The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-17 00:00:00

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Mr. NEWDEGATE having drilled the Protectionists into marching order, and Lied GEORGE I3ENTINCE having been put at their head, inquiries begin to bo made for the Paper and the Policy. His Lordship's speech at the Coleshill meet ing, shows that, like a careful leader, he has been blinking of the needful. We cannot but admire the boldness and judgment with which he suggests, that, for providing a powerful organ for Protectionists in the Daily Press, they should call in " the aid of the Thunderer." It was .a bravo thought. His Lordship ' will enact GLENDOWER. as well as Harmer:lt, and " call spirits from the vasty deep." " But will they come when you do call for them ?" There's the rub. Lord GEORGE, according to re port, is flush of money, in consequence not only of the sale of his stud, but of the munificent admiration of his political prowess by a near and dear relative. Still he is scarcely rich enough to buy the Thunderer and all his bolts. Nor is Jupiter set up to public auction. Lord GEORGE is said not to have found it open to private negotiation. Perhaps ho will tell us all about it in his next speech. He must know that " The actions of great leaders, Like to the 'flotilla of prodigious 'meteors, Ale step by step observed; and loud-tongued Fame The herald to proclaim their entertainment." Now the series, which " prate of his whereabout," do net tell of the success which he prematurely as- Ranted in his intimations at Coleshill. In all mytho logies, the Thunderer sides with the strongest; sad Protection is a long and increasing dis tance from that point. It was like Lord GEORGE 20 suppose, that the Press may be purchased for any purpose by a liberal customer : that it may be sold like a horse, or bribed like a jockey. But there arc more things, in the l'ress and elsewhere, as experience will speedily teach him, than are dreamed of in his philosophy. Neither the Times, nor the times, will come round to Protection. Without vouching for the purity of either, we may calculate on the interest of both. Lord GEnaGE thinks the purchase of a popular paper nothing but a lark, which he likes. But it is only when the sky falls that we catch such larks. The party must forego the hope of an organ, and continue to be its own trumpeter. But it has a l'olicy ; and of all things in the world for those who have been so unfortunately conspicuous as a tax-loving and tax-absorbing class, the basis of that policy is Taxation. Sonic have been for governing un empire by bayonets, some by commis sions, and some by corruption; Lord GEORGE is for governing by Custom-houses. Ho declares war against the Excise and the Income-tax. Import duties are the thing ; import duties on all articles of foreign production, which can also be produced in this country. The scheme is worthy of his rising genius. It promises the people a privation of almost all that makes it life to live." Its merit consists in the number of good things which it would keep out of the country, or confine to the wealthiest of its inhabitants. Pushed to an extreme, we see not why it should not end in a great cloudy custom-house, shirting out sunbeams from all but ducal mansions, and restricting the people to the light of our own marshy exhalations, which under the encouragement of high protective duties might be made much more luminous by "native industry." Uuder this system, Government would become merely the machinery for inflicting on the great mass of the people an interminable series of artificial priva tions. It would be an experiment upon the degree of approximstien towards a state of nature to which a civilised community can be reduced. And just in proportion to its success in the infliction of privation upon the people, would be its failure of realising a revenue for the government Lord GEORGE', lessons in logic have riot yet proceeded so far as to show him that if you tax the people out of using a foreign article, you carrot at the same time raise a revenue on the importation of that article. A protection tax and a state tax are antagonistic. They arc mutually destructive purposes. Consumption replenishes the treasury and annihilates the protection. Non-con sumption (of the foreimn product) is the perfection of protection, and the exhaustion of the treasury. This policy would leave Manchester without corn, or Downing-street without cash. It is a sliding-scale between two points, both of which indicate absolute failure, though in opposite directions. It will never do. A ucw policy must be invented by some "ta lented friend" for the proximate Premier. Still the attempt was laudable. A party ought to have a policy ; and, ostensibly at least, some honester policy than simply that of picking the public pocket for the protection and replenishment of its own purse. To be without this, was the fatal blunder of the post reform conservatives. The organization of a party without policy or principle, was a memorable ex periment. It seemed to work well through ten years of opposition ; and five years of power crumbled it to atoms, and scattered its elements to the winds. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK and Mr. NEWDE GATE and Mr. MILES and Mr. DISRAELI, were all of them parties to that experiment. It leaves them the deadliest enemies of their late greatest leaders. They have learned wisdom enough not to play the same suicidal game over again. Sir ROBERT PEEL and they part company, each for a fresh experiment. Ile has found his principle, and leaves that to make a party, if making a party be necessary. They find themselves a party, and now set about making their principle. Suppose they try the adver tising columns of the Thunderer. Those at least are open on condition of payment. " Wanted, a public Policy for O. numerous and respectable party. No projector need apply, who does not consult the class interest of its members." A handsome remuneration would bring many applicants. Whether any of them would propose a scheme more preposterous than that of ruling by import duties, and rendering taxation the conjoint machinery of Protection and Revenue, we very much question. Jr philanthropy has its discouragements, it has also its pleasant triumphs. It often makes men ac quainted with strange yoke-fellows. Plebeian and Peer find themselves thrown together in the genial work of charity, to the great edification of the former and glorification of the latter. A benevolent institu tion is nothing without a Lord at the heed of it. A string of titled patrons draws more effectually, than a list of cures Effected or cases relieved. The national Lord Worship is thus turned to practical account. The stream of charity may be a little polluted by the added element, yet it carries blessing with it notwithstand ing. But if a coolly-bowing, dinner-accepting noble man, be an object of reverential admiration to the plebeian philanthropist, what is a hand-shaking, dinner-giving King? LOUIS-PHILIPPE may be an unpopular sovereign in the Quartier Latin, but he stands well with the corporation of London generally, and one of the Sheriffs of Middlesex in particular. His Majesty shows remarkable relish for civic society. He seems to live in the interchange of a perpetual round of civilities with corporations, big and little. Few dinners at St. Cloud but are graced by the