The Express. — London, England, 1850-11-16 00:00:00

aT. MICHAEL, COMMA LONDON.—Att • memorous sad Islitirporspestalde MUTING of the Mai- AIM of Ws prieb i ltelit be the Vestry U as Friday the lin Dovomben. The lww. TIMM WILLIED 1/110Mil, the Zeoese, In the ,shalr It on mend by ltr. Deputy Ilentess, smooled by Ms. Han dloooa. mid mend easolhowel .11ot It le Or spleen ed Ws seem IMMIt le the 0 added but sod loyil seligrOmi be Ism as poop Somolos et shis ma" at are 0 phut Z0 . :0 6 1 talg u WM aim So mot isposima 0, pan dOm Pep sr I.l ll e idigje r dll. brd ma i = of kires * by WAN Omdem sod menu, semlusit omillmudp—Mbit Ills Opel had MOW mama truned her Mot Ormism the Qom : ▪lO MOT OUCIOUS MAJ VICTOILL‘ by the et Qum at Great Britaia nil Inlaid, Defender of the Key It Me , ehureh ese yourw erdann Itsjeety ▪ we. the rector end inhabitants of the :whit of Coruhin. in Use e..ty of Losdan. desire dutifully to apemen nor Majesty with the resume* at oar ardent loyalty to year awe end ear devoted otieslneet to your pawn. Mmardtsi your Manny se the spume Moil of the Aar* sad the inateht of harm within these your domiuloos, we Del It to be our duty to minis to year MOW, our abhorrence of the mood at. tempt el the Pope elle= M lapse on this free eaten • kelp etelonweing prlonietion. so basally pny your Wapory, without delay, to direst mei tommoros to be Were so may tend most effectorily mint all ije on the hints. trehth esti prerogative , of hear Da- St . to prornote sad ear pruteeteat fastitutiens la bonny sod purity." It was mewed, owerdeoh sod meolved, that the non nontimes be Warta la the mast monies: sea Melee ...r.oru The thanks et the meeting doe then unstnimou promoted to the So. the Rector, foe Ms condast fa dm chair. 'war 11014% Vestry Clerk. Vitt. entreoA. TO CORRESPONDIDITS. Owned bedew of Outgoing Malta will. future, be bond nadir lbe howl at Shipping hieetelonowits intended for " The Espies,. Loneon Vowing pew, mot to is the 011ie, 10. Bouronwetreet, by Two o'clock as the day at yobashios. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE• Tiro DiT—Monble, Ilk. 32a. Afternoon, Int. O. Te.mmOW —minim is. is.. ..thaso" 1 111 . 33E12. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16. Nevita was anything so much wanting in this country as what is called a Peace Society. Oar good public is in the habit of troubling ite head or putting out its feelers even for the gathering of infor mation upon soy foreign subject or dispute until it produces or threatens war. With the tint blast of the trumpet weget excited, and everyone desires ft know what is the matter. But before the war-signal' has sounded, who cares for or inquires into the cue? Now a society which had for its object the mainte nance of peace, and the making of such inquiries into those iniquities, ambitions, and oppressing, which lead to war, would have for its first duty to acquire jut ideas on all those subjects which are really sealed to the nation, which form the private domain of diple. macy, and which, in the midst of the mass of popular ignorance on the subject, the journals are at HMV to misrepresent, as it may suit their own or patrons' whims. A society, formed from amongst the most think ing aid philanthropic of the middle climes, and led by men to whom these chimes look up—this society, taking . pains to acquire a just knowledge of the greet questions of foreign policy, and to arrive at just conclusions respecting them, making known their knowledge and their conclusions to the public, would do more for peace, and for England's taking up in Europe the right position to maintain peace, and to favour that constitutional freedom on which peace is beet founded, than the few bald speeches, got up and spoken by such dilettanti members of parliament as deign to give ten minutes' consideration and research to the faire of Europe. Somi hundreds of Englishmen have been at Frank fort, and there held a Congress of I'. ace. The object they went for brought them not merely to Germany, but placed them in immediate communication with the most intelligent Gerinans,with men neither absolutists nor democrats, but with those best able to judge, and least lately to misrepresent the state of this country. Why, this is an immense gain. Instead of trusting to dandy trevellers, " our own correspondents," Foreign-office mnisearies, or merely mercantile travel lers with their eyes on the price of funds and com modities, the British public have men to whose voice and judgment they can appeil for an opinion on the great questions of peace or war, constitution alism or despotism in Germany. The British press is, we are sorry to say, for the most part utterly untrustworthy on question', or even facts, of foreign policy. On all domestic matters our journals dare not go very wrong, and dust not per vert the truth to any dangerous or extravagant de lint of foreign politics they presume that no one knows anything save themselves, and that they may go on fur months representing affairs and movements so as to please • Russian or an Austrian patron, treating the Jono M 0.,. public as if it was composed of children or idiots, so barefaced and persistent is their daily mendacity and imposition. If representatives of our middle classes were to go abroad and see for themselves, this could not be much longer done. We all have seen what has been reported and asserted and argued in the matter of the difference between Denmark and the duchies of Schleswig-Hol tein. People have read Chronicle and Times; and people will read Lord WERTYOSELAND'S and Mr. Wesee's despatches in a blue book. And to judge from which, as set down there, the Schleswig-Holsteiners are no doubt Jacobins and Socialists, without the lust right or pretension to homily; whilst the Danes are angels. Now, however, businesslike Englishmen have one from Frankfort to the scene of strife, Mr. Emu BURRITT, a man whose Christian feelings do not preclude much shrewdness; Mr. Sreeral, whose acquaintance with popular and political ques tions need not be characteriaed; Mr. WHEELER, a resident in Norwich, who trades in that commodity which the duchies chiefly produce. Well, these gen tlemen have been to Kiel, and have visited the duchies; they have gone to Copenhagen, and con versed with the ministers there, as well as with the leading and popular men on both sides. Now we should recommend the British public to hear the opinion of these men, and to give that opinion its due weight on a question, respecting which they have hitherto received information almost exclusively from Lord Pouseastote's agents, who ars all, to a man, ultra-Write in that quarter of the werid,cs from the agents of the soi-diront libsul pewe e The merely echo the opinion of three diplemalkb. We can easily conceive why these jeans* these organs of tory and absolutist diplomacy, should open all their batteries of ridicule and abuse upon the Peace Society, and expose its delegates aid orators ; for these gentlemen have been really poach ing upon what has hitherto been the exclusive manors of their excellencies and