The Express. — London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. Tilt Bishop of EILWR re in the field again! Van quished in every coed which would entertain his plea, atd slow him the opportunity of gratifying his pugoacions qualities, he betakes himself to his old weapon, and sounds a note of mortal defiance over the counter of MvRLeT. Conquered in the open country, he bttakee himself to guerilla warfare. In other words, the bishop appears once more in a character foe which he was especially born, that of a pam phleteer. The pamphlet is in the shape of a letter to the churchwardens of Brampford Spoke, and is written with the avowed object of defeating the end supposed to be att tined by the sentence of the Privy Council. Mr. °Ohne)! has been instituted to the living in de fiance of the bishop, and his lordship determines to do all in his power to make the institution null and void for all ussfitl purposes. With this intent, this seek minded spiritual peer, this grave legislator, writes to the flock whose immortal interests are en trusted to hie oversight, whose temporal relations he is bound to watch over by his participation in the legislation of the country—that they must com mence their ittercouree with their new pastor by watching him with suspicion, and that they must seek for some etession by which his lordship shell be en abled to annul a decision which has been con firmed by shunt every court of judicature we possess. The bishop commences his pious undertaking by telling the churchwardens that they have got an heretical parson, a wolf amongst the lambs. I have examined him, says the bishop, and found that he holds doctrines " directly contrary to the sure word of Gad." His lordship goes on to say that it is against his will that the obnoxious clergyman has been insti tuted to Brampford Spoke, but that he was obliged to pay respect to the fiat of the archbishop. He then follows up his charitable plan of setting clergymen and parishioners at valiance by a series of remarks upon the nature of his duty at the present crisis. Gran and learned men (be writes) have advised—and I have read the same advice in divan publiestions—that I should license soma s .uad minister to r, side among you, and to preach to In the pure word of Gad. But to this it is $ sufficient a..swer that I have no right to lone snob a lionise —that tte litTll9ll would be absolutely void—any against idiot under it, and officiating in your parish, would °Mad against the law of the church, and so expose himself to ten• sures which, on r,gular complaint, I sbou'd be b' urd, sa hie bishop, to ialtet, even though I had myself beer rash enough to pretend to authorise him. The ease would have been very different if, not tte archbishop, bat same person authorised merely by the state, had Minted to give imitation, In that Cass I should hays mutinied to regard the care of souls as void, and to supply the vacancy by a minister liotard by myself. It needs bat very little penetration to di'cover that the purport of the aSfive paragraph is not to comma. 'liege to the inhabitants of Brampford Speke the nature of the diffl.ulties which affl.cted their per plexed dixesan, but to give a sly blow to tie arch bishop, and to inculcate the favourite high-church doctrine of the ineLyenclecoe of the church—nay, of is superiority over tFe state. I am orthodox, says the bishop, and wit: do none of the heretical bidding. of the state, but the archbishop is unsound in the faith, one with whom I have vowed to hold no com mutin, he may meddle with pitch without soiling his fingers. Again, the state might have overwhelmed me with heterodox decisions, aed I should not have regarded them, but when the church intervenes I and you and of all us must submit to injdstice even. Still further to exalt the power of the church, to explain to the wonoerieg parishioners the impossi bility of their berg able to free them-elves by their own act from any inciarrnience which this mys terious corporation mey have isflicte d on them, ho tells them that upon due reflection be has :visit(' to Barn to the Ingestion that he should advise them to Lek in neighbouring churches that pure doctrine which it might bs linieless for them to expect to bear in their own church. No! While Mr. GOIMAM is there they must listen to him though he should stun their ears with heterodoxy. Mr. Gorham NI write-] is your appointed panto-, ap pointed and empowered 'y . cat high offic.r in the church to whom its laws have, land., the special cireinistare , o of the use, trati*Ferred from me. your bi.bop, the riAtt of loNita tios. Whether he may have 'Remised that ht faithfully ea not, lee has eaereismi it validly, and until Mr. O,rhem shall by due rooms be ej eted from the cure of souls to which he has bees thee validly admitted, it would be pae somptiecos lavuion of his r4t. to, and a sinful violation of the cater of the church, to advise his people to mtsorete themselves from his ministry. It would be schismatical to advise such a 'operation, sad schismatical to follow the advice. If ever a poor congregation were in a sad case it is that of the church of Brampford Speke. " There is a heretic parson coming to you," stye the bishop, " bat as you value your souls listen to his hetercdaxy. Beware of going the length of the street aw from your church to tear sound doctrine. The attempt would be schirmatical." What resource thin is left ? The bishop tills us in the following words: You, the churAwardersef Brumpiord Spike, are b ion , ' by the most solemn oblidatloi a to the church, end to the Divi-e heed of the chunk% in which you bald the highest office you as laymen can Enid, you are hound, I sty, to bring to the knowledge of the bishop, or to the archdeacon, any it stance in which you shall conscientiously believe, on jest and reasonable protases, that your minister his preached or taaght anything contrary to, or inc m ete:eat with that which the church proclaims to be the tree word of God. . . . You have already too strong reason to apprehend that your sew vicar may endeavour to spread the poise: of heresy among his people by deny ing the efficacy of the holy sacrament of baptis m to baptised 'dams. And therefore I now charge you, if you ever hear much false doctrine AM from him, Mat you note word', accurately, and a report them to or to the archdeacon, without y del. Here Is pleasant preparation for peaceful living between pastor and flock. The parishioners encou raged to act the spy ; t, play the informer ! Hounded on to drive &clergyman from his puish! Here is the beacon of pesos shining over the ocean of troubled water. Your hope Ike in getting rid of your spiritual guide. Watch him well. Let not a word escape. Catch him once triiping, and then turn him over to me! This is the solemn advice of a dignitary of the church to those over whom he is placed