The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-31 00:00:00

111110 1101 . 1 "' gist ensreo%. OUTGOING MAI The West labs imbadias B LS. assi* Havaaush, Mom Windom, New Odessa, aa4 Illealokaad rasholies these for Ma4.lwa. St. Jea-tboNiessamut, New Granada, dpi,sea P.m will be sada up ea she wombs' el Jas . 2. The sag up s tie Mader* the Basile, and Busses Apres,will be male the weals, of Jas. 4. TM stalls ea ter Lisboa. Opals, sad Gibraltar will be side up au sells The sells rid llarseillse, to the MraUterrasesa, Egypt, Oephat, 15415. Bearlisag, ii., will be mole up oa the mesiatt of Ise. 7. oohs ler British North Amities sod the Limited TM BMWs will by auk up eat the swift of Jo. The soils kr Gibraltar, Malta, °pare, lb* Isaias Islands, Copies, ladle, and OWL els Boathaaptes, will email sp ea the ernias of Jas. 19. TO CORILENIIeeseekTONDEN IT. Mendelian,. leaeseed tie .11ae o Leila W i ar s t . Mea see cameo Beenrae• smog be Two Welsch ea Ur et MOE WATTS AT LONDON 11111:161. a... y ‘ ,. -144•44•1.7. 14 . ....... 41. lia• Twesmons-44444.14. 414. rDOY, MONDAY, DRCEMBER M. I 1 NOTWITIMANDINO all the impossibility of a return to Protection, an impossibility assumed on the idea that no parliament is this country, however elected, ma quite lose its senses, it is still requisite to obviate something more than sock a r eturn. The very hope of it, sad agitation for it, must be put an end to ; tor as beg as both exist, we shall have an agricultural clam neglecting industry to trade in politics, and locitieg to increase its majority in the house rather thee its yield on the farm. And with the we know quesi thus kept open by prolonged mistry, not what element of irritatioe, what coalition or aplitiing of party may arise to mingle with t, and reader it ones more formidable. There are few well-advised perso ns who do not ad mit that a return to Protection would be s ra in sp* to which a nate of things pregnant with revolution, ever y material aid incentive for an onward move ment, not only against corn-laws, but against aristo cratic privileges and enactments, would be amassed and crested, and placed in those hands most able and willing to use it. A return to protection must, in the we of every wary p olitician, too strongly resemble the last policy of Loris Pnitierz,—that by which he united all the middle and lower class agauist not to excite fear and their dissuasion. To prevent any such struggle or collision with weapons and on fields beyond the limits the of the con stitution, there is but one mode—give antagonist Wherein a fair field within the area of the coustite tion. Make a m ore j ust and equable pertition of the true and legal element of power, tilolotonehise. As at present shared, u now en the landed interest, although the smallest in population and enlightenment and wealth, has most eacratous and undue advantages in the return of re presentative. to parliament and in the packing of a majority. Conscious of this, their daily appeal is to a new parliament and new elections. They have the superiorly, and are ardent to use it s And liberals, at leant of moderate colour, are too signed and torpid, and argue that it were better to let them keep their advantna than touch the coutitution in order to deprive them of it. :inns even go so fir as to say, let them have the :i majority, they durst not use it. We cannot, however, me any security in regarding the English constitution es an aristocratic one, t e mpered by fears of revolution. We had rather put the antidote to revoltrion in the cons titution itself, and make pa rties so equal in the eye of the electoral as of other law, that the minority would be at once content with its defeat. But at present a vote of parliament 4sciees nothing. Tie party which gave up protection from prudence, know the power which exists in the aristocracy and the land to raceme it ; just as the party on wich it miht forced counts on the ;eopular resiatau h ce that it g to has fall beck upon. we w sh to avoid a civil war betwese two contending parties and interests, we must them to combat fairly withia the pale of constitution, and give to each interest that voice ,o power in elections to which it is entitled by its population, intelligence, and weight. There is nothe -••• advocate that durst rive and my that t distribution and enjoyment of the fella is jest, that it really satisfies any or leads to a final and satisfactory And as ling as the great national and tribute!, erected at a time of general , to decide upon the great questions which and divide the country—as long as this tribunal partially mastitated and suspected one, so lon g l us decision bring nailer settlement, nor peace, eoutentnent. '• do, therefore, repeat, at the commencement of • year, and at the approach of a new session old parliament, that now is the time whi n true conservatives should think of amending :diciest part of the framework of the constitu by passing a measure for the extension of the franchise, as well as for its more equable and proper - distribution. Without it, the whige may up their minds to be swamped, and to be driven the stage of public life. The combat of interests assume a mote fierce antsgonient than they can Nto between. Their enemies and the enemies a people have an electoral system which may them the majority, and we must not count either their a isdom or forbearance not to use • a majority so as to provoke outright revolution. I England contain a man mme rash then L iLLY?—more une crupulous than those who act t him ,tut even if such fears are exaggerated, the mere existence of them is full of peril. Even with a par liament tomtit :ted like the present, that great gum don which unsettles the empire remains, and is likely to remain, an open one. Nor is this state of ' -les to be meaded by a dissolution . Although public man of dominant parties has as yet .ached one word of the expediency of extending electoral reform, we cannot believe that at such a crisis, when every event saygests, and every circum stance demands it, that such a statesman as Lord Jonet Rensue. does not meditate a step, and a held one, in that nirection. If he does not, he is unmistakeably batwing both his party and his cause. But whether ministers meditate or shrink from a line of policy necessary for the maintenance of even the little liberalism they profess, the bounden duty of the great popular party, and esp-cially of the middle cuss reeormers, is to straggle without ceasing for the exteui in, the independence, and the apportionment of the 'tillage, Lot only as the best safeguard against the return of high deities, against the reinstalment of for y principles in office, and against the poss i b le convulsions that might ensue, but also from the intrin sic justice of the demand, and from the necessity of giving popular opinion and interests that direct voice and part in the working of the constitution which dry posters now dung mealy, because indi rectly, and from without. As things are, agitation, and association keep it up, form a necessary e lement to the constitution. But tor it we should b up e p su rtaxed, and down trodden, befooled beyond tneurance; and the people in self-detence are drives to the very tro.able.ome and costly expedient eI eternal agitation. For no sooner do they lie still,' titan the