presence of a mayor, or at least an alderman. The last object of the royal attention is Mr. Sheriff Layette, who has written to all the morning papen to communicate the pleasing fact of his having dined with LOUIS-PHILIPPE, which will probably counter balance any disagreeable feelings likely to arise from the Spanish marriage question. Mr. Sheriff LAURIE is known as the energetic agent of many philan thropic works, and inherits much of the activity of his excellent uncle, Sir PETER, who puts down all nuisances, from suicides to suburban swings. The Sheriff had seized the opportunity of a few days' relaxation of his official duties, to make a flying inspection of the French prisons. He had only been in Paris a few hours, when an invita tion arrived to dine " en famine" with his Majesty Louts-PutureE at Neuilly. No time was lost in securing the distinguished fore'gnerfor Saturday; and we are delighted to learn from one who has sat at his " mahogany," the pleasant feelings with which the King regards England and the English. The Sheriff's impressions arc thus summed up : " The kindness and affabillity, the terms expressed for the welfare of both great nations, the lively interest lie takes in everything connected with the City of London, is a compliment that must make us ever hold so great and so exalted a monarch in the highest estimation, and long may he be preserved as a blessing to both countries." There is a universal, though unaccount able association in the civic mind, of Louts PHILIPPE'S love of the Corporation of London, and the blessing of his reign to Europe. The two are linked as cause and effect. Ile could not be 80 great a king, with any less relish for the frequent visitations of the corporate body. It is gratifying to think that at this period of official idleness, the indefatigable Sheriff of Lon don and Middlesex is up and doing. A few days have sufficed him to inspect the prisons and prison discipline of France. He is now on his way to Belgium and Hol land, and intends at a future period to proceed to Germany, to investigate the prison systems of those countries. The Home Secretary will, of course, have the benefit of his inquiries for next session. 'We have no doubt his toils will be materially lightened by the gratuitous services of Mr. Sheriff LAURIE. However, it was less to communicate this pro gramme of his extra-official labours, than to proclaim the fact that he had dined with the King and Queen 1 of the French that the Sheriff-has addressed a circu lar to the morning papers. This invitation of course shows their personal regard for the Sheriff, and their interest in his philanthropic labours. It will lend an , additional lustre to his next appearance on any plat form ; and is a tacit rebuke to certain sovereigns nearer home, who may accept corporation dinners, but have never been known to return them. While Mr. Sheriff LAURIE has, with eagle eye and railway speed, been careering over the prisons of France, Belgium, and Holland, the cause of philan thropy at home, strange as it may appear, has not entirely stagnated. A meeting, important from the spirit which animated it, and the amount of practical experience it included, was held at Dundee on Wed nesday se'nnight, to promote the establishment in that I town of juvenile s?hools of industry on the plan adopted in Aberdeen. The distinctive feature of these schools is, that they furnish not only an elementary 4 . ethmation, but some industrial training, and daily food, to the destitute children of the city, who have no other way of living but beggary or theft. 1 This criminal spawn, the intelligence of Aberdeen has taken wholesale from its native bed of corruption and transferred to a more wholesome region. The I consequences have been marked. Juvenile vagrancy is unknown not only in the city of Aberdeen, but in a wide district round about it. The children are not separated from their parents. They return in the evening, to carry the influence of the lessons and , labour of the day to their criminal or careless elders. , These persons do not oppose themselves to a system which feeds as well e. 9 educates their children. The result is, a regular attendance at the schools, and, in many cases, much good from the example brought by the little pupil to a dissolute fireside circle, from the worst influences of which he is sheltered, while be still partakes of the blessing which hangs about a home, however wretched. The excellent Inspector of prisons for the Northern district, in noticing these Aberdeen schools, con tends that though in Scotland, with its most imper fect poor law, such institutions may be productive of good, some portion of it will be found counterbalanced by attendant evil. In England, where there is a comprehensive poor-law, providing (if administered in the full spirit and intention of the law) for destitution and want of every kind, he looks on such institutions as unnecessary, and likely to produce more harm than good; and maintains that, except in particular eases (the circumstances of which are thoroughly well-known to the parties concerned), there is danger in giving charity, or in relievint , a parent from any share of the cost of bis child's maintenance, except by applying the test of a well-ordered work-house. We have little doubt that Mr. HILL is right in this stern reasoning, if pri sons and workhorses were what his theory sup poses them to be. But until both our poor-law and police are perfect, private charity must find many objects whose relief is justified not only by sympa thy, but sound sense. The Dundee meeting contem plated the foundation of schools for that town only. The mischiefs and miseries of juvenile delinquency, startling as they are in and about London, are, as a general rule, more painful in Scotland than in Eng land. The great cause of this is the want of a poor law. There is no resource but mendicancy for the widow left with a family, and denied all relief, or allowed at best a pittance which mocks her necessities. Were the prisons what they should be, and what they might easily be made, such schools of industry as those of Aberdeen would be less necessary even in Scotland. The misfortune is, that even where efforts have been made to turn the juvenile ward of the gaol into a reformatory, they have been baffled, mainly (as appears from the excellent remarks of Mr. MILLER, Governor of the Glasgow Prison, in the last report of the prison inspector for the northern dis tricts) by the practice of committing young delin quents for short terms only. Short imprisonments are synonymous in provincial experience with re peated imprisonments. The culprit does not remain long enough it' to re* any benefit frees its. machinery of refertnatiOn, however perfect. He is released at the end of his three weeks' or month's confinement, no wiser, no better, no more able to earn an honest livelihood, than before. Again he pilfers to save himself from starvation. He is again committed. And so he renews his round from the streets to the gaol, from the gaol to the streets, until he ripens for the hulks or the scaffold. What is to be said to cases like this of a lad in Glasgow prison ? "My father and mother died soon after each other when I was twelve yours old. No one looked after me. At first I went about car rying gentlemen's luggage; but sometimes I could get no job, and had nothing to eat. I then began to steal, and ever