The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

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It originated in the suicide of a girl, who, having left her place, drowned herself rather than return to the workhouse to be confinal in the " shed "—a place of confincmeat for refractory and ill-d . sposed paupers. The unanimous verdict of the vomiter's jury was to this effect, and had appended to it an opinion that the discipline of the shed was ecessarily severe. This verdict led of course to an investigation. Mr. senior churchwarden, a guardian, and a barrister, explained that the shed was used for separating able-bodied, idle, and dissolute paupers, from the aged and respectable inmates of the house. Tie shed was not, he declared, a place of confinement any more than the workhouse itself. The place in question consists of two rooms, a day room and a dormitory, on the basement of the main building, two feet below the level of the soil, each about thirty-five feet long by fifteen wide and seven high. The bed-rnom contains ten bells, occupied sornetinws by sirban, s,llo'intes ay twenty or twenty four p rapers. According to the hospital calculation of a cube of nine htt to an occupant, Me dormitory shoubt accummodate sir persons. The damp from an r ]joining ce.spool oozes through the walls. This pleasant apartment communicates with a yard forty :'act long, and from fifteen to twenty broad, with a lagged pavement and high walls. This yard is kept always locked. But it is not a place of confinement. Oh, no! It is a place of separation. Let us sec the evidence of James Hill, who waits en the occupants of the shed. " They are lucked up piglet 0,111 day. They frequently escape orcr the walk They ore put in fin• misconduct." Mr. Lee, the maser of the workhouse, declares that if the persons is the shed make application to come out, they - are freyttenily released. He is "not aware if he has any legal right to refuse them, but dues sometimes exercise that authority." One of the women is there for throwing her clothes over the wall ; another, for getting "overtaken in liquor" while out of the house, and losin g her pail and brush. A third inmate is a girl of weak intellect, who went out for a day, was made drunk and insensible by a male pauper, and suffered dreadful mal-treatment. All the pauper witnesses repre sent the shed as a place of punishment. The six ounces of meat given three times a week by the dietary, is reduced to four ounces for the shed paupers. Still all this, in Mr. llowaran's eyes, neither con stitutes the shed a place of confinement nor of punish ment. It is a place of separation. So is a prison. It is a prison in a prison ; a lower depth in the lowest deep of workhouse wretchedness and re straint. Arc we to he told that this is " clas sification" (as the report of the directors im pudently calls it), by which the young and old, imbecile and drunken, sickly and turbulent, arc shut up together day and night, picking oakum ; look ing out through the heavy day on the bare walls of their wretched yard ; at night, breathing their own feetid exhalations and the miasma of a cess-pool, 21 of them sometimes in a space only fit to accommodate six with due regard to health and decency ? And all this at the arbitrary will of master or matron, un checked by the Board ! One poor creature had been there for three years. She had not come out because " she was in such bad health, and had nowhere to go to." Yet she was shut up; because she was considered able-bodied and fit for work, when her appearance belied it, and spoke her broken spirit and shattered constitution. Mr. W. LEE seems blessed with an unusual amount of ignorance as to his legal powers and responsibilities. He keeps no account of peisons confined in the black hole, for IS hours sometimes, and without directions from the board. He thinks the matron has power to put paupers in the strong room. On one point he is cer tain. He " has no denbl that persons have been confined without his orders." He "has no doubt that he has receired instructions from the board about the refractory ward, but he does not know where to find them." "If any paupers committed to the ward feel aggrieved, they can apply to be released, and he has no doubt he would release them." (We beg to differ from Mr. LEE on this point) He makes no weekly report of punishments. l le reigns supreme, monarch of all he surveys, wielding the terrors of shed and black-hole unquestioned and unchecked. In Miss STONE, the matron, he has a worthy coed jutrix. This lady felt herself very much " degraded" by the coroner's jury. They asked her some most inconvenient questions, to which she gave awkwardly ready answers. She confined to the shed a girl who returned from place, though she admitted the work of the place was too much for her. She confessed she might have punished JONES (the suicide) by putting her in the black-hole. But it was a mere trifle— " only a feto hours" in an underground cell—"perhaps from naw:may till night, fur refusing to do some domes tic scrrice." JONES was helpless. Her mistress brought her back to the workhouse. loNns cried, and begged to be taken back, to service, offering to work fo. nothiny. H er reco ll ect i ons of the workhouse do not seem to have been pleasant. Hard work, unpaid; suicide ; anything rather than the shed ! A precious testimony to the St. Pancras system of " classification !" These paupers in the shed are clearly a refractory set. " They complain of being shut up so long:" They say they would like more bread and more meat." Audacious as Oliver Twist ! They even com plain of the damp and the bad smell ! Ungrateful, dainty wretches ! On the whole, as Mr. llow.kant says, it is evi dently " at just to suppose that the system of separa tion adopted in the house is regarded as a mode of punishment!' The directors issued a solemn summons to the members of the parochial medical board. District surgeons and consulting surgeons assembled ; in spected the shed; and pronounced it a very pleasant place, if the roof were higher, and if the ventilation were better, and if the damp were removed, and if fewer slept in a bed, and six instead of 24 in the room. They then examined the dietary, and pronounced it suffi cient, if the allowances were of full weight, if the meat were of the best quality, if there were plenty of milk in the porridge, and if the broth were better. Great virtue in an 'if!' Unhappily, in the present case, the allowances are not full weight; the meat not of the best quality ; nacre is not milk enough in the por ridge; and the broth might be very much better, and yet not good. Mr. COOPER, the parish surgeon, is a special object of antipathy to the worthy and humane llowAr.ru. Ile is one of those ridiculously particular men, unfit to deal with paupers. Ile actually objected to the pauper women performing their ablutions in the urinals, and felt aggrieved when the master told him to " mind his shop," and llow.tscrit stood by without rebuking the autocrat! Mr. COOPER too admits that the dietary would be