aristocratic go vernments fallback upon old courses and follow in tie old beaten rut. Nay their , if we 'dumber, we should soon find them coalesce again, to swell the expenditure, keep up colonial patronage, eh ,ke hands with aristrocratic despotism all over th•••• world, aye, and after all resign themselves very probably to the reactionary polit y of protecting duties. Tan colonial doWnimts of (beat Britain (exclusive of the Eat India Company's territories) have en ex tent ,of about 6, 000,000 square miles. Of these, about 2,600,000 are situated to the north of the tropics, rather more that. a million within the tropics, and about 2,500,000 to the south of the tropics. They were inhabited in 1848 by about 6,300,000 persons, of whom nearly 2,600,000 are whites, 1,500,000 being whites of British birth or decent. Toe number of emigrants from the United Kin4om to these colt,- tars rise 129,831 in 1846, and 238,270 in 1847. The aversge velar of the casual exports of British manu factures and produce to view c,looirs w 0,985,9481. for the five 'ewe 6.1 cling 1836 ; 13 433,6391. fur the bye )e .re endi. g 1811 ; ar,ei 14,335,461/. for the five rani mints 1846. Te totters a e sufficient w impt , Fs upon the mind, of toy reflecting mrn the deep uiterest abet the is. 1 , %M oat. et Great Britain hare in the well being at I If we i I fiercely co allow thee the constiti sad power population OM advoc, 1 ' present di chime in • Part , ja . (II I aw 4 political I II elector, I affect and i s a R ettig . I will its d nor conte. We do, i • a new ye of an old STOII tee that di ti it from, I' frahi by chisi \ k ' donate make 01 from the wili us , mediate of the i give tt on nth i' such a DJes Smut' with h , But exist el Hamel Win ' likely thing no p be< al' 1 : 4 eleitt crisis e stanc ft' l # that bktti B i l il i line the the . I clu out, i ot i the A 'Jr .0€ , . ac. go I; 1 wl re ! I an nu , 13, 1 . 1 ti tc e' i 1 ti e, i 1 I I t 1 I ' 1 . . . ; 1 il 1 1 1 I 1 il . 1 , i i l I 1, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, .DECEMBER' 31, 1849. ---------- _ the colonies. Their aggregate populatiesi ecetnely a ccede one person to every square mil? ; th.atali:r an almost unlimited field to the enterprising yof the industrious p o or and the small • w . find di ffi culty in nic king theirAaLttour dense peopled country and crowded • They a l rea d y inhabited by well nigLn;;;;Fllions of the blood-relations of residents in Great Britain. They import *nasally to the vales of 110,000,0001- of Mr manufactures and produce, paying for them in do produce of their own industry. We are united to this by the most intimate ties of family affection, inn & is' mai d e pendence on each othe r for profitable ffage. And the yearly increasing desire on the past el peat numbers of our citir.ens to better their elemaans by emigration, promises that these bonds of interest and affeetion will for a long time to come beyearly ex tended and strengthened L eav ing out of view the governmental relatio ns be tween Great Britain and the colonies, the condition and prospec of these settlements during the year now verging to its c l os e, if not uninterruptedly favourable, are fax from depreteing. To form a cor rect estimate of their condition we must look back a little. Many individuals, and even whole communi ties in them, have of late years been visited by trying reverses of fortune. New South IWales and Van Diemen's Land ha -e had to undergo loontethir g closely bordering upon general bankruptcy. IThe West Indies have been tried by a great falling eE, both in the quantity and value of their produce. Even with regard to the latter, however, if the annual average value of their imports of British manufactures and produce, which for the five years ending 1831, was 3,182,6811., was only 2 , 644,0281. for the five years lending 1846, it must be kept in mind that the eve -1 rages of the intervriods 12,9 38,2821. for the ening q uinq five years s endsending 1836, were and 1 3,383,151 1 . for the five years ending 18 resul 4l. of The difierence appears rather to be te t a periodical oscillation than of a permanent decline.ln the Australian eolonies, on the other hand, the annual aver t five years ending 1831 i was only 363,4561. during the five years ending 1836 t rose to 655,56114 during the five years ending 1841, to 1,470,0851.; and only ~eclined to 1,159,4961., in the five years ending 1846. The temporary difficulties of the West Indian colonies have been superinduced by two social and economical revolutions of nolessmagnitale than &tran sition from domestic slavery to universal freedom, and from protection to fie e-trade. Tae progress of events throughout the world rendered these transitions in evitable : the full extent of the difficulties and embar rassments they brought with them have been experienced and cannot recur again. The embarrass ments of the Australian colonies were of a still more kcal and transitory . character. The commercial an nals of the remaining colonial grcups indicate a steady increase of wealth. The average value of exports of British manufactures and produce to the North American *minis. was 1,723,3151. for the five years ending 1831 ; it was 2,803,9221. for the five years ending 1816. The average value of ex ports to the Africen colonies wee 471,3481. for the five years e-.ding 1831; it was 977,5771. for the five years ending 1846. The average value f exports to the East Indian colonies was 3,554,6071 . for the five years ending 1836 ('he first for which we have sepa rate accounts of them) ; it was 6,770,4361. for the five Jeans ending 1846. And be it remembered that even in the colonies, which have been most severely tried, no classes or individuals have ever experienced such privations as are but too extensively felt in the mother country. In all the colonies all are assured at all times of ample food, clothing, and the sheeer of a roof. The year 1849 has wrought no marked change in the noimal condition of the colonies indicated by these figures. What change there has b e e is for the better. The Australian colonies, emanipated from the fetters of a restrictive policy which impeded the d e velopment of their resources, have been making more vigorous suides in advance. Tree North Ame rican colonies have ben m akin g arrangements fir the further emancipation of their trade, which cannot but accele rate the uniform progress they have of late years been making. The West Indian colonies have set themselves in earnest, by the adoption of new in dustri .1 processes and general retrenchment in public and private expenditure, to se:ommoclate themselves to the new state of thinge. Throughout the colonies there is a marked advance in habits of self-reliance and prudent forecast, which augurs well for the future. But over all this Ws promise the perverse system of mismanagement persisted in by the colonial de partment of our government casts a "ark shade. The continual interference of Downing-street in the local government of the colonies has been fraught with he worst consequences in every colonial g reu p. If the riots in Canada had not their sou-ce in this meddling it @auctioned the cowardly policy of the overnor's skulking from Montreal, and changing the seat of government to the great expense and annoyance of the colony. The