The Express. — London, England, 1850-05-22 00:00:00

Elie erprefso. OUTGOING MAILS. The moils far British North Amities sad the Veiled SOW will be made up ea the errata, of May 24. The malls rig Marseilles, to the Nediterntatiaa, Oglcia, lolls, Hoag-Kong, tea. will be made up r i g Weal% of Noy 24. The alai for Lisboa, Spain, sad Gibraltar will be teed. *pia nv 27. The wow lobs Mails. imisehte Berowew. Ilaysawak. Nemitt, Heriderea New Mamas, sad Meals.. awe stifiledWie elms be !Winn. et. Jusa-tle.Nimegua. New Gnaw* CNA wed Peru, will be made up ea the ovals, of Jam I. Teo sails for Mader* lb. Boils, sad Bowes Apse, will he node so ea the eirraing of Jose 4. The malls ler Gibraltar, Malta, Grow, the bales BINOIt Ogles, ladia, sod Miss, vie flostliampliiy ilis t be owls mg co tes sarocetns el Joe* 20. RION WATTS AT LOKOOR sauna • Aftsrsous.llll Is.. LIONWIES.I26. SRL _ LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. ' Turn bat length a fair propost of a emietita tional and united Germany. Prussia has established the Blued, which comprises herself and all the sovereign princes who do not wear a crown. Ducal Hesse has remained firm. Electoral Hesse, after all its coquetting with Austria and the four hinge, has finally abandoned them, and eves denounced their scheme. A gorerumer t has been formed. A com mon and unanimous resolve has bees taken by the parliament and the assembled princes. They act as ea& They are a country. We never dimisuilsted the perils and the obstacles which awaited and opposed the accomplishment of this scheme. So patent were these, and so great were the interests at stake, that all that was abso lutist in Europe, throughout its diplomatiets and its organs of the press, including the Time. and CAroakis, denounced the Prussian union, now as portentous treason, and now se a puerile and abortive effort The Times, which was the most trusted and most out spoken ofthe absolutist organs, threatened war, is case that Prussia should persevere. Nor was this an idle threat. Russia has kept 130,000 men in Poland, and has spent the millions so generously advanced her in Lon don, krepitg that army in full efficiency and marching order. Austria has been no less active, and no lees menacing. She threatened war through M. Pao- KETSCH some months back. if it was persisted to call together the parliament at Erfurt. And not long since, Prince SCHWABZENBEIG threatened war again, which was duly echoed in the organs we have mentioned. The King of PRCSSIA laid that threat before the assembled princes of Germany. Their and his deli berate and joint reply will be found in another column. It is an important document, the first diplomatic one issued by this new German power, characteristic of its nature, and expressive of its aim and tendencies. _ . We were well aware from the first, that whatever rights were put forward, and arguments employed on both sides, force and firmness would decide. Whilst Austria threatened, and Russia supported the threat, Prussia has calmly persevered, taken up her position with herallies of Erfurt, decreed a loan to put her army on a war footing, if neczeury—a lean of 2,700,0004 which was filled up instantly In the Prussian pro vinces, without any begging or hocuesing in foreign markets, and at a rate which sufficiently evinces the credit of the government. This attitude sufficed. Austr:aevidently shrinks from following op her threat. Her organ, the Times, declares there will be no war. And the natural consequence follows, which is, that all the princes which fell off from the Band, from counting on Austrian support, or from the dread of Austrian enmity, rally back to it. The case of Hesse Is pretty flagrant. And Hanover, there is now but doubt, will follow the example. II there be no war, neither will there be a brachia Germany. The several princes of the Band have all agreed to send delegates to Frankfort, each bearing identical instructions, to conclude terms of agreement not with the old Diet, or under its regime, but with the rest of Germany. There is need of understanding, ' ebi fly for military purposes. And as the new Band comprises within its limits all the countries border ing on France and Belgium, the defence of the western frontier depends upon it. And it is for the other German powers to concert with those of the Bund for th 3 most efficient defence of their common country. Under the old system it is well knJWC, the armies of the minor state' were disorganised, and not worth counting. There will now for the first time since 1813 be an efficient and united German army. This is important at a time when France in its caprice thinks fit to use to England the language of menace and the tone of NA Polio:ilia impert tune*. The presence of envoys from each member of the Bund at Frankfort takes from Austria and the four Kings the power of exclaiming against ille gality or talking of a breath of the old constitution. And let the states be represented as they will, either as the old conclave of 17, the plenum of seventy-five, or let them count as equal members of a federation, wish each state a vote ;—in all cases, the members of the Band form the overwhelming majority. So that Aar ria and the four Kings will prove u powerless in Frankfort, as they have been in their warlike threats and demonstrations. We have no dnibt that, L; he end, things will flow in their natural channel, and that all the princes and peoples of Clermsny will units in a constitutional union for political purposes, u they have already dons for commercial ones. Far the present, however, Au/trio may attempt to form a counter anion, which, to be effective, mast be ootn- Inertial. But this is impossible. The Bohe mians would not admit the Saxon manufacturers to compote with them any more thee the Balms would take their share of the burden tithe Austrian debt. As to Haaover, it is altogether cut off from an Austrian union by the states of the Bond, which intervene. As Austria =ekes it a sine #tai non that it enters any German union with its entire monarchy, Bavaria and Wurtemburg would be utterly absorbed and lost if they joined alone with such a we. Whilst, as the Mode very justly re marked, was there to be a complete union of all flier many with the Prussian and Austrian monarchies, they would form a Colossus to appal and intimidate Europe, not to give it confidence. The completion of such a scheme would overturn, in lieu of settling, the balance of the old world. Tim news jest received by the Cumbria from America is el considerable importance, both in a com mercial and a political point of view. In the present critical state of the ultra market the intelligence respecting that staple is naturally the first to same our attention. The latest news respecting the erop last planted is that by electric telegraph to Hibbs, purporting to be three days later than the dates bremiht by the