The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-14 00:00:00

ss•-'''''' - ' --- , . " ------- Tki s. i • . 1 . I . et. nag iris sra tura .it ISCOCIS i s .-6.. exesehlations , , it , on e of bachrlas of orb la tin departssols. be ii i ;„ .0 tiest in tar e stablishasats at the fiats the rush u d stra wry autocue. leternotion night kayo kat in " i s. bet it bed staled in tenet. (Intsesuptien sad 0.. ... m 0 d a ) Ile Itoa. sinister, wallies ustil Wan .. 1. 4 t. t rid. °tunnel that Ins tat arianfirmid that ell . „ e row t understood what he uteamt—(yes, I L:ttsot las now id instruction as Mao sularied, We, i„..s ase to tire. It sad„ history, tint at otiose" a. 4 .: e h ,i,.. 1 lasasso a s h taught. Thu best it ....1 RA It. d. Led that there won nal sampsanadas. IL . . 4 ,,, t s Pa boreerabls taieister this wok& to I 1,, ..e au movadneent of M. Vallee. sod that no ' it , g , , e ss. at e Gold oppose it. The foottothoot WM , t.. maws et BB esedruits es liksty to hal Os lie Mg ~.„,....i a s senestissotly support that punkin stag %I filliiiLLENT ST. BILIS' Eshadsd fM sttuk oases es it by IL de Ilsassimaltril2 hi remark/ referred tip the swat measly M. irbereia dos collars dP a ds ssariz s m e rr •I. oad semi vity theft walla • tilt k• 141 of Press/ sad Zusgasa Wise- i .tohitot mews. the hon. pugilism eormthemated the by the h n. =Mister with roped to the he. r:, sort ,e in thr hying Impart. The Ortek z. aa we. wet important with ward to labia • * mai ta atialy et tbat tames,. Thbed beta steed a dead ▪ t b r r atan mad 1620. asks to M. Bimetal, •• sa4 to he gratarrar, the study el Greek kid beta soil, se a l it was now carried farther is Frames them it „ etU , The university bed also wads t -.r ie the 9.11..• or philov , pby, and had also ttradeeed g: •ICt• to tol l sies. lie admitted that a telling off in ,• torte i• I tertry mitten had taken pleat sines is hat the isstirenity had cot any share to that resale. re' re: • ilialmint could not, thoretore, be blamed for it, say ■ r. toss it watt for baying prepared denotrac sad the u :'e Ile (M. Bit helve; de St. Hilaire) the s. n o, to be eatttled to pram for pail:Meg the nations st Asia Wattage, aid maintain d that the doeumeuts n,, fe`t P.ll M. is 'dental abort did not prove any tailing u toe ' ,sera! wane 01 Leak.. They only proved that itewinows they bad not been so good SS could have • wetted; and, when those rams were mentioned, it .11 also have bees inquired whether the pupas thus bed set woe tees rive* lamb. A. a t iloaleatata was warm is the estiatry, and ...v.:, melon *sea. d Fraud I.r erutialiati m in that ? ,.;..et. It was a 'nein pot of the entemetk ef Fria e, a ught be called Ittr satamal unity. Was it po.siole • de Mtn alemb.rt to think that the sesdemis td, Imola &tantalise int•llittecite ? That would be wattle, it it wiry rtn !dried how they wit, to be coin •d. The Iwnourable representative diem referred to the , almost, drelosior that he shield support it, Mace the •nie councils would set net fee the pupae of adwaciag airs. but for political objects. M. Portsis bed the day awes forward, to make fresh reeervetioas. The rev. ; era had, however, his moos tor emending the tri• . a e.c.ud time. This mama was that the clergy • : wad the bishops to the oeuneil, it the law bolted. sod . Wu*. to • tomnate may it it did not sit. The elegy . lie;ore entering into tiny engagement, to recites • ~r , b et, c ol of their foreign SOO. mi. a. (Manners= the • •:•p ',lotion on the Left.) The honourable amber - dt y declaring that what N. de Illoatelembert per . we. not the swoop ly of the university, bat the Ws , . prevailed in it—that spirit which bad led to the • ni 1799, had which it was attempted to dries bee • • .i 'evert hill. It was that thought which be (111. 1.0 my ltt. liVeirc) would always combat. , j -day, NI. Theirs got up in reply, and said that be ' • o• think that the 7th clause then under debate • peril. M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire himself would e r It was not to deft ad the article that be felt himself called to the tribune. It was C. ,- to &boyar some charges, in order that the As -,:v might ratably vote the article. He was not :hoer who always regretted the past and the L is ter:O r ; ; !: e had never desired the revo : . .un et Fe , and they knew it. (Murmers on 1.•!;) Hi. oppo• ition under the monarchy had r • o•te7 aim bat that of preventing that revolution. 1:::. 9,k,c1 (said NI. Thiers) why I now offer my •,, men whom I formerly opposed, to M. die M..ii•iembert, to NI. de Parisis. I will answer freely, ,as ever. The revolution has created great tiarget ttoncid as, dan,:ere which it is impossible to r...,ut.ivistani. Well, with a view to oppose those de.grm I hive thought that I ought not to refuse my timid tcmen who offer me theirs. (Agitation.) I am united with my friend, M. de Montalembert. (" Oh ! of '".:d v.unnurs on the Left.) Yes, M. de Mon tee obi it my fr"c• d. I am united with my friend M. de Montalembert, to combat those dangers which wo ail tee, (Aperohatien on the Right.) The (traits wnich bad taken place in him (M. Thiers) w.re t , t the mar chstges wrought by the revolution el February. That revolution bad estranged other flosophic minds and ideas, and liberal ideas. Never ttel.ee, the change* attributed to him (M. Thiers) acct not so censidersble as was supposed. H- had aye preferred the gre t religious society of Louis XIV. to the sceptical, disputatious society of our own •ine. He had admired greet minds of the last oen t.:l—tte Volaires, the Buffune, the Montesquieu— (es:lam .tien)—but unhappily our are has borrowed Ling from that century bat its csptious and sceptical Society under Louis XIV. was great, reiigious. educated: and that did not inter fro with the a:ce mplishment of great things. It. IM. Thiers) still thought that the university in -I:•.:*.tion was superior to any other. But he was con f.ti elitist the scale of the general mind was lowered. Among the causes of this were, Ist, the democratic tree of mind. (Murmurs on the Loft.) Let them think that he was a declared enemy to the re -it was their legal form of government; but it wee the one they had spoken of just now. ("Oh, on.") Under a democratic form of government there were wary men who knew a little, but few who keew very much. This democratic state, moreover itdamed ambition, but not of a praiseworthy had. ltc speck( r went on to enumerate the other cause' of he gradation of mind and studies. Such were : the tact for material enjoyments; aversion for all per- Lbour ; the habit o f putting upon society Lae Lame for all evils. He had constantly wet wi mety other instances and complaints of onsisciss au; and discontent in youth. His answer was, 'lVoric, and you will succeed." He did not the university with haring caused all these ills; 1111:Ott Land the cause in the march for novelty, is a depraved Luray taste, and in the absence of religions ideas. ]lid they not find evil in the open manifests. :ion of vices which menaced democracy as well as the ska.archy ? did they not find evil in the fact that they hid te appeal to all social forces to op po se them ? Let trim look at F.