Colonial-office has obstinately re pieced audobstructed every attempt on the part of the legislatures of Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guiana to re duce their local expenditure and adapt it to their reduced mans. The Colonial-office has succeeded in this by denying Trinidad an ekctive responsible sys tem of gove snment ; by foisting upon Guiana a sham reform which has narrowed the ecerituency ; and by perpetua ing in Jamaica a nominee council, with power to neutralise every effort of the representatives of the people. Under the c entralised system of Downing-street government the public chest of St. Lucia has been phi:imed by official defaults-re. The Cape has been driven to the verge of a rebellion by the haugh'y and supercilious refusal of the Colonial office to listen to the repre sentations of the colonists on the subject of convict transports. ion. Van Diemen's Land is driven to the verge cf bankruptcy by an inconsiderate shovelling of convicts into the colony. New Zealand has heel tantalised by having a constitution sent out one month, and revoked the next. In Ceylon, a governor, who placed the whole island under martial law in spi - e of the remonstrances of the Crown Council, on acchuat ovef a contemptible riot ; a nd who, by roan and oppressi legislation, did his best to provoke a rebellion, has been praised and ,upported. The Mauritius has been fretted and vexed by a sy stem of financial ire lie Even the infant settlement of Lahuan is beginning to com plain of the costly and complicated machine, y of its government —to smart under its absentee goverr or, and still more severely under its incompetent resident • - ---- lieutenant-governor. Over the whole wile expanse e our colonial do- minions we see the proeperity shich nature and in dustry are 'trivia; to confer upon them neutralised by administrative vexations. The colonists naturally a-tribute the blame of whit they puffer from the Hone Government to the Parham .nt, which has the power to check it, and the constituencies which elect that Parliament. The consequence is that their affec tions are bring alienated from the mother country, and a feeling of hostility towards it is making raptd progress in many quarters. It is obvious that, throughmit the greater part of the American continents, the Antilles, Australia, Southern Africa, and the islands of the Pacific, the English is destined to be the priponderatou r ing fore and dominant race. Th e mismanagement of father. raised up a rival govitrninent to the British in North America, which is extending; its territories and population with unexampled rapidity. and is deeply imbued with an eager desire to rqoal and surpass toe parent state in wealth, power, and influence. Our impolitic colonial government is rapidly tending to call into existence similar rival governments in South Africa and Australia. Thitre is not a moment to he lost in a d o pting measures to avert this impending calamity. To avert the threatened dismem`3erment of the Bri tish empire, the colonial coni.exion must be made closer and more permanent, by relaxing the bends of dominion, and • reng.hening doe- of affection. The government and legislature of the mother country must cease to me:4le with the local affairs of the colonies. he colonies mast be empowered t manage for them selves ell their local affairs, to frame and alter their local constitutions as they please. No longer harassed by the interference of itt °rent red typists in Down ing-street, no longer galled by their inatttntion and supercilious persistence in oppression and mismanage ment, the natural affection of the colonists for the old country will have fair play. Great Britain will find - n her colonies hardy and loyal oommuniies following her banner in the hour of dsnger from affection ' in stead of oppressed and angry men etrugg lin g to throw off her yoke even in time of peace. And the over loather ed taxpayers of the mn.her country will be rel;eved fro .1 a lrge amonut of tax on attributed to the wants ot a the colonies, but in remality pocketed by the poor relations and dependents of oar dominant oligarchy. ------- ygs Vicar of Cirencester has succumbed t wlether litAileencerld Mgt e tristueeeof the Deily • Ne ws or to %he: nionV seal Bishop, we do.not pretend to nd Ogres of les °induct We 'shoald a pprehe that he bad muchlmore fear of tha t OsMi.thatroOldirilt e oesan.. , But,however that ma y bee the reterendgentleman Ms given way r"-and that tact is enough for us at present. On Tuesday last,bring Christmas day, Mr . THORN TON, the scripture reader, presented himself a second time at the railings ob the Cirencester Chtweh am- I minion table. The elem. was within the rails in full canonicals. The clerk was is his peeper place: the sexton looking on. A large number of loungers were in the church anticipsting the probability of a scene. But none took place. On this cceasioo, Mr. TBOHNTON was permitted to kneel at the altar rails, and the vicar with his own hands administered to him the sacred elements which only a fortnight be fore he, without resson,'had refused to him, as if be were " an open and notorionsevil liver." No reasons were atsigned for admitting Mr. TnonseTox to the sacrament, from which only a few days before he had been igeominiously excluded. Whether they were needed or not it is not necessary for us to inquire. That is a matter between Mr. Powitu and MI Bishop, or between Mr. PoweLL and his own conscience. Having now taken the right course, we have only to congratulate the rev. gentleman on his change of opinion. We may regret indeed that he created this brawl and gave occasion for the animadversions of his parishioners and of others ; but we trust that the result may be beneficial bath to the reverend gentleman himself and to his parish, teaching the former moderation, and showing the latter the importance of toleration. Whilst on the subject of toleration, we may take the opportunity of re-publishirg • " fatherly admoni tion" to the shape of a prastntment to the Bishop of Manchester, which has recently been laid before his lordship by the Rev. J. IRVINE, vicar of Leigh. We do not know that anlt hin g we can say can possibly add to the force of this most extraordinary document. It speaks for itself; and we could have no better illustration of the way in which we should be governed were these high church parsons permitted to ran riot. Here is the presentment., made, as Mr. Invite says, " as a fatherly admonition to bring back these wanderers to the fold " : To the Wight It-verend Father in Ood James Prince, Lord Bishop of Manchester. I, James Irvine, Vicar of Leign, in th 3 county of Lances ter, in lane lordship's diocese, present unto you that they may he admonished, and, if need be, otherwise dealt with, as the laws of the church direct, for the health of their soult, 1. James Kesnley , o f Penington, , far neglecting to send his sou Peter a nd his daughter Mary Ann to ba ex grained and instructed in the catechism, as the in. canon di rects, during the last nine years, and especially ' for contuma ciously refusing to do so jut Sunda y ( S. pt. 9) after hashig been duly warned to do so on th e p recedin g Th an lay, Sept. 6 ; also for not communicating at Easter last, nor any prece ding Easter during the last nine years, at his parish church, as din end by the rubric at the end of " The order for ad. ministration of the Lord's supper, or holy communion," pa ragraph 8. 