The Express. — London, England, 1849-06-18 00:00:00

thislreetss piing ID my ig the woes and emend with stem sod This W as; sad the au r lhatioa ef the wedisass Imre wee dilloatt ; as side id s ma week mold sit Ist modertaken bet en Midnight. this s o m ent, and to Orme the attends of the enemy, I sowed p Raral 'Legman do &int-Joan &Aussie. ow maw the try at Ow Villa ?small at.d at fit. Psalm& ...de a missed attack ea that id*, and to epos g fin ; gar 10 6 .000 i. This rash of this divertioasimpard owi x gds d Sin All the awls of the It seas were torn. 4 g g s Pestered*. which they might suppose to his pr i anise, Toe weeks of the parallel were not he a di.tarbsd, sad there was not a man weundmi oh, Ow dories the siffht. At daybreak some poisis the parallel were ad isemtplete ; it was, however, wi red throughout. The artillery sots messed M e oak of the night of the 4th in contracting two& dm; that on the left was to reply to the fits et the be l Ifs. 6; teat on the right to ed. nee the are of Moist Tsar ro j r ,, Where the enemy bad made preparations ot defense; it had also to silence the b dory of 9 .tat Vezia, on Most m o ds°. The work of the 51h minimised the dimensions etas parallel. The batter) on the lett open. d Its Aso he is la the morning, and silvered b istion No. 6. The bide fare as the :l i ght dill not eammenee its fire till iowards nos. I Is ma i m ems shown by the interruption of the fire al Waal Testatio. The milliard the 5 h wmployed M per- aids/ the mesh and the emistreeiion o as f e • ham ry in the pane stile pars/lel. The Villas Casual and Valentini, oe espied by our troops, were the ems wit ovjeete of the lire of sur liairy and even artillery of the city I thoueht it would le psenble, by means of some works, to secure this occupation sad render the communications more e ray. The colistrue• lien id them works, directed by the engineers, was imme dliMly onsemated, edol will be continued without interrup deh The operations of h. sieve had also a regular pro ver en the 6h. Our hstteries hate ody replied to the minsy. They have sullen d no injury, and are free in Mb& Tne correctness of our aim must have caused con siderable hies to the enemy. Our low is incomparably Metre, considering the results obtained. On th 4th, 6:h, and 64b, it amounted to may 60 wounded and ids killed. At Psatolloao the situation is eionsidered ly ameliorated. Our establishment titers is immolidand nil hoot seri to opposi tion; the brolo n ere . he been repelled, so as to permit with ease the p usage of eolantos. Daily nenonaiwaseee are made 0111 the tit book of the Tiber. The health oi the troops la esoel.eat. (Signed) OrDINOT DllllOOlO. The Rietifa Indieendente of Florence of the tith states this the Porto Pin and St. John of Latino, of Rowse. are threatened by the Spaniards, Neapolitans, and Swiss, who appear to act in concert with the French. Three edtcts t ate ben published rat Rome by the government ; one decreeing a medal ot honour to the ermbalints, another rzbortingthepeopleto calmne ay; end a third dime 104 that those who To main wi hnut abetter, in con-cquence of it e;r houses being destroyed by shells, shall be received into some convent or palace. The assembly is determined to twist, tint, et the walls, th -n at the bed ricadcs, and bydy,in the palace of the swemnly. A bulletin has bssepublishei, *tiding th.t the French were leaving the Villa Pamfili, and cone rt- wing th, it forces at Monte Mario. Aneo a sill resists. Mariihal Ra detzky bas reviesed the Aestr at troops et Leghoin. The Austrian division which had oicui , ied Perugia has turned off towards Ar c-na. This city was still bombard d up t • t'e Bth last. by tt,o Amt. iuus, who mac daily gotting fresh reldaremesti. GERMANY. BADEN.—The 0 aad Duke besjelued the Pius. dm Issue • disusimd his remit ministry, and charged 14: ILlikbee will tka Lormatio3 of a ntw - cab:net. PItCSSIA.—Our corm . p n demo wri•es: BERLIN, Jugs 14. ; The news of the day is that pram, her been con- e eluded *lei noo.rk. Th • csuldttions are ev n mated. But I npreli nut that tiie 1. a rumour w' ich arises from the pr lemiia icy havaig Neu est led hors with I , Al. Rutz and set tto Copenha:tn for sal mien. I , cannot give any bests' authority that, a vales. Bourse report for t'w oun di,io ne , which are mud t.) : Coo i nominee of Schleps. ig-11 roe plovisional.y united I is at present ; the St .tth eltnrechatt to c nviss of three persons appointed by the King out of lei: na•• of by the Suembly ; the ques ion et succevsion reserve!. On 11w evening ut tne 12th, eh*. Prince of Prussia drove f en Nlayenee Va. ugh Bingen to Kreuznaeh to join G• n. Olwringahrinser Gazette says th tin Bino n th • pr.nus wan s4ot at, and the postillion w u dud. The stueratioos sgainet the I'ala'inate have. begun. The var guard uf Ilerrefifel d.visiun march• d under the cad, re of Gen. Hahne. ekes on the 12 It tram Kreurmeh to Alzey. Tne reserve division under Oen. B uhn f Il mid from Btromherg to Kreuzne.ch. TM w e teal dieisi in under Oen. Webers) was coneen bated .t N. in ten rebel), and the third division cut Gen. Nfinewind be wren Bautaholdes and Grumbaeh. Hann, ekeee'. division is to advance on the 13th to Fedderat.eim. and occupy Warms, wnile Oppenheim way oct upi.d yeveterehey by two battalions of the gar rison of M Irma% l'he reserve division mirenes on the lath to Ale-y, We bern'r division through Hom burg spinet Lindstufil, and Ni sewand'a division through' Lantetecker against Weehttin and Mohr bath. From mid-day on June 12 to mid-day on Jane 13, in Breslau' 88 persona were at aoked with cholera, 51 died tf that disease, and 12 were officially an nounced as vivid. Tue eecund chemher at Munich was dissolved by royal decree on the 11th. A chambu to b • elected in its ;lace was to meet ni.hin the constitutional Wm of two month.. This intellig no. reached the hotel of the Bavierim envoy here la-t night. On the 9th Prince Hertebakoff, Aijmant-General of the Czar and military governor of Warsaw, left Warsaw for Austria. AUSTRIA.—Our cirrespondent writes: VIENNA Jute!, 12. _ The younger sous of the Czar, Grand Dukes Con stantine and Miehael, and the brother of :he Bavarian king, Prince Luitpot I, have reachtd Vienna. A review of the ga-rison took place ta-day in h snow of their arrival, at which the emperor was present. Yesterd y a telegi aphic despatch wee receive d from Bruck, on the Mur, which you will see lies on the South Railroad, a lit.l , ..tan this side of Oriaz, aunounc ing that "at I o'cleck in the night ot the 10:h and 11th a column of 108 hussars attempted to break through St. Michael Leoben and Bruck; but failed is their enterprise. 01 the Hussars 12 were killed, 14 wounds d, and 72 taken prisoner*. Of the Bianchi infantry three were wourded." These Hussars are, beyond doubt, the son ulnas of the regiment of Pala tine! Hussars, whose mutiny and flight from Ems on the 4th, Clang the road to Steyer, I reported in my letter of the Bth. The Bianchi infantry were of course the Austrian troops, stationed about Bru:k, who mu.t have been prepared by the telegraph from Vienna to intercept. the fugitives, of whom it seems that only 10 escaped. The report of the Preue that some of the Busters had been seen passing through Ologgnitz on the night of the 7th, seems therefore to be without foundation. On June 10Th there arrived in the Austrian camp a parlanstritnire from Koesuth, who brought a message to General Ha) nau, admonishing him that if any more Hungarian prisoner* were executed, the most distinguished Amman officers captured by the Mag yars would be put to death by way of reprisal. This note was accompanied by a certifinde signed by several Austrian ',Seers, prisoners at °roam:dein, bearing testimony to the humane treatment they had experienced from the Hungarians. Among the sig natures were Colonel Count Nlontecuculi, Lieutenant colonel Regensborz, Majors 8 - ceb and Scudier of the engineers, Count Erbacb, Ohilaai, Hammer, Captains Hartweek and Landgraf, Lieutenants Scheel, Thin weld, Colltoni, and Wollinowich. A severe battle has been fought between Perczel and the Austrians, near Pete-minden, from which he detached six battalions against Bukowitz. The Aus trians 104 several officers • but they behaved well, and the attempt was repulsed, the Magyars carrying off tome of thee guns as trophies. la the Hamburg 11,rsen-lialle, of the 13th, ippon the fcl'ovring et ttemsnt sent by its eorre9oll4lllB from Vienna on the 13th : The report circulated yesterday of the victory of *O DA Jellachien over the Magyars is confirmed by the mon af the Bin ofileially published to filV. Accord re to Se Lieut. Field Marshal ()triages succeeded on the 7th kiln. pistol, Mains the interments sear the It man tr.