-.gland, and see how, niter having d sc.aeed the rights of liberty, the nglish bowed Lenore their young royalt From the M oautaiu .— Well, be off to England. M. Thiers—No, I will remain in my country; I will never quit it. _ . . • [Lift pietist .] 111, re was a heavy fall at the Bourse to-day. lar Almourit. PAWN 1E3.13. i Ter .. Mosey. , Opells rt.l 0 Codas .• i I egt, sat Cosa.- ........ .... ill 1/1 IS 6 14 0 00 0 5 .1,.. Sew Las.. . • • sl me 41 14f Cent 5............ . 1.4 row 4 Po eloio ..... o• a Lu.Ssame ea lonlos . : ill 4141. SO 406 NI illifo. " ls 314. be•iiiis, k lift ...... I% nem. Naple• lairias... 33 N limey. Um. 1.. UM ...... In ~ . Rams Lama .. 17.. 41 : TN Ilem.- 1)20 .. Do. 3 I • •Lsart 3pa Oats. le „ „..L—hiris awl Odom. 610; Pads led loss. 31173 ; 0.. ri taxi Ilawok 230 ; Mims oil Ilmrsollir, XS 111 ; Iline -1,..., • awl Br* 11013 ; Ores (Timm), SIN; Odom sad Oar. En E. 411313; Nortben, 143 7s; lissiereen ind Weiss. 110; P. • ~, .thobourg, 35130. Itorosal Naar. US 73; Versaillas ir r. •,.a.:, 11 1 ,3 23; Vanilla (IN bank). ISO IL SPAIN. MADRID, Fan. B. The Gnueta of to-day contains a royal order direct ing that porrnn% in the employ of government, whose of It I. to collect monies and pay them into the lands of govt rnment, us not to be allowed for the future to suh-t fact their salaries from the said monies, but to pey them entirely into the tresanry, and that tf any person having a government situation has lass , to pay for any title or honour conferred on him, "' torlht pay such taxes in money, and not in orders Of. tt.,. government pay-office. for the arrears of his bliary ITALY. - - ROMAN STATES.—Letters from Rome of the 4th inst., state that there was &rumour that the papal ban had been concluded with the house of Rothschild 1 , 1 ten million of dollars, at the rate of 78 for every nominal hundred. N I•l.Es.—Our Naples correspondent, writing on V.( i 7!. kw., informs na that there Deemed "at length vOitibility of the departure of the Pope." His holatts had bvta heard to declare that he knew there e ,, ,spiracy to prevent his retain to Rome, but that h.. sir, determined once again to visit his states. The Fill: per Coate. were at 92. GERMANY. Piltxx~. Pas L The easeserial et Brack cm the Austrian project for a German Costeme.enies, which appeared in the Menem el this morning, farms the chief topie Cl dissuseien. Metre seems to prevail bare as little hurry far an mom se =potation of a speed y deci sion, where natienel lateness ef seek magnitede are cosernmd. It is ypea that Irieri Reichstag will handle the prshl aisary Tooth", and thee is eine teem to fear that the pretesensaist party will bestrew in that aisembly. The rural onnforeaco en onstase is not expected to bike place before the middle of the summer. Is the meastima t there is some talk of an Industrial Congress at Lips* during the great exhibition of manufactures. An extraordinary courier brought on the 29th eh. a very important desoatelt from Frankfort, which I counted is a memorisr, trawl' up by General Bohan leak, ale of the federal commisnioners, on the general state el Germany, with observations epos the re-orga ideation of the army of the German confederation end an the system of defence necessary to adopi agaiest Frame. In coesequeese of the *oddest which happened at Parades orders have been given that the troops are not to be moved daring a solder temperature than 12 deg. Rummer below the freezing point: sod that troops on march are to balt sad rem a day or two daring severe weather. The Krosseiliter ZoVteng eznoenose that the Hen- Boris. *Arse were transported on the 18th ultimo from Bhamla, en the way to Asia Minor. The Greek minister, &graph." to the court of Bt. Petersburg, left Vienna on the morning of the Bth, at haltpast five, by a special train for Cracow. Ilsastsr, ha. IL—Wats/7 Tessa, 1071. Nodes& Debt, as. Oamsendel Narias Soddy% Prieses, loy. Desk Shares, SS. Funds and sham very dull VIESIPA. Fas. 11.—}iv• pee Oast. Natard4tas,lls; Doak Mures, 1,140, izebsece es rraa , k nu. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 14, 1860. MN Court. The Date at W fw had ea audience at the Quota oleel et Palma His mem Wpm. Priam Albert prodisi ysMarday Armen at a m was Mag ths shams sad sausbars of 'osmium at the Soya Comiaist Iso ths Bs hibitisa of 1861. The we*, wee held at ineldegheee Palish st three o'clooklad was Wasailed W Mai Granville, Lord fittalsy t Nsheril Melamne" /r Owls, Lyall,tlir Hew Do La Desits, MMus Mr. Thongs F. Chinos, Prokwar Owes, Mo. lirsarip Mr. M.P., sod Dr. Dr. Raffia. Mr. Sash Ur& mended ee aaaetsrl te the eseeneles. tieetrOsienst B.M. 11,1., Kr. Geary Oster eel Kr. Olieelee'W. MO weer la Wisdoms es eseeebete of the eseenGee_ canninee. the Ls. Godes Grey, his Repel Miabasses privies amrsoxy, ohs siassisi. The waling Maks rip took slants Warp eight Vele& The royal familyheir meal pony ead - welicteg nor. li ttr a Ltel li nheassihr end LeW:lottenitua. Lord George Lessen, and the light Roe. Mr - Fronds sad Lady Arsbons Drake, had ths MOVIE of dining with kw Majesty sad the Prises. primly mains, at Daridaglisat Parra Destabilise fona the W. verawe of the Bahamas were rewind, yesterday, at the Cokelakollee. THE REDUCITON OF THE ARMY. The following is a copy of the dunks memoran dum relative to the reduction in the army: Rom Gam . 6. Her Majesty laving been pleated to approv of a Feb farthor redaction in tho infantry, froin the 31st et Kara next, the following are the arresgements under which it is to be oar. tied into sleet, viz. : Firet — The 6th, 20th, 36th, 42nd, 44th, 46th, 66411, 67th, 69th, 76th, and 2nd battalion Rids Brigade, to be respes6vely reduced from 1,200 men to 1,000 rank sad file, and em dated into eat battalion. The raparitameran Akers of thew regiments will be retained ea the seresgtei of their respeollee oiler essead, with the eitoe, of the gorgeous, rend qumremmesters, who win be ~ea heitpsy. The seemed sijagemte will retools fa their wake et lien Moat =S IM epee may be. The Mimes will prepped st sed ease , soder the ssperleamidemer digestion of the poem' editor eons mmedfog Mae etedies e vednotion es he es may be theseessay sod seise dedsedng invalids, be the Momedletedimiorp et sub espentemerary noniammimiesed Wisp sod saga se may be desiress to quit the melee for the wpm of geWest is the 'sissies, or who can mum the memo et paeldhigies their removal to Rejlend Masse subjeetlag the pa Midis 'gage. Thais missals will homestead' bale ealyaemlaal depots, reelt as these maintained by regiment" la India, ass sting et ,s captela, who will, as fror.tellme, have charge of the regimental records (waisted, when ansaary, by one or two lieutenants), and five serpents and des corporals, detashed frees the regleaurst. fiecondly.—The Bth Regiment will be reduced from 14111 to 760 rank and Ale, the reeserod battalion being lewd lento an ordinary four-sompany depot of 210 rank gad Se, with such additional member as may be required to make up the establishment of the regiment; sad the whole of the supernumenry officers pieced on haltpey, and suck of the non.contreissioced .oflieers and men es are not inclined te transfer their services to other corps will be discharged. Thirdly.