The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-22 00:00:00

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AUSTRIA.—Our dates from Vienna are to Ang.l7. The fall of Grosswardein and the belief of Tema war are at ceeded to-day by news which, if true, far more disutrons for the Magyars. But the source whence it comes, as well as the dates connected with it, still allow of considtrable doubt as to its authen ticly. The following appears in the evening edition of the Wiener Zeitong: TELEG;IATHIC DISPATCH. His Excellency leldsaigmeister Heron Haynau to his Majesty the Emperor. His excellency the Feldxcaguseister II eron Haynan Informs his minesty the Emperor, by means of a clurier, who will reach Sehmbrann by the evening rain, that en the 13th of this month, at Were, the rebel c' tot Horny, together with a great part of hie army, *monist*/ to "etween thirty and forty thousand me, laid down their arms and surrendered at discretion. By the Imperial Commander of the City. Vienna, 17th Aug., 1849. Our Vienna correspondent observer, that the bul letin announcing Gorry's surren der states the number of men u far higher thin what an official bulletin did a few days bane, wherein the force was given at from five to ten thousand men. For many weeks past there has been a rumour of Gorgey's de serting to the Austrians, and some of their journals called him, a fortnight ago, the noblest and cleverest of the Magyars. - - - - Our Berlin correspondent, writing on the 19th Instant, and referring . to the above, s iv; : To-day Berlin is in an unusual degree of pali tical agitation, not from local reasons, but a tele graphic despatch which reached Vienna on the 17th from Marisa, has set the whole system here, from the mini-ter down to the" bluer" in a state of in conceivable vibration. Extra-bleats crowd the tobacco shops: qestioners overflow the beer cellars. Bat how can it be that Gorgey and his army have laid down their arms at Arad, cries one, while the other day he was UP at Miskolcz, thundering back Grabbe. How could he hop over the army of Pukie- Witch, cries another. A third sapiently observes, that it must be a coinage of the Bourse. The National Zeigung, oar great liberal organ, erects a fearful array of bristling arguments, in an ex traordinary 'lmplement, proving the official notice of the Wiener Zedung to be all bilge. Now, unfortu nately, to lock into this same report, we have it first of all in the most inconteatibly official shape. Secondly, there is nothing at all impossible in the fact itself. Thirdly, it is quite practicable to send a despatch in four days from the spot Vitagos itself, which is only a few English miles from Arad. The objection that the communication with Pesth proves the carelessness of the objector, who does not take the trouble of reflecting that all Hay nan's last despatches have come through Funfkirehen, south of Platten-see, and not by Pesth, and there is nothing is the least either impossible or improbable in a courier reaching Vienna in four days from Arad, through Funf kirchen, Keermcend, and Brack. At the latter Place the railway_ begins, or, coming from alma, ends. Hem then, the telegraphic apparatus also commences. Now Haynan's courier would naturally be charged with a telegraphic despatch and a full written report to the emperor. But still it is not impassible that he might not have borne the telegraphic desietob, as the distance from Bruck is so trifling, and might, on his own responsi bility, have announced the great news to the tele graphic clerk, who would of course immediately put the due symbols in motion for the benefit of Weiden and the Vienna public. Nothing is more pro bable in this case than that the name of Gully, as the Hungarian Hercules, should have crept in, like the alteration of an ignorant scribe in I the M.S. of a Greek play. In fact, although no doubt can be entertained by any reuceable man that some vast surrender of the sort mentioned must have taken place at Viler., it does sound somewhat im probable that Gorgey should hays crept along the base of the Transylvanian mountains from Nagy Huoly in so amazingly short a time. On the other hand, according to Haynes despatch, Bon had arrived before Temeswar on the 9th, and held a council of war with Dembinski, Guyon, Vetter Koseti and the rest in a ruined building, amid thewild forest under Temeswar, which was, but a day or two ago, a flourishing arm-manufactory, and was by them destroyed. Haynau describes their disorderly flight in remarkable terms. Now, if we substitute the name of Ben for that of Oorgey, the despatch will appear much less improbable. There is here a version cur rent of the motives of surrender, which deserves notice. It is said that such terms were offered these men that it appeared better to accept them than to wage a war of despair. Baron Haynan ham sent the following bulletin, dated Temeswar, Aug. 10, concerning the operations of the army of the Danube after forcing the passage of the Theism at Bzegedin After the victorious battle at &nog, near flugedin, the enemy was pursued without relaxation. The army, notwift standing the great exertions made in the rapid march from Nagy-Igniand to Szegedin, reached as early as the 7th of August, the lies of St. Miklos, Albrechtseur, 0. Some°, sad Kieft; and on the Bth that of Bsaiteny (es the right hash of the numb Roes, St. Peter, Peseak, Leeds, sad id ealised through Ceded to Metalloid. In this pursuit, during which the massy only attain to mho some resistance at O. Bessonye, Al sr, and Marienfeld, which lowevee, sees Iseksa thresgh by the 3ul area mops, is sane with the dinsise of Wallmoden snaky, • crowd alpinism mad stsadsae. then &flag and • cannon, tell into one kends. TIM Miami was com pletely di ssolved, and away deserters ewes ever from the regular troops, Welly Austrian soldiers, eke having bees taken primers hd bola sompalled to be. sans spinet us. The number of deserters and pikes's, thus picked up amounted to abroad 3,000. From Mako, Lieut. Field-Mar. Mal Count &gelid' sent • detachment to Meftibegyea, which saved the treasury funds these and 3,000 horses. I had ascertained that the while forms of the enemy had re tired from ElaTedin to Timmer. and that the corps of the Lower Theist, commanded by Vetter, had joined theft there. The insurgents seemed resolved to stand a decisive battle before Temeswar ' and for this purpose their exceedingly numerous troops were provided with more than 100 pieeee of artillery. I advanced on the 9th of August with the 3rd army cons, and the Wallmodea division of ' , matey from Canted towards His- Itemkerek, and