The Express. — London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

iiie ersnoo. OCTGOING MAIIAI o w. M.I Maronl!eo, to Me 11411insusen. Egypt, 1" ' ,di,. Hoop-Kong, tile., will be made up miaow. c t. tor British North Amities asd this trailed mule or on the 'mots" of July 20. ornit:r Lithos. Spiro, arid Gibraltar will bo made m n, tog 27. Vi . nen ln,hs >1•111., including Bermuda, Plavamtab, Oreaus, and Metier, and eathadiap 4 ` t t . „, !mute rs. St. Jusa-Oe-Ntrararua, Now Gramida, O w . ‘r; be made upon the moron g of Mimi 2. NI *dens. thr (Wattle and Besot* Ayres, will ...I on the or•rong or Au.toot 4. Malts, Unfelt, the lonian Island!, !mita, and Chia& rid itiouthasaptott, will PV • •os the moraine of Aspen 20. N ore ar woo WATI. AT UM.DON ASUPOIL 14 Milo mum.: J. 0 3 nox TrESDAY. JULY 23. nag h tene d neiehbnurs, the French and the rre s es wen' to tck loftily of their superior • r Iwisdom, se displayed in their respective f choming their chief magistrates. Old Eng :. 1. an. is full a ancient prejudices; and, ice may have gradually been emanci „akingcrat c3nfesssdly remains a badge re ,;. - ;„ 0 a our st t rong addiction to the name and f',, ,p; ft ga that were, even though they have long .ya 10.: nlktistsMini; stringth and power. The e„;rl".'sv an ieeitation, and apart from the deep r roon.l respect that is freely paid to the ; .• ; spaet of the throne, confessedly pommies f i i - irr t ,.. ct id. to no inherent . capability c f de fencewere the sane u m of national opinion. rerogativns were once ample, were nuestra . ted in the civil - war . a• nd 'Crested holly and for ever - w I t he llerelonoe. Since then parliament has been ad the mace hes been substituted for the it i },.,;e and war—church patronage—crew e•‘• t ._ peers—choice of ministers —each in turn has • spiv3prived by that irresistible power ; until ,• a. length has come to be a splendid recollce ti;•, its arov. mi nu a solemn ritual emblematic • eititird, but awes. 1 . -r friends beyotd the Channel and the ocean • ouvX v..ystic rites. .They prefer the actual • rm a the popular well the ever recent and • t nt.; emstation of the popular choice—the direct of universal suffrage in the nomination of an ea,c 3... et chief. 11• are content, having pale che:ce of a particular family, and having F .,, t it two or three sharp warnings that to r.-. 4 of succession must b 3 relied on a.,,:.:,ran:ee 'rutin di:inheritance in c.se of mime • -:;r, we are content to teke our chance in the i vi hereditary succivion for a harmless heir to the mr3c.e: arid Omagh we have sometimes had to i: rove than enough fur the wild oats of our Prince we thick, upon the whole, that the otitis of such ce.no -al expense are lees than the lose of time, and troper we should incur by being obliged pr3:3:l:tioir to name a new head of the nation. All • l'ais aced Washington may seem exceeditgly inconsistent with first principles, and o.:•fi-1.140e . - - lie. we must own that the performances of cur t‘.:::.unrs on either side do not tend to in fitA cur toeom with feelings of envy or w. i'4ire of imitatioz. By dint of universal France and America tare arrived a k Litian that for the text two years and a NAPOLEON is of all living men the person Irv! w..rhy to govern the one, and MILLAID FILL !::.tI.e placed at the head of the administration t: !. • .••.rr. We should be exceedingly curious to many indiv:do ils could be found in their Ttctr.tt countries who entertain the faintest telief :u :::..s sprable *nation of popular opinion is, ir. c! Litz, true. Can ansb)el7 seriously doubt l‘y the same universal suffrage, a vote could 1. uea to-morrow—neither the hero of Boulogne, tor!. of New York would be suffered to their present positions ? Will anybody r,-: ! assert that were it to be done again would again be 'elected ? What man of ;..:ical experience or foresight would tar. acted so improbable a conjecture two years sz). t: at either of these persansp-s would to-day be the chef of a great commonwealth ? What French man at s,her judgment and national pride will say that i.e proud of the tenant of the Elyeea ? What Amer: as, that be believes his watery does not con tra rc r many men better entitled to play the official citr . ing the residue of the Presidential term at the Wii:e House We say not this reproachfully—far from it. We kzow too weal the exempting came" of these strange political phenomena. To speculate how such emits of contlictieg pessions and ;airy necessities night have been guarded spinet were idle. The people of krateo chose a President because no other candidate had so illustrious a name; the people of America chose a man Vice-President with ti.e reversionary right to the l'residency, because no vler candidate bad so little of a name. To solve a La:local puzzle there seemed at the moment no such effectual way. Possibly there was none. If el, who ie entitled to blame the selection that was made ? NA we assuredly ; we respect far too profoundly the *wed right of every nation to do what it will with its oat; and so long as Nlr. FILLMORE and M. BONA. an abstain from intermeddliog with the *flair* of other thantriee, we are ready to salute them as the iztarz,tions of Gallic and Anglo-Saxon democracy, Ltd di,lineatically to pray that their shadow may t,rer be Itse. rt: 0:4 we beg that we may henceforth hear no more e the superior intelligence, freedom, and dignity of dirt magistracies thus eleetel, over cur own less luso:optically pretentious regime. What, after all wsold the French notion not give to mike sure that the taiunate candidate of the 10th cf December, -ariid commit as few errors in tie discharge of let c !unctions, in the course of the next twelve shatia so the hereditary queen of these realms has tea.m,tted in the last twelve years? Or what true iossiot to the Federal Union can feel secure that the tear elilet magistrate of the states will abstain as tartf..y as ter Nlajesty has personally done from nu i , word, or look, that would tend in any way to ham s.stiust or dissension between the jealous king- Ikea st which she is the sovereign ? 'nth we are on all bands too much given to elii7-4,tleiate the importance of the forms of rule, to undervalue in comparison the importa nce of Ito spirit. It is not so much by any changes in the mode by which an administrative system is created, hi in the legal li m it a ti on o f it s authority and the habitual determination to assert the bovertigoty of nubile opinion over it, ss'well as to resist from the outert ec,rc attempt t, encroach thereon,—that the star litany art corAttoionally governed countries bust he petsereed. Had this indomitable spirit shown itself among the middle classes in Preece during the tarsier days of LOUIS PIIILIPPIS tetregn strive nigh, the cullmle generale of never had bleu necessary. And were this !" 