—The 11th , 58th, end 86th Regiment' will be reduced from 1,000 to 760 rank and file, and is like sonar formed into six service and four depot companies. The reduction of these regiments to 640 rank and file Ma (the establishment of the service companies), will, es far as practicable, be dilated by the discharge, on the spot, of molt noncommissioned °Moen and men u may be desirous of being released from the service with a view to becoming settlers, or who have the means of providing their own pas sage to England, sending home the proper establishment of officers and noncommissioned ruffian to form and organise the regimental depot. Lastly.—The depots of the lit Battalion Royals, 7th, 18th, 19th, 34th, 38th, tetth, 66th, 72nd, 73rd, 79th, 88th, 95th, and let Battalion Rifle Wracks, will respectively be reduced hem 230 to 210 rack and file, which will reedit be effected by discontinuing recruiting until the new esta• - meat shall be attained. The men to be voluntarily discharged, as above directed, will, of course, receive all the advantages they may be en titled to claim under the provisions of her Malesty's wet , rant, 'acceding to the length and nature of their melee ; but care moat be taken to select those for discharge, in re ference, who have been found generally the least efficient soldiers and whom, therefore, it may be deemed the least desirable to retain. By command, Joss MACDONALD, Adjutant General. The redaction will thus meant to 3,680 rank and file. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. MANCHESTER, Fan. 13. The meeting at the Free Trade Hall to-night to receive a deputation from the National Reform Asseciation, prombis to he a large gathering. The entire of the tickets. to the body of the hall are said to kayo been disposed of yes terday, and the weather and other circuesstasore ere as favourable as could be desired. The speakers are to be Sir Joshua %Insley, M.P. Georg* Thompson, Seq., M.P., Mr. Henry Vincent, Mr:Alexander. Mackay, and Mr. Edw. The only resolution is to be one declaratory of the necessity of a reform of the Home of Common, to the extent proposed by the National Re win Association, and pledging the meeting to sustain the efforts now being made to obtain that object. Besides the speakers, several Influential meat• berm of the National Reform Association are expected to be present as part of the deputation. THE AFFAIRS OF SCHI.ESWIO-HOLSTEIN. The Ch,lops Oasette, of the 12th, states that the ' Verwaltungs-rath is about to send one of its umbels into the duchies in ceder to emertain and roped yen the eatual Mate of affairs. This step is to be tabs upon the resemmesdatioa of the Prussian meat. A letter from Berlin in the eases journal that the Prussian government has jest forwarded to Baron von Worthier, its ambamador at Copenhagen, a very energetic note far communication to the Danish cabinet. The note refers to the following remarkable paragraph in the speech of the King et Denmark on the occasion of the opening of the Danish Diet : " The war is still unfinished : it L eniy suspended ; yet I hope that the ins tills= now begun will lead to the desired died Wes my misguided subjects should find support lei be led astray by a greater power." The note siderased to Baron Weedier remarks upm this pomp that if, ea is not to be doubted, Pros /is and Germany are alluded to as " the greater power," Denmark is engaged in negotiations with that power, which can hardly be mad* to harmonise with such expreeeians. The note then proceeds to say that the Prussian cabinet only refrains from more decided =mum and from an immediate rupture of the peace negotiations from consideration of the critical position of the Continent and the danger of a general European war. The Earl of Westmoreland and all the Prussian ambassadors at foreign courts have received copies of this note. REFUSAL OF THE DANISH GOVERNMENT TO RENEW THE ARMISTICE. BERLIN, FED. 11. The proposal of Lord Palmerston to the Danish government to renew the armistice of July 10 for six months has been rejected. GREECE. The Levant mail hu brought news from Athens to the 33th Mt. _ _ _ _ _ . - - The Obaervateur d'Athemes ' of the 28th, contains an acconnt of the sittings of the Greek parliament of the 19 and 20th ult. In the sitting of the 19th, of the Chamber of Deputies, AI. London, minister of foreign affairs, gave some explanation on the dispute pending between the governments of Great Britain and Greece. The following are the most remarkable passages of his speech: Permit me, gentlemen, to limit my explanation to those points which cannot, by being rendered public, endanger the situation, or my personal responsibility. When the re. prestatatins of H. B. M., and the admiral in command of the fleet in the Mediterranean required of me the immediate tulfilment of the demands addressed by them to the Greek government, they called upon the latter to declare, within twenty-four hours, whether it would or not comply within twenty-four hours. My answer was an impression of the senti ments of respect and petite& whisk the Greek government professes for Great Britain. On the tabor hand, those gen tlemen assured me that the British cabinet was desirous of maintaining amicable relations wish Greece, adding, however, that the question did not now bear upon the foundation of the demands, bat upon their execution. I wrath's obliged to ex plain to the hon. representative of Great Britain the difficult position in which the Greek government was at present found, and my inability to answer on the spot such import- ant questions, that interested the honour of the nation and the throne no less than the respect due by Greece to a friendly power like England. As the minister of her Britannic Ma jesty persisted in his demands, I thought it my duty to lay these facts before his Majesty the Xing, and to ask his pleasure. I then submitted the question to the ministerial council, having previously convoked a meeting of the most essitrnt lawyers of Greece, the pneidests of the Courts of Appeal and Caseation, the professors of the Usivsnity, hitt P. Airy , ropouloe, S. Pillions, P. Papeeigupealos, and M. Privilegois, and submitted to their examinations the points on which the demands were founded. The opinion of these en ' lightened men was, that the Greek government had right , on its side. M. Londen then examined each of the six demands made by the British government, already known to our readers. With respect to the hoisting of lonian colours at Patras, he observed that the circumstances of having arrested an individual guilty of that act, and known to be a bad character, could not be con strued into an intention on the part of the Greek government to insult Great Britain. As to the in demnity to M. Pacifico, the outrages committed against him had been repressed by the Greek government, and he himself recommended to submit his claims to a court of justice. M. Pacifico had preferred invoking the aid of the British government, and demanded an indemnity of 870,000 drachms, while it was certain he had never possessed so con siderable a fortune in Greene. The fourth demand, relating to Mr. Finley's