The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

Orprexio. OU (GOING MAILS. TM SIM IM7feTtiile;,tTtie Terdmwrasesis. - Crypt, Ades. t Ceheylon, Hamploss, he., will be was up Ms emilar, Mth Ilse man ter British North Alberti* md the ilalted stet. wIB M mob op to be taken by the Herrosiat, appointed to mil from S.-' led the lath of March ; lettere mad be addressed "By r:hs= ea Peeket." ile sells ter Viip, Oporto, Umbra. Madeira, Cad* 'ad Meats' oil be made up of the mama' et the 17th March. The smile huts West Omelet Atria Medetre Millie made op as the am elf the net of Mersh. The mile kr New Math Weise. Tea Dismal; Lead, sad New UMW Ma he We op on the mailow of the hist March. lb. Wan bah /WW. Imiedlep Ilersiade. hum." Noma, =.llt. Wew Orissa% awl Masi" sad eralmllas those lot a. Jamde-trimmilm Now mado. MIN and Pus. will he mho up ea*, tairalew me Imi d es The mans fhr Makkh, On^ sad Poem Ayres, will be male sp ea the modes et*. 40 et Yr& the mils he 00atteer, NMI% Orem% thMiena Islands, rota, do" Ceylon. liemplagh ta dotaltametak be made up as the saamterg el the lath April. Min WATER AT LONDON DROOL Tau Ike —Nods& it W. pen I. Lionesea. 18 ob.irst f. Tv Warm .4Aimimmio gala. pet f ; LOQYa.II W. p 2 LONDON, SATURDAY, MAR. 24. How much of the blood about to be spilled, and of the military movements now taking place, has been owing, not to pottical causes or aims, but to the mere vulgar difficulty of feeding and paying armies ? This is a consideration well worthy of being weighed and Wren into account when the question of large standing armies is discussed. Some of our contemporaries have published long statements of rights and claims of different powers to the Milanese. And Lord AIMRDEEN, in the House of Lords, has made serious reproaches to the govern ment for not having put implicit faith in his Lord ship's notable work, the Treaty of Vienna and its terri tonal arrangements. Now the fact is, that according to the present political and military science of Europe, that power which supports the great and preponde rate military force in North Italy must possess the Milanese, in order to feed and support that force. When, after the revolution of March, civilians were at the heed of the government of Vienna, and when, in their ignorance, they proposed those terms for which the Entish government is blamed—at one time for entertaining at all,• and at another time for not abandoniog immediately—the military chiefs replied, that if Austria were to retain any portion of Italy, she must keep on foot an army of 100,000 men to occupy and defend it; moreover that these 100,000 men could not be fed, paid, or supplied from Germany, nor yet from the corner of Italy east of the Adige; in short, that the possession of Milan and Lombardy was indispensable. RADETEIKI said so; he would listen to no terms; he unrolled upon Milan, took it; and he must either keep it, or abandon Italy. Piedmont is precisely in the same predicament. With 100,000 Austrians quartered around Milan, and a French army of the Alps encamped on the borders of Savoy, the King of SARDINIA mast keep up his 100,000 men too • or, if not, he will :be swallowed up by ei ther republican or mo narchical greediness. But Piedmont cannot support AMIN of 100,000 men. The effort to do so is eating away the entire substance and entrails not only of the date bat of society itself. If the King of SARDINIA is to have a gigaatie army, he, too, wants Lombardy to feed it. Northern Italy, such u it is, cannot support two overgrown armies, and the question really is, which it will support, a German or an Italian army. People talk of CHARLES ALBERT being driven to war by the democratic rabble of his parliament and his capital. We don't believe a word of this fine excuse. There is no city in the world where the military could so easily sweep off a mob as Turin. Nor would the King find the least difficulty in a policy of reaction, if he chose to enter upon it. But it is noti his own peep!, who menace CHARLES ALBERT; it is Austria, who will never forgive his de mand t, be the sovereign of Italy—it is France which does not desire the greatness or regeneration of 'ltaly by Italian hands. CHARLES ALBERT i 8 therefore forced to confide in military strength, and he cannot keep or feed it without war. Thus are Austria and Piedmont driven into hostile conflict and into the horrors of a prolonged campaign, chiefly by the large armies which both have on toot, and which neither can . pay out of their own re sources. It is prec isely like two savage tribes which are encroaching on each other's hunting grounds, and who are preparing to fight for them, and to exterminate each other to get possession of them. Lombardy is to be the prize of the victor— that is, is to be eaten up by his troope. If we go from one end of Europe t 3 the other, and turn from the Italian to the Danish peninsula, where war also is on the point of breaking out—and if we ask what is the cause of war here also, we get the same answer. Denmark is supp orting a fleet and army too great for her revenues and resources, and she must go to war to feed them. A rupture of the armistice will allow the Danes to occupy Schleswig, and to feed on it. It is not a sense of her rights that impels Denmark to war, but a sense of her poverty—a poverty crested by a large military establishment. Fa proclamations her generals will bid her soldiers to go and reap laurels. In reality she wit maks them march in order to mused and fill their h u n t r7 bellies at the expense of the Schleswig farmers. Wu , ' then, is another' war that is a war of commissariat. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1849. galeri. U iso Ir ie r ared a pas waft as s . liss ernisprat Oa el rArbasse 11611 boss wefts Cr e st mak" • Ile mot ep Men hem gon; swim tits Leila W skint that, In mo= t b statentest. b e big PON*. LIM 'may needs the bane the mere *meet that ke ar Cts m t is seao Wadi. tall deno• wow (Hem, hem) take shill 2hll Ism bed the e with a ledneedillitt k togala be b o g anyehed the Moe. The fleet mama was that be sea g oad be &ea a lb**a by only d e wery small miand, ad be flOblll ice wok tbei was sawdlier be embeerles tin geversaisat. (Dinka theme.) By what aims tbe eight W. gestneasa *add have embarrassed a . co cesseer, ems se is cSol a goveramest as that sow in aim, by the smell aatisipated, he (Hr. Disraeli) ass ume comprehead ; the bees" well knew th e Wee k& brasity with whke the Tight hot. gentleman, by • latervesleg name between the int sad last, had sewed the meat maufaciag recemsmadatioas of his shies,lt woe certainly • mat aspiralleled Wag n i t owe aperismes to see them two tight hem. gentlest's, milk = o f is this perm' nearer, the child of his had ('f Hear, bear," sad laughter.) The samilles ben erenotwi matte remiaded him of that cekbested a s y hi the sad !Mask moieties, the day of l whoa the unlike and prelates of the i l ra l a i ned will met other la throwing their arose% "A task mitres, their venerated insignia, to the grand diet day bad slam bees call. d by some The Day .1 D i re (" Meg, bear" sad laughter) ; he (Mr. Disraeli) oily hoped that the house and the ciente', whoa they hnra sher nesalkd to sled the inter sting events of that eating, sight sot be reminded also that they had some elms k the !predation es which be would not beam deep. Them wee one obseMation which ha switt to make, la alnico to the new gives by the 'k`" arse. gentleman opposite for the eiedise he lave Wade of his original projeet. The light isea„ gsatla man, with great generosity, had *emigrated Ike chief am minion', of the customs from any Mime ea