The Express. — London, England, 1850-11-06 00:00:00

Ehe eimreols. OUTGOING MAILS. The mails for Lobos, Ogabe. and Gibraltar will be made up to-morrow taunting. The mails via Marsoilles, to therditerreneas, Egypt, Boyles, India, HearKoag, ite., Wi l l be made up to mein. The mails for British North. AllOrkii, Bermuda, and the Hailed States wiU be made up, per " Niagara," on the imagist of Nov. 8. The mails for the West hales, Veuesuele, New Granada, Orrytosni, aid Jecarel, will be made op ea the morning of 14. m. 18. The mails for Hevaaaah, Hoidens, Names, gut Jaeael, sad Dm, will be made epos the morning.' Nov. 18. The malls for Gibraltar, Yalta, Groom, the lomaa Egypt, Goyim, India, sad Chime. via Bouttiamptat, will he Needs up ea the evening of Nov. 20. Thu nelle for Memo will be made ap ou the morals( of Dee. 2. The mails for Madeira, the Bradle, mud Buenos Army will be auk op on the evening of Des. 4. RION WWI= AT UNIDO. 611131111 Tom D43—ifortm. lasstrosa. Si. IT. To-magew—WATuag , Atiosai. 41t. 3. -- --- LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NO VEMBER 6. Tax Manchester edueational conference appears to have defined most surxeasfully the legitimate boondaries of public secular education. Throughout all Christendom the religious eduction of men has been surrendered to the church. We use the word in that comprehensive sense in which every publicist ought to use it. We nee it to express not Um Itomish church, or the Anglican church, but that great aggre gate church of which all organised churches (in the restricted sense of the term) are mere divisions or compartments, whether they embrace millions in their communion, like that of Rome, or two indi vidual, as one separatist church we could mention actually doer. Again, the views of parental autho rity which prevail in all civilised nations of the Eu ropean raw, concede to parents the moral training, es they concede the physical nurture, of their children. In the eyes of the civilised European the family of parents is an inviolable domestic asylum, into which intrusion against their will ought no more to be tole rated than forcible intrusion into an Englishman's house is according to the theory of English law. But children are not merely members of a church and of some domestic circle, they are also citizens, members of a civil society. If their church and their family have claims upon them and duties towards them, so has the state. Upon the church, then, devolves the responsibility of training the young Christian, upon the parents devolves the responsibility of training the young member of their family circle, but upon the state devolves the responsibility of training the young citizen. This is the Bch% in which Mr. COBDEN so forcibly placed the intentions of the conference at its last meeting. He declared, in the name of his colleagues, to the clergy of ell denominations, that they did net intend to take their disciples from them. He re minded parents that they did not tfropose to take their children tad shut them up in boarding schools. The end and aim of their tforts, he proclaimed, was for six or eight hours, in fire days of the week, to ensure to children instruction in that secular knowledge which is indispensable to the right discharge of the duties of the citizen ; :saving the children to the care and instruction of their pastors on the Sabbath, to the care and instruction of their parents throughout the week, except during school hours. There is nothing in such a division of educational labour as is not, in part at least, practised every day. How many parents pram the ability or the leisure' to immart to their children even the mere elements of knowledge? The parents most sedulous in the dis charge of their parental duties, the most j. aloes of alien Influence over the opinions and habits of their children, *end them to public schools, or employ tutors to teach them, from the A B C up to the most recondite mysteries of the classics and mathematics. Again, they do not dream of having their children taught all !hinge at once, or by the same master. Among the middle and upper classes, children often go to one school fee writing, to another for Latin, and to a third for modern languages, The most anxiously sectarian of parents do not seek to ascertain before hand the orthodoxy of the dancing, music, and Italian masters. With the aid of the clergyman cf whose ministrations they avail themselves, they seek to instil habi s of practical piety into the young mind ; by watching for and checking undue stiles of temper and improper practices, they reek to form them for domestic life ; and the instruction required for pro fessional and public life they procure for them at the hands of the beet teachers withia their reach and means. Now even amorg the middle classes therein scarcely a father of a family, who does not feel, with our exist ing un-organised means of education, how difficult a matter it is to find teachers upon whose competence he can rely, or to defray the expense of the numerous isolated teachers be is compelled to employ. Of course, as we descend lower and lower in the scale of affluence, the difficulties from both causes to be sur mounted increase in a more than geometrical ratio. The number of private educational institutions sup parted by the middle classes, and the lamentable destitution of education among the poorer classes, show at once how far the principle of combination or association can go to diminish the cost and ensure the efficacy of teachers, and how much extended and perfected association is needed for such purposes. Upon the as yet undeveloped, or imperfectly de veloped, law of society, revealed by the facts now adverted to, eves the defence of the plan of local schools supported by local ratee. This law it is that renders the scheme as practicable as it must be bene ficial. It is the interest of every parent that there should be within his reach schools at which his children may obtain the best possible instruction at the lowest possible cost. This object may best be attained by the combination of all householders or heads of families in a locality to have schools estab lished in which the teachers are remunerated partly by fixed salaries to ensure them a modest com petence or independence ; partly by moderate tees for the various branches of instruction afforded in order to stimulate them to exertion. Bo the com bination of all the householders or heads of families is a locality, the salaries of the local teacher+ may be raised by rates somuderate as to be little more than nominal ; while the practice of allowing moderate fees to be charged for the different branches of instruction enables the poor man, whose children must earn their bread by labour, to obtain for them the elementary knowledge necessary in their bumble vocations from teachers as able as those who instruct the children of the wealthy, while the latter, for the payment of mode rate additional fees, can obt sin for their children, in the same seminaries, instruction