1114 11 manifeated new in the National Assembly, itstrid el a readin as to acquiesce in all the old , liintlaten experimerts of reaction—the coming swan's that already stem to cast the it dark deadeye en the future pa , h of France, might even ILI he averted. fur America , her dangers are of a wholly dif int" kind, and we can well understand how in ered..,W ace should be as to their existence. The wealth:al cup of prosperity is in her hand ; and "weri deeply drained, it ever fills again. The all history, however, re-echoes the accents of tit .j . , irtd admonition—" Its not high-minded, but e y lhe ocly evil America need apprehend is the IhwrilAt to methanol interests of that internal unity isidei. hitherto has been the chiefest of her many Uhtr.taßtn. Acel ;Len it is rim•mbered, that the newly els vim I naident is a pledgid protectioni-t, and that wiil.os in flit Crittd States signifies rather a war " 4 .11. berth and smith, than between em -1 • and employed,—the utloilred for accident th.t Lae th-pe:rea the coof.dursey of the writ" of a noe.i rut and c - enc.liil.ry president like General 11 .'4, may well L.. troided ai no ordinary cala laity. la breh eiretnntuiscee how much depen ds alltr on the good muse, ' discernment, and self "m. of ttr :tdiridual who has been placed in a Pes.loo tf iudi soubent responsibility. int Nlse ►toss Rectory Rill is at length safe: in akw clks it 'A ill Lb Ow law of the let d. When defeated u the Commons' Committee ea to their lir bility to core of male, iheDeesaud ch ap t er 03 ,,g,k n 0 y expressed an expectation of being 1010 assesseful fa their opposition " elsewhere." Bat " elsewhere" has treated them just as roughly as they ware used in the lower ea gloss of legislation. The Lards' Ownatittes had gaits as little sympathy fee Meese eeelesiastic as the Commas' , and a Braemar, economy ; for, lagtbe lawyers with th e i r p il es of papserth= lIIARROWST aid the other peers on the mew mimes seek the matter in hand withestaayembeselly obstreetioe to business; and, gang three. the clauses like men of sense reported the meanie to the house unaltered is essentials and improved mission ally in phraseology. A bishop, it is true, *master istically attempted in the committee to damage a measure promoted by the laity; aid Lord BrionrimaM, actuated as usual al motives, frowned on and threatened thelsill * Ze: in the house. But our exposure of the spiritual lord's job effectually stopped it, and, on second thoughts, th e l or d temporal kept his friendship for the canons to himself. The bishops I have been too much damaged by discussions in the Commons, to encourage Lord BROUGHAM to extend 'I his vagaries to ecclesiastical topics in the Lords. Henceforward, then, Manchester will be free from ecclesiastical sinecures, and the wealth of the church be applied to the cure of souls in that city. Hems forward the dean sod canons of that cathedral aerie will, in their character and by virtue of their Awe as such, be the fore moat of the welding and parochial clergy of Manchester. liencefocward, we say, be cause, though the present dean and canon are not compelled to become incumbents under the act, it can hardly be supposed that they will, ' alter what has occurred after the solemn decision of the two Houses of Parliament, that their charters do not exempt them from pare child duties, continue to take their large stipends without fulfilling the obligations of their offices. So we cannot doubt but that Dean Bowan aid three of the canoes at least (the fourth, Mr. PARKINSON'S, in a hopeless ease), will immediately assume cure of souls in proper districts of the city. Thus occupied, they will be much better engaged than in reading Mr. OASTLER'S speeches ; and for any loss of cathedr al "dignity" they will be richly compensated in the respect and affection of their parishioners. Less than this cannot be expected from clergymen in their respon sible and highly-paid positions. The benefits to be derived by Manchester from the operation of the Act will, cf emu's, be gradual, and, it may be, slow; for they depend on the growth of the cathedral income. At present there is little or se surplus applicable to the purposes of the statute. Bat with a property, the green rental of which is to local rates at 34,0001. a year, on which tbere is a considerable area that may still be advantageously let for building, and on which many of the older losers are running out, the prospect of an increasing surges is very encouraging ; and it will be the duty of the new machinery introduced into the Ecclesi astical Commission to look very narrowly into the management of a property now applicable to such important object.. But it is not merely by the ap plication to parochial purposes of the increasing sur plus of the cathedral property that this sot will benefit Manchester; it will give in that city a stimu lus to personal and individual muaificenee and liber ality in the promotion of religious instruction. Already a report reaches us that the church laity of Mac chester mean to celebrate the enactment of the statute by the erection and endowment of a new church and ecclesiastical district. And this appropriate mode of celebrating that event will, in its turn, produce correspoeding efforts on the part of the diameters, to whom, in times past, religion in Man- Mester owes far more than it does to the established church ; and thus from the zeal of one religious sect, the energy and activity of others is promoted and excited to the common benefit of all classes. In leaving this subject, it would be very unjust to Dr. Lee not to record the sense entertained of his isonduct in promoting the bill by a journal not given to praise bishops. In one of the early stages of the measure, Dr. Lee advanced preten sions which the promoters deemed inconsistent with its principle; and on the question between them, viz., whether all the canons should henceforward have cure of souls, the Commons committee decided against the bishop. But ibis adverse decision, so tar from exciting Dr. LEE'S opposition to the bill, or rendering him apathetic to its success, really seems to have increased be interest he took in the matter, for that question bring resolved against him once, he did not even threaten to appeal " elsewhere," but, on the contrary, adopted the measure in all its entirety as his own, and, to speak strongly, but expressively, promoted it, where he could have injured it, " heart and soul." To the noble conduct of the Bishop of MANCHESTER the success of the bill is then chiefly attributable. His reward will