the °cession. He Mr. D:araeli) felt an interest in the character of Sir Teems Frame le, t h at gentleman tens lee of his con stituents; end, therefore, while he applauded the right boo. gentleman opposite, for doing pasties, so far, to flir Thomas Trimmed., he °mkt sot help *Wring that it would have bees more magnaelmous in the right hoe. gen tleman bad he omitted to introduce Sir Themes Fremantle's same at all in the debate. Na doubt the right hoe patio- Ma and his colleagues were nemasittla for the gams in game pm ir.hear, "hoes the miaistarlat beaches.) Ti., bear, bear ! they admitted it now, bat why had they at all sought to esy waylo shield these bloodies ender somebody else's ape ? (Hear, hear.) The only difference between Met year's dal sad the peoposition before the hoses ems:sad of the very clause in which the government had eo it so tui tional blaademd. (Hear, hear.) Govern:seat began their aeseda.. ism with foreign powers in December. Whatever night have teen the object of these negotiation, the result war perfectly drat and admitted. (Hear, bear.) What we" the geaeral effect of this reaarkeble evening ? Oa that evening the home was to have gone into committee, se practical sea, aspiring to nothing story than to correct the details of a great, well considered, and matured measure. At to the bill itself, for the repeal of the navigation laws, it was maalisat that it had had a decided paralytic sto ke. ("gear," sad laughter.) Betsy's were this matter *fauna* le Wee who were opposed to the bill, though it might Wiwi smatter for east for the moment, let him tell the hawse that what had oceurr , d that night would oat of doors_ give rise to wry serious and mournful coasideratioa. (Hear, hear.) There was great distress in the country ; sonny we" there sa alerts: is the empire which was not suffering. He would not p into these matters now ; but this he would say--eme among the most suffering eat of doors there were the large wawa lee ined till recently—nay, still inclined, to abdt to the *tondos of that how e without a murmur. What till complained of most was not so much that their braises bad been injured by the legislation of late Jean, bat that the legislaqv itself had been pr c 7 p;tate, that it had not bees mature, that they had ban sacrificed, not to nom- Sties foreseen by great statesmen, and regulated by the pre 'ace crane! Minna:op, but that their fortunes hail keen de stroyed, their happiness in life d.terlorakd, litmus* sud denly and without thought, without care, crude, and blun dering, and hasty men, bad pasted laws arbitrarily affecting the great interns of this country. The agriculture' interest was suffering. He was not then going to denounce the laws by *Weft this puttering had been brought about, but those who suffered knew that than who wade those laws, male them not from conviction, but from bare panic ; were met, who, bat a short time before, advocated the very system which they abandoned in the miserable her coos mined by a combinatioa of circumstance" with whist they thought they could not o,pe. (Hair, hear.) Anther great +tenet was now prostrate, the eassisl Interest, 'specially the sugar growing Minks. (Hem.) This Interest also complain( 4of being injured by prespitata Laws, passed too in the very te:th of the pa declarstione of leading men, with the continues of them who wished to keep the government in office. (Hear.) Ha we. not now °Natio' to Meer change', but to the meaner in which they had been eilecod. Now, modem greet interest had bees attached, but the siege war longer; this was the second year. (Hear.) The humiliating confeesions made to-night by the right hon. the preenteut of the board of trade, showed that the changes now projected were equally . precipitak. This was a comes that could sot be proceeded in. (Heir, hear.) A Wining people would not submit to have their destinies thus tampered with, with the feeling too that they were not legislated for by statesmen ; mad each a centres must shake the institutions of the country to their centre. (Protectioakt cheers.) Mr. GLADSTONE, In reference to the charge that he bad failed to fulfil his pledge to propose a plan of conditional legislation, and that he had given contradictory memo for this course, said he had not done so, but had sated the two alternatives which had deterred him from pursuing the course he had intended. One alternative was, that hit scheme might have received only the support of the few who approved it on its merits; the other, that it might be sup ported by a number of gentlemen, who would be glad to use him as a tool for damaging the government, and would then be ready to abandon the proposal on the third reading of the bill (Cheers.) He had never giver a positive ➢ledge to bring forward the scheme he had proposed—not midair, to embarrass the government, by procuring the rejection &Mo rro'r of a measure for the repeal of the navigation laws, a measure to which he had always been favoura ble. Had not the honourable member for Backs been satisfied that the course he (Mr. Gladstone) pursued was unfavourable t 3 his views, he would not have made this attack. (Hear, hear.) So far from agreeing with the hon. gentleman in thinking that the free trade inosettree recently mead wore • hasty and ill-aormiderad tome of legislation, he wee aortas that thorns swarm had been the means of alleviating the distress which now partially prevailed, mad of accelerating the dawn of rationing pap: city. (Litoera ) Kr. LABOUCEIBRE said that, notwithstanding the amel eireametemes which the hon. member for Bucks had dwelt ups, he would venture to my tbst sighing half so amel had occemed, nothing so esirtely eepresadented as Se mane which the bee. 'Wham limelf bad taken. At the dose Ms keg amiss le eammillee ea this bill be had assa to state that be Isseght the time bad arrived when the loam maid no isyst pursue the diemmion and had takes advantage ef the intend that aseurred to We a match, in Mali he raised all possible attacked all possible ”ttaea, end refined to • rett i a' which had oc:urred Mwmthe hew went into committee at ell. (Rear, hear.) The wily pessible interpretative be meld put upon the ewes of the Mn gentleman was that, let lading Meelleff Mile Nadi le lehe . lll part in the debase ea going iota esonmilese, he bed Mingle the intend of • few boon, to mil& W periods ad M armee his eiremme, would not be lememelmt. (Hem, bear.) And thwelbee be had adopted a mein which war patently novel is tIM home. The has. -_— MOM him (Kr. Labersehme) with the alterations the WI bed eadappeem sines it bed been istroduced. Be had eihnitted ths KB bed beta altered la me modinestion—in Menem MO* emit= Veda Bat if rfis the boa. geatlema was ever charged with responsibility, which, from he high abilities and position, was not at all ealikely—of %traded!. g sad defending a measure of great sempletdty aad difilenity, he would not tare very ill if he wee able to misithia mosale through the hone with no gm..? Cr mere Maria maildisatioas than this mem had melergeme. He hardly reimeabered • subject involviag topics of such great mristy, and each great difficulty, in which the footrests and prejudiess of great muses of the community were natandly 'evolved, which had received • las amount of alteration is peeling through the committee than this measure. He could Imre the hon. gentleman that it was is no spirit of levity that this immure was brought formed; the government well knew the gravity of he talk they Wine undertaking; but they felt, also, that it was theft duty le her those Minium, to lay the ease fairly lishes partimeat and the evestry, and to