? Oh ! Queen Christina has bad the guardianship for 13 years, and the trust of 85,000,000 fr. causes much trouble. Then, Mme. Munoz has had many mis haps ; she has been running about the world ; she has S chil dren by her second husband ; she has had to bribe insurrec tions; she has been a partner in banking-houses, and one of these in Paris has lately caused her a loss of 10,000,000 fr. She also, in her turn, has been a rival in gsnerosity. Take 30,000,000 fr., and call for no account of the trust. The bar gain was so good for both parties, that it was concluded without haggling. But we have at one stroke renounced a doubtful dotation of 250,000 fr. ! Shade of Louis XIV., thou still hoverest over thy descendants!" The Presse goes on in the same strain, and is ex ceedingly angry against England. It says : " There are men amongst us whom these ignoble demon strations fill with joy, and who, although they dare not let it transpire through their lips, draw from them a satisfaction coequal with their hatred. For ourselves, we are almost inclined to do the same, but from a contrary feeling. It is good that Spain as well as France should learn what to expect from the good taste and sincerity of the demonstra tions of intimate friendship shown by England. We are convinced that in Spain, above all countries, will be felt the injuries done to that chivalrous nation in the person of the being whom it respects above all things in the universe next to God—the Queen. We arc convinced that Spain will long remember the turpitude's which have been invented in order to deliver up to the ridicule of Europe and the contempt of all posterity the Prince whom it has chosen to be the husband of its Queen, and to represent her as a fille per-due whom they have intoxicated in a night of wines, and thus dis honoured and given up to an impotent Pnnce. If this gross insult doe. , not pierce the heart of every true Spaniard we do not know this noble people." Notwithstanding what is said in the English papers of the arrival of the Count in London, and some letters asserting his having reached the coast of Spain, the French government appears ignorant as to his real movements. It appears that the escape of the Carlist pretender was prepared by the Marquis de Boissy, that impetuous peer who gives so much trouble to Duke Pasquier in the Upper Chamber, and it was from his country place near Bourgcs that the Count 3lontemolin started for Paris after dinner. It is now ascertained that an extensive plan to pro mote a Carlist conspiracy in France has been some time in operation, and that it would not have been immediately carried into execution had not the occa sion presented itself on the announcement of the Mont pensier marriage. Several chiefs of the party have been arrested at Bordeaux, whilst making preparations to effect their escape. All the leading Spanish refugee Progressists who were in Belgium left last week. The Carlist General 'toy° was arrested and confined in the citadel of Valenciennes. Colonel Nozale, a Spanish refugee, who has been for the last five years residing at Nantes, was also arrested and placed in confinement. The colonel had recently paid a visit to Bourges, and had an interview with the Count de Nlontemolin. The steam corvette Lc Castor left Toulon on the 20th, to carry urgent government despatches to the Prince de Joinville, whom she was to join in the Gulf of Spczzia. Lieutenant-General De Lamoriciere has not given up the idea of getting into the Chamber of Deputies. He will once more try his chance at Calais, where a vacancy has occurred. The Duke of Montpensier has written the follow ing letter to the Minister of Public Instruction: ' I am about, Monsieur le Miuistre, to beg you, in consideration of my marriage, to grant an additional eight days vacation to the pupils of the different colleges of the University. It will give me great pleasure in thus recalling to them, on an occasion so interesting to myself, that I have sat on the same benches, the fellow-student of their predecessors. aly brothers, from a similar feel ing, ou similar occasions solicited and obtained the same favor front your predecessors and from you. Accept, Mon sieur le Ministre, the renewed assurance of my esteem. — Your ANrotme D'ORLEANS. . The request was of course immediately complied with. The Bourse was much agitated again to-day, and another fall took place in consequence of rumours of fresh disturbances in Spain ; but this being the holi day of the Jsws, many of the leading houses did not transact any business. Our news from Madrid is of the 20th. A tele graphic despatch reached Paris on Wednesday of that date. The Spanish government had received, on the preceding day, news of the escape from Bourges of the Count de INlontemolin, and had forwarded " energetic instructions " to the Captain-General of the northern provinces. The same