The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-14 00:00:00

Vie el:000. OUTGOING MAILS. The imile for Drama North America sad the Milted States will be ma de up this main, Dee. 14. T. Was India Maio,o:chain Bermuda, Herannah , Naomi, Honduras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and including *MO fit Maleire, St. lsan.cle-Niaarassa, New Grenada, ChM, and Pim will be despatched on Dee. 17. The nest mils for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be mods up on Des. 17. Ths meal dr Gibraltar, Malts, Greece, the lonian blonds , *opt, Ceylon, India, and China, iris Southampton, will be made op an the morning of Dee. 20. The Imes *id Kamilla, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ogle*. India. floor Kong, to., will be made up on the man of Dn. 24. Tbe Mid Ist *aerie, the Braille, and Buenos Ares,will be mob ip en Jan. 4. ILNIR NAT'S AT LONDON POLIDON. Tim I is. Teiseeary—Yeasiag, IL ........ Altitessa. ab. 4/.. ' LONDON, FRIDAY; DECEMBER 14. Ir reason and right were synonymous for the law of parliament, we need not disagree a bout tree trade. Parliament once persuaded and having registered its deliberate conviction in the form of law, there ought to be no room fur farther questionno need of further testimony. But there is still in the land that which obeys not law, and which without scruple would *A parliament to stultify itself. To baffle the plotting@ a that eordid insubordination effectually and for ever, there is one, and one only way i—to render parliament a full and free representation of the people. Landlordism openly conspires against our immature commercial liberty. 'Twelve months have not elapsed since the poor and industrious millions of these king doms were permitted to eajoy, tor the first time during five and thirty years, the luxury of a loaf of bread untaxed ; yet already Dives and his spend- thrift fraternity busily scheming how LAZAIII7B may be cheated of his crumb.. The industry and enterpriseof the l a nd—but just re covering from the prostration caused by famine at home and coefusion abroad, and with renascent energy an d buoyant hope. preparing for a new de aide of thrift and toil—is startled by the half forgotten shout that so loeg was privileged, per kgem terra, to bid it " stand and deliver!" But though the accents of extortion be unchanged, the habit of submission is. The days of acquiescence in hereditary spoliation ha ve passed away for ever. While the old flood gates held together, the volume and forte of the current were unknown; but once swept away, 'lis vain to try to narrow spin the course of the emancipated stream. Landlordism plots and schemes spinet the life of trade. We ask not how shall its machinations be defeated, because we know that come what will the people of this country have silently revolved that a tax on corn in the shape of rent they never will again be induced to pay. But we ask,—what mach esneerne the peace and safety of the empire, and con sequently the weal of every occupied and toiling clam of the community,—how shall the treason of landed oligarchy be crushed, and the highway of industry be cleared of its partisan and fdatory ambuscades ? " Black-mail in the shape o f a re-fixed duty on corn !"—pay it we won't, that's all. Nay, but that's not all ; we want to be rid of these Rob Heys, and to be left to follow our day's work in peace. How is that to be done ? We can't afford to be always under arms. We love peace and a quiet life—not perpetual strife and struggle. Commerce, manufacture, agriculture itself, demands, above all things, to be assured firmly and finally of the ineustrial policy of the state; and without such assurance the neare cannot seem other than a lottery, as the past has been. One remsoy there is, and only one. Let the legls- Wine be ideatified with the nation—with its uni versal, instead of its partial industry—with its diffused as well as its amassed wealth. Let every man who shares the burthens be endued with the franchises of the state. Let every ra'epayer have a vote for the representatives of the people. Local liabilityinva riably.implies imperial contribution ; for notoriously there Is not a householder, however humble, whose dwelling is rated to the support of the poor, who does not consume to a greater or lesser extent those articles of subsistence whose 'rice largely consists of either customs or excise duties. Let local rating, then, be taken as the easy, obvious, and self correcting test of co-liability to the public burthens, and of political co partnership in its risks and gains, its welfare or misfortune. And then—when this is done, and the laborious many are re-invested with those long-lost rights of citizen ship which their forefathers enjoyed, then let landlord ism call for the dissolution of parliament annually if it will. Liability to rating is but a modern rendering of the olden phrase, whereby all men who paid seat and let were summoned on a given day to choose fit and worthy persona to serve in the Canintons Howse of Parliament. For " the Com mons" had their own house then, and a very churlish house it was in matters of taxation. Monopoly was no doubt as greedy and p rodigal _ in ancient days as now ; but, se long u it had but one-half of parlia ment at its disposal, it was obliged to be content with the mere waifs and strays of power. Its resources were comparatively limited, and its credit low. Few that had money would lend it to individual land lords, and the system of pawning the future taxation of the country was impracticable, so long as the Commons House of Parliament was, in spirit and in truth, a House of Commons. But from the day when the franchises of the r eople were made away with, and both chambers of the legislature became assemblies of landlords, prodi gality in the expenditure, excessive taxation, and an unlimited system of mortgaging the resources of generations yet unborn, became—and have continued to this cay—the standing impolicy of the empire. The corn law was but • chapter in this Book of Abuses. We have torn it out, and burnt its unhallowed leaves in the fire. But if we would have done with the recollection of it, or the danger of an attempt to in terpolate a new edition of a hateful and corrupting law, we must insist upon the restoration to the tax payers of these realms of the right to name the tax leviers; and landlordism shall never hear from us a word in depreciation of general elections as often as No farther back than Tuesday last we end to disabuse oar protectionist countrymen of their fixed idea that Great Britain alone, of sea-going na tion', had renounced the policy of the navigation laws ; that all other countries regarded this step as a Quixotic freak, not to be imitated but avoided. We then showed that, in point of fact, only four sea-going countries still adhered to the navigation law policy, and that in two of these—Belgium and Holland—the restrictions of their navigation laws were, in so far ea we are concerned, little more than nominal. We confess that, sanguine though we have ever been that the bold and liberal of this coun try in abandoning its navigation law, would ere long prove contagious, we did not expect, when writinglthe remarks in question, to be enabled, ere the week was at an end, to announce that the little that remained of a restrictive navigation law in Holland had bean made less. Yet so it is. With the excep tion of the discriminating duty on tees imported for home consumption in native