The Express. — London, England, 1850-10-31 00:00:00

Elte erpreggu OUTGOING MAILS. The mate for Madeira, Sea Nioolas, end St. Visaed (Cape de Verde), Sierra L e one, and Atesarios, will be wade tep tN. sewing. TM mails at British North America, Bermuda, wed tbe United Stem to made .p, per " Franklin," tameerew lambi ; and per " Cambria," teemerrow evening. TM nails for Wilco will be node up on Nov. 2. TM mat fee the Wise lease, littersaels. New Orman, Greptews c end Jaaasl, will bs wade op on Nov. 2. Toe mag i be Madeira, the Deeale, sad Buenas Ayres, will be wage if Os tbmoans a Nev. 4. The eras Oa Limbos, Rs* and Gibraltar will be Rade us ea Nev. 7. The meat vie Illerveillee, to the Mediterranean, Zgya, Ceylon, Ind* llotag.lioeg, Ike., will be suede up es ate amain aim 7. Tbe nib per Havannas, liondarse. Nassau, and Jima, Chili, and Pon, will be made ap ott Nov. 17. the Ltheeth lamas, Tla mils fur Gibraltar, Yalta, Gnome Etrys, Ogles. lads, and China. rie Southampton. will be made wpm the evening of Nov. 20. WOE WAD= AT LONDON RIUDIPS. Tam D. -N0v04.10•.D0....-.... illiNnowo. DA No. T...•••••-ONNNA DA T. Alsmou Di ON. LONDON, TRURSDAT, OCTOBER 31. PUSltYlelt is my sick. It finds itself suddenly taken at its word, and is utterly discomfited. The awkward reality has broken out through the artistic illusions in which it has hitherto been shrouded; and in presence of the naked claim to absolute obediense,l the long-stifled and half-starved right of private judgment rises up in the breasts of men, and lib them back oat of the masquerade of forms in wild& they have been playing, half hyp ocrite half feet CUSS-LIB JAMZS, Bishop of st:Ott, hobnob IA him oat of the equivocal shadow, wherein he bath se', long diegnisted himself in vain. When P wu fresh and the fashion , this man of purple lim ties linen smiled affably upon its ghastly face, and lamed to negotiate about the necessary number of geselles tions. Candles on the altar be would candidly ene code ; the question of their being lighted was All Of dettil about which good churchmen need not differ. Wearing the surplice in the pulpit, and facing round to the east window at the Creed, were points of equally graceful compliance with the usage of the eider breech of the use and indivisible catholic church: and as for ecclesiastical architecture there was no vagary of primitive masonry which this right reversed lord over OoD'S heritage was not reedy to sanction and approve. Nor was this mere flirtation with a new religions face. Pusejism took a man like CHARLES JAMES up to the pinnacle of the temple, and pointing to all the free consciences of the realm beneath, said unto him— sway over all these will I give thee, if thou will fall down and worship me. The bishop has hesitated long hefore he could make up his mind to bid the tempter begone. While the dream of episcopal domination basted, the voice of the tempter seemed unto him like that of as angel of light. But the stern interposition of the insatielne pretensions of Rome has wakened our spiritual acrd of London from his dream; and with protestant voice he at length, exclaims—No compromise ! Addressing his clergy, who lately sought his ad vice how they might best resist the WillEllAN inva sion, this consistent ruler of the church thus incul cates the duty of marked and scrupulous severance in all things from the Ronan ritual : Let es be careful, as well is oar public ministrations us is ear priests menitions and exhartetions, to refrain from doing or saying asythieg which may seem to indicate a wish to make the slightest uprose+ to a church, which far from maallattlag a desire to lay aside any of the errors which cm& pelted us to separate from it, is sow re-amertiog them with a degree of boldness unknown slam the Reformation, &s. And his lordship proceeds to indulge in the conso latory reflection teat after all his holiness has made a false step in his recent partition of the kingdom into new dioceses, inasmuch as this arrogant assumption of power 0 will cause some to hesitate and draw back who are disposed to make concessions to Rome under a mistaken impression that she has abated somewhat if her ancient pretensiohs." 'lbe bishops do not like the look of the old yoke of the papacy. They have too long been free to relish the notion of having the fisherman's net thrown over there ores again. Unity as an ecclesiastical sentimen talism, 'tad uniformity within their own spiritual I domain, are all very well. Nay, heard we not this very CltAttLia hours of London during the lent comics of parliament plead for the right of himself and his episcopal brethren to exercise plenary jurie dictioa is all causes ecclesiastical whatsoever arising within the realm, without control of either crows or people; for were they not the successors of the apostles in direct and indisputable summon ? But now things are mightily changed. A greater than York or Canterbury affects to be here. Rome has abated none of her " ancient pretensions" to call bishops as well as others to inquisitorial account. Is haste the prelate falls back on his almost forgotten protestantiem," blows out every wax-light on the altar, and appeals in straightforward terms to the right "feeling cf the people at large." rio, then, it has come at length to this, and we an rcjaced at it. It is the laity on whose liberty of thought and single-mindedness in belief that the safe ty of the Church of England must depend. All toe esoteric insolence, all the jugglery of quint words, all the charlatanism of 'esthetic formu kilos ends in abject confession of falsity and failure. Oxford's eggs are addled. Exclusive wis dom and medieval learning have done their best, and are fir ally as a system self-undone. Thai have tricked same few worse of ill-balanced minds out of the faith of their fathers; and beguiled the toireirediiheas ambition of Rome into the delusion that the busy, sober, tolerant, and undemonstrative mass of the English people bad been coaxed by petted windows, gilt crucifixes, and a muttering method of whining through the liturgy,—halfway at bast back to catholicism. Bet no sooner does the Pope commit the natural mistake of supposing that all this was true—no sooner does he prepare to take poseession of the pen-fold into which the BLOMFIELDS and WILDZRYORCIIII, ()LAI:MOPES and BINNITTs, have been trying to mislead the sheep—than all is con fusion and fright. They meant—that is they didn't mean—or at least no one can undertake to say what in point of fact they were at all this time. Thee Puisyism has fallen sick—very sick—and is very likely to die. It has been found out : and what is hardest to bear in such cases, it has been the cause of discovering on itself. Had it never beckoned to the gentleman in the red hat and Teeple stockings, it is probable that we should have lived and died with out any one in that costume coming amongst us. But such an it:present cabal of importuni les has been kept up by our high priests and university professors, that the College of Cardinals were at length deluded into believing that we wanted one of their body to dwell and " rale " within our border , . Ana by wgy of (epeeist civility, we may presume, it was resolved to make a cardinal for us expressly, and