bring the question a a tas sad 'mature:my sossission. (Hear, hoer.) In that leans they should sadebered by any taints Mash the hoc. gee Walt St to make. He imagiaiiied that the pin tboyMil mad towards Sir I. Penesside was not aYr sm. He (Hr. Labovahme) should bald mgret if be thought be had Me an unfair toomds as Whiled whom he valued so • private hied Usti mopselell as a most blamable and mesktations men. (Hear, hear.) He set only fully admitted, but claimed, the satire respoasibility, of IM n of the wasting trade clams. Bee bed armtioeei the facts exactly as they hap ~~mssii; led bed bee m with the lull consent of Sir T. Meer, bor.) It was not at all unusual for Mean te admit M the senuannications which they had with, the heath of departments. Of course, the head of a "Pliant._ int an responsible for anything proposed is that ziplit ie tut ...r..dbuity must rest entirely on the ministers the measure ; but he had thought it right to tell lhs hems la *isms, that he believed Sir T. Fremantle was Mend by the sole and sincere desire to facilitate the views • Silo gmerment in this respect, but whoa he had mmis to leek me thoroughly amid sompletely into the op= si t e s baidhsemesi that thm were more sad greater Ihes he hall at drat anticipated. If he had szpressed him self at all ebsearely in the diet huts, ia referees* Is T. Premantle, he was mask dogged ea the gal_lee .glatimman for Oast IM 3p r al= Sir Thames was Mal say Ma t had bees dean or Bpi Isad be Ilfr. itilmseboM bed cal, mistimed UM hi Mimi hem emealtal, le aseouat to the beam Pet the alModes Mike beam mimed to make %Mehl'. (KiiiJ The ham ibis ramed, th e *Lima Mooned lavßfi." , futi obigned leave to di again cm Monday. PUBLIC BUSINESS. rts CHANCIii:OR of tieIIIECiIIiCILIEB stated that it aai rounded le prepped oa Made, with the Mutiny pal; than with the isseigetiaa laws, sad if they did sot ra a ll:guiteet womb of thee he weld proceed with the MILROY RELIEF BILL oe tie satirist Yr. iloTiaire,ll67seleet trismittee oa tkh bill was assiaated am follows:—![r. Boers* Mr. Oladetase, Mr. Stafford, Sir Willies Clay Mr. Lary, Mr. Headles, Mr. Reseda Pabst, Mr. Peel, awl Mr. Moe PUBLIC LIBRARIZIL Ca the Retie;of htr. Bwaat, the selgt semadase ea puha* libraries was sire aaeslassed:—Viseesset Ebeisatea, Mr. Disraeli, Sir Hwy Verney, Mr. Chssierk, Mr. Bsabery, Kr. Deem Akssader Hamllsee, Mr. Brethertaa, Mr. Mikes, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Cleslbare, ldr. Thickaree, Mr. Mackienos, Mr. Kershaw, Mr. Cardwell, sad Mr. Swart. LARCENY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. This hal passed thrones seesmilese. RECOVERY OF WAORS (UPLAND) ; PROTEC TION OF JUSTICES (IRELAND) ; BILLS. These bills were read a third time si.d passed. The home adjourned at cue o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION& HOME OF COMMONS. NAVIGATION BILL (Ix COS*wrial.) DIMMINIO as allaw mama proposed W Mr. lioasesie abe egad to dean I t--"»r dee amoral naiades' sal prolialthaa to the alhardi ads sealelsal, so to tam mega to wash di r pte ess Nadia wags^ armada pssievlddi *row bilk or=llllllagisus es say Bradt as as to lbe peek ai l pearisse they nosy easy dam asrewles amens pit et as DIM - Maiden to asq port, salient say lisitidipsmaisa Way pad sallavedi le sayeastali peer► sisa use r= id rait el Ile ail deldelleiss rills as ire la la suarese4 or deal by the proper avaselde of Mir assalmasse). dad sari mg le la i = wp Vlaic till a shell le awls la m lathe sadiastlea of bar 'day d mak sad k dall be Mira bp less Ma. was Is esensktanilddia alps _sal set sahjseall lamb osnotry to Or Rie BMW 11111thinilli If illlelk IS to lbe amp* la Ida* they MI eggs., es se to the gook which they Nap Nepal alo or smart boa sate halo osastra et say 91111 Mall Wig fit may easearise MIN/ pat id mai assign seantsy: FiliTialla kMbliff, vat rapes& to las residdinerd ato l/idler is tha eliesoll ads siatiaaal, or to the psi wto the trar re = r o llo 7 ma Yawl We sr gat ams say Maltila lip bra war la way sans thettlis valis e sr say pest. alma subletkaeird shall ems to sonsla or be to hal hove as to et say arils *seamy, although the las madding aa4 sagestady, as to Os pads whish.,aq MOW dap may Wood lala or tappet teas, say peseados sisaeh hada seastry, shall aot le ell upsets hays am saeoes4.—sue, 1.3; Irma 181. AT* Baillle, H. l. Breedlwed. rowthe A r al Wardw. P. L Vivian, Beak, L. W. Bekra, TAM Itakinum, 0. IL Bou=e, LlAL —. Mined, MIL lam IL C. Ilan% Han. P. Wawn, Oak% IL B. he^ . _ A A IT T. H. Torm, W. lllioro, Marq. MOW**, J. ,IL B. logo. J. 1111., P. J r, Hoodoo, W.K. Admit, H. A. L Pair" A. D. lAboorkaro, H. Posey, P. Andorsom, A. Torarmr, IL Loecellro, W.A. Raplasel, A. ArmadromarA.Ad. IL IL Levi, G. C. Lyra** J. Arne:n i t &Fa; W. J. Lod" J. Illeardo, 0. at Mask T. M. ILockbart, W. Lee, L. H. lbsitl Ars ri g alk. P. T. Orkork 0. D. J. M.Colladk, W. T.Roodlly, 6ir J. Merfos, T. Grohoot, 61r J. WOrosor, J. Mendota, 0. Dollsw, IL M. Grosordl, IL Maidood, T. Obeli, IL L. Diattakty, Girl Orem, I. Mord% C. W. &ebb, J. B. n C.L. Honk L Mratorraaa. J. Some% J. P. Mork IL W. Hs" A. MUM fro, CoL domerville,6l: W. Mud, J. Mod% Arok. Motile, F. Towed, H. W. Wen. Cot. UM 'Aril. Me4vAd. Yu. TROSEIMER. OoL . Horsy, W. G. bider. S. K. Tbornyoos, 0. lea" H. Hoory, A. Miudell, T. A. Tbororly, T. Prorkmars. Z. D. Homes, J. C. Moffat, 0. Thoorkill, 0. lloodmlsa, J. Heywood, J. MoloswerVlLMMlNao, Lord H. Broom H. Herrorlk, L. Morgan, H. K. °Serum Sir H. Illowo, W. Moldmose, Mr J. Morrott, P. 1/1111ors. Hon. C. J. Z.H. Balbroir, T. B. Narver, liir D. Will, C. B. O a rno lbei r J. 11. = ,, T. L. Nogrot, Lord Wolooley,eir J. Clay, L Lord dideo, T. Word, IL G. Clerk, Mr 0. Holm* C. W. Crecadoll, J. Wilke; B. Colebrook., filzT.liegpord, P. IL PPyyeeif,, Lord C. Woos, J. Crat o : 0. Humpbry, All. Pslmeewaa , Ildo.Wll.on, M. era W. Hot; W. Porker, J. Wood, Mr C. MUM . 6. Joao" W. Prow" C. Wood, W. P. , lttypeourt, C. WJoornk, my; Earl Poriell, Copt. WyrW, M. , Dome" G. Mr J. Pool, Mr R. Dune" J. Johmiroo, Olt L Pal; P. TILLERS. Lids, J. IC, G. T. Porker, R. HUI, Lord M. Elliot, J. E. Itrio, J. Pigott, F. Work, 11. And now for the other great scene of houtilities, the eastern border of the Austrian empire. Lord DUDLEY STUART deaOUßCed the aggressive spirit of the Russians, who have occupied Idlidavia and Wei- Lehi*. But why have they dorm so? Evidently to live at fres quar sea ammo Wallachians and Mol davian., and make the treasury of these principalities pay for Russian soldier.. The well-timed and able pamphle, attributed to Mr. BIRKSECK, fully shows this. Then, again, the Russians here entered Transyl vania. How many? Ton thousand of them, which are of no manner of use, foe they have not enabled the Austrian getters.' to free the open country, or main tain his pentad. But why are there no more Ramis= 130011190 pour mountainous Transylvania an feed no more. The Magyars are masters of the rich plain of Hungary, upon the Theism. They are wellsupplied themselves, and can starve their foes. Hence the enemas, th e numvors, audacity, and "growing might of their armies. But Russia will soon Bud pretexts to advance. She hesitates, and holds back as yet, not quite to damnify Austria in German estimation, at kast until the die is cast at Frankfort. But ate; a time we shall no doubt see the Russians in _Oallicia and Hungary, picqueting their ettede is those rich pastures, the Czar support ing his hordes from the nowly-acquired property of the &awnings peasents. One goad, however, cannst fail to arise from these military movements; and that is, the general knowledge and conviction that large armies are