The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-18 00:00:00

Vie Er,preoo. OUTGOING NAILS. The oath ler, Gibraltar, Nolte, Owes*, do lonian blames, gyps, Onkel. ladia, aid Chios Oa Ileasloaaptea, will be mods ap ea tbe thothe et Mink 20. The oath fee British Nee* *moth sad eb. Usited Bath will Maud. op ea lb. nosing of the nod last TM sails sise Nethiliee, to Ike fl.ditonanoso. Rapt, Ceplea, Idis, His.a-Hong, to.. will be oath or on tho .twin/ of l b . Mit last. The malls for Lisboa. Spain, the Gibealtsr will be made op wa thi 2/sli Navels. TM Walt India Meth, laded*" Bonale, ifeetheall, Mn,am Hoodoos, Now Othello, sad Meath, sod *Raisins. Noss Is. Ns Ara. 81. Jthe-dle-Nisariath, New theasda, 0101, end rem will be oath up ea April 2. The =sib be libthria, the Boils, sad Banes Ayres, will M oath ap ea the softies el April 4. TO CollatirOVlDlNnt. ied "Ilra Emus; Loam *wafts ...i nedwalsol. Wive Wilda ilk• du of IRON WATER AT LONDON WEDGE Mt.ae—Vkawros. mow. 11. Is. —llskim 14+. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 18. Militarise have new WO =folded their budget thy the year o' politics mid fiance. As usual, they have made all their corossaises to that party is the state which has proved the most noisy, and =ratite!, and agitating, and ereo subversive. Everything is for the landowner and the protectionist. Everything that can possthly be thrown to mollify Isis wrath is sacrificed. \1 hereat. nothing, either in principle or taxation, is conceded to reformers, whether electoral or finaseial. We can only conclude that these gentle men have been far too moderate, too temperate, too gentle in their agitation —too anxious by Meads'ss and confidence to keep the whigetruto free trade, to permit of their exercising that t reserve in other things which alone could have ensured progress. And the conse quence is, that we retrograde, that every measure of electoral reform to England, and even to Ireland, is scouted or neutralised, that there is to be io sensible reduction of expenditure, no burden taken off the in dustrious classes, and no more tryst reposed in them. The ministry, instead of being in the least awe of the popular party, however growing in the Hoses itself, and capable, if it would exert itself, of great growth in the country, reserves all their fears, and attendees, and conciliation for the landlords. And from them they en not the least thanks. In obsequiousness to SWIIOIIEIII' PEEL they have confined reduction to the brick du y. Following up the recommendation of the Lords committee on the burdens of land, they re move the tax on transfer. sod mortgages, and at the: same time frame the whole budget to realise the demand of cheep and &meet gratuitous capital for the agricultural borrower; all to no purpose. The member for Oxfordshire tells them, that all they have done an mere Woos for towns and compliments to forty shilling freehold societies. On the part of the landed interest he does not thank them. And we have no doubt the landed interest feels as its spokes man expressed himself,—bent on revenge aid mace tioo, and not to be softened by sops of three quarten of a mileior. Oa the other hand, the liberal and reforming in terest in the House of Commons has received nothing from ministers since the commencement of the session but fair words and empty compliments. Ministers admit or show that they stand in great need of liberal support against ultra-conservatism; but it is evident they want Whey@ it at the least possible price. Their Barking of reform,their mere make-b Hue of economy, their allowing every Irish lit. rat measure to be neu tralised and pervertel, are proofs that ministers hold the liberal party far to) cheap. And it is really to be mooted whether a frankly conservative and mad tory ministry would not be considerably more to the ultimate advancement toth of free-trade and reform. The wbig ministry of the present day, in truth, resembles those cyphers of which LOUIS NAPOLEON threatens to form • cabinet. The Emma and GRETa may indeed be far cleverer men than the HAUTPOVLS and the LAHITT Es. But of what advantage Is cleverness to do-nothings? LOUIS NAPOLEON'S nonentities of ministers Dave merely allowed his bark to drift on the quicksands of socialism. And the whip are mak ;ng use of their time of command merely tole' their state-vessel drift on prohibition and ultra-conservatism. If the whip do no more than they are doing, they are certainly but keeping the seat of power warm for toiles and protsctionists, as LOUIS NAPOLEON is evidestly - keeping a throne warm for some one of the Bovasos dukes. And French and English liberals are in the mean time both plied in the some way by similar fair words. We preserve order, exclaim tree French non etheless. We maintain free trade, cry the English inactive,. And hence the country is induced to leave power in hands too feeble and benumbed to wield, to strengthen, or finally to keep it. The small and piddlior way in which the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has dealt with the SOF plus of the revenue is quite in character with the pettiness, the tiniVity, and next door to nothingness of all that the ministry does. By keeping the whole of the surplus in his hands, the minister might have effected a reduction of interest on the debt. Or by duelist large and even measures of relief to all claims, he might have made them share fiscally in the amend improvement. As the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER has carved it, no party or class will feel much benefit ; whilst the half million which he ha kept for em-rgency will be but a standing prnvontive to some official to set to to provoke some military ex dition. Indeed, there are already indications. Sir H. Enuorr, secretary to the Governor-General of Ind a, and Sir W. GILBERT at ;Lahore, have an nounced—the one the expediency of conquering Egypt, the other the necessity of another onslaught on Cabool. We should strongly advise Sir CHARLES WOOD to have these officials reprimanded or recalled, if he would keep his half million for any awful fiscal or industrial purpose. With respect to the brick duty, we ourselves strongly advocated its abolition, although we fear that additional legislation will be required to make it profitable to the agricultural labourer. It is not the high price of bricks which has made the land lords refuse tenements to these who cultivate their estate.. It is the law of settlement. And if cheap bricks merely far ilitsta the running up of streets or labourers' habitations in town suburbs, little will been havegained. Lord ASHLEY is much occupied with his Ten Hours Bill c'ercion on the mill owners. Should it not in fairness be accompanied by a similar bill, prohib:ting landlords from compelling their labourers to ride more than two miles distance to their work on &sallies ? Sir ROBERT PEEL, who broached the donkey nuisance, would surely second such a pro posal. But the laziness of the whip, Ind their incapa bility of ever performing more than the one-twentieth part of any task, was never better exemplified than in their dealing with the