2 Ellen, the wife of the aforesaid James Beasley, for not communicating at Easter last, in her pariah church. 3. Peter, the son of James Heasley, aforesaid, for not communicating at Enter lost, in his parish church, nor for four years preceding. 4. Mary Ano, daughter of the aforesaid James Rearelty, for not communicating at Easter last, in her parish church. This is my One presentment, the allegations of which I am prepsre to prove by sufficient evidence, and which 1 humbly request 1 may be permitted to do, with all canoe. tient speed. Dated at Leigh, this tenth city of September, in the Tear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Witness my hand, J. IRVINE. FRANCE. PARIS, FRID.VT. 5.30 P.M. The debate of yesterday on the garde inebile proves once more the utter want of consistency in the Legis lative Assembly, and the utter inability of the ministry which Louis Napoleon directs. At starting, the go verument and the comm'esion had agreed to form a corps of chusseurs de Purls ; accordingly, the cham ber voted that the corps should be formed. M. Clary's amendment, by proroguing the per;od of the dissolu tion o' the mobile guard irom the 31st of December to the 30th of January, rendered the task of forming this new corps easier, by allowing more time. So f.r all was welt; but the difficulty which immediately arose was whether or not the officers of the garde mobile, c anmiesioned or non-commiesioned, should preserve their reek in the new corps. The committee urged that it was fair for the whole army to share in this new corps, and that all the offic :Ts cf I he present garde mobile should be reduced to the rank of sub-lieuterant, the vacancies of the higher class being filled up from the army. This plan involved manliest injustice to the officers of the gal de mobile, by reducing them to • lower rank than that which they possess; it bad also a sec o.d dieadeantage of being unjust to the army, obliged, as it wou'd be, to receive into its ranks a number of the reduced officers not included in the new corps. M. d'Hautpoul protested against this plan with all his might. He wished every officer to re,essre his rank, without promotion, till atter a fixed time of service. The cross fire which took place be tween the ministry and the committee caused such confusion that no one knew where it would end. The assembly voted blindly, and in the midst of the greatest turmoil, the project of the committee. It was all over with the ministry at one mo meat. The whole of the clauses of the committee's project had been voted, when Oeceral d'H-.utpoul ascended the tribune, and informed the chamber that the government could not accept as a whole the mea sure that had just passed. This rather extraordinary pretension increased the confusion, but the chamber, obedient to the ministerial voce, rescinded all that it had dote, and after voting all the clauses of the com mittee's motion, undid its own work by voting against the motion as a whole. Whatever may be thought of this, it at least indicates one thing, teat the Assembly, or its majori•y, have not courage to put down the President, who in this bad decidedly the better of them. Such • parliamentary reyinte is like the tub of the Danuides, in whie: idea., will, and devotion, are all thrown, without filling the racism's. A void always remains, whatever have been the efforts made to fill it, • void which has already swallowed up how many governments? I told you a few days since that M. de Is Hitte had proposed to the committee on the Le Plata question a policy ot peace, which could be inaugurated by the ratification of the Lepredour treaty. It must not be inferred from this that the whole ministry are agreed on the subject ; for if the on dits that I hear are to b relied on, great difference of opinion exists on the subject amongst that body. It is even specified that three out of seven of the cabinet are in favour of peace, incline to spend no money and pocket the dignity of France. The deoate on the cubsldy to Montevideo was opened by a speech from aM. Lalabure, against the further thtervention of France. M. Lalabure con sented to vote the subsidy this time, because the word of France was pledged, but he should do so on condition that the treaty of Admiral Lepredour should be ratified. Admiral Leine, who was at one time in command at Buenos Ayres, said that the situation of the French at Bu nos Ayres was intolerable. He contended that M. Lepredour's treaty would not he observed by Roses any more than the Whet. The swore of France must be drawn spinet au enemy who had too long been Ift to brave its power. The dignity of France made it a deity to act vigorously in the matter. The example of England had been quoted by the previous speaker as one to be followed, but he could tell them that England bad only treated because it saw that an interview would be particularly useful to France only, and then it was that she retired. If Montevideo tell, Oribe would en.er as a tyrant and oppressor, and French trade in tee country would be at an end. Roses wanted iot only the destruc tion of Montevideo in favour of Bet acs Ayres, but he wanted to humiliate the French. Delay was dan gerous, end he recommended immediate action. M. Jules de Lasteyrie followed, and opposed the idea of an armed intervention. The Courrier Francais says : " Wears usenet d that Admiral Dubournieu, appointed to the command of the French force at fas. Plata, in place of Admiral Le-1 predkur, his also been named envoy extraordinary of France to the Argentiee Republic. Ho is to unite in \. his own hands t:.e direction of the military forces, and the widest diplomatic powers." It appears from the returns of th-: Bank of France, which I seed you, that the increase of the metallic res. ree this week is not lees Oen 6 millions, being 51 Inilliaus in Paris lied 21 in •he pr..cineat. The die eotuki tiecomarAstion ahl" a no iota easel of somewhat more thou one million in Paris, and a dimimatlon of nearly the same extent in the provinces, tte a mount' of the Lamer being 42,449,6016, and tivAt of the intr. 73 306,1406 The protested bills in Paris ha ve iloso *iebed about 60,060 f., and in the d e p artments t 40,000 f., the amount of the former being ,537 f., and of the letter 1,830,665 f. On the side elf the liabilities, the notes in circulation have increased shout 51 m illions. The credit acc ount of the treasury has declined about 4 millions, the presentamount being 75,496,714 fr. Private accounts-current in Parts have iucressed 4 m illions, and in the provinces 100,000 fr., the amount of the - %ruler - being 111.782, 437 fr.