be the esteem and reir, , ect of a!I per sons in his diocese whose stool opinion is worth any man's desire. And Dr. Lea, alone of English pre lates, will have the satisfaction of presiding over a cathedral church none of the clergy of which Au a sinecure, tut all of which are, like himself, hard- working ecclesiastics. From the example thus set at Manchester, consequecces far more important to the church may in time flow than were even anticipated during the progress of the bill. What Manchester can do without in its cathedral church, can't be of much service elsewhere. Having reduced the incomes of deans and canons at Manchester, and attached parcchial duties to the it offices, similar reduc tions and functions will follow in other cathe drals. Bishop Lea is not, however, without troubles in his diocese; but they are caused by unruly, intempe rate ecclesiastics, not by a dissatisfied laity ; and in those troubles he has been thwarted, and his policy is now obstructed by one of the great church societies—The Society fur Promoting the .Employment rf Afltlit , Onal Curates in Populous Placer. Amongst the parishes in the diocese of Man chester are Leigh and West Houghton ; and the Vicar of Leigh is the father-in-law of the perpetual curate of West Houghton. Both these gentlemen are tractarians of the most offensive practices, without any of the good temper, good manners, or good be haviour of the bettt r order of tractarians. They first of all quarrel with their parishioners, and then they set to work to bully, abuse, and malign their bishop, because he holds a good understand ing between the incumbent of a benefice and his parishioners to be a primary test of ecclesiastical *Cadency and a necessary condition to episcopal con /Woos. The churchwardens of both parishes have reeftfed these gentlemen to the Archdeacon's Court for the discord, confusion, and schism they have in troduced into their parishes. One will ir.eist on doing away with Sunday schools, the other won't marry or bury any one who has not been baptised in the church or confirmed by a bishop. But to attempt to describe the conduct of one of these clergy men to his parishioners baffles the limited space we can allot to such a person. Suffice it to say, that it became necessary for the Bishop of MAN cnesTra, in pure shelf-defence, to limit his correspond ence with the Vicar of Leigh, and, by way of protec tion to that person's parishioners, to impose terms on the episcopal recommendation to the society re ferred to, for an additional curate. Now, hitherto, in the regulations of that so ciety, it has been necessary to grant, that they should be made on the recommendation. This was, to within the last few days, one of ita fundamental rules. Well, under this rule, the Bishop of MANCHESTER refused to recommend a grant to the Vicar of Leigh, unless the vicar as signed to the curate s district; so that there might be peace and tranquillity in at least one portion of the parish. In doing this, Dr. Las at once acted within the society's rules and on his own judgment on the state of the parish of Leigh. But the Vicar of Leigh is a very hi A li churchman, and the society is a very high church society; whereas the Bishop of MaNCHEETaft is a moderate and compre hensive churchman. So the committee of the erciety, on the motion, it is said, of a bishop, has altered this fundamental rule, has rendered the epis copal recommendation unneceseary; and has reduced the Eshope to a sort of check clerks to report on numbers only. And thus the whole parish of Leigh is likely to be continued in a perpetual state of anarchy, despite the efforts of the Bishop of MAN camel La. The change thus secretly and surreptitiously, per haps illegally, made by f urther, will, however, become the subject of f seasklention. THE high church party, like & 'perste gamblers, have staked their all upon a single cast. They have given op all minor agitation, and pinned the fortune of their canoe to the success or failure of a meeting oa the (Wawa ease, assembled this day at St. EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1850. Martin's Hall. Whether it is good generalship to risk so much upon a mingle meeting, we must leave it to the promoters to decide. Certain it is that some thing must be done, if they are desirous of saving themselves from the reproach of baring led their followers into the mire, without doing anything to rattiest, them. Up to the prevent time the leaders of the party have lost every move. They have car tied the Cloartait ease through every possible court, and have been thoroughly defeated. They have sneered at the decision of laymen, aid have at last been nonsuited by the two archbishops. They have made no converts, but have had tkeir ranks thinned by desertions to Rome. We cannot help predicting a like fate for themeotiog of to-day. Its promoters are Battering themselves they shall originate a schism; we feel convinced th•y will do little beyond making a noise. The heads of the party are however determined that nothing shall be wanting to secure at least external solemnity to the meeting. Those wil ling to attend are requested to partake of the sacra ment before presenting themselves at St. Martin's Hall, and particular churches are named for the purpose. The meeting itself has been postponed from time to time, fir no other purpose than to excite public interest; the high church organs are busy in drawing attention to it, and the whippers-in are diligent in whipping up possible wanderers. The resolutions which are to be submitted to the meeting are already published, with extracts born the protests, dro., in order that the important nature of the object may be understood. There is to be, let, a protest against the judgment in the GOltliAll case. 2nd. A petition to the QUEEN. 3rd. An address to the Bishops and Archbishops. 