The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY& Tam Day, Two o'Cl.oam There is no atimation in 'he share market this morning, and prices sra nearly the same as yesterday Caledonian', wt lab opened at 241 to 5, have been dose at 24. Brighton, have been dine at 36j and ; and Bestern Counties at til L _and ?„ and are firm at the latter quotstien. Great Western are quoted 77 In Feeneh shares theta is great depression, and soanttly anything doing. a,•rrr Ski toalsy op to 1 o'clock. Barn= RAILWAY'. 1 048.64.17 Nottinesam baba a Beet. June. owl Osbro Mid at apvintekte • Dv wldrovro 0 1111 . 0 ROT. Mg Nee V• Ohm. e l ;. . ea ilia Wks duly nil. or vi a , Oniso Ormi 4 1 Dv eldrroti .o avoona omi ire "Mel orl Do*, Do. Thirds ... serimiumai: - a ,taaks. - IA ill 11 •' i is rall SO 131 se I l• so 1 Is se - lie i It Fel as ss 111 Ile le Mersa Prieteite• 1 ri Dolylksod IS Do hodroose 1/ Dobilmoll Mind Jew . I Nod •• D.t sadj DMILIIKPIPte&rfa Ilooloro Drootlio -.- Do New Goer. 6 per et. I Us. SRL , i pee et., Nal Do. do. Na? 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M. 10. drodc-Ezmexol.— The market tads, wee a shade Imottee. Oaks i—lhnceshire and Yorkshire (Nth share* 4 166 ed. d. s—Ditio (pref. leans), e. 111 IS—Landes and North Wailers (new I Morn) p.—Madteeke, Kielleid, mad Minh (Ones Grimsby Doak), 9 Ila 11 d.—Midleadciti I. laree), a aI ta e. 3e. 9d. Oa d.—N. British (aew ) pair— lS. A, 112—South and Dow (No. 4. as 1-6 sh. d.), 62—Y•rk, New. Male, and Berwick (=lens. Na I and 1), 7) d.,--D (O.N.E. 6 per fit. dli 10), a SI& id. Is. 3d. and Dregkeda, a. 29. MANCHESTER, I[.y 30. Ildrocz-Excnuatcwa—Prior wen ratite weak, and than was wry Hub MEWS dolag. BIRMINGHAM, May 30. deocmismunon.—This market wu again languid, and prism tree . quite ro first as yesterday. Birmingham sad atom Valleys were doss at 101 ; London and North Westerns at 124 ; North Maths* at Si. ha 9d. dia.; and thrmingbas Canal shares at U. LEEDS, May bl STOCK-Ezeß Atteill.—T his being thel lad day of daidiag the he the inetent account, there was a W ia r ie ldadasee brokad ce Eselange, and a large amount of was traosieted, 'eat , nay at wk." %tat , / earreitt Greet Northam,, 10 db. ; North Weaterro, 61. 135. 9d. ; Leeds sad 'lds* Exteralons, 11. 13.. 9d. ; yoeth Otabrdshin, 5; die.; MAW& lelber►ass. 50d 0 001 e. 7 db.; Laaerbbe and Toriabe Mho, ala YORK, Mar 30. Eliocm Esc'Amoz,—lales: North British. 131--Shof isld, Itatbritas, mid Oosis, N. M.. irT o o t . Nemlek (11•wardo Ezteinks), IN. L. ..1:91Uo (0. N. E. Pun), 41. 3/.1111. BRISTOL, May 30. Etrorx-Ercwkwow.—The brokers were busied ht the Mt. tent of accounts, which tended still further bump Dustman. The telly r,rlation in prices were in Great Wertria Quarter% vbkh claw! at 6.1 die. i i I S ss se i i Elte Orprems. • OUTGOING MAIM Yale be DAM Merit noonis seri no Uaa.4 Slats 101 ba non vpin the WWII ot Ist of hew Ile Wen labs Mrdin tailedias linenle, Zoom items, lbw Odin% owl lin scantling tier be 11 11= deiniballsonsea. Oneedli MIL and PIM 11411 bray vp tba navvies et tbe bad Sees Tba nib It Iladelea, lM Bruin owl Banos Aso% will be nub wpm Os reinetel linen ef Jess lb men in% Opal% Linos Wedeln, Cabs isd Gibraltar, • be nob ep monies et no Ttb dims Ilba mile, se Manna e, to be Melliernams, ligypt, Ceylon, Lao. diospiCaor, 814.. ven bone sp the neon. ot ue 7th of Joss the nabs be Obraber, baba. Orris no ludas hinds. !UPS bAss. ikes-Kom Oft,. tioathossoe. veib te nob sp cra ns Nth et June. WIWI WA? AT LONDON IMMO& Tar DO —141111.1. PM I; Ansew•. l4 PAL Pot le frallssas•—lteraimill am. pea 10; Allospes. 21 ggs. pria 11. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY3I. TEE official correspondence of the Resident at Lahore, and that of his officers in the north and south of the Punisub, cannot but lead, whoever reads it im partially, to the conclusion that the Sikhs were pro voked Into their last insurrection. With regard to CRITETUR SINGH, this is evidently the opinion of Sir FREDERIC CLIME himself. The next consideration, then, under such circum stance', is, the justice of dethroning the young Maharajah, Dunizr &Noir, dissolving . the Durbtr,, or council of native chiefs, and transferr ing all Witt amend all the powers of government to the hands of the officials of the East India Company. Nothing can be more manifest, than that the chiefs or mrdars cf the Sikhs, in their agreement with the British government of Dec., 1846, meditated giving up, indeed, to an English Resident the supreme control or politleal direction of the prime affairs of state; but that, at the same time, this control or direction being given, the entire execution and details of administration should be entrusted to native officers, and that the orders of the Ik-eldest should be confined to this durbar or native council, and peas through it. No memo read articles 3 and 4 of the agreement without being convinced that such was the tense of the Sikh stipulation. Them are as follows: Art. 3. Every attention shall be paid, in conducting the adesnistratios, to the helings of the people, to preserving the national institutions and customs, and is maintain the jest rights of all classes. Art. 4. Changes in the mode and details of administration shall not be made, except when found necessary for effecting the objects set forth in the foregoing clause, and for securing the just dues of the Lahore Government. These details shall be conducted by native officers, as at present, who shall be appointed and superintended by a council of regency, composed of leading chiefs end Sirdars,setkg under the con• trot and guidance of the British resident. _ _ that this conclusion is materially shaken by the fact of a rapid increase of produce so conspicuous on the face of the return. Between 1840 and 1847 there has been a great and gratifying augmentation in the quantity of all desonmions of grain. But there bas been no depreciation in the mar ket value of these commodities, apparently become so soddenly abundant. The principal came at once of the steadiness of the price and the full ness of the supply must of course be found in the in ternal demand of the country itself, and it is net un likely that some inaccuracies or omissions in the earlier years of these statistics may render the figures repos which we argue in some degree an nnfa.thful repreneritation of the precise truth. In the three last rams of the return, however, there are charges we me well able to explain without having recourse to any