The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

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Ilk. 411 ft. .Altiroxat, I. Os. farosaolr —lkeda& lA. 12... Afterusas. Ilk. I. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18. Wit differ from the Bishop of Noawtcn, and whilst admiring the liberal and conciliatory spirit which dictated hie reply to his clergy, we think that he makes too great concessions, and shows himself in much too complete an agreement with Dr. WISEMAN. We deem it quite fair that protestantism and cathc- Beim should be put on a tooting of equality, and endowed with similar or equivalent advantages in addressing the English people, in seeking to make proselytes and retain converts. But in the rules and privileges for either side that Dr. WISEM tv would establish, and the Bishop of Noftwicii allow, we perceive that the catholic pre lates and propagandists have iefinitely greater ad vantages than protestant preachers, and, for our part, we think that the state is called on not to sanction this superiority of our religions antagonists, but, on the contrary, to counteract and regulate it. Tie Bishop of Noewien, in this quite in accord ance with Dr. Wetness, declares that no episcopal religion an be considered to be tolerated " if we in terfere with its liberty to appoint bishops, to deter mine the it number and rank, and to bestow on them any titles, provided those titles infringe on no exist ing rights." This opens out a very large question, which in volves the right of private association. We can imagine such associations for political as well as reli gious purposes. We can conceive the society of the Jesuits established, endowed, and numbering large bodies of the effi,iated throughout the country. The rule of this society is implicit obedience to the order of a superior, who takes the name of general, though he wears an ecclesiastical habit. The general, in issuing his orders, is known not to be bound by the laws of common morality, or by respect for common allegiance. Regicide was ksown to be amongst the permissible and everyday acts of this association. Now, with every desire to tolerate the religions liberty of the Jesuits, are we bound to recognise their general in his rank and title, thereby implying a certain recognition of his authority acd sanction of his influence, because the members of the religious society of the Jesuits consider a dictatorial superior, under the title of general, necessary to their views, their aims, and their religion? We have another example on the opposite side, of the institution of Orangemen and of their grand masters, which government and parliament have seen reason to put down. But objertors will say that these are political more than religious as-ociations. Where, however, is the line to be drawn, and who is to draw it ? For our part we e intuit see in • hier archy, and in the members of • hierarchy appointed by a foreign potentate, claiming and exercising jurisdic tion, administering property, assuming and wear ing titles of authority, which the state allows and the sovereign recognises—we csnnot see in this a purely religious institution. Oo the con trary, we perceive, nay, we feel it to be, in England, as in Ireland, • political one. Could we consider Popery a purely religions institution, we would not make it the subject of comment er disquisition. As journalists it would tot concern mi. But it is for its political and metal tendencies, never more clearly, especially and universally shown and exercised than at the present moment, tint we diem it necessary to insist that rank, and privilege and authority shall not be mum ded to different creeds: in proportion to their assumptions and pretensions, in stead of being distributed with the even hand of jus tice, and with the disceri.ment that distinguishes between tolerance of creed and worship, and patron age of intolerant establishments set op under these pretences. The strength of the Roman Catholic Church lies precisely in its assumptions—its assumption of un interrupted and indefeasible title—its sssumption of superior dignity, of greater powers of comminu tion, of greater powers of indulgence, of authority over men's consciences in other acd in all matters, as well as in theology. It constitutes, amidst an irno rant population, a complete theocracy, and by main taining the right to keep that population uneducated, it mak , s that theocracy not only complete, but per petual. All that • pablio religious institution, so powerfully armed as this, require', is a fall recognition of its dignity and authority. For in fact dignity and authority are the weapons with which it works, the splendour sad the thraldom with which it surrounds its throne are precisely the elements of its power. For • state or the politicians of a state to have acknow ledged all this, and made royalty bow down to it, with the childish hope of conciliating a corporation which can never be satisfied except by the establishment of each a dominion over all lay power as that which we have read of in Paraguay, or was contemplated in the Austrian or Roman states:—this we cannot but look upon an the most exemplary instance, that oar time affords, of the imbecility of statesmanship. We can perfectly conceive the federal government of the United Sates irnoriog religion altogether in the domain of polities, and not only ignoring religious establishments, hierarchies, and rank., but at the same time all lay dignities and titles, however derived : we can well conceive the govern ment of such a country as that retaining full power and determination to educate, and to maintain all =boot', from the primary to the professional, active, and free; we can conceive each a government to be indifferent as to the titles and rank of this clergy or that. Bat in England, where rack is so much; where title is so respected; where education is non-existent ; where there are millions of the destitute, the ignorant, the benighted, ready to give ap that small fraction of reams, of conscience, or of soul, that circumstances allow to be developed, to the • boldest charlatan, the most bedizened dignituy, the most fanatic tool,—to leave these multitudes of waifs to the church best fitted to gull their ignorance and to absorb it, and that under the plea of either tolerance or political necessity, is treason against the great cause of religious liberty and human progression, as well as a confession of powerlessness and inespacrty SD the part of rola.s which only proves them unequal to the crisis. There is no state or statesmen in Europe, save ours, that did not feel that in recognising the dignities of the Roman Ca•holic hierarchy they were conferring a boon and sanctioning a power, for which they had a right to demand a return and require a guarantee. The ease of Prussia is continually cites, with the dignities and emoluments which the state there has secured to the prelates in the great Roman Catholic districts. Nothing more true. Prussia