to give him an English pallium. No sooner, however is this grand step taken " towards catholic union," and the " obliteration of the great schism of the 16th century," as the Puseyites loved to term it, than with one accord they all begin to quibble and make excuse. Trey had sighed for Red Hats, 'tie true; but only in a non-natural sense; real red hats are quite different things, having no affinity whatever with the mystical garb of historical and foreshadowed cardinals, such as are seen in Oxford dream. Whatever may be thought of the nimble me.. sores taken by the Propaganda to persuade the of this country to renounce the right of peivate P j s t meet which they have exercised for the last three , hundred years, and in whatever disappointment the I attempt so begun may be destined to end, it is Imre' sible not to rejoice at its more immediate consequences namely, the exposure of the Puseyite plot, and pre mature explosion of that insidious scheme. From the honeycombed guns of the Vatican we have little to fear. Treachery within our own walls has ever been our chief, if not oar only real danger. Every social instinct, every political sympathy of the Beglish people is allied with freedom of in quiry, of thought, and of worship. It is by the national nee of this freedom that the strength of the national character has been formed, capable of great things in all that adorns or dignifies the Ewe of civilised man. To part with this freedtenoed kneel down again at the bidding of a foreign • and penitently to abjure the right to mad the scriptures to our children, the right to wonidp Goo in whatever form we individually feel to be mest mni I pressive of our wants, the right to hops that them wo bye and honour among many sects on earth will am ley meet in heaven—to give up truth, earsestnem, eat tele:woe as a people is not within our power. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1850. down into the warehouse, end tuned this oath. They forthwith arrested and rearthed it to the Old Bailey :44 haii all-the principal ofkers of the and made a whim dad th e Mimeos hides days afterward.tho gem i es ths temper tare increased, per; dm The mks threatened to band. The Oedema_ _ ,• .iierste big [with t o also. Up weellfilla • and up [into the air] west all the Wow -"Wri7ira was that the Oaslsierbesse cams tissadww mem obliged to do the yeeipme owl astotiatidt W 7 had taksa six rayeaW ma 0 the Battey, and to draw molsesthene ed theheutheals la grim se pe thata gassed dednedee l We ad swab may the " preesedisee • are where the bear would nor remain—in stain gm The latest seizure at the Bt. Katherine's Docks, was made last Saturday. Fourteen years beak a large quantity of Port wine wee ranked off in the wine vault for one of the most eminent home in the trade. It is customary when wine is thus racked off to collect the lees and washings of the casks, and with the consent at the merchant and the Customs, to destroy the same by turning them into the docks. by some widest or another a cask holding about 13 foaorof these less and washing had been over alf, and stacked away with the wine which was racked off on that oscasioe, Th. . Liverpool roe came across it. Their taste in the matter of poet does not appear to be critical. The stuff in the cask was something between ditch-water and sloe-juice; but they pronounced it "Port" With . great eeramay waggons were sent for to convey a "seisms of wine in the docks to the Queer Warehouse." To the Custom house the Port was accordingly conveyed, and we trust it arrived there safely in time for the Solicitor's lancheoe, and that the Board did not fail to taste it, with a view of acquiring an appetite. And we further hops that, if they did, they did not require calomel as a corrective. Bach am samples of the " Doings in the Dock.." We are glad to have an opportunity of enlarging on their character. Throughout the whole proceedings we have only one fault to find with the Dock Comps- Me, which is that they have not taken the ball by the horns boldly, and themeless placed before their customers and the public full particulars of the abo minable annoyances to which they have causelseely been subjected. We know the power of the Customs: we know the injuries they are able to inflict on trade where they choose to take offence; bet iii this ease the Dock Companies stand in the position of agents bound to protect the Intends of the merchants, and it is really their duty to let the whole mercantile world know what is going forward. The public also have an Interest in this question. The wholesale investigations which are going forward at the docks cannot cost the revenue much less than 601. a day. It may be very pp leasant to the Customs to haveasepportunityof appointing ghost of supernu merary Maus: and it may be very useful to the =rofficers to be receiving pay for as long po lit Zble.But the public are paying an in mate tax to make up for other revenue deficiencies,' and we see no reason why these deficiencies should be increased by . wasteful expenditure in investigations which long since have proved futile, and which all the regular officers of the Customs—all but the new hands and supernumeraries—scoff at as ridiculous. That the government have not interfered in the matter long ago is very such to their discredit, and we trust the committee which Alderman THOMPSON is to move for on the subject early in the ensuing sew sion will unhesitatingly let them know so. stir about the past et hewer Wag withdrawn da cieleselp from them; sad a 111111 M Iblir part, ad , dread to the BI leeented the te.wat with 1 a gestOt for On. Nensayer,Alihterable era the rimier S Modica the he til it aidismal gamlL side a this allq=le , t b a t th. spas al • *ale admit that the I we? fillfirser %aim the fall of Cisa. tellaatpaaL It wait bite been quite foreign to a roam I Meshed ken as easweeate of two days back. The decree is theikaitour of this morning, is the Mat decided step taken by Louis Nasea to Nowt the faiapesaassa of the exeoative pow*. It is tree that Gs& hoes wer is compensated dm their 1 of hie command et the first military division seise the adore of Geo. Chstagimmier by a much lashes ped• Wm as commasder-en-chief of the 14th sad 11I1h military divisions, which embrace the departments of Britauny and Normandy, stretching from Tom MI Nantes, and from St. Brine to Napoleon-Vasa*. • I command of so mush importance assigned to an Aar of no military renown, ;and placieg him on a lent with Generals Castellane, d'Arbonvills, and &stoles, the military magnates of France, might be deemed. ander ordinary circumstances, a splendid equivalent for the loin of a subordinate command of Pars; but , the fact is, that Gen. Neumayer's personality disap pears altogether from this question. It is a military arrangement of vital import to Gen. Changarnier, and made not only without consulting him, but in the teeth of his declared opposition. To establish such a precedent is for the Elyse* worth any price. Ch West qua Le premier pas qui route. It is like taking down the pediment of a portico be fore the columns one by one are removed. If no resistance follows, the next step of the Etyma will be the removal of General Perrot from the command of