with the Reuel= division of Paninties, toge ther with the reserve artillery from Lowrie, through Gille, in the same direction, while the reserve corps was ordered up from Pussk, through Rae: to Hodony and Ks reny, take the enemy in his right flank. I had directed the first army corps to send out side columns on both basks of the Maros to P. aka and Fonnok, hut to march with the main body of troops from Rare and Bt. Peter to Monostor and Vilma, in order to cut off the enemy's line of coismanisation between Arad and Temeswar, and to take his er.illery, as I knew that he had already raised the liege of Temeswar. The enemy had posted his rear guard at Kie-Becskeek, from which place he was soon dislodged by the third army corps. As I debauched with the third army corps, and the division of cavalry out of Beeskeree, in order to reach an advantageous position where the troops might securely cook their meal and bismuth, the enemy developed upon his retreat more and more batteries and divisims of cavalry. I caused him immediately to he driven by the troops at hand across the defile formed by a marshy brook which tut the road. The enemy made a firm stand on the other aide of the brook. Behind the Beregozo brook, where his numerous forces were =eked by des thickets, the enemy made, sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left, manwuvres to rut-flank us, and on our left flask he succeeded for a time in stopping our progress. 1 now caused the Russian division of Paniutine gradually to advance with its batteries, and the reserve artillery to come into line of battle ; and when by the development of this great mass of arillery the enemy was partly sib aced, I ordered a general advance. The cavalry-brigade of Learer covered the right flack towards thekelbsz, from which point the enemy endeavoured to outflank as, whits I applied the light cavalry brigade of Bimbechen upon the left wing of the line of battle from Besenowa, with affect. At this moient, four in the afternoon, the reserve corps appeared before Hodony, and Lieut. F. M. Primo Freya Lichtenstein ad vanced in the direction of Se. Asdra's against the enemy's right flank. The enemy now gave way along the whole line, followed by oar troops. Behind the Beregm-brook be still held the wood till evening set in. Active pursuit was not possible, as brooks sad mushy spots hampered the action of toe cavalry, which for the rest was extremely exhausted by the continual 'fightlag and the long marches in this completely open country. When the twilight descended, having ascertained by • reconnaissance that the enemy had already left the wood, and eonti..ued his retreat, I resolved the same evening to roach the gates at Telegram, end started at the head of two divisions of cavalry foe this purpose, caufirg our advance to be severed by some battalions. The enemy, who had crew pled the jungle, attempted indeed to atop our progress, bat the effort was fiestratel by a half-battery that was directed against his fl ink ; and the relief of Temeswar was effected with increailile rapidity. The cheers of joy with which the whole population re solved me were extraordinary. During this battle, which I wish to call the battle of Temeswar, the garrison cf the for tress made a sally, and indicted considerable loss on the teeny. I eon this happy result chiefly to the indefatigable devo dos of m troops, which, alter • march cf such unexampled rapidity f rom the Danube hither, and after a journey ot 12 miles on the 9th, without having dined, fought with courage sod @odorants till nightfel. In reopen of exertion, the cavalry bee made incredible Abets. I must also bear witness to the praiseworthy conduct of the whole artillery of my army. The infantry did no*, properly nuking, come into actin, for the whole battle was to a violent cannonade, which lasted six or soma lea" mixed with some effective charges of cavalry. ' The opportune striking in of the reserve corps, contributed potently , to the victory. The vanguard of this corps had reached the high road from Arad - to Temeswar, through Kerany, taken her 24 pounders, mend ammunition winos% and an immense number of baggage, wagons, while it caused terrible confusion to our adversaries. - Oen. Schlick bad advanced with his army corps to litonostor, and with his vanguard to Vings, where he made 300 prisoners and took a large magazine of 'military elothing. I have to day concentrated the army at Tenney, with the exception of the first Imps, which will invest Arad ; and thrown out advanced posts to Resets, and as far as the river Tenses. The enemy Ilse fled with the wildest precipitation to La gos, bagpipe, guns, munition-wagons, all galloping helter skelter together' the infantry has nearly all disbanded, and bad not the night surprised us, if 1 had bad the least idea of this tremendous confusion, I would have sent the cavalry after them, all exhausted with fatigue as they were. In the neighbouring jungle there was a manufacture of arms, which has been destroyed by the Lantern% themselves ; and within the walls of this building, at nine o'clock at night, were still mated Dembiaski, Guyon, Hosed, Vetter, and Bens, who bed arrived the same day accompanied, probably, by some reinforcements, and had assumed the conunand-in-chkf of the army. Upon the field of battle wen found an innumer able quantity of thrown-down arms. Deserters and prisoners were brought in by the heap. The number of the latter up to yesterday amounted to 6,000. The devastation to Temeswar, caused by the bombard ment, is beyond description horrible. The city was battered to one ruin; and I cannot sufficiently extol the endurance and hardihood of the garrison hen as well as their com mander. Lieutenant Field- Marshal , Baron Rukawina. During the siege 2,400 of the garrison have died of divers complaints, mostly typhus and fever; 300 have been killed by the enemy's fire, 1,400 are still sick in the hospital, and 600 sick in the companies, fee whom there is no room in the hospital. Tne fortifications are pretty nearly undamaged, except on three sides, which an greatly injured. Notwithstanding the extreme violence and length of the artillery fight, our loss on the 9th was very small. It consists, so far as Is yet known to me, sad as respects the Austrian army, in 15 killed and 36 wou nded. Major Barn Brants, of the Emperor Ferdinand's coinesiere, err fall= ; and the captain of cavalry, Prince Taxis, Count Paltry, and Baron Simbsehen of the Emperor's lancers, and Lieut. Caravaggio of the Lichtenstein amass loom are wounded. Of the Russian division, 8 are killed and 8 wounded. The want of bunkers' meat