doubtful corrections. The extension which ap pears to have taken phew in the cultivation of wheat and Indian corn between 1845 and 1847 may be at tributed in a material degree to the condition of the western countries of Europe during those years, and ef none of these countries in a more important mea sure than cur own islands. For the first time in the experience of the agriculturists of Ohio and Tennessee, there was an European demand upon an imposing scale for their Indian corn. A com modity they had been scout med to hold very cheap saddest, became an important article of commerce and leader the indue.ment of a highly profitable price these who had reaped the advantage of these events only obeyed a natural law when they at once in creased their cultivation of a species of produce already so fortunately distioguishe& The European demand of 1847 probably indicates the true nature of the circumstances which w'll intro- duce any important quantity of American agricul tural produce into England. The male of English prices rose to a point which permitted the importation of supplies into New Yolk and the other Atlantic cities from a very extensive circle, and for a period removed the most formidable impediment to the ex port of food from America, namely, the expense of the inland transit. But, considerable as were the induce or ute to enter into grain speculations in 1847, the ar rivals of Indian corn into the United Kingdom, between July, 1836, and Nov., 1837, were not more than two and a half millions of quarters, or one-twentieth part of the crop of this grain in the previous year. The quantity of wheat received during the same interval was more considerable, and bores larger proportion to the entire crop. The importation was two and a quarter millions of quarters, out of a gross proince stated at fourteen and a half millions of quarters. The inference from these facts is this—that, under the encouragement of a certain scale of prices, we may always depend upon the United States for an exten sive supply of grain. And we may add, that the article of Indian corn has proved to be so useful an ad dition to our stock of agricultural articles of import, that, in all likelihood, a permanent trade of some im portance in that commodity has been already created. We very much question however whether there is any speedy likelihood of America sending wheat or wheat flour to this country when the English price is lees than 535. or 555. If we take the present price of average wheat at 465., we shall be able to see some foundation for this conclusion. The value of flour at New York is about 41 dole., per barrel, and the freight to Liverpcol is quoted at 2e—both these elements of cost are favourable to a merchant contemplating a consignment to the English market—that is to my, the records of price at New York would not famish him with money quotations more in his favour. The circulars however it the face of these figures attribute the entire absence of any export demand obviously to insufficient value at Liverpool. It is quite possible that increased facilities of inland transit, or soma great extension of the cultivation might bring down the price of flour in New York to much lees than 41 dole. a barrel, and by that meats permit a profitable exportation to Eng land, when the averages of our "Gazette" were below 50s. We confers., however, that this is a change we are not prepared to expect at present. There is one class of facts, however, to which we beg to direct the attention of those alarmists among our own farmers who are in the habit of describing the prices of corn in fcreign couttries as if they al ways stood at the same awful point of debasement in spite of every kind of influence. The effect of a foreign demand upon the prices of corn is a distant market has been seldom Must' ated better than at New York in the spring and summer of 1847. We have already said that the present quotations for flour arc 4 Idols. per barrel, and that the freight to Liverpool is 2s. In May 1847 the same quantity of the same commodity sold for 81 dols., and could not be shipped for less than 35., and Indian corn, which at this mo ment sells very slowly at 58 cents. per bushel, was then obtained with difficulty at three times the price, and could not be conveyed to an English port for leas than twice the cost required far the same length of voyage under ordinary circumstances. The facts we have pointed out will sufficiently ex plain how it has happened that of the large importa tion of grain into this colintry since September last so comparatively small a quantity has come from the United States. To the end of April from the month in question the importations of wheat have been from That Colonel LAWRENCE so understood this, is evi dent from his letter, which will be found at the head of our extracts from the Parjaub papers in another column. It is equally manifest that the Governor- General of India entertained a completely different opinion (see second paper), that he considered the Resident to have a right to interfere '° as much or as little as he chooses," and that his duty was not merely to act through the Durbar, but to appoint even British officers " to manag e the revenue, police, and judicial administration," Just es wes done at Nagpor_ ,e or in the dominions of the Nizsm . In fact it will be seen, that the GOVERNOR-GENERAL com pletely destroyed by a stroke of the pen the stipu lations which the Sikh chiefs bad made on behalf of their independence. Instead of acting through the Herber, the Resident at Lahore was compelled to act quite independent of it. For example, the negotiations with MOOLRAJ, for his resignation and his being succeeded by a British officer, were carried on without even the cognisance of the Dunbar. Well might SLIME Stem in his simple language complain that— Notwithstanding the British eovernment has nothing to do with the management of affairs in the Punjaub, not a kin& ordtr is issued except with the Resident's signature. This is contrary to the spirit of the treaty made by the British government with the Lahore state. Having thus violated the terms and spirit of the treaty with the Sikhs, how can the Indian government tarn rouLd and accuse not merely the Birders, whom they had provoked to open hosti lity, but even those councillors, who remained true to the last? Who could be more faithful than ENIAN 00D-DEEN or Tv SlNGH—more obedient than little DIIULEEP ? But because the native Durbar