the national guard, which will be given to a more im =smithery personage. The generals of the of the army of Pais will go next ; and thus the Imposing military edifice represented by General Manama, bit by bit, will be dismantled and aboilned. Bat will the majority of the National Assembly tamely look on while their hero is being thus dismembered? The result of to-day's extra ordinary sitting of the Committee of Permanence will probably throw some light on this important question. Anxious to learn this result personally from some authentic source, I went today to the As sembly. To my surprise, just at the momenta hen the sitting of the oommusion termidated, at 3 o'clock, there were not a dozen members in the Salle des Con ferences. While I stood In the Salle des Pas Perdue, looking idly at Horace Vernet's bright paintings on the ceiling, and at the bronze Lsoooon, in came 1 Changernier, walking with Lis lieutenant, Valazy, talking low, with nervous smiles and twitches. I attempted to read in his features the issue of the day; I could only see that he was in a state of great excite. sent, bat it was impossible to divine whether morti fication or triumph were uppermost in his agitated features. Next came the grave Mole, with Monte bello, Heokeren, and Casimir Perrier. When they had passed over the stage, Leon Faucher and Darn followed. All were full of mystery, and looked armed at all points with their oaths of secrecy, de fying interrogation. As for the twelve members is the Salle des Conferences, they knew no more about what the commission had decided than the man in the moos. Not a whisper of surmise circulated. All that I could learn was the result which I have man dated above. The changes made in the military commands by the decree in the Moniteur have only the object of carving ent a command for Nenmayer, who, removed from the command of the Ist division (Paris), is appointed to the 13th division (Rennes), in place of General Dovivier, who goes on the retired list. General Nenmayer is also to hold the command of the 14th military division (Nantes). General de Rostolao, who has hitherto commanded the Bth, 9 . h, and 10th divisions, is to command in future the 7th, Bth, and 9th (Marseilles, Montpellier, and Perpignan). Go metal d'Arbonville, who has hitherto commanded the 11th, 12th, and 14th divisions, is to retain the cam send of the 12:h division (Bordeaux), and to unite With it that of the 10:h and 11th (Toulouse and Bayonne). Another decree of the same date appoints [ General Camelot, who has hitherto commanded the 7th division, to replies General Nenmayer in the [ estamsnd of the Ist military division. it domes to be remarked that the appointment of Gemal Cunha to replace General Nenmayer, is not signed b either the President or the Minister of War. It runs then : "By cecree of Oct. 29, &c." It is erroneously stated in some journals that M. de Peridgn: is returned to Paris. He is expected, how ever,ilrola Berlin before the convocation of the As- emnbly. There was a fall to-day of 70 centimes in the Fine, and of 60 in the Threes. You will nevertheless see by my letter that a favourable reaction is likely to take place to-morrow from the conciliatory tone adopted by General Chaegarnier. Three ministerial councils were held yesterday, the first at half-put 11 in the morning; the second, ' which was not complete, at half-put three; and the third at half-peat Bin the evening. At the latter, the resolution to displace Om. Numayer was adopted unanimously. It was Gen. Schramm, who proposed in the council of ministers that Gen. Neumayer, instead of being purely and simply dismissed, should be promoted to another post. This proposition was agreed to by all the ministers except M. Bineau. It is confidently asserted that Oen. Neumayer con tinues to decline the new command 'deigned to him. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has re quesud the Chamber of Commerce of Chalons to give its opinion as to the measures which ought to be taken to put an end to the fabrication of imitation cham pagne wine in Russia. This imitation is carried to an immense extent in Russia, whereby the govern ment of that country is defrauded of duties, and the producers of the genuine wine in France sustain a great injury. The Moniteur publishes the report of the Minister of Justice, giving the statistics of crime for 1848. The details are very long, but are interesting, except in a few general paints. We learn from them that the number of aocased persons brought to trial was in the proportion of Ito 4,815 of the population. In 1847 the proportion was 1 to 4,06 J. By decree of the President of the Republic, dated the 14th, a supplementary credit of 109,300 fr. is opened to the Minister of Public Instruction for the expenses of the Papal bulls, on the nomination of the Archbishop of Cambrai, the coadjutor of the Bishop of Belley, and the Bishop of Angouleme ; and also the expenses of the installation and first establishment of ' the three new cardinals. ' The electoral colleges of the Cher are convoked by a decree for the 24th of November, to choose two ro t presentative', in place of M. Lou rion,i resigned, and M. Poisle-llesgranges, deceased. PARIS FUNDS, Oct. 30. Three per Cente. Five per Cent& 92[ 00. Ralik Shares 2,273 E Oe. burly, have already oommenced their march into Austria. Sundry corps Moe moved from the Tyrol to thelionarlberi. - The dates of intelligence are, Frankfort the 28th, Camel the 27th, and Berlin the 28th init. BADEN. A correspondent lentos from Carlaruhe on the 26th I —We were all surprised this morning to hear that M. Tauber, Minister for Foreign Affairs, had been soddenly dismissed, and Baron Rtidt appointed his successor. It was remarked that M. Kliiber wan not present with the other ministers yesterday is the Chamber during the important discussion oa the convention with Prumia. People are naturally 'eking whetherßaden is choosing thepresent moment to secede from the Prussian alliance. Doubtless the I dismissal of the foreign minister is fall of meaning, but it is yet too early to answer the question. The Duke of Baden is a prince of strict honour in all that regards promises, and moreover, M. Stengel, one id the warmest supporters of the Prussian alliance, is still in the ministry. M. Riidt, the new minister was formerly intimately connected with Blittersdod, be has lately, however, represented his sovereign at Munich with much spirit and independence. The commission on the military convention with Prue sia has, at length, completed its report to the First Chamber. Two addresses to the Duke were prepared and opinions were so nicely balanced that tie outing vote of Prince Furstenberg alone smeared the adoption of the one more favourable to the Prussian alliance. The rejected address called upon the duke to denounce the convention, and enter into :negotiations tor admitting a federal garrison to Rastadt. The'second address which was adopted, concludes in the following terms : The first chamber of you? highness's feithful:states has to day, in private sitting, resolved humbly to pray that your royal highness will direct that ISO farther removals of Baden troops to Prussian garrisons may take place, and the troops of the