Cambria from New York, and remounting that a favourable change lad taken place in the weather, removing, to a great extent, the apprehensions which had been enter tained respecting the prospects of the growing crop. But such news moat always be received with caution. The present state of the market unfortunately affseds every inducement, and furnishes every opportunity, for reckless [peculation. The telegraph has already, in connexion with this subject, been turned to very qu.stionable purposes, it not being many months since a telegraphic despatch to Halifax announced a fall in the American market which bad in reality not taken place, but the rumour of which had some influence, on prime here, followed immediately by considerable purchases on American account. We are much inclined to believe that similar transactions will now occur, provided any materiel change is wrought in paces by the despatch received. We wish, for the sake both of our manufacturers and ope ra ives, that we could unhesitatimily accept it as true, but it is our du'y to keep them as far as possible on their guard against information which beam the stamp of fabrication, even though it should be favour able to them. Our doubt as to the authenicity of the repot rests upon its being so totally adverse to the teem of the news brought/rum New York. In another column will be found the intelligence as regards the gathered and the growing crops up to the Bth of May, the day on which the packet masa. From the gene ral news we cull the following extract : The bulk of the stock in tfiis York) so d tb i , meth. rn pats is held with tow, hr.; aititinob tbs iia, row donuolly low tete of freight kid bi t tb Tot , o f fore4qa would piste e .flois at yen little eapfe in L.„„y o m . yst aol.itrs Phew no disposition to Alm The position of las f- , 4li.rs is streontlion4 w, joy b y t h, in „atnie4( delcileney is the average' at the ports, owdriaisi folly ale early views of the )ield. A now element, via , tie prospers 01 W crop of 18.50-61, now 'agars public woo floe, sae mast ere keg earn= ea Ismortant infisasss ce prior. • The accounts state that the telA delleisney:r*: $1 ported by the latest mail 11011 ter apwardll. 800,000 bales, and that the seadirtres yet cold s and unpropitious in most of the .important Fitton - growing districts. Such aillethellesie_iteen which we us expected to dttw ourown tionclusielbei. The tenacity with which holders were, up to the latest-detail, retaioins their 'tacks, shows that theta statements were believed and acted arm. If this be so, it is next to impossible that three &ye can have wino& the manellgas change is the slats of the groenng crop =banned to a sudden alte ration in the weather. Memo as were the pros petal of the plaaters, up to the Wog moment, to whit= we have authentic intsillgesoe, they were not past hope. The weather may, by this time, have restored the crop to a promising condition, but im plicit relieves is not to be plaosd on the change alleged to have bean wrought between the Bth and the 11th. The telegraphic announcement savours of an attempt to eases a temporary depression in prim, with a view to speculative pur chases. From Calamine the news is both important and in boosting. The accounts, as regards the yield of gold, appear to realise the most extravagant expecte tioes that had been formed of the wealth of that ex traordinary region. New " diggings" are being con stantly discovered, KIM of whir= are far removed from San Francisco. Some of them, if the amounts are to be believed, are far richer than any previously discovered. The best proof of the yieM continuing abundant is the quantity of dust sent home by the last steamer to New York. About two millions of dollars were brought by the Empire City, and more was immediately to follow. The enormous glut of provisions and other articles of ooesumption in the California market may be inferred from the fact, that whilst gold was becoming more abundant, the tendency of primps was downward. The specu lators in land were meeting with the fate which had every where else awaited them ; extensive fai lures having occurred, and many more being appre hended. The fluctuation in the value of land, par ticularly town lots, is to a great extent attributable to the multitude of points which are now competing with San Francisco and other places, towards which the speculators chiefly directed their attention. Bat the most important intelligence from the Pacific is of a political character. In commenting some time ago upon the discussions in Congress re specting the admission of Calif anis into the union, we could not help suggesting that impediments of any kind thrown in the way might give rise to ideas and views which would lead to a speedy separation of the Pacific slope of the continent from the confederacy. The interests of the new region may not be so different as they are distinct from those of the eastern states; whist a vast desert more arm tually separates the two sections of the continent from each other than as much sea would do. Its isolated position, and the direction which its trade will necessarily take, are raggedly* of ideas of inde pendence—which the states on the Atlantic and the Mississippi should have done all in their power to suppress, instead of fomenting them, as they hive done, by discussions which were anything but calcu lated to produce an unfavourable effect on the Califor nian mind. If the reports which reach us be true, an act almost tantamount to treason has already been committed— the collector of customs at San Francisco having been notified to pay the monies received by him into the state treasury. The functionary in question is the savant of the general government, appo.nted to col lect its revenue; and this sequestration of federal treasure to state purposes is an invasion of the rights of the central government greater than South Carolina threatened in 1832, whin the whole force of the Union would have been brought to bear agaimit her had she carried her threat into execution. The Ame rican commodore on the station is preparing to resist this aggr e ssive step, if it be persisted in. There is but one thing likely to defeat or retard such a question as the independence of the new terri tories, once it is mooted; and that is the love which all Americans cherish to the union. But that feeling has never been put to so severe a test as it is now likely to be subjected to. It by no means follows that it will ever be held superior t, all considerations of in terest, and, indeed, the readiness with which Ameri- . . cans resigned themwlves to a separation from the union, in the awe of TIM" shows that circumstances —.