The Express. — London, England, 1850-08-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOU:SR OF LORDS -SATU &DAT L AIJOUIT 10. --- - - TLS Itesee met at oa• Velma. TLS Earl of 8111ATTIS ariS ISt S g maker. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Bacon) Mamma. Weetatiostar Temporary Bridge Bill. THIRD ARAD:NOS —Wolverbsewon Improvement Act Amendment; St. Andrew's and Quebec It .ileoad Company; Manchester Bonding (amendamnt of set); South Wales Bailwar (slant:on of weeks); Hatt. pool West Harbour tad Dxk ; Bilir. - ---• • • - PUBLIC BUSINBSS. Th• following halls pond through their several BIGOND BUILDINGS:OO'OM; MIMS (lulled); &asap Duties (No. 2); Armed Tame Composition ; Bills. of CamSridge's Annuity; Marl boroagb BOOM; Porelned Harbour and Breakwater I De mise of Crum or Chamorro as to Mal B tate vemod in UMW Women ; National Gallery (If liabeash); dated Fond Appropriation; Polies Superannuation Pend; 101 s. REPORT —Ssamaty istiolietion (Ireland) SW. Tans Rnantione.—Registrer of lodgments OH.. (Ire- Bad); Tsrapike Acta Condo nanse. lha( Na. 2 ) ; Ffshige" I =el Corporations (Intone) (No. 2); Grand Jury Coe ); Mereantas Marius (No. ; Bdh MUSLIM PROM THI COMMONS. 1111041•801 trova the Commons brosght ap mural gulls and pante bills. which Wen and a tint time. Their lordships tin adjmoned. HOUSE. OF COMMONS—StertranAT, ArovsT 10. TA. Sramissi task as &WI as 12 o'clock is Ilse NM MUM PRIVATE BUSINESS. Tatan RLDllllol.—Bleitop of London's Estate (Stier Osbriel's C! us*. Pimlico) Bill ; Eul of EfSashass's Estate Bill; But of °lesson's Estate Bill ; Se. M. Vsyssosi's lasts Bill; sad Tamest Ilidlstos's Estate Bill Ten seosisilly rasa a third time sod mord. PUBLIC BUSINESS. SPITALFILLDS AND SIicRIDITCH NEW STREET BILL. This bill 'Si ned • third doe nod pared. CRIME AND ou . ril!ic9l ACT (IRELAND) CON- TINCANCE BILL. This bill, as amended, eels ciasidersol and coasted to ha read a third time me INSPECTION OF COAL MINKS BILL. Urn the motion that this bill be mad a third time, Alderman COPELAND opposed the bill, sou declared that it wadi met 20,0001. a year to carry it properly WM amt. 114 J. WALNISLEY taprooms& hie approval of the mar num, sea peetwationary one, likely to be wry beneficial in pruning the hem of poor working men and not be in any wise oppressive towards the coal owners. He did not know how the public mosey could be better employed than in *Stairs the objects which the WI contemplated. Sir G. GREY dmied that the bill woad involve so large as espenditiare es 20,0001. a yew. Mr. HU sIE alai bore t n testimony to the 'alai of the immure, and told the house that sa tar from its being op. ✓eed ha the coal- macro, he knew as a fact that many of WMwen ready to contribute towards the ex;ense of W rits( it into effect. After a few woods from 11:r H. WiLLOCOMIT, Mr. FOMSTEM said this bill had been hurried thro ugh the house at • period of the anion end at boon of tee ai t which preeuded all discussion. He hoses: bow useless musion WY at this p riot of the session when bills were passed through the house, of whicl the numbers present hardly knew the contents, much lees the public. He did not mean to oda any oppositim to the passing of the bill, which was as harmless, pietism as any bill of the kind could be; noverzheless, it was very important to cansion both the coal owners, and more especially the workman, against rely hig upon it to prevent accidents in coal mines. H should be thankful if accidents were not increased by the bill. Mr. WILD cansilered that the great number of acci dents which bad happened was a suffiet;nt reason for this bill, which lie thought would be a very great benefit not ally to the workmen, but to the mine-owner. It did not Tome the owners to adopt any particular measures of pro tection, but oily offsred to them saggestions for the pre servation of life, and he thought few would take the re spoasibility of relenting those euggestiono, seeing that they would come fr..m scientific men of great knowledge and .z. retinue, whose duly it would be to inspect mines. He should give the bill his most cordial tuovrt. The bill wee read a third time and passed. TRANSFER OF IMPROVEMENT LOANS (IRE- HILL This bill was road a thi;dt;ens and passed. LOUGH CORRIB IMPROVEMENT COMPANY COMPENSATION (IRELAND) LILL. This bill, aa astedad, was vissidared and agreed to. To b and a third tins on Monday. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 3) BILL. Tbis bill was read a third time and pared. LAW FUNI".I Di TIES (IRELAND) BILL. Thiabal w;a nad a third tiaiii;ad pined. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. This till was read a third time and pawed. COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS BILL. ACTS AMENDMENT Oa the motion that the Speaker leave the chair for going lato committee on this hill, Col. SIBTHORP asked whether the Firt Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer would pledge themselves not to advance soy pahlic money for the inhibition of 1831 'Wheat the sanction of parliament ? He looked upon that exhibition u one of the greatest curate which had ever befallen the country. When, he asked, was the misery of the operative glasses of this country to stop Uteri continued this system of esecuruessent to the foreigner at the eso, ow of the British saanufecturer If the Louse went into committee es this bill he should move that it was not expedient to adenine or expend any sums of public money for the purpose of carrying into operatics the works of the proposed }lnhibition of 1831 without the previous *anti m of park-quilt. The SPEAKER informed the hots. and gallant member that seiner ail qualm nor assenement could be put, as they did wit appertain to the bill bef're the house. Colonel SIBTHORP—It's no matter, sir. lem sati4l.d sisal have had way say. (lAuchter.) I hare expressed my opinion on the 'object, and I throw upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer the entire rtsponsihility of the rest. The bill then passed through committee. Mr. LAEOUCH ERE said he hoped the house would not object to the bill being reported and reed a third time on Monday. Colonel SIBTHORP objected to that nurse aa being swasnal,.. _ . . --..