in charge. If it is followed, what • devout congregation will as semble each Sunday in the church at Brarnpford Spek.., to listen to their minister. After having tried every other tribunal, the bishop has at last thrown himself upon the powers of discernment of a country o ,ngre gation. The churchwardens of Brampford Spike are the bishop's Doetorea irrefragabil.s. Soma discussion has lately been raised by Lord BROUGHAM on the Civil:List. Nothing connected with that delicate branch of the public expenditure celled for remark or suggested controversy; and it is not in the Hesse of Lords that the principle on which the civil list rest', the terms on which it was grouted, or the details it involves, can at any time be usefully or profitably debated. For the civil list is, par 's alience, a contract made between the Sovereign and his or her "Faithful Commons ;" it is, by the pro°. tice of our constitution as adapted to modern royalty, and by the very form of its enaement, a grant from the representatives of the people in parliament assem bled to the Morsareh for the support of the Court and the dignity of the Crown; sad though the statute in which the grant is clothed requires the concurrence of the House of Lords, its ►ubject matter is oce of which the Commons consider themselves the especial, if not the sole guardians. Had there, cou'equently, been any peening occasion, or any proper inducement, or any legal warrant for reconsidering the civil list granted 1957 to the Queen, it was only in the Commons that useful deliberation weld hays been had. When, thee, Lord Bioratum is found, mprupoe des &Wes, dragging the question, neck and shoulder% fate the House of Lords, and ;here speaking by the hoer, sod protesting by , the page, in a sense offensive to tne Sovereigu, without being advantageous to the people, It is only palatal to conclude that this disorderly peer had other motives and . objects, than the good of the public nervier. The court of Queen VICTORIA has always laboured ander the =Wartime of being vastly unpopular with Lord BROUOHAM ; who, when he had the opportunity, "aloud" and fawned on her Majesty's royal prede cessor with the most servile Fames of that day. hulks the court of the Tuileries, when the Tuileries had a court, the court of Queen Vic - Nitta has never admitted Lord BROUGHAM to its intimacy or to its ban quets; it has restricted him to its state balls. He has sever been permitted to keep the Queen's conscience, sad though lse once forced himself, in his capacity of a peer of the realm, into the royal pregame to give her MAJESTY political advice, strange to say, Royalty was not fascinated by his vivacity, persuaded of his sin cerity, or penetrated by his sagacity. Since, after that memorable audience, he left the palace, his hopes of political employment have been small indeed; his chances of an earldom scarcely greater; his dislike of the court mere hap than before. Various have been the ways in which Lord Bitoncinam has manifested this dislike. Sneers at German learning and accomplishments ; lions of plans in which the Prince Consort takes in terest; opposition to court schemes ot public ad vantage; exposure of court ignorance; terrible pictures in the city of court power and supremacy ; advantage ova contrasts of the domestic and royal happiness of that " great and good King" who is now a crown-less and unhanoured exile—these have been some of the meet facile modes of decrying the court of Queen , SORIA. But we topic of annoyance Lord BROUGHAM has never lost sight of; it was his first, it is his last. In 1837 he opp sad the grant ot the present civil list, and predicted its speedy disorder and insolvency. And now in 1830, disappointed in the* his gloomy pre dictions, be complains that it is so solvent as to have a surplus. Don't, said he, in 1837, grant a permanent civil list, because permanency will beget extravagance and insolvency. Disregard the permanency of the grant, be urges in 1830, because the civil list has been so well managed as to produce a surplus. The notion, he one day exclaims, of reducing political, judicial, or diplomatic salaries can only proceed from " ignorant men !' Let us, he next day proposes, reduce the sum ranted by parliament to the QUEEN for a civil list ; it is greatly too large. "My pension of 5,0001. a year, was," he contends, and correctly, • granted for life ; the statute in that case is imperra , tive, not to be disregarded." But the royal civil list, though equally founded on a statute, is a matter, he ' argues, to be re-arranged by parliament whenever it thinks fit, in spite of the language of its enactment. Such is the inconsistent folly of this spiteful peer. The Qrnitis's civil list is, as every one knows, 383,0001. a year, and was granted in 1837 by 1 & 2 Vic., chap. 2. It is divided into six classes; of which the first relates to her M.ucrerr's own expenditure, and amounts to 60,0001. a year ; the other five classes relate to the different departments of the royal house hold and charities, and the pension-list of 1,2001. a year; and each class has ri specific proportion of the gross amount assigned to it in the schedule of the act. By care, attention, economy, and the fall in the price of provisions, however, there is now a considerable saving in the expenditure of sonic of these classes and her Mantenre's affair., instead of being in the die order and difficulties and insolver cy anticipated by Lord BROUGHAM, are, it seems, so flourishing and pros perous as in the year 1849 to have left a balance unex pended on the civil list of about 38,0001. This Lord BROUGHAM holds to be unconstitutional ; the practice of the House of Hanover being to get into debt; the duty of the House of Commons being to pay it. And such being Lord Bitorciriam's opinion, he mists that the early surplus of the civil list shall be paid into the Treasury for tie public service. It is not safe, he argues, for the 11)TC reign to have any balance at Mews. Cortrrs's. Our liberties are gone if the Monarch can hold console. The fact of the Qt a x having a surplus on the civil list, however disagreeable L ird BROUGHAM ; will, we think, be generally satilVactory to her subjects. For, in the test place, it is some security against the civil list getting into debt hereafter, and of any appli cation to parliament to discharge its liabilities. In the next place, it indicates order, carefulness, and economy on the part of the sovereign and her per sonal servants. For it is to be observed, that though the present civil list is less by 123,000 i. a year than that granted t WILLIAM IV., and though the present sovereign has not, like her immediate predecessors, any Hanoverian revenue, the QUEEN has nevertheless not only discharged the debts of the late Duke of KEST, but has supplied herself out of her own resources with two residences; and this