‘ a nd of the latter , 27,1t3195 7 rr.. !Eh* ' whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 4311 millions to 4381 millions of notes in circulation. SILTUBD&T, H ALT-PAST 5 P.M. The La Plata question has hitherto produced at the tribune many more supporters of a policy of inter vention than of one of peace. The Prase and the AMU are, in the pre-', the only advocates of peace. La the chamber, even the speakers that are in favour of peace, find more to say in favour of Monte than Buenos Ayres. M. de Lasteyrie was left speak ing at poet hou r yesterday. He had followed Admi eel Leine at the tribune. That gallant officer thought that there was but one thing to be done, and that is to kick the Argentines out of the Oriental repub lt lic. This would have been an easy matter in 1846. is lees so now; but still, with energy and speed, it could be done. M. de Lasteyrie may be classed among those whose opinion has just been characterise d. He opposed the report of the committee which demanded an int* r ecntion, yet he s'erred almost a middle course be tween Roses and Monte Video, inclining towards the, Ilatter. He criticised every project that was brought 1 forward. An expedition of 2,000 men was certainly I too small. One of 6,000 men was too large, because it would coat twenty millions. From this M. de Les- 1 1 teyrie left the Assembly to conclude what was his opinion, for he carefully withheld it. M. Colas followed M. de Lastevrie, and insisted that if the treaty of Admiral IA predour were ratified, the navigation of the Rio de la Pieta would be monopolised by England. The abandonment of Monte Video would cost dearer to France than the price of an expedition I M. Colas f ur ther appealed to those ideas of pride ad national grandeur which are sure of an echo in French breasts, and concluded that it was impose itile foe France to abendon the external policy which had bees so long pursued and which had such an influence on the internal policy of the country. The &bite having been adjourned was resumed by 1 M. Lagrange, who apposed all idea of inte:ventton. M. Lagrange it is almost unnecessary to say is a Mont egnard, he differs from the opinions of his col leagues. Oa the present question it is curious to see one of the party who generally talks loudly about the glory of France, advoce mg the least costly as well as least glorious course. Tne po sition of Rosa", said M. Lagrange, was a most deli cate one, for he would be exposed to deposition if he did not show himself energetic, and even violent. 'f he wrong , of Rases (he continued) were very much exaggerated,end Oribe lied alway sheen most respectful to the French, in spite of the war that was waged against him. M. Lagrange concluded by saying that in his opinion it was impossible for France, which had one arm already engaged in Africa, to engage the other in America. M. de L irochejacquelin spoke after M. Lagrange, and in the opposite sense. He was still speaking when post hour came. Notwithstanding the advice of Admiral L titre and the supporters of armed intervention—notwi. hefted ing the efforts of M. Thiess to have the proposed ex pedition against Roses voted, the feeling at the chamber to-day leads me to suppose that the Assembly will adopt the course of ratif y in g M. Lepredour's treaty, or, at any rate, that it will not vote for a direct intervention against Roses. M. de Montebello is to move that the republic of Monte Video be authorised to recruit six thouasnd volunteers amongst the garde mobile and the old garde republicaine. It is said that M. Thiers will speak, and endeavour to get the debate yeenponed till Monday. The new word invented by M. Thiers, whose against the President he does not attempt to en conceal, for the intenti o ns that are a lleged to be those of Louis Napoleon for his personal aggrandisement, is Soetionquerte, (a touching allusion to his Imperial Majesty of Haiti). NI. Quatremere de Quincy, mem ber of th • Aca demie ries Iliscriptions et Belles Lettrev, perpetual honorary secretary of the Academie des Beaux Arts, and senior member of the Institute of France, his just died in his 95th year. The proceeds of the octroi of Paris for 1849 will exceed 32.500,000 e; the day before yesterday it only wanted 100,000 f. to reach that sum. The entrecce duties received by the octroi on account of the trea sury amount for the year to 12,091,912 f. In 1848, the sum was 0n1ye,974,324f. Since 1806, when the entrance duties were established, the amount has only three times exceeded 12 millions. In 1815 it reached 12,396,000 f., sr d in 1846, 12,010,000 f. BnUltilE. --_ tor Amount. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROP A. The British and North American Royal Moil steam ship, Europa, arrived at Liverpool yeatm day evening. Her passage, in this season f . .f the seer, is an unusually good one, her departure from Wiston being on the 19th inetant. She made the usu.,' call at Halifax on the 21st. The Europa bring., the mils and a considerable number of passengers, but not the President's message, which was excemed by the hive previous arrivals, and certainly by the Bump. The Hibernia, which hailed hence for New York on the let instant, bad arrived at her deelination. The America, which sailed for Botta., wasnot expeetPdae Halifax for seven days after the call of the Eur ipa at that port, in consequence of her being the fist of the fortnightly departures from thus countr) . . It is reported that the senate have under con.idera tion a new treaty with BraXL We are without information of the purport of this treatt . . The non-determine:ion of the House of Repre. sentatives in the choice of a speaker is again the cause of the non.ncelpt of the meecage of Pie-ident Taylor. Several further ineffectual ballots Earl taken place. In one of these Mr. Browne, of Indians, a democratic candidate, lost the election by a minority of only one, after which he Tee gird ki s candidature. Much recrimination was being in dulged in between the northern and ectebern members. There was no certainty or even p bat& lity entertained as to when the Message might appear, as the Free Soilers (with whom rests tit. , prepende. rating power in the struggle) are dt t. rink, d to ad. here to the line of condttet already pu-sued by them. The British steam-ship Hecate, with Sir Henry Balwer, minister to the Uni'ed States from the court of St. James's, arrived at Bermuda 11th ins'., and left again for Washington on the 16th. COMMERCIAL NEWS. Bushiest generally throughout the at.tes is tolervlle brie!:, and a fair amount of tremeactiors in the lea ihg articles of trade manufactures sad pr educe is taking plan , IN BREADSTI:FId, ore Are to , 'si.ed that the market it somewhat inactive, prices being v ithou• alteration Wtetera Canal fbur, 4 dub. 75e. to 4 dui*. 871 c. per MI., • , .e47. Genneseee prime wheat, I dol. 24e. to Idol. 26e. p..r 60th..; Southern wheat, 98e. to 1 dol. pee 60.1).6 Ind.,. eggs, round yellow 58c. to COI. par bushel, steady; Inei.o an, flat yellow, 59c. per bushel ; Indian meal, 2 dell. CPA tog dole. per brl. Ties COTTON market, at New York tiepreislly, loss bees very inactive, prima slight 4 reveling for to vt drorriprinag„ Soles bad b,en very few, ..t the following quot.dione: Ner Orleans and Mobile, nil I. lair to fair, lOte. to tic. per lb, showing a fall of 11c. ; Upl-nd, mid. fair to Mr, lolc. to 101., per lb., showing a fall of fc. F RE IGHTS are unchang• .1, former rain being fee' sop ' ported. Flour, to Liverpoo:, le. fed. to 1... 9d. per brl.; grain, to Liverpool, 4d. to 410. per bushel ; orron, to Lie. epool, 3-18 d. to id. per lb. ; to Havre, 4d. to le per lb. ESCHANGEII.