The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

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We cannot notice, in any way, any communication that la sent to as anonymously ; but those who choose to address us In oanfidenee will find thetroonfidence respected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN AN V MAN usourrs WHATEVER. RUM WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TICIS DAT.-StCrIIIIIF, 13 MM. pie. 4; Afternoon, 36 mln. put 4. To-aioasow.—Rora.nt, n tomb past 4; Afternoon, 12 dn. put 5. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 25. THE "TIMES" AND THE "DAILY NEWS." IN estimating the expenses of its publication, the Times omitted the cost of maintaining its BRUTUSES and CATOS. Yet who does not know their value to the leading journal ? Who does not know their con venient and ready uses, when the exhaustion of British honesty in leading articles requires a supple ment of Roman virtue in the shape of a letter from a correspondent ? We have no notion at present of setting up a CATO, but we should be really glad to know the price of a CATO of Cornhill. The Times has not condescended to notice our answer to its attack upon ourselves and the solvency of our proprietors; but it cannot repress its uneasi ness, and a correspondent of Curnhill is called in to its relief. We should have known this correspondent to be a CATO, we fancy, even had he suppressed his classic name. There is no mistaking what HORACE calls the " atrocem animum," characteristic of the Roman stoic. CATO thus indulges his small spite at the Daily News, in the Times of yesterday : But the King (Hudson) has still an eye to business in his witty sallies. It seems you sell your paper for bd., and there is another paper, which the King patronises, which is sold for 2itl.; and he thinks he has a capital hit at you, because while you advocate cheap fares you do not sell a cheap newspaper. Where is the analogy ? The King has obtained a monopoly of the communications of a part of the country, and people who have to travel to the north must proceed along his line , whether they will or not. There is no choice. The coaches have been driven from the roads. But a newspaper has no other monopoly than that which arises out of the quality of the commodity. Jack Cade, indeed, ruled that in England seven halfpenny loaves should be sold fur a penny, but in general it is supposed that a man may ask a penny for a penny's worth. No one complains of a wine-merchant charging more for claret than for black strap. Any man may establish a newspaper, but the diffi culty is to get the public to buy it. - Yes, there is the difficulty. CATO touches the sore place. We have not only established a newspaper : we have got the public to buy it. We have got the public to buy it by thousands, where other journals are sold by hundreds. We have obtained a circula tion which competes with that of the Times ; and, with a public daily enlarging, and comprehending more and more what a vital interest they have in the issue of the question between ourselves and our con temporary, we mean to continue and improve the com petition. We do not entertain a doubt of the result. CATO does. lie is for cheap railways and dear newspapers. There must be low fares on all roads but the road of knowledge ; and to compete with the Times is Jack-Cadism. We object to the comparison of CATO. Our crime is not that of Calm. Our crime is the crime of Lord SAT, whom CADE, like CATO, would " behead for it ten times." CATO sneering against the Daily News, and talking of bhickstrap, is in the position of the hero who indicts Lord SAT, and may after him, with slight alteration, repeat the heinous charge. " Thou hut most traitorously corrupted the people of this realm, in establishing a cheap journal ; and whereas, before, our fathers had no other but the high-priced papers, the Times, the Chronicle, the Herald, and the Post, thou haat projected and printed a new paper, and, contrary to the Queen, her crown, and dignity, hut set up the Daily News. It will be proved to thy face that thou host men about thee that commonly talk of twopence-halfpenny, and such abomi nable wards as no Christian ear can endure to hear." It is not we who rule that seven halfpenny loaves shall be sold for a penny, but it is CATO who would rule that twopence-halfpenny worth of newspaper shall be sold for fivepenee ; and it is for the people of England, whom the latter question interests the most, to decide whether or not they will sub mit to such a rule. It is most true that a man is entitled to ask a penny for a penny's worth ; but it is not less true that a loaf, or anything else, ceases to be a penny's worth from the moment it can be had for a halfpenny. And this is the pinch of the matter between ourselves and the Times. Hence we have CATO'S hints as to quality, in the marry-come-up, or Slipslop vein. Hence, too, his com parisons of drink. No one complains, says CATO, of a wine-merchant charging more for claret than for blackstrap. Certainly not; but neither will rational folk consent to pay more for their claret than it is worth, or decide what is claret and what is black strap by the opinion of either Times or CATO. They will taste for themselves. It is possible they may now and then find the difference to be, not between blackstrap and claret, but between claret fresh and stale. In that very Times of yesterday, for example, illumined by the light of CATO, appears a flowing comment on the proposed elevation of the Duke upon the arch, which they might remember to have quaffed before. Let us place the two beverages side by side : Daily Nora, Sept 16. Times, Sept 24. The forty horses which are to Forty of the most elephantine draw the Duke are a contribution beasts that the breweries can sup. from Mesas. Goding, the patriotic ply are employed in drawing his and enterprising brewers Grace by inches towards his airy Never, since the time of the Teo- pedestal. The progress of a eer- Jan horse, has such an equestrian tan celebrated horse of antiquity monster paraded the streets of • is nothing to it. In vain does capital. The infatuation, how- Inocoon, represented by nearly ever, which in the talc of Troy all the artists and men of taste in fine a whole population, is In this the kingdom, remonstrate against case, we would hope, confined to the portentous elevation. Fate a small section of subscribers. urges the omen. The victimised But, if limited in numbers, they designer of the arch protests are great in obstinacy. In vain loudly against what in every sense Woods and Forests, the Trea- bids fair to be an unequal burden miry, the architect of the arch, on his work. The sculptor is the voice of the press, urge Priam's silent. The moat distinguished questions Th e mischief is architects of the day proclaim it done for the present. Up begoes. a diagracefel solecism. Onward, Scandit Wahl, machine mu- however, is the word. roe, Accingunt omnes operi„ pedibus. Fe to ands; pueri circum in- que rottrum nupterque puettm Subjiciunt Japans, et stupea au gurs eanunt, funemque menu rule collo con Ungar gandent : Intendant. Scandlt fatalis ma. Lila Butt, alediseges =inane UM- china