equally incompa tible with freedom and with peace —that they must be fed; and that when domestic resources have been ex hausted by them, these armies will infallibly find or make pretexts for going to teed on their neighbours. Food and pay they must have, and food and pay they will have by means of invasion, occupation, and war. They may find diplomet'sts to invent and enum.rate other specious and logical reasons fir war, but the European public may depend upon it, that the true motive for war lies less even in the ambition of princes than in the uexsatty of filling soldiers' stomachs and purses, of converting the produce of the hasbandmin into rations, and the economy of the industrious rots forced contributions, prize money, and rapine. INSTEAD of amending the Navigation Bill by at once throwing open our t ntire coasting trade, and so setting foreign nations the most liberal and beet example, mi nisters have withdrawn the partial privilege of rela ding fora second port after breaking bulk. Customs diffi culties are the excuse for the change, which, except that it gives an argument to foreigners, and especially Ms America, for a 'lke exclusion of our ships, is not vary important. Foreigners had not much to gain from the opening of oar coasting trade. Lan guage, local connexions, and local dangers secure a natural monopoly of the commerce along our coasts to ships built and men trained for it. Whatever we hid to gain on the coasts of other nations, they had little else to gain from us than the name of freedom. Even the filling up for a second port would have been more a name than a reality. Foreign masters would but rarely have wasted the time and incurred the expense of this second voyage. They perfectly well understand that promptness in discharging, lading and clearing out are of the first importance to their owners. Every hour the ship delays is loss. There would be no gain in having consiviments on board for two poets; whole the fresh-packed cargo was being shipped the whole might hare been discharged, and whilst the vessel was gaining the second porr, she might have re-freighted and clears d out again. Practically, therefore, neither foreigners nor com merce lose much by t he withdrawal of the proposed opening in the coastiog trade. Still the change is in the wrong direction ; there should have been no narrowing of the bill—itahould have retained no refuge far the protectionists to rally upon. Everywhere the navigation laws are a delusion or a mischief, and the very name of them in the coasting trade will con tinue to mislead our own and foreign shipowner'. As we foresaw, Mr. GLADSTONE did not support Mr. Sot:value's amendment. He found it easier to soothe the ears of shipowners with the mention of re ciprocity than to frame the act upon the principle so as to work without en flees complexity and contusion. Ile found, too, that no concession would content the shipowners. They had declared that the amendment would not remove their objections to the bill, and had called upon the friends of the i shipping interest not to sanction it. And so be it. There s a clear field. Through the remainder of its stages in the Cimmons and the Lords the battle of the navigation laws is to be one of Free-trade against undisguised Protection. The shipowners will relax nothing of their grasp upon tho commercial Lterest. Tucy will have their entire monopoly or nothing ; and they look to the Lords to maintain it for them. They did lay great stress noon what they called the fact that foreigners would take all the freedom we chose to yield them, and would give us nothing in return. The answers fromforeign powers too, were a strong hold, they were not explicit enough. No allowance was to be made for the unsettled state of many of their governments. We must not repeal our law upon an uncertainty. But not one word of all this did the shipowners intend to be taken literally. There lay Mr. Bou- VERDI'S mistake: he listened to them, and thought they had made out a case, and took it up for them honestly, and he had but fifteen staunch protectionist supporters. As matter of talk, the churlishness of foreigners and the desirableness of securing reciprocal advantages, did well enough, but, as matter of reality, the fact is, that if foreigners had even taken the first step in advance, and had all of them, like Austria and Bremen, been able to remind us hat we were only about to follow an example they had long set, and to yield them a measure of tardy justice, the shipowners would still have met and protested and petitioned against the repeal of the navigation laws. But independently of every objection on the ground of principle to a mere reciprocity measure, Mr. WIL SON showed very clearly that our existing treaties must make such a law, if passed, a dead letter. If America responded to our invitation, and re ceived and gave open trade, as soon as the United States were admitted to our colonise, every country with which we had treaties embodying the moat favoured nation clause, would demand, and must of right receive, the same privilege. If France allowed us to carry the produce of Asia, Africa, or America to bar ports, so soon as French ships brought us similar cargoes, we must admit the vessels of Holland, America, and every ether nation in the list of like treaties, to the same freedom. It must therefore have I been short work with the ingenious device of recipro city—the first country, great or small, that took us at our word would have earned all the rest with it. Mr. Ginsos in a single sentence blew away the whole mist of reciprocity, put the question on its merits. "It was not a question about foreigners at all. The only question was between the British shipowners on the one hand, and the British people on the other. He did not seek to give anything to the foreigner ; his object was to restore to her Majesty's subjects that right of which they ought never to have been deprived—the right to send their goods in whatever ships they . pleased and at the cheapest Ipossible rate." There is no excuse left to shipowners for withholding this right of cheapest transit from merchants and the public. They can victual their ships as cheaply as foreigners. They may either build them here or bay them Urea& They are no longer to be under compulsion to take apprentices. They are in short to be as free as any other class of traders. But it is a mistake to suppose that shipowners are anxious to get rid of their grievances. They cling to them with all their might. Giving without getting was a grievance—but they or their friends vote against reciprocity. Being obliged to man with three-fourths English sailors was a grievance, but they vote against its removal. Their grand point now is, that there are timber duties, that they have to build their ships as merchants and manufacturers who work for, and trade with, foreign markets have their warehouses and factories—with taxed timber ; bat if any one were to take up the timber: case the shipowners' friends would leave him in the lurch, as Mr. Bowman and Mr. HAsvrc have been left. The shipowners do not want new ships to be built cheaper than the present ones. What they do want is, to keep the people of England and the colonies of England ft= asserting and gain ing their right to liberty in shipping. 