The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-11 00:00:00

~~ Ir IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. BUSINESS IN THE COMMONS FOR THIS EVENING. PUBLIC BUSINESS. ORDIIBB OP TES DAT. Crrum..-Dsbate se qualm Bit • sigelatasst et enuattase. Ssa RaasuPoi-46mes (Mal Moan) &peel ; PAgisenve 01Bee, Daris. BAIL— C o urrrras—Dvaserl . Cams (Weed) saima.—Ds• VOUT—Ameraliaa Colonise —Conn:nisi—Supply. NOTICE OF QUESTIONS. Clangs no rue Beau —Sir D. L. EVANS. Meek Hirt Lori Milts Tree/wry the ream of the esseideratien of t promised dui., last series, verseetiag the ma =Tribe military .lass of the Order of the Beth on I umbra seems who may have been peewit and peeved dr serring is important naval sad military actions. Au awes" suit STATISMOII--11tr. &SHAW, le ask President et the Bond of Trade whether the government hes y latrines of iatrodseing s messes of agrieultarel ma antasters disriag the prosiest 1041011, as sae Cluimellor ef the Earbequer mull not Sow object en the ground ot &Snowy of the ways and means. hires Amu CuLLICUISII.—Mr. WYLD, to ask the Stem tary of Suite for the Home Department if it be llititlewlio for s of her Majesty's goverremert to iatroduoe any meson the proper inspection and ventilation ..f m.nas sac colliarlea. NOTICES OF MOTION. lloasueree LITTIIIL—Mr. HOUSMAN* to more that the attention of the home heels( been directed to • letter addressed by the =rubes for Cockeresouth (Mr. Norman) to his eonritUfleitl, la which allegations are made impugning the conduct of the drat minister of the crown, sad the Secretary of HAW for the Wcws Departimeat, with reference to legislation oa eeelesiestiesl .Belli during the last session of parliament, and the bon. member having produ su ced a espy of that latter, and severed his willingness to b stantiate its accuracy, a committees of five members be nomi nated by lir. S?eehsr to i.quire into the truth of these all- lianas', sad report its opnion to the house. 14‘121011 BAXlts.—The CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER. to move for leave to bring in a bill for mem:- iao Ike law relating to saviage banks, aad for a silent com mittee ou those in-titatious. Mott AND Oatmance Etrinuorrvan--The CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, to move for a select cam mitre oa this subject. Ties 141KCIWIT Ssavici. Mr. LABOUCHERE, to move for leave to bring in the following bills :—Bill for improving the endition of matters, mates, sad seamen la the Merchant Service ; bill for the regulation of the Mer- ' chant &amine Fund; bid for the regulation of the ad measurement of the tonnage aad burden of the nierchaat shipping. Vorzeit AND ELECTIONS (lIINIAND)..—Sif W. SOMER. VILLE, to more far le the to bring in the following bills : Bill to amend the laws which regulate the qualification and registration of patliamentary gut , rs in Inland; and a bill to shorten the duration of elections in Ireland, and for getablahing additional places for taking the poll thereat. RAILNATd (111LELAND).—btf. FRENCH, copies of any introits •iitered into by or on behalf of the Mallard Greet Western Railway Company of Ireland, with any person or rsons f.,r the construction of their railway frets Mullingu t pe o khlone, and iron Athion• to 0 away nacectively. lonian laz.anna.—Mr. HUME, address for returns of the number of editors of the pantie press that hart been ezpelled daring the year 1849 from the lonian Islands, stating the tames of public writes and of the editors en banished, the titles of the ;aphis they edited, the offence for which banished, and whethtr trod and senteneed by any emit, or banished by the LIM High Comeniestonges au thority. Of the number of persons tried by courts-martial during the el:stern of military law in Ceptudesis, and the Pommes awat&d, stating how many of those sontences ban been married out ; ales, the number of persona flogged In estralocia in the per 1919, sad by what tribunal sin. *Witte the piston hod the smallest number of lashesinflicted, and the total number of banes inflicted. Faison D:actiusa.—Sir G. GREY—S int committee to implies into the rules and &tripling eetablishtd with re gard to the tnatainat of planters in ga.ils and homes of cor rection la England and Wales. CITLOX.-11t. HAWES, select committee on Ceylon: Mr. /Millie, Mr. Hone, Sir Joshua Wahnsley, Sir Robert Peel. Sir James HAM. Mr. Oladatone, Mr. Char:es Mr. Dirraeli, Mr. Howes, lir. Angrier. Mr. WilxoN, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Lord Itithana, Mr. M Collagh, and Major Bleak Inmate AND COLONIAL JCDICIaL Oirtmts.-31r. SADLEIR, return ot the number and names of pi non* appointed to any jadicial or other legal dice in the Etat ladies or British colonies since the 10th day of Icily, 1849, specifying the date of etch appointment, and amount of 'Glary and esolansente in British mosey attached thereto iteratively. PATLIJANiNTANT ELICTORA.—INIr. H. BERKELEY, return of the author of parliamentary electors an Cheat Britain and Inland in the years 1845 and 1849. Cousiv LVNATtc ASTLCNII. —Kr. SOTHERON, bill to rams tenants at rack rest from a portion of the rates levied far meting er providing musty lunatic asylums. MD= NY Rathwai.—Mr. /UCARUO, return of the titans paid annually by the Pat-alke to the railway coot rake, fee the anverege of the malls, specifying each railway, t h e towns saved, the mileage the, and the rate Poi anti Conners (Innharrn.)-111r. MONSELL, returns of the nastier of esavieta sew tandem @sweats of transportatioo in ma poi la !Mend : and, at the number of convicts now guider teatime of transportation in Spine Island, eel any roper% by Imposton ot Prisms or otherwise, respecting the mews of mall discipline and religious imumstion provided ler anti eassins, DV/T oN roman BOON/J.—Lord SEYMOUR, amount mignini ea esermat of the import duty on foreign books, in scab year, beds the 6th day of January, 1840. to the sth day N Joinery, 1850; elating also the ruts of duty, and any all-rations which have beet and* is the duty. gfle elprefSo. OUTGOING MAIL& The West hale Idaile, eaeludus Bermuda, B Beeme, Honda:ea, New Orleans, sad Mezico, sad including those for Madeira, Bt. Jaamde-Nieumna, New Granada, Chill, sad Pera,will be made up en Feb. 17. The leas fee Lisboa, Opals, sad Gibraltar will be audit up sa Feb. 17. The malls tee Gibraltar, Malta, Ones', the balsa Islands, Egypt, Only., India, sad Chios. via Sirathuaptoa, wiP be made up we the seamier of Feb. 20. Tits moils fag British North Ainerim and the United States will be made up en the goosing el Feb. 22. The nails yid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Rapt, C. I los, Pate, HeariLeng, Se., will be node ep on the evening of Feb. 26. Teo mail for Mania, the Brazils, and Buenas Ares, will be wide up on lb. evening of March 4. MOM WATER AT LOIIIIIIII IMMIX Tsos Mt —lamairg. Ik. No. AlWorm To. Oa T.resaor—Mora{. A. Vs. ..... ....Aainessa, IT. Ilia LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY A maxim!) prominence has been given to colonial policy among the topic. of the session by Lord Jortx RUSSELL'S speech on Friday n;ght, and the remarks of the speakers who followed him. The Prime Minister, in hie very comprehensive and judiciously toned speech, adverted to three car dinal considerations in oar colonial policy—the go vernment of the colonies, the question