mums. NW mid. Feria armis. Paeri circum in. We wosil Mrs l6l7o L2O- nuptreque puellie coos, to sass eat Mew Lon- Sacra canunt, funemquc mans dooms of the coseetiseeees of this contingere traudent atrocious citation of all artistic Ilia subit, medixque minans principle. dlabitur urbi." Now, which is the claret, and which the black strap ? We hope the old Roman will consent to enlighten as. We know he professes to retire into privacy with his letter of yesterday. He shoots his bolt and runt. . But we shall have him in some other shape. He may disappear as the CATO of Cornhill, but he will pro ; bably reappear as the GRACCIIIIB of Gracechurch ; street. These aids and appliances are indispensable to' . our contemporary. They are the straws thrown up. . They are hints of what may not openly be chal lenged. We cannot float with the tide or sail with the stream, till we have ascertained ' the strength and direction of the current. But we are stumbling on a somewhat stale subject. Let us turn to one more novel and surprising. Let us illus trate consistency. Leaving CATO to enjoy his claret, let us show with what steady zeal his favourite mer chant has taxed the vintage. The Times says it is now published at a mini/nun price. Admitting this to be the case, we proved the other day that its wealth and power were amassed by a price below the minimum. The Times was pub lished at sevenpence when the stamp duty was within a fraction of fourpence, and it is published at fivepence when the stamp duty is a penny. We leave the reader to work this sum. He may find it worth his while to work another with it, and calculate the advantage, on a yearly sale of (say) twenty thousand copies, of having brought up the minus-minimum to a minimum. Would an offer of ten thousand a year be taken ? Would an offer of fifteen thousand ? We doubt if either would satisfy the Tunes' zeal for high prices. But we have undertaken to prove consistency in this matter. Fifty-seven years ago, in 1789, the Times, then a single folio sheet little more than a L fourth of the size of our paper of to-day, was pub lished for threepence. But on the 12th of August in that year, the seventy-seventh anniversary of the day on which the HARLEY Administration first taxed the press, an additional newspaper duty of a halfpenny was imposed by Mr. Perr. Did the Times raise its price in the same ratio? Oh dear no. Just as, being relieved of a tax of nearly fourpence, it now relieves the public to the extent of threepence so, in those earlier days , being taxed to the amount of a halfpenny, it laid a penny tax on the public. We call this consistency. It was a little more difficult, however, to take this comae fifty-seven years ago, than it is now. The monopoly of the daily press had not grown to be so formidable. Intruders on the favoured few were not infrequent, and they dared to side with the public occasionally. They gave, instead of taking, the odd halfpenny. Hence they were treated with infinite scorn. They were called halfpenny papers, low-priced prints, goods of inferior quality. It was proved that their proprietors must be " playing a losing game at the beginning in order to take in the public at last." In short, all the arguments were popular that have been revived against the Daily News ; though, until the necessity for that revival, nothing could have been easier or less disturbed than the quiet ap propriation by the newspapers of our own day, of the relief intended for the public. The papers had but to be unanimous in agreeing to the 5d., and to pocket a clear additional profit of four-fifths of a penny on every number sold. A correspondent asks if this was not the effect of combination. Of course it was. How else could the uniform price have been kept up? The price of everything else hat, fallen, in which there was no monopoly. There has hitherto been a virtual monopoly in the morning papers, or they would have been more than five in number, and the price would have varied. There would be a similar monopoly in calico, in iron, in glass, or in silk, if there were but five master-manu facturers of each ; and if, with no provincial or foreign competition, their manufactures could only be carried on in London. We do not blame our morning contemporaries. Their conduct has been perfectly natural. They have taken what may be thought a not unfair advantage of position, of prestige, of preoccupation. But they must not complain if, in open and honourable rivalry, we break down that circle of exclusion. We say that we offer to the people, and bring for the first time within their right appreciation and enjoyment, a paper equal in all respects to the best of those existing at one-half their price. The people are to decide if this is true, and we gladly leave it to them. We appeal with some confidence from the judgment of CATO. UNLESS the law be thoroughly revised and amended, the formation of a General Registration League is absolutely necessary. We deprecate that necessity. The cost implied is a tax which ought not be imposed. The numerous agents who must be employed, might fled occupation more profitable for the public, if not for themselves. The espionage implied in systematic objection is a mischief in society. The trouble, bustle, and excitement, are equivalent to those of Annual Elections. The an noyances inflicted, and animosities engendered, are beyond calculation. Party spirit is sustained and inflamed, without regard to any principles by which the demarcations of party are dignified. The Money Power is made most unduly pre-eminent. And after all, the result must partake largely of a capricious ncas the most preposterous. Still there is, under the present plan, no alternative ; no other mode of pro tecting honest voters is the possession of their rights. In Mary-le-bone there is a sort of battue. The collector died on the 28th May. His successor was not appointed till the 10th July. No person had authority to receive assessed taxes in the interval. The inhabitants had notice, by circular, of the appoint ment of a new collector, just seven days before the law requires that the payment should be made. The result may be easily guessed. There are 1500 objec tions for non-payment in time. Unless the Barns ter's decision be reversed on appeal, the whole are disfranchised. It is a massacre of the inno cents. The injustice and absurdity are more glaring, but not more real, than if only IS instead of 1500 had been affected. The collector has always a good chance of disfranchising any person whom he wishes to put off the lista, by simply postponing his cus tomary and expected call for payment. And this is only one means out of thousands by which that object may be gained. We know an instance in which three votes, for the same holding in the City of London, are objected to every year, for misdescription. The pre mises have a double frontage, extending from one street to a parallel street. When the votes are claimed far them in one street, it is objected that they are in the other street. When the claim is made for them as in the latter street, it is objected that they are in the former. But the great reliance of ob jectors is on absence. That is