-0a Lok,dos, 108 to 108 i, with little dein; on Perla, few pales, at 6 27 ; on Hamburg, 354 to 34; Ca Bremen, 78 to 781. Clic Court. BRUSSELS, Dec. 23. Some important modifications have just been in troduced by the Belgian government into the corn mt reial law of J uly 21, 1844. The new p. ov S`0"8 are to the following effect : —Foreign vCSflt 16 1. rriving from transatlantic countries', or from pieces situated beyond the Straits ot Gibraltar, and having their hills of lading made out in the name of Belgian com mercial houses, may, before their arrival in Belg ium, touch at Boa ck , , Cowes, Havre, and, Flushin , with out losing the advantage accorded to direct naviga tion, provided, however, they merely call st thou ports to get orders, without doing any other bullies* therein, and without lading or unlsding. 'fne bills of lading must stem that the cargoes have b. en shipped .n transatlantic ports for Belgian homes, either as their property or on consignment to them direct from those ports. The vouchers may de signate besides a Belgian port, other markets as a subsidiary destination for the cargo The bills of hiding must be vised by a special agent, who (if he discover that the captain applying to hi m possesses other papers showing That tee cargo is not directly shipped on Belgian ac count and desined fur a Belgian house) is to give only a conditional rise, in order that the minister of finance may decide, on the arrival of the vessel in Belgium, whether it shall be admitted to the- ecjoys merit of the advantages conferred on direct navigsvion. Novessel can put in at the above-named tour ports longer than three days. The captain onus. furnish the Belgian custom house with a certificate the pirt at which he touched) , stating how long he remained there, and that there wee no lading or un lading, no clandestine sale nor aux bueiness trans acted. On the arrivalof the vessel in Belgium, the party to whom the cargo is addressed must state in writing that he does not intend to make a clandestine sale of it, and that it his been really forwarded to him direct from the port of lading, either as his pyo perty or on consignment. The origin of the goods must be set forth in a certificate given at the port ot lading, and po;.nting MADRID, DEC 21. out, besides the species of cargo, the Lumber, and, if necessary, the marks of the var ious pa cka g es ; such In the sitting of the Cha mber of De p uties t .-dav, a disaussion tsok place upon the election pewee dings a t origin, moreover, must be described in the tell of San Lacer is Mayer, a district in Andalusia. The lading, the manifesto, or the chart-r-party. This h o wever, is not required with ref progresista deputy, Sanchez Silva, s p oke in warm proof, e r e nce to ca terms as terms on the subject, stating that all the late else- goes shipp ed in p orts which are follybeing places of production for such cargoes ; toe ra tions were a solemn farce, and that no deputies were ample, mahogany shipp d in Cabs or lisyti, &e., end chosen but those whom the good ple wire of the ministry wished ; and the abuse of governmcntal in- cocoa from the Brazil's, St. Domingo , & e., parts whsre such articles are natural pro:faction , . fiaence had arrived at such a pitch, that terre were The diminution of duties in favour of direct nevi- men now brought into that chamber who, but a eh rt. gation will not be accorded to snatch putting in at time ago, had been porters. As Sartorius, the pre sent Home Minister, began public life as a sort of any European port, or lying in the rude in view of any European port, situated between 40 and 55 dogs. porter and hanger-on at the Mercado .: , ffice, he took north latitude, out of the Black Sea, the Meeiter the observation u a p .rsonal one, and rep led to Sanceez Silva in the style of Shakspeart's Pistol : cancan, and the Baltic . Should a vessel be obliged, and repeated several times, almost choked wila pas. by stress of weather, or any other dominant cause, to \ put in at a forbidden port, the captain mu t procure sion, that Sanchez Silva in any other place would P tremble before him. Of course, according to tno cue- a certitio de from the Belgian consul verily lug those t he which so many military folks have brought into circumstances, and atteatiag that there was no lading the chamber, a duel is to be the result, and w hich i s or unlading. nor any transaction of business to come off to-morrow morning. Belgian vessels have the advantage of peeing in Demme 22. at any intermediate port, al dot being aliossed to land Ye aterday, after the stormy discussion between I a portion of their cargoes, but not to ship any. Santhez Silva and the Minister of the Home D• part- I Ane.ngst tne general provisions are the following : msrit, concerning the electi on of a y oun g p rote g e of !In places where there is no Belgian consul, the nee, e- I the minister, the Deputy Rivero made his promised sary certificates can be given by the consul of any 1 interp:llati in upon the Madrid municipal elembis . Iriendly nation, or by the head-officer of the customs;' accusing the political ~Lief of Madrid of Lot allowirg ' any fraudulent conduct. er declaratio ns will be es':-' the lists to be scrutin i sed and rectified , a id of perm. , .- vi rely punished; and the crew may he obligee% if \ tiog 275 votes to be o v en in the names of pereots necessary, to depose to the truth of the cairtakn's rece fly decease& 5,000 dollars was the sum paid statements. i. th . : t g o ri f ya A n y tag rit u vi g so ra , ntt so d f t a o r d a i s re a e rri t n v a a v l i a ge . tL.o;h on b e lf , o .h re e or pretended re b e paid for the making the lists, Poreirra vessels will not come into the eel °meat i w o li g il a e n 3 d o m ,oo ; r ki re ng al t s h w em ou o ld ut h m av o e re be th en ai pa d i o d u f b o l i : t w h h e a p T ri w n i : - 6 of th paid on other ovasions. 365 ofßeink, whoa • sot tries ; s'l,t r ,,it s of Gibraltar are concerned i bee ,re the let of and v ti r:, i ecun;ary means could not possibly glvd themye,.-y-, 1850, f.r Transatlantic se:rive's Iron be. old riKiit of voting, had been registered as electors, 'Ad eape Hem and the Cape of ()foal Hope l nor betore seiri voted of course for the modest? mutii,:i•fiby i -, " the let of January, 1851, for more distaui arrivals s^.4 among these electors may be found polic officers 1 from beyond those caper. ?ARIA, D.C. 29. I For Mosey. ----- !Drain Wilts, Lowest. clams. 3 per Cents N M 19 56 45 34 60 36 43 56 60 5 per Centel 93. 92.13 91 25 92:03 92 20 t do. New Loos " o ee § per Ceuta •• le n ” 4 pos ONO. w o II if IMO. aa bode e 30 days, 25.42 i 45 • 90 days, 25.00 324 Do. 4, DM , 1942 Do. 4§ Do. 25 ...„. Up to the hour of going t 3 press, our Paris plreela of yesterday had not grand. ITALY. ROME.—The nate di Roma publishes a noti• fication of the Provisional Municipal C)mmission, dated the 18th, in which, after reminding the people of Rime of the gratitude they owe to the French and other foreign troops that had contributed to the paci fication of the country, it is stated that the Municipal Commission has neglected nothing to procure the foreign troops every p ossible comfort ; bat that the enormous expenses it has hitherto incurred oblige the commission to impose new taxes on the citizens for that laudable purpose; that it has therefore been decreed, with the consent of the superior authorities, that the land-tax shall be increased by 15 centimes, exc•pt on vineyards; that wine, vinegar, an I beer, shall pay 56 cent. per barrel ; brandy, spirits of wine, rum, and liquors, shall pay at the rate of sfr. per barrel; and that the three mineral waters, called Ver gine, Felice, and Paolo, shall be subjected to dim' le their present tax; these measures to be put in vigour on and from the Ist of January. SPAIN. WINDSOR, Disc. 29. The Queen and Prince Albert to .1 their nail early morning walk . Dec. 30.