The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-22 00:00:00

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No despotism has ever maintained its& for any time, if it had seared to summand a strong feeliog of blind and unreasoning loyalty. The throne of the CZAR is firm, at least OS far as the loam of his people are con owned : they worship the holder of the imperial seat like a god. The sacred per fen of the SULTAN in mend by all Mahometans. Faiteets of At STZIA *VA a foolish king, but he was much revered, and the dynasty that reigns at Vienna survived and overcame Turkish invasion, Prussian rivalry, protestant resistance, and French victories by the strong feelings of loyalty and attachment to the paternal government, which animated Austrians and Hungarians. The old Bins of France were aloe hedged in by a majesty that every Freoeh man respected. Unfortunately for the raer, the, per sated in despotism after loyalty had evaporated, and after respect for kings had given way to a desire for freedom and fair government. The monarchs of Europe, all of those almost, driven' from their thrones tad power by ono revolution or asether. have recovered their thronea The Porn has just resumed his chair. Although Louis PHILIPPE in still at Claremont, be has something of an alter ego on the throne of France, supported by the same puny, served by the same statesmen, and guided by pretty much the Name policy. In all, how ever, the old principle of monarchic rale hubeen dis placed or lost. Not one of these sovereigns can reckon on the loyal attachment of his subject'. All depend, more or lees. on the soldiers they have around them, and the officers in their pay. In other words. paternal despotism has made way for military tyranny. How long, is it supposed, that such a system, not merely in one but in all states, can last ? It is not France, it is not Spain; but it is three-fourths of Europe, consisting of countries all contigunus and alive to each other's fortunes and feelio go, that are in this state. And this state is worse than we depict, far worse than anything of the kind that ever warred before. In previous years the people were irritated with their governments, with their imbecility, their faithlessness, their spoliation, their oppression. Bat at present the people in a great pert of Europe not only hate their rulers, but the classes which support those rulers, and which in so many cases have combined to cheat them of the smallest, the most undeniable, the most equitable of their rights. They have made revolutions, and, after they had made them, trusted to providence, to the promises of their kings, and to the fairness of the influential and political classes. How have they been de ceived, how tricked, how crushed, how de cimated ! They rose in 1848 to revolution with the froward spirit of schoolboys : they brood over another with the ferocity of tigers; and if they crouch, it is with the determination that their next spring shall be sure. We do not say this with exultation. Whatever compassion we may have for the liberals of Europe, and whatever admiration we may have for some of them, we by no means sympathise with all their hopes, nor do we approve of all their purposes. And most rejoiced should we be to think and to hope that the sovereigns of anarchiaed countries could devise some mode or some aeries of expedients to soothe the dormant spirit of revolution, satisfy the cravings of discontent, and conciliate, by wise, and large, and timely 03DONSi011, that mass of popular wants and demands which, we verily believe, no power and no force of armies can • . On looking over the different revolutionised countries, however, we see few, very few rulers, taking any steps to conciliate their people. The organs amongst us, which in the day of struggle abetted the cause, and made vows for the triumph, of despotic courts, told us how benignant and well intentioned wets those courts. The Emperor of AUSTRIA was to give a constitution; the King of NAPLES was to restore freedom and independence to the Sicilians. The POPS was to be once more the father of his people. A year has elapsed, and what has become of all these fair promises? Have execu tions ceased in Hungary? Or has terrorism disap peared from Palermo? In Naples itself, to have been a coostittitionalist is enough to consign any man to a dungeon. One or two states are. indeed, making laudable efforts. In Piedmont there are fair hopes of a constitutional system surviving, at least till Austria inquires the leisure and the arrogance to insist on its abrogation. The Prussian government aleo has made a double essay of a constitutional system, both for the monarchy and for Germany. Neither are yet such as to satisfy the German people, and to rally their trust and their affections back to the throne. Still the attempt is making; time and events, and the development of a spirited and liberal policy may com pass the achievement, and convert once more a mili tary and intimidating government into* civilian ands popular one. As to Austria, we believe it and its statesmen incapable of even making the experiment. We see in KLAPEA'd memoirs that from the moment the Hunga rian Diet decreed that the native army should remain within the Hungarian frontier, nor move beyond it save with the consent of the parliament, from that moment the Vienna ministry abandoned all good faith. Any such local rights, it saw, were incom patible. with the existence of the monarchy ; and, in truth, A lives by the sword, and can live but by an stoantrolled use of it. To the same complexion has ems the Pore, poor Pio Noxo ! He returns to his flock with the power over it given him by foreign bayonets. Of all the despotisms in the world, that of the POPE wee the most dependent on popularity. PlO NONO was not the first pontiff who sought to be the favourite of his psopla Pontiff after pontiff has triad this after the Whim and ideas of the age. Bat a pontiff, abhorred by the Romans, and keeping his supremacy over them, like the old and pett tyrants of Italy, immune of foreign treroenarite is impossible. A Pope that cannot head a procession, that cannot abed a blessing from a balcony, a successor of the apostles that cannot show himself to the multitude without being accursed by it—that is no longer the old pope dom. Who that has seen and known the Pore., fol lowed by his harmless and parti-coloured guards, the people kneeling at his approach—let him imagine a pontiff guarded by cuireasiere, his portal protected by guns, and welcome echoed to him by paid abirri This is worse than the paternal Emperor of Avant* with the Croats: alone to