- may arias which may recder them indifferent to it. So independent wu the attitude of the Texans, that when they did come into the union, it wu chiefly on their own terms. Should the newborn ideas of independence gain ground, the American government will have a very delicate game to play with its Cilifornian citizens. It cannot be denied but that a disruption would be a fitting retribution for the iniquitous wv by which the new territories were acquired. Such an event would also exercise a most important influence on the ques tion of slavery—an influence which would fitly punish the south for the short-sighted policy which it adopted in making California the battle-ground be tween it and the north. Tneas is no greater differetce of opinion amongst men than on the subject of how injuries are to be resistei or avenged. In general it is decided by temperament. Some will pat up with no injustice, will cavil foe the ninth part of a hair, and will rush into chancery or a duel, from an abstract principle of patiently enduring no wrong. Others again, men equally - high-minded, scorn to take so close a view of their own rights and interests, and prefer enjoying in magnanimity and repose those blessings and things which they indisputably possess. The question is, not which of these lines of conduct is morally rights but which is most conducive to the true interests of the individual. Nations are in the same necessities as individual'. They have rights, they have tempers, they have envious and quarrelsome neighbours. Which is the best plan P To draw one's sward on every brawler ; or int up, for peace sake, with encroachments and affronts? We have two schools of foreign policy, one of which is to go on one's knees to all the world, the other is to tread on all the world's toes. And, strange to say, France is divided between the two schools, as much as England. In France public opinion is for quarrelling and being spirited. In Eng land the public voice is decidedly for bearing anything, in preference to going either to law or war. Such being the popular toladeneies of the two countries, it is generally contrived by both to have ministers with a spirit somewhat in contrast with the nation. Thus the feeling of the French in foreign policy is gene rally over-ridden by a pacific minister, who curbs and beguiles; whilst the feeling of the English in the same repeat is cheated into the ass of more spirit than it likes. Nothing can be more magnanimous and, we fear, indifferent than the feelings of English people towards Greece. Gress*, at least its wart, has been most un grateful, mast violent, and moat baneful to us. Yet the mastiff spirit of the British would scorn to take revenge. A minister, however, views things in another light. He sees the necessity of making the government re spected. And although for his own peace and that of his colleagues he bad far better have been quiet, and like the nation, submit to have his heard twitched by little Greece, the spirited minister cannot re. Some lonian @abject, of England have been grossly maltreated : Greece refines to redress their wrongs. A British officer is insulted, and his boat's crew beaten : Grease puts its tongue in its cheek when asked for apology. But these insults are not strong 1 enough to awaken a British public. There must be pecuniary claims, property injured, and redress refused i there moat be com mercial grievances to warrant the employ of British force. Greece in its etosirdsrie, in the in solence of its spoiled child's existence, affards mates of all this grievance. And the spirited minister takes advantage of it to make reprisals and blockade. France, which in schoolboy rivalry, rather than in political interests, encourages Greece to beard us. came, in to the rescue. And we have, in the official correspondence just ipublliked by the French govern ment, a sample of how Lord Pauseasrox manages Bath an affair. His lordship is certainly an ugly customer, and we do not wonricr, that absolutist courts and their orgivs wish him far enough. He is able, specious, not to be it.timidated, or ca joled, over-reached, or under-intrigued. If he yields, It is by inches. Nor does he ever give up an advantage without having received an equivale n t No chapter in FIELDINO, DICKR,III, or TuAciutitAy. is so rich or so highly amusing as the dist., e a which Lord Pallintairron led their diplea l ad e highnemse of France and Russia ihrough o d this I age, The object of French intervention being evidently to save French diguitymul nW s mere, lihd tbe t olgeot `ot *mien 4. 66 peer. the ides thi* any d_ 1 4= ' ' self, it ismuming to ste how thW 1 and aims me met and played w i r brow bates sawe d s ze b7-tb&BES0111.11tehltstIll in *elute Sod dasipelleihe Beseisirgi it up. and the Premium is drives bus plot to until be has Oki suey left to NNW .44 . 4 didleilitelg a penes blades', Ba th er thmaseitY not eves plity to es Nothing ma leo Than what is smarted and reittiate alter thus in lainiktter. : As to the duration et tit* Wwiddlen (walls M. Droop do l'ilsys), the Inglish govenrwast does net Wiest*, does not *von derased. that say emsfse terra should be fixed. It trusts entirely to die pod iiithetlies ?tea* mediator. "It ii," said Lord Pshasistea to ass,, W whew Y. Ores shall do. flare to Mr. Wyss that his good gassi•havir set °Wised, wad bare not even the Ashes et obteialn, a favourable result, ft is they only that Admiral Parker AaII 'pia have rioonne to oosieles awsmurai. But I. case of fella», he shall net require, in enles to de that, to wait for troth orders." Now this is precisely what Baron Gum did, 'What Admiral Plant emitted, and the real of an ambeseador, on account of the happening of oc currences, so plainly chalked oat before hand, is the most unwarranted act of Etowdnie eddoplicity on re eord. As to the complaint of M. Lsatrrs that the British government was forcing one negotiation at London and another -at Athens, it was Baron GROS that was negotiating at Athens; it was not Mr. Wras. His orders were not to negotiate, but to lose that to M. Otos, sad is ram did. Oros' failing, to renew coercive mammas.. We are not now dieseling the wisdom of such instructions or such measure.. They make part of the general considerations, which we before indulged in. Bat certainly, as fir as regards the recent con duct of the French government, it is utterly We feasible. Indeed, it is inexplicable, except u a clap trap, to convert the growing dissatisfaction of the French public into something like applues. Thi may be a very ingenious trick, and possibly a success- Int one. But it is hard end, indeed, utterly unpardon able, that a government that has in truth incurred great risk andobloquy in supporting such an improvised and rickstty thing, as LOUIS NAPOLEON'S regime, should be sacrificed and insulted at the first moment that the sacrifice or the insult may suit the views or the domestic policy of the President's cabinet. Louts NAPOLEON thought fit to dismiss a parlia mentary and constitutional ministry, and to appoint& cabinet of his personal friends. Amongst them was numbered the legitimist, LAIIMI, and to him wu entrusted the management of French foreign affairs. General LAIIITTE has employed the trust reposed in him to play the game of FROBSDOZT, and to create a schism between the ruling powers of monarchic England and republican France, which may be patched up and varnished over no doubt, but which cannot but be in reality both durable and profound. If Louis Nitro- LION had made a private bargain to aid in the Resto ration' and secure himself th e constable's staff, or a high chamberlain's wand under HENRY V., be could not have taken a different tonne from that which he has pursued. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY ,EyENING, MAY 22, 1850, FRANCE. PARIS, Triumvir Evaraixo. To-day the hall of the Legislative Assembly was thusly crowded. After a procession of nearly 80 members of the Mountain had presented petitions against the electoral law, the debate was opened upon the bill introduced by the government for the' reform of universal suffrage. First the question of 1 nrgeuey " was discussed. M. Lagrange, in opposing the urgency, praised the dignity and calm of the psuple in resisting every provocation to violence, and saw in this the proof that they were ripe for liberty. He oath d to witness the men who listened from the diplomatic tribute. (Laughter; that tribune being almost exclusively occupied by ladies.) He wound upwith denouncing the bill as an attempt to swindle people out of their just and dearly-earned rights. M. de Flotte next opposed the urgency, in a speech of mach emphasis and considerable length. The urgency, being then put to the vote, was adopted by the Assembly by a majority of 481 against 239. The great superiority of number in fume of the govern. meat was held by the Right as a symptom that the bill would peas without any material amendment. The debate was then opened by Gen. Csvaignao upon the substance of the bill. He was impressed with a deep conviction that it was wholly oppos-d to the spirit of the eonstliution to subject universal suffrage to a domiciliary qualification. He thought it highly imprudent to introduce, thus prematurely and in opportunely, so essential a change in the constitution, by w.tich they were bound to govern for the next two years; and predieted that, wha•ever the results of the law might be, the responsibility of passing it would be most heavy. He had on a former occasion, when this bill was brought for ward, answered by voting the previous question. He would explain caurgoricsili• the motives which de termined him in opposing the bill. The 25th arti cle of the constitution said that every Frenchman of the age of 21, in enjoyment of civil sad political rights, was an elector. The 26th article said that every elector of the age of 25 was eligible without meanies of domicile. There was no domiciliary stipulation in these two articles. He understood the eonstitation in the largest sense. The constitution defined universal suffrage. It was reserved to the law to orgsaise it, bat not to exiatract its limits. (Cheers on the Left) The present bill was totally opposed in spirit to the constitution, for while the constitution aimed at extending the suffrage as mach as possible, the bill aimed at narrowing it as mach as possible. A whole crowd of Blames were secluded from the franchise. There were other classes to whom its exercise was beset with at manner of difficulties. He did not think that the result of the law would be such as to justify the illegality meditated. The slips of reaction was preelpitoas and slippery ; to day they wen asked to limit the suffrage ; to-morrow some sew—perhaps mere exorbitant demand—would fellow. At last they might shines to stumble apes redetwass. He would joia the party whose bill he now opposed to vanquish that resistance. (Cheers from the Right.) Bat was it right, was it wise, to rouse such ressetance No, it was not. (Cheers from the Left.) The electoral suffrage had been until February 24 a fie tion. The provisional government knew this, and hesi tated sot to found universal garage. Bet the bill of the government wanted to being back the old fiction again, the re-establishment ofrwhich he should regard as one of the greitest misfortunes which could befall Frazee. The 1 speaker then entered into a defence of the previdosal go verament against the unjust and ungenerous attache whisk I bid been made on it. To those who accused the defenders of that great acquisition of universal suffrage of Wag the 1 allies of the party of disorder he would say, let i them remember that the meet important men of the majority had been the object of similar accusations when ; they occupied the beaches of the constitutional opposition 4 under the government of Louis Philippe. (Cheers on the Left) He should vote against the bill. M. Dewotours de Cbaulieu read, in the midst of a I buzz of conversation, a speech in favour of the bah Victor Hugo was the next speaker, and delivered a fervid oration, which was often interrupted by the laughter of the Right. The speeches of M. Jules de Lasteyrie and M. Pascal Duprat closed the sitting. In the beginning of the sitting M. Leo as Laborde had presented three petitions, requiring a fine to iv imposed on electors who should not exercise the it right of voting, the reduction of the number of fo tionaries, and, finally, an appeal to the people, so that if circumstances should require it, it may be deraa r ad that there is no safety for the country o u t o f t) pale of the great principle ; of hereditary right it l aiah he. constituted the nationality of France. The Journal du Havre of yesterday •w ! • .—" A y great number of sailors, raised in the rriantime dis trict of Havre, in execution of the reeme, orders of the Minister of Marine, are about to be seat by the Colibri to Cherbourg, where they will he embarked in the Henri IV., the arming of which be e b een ordered. A second detachment, forming part of that whi c h l e ft last week, has embarked this day for Brest, rid lair, in the steamer the Morlaisii, a “ M. j lAuffrind, responsible r.tlitor of the Vas du People, yesterday appeared be'icire the Court of A ss i zes to take his trial for having p' a bli s h e d i n that ' outran], on the Bth April, articles rAciting to hat re d of the go vernment, and exciting d'.fferent classes of citizens to hatred of each other. declared guilty by the jury, bat with extenuatier, circumstances, he w as con demned to six moo ' s' imprisonment and 2,000 fr. five. A few days ago he had b een con d emned, by default, on this *bean to a year's imp r i sonment an d 6,000 fr. fine. The followinic is the telegraphic despatch by which the communisation tit the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Anemia/ 7i on the subject of the Greek affair was made know;, at Lyons: Paris, may 17, halfpest (1110, PAL The 1 0 :mister of the