their battery for wholesale slaughtering. While, on the other hand, the facility for new claimants in counties, and the difficulty, for the opposite party, of obtaining the requisite information to support an objection, with the liability to costs if they fail, afford the means of manufacturing votes on a large scale, whenever it serves the purposes of a faction. The suffrage is in the hands of the lawyers. It is a new market for their acuteness. Everything turns upon technicalities. The professed object of the Reform Act is the last thing thought of. If we understand the spirit of that measure, it was to ensure a constituency of the degree of intelligen ce and respectability supposed to be requisite. A ten pound householder was presumed not to be altogether dependent and uneducated. No mysterious influence was ascribed to the tenement, or its number, or its latch-key; the (supposed) best overt evidence was taken, of the needful intelligence and condition for a voter. The decisions of the Registration Courts tell us that those qualifications are often not found in the judges of the land, in high functionaries of the state, in able ministers of the church, and in representatives of boroughs, counties, and the metropolis. To which ;all we can say is, that the decisions of the Registration Courts tell us lies more monstrous than those of the renowned fat knight. The reductio ad absurdum is complete; and, what is worst of all, the only eflici!nt mode of defence requires retaliation. It is a cheating game. You play with sharpers, and are beaten un less their tactics be adopted. They will demolish your absentees ; you cannot afford to spare their absentees. The practical tendency is to political demoralisation. It throws all the higher and nobler qualities of political straggle into abeyance. It only patronises the petty and the dirty. " Reform it altogether," we my; at the first possible moment. If not, the Registration League must arise from the ashes of the Anti-Corn-law League. Local efforts for defence are insufficient They lack both the requisite funds and the requisite firm ness. The magnates of a locality will not be bearded with impunity. A village tradesman might as well go to law with the Squire as thwart him in this mat ter. Barristers are said to make strange decisions in some cases, when not watched by competent agents. An objector-general has practically been found neces sary. He must be a man of straw, or he would be utterly demolished. You can only find at a distance any adequate control upon the domineering powers of a thinly-peopled locality. The Registration Club must be National. It must be the League again ; but the League,without its important knowledge to communi cate, its high principles to assert, or its mighty anta gonists to combat. It must be a great warfare against the reptilism of politics. A national crusade against vipers, gnats, hornets, and spiders. We beseech the Legislature to spare us this degradation. A continuance of the present system must either pervert the political character of the people, making it tricky, petty, and unprincipled ; or hand over the government of the country to organised factions, alternately purchasing it by outbidding each other in their registration outlay. Which would prove the meat intolerable evil, it is d'illealt to my. Either must be loathsome to the contemplation of a great statesman. There is no semblance of a need for laws accommodated to imperfection or depravity in the public mind. The registration system has never pleased anybody but sharp lawyers and unprincipled partizans. The aim of legislation should be, not to debase, but to raise and dignify, the political spirit. The people are capable of those better influences. They recoil with scorn from the petty formalities, the technical difficulties, and the capricious results, through which they arc compelled to pass, if they pees at all, to the exercise of their rights of citizen ship. In whatever way the law be amended, it should regard those simple, frank, and noble qualities which inhere in the national character. The English people are born politicians ; and Institution, like Education, should consult nature, harmonize with its tendencies, and aim at their safest, purest, and most complete development. THE prospect of destitution in Ireland was at first absolutely paralysing. It looked like something with which it was vain to attempt to grapple. This feel ing of despondency has not altogether passed away, but the progress of events is gradually dissipating it. Men begin to conceive the possibility of snatching the Irish people from the jaws of famine. The vessels of the royal navy which are establishing and storing depots of food on different parts of the coast, reassure the peasantry. They know that there is food in the land. They are not in danger of being driven to moody desperation by the fear that, do what they may, in a short time there will not be provisions for them all. They know that since last November stores of Indian corn, meal, and oats and biscuiti, have been accumulating, in consequence of the provident care of Government; and that they are now being placed within their reach. The extraordinary presentment sessions convened by proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant, have hitherto worked tolerably well ; on the whole better than we were entitled to anticipate. There has been grumbling remonstrance and recalcitration, but presentments have been made. These will be work for the poor, and wages wherewith to buy the food which is in the land. _ Asa plea to repose for any time, however brief from the exertions required to meet the pressure of the coming winter, all this is nothing. But in so far as it relieves those who are engaged in the task from hopelessness, and, with a prospect of success, lends additional efficacy to their labour, it is much. This is not a time for reflecting on bygone delinquencies, but for hearty co-operatio% At this moment every hint from individuals possessing local knowledge is worth attending to. It may suggest some peculiar feature of Irish distress that has been overlooked; something inapplicable in the means taken to relieve it, that re quires amendment. We care not from whence it comes; under what suspicion of bias or sinister motive; or in what style of language it may be couched. The words of the least wise may be suggestive to men of reflec tion, by opening new trains of thought; and every man of average common sense, who knows the Irish peasant and his condition, from having lived in actual contact with him, ought to be listened to at present. While we believe Government will adhere to the principle of the plan of relief they have adopted, we believe that they will do so in no churlish or pedantic spirit of adherence to mere forms. But there is one point that all our Irish countrymen who have to pro pose changes or modifications in the Government measure, will do well to keep in mind. That mea sure is temporary : to meet a passing exigency. No applications can bo listened to for under taking operations under it, which are calcu lated to last for years. Such operations are required to remove or alleviate