4th. An address to the Sco'ch Bishops. sth. An appeal to the clergy and laity of England. Now of these apparently formidable weapons, the protest is mere waste paper ; the petition to the QUEEN against a decision universally sanctioned in her own courts will be something like an impertinence, and treated as such ; the addresses to the Bishops will certainly not have the effect of making their lordships abandon the golden rule of episcopal policy, to do nothing, gracefully acd solemnly ; the Scotch bishops have nothing to do with the matter. The appeal, therefore, to the people of England is in reality the only portion of the whole scheme which might pos sibly become of importance. It might pots bly be of importance, we say, but do any of our readers imagine for an instant that it will ? Take the cue of the clergy first. Allowing for the effect which the peculiar course of reading adopted by • tolerably large portion of that body, who have been influenced by the Oxford tracts, may hays had on some, the similar effect produced on many by a more diligent study of the Rubrics, which are, to say the least, ambiguous—and. lastly, that produced by the persuasion that the reception of this doctrine would greatly strengthen the hands of the clergy—allowing, we say, for all these effects, we are convinced that the great majority, c f the clergy does not participate in the belief required by the high church party ;And that a still greater majority comprising thegreater portion of those who do believe in the doctrine, would not conceive themselves justified in disturbing the peace cf the church by a secession. If, however, we tarn to the laity, the case is still stronger : the appellants will not meet with a sym pathy which will carry them over the shadow of the smalle4 difficulty. One partion of the laity does not care about, and another does not understand, the dis pute. One unanswerable question which may be put to the clergy is : If this is such a vital point, why have we not been fully instructed in it Mort ? Have you, the clergy, any time the last two hundred years, until the last ten, made regeneration by baptism the turning point of your teaching ? Have you taught it at all? If the doctrine has been mooted, has it not been confined to theological treatises, to disputes between learned doctors? Has it not been tacitl y allowed to be thrust back ? Is it not • well-known sct, capable of .....roooration by a large number of the elder por tion of the clergy, that the office-books belonging to numerous churches in all the dioceses in England had those expressions which fe , •med to favour the doctrine of regeneration by baptism scored out? Has not, in fact, the doctrine 'been reckoned among the theologi cal subtleties of a pest age, and ceased to be regarded as formicg a necessary portion of practical teaching? This, however, is only the negative aide of the TlE llent. v we not a right to object to the clergy of a reformed church, thst an attempt to bring in any dogma which inc.:lsis an opus I.peratum, is dangerous to the existence of the church itself —is taking away one of the pillars on which the church is founded ? Is not the opus opervawn—the spiritual effect, namely, produced by a material sub stance or by an exterior agent, without the voluntary spiritual concurreace of the person on whom the effect is said to be performed—the great feature of the con troversy between the Homish and the reformed churches? Is not this the very doctrine maintained as necessary by the former and denied as heretical by the latter? Is it not, in treaty, the main portion of the wall which separates the two churches? If so, is not this an incontrovertible prima facie argument against the Ibmatisers? It is not our business, however. to argue the ques tion theologically. Our wish is merely to point out to the timid the certain harmlessness of the meeting of to-day, the complete absence of any grounds fur alarm as to the prospect of au important schism in the church. In conclusion, we would beg the younger portion of the clergy to pause before they commit themselves to a course of agitation which will assuredly fail in its effects, and which will, when terminated, leave them nothing but the uncomfortable reflection that they have laboured unsuccessfully to introduce division into a church which they were sclemnly pledged to uphold. FRANCE. I discharged a torrent of rain. Iu the warm of the even's, however, he was perceived descending to the astonishment of everybody, plump upon the middle of Paris. Finally, the bold aeronaut stepped out of his car amid the chimney-pots of the Rue Ste. Anne. The MoNiteur publishes omoial tables showing the amount of the exports from Francs to Ramis, trom the year 1827 to 1848, both inclusively. We extraet the following as regards the two principal exports— wines and silks : WIRES—APOILAOI OP 1827 to 1836 1,888,000 1827 to 1848 1.837,000 „ 1840 9,836,01t0 „ 1847 2,747,080 „ 1846 1,944,000 ~ 1848 2,864,000 OILILi—AN ; 11111011 OP 1827 to 1831 1,969,000 I 1827 to 1846 3,3703,00 „ 1840 4.718,000 „ 1847 3,645,000 ~ 1846 2,478,000 „ 1848...... 2,010,000 By a decree of the Vice-President of the Republic, President of the Council of State, MM. Bethmont, Marchand, Bouohene, Charton, Pidgeon Frederic Cuvier, Lanyer, F ournouer , H orace b a y, idaberault, Heneral de Toile, Defresne, councillors of state, are appointed to deliberate during the vacation of the (Lucca of State on affairs which, from their urgency, may require immediate solution. The sitting of the Assembly opened to-day at half past one. The house proceeded to ballot for the Committee of Permanence. The ballot was closed at half-past two. Such extreme eugerness to know the result of this important ballot prevailed, that the de bate which followed on the bill relative to clearances of timber was hardly listened to, although M. Oleiral dwelt more than once emphatically upon the import ance of the subject. By the first article of this bill, the transitory provisions of the forest code are pro longed till the 31st of July, 18M. The second article abrogates the decree of May 2, 1848, relative to the taxation of cl ces. The committee proposed ur gency, and to adopt the law reducing the delay of three years demanded by the government to one. M. Gleiral was strongly opposed to the abolition of the decree prohibiting private proprietors from clearing their woods without permission from the government. MM. Dufournel and Dillon opposed the bill. After speeches from M. Beugnot. the reporter, and M. Fould, in its favour, it was adopted by the Assembly. The debate upon the budget was then resumed. After a discussion of some length, but without inte rest, the reduction of 130,0001 r., proposed by the com mittee on lyceums and communal colleges, was rejected. The rise at the Bourse still continues, confidence being increased by the result of the ballot on the com mittee of twenty-five. The Fives closed at 96.70, and the Threes at 38 40. rar PARIS, U. Tee I AININU3I. Mosey, Opening Highest. Lowest. Closing per Ceuta. ....... SI SO Stl 38 SA 40 611 30 881 40 per 0800— ". 908.8 90 33 90 70 9860 98 70 do. hew Lose.. 0 1: w 0 per Cents 7B" , leer Cents. ....... MI 103 30 39 M4O 311 30 33 40 3 per Ousts— 9O OS 90 33 14 70 98 50 96 70 S do. herr Loan.. ~ . ss . 11 per Cada.. —. „ i . • . 1 per Cents 7B f, hichsrure on Loudon: at sight, 25 40; 9ri Kaye, .S 171. " Magian, 3, ISO Da. 6, 1643 ...... 1004 ~ I Roman Lugs, Pall 781 Do. 44 11130 781 ~ Do. 3 Piedmont 5 per Cents B3 15 7, I Tria' llank uri Slaar ß'ib es ." 