Interior to the Extraordinary Commis sary at Lyons. Paris usaiseas to be triaged!. The recall of M. Dronya de l'ilays, on the occasion of the affair of Unece, was ro omed with enthoeium by the Assembly. We have every thing to guarantee as that, in spite of this incident, the heir. be mon *Mei sales bourses Freese and Rained will hot The Pam* Bordeaux has jest dislodged one of tk. battalions of the madam' gurol i V o t tw its three drys an the delay for its mp Axing arms : The Fepal Nem& has Mamma to $U 16Nit bie4ope a letters% the law el inebm42 ll .Pre ee Z of the °posies hie Holinees with to points of this measure in elonneedoe with eerloolw %Mal government. His Holiness disapproves, as sok trag.ta the. gresoriptioas. of the eiterek. and Ism ptery to the spiseepal dignity, Um sapsrietendenes of small eseeineriee, and the 'aare taken by Veep. M the mortify noundi, ismegang witigtwo retest. ant =Misters enda al>bw. - The prime at the te•day n.dsrwsst onneh flestuatioa without any memo boisg assignetbat the state of the market. The Fives were done at 'the passage of the Opera at 88fr. info. A depression gamed to 88fr. 30e. They opened at the parquet at 88f. 30a, and fell to 88fr. Mo., to rim to 88f. 600., and settle at 88fr. 4110., a fall of 150. on yesterday. There wee no farther talk shoat Lord Narmanbm PAIII, /1•3 31. Tor Nosey. S pit bats. ....... 63 16 6pi 0a5t5.........„ SS SO I do. New Lass— „ 44 par 4 pit Orals Toolllsg• Os Coach: Wean, 6, 1860 VI Mary. Siploalsabll. — Wary De. 6, ottS 971 lama Liao, 1649 raj Do. 41, Do. 3 Midmost 3 pseuds ",. Ti Das l TZris Bowen. —Vargas; (Wit task). —I Pub sad = O 7 l Paris and lours. 610; Pass end Dim, 905; Avignon, 10? 60; Straaboarg and Dabs, 109 16; thl. lad VW sons, 390 ; Nor* 416; Paris sad Strasbourg. 110; Mentallan and Trolls, 90. • Pee AMYL lift WOW. Lowest. Cosine I 3113 63 II BO 63 13 MlO PSI M 66 111 .40 • • • • • • • • 00 09 • at 1184; 35 133:00 days, /5 SO.._ SPAIN. Letters of the 18th from Madrid Mate that M. Isttwits bas had a conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in conseq,nence of the news received of the appointment of Lord Howden. M. Isturitx is expected to set oat before the end of the month. It is reported that M. !sterile will be charged with some message from the Spanish government relative to a satisfactory arrangement of the debt. MADIIIO, MAT 11.—Tbree per Cents., 32 1 era operations ; after Balsa, 311 13-16 earn. Fear per Ceuta., 121 paper. Five per Cents., 13 paper ; after Bolas. 13 13-16 era. Passives 4 paper; after Belay N C oupon 7 1; after Bola, 71 cash. Bank of Bt. Ferdinand, 541 paper. Zschangs m Landas 30.23. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on May 14, hints at an intention of the Pope to leave Rome, in consequenoe of which his movements are closely watched by the French. Several cardinals had left the city, and greet alarm prevailed in the ecclesiasti cal circles on account of the socialist elections. The city was in a state of irritation produced by the vexa tious measures of the police and councils of censure, to which Sig. Ciooquim, a man universally esteemed, had lately fallen victim. Dr. Millingen had been worried into leaving the Roman States, and M. Ileum had been hauled up before the police for painting Garibaldi's portrait. The waited M. Ctvendish was still awaiting the result of his trial in the Castle of St. Angelo. General Gemeau, Commanderin-Chief of the French army at Rome, arrived on the 12th, with the Archbishop of Besancon. TUSCANY. (From the Debate.) Letters from Florence of the 11th inst. say:: The Grand Duke, accompanied by the Grand Duchess and his two sons, will leave the following week for Vienna. This journey, the object of which is, it is said, to present the Grand Duchess and the Arch- Dukes to the Emperor of Austria,excites much interest at Florence. It is asserted that arrangements of high importance to Tuscany will be definitively concluded during the stay of the Grand Duke at Vienna. Con trary to what occurred at the last journey, a respon sible minister will accompany the prince, who will, it is stated, be the Duke of Castigliano. The convention with Austria relative to the occupation of the Grand Duchy by the imperial troops is not yet signed. If I am well informed, the principal bases of the convention are : " That the Austrian troops shall re main in Tuscany whilst it shall please Austria. That the Austrian general may always, of hie own will, without authority from the Grand Dake, declare all the towns and territory of Tuscany in a state of siege." GERMANY. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAT 18. The political importance of the Congress of Princes has withdrawn public attention from the proceedings of another congrees, which is perhaps of equal if not greater importance to the interests of the English manufacturer. I allude to the congress of merchants and manufacturers convoked by the Minister of Finance to discuss the proposals of alterations in the Zollverein tariff, to be laid before the approaching congress at Cassel of the states belonging to the Zollverein. The nature of these proposals was com municated in a former letter. Since then the con gress, which meets daily, has discussed and agreed to the proposals respecting the reduction of the duties on agricultural produce, cattle, sheep, &c., and on the raw materiels of manufacture. In the sitting yesterday, the duties on yarns came under consideration. The first proposal of the government on this article is to increase the duty on rough unbleached linen yarns, with some exceptions, from 3 to 4 thalers per cwt. Several amendments were proposed: 1. To calculate the duty according to the number of bundles in the cwt., and then to levy the duty in five successively in creasing rates. 2. To increase the duty to 7 thalers per cwt. 3. To iaerease it to 8 thaws; and 4, to reduce it to 15 silbergroschen the owt. These several proposals however were rejected by the majority, and the oriiiinal rates adopted. It was also agreed to maintain the same rate of duty on yarns spun by hands. on, machine yarns. On the next point, the increase o f the present duty on bleached and coloured yarns ae d threads to 6 thalers Wll.ll not deemed suffi cient by the majority,and an amendment increasing the duty cr a yarns to 8 dialers, and on threads to 18 thalami per or 4., was agreed to. The congress approved thet a r moposed increase in the duties on unbleached l an teothread cotton yarns ; but the duty of 8 theism on bleached and coloured yarns was hr re again deemed insufficient, and a proposition for ocreesing it to 11 thalers per owt- was adopted. fhe majority also approved of the proposal for increasing the duty on raw silk from 15 silbergrown to 3 thalami per owe., but the pro posed duties on white and coloured silk of 10 thalers, and on sowing silk twists, &0., of 16, were deemed in adeqi.ate, and on the former an illOrellAo to 18 dieters, and on the latter 20 thalers were agreed to. The congress also agreed to the proposed duty of 4 thalers on worsted, but recommended an increate in the duty on coloured woollen yarns from 8 to 11 thalers per cwt.; at this state of the proceedings the congress ad journed. The resignation of Minister von der Heydt has not been aoocpted. It originated solely in a personal matter. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Mar 16. A letter addressed by Arabi:lake John, to Bede Weber, the well-known ultramontane of the German National Assembly, is occupying public attention. The letter was first published in &Frankfort paper without the knowledge or consent of the Archduke. The public, learn from its contents with astonishment, the close connexion which has long existed between the former Reichsverweser and the generally abhorred reactioaary party. This connexion was no secret to many of the court in Vienna. Herr Bade Weber is well known as one of the most active and influential member, of the catholic priesthood in the Tyrol who are among the most fanatical of the party which desires to restore to the church the position and influence which it occu pasd in the middle ages. During the period of his ee Reichaverweeer at Frankfort, the Archduke John carefully concealed hie oonnezion with this party ; but this letter is a clear proof that at no pe riod within the last three years had it ceased to exist. In IE4B Archduke John placed himself at the bead of the German movement, and contributed not a little towards the raising of the Schwarz Rosh Gold standard on the Stephan Plate. At that time the court considered hint a semi-revolutioniat, and it is • grerefore utterly insirplioable to those who were not ilf the Matt that this grime should now openly de e*, big attachment to, so complete a reactionary ministry as the t. The thin blication of this War Me met d John the little remaining confidenee which the liberals of Austria still had in like. 'Measures haft been taken by the government for placing Dalmatia definitively under the control of the Ban at Croatia, Berm Jelieehich. The Eldd Slavieebe party have long desired this measure, and accept it with gratitude, while the ministry believe that it will weaken the hopes entertained by the Magyars if the three kingdoms—Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia— are planed under the control of one man and will counteract, in a great measure, the efforts of the na tional party in Hungary. It seems that the nobility of Croatia are the , only provincial inhabitants whom the government pay the slightest attention to. The constitution for the Italian provinces, which has been submitted to a 'frond commission, has under gone several great alterations. According to its pre sent form. I believe that the Lombardo-Venetian provinces will become an independent kingdom, that is to say, instead of their becoming part and parcel of the Austrian state, as is contemplated by the constitution of the 4th of March, the union will be only a personal one ; the two united will pore's an independent representation with a double chamber (nt a senate and a chamber of deputies) and a Reich*. It was rumoured to-day and yesterday on 'Change that the Minister of Finance does not intend to act upon the report of the Bank Commission. No loan is to be negotiated, nor are the reserve shares of the bank to be brought into the market. In consequence of this rumour, the latter, which had fallen very much in value, suddenly rose again is price. The rumour finds considerable credit in financial circles, and men of experience are of comae prepared for a renewed fall in the value of bank notes, and a greater increase in that of bank shares. Gold has risen to 27i and silver to 20 per cent. premium. The newspapers of Path announce that Madame Mesizelenyi, in whose care the children of Kossuth at present are, has received permission from Havnau to send her young charges to their parents in Kitt*. yah. They are to leave Pesth in the course of the present week. COPY OF DESPATCH FROM THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO THEIR ENVOY AT VIENNA. Your Ezoellency has been made aware by my letter of the 3rd inst. of the circular issued on the 26th ult. by the imperial cabinet, cmtaining an invitation to a conferetce of all the members of the Germanic c wife- deration at Fl •Msiae. At the date of that intimation I was under the necessity of coSfii ing myself to the statement that his Majesty's go vernment would take this invitation into cousidera tion, but must reserve their definitive resolution until they had consulted with their allies, with whom it was equally their duty and their wish to act in per. feet harmony. This consultation has taken place, and his Ma jesty's government can congratulate themselves on the lively sympathy with which their allies have met them half-way, and which is a gratifying guarantee of the prosperous development of that great and ever mighty affair which so mach concerns them aIL I am, therefore, now in a condition to authorise your excellency to make the following communication on the part of his Majesty's government, to the im perial cabinet, in whioh they will recognise the ear nest determina.ion of his Majesty's government to do all in their power to promote the attainment of the unanimity respecting the great unsettled German question which they have so long desired. We, in common with all the other German govern ments, have only one point of view in which we can consider the invitation of the imperial cabinet— s regard to the prosperity and preservation of our common country. The union of all Germany, the renovation of the old confederation, on a basis corre sponding to the real wants of the nation, is so essen tial in oar eyes, that we must hold it a sacred duty to leave no way untried that may lead to this goal: we have felt too deeply the want of harmony in the views entertained on this subject, which has hitherto prevailed, not to hail with joy every opportunity which offers a prospect of supplying this want by a frank exchange of mutual wishes and interest/. In like manner we recognise the urgent necessity of making pree;sion immediately for at least a provi sional management of our common affairs. All German states have an equal interest in this, and a general consultation of all German govern ments can therefore only appear in the light of a natural method, and one consistent with their union, of arriving at unanimous resolution,. It can therefore afford us nothing but unmixed sa tisfaction to find that the imperial cabinet, by its in vitation to the governments, has adopted this me thod ; and we are ready to accept of the invitation, and to send on our part a plenipotentiary to Frank fort. We believe that there can exist no doubt as to the character