The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-23 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 23. Six weeks lave yet to run ere parliament re assembles. Within that time a thousand things may happen that no foresight con anticipee, by which the position and prospects of parties may be materially changed. Within • space almost as brief, events have taken place before our eyes which mast of necessity affect the relative strength of contending faction', and the rival destinies of not a few who hold and who aspire to power. The political doings and sayings from Michaelmas to Christmas Lave set at nought all the calculations of elubbists and the prognostics of coteries. Who will undertake to tell what may turn up between this and Easter P Lord STANLEY, it is said, is fully alive to th i s w = ma i m i n g chapter of chances that is likely to open him. His unusual silence of late has been varies* interpreted, and variously accounted for. Soapiness' people insist that there is something new in the way of mischief brewing in the tore camp' and that the obstinate taciturnity of the staff as well as the chief is an augury of some original sin about to be pen- I timed against the cause of the people. The quidnesnes dwell with emphasis on the abrupt termination of the DlsLtiLl and OREVILLE correspondence about the honours conceded to catholic bishops in Ireland ; and, with owl-like solemnity, wink anent to the stupid surmise that fear of filing the charge upon Sir JAMES GRAHAM has been the cause of its Silent abandonment. We believe this to be sheer Ind. die. Between Neviteaer's knight and Knows. LZY*B heir there can be little remaining in common. It is not of such discordant materials that the opposi tiOn council is made up. Sir JAMES has been a bit of a political roe/ in his day ; bat his wild oats are pretty well sown. . Hell go no more a roving," we opus., but rather show a daily greater tendency to settle snugly down in the sheltered neighbourhood of whiggery. The man is neither fool nor fana tic enough to be a trustworthy tory. There is as little mutuality of confidence between him and the democracy as there is between him and the court. His business in life is that of a bureau crat ; and for the modification of his dogmatic tastes as a crack administrator, who are so likely to be able to afford him the opportunity as thou who believe in the <Perim , Mr. Dieriarm has been ordered to keep silence, because he proved in his late epistolary escapade that it was dangerous to let him talk about matters he clearly did not understand. To dilate upon " the Asian mystery " is very safe exercise, for there is nobody to reply. Bat random sneers in the midst of a hot Christian controversy is rather ticklish amusement. It is just the difference between pistol practice in one's own garden, where to one notes the misses, while the hits are applauded by admiring friend., and a duel with small swords in the Boisde Boulogne, where the risks are even of being badly wounded or unceremoniously " had up" by the police, with what Mr. BUCKSToNE would call "a remark ably small chinos of being spoken of u a hero in one daily and two weekly newspapers of remarkably email circulation." Polemics, in short, are obviously not Mr. Dteatietee forte. lie has not been suffi neatly lug accustomed to our ways of thinking and feeling on relt,--,;;;;;2 ' , object& With all his ehrewd sees and quickness of perception, he fails to catch the spirit of the quarrel. Ile could play a high priest, we dare say, to perfection; but as " A Friend of the Bishops " he nine a great chance of failure. Very awkward this conditon of party affairs, un doubtedly, to have the leader in the t omwoos silenced en the topic of the hour, yet, as we have said,there was so help for it. The b est face to put on the matter was clearly to affect au attitude of sublime reserve. Let nobody of consequence among the Write say any thing definite. To all subordinates of the Mimi, TYRILL, ILinewoon, and NEWDEOATE class, free leave was given to mingle in the fray: but its worthy of note how mute the ea-dist:tit chief, have been on the new catholic question, always excepting the learned ex-chancellor of Irel and—the chancellor of England that is to be whenever protectionism scales the heights of power. By his own account, Sir EDWARD BUGDIIII spoke coo sporste, and without oommanication with any other person. It hardly occurred to the managers, perhaps, that the spirit of popular controversy would have kindled the frozen formalist in his seclusion ; and hence the unexpected judgment pronounced under canvas at the Surrey meeting. But Lord STANLEY is determined, at whatever sacrifice of self-will, to show the world that even he can be circumspect when be choose& It is a tour de force of a marvellous kind: for the peculiar circum stances of the case his lordship is in the plight of those of whom it is written, " their strength is to sit still." Unless he is much belied, however, the effort is not only highly irksome, but in a certain sense it may be tented almost involuntary. Had three days longer been allowed by the Panful to pan with out the publication of his celebrated letter of the 6th November, Lord STANLZT Weald have grasped the opportunity of attaelneg to himself that strong religious feeling which Lord Joan has coonontrated round himself. Failing in that, the tory leader, like a thorough-bred party man, at nos determined not to seem to follow in his rival's wake, but to lie by aid watch the course of events. But seer ste will champ the bit, and chafe at lons restraint. There ere six wake yet before the melon of 1861 com mences. How are the thoughtless, listless, careless followers, each of when empty heads counts for as mach as those of Beare, of CHATHAM would' in a division how are all then to be kept within whistle-call till then P It is as arduous task s and one worthy the genies of the venerable whip, whose voice all they who and to the Carlton were wont to tenpin and obey. tf = shall another BILLY HOLMES be found is these de generate days? The 'prentice lauds of BZIIII7OIII and Villa bat feebly compensate for his inestimable loss. It was but yesterday we heard two practical adherents of the party confess how sadly times wen changed with them during the last few pen; 'twee not their principles, they said, that had Pled, bat the men to work them out: one iseurasi he Puk e the other LYNDHUBAT'a lose; bat both Semi east the grand deficiency in the pasty_os saw elastitaled, was the want of a whipper-in. 