of emigration or colonisation, and the subordinate and only in part colonial question of convict transportation. Upon the latter two his remarks were c imperatively vague and cursory ; and in a speech which, however general in its nature, was still prefatory to the introduction of a bill for the government of a group of colonies, this was natural enough. Following Lord Jonw's lead we shall restrict ourselves at present to the question of colonial government; not that we think it either more important, or, in the present state of affairs, more urgent than either of the others, but because it is the question upon which kgislativs action is most directly and immediately invited. In the general views of colonial government enun ciated by Lord Jon" RUSSELL we entirely concur. " It appears to me," said his lordship, "that in saying that wherever Englishmen went, there they should enjoy English freedom and English institution', our ancestors acted at once justly and wisely. The general principles of colonial policy avowed by ministers are unexceptionable. The question of the separation of colonies from the parent state is not now before as ; we are called upon to decide how colonies whick still esatintie int* gral parts of the empire are to be governed. The tree way of govern ing them is to let them " enjoy English freedom and English isstibationef—let them have self-government in everything exempt these 'rotten which are always reserved for this maaermest of a supreme central government—Whisli emu is the republic of North America are reserved by the congressional govern ment. The ministerial principles are sound ; but the question still remains open—are the esessures which ministers ere about to take sufficient to carry those principles into diet P The debate on Friday night turned in a great measure upon the question whether there ought to be one or two emails in the constitutions to be gives to the colonies. This is a awn formal geodes ; the really, important cousider &don is, whether the mastitations gnu to the agonies will sum them the reality or merely the appearance of self-gourament. Whatever the form of the constitution for a colony be, if it enables a scream, or any umber of officials appointed by the home government to rule the colony by mesas of a admit, in opposition to local public opinion, it will inevitably lead to corruption and intrigue on the one head, and to discontent and chronic agitation on the other. The question really at issue is not whether r gard to the shims Matted to the two Wands of Sapiens' sad Cent, he should not enter into details, as he felt con seamed thee the Meister of Ferefts Affairs would NINO with him they were untairMe,—in fact, the peotessioes of Eagland on this subject most be itensidined es Ise:edible. With regard to the lose, mem not acquainted with the fact would scarcely cre dit to what a men the loon of 60 millions contracted by that Inafortanate oosatry had been reduced by the compression sad other charges which had bean imposed oa it, and the re mit was that Greece had net been able to derive advantage from it. From a desire to ameliorate the eonditien of the essintry, M. Coletti had proposed a plan of removirg the heavy sharps which weighed ett the country by the sale of the psblie Rada. This was submitted to Lord Palmerston, mho regaled that be did not wish to meddle with Greek slam. A Voice—He eine dem anything else. (Laughter.) M. PI/CATO/LT—Um was another feet which he could set habitat ematkeeleg. When Gem. Grins bad revolted. he wee Ing1•111111141 by the Greek troops; the foams shire irrted his perigee by eft, and he was Woad to surrender. onians landed en the coast of Greece gad eoreasitted ravages,and England accused the Greeks thews lves of those eressees. " I do not now demand," continued the hoe, gentle• man, " that the French sovernmentsboald do its duty. I am persuaded that it bas already acted properly, and will con tinue to do so—(loud exclamatioas of denial on the Left). The PIIIIBIDINT—Take an example from the people of Greece, end give your support to the government. (Hear, hear.) PLIWATOZT—I will not, gentlemen, say what are the claims of Orestes to your just protection, and to that of England. But let us not forget that Greece, while other nations were dreaming of independence, she achieved hers amidst her own ruin and blood. M. Placatory descended the tribune amidst the loudest arplause from the mojority. General Da Lemma aid that when the government lut week had requested to have the interpellations on the affairs of Greece sojourned for a few days, it had dopes° with the hope of being able to communicate to the Arsembly the result of the Ant steps taken with a view to conciliation. The Assembly would perceive from the statement which he was about to make that the time that intervened had not been lost. Having received on the 31st of January intelligence of what had taken place at Athens, the onvernment had immediately directed the French Charge d'Affaires at London to express to the Eng lish government the painful astonishment which it had telt at the news of these moat unexpected sweets, and to ark Lord Palmenton if the conduct of Mr. Wise and the admiral had been in conformity with instruetiens transmuted from his lordship. The reply of the charge d'affaires, which arrived on Feb. 3, appearing of a nature to call for fresh informa tion, the government sent off on the 4 h M. Drouys de Musts on an extraordinary mission to the court of St. James's. On the sth Td Drouyn de Lheys ease to an un der...tending with the English Secretary for Foreign Affairs. and handed to him a note from the President of the itepub lie, offering his good offices to bring to an amicable conclu sion the difference which had arisen between England and Greece. That offer was to be presented yesterday, the 7th inst., and the answer, no doubt, would be of an affirmatiee character, as this morning a despatch had been received by the E latish Ambers vier at Paris, declaring that the media tion of France was accepted, and that a despatch had b• pi at once sent r if to Mr. Wyse and Admiral Parker, ordering them not to proceed further in the matter at present. (Hear, hear.) M. Drouyn de Lhuys had also given similar inter/nation. The Assembly would perceive that, with the part which the French government bad undertaken in the matter, it had the olisiation itnpoard on it not to enter at present into any appreciation of the facts which had taken plate. Grave motives evidently existed ti prevent its reply. ing to the interpellations of M. Piscatery tur.her than had now been done. The Assembly, he doubted not, would he satiafied with the explanations which he had given. (Hear, beer.) After a vain attlmpt on the part of M. d Leogete to speak, the Assembly paned to the order of the day. PARIS, SCNDAY, 5 . 