whilst fully and sufficiently maintaining the splendour of the court of St. James's. And, in the third place, the very fact of a surplus existing in the civil list constitutes an example worthy for the QUEEN to set her subjects. Whether it were wise in parliament, in 1637, to settle on so young a life as Queen VICTORIA'S a per manent civil list, and whether the amount settled has not now turned out to be too large, are questions on which opinions may fairly differ. But there can be no question that the civil•liat was then permanently settled on the QUEEN ; and that hitherto the appre hensions then entertained have not been realised. Lord BROCGRAII, to be SOT!, denies the permanence of the grant made in 1837; bat learned a lawyer and great a judge as Lord Baorcnem is, his dect•rm does not yet, whatever it may do if Lord Tat:ILO allow. him to sit alone on appeals in the Lords, override or control statute law. Now what says 1 and 2 Vlct., c. 2? After reciting that the Queztv had placed at the disposal of the Commons her hereditary revenues, the preamble proceeds thus, in language courtly and right royal, to address the Queen : Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Cron moos of the United Kingdom in parliament amembled, with hearts full of the wormiest duty end gratitude, are divirous that a certain and compvtent revenue for defraying the expenses of your Msjeety'r bousetohl, and supporting the honour and dignity of the crown during your blajeity's life (which God long preserve), may be settled upon your Ma jesty as a testimony of our unfeigned affection to your mend person by whose happy Nino seion to the throne, your Majesty's subjects have the strongest assurance that the religious, laws and liberues of this realm will be continued ; end that your Msjeaty's said subjects and their posterity may, through the divine goodness, enj•y every bleniug under your Majesty's auspicious reign, have, therefore, freely revolved to give and grant unto your Majesty, our most gracious sovereign lady Queen Victoria • certain revenue, payable out cf the corleoh.lated fund. Here the intention to grant a civil list for the QuEEN's life is expressed ; and in the operative part of the stattre this intention is strictly fulfilled ; for it is enacted" that there shall be granted to her MAJESTY. during her MAJESTY'S life, a net yearly revenue of 385,0001." True it is that this large sum is appropriated in the schedule to six different classes of expenditure ; but such appropriation cannot affect the duration of the grant ; and nothing bat express ►nd positive enact ment, of which there is none, can deprive the QUEEN of any surplus of the revenue thus settled on her MAJESTY for life. A bargain is a bargain, be it made with a king or • creditor; with Queen VICTORIA or Lord BROUOHAM. To the QUEEN the nation has engaged to pay for life 385,0001. a Test; to Lord BROUGHAM, for life, only 5,0001. The tenure of their respective incomes is, however, the same. If the QUEEN'. re venues can, without her Mciesrv's assent, be less ened, so also can Lord BROUGHAM'S retired allow ance. Ar.d if any inch dishonesty has to be prac tised, it will only be retributive justice that it should commence with the pension of the es-Lord Chancel lor, who first sogge►ttd to the House of Lords a gross violation of public faith with his sovereign. Tits strike of 179 engine drivers on the Eastern Counties Railway has produced exactly the con sequences that were to be anticipated—one acci dent, at lent, the abandonment of several trains on the trunk line', the closing of two brarches, the ir regularity of the trains which are leR, and the die organisation of the pubic service on the railway gene rally ; consequences of very serious importance not only to the company, but to what is of infinitely more importance, the public also. And the like or similar, La, worm, effects may follow a combination of engine drivers on any line in the kingdom. In abort, com munication is now very much at the mercy of this particular and indispmeable claui . of railway servan t s ; for they are the only class of %filch the supply is not equal to the demand. Porters, stokers, guard., es . Rioters may al be had in abundance; but en- EXPRESS, THURSDAY gime-drisers ate, from their deficient simalier, a Monopolist please Home the importeme of =les being the one hand jast mid fair in . dealings with them; and. on the other, being flan and resolved spinet Any manifestation of into. imams and dictation. Like all English, ski led artisans, they have pride and self-coildeam pro portioned to their merits; and under, a lax adminis tration mob men very naturally 'memo moreinde pendence than is compatible with the discipline and good conduct of • vast concern. The last year, however, and especially the events of it, connected with railways, called forth all the anxiety of shareholders, and led to the appoint ment of a sew and more vigilant direction. The atten tioa of those appointedon the EasternCountAs line was of coarse at first directed to the locomotive depart ment, irregularities and delays open the line having become a proverb and • jest. Ths head of the de pa:tweet was requested and warned to look to more economy and regularity, and to draw tighter the bonds of diectpline. It was found, however, that the mechanics would not brook control. They were linked one with the other by means of a com plete organisation, consisting of delegates, officers, and a central committee. A severity to one, however merited, w A instantly followed by the discontent and resentment of all. And this combi nation was found to extend to almost all the railways of the kingdom, and to a vast portion of the me chanics employed upon them. The efforts of the then head of the locomotive die postai:eat of the E astern Counties Railway failed utterly in producing any good effect. The engine drivers me naced a strik4rather than yield, and Mr. HUNTER, the head of the department, felt himself unable to accom plish the reforms, which the directorsdeemed indispen able. They according) y advertised Cr an of fi cer to fill the post vacated, and found one in Mr. doom, who had been tenyears employed on the South Western Railway. In appointing Mr. Gooch, and explaining to him their views, the direc'ors stated that it was neither their wish nor their intention to reduce the wages of enginemen or firemen. Bat they thought the repairs of engines, the consumption of coke, and the contin gent expenses of all kinds were excessive, and open to very great economy. Having entered upon his task with this view, Mr. Goocu was three weeks in the exercise of his functions, when, without any previous complaint, the malcontent drivers and firemen signified in a body their determination to withdraw, if Mr. Goocn was not dismissid. In no service is sub wffination more imperative than on great works such as railways; and the engine drivers in making Mr. Goocn's dismissal an indis pensable condition to their remaining on the line, were guilty of a piece of impertinent intolerance which the directors were by every rule of service bound to re sent and to refuse submission to. It was impossible for the directors to yield to any such tyrannical and unjust demand; if they had, their servants and not they or their superintendent, would have been masters of the railway. 