stamp duties. Of all the departments of the revenue, the stamp duties form that which is capable of being rendered more pro ductive, without being unjustly onerous to any. Countries infinitely poorer than England afford in stamp duties far higher taxes than we do. The French raise eight =dhotis sterling almost solely on transfers and mortgages. And th ey propose a duty on BUOMINgOI2III, which, if carried out, would enable them to dispense with their most odious taxes on consumption. We, too, ought to have a revision of our stamp dente, blotting from amongst them those mean and beggarly Ali:hien of pence from the poor, in order to writ g 130,0001. from poor advertisers, 26,0001. from peer pedlars, sad similar sums from pour jarries. Ise tad it these b gnarly remnants of eseelity, wor thy of Turkey or of some cobbling community, why's not men a fair, large, and quite big toss upon trues tars of all Mads of property, espeeielly when passing from the dead to the lining,--a tax really Nereus to sone—• tax whi h at precut weighs heavily on the Wrenn' capitalist, while' the ouselowner, originally and feudally sus+ et t o this harden, has contrived to shake it off. Is the levying such a lax it is is the power of the state to bestow an equivalent is rendering the title to the property thus transferred, legal, positive, patent, and este. By so doing, and this avoiding law expenses ag titles, it would far more thrill's's sad sheaves ttie transfer of porticoes of land, great sod small, then the CHANCELLOR of the Exemeounies pad 'ling re.arranKement of the scale of duties. What eirr CHARLES WOOD propose. may bs good, bit it iv e stir r all, beat a drop of 'medicine in the bowl of • pstient that requires a full draught—a scruple ties ineseend Lut as compensation in a system who, sad ins gash'' , are hourly dealt out ley the pasted or the tun. Tin case of the Cheraw and Holyhead Railway Company is • strange end a hard ens mere credit able to the spirit et the people than to the honour and good faith of the goverseasat4 this country. Unlike other railways the 'obeli, devised end ibl promoted, not so mach for the Of the distriate the line runs through, es to add Is the many I material links that counsel end Ireleed. It has been executed by grivaee dam win were ea ' oraraged to enter into the . by the impor tance placed on it by pediment sad the government, at the enormous mist of 4,400,0001.; daring the progress of its eonstrssese the government imposed terms on the company width greatly aggravated its cost; and, now, when almost cumpleted, the Admi ralty and the P. et Office have done their ut most to prevent it paying its working espies's. The direst route from London to Dahlia, as all the world knows, is by way of Holyhead. Whilst yet we travelled by *rack every thing that Mao- ADAM, seieDCP, and legislation, could do for this read, was done; that the management might be uniform, its turnpike trusts were consolidated ; a 1 parliamentary commiseion presided over its adasinis teethes that it might be responsible ; valleys were filled op, hills were levelled,every bend was straightened; the swiftest horses carried the lightest mails that an hour might be saved in 'reaching Dublin. Bat just when perfection in coach travelling had been reached in the Holyhead Road, the railway b"tween London and Liverpool intervened, and swept, all its traffics round by the latter town. Scarcely, however, had the Irish traffic been famil'arised with and extended by this chaste, than, in spits of its speed and its moony, the Irish began to find a grievance in it. The fares were toe high; the route by Liverpool woe' circuitous; the North Western Company bad a mono- Wai :t p the cast of a the sist p x ng iste r t b "Justice to the r way. Unfortunately those were the lays of high dividends; time, when parliament and the public held the opinion, ong since dead and baried,that every trunk line could not pay less than 10 percent; when every week added to the traffic of every railway in operation. So, excited by the Irish demand, deluded by the nation that the railways would pay 10 per cent., parlia ment sad the government encouraged the scheme for additional railway communication with Dublin ; and the North Western Railway, in order to avoid com petition between London and Chester, consented re lactantly to be at half the cost of making a line be tween Chester and Holyhead. Accordingly, an act for 0 this great national work" was passed ; a com pany was incorporated ; one-half the shares were taken by the North Western, the other half were scrambled fur by the public, who, reasonably enough, thought that what the government so anxiously pro moted, and what the North Western so liberally sub scribed for, could not be a bad thing. Its original capital was fixed at 2,800,0001. This, however, it quickly became apparent, would be in sufficient. So power was given it to raise other 1,600,0001.; making altogether 4,400 0001. • which has now been spent. Thu great sum has n ot, how ever, quite paid for the line that has been made ; for here is on it a simple contract debt of 250,0001. Nor has it quite completed the scheme laid down; for the line completed ends a full mile from the har bour of Holyhead ; a hiatus which it will take some 200,0001. to fill op. Bat not another stiver can the company raise by hook or by crook ; and though this "great national work" is now opened throughout, its prospects are of the gloomiest. The peculiarity in the origin of the Chester and Holyhead R iilway is thee, it will be obeerved, that it was the result of a semi-rational movement ; that it was almost forced by the imperial government and parliament on the country, and that its object was not local bet national and governmental. The best proofs perhaps that this was so are, firstly,that before the line was begun the Post-office gave it, for twelve years after its completion, the mail contract for 30,000/. a year; secondly, that when the company sosurbt for pmt.'s to establish steam-boats between Holyhead and Dubin, Sir ROBERT Pest bore down all opposition by the glowing assertion that this was practically a railroad between London and Dublin, and that a service of steam-boats was a necessary and indispensable part of the seta. me ; and, thirdly, that its opening is to be followed by the termination of the vice-royalty of Ireland, and tae placing of that island under the direct administntti,in of the imperial crown. Well, then, this being es, the Chester and Holy head Railway having thus had a national and govern mental origin, let as see what government has done to promote its pecuniary emcee' ; for unless it be pecuniarily successful, the national and governmental object' will, of course, be defeated. Hsw has gsvern ment treated " the great national work ?" Scurvily enough, it seems. The original plan provided for ordinary, arched railroad bridges over the Conway and the Menai Straits, the estimates for which were 250,0001. Ti such bridges, however, the Admiralty (that plague of every ra lroad which crosses a tidal river) objected. Like the malevolent fairy in the " Island