sufficient, with all the above-men tioned " ifs." But he finds that the milk-porridge contains one quart of milk to six of oatmeal ; that the meat is half fat, and often uneatable from imperfect cooking ; and that the frequent stoppages of diet are destructive of the health of the younger inmates. His remonstrances, however, have been received in a style that has read him a lesson ; and he ceases to remon strate accordingly; and the guardians have it ac they would—a silent surgeon and an omnipotent master. The saddest part of the farce, however, was that of the last day's proceedings. The quality and quantity of the diet had been discussed : the directors felt bound to examine into both. So they proceeded to the house. Of course the Master knew nothing of the intended visit. Who can suspect the possibility of such a thing, after the previous display of How.tnTn's impartiality and de termination to do justice? So to the house they went. They took the excellent LEE quite by sur prise, and enjoyed parish pot-luck. 1):.. HAM'S description makes one's mouth water. He came to the hzusa on Saturday, in ordc to examine the food; he found that, on that day, the in wales had what was ca!led ox-cheek soup; he tast,d it, and he was so Irea satisfied with it, that he took all that was yirta to hint. Ile then went into the kitchen, and saw t.'e master cutting awat for the sick and itilfrna. Ile tasted the mutton, and found it as succulent and good as tact which he pur chased for his own oonsumptiots The picture of this patriarchal and benevolent Master "cutting up meat for the sick and infirm" is perfectly beautiful. llowAnru, too, did his duty and was equally lucky. Mr. Howarth staled that he had visited the house yes t,tday, a.ul had exantiaed the food, with the quart!, of which he was perfectly satisfied. Ile tasted the soup, and was so well pleased with it that he obtained an allowance. , (A laugh.) But not satisfied with this, that Rhadarnanthus of a lIIRMINGIIAM proposed a crucial test. - - . He begged to move, that the mastsr of the wurlihouse be desired to briny before the board Me ordinary ealions (aloe-eft the paupers for breakftut, dinner, and supiar ; and that nny Gentleman present be allowed to call and examine any of the paupers us to whether the raid they usually received was of the tame quality, and in the sante quantity. The rations were produced ; " and, lo! the porridge smoked upon the board." Thus it was, in tempting and succulent array—the pauper bill of fare ; Soup. Cheese. Pease Porridge. Potatoes Meat. Beer. Nothing can be more tempting: who would not be a pauper of St. Pancras ? Six paupers arc called in, and one awl all test that the rations of inzilt, pota toes, soup, and porridge, arc better in quality and greater in quantity than the workhouse allowance. There is a slight pause ! litamison.tu looks blank at HOWARTH, and HOWARTH gazes uneasily on MR mrsGuAm. But it is only for a minute. Ready wits jump : Dr. BIRMINGHAM. — This is the allowance for Sunday. Mr. MAItLEY.—I understand there is no difference between the allowance on Sunday and on any other day. Mr. HOWAILTH.— Thv hare better natal on Sundays. What follows this glaring exposure ? Impeach ment of the master, on this clear proof of malversa tion in the house and dishonesty before the board ? So expects Mr. HALTON, and very naturally suggests that Mr. LEE be called on for an explanation. Mr. Lee is not called on, and no explanation takes place. The room is cleared, and after an kour and a half's discussion, a Report is unanimously agreed to. Our readers may anticipate its tenor. It finds that there is no place deserving to be called the shed ; that the rooms so called are very admirable places of " separation" for refractory paupers. That the diet is excellent ; that everything is as it ought to be. It recommends that reports of punishments be more regularly made to the board, that classification of old and young be improved, and that some little change be made in the ventilation of the refractory wards ! And so concludes this sad farce of the St. Pancras investigation. One more disgraceful to the guardians cannot be found even in the pregnant annals of work houso mismanagement. Here is no question of New poor-law or Old. It is a case for the intervention of that central power which the New Law established. We refrain from comment. A practical one will no doubt be furnished from Somerset-house. We leave Mr. llowanzli to his reflections. A poor-law guardian, he seems destitute of every spark of humanity ; a barrister, ho is either ignorant of the simplest rules of evidence, or wanting in the slightest regard for justice. A SINGULAR result of the Quadruple Alliance, cer tainly—the marriage of the presumptive heiress of the Spanish Crown to a French prince ! and the repairing of I)on C.utLos the younger, and his lieu tenant, C 11111EILt, to London, in search of friends and resources ! In recognising the validity of FERDINAND'S testa ment, and the right of IsaBELL k to succeed, England was actuated by the desire to procure a free government for the Spaniards, and such a liberal system as would make Spain the ally of the West against the despotic and retrograde tendencies of the East. From 1831 to 1833 we constituted ourselves the patrons of France and of Spain, throwing the large shield of protection over the revolutions and constitutions of both. But in the years that intervened between 1811 and 1846, the parts were changed. The French government, in return for our protecting it against united Europe, has never ceased to bully and to menace us; and when, in return for this bullying, we resolved to conciliate and be amiable, the constitutional King of the French took advantage of our soft hamour to filch Spain from under our care. Lord ABERDEEN half consented to the marriage of the Infanta. And now England is isolated in Europe; not forgiven by the Eastern Powers, for emancipating Spain ; and, at the same time, placed in permanent antagonism to France, by its monarch having juggled us out of every aim that we proposed to ourselves from 1831 to 1833. These aims were a cordial alliance with France, the freedom and independence of Spain secured. Instead of this we have enmity with France, with Spain the very contrary of either freedom or indepen dence. We are decidedly worse off than if we had lost the battle of Waterloo. The French rule is this moment as fully established to the Rhine, as it could have been by such a victory ; whilst Spain, which then was decidedly independent of France, now sinks into one of her provinces, its royal family and its Cortea being treated as mere beggarly depen dents. But are we to better this by espousing the cause of Don CARLOS, or by helping to re-deliver the penin- I sula to him and Don !tIiGuEL ? No one amongst our Liberals would dream of such tortuous policy, such foul dereliction of principle. We have had enough of dynasties, and of allying with Courts and with Sovereigns. Kings and Queens with Constitutions, or with mock Constitutions, are even more slippery and dishonest