83 encoui &gel by assent to their request', the engine-drivers might have next required a voice in the choice and appointment or the superintendent ; nay, pach ic; their principle to its full erect, in the election of directors themselves. They have, of course, and are en titled to the full exercise of the power of serving under any superintendent; if they dislike the head of their department, they can leave; but in striking on such ground, they must not expect public sympathy er support. On the contrary their employers are en titled to every assistance the pubic can give the com pany so placed in this dilemma. But whilst thus censuring the conduct of the men, we cannot say whether Mr. Goocn's conduct was in I all things as tempera's and wise as could be desired. He certainly explains the eels cial ewes of over severity laid to his charge. But it is to be regretted that the directors did not at once themselves examine into their complaints And perhaps, when the men, withdrawing and abandoning their demand for Mr. Goocu's dismissal, came to terms with Mr. ABU WORTH, &nosh* r of the company's officials, it might have been possible to avoid making the breach wider and more irreparable. Disputes and strikes such as this ought, however, to teach rail way directors the imp mtance an d necessity of increasing by every means in their power the supply of engine drivers: for it will never do to have corn paniee and the public dependent on the whims and caprices of • particular class of railway servants, however earrllent their general character. or however skilful and laborious they may be. The North Western, the Yorkshire and Lancashire, and the Eastern Counties, have all of late been subjected to strikes of engite-drivers ; and so railways will continue to be subjected until the supply be equal to or in excess of the demand. And, sooner or later, the engine-drivers of railways will find that strikes in their trade will have pro dueed the same effect as strikes in all other trades have done, viz., reduction of wages, arising from companies taking proper precautions to guard against the mischief and the lose of such interruptions of their traffic. SPAIN. MADRID, ArOVST 16. The coalition attempted between the Carlisle and progresistas to meet the moderadoes to the electoral field seems as yet not to have met with mach success. The nitre-royeLet candidates are everywhere declined by the republicans. The Gniy candidates yet fixed on for Madrid are Martinez du la Rosa by the mode rate, and General St. Miguel by the prrgressiste. The democratic party meet tc-day,to app int a direct ing board to manage the elections. M. Salamanca has returned from his journey to London and Paris, and his friends give oat that be has scraped together the funds necessary for going ahead with the Aran juez Railway, the works of which are shortly to be resumed with vigour. The electors of tie progreteista party have decided on presenting candidates at ail the colleges of 'Madrid. General Pepe Concha will not start for Cuba, of which island he has bean appointed captain-general, lentil September. MaDYID. ACOUST 16.—Three per Cents., 331; after Bohm, 33 3-16 1 cash, 33 5-1 G paper. Four per Cente.,l3l sub. Five per Cents., 131 cash ; after Boles, 131 cash, 131 paper, with the two overdue Coupons, 131 e +eh. Coupons, 71 cash. Passives, 3 15-18 cask ; after Bohm, 3 15.16 ti 4 cash. Bank of Bt. Ferdinand, b 7 cash. Exchange on Lon don, 50.40. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Piedmontese Gazette declares that the expul sion of M. Bionohi Giovini has not been undertaken on the demand of a foreign power. LOMBARDY. • General C.,nnt 43Tulayii;;;;Cved in Milan from Verona, and taken command of the corps entrusted to him by decree of July 16. ROMAN STATES. The decree on paper money has caused much alarm, for it amounts in point of fact to a forced loan. A new commission is talked of for settling the finan cial question in a way to remove the bad effects of the late decree t but no one of weight can be got to act with the Minister of Finance. At the approach ing consistory there will be a large batch of cardinals created, for the number of hats vacant is very consi derable. The government has complied with the solicitation of France for the creation of two new French bats, which will increase the number of French cardinals from four to six. In consequence of the death of Cardinal Glirand three new French car dinals will therefore bo eltcted at the approachin g conbilitery. It is understood that the prelates recom mended by the French government are the arch bishops of Besangon, Toulouse, and Rheims. There is lees talk than ewe about the promulgation of the organic laws, promised a year ago. On the 10th was inaugurated the new chapel founded by order of the Pope, in the church of San Lnixi de' Francesi, at his private expense, for the oele bration of a daily masa to deliver from purgatory the souls of the French soldiers who fell in the siege. A deputation of French officers attended on the part of the army. M. de Reyneval, the French minister, with his attaché., was also present at the ceree:ony. NAPLES. Our correap nclint announces, in his let l er of the 16th inst., the arrival of the United States' frigate', Coniditu'ion and Inderndenee, bringing the Ameri can Minister, Mr. Clay, from Lisbon. C , mmodore Morgan intuoda to make Naples his hsad-quarters until he r..oeives instructions from Washington. The commission on foreign claim opened its Fittings at Me•sina, on the 12th. The representatives of England, AUGUST 22, 1850. Austria, Presses 4 Pros* are presided over by Nes_politan etisinnaki. The state Miele !outlast& Prince Louis is promoted to the rank of lord high admiraL The navy is to be increased. The King is forming military Naimoli at Gaeta. The army consists of 90,000 men. Neapolitan Firm, 98g. Exchange on England, 676. FRANCE. RIOT AT BESANCON. PARK WIDNIVIDAT I have jut received intelligent* of a serious riot which occurred at Besancon daring the President's visit, and which was only quelled by the vigorous action of the troops. The President reached Be sancon at about seven o'clock on the evening of the 19th. You may remember that the tele graphic despatches 'peak of two balls, given the same night, one of which took place in the Place de la Halle. The President is described as having appeired at the latter