since have been living chiefly by bcgtkry and stealing. I hare sot &resort of prison a fortnight together for three years. When out I cannot get employment. I base tried every place, but there ta me one to speak for me. AU the clothes I have I got from the prison for over-work; but sometimes lam obliged to pawn them. I have two sisters, but one of them has been banished, and the other will do nothing for me. I have also a brother; but be has been banished. I have led a mi,r able life ; but I cannot do better. I should be glad to go to sea, or anywhere that I could get a living." If this boy had for his first offence undergone a long term of imprisonment, with the advantages of education and industrial training while in the prison, and assistance in procuring employment on his dis charge, he might have grown up an industrious and respectable man. As it is he lives the PARIAH'S life, and encounters the PARIAH'S treatment : rejected when he asks for honest work, punished when he steals to satisfy the hunger ho has no worthier means of appeasing . Society does not deal fairly with such beings. They hardly owe her any allegiance. " The world is not their friend nor the world's law." Yet they are the most hopeful subjects for reformatory treatment. I To carry this op, at the same time, with any prospect of success, the classification of young and old in our gaols must be attended to. In our workhouses, again, which receive their proportion of orphan and destitute children, the schools should be under the strictest surveillance. At present they are too often simply scenes of tyrannical severity of dis cipline. The report on the Kirkdale schools of industry at Liverpool (published in the minutes of the Committee of Council on Edu cation for l 846) illustrates the character of the average workhouse school. It is enough to say that, except restraint, no one object of education seems to have been aimed at, much less attained. Unless, however, our prisons and workhouses contain a special apparatus for the education of their younger inmates, the theory of Mr. HILL cannot be rigorously carried out; and ordinary benevolence must still direct its effortathrough such channels as the Industrial school, or the thousand and one similar institutions of our empire, while a longer sighted charity is removing the imperfections and supplying the wants of our prison discipline and workhouse organization. We have received the Paris journals of Tuesday, with our private correspondence. On Monday the King and royal family took up their residence at St. Cloud. The Prince and Printers of Salerno left Scully on Saturday for Belgium. On Monday twelve battalions of infantry, and a bat tery of artillery, assembled at St. bland, where some militate mancruvres took place, under the command of the Due de Nemours. M. Jules Ilenneeart, a Conservative-progressist, has just been elected deputy at Loudun (Vienne), in the room of M. Nozereau, resigned. M. Nozereau was , a member of the Opposition, and relinquished his seat in the Chamber that he might apply himself exclu sively to his functions as Government Engineer of Naval Constructions. M. Ilennecart is bro ther-in-law of M. Ardoin, the well-known banker. The Session of the Conseils Genemux des Departe mens began on the 14th inst. in every chef-lieu. The deposits received in Paris by the Savings' Bank during the week ending Monday 14th inst., amounted to 606,471 francs, the sums withdrawn to 616,266 francs. Although the Due de Nlontpensier's departure will not be fixed for some days, it appears now certain that he will not be accompanied by any memberof the royal family, but by his suite only, and the French ladies appointed to belong to the Duchess's establish ment. _ _ _ _ _ Letters written on board vessels of the French Squadron of Evolution, early in this month announce that the fleet continues in the ports of the Mediterra nean. The steam frigates Descartes and Asmodee were to return to Toulon, but it was expected that the squadron would remain in that sea, in consequence of the agitated state of Morocco. Sidi Ben Ayet, Envoy Extraordinary of the Bey of Tunis to the Court of the 'Tuileries, embarked ou the 10th at Toulon, on board the Dante steamer, which has been presented to the Bey by Louis Phi lippe. Sidi Ben Ayet wag received with due honours at Toulon. The Dante left the harbour in the evening. M. de Barbosa, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Emperor of Brazil to the Court of Russia has arrived in Paris on his way to St. Petersburg. Ile would remain only a few days in the French capital. The consumption of meat in Paris during the month of August last shows an increase on the same month of 1845. It was this year, 6,074 oxen, 2,171 cows, 7,500 calves, 42,668 sheep. Meat and poultry con tinue very dear. For the last four days the Parisian population has been entirely . deprived of ice, owing to the great con sumption during the intensely hot summer. Several ships with cargoes of ice are expected from the North at llavre. • The Madrid papers of the 10th instant continue to expatiate upon the royal alliances. El Heraldo in forms us that it is not exact, as some journals have stated, that the French ambassador has already for mally demanded the hand of the Infanta for the Duke do Montpensier. This ceremony will take place shortly; in the meanwhile all preparations are making in Madrid and Paris to draw up the necessary papers, &c. The dispensation of the Pope for the union of Queen Isabella with her cousin Don Francisco is expected in Madrid about the 20th of this month. Count de Guitaud, brother of Madame De Bresson, left Madrid for Paris on the 10th. It was reported that the Duke de Glucksberg would leave Madrid in two or three days to meet the Duke de Mont pensier at the frontier, and it is said that Senor Arana will accompany him on this mission from the Spanish court. The Marquis do Miradores and Duke de Sotomayor had both arrived in Madrid, and had conferences with the President of the Council. It was reported that the Government would not submit the question of dowry of the royal sisters to the Cortes convoked for the 14th inst. Some of the English squadron were off Cadiz. Letters from Catalonia assert the perfect tranquillity that exists everywhere. El Heraldo rejoices very much over the reduction of the sugar duties, and says : " The reduction of the import duties on foreign sugars in Great Britain, announced yesterday officially in La Gaceta, opens to our colonies a new era of prosperity which will powerfully contribute to consolidate the ties that bind them to the mother country. AU the magnificent results which we anticipate are due to the enlightened commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel, so nobly adopted by the present BritiA government. We see in that fact not only a great financial measure, but moreover a guarantee of that union and s►- ternal peace to which at this time all the nations of Europe ara tending." In El Espanol we find two letters from Portugal, the that dated Lisbon, Sept. 2. " The capital is tranquil ; there are only some discordant elements in the north, where Father Casimir, at the head of a handful of men who proclaim Don Miguel, endeavours to raise the country, but in vain. The battalion of Das-Antas has received orders to rout these rebels, and we shall soon hear that Father Casimir has ceased to be Commandant- General of