of Jewels," it proposed the seemtngly impoeeiile problem of bridges which should cross the Conway and the Menai Straits at an equal level from the water at all points, and without obstructing those channels during construction: the capital of the com pany—that is to my the resources of the cosntry— being taxed to an extent entirely unknown to the Admiralty that a few Welsh coas'ers might not de viate from their coarse for a few deys. The genius cf Mr. STET neseox answered this appeal, and by it the company was enabled, at an additional cost of 500,0001., to *stoned and confound the Admiralty by a literal compliance with its at-reasonable demand. This additional expense might, it would be sup posed, have satisfied even the Admiralty : but it did not. The herbour of Holyhead wanted deepening ; it was des:rable to mike it a harbour of refuge. And the Admiralty, in the plenitude of its power, decided that the cour t any should give 203,0001. to this work, which sum is at this hoar one of i a unprovided for liabilities. Thus eoc3nraged, government went further. Par liament had, on Sir ROBERT Peet's advice, given the company, in violation of general policy, steam-boat powers. To establish a Ent-rate service between Holyhead and Dublin, the com pany expended 160,0001. en steam-boats. But notwithstanding that the company, so encouraged and almost directed to become steam-boat proprietors, were prepared to carry on this service at moderate rates of passage, the Admiralty kept up the opposition of the old packets at aloes to the country of 6010001.. and induced the Dublin Steam packet Company to maintain its boats. Thus was the capital vested in steam-boats on Sir ROBERT Pena's recommendation rendered unprofitable by the rivalry of the Admiralty, which rivalry, whitet in juring the company, cost the country 60,0001. The company very naturally interpr ted the ex ception made in their favour as to steam-boats by parliament as an admission that the Past-office per vice between Holyhead and Dublin would fall into their hands if they were prepared to do it on rea sonable terms. Toey accordiugly offered the Admi• ral , y to carry the mails acmes the Channel f o r 35,0001. a year. To this offer the Admiralty, it seems, gave them no reply, but continued their comp.- titioo. Bo matters remaired until it was accidentally discovered by the directors that the Admiralty was on the point of concluding a contrast with the com pany's Dublin rivals fur the sum of 45,0001. a year. The directors remonstrated, end appealed to the Treasury ; the Admiralty grew ashamed of the con templated job, and threw the contract open to pubLe competition. The company reduced its offer to 30,0001. a year; but here, again, they were jockeyed by their Dublin rivals, who tendered at 25,0001., and obtained the contract. The figures are el importaLt that we rept at them. The Chaster and Holyhead Company Brat tender at 36,0001.; of their offer the Admiralty take no notice ; the Admiralty is then on the point of concluding a contract with the Dublin Steam Navigation C4mpany for 45,0001.; being detected it throws the contract open ; the railway company then offer 30,0001., the steam navigation company 25,04X)1., and obtain the contract. And thus, though the 160,0001. which parliament induced the railway company to inept In steam boats is rendered pnAlleev, the country eaves 90,0001. per annum by the intervention of the com pany and its frustration clan Irish job. But urtrnmeot has, it may be said, encouraged this company by giving it the mail contract for twelve years at 30,0001. On examination, however, it turns oat that this contract is far more advantageous to the lgovernment than to the company. Fur whilst the government arum 30,0001. a par of the former cost of the mail., the 30,0004. gutran ced to the company is mos thousands a year lea than the amount it THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1850, woad be entitled to under the ordinary term of rail way email ecstasies. Thee the Meter and Holyhead Railway Cm midiserattr b iz eg bropZ ie D d a d br est fosa hours am m e u r . i=i" between the oat alopecia goorament and the Ma metropolis, has been seriously Welt d by the warmest, wash forced it into Memos ; and theneopany, very mach home tbe' pecuniary otaitieer, and bad faith of that govesament, is re used to a 000dition which rondos a dividend on 4,000,000 L of .apical the not hopeless of human pro ne mai for tbe etwouranoseent ! that English rail- wagishave &Awakes tiro Matish of pserisiont. ease is sai , etrallag an ex the manner in which the basis= of the Admii. ocsa nc i e d, that as soon u the returns novel for ea Foley night by Sir Wn.usx BULKILIT are protioni r we shall, Rost certainly, again refer to it. SPAIN. MADRID, Maass 11. The Gassete of to-day contains a royal order direct ing that the general administrators of every diocese shall resit to the Minister of Gras and Judie, by the medium of the etelesiestiorl dignitaries a quar terly amount of the sums received sad dieribated for the maintenance of the clergy, and the expense of public worship, and at the SUN time any observation or indication they may think useful to this branch of the public service. The diocesan committees which as about to be abolished are directed to send their accounts forthwith to the ecclesiastic board of consul tation which hankie% been formed. The collecting of arrears belonging to the produce of church property returned to its owners will be henceforth made by the administratoregeneral of the dioceses, ander the in spection of the prelates. These administrators will give proper scanty. Another ministerial erisishas jut taken place. The night bets last, the Xing flailing the overhearing nese of General Nerves altogether insupportable, roused his sluggish nature and persuaded the Queen to send for the Marquis of Viluma. That experi enced statesman, whatever trust he might put in the sincerity of the King's desires, was too well aware of the unsteady character of the Queen to decide imme diately upon accepting the charge of forming a new ministry. During the time that he was turning over the chapter of probabilitiesof suttees Queen Christina got an inkling of what was going forward, and hastening to her daughter's apartments strongly remonstrated against her taking any important reso lution at the present moment. The young Queen replied that a chance of ministry was indispensable not only for the welfare of the nation but for her own happiness. Her husband was daily snubbed, and she would beer it no longer. Christina, seeing her daughter determined, suggested Conchs instead of Vilums. This was found impracticable, and tben a combina tion with Men an 3 Pidal was discussed. Christina proposed the adjournment of the question, which was agreed to, after a very impassioned scene, in which the royal children (for except in their persons both Isabella and her husband are children) agreed to follow the advice of the wily mother. But last night they called Viluma again, and upon that personage declining the dangerous honour, they sent for General Concha, who said that he did not feel himself capable of affronting all the obstacles he would have to sur mount. The affair was again adjourned. Nereus arrived at the palace, and on asking the King Consort to give him a private audience, the latter, aware of Narvaez's peremptory manner, and probable following counsel, refused to see him alone. The cabinet there fore resigned, but whether the resignation has been accepted or not has not transpired. Manaus Mum IL—lbis per dab.. SY amount. Pear =C ta n 134 paper. Five per Cents., 114 piper. °coupons, 7# ~ ~• of Ferdeaaad, $2 mosey. Fie:boars as Landes. 