than Kings and Quells without them. And we have had experience enough of the llounnoN race to prove that it cannot be trusted; that as far at least as honest, is concerned, all its branches are rotten. Our future allies should be the People, and the liberal, we do not say the ultra liberal, parties of France and Spain. We can, of course, make no treaties with them; we can condescend to no intrigues. Our national habits arc not those of conspiracy ; nor do we want to take ven geance on the French envoy's nocturnal subjugation of the Spanish Queen, by nocturnal attempts to stir up her people. But is all acts we can consult the true interests and independence of the Spaniards, not aiding their foes, and not seeking any self ish or imaginary objects of our own by such ways as would be unpalatable to the Spanish nation. With Don C.utt.os, therefore, or his son, or his general, CABRERA, we can have nought to do. If capitalists can be found to risk their money en a Carlist crusade, there is of course no means of pre venting them. It would certainly be better for England to see Spain independent, though governed by a legitimist despot, than to have her as at present under military despotism, yet at the same time dependent on a foreign power. Our own preferences, however, are not alone to be consulted in dealing with the peninsula. We have but to remain true to the cause of liberal Spain, and Spaniards will in time, if not at the moment, be true to themselves. In the meanwhile Don E.VRIQUE, second son of the Infanta Don FRANCISCO, seems to have taken good and just ground in his protest to the Cort.s. Ile acquiesces and rejoices in the preference shown to his I brother for the Queen's hand. He acknowledges his having once pretended to the honour, and corroborates what we long since stated: namely, that the French Court would have accepted him as a husband for the Queen, if he could haveconsenteil to adopt French policy, and premise to be an A.fraucestrolo. Thishe declined ; and because he would not sign away his own, his pro mised wife's, and his country's independence, he was ignominiously set aside. Don E.NRIQUE now protests against any rights that may accrue to the offspring of the Due DE MONTPENSIER, in regard to the sueem dun to the Spanish throne. He declares such claims to be contrary to the stipulations of the treaty of Utrecht. We believe that the of instructions sent to Mr. Bui.wEn completely accord with Don ENRIQUE'S view. Here, then, is a competitor to the future dynasty of NIONTPENSIER. The marriage resolved on in Madrid by Louis PHILIPPE, though opposed by his wisest counsellors, opens the way not for one civil war, but two; and not for two disputants to the crown, but for three. For the present, however, the young Queen is entitled to every respect. In these events she has been the innocent sictien. She has yielded to violence ; to threats ; and she resigns herself to the dictation of France, in order at least to attain a woman's liberty by seine kind of a marriage. That she may avenge herself one day, is likely. So that, in addition to the feuds which we have enumerated as likely to spring out of these marriages, there are ether feuds more fierce, more degrading, more demoralizing, which Louts PHILIPPE cannot but contemplate as inevitable fruits of his policy, however ho may re gard them without compunction or remorse. We perceive a disposition to place hope in NARVAEZ. A vain hope. It was Nsavaez's per sonal hatred of Don EmentrE, whom he had insulted, and who refused to pardon him—it was this hatred, that mainly brought about the selection of the Duke of Cmarz. The needy general is too deeply under French obligation to feel as a Spaniard. Besides, although resolute in military matters, NARVAEZ has been a weathercock in politics. lie has been for every can didate; for ENRIQUE, for TilAr.tsi, for the Duke of Caniz ; for CHRISTINA, and against her ; coquetting with England, but never true to her; betrayed and . trilled with by France, yet duped by Louts PHILIPPE'S blandishments in exile. The genius of I ESPARTERO was somewhat leaden, heavy, inert, and dull, though solid. 'flat of NARVAEZ is shifting quicksilver, on which nothing can be built. The French will not lose sight of him; and certainly would not let him return to Madrid, were they not sure of him. Tory writers had far better own at once, that with regard to NARVAEZ, as to the Mode rados whose wisdom they have praised and in whose independence they put trust, they have been as egregiously deceived as Lord ABERDEEN in the friendship and promises of Louts PHILIPPE. IT would be premature to attribute blame in any quarter for the fatal accident which occurred on the Great Western Itallway last Monday, before the adjourned investigation by the coroner's jury has terminated. Fair play would forbid such rash cen sure in any case; and with respect to the Great Western Company, it ought to be kept in mind, that, according to the last return of railway accidents laid before Parliament, there have been fewer casualties upon it than on any other of the great lines of rail way. It is true that the return showed, for the York and North Midlands, as for the Great Western, only one accident during the first half of the present year; but the extent of mileage and the number of passengers on the York and North Midlands fall far short of those of the Great Western. The remarks we now offer will be understood, therefore, to imply no unfair pre judging of the case of the Great Western Company on the present occasion, but to relate to the general management of English railways. The late railway accident, then, is the third that has been reported in the course of a week. There was the accident on the Brandling Junction on the 14th inst., by which a tire-man and engine-man were dangerously injured; there was the accident occasioned by the running of an engine belonging to the London and North Western Company into a Leicester and Rugby train oa the 19th, when the guard was seriously, and several passengers less severely injured ; and now there is the accident on the Great Western, by which two passengers are deprived of life. The hot haste with which these casualties follow each other is enough to unsettle the nerves of the public. This, however, might have passed unnoticed, for accidents will at times come in clusters with long intervals between, instead of being equally distributed over the year. But from the last report of the officers of the railway department presented to parliament, it appears that the number of railway accidents, which had rapidly diminished from 1810 to 1843, greatly increased in 1844 and the first six months of 1845. The total number of railway accidents during the last six months of 1810 was 28, with 22 persons killed and 131 injured ; in 1841, there were 29 accidents in all, 24 killed and 72 injured ; in 1842, 10 accidents, 3 killed and 49 injured ; in 1813, 5 accidents, 3 killed and 3 injured. While the number of accidents was thus diminishing, the number of miles of railway open, and still more the number