Tras-os-Montes. There is an absurd report of contracting a loan with England, giving the Island of Ma deira as security." The second letter is dated, frontiers of Portugal, Sept. 15. The ConntDas•Antas is expected at Chaves from Braga. He is desirous that the troops of Yalenza, Oporto, Braga, and Chaves should attack the Miguelite guerillas under the orders of Father Casimer, who, up to this time, had not bees interfered with, as he ht,d helped to overturn the Costa Cabinet, but now it v, decided that he must be at once put down." Our Madrid correspondent has transmitted to us the follo'•ing copy of the first note written by our Ambssisador, Mr. Bulwer, to Signor Isturitz, on the subject of the marriage of the Infanta Luisa with thy Due de Montpensier. We reproduce it textually:— " Madrid, 31st August, 1846. " I have heard (though not from your excellency) that in addition to the marriage of the Queen with Don Francisco de which has been announced to me, the Infanta Donna Luisa is to be married at the aamc time to the Due ' THE EXPRESS THURSDAY EVEN I NG SEPTEMBER 17 ? /846. • Yentpesier, ow et the King of the Frobeh. Par be it from me to dispute whatever may be her Majesty the Queen of Spain's intention towards her royal sister, but I much re gret that it is my duty to observe to you that this marriage taking place at the same time es her Majesty Queen Isabella's, as I am informed it is to do, appears to me under all the cir cumstances of the case, one of the most grave events that can happen in Europe, and that I fear exceedingly may tend very materially to alter the relations of Spain with those powers that have hitherto made it one of the chief objects of their policy to maintain the national independence of this country. Ido not make any apology for this note, since you are fully aware that the marriage of the Infanta can in no way be considered a private marriage, and that it is espe cially regarded an affair of sate by the law, of Spain. (Signed) " H. L. Butwan. " His Excellency, F. D. Xavier Isturitx." FRANCE.—DISTIIRSANCE AT MONTREVIL.—Wc learn from Montreuil that on the 10th of September a riot took place at Etuples on account of the works of the railway being about to pass through the cemetery of that parish. On the 31st of August a considerable crowd assembled in the cemetery to prevent the labourers from proceeding with their work. On the following day the sub-prefect of the depart ment arrived and intimated to the rioters that those bodies which would be taken up would be re-interred with the greatest possible decency. These words were scarcely ut tered when murmurs were heard, and the magistrate was ultimately obliged to retire with the assurance from the mob that the dead would be only disinterred by force. It is pro bable that the authorities will, if possible, avoid having re course to such means. In the meanwhile things remain in 'tutu quo. ESCAMOTAGE.—On the 12th instant the woman Gautier, well known in Paris as a practised thief, alighted from a diligence at 'ho Hotel de Commerce, as if she had just arrived from the country. In bustling about the yard of the inn she overheard a traveller giving directions to one of the waiters to the effect that he intended lying down to take a little rest, but that he would leave the key an the door, so that any one wanting him might obtain admission. No sooner dad Gautier imagi Ember victim to have fallen asleep than she cautiously entered the room, and walked out after having bagged a gold watch and other valuables. She went with her booty to a jeweller, who would not purchase any part of it with out the attestation of a respectable witness. Gautier seemed to have made provision for this contingency, for in a few minutes she returned with an individual who represented himself as a trad.sman residing in the town from whence Gautier had just arrived. The jeweller not being yet quite satisfied, further asked her address, and added that he would go himself, and pay her the amount there. Thus pressed, she gave the address of the Hdtel do Commerce, hoping yet to escape the consequences of her crime. The jeweller shortly after arrived, but lx ing informed by the landlord of the robbery which had taken place, at once left the pre mises, and Madame Gautier, much to her astonishment, was waited upon by a posse of officers. ALGIERS.—Thc following is from the .11/oniteur Aty,rieu of the 10th instant :—" We stated in our last that Lieutenara-General lledeau had left Constantino on the 21st ult., for the purpose of chastising the tribe amongst whom was committed the murder of the Kaid Lackhal, one of our best servants. The last mail from the East has brought us au account of the results of this short expedition. The principal persons of the tribe of the Beni-Ketits have been arrested, and a fine of 5-5,000 f. has been inflicted on the tribe. A fraction of the Benhi-Soughals, who, contrary to orders, had given an asylum t 3 the Beni-Ketits, and had received their flocks and herds, in order to conceal them from us, have been severely punished. An investigation has been commenced, with a view to discover the authors of the murder, and give them up to justice." BELGIUM.—THE POTATO CROP.—The potato winter cropping is reported to be nearly finished in the pro vince of Brabant, and particularly in the environs of Bruaseß. It is not known in the memory of man to have been heretofore effected so early as the beginning of Septem b,r; it is almost six weeks earlier than in ordinary years. With some exceptions the crops are very satisfactory. The estimated prod•ice of the potato crop this year in the arron dissement of Brussels, and in the rest of the province, will be at the rate of about 150 hectolitres per hectare. Last year, when four-fifths of the crop failed, the produce was only 42 hectolitres per hectare. In 1841, the crop averaged 17,5 hectolitres per hectare. GERMANY.—The atLicax INSURRECTION.— VIENNA, nEPTEMBEk 6.—By a resolution of his Majesty the Emperor, dated 30th August, different communes in the district of Tarnow have received recompmses for the devo tion they . showed in the late events in Ualicia. The mayor of Ospo rizow received 100 florins, and special rewards were distributed to certain individuals. TUE GKRMA.N DIET AND THE HOLSTEIN SVC CESSION.—BERLIN, Serramban 9.—ln well-informed cir cles it is rumoured that the German Diet will confine its proceeding; to a protest against the letter patent of the King of Denmark, in the case only that Denmark drew conse quences from it contrary to the rights of the confederation. In this case the question of principles would no; be decided, but the Danish government would have an occasion for getting out of the embarrassment it is in ; and as th, present state of things will not undergo any change until the extinction of the male line of Denmark, and twenty or thirty years may pees by b fore that takes place, the measure would not be strong enough in the eyes of Germany ; but the Danish government would he checked in its pretensions. Denmark feels the necessity of a recon ciliation with the duchies to provide against a movement which might cause a dissolution. Many men, devoted tothe King, are much embarrassed between their devotion and their duty.