is found inefficient to put down native revolt, it is declared to have forfeited its position and influence. Nothing can be more certain, than that if the eative administration had been left to the Dur bar, and had the management of Mooltan, and of the Hazareh been entrusted to native chiefs, no insurrection would have taken place. But how could the Durbar, which was not allowed to prevent disaffection, be able to put it down ? The fact is, that the moment MOOLRAJ was driven to his rash act, all the Sirdars were treated as suspected persons, and when Cntrrrua broke out, the others were forced by the treat ment they received to join the rebellion. Major EDWARDES term dSnrMentllll SINGH Oat of his camp. The Governor-General writes, on October 3, 1848, to forbid any more trust to be placed inany one Sikb, and to forbid any guarantee being thereafter given to any one of them either as to life or property. Lord DALUOVeIII had already determined on the con &cation and destruction of every Sikh. And even his threats to deprive the Maharajah GOOLAB of his territory make us, at this moment fear that the ra pacity of the Governor-General will not even respect Cashmere and lummoo. We have sought in vain throughout the 600 or 700 pages of this volume one single pretext for de . , pnving ei th er of tat liaithraiaU of their rights. Nothing whatever is laid to littfe DIRTLEEP'd charge, except his boyish refusal to sign a saffron cross on the forehead of 7Er SIN°, for which it would appear that Tv SING WU to to as much punished as he. Besides the Birders that were driven into armed resistance, there is a list of 34 who, far from joining the insurrecCon, some of them most valiantly opposed it. Amongst these are four oat of the eight names composing the council of Regency. And yet these four are condemned on account of the defection of the remainder. Of the Sirdars who signed the treaty in the name of the Khalsn, not one half was implicated in the insurrection. If all the Sikhs bad joined in the resistance ander provocation as fatuitous and great as that which was given to MOOLRAJ, we should not even then say that the Sikhs had forfeited the rights acquired by the treaties of 1846. But when no accusation can be brought against so large a body of Sirdan and of the Durbar itself, and when not a breath of reproach can be uttered against the infant Maharajah, to sweep him from his throne, and the Der bar from that political power which was allotted them, merely on the grounds of incapacity to sup press an insurrection which Lord Gowan himself, with all his guns and European troops, took re peated efforts to do—in this decision, we must own, we can behold neither justice, nor magnanimity, nor skill. The policy of the annexation we shall consider ereafier. America Other countries 2 341,534 2,888,447 The arrivals of Indian corn have amounted to 1,141,944 qrs., of which nearly the whole his been of transatlantic origin. It is no secret that of the remeinicg 2,888,447 qrs. of wheat of which we have been the recipients, a large part has been attracted to our shores less with a view of deriving profit ont of our prices, than of escaping confiscation and damsga at home. In 1848, the average price of wheat throughout the whole of Belgium was 18f. 14c. per hectolitre, or equal to &boat 465. per quarter; and for 1845 in France, one of the latest average years for which the accounts are com plete for the entire kingdom, the average price was 18'. 93e. per hectolitre, or equal to more than 465. per quarter. After making every possible allowance for variations of quality, depreciations of price, and cheapness of freight, we may still easily czarvince ourselves that the causes which have brought so con siderable a supply of grain into our ports, have a far wider range and a far deeper influence than the abo lition of our own corn laws. The most formidable rival of the Americans in our markets for all the inferior kinds of grain will not be the cultivators of the Vistula, but the producers of rye and the kindred seeds, who export their produce from the ports of northern Russia. In 1847, Mr. BATES, of the firm of BARING Brothers, told a committee of the House of Commons that be looked rather to Russia than America as a source of supply. Mr. BATES, however, hu been hitherto wrong in his estimate of the scale of prices at New York that would justify an ex portation of flour to Liverpool. He thought that 4} dollars per barrel would be quite low enough to render such an operation profitable, yet we see the present price is exactly at this point, and an export is found to be impossible. Our agriculturists, therefore, are not yet to be ex tinguished by an avalanche of American supplies, and it would be a gross scandal to our husbandry if those who live by it cannot undersell in our own markets the produce of men who live on the out skirts of civilisation, who have neither accumulated capital, accustomed roads, nor a certain outlet for their produce, and between whom and their Euglish car tomera there intervene two thousand miles of wilder ' ness and the breadth of the Atlantic Ocean. IN another page we insert an interesting statistical statement of the agricultural produce of the United States during the last six years. With the exception of converting the original computation of bushels into the equivalent of imperial quarters, we present the document as it has been compiled by our correspon dent from the records of the commis ioners of patents at New York. The salient points of this return may be beet ex pressed through the medium of a comparison. At this moment the population of the Union and the population of England and Wales are perhaps equal within a million or a million and a half—the l maximum number of twenty millions belonging to the, I United States. The Americans, then, grow about as mach wheat as we do (14,000,000 qrs.) ; twice as arch oats and beans (22,000,000 qrs.); one-fifth as much barley (719,000 qrs.); and Indian corn, which so greatly exceeds in quantity (it amounts to 67,500,000 qrs.) every other description of cereal pro bate is America as to become at once the really im portant staple in the agricultural economy of that M Va population such as that which lives under Os Were government—a population increasing with a dime of rapidity, perhaps, never exceeded in the history of the escies—a population able to command, sad accustomed by habit to require, a liberal scale of dist—there is nothing in the first