The Express. — London, England, 1850-11-08 00:00:00

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Tim abandonment of all the popular principles of German unity, and the sacrifice dal independent and constitutional system of government in Germany, having been consamrcated at Warsaw, in exordium with the desires and congratulations of our contempo raries, it is quite misplaced of them to continue to commiserate Prussia, or to represent it, es the Times does, threatened by a dismemberment of Silesia. Let it not be supposed that it accords with either Russia policy or interest to weaken Prase's. AU that Russia requires is, that Prussia should be, like herself, absolutist and military, and in the oocoems of Europe, that the voice aid the weight of Russia of Austria, and of Prussia should go together, as they were wont to do in the goad old times. This triple shiacce being fully restored, Russia, instead of seeking to curtail the territories ot Prussia, wiil b 3 inclined to extend them. The events of the last weeks have formed a kind of campaign, in which, although there has been no fighting, there has been a signal victory. Constitu timelines and its party are crushed, and, we may de pend upon it, that the victors will not be content without addi-g prize money to their laurels and pro ceeding tombs:lithe spoils of the dupes. We may depend upon it that the Conferences at Vienna will not be spent in corstitution-mongering. The three powers that met in the last century fur the partition of Poland are now to meet for nothing less than the partition of Germany. And the ministerial revolution which has taken place at Berlin merely means that Pros-is., instead of being the victim, is to be one of the victimisers. We have little doubt that one ot the terms of accord between the rival empires of the noeth and south will be an exzhange ot Baden for Hesse, the Premises withdrawing from the former, the Austro-Bavarians frees the latter. Holstein will no doubt be thrown to Denmark; but we are mach mistaken if Hamburg be not at the same tree flung to Prussia. Bavniii cannot ho contented with less than the possession of Frankfort, which, by the by, has been already delivered up to Bavarian troops. And fire cities, we may be certain, will be no longer tolerated iu the rew absolutist federation. What part in the spoil Russia is to have does not appear. But no doubt the moment will be chosen for . completing the ardor ie of Poland. Its complete division into Russian provinces, and sbeorption in the Russian empire, hes been far some time to progress. Poland has been already divided into Greek bishop rics, not as Cardinal WIST.Mad has divided England, but with large landed property at tached to them. Tie Greek churches, which otherwise would has., remained empty, have been CIA by the It roam military and cm. ploy's. And the transfer of the imperial residence fee a large portion of the 3 . . sr to Warsaw will com plete the work beeen. Whether there may not be some advance et the Russian frontier westward seems doubtful, Prussia, of course, ieceiving indemnity west ward ; and whether Ramie, by virtue of this ad vance, may not insist, on her old pretersioa, of becom ing our of the Genital confederation, is another quest:on. nu*, indeed, as acknowledged arbiter and suzerain over the two great German monarchs, Russia already rules that Federation. As to Prussia, we alma that there was no medium policy open to it. Belong it must tither to the constitutional west or the absolutist east. If sup porod by n. ither, it must have fallen a prey to both. And whihit democracy undermined it on one side, the great military powers would have overran it on the ether. The noble words of CONDORCET are well known, in which he said he was left no choice but to be either ex Tutor*: or victim : On me lases le Adz Ceres be:lmin on victims; Je ire mallimir, et leer lairsei le crime. To Prussia was presented a similar alternative. In stead cI choosing to be victim, however, that monarchy his preferred to enact executioner. And in that capacity we shall nl doubt soon see Prussia at work. The Time*, which his is appetite for devouring a Schleswiciloleteiner file breakfast every morning, draw. a formidable picture of cn Austrian army march irg fr o m the Mains into the DsLish peninsula. The Timrs need be in no ahem for any such expedi tion, which would be more disgraceful to the Prus sians than for themselves, to put down their Met& of holstein. But it is the rule of the Diet to comnfesion no ighbours to put down each other. And Germany has always a tame elephant ready to bela bour and crash a wild one. The accord of Warsaw allowing the Frankfort Dirt to fairly represent all the states which adhere to the Diet, Hesse and Holstein being amongst them ; the Bavarians have been com missioned to pre fly Hesse, and no doubt the King of HANOVER will be empowered to do the same by the Holateinere, which he can do without crossing the Prussian territories. What will be the feelingl of all Germans whilst this is going' on we leave all who know or whe have lately seen them to imagine. Nor is it only the feelings of the peasant or the citizen that are to be considered, but those of the soldier. The Hessian officers and soldiers, discarded and precribed, will no doubt quit the electorate, and be hospitably entertained and supported throughout Germany. What feelings, what judgments, will be universally excited by such a spectacle ? There will be no uprising, we believe. Parties are too deeply separated, the democrats too ulcera'ed, and for the moment enjoy too heartily the disgrace of Prangs and the constitutionalists, to think of helping either. But the nature and mass of their sentiments are dan gerous and inflammatory to a degree beyond comire hension. Talk of the French mind being in a an gerous state of irritability and restlessness : what is it to the choke damp that now invades and circulates through every crevice and pa sage of the German mind, waiting for the flame that is to produce the ex lilesion? Politicians may call this a recoonciliatio% rradiate may call it peace, and the dealers in pub c funds may think it a most auspicious and pacifies settlement. But there is not an experienced or think ing man that does not regard it as the most perilous and uncertain state, iuto which the population and the fortunes of Central Europe could be thrown. THERE can be little doubt that the sentiments and 1 feelings expressed by Lord Jon@ RUSSELL, in his protest spinet the papal assumption of ecclesiastical power, will find a ready echo in the breasts of nume rous classes of the community. At al! periods of our 1 history there has been a deep-rooted repugnance to foreign control, and an equally profound aversion to high-priestly pretensions. Laws founded on national opinion, and observances sanctioned by popular rev.