—Augsburq Gazette., 11 Sept. FREE-TRADE PRUSSIA —DL"ssELDORF SEPT. 8. —The toast proposed by the President of the BozO.d of Trade at a dinner given in honour of the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Berlin, has eauend great remotion. The toast was to "Commercial freedom and independence." The baneful influence of protective duties was the subject of conversation. STATE OF FEELING IN POLAND TOWARDS Rua.q.s,__ PostB, Seer. B.—The trial of the Poles is to commence on the Ist October next. The debates are to be public. The number of the accused is not given. The enthusiasm of Young Poland for Russia seems to have subsided, and antipathy to have taken its place. Martial law, whichhas been pme.aimed in the districts of Mande, Keida, and Cimino, as well as the banishment of numerous Poles to Siberia, has operated the change. A letter from Warsaw states that tho Emperor of Russia was expected there, and that his Majesty would probably attend the camp in Silesia. Apartments have been prepared for bins, although his visit has not been officially announced. The first act for the colonisation of the Jews in the grand duchy of Posen has been drawn up. The corporation rights were first taken into consideration, with out which they cannot possess landed property. The first Rabbi and the president of the police are at the head of the establishment. CHURCH SEPARATION IN BADEN.—CARLSRUITE, Serr.lo.—ln the sitting of the second Chamber of the States of the 10th instant, the Deputy Buss proposed the separation of the Catholic Church from the state. M. Welker opposed the motion, alleging that it was giving a supremacy to the Jesuits. The proposition was rejected by a large majority. DISTRESS AT ILAMECRG.—Sctious fears are enter tained at Hamburg for the situation of the poorer classes. Provisions arc excessively dear, and work is scarce. Com merce and navigation are stnenant. The money market is in a critical state.—Cologne Gazette. ALLEGED PROHIRITION OF THE EXPORTATION or CORN.—The Gazette de Cologne says it has been an nounced for some time that a measure will shortly appear, prohibiting the exportation of corn from the territory of the Zollverein. We can hardly credit this statement. Before adopting such a measure, the cabinets will reflect twice ; for acts of rigout will lead to reprisals; and besides there is nothing at present to justify the panic which some persons seek to excite, with regard to the failure of the potato crop. THE NETHERLANDS.—THE POTATO DISEASE. —ZIEEIKZEE, SEPT. 11.—Wo have at present no very unfa vourable report respecting the disease in the potatoes in these islands. It is true indeed that it exists here, in a greater or less degree; but, on examination, it is found that the fears expressed at the first moment were greatly ex aggerated. NEW PENAL CODE.—.I MSTERDAM, SEPT. 14. It is affirmed that the government has a new penal code quite ready to be presented entire to the S'atcs Gen - sral at the commencement of the next session. Next to the penalty of death, as we hear, is that of imprisonment for lic.. In the House of Correction solitary confinement is introduced, the maximum of which is fift , 2 , n years. No corporal punish ment, no exposure in the pillory, no transportation, is ad mitted into this code. LCCREAS ED Ex PORTAT lON.-LEECIVA EDEN, SEPT. ---- - • • 12.—The number of steam-boats from London to Harlingen and back, which were hitherto two, namely, the Magnet and Rapid, has been increased to three—the Mountaineer, Capt. C. A. Spence. The exportation of butter and cattle is quite astonishing. Ia consequence of the extraordinary heat, which has been this week at 80 deg. Fahrenheit, many shrubs are again in flower, and in several parts of the pro vince the fruit trees are in bloom for the second time. EPIDEMIC DISEASE.—THE HAGUE, SEPT. 13. The prevailing sickness which we meationed last week in our number of the 7th, is, we are sorry to report, rather increasing than diminishing, probably in consequence of the return of the hot weather. The number of deaths this week is greater than in the preceding. 'With respect to the sick, ~we must confine ,ourselves to those in public institutions, since the number of sufferers in private houses is quite un known to us. In the two hospitals, 240 additional patients were brought in, andl99 discharged as sufficiently recovered, and 23 had died, so that the number has increased this week , by 18. THE PEOPLE OF NEW MEXICO. (From the Matamoros Flap, July 19.) The territory of New Mexico hes north of the 26th parallel of latitlide, and its greatest length from north to south is 700 miles ; from east to west, its boundary has never been circumscribed within the limits of certainty. Its geo graphical position is remarkably singular ; the Itio Grande passes through it nearly in a central line from north to south. Its whole entire surface is a succession of mountains rising in majestic splendour t 2 that giddy height where even the cedar and pine can retain no foothold, their conic heads covered with the white veil of perpetual snow. The inheai , tants live in the deep valleys, and upon the margin of the ' Rio Grande. Villages on the river are situated in its dif ferent bends, where a sufficiency of bottom lands are left for the purposes of agriculture. The greatest extent occupied by settlements is 300 miles in length, and 100 in . width ; the population taken collectively is about 50,000. The first village in the north is El Pueblo de Taos, which gives name to the valley in which it is situated. TIF.e origi nal inhabitants arc Indians, and known by the name of Pueblos. They were in possession of this collar: when the Spaniards first visited Mexico, and they have remained until the present time. When the Spaniards extended their do minion over this Indian country by the aid of Gospel mis sionaries, they found these Puebl Andians friendly, honest, and industrious, brave and confiding; endowed with great natural good seuse—neighbours to be conciliated, but not subdued. The Pueblo of Taos is immediately at the foot of the west side of the first ridge of the Rocky Mountains. There is a small stream that issues from a ravine, flows out into a valley, and eventually mixes its waters with the Rio Grande, which separates the two departments. The vil lage possesses much singularity, combining great strength with the boldest conception in the architecture, enjoying the most complete utility in its honey-comb formation. The village is formed of two distinct departments, the rivu let dividing it in the centre. This at first eight mieht not seem to have particular design. The buildings are exactly similar. The first, or basement story, occupies a large area ; upon this is reared another story, being smaller than the first by ten feet—each successive story falling off in the same ratio until the pagoda becomes nine stories high. In the basement story there are no doors, the entrance being through a round hole in the offset which forms the roof; a pile being planted in the aperture with a ladder attached, by which they ascend and descend. The buildings resemble pyramids, with the exception of their being square. In the formation of this village an equal number of the heads of families divided themselves off and laid two foun dations precisely similar, and reared upon them two equal structures. What a field was here for emulation ? What barriers to an assailing enemy ? As their generations grew up, the youths from both sides would meet and in manly sports endeavour to excel. The great patron saint of the village is Saint Jerome; they having