The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

ghe elln'oo* OUTGOING MAILS. The Rene aid Moroinee, to the Megliterreases. Coles, lade. MielMeug, te., will be side lip Spat. makes et ha. Si. The sells ter Bridal AMASS sad the trailed !tees will be made up 1111 the remise of Jae. 26. The mai few Limbos. Speia, sad Gibreitez will be made up ea Jos. 27. Its West ladle Kam. William( Bermuda, Mamma, Mom, Sunders. New Odom, ewi Knipe, sad emulsible Mae far Madeira. et. Jean -4•4liestegua, New Oteark, OA Gag PIM, will be mule up ea Feb. 2. Tbe mane ter liaAwrie. the Beagle. sad Bowen Ares,will be mole up ea tbe eve/eft el Feb. 4. The smai fee Gitselesi, hale. Greece, the lodge Ceylon. led* sell Clime. iris Seatheriptrt 1 3 = up es die sendai et Fel. M. TO 031Pligrosmagra. adverworms warp' ft -The Urns; SAW "mist =LT ••Is el 11.• aim* lsevewasser.arnm Oink 7 b• Oa al MOS WATIII. AT LONDOS IMIDOS eh. k. 17 t 7s W` 7160 a arr... A 11.• LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21. Ws have made several coulectares respecting the forthcoming speech from the Tbrone, of which a few days will tell the correct-ere. We have long sines indicated an enlargement of the etcetera system, and a declaration to the colonies that any proposal they may make for the management of their own drain,' and the providing for their own administrative sail military requiremeats, will not meet with refusal co resistance from this coun tr y. Another subject that strikes us as likely to form a paragraph in the speech is Spain. There can be as roma for continuing the interruption of diplomatic intercourse. The coart and government of Spain have offered every desirable reparation, even before Sir HURT BULWER took his departure from this country. And although we hear nothing about it, we are pretty confident that Lied Holman has sec. I mud in the Trojan siege, which he has so unremit tingly laid to the Madrid embassy, if not for ten years, at lead for no inconsiderable portion of them. There are public men who wear out their welcome and their friendships—who begin with respect, and end with universal contempt. Such was the ease of Louts PIIILIPPE. General NARV.tiZ, on the con trary, seems to have outlived his enmities, and lite rally to have worn them out. We, indeed, cannot altogether forget his put ; but when we behold him, almost the only minister of Europe who wages a constitutional war, and tolerates a constitu tional opposition—when we see a man who has risen by military p as owe and support, actually discard that rapport perilous and extra vagantly expensive, in order to court favour by popular measures and a more constitutional policy, one anaot,in the present subjection of the constitutional to the military principle of government over all the rest of Europe, but applaud the civilian and constitutional tendencies of the Spanish government. We are aware that the cabinet of General NARTAEZ is threatened in the Cortes by a coalition of the two oppositions, the Inoclerado and pro resists. They have taken their stand upon the budget, a very good and constitutional stand too, insisting on reduction and a system of financial reform. Nartverz, as we l u a lTrstand, declares himself no enemy to financial reform, nor even to a large reduction of the army. But he objects to a provisional vote, and a session spent in the discussion of the budgets, during which he atd his colleagues on the ministerial benches would be like prisoners on their trial, ex posed to the attacks of the parties coalesced against them. He is, therefore, far imitating our Chan cellor of the Exchequer, who brings forth his budget, then gets the army and navy estimates voted, and permits the great financial debate of the year to take place—after, not before, the sum total is fixed, and the estimates voted. Whichever party succeeds, and whether the Spanish government be triumphant or defeated, it seems to be decided upon one point, which is the dissolution , of the Cortes, a necessary step, indeed, to reform, and to the settlement of the constitutional government. The present Spanish Cortes were elected ' it will be remembered, during the effervescence cu red by the royal marriages. That infamous combined's, for which so much money was raised amt spent, and so much violence had recourse te r comvetely vitiated the freedom of the national choice, the object of the French party being to prevent the elution of a national Cortes. The Spanish marriages have borne their fruit, lest in the disgrace and suicide of all concerned in the infamous transaction, secondly in the nullity of the Cortes got together to effect them. Had ICIARTAET been chargeable with the mar riages he would have fallen long ago, as his rivals have done, in consequence of the utter loss of charm ter entailed upon them by the act. These marriages have net only ruined the perpe trators, but tended to weaken the crown. Fortunately for ISABELLA and her sister, other circumstances, un expected too, have arisen to strengthen it. The management of the Carlist party and the conduct of the Culla princes have been such as to break up the faction altogether, and deprive it of hops. Oft-repeated, yet trivial, insurrections, compro mising more and more of the Carlist partieaae, without advancing the cause, bad flung discredit ups it, when it become known that the son of Don CAZLOS had himself offered to treat, and that with the eels view of bettering his present interests without emelt ing those of the party, or of the men engaged for him —some of them in the actual fends of civil war. This put the finishing stroke to the Carlist party in the Pesimuls. And the unpopularity of seeking political reform by the way of revolution having bees established by the outbreaks and anarchy of B , the fortunate soldier who found himself in passesioa of the Spanish government has been enabled to tarn his views towards a new species of policy, sad a mode of government based no longer on and on the military expenditure inseparable The greater part, however, of this dame of General NAILTAEZ, exists but in premises and wards. Before he can command confidenos, he must realise them in acts. His giving utterance to each prolate's, tells very plainly that such reforms are indispensable t a tits, that they are possible, and that the, are de aby political opinion. General MARTA/ell • word admitting this, is as significant as Sir ROBERT PM's admitting the truth and the necessity of free trade. These same principles are professed by them in oppo sition to General NARVAEZ. And most able men are to be found in this oppositioo. But whether it may not require a soldier as firm and experienced as Nativalz himself to let down the supremacy of the army with out danger and discontent, and without provoking military re-action, is a consideration worth taking into account. The redaction of tbe army; the restoration of civil authority and municipal freedom ; the liberty of election and of the