poy him filial duty, or than the successor of NAPOLEON. lower on the poll than the first corporal whom it msy please the socialists to elect. We do not see nay hope for the recovery of papal potter. The at pontiff has flog himself into the hands of the old retrograde faction, whieh will sot permit the appoiatismateon of a onsulta, or lay swam. And - PIO IL May be ooesidered as defunct. His seccoser, in the present sentim•nts of the conclave, will Inevitably be as Austrian Pop., or solo priest eqully opposed to every sentiment of the time. So that the schism between the Homan and Italian people and their great , sacerdotal regime will but widen each day, until circumstances aft* ad all Ousts, upper, middle, aid lower, the oppwtuoity to accomplish thew first desire, that of sweeping away that incubus tplon Italian independence, unity, and freedom—the Papacy. Tnz absolute necessity of patting a stop to intra mural istermente Ia the metropolis with the hest powible delay, and the difficulties thrown in the way of each a memos by sextette, pariah clerks, parochial clergy, and others claiming a " vested interest " in the perpetuation of anti-sanitary town grave-yards, ovo PG obvious sanest to almost stop to the arouse is appointment worrentabio. cession of S t Nate, there , tan Interments - Bill Ms awakened some in ear mind--has stirred cap. a. lino _tha. chi of radicalism adage uie—we beg to be en-, diseested as ready to waive any objectlees to aikido Ilinprovisoe, if there be the least danger of prunt lag or impeding•its peeing. • Bat we honestly un ited that there are some things in it we meld with to ere The bill is keg and rather complisatsd. however was inevitable. It would othapirke be boss impossible to stroegle sided theimillhalithl =who would keep permanent reotiptaeles of posies sad deathaptuding aseetahty ink alleys arid thronged thoroughfares of the City. last been for thof necessity of giving security to thee worthies against any pecuniary leer, the bill "Wit have been esadensid within one-half of its Waal proportions. The dry-six model clauses to - which it setae& centain provisions for cresting ale metropolitan burial district ; for °resigning a central machinery to sdadaiber the interment business of this astristi Pali& regulatioes for the oddest's of this seated administration ; arrangements for raising hada, ars quids, property, paying debts, &e. alto. Ste. The management of the metropolitan burial die trhe hto be vested in the Board of Health, with as sigielsoal member, whose attention is •be he more especially directed to the busi ness created under the act. In other words.' the burial arrangemeots of the metropolis are to' be serried out by nominees of the ministry for the time being, responsible to them alone, and removable by them at pleasure . This is another step in that central sing precise by which the whole local govern ment of the metropolitan districts threatens to be ultimately transferred to the general government. As a permanent arrangement we are exceedingly jea lous ofench a transfer. The accounts of the cemetery managers are indeed to be annually laid before par liament, but parliament has little time or taste for the investigation of mere local grievances. The great innovation in the conduct of metropolitan interments which is necessary has reconciled 11. to the toss emery appointment of a dictator, or dictators, with large powers to carry it into effest; but not to the 11-7 t withdrawal of all control in the matter . s .esident householders and beads of families. The burial member of the Board of Health, with his lame staff and extensive dealings, is a rather alarming addition to ministerial patronage. The Board of Health is authorised by the bill to appoint chaplains to officiate io the turyiog grounds. Could the funeral ureic* not be conducted by the, clergyman of the church to which the deceased be -longed, or of the parishes in which the new masts*" are situated ? No addition will be made by the new arrangements to the number of funerals: how oomes an additional staff of ecelesiasticsl performers at funerals to be required? There is something am oebas in the portion of an ecclesiastic whose busi ness it is to read the funeral service and do nothing more. Beside., such apprintments are likely to come to be looked on as stepping stones to other ecclesiee tical appointments through government patronage. The Board of Health is empowered to make pro vision for the management and conduct of funerals by persons appointed by them. The aim of this pubs is obvious; it strikes at the abuses, or alleged abuse. of the existing system of undertaker funerals. Any thing that could check indecent canvassing in thisline of business, or systematic overcharge, without occ won ing worse evils, is desirable. But knowing uwe do that the worst features of the present system have their origin in alliances between individual nidertskcrs and the officials in the existing burial-grounds, we suet be allowed to doubt whether indecent jobbing at the expense of bereaved relations will be put an end to by transferring the opportunities of carrying it on from parish clerks and sextons to government wardens, as sistants, and gravediggers. But the most objectionable provision of the act is that which empowers the Bowed of Health, in order to pay the salaries prescribed in this bill, and the debts they may incur in carrying it into execution, to impose a rate in all districts of which they have ordered the old burial grounds to be chirped, in every year when the fees received by them are inadequate to meet their expenditure. TEAS is an addition to the already too numerous local rates, imposed without cot suiting the rate-payers, and often in defiance, of their remonstrances. The essential object of the bill is to create an ad ministrative authority, with power to shut up old and surcharged burial-grounds among the urban dwellings of men, and to open new ones where the health of the community cannot be injuriously affected by them. Surely it is possible to accomplish this without depriving local rate-payers of their constitutional con trol over the rates they are to pay, or adding to our ministerial establishments a new one with a auspi ciously wide range of patronage and great tempta tions to jobbing. We have admitted the necessity of making oonces liens to the " vested interests " in order to facilitate the carrying of the bill. - Nevertheless it dose appear to us that this conciliatory spirit has in one or two instanoes been carried rather too far by its framers. Tree Board of Health is empowered in certain circum stances on the payment of