-riches with a 100 of 600 dead and 220 wounded, and following the weeley, on ebich necaaion mass Magyars were di.piderd, whilst the loss of the imporialiene con , isted only al a few dead and entailed. aaaehrr action fought lemmas the garrison of Perarwardele, that made a eerie on the 4th instant, and our woes, we. at first favourable to the iasur ger lei LI they captured win a great superiority of force two Deaths occupied by oar am flew positions, were, how ever, ser , ssequently "ken form the Marmars. The lose of the enemy is give at 60 dead sad free 400 to 480 wounded, of the laspetislies at 4 cfficers deed, sad 3 wounded, 81 privates feed sad 168 wrmaded. Th.. first deftness of the eatrenchsr.eots art With' the t TOTS Gradiskaner batta lion 6offieen sod 126 m-n,wbo were 1131,1 in this fight against the kcrile superiorey of force. Aeioreins to rumours that nee be d. prided no, rear dieewd prevails in the camp of the Hungarian leedvr , and Der.ibineki was a.id to have resigned. The Areltouae Joh* is expected back hue hen Fraakfort. COHMISPONDENCE RESPECTING THE AFFAIRS OF ROME. We extract the folluertog from papers to be pre sented to both houses of parliament, and which were Wined ea Saturday : YMOOVIIT PALMMUITON TO Tla MARQUIS OT 1101MATOn. Foreign.oilloe, January 6, 1849. Is regard to the preempt position of the Pope,•l have to abeseve that as doubt it is obviously desirable that a person who in his spiritual capacity has peat sad exteasive influ ence over the internal affairs of most of the countries in Europe, *sold be in such • position of independesce se Dot to be liable to be we d by say oas Raropeaa power as • poli tical lutetium's% for the annoyance of say other pewee • sad in this view it is much to be wished that the Pope should be sovereiget Ma territory of his own. Os the other hand, if it be miraliMil as • general ptineiple, that queetinus and ' between the people and the sovereign of each MUM illerahl be left to be settled by thaw parties without rg ilMetileames et any foreign armed force, it is not nay to me. in dm poet r porition of the Pope with regard to bisenbiects Whet should make the R.-mace states an sump hien to this gweerel rule. The male circumstance in which the relation between the Pups and hie subjects differ from the relations Which subsist between other sovereigas and ?hair subjects is, that the Pope does not reign either by hereditary right or by the camas of the people wheat he governs, bat that i.e is .leafed by the College of esitiSSlS. a body which is not in its emstitutiou national, which is, believe, self-eleeted, and of which about a ban are not na tives of the state for which they choose the sovereign. These circumstances would resin to render it the more incomhent on the Pepe to give to his subjects the requisite emeriti. a for good government, col these eircamatauc-s would also appear to render it the less juu.ll tble fee any fore ga posers to use armed in" rferen,e to e titer to twist the Pope In maintaining, if he were so disposed, • bad system of govern ment. 'VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO Till MARQUIS OP NORMANDY. Foreign Otfixe, March 9, 1849. Although Great Britaia has not no direct an hewn.; as France has in the ercte•iortical sad political questions which arise rut of the pry.- t relations between the Pope and the people of the R B:etts, the British gover. meat never theiess cannot vie e woo, matters with 11.dd:fel . ..nee Great Britain is indeed. a protestant state, but her Majesty has many millions of tatn-be sulejects ; and the Bri i,h govern ment mat thereiur • be et.inius, with a view to British interests, that the l'ope shoAd be placed in such • temporal position as to be title to act with entire independertc- in the esercise of his spiritual funettone. Great Britain is so tar di.tant from I:say t at the p Wheal events of the tidier' peninsula cannot have the same direct bearieg upon Britielt interests which three event. must . xert upon the interests ul nearer state.; but sail as thou events must always nave a powerful infl.rence epos mat n involving questions of peace SW war in Rarer, sue britisn dowernastut must me. ssanly watch those even , • with much attention and anxiety. The present eoridr.i en of the r l.tiona between the Pope and the people of tt e Slate% has therefore been looked at with deep silicitude by her Msjesty's gnvernmeer. It woula have been the tarn-- t wish of her ll,j.sty's g•IT. rumen?, bath os qeners' principles and with reletenee Li the particu he circiimat enc. a of the c se, that the eider , noes between the Pope and his so j-e - s should have been adj sated by ne - satiation, tithe. t we, n •Ite Pops slid Die subjects theta'', or by means of the in treoeition of friendly powers. A direct nepti.tion betwee n •he P pe and hi. subjects teems sow to have been rendered impel b e by the course of events at Rom^ and by tat teethe-. y those counsels which more is mums to thiult are suirseeeed to the Pope by the per. o-.s who surround him at Gaeta. But her Majesty's goverd- TIMM do not see, even in tae recent °cairn Wes at home, any reason for civic up the hope that the eiplomatic filegitellition of fueudle powers might still, without any a • teal eseploi went of msatary fore , bring shout each a setes meat of did. rer ces as would enable the Pope t re turn to I Rnme and to ri sum. hie temporal authority ; and her Ma jesty's government, dilemma ,g as they do, on principle, the employment of a f resin m htary force to settle internal dasen.ions in a sta ., , except in ex reme and peculiar easel, would greatly re juice it the powers to whom the Pope Las now appealed fur ass*-edam to ..s , ricate him Ir ecu his diffr ul his, were to try the • Ikea of their moral inflornee at Rome, before they reeert.d to any ether more active measures. 1; seems to her Majesty's government that a strong and unanimous maailestation of the opini en of those powers in support of order on the one hot d, and of consti•eruonal right. on the other, wield Owing to re town the minority who now exercise peramouot authority at Rome; and would give courage and confidtie • • to the majority who hive been hitherto Intimid .4 d and overborne; and if Greet B , item luau bean invited to I.e a per y o those negotiations, and if an io vitation to that e ffect had been metered, such would have bet athe copse wniieh net ..eeteetj'a government would have recommended Unit the puti.s to the transaction should pursue. Her Majesty's government have hunt with much pleasure that France ha. D. en toe udet in the invitation addeseaed by the Pope to &rue it the iat. , olic powers, r. qu ming th. m to take an active merest in the pre.ent condi ion of nis .ff ire; and her Blated,'s g 'venison.. hope that it Po r, is to be a *mom among a iy of the rowers of Europe in regard to those affairs. the Fr,uch goys-rumens will nut &cline the ion vitstioa to be • party ih• reto. There are mai very ob viola reasons why in sev. ral points of view it would be de sirable that tit se 'lt• re abound not be disposed of without the participation of Fringe. Your eleslieory , a) a teat the French government would have prefeete t teat Sardinia should trivet been isvited to take part In awe ueliberati.n.s. Her Majesty's government are entirely of the e nee opinion. The psi tide-too nt 8 utlialis would mitigate the foreign character of the negodation, and it a contingency wire to arise which should It'id to the employment of any aeiiitary force within the it man territory, Piedmonte-e troops would fur many evident tr.:sous b • better suited for such purpose than the troops of Austria or of any state not belonging to the Italian Penh aul e. The opinion then of her Majesty's government upon the points on which the governmeht of France has • tolled to have it is, that it would be doeirable that France should be a pirty to the Fr reed dribi ra.ious, and that Serdioia should take part in thane al-u; that it would be deiii able that r v,ry esdearour should b- mode to bring about a tetti meet be tween the Pope and his subjects by negotia , iou and by moral influence before re o tog to the employment of force ; and that one condi ion of the reinstatement of the Pope ought to be that he should engage to maintain in their main and e.