30.13. ITALY. ROME. Oar correspondent writes as follows : ROME, Manes 9. A 'hamar passed before Civita Vecchia on the 4th, taking down the first instalment of the loan (500,000 francs it is said) to the court at Portici ; but how we are to benefit here by the money going there, is not as yet very plainly demonstrated. According to the closest reckoning, it appears that not more than six or seven hundred thousand dollars will be at the dis position of the Papal government after deducting Rothschild's claims, commission, owing dividends, and other arrears; and of this miserable sum it is already rumoured that the greater part will be imme distely appropriated as bounty money for the enlist ment of mercenary soldiers of all nations. However this may be, the Pope declares that he is perfectly satisfied with the negotiation, and intends to return to Rome directly after Easter, the imposing church ceremonies of which season are to be celebrated for this year at Naples. So much for the external part of oar politics; with respect to internal affairs, I re gret to say that they are becoming every day more dissatisfactory, chiefly through the sweeping cruelty of the councils of censure, and the arbitrary persecu tions pat in practice by the police. Yon may obtain some idea of the degree to which the prisons are swarmed, when I inform you that the contractor general for the prisoners' food now issues forty-five thousand rations daily ; a frightful number of sufferers for political opinion in so small a state, for each we must consider thtm to be, with the exception of five or six thousand galley slaves and common offenders. Baron Kelbermatten has commenced hie functi( us as war minister, by dismissing all the members of the council of admioiatration—a sort of committee ap pointed to assist and supervise the actions of the mtotater. This vigorous stroke, and the re-establish meat of many antiquated functionaries, have excited universal discontent. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY, MALY-PAST 6 P.Y. M. &rode is gasetted this morning as Minister of theist/tier, vice M.Ferdiaand Barret, who retiree. The latter takes the embassy at Turin, M. Lucien Murat going to Constantinople in the room of General Aepick, who is recalled. M. de Hoyer takes the nod of Proesn ur-General vacated by M Earache. Taus ends the ministerial crisis—the President falling no: from Charybdis to Scylla, bat do Barret en Earache, a remit which is proclaimed to be decidedly baroque, riglice, absurd. Mach more mighty changes than those which have at last come about were at first contemplated. On Thursday, as I informed you, all the chiefs of the ma jority met and conferred, and in the evening they were cared to the Elyse*. MM. Mole, Thieve, Montalembert, Berryer, St. Priest, Changarnier, De Broglie, were present. M. de Montalembert declared that the time had come for all parties to unite for the defence of society : that a ministry ought to be formed into which would enter MM. Melt, niers, and Bey- Tree. M. Mole said he was ready to accept office if MM. Thieve and Berryer joined him. The President agreed to take a ministry thus formed. M. Thieve at first hesitated, *milked of his health; bat, giving way to motives of public good, he declared himself ready to take office, in consideration of the gravity of circumstances. M. Berryer, however, met the offer of Louis Napoleon by a decided refusaL He said that his entrance into a ministry would be, as it were, a defiance against the republic, and a signal fur civil war ; and he was unwilling, on his part, to pro voke such a struggle. M. Berryer was supported in his view of the question by the Doke de Broglie and M. de St. Priest, and could not be moved from it by all the persuasion of M. Mootalembert. In fact and in truth M. Sawyer would not take so patent an oath of allegiance and attachment to Louis Napoleon, as becoming his minister would signify, M. Berryer being too honest to ac apt such a poet, in order to betray the republic and the personage who appointed him to it. Seeing the impossibility of forming a cabinet with the parliamentary chiefs, the President refused his consent to have ace chosen front amongst their friends, and said that the only modification he could consent to was that of the portfolio of the interior. The quer Son then arose as to who should succeed M. Barret, and it was proposed to appoint M. Rouber, giving M. Baroche the past of minister of justice. Ultimately, however, the change took place as I have told you. By a telegraphic despatch, received yesterday, it appears that the two conservative candidates who had been elected for the Haut Rhin were MM. Deltas and Migeon; not de Berkhelm, as was at first stated. The announcement of M. de Barrel, the moderate candidate, having been elected for the here, turns out to be incorrect ; it is M. Dupont (de Bogue) : but, oa the other hand, M. Angle'., the moderate candidate for the Loire, has been returned, thus makin_t: the number of conservative candidates who have obtained seats hitherto filled by socialists eleven, as at first stated. The socialist candidates returned for the Haut Rhin with the conservative candidate, M. Daus and M. Migwo, is M. Keatner, who had 44,682 votes, M. Dolfus 44,202, and M. Migeon 43,763. The other socialist candidates had also rather large numbers. In nearly all the rural cantons the majo rity for the moderate candidates was very large, thus showing that socialism has made no pr?gress among the peasantry of that department. At Mulhouse, on the contrary, the socialist had a majority of nearly sto 1. In the Haute Vienne M. Battaille, the made rate candidate, lost his election by less than 3,000. He had 26,651 votes, of which 675 were from the army; and M. Ducoux 29,619, including 401 of the army. In other departments, also, the majority of the votes of the army was very much in favour of the moderate candidates. The following communicated notes are published by the Muniteur this morning : Several joa•nals, particularly the Voiz du Peupte and the National, have published an address to the " Workmen, tradesman, ite." bearing the signature of M. Fidutt as president, and MM. Croce Spinelli, and Breton, a-cre. Uric", of • committee of tradespeople, manufacturers, proprietors, and workmen, and in which it is said that an infernal trap had been laid for them. The Procureor of the Republie has ordered proceedings to be insti tuted against the above parties, as guilty W exciting to hatred and contempt of the government of