preen; the respect of individual liberty; the gradual development of free trade; the reform of the finances, which would alleviate the burdens of the country whilst making just pro vision for paying the debts of the state—these are the objects to be achieved, whether by the statesmanship of lawyer or lieutenant, is not of so mach consequence. It would be of the greatest glory to Spain to boast, that whilst all other countries, even France, were relapsing to military ride and financial embarrassment, Span was progreming to civilian and constitutional policy, reducing bar army, paying her debts, and developing her caw mares. It would be more decorous and satisfactory, if the reconciliation of England with Spain should take place at the moment of the installation of this new system ; and if, whilst we quarrelled with Spain far opposing the violent and reactionary tendencies of its government, we should renew diplomatic inter course with the same government, when actuated by better spirit, and meditating a return to the mildness and sincerity of a constitutional system. WHAT is to be done with oar convicts? When the doors of all oar other colonies were shut in their fame, it was believed that an asylum had been opened to them at BMA River. But, no! The Western Ass trams have been thrown into a fever of indignation ea learning that their colony is to be made a penal settlement. We will not le amused by those who are in the habit of petunias oar column, of lightly estimating the evil oy a owlet Immigration, or of lacking sym pathy with a non-penal colony which resists any attempt to convert it into a receptacle for convicts. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1850. GERMANY. BIRLIN, Jan. 17. Mom what I hear le-day Ilmee _seams less chases was meprised in well4afeented quireare rater se a n a waited mdseseasdlag between the sown, s, and skswebem I tied that all three =efiew mins ilellewein in adhering to the pod ib Sy lave Velleletively taken up than was at (thatespeeiblk II labs well ts explain them pe tms clean,. !be King's amigo speaks for itmlf. The main papillae love been thrown out by the sonamilless - al bee direws. The ministers will resign the present abeenhers cannot come to as on limes/An with the assn. So far the position of the ministers is peefiestlysiMitutional. They might, indeed, go one step further and dissolve the chew bees; but they are fully aware that no additional chances for the admission of the propositions would be gained by that. They must therefore make up their minds to resign or to govern without any Chamblee at all. Now, arbitrary in may respects as the present government has Mn, it has never shown any decided symptom of a design to do away altogether with the parliamentary . system. It is indeed possible that Brandenburg might carry that devotion to the sovereign by which he is distin gaished to, the extent of unconditional sub missioo ; but Manteuffel and the rest could hardly follow him in such a oourse! for the simple reason that when the King is prepared to govern without a parliament, other perms than Man teuffel are in waiting to take the reins. It is hardly necessary to say that these are Gerlach and party, who have long had the King in their hands, and who are unquestionably the suggesters of the royal men age. The avowed object of these men, both in the chamber', and in their organs of the pram, is to de ' =present representative system. It must be that they have shown in the pursuit of this obiest no little address : and they have hit on the right moment to strike their grand blow. In fast, the weak nese of the eonstitutioaal party has covered them with universal contempt : the revised constitu tion is, thanks to them, an emasculated work ; sad the parliamentary system has been brought into discredit by its stamp being set upon so abortive a production. In such oases the many are too apt to forget that the lite of the tree may be precious, al• though the fruit borne during an unpropitious season be crabbed ; and they witness its destruction with iadifference, not duly weighing how long they may have to wait for another plant of the same stock. P.S. i hear that Count Arnim Boyzenburg has de stined the task of forming an administration. Camp bansen was sent for by a telegraphic despatch from Co logne by the ministers to use his credit with the King to prevent the latter, if possible, from going too far. Gamphaneen is the most conciliatory spirit in the world, but unfortunately his influence isnot verygreat ; and he is rather a conductor of the wishes of the crown to his party, than a conductor of the wishes of his party to the crown. It is now said that Gerlach, i who is certainly a clever fellow, wants not to be mi nister, but to have a ministry to receive what are called his inspirations. The difficulty is to find ministers who will be content with such a source of inspiration. Everybody sees the danger but the poor King, who is so perfectly convinced that the majority of his subjects hate the constitution in Prussia as much as himself, that he may be pushed to perilous lengths by the party whom he trusts, and who shrunk front the responsibility of countersigning the measures which they recommend. The centre party of the chamber, headed by Riedel, wavered un til yesterday, and then they decided to vote against the king's message, which has settled the fate of the propositions in the 'mad chamber. FRANKFORT. Jaw. 16. Should you not have already received the informa tion from your Berlin correspondent, permit me to anticipate him in informing you that there is every prospect of a speedy and satisfactory solution of the new dilemma into which the Prussian Chambers have been forced by the royal message, delivered to them at the very moment when they and the country believed that their arduous task was fully achieved. Never was there a legislative assembly in a more diffi cult position than the present Prussian Chambers. Elected on the one hand by a minority of votes, when public opinion despaired of any favourable result from the struggles for constitutional government which had been successively made and failed, they had to en counter in the other house the opposition of a violent and able reactionary party, supported by a general re actionary movement throughout Europe. It is only now that public opinion begins again to be roused, when new dangers threaten the shaken state of con tinental Europe. The elections, which have just taken place for the new legislative body have resulted very favourably to what may be termed the uni . arian, or, as it is here ftlled, the Prussian party. So deci ded is this victory, that Frankfort, which has till now stood aloof from the allied states, which will constitute the federal German state, with the parliament at Erfurt, will be forced within a short period to juin those states. I ought to add that the interest for that par liament increase. with the approach of the elections, and already the pat which the population takeJ in that interest is in Berlin and other places by fax greater than that for the present Prussian chambers was at the time of their election. Meanwhile the Federal Commission carries on its business, with perfect harmony reigning between the Prussian and Austrian members of the same. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. The royal West India mail steamer Great Western, Captain Woolfe, arrived at Southampton yesterday forenoon, with the West India and Mexican mails, which were landed under the charge of Lieutenant Kiddie, RN., Admiralty agent. The dates of her mails are as follows : Vera Cruz. Dec. 17 ; Havanneh, 27 ; Honduras, 30 ; Jamaica, 22 ; St. Jago de Cuba, 19; Demerara, 19; Trinidad, 21; Barbadoes, 29 ; Antigua, 30 ; Martinique, 29; Grenada, 23 ; Porto Rico, 28 ; St. Thomas, 29 ; La Guava, 19 ; Tobago, 26; Ismael, 16; Dominica, 30; Porto Cabello, 19; Guadeloupe, 30; Montserrat, 30; Nevis, 30; St. Kitts, 30 ; Tortola, 1; Bermuda, 7. She brings 23 passengers ; and am et her cargo is specie to the amount of 202,000 dolls., on merchants' account, and 66,000 dolls. on account of Mexican dividends. On the 16th ult, the parser of H.M.S: Sappho (which ship left Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 18th November) arrived at Belize with intelligence that his Alp had struck on the 6th December, at 4.30 a.m., on Seal Rock, 48 miles S.W. of Belize, on her voyage to Amor. A schooner was immediately sent to her assistance. When the puristr left the Sappho her false keel was off, her rudder was unshipped, and she was making two feet of water per hour. Her guns had beet thrown overboard. It appear', however, that her mow had succeeded in getting her into deep water, and hopes are entertained of the saving of the Ip. The West India steamer Clyde, which left South ington on the 2nd ult., with the Mexican mail, vie Deennela, experienced dreedlul weather on her entward voyage. She was unable to make Bermuda la seesequence ; she was driven southward, and was net able to make Bt. Thomas before the 28th nit. Her outward Bermuda mails were left at St. Thomas, and she proceeded on to the Gulf, via Porto Rico and Jamaica. The Great Western, being at St. Thomas when the Clyde arrived, took the outward Bermuda mails, ;brought out by the Clyde, on to their desti nation. Hes Majesty's ships Wellesley, Plumper, and Hecate were at Bermuda on the 6th inst. The latter world be ready to sail on the Bth inst. The Viper sailed from Bermuda for England on the 3rd. The West India royal mail steamer Thames, which brought up the Guff mails to Bermuda was bound for New York. The Great Western made a splendid run from Ber muda to Southampton in thirteen days on her home ward/map in lat. 38.35, lon. 48.20. She exchanged somber' with the ship Miltiades bound for Liver- PSIL Very little news arrived by this mail. In Jamaica the three petitions for the suspension of the present political constitution of the island have been &seem bated throughout the various parishes fat signature. Great dissatisfaction is expressed at the contem plated change in the communication with the island end England, by the contemplated cheap of from Ihninightly mails to intervals of three weeb between sash.. The bill which has been introduced into the House of Assembly for the purpose of raising the interest d= on the public debt by means of an extra imposi- But we must he allowed to bars 400 1 time indignation of the to A • auntbreary, 1549, they petidoned "Was go- Ito make - their 03Iray " a regular penal eigthement." Is November, 1849, the - Western Asslealialia cannot find words to express their Ind*. ails es learning that their colony has been coo "obi " a penal settlement" TM mann is that when ther prayed the home government to send them esaviets, they also prayed it to endow them' with " the seeemary government estabibliment and expenditure, the whole wet of the tar minim, maintenance, and supsriatendenee of all each convicts as may be trumpeted hither Wing borne donne by the home government" Ministers like the heath's deity of old, have " Granted half their prayer, The ether hell &opened ia easy " The owlets have been, or are to be, sent, but not N. snowow we frankly admit this is rather sharp on the part of the home government. The NV w e a s elti te: Aust! as offer them their colony to be need se a gaol, intimating at the same time their expectation that government will pay far the maintenance of the gaol. In other words, the Western Australians tell the government that they are willing to accommodate its gaol-birds with house-room, expecting in return that some little jobs will be thrown in their way by employing them as treaters, contractors for supplies, l drc., Sc. Government beliefs the nuisance without giving the quid pro quo. This is not fair, and a certain latitude of grumbling may be allowed on the part of the Western Austra lians. Bat they rather overshoot the mark when they talk about " being subjected to the contamination and infamy insepara ble from a penal settlement." It is not the "contamination and infamy" they are in dignant at; it is the being bilked of the price for which they offered to submit to that "contamination and infamy." FRANCE. PARIS, SAIVIDLY, 6 rat. The great event of the day is the speech delivered by M.Thiers last night on the Public Instraetioe Bill. I forward a detailed report of this remarkable harangue, which shows the inconsistency and frivo- . lity of French statesmen more conspicuously than any speech that has been delivered from the tribune or years pat. The papers of the moderate party, as they all themselves, are in smacks with it.* The speech has had the effect of raising the funds considerably this afternoon, and although the spirits of the conservatives are somewhat damped by a tele graphic despatch received here at four o'clock this afternoon, announcing that en ultra Socialist had been returned for the department of the Garet, yet they are beginning to build their hope on the unstable foundation, that the Public Institution Bill will become the law of the land by a very considera ble majority—credal Adieus Apella non ego. The reported death of Louis Poilippe was received here last night with indifference, and the discovery that the rumour was a:ctinard has been received in the same contemptuous manner. Kings are evidently at a discount in France now, despite the rebuffs to which all befriending the republic are exposed. The weekly statement of the Bank of France shows that the cash in hand has increased by 4,000,000 f. The commercial bills discounted have decreased by 2,750,000 f. The protested bills have decreased by 105,000 f. The bank notes in circulation have in creased by 2,750,000 f. The balance to the credit of sundryeasury has decreased by 2,000,000 f. The credits have increased to nearly a similar amount. SCNDAT, 6'30 r.m. The fate of the Public Instruction Bill was decided lut