- sandal provisiohs the constitutional and Tepee...meta,' fial hitless which he granted tr his subjects lost y 6 r. Gaeta, February 18, 1849. His Henan', our master, from the very *pairing of his pontificate, has had no other object than to bestow benefits on hie sufjects in unison with the times, pro viding for their waters in everything. In tact, after having pardoned those who were in exile or in prison for political °fleeces, after having erected the Consults di Stato, and instituted the Council of Minis ters, aster baring granted through the impericua necessity oe circumstances, the institution of the civic guard, the new law for a fair lib. rty of the press, and finally, • fundamental statute for the states of the Holy Church, he had a good claim to that gratitude which is des from the subjects to • prince who looks upon them only a+ his children, and who promises them only a reign of love. But far different was the return he found for the many benefits and kindnesses lavish ed upon them. Aher brief tokens of applausth•hich t :ewer* led by penults who already cherished the most criminal designs in their hearts (tokens which the Holy Father by every means known to his paternal heart, endeavoured to put an end to), he • ry soon experienced the bitter fruit of Wirer titude. Driven by the violence of a faction to make war against Austria, he found himself compelled to pronounces* allocution in the consistory of the 19th dry of April of last year, in which he declared to the whole world that his duty sad his conscience were not consenting to it. This wee enough to call into open violence the maohinatioos which were already predisposed, at this exercise of his full and ha powers, compelling him to • division of the ministry Oir afw into the seclesier *al and civil departments, a division which he never reeognised. The holy father trusted, however, that by placing in the various departments, persons fit for their posts and desirous of order, things would take • better course ' and that a partial stop would be put to those evils which already threatened misfortune. But a mur kraus weepoo, wielded by the hand of an alemain, destroyed by the deed& eef the minister Rossi, the hopes which had bees formed. Triumphant by this crime the reign of violence was shamelessly inaugurated ; the Quirinal was invested by armed men, attempts were made to set it on Me, shots were directed against the apartments where the sispeeme Pcmtiff resided, and it rushed unhatiody that one tithe &wearies became a victim ; they would nave forcibly bid open his pelisse by cannon if he had not yielded to the aembelm sides ministry imposed upon him. The Pontiff, having been compelled to yield to the empire ethos, as is well known to every one, by • series of such atiesisias deeds, found himself reduced to the cruel neeedrity of pitting Rome and tne whole pontifical state, in order to mew the liberty which had been taken from h4e, and mid* he should sajov in the full use of his supreme power. proceeded to Gaeta, under the directions of Divine being sheltered by • prince eminently male% sad surrounded by a large part of the Bacred College, and by the representatives of all the powers with whom he is in relations of amity, he did not delay one moment to make his voice heard in an soancin4 by the Pontifical Act of the 27th November last, the motives of his temporary separation from his subjects, the nullity and illegslity of all the acts emanating from a ministry which had been extorted by violence, and in nomi nating a governing cfmmissioa in order to assume the direc tion of public affairs during his absence from his states. But the authors of therm sacrilegious outrages, caring nothing for the promulgamition of his wishes, and endea souring by f ilea pretexts to elude their force in view of the ignorant classes, pawed on to greater crimes, arrogating to themeless the rights due to the Sovereign alone by the in stitution of an illegal governing eepresentadon under the title of Provisional and Supreme Giunta di Stato; egainst which most grave and sacrilegious deed the Hily•Father solemn! protested by his other act of the 17th December laic, declaring that the G;unta di Stato was only an usurpa tion of sovereign power, sad that therefore it had no authority. He expected that these protests would renal these mis guided men to the donee of fidelity and subjection, but in stead of that • new and more monstrous act of open villainy, of real rebellion, filled up the measure of his grief. This was the conveestion of a general national assembly of the Homan state, for ti.e purpose of establishieg new political hems he be given to the states of the Holy See. Thereupon, by meat Mote Proprio, of the Ist of Imlay last, he pro- VOA against that act, and condemned it as an enormous cad inerilegions offence, committed in prejudice of his inde and sovereignty, deserving of the chastisements by laws both human antedivine ; and he prohibit- admit liswabj.cts from taking partthe same, warning them that whosoever should dare to act spinet the temporal sore- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY ,EVENING, JUNE 18, 1849. reig•ty et the swum BeM Pontiffs would be liable to asseares, and espesifilly to the grater execommanies tits, a penalty to irlishlte Mined liable those sloe who in any meaner whatever, sail miler say take saint, have vio lated sad aimed kis avitheagy. With regard to the myths given by the party to this protest sad authoritative emionmetles, it is saleirst to state that every effort was made to pont premelptills, that punishment wee awarded ensile em ma visaing& dm ' acquaint the people with tie% wint abseil set ssemilbek views; but notwititelsadiag sash wahlood.ef visionseAomse rity of the 'Ojeda remind Mittel to their sus sew reign, and emend timeliest to sesellises, anima to the I danger of death rather than hil b their duty as subjects sad eatiolies. Tie MN party, magsreeti _mere and am at suing their designs obatnicted, iniereesed the violates mid terror in a thousand ways, without regesi to rank ar mar tin, and being desirous at every NM to esespiste their Lanus career, they bed Isiewles mu to the atts mint els and mercenary. Thum maim iron ens mom to mat; abusing the very benefits granted by the Pontiff, sad r dal y convening the liberty of the es to the most licentiossam alter the met meleenadede NM m Wed in order to resod their esnemplimiondtesomise los distance good and honest wierhaller so manyeasrdensemmitted under their aegis, after having spread everywhere rebe/liss, immorality, and irreligion—atter having misled so many un guarded young persons, no longer respecting sawed Mess and the asylame of p. nee and solitude, nor even the pintos Cl public education, but converting them into dm Ise a meet undisciplined soldiery gathered from the ref sad bed mete of foreign countries; they wish to reduce tie apital of the catholic world, the seat of the pontiff., to a seat of im piety, and to destroy , Uit were possible, ev , ry idea of sove reignty in him who is destined by Providence to govern the universal churn, and who, for the very object of exercising freely his authority over tie whole catholic world, is in pu mmel= of a state as the patrimony of the church ; at which sight of desolation and waste the holy father cannot but be enely grieved, u well as moved by the cry of his good sub jects, who imphsre his aid and assistance to liberate them from the most atrocious tyranny. His Hol noes, as it is known, soon after his arrival in Gaeta ea the 4 h day of Septem ber last, addressed all the sovereigns w.th whom he has relations, and informing them of nis d.parture from the capital and from the pontifical slue, and of the causes which had produce/ it, willed up in them for protection in defence of the dominions of the holy are ; and it is a pleasing satisfaction to declare that almost all nave kindly responded, taking the liveliest pert in his grief, in as punnet poi ion, ufferiog themselves ready to aid him, and at the same time manifesting the meat obedient sense of devotion and of attachment. Awaiting thee* fortunate and generous motel inn, whilst her Majesty the Queen of Spain had so anxiously promoted a congress of the c c hone powers to determine the means of promptly re establishing the holy father in his states, and in his full liberty and indeyendence, a proposition to which aeverso catholic powers had given their adtesi n, and that of the rest was esparto', it must, hoe ever, be stated with pain that the attain of Om pontifical state are a ptey to wasting ' destruction through the acts of the party which is hostile to very s anal institution, which, under the specious pretences of nationality and independence, has omitted no measum to e .mphte their is.iquities. The d-cree called " Fundamental," issued by . the Roman Coneti:uent Assembly on the 9th instant, is an act which -abounds in every way with the blukest ',daily and the most abominable impiety. Its chief oecl nation is that the papacy has de facto and de jure o ased from the temporal government of the Roman alive, and it proclaims a republic ; another act decrees that the arms of the holy father be taken dawn. At the eight of his supreme dignity as a pontiff and a sovereign thus contemned, his holiness, afore all potentates, and all and every catholic the whole world, protests against this :cue of irreligion and against so eutrageous a violation of his imprescriptible and most sacred tights. if a remedy be not promptly a;.