Grand Duchy, now iniPrumien garrisons, may be re called as scones parade in acoordanes with the provisions of the military treaty; they propose, at the same time, the &mistiest of a corresponding number of Prussian troops now serving in this state, the indemnity for the same to be reckoned according to Art. 3 of the Ithervention. The chamber prays your royal highness to direct negotiations with the Prussian government to order to procure • reduc don of the amount demanded by that government as charges of occupation, and particularly that the charges on account of the Baden troops In Prussia may be computed from the day of actual arrival, and that thou' for the Prussian trooped' Baden may be estimated in the some manner; also that the number of the latter troops may be reduced as soon as possible, in order to afford barrack room to the native soldiery, and so minimise their cost to the country. Lastly, your chamber prays that the government of your Royal Highness will take into consideration how the privilege re served to your Royal Highness in Art. I. of the Convention may best be exercised. Banute, OCT. 29.—Voluntary Loan. 1061 ; New Loan, Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 ;National Debt, 861 ; Commercial Marine Society's Premium, 120 ; Bank Shane, 971. Vtirena, Oar. 28.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 931; Four and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 821. Bank Shares, 1,143. Eachangs on London, 11.66. All that is noblest, bee, and gentlest in our Ware I rises in revolt against the notion. It is impossible. A PAILLOWII went the round of the mews tot many days esti, bearing the aursetive and ielliterative title of "Doings is the Desks." It 'iota to demelbe the hops. and expeetatioss of she esstamhoon offi cials who ass at puma% ranniiking the docks - of London. It three - lowly bitted that there Ina a veal deal of "mystery" about the prooeedings, but that brand -bye the mita= would make " revelations" which would "astonish the commercial public." In namely as it wee worded, the paragra_ph was a clumsy attempt at deception, after all. For it wes not difficult to see its source. It was evident that the shaft thee shot at the Doak Companies we. nothing less than "a broad arrow." Ahd the customs have so atm been detected in doing a little of the illicit, that se one is surprised to find that they have at last managed to smuggle a paragraph into the news- PsErh The Superintendents of the St. Katharine and Loads& Docks have thought it necessary to publish letters &eying that anything . bas occurred to " astonish the commercial public. With deference, however, we think the superintendeata wholly wrong. The " revelations " of the paragraph itself have al ready very much " astonished the commercial public." They have learnt with surprise that their most valu able goods have for the put three months been under going as thorough an examination as the dirty clothes bag of a steam-boat pseeenger from Calais. Custom hone officers in the docks have been turning out bales of silk, pushing their flats into bags of cochineal, shaking up the lees of valuable pipes of port, and taking samples out of hogshead' of Lafitte, lust as coolly ea if they were their own. The " doings in the docks" have indeed been without precedent The Customs have treated the merchants of London as if they were one and all petty plunderers and smugglers. They have searched their goods as if they were in the habit of as in every bale and cask and bag some commodity that ought to pay a higher duty. They hare bored into and tasted all their wines to me that they were not spirits. They have taken such an account of every merchant's goods as will enable them to report to the Income Tax Com missionen the precise amount of all his dealings. They have conducted this examination in the most offensive way, at an enormous charge to the country, and, as the Superintendent of the Loadon declares, " without proving a single case in which the revenue has been damnified to the value of a farthing." Most of our readers, at some period or another of their lives, have gone to the dock cellars with what is called a tasting order. Lest any of them should chance in the ensuing week to visit the wine cellars at St. Katherine's, It might be as well that they' should be prepared for the occasion. In one of the dimly lighted alleys of the vinous catacomb, they will come across a party who will unfailingly flash into their faces the lights of their dark lanterns. Pro ceeding further on. they will find that one or two el this party have fjllowed them. Arrived at the cellar the contests of which they are to taste, they will probably detect these officials concealed behind as adjacent pipe, attentively watching their movements and listening to their conversation. What may be the object of this inquisition—what revenue purpose suck espionage is expected to answer—is more than we can say. It appears to be • new branch of the duties of the Custom-house, introduced by those vale- able commercial authorities, the Cluticmos of the RICEIEQUIII and the Commissioners of Customs. The men who are thus engaged is " taking stook,' as the customs delicately an it, are not the autho rised and appointed custom-hones officers of the pat of Locdon, but bodies of "detectives," brought from Liverpool under the charge of an ex-policeman, or transferred from the excise department, where they were more accustomed to dirty and obnoxious dodo. The Commissioners of Customs, it seems, could nut trust the old and reeporable offioers of the port sC London to perform the duties devolved upon these, superunmeraries. Whether they thought them in league with the dock directors, or whether they deemed them too honest for the new work, they have not told them ; but the mistrust exhibited, and their virtual aupercession, has been keenly felt by the Lon ' don officers, who do not hesitate to express a very strong opinion respecting the commissioners' "doings doings in the docks." Latterly, too, even the excise officials have become dissatisfied. Many of tees" gentry exist, not upon their miserable salaries, but upon their share of the profits of a seizure. Wten they were invited to the docks, they were led to form tempting expectations of what they would find concealed in those vast vaults and lofty warehouses. But after three or four months' search, having found something less than nothing, they have become thoroughly disgusted, and are free to say that " had it been an excise case, the search would have been abandoned long ago." The Customs, we have said, have found "something less than nothing." This is literally true. They went into the dock-cellars expecting, no doubt, rich prizes in the shape of stock not entered, and sur plusage, which would entitle them to make seizures of enure vaults. Instead of this, it appears by their own present confession that they have discovered, not surplusage., but deficiencies. More wins has been entered at the Customs than is to be found in the Dock Companies' possession. There is, they say, as average deficiency of two or three gallons per pipe. 80, instead of exulting in the discovery of frauds apse the customs, they are now crying out that