night, by a vote which has excited considerable surprise throughout Paris. It was decided by a majority of 258, the numbers being 435 to 197, that the Chamber should page to a second &liberation on this vexed question. And as, according to the terms of the constitution, a delay of five days at least must elapse before the discussion can Ira resumed, the Montagnard party will be able to rally their forces during the truce. During the discussion lut night, M. de Parrieu, the minister of publics instruction, declared that, al though it was not a government project, yet the cabinet was disposed to support the fundamental principles of the bill, subject, however, to some un►mportant modification, which he should pur pose to introduce when the several articles of the bill were brought under discussion. The National says that the fate of the bill was decided by M. Thiers, whose speech rallied round his flag all those waverere who were thankful to have an excuse for this act of apatacy. The National tells the majority of the Chamber that they have chosen to put the men who fought for the republic at the barricades under the soutane of the priests ; they have chosen to do this, and must therefore abide the consequences. The same journal is highly gratified by the result of the election in the department of the Gard, where, as yen were informed last night, the socialist candidate, M. Favard, has been returned by a large majority over his 000ssevative opponents. There is no other news of any importance to forward to yon this afternoon. • we /wet that want of epos attire us to postpone the publica tion of this speech till to.sos+ow• SPAIN. KADRID,.Jpr. 12. Although there is no open ministerial crisis, every body expects that there will occur something or other; either that Noun, by one bold stroke, will get rid of his enemies, or that his own party, already tired of a temper that becomes every day more domi ineering, will end a sabstitute for him. In the Chamber of Deputies the debate upon the bill relative to public accounts was proceeded with, and several of its most important clauses passed. The 28th clues says that when urgent expenses of great necessity occur, under the responsibility of the go virulent, the King may, by a royal decree, give the Iminister power to obtain a supplementary credit if the exposers are for services comprehended in the estimates. In both cues there credits shall be considered provisional till approved of by means of a bill to be presented in the succeeding legislature. Three progreasta deputies; opposed this clause with much earnestness. The deputy master said that the present minister would make abad use of such a con °esteem. Rooms and Olouga both opposed the clause. The former said, that in a case of urgency,, the government would do better to violate the law, and then ask for a bill of indemnity. Olozaga also made one of this trimming speeches of which he has of late given several seudidous specimens. The clause was voted by 71 votes against 22, Olozaga voting with the government. Letters from Catalonia say that a tremendous hur'l cane has occurred in that province, uprooting trees that have stood for centuries anng immen d o t se damage in the country. The coldvery . general throughout the country, and even in Andalusia where winter is ecarcaly ever severely felt, sentinels have beenfrozen to death at their posts. GREECE. ATHENS. Dic. 31. At last there is a change of ministry, and it now subsists of Rear-Admiral Kriesie, president and mi nister d marine; M. Anastesi Lundoe, minister for Resign sibs and master of the king's house bill M. O. Notaru, minister of the interior ; M. Otescminister of worship and public instruc till tooral Stailcas, minister at war. The above are dim eimators. M. Balbis, minister of justice and ad interims minister of finance. At resat we can my nothing of these men • the eludes will try them, whether they intend to ;read in the footsteps of their predecessors , and employ freed, bribery, and violence, or leave the electors to their own free will and choice, agreeably to the law of the constitution. The Queen's birth-day came off on the 21st, with its usual ceremonies and dinner. A lire broke out last night in the military hospital. As it blew a heavy northerly gale all exertions and endeavours to extinguish it were useless. The build ing/30w: reduced to ashes. more of the band of the Calmat* brigands have fallen into the hands of justice, and an accom plice of the famous Mevenditi has been shot. COTTON PROM INDIA.-A vessel of large vise sad towage, which has jut mired in the dock% trees BoinhaT, has brought he tarp quantity of 3,136 balm of cotton Oi East India produce. I don of duty on a dozen oethe meet important articles of import, has very little chants of pazung into law. Ezorenve bloom of trade is comp Local fleancial reform occupies the attention of the ?admen of British Guiana, and. great efforts contains at reducing the salaries of public offisers. The recent stoppage of the supplies has produced no practical result, for the Governor, is opening the Combined Court on the 18th ult., istinctly state] in his speech that no taxes could be remitted. The war between the Dominicans and Haytis,u proceeds vigorously. The invading fleet have cap tured that of Hayti. The imperial treasury app. is to be nearly empty, for the Emperor Bologna having ordered about four thousand muskets from the United States, an American vend conveyed them to Port aa-Prinoe I but at bee arrival there, it was found that the Harlan government bad not the means of • paying for them. The captain of the vessel then • took them to St. Thanes, and as soon es the Domini ' can government was informed of this circumstance, a purchase was immediately effecuid, and we now r have the four thousand muskets in our possession. r Sologue has therefore had the mortification of having I ordered weapons to be turned against himself. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. JAMAICA. (Prom de Cordons Mereentlie Intelllgnmese,” Dee. ( 1,11149.) At ewtves.-60 barrels have Wooed 225. per barrel. Berta.—We have sot heard of any trammel= in which noshes at Ild. per lb. IN =all kap Arian here retched Id. per lb. Bassn.-40 barrels awry have been sold at 19s, per buret 123 barrels Wattmei"e Crashers at Ws. per barrel. Coorren.—A very brie arra, emanating of 666 tierces, 91 boxes, and 61 half boxes, bee arrived from It. Solos, N.P., which, adding to the large carp alluded to in our last, ha completely ruined the 'narks. Another cargo, ecoolating of 15 licipheads large, 190 tierces of ordinary, mad 250 bare he come in from Rallies, and has met sale, bat at prime that have not been allowed to trans**. Ftoos..—This article is ; s h i lls: the Meek is accumulating, three further arrivals have takes The trade refute to pay 335. for Philadelphia, and 345. for Wm*, at whiek prices these descriptions are held. 114116.