in the fortress of Tameswar was such that for 18 days the garrison devoured hone-fien. p the siege Lieut.:Field Marshal Glaser was killed by a arl i . kl Semeswer, Aug. 10, 1849. Feldzengateister. The following interesting letter of Kossuth to Bem wen found among the papers of the letter, taken at the battle of Sehiieburg, and is printed in the Oesterreichische Correspondent : I had no garrison in Peen, and could not therefore expert M beak-note manufacture to a surprise of the enemy; Iberahre I was obliged to take the whole concern to pines Isog nesepon it tiso feather weight, for, what with mews, agleam Ite , it ahem* to about 6,000 centners) to , just at the ea* time tibia I was forced to break tl er i e s Eses-pai Damsels, so mesas et the apnoea d l•ce esti*, up et the emellinery met all hese sea dews, and darks Massa days we made net a =led& Therefore you gee so hooey bet the 126,066 led* I eed yes on the his ken Szolnok. I do oast a visa on l ine I am as god ; I linen mate out of nothing. ifer a wig& your as reseipts, gaily sears, and war! At tutemeetat I bays settatft tbeidiewiss troops : Inner 40,000 men. Uwe ow sad Omega 45,090 Vitae Ow* seeny) r i re Irv= 5,000 8,000 fteffwea/Ased 21s2a. dereades, leuthe fto. awl mei diaalmols Tdal. 166,000 ma new Sim la the NMI* squadron, of 18 hussar, replan% 7 tellalless 110,000 sick, 60,000 landsinrm,--all ef erbium I last fled, pay sad take can el; *ea fasslieles sod 'sun 'manufactory, tansies S a r abi s traM on , 2000 prisoners, the whale civil All *ifs no trill., general, sad for fourteen days the banknote-press idle. Ibu.seh you be patient. I am so god. Mean I, and willingly, for the fatherland, hat acs. Con is a foliation beyond me. Three days more, and the bank will be all right; sad then I ran and will remit, weakly, to your cashier, 200,000 florins. You want 800,000 florins, is 30 and 16 krenser pieces. I beg you to reaolleot that this will need 9,400,000 'expressions; the press, too, worked by hand; steam not ap plicable; only 20 presses at work ; so that each press comes in for 470,000 operations; so that, with 10 impressions a mimeo, working day and n ght without a pause, to produce this amount requires 33 days. And this sum is the tenth part of our whole monthly outlay. This to explain the difi cul,ies. I will do what man can. More is impossible for Now for sowatiing of mach importance, Untamed field marshal. _ _ ... . . - -- -- - • Mears. Bolexes and %Mak, emigrants from Walkable, proposed to me the formation of a Wallsehian legion. 1 approved the principle, and for the details mitered them to the lieut.-general. Think of it. The matter is weighty— very. Should you enter Wallachia (which I could wish), this battalion should form the vanguard. The consequence would be incalculable. If the matter comas to a march into Wallachia, I beg you to take thins gentlemen into your canfidenoe some days beforehand, that they may be your pioneers ; for it is devoutly is be wished that we should be regarded as friends in that quarter. In the proelsmation I hold it highly necessary to say that we come as friends of the Turks and Walluchians. to deliver them from the opines 6311 of the Hessians. The Turks are playing a double game. /I foul lee comprongetlre. 1 see in the papers your decree, whereby you 'upend all civil jurisdiction. That it is a step fraught with incalculable consequences, and cut, without my consent, only come to pass when I acknowledge before the diet that I am nut go vernor. Half the country is on flime about it. Wherefore do you compromise me, my dear lieut. field-marshal ? Believe me I have cares snow without my friends laying on more. That is what people call impending constitutions. Amu the ministers need the authorization of the diet to take such a measure, ' unless they would be impeached. A portentous crisis may grow out of it. Give me your hand to ward off this peril of intestine *maim. I entreat you, reflect upan our inter view at Grosswardein. For the rest lam of right good hope that we shall beat our foes, if we be but at one among our selves. I am, alas, very sickly. Accept the an of my especial high regard, L. KOSSUTH. Published by the same journal is a proclamation by Bem, composed in French, to the inhabitants of Moi demi*, which runs thus : The Russians have lately, without any previous declara tion of war, invaded Hungary and Transylvania. In the face of such a violation of international rights, Europe is silent. But the Hungarians are strong enough to crush their enemies. While they accept kcombat ot life or death with the Russians, they wish to give the neighbouring peoples, galled by the Russian yoke, all the advantage of this resistance to their oppressors. This is the intention with which a part of my army have crossed the Moldavian boundary. Moldavian people !—lf you would be free and enjoy a con stitutional government under the suzerainty ot the Sublime Porte, rise to annihilate thew barbarous hordes which incest your latherland. Let all capable of bearing arms throw themselves upon the common enemy interrupt all the com munication, and then won, with the help of the Hangarian army and of the warlike Wa ll acidan population, which will Weak forth in insurrection at the same moment, the destruc tion of the hostile array will be no longer a matter of diffi culty. Tne assistance of the Sublime Porte will follow speedily, for Turkey will recognise that the liberation of Moldavia and Wallachia, which desire to remain, as formerly, under the exclusive sovereignty of the Botta, is the only . means of securing her own future polithial existence, which is getting daily deeper buritd under toe encroachments of the Caen. Beal, Commander-in-Chief ot the Hungarian army in Transylvania. Defile of Oitoz, in Transylvania, July 19, 1849. BADEN AND THE PALATINATE.—Latest news to the 18th instant —-- - - - Auc. 18.—The Grand Duke of Baden arrived here during the night, on board of a Dussel dorf steamer, and proceeded on to Carlvruhe without stopping. A deputation of the municipal council, with the first mayor (Mr. Reies) at their head, re paired on this day to Carlexube, to congratulate the grand duke on his return. CARISRITHE, AUG. 18.—The grand duke has just entered his capital, emid the thunder of elution and the pealing of bells. His royal highness sat in a etate•carriage, with the Prince of Prussia at his left. In the carriages that followed were the rand ducal family, with the exception of the hereditary grand duke. The cortlge was rendered brilliant by the presence of the military. The grand duke then re paired to the church. At half-pest 11 there was a grand review of the Prussian troops and national guard. The city was festively adorned. The black yellow flag waved from the se endow of the Austrian embassy. The intended illumination was counter ' mended. ITALY. SARDINIA.