in all the higher branches of knowledge. In a country like ours, where industry, intelligence, and good conduct often raise the humblest to the highest rank, the mixture of the young of all classes in seminaries so constituted would be in itself an invaluable part of education. Having reached this point, the next Tuition that arises relates to the expediency or admissibility of state interference. It must be obvious, on a very superficial examination, that in order to any into *Stet such a system of co-operation for the eptablish ment and maintenance of schools, certain compulsory powers agai net dissentients must be vested in the aggre gate of householders or heads of families wield* a locality. Were the contributions voluntary, preju diced or niggardly spirits would withhold them. Such powers can only be conferred by the supreme legialature ; and it is both the right and the duty of the supreme legislature to confer them. Ity rendering contributions towards the mainte nance of schools compulsory, the legislature infringes on no right of free opinion. It leaves inviolate the field of religious opinion in which the church repudiates interference; it leaves inviolate the field of domestic morals which parents reserve to themselves. And it is the duty of the state to lee that its young citizens rooms sufficient intellectual training to enable them to learn for themselves what the laws are which they are bound, often under terrible penalties, to obey. In maple and not numerous communities laws were made public by proclamation; in our crowded and complex mewl laws are merely printed, and perhaps is it to netting mote can be done. Bat w h a t a moc k ery an d ialustice exact obedience to laws thus published, unle ss the enacting power takes care that all its sub jects shall be able to read them, and read them un derstandingly? Again it is the isterest as well as the duty of the state to provide fur the training of all citi zens in avatar or civil knowledge; for only thus can it ensure a constant enoosesion of individuals compe tent to discharge the duties of civil offices; only tens can it ensure that general development of intelligence alike neseasary for the mond and physitml wed being of eooist y. Bat fa the ministry of civil or lar educa tion, am is all departments of adminkitrOve /firers: meat, exoessive osobslisstion narjews mei eassiges. And therefore, it is better that thb state, enlieners/ legislature and government , issued of charging ftself with the details of educational management, should rest satisfied with persoribicg in general terms that it shall be provided, and with keep rag strict watch to it ▪ s that its erases h e obeyed, leavieg the execution of s ordinal's= to the organised local communities into which the empire fa divided. The space dims remarks already occupy, warns us to draw to a close for the present. This one addi tional remark, however, we must make : To the sneeec of any agitation or movement fur the public benefit two things are required —intelligence* and per severing energy in thorns who commence certain degree of preparedness in the public mind to be acted upon. Whether those who have originated the present educational move meet posses the memory qualifications must be shown by their future operations ; their prooredings at start ing are of good augury. That the public mind is ripe for such a movement seems to us obvious, from the tone and temper of the comments of the press on the Manchester conference. To go no fur ther than two of our morning metropolitan contem poraries, we have the conservative noses winding up an able exposition of the wretched state of existing provisions for general education by warning thaw who entertain its opinions not to mar the prospect of good by injudicious or indiscriminate opposition ; and the high-church Chronicle, starting objections, it is true, but in no uneandid or uncharitable spirit. " The fields are white unto barred ;" may the Lir-appointed reapers put in their sickles wisely and warily ! Darns the annual exhortation to remember it, the Fifth of November was rapidly descending from the rank of a festival into the common-place of every day. GUT FAux, once a British institution, appeared likely, at no distant day, to have become aforgotten, u it has long been an unprofitable, mummery. The improved feeling of the British people has for many years been unfavourable to the day, and to the mode of keeping it. We had passed the period when it was • part of the system of government to inflame the people against the POPE I and the Pretender. Sectarian violence had greatly moderated; therefore the sth of November was lees and less commemorated. Public decwum and pri vate opinion alike forbade one man to scoff at another concerning his religion; and therefore GUT FAUX, with many other vulgar things, was going out of fashion. Of recent years, doubts even have invaded people's minds u to the existence of en original cause for a GUY Faux celebration; and if things had been left u they were, the lapse of another quarter of a century would probably have reconciled the English to the notion that there never was a " plot," and that GUY FAUX was a fable. Thanks, however, to the POPE and the Pretender— to Plus of Rome and NicifoLAs cdWestminster— Our Fstrx yesterday was disinterred, and received with all the acclamations of a century back. He visited the metropolis in various guises : in one place assuming the resemblance of the POPS himself: in several instant*s appe aring in the broad red hat end glowing stockings with which Cardinal NICHOLAS will henceforward be associated : in other eases look. leg amazingly like our own sour-ringed prelate, Pope HENRI of Exeter : elsewhere attended by nab a train as the Rev. Father BENNETT delights to ex- hibit on high festivals at the Wilton Alibey. In fact he came out in the morning in every conceivable form and figure that was calculated to awaken the present symeathies of the people, and he " went off" at night amid a display of rockets and crackers that it would have done Sir WILLTtx Co:comma% heart good to have witnessed. Roman candles (not those used at St. Paul's, Pimlico,) were at an enormous pre mium; and, as one of the old archbishops need to re commend, "a flame was kindled throughout this land that might have lighted up the Vatican itself." "0 ov Faux," as serving to commemorate an age of distrust and religious persecution, is a celebration that it has long been the desire of the better-thinking portion of this people to discourage. And it has been discouraged. Far the last twenty years few bare heard, and still fewer have witnessed, clergy men in robes heading the fifth of November proms- sione, and inciting stubble to violent demonstrations. Those scenes belonged to an age of which FIELD ING has left us a vivid record, bat to which the recollection of few living can extend. But the "OCT Faux" of yesterday was a demonstration which, if regretted, can scarcely be blamed. It aimed not at the revival of catholic