—The Quist: and Prince Albert took their mut morning walk. Her thirsty and his Royal H:ghness Prince Alb , rt, the ladies and getilemen ci - the court, end the tiorovi,tio house hold attended divine S , VAC 'in the pries ., .apel The lion. and Wellesley cfficiasel, and ai:mit 's uited the holy communi m. Her Royal Highn' e •he Duchess of Kent, attended by the Beroners de S,•etr, arrived in town en ti•meday, from Frogmore limpe, and visited het Serene Hi. cum the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, at Maribimugh It. Ths Ducheys sf Kent left h. r reai-ence, Clarence Huse, Bt. Jaynes's, in the afternoon, acd returned to Fr gain House. Ht T Serer.e Hiztinesa the DuebeA of Saar WVillin, with the Princessts Anti^ And Amelia of B.xt Weioli.r, sad the Princes Edward and Gustavus of Sass Weituar, , ttsaded divine service ytat..rdsy writing in the Cnaprl Itisl, St. J am. s's. Her Rep' Highn. se tie Ditches§ of Cambridge visited and to_k !cave of her &stile HighttPss the Ducks of S tie Wt jam r stt rdo) , at Mialboroutro H.use. Her Serene Ilighr.res the Duchess of Sin Wein: 'fig ed her It ya. llighni s‘ the Duchess of Gluuctior yrs. terday, ut Gloucester nous.. COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.--We nridt retstd that Mr. George Crawford, of :IP- Irish bar. will receive the in portant appointment of Chief -Jagless of Actilla•le. Mr. Crawford is neph-w of the late John Bratty Wu*. Q.C., who represented the city at Dublin for wane years in parlia- ment. The salary attached t i the aka soc.ewnat . needs 8001. per annum.—Weekly Chronicle—M. T. O'Neill, Esq ,is appointed Qom n'• k • .e iat Sierra Le ne. inch. room f W C.C. Pine , Esq. , appointed Lieut-nant Ci emu at Natsl —Observer. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.—Sir Charles Howell having reiened his place as o e of the VAllill•biolleT, of the mrtroyoli'an police, Mr. Richard Mayne bec•lnes chief commissioner in his room, and Captain Wllltam Hay, the as,i-tact commissioner, sie,ceeil to the pl .ce of commiisioser rendered vacant by Sir Charles Rowan'. rgeenri A.— Mr Seeker, the magistrate a ' the S)uthwara pilaw out, ail for the future sit at the Greenwich anti Woolwich courts, instead a Mr. Gillr rt Alicekett, a hr has . icAsaged 'vitt Itfr. Seeker, and will in future preside at the S.,uthwuk court as senior magistrate. OPENING OF PARLIMIENT.—The commencement of •he sess i on was on Saturday gotifi-d in en income paper as from authority, and it is to take piece o n the lay day of January. The Weekly Chronicle says:—" The pro:tenon isis intend to move en amendment on the Wu , to the speech from the throne, the precise terms of %Web have not yet been settled. We sha ll thus have so early t.pportppest- urity of ascertaining the strength of the resely.oreeniseo o ti in. They pretend to be in high spirits , and to have disco vered some important admissions in Sir ll.,bert Peel's titter to his tenantry. They lay p.rticular stress oath , ri,he hen. baronet's expression of . po-rn that the atialiti-% of the ore laws would maintain a range of low prices in average vasors, and they will contend that it is conceal to the opinions he expressed in 1848. As this was the avowed object of the advocates of free trade, we do not see how the di covert' that it has been effected Is calculated to help the prottetiouesta. The opening of the session promises to b. Esey, and it will probably he some time before real business it allowed to • commence." ---- TRE CR tDLE FOR 11ER MaJESTY.—We have seen with much pleasure the progress of this important spec of imen of the art of wood-carving, and augur most iaveorAhiy the effect tke whole will produce in a state of completion. The sides, which are flnidied, are carved in the chouget box, the difliailty of procuring which wood has been one et ins on eams' fur the delay attending the %wilt. In the upper porti ON frit x-s in relief, having an alternate introduction 0: Pressed poppies, as designed and execute with thr p t r.4t !eeliht.of Italian t aste. Beneath them isd a D'ild torus tnineld , tUl dll pinks, inset tad in fluted hollows. The two e, il. remoteull fit be produced, and to tit( m the utmost delicuer ot finish entcd l be imparted. The interiors of Ilse rockers are . in.m with foliated dolphins, and even the fiat Ve ro ot the soot Ind head are elaborately carved in'a) stroll - wor d. It . .ii a great satiniaction to all who fe.l iit treated in *la Ow 2 recently) neglected art, that her Majesty hes giver. the e tr that when alissian fte s. splendid an simp le of it ; 6 and we feel armful, cmmpleted, it will reflsct high meal'. en th artist, Mr. 6 1: .ners, and add grea tl y 10 the fame he has slrescy (It" blisned.—.Art Journal. APPROACIIIFIO Matatton VS lIIG a Ltrit.--VO nuptials of the Mon. Staab Elisabeth Copl,y, eldest dan3ll.- ter of iOll4 Lyndhurst, and Mr. Selwyn, ealy son of r- k,.s• Selwyn, of Down Hall, Essex, are to be 5,...c . 'liaised in. we course of the ensuing month. ROBBING THE MAIL—Some few nights sr, 111 the mad-ear season its way front Neuagh to rouplemore, the driver was attacked near Moneygall, and ho nnilb:.gs taken out of the car. The b.gs were found br the p: , 1 0 neor the towo on the next morning, being T A . .id of the the t e 27th ult., the daughter d I con ß tents. Drrn.-01 widow lady, named lon tra, waa carried al Wogs MO country low, near Teapor.l (Sicily.) 0 , the •ullowisg day the mother receiv4d an anonymous letter erstandiag 8,000 Sicilian OUUCet of gokt (worth 14. fr. eszh), as tba ransom of bee danghttr. Ton moue, not hati cc been de' posited in the appeintad s.wt, a ticead l -it . r sus blot , demanding, WOO (MUNI, bud a third iic:ilted the dr mend to 12.000, and a theist was held out ~ .. in &Wit et payment the young lady would h eld rut to - .11. it' formation was given to the authorities. e..hr, at 1114 1 1 dcovered the place where the Was conealea. She had not remised any rrsonal viol tie', but had 11.",‘n hrestool with death unless she wrote to her enotirr nonttirg ha to pay the ransom. She was taken b t.li in ,Jett to 'nee home. She had been card. dof q .., bao(! , 11 , 4 aded by a man Darned Vincenzo Patti, rat 1,1 NW; ...table in that country thin the Sanwa and In llaroitot our comic operas. ELASTIC GROTESQUE FACIES.--Thous.iuils of s ' l o-t isr ia amusing toys (tens of thowands, perhaps), hot- bee_. ported trout Germany, and told as gte.ca rrivhs ~gI T ; hut there is not a grain of gotta perch' or 1 :olio rum!, them. They are cons in Glue end treacle, Ihe coti,,,, of which prinling rolltn are maa.e, silbch it sitif o tl elastic. Guts perch& i• i.ot eh...alio, sad Ink, robrli elastic for the slow :save cb.suge of ezprrs.Qacen;ri squeeze. These faces are readily soluble, 'vo- 1 _L' i .