fees to grant licenses for interments in the vaults of churches and chapels. this senseless and unhealthy practice, begun in superstition and perpetuated by a sordid spirit of speculation, ought to have been peremptorily forbid. Again, a power is reserved to the crown to permit interments in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London, and the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's, Westminster. If there be any churches in the metropolis which from their centrical position, and from the overcrowded state of at least one of them as a plain of sepulchre, ought to be closed against all future burials at once and for ever, it is precisely the two in which a back-door is thus left open for the continuance of the practice. The blots on the measure for the reform of metro politan interments, which we have pointed out, do not appear very difficult to erase. We invite the atten tion of parliament to them ; at the same time we should be loth to see any delay interposed to the speedy shutting up of oar sepulchral laboratories of metropolitan pestilence. >vials that we are • ' to ea 'lsps slant ay bill that w •••4 a e practice. The a • ' • •••• e one of those • rat of an hie. We never Uttar an administrative guest:lca wr straggly rd to passive obedience. therefore, the perusal d the ministerial SWITZERLAND. The journal La &doe, of Berne, confirms the state ment that the Neipolitan government had given orders to stop the progress of all Swiss commercial travellers tarot'► the Neapolitan states, and to expel all and admit woe for whom the Swiss oinsul, M. Morekofer, refined to give caution. This measure dates from the aussat when the great German powers assumed a hostile attitude towards Switserlaad. SPAIN. ". Apt_ es. 4". t, 44 70 4_ 41 7: . ' s •• . oat * tot! PASt e lt meat, 1 E Is eoleated by, , Unseat the a lemisa.;•The wensinro t oo with • g placate's; the nee/veva, are; with the names and characteristiara their respective aanfliiiisees,.. Amish greeter show, of union and ea thusissm, is. made by tbs. naderatie is Mi ,-- i#piriet of Leah" than. by. theme &demean • ,hveer of tillersarinse - -itet the- eist. -Tha. _ l'av is Pew* of this enornieg desks the trait . el heroism arm which the toadies*, is tonnded, gea &tale the raid faqtp, og what it alleges to be Mich, in term" so circumstantial Ike! the perry, itatited to Noise more withal/sales lima* as highly 'embellished. • ' •-I•• • . 7Wri;batli which took plait Id 16 AMMO yeitieday was highly. important: libe =Lthe principle of transportable lee , em The plies of transportatioa is to • the' Valley a Widths* in the Marquessa barids. TIM Valley of Waithau contains 800 'hec tare" Admiral Dapetit Thouars bore testimony to its salubrity. Stime settlers there had sent for their families. The chief advantage presented by this val ll , as it is called, is that on three sides it is en. emceed by inaccessible rooks, while on the fourth, which faces the sea, the entrance to the gorge is so narrow that a single ten tiasi could guard the whole enceinte. M. de Lensattine made a speech, so frequently interrupted by the Right, who ridiculed his pleading in favour of humanity as morbid excesses of sentimentalism, that be resigned the tribune without coming to a conclu sion. In one part, alluding to the length of the voyage and the multiplied chances of shipwreck, be evok,d the picture of the raft of the Madam, which produced roars of laughter for several minutes. lie then recommended the lofty plateau of Ca . yeane, which by a lapse lioigueo he represented as 'muted 1,600 leagues above the level of the sea. The house shrieked with amusement at this little trip. Bat no one answeredthe great argument of Laniartine, which dwelt on the inhumanity of separating criminals by such an enormous distance from their families, so as completely to sunder all ties with home or country. The President arrived at Angers in the night. lie had brought to him immediately an account of the state of the wounded, and of the number of the dead. On the 19th the Prince, accompanied by General Urzer,oommanderof the department of Maineot-Loire, visited the survivors of the catastrophe. Many of them were in a desperate state. Commandant Fleury and Captain do Toulageon, officiers d'ordonnaues to the President, also visited the victims in the hospitals and private houses, and in obedience to the President's orders caused every possible attention to be paid to them. The presence of the President of the Republic at Angers had caused to excellent effect The Minis ter of War, all the authorities, and an immense mass of the population of the town and the department, attended a funeral service for the dead at the Cathe dral. The President is expected to return to Paris this morning. The increased prospect of the ricotta of the mode rate putty in the approaching election for Paris con tinues to have a favourable influence on the money market. Prices opened at au advance on the last quotations of yesterday, and continued to be well maintained until nearly the close of the day, when some rather considerable salescaused a slight reaction, leaving prices, however, higher than on the previous day. The Voix du People was seized yesterday at the Post-office, and in its offices, for having published an article (Award Proodhon, entitled " Election of 28th April—To the Bourgeoisie," and referring also to the catastrophe at Angers. The responsible editor of the paper and the author of the articlo are to be pro- secuted 1. For exciting to hatred and contempt of the republic; 2. For exciting citizens to hatred of each other ; 3. For excitations to the soldiers with the view of seducing them from their military rluties, and from the obedience they owe to their chiefs. 