appearance of these facts calculated to convey any strong impression of the resources of America as an exporting country, except under special circumstance*. We are not sure TQE correepondecos between the Duke of BEbronti and his protectionist tenant. Mr. Wm. BENNETT, of Lewsey, which we published the day before yesterday, I aff ads a complete practical refutation of all the halt baloo made about free tradein corn. Mr. BENNETT at Willis's Rooms came forward and deliberately stated that he had been robbed of one-fourth of his capital by free trade ; and his landlord, who had not long since granted him a lease of his farm, thereupon came forward and offered to relieve him of that lease and make such an equitable allowance for the tenant's improvements as the case admitted o£ It may fairly be supposed that Mr. BENNETT jumped at his land lord's liberal offer; that he at once availed himself of the opportunity to escape from the ruin he saw im pending. Not at all. He asks time for deliberation. He whines and he whimpers about unknown enemies seeking to " seriously damage him" with his landlord, and rides off in vague generali. ties about taxation, and evades admitting having ' mold his wheat at a price which gives the lie 4o all his Regent-street declamation. Nearly two months have rased since the Duke of BEDFORD'S offer was made, THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVE 'TING, MAY 31, 1849. but Mr. BENNETT has made no sign of accepting it. We venture to say there is no chance of his doing so. Now, Mr. BENNETT loons of the foremost of the pro tectionist binders about the ruin which it is pretended 1 free trade has brought upon English farmers, and he I l is a fair specimen of a large section of the men who I "take the parts" of tenant farmers when the protec tionist I oliticians want to give a roar of the British lion. He is a farmer who farms moderately well, and unities with his profession of husbandman that of auctioneer and land-valuer. Like most men who carry on these combined occupations, he would push that branch which is capable of the greatest exten sion, and to roar out the complaints of the farmers at the bidding of the landlords is no bad introduction to a land-valuing business. Such, at least, is the expla nation we have often received of the wild vagaries of the so-called tenant-fanners who obey the Doke of RICHMOND and Mr. DianaELL This much is cer tain, that most of the farmers who declaim so kudly against free trade are land-valuers also. Now the value of Mr. BENNETT'S assertions about agricultural ruin has been tested, and the result is just what we should have anticipated. Like • mallet man, he has no notion of parting with his farm; though with an eye to auctioneering business he sees shrewdly enough that occasional appearances in Bond street and Regent-street as the colleague and mouth piece of the Duke of Ittettuo•D is not a bad advertise ment. We ask the farmers to regard the declamation of these men for just what it is worth, and to examine for themselves the realities of their own position. Let each farmer just put to himself the question of Mr. BeNsErra landlord—" Do you really wish to give up your farm?" If his answer shall be, like Mr. Bex•Err, in the negative, let him not go about talk log all sorts of rhodomontade. which nobody believes, and which he does not believe himself. Farmers have real and substantial grievances, which they can • only get redressed by means of fair, candid, and business-l.ke expositions, as different as possible from the random assertions of Mr. BENlrrrr and the rest of the Bond-street clique. FRANCE. The National publishes the following correspondence between M. Marlin, the president of the republic of Venice, and M. Jules Bastide, when the latter was Minister of Foreign Affairs in France : Siz,—To a private letter addressed by me on the 20th August last to Lord Palmerston, I have just received the an nexed answer, dated the 16th October inst. The minister avows his designs with regard to Venice with the greatest candour. Now, sir, a similar frankness I claim from your known honourable nrisciples. It is just that we should learn whether the Venetians who, from the commencement of the revolution, have proclaimed the republican principle, and addressed themselves to Prance, relying upon her aid, are to be abandoned by France, and left henceforth to their despair or their reliance upon God alone. It is not the president of the little republic of Venice who asks 'this of the minister of the powerful republic of France—it is the citizen who applies to the citizen—the honest man who addresses himself to the honest man. __ DANIEL MANILA, President of the &public of Venice. Paris Nov. 17, MS. . . Sir,—l know not what God has in reserve for mi . country, but as long as I have the direction of her foreign affairs France will not abandon the cause of Venice; for you are a brave people, whom a noble-minded nation con never suffer to perish. I consider that an attack upon Venice would be on the part of the Austrians a violation of our accepted me diation ; it would be the same with a blockade conducted in ouch a manner as to produce the forced surrender of Venice. I have therefore taken all the measures in my power to re vent an attack or an effective blockade. The ships of our statics in the Adriatic have been forced to withdraw to ob tain provision,. Others will immediately replace them. There is, I know, a policy which wishes to make Venice a ransom fur Lombardy. This is not my policy. Never will I agree to a treaty of Campo Formic. If, then, I were sure of remsising in power, I would say to you—have full coati. dunce. But France is on the eve of a crisis which may bring in other men, other principles. I can therefore an swer only fcr the good will of myself and my go ernment. This is what I have to gay in answer to your candid qucs Lion. Health and prosperity. Jt,LES BASTIDE, Minister of Foreign Affairs. dian I Wheat. Can. Rye. Barley. Oata. Rice. H i -- Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I (41 - 8. 1840 10,603,000 17,191,000 2,330,000 521,000 15,400,000 ' nil. 1841 nll. nil. nil. nil. nil. .. 1812 12,800,000 55,2511,000 2,632,000 481,0t : 0118,860,000 11.43 12,340,000 61,830,000 3,036,000 40.1,000,18,211,000 ~ 1844 11,952,000 33,120,000 1,306,000 453,000 j 21,831,000 , 180 13,318,500 33,238, 000 3,400,010 snow() , 20,401,000 11,221,000 1846,14.650,000 57,460,000 7,480,000 709,000122,411,000112,218,000 1847113,911,000 67,30.,000 3,929,004 719,0 , 0,22,000,0601 nil. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. The following appears in a Roman paper as the official instructions which were to direct General Oudinot's intervention : You ere aware that an internal reaction and foreign inter vention menses the existence of the republican government if Rome, which we have not recognised. The government of Rome, advancing to a crisis now unavoidable, it is our duty to maintain in the peninsula the legitimate influence of France, aril to obtain the re-establishment of a regular order of things, conformable to the interests and rights of the people. Although you are not to interfere in the defi nitive negotiations which will secure that result, you are authorised to receive any proposition that may prepare it, avoiding, however, in the form of the agreement, anything that should imply the recognition of the &tithe Titled now ruling at Rome. You will find here enclosed the draft of a letter, which you will address, on your arrival, to the governor of Civets Vecchia, to demand ad ' mission. The entrance of the harbour will not certainly be denied you. According to every probability, you will be received, on the contrary, with alacrity as a liberator by acme, and as • useful mediator by others. But if, contrary to allexpeetations, you are dented admission to Cleat' We chit, you must not be deterred from cecupying the town by a resistance, made in the name of • government which so body in Europe has recognised , and which maintains itself at Home in opposition to the wishesof the immense majesty of the population. Orme landed on the territory of the do- I minions of the Church, you will hasten to communicate with M. d'Harcourt, who is charged with settling, at Gaeta, the interests of the mission confided to you. You will tend to Rome one of your officers, to explain "so the chiefs of the government the nature of your mirsirn. You will expressly infirm them that you are not come to support the order of things of which they are the represen tatives, and invite them to co-operate in an arrangement calculated to bring about the desired solution. Your advance on Rome at the head of the troops may, no doubt, facilitate en accommodation enempragiog the honest part of the population. You will judge if circumstances be such, that you may repair to Rome with a certainty not only of not encountering any serious resistance, but also of being sufficiently well received to induce a belief that by entering Route, you respond to the appeal of the population. Until this m.ment, when a regular government shall have re placed this one, which now preens on the states of the church, you may, if you deem it expedient, maintain in office the existing authorities, provided they confine them selves to exercise their municipal functions and nowise im pede your mission, or re-establish the previous authorities, avoiding as much as possible to interfere directly in those changes, and limiting your action to the encouragement and the eliciting of the wishes of the honest part of the popula tion. You may, if you think proper, claim the medium of the consul of France, established at Civita Vecchia, whom I plane at your disposal. Such are the instructions I am now able to give you. Your excellent judgment will suggest what I have omitted, and, on my side, I wiil not fail to forward you the suggestions which circumstances may render neeigeary. I i.ere annex the draft of a proclamation, which yea will publish immediately after your arrival. TUSCANY.—Our correspondent writes : FLORENCE, MAT 20. You require information on the present state of Tuscany, bologna, and Venice. Yon may rely on the following. In Tuscany the strong pressure of force prevents at present the expression of opinion ; but aversion to the , existing goverhment is stronger than it ever was. and 'the excited feelings of the people are compressed but not softened. The causes of this are plain. The mild character and government of the Grand Duke had many friends., but his flight, and desertion of his post without taking any measures for the governing of the country in ha absence, threw doubts alike on his good faith and his affection for his people. To this must be attributed in a great degree the po litical consequences that followed, and the disorders, not excepting the anarchy at Leghorn. Afterwards, when circumstances led to a proposal for the return of the grand duke, just and prudent conduct would soon have regained for him the affection and confidence of his people ; but a quite opposite course has been fol lowed. Count Sernstori, for many years a colonel in the Russian service, has been appointed vice-grand duke. Austrian bayonets were called in to support him in his violations of the constitution, and many cruelties perpetrated. Thus are the Tuscans more than ever alienated from their sovereign ; for here, as in every . part of Italy, there is one feeling in which all parties unite hatred to the Austrian, and to every foreign domination. Exactly the same description applies to every part of the Papal States. but in a stronger degree. There, also, the flight of the Pope, the abandonment of his trust, and the harsh refusal to receive the deputies sent to him from Rome, broke the charm that former b e nefits and personal q ualities threw around Pins IX. in the eyes of his people and of the world. In the Roman States, besides, the relief of a change of go vernment was radially more and more felt ; for the papal government wee incomparably worse than that of Thscany had ever been; and, therefore, the longer the absence of the Pope was prolonged, the lees was the desire of the people for his return u a temporal sovereign. Personally ! what can restore love and trust in men towards him, who, while he dreaded the Extronirs from United Stara to Great Britain and Ire land (alone' ) from Sept. 1, 1846, to Sept. 1, 1847: 3,133,644 barrel,' flour. 644,167 „ corn meal. 4.004,°59 bu.kels wheat. 17,15;0359 „ lolian corn. 239,929 , barley. 442,246 oats.. E ',Porn* from United States to Great Britain and Ire land from Sept. 1,18}7, to May 8, 1819 : 641,964 barrels dour 70 5.35 corn meal 1,070,906 bu shels wheat • •goy cmht months. 8,551,792 „ Indian corn 1,000,000 „ oats. 1006,000 „ barley. Exrour of bread staff to Septet& Great Britain and Inland from wir ler, 1848. .1 From. To. l r ß ()Ora ls. our. Meal Ncw York May b 324,1 30,337 New Orie „ 4 138,37 3,353 Philadelphia „ 1 83,335 1 2,310 Baltimore " 2 90,0214 7,386 Boston Other part ,, 1 6,193 6,11 lbhl I 30,9e41 70, 331 Beh. Oot 11 - 7. 