claims, bad no foundation whatever in right, as Greek government had long before settled the matter amicably. With respect to the pillage of some lonian vessels by Tenons wearing the insignia of the royal army, the Greek government could not be held responsible for outrages committed by disguised malefactors. The sixth question, relating to the cession of the two isles of Sapienza and Elaphoniai (Cervi) had not been cetegc ricelly insisted upon by the British minister, who had referred to a note of Sir Edward Lyons, dated Dec. 18, 1848. The Greek cabinet, having studied all the facts and documents relating to the question, had sent an answer to the British minister, showing clearly the right of Greece to those islands, but, up to that mo ment, he had received no reply to it. M. Londe, thee informed the Chamber, that under the pre sent perplexing circumstances, the government had determined to follow a middle course, and begged the members to treat the Britiat government in their speeches with respect and gratitude due to a power that had hitherto been se friendly to Greece. After this speech, M. Palamidis rose to express his approbation of the course followed by go vernment. M. Dimitrakarakos followed on the acme side, but was so violent against England that the president felt it his duty to call him to order. The Chamber then adjourned. In the sitting of the same day of the Senate, M. Londe, repeated the state ments he made to the Chamber of Deputies. M. Tricoupis declared himself perfectly satisfied with the explanations given, and with the course the govern ment had pursued in this instance. His speech 111111 received with unanimous applause, and the Se nate separated. In the sitting of the deputies of the subsequent day, the minister of foreign affairs communicated to the Chamber the most rah coot correspondence which had taken place be twos the Greek government and the ministers of Fame and Russia, and also the latest notes ex sienged with the British minister. Theme documents hove already appeared. He then informed the Cham ber et the measures taken by the British admiral, with whisk the British public le already acquainted. He eassieded by ireessasadiag the deputies again to one the pads mideratiss is their language isapealdag of England. la the NW*/ of the Senate of the 20th the sum eimmealestioas were side by the prim mest The Tanoradi bad arrived at Atheism, bringing in telligence that during the recent gals the French fleet had been dispersed, and had tam refuge at 4 a6ou KUM from whwe it had subsequently sailed, without ialormation of its destinatiem. The admiral has seised all the Greek yes -1 eels in the r of the Pineus. This step was taken in ormerquence of several 'hips having left under the Russian flag, which they had received authorisation to assume. The islands of Cabrera and Sapienas have hese taken poisemion of by English paths. TURKEY, The Levant mail has brought new. from Constan tinople to the 26th of January. The official communications between Austria and the Porte had not been resumed, but M. de Sturmer was treating with the Ports without doing to ex. officio. The differences seem the more likely to be concluded s, fez as Austria is concerned, inasmuch as, being frightened by the agitations of the !Jervis, end the progress of Panidavism, that power is at :ions now to coanterse, es mach as pomible, the influence of Ramis. Achmet Effendi, of whose mission your t has informed you, w to have left for 73 ° 1= a r as the 30th ult. One of the grievances against Austria in this matter is the nomination, as coramissioaer at Shumla, of Tainatzi, a person who is involved in the charge of conspiring against the life of Kossuth. M. de litoff pretends that he has received the premise from England that the expelled Polish re fugees who have been mat to Malta shield be de spatched from thanes to America, or to our eettle meats in the Pacific. The affair of the principalities is I..amanita m Hors compli .cated, and to Tar key's against the entrance of tke last 10 , 000 ' men has answered by sending 300,000 more. The new. of the Greek blockade had reachedConetan tinople a short time before the departure of the mail, and caused a great deal of excitement. THE EXPEDITION UP THE GAMBIA. TO TIM IDITOS OP Till DOILY PIRO. 81R,—As many garbled statements, and untrue assentor's, have been made in several papers, relative to the expedition which was undertaken up the Gambia, Rimiest the King of Koltun', will you allow me to suite what reaLy were the bats, so far as they have mine to my know ledge. As I was on the expedition, I ought to be aequ iuted with them, and am desirous that the truth should be known. In the "oath of July, 1848, • More, belonging to a Lin don house trading to the Gambia, wee Pandered by the natives, some of the stolen goods were traced to the king's house. The mercantile hues addressed the governor, complaining of this outrage, and requesting him to see the king on the subject. He pew:tweed up the river in Feb ruary, and went to the king's town of /Luanne to remon strate with his sable majesty on the felony and out ' rage of which his subjects had been guilty. He was accompanied by the cohabit surgeon and the representative of one of the largest mercantile houses here. He and his companions had their fowling. pieties, as is the universal =mom with both Europeans and natives in this country. Whilst remonstration with the king on the subject he and his companions were assaulted ; he was strack on the head with, the butt-end of a gun, hit clothes were pierced through is several planet, and the lives of all three would probably have been sacrificed were it not that eons people from the neighbouring town of /Ca sella got round them and protected them. It was the universal opinion amongst the merchants and traders at the Gambia (Cr, at least, I heard of the opinions of only ate petsoa to the contrary) that, if this outrage were not pufsked, neith.r life nor property would be sate. It became, therefore, absolutely necessary, for the seke of the trade and the preservation of life up the river, that a severe punishment should be inflicted, but to do this was by no means an easy task.. Tin expeditions which had been previously attempted, although they had cost large suss and been undertaken with considerable form had failed ; and the natives con stantly boasted of their 'failure. I have not the slightest doubt, from all I hued and saw, that they were at this time convinced that they might commit any outrages with im punity, and were resolved to commit them. The result of our expeditioa against Keenung I confi dently assert has been to totally change this hellos ; and they one and all now declare that they will attempt to fight Englishmen. Capt. Hill had to march upon Keenung with a very in adequate force—be had only 220 men of the 2nd and 3nl W. I. Rests., some militia and volunteen, about 300 sltcgether. Ye was able to get only 80 labourers to carry water and each provisions and stores, as could not be taken in the few carts we were able to procure. We landed at Tenderbar on the Gth of May, on the fol lowing day we marched to Bambucoo. Additional