the destitution at present existing in Ireland: but part of that destitution is permanent, a chronic social disease : Government only undertakes to assist in relieving the surplus of distress arising from the immediate and anomalous visitation of the potato blight. The regular, enduring distress of Ireland, the Irish must alleviate or remove by their own exertions. The English and Scotch have raised themselves above the perennial pauperism which still clings to Ireland ; the Irish, if they will sincerely and earnestly exert themselves, can do the same. England and Scotland are in such a condition that one, two, or even three failures of their harvest, would not reduce their population to such a wretched condition as the failure of one and prospective failure of another have already reduced Ireland. England and Scotland, with partial but extensive failures of their own potato crops, are able to extend assistance to Ireland. The Irish ought not to rest satisfied with being the needy members of the national family. A decent pride should stimulate them to exertions to raise themselves above the necessity of applying at frequent intervals for assistance. Extensive public works and private improvements arc the means by which Ireland is to be raised to an equality in point of wealth with their countrymen on this side of the channel ; but they must not count upon the supplies advanced to them in a year of famine, for carrying through such lasting and extensive operations. The aid which England extends, is to relieve the additional distress among the Nish population which results from the failure of the potato crop. More will not be given and more need not be asked. England will not commit itself to works that may last for years, under the delusive idea that it is contributing to relieve the incidental distress of one year. Even though the potato crop of 1847 should prove the most plentiful Ireland has ever seen ; even though some new vegetable esculent more nutritious and hardy may have been introduced; there would be in Ireland a large amount of destitution in that year. And this can only be alleviated, and gradually extirpated, by the industrial exertions of thelrish themselves. .... The population of Ireland, at the time the census was taken in 1841, amounted to 8,175,124. The rural population, the growers of food, amounted to 7,039,639. The undue proportion of mere growers of food to the followers of other industrial pursuits, is still more apparent when we look to the classification of the productive class. The adults actively employed wero THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENDM, SEPTEMBER 25, 1846. estimated at 3,311,860. Of these, 1,864,141 are classed as growers of food. The manufacturers and traders of Ireland, those whose industry ministers to clothing, lodging, health, charity, jus tice, education, and religion, are altogether fewer than the mere growers of food. The 1,854,141 agricultural labourers, in a country where five is the average number of a family, correspond pretty closely with the seven millions and upwards of rural popu lation. Making some allowance for the number of females engaged in hard out-of-door labour in Ireland, the eight millionsmay with great probability be divided into six millions dependent on agriculture for sub sistence, and two dependent on other industrial pur suits. The arable land of Ireland amounts to thirteen and a half millions of acres ; the rural population to seven millions. The growers of food, and the masons, tailors, and others immediately minister ing to their wants, are to the productive land as one person to less than two acres. The growers of food, if fairly fed, would be almost enough to eat up the whole produce of themselves. While such a disproportionate number of the whole of society are engaged in the one business of produc ing food, capital never can accumulate, or the abridged processes of labour which it renders possible and which in turn accelerate its increase, be introduced. So long as the Irish continue as exclusively agricultu rists as at present, so long will they be continually on the blink of destitution. The Paris journals of the 23rd, and our usual cor respondence have reached us. The government was as yet without any news of Count .Montemolin or Cabrera. The Legitimist papers had announced that the Prince was safely on his way to the north of Germany, but this is evidently an attempt to turn attention from the right scent. Some people enter tained the stran4e notion that the French Cabinet had had a hand in the escape of the son of Don Carlos, but this is very far from true, as King Louis Philippe is much chagrined, and his Ministers greatly astonished. However, the Cabinet does not seem to be over-anxious about the consequences of the Due de Montpensier's marriage. The Comte Salvandy, Mi -1 sister for Public Instruction, who was for a few weeks ambassador in Spain, has persuaded his col leagues that the Prince will be received with en thusiasm by the whole population. " Depend on it," said the Count, on Tuesday, to one of his friends, in his usual affected style, " the slight cloud you sec in the sky will not bring a storm on us, and France and Spain united can afford to withstand the frowns of England." The Debate still continues its remarks on the Montpensier marriage, and seems to glory in the fact that as yet no Carlist disturbance had taken place. It will be seen, however, from our Madrid corres pondence, that so far front this being the case, dis turbances have actually taken place. The astita tiuunelel says : " That amongst the rumours which were current on the 22nd at the Bourse, and which tended to revive the funds, the most accredited was the announcement of the approach ing departure for London of the Duke do Brog.ic. It was said that he was present on Monday at the Council of Minis ters summoned by his Majesty, and that he is to leave this day for London with an autograph letter from the King of the French to the Queen of England, containing a formal renunciation in the name of the Due de Montpensier. This declaration has been considered as of a nature to put an end to all the difficulties that has taken place between France and England. It was added that the Duc do Montpensier is to renew this declaration officially and publicly at Madrid." The Duke de Broglie was not present at the Coun cil, and so far from setting out for England on the 23d, he has left Paris for one of his estates in France. The Omditutionnet does not, in giving the above rumour, say what the renunciation of the Due de Montpen sier is, but we suppose his eventual rights to the throne of France are meant. - - - • The Due de Montpensier will certainly take his departure for Madrid on the 28th inst. The Prince is to be;accompanied by the first aide-de-camp to the King, Lieut.