'Our colo nies,' says Mr. Ginsori, are now precluded from own munioation with one clear half of the word, and yet the London colonial interest takes its stand with the ship ping interest to maintain this gross in justice.' It is important that the proviso, stating that a ship shall be deemed duly navigated if she have one British seamen to every 20 teas should be struck out of the bill. The marginal note to the clause in the original set has given rise to a belief that on board British ships there must be five seamen to every hundred tons, and Mr. BEIGHT stated that whilst American ships came to Liverpool with three or three and a half men to every 100 tons, the English had actually five to 100 tons. This proviso, therefore, Mr. LABOII• man has agreed to remade.% We dare say some shipowners' friends will be at him about it, and,pith some wondrous pretense of eddy to ships and lives for keeping up the Orme*. The answer is, the Americans do with the taneller num ber, and the amendment in the bill is sorely to het rid at surplus words, out of which, however, has grown the use of surplus men. There remains but little to be done in committee. On the third reading the protectionists mean to stanmen up all their strength. There is need, there fore, for the free traders to bestir themselves. Let them look to the late division, and especially to the list of absent members. DISSOLUTION OF THE NEAPOLITAN CHAMBERS. NAPLES, NARcit 14. be the Chamber of Deputies, on the Bth, De Lucca gave notice of a question to the minister as to whether the bill passed by both chambers for the temporary collection of the taxes hod been sanctioned by the Bing ; and if so, why it had not been published? In the sitting of the 1011, a denial was given to certain reports which have been several days in circulstls that some of the deputies were the authors of a proclamation to the Sicilians, urging them to resist the conditions promised by the King. On Monday, the 12th, the chamber met to occupy itself with thenew electoral law. Savarese opened the proeeedings in along speech, and moved that the provi sional electoral law of Feb. 29,1848, together with the modifications contained in the articles of the decrees of March 22 and May 24 of the same year, be adopted by the chamber as the definitive electoral law—on the votes being taken, in a house consisting of 104 members, 17 left before the division, 3 refused to vote-77 voted for the motion, 7 against it. The bill was, by order of the president, immediately sent up to the 'Peers. The object of this move on the part of the Deputies was, by fixing definitively the electoral law before the dreaded dissolution, to place the government in a false position—all to ni purpose. The chambers were dissolved on Tuesday, March 13, by royal decree, before the Peers could pots sibly have time to discuss or vote the bill. Government has therefore triumphed for a time, and the liberal party are prostrate. The mode in which this act was carried into execntisn is as follows: At three o'clock p.m., two ushers announced to the people assembled in the tribune, that there would be no public discussion that day. About the same time the Minister of Agricul'ure and Commerce presented himself in the Hall of Conference, and announced to , the President that he had come to dissolve the Chem , ber. The President observed to him that it was not parliamentary to read the decree for the dissolution in the Chamber—upon which the minister retired, taking it upon himself to send the decree through the medium of the Minister of the Interior. One by one the deputies then left the hall, and the people all re tired in perfect siknot. Thus, within twelve months we have had two diasolu'ions, and I know not how many prorogation . Ministers have not originated a single measure, exce2t that for the temporary collec tion of the taxes, which was negatived; nor has his Majesty given his assent to an one constitutional act. Of course the address to the King now falls to the ground—there are too° to pretent it. The act grant ing the taxes for four months only all ends in smoke; the bill never received the royal assent. The parlia mentary comedy is at an end—his Majesty's tenants have played their parts for the royal pleasure, and are now dismissed, with the pleasing bit of intelli gence that their s rvices are now no longer wanted. Right enough was the Tempo (the minis tonal paper) when it said a fewdays since," Talk on, gentlemen dainties, as much as you will, we regard not your impotent effotts." No! fur they well knew what the fulness of time would bring forth. I have seen several of the deputies since, and can give you no idea of the sensation which the arbitrary act has excited amongst them; then infuriated, so many firebrands, as it were, will be sent back to the provinces to increase the discontent which already exists there. A more impolitic act (to my no thing mere) could not have been devised,—at the moment, too, when conditions have been offered to Sicily ; and common prudence counselled a line of conduct such OA would inspire the Sicilians with con fidence in the K ng, and when the kingdom gene rally is in such an agitated state. To the arrests and orders to leave Naples already stated, I might add others; and, indeed, a military man informs me that upwa•ds of 40 officers have been imprisoned. No voice, however, seems to be listened to except that of vengeance, which cannot forget the indignities offered to royalty during the last year. The following is the decree for the dissolution of the chamber : DECHEE.—On the report of our minister Secretary of State for the Interior, having heard the counsel of our mi nist•rs Secretaries of State, in conformity with the 64th article of the political statute of the monarchy of the 10th Feb. of the last year, we have resolved to decree, and we deere , , as follows ; Art. 1. The Chamber of Deputies is dis solved. Art. 2. We reserve to ourselves, by another decree, is establish what Is necessary for the convocation of the elec. torsi colleges, &c.— (Signed ) Fiat:imam), Prince CABIATI, CARRAOCOBA,Prince TOAILLA, Prince FELINTELLA, NICOLA GIOLI, BOZZELLI, LONGOBARDI. The ministerial address to his Majesty, on which the decree for the dissolution of the chambers was based, has been published. The state of the city continues in its broad features, as when 1 last wrote—military and cannon, cannon and military, everywhere. Yet a variety of incidents have presented themselves, indicating the existence of an under-current of agitation, and some degree of apprehension on the part of government. Numerous arrests have been made; and I hear from one of the royalist party that the prisons were never fuller than at the present moment. Numerous orders have been given also to persons to leave the city, amongst others to the secretary of Marchese Ayala, the tutor of the family of Prince San Teodore, and a man called Mar mocchi. Leaving the city, we shall besure to meet can non en route for the armament of the coast : indeed, as I write, and all yesterday morning, heavy cannon have been passing beneath my window en route to Nisita. The let Hussars are under orders to leave on the 14th. Arriving at the frontier, no Neapolitan, or anything belonging to Naples, is permitted to pus. One fact is sufficient to prove it. An Englishman, Captain —, was a few days since compelled to dis miss his vetturino and his carrier at the frontier, and take a Roman. Of any conflict I have not heard as yet on good authority. In the direction of Salerno groat discontent has been excited by the arbitrary dis solution of the national guard ; and a few days since a petition was presented to the deputies from the ma gistracy of Salerno, narrating the facts, and asking for protection. Indeed it is a feature not to be passed over that many petitions have been presented to the deputies expremave of confidence and respect as well as of admiration. Amongst the shipping