vessels, Holland has reed all that remains of her navigation law. event is moat important for the general com merce of the world at large ; but in another point of view it serves to illustrate the beneficial tendency of the Rhona system of commercial policy which our country has initiated, and to which, let protec tionists indulge in what delusive dreams they please, it is henceforth and for ever devoted. What meet immediately concerns °emir's is the effect that the step taken by Holland will have upon our relations with the Netherlands Indies. Hitherto all goods imported into Java in British and other foreign ships allowed to trade with that colony have been subject to double the duties imposed on goods imported under the Netherlands Reg. Great doubts were entertained whether the half duties said to be paid on goods imported in NetherLumie ships were not evaded by some juggle or other ; and there was presumptive evidence that goods imported by the ships of the Netherlands Maatachappy (or company) paid no duty. Foreign ships have hitherto been entirely excluded from the Spice Islands. New poets are by Ws menenru of the Netherlands govern ment laid open to om . shipa and old onee made KO eessible on more equ:table and less onerous ti rms. The Netherlands g ovirna:ent has thus borne witness • •~ • • THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1849. • to the superiority in point of wisdom of the commer cial policy which has been pursued at Singapore over that which hes hitherto been so pertinaciously clang to in Java and at Ausboyna. Aeolis'r important result of the all but total repealth o f f the Dutch navigation law is the emancipation of tease the Rhine from the vexatious and obstructive oft w hich have hitherto impeded the deeelop meat of its shipping. Here, too, Holland ham borne mogaineal testimony to the soundness of the free trade principle. The railroads of Belgium and Prussia were rapidly superseding the Rhine, not merely asthe highway foe travellers,lout for the carriage of merchandise. The heavily . burdened Rhinrecraft could not make a stand against the rival railway trains. Holland was in danger of seeing herself thrust into an ont-of-the-way unvisited corner, instead ofbeing bisected by the g r e at highway of the commerce of central Europe. The sagacity indicated by the resolution to liberate the Rhine from its burdensome tolls will no doubt urge on the Nether lands government to lose no time in completing the railway from Arnheim to the Prussian frontier ; for thus aloes can Holland reap the full harvest of the advantages it may derive front its natural position, and compete on an equal footing with Belgium for the wealth to be derived from its ports becoming the great harbours of central Europe. England will be beuefited by the almost total repeal of the Dutch navigation law ; Western and Central Germany, Eastern France , and Switzerland, will be benefited by it ; but the advantages which Holland will derive from the measure w`tl be the' greatest of all. Java, relieved from the incubus of the I Mastsehappy monopoly, will start anew on the career of commercial prosperity. Holland, containing the principal harbours of Europe between the Vistula and the Maes, the Alp and the North Sea, will be hen , I measurably enriched. This policy has been taught to Holland by the experience of thirty-five years' blun-1 dering from one phase of protection to another, and is a testimony to the soundness of free-trade principles above all suspicion. We are not insessible to the importance of having the last rag of its navigation law which Holland still allows to flatter and twist restrictively round the limbs of its commerce Ora away. The imposition of a duty of 6 florins on bohea and ordinary cow% sod 16 florins on other te,s imported in foreign venni% while the same teas imported in national vessels pay respectively only 21 and 5 florins, is unfair to our shipping, seeing that Dutch ships may import tans, direct from China to English ports free from any die criminatieg duty ; but the good sense shown by the Dutch government in the great stride it has at once taken towards the liberating of navigation, convinces us that this short-sighted policy will not be long ad hered to. We alluded, in the beginning of these remake, to advantages which would result from the all but total repeal of the Dutch navigation law, irrespective of commercial considers'ions. Since 1815 the naviga tion of the Rhine has been a constant source of irri tating diplomatic discussions between Holland andl the German states. Since 1824 the discriminating duties levied on goods imported into Java under the British flag, and other grievances of our commerce in the Indian archipelago, have been co nstant sources of irritating diplomatic dis cussions between Holland and England. Much precious time has been wasted, great and useless' expenses have been incurred, and serious national collisions threatened, from the inability of Dated, 1 1 German, and English diplomatists to agree as to the right interpretation of the treaty of Vienna, and the treaty of 1824 between England and th e Netherlands. ' What the aggregate sagacity and subtlety of the di- plomacy of these three nations could not effect, a liberal policy in regard to navigation has al'wady accom plished. The bickering' of thirty years have become matter of history—subjects for the curious inquiry of the antiquarians of international law. FRANCE. PARIS, TUVRSDAT, 5.30 P.M. Two champions of opposite systems of taxet'oa were heard in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The debate was a serious one, involving as it did the dismission of a law on which depends the financial ' balance of France. The intention of Louis Napoleon is presenting the project of law authorising the levy ing of the tax on drinks during 1830 was to give time to complete a system of saving upon other branches of finance which might reeder possible the future abolition of the excise on drinks, a tax which is admitted to be vexatious and unequal. Such at least was the opinion of the President ; and it M. Feuld had stated that such was the intention, much debate and decided opposition would have been spared. But that not being so, the question lay simply as between the supporters and opponents of indirect taxation. M. Charencey, the caampion of that system, yesterday contended that it was the best, because it was levied from every purse. M. flutist, astonished to find a supporter of the tax for its own sake, said that he had intended to speak of the project of government in a financial light ; but since there were still some people who would not admit that it was a bad one, that it was united and unequal, and accompanied by innumerable vexations, he would merely state a few facts. And first, he asked, were not all lands subject to a heavy uniform tax, according to their value ? So far that was just and good. On that land its holders cultivated corn, vane flowers, and wine. Of all those products was it fair that one only should be taxed as to its circula tion to an amount of a hundred millions, whilst all other agricultural produce was free. So fee the tax was unjust. As to tho question of inequality, was it not evident that the rich man, drinking in an orgie a bottle of champagne at 8 francs, paid no more duty than the poor workman who purchased his bottle for 6 soma He showed the Assembly that in the department of the Ain, which he bad chosen because it was the first in alphabetical