the republic. The Voix du People, the day before yesterday, published and the DeNSOCialk Pizeifigue repeated, an article, in which it is stated that cansidirable MCI were adventured i• ex pectation of a rim in the event of the success of the eindi dates of the Electoral Union, by • rich Jewish banker, ow cupyine one of the most elevated positions in the govern menf, and above all, closely connected with the Prwident of the Republic. The some article adds, the interests of • high personage are, it is said, gravely compromised by the regal , . In consequence of the publication of this article, the Procureur of the Republic has demanded the peewit'. tion of the publishers of the Vas du Potpie and the Dittweratis Pacifique on a charge-Ist, of insult to the person of the President of the Republic ; and, 2nilly, ex citing to hatred and contempt of the government of the Republic. The long-continued discos-ion on the organic law on Public Instruction was yesterday brought to conclusion, the Legislet ye Assembly adopting the measure by a majority of 162, the number being 399 to 237. To-day the only thing that created a stir was the entrance into the Assembly of Messieurs Carnot, Vidal. sad De Flotte. They had cane difficulty in finding sate. M. Baroche also appeared with his pirtfolio of office under his arm. His appointment creates a vacancy in the vice-presidency of the chamber. It is supposed that M. Faucher will be appointed. Before the public sitting yesterday, the representa tives met in their bureaux to appoint a committee to examine the bill presented by the Minister of War foe a credit of 2,629,9101. to defray, during the first six months of the year 1850, the expense of an expe ditionary cor ps of the Mediterranean. The discussion turned princ ipally on the length of the occupation of Rome by the French troops. The repress ntatives were in general in favour of granting the credit • but with the reservation that the minister should be called before the committee to state the lessons which led to the continued stay of the expeditionary corps in Italy. _ PARIS. Stmosy,ll A.M. The siting in the Legislative A.sembly was ani mated towards the clove by an incident arising nut of the unwarrantable course pursued by the Astern brie IVaional• newspaper, in one of its articles yes terday. That journal thinks that the press has a right to desitnate by name the owners of certain shops as having votwd for the socialists, and to hold them up to pubic proscription on that account. No man that is not blinded by party feeling can admit that certain shops are to be tabooed la,cau+e of a political vote, unless in the moat ruthless moment of revolution. _ - M. F. de Lasteyrie urged this point in the Atom bly yesterday with much force, and M. Jules Fevre irked what was there to prevent a socialist journal from publishing in turn lists of tradesmen wl.o voted against them. Reply to this was difficult, and M. Benete merely argued that the parties aggrieved might, if they chose, obtain their reined, by a civil action. The point is debate was too fall of poll ical warning not to 'mate a storm, and M Seour d'Aguese4 au sowed the whirldwiod by crying out that the vote of Parks was a vote of war. "Your words," retor.el M. Fevre, " are those of an insurgent," and M. llopin, thinking like M. Pane, recalled M. ISegur to order. The Assembly then palmed to the order of the day. Our Paris pared of ytatwrday evening had not arr►rd at the time of goiag to prom. TUSCANY. The Costituriond, of the 9th inst., states that the British government had presented a no•e to the Tus can cabinet demandicg canpensation for the losses sustained by the British residents in Leghorn during the bombardment of that city by the Austrian tro GERMANY. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. DANISH PROPOSITIONS. .... ..--...—..—. The duchy of Schleswie shall have a separate constitution in regard to its special intense' admiinstration witnout being united to the duchy of Holstein, and leaving intact the political onion which commits the duchy of Schleswig with the crown of Denmark. The duchy of Schleswig shall have a separate legislature, which Jul frame laws concerning those affairs in which the independence of the duchy is acknowledged. The duchy shall Ise governed according to a constitution, the details of which may be settled in conformity with the principles laid down in this treaty. The branches of internal admilistration which are not comprised in the political union connecting the duchy of Schleswig with the cr•iwn of Denmark are—l, Just ce ;2, Worship and Instruction ; 3. Industry ; 4, Civil Admenis. tration ; 6, Judicial Administration ; 6, ManicipelAdminis tration. The quota falling to the duchy of those 'spume, which exceed the common receive of the duchy and kingdom. as well as the budget relating to is lad. pendent administration shall be voted by the separate legislature of the duchy. The two nationalities shall be placed upon a footing of perfect equality. The constitution of the duchy shall be in conformity with the legal relatiocs which actually exist. The points in which community of administration forms the political union which coalmine the duchy of Schleswig with the crown of Denmark are—l. The civil list and dot.- tion of the royal family; 2 Foreign affairs; 3 Forces by land and sea; 4. Poet and mails; 6 Customs dullest 6. Public debt; 7. Expenses of common atlotini.tration. Hence the communil of financial administration which exiged before 1848 is renounced. L relation on the points enumerated in the puesding article shall b• ref, reed to t• e COMIIII•JD represeltaiite body. T. e quote of common expenditure falling to the duchy shell be determined by the proportion of the population of the dueby to that of the kingdom. The relations of worship and instruction in the islrs of Akan, Arroe, and Tuerming, shall be the same as before March, 1849. Titers shall be a line of demarcation drawn between the duchy of Behliswig and the duchy of Holstein, in conformity with his oricaldocum• A ',poste clause shall determine the nlations of the hw y.". of Rendsburg. The political union between the dimity of Schleswig and the crown of Denmark shall be a perpetual uni in. The guarantee of the great powers shall be required for the confirmation of this treaty. PRUSSIAN COPNTER.:PAO.POSITIONB The Duchy of Schlisnig shall have a separate con stitution, in respect to its 1. gislature and internsl administra• don, withal b. hut unit. d to the Duchy of iiolitrin, and leasirg intact the pulitical uninn which sakes the Duchy o Schleswig to the Crows of Dennartk. _ . . [Alo4ivi.—This is word for woe/ the same as the Ist article of the pr limin.riea] The Duchy of Schleswig shell have a constitution. [Molies.