-Gen. Athalin, Colonel Thierry, his own aide-de-camp, M. de Latour, his secretary, and several officers of his staff. His Royal Highness will go straight to Tours by railway, and sleep at Angouleme on the 28th, at Bordeaux on the Nth, and at Bayonne on the 30th. The Prince will remain one day in this last town, thence to proceed to Madrid by easy stages. Count Bresson, the French Ambassador, and two Spanish grandees, will receive the Duke at Irun. Marshal Bugmud left Paris oa Saturday for Exci deuil. Ho will not embark for Algeria before the iith of October. The National furnishes the following from the Spanish capital. " Our correspondent at Madrid makes us acquainted with what is said in the capital, and what he himself collected from the lips of a functionary, attached to the War depart. merit relative to the famous night on which M. Bresson and Madame Manes wrung . from the Queen and the Infanta their consent to the marriages. On the previous evening the Minister of War replied to some one who questioned him about the marriage, ' The repugnance of the Queen to what we wish is so great, that we shall not be ab e to overcome it.' Notwithstanding this, he was, as well as the other ministers, aroused about two o'clock in the morning, and summoned in all haste to the palace, where M. Bresson still remained. They thought they had been collected together to be informed of some fresh move in Portugal, or of some misunder,tanding produced by the orders and counter-orders given to General Villalonga. They were all astounded, Messrs. Pedal and Mon perhaps the least of all, when, not in a very composed voice, the principal actor in the drama, with a countenance red as scarlet, informed them of the decision. There was neither declaration nor objection . possible, for it was an nounced to the Ministry thata courier had already set off for Bayonne, bearing a telegraphic dispatch addressed to the French Government." - - - - The subject of Don Henry's protest is thus noticed by the Presse : ' There is no fear of Europe entering into a new war of succession, so fatal to Spain, in order to sustain the right of Don Henry. He sadly deceives himself in this respect. It is not upon him that descends the rights guaranteed by the treaty of Utrecht, whose rights could be claimed in oppo sition to the great European interests, in favour of which they were established. Were the acts of 1713 to be maintained in their integrity, it is neither upon Don Henry nor his fa mily that they would fall. But setting . European interests aside in every point, except the great principle of the balance of power, which interdicts the union of the crowns of France and Spain upon one head, the treaties of 1713 have no longer any operation. But for this it would not only be against the eventful claims of the children of the Duke de Montpensier that Don Henry would have to protest, it woulst be against the right of the young Queen who now sits on the throne of Spain, and whom he is so happy to see married to his brother. It would not be in the ranks of the revolutionists of Spain, who so loudly proclaim the desire to make him their instrument, that Prince Henry should Le found, but by the side of the son of Don Carlos, endeavour ing to establish that absolute power which has been de. stroyed by revolution. It has been too much forgotten that there is still some logic in the world, and it is time that the pretenders of all colours who are disseminated in Europe should learn to conform their conduct to it, or at least resign themselves to the condition in which it has pleased God to place them." Alluding to the presence of the English squadron off Cadiz, the Constitotionne/ says— " It will not have been of long duration, for orders were issued for its departure on the 15th or 16th. Vice-Admiral Parker paid a visit on the 14th to the Spanish Captain. General, and the latter returned it the next day on board the Hibernia. when be partook of a dejeinser. The English Admiral proposed as a toast the health of the Queen of Spain, whose marriage he trusted would contribute to the happi ness of the nation. The Captain-General replied by a toast 'to the Queen of England,' in which,' says the Haruki°, ' he expressed a hepe that, in the event of a war, the two nations would fight side by side.' If that statement be cor rect, it must be admitted that the toast is at least strange at a moment when the Captain-General could not be ignorant cf the new ties about to unite France and Spain. On quit ting Cadiz the English fleet was to have sailed for Malta." " The Carlists," says the Sleek— " Will, perhaps, make a demonstration, but the civil war will not assume the great proportions it did between 1834 and 1839. Spaniards seldom fight among themselves, unless it be for their provincial, privileges. Now, those privileges have made way for new institutions (whether good or bad we do not mean to decide), and the provinces are beginning to feel the blessings and advantages of national unity and administrative uniformity. The lever of civil wars is, accordingly, much weakened, and almost nearly broken. But England, we arc told, will raise Europe against us, and wage war upon us on account of that union. This is an other question. If that prediction be realised, it will prove that we were right in affirming that the cordial understand ing existed only in words, and nowise in facts, since Eng land resorts to such an extremity for so trifling a motive. • • • .• The l'resse has the following on the - Tahiti ques tion:— " Some journals persist in repeating that the government intends to abandon the four Society Islands—Huahine, Bora bora, Relate*, and Maupiti, but we are able to give details on the subject which cannot leave any doubt on the most evil-disposed minds. When Admiral Dupe& Thouars esta blished the protectorate of Tahiti, he stipulated by the treaty that the island of Tahiti and its dependencies should be under the protection of the French flag The islands con nected with Tahiti, which are deptudenmes of the sovereignty of Queen roman, were consequently assimilated to the island itself. The notes exchanged between the governments of England and. France since 1843 prove that the French mi nistry intended to limit the Protectorate, and not to extend it to the Society Wanda, over which not only the JOUVe- raintc but the sosso•ailW of the Queen of Tahiti remained doubtful. This restrk tion applied more forcibly to a group of four islands, situated 45 or 50 leagues from Tahiti—v u., Huahine, Bor abora, RaiaSea, and 3faapiti. These islands, which are under a minis:len: l y regular government, living under the rule of chiefs, who sire said to acknowledge the honorary supremacy of Queen PA: are, were to remain com pletely independent. This is the elm: result of a declaration addressed to the English 'government by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, who knew positively that it was impossible to establish the supremacy, whether real or merely honorary, of the Tahitian government over this group of four islands. During these negotiations, which terminated in a 'perfect concord between the French and English cabinets, the governor of the French poftessions in Oceania, resting upon the opinion general7F diffused in the Archipelago that the islands of Huahine, Bora bora, Raiatea, and Maupiti were subjected to the Queen of Tahiti, had sent an expedition to plant upon them the flag of the protectorate. Our troops were re pulsed. Our government has already made Captain Bruat acquainted