of the conferences which are to be held there. We regard the congress as a free deliberation of the sovereign states of Germany, whose relations rest on the entire freedom and independence recognised in them by the law of nations, and whose approxima tion and union can therefore only proceed from per fowl,. free decisions. We therefore expressly decline to recognise any right to convene this congress, assumed to emanate from the presidential attributes derived from the legally dissolved diet of the confederation. For the same reason, we cannot admit that the character of the plenum of the late diet of the con federation can attach to this congress, but regard it simply as an assembly of the thirty-five German go vernments for specific objects. It follows as a matter of course that we cannot re cognise any right in this corgress to adopt resolutions in the name of the Germanic confederation which shall be binding on such governments as do not assent to them of their free accord. For such as withhold their assent the results of the conference can have no other consequence than that they are not applicable to them. We indulge in the hope that there will be no need to make a practical application of this reservation; that the frank interchange of opinions on the ground of a common effort to attain the same end, will unite all the governments in a harmonious co-opera tion. The more confidently we entertain this hone the more firmly we insist that no Genuan government shall be curtailed of its right to stand out for its par. tioular interests. We do not therefore hesitate to declare that we will acquiesce in no renovation of the confederation which does not guarantee to all the governments who feel the need of it the right of freely uniting them selves, as the basis of forming a federal state. We avow this with the same frankness which we expect from all members of the Germanic confedera tio-, and which alone can lead to a complete under standing. We shall meet these members of the confederation at Frankfurt with confidence that we meet on the common ground of devotion to the welfare of the German nation ; and we willingly express our confidence in the since rity with which the imperial cabinet in particular will exert itself to overcome the difficulties inherent in the particular nature of the case. Your excellency will deliver this declaration to the president of the imperial cabinet, and leave with him a written copy of this despatch. (Signed) Berlin, May 16, 1830. To his Majesty's Envoy, Count Bernstorff, Vienna. SCIILEINITZ. FIRE AT CLAREMONT PALACR.—Coneidrible ftlanel was *mud in the ♦icinity of Claremont yesterday by the discovery of a fire hewing broken out in the dining-room of the palace, bat it was immediately extinitniehea before shy mater al damage had taken plate. The outbreak k attributed to the overheatiag of ens of the flux. - MONISTS& HAILBTOIIII.B.—The following metitot from a letter Is published by the &nary TelogropA :—" I ta l :: write these few lines to Inform you that on Busday wean the boars of 4 and 6 e'clock, a tremendous ot hsll occurred at a village called Condwul, about ix miles from &attars. Tit* hailstones are dercribed as being as lugs as auea-ants. Several houses fell, cattle were slain, and seve ral people were killed by the houses falling in. Many large I tisk were killed is the deer also. The neural declare they It•ve never seen such hail in their lives. len wiaia the mark when I say they ware as large as run-nuts; they have bees ciKeribed ae much larger. In cusp we had merely tremendous dust-at. rm, but for several boon the sides of the hill were whits with the hail, like now in ap pearapoo." WEST INDIA MAIL. Th e royal West India mail packet Clyde, C a m e -, Moss, arrived at Southampton lad night, and lauded '- her mails under the charge of Lieut. Scriven, its Admiralty agent. Her dates are: Vera Cruz, Aprii 15; Tampico, 13; Haeannah, 27; Honduras, 10. Jamaica, 21; St. Jag° de Cubs, 18; Demerara, pi: Trinidad, 20; Barbados, 28; Antigue, 30 ; m e , tinique, 29; Grenada, 22 ; Porto Rico, 28 ; Ls Cagy. 22; St. Thomas, May 1; Bermud a , 8. Amo ng t r,. o cargo are 415,770 dollars from Vera Craz and 'fam. pica, of which 70,033 are on acco un t o f d ividend; gold, 5,708 dole. At Jamaica, from whence it will b e seen, we have by the Cambria, dates nine days later than tho se brought by the Clyde, the aspect of affairs we, improving. Owing to an increased demand for cofke, several estates that had been thrown out of cultivation were to be reworked. An improved method, of most important character, for the manufse.ure of sugar, had been discovered. Crops were very p m . wising; that of sugar estimated at 40,000 hhde. Th e island remains healthy, but the heat was very gr eat . Business was languid and inactive. Commodore Bennett, of her Majesty's ship Imsure, had been mulcted in 51. and costs, f or a lib e l , at tte suit of Captain Brown, of the sloop Elizabeth. The Jamaica markets are quoted under the liter dates brought by the Cambria. The accounts from British Guiana allude to the commencement of a series of meetings on the subject of colonial reform. Petitions are to be sent to the Queen, praying for the establishment of an c lo ctive Council and House of Assembly in lieu of the existine political institution. The combined courts had brought the financial business of the edony to a clo,s, and the estimates had been duly voted. 'roe cwt likewise passed a resolution for suppressing the she. rtfiship of the colony, but retaining the office of KC pnisne judge. This me Intion is directly antagonistic to the express recommendation on the subject frun Earl Grey. The weather had been very wet du- rag the fortnight, but improved a little just before the packet sailed. The excessive moisture of the weather had been seriously detrimental to the Trope. 