- pled, the succour will not arrive until the states of the church, now wholly a prey to its bitterest enemies, shall be redoes. d to ashes. Having exhausted all the meats at his disposal, urged by the duty impo.ed on him in the face of tins whole catholic world to preserve uninjured the patrimony of the church and sweendenty,annexed to it, which is so iadispensoble to the iniuteuance of his full liberty and independence as supreme head of the church its• lf, and moved also by the groans of the good, who are loudly calling out for help, as being usable to hear any lot ger • yoke of iron and a baud of tyranny, the holy father therefore applies again to those same powers, and esp. wally to those catholic powers who with 'lin generosity of mind, and in so untie-i toting a meaner, have manifested their decided readir.ess to dennd his cause, in the assurance that tsey will he most anxious to come forward with their moral intervention, in order that he may he restored to his see, to the capital of those dumieions winch were constituted expressly to =un true his lull liberty and independence, and whic:i are more over guaranteed by the treaties forming the basis of the European law of nations. And whereas Austria, Fret ce, Spain, and the Kingdom of tne Twn Sicilia, by their geographical position ere in *situ'. ton to be eke to come foreasd promp ly to establish with area, in the dominions of the Holy See, that order wh:ch bas been destroyed by • b. nd of eectaries. Tree Holy Fa, her, tem: ing in the 'cheeses interest felt by those posers, daughters of the chug b, demands with full confidence their armed intervention a specially to liberate the state of the Huh See from that faction of bad men, who, with every sort of wiekeanees, exercise in it the mist atrocious despotism. In ti.i. manner only can order be restored in the states of the church and the chief pontiff be restored to the free cur else of his supr. me authority, as imeeriouely demanded b hi. d and august character, by the interests of the uni versal Church, and by the puce of no ions, and thus only can he preserve that patrimony which he received on his acceaeion teethe pontificate, to transmit it entire to his MC -74. The cause is that of order and of catholicism. The refers the holy lather trusts, that while all the powers with whom he is in relations of amity, ant who, in the situa tion into which be has been thrown by aparty of factious men, have in so many ways manifeated the strongest interest in him, will give amoral asiistanc- to the armed jct. rvention which the serious state of circuinstanc s has impelled him to de. mend, the four powers above men'ioned will rot deity one moment t 3 perform the work requirwl of them, thus render tog themselves highly serviceable to the cause of public order and religion. The undersigned, Cardinal Pro Secretary of State of his Holiness, engages your Excellency therefore to have the kindness to bring this tote as promptly as posits's to the knowiedee of your government ; and in the confidence of a favourable reception, he has the honour, &:. TISCOUXT PAILLXBILOTOII TO THI MAHOVIN OF KOILMANBY. Foreign-office, March 27, 1849. My lord,—l have received your Excellency's despatch 0! the Bth instant, transmitting to me the copy of a note which your exce limey had received from the &pantie nuncio, en. closing the copy of a note which had been addressed oy Cu dinal Antonelit to the representatives of all friendly powers, requesting them to cooperate fur the purpose of rwestab.ish hug the papal authority at Rome. I have to instruct your sea llency to say to the nuncio that her Majesty's government have received and have attentively consideied the communication which he /MI made to them through your excellency, and that you are instructed to ex press to him the deep regret with which her Majesty's go vernment have witnessed the differences which have arisen between the Pope and his suljeets, the assassination of Count Ito-si, the departure of the Pupa from his capital and states, end the proclamation of a republic at Rome. The British gevernment is fur many obvious reasons not desirous of taking an active part in any negotiations which may result from the application which the Pope has ad. deemed to some of the catholic powers of Europe, whose territories are nearer than Great Britain in geographical proximity to the Italian Fenian's. But the British govern ment will be much gratified if the result of those negotiations should be such a reconciliseion between the Pope and his subjects as might enab • the former with the free good-will and consent of the latter to return to his capital, and th re to resume his spiritual functions and his temporal authority. But it is the opinion of her Majesty's government that web a reconciliation could scarcely be effected, or it elleiged for the manse; could the bests up on which it was founded were to be that the Pepe should engage to maintain the constitutional and re piesentative system of government which he granted last yeas to his snipes, and unless the separation between the spiritual authority and the temooral powers and institutions of the state were so clearly and so distinctly established as to put an end to those manifold grievances which the mixture of the spiritual with the temporal power has for .0 long a pe riod of time prodtend in the R man States. The great im portance of admitting laymen to administrative and judi cial functions in the Roman states was pointed out to the late pope by the memorandum presented in 1832 to the Boman government oy the representatives of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, and the events which have happened sines that time, not only in the Roman states but In the rest of Europe, have tended to make it still more important that such a Mona should be carried out into full and complete execution. Your excellency will give the nuncio a eepy of tins der patch.—l he. (Signed) PLLSIBON. THE COURT. His Royal Hiehn eat Prime Albert rods out on horseback ea Satariay, attended by Wessel Bennek. The Queen atm Prises Albert. the Dueller et Kent, the WWI sad penman dna mart, and the domino house hablantsended akloejearrise yesterday swung is the prints chapel in Sekinchan Palen. The Ron. and Rev. C. Leslie CAsite2s lierdTliar alelatei ßislutenes . the Psalm of ailment.; the Dalton Cambridge, sad the Prisons Mary, attended urine senile pub May inning in Groomer Chapel, South Agr i". Par 41 .1111tbsernis the Duke's of Cambridge and the Hanaltul want Daimon Mecklenburg's threlits attended Miss urns. yetasedlay Bening is St. Paler; Knights. brit*. Lady Anemia Oadesea and Mr. Mined Mining were la weitut g en=ir Hishanese. Rh Serum Prime Edward of Saxe Weimar left town on Saturday fee Germany. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign office. It was attended by Lied John Rus sell, the Marin% of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minh) Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan cellor of the Zuhequer, Sir Francis' Baring, Be John Hob bow, Lied Campbell, the Reel of Carli.le, and the Right Bea. H. Labouchen. The council sat two hours and a hell. Bettor Molina, the Co,ta Rican Minister, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday, on behalf of the republc of Guatemala. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, had an interview with Lend John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence in Dow. lag-street. His Excellency also transacted business on Saturday at the Foreir.office. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, had an interview wilt the Chancellor ot the Exchequer on Satur day, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation on the subject of the harbour of P. rpatnek, consisting of the Marquis of Londonderry, the Ent of Galloway, Lord Cutleresgb, Lord Drutalanrig, Lord Newry, Lord Seam, Lord Duffetia General Hunter Blair, Mr. John Dalrymple, M P., Bir John Rennie, Colonel M'Doua I, Sir John M'Taggart, M.P., Admiral Scarp, Lieut.-Colonel Stoptord Blair, Mr. A. N. Caird, and Mr. John C. Moore, had an interview with Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sly Francis Bering, and the Marquis of Clanricarde, on Siurday, at the official red• c'.enca ot Lord John Russell, in Downing-street. A deputation on the subject of the Factory Act, including Mr. J. Wood and Mr. William Walker, of Brad ford, and Mr. Samuel Firlden and Mr. P. Grant, of Man, cheater, hail an interview with Sir George Grey, on Satur day, at the Home-office. 13nrd Moutetigle transacted business at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in the Board of Trade on Saturday. Despatches were sent off front the Colonial-office on Saturday evening, for the governors of the West India colouies. POSTAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. A deputation, consisting of nearly forty noblemen and gentlemen interested in the preservation of the .zi ting route of communication between Scotland and Ireland, br Portpatrick and Donaahadee, had an interview on Satutday with Lord John Remit at his lordship's official residence in Downing-street. The deputation was headed by the Mar quis of Londonderry, and among those accompanying his lordship we noticed the Earl of Galloway, Viscount Castle reagh, M.P., Visconni Newry, M.P., Sir John M'Taggart, at P., Viscount Sesham, M.P., Colowl Dalrymple, M.P. Colonel Cathcart, Goneral H. Blair, Coluntl blau, Colonel M'Dowall, Mr. H. Montgomerie, tte Mayor of Loch Ryan, the Provost of Summer, and Sir John Rennie. Lord John Russell was attended by the Chancellor of the Each. Baer, the Postmaster General, and the First Lard of the Admiralty. Tile Martini. of LONDONDERRY said it was univer sally admitted that the shortest sea passage between Soot land and Ireland was that which ought to be maintained, and yet it wet contemplated to abandon a passage of 21 miles between Portpa:rick and Danaghades and adopt one of 90 miles between Greenock and I.l:liast. His lordship having pointed out the great inconvenience resulting from the proposed step, The Earl of GALLOWAY said that if the government had endeavoured to do ell chat it matt to prevent the rapid tran.it of the mail. and prove prejudicial to the early de -I:very of letters, they could not have devie.d a scheme better calculated to eff. et such an object than tact proposed. Sir J. RENNIE then gave his opinion of the eligibility of maintaining me harbour of Portpstrick, and bore testi ' mony to the perfection of the ne e works constructed there under his advice and rem ,- mendation. Tee deputation wire inform d by the Marquis of CLAN RICARDE and Sir F. BARING that the contrac - x :or the Urcenock route were now in progress, and could not be altered. DALRYMPAX pressed the premier for a positive answer as to whether the government bad Basil determined on abandoning tl.e P-rtpatrick route. Lord J. RUSSELL said he would take the substance of r the various ul boons expressed by the deputation into m aid twin, and Lard L.ndondsrry should be made acquainted with toe dee AOll of the government thereon. The deputation then retired. • INQUEST, SATURDAY.—DEATII OF A FISMALZ TROY TUE ADMINISTRATION OT INDIAN TODACCO.—Be fore Mr. Baker, at the Market-house, Finsbury-market, touchier the death of Jane Garner. seed 23 years. Mr. John Leeson, a surgeon, stated that on Thursday morning he was called to the deceased. Be fiend she hid just ex pired. He was informed by Mr. Garner, her brother, that the deceased had caught a violent cold, and that he bad ail =Joist, red doses of lobelia, some ling to instructions in a work which he had purchased. entitled " Coffin's Botanical Guide to Health and Nyland Pathology of Disease." He asked Mr. Garner how much he hid given to his sister, and he replied one tea-spoonful. He added that the work recommended half en ounce of lobelia as a dose, which was to be repeated until it operated, and that be was in the habit of sung it himaelf for come time at as an emetic, when be felt unwell. The lob , lit indite is an India& weed of a very powerful character, and a nar cotic poison. Witness had made a post moetem examination and attributed death to the poisonous effects olobelia. lie found upwards of 400 grains of it is the stomach, which was quite sufficient to produce death. Lobelia acted upon the nervous system in the same manner as prussic acid.— Habana Ford stated that her father was an kabala in Covent-garden and in Union-street, Spitalfields. Witness had sold Mr. Garner various quantities of lobelia, and bad herself taken a teaspoonful of lobelia on several occasions. Witness's mother had taken fire or sin spoonfuls every day for some time past. The jury retuned the following special verdict "That the deceased died from the deleterious effeets of a certain noxious weed called lobel:a inflate, alminirered to her as a medicine, and without any intention to derroy life ; but the jurors cannot separate • ithout expr,saing their opinion of the iejurious effects which have ben thus pro. dared by a book publiahted, and entitled ' Coffi is B fta,ical Guide to Health,' which has led to en incautious and Judi , - criminate ate of the weed in question, and which work is • condemned by the whole of lb. medical profession." ROYAL GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY. On Saturday the annual meeting of this society was held at the Hawn. e-square Rooms, for the purpose of nc iri..g the report and determining upon future operations. The chair was occupied by the Earl of HaDDIN Dion. The commiqn commenced emir report by stating that at two former meetings they candidly admitted the it i nability to continue the payment of allowances to the p nsionen of the society, or to discharge their own liabilities, unless re course wale had to the trust fund. A resolution was passed at the last of these meetings, authorizing and directing the ' teureet to complye the necessary arrangements for the sale of the funded stock, through the instrumentality_ of the bankers of the semi ty, Messrs. Ceuta and Co. No time was lost in transmitting to the trustees—Colonel Wood, Mr. Hope, and Mr. Demos, collies of this resJiution, but unfortunately the repeated applications made to these gentlemen to carry the same into effect had not bee,. attended with success. The committee, in conse quence of this most unexpected didieul , y, left it to be their duty to engage the as•ittance of a professional gentleman to aid them as to the best course to adopt under the cireuni- InUcts, and tney had since been advised that the resolution directing the sale of stock was detective in consequence of its having been paged in the month of July insead of the mon.b of June, which, according to ons of the rules of the society, and a clause in the trust deed, was the only month in which a general annual meeting could be held. The minii.tee, therefore, issued a circular detailing these facts, and adding that the present liabilities, including the arrears due to the pensioner?, amounted to 60W. Toe income of the society from D4O to 1818 had been 7,5381., and its average receipt uow, provided the subscriptions were re gularly paid, which they were not, was 7501. The weekly allowance to the pensioners 47 in number, had not been paid, even at a reduced scale, since the 15th of February last. Un ler all the circumstances, the committee saw no other method available for meeting the liabilities except the sale of the funded rock, which they again earnestly recom mended for adoption. They runner recommended that, after discharging the liabilities out of the proceeds of the sale of the stock, the surplus should be reinvested in government securities in ice joint names of the trustees for the benefit of the sociaty. The stock con aired of 1,0001. in the Three per Cents. Reduced. The com mittee concluded by impressiag upon the friends of the society the imperative necessity which now existed for ob taining additional donations and subscriptions in order that pyations for the future might continue o be carried on. Col. WooD, Mr. HOPE, and Mr. DUNCAN severally ex *Mel that their sole reason for declliong to sell the stock was to preserve, if possible, the only permanent fund of