for only an instant. The surmise which may have occurred to many that his rapid retreat was caused by some sinister demon stration on the part of the population, has been too fully justified by the event. The pressure of the crowd was so great in the neighbourhood of this ball that the troops could not form that double line which is here called la hale. The dignity of the Pre sident, thus unhedged by the usual prickly fence of bayonets, was sadly exposed to be hustled by a rude and anything but friendly mob, com posed chiefly of workmen, who deafened him with shouts of "Vivo la Republique !" No ' sooner had Louis Napoleon gained the interior of the ball-room, than the tumult became wilder and fiercer outside, and the cries louder and more menacing ; and presently in burst a torrent of the popu lace, headed by such grim figures as re minded those present all too strongly of the disorders of the first French revolution. A roar of " Vive la Republique!" burst from this tu multuous column, which consisted of workmen, whose fierce excitement made it probable that they would be hurried on to acts of slob nee, which formed at first no partof their intentions. Indescribable oonfosion arose, as may be imagined, from the invasion of a ball room by a wild rout of such rough customers. Amid the flight and shrieking of women, and the bewildered crush of disconcerted couples, the President's staff were honourably intent in managing if possible a safe retreat for their chief and for themselves. In both of these objects they appear to have succeeded, and presently the ball-room was abandoned to the uncouth invaders, who took triumphant possession, with up. roarious cries of " Vive is Republique!" Of course they did not spare any of those symbols, such as eagles, and flags with the President's initials, which bore any relation to the scheme of reviving the empire. For the rest, wo must wait for further accounts before anything certain can be known as to the behaviour of the mob. Meanwhile glen. Castellane, who had already drawn his sword for the protection of the President in the ball-room, reined the troops, and, returning at the bead of a s'rong detachment of cavalry, charged sword in hand. Presently the ball-room was cleared by infantry at the point of the bayonet. These mea sures sufficed to quell the riot and restore order. Se veral prisoners were taken. _ As yet no official hint has been given with regard to this grave disturbance. But you may place full reliance upon the private source from which the above information has been furnished to me. It will be stated in the official accounts which it will be ne cessary to givs of the affair that there are 5,000 Seise jouneymrn-watchmakers at Besancon, and that the demoomition wu confined entirely to three republican foreigners. But the motive of such a version is too obviuur for much importance to be attached to it. The Muniteur gives two telegraphic de4patcher, with the latest cows cf the President's voyage. The first was contained in my letter of yesterday. The other is as follows : Besanpm, Aug. 19, 1t p.m. Tho review of the national guad ecd c f the try , ps of the line, in the Champ de Mrs, was magnifimnt. The Pre. cadent paged through the di on horseback, and was re c•ived enthusiasm. The wind .we were crowded with onnsen throwing bouquets. The President has quitted Ii mop as to continue hi, journey. No Wegraphic devote! es have been received which give any account of the President beyond Colmar, where be arrived on the 20th. The authorities went out a mike or two from the walls of the town to meet him. The le;ititnist ricers continua to g.ve accounts of the Duke de Bordeaux's receptions. '1 he Banapartiets say that the duke's lameness has become much more perce Api irate letter of the 18th, from Wiesbaden, an nounces the arrival of sixty workmen from Pali., by a tram de plaiair. The Duke of Bordeaux having re.- 1 ived the rude homage of these legitimist blouse, invited them to his evening reception, where tt ey will be caressed by the grandees. Today the funeral of M. de Balzac took place. The service was performed, amid a crowded attendance of literary men and artists, at the church of St. Philippe , du „Houle. The hearse, followed by a great crowd, passed the boulevard at two, on the way to the ceme tery of Pere la Chaise, where the mortal r, mains of this celebrated novelist were interred. A great num ber of workmen attended the coffin to the grave, and listened with attentive admirati• n to the fine funeral oratian pronounced by Victor Hugo over his deceased friend. M. de Belzac's life was tcrmira'el on Sunday night, by a painful dieesse, from which he had long suffered. Eighteen months ago, already attacked by dropsy, he quitted France to contract a marriage with a Itnesian lady, to whom he was devotedly at tached. To her he had dedicated " Seraphttus,' and accumulated in his hotel of the Beaujon quarter all luxuries which could contrit ute to her pleasure. He returned to France three months ago, in a state:of extreme danger. Last week he underwent an opera tion for abscess in his leg; mortification ensued. On the m orning of the 18:h he became speechless, and at midnight he expired. His sister, :%Idme. Surville, visited his dea'h-bed, and the pressure of her hand was the last sign he gave of intelligence. From ar. turn published by the Monitettr, it ap pears that in the month of July last the customs' du ties on imparts yielded 11,819,000 fr., wt ilst in the same mon t h of last year they were 12,492,000 fr. The diminution has been principally caused by the falling off in the imports of coal, oil, linseed, cotton, silk, indigo, and colonial and foreign sugar ; but, on the other hand, there has been an increa-o in cai-t-iron, copper, lead, wool, and linen threads. With respect to exports, there has been a decline in brandy, el c dud, skins, glees, soap, cloth, and maider ; but there has been a continued increase in wino, salt, re fined sugar, machines, linens, silks, cotton goods, and millinery goods. On the whole, though there has been a decline in commercial activity, it is not very considerable, but unfortunately it has con tinued fur several months. For the first seven months of 1849 the customs received 72,500,000 fr., but for the corresponding period of this ye ar the receipts have only been 69,381,000 fr. In the bonding warehouses, also, the stocks of cotton, cast-iron, corn, and foreign sugars are very large. The stock of foreign sugar is 185,000 quintals; last year at this period it was 99,349; on the other hand, that of colonial sugar, is rather small. In navigation the general movement during the first seven months of this year has been 2,099,000 tons ; in the corresponding months of last year it was only 1,980,000 tons; but the increase has not been in favour of the national vessels. The Bourse was much agitated with rumours of the riotous expl igloo at Besangon. It was said that a pistol had bees fired at the President ; but this state ment met with little credit. The fall was 25 cen times on the Fives ' which closed at 97.5, and th e same amount on the Threes, which closed at 58.35. ' 1 For Amount. PAWN, Atu. U. Pm MOW. Opole Wilmot. Lowest. Clueing. -- -- per (tale. l4 40 56 63 M M 53 30 se ss per Orats. du. Now Luse. b per Comb.. ; .. " " per Qu 76 4a*. .. 