despatch an nounces the departure from before Cadiz of the British squadron. The discussion on the marriage in the senate ter minated on the 18th, and the marriage was voted unanimously by 114 senators. The Deputies were not to sit until Monday following. The following are the members who abstained from voting on the question of the Infanta's marriage : Senor Nocedal, Vahey-Pacheco, Salamanca, Hos do Olano, Zaragoza, Sierra Sambley, Pastor Diaz, A. Llorente, Gonzales del Pino, Nunez, Arenas, Florez Calderon, Deseartin, Quer, Lafuente, Seratin Calde ron, Seijas, Puche, Nlonreal. El Tienapo states that it was reported in the lobbies of the Chamber, that the English ambassador had re ceived from his government instructions to protest against the marriage of the Infanta with the Due de Montpensier, in the name of Great Britain. FRANCE.—INCENDIARY FIRES.—It is difficult to give an idea of the terror which pervades the country around Paris, The farmers and their men, and even the inhabitants of the villages, are on the watch at night. The Mayor of Cortrat has unhappily fallen a victim to this watchfulness. Having got up in the night to see that a farm of his was all safe, he was shot by one of his own men, who took him for a malefactor, as he did not reply to his challenge. There are little hopes entertained of his recovery ; the man has been put under arrest. DENMARK.—ALToNA, SEPT. 20.—The follow ing royal proclamation was read in the churches to-day:— " We, Christian the Eighth, by the grace of God, King of Denmark, &c. &c., to all our faithful and loyal subjects, greeting. We have been happy, after the lapse of several years, to spend our birth-day in our Duchies, in the circle of our faithful subjects. We have implored the Almighty that it may be a day of peace and of blessing. With this view, we think proper hereby to declare to all our faithful subjects, whom too many attempts have been made to mis lead, respecting the real meaning of our letters patent of the Bth of July, that it could by no means be intended to in fringe by them the rights of our duchies, or sf either of them ; on the contrary, we have promised the Duchy of Sleswig that it shall remain in its present connexion with the Duchy of Holstein, whence it follows that the Duchy of Holstein shall not be separated from the duchy of Sleswig. We were equally far, in our said letters patent, from contemplatiag any change in the incontestible relations (which were therefore not mentioned) in which our duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg are placed, as members of the Confederation, to the German Union, and the expressions contained in the letters patent respecting the duchy of Holstein are, therefore, to be un derstood as implying that we entertain the firm hope that by the recognition of the indivisibility of the Danish monarchy, the constant union with other territories, and its indivisi bility depending thereon, will be secured to our indepen dent duchy of Holstein. By the aid and blessing of God, this will come to pass, and we rely upon it that our beloved and faithful subjects will not mistake our paternal intentions, which are solely directed to their welfare. Confidence in the Prince can alone insure the peace and tranquillity ofthe coun try, and God will bless the bond of union which unites them both. Given at our palace at Ploen, on the 18th of September. ' (Signed) CHRISTIAN R., E. P. Islor,rxx.“—Our readers will remark, with joy and gratitude, from the above royal pro clamation, that it is his Majesty's gracious will that the Duchy of Holstein shall not be separated from the Duchy of Sleswig, and that the Duchy of Holstein, in particular, is declared to be an independent Duchy. Hence we perceive that every interpretation of the expression " Gesamm stoat " (collective state), which is contained iu his Majesty's letters patent, and iu the communication to the States, which seems to infringe on the position of Holstein as an indepen dent Duchy, will be considered as contrary to the will of his :Molests. His Majesty's proclamation will, therefore, certainly not fad to correct mazy notions that have been el r ad about, and to have in the Duchies a beneficial effect. The Copenhagen journals publish the postal con vention between the governments of Denmark and England. By this treaty the postage between the two countries is fixed at one penny for each sfm.le letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, and for every letter exceeding that weight the charge is to be increased according to the English rate of charges. No postage is to be charged for newspapers sent by the packets of the respective governments, but such as are conveyed by private vessels are to pay one penny a sheet. The Weser auzette says the King cannot hold a court at Pleen, as it would not be attended by the nobles. The Hamburg Gazette, of the 19th, quotes the words, " our sovereign duchy of Schleswig," made use of in a royal ordonnance of the 13th of June, 1729, to prove that at that date it was still considered as a sovereign duchy, notwithstanding the assertion that it was incorporated with the kingdom of Denmark, by Frederick IV., in 1721. The diplomatic note communicated to the Cabinet of Co penhagen by the Russian Chargi d'Affaires was also com municated to the Court of Oldenburg. The note of the Russian government coincides with the letter patent as regards Schleswig; as regards Holstein it thought it would be necessary to come first to att understanding on the sub ject with the different Agnew, which, considering their number, is nn easy task, and the resources of Denmark are not great. The cabinet of Copenhagen intends sending an ambassador-extraordinary on the subject to St. Petersburg ; and it is thought that the Orand-Duke of Oldenburg will make a proposition concerning the indemnity he is to re ceive for giving up his claims. Count de Reveutlow Criminil is pointed out as the Danish ambassador to the Russian Court. ---- THE CAUCASUS.—A bulletin from the Caucasus, dated 28th August, states that Prince Augustiuski had put to rout ten thousand mountaineers who had entrenched themselves on the mountains of Tly. On the 6th, the Prince gave orders to Msjor Origorkow to take possession of the neighbouring heights; the second column then advanced, and took possession of the mountain at the point of the bayonet. The mountaineers numbered three hundred slain. Two Russian staff officers and seventeen men were killed ; one staff officer, tight other officers, and 167 men were wounded. Different other skirmishes have taken place be. tween the Russians and the mountaineers. A sharp encounter occurred about the same date between the troops under the orders of Prince Makajew and the Lesinaus near Pendosko, in which the latter were defeated. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 9.—The Viceroy is returned from Cairo. The envoys of the Sultan was to leave on the 11th. The Viceroy was received nt Cairo with great honours. Ibrahim Pacha, accompanied by all the pachas and beys in grand costume, went to meet him at the gardens of Choubra. The city was illuminated tbr three days. Ibrahim I'acha has left on a tour to Lower Egypt, and is expected hack towards the end of the month. By the Spitfire we have since received news from Alexandria to the 4th, but there is nothing important. Sir George Arthur was on board. The Ardent, which reached Alexandria on the morning of the 11th, after a passage of five days from Trieste, was to return to that port to be at the orders of Mr. Waghorn. His Ex cellency Hermid Bey left fur Constantinople on the 10th, loaded with presents to the amount of two or three thousand pounds sterhug. MOROCCO. THE CONFLICTING POWERS. A lett: r from Toulon, of the 19th inst., mentions facts worthy of attention, the war which is on th 2 point of breaking out between Abd-eTKeder and Abderrahman, and the interven tion of France in favour of the latter. Before the return of Alxl-el.Kacta to Morocco the Emperor ibderralunan hoped to satisfy the demands of France without foreign aid, and the French Consul at Tangiers, wrote to that efilet to his Government. It was even thought fur a moment that all ,tea Ides were removed after the interview between M. Leon Roches and the Emperor at /tabat. As however recounts differed, the Marshal called M. Roches to Algiers, to sound him on the dispositions of the Emperor. Abd-el- Kader's return to Morocco upset everything. The Emir blamed the Emperor for hi, negotia ions respecting an in terchange of prisoners, and is even said to have menaced him, and it may be asserted on good authority that war between the Emperor and the Emir will soon be declared. The energy of the Emir in his preparations is extraordinary, and recruits arrive front all quarters to his standard. Abderrahman is said to have demanded the armed intervention of France, hut he merely received the permission to assemble a large body of troops on the western frontier of Algeria, so as to cut off all retreat for the troops of .tbd-el-Kader, should they endeavour to seek a refuge in the territory of Algiers. France has promised to main her ally with ammunition and warlike stores; a field battery of six guns is to be shipped at Toulon on the 25th inst. to serve in the army of the Emperor; each gun is accompanied by an artilleryman, and those men will probably enter the service of the Emperor. PERSIA.—To go from Khorawan to T)aghar, on the road to Teheran, the Aras, the Araxes of the ancients, must be crossed, hut as there are neither bridges nor ferry boats, it must be furded at a place called Klisseh, where the river is both deep and broad, and the current variable and uncertain. At this place is posted a detachment of Persian cavalry, whose duties are thus defined. When a traveller arrives with a firman, or passport, front the Government, the officer in command orders one of his men to ride into the river, and if he reaches the opposite bank, the current is considered to be fordable, and the traveller is allowed to cross with his suite. It frequently happens that the soldier is carried away by the current, and it no more seen or heard of, and the officer obliges the traveller to wait till the river becomes lower, and then the experiment is renewed. Although the favour of these trials is granted to none but personages of distinction, they are sufficiently frequent to cost the lives of nearly one•third of the detachment every year." The following document has been addressed to the collectors and officers of the customs of the United States, and which is of importance in reference to the changes about to be brought into optration in the new American tariff:— " Treasury Department, Aug. 25, 1846. " The department has been asked by merchants whether flreign goods ware, old merchandise, on which the im port duty has been paid, can be entered for exportation for benefit of drawback, and shipped to a foreign port and there landed, but with the intention of being brought back and relanded in the United States, and entry made of the same goods at the rates of duty imposed by the Tariff Act of the Stith July, 1846. " In view of this inquiry, and the important public in terests involved, it is deemed proper at this juncture to issue instructions on the subject, for the government of the officers of the customs, and for the information of merchants and others interested in the matter. " As this subject has heretofore received the consideration and deci-ion of the department, and instructions duly issued in accordance therewith, it is deemed proper at this time to recapitulate former instructions, and enjoin upon the re spective officers of the customs a strict conformity therewith. "In a circular issued by the First Comptroller, under date of the 13th of November, 1830, with the concurrence of the then Secretary of the Treasury, the following decision is communicated for the government of the officers of the customs, viz. It has been supposed by some merchants that when the duty on a certain article is reduced by law, nothing more is necessary, in order to obtain the benefit of the reduction on the previous importations of it, than merely to comply with the forma of entering and shipping it for benefit of drawback, without any intention whatever of selling, or even landing it at a foreign port, and then bringing it back to the United States, and entering it at the low rate of duty.' Such a course ' however, is considered to be totally irreconcileable with the oath which the 76th section of the collection law of March 2, 1799, requires the exporter to take, and which is in the following words.— . And the said exporter or exporters shall likewise make oath that the said goods so noticed for exportation, and laden on board such ship or vessel previous to the clearance thereof, or within 10 days (20 days allowed by the second section of the act of April 18, 1820), after such clearance, are truly intended to be exported to the place whereof notice shall have been given, and are not intended to be relanded within the Cnited States.' " " In a more recent circular from the department, dated the 29th July, 1845, in reference to Texas, but deemed spe• cially applicable to the question now under consideration, the views and directions of the department are more speci cally given in the following extracts therefrom, to wit:— " By the 80th section of the act of Congress of the 2nd of March, 1799, it is provided, ' That the collector aforesaid may refuse to grant such debenture or debentures, in case it shall appear to him that any error has arisen, or anv fraud has been committed, and in case of such refusal, if the debenture or debentures claimed shall exceed 100 dots., it shall be the duty of the said collector to represent the case to the Comptroller of the Treasury, who shall determine whether such debenture or debentures shall he granted or not.' An entry for drawback, with a view to re-importation, free of all duty, into the United States, is a fraud within the meaning of this act ; and in all such cases it is the duty of the collector to refuse the debenture certificate. In all cases where the debenture shall not exceed 100 dollars, the col lector will judge for himself, whether such fraud as is before designated is contemplated ; and, in the language of the law, 'if the de'enture or debentures claimed shall exceed 100 dollars, it shall be the duty of the said collector to represent the case to the Comptroller of the Treasury. who shall determine whether such debenture or debentures shall be granted or not.' " ' By the 7Gth section of the act of 2cl March, 1799, it is provided as follows :—' And the said exporter of exporters shall likewise make oath that the said goods, so noticed for exportation, and laden on board such ship or vessel, pre vious to the clearance thereof, or within ten days alter such clearance, are truly intended to be exported to the place whereof notice shall have been given, and are not in tended to be relanded within the United States, otherwise the said goods, wares, and merchandise shall not be entitled to the benefit of drawback. " ' If, then, in point of fact, the goods thus exported to Texas, are intended 'to be rclanded within the United States,' they are not entitled to drawback, and if relanded, are subject to seizure and forfeiture, as well as the vessel in which they are thus introduced. " ' Great vigilance will be required in obtaining ample security upon all export bonds, as those bonds may not be cancelled in any case of exportation of goods to Texas, with the privilege of drawback until the numerous and important questions arising under such bonds shall have been finally adjudicated. " ' You will in no case omit to publish in the newspapers, as now required by law, the names of all persons who shall be found guilty of the violation of the revenue laws therein prescribed, as well asto seize for forfeiture the goods, vessel, tackle, apparel, and furniture, in all such cases.' " It must he obvious from the foregoing, that the oath prescribed by law could not be taken by an exporter, and the goods so exported be relimdcil in the L. nited States, without l eated 72o, su c h subjecting ,aid exporter to the pehalti eselibed. far). jury, and the to forfeiture. An entry or drawback, with a view to the _h.,. tion of the goods at the lower duty, into the 1.7 ni n ted j" . is a fraud within the meaning of the 80th e eet i of he Marcheac th t e of eoure n 2, is the duty of the collector to refuge the debent ure quoted, of the 29th July, 1845. circular c q a u t o c ted o; the "M. J. WALIOnt, Secretary of the Trea t :. COLONIAL. CANADA.—The Montreal Herald say e . American Drawback Bill, and the reduction " tion afforded to Canadian prod uce i s already felt her e e e many of our merchants are preparing to establi s h - selves at New York. On the other hand, some of th e C. informed persons amongst us en t erta i n the most;_"" hopes of benefit from the chan ge i n th e B ritish ,p r --.."! policy. These persons believe that our under the old regime were more than counterba ~ laze by the restrictions imposed upon U 3, and th e y sire nothing more than to have the free tr a d e fairly carried out, no that we may have our 11114 .1.- -war of the profits. Meetings have already; been held by t i„ Montreal Board of Trade, and jointly by the Toronto li ee — jt of Trade and Agricultural Society, at which the rep ea l the Imperial differential duties, the repeal of the Is. frai . t .: duty on American wheat, the modification of the Be Navigation Laws, and the o p en i ng of the St. La m ‘r ,Z have been dwelt upon as essentially necessary to th,,,„. perity of the country. It will be remarked, th at au Omi t measures, except the second, and purely imperial once there is no doubt that active means will b e speedil y us ' e r,. bring them under the notice of the British Government..* CAPE OF GOOD 110PE.—A private lette r h a been received in Southampton from Port Elizabeth dat e d J heK uly 11 affir , from war which is extracted the following, re l at i ng t : sr My own occupations have been much interrupted M the elm, turtate Kaffir war. Though the sun of war is at lest 101.1 auk, e n* here, yet the Kaffir. have penetrated to within 20 anles of us, am oonsequence of there being a large depart of gunpowder here, mli ie n not been without our apprehensions that we m a y same ni.ht tea m prised by a large body of these marauders. To prevent . • large bodies of the inhabitants and lingoes have, M tarns. -g Parall e l round the town every night, and part of every w ee k is der a l m ili tary training. In addition to this, the town has hem 4rept to constant agitation from this large number of Burghers arra., b, sea from the Cape district, on their w a y to wit ~ There is no saying when or how the war is likely goinm, to teram ar. It rs, only now collected a force of 14,010 men, and gnu thr h a menu are spoken of. Unless the ammunition or the Bura;J, fall short, lam not very sanguine as to the result. Mi t a most to fear is a poor patched up peace, be which the mk t , ,4 be subjected every seven or ten years to the like diugruur a m , the part of the Barbra, from which we hare been so lung is surfer*, It true that the available force which the governor has a mesas ' much larger than ever the !Ultra had to cuntend with \Am ppR they are a cunning and politic rape of people, and they their impenetrable forests and fastnesses in the mountains, mei; a aort of guerilla warfare for years. It is true the gam, has a force strong enough to annihilate the Erftlrs, be h t must catch them Best. Judging from the past, MX Ireolld he ix not likely to do so so soon. The fact is, and it is no ure 1.4 guise it, that up to the present time the Karlin have eumpktm % generallml the English. The English have born harramed lo g marches to try to catch them, but it has led to nothing, meanly., one or two occasions, where they caught them in an open killed about 300 of them. In airman all other can, the Karlin Ey succeeded, certainly at the cost of many of their lives, but therea t little for a few lives, provided they secure a good bogy. Ile h t , gher forces, in defending their property, have shown the m at bravery. The "'Bigamy have mond most valuable allies to the Makk and in same caws the Hottentots have distinguished themselves the tro o ps—he regular troops—what have they done ! Why, ea st int the molltary instance above mentioned, just nothing at all I. l * mk indignantly ward use are they, excepting to abut therms. up in their forts The observations in the public pun are very cutting, and I should think there is warmly a who does not smart under the castigation. One oth,:r is to he vie by a emirtmartial for losing 40 wagons he was escorting. TM u m du not like bush-fighting, but it would be madness for Earliest.) am Meru in upon field. We wait, however, fur the nest two er tit weeks. It is scarcely possible to conceive the distress oec Mond is the war already; fani-o ruined, whole districts lii 1 in mho. j great ti at of the dilliculty consists in furnishing tire troops with a. Large escorts are indispensable. A few weeks ago,. k., dyed wagons were sent with provisions, ammunition, lac., with a orwrt of 1,000 urea. It had to be conveyed Iron, this plan ably roads, abounding in bush where the Kakis lie nidden, fur a Minim of 1341 miles." \AN DIEMEN'S LAND.—By the packet-ship Royal George, which arrived yesterday, after a very quiet passage, advices and papers have been received from Vu Diemeu's Land to the 14th of May. The sittings of as Legislative Council had been adjourned until the 20th d May, when the report of commissioners on the new propoS. Bons fur constituting courts of justice at Norfolk laud, would be laid before that assembly. In the meantime the unpopularity of Sir Eardley Wilmot, the governor, enamel to be on the increase, and strong rumours were in &winos that the representations of the members of the late councl would have great weight with the authorities of the Colonial oilier, and that the next despatches from Downiusestreet would bring the necessary instrument for his excellency's re. call. In the words of one of the journals, regarding Itis excellency, it is said, " Never did a governor personally offend so many individuals as Sir Eardley Wilmot has door, and all by pettiness of temper. With any one of the ex councillors he is on terms of personal hostility, in come• quence of their public conduct, and we should be ashamed to relate iu what manner this feeling has been exhibited to wards one of them. It may be here seen that those who perform their duty as unto their Maker, but not unto man, can disregard enmity and malice, even though it may be armed with power, and they can smile at it just as man as though it may have the plausible aspect of justice put upon it by the instrumentality of any magistrate or board" A strong memorial had been presented to Sir Eardley ma and the Ilegidatlve Council from a large body of the moat respectable residents of Hobart Town, praying forty adoption of an institution for the education of the youth el the colony in classical and mathematical learning. " That tas objects of such a school should be to impart instruction nth, more advanced branches of an English education, in models languages, in Latin and Greek, and in mathematical sad physical science. But that it was indispensable for tit success of the institution that it should be open to all ChM and denominations of the community." To this represent. tion an answer had been received from Lord Stanley, is which his lordship states that " if such a school were esta blished at Hobart Town, or at any more convenient place is the colony—and if when so established it should appear to be justly entitled to assistance from the public revenue, there would be on the part of her Majesty's government every disposition to afford that assistance to the extent of the reve nue at their disposal, which could properly be so applied." The answer has given great satisfaction. The Malcolm car ries home a large quantity of the finest copper ore perhaps ever imported into Britain from Australia, with several spe cimens of goid ores. A grand public entertainment was given on the 2nd to Dr. Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania, and addresses were presented to him on his departure from the colony for England. The reply of the bishop was highly characteristic of that functionary, and was warmly received. The right rev, prelate has since delivered an energetic charge to the clergy of the colony. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—By arrivals from Freemaatle we learn that the new Governor of Westen Australia, Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Clarke, K. 11.. formerly Governor of St. Lucia, arrived at his new scat of government on the 26th January, on board the ship Cumberland, from London. His Excellency was accompanied by Ids lady, Mal Jackson, Mrs. Forbes, and Mrs. Arden. On the occasion of his Excellency reaching Perth he is said to have conducted himself with the greatest urbanity, accompanied by a gentle manly deportment which won the favourable opinion of all. J. Hutt, Esq., the late governor, left the colony for England in her Majesty's ship Fly. He was accompanied to the jetty by the principal part of the inhabitants, and embarked under • salute of' 17 guns from Arthur's Head, and the hearty cheers of those assembled to bid him farewell. 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Pruning for transplantatisn Pushing eye, spring treatment of dwarf shoots from Roses, different sorts on the same stock iteshort list of desirable sorts r l isaddlng with a pushing eye Published at Tax GARDENER Cbarr rk:" Oda. 1. Upper Welling krIANDIX. A !election of varieties Comparison between Molding end grafting. e CRItONICLT AND AOSICOLTVILAL LODAirellt. COVOD‘lardeD, London. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EYENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1846. Zile Conn. - WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen, Prince Albert, the Princess of Prussia, and all her Majesty's visitors, except the Queen Dowager, with the usual ladies and gentlemen in waiting, walked to Adelaide-cottage this morning, returning to the castle in pony carriage.. The Earl of Clarendon left the castle this morning for town. The Earl of Denbigh also took his departure to-day. Earl Howe is expected to arrive at the castle on a visit to her Majesty. The Queen will give a grand dinner this evening in the Waterloo Chamber. The royal party is expected to include her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal High ness the Princess of Prussia, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of - Mecklenburg Strelits, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Duke of Wellington, the Lady in Waiting to the Queen Dowager, the Countess Haack, the Dowager Lady and the Hon. Miss Lyttelton, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Viscount and %"iscountess Palmerston, Earl Howe, the Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount Clifden, Lord Edward Howard, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Count Pucklcr, Count Witzleben, Sir George and Lady Couper, Miss Couper, and Colonel Wylde. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attend during dinner, and her Majesty's private band afterwards perform in the castle. The Queen will hold a Prig- Council to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, at three o'clock, at the castle. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'c•lock yester day afternoon at the official residence of Lord John Russell in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhousc, Lord Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town in the forenoon from Ilickleton-hall, Doncaster, to attend the meeting. The Earl of Clarendon and Viscount Palmerston arrived from Windsor. The Council sat two hours and a half. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Earl of Denbigh had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-of ice. Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius, and also from the Governor of Van Diemen's-land, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Viscount Palmerston, yesterday afternoon, returned to Windsor Castle. lA/RD CAMPISELL.—IIis lordship is making a short visit, with Lady Stnitheden and his family, to the estate ho lately purchased near Jedburgh, from the family of Lord Glenlee. His lordship has restored the ancient name of this place. It was in early times created into a barony by the name of Hartrigge, with jiisso elAmu, or ‘• pit and gallows," and was so called till the reign of Queen Anne, when it became the property of a gentleman of the name of Stuart, who changed it into "Stuartfield."—Cakdonian Mercury. r Dow tpointed e neral Reid, E vernor a Grenada wander the 14 1 the Seri Comma Mope. the diftg dece.e, dep. ron, M.' from 255 n•t. etuff-mi be etalf. G. W. I . Nieto' Lu: °laic the C lt 31 tender to who money the pr h butts other form. prote pt• of RI recis p ert. , the 1,, alio ward! Lisht At tli bold* Au ri,ll Mu pu .04 TI fu st si O I, 1 i i