order, wine in the piece was worth 11 fr., and the same quantity retail rose to 41 fr. The tax caused this inequality. It was vexatious in its mode of levy, and full of unnecessary formalities. It involved more than the one necessity of which M.Fould had spoken. It involved the political situation of France, than which nothing could be worse, and the imperious necessity of government was to do justice to all citizens. If the minister of finance had come for ward and said that the tax must be maintained for the present, because a financial, reform is in pre paration, which would require time to come Into execution, he would hare understood the necessity and yielded, but it was not so. As to the retained decrease of expenditure, it was mere derision. Three or four thousand soldiers more or lees seemed to him to be the same system of finance which it seemed to him could no longer hold in the country without ruining it. The question could not be treated without this reflection—ls France to be mined in a short space? for he would ask the minister of finance how long he thought to prolong his system. It was not sufficient to reach the end of the year, bat the future must be thought of. He was of opinion that the time would come when a direct tax would be the only one that could be levied. The present system could not endure in presence of uni versal suffrage. The people were exhausted by the present taxation. If the present budget amounted to two milliards, public fanctionaries would be ap pointed to swallow it all op. He had read in a work by M. Guizot the following phrase, " Liborty is too pettiest' fora people to haggle for it ;" and he had said to himself " If ever that man governs France, he will sacrifice her liberties and her finances." Aniex aggerated taxation war, in his opinion, incom patible with liberty. This it was that led to revolutions, which could never take place if the people had nothing to ask of the government but security and liberty. If the government would confine itself within these limits, it might make im mense progress. Let it diminish taxes, and improve the laws, and the country would soon find its ad vantage. What M. Bastiat accuses the cabinet of not saying, namely, that the excise is imposed temporarily, and because no other source of revenue is to be had, is put broadly enough in the .Dis Decem6re. The organ of the Elysee says that the tax is unpopular, bat that it is the Assembly's own fault if it must be maintained. In proportion as the debate was calm yesterday, so it was stormy to-day. The members bad flocked in numbers to hear M. de MontslembFrt and M. Jules, the two speakers announced for to-day, but M. An thony Thoaret, under pretext of a ratification of the minutes of yesterday's proceedings, commenced a panegyric of the ex -constituent assembly, which, ex citing angry psalms on all sides, led to tremendous uproar. M. Thouret complained that M. de Charon- cry had said that the constituent assembly voted the' abolition of the excise on drinks without a debate. This was not true, as a debate. had takes place. Murmurs from the Right met this 'statement of M. Tkonret, and the president with drew from him the right to speak; but the red orator refused to leave the tribute, was called to order for disobedience, and was finally forced to leave the rostrum, amidst protests from the Left and a general 1 upWheroar. n calm had been a little restored, the minister of public instruction plaoed on the table of the Chamber the project of law already mentioned in the correspondence relative to the deprivation of teachers in primary schools. M. de Parrett begged that his project of law should be paned d'urgence, inasmuch as it was only a temporary one, which was to be in vigour until the law on education had passed. The law gave the prefets complete power over these petty functionarier. This entwinement was fullowed by another explosion from the members of the Left. The minister went on. amidst the noise, to say that the teachers in primary schools should in future be appointed by the prefets, and taken either from toe Is ty or from the religious societies ; the prejet to have power to reprimand and dismiss—(More cries from the Mountain)—and no teachers once dis missed to set up a school in the parish where he for merly held his office. Committee of arroncliiseiments to have the power of temporary suspension. M. Panel Daprat spoke against the urgency of the proposal, seeing that that had not been pursued with regard to the law on education. M. Bane spoke in the same sense. The demand of urgency was ad mitted, and voted by a large majority, and the law sent to a 'timelines. M. d'Hautpoul also presented a law ratifying the treaty of commerce and naviga tion lately paned between France and Belgium. Urgency was declared in this case slay; and, without a fresh incident, the debate on the excise commenced, M. de Montalembert occupying the tribune at post- I hour. It is asserted that the President, when he received a committee from the Boulogne and Amiens Railway, said : " I have excellent news for you, gentlemen -- important communication to make to you, in the =cement that passports_will be discontinued." For Account. PADIB, Dm 13. Pm Money. ( 'Opening liighcot. Lowest. Cloting ------ I---. peel:cute. ....... 66 25 136 23 Mt 40 54 23 16 30 per Cents...- — 9 l 30 91 SS 91 60 91 55 91 60 do. New Lean ~ II " i per Cents...-. • 71 SO 1 . 1 " " o o i. per Cents S per Cent*. ....... 56 25 _- 56 40 54 25 5 6 30 5 per Cents.. .— 9 l 9l 54 91 55 191 80 91 55 91 60 S do. New Loma ~ s s 1 1 r. 44 per Cents „ . s s 4 per Cents 7l 50 , ” . Ot go to Kathuoure on London: 3 0 4." :3 431 90 Says, 25 324. Belgian, 5, 161 11 Da. 5, 1941 ....„ 97 ,rrtoman Lugs ... 914 ~ Do. 4g Do. 2g Bocasa.—St. Germain, 415; Volatiles (left bank), 109 75; Orleans, 737 30; Parts and Rouen, 551 23; Rouen and HIM!, 242 50 ; Al hy mn and Marsedks, 220; Strasbourg and Bale, 103; Centre, 330; Bororaus, 495, Nortb, 431173 ; P.iria and Strasbourg, 361 25; Tours and Nantes, 27* 73; Montanan and Troyes, 113. Tee duty on coal will be reduced from 10fr. to sfr. per ton, and from Bfr. to 3fr., according to the qua lity; the duty on zinc, 93 per cent. on existing duties; on copper, 33 per cent.; oleaginous grains, 17 and 19 per cent. (according to kind.) There will be oleo a recluetion of T h eer cent. len wheat, and of 31 per cent. on rye. treaty will also exert a beneficial influence on Belgian machinery. ITALY. Letterifrom cur Rome and Naples correspondents have come to hand. They are dated severally Decem ber 4. From Naples it is stated that new instruc tior s and propositions of General Baraguay d'Hilliei a were very little relished. The Spanish squadron has left Naples for Gaeta and Terracing, to take on board the Spanish forces. Naples Fives were at 941. At Rome, rumours of the Pope's return were, as usual, prevalent, but there was nothing certain. The snow bad been falling at Rome—an unusual thing, and on the let there was a smart shock of an earthquake. The Debals has the following from Rome, dated the 4th: The first interviews of the Pope with General Baraguay &Millers have not led to the result which vu anticipated: The general prolongs his stay at Naples. At this moment the return of his holiness is spin thrown into uncertainty. Without entering into tie heat of the question with the general, the Pope is mid to have given as the motive of his change of re solution, the necessity of delaying his entry into Rome until