—It bad been stated that the secret committee bed refused to sanction the payment of the Austrian indemnities. It was not so. In the sitting of the secret committee on the 15th, the minister of foreign affairs communicated to the ministers the text of the treaty of peace. lie described the different Lte:of the negociations, and made known the projects presented by Merritt. The minister of finance presented a project of law, the object of which was the emission of sixty millions of bills to be given as payment to Austria at the moment of the ratification of the treaty. A lengthy discus sion was then commenced on the question whether the minister could present such a law at a secret com mittee, and whether the act of presentation there could be validated. This question was determined in the negative, and the committee adjoined till next day, when it was determined that a public sitting of the Chamber should take place for the purpose of hearingthe project of lawpresented to the entire Cham ber, the motives for the presentation being withheld. This, as we have seen, was done and urgencydeclared, so that probably the indemnity fuad will be granted. The report of the committee chosen to examine the project of a loan of seventy-five millions, was not read in the sitting of the 16th instant, but was placed on the order d the day for the next sitting. The minis ter of finance announced that be would shortly make two coniro.' -2 as, one relative to the present state finances second relative to the of the Piedmontese ; a presentation of the budget of receipts and expendi ture for 1849. - - TUSCANY.—Letters from Florence, of the 14th l inst., mention as probable a second amnesty, that is to be more extensive in its effects than the last. The grand duke is to have 12,000 Austrian troops perma nently in garrison in his territory for 10 years at I least, no funds existing to keep up Tuscan troops. so, at least, say the duke's partisans. However, it is difficult to believe that Austria will not be p aid ' for the services performed by its troops. - - - ROMAN STATES.—The Semaphore of Mar- i sillies, of the 18th, announces the arrival of the Her culanum steamer, with the intelligence that the , government commission of Rome bu named M. Camillo Jaeobini minister of commerce, agriculture, fine arts, and public works. Oar correspondent writes : ROME, Allover 14. The course now pursued by the ecclesiastical go vernment strongly resembles that adopted by Gregory ' XVI. in 1831, when, at the preseing suggestions of the great European powers, that pontiff reluctantly consented to admit smne laymen into the administra tion of the state. The functionaries chosen by him were systematically men of retrograde principles or weak abilities, and so totally unfit for th e situations to which the y promoted as to leave the mass of the pee . in the hard necessity of wishing for the Flints bidc again in their dm& The nomination of Signor Jacohini, of Gensano, to the situation of mi nister of fins art., commerce, and agriculture, is likely to prove a renewal of this c anning system. The new minister is the identical rich proprietor whom I men tioned in a former letter as having incurred a heavy fine (the payment of which,by the bye, he managed to 'heap off) from the republican government, after the defeat of the Neapolitans at Velletri, for having fur nished the king with intelligence respecting the Ro man army. Another measure is now coming into effect, whis . b, his most of the present triumvirate's operations, is calculated to produce great discontent and distress amongst the middle class of citizens. The "commis sion of censure" is about to commence its labour of investigating the conduct of all government employh during the late pditical event' ; reporting, degrading, dismissing, or re-instating, as the cue may be. What a field is here open for calumny, oppression, and pri vate as well as public revenge ! The lower classes have a share in the beneficent care of the government at the same time. The extensive works for the res toration of the Basilica of St. Paul's extra mares, were stopped yesterday, and three or four hundred workmen were thus soddenly thrown out of employ. ment. They repaired to the Capitol in order to re present their case to the municipal commissioners, bat a French general informed them that all those who were willing to work might find it at the Ponte Male (two miles from the Porta del Popolo), at the rate of two Fouls (tenpence) per diem—tot a flatter ing prospect for stone-carvers, moulder., and men accustomed to far higher wages in the city ! Their ill-humour was evident, and the usual concilia tory alignment appeared, about an hour before dark, and throughout the whole night, in the shape of Ktaerona patrols of horse and foot. In fact the art of governing hen is reduced to the irresistible answer which we have all of as heard at school, when Zet any obnoxious measure, " You . it,ilgurethlt against :sir, don't you? Coins here ;ru soon nabs you like it." The untenable point being maic talsed by blows ad lib. It is reported (and the report is said by some to bass been artfully spread by the ordinal himself) that Cardinal Della Genga talks of resigning, on accatug s pf the arbitrary decrees he is oil ged to publish •, but his well-known ambitions cis:meter readers, such a step and such a motive alike ifirb_Lbte. I hije heard an anecdote of his eminent Cardin* Patrizi, the vicar-general, which, f;o7tlt7t; spectability of its source and its concurrence with the men's character, I cannot for a moment suspect of being incorrect. There is in Rome a benevolent cofraternity, having for its sole aim and object the pr oiding of Christian burial for those unfortunates whose bodies, chiefly from fever, but sometimes from aitidents or violent deaths, are exposed to the incle- I't y of the weather in the eutrounding campagne. Marquis Del Bufalo, who is at the head of this i ution, requested permission of the vicar-geoeral tick other day to repair with some members of the cdnfinternity to the environs of St. Pancrazio, where human bones, scattered abundantly amongst the neighbouring vineyards, call for sepulture front the charitable hands of their countrymen. The cardinal flew into a violent passion, and declared that if any other than the marquis had dared to make him such a proposition in favour of a sit of excommunicated