817111 DAT, 7 P The sitting of the Legislieive Assembly yesterday was marked by a result of high importance. The ministers were defeated by a majority of 64 in a house of 666, on an amendment which would have the effect of depriving the law of transportation of retro activity. Odilon Barrot, who spoke for the first time since nix fall, never made a finer or more effective speech. The bones was completely carried away by the tone of his arguments, and treated the feeble chicanery of Baroobe, who returned ones more to the charge, to stave off a rota under the immediate influence of the orator, with disdainful indifference or marked disapprobation. Never did any ministry suffer a more stunning defeat, for the government had set its heart on handselling their Norfolk Lased in the Pacific with the political prisoners sentenced by the High Court of Bourges and the lligh Court of Verpaillee. The members of the govern ment degraded their position as legislators by proposing a law, the object of which was retro active and personal; their position as ministers has been degraded by a rebuke full of dignity and eloquence, bucked by a large majority of the Ai*em bly. Nothing cuts a poorer figure than baffled especially when convicted of ignorance and usurpation in attempting to fulfil its purpose. The government stood convicted of ignorance in supposing that the legislature could apply a penalty retroac tively, and of an intention to usurp the functions of the judicial power, in declaring, by the mouth of Baroche, that, if the Assembly aid not explicitly de clue the non-retroactivity of the law, the government would apply the penalty of transportation to the pri mers sentenced by the High Courts of Boarges and Versailles. This declaration was even received with applause by the Right. It was the high task of Odilon Barrot to pat that font applause to shame ; in this he succeeded most completely. He set the question on ita true footing. Ha brought back the perverted sense of the majority to a consciousness of their position as legislators, and the imperative duty of purging the solemn act of legislation from mean considerations of personal rancour. He drew On Sunday the 7th of April, the cathedral of Saragossa was struck by lightning, and took fire. This accident happe ned at tne moment when the procession of the ] toll Sacrament was coming out of the church with the viaticum for the sick. The crowd was great ; for the people thronged tone the procession, which was headed by s band of music, and • picket of grenadiers. Presently a thick cloud on rout the sky, and darkened the city like sodden nightfall ; the heavy rain which fell obliged the procession t' face about and take shelter in the church. No sooner had the priests and choristers effected this movement than a lung roll of thunder, which shook the ancient oaths. dral to its foundations, was preceded by a violent err ek. as if the building had been rent. The towrr had been struck by lightning. The son of the bell-teller eis• aped with a smart shock ; but his father was suffo cated, and precipitated lifeless from the belfry to tho pavement of the church. The roof ought tire, and a violent wind fanned the flint 8, WI that all efforts to extinguish them were vain, and by three in the after coo. the dome was burned. the line distinctly between legislative and judicial [sanctities. Finally, he touched the house with peni tential shams while he revealed the illegality, as well as uneenerousness, of the vote which the go vernment called upon them to give, and which, without Ms masterly speech. would undoubtedly have been given. Baroohe, who spoke before him, had renamed bie seat on the ministerial benches, in the full seserance that the day was won ; but the self-ons placent triumph of his countenance was gradually 'landed as the house echoed, every moment, more and more fully, the clear, just opinions and worthy sentiments of Odilon Herat, and at length quit* eclipsed. It was an interesting spec tacle, and bailed with delight by the liberals of the Assembly, to see M. Barrot come forward once more , armed with his old opinions, and clothing in warn; and energetic language, sentiments and opinions which did equal honour to his head and heart, which brought out his qualities as an orator, a lawyer, • statesman, and, above all, as a man. The honours of the day were his; and they will weigh in the public estimation against many weak names and errors. His success was more brilliant as the Left had put forth all their strength upon this hill, but without effect. Victor Hugo had failed, and Lamartine had failed; but Odilon Barret hit the nail un the head. M. Baroche having, as above stated, declared that, unless the Assembly did not make an explicit declara tion to the contrary, the ministry would apply the law to those who had been sentenced to transporta- tion, M. Odilon Barret rose, amid the cheers with which the declared intention of the government was received. He said that Nothing buts* 'imperious sense of duty could ham in duced him to amend the tribune in his present stem of health. The declaration they had jet: heard from the minister was applended as frank and courageous. But in what precedents bad Its found the mews to say to a Legis lative Assembly that it had not only the right to vote • rood statute, but to apply the penalty to such and such jueons previously seuttaced. The precedent relative to the risdiction of the High Court of Justice had been quoted; which jwioliction had been defined, and he admitted wi.h his (Oddon Barret's) tensest, by the Assembly In such a we, to he applicable to °fences committed before the emistitu ii in of the court. Bat there was a great dig'. omen between deft..ing the jurisdiction of a court and pointing the penonal application of a penalty. The tint was strictly a legislative fonvion, while the left was unquestionably cosapstsot only to the judicial power. If the house abstained from an decision the only legitimate conseqoesca would be that the isgislaturo had respected the rights of tribunals. Who would dare to sire any other commentary to the reserve of the Assembly? Who would dare to read di mat reserve an application?hush Iclt No, if the Csahreer was silent, it was silent that Justice might speak, and speak with entire hide peadence. (Cheers.) No doubt ever would be left by the El Puts notices a rumour that the hand of one of the king's sisters had been sought hi marriage by the President f. he French Republic. The formidable 136084 Ramiro, whom amanita have long been the terror of Galicia, was c iptured on the 6.h, at Oporto. Mamma, Ara Klm 16.