adopted the Catholic religion through the powerful influence of missionaries from Old Spain. The day of St. Jerome is celebrated by selecting thirty of the choicest youths from each side of the stream, to compete with one another in manly sports. A race-course is cleared out in front of the village 400 yards in length, and wide enough fur two to run abreast. An equal number of the old men of each village arc chosen to prepare the lists and marshal the competitors. Nothing can be so animating and soul•stirring to the beholder as to view those sixty champions, in all the pride of nature, adorned with the simplest arts and yet so appropriate. In making selections for the lists, the pride and boast of the villagers are brought out, all are chieftains of the greatest note. The honour of their ancient houses is staked upon them; their own fair name is entrusted to the race, and their feats are viewed by the "fairest of the fair." The houses present one vast pyramid of human beings, all the women from the adjoining villages coming to wanes' this annual festival. About 11 o'clock the signal is given, and the race commences. At each end of the tract stand 30 runners, 15 on a side ; as one starts from one end, another from the opposite party starts from the other, and the first 30 that run through arc considered as having gained the laurels of the day. They then form in grand processions, and in wild chorus of song surround the buildings, from which in great profusion is showered upon them varieties of fruits and cakes, the crowd of spectators mixing in a joyful scramble. The morning feats having passed off, the even ing's interlude commences. Between these two heaven reared towers stands a tall slender pole of native pine, the bark pealed off, and the polished surface greased. On the top of the pole is framed a cross, upon which are hung bas kets of fruits and festoons ingeniously woven, of sweet cakes, flowers, and emblematical devices, pictured with silver dollars suspended by wires; and to crown the rich of fering, upon the very ,top of the pole stands an aged and respectable ram, fast pinioned to the place. A large crowd has gathered round to witness the rustic scene which is an. nounced by the merry peals of music, and the loud piercing screams of the scaling squadrons, as they come rushing to the trial. The pole is t 3 be scaled ; the treasure is to be lowered, the lists are open, the world may enter. Here then may be seen the resources and ingenuity of nature's children. The prize would seem totally beyond their reach, yet their minds once bent upon the attainment of the object, they make of their holies ladders, hoops . , chain., leaning pyra mids, until at last some daring spirit reaches the suspended treasure. As the evening shades prevail, the festivity com mences within doors, where the victors of the day are re warded by the maidens of their choice. The sole object of the separate villaess is to excel in all they undertake in common. In their agricultural pursuits the same emulation exists : when they go into battle what desperate feats of bravery will they not attempt to wear the victor's crown. Indiasolute bonds of friendship bind them together, and they have ever been the white friend. Their honesty and industry , is proverbial, and well cultivated fields and well-stocked farms give token of much thrift and independ ence. They are strict observers of the Catholic faith, the priests being allowed to live in their villages. If it had not been for these Indians, New Mexico would have been over run by the surrounding Indian tribes. They do not make war a trade, but their bravery is unequalled in the redress of injuries. Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico. It is a small and inconsiderable Tillage, in its most prosperous days never having had a population of snore than 2000, and it is now upon the decline. It is situated 20 miles from the Rio Grande, upon the east side. It is owing to an ex tensive commerce with the state of Missouri and the gold mines in the vicinity, that has given Santa Fe a name abroad. From Santa Fe a large waggon road winds around through the valleys, and emerges out into the plains be fore reaching Red ]Liver. Through the moantains to San Miguel or el Bado it is 60 miles. San Miguel is situated upon a small creek or river, called Pecas River, which takes its rise within fifteen miles of Santa Fe, and after running 000 miles falls into the Rio Grande. About half way between Santa Fe and San Miguel, is the celebrated I''.. as village, being of the sante tribe that has been de scribed, but claiming a more ancient origin. They have no records, but are governed by oral traditions. They ob serve the Catholic faith, but, strange to tell, they say they are waiting the return of their great king, who promised them that he would return in due season ; and from time immemorial hare they preserved the same fire that was burning upon his departure. They describe him as their great King and Saviour, and they take it by turns in watching the tire, which is preserved in a deep well or cellar. The old and most decrepid are destined to the never-ending watch. In latt r years great sickness prevailed amongst them, and the village went to decay in consequence. They became fearful that it was some visitation, andabout the year 1839 or 1840, they moved to the west side of the Rio Grande, to a small village called Jemas, about 50 miles from Santa Fe. where they carried the everlasting lire, to continue its ominous blaze through all time. , COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The past week has been the mod propitious one for the colony since the commence ment of the present war. The reaction, so long and anxiously looked for has, it may be hoped, now commenced, and the enemy begun to taste the bitter fruits of his late misdoing*. It is with no ordinary satisfaction we refer the reader to the official despatch of Col. Somerset, detailing the sharp, brit liant, and decisive action on the Gwanga. That document is no: the worse that it is unassuming, that it rather underrates than otherwise the results of that affair, and that it preserves throughout a tone of moderation which at once insures the confidence of the reader in the perfect accuracy of the whole statement. We have already given an opinion of that action, the favourable complexion of which is heightened by further reflection and fuller information. No affair of the kind could be better conducted or be more creditable to the victors. It is due to Colonel Somerset to say that he dis played equal gallantry, activity, and judgment, and of all the officers and men under his command, that he was ably seconded by them. The effect of this engagement upon the confederated Cuffre tribes will, there is reason to believe, he most salutary. Already, it is attirmd, the good effects are beginning to be apparent. Many Cottrell are hastening from the colonial border, while there are symptoms of dis may and irresolution amongst some of the nearer tribes, who, incited by recent successes, were redoubling their efforts to overcome, if possible, the resistance made by the white man. Frorn all Olt can be learned by the designs of the confederated chiefs, a very comprehensive plan had been adopted by them to harass and lay waste the colony. The frontier posts were to be swept away, and towards the accomplishment of this end the communications