defences had been thrown up round the town, and to do the natives justice they fought, as they always do, behind stockades, with great outlier and oolongs. We bad two men killed and some nine or ten wounded, but at length succeeded in destroying the place. On the 9th of May we marched to Keenung. Tnis place is a kind of fortress, and one of the strongest native ones in Africa. Four rum of trees, about the thickness of a man's body, are sunk some feet in the ground, and rise about eight feet above it. In some places there are five or six rows of trees. Artillery, unless very heavy, produces little effect on such a stockade. It might, however, be set fin to with famines, or blown in with bags of powder. We bed the town in several places with our rockets, tic , and theist completely destroyed it. A breach appeared practicable, but was found not to be so. Night wu now owning on, and it had to be decided whether the place should be com pletely destroyed on the next day or not. The reasons which decided the governor and the commandant not to do so were I believe perfectly valid. In the first place, without any of the (ales cantofexcestive humanity, it is very painful to destroy life beyond what is imperatively mammary. And agent, it was certain that many of our own men must have fallen. The King and many of his people had fled from the town, which was held by some; of the most desperate, assisted by Mahommedan emetics from the neighbouring towns. As these people give no quarter, they fancy they shall receive none from us, and therefore would have defended themselves to the last, and s)ld their lives as dearly u they could. Even after out men get into Bainbucoo, some were wounded from the houses. If any considerable number of our non had been wounded in addition to those we already had we could not have brought them back with us, the medi cal °Moen having reported the impossibility of moving many more. It is to be borne in mind, that the only object we can have in engaging in headlines with the natives of Africa, or any other savage or half-civilised people, is to inflict such an amount of punishment as will sister them from outrage and violence in future. The object to be attained is the same as in the punishment of criminals at home. There can be no doubt that such an amount of punishment has been inflicted in this instance, and the siorrutners el that opinion has been fully proved, since the persons really in a position to form a cornet opinion are the merchants and traders at Bathurst and MacCarthy's Island. With • single exception, they ad dressed the governor, declaring that the expedition had been absolutely necessary for the protection of life and property. They also addressed Captain Hill and his officers, thinking ' thou In the very strongut terms for the manner in which the expedition had been conducted, congratulating them on les emcee% and declaring they believed that the best results would felifor frees it. On our return on the 10th from Lassuag, the people of Quenelle met as to congratulate us OS OW GOMM sad promised to do everything in their Fuer Se meow outrage throughout the country. We rseneimoi for two days at Tenderbu, and some of tins neighbouring chiefs, who, when sent for before, had only returned insolent messages, now came in, gave solemn aisurances of future good conduct, and promised that they would give their attention to the cultivation of their lands and to trade. I have sines then been some four hundred miles up the river, and everywhere the declaration of the natives seas the some, "that they would attend to trade, and never attempt so sot white man again." And I have been assured by mend of the me rch ants and traders, that there probably amen was a year in whirl so large a quantity of land had bus hid down, in ground rents, and other productions of the senatry, u the present. Few persons, who have not been in Africa, can have any idea of what the condition of the African really Is in his own country. He is not the innocent African represented Zs go om , e, nor the mere savage fancied by others. The Man and most of the liahornedin tribes, have ;Waisted a metals' civilisation; but it is equally true that they have the vim el the half savage ; that they are boastful, lying, and treacherous ; and will constantly prefer plunder to steady industry, when not deterred by the fear el punishment; and will be guilty of any outrage when excited. I am fully persuaded that there is no man who more inti mately understands the African character, or who is more anxious to induce the _people to develop the reseurces of their country, than Mr. M'Donnell, nor one who would mete greater personal sacrifices for their advancement and welfare. Nor is there in the British army an officer less likely to use immensely severity or cruelty than Captain Hill, nor one of men gaudy and judgment. I have the hound to be, air, your obedient servant, A FRIEND OF TRUTH. MEETING AT BOLTON. On Monday last a public meeting was held in the Temperance liar., Little Bolton, on the subject of parlia mentary and financial reform. The spacious hall was crowded on the occasion ; and at half-past seven o'clock, Mr. Heywood, Mr. Winder, Mr. Crock, Mr. John Dean, Mr. Stockdale, and other gentlemen, escorted Mr. Doom Thomp son to the platform, amidst loud and general sheens'. Mr. Heywood was celled to the chair. Mr. THOMASSON said he had been requested to initiate the balsas of the evening by proposing the following reso lution : " That it is the deliberate opinion of this meeting,that the House of Commons, es at present constituted, does not fully and fairly represent the wants and wishes ..of the British people, and that a reform in that house, in accordance with the principles of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, has become absolutely necessary for the good government of the country; a thorough revision of the present unjust system of taxation ; and a more rigid eco nomy in the expenditure of public money." - - . After some remarks Mr. THOXAISON concluded by say ing that he came forw ard to join the National Parliamentary and Financial Refine Association, in the hope the tit would be the means of obtaining the franchise for those who were sejastly deprived of it. Mr. WINDER seconded the motion. Mr. 0. THOMPSON, M.P., on 'rising to address the a mtiag, was received with lend and continued cheering. lie commenced by observing that be regretted exceedingly to find that, on the present occasion, he was the only one present to represent the National Reform Association. With r egard to the bosinses of the meeting, he mast say th a t b e looked upon the House of Common, as a gross usurpation. They had no more right to make laws for the government of this county than would a body of gentlemen assembled is Timbuotoo. The House of Commons should be the peoples house ; but it waa so each thing. After some remarks respecting the divisions in the House of Commons on the ballot, fi nancial reform, &c., the h ono urable gentlem an referred to the condition of our colosies, and said that If the people of England should sesame the same attitude as the oolmisu of the Cape, the government would