1 1,000 65 ... 134 ... Babel . I Busbell Indian Whtst. Cora. 643,5181 mea,7o 111,458 2,272,911 210,810 921,944 164,622 780,08 r, 12,887 377,431 1 31,606 634,677 1,076.90Gi ii Nsss,792l 'pool THE SOUTHAMPTON PORTION OP THE INDIA MAIL arrived yesterday, in the Peninsular Company's steam shin Ripon, and the mails were landed in charge of Captain Brady, R.N., Admiral;; agent. Fier dates have been anti cipate 1. Amongst the passengtri were Sir H. Maddock, from Calcutta, and the Hon. Mrs. Pellew and Lord M. But ler, from New 8 ,uth Wales. The Ripon brings 216 pack ages of specie, in value 70,0901. ; and 77 hales of silk. A MONTHLY COMMUNICATION LETWEEN SOUTH AMPTON, CONSTANTINOPLE, AND THE BLACK SEA, now exists by means of the Peninsular Company's steamers. The Sultan steamer was the last ship that left Southampton ; she left on Tuesdzy. The traffic by these steamers has so much incrrastd, that there Is always a large quantisy of goods to be sent by them on their outwa r d voyages for which room cannot be found. The Peninsular Company, there fore, gave no'ice to merchants that if there was a very large quantity of goods left for shipmeht after the Sultan was full an extra steamer should be dispatched on the 9th June. This has not, however, been found necessary ; but there c..n. not Ist a doubt that in a short time the traffic between Southampton and Turkey will warrant a steam commur Ica- Lion twice a month. TUE GAME LAWS.—Two or three years ago a far mer took a farm near Wedhoathly, and when the game question was discussed the landl - wd promised the tenant that he was not to be burdened with it, promising that if he would take care of the pheasants and hares, the landlord and his friends would be content with two tr three days' sport of each season; after which the tenant was to have the game to himself. The farm lay nearly in the centre of a preserve, the owner of which looked at it with a jealous eye and tendered to buy it. Tce owner refused to sell, and the game preserver then offered to hire the game; but mindful of his promise, the landlord would not compromise his word with the tenant. A third course was, however, devised, by which the owner saved his word and the game preserver carried his point. The tenant had no lease, and over a dinner and wine the two gentlemen agreed that the owner should let the farm to the game preserver, and if the tenant "kicked" at being turned over, it was an easy matter to kick him out. The poor tenant was now induccd to submit to a change of landlord ; and soon to his horror and dismay he found his acres turned into a preserve, with a host of gamekeeper and watchers to look after both the game and him, and trample his corn and grass ; and he had the saodie tion of finding that by his sareement the pheasants and par tridges, the hares and the rabbits, were the property of his new landlord.—Brighten Guardian. ATTACK crow A MAIL GUARD.—Yesterday morn ing, about three o'clock, • most savage attack upon the guard of the mail cart which is despatched at midnight from Biggleawade to Ware, was male by two men, about two miles from the town of Stevenage, in Hertfordshire. From the scoounts of the occurrence which have reached the Post office in St. Martin's le-Grand, it appears that at this lonely plat of the cross-road, Morris, the guard, observed two men rush up to the cart, the one to the head of the animal he was driving, and the other to the body of the cart. In an instant he felt the reigns torn from his hands, while the ruffian grasped his throat and dragged him out of the vehicle. He made a desperate effort to free him self and regain possession of the mail-cart and its contents, but the villainy, no doubt anticipating his object, rushed upon him with redoubled fury, beating him unmercifully, and endeavouring to rob him ; they tore open his pockets, without, however, finding any booty. In the meantime, the horse, finding himself at liberty, rushed for ward, and could not be stopped until it had nearly reached Barnet, where the bags were found quite safe. Some parties from &distance, having witnessed the flight of the animal by the moonlight, and fancying that something was wrong, they went in search of the guard, who was found in a most dis abled state neer the spot where the attack was made, the robbers having previously made off. Abaut four months ago, an attack was made upon • mail.guard not far from the same spot. Every exertion is being made by the authorities to trace the villains. A BOY KILLED EY ANOTHER NEAR ARBROATH.- lh Saturday last, ass coal-hawker was delivering some coals to a family residing at Friockbeim, a boy threw a stone at his horse, which, being observed by another boy who threat ened to inform the carter on bis return, he was struck to the ground by a stone thrown at him by the challenged party, who advanced and ordered him to rise. The boy feebly re plied that he was not able, when bis adversary (about ten years of age) kicked him in the breast and belly, and the little sufferer almost immediately expired.—Dundee Ad vertiser. shedding of Croat blood as the price of the freedom of the baliEll nation, yet gives his blessing to those who shed in torrette the blood of the people whom he believes God has appointed him to protect and govern ? Bologna, an unfortilled town, situated so close to hilli that defence is almost impossible, and without soldiers—for the greattr part had gone to as sist in the defence of Anemia—has bad poured into her 8,000 projectiles of ell sorts, while all around the villu have been sacked and destroyed, and the churches no lees. It is needless to add that within the town many palaces and houses have been ruined ; Palazzo Ferrari, Btecadelli, the church of San Belve dere, &c. ; the wonder only is that so many remain. The first acts of the restored government of the Pope proclaim a determination to IBS no conciliatory measures, and no more Chtistian rule than brute force; to owe lolling to reason or kindness, but rather to insult and exasperate the nation. In opposition to the earnest and reasonable desire I of the people, high and low, that laymen and not ig norant monks should be appointed to secular places of trust, priests are everywhere installed in office. At Bologna paternal love is declared in a proclamation to inspire all the acts of Monsignor Bedini, the Pope's priestly governor ; while it is declared that the smal lest expression of opinion is forbidden, even the wear ing the tri-coloured ribbon. The national guard must not appear in uniform, and every man found plates ' sing arms is to be instantly shot. Death, also, is the punishment for being out a ft er 12 o'clock at night. Medical men and priests must have a written per mission: Such are the means employei to restore peace to a people who have been guilty of the crime of desiring to to governed as other men are. HOLLAND. THE HACKIE, MAY 29.