'Pc proposal to introduce money oreers HIM the \Vest Indies had been refused by the postmaster-general. Barbados dates are to the 28th alt. Several atdi. tional fires had taken place in various parts of the island. The long drought was broken on the Po h of April by heavy rains, bat the weather had aga'a become dry, and vegetation was Checked. The gc vernor-general was on a tour through some of the smaller island.. The letters from Trinidad to the 20th of Apr lude to the marriage of his excellency to the ria , :J! • r of the Venerable Archdeacon Cummins. Gila! •• - eities were in proa•css to celebrate the marra.r.. Public meetings had taken plive. The authorities decided on employing convicts on pubic weals. few sbo•.cers h.d fallen in the i-laud, and the cr.? was advancing, but the clues we•e not P 3 produ, - :re as last pear, and there will probably be a deficiency of 3,000 or 6,000 hhels. A publ:c meeting to promote colonial ream her been held at Port of Spin, ai.d petitions to tke home government were adopted. praying for a constitie: similar to that proposed and approved of for thi. of Good I lope. Business dull. _ _ Antigua papers notice the decease of the Hov. Horsforth. Several incendiary fires on sugar had taken place, and a reward of 500 doll•irs t: been t ffreed for the apprehension of the offend... Drought still continued to exercise a prejudici-1 tett: on the prospects of the island. St. Vincent w •s suff•riug severely front dr•-•c,}., and the crop will fall short of the quantity pr. last par. We have correep-ndence from Havantah t, 27th ult. The cholera was diminishinc, and "e cues yielded more readily to medical treatmec•. The authorities had made every exertion to proisr.i. the spread of the pestilence by precantionaty ce • - sures, and had in addition provided suitable ace r.:- modation in various districts of the city for the ception of acd attendance on persons attacked 7 the malady. It had not penetrated the interim. the island. Owing to un'avourable weather, it w; expected there would be a considerable redu:tion •- the yield of the sugar-crop fr,,m the quantity cr ginally calculated upon. The prices of sugar hat been firmly maintained, with higher rates on we descriptions. Coffee quite nominal. In freights, tree sel were abundant, and rated lower than reporte' Exchange on London, II per cent.; Pati9, 2 to 3 count ; New York and Boston, par. Her Majesty's brig Helen, Commander de Caurey. touched rocks near Bermuda, on her voyage from Havannah, on the 26th of April. The guns ar.d •i • having been taken out, t-ho was salt ly go , . into George, atter receiving assistance from the navy of that place. The intelligence from Mexico brought by this ven.Ll has been anticipated. DEMERARA MARKETS Geoharroww. Aram 'S.—Since oar last issue the .t. rivals r.im the United States have n t Urn numerous, yet no ;. sided advance in priori of ~readstnif- gvnerally has been establish , . The ' , Wall are. however. considerably reduced, particu:arly of meal, which i..caree ; the high ram now d tnanda• . fur this env has hod the effect of checking consumption, and, c.inarquently .- • are dull. A cargo of cod fish Lie appeared, and a• an veer could not be obt Oiled at fair rates h a b: linded. Toe good Mb is very light, yet the dealers hold buck from :iurchasing , advanced rates. Palsied fish is scarce; mickartl much inia.rol salmon in fair request; herrings saleable at i d ils. to 41 ; • 7 barrel. White pine lumber in fair demand, last pale at :If 'ols. cargo now olfirmg. A half cargo of pitch pine has al•a been • at 25 doles ton dots. fur plash, and ZS ttol.. to 25 dais. per - . scantling. . _ • . — fie wee thee during the p it fortnieht f^a.: Item more :at::: for planting. Protluee still WNW. and trei/Mte dtiLialt v Wined at 2e. for London and outpotts. Mt ample sum. in the river. Fun n,—Dttty, 1 doL 73c. per laurel ; dole. to S dzlt.; — Guar dlsa .—Duty , 9Se. per barreL Selling (alms of tii Sin., 5 dots. to it dole. Stook very Iteht. Kim E L —Doty, •me. teulto. 51 dole. to 5 1 dots., in bag. ILArge conauawlon. E. 1.1101.1% A Dian.—Duty, 50e. per Ipalba. 44 dote. Ater Has.u.—Wry. Sue. per luulbs. az,c - per b.rr not large. — ill Ten - —Duty, 3e. per lb. Iriab, IS dole, in small lots of 84.ba. to 70Ito. for new. American. lie. per lb. ltd.; LAID.-le. per lb. hub, conaumption mull; retail puce. I. lb. Ametie in, 80e. CANDI. O.—Tallow. duty, 13 cent. per lb. ; American .ln:y • best nudity, la daces or 201bai, bringing Re. per h.. Cant, 28a. ler lb. In very email lota. hull. tb ie.—Duty, Ito. per lb. Veal Ptah. 5 dole. to s'. dap. per very dull of dile. &tele@ in fair demand, at 4 dile,6:e. to per loolba. Cop /*Dn.—Duty, 50e. per quintal ,• 34 dots. I MACK MIKI--Duty, Idol. per barrel; diddle Log W Tuaa.—Dthe, 2 ddbi. 750. lrlsh : Trade nominee .t te? retail; Prim 13 dula. per barrel; Antenean, Ilb dote.tr lldole., u lnquality. Bau.—Duty per barrel same am pork. American. Mon% 0 " light ; price 19 dole. to 14 dole. per &incl. as tit .paoty limitetL Flalf.barrels landly beef. 91 dole. fur f mount br.II:Js. Butt—Duty, 2c. per lb. Counnuo Irish, lu c. r ni`etw's 16 o. Amerkan now preferred. D. E. fuss.—Duty, IS e. per bushel. Criea, 2 a bag of 2 bushels. CoßN.—Duty, IS c. per bushel. Yellow, at !tS to Dull. b,ubr' Count.—Duty, 14 c. per lb. American, price, l 2 wl3 c. pet In itood demand. Bar.—linty, 4 per rent. rut valorem, t. per lb. POTAINW.s.—Duty, Bc. Par busbeL 3l doh tot dole. per Stook light. OATS.—Duty, Se. per Irishy doll. per pan., ranch , . Included. American nut wunted. • Leine% W.P.—fluty, t dol.. per 1.010 feet, 211 dole; P. r.. 5 &An Per 1. 000 set, doh tor plank. and 23 ikie, W 2..14 . • scantling. La't sake. BTA,KII, It. 0.-13ety, 1 dot. SOc. per 1,00, 21 dots.: W. 0 .. " I dole. per 1,000, 43 *dn. Last sales or a ergo of Nioti 44 thuitot.se. W.P.—r.tosty, 30e. per 1,0e0„ 14 dot. w seldom importeiL Last ado, 3 dots. Soc. livas„ in bottle, duty per dozen, Sc.; 14 ib4s. per dozen. :0 411,11 quality; 1 2.3 superior; ditto, per Mut. In bulk. I `‘':' • price, 1.5 dois. V.. 1 10 dots. I best Landon, 23 dole. Countom •••••• ditto, 35 dole. to U dole. Porter, in kGla, %any per 1 dol. 50e., 14 dole. Earns:nt ur LONDal,l.—Tris - ate bias 90 days' sight. 46ti 40$ dole.; lii 17t1 dole.; 00 dap. ell dot... Pl.! 410 dole. Purchasing At 4 0 6 dok. CAPTAIN AUsTIN'S EXCEDITION.—On the afternoon of Tueyday, the 11.6 (says John o'Groatir Joey her Majesty'. steamer Liohtning Caere into Hoy So u nd, thlinea. with a transport barque, Maria Ilugenis, M ton , ho, gone through the Pentland Firth. After getting a .urriF of orals, water, &a , she sailed again early the neat in, re. and returned on Friday at mid day, having towel her charge ab rat 130 miles off. There arrived here the mole day her Majesty's steamer African, Intrepid. and Piose.e. The African sailed again the sane day in search of her w", which, in consequence ot coarse weather, yhe had .0 ort with. At present Captain Austia's ships are in Lonah , T. , Her Majesty's steamer Dasher arrived at W ic k on T 7 n day, with 'he commanders of thetas vessels, and returned to L , nahope the same evening. THIS ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPECITIoN. —Yesterday' a parliamentary paper was printed. c ontaining an ...noted al the sums required to provide tot the capen.re en twos" ",f the Arctic aearehing espeditioas under the commando of Capt. Austin and Capt. Perry. The wages to seamen and marines are estimated at 21,1311.: for victuals 1,.r the stun'. 8,4801 ; naval stores, an , 11,4001. ; medseinr* snores, 6601 .: and numellantrotte wryest , . 6. 36441 ; the sum of 33,9291. The supplementary ertmate et th • 68 royal navy lot the current year Salt to the wttae , •I 2921. GREEN‘VICH Itattway.—On Wait -Monday , is the great day of Ureenwich Fair, 61,000 peronli wets 0011Veyttl over this line without a single meei4rat. • • • I • • • •