and protestant animosi ties, but at the revival of an attempt for catholic pre dominance. It displayed the feeling of the people, not against their Roman catholic fellow-citizens. but against the attempt of the Roman pontiff to establish in this realm no order not recog nised by our law. Strange to gay, there are even catholic' who might have joined in the sentiments with which OUT Faux was recoived in England yes terday. For the first time since the reign of JAMES I. • catholic could agree that there were good grounds for checking the arrogant assumption of the heads of his own church, and that a demonstration on the part of those opposed to it, was neither unfair nor entirely uncalled for. If the POPE and Cardinal WISEMAN have inflicted an affront on our Sovereign—if their recent proceeding has been an unwarrantable attack on the spiritual liberties of England—how much more is it to be condemned when we regard it with reference to the position in this country of the church they represent? What had the Roman Catholics of England done to Dr. WISEMAN that he should advise a movement calculated at once to array against them the protestant feeling of • protestant empire ? How had the catholics of Ireland injured Dr. Wtsesta.N, that he should inflict on them the grievous injury to which the cause of that nation will probably be subject, in consequence of this check upon the growth of tolerant opinions? Of what na tion te Dr. WISEMAN, that he should thus endeavour to array the political feeling of England against the Roman pontiff? that he should place that pontiff, his own spiritual scierior, in a position of hostility to the Queen of ENGLAND, to whom he him self acknowledges temporal allegiance? Of what church is he that he should take • measure which throughout enlightened Christendom, when the feel ing of this people comes to be kno co and understood, will be regarded as little less than an insane aggres sion? Yes: it is Cardinal WioutAN that the (Atha lies of England have to thank for reviving the "lumbering memories of papal intoleranoe—the fading recollections of a " gunpowder treason," and the fast decaying hostility towards those who perpetuate in their families and persons the unreformed religion of the country. The pulpits rung yesterday with denunciations of popery and stories of " the Plot." Every street ' : echoed to the chorus : Wei see no reason Weyeupowder treason 131 mid ever be forgot." The Royal Standard floated on the Tower of Wind sor, and the national flag was hoisted at every public building throughout Leedom. Nothing delighted the populace like Ouv Faux; even Poach was com paratively inattractive, whilst the Fantoecini were j entirely deserted. All England, from the highest to the lowest, burnt the POPE in the evening. They I burnt him in Golden-square, they made a bon-fire at Pimlico. That which nerd to be the folly of a set of ragged boys was elevated into the act full of purpose .of a thinkingpftple. Such are the demonstrations ' which this ridiculous assumption has occasioned; such are the indications of public feeling which await the Cardinal "Archbishop of Westminsttr" when he puts his foot upon these shores. It is too late for him to stay the torrent : it will be didicrilt for any one to item it. Rome cannot recut this act; and if eh* could meal it, its effect upon the public mind could not be effaced. The government, as usual, may endeavour to shirk its effects by delay and seeming eireisessess: but even they may delay upon this gate time seta it is too late. There is one class who have not as yet spoken out upon the subject, and that is the class most deeply interested in it. We ask with some anxiety what are the opinions of the Roman oatholies of England? Were they content with their position prior to the assumption of power by the POnt—oe do they prefer the new hierarchy appointed to rule over them? If a feeling prevails amoog them that a step bas been taken seriously calzulated to injure their position in Great Britain, would it not be as well that that opinion should be recorded whilst there is yet time ? THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING; -.NOVEMBER 6, • 1850 ti - . FRANCE. PAM. TOMMY imam The Bonapartist journals arm that in the inter view of reenelliatied whisk took pine yeuterday inning Inwood the President and Gann One aerator, the latter voluntarily pledited his dative sop port for the prolongation of the Presidia's . ere. Tnis, to say the least, MOM highly impgp a The acne tonne of Oaten Changareler's seder fifths day, which is regarded as an avowal of dated. and impo tence on the part of the Elyse.„ has esespietely re assured the Contended of Pirmsdadde s whisk keen jonrned its dent sitting to T the Malay day. All the prey wise whisk pains ses that of tie itriare wistly as donbling the military pods, &0., have heed reamed, and thing. have Mann to their usual awes. Daring the oritkaljeaildre the society of the Dix-Deoembm appointed a amaittee et prunes.' ea its aide. This conclave was amt in okee deliberation on the third, waiting to bear the denim of the filysee with re spect to Cies. Changarnier's order of the day, when a member altered and snowing that its order of the day was accepted, added that there was no longer any need to sit in wmanenos, thanked the society for the seal and ardour which it had exhibited, and begged it to reserve these for a happier ocossion. The battle is deferred till the oanvooation of the Assembly. It is impossible that the President can sit down quietly under this blow. Such a passive attitude would be equivalent to abdication. He will met about for other ministers, try to conciliate the socialists, and return to the charge with strengthened hands. There was never perhaps a more sttiking instance of the complete unootisciousneas of a people of the state of convulsion and conflict which may shake the very heart of their government, and break at any moment into visible explosion at the canon's month, while the whole outer world is bent earnestly in chasing the idlest pleasure; than the appeannos Paris presented on bunday lut. While thousands were ponnng in holiday attire towards the Champ_ de Mars to gaze at a saws of mummers from the Hip podrome, holding a mock tournament; and while the fashionable world was thronging the Champs Elysees with gay equipage; and "ail went merry am a mar riage bell," the wisest statesmen in France trembled in their shoes for what the next hoar would bring forth. A stroke of the pen from the Elyse, and ere sundown the quays would have been lined with armed men, the Place de la Concorde would have bristled with bay onets, regiment would have been arrayed against re giment, and all the horrors of civil war might have been let loose. The next morning all Paris woke to find that it had been sleeping on a volcano. The 31st article of the constitution contains, as you are aware, a clause allowing the National Assem bly to fix the number and importance of the military forces to be established for its security