of passengers travelling by railway, were greatly increased. In 1840 there were 1,330 miles open, in 1843 there were 1,798 ; in 1840 there were about twelve millions of passengers by railway, in 1813 there were upwards of twenty-five millions. This shows what caution and attention could do, to minimise the danger of travelling by rail way. With 1841, commences a less creditable state of affairs for the railways. In 1844, there were 32 accidents, in which 10 persons were killed and 74 injured. During the first six months of 1815, there were 15 accidents, 2 killed and 30 injured. The following table shows the proportion of the number of persons injured, to the total number of passengers carried in each year : 1840 ;lost 6 months) in 39,410 1641 1042 1313 — in 4,162,097 1844 1845 (flat lax mouths) in 522,217 If proper caution and attention could bring down the ratio of railway casualties to 1 in every 4,162,087 passengers, proper caution alid attention could keep it there. Instead, however, of this being the case, we find the ratio rise in 1841 to 1 in every 3a6,702; in the first six months of 1845 to 1 in every 622,217; and, judging from the rapidity with which accidents have been succeeding each other during the last ten days, it does not appear likely that the ratio has again been reduced. We are averse to the interference of Government in the trading administration of railways. But the enforcement of due precautions to prevent accidents, is a matter of police, not of commercial management. Hitherto the police of railways has been left to the charge of the companies : the calculations now sub mitted to our readers seggest the question whether the preventive police of rail ways, like the preventive police of the metropolis, ought not to be taken into the hands of Government? Wo can see no more reason for leaving the appointment and control of the police on a railway to the company, than for leav ing the appointment and control of the police on the great line of road from the Bank to Isleworth to the omnibus proprietors. If, however, Government shall at any time see fit to assume the charge of the railway police, it is to be hoped that Major General PASLEY may not be placed in command. A gentleman who, when urged to fulfil the duties of his office and insp,..ct in person the engines and rails shattered by an accident, replies that he knows all about the matter without putting himself to the trouble, inspires distrust in common-place people like ourselves. Without meaning any disrespect to mes merism, we must confess that we have no faith in the cletirevaiice of the Inspector-General of Itaidasays. Our express from Paris has reached us, ea well as the papers of the 2nd. The latter are chiefly taken up with the proclamation of 1)on Enrique and the affairs of Holstein. There was nothing stirring of local importance. Baron Relies Clapariale, Conservative deputy, whose election had been declared void, had been re elected at Schelestat by 341/1 votes to 18. The Co:Gyier, Fmnrais states that " the ministry is thrown into great agitation by the flight of Cabrera and the Count de Jlontemolin. We learn that as soon as it was ascertained that the two fugitives were arrived in England, it sent off to London four agents of the secret police, who are to communicate, day by day, accounts of their movements. It is also hoped, at the same time, that by means of orders sent to the commander of our naval station, the fugitives may be prevented from landing in Spain." We learn by a letter of the 10th instant, front Oran that at the end of the last month, shots were ex changed between the slldiers on guard over the herds at Ljemma Ghazaout and the Arabs. General Pelis sier, commandant of the sub-division of Mostaganem, had returned to his post, and was about to march out at the head of a strong column. According to a' letter from Algiers of the 15th, reinforcements have been sent to Orleansville. General Levasseur is to have the command of the sub-division of :Miliarah. We have our Madrid correspondence to the 17th instant, in regular course. The two dispensations for the royal marriages had reached Marseilles from Lome on the 11th. The Chamber of Deputies sat on the 17th. After some preliminary conversation as to the receipt of taxes, the Secretary proceeded to read the protest of the Infant Don Enrique, which he has addressed to the Chamber. It is as follows : GHENT, SEPT, 9. .‘ I Was living far from the Court, exempt froia ambition, and exclusively devoted to my profession, when I received, towards the end of the year 181.5, 'Royal coagi, to enable me to go to Madrid to see my venerated father. His paternal love, and what he thought he knew of the wishes of the Queen, made him think that I ought to take a certain initia tive ou the important question of the murriage of my august cousin. I then thought that, in presence of the unanimous manifestation of all parties, such an alliance required a writ ten and solemn declaration of the political principles which it was indispensable to eutcrtain, in order to consolidate the censtitutional throne and the complete independence of Spain. My father unelormek to present in my name to her Majesty the faithful expression of my sentiments, and what took place on that occasion at the palace made it a duty for me t 3 publish my manifesto of the list Septemiser, which cannot have been fully appreciated, as the public were igno rant of the circumstance which had rendered it necessary. Then commenced for me a persecution which increased daily. I will not descend to the enumeration of all the vex ations of which I have been the object. Those with which the public are acquainted are sufficiently grave for the Cortes to inquire whether it would not be right to adopt measures to protect for the future both princes and citizens against the exerei eof arbitrary power. Compelled by its order to leave Madrid precipitately, I was treated by the authorities of Galicia in a way which enabled me to divine what trials were reserved for me by the ministry. Happily I found large compensation in the esteem and eonhdence of which the inha bitants of Galicia gave me sensible, although restricted proofs. I was living peaceably and isolated, not imagining that I should be exposed to any new persecution, when I received at Ferrol the order to proceed without delay to Corunna, and to present myself before the Captain-General. This person communicated to me the order to quit the kingdom within forty-eight hours, without objection of any kind, even that of illness. This was stated in the despatch from the govern ment which he communicated to me. From respect for the Queen, and from a love of peace, I resigned myself to this unworthy treatment and embarked for Bayonne after hav ing written to her is at the moment when I quitted the shores of my country. The honours duo to my rank were denied to me, and care had been taken to inspire the captain of the vessel with the most unjust prejudices against my person, for which, besides, he had been compelled to give a receipt. This anger