0 « Vvolumma on I sta • ••• .:1•• . et Q.. on •-- N t• eh^ " 9 per and/. ... —no, se se ss se 30 ISS 13 97 II H 3 par Orate. S do. Plow Lane..„ te . eli ON 11 Per Cads. ., . .. 1 per C• 11.144. 76 as .. : I an t endow t at 41;ht, 20 39; 90 days, 73 90. flotria r 4ll2 l l .. ill Softy. Ns** nada% — /19 of 1/o. 8, 1612 . Itounur Loan 1849 7011 la. 41 iio. 31 Piedmont Spur tknita B4 90 . Bank shares Noonan.-Nt. Germain, 410; Versailles (right hank), 133; Parla and orisana, 7n1.1; Pals and !town, 391 541; RounU and Ilarro, 219 I, ; Sir I.l.turpt 0011 Hale, 11739; 11111000 and Amiens, 180; Oily:Ana owl Hord...tun 391 311; North, 406 29; Paris and .1,...,0rg, 147 311; Toar, 1410 Nano., 218 75; Monterrat and Troyes, 93; Ot tani and Viettoll, 330. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. We bau news from Berlin of the 17th. It states: —One of the notes winch the Austrian government is now issuing, inviting the members of the Bend to name and send plenipotentiaries to the restrict ed diet had reached the court on the 18th inst. Of course there can bs bet one possible answer—a denitl. The question of the general administrative BaLdes commission is not yet settled. Austria declares that the restricted diet must decide whether melt a commission can be allowed to administer the property of she confedera tion. As Austria approves of the constitution of soch a body, it is not to be expected that the diet will refuse its consent; but even from this permission new dangers will flow, more especially if the government takes part in the commission. The view is commonly entertained that Austria, in favouring the Pru den proposal on the commission, is exhibiting a concessive and conciliatory spirit, sines tt thereby tolerates a second representation of Germany, by the side of the diet, and thus periling the principle of the latter's sovereignty. The main point is the admission of a supreme authority, beside the restricted diet. But is it not plain that at some future conveni-nt time Austria may point to the pro pped commission, and argue that u it has arisen from the diet it must be subordinate to it ? Coburg is the power which it is said Prussia will name on its put as member of the arbitral court which is to de cide the Mayence fortress affair. iSIIIILIN, ADOWIT 20. —Voluntary Loan, 1061 ; New Lien, Fonr-and-a-Half per Cents., 991 ; National Debt, 86; o.wkineraiel Marine Seeiety'a Premium, 1101; Bask Shares, 98. AUSTRIA. VITYNA, AUGUST. 16. The Emperor set out this morning on his journey to leehl. He is attended by a numerous retinue, but Heaeral Count Granite is his only companion. During the sovereign's absence the collective ministry will remain in Vienna, with the exception of one of its members, who will join the Emperor at Ischl. No individual of the imperial family is now left at Schou brunn. It is stated that the corps &armee now in Vorarlberg is under marching orders for Holstein, the Archduke Albert having been appointed its com mander. VIENNA, Auousir 19. —Flys par Cent. Distal'iglus, 96i; lkur•and•a-Hal( per Cents., 811 Bank Shares, 1,1',0. Exchange on London,ll.3B. FRANKFORT. AUGUST 18. &refs the trammission of the late Berlin notes to the cabinet of Vienna, and the nature of their con tents have been made public, it has been given out here that " owing to particular circumstances," the design of forming a Bsvarian and Wurtemburt army corps, to be stationed on the lower Heine, or middle Rhine, has been abandoned. SA XONY. The Saxon journals publish a memorial addressed by the Dresden cabinet to the various German go vernments on the line of conduct which it has ob. served with reepect to the invitation to ratify the recent Daniell peace. The memorial is divided into two parts, in the first of which the substance and pro visions of the treaty are dimmed; in the sec and the proposed form of its ratification is considered. The Saxon government sums up its conclusions under three heads: First, that the restoration of the statue qua ante, under th• reservations of Art. 11. of this treaty, is, und.r present circumstances, an admissible basis of peace; - but lndiy, that a result of this agreement profitable to Germany and the duchy a can only be I :petted if the confederated go vernments will undertake, in conjunction with the King of Deninsrk, the reinstallation of that authority in the duchy which rugs d before 1848, and reserve to the Bond the right of interdicting the introduction of foreign troops for the peeification of Holstein ; lastly, that under toese reserva tions, the Band should ratify the peace by a common reso lution. and at .he aims lime proclaim as its will and plea sure •hat the war in the duchies should ease. The Art. xxyl. of the Vienna Slblussaste, and Art. VI. of the Executive Ord:mince, would justify :his unclaimed interven ti min an incontestable lIIMIACIr. Tt.e govt riiment then considers the mode of ratifica tion proposed by Prussia. The Vienna concluding act, it contend., clearly marks out the Plenum as the ratify log authority. Supp sing. further, but cot cd mhting, that, a plenum not existing, the assent of the separate goverbments might be considered equivalent to a resolution of the Plenum, the Prussian govern ment cculd hardly expect a successful issue for the at tempt to obtain this; it may with tolerable certaitty be assumed that the treaty would not be approved without exception, and the default of the pure and simple approval of any one government would vitiate the ratitkation. Only one course appetre to the Ssxoti government to be lef. open, namely, the sub mission of the treaty to the Plenum for ratifi cation. THE PEACE CONGRESS AT FRANKFORT- ON-TILE MAINE. (MON OUR 01 1 111 COILIESPONDENT.) COLOGNE, Tun DAT EVENING, 8 r x. 13?fcre the posttest London close, I hsvebsrely time to inform you that the English and Atner.can deputies and el-icor+ to the Peace Contuses have just arrived at this plate, Lamb - ring between 600 and 600. They crossed the channel from Dover to Calais, by moonlight, with cotsiderable expe dition, but not without sustaining a severe jostling from the waves. Great cr .wds assembled on the qua's at Dover, and loudly cheered the eompa7y when the steamer started. This cheering was hearti.y responded to, and thus, amid rever berating and repeated s xpres-i roe of joy, the peaceful party proceeded on their mission. They sup:fed at Calais, and at ones took possession of a special engine and train to this place. The American delegation is a large and inanontial one. It comprises the times of the lion. William Jay. president of the Americas Peace Society; the Rev. C. Brooks, chairman i a executive committee; the Rev. Emend Ifitchoock, D D.. LL D., president of Amherst college ; the Ilan. Sa muel Williston ; the Hon. naval J: y ; the lion. Theodore Frelinghurs ;a ; the Rev. Gorge Copway. otherwise Rah rugs Ouh B euch , an American chieftain, &c. Spt. Among the English visitors and delegates are those get tlem‘n who have taken aleading part is the peace movement, cemprising a large number of the Society of Friends. Many of the fair sex have also arrived to patronise the proceedings. Mr. Cobden, M P., Mr. Bueritt, and other speakers of im portance are expected to meet the party at F3anit'ort to morrow vetoing. A public meeting will he held immediately to make areangemeuts for the journey thither, and cur.