their "own cone. epondents." They are sot only poaching, but throw ing down the fume which surround these immense of ignorance. They are bringing the public in to hunt the game of information and political facts themselves, and they are, in fact, destroying the sport and the monopoly of these diplomatic sad journalistic exclusives. The fact is, that foreign politics will never be na aerstood in this country until the middle chime um to take an interest in, and have a knowledge of them, as well as they have of the great questions of domestic politics. When our middle elapses do this, and come to regard the questions which agitate Europe, and which affect us with regard to Euroge, in a humane, a liberal, and a commercial point of view, instead of 1 allowing them, as at present, to be treated diplomati cally—then, and not till then, will British statesmen and British journals be compelled to treat these goes Lions in common fairness and in a liberal spirit. And then, and not till then, will the English government assume a respectable position, acquire rever ence, and wield a real, and at the same time a pacific, influence in Europe. If we have little influence or weight at present, it is because it is known end seen, that our foreign policy is the mere attribute of oar Foreign-office, which more often gulls the public than makes use of its intelligence and sup port. In nine cues out of ten our diplomacy expresses anti-national opinions, and abets anti-English and anti liberal interests. And foreigners see, that whilst a liberal majority exerts its influence in parliament I on domestic legialatios, an illiberal and aristocratical minority amongst us disposes of cur foreign system. Nothing can mote tend to correct this pernicious state of things than Peace Societies and meetings, specially those which will actually go to hold their settings abroad, in the heart of that very Europe, whole welfare and peace they have at heart. The men who went last year to Frankfort have drawn closer liske between England and Germany than all the diplomatic agents that have been mutually accre dited in both countries. And from the delegates who visited Copenhagen and Kiel, we shall gather a c lea rer Wight into the great Soandinevian and Osman THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1850. quarrels than ail the blies may eider, Gan afford. There am few writers atbafm that " kneeled " bserledg• is pe so mash as igaoranee, other's mats and righter and the organ of all dope If all aationslineweach cello game toe each others of meat sack ethers pride, take, and by that mutual respect, which prevails in private life. smi Whisk readers it so universally polite sad ozz ". away the prejudices sad asperities nos from mos, then we might hope for the universal pmes which diplomatists have never given, and that Idega have never kept. IS Waning to the Tory important osbjoet of re fortalis the common law procedure of Weetmineter Hell, we shall endeavour to make our remarks in telligible to laymen as well u lawyers. We believe, indeed, the lawyers are in earnest, but we want the public also to be on the alert. No profession can safely be trusted to reform itself; even the wholesome influence of terror is not adequate to the purpose ; it can only supply the wish; it cannot ensure the ability, for procuring an efficient and comprehensive change. The ablest and most unprejudiced of professional men can never wholly shake off the spell of the idola tribal—the influences of a system which it has been the main task of their intel lects to muter, and the chief business of their lives to administer. The practitioner of the law must unlearn half his mental habits before he can qualify himself to be its reformer. When all is done, his ten dency will still be to preserve PO much of the old as seriously to endanger the efficient working of the new. We have every respect for the gentlemen of whom the common law commission is composed; we know them to be able, we believe them to be zealous ; but they are human, and therefore not infallible; they are lawyers, and therefore must be closely watched when assuming to act as law reformers. Besides, even taking for granted the utmost measure of com bined honesty and ability in the commissioners, and making all due allowances for the force of salutary fear in the profession at large, is it quite clear that there will be no recalcitrancy in nigh places ? Will those " sages of the law," who have been the oracles and the originators of the existing system, quietly submit to its extinction without a struggle F Will no voice from the Exchequer be raised on behalf of special demurrers P Can tee judi cial mind be expected to give up with resignation ell the luxury of logical chicane—to forego unmurmur ingly the privilege of exercising the astutest wit, in defeating the justest claims, and overruling the most righteous defences? As a security against even remote contingencies we think it would be desirable to enlist, it possible, the force of enlightened public opinion on the side of the law reformers. Oar faith in Westminster Hall is great, but our faith in the common sense of England, when it can fairly be called into play, is greater still. The difficulty is to bring it to bear on such subjects as the present. The practical English intellect is apt to be imposed upon by the maxim, Clique in tau art* credendunt est, —a maxim which, according to the sense in which its terms are understood, may be either a truism or a fallacy; " credit every member of a craft with special skill in the promises which that craft professes to teach,ft—euch is the truism; " credit him with supe rior honesty acd ability when the question is whether those processes are not tad, and whether better could set be substituted in their stead,"—such is the fallacy. If I want to know in what way I can best avail my self of the existing rules of law, I place implicit cre dence in my lawyer; if I want to know whether those Tales are good or bad, and how they are to be amended, I shall not, if I am a wise man, allow myself to be deterred by any cry that he may raise from endeavouring for myself to gain some kind of insight into a question in the practical solution of which I am so deeply interested. There is no part of the law to which these remarks are more applicable than to that system of written pkedings, the absurdity of which is the great disgrace of the existing proce dure. We venture to say, that the principles upon which the whole question of an efficient Worm of our present system of pleading turn are within the reach of every plain intellect, without the expenditure of any painful degree of attention. If I have a claim or complaint which I wish to en gem against a fellow citizen before a legal tribunal, it is the plain dictate of common sense that I must give my opponent and the court some notice of my grounds of claim, or my grounds of complaint: if the question be what kind of notice ? the answer would plainly appear to be, such notices' may let my opponent know what l 1101 aiming at, so