grant them the charter to-morrow. To the disaffected colonists, Lord John proposed to extend political privileges ; but he stated to the people of England because they were quiet, that it was Oct his intention to grant any measure of parliamentary reform. Would they be satisfied, on the mother mil, with • less measure of /m utual freedom than was granted to Canada or any other colony ? (No.) That was right ; stick to that. He doubted the sincerity of any man who professed to be • friend of the people, but did not come out boldly as an 'deo. cite of an extension of the enirrer. The honourable gentleman concluded • speech which occupied two kolas in the delivery, by exhorting reformers to lay aside all minor differences, and unite cordially in supporting this great movement for the enfranchisement of the people. - Mr. JAMES PARKINSON moved the second rm. lotion That this meeting, approving of the policy and plans of the National Reform Aunciation, pledges itself to sustain it by its eontributions to the 10.00 W., and by every other peaceable and constitutional means; and that a committee be appointed to carry out the resolution, consisting of Messrs. R. Heywood, J. Crook, T. Thomason, R. Stock dale, J. Dean, J. Winder, J. Esalsm, J. Parkinson, G. Dutton, P. Martin, J. Bell, Thomas Wood, and N. Wilson, with power to add to their number." Mr. R. lITOCIEDALB seconded the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. It having been arranged that members should be en rolled into the National Reform Association after the business was over, a number of persons availed themselve of the opportunity. MIMING IN NORFOLK. A soirie was held on Tuesday e at the Inde pendent Chapel, South Creek, to Mar ek , ddreeses from a deputation of the National RAM Association. Beyond 260 persons sat down to tee, end after the removal of the EXPLOSION ON THE YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND dab the chapel became thronged in every pert en BZZWICE RLILW/T.-0a Tessin the 'dimmed inquest ansative endienes_gsfisered hem the sumac agriwil on the bodies of John Tiskier sod Th omas Wilson was bald Omni adds*. The shalt was taken by the v. Mr. at DarliegtaeL The of the explodes • peered is 11.1111% who, Art leireelnaleg Mr. J. H. 'felled and Mr. the Express of . After the ex animati on of Thomas Wiarase, mainhsra of the deputatios, referred to witnesses, the jury reamed the following verdict, via., an unsesesseel end mew* made by We landkrds of this That Jets Tinkles end Thomas Wilson came to their Walley %Wien • memo of 600 arose that for Was issue dm* by the explodsa if a locomotive engine No. 36, on the serialised hew to the pmeessisa of the pose of (loath Creak, gad Feh. last., hat Isaw that coplosks was caused we have to the great advantage of the humble readmits of theneigh s • Nektrateryweldesse le show. We also recommsed that bourhood. The messing was sabsequsatly addressed at the smarmy Feeble vane to every train for the conveyance keg* by Mr. Tellett. Mr. Wiateer, and other gentlemen, el lice mese." Imams Howe, the guard, who was blown a amidst the seed enikusledle applaue, aad after *a wol ves* Mose, Mill lice in a very meadow Nita nal c 4 mum inroad. THE ALLEGED SEDUCTION OF WAGES. =OM OVA 00/131ISPONDINT. The Morning Poses assertion that the wages of the operatives in this district had hllen 12j per cent., as a coasequenos of free trade (or u a consequence of anything), was certainly a most audacious falsehood. Bine* my previous litter on this subject, I have ex tended my inquiries not only to all the various branches of the oaten trade in Manchester, but to towns and villages essay mfles around. There has not In every case been an advance certainly, bet in no in stance have I yet heard ofa decline in wages for tbe last two year.; whilst it Is a remarkable fact that in hand-loom weaving end fustian cutting—the branches which for many years have been most depreesed—the workpeople can warmly be found in suMment numbers to complete orders °ahead, and it would be absolutely idle to attempt to lower their wages. Generally 'peeking the bands demand an advance, and the instances are few in which they do not get it. The producers of heavy descriptions of power-loom cloth certainly could not afford in the present state of the market to advance wages. The salesman of a Man chester house told me yesterday, that he had just sold a quantity of heavy domestics at ed. per lb., the yarn in which, could the piece have been unwoven, would 'have fetched 9d. But in lighter goods, especially such as muslin', where the consumption of cotton is comparatively small—or mousellir e-de-laines, where worsted as well as cotton enters _ into the oon-_ sampbon of raw material the fabrics of these kinds produced by hand-loom weavers are obtained only at full prices or at an advance. I waited upon the managing partner of a very extensive firm, who employ about 3,000 hand-loom weavers upon muslin. These work people are spread over nearly the whole of this district, and the gentleman said, " We are paying higher prime for almost all kinds of weaving; whenever we wish to put out fresh warps the weavers require an advance. In many cases the hands will go on weaving at the old rates, where there is no change in the description of goods, but if we wish to make any change in the work, how ever alight, the weaver seises upon it as a pretext for asking some little advance of prioe." This gentleman said the hand-loom weavers in all the districts with • the shop scores running in my head, as they used to do." Another shopkeeper was able to refer to books, showing some of the old scores. It was the score of a !hinny of eight or nine persons, four of whom were workers in the factory, and, receiving their wages once in three weeks, discharged their shop-bill at the end of each of these periods. The shop-keeper gave sea list of provisions from an entry of this kind to the family in the beginning of 1848, and contrasting the prime which groceries and provisions of the same quithty would cost at the highest prices they have attained within th e last few years (that is before the alteration of tariffs by Sir Robert Peel, and the sub sequent repeal of the corn laws) with tho prices they would be supplied at now in the same shop, there was the following result: Highest prise. Present Wee. Flour, 411bs £0 9 6 .... £0 6 2 Butter, 31bn Boor, 31 lbs. 0 2 01 .... 0 1 61 CA'', 1 lb. Tea, 2in Cbsere, 1 lb. Quid's', 2 lbs. Soap, 11th 0 0 9 .... 0 78 Potatoes, 8011 s. 0 4 3 .... 