- recce, command, indeed, general respect. But edicts promulgated beyond the sea, and obligations upon conscience, for which the free garages of the realm have not bees sought, have never been willingly acknowledged in this country ; and no man who knows the temper of our people can seriously believe that they ever will. The paroxysm of alarm into which the dignitaries of the church affect to have fallen at the news of a re distribution of their inheritance by Rome, is perhaps exaggerated. The dirsenting bodies have taken the matter much more coolly; and the educated laity appear to have already made up their minds neithe r to be run away with by the Bell, nor to nth sway from it. They see plainly that Dr. WISEMAN'S personal vanity bar made him the instrument of a most egregious blunder on the part of the ultra-mountain milliliters of Pius IX. They perceive that the iaevitable copse queue will be detrimental to the interests of the Pro :rads and tearing rather the proximate misery mVe of a revival of domestic bigotry, than dee newts evil at catholic ocavertione on any widely THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY OBNING, N' extended scale, men of sense and foresight have quickly cones to the conclusion that a great deal too much might very essay be made of the suicidal attempts of the Vatican. Nevertheless, there will always be an exeltable multitude for whom, even in the aid-year of the nineteenth century, Jesuit plots and Italian con spiracies have the charm of hotter. And when to those are added the whole bell-ringing power of the church, ever seaside, when a hair of its ad ship and ascendancy is threatened, and earl to match at any obvious and way weapon of resistanos against its numerous legitimate competitors for basin" a crowd of sanguine listeners is locoed, ready, as we have said, to cheer any load and sharpeolinding_wtterance of the feelings whereby they are sw a yed. a Eloquence is said to be the articulation by co man in a multitude of what esch is most desirous to If the uppermost thought be expressed with meleevehemence and force, the eloquence is vivid, and its effects are great. In this sense the letter of the Palma MnrieTza to the Bishop of Duitaaa is lately to have the effect of rendering the writer personally popular with certain, sections of the commonly, amongst whom probably he ham never been sobefore. It is thorough-going, sad that is a quality which the classes we have alluded to particularly admire. Cardinal Wiseaas has had the folly to pull the Anglican church by the' owe I erktitupon Lord Joaw deems it his duty to givery a sound box on the e ar. A shout is pope hrthirith raised on all sides of " Well done!" and then his lordship intimates that what he has done, or may yet do, is not to be taken to signify any " ala r m," but rather to manifest a proper sense of " indigna tion." He gives, moreover, a smart rep over the knuckles to the Poroyites, whom he lastly charges with having fi rst pat into the head of Rome that the Anglican church would submit tamely to such humiliation. But after all there has been, we firmly Wiwi, other influences at work than those of fanaticism ar eecleeisstical presumption. These are the *SA whose vibrations strike the ear ; but by what bend have they been struck ? and at whose bidding ens they made to . give forth at this particular ausemmt their distracting sounds P Is it conceivable that, amid the urgent cares which surround his tottering throne, or out of reckless love of multiplying foreign enemies when domestic disaffection and confusion can hardly be repressed from day to day by the help elf 12,000 French soldiers—is it credible, we say, that la his present deplorable condition Plus IL would, proprto moils, set shoot planning a new crumb against a country like England? In an hour of tem poral proepetity and social pesos such an enterprise would have appeared to the most sagacious of the successors of HILDEBBAND a talk requiring infi nite care and circumspection; and it a genuine seal for proselytism were the predominant ' , motive, insidious aid would rather have bee n ' , rendered , d to these iodefatigehle crimps of wandering consciences who notoriously were engaged in the work of pions fraud. But to plan or to prepare for open war upon a powerful, opulent, and learned esta blishment embracing within its pale three-fourths of the politically privileged chases of the kingdom— there has not been within the last twelve mouths at Rome a day, an hour to spare. Whence then, are we to derive this dull and des perate design? Or to what secret prompting are wo to ascribe it ? Let any one calmly consider who they are that may most probably conceive that their pur pose will be answered by flinging this shell of sec tarianism amongst us, and ho wit, we think, concur with us in the opinion that in political rather than religious enmity we are to look for the origin or " the recent aggressions," perpetrated in the name of the ill-fated Pope. Pine IX. still occupies the traditionary seat of catholic authority; but a more potent will than that of the Imprisoned pontiff is there. The ministers of absolutism have him in their hands. His faith in himself as a politician is dead. His dream of life is over. He looks from his palace windows on the people who would have, two lyears ago, risked their lives for his defence or honour, and eighs to thick that amongst them all he Khali never hear again the welcome vivo, once fa miliar to his ear. He feels that he is held upon his undermined throne by the mere power of France doing Austria's work, in Austria's stead, at the bid ding of Austria's master. I) epotiam, for its own ends, needs the maintenance of the unreformed temporalty of the Popedcm; and whenever LOUIS NArOLEON recalls the present garrison of Rome, Austrian troops will of course be found ready to relieve guard. Rome is the seat of the national intellgence,—the head of Italy. How can the country rise while its head is thus held down? Tnis for the despots is a great gain ; but they have other aims in view. England and her open sympathy with the en thralled races of the continent is regarded with anxious apprehension. Withers the elaborate con spiracy formed far the subversion of a liberal govern ment in this country during the present sear ; and the loot scant pains that are taken to weave new snares for the same purpose. To divide and distract our popu lation with religious fends is no ill-conceived devise of our inveterate foes. And how were it possible to con trive a scheme more calculated to accomplish this Machiavellian aim than to use the name and autho rity of the Pope, with the largest section of Non-con ramjets to the national church, in order to place them in a position of avowed hostility to the rest of the community ? Catholicity mat lase in this reckless game, but despotism hopes to win by oar divisions. GERMANY. lag mcleslastieal privileges in Piedmont. has received from Verona the rain. of 1,169 shams, of which 126 had been takes by prism* mod owl bylcehters. The fist of enbeeribees sauteing persons eft all ranks and probesionm as well as of be& sexes. TURIN. Nov. 3. It is said that Count Phial is to be appointed Se nator. N. Ferdinand Barret has left Tula for Paris, the six months of his minion having expired. THE D OCK 00/4UNIEB AND THE , • J 4 CUSTOMS. lee • ( • • ‘..