„gs water soon m.lt, which ...inn , * be i i me %till 1 "" T '0 omits or India rulob:r ; a touch of 1'...e to gii, wlarl, ir, added colour will ra. be noun. d to spoil tor 'so. rt... 1. scantly betray it.: composition. Surely some of cur . r *., r: out modeller:, can up-in this hint, mar, ,` m :1,..6. ,;i1 ~ Nobly too, at one-third of their present 005t.—.4,1 •I' and others of similar social position. The Minister of **Home Department rep'ied, protesting . that the government desired everything to be done to a legal way, and that, moreover, he could not be responsible fir eretything done by those who we - e not in his immediate superintendence. Zaragoza, the political chief then made a long speech in the defence of the moderado party's conduct in the municipal elections. With respect to dead men's votes having been registeret, - it had been done by both parties ; bruise when •proprietor died it often happened that his tazes were continued to be paid in his name with out the governmentknowing anything about it. The police agents whom reference had been made to had trading establiehmentaiby virtue of which they voted. In fine, there had been illegal acts, but the greater part were in favour of the progresaista party, who then had b e en beaten on its owe ground. Colonel tujan made a speech, but to a " beggarly account of empty bout." and the house was subsequently counted out. The duel between the minister and Sanchez Silva has not taken place, their friends having agreed to hush the thing up. Dan. IL—Three per cents" 5011. Tour per Cents., 121 paper. nes pee Cents, seeceant Coupons. 8 amount. Cent of Bt. reretuno, 84. liellange on London, 50.50. GERMANY. INSURRECTION IN SERVIA. We have received a letter from Pestb, dated Dec. 22, which confirms our Vienna correspondent's in formation respecting this event. We extract the following from the letter in question : " For the last ten days all communication from Belgrade has been interrupted. wo e erchants f from the Banat were, the day before yesterday, re passports. It is reporzed here that the whole Banat and military frontier is in insurrection." VIENNA, DEC 26. To-day lam assured that the attempt to prepare the Croatians for the reception of the March cons itu don has excited disturbances of a sericus character in that province. The clergy were commissioned by the government to set forth from their pulpits the great advantages which would accrue to the pea santry from the abolition of the robot or feudal service, and other excellencies in the new charter. These sermors have been anything but well received. In upwards of thirty places riots have taken pla-e, and three of the priests have been hanged. Six battalion! were sent from Agram to reduce the die tubed districts to obedience, and in many places conflicts ensued between the military and people. Some of the peasants have been banged. It is ex tremely difficult to ascertain the state of Croatia, as facts of this sort are not permitted to be p ublis hed in the newspapers. I have not succeeded in obtaining any further in formation respecting the movement of the S rebate*. A formal protest, signed by the Scrvian notables at Carlowitz, against the reoitoodina has b en sent to the government here. General Mayerhofer, who lest some days ago for the Banat, is expected not to meet with a very civil reception on his way to Temeswar. The letter of Gustav Fritz from Widdir, to Gen. Bontourline, which appt art d some while ago in the Daily News, was traeslat , din the if of yes terday evening, and has produced great sensation here. I hear nothing else talked of. Oar Berlin correspondent writes: BERLIN, Dec. 26. The Austrian Lloyd contains an article from which it appears that the plans entertained by the Austrian government against the more intim eta con federation have not by any mans been reb , reioned. proserticl saes that "as Prussia is determir ed to , d with th e convo,ation of the Die tat Erfurt, and as, on the other hand, the refusal of the democra tic p-rey to take any part in the elections of deputies to that diet leads to the conclusion that a p rl t imen t will be elected from which it is not to be expected that it will throw out the Prus-ian project for the constitation of Germany, Austria, togettAr with the otter kingdoms, must take care that the ac , ivity ref the E, fart parliament shall be confined within well defined limits." The Constitutional correspondent devotes considerable space to a discussion rf the atti c's from the Austrian Lloyd, clearly showing that the meaning of the paragraph quoted above is rt rtectly urd Wood by the Prussian cabinet. Yesterday her Royal Highness the P. ineess Dear lone, daughter of Prince Albrecht, was betrothed to the Cr teen Prince of S axe Meieingen. 'f he ceremony of exchanging rings to* place in the cabine of her Majesty the Queen in the pretence of all the members of the royal family. MODIFICATION OF THE BELGIAN NAVIGA TION LAWS. R CIS POR °OVER Under the *bore title 'boat Tau ge to be leaned neral object of th • 00/ dependency, which i e s re o ii ng sole mansgems oi irlf, including the dispos.l °roods:it; atlotetos,Locawil co teal independence, this ~o,tfi the argot o il of being ruled eii the administration in L with 611cl:isnot, to the CY bit Wed to s ubetituto for growi pat dange r of a dismembg kral an d devoted attachmei words the mother lonie couanntry in ; tsgr o cos d worst im pe diment and aff paraiternent to colOnizatil S i ogdo h e a main o b j ect It wil toe the !Ot h er country fry eiroment of colonies, ea gig colony from aggression goi m. The m eans by which tb laish s l oceog r a:h l ivo v . coo li s, tit y : : :: ib tan k i y.e in : c_o la h t o , " : " E lsred l i tt n o t ibo ig e .d ;m a n nail iae r n, communication and disc ire say and C4n.taut pri pert, ss circumstances mg /toy colony which d, qualinty, in order to inviged to abet the organ ot its wishes in vinor terop.grary eon, a, dlitely made. ' The society will be col tribute a subscription of leunired for the ripens(' Toe proceedings of the a il electe d by a sic neral conceit will assemble at of Parliament. Tse following gentles the first council : Wm. Fraud The Lord Lyttelton. The Rigt Moe. M. (3•1 Sir W. h Moteswerih, 1 M P. 6. U. Walpole, E hi J. Rums, BK.,M P. It. Cobden, Eiq., M P. EB zeman, E.q., Detoalled reguhtions peen an d the taken aT. the opening,. o first council errly in Ji scud upon, until they Mg of the society for Applicaions are req Egq., Saunders's ColOt Subscriptions may b bankers, Chsring•cros, Bast; and Messrs. Cu TIIE POST.° Some misappreh Post-tffice Sunday tl e thos whch have b bad any t odditional l n upsoTwilldd railwayn' )°f°l London, n iha r d h al iluwtdrl a ;el h e tee y e n cthr. ' d ythi ets l ermei hc i b g 'cian'n o ft Beri first e sa d i : t a l • c n it : op'wn' Tt .e a tt it' nir rk t sn o el l hb• ah s : a w' s c l i c 4 gurB sl'e e tgy .e aurb* t yfl av t (i r s l uoti , ted e et y• t e t d oats des of S t e Post Pu me 'l:fifcs eces erkr Id eWestern their t)e I tso htrailway :: (us• 7n.e the followinga n e ,ns i lobdneipdeißhd pla ce'en 8 on We eirti Trir Letters fur pl.tat forward on stew where they co l belonging to t scheme r.e cunt London bap, o duced, would b that the Londot local office unlei the Lnndon mti ;torture of the a far of bundles railway Poet-of be of the gnat, train, could so forwarding oil places would o duties then imi Witte with th by mi !night of fore midnight