far as to enable him to weake his answer, if he have any, or to admit my ground of claim or complaint, if he have not; my opponent's answer, it is equally clear, must be such as in a similar way to give such notice of the nature of his intended defence ss to enable me either to de pute or admit its validity ; and so on through the varying alternations of affirmation on one side and dental or admission on the other. Notice of the grounds of claim or complaint on one side, and of the grounds ,j defence on the other, sufficiently clear and explicit to male each party to prepare jor trial of their cause on its merits—each is the sole litigant object of those written statements by litigant parties, which in our system are technically called " plead ings." All that can be reasonably required is that each litigant should be informed of the points to be contested with such en amount of certainty, as while it does not logically exclude all possibility of misconception or doubt, shall yet convey to the mind the fequisite information with the same freedom from ambiguity as is found amply sufficient in all the other tutees lions of human life. In all the varied relations of civil society—in the family, or in the world—es buyers and sellsee—al bettors on the tort or specu lators on the emebamgemien are content so to express their meanies as to be matasily intelligible, without seeking to be tssameadsidal macerate. Everywhere dm am is supposed to psalms the gift of ordinary sem amil ammo understanding; why should he be deprived is a court of justice alone of all credit for even common intendment?—why this forensic fiction of universal imbecility in the eye of the law ?—this selfetaltification according to the rules of pleading? why should the litigant alone be under a Matutable disqualification for the exercise of those average powers of apprehension which every other member of the community in every other transaction of life is inva- I viably credited with possessing? In the great forum of common sense what can be said in defence of a system of pleading which, instead of being directed to the plain and simple object of intelligible notice, compels each party to make such a statement as shall show on the face of it every legal requisite that the most rigorous technicality can require, and further shall be conceived in such language as logically to exclude all infernos, contrary to, or even Inconsistent with the precise meaning which scientific accuracy requires to be conveyed; and all this on the pain of having the libels merits and justice of the cue sacrificed to a sees failure in corn plying with the weeniest agave of these Draw = dialectics? Yst ma is the famous system of the new rules: a system whirls bat the other day was extolled in Westminster-hall= moot the crown ing achievements of human mins% whisk now an seseeely find an advocate save in NM *lda pleader, Wily straggling against his 11111141111111 of speedy &bo ld., or in some learned baron quondam at the ap paashing loss of an intellectual exellimmit. The wonder in feet is not that cod a medial ad procedure should now be given up by_ minim mihmemb esneent, but thatit ahoold avechare beele permitted so hug to trifle with the patinaee and spat with the dabs. of this great mercentile community. Let the ellusissioners be well mewed that they cannot satiety the exigency of the times, or the awakened good sines of the public by anything less unit a total 'abolition of this bad method of procedure. Their work will be impeded male. lay down the broad principle that rasseasitly ' ligible notice, and not logical and scientific sompiste• nem of statement, is the great point to be alma at in pleading. If the notice given be really imsediebiat for the purpose of swahlimi Me appease* le lagabe; into the case and mute hie dame. he power be given to go belbre a judge he the ef saw palling a fast and more numb . As a essurity that thia should not be deas winked, sad pumas of delay, let the sods of the application is every case the penalty paid for its failure. With Beglish mind, especially the 'testi= legal mind. is fend of precedent, and loves to take edge under the safe shelter of experience. In adoptiag the course proposed, this species of consolation will not he altogether wands the precedent referred to, in deed, is not ancient, but it has been fairly tried and paupersd. But a very few years bask, thep of England had the mis deal= to have their rights of settlement ad judicated upon by the same syrem of strict teehnieality which still decides the fortunes of their wealthier fellow citizens ; the system of special de murrers bad made its way into parochial law ; every legal requisite of settlement was required to be stated with a completeness that left nothing to be under stood, and a logical strictness that could defy every refinement of cavil. The result war, that all regard to the merits of the case was wholly merged in the attention paid to the adequacy of the statement, and the question whether a pauper was settled in Pea -1 sauce or Pearith was made to turn on the omission of a preposition or the insertion of an article. Then same the re-aotion,--common-eense took the alarm; the chairmen of quarter sessions filled the house with asps^ and Mr. Beim carried his bill for the amendment of procedure on the trial of appeals. This act, together with the amplest powers of amendment at the trial, so as to suit the real nature of the case, provided that the litigant parishes should respectively send short grounds of removal and of appeal, the sole test of whose sufficiency should be that they should enable the opposite party to inquire into the facts of the case, and prepare for the trial of ths What was the consequence of this enactment? Why, that speculative litigation in parochial matters earns wholly to an end, that but few appeals compare. tively are now tried, and these few almost entirely on their merits. What Mr. BAINES has done for parishes and paupers we ark the commissioners to do for all the subjects of these realms whose rights are regulated by the common law of England : tntelligi64 181611. slutead of prolix and unintelligible statement. dart grounds of claim and defence instead of unwieldy de. elaratione and interminable pleas—these are moat the first of those measures of reform which, on beth& of the community at large, we would most urgently press on the attention of the common law commis sioners. FRANCE. PARid, FRIDAY EVENING. The following important notice appears in the Constitationnet :" The government augments by four regiments the military division of Btruboarg. We need not say that this arrangement indicates no charge in the policy of the government. It is merely a mea sure of precaution in presence of the eventualities of Germany. The cabinets of Vienna and Berlin seem to incline to a policy of conciliation. But the population in Prussia continues to be greatly agitated." A letter received this morning by a representative states that the largest ship in the French service, the Valmy, narrowly escaped being