- ducting the conference. The weather is beautiful, and all parties appear much pleued with their j ,urney. ATHENS, Arorter 8. The past week has been a most exciting one for the inhabitants of the capital, having had several most interesting subjects to discuss . Fi rs t an d fore most the grand question of the union of the two churches, or rather, the formal recognition of the church of the kingdom of Greece by the Patriarch of Constantinople : secondly, the passing of the budgets of 1830 and 1831, and the question of a regency in the absence of King Otho, who is going to Clermay for some time. The following article is from a minis terial paper called the EC3oomr (Week), and gives the history of the whole ministerial change : Oar readers are aware of the impatience with which the whole Oreek public looked forward to the arrival of our minister from Constantinople, aocompanie d by the Arehi mandrice Apostolides. Hardly had the French steamer of the '_'9th of July cast anchor is the Pirania, when three of the ministers went in haste to have an interview with ',Curs. Delhijanni and Apneto:ides (in the parlatorio of the qua rantine ,rnund), whera they had the " holy volume" and all the documt nts read, as well as the proceedings of the great' chtach of Chris , . Atter a long int • the Misisters of the Interim. and Public Worship expressed themselves per fectly satisfied, but not so M Lando.. On the Ist of the month they took pratique, and the semis day were presented to his Majesty, and delivered to his Majesty all the e rights' duturninta, and M. Delhijanni remained then for two hours with its Majesty. Ou the 30th July the ministry presented the budget for 1861 (having only passed a few days before that of MO). It was sent down to the oommittse and finally carried on the 4th of August. Whibt the public were enraged about the eoclesiaerieal question, and intrigues were carrying on ageism the passing of the budget, the King sant for his ministers on the evening of the Slat July and informed them that his health on the one hand, end affair■ important to the stets on the ether, required that he should immediat e ly set out f or B avar i a, an d that he wished in the meanwhile to leave the re gency in the hands of his august consort, Queen Amelia. Mt sots London and Chryangelos opposed the regency. The ministers wets amembled next day in, when M. L on d ie retired, refusing to agree to it; and M. Chryangeles retired, saying he would take it into consideration. The next day these two ministers sent in their resienation of all the mini tries they held. The King immediately accepted their resignation, and ordered the Minister of the tensor to present the hit ror the regency Ss the chambers. On the 4:h accordingly, after passing the budget, the Minister of the Interim read the bill, and it im mediately passed nem cots. BRAZILS.—There are Lite advice. from all the Be. intim porta At P.lremmoulio there were • few cases of levet ; and at Rio JAn. iro oonsldarablo discussion had he. n arouitnt by the Met ul her Msjosty's s'tip Sharpshooter has ins otpturod several local vessels on sulticion or being otta' osrnul in the slaws Mode. Butanes ruled at rd., Bahia 27c1., and Pernambuco 27id. ------..„....... ARRIVAL OF THE HEAVY POltllti \ THE INDIA. MAIL • op --___— The Oriental Company's Memo -packet Indus, C am Soy, arrived et Southampton last WA', and 1.,,,i, d h .. ri. uader the charge of Lieut. lir/A.4y, R:4l du a i nt. ,; . ,ch She bride dr.. from $al !• to Auguac 11, e a mu. r,'",`"_. tar to August 16. She brings 62 pave:men, flee 6 0 ,,"," specie, mid aMS carom, bat no newt The Puh a ,"1 front Gibraltar for Southampton on the 15M iim oo . “td vAutt en route at Cadiz, I .ltlne. ite. NATAL Papers from Nstel to the 3rd of May have a-riTet Th ey notice the reception of the new lien...G3„,,ir the Hon. Campb o ll Pi ne, which had proved 06h; moat gratifying character. IQ the addrielpreasam to him the encouragement of emigration, the et to ,. went of the difficulties connected with the land este. artd the improvement cf the harbour, ar.: dilated upon at length, and the governor in Lis ail, promises to give each his proper attention. A p r ,„. spectue propoving in detail theorganise t i oe u ,N ria bank is published in the Pahl Infl,pendelte. Vbe Court, The Right H on Sir F osnoßxE, A t i-,, :47 21. . rancis Baring had the hnn ae of joining the royal dinner circle yesterda a, r2rn.,:roed et o.born• lut evening, on a +mit to the Chun and Prince. DEPARTURE OF lIER MAJESTT FOR OSTEND, Potivsgorro, WEDNEOU k Y. Her majesty left o.borne at 3 22 this afternoon oa 1,, !.. excursion to Ostend, and smodtrl on b oar d t h e It es Yacht Victoria and Alb ert, Captain Lard Adolphus clarinet. The irlyr vessel s o f the royal squadron, eons: of the Fairy, Brack E.gle. and V.vid, weighed author, a. a passed through fipithead at 5.40. The Irenheitn, r head, minced yards, and !Muted as the royal yacht pa-s as did also the Victory, and the plat'orot battery • weaker is still unfavourable, it having been raising whole of the day; it is now, however, roxisivhat The Royal squadron, eaneisting of the Victoria anll '.!!! the Black E atil , the Fairy royal tend..r, and the Vie.; e• packet, passed D .vcr this marring at 6 o'clock, t 0..! toted from the battery. Weather very fin*, :.1" • from the west. King LeepAd and suite arrivt t at at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, and prep ..ra!! , r., made for the rec'p'lon of her 31s;esty, wh, wet 11 o'clock this morning. . _ _ The Prince de Joinville, the Priuc,." Closer children, passed through Ostend 3.sterdl on England. NATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY AND cIAL REFORM ASSOCIAI Yesterday evening, a soirle, under the atii-„ this association, was held at the New To r end-rca , l. The eta:Jr ' , vas token tv Mr. G. M.P. Sir J. Wilmsley, M.P., was also pr, ar. of t„he leading and most active cf the ra rm is t•l. , Hamlets wire corapicuous i n th e proved:se.. tl and instrumental, introduced in t F.ter vas, t-• speechts, invested the °coal rn wick aso-e th,n atnus,mint. Notwithstardi,g ti.e state of us , SUMO was most numerously att•ndtd. Letters of apology were read tam Mr. C,Slen, stated that he had goo, to Fro: kfurt to a^'r.