in the place where it chooses to hold its sittings, and empowering it to dispose of such troops, Had the decree dismiss ing General Chengarnier from his command been signed, the Committee of Permanence would have convoked the Assembly immediately, and the Assem bly would have proceeded instantly to claim the pro tection of the armed force. Clangarnier would have been proclaimed dictator, and the generals of the other military divisions would have been called upon to rally round the banner of the Assembly. The first warning in General Cltangarmer's laeonic order of the day is drawn from the 100th article of constitution, which prescribes that no armed corps can delibera te. As to the admonition that the rules of the service do not suffer the troops to utter cries while under arms, it comes, to say the least, with a very bad grace from the general, who, when review ing the troops in the Champ de Mars, in April, 1849, made the following speech to the commanders of the regiments : " Cry all of you, and make your men cry Vire Napoleon ! Not `s wo rd far the republic." The Pays contains the following pregnant queries : Is it tree that M. Ctiangsznier did not punish any *Meer or soldier for having uttered anconstilutional cries fa the reviews of Satory ? Is it true that he did not make say re port on tee subject to the Minister of War, his chief ? If those questions be mimed to the affirmative, clan we con sider as serious the attitude of thins who, gratuitously Cum. p romising M. Changariner t desire to show in his name that the governmeat has nominated a grime to a toleration the ' responsibility of which can only fall on the general in chief, who did not ecasider the cries called either for a reporter • pususlieseat ? Ii it true that General Changurnier said ea several 430311ai111S to the chiefs of regiments in garrison at Paris in 1849, and especially in a greed review at the Champ de Mars, in the month. of April,—" Gentlemen, we must conclusr . datasioity by moral loose as well as by the Sores of arms. Cry all of you, and snake your men cry, Vire Napo. Leon I Not • word far the republic. Let only one cry be uttered in the ranks of the army—Vive Napoleon ! I invite you to do this, sod, if necessary, I order you!" General Chaogaroier's order of the day is the prin cipal theme of comment in the Paris journals of this morning. The Constilisfionne: merely subjoins the remark that "General Changarnier, having been re• ceived at the Elyse in the morning by the President of the Republic, it was to be hoped that the last phase of a situation which disquieted every one, and was profitable to none, now approached its term." The Opinion Publique, alter drawing attention to the fact that neither the Moniteur do Soir nor the Petrie, though avowed supporters of the Elyeee, have published the order of the day, declares that the advantage in the late straggle at pre sent remains with General Changarnier, this last act of his having, it says, brought about the triumph of discipline and of the law. The Na tional also assigns the advantage to the general, affirm ing that he has now struck a master blow, and that by it he holds the El she in check. " The triumph of General Changarnier," it sap, "is complete. He replies to an affront by • provocation end a bravado; and ho has the immense advantage othaving right on his side. But the whole matter is risible." The Republique approves fully of the order of the day per' se, but oonsiders it at present out of place. To be con- ' !daunt and truly useful, it ought, our contemporary gays, to have been issued, not on November 2, but on October, 9, the day before the review of Satory. The Ordre retains all the hostility which it has long evinced, against the President. The Assembles Nationale has adoptid a milder tone. General Changarnier has published the following order of the day on the appointment of Gen. Carrelet to the place of General Neumayer : By a decree of the President of the Republic, dated the , 29th of October, General Omelet, commanding the 7th military division, is called to the ooramend of the Ist, vice Graver! Niemeyer, promoted to the superior command of the 14th and 16th divisions. Ia commankating this mange meat to the troop, the genera4lA.(6W doubts not that Chaerid Car elet will maintain Ia kis diviaits the spirit of mese, Elesipliss, and devotedness which has constitated the gaama dim away of Paris, sad that, folliwing the eawmplisl of bh goodsassior, he will mare !on every point the eses plies SPlllnioll of the military regulationu The government has received to-day despatches from Lille, announcing the election of General Lahitte der the department of the Nord. Notwithstanding the absence of the socialists front the poll, the votes obtained by the general exceeded one-quarter of the number of electors inscribed on the lists.. The total number of electors inscribed for the department of the Nord is 140,000. Gen. Lahitte had by the latest intelligence polled 35,848 votes, which is consider ably more than the proportion required for his elec tion. It is said that the government has received to-day news of the conclusion of a fresh treaty with General Roses. Yoa may remember that fresh instructions were sent out to Admiral Lepredour to procure more honourable terms than were included in the first ar rangement. Before ratification the treaty must be submitted to the Assembly. The favourable turn which took place yesterday in the funds, in °outlaw's') of the reconciliation, has continued to-day. The Fives rose 85 oentimee ; the Threes, 60. A curious case is to come shortly before the law courts of Caen. The circumstances are Chu turreted by the Piled, of Calvados : When the Presidents( the Ngablic wesrir ea. ait Casey, on tits 4th ca his Is younit girls of the hie •• bombe' !sere!, ornatasetimears Prodisat palish sue • handful of geld—se sheet diNta—is see thus. halal the sans mousse lie slip use sarsalsl t h em w. .the by scams maws was ma ap t Ina a aim asosa aa aid wailer, sari await maw ado= !who had lost preseassit a redlines the Psedibalt. the money. Mbar" subsettand/ presseibil dot lbs money was Ow is him slam. w the odds balsa that it was destined for them; and se the Maar misted Is UWE( it, the mare was celled at Is Aside. wrote to the pad* of the department, to eltree e m the Presided MI kuseded this saw. The =fro was with the Pree4l.l, aesuessi that be bad that hires destined fa Mosesse RIM lbw gists esteem. tested, and • few days dash they abed £lklolll I wisps sae Awe de pais of Trews, that be Wale beim. OM ass sal, to give up the money, bat be pay thamamms. ss down be hay* retained it. The Jpe de lob al. =stod to resoesie tbo goodie, bet la vela. Fiedbli to bo twins, be deolaard biatedir isooolpotost to marts& Os mimeo sal mime" It to Ms Civil TeMesed of Cum NAM Janisset, it jeweller, was yesterday oiled before the Tribunal of COMOM;011 at the suit of Messrs. Delionarre and Ce.,bankers, for the payment et a bill' of exchange of 2,300 ducats about 10,000 fr.). The debt