10 P M. The Moniteur of this morning contains • decree np- I j pointing the 10. h of March as the date at whice the I electoral colleges of 13 departments are convoked to return 30 new members. Another decree convokes ' the colleges of the department of the Ardeche to fill the vacancy csused by the death of M. ltouveure. The law on payment by lalrur of the road tax was read a second time in the legislative assembly. The Delasts c retains a communicated note from the Swiss embassy, saying that the expulsion of Mszzini is a thing long since decided, and the negotiations of Prussia and Austria on the subject of refugees Lave had no influence in the matter, inasmuch as tr.e order of expulsion has only been eenced by the clever manner in which Mazzini has hitherto eluded the pursuit of the pellet , . The Napoleon of this morning announces the ep pointment of three colonels in the Mikan army to be gcnerale, C Damn, Cenrobert, and de Barrel. Letters from Turin of the sth inst. meet on that in the partial elections which have just taken place in Piedmont the conservatives hsve geintd 12 out of 18. The opposition has, however ' gained ground, several of its members who were defeated on the 9th of December having b en elected, owing to the apathy of the electors of TarM and Genoa. C ilonel Edgar Ney has been definitively /elected in the Charente by 58,750 votes. Ills competitor, M. Babaub Lnviviere, cbtained 24,030. The Debuts contains the announcement that the Swiss federal government is in no way moved by the threats of the powers, and that the order to expel Mszzini, which was considered as a symptom of yielding on its part, cannot be assumed to be such, Inasmuch as the order in question was given long be fore the ultimatum of Austria and Pruss'a was signi fied ; and Mazzini has only escaped by eluding the pursuit of the police for some time past. This an nonecemeot is officially made by the Swiss embassy here. It shows that Switzerland will not yield in the matter of the refugees to the threats of its oppo cents, and that an occupation must take place. The Suisse, of Berne, published on the 8:h instant, Confirm, this in a few words, accompanying the quo. tstions from the journal des Delta of the Swiss charge, communications already sent to you. In the course of its remarks the Suisse says that threats, so far from producing the effects that are ex pected, will only produce diametrically opposite re sults. Resistance, as I said yesterday, seems at pre sent to be the course that the Berrie executive has in view. With regard to the interviews of M. Lamartire with the President of the It , public, I am informed that they were asked for by the former, and granted at his request. It is said that an embassy is what M. Lamartine wishes to obtain. There is no other news, unless I count as such certain rumours of news from Greece, which is said to be serious but of which I have been unable to obtain anything precise. MADRID, Fan. 4.—Three per Crate.. :9 paper. Four per Cents.. I2i paper. Eire per Cents., 12: p - trr. Coupons, a Caper; Bank. of St. Ferdinand, e 4. Y.:change on London. 50.33. GERMANY. BERLIN, Fee. 6. The King of Prussia has taken this moraine, in presence of the two chambers, the oath required by the 52nd article of the constitution, to maintain the same constitution inviolate and to rule in harmony with its provisions and with the laws. This solemn ceremony, which marks the birth of a new era in Prussia, was performed in the ltittersaal of the palace at Berlin soon after midday. The members of both houses having attended divine service at the Pro testant cathedral, and at the Catholic church of St. Hedwig, repaired soon after eleven to the Mims. The King and his suite were present at the former. In the meantime the streets wore rather the usual aspect of a festival, than betrayed any symptoms of public interest proportionate to so extraordinary en occasion. Well , dressed groups of citizens were seen out enjoying the fine day, and moving early upon the large square, called the Lustgarten, enclosed by the Schloss, the Cathedral, the Museum, and the river. The long fresco-painted colonnade of the Museum fronting the palace, and bright with the morning sun, exhibited, with its crowded steps, the aspect of a classic theatre. Hero and there among the crowd might be seen a peoletaryii/neur, or burner, 'er, as they say here, smok lag his pipe with a cynical expression, and alarming the smooth shop-people with his unkempt glare. Some of the deputies came in their broughams, more in drosh kiss, and not a few on foot. Few beards were visible asoug them, that uncivil appendage having gradually &appeared with other features of democracy. All wore in common white neckcloths and gloves, and were neither greeted by cheers nor molested by groans. The ministers having at length made their appearance in the liittersaal, Court Brandenburg :/3to address the assembly, reminding bur the object of the meeting, and declaring the proceedings opened. Then the ministers went to the King to announce that all was in readines', and after some delay, returned, followed by his Majesty, the royal prince, and the suite. It was remarked that neither the Prince of Prussia nor kis eldest sou appeared among the members of the royal family. The Prince appears to be at Freiburg, and his son perfecting himself in mathematics at Bonn. The King seated himself ou the throne: on the right of which stood the royal princes, and on the left the minister. On a table before the throne lay the charter of January 31. While a feeling of intense expectation held the As- ee mb I y in the stilled es ohavel i King eopesrteb:::esennpre.,:nu,peetehe addressed rat eec himself to speak, and, seated, delivered himself of the se hich two following oration, which was received with mute sur prise ; for no one expected that the ceremony w ou ld in Ibnart i which a ie sh u tchouhefr inaugurated King r b gs y sin g anso expression, r. lied in earlier times his public displays of el suppressed. l y on. What lam g o i ng d before F oe ss I never a u t a o t iidagybeanfintithea.isusayntandhoyeis—o.:ssownlisingtheersidws..e:da;a:peipinteinyteni,to:orit:Traimeseaaso.l.hts,:u.sdiritnb.litiesse,d o ,fur. Ido not vend Wee to exercise the hereditary sacred duties of my de o . his word—a yes full of go net stand here covered by the reepoesieility of my Wei. refore, my a few words is exploitation. Tee work on which I mean to imprint my coefirmatio e seems from a year which the fideli:y of emir* Room Was will yearn tearfu:ly, thourth vainly, to id os „ ot of " history. In the form in which it has been s e b m i ttrd l : It is Indeed the work of the tielforacrificieg Ild- lity ot to e e a who saved this throne from ruin, and to whom ss% gretit o d a shall only ewe with my life; but what it ir, ii he -et,,, - these fatal days is which the existence of our country en tire& tined. It sprang from a moment, mod b -re the hexed stamp of its origin. It is but just to ark the question Cu I with these opinions, stoop to sanction that w oo s Ao it, will do ft o bee f u a ng use er l mu ca: p. d as o . it ; y a o n u d , I dd , :do 4d.on f t I owe to you, gentlemen. You have improved i t Y o n purified h a te ;e v n el t provisions, and by your masterly leatil.tion, sod b y the acceptance I.f my last proposition, yea hay. R io, " a pledge that you mean to continue improei• g it, and , bet our joint endeavours exerted in a cons itutiotial sow. I will avail to make it still more congruous to vie e h t c vitality of Freesia. I can venture to confirm this er,,,e, tomtit I can do it in good hope. I aeknowl,der with the ulifilltat thanks to you, and I say, with ada rie, et 4 and joyful heart, that you have earned the sriet-ole of your country. And thus 1 declare, callinz 0 d to he ray witness th at my promise to the constitution is tr ue in 'cloy