•! 0 Ctmaress, as also from Sir Wu.i los Ciay, N.Y., t.r.. Wiilisow, M.P., who regretted that they wire t a•tead from other tenses. Mr. G. THOMPSON, having at sorts lenesh the Mews and aims of the a •ocia'. , l— eafleted election in 11.11, pesiti Ls P. :he r presented; and up to the I resent Um S.LC• ti election of 1847, there have been 1 7 E • session of 1518 r.o less than 17 seas ware :tsp. consequence of c rrupt pracic , s havic:e beta p• r committees. Ti is part of the w ou.d complete if reference were not ra.,d e ; quest caws in which a crmpr•rclas so c plans. In such CISCO, two par les hey nd tamed by bribery, one of them r. , retires, while the os'ser is permitted t .•11 t.:, • colleague of one of the opposisg pot (Hsu', h• at.) I hese not on:y hokr. petitions which hare been pre' , nstd, '.;t from which they hare b-er. s ..•, ar i a ....• these would eh •w you that these • pr. a a : the Clar , ttterci- s are large, but w. - ..r. tn. c a-- s. similes:.[. L.,: me ask you, hrs . , to • , :s at • mama in Ireland from which • bes e pe•i t, s , is all of which bribery, brutal intimidesp,n worst features of ekes ioe.eering rites, 7 I have here a list ot 19 c•liC•loe. Ireland, sending 24 member , to trio trn-eri whose grans constituencies amount to of 31)3 elactors far every re. rest n•asive. 1I- v 27 English Dor:mem, sendirg 43 m•e..'ers Commons, whose wo' coostituenci• s being an average of 211 members t • ath s, Tae result is, 4,1 constisuencies with , •7 r, pr 19,776 electors, while the Tower H w::'. sends two members only to parliamec•. ,: Let me now ask you to look back a .i Ir, IN the state of thin se I am endearsre ring to rap I have at least 70 boroughs in the ! leandi :ate has a chance, unless he enjoy. t7e p ruling proprietors or s proprietor in toe 1 • . clecton have no chotco or nLI of their own, tss sequently, there are no contests. S .cc• d.y, least one hundred more that are curry to r. • bribery; where lune sum, of money h.ae : he disbursed by agents and sub-agents, ter. r and foolish, tee pt for the purpose of •:n:.:• : against tt e prac:ice, for any man to ecru .s • Thirdly, you have constituencies whirr, Sa • the limitation of the fimnchise, and that • cno . tion wnich is used towards e nail :re I. ▪ •-, v. who are dependent on the wealthier it is neat to impunities to get asr a• • the minds of the electors. In sush • often elected whose opinions are at c area with those of the mej wity . i• :. prudential reasons have tent men to the p ' their convictions, or have induced th m •' e. ling altogether. (Hear. h:sr. wr •a with the circumstances of many of on!. atria:. r. some of our larger constiru:noi,s, will heir isyr, truth of this representation. (Hear. lee...r 1 I'' r things in our English counties it notori V. • the most decrading kind is tie badge e• she t.• (Hear, ham.) I demen 1 three things cf 7,7 • • said a nobleman with 40,000 i. a ray, s• farms: " first, that the rent be paid pur.ctu second, that the game on my estate IW.. ht tern. and thirdly, that every man shill vote el (Hear, hear.) This man was raised to vs ear: ••••. • zeal in the sarrice of his party. (Hear. hear W.' praiseworthy exceptions, this noble lord is 3 '3:7 y • re, , resentasiee of the lanai rds of Eng'ax .1. 1:-e &eel end are at once the dupes and be el IT3 `• ‘i whose lands they are permit:cd to The obvious cure, and the only cure, ler soth things is, ttie extension of the suffrage. A , sl si r a state of things demand a speedy an 1 a east::.: If, then, the querfon be ask d what nation.l coo: o be attained by the carrying of Mr. Hamel, :s parliamentary reform into law, I answer the ut::r of this fearful system. (Cheers) This er.:1111 he aop blessing, even wen the character and rills:. use . : House of Commons not to be thereby adracosd. 11 ,5 • can doubt that the House of Commons would he tos; , by the extension of the franchise—the equalisaner. sr as practicable, of the numbas of the electors in the v.: boroughs, wish the superaddild proteetien afforded by secrecy and shelter of the ballet? (Hear, II ar. l 1' think that large and intelligent cansti•ue-cies era,! into the House of Commove, 100 half ft-iced :or • • wholly destitute of sympathy with the people. to r. but cried the her at midnight, av,al try " ...s• • side! vide! " and then to vote dawn tests no sun of • liberal tendency? (Hear, hear.) 1" 7 think that another hundred would he fC:I: only because they are the latent consumers of the tr. paid by the honest and toiling pull:oar, sent to but cote for the maintenance of those istab'Pheneess whose revenues they are en:Tit:eel in rank and .". (Cheers.) has you believe that another hundred • sent there fur the sole reason thst they hare sat Li s, •-• s hind the treasury bench, ' steadily so,ing 1..,r Ivor/ rte • Mal job, and as steadily appo s ing the measa , r 0.1 '"e •s , trice& of the people ? (Hear, hear.l under such set clecteral byitt`lll r Mr. II one air t the limes of Commons, and as wo are to • • , her., a Houseot Commons o sold he elected. the whom members would go beck to dear bred. tie:riot co . 'wee, landlord supremacy, and ire e e m i nt of that code which it is the ar . of mks late Sir Hobert Peel that he eh•lirb d h No sane mut can dream ths: any 0! these • w .ul e e ten ; but, on the contrary. 1,41.1,111ent whom nutrabses would have the cot , tid..nce of the pa, , . • • , tl,l wi'h :'• whoetta d ciples and opinions w, ee woul . • come to par under such • reform of arm by the peop!, , , .and where meteor f the I calculated to meet the wants and wishes 0 •1. TIM try of the nation is tOr fi nancial reform —t• reduction in the national expenditure 3,1,1 rite t wants of the country, and a proliorier.ase alletiatio heavy burden of taxstlen—test.ther with a titre our mode of raising the rercnurs of the stets. A. ,ter mines. a t i; I of your representatives, and deeply ten•thle. 0n,e.0 honour you hare done me, and the tee: , .nothtlito a view to the more repeal distrihnsien of t laid me under, 1 have dons what I could -my I beer. , you, and I ant willing to he tried by them tt • But be soured, that net until you has , r lord the Ituaiand to assert their rights, and succe-oully ts parllamentaryteforus, wII you retail. that a h of the goy-rument which the wants of the age s• , tousle of the nation require. While, beer. Cet i r+ ' every nerve la the use of legitimate M t ar• W • ht reforms, let is not be inattentive to the duty of I r‘ those we have already aohicved. Then can be co a cH,4, an w