there ere basis epoa toe merchants. Now, we are leased to believe that the merchants are not only TAD able to protect their own interests, but that they de not at all desire the interference of the Caguas in any of their dealings. Whenever deficiencies in quan tities occur (and they are occasionally unavoidable) the merchants and the dock companies r the arrange v.. matter between theuesivvue. way amicably and satis factorily, without collier la ibe Customs for an um pire. And we have no dealt that they will continue so to do. The Dock Cespasdes are too deeply inte rested in securing the seerehants' custom, and the merchants are too deeply interested in the security and facility which the dock system affords them, to leave any doubt as to the amicable settlement of all questions that arise between them. It is indeed, something new and suspicious that the customs—the legalised persecutors of the commercial community— should set itself up as the guardian and conservator of trade. Its duty hitherto hu been to discover that commerce is fraudulent : the merchants may fairly doubt that it is more scrupulous than of old when A suddenly turns round and professes to find out that commerce is defrauded. We said that the customs had found no surplusage,. This is a mistake. It hu found one. One fine warm morning in the middle of last summer, the liabiissis at the Old Bailey were surprised at the unexpected ap pearance in the court of a number of respectable prisoners in the custody of a body of detectives. " What is their offence r was asked all round. "Pi racy," at once concluded a worthy alderman who is interested in shipping. " A robbery of shawls," whispered a Jew bill broker who attended as • wit nue. A burglary at the Mansion-houss, and all the plate stolen," was the apprehension of a Sheriff who wee still under the influence of the dinner of the night before. Horrible as was this idea, it was as nothing to the terrible tale that soon began to circu late, 0 A felonious robbery upon the Qom herself, —so mays the indictment." It soon appeared, however, that the " felonious robbery upon the QUEEN herself " was only an imagi native phrase for a robbery of her Majesty's Customs. The six gentlemen who were brought up in custody were charged with the plunder of an indefinite quantity of molasses" in the docks. It was an odd thing to be concerned in stealing—as well on account of the trifling value of bad treacle as of the ob vious difficulty of carrying it out of the docks in one's hat or trousers' pockets. However, the charge was made, and "the offenders" were all bound over to warm& it ; the principal culprit—a little grey headed aid gentleman of 70, in spectacles and pantaloon' (presenting anything bat the appearance of a pirate Of a burglar) being obliged to find bail, himself in4ool. and two friends in sureties of 2001. each to answer for the tremendous accusation. , Now what do the public suppose was the Watery of ibis gnat trawl. tees P Molasese,m every•ne knows, 'nes liable to fermentation. In very hot weather it is lennosquently necessary to prevent the auks burst• fat taking out bangs and drawing off a quantity from each. This operation had ben perfumed in the drag warehouse of the 111 isthmian Docks upon a large number of , Milholdedmiains lying there. The overdrawing , aillestod in a small auk, holding between Bast 14 pilau. The "Liverpool gang" came FRANCE. PARIS. WIDNIMDLT It wu definitively settled in a fresh cabinet council, whose sitting terminated yesterday e three, that the distillment of General Neumayer should be maintained. This decision was announced to M. Neumayer by the Minister of War and the President, who expressed at the same time the intention of bestowing another post upon the displaced general. In answer to this an nouncement General Neumayer wrote a letter to the Minister of War declining any other post in compen sation. General Changarnier was invited to same tte sucesesor of General Neumayer, but resented the . . oomplimest as derisory. The Monitstir contains a decree, dated the 29th instant, appointing General Cartelet, late commander of the 7th military division, to the command of the let military division, in the place of General Nen mayor, who is appointed to the superior command of the 14th and 15th military divisions. The decree is signed by the President, countersigned by the Minister of War. The Committee of Permanence held to-day an extraordinary sitting, which Tested from half-past 12 to 3 o'clock. You may place implicit reliance in the account which I shall proceed to give you of this sitting, which is not drawn from hearsay or litho graphic prints of the evening, but from personal authorities worthy of the strictest reliance. The sit ting was presided over by Leon Faucher. The debate was not at all noisy or agitated, but the members who were present took their tone from Gen. Changernier, who was observed to be exceedingly moderate and calm. The question was, of course, the decree dis placing General Neumayer from the command el the first division, and advancing that °Mier to a higher command. General Changarnier proposed that the Minister of War should be called wpm in the sitting of the Permanent Committee to-morrow, to explain the motives of this change. Was it a dis grace or a reward ? If a disgrace, why was a general who had distinguished himself by keeping up the strictest discipline among the troops visited with • mark of disapprobation ? If it was a reward, what had earned for the same general such distinguished promotion. He only knew of one exceptional circum stance which bad occurred latterly in relation to General Neumayer, and that was at the review of Satory. General Niemeyer had refused on that occasion to be instrumental in encouraging( the infan try under his command to cry " Viva FEmpereer Were they to seek in this circumstance the clue to the general's removal from Paris? It was for the purpose of giving explanations on this subject that he moved that the commission should call upon the Minister of War to present himself at their sitting of to-morrow. This motion was speed to unanimously. As General Changarnier appeared disposed to accept the promotion of General Nauseam as a personal satisfactton, and to adopt for the present a tons of much moderation, the other member, of whom there was • full anal:dames, con sidered the question at' Issue to be adj ourned, and imitated the reserve of the commander-in-chief. A proposition made for the extraordinary convocation of the Assembly was withdrawn. The adjournment of the question was considered more necessary as M. Dem was absent, and it was thought right not to take any decided measure in the absence of so weighty an authority. lam now about to mention a matter which made a much greater sensation in the commission than the affair of General Neumayer. This was a report of the oommisaionerof police, which stated that at an advanced hoer of last night a secret pi of the Society of the Dix-Decembre bad been lesrillsrhich the mast violent veselations had been C=lt was staled that the walls of the room the seesties was held wee, covered with (webs sad caw import' embhers. A proposition of htssollble visions, hod base made, teething more