has instituted Archbishops of Cologne and of Mons ter ; but, at the esme time, it strictly prohibited the Romish See from appointing Bishops of Magdeburg and Berlin. This the Pore proposed and desired ; bat the cabinet of Prussia answered, " No. You have bishops at Cologne and Munster for use. You want to establish them at 13-rlin and at Magdeburg, to dazzle the poor and ignorant, fascinate the weak and further the work of propagandism. Tame bishoprics ye shall not have. And even the bishop. rico we admit, they shall be national; they shall be elected by their chapters, not by the POPE; and none shall be elected or installed directly displeasing to the government, and known to be hostile to the institu tions and peace of the conatry. o Give these protestant realms similar guarantees, and we have no objection to atar a Irish Catholic Archbishop of Dublin as much honoured as the Archbishop of COLOGNE. But the system of give all and nothing have, invented by Irish Lord Lieute nants, in order merely that they might get over their term of Viceroyalty with quiet end. with &tut, not caring one lig or providing one jot for the difficulties that are certain to ems* atter them that is neither fairness, nor justice, nor statesman ship. And to pretend to pus it under the guise and colour of tolerance or even liberalism, is the most barefaced of absurdities. • THE doctrine of protection has still a three-fold manifestation, withered and shrivelled though it is. It may be seen in the pecuniary selfishness, or in the political craft, or in the silly vanity of its exponents. Of the first, the Duke of RICHMOND is, perhaps, the most flagrant example; for what he wants from pro tection is money in his purse. Of the second, Lord STANLEY is the choicest illustration ; for what he seeks by protection is merely to ride on it into office, and then leave it to Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG, who has, probably, • monopoly of the vain side of the goestioa. Selfishness and craft are wary, cautious, and politic in their exhibitions; they mine and countermine ; creep and crawl and burrow, but rarely make a noise; never when they can help it. But vanity is perpe tually getting up a rarer show. In the morning it may be seen fussing in ihe newspaper room of the City club disturbing, and annoying, and worrying the wealth, the intelligence, and the activity of London commerce ; at noon it will be found sailing along Cornhill, as if it owned all the shipping of the Thames, instead of only occasionally repairing a few old tubs; and in the evening it condescends to let loose its msguilcquence at parish meetings in Lime house, or mechanics' institutions at Wapping. It loves a lord, and worships a duke ; but it cannot resist a snob. Selfishness and craft know to a scruple the worth of vanity ; so they leave it to itself. Desperate, however, are the efforts, and ridiculous the tricks of vanity to persuade the world that it is hand in glove with selfishness and deep in the c3nfidenx of craft. It wheedles and it bullies ; it roars and it sings small; it is oe the point of letting out all the nonsensical schemes of selfishness, and all the supersubtle plots of craft ; but, just as the bucolic months gape widest to catch the secret, vanity becomes suddenly discreet ; and, potting its finger to its lips, says, " it could if it would ;" the simple truth being, that story has no more to tell than " the needy knife grinder, or the donkey on Clapham-common. It knows as much as the one, and is trusted about as much as the other. Selfishness may occasionally use it, but craft won't condescend even to do that. Small, therefore, are vanity's chances of getting into parlia ment ; and that is what it chiefly wants, and will do anything to attain. Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK Yovno's silliness has brought him into a pitiable pass—one that really ought to induce his family to look after him, for the poor man is clearly not in a sane state. No doubt he is harmless, but he may become troublesome as well as ridiculous. We can smile at him in the South Sea Hones, and be amused when he tucks old Lord STANHOPE ander his arm to hely him up the tedious stairs of the London Tavern. But what if he some day attempt to close the Bank of Eigland, and issue a fiat of bank ruptcy against all Lombard-street—just as he has filed a declaration of insolvency on behalf of all the farmers in England, and threatens Queen VICTORIA with a rebellion it some of his verbosity be not spur into acts of parliament? No one wants Dim placed is close confinement; let him freely travel between Limehouse and the West-end, but by the New-road ; if it be noractiesble, keep him out of the City : for it will suffer in reputation by his egregious toadyism of "persons of quality." The man degrades his class. Nothing will Whey Mr. YOUNG bat grand people, grand names, and grand places. He speaks for eukes; he presides over " national" uscciations; he writes his letters from the South Sea House; he assembles his friends in a back parlour of no lees a place than the London Tavern, and though he holds it quite private, strictly a coi.fidential meet irg, he has reporters from all the paper* in London to record and publish their interchange ot nonsense. And what nonsense it is! Helpless, hopeless, heavy, dreary nonsense! Dull as ditch water—ob scure as a November fog. They have not made up their minds what it is they want ; no wonder, then, they don't know how to get it. Mr.Yottio desires re numerative, but not high prices. Whereupon Mr. EAGLE a-ks " when prices ever bad been too high ?" a question Mr. YOUNG leaves unanswered, though when interrogated as to Lord STANLEY'S present frame of mind he springs to his feet and responds with eagerness and complacency, confessing, neverthe less, that he has no means of making a cor rect reply. Mr. Twee, again, wants the poor rates equalised, the malt tax abolished, the tithe commutation revised, the county rates reduced, the income tax got rid ot, and tenant farmers freed front their leases; all of which somewhat wholesale eusopreheniive remedies Lord STANLEY undertakes to show " are wholly inadequate to the exigencies of the present crisis." Such is the lunacy Mr. Youteu presides over, and that Lord STANLEY 'nubs. Mr. Yousu sprees, howsver, to have some hopes that either Sir It. Petis death or the POPE'S folly will assist and promote his nonsense. At the very commencement ot the session, he announced that some specific proposition would be brought forward in the Ifouse of Commons, to test decisively whether in the present altered state of ilia a sembly —" altered in consequence of political and other changes to which it was not necessary to advert specifically," there was now a disposition to redress wrongs, &c., &c. Whether this alteration springs from the loss of Sir it. Pen, or the audacity of the Pont, it would be presumptuous in us to say. But there are men left in that house who will, we imagine, defend to the last ditch, the legacy that great statesman left his country, and who do not suppose that the protestant faith is in any way connected with dear bread and empty bellies. Delighted then, at the very notion that next session the question will be put to the test, we very much doubt Mr. Yousult authority for the statement; and so do his own friends. For though Mr. Tooke desired to know when this "specific" proposition would be made—whether in the second week of the session, before Easter, or after Easter—Mr. YOUNG, food of answering, could make no "specific" reply to so plain a question. And why ? Because he knows nothing about the tactics of the parliamentary party he affects an intimacy with. They are to him what Mrs. Harris was to Mrs. (lamp : ‘. syringes to catch woodcocks;" nothing more. There is not a Proteo. tionist in Parliament who would not "cut" Mr. Yount) dead, if he could do so decently. "Vaulty of vanities; all is vanity "—that we see already—" and vexation of spirit"—that Mr. YOUNG has yet to learn; but it will not be long before he is move to feel the full truth of the inspired sentence. Every dog has his day; and Mr. YOUNG'S day must be nearly over when he is compelled to spout in a back parlour in the London Tavern. SESENIOS TO Roms.—Mr. Bastard, of Kitley, Devon, who bas just gone over to Rome, is the son of the late B 'mind Pone:lea Bastard, E q., who about 30 years since repeatedly contested, in conjunction with Sir Thomas Dyke Attend, B.rt., the representation of Devons►ire with the present Earl Fortescue, then Lord Bbrington, and spent a large intone in so doing—one contest alone cost Mr. Bas tard 30,0001. During the long minority of the pretest pervert, the vast property which he inherited was, by the careful management of his guardians, relieved of its inns brawn. This gentlemen was early inoculated at Oxford University with trutarias views, and was at one time in infatuated, that he actually contemplated devoting a *on aidersble portion of his property to ecelniastical purpone, under the belief that he was bound to restore to the church of Ragland, any portion of his property that li‘d once belonged to it. It was only by the urgent and repeated remonstration of his friends that he abstained from doing so. SUICIDE IN A CHURCH VAULT.—About noon on Saturday the inhabitants of • court, at the bank of Aldgets Chun*, were alarmed by a report of fire arms, and the apprentice of Mr. Jackson, a hairdreemr, whom hence abuts directly upon tbe church ard, observing smoke issuing from the grating of the wevern vaults, crossed the yard te look through, and then saw the lifeless body of the sexton, John Smith, a man 60 yean of age, lying in the vault, with the bad apparently . shattered to pieces. He landlady gave nodes to the rime, and a most appalling spectacle presented itself on the vault being entered. The unhappy dammed had discharged through his mouth a pistol that was found Isis/ by him, blowiest of the upper part of the head, and mattering around the blood and brains. Upon the iequeet held on Saturday night it was stated, that be bad for • cossiderable time been in • dejected state of mind, in moseqmace of the loss of his mite, who died about a year since, i.*WIWI him wi b five children. and:within the last day or two his mind had been mill funkier acted upon by the fear of losing his situation, in consequence of his beide', through forgmfalasse, left the church puss open at night. Another reason for' the desperate eat was said to be the calling off in boast fees eines the closing of the churchyard by the Board of Health. Tha jury returned • verdict of Wagerer, Insanity. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1850. GERMANY. Our Berlin correspondent writes as follows: BERLIN. Dec. 13. It was stated very distinctly yesterday that the free conferences would be delayed until the _sth inst. I believe that period was fixed by Prussia, as it was believed impossible to settle all the peel minary labours at an earlier period. Prince Schwarzenberg desired that they should be delayed until the 30th inst., but the highest influence in this country was employed to hasten the labours of the me morial writers, &c., and also to procure the consent of the Austrian foreign minister to an earlier meeting. This has been obtained. Communications which have taken place per tele graph with Vienna have resulted in the nomination of the 23rd as the opening day of the conferences. The fact is annoucced in the Deutsche Reform this evening, without comment, though its columns yes terday contained the apparently official assertion that the conferences would be opened on the My explanation will be found to be cwrect. It would indeed have been very remarkable if the preparatory labours of the Foreign-office had con cluded in time without the intervention of other in fluence. Toe new head of the Foreign-office, who, it must not be forgotten, has never had the slightest previous experience in conducting the foreign retire of the country, has sought the councils and advice of a host of persons, though without committing himself to any clear communication of his own views. These parties have all been busied in drawing up memorials, plans, and propoesls, all of which are read, commented on, and deposited finally " ad ado," which in this country occupy more space within the official buildings than in any other coun try in Europe. The labour of reading and ui.der standing these documents necessarily consumes an enormous amount of time, without any advantage being derived from them. This is more especially the case in this instance, as I understand :hat Herr von Manteuffel, tht,ugh he asks and listecs to the ad vice of many, acts only upon the councils of one or two persons who possess no official position. With these he is intimate and communicative, while hie subordinates in the Foreign-office are ignorant of his real plans, and have therefore of late sent lorth much contradictory information into the world. Persons who are compelled to transact business with the Foreign-office assert that it is the scene of confusion and ignorance. The commissaries for Hesse Cissel were appointed several days ago; General Peucker for Prussia, and General Leiniogen for Austria. The Prussian com missary for Schleswig-Holstein is likewise appointed : it is General L•ndheim. This officer was formerly one of the sides-de-camp of the late King, and has held the command in Silesia for some time. He has been employed in several politic ,1 EllitSiOLIS of late years. It is remarkable that the parties appointed by this government to settle the disputed questions are both generals, and that military officers are men tioned for other offices which are nenaliy confided to sivilians. The instructions for General Lindheim are pre pared, and he can depart immediately his Austrisn colleague appears. The sanction of the instructions for the Hessian as well as the Schleswig commissaries will not be waited fur, since, indeed, it is known that it will not be given by many of the lesser states. The appointment of General Liudheim shows that the slight ditferetice which had arisen respecting the interpretation to be pat upon the Olmutz " PuLk tationen " has been removed. I mentioned some weeks ago that a plan had been broached in Botha, and intimated in Vienna, fur di. Tiding Germany into three great unions, with a joint executive head at Frankfort. At the time this plan was listened to with haltapprobation in the then hostile camp, and the agents employed by both parties were very active in explaining and altering it to suit the views of both. Since the interview at Olmutz, how ever, Manteuffel has merged from the triple into a dual policy with respect to the organisation of Ger many. He has drawn up, or is still engaged in drawing up, a plan for reorgani.ing Germany in such a manner that only two representatives shall sit in Frankfort to control the general affairs of Germany,—the representative of Prussia, and her allies or federates, and the representative of Austria and her federates. It is probable that this plan was mentioned at Olmiitz, though I doubt whe ther it be directly alluded to in the s. recd protocol of that interview, which has not yet been published. So far as I can learn despatches have been received from Vienna, in which Prince Schwarzenberg speaks of the plan as a good one, expresses his hopes that it may prove preamble, and that Prussia may succeed in convincing the other parties to the question. Prince Schwarzenberg does not bind himself to support or promote it with the slightest word. He leaves it entirely t 2 Prussia to propose it in 1./radon, con-cious that the small kings, especially the monarch of Bava ria, will raise the most serious opposition, and that from the rivalry which must thus ensue between Prussia and Bavaria, Austria alone will derive the advantage. He entices Manteuffel on with semi approbation, lures him with hints; and the minister for foreign affairs appears to enter the trap very easily. The country, generally speaking, is very slightly ally-, to the progresa of the negotiations, and there are hundreds and thousands of persons, many even in this , the city of modern intelligence, who know nothing whatever of the Dresden conferences and their probable consequences. Manteuffel may succeed or not; be is tolerably secure of a majority in the Cham bers when they re-assemble, and yells must elapse ere the real results of his policy can be apparent to the country at large. At Frankfort, in the Bundestag, a united and general protest has been unanimously drawn Up against the wilful ignoring of its authority committed by Schwaizenberg at Olmutz. Count Thum has made it a personal matter, and has complained bit terly in a despatch to hissovernment of the mode in which he has been treated. The government of Ba varia is more indignant than would perhaps be the case if it were certain to whom to apply fur payment of the enormous expenses so readily incurred in arming and marching 10,000 men into Hesse. Tne slice of the electorate and of B .den which was to have paid for it hu been snatched from their greedy paws, and they are left entirely in the lurch. It is a nice question who shall pay all the expenses— the Sundesteg, the Elector, or the Honsians. 1 fear the latter. The Deutsche Reform says, that from all parts of the country addreeeee of thank, for the preservation of peace, are pouring in to the ministry. The demobilisation in Austria is, as teas announced on Wednesday, proceeding rapidly and extensively. Telegraphic advice. in the evening papers state that 30,000 men and 60 pieces of artillery have been with drawn from the Bohemian frontiers. In Prussia, the whole of the second-class Landwehr has already ' received orders to disband, and from the first class 160 to 200 men are to be discharged on leave from every battalion, with directions to hold themselves in readiness to return at a day's warning, should their services be required. General Grabow is to be sent on a mission to St. Petersburg to congratulate the Emperor on the 26 , k anniversary of his suremmion to the throne. The old superstition that no Russian emperor could sit upon the throne more than twenty-five year., has been dis proved in the person of the present emperor. The twenty-five year 'expired on the Ist inst. Nothing certain is known yet as to the future Ministers of the Intericr and Agriculture. The indictments against Hessen pflug is to be renewed at Oriefswald. The former case was tried on the direction of the district court, but the attorney general of the district is said now have decided that the offence then examined into is a criminally punish able one, and to have handed in a new indictment against liarisenpfiug. VIENNA, Dios& Field-Marshal Radetsky is to lay down his com mand of the Italian army, and to be appointed gem ral-in-chief of the entire German army. A prince of the imperial hoe/reboil, Archduke Albrecht, it is said, is to succeed him as governor and commander-in chief in Italy. HANOVER, Du. 11. It is now quite certain that our country will be represented at Dresden by Baron Munohausen. He will insist, it is said, chiefly on two points-1. A po pular representation, taken from the two Chambers of each state at the Diet; and 2. The prompt e Aa bliahment of an arbitration tribunal, to decide all questions that may arise between the separate go veraments. _______. FRANKFORT, Deo. 13. M. D. Hinder ix, we are informed, to represent at GUT at the confasmese of Dresden. CASSEL, Du 13. For several days past the retrea iag Pra•sian troops have streamed through our streets. As the Prassiens pass through, the Bavarians march in ; their he.d.quarters are at present in the eh coral palace of Rettenberg. HANAU, Dec. 11. The drsgonades against the members of our cowls o , justice, whose fidelity to their oath binders them from complying with the taxation demanded, con tinue to be carried on. To-day lit , een men took pos session of the apartment of the assessor Fuchs, who, by the instructions of the commandant of the town, Colonel Hose, are authorised to demand, besides their lodging and expenses, also execution fees. BeRLIN, Deo 14.—Voluntary Loan, 104; New Loan, Four and a-Half per Ceuta., 981; National Debt, 84 ; Com mercial Marine Society's Premium, 120; Bank Shares, 931. VIZNNA, Dec 13.—Five per Cent. Yetalliques, 95; Four-and-a-Halt per Cents., ditto, 82. Bank Sham, 1,160. Eactiange on London. 12.26. PORTUGAL. [By F.,eetric Telegrsph.) SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING: The Iberia iasitist arrived fion3L , sbon, with dates to the 10th of December. Exchange on London, 641, per thousand reit'. Daconut on Bank notes, 6to 7 per cent. FRANCE. PARIS, BATDRDLY EVENING The Mottitsur of this morning announces that the Vote Universe, was seized yesterday for the publica tion of an article entitlt d " La Loi de 'Thum' and of a feuilliton called "Lea Contests Sociaux an XIX Steele. Les Petits Entails." The responsible editor is to be prosecuted under the double °berg° of attacks on property and of exciting hatred between the dif ferent c.assea of citizens. The debate on the usury laws, which has ompied the attention of the Legislative Assembly for the last three days, may be said to be at an eod ; for, although the minor clauses of the measure are still under die curton, the main clause, which gives a Lew defini tion of usury, and the object of which is to bring every operation in which the rate of in terest exacted on loans exceeded the prescribed scale within the operation of these laws, his been re jected by a majority of 366 to 293. The merit of haying defeated thin attempt to render the usury laws evil more stringent than they were under the act of 1807, is due principally to M. 'butler, the Minis ter of Justice, and M. Odilon Barrot. Both these gentlemen strongly opposed the extension of a law which was merely intend( d to operate against that pest of society, the professed usurer, to every transaction, whether fair or unfair. The ab surdity of the proposed extension was forcibly shown by M. Roultier, who stated that, ever aim the revolution of February, the value of money was considerab'y more than the strictly legal rate of interest, but still no one on that sccjunt would think of prosecuting the bunkers and I other capitalists of Paria who took advantage of the state of the money market. Almost all the most en lightened members of the Assembly supported the view so ably advocated by MM. butter and Barrot, but, nevertheless, the minority in favour of the measure is so formidable, that it is evident that had their oppai tion been more lukewarm, the measure would probably have been carried. It was supposed that, after the rejection of the Brat clause of his measure, M. de Sc. Priest would have withdrawn his miiisure alto gether ; but it appears that he is still anxious that the remaining CialUEll of his measure should be adopted, their object being to increase the penalties at present in force against usury as laid down in the law of 1807. In the Legislative Assembly to-day the discussion on M. de St. Priest's measure against usury was not continued; but, from the number of amendments brought forward by different members, and the amend meets made by the committee on the original proposi tion, the affair became so confused that the Assembly ultimately resolved to refer the whole matter back to the committee, which was accordingly dune. At the commencement of the sitting the Minister of War presented a bill demanding a credit of 3,218,000 francs for the expense of the French army occup)ing Rome for the first six months of the year 1851. At the hour of post the Assembly is discussing the bill for the reform of the system of bypothics. Lest night a meeting was held of the Orleanist elub of the Rue des Pyramich a. The object of the meeting was to take into eotirderation the proposi tion, of which notice has recently been given by M. Victor Lefranc, for the revision of the electoral law. After a long discussion, the meeting resolved unani mously thdt, when the proposition was brought be fore the Assembly, it would oppose it. SUNDAY MORNINO. In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, alter your reporter lets, the discussion on the bill relative to the reform of the law of mortgage was adjourned till Monday. The Moniteur publishes the nomination of General Duvivier as Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. The elections of the Tribunal of Commerce of the department of the Stine, terminated yesterday. The following are the names of the aseistant-judges : MM. Evetta, Lobel, Compagnon, Contat, Desfou tainee, Be la amuse., and Hennecart. HOU ME. PAItIB, Loa 11. 3 per Cows- ...... 3 do. New Loss -4 Per Cana.. . I pot Como for /Woman. Mosey. liOreaing drtie•L Lowest. Clowns - 17 63 57 55 57 70 07 55 57 70 05 40 95:0 63 30 05 15 95 43 Laobrags on Lcorki; ; u sight; S 4 90; , 110 ciays, - 94 77i.. 6 ali, 3, 163 931 Noway. 5, Lau Do. 4e Do. 24 Mediums 3 per Dem. 64 30 „ Napas Roues Yawl Roman La ...1850 73j UAW, . 1130 lak TYeasury Banda — Bank Sham t 330 „ Booms —St. Germain, 402 50; Versailles (right bank) 165; ditto Hatt bank), 167 50; Paris and Orleans, 832 50; Paris and Rlgtll. 630; Rtuen sod Havre, 25250; *insides and Avigoon,l97 50; Strasbourg and Bele, 133 75; Centre Viers in, 400; Boulogne and Amiens, S 00; Orleans and Bordeaux, 387 60; North, 4'2 50 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 352 50 ; Tours and Nantes, 242 50 ; Montanan and Troyes, 93 75; Dieppe and Feransp, 172 50; Bordeaux and Tests, 3150. Our Pali, parcel of last evening had not arrived at the hour of going to press. SPAIN. Our letters from Madrid, of the 10th inst., state that General Narvuz had tendered his resignation, bat, atter an interview with her Majesty, consented to withdraw it. SHEFFIELD FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETT.—The com mitt.e of the Sheffield Freehold Land Society have coin pitted the purchase, for the maw of 4,1001., of an estate of 31 scree, forming a portions of the large dome... of Offley Shoe*, Esq which have been brought to the hammer wader an order from the Court of Chancery. The land is distant about a mile and a half fres the centre of the tows. A THEATER WITHOUT AN ORCHESTRA.—It is stated. that owing to recent neglect by the member of tits orchestra of the Lyceum theatre io attending rehearsal., Madame Virgil@ thought fit to give the whole corps a week's notice on Saturday sight week, tntending the intimation rather as a salutary warning than a literal dismissal. The musicians, It seems, accepted the notice in its strongest sense, sad on last Saturday evening the manager of the Lyceum found herself unexpectedly without an orchestra. To procure another on the instant was impossible; the house was full, and, as a difficulty was to be met, Madame Viotti' determiLed to confront it in the boldest manner ; thus, without explanation or apology, the curtain was drawn up, and the pt-rformanoes commenced. The audience tupported the absence of their accustomed entertainment with goad temper, and a slight eall for mitae from the gallery was in stantly suppressed. STATE Or TRADE IN SHEMELD.—Another proio perons year in th• annals of our local trade is drawing to a elose. The history of Sheffield will record few m• rep setts. factory years—jurly satisfactory years—than 1860. The demand for Sheffield goods this winter seems very go . d from , all her staple markets, particularly th'se of North and Sou h Almeria, the latter eenparatively predominating. This is indicated chiefly by the lags orders for spear knives which of late bays been is the hands cf inanufaisturers. As in. grease in the number of retail shops of all kinds, a growing demand for mailer literature, the presence of a vastly 1 larger proportion of well-dressed crowds in our streets th.n formerly, are a few of the evidences we refer W.—Sheffield Times &CAPE 07 CONVICTB.—Three anoints under sem lona of esonsponadoa for Me an sub, named John Brad with, 26, Jobs Thompson, 22, end Charles Webster, 22, socondoi in salmi tisoir maps from the convict ootablith moat on Damon on Wodnooday hot, sad boos not sines boa Mud COLONIAL. CAPE OF 0001) HOPE. We have received papers from CYIXi Town and Graham's Town to Sept. 7, both inclusive. The Governor opened the sitting of the Legislative Coarcil of the 6th by reeding the following minute : LIONOORABLII 01INTLEMBN,—Ycni are news that e pne of the principal objects tor erbica you have been now called to gether is to pass an ordinance or ordinances, which are to form the beau of r new constitution for the government of the colony, founded upon liberal principli a of popular repre sentation. . This subject has long occupied • large share of the atten tion bid' of the colonists and of her Majesty's government, and wee particularly urged upon the consideration both Cl my immediate predecessor and myself, when we respectively sleuthed the government. 13 tying been directed by the Secretary of State to re port upon the &nese of the colony to receive represent.- nee lostitutions, I called upon the principal officers of the executive government, and the judge. of the Supreme Court, to tarnish ma with their views of the matter; and, in reply to this reference, I received • series of minutes and memoranda; .hob, together with my own opinion thereon, were tranernitted to the Secretary of Sate in my despatch No. 109, of the 29th July, 1846. Earl Ores's despatch, No. 276, of the 12th February,lB49, in reply to the above, conveyed the decision of her Ma jesty's government, that some form of representative legisteture should be conferred upon the colony, but reserved the details for further consideration. These despatches, with the minutes and memoranda above referred to, were, by my direction, laid upon the table of this Council, on the 10,h July, 1849. I have since received two despatches from Earl Grey on the same subject: one (No. 440, of the 3lst January, 1830), enclosing a report of the Committee of Privy Council for Plantetious and Trade, laying down the general principles ot the new constitution which her Majesty's government were prepared to grant the colony ; the other (No. 488, of the 29.8 May, 1550) enclosing the Queen's letters patent, founded upon the above report, and empowering this Coun cil to pass an ordinance or ordinances for constituting a par liament for this colony. These despatches and their enclosures I now lay upon your table. The duty which this Council is thus required to under take is a moat important one; it is felt to be so throughout the entire colony; and I am persuaded that it is unne cessary to commend it to your most earnest care end de liberation. The letters patent to which I have already alluded ordain that the parliament shall consist of the governor, an electee Legislative Council, over which the chief justice of the Supreme Court is ex officio to preside, and an elected Legislative Assembly. Toe outline thus presented, it is lett for the present Counc , l to fill up, subject to the approval of her Moja y in privy canine I. The following, then, appear to be the principal points to which your at entice should be directed. I. The qualithtsuon of electors of the Legislative Council. 2. The qualification of electors of the Fiepresentative As sembly. 3. The qualification of members of the Council. 4. Toe qu .'itication of members of the Assembly. 6. The number of members of the Council. 6. Tne number of member. of the Assembly. 7. The dutricis by which the members of each Chamber shall respectively be returned. e. The duration of the existence of the Counefl and the Assembly (it being proviced by the lettere patent that the µescrow may diesolve the entire parliament, or the A-sem bly only, ►t his discretion). Upon these paints many important suggestions are con tained in the report of the Bard of Trade and Planta Wine, which are not incorporated in the letters patent, it Laving been evidently the object of her Majesty's govern ment to leave all details to be settled, as ler as possible, by thou who have the advantages of local knowledge. The re• port, however, which is a very able one, and has been drawn up by statesmen of great experience, will not, on that ac count, be leu deserving of your most careful and attentive coneideraticn. . . It appears te me that it will be, on many Recoups% desir able that the ectum• of government which you have been calved on to ma.tue *build accord, as tar m local dream stances will allow, with the suggestions contaiced in this re port. By adopting this course we shall, as far as possible, en nuis the approval tat her Majesty's goverumcat, and thus ob viate delays which might other wise occur. 1 also have regard to the circumstance that the general features of the plan see forth by the board inviter to have i.ctived the approval, I.y, both of the community at home who take an merest in colonial politics and of the public hem. lam well aware that local knowledge and experience will suggest to you some indispensable alterations; but I only propose that you should make the report the basis of your legislation. Ab.ve all Wogs I would nave you remember that the result ot your deliberations, be it what it may, will carry greater weight, boyn with the government at home and with the public lure, if it be arrived at unanimously. In the discharge tat the great duty which you are called on to per form, I. know that you will be actuated only by public motives, and by a desire to promote the interests of the um =unity at large. The constitution which you may establish, with her Majesty's approval, will, like all constitutions, be subject to such aturatims as future experience may prompt; but it is not the lase essential that it should Irom the first be made as perfect as pouible, and as accordant as may be with the sentiments ot the people over whom its influence will extend. I therefore suggest to yon the expediency of obtaining re complete a knowledge as passible of the views and wishes of the public. You grill have observed that my despatch No. Mt, with its enclosures—the minute. and memoranda above referred to—was before the Board of Plantations and Trade when they framed their report. The opinions of the colonial public have nut, however, been under consideration, simply because there was no official means of ascertaining them. You will be in a position to supply this detect, and I doubt not that it will be in accordance with plot own feelings to do so. I therefore propos that, should you concur with me in this view, you should take into consideration the several matters referred to you, and such others as it may appear desirable to inquire tate, in committee of the whole Council, which could tare the evidence, bath orally and in writing, • of um persons se you may tnink best qualified to inform you as to the feelings and wishes of the public. When this evidence, tote titer with the report or report*, the committee, has been presented to the Council, I shall be prepared to perform my put by introducing an ordinance or ordinances foui.sted upon such report or reports, for the consideration of the Council. This course will be attended with the great advantage that, in transmitting the ordinances for her Majesty's approval, I shall be enabled to represent them as the result of the detonation of the entire colony. With these audgestions I leave the subject to your hands. I do not now some forward with any definite measure; but if the course which I pursue be attended with roam tempo. rary delay, I Cope and believe that it is neverthelese calcu- lated to secure 111 a greater amount of permanentgood. The consideration which you are asked to bestow upon this question, and the time which it will occupy, will not be . thrown away; for you cannot but feel the denser that would attend an abrupt change of government, effected without deliberation, al; the' wisdom of all laws consists in their adaptation to the spirit of the society they are framed to rule. Mr. Fairbairn read the following resolutions, ad dressed to him by the chairman of a public meeting held at Graaff-Reinet, at which they were passed : 1. That it is the opinion of the meeting that in the appointment of members of the Legislative Council of this colony, his excellency the govetnor has not sated in accordance with the government notice of the 6th May. 1850, inasmuch as from that notice the cola nista had a right to expect th , t his excellen. y would appoint those gentlemen who should be nominated for that purpose by the greaten number of municipalities and road boards in the colony, whereas his excellency has now appointed ea one of the member, of the Legislative Council, Mr. A. Qodlonton, the editor of the Graham's Town Journal, who, it the summary of the nominations published by him in Its paper of the 6th July, 1850, be cor rect, and the nominations by West Cowie and other places, where there are no niunicipaitiell or road boards be struck out therefrom, his been nominated far appointment to a seat in the Legislative Council by a smaller number of municipa lities std road boards than Mr. J. J Meintjes. 2 That by the appointment of Mr. Godlonton to a seat la the Legislative Council, in preference to Mr. Meintjes, who was nominated by a greater number of road boards and including Gra•ll-IVMet, injustice his been done to Oraaff•Reinet and other interior districts of the colony, whose interests have been thus postponed to those of Albany, elready represented in Council by Mr. Cock. 3. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the chairman to Jobs Feirbidra, Esq., for the purpose of being Mid before the Council. It was at first proposed that the resolutions should be received, but that course having been declared ir roguldr' they were withdrawn, the desired object having been attained by the reading. The Governor then said, The next proposition I have to make to you is—a it ap pears you concur in my view that a committee of the whole Council i. the .best mode :of procedure, that you resolve yourselves into a committee, end appoint one of youroelva as chairman; and in so doing I recommend to you the secretary to government. Gentlemen of the Council, you are aware that the want of legislation hos compelled me ' to exercise en individual authority, which, however cheer fully I have done ' for the bens it of this colony , the sooner it is removed and the ordinary course of law pursued, the better it will be for the country. I ffinch from no respon sibility. My wish is to do whatever I can for the colony; but I prefer to do so strictly according to law. It will be I my duty to lay before you the following different subjects. 1. The estimates for 1850. 2. Supplementary estimates for 1850 3. Estimates for 1851. 4. Resumption of public works. 6. Toe financial relations between the colony and Ot ange River sovereignty. 6. The ordinances which were before the Council lastyear. 7. The propriety of enacting a law to establish trial by jury in civil cases. 8. Proposed establiomeat of rural paha in the frontier divisions. 9. The state of the law relative to the relations of masters and servants. 10. The nmovsl of Oralitters.froul government lands. 11. Toe pro priety of appointing resident magistrates at missionary institutions. 12. The wine and spirit ordinance. 13. The educational establishment of the South African College. 14. The sonftrencion of too amended rules of court proposed by the judges of the Supreme Court. In the course of the pre ant session I shall beg lease to bring before you these most important subjects; because, although I ►ope for an early ' eoasnuniation of our common wish and desire, in a parlia- ment being established for this colony, yet some time must seemarity elapse before all the arrangements he that por• saw ass be perfected, and the sooner !fides ere apes lead principle the better. Aril cow, • to adjourn the Council. Hie excellency then withdrew, si,d n e went into committee on the subje.et of the Council report relative to the estatilintroiCt o presentative legislature. After some-preliminary cotrerstt:on se t o course to be pursued, the Committee adj,tircrt: the 10th. IN SIMON'S IS Seringttpream J. Russell, muster-commander , Ii.M.S. }terms F bourne. MARKET PRICES AT PISTERSIAEITZI4 TAL.)-Butter, per lb., 7d. to 94.; catll,-,,, n to 4g.. 6d.; cows, An. 30s. to 451. ; vo .4, p er to ; bidet, buffed° each _6e. Gs. G 1 ; e , horses, (rams) do., 76; to 200 s; is ay, per lentils, per maid, 16s. to 275.; Itme. do , G, r, I do., 6.. to 76. ; meal, do., 32.. to ; ovs, do , 91 61.; onion., do., 18+. to 23. 6.1.; peas, d, potatoes, do , 6s. 2d. to 125.; r. kW., per Nom .4 1 to 121. ; map, colonial, per lb., 5.1. to Cl.. 25.; skins ' lion, each, 6.. 91. •, tiger. d o ., C. to • do., 4s. 64. to 9s. ; voor.lap, do.. 4i. 6d. 11 9t ; t do., 4.. 61. to 6.. ; tallow. per ,5 ; thtteh. ;A T dies 6+. to 6. 3d.; timber, beams, eac h, „ , d0. ; 2.. 6J. to 7s. • tobacco, culooial, Prr Jl. ; each, 7s. 6.1. to 9s!. ; wisest, per mold, 21.. t 4 Th. above quotations show Ow, eqtaith.tsal cz freetinfle i x of liansiirraitas, food is a long rims,,;rims,,; "Mi.. pr NDIA AND CHIN Ve have received our telegraphic deepalchts Trieste in anticipation of the Overland The Europa arrived at Trieste on tip. I,•h at 8.45 a-m., from Alexandria direct, otter a pi t . of 136 hours. She brought eighteen passe. 1 ,. tt , • the following intelligence from Altxandris 7th inst. The Hindostan steamer arrived at s 4cz at it on the 4th inst., with 98 pusengirs, aLd adric Canton of the 28th of October; Cs N and Bombay, November 16. The political intelligence from Ind a preset feature of extraordinary interest. From China we learn that to oil lrp , attec troops are gaining the upper hand over :Le gents. TRAM., IMPORT. Trade is rather bittk in China act at Ca: dull at Bombay. Exchanges on London at Hong 1., Calcutta, 28. 11d. to 2s. 13d. ; Bombes, 2s. 1 16-16 d.; Alexandria on 19nd0n,96!., on Trieste, 163 to 170. SECOND DESPATCH 01 , TIIE $kS, The Hindustan steamer from C, eLets Baez on the 3rd inst., with 89 pease grro, made the voyage in 23 days. The Or, rl tram Bombay of the 16th of November, fc of the 7th of November, from Singapore t of November, and from hang Kong of :lit October. grro, The political intelligence preaenta no LOOM than usual interest. The greatest tr, prevails in Indio. The Governor-General paring to proceed to Lahore and the 1 frontier. The Nepaulese ambubador arrived at Buubg , the Gth Met. from Suez. The Nimrod goeernm.•nt iron strainer has wrecked. The late rumour of the Afredees having mf descent upon the salt mines on the Koine. trc remained withoat confirmation. Piracies were of frequent occurrence in the s, of the Indian Archipelago. Java is tranquil. The Chinese on the . inistern cos , t of inn disc , intinned their resistance sigairot the lilt( At Hong-Kong the fever his declined a troops. The gangs of Chinese robbers in the pror Kwangse are gradually diepereirg. TRADE ItEl'oßT. Expert market at humbay and Calcutta bri looking up. Indigo commando high prigs. much in demand, with difference (Auisth:a l o andes. Saltpetre sought after for 'hippie:. firm, the supply insufficient. The peke of o going down. Large quantities of cA•on had sold and shipped. At Bombay 4,t3.5n heSee att candies were sold within the last few dap , . The import trade was getting brisk now the Indian holydays are over. The favourable ill exchange permitted some modification in the p and a still more favourable time was I coked the arrival of purchasers from Upper India. Lugo sales were effected in the better sorts of graup•it end the inferior sorts of madapollain. 431 Wes of sew and 100 bsles of mule twist were sold at Bombay. Nothing was doing in coloured goods. Prieto of metals were going down. Freights from Bombay to Lood en or Liverpool 21. 10s. to 21. 15s. A lower freightage expected. Exchange, 2e. I,ld. for paper. A great des: of business was done at this rate. On document 2s. 2d. to 2s. nd. THE BALTIC, Cantain Comstock, sailed from Liver• pool on Si' urday lee New York. THE ROYAL WEST INDIA MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY will, we understand, be prohibited by the se vernment from taking paseengers and cargo for Li-ban ly their Brazilian pockets, in order that they may not inter - fed with the trade of the Peninsular and Oriental Counsel's mail steamers. The object of the Bres.lien packets carat at Lisboa is to secure the traffic between Portugal, the Cap de Verdi, Madeira, and the Brasile. THE MAIL FOR TILE CAPE OF GOOD HorE.—( ll 2 the ececasie's of the despatch of the first mail for the Caw of Good Hope the people of Plymouth in•end to mei. I grand demonstration by a procession, a mod diner, The corporation of Plymouth and Devonport will meet the directors of the company to which the steamers belong, nol present an address. HACKNEY PAROCHIAL REFORM ASSOCIATIOS.- - At the last periodical matting of this body ammonia:l9u were received Irons the Islington and Shortdirth abocistoce, inviting their co-operation in such measures as rui.re; Is necessary for obtainieg a repeal of the existing local us, so far LI they operate injuriously to the is tem , " of the rite payers. These acts, it was shown,me in general b ase d upon" exclusive and monopolising rinciple. In Mackin, for instance, no ratepayer is eligib • to hold office under the loal act unless he is rated as high as 401. per annum ' • wbrO equivalent to a much higher rental. This bee ben Ivt ftlt to be a hardship, especially since the financial reformers of the parish have sought to take an active part in its ann. The meeting unanimously resolved to memorialise ..1 George Grey on the subject; also to bring before pulls. meet, In the ensuing serion, the propriety of relieving MI various suburban metropolitan parishes from the union o p ration of these local acts. LONDON DESTITUTION.—Mr. H. M. Wskley held an inquest on Saturday, at the Globe, New road, on Ms James, aged seven years—John James, the father, wbo ea the very pereoaffication of misery and despair, stated that wife died three years ago, leaving five helpless infant., tin of whom died soon afterwards. He lived in s room te Charlese , rett, Bat:on-street, Portman -square. Iron °Charles.strstt, kept the three surviving children. He had beenout of wort two years. They lived on anything they could get. A Ins person, named Williams, occasionally gave them some bead, butter and tea. They seldom or ever tes t d meat. 6 ow times he bought twopenny worth, which he divided smool the children. lie got his living by cleaning ben" an d omnibuses, by which he occasionally earned a shilling or sixpence. He went out at six in the morning, and tamale out in search of work and food until twelve m night " 4 „, that time the children were left by th e mselves. He mot"' as usual on Thursday morning, and when he returned 1 1, found deceased sitting naked on the fluor, erlioll r°° th' pains of his melded body. One of the civi l -teen told Muses that deceased upset over himself a pot of boiline 0: took deceased as quickly as poesible to the Imo • loose infirmary, where he died, after intent* sufferior; A Juror remarked that the body presented the aggro: o °' starvation. The coroner deeply regretted the ocrou lt but said that no one, in his opinion, was to blame, ; father could not give his children the protection and loPc:. which they required. Verdiot, " Acciden•al death." woman William, who was so kind o the family, bert o " Mr. Boyles the sunsmor.ii.g officer, t to bnng the starvOrt some nourishment as soon es possible, which Mr. 1301!!! promieed to do. The jury also subscribed a amll 0 10 2,1 the relief of the family .— Oa Saturday an inquirl "' before Mr. Lanham, deputy coroner, et the Feathen. Or!: street, Westminster, touching the death of George Mt: It appeared that deceased, whose only means of sePloo° "a t ; begging, had been for some time in a very destituteco,„ Lion, and in the beginning of the week b e was (sand 044' lodings, St. Stephen's-buildings, Soho, quits delta. surgeon who examined the body proved it was is s emaciated oondition—the whole of the wavers were bleache d and bloodless, and in the stomach were about two quiertstl; liquid like water. The intestines were perfectly elorP l l, , liver lnd ie dh white,e did a d . alotltthhiealatheg:,:oloewebl. otwf the whole body. There was considerable s Z i in the chest, and all these denoted want of food. :1 1 1:;j 1 g of death was, undoubtedly, starvation. Verdict, dammed died or starvation." othoeinh,rareitofbirloodo.lesl, 5, 1 '.ty X,. :4 . ' 2 44 atk:. Re from , e... esei e 37.4 : ,e e : •) • •• 2 . 3 1 , .r; I a ct ••• of 44 boy 214 1 , r , : Ma& II 'r°ll.4t :rll2rl :3 i.are 1. meg itee of rk, end of two . lt,l op,um id been u.d pli that the rues of prose, f• r on Lugs ,put end of weft Somber. .irerpool tad. ; , I 7' I r a