with the arrangements made with the English govcrnment. In this affair, therefore, there is neither evacuation of territory nor concession of any kind to any one, the ministry haeinp, from the sery first, enter tained openly the intention of limiting the protectorate of France. It is decided wisely not to extend it to these islands, and with the greater reason, as the said islands are not even acknowledged to form part of the possessions of the Queen of Tahiti. Moreover, in order to guarantee itself from all dangerous neighbourhood in future, the French ministry hrr declared that those islands, being acknonledged to be free and indepeadent, could never be possessed nor pro tected by any European power. England has acceded to this declaration. the justice of which it cook' not but admit. To put an end to all reports, we will add that the govern ment has not received any official dispatches from Governor Bruat since those of the 14th of April last, and that the lavt private letters that have been received were dated April 15." By our letters and correspondence of the 18th from Madrid, we learn that Mr. Bulwer's conduct with regard to the marriage of the Due de Montpensier and the Infanta, had been approved by our Govern ment. At the opening of the sitting of the Chamber on that day, M. Pacheco maintained that the mar riage of the Infanta with the French Prince would have the effect of breaking the Anglo-French alliance, and conseqw...ntly the alliaLce cf Europe. The Pre sident of the Council begged that such alarms might be calmed. In a note from the Minister of her Bri tannic Majesty, assurance was given that the marriage would in nowise affect the good rela tions now existing between the two cabinets. Senor Mon added that all nations would approve of the twofold alliance of the Queen and her sister. The President of the Chamber then read a motion of Senor Orense, to the effect that the debate should not be closed so long as any member wished to address the Chamber. At the departure of the courier from Madrid, Orense was supporting his pro position. It was, however, believed that it would be rejected, and the message voted by a large majority the same evening. The report that a band of Carlists had made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Seu d'Urgell is confirmed by the Fame to, of the 14th (a Barcelona journal), but at the same time it states that the band was routed and put to flight. The leaders and a number of the men were made prisoners. In Catalonia, up to the 17th, the attempts of the Carlists on other points had also failed, and the state of that province was satisfactory. M. Bresson, the French ambassador, had received despatches which informed him that the Due de Montpensier would not accept the dowry which might be assigned to the Infanta; and this generous resolve was shortly to be made public, and would no doubt render the duke additionally popular. The Spanish frigate Paqueta Flora had left Cadiz for Santiago de Cuba and the Havannah, having on board Count di Casa Maroto and his family. The Lisbon journals of the 12th inst. inform us that tho Queen had left on the 10th for the royal residence of Mafra, before going to the Palace of Cintra, and returning to Lisbon on the 15th for the birth-day of the Prince-Royal. The Cabralistes have constant re course to every means imaginable in order to recover their power ; and for this end they spread abroad the most absurd reports of pretended risings and modifi cations of the cabinet. FRANCE.—FRENcir CRUISERS.—On the I ith a new capture arrived at Brest—the Brazilian schooner the Trovohada, under the charge of a Lieutenant. She was captured on the 18th of June last, near the mouth of the Congo, accused of piracy. The Courrier du Havre asserts that the Brazilian Minister at Paris, in compliance with orders from his Government, had sent in an energetic note to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and that a reply was sent that as the Council of State was occupied with it the Government could not interfere. ITALY. 11°31E.— It is reported that Count Luteow, the Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Rome, has been recalled, because be did not show energy enough in making Austrian influence preponderate at Rome. Count Rossi, the French Ambassador, was to leave for Paris, and to return to Rome in November, in which month the Pope takes possession of St. John-de-Lateran. We find the following in a letter from Rome, 12th Instant : " It may without fear of exaggeration be said, that the government of the new Pope has improved the morals of the people of our capital. Since the publication of the amnesty not a single crime against the person has been com mitted in Rome, and yesterday, during the Ike of the Nativity, although the Corso was filled with an im mense crowd, during the whole day not the least dis turbance took place. It has been noticed on more, than one occasion that on quarrels arising in wine-shops, it has been only necessary to remind the parties that they were now living under the reign of Pius IX., to immediately put an end to them. In the provinces, on the contrary, deplorable excesses have been committed. a few days since, at Jasi (in the legation of Bologna), a band of workmen threw stones at the windows of a house in which the late Pope Gregory XVI had stopped one night whilst visiting that place, and dragged a bust of that prelate through the streets with a cord round its neck. The Austrian consul at Jasi immediately sent a report of this outrage to his ambassador here, who in his turn sent off • courier to Vienna, addressing at the same time a note to the Cardinal Minister of Foreign Affairs, pointing out the necessity of immediately putting an end to such revolting acts." _ _ HOLLAND.—TILE HAGUE, SEPT. 22. The Supreme Council, by a decision of this day, has rejected the appeal of K. Klert, who was condemned by the tribunal of North Holland to the penalty of death, for having malici ously set fire to his own house. GERMANY.—VIENNA.—The state of exchange at Vienna continues to be deplorable. The whole commercial world complains bitterly. It is well known the Bank has a disposable capital of 90,000,000 florins, and that its portfolio contains only 37,000,000 of effects taken to discount. Never theless, it has so restricted a credit, even to the most solid houses, that for some , days put there has been a scarcity of money, which acts unfavourably on all business. The price of the public funds has fallen in consequence of the report of a bad loan. According to the Rhenish Observer, this loan is to be for 40,000,000 florins, at 4 per cent., and issued at the rate of 96. This journal mentions that from 1830 to 1841, Austria has contracted eight loans, amounting together to 288,105,000 florins, and that in 1842 it issued 5,000,000 paper currency, making a total of 293,105,000 florins, for which it received in cash only 262,000,000 florins. Deduct ing the 79,000,000 borrowed in 1830, which were applied to the service of the army, and the loan of 1840, for the services of the railways, there remains a sum of 144,000,000 florins, absorbed from 1830 to 184 G, which is equivalent to an annual deficit of 9,000,000 florins. We learn, however, that the go vernment proposes to remedy this state of things. PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, bE L PT. 18.