• Isar se *A months ago repressatatkoss. were Elie to different Ministers of the Crow* ceder the extraordicary proceedlogs going foe/rite in Ilse Darks. It did . not appear that her Ma sneek's advisers had any strung sympathy for the merchants of London. One could not interfere ; another doubted if the matter fell within his pro vinoe; a third was of opinion that es the case had seamed a judicial character no one but the law officers could deal with it. The interests of commerce and the honour of the government were at stake, but those to whom the department of commerce is intrusted gave little heed to the complaints of the first merchants of the world, and did still lees to re move the cease of their annoyance. At length the London Dock Company considered it their duty to appeal directly to the First Minister of the Crown. They accordingly addressed to Lord JOHN RUSSELL a statement, in which they un folded tile grounds of their complaint. They ap pealed to him as the head of the government, and as one of the representatives of the first oommer cial City in the world. Lord JOH , . Russau replied by referring his constituents to the tender mercies of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, with whom the Dock Companies refused, and in our opinion most properly refused, to have any correspondence. How far Lord Joule RussELL weighed and con sidered the statements of the London Dock Company, it is impossible for us to say. Bat we wish to draw his lordship's special attention to ore portion of their communication, which the credit of his government appears to require that he should not pass over, or a refer to the consideration of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER." Tee following statement was made to Lord JOHN Roseau. by the Chairman of the London Dock Com- Pray My Lord,—The Board of Customs has thought fit, within the lest three menthe, to commence • series of attecia upon thisconspanc. It has caused • body of Custom-house cfileera to snuck the whole of the company'. premises, to the great hindrance of business and the scandal of the port of London ; it has made unlawful detentions and *dame's of goods ; its officers have gone round among the mercantile houses in the City, circulating the meet airceiously tales reports of the proeredirgs in the decks; these oil. awe have been offering b -skis to persons sn the Com. pane's service to mote ti.selosures of tornetning supposed to be known by them of wrong doings by the Company; while men of the worst charact,r, discharged by the direm eon ter Wog detected of malverratione in the oxkl, /wave been taken by the Customs into their pay. Lord JOHN Iteesxm. poetobly may say that these' charges are general; that there Is nothing in them that is tangib"e, or fur whioh he could calf the Board of Customs to account. In the course of their corre spondence with the Board of Customs, the London Dock Company have, however, reiterated these charges in still stronger terms. In one of Mr. POWLEB'S letters, dated so far back as the month of May last, he, on the part of the London Dock Com pany, protested against " the means which bad beet put in motion to obtain unfounded statements." Hs described the practice of the Customs in the following longings:l: A man employed It the warehouses of this company is die. massed from the company's service for fraud, the evidence, however morally conclusive against him, being not sufficient to procutie a conviction in a court of law. This men gets by some means into communication with an officer of Customs to whom he imparts that he has it in be power to make great disclosures of illicit proceedings in the docks. Be speaks of sweepings and scrapings being conceited together in a fraudulent manner, and ell this int.rmatiem is grcetily taken in. Present recompense is given to the interment, and remise of larger future reward hold out to him, end then the ecandaloue reports In question, whisk ate the nffeoring of this confederacy, ere pat in circulatism by the officers or Customs. Again, on Jane 4, we find Mr. l'ovrhas writing to the S.crAiry of the Cutouts thus : The Loud has telt.' a line of proceeding an unsuitable to the reux Mies weitiers of the parties elm:erred as It hes been degruliug to the company. Not "only have the company's premises been seerehed in the most offensive manner, bat premiums have been held out to the companc'a servuts to come forward and denounce their coasters. Tha officers of the Customs have been engaged In circulatied among the merchants injurious falsehoods, as to the manner is which their property Ins been treated by the dock companies— goo's have been placed unlawfully seder mioure—veradoes and embarrassing hindrances have been pieced in the way of traraec ing the businres cf the docks—persons occupying et position in the Customs, from whom better things might have been r-opteted, base hem seen talking wi It common labourers in the docks (men employed sometimes only far a tew hours at a time) to extract information—and, to CM. pieta the catalogue of these evrsordicary proceedings, the Board if Customs hes seen fit to volunt , er to take on Itself the office of " protecting the merchants" of London from the nets of the directors of the dork companies—these lame forming themselves a large portico of the community. At ft now appears, all this has proceed. d from some of the damn of the Customs having gut hold of the retvante of the Londe* Doek Company discarded for malpeactims in the docks,— who having, by their misconduct, lost their employment fa the company's service have found ample compensation at the hands of the officers of the Customs. Are these accusations sufficiently explicit ? We presume not, because Lord halm RUSSELL hes taken no notice of them. We presume not, also, because up to this very week the practices complained of have been continued. We propose to-day to submit to the consideration of the Prime Ittini-ter and the public a few mote facts relating to the "Doings in the Docks," in the earnest hope that they will induce Lord JOUST RUSSELL to reconsider his resolu tion to leave to subordinates the concerns of the com mercial community of England. We will commence with a narrative of some cases which have occurred in the St. Katherine's Docks within a recent period. We do not think we shall be describing the following facts too strongly by head- log them tins: Ax ATTEMPT TO MYSORE A WITNESS, AND TO INDOOII AIM TO ENTRAP MIS SOPERIORE, A remittable young man, in the employment of the St. Kathetine's Dock Company as a landing-waiter, reports toe following conversations between himself and two principal officers of the Custom', who are actually employed in the docks. On the bth of August last he was in the