consumed by fire at sea. The powder magazine blew up and kille.l2o persons. All the interior of the ship Is destroyed. The Valmy has however reached Brest, where she will be repaired. The motion of the questers relative to the Assem bly's special commissary of police threatens to throw down the flimsy structure of reconciliation built on the President's message. The danger of this ques tion, as far as ripping up the newly-cemented peace is concerned, lies lees in the disposition of parties than in the fatal chain of facts, which is such as to make collision inevitable, with even the best inclina tion on both sides to avoid it. M. Cartier, instrument of the resentment of the Elyse., struck the protege of the Assembly with a suddenness which has called out the old grudge in all its bitterness. The recent tri umph of the parliament in forcing General Changar nier's order of the day upon the government, has given it a consciousness of its supremacy, which can not be with impunity called afresh in question. It will have reparation for this affront by gathering to itself a portion of the power which is invested in the prefect of police. It will establish an independent police authority. The admission of such an encroach ment on the pert of the executive would be a new concession, of which the effect materially, as well as morally, would be fatal to its authority, and equivalent to an abdication by piecemeal. On the other hand, the Assembly will not quietly pocket a alight which would blunt the effect of its recent vic tory. The difficulty of arriving at an arrangement is enhanced by the surp!ising esprit de corps which is exhibited by the legislative on all questions which teach its dignity and privilege. Dupin himself has taken up such a decided attitude of protection towards the faithful commissary who gave him the informa tion of the dire plot for his assassination, that it is vain to think of the questors, led by the impetuous Base, dropping their motion. It is generally believed that not only will it be taken into consideration, but passed by an overwhelming majority. If, as is Armed to well-informed quarters, MM. Barone and Coeliac have hinted their intention to resign, in the bee of such an issue, it is impossible to see where the consequences may stop. Meanwhile, M. Yon has written the following letter to the Contitutionnel, which, together with the comments of that paper, forms the only bit of news to-day worth sending: It is attempted, in an article of your journal of this day, to show that I communicated to the PIIIIII/141It Committee a minute, which at a later period I placed in the heads of the presume of the republic. The author of this amide was misinformed. I never had the imam of making say sass. raualeation to the Pereassent Committee . Darin ins gees rogation, the series of polies took place as before. Imo menhir I gave to the prmideat sad the quotas a s = of the reports famished by the made paid by the had the amembly, as has been done for the two yeses sad a YE doing whisk I have been charged with the spoils' senies of the trembly. As to the minute, when it was ONINIEEMP 'MEd to the president—for it is a consequence of my spoil and easepdasel position, to traeamit arthing which had nee c leadj ai peassel ander his ”as—the president gave It me act is enfomity with the law, and half ea li Mss oar afterwards this document was in the:hands of the Crar of the republic. Seek is the truth, mid sun has y soonest The 9posiel Commissary of Police, Tote. The oommentaryof the Constitutional is astrllows X. Yea pretends that we have wreagfally Owned him with hubg esmanatestet te the Ponasneat Committee a Vi'Peel whisk bead mat sto stud afterwards deliver in lna of Os esenedene tba gepahliti. That le Est wW pe mid. Be miles a ibibeas betwesa the peal. AM owl the queues ea lbr ems IS* sod the POINNIBEISI Clemmltees ea the ether. sod &dens that he bed weer had Ile Mew to make say semisanketlea to the Perumwtemll Oemmilbes Bat it Is very stride's that in Misers the peer dime gni his queues ere the Committee of ota Pereopozes i slash diS rattees sour oad with Bo reneffilbsery swoon threw& s the nahissie nt aid neaside the lienstees. The dbilailles is, therefore, ridisoleos. U. Yea dee draws war illethrtios between his mods sad the preale wind agar. The reports is questiss are, in this ams7r, th is ass point. It was by then that lammed= of die of the sesemlas wee tank kaowd. As to the ▪ /tat, It is a mem formality. It is, therefore, alsilldled that the revelation of the :dot was made at the draw if the PermaneatCommitme held on the eth inst. Aid hen whoa wore the fees Antral ? Evidently from X Yea. They were published is the iiomwsh of Me 7th. Now, ea what dap was the prsedoess4el et Nat, that is to my, probably *pea sad parerrephed at sub pegs, delivered to the pro. =et therepotlit@ 1 , It was sot delivered to blm anti' these *Week is the aftereoce of the 9th. We to KAM whether what we state is mot correct. H a e lP t e s a il barker made a report at hest ea the 6th Wt., if MN be. to Why did IN met pat his presser verbs' en Jest oa the mete day ? Why did be alkow ea interval et thee* days to dope between the oral or written report which made knees the ask sad the pores serial whisk was only the wheelie Weida of the deelesstiea t If, la that iaterval, the Pre sident agr isu erweral Cliseparnier had been nemeolasted = mho drew the letter D or the letter C, en the reephodhllity have rested ? Would diem bese el M. Yes, win wee eedy shamed with the isterael prize'. et the Asseinbly, or se 11. Caller, who is abused with the road pollee li the eLy and of the t ? BY open baying boo node, it was the duty ol de r 7ro l el i te Imo oroverted tale a procir wades lest >r 11. he been eswerallwilestssid, set se ped a l o pp T om peweresr-geoerel of the peentellOsemelew r Mani X. es follow a more regular tai Roessabs In each on imperrmat eale.V6 llllll 7LEmt appears to no to be bladed • Se the gereeoment say this riming Oat the quells d M.Va will not be beenght befde; thibilfee/n The government has no intention whatever ,ail" 4imoschig Carlin. Interviews have taken planato-dat hawses the Committee and M. Baroebe, hod led to no settlement of the question. The Assembly', *ling of to-day lasted only on hoar, and was eentpletely destitute of importance. The first reading ed the bill for organising the govern ment of Algeria was on the order of the day. M. l 'Paesy complained that General d'Hautponl had sp. teenatioally kept back from the Committee all means basin a eempleee report. General Schramm de clared that he wed solar from wishing to imitate his predecessor in this teepee, that he should give the , Committee every facility in hie power. hf.d• Tingay had presented a proposition to modify the electoral law, according to which the electoral list shall be drawn up by the mayor, sitting in the mnni cipal council, assisted by two delegates for each com mune, by the council-general of the department. On that list shall be inscribed ex-officio and in alphabetical order. Ist, all Frenchmen