which the society was possessed, fearing that if that fund were once br keu in upon it would be inspossilt'a any longer to sustain the benevolent objects contemplated by the founders and promoters of the charity. Lord Manvalas e :pressed his extreme regret at the discouraging circumstances under which the friends of the society were that day assembled. He thourbt it disgraceful up n the part of those who had put sown th. it names as sub-eriben to the fund, and who neverthel.ss had decl,ned to aft Id any pecuniary assistance. He moved the reception of the report, belaying that there was no other mode of releasing the committee from their liabili in but by disposing of the trust fend. The motion was agreed to. Upon t'.e motion of Mr. Czanocn, a committee of 18, ins(ea.l of 30, was appointed for tile ecsuir.g year. Some discussion took plus upon the ns 'luting authoris ing the trastsses to make arrangements tor the iale of the 1.0001. stove ; but. eventually, it was unairmously adopted. It was thou agreed that the arrears to the pensions» should be paid, is the first instance, at the reduced sale of weekly payments—that afterwards the orb , r Labilities should be discharged, and that the committee shoul I immediately consider the prrpri• ty of relucing the ezpenditure, and bringing it within the income. The meeting 'sprawl, after having puma the usual Tote of thanks to the noble earl in the chair. FIRE IN ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST.-011 Satur day night, shortly atter 10 o'clock, a fir, involving a con siderable destruction of property, broke oat in a long reap of premises occupied conjointly by Mr. Jonathan Clark, bis cuit-baiter, atd Mr. Thomas Smith Gordan, a cabinetmaker end ship joiner, in Orange-court. Great liernatsge-street, fit. George's•in-the-Mast. The dimes commenced in the lower flow, in she tenure of the first-named parry, and al though aesistenos was promptly at hand, at.d every endea vour mule to arrest the progress of the fire, scarcely five mimes • had elaps-d from the time the fiat discovery was nude, before the fire penetrated the do xi. ft of Mr. Gor don's premises, and the stock-in-trade therein being of an easily ignitable character, the flames spivs' with great rapi dity. The r fiee.ton of the flames on the river brought out tho various shits and smaller craft in bald relief, and from the several bridges the fire presen•ad all the appearance of the L oidou atlas being enveloped in fl ins's. Plenty of water being at nom], the whol• force was brought to bear upon the flaws, by which means their farther extension was cut ofi, beat it w c nearly 12 o'clock before they could be ez tingui4ted. and a .t wail the whole of Mr. Clark's premises were to aly roved, and the content of Mr. Gordon's workshop consumed, nothing remaining of either building but the Hirer •el s. f ereral of the adj rining premises were also materially damaged. 'I HE CHOLERA. CABIAPP.—We rejoice to have it in wryer to state that the violence of the alarming disease bee beim materially Issessed. The prompt measures which were tak a for the psalteries of the dwellings of the p. or and the lower pave elate sews, have b en lc far *acanthi as to check the nth- Wes of the malady. For example, this week there have been e&y 14 coffins supplied for cholera victims by the pariah lest week there were 40. Aud of the 14 coffi•is fun adverted to, three only have been given once Si urday. The cor.di non of the Fearer population seems, therefore,. to have been very greatly improved. But what has beet gnu m u st not be undone by indolence sad a reliant. upon h ow . w hi c h, how amiable never in their Origin, can lend only to bitter diseppoktalset and re towed misery.—Cardif Guardian. Lamas.—We regret to have to announce that Lees is to be added to the many other places in which this disease has appeared during the present week. The cues that have occurred here are as yet happily isolated ones; and with prompt and proper care as to ventilation, regimen, and tem perate habits, the prevalence of the discus as an epidenis may be prevented. The filet case we have to mention occurred in Wheeler-greet, Beak, in the family of an Irish man named McCarthy, his wife and three children all being prostrated by the disease. One of the children, aged eight years, died after six days' suffering, having sur vived the state of collapse, and expired under the typhoid symptoms wads commonly succeed it. Another of the children is in a dying sate, but the wife and the third child are as yet in a more h ,peful situation. This family were by their eireunintances every way predisposed fur the reception of the disease. Besides those who have had the complaint, there are the husband and several children, who have hitherto gauped it ; but all are loth td in a miserable collar dwelling, with only a single bed fur the living and the dead, and subsisting up to this time principally upon vegetable diet, not having the means of procuring more substantial food. We least the Board of Guardians will immediately attend to this deplorable state of things, and provide a remedy, as far as practicable. The only other case of which we have heard is that of Mr. Jonas Brook, a married man with a family, residing in Market-street. lie was in the country on Suaday with a friend, and on his return home in the evening of that day was attacked with dysentery, but from which nothing I serious was at that time apprehended, though he had some medial advice. At four o'clock on Thursday morning his illness began to increase most seriously, and Dr. Chad.- , wiek and J. P Garlick, Es ti., were called to attend biro ; but in spite of ell that eculd be done, he expired in the course of the day. We are informed that he exhibited moss, but not all the symptoms of Asiatic cholera, though not in their most malignant form. These are all the cases we have heard of, and we pericularise them in order that the truth may be known without exaggeration, and that no unnecessary alarm may be created by the rumours which may get into circulation, and by which the extent of the evil is sure to lie magnified. At the some time we would urge upon the in. habitants the adoption of all those precautionary mt worm which ire so necessary in order to guard against the spread of the disesse.—Leeds Mercury. BIUDFORD.—Tate disease has made its appearance in Bralford. During the present week there have barn fin cases, three of which have proved fatal. Every pr: caution 'a being taken by the authorities to prevent its spreading.— Noes.—The cholera at this fithing village still exists, which is not altogether a matter of surprise, when the MISS of filth and nuisances which are allowed to remain in it are taken into consideration. It appears that as far back as February last, a woman and her two chiliren died, having about them every symptom of cholera. No other ease had occurred until about ten days since, when a fisher man named Jackson, who had been complaining to his comrades in the morning of a pro is the stomach, went on hoard a French lugger It ing in the hay, and had a glass of brandy. lie returned on shore, took to his bed, and in two hours was a corpse. lii. wife and child caught the disease, and soon followed the husband. Twenty nine altogether bad died alter suffering fur periods varying between six hours and • few days. The number of those affected with the disease a few days since was 130, and the population of the whole parish only amounted to about 500, although hopes are entertained of the recovery of many of those who are now ill. A committee has been formed fur providing the sick and stifle ring with medicines, blankets, and other necessaries, and the greatest at ntion is paid to the patient+ by Mr. Spencer of Plymouth, who ha , been appointed reside nt surgeon, by the P.ympton St. Mary tioion, and by Mr. Coal, the surgeon of the district —Devon Telegraph. Tue AMEISICAN EAOLE.