arose out of the following circumstanoes : - - Is 1846. the nisei digerati Acme to rads and purettaied" from Koss. Jaaleast jewellery to the amount of 32,600 fr., for wet& he give ens bdb of exchange, two of whisk was pidd. The tab* which was for 2,300 ducats, and pay able at Naples ea the 134 b April, 1847, tame into tits bands of tie above bankers, and was by them forwarded to Naples bakes :It became doe. It was sot paid, and when It was sougbt to have it probated, the answer was that no hauler in Naples would dare to draw up • protest against • prince of the blood royal, as there was a law which prohibited princes to sign bilk of exchange 'debate the permission of the sovereign. The buboes. bedisg it impossible to °bean payment, Claimed thcagnowst beat Mess- Janisset, who tamed, au the plea tine the bill INA so bees day protested The tribunal, attar idllowadia, everraled objection, and oondemsed her to parr the mount with is West and mate. - - The Prince de Canino, ex-President of the Roman Constituent, purposes pealing the winter in rani. He has taken the apartment in the Hotel Sleet, close to the Elyse*, which was lately occupied by the Repeal's' Ambassador. The French government is at present making experiments for the purpose of establishing electric telegraphs on the railways between Metz and Nanny, Sarreburg and Strasburg, Paris and Chartres, Nantes and Angers, Creil and Bt. Quentin, Avignon and Mar seilles, Tours and Poitiers, Monterean and Troyes. When Mdlle. Rachel was lately at Carlunhe, an aged and infirm Jewess called on her. and, after stating that she wu in most indigent circumstance, gave her convincing proof that she was sister to the celebrated actress's father. Mdlle. Rachel made her a present of a gold watch, and agreed to allow her a pension of 9001 r. a year for the rest of her life. M. Kirmann, Colonel of the lklatnelnkes under the empire, died a few days ago at Rosheim, department of the Be. Rhin, aged 82. The Ville de Paris of 120 guns, recently launched at Rochefort, has just been put in commission ; the command has been given to Captain Leveque. Pkitaii, Nov. 2. Per — Mesift. Opals. WONG Lowest, Clain.. 3 0101 — ar7 — . 67 73 37 70 57 90 57 60 57 90 5 per Osata. U 0 92 73 93 10 92 70 93 10 5 do. New Loma. t 6 • • per ()rata. FP 06 4 per Cents. F.:Usage aLoaaa :at that. 16 16; 90 dam U 24. .. Bahrtaa,6, 1840 Da. 0, 1543 101 . Raman Loan 1630 75 . Do. la Do. 24 Placlaseart 3 per Cents B4 33 „ Doak Shares Bousaz —Versailles (left back), 137 60; Paris and Or team, 778 75 ; Paris sad Msun, 60T60; Rouen and Havre, 247 50 ; Marseilles and Atiftooll, It 2 50; Strasbourg and Bale, 121 25. Orleans and Vierzon, 360; Orleans and Sur daauz, 387 60; North, 463 76; Paris and Strasbourg, 343 76 ; Tours and Nantes, 242 50. sweep off pretty baaelp the whole income of the let ter. Where is a to find 45 dollars, or a re. tail grocer (a very ra l i tte li r a ent pennons in Rome from a Londe* tea-Msrohanti), - to have 80 dole. per annum at the disposition of the tex , getherer ? What works the people no toe pitch Of fury is that the princes, cardinals, religions seteldishmente, and great proprie tors are exempted from all burthens save the cus tomary land and house taxes. The second tariff is expected to make its appearance alertly, showing in what degree professional men are to contribute to the exigencies of the state, when a host of those who are now congratulating themselves upon having escaped will find themselves sacked into the financial vortex. It is calculated that if the tax wars properly collected the government might realise about three millions of dollars a year, but it is usually the CAN that, whoa an imposition is too grievous, it either produces an ineurrertion, or fella into disuse from the impossibi lity of getting it io. In other respects the mosey market would appear to be gradually bettering here; the foreign exchanges have again fallen, and bills on London may now be bad at 808, about 1 per cent. lower than last week, and between 7 and 8 per cent. above par, notwithstanding which the pries of silver maintains itself at a premium of 10 per cent. A series of manuscripts and autographs, of a highly interesting character, has been recently brought to light in the library of the Piano-palace. The young Duke of Piano, D. Mario Ottoboni, who is not yet arrived at his majority, being only 19 years of age, is the sole remaining representative of this noble and an cient family, which, of Venetian origin, boasts of hav ing given to the world many illustrious personages, amongst whom Pope Alexander VIII. Besides other rare mental qualities, the young duke already displays a great love for bibliographic pursuits, in consequence of which he recently requested the well-known Com mendatore Visconti, secretary of the Archarological Society, to examine the numerous cdlection of auto graphs:and manuscripts existing in the ducal archives. These researches have revealed a long correspondence between Maria Clementine (wife of the Pretender) and Cardinal Ottobni, who subsequently ascended the papal throne as Alexander VIII., and whose eFlendid monument forms one of the ornaments of the Vatican Basilica. Other interesting correspondences with the Venetian Doges Fescarini and Cantarini have been discovered, as well as those of the celebrated minister of Louis XIV., De Tonrcy. The examination of these hidden treasures continues, and there is no doubt that the zeal of their noble proprietor will enrich the literary world with many important his torical documents. The friars of the order of St. Camillus who admi nistered the hoepital of Stasis (Roman States), hay ing been expelled from thence by the rulers of the late Roman republic, Motsignor Morichini has writ ten to their superior to invite them to resume their former duties. PIEDMONT. The Opiniane of Turin, of the 31st ult., gives the following statistical information on the convents of Piedmont. There aro 233 religious houses for monks, of which 138 belong to the mendicant orders ; 131 convents of nuns, 72 of which belong to the sisters of charity, and the others to rich cloistral orders. As the population of the country amounts to 4,125,000 souls, it follows that there is one convent for every 10,7,50 inhabitants. LOMBARDY: The Maas Gazette, of the 31st ult., contains a notice informing the public that a quantity of Treasury bill., representing a sum of 2,600,000 Austrian litres (about 3 millions of francs) ie to be publicly burnt is the first days of November. MILAN, Ocr. 30. Yesterday a commission was appointed to consult upon the most effectual means of realising the loan through bankers. A despatch from Vienna orders recourse to a forced loan. GERMANY. The resignation of Radowitz wan accepted by the King of Prussia on the 3rd inst. The leaders of the opposition against the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs were Mannteuffel,Brandenbarg, Simons, Stock hausen and It the, Ladenberg and Von der Heydt alone supporting him. The latter gentlemen sent