aged 21, in possession of all their civil and political rights, and having resided in the canton for three years at least ; and 2nd, those who, not having attained, when the list wu formed, all the conditions of age and domicile, flail have ac quired them before it is definitively clo sed. The proof of the conditions mentioned above is left to the judg ment of the municipal council and the delegates. The report of the committee of parliamentary initiative, on a proposition presented by MM. Dufour nel, Chapot, Pascal Daprat, Chaper, De Vatry, De Larcy, and other representation, having for object to authorise the Minister of Public Works to concede: I. The railway from Paris to Lyons; and 2. The line from Lyons to Avignon, to two distinct companies, to be formed by public and direct subscriptions, was yesterday distributed to the members of the Assem bly. The committee has taken the matter into serious consideration, but it leaves it to the Assembly to de cide whether it @hail be referred to the committee on the budget, which has already under examination the original bill of the government. The majority of the bureaux were favourable to the law on the national guard. M. Dubois, who has just been made director general of the administration of war, occupied a con spicuous poet, as military intendant during the Roman expedition, and took the chief part orga nising the pontific al army. The Mon deur contains a circular to the proaureurs generaux for the purpose of defeating frauds in marriage contracts. The committee on M. Charoix's duel has adopted unanimously the report of M. !airline, which is against authorising the prosecution of the Mountain deputy. The Council'of State held sittings on the 12th,13th, and 14th, in which it continued to discuss the bill on internal administration, and adopted, with delibera tion of urgency, two bills proposing the purchase of the shares (actions de jouissanee) of the company of the Qnatre-Cenaux, and of the canal of the Rhone- Rhine. The sequestration placed on the railway of &minx has been removed by a decree of the executive. M. de Bartiges, minister in Persia, is to replace, at I the court of Athens, M. de Thonvenel, who is ap pointed at Munich, in the room of M. Armand de Lefebvre, called to succeed M. de Persigny at Berlin. The metallic reserve cf the bank of France has de clined 11 millions in Paris, and increased in the provinoes. The discount-accommodation ha, increased in Paris three quarters of a million, and in the pro vinces to about the same extent—the amount of the former being 50,952,191fr. ' and the latter 83,698,618 francs. The protested bills show a further decline, being at present only 679,639 fr. On the, side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have increased two millions in Paris, and about one quarter of a million in the provinces. The account-current of the treasury remains nearly as it was, the present amount being 48,254,689 fr. Private accotinta current have fallen off about two millions in Paris, and increased three quarters of a million in the provinces—the amount of tee former being 67,608,142 fr., and the latter 26,089,351 fr. The whole amount of the metallic re serve is now 442; millions, to 3091 millions of notes in circulation. lot s. Aecood PARIS , , Nov. 13. Far Mossy. lOpekias therm. Unrest. anise. - - - - - I par Onto. P9S NI • 31) 0 37 NI 57 90 3 tar Nate. 93 20 9310 92 23 93 3 93 23 s do. New Insos . ~ n n n n fi pet Oasts. n n n n I per Own. n . 90 .... .... a ..,.. ll9 ~ Meammo an image s at dint. 26 121 i 90 day, " rt rat 60 Maw Naples Banta Money 961 Roman Loan MO 78 Do. 49 ..... 69 Do. 1830 Do. 24 Piedmont 6 per OWL 84 Beak Mane 2300 Boungn.—St. Germain, 387 50 ; Venallles (right bank), 155; Vassals' (lett hat , k), 137 60; Paris sod Orleans, 785; Paris and R.)11411. 610; Rouen and Havre, 245; Mar stifle, and Avignon, 175; Strasbourg and Bale, 123 76; Orleans and Vie►son, 362 60; Orleans and Bordeaux, 387 60; North, 460; Paris and Struboarg, 342 60; Tours and N►ntee, 242 60. the blue books, which parliament regard to Use powers of weeding the written state- Hord. meats as the trial, let them be full and ample, writers who hai: whoa "Ok it diza rt' t ° thlttlt to 44°t°1° knowledge is power : - we of, Revere with o thet and never peac e War • not reftisiddiag so ez thieldlaietrazltkelv, ince, from peopl • of wineglass., of the- sot the, rights ;an • • which to loogreended, the oppcsite 15 i has alldespotie en fae4 snlled ,and'va Mei the- eac othOrintiataTely, cbuld mai • humid! for the triaL In such imam it trial th others weaknesses, admire instead be postponed to some future day, the wets of the we pride, b• prepared to give as W amendment aid the delay- to -he• paid by the-party hat mutual discwslon and social throu g h whow fault they. have lsseg tendered neon- • GERMANY. CONTINUED MILITARY PREPARATIONS. Notwithstanding the easuranoes of the acceptability of the proposals carried by Count Donhoff to Vienna, 'the want of a definite knowledge of the character of those propositions, and especially of such as might 'relate to the projected Austrian intervention in Hol stein, gives occasion to great excitement in Berlin, an excitement each (our correspondent states) as has not been known since the revolution. The army is indignant at the ides of the national humiliation, which it fears in the result of the present negotia tions. General Oroeben has resigned his command. Austria is urging the advance of 30,000 men to to Holstein. Lettere from Vienna, of the 10th, state that not only Radetsky,but General Schoohals, so energetically pro tested against Prince Sehwarzenberg's arbitrary treat ment of Prussia, and produced so many letters from general and staff officers asking for appointments in the Italian army, to avoid fighting against Prussia, that a courier has been sent to Bavaria to prevent the further northerly march of the Austrians. We are without news from the Prussian head quarters. From Cassel we have letters of the 12th, stating that the road from that city to Fulda was clear of the federal troops. Even the Frankfort papers now withdraw the report that the federal troops had entered Cassel. It was not until the 13th that one division was ordered to proceed by Hunted to Bebra. The journalists of both parties now exert them selves to refer the late collision to secondary causes, each party blaming the carelessness of the other. The federal troops in and around Bamberg re ceived orders on the 9th to pursue their march towards Schweinfurt and Kissinger. Two battalions left the next day, and during the following night considerable transports of artillery and ammunition traversed the town. We learn from Munich, under dote November 10, that the Minister of War had repaired to Tegernsee, to invest Prince Charles with the chief command of ' the Bavarian army. The entire military force was immediately to be made mobile, and all absent officers and troops were at once to join their standard. The government has issued en order similar to that of the Prussian mi nister, forbidding