of the ministry pursued me to a foreign land, and was felt as far as it could reach me. What were its motive and object ? I only knew this on arriving in Paris, where the King of the French, my august uncle, gave me so kind a reception. It was proved to me besides that I was not punished as a rash person who had one day aspired to the hand of the Queen, but that I was rather reproached for not having perseve red in this preten sion, and not having placed myself under a certain influence and submitted to certain conditions. I should never have thought of revealing this, hut I owe the entire truth to the national representatives, and I will no more fail in this duty than I failed in Paris in what was due to the dignity of my country and the honour of my family. I quitted promptly the French capital and withdrew into Belgium. I have received from the most respectable persons as regards my mind, a proposition to return to Spain, and I should have accepted it if I had consulted only my personal in terests ; but I had also to consult my dignity and the severity of my princ;ples, which rendered it incumbent upon me to refuse. I have a right to demand, and I will obtain, sooner or later, a complete reparation, as striking as the in justice that I have sustained, as honourable as the exile to which I was condemned was iniquitous. The silence which followed these propositions was of a nature to show that some great event was in preparation ; in fact, there was soon an nounced the marriage of the Queen with my beloved brother, and that of the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier. These two marriages were concluded at the same time, al though they were not published on the same day, or in the same manner in Spain. The first meets the views which I have not ceased to repeat i the second reveals to Spain and Europe what was clearly intelligible to me during my short stayain Paris. I will not inquire what Spain and Europe have to do after this revelation, or examine whether this marriage is reconcileable with a clause inserted in the con stitution of 184.5. What is important for me, and what is my right—a right which I exercise much less from consider ations of family than to avoid difficult questions, and to prevent, perhaps, new wars of succession, so fata li to our country—is to protest against all eventual right to the throne of Spain which might be granted to the children of the Duke de Montpensier in the event of his marrying the Infanta. The renunciation made by the family of Orleans in the treaty of Utrecht would beforehand render null all right of this kind, which could be either accorded or imposed. My fa mily being the first that would suffer from it, I protest be fore the Cortes against any prejudice which might result from what is doing, or has been done. (Signed) HENItI MARIA DE BOURBON." Don Francisco de Paula Figueras has been ap pointed Member of the Supreme Tribunal of War and Marine. Apartments for the Dukes do 'lontpensicr and Ne mours are preparing in tho hotel of the Count de Bresson. La Caccia publishes a decree for raising 25,000 recruits. El Tiempo asserts that Mr. Bulwer had addressed another note to Senor Isturitz, in consequence of in structions received from England. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 7. The Sultan is very goodnaturcdly trying to harmo nize the discordant elements of the present Cabinet. He has commanded Reshid, Riza, and Rifaat Pachas all to dine with Khosref Pacha at the Seraskierat, and to shake hands and forget all grudges, and be good friend. fur the time to come. This reconciliatory dinner took place on the ah. Nafing Pacha was left out, which seems to confirm a guess which I hazarded in a former letter, that the indisposition that has lately weighed upon the Minister of Finence, was of a political kind. As to the kiss of peace commanded by the Sultan, something remains to be said. Concord it a very good thing no doubt, and a good dinner is not a bad way of pre meting it. But the sort of moral cement furnished by the best of dinners, not being in its nature durable, is good only for carrying some point which requires an equally transient uneuimity in the diners. Where men, radicaty and vitally oppoeed in their principles and characters, have to form mem bers of the same ministry, the meat despotic of, monarchs may command them to pull together, to dine together, and to shake hands togethe: without producing the hoist real union among them. In order that a country may betoterably well governed, the governing body must have some real genuine principle of coherence, the hushing of their squabbles by the master's breath may Le a step towards decenee, but doss not iet the least bring about a better understanding among them. So far from that, by the exercise of such authority, open hostility shrinks into channels of secret opposition; fair antagonism is replaced by skulking intrigue, and rough discussion by smooth hypocritical assent, to the great, detriment of all public business. By patching up an external alliance between Reahid and Hien, neither the shape nor temper of the ministry are changed it is neither more compact nor more effective for work than it was before. These two men differ entirely upon the main questions of Ottoman government, and completely neutralise one another. Itershid is fir relaxing the dieobilities of rayabe, Rize for maintaining them by coercion. The Minister for Foreign Affairs pursues male, reat'on with the strictest severity the Minister of Commerce connives at it. The first is a man of unimpeachable integrity: the last has been convicted of gigantic frauds. In a word, one is a man with clean hands, tier f Line, and excellent intentions, and the oth , r is the con trary of nll this. Their only point of resemblance is that they are both men of good talents. The command to kiss and be friends cannot produce a durable conjunction of such opposites. One nned thrust out the other. And, since the star of Rise Paella is in the ascendant, we may natu rally suppose that he is destined, ere long, to have the field clear to himself. The character and prine:plcs of Khosref Pacha I have bad occasion to allude to in form r letters. Age seems to be gradually thining over his mind's ' eye, thickening his memory, end blunting his administra tive faculty. But he is still the merry, though somewhat buffoonish, convivial corns:anion of other years. Rifaat Pasha, President of the Council, is a man of remarkable iutelligence, but devoid of practiced em rgy. His ideas are excellent; but unless their execution be entrusted to more active hands, they are likely to wait lung . before they are reahscd in a working shape. The same indolence which makes him a procrastinator in work, prevents him from tak ing a decided part in part}-politics; and though the Mer e:ay of his plans, the enlightenment of his mind, and the re...eines' of his intentions would make him a most valuable co-operator with Iteshid Pacha, his love o: ease, and reluct ance to engage in party-warfare, make him, with all his talents, really