movements I may mention the arrival of the Bulldog from Genoa and Leghorn, on the 9th; the Jens is now in port, having come over from Bake. Two pummelled; have come up from Palermo, giving accounts of the Sicilians being in a state of fury ; bat Ido not attach much confidence to their statements. The Ville de Mar seille came in yesterday from the north, and was not admitted to pratique on the ground of the bill of health having been signed at Civits Vecchia by a re- publicen consul, whereupon the captain declared that I he would not send a letter on shore if pratique was not granted, and that he would return to Marseilles. Towards the evening, however, the difficulty was got over, the authorities having yielded. P. S. I believe the news is positive that the Sicili ans absolutely reject the conditions offered to them. They will have nothing to do with the Bourbons. In my next I will send you details as I expect letters from Palermo. ROME, MARCE 14. Tke new republic goes on its way rejoicing; and with a vigorous and united cabinet, the unanimous support of the National Assembly, and the steady adhesion of all the provincial towns, government holds its onward course reckless of diplomacy.or foreign intrigue, or pious calumny. It is now announced that the knits of the late robbery committed on the poor peaceful shopkeepers and faded gentry of Ferrara, fri a horde of Transalpine freebooters , have ilirgusted even the strong stomach of R 4446114 who hands over the produce to Gaeta (as in the middle ages murder ere and usurers founded monsattrim); bat it is full expected here that the delicacy of the Ponti ff will remit back the 200,000 dollars to the original owners: if not, the Romans are folly prepared to clam the re ceiver in the same category with the thia Though Mumarelli and Sterbini no longer at in the cabinet, both have been appo'nted to subordinate bat honourable fanctionL Toe former to the super vision of the various educational and academic instil:- Vous, as well as the arrangement of the new forms of jurisprudence, for both which purposes thirty years of forensic and literary labours qualify him. The latter is made cattesrvator of public monuments and galleries of art. One of his earliest improvements will be to correct, sneerer on the pediment of St. peter's, in the centre of which the eye is shocked by the insolent obtrusion if the name of a very /earthier' individual, claiming as it were the honour of what the united effort. of the Christian world spent a oentu'y to accomplish. The words " Paulus Burphesius Ro moms" will be replaced by the true architect, "Urbis Orbit Pietas," and the eelf-landation which a fawn ing and servile age tolerated, stand rebuked in the hour of freedom. Garibaldi, who, to the frantic, terror of Ferdinand, is hovering over his frontier, has just put forth a pro clamation so violent as to cause the Roman executive to leave tie responsibility of it to the great oondot dere and hold themselves unaccountable. He is clamorousi to be allowed, with a detachment of 3,000 picked men, to raise a rebellion in the Abruzzi, which is quite ripe for insurrection ; and talks of regulating the terms of "intervention" at the gate of Naples. In point of fact, the earthworks thrown up, and the hur ried barricades on all the roads leading northwards, show that the Neapolitan Maim is more apprehen sive of an aggression, than intent on attack. In the midst of all these manifestations of vigorous resolve on the part of central Italy to keep its van tip ground, and spurn fore4n mtermeddlere, it is worthy of remark that, though during the month of Roesi's administration, hosed on utter defiance of public opinion, there occurred either a murder or a robbery every seoeud day in Rome, and is the legations the roads were scarcely passable in broad dayaght, bat one single crime of this nature has been committed ince the establishment of a popular form of govern ment, and the laws u emanating from toemwlves obtain respect from the poorest as well as the better orders of society. The large landed leviathans arc sorely visited by . the enforcement of the income tax. Prince Barbari c had tt e modesty to return his revenue as only 3,000 dinars, the commissioners simply put an additional zero to the sum, and proceeded to levy. The latter estimate i., in fast, below the trust. Several hundred carpenters and masons are at work improving the Corso, in consequence of a law against the lumbering old doors which protruded out on the footpaths, and which the householders are compelled to abolish. The face of the street is now worthy of I Rome. HAMBURG, MARcs 20. We are kept in a state of anxiety about the war between Denmark and the Duchies. Yesterday, at the cloth of Exchange, a rumour sprt ad that a courier had arrived f oat Copenhagen ! going to Loudon, carrying the artic'es of Terme signed. At first this was considered a stock-jobbing hoax, the accounts from amulet* in the newsmen, as well as by letters and travellc-s, telling quite a different story. In the evening, however, it was ascertained that not only one messenger had arrived, as stated, bat another going in the opposite direction, and the ac count of the peaceable despatches, of which they were the bearers, was traced to the British embassy. It is to this source the Boraenhalle of last night, in its article " Hamburg," is alluding ; but whether a pro longation of the armistice, or preliminaries of a treaty of peace, did not transpire—nor anything about the terms. The Copenhagen mai, arrived to-day, brings the (non-oflieial) account, that Mr. V. Pleasen returned from Berlin by the Wismar steamer, had brought with him the preliminaries of peace, signed by the King of Prathia. The news made a very favourable impression on 'Change, particularly on produce, of which large quantities changed bands, orders from the interior of the country having arrived at the same time. In funds and railway shares there was a good deal doing at higher rates than they were offered yes terday ; there were but a few sellers to day. The Altenburg troops who are quartered at Al tone, and were to march off to the north of Schleswig to-morrow, got counter.ordirs to-day. The Prussians, who were exrcted to-day from B. rlin, had not arrived yet : probably they were countermanded too. This evening Brunswick artillery arrived by steamer from Marburg at Aliens. At the former place, Hanoverian infantry took up their quarters to-day. We shall have troops to-morrow or next day quartered upon us. The steamer Britannia arrived at Bremerhaven from Liverpool, and the sailors re turned to England by Cuxhaven. HOLLAND. ARRIVAL OF HIS MAJESTY WILLIAM 111, THE HAGUE, MARCII 21.—His Majesty Wm. 111. arrived this morning at 8 o'clock at Helvoeteluya, on board the Cyclop steamer, from London. The City of the Hague has been in a state of expectancy fur the last two days; and this morning, when the in telligence of the arrival of his Majesty was made known, the measures previously taken were immedi ately weed upon, to receive his Majesty with all due military honours. A counter-order was, however, re ceived, as the King expressed his desire that every public demonstration and ceremony might be dispensed with. The King and Qheen arrived at the Hague at two o'clock, is a plain travelling carriage. They were immediately recognised, and were cheered by the crowd till they alighted at the Palace of Plein. An address of condolence was adopted by the Second Chamber in its sitting of this day. GERMAN PARLIAMENT. ossAns oN Y. WELCIIIIOI morioN—KAaca 20. N. Buss, M. Zittel, M. Frobel, M. Baden, and M. Simon, having severally spoken, HZINZICII TON 01110111.