in their resignations simultaneously with General von Rs dowita. It is not known whether Von der Heydt will keep office, but the king has refused to let Ltdenberg go. The Chambers are to meet on the 21st of November, and it is supposed that a Mann teuffel ministry will meet them. On the 4th, indeed, Mannteuffel had assumed ad interim the pyrtfolio of war. The programme of a now cabinet with such a leader must undoubtedly and wiU be the total aboli tion of the Erfurt union and the recognition of the Bundestag. Thus will have ended a oris:s, the result of which must be the abasement of Prussia as a first rate power. The conferences at Vienna will now take place under the presidence of Austria as soon as they can possibly be assembled. Already the Prussian secretary of legation, Rosenberg, has gone to Vienna with despatches apt c -- Ally referring to this very matter. Count Bernetorff was exoected from Vienna. The Bavarians have not proceeded further into lieu. than Gelnhansen. The Prussians still kept moving ap to Cassel up to the 3rd inst., and a force of 6,000 Prussians, under General Itadziwill, had occu pied Fulda on the tad inst. From Vienna we learn that Cardinal Wiseman had arrived in that capital on the 31st ult. The Lehibiteriain sent by the Bandcatag in Frank fort to the Duchies had arrived there, u will be seen by the following despatch: KIEL, Nov. 3. "An Austrian officer has arrived here with federal despatches, which order the immediate cessation of hostilities, and, in case of non-compliance, threaten that the execution of the orders shall be insured through the means of federal trooper." Beaux, Nov. 4.—Voluntary Lou, 106 i ; New Loan, Four-and-a-Halt per Cents , 100} ; National Debt, 8b1; Cernaterciel Marine Society's Prennurs,l2o; Beak Shares, 974. VIENNA, Nov. 2- Five per Cent. Metalliques, 921; Four and-a-lialf per Cents., ,ditto, 811. Beak Scans, 1,130. Exchange on London, 12. RUSSIA.—A steam-boat company has lust been formed at St. Petersburg for the navigation of the Wolga, the Kama, and their branches, an undertaking which will be of the highest importance to the inter nal commerce of the country. A. capital of 3 millions of roubles (12 millions of francs) had been subscribed in a few days, and orders have been given for the con struction of steamers, moat of them of iron, and built in such a manner that they may be taken to pieces, and carried by land to their place of dentin stion. It is hoped that the operations of the company may com mence in the course of next spring. ALGERlA.—Religions orders are extending their influence in Algeria. The sisters of SL Vincent de Paul, who were formerly restricted to Algiers, have at present several establishments in different parts of the country, one of them even at the foot of the Atlas. The sisters of the Doctrine Chretienne are established in the province of Constantine ; those of the Ordre Triaitaire in that of Oran. The Lazarists direct the grand seminary for clerical students at Algiers, and are already beginning to advanoe into the interior. The Jesuits have greatly augmented in the three pro vinces. Near Bonaktioun, on the highway from Algiers to Blidab, they have founded a house for ' those of their order who devote themselves to the Arab missions. They there give hospitality to the Arabs on their way to Algiers, and in addition have provided stables for their horses and cattle, and a school for their children. In all this the Jesuits have imitated the Zwatios of the Massulman Marabouts, and have, it is said, won the good will of the Arabs. WREXHAII, Nov. 4.—A meeting on an unusually large scale for this ordinarily quiet town is announced for Tuesday next, the 12th inst., in the Union-hall, " to promote the objects and explain the principles of the Peace Coogrese." Mr. Cobden, who is on a visit to W. H. Derby, Es q., of Brymbo (large iron works in this neighbourhood), has promised to be present, and take a part in the proceedings. Mr. Sturge is also announced as a speaker. The meeting will be attended by great numbers from this town and neigh bourhood. Arancriox or RENT.—James Shell, Esq., Q.C., of Dismission, has prop mod, through his agent, Courtenay Newton, Beg., to make the liberal allowsnoe of 26 per cent. to Ids tenants fa the townland of Donaghanie, to be Impended is the improvement of their respostive farms or houses, and should that suns not be found ludas:dent an additional allow ance will be given. SPAIN. MADRID, Ocr. 31. Within these three or four days all the opposition papers have been repeatedly seised, though they have not contained articles that could materially damage the ministry. I have already mentioned to you that meet of the emplayls of the home department were gentlemen of the press, and still keep up some con uexion with the ministerial prints. It would appear therefore that this continual seizure of journals is caused by a journalist's desire to diminish the number of his rival's subscribers, and to increase his own, for the lo7ers of news do not like to be curtailed of their daily ration two or three times a week. Since the permission granted by the government for the partial restoration of the convents, an active propaganda bee been organised by the Pope's nuncio, to induce wealthy women to take the veil, and, above all, to endow the church with their worldly goods. A scandalous example of the kind has jest taken place, and forms the principal aliment of to•day's gossip. The Cortes was opened by the Qneen to-day, with the usual ceremonies. The Queen was accompanied by the King Consort. In the speech from the throne her Majesty began by alluding to the hopes she had entertained of presenting herself with a Prince or Princess on the occasion, but expressed her resignation to the will of Providence. She expressed satisfaotion in being able to announce the happy re establishment of diplomatic relations with - Great Britain in a manner worthy of both countries. Friendly relations continued with other powers. The Spanish expedition to Rome had been eminently suc cessful. In the interior of Spain public order was maintained and past dissensions forgotten. Tran quillity was for a moment disturbed in Cabs by a tet of foreign pintas, who fled before the loyalty of the people and the bravery of the troops. The army preserved its reputation for discipline, and the Rave was increasing in importance. Various reforms held been made in the penal ode of Spain, all of white would be submitted to the Cortes by the ministers. Reforms had also been effected in many other branches of the public administratios. The public revenues eta tinned to progressively increase. The plan for the definitive settlement of the public debt would be pre sented; also that of the Bssquefueros. In a word, the state of the country her Majesty pronounced to be relatively prosperous and favourable. Th.: ceremony took place in the new palace of the Congress, the Chamber of Deputies. MADRID, Ocr. 31—Thus per Cents., 241; after Bolos, 34 1316 omit. Four per Cents., 131. Five per Conti., 131 paper ; after BA's, 131 paper, 131 cash. Coupons, 71 sub; after Bolts, 71 sub. Pariese, 3 16.16 cosh; alter Boise, 316 16 cash. Bank of Bt. Twasika, 97 paper. Exchange oa London, 60.35.