—It is our grwifyieg duty to in gests the public that ttere bas been no death from cholera, or from any other cause, on board this ship or the Ts ne bulk since our last publication, and the passengers and seamen mill under the etre of Mr. F. Fox, the surge on on b , ard the. Tyne, are rapidly improving; all the cases, about 20, with the exception of one, being now merely diarrhoth. The An dromrda helk hu been towed fir on Namara to the Sound, I alongside the American Eagle, and all the passengers w ll be removed into her, in order that the American ship may be *tree:Wally cleared, &e., preparatory to the re-embarkation of the emigrants and her cabin passengers. Dr. Suther land, • medical officer from the goy rotund, arrived here on Saturday. Be visited the American Eagle and the hulk, I and expressed his approbation of the eystem adopted by the kcal authorities. lie is still here, and will no doubt remain till the ship sails. The vague reports respecting the exist ence of cholera in Plymouth are entirely groundless, and the number of deaths on board the emigrant vessel have been greatly exaggerated, especially by tho metropolitan press The inhabitants of Plymouth are unusually healthy at the present time, as will be seen from the letters read at the leering of the town council of that borough on Wednes day evening last, given in another column.—Devonport Telegraph. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Jl' 16: Two of the state convicts (O'Dat rty and Martin) received notice lesterday that they would bt trans ferred this morning to the custody of the governor of the convict depot in Smithfield. This morn:ng they wet° removed from the prison to Kingstown, where a steamer awaits to convey them, at one o'clock, to Sp ke Lland. As soon as the Declaratory Act page a parliament, the other convicts will be removed with out further delay. It appears that there is no truth whatever in the statement of a London journal that Mr. Smith O'Brien was to carry out plate with him to New South Wales. There was a meeting of the corporation yesterday, and the counciLdiscussed at length a rep of the commit'ee apoffibertain clauses in the act for the im provement of Dublin. Mr. Butt, Q.C., took his seat in the council for the first time since Ms recent elec tion, and was received with loud applause from all sides of the council. Mr. James Grattan, ex-M.P. for Wicklow, has published a letter in the journals stating his protec tionist principles, and expressing his readiness to assist iu promoting emigration by subscribing to such a society as was recently proposed at the Carlow meeting got up by Mr. Maher. His letter takes a very gloomy view of the state of this country. DRAMA. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. MORNING TIM OF HI MAJESTY. On Saturday a very interesting entertainment mu given for the amusement of the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the youthful sambas of the royal family. The performances were got up by desire of her Majesty, who expreared a wish to afford some theatrical amusement to her children, and Mr. Mitchell sent out cards of in vitation to the junior branches of the aristocracy, rather than seise the opportunity of deriving any pecuniary benefit from the royal patronage. The result of this arrangement was that the theatre was thronged to excess by the nobility and gentry, and a Coup d'ceit was presented such as is not often seen within the walls of a theatre. Every seat was occu pied, and the vilters consisted for the most part of ladies, all of whom were most elegantly attired. Her Majesty, accompaniid by Prince Albert and the royal children, ar rived between two and three o'clock, attended by Lady Desert, the Hon. Miss Kerr, Colonel Phipps, and Colonel Bouverie. Toe theatre was festooned with flowers, tastefully &st ress( d along the front of the boxes, and the effect was extremely beautiful, although, as a matter of count, it was necessary to turn day into night by illuminating the theatre. The performances (which were as varied w possible consider ing the short time allowed for preparation) consisted of se lections from "Fre Diavolo," songs by the Hungarian sing n, the " Minuet de la Cour," by Mille. Rosati and Mdlle. Marie Taglionl ; a " Divertissement d'Enfant," and the smash's gymnastic feats of Monsieur Auriol and his son. The Queen and the royal children expressed the greatest satiefre.ion throughout, and the eccentric mancravres of Auriol were especially gratifying to the youthful princes The entertainment concluded shortly before 5 o'clock. Among 4 the distinguished company were the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness de Spell', and Sir George Cooper; the Turkish ambassador and suite. the Viteonateme de Moneorvo and party, the Duchess of Beaufort, Duchess of Northumberland, Marchionese of Ailcabury, Marchioness of Abereern, Marchione as of Down shire, Counteme Howe, Counties of Chesterfield, Count re of Sefton. C.:notes, of Charlemont, Countess of Brownlow, Countess of Wilton, Countess of Harrington, Countess of Lichfill, Countess of Dartmouth, Lady Mary Christopher, Lady Howard de Walden, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mcst of the visitors were accompanied by juveniles. FIRE AT A GAS FACTORY.—On Tuesday morn ing, between 11 and 12 o'clock, a fire broke out at the Reading Old Oes-works. The exterior of the extensive gasometer, covered with en immense quantity of gas tar, by some means taught fire, and was quickly envelopes in flames. Tie engines soon arrived at the spot, and it was only through the utmm•t exertions being rendered that tae peat body uf fir. was at length extinguished. Had the iron gasometer, which was filled with gas, become sufficiently heated, nr hi d the fire occurred in the night, when asuitattee world have be , n less readily at hand, a terrible explosion would no d ntbt have taken place, followed by the most disastr: us con. sequence•. The fire, it is said, originated in a spark which flew from one of the chimnies, having settled on the newly covered eas-tar, which thereby became ignited. The HIBERNIA, Captain Le tell, saved from Liver pool on Saturday for Halifax and New York. REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. The following report of the committee of the Howe of Commune rtiosedass this company wee issued oa Saturday : The select committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the expenditure of pertain rums which appear as un accounted for, under the head of parliamentary expenses is the report which was re cently published by a committee appoiated to inquire into the management of the again al the Boaters Counties Railway Company, have sgreed to the s.l"ing 1.10,4 I ~ YOU commits. s retort that, in accordance with their in structions. they have mgaired into the expeneiture of cer which appear under fain sums, amounting to about 7.6001-e the headnf parliamentary expenses in the piloted " Report of the Committee of Investegation to the Shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway Company." Your committee I have likewise made inquiries with regard to certain expres uto.oerns in the rs arri n oty t . o fLtog re th o e n zh w u h a i tter ha orpres ea nt ertn With total to these expressions your committee are unable to state positively whether they were or were not used by the person to whom they are imputed, the mad• nee upoa this point being cot flicung and unsatisfactory ; but they fed satisfied that no portion of the money in questi in haaleen ex; ended, directly or indirectly, in corruptly influencing members of parliament. Indeed, from what has transpired in the emus of this in vestigation, it may be fairly questioned whether this expert- • diture his been properly classed under the head of " Pauline mentary Expenses," as ft appears to have been incurred by • self-appointed body, called the fike-lane committee, under the following CI , CIIIIII . VIM : In 184.5, three competing lines were before parliament, vie., the Linden and York, the Dirt ct Northern, and a can- • tinuation of the Eastern Counties from Csmhridgc to York. The B .ard of Trade reported in favour of a line compounded of a portion of the Eastern Counties scheme and a portion of the Direct Northern, the Co.' of which, as seated by Mr. Demean ' was estimated at 4,000,0001., wile that of the Lon don and York was calculated at 8,000.0001. Tbisreport was dated 20th.lflarch, 1845. The committee of the noose of Commons to whom these competing lines were submitted, after sitting eighty days, decided in favour of the London and York, but as the bill could not go through the Lords, owing ma the advanced period of the session, evo lutions were passed in parliament, enabling the bill to be pro ceeded with in Ore upper house in the ensuing session. In the interval, Mr. Hudson joined the Eastern Counties directi n; and at a public meeting of the Eastern Counties shareholder., hell on the 30th or 31st o! October, after point ing sot the evils attending this contest between the two come panics, and the saving of capital that might be effected by an amicable arrangement between them, invited the London and York shareholders, by a public announcement made at the meeting, to come into the Eastern Counties line, ad exchange their London and York fur Eastern Counti. a shares. This invitation was not accepted, although Mr. Duncan solicitor to the Esstern Counties Railway , addressed, th rough the press, to the London and York share holders, four letters, signed " One of Yourselves," miliing upon them to accede to the Eastern Counties prokositioo. These letters having failed to produce the effect desired, in April, 1846, Mr. La'Mert, who derceihes himself as " a spe culator in shorn, and a medical msn," and who was a consi derable Ando' ter in both companies, called upon Mr. Duncan, and expressed an opinion that it would be highly desirable to feria a committee tit London and Yolk share holders, and by advertisement to invite shareholders to join in the movement for an amalgamation of the two companies. Mr. Dunce's approving of this scheme, • committee was formed, of which Mr. Lied-re became chairman. In that capacity he spool. ted Mr. Philipps, of Sisi.