and void of all atter.thought But you must , e I ft,a th e lite and blessings of the conatitutioa depend up 'a a heel. ment of sone unavoidable conditious. You, gentlemen, must help me, and the parliarte.. • JO* you must help me, and the loyalty of my re ;.; :, wt help me, against those who would pervert this royal „f fr ee. dam into a shroud to malice : aaatost those eo. wohld t orn it against its author's Godeinstioved authnrity ; a i si rot those who would fain courier this docum rat u 0,, indsre. l aity in the place of Divine Provid vice, of restory. a:.d of .are ancient mead loyalty. All the triad vw•n of the „„ try must unite in fealty, in respect for n h alt;, and leis the na, which lest,' upon the victories of Our army? ; en obeei, nee to law, oft a conecientious ' , leers-nee to tee of hem ge and to the new oath of tidelify, and obeli- nee to t e kitty, and a scrupulous observance of the constim.ion—im a word, a vital condition fa that yea sire n e a tesd ' hility of governing under this law; fir In Pr. poi% the Ki, g must reign, aud I do not reign , G d l , now , it, hec.tese such is my will and pleasure, has: t , (1,10`• it is God's order and decree, and, therefore, I mesn to drivers. A free people under a free King! puce has h in my motto these tin years, and such is It this day, and 'tall b to the end of my The King, having uttered these wo.‘li wi• emotion, then proceeded in a more solemn :roe: Before I sroceed to the buskesi of i• day, Ie I renew before you two oaths, which the r.trapict h year imposes on me at this moment. First, I renew, rep , at, and confirm so!• ienly arid rope ~:g :he 0,,tl s, which, before Gad and men, I t -k at r se. tion at K inigsberg, and here. [Ger. the K • - - thumb sod two first timers of his right des wi,l Leh, so Gott mid helfe " Y.. .e h, 1p me God." (`• Ja, Ja !" :Fs a tustewary formula of swearing.] "ISicondly, I renew, •,, firm solemnly and expressly the Iv ly the I ith of April, 1947, with my houas to Ja ! Ja! I will, so help me God This oath rands above all utters ; it must he headed in alt others ; and must stream :tem. h if they have any worth, like pure living we The King then proceeded to take the ...'btu lone tion :—" But now, and while I, in Time to rsy i; power, hereby confirm the sharer of tee to n• eelemuly, truly, and expressly do I swear I, --or- is •1 men, to maintain firmly and invi leldy c ~t n.y country and kingd, m, and to rule In u:. o,'. ,t.r.o. and with the laws.—Jo! Js ! I will, so help my God And now I commend the confirmed iew ire Le • Almighty God, the ministration of whose prove!, pa fly be recognised in the history of Prtts•rt ; ar. I :-try that He may out of this work of men msk- an 4'. • ~* blessing for our dear &alert , hr tire t: • . thereby of his holy laws and ordinerc • ! Ste I) is After a pause, during which the Bud: -rice ,‘-e•tod deeply affected by the King's et ceoh, rout.: den burg invited the ministers (all te'ng p T.: cept Scbleinitz, who has been for some tint p cot fined to his bed from Dinette) and the niemh- • t the chambers to take, in the presence of hio M ic• y. tte obedience h di p e r n esc ce to bried the in the eco a n n s d tit cor ntio se n ie o n f ti, a us liegir oz. cc sal of the constitution. Each of the six mime a -. • ginning with Brandenburg and ending with Vepped before the throne, raised the thumb a first fingers of the right hand (called the finger), and pronouir.:ed the oath. In hi the same oath was taken next by the F. csc.... the First C:.amber, Von Auerswold, at..l Schwerin, the President of the Seon:d Cha :it-u': 17. d by Af t t e h r e t h m e e s m w b e e a r r a i n o ; f i r th a c o h: e m r, be t r s h e i p d r. . si e e s n l ••: ; First Chamber p'ocounced a short add•e.s, i : he thanked the King in the name of the e, u t•y!,r the settlement and swearing e the c.f.. i u . Her. upon Count Schwerin gave a cheer (1, for the King, in which the assembly krinel. co up ut i t 1 p his nn 'ts ee l as js• , tacno and t he left tteß ministers. e ha the en hall, Brandenburg ug'When declaredaccompanied t. le!. em by pi / 7i closed. mush np the .J.'— 1 et.;,se I the •1, !‘. 1 • e rn Jr uer of Fcn 5. General Von W.lliaen, the king's adjutant, 14 gone to Paris on a mission of importance. VIENNA, Fr : The Ost Deutsche Post contains an article wt. has attracted much attention; the article arris-fts to the government the intention of emid. services of Prince WiAischglita to mec tate w;. h t!-.0 old conservative party in Hungary, with :11 has 'always maintained the most amicable tele (The According to the tame paper, a commission et d• :e -gatts is to be ayeinied, on either ai.le of w. , :h Windiscbgra . z is to be president, for the pr; se of framing a constitution for Hungry. T; tem of centralisation which the go‘t•rcmtut seemed beet upon carrying out, a is slid, be consid• rubly eel zed, and the pari gtaph which in all the provincial c• - •!. !.. therto published, assigns only a sing'e ch .‘11!•er :a each landtrg will not be exte,ded to II u^gare **lyre the old hoard of magnates will pr. .bly be in tic, tained. Prince Windisehr itz is met c rvr.'y deavouriog to regain popularity. He invit t with him the members ot the deptratio ~ f • c::.- aerie of Prague, who the other say presented to 1:::o a laurel crown, and on some of the pri, a ny.leety declining the invitation, feeling afrn:l e the cere mony of dining with a pricce,Windischgr.etz sent !hci a message to say that they were not ince ed to the Field marshal and Prince, but simply Windieehgr.ttz. Lr ri!, , yen :Li* 7. has Can. , ' considerable amusement here; bus me y ase-ite• mit important motives to his conduct fit In are aKarent. ~ a The Wanderer of the 3rd devotee a 1; ad to discussing the rumour of a coalition o. tht rervatires and opposition in I lungary, for the I . of supporting a scheme at Vittnia for the et ie. of constitutionalism in Austria. and the re-,s m..-- meut of absolute monarchy in all par.s of tl.e `ma re but Hungary, which is to retain he r e The ll'uner Zeitung contains t!'e e I the Grafachaft of God Gratlieka, the grafachaft of Istria. BERLIN, Pee. 9.—Vetuntai7 Liss, l• ?sumo' 1' Commercial )laths Society's Premiums, 1011. Soul. Fund, ..nd shares eery dull. VIINNA, Fsa. 7.