—Prisse quality Eight are scarce. HEWS.' an la demand. The last receipts of 150 barrels sold readily at the far No. 1, and Ina. be Ne. I. Lea—Bale have hem made at Cid. per lb.; Leassa.—Whito pine Is wanted. blatesast &revery scene, but at the high rate of 30.. per barrel, for No. 3, the market will not support other than trilling misplace. lissi..—Tbe Moak is inereanag. gome parcels were arriving from the outporte. We gimes the article dull at 21s. OIL— Cod Is eau& wanted. It le being sold at 28. 60. per gallon. Rtes.—Carolina has been sold at 3(1. per 100 Ito. Oor.n.—Columblan doubloons, 4 per b oa 61s. each. Spanish doubloons, I per cent. premium ea ups nummmi. Praia the 14th to the 20th of Deortalr,r, 1919. Flour 1230 barrels; meal, 417 barrels; rice, none; Ash ood, I bar s Ms., ton., 310 boxes, equal to 3,923 quintals; mock 40 - rels ; alewives, 111 barrels: haMode, none; herrlnp, 150 salmon, •to barrels; breed, 8 47 barrels; butter, 200 kegs; lard, 130 lege ; candlm, 1950 MU berm; mop, none; pork, 3 barrels; beef, • I barrels 60 half barrels; tangoes, none; oil, nose • salt, fame; tobacco, none ; cern, 350 bap ; wine, nose ; brandy, none ; lumber , P. I'. none ; hunter, W. P. Done; staves, R. 0 . 20 , 2 0 0 ; staves , W. d. 15.700; wood hoops, note; shingles, Cedar,; none; shingles, Cy - . pm% 89 000. CHINA AND THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO. HONG-KONG. Nov. 29.—The event of the day is the destruchk. of the piratical Chinese Heat by tho Columbine, Fury, and Phlegethon, off the coast of Cochin China. The account of this operation, as narrated in the overlar.d China mail, will be found below. Instructions having been lent from Earl Grey to the Governor of Hong-Kong to add two independent residents to the Legislative Council, Mr. Bonham summoned the justices to meet him on the 3rd Nov., and intimated that he left it to them to name the pe•sone, without any restrictions on their choice. This, as the editor of the China Mail remarks, is "a step in the right direction." A sampan (a small boat) attending on the Dolphin, U.S. ship of war, was fired on from a Chinese „junk, between Macao and the Tyr Fort, on the evening of the 20th Nov. The captain of the Dolphin sent a boat to capture the Chinese vessel, which was accom plished after a brisk resistance on the part of the crew. The junk and the survivors of the crew were delivered up to the authorities of Macao, the outrage having been committed in their waters. The Macao and Chinese authorities are still corre sponding about the assassination of Governor Amer. A. In the last letter of the Portuguese there is a threat of having recourse to strong measures, but probably nothing will be decided on till the views and inten tions of the cabinet at Lisbon are ascertained. The following article, which appeared in the China Mad of Nov. 8, suggests an important consideration respecting the means by which additional security against piratical attacks may be given to English vessels in the China waters. It cannot be expected that the Chinese authorities will exert themselves to protect masters of vessels who voluntarily place them ' selves in the position of outlaws. We have !titlark, omitted to notice an event which ought not to be overlooked; but in justification we can say, that the present record of it has been several weeks in types, without our being able to find room for it. Oa 27th Sep tember the cutter, Mayflower, commanded by an English man, was attacked in the Canton River, off second bar, by Chinese in a boat pulling 40 oars, who plundered and set lira to the cutter, after seriously wounding the master and acme of the crew—there befog no sufficient force to resin; to formidable an attack. Tae Chinese boat was, in ap pearance, what is usually termed a Mandarin boat, but pro bsbl a smuggler; and is is also probable that rivalry in traffic had as much to do in her capture as her actual cargo, which c.nsisted chiefly of opium. Within the last six, months other two ve:sils of her class, American owned, have been cut off in a similar way; and we have already taken occasion to remark, +het however much individual cases are to be deplored,* it can hardly be expected that redress should be demanded by any power in treaty with Chinni . If foreign veuels will engage in a dangerous and illicit traffic, they must do so on their own responsibility ; and it seems by no means unlikely that attempts will be made to cut off all such ousels, and that for reasons we formerly assigned in no:icing the case of the Emma, (China Mail, No. 220, kay 3,) aid which wo here repeat:— . This tort of traffic (smuggling opium between Cum dagnsoon and Canton) was formerly carried on almost 1111Willavely by Chines* boatmen, who arranged with tar Mandarins to pay a certain proportion of the large 111111 they received per chest for their non-interference, The amount was fixed, and so long u it was paid, no questions were asked nor risk incurred. The charge, how ever, was so high u to induce foreigners to place fast-tailing setters on the river, which, as they required smaller .crews and paid no toll to the Mandarins, were enabled to carry i opium at much lower rates, and thus secured most of the employment. It is not convenient for the Mandarins openly ' to interfere, much less to have so large a revenue cut off; and it is therefore more than suspected that they have planned the destruction of all the foreign smuggling craft on the river, using the Chinese smugglers for the purpose ; and as this Ls not the filet, neither do we expect it will be the last, capture of vessels of the description of the Emma, the owners of which cannot expect redress from their own authorities, who, on the contrary, are bound by treaty to afford the Chinese every facility for putting down such illicit traffic. The Mayflower, it ma be remembered, was &short time ago seized for having smuggled goods on board and being without pacers. She afterwards obtained a sailing letter from the governor of Hong-Hong, by virtue of which she hoisted English colours. IMPEDITION ',Dauer Prams. (From the ()eerie/id Mao Mod of NOT. 39.) On the morning of Monday, the Bth October, H. M. brig Columbine and steamer Fury, with the H. C. steamer rialegethes, left Hong' Kong in search of the piratical fleet commended by the notorious Sharnesei. On their arrival our day at the Isload of St. John's, Mr. D. It. Caldwell, who amemponloll the expedition u interpreter, ascertained from Imo iiiiimpbeate that the pirates had not been in that neighbourhood Sic more than • fortnight, but that probably they wadi be met with either at Poo-tuen or Hoi-how, or at least that such informal= might be gained there u would ensure their king fow d. That same evening the ex pedition anchored under Mong-chow, where Mr. Caldwell bo•rdd • large trading junk beating up the come, from which he ascertained that she had been relished from the pirates at a place near Teen pak only a few days previous, they having, however, stripped