0 9 LI 2 4 £0 13 51 It is almost needle,/ to remark that the difference in the price of potatoes is not the result of legislative measures, but the consequence of a more successful cultivation of this valuable esculent since the first great failure of the crop, in 1846. Nor I.as there been any change with regard to tea ; I have retained this item of the bill, along with that of coffee, to show how the duties operate to limit the consumption in such a family as this. It may be further remarked, too, that this is by ao means given as the whole consumption of such a family in the ordinary household necessaries for three weeks; it is about the total quantity of the articles mentioned; but oatmeal enters very largely into the consumption of people in this clue of life, and that, with some other articles, has been omitted, because there is little or no change of price. The list of articles hero given, however (with the reduction in fleahmest), will be sufficient to show that, independent of the money rate of wages of the working classes, the re duction of price in provisions and other household necessaries, from legislative and other causes, is of great importance to them; and how utterly worthless are the assertions of the Post. At Stockport there has been neither rise nor fall of wages generally ; the whole of the masters of that extensive manufacturing town are governed by a list of prices arranged with the trades union at the end of 1847. It bears date, "January 1848," and regu lates the prices paid for every description of spinning and weaving, and in all the pro:esses iecideotal to these. In the beat mills, however, the workpeople have the advantage of earning the same money in less time. Amongst others, I visited one of the very largest of these concerns. It is one in which both spinning and weaving are carried on. They produce chiefly the lighter descriptions of cotton fabrics, sui•able to the Indian market, and employ nearly 2,000 people. A list of their workpeople, with the average of their wages, taken on the 3rd January last, was laid before me. This applied to one of their miles only, in which are employed 987 persons. Of these the females em ployed in the various branches were: Spinning de partment, 70 carders, 34 throttle spinners, and 104 in mule spinning; weaving department, 68 in wind ing and warping, 6 as dressers and drawers, 249 as weavers, and 2 in the cloth ware house. The males employed in the various branches were: spinning department, 9 overloekers, 13 blowers, 28 carders, 18 throetle spinners, and 133 mule spinners; weaving department, 19 as over lookers, 23 as dressers and drawers, 235 t 1.3 weavers, and 12 in the warehouse. The totals give 554 males, and 433 females; and of both sexes a very large pro portion are mere children ; yet the average earnings of the whole were 10e. 11d. each at one mill, and the remaining 969 men, women. and children em ployed at their other works averaged lye. I each per week. By means of relays they run eleven hours per day, and the managing partner stated that by Improvements in the machinery, and other facilities given to the workpeople, they turn off as much work, and earn as mach money, in these eleven hours, as they did before the Factory Bill come into operation in twelve. Any inquiries with reference to the condition of operatives in Bolton, another of our largc-t mar.ufac taring towns, I felt certain must be favourable, be cause it occurred to me that at a meeting of opera tives held in Manchester (about the time the present speculations in cotton began to ope rate as a check upon some branches of the trade), to consider the propriety of demanding an advance of wages, it was alleged by one of the delegates in favour of the proposition that the opera tives in Bolton and its neighbourhood had already received an advance of ten per cent. The statement of an intelligent manufacturer in that neighbourhood was as follows: "The working classes are earning mote with us, for the same amount of labour, than they have dene these twelve years. They are not receiving quite so much for ten hours as they did in 1847 for twelve hours, but very nearly as much." He continued : " 1 should not say that free trade has proved a remedy for every evil under which the trading classes labour. Cheap corn would not be a remedy for dear cotton ; and it does happen that where the raw mate rial forms a large item in the cost of production, manufacturers are much crippled. Some of them have been compelled to work short tim , and their operatives suffer, as compared with the hands in other mills, from that cause ; but that is a matter that has reference solely to the raw material of our manu factures. The scarcity and dearness of the raw material may be quoted as a substantial fact, proving the revival of trade, for even with a short crop of cotton in 1847 the mills were supplied with more than they consumed, and the warehouses of ma nufacturers, merchants, and commission agents were crowded with goods to the ceiling for which there was no market to be found at home or abroad. Now, we have no stocks in first hands. We have since had greatly increased supplies of cotton, though inade quate still to our means of consumption, and cotton is now selling at higher rates than with a short crop, the natural result of an increased demand tor British manufactures; and thus we have it established by the increased consumption of cotton that there has been greatl, increased employment for the labouring arms& Hand-loom weavers, I believe, were never so mares as they have been within the last few months; and, with the reduced price of provisions, they have rarely been so well off as they now are. I believe that more women and children have been kept at home recently, attending to household duties, which is another indication of the improved condition of our operatives. The department of cotton machine making is dull and heavy, because, with the scarcity of cotton, there is no great inducement to extend the means of production ; though in Bolton we have four or five mills in the coarse of erection, with the view of eupplyirg the manufactures in demand for the markets of the United States of America." Comparing the results of legislative measures upon manufacturers with those upon the landowner, the me wit h tha h t is th p e ro T fl e ts n . owner Hour e o ß f i a lint small e r e f r e r emdiinformed much " Yet," said he, " parliament would have laughed at an application for protection. My hands work by piece; they include both spinners and weavers, and before the reduction to ten hours, we turned off 3,000 pieces per week. By act of parliament we were re d uce d t o the production of 2,500 pieces, yet, th. ugh the work men in general are paid by the piece, a great r ortion of our expenses are fixed expenses, cad cannot be reduced. These include the hire of mechanics, the oiling of machinery (which must still be done twice a day), rent and taxes, making altogether 771. per week. The calculations of my establishment had been made on the faith of being able to continue producing three thousand pieces per week, and consequently the act of parliament interfered very materially with profits; but I set to work, and by the improvement of machinery, by in creasing the driving power of my engine to an extent as far as was consistent with the saf ty of boilers, have as nearly as I could repaired the loss. IVe run the spinning department a full hour lo , yond the ten, because we send out the little ones and the females, and the engine running to keep the machinery going adult male f them do the same if we would allow them. hen we give some of the ales hands a bonus for turning off inure work. The result T for h weavers th feema spinners , w would embraced nearly many t he o all p o p o r t the n y is that we