'ln nelli an exigency who can wonder that the impatient STARLET has himself undertaken that department? No writer, and even no founder of a sect, has dared 1 to consider and ordain religions tenets and rites and I sacerdotal organisation with an exclusive view to their aptitude for captivating and commanding ad herent., for winning cod retaining power. The ordination and innovation of barbarous and medieval churches were the produce of time and circumstance", more than of sagacity and foresight. And the re forming sects which flung off the yoke of Rome, did so in revolt and disgust at assumption and error; not from any deep or well-considered scheme to set up a church of their own. What reformers looked to was truth, not effect. Political philosophy wu not amongst the number of their sciences. Men, wee in their genera ion, have succeeded to thee" truth-worshipping and simple teachers. The Jesuits a °maple of centuries ago, and the Tractarians la our days, fled bethought them what would prove the moat affective mode of rendering the church and ettirohmen powerful, and then adapted their tenets sad their arguments to accomplish the desired aim. la both oases, those of the Jesuits and of the Tracts- ! THE EXPRESS. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER. 23, 1860. rians, policy was the first and dominant priaiple, truth altogether secondary. The divine right and super human minion of the priesthood haves/, been first considered a useful dogma, logic and Iseraing have been set to prove aid establish them Private and personal °oaf/salon being recognised al a pereurfal OWN of establishing sectordetal haunt* cup well victuals and families, Wallin and teaditioa are rani up for approval ci so coovenient an institution. Jesuits and Tractarians—and the identity and sands rity betwen then is ale curiously close—the latter having sprung up amongst us, the former been not vaulty reanscitsted and restored to power and In fluence in all catholic esuntrin, it behoves their opponents, who cenepetee all attached to sell gions freedom and manly independence to consider , what has never yet been a subject of . reflection with Christians, th e policy of different religious organise d by each. oes, with the social influence ad the means of exer cising power poisoned Thine can le no doubt, that the Roman catholic religion gradually endowed itself with all the puissant mean of influence. It established different grades of eeelesisstics on a par with the different grades of social Ilia. It bed a pontiff to vie with sovereigns, ordinals to negotiate with monarchs and statesmen, cathedral pomp and priesthood to hold the first rank ci civic eminenee, whilst the bare-footed Franciscan and wandering passe pervaded the ranks of hum blest life. Lim all Moan policy, however, in matters el religion, they overdid their immense influence; sad as MS as kyosen were gathered in sufficient amber and intelligenoe to commune and convene freely togethar.they rebelled against the spiritual and moral dictatorillip of men no better and no wise* than themselves. The Reformation was a throwing off of a yoke by laymen, a snbetitntion of the discipline and mutual *fleece of a community for the personal mutery and management of priests. The old religion has sever addressed men in the mass in any way save by pomps and show', tables of indulgences, or fulmina tions and auk da fen Besides such theatrical influ ence, none other was exercised save the personal admonitions and whisperings of the father confeeeor, who penetrated to the closet and the court. The Reformation restored the mode of addressing large and intelligent populations in the mass, communicating with them largely from the pulpit, and leaving the good seed thus sown broad cut to spring up for a fall harveet, instead oared eccle siastical sower going into every corner every patch to cultivate it specially. To use the divine simile of Christian teachers being fishers of men, the old system went to work with a rod and line, whilst the reformers cut out the net. What it is well to bear in mind is, that there are but the two modes of moral discipline and religions maintenance, that of the priest, and that of the community ; the former but too naturally exercised in the midst of ignorance and dependence, the latter requiring a certain degree of intelligence, fellowship, and sympathy. The dis cipline of the priest is rejected immediately by a civic, well-informed, independent, and free community. Bat the discipline of the community fails of reaching the waif, the poor, the wandering, the destitute. For them, especially, In Roman c aholic countries, the state ad the church have cued. If we consider charity alone, and how it is dispensed in catholic countries, always in the name of religion, we must see the great bonds of attachment which draw the poor to the church. In England we give away each year seven millions in charity without allowing a religious element to mingle with them, one religious sentiment to be excited, or one feeling of gratitude to be awakened in the bosoms of those who receive, for either the virtues or the creed of those who give. This brings as back to what we have long since pointed out, that one of the great elements of strength or weakness in any religion is its mode of dealing with the poor. We need be in no fear, that any sect which takes for its fundamental prin ciple the superiority of a Levitical caste, will ever acquire or exercise predominant authority over a middle-close community, or even over a lower class one, provided it be educated, settled, and allowed to have the attributes and advantages of a comainnity. Then, as to the higher cleans, peculiar thou and individual fancies will lead idle men into strange funks; of those too there need be no anxiety. But it we would have no sacerdotal sect Rain ground, or advance towards establishing s supremacy amongst one we must guard the poor from the weakness or the necessity of looking to such, by raising them, u the other make of life have been raised and been en lightened. It will not do for the middle class to have raised its head above the clouds of medi seal ignorance, if the class belo x them, instead of advanc ing, sink back to a worse state of ignorance and dependence than existed even in the days of feudalism. IT may be a weakness, but we are not ashamed to confess, that we are in the habit of sympathising warmly with all those hackles spinsters who are compelled to seek consolation and redress for violated vows by actions " for breach of promise." It is however quite a different matter when one of the male sex appears as a plaintiff in such an action. Woman stakes her whole existence on a marriage rt; man has a multiplicity of other pur ifill up his mind and distract his attention. Ani nmee don that, tears, complaints, appeals for aid eel sommieeration, consort with our notions of female sensitiveness and weakness ; man is expected to be able to conquer his feelings, or at least to en dure in proud silence. Even bad we been disposed to regard jilted gentle men in the Name light as jilted ladies, it would have been no easy task to sympathise with the plaintiff in the case of " Strange v. Pope," tried