-111ns per C,esta.. If 13 It paper ; Your., 134 T= = ; trrwm. oa r PaPir ; Si; Dank of THE EXPRESS, MONDAT EVENING, APRIL 22, 1850. Woo Ammably ; tar so Ma ease U. maned wet Modem all Me benefit of the apistil Mena% Asko; reiresed ialid e laft eAbo , tit b;eaglit herwarlarsiag W ailmistop. no amt . • Ms es had matittly nalliatsd m the @WM ; bet hated .em as surfed to them* pimale he a slues maw{ Mat tin *mews disposed dew • benellsanc power • wield agrambe the lot of mea detsied la prism.. Had stseika re deities securred in the soweelh in which be wee proem*, he would bees opposed it with all his might, both as • stater ' men lad 6 irwyer. — diet sapposiag the Assembly made Me eeplirit asaussies air ewe Gelled ea to make by the go verement, thatmeshimet help the matter. !or the sawed -beaseoy teenthgt 4W-haw meld set be Applied se, Ada oett fty 'Mar to moot • law qmstfoo. apes which thijmilalg power osold alms adds. (Cheers.) la his *palm plimiaMoilwas time ihatelhe ponielw meat of treaspiMailia m Waist di peddled Wham. Hs 'had lus eftrombei IF liet Me MOs hewn (Left) for Mee eyielew, Mg Ms dl d old eftedleg, tor ;Mr Virg emend • mein of the government to ex. pump tM punishmeat et li•Myeelsdea hoes the penal code, s .oleo Is 4siue the seMmlblesee at my place whither to treenitela smmtewead pdama lb opinion had carried • the day. Howse thermal eitemely, that the punishment had Less le.t, while the thiwg ad am mist. Bat it was thou arm& that la all eases whom sentenes of transportation was proaomend, dayeheasent ahead be Masted. Now the other slat maiataimat in-att•that the sensesco of imprison , nowt was w ee p asolcissieless milled to swain peewee wadi a plats of peeestisa shaeW be toast This wa• e arly soda the *de M all law. A Khmer mold sot be aes. NNW to two pomades is this way t Ant to haeriersztest mil tits tramportadeo. There wee se melt amphibious pasahment as that is say code. And why was mimiple of now retreastivity es prodeas Simply WNW so team toad ass distinguish eiserly the punish ment to whisk be would be subjoined by the violaters of the law. A contrary dispositioa would vidste the mid eem• pact. Thanks to this prised* th• legislators maid net be minuted by a perinea! sentiment; and dogmas its elm raster by ankle, laws to meth as individual perm pre- viously guilty of ea offense. Finally, he besought the Assembly to ratify the system of excludieg personal motives for veinal laws by marking, upon this ...saws, their reopen for tie principle of oon-rotrosetivity. He trusted they would wee for the restoration of Art. 6, which to:premed this maniple in the as 01 the present law. The boo. repro• seststive set down amid load cheers, sad received the waratulatios• of his Meade. In the sitting of the 18th, M. C'hegaray's report on Oeneral Orammont's report relative to the establish ment of a Banque FoLciere de Franco, war laid on the table. The National says, that when the vote of yester day was announced, M. Baroche said to a ring of de puties standing about him, " I shall resign." It is announced as definitively arranged that the Cardinal du Pont shall be the French ambassador at Rome. The President of the 'Republic, having distributed decorations to the persons who had exerted them selves to save the victims, has returned to the ElysEe. A proposition has been presented to the Assembly, by a considerable number of the members, to the ef fect that the 200,0001 r. destined for the fetes of the 4th of May shall be distributed to the soldiers wounded in the catastrophe at Adger*, and to the fa milies of those who are dead. Yesterday the Bourse opened firm, but, some con siderab'e Bales having been msde, prior a towards the close slightly gave way, and left off lower than on Friday. For the Account, Fives 20c., and Threes 10c., the former closing at 89fr. 30c., and the latter at 651 r. 85c. For Ca , b, Fives have fallen 10c., and Threes 6c., the prices being h9fr. 40c. ' and 63fr. 60c. Bank of France Shares are unvaried, at 2,1251 r. Foreign securities have been rather sought after, and have generally improved. Belgian Fives have advanced :, closing at 1001; Old Roman, 781; New ditto, 78: ; Neapolitan, 94. The share market continues firm, and prices on the whole are pretty well supported. Orleans have advanced 121 r. M. Prondhon, having violated the formal engage. ment which he had taken not to write offensively in the newspapers against the government, has been transferrtd to the Donliens, (or which place he set out yesterday morning accompanied by two agents of police. The You du Peuple contains an energetic protest by M. Proadhon against his traoslatioc. All the newspapers of Angers were seized on Saturday,forthe accounts they gave of the disasters of the 16th. _ _ _ Tue number missing from the battalion of the 11th, which was precipitated into the Maine is 219. 181 were interred on the 19 h in the same grave. The number of wounded is 87. The river is dragged to discover the bodies of the remaining 38. The only civilians who perished were two agents of the police, who were stationed on the bridge a: the moment. The company of National Guards, in which Leclerc fought in fune, have been called on to rign an attesta tion of the act of herioam, which has been assigned as the motive of his candida cy. The Napoleon strongly advocates the candidacy of Leclerc. BOURSL PARIB, Aram a. For For Account Noary. ,Opriung Husboot- Levert. Cloning per edits. ....... 33 63 53 G 5 SS 73 3.5 53 55 33 per Cat 5...... 4O , $9 40 N 33 MP 25 20 30 do. New 09 SO per 77 0 per Crow ....... le 0 90 katbILOWS 91. lasdan: si ta 53; in ram iS 45. 3 per Ceuta ....... Spar Como. 3 do. New LISS per Cad& pre Onto Patboopo • L %W AN 3, 1340 Do. 3, 1143 Do. di Do. 3 Piedmont I par Onto. 33 63 6940 77 " 0 69 0 0.041: 1001 MONO. it4l gOe at 0 I /1I SI r •1 to 33; in rays, :3 43. Naomi &Was— . 94 Sklanr, Roman I.uar, 1949 rei „ uato, d0....11130 ni Treasury Bonds ... Bank 9bares 5113 ~ Bottom Paris and (Heart 713 ; Paris and Bouen, 310 Roues earl Iberia 210; Strasbourg and Bale, 10.1 73; Oilcan. and Vinson. 317 SO; Orleans and Beedesuz, 300; North, 417 30; Parts and storboare, 330; Tours and Kontos, 226 23; Illonteresu and Troyes. Ve; Dieppe and Decamp, 170; Marrodles sad AVignaav 333 1 3141; Versailles trigat bask), 100; do. (left beak), 143. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. A telegraphic despatch of the Cologne Gazette, dated Berlin, April 19, 10 P.N., declares for certain that Mere Von Usedom had delivered the Prussian ultimatum to the Danish plenipotentiary on the 17th instant. Prussia, in the name of Germany, proposes a treaty of peace, in which the rights of the Ducheis Schleswig-Holstein shall be reserved in a form similar to the saving clause in the resolution of the Bund in 1848. All the states of the Bond are invited to concur in the act of Prussia. Whether Denmark will accept the proposition is very uncertain. ERFURT, APRIL 18. The Stmatenhaus at Erfurt sat this day. The Pre sident Auerswald opened the sitting at 10 o'clock. On the election of a president for the remainder of the assembly, Anerswald received 58, and Count Arnim Boytzenburg, 23 votes. The former was declared elected. Von Watzdorf and Count Solna Laubach were then elected vice-presidents. The debate on the report of the constitution com mittee woe then resumed. The Volkehaus sat to-day. At the commencement of the sittinr, it was anneuesed that deputies Volker ' of Gies sen, and Bulls, Berlin, bad missed their seats. The dia. torsion of the report of the soseraittes on the coastitutioa then commenced. The amendment of the committee on par 188, regulating entails, wse accepted. An amendment by Vidalia, exempting mom of removals of judges from the supreme court from the operation of par . 