—Naturally the constitution is not to he intr.,- dared into this treaty. Bat it may be sully agreed upon before the treaty is signed, and is to be proclaim. d se soon is t►e sovereign entree upon effective prevision of the duchy. Initiative in detail is lef: to the sovrreige.] Th. Dash, of Schleswig shall be governed by a body oossoomod of c ounciliors of state, and or the head. of depart ments, which is to hay. it. met at Schleavig. The depart wet, aro of justlee, worship, civil administration, military admisistration, and Burnam A m i n utes of state shall reside at Copenhagen, through whom the rec.lntions of the govrrnment of the duchy shall be presented to the rovernment of Denmark, and by the mai resolutions shad be Countersign. d. The ministers will be rropoasible to the legislative body. [ trottee.—Here all that in ulderatcod by all authorities to relate to internal admliddretion is granted to 8. hleserig separately. Bat Denmark claims a summon administration of A .antra, of military affairs, of custom-houses, of post, and of lei/Ws:ups. The coo cesrion of suck a &wined would reduce SJltleewle to a mere province of Denmark, a result completely opposed to the intention in whPit these negoda• teens are undertaken. Besides, if those brasehes bad h en iatended to have lerstod Y esesptiem to the ether breaches of istem4bilmisiaratiam, that ezeeprisa wmald bare been ezprevely istredseed lase the Arm ankle of the prelimi naries.) The 1•110i14161Win an to be nalsalvely a•bleswittem or each persists as have been naturalised is the duchy by a law. The language used in governmental administrative does- Minis is to b• the German. The language to be aged In maniripal affairs, is eintrobte and schools, will be deter mined by the load Mace. The sever*. Ling-Doke is to bare a supreme ezeoutive, and eolegislative power; the command of the forms by land and see, and other attributes usually assigued to the head of the ementive in eoestitational miteeMise, subjoin to limi tations watch will be est down seder this bead n the con eateries. [YCiolee.—lt has been thiseght expedient, in order to avoid • treated goatee of &cooed wet easiest:4.d the suspensive veto.] No ear law can be introduced lase the Duchy without the content of the legioolativa b ody. The budget is voted by the legislature. This body will ales have the right of petitlos, of impeachiagosiaisters, in order to realize the responsibility of these, sad generally those rights arid privileges which belong is nnstiturioaal countries to Gush billies. (Motives.—The somber of 1111101111111111 has net been hers dedaed ; but it appears that a single shutter would answer all the requisite purposes ] There Null be a high court for bringing politleal offenders to trial. plotiee.—The experience of latter years has sufficiently demunstriced that the ordinary organs of justice are not suffi cient for the conviction of political offenders ; and the exam ple of France and other countries shows the necessity of such an UtiOn.) Toe Representative Chamber will be chosen according to article. in the arvongement of May 1834, which determine the rule for electing the assembly of estates. [Jdoeibe.—Ths *TVs resulting from the adoption of the principle of universal suffrage have been so fully brought to light by the 'novelettes of the lost years, that it has bean deemed advisable to approach • conservative model em much in the interest of the people governed as the sovereign, whose rights will thus be guaranteed by a more COONITTI- Iive system in Schleswig than in his own immediate do. opinions ] The Schleswig troops are not to be employed out of the duchy is time of pesos without the consent of the legislative assembly. The navel force and gunboat. of Schleswig are not to be ordered away from the porta of the duchy without the con sent of the legislature. The political union which attaches the duehy of Schleswig to the eruwn of Denmark, consists in community of sove reign. and in the common administration of foreign affairs. Ploties.-Be. Lard P-' and ()were'. .'alinermon's note of Marti 13, 1849, A 01.111101 mete to Lord Conley el Feb. 3, 1849.] The hell of &IbIOW* will grant yearly a sum of money for maintaining the dignity of the sovereign in a suitable manner. The duchy will be at peace or at war with the same states with which the monarchy is at peace or at war. The war flag of the duchy will be a Bac of union. Treaties car chided by the slvtreigo p,wer to be binding on the duchy, with (*Kali limitations, to be mentioned in the constitution. The sovereign state and the duchy to have but one admi nistration ot fore:gn affairs. The saversign state to appoint common diplomatic repre sentatives (or both governments at foreign courts. But the diplomatists so appointed must be mindful also of the inte rests of the duchy. The consuls appointed in common not to lose sight of the same end. The flag of the duchy in peace to be the flag of As the contribution of the duchy towards the payment of the expenses of foreign administrauon, a sum of money to be f1x..11 once for all, either by a mixed commission app3intid by the Prussian aid D inish governments, or by ao agree ment between the aiverably ot the duchy and the sover.ign state. In case of war, the additional expanses t, be determined by an agreement between the duchy and the sovereign state. In case of the acgui,ition of colonies, colonial expenditure to heehawed in just proportions. The minister of state resident at Copenhagen to be present at all deliberations in the Council of Maiden, in which affairs relating I. the duchy are &nursed. The portion of the Danish debt, up to March 24, 1848,fall ing on the duchy to be determined by a mixed commission. The Schleswig•liolstein Katsen-anwersurayeti to he ac• knowledged as the debt of the two duchies of Schleswig and llnletein. [Jlot me.—After this settlement the debt of D .nrnaik and of the duchy e Schleswig to be kept entirely distinct. The stipulation in favour of the ewes is indispensable, as sines March, 184 d, the great mass of the circulating medium has consisted of this paper; a-.d to confiscate the paper would be to vitiate the commercial transactions of the two hit jests, and to rein a vast number of people in whose hands the notes are.] PRUSSIA. Our correspondent wribe as follows : BERLIN, MARCH 15. The members of the Erfurt parliament are gradually leaving Berlin ; many pare already been some time in the little town of Erfurt, the paucity of lodgings rendering it desirable that they should be secured as euly as possible. Radowitz leaves to-day, and it is said that he will be followed to-morrow by Mann teuffel. The Verwaltungs-Rath will hold its first sitting in Erfurt to-morrow. Several of the larger towns of Pluesia have seen with envy the seat of the German parliament and of the Reichs government transferred to Erfurt ; among them is the city of Her lin,the magistracy and town council of which nave by a large majority called upon the representatives of then city to do all in their power to procure the trans. migration of the government and parliament to Berlin. Vollpracht, the commissioner of the Vertrallungs- Ruth, despatched to inquire into the condition of the duchies, has, it is said, been refused admission into Schleswig, and it is reported also that orders have been given to arrest him should Lc succeed in making his way into the duchy. Very great anxiety is entertained here as to the result of the peace negotiations, and not a few alarm ing reports are in circulation : one of these, which seems to be gaining particular cre dit, that Prussia will abandon the cause 9 of Schleswig-Holstein altogether. So far as I can learn, this report is ut?erly without foundation ; but the absence of any certain information on the subject causes people to believe: the greatest ab surdities. , The leaders of the popular party in Berlin and the other large towns have decided on not celebrating the 18th of March, the anniversary of the revolution, by any popular demonstration, leaving it to inctividuCe to hallow the memory of that event in whatever manner their own wishes and feelings may suggest. That this is a most wise discretion none will doubt. BRUNSWICK. The Cologne Gazette states from Brunswick, of the 15:h insr. ' that the measures of the government re opening the conclusion of a military convention with the crown of Prussia, have received the sanction of the Brunswick Diet by a majority of 10, the ayes being 30, and the noes 20. Brame, ►IARI9 16.