—Else per Cent.. ; end l' llatA Shares, 1140. Lachesis is era:Atari. I idg. M. THE . EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY there ought to be two legislative bodies is foe the Cape, or see se peptised foe the A= adenine, bat whither the lead legislature or legisla , tens are seesestitutsd es to give the colonists the milt, of wifipeeesseest. apee nna tt s • it dew sot appear to us that *bra the for the Cape, or that die groped he 14 111.81 11: 1 ffitb Wales and its siege, irilf glee real seiggeeerealeet. Bader bath, the governor will have at hie Mid an orgiudind , body sefficient to winteriset the views and wisher the midway of the colonists. Al the Cape the else dye legislature will be bawled aid it ma be sew. I tralised by a legislature semiwatila parties holding office g overnor beet upon following elnpopeler course of policy, will be able, by the 'restitution it the Cape, to secure a majority In the Legislative Cases cil, and thus cou nteract the proccedings of the Hoene of Representatives. A governor in New South Weise beat upon following out an unpopular coarse at policy will be able to accomplish his ends by meals lithe nominee members of the Legislative Comte!, aid by corrupting a few of the elective, or even isil &molly availing himself of misunderstandings be tween the stockholders (who are the aristocrat's peaty is the eolooy . ) and the town populations (who are MOO illallsratio in their leanings). The truth is, that the sebesies of two legislative bedtime appointed by dills,- est cionatituenciee, and of one Legislative Council own poi in part of government nominees, both have tkeh origin in a lurking misgivieg as to the safely and expediency of entrusting the colonise with the entire control of their local affairs. They are sweat to give the governor—that is, the home government which appoints him—power to check aid counter's' the popular will of the colony. For this reason we think that both the contem plated forms of government for the Cape and Austra lia are susceptible of improvement. Whether there are to be one or two legislative bodies is a question of very secondary importance ; but in either Cale the legislature ought to be really and fairly elected by the colonists. This end may be obtained in Aus tralia by making all the members of tae legislature elective ; at the Cape by . giving every district an elective municipal orgsnuation, and vesting the choice of the Legislative Council in the elective local magistrates to the exclusion of all parties holding office under government. Though we regard the question of one or two legislative bodies as of se condary moment, our convictions are, we confess, in favour of one only. It is a false an a logy that leads men to imagine there ought to be two legis lative bodies in each colony because there are two in the British Parliament. The more correct analogy would be to say that there ought to be only one, because, as has been found, it is sufficient for the municipal government of our great towns. Due weight ought to be given to the wishes of each colony in this matter ; and, therefore, we regret to observe a desire on the part of ministers to jump at the cor cluion that the Australians are perfectly satis fied with the constitution of the Legislative Council in New South Wales upon rather inconclusive evidence. The opinions of two South Wales newspapers, and of the nominee council of Van Dieman's Land are light in the balance against facts, The Legislative Council of New South Wales worked so ill that Sir GEOUGE Biters had to dissolve the first prematurely, and had he lived long enough would have had to dissolve the second. Even under the comparatively popular sway of his successor the nominee ingredient in the council has been a constant source of jealousy and dis content. The only safe and dignified course for the Imperial Commons is to purge the constitutions for Australia and the Cape of Good Hope of the remaining le even of nomination •, to simplify the constitution of New Zealand, and bring it into operation at once instead of postponing it ; to give Guiana a really popular Tepee seetative system instead of Governor BARKLY's sham ; and to confer real representative institutions upon all colonies (in the real sense of the term, as contradistinguithed from mere dependencies and military stations). In other words, we would have ministers have faith in their own principles and act boldly uponthem. Tree King of Patasia has taken with doe solem nity the oath to his constitution. It is far from being either a perfect or a popular one. The mode in which it was granted, and in which it has b.en finally, ab ruptly, and imperatively cobbled to suit a tardy humour of the King for the re establishment of an aristocracy, mos% we fear, take from it that respect which a constitution ought to command from the popular mind. The popular party holds aloof while. the new charter is in fact a system of government propounded by the King to his notables of the wealthy and enlightened classes. protested againueven by them as not going far enough to satisfy pubLc opinion, but finally accepted by them for peace-take. This no doubt is done with the hope that government may work the constitution in • liberal seine, and the people become more reconciled to it in practice than they could approve either of its theory, or of the mode in which it had been forced upon them. In its main features the Prussian constitution is a copy of the Belgian, the articles of which indeed it follows closely, adopting its guarantees and funda mental principles. In the practical working of the constitution, however, especially in the formation of its Chambers, the Primisn separates from the Belgian, the latter giving full scope to popular influence and freedom, the Prussian keeping down or sifting the popular element as much le poeible, and confining influence to the more wealthy classes. The dividing the electors in three categories, of the highest, middle, and lowest taxpayers, and giving to the few of the first cleat the same amount of electoral power as the many of the last claw, is an invention which, coupled with two degrees of election, establishes for Prussia the exclusive rule of an aristocracy of wealth. There are some countries to which such an arrange ment would not be unsuitable, especially at the commencement of a constitutional earner—countries, fur example, in which wealth and intelligence go together. But in Prussia, unfortu nately, the intelligent classes are not those best en dowed with fortune, and consequently the wealthy sies{is not there always the most respected. According to the first draft of the octroyed consti tution, the predominance in both chambers was given to the aristocracy of wealth; but recently the King has bethought him of counterbalancing it by an aristocracy of birth; and hence his effort to constitute a house of peers, consisting of here ditary and life peers of his nomination. Nothing could be more absurd. This would-be noblesse' . in Prussia is penniless (Ozaiotcu himself, who heads the party, has not the fortune of a lawyer's clerk) ;an therefore, instead of pillars supporting the throne, they world be made pillars suspended from it, such as have been seen and tried in certain theatrical edifices that have crumbled. The scheme, laded, has been defeated by the constitutionalists, who have succeeded in securing one-halt of the upper chamber to elective members ; so that the tardy move of the King for the maintenance of entails and the re-establishment of a landed and political aristo cracy has failed. The King originally allowed the universities to send members to the upper hone. But it wee ruled later that birth and wealth should alone be represented there, and intelligence was in consequence eliminated. The worst feature indeed in the royal code or con stitution of Prussia is its universal mistreat, its mis trust of every class. A singular instance of this is, that whilst predominance is carefully given to the aristocracy of wealth in the Chamber of Itepruenta thee, yet even to such • chamber is denied the right, greeted under ell constitutions to the lower chamber, to have full control over the voting of taxes. The King of PRIIBBIA would not give even this exclusively to the House of Commons. Thus the power which his MAJESTY bestows with the one hand, he seeks to withdraw with the other. And so it is with the press, so with the juries. There are