176, was accepted. The following amendment, by Von Bode'. schwingh, wee adopted The proseedinp of all civil and criminal courts shall be public, except in cases where order end morale would be endangered • the judges may then make an open order for suspending publicity." Prince Reuss wepored en amendment to • par.. 177, to leave to the jury only the question of feat is difficult criminal and politi. ores. Risen objected to any each limitation of the func tion of the jury. The proposition was rejected. Alter • short discussion the remaining clauses of the chapter on f un damental rights were /4014, and the discussion of the electoral law commenced. BERLIN, Arum 17. A cabinet order has been addressed to General von Bonin at Hamburg, directing him to summon all the Prussian offioers in the service of the duchies to return to Prussia immediately. Thirty-three of them have complied with this summons, but seven or eight have renounced their commissions in the Prussian army in favour of the duchies. This step seems to confirm the statement that Prussia intends to withdraw altogether from the affair. General Willison has addressed a general order to the army, in which he thanks the retiring officers for the eminent services rendered to the duchies, and szyreasse a hope that they will not forget their former brethren in arms. The three men of confidence entrusted with the now attempt to conclude a peace with Denmark by direct negot.stions at Copenhagen, left Kid on the 14th inst. to proceed by way of Lubeck. It is understood that they will be received by the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs. They are, Count Reventlow Farve, Syndicus Prehn, and Heinzelinann, a government councillor. The widow of the gallant Marshal Vorwartz, Prince Blucher, died here last Light after a long and painful illness. Aran, 18. ......... It is not impossiblo that the Central Federal Commission will cease to exist with tho end of this Meath. of the employis have written from Frankfort to their friends here, stating that they ex peet to rotate home in the course of a few weeks. The% negotiations which have been pending for the prolongation of the eon , vention of the 30th September are said to have failed, in consequence of the refusal of Austria to ac knowledge the independence and legitimacy of the Erfurt union. The Omstitutional Correspondence of this morning assures its readers that the Prussian ' government will not eater upon any further negotia ihmewith Austria respecting the larger oonfedera fiat, until the Austrian government shall have recog bleed the units. The Prussian government intends to demand the recognition of the union by all the European States. Count Baton has iarived in Schwerin from Erfurt, and has now definitively undertaken the duties of president of the ministry. and minister 'for foreign affairs in the duchy. His sudden return had left his acceptation of the officer In doubt. BERLIN, Arm 19. Diverse reports are in circulation respecting dis sension in the ministry; the cause is said to be the Erfurt parliament. Manntetifflrl and Von der Heydt are reported to be vary anxious to prosecute the scheme of the union and to afford every possible faci lity to its completion. In this view they are opposed by Brandenburg and Pobleinitx. It is well known that Count Brandenburg bas only lent his name to the present ministry, and that he is at heart a friend of the Chelarsh party. The latter are extremely anxious for office, and, believing that the present moment offers a much better opportunity than they have before pos sess. d,they have need great efforts to influence Count Brandenburg in their behalf. There are some grounds for believing that they have succeeded ; one of these is very striking. On the opening of the Erfurt par liament, the government took by the haul the little Erfurt Gazette, caused it to be enlarged, and adopted it as a ministe rial organ; in the first number, in its enlarged form, this fact was announced with great complacency by the flattered editor. All the articles which have aims appeared in the .Erfurt Gazette have described the Prussian ministry as continuing highly favourable to the union, and, though opposed to the en bloc adoption, now that it had been carried by a large majority in bath houses that they would accept that decision and act upon it. Such is the state ment of the ministerial Erfurt Zeitung. But theDeutsehe Refmrrm, which also possesses the ministerial character, hints in gloomy and vague phrase at directly the reverse, describing the decisions of the parliament as ruinous to the strength of Prussia and her position as a European power. What can be augured from such a contradiction between ministerial organs but that they receive their inspirations from different members of the cabinet, who entertain different views. Mean while both homes at Erfurt have been so diligent in their revision that a very few days will lift the curtain. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, APRIL 16. A measure is in contemplation for giving to Generals Hay nen ar d Jellachich the estate, of those Hungarian magnates who fell in the revolution fighting for their country's friedom. The papers take no notice of this proposed atip beyond a very small paragraph con veying its possibility. It excites much attention in all liberal circles ; for it is a step which reminds all of the practice in Russia to apportion the property of those who have been condemned for political crimes among the tools who assisted in their condemnation. It is said that Ilaynau will receive a large portion of the estates of the murdered Count ;Batthyanyi, while the landed property of Kiss, who was also judicially murdered, is designedf or the Ban Jellachicb. APRIL 20.—Voihntary LAIIIA, 105]; National Debt, 86e Bank Shares, WI. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. The Gazzetta di Ferraro announces that this city is t ' , be placed on the same footing as Bologna and Ancona. Besides the superior command of the city and fortre's, there will be an Austrian commander. SARDINIA. The sitting of the 15:h of the Senate of Turin was entirely taken up with the debate on postal reform, which was again adjourned to the next sitting. The Chamber of Deputies voted the madifications intro• &iced by the Senate into the bill on the Sanitary Ma ritime Consults of Cagliari, by a majority of 132 to 6. The Minister of Finance presented several bills calcu lated to equalise the receipts and expenditure of the state. The Minister of the Interior presented a bill on the cultivation of rice grounds. M. Buffa after wards addressed a question to ministers on the circu lar which directed that the sittings of municipal councils should not be public. The Minister of the Interior declared his readiness to assume the reaper si bility of that measure, and explained the reasons which induced him to adopt it. A very animated de bate ensued, which was adjourned to the following day. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE. APRIL 5. The Hungarian fugitives have left Brouesa for Kutaya (Ktutabie). Previous to their departure the Magyars drew up and forwarded to the Porte a pro test against this proceeding. The Poles did not join in the protest. General Dembinski remains at Bronasa until his nationality shall be decided. Achmet Elf.ndi arrived in Bucharest on the 21st ult. The Russians do not seem seriously inclined to quit Wallachia; notwithstanding the orders they have received, they employ all sorts of evasions in order to remain at least until the Anglo Greci►n difficulty is settled. Count Stiirmer has communicated to the Turkish government a despatch from Vienna, in which the Turkish note is accepted; he at once demanded an audience for resuming diplomatic intercourse. The Grand Vizier replied that the Sublime Porte was very happy to tind the Austrian government had adopted a more conciliatory tone; but that being very busy just at that moment, he would inform the Austrian ambassador in the course of a fen• days, when it would be more convenient to receive him. The resumption of diplomatic intercourse may therefore be regarded as settled. It is left exclu sively to the Turkish government to determine when the fugitives shall be liberated. REFUGEES FROM HUNGARY. The following communication from Lord Dudley Stuart was received by the Mayor of Southampton, R. Andrew', Esq. oa Saturday: " Literary Esq., of the Friends of Poland, Sums Moabite, Duke-street, Bt. James's, Friday, April 19, 18.50. My dear Mr. Andrewe,—By 'dykes from Malta, I learn that ' abbot 100 Polish officers and soldiers, who served lut year in the Hungarian army, have been sent to that alma oa board *frigate by the Turkish government. They have been hospitably received by the governor, who has furnished them with the means of whetstones, and of proceeding to this country. About 80 of them are expected to land at South ampton from a steamer very shortly. The rest have been shipped on board a sailing vessel, which was to leave Malta in the beginning of this month, sad which will call at South ampton, and either land them there or proceed to another place of destitution, accoraing to letters which will meet them. I have in my possession a letter from the Governor, in which he Mates that the uptain of the ship will be furnished with a letter from his Excellency to you, requesting your good offices for these brave but unfortunate exiles on their arrival. To his Excelloccy's request I beg to add mine, and I should further be particu larly obliged to you if you woad write to apprise me of the arrival of these refugees as soon as it takes place. The officer is command of the refugees on board the sailing vessel Is Major Edward Dewockowtki, and with him is IL S m e al us t a a la su ntki. tsTletlaitttierbmisipre. English. f poib be e h ar e Loir g e ea rno t r ha o t f on her voyage. 1 mention to you this tits obligedvessel to s i h roosed ould not pay port dais at Southampton if she is suggestion, though I entertain little confidence of its being practicable to sot epee it. Well knowiag the pleasure you feel at all times in doing good to your fillomcreatures, and who are sufferers in the cause of i p i a b e rt n ic y u , la p rly urstir i rt s ltaa I need not apologise for troubling you oa title omosten; and counting on your hearty 00-opera- Son in the object proposed, I remain, my dear Mr. Andrews, "are isithral D t u is a e xett r:e. C i u pt o woof the traabo . ut v; ' mnsed tel his worship, as admiral of the poet, resolved en retaking the port dues on the sailing vessel. He also sought interviews with the customs' dock and railway authorities, who immediately offerei to grant every facility for the landing of the exiles, and to remit every potable expense to them. The steamer lia7 on iu which 90 of the refugees are expected is the Indus, which was hourly expected at Southampton, when our corn 'loud eat wrote last night, with the India mail. Captain Engle. dug, the superintendent of the Oriental Company. unhesi tatingly °Cored to allow those who came in the Indus to sleep on board until they soul 1 get other aecommodation. Toe Mayor loud a handbill on Seturday night, on which was printed Lord Dudley Stuart's litter, and on which also be rolled upon the ishabitanrs to furnish lodging and sup port for the 70 exiles who well land from the sailing vessel. There is every reason to believe that his worship's call will be respaided to, end that the brave and unfortunate exiles will cap:Timm': a hospitable reception iu Southampton. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. TORNADO AT NASSAU.--GREAT FIRE TRINIDAD. _ The Royal West India mail packet Avon, Captain Haat, arrived at Southampton with the West India' aod Mexican • mails, yesterday, a t 7 a . m., sad th.„ were landed in charge of Lient. S ou th, R . N ., Ada ratty agent. Her dates are—Vera Cruz, March 19. Tampfoo,lB ; Havannab, 28 ; Honduras,l3 ; Jamaixi, 25 ; St. logo de Cuba, 22; Demerara, 21 ; Trinidad, 23 ; Bar babes, 27 ; Antigua, 29; Martinique, 297 Orenada, 25 ; Porto Rico, 25; St. Thomas, 31 ; N, eau, 31; Bermuda, April 7. The Avon brought home 330,000 dollars from Tampico sad Vera Cruz, 81,505 of which are on • count of Mexican dividends. The purer of the Ai was not aware that any further remittance in biiiti account of the dividends was on board. He believed there was not, because be had heard nothing t ror Messrs. Macintosh and Co. on the subject. She also on board a large cargo of jalsp, totrteco, ei; arrowroot, succades, vemells, turtle, and 101 sengers. The Avon came home in 14 days : she made miles in 24 hours on the 15th. As the Avon was approaching Nassau from . vannah, on the 29th and 30. h of March, she ezpe. rienoed moat strange and fearful weather. The be. rometer fell to an extraordinary degree, fierce goats r wind swept over her, and she was deluged On arriving at Nassau, on the 31st, it was fund a terrible tornado had passed over the is the day before, and had swept the strong buildings and gigantic trees from rff