all telegraphic communications on the movements of the troops. The Saxon army is being concentrated in the neigh bourhood of Groseenhain, a small town not far from the Prussian frontier, and eastward of the junction of the Dresden and Leipsio railways to Berlin. Pre parations are wilting to meet the Austriano, who had arrived at Iltrnischkretsehen, and who would gar rison Dresden if the Saxon troops were despatched thence. _ . . . . Accounts from the Bohemian frontier of the 9th state that on that day a regiment of cavalry, with artillery, entered Brannan. Three regiments of infantry, with artillerY, were also to be sent towards the frontiers of Silesia. It is stated from Carlsruhe of the 10:6, that all the Baden troops in Prussian garrisons had been recalled, while the alogne Gazelle gives news from the same place to the 12th, announcing positively that Prussia had, on her side, recalled all her troops from the grand duchy, even those who occupied the federal fortress of Itastadt, which will be entrusted to Baden troops. The Prussians were very reluctant to leave the duchy, and the entire population and the army were greatly excited by the policy of the Berlin cabinet. The Grand Duke had issued an earnest pro clamation to his army. The official paper of Carlsruhe of the 12th, announces a fresh prolongation of the state of siege for four weeks. The Senate of Hamburg hu received notice from Vienna that, during the proposed intervention in Holstein, it will probably be desirable, on strategetio grounds, to garrison that city with Austrian troops. It was confidently reported in Vienna, on the 11th, that the Wnrtemberg government had applied for the support of Austria against the apprehended resist ance of the nation to the late coup d'etat. Beaux, Nov. 14.—Voluntary Loan , 1021 ; New Loan, Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 98; National Debt, 801; Commercial Marine Society's Premium, 119 ; Beak Shares, 881. VIENNA, Nov. 13.—Five pm Cent. Metalliques, 931; Four-and-a-Halt per Cents., ditto, 811. Bank Shares, 1 1,165. Etchings on London, 12.18. THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE OF ELECTORAL HESSE. The following address hu been circulated among the German merchants at Minchester " The Germans in England have followed with admiration the noble bearing of the Hessian people in their present state of oppression, and they believe, above all, to owe • tribute of soknowledgment to the officers of the brave army, who brought as • MC:MG to their fatherland their individual interests, aye, even their own and their families very exist ence, by refusing, at the command of the government, to violate the constitution which they had sworn faithfully to maintain and defend. Several of their compatriots in Eng land have therefore formed themselves into a committee, fur the purpose of raising a fund, which is destined to lend a helping hand and relieve the pressing necessities of those heroic champions of right and justice." The handsome sun of 1,1001. was immediately subscribed by 78 merchants, and • copy of the address, with a list of the subscribsn, was forwarded to Lendon. It circulated Conte. nasally yesterday afternoon on 'Change, when about 3001. were subscribed by several German houses, and it is rxpected that not only every German in England, but also every Hogileheitan who sympathises with the constitutional and noble, though hitherto unfortunate resistance of the Hessian people, will contribute his mite towards this timely testi tooniaL AU subscriptions will be received at the counting. house of Mown. Schanck, Sonehay, end Co., 64, Moorgate street, London. BURGLARIES AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—The town of Chapel en Is Frith. Derbyshire, .as early on the morning of Tuesday, the sth Instant, the scene of a series of burglaries, which, for boldness of design and audacity of 4 esecutioo, ars seldom equalled; but which, fortunately for the unfortunate victims, were pot in any ow attended with muck pecuniary loss. Not the slightest trace of the depra , dears could be found the next morning; bat, about half- past seven o'clock at night, Mr. Thomas Shepley, currier, ' went down to his " &ippon," which adjoins the lower end of the church-yard, for the purpose of milking ; when he came , to unlock the door he found that as lock bad been broken off, and :on entering the " shippon" hi found three strange man thirst,. They asked him rather civilly whether he would allow them to remain on th e hay loft all nigh:. He told them he did not know; it was rather unpleasant I. have stringers amongst the tattle and hay daring the night, bat he would consider of it while he milked, for which purpose he sat himself down bride a cow, when on. of the ruffians punched the lantern oat of hie hand. He immediately jumped up and seised one of them, a souffle ensued, and some of the rillaia produced a jenny, or short wow bar, end struck Kr. Shepley a violent blow on the head, which stunned him greatly, but he had sufficient energy left to wrest the WOW bar from the raffia's grasp, when they all three made off in different directions, leaving their victim on the spot bleeding pro fusely. His cries had, however, attracted mime neigh bours to his assistance, and the news having spread with great npidity that a fellow townsman had been thus brutally maltreated, the whole neighbourhood was up in arm, despite the midnight darkness, scouring the country in all directions, and searching every nook or phase . to prove a receptacle for such dastardly villains. The was for a long time abortive, but information was given that two strange charaeten were in hiding in an old forge at Town-end, and off the whole corps of volunteer thief catchers ran, and after a struggle inereeded in capturing the two rangers, and lodging them safely in the lockup, Mr. Shepley halos stated that he believed one was the man who struck him, but he was too ill to give a positive answer. They were brought before the magistrates on Thursday morning, but as Mr. Shepley was unable to leave his bed they were %sanded until the following Saturday. Oa Sa turday they were again brought up, but Mr. Shepley not being able to weer to the men, and it baying been proved that these men had been expelled from another building about the lane time that Mr. Shepley was attacked, they were sot at liberty, after a strong reprimand from the mega bytes for their vagabond way of fife. FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIBS DAMP AT MIKA, SouffltiFians.—Bless, Friday Moraing.