wretches, unworthy of the rites of Christian burial, he would have sent hint to the gales immediately. FRANCE. Reims, TUESDAY, 6.30. P.Y. The deputation cf the Peace Society . will reach Paris from Loaekn this evening. Extensive arrange ments have beelljade to accommodate the guests. M. Victor Hugo, wlto has accepted the preaidency of the congress, will mske the inauguration speech. A summary of the progress of the society since the congress at Brunets will be read by the gentleman who presided ea the occasion. More than six hun dred visitors from England will, it is said, attend the cong.ess. The Archbishop of Paris and other emi nent individuals have given in their adhesion to the object of the meeting, and M. Emile de Girardin, M. Batelle, M. Wolowski, and other well-known gentle men, will, it is expected, take part in the proceedings. The .R.psitlipre, alluding to the notice issued by the Committee of the Peace Society, that the regula tions interdict all direct allusion to the political events of the day, seems to infer that this restriction has been imposed by the French government. It is almost needless to remark that the regulation is that of the society itself. The reactionary policy which hu fatally marked the dominion of the French bayonets in Rome divides the attention of the Paris pl.( se to-day with the cri tical position of affairs in Piedmont. The Dawes now deplores the result to which the Roman inter vention hu tended—a result to which none but itself and its fellows cf the press had blinded themselves since its commencement. . The Cotistitutionnel learns with regret that Pied mont is on the eve of • political crisis. It shows on ono side the government engaged by a treaty with Austria, on the other s. Chamber that refuses to ratify the engagements taken. The resignation of the ministry would only terminate its personal difficulties, the question itself remaining unsolved; for power would fall into the hands of a party which would repro duce such a catastrophe as that of Novarra. To dissoi ve the Chamber is a step replete with danger, and the Constitutionnel sees no way of guessing at the ulti mate issue of the struggle. The polemics of the reactionary press nn the subject of M. I)ufeure's alleged partiality to the prAfets of the provisional government continue unabated, bat offer no additional point of interest. The National speaks out on the subject to-day. For some time the ministry has been violently attacked by certain organs of the reactionary faction. It is • concert of malevolent insinuations, formal accusations, recriminations, and invectives, that are quite edilying. It is the minister of the interior to whom all this noise se addressed. What do they want t Plenty of dismissals . From which it appears that reaction has still many pretenders to satisfy, many op petites to feed. This can well be imagined, and there gentle man are right. It is well known,buides, that they shine by disinterestedness. But disinterestedness is a rare virtue, and cannot be too highly recompensed. A the declamations come to this, that the administration is still encumbered with re publican functionaries. But, say the journals in qaertien, can a shavers co-operation be looked for from functionaries devoted to the republic ? It would be difficult to admit with more simplicity, and to express more clearly, that all that is done at present is opposed to the spirit of republican institutions. In that respect we cannot contradict the reactionary jsurnals, but we must confess that their complaints have surprised us. We have sought everywhere for these numerous republicans by whom the ministry commits the crime of getting the republic administered, and we have not been able to discover them. We really thought that none remained; that M. Lean Faucher had we left one to his successor. However, M. Leon Faucher has rec qtly said his mea eulpa, end hes accused himself of being too clement. The worthy man! the present minister, in his turn, has spoken out, and the Monitew du Sow declares that in fact there still remain in the administration five prefets who date from the republic; and he seems to say : Can so much noise be made about five prefers. Five are but very little, it must be admitted ; five prefectures to satisfy that army of solicitors who besiege the ministry, and p lace in battery against it the fo rm idable artillery of weft-thinking journals! Poor ministry! Its embarrassment ought to be great, and we do not see how it can get out of it. After all, that disturbs us but little ; it is not our business. The President of the Republic has gone to inhibit 1 the château of St. Cloud, where he intends, it is said, I remaining until the re-assembling of the Ltgislative 1 , Astembly. Baron Fain has written a letter to the journals con tradicting the statement lately given of the value of the property of the old Civil List. The amount <rated of 250,000,000 fr. is, he says, much exaggerated. The assembling at Champletrenx, M. Mole's chateau, of certain political nutsbihtee, is exciting great attention, the democratic organs seeing in it a proof that plots are being formed to carry oat reac tionary measures; whilst more resemble journals see in it but a natural meeting for arraying the policy of the party after the recess. From another source we have the following intelli gence respecting the congress: o k erry The vice- residents are Mears. Cobden, Vesechers, Coquerel, , and Durkee ; and secretaries, Messrs. J Gautier, Henry Richard, Eliiiii Bur ritt, and A. bin. Among those who have signified their intention to be present at the congress, are the followwg: Messrs. Cormenin, Bastiat, Bouvet, Wolowski, Emile de Oirardin, Larochefotioauld-Liancourt, Roussel, Van i Hoorebeke, Suringar, and many others. M. de La . wartine would have acted as president, bat the bad . state of his health will not permit him to do so. The Archbishop of Paris was use invited to accept the inesidency, but excused himself in the following letter : To THE MlllO3lllO 07 THZ CONOII7BB OP 7117 Flamm* or Urervaacti, Piece. Plats, Aug. 17. Gentlemen,-1 have been profoundly touched by the visit which Messrs. De Larochafoscankl-Liancourt, V.ctur Hugo, Coquerel, and Elihu Bandit were good enough to p.sy me, and by the letter which you have written to me to effer me the presidency of the Congress of the Friends of Univeral Pena. Thii, gentlemen, is an honour, the full value of which I feel, and for which I should never be able adetuatedy to ex press my gratitude. I think with you, gentlemen, that war is a remnant of ancient barbarism; that It is accordant with the spirit of