after the conclusion of a loan, which would per mit hint to make his return coincident with the sup pression of paper-money. Doubtless that measure would be a most politic one at this moment, but there are two difficulties whish render it my problematical —in the first plies the realisation of the loan, ard next the quantity of paper in circulation. This can not, therefore, be toe real motive of this fresh delay in the return of the Pope, which is much to be regretted, as it tires the expectation of some and revives the hopes of others. GERMANY. We have received our Vienna lettere of the Bth and 9th inst., from which we extract the followng : VIENNA i Dee. 8. The rumours which have latterly prevailed of a mi nisterial crisis acquire more credit. But, while it is believ.d that we are on the eve of a change of minis try, the names of the parties who are to succeed do not transpire. Eight Hungarian officers were condemned by the court-martial at And, on the 25th ult., to death by the rope. This sentence has been commuted by General Hayman, in six cues, to 18 years, and in 2 cases to 7 years imprisonment in a fortress, with irons. VIENNA. DEC. 9. It is reported that, in consequerce of the.decision of a cabinet council, held yesterday, under the presi. deoce of the Emperor, General Schiinals and Baron Kiibeck, the Austrian commissioners of the interior, are to set out immediately for Frankfort. The excitement of the people has been so great at the suppression of the Freese, that the placards posted on the Prase office have been torn down and trampled on. Municipal guards have been posted in front. Oar dates from Berlin are to the 11th. Oar correspondent says : —"I have just learned, upon very good authority, that the Erfurth parliament will be convened in the month of Marcn. Herr von Radowitz and his colleague, Boetticher, are to depart on Wednesday or Thursday next; a large number of officials of various kinds will accom pany them. The Austrian commissioners are to arrive in Frankfort about the same time. The Reicluver weser has declared his willingness to resign even before al! the states shall nave sent in their adhesion. The Verwaltungsrath is to appoint five commis sioners, who will form a kind of ministry in the Erfurt parliament. The Constitutional reports that Herr von Vincke has expressed his willingness to become a member of the German parliament at Erfurt. The Dusseldorf Gazette announces that Jacoby was unanimously acquitted at Koenigsberg on the Bth instant. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, DEC. 11.—The commercial and naviga• tion treaty which was concluded between Belgium and France on the 17th ult., but which, according to one of the articles of the constitution of both countries, awaits the sanction of the respective chambers, has mainly in view the doing sway with that system of quasi-hostility prevailing more or lees between the two nations ever since the restoration and the esta blishment of the kingdom of the Netherlands, by which the Belgian flag was placed in France amongst those of the least favoured countries, and French yes eels frequenting Belgian ports were subjected to duties long ago aboashed with reference to other foreign ships. The natural result of this state of things was that the commercial relations between the two states were chiefly carried on by foreign vessels —that is to say, neither Belgian nor French. Amongst the articles of the treaty of Nov. 17th, 1849, are some absolutely assimilating the flag of each of the two contracting countries with the national one with respect to custom-house dues, and with a certain reservation relating to tonnage duties. Other articles guarantee to Belgium all the advantages enjoyed by the most favoured nation with reference to the coast trade of France, as well as the exclusive enjoyment of its own (Belgian) fishing trade. Vessels not arriving directly from Belgian or French ports are excluded from the advantages stipulated with respect to the navigation duties. By the treaty of the 17th ult. the Belgian treasury is bound to pay the duties imposed by Holland on French vessels navigating the Scheldt. Tao treaty of the 17th ult. reduces from 4 fr. 25c. per 100 kilogrammes to 2fr. 75c. the duty on rats sugar imported into Belgium from France—the Bel gian flag still enjoying protective duties for that article when tetipped in trans-Atlantic ports, or ports situated beyond the Cape of Good Hope. THE GERMAN QUESTION. THE PRUSSIAN REPLY TO THE AUSTRIAN NOTE. In the Expreu of Monday and Tuesday we published a translation of the clespitch sent by the Austrian cabinet to Herr von Prokeech, its ambas sador at Berlin, which contained a protest against the principles laid down by Herr von Bodeltchwingh re srcting the Germ= eonfederation and its dissolution. This despatch was 'forwarded to the Prussian Mi nister of Foreign Affairs. The following is his reply to it, sent through the medium of the Prussian envoy at 'Vienna : Basun, Nov. 21.—The imperial ambusader to the court of Berlin has read to me a despatch from kis government, together with a draft of an eventual protest against the creation of &closer confederation, and spirit the convocation of a par liament from the German states which have joined the alli ance of the 20th May. According to the contents of this despatch, the president of the imperial ministry still doubts whether it is the decided intention ot the Pre mien government to proceed with the execution of the measures in question. We have never sought to conceal our intention so to do, and it cannot have escaped the imperial cabinet, that the government of his Majesty the Slog of Prussia has bound itself by solemn declarations, both in reference to Prussia and to the other allied govern ments, in such a that any retrogression would appear to us a breach of faith such as no government should be guilty of. But the government of Prussia hat not changed its own conviction that the course it has entered ups is de manded by the urgent necessities and requirements of the present condition of affairs. It cannot Omelets surprise the president of the Austrian cabinet that the " Vernalbunprath," in its 60th sitting on the 17th of the present month (November), should have arrived at the drfinitiee decision on the proposition of the Prussian plenipotentiary, that the elections for the assembly to be convened at Erfurt, shall take place on the 31st Ja nuary of the ensuing year, leaving the period at which the essembly shall be convoked to the decision of future deliberations. Viewing the state of the eau in this light, the president of the Austrian cabinet must see the importance and serious ness of the step which he holds in prospect. We cannot overlook it either ; and, I therefore, mnsider it to be still more my duty to reply in clear and intelligible terms, in order that no further doubts can remain respecting the intentions of his government in the present state of again. Misunderstanding and confusion can stone be avoided and a perfect concordance established and main tained by clear and open language, dealing with the thing itself apart from all secondary considerations. The latter desideratum will undoubtedly be obtained when the imperial cabinet shall no longer be deceived concerning the demands which duty and honour, u well as our own conviction of the absolute necessity of the case, make upon us. If Austria means to enter a protest against any infraction of the duties to the German Confederation of 1815 