her crew of every article of value, eyes to heir wearing apparel : the junk was bare of every Sift bat her cargo of salt. The craw stated that the pirates had goes either to Naow.ehow or Hoi-how, the !Let eon fow of 44 larflensaktesand for fi ghting, with smaller ones as store to make en appear mei of greater force. Similar information was obMined lam the Mandarins at Mamas. On the 12th the expedition ameba at Naow-chow, where Captain Hay visited the Maa drata, whine opinion was that Shop 2 og-tsel had pee to as Meal amid Wei chow in the Golf of Ton•quin. Ha*, =Nepilots for the ships, the next day they mashed Zs& s principal seaport of the island of Hal-nea i where Hay and several other officer', with Mr. Caldwell. Zed Wong, the mandarin in command, who stated that the pirates had only a few dare previous attacked the town of Pak-hod, where they had committed great dominations, tad that they had dam gene to a place nailed Chook. shag. He conducted the party to the city of Ling diew-foo, where the esimeedu-in-ehlef resided, and there it war engaged that Weep *mud aseempeny the expedition, he befog well aswastated with the asst. The behaviour of the naaderiaa was eesiMea la the extreme, and they ap peered highly delighted at the prospect of th e extirpation of the pirate fleet. The visit baying ended, the next day Wong No One can be more le then the present. The misfortune of the master of the Ilayllower itee been deplored by ell who know t We understand there wore drommtenees connected with this ere, which induced the governor to nymeent it to the Mimeo Vice. roy. lobo of truly enough paha" to here yrerioudy knewn nothing aliteat • was regeheall ealmiesi the nay. Oa the evening of the 16th, the shipmate et 1111.wlisire it was ascertained that flat W lea Yea flee days previous, for the emblilleiLthe boate bottoms. Cin the 16tk the rabid aff the latter place, and were informed dreg Ilk &Mee had proceeded farther down the coat to a plow WWI ais.aeng la Cochin China. Here were manifest plush of the eatrages eonunitted by then vagabonds, a leadimetWei ration of the town being In ruins from the ethnic whisk had bees made on it by the pirates, they baring likewise killed a number of the in ' habitants end tarried off many of their women. Ti.. reple autemeasi Wong and Mr. Caldwell, who had gone l ea elmais ter Weeeettes t and on their knees with tears =hem In wino marauders and release their Oa the a/tenon of the 18th the vessels arrived at the island w hich towsbaa, a favourite w as Ship "agstsel, near plasm sae of his scout boats fallen is with and burnt. On the afternoon of the 10th I die expedition reached oo.nong, shore the inhabitaws were so much b dread of the pirates that it was with the utmost difficulty they .said be brought within talking diatom. At last, however, they stated that the pirate fleet was then blookadiag a town called Cho.kum at a few miles distance, and that their inten tion was the next day to attuk Prfung, another town in the same vicinity. Early en the morning of the 20th, as Captain Hay was about to proceed in the direc- tion pointed out, a large fleet of junks was observed under the land. and apparently standing out, which they continued to do until their hulls became quite visible, when upwards of 60 sail were counted from the ships' deck.. Shortly alter, they were observed to alter their course and stand in for the shore. The man-of-wer immediately got under weigh ; but owing to the went of pilots to take them into the river. at the entrance of which there is a formidable bar, they did aot get within range until about half-past four that afternoon, when a number of large junks anchored at the entrance opened fire upon them, which was instantly re turned by the ships ; the conflict then became general for about halt an hour, when a rocket from the Phlegethon blew up one of the largest junks, afterwards ascertained to have bean Shap-'ng-tsei'a own, and which set fire to two or three others nur her. Shortly after clerk, 27 of the largest junk. were in a blase, the explosions of powder end of the loaded guns, vb . & went off as they became heated, added to the grandeur of the scene. The next day, the wort of destruction was resumed, and bcore night 24 more of the [bet were de stroyed, the men who escaped on shore being hunted down by the Cochin• Chinese who lined the shore, armed with spears and spikes, and spared none. On the 22nd, six more junks were dutroyed, those being the last remaining in the river. Shap-'stg.tsei is said to hove escaped through a shallow and narrow passage with six of hie vessels. On the 23rd the ships put to sea, and arrived at Hoi.how on the night of the 24th, tram which place, in consequence of a gale of wind, they did not get under weigh again until the morning of the 28th; and after bevies experie,,ced considerable deny end diffi. coley in crossin• the bars, the expedition arrived safely at Hongkong on Thursday the Ist of November. During the whole of the operations, the 11. C. steamer Phlegethou was of the greatest service, owing to her exceeding light draugi.t of water; and bad it not been for her, Mr. Caldwell could not have obtained the hiformatini to which the success of the expedition is to be attributed ; and as the vessel's steering qualities are very poor, great credit is due to Captain Ntblett and Lis tfficiers for the expert manner in which they carr.ed her through the various creeks and sands. SINGAPORE. _ DEC. 6.—There is nothing to report from this set tlement. Recent accounts from Malacca represent the aspect of affairs there as somewhat troubled. Tne Resident Councillor has, it appears, ordered all dealers in provisions to sell them only in public market. Even shopkeepers are not exempted from this order. A spirited resistance was offered by the inhabitants; for some days the native shops were clocd, and all business was at a stand. The inhabitants cf Malacca were threatened with starvation. Troops were sta tioned in the streets, and the Resident w-nt ebout attempting to argue the matter with the shopkeepers. Rice was supplied to some extent from the goe ern ment stores. The petty and meddling regulation which excited this commotion was formerly in force in all the three Straits' stations, but had been allowed to fall into abeyance. Titers were also some disturb ances among the miners at Kassung (in the territiry of Malacca), in consequence of an kttempt, under go vernment auspices, to revive a monopoly without prc . vions intimation. Verily, the officials at Malacca need looking after. _ _ . LABUAN. We have received advises from Labuan to Novem ber 20. There was but little sickness ; the place was destitu'o of every article of food, and to supply the coolie labourers and other residents it was found neces sary to indent on the rice in the commissariat stores be longing to the detachment of Madras troops :rationed at the settlement. Sir Jas. Brooke was absent from the colony at Sarawak ; in