Christianity to desire the disappearance of this formidable scourge from the face of the earth, and to melee strenuous efforts to attain this noble end generous end. Perhaps, alas! the time has not yet come when it will be nom; let , ly possible for the nations to enter upon the path of peace. Perhaps war will continue for many years longer to be send necessity. But it is allowaule, it is praiseworthy, it is noble, to labour to make the peoples understand that they, as well as indi viduals, should endeavour with the least pos,ible delay to terminate their differences by pacific memo, end that huma nity and civilisation will have made immense progre.s on the day when an end shall have been put to these fratricidal contests. I beg you. therefore, gentlemen, to inscribe my name amongst thews of the friends of the Peace Congress ; but it MIMI se deep regret that I cannot, on account of my health, accept the honour which you have so kindly offered me, of presiding over you. If my physician, who strongly urges me to take a trip into the country, to prevent my health becoming worse, would nevertheless consent to let me put it off for a few days, and if my neuralgic pains were not too violent, it would afford me sincere pleasure to be present at one of your sessions. gentlemen, together with the expression of these !sentiments, the assurance of my most distinguished con 'attention. t Mama DOMINIQUE Anorearz, Archbishop of Paris. The room which has been fixed upon as the most suitable La hold the congress in, is the Salle Sainte Cecile, in the Rue de la Cnatunes d'Antin. There will be ono session each day, lasting from 12 to 6 o'clock. The first session will take plain on Wed nesday, the 22nd., the fourth on Saturday the 25th instant. The following is:the programme of the:resolutions to be submitted to the congress: 1. As peace alone can secure Use moral and mateiiirErs rats of notions, it is the duty of all governments to submit to arbitration sll differences that seise amongst them, and to respect the decisions of the arbitrators whom they may choose. 2. It is advisable to call the attention of governments to the necessity of entering, by a general and simultaneous measure, upon a system of disarmament, for the purpose of reducing national expenditure, and of removinz at the same time a permanent cause of disquietude and irritation from among the nations. 3. The congress recommends all the friends of peace to prepare public opinion, in their respective countries, for the formation of a congress of actions, whose sole object should be to frame a code of international laws, and to constitute a supreme court, to which should be submitted all questions relating to the reciprocal rights and duties of nations. 4. The congress condemns all loans and taxes intended to aid the prosecution of wars of conquest and ambition. 6. The congress recommends all its members to endeavour to eradicate from the minds of all in their respective c - mn. tries, both by means of a better education of youth and by other methods, those political prejudices and hereditary hatreds which have so often been the cause of disastrous ware. I 6. The congress addresses the same invitation to ail minis ters of religion, whose sacred mission it is to encourage feel ings of good-will among men ; as well as to the various organs of the press, which exercise so powerful an influence Over the development of civilisation. 7 The congress earnestly hopes for the improvement of the means of international communication; for the extension of postal reform ; for the universal adoption of the same standard of weights, measures and coinage, and for the mul tiplication of peace societies, which shall keep up a corres pondence witk each other. 8. The congress decides that the committee be instructed to draw up en address to all nations embodying the resolu tions of the congress, and that ttis address shall be presented to the various governments of Europe and America, and particularly to the president of the French republic. One of the most interesting features of this congress will be the presentations of the prizes to the authors of the successful essays. Last year, at the Brussels congress, a prize of I,ooofr. was offered for the best, and two supplementary prizes of I,oook. together, for the second and third best essays on the best means of securing the establishment of permanent and uni versal peace. The Belgian Royal Academy kindly consented to act as adjudicators, and appointed three of their number, MM. Leclercq, de Decker, and Moke, to examine the essays that might be rent in. From the twenty-five that were forthcoming, three were selected, and the prizes awarded as follows : —First prize, to M. Louis Bars, advocate, Mons; second prize, to M. Alexandre-Henri Clochereux, of Liege ; and the third to M. Edouard Morhange, of Brussel& These three gentlemen, it is expected, will be present at the congress, on Wednesday next, when the prizes will be delivered into their hands. The " Scciete de la Morale Chretienne has offered to give a gold medal of the value of 500 francs to the compiler of the best collection of paragraphs on the subject of peace. The selections may be made from the works of all authors, both aneent and modern, English and foreign, sacred and profane. The prize will be given at the peace congress next year. BOURSE. For Account. PARIS, At.o. 21. Money. Opening ror Lowest. ,wsung. • - 64 10 89 30 3 per Cents 54 13 5423 24 5 5 per Cants. S do. New Loan „ n la 5, 44 per CORM .O n n n 4 per Ceuta. ,, n n n Exchange on Londoa : 30 days, 23 40; 90 days, 25 30. Belgian, 3, 1340 Do. 5, 1816 Do. 44 Do. 24 Borrass.—Parls and Orleans, 780 • Pares and Brawn, 327 50 ; Roues sac 1111•1*, 20 ; Avignon and Marsteles, 2111 ; Strasbong and Bale, 103 50 ; Centre (Memos), • Hardman, 393 75 North. 422 50 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 353 75'; Tours and Nantes, 303 72; Montereau and Troyes, —; Bordeaux aad La Tarte, 33. SPAIN. The crisis is said to be over. Mons hu been in duced to accept an embassy, and Fidel retains the portfolio of foreign affairs. Manikin, Avo. 16.—Three pee Ceara, 25 9.113; Five per Cente., 11 Coupons, 7. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 60 paper. Exchange on Leunee,so.u. VENTILATION OF STABLES.