attic , of one of the dock warehouses, when the two of referred to came up and entered into conversation with him. One of them said that he would tell his in maiden's something that would astonish him, bpd be for his beneflr. They said they well knew he was only a tool of higher who desired to throw the blame off themselves an give him all the die. minable work: that they should he sorry if he got into any unable, and then they suggested that it was impossible for the Customs to out their hoods upon goods without previous Information. They then wished him good day and leit. Os the 7th one of these seem came to him again. " I ban come," said he, "as I promised, to tell you m hsend em that I have sees the Cashing solicitor, and have told I him hew kisd you wen during the examinations in the war& bows WOE be myself sad another, who desired me to ask of yes Ulm weed tell all you knew respecting the warehouse, I as he is owe yes are esly a tool of persons in higher authority who MINA is let you late the hole, mad thereby take the blame albanosives" The pass Nos protested that he knew of nothing wrong, end tie Baser this west away, bat soon after is toned. " Now," said be, "if you will show me the psis MAME see not on the books, nobody but myself art the hoard shall haw of it." The lauding clerk replied sepia that he did sot know of anything wrong. " I don't sayedi think yea do," said the offiser• " I Shish you have bees kept la the huh es mach as possible, bat they Malt in the dim That yes& ; Ana% yea think there la um alba r (He Mos best as tiro a variety et ablass the it At Ye made • &dam "An that yes me," said be, " you oball=ria• qf re pot; sad so far our situation, yes wad sot la ebisid of MAN, teat, ajr ear board are sir, hianol, aged win be staa fie pferpos • better." It apron UMW alloare wets Enable to obtehi say In formation. At the oboe of the month of August, however, the same diem able another attempt upon this young man's reetitnde and c o y. Oa sexual cannons they Yak in conversing with referred to the superion in his department, suggesting Not" they were no friends of his," that " they were oalybplos to bibs W blame as him," !a One day they eons be If* sad one of them taking him aside. addnesed him thus:" Yew es and tell Mr.— lean ing Ms superior) that Ism usldai inquiries shoat go sad se. If you pet tie quoin Is that way it will Meow him 0/Air rient, osd this porkpie he will tat yagematilv." Now we think we usi /ably request to know who. tire this ism sample eine way in which the depart- meets of the goverment el this country get up eel dance for the mete acjidee P Is this the way in which, in what are eaW " Exchequer oases," wit news are obtalued to procure verdicts for the Crown P We do not ask the Customs or the Board of Lased Revenue to reply ; but we appeal to the Prime Minister himself. Are these practices which you unction P These are the deeds of a branch of your government • and= you, now that you know the hots, rests the responsibility. /he foregoing. was a ease of temptation and osjo• MuWe will vary the narrative by giving the of A Oaan or T n A trustworthy often et the Bt. Katharine's Dock Dem i gum had made an error in one of his books, gulled a 'hostile Book. Forniastoly he had discovered ft within • few minutes, end hastening after the Oslo= edger he bad induced him to retain to the eget, sad make a raviolis, which wee understood to be satin. fumy. • day or two alter ihi oceerpose, hew. ,ever, Ike ptiticdpolf Ifiliser of the Customs ems to him. Es sommeaced by alluding to the difficulty another sleek centpasy's officer had got into, and then re fervcd• to OA, error oxiintitted in the book. "Be then WWI," said the desk clime, that if I °Mild give him ifikomodee se tedblisallyhmes OA remaining unknown to the Cubists ha weibiempula Mom forwarding the error to the beard, esomMIVIM *as whatever iaformetion I might give, my seam , isenht awe* *pour, sod leaving me ties altortative if I iikitmelesheadvaatago of the opportunity be offered um" AA& a short time, he than proceeded to wigged maim a, and to psi • number et questions. As MN" goining his foot spews Bask of tallow, be ioqskrod, witis • Issiewisig look, ...Rave you o :a d Fine casks of tallow yeti sea mit ass of P" The mom in the negative: whersopea Mr. Cutouts pre , as be says, to administer • tenon se hint " on the putty and danger et tempering with the revenee." Of course it is not to be expected that inducements, promises and threats, of this sort, will always be held ! out without effect. We have, from the statements of ono of the men in the pay of the Customs, an ac- count of the way in which he was induced, as del calls it, "to torn over to them." The man was dis mimed by the warehouse-keeper under whom he served for dome trifiing'offenoe. Iwu going up," says he, "to tell the Supetiatendent how I had been treated, when I met one of the Customs, who wilted me what I was doing. I raid I had just been dismissed. Then now's your time, said he. You will be provided for for the remainder of your days if you will give the Customs all the information which you khoW of." The man, instead of going to his superin tendent, was thus induced to go to the Custom-bones ; and he is now, if we believe his own statement, in receipt of 15s. a week from the public treasury (his pay having been 10s. at the Doete), with a promise ! of a messenger's place at the Catomkouse as soon as the trials are over! But the Customs, it would seem, do not confine their operations to tampering with the Dock Com pany's servants in the docks. They pursue them tol their homes, and assail them by touching the kindlier chords of their hearts, What can be more shocking than the following? A principal Custom-home officer goes to the abode of a pour man , ! a labourer in the docks, late in the evening, secretly! and stealthily, and having got him into a private place, out of the hearing even of his children, tries to induce him to criminate not only himself, but all with whom he works. He tries in vain. At length be says to him, " You have a large! family ? " The man replies, " Yes." " How many!, children ?" " Five." " Where is your wife?" " Dead." " Oh," says the Customs officer, "consider, my friend, I beseech you! You had better weigh this thing well in your mind." The man said, to use his town words, " that he had not cccasion to contem plate it for a moment, for he was quite innocent of all of which he was ac cut d." " Well, then," ,aid the! Oustom-house man, trying to put a good face upon his own disappointment, ' I will tell the surveyor that you are quite innocent, for I should be sorry that a countryman of mine got into trouble. 