—1 t is exported that cot only the Minister for the Colonies, but the Minister for Justice, M. Haulier Curtly. has given in his resigna tion to the King, which hes, however, not yet been accepted by his Majesty. Several other changes in the cabinet are spoken of in consequence of the con templated resignation of other ministers besides those above s'ated. Both the chambers have now con cluded their sittings, but will be again convoked for the 13th of Jane, since the discussion of the funda mental law is an object of too great importance to I be long deferred. In its last day's sitting the First Chamber adopted several important measures which had been under deliberation for some days: they in cluded the annual expenditure of the government colleges (27 votes against 9), indemnification and travelling expenses, ,of the numbers (35 against 1), military pensions and engagements 133 against 1). The Emperor of Russia has presented the N. therlands ambassador, M. Arriens, with the insignia of the order of St. Anne of the first class s*t in brillian•s. M. Hensch, the deputy from Limboarg to the central power at Frank furt, has addresied a letter to the Linabourg Journal, published at Maestricht, in which be informs his con stituents that he renounces his twc-fold election as member of the States General of the Netherlands, sec iog that his el:ction was nothing but a demonstra tion in favour of Germany. The districts of 2alt, Bommel, and Sittard, will, therefore, be obliged to proceed to new elections. AMERICA. AORICI:IATRAL PeoDucz of the United State+, as returned by the C, , modssioners of Patents.—(From the Circular of Edward Bell, New York.) THE COURT. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN IN LONDON. The Qua* n and Prince Albert, accompanit d by the Prince of Wake, Prince Alfred, the Priscesa Rural , the Princess Alice, the Princess Helene, and the Prince.; Louisa, and attended by the Fir:uneaten Canning, Hon. Mile Mae. donald, Hajar-General Bowles, General Wemyss, Lieut. Colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon, and Mr. Birch, left her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Me of Wight, at ten minutes past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, crossed to Goh port in the Fairy, royal steam yacht, travelled to town by a special train on the London and South Western Railway, and proceeded from the railway station to Buckingham Palace, where the august party arrived at ten minutes peat six o'clock, Her Majesty and hie royal highness were re vived at the palace byt e Hon. Miss Murray, the Marquis or Breadalbane. the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl et Li s . towel, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, and Captain Francis Seymour, The Queen honoured the performances of the French plays with her presence yesterday evening. Her Haien, was attended by the Vinountera Canning. Hon. Miss m oor . ray, the Earl of Liatowel and Gen. Wemyss. Prince Albert honoured the Geological Society with a ' , hit last evening in Somerset house. His Royal Highness was attended by Viscount Clifden, Capt. Francis Seymour, awl Lieut.-CoL the Hon. Alexander Gordon. Mr. M'Bride, of Aldermanbury, had the honour of exhibiting betore his Royal Highness Prince A.bert his patent aeration of distqled salt water. His Rays' Highness was pleased to express his approval of the discovery, sod having tasted the watt r produced from that of the tea, was pleased to consider it of very superior quality. Iler Royal Highnr as the Niches' of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Couper, and General the Hon. A. Upton honoured the per.ormsnce of the French plays si.h her presence yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kept visited I her Royal Highnets the Duchess of Cambridge yesterthy. His Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Nether- lands visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridgc-house. His Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Her Royal }highness the Duchess of Gloucestcr yestcr day, at Gloucester house. Mr. Villiers had an interview with Sir George Grry ycsttrday at the Home r ffice. Mr. Alderman Salomon!' transacted business at the • • office of the Commissioners of Railways yesterday in the Board of Trade. The Chancellor cf the Exchequer and Laiy Mary Wood arrived in town yesterday evening from HickWort hen, Doncaster. 'lhe Right Hon. H. Labouchere arrived in town last evening. OPERA COMIQUE.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Hcr Mejetty and Prince Albert honoured the performanc,s at the St. James's Theatre with their wankel: lest evening. The R ppal euite consisted of the Viscountess C mning, the Han. Mire Murray, Viscount Clifdeo, Earl of Listowel, General Wemyss, the Hon. Ccl. Gordon, and Capt. Sey mour. Her Royal Highntse the Duchess of Kant also honoured the theatre with her pre.euce, and her Royal Highness was attended b) Lady Augusta Brace, Baroness de Speth, Sir G. Couper, and the HA. General Upton. FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. STRAIFORD PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. The first meeting of this association took place yesterday evening at the Yetlodine Grey Inn, Stratford. The to room was quite full, and we were informed that the society, although quite in its infancy, has already enrolled 150 members. The choir was Paten at half-past seven by Mr. E. CLARKE, who, in opening the prothediega, reminded the meeting of the small beginnings from which the Anti-Corn Law League had =rived at such important melts, and exhorted them to a similar course of proceeding. The object of the meeting was to fur.her the cause of parliamentary and financial reform, and he congratulated the working-men present upon their having already crrolled one hundred and fifty in an association for that ohjech Mr. CORNELL, in rising to maws the first resolu tion, corgratulated the meeting that