* M. and said, we have made a promise to the nation which must be kept—a promise which I at leant have never broken—and, therefore, I give my adhesion ofthe report of the committee on the constitution I lay hold *Pit, not as our lest anchor in a case of shipwreck, but be cause it will accomplish everything we can reasonably look for in the actual position of affairs. If there be anything in the measure recommended by the committee to which I could object , it is that the wishes of the governments have scarcely been sufficiently attended to; for I have always laid much weight on preserving a good understanding with the governments. The details, however, to which I could object are not essential. But I must insist upon this, that after our votes have been given, oar resolution mast remain unaltered ant.) a new national amembly may be called upon to revise it. The problem we were ca lled upon to solve war, in giving a head to the nation, to maintain the self-government of individual state', as far u is compatible with national unity. The nation has a right to receive a con stitution from us now. Impediments to the working of the constituti in will, I fear, lbe felt, but not from the govern ments, provided the people will but see and deems that we have bestowed upon them all that is possible in existing eir cuenstanote. When, however, I deny that I accept the pro. posed constitution under any compulsion of fear of danger for my country, I must not be understood to deny the ex istence of some danger. There is danger—not indeed of our being °drove, or coerced by foreign power,. Among civilised nations it has ever been impossible to prevent • from modify:ng its institutions. There is some truth pe in a reproach which has been jocularly addressed to me, that I am not so perfect acquainted with the temper of foreign states as my posi tion renders desirable ; for where I have found it impossible to send ambassadors of the empire I have despised sending spies. (Applause.) The I reprceeh, as understood it, referred more particularly to ay *rawer respectir4 the Busdan note; in which, however, I did hot mean to den that Mania ktd been znif:2"7: sw ea. Schleswig-Holstein I repeat what I then said, that I have no dread of foreign interference even were it in a hostile spirit, for we are a warlike people of 40 millions, all of whom would forget provincial distinctions were they threatened with a partition. (Vehement expnessi ice of agree ment with this sentiment.) A threat if war directed against a great nation does not necessarily imply its destruction. The only danger which can be regarded as a motive for speedily completing the constitution is popular impatience at home. I am rather glad than otherwise to hear that we are reproached with turning bark to the starting point of our revolution. I pride aspen in having adhered firmly, and without vacillation, to what I have from the first declared to be necessary for the good of the nation. Austria can take no pert in any constitution o 10ermany in which the people are really represented. When I &Mutated ' this opinion in the Assembly, I felt that I perilled any repu tation I might . Now that the correctness of the opi aka is admi , you will seek in vain for any expression of triumph in my countenance—it is not a matter for rejoicing. I We mast not allow ourselves to speculate on the return of the 1 Austrians; the entertainment of each hopes might lead to violations of our duty as citisens to our own federal state, as member of an ind ep endent date te an independent neigh bour Mate. 1 myself do not expect that Austria will at first be connected with as by very intimate ties, but these ties I admit of being drawn closer. Weal me to elided' as effeneive and defethive alliance with Austria, we might, it is tree, be called upon to play the same part that the • Rail" an anw playing in Tlll= l l and that would MMtheseeention in the affairs • nations, but an aphelion of 0011111a011 interests. 110.: via pagers went on to segue that a mato= and oonthessaisl union with Austria was no impossibility. The tr:e st rZry of Germany was not. he said, Ineompatible with the policy of Austria. He the* proceeded to dimes A 's vosation to civilise the - Rot, declaring that he still hoped, after the termination of the present &faculties:to see her act up to this glorious thea time. The common policy of Germany and Austria is to pre vent France in the west, and Russia in the east, front ob taining any dangerous arethdancy. We have also a common interest in the navigation of the Danube. He admitted that it wee quite different with respect to Italy ' • and yet he was of opinion that Germany could not abandon her influence is Italy so long as the unity and independence of Italy were not endangered thereby. He inferred from all thee* aonsiderations not only that an Intimate connexion between Austria and Germany is porsible, but that it is the duty of the representatives of the two nations to labour indefatigably to bnug it about. He then proceeded as follows :—Now foe the main question. If Austria had continued a member of our federal state, no question as to who should be at our head could have arisen. Austria was de facto the head. I repel with indignation the charge of intriguing. (Ap plause.) I never have intrigued, and I never have employed unworthy means to attain my ends. (Reiterated and vehement applause.) I have never concealed my views. But you mast beer with me while I recall to your recollection how matters stood before incessant underhand intrigues succeeded in rendering the south of Germany unfriendly to Prussia and to the person of her king. Germany has always, in point of fact, been a hereditary monarchy—(loud and vehement de niala)—and when it was prupos d in 1815 to revert to this form of government, from what quarter did the oppesition come ? From Austria, which shrink from encountering a second time the perils of German sovereignty, and from the states of con test Germany, whose sovereign titles data from the era of Napoleon. Tt was natural, then, that when the Germania confederation was again dissolved in 1848, the idea of a here ditary German monarchy should again take possession of men's minds. In the committees which made arrangements for the parliamentary assembly of Germany, republicans pro mised not to insist upon their views cd government. (Inter ruption; cries of "Name, name! " M. von. thirt een: Hecker.) The minutes of those committees show that Wal -1 cker, in proposing the election of en emperor, only reverts to his original wish. M. yen Gagers here recapitulated the pre liminary measuresadopted, with hie own active and influential co-operation, to assemble a parliament of the South German states, and of the objects proposed to be accomplished by that parliament. He then proceeded : It is clear from this documentary evidence not only that it was intended to place a German prince at the head of the new constitution, but that the King of Prussia was the prince to whom this honour was destined. The antipathy to Prussia which is now so prevalent la the south of Germany arises neither from reli gious feeling nor material interests : it has its source partly in the short-sighted provincialism partly in the confuse Ideas of the uneducated, and it has been industriously fostered and strengthened by men of education. (Applause.) Under the name of Prussia are already comprehended rs posenta fives of every portion of Germany. (No'se.) Were not its Rhine provinces originally South German ? Was Silesia not at one time an appanage of Austria? Are not the half of Saxony, Westphalia, and the Mark incorporated into Prussia ? The transference of the central point of this monarchy from the north to a mere southerly position will be the necessary consequence of the elevation of its monarch to the dignity of hereditary emperor. For any one to im pute to this dynasty the turn affairs have taken in Austria as e crime is to allow himself to be misled by empty words. (Obstreperous contradi tion e Dime ensues, during which the speaker is enrgcd in an epie*diess: "fig.