80, good-bye. Look out so that no person eh all sea me." Why, it is almost a scene from Mephistepfeeka ! Besides the regular officers of the Customs it would seem that there is a gang of vagabon , te, Olt fly dis charged dook labourers, going abiut trying to entrap poor men into coufessione and statemeats which may criminate themselves as well as others. These scoundrels say that they are in the receipt of high pay from the Custom-house. They bout of their inti macy and of the frequency of their communications with the authorities there : they assume to be author ised to make offers of government employment or to threaten the vengeance of the law officers of the Crown, just as the circumstances of the moment appear to render useful. One of these men told a dock tabourer "that there were a number of them organised for the purpose of giving Information to the Customs; that he! himself was in personal communication with Mr. How, the Surveyor - General , and Mr. }Lem, the Solicitor of Custems; and that it he (the dock la bourer) joined them end would state what they had been dot. gat the watehouae his wife and family should be taken care of whilst he was incarcerated." Doubtless there are groat exaggerations. It is impossible that high officials would condescend to deal with each dirty instruments. We are glad to give them an opp9rtunity of repudiating the con nexion, and also of denying that any man has autho rity from the Customs to provide for an informer's wife and family. But we will tell what are some of the proceedings of these fellows, who assume direct authority from the Customs itself. Here is a caLe as stated by a discharged dock labourer : AN INFORMEII TRYING TO SOBOEN ETIDENCZ. Hewn walking along the road when he met, and was ac costed by, one ether* organ;sed informers." The fellow begged him to go into. pebble house. When he got him char*, " Notes your time " said he, "you can do good to yourself if you kaow anything. You eon come with me to the Cos. toms, and everything you state will be taken down, Would it not he better for you to have a weigher's place, at a guinea a week, than to be walking about starving I " The man observed, "Why, arc not you walking about ?" "Oh,' said the intormer, "I am doing very well, I don't regret what I have done. lam not exactly permanent, but I get a living ; and if von know anything you can do the same. Did you ever see . fdr. put good roger into a tub among the waste ?" The man said—No. "We no good maim you know something," observed the informer ; "if you don't, you could easily find out. Don't you know whether there's any roger stowed away at —?" The man r.id he had not worked in the sugar department. " Well, then, you've worked in the ten. Did you sever me them make up a defiaent cheat of tea, and wure they got the tea from ? Don't you know where the tea is kept for the purpose ?" The man denied all knowledge of any such proceeuin"i. " Well," said the informer, " all we want is to know where anything is kept whioh is not right. Tell u that, and then we'll go and setae, and no names mentioned." Oa another °cession this man told the dock labourer that each informer was to get from the Customs about 2001. and a situation. " What assurance have they ?" inquired the lab.,nrer. In reply to this question, the name of an iafluential Custom House official was mentioned ; but not believing the statement ourselves we refrain from repeating it until better cause is shown. - - - The following incidents exhibit the anxiety of the Customs to get at anything—no matter what : CAN'T You TILL us 80311 THING ? An extra labourer in the docks was enticed by four men into a beer-shop in Spitalfielis. 'they wanted him "to tell something." One of the men laid down IL on the table. They said they would set him up in business if he would tell. The man replied that he had nothing to till, where• upon they said that they would make him tell somethirg, or if he did not they would " take him," for " they had been after him these three months."—Another cue, very similor to thin, unwed within a few days. A man was going from his house for some beer for supper, when he was aocoeted by two fellows, both discharged dock labourers. They begged him "to come round the corner." " How do you get on now at the warehouse?" inquired one. "If you know of anything just tell me, and 1 can pat a pound or two layout way, and nobody know anything about it. Do you know of any wrong rotation, or anything, se any bag-alipe Gerber over, or any overdraveings, or anything at all ?" The man replied, " No; I believe everything is correct at our warehouse." " Oh," said the other, " leanest know some **, i try and recollect, I'll ...you again. You ought to iSaly yourself and your family. Now's your time. The (freemen ie stronger than the Company. It well be the making of you if you can find out anything. When do you live ? et what number?" "I told Lim;' says the men, "a wrong street, and then the conversation ended." Bad as these cases are, worse remains to be nar ✓ated. One case of which we have particulars pre ssed@ circumstances so discreditable that we trust the moment it meets the attention of the government both the Police Commissioners and the Commissioners of Customs will be called to explain their share in the proceeding. A man named NATHAN, formerly " a preferable labourer" in the St. Katherine's Docks, was recently convicted at the Thames police court, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment, for having illegal posses sion of a pint of wine, the property of the company. He was imprisoned at Coldbath-fialde, from which gaol he was released only • few days since. He deposes as follows : I came out of prison yesterday. Whilst I was inside the gates waiting to get out, I heard some one !squire whether • person named James Nathan was coming out? When I got out I found two men waiting. They asked me if my ame was lames Nathan ? I said yes. They invited me WA) • coffee-house, Another man was with me, who had also come out of prison. They paid for some bread, batter, and coffee, which we partook of. They said they had been told that I could give them information about what took place in the vaults. I asked them what they meant? They said they had been in the fit. Hatharines Docks, and had found two casks under the stairs—one 17 gallons and the ether 6. - Whigs, I told them I had no information he , find did not know what they meant. They Oft • " Milinto a public house and paid for two sixpenny and water, and two gleam of sprites, " - - k of. One of the men wished me , en • away, and laid he wanted to speak to sap . , . said I did, not want any mute. One of ~ -r t out sayim he wanted to see some one, and a ssa We then went out, end meat tato when we were joined by the man who i same who was respectably dressed. They ' r us to soma ram and biscuits. The third man said, *$ sp a my lads, how do yea get on, have plenty to eat and drink. He the* began persuading me to go down to the Chistawhosse. I slid I would net— I would to home sad emy wife. Hi 10104 f r Woldeige down with him wo,,q give me money to take to my wife. I en :I related. It o went with me to the street where I lire, and told r..a to bring my wife out, and he wenl , t wait at a puhlic home I then went home. A man came to my