3323 7, Booms. —Versailles (right bank), 161 25; Ditto (left bank). 143; Paris and Orleans, 773 75 ; Paris and Rouen, GOO, Rome and Slaver, 150; Marseilles and Ashrams, 193 75, Strasbourg and Bale, 114 93; Orleans and Ileum, 360; Boulogne and Amiens. 205; Orleans and Bordeatut, 309 73;y Berth, 471 23; Paris and Hirannourg, AS3 7a ; Tours and Nantes, 148 73; 31onterean an 4 Troyes • Magna sad leeemp, 163; Anvers BM Geod. all SO; lit. Germain, 460. THE -- SWITZERLAND. The National Council of B*i•zerland, in the sittings of the 16th and 17th, disposed of got stions relative to mixed marriages and the uniform of the troops, and then adjourned to the 4th No-ember. The ordinary budget of the confedeision of 1849 shows the receipts to have been 4,112,048 Hares; the expenses, 4,346,305 hares ; extraordinary hueget, receipts, 1,769,350 Hares ; expenses, 931,016 lines. SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 17. The Queen continues to improve in health. The Deke and Duchess of Montpensitr will return to Seville at the beginning of Augur. All the newspapers of the opposition were seized to-day. They were afterwards allowed to circulate with the condition that not a word should be uttered against the royal orders of the press. The troops have been during the last few days under arms. Great apprehension exists of mutiny, as the soldiers expected to have their time of service reduced by two years, in else a prince were born, and their belief in foul play is proportioned to their disappointment. A cabinet council is being held on the dispute with Napes. The Captain-general of Catalonia bee issued a me nacing proclamation, in consequence of the re-appear ance of Carlist bands. Del BJII is the Cabacilla chief in command. There is besides a republican band under the command of Ballard% . . Hon eon Usedom, known in connexion with the negotiations ',spooling the duchies, has repaired to Route, wham hale appointed ambassador. The latest Austrian propositions on the German question h►ts boon declined. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JULY 13. It is reported here that Count Taste, chief resi dent of the supreme court of justice, has received his dismissal from the service of the Mate. FRANKFORT. Juir 17. Mont O'CLocK, r.N.—A dreadful accident has just taken place hers this afternoon. A new and magnificent building, lately ejected in the suburb of fiachsechausen, devoted to public amuse ment', and known, no doubt, to many of your readers as the Felsenkeller, or cellar in the rock, fell in with a terrific crash about 4 o'clock. Sixteen persons are known to be buried in the nice. How many more have met an untimely end is not I yet ascertained. A large detachment of the Bavarian 3rd battalion of Jagers, quartered in the ancient palace of the Teutonic knights at Bachsenhausen, immediately proceeded with pickaxes and shovels to the scone of the accident, and are now busily engaged in clearing away the ruins and saving life and property. ----- The Brigadier Echevarria has been banished. MADRID, JULY 17.—Three per Centa . 32 9 16 cash ; after &Asa, 321 916 cash, 32, paper. Four per Cents., 124 cash. Five per Cm's., 12 13 16 cult ; after BAR, 12 13.16 I clash, 121 paper. Coupons, 51. Natives, 31; Bank of Bt.Ferdinand, 864 paper. Exchange on London. 60 40. ITALY. SARDINIA. A case of some importance was definitively judged on the 15th, at Casale, Piedmont. It appears that a priest, named Don Grignaschi, had succeeded in secretly persuading some females and priests that he was either Jesus Christ himself, or directly in• spired by him. This doctrine used to be imparted to the neopbites as a sacred mystery, and demon stated by visions and miracles. The matter having at last called the attention of the authorities, Dun Orignasohi was prosecuted, together with his dupes or accomplices, on the counts of swindling and immorality. An able defence was made by Advo cate Brofferio, the well-known deputy, who founded his arguments on the facts that Grignashi did not teach his doctrines publicly; that he did not attack religion, since hie assertions were founded upon it ; and that his principles were not contrary to those of the church, since, they were the same as those of the Millenary and St. Simonian sects, which bad been been professed by bishops and saints, and never before condemned by the church. Notwithstanding this defence, Don Grignaschi was oondemed to ten years' exile; five priests, accused of complicity, were con condemned to exile or imprisonment varying from 18 months to 3 years; two women to 2 years' imprison ment, and a notary and another person to a month's imprisonment. Two other persons were acquitted. PARIS. MONDAY EVENING. The result of the ballot for the Committee of Per manence, as far as known, is as follows : Odilon Barrett, 416 votes; Berryer, 315; Btugnot, 283; Changarnier, 379; Kerdrel, 286; Lesteyrie, 396; Lespinasse, 278; Lauristoo, 291; Mold, 397; Mor nay, 283; Monet, 386; Nettement, 306; D'Olivier, 379; St. Priest, 383. All these are appointed; the rest will be named to morrow. Delessert, Creton, Gravy, Leo de Laborde, Cham bolle, Garnon, Dronet Deavaux, Durand-Savoyet, Combarel de Leyval, Mei°, Bauchard, Oscar La fayette, St. Buys, Grevy, and Callet, are those who obtained, after the 15 already named, the greatest number of votes. The members of the majority, who form the clubs a the Conseil d'Etat, Rae Richelieu, and Rue de Elea, agreed yesterday on the following list for the committee of permanence : —IIM. Odilon Buret, Binger, Beugnot, Callet, Casabiancs, Chambolle, Changarnier, de Croneeilbes, Druet-Desvaux, Dupont- Delporte, Garnon, Fremy, de Kerdrel, Jules de Les teyeie, General de Lauriston, Mole, Monet, de Monte bello, Nettement, d'ollivier, Casimir Perier, G 1 de St. Priest, General Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, General de Rulhients, Theriot de la Rosidre. It will be seen by comparing this list with the one which I sent before, that Adelsward, Grevy, Durand- Savoyat, Lamoricidre, and Lafayette, have been ex cluded. Monet is the only member of the Cercle Conetitutionnel who remains. There are five on the list who voted against the President's dotation—the three legitimists, Ds Kerdrel, Nettement, and St. BERLIN, JULY 19. Priest; the Orleanist, Julia de Luteyrie ; and the The magistrates and town council of Stettin have constitutional republican M met. Berryer and Beug- directed to the ministry a formal and official protest nut were neutral on that occasion. against the protectionist schemes of lierr von der The list of candidates for the Committee of Per- Ileydt, and all reports agree in describing the ex maneoce published