—...... The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, although tie had not formally answered the question of the hon. and 'saw member, he boy(' no inference would be drawn from that cirumstance that he meant to propoee that any public mosey shoal i be voted for the purposes of the exhibition. At the same time he begged it t be under stood that he gave so pledge on the subject. Monday was then flied for the tilUd reading. The consi , :eration of the amendments to the Loadoa bridge Approaches Fund Bill wu postponed until Moodily (this day). HOLYHEAD HARBOUR BILL. Tkis bill pawed though committee ; to be royertod on Monday. SAVINGS' BANKS ACT (IRELAND) CONTINUANCE BILL. Tide bill woe rood oreoA wee, pored through eon slew, nod b third tint, and peeved. UNION OP LIBERTIES WITH COUNTIES BILL. This bill war reed o third time mud pared. CHURCH BUILDINU ACT. LOId J. Rlliiiii.CMWeel for fe;ve to bnOR is a bill to mead this net, and leave having been granted the bill was brought up, read a first time, and ordered so be read a mond time on Monday (this day 1. . . . . A intimge from thi:L2rds was then received, signifying their lordships' went to a conference on ens subject of the Small Tenements Rating Bill. Several other COllliTiliCti were hold on other bills and the ametelinents of this house were ultimately *greed to. The house adjourned at baU•pat two o'clock till Monday (this day) at 12. A LMSIIOI:SLA FOR ST. PANCRAS PARlSH.—FollOve icx the example set a few years back by the ratepayers of S. Mareliebone in the erection of slashouses for decayed L oseholden of good character, a movement has his. sat co fu • for the establishment of a similar institution for the of Pancras. A erimrsittee has been turned, at the lead ui which is the vicar, the Bev. Thom.. Dale, sad the ckurchwudeam, Donald Fraser and Thomas Lid Baker, Nog., Mise Bartlett Coutte has connoted to bonen the lady patroness, and the Marquis of Camden, Ka., Lard Dudley Coate Stuart, kI.P Sir Benjamin Nall, Bart., M P., the vice-preeidents. The design of this institution originated with some leading members of the present re formed veer', and several hundred pounds have already been saissoribed, aassaget which is a donation of 1001 (foal Michael Preach grey Etq an old and highly-respaed member of ties vestry, spier& of PO piers of age, who has promised thot so nos es 3,9041. s h a ll be collected he will give en additional 1001. The principles on which the Institu tion' le founded an of a most lilsral character. ElUllitTlON OF lh.Sl.—The President of Peru has *AA a decree appointing the Minister cf the Home Depart /Mt Moo Lucas Fooceco, Doe Nicolas Pinola, and Dos Moles &Arno a commission to select and take charge of Midi* intended to be sent to England for exhibition next yew. - Occuwxcr or nit BOOTH EARTSRN RAILIVAT.-08 Saturday en invessisatiou wee NON into before Kr . W. Carter, at the Railway averm New - arose, oa the body of John Burns, aged :1 1 `). The demised we in the employ of the South Eastern Railway, and wan, with others, at week at the house attached to the Csld Blow Station, near New moms, Deptford, when he suddenly crossed the line of the railway, fur the purpose, as was supposed, of golig to • eked on the opposite side for sme took. As be did sot return fur sumo time a much was mode for his, and he was head lying doubled op between the rails, • short die taries frail the Cold Blow Swim. The left area was out off, and lyini by hie sale ; one of his feet was also nearly 'ope rated (UM the Ira, and the body and head altogether ao crushed and mutilated that those who went to leak fee him only knew kis by his clothes. The jury retorted a verdiet of "Accidental death." It appeared that the poor ;fellow mooed the line at the asoment when the Croydon up-trais was just below, and the Tuabridge express train approaching Nwiren. gite erpregOs. - 4 ,....- OUTGOING MAILIe. .. • The mat Per British North Aute+Bernaudep and i l ittit the Usitod gates 'rill to wade le die 16. ; The West ladis Blahs , .: dad Ho ass, NE•A venneb, and lacteal (St. lo w a " d;inelad sawls, New Grenade, mad 0 Tonal sem de ) ... will be wade up on August 1 . ' The nails for Havanaah, Honduras. Nessus, Janne, Chill and P•01..rj4 be Redel, on Aged 17. The math kr Rebu s , r-pa , isdßiftaltar wM be made eue on August 17 The naafis toe Gibraltar, Malta, Orme, the law Islenes, Egypt, Ceylon, India, mid Mist, Mu Sowthamptori, wif be made up on the moraine of hapset 20. The wells yid Mareeilleo, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceyloo, ladia, Home-Kong, Le., will ho nude up of the amnia; of Menet 24. The mails kw Meaner will be made up ow September 2. no main for Illaderia,lna lirazib, tad Buenos Ayres, will he made ap ow tho maim( of Sept. 4. lIIOR WATER AT LOKDO3I RILIVOIL To Day —Mambas. I, TIPIPISSIM U. OM Idesiteess. b tbs. LONDON, 3fONDAY: Auousr 12. Ws must confess that we never blushed more for a liberal party than when listening to Lord Ansn- DIIIN'S most jest and forcible denunciation of the 'Bite rat and inhuman conduct of a whig governor of the lonian Islands, which his lordship contrasted with the mild Folicy and reforming efforts of the tory and the soldier, Lord SutoN. And that blush was renewed on bearing Lord JOIIN RUSSELL on Friday night volunteer a defence of hie friend, " Dead or Alms " WARD, whose coartmartials and whose flog ings are thus stamped with the approbation of the Eterhah champion of civil liberty. The melancholy fact is, that men, even the first men, in the House of Commons now-a-days, take a side and blurt out an opinion, for or against liberty, approbatory of a policy, or condemnatory of a people, with no more consistency or consideration than the merest schoolboy. As to the real management of public affairs abroad, whether in colonies, or in embassies', they seem in general left to the care of providence, or the caprice of individuals. When, however, some blunder or disaster calls public attention to any parti ular country or case, then the whole effort of ministers is to excuse what has taken place. The British government has agents all over the world; and necessarily, we will admit, some of them most be ill chosen. The wisest of selectors must now and then make mistakes. But ministers have made it a point of honour never to admit this. Let Lord TORRINGTON " play pranks before high Heaven, such as would make aogile weep," the colonial office seems instituted not to reprove ' but to screen him. Let MORE OTERRAL, chosen from generous motives, as a liberal catholic, to eovern a catholic island, show himself contrary to all expectation, the veriest Jesuit, not only in his con ciliation of Maltese priests, but in his treatment of pour Roman refugees—and behold! Lord OBEY, in stead of frankly admitting that O'F•ftnar. is a fool and a bigot, and more tit to be a lord abbot than a British governor, on the contrary upholds him as the first and the wisest of MOP, and not only applauds him for his past bigotry and cruelty, but actually encourages him to continue and repeat it. Then again comes the case of Sir HENRY WARD. All Euro?, hoots at us for the conduct of O'Faanat. and of WARD. The Times with perfect justice de fended the conduct of HATNAU in Hungary, by in stanciug the hangings and floggings of WARD. Lord Jonx Itusszu, thinks fit to denounce the one and to manctioa the other. All England was indignant at the vile treatment of the Romans by the French. But although the French government crushed the Romans, and deprived them of their civil and religious liberties, Moan O'FEartat went further, and treated them as criminals and wild beasts. All these grave Equostione, so deeply affecting English honour, and with English honour English interests abroad, are treeted by ministers, and indeed by parliament, with • non chalance,which in truth amounts to rendering England itself an accomplice in the vilest and most cowardly acts of our time. The good people of England may care very little for all this, and probably will not even read the debate. The members of the houss were, no doubt, all thinking more of 3.lte moors and, ihe groom. than of Sir games . WAagfs Urphalonise ballet Ist the H o gli o h l iow who travels, the Englishman who trades, those whoa interim* and seatimeats, and tebparty, l and prospects, are hound op with our relearns to wawa foreign ooestrissoind with the ammeter which Britain acquires there, will feelotot only hi their hearts, and on their cheeks, but iniheir very pockets, the dieste of es& favolous inoomistsay as that which marked the language of minirers in the late debate, and of such a seandaloas disavowal and be trayal of the liberal mow, by men who affect to stick!, for it, nay stand or fall by it, upon other occasions. A CORRESrONDENT has called attention to the fact, that the Customs Bill introdnoed by Mr. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on the Ist of Au gust was, despite the remonstrance of commercial members, making its way rapidly through Parlia ment. The fact is so. This truly scandalous mea sure has been pressed in a way so extraordinary, that we own to considerable doubt whether it can now be stopped. It was on Want sday that we called atten tion to this bill. On Thursday it was re-committed in the Howe of Commons, when Sir CHARLES Woon, without a word of observation, brought up a clause, of which we shall speak pre sently. This clause was inserted, and on Friday the bill was read a third time, and taken to the Lords, where it received a first reeling. The House of Lords met specially on Saluiday, and although the bill had not been printed for their lordships' inspec tion, it was read a second time, and ordered to be committed for today. We are only surFised that the standing orders were not suspended, in order to get it through at once, such baste and anxiety dces there seem to be to get this measure passed into a It will be remarkcd that upon the remonstrance of the commo-cial members of the Home of Commons Sir CHABLIS WOOD postponed on Tuesday, the second, or most objectionable clause. On Thursday, however, be proposed it spin, in a form but very little modi fied. Ibis is the way in which it has been carried : Tue truth unfortunately is, that notlfng in foreign or colonial policy interests parliament, unless it as- I sumes the magnitude of a cabinet question. Who I cared for King OTIIO or lion PACIFICO, until they i became magnified into levers fordisplacing a minister ? Certainly not Lord STANLEY. And now why are WARD'S enormities, and MORE OTERRAL'S anilities I such isdiff.rent things, that a prime minister scarcely cares or considers wh at he utters respecting them; I but that these atrocities or absurdities have not pro- duced results of sufficient seriousnees to effect the chsracter oe shake the stability of a minister? In this utter dereliction of their duties, both by parliament and by ministers, one might hope to find I the interests of the public and the character of the I nation cared for and vindicated by the press; but there is scarcely one organ that even affects to care for either. 1 EogliA journals care just as little as nuni'mrs of par lament for any question that arises short of a minis- • terial crisis. They too would make and unmake cabinets, borrow ender or prop-up government. On quesions of home policy, and home alone, they are I compelled indeed to stand right before public opi nion. They will denounce a Bow•street miEtietrate, or a railway director, should either prove in fault. But on great questions of foreign policy, affecting English character or interest abroad, our public writers take it for granted that the public has neither knowledge nor sympathy in the matter, and that therefore they may with impunity render such ques tions subservient to the mere interests of party. With respect to the lonian islands, we know nothing, save what the accused governor has chosen to iofnrm us. None of "our own correspondents" have resetrated there. Ate. as to the lonian press, the liberal Sir HENRY WARD made a clean sweep of editor and writers, and thus, in fact, made use of his power to destroy and remove every witness against him. Mr. HUMS, therefore, was reduced to make a case out of the govtrnor's own admissions. If these hangings and flog gi ga did notcall for inquiry, then may all our governors act the part of VERRES with impunity. Any of them may seize the pretext of a case of robbery and murder in excited times to subject a whnle island to martial law, and then let loose the military upon it to flog and to execute whomsoever they list. The execu tioners were themselves the judges, and it is quite evident that they did not understand even the lan guage of the witnerees they examined, or of the pri soners they condemned. Had Sir HENRY WARD any sane of his duty, as a politician, he would have shrunk from dimplaying a dependency of England in en anarchic or revolu tionary state. The disturbance which took 'dace in Cephalonia was decidedly agrarian, very like, both in cause and effect, what used to take place in Ire land. By treating it as such, and inflicting punish ment on the guilty,Sir HENRY WARD would hays acted justly. Instead of this, he trumpets it as a social and political insurrection, puts an interdict on the island, accuses the neighbouring King of GREECE in most insolent language of fomenting insurrection, and then he gets up the claim of Cerny and Sapienza to retaliate on the King of GREECE—RE absurd piece of vengeance, in which Lord GREY had the folly to become an accomplice. Mr. Hums seeks to let off Sir HENRY WARD, by attributing all this mass of folly to his want of confidence and moral courage. But the fact is, that fright alone cannot account for Sir HENRY WARD'S net-work of blunders. There was cowardios in them, indeed, bat there was also a straw admixture of vanity, an exuberant desire to enact the hero, and to swell a village riot into a revo lution for the mere sake of quelling it. There is one thing of which we would be more chary than lass of 'coin blood, and that is English character. It is quite vain and absurd for us to be exclaiming against the despotism of Huila, the cruelty of - Austria, and to be setting op a standard against them, when ;in our own dependencies we adopt their policy, and emulate their barbarism— when our governor excuses their atrocities by saying he has semi-barbarians to govern—(lo, we should ; exclaim against such doctrines in the mouth of the r CZAR!)—and when oar Prime Minister put hisproba tu upon all this in the House of Commons. t Is it not monstrous that we should read in blue ' books letters of most stringent remonstrance and • liberal advice from an English secretary of state to the King of GREECE, reprovin g that monarch for' leaving his people in semlbarbariem and for cruelly and despotically treating than, whilst all the time our own select and right radical governor in Cepha lonia is out-Otho-ing King Orno, amidst the escort / ragements of my Lord GREY, and the downright panegyrics of Lord JOEN ItUeelILL P THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1850. hots through both homes only two days previous tp the prorogation ! It is impossible to speak in terms of common courtesy of snob a gross violation of decency andjnetisle- What man is there of honourable feeling who will not moat so scandalous a psrverslen of justice, so thorough a desecration of British legisla tion P The claws is worthy only of a pettifogging attorney; it is a specimen of sharp praoties to which' the Palate Nast itself would scarce hays sondesosisded. FRANCE. PARTS, 813VILDAT EVITIXO. Considerable sensation has followed upon the hos tile attitude suddenly assumed by an important put of the population of Lyons towards the President of the Republic. The municipal comma of the suburb of La Guillot4re, connected with Lyons by the Rhone bridge, Dave reju cted, by a majority of 13 against 9, the proposition made by the mayor, M. Desoombe, to pay a collective visit to the President on his arrival. The minority of the council immediately separated themselves from the stern republicans their col leagues; and the mayor, with his three de putise, went the next day to the Prefect of the Rhone, to protest against being held responsible foe any pertimpation is an act so disrespectful to the Dead of the state. Now the question occur', will the government dissolve the municipal council of Ls Cluillotiere ? It is evident the position is one of great delicacy ; and s show of rigour might be attended with very serious consequences, by provoking from the population just on the eve of the President's visit a demonstration of strong sympathy with the majority of the council, which already undoubtedly exists in a latent form. The municipal council of Dijon have voted 7,000 fr. to pay the expenePs of the reception of the President 2,000 fr. of this sum are to be distributed to the poor. The vote was not carried without a strong opposition by the minority. The prefecture of police sent off to-day several cffi cers of the peice and a commissary of police, to visit the line of the President's journey and wait for him atj Tonnerre. General de Castellane will come to meet the President with • strong detachment of troops as far Dijon, and will escort him to Lyons, and from thence to StrasbourN. It is said that another military banquet is to be given at the Elysee to-day. The e.ffieers and sub officers of • line regiment of the garrison are to be treated this time. law. And wise reel divers inks, order, and replied ,ns have from time to time been made by the commissioners of her Maj , sty's custom', in pursuant' of the powers ceufemd are, them by certain ens wised in animas unions of pediment, some of which nets hare been since repeal.•d ; and docbee have ernes whether seen rules, orders, and regulatiaus are still of legal force and efficiency; he it therefore enacted, that all ruin, orders, nod regulation, atm dy made or leased by, or under the authority of the mid commiselooen, under, or in pentagon of any sot or acts relating to the customs or to trade or navigation, although such act or sets may bare been repealed, shalt be and continuo in full force and effect, so far as such rules, orders, and regulations ere c moisten( with the provisions of the laws in force relating to the custom!, or to trade or navigation, unless and until the aims shall be revoked and rescinded, and that all ACTS tehatgocrer Donn, or to be done, in pursuance of any sub orders, rules and regulations, 'hall be valid and effiztual. The "divers rules, orders, and regulations," are, cf course, the large octavo volume which is the sabject of such reverence and mystification at the Custom house. These "divers rules, orders, and regulations," are, ws are informed, not only in many respects of the moat obnoxious character, but are grossly inconaistent one with another, and are mostly framed with a spe cial view to oppress and restrict the mer chant. The "octavo volume," let it be ob served, is a sealed book. The rules, orders, and regulations contained in it are not published. Any one may neconaciously infringe them at any hour or moment of his life, thereby subjecting himself to the confiscation of hie property. These rules came down from a very remote period. They are, in many cases, adapted to circumstances and to a state of the law, which in no degree exists at present, They are rules made by ail sorts of persons—by "a Board"--- by a single Commissioner and the Secretary acting as a Board—by any person "tiering under the authority" of the Commissioners, by the Surveyor-Gene ral, by the Customs Solicitor, by any tide-waiter, or landing waiter ! Snch is " the large octavo volume," and such are the ruler to which the CHANCELLOR or he EXCHEQUER and the Board of Trade intend to give all the force and power of the law. Down to the reign of GEORGE 111. the duties ap pertaining to the Customs were principally carried en under such " rules, orders, and directions" as those in the octavo volume. Such were the hard ships and oppressions upon trade, such was the complication of injury inflicted, and such was tl c intricacy and confusion produced, that Mr. Net was forced in 1787 to take the matter into his own hands and introduce his Customs Consolidation Act, which was based upon no less than 3,000 different parliamentary resolutions! Several similar consoli dations were afterwards effected, but still the statutes relating to the Customs increased in number. In 1823 they amounted to no less than 450, and they were then again consolidated anti compressed into eleven statutes, which were again reduced to four in the early years of WILLIAM IV. Now what is to be thought of a minister who proposes by a clause like this to revive every 'rule, order, and regulation, not only made under the 11 statutes of 1825, cot only made under the 450 statutes which grew up in the earl part of this century, but absolutely all the rules, order., and regulations made in pursuance of the 3,000 resole doss of Mr. PITT, or even made in pursuance of the LW/ which that minister repealed ! It is impossible to conceive that in the 111:h century anything of this kind could be proposed. We have the satisfaction of believing that there is only one man Lying who could propose it. But these " rules, orders, and regulations" are to have effect only "so far a. the same are consistent with the provisions of the laws now in force." Why, who is to interpret this word " consistent"? Who is to decide what is " consistent," and what is " in- If the Commissioners themselves are to be the juages, who will suppose that they will proclaim their own " rules, orders, and regulations" to be contrary to or inconsistent with the law ? But indeed it is impos sible that any rules, orders, and regulations of the StNtIAY EVINING. Commissioners can be inconsistent with the provisions The second military barque!, which took place at of the acts now in force. Those acts are enacting the Elysee yesterday, will not fail to furnish fresh laws. They do not define what the Commissioners fuel to the fiery polemics which have already burst shall not do : they only give them power to do car- forth from various organs on th's subject, and come taro things. Now, we all know that there are various apropos to fillthe gap made by the close of the par ways of doing the same thing ; and the Commis- hamentary session. The ?nests upon this occasion goners may adopt any of the different modes that consisted of the officers aad sub-officers of two line re offsr. The most oppressive and obnoxious regula- giments of the garrison, but were, according to all tion, if it has only for its object to obtain the duty account., much less enthusiastic in their demonstra the Customs Commissioners arc authorised to levy, tier: would be entirely "consistent with the laws in force." 1"e great topic of the day is the parliamentary Such rules and regulations are to have the force of report of the Mountain, which is drawn up in a style law unless and until the same shall be "revoked and remarkably free from the common defects of intim rescinded." Not " repealed:" no—that might give a tion and violence. It presents an excellent bird's handle for parliamentary interference. " Revoked eye view of the course of the session, and may perhaps are the words, and they apply en-and rescinded "be acceptable from that cause to readers who do not tirely to acts of the Commissioners. The Com- take the same line of opinion. The session came to a nflimionere, therefore, are to have power close without any ceremony, and expired a day before to " revoke and rescind" an Act of Par- its appointed time by pure inanition. Nevertheless, Bement: for, if the rules they make are only, as there was a numerous attendance of members in the they say, necessary to carry out the law, it follows Salle des Conferences, probably anxious to touch their that a power of revoking and rescinding is a power August salary before starting for the country. To enabling them to frustrate the operation of the law , day at least 130 set forth from Paris on different We say that whether it is a power to " revoke and lines, rejoicing in the prospect of a short reprieve rtecind," or a power to make and manufacture an Act from their contentious !slicers. The Committee of o(Parliament, it is a power equally dangerous to put Permanence will meet to constitute itself to-morrow. Into the hands of this Commission, and equally uncon- To-day an important arrest was effected on the stitutional for Parliament to delegate. person of M. L'Hetice, a leading personae in the Let it be remembered, too, that there is no proviso secret club Nemesis, whose statutes were lately turned attached to this clause requiring the Commissioners el' L'llerice was apparently an intimate of Caussi to report their ":rules, orders. and regulations." dire' who appointed him captain of Montagnards. They are to be equally beyond the cognisance and the The papers found in Lis possession are mid to be control of the legislature. There is no record of them highly important, as they compromise many persons —no means of ascertaining the precise dates at which of authority in the democratic socialist party. This they were made, or the peculiar circumstances to may be all ez post agent in the cause was on the point of starting far which they were applied. They facto rules and regulations, like this bill itself,—rules Chances Proserit has been interdicted in Prussia. Englnid. Chances new book appeared this morning. He to legalism some improper act, just u this lea bill to legalise illegal rifles. For the last words of the clause distin c tly prove sticks to his former statements about Caussidiere, whom of h t e he ta nme taunts and with Post for haovsiniabalibendLon ed, fh t e he fo P l i"ec lowini u that this is not, as the CHANCELLOR of th e E xenz - lion QUER would have the world believe, a clause simply la the passa ge to " remove doubts ." The concluding were. 'how &moraine to the rouge journals and their clique, the Live° that something more is intended, for they legalize not des Conspirateurs constituted a tissue of lies, and the virtuous only the " rules, orders, and regulations," but " all protect o r police was calumniatedcowardly manner hy a acts whatsoever done or to be done in pursuance of l i t w e itho n ut Ire ), s pe o pportunity , ri)li ie dby h is ho e w zi e l ve e r to p a r t nea b te: i i a t them." It is obvious that this aims at particular air- self for M. Causeidiete to prove that he was al'andered. eamstancee, and that the object of the clause is only cited by the refugees of London, he instituted suits against to validate some illegal seizures or other improper . th ,, e .„, 7 . l ,,, mt n i , m ae . dt t e k M e w rn i , e ,', 9 6 ,„ P l at l, w i t, i t h i t e l r At i n.tea some G .„ sets of the Custom House authorities. Actions al at pro bably are pending against some of them for gross have been their disappo their head, balled this e in e t i n m e lb n a t b wh oa en b the the y ut h ow the ut ea sots sots done without the sanction of any law and with- prefect shamefully discontinue his proceedings. The re uoe oat any better warrant than the illegal authority of was, flee the b gal advisers of the two journals had positive I the Commissioners. A law is to be made to legalize proofs of all I had advanced, that mon than forty witnesses, each illegal deeds ! It is smuggled into parliament mostly creditors of Caussidiere, went with me to London to tastily to the truth of these same facts. Overwhelmed by thisial, La cabinet minister on the very evo of the load st of proof, Causidiere withdre w fro lt st the test of a of a session, and pushed with indecent and thus admitted the veracity of my aeertlone The members of the Committee of Permantnee held a sitting to-day fur the purpose cf constituting the committee. The Legislative Assembly held nositting to-day. The Mountain have published an address to the people on the parliamentsry session, entitled, " Compte-rendu par la Montague an Peuple," which has been signed by 86 of their party. They declare the necessity of waiting in a patient attitude of vigi lance until the elections of May, 18.2. After the sitting of yesterday broke up, several re. preerntatives of the Mountain remained a long while talking together in the coulairs. Some of this pary are going to Germany, and others to England, as delegates to bring exiled democracy to more rational and practical views. But the greater part of the Mountain will remain at Paris daring the whole recess. Last year a Montagnard committee was formed, and no doubt some similar provision will be made during the present vacation. An active corres pondence will be kept up with their colleagues in the departments by secretaries appointed for this pur ' pose. But the government will be very strict in pro hibiting all overt agitation in the provinces. The prefects have the strictest orders on this head, and will immediately suppress all clubs, banquets, or demonstrations of a nature to excite the people on political questions. Yesterday morning a legitimist pasquinade was found attached to the base of one of the statute before the Palace of the National Assembly. This seditious placard, which was printed, after several flourishes about Henri V. and the Dochess of Berry, and taunts at the republican party for their tame endurance of the repeal of universal enfirege, finishes with the following menace " Faites vos sacs, Messieurs, le rappel va winner." The Commissary of Police of the quarter having been informed of the crowds gathered about this singular publication, proceeded to the spot and tore it down. The committee on fisheries has determined on send. iog a deputation of their body to the coat of Scotland and the Orkney Isles. to inquire into the numerous abases complained of by the chambers of commerce of the ports of the Channel; and into the cl.fficulties encountered by French fi.hermin, in consequence of the restrictions imposed by the convention of I bs9. Ibis deputation, or sub-committee, consisting of MM. Estateelin and Legros Devot, the representa tives of Diepoe and Calais ; of M. ado, a high finance employe; of . M. fienrequin, en employe in the miuistry of marine; and of M. d'Estremont de Maucroix, captain of a frigate, are shortly to em , bark in the steamer Pelican. The Moniteur publishes the law fixing the budget of expeossa of 1851, the summary of which is as fol lows :—Ordinary ex pulses, 1,31;7,0ouo,00r. ; extraordi nary, 67,000,0110 f.; special services, 21,000,0001.; departmental services, 104 000,000 f. ; colonial service, 18,000,0000.: total, 1,577,000,000 f. The effective army to be maintained in Algeria, according to the same law, is 75,000 men. A new journal, representing a section of the moderate party, is on tne eve of appearing, under the title of Le Drupeats ,le 1432. ... . • . M. Thiers laid arrived at Cologne on his way to Although M. Thiel.' has been appointed by the government Vice-President of the Superior Coaccil of Public Instruction, whose sittings will soon commence, it dces not appear probe* that he will return to Pars for the sake of attending them. A balloon ie at present bererinr a mile Lich above Bouvelarde, from which discharges of cannon come every now and then. The people observe with wonder the long interval between the flub, gush of smoke, and the report. SPAIN. MADRID, Avousr 6 The Queen Labelle 11. and the King wil 'remain for the present at Madrid. M. Juan Sanchez, the Queen's physician, having requested permission to resign, the Queen has declined to allow him to do so. There was to-day a 'rands reception by the Queen Marla ',hoisting, which was very numerously at tended, it being known that she is going in a few days to Le ()neje. The Duke of Valencia is gone to the watering place of Puerto Llano. It is somewhat difficult to predict what will be the issue of the election for Madrid, from the great division existing in . potitical opinion. The postal treaty be tween Spain and Portugal having been concluded, M. de Castro, son of tho Minister of Foreign Affairs, leases Madrid to-day for Lisbon with its ratification. Very little is doing at the Bourse, the Threes closed at 33. The Queen, for the first time since her se couchment, took a ride in as open carriage, accompanied by the King, on the evening of the 4th inst. A great number of persons were clllected near the palace to salute her Majesty, who was also well received at the Puerto del Sol, the Prado, and other places on her route. She appeared perfectly conva lescent. Their Majesties re-entered the palace be tween eight and nine. On the 6th the Queen again rote out, and was equally well recaved. The Cortes, which is just dissolved, has had a more extended existence than any one which has preceded it. It was convoked in the autumn of 181 G, and has there fore continued four scuts, and had tour legislative session.. ITALY. LEGHORN, Aco. 2. So much has lately been put foitb, with regard to British claims for indemnification in various parts of Italy, that I have made it my first object, on arriv ing in this port, to collect such information and verify such particulars with respect to the leases undergone by British subjects in Leghorn, and their conseflocot claims on the Tuscan government, as may enable you at once to term a proper estimate of the whole case. The demands hitherto made may be divided into two classes—First,thoee tkat seek reparation for pro perty destroyed or pillaged by the Austrian soldiers, upon their entry into Leghorn on the 11th May, 1949; and, secondly, those advanced by British mer chants in consequence of certain sums of money (which they refused to pay) having been forcibly seized in their counting-houses, on the 10th September, 1819, as their quota of a forced loan decreed by the Toecap government. The principal claim in the first category is that of Mr. Alfred Hall, whose residence, the villa Beeicachi, nr ar the Porta Maremmaaa, was completely sacked by about a hundred Austrian soldiers, under the com mand of an efficer, on the 11th May, 1819 ; although there was not the slightest provocation to such an act, the:villa not having been occupied by any of the defen ders of the city, and no shots having been fired from the grounds. The house itself was shut up, Mr. 1131 i being with his family at Florence, and over the prin cipal door was fixed a paper with the words " lish Domicile" in Italian and English, accompanied by the seal of the British Consulate; notwithstanding wt ieh the soldiers battered down the Persian b:indd and shutters of a back door, entered trinmphantly into the house, and commeteed their work of plunder and destruction, varying their occupation with re peated applications to the cellar, where they drank or wasted nearly 400 bottles of choice wine in a few hours. I have myself visited the premis - s, and ques tioned eye-witaesses of the transaction, and I feel convinced that an instance of more wan ton destruction could not be found. The furniture destroyed and the property stolen, even at the very low valuation set on them by a Livorneec pub'ic appraiser, amounts to 24,480 Tuscan lire, or 8:61. sterling, besides other articles which could not be va'ued by description, and which are valued by Mr. Hall himself at 5301. The next sufferer upon the list is Mr. Joseph Pate, whose residence on the Piazza del Vottone, distinguished, like 'those cf all British subjects in Leghorn, by a paper stating it to be an English domicile, was forcibly entered no less than three times during the day in question, the servants turned out and kept waiting on the stairs, whilst the work of pillage was carried on by the Austrians within. Mr. Pate was at the time at Genoa; his losses are set down at 1,975 Tuscan lire. The next claim is that of Mrs. Bisect fur property destroyed, initrefl, or plundered to the amount of 26e2 lire (e9l. 7 s . Bd.) Mrs. Bisect and her son were at Florence, but Mr. Mancini, who was in charge of their house in forgo Beale, did not leave it until some hours after the Austrians had entered the town, and consequently eo further di; order was appre hended. Upon his return, however, he found a plundering party of Austrian soldiers in the act of packing up their booty in the house, nor was he allowed to leave the premises until the pillagers bad got safely off with their plunder. In their avidity to fill their knapsacks with stolen goods, the soldiers turned out on the floor some of their own regimental shirts, which, being numbered, may lead to their ultimate detection, and are carefully preserved as evidence. Humphrey Murray, residieg in the Via del Gran Principe, retired on board an English vessel anchored in the port on the 9th of ?lay, after having carefully locked his door ; and about 2, p.m., on the 11 th (the Austrians having entered at half-past 10, a.m.), he returned and found Ilia dwelling in the same state; but going back for his wife, he returned with her on the following morning, and found his door had been broken open and his house plundered, constituting a loss of 228 lire (71.125.) Tne next claim is that of Mr. John Udny, ' for damage produced by the bursting of a *hell in his house durieg the fight on the 11th of May, the neces -1 earl repairs Lavin , ' cost tii:a about 250 lir: . 'l .:want is Elizabeth Kerr, who was on board an English vessel during the fight, but whose house was ascertained to be safe by Humphrey Murray when he visited his own at 2, p.m., on the 11th of May. On the following morning, however, she found her door smashed, and property destroyed or stolen to the value of 181 lire. All the above facts are supported by the fullest testimony, although the Austrian general recently re fused to credit them, and asked Mr. Consul Macbean, who at the time used his utmost efforts to prevent the continuation of pillage, whether he really be lieved that Austrian soldiers were capable of such conduct. That scenes of plunder should have occurred in houses where the insurgents had taken refuge, and whence they tired upon the troops, can of course create no surprise, but that officers should have al lowed and authorised their soldiers to break into and pillage the residences of uneffending foreigners, whose nationality was indicated by an official paper over the door is most astonishing. There is still upon the wall of Mr. Alfred Hall's house his name written in pencil by a mason then at work on the premises, to show to the Austrian officer, who requested to know the name of the occupant. This circumstance, related to me by the mason himsel f , suf fi ciently establishes the cul pability of the officer. The pillsgets declared that both Mr. Hall's house and that of Mr. Pate were evi dently the property of the brigands (the Austrian nick name for their Italian opponents), as they had found in officer's uniform in each. The tint-named gentleman was a major, and the second a captain, in the civic guard of Leghorn ; _and had been appointed to that rank by the grand-ducal government previous to the revolution. _ _ _ The second series of claims put forward by British merchants resident at Leghorn, in con sequence of the forcible seizure of their money, in virtue of a sovereign decree of the Grand Duke, in volves a mat important question, whether foreign and despotic governments have or have not the right to tax, or in other words mulct and tine British merchants established commercially in their dominion. The British merchants at Leghorn, by their in dustry and the employment of their capital, must be considered as conferring a great benefit upon Tuscan commerce, and, if they enjoy the precarious protec tion of the grand ducal government, on the other hand they pay the ordinary taxes of the country cheerfully, although they are in no way spared in the quotes assigned to them. Nor is it the amount of the money wilted which they complain of, the sum being about 9004 sterling out of the whole 12,0001., but they object to the principle of arbitrary and extra ordinary impositions, which, if once firmly feta blishod, will pat an end to British commerce abroad and it is evident that unless Sir George Hamilton hail protested against Guerrazzi's forced loon in March, 1849 , and the consular body against that of the pro visional government of Leghorn in Aprii following, foreigners would have had to contribute four times to the exigencies of the state in the months. I Ceti Remonstrances were made by Sir George Ilite,; against the principle as well as 'gel. at the f mode in which the tax was levied, but the T u . : foreign minister, the Duke of Castiglione, eo z ., d ' 4 2 that foreign merchants were quite as liable 10 &Cy positions the government might think tit to d t .„ 4 the natives of the country, end thr, With sm.„ the mode of seizure, if they coneidered themselt..o grieved, they were at I.berty to proceed chamber of commerce in the ordinary though it was his own op•aion that there l a d no irregularity, " it b , rin g th e custom in eir ry Tined country in th e wor ld to seize the ~ p r 0p .,.. any individual refu s i ng t o pay 11:s delya." 4 e..: bone of contention will probably be brought on • Lapis ete thin is well settled, since I hear ttat t t.se .' extraordinary tax is in preparation. Leghorn is busy and flouriehiegjuat now ; cial activity is great, Red the prertce et strangers, it being at pre sent the bathing eetwe e tribu•es to its gaiety. The garrison cratim r r,f 2,000 men, chiefly of the Kinaky Regiment, und. r command of General Count de Grenville. Nr, macy exists between the (there and the the upper classes of whom, although eery for the arrival of the Austrians in order to sects. a state of anarchy, entertain the same towards them that the ecclesiastical parry , Neri d 3 at Itlme towarde :their much lenged-fer yam, the French. _ PIEDMONT. The Piednion , ese Gazette of the 6th init., anns.. the death of the Caveliere Pietro de Itssei d, . s ' Rosa, Minister of Agriculture and Couloir: s, Croce di Saguia and Cenc•)rdia mention blame the rancorous bru :slaty of the prie-:e. denying to the dying minister the rites of t•,, catholic religion, the holy viaticum and unction, unless he recanted the price:pies I:s isart with regard to the church. Santa it an fused, saying that he knew how the duty of a minister of the :c that of a good Christian. It was rep. red •. 4 clergy would push the'r fury 11l far a, t. rites of sepulture to his remains. Advice. from Turin of the ith brings I') • gence that two couriers had been sect t... ceding dry to C'.urmayeur, to inform tie ti r., symptoms of disturbanc.ci had exhibited ..• and to recall Count Siccardi. According tr , •,.. merit of the best informed peracus the M, War waited on the archbishop tad askd were by his order that the eiatica and it:. been refused to M. de Saute ~ the archbishop was a decidsd . ' minister informed the council of mit r. ply of the prelate, from whom the pr.,' s' . queues. of his strange conduct had not • ceand. Shortly afterwards the vicar-get.. : diocese waited on the ministe:s to .11f. en • the archbishop had withdrawn h's order e • interment of the body. Two reginto-.... were consigned to Orel barracks, and U. it poste was done by the national ;rifted. i ference of the military was cot, h saes- r, sec scary. The journals contain thr,e p. • calling on the inhabitants to attend tl.e far de Santa Rosa, one by the c'fensi e of the naticnal guard, a second by the public safety, and the third by :he mar r proclamatiors recommend calmness 3... d At nix o'ckck in the an reit g of It. , naticnal guard, having assemble , ' ' Charles, were, after the 'epee of an hots tilts. The church of St. Chari but wi•hout haring any embireis ct inscription. The people tew young men began to thrum near the church, commuoicatin4 of the ewes of St. Chi:l-e. I forced, and cfrered icget9S o s' who demanded the Cu.: l' refused the erc-ament to M. de !. no serious disorders occurred. funeral corkile approac' ed ::.e c bore the kepi of the rat of flowers, the pall Lein.: b rr.e !onager', amongst whom wall NI. N was accompanied by the was M. Ferdinand Brno: (narr....r republic), the municipal bode, the se: tits, the magistrates, the public of Italian emigrant's, officers of the &c. After the religious ceremony. t borne to the cemetery by a ccmpany guard, the senators, the eeputies. &c. the aclemu obsequies will take place. NAPLES. in tr.e :td t::: NAP Notwithstanding the apparent.rar: persons had been arrested during the la chiefly sm►ll tredtspeople. 'he Si Gaeta, refused audiences. Tte tyrA police was insupportable. The Stores, baying refused to abscice the h constitutional oaths, his majesty had a: Pope. The authorities had closed a seli , o English lady for the education of fcri. children. this was a subject of c , between the English env..y and the French protestant lady, whose s:h similarly doted, htd quitted Nap:ts. I continued. The commission for the set alf II! f in Sicily wire waiting at Mi-iina f:r representative. GERMANY. Darcia de Yrints, itt.ttiaa hagen, has notiti,d to his gore: the King of Denmark was di Schleswig side of the Eider it I .t.:.GA re L. . - irOUST 9 —Free per C. Four-and-a-Half per Cents... Ji m ,. 3 . Etc lump on London, 11.35. PRUSSIA. PEULIN, A The government has ordeted the ,•o: the Prussian troops in layence to we tvety means to overcome the obstacles which it : pated will be offered on the part of Aus:ri match of the Baden troops. The Prussian government is at length t::e hitherto passive position, and if its new found , should happen to last now that it has b.cn C3cered, this kingdom will regain that tion which it enjoyed before it entered upon a t and temporising policy. The secondary kingdoms of Germany, Bavaria, Hanover, Wartemberg, and Saxony, propose to torn a union for themselves, so that inftead of an united Germany we are likely to have three confederation , It is reported that Bavaria, Saxony, and Wm:co-- berg, intend to uniie with Austria to estab:isn customs union of those states with a limit on protectionist principles. The step is said t. prompted by the probability of a triumphal rci:l: the tree-trade agitation in the three smaller dome. The Prussian census for 1:49 is just comp..:.. The whole population is found to 11111,•:11'.: 10,331,517. In 1841; the number was 16,112. • ' Toe l'russian population is thus distributed Prussia, 1,161;M; Test Prussia, 1.0'_3,:1+; • 1,352,014; l'omerania, 1,197,701 ; Silesia, 3.061. Brandenburg, 2,129,032; Saxony, 1,781,297; Al it: - phalia, 1,4134,921 ; the 'thine Provinces 2.s I.:" Prussian troops stationed witho ut the 45,174. P.S. The ministerial crisis is not yet over. Maam teutiiil is gone for a few days into the country. . ministry which he would form would include 11,xl, schwing and Patow ; the former conducting t:. finances, the latter presiding over commerce. choice would be highly favourable to a fibers: .. • menial policy. iLder A letter from Berlin, dated the 7th instant, in Cologne Giortte, says : ► ministerial council was held to day. A German question and the relations of the governs to Austria must undoubtedly have formed the jects of discussion, the absence of Kinteutie: occasion to many conjecture. The %eating receives from reliable sources a confirms: of the report, according to which the plenary sse has resolved to ratify the Danish peace. Katy by the plenum is to be the first act tosucceci th. stitution of the ordinary restricted assembly Bund, that is if the restricted assembly ever constituted.