none of the King's later alterations so objectionable as those by which he nullifies the authority of the judicial courts, and converts justice into a mere political engine. His pro posal was first to create a kind of Star Chamber, an especial court for state offences, and at the name time to transfer the interpretation, that is, the awarding of the sinitanoe in all oustione of constitutional law to the Chevalier from the judges. Thus every prosecution wield bosoms a political straggle, not a judicial trial. Not only wee the High Court of Jodie* borrowed from Frame% but the system of impunity and freedom from prosecution enjoyed by ell of and authorities in France is also foisted into the Prussian system, making it altogether a code as much French as German. WO ',girt all this, lessanee It; e zz a evident that the King has throw ing up a paper beam ol i tT a aiatirlala to erecting a dant% edifies -on a I heekt. We are share of the excuses pleaded kit the King, tha prin eipal of which is, that the Decal party refused to make allowance for his ignition, or to trust him, or Neu to accept his oeer eyed onstitation, and that thus be was actually driven to seek support in a thee dewy party. Another excess is the altered state of Estop.. To place Presets now in the full and un controlled enjoyment of a popular constitution by the side of Austria and Russia, armed, fearful, vengeful, and despotic, were simply and inevitably to provoke war—a war, _the vary first necessity of which would be, that the King of PAVIISIA should bumble himself to democracy, is order to induce it to take up his de fence, a deletes after all that democracy m i g ht not emceed in achieving, and which might lead to the ex tinctios, at once, o f erman independence and of the Pierian throne. But , however these hidden reasons may excuse the King of Pauesia in the eye of history, they form no exculpa tion in the minds of his people or of the Germans who we tear will give him throughout credit for as little prudence as courage. They will probably accept this constitution, but it will be ad referendum, without enthusiasm, hope, or satis'action. We say this, however, as the result of our fears and judgment, not of our desires; the best thus we think that the Prussians could do would be to accept this con stitution, to tolerate its detects, and submit even to what is unjust in it; and instead of trusting to revolu tion or physical Circe, to pursue the development of the liberal cause by legal andconal itutiothl means, and by the efforts of intelligence and argument. Oce has but to open the volumes of English history to b convinced that this country has thriven and ad vanced under the working of a very limited and aria toctaio constitution, which we have gradually reformed and widened, and shall gill further reform and widen as opportunity offers and necessity calls for. Whatever, therefore, may be our opinion of the Prussian constitution, and of tee conduct of the court with regard to it, we still think that it is most suicidal whey of the O rman liberals to hold aloof from it, and to decline tak ing advantage of the legal and regular influence which they might still wield, in order to remain in sullen quietude, expectant of another out break or revolution T hat revolution may be long coming, or may come. There are reasons at pre sent which in central Europe divide middle and lower classes more widely than ever was the case before, and government have taken advantage of ,h. me. it is not, therefore, by physical force, or by appeals to it, that either liberty or unity can be now established in Germany. There are plenty of weapons, abundance of power and influence, even under the octroyea con stitutior, at the dieposal of intelligence, if it will duly and wisely use and apply them. These alone are amply sufficient to restore t, the Prue.i.tn, acd con sequently to the German, constitution all the popular and feir elem. nts which they may now want, and which are denied by the narrowness and Lilly of princes. WILY should the Kensington distr'ct be enfran chised ? Wby should mote m' tubers be admitted to tLe HOLM of Commons? Of all things, in the pre sent state of party, it would be difficult to sugg, et a more inconvenient arrangement. The &strict would probably return liberals : or it might return pro ' tectioniets. In either case the balite° of inconveni ence would be against the givertime,.t. And why should the government be additionally harassed? It has quite encugh to vex it as things are. What between the Ceylon question and Mr. HoasMAN its hsnds are sufficiently lull. To send two new members to vex and harass it, would lb? an act of unkindness which the house could never sanction. Therefore, let Kensington remain unenfranchised, and let the House of Commons, by all means, b 2 shorn of two of its pro- per complement If Sir GEORGE GREY bad spoken what he felt, he would probably have given some such r. as ins as these for opposing the motion which Mr. MACGREGOR sub mitted to the House of Commons. Bir as Sir GEORGE GRIT did not speak cut, be assigned no reasons what ever for refusing conces•ian to this popular demand. " If Kensington and Chelsea were to be represerved,' said he, " why should you not take Turnham-green and Chiswick, and why shcu'd not Brentfurd also have a member? " Why not, we ark 11119 N—if they have sufficient population and sufficient claim. Their exemption from the privilege or returning representa tives does not weaken, but on the eni.t.ary it greatly strengthens the general case. It Sir HE iEGE GREY did not mean to promote the parliamentary reform agitation, he could scarcely have kern where his argu ment lcd him. No section of the ref .rrn party, in• deed, are aiding their cause more succeesfully than the members of the present governin.nt. They manage to take advantage of every opportunity that is offered, to make the people more urgent anti ener getic in their demands. Even with regard to such a matter as the disfranchisament of Breutford, they suggest the beet Foible reason' fur increased agita tion for parliamentary ref irm. Brent&rd, Chiswick, Turnham-green, and Ealing, have about six teen thousand inhabitants. As Sir GEORGE GREY says, why should they not have a representative? Morpeth, with a population of 4,500, returns a mem ber, why nut Brantford and the adjunct parishes with a population of 16,000? Let the inhabitants take the Home Secretary at his word, and join the Par liamentary Reform Association without a moment's loss of time. Down in the dingiest part of Knightsbridge, facing the park wall and nearly oppf site the barrack*, stands in its own grounds, " Stratheden House", the residence, of my Lord CAMPBELL. The Curt Gazette announces that "Lord CAMPBELL gave a cabii et dinner at Stratheden House on Wednesday evening. The ministers present were, Lord Ione! RUSSELL, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, the Earl of MINT°, Earl GREY, the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, Sir GEORGE GREY, toe Earl of CAR- Usti, Viscount PALMER , TON, Mr. LABOUCHERE, Mr. Fox 111AuLE, and Sir FRANCIS BARING." It Wall fresh from this whig conclave, and with a full Apure ciliation of ministerial greatness, that the lion. W. F. CAMPBELL came down to the hones to give his oppo sition to the motion of the member fir Glasgow. It was quite