but a lukewarm ally to the cause of progress, whatever may be his professions. He is looked upon as the mast aceompliehed of the Turks. His powers of conversation are very striking, even to Europeans of the highest talent, and most finished education ; and to this eloquence he adds meth taste and knowledge in matters of art and science. With the politician and the amateur he unites the less exalted character of a gourmand and voluptuary ; and his kitchen, wines, gardens, and Cireassian slaves, arc the theme of Turkish admiration. It is to be hoped that this Ottoman Sardanapalus will one of these dam be reached in the luxuri ous recesses of his leisure by the high call of duty, and gird les; on the armour of work in good earnest, turn out a good soldier in the cruse of reform. There is news front Erzernam is late as Aug. 29. The cholera was much less violent at Teheran; and from the directions towards the east and south which that plague had taken, the fears which prevailed lest it should make its applar ance at Tabreex were considaably calmed. The i ces visited in Persia were Kasbin an 1 ',Logan, and then oum and Kashan. The two first rf these towns are respectively at the distance of one and two hundred milts to the west of Teheran, and the two last about eighty and one hundred and twenty miles on the road to Ispahau. The mortality at Teheran was his than in 1835. Among the victims are mentioned ?them Abdul ILuisau-Khan, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Allah Verdi Bop, Keeper of the Seals; Ismail ' Khan, Ferrash-Bashi. Besides these, we have to mention with regret the loss of a countryman, Mr. Robert Glynne, an Attach:• to the British Embassy. The harmony °fax Porte's relations withG recce has received some small disturbance from a royal ordinance at Athens, authori,ing the association:so called, of the Thraco-Bulgaro. Serrians. This association has a committee for considet ing the best means of forming a Sclavonian colony in the Hel lenic kingdom, and is regarded by the Porte with great jea lousy, again institution having for its object the fomentation of rebellion among its Selavonian subjects. Consequently, the Turkish Charge d'Affaires, at Athens, has sent in some strong notes to the Greek Government upon the subject. Another point of dispute is the contemplated return of some Ilellenes of Cretan origin to their native country. These men are wandering paupers, reduced to the greatest distress ' and destitution, whose he:gas of finding some relief in their native island have been excited by rumours of the Sultan's benevolent character. The Turkish Goveriment protests, it would seem, against this deportation of these Greek beg gars to the Cretan shore. Fur the rest, letters from Athens of Aug. 30, represent the government in the last state of embarrassment. The committee fee inquiring into the financial department had just presented its report, which was extremely unfavourable to the management of the fiscal minister. M. Poniropoulo (which name means in English "wicked fowl:') will be obliged, it is supposed, in conse quence, to resign. There was talk of applying the loan offered by France to the liquidation of part of the claims of England and Russia. Ta finish the perplexity of M. Coletti, his friend, M. Constantine Dolleas, monarch of Achaia, has resigned his office, out of dkraitisfaction at the meddling of the Achaian deputies as ith his province of administration, and assails the governms at under which he has just ceased to act in no measured terms. FRANCE.—Tue CONTINENTAL FORGEEIES.—The two forgers, Theodore Ilerweg, alias Romanzou or Rau manzow, and Knapps, have undergone several interroga tions before the magistrate+, and several witnesses have also Igen examined. It appeared that Romaazou scarcely ever remained in one aeartment more than a quarter of a year, and was to leave that in the Rue d'Anjou, where he was taken, in October. He never went out, and was not visited during the time he stayed there by more than three persons. The preliminary proceedir.gs are likely to occupy several months, on account of the evidence which will be required from several foreign countries. Knapp• is confined in the prison of the Madelonnettes, and Romanzow in that of St. Pelagie. The thirty-two notes found upon Romanzow were for 1001. each, and not for 51., as was at first stated. Both the prisoners have made a full confession. Roruanzow stated that, after having so narrowly escaped from arrest on the 6th January, 183'2, when the woman Danelle, snd Pressel, the native of Wurtemberg, were surprised at Palmy, where he, Itornan.zow, kad setup a pr_ss, he got over the frontier into Switzerland, and made his way into Italy, where he lived fur four months upon a sum of money that he took with him. Fearing an application for his extradition, he returned to France, thinking he would be able the more easily to con teal himself there. His resources were then reduced to two genaine Bank of England notes for 1001. each, and he con ceived fur the first time the idea of imitating them. But the difficulties be had to cantend with were so great that he was for two years working assiduously before he could succeed ; living in the most parsimonious manner upon one of the notes, being obliged to keep the other as a model. At t e end of the two years he found that he had produced a perfect forgery ; but not daring to trust the uttering of his false notes to any third person, he issued them himself, and in three days exchanged twenty-six of them for 100/. each at different money-changers' offices. He then stopped, and travelled till he saw the effect produced upon the Bank of England. At the time of his last capture, ROMaIIZOW was engaged, with the assistance el his accomplice Knapps, in numufacturing a greater number of notes of the Bank ut England, with the intent, as he says, of raising 100,000 f., with which he hoped to get ovsr to America, and there live an honest life.— Galignani. Tut; FRENCH RAILWAY KlNG.—Railway kings are not irresponsible, and the same complaints are heard in France against King Rothschild as in England against King Hudson. The travelling on the Great Northern Railway is very irregular. Last Sunday a train publicly announced did not start for Enghiea, and on Monday there was a delay of more than an hour in the first train from Amiens. SPAIN.—The Clamor Publico states that an expe dition similar to that about to start under General Elena against the republic of Ecuador, is being organised under the orders of General Cruz, its destination being the kingdom of Peru. The ambassador Irma Chili has protested against such an expedition, which will be resisted by force of arms. ITALY.—RomE, SEPT. s.—Some disturbances have occurred at Ancona—the people distributed wine amongst the soldiers. At Jeri the populace pillaged a house where Gregory X VI. had passed a night ; it is even said that his bust, was dragged through the streets. The Austrian Am bassador is said to have lent in an energetic remonstrance on the subject, since when different couriers have left for Vienna. ATViTZERLAND.—DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.—On the night of the 15th Sept. a conflagration burst out in the hotel of the Crown, at Tavannes, in Switzer land, not far from Berne. There werl thirty-three strangers staying at the hotel. Six of them perished in the flames. M. Immer, engineer in the chief of the Canton of Thuu, was on the point of jumping from a window, when the floor tell in with a loud crash and he perished. Two more persons have since died from their wounds. Most of the travellers were Englishmen. GERMANY.—AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, SEPT. 14. The marriage of the Infanta of Spain with the Duke of Montpensier did not cause an agreeatle sensation at Vienna. The Imposing attitude which France is aiming at in the south and in the north, makes persons reflect that Louis Philippe is, perhaps, drawing out aplan which it will be the task of the regency to carry out. The corps diplomatique is beginning to assemble. Prince Metternich arrived oa the 14th. Lord Ponsonby was impatiently expected. Count d'Arnim is returned. The Grand Duke Michael intends making a lengthened stay. The Gmud Duchess Helen is expected on the 16th. The funds continued to rise. It was reported that the Minister of Finance intended placing five million florins at the disposal of the Bourse. Paessi.t.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince Royal and Prince Gustavus of Sweden have arrived at Ber lin. Letters from Berlin speak in a more precise manner of negotiations for a marriage between the Prince Royal of Sweden and Princess Louisa Mary of Prussia. HOLSTEIN.—By letters from Frankfort, of the 18th, we learn that the Germanic Diet adopted on the previous day an important resolution on the affair of the Duchy of Holstein, which produces such a strong agitation throughout all Germany. It will be remembered that the King of Den- 1 gium .r.i.„ in many of the 7 --- -----..... to • t a bii * mark, by letters patent of the bth July, wished an aheoluto right of succession to the Duchy of b e ,46,_ in favour of the Crown of Denmark, without, hose a' declaring himself equ•lly categorically with rtgard St Duchy of Holstein. It is by the treaty of s toc k . holm of the 3rd Juno , 1720, that France an d E ..,.... guaranfeed to the Crown of Denmark the absolute -- ' ...m li s ., ee . session of the Duchy of Schleswig. As to th e li ~,h _ of Holstria it belongs to the Germanic ConfederatieNTZ s 'A tro hich ng ha p:l e git: ntamit,tatioi. The b . cannot form an integral part of the Crean a D enrale.. The states of this duchy have addressed a complaint in the Germanic Confederation against the letters meat a the ire to calm the public mind, and i n ii nc , animated GormanKing o f Dbn states m• ra desire so k by a sentiment of justice and muderatioa, has n eeemd ' the e rights and the competence of G:rneurr for future &vision and has wished iu no way to prejudge the question a n ,: cession to the Duchy of Holstein. Thus, While kth, one side the complaint of the States of Holstein, it byi: T .."' the King of Denmark to understand that it would be for him to re.pcet their right of petition. The maj en i ty 7 f ' the States hastemsl to adopt the deci s io n o f the Ditt. its Courts of Baden, Bavaria, Oldenli am, Schwartztaburg, id 6 arc interested in the succession of Holstein, have mad e no remonstrance. M. Pechlin, Envoy from 1; clIIIII!!: to th t 1 Diet, confined himself to making some. very measured re, serves relative to the Duchy of Sehlesw.g. and to the tight, which the States of Holstein enjoy from their coastium en The protocol of this affair still remains ouves, for ill:ste m hal not yet given their adhesion to t'eo . rite:tabu c e the Diet, but it is thought that their op.urou wit; Le is k . eordauee with the other states. The resolution of th e 1 Diet is as follows : and by no , int " His Majesty the ling of Denmark, Duke of lleirea and Lauenherg, having made known by the dteloratio; the 7th September, in reply to the petition addressed to th e Diet by the States of Holetein on the 3rd August, that k e never had entertained an idea of attacking the indepak s ,,, of the Duchy of Holstein, our to arbitrarily modify a h a its constitution, or the other institutions which the easta s or the laws of the country hod rendered sacresi ; hisllajm having, moreover, given the aasuratee that his efforts th regulate the order of succession of that Duchy had set its Obila to interfere with the legitimate rights of the As nate ; in fine, the intention of maintaining intact the te e . stitutional right of petition of the at tee being manif es t s eel reseed by his Majesty, the tipper Diet feels ealele st that by deciding in a definitive manner on the queiti„ s in the letter patent of the Bth July, his Majesty will the rights of rill, and particularly those of the confederali st the legitimate rights of the Agnatco. and theme of file kill representation of the country. While reserving to ingta i right, as organ of the confederation, to avail itself in CIO of need of its constitutional competence, the Diet deck:Hag it cannot see in the states of Holstein the legal repreientr. fives of the federal state to that assembly ; their mission shag be confined to the defence of their constitutional right., a g that the complaint of those states on the subject of 64 changes made in an illegal manner in their constitution, a not well founded. On the other hand, the Diet confides that the order transmitted by his Majesty to the Royal C. missioner to the states, not to receive any more petitioas es remonstrances relative to the question of succession, hoot, when interpreted in an absolute manner, in accoi dance with the literal meaning of the law of May 28, 1831.-2.11 * Diet is pleased to render justice to the sentimeut• of pe triutism which on this occasion have manifested themselves in Germany ; but it, at the same time, &plena the huge accusations and provocations which have been niece& k expressed a hope and confidence that the federal gems meets will apply themselves to put an end to those plai t . ate agitations. Neither does it doubt but that his Meaty the King of Denmark will hasten to act in the same mama with the most entire reciprocity.-3. Tho Envoy of Des mark is invited to make known this resolution to hie Coats According to the Cubryne Cht:ctle of the loth Se t tember, the following address was publisl ed, and wa s receive signatures at the assembly of Norton; to be pe e rented to the states of Schleswig at the coming session: sle t , the undersign,al, inhabitants of the duchies of Scldeswiad of Holstein, find ourselves obliged, at this moment d serious interest when the fate of our country is at stake.% address ourselves with confidence to the Stales of the Dai l of Schleswig, and to declare to them that we wish to remit in future, as up to the present we have been, faithful tont privileges, the heir-loom of our ancestors, and whaler sworn to by the dukes. We expect from the states u energetic end bold defence of those rights against the crown. So that no doubts may be entertained of our desires and to intentions, we have resolved to make them ;moan to the high assembly of the states through the following declan• thin. 1. We decline that we are Germans, that we wishes remain Germans, and that we will maintain even anti death our nationality pure and intact. 