—The question of the differential duties is to be examined at the beginning of next year, as then the time will have arrived for continuing or renouncing the treaty with England. If no agreement can be come to, the differential duties will be set aside, and the treaty renewed for six years more. The trial of the Poles detained at Sonneburg, Posen, Grauderg, and other places in Prussia, will, in all probability, not come on eo soon as was e GRETCVL-There are Greek papers to the 10th Sept. inclusive. Acarnania still continues the theatre of frightful crimes. M. S. Valtino, brother-in-law of Zotos, deputy for Eurilania, has been recently assassinated, and at a few leagues from Vrachori, a band of ten brigands, having waylaid and robbed an old man and his son, retabsed them for a ransom of 2,000 dollars. The unfortunate pair being unable to procure this sum, the brigands cut a the father's ears, handing them to the son, whom they vet at liberty, charging him to return with the ransom by a certain day, on which it was their intention to assassinate the father if it were not paid. On the 31st August an unfirtunate workman was murdered just outside Vrachori by a person to whom he had shown, in a coffee-house, a single dollar, his whole worldly wealth. These are but a few of me outrages which we select from the spieilegium, which the Greek Mo nitor and Athens Courier always affords. DEMMARK.—llotsxmx.—The public meeting which was to have taken place on the 14th inst. at Nortorf, was put down by the civil authorities, &misted by a mili tary force, large enough to intimidate the most resolute. Six hundred infantry and a hundred ana fifty cavalry occu pied the principal street of the town, sod at once dispersed the crowd, which was beginning to assemble . A number of persons who had gone to Nortorf on purpose to take part is I the meeting betook themselves to Neumunster, but they re-1 ceived there the same treatment as the hands of the autho rities.—Journal de la Have, 22nd inst. KIEL, SEPT. 12.—The commission appointed to examine into the cause of the late meetings at Kiel, and of the speeches that were made, is still occupied. A number of persons have been interrogated. The commission will then proceed to Rendsburg, to examine H. Olsbausen. M. Pechlin, the Danish Ambassador, made the fol lowing remarks on the resolution of the Diet, which we pub lished yesterday : " In referring to the declaration of his court, and without voting on the question of the constitution, he (M. Pechlin) did not think that be had any exceptions to make, unless the passage where the Diet says that it is eon ' ced that the King of Denmark,: or Italians. The himself in a definite manner on the quest./ ---...1 titned in the lettermitent, would respect certain rigke e, should be interpreted in a manner so 5.6 to cone eh . duchy of Schleswig i or in the case another meaning t h e * be given to the pnvileges of national representation width are to be respected, than that of . its constitutional risls, rights which the die t . had in re w . when speakt er et the intention of his Majesty to =minims intact the right e i petition of the states." ttibtGALICIA, SEPT. I 1 .—Tranquillitypeaistetinotpreycactutest‘imi it hed of , thanedretshiemgeonv are m government eitherta k p e takes i n e a n s Polish reAiments have been sent into Styria and Lombardd, in accordance with the line of policy of Prince Metternich ' RUSSIA.— Sr. PZTERABURG, SEPT. 10. Th e Russian government has accorded the free importation int o the empire of wool, under the category of wool made of th e bark of trees. Account+ from Bakoun state that tie Dr, iron steamers, of 100 horse-power, which are to ply het," that town and Astrakan, had made their first trip. Fift,, days are only required now from fit Petersburg te t h e Caucasus. Twelve days are requisite from St Petersham t o Astrakan, and three to cross the Caspian Sea. On the ~ t h August, a shock of earthquake was felt at Tits. SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS IN JERSEY. — (Prota th e Jersey News.)—Our attention has been railed to a lisz e . printed paper, headed, in conspicuous characters, " J er - Limes ! ! !" purporting to he an extract from L'Epoyne journal, of the 9th September, 1846. The article COak s tj4 four long columns, and its seditious and treasonable thre e * will be seen from the following summary of it. It drat alludes to the visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to Guernsey on the 24th August, and declares that it wile skie with a political motive, "to calm resentment, and to p Tepsrs the way for important alterations, which it hail been f ereteva were not to take place without resistance. It then states, that " England had accomplished these alterations as muds es she could in Madras, Quebec, Malta, Corfu, St. Lucia, Lad at the Mauritius, in spite of the formal terms of treatise and capitulations ; and argues, that as Jersey is not a con quest, it only acknowledges of the three powers of the British empire, but one ; the King or the Queen, and that on l y Duke or Duchess of Normandy." It then goes on to erts• blish historically, that the Channel Islands belonged to Praire t. nd then enumerates their advantages, and continua th e " they are situated nearer to France than England, t oe weak to form by themselves two completely independent states, in consequence of which they are obliged to aeknow• ledge the protectorate of one or the other M ut t,. Their possession is of great importance in time of war; th ey have belonged to France, they have French manners, French language, and laws ; England then has been obliged to nub, it an El Dorado, to prevent them throwing themselves into the &moot France. That which has not been dared for 800 years without almost incessant strife, is wished to be now attempted. Encouraged by peace, which has existed thirty years, and which promises to last longer, the English goTern ment wishes to naturalise these old remains of an extin guished people, and assimilate them to England, in regard to language and law." The writer then proceeds to speak of the acts of the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, giving him plenty of abuse; and continues in a simil at strain through. out. Now, this article appearing in a Paris paper, would have mattered but little, for none here either knows or cares what L'Epoque may say, but it is quite another matter when these sentiments are republished here for the purposes of sedition and treason. If Jerseymen seeing, reading, and knowing the tendency of this article, have caused it to be printed, published, and extensively circulated, they have gravely compromised themselves. To make it attractivelt is headed "Jersiais, Lises ! " and at the end is also a large characters, " tioyez ssr you garde,, k serpent ea sort &spurs," Be upon your guard, the serpent is under the flowers. This matter requires the immediate interference of our authorities. It is stated that a meeting of the British residents is contemplated, to express their abnorrence of the above publication, at which all loyal Jerseymen will be re quested to attend. COLONIAL. HoNntraAs.