their agitation was commencing under auspices much more promteing than those under which repeal isf the corn laws was carried. He moved; "That the present system of taxation in this country is based npon inequality and injustice, and places the prouuc tive ChISCI of the community in the mast disadvantageous position as compared with the foreign artisan. It is, there fore, expedient, as a preliminary step towards the redress of this gigantic evil, that a local association be formed for this neighbourhood, to art in corjunetion with the Metrepolitan Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, for the purpose of obtaining a complete revi-ion of our fiscal code, and by the sulesti.utian of direct aed honest in the place of indirect end consequently dishonest taxation, to re-appertion the hurthene of the state according to the means and capu bilities esf those who or ght to beat them." Tae resolution was varied unanimously, after which The Rev. Mr. LINWOOD, as one of a deputation ftom the Metropolitan Amu-Lotion, explained its objects in a speech embracing all the topics which have been under dis cussion at previous meetings and fully reface:id in this paper. Mr. ASHDOWN moved: " That, as it is perfectly hopeless to expect any rffielent redress of publbirrievuncos ire to the House of Comm ,ns as at present constituted, it is imperatively necessary to use all legal and custitutienal means for extending the elective franchise to the utmost practiced limits, to shorten the thus tion of parliaments, to protect voters from undue icfluence and intimidation, and to apporti an the number of represen tatives to the population by means of equal electoral districts." The resolution was seconded by Mr. ROBERTS, and car ried unanimously. The third resolution, which was proposed by Dr. Bow. KETT and duly seconded, was That believing the Freehold Land Society is bated on principles; as abstractedly just as they are immediately prec ticable, and is calculated to educate tee masses, for the wise exercise of the franchise, by inducing habits ef prudence tend economy, and de moncra•ing the moral power of co•epera floe, this meeting pledges itself to aid the friends o, this society is their endeavours to employ the means now at their disposal for the accomplishmi nt of the future enfran chisement of the labouring minions." • Tins resolution having been also carried, and thanks voted to the chairman, the proceedings terminated. Bush Bar ley. 1,856 I - 1,836 MEETING IN CHELSEA. Last night a numerous meeting of members of the West London Reform Association, and others resblent in Chelsea, Brompton, Hammersmith, and Kensington, wu held at the &menet Arm', Little Chelsea, " for the pm• pose of considering the subject of triennial parliaments embraced in Mr. Husit's motion for parliamentary reform, and in support of the general principles of the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association. " Mr. GODERICH, surgeon, took the chair, and said the subject on which they ha d met was one of consiler able imp rtance ; for organic changes, such as an alteration in the duration of parliament, should not be made without much consideration. Mr. JOHNSON moved the first regulation which was as follows: " That this association is of opinion that the duration of parliaments being shortened to three years would be highly advantageous to the people, inasmuch as it would exercise a salutary influence on th: it representatives" He read atveral extracts from the publications of the Liverpoll Financial Reform Association upon the expenditure in the various departments of government, to show the necessity for a reform in parliament. Mr. F. GASKELL seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and the proceedings closed. THE CIVIC ELECTIONS.-EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE. The following is an abstract of the amended bill "for the regulation of elections in the City of Landon, con nected with the corporation thereof, and for preserving the peace, good order, and government of the said city," about to be issued to the members of the corporation : Preamble—ln the preamble it is stated that whereas by the llth of George I. esp. is, it was enacted, " that tho right of election of aldermen and common councilmen for the several and respective wards of the said city should be long and appertain to freemen of the said City of London, being householders paying scot, as thereinafter mentioned. and provided, and bearing lot when required in their sever 11 and respective wards, provided that the householders pay respectively the true and real value of 101. a-year, at the least, for each house, and that Ruch householders be respec tively the sole occupiers of such houses, and have been in actual possession for twelve calendar months next before such election ;" and whereas it is advisable that the said right of voting for the aldermen and common councilmen laonrdtheerisseigveedral be wa i r t d e s n o act f ed the . said city should be extended Clause 1. That so much of the said recited act as regulates the right of voting at the said elections, and the time of the polling, in all cases be repealed. Clause 2. That the right et voting for aldermen, common council, or ward officer for any ward in the city of London, be vested in every freeman who shall occupy within the said city, or the liberties thereof, as owner or tenant, or solely or hintly wish any other person or persona, , an sh y house, ware ouse, countin.r-house, oop, or other building, and shall be rated at not leas than 101. per annum to the police rate, or to such other rate as the mayor, alder men, and common council may determine, and in case of 1 the discontinuance or amalgamation of the police-rate with 1 any other rate. Clause 3. The service of summons to pay scot and bear lot to be deemed good service, if made at any such house, warehouse, counting-horse, &c. Clause 4. Polling at wardutotes to commence at ten am. next follo w i ng . the day fixed for the election, and at com mon halls at n ine o'clock in the forenoon of the following day. The polling to continue for such one day only, and close at four. in the ease of the election failing on Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas-day, then that it be on the next to:loaf ing day. Clause 6. Declaration to be made by the electors in lieu of oath :—" I do declare that I am a freeman of London, and an occupier of premises in the ward of --, and that I have I . !