the meantime the heutcaant governor, by his vagaries and ignorance was doing all that lay in his power to close the ca. eer of the colony. The officer commanding the troops, Captain M'Caskill, had been arrested by the lieutenant-governor, in consequence of the latter, a civilian, erroneously supposing that he was invested with military control. Captain Nl'Caykill was ordered by Sir George Berkeley, commander-in chief at Madras, to proceed to Singapore on court martial duty, and intimated to the civil authorities at Labuan the object of his departure ; but the lieu tenant-governor arrested the military officer just as he was about to embark, and did not release him from arrest until a fortnight after. We desire to call attention to an incident, well authenticated, which is one only of many atrocities committed in Borneo, since our adoption of Labuan as a careening place for those engaged in the civilisa tion of Borneo. In the Singapore Straits Tim o, Nov. 20, we find the following notice of a gross out- rage perpetrated at Kalifas:—" A few months age, some Malays are reported to have murdered a Kling man on one of the little insulated specks of land called dependencies of the island of Labuan, from whence they were reported to have fled to Kali's, on the mainland of Borneo Proper. The government agent, Mr. Low, demanded of the Sultan [of Borneo] that the accused parties should be given up; but the men (if they were really there, which is doubtful) having refused to obey the Sultan's mandate and yield themselves up, Pangeeran Macota was sent on in the steamer to Kalias, whither the Nemesis proceeded. Arrived at Kaliae, the demand for the surrender of the accused was renewed, and an answer returned that, having fortified themlelyes up the river, the people could usither by moral suasion nor by force compel their appearance. Upon this reply Pangeeran Macota gave an order to the people of Kailas to bring the accused dead or alive, or, in the event of not doing so, their houses would be burned and themselves punished. On the following day a small canoe was paddled round the steamer containing two ghastly heads and four handy, suspended from a bamboo attached to the stem and stern of the canoe. We have been accused of dragging revolting seenesbeforethe public, but a sense of duty, a love of natural justice, and an honest deter mination to put a stop to barbarities encouraged and promoted under the British name and influence de mands it. This disgusting, barbarous and revolting exhibition—two ghastly beads and four livid hands — is held up to the gaze of the Bomeans as our symbol of civilisation ! monsoon baying set in favourably, the amount of sickness has decreased, but the small-pox is raging with much virulence amongst the Javanese popi t b, tio3. Tte most active measures have been adopted by the governmen t to place the vaccine operation within the reach of all classes of the inhabitants. The Go vernor-General still remains at Soursbaya, and is very ill; hopes are entertained for hie recovery and for his return to the seat of government. COLONIAL. CEYLON. The Overland Colombo Observer, of Dec. 14, con tains the following summary of the events of the pre. ceding month : Ole columns will be found to contain ample information end most interesting disenuier.s on the subject of enffee plant. lag, together with a notice of cocoa nut planting at Jaffna. The litter is far leas encouraging than we anticipated or .•ld have wished. The coffee crop, it will be observed, is expected to fall short of the estimate farmed at the com e meneement of the season. One of our correspondents, whos e experience is great, calculates on no more thee 300,000 for the crop of 1840-60. Heavy reins, in • majority of the districts, have belied the promise of the beginning of th e seeson, and sadly interfered with the despatch of coif .e fast estates. This circumstance and the scarcity of rice in the Colombo market, have tended to reduce the price of bandy hire The rice market as we write is assuming an alartnct: aspect. About 100 vessels are said to be detained by &de er " winds at Peumben, while an estate agent swum us that ha bee sought is vain for a quantity equal to 26 bushels at gm one bazaar in Colombo. The result of all tLis is that rice, which on Wednesday morning was selling at 30. 3d. pe e bushel, rose rapidly during the day to 3e. 6d. and 3.. , jd, Y sterday, at noon, the price was 41. And it is cot supposed that on the arrival of the laden vessels there will bs a Cltris eponding fall. The coolies on the estates must be fed, sad the Madras pap( re bring alarming &neonate of the failure of the nottb•caet monsoon rains, on which the rice harvest 01 B - .uthern India and the supply to Ceylon entirely depend. Freights are plentiful and moderate. The mail of Oct. 6 ' reached Colombo from Bombay on the evening of the 1;:k of November : that r 4 the 24th reached Belle by steno• r the 29th. The subject of cattle trespass still continuo, on. I the eoreat and most pressing. We have Lrouzlit into one view the history of legislation on the 'to.i.ot with the laws now in force ; while government, we learn, have the draft of a new crdinance in cireuletids. r, no other subject perhaps are opinion so diverse, and intern% so opposed. Lord Torrington and his friends we p rs ,,, z , btsve now completed that body of evidence in his hym n Is which so many persons have been s• cretly and lius.:y gaged at Queen's-house, in the colonial secretary'srEcs, s, L / elsewhere, night and day, for some months. Mt ra..n headmen have been induced to favour the governor with at address, and his lordship has been attempting his owr. delet.ci in the shape of a complimentary or& r addressed to hie tary struments. Lord Torrington would have d tae wi , e by imitating Earl Grey and waiting for the decision ot committee. _ . _ Tnere i* a complete change is the cceupants of the L!.t' offices in consequence of the departure for England of Emerson 'foment and Illessra. Selby and Cripps, and abience on leave of Mr. Templar. Mr. M'Carthr, the son in law of Mr. hi awes,of course succeeds Sir 'Foment in the Secretariate ; Mr. Gibson act. as General in the room of Mr. lal,Carthy corn.