—We have a file of the Belize Gazette, to August Bth. On the 29th of June, an affray took place on the north aide of the town between ldr. H. Symons, Lieut. A. F. Connell, and some Spaniards ; in the course of which, Antonio Cruz received a blow, from the effects of which he died in the hospital on the following day. Mr. Connell surrendered himself, but was liberated on bail, hav ing given four sureties in the sum of 10,0001., together with his own recognizance in the sum of 5,0001. sterling. Of ma hogany. the staple export of Belize, the Gazette says:—Some of the houses here estimated the cuttings of this year so high as 144 millions ; but it is now well known that the cuttings will not be more than an average season, say 74 or 8 mil lions." be court. Her Majesty will give a grand dinner this evening in the Waterloo Chamber. The illustrious party is expected to include her Majesty the Queen Dowager, H.R.H. the Princess of Prussia, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Sirelira, hie Excellency the Che valier and Madame Bunsen, the Duke of Wellington, the Lady in Waiting to the Queen Dowager, the Countess Haack, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, the Earl of Clamp. don, the Earl of Denbigh, the Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount Clifden, Lord Edward Howard, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. George Edward end the Hoa. Mrs. Anson, Count Puckler, Count Witzleben, Major-General Wemym, Colonel Wylde, and Colonel Col ville. The band of the Life Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards perform in the Castle. WINDSOR, Sept. 24.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelite, are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day on a visit to her Majesty, from Kew. THE STATE APARTMENTS.--We have authority to state that the issue of tickets to view the state apartments of the Castle is suspended until further notice, as no orders will be admitted at present. Madame Bunsen and the Earl of Liverpool arc expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen. Our Windsor correspondent states that her Majesty and the Princess of Prussia visited St. George's Chapel. Her Majesty and the Princess alighted at Cardinal Wolsey's tomb-house, through which they walked to the Chapel of St. George; entering the sacred edifice by the cloister postern, near the chapter-room. His Royal High ness Prince Albert (attired in sporting costume), Viscount Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, and some other of the distinguished visitors at the castle walked by the side of the Queen. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, I with their royal and distinguished guests, were received, upon their arrival at the chapel, by the Rev. David Mark ham, the canon in residence, who had the honour of con ducting them over the interior of the building. The royal party, after visiting the choir, proceeded through the nave to the cenotaph of the Princess Charlotte, and returned thence to the Queen's closet. Dr. Elvey, her Majesty's organist, played the national anthem upon the Queen entering the chapel, and several sacred compositions during the royal visit. The royal puty returned to the castle after staying about half•an-hour. The commencement of the morning service was suspended for a short time, in consequence of the visit of her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent was slightly indisposed on Sunday last, and is not quite recovered, and her Royal Highness remains at Frogmore. - - Baron de Beust has left London on leave of isence. Mr. Colquhoun has, as hitherto, charge of the affairs of the Saxon Legation here. The Earl of Lucan had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home Office. Captain Ma conochie, R.N., had also an interview with the sight hon. baronet yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governors of Hong Kong, Sierra Leone, and St. Helena. THE REGISTRATIONS. ---- LONDON.—Mr. ARNOLD proceeded yesterday with the parishes in the ward of Aldgate and Billingsgate. Benjamin Boyd was objected to by the Tories, on the ground of non-residence. He had been abroad since 1811, but pre viously to his leaving the country he had resided with his brother, in New Bank-buildings the house being in their joint occupation. He still paid be share of the expenses, and was expected home in a few months. Mr. Arnold, on the authority of a decision of Lord Denman, some years ago, that if a man went abroad, and left his house in the occupa tion of a portion of his family, be did net lose his qualifica tion, decided to retain the name. John Dingwall, a Tory claimant, was examined in support of his qualification. It appeared that the claim had been duly served, and that a under of money had bees made by one of the Tory agents for any rates that might be due. Ding wall said he did not believe any rates were due at the time ; but if there had been anything to pay he should have expected another application to be made to him. Mr. Arnold said it was quite clear no authority to pay had been given in this case ; the claim must be disallowed. Mr. Brown said he did not believe that any intention really existed on either side, to pay the various sums that had been tendered. Mr. Arnold said, in that case be should think it right to in vestigate these claims more closely. The next similar case was that of Joseph Bates, of St. Mar pre!, Lothbury, a Liberal claimant. Mr. Aime proved the service of the claim on the overseer, to whom he made a tender of any rates that might be due, and received the usual answer that the overseer did not know whether anything was due or not. In answer to questions from the barrister, Mr. Aine said he deemed that, in making the tender, he was fulfilling the requirements of a certain section of the lteform Act, and doing what was sufficient for that purpose; he had no instructions to de more than make the tender ; ho got his instructions generally from Mr. Sidney Smith, who merely observed that there was an obligation under the Re form Act to make a tender of the rates due when the claim was served. Had the overseer told him the amount due, he should probably have withdrawn the claim, but the case did not arise. By exhibiting the money at the time, he thought that a sufficient fulfilment of the law. Mr. Smith directed him to make the tender in the way he had described. He did not direct him to pay the money, further than might be inferred from the fact of making the tender. Witness con sidered that he complied with his instructions by producing the money. He had made a good many tenders in respect to the present registration, some in every parish in the city ; but he had never had occasion to make any payment. He had occasionally withdrawn claims, sometimes on the ground of the overseer stating the amount due, sometimes for other reasons. He generally communicated what he had done in this respect to Mr. Smith, who approved of the discretion he had exercised, It was his own money that he tendered in 4