evident that *e magnificence of the great festival at Stratheden House had had its due effect upon the young gentleman's imagination. He thoirtht small beer of every one who was not a cabinet minister, and treated with perfect c-rat , mpt the un fortunate residents in the four parishes to which, as he reminded them " Stratheden-house " is in close proximity. "In 1818," he said, "he had attended a public meeting and a parochial board (singular condescension), and he had found that he had been brought into connexion with a class of persons nut fitted to exercise the franchise." It was a statesman of the last generation who ont down the Duke of BEDFORD'S rents full ten per cent. by declaring that he did not know the locality of Russell-square. Mr. CAMPBELL, it is evident, intends to put all Kensington and Chelsea out of the pale of the polite circles of society, by asseverating that they "are not fit to exercise the franchise." We sigh for the fsbabitants of Cadogan-place and Kensington p ardens ! The doors of Stratnedeu•house are evidently closed against them irretrievahly. The saabegsay at which Mr. CAMPBELL has lieb•smiobbed with the members of the Ca blest is a mahogany at which Earl CADOGAN and Uri HOLLAND, the great pr. prietors of Conies and Or Kensington, must never hope to sit. The " low ' 1 a" of the district are irretrievably banned by rte and polished Mr. CAMPBELL. CAMPBELL, however, drew a wide distinction between Kensington and Chelsea and the hamlet of Knightsbridge. "He bad asked himself," hot said, a how it came that the hamlet of Knights- Wise was omitted from this ache me ? That dia. NW, which lay nearer than Kensington to Hyde-patk serest, was not, in point of civilisation, and intelli wa, and capacity of exercising the franchise, in ferior to any part of Her Watery's dominions." of laughter and cheering.) It is obvious that (man Cabinet dinner has satisfied the hamlet of Knightsbridge. Its proximity to the fashionable circle in Hyde-park also hallows it. Stratheden knee, too, is in Knightsbridge, and who ran doub the halo of " intelligence and capacity" which sur geon& that distinguished seat of lesrni , g and the IBMs P Mr. CAMPBELL evidently makes out strong case in favour of the outran shinatent of the barracks, by the eel.- kW/ cab-stand at the top of Sioane-streer, M agog Tower, the residence of Mr. HUDSON, and Stratheden house, at which the cabinet do sometimes dine. Thew. we believe, wastituts in effect the hamlet df Knight,- bridge, a plass distinguished for its civilisation, its proximity to Hyde-part-corner, and the sort of in tellixenee and espaetty which Mr. CAMPBELL typifies. " The power of the peers," says Mr. Rums, "half fills the Mouse of Commons, yet you grudge the en franchisement of one other parliamentary borough, equal in coo sideration with Marylebone or Finsbury! 8o let it be. It would be doubtless a great boon to Kensington that it should be enfranchised: it would be an act 'Unities to a nation deluded by the Reform Act that it should be enfranchised; bat the refusal to enfranchise it is doubtless all for our future benefit, for so long se it remains unenfranehised we hare one of the strongest arguments for further parliamentary reform; and each time that a government refuses to do justice, we have a stronger motive for continuing to demand it. As Mr. MACGREGOR very ttnly said, this is the RAM Retford ease of 1830. G REECE. Oar Berlin correspondent informs us that t.:`• graphic message was recited at Vt.G/11 on Ow I instant, from the governor of Trittee, ststit.g t: s: with the Lloyd's steamer Butops, just come in hos the Levant, the Ortek min leer 1 graphos hid r - rived. His destination is S. Peters Hug. A te..0...1 ambassador, M. Trikupi, gots to Paris, slid (roil thence to Loneon. Advice* from Syra of the 30 . h ult. sta t e that the governor of Syra had received from the consulate an efficial communioation ho the Greek vessels at Syra would nut be allowed to quit the port until the Ortek goversmat satisfied the demands of England. An Erglish orningo the s t e am-frigate dropped anchor on ti e 30th, before the port of Spa. The Austrian eorsul at Athens states that on the 29th ult. thirty Enotl men-of-war boats entered the harbour of Firma, ordered all Otedt ships lying thoe to weigh anchor. in order to be towed by two nig rteamers to Salamis. FRANCE. PARlS,B•Tnittria, 610 P.M. The Vas du Peuple heads its first column with the following notice :—" To our readers. Since yesterday morning oar friend Proadhon has been put in close confinement in his chamber. Ras door is bolted. A gaoler mounts guard on the landing-place. Another posted in the street has orders to prevent any one making signals to him from without. AU communi cation will him is interdicted. Even his wife is not adml - ed to see him." The Constigutionnel publishes the following details (the authentici , y of which it guarantees) of the c abduct of the rioters on Mon:lay towards M. Victor Foucher, Proctireur of the Republic : When M. Foucher beard of the disturbances at the Curd Bt. Martin, he left his Mike, and proceeded on foot to the th- etre of disorder. He met s l purees of his se ' qusorance, who informed him of what was passing. He erect on, however, in order to juice of the matter himself. Hs bad arrived at the rue (basket, whim he met a a pre sentative of the people, who informed him of the shameful ere women*. which General de Lemerieiere had met with, Puncher then taw that it would be imprudent to proofed, as his peewees might cause justice to be insulted in his person. He wes preparing, consequently . , to return, when be heard savers' persons cry out, " It is the Procureur of the Re public!" At this cry he saw several groups, dispersed in the street, rush round him, so as to block up the way. He then ce ceived that it would be better to walk straight to meet the demur than to turn back—a COWS* which might compromise him, if, indeed, that was not impoeseble. The ere s at that moment were not by any means menacing. A circumstance, besides, inspired the magistrate with confi dence. He had reconeised amr q the troops a great number of the transported of June. who had been pardoned at Belle isle. H- rad a right to count on their gratitude, as be had pleaded for their pardon to the President of the Republic— had gone to meet them at Havre—had there given them pa ternal advice—and even distributed money among them They had assured him over and over again of their gratitude and reeentanee, and he hael a right to place credit in their 1 1 Resurrects He therefore went resolutely forward, and was immediately eneomeue d by the crowd. " Yeu are the Proeureur of the It 'pub ic!' said some of th-es men. " Yes." wheel M. Faucher wilt a firm voice. "That being the vow," aid they," he most he ke. t, like the other, IS too-R.!" General de Laninriciare was here alluded to, and M. Foueher, in feet, thought that the general was in the power of the rioters. The words which he heard caused him to comprehend the gravity of Lis situation. Seeing before him a man of high stature, whom he recognised as • trans petted of June, and who appeared to rx rcise a post of com maml, be addressed him, and requested protection. He only received • disdainful teed insulting reply. Others of the transported of June, to whom he epithets, acted in a similar way. irrounded