—An accident of a mast appaLliag kind wornad here this morning to the coition employed In the Sleek Both Vein pit, at which it • will be f , si an a:platen took place some four or flu yams ages, Weeded by the loss M nearly forty lives. Abets kfaripiine'sieek this morning, and very soon after thif Vidilltuafirifidood_ the pit, a terrible explosion of Ire d a , mp tisk le The aleramease which led to it has Dot pep beenaeseathied, bat it the wailed by f ume disasteese ' =ipaloosok . ,7 B too of tE allow, two of I ellepst 18 years el age, wee killed mar spot, tams B iters have been add eirilleely. *iv! Noe "a 1 *dm Is timed fatally, begat, rat aeleatrepbe boa Fo amed a smilipiettal masatiaa Ikaasiddiat the ladlikboof bead, aid a inatr a Ass oiss impaiebal Sat Ibe saastyaineim, I wIlde• lb qini.ViltepOrpiogiii SWITZERLAND. The definitive result of the elections of Geneva is as follows: College of the city, M. Mayerbrother, radical candidate, 2,929; Gen. Dufour, conservative, 1,700 ; M. James Posy stood only 36th on the list of 44 deputies to choose. College of the right bsok : James Penay, radical, 660 votes ; Duval, conservative, 630. College of the left bank : M. Benit, radical, 1,807. The first conservative candidate obtained only 1,600. The radical list completely succeeded. ITALY. TURIN, Nov. 11. The Opinions announces that the Senator Gioia has been sworn in Minister of Public Instruction, in the place of M. Mama, who has resigned. ' --AWN • n MADRID. Noy. 10. ntinistrystrill prowlet to•the Cortes in the course otthe next week the Whet, &bill on the tariff, and 'Other on the liberty sttbe press. INDIA AND CHINA . We have received by electric telegraph, Trieste, the following summary of Indian intelligence, in szti. cipation of the overland mail : The dates of the last advice, were, Hong-x n . Sept. 27; Calcutta, Oct. 8; and Bbmb i y, O ct. 17. 1, No event of political importance had occurred is India Proper since the departure of the last mill. The hill tribes on the Kobat frontier were ag s h manifesting a hostile disposition, and the pa saag , through their defiles was interrupted. It is again announced that the works on the E. - bay Railway had been commenced. Disaffection and mutinies among the NiraMs 02th. Slements still continue. The Got wee on the point of &put. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the Bth Wet, relates some most atrocious icetanoes of cruelty on the pert of the iberri. One man (a respectable shop keeper) was well nigh cudgelled to death by them. Tb. links of Rignano had returned to Rome. The InatiV, Tatar, had arrived from Africa. Lead buy (writes our correspondent) is not • q ema winter hue, the still milder climate of Fakirs* bias pisiesnended for the health of • serbew eeri heir. Signor Pellegrini has jest titans& from Eigliad, and brings with WM favourable accounts of his operations touch ing the railway from Rome to - Civita Vecchio, which he states to be on the eve of being undertaken, chiefly through the impulse of British capital and industry. With respect to the money market and public securities, the rickety condition of the government and the uneasy position of this coun try, as well as of the whole continent, keep them in an umatidactory stain. Cardinal Berestte, who wee in the provinces, was seat far by his Holiness recently, as an experienced statesman; he excused himself from coming to Rome on account of indisposition, but promised to come in the ensuing mouth. The Minister of Commerce, Jacobin', has received urgent directions, by an ord;ne santissimo of the Pope, to give up the Borromei.palace forthwith, for the use of the Jesuits. The tribunal of commerce has been subjected to the commission of censure, and the greater pert of the empkyls dismissed. The demonstration of pubic feeling with respect to the new taxes has been so marked that the glover* went appears resolved to premed more cautiously with the mend tariff, that upon the professions. The 'notification wee to have been published last week; indeed, it was printed and ready, when the refleotioea of the Minister of Justice induced the government to suspend the measure, since it was urged that the divi sion of profeesiosal teen into categories would i nvo k e world of difficulties, as sometimes an excellent lawyer or doctor, by reason of his health or family affairs, might only be in a limited practice, although his merit was fist-rate. By this tariff advocates were rated at 90 dollars a year, and medical men at 90 dol lars. At the eloideg of the lists at the municipal Mane for the registering of taxable shopkeepers, about threerhundred individuals were found to have pre sented themselves, whereas several thousands altoge ther are calculated as being comprised in Rom. The statue of Penguin* has furnis he d another spigrailn upon the subject of the taxes, punning upon gm nuns of the Minister of Finance, Oalli (Gauls). CI sober hail Oelli a llbe ,rarci tin vial sol Immo per mina*. A horde of Gauls to free us seam, and hardly did Mho, A single OW he. rained our fumes lot a Wm. ing for Peshawar. CHINA. From Hong-Kong we learn that the itutt. gents were getting the better of the imps. rial troops. Numerous bands of robbers were pl ug . dering and burning throughout the province tt Kangsi and Canton, and after the capture of the c if of Kintachan the insurgents had advanced to isat...l 120 English miles of Canton. BORNEO. Intelligence had reached Singapore of a vietcey gained by the Dutch over the Chinese in the Sou river, in Borneo, after a bloody engagement. It was reported that Sir Jamee iir r cioke';Misr:ott to Siam had proved an utter failure. COMMERCIAL. Freights from Hong-Kong to Liverpool, W. In,. Exchange on London, six months' sigh', 6s. Calcutta.—Exchange, 21. I !,d. to 2d. 1 Freights to Liverpool, 3!. Bombay.—Manufactared goods dull. &chug., 2a. ljd. Vie Court. WINDSOR, Nov. 1.5. The Queen walked this morning in the biome, The royal .family took their accustomed cirinits. Albert went out shooting this morning, attend. d ny the Eeei of Morley, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. C. B. Mpg', (7,11441 lion. Charles Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel lion. A. N. and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon A. Gmcbn. The Barth% of Gloucester took leave of the Queen to-day, and quint! the Castle at a quarter-past 12 o'clock, attended by ter lily waiting and Colonel this Hon. G. A. F. Liddell. The bishop of Canterbury left the Castle to-day. The lion. %a Murray and the Hon. Mi., Macdonald have r.lier.t Ise Mon. Miss Paget and the 800. Miss Dawson in their data u Maids of Honour to her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternocn at the Foreign-aloe. It we. atteLded by Lord John Rona!, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Eut of Manto, Sir George Grey. V,sc nant Palmentoa, Eut Grey, the Chancellor of the Egclaquer, Sir Francis Banat Sir John llobhouse, the Earl of Carltsle, the Right. Eq. Henry Libouehere, and the Might Hon. Fox Menlo. 'lt, . _ council sat three hours s►d a half. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Angssh Bruce, ►rrive , l at her residence, Clarence. house, St. JilretVf, at twelve o'clock yesterday, from Fr remora. Her lila; Highome left town at three o'clock in the afternoon, Qs her return to Frogmen. The Oxford University Commission met yesterday at the official residence of the Feat Lot d of the Tremary it Downing•street. Present—The Bishop or Norwich. the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pertihr..ke, the It v. 11. G. Liddell, J. L Dampier, Eaq., the Rev. Profewe the Rev. H. G. S. Johneou, and the Rev. A. I'. &Mil (secretary). Mr. J. A. Macdonald, from Canada, had an inter. view with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colanial•ottice. The Transatlantic Packet-station CoMmissinttl had a meeting yesterday at the office of the B iard of 1 r There were prevent Earl Granville (chairman), II rm W. Cowper, Sir James Gordon, Sir John Burgoyne, and Captain Elterby, and Lord Hobart (secretary 1. General Don J. M. Castro had an interview vi . :a Vi.count Palmerton yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Anderson, M.P. for Orkney, had an interiew at the Treasury with Mr. G. C. L •wis yesterday. Sir John Herschell had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yest.ruay at his official dense in Downing street. _ . . . . Mr. Seymou; from New Zealand, had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey. Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar airs received yesterday at the Colonist cacti. Despitehes here sent off yesterday evening from as Colonial office for the Glover -son of the North :Interim colonaes. Sir George Anderson, Governor of Ceylon, sod Mr. Bonham, Governor of Hong Hone, are at. of to ti created Knights Commanders of the Order of the Bath, and Sir T. Hastings, of the Ordnance Department, and dr. Robinson, many years Card Justine of the Western Dime of Canada, are to be made Commanders of the same order. (Prom Rat night's Glzefte.), FOREIGN -OFFICE, Nova 13.—The Queen hoe ben pleased to !approve of Mr. William Roberts as Conte: at tilargow for the Emperor of Ilayti ; also of Mr. Johann Heinrich Sonnenkalb es Consul at Point de O.U. and Co. limbo for the Free City of Hamburgh ; and also of DA LIU Elias as Vice-Conaal at Hoop Kong for the Republic of Peru WINDSOR, Nov. 13.—Thie day the Right Hot. Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, Knight, Vice-Chancellor of Ear. land, was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of lair Ea. jesty's Most lion. Privy Council, and took his place at rid Board accordingly. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 14.—The naval mcdiii, eluding those for service fn Egypt, for which claims have been preferred prior to dulls% ult., are now ready, and vu be delivered either on personal application at the Admirel;y, between the hours of twelve and two o'clock, or through the staff officers of peneioners in the districts in which the applv cants reside, the staff officers having been requested to loured such written applications. As many parties, who haw 1: various times since the lit of Jane, 1847, ade their int applications for the naval medal, have since changed Mx place of residence, thereby reudering it impouible to 4 e • liver their medals ; all persons who have at any time rain application for the medals enured for the actions At tort in the Gazitte notices of let June, 1847, and 4th June 1848, and who have not yet received them, are hetet! required to forward their present address, and the piut cams of the service for which the said medals ern claimed, to the Secretary of the Medal Committee, Aden' ralty.—By command of their lordships, J. PARKER. THE Polar( BALL—This instal frothily, pro- noted chiefly by Lord Dadley Stuart, the profits of zhA are devoted to the nee of the destitute Polish resew it England, was held on Thursday evening, at the Gaddh•li when a large and fashionable company mumbled. The de coratiou of the great hall were similar to those which tiel given brilliancy to the recent banquet in the same plaet and certainly the hundreds of kindly persons who patronise! the jets were rewarded by meeting u gay and faehiouble throng as ever made a ball room look cheerful. The lam of dancing must have been gratified to their hearts' complete content, whilst those who eschewed the more active prom of the evening's entertainment were regaled with the palm sight of hundreds of well-dressed people enjoying themeelm impend, and with a concert, vocal and instrumental; Ps' pared in the council chamber. At this • company of Ko . ' Ilimional ladies and gentlemen, including Miss D o lby, MIA. Angel, Miss Menent, Miu Busano, Mir Bamford, Nc Allen, Mr. Lindsay Slope?, Mr. T. Williams, and Mrl 4o, who gave their services gratuitously, assisted; sad rewarded by sa hearty a reception as their clever sad got roue services deserved. Altogether the Polish ' year meet be regarded as very successful when its object is remembered, and when lusted that the festivities are held in the to brilliant hall of the largest city in the world, patrons are the Elite of the citizens, assisted charitable denizens of the more atistocratio THE PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSE FUND. Sion, one of the most valuable emongst the and supported by the working printers of we are glad to hesr, in a vary flourishing k building will, in the course of a few moi receive inmates. An Endowment Fund established in connexion with the lustiest: handsome sums have been subscribed. Dramatic Society have engaged the Strand Intend to give a performance in aid of this I effort, which deserves a hearty response at la printing trade and of the friends of the institution• APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of t passed their examination in the soignee and eine, and received certificates to practise. oa 14:—William Draper, New Zealand ; Charles Yorkshire ; George Willis, Florence Court, In ' SUISIDE ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN Mr. W. Carter, the coronor for East Surrey quest at Mr. Smith's, the Two Brothers Tas.- Battersea-661dr, upon the body of Mr. Rot stock, a member of Trinity College, Cunt posseseed of a very large amount of property, law to Mr. Gooch, late chief engineer of the railway. The deceased, who "'sin his 37th had recently held the appointment of merits locomotive department at Windsor, was fouls' South-Western line on last Sunday night. connected with the finding of the body :riotin the EZI7/08. Several *Hamm to be that the deceased had destroyed it was shown that the prustue of indiesnes Meese of fortune had ;mewled his intellect. socerdance with this evidence was returned. ir clever 'olish Ball for dig 1: and no wonder, en it is alto reek B largest aid 1 " 6 ,old, and thit Red by a P ot 7 io writ. D.—This Hs mu, ongitts l the metrapolu ir, m aiden, and t ie loathe, be reedy tt has I+ ol l b el l Wioll, end g" . . I. The Priest rand Theatre. 04 fund—a litshb"' it the hands et O . stitutton• if ge ntlemen tr? id p r unes of Ojt : Oa Viands,. I T. oleo Hat, rt, Inland. RN R.ILWAt• ir Surrey, Veda Tavent, LL. nbert Heal ! unbridge, t rty, sad k " 0 0 the Bona-Wall, 37th 7° llo ag o g Oil »riarendmtaotbt found idled t. The per: o l7 - 0 ; y hoe ae1144 pti Itr•Yed ' Me 4tae• sue' lied. A Led. r ! . o I rl ot . a to 1. .31 er in tot J. Ey f• II e. V, '..:, II hot Ii• !Ir re al te Id to act Jr. rie ea a an ::o. sal la on. a?. dr tbe in. iare Li: IT oh rot el: trx 4e• a.'d art , Jno. rot, In. ore '3lu. s ' t oo• I aid lit ' all. at. r I! i I