nor Ms On to get rid of the losers of the majority. The semenission was a good deal agitated by this re port, and it was resolved that M. Baroche should be sailed upon to present himself in the sitting of to morrow, as well as General Schramm. M. Bareas will be asked whether he is prepared to dissolve the Society of the Dix-Deomnbre. This is expected to smite Inn ache than the affair of Gen. Niemeyer. The commission deemed it of sufilsient importuner to holm the report testaally in its proose-verbaL The ottfieg was, at three o'clock, adjourned to half' pest 11 tomorrow. The reason wiped by the confidential Mends of the Blysie fur the dlopionmeat of Gen. Niemeyer le Me iiMearkp t Tee may remember that in m y =eet yesterday I mentioned !levier observed pes at the Tuileries were within the lad M ei jars ease% Wag al kart confided tho guard, bet to hoops st tee lies. The bp Wine paslmilay, sellevleg paid at r hea el heaser - slisi dr illidello t whs. be head e pet, who banged to the lOtt hem Imo alsest udi = gime es he thought le esemaise la the same be psesekol a eemmos7 of aseirmess maidessisekg le idiom guard, to - w ham le AM he faded thoposiL shh sheep could net be anted withal as sake Ms the staff of the first deli" and wigged dire* the respayibility of &mai Nswempe. The national guard of comes made a weal GERMANY. The Hanoverian ministerial crisis has oome to a conclusion, by the definite appointment officially annoncoed, of MM. von Man.:ham= to be Minister for Foreign Affairs, Von Lindemann to be Minister of the Interior, Von Rfiesing to be Minister of Justice, General Major Jacobi to be Minister of War, and D. Meyer to be Minister of public instruction. The Bing of Hanover has issued a proclamation, in which he says that the appointment of these ministers will cause no change in the policy of the government. It is confidentially stated that the secession of M. von Munches= to the office of prime minister will not lead to the swelling of the " Gros Deutehen " ranks with Hano verian soldiers. The methadon of M. Right in Baden to soma the late minister. Khiber, was bailed as a proof that the Grand Duke had sow over to Austria; this turns out sot to be se. No &sap will take place in the podgy ef the geverumat, The exesseretei news spread la London by *s tolen wpm Y eekeease to thesate ended Rhef Prussia wd liheis. ben bees rafted is their eine pleat tom It uses thee the rely plea p voted via that a iiselhweees ads &mid be seat to is Braila from the several poem From Camel we law news confirming the intel ligence of the marsh of the Mesterei tzar Asa Ousel to Hamm It Is messed diet the um* preparatory to the eraqik‘ dieesiallia el the 111.11% The army seeps Men Neleues e sail Ike gel army c op s, blades beittedie boot Tail led Lea- SPAIN. A Madrid letter of the 25th states that the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies would bold their first preparatory sitting on the 29th. M. Cortese° would, et was expected, be elected President of the Chamber of Deputies. Lord Howden, the English minister, had requested that the plan proposed for the eettle. meet of the foreign debt should be shown to him be fore it should be p resented to the Cortes. MADRID, OCT. 2.5 —Three per Cents., 24 11-16 ; after Bolas, 341 11-16 cash, 341 paper. Four per Cents., 131. Firs per Cents., 134 cash ; after Bolas, 13$ paper, 134 cash. Coupons, 74 cash. Passives, 31 cash. Bank of St. Ferdi nand. 96 cask. Pluissete ea London. 60.30 AUTHENTIC CRAMS AND SAILING DIRECTIONS. — We lately called attention to the mischievous conse quences of the neglect on the part of shipowners and muters in not providing themselves with the beat and moat recent charts and sailing directions. With a view to aid such sa oontemplate amendment in this respect, we propose to publish from time to time lists of recent publications in this department. The fol lowing charts and books have been published by the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty in the course of October : Holyhead New Harbour, J. M. Rend•l, C.E , 1850. River Clyde. Scotland from Greenock to Dumbarton, Capt. Robinson, 8.N., 1846. Ditto from Dumbarton to Glasgow, Captain Robinson. Isles of Arran, Galway Bay, Ireland, Com. G. A. Bedford, R.N., 1849. Southall or Grand River, Prince Edward lead, Copt. Bayfield, R.N., 1843. Quoddy Head to Caps L.preau, New Brunswick, Captain W. F. W. Owen. R.N., 1848. Road Harbour, Tortola Island, Lieut. O. B. Lawrence, R.N., 1848. Great Bahama Bak, sheet 2, Captains Once, Barnett, and Smith, R.N., 1836 to 1843. Onytown Harbour, Mosquitia Coast, Com. Nollotb, R.N., 18.60. Chiechorro Bank and Anchorages, Honduras, Capt. Barnett, R.N ,1839. Port Alhany (north east coast of Australia), Captain 0. Staley, B. N., additions to 1860. Western Entrance to Endeavour Strait, Torres Strait, addition to 1849. Kara Is'and, New Zealand, Captain Stokes, R N., additions to 1850. The Seaman's ' Guide round Java, Baron Melvin of Cunha, and round the Islands cut of Java, by Lieut. H. D. A. Smith Dutch, R.N., 1860. South American D rations ' second edition, Captains P. P. King and Fie Roy, R N., 1850. To find the Lati tude by an Altitude of the Polar Star, at any hour in the Northern Hemisphere, William Salmon, naval instructor, EX., 1860 THE FRENCH FLEET IN TORBAY. The French der, oessisting of B r igham easels and one 'crew steam lessel, anchored in roads between 2 and 3 o'clock an tbs afternoon of Monday, and on Tuesday were still at an ise about two miles from Berry Head. Captain Storey, of the coot guard service, boarded the admiral's ship on Mon day, at 4 30 p.m., and ascertained that the fleet were from Cherbourg, and bound to Brest, and that they put in from stress of weather, although the wind at the time was due north and moderate. The fleet consists of six lineef battle ships and one steam frigate, under the command of Admiral Duchesnes, in the Friedland, and a viceedmiral. The two admirals' ships ors three deckers, and the other four sailing ships two deckles.—The Beet got under weigh during Tuesday afternoon, and were all standing to the westward under single-reefed toped* topgallant-sans, jib, spanker, he., at 4 o'clock p.m. At 6 pm. they were not in sight. The French admiral very kindly allowed all who applied permission to go on board, and numbers availed themselves of his Undone. THE WIDOW OF THE LATE LIEUT. WAOHORN.— The committee for the management of the Bombay steam fend have presented the widow of the late Lieut. Weghorn, through their agents in this country, with a government annuity of 251. for the remainder of her life, out of the un. appropriated balance of the fund in their hands. This fund was constituted by the proceeds of a public subscription at Bombay in 1833 for the purpose of promoting the great objsct of steam communication with England, and the amount raised has been appropriated from time to timb in aceardante with that dada. PASSENGERS BY THE INDllB.