bout& attar me, sod slid I wan wanted at the public-house. I went there with my will. I there saw the some gentleman. li e soil Ae seocapay me 18r a week for four menthe If I monk( g m , him information, and that I yield work in the d.clw at the same time, and ne one be the wiser for It! Whi:st we we re at the publin house we had two mere glasses of tam act water, which the gentleman paid for. --- • _ Subsequent inquiry was made as to who " the een tleman" was, and be has been ree.ignieed in the person of one who is in the office of the Solicitor of Customer. The other two men were inspectors of the Thames police, whose names are known. One of these men has sinee been to NATITAN'a house, and threatened his wife. lie has also visited the bowie of NATH.V4 mother, and has told her "that her son was not acting right to himself in not coming forward to give in• formation ; that he (the inepector) knew he could do it, and that it would be povndi iri hie way." And this is the way evidence is got up for "Ike Maizsrts Customs." We ask again, has it the sanction and appraval of "Her MAJESTY'S mle. isters?" Vl)e Court. WINDSOR, Nov. 7. The Queen ard Prince Albert took tlif ir unnnl early nom i t , wa lk. The roes% Lanny tonic welkieg end pony enemies in the elves in Windt/m.lmA. The Doehem of Cambridge. accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Dunbar of Mecklenburg Strelite and the Prinetsg 'Mary Cambridge. and attended by Boon Keembeek, visited the Queen and Prince A bey, and parmok of luncheon wi.ll bi t Makaty and the Pike.. The royal party return, at o K m in the afternoon. The Duchess of hunt, Lvty Bruce, Baroness de Spell), end Lieut.-Colonel the H n. C. 13. and Mrs. Phipps Teta have the honour of diLiag with her Mejesty this evening. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, artived in town from Frosmors shortly b lore 12 o'clock yesterday, and paid a •isit to the Duct,os of w ow rester, at her residence, Gloucester House. ller 1I ghats@ returned to Frogman, in the afternoon. the Rey. Dr. Ragesson, front Canada, had an interview with Bart Grty, yesterday, at tee Colonial -t,lPc•. —. ill; Ecclesiastical (7.7ninraiisioiers ftr D,glar.d hid a general meeting, yesterday, at their office id Whitindi- - _ Once. Mr. John Wood, Chairmen of the Board of it.h.ta lit venue had es ioterriew with the Cnaccehor of : E ezhe suer psi:lnlay. lord Cannel , Paget had &Led sn in triow stn the Right Hon. Baronet, at his tit:Lel r.s.,:e: DJeet ing street. Despotohos wore root off yeaterchy ever.log ;tom the Colouialwilion ton the Govepraore os Hong Kong and Ceylon. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL Yesteeday, a *Mat was held for the deeno.t.eh of business. Although the hour appointee. was in bear than the wend hour of meeting, the court woe crowded with members. A great deal of tioitennert, oteuiceed by the moventent of the Pope, was evidently the cies° of the more than ordinary bustle in the COW... IRE PONE OF IiOXE.—ADDRESO TO 117.1: 31:411 , 1Y. When the preliminary buao&e of tit., coots •tr minated, Mr. JOHN WOOD rose to give notice of the r.i.lnee:nq motion :—`. To consider the propriety of pitmen:in4 cd deem to her Mej,sty on the rreent proceedings 4f the I' pi of it „me with reference to this country, and emir. s ivy •t! unshaken loyalty and attautment of the corp :rat, oi • , Mejestes pereon, authority, and government." (Iman.cse cheera) Mr. BLAKE, immediately a'ter Mr. Wood sat 43WG, rot to move that the star/dine order of the 474.1 . . a .. on th,.. ject of giving notices of motion be suspended •ith to a motion which he hod to propose of theeks t :1 J. Banal for tbo noble letter which applied 1., Ti•ots of that day addressed to the Balm? of Dub (Loud cheers.) Mr. BLAKE then reed Lord John Remelt's letter to • ',I. Bishop of Dothan, and laid particular emphaeio et• ..• portion of it wrich imps!. eed the conduct el e. • • • clergy of the Church of Roglend, to s 'tom es., :. the encouragement of the terms and doe - Loos 0, C of R 91310. The reading of the document was frequer:y ict.-e -nipted by cheers and clapping of heads from all tr ben of the court. Amidst the loud cheers of the court the motion for sr pending the standing orders of the court 16111 received. The standing older was then 'lmpended by the un vote of the court, and further comment was at this wow Lt stopped in the anxiety to plops's a resolution of tint eis the minister. Mr. BLAKE then proposed that a deputation of ment‘...tre should be appointed to prepare the resolution of tbs.. L. to presented to Lord John Remelt, and the following cent. nun were chosen:—Mr. Blake, Mr. Richard Taylor, Mr. A man Wilson, Mr. Benumb, and Mr. John Wood. The deputation having returned with the papered Mr. BLAKE read the same, which was as follows : Resolved unanimously, that this court hes read nil feelings of the highest gratification the timely and admirable letter, addressed to the Right Rev, the Lord of Durham, by the Right Hon. Lord John Resell, and ectirel and heartily approves the prisciplee therein einem..d, atd his determination to maintain unimpaired the great 011.3'4• tutiocal doctrine that " no foreign prince or potentate will be permitted to fasten hie fetters upon a nation which Intro long and 60 nobly vindicated its right to freedom of optima, civil, political, and religious." And— " That the oordial and doom* thanks of this eturi be presented to his lordship, not only as one of the representa tives et this City in pertinent, but as the prime minister of the Crown, and the organ of her Majesty's goveremeer, foe such • declaration of opinion as must re-asiore all her elajeste's subjects of the unabated desire of those in power to uphold in its integrity the religious freedom of the British empire." Ste PETER LAURIE, in seconding the motion, observed that he was never more delighted than he then was in having such an opportunity. He remembered the time (12th of December, 1814), when an application was made to that court for a grant of 2001. towards built:lag a chapel, but he (So Peter) bed mews to - Sabre, that it was intended for Puseyite purposes, and, them. fore, he proposed as an amendmant, that the con sideration of the auSject should be adj turned until that day twelve months. The consequence of carrying this resolution was, that up to that moment the application 100 the grant had never been renewed. (Loud cheers.) He (Sir Peter), looking at the proceedings taken by the Pope within the lest few days, considered that in a greet degree the Bishop of Leaden had bean to blame. (Mar.) The bishop had evinced great want of fineness when he delivered his charge respecting Puseyi•m some few years eines. Ha was glad to find that the matter had at length come to a aids, as he had great hopes that the ststmel , through the magnanimous conduct of Lord John Russell, and the adhe ream of the overthrowry to the protestant faith, would ' end ln the of everthing like papal dominatirn in this country. (Loud cheers ) The motion was then enthusiastically carried, and it was ordered that a copy of the resolution should be presented to Lord John Russell forthwith. TSB LORD MATOR'd FAREWELL ADDRISS. Mr. Wilkieson having been unanimously appointed Oaf clerk of the City Small Debts Court, in the room of Mr. Jupp, resigned, The LORD MAYOR 'aid —Gentlemen,—This to the lest time I shall have the honour of addreenng you from the chair. I beg therefore to thank you for 'linter kindue•s,and the considerate manner in which you have assisted me daring the term of my masoralty. I have often felt my usebility to discharge the duties imposed upon me in this c oat, but you have 63 well supported me upon all °combos, that my outy has many times ceased to be onerous, so that I now he most soutane thus publicly to tender to you my mostgrateful thanks for your kindness, and to bid you all a most affec tionate farewell. (Loud cheering.) The court then adjourned. COURT OP List•TENANCY.