-lane (his pri vate solicitor) to be so!iciter to t e committee, end sfter wards induced Moors Cash, Shappereon, Huxley, Field, and Jones to join him. This was the origin of the Siteslane cent mitten. Mr. Duncan had Previously obtained Mr. Waddington's sanction for its formation, as well as his guarantee that all the expenses attending it should be defrayed by the Eastern Counties Railway Company. It was likewise agreed between Mesa,. Duncan and La'Mere, with Mr. Waddington's sone tion, that it would be 'seem, cry for the committee to be polo teased of a certain numher of shares, to form a nudeus, round which other sharehtiders might gather ; and Mr. Lteldert was authorised to purchase a sufficient number of London and York shares, with the u deretnnding that he should be indemnified for any loss he might sustain thereby. The committee would thus appear to hive been formed on the responsibility of Mr. Waddington alone, without the knowledge or authority of the other directors, or of the pro prietors of the Eastern Counties Rail way. It was subse ginntiy joined by a coasideroble number of London and York shorsholdere, but the scheme entirely Ailed. The total expenditure incurred by this committee, under the different heads of advertisemen•r, painting, solicitor's bills, loss on share., Atc,, including likewise a sum of 1631. given to Mr. Davis, in addition to the payment of his bill, to purelvse his silence with regard to the proceedings of 'the S nelsne committ e, to which he hid occasionally acted as ieeretary, appears to have eemounted to about 7,6001., the sum which as mentioned under the head of parliamentary ex penses in the report of the committee of investigation, and is the expenditure of which your committee were instructed to inquire. It would tbus sppear from the above summary of the proceedings of the 61sT-lane committee, as well from the general evil' nee, that although the objects which the Swee lane c immittee had in view may have b en deemed beneficld to the Eastern Counties Railway Company, yet the means by wh ch gone ohjects were sought to be attained were of a quesoonable character; and. indeed, Mr. Waddington, in his evidence, stated to your eommitti e that it " was a trans action which had much better be in oblivion, inasmuch as no doubt it was an irregular proceeding." Your committee, therefore, fe 1 pettish. d that it was in consequence of the ques.ionable character of these transactions that an attempt was made to shroud in mystery the expenditure of 7,60;1., lest further inquiry, and "the giving of particulars" should have tended to " implicate other perms," those parties being n ne o her than the originators and m. rotors of the Sin-lane committee. In conclusion, your eotam:ttee fie I bound to express their belief that if Mr. Cash, chairman of the committee of inves tigation, and the only 'numb r of that cerninitteo who had also be es a member of the Sise-lane committee, had thought proper to state, at the timo of the shareholders' investigation, oil be knew we h regard to the Sise-lane commion, and the expensee attending it, this expenditure of 7.6001. would not have given rise to rumours rendering an inquiry necessary for toe vindication of the honour of the House of Comm ns.—Jane 11, 1849. The minutes of evidence and appendix are not yet printed, but are pi oinked shortly. MR. ANSTEY AND THE DEBATE ON CANADA. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS. Slft,—ln your paper of yeateiday (Saturday) I am repotted as having stated in the Reuse if Commons on Fri day evening that " I was convinced that at the moment the majority in that c untty (Canada) were ready to whistle their allegiance to the winds," &c. Yon will oblige me by correcting the report in question. What I mid was, that the evil policy or the Colon al-iffice had every year added largely to the well-grounded discontents of Canada, and that in a very short time the system would result in the most loyal Canadians being brought over, by virtue even of their loyahy, to abandon the party of the crown, represented by the Co lonial-6flieP, and to join themselves to the powerful minority in that country, " who were ready to whistle their allegiance to the winds," 80., &c.—l sm, air, Ste , T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY. 4, Elm court, Temple, June 17, 1849. UNIVERSITY AN]) CLERICAL. OXFORD, JUNE 17.—The attractions attendant on pus Oztord Commemoration have already commenced. The streets of Oxford and the College Gardens prove that already there is a very large attendance of visitors to this city. At Christchurch Cathedral the University sermon was this morning preached by Dr. Betsey. Just as our parcel left Oxford the Broad-walk was completely crowded. Plc FFFF marrs.—Rev. B. F. Geer, to the united vicar ages of If gt. sad Good Baster,.Eseei, dio. Rochester ; 1694 with residence; vacant by the death of the R-s. O. Leap tagwell pats , the Dean and Chapter of St. Rev. W. 11010411, to Banning R.,.Kent, dio. Canterbury; 6981 ; pat., her blejeaty. Rev. ove, to Shoulden P.C., Kent, dio. Canterbury; pat., the Archbishop. Rev. GEORGE ANTHONY DiNISON, IK.A , has been elected a Prebendary in the Cathedral Chureu of Wells, by the Lord Bishop of the diocese. VACANCY.—N SOillefelttil V., aunty and diocese of Lincoln ; 3941., with reside nee ; vacant by death of Rev. J. Psescott patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. NAVAL PORTSMOUTH, Sulu 17.—Cast .r, 36, Commodore Wyvill, arrived yesterday 1120111iNit from S , .serneas, in tow of the Sampson, steam-fzigate, and proceeded in the afternoon in tow to Plymouth, whets she will be fief: in advance, and then proceed to the Cape of 0 of Hope.—Athull, troop-ship, arrived at Haifa:, May 28, from Quebec, aml railed on the 2nd inst. for Ibis port. Atboll, on h• r arrival here, af:er re fitting, will embark a company of the Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of Capt. Hohmann, for Cape of Good Hope.—Admiral of the White Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, G.O D , 0.0.11 , will reci lire the admirals' good service pension, vacant by the death of Vies- Admiral Hill.—Termagant, D and Encounter, are ordered to be fluid with Mr. Grant's c +kit g and galley of the first class rise. The Adreirai.y have groitid permission to iodividuals to manufactute the new distlly/ galley for private sale. Woohsvicte, Jcve 16.—At • late hour last evening a Board of Airmiraltv, consisting of the first navel lord, A to& tel Dundee, Lord Julio Hey, and Carnal., Heralev, arrived at the Dockyard, to inspect the Grappler, st.iy., Lt. Lyiert v which has recently returned from the eve,tot Attica, and Is to be paid off at this port. Their lordship, spent some time on board the vessel, and app..ari.d gratified with th• em cisocy of the crew ; but Pie vessel her elf is no' in grod con dition, having leaked conderabl oa trie passage brine. It is sued that the Grappler and the Uodine are to be pai *. off on Thursday. The latter arrived lest rivht furs P P.s mouth.—Alecto, s .-v., Com. V. A. blassit.herd, recei.tly re turned from the Rio Plata, arrived this morn ing from Devonport, to be psi(' of .—Mnis. iron sc..ss.-v., has recently bees fitted with • pair of Win-pressure engines. They ate of 10ihorso ptitir, and a ork 70 its. to the eq tan inch. See wee tried down th river an Thu•istay. Bluntness, Jun 16 —Caiitor, fr., at 3, p.m., y eta day, 'slut. d toe Ad m. flos, and aas tua ii down .o the westward by the Sat.tnion. . I. 11 I A