—At a recent meeting of the Highland Society, Mr. Neil BellingaU, of Kinross• shire, farmer, read a paper on this subject, containing the following remark': Every one acquainted with the subject knows that from imperfect ventilation, the plastering and lathing of roofs fall away in flakes, and are reduced to rot tenness by the constant action of the condensed steam. Now, this action indicates a want of power to carry o ff the impure air yielding the condensed steam, that must prove deleterious, m the highest degree, to the cattle ; and we need not wonder, in these circumstances, that pulmonary complaints among cattle are alarmingly on the lacrosse. In the case of a slate roof, I propos. as the most eoonominal plan, to raise the lower edge of the slating by means of a board laid on blocks en the outer edge of the wall, leaving aper tures of about an inch high between the board and the wall, which will admit a free current of air. The air will pass under the outer board and lower edge of the sacking, in which a horizontal slit is to be cut of about one inch wide so as to admit its free ingress. To the whole scheme double apertures are necessary. The second or upper aperture, in the Pee of slate roofs, is thus: provided under neath the second row of slat, s. Oa both sides let the sacking be removed fa. the space of about four inches from end to end. This leaves board enough to which to nail thouates; and the meas u rertre allows the heated air to comps gy through the the slates. In cases wh - re cattle are tied with their heads to the gable ends, slit openings up the gable. leaving suffi cient strength of larking to stiffen the roof, will answer the same end. In the case of a the roof. In the lowest row of tiles take off the under slip of plaster lath. This will admit a sufficiency of the external and wholesome air through the carved vacancies of the tiles. Then for the sec-lid aperture —under the ridge or topmost row of tiles on each aide, leave that row free from lath and plaster, from end to end of the byre; there is thus provided a 'efficient aperture for the emisjse of the heated air. TUE DEFAULTING SECRETARY OF TUE LEEDS IN natal/Y.—William Beckwith, the secretary of the Leeds General Infirsaaryj whose cue was reported in the Ex press, was again brought up befogs the mayor yesterday. Mr. Ferns, the prismar's solicitor, said he would not take up the time of the bench, as the only question of law which could arise, that of the point between master and servant, would not be decided by the mayor, but be referred to another tribunal. The prima . , who said nothing in his &ham, was then nom m lee trial at the borough sessions. WEST INDIA MA IL. The royal West India mail-packet Avon, Capt. Heat, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at South ampton this morning, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. W. W. South, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her _dates are—Vera Cruz, July 16 ; Tam pico, 12 ; Havana, 28; Honduras, 11; Jamaica, 23 ; St. Jago de Cuba, 19; Demerara, 19; Trinidad, 21; Barbadoes, 28; Antigua, 30; Martinique, 29 ; Grenada, 24 ; Porto Rico, 28 ; and St. Thomas, Augutt 1. The Avon brings about 48 or 50 passengers. - - She brings 1,300,000 dollars on merchants' account. Great excitement prevailed at Jamaica respecting the elections. _ Two retrenchment members have _ _ been elected for Metcalf; Finley and Carr for St. David's; Lyon and Maccook for St. Dorothy. The labourers of St. David's have met to petition the government to enforce the slave treaties with Spam and Brazils. At Mosquito the cholera is raging, and great com plaint is made on account cf the absence of our consul from that place. The Combined Court met at Demerara on the 13th. The Governor ' in a conciliatory speech, withdrew his veto on Mr . Croal'e rescuutions and Mr. Quid, in consequence, wi th drew the resolutions. The answer to the governor's address was as follows : 16th Ju1y,1849. We thank your excellency for your address to tom court, on its reassembling, on the 13th inst., for the "copy of the report of the select committee appointed by the House of Commons, to inquiry into the condition of this colony," and for the despatch of Earl Grey, No. 62, of lot June, 1319, which accompanies the report Your excellency refers to the concluding paragraph of the despatch, in which Earl Or: y expresses a hoe " that tho decision may be received as determining the ri,7hts of the mown, under the Civil List Ordinance." Whatever maybe the ultimate decision of parliament as to the rights 01 the crown under that ordinance, it is totally inconclusive as to the question at issue. It prop aundsno fixed determination, but leaves the matter to be determined with exclu sive reference to two considerations, " the upright and efficient perform ance of public duties at the smallest pecuniary charges, and the general welfare of her Majesty's subjects resident within the colony." On this question it is unnecessary for us to do more than to reaffirm what has been repeatedly urged in this court. We consider that the passing of the Civil List Ordinance by the Court of Policy in 1844 was an assumption of uncon stitutional power on the part of that court, and was a viola tion of the rights and functions of the Combined Court ; thst being passed previous to the admission of slave sugars to the English markets, and to the fatal elfwe induced by the im perial legislation of 1816, it is now utt'rly disproportionate to the means and recourses of the ct loop ; and that no con siderations either of " gond faith or public policy" require that the civil list of 1811—which was txtended in 1841— _ should be continued after its legal termination of the 31st of Dteemb;r, 1847. Even if the act of the Court of Policy had been legal and constitutional, we maintain that the compact on which the Civil List was band has been repeatedly violated by the home government. Slave sugars have been admitted to the home markets, and the facilities necessary for extensive immigration have been cudi. ously and perseveringly withheld; monies voted by par liament for the use of the colony have been misappropri ated by the Colonial-office ' to the payment of pensions in excess of the sums placed on the civil list, and for other purposes; and offices, separate and distinct in their functions, have been conjoined oy the crown without the sancion, and in oppcsition to the protests cf, the elective members of the legislature. Without reference, therefore, teethe validity or nullity of the ordinance passed by the Court of Policy, we affirm that the civil list compact has been violated by the home government, and that, on the common principles of equity which regulate the intercourse of society, it cannot be held, in the slightest degree, as biiiding upon the colony. We consider that "in strict justice to the public," as urged by Lard Grey, a new civil list should be framed, com mensurate with the altered