* acting treourer in the room of 'Mr. Tempter; James Stewart enters tne Executive Council s.; b Queen's Advocate ; while the Hon. (I. C. Talbot Mr. Cripps as ectirg government agent of the see:Leen vine*. Much has been nid of the litigious pewee the natives, bat intelligeat natives can retaliate wht r. • lee k at the case now going on between two Britisa ers. While the coffee market ir improving, and the qu.. . further el-strings in Ceylon is being disctusad,•Le t7a., els :wue re l iven of land cleared end still aettlabh. intereet. It will he observed that, while upwari4 ' urn have been already cleared and planted. the s • teeny good land available in private hands does tu• 110,000, while of that unsold there is probably not proportion fitted fur planting. Much kcal it: of an interesting and a valuable notate e . f iund in the present number of the Orrrlawl extricted from cur Sheet Almanac f r the rest is a table showing that in half a eueic the enser.d . ture of this unfurtunate *felony wu a • from 361.01M11 to 618,0004. Ns wonder, then, years the de fi• it amounted to 65001. Newt. 11:e Lion of the parliament and people of Britain hat. I, • . riously directed to our Olin, we may leek f.r •'!I &ileum to this in the neat eight years. The nor r : stems spre►ding from England to Ceylon. Ter.. have had their throats cut by a murderer. SARAWAK. By the Sri Singapura, we have intelligence from this quarter to the 7th met. Sir James Brooke and most of the European inhabitants left on the morhing of the 16th with seven boats, for Lingo, with the in tention of erecting a new fort on the Sakarran to hold the pirates in check. Seriff Houssan had presented the ammunition and stores required for furnishing this fort, and it wu probable that he would be left in charge. The whole was expected to be completed in about three weeks. Sir James Brooke had recovered somewhat from his recent severe attack of sickntss, and will probably soon visit Singapore before pro ceeding to Labuan.—Singapore Free Press, Nov. 30. MANILLA. Nov. 27.—The occurrence of several severe ty phoons, accompanied with heavy rains, had caused con siderab'e damage throughout the Archipelago, but especially in the cultivated provinces of Luconia, coffee, and sugar cane, 'I:, carrying away houses, destroying the standing crops of n o , cacao, cotton, convents, and churches in its fury. On November 15th, at eleven, P.M., a heavy shock of an earthquake was felt at Manilla, the tremblement being from east to west, followed by a slighter shock on the evening of the 16th. From the Manilla journals we re gret to learn the loss of the English barque Falcon, from Sydney bound to Manilla, oa October 16, in a bay on the west coast of Panay : a lady, child, and female servant, with 14 of the crew were picked up in boats by the Spanish ship Bella Vssgongada, in the Mindoro Sea. We also re gret to record the loss of the ship Cumberland, Lewis, of London, laden with a cargo of rice from Bally, bound to Hong Kong ; the Cumberland foundered about 40 miles from the port of Santiago ; two passengers (one being Mr. Dawson, the owner) and 28 men wore saved, bat the captain and five seamen perished. Two Spanish vessels, the Conatante and Hozario, had also r been wrecked. JAVA. BATAVIA, Nov. 29.—8 y the former mail I com municated the fearful amount of sickness and mor tality of which Batavia was then the theatre. The AUSTRALLAN COLONIES.-WESI AUSTRALIA. _ By the leclla and Chita overland mail ee : .- ceived ce..ounts from Swat Ricer to the c... November last. The colony had been thr,,e . . state of excitement by tEe publication in tI. - Gazette of an announcemet t thet, uncer ice':. from her Majesty's government, the colony t converted into a penal settlement from June,' will be remembered that early in ltillt transi;ortation system was so leudly disclaim% . Australian colonies generally, a very signed petition was addressed to the hon.. . inept by the Swan folk, praying that Wes:e7 - . tuella might be converted into a penal thinking thereby to supply the demand for :. cheap rate, and to have the benefit of mentary grant of money as a salvo for taminating influencta of the convict system. latter particular the Swan River settlers 1.2. c disappoin . ed. Earl Grey has signified his to poLute the shores of Western Australia victs, but withholds the protective force at .1 . queut expenditure conceded to New South 11... Van Diemen's Land. The disappointment, a: sequent excitement, amonget all classes of at the Swan is stated by a correspondent t? ecribable. This feeling is thus stated by O. Independent : "The fiat has gone forth that Australia is now a penal settlement, and the: it remembered, without a correspondent in.:. public expenditure on the part of t: government, to render this bitter latable to our cceonists. We never the willingness of the home government •. us convicts, but we frequently warned the ... of the odiens measure thatotherwise than an .. of crime, together with the labour, no 11,! would accrue from it. • • • s for the result of the convict agitation some • since. By it the inhabitants of Western .t. have suicidially subjected themselves and ti.,. dren to the contamination and infamy its.: from a penal settlement." The Inquirer (Nov. 7), which advocated r't, duction of convicts for the expected salvo, r, " And now what do we reap by this boon—t•:. concession—this immediate and plenary rep? humble petitions? We are ranked as a peu,•,• for the purpose of receiving adult felons, el; undergoing punishment for crimes coma' the mother country, are yet to be supports.: expense of the colonists. • • • Ma need • state that a grievous expense aill be esta.r , the colony, consequent upon the erection of formation of an efficient police, &c., to meet greater amount of taxation will be enforced. A subscription has been raised for the e:' erecting a lighthouse at Fremantle, the go having offered to quarry the stone. A sur bad also been set on foot for the purpose of ing a bridge across the Swan in acute ,• locality within the district. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide journals to the middle of 0.• chiefly occupied in detailing strictly kcal portant matters. The South Ausfreili.: . notices that another "monster mine " covered in the neighbourhood of the IN mines; the mine is called Wheal Maria. quence of some presumed similarity to the vonshire mine of that name. The ore is r, be in large masses. The ship Sultana, frc to Adelaide, was lost on September 2:4:11, ing on the Tonbridge Shoal. Crew and 14 I cargo saved. PORT PHILLIP. The journals notice that a report had general currency, at Melbourne, that Sir Tennant was to be the first gewernor of the of Victoria, and that Mr. La Trobe would e. Emerson in the poet of secretary of Ce more suitable appointment should fall won' FEMALE EMIGRATION.—Tho sub-realm' pointed to consider the most advisable mode .S r , some of the most important objects of !dr. great scheme, have made their report, utit:- into the subjoined heads :—let. Toe propa emigrants. 2nd. The most effectual mode of pr' s " emigrants during their transit to the celocies. and protection to be insured to them on loodc, cost of their outfit and passage. One of the , 11 1 4' to selection is good character. The most strict ‘, to be instituted on this point ; and -in earl , ' character and habits of the candidates for es., ' preliminary " home " is proposed to be estabb± their conduct can be watched prier yr r-: . " Misted emigration," is to term a feature tions, and various detail measures are recorstsf", luring the efficacy of the arrangswenu. by , been adopted, and a committee of selection '. appointed "to prepare a list of fifty csnlihttes tioa."