this morning' by the Debate and citemect in that quarter as so Intense as to render it Ordre, as having been settled by the majority, con- impassible to the minister to maintain his project. tales nine legitimists, eight Orleanists, five of the Von der Heydt's intention was to declare the reeo tiers-parfi, two Bonapartist', and Or:coral Chan- kittens of the conference now holding at Cassel of gamier. legal validity without farther discussion. It now The silence of the red journals with regard to M. seems doubtful whether his propositions will Ledru Rollin's appeal to the people in the Proacrit, be accepted by that body; and Herr von has b'en broken to-day by a long article in the Mantecffel has declared that in any case the monthly periodical Le People de 1850, from the pen propositions must be laid before the ahem of M. Proudhon. The lash is not spared in this retort bens, and that he would make the propositions a to the excommunication launched against the Mon- cabinet question. tagnards and their press from the other side of the The commercial propositions of Herr yonder Heydt channel. Proudhon undertakes to prove that the have moreover already produced political results. exiledjaeobins of the Proacril are the allies of rest,- Hamburg and Bremen have been hitherto among the Lion, and completely ignorant of the true principles warmest adherents of the union. The trading classes of socialism, which are based upon agrarian revo- of these free cities, who exercise necessarily a great lotion. influence ever their policy, have ♦ery much cooled in The great diversion at present is aeronautics. Yes- political enthusiasm for Prussia. The merchants of terday, M. Mugat, who ascended from the Hippo- Hamburg are thorough free traders in sentiment, and drome, promising to come down presently in a pars- regard with horror the probability that even the chute, disappointed a numerous body of speotators by union may tend to promote principles opposed to their accompanying the balloon beyond the clouds, which views, and fatal to their interests. ROME. Shares to the amount of 20,000 scudi in the iron company, belonging to the triumvir Armellini, were put under sequestration on the 12th. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. DENMARK •AND THE DUCHIES. SCHLBSWIG, JULY 18. The decisive struggle between the inhabitants of Schleswig-Holatrin and the Dante is rapidly ap proaching; the armies of bath are separated but by a very short distance. Indeed the advarced pos's have already met, and a few shots were exchanged this morning at a small village called Mecham without any damage being done to either party. The Danish army is under the command of General von Krogh ; that of the Duchies, as is well known, is commanded by General Willisen, whose head quarters are at pre ' sent here. Neither party waited fur the expiration of the eleven days, within which the Prussian troops were to r ffect their withdrawal from Schleswig. General Willisen advanced into Schleswig on the 14th, or the day before, and his example was fol lowed by the Danish General on the 16th, when he caused his troops to enter the Duchy of Schleswig at several points. Two columns advanced from Sonderberg on that morning to Rinkenis and Gears, two villages on the road to Flensburg. The Danish army stationed in Jutland marched simultaneously into Schleswig, and seven battalions from the Wand of Alma were disembarked at Apenrade ; two batta lions were immediately ordered southward to Flens burg. Oa the 17th (yesterday morning) the Danish troops entered Flensburg, and immediately proceedei to occupy the eurronndir.g villages. A smaller body of Danes have entrenched themselves at Holnis, a small promontory which approaches very closely to the opposite cocst of Sundewit, from whence they came. Patrols from this body have been seen beyond Glikkaberg. Several hundred Danish soldiers and sailors were landed yesterday on the island of Fain eant, which lies at the south eastern extremity of Hol stein ; on approaching the island the Danish vessels were fired at by the Schleswig Holstein batteries at Ileiligenbafen,a small port on the continent of Holstein. On the western coast of Schleswig too a landing has been effected by the Darien at Hoyer, of which they took possession. Two comptrollers of customs and revenue, Messrs. Krogh and Jansen, were seized, and sent on board the Danish ships. From the above, it will be seen that the Danish infantry has marched to the southward in three separate directions, but keeping close to the eastern cult . The D anis*. cavalry to also progressing towards Flensburg in a south-easterly direction; their line of march is more in the centre of Schleswig. The Schleswig-Holstein army, or I should say the greater portion of it, is in position to the northward of this. Five thousand men still remain here, but im mediately it is known that the Danish army has been concentrated, they will doubtlessly join the more ad vanced body of the army. Every man of this little army is strengthened by the moral courage which the justice of his cause ihreils. They have but one idea, —the protect on of their rights from Danish aggres sion ; they are in a high state of discipline, arc commanded b y brave and intelligent o ffi cers, to whom they are deservedly attaches, and will no doubt give a gaod account of themselves in the com ing fight. It is expected that the armies will meet each other on the battle-field within a very few hours. The scene of action will most probably be within ten miles of thi., and in the immediate vicinity of the mail road from Schleswig to Flensburg. The Danish army in the field will amount probably to 33,000 men. General Willisen will be able to oppose to them—an army smaller in number perhaps, but =fi nitely their superior in unanimity and courage; and moreover, cfficered by abler men. Major Von der Tarn, who in 1818 performed w heord s of feat■ of bravery, cambine I with great military skill and discretion, though at the head of the most irregular body of free corps that ever ex isted, has been appuinted a lientenant•colonel in the army of the Duchies, and is chief of the staff. Toe Russian fleet is hovering about the coast be tween Flensburg and Kiel. In the former port one of the steamers has run aground, and it is said there is not much hope of getticg her off again. A divi sion of the Russian fleet, with several Danish steamers, stiil lies off Kiel. The latter took posses sion, on the 15tb, of severe. cease!' belonging to the Duchy of Holstein, regardless of the article in the trtaty of 2ad inst, which requires that all Danish intervention in Holstein must be preceded by an inti matim to the Germanic Confederation. A