circumstances of the country and we are prepared, with " prucent liberality," to make ample provision for the establishments on which socieiy depend. Earl Grey misapprehends the understanding on which the combined court bad proceeded to business, viz , " that the question concerning the civil list should bd left in static quo, pending the inquiry before a committee of the Ilona, of Com mons." The understanding was,that the imperial parliament, as the court of ultimata appeal, should decide the question at issue, and that until such decision could be obtained, the salaries and other items on the civil list should be paid at the reduced rate, as fired by the vote of the Combined Court on the 20th July, 1848. We do not consider the report of the committee as the decision of parliament, and must persist in the course we have adopted, until the matter shall be finally disposed of by imperial authority. We are at a low to reconcile the " cordial desire" ex pressed by Lord Grey, " that all difference■ arising out of the civil list ordinance should be forgotten," with the stigma con veyed in the previous part of his despatch, that " the pro gress of business in the Combined Court had been marked by votes, of which the effect was to inflict great injustice and injury on persons who were laboriously engaged in promot ing the best interests of the colony." We repel this injurious and unfounded assertion. It is true that, in the endeavour to regulate the public expendi ture according to the resource, of the colony, we found it absolutely necessary to reduce many of its large and expen sive establishments ;but it is also true that we are prepared I. make ample provision for all that is necessary to the well being of society. The " obliteration of personal feeling., which may have been excited in the course of these unfortu nate discussions," we fear is not likely to be promoted by inch unbounded charges of " injury and injustice." We would remind his lordship that our present difficulties and dist:ers are caused solely and entirely by the partial and unjust legislation of the mother country. The inter vention of parliament may arrest the ruin which impends ever the colony; but the remedy must be prompt and effi cient in erder to rescue this once "magnificent province" from becoming as unproductive settlement without either value or civilisation. Your excellency is pleased to withdraw the veto, on the ground that "the decision of parliament" is now before the court. To us it appears evident that the report of the committee is not the decision of parliament, and the reason assigned by your excellency must therefore fell to the ground. Upon this point, however, we dorm it our duty solemnly and distinctly to affirm our opinion, " that the crown does not poems the sight to exercise the veto in this court on any resolution or matter whatsoever connected with the finances of the colony ; and that the exercise of the veto by your excellency on the 19th April was an illegal an uncon etitational act.' Throughout the unfortunate discussions which have now se long prevailed on the question of the civil list, this court has always evinced its desire to raise the necessary supplies, but that desire has been frustrated by the execuive here, and by the imperious mandates of the Colonial-effica. It is to be regretted that so long a period as five menthe should have elapsed since your excellency's arrival in the colony, during which so little of a bei.eficial or practical character has been carried out, either hers or at home. Laws, especially with reference to vagrancy and trespass, are still required to complete the cote nectuary to our present civilisation. Immigration from Africa—which is so essential to the welfare of the colony—has been interdicted by Lord Grey, in terms more characteristic of an angry partisan than of the impartial administrator of a vast colonial empire. We are compelled to dissent from the opinion expressed by your exoslieney, that " the present prospects of the colony are unquestionably brighter than they were as this time last year." We search in vain for a single tact to corroborate this opinion, but we ; find, on the contrary, that the exports of the colony for the first six months of the present year, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, show an alarming decrease of 6,149 hhds. sugar, the crop of the present year to the 30m of June, being less than two-thirds of the crop of 1948, or an aggregate export of only 11,706 hhde. againA 16,855 hhds. of the pre ceding year. It is within oar knowledge that the cul tivation of the staples is daily decreasing, and that estates once flourishing and prosperous, are cow unproductive and valueless, and are r apidly reverting to a &tate of total aban donment'. With such facts before us, we cannot disguise from ourselves the truth of our position, and we are compelled to consider your excellency's (pinion as only a vain and de lusive hope. But while this colony is so depressed and pros trate from the effects of the imperial legislation of 1846, we find that other countries in which slavery exists, and in which the slave trade is carried on with increasing energy, command capital and confidence, and enjoy a large share of internal prosperity. That prosperity is founded upon the ruin of this and other colonies which once flourished under the protection of the British flag ; and the policy which has proved a death blow to us has to them been the source of prosperity end wealth. We do not attribute any selfish motive to your ex cellency in the course which you have thought proper to adopt regarding the Civil List, but we must express our regret that your excellency had not been more ex plicito r excellency assumed iie reins of government ." Much misconception and the expression of irritated feelings might thereby have been avoided. We ere compelled to add, that the " scanty means" at your excellency's disposal would have been better applied to carry on, as far as practicable, the various institu tions of the count ry, instead of being monopolised by the payments on the civil list. Your excellency, however, with prudent foresight, would appear to have preferred grasping the " substance," and you have left little else than the " shadow" for the support of those institutions which are intended to check crime, to alleviate suffering, to give se curity to life and proper ty, and on which society and civi lisation essentially depend. We observe with regret the omission from your excellency's speech, as well as hzia ~~ ~ . •, fr, ...,....";,;.;• s, -.-.,, f . 3: • - ...\.....,....„..