—Our Southampton correspondent writes : Among the passengers on board the Lau, which arrived on Saturday at Southampton with the India mad, was Mr. James Malcolm, a native of Collages. Twenty-two T om ago he landed as a young emigrant at Van Diemen's Land with 601. In his pocket. Fifteen year. ago he mead over to Port Philip, when there were only two huts in that now flourishing colony ; and there he has ?goateed ever sines. He is the largest individual sheep farmer in the colony, being the owner of 30,000 sheep, and land sufacient, reckoning as he does an acre to a sheep, to feed 60,000. He is now worth 3,0001. a year. His visit to England is to see the old country ones more, when he pupates to pass the remainder of his life in South Australia. In hardihood and tagacity he seems the bean ideal of an emigrant and colonist. In manliness, heartiness, and peculiarity of meaner, he is jut auk a character as Dandle Dinelont, so admirably draws by Scott in one of the Waterloo novels. Mr. Mai toolm took an sane part in the separation of Port Philip from Sydney ; bat he states that he and his fellow oolonists would not have cared to have separated territorially, it they could have done so financially. Their objection was to see the funds raised by themselves appropriated too exclude* I to the improvement of Sydney. He is an admirer of Dr. Lag, and thinks the doctor has been of service by his agitation to the colonists. He treats, however, the pet idea of Dr. Lag, about separating from the mother country, as taloa He appears to think that Port Philip will ulti• lately b• the capital of Southern Australia, on account of its being more astral than Sydney. Its rise and progress has been more rapid than the latter place. He was 40 days in meshing Madras from Sydney, by way of Tones Straits; and he has bean about three months resellics Southampton from Port Philip. Mr. Maloolus Is a most intelligent gentleman and is well acquainted with European affairs, He shook hinds heartily with his fellow passengers on leaving the Indus, and promised them a hearty welcome if they ever visited him in Port Philip. He was a great favourite au board on account of his shrewdness and originality. That was only one thing that vexed him on his voyage, and It was this—he bought a gold chain a ., it turned out a brass one. The Port Philip wield heartily laugh, he was certain, if they ever eat that Jimmy Malcolm had been outwitted. Among the puesereee, shoo, by. the Indus, was Captain Fagan, whet was easkfteal from the army on account of his teassaboas with the Hague bank. Teal Tenlugton was 'red to coma bane fa her, but it is I now that iertiehip intends te retina to England beluttetimenthly beet, sad through Austria or Fronts. Sir Neter Is ast Mersa to erne teens Were Christmas. Author a the Indies presager san , t not be overlooked, sad that was a depashis posy. It was brought es far ea Egypt by the Nepal princes, and left than. It is a oreas•edraffsd, pony, and diminutite areature ; scarcely as bee, awl wet vas es baattseine as a Shit/And. News wee basystalg rers p r be t t u t r eie si r d a senta t ra omp tion re ampaay reCaades r Inlay to peeve breaths. The Sari 1144 bad made ems sussidel NIP 'Elie Court. OSBORNE, OCT. 30. The Queen and Prince took their acetuitomed early walk this morning in Osborne Park. The younger members of the Royal Family walked mid rode ea usual. Sir Robert Stanford had an interview with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial office. The Rev. Mr. M. roe had also an interview with his lordship yesterday. The Oxford University Commission met yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treuhry, in Doweintotrest. The C iminissioners present were the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. R. Liddell, and the Rev. (I.'i s. Johann. . - _ A depntatton, consisting of Mr. Crawshay Bailey (chairman), Mr. Gordon Thompson, Mr. C. Conway ( L 4., rector), Mr. W. Jenkins (diree:or), and Mr. Wells (seen, tary), on behalf of the Mnnm,uth B.ilway and Caul Company—and Mr. W. J. Carlisle, Mr E. Barber, on be. half of Bir C larks Morgan, Barr, Mr. hints Brown (New port), had an interview with the Commiesioners of li6AITIVII yesterday, at their office in the Boird of Trade. Despatcheafroin the tvernors of the Cape of Good Hope and the Mauritius were received yesterday, at th e Colonial office. CHEAP OAS. Yesterday the second half-yearly meeting of the shareholders an the Great Central Gm Consuaten' Company nu held at the London Tavern. Cowards of 400 sham holders were present. Mr. THOUS llnitr , the chairman — expressed his regret that he had been unavoidably absent from the extraordinary general meeting held a short time since. That meeting had been held at the instance of the directors to obtain authority to borrow mop e , upon mortgage if it should become necessary. The meeting bad manitested their confelence in the discretion of the directors by unanimously cent, rring upon them the power I thei asked. The directors had made an appeal to their share holders which had been met by a prompt response, and they had abstained from exercising their borrowing powers. (Cheers.) He was happy to say the report the directors would present was of the most satisfactory deectiptioti. (Hear, hear.) The company had been stigmatised as a paper company, and it had been boldly prophesied by their enemies that • foot of gas would never be applied, and that a single pipe false prophets had failed in their predictions, and the fond d ee the hopes) triumphantTohf t pe present at success kt o s drisatootopfryßo throughoutfl ofi i mo nopolists and w a t d ht reteh b fo. e pe enormousf a u oit tyury i destroyed fn:pttrot:ho puts of the company might be reed by their opponents in the fif magnitude of io and d th p e fp, w o or l e number of gas consumers who had a'ready received, and the number who were waiting to take the gas so soon as they could be accommodated. (Cheers.) The Commissioners of Sewers, who with their officer of health wore laudably em ployed in removing from the City all noisanose prejudicial to the public health, must bail with satisfaction, upon sanitary grounds, apart from economical considerations, the sew com pany, which had already supplied to the citizens a large amount of gas manufactured at Bow Common In aubsiitutioa for that which would otherwise have been produced is the most crowded part of the most crowded city in the world. The SECRETARY then read the report, which stated.— . The ordinary channels of public information will bare acquainted the shareholders with the many sours. of pens veriog opposition with which the company has had to con tend, but which tau hitherto totally failed in its main ob j eau. The proceedings, which have been given at length in the daily journals of the legal proceedings instituted by the Chartered Gas Company will have informed the sharehold ers how little they have to apprehend from this source, betas at present there is a negotiation for settlement going oast the suggestion of the Lord Chancellor, the directors do not deem it expedient pending the Wire to further advert to this subject. The financial statement embraced is the re ' port is necessarily limited by the deed of settlement to a period six weeks anterior to this meeting, but the directors have the pleasure to state that since that time 8,5001. has been received upon the lest call as well as upon Calls in anew. The directors confidently hope that Iron the con tinued support they are thus receiving from the share holders it will not be necessary to borrow the sum of money which they were empowered to take upon mortgage. The engineer's report stated, that the works were nearly in a state of completion, and that the expense would, in Mr. Croll's (the engineer's) opinion, not exceed the estimate. The delay which had occurred in getting the services and meters fixed in time to meet the demand of the consumers throughout the eby was ascribed to delays in casting various pare of the machinery, partly from negligence and treachery which had been detected on the part of some of the work men engaged in hying the pipes, and partly from the ob structions occasioned by the suit instituted by the rival city gas company. Notwithstanding . all these impediments to the full development of an anticipated supply, up to last night upwards of 2,800 consumers, burning I:000 lights, had been supplied with the company's gas, which was acknowledged to be of a superior illuminating power; and, with a few exceptions in the districts supplied by the city company, the quantity had been ample. The report con cluded with some remarks on the undue pressure alleged to have been used by the old city company, to which the gas fittings in use were adapted, no that it appeared as if the company's gas (being plated under a moderate pressure) was deficient in quantity—a defect which would be remedied by en exemioation and alteration of the fittings. The report was uranimoudy adopted. In reply to a question from Mr. MACHIN, u to the re muneration of the directors, The CHAIRMAN said that was a question entirely fir the consideration of the directors. The subject had been mooted at the board. The direotore had laboured assidu ously in the service of the company for two years, and so coafident were they of the undertaking paying a dividend of 10 per Cent., charging their gas at 4s. per thousand, that they were perfectly willing to continue their services with out any remuneration until the shareholders should realise a dividend of 10 per cent. and they would then leave it to the shareholders to assess the value of their services at their own estimate. (near, hear.) Mr. CHARLES PEARSON would propose a vote which, while it would enable the directors to defray the petty cash expenses, would obviously be an ad, gusto recompense for their labours. He proposed 5001. a year from the commencement, until they should, at the price °flits. per thousand,:pay the dividend of 10 per cent. out of profits. After which he would propose an allowance of 1,0001. per annum, with a further addition of 5001. per annum, upon their pay ing a 10 per cent. dividend, after reducing the charge to 3544 d. per thousand, which, he was confident, would be effected within two years from that day. (Great cheering.) Mr. MACHIN felt the liberality of the conduct of the directors in proposing to suspend the receipt of any recom penes for their services until the dividend of 10 per cent. should be realised. He, however, had been convinced by the reasoning of Mr. Pearson that some pecuniary acknow ledgment should at once be awarded them for their valuable exertions. (Hear, hear.) Whether the sum pro pued by Mr. Pearson for that purpose was an adequate remuneration might be doubted. He should second the motion if it would be acceptable to the directors. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN said that the directors having stated their confidence in the speedy realisation of a 10 per cent. dividend, and their readiness to suspend all remuneration until that event, they ehould leave the matter where the deed of incorporation left it—with the shareholder... (Cheers.) Mr. George Virtue was appointed one of the auditors, and other routine loaminess having been transacted, thi; meeting adjourned. ANOTHEZ CASE OF POISONING IN LINCOLNSHIRE. —The lives of not fewer than 15 or 16 persona have been placed in jeopardy,' near Skirbeck, in Linadnabire, by poison. A farmer, named Broedberry, resides with his family at a farm near Cowbridge-bar, in *thirtieth. On Thursday last, Mr. Broadberry, with 16 men, was engaged thrashing corn in the barn at the rear of his farm house. During the forenoon of that day Mr. Broadberry gave dine tions to one of his servants to treat the men to hail-a-pint of ale each. Accordingly, • quantity of ale was drawn from a barrel by Mrs. Broadberry, which bad been in the house about • fortnight. The beverage having been conveyed to the barn, Mr. Broad berry was the first person who partook of any, and, afterwards the men had each their portion given to them, which was drunk, and the bands resumed their work. In the coxing of half an hour afterwards symptoms of the most alarming character set in. At tint • slight irritation was felt by everyone who had drunk of the ale, and burning of the throat and stomach speedily ensued, and in about twenty minutes after the whole party was seised with violent vomiting and cramps. The utmost consternation then en geed, as it was qoite apparent thate unfortunate men were Pairing from the effects of som e deleterious drug. The atrial alacrity was displayed in sending for medical assist ance, and forthwith Mr. Walter Clegg, • surgeon, and several other gentlemen were in attendance. Owing to their inde fatigable exertions the whole cattle sufferers, with the excep tion of a man named Burrows, recovered sufficiently to be pronounced out of danger. That party, it ap pears, drank about twice as much as any of the Oben, which so affected biro that he still remains fa am exceedingly precarious condition. The exact muse of the catastrophe remains at present enveloped in mystery. The ale remaining in the barrel has since been analysed by Mr. Clegg. the surgeon. Mr. Broadberry states that he ha occasionally drunk a small portion of it at his meals, and that he frequently experienced a strange taste in his month afterwards, accompanied by a burning sensation. The pitcher used is conveying the ale to the barn, it issued, underwent a careful cleaning before receiving the liquid. The first supply of ale sent in the pitcher was found to be insufficient for all the workpeople. Oise of the wean% therefore, accompanied Mrs. Broadberry back to the farm house, and saw the beverage poured out; and be consequently had an opportunity of seeing that no thing deleterious was added to the same. The keys of the alehouse were always kept by Mr. Brothberry, or his wife, so that it seems mat extraordinary how anything pr seem could have got into the ale. The following is Su. Walter Cleitg's medical certificate respecting the case:— " October 29. 1860.-1 have most carefully analysed a quan tity of ale forwarded to me by Mr. Taxford, and drain by him from the barrel which contained the suspected Uglier. There is nothing whatever of a poisonous or deleterious nature in the said ale. The fact is, however, undoubted that several nok i persons were severely affected with symptoms of a poisoning. I have myself been in attendance upon six of the sufferers, one of whom is not at present out of dense. It is tolerably certain that the ale which th ese people inesllowed contained arsenic but I am certain the !knee became poisonous after it had been drawn from the --t&laseto—W.gass Ciao°, Burgeon," &e.