Danish herald, who arrived at Kid on the 17tb, to propose an armistice to the lieutenancy, was ar rested by that bady, and sent to the commander-in chief, who stated to the heral,l that the question of an armistice could not be etrertatned oolong at a Panish soldier remained in the duchy. He was then requested to depart. General Willisen's first report on the army has ap peared. It runs as follows : Is appointing me to the supreme command of the army, the government was actuated by the wish to facilitate an amicable arrangement with Denmark by freeing itself from exterior connexions, and thus simplifying its position. This peaceful intention led to a multiplication of leaves of absence, which might have attained the maximum number had not danger of a sudden surprise forbidden their further increase. Immediately an assurance against such danger was obtained, these permissions were extended so as to release 500 men from each battalion. Of course we were not unaware of the danger incurred by such a course of proceeding; we never theleu persevered in the same, to prove how sincere were the negotiations of pesos which the duchies were then con ducting. On the other hand, we carried the organisation of the army to the highest possible pitch, so as in • short time to have the armed force of the land in the shortest time ready for battle. Unhappily these latter precautions have been instilled, for the permission of leave having been increased on the faith of the vague assurances of Denmark, the treaty of peace with Prussia was sud denly concluded and our lend menaced with immediate aggression. Eight dave only remained to place the army on the war footing, and only because the minutest details of preparation had been attended to, was tt is feat possible. Supported by the active and cheerful co-operation of the entire country this has been accomplished, so that when on the 12th, the report c tree that the Prussian forces would be completely withdrawn from B:hleawig, by the 17th our army was ready to take possession of the posts evacuated. The army concentrated itself on the 13th and 14th, in fore* at Iteedsburg, and • brigade at Kiel. It appeared necessary at first to garrison Eekernforde, long dismantled and forsaken. The park of artillery necessary for that pur pose was sent from ltendsburg early on the morning of the 13th, and the advanced guard of the Kiel brigade moved upon Oetthorf. A calm rendered it impossible for the Danish vessels, had they been disposed for warfare, to enter the haven and render the fortifics'ion of the dismantled batteries impossible, and under these propitious circumstances the works were completely drenuthened in 24 hours. Them preparations have assured the safety of the Option. By the 14th the &deemed guard had been pushed on half way to Schleswig, Eckenforde fortified and a bridge thrown over Missunde. On the 14th, at six o'clock in the morning, Eckinforde was evacuated by the Prussians. On the 16th, the army continued its movement on Schleswig, and strong divisions reached Itistet and ktis sonde. I shall not tail to report my further operations to the Statthalterschaft. I cannot sufficiently praise the spirit by which the army is idepirtd. Every one is ready to devote Ms life to the country ; the army is rtroug, well organised, and full of confidence. _ _ _ VON WILLISIN, CO Head-quartars, HUI, July 14, 14iO. Three documents have also been published to-day on the Schleswig-llolstein question. In one the late administrators of Schleswig surrender their authority to the newly appointed governor, Wheal ; in.another the King nominates 'rillisch to the supreme civil authority ; and iu the third the latter announces his entrance to office. According to the treaty the late administrative power, although it may lay down its authority, his no right to transfer it to others. ALGERIA. The &faintUe de Toulon announces the sudden sailing of the Sine and Psyche frigates for Tunis, in consequence of orders received from Paris by telegraph. MOROCCO. The Moniteur, of Paris, publishes an extract from the report of the French vice-consul of Rabat, express. iog serious fears that the harvest iu several parts of Morocco will this year be lamentably deficient. The drought has partislly destroyed the early crops, and some of them have been attacked with some disease. VENEZUELA. BOLIVAR, MAT 31. The governor has returned from the missions et Units, without being able to me anything of the gold bold ing streams and fields, as tte whole w.s tound covered with deep finds of water. The gold hunters ere gradusilv re turning, cursing their own folly and all those who led them astray to disappointments, loss of time, and money. Tnere hos not been above 200 ounces of gold realised by all the working parties during the four months dry weather, and with excessively herd labour. So much for the end of vast exlggeration and the governor's promise of immense benefits to the population of Chill:II, from his visit to the great "El Dorado." CHINA. It is said that the Emperor of China has com manded hie ministers to draw up a report on the opium trade. The late emperor was opposed to the opium trade in any form; his representatives, while negotiating the treaty with Sir H. Pottioger, refused positively to enter upon the discussiou of the question in their official capacity, stating that while the emperor lived the trade would not be legalised. Nearly 8 years have passed since the treaty of Nankin was arranged, and during that term opium to the value of some six millions sterling has been introduced annually into the empire. The trade is nominally illegal, though virtually legalised by the corrupt officials who have established a tariff for their own profit. The foreign receiving ships anchor at various points on the coast, where they quietly sell the drug under the protection of the Chinese auelorities ; their customers are usually provided with a license; and the hest danger to be apprehended is capture by the Emperor's vessels of war. Possibly Taoukwang never knew that opium was openly bought and sold at every port on the coast. His ministers may have spared him a narration of the truth ; and if at times he suspected that matters were not as they ought to be. prudence and pride would alike dictate silence. Under the mistaken impression that the trade was protected by foreign powers, who would resent the capture of vessels under their ibg, the receiving ships were not interfered with. But Taoukwang sleeps with his fathers; a young prince brought up under the guardianship of Keying now holds the sceptre, and the period has probably arrived wh;:n the opium question will engage the attention of the emperor and