by a compact body, he then endeavoured to dominate t e crowd by the firmness of his demeanour, but the ;must ineuling epithets were heaped on him, and threats sere lowly uttered. At this moment he felt some cue touch him from behind on the shoulder. He thought it better net to turn round, sod a voice whispered in his ear, " Your life is in danger, two minutes more, and you are I- et." M. Foucher then felt that the pressure from behind was Lis forcible, and he gradually gave way, without, how ever, *easing to speak to the men before him. Whilst thus retrogradine, he felt himself arrive at the footway. All of • sudden, ten or twelve persons eerrountled him, dragged him violently away, sod threw him into a shop, the dear of which was at once closed. He at fir-t thought he was a prisoner, hot forte na.ely that was nut the cue. Two transported of June informed him that they could not bear the ilea of seeing him ill treated, and that, being seconded by some friend., they hod stmeedsci in rescuing him from the crowd. M. Fetich• r at last got out through a car ighbeuring house, and at once proceeded to the Assembly. Such are the facts which relate to the Prucureur of the Republic. A visit of M. Lamirtine to the Elys6e on Saturday gave rise to many surmises. It was coupled with the ding; cted state of the departments east and west of the Rhone The strongest measures, as well as the most minute, were tik-n to keep Lyons quiet, such shutting up work shops. The effervescence was inc.* a=ed by the thrta , s against Switzerland. The federal governm.nt. however, seemed determined to ally such symptoms by expelling the refugees. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. TIIII 'MOLLOY YVAILREL IN GRIECII. On Friday M. PISCATORY tdareseed his promised interpellations to the Minister of Foreign Affairs respecting the recent t.l elude of the Pincus by the English. He re gretted that the Minister of Foreign Affairs had required that lee shoal l postpone his interpeltations respecting recent occurrences in Greece fur a week ; but he had given way, feeling that the ministerial responsibility gave them a claim to c intideration as to when the diseussion on so important a sun should be taken. He regretted the delay, because be believed *bat the discussion would have the tendency of calm ng tempestuous, arduous in Greece. and of giving prudent mamma) to a feeble people under the et difficult circumstances. His regret at the delay, how ever, was much modified by the expression of public feeling in England, by the noble language held by Lord Aberdeen, and by the calm reserve observed by Lord Lansdowne, and by some sympterns of timidity and ineorrectneis exhibited by Lo-d Pithetarstoe. These facts rendered his t eel considerably • Raise The eveots in Greece are the most inoppnrtune poss.ble. Telt E Os', and French fleets had lust completed a great and efficient intervention in the interests of humanity, justice, and good policy, when without any information let iaz given to the French ambassador at Constantineple by the E. glish authaessi:or, without Admiral Parker even bid ding M. Parseval good-bye, or indicating in the sltghtest toe int-don on which be was about to proceed, that gallant admiral at the head of thirteen vessels had appeared is the port of Salamis, for the purl:tree of mesh ing feeble Greece with all the weight of the English powers. The first demand made by Admiral Parker on hie arr.'s' wer to be presented, together with Lis suite, to the king of Greece, aud, a 1 :stunting from this cordial visit, Admi ral Parker, for the first time, in company with S 4 Thomas Ws.e, proceeded to the dwelling of M. Lando', and in f,,rm•cl him that Eaglaod intended to demand the settlement of long-standing claims, and that, just or unjust, be would give but tweeitydour hours fur the payment; after that delay coercive measures would be adopted. In what other country, or at what period, had similar proceedings ever be fore been a !opted? (A voce At Copenhagen.) The simple and sorrzwiul words of the King of Greece but we!' &earthed thew, proceedings: "I doubt whether daring the last fifty years auy barbarous power even has been treated in this way." What was the nature of the claims put forth by the admiral ? The first was in favour et some loniate. One liihian bad been condemned to death for a most abomi nable murder ; three or four others had been ted and impri-oaed for endeavouring to excite an dynasts at Petra,. Tee only iodienity these men suffered was that they were hendauffed. But it was on their account that 201. was claimed tot each, and thirteen men of war sent to the Pizmos to enforce that claim. In 1807, several lonians were arrested at Girlies for a robbery; they were on the Greek coast end without an English passport, but for their arrest also the government demanded 201. per heed. In 1846 several lonian vessels were pillaged at the mouth of the A e heinee He (li. Pacstory) had in 1847 obtained the most positive information on these latter feats, and he could state on authority that, immediately after the pillaging of those vessels, the English government demanded an indemnity of 1,198 Manistee (the ooloniate is about 11. lc), stating at the time that the vessels 1 were attacked by persons bearing the symbols of authority. From all the information he had been able to obtein, it resulted that the vessels in question were pillaged by C phalonians in disguise, and peshithe whited by some runaway soldiers bearing about their persons the insignia of their former pursuit.... But was the English govern up lit serious in this claim? did it mean merely to demand indemnity for the imprisoned lonian criminals, and the pillaged lonian shape ? It was not to be e noeived that it sviould demand 1,100 colonists. at the head of thirteen men of war. It was impossible that England e mid know the facts of the case. He now mime to the motive for making the claim. An un happy custom elided throughout the south which England had not extirpated in the lonian Islands ; it had wit even attempted it. At Bastes time, according to ancient custom, the ;people bum the edgy of a Jew. In 1847, the plies of Athens deemed it Its duty to prevent this custom, and in the attempt mused an Ineetale throughout the whole quarter which counted on the fanatical repre sentation. They took pessession of a house and destroyed the garniture. The hones did not belong to a Gibraltar, hut to a Portuguese Jew, who applied for redress to the Cant de N nas, Clime d'Affaires of Span. —lt was only on the isdireet counsels of the Portuguese, that Peel, fli o was infla need to appeal to the English Legatnn, who immediately demanded fur him as indemnity of 80,000 dementia. This was rarely an enerrisens indemnity for a few beton windows. It was not yet (dear whether up to the ' memeat when these 80,000 drachmas (of 18 sons) were de meaded by three English war vessels, it had been offered to arrange tee affair with the Oreek governor for 8,000 drachmae. . (A lau.h ) Why 6001. sterling under pretext of interest and personal damage, he could not underetand. With mud to he claim of id Finlay, the Greet government was est ieialy to blame not to have settled it sooner, but before the - English yowls arrived that gentlemen had accepted an ar , bitration, and part of the claim had been paid. With re- 11, 1850: