The Express. — London, England, 1859-03-24 00:00:00

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It m►y, indeed, be true that a MT . . • ten eupertietal metion of the middle Cl4/01111, rendered selfish by excessive wealth, and subservient by occa- atonal contact with those who ars socially above them, would rally to the standard of resistance, and . . ;bum; the opulence and influence acquired in corn- merce or in trade to thwart the enfranchisement of laborious industry. And it may be true that, scat tered up and down a land so populous and indus triously diversified u ours, individuals, or even groups of individuals, may be found needy or mean enou,ch to Iced themselves to the work of faction at the bidding of those whose motives they do not passe to scan. and whom they are accustomed, without well knowing why, to call " their betters... Hot the thoughtful, intelligent, enterprising, self- . _ reliant bulk of the middle ;lame ars no more to be wheedled or bullied into joining a crusade against the wor►ing population, u such, than they are to ha caught by the fluttering ribands of a recruiting ser geant, or captivated by his fife and dram. Enlist ment, whether foe political or military service, is not a popular word in their vocabulary. They have not been brought up to wear any man. badge, and nothing but the manifest sense of national danger would reconcile any large proportion of them to don even for a day the . QuEem's livery. To be crimped, and drilled, and told to march at the bidding of a churlish, overreaching, and bigotted oligarchy against the mass of their neighbours, customer., clients, and working hands, is just about the last thing in the whole world that they could be per suaded to do. Their strongest interests and their best feelings, their most venerated traditions ►nd their deepe►t prejudices, concur to render them invin cibly averse to any proceeding of the kind ; and should the experiment be practically tried, the re- Mat will signally verify what we say. The middle classes, to whom electoral power was given by the Reform Act of l"12, are not, indeed, exempt from the oreseciousness or love of power. But the lees that makes us jealous and tempts us to be unjust must he associated with a vivid perception of the value of what we prize, or a vivid realisation of the fact that we either do or may exclusively pewee it. And if the present House of Common. were really chosen equally and fairly by electoral circles of Ten Pound Householders, so that every man amongst them should be made practically to feel that he exercised a certain and definite con trolling power over the most potent assembly in the world, we might perhaps entertain a fear lest a grudging spirit should render them unwilling to enlarge their numbers,ancl so diminish theiroollective and individual iufluenee. But it is admitted on all bands that no such state of facts has any existence. One-third of the members of the House of Commons are confessedly appointed and sent thither by mem bers of the House of Lords. Another third are re- turned, home by their own influence u landed pro prietors, some by their money as jobbers, and some by a combination of influences in which the free and independent suffrages of the few Ten Pound electors that vote in the various small boroughs is decidedly the least important. We fear we are far exceeding the mark if we say, for argument sake, that the remainder of the 220 are returned bone Ma by majorities consisting of middle-class men. It would puzzle us exceedingly to name anything like that number of gentlemen in the present Parliament who we could honestly say we believed had been so returned. So that instead of the present electoral class possessing, or fancying that they ponces, that predominant power in the State which her MAlLsrel Ministers would fain cajole them into fancying they do, they are not after all able to hold their own, or anything like their own, with the greedy and grasping few, who, now that their political craft is in danger, modestly call on the Tea Pound electors to make common cause with them is defending it. Common cane ! There is none, and they know it ; and so do we. There is not a borough in England, Ireland, or Scotland whose representa tion during the last five-and-twenty years the aristocracy could filch from the middle class, that they have oat recklessly seized and shed is their own: and as for the counties, Lord DEntiv himself has put upon record the impudent declaration that if you but tell him to which West-end Club most of the large landowners belong, he can tell you unerringly whet are the members. Had oligarchy kept up thel semblance of justice or fair dealing with the electoral body, it might now with a better grace call on that body to come to the reenact of its doomed prerogatives. But neither in the selection of candidates nor in the mode of voting has there been ever the show of regard for public opinion ; and of the party that now in despair cheer with frantic vociferation the elevation of their new standard of " Middle Class Monopoly" there an not perhaps • nore who have been re turned to Parliament by the unbiassed or spon taneous choice of middle-class men. Nor is this all. Granting, for argument sake, that one in every three of our present representatives owes his return in a greater or lees degree to the genuine influence of the industrious portion of the community en fran ebised in 1832, what portion of that community is by just distribution and division of electoral rights made to value, or enabled to feel its power? Is it not admitted on all hands that, by the preposterous inequality of constituencies, and the excessive size of many of them, all sense of the value of the franchise is individually lost ; and that thousands and tens of thousands of ten-pound houae holders in large towns have long abandoned the thought of exercising an apparently melees privi lege ! Will these men turn oat and fight for the exclusive possession of that which they habitually spurn as worthless ? Or will the independent minority of a country town, who have found them selves,: because of their fewness, overborne and set at defiance by the menials of "My Lord" or the vassals of " Sir John," feel that it is for their advantage to keep up the exclusion of their five pound neighbours, with whose aid they might pro bably emancipate their borough ? But truly has it been said that hypocrisy is the late-born child of wrong. Whatever is active, energetic, and thoughtful in the electoral mind of England regards with just and bitter re sentment the way in which the aristocracy has systematically cheated and baffled the nominally powerful classes, whom now it calls on to take close order in opposition to expansion and pro reel Its flatteries and professions of friendship come too late. Had they been earlier they might have been deemed kind, and thereby made some dupes. Now they will deceive nobody. The edu cated, frugal, inventive, and orderly men of the working classes are our natural allies, whose aid we have long desired to obtain, and whose participation in the privileges we ourselves panne we feel it to be our interest as well as our duty by every legiti mate means to facilitate. We don't want to be swamped, but we don't fear being so. There is not ' the least danger of too much bi ing conceded to waged labour, or humble householding. The only danger is that there will be too little. Titt probable li.cale of the projected Congress is an airy topic for the diplomacy of dinner tables at the present moment. Of the great capitals of Europe, London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg are all more or less neutral cities, but they arc all the capi tals of great Powers, end therefore, it should seem, ineligible. Brussels is gravely objected to for fear of the fascinations of au Austrian Duchess, and the choice now lies, we are told, between Genera, the Hague, and Aix-la-Chapelle, but Aix is the favourite. That spacious little town, with its Brunnen and _ . Casino so dear to English tourists, has the advantage of being easily accessible, and of excellent hotels; for the dining sleeping accommodation is a mat ter of European importance when the digestion and • repots of Plenipotentiaries are in question. Genera is declared to be too far off, and though its hotels are excellent, itsmountains are a bad "point of view" for men who meet in the spirit of the " immortal " MALMDBURT, not as poets but as politicians. All these considerations are very pretty gossip, but a far more serious question foe well-wishers to mankind is, on what thesis is the Congress to deliberate ? Is it to ratify, or to revise the Treaties of 1813 ? If to ratify, to ratify the infractions, or the remains of the Treaty ? If to revise, where is the revision to begin and end' If the possession of Lombardo-Venetia is to be guaranteed afresh to Austria, will England, or France, or Russia be a consenting party to such a guarantee? If Lombardo-Vene tia is to be conveyed away from Austria, " • will Austria consent ? In either cue, will the peace of Europe be secured ? The more closely we examine the questions about to be submitted to • Congress the more doubtful and difficult any satis factory solution appears. Italy, no doubt, and Pied mont can only gain by diecussion, whether in a Con gress or before all the world ; but it is not certain that a Congress can untie what the sword may cut through. In noticing Count Bvoi, elaborate statement of Austrian grievances spinet Piedmont the other day, we took occasion to suggest that it needed an Austrian dictionary to make it intelligible to the undiplomatic world in general. Signor however, has taken the trouble to supply a glossary to the language of the Austrian Chancery, and though he writes in very choice Italian, it will be very difficult, we imagine, even for the meet in genious of the IIaCONSOTe of MerreaNteu to dispute the data which the eminent publicist has been permitted to extract from the royal archives at Turin. The diplomatic correspondence which 'sustains his argument dates, it should be remembered, from a time when Piedmont, if not Austrian in sympathy, was certainly not opposed to Austria in sys tem and forms of government, and was as little disposed as Austria herself to provoke liberal movements in the Peninsula. These docu ments, which Signor PARINI takes pains to quote, " chapter end verve," indicate a most unmistakeable grievance on the part of Austria against Piedmont, and it is a grievance of that plain and practical cha racter which the simplest minds can appreciate. It is the sort of grievance every man who is obliged to ase his legs as a conveyance feels against his tellow .. creature who drives a gig ; it is the grievance which a man who has a limited and precarious income feels against the wretch who revels in a large landed estate the grievance which SMITH feels against JONES, but for whose bit of ground, so awkward and so tempt ing, his property would be all in a ring fence. It is the highly respectable grievance which we have read of in the Old Testament, and which crops oat pretty often in ancient and modern history. Pied most has been very much in the way of Austria for a good many years, even when her " system" would have been pronounced temperate by the thermo meters of Vienna. As far back as 1816, just a year after the Treaty of Vienna bad tattled Europe, Austria sought to deprive the King of PUDIC:INT of the Upper Novara'', and Prince Mcreitanten wrote to London that " nukes the Upper Novarese, " or at least the province of Dome d'Ossola, were to " be united to the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, the " fortress of Piacenza would be an insufficient pro " teetion, because if the King of SARDINIA were to " be allied with France he would always be able to " invade Lombardy." "In like manner," writes Signor FARIN I, Austria designed to make new sequisitions in " Italy, believing that the stipulations of 1811 which " had been just concluded might be altered for her " advantage." At that time Austria was engaged iii promoting a confederation of the Italian States under her sovereign patronage, not to say suzerainty, and Lord CASTLEREAGH recommended the Sardinian Government to secede to the confederation in order that Austria might be induced to desist from her pretensions to the Upper Novenae. It is worthy of remarkatthie moment, when it anneal' that proposes a Commas for the discussion of the Italian question, that it was ALI:KANDER L who, in 1816, resisted the Austrian proposals, both as to the Upper ' Nevares., ard as to the Confederation of the Italian States, on the ground that they were encroachments THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1859: met the teepee& settlement established by the Treaty of IBIS. If ALEXANDER 1., the head and chief of the Holy Alliance, resisted Austrian designs on the territorial integrity of Piedmont, and Austrian designs on the political neutrality of the independent States of Italy, within one year after the Treaty of Vienna, *hat will be the initiative of the liberal and reform ing ALEXANDER IL in the Congress of 1869, when the grievances of Austria are confronted with the designs of Piedmont? If, within one year after the ratification of the Treaty of 1815, Austria was implicitly accused of tampering with its stipulations, with what grace can Austria come forward de son tort in 1859 to demand the strict observance of the faith of treaties on her own behalf exclusively Signor FARINI, armed with the royal archives, which, no doubt, like the little boys' fists in Dr. Warrs' verse, were never meant to tear the eyes of diplomatists, proves to demonstration that the " modern theories of public law " which Count BUOL severely imputes to Sardinia have been lite rally not the theory only, but the practice of Austria, from 1816 to 1848, and from 1848 to the present day. Let us listen for a moment to the doctrine of one of the most eminent Professors of international law and diplomatic morality that ever debauched the conscience of kings and scourged the happiness of nations. In January, 1821, Prince Marramts, writing to the Duke of MODENA, excuses himself in this wise :—" If in July last Austria had only bad " upon the Po a disposable armed force of 20,000 " men, we should immediately have caused them to " move upon Naples; we should doubtless have " extinguished the revolt ; and the world " would hare applauded our success, as in " the long run it always applauds every success." Who would have thought that a Myrrnixica could be so naff in his cynicism ? Probably the despatch of which Signor FARINI cites an authentic copy was not meant for public criticism ; Austrian notes are not usually composed in so debrailie a style; but as a specimen of the moral philosophy current in the keries of Vienna the words we have italicised n inestimable contribution to public opinion on the Italian question. In Tuscany, at Naples, in Parma, in Modena, in the Legation', in the Marches, at the Vatican, Austria has exercised a constant moral, and an almost continuous military intervention ; she has treated the text of the Treaty of Vienna as musical composers treat a theme for variations; she has violently protested against, if not forcibly put down, all attempts to introduce civil reforms; again and again she has declared that she would rather go to war with Europe than suffer liberal institutions to exist in her neighbourhood ; and when we find Prince METTERNILIi in 1830 regretting that he could not march on Paris to extinguish constitutional Govern ment on the Continent once for all, we are at no loss to conceive the satisfaction with which Count BUOL serenely contemplates the policy of Count CAVOUR. It is not because a little State with a population of five millions, squares its fists and cries " come on, that a power like Austria is uneasy and incensed; it is because the free institutions happily and securely established in Piedmont poetess an inherent force of expansion and a vital faculty of assimilation which all the bayonets of Austria can neither pre vent nor control. It is the Sardinian, as opposed to the Austrian, system that gives all Italy a share in the destinies of Piedmont, and to Piedmont a share in the destinies of all Italy. It is the Sardinian system that must be disavowed or sustained by England at the Congress. be court. OSBORNE, MARCIE 23. Her Hajesty'd dinner party yesterday evening in cluded the Duchess of Kest, the Princess Alio', Lady Foamy Howard, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, and Colossi F. A Cabinet Council was held at five o'clock yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers preeeut were:—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwick., Mr. Secretary Sotheron-Estcourt, the Earl of Malmesbury, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakingtoo, and Lord Jahn Manners. A d•potation from the parish of All Hallows. Harkins, in the city of London Union, roaring of Mr. T. Turnbull and Mr. J. Ring (churchwardens), Messrs. B. Corooran, J. Young, jun., W. Oarreq, H. W. Ward, C. C. Corner (sOicitor), and O. Cre•too (vestry oink), had an interview with the Right Hon. the liar) of March yesterday, at the ofil , e of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall. A deputation from the Greed Junction Canal Company and the Duke of Bridgewatet's Trustees had as interview with Lord Loraine yesterday, at the alike of the Board of Trade. The cl.puta , ion coosiated of Mr. Or. Anderson (chairman), lion. Philip Pleydell Barer* M.P., Admiral the Hon. Arthur Duncomte, M.P., Mr. John Gordon Robots, Mr. Cheeks Roars (gemetegy), Hem. Alger= Ere ton. and Mr. Pereday tl Despatches was slat from the Colosial-emus yesterday to the Governors of the settherate on the West Coast of Attics Viscountess Palmerston had a brilliant assembly lad crating at Cambridge Hones. Pmioaely to the seam- My the noble viscount and viscoaatass entertained at dinner the Countered Shaftesbury sad Lady Victoria Ashley, Lord and Lady &alley of Alderley, Lad sad Lady Karla Ash ley, Load Sadeley, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right 800. William Cowper, M.P., sad Mrs. Cowper, the West Roe. R. Vernon Smith, M.P., earl Mtn. Smith, the Right Hos. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P., Hr. Charles Cliffosd, M.P., &o. The Countess of Hardwick* was " at home " last evening at the family macsioa In Portmen.smare. The Marchioness of Downshirs had an assembly on Tumdry sight, at the Canny 11111111d012 In Itolgtave-eqsare. . . Major-General the Right Hon. J. and Lady Alice reel Marked a distingrestred circle at dinner last evening at the family mansion in Park-place, 81. James's. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Smyth Vereker received at dinner yesterday, at their residence in Clinker's-plan, the Earl and Countess of Erroll, the Casale's of Bongoes sad Lady Lades Cony, Viscount Ranelagh, Lord Reties dale, 84 Cornwallis mad Lady Caroline Ricketta, Lord and Lady Elitank, Colonel and Mra. Hogg, Mr. and Mies Vin cent, 84 Henry Connell, and Mr. Woodford. • The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford were hoeoured by the company at dinner last evening of their royal bight:ewe the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at the noble sod inroad lord's family residence in Eaton-square. Their royal highnesses arrived at eight o'ciock, at•endd by Lady Augusta Cadogas and Lieutenant . . - Colonel Home naves. There wen present to meet the royal gas-te his e:oslleucy the Premien Minister and the Coaster Bemotorff, his excellency H. 'Van de Weyer, the Earl and Cockatoos of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley, the Berl of Hoidwicke sad Lady Elisabeth Yorke, the Ertl of EUealorouah, the Hall of Carnarvon, the Hon. Frederiok Lyn, ke. The royal dacha* sad princess retired shortly before eleven o'clock. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladetooe, M.P., and MN. Gleams*, entertained at d last erestag, at unit resides°, on Carlton HOSee-terrete, the Neapolitan exiles Signor Settembrini and Signor Speventa. There 'sere also present the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Earl a Carlisle, the Earl of Sonthesk, Lord and Lady Overages', the Right Hon. Jaynes Stain Wortley, Sir Walter and Lady James, Mr. E. Ellice, M.P., and Mrs. Elite,, Limits, and Mr. Pan;:zi. A select circle attemlaid later fa the evening, several of the Neapolitan gentlemen helm farm the visitor,. We learn that the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MX., will take the chair at the anniversary dinner of the Loyal Literary Fond, aaed for Wednesday, the 18th of May seat. The anniversary festival of the Royal General Tbearkal Fund will 1,, held on the 18th of mat swath, Mr. Charles Mathews in the chair. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CONGRESS. (ET FCTILUITNE AND Darnell TELIOILLPi) PARIS, TxrasnAT, The Mositsur states that the cabinets of Loudon and Berlin have agreed to the proposition of a Con gress. The reply of the cabinet of Vienna is not yet known. PIEDMONT. A Paris letter in the Nord states that the Sar dinian Cabinet has addressed a communication to the Ave great powers strongly insisting on being al lowed to take part in the deliberations of any con gress on affairs of Italy. A Turin letter states that twelve convents at Genoa have been cleared of their inmates in order to allow the premises to be employed for quartering troops in cue of need. . . The indspendentc of Turin announces the arrival there of the two sons of M. nixie, for the purpose of engaging themselves as volunteers in the Pied montese army. " The inhabitants of Leghorn," says the Opinions of Turin, " had intended making a demonstration in honour of the volunteers proceeding to Piedmont; bat on receiving a prohibition from the police an. thorities they renounced their project, declaring that they could not think of running the risk of any disturbance when all in Italy ought to be united." TURIN, WZDNIIIDLT, MARCH 23. On the 21st inst. a picket of Marian cavalry Grossed the Ticino, for the purpose of exploring the frontiers opposite Pavia, which done they rubes quently returned to that town. To-day the annual commemoration of the Pied montese soldiers slain at the battle of Novara, in 1549, was celebrated in the cathedral. The ceremony was solemnised in the most impressive manner. The Ministers of State, deputations from parlia ment, the officers of the Sardinian army and of the National Guard, the students of the university, and the immigrants from other parts of Italy were present. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. crawl ova owic PARIS. WISDNIIIIIAT EVINDIG. It is dated that the Emperor of Austria has made Lord Cowley a Orand Cross of the Order of Leopold— a distinction which has been conferred on no other foreign ambassador but M. de Bourqueney. The Bourse opened with some firmness, principally on the ground that the report of a fall of 2 per cent. in Vienna Metaßios yesterday was ascertained to be false. It was, however, on the strength of a despatch assumed to be authentic, dated that they had declined 1 per cent. to-day ; and the Rents after some oscillations left off in avery unsettled state at yesterday's prima. Mobilier rose Mr. 75e. There was very little change in railway quotations ; two or three lines were about Mr. higher. The inauguration of the railway from Rome to Civita Vecchia, which was announced for April 1, _ . has been postponed to the 13th or 20th. It is now said that only the pontifical authorities and the foreign ambassadors will be invited on the occasion. The Ittdependanee says that, from advices received at the Ministry of the Interior, it is to be feared that M. Migeon (after the new decree against bear lag foreign titles without permission which was issued on purpose to meet his case, we must no 'eager call him Count Migeon) will be elected for the Hant Rhin by a larger majority than before. The election is fixed for March 26. I have so seldom of late found myself able to speak in terms of praise of any act of the French government, that I feel it quite a relief to shake off, for once, the character of a fault-tinder, and to give my humble opinion that M. Delangle's report on the subject of dissenting chapels redounds very much to his credit. It is difficult to contest M. Delangle's logic when he says that the principle of liberty of conscience proclaimed by French institutions does not mean that any and every sect is entitled to open chapels for public worship without the consent of the government. Dissenters cannot reasonably ex pect greater privileges than those enjoyed by the catholicr, who are the majority in France, and, as the report observes, Napoleon 1., in his concordat, expressly stipulated that no parsonage, church, chapel of ease, &c., could he established in France without the consent of the government. He frankly repudiates the theory that, under the specious pretext of religious liberty, any class of citizens are "absolutely irresponsible and superior to the state," and exempt from police regulations in regard to public meetings. But after having thus vindicated the jurisdiction of the state, he recommends the Emperor to emancipate dissenters from the "local prejudices" of mayors and prefects, and to refer the consideration of every application for leave to open a new chapel to tie Council of State. This is a great boon to the dissenters. However much the present organi sation of the Council of State may be open to criticism it is at least a more enlightened, if not a more inde pendent tribunal than the local authorities, who have lately in very many instances wantonly abused their power. Protestants who have been prevented from meeting together for religious worship, because the prefect's wife happened to be an instrument in the hands of the catholic bishop, may now " fly from petty tyrants to the throne," with good ground to hope that their religion will be no conclusive bar between them and justice. I firmly believe it to be the intention of the Emperor, for the present at least, to act equitably towards the protestants, and to refuse the authorisation of chapels in ( where it may be desired to open them in a spirit of opposition to his government, or for purposes of private speculation, and not for bona fide religious worship. I have indeed heard it objected that the notoriety of an application to the Council of State will in practice serve to put the catholic party, which is strong and well organised, on the alert, and enable them in every case to pre. pars a formidable opposition. Ido not, however, think that the Council of State will readily listen to arguments prompted by religious hostility. The members of that body are not individually suspected of much bigotry, and, for the moment, jesuitism— witness the daily lamentations of the Unirers—M not predominant in the Emperor's councils. The Debate, which has taken a leading part in telling public attention to protestant grievaners, accepts the new measures as a valuable boon which entitles government to tne gratitude of all cleans of dis senters. The I)::bats of to-day mays:—" The aged Primo March, whose nnespeeted elevation to the throne of genii Wed to disturb Humps at a monseet when the affairs of Indy bed changed the earnest of public attennon, doss we mom Melina t, long eojoy his crows. He is believed to be awe death, and his ern is actively tekhg the useenary lIIIISSONII to soma him, slam& the Porte bee sae rang- Weed the hereditary right of this family totbegineent of &Ma." THE UNITED STATES. (IT XLGXITIC reLzamno (mom ova OWN 001 LIVERPOOL, THIII3DIY. The steamer city of Baltimore, from New York on the 12th, has arrived, bringing 135 passengers, and 184,000 dollars specie. On the 14th she paned the steamer City of Washington hence for New York. The steamer Arabia reached Boston on the 11th, and the North Briton arrired at Portland on the same day. The news is unimportant. The extraordinary session of the Senate closed on the 10th. The 'prospects of an extra session of congress continued Ito be =roamed. An attempt had been made to burn down the state-house of Musachuaetts at Boston during the sitting of the legislature. There was great excite ment, and both houses adjourned for a time. The flames were extinguished before much damage was done. The incendiary escaped detection. The statement that Mr. McLane, the new minis ter to Mexico, had received orders to recognise the Juarez of Miramon government is said to be wholly unfounded. Money continued very easy. Sterling exchange inactive, but firm at previous rates. Stock market irregular, but closed firm, and tending upwards. Latest prices—Erie shares, 11; New York,Contral, 601; Illinois Central, 69; ditto Bonds, 91. Coffee firm. Cotton , active, and again Ic. dearer; middling uplands, 121 c. Flour dull, and 100. to 15e. lower. Wheat and corn rather dearer. Spirits of turpentine excited an advance to 63c. Iron dull. Beef and pork firm. Lard dull. Tobacco firm. Freights dull and unchanged. New ORLEANS, 10.—Cotton very active and stiffer, under the Arabia's news. Sales to-day, 27,000 bales middling 111. PORTUGAL. (PION OVA OWN LISBON, )(ARCH 17. On the 16th instant, after the opening of the session of the Cortes, the Marquis de Louie declared that in view of the difficulties attending the defini tive sonstitution of the Cabinet, the Ministers had tendered their resignation to the King, which had been accepted, and that the Duke de Teroeira had been entrusted with the formation of a new Ministry. This change cannot be attributed to the opposi tion which the Ministry encountered on the question of the concession of the railway to Sir S. M. Peto, for the Cabinet appears to have fallen t victim to internal decay—having dwindled down to two or three members, and having been unable to recruit its ranks. It is known that the Duke de Terceira has bees entrusted with the formation of a new Ministry. The fall of the Louie administration cannot be much regretted ; it was never very efficient, and latterly it had become utterly incapable. It was generally thought that the King kept the Marquis de Loul€ at the head of affairs because he found him a convenient medium for governing, and certainly one with so obtrusive energy or originality of idea. As matters stand people think it probable that the new ministry may pass the railway question at once, considering that the opposition has been more to the ministers than to the measure. Delay and intrigue, however, will do much to obstruct this really decided step in the path of progress, and keep this country still at the tail of Europe. The Viscount de Si da Bandeira is very seriously indisposed, suffering, I believe, from liver complaint, and it is said some fears are entertained that the re sult may be fatal. The King and the Infantes Dom John and Luiz visited the viscount the ether day. The Portuguese ship of the line Vasco dos Game has arrived, on her return voyage from Loanda, whither she was despatched with omelets. During the passage home a fire broke out in the forecastle, but it was speedily extinguished. The weather still continues warm and dry, and the farmers are hoping for rain. As far as I can learn, the Ministry has been con stituted as follows: President of the Council, War and Foreign Affairs, Duke de Terceira; Interior, Signor Fortes; Finance, Caul ltibeiro ; Justice, Martens Fermi ; Public Works, Pimento,' Marine, Signor Ferreira. The exchange on London for this packet fell again to 633 at 90 days date, owing to the scarcity of paper ; money, however, was not abundant at that rate, the greater part of the buyers having held out for 64, and business closed with paper over at the former rate. On Paris a considerable amount has been done ; but on the other continental places the rates are nominal, little or no paper offering. The quotations are as follows :—London, 30 days sight, 631; 90 days date, 63i ; Paris, 3 months date, 632; Genoa, 528 ; Amsterdam, 42i; Hamburg, 48. The stock market has been lull, and since the ministerial crisis the dealers have lowered their rate of buying, but will not, however, sell below last packet's prices. The quotations are as follows : Three per Cent. Registered stock, 47 to 47}; ditto Coupons, 46 to 48}; D e ferred, 311 to 311; Bank of Portugal shares, 61 to 61 per cent. premium ; and Bank of Oporto, 22 to 221 percent. premium. AUSTRIAN ITALY. A Vienna letter says : The visit of the Emperor to Italy appears no longer doubtful. The permse comporting him suite have received order. to bold iltemtelms ht readiness to leave at aay meet. The Archduke John, who has arrived here by speoial train from Grata, will, it la raid, shortly proceed to Berlin. A number of young men from the petty German states., and especially from Hanover, who hav ee etryrd in the Austrian army, have arrived here, and have eraterind to be allowed to enter the service; bet they have been toll that at this moment their earileiel masa be accepted. Erroneous state ments have been rattle respecting the strength of the garri son of Bologna. The force there consists of three battalions of infantry, two of rillemee, two equadrons dilemma a eani tery compeny, ant thirty-four gene. It has La* been increased by the recall of the men on furlough. It is stated by the Opinione that the mining of the bridge of Buffaloes by the Austrians has been suspended. The Austrian military authorities, it says, had entrusted the work to the engineers of the Lombardo-Venetian Railway ; and adds that it has been countermanded by telegraph from Vienna, there being reason to (ernes a protest on the part of only I Piedmont. The Paris carreepoodent of the Guardian writes : ; —"The vast nave of the Pekoe of Industry WM filled to overflowing yesterday (Busday) afternoon by persona of the 1 , middle and inferior ranks of misty, who seemed delighted with the opportunity thus afforded them of enjoying their Bentley afternoon holiday; and if there are to be public Sun day amusements at all it is impossible to imagine anything more suitable or appropiete. The greatest order, decorum, and quiet prevailed, and the made was either of a meted or at least of a solemn and elevating character. The perform ance I thought sdmirable in every respect, and highly in dicative of the wide-spread musical nationality of the , ouuntry. Borne of the performances—as, for instanter, that of the' Jour du Seigneur'—could, I thick, seemly he ex ceeded for admirable rosemige and delicate gradations of light sod shade. The net billows of sound literally rose and fell with the wands of the conductors, like a ere whose ear mum are at the control den enchanter. This me alai par ticularly the ewe in the tßetralie,' whom dying fall 'melted into silence,' in which every breath seemed stayed throughout the vest seassublage." Baron de Humboldt has addressed the following note to the Berlin journals :—" Overwhelmed by the number of letters sect me, and which are inorming every day, mounting to from 1,600 to 2,000 per annum ; many, too, being on the moat futile subjecte—essoh as demands for my autograph, sad offers to cum 1111 at all eltereate—l ones t more make • public appeal to the purees who wish me well, and request them not to occupy themselves so much with whet concerns me, in order th.t, with the Minim/lien of sines* physical gni intellectual, which I experism, I msy be allowed • little leirm for study and tomposttioa. I tract r that this atop, to which I have recourse with reluctance, will not be interpreted unkindly." RUTH OS COUNT 810161UND KR48156111. (111011 • On the 23rd inat.:died in Paris Count Sigismand Esseinski, • Polish noble, hero, and poet. He was re lated to the royal houses of Saxony and Piedmont, and his godfather was the Emperor Napoleon, who appointed him oa the day of his birth aide-de-camp to the King of Rome. The Confederation of Bar, the last of national Polish govern ments, at a time when Poland was battling, with Its three invaders, was preeided over by two Krasinskto ; one of them a marshal, the other Bishop of Reminder. Generah Count Krasinski, the father of fileamtusd, was Commandant of the Light Hone Cavalry under Napoleon. It was he that, after the death of Ponistowski, brought beak to his country the heroic remains of the Polish Legions. Count Bigismuud's was an agitated and sorrowful existence. The sufferings of that ardent eoul, consumed by the fire of the purest patriotism, were indescribably bitter. A great nobleman, a great poet, and ono of the richest men in Europe, he might have aimed at the tastiest destinies, yet he voluntarily resigned himself to an obscure and passive life. The most brilliant offers were made to him from the highest quarters. Once the Emperor Nicholas desired to see him. "Be with me," said the Czar, " and I will grant you any thing you may ask." Bat Count Bigismund could not beer to witness the subjection of his country. He went abroad, and gent forth from the depth of his voluntary exile snatches of glorious verse, which he never acknowledged. The Poles sang than inspired hymns without knowing their author. When there appeared in rapid summates the "Infernal Comedy," " Tridion," the "Psalms,' and the "Temptation," an allusion to the offers made to the poet by the Czar, Wawa:lane read end wondered, and asked who could be this unknown genius wham verses found en echo in every Polish heart, and whom name remained • mystery. Son o Intimate friends of Siegmund at length expected him of being the anonymous poet, who took more pails to conceal himself than others do to make themselves known; but nothing could induce him to break his incognito. He bad left the world, and • wide reputation bad no attractions for him. We may imagine what deep sorrows meet have crossed that noble heart and mind before it wee reduced to , this' state of self-imposed obectuity, which would even stand in the way of its own fame. In hie poems we are the reflex of his passionate soul, so deeply wounded, yet so sensitive and so ardently devoted to the honour of his name and the nationality of his country. They are the expression, in the nobleet language, of the purest sentiments. His motto. that " Vines is the highest wisdom," is also the leading sentiment of all his poems. War is the theme of Micklewice— philanthropy that of Sigismund Kraainski. Both base died In The Nerd newspaper, which is away' purposely wrong on certain questions, has insinuated that the elite of Polish society which waisted at the obsequies of Count Sigismund, had aseembled mainly to honour the son of a celebrated men who pointed out, at the coat of some passing unpopularity, the true road upon which Poles can approve and Mamaa their nationality. This awkward sentence contains a false sad treacherous ides. What the Poles have wished to honour in piously following the mortal remains of Siegmund Bresingki is the poet, the man, the patriot—the incarnation of genius, of duty, and of eacrifioe. On a "further list" of subscriptions for the relief of the Neapolitan exile', we sales the following:—The Baroness de Goldsmid, 1001. ; the Duke of Sutherland, 601.; William Stirling, Erg., M.P., 601.; Lord Stanley, M.P., 261.; Lord Farnham, 261. ; H. Gore Langton, Esq., M.P., 261. ; Moore. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 261.; W. Tits, Esq., M.P., 211. ; MIMIC Olyn end Co., 21.1. ; Mown. Roberta and Co., 211.; Sam. Morley, Esq., 201. ; the Duke of Argyll, 201.; Charles P 11•000 Greaten, Esq., M.P., 201.; James Foster, Esq., 201.; the Hail Somers, 20/. ; Robert Martin, Eaq., 201. ; Charles Sartorial, Esq., 201. ; Lord Stanley of Alderiey, 101.; Lord Albemarle, 101. ; the Attorney. General for Instead, M.P., 101.; Lord Mauled, the Earl of Harrowby, 101. 