last week in the Court of Common Pleas. There was a coolness about the whole affair that acted like a torpedo on sen timent. It appears that four years ago " an attachment sprung up between the plaintiff and defendant, which it was thought better to break off before any serious engagement existed." About a year ago, lorwever, u if to contradict an old proverb, and prove that second thoughts are not always best, the attach ment was renewed, and the serious engagement en tered into. The lady certainly appears to be the very beam ideal of prudence; for in the very letter written to inform her accepted lover that she has "mentioned the all-important subject to papa," she takes are to tell him, " I like not saying too much in • letter in case of a breach of promise." Really after such a broad hint, at such a moment, the gentleman sifht have been prepared for what followed. same letter, written on a Thursday, expreserd a to ese him on Sonday. On Friday she nun suss desiring him to postpone his visit till Tue sda y. Oa the intervening Monday there was • party at the lady's house, at which the gentleman who has now the happiness to be her husband was repent And ea the Friday following_ she main wrote, that " one far whom she ever had a mare attachment had returned," and that " with her present feelings she was bound to reliequieh " her new betrothed. We have said that the lady was prudent ; else wee also considerate. At the close of her letter she adds, " I hope you will cost refuse accepting a puree I have made for you as a smell acknowledgment of the kind ness I have reseteml from you." There was delicacy, too, he this billemllem of her present, for she said nMhieta 111. _embed is the parse" to pay for some little eionooasais be bad from time to time made en brit gosunst. • gontisessa's earwig is calculated to excite re putes% they were not married : they were indeed " Moe ter pair." He urges her to recioasider her Mak% sad soweludes by informing her that be emeeptell her pretty pores; bat hadnot - expended for imam* as mach s• she sent. " I have, therefore, a lames to strike with yon, but feel in no disposition Ie he in a hurry about it, as I hope oar future inter views will be long, frequent, and intimate." Mere mature deliberation, however, Was to have him with the belief that the Wanes wee the I ; end soconlingly, in due time, be brought Img sedan far r breach of promise," with a view to newer it. The surplus over expenditure in the 61. eamittanse was retained II security for the expected Imps. Our readers will agree with us that broken hearts, or anything of that kind, are here out of the quietism At least the judge and jury thought sot far the latter awarded a farthing damages, and the farmer ruled that both parties should pay their own stets. Bo far the story is prosaic enough. But genius ma impart as interest to the simplest, and MA a moral from the dullest, of stories. The sharp if** Mel Janda of the Common Plus esalaks usher .WA will entitle it to • place in every forme callesiles et English musts dlibres. One of the wit muse declared upon oath that she had seen the parties "kin each other" when they fancied themselves alone and unseen by any eve. .. Wha,"exclaimed the horror-otrack Chief, (little dews. and en a frosty day l" And baying "made a no's of ir," he rigida adverted to the enormity In his charge. lie told the jury that "the familiarities proved would probably shook parsecs moving is thew posi tion(' but added, to show his Wetter!' and know ledge of the manners of different dames, that they " would not be looked on m improper is persons moving in a lower walk of lifer He gravely added, that "it seemed very much ulf the persons expected the legal suction of some egremosy to make their conduct all right." It would appear from the remarks of the learned Chief Justice, that the seclusion of oar Ines of Court is favourable to the development of a Parson Adams simplicity and innocence of character. The venerable judge actually appears to believe that people moving in the position " of the jury (whatever that may be) are never guilty of the indecorum of a kiss between pronsessi sposi —at least, not " out of doors on a frosty day." Nobody above the rank of an ivory merchant or a tailor's daughter can, in bin estimatioo, be guilty of the atrocity of indulging in such eircumstaaoes in " a chaste salute." FRANCE. PARIS. SATO/DAT Beams. The proceedings of the Legislative Assembly were of more general interest to-day than they have been for some time pest, in coraellnei oe of the notice giteti that the scandalous frauds committed in Paris during the last few months bj means of lotteries, were to be brought forward. The lotteries in quesion have bean got up for the 'rational purpose of twisting grants wishing to go to California, and the Prefect of Police is said to have been an active promoter of them, if not more. Other names are mentioned as being deeply implicated, and as prreonaities have always a certain attraction, an unusually large num ber of the representatives attended. Tne business of the day was commenced by M. Pas cal Borst, who stated that he rose to put some iater pellations to the Minister of the Interior relative to the lottery known by the name of the Loimie des Lingoes d'Or. He commenced his speech by stating that the government had not contented itself with simply authorising that lorery, but that it had patro °lora', encouraged, supported, and propagated it with activity, through the medium of the Prefect of Police and his agents. M. Duprat then went on to show that the organisation of the lottery of the Lingoes d' Or, so far from presenting the ;marmite.* usually enacted for the protection of the public, was got up solely with the view of gratifying the cupidity of certain specu lators ; that the affair could have no other result hut that of being a pubic scandal, and that alrrady mat ters had come to such a point that two hon. members of that assembly, namely, M. Poiron and M. Clary, who had been placed on the council of surveillant* of the lottery, bad found it necessary to withdraw their names, in consequence of the disgraceful nature of the enterprise and of the alarm they felt for the results of an exposure. In a letter addressed by M. Clary to the Prefect of Police be stated distinctly that he could and would not continue any longer to deceive the public. He then oomp'ained of the indifference of the ministry as to the affair, and declared that in his whole experience he bad never known so shame ful a disregard of the public interest, or so disgraceful a job for the benefit of speculators. M. Paged Duprat spoke for upwards of two hours, and, contrary to the usual habit of the Assembly when a member of the Opposition speaks, was listened to with the most serious attention. The only time there was any in terruption was when he alluded to a report said to have been addressed to the Minister of the Interior, exposing the crying abuses of the Leterie des Liege* d'Or, a report which M. Band* declared that beheld never received. M. Potion then roes to give some personal emplane. Lions. He declared that he had consented to become a member of the Council of Surveillance simply be cause one of the most honourable of the mayors of Paris, M. Decan, was also a member, and that he left it bec ause he found that the Council of Surveillance interfered also in the administration. M. Clary then roee to explain his share in the matter, and expressed himself pretty nearly in the same terms as M. Poiron. He added that he would not have joined it had M. Poiron not been a member ; that his sole object in doing so was in the hope of being useful to his old comrades of the Garde Mobile, and that he retired solely bemuse the ship which was to have sailed with emigrants in the mouth of Novem ber did not go. M. Baroche entered into long details to show that the government took all the means in its power to protect the public, and had dune its duty. He stated that the number of lottery tickets already distributed amounted to 687,8901., out of which 468,0001. had gone to the expenses of getting it up. M. Coquerel blamed the lottery as immoral in its objects. M. Benjamin Delmont proposed the following order of the day—" The National Assembly, re gretting the abuse which had been made of lotteries called' charitable,' and desiring that the government should limit them more strictly for the future within the limits of the law of 1836, passes to the order of the day." The order of the day, pure et simple, having been demanded, was rejected by a majority of 416 to 192. This result created an immense agitation. A crowd ~atbered round the ministerial bench, and the mem bers appeared to indicate that they would retire. A vest number of representatives crowded into the tri bune with orders of th e day motivis. M. de Girardin pro posed an order of the day to the following effect :—" The Assembly, satisfied with the explanations of the ministry, passes to the order of the day." The house is still sitting, and the agitation is very great. The custom home authorities have just published a list of the imports and exports and exports for the first eleven months of the years 1850, 1849, and 1848. The return is not very favourable to the pre sent year, aa will be seen by the result of the =- poets for those periods, which were : la 1848 80,447.893 1849 117,487,282 1850 114,883.627 being a diminution of nearly three millions in 1850 as compared wish 1849. The following are the de scriptions of merchandise which have the most fallen off since last year : 1830. 1849. Cocoa Coffee 13,289.070 16 ; 136,2e1 Cora Raw Nam 11,972,834 13.383,988 Olive all 8,988,487 7,913,881 Gioia ragar Oa the ether hand. the duties received on the follow ing mesdruidies show as isersam in 1860: 1860. 1849. law and linen thread 172,723 664.287 Hem% menage ensue mei Ond &WM 446,790 load Hew wed. thil,l7/1 7,971,0 00137 NUM 730, PM Lam m ass hey dead 1,116373 1.030,390 ranks law 16,8411,084 12.674,741 Reallry asersheadise 17,674,1148 16,720,213 Bonnet ETIMING. 111 the Legislative Assembly yesterday, after your =l left, the debate on the lottery of the Liar* have rim to a some of t confusion, M. de Guardia having an order of the day to the effect that " The majority, satisfied, 1 Poem to the order of the day." Toe motion was leaked on as an insult to the Assembly, and a vote al 1 immure was aseordiagly passed on M. de Oireadin, with exclusion flies Vie hoses for three days. Twisty. two different seesiatioss were them brought forward by dilemma emmlime, bet ultimo.* it was resolved fiat a Miss abseil be taken is that proposed lull. ?need lehlt wee to the following erect : °Me MINIEIIO,, 0861111 OR ia the solicitude of the =Way e to the order of the day." This motion wee d by a majority of 376 to 232. The 1 Aiewahly adjourned at a quarter to 7, in a state of swat agitation. This debate was very mar bringing shoat the overthrow of the 'Mammy. IL Bombe was not very happy in hie system of defence. Is cot only Mil to mimines the alsrity of the party at the Geweemat, bet he Moe the members who mezer enpr u thitat he isiced ies z n ehms tha d t e t te re , wee see a pad id d Wolk la the rumoured spem- Mims la Vide thearkbelies of the new lotteries Ifili Milli 10111addews. This explains why the miler d is ti' s per at dude, was not adopted. '.----;-..--------- The majarity did not wish to blame the government, but w' td to give them an amicable warning. The order of the day motive, brought forward by M. Benjamin Delessert, would undoubtedly bam been adopted had it not been for the mai-address of M. Emile de dirardin and the Lelt, who came forward with their ordinary violenc. As it is, the affair will not lead to any changes in the cabinet. WEST INDIA MAIL, The royal mail steam packet Avon, Captain Hut, arrived tat Southampton on Sitorday, and larded her mails under the charge of Lieutenant Percival, R.N., Admiralty agent. The dates received by the Avon arse. , Grey Town, ' Nov. 17 ; Panama, Nov. 21 • Chag Nov. 24; La Oneyra, Nov. 26 ; Carthegens, Nov. 27; Havanna, Nov. 23; liondana, Nov. 19 ; Jamaica, Nov. 28 ; Demerara, Nov. 27 ; Grenada, Nov. 27; Barbi does, Nov. 29 ; Antigua, Dec. 2; Porto Rico, Dc. 1 ; Martinique, Dec. 1; Bt. Thomas, Dec. 3. The Avon had forty-two passengers on baud. The freight on board consists of 1,009,977 dollars from ports in the Pacific in gold dust, silver, and specie, on account of merchants, &c. ; 59 serous of ochineal, 105 bales of tobacco, 46 cues of cigars, 105 bolas of sarsaparilla. On her homeward voyage the Avon had fine weather end light winds from SW to BE from the 4th of December (the day of her leaving St. Violas) till the 14th; from the 14th to the 18th heavy plea and bard squalls from SW to NW, with a heavy sea. l On the evening of the 18th the gale abated, end from the 19th to the 21st there were light breezes and fine weather. On the 4th of December the royal mail steam packet Tel , was on the Spanish Main; the Gnat Western in the Gulf of Mexico; the Conway and Eagle at St. Thomas t and the Derwent at Barbodoes. On the 17th of November H.M.S. Inflexible, at Grey Town, had 30 men on the sick hat with low fever, ;; ,it none considered in a dangerous state. During the five days that the Avon was there, the rain was incessant and heavy. The rainy season, however, was nearly over, and fine weather daily Cl-. The dates from Jamaica by this arrival are less recent by three days than those received yesterday via New York. As however a painfully intense interest is at this moment felt with regard to the sanitary con dition of the island, we give our correspocdent's minute history of the progress of cholera, in addition to the information brought by the Europa. The intelligence from the other colonies is considerably more recent than that which has reaencl us by way of New York. GERMANY. COMPLETION OF THE PRUSSIAN MINISTRY. Our express from Cologne brings us information of the completion of the Prussian cabinet. M. Man teuffel is president of the council, as well as minister of foreign affairs ; M. von Raumer is appointed to the ministry o f public worship ; and M. von West phalen hol d' the portfolio of the interior and of com merce. Austria (we learn by a telegraphic despatch) will insist upon the entrance of her collective states (gesammt *Moan) into the Diet at the conferences. There is some hope that affairs in Reese may take, fora time at least, a better turn, as will be seen by the following : " CASSEL, Dec. 19, 03 o'clock evening.) " The Diet's troops are within one mile of this town. There is a report in general circulation that the Prussian Commissions and high courts of appeal (ober appellations Oerichte) have come to an under standing. The courts of appeal will, it is said, pro visionally carry into effect the ordinances of the 4th September till the decision on the question of right is pronounced at the Dresden conferences. General revieer has nrumiseel, ou obtsigu the consent Of, Count Leiningen, to take measures for the retreat et the ' Execution force. The people are but little re joioed at this news." A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette of yesterday, writing . from Dresden, Dec. 19,says :—"Weare assured that Prince fichwarzenberg and MM. Manteuffel and Pfoeden will personally open the free conferences, and that after presenting a scheme for conducting the discussions, already in substance prepared at Vienna and Berlin, they will withdraw to make place for their substitutes. That Count Alvensleben should have been chosen to represent Prussia, occasions much surprise in constitutional circles. A three months' continuance of these conferences is already spoken of here. Just before their opening the Siegtsche Journal is suppressed. Its publication has been definitively forbidden by the government. It appeared yesteiday evening for the last time." Under the head of " The Conference" the illgemeine Zeitung gives a communication from Hanover to this effect—that a separate executive power should be established, independent of the legislative federal body, with the sole authority to carry the resolutions of the latter into effect, aced that this executive power should be exercised in common by Austria and Prussia. Further, a diminution of votes should follow; Prussia and Austria should each have two, the four kings each one, and the remaining small states collected into five groups, should for each group have one ; so that' instead of the former 17 there would be only 13 votes. A representation by parliamentary deputies of the detached states, or from chosen bodies, would accord ing to their plan be dispensed with. In every other respect the present constitution of the Diet would remain intact ; the exceptional laws and the Carla batten and Vienna resolutions are not noticed at all, A Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, writing on the 20th, and referring to the fore going, says, " With respect to the communica tions from Hanover it is possible, even probable, that Austria may concur in the plan alluded to, in so far as the executive power would be thereby committed to the two great powers. But the exclu sion of a parliamentary representation from the scheme will make the difficulty. The separation of the executive and legislative powers, and the dimi nution of the votes, have been spoken of sines the conferences of Wareaw. The telegraphic intelligence from Vienna that Austria insists upon entering the confederation with all her states, provoked dis union today in the Princes' College. If the despatch speaks truly Austria has returned to her former policy. But on the other side it would appear that the entrance of the collective Austrian states into the Bud cannot be decided on, for on the ministerial aide it was asserted that an understanding with Aus tria had been come to on all important points. With respect to the organisation of the future central power, various opinions are entertained. We have been informed that Prussia, in case Austria renounces the claim to enter the diet with all her states, will siessate a parliamentary representation in connexion with the central power. flue of the members of the Princes' College have declared themselves openly against the communion proceedings in Schleswig-Holstein and in Hesss, se they were determined on at the Olmiitz conferences. 01 the plenipotentiaries iu this college we hear that thebeck, Liebe, Banks, and Schmitt will go to Dresden. Several journals have announced the formalwithdrawal therefrom ot Oldenburg,Brunswick,and the Hometowns but this announcement is incorrect. Oa the other hand M. Shack, in the name of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, has declared that when the object of the federation — that is—the constitution of the union—was given up, the federation was given up also. Baron Ladenberg has been appointed to a post in the Treasury at Berlin. The news of the arrangement between the commis sioners and the Court of Appeal at Cassel, is con firmed. DARMSTADT, Dec. 19. The Minister Dalwigk will, within a few days, depart for Dresden, to represent the duchy at the con ferences. The Privy-Councillor. Hallwachs will accompany him. FRANKFORT, Dee. 20. M. fichoff and Beyndic Hernia have left us to day to represent this city at the approaching conferences. The departure of the three Bavarian regiments from this place, may properly give occasion to some serious thoughts in Berlin. 'Tut history of this affair, so often spoken of, is u follows : More than eight days ago Field-Marshal Count Leiningen ordered that the let Bavarian battalion should be put in marching order, as they were to be relieved by an Austrian light infantry regiment, at the same that the Prussian troops, whose insubordination had dis played itself simultaneously with the trafficking habits of the Bavarian corps, marched out. This de cided the Prussian members of the Diet's commission to come to the resolution that all the troops who had lately taken parts in the street affrays should be ex change for other regiments. In consequence of this re solution the 28th Regiment of infantry left, and the 29th Regiment entered the city the next day. But it was then declared that the Bavarian government op posed the retreat of her troops. The Ist battalion of Bavarian light infantry, com posed, it was said, of men who could be " trusted," were to remain permanently in Frankfort. Bo the matter stood, when, the day before yesterday, a tele graphic despatch from Munich ordered that not only the Ist battalion, but the 3rd battalion of Bavarian soldiers should march out of this town. But as the un derstanding with Austria in this affairand the duping of Prussia ware now so evident, the report was im mediately spread that the Ist Bavarian battalion was to be shortly relieved by Austrians. Well-in formed persons, however, know that this is merely a blind. The now know more, and can much more decisively affirm that the differences between Austria and the middle states have come to a reconcilement not to the advantage of Prussia. Banta, Deo. 21.—Tobantary Lou, 1011 ; New Lou, Your•aadieNalf per Deets., 96i; National Debt, 834; Cow amid Marlwe Society's Fremont, 121; Bank Shwa, 94e. Vrannn, Dan. 20.—Fiy. pc Cent. Metallignes, 9S ; Foormad-a-Half per Cents., ditto. 82. Bank ehares, 1 1,120. Sznbatp an Landon, 12.44. PTEDMONT.—The Senate of Piedmont, in its sit tiag of the 16th, paned the bill abolishing the laws ott primogeniture, by • majority of 34 votes to 19. JAMAICA. The cholera in Jamaica has been the most frightful scourge that has afflicted for many years any oountry in the western world. The tropical climate of Ja maica—the filthy and indolent habits, and the ignor anoe and superstition of its coloured population, the general poverty, and the unprepared state of the inhabitants for the visitation of a plague, have been the causes which have made one of the most beauti ful islands in the Carribbean Sea a scene of unuttera ble woe and desolation. On the 7th of October last Mr. Watson, the surgeon of the naval hospital in Port Royal, announced that Asiatic cholera of a lee•lignant type had made its appearance in that town. Immediately after that, on the recommendation of Dr. Beveridge, the surgeon of her Majesty's ship Daum, the commodore of the British fleet ordered all leave to go on shore to be stopped, both for seam- n and officers; fish and trait were forbidden to be tasted on board ship, and every man was examined to see that he wore flannel next his skin. To these precautions may be attributed the com paratively healthy state of the crews during the terrible mortality on shore. When Mr. Watson first announced the existence of Asiatic cholera in Jamaica the inhabitants were incredulous. Facts soon convinc ed them, however, of its truth, and at the urgent request of Mr. IVatson plans were de vised to stay the plague. A cholera hospital was established, and some of the surgeons of the fleet were sent ashore to assist. Government medical stores were distributed freely, but it was soon found that both the quantity of medical stores and the number of medical men were totally inadequate to the frightful extent of illness and suffering that prevailed. It is known that upwards of 5,000 per sons have died in Kingston and Spaniehtown alone; but it is impossible to state how many have actually died. Numbers were so panic-stricken, that they would not apply for assistano-, and no one knows that they have been ill and died. Some were found dead in cellars, where they had been lying dead for days. The muscular movement of the body after death, in cases of malig nant cholera, has been the cause of the utmost alarm amongst the inhabitants, and contributed to their panio-stricken state. They refused to bury the dead for fear of burying them alive. One of the most distressing things in Jamaica is the number of orphan., both black and white children, and their condition and future provision are now occupy ing the serious attention of the Jamaica authorities. Hundreds of children of tender age are left utterly destitute; for fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters have b.en swept away by the pestilence. They are to be seen in houses forlorn and helpless. Infants are found lying on the floor foresaken by friends and rela tives, tor they are sleeping in death, and these inno cents are kept from perishing by the visits of the bens- volent. In the cholera hospital a gentleman saw as infant a few months old whose mother had died there, kept alive by an aged black man ; he fed the infant daily with milk sent for that purpose by some bens lent clergyman. The panic-stricken state of the poorer inhabitants is truly marvellous. A medical man dragged out a poor afflicted creature from • most filthy hole, where he was on his knees praying to God to spare his life. The same gentleman maw seven poor frightened creatures rubbing with tarpon- tine five others in the last stage of cholera. Nearly the whole of these persons were corpses is a few hours afterwards. Although there are many rich individuals in Ja maica, yet generally speaking there is not wealth enough to pay for the expense attending this dreadful and wide spread calamity. One day upwards of 1,6001. was subscribed for medical assistant and relief, bat this was nothing, as it were, compared with what was required. Mr. Nethersole, • magi strate, entreated Mr. Carrie, the agent of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company at Jamaica, to let the mail steamer go to Porto Rico or St. Thomas for drugs, and he became answerable for the expense of obtaining 501 be. of opium and 501bs. of calomel. Mr. Currie went himself in the steamer to obtain the requisite drags. This was about the latter end of last month. The dread of cholera in Jamaica seems to h destroyed all the social affections. Some of the poor blacks have been found to place their dead rela tives before the doors of their neighbours to avoid the infection, or because they were unable to pay the expense of burial. It was urgently suggested that trecehts should be dog, and that corpses should be buried without coffins, in order that the expense of the latter should be saved and go to wards providing an orphan fund. On the 16th ult., the day after our latest advi left Jamaica, via America, the Jamaica journals indig nantly complained of the unwillingness of persons to assist others who were attacked with cholera, and made the most piteous appeals to the humanity of the former to be kind and humane to their suffering fellow-creatures. The Kingston journals, also, of that date, recommended large fires to be lit and kept con stantly alive in the centre of the town and in the burial grounds, to drive away the pestilence. On the 17th died Francis M'Cook, Req., senior member of the assembly for St. Dorothy, of malig nant cholera. Although the public press had urged on the mem bers of the Assembly to form a house on the 18th, the members were afraid to approach Spaniehtown, on account of the cholera, and there was consequently no house. At this time news had arrived in Kingston that the cholera had reached the Port Royal moun tains; and at the request of the Merchants' Benevolent Society, and in coneequeoos of corpses lying un buried, convicts were employed to bury the dead. On the 21st the Kingston Morning Journal stated that cholera was mowing down its victims by hun dreds. Corpses were placed in packing cues, instead of coffins, and they were mutilated to get them in. Bauths.—The EMMA, at Liverpool, brings &dela@ Onthe 23rd the cholera abated in Spanish Town, nose Rio Janeiro to the let, sad Pernambuco° to the 19th Pod dal, and Kingston bat bat broke out in other itevember. Th ere is as latent/saes of interest from sty places. On this da y De . died. As there latter place, but the bitten from Rio speak la certainty et a was not above one medical man to 6,000 persons in war with Basso Ares Tin Run AT DIRKENHZAD.—Aftee the evidence Jamaica, and as four medical men had already fallen et Thomas Higbee. given at Chester on Friday, reported in victims to their unremitting exertions in the moue of sufferier humanity, it may needs be imagined how ill see paper eatetda k that of Thomas C"' of Liverpool he l mil be spared. The following tante to Dr. peke, was taken. • identified Haggerty, Foshan, and rattlinollll. (A smasher of bludgeons, pieces of iron, g g ,. Mactayden's worth and memory is from the Jamaica were brought le, which he said resembled the weapons sled Mussel Standard: by the mob.) Berrie Tomlinson, of the Liverpool polies, Amaagat the medical gentlemen of Hiegston, ao one has so identified Eleattb, 11 platy, sad Pathan as tale( an snore abed himself by his utter disregard of all m astics past la the peeseeaiase . At the close of the last wit - meal =Mauls sines the cholera first mule its appear. szambudies, it being past four o'dook, the tangles- 'nee an this city thee Dr. Maohyden. As the acting tioa was again 'dinned till bloudsy morning at 10 °Week. rudders% of the Board of Health he was preadult% in the suggestions of owl meatures as would hest tend to the c minuet' y from the rages of • pretilesce which liss.cer. so mostly di ettuctive, and whee the illness of prevented his any loom riendiog protesa m di y Western Cholsrs II spits', Dr. Illseaydent the arduous claim of that department, bur eostinusi discharge them with unremitting eseiduSy sad Ali that the kthwedeelyouargide of his plertlieimlohnasodbrionti7 do for him failed to restore him to his family end to sc,, The symptoms of choic e s, most Ti d en t i n their had, we believe, been mastoid k but in spite of a coos ir s which resisted ia depressing influences for an li sts , long period, Dr. Mscfaydon sunk entity the early hour yesterday morning. Sabers bee lost in amiarle and valuable member. l,clependentty • f fessional attainments, he wes a man of consides s u e wri t acquirement', and at the time of his &ails be bed mess an elaborate work on th , .rsl tss,ss,s o fj ,o He has left behin I him many sorrowiss friends; hot than all, he has left a widow and family to ersoe s must indeed be irreparable. It can hardly be Abel will be forgo:ten by the losiieliters. On the 27th, the day before the mail left far land, the cholera was snag frigh fully i, Thomas, the Eat, in the Bch dicriet, in St, 1) and in Portland. On the 28th ult., the day the packet left, the e wee increasing in St. Jame, 'Lament -3. F 41,„ and in Montego Bay. The hay was c nopl-14 serted,and bu,iness was 'wended. In Morant t cholera was raging to a frightful ex . .ent, and habitants were praying the Almighty to seer entire destruction. m fo a r ica th , e t pu he i r ti e o is no knosi r , ---- - Although the cholera is flying from the to; the wn mountains in Jamaica , the town the poorer people reside se e m to rivthe cities for Ban and nubealthiness. The tunic gent inhabitants seem, now it is too late, to ix: bow frightfully they have neglected aanitat cures, and they have and will suffer cruelly t neglect in the plague that has &geed tin m. the vast extent of pauperism that has he gendera. To show the scarcity and value of medical Jamaica, Dr. Beveridge, of he-r Nlnjestro ship whose indefatigable exertions in charge of the hospital, and in visiting the afflicted bre h night, obtained him both private and public wring, was offered 100/. a month to stay in after be had obtained leave to visit Englio.d. There was a great lack of medicines in when the mail left, and there really app, funds to purchase any that could be obtan where. A supply of calomel, quinine, me opium, and cresote was in much re goes! ; a pi persons also who could dispense medicine or invaluable in Jamaica; they would relieve the men in Jamaica from much labour, and enable attend to more cases and obtain Walt relief from their harnessing and overwhelming du,i, GUIANA. The journals from this colony are filled w plaints against the new arrangements of tl Mail Steam-packets. The following items are selected from the packet summery of the In our last packet summary we brestiy noticed popular demonstration made ea be: alt reform on the 9th November, by the I ettie treee the Parade Ground, for the pupae ,1 agreeing to the Queen and bath Houses of 1' ir:itment Tt may well be termed " a great feet," not turn reform movement, but in the history of the incontestably establishes two things, tint ext it, of the community, the muses—appreciate the isl a change in our legislative institutions, and an possessing the advantage of responsible local g and second, that they possess the intedianice, a., that sense and propriety which befit a communi the rights and ptivileges of 13:itirn cleinnship. words, this peace..lis and Gitlin) , ruttier of e people, a meeting wholly ueenexp:ed in this rol• , 1 it not throughout the West Indies generally, sl clearly that all claws of oar p ipuiatton urn an t reform in our constitution, and that they possese.i &miens required by Le,rd Jahn ltes-ell, which e to claim that the gracious with elipritssi by he Queen at the proroustion of parliament, for brr jests, should be forthwith canted into effect as far British Guiana The attempt to coerce or inieniciate the pr, ately undertaken by his En. Ilene, 0 mentor I heen unwisely persisted is, and an indictm, Mr. M'Kidd, the proprietor and publisher of II wu preferred at the recent cringed court, t dons" (!), false, scandalous, malicious, &:..I.tel Majesty's crown and governing at, bu . more rut c. lieury Barkly, Esq , governor, &e., unto, editorial ankle of the 17. b July, comm.-nu irritantsr manner in which the leaden for the to police force were dealt with. The hearing of .1 postponed, owing to certain defects (whetherne accident or design we know not) in the rote by the Attorney• General, and to which Mr. counsel (J. E. Roney and J. T. Gilbert. Ela their duty to draw the attention of the Coin, of the official documents on which they relief It charge of libel had not been giv o to the preceding day, too late to be used on the ernee. The matter therefore lies over ; and we say it spirit, but in justice to the character of none journal entrusted to our management, should be taken we are prepared to uphold the It press, an:l enter ° a plea of justification" to complained of. We have had two gratifying arrivals of Al grants within these few days—the tisique I* Helena, with 388, and the ship Clarendon, Leone, with 162 immigrants. Most of thin slaves; young and in a healthy coastline's; but I a few volunteer Kroomon among them. TRINIDAD. At the meeting of the Legislative Cool 20th of November, the Colonial fiecretsry, with notice already given, moved the second re Inland Post Ordinance, and, in s • doing, lso board an estimate of the 1 expense ahe establishment, the total of which ;was 1,2901. in which entl. the island oost was to be worked, al, of which wee, that in the minor dirricts the bon. g man then enterel into afu detai would be tend u poet offices, and the conv.3 to, and their delivery at, the vat:even stall effected by means of the rural police, aPI would be constituted mounted police for the pt. relies the letters to and nom the respective poll The Colonial Treasurer suggested that a sot made by having government de e pa t e k bags wadi coneceed gratis ; in inch erase, contended, he contended, there would be no necessity f a r a I master or post-office, as the letters bring del such delivery could not be outsider, d as tne eel lan inland poet ; and the home Postale , :e W I continue their establishment. This would I annum—salary of an inland postmaster, as rent of a postoffloe. The Chief Justice. how the hon. member that even a gratis enema ant of letters by go vernment agency at stated ne e undoubted)) looked upon as the establishmeat poet; the Treasurer did net follow up bin moving an amendment. The Hon. Mr. Burnley then rote and opposed — ieidlifg — oTthe Ordinance, on the ground that visable to sever the present connexion of the e, imperial post office, seeing it was a ste p which, not be retraced, and that the me an " for by the circumstances of the colony, nor benefits equal to the expense that would ban The hon. gentleman also objected to the esat rural police in this matter, their entire Wee quired (in addition to their ordinary duties) prosiest of squatting and the proper caning nano" with regard to immigrant labourers. - --..erwrowtmlng taken, there were 9 fur, second reading. The board the. went into committee on An amendment was moved and carried by the effect that only one rate of postage - oml should be charged es inland postage on let the colony, or sent from the colony, and drl e deposited vTerhigboi E db: th at e bt: G rw e te n hi e eg zil f ue : t i - o ett er e s to L . : p o m rd rt the 12th clause, resumed, and was adjourne e d t' next. LATER FROM JAMAICA.—C/D We have received by the Europa int Jamaica to the let inst. We regret to learn that the cholera make the most fearful ravage. throng hl West Indies. It has been very fatal Jamaica, but is now more severe in other island. Kingston is reported to hare that disease (six or seven of the ablest the town have fallen victims), and a number at Port Royal ; it has entire , from the latter place. The most mtlime.-. are received from the interior a nd a g oci tricta. The Journal says that in the I den River district one thousand pew" swept away by the fell destroyer. If From St. David frightful account brought to town. Not only have the L the population between the Eleven Mile Yallales, and a large number of the ishah around Elaington been swept away, but: the whole polio° force, mrgeants, corpordl Tates, have been immolated—the whole u it is said, under literal want nance, in consequence of the non-payto ' pay. The statement has been madd he r the columns of a contemporary, an Med. It is impossible, however, that call long maps inquiry. The molar to bel new; o tt ;taut 4,' Ira tbiog aliy d e tachment , t.ns e i t o 4 megele e ed io n pi null, has c*il to r P u na eo e n 1 I mliy lti t in hi, sa • f hi, rti We .are.: 4 174 : of be I; but, am , al tt.t: r all - hat er It for E; r . hi • I )trid'e, , the n'a n i en gl.tt :y o k rant Hayti.' eh and lie d. arm 'aril Ile tow nle ed 1 0 tl nowt wi e tot sty v ld ht ed, , g hon. el to dca h °IP e 1 16 : : er ° t. b l fh sto:d and todyc 0 et b o o ft.l3 . l eek °l e i get ahead iwy t a d a nlin n d nh ' nb e m n o r sd : c ar l ot a e s u t g b e ibi bra eht h dv d he(,f k to t huutrinhoitweae)leer And r e' five ehtllii the A.i2l'c mote the dead. to ix. out afresh , at Bath; 1 4Giiity at Stokes ;wily tor rn • s r d to keel et• edical is (F The eptd ship Ireor.irt. fug earl of tilt 1... f abSted its , h a,y „ d business to cholera. y in J. :: . utmost can i.ta, epd, qaently 7 net the 'Il a in Janalirt wiShatandi a PiNtr. d 7.1 slows in obtainrci py ther it' pee bria r, atsaf,caa , plies not h ! ; a nuppsy we far se eine w of trade, .Te the inel,,r l . little hush enonle seine yet, cultural d relief ,nd %se. t w in the g FLoutt. p r ted at lower rat' Iled with cote. na ppl) I of tbr Role' Saud. item. of : of the Cds,i. ; article is Rms.- noticed U.e Mit wards of -el under vi reeVir t ient for rsing ; ma y be at , ditacutt s-r Vain of the • fin. an] are being be i.n;. r• • Caroline vi ere 4,, .1 Rust - oe,l g par gilt ace, act tor expo mainuni , y re ea Suoni whip. In • " r quality. of cop. Copel is col my at probabl4 illy, shoes rift beyond : the age of !I seef„th or c,..r.• high entirk :Pa hands a y het Mai sy Ike O t to bet tei.,Liel v. b e w as la as rega Loom 'outlier tee prat, !TOOT 11 trill, hit existing idictovut , rsinet jest no , r of she .. : . Exci sort, i " a v. • 1 per a. fiper cc top, ci ol) 60 day: coataintd in a. ON Ng ram.atins m ..08 141011. r the en,.ply ale g of lir rase rril ober ocrei.eul roar dap takes 'I he :b Mr. Island E.,pins) Lord CAC, !elk.: to vela'. to them ..11, '- .• adopt le preset oat, I n say it in no Of ever oLrte:vre aid :as Why lostil WO to gip an till the liberty cl •Its rived o'' to the 'll , d Wh plued I of Airiest inn , which lot Face, Hat , . sP ;t I ra don, Inita SATs tint' are nicvi which bat then in so re-cor Fel lend To re Council 011 to PaaPi in Ce. 15.31 pond cud readies of Ise —ine ng, led beton lat Th se a tendon an of th COw orde lion Q. c dti ant the pnrpooa 0 Doi tel.( the has . ST 1. the pdo ' r ne: Lana ago made no, t tee Cl 9 : 0 0 t taba of ii,ot lute t el to wa jee Of ed list to op th t,Nare wed VS b he LSI rot. pa vrttliou' ntc roml save es end id at sal of nor would 9 t of stiU is) to sop ni :hte w" y me ep 0 being 1' i, d t.0 5 : ;1 : 4, 6 ,.. • 9 for, 2 'flw tt oc re ee A a a ci wt is letters rwt 13 ..r;:a'p have oi d ia ,acid,ipeoso b ge r i d e tip e ii. do. —CHOLERA 0 P " sio ro ,o 00 0:0 10,7 ' r1 ; :r r lera tal a[ d p io ther dl t st od en tirely d aPforots 1.-ehAs oco oat-oeo- and agri cw. nin Gsr 1 i n th e Plau t 1 f oss bare 'l. s rer pe ,mt . It states Ye 1400 1111 bate . si o r e the grea t _ ten Mao Tave. l _ i Ts he inhabi auf ol l o , al, 'git i s 7;4 pre cotior' ll ' I dfioG whole fl oete• we nt itie r ment .. ou-e f y p made or ar Dot la and h es (b tlDm° ee e t h a t such tonal, we bare