—Tthsaterow Wag All Saints' Day there will be no Boise. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing under date Oct. 28, says: The principal subject of interest at I present in Rome, and, indeed, throughout the whole state, ie the new imposition of taxes upon the various branches of industry and commerce by which the msjority of citizens gain their livelihood. The gene ral feeling Is that the rules of proportional equity have been terribly transgressed in the formation of the graduated scale, and a universal burst of ill humour pervades the middling and lower claws, many of whom now abandon their lingering allegiance to the government, and swell the ranks of its political adversaries. The regulation and tariff, dated the 24th October, were published on the 26th, in ten days from which time all persons exercising or intending to exercise any manufacturing, agricultural, or com mercial calling, from the highest to the lowest, are to send is their names and trades to their respective municipal authorities, for the formation of the lists of tax-payers, which will:be divided into cluses, degrres, and series, by secret committees. The tax is to be paid beforehand. four months at a time. The first category comprises, bankers, agents, and merchants, paying 180 dots. per annum the first class, and so on down to 80, the sixth class. Secondly, farmers and dealers in agricultural products pay from 120 dole. to 20 dole. Then come manufacturers of all sorts, who pay from 100 dole. to 25 dole., and the retailers of their manufactures from 48 dole. to 8 dole. per annum. All manufacturers of and dealers in comestibles pay from 80 dole. to 8 dole., at which rate are also taxed all handicrafts; silversmiths and goldsmiths being, by a strange clause, rated lower than blacksmiths, car penters, and bricklayers. The sixth category com prises jewellers, milliners, and a host of other shop keepers, who pay front 90 dole. to 24 dole. per annum. Post muter, and costractors contribute from 120 dole. to 20 dole., and innkeepers and house-letters, from ' 80 dole, to 20 dole. per annum, whilst dealers in pic tures, cameos, statues, or other objects of vertu are taxed at from 60 dole. to 18 dole. All these rates are calculated for Rome and Bologna, their amount gn i dually dimiuisbing according to the importance of the towns or villages of the provinces, which are divided into six classes. The discrepancies are however so manifest that everybody ia crying out already . , even before the payment has commenced, and resistance, , or at any rate the allowing of their goods to be seized, is universally spoken of by the malcontent shopkeep ers, many of whom barely make both ends meet, and could never afford to pay five or six dollars a month, ; especially now that living will cost 20 or 30 per cent. more than heretofore. It appears preposterous to rata I the millionaire banker Torlooia no higher than an agent who gets a living by forwarding cases of statues and pictures to England daring four months of the year. An annual contribution of 180 dole, will'neyn be missed out of the coffers of the former, but it will vbe Court. WINDSOR, Nor, 4, Her Majesty walked this morning in the slopes. The royal family took their usual walking and pony eine. Prince Albert went out shooting this Matting, pandsd by Lord Seymour. and attended by Lard ßymal Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, and Lieut:Coloael the Hon; A. Gorden. The Dnehess of Kent, Lady Augusta Brace Baron's' de Spoils, and Lord Seymour will join the fo o l dinner oink this evening. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's wet honourable Privy Council is appointed to meet in the E. chequer Chamber, Westminster, on Tuesday nut, the W I inat , to settle the roll of sheriffs for the enuing year Sir George Grey arrived in town last evening from his seat, Fellndon, Northumberland. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his official residence in D3wning street yesterday evening ha s his seat, Hickleton-hall, Yorkshire. (From last night'e Gaulle). WRITEIU.LL, Nov. 2.—The Qut ea has been plea se d to grant auto Sir Robert ?loamy Itulfe, Kat., the otfice of a Via-Chancellor of the Court of Chaaeery is Ragland. WHITEHALL, Nov. 2.—Tee Queen hu bee n pleased to present the Rev. Henry Charles Hartshorne, tl.k tattle rectory of Holdeaby, in the comity of Northempt os , , and floosies of Peterborough, the state being toil by the death of the Rev. lotus Lloyd Crawley, the last &womb sat o Dotralleo-STREFT, Nov. B.—The Queen has be en pleased to appoint Cberles Mann, Req. , _ to b- Crown Nolkit,„,. an d H enr y lithium, Erq., to be Master of the depurate Court for the colony of S..oth Australia. COMETESION iSItINED EY TRY. LORD-LTEUTY:IINT OF LANCASTER -John Ireland Bleckberne, junr , is he deputy-lieutenant. Da. PCSEY.—BRISTOL, Nov. s.—Dr. Paeey, wh o has been announced for some dale put, by public placards as beiog abeut to preach tomorrow snorninc and c‘e r i te : at Bt. Jaraes'a Church, has, we have just learnt, be ta prohibited from preaching by the Lord Bishop of ihis diocese. FINE ARTS. THE PRESIDENT OF 'nil: ROYAL ACADEMY. Charles Lock Eastlake, Eeq., ha., according to general anticipation, been elected president of the Royal Academy, and to 011 the chair so lately IA vacant by Sir Martin Archer Sher% Janice Chide Hook was at the same time elected associate at this the ant,ual meeting of the Royal Academy, usually keld on the first Monday of November. Those who reflect on the un easing laboure of the Secretary of the Fine Art Commie,ion will be rather inclined to believe that the title of President scg% aoae wanting to render Mr. Eistlake the legitimate leader of art is England. We need only mention his trans. lation of " Giithe's Theory on Colours," the Nw es to Kugler," and the "Materials for a History of Oil Painting." MR. James Clark Hook is a young and rising artist, who will strengthen the list of colonri to in the Academy. his pictures were nofiLeatla in the last exhibition fur the extreme freshness and brilliarcy of their tints. He is a thorough master of the Venetian gamut. With no very great intellectual profendi , y, his pictures contain a nice fund of quiet sentiment. Hie principal pictures were the " Carrara Family" and the " Dream of Venice." THE ATTACKS UPON THE POLES AND TILE POLISH BALI.. A meeting of gentlemen connected with the cm• mimes for carrying out the contemplated ball in behalf of the Polish refugees, was held yesterday in the Privy Cham ber o f th e a ld ermen ., at th e rt oildhall. Mr. Deputy HOU presided. A considerable number of the members of :..e committee were p , amongst whom were Lord Dolby Colitis Stuart, M.P. • T. Chisholm Aostry, M.P.; Deputes Peacock, Brittea, Obbard. and Holt ; and Messrs. G. Wal ter, Conant', Snelling, Barber, Johnston (Cornhill); Jahn state (Temple), Yonne Waterlow, Jame., Knott, Early, Carter, Wilkinson , R. R ead, ad, Adel', and Bishop. Soma of the members of the committee having given in their reports of btuiness merely of a routine character, Mr. CARR, the bon. secretary, read the Mantes of the former meeting, which were cor.firined. Letters from Sir Moses Monteli arc and other envision, 'sweetie/ their inability to attend, having been read, Lord DUDLEY STUART said: So far as I con me, our prospecta are most filtittil3a. In reply to the application which I have made (or patronage I have received a great . . mauy kind replies, in some ivataaces accompanied by - sch. stantial proofs of sympathy, and me refnail , , so that our charitable undertaking has the sanction not only of the lewd Mayor and Lady Majorca, and the Sheriffs , but also of a long list of noble and distinguished name,. (Cheer.) I think it may also claim the approval of every kind, humane, and reflecting person—(hear, hear)—for I am willing to attribute the very unkind attacks upon it that have been made in some of the public prints rather to want of reflection than to any more reprehensible motive. That many should decline coming to the ball, or otherwise assisti,g us, I can well understand. They do not like such entertainments. Some may even disap prove of dancing. They have other calls on their time— other claims on their money—what they have to spore 'hey prefer spending in some other way, or perhaps bestiwing nn some other charity. Well, let all such go their way, and follow the bent of their own minds. I never feel any in humour when my applications for the Poles are met by the allegation that the persons applied to cannot spare scything from our own poor, if I believe the excuse to be sincere ; but why cannot they be satisfied with gie:ng us the pain of a denial without complaining, as if our charitable undertaking were an o ff ence ? (Cheery) Above all, why should influential organs of the pros take pains to render it abortive ? Is there anything wrong in giving a ball at all? Some rigid in-re lists may think so ; but they had better attack the balls of the rich and prosperous, having no object except frivolity, and when these were put down, it would be time enough to wage war against such as are undertaken for the pnrpoee of softening the hard lot of ;he miserable, and smoothing &little the rugged path of the exile. (Cheers.) The Polish Ball, however, has been objected to on no such grounds ; and if • party of gentlemen had obtained from the Clerk et Com mon Council the use of the Guildhall merely in order to give them a bachelors' ball, or any other entertainment whose announcement was not the means but the sole end and aim, not a word probably would have been said against it. (A laugh.) It is not wrong, then, to give a ball at Guildhall ; but it is wrong. it seems, to give it for the Poles. Let me ask, why is this wrens, ? The only sneerer that can be made is, either that the Pelee are undeeerviog, or that they steed in the way of some other still more der tying objects. The first is assumed ty the nbjecton, one and all, and if the assumption were well founded they would be in the right. If it can be shown that the proceeds cf former balls hay, been bestowed upon men able but unwilling to wash, acid who have the opportunity, if they oboes to cent themselves, of finding employment—lf that can be shown, then will the Polish ball not deserve support. (Hear, bear.) The Polish grant was discussed at con siderable length in 1848, and an inquiry ordered, and what Lard Palmerston stated this year was, not that the grant should be reduced, but that inconsequence of that inquiry it had been reduced, and the Chancellor of the Excnequer added that it was no longer a question whether the Poles should be supported, but whether they should be supported out of national or out of local funds, for that none had been left on the list of recipients except such as bad been, after the strictest inquiry, found to be absolutely unable to do anything for themselves. (Hear. hear.) The grant, origi nally 10,0001. a year, was afterwards raised to 15,0001., to meet the calls arising from an increase in the number of the Poles. It afterwards diminished rapidly from stinet( causes, and in 1848 was between 7,0001. and 8,0001., bat this year (18501 it has been reduced to lets than 4,0001. a good many haring been removed from the list of recipients as able to shift for themselves (but many of them, I lament to say, are now in a pitiable state of want), and the allowance to those in the ens of officers bevies been reduced fret ten shillings to maven shillings • week. Whet must be the condition of a man with the habits and education of a gentleman, and having perhaps the acquirements of Lows Philippe, but long prevented by ill health from turningtheas to account—what must be his con 'Pion, with c onies but 7e. a week for all expenses whatsoever to depend upon, I leave you to imagine ; and also what a fintrishtng condition the finances of this country must be in now ;fiat by curtail• hag the pittance of • few homeless exiles the treasury_ his effected • saving of a few hundred pounds! (" hear," and a lsagb.) But I must apologize for detaining you so long. There are still generous and honest heats enough in the City and other parts of the metropolis and country who will not suffer their feelings of humanity to be, repressed or stifled by any sneers, p ri nted or spoken , sea who, after doing their duty by the poor of their own load, can Min spare enough to enable them to enjoy • ball et t►e exiles oafn Poland. dcheerfull o y f t th o w contribute elco to n w fi ar de de nti t y hd ei re p l ;; : t f ° t, f MD • goodly and a brilliant eseemblege ea the eveniog of Thursday the 14th of November. (Laud cheers.) Mr. SNILLIN•, Mr. JOHNSTONE, and Depu'y notr expressed their satisfaction at the statements made by Lora Dudley Stuart, when the committee, after making further arrangementa for the forthcoming occasion, adjourned. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A WATERLOO VETERAX. —Yesterday afternoon an inquest was taken by Mr. H. M. Wakley, at the , Britannia Camera-street, ffilues.r.ed Chrism, on the body of John Randall, aged 84, au out sular and Waterloo veteran, For um e years pt t he deceased hu lived under his son's roof, in Canteresttee t, Chelsea, on • pension of le. per diem, and for the last foet months he had been suffering from an attack of par . eiSto. which confined him to his room. On Sunday 'teensy as alarm was given that the room was on fire ; and, on his eon entering the place, he found the unfortunate deceased lying on the floor, doge to the fender. The flames wee extinguished as quickly as poribls, but not before the deceased was frightfully burnt. He died early the fullowai4 morning. It was conjectured that, in his attempt to eto the fire, the chair on which he was leaning upset, acl be fell sosinst the ban of the grato.—Yerdiet, Aneidental bath." I ~i 1~ i