10e.; Lord Lyndhard, 101. ; Lord Wale hoase, 101.; the Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., 101.; Gongs Hadfield Esq., ; the Dean of Westmin ster, 101.; Sir Henry Banbury, But., 101. ; J. Tameable, EN., M.P., 101. ; Franca. H. Goldsmidt, Beg., Q.C., 101. ; Freierick D. Goldsmidr, Esq., 101.; /kr., dm. The Count of Flanders enters his twenty-third year to-day. On the 9th of next month the Duke of Brabant will be twenty-four years of age. On Monday evening M. Royer, the French Minister of Justice, gave a grand dinner at his residence in the Pixie Vendome, at which were present the Princess Mathilde, the Princess Charlotte Bonaparte, Countess Primoli ; the Princess &Shads Bonaparte, Countess de Carobseires ; Count de Hiseeleff, the Russian Ambassador; the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Countess Welewsks, Marshal Valliant, Minister of War; Monsieur and Madams Rather, Marshal Magnin, the Duke and Duchess de Baran, the Duke and Duchess its Cantbecirfs, Prince Genuine, M. Dupin, procurear-general at the Court of Caseation; the Prefect of the Was end Baronet, Hausmann, °swat Niel, aide-dc-camp to the Emperor; and other distinguished persons. In the evening there was a reoeptios, and mural of the artistes of the Opera Cornices Fang different montane'. Mahomed Ali Paths, member of the Council of Ministers In Turkey, has just passed through Cologne on his way to Paris. A letter from Berne states that the military council already spoken of, and consisting of eight federal colonels, is now sitting in that city to decide on the measures which it may be desirable for Switzerland to adopt under present circumstances. THE Dune OF BRUNSHH E.—The Duke of Brnoewkk, finding wane time ago that his servants obtained in his name too large supplies of clothing and other articles, came to en understanding with the trademen that they should not furnish anything without a written order from him, and that they should be paid on presenting the said Indere. Lately, a tailor, named Traejer, sent in a bill for four pairs of leather breeches supplied for the servants, but he could only produce written orders for three. The duke, in consequence, refused to pay for more than that number. Traejor cited his highness before the jugode.pais to make him pay for the four, and be art meted that he bad supplied them on four written order, of the duke. He, however, could only produce three be calm he had accidentally lost one, but he insisted that not withstanding that loss the duk was bound to pay him, Mar much as hie books proved that the fourth article had really been supplied. The duke insisted that the terms of hie bar gain with the man should be adhered to, but the juge-de psi: condemned his highness to pay the whole of the dis. mud. Yeetotday on appal to the civil tribunal against the decision, the court manna it. — fie Filet:Ds troy BELGIAN TRADERS.—The Moniker of Brussels publishes the copy of a letter addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs by the Belgian consul at London, warning Belgian manufsoterers and trader' against a gang of swindlers to that city who have recently been committing extensive depredations. Them men, nye the consul, either mad commercial travellers to Belgium to give orders, or trans mit them direct from Loudon, accompanying each order with a card metalling • name and address, and toe indication " Im porters of foreign geode, colonial merchants, tb.c.," with • • reference to what is represented as a repretable firm, and with a notification that a draft at three days after sight may be drawn immediately after the delivery of the goods. The Brlgiess, thinking everything pertectlyregaler, readily supply goods., but the drafts they draw are returned unaccepted, " on amount of error," and when inqu , riee are made it is discovered that the firm giving the order is a tic& dons one, end that the goods have bem cleared at the car tom-house and sold. A strange 'dair is related in the Gazette du Tri bunaux As a nobleman of Fuendatajon, province of Sar agossa, was, four days ago, with his two daughters, taking a nde on horseback on the road to Bojo, followed by three servants, a young man fashionably dreamed, but with hie face covered with a meek, galloped up, sad without saying word fired from a double-Weeded pistol two shots at the elder of the young ladie.---after which he centinned hie route, and disappeated. the young lady, being mortally wounded, fell from her saddle end exOred. Oa examination, it appeared she had been struck by two belle -one of which had pane. UAW to the heart, and the other to near the thoulder-blade. It is not doubted that rho asesesin was • rejected suitor dare lady ; but se the bed refueed more than one applicant for her hand, it is not knowswllkh it wea." The Jouroal de Rouen remarks crops in Normandy pretest a most splendid appearance, which can not but be improved by the delightful weather. Rye io parti cularly forward, and is hersotifully veep; lucerne sad clover are in the beat condition. Should no slump frost or extreme wet visit us, all theseerops will not only produce abundantly, but much earlier than usual." A letter written by a sister of charity of the diocese of Arm has lees received from Cayenne, telling a horrible story of (OW Do nates who had escaped to the woods casting lots to dwells which of them should be killed to had the tett. The fide awarded by the hazard of tbe die to one of the number was duly accomplished, sad he was eaten by his comrades. GEORGE-YARD RAGGED SCHOOL, WHITECHA rELe —His Greco the Atchbishop of Canterbury will preach on Sunday awning rivet (March 27) et Judo's, Whitman:tele on behalf of th is echoed, which is .itua ' ed in the poorest and tooth populles part of Whitechipd. It Is hoped that the result of his °mete wad will bee libemi addles* be the funds of this deserving tor ittnice.