—Voluntary Loan, 106; National Debt, ICI; Bank Snares. 911. Viaana, Damen 14.—Fire per Cent. ►letalliquer, 93j; Four ditto, en. Bank abater, 1079. GREECE. Dates from Athens, ut March 5, confirm the an nouncement made in Saturday's Express as to the cessation of the blockade of the Ptiteus. At eight o'clock in the evening of the let inst., Mr. Green, the English consul at Athens, issued the following cir cular : I am instruc'ed by bee kJ ajes'y's minister plenipoten tiary to the King of Greece to inlorm you that her hlajrsty's government, having good hopes of obtaining a astisfactory settlement of their d. mends on the Greek go vernment, through the goad I Mesa of the g srernment of the French Republic, have given orders to Vice-Altsiral Sir William Parker to suspend, for a reasonably limit.d period of time, the ooereiw action of her Majesty's squadron, but nev,rtheless to retain the Greek vessels actually ii. his puseulan, as pledges in deposit, until a final arrangement shell have been made. Orders have consequently been given by Vice• Admiral Sir Witham Parker to allow for the present the free ingress and tigress of all vessels nut actually in possession of her Majesty's squadron. I am desired to add that the notification which I had the honour to address you on the 24th January, 1850, is copse- Tit ntly to be considered null and void in all its bearing.. (S•goed) JOHN 01115.. N. Oo the 2nd inst. M. Thouvenel wrote to Mr. Wyse, proposing that Sir William Parker should give up the Greek ships in hie possession, and that he, the representative of the French republic, would guaran tee for the payment of the claims of her Majesty's government onOreece. Mr. Wyse, in reply, regretted his inability to comply with M. Thouveners pro po.iti, n. M. le Gros arrived on the morning of the Sch, and immediately had an interview with the minister of foreign affairs. FREEIWLD LAND MOVRAIENT.—The Birmingham diehirery gems :—•"this movement is rapidly winning its way. We. lay sad daily papers now contain reline!' rat its woes.. At the 'vitas in Temple -street ( which contain. 4,200 member., holding 2,1500 share.), 1.2001. has been r. seised by the steward. during the last month. We Sr. glad 'o know that the Small heath estate will be nonwhite.' torthwith, and that uur freeholders may rectos upon garden and building operations immediately. Mr. FelloMe, the surveyor, will have all the sections and specificatimtp for the streets ready in • fee days, and nest Sword adeirtiie for tender.. Revered estates worn List night (('ridltv) uttered to the e msteittee, ni..t do of kmor whether they deoirltst up m purohasing all or any of them. Preston has purrhased 4, sores, and Ipswich 92, al. hou3ll either society bars meg been in Watson. a sw waits." PORTUGAL The Oriental Company'spacket J up i ter at ma. . Captain Francis Meehan, arrived at S ,u'hanipt° n lest night, and land e d h er ms il s under the charge- of Lieut. Langton, R.N., Ad m i ra l ty agent. Her doses are: Gibraltar, March 8; Cadiz, 9; Liebon, 11 Oporto, 12; and Vigo, 13. She brings seven packages of specie, al so 78 M p t u tl e t t i o ollid an i d a government invalids (packages Gibraltar, being men dis charged from the different regiments of that garrison, in consecinence of the reduction in the army. On the reduction of the regiments at Gibraltar some of the men came forward and volunte ered for the squadron. under Commodore Martin, som e o f whom were received, alter underg dog the u.ttal me. N a o o w n : s o: czci n e n s t t twritesc,a of a a follows: the ~,rhad e dical examination, The e ar LISBON, MARCH H. my last, hes been published. Although a law to restrain the licentiousness of the prose, and e e .. p i t within proper and rational bounds was necessary, yet every one complains of the project ; it opens the door for the manifestation of every tends to check the intercourse of private life. The preacher in his pulpit, the peaceable and rations! ci'isen who assemble, a few friends in his own braise, and there, in the midst of a friendly confidence, treks over the occurrerces of the day, and express.s his opinion of this or that man, and the demagogue who trite to excite sedition merely as • steppitig.store t o his own aggrandizement, are alike liable to the effects of the law. After several days' debit., a law hes been pas for the equalisation of weights and nif amen. Thi- was highly necessary; and, although at first it may create a little confusion and mistakes among tiader, yet it will soon be understood and tend to a Uniform I system of buying and selling. Such was the differ enee of weights and measures throughout tee kirg. dom that it produced in some places a diff e rence of 20 per cent. as compared with others. The minister of justice proposes a new division of the dioceses. The minister of finance has made his report, per. fectly egot stical, full of pride, and deficient of even a single measure to alleviate the burdens which prt so heavily on his departme:.t. He asks for money, but proposes no plan of fir ante by which it may be obtained. Payments commie , in arrear; in some districts they are eighteen months behind; it is sup posed he cannot continue in office, so general is the hostility against him. The Mindello sailed on the 6:h, having on booed i the Prince and Princess de Joinville. A law has been proposed to abJlish the entails upon hereditary estates, which is txpec'ed to meet with great opposition; should it, however, iee-s, it may cause real property (as well as money has d mei to change hands, end may lead many of toe prodigal nobility to beggary. The Duke of Terceira has been appoin•ed t t the lord high stewardship, which he now holds with the office of master of the hone. Thus the breach is effectually filled, and the Duke de Saldaila may re flect at his ease that people, however high their stations may be, ought not to presume up sr' them, and try to convert apc st of honour into a dic•atorial one. Donna Maria did quite right in dismissing him. lie hes now published a pamphlet, which contains a copy of his petition to the quern to be tried by a court-nor tial, and reply of the Count de Thomar to the minis , ter of war, wherein he stab s that the affair, not being a military one, did not render a court-in trial necet easy. Then comes anoth er l et t er o f S a ld an h a , i n which he says that it did rot become the dignity o f the queen to dismiss him, as no sovereigns bad ever dismissed their lord high stewards; and, last not least, a letter, in which he lauds himself to the skirl for all his bravery and military service. lie says the army is in his favour, and he never put himself at the head cf it without succeeding in all he undertook. I have not Low time to enter more into this pamphlet beyond that of saying that the posi tion the duke has token by sal ieg to never put himself at the head of the army without succeeding, is a false one: be has committed so many and such egregious blunders, that, had he had an enemy with any brains, he would always have been defeated. What was the duke's posit ion aft.