% tion of the charge of " intriguing,' , advanced by M. Vogt.; The hour for deciding has c me. None of us can forget that our assembly is a creation of the people. It will be your task to return from the church of St. Paul, to explain our votes, and their reasons, to your constituents, and obtain their acquiescence in them. Your influence is great, and 1 repose unbounded confidence in it. M. von Gagsrn con elu .ed by repeating Walter von der Vogelweidel's (the old Minnesinger's) exhortation to the Germans, to elect a king over th• m. M. Battoan followed on the opposite side. The close of the debate was then called for, and agreed to. gbe Qraurt. INSTALLATION OF THE GARTER. The (.111. en held a chap•er of the most noble order of the Garter, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buck ingham Palace. The Right Ilonourahle George William Fredrick Earl of Clarendon and the Right Hon. Frederick Earl Sun= were elected Knights Companiots of the Most Nob!e Order of the Garter. The Queen of the Belgians, attended by the Countess d'Hulat and Major de Moerkerke, took leave of the Queen and Prince Alb•rt yesterday morning. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the per formance at the lbytnerket Theatre yesterday evening with their presence. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Han. Miss Stanley. the Marquis of Ormonde, the Hon. Chart a Grey, and Cul. Bouverie. The Queen of the Belgians visited the Queen Dowager yesterday, and partook of • dtye4ner with her Majesty at Marlborough House. The Queen of the Belgians visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday. The Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe Sahli lingsfurst also paid a visit yesterday to her royal highness at Clarence House, St. James's. Mr. Alexandrr Heade and Mr. WOregor had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. 'The Earl of Clarendon had also an interview yesterday with the right ton. baranet at the Home-office. Despatches were seat off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for tho governors of the North American cDloaite. (From last night's Gaaea 'e.) DOWNING -STREET, MARCU 22.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Sir G. W. Anderson, Knight, Governor and Commander-in- Chief in and over the island of Mauritius and its dependen. cies, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. BLOCKADE OF HOLSTEIN AND SCHLESWIG PORTS. —FOREIGN-0171CH, MARCH 23.—1 t is hereby notifL4 that Viscount Palmerston, Her Majesty's Principal Secrftlty of State for Foreign Affairs, has received a despatch from Her Majt sty's Minister at Copenhagen, stating that he had received from the Danish Minister a notice that all the ports of Holstein and Schleswig, with the exception of Ala anti Aires, will be blockaded on and after the 27th instant. The notice is as follows : " The minister of the navy hereby makes known that all harbours and ports in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein will, from the 27th of this month, be blockaded, excepting of course the Wands of Ale and Arm, and such other places as are actually under the royal government. The blockade will be raised for every ;Vim returning under the lawful government; and special notice will be given whenever such places are excepted from the hlnckade.—The Ministry of the Navy at Copenhagen ) the 7th of March, 1849. (L S.) (Signed) Znitarmitut." CHURCH LEASES.-MEEIING OF MEMBERS OP PARLIAMENT. Yesterday, a meeting of members of parliament took place at the Rieg's Arms Hotel, Palace-yard, to adopt measures for the final settlement of the question of church leasehold property, now under the consideration of a commis, don appointed by her Majesty. ' The Duke of Richmond took the chair, and the following noblemen and gentlemen were present * • Lord Harry Vane, Lord de Manley, Sir 0. Strickland, Mr. Hutt, Col. Sibthorp, Mr. Rise, Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Hob ' house, Mr. Meeckton Mines, Mr. Hodges, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Habitats', and other membenof the Houle of Commas. The Duke of RICHMOND, in opening the proeediep, said he entertained no hostile feelings towards the churel, nor towards the oennniarion which had been lately app o i n t e d by her Majesty. On the contrary, he attended here to day, with a view of seeing what could possibly be done to prevent that collision between the church and this lessees which he foresaw would inevitably take place if the subject was not fully and impartially brought before the commission. He felt it was absolutely neeesesry that the commission now sitting should have a clear statement of the different classes of lessee held throughout the various dis tricts in the country, and he had no doubt that the commis sion would do impartial justice. He was himself only inte rested to the extent often or twelve acres of land held under an the xi c o h urth el it b it u s t h w oul ith d rel bs p n eet tar rest, and an g d u h es e ti w on a; h areo w d s es s desirous of seeing those feuds—if he might make use of the expression —between the tenants themselves put an end to. lie spoke these sentiments as a friend to the church, and in that cha racter he appeared here on this occasion. Lord HARRY VANE fully concurred in the sentiment expressed by the Duke of Richmond. As he represented a county that was, perhaps, more deeply interested in the set tlement of this question than any other in England, he re gretted that the pressure of business had prevented him from bringing the matter under the consideration of the House of Commons • hot. if tho royal ennotission had not bean an. pointed, he shoild in the prevent maim have moved a reio lotion with a view to the final adjustment of the question. He thought it was very - - essential that so important a subject should be speedily determined upon, in order to give con& donee to those who were interested in this kind of tenure, and to enable them to adopt such improvements as would not only be beneficial to themselves, but also to the &arch itself. The principal object in their attendance to-day was, that the subject might be brought before the public, in order that interested parties might have an opportunity of pro ducing evidence for the consideration of the commission and he believed the commission to be perfectly impartial, and alive to the best interests of everybody concerned. Mr. AOLIONBY agreed in' the opinions already ex- As he was a large holder under the Dean and St e a ss p i t of Carlisle, it might perhaps be supposed that his judgment would be warped in this matter. At the same time he was a member of the church of England, and felt deeply interested in the condition and welfare of that sets , blbhment. He thought it desirable that this subject should be well understood; and, as the commission could not know by intuition everything connected therewith, it was cano nry that steps should be taken to bring evidauoL•bedktelr - 7- them. , Mr. J. A. 831r111 fully concurred in all that*Obeem . • said, but nothing had at present been done Withrillfirtle., „'"? (3` f.. • .? : • 40