by the union of the parliament with the allied governments, we cannot and will not object to its doing so. We concede to Austria the perfect justice of such a demand, and for our part shall reply to it, that we shall endeavour to so regulate the constitution of the close confederation that it can never be in contradiction with &reorganisation of the federal con stitution. We believe also that by such a protest Austria will fully satisfy its own necessities, and that the interest of the other German states which have not joined the federal state can make no further demand of that kind. But should Austria, as the draught of the protest leads us to expect, intend to enter a protest against the creation of a closer confederation and against a 3 convocation of a par liament from the allied states, we must at once and de- cideffiy decline to receive it, supported by an authority which we cannot abandon. We find this authority more immediately in the law of the former confederation, which law, if it were admitted to be still existing in its in teg rity , would permit the creation of a closer confederation. Not only does Art. XI. commit this authority to every alliance which is sot opposed to I the safety of the confederation itself, but Art. VI of the Final, Vienna Convention shows still more pointedly that a Rational union of several of the German governments for political I purposes is not opposed to the federal constitution, nor dose I it require the assent of all the members of the confederation. The latter article expressly determines that even the sou reign tights of a federal state may be ceded to a member of the confederation without the consent of the whole, and' that only the rights and duties feel ingiug to it, particularly the number of votes in the Federal Diet (Article 1G) can not be changed without the consent of all the members. The latter is the position that we have always maintained. Oar own rights and duties and thote ot oar a'lies to the confede ration remain untouched by the intended union ; but the continuance of these rights sad duties can just as little hinder the union itself. If a German state—if Prussia itself has acquired by inheritance or by voluntary cession the territories of another of the states united by the treaty of the 2Gth of May, the relations ot the confederation are in no manner endangered, and no one can have acquired a right to interfere. What is true with regard to the greater must be true also with regard to the lesser. And the principle laid down by that article re specting the mare complete incorporation of several sove reign territories, must have the same relation to a union of the twenty-eight members of the couft.deration for (Arabia political purposes. If this union was perfectly admissible under the laws of the former confederation, it must be so in a greater degree now that the laws of the confederation itself are about to un dergo a thorough revision. The imperial cabinet cannot ' deny that the German federal constitution is undergoing I such a transition, if indeed the institution of the Interim did not sufficiently prove it. The President of the Imperial Ministry has expressed objections against the views of the Prussian government, fa consequence of the explanation made in the " Verwaltusg. rath" by our plenipotentiary. These objections are oar caned in the despatch communicated to us on the 12th of November by Herr von Prokeach, the Au trim ambassador at this court. We might simply reply to them that the only matter in question ts the meaning of the constitution, the settlement of which would justify the explanation referred to ; and that we must protest modest any explanation which would connect the dissolution of the cooled ratim itself with the alteration, or even the ab• rogation, of the constitution and its orgars. But here, too, we only wish to deal with the spirit of the matter, whatever it may be called; and we do not hesi tate therefore plainly to declare, that we consider the confederation of 1815 to be still in existence. so far as its objects, its members, ard their respective rights sad duties, are concerned ; but that we cannot acknowledge the national federal law or its original contents to be still valid. The resolutions of the Federal Assembly from March 2 to July 12, 1848, have not only invalidated individual portions of the federal legislation, but have even destroyed the constitution of the confederation itself, at least in the general organism of its most important coaditions. The conditions of the federal laws which refer to the existence and activity of a federal assembly are necessarily, therefore, annihilated. Another source of legal changes has arisen from those decisions of the National Assembly which were adopted "rite,' and were either silently or expressly acknowledged by the governments of Germany. The latter cannot avoid the consequences of this acknowledgement if they will not call in question the stability and the continuance of the confederation itself (to which we give the same importance so the imperial go vernment), and unless they characterise the present condition of affairs as pertectly illegal. If then we wish to retain the essence of the confederation, we must not deny the fact that changes have been made in its organism, in consequence of which many of the laws of the confederation have been in validated, and which, therefore, require rearranging and re • organising. Austria has also acknowledged this necessity upon more than one occasion, and has based its own conduct upon those facts. In this latter respect, we must not omit to mention one feet, which until now it dues not seem to have been news- e arl to recur le in the correspondence between the two everts. The constitution awarded to the whole Austrian monarchy on the 4th March, 1849, nowhere contains any such reserva tions or conditions, which secure the fulfilment of those duties which are required from the Austrian federal terri tories, in their relations to the German confederation. It is more than doubtful whether the operation of the dui pion of the Diet consequent upon articles 10 and 31 of the Final Vienna Convention cm be made to harmonies with the provisions of the Austrian constitution. We refrained from exixessing these doubts immediately upon the publication of that constitution, because we would not increase the difficulties of a friendly government in so ews e n many firmly rl md othersly r ea llycon v in ced carryha e critical a moment ; we have also refrained until e now from touching upon this important question, 40 not titouan ttet,t,this becausehcovei consti er tution, h e ft isothn e h aveA ust r i a n federal t doubted,ebnlicbecause r n gaw • legislation,s in consequence of the changes that have been made, was quite unavoidable, and that then this, as well as other matters, would be dis armed and settled. For the imperial cabinet cannot have con cealed from itself that the question of the double relation of the Austrian federal territories to the early constituted mo narchy and the old confederation must, some day or other , be inquired into and settled ; and for this very reason we be lieve we may confidently anticipate that Austria will itself introduce the question on the occasion of the revision of the federal constitution. We have not wished to forestall the national right of Austria to take the initiative in the explanation edon d b for y respecting the relations of its own federal territories, and it °lform er