with head-quarters were to be cut off, and then a rush, on a grand scale, was to be made upon this settlement. A large force of Kreilli's Celtics were marching down to join in this hopeful project; but these, it is thought, will now slacken their speed, while many, if not all, will decline an enterprise which they have been now taught is not quite so easy of accomplishment as they had been led to expect. Umhala, it is reported, already demurs, and com plains that he has been deceived by those chiefs who have involved him with the English, and it is even thought ' O7 some that he will at once withdraw from the coalition. Still, notwithstanding all tbe.e cheering circumsts . noes, the colony must not fur a moment be thrown off its guar d. Should the; Caffres recover from the effects of this sharp blow, it is not improbable that they will prosecute the war with greater activity and far more vindictiveness than ever ; and, though their loss in the various engagemo m te with the colonists has been severe, yet, let it not be P J rgotten that, if united, they may still precipitate tbetwie.ves with over whelming force upon this country. The oole.iiy, then, has still an arduous task to accomplish, wkicla consists not merely in the stubbornness and strength of v'.e enemy, but in the , difficulties of the country. The com'neneement of this great undertaking is about to be math, his Excellency the Go- vernor taking the field as Comay.nder-in-Chief this very day. Every true and loyal colonist will most fervently wish him God speed. We have eLsow'Aere remarked that the upper part of tke boundary line will be operated upon by the burgher force under the command of Commandant-General Sir Andreas Stockenstrom, on whose experience, judgment, and energy, the pu'Aic may in this warfare place the strongest depcnden , e. We trust we have seen the last of merely defensive operations, which against an enemy like the Caffres are •alwara ruinous. The war must now be pro secuted vigoross y within the enemy's territories—he must be made to fr el the weight of British power—he must, if he be spared, he subjugated and placed under efficient control, and then, and not till then, will the colony be secured against w recurrence of the calamities by which it is now visited..—South African, June 25. ADDITIONS TO OUR MUSEUMS OF NATURAL HISTORY. —Mr. Louis Fraser, late curator of the Zoological Society of London, has just returned to this country by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's vessel Montrose, with a fine collection of natural history, both living sad dead, which has been collected, during the past summer, in the Regency of Tunis, to which place he repaired in March last, at the express desire of the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby. Among the living animals are a pair of very fine young lions; an ostrich ; several specimens of the Barbary deer ; also a male and female of a very rare species of gazelle, from the Jereed, all of which were presented to him by her Majesty's agent and cor.sul-general, Colonel Sir Thomas Reade, K.C.8., to whom he is indebted for much kindness and attention. ecntrt. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by th e Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, u(nt (tt ToC'S* afternoon in the char-il-banc, drawn by lour ponies, to Neu. port. Her Majesty and the royal party returned to Obbora e , house by way of Barton. Lord John Russell had the honour of joining th e royal circle at dinner in the evening. Mr. Cavan and Mr. King had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. A deputation of the Philanthropic Society, consist. in gof the Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden, Mr. Paynter, Gladstone, and the Rev. Sydney Turner, Chaplain to the Philanthropic Society, had an interview with Sir Georg, Grey yesterday at the Home-office. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street. Mr. McLachlan had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office. Mr. Jeminghain had alp an interview with the noble earl yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. THE PRIVATE APARTMENTS AT WINDSOR CASTLE, —No orders to view the private apartments will be available after Friday next, the 18th instant, in consequence of th e approaching return of the Court. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has sent a &ma. tion of 101. to the Royal Artillery Charitable Fund. It amounts to upwards of 1,0001., and was formed under the patronage of the late lamented Commandant-General, Lo r d Bloomfield, and lady. It is for the relief of the wives and families of soldiers of the Ordnance corps Embarking at Woolwich for foreign service, as they receive nothing from the government until official accounts are received of their husbands' safe arrival at the place of destination. REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON.—Mr. Arnold sat yesterday, and proceeded with the livery lists. Twenty-one companies (end ing, according to alphabetical arrangement, with the Dra pers) were to be called on by appointment. The notices on each side were, after some conversation, admitted, as far as their service on the clerks of the companies was concerned, those gentlemen being in attendance, and producing the notices. In the case of Charles Pontifex, armourer and brazier, objected to by the Tories, it was contended by Mr. Wansey that nothing more was necessary than to prove that the party objected to was • freeman and liveryman on the 31st of July last, and for twelve months previously. The act 6 Viet., c. 18, s. 40, required no proof of residence ; and that this was the proper construction of the section had been decided by the justices of the Common Pleas, in Hilary Term last, in Lockett v. Knowles. The Barrister held that proof of residence was necessary, and said there *ere cases on the other side. The sauna net had made re sidence within seven miles part of the elector's quali. ficatiou; and a party objected to was bound to give the same proof of qualification as a new claim ant—namely, to pro've all the ingredients of his quali. 6cation. This had been the uniform practice, here and elsewhere, ever since the passing of the Reform Act. The voter must show that he resided within seven mires, either at the place stated in the list, or at some other place within seven miles ; it was nut material that the same place should be shown, as the court had power to make an alteration.— Evidence was then given that Mr. Pontifex resided at Brain hope Lodge, Charlton, within seven miles; and the descrip tion was altered accordingly. Mr. Wansey applied (or costs, and the Barrister said, after the decision in Luckett r. Knowles, be should certainly give the full costs, 205., in this cause.