2. We declare that we will strain all our energies to establish in truth the in dependence and ucion of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and that they be universally acknowledged. S. We declare that our union with Denmark, in a financial, military, and administrative point of view, is not founded in right, and that we will ender s-our to oppose it with unflinching resolution. 4. We declare that we never will acknowledge that unity of the Danish monarchy, which consists in rtprestuting the Duchies as component parts ; and we will only recap:tux union under one and the tame sovereign as lenges the crown remains in the mato line of the house of Oldenburg, shish has alone the legal right of succession in the Da&as. 5. We plight ourselves to maintain these principles at the pries of our possessions and of our blood, to bring tip our children is the same ideas, and to impress upon them the neersAty to do all that is in their power to attain that end, which a Oar must sacred duty. Prince Luitpold, third son of the King of Barsi, who at first entered the artillery, bat has since relinquished a military life to devote himself' to the study of the Oriesal languages, has just lett Munich for Jerusalem, from whew ho will roceed into Egypt. In this journey, whieli purely of a scientific character, he is accompanied by In Counts Cesar and Andre l'allavicini, sons of the Sardinia minister at Munich. kn( side ing ha, The Vienna journals announce the death of the Dowager Princess of Liechtenstein, mother of the reigning Princesses of Schwarzenber:g and Lohkowitz. GALIcIA.—The news from Galicia is contradictory. Three other emissaries of the l'olish propaganda have, ill slid, been arrested. Caunt Stadion left Lemberg on tilt Bth instant for Vienna. The local authorities have received orders to send in a report of the actual state of the c9l - fees. PROVISIONS IN GERMA-NY.—The governments of the diffvrent states of Germany are continuing to talcs miasma for providing against the scarcity of provisions arising from* scanty harvest and the high price of corn. The government d Baden has authorised the importation of foreign corn, and a analogous decision of the Zollverein allows the free tatranci of all foreign cora up to the Ist of May, 1817, and prorogue all anterior ordonnances relative to free entry on corn. I lOLLA-ND.-TIIE SE M'. 22.—We borrow the following afflicting details from a letter from Alost, ad dressed to the Courtier d' Ana-ers:—" All that has bees stated of the misery which prevails in the country is brlorr the truth. Half of the population live in the Iri-h &shim, that is to say, on potatoes, vinegar, and water ; rye bread s too dear. As fur pork, which is scarce this year, it is banished long since from the tablesof the poorer clams. The mort.dil is ;becoming frightful in several villages, even those w lately enjoyed a certain degree of prosperity. It exceeds by fifty per cent. that of the years 1812 and 13:3. The keg drought bias dried up most of the wells, and being fermi to drink muddy and unwholesome water instead of beer or alas our country people have almost all contracted disorders is the stomach, to which many hundreds have fallen victims. I have visited a cottage wherc the father, moth-a, grand mother, and seven children were ill, lying upon straw, badly attended, and abandoned by everybody, except a FM pastor and the physician of a neighbouring commune. The pastor has nothing to give them but consolation, and as for the physician, he is overwhelmed with stork, and Wet quarters of his stock of medicines are absorbed ty his indi gent patients. The poor family of which I speak would be obliged to seep in the open air, if the burgomaster, to whom the cottage belongs, had not excused them from paying their rent for the last eighteen months. There arc above a hundred such instances in all our villages, the misery is becoming general, the small farmers are ruined in giving alms; the large farm, near which I live, is visited every week by six hundred beggars . ; each of i there per sons receive a centime, or a potato. The farmer talks of abandoning his favors, because he cannot bear so heavy I burthen. In our village, as in many others, the rich in habitants subscribe to give work to our unfortunate country men ; these burthens are four times heavier than the taxes. The women, who are employed in spinning in the houses of the farmers, work from five in the morning till sena is the evening, for which they receive four centimes and their food. In some farms they are contented with their food alone; this may do for them, but what becomes of their children ?" . _ MAESTRICHT, SEPT. 19.—The water in the Meng has become so low in consequence of the continued &melts that steam-boats between this city and Rotterdam base bens obliged entirely to suspend their voyage; and even the serries between this city and Liege is attended with great difficult/. HARDENISURG, SEPT. 17.—The river Vida is so extremely low at this time that it may be passed dry shod at several places, a circumstance which never happened here in the memory of man. JAVA.—SLAvEnv.--The people in Europe who entertain so just a horror of slavery as to regard even slam• grown produce as an abomination not to be tolerated fret Brazil and Cuba, will be sorry to learn that the products d Java, so accepted and acceptable ns the achievcmuuts of free labour, are nevertheless tainted wish the same sort of slats leprosy. In the Java Courant of May 6, there are no less than seven advertisements for the sale of slaves, of Alia five are by public auction, and two by private contract, ls number altogether 45 men, women, boys, girls. and infante Voute and taueria are the names f the auctioneers attached to the various advertisements. The Director of Means mil Domains advertises, moreover, " that the tax on slaves fm the current year must be paid before the last of September ensuing, the same amounting to 2 florins, 65 st. for Mk slave." fat Court. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Iier Majesty the Queen Dowager and Her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia paid a visit to tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent st Erogmore House this morning. The Duke of Wellington is expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Countess of Westmoreland, sad Viscountess Palmerston are also expected to arrive on a visit to Her Majesty. The Queen will give a grand Dinner this evening• The illustrious company is expected to include Her Make,' the Queen Dowager, Her Ito) al Highness the Princess d Prussia, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, His Ex cellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Duke of Wellington, the