with oth eo er nf stake; enti an is sot our intention now to anticipate the reorganisation of th th e is ali ve i r an y rete we reason " w ent e red e ve have intocon fined ourselves to the reservation of the rights and duties arising out of the confederatien of 1815, and for the very same reason we could receive without hesitation a corre sponding reservative protest on the part of Austria; and we must believe that the rights and interests of Austria would be fully satisfied by our doing so. Should the imperial cabinet, nevertheless, still consider that the constitution of the narrower confederation, could on any point practically prejudice the re-organisatioa of the former confederation, and therefore consider it necessary to protest against our proceeding in this matter, we most re. mask that nothing prevents the imperial cabinet from !asking the revision of the constitution of the German con federation of 1816 the antject of further deliberations by the German governments. The few hints on the subject which have reached us, partly through Fsankfitt and partly directly hers, have as yet placed us in a position to judge whet are the views of the imperial cab ete inet. We should assuredly psy that attention to any comp) project for the purpose, which the importanos of the 'ablest requires and nothing would be more pleasing to us than to be ante to regulate the internal constitution of the narrower confedera tion at the same time with its relations to the urger confe detion, in such a meaner as should afford general satisfac tionra and the joyful certainty of a union in harmony with the whole nation. We have often expressed a wish that the imperial cabinet should not conceal its v i ews and proposals, and we row re peat it, in the firm conviction that it is to the highest interest of all the German governments to meet the requirements of the nation with positive deeds. RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 2.—By an Im perial ukase the Minister of Finance is empowered to issue the 22nd and 23rd series of exchequer bills, amounting to six millions of silver rubles; the interest will be payable on the 13th of Oct., 1850. By an other Imperial ukase permission is given for a grand exhibition of national industry in the coarse of the summer. Ine Court. ' OSBORNE, Dac. 13. Her Majesty and the younger members of the royal family walked this forcnosa in the pack and grounds of Osborne. Hu Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, equerry in waiting, left Osborne at 8 o'clock this morning, and crossed to Goepart in the Fairy yacht, en route to Windsor Castle, to be present at the funeral of the late Queen Dowa¢er. His royal highness is expeted to return to Osborne by 7 o'clock this evening. There was no addition, yesterday, to the royal dinner party. The Lords of the Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations had a meeting, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Earl Grey, t3rcretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Campbell, Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Sir Euward Ryan, were present. Dr. Gatzlaff, from China, had an interview with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial.office. Lord Ashley had en interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday. Mr. Corry Cannellan had alto an icier- Mew with the right hon. baronet, yesterday, at the Home office. Mr, Ord, M.P., had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Dowsing-street. The Marchioness of Lanrdowne and the Earl and Countess of Shelburne left town yesterday La Bowood-park, Wilts. Despatches from the Governor of Canada were received yesterday at the Colonial•oflice. FUNERAL OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER. [We yeeerday, in our whole impression, reported the progress of the royal procession between Stanmore and Windsor ; and in part of our impression gate the conclusion of the ceremony in the royal chapel. This latter part we now resume with amplification.] About 25 minutes to 11 twee of the royal carriagee, drawn by six bays, left the Castle for Slough. The drivers, footmen behind, and the grooms who walked alongside of the carri ages, were in full dress scarlet livery, and wore black kit gloves and silk hatbands. On the arrival of the royal carriages at Slough, they fell into the line of procession, which moved towards the Castle. Within the walls of the Castle the ordinary number of sentinels were inert esed immediately in front of and near to St. George's Chapel. Beyend the drums being muffled, the privates and non-commissioned officers exhibited no signs of mourning. As the morning advanced and become more settled the number of visitors every minute increased, and there were but comparatively few even of the humbler class who did not wear some mourning garment. St. George's Chapel was sombre indeed. The floors of all the avenues were covered with black cloth, and the floor of the chapel and a raised platform extending almost to the door by which the body was to be brought in, was covered with the same sable commodity. About hell pest twelve o'clock the canons and dignitaries of the Chapel Royal began to assemble. They, with the gentlemen composing the choir, wore bread black scarfs, and their hats were covered with flowing bands of table hue. Shortly before one o'clock the sailors who were to carry the coffin were marshalled in one of the aisles. They pre sented the vary beau ideal of a British sailor. They were selected from the royal yacht, and were attired in the usual sailor's costume, except that they wore a black crape tied in the nautical style round their neck. Meanwhile the mourners, who had previous assembled in the reception room of Cardinal Wolsey's Chapel, which was csrpetted for the occasion, proceeded to the south porch, at which the funeral was to enter, and ascending the platform took up their respective positions at some little dis tance from the bier, which was planed near the entrance to the choir. The ladies were habited in the deepest mourning and covered with long crape veils—the gentlemen wore deep scarfs and flowing hatbands. Amongst them, and standing nearest the entrance door, was Prince George of Cambridge, who also wore the blue ribbon of the Garter. Tne following is a list of the persons who had seats as signed to them in chapel and were present Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, _ the Duchess of Cam bridge, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince George, the Duchess of &ilea Weimar, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Prince Gustave of Sane Weimar, Princess Anne of Saxe Weimar, Princess Amelia of Saxe Weimar, The Duke of Wellington, Countess Howe, Marquis of L ins downe, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord John Russell, Duke of Nor folk, Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of Stole to Prince Albert; Hon. Mrs. Ashley, Earl of Morley, Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen ; Marchioness of Douro, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen ; Mr. Ormsby Gore, Groom-in-Waiting to the Queen Lord Charles Fitzroy, Equerry-in-Waiting to the Queen ; lion. Miss Murray. lion. Miss Macdonald, Maids of Honour to the Quten ,_• Viscountess Forbes , _ Bedchamber woman to the Queen ; Colonel Hon. A. Liddell, fur the Duchess of Gloucester ; Lady Caroline Murray, for the Duchess of Gloucester ; Colonel Sir G. Couper, Bart., in at tendance oa the Duchess of Kent ; Lady Augusta Cadogan, in attendance on the Duchess of Cambridge ; Major Hon. James Macdonald, in attendance on Prince George ; Baron Knesebeck, in attendance on the Duke of Cambridge; Lady Fanny Howard, in attendance on the Duchess of Kent. Precisely at 1 o'clock the mournful procession arrived at St. George's Chapel. The royal body was immediately re moved from the hearse (which was of the simplest descnip. lion), and being received at the door of the south porch by the canons of Windsor, was slowly conveyed thence by the undertaker's men (who, however, were not acen, being concealed by the pall), into the nave, and placed on the bier already mentioned, the crown and cushion being laid there on. The sailors were then ranged five at either side, but they only nominally assisted in the further transit of the royal body, by two at each end placing their hands upon the coffin. The burial service having been commenced as usual with " I am the resurrection an: the life," which was channted by the canons and eborieters, accompanied by the organ, the procession moved into the choir in the following order, the body remaining on the bier (which was gently relied along), until it reached the opening in the floor of the chapel, through which it was to descend to its last earthly abode. The Canons of Windsor. Sir Charles George Young, Garter. The Marquis of etreadalbane, Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, attended by Sir W. Martins. Supports rs of Supporters of tee Pall THE BODY, the Pall Lord Byron. covered with a black LdFit.zAzidueolpnhcne, s ne_ velvet pall, 02 Ld.Frederick Viscount I Fitzclarence. adorned with escocheons Barrington. fee of her Earl of Sher- Marquess of field. late Majesty's arms. Ormonde. THE CHIEF MOURNER, The Duchess of Norfolk (veiled), attended b_y Lady Cowper. His Serene Highness the Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. His Serene Highness the Prince Gustave of Saxe-Weimar. Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Horse to Her late Majesty. Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain to Her late Majesty. Hon. Wen. Ashley, Vice Chamherlain to Her late Majesty. Countess Brownlow, Marchioness Wellesley, Marchioness Ormonde, Visoounteas Barrington, Countess Sheffield, Lady Clinton, Ladies of the Bedchamber to Her late Msjesty. lion. Misses Eden, Boyle, Hudson, Seymour, Wheatloy, and Mitchell, Maids oHonour to Her late Majesty. Lady Isabella Wemyss, Lady Charles Somerset, Mrs. Corn wall, lion. Mrs. Berkeley Paget, Miss Wilson, Women of the Bedchamber to Her late Majesty. Sir E. Bernard. Clerk Marshal to Her late Majesty. Capt. Somerset, Colonel Cornwall, and Capt. Taylor, Equerries to Her late Majesty. Rev. G. Hudson and Rev. J. A. Wood, Chaplains to Her late Majesty. Dr. Bright, K.C.H, sad Sir L. Davies, Physicians to Her late Majesty. Robert Keats, Esq., Surgeon to her late Majesty. Capt. Sir W. Hooper, Hon. J. G. C. Fox Strangways, Capt. Vincent, R N., Colonel Sir J. M. Wilson, B. C. ,ent, B. N., an. v.— , Mellish, E.q.. and Capt. Bedford, Gentlemen Ushers to lit r late Majesty. John Shoemack, E.g., V.enior Page to Her late Majesty. Miss Ileatb,__Mi•s Arnold, and Mrs. Randall, Dressers and ardrobe Mud to Her late Majesty. The Chief Mourner took her seat (in an arm chair covered with black) at the heed of the corpse , . which was towards the nave, and the Lord Chambellam of her Majesty's Household took his place at the feet, standing with his back to the altar. The Vice-Chamberlain stood near him, the pell-beertra and the sailors retained their positions at either ride, while the rest of the persons eomprfing th remained standing during the entire etremoriy e br il ft, ad chief mourner in the order in which t h ey had The other distinguished personage', including Albert, the Duke of Camhridge the Duke of Wil;""' ton, Lord Lansdowne, and Lord John Rowell, Z. occupied stalls, also remained standi ng througlioe. te a -- service. None were allowed to be present in the d ia . a -- beyond those distinguished persons named wets appointed mourners, while in th e nave wets e a — "e„ seen only a military and naval officer, who attended he a; discharge of professional duty. The royal desire that t 'el0; pomp nor publicity should mark the mournful even t y,; therefore, strictly fulfilled, and the funer a l ma d e ar) -4 had naught to do with it. • aud the eeremontes connected with it as simple at if ?roil -- The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Canes' of %a -' 13r, by whom the corpse wee received at its entrance jat o choir, having ascended the steps of the altar, Mr. g ift. ; one of the lay canons, gave out the pill= of the service, the 39th, " I said, I will take heed t o my 4 4 -- and the 90th, " Lord, thou haat been our rtl ' which being chaunted, the Most Rev, p " read in an audible and impressive voice - i s " lessons of the day, let Corinthians, 15 ch., 20 T. d by the chaunting of the Ist anthem by R - „;12 " Then the ear heard her," during which the prig ' , as A a s. moved, and the coffin, with the crown and cookies reed. on it, was lowered into the vault. At this portion of treQ, remony, which was extremely mournful and saltine, of the ladies, the 1.9 rel Fitxclarsnee, Lord J. Knoell, 4 4 others, seemed much :Erected, and covered their frets fo r moment with their handkerchiefs. " Man titre of sow having also been chaunted with the organ, the Areldint ar ,, Ceinterbgry deecehded from the alder, and, sesa r i eg opening to the vault, repeated the ordinary prayer, Li; much ae it hath pleased Almighty God." This was W eed by the Lord's Prayer, in which all joined aloud, olo r g A ,. U9d, with whom," the collect, "Oh, merci G o d the 2nd anthem by Handel, " Her body is tu ka hi peace." The most rev. prelate concluded the service eidi e blessing. Garter (Sir Charles Young) standing beside the gr eee, then pronounced the style of her late Majesty in these tre et —" Thus it teeth pleased Almighty Goa to take out of the transitory life unto His Divine Mercy the late MI A yLa Most Blighty, Most Excellent Princess Adelaide, 'be Dowager, Relict of his lute Majesty Kite WW II 4 1 Fough, uncle to her Most Excellent Majesty Vice** by the Grace of God of the United Kinadons of Gr id Britain and Ireland, Queen, Dzfendr r of the Faith, sho e God bli as and pet serve with long life, health, hos aar, ,, l all wurdly happiness." The Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain of let late Maji at) 's household, broke their staves of dig, ea, her. ling down, deposited them in the royal vault, liere terminated the sad and solemn ceremoey, who a lasted exactly an hour and a quarter. The distingunkedr a dividuals firming the procession or otherwise twisting gra dually disappeared from the chapel, which was now filled by the deep tones of the organ in the " Died meth in Saul. ' The musical service was that of Dr. Croft in G mince and it was admirably verformed by Doctor Elvey, ergeslug the chapel and private organist to the Queen. The coffin of her late Majesty the Queen protegee placed beside that of her ro) hui band, King Within th, I..urth, both bring in front of, but on the sane pedal e platform, with that of his Majesty George the Feted). h recesses behind and at either side of them are the coffin d the Duke of York. G. orre the ThirJ, Quin Chulitte, Princess Amelia, Prince Octavio., and Prince/1.11.d. We were informed that the Lords Fitzclarince, with s few others, descended to the vault to see the precise cc where the royal body was deposited.. THE METROPOLIS —The greatest respect woe paid loth memory of the late Queen Dowager by all clauses stmty in the me copolis. At the West-end and in the City de shops were partially closed, whilst the blinds of pang houses were drawn down. the great hill of St. Pail toiled minute time during the greater p^rtion of Medd. The moment it commenced tolling the bells of the Cris churches and of those on the cppo`•ite stele of the Inter tat more distant parts followed. The whole ot the ships Mks London-bridge had their flags half-mss high, RI vat AM with the steam-boats plying above bridge. The teat Christ Church, Blacktriars-road, after tolling mints tie for several hours, struck with the hammers routd:d the set of her late Majesty, and afterwards rang a muffi-d peal.