—Yesterdsy, at II eotirt of Lieutenancy for the City if London, held at the Gni:d• hall, the Right Hon. the lord Mayor in the chair, it wee resolved, on the motion of Sir John PeUy, Dart, and se resolved,• by James Ander:Or, Esq., that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor be requested to convene a Court of Licuthcasey by public notice, to consider of presenting au a 'dress to her Mejsety expressive of the opinion of this court on the lets unwarrantable assumption of authority by the Bisliop of Bonet° exercise spiritual jurisdiction within this realm to derogation of her klajesty's prerogative and the protestant government of the country. Resolved unanimonely, os Ono motion of Mr. Aldermen Hunter, seconded by leo. Id w Lerman, Ell, M.P., " That the, best thanks 004 court at pre-entinently dee to the Right Hoe. the Lord Mayor foe able conduct in the chair this day ; ordered also tbst the above resolutions be advertised la the need morning Fe' pers." 4 , journed. THE WOODS AND FORESTS AND NATIONAL PlOVEMENTll.—Yesterday • special vestry was held in St. James's, Westminster, to consider the preprthty of r l 7 - lag the legislature for an enactment, compelling the and Pelmets to deposit plans and give notice of any elterati • s . eolitenaplated by them on property belonging to the cr.'l, or the public. Mr. Churclewsrden Oscan having D' e " called to the chair, several gentlemen addressed the °intone! nom" lelaing of the encroachments upon the Oreen Perls.o4 other tient proeeedinge of thneommissionem W and resolidieU easerieme with the object of the meeting 31 COW moody LEGAttrOMOTIONS.—Mr. Berjeant Allen, of the Oxford Circuit, and Mr. Serjeant Wilkins , of the Northern Circuit, have received • patent of precedence. )1:; Miller, of the Midland Circuit. will receive the coif. swaies ccined b the elevation of Mr. Mune, Am: retirement o fro as m o circuit y practice of Mr. Whitehunt, bate le ct to several applications to the Lord Chancellor ler sill ; bct at present no determination has been made as ta whc, u lab patio= will be within the bar.—Glebe. FRANCE. PARIS, TRUMAN EVINIIIIO. The Committee of Permian* hal/ today its final sitting. M. Hopis presided. The chief subject of discussion was, what should be dose with the proses eerboux of the sittings. Should they be printed for distribution to members of the Arabi, ? Should they remain imprinted, but aseessible to representa tires at will? Several propositloos were made, bat it was at last decided that they should be held in readi ness to be produced in case they should be called toe by a vote of the Assembly ; but that they should not in the meantime be accessible to single members of the Assembly. A proposition was made for the appointment of a committee to draw up a report upon the questions which had chiefly occupied the csminittee, bat:was, at the suggestion of ht. Men, withdrawn. It was thought that in the peados gained by the government's sanction of General Dhangarmer's order of the day no step ought to be, taken; which could be construed into a renewal of hostilities against the Elysfie, and a quiet attitude was the most dignified as well as politic at the mo onlit of laying down their mandate. The President Dapin then declared that the functions of the C 3111• tette° were terminated, and the sitting broke up. A council of ministers met yesterday morning at the Elyse e to hear the President's message read. It is not probable that the message will be ready for delivery on the first or second day of the re-openedi session, as the ensures and corrections to which it is subjected, in compliance with the suggestions of the e ;nnoil of ministers, make the revision usually a long affair. The definitive result of the election of the Nord is as follows :—Number of electors inscribed, 134,297; voters, 60,104 ; for Gen. Lshitte, 63,578. Despatches from Toulon announce that General d'Hautpoul had set out fur Algeria, on board the &harem% The governini nt has intimated to General Neumayer that he be. still time to revoke his refusal of the command offered him in Britauny ; but that if his acceptance is not sent in to-day, the refusal will be eoneidered as definitive, and he will be put upon half- PaY The Council of State is occupied with a proposition for the dissolution of the Society of the Dix-De cembre, and other clubs, which, under the meek of mutual aid societies, are militarily organised, and menace the public peace. Urgency has been voted for the project. The dissolution of the Dix Decembre is considered as settled between the government and the parlia mentary majority. The Assentrdie Nalitoyee declares that the offifial conee'ion which it hos received is such as will compel its directors to seed Inflaters both to the President of the Republic and to the journals which shall have inserted tinder the guarantee of the government this calumnious error; geeing that there is a serious pre judice caused. when it is stated that the administra tioti of the Assembl4e Nationale worships the Epee in the Monigeur, and defends the national representa tion in the Assemlike. It is very true that the two journals are published in the same house; that they have the same printing-office; it is true that the managers of the two journals are on friendly terms ; bat the old hotel of the Mat guise do Pampadoar, the printing-office of M. Chair, is large enough to contain and to print four and five journals, and the meat disputes between the two journals hats proved their absolute separation and independence. Great attention has been excite , ' in the scientific world by the experiment made yesterday in the Hip podrome, to effect the steerage of ba lloons in any given direction. The trial as locked upon by eminent scientific men to have been remarkably successful. The model balloon which was used to make the ex p riment measures five yards in length, and contained 1,200 litres of gas; it weighs 1,200 gramme', and is completely of the form of a fish, with fins and tail. The tail is composed