—Mr. Brown argued strongly against this course. —The Barrister said it was the duty of the objector to satisfy himself whether a voter lived within seven miles, :red not to object at random, because the party was wrongly described, on the chance of his having gone bermd the limi.e. There was no doubt numbers of voters had been 'true': off every year in this way, owing to their being from home, and un able to appear and prove their qualification. lie:e the gen tleman had been put to great expense and inemvenience, having had to obtain legal advice; and the full amount of costa must be given. In consequence of this decision, the objections to 636 liverymen and 900 householders, which rest o r the same grounds, will be withdrawn, thus materially reducing the amount of business before the court. Costs having been awarded in another similar case, Mr. Brown said this was so entirely new and unexpected a course, that he might be made liable to a vast amount of costs ; and he must, therefore, ask the court to be lenient. The Barrister said Mr. Brown had no right to say this was a new course ; for, after the decisions in the Common Pleas, which gentlemen practising in these cony s were ex pected to be acquainted with, they ought not to have taken objections of this class ; the only purpose of which could be to disfranchise the voters by reason of an erroneous descrip tion of the place of abode. If there were any more objec tions of this class, they had better be withdrawn ; for be should give full costs in all these cases, which he considered very frivolous. Nearly all the cases investigated during the day turned on questions of residence, and presented no point of interest. Mr. James Bewley, of the Coopers' Company, bad been objected to on the supposition that he was dead ; but a wit ness came forward and assured the court that " he was quite the contrary." (Laughter.) Much amusement was created by some of the addresses ; in reference to one, " Rural place, Mile-end-road," Mr. Arnold observed that it looked like a mis-description on the face of it. At the close of the drapers' list, the court adjourned. In the course of the sitting it was arranged that the house holders' lists should not be commenced before Id inday, the freemen's lists being expected to occupy the whole of the week. The result of first day's revision was that 22 liberal objec tions were sustained, and 25 failed and were withdrawn. The Tory objections sustained were 34, failed and withdrawn, 79 ; II objections by both parties were sustained, 4 with drawn, and 4 struck off by the court; 1 Liberal claim was allowed. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tovrim Ileutwre.—D. C. Maylan, Esq., the barrister appointed to revise the list of voters for this borough, opened and closed the revision yesterday. The lists of the respective parishes in the borough having been handed in by the over seers, he decided 107 MCA, of which 53 were allowed, and i 4 rejected. The objections were chiefly caused by the claimants having omitted to apply to have their names replaced on the rate-book, or by their non-appearance to maintain their claims. WEST WHEAL MINING ASSOCIATION. —At a special general meeting of this company, held y.sterday at their offices, 67, Old Broad-street, James Heron, Esq., in the chair, it was arranged to defer the forfeiture of those shares on which the last call remains unpaid until the end of October, should the amount required by the directors not be forthcoming at that period. A statement firm the company's agents was read by the chairman, and this docu ment communicated the intelligence that 'bunt 9,0001 worth of copper ore was in sight in the various levels •of the mines. _ _ _ POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN SOCIETY.— A gene ral meeting of the members of this society was held yester day ; at the offices, Leicester-square. The object of the me sting was to submit a modification of the rules for the goser nment of the parent society. The new rules, having bow .1 read, were unanimously adopted. SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCri.TY.—A dahlia and miscelLancous flower show of the ahoy c society— the last of the season—was held yesterday at the P.oyal Surrey Zoological Gardens. The flowers exhibited were in fewer quantity than on former occasions, for which the lateness of the season sufficientl7 accounts, but were if prossible of a finer description than usual. The dahlias, of which there were a great varietF, called forth high praise ; and moat of the prizes which w ere distributed were well merited by the florists who weed them. The gardens were well attended throughout tt.e day, and became densely crowded towards evening. METRe POLITAN FREE HOSPITAL. The Lord Mayor pr raided yesterday evening at the tenth anniversary dinner • of this humane institution, of which their Royal Highr ;eases Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge are I the r .atrons. Its object is to afford relief gratuitously to out dor ; patients, without requiring from them a governor's le .ter of recommendation, or any other introduction beyond r' Oat of sickness and poverty. It appeared from the report, which was read by the secretary, that 9,9'4 poor persons had been relieved as out-patients within the past year, making a total of 80,538 persons who had derived benefit from the charity since its opening in 1836, and that owing to a rein forcement of the funds by an annual subscription of 1001,. from the Holborn Estate Charity, the committee had at. tempted to carry out the second object of its founders, of receiving in-door patients, by fitting up two wards, to which several patients requiring surgical operations had in the caurse of the past year, been admitted. The right hoe. gentleman, who filled the chair, in proposing " Praise rity to the Institution," (after the usual loyal toasts), expressed a hope that public support would soon enable it to extend its usefulness, particularly as regarded the reception of a larger number of iu-patients. The expenditure of the present year exceeded the receipts, partly owing to the telling . off of annual subscribers, and partly to the necessity c,f repairing the premises, 29, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn—a f ict which the committee felt confident would be remedi•A t y being made known. The dinner, which took place at the Freemasons' Tavern, and the musical arrangements, which were under the direction of Mr. Hobbs, left nothing to desire. WEEKLY REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS. —The metropolitan returns for the week end .g Saturday, the 12th instant, exhibit an increay.: of deaths, v.-hich amount to 944, a greater number than Is as taken place in any of the corresponding weeks of the previous six years. The greatest mortality occurring in the el'erenth wecli of the third quarter was in 1843, when 915 de.s.:ihs were registered. The average of the series of corresre.inding weeks of the last six years is 860. The births remtered during the past week were 1,280. A WHALE CP.UGHT IN THE THAMES. —Yesterday ire afternoon, corue.erable curiosi ty was excited at Deptford green, by the *appearance of a w h a le, which Thomas Wetherfield an d some o ther Dep tford watermcn had caught is the Themes, between Blackwell and Greenwich. Thc creature was ultimately placed in a shed at the rear of the Sir Jein Falstaff Tavern, Dep tford-green. It measured 12 feet ',ii length, the width of the tail being 3 feet. NEW CHURCH IN BETIINAL-GREEN.—The cere mony of laying the first stone of a new church, to be called the church of Saint Matthias, was performed yesterday after noon by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, in Hare street, Bethnal-green, in the presence of a large concou rse of persons. After the ceremony, the company adjourned to take tea in one of the new warehouses beiengsng to the Eastern Counties Railway, which was generously given up for the purpose by the railway company. The Lord Mayor presided ; suitable addresses were made by some of the local