-r the battle of Torres Vrdras? Why he was virtually vanquished, after the battle, the war would hav e be en finished from inactivity, for, had he adv ance d i mme di a t e ly duke, delayed to advance fro m faire pre•txts; this without the aid of foreigners ; he, th e t ru mp e ti ng gave the junta time to rally, and eventually assume such a position that foreign aid alone defeated them. The duke himself welt knows that the court was dis satisfied with his conduct, and that diqtatiefa,tioa hes been growing till at length he, the puissant duke, has b, en moat rightfully dismissed. 60,120,000 reis, in Lisbon Bank-notes, were burnt on the 4th, which reduces the amount in circulation to 2,882,285 reis. The activity with regard to the roads still continues. Geological and statistical information, hignly inte resting to science es well as commerce, have been published. Exchange on London, 5-11 niscount on Lisb.,n Bank notes, 17 to 18. AMERICA.—The Plymouth Rock, Captain Cald well, arrived at Liv.-rp9ol on Saturday miming, with one day's later intelligence from Boron. The news is total'y without interest, and meanwhile the America steamer may be hourly expected to arrive with news to the 6-1 instant. BRAZILS.—The Empress, arrived a' I. , verpool from Bahia, brings dates from that place to Jan. 31. The 3 - claw ter. r was raging with unabated violence. and consequently exercising an evil intluenc., over trade. Ex.:hinge ruled at 2S d. TIIE BUDGET.-A correspondent under date, Bir mingham. March 16, say,: .• fhe ' budget' speech of Sir Charles Wood has given untvermil disappointment brr.• ; the stamp duty proposed to be reps to el, ktrnatiled os one of the least oppressive of the many imposts which government have been besought to remove. Jodeing by the feeling here, this budget will have the effect of greatly damaging the administration in public opinion, and whatever may be the disposition of the house, Were is very littb goodwill in this part of the country towards the family goverment. With the advantage of a g-cd testis, all cl ism* are neverthe less complaining that they are bArne down by ezcessive tezetion, which appears to be daily m-re sf verily f.lt; everybody c implains that their income tee is stung up year after year, and that, notwithstanding they ge• no relic: in any other shape. It L , rd John Rus.ell could only be mode to comprehr rid what the fe^ling is in the largest manufacturing districts, he would take the time whilst it rantaine to him, •r before very long the middle ease, now the wit oppressed and suffering, will rise up. and, united with the working clue, manifest such a p in' s. as will at t-e very eshibitien of it, sweep away the entire fabric of the system, which whigs and tones here built up for their own aogr mdiwm.at, sad drive Lord John Russell whet his associates into obscurity for aver." A MORMON FeteEntx.—Same excitement pre vailed on Sunday last amongst the " Mormons," or " Lst ter-day Saints," residing at Brampton and is the actin boorheod, in consequence of the Bev. J. B Jebh, t:e incumbent of tht district. having intimated to the friend of a member of this tommunity, recently deceased, that he could not consci• nit-•us., use the Burial Service of the Church of England at the funeral of which they had given bim formal notice. The Mormons persisted in choir determination to bury the corpse ' in St. Thomas's churchyard, without the least regard to the remonstrances and advice of the incumbent, and under thews circumstances it was duuhttul how the matt. r would end. A little before six o'clock on Sunday evening the funeral proces sion began to more from Factory-street ; the Mor mons commit shi ringing, and attracted • considerable number of persons, who acerompanied them from motives of curiosity, by the n.nrest route towards the church. Oa arriving at the gate of the church-yard it was found to be closed; hut the procession had seemly halts& when the in. cusabent appeared in his canonicals. and taking off his hat. proceeded to read the following protest:—" In the Name of God, I, Jobs Beridge Jebb, Incumbent of the District of St. Thomas's, Brampton, do hereby solemnly protest against the use of the Burial Service of the Church of England in this case—and I do declare that it is knly beceuke lam com pelled by the law of the land, that I allow a atomiser of the community of Moments, or Latter-day Saints, to he interred according to the rit, s of the eurch in the churchyard of St. Thomas's, Brampton; and I further declare that I cannot knowing., officiate in any lotion interment of the same kind, without doing viol. nce to my conscience." Atter this the rev. gentleman shortly addressed the assemblage, stating that if any of those present walled to know the grounds on which his protest hod bun made, he would readily 'spades them in the school-rout after the service. The Rev. F. Arnold. the curate the district, then approached the gate, end commenced the service, which rose performed in the usual manner. The behaviour of the Mormons during the v' ailing of the protest and at the • was riecoroult an I pros cr. It appears from the subsequent representations of one of their b•nly, that they do not desire the service of the church at the burial of their dead ; Au' only the privilege of burying in the ehutch.yar', aweigh without any r•ligiomi eartice.—DerbysAire Couri4T, who and i part reap( not t then M, elptll him hose M, Gtc detei Mi loth of tl Pr7o than tacit that Terel (Rex been ektue4 ale etas the Pr p Mi tht t th ba tct h there tr,re ittut Mt Mt th, hal 110.• Mt Th meat in wl v. 0101 C MI ut , n It Plea, MI Come 'wen fict. Th M I gent! MI Men (Che, tare Tt kov, Sir oat? Puree %Lie, Mr and c Mr adj4u Mr ilaoti o Mr tion. Th Mr for, al Mr. 0 eh, late 0 it" the q , Mr. 111. e, Mr. ea% or th vent. Mr. r PiNhE The 'der 'ion mitt, ad et tear t • eel e co! co.! Bo 00U ri 1 on I at t pen, Geo Dab boo the The into ofac Re• BIC Km celo off i %vitt Dr. nigh 1 'a' Llas n 7 t oou of A Frid of tt the Den IleCe itTA' Cha: for her up unt the will WO( Wal mon Brid Higl B. 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