of two small rudders, one which causes the balloon to ascend, whilst the other turns it either to the right or left. The fins are represented by two moveable oars, short and wide, which are moved by a very simple piece of mechanism. The whole appointee is covered with a network, and with bands of whalebone. This model, which is rather diminutive, labours under very serious disadvantages. Tho necessity of making the mechanism for moving the wings very light, only allows it to act for a very short time; nevertheless the balloon went for a cer tain space in a direct line, and even described a circle, though with SOM3 difficulty. In order to be able to carry three meo, the balloon should be at least 70 yards long, and tho fins worked in the car below by means of a handle turned by two meo, or by means of a wheel similar to that of the treadmill. The ex hibition of M. Arnault, the inventor, is of a nature to excise public curiosity to a high degree. The Journal de Rennes says: "We are informed from a good source that General de Regny, command ing at Brest, has been appointed ad interim to the command of the military division of Rennes, in the room of General Neumayer." The newspaper war on the Cbangartirer question is more violent than ever. The rays asks the following question : "Is it true that Changarnier only mounted the tribune to support the grant of three millions, be cause he was shown an hour before a decree ordering his own dismissal, and appointing another general in his place? BOURSE. PAWS. Nov. 7. Pr Wary. Oprai Elkibor tarot arr. 1 par Couto 37 110 57 55 57 DI 57 14 57 75 spm Orr. Na ,92 75 $3 10 II 70 92 75 5 do. Now Lau. . .. .. 10 •• 4 par OWL t • I o se w re o i or Omar co Lomas tat " li II ; "60 dayo."2s 3. " eireartra —. . 2 Moor aro Soora. Nosey Do. i 111t1 „ NI . Lam Ur 11150 76 .. 6 .. Do. me Isi . Do. fj - 41 normal 69.40010 Id 30 .. Brk Norm - 2295 : - • ----- - - Boom —Volatiles (left bank), 135; Paris and Or. tease. 730 ; Marseilles sad Aslant's, 172 60 ; Stamboul and Bali, 123 76. Odessa sad Vinson, 361 26; Orleass and llardeanz, 388 76; Werth, 461 26; Paris sad Bine bean, 342 60; Tours and Nantes. 242 60 ; Monisrean and Trope, 90; Dieppe sad Fessasp, 166. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. The Chamber of Deputies his appointed its board, which is the same as last year. The Spanish bishops have prohibited several French books. Tee mixed mammies of Spaniards and Portuguese for the navi gation of the Duero bas been appointed. An English aeronaut is going to awes& I la Poiteivn, from the Cireasof Bull-fights one ball. Th. Chamber of Deputies will not sit on Monday (Nov. 4). It is not true that the Spanish government has offered its mediation in the difference between England and Portugal, and that M. Picts', Minister of Foreign Affairs, has, upon this subject, frequent conferences with Lord Hoiden. MADUD, Nov. 2.—Three per Caste., 341 ; after Boise, 34 9.16 1 sash. Pear per Costa., 131. Fire per Costa., 131 paper; after Bobs, 131 paper, 131 cora. Coupon., 71 ash; after Baia. 7/ oath. Psalm, 3 15-16 cult ; after Bolos, 31 aria Beak of St. rerdlaaad, 961. Ezdonas on Lou don. 60.36. THE DUTCH EAST INDIES. The Dutch government, by a mai decree, pub lished in the Sleds Courant of the Hips, of lb.4th, enacts that, in order to take advantage of the Eduard wealth in the Indian Archipelago belonging to Hol land, Dutchman adaidithed in the Netbsetende re is the East lodise shall be peeentted to work the mines there, on 'babies assesokes boa as general an maim te be grad by him; =1; nadertakbps shall be pretested NM sasseraged by I the goverment by all mum e_xespt by advances of money I that the rosesedmis *all not mold 40 at moat ; that the dingle= if the mines shall be eminsively Datsh ;mil that the balder of the coa essay" volanther a pe inivw se is isividail, sha an ll sly villembilthe MR Taft& This import deems it is believed, kin masiderable amount of MOW data alibi log i =kad open new loam stamens WM DEATH OF COUNT BRANDENBURG. We learn by an electric telegraph despatch from Berlin, dated the oth inst., that Count Brandenburg, President of the Council, had died that morning, at 24 minutes past 8. The ilium of this minister has been already notified; its immediate cause was the remit of the Count's mission to Warsaw, in which he was completely outwitted by the Austrian and Rus sian dipiomariats. Delirious fever was the malady which caused death. Count Brandenburg was upwards of 70 years of age ; he was the natural uncle of the present King of Prussia. The regular correspondence from Berlin only reaches to the 4th inst., the mails of the sth having again been detained at Minden, in Hanover. The official An:riger, of the 4th, contains the announce ment of the acoeptation of Radowitz's resignation, and the interim appointment of Manntenffel to fill the presidency of the council during the illness of Count Brandenburg. Count Bernstorff had net yet arrived at Berlin. It seems that Count Rosen berg, who was announced ea bearer of despatches on the subject of the conferences at Vienna, was appointed to succeed Count Bernatoeff. Herr von Sydow has resigned his post as Underßecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and President of the Prisons College. The warlike tone of the Oesternmich mks Oarrespowdensj of the 9ad, has calmed a AM in the fonds. This correspondence says : " In the Garnet question the most print unanimity exists between Austria and Ronda. Marshal Radetaki and several other generals have been summoned to Visions to attend a grand council of war. Tranquillising pro- CVhave bees made by Prussia, which, however, t bees deemed admissible, since it is attempted to oppose the effective intervention of the Band in Hesse. Upon the acceptance or rejection of the counter proposals of Austria, war or peace will depend." The fall of the funds was simultaneous with the rise of gold and silver. Gold was at 28 per oset. pre mium. The movements of the troops continue in fall activity. Dates from Nuremberg, of the 4th, are to the effect that on the previous day 2,400 Au triane, under General Bohol, arrived and continued their way towards Bamberg. Three more divisions were expected on the following day, so that within the week 15,000 men with 1,700 horses have Famed through. A letter from Ulm, of the 2nd, announces the ar rival there of 6,000 Austrians from the.Vorarlberg ; 10 or 12,000 more were to pan on the 3rd. Them troops were going on by train to %infamy's. According to letters from Cassel, of the 4th, the old General Haynes had received his dismissal, and would retire from life. Th force of Gen. Groeben at Fulda, and is advisee of that oleos, at Johannisberg and Bronson, amounted to 20,000 ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Opinion. of Turin, of the 3rd, states that the OCIIMMINIOCI for the erection of the monument in cora meateratioa of the pawing of the Stoma law, abolish- rOViimßEiti`tv [ lBso. 7 I :10 NI I i i .1