% Nuns were fired in the afternoon in St. James's•park sail the Tower. The theatres and most places of public orate ment in the metropolis were closed last night. BETHNAL-GREEN RAGGED SCHOOLS. The annual meeting of these schools tea evening, at the new school-room, Hare tereet. It wises made the occasion of celebrating the opening cf the nrrud spacious school. Lord ASHLEY, M.P., preided, led to platform was filled with the clergy and it:Climatal ielnir tants of the district. Immediately in front of the phew: w.ro placed about 40 of the boys from the ache 01, whose probably the atfe o! their class, as their appearance wow! much above that of the ordinary attenders at ragged sank Lord ASHLEY expressed lilt sincere hope Outlaw schools might exhibit all the good results which had find from other similar institutions. These schools wows* that the public was at length awakening to a sense older duty towards that degraded and extraordinary climates= separated in so ne tny ways from their fel.uw.etain He should be glad to see this /Imp* r 2 more extended, believing that it was not )et suffix 4 manifested. Still they had seen the dawn of a better de, and Boon he hoped those who would not co-operate is ds movement would be denounced as heathen men and pie cans. (Applause.) Some chosen and faithful men weed termined to probe the evil to the bottom, and to go neither time, nor exertions, nor money, to affect a name. (Cheers ) These institutions were peculiarly well die;: to the wants of the times. He rejoiced to find that tetah day, but evening schools had been established in Be' green ; such schools were indispensably necessary for thug youths who were partially employed during the day, irle they in holding horses, selling fruit, pitkiep up cake manure, or getting their living in still more getstioaski ways. These evening schools had had an evekol effect wherever they had been established, owing the judicious relaxation which had been made in their die cipline as compared with that of the British asd half Schools. The results of the ragged schools geeerslly ion most satisfactory ; numbers of children had been recluse from vice, rags, and filth, and placed in respectableKtTil There were hundreds in the ragged schools who dale Ig recollect ever having slept in a bed ; and it was this drat which their efforts ought mainly to be directed; their big ness was in the mire and gutter. (Cheers.) 1 bedistiactie epithet of ragged schools must be maintained ; none els knew the working o' the schools would object to it. It it noted not that the children were to be kept is rage, haute the doers of the schools were constantly to be open to the in rags. Ragged schools were now established allover it country ; and he hoped soon to see them imitated is all tte nations of Europe, to the immortal honour of this far which had b .0 their birth-place. (Cheer...) The Rev. W. KERRY, the honorary secretary, reed de report, which stated .—That the establishment of two foe schools had been originally contemplated; but grate culty was expetieneed in obtaining suitable pleases, ode was not till November in last year that the schools ceiM commenced. The committee had new the satisfied:ad reporting that three, instead of two, schools hid Its opened, and were now in operation—two tv hots and as 'for girls. The first was opened on the 29th of Noe-alSle the other two shortly afterwards, and since then the to I number of children admitted had amounted to 273 bees 01 110 girls, while the number at present in attendance's about 260. The parents of the children attending lho schools were destitute weavers, shoemakers, dock Mood hawkers, &c. ; all of them persons without elt o employment, and sunk to the lowest Agee of etre o edness. Their children, squalid, half naked 0 half starved, were deservedly objects of compels I They assembled in the schools shoeless and in reel; 10 same without breakfast ; yet the very habit of coded' school had elevated them in the stale of moral esidso I Besides the day schools for children, an evening ghee h adults had been in operation. The average &tending t the winter and spring months was 40. Amongst the IV dante had been some most desperate character,who had eM been in prison. At first they were exceedingly violent d almost beyond control, swearing, whistling , br isk * " windows, and pelting the teachers, being their great MOP ment ; yet the force of christian kindness had not bosh even on them. The formation of an industrial ectool le been postponed till more extended support was reCei , The committee had succeeded in obtaining premix' mirably adapted for the future carrying on of the sees" instead of their present inadequate and ineoso o school-rooms. They had met with a large baits formerly . occupied as a school, the freell'ld,' . which might he obtained for 730/. ; towards which the ° of MR wan yet required. By the purchase of this bates which, would accommodate 300 children, the annual nee' the schools would be materially diminished, wild"' efficiency would be greatly improved. As was tt b e peeled, the school had suffered severely from the tenet the late epidemic; and Mr. M'Rae, the zealous Bed master, had nearly fallen a victim. 10 The financial statement, brought down to November showed a receipt, from donations and subscripUons, and, from grants, of 701. There had been espended fitting up premise, and carrying on the schools, WI leaving a balance of 1361 10s., which had bzen aPP wards the purchase of the new school room. WILLIAM COTTON, Esq , banker, moved, That this meeting do gratefully acknowledne the met of success which it has pleased Almighty GOd to vow to this institution. The Rev. W. JAMES seconded the resolution. 2 Other resolutions promotive of the object s oldie re: were advocated by Illesars . W. E. Williams, P. G f „„, Phillips, and the Revs. Dr. M'Caul , G. Alston, r.lij; D. Fenn, and T. Toga, and the proceedings terminer a vote of thanks to Lord Ashley for his b enevolent of ragged schools generally, and for his kindness sa Pe. on that occasion. .—M EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SECRETARYr.,, lt tt late secretary to the Leeds Infirmary, his been sentence', seven years' transportation, for embezzling upwaa' 1,0001. from the funds of that institution. • le A SECOND DANIEL LAMBERT.—There nosl.'t siding at Wellington, a man named Bali.' _Er.; of Horsehay, who is supposed to be t he heavien. „101 -1 1 being in the world. His weight is supp osed to be IS• stone ; he measures 6 feet 6 inches roun d the hod!, wig round the thigh, and 22 inches round the arm. 11 01 1 5 . a bard•wurking man and is very active, notw,•hstattam immense Cza and weight.—Wolceritaniptoti Chrowde.