The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-29 00:00:00

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Ax able sketch of Manchester from a well-known writ".., published by us yesterday. introductory to an account which he proposes giving of the mills and marvels of the manufacturing distriote, mention autoog the striking features of Manchester the large number of Greeks and of Germans inhabiting that town, engaged in its trade, and acting as Wong links between England and those countries. A more startling, or more remarkable proof of the capa bilities of the Greeks, as a race, and of their preepec.s as a nation, could not be given. It is, however, not merely for these, but for man other tessans, important that Greeks and English should well understand and appreziate each other, and not be led into mutual grudges and enmities by the csprices, tecdenctes, or vindictiveness of their re spective governments. It is well known to every man, that two ideas presided over those efforts and interferences of England and of France which led to the independence of Greece. The first idea was one of humanity, to put an end to the internecine war between the Greeks and Turks. and afford to the former race a land of repose and security, where those who could not endure turkish despotism might fly, and might enjoy the blessings of nationality and independence. tioited with this immediate am, was certainly joined in the generous minds of English and French statesmen a desire that Greece might be endowed with that vitality, which might render it and its chiefs worthy successors to the empire of south-eastern Europe, in case that the Turks, their system, and their dynasty, should fail in their efforts to develop the pr sperify, to reconstitute the strength, and main tain the independence of that important region. In saying this, we are confident that no English states man, then or now, nurtures any hostility to the Turks, any wish to expel them from Europe, or any aim save that of supporting them, and giving them a fair chance fur maintaining their position and can tinning their rule. But, in despite of this, there is still the chance that the Tanks may not succeed io keeping their ground in Europe. They are a domi nant race, which refuses all amalgamation with the greater number of their subjects; end this creates each a permanent source of weakness, that it cannot be considered unfair to Turkey to entertain fears that the SULTAN may not always be able to maintain his position west of the Bosphorus. Should such a contingency occur, the Greeks are in the eyes of every French and every English thinking man the rightful heirs to the lapsed empire, and the dynasty that has made itself national at Athens will have in their eyes the first claim to comprise within its sway the races and the regions that extend to the Danube. There was a third party, however, in the establishment of Greece, which had, and which never can have such views. Russia joined in promoting the independence of Greece, out of hatred to Turkey, out of • desire to weaken it, and out of • nicessity to have a finger in the pie, a voice and an influence in that future kingdom, which she did not desire to •-ead and which she can never desire to see s aggrandu4L If tn . Greeks, thcrefore, their Ring, er their government, ban the perspicacity of chilli-en, they would trust to England and to France and not to Russia for counsel, for sup port, and for friendship. Unfortunately, France and England diff,red as to the best mode of governing anu developing Greece. England was for a really eoconitivional government, as the brat fitted for a maritime, a commercial, and what we might call • municipal people. M. GUIZOT and the French opposed this, for no earthly reason bit doctrine, and littleness, and a paltry desire to curry favour with Austria. As Engiand leaned to limit the King's prerogative, and above all his lavish expenditure, by • genuine constitutional system. of curse the stupid court, and its foolish and wilful boy-King dishk.d English counsels. Orlin naturally preferred Austrian and French policy ; and Rusair, which always has a wily agent to practise deception, samiereged him io his obstinacy. Therefore, let it be clearly understood, that if England is disliked b 7 the Greek court, as by the Neapolitan court, it ts for the same honourable mason, viz., that England has alwo)s coun selled the adoption of a liberal and constitutional government. We will say this much of Lord PAL mr.asToNobat he has been to Greece and Italy a most stanch and consistent supporter of liberal goceriment, to the length of moderate ccr.stitution sham. Our twin make this and its result a crime t i Lord PauacasroN. They accuse him of weakeoiog Ragland% influence in every kingdom in Europe. Bat it Lord Patxtutzroz has done so merely by remaining true to the liberal principles of the British constitution and government, he is entitled on this account not to obl quy, but support. Toe constitutional leaning and attitude of the Eng lish government and its representative at Athens hes led, as we have seen, to all kinds of contumely being pot upon us. Notes unanswered; claims not discussed or disproved, but scouted; denial of justice to persons solely and evidently because the y were British sub jects—ell-A acts as these, indulged in by a foolish court and government towards a power which founied the kingdom of Greece, which could have no care or desire but for its prong-rimy and greatness, and which recommended constitutional freedom as the best path to that prosperity and greatness—sash conduct as this deserved, we do not say the precise mode of retslistion that was adopted (for we blame that mode) ; but it certainly dots greatly excuse the seems which it pleased Lord PALMERSTON to triter, and that Sir WILLIAM PARR= put in execution. The real question between Greece and England presented no difficulty. Had the Greek government replied, as the Tuscan government did the other day, and referred the dispute to an impartial arbPer, au* SS the Rtug of SARDINIA, Mr. WYSE would have accepted such an offer. Bat the Greek government esesiders itself the champion of absolutism, regards En4land as the champion of liberalism, and pate itself under Hamden banners to excite, and prolong, and fight out this qsarreL The Mere and other joarnals have supported tie obstinacy of the Greek meet. Why ? Out of per sonal enmity to Lord PALMERSTON, and an eagerness to seize on every means of humbling him ' • and out of, at the same time, a very disgraceful desire to give those special patrons of the rams, Count Nes tir.t.aoos and Prince BERWARTZENDIRO, a triumph over oar foreign secretary. Now, for oar part, we me not age penny for Lord PALMERsToN. But we feel that be has been led into this @ragman' with the Greek, Austrian, Russian, and Italian courts solely from his liberalism. And, moreover, we feel, that the quarrel, as it now geode, is not only the cause of constitutionals pinet ab solutist government, and of Ragland against Rama, but of British dignity and d the interests of British subjects and commercial men against a power determined to thwart England, and to do no justice by Englishmen. We cannot, there fore, rejoice with the Tones at seeing England thwarted in her present efforts, because the faller* may work harm to this se that member of the oath. net. The motto of the Imes is, Perish the liberty and independence of Europe, and may ever Hellman be kicked and robbed, provided we ma ewe Lord PALMERSTON. Baron Gaoe went to Athens with such offers es se Greek minister, actuated by purely Greek motives or itt.