see now nearly turning out the same quan tity of work, and the men are earning about the same amount of wages, but in fewer hours . ' He turned to his wage books and pointed out the entries in proof of this usertion. which he was acquainted were well employed; indeed, in their own firm they had not been ab!e to get looms sufficient, and had been endeavouring to contract with smaller houses in the direction of Bolton, Blackburn, and Preston. He read me letters from several of these parties which had jut come to hand, and the writers of all stattd that hand-loom weavers could not now be induced to take new warps without an advance of prices. These letters enclosed new lists of prices, and the words accompanying one of them I committed to writing u it wu read : " We are sorry we cannot execute orders under theme circum stances at last price; we find we have to give a little advance to the weavers, and shall be happy to execute your order with that advance." A note from the gentleman who furnished this infor mation adds : " Wages, paid 12 months ago, le. 9d. per piece ; 6 months ago, 2s. ; now, 2s. 3d. Here you have the wages paid for a class of low goods of which a large quantity is made. I think we are pay ing an advance of wages upon three - fourths of the goods we make—varrng from sto 30 per cent." At anotner large house,. in the mouseelline-de-lain trade, and the most extensive manufacturers of fancy goods in the kingdom, whose weavers reside at Colne, and are spread over the not thorn part of L in oashire and the borders of Yorkshire, the principal of the establishment took down hie books, and showed by references to them, and to vouchers from the weavers themselves, that the ad- vanes paid were cosslderable. On one kind of cloth he had paid on the 9th Feb., 1848, for weaving, Is. 71d. per cut ; and on exactly the same description of cloth in Feb. 1850 he had paid 2s. per cut. On another description, Feb. 9,1848, he had paid Is. 9(1.•, and for the same work in Feb. 1850, he had paid 2s. 3d. These were mestizoes taken at random, and by no means selected cases. An able-bodied weaver will do a warp per week, or six pieces of this cloth ; and though the earnings of such a man would by no means be equal to those of good factory hands in towns, yet these people, working at their own cottages in country villages, and preferring a rural life, are at all events comparatively wellloff. Instead of a reduction of 12/ per cent., as asserted by the Morning Post, there is an advance of double that amount in these cases; and those who recollect to what a wretched condition handloom weavers were reduced for want of work, and from lower wages in 1842, and several subsequent years, must feel thlit their position is now very greatly improved. The same gentleman remarked that at Christmas it was an observation frequently addressed to him at Colne, how much greater was the stock of flesh meat land other provisions suitable to that festive season laid in by the butchers and shopkeepers, and cleared off by the working classes, than in any former year almost within memory. The position of the weavers in that locality, independent of their money-rate of wages, was thought to be better than at any period within the last 20 years. The same fact applies to fustian cutters and dyers. The dyers have succeeded in almost every establishment in this neighbourhood, within the last year, in obtaining an advance of wages. And a house employing fustian cutters resident is Manchester, Royton, Warrington, Lymm, sad adjacent districts, assu red me they were paying larger wages than they had for some years past. With regard to calico printers, my inquiries have Leaded to the same result. The principal of one es tablishment (whose name will be almost recognised if I lay it has become so celebrated as to be almost synonymous with "fast colours ") informed me that they paid exactly the same prices as they had done' for the last forty years. This is a fact of more than ordinary value for the Morning Post, inasmuch as it shows that whilst the removal of the corn laws has act reduced wages in this instance, neither had the imposition of those laws the effect of raising them. Printers, however, both of cotton and silk goods, are now well employed, and the better skilled workmen in many oases are earning much better wages than they were a year or two ago. A few days mince I visited Middleton, where there is one of she lariat print works in these districts, and the accounts I received of the state of the population of that town was most satisfactory. Middleton and the adjoining township of Tonge have an industrial po ation of something like 13,000 people. They were once celebrated for cotton handloom weaving ealy;_but 30 or 40 years ago some silk-weavers set tled in the neighbourhood, and this description of manufacture has gradually superseded, and almost ' driven the other away. With the aid of Frenchmen who have been brought over, great improvements have been introduced ; the jac quard loom is in great request, and with the aid of patterns printed upon the warps, fabrics are produced which are now commanding the best mar kets and acquiring much celebrity for the neigh bourhood. I was told that the hand-loom weavers here never were so busy as now, and that masters have a difficulty in getting a sufficient number of workpeople. Many new . patterns are in course of production, and new descriptions of fabric, at which the hands are getting good wages generally, and sew of them even high wages. For instance, whilst on commoner descriptions of work weavers are earning from 10e. to 125., others, with more skill and a dif ferent description of work, are receiving from 20a. to 30s. per week. " Wages are fully equal to what they have ever been here, both in cotton and silk goods,' said one of my informants, "and in some cases better. Though the nominal amount of their wages is small compared with the earnings of artisans in such towns as Manchester, they succeed, in times like these, when employment is plentilul, in armies money, and many of them—a great many in Middle ton—have become the owners, through the instrumen tality of building clubs, of the cottages in which they reside." Benefiting, whilst in Middleton, by the advice which the Morning Post gives to the protectionists, that they should sound the shopkeepers as to the comparative means of the working classes to purchase food now, as compared with corn law times, I visited a number of shops with that view. " I cannot," said one of these (a grocer and provision dealer), " refer to books to riaUs you, but, if you will take my word, I can sewn you that I have never known the work bag slams better off than now. They buy more food *ea hnisrly; they get more of the luxuries of life ; lad lbw pay better than they need to do. They islet run up soores so much ; we scarcely have any SPEW now. " I'm a bit of an aristocrat in my way (AIM he) —especially since those chartists were so negh and violent—but I mast say that free trade Ms dew a deal of good, in lowering the price of pro ' Aims ill working-people; they are a deal better alti ad I can sit in church on a Sunday now without