ezrth. Every vessel in the harbour, alth• they had not a shred of canvas on, were blown d•. and literally buried in the water, while the tornado wee rushing over them. Even a new vessel that on the stocks was turned completely over. Suet theextreme rapidity of the tornado in passing on island, that from the mom..nt it was experienePd proacking, to the instent it had vanished, sew one minute had elapsed. In the twinkling of an as it were, it had swept over the Warta with a and fatal swoop, and had prostrated houses, de , fated fields, and destroyed human life. It appears that for three days before the for happened the weather had been rainy at Nassau. The showers were, however, genial, and were infinite service to the soil, which was hard thirsty. On the fatal Saturday, toe 3() h," tie ( says an eye-witzo se, " was ushered in Crk cloudy, and the lowering horizon menaced rain. the day wore on the clouds thickened, and the ablut mid-day began to fall in torrents. At a ( I , to I in the afternoon there was a sudden lu:,. horisoa became darker than before. The bar, fell to 29.74, and suddenly there was ' as the fl a mighty river.' On it came in irre,istible am stroying strength from the sc.uth-west. I;ains first felt its fatal influence. A great 1:,,r the frail houses of the poor iticlustruriu, boaters and artisans residing in that loci bent and fell beneath the prostrating blast, bur in their ruins the hale and vigorous man at we,k and tender child. The spectacle was the ti I ever beheld; near fifty houses must hay< thrown down. It was over the ruins of fallen and cabins, and over the mutil.ttel fragments nituro with which the roads and paths were sti that I had to wend my way. Lamentation and ing reached me as I neared some prostrated du, I saw the dead bodies of two men and four cl. and two women who had received frightful injt Grant's Town preserts a mournful picture; excellent substantial buildings have been pal demolished. Tree ruins were apparent on every In many of the yards were fragmt nth of house' had been blown there by the wind fr. m a d star more then a quarter of a mile! Tne conk turret of the cnitf justice's hoes,. was hurled ground, which it covered with its fragoment•. of the shingles were torn off the body house by the force of the wind. The wal fences in the neightourhood were prostrated. kitchen in Mr. Tyne's yard, and an outbuilding. thrown down, and the eastern p.irtion Mr. Armbuster'e residence received injury. Fulford's house in East Shirley-street, and Mr. by's in Culmer-street, were blown down. Mrs. ford, with one of her children, was in her hose it fell, but escaped. In East Bay-street sevtrai bourn had come to the knutd. The admiralty agent and several of the offi( the Avcn went over the ruins. It appears trot observations that the breadth of space ewer 01 the tornado was not very great, but the Irma. power of the latter, and the shortness of its dui we. e most extraordinary. A small compact In which formed a blacksmith's shop—in lac , box, built with stone and brick in the most r manner—was literally torn to pieces acid swept The governor of the Bahamas had a r arrow e , he was just about to take luncheon, but ddaye, so while he finished a letter; just at :bet ra, the tornado came, and swept that parion house where his luncheon was pruri.'e,!. atm'. twenty-aix years since Nassau was juelly-dreaded tornado, the dire ecou•ge tropics. At the request of the governor the Aar: agent delayed the departure of the Avon a tew to answer correspondence, because the Arc' k;,l dt liver the mail from England to Nassau on ward paaesge. When the Avon left Nearer dead bodies had been found, and eight or tor. pi had been discovered dangerously wounded. A terrible fire took place in Port of Spain. dad, on the 7th ult., which destroyed rope the amount of 12,000/. reeling. No sueb happened there since 1808. Had it not been miracle almost, the whole of the valuable per the business part of the town—the substantial Ingo and the immense amount of property in them—must have been comurued to and many of the most prosperous chants reduced to bankruptcy, and rt lees families involved in the general be, and ruin. The fire broke out, there is ceery rea believe, accidentally, at about eleven o'clock . night of the 7th ult., and was not got under six o'clock the following morning. It coalmen. Marine-square, between Wainrighie and Spat stores. As soon as the fire was discovered the bells on all the churches and chapels rang on. flambee of the engines were drawn to the spot portion of the 72nd and 2nd regiments were there also to work the engines and guard the perry. The police, the stipendiary magistrat colonial secretary, and the Attoruey-Uenero rushed to the spot for the same purpose. Wann stores, wherein 1,000 barrels of tiaur stood, Cu , ' and Sauvag.ee's stores, Craddock's hotel, and t; residence were destroyed. The erdnance depat with a large quantity of shells loaded for use. variety of other ordnance store., were at one great peril. The shells were conveyed away. puncheons of ruin were rolled on the quay thrown into the sea if necessary. The lowtr of the Port of Spain behaved nobly in ret assistance ; even women were seen working i men, and many of those engaged Trinidad riots, six months ago, were seen lal disinterestedly in removing and guarding It and stores, and though they had an opporti purloining to an immense amount, nothing wt As soon as the fire was visible to the shipping harbour all the crews of the merchant vessel ashore, and rendered efficient assistance. Everything is going on favourably at Lord Harris is still highly popular. About hogsheads of sugar will be made this season. • the passengers by the Avon is a negro gent Doctor J. 11. Vries, M.D., who visits Eng, submit to the government a plan, founded on se experiments, to supersede steam as a Prol power. Amongst the passengers by the Avon is CI der Michell, late in the command of 11.M.5. who has b.,eu dismissed her Majesty's i.eiv sentence of court withal at Jamaica fur rurni Sappho ashore near Honduras. The serum been much criticised in the West Indies. It tv sidered most severe.. The neighbourhood of Ik is the most dangerous and ditlieult to navigate western world. There was an irregol.mi it is stated, in the formation of thr which t. it CouttrAnder M.ehal, two ,111 e ,, sat on it fee one ship; and ic is asser4l commander was convicted ou the evid nee f his subordinate cili,ers, whose chargcs commander were declared by the s frivolous and malicious. Commander 'l tN . AT own [adis they cloat. 119 ; idad, , 29 ; NU. from 111 8. 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