-rre.o, could reject. Frame was to examine the claims, and all it required was, that Ormee would promisee to abide by the award. But no—a speedy ternsmatioa of the quarrel did not suit the Russian envoy, or M. Titouvr.nex, or M. Lomas, or the ranee. What these people _went is seer sot war with Ragland, bat with Lord Petargasvos; and to carry ea this as long. as inveterately and as effeetsally of Russia. and What we. lishmen will Waal. and it no easony as England dm i England t. wards °mem hes hem hitherto to wish her aonstito tinsel and free. For this aot very rash or interested hope sad snood England his incurred the obloquy of the Great omit, sad the Beglich government have retslisted is a way that we sow sincerely regret. Bat the °reek court becmght this on itself. ALd it would be against BeglmA rights, dignity, and in terests to recoil, soil her fair demssds have bces ceseplied with. THE cue of the Reversed Mooftwoutre AMU, Perpetual Curate of Bedford, in the parish of Leigh, in the county of Lancaster, tried at the Liverpool Moises, on Wednesday, is a very apt and timely illustration of the ecclesiastical objects aimed at by Bishop Pau.Parrs and his followers. It is that of a clergyman relining toiletry a young 'couple who had strictly fulfilled all the requirements of modern legislation as to sense, nominally on the premix* that dosses hod Rot been confirmed, but sob stantially, became the partite preferred 'iv*: the notices out of chuck rather than have the banns published in chink. And the consequences of his refusal are, that their child has been bastardised, and they are now living in a state of sin. " Asyou have been a.ked by the guardians, let the guardians marry you," was the irrererend reply of the priestly bigot to a formal request by the parties that he would obey the law of the land. It is difficult to say whether the folly or the wick edness of such conduct is the greater. Here have we the perpetual curate of Bedford repelling in his small way, just as Bishop Partroxre would in his greater sails if be had got the power, two persons from the &arch. The man, it is true, neither knew his cate chism nor had been confirmed ; bat his ignorance mast people will think, was just the reason why the church should look after him, was exactly the motive why it should not repulse him. It is bet a few years since the church had a monopoly of marriages in England, since there was no marrying except through her intervention; and load was her complaints, when the law broke up her monopoly and recognised the legality of other marriages. Yet here we now have a clergyman still further narrowing the circle of church marriages, by excluding from it those who ate desirous of entering that circle. It was bad enough to compel people to be married at church who did not want to have the oeremoay performed there ; but it is still worse to tarn those away who seek to be married these. If the church of England be the national church of this portion of the realm, its offices ought to be at the service of every one who sorts them legally. Whe ther the seeker be a fit and worthy recipient of its offices is • matter fu his own responsibility, and nt,t of the officiating minister. if it be sinful for a man to be married at church without previous confirmation, the risk and consequences of the em are on his, and not on the clergyminhi, head. Sufficient for the latter is his doty to point the necessity for previous confirmation. That done, his responsibility, whatever it may be, is fulfilled. And such will be the practice of the clergy so long as they are only officiating ministers in the church. But once allow them to fancy themselves a Ilse, ific'al priesthood en dowed with mystical and supernatural powers, and the pretensions asserted in this case by Mr. JAM ii/ follow ; with mach more serious ounseqnencts in their train. This it is, we repast, to which the Bishop of EILTER and his Lliuwers are driving, sod this it is to which the Bishop of LONDON, after his fashion, is giving encouragement. An attempt is being made to introduce into the English church a priest hood having preten inns atd claiming the powers of the Romiab cherub; a priesthood which shell have the power to refuse regeneration in infant baptism ; a priesthood which shall have the power to refuse to marry ; which shall have the power to refuse to bury ; wlach shall follow as, with its pretensiors and its refusals, from our more our grave. Nor, inch s priesthood is not that which the Hoiy Scriptures cotremplated; it is not that which the &OA people will endure. Such pretensions, equally alien to divine revelation and to the English cha racter, must not merely be resisted, they must be quashed in so signal a manner as to prevent their revival again disturbing society. It will not do to hare a continual succession of theee outrage., such as we have recently had to endure. Io this very parish of Leigh, its vicar is in the habit of dispensing or refusing the offices of the church, as it he Lai papal power; and in doing so, he sets his bishop at defiance. It was but a few months since the incum bea of Ackworth in Yorkshire refused to allow the remain of Miss GULLY to be brought into the parish church where her father and brothers worshipped every Sunday, because she had died a Roman Catho lic--a refusal which even his bishop condemned And Bishop PAILPOTTS, in his notorious Letter to the primate, regrets that the church does not mire frequently exercise her power to refuse Christian burial. These are practices that must be put a stop to. They are practices which, though nalield by the Plimrcrrrers and encouraged by the BLOMFIELDS of the church, are renrobated and cvndemntd by its tiIIINERS and its MUSGRAW.S. Let the BENNETTS, the DODSWOBTUS, aed the JAMESES of the establ shment beware They are planing matters to an extremity. The safety of the Church of England lies in its comprehensive character. Deprive it of that character, ar.d its duration is not worth a couple of years' purchase. Reduce it to the narrow Amite and to the exclusive habits of a sect, and it must be stripped of its national dress and of its national wealth. If these people will be sectarian and exc!u sive, let them be so; but not in the name or on behalf of the English people. The alternative, then, is the continuance of the church in its present oemprehen sive character, er its cessation to re the church of England. When Messrs. PHILPOTTS, BENNETT, and DouswoETE have got a church of their owe, they may play what pranks in it they please; but they mast not be allowed to outrage decency in the temple of the English people. THE recent changes in the Sandy of the Poet-office were so obviously matters on which experience alor.e could enable any candid man to de cide, that, neither p;aseesir g the power of seeing into futurity, nor the vanity of thinking that we must know better than those whose daily and hourly buil ne as is the direction sad superintendence of Post ale* affairs, we abstained from involving this journal in the raging of a cantroverry, where all the information was on one side, and nothrog but audacity of language, and recklessness of assertion, were to be heard on the other. Nor, in now referring to the subject, do we mean to descend to an arena in which facts are disregarded, in which truth is not spoken, and in which the flimsiest misrepresen tations are pilmed off, by interested porticoes, under high sounding names. Our object is merely to rats the results of the experiment which has been made; and from this statement the public must learn for itself how much, or how little, dependence is to be placed on the speeches , the pla cards, the letters, and Sim leading articles of the industrious and imaginative seettlemen who, from that experiment, aff cted to anticipate almost the destruction of Christianity itself in this metropolis. Toe avowed object of the Poet-office authorities in these changes, was to augment the amount of rest on Sundays to Pest-office functionaries, without patting the pabLe to inconvenience. With this view it wee resolved to pass what are called " the forward let tees" through London on a Sunday ; end, by conse quently reducing the business previously transicted in the country of fi ces on that day, to close them for its greater part. It was calculated that by employ ing at most arms 26 additional hands in the London Post-office from seven to ten on Sunday morning, and from five to eight on Sunday evenings, the country offices generally might be closed on Sundays between the hours of 10 and 6 o'clock. Stich was the avowed object of the Post-office authorities ; such the simple means by which the object was intended to be carried out. How this object was at the time of it. announce ment mierepreeen ; kow these figure. were booted at as intimtional de.usions—say, as the merest frauds; bow allsortsof ontrageousand unchristian designs w, re uncharitAbly imputed to sseawlices ri at ds were iden heel with those proposed by their revilers and calum niators, it woald now be profitless to recount. Suf fice it to say, that, supplied with tuhes'atements from a cabal in the Puet-office itself, the opponents of •ti Ii tut which'' 116 designs their asibori, or the here of thshr eppenentr, ere likely to be realised. And, having taken some trouble in in quirieg into the erecting of the changes, we and their milts to be these. Previously to the 28th of October last, there were 27 men engaged the greater part of every Sunday in the Posse. The first duty of these men was, from the was which arrived on that day, to select the Mere (" ship Mare as they are called) ad. Armed is the NO posinsent officer. Bat, es these letters essdi Set be 'sleeted without going through all the Mare meleived, s,, with a view to expedit log the Monday morning's delivery, these men also weed all the Sunday's letters. In these two ditties, and in waiting for, receiving and sorting the foreign mails that miss*, 27 men were, we repeat, engaged in the Post-office on Sundays previously to the 28th of October. When after that date the " forward letters" were peeled through London on Sundays, 23 additional men were at first required from 7 to 10 in the mornings, and from 6 to 8 in the evenings ; leaving them at liberty dories the rubrical hours of public worship. But, as by passing the " forward letters" through London on Sundays, • great part of the sorting previously made on Sundays to expedite the Monday's delivery was thereby done, acid the remainder of the sorting reduced to limits commonable on Monday mornings, so it was gradually found, when the Sun. day's machinery began to work with facility, that the additional number cif hands might be reduced. No opportunity of reducing the number required on Sundays has been lost by the Post-G[llos suthorities ; and for some time past the total number of per- NM engaged in that establishmert on Stiridays has been twenty-six. Previously to 28 . h Oztober last the total number so employed wee 27; it is now 26. • that, so tar from the recent changes baring aug mented the number of persons occupied in the Gene ral Post-office on Sundays by, as was predicted, some 70 or 80 hands, those changes have actually reduced, by one man, the number previously required. Gratifying as this reduction is when compared with the anticipated increase, the results of the changes of October in the country are still more gratifying. There are, probably, about nine thousand permits in poet-office employment in the provinces of Eng land and Wales; and as yet the new system bus not been extended to Scotland and Ireland. N,w, by E t sr e i r izr through London on Sundays the "forward " the post-office, in all country tower in which the mail attires early in the morning (in by far the majority of our towns it does so) are now closed for the whole of the Sunday after 10 o'clock in the morning; in some few towns leis favourably situated in distance from the metropolis, the pot-offices are open an additional hour on Sundays end in all country towns there is now only one deli very on Sunday. The conseoueuce of this iv, that inn the 28th of October, 1849, 6,000 of the 10,000 persons employed in the provincial past-effioes of Englaed and Wales enjoy every Sunday, on en average, five-and-a-half hours more rest tear) they did before these changes were made; and that there are now 250 fewer deliveri-s in the country than th-re were previously. Of the 3,000 peranus to whom the measure has brought no relief on Sundays, nearly 2,000 probably are rural mew eager'; and that these men have not now more rest au Sundays is attri butable not to the Post-office autherities, but to the inhabitants of the district they serve: For whenever the inhabitants of • district have, with anything like unanimity, requested that their men. serger might not be employed on Sundays, the re quest has at once been complied with by the Post. office ; though cases are not wanting in which the very parties who have obtained this compliance with their request have subsequently sought and procured its revocation. Nor is this all; previously to the 28th October there was a Sunday morning's delivery in the metropolitan soburbe; that delivery has now ceased within a circle of six miles around the ft e nerel Post-office. Nor must it for an instant be supposed that these results spring from the recent eiciwnent. They are the natural fruits of the policy embodied in the much abused minute of February 3, 1819. They are the contemplated efec•s of the changes recommended therein, which changes were adopted by the Post- 1 rnaster-G_ceral, and received, and still hare, the approbation of the Treasury. The design of that minute ern% we repeat, addi tional rest to the Post-office on Suldays without in , convenieace to the Its effect has beer, add,- tional rest to the Post-office, with additional convenience to the public. Gauntry towns have now the full advan tage on Mondays of railway conveyance ; and this ad vantage hes reduced the nimbi rot I.ersans engaged on Sundays in the General Post-office by one man, and has given in the provinces of England and Wales to 6,000 persona nearly six hour: additional rest on every Sabbath. More complete success it is impos sible for any measure to have, though, in truth, it is only the last of a series of Post-office successes such as no oth• r department of the state can display, and as will confer on Mr. HOWLAND HILL a fame the more enduring and brighter because of temporary calumnies that have for a moment obscured his repu tation, and the selfish oi position that his occasionally arrested his useful public career. 1 6 ( 1 • ' •:--- 4 ".,..!_:-. ICHO. AMP --:..c. lillipAY II fr i , t , .._.„ ... ly se A. - him 11111 1 71 1181 eiil oadou en- nd taa f _pee. .badi ..... tides.* en Buodsfs, ,do lAirt • • , U. 111 fht DO I 0 0 8 P3ir ' t a,4o...tik polio worship 11 hi take a • th ' puerile, - and beak al rtcreat ilptl ?mt. unworthy effusions of spite. There is The &urges were mirk os the 28th of Oc- -7 that wishes so well to littera totter, 1849; sad have bees sow epie months is thee. And the sole crime of Englandtu- operation.. A sullicisat tine hes, therefore, elapsed —__ G REECE. The supplement of the Corfu Gazelle of the 15th contains the following important despatch from Count Neaselrode to M. Persiani, the Russian ambassador : Salamis, March 12. Coast Neeaele , de writes thas to M. Persimai, the Russian &whammies at Athens : . . . . His Mejwity the Emperor is much concerned at the un satisfactory accounts from Green, and immediately cam 'pinioned N. von Brunnow to i nform Lord Palmerton of the unfavourable impression which the compulsory measures adopted towards the Greek marine bad produced upon the mind of his Majesty, measures which may destroy the peace, and place the kingdom, created by the three powers in great ' I difficulties. His Majesty hopes that the government of Grist Britain wilt be disposed to settle this until,a sant affair amicably, and has not the least doubt that, by the friendly intervention of Fearer ' it may have already been adjusted ; if, however. the interven tion of Franca should lead to no result, Rosen is willing to undertake the settlement of this unpl.saint difference Count Von Nesselrode, in sending M. Ponied a copy of his note to N. Broanow, odmonirlies his at the same time to give his best advice to the Greek government, in order that the matter may be speedily settled by the time these Idespatches Teak Athens. Coact Nenelrode fully approves of the conduct of M. Pendant. M. Von Bronnow writes to M. Persiani in the' ' same spirit, adding that the Greek government ought long since to have vault d this business with England.' and ascribes the pressntdiffioulties to the bad political system adopted by Coletti, and Mat he had even be fore receiving instructions from hie government esdeavonesd to pacify Lord Palmerston, and bad urged that the friendly intervention of France should be accepted by the British government. In conclu sion he exhorts M. Persian' to render every possi ble assistance to Baron Oros in order that his mutton may have the desired effect. ITALY. SARDINIA. The Gagette of Turin contaise the official announce ment of the marriage of the Duke of Genoa with the Princess Elisabeth of Saxony. ROMAN STATES. Lettere of the 18th from Rome announce that Chevalier Micard, secretary of the mission of Cardinal Dupont, bad arrived from Portica t and long confe rences bad been held with General Barsituay di/tinier*, in ceder to settle the manlier and eircam stance of the Pops's entrance into the Eternal City. NAPLES. Our Naples correspondent, under date of the 20th kat., ewes that the French fleet, consisting of three ships of the line, Friedland, Jena, and Hercule, together with the Gomez, Asmodie, and Descartes, steamers, appeared before Naples on the evening of the 18th. Besides these, there is the Vauban, which brought Cardinal Dupont, and the steamer which arrived from Toulon im the 17th. The Preach have therefore at p•eient before Naples a highly imposing naval force. Various rumours are cited by oar oar. respondent as to the cause of so powerful an escort being provided by the French gov ernment to usher the fugitive ponti ff hack to his dominions. A Spanish first-rate appeared in the bay on the morning of the 20th. Fives, 94 I exchange on London, 670. Tri?ilNl FRANC . PAM!. Ilmouppay, It am. The saltation stirred by tits eccentric proposition of DelarocbsjacTaslin still °continues to affect the Parisian press. The absente of the honourable r pre saatativo at the reading se his proposition, although explained by him in On sitting of yesterday, has exposed him to harsh lantana& wan by the organs of kis own party. A deputation of the provincial press is coming to Paris to remaistratesgatast the paw law. They will not hoar of a stamp owns of one centime. The press law oommittes boa declared unanimously against say raising of the caution money. Lord Normanby has been appointed member of the Commission on the Industry of all nations. The Morsitsur du &ir says "It was stated yes terday at the Assembly, that on hosting of the in tended departure of the Grand Duchess of Baden and the intended visit of the President of the Republic to the departments of the east, the authorities of the principal towns throsgb which they were to pass had prepared magoilicent fetes for their soceptior. If we are to credit persons who pretend to b 3 well-informed on the subject, one of the towns nearest the frontier will give a tournament to the President and the Grand Duchess, which will rival those which the Cavalry School of &maw offered to the Prendont when he virted that place." "The directors," a. the Monitetsr du Soir, "of the Orleans, Ratan, Northern, Strasburg, and other principal railway., hays met together to decide on the conditions on which it would be ad visable to found a branch discount bank, specially appropriated to lasts on railway shares. The intell.gspoo of such a plan being its contemplation exercised a favourable in fluence on the minds of capitsl•sts, and railway shares were in corsequente sought for at the Bourse. It is said that the companies will form a guarantee capital of about 1,600,000 fr., by famishing Ifr. on each of their shares, and 50e. on each obligation. Ths bank which is about to be formed will advance two-thirds of the value of the shams deposited, and the borrower is to sign bills for the amount of the advance ; these hills will be afterwards negotiated at the National Discount Bank, which will band them over to the Bank of France. The President of the Republic yesterday visited the barracks in the Rue de Clieby, Rue de la Pepinidre, and Rue Vert., where he distributed several decors twos to the officer-, sub-officers, and privates. The cattle show at Poissy, which took place yes terday, was rendered remarkable by nearly all the prises being carried off by English cattle. The Dur ham breed especially made a splendid show. Our Paris parcel of yesterday evening did not ar rive tu.til immediately before going to prem. We make the faloaiog extracts from it : PARIS, THURSDAY, 5 P.M. M. de la Rochejacquelin has dragn upon himself, by his rash proposition, the reproaches of LI sections of conservatives. These have been labourirg, not in deed with remarkable success, to forget their mattlal feuds and jralon,ies, in order to present a united phalanx to the democrats, and now, when the chiefs of rival factions contemplated the formation of a com pact league between conservatives of all shades, up starts the champion of legitimacy and flings the apple of discord among the loosely cemented con fer es ate', starting the inflammatory queetion of who shall be monarch if the monarchy is voted back by the nation. The Orleanist, legitimist, and impe rialist, who might walk into the Assembly arm-to arm, would at the very sight of such a motion ab ruptly unlink, and start into attidee of mutual defiance, a- soon as the vision of that debateable crown was set before them. The Assembly, having terminated the general debate upon the budget, begin yesterday to vote the details. The sums assigned for the payment of the interest on the public debt, and of pensions, were voted without &mission. The entire bucket of the Ministry of Justice, amounting to twenty-six millions, wee then voted. In it are comprised the expense, of the Central Admistration, of the Conseil &Etat, of all the tnbanals from the Court cf Caseation to the justices of the pace; lastly, the expenses of the criminal jurisdiction. The question was raja dby M. Sauvoire Barthelemy, whether any reduction could be operated in the number of the courts and tribunale, or in the personnel of the magistracy. M. Reedier re ferred to the fact that a comnitttee was sitting at present on a bill for judicial organisation. The Assembly rejected, by • large majority, reductions, proposed by M. Riudot, in the salaric a of asa g i,erates. 'ulna Favre interpellated the Minister cf Justice, with regard to the dismissal of a justice of the peace for refusing to follow the Procureur-Oeneral's instructions, in a political matter. The minister, waists' to an . ewer 'offhand on the fact ci.ed, lead . the circular of the goverment to the ProcureurieGeneraux ; the energet'c passages elicited applause from ti e coneer v.ti yes. The close of the sitting was devoted to the bud get of foreign affair., the first chapters of which were adopted withoutany dines ion of importance. A reserve was made in the else of the c:msulate at Sys, which 'it was propos • . d to abolish, but of which M. Piscatory defended the importance in a commercial point of view. The budget will be resumed on Monday, and continued on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ott Thursday, as I meotoned previously, the second debate on the Avignon Railway 8111 will be commenced. M. Denayroose laid on the table of the Assembly a proposition for &committee of lily members to inquire into the meow° a and wants of the republic, to obtain a fair di-tribution 4,f tax Lion, and to suggest ad minietrative reforms with a view to economy. Upwards of 130 members of the majority have laid on the table a proposition, in the sitting of yesterday, moving fur the formation of a committee to prepare the organic law on the recruitment of the army, and on the constitution of the public force. A duel took place yesterday in the Bois de Vin cennes, between M. Lireux, redacteur of the Condi tuti and M. Weill, redacteur of the °creek de France. After exchanging a harmless fire in the midst of a thick fall of snow, the gentlemen of the press declared their honour satisfied. BOURSE. PARIS, Mawr 28. I 142 Massy. °pais i 55 73 VO 13 •• sod S per Cad& I SS 9) S Cests. I9O SO 5 L eo. New Loan. 4 per caws ler Astosant SS 90 U 70 90 0 90 10 .. OP PP 1300 fill SS ye Ile ollga. 11t 0 n . n I no I re SWAM CS London : , day,. 23 5 3 • 00 dap, 23 424. Belree, 8, 1840 Do. 8, 11341 ..... 99 . Roman Lean 1849 ;7 De. 44 De. 24 Piedmont. 3 per Ceuta 33 23 ~ Beek Jhares Sours :Parr and Orleans, 767 30 ; ruts awl Roam UI; Rouen and Havre. 230; Avignon and ISsirostliss, IN; Inensisnrg and elude, 1 1 3 73 ; Orleans and Viers's. 661 SS • Odors mot Sse desni, 393 73; Northern, 426 73; Paris mM IkristowN3ll6 23; Tours and Nantes, 298 73 ; Itontstisa Tara. IN; orsaillen (right bank), ISO ; (106x6), 111 MI; St. Onsanin, 360. SPAIN. The Quells of Madrid, of the 23rd, contains a circular addressed by . the Minister of Commerce to the governors of provinces with respect to the great exhibition of manufactures in London, announcing that the Spanish government will give every facility to those who desire) to mind the productions of their industry ; will convey the same gratis to the shores of Eneland, end remit all duty to and fro. sumo, Mauce 2 1.-1%4T Coate., 29 pow. Your per Ceuta, 121 paper. Five per Casts.. I paper. Passive, 3/ papa/. Coupons. 7 paper. Bank of St. F mak ; 814 paper. Kaatiaaae cee tosoia, 30.22. THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. Extract of a letter trom Varna, dated 7th March, 1850 :—" The following Poles left here the day be fore yesterday, in the Turkish vessel for Aleppo : " General. Hem, Stein, Kmetti; Prince Woro mosky ; Colonels Z•sieeky, Ballok ; Majors Alberti, Nsoaegirei, Scheidenberg, Fiala, Holland, Barothy, Or- s, Bcbeff, Schneider, ; Captains Toltb, Arviy, Tabardiniky, " Othesi ase4ilissotad bete who are destined for Malts:o423o ire expected kers to-day. The Turkish yawl, 'which is jetsam' to transport thaw, has been here a wcek." ATTNIIPTSD MUNDIJI AND Roassay.—A few even ings since, a daring attempt at highway robbery and murder was perpetrated is the neighboutbood of Tetaworth. Mr. Litt., tea dealer, yea travelling on business in that locality in • ette-hoses shako, sad about 8 o'clock at night he was at• talked by two &lbws, one °twinge seised his homes head, sea the other attempted se punkt. oat et hie vehicle. Mr. Little, at the man inetain. mouth hie horse • blow with the whip, which mend it to spring forward with a form width knreked down the man is front. The fellow behind Mr. Little then fired at Ws, bat fortunately without doi•g his say Wary, sad he sseseeded la asking his seep from I these unpleasant " brethren ci the road." Agoo•I •, "4: GERMANY. ERFURT, Meech 26. M. Von Redowite, in an elaborate speech, averse' Was fell explanation of the German eines ion. He made a sharp onslaught on all opponent*, and was peetioalarly pointed in his reply to the Wurtemberg amok, NMI severely handled the policy of the Umiak aostederacy of kings. The Erfurt mission rendes suet oted by the Dew project of the three kings. The speech of M. Redowite drew down re peated marks of applause, especially from the left. uPulish deputy PjluliOsky resigned his mandate er protest. BERLIN, lemma 25. There is no longer any doubt that the policy of Prussia, both as regards the German question and the Daoish question, meets with strong and unions oppo- sition from Russia. " The Emperor of Russia is more dissatisfied than ever." was said t a.day in *oust circles. Even Manteuffel has expressed him.. if very anxiously respecting the designs of Russia. All these reports are concentrated in the stwement that every violent and arrogant tote has, within these few days, been received from the Russian government, some portions of which, said to be transcribed from the French original, were even current to-day ; and of which the following are the moat eseential: " The Russian Ambassador has been again in structed to declare to the Prussian government, in the name of his sovereign, that the Schleswig question is the subject of his most earnest attention. The Em peror expects that, agreeably to the often repeated paella awurances of Prussia, the conditi.ms of the armistice shall be faithfully observed, not only in word but in deed. Hitherto the results have been exceedingly unsatisfattory. The administration ap pointed b> the mediatory states has been powerless ; its orders have not been obeyed; its functionaries have been expelled by the people; and all these things have been done under the very eye of the Prussian Commander-in-Chief. In fact, the most perfect anarchy prevails, without any step being taken by him to check it. But Prussia proceeds further—she excludes the plenipotentiary of Denmark from the Federal Commission at Frank furt, and thus prevents the possib lity of a friendly approximation between the Duchies and the King." After the statement and enumeration of many similar complaints on the part of the Russian Emperor, such as the occurrences in the palatinate, Bad e n, at Dres den, on the Rhine, &c., the ambassador of the Em peror proceeds by saying " that he cannot too urgently I press upon the Peuesian government the removal of these causes of complaint, and he cannot withhold from himself the expectation that Pruners will faith fully keep the armistice, and offer her hand to the °occlusion of a definitive peace. He also takes upon himself to state Chit if Prussia thinks ahe does not poplins the power to bring the Schleswig question to a satisfactory issue, the Emperor of Russia is ready on his side to take the matter in hand." Such is the reported purport of the note. I have been assured that it perfectly agrees wilt the French original, enough I cannot guarantee its truth. It is the more important as our money market has been depressed to-day by bid tidings of the probability of • war between Prussia and Deumark. The Prussian answer to the collective note of the three kings bas been deslatched to-day. Oldenburg, it is to be feared, is about to fall off from the Erfurt par liament. The duke has bad a strong bribe—the offer of the succession to the Danish throne for his family. This is too great an offer to be refused. The presumptive heir to the duchy of Nassau, brother of the duke, lies dangerously ill at Vienna. Both brothers are childless. AUSTRIA. 'VIENNA, MARCH 22. Two Russian couriers arrived here yesterdaywith in a few hours of each other. In the arsenal here the greatrbt activity prevails. The men fr• quenily work till late in the tight. Nut only are new arms made, but those taken from the insurgents are repaired, and conveyed to the new building. . .... The "French ambassador, M. Rayneva!, and the Prussian privy c uncillo•, vsm Dalbruck, took their departure to-day for B.rlia. MARCH 23. The long end impatiently expected — ;;;;;;al constitution for Vienna was published to-day, and will no doubt give rise to a great deal of discussion. The principle laid down by the authors of the com munal law of the 17th of March, 1849, "that free corporations are the very essence of a free state," is become unfortunately matter of history. We are snare of all the dithmlties wh;ch, in the constitution of a state, present themselv-it when applied to such a as Vienne, with its various and important in terests, especially as the s'o'ute in this respect must serve as the rule for the capitals of the crown lands. The intelligence conveyed by telegraph three days ago from Trieste, is thus gi%en in the Osservature Tri( also of the 20. h ins'.: "The news from Greece brought last night by the steamboat from the Levant, does not confirm the report curre:.t in Corfu of the departure of the English fleet for the Dardanellee. Although all interruption to freedom of trade had ceased, yet the Anglo-Greek dispute remained as it was. There was the lees probability, too, of its being brought to an amicable issue, from the disinclination manifested by the Greek government to enter into negotiations with the French minister, Baron Gros, so long as the Engli-h fleet remains before Salamis, and the cap•ured are not restored. So far from there being any probability of these conditions teing granted, England has recently put in fresh claims. Beaus, Mama 27.—Volantary Loan, 1041; National WM, 86; Commercial Marine Sucletra Premium, —; hank Slum, 94. VIZIONA. Mama 2a.—Pile per Cent Metalliques, 921; Four ditto, 811. flank abuse, 10118. &thaw on Frankfurt, HAMBURG, MARcK 26. Frauds practised on the revenue for army years by one ot our first-rate houses in the Manchester trade have been la.ely discovered. It seems the firm bad undervalued th. ir imports by 50 per cent., and in other I ways defrauded the Customs to an immense amount. An Investigation as to the real extent is still going I on, and is no easy task, having to refer back to books ' some of which area quarter ot a century old, making it very difficult to arrive at the difference between the di Glared and the real value at the time. In the course of this investigation it was discovered that the same firm Las smuggled goods, de claring packages as transit goods, and Belling them here, and sending out other packages with the stole ma , ks, but ot much smaller sisal, or containing articles duty free. There being no govern ment warehouse., nor any custom-house where packages are examined, the merchants take the goods they import to their own warehouses, and sign the declarations of their cnntents on oath. The smuggler, therefore, may be proceeded against not only for the amounts of the defrauded revenue and the fines, but likewise for perjury, which will probably be done in this instance, the crime having been committed so repeatedly. The circumstance is creating a great deal of sensation in our mercantile world, Soli on acoonnt of the extent of the fraudulent transactions and of the standing of the house. There was a report on 'Change to-day that the peace between Pru.s'a and Denmsrk was signed. Phis, however, seemed to be premature; but, by all accounts frcm Berlin and Copenhagen, very little doubt is lift that it will be done within a short period. It appears that the suggestion which Lord Palmerston threw out more than a twelvemonth ego, viz., to divide Schleswig, and to sum x the southern part to Holstein, and the northern to Jutland, will be adopts d after all, and the line which occupies the Danish throne will be extinct : the lormer will fall to the Augustenberg dynasty, while the latter will re main with the female descendants of the royal line, that is Prince Frederic of Hesse Caen', or his mother, if she survives. BBITIaII ANTI STATE CIIIJRCII ASSOCIATION. — Large and enthuviastio meetings were held at Plymouth on Toridav and at Devon port oa Wednesday, on the occasion of addresses being delivered be Edward Miall, Rol., and Rev. Samuel Green, on the question of separation of the church from the state. On Wednetday wining there was a public breakfast at Use Globe H3tel, Plymouth, at which 64494 friends of the cause assembled to meet the Uev. S. Green and Mr. Miall. The tables wen supplied with an ineellent repast, and the company was whitened at some length by McKiell, who detailed to the meeting the plan ot carrying ont the object they had in view by the formation of a lout association here in oonneaion with the Anti State Church Awniation. Mr. Green stated that the deputation performed their duties valuate.' ily, and neither received nor expected to receive payment ter their services. Sobeetip. %ions were made to the eseneiwton, and the nucleus of a local society was formed. W. Daniell, Esq., the ez.mayor, presided at the Plymouth mestiag, and Charles Miller, Met, ex-eltairtnau of the ling of Censiesionen, et DwroapJlt. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, Ms hell ?A The Qneen and Prince Albert walked tii:a rn, e m q . it the grounds adjsesnt to the Cools. ihs F vsk their usual as king and limy reio rode oat as bone- ack this t,nernoa atteodea 1,, Betaverie. There is no addition to tee Ro;s1 Sinne r this evening. PASSION WEEK. Oa Monday and Tuesday her Majesty's Royal Chafili, were glatribated to upwards of 800 poem's, who sec..is, a crown .acb. Also the Otte Mats to 168 permaa. was *steed 135.. soh. It wee customary Is byrete days to d is o. %Awl s tufts itilta at the gate of Royal Psltes. them poor sad algid persons thous wer e antaeroa bliodseas and other disabling it.ibmitito. s CU, MAUNDAY THURSDAY. The royal charities Witro di•tributed to 31 aged op e. similar number of aged women, with the usual cer. n „,.l in Whitehall Chapel. At two o'clock, p.m., . conakthing of a yeoman usher and twelve yeoman guem carrying the same on a gold sa l ver), the Rev. Dr. J almoner; Jneepti Hanby, Eiq., secretary and mut e , „ C . ; Almoory ; the athistant, accompanied by six candrei h; ei „ boas and three girls) from the N at i ona l Schook in Win. master, who be been selected for their good erre.e r ... participate h o this privilege, proceeded to the her procession was joined at the entrance of th e t belt, Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner ; e r , sub-dean, the Rev. Dr. Wesley; the pleats of t he ' (ha St. James's; the gentlemen, and choriaters. Tne clergy and °dicers having relent their rispee.,,,, the church service appointed tor th e &benison comae.... Tie cle_present tthm the Rola' Chapel S., were T he:—Rev. Dr. Wesley (subeleso), Rev. r. v . , Rev. Dr Klapp, Bear. T. Helmer., Rev, J. V. p„,, , Clarke Haden, and Rev. J. H. Thomas. Ihe e present were Mt sore. Salmor., Wylde, Braebury t o Clarke, Francis, Homemade. Mr. Tonle p res i ded at the w ipe Among the recipients of the royal elms ea, is men, who had pawed his honored' ti year o. a 4 i ; other, who had been decorated for service is the el a. atn in which he had received a gunshot woubd. De ir,;; disabled, and nearly worn out. The ROYAL VISIT TO HOLYROOO.—ZI e Se.,tarK, announces Irian a source un which the utmo,t relia&ce be placed, tb.t, ae,ording to preaent snatige m Majesty sod Paces Albert yl4, to visiting August next, reside at Hole/roan Palace fur t " three days ; but whether this will take place te rata returning trom, Balmoral, isnot yet dicideo up,, u . It ii'x.- derstood that 'stet:mac repairs are in roam at Hulyrood Palace : and one of the obi.. cause. 04.) watt water pipes are being laid al-ne the street is , a Cwt. Pate is, fur the purpose of laying cn a much greater of water at the Palace than at present Wax. DEATH OF TILE ADIEJTANf-GENZILLL Yesterday morning Dent.-General Sir Liu. Mae donalil. the Adjutant Gumm i died in tour, at . ..t • Mutt ill, eel. This diatinguisned general ffi cs army as an ensign is We 89Us Foot in 1795. liCti rs, the regiment in Ireland during :he rehenion it r., been present in toe principal actions which kr. Vinegar Hi I, and elsewhere. In 170 aud I . • tenant Macdonald served in the NteduerraLeai, a:— Wu present at the ide a te of La Licit., as well a, :he c.; '.:re of Malta. From 1801 to 1803 he served in E,30, .. sit present in tne action at the landing, end in h.. act : 13 lt end 21st of March, 1801. Mejor Milani,: el. i 114.1 employed as mi,oary secretary to Lord Ca :.,:r• then commanded the King's Gauen L-gion as era yin Swedish l'Jmerania, a, well as during •i•-• upon and cap , ure of Copti.Laaen in 'hat year. Ito., 2 1808 obt.i..ed a lieutenant he semi! ic • diem' expedition in the next year, end Lad ihrg- : adjutant.ueneral's department of the Merle C LULL Sir j„,bn Rope. In 1810 he was eespli,).l c- ; „ jutant-geterid to the eau sent for the detente o' Le, wa, pteseni at the bew.ele of Be se , r an it.. ,• that year. He was employeo in 1813 and 1814 in c.ii„ the lets wing tit the army in the Pereitauie, ai d mend was present in the tour actions cn the 1813, as well as in the slain at the close if the h.-.• Bayonne, and in the actiu at the sortie from tte. Colon' I Macdonald W.ll in 1815 nom:lasted a the Bath; in 1818 be was appointed D puty A ••••:::. General of the Forces, and in 1831 nominate.l a 4 From 1830 until tr., prison time Sir John held to, meta tit Adjutant•Gentral. In 1847 he was Urinal Croy AA t h e Bath, From 1828 until J tour_ :•„ he was also C Alone! at the 67th Fo .t; but in the he was remaved to the Culonelcy of the 42nd Clilbtit.oaiAtd g I titles r Gad recast d :he Eqpt, and the golf medal and clasp few Lis etrec room and the Aim. By the death on Sir Jots &Isaacson the iueratira a; meats of Adjutanl.6eatual to the Forme and of C,. the 42ed Hidhtanders bee ma vacant. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND CONIPANY Yesterday the annual meeting of thisnom; acrn iheld at the taco in Great Wuscheetcr-otnei, ; . Ca FILET. E q , gvee,n ,r, :cot the chair. A ri solution t arteital i g certain shuts was noatirmi!, rat eticg. The SECRETARY read th' rrprt, from •t.:". appeared iliac the Gadding operations, as web as the . tin at Circular dead, wire ii.creaincg grailua,:F 1 directors hcp..d, is the term of Milt c.uttact to t:e t tenants' produce at fixed prices was t. , rmi,.ate,!, there be acm, thins like a revenue instead of a lose to tie prietors. FMl3l'llO ICC3URIS it appetred that there wAs a bier it . . receip•■ over expendi.uri of 6,07 W. at the basica., drdtts from the colony, The CHAIR lAN, in moving the adoption of thr said the tat, of stLitr. w.,s more gratit)ing to the L. . „ than it had been bd. some t i me previously. The chs;•o. coricluatd by ob,erving that by their nest meet::: . propricors would see the good effects of the new constquetitly as end et those difficulties they at pet -t experiei.ced. The R. v. Mr. YATES asked the actual populat= of colony. The CHAIRMAN replied that they had 397 248 tema'ie. Thire w s a church, with an 'sinister, g-od schoti:s, nod many conveniences for the futon, wh.ch was a•a•ed in the revert sic their c'erav . be (quay al moral and civilised u any villagen mother cutiatiy. (Hear, hear.) A long discussion took plane on an smendraent to a c: . mittce of inquiry proves d by Mr. Richardson, but aims much di.+ll.liel() , •, negatived by a lag. inajori;v. The CHAIRMAN eatt he bad been connectea tl company fur 2 years, and had lost hundreds and by it, for he considered it would eventuaby be pr. n and yet because they did not ga on u pro.per, u..y a , ..11 could wish, they must call for a comu.i.tee, artde, opinion, ws nothing but a r, tl.c.ion on • of dtruture, who had winked for 1$ or 20 years wits, mid now b.c.u•e they had 3001. amongst them by s t,.e the pn.prietors—(hear hear)—they were thowtht t J .e poser...ion of some good pickings, which cilltd ler c . mittee ot 1 quiry. (Laughter ) Aster rind rentuki 'TOM Mr. Mir•hall k deputy char - .: Mr. Beal, Mr. Yates, Mr. Wi.son, Mr. Weei..l:, . gentlemen, The CHAIRMAN gave a pledge that not co 4 avounts, but all the despatches from 'Mich prepared their report ann accounts, should b: at a.. open to the idspicLion of any shareholder on appas . the secretary. (Applause.) The report was then adopted unanimously, sad a was pawed to the chairman aal dustiors. elha =tuns adjourned. ENCROACHMENTS ON GREENWICH-CAI:X. 1 terdry evehing a very large vestry awing was re:'. a ceive a letter trona the Commhaioners of W, ssr d in referent • to the prop‘stil encroachment on tirra. 4l park, and to take such steps as might he thecae The letter stated that in deterrreuthr to the outb.. • inhabiters'', they had prevented the etdo.un• tempted to be made, and would not permit any encroachment. The vestry chrk stated that 11:11ie receipt of the let•er he hal jest read, he written to the First Commiqiner of Woc. Forests, reminding him that no swayer hal t r turned to the application fir an interview with tie Nation appointed IJ see the commissioners. restoration ot the piece of ground attached to tce r house, hut no notice had been t•kken of that c was,. Mr. Pontiten thought the parishioners ought ;-•^•' • ‘, the matter of the restoration of previous en.. -• ' go to parliament on the aubj.ct. He then m to the House of Commons, praying the house t s• _ removal of all encroachments that have ',.‘" to time been made on Greenwich I . ": Wood seconded the motion. One petition prsTed the house to diipensa ••,' office of COMM1S•lOOPIrl of OfitllWiCh Goma. Ina !,..0 the money in bestrifiing the park. Coostd,raNt ,•• wu ,fferid to this part of the peti.ion, and it was withdrawn. The modified pettion was vormimos..!* . *:' It wu then proposed that a deputation shou:l •••• Mr. Grime to r. quest him to priscot the rut''' s ; House of Commons, and to support its prayer. r at -! don were also ihstructed to wait upon Lid Pato . other members of parliament to seek they es' ord , !' Mr. Poutitax sad the meeting owed a Rust !' tad* to the Daly News News for the energetic mow ta , that r had supported their menage—l he n ' t , seconded and carried uoanimously.—The vestry juurned. MINING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. —The 101 .01 an exact from $ I. ter written by • gintlinin le 11 ' extract of the peace, who is resident in the neus to e tbo ul the Burnt Burrs upper mime, and saarcsta in this eoun.ry :—" Our mining interests bite an capitally. At the Burnt Berta they have a w people at Welk, *ad in a ounmenstion I bad a I , * with ttit it secretary, who is • townsman el m e ' l that they cAild now cam! .y from lOU to 2tX l r°. 10' the could get them lot thus b- knot• iWt'.4 Cor y nwall you may entirely depead en i 1 .. 3 blacksmiths, and carpenters, stonente . ens. with • ready band and a clever bead , of swe de ut , Wens babies. are sur• to do well. We ham MO SOO toriifl and seiuba: there are chap. out here wto w e dear at sixpence a day." hr el mei W OM Sao