his councillors. Any change in the present system will be distasteful to the :Hindering who profit by it. It is possible that the present investigation will lead to the legalisation of the trade. By admitting opium at a moderate duty, smuggling and all its at tendant vices would be pat an end to, the impo verished revenue would be strengthened, while the consumption would not be materially increased. Fol lowing the example of western nations, Caine. by granting licences to those who retail the drug would bring the consumers to some extent under the control of the police, and the inordinate smoker could be punished by a small fine as drunkards are punished I in other countries. The experiment of running the Lady Mary Wood on the coast has been at once recognized as so im portant a convenience, that the British community of Shanghae, with two exceptions, have signed a memo rial for the purpose of being forwarded by this mail to the Lords of the Admiralty, praying that they would be pleased to enter into some :arrangement with the Peninsular and 0 iental Company, so as to secure the permanent establishment of steamers on the coast. The reasons they assign for this are simple but cogent, and have reference-Ist, to the growing importance of Shanghae, and the great inconvenience and loss to which its merchants are subjected through irregularity and uncertainty of corre spondence with England and India; 2nd, to the success of the experiment made by the company, by which it has been satisfactorily proved, that the voyage between Hong Kong and Shanghae and back, con be accomplished in little more than a week ; 3rd, to the importance of securing sae ssential a facility at all times, not only in a commercial, but also in a po ' litical point of view ; and lastly, to the probability of the former inconvenience being augmented, were the steimer now running to be withdrawn altogether, or laid up for repairs; for the effect of her running even for an uncertain period, will be to cause the with drawal of many of the clippers, by which the commu nication has hitherto been in a great measure kept up. A similar memorial, we believe, has been cir culated fur signature at Canton, and will probably be made to include Hong Kong. We sincerely trust these representations may prove effectual. The object of the company in making the present experiment has been to complete the ch tin of direct communication between England and the most distant markets in Asia ; and by doing so, to enable the Shanghae merchants not o:ly to transmit their corre spondence, but their silk, to England in less than half the time previously occupied, and to augment the faci lities of traffic with India. A peculiar advantage likely to result from the esta blishment of the coast line, w.nild be to check piracy, and by affirding facilities for native trade, to restrict the vocation of pirates. Another advantage which ought not to be over looked, and which will be felt as far as India, is the opening up a ready resort for invalids, to whom such a change of e.imate as • Shanghae winter presents, may be invaluable. CHARGE AGAINST A POLICE-OFFICER AT LIVEn. POOL—An important inquiry was held en Friday, berme tee borough coroner, in Lord-street, Liverpool, touching the death of lames Ellis, a prisoner in the Borcugh-gaol, who died on Wednesday het, from injuries supposed to have been inflicted by Patrick Walsh, a police-:(goer. The deceased, James Ellis, and his wife, resided at No. 8, Marybone. With them lodged a man and his wits named Coulter; and, on the previous Saturday all these partite were (root home. Coulter returned about eleven o'clock, and inquired of the servant where his wife was. The girl said she di I not know, when he immediately struck her. Directly after, deceased and his wife came home, both partly intoxicated. Mrs. Ellis, seeing the servant crying, inquired the cause, and complained to Coulter of his conduct. After some re crimination, Coulter also struck Mrs. Ellis. The deceased at this time was lying on the sofa in the house, and did not interfere in the quarrel. Mrs. Ellis then ordered Coulter out of the house. She brought his clothes, and he went away quietly. In about a quarter of an hour he returned, and wished to be admitted, but was refused by Mrs Ellis. A crowd being now collected about the door, Walsh and and another officer dispersed them, and advised Mrs. Ellie to go into her house. She did so: but directly afterwards went out, and was proceeding down the steps to the cellar underreath her house, when Welsh came to her and laid hold of her by the back of the neck, saying, " 1 hare been watching for you; you must come with me now," and she saw him raise his stick as it to strike her. She erid she would go quietly with him, and they proceeded towards the Br dowel Same one, in the meantime, had informed the husband of what had occurred, and he immediately followed them. Re asked the officer what he was going to book his wife for, and just as they got to the corner of Vaullull.road, they all three fell to the ground together. The woman then got clear, but the officer caueht hold of deceased, and, on rising, struck him on the back, but he got away from him. The officer pursued deceased, and struck him on the back of his head, when he fell on his face with great force, and lay as if he was dead. He was then conveyed into the Bridewell, and thence to the Main Bridewell, where, becoming very ill on the etanday, he was removed M a ear to the Northern Hospital. On Monday 'seining, deceased and hie wife were taken before Mr. Rush. ton, whea the former was fined 10s. for assaulting U. police, and his wife 5.. for being drunk and disorderly. The Sae inflOted on the deceased not being paid, he was sent to gaol, and on arriving there he bonnie worse, and dos:negautoheocfsulfwd on Internet fracture of the skull was placed in the hospital of the orison. Re soon alter was made by Mr. W. B. attention from the medical officers ul the prom% he died iu m be rn m to e i h n o . l e d un h b im is a in ud be v d i ; ol a e n n n l ih ll t td . ;ol 4 ( ll 74h T e h r u t t i l i :L y a l a e t :T e e: t r . . th e a v tle i b l e y or o th r e t rrt hese ll g os e p u i t r e l a , sa and it Mr. ap. ap peared Wel l, sr, ,h,e, that he : :: :so: they gr From underneath it wound near the right eye. There was also a contuiett behind the right car. Oa removing the skull cap, the *Drain was found very mush congested, end there was oleo an extersivo fracture et the base Cl the skull. Cossestion of the brain, set up by a fracture produced from external violence, was the muse of death, The jury returned a millet si "Blamable homicide." ilf 11 4 • .11 I V.%