The Express. — London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

r gilt erprefso. OUTGOING MAILS. The naafis be Lisboa, Spats, and Gibra ltar will be namie tO-MITOW menlag. Toe sails for Britian North America. Bermuda, and the United states will be made up on the evening of August 30 . The West India Mails, 'ninths, Honduras, Name, He wannah and Jena ( St. Dmisinge), and including Vise retie, New Granada, and On Tawa (St Jean de Nicaragua) be made up ea the morning of September 2. The mails for Mesico will be made up on September 2. Tb awns he Nadine, the Beadle, and Baena Ayres, will be ask up on the maim/ of Sept. 4. lne malls eW itaneshm, to me Mediteeranesa, Bap; Cl lOll , India. Hoop-Soap, Ile., will be mad* up I. the even* of 3 pt 7. The mails for flevaansh, Honduras, Weems, Jamul, Chili, mad Pers,will be made up teethe morning of Sept. 17. Ch. mails he Gibraltar, Malta, Grew" the lotion Islands, ggypt, Ceylon, India, sad China, Ma Seatiseimptcm, will be made up ea the morning of Sept. 20. UlOll Willa AT wirDost IgnIDITIL Tan Dal -Illerstat. 44. 4 T,A•samr•-/Asselasolk. V a.... - Airmen. at. Aft. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20. THERE could not to a much More important faro- Intim than that which gathered up all the capital, skill, labour, and energy scattered throughout the kingdoms, and employed far the service of providing and furthering transport and Iccomotion, and combin ing them in what must be considered as one vast, übiquitous, yet connected and compact establishment. It was a great subtr..ction of power and numbers from that mass nurtured and steeped in agricultural habits and ideas. The coach and the waggon owner, the driver, the ostler, all grouped around that prominent animal the horse, were in fact but one offset frem the fanning and peasant population. The capital, skill, labour, and energy now employed, are of a different origin and very different ideas. The capital is commercial, the labour and skill mechanical, the energy is that of a united body, not that of the scattered members of a rural population. The tendency of industtial organisation has been in fact for the last half century to concentrate the *cattreed powers of labour, as well as of labouring energy and mind. This has taken place in almost all manatiteures. And we know not but that yet, or (yen soon, some discovery may he made or innovation take place to concentrate the power of agricultural labour and mike it completely a manufacture. Such changes will render, as indeed such changes hsve ren dered. the management cf the muses something far more ditSc-It than it has been hitherto. We see the reatilts prcduced in the metropolis and great towns of Francs by the congregation of the artizan and labouring clam cornbint d with the gregarious and corn munieatiee habits of Frenchmen, with their early ha bas of equality, their r.rolutionary and republican traditions, the absence of family ties, and the weak ness, or non-existence, of relig►ous belief. None of these aggravating circumstances are to be found with ns. Our social habits, too, keep man from man, and isolate people in families far more than French. But, on the other hand, being more advanced in in durtrisl we have far greater concentra tions of labour, more formidable and more intelligent masses to deed with. . . . /I"...icrto our chief difficulties have been with the more unskilled portion cf operative labour—that easlest acquired, consequently most abundant, and driven, for that remain, but too naturally to the m nn of wagesand the mazirrioni of work. Parliament and government hare thought tit to interfere in these relations, and we are confident that it has done so more to allow thu governing and dominant class to arsurne the character of protectors to the poor %Lan from any other ground. The political motive is at the bottom of the charitable in too many minds and instances, par liament thus enticing the mechanical labourer to lock to it, rather than to popular or extra-psrliamen tary powers and association. Bet we have too often signaeised the incourmienos and danger to which these may lead to teed the dwelling upon them at present. The service of the railreads steeds in a category quits by itrelf. Here the lives and interests of the wide public are immediately affected, entrusted to the tetablishmenteP and hourly and daily at the mercy of its ser v ants. A strike. in • factory is a casual matter, compared with that upon a great line of attar- aril rell communication. Such an inter ruption is more like • mutiny in • regiment or a ship of wee, than a mere diff.reece between the members of a commercial eateliishment. And it is one which, if it last., will infallibly call in public inquisitiven.ss and, finally, governme..t interference. Itailroad drivers and mechanical authorities should well consider their position. They are not in the same category with the chief artizao, mechanist, or ronductor of a manufactory, or private establishment. Railroads, though under private management, are essentially . yubl e esteblistments; and public este to:laminas in which discipline, with the care of life and property dependent on it, are so imperative that the legislature will infallibly place railroad management and subordisa'ion under exceptional rules. Let them look at the merchant service of our shipping. Ves sels are built, manned, and freighted by private capitol, under individual direction. The business is essentially private acd individual. Yet so imperative is the necessity of disciplice, that the state has placed the men embarl‘ed in the merchant service under a quite exceptional erode, and, in truth, under one of the most rigid and irresponsible tyrannies that ever was framed. If insubordinatior. and tarbulence display them selves in the ranks of railway ern/roe/fee, government and the legislature must interfere, and the result will be me of two things, either an especial and rigid cods, like that of the mi reliant service, or an under taking of the management of Finney, by the slate, as the only power capable of largely ecforcing disci pline. Ti. chiefs of our army and of our navy de clue that they cannot preserve discipline without the power of arrest, of the lash, and of courts-martin, which consider disobedience to a sup-riot as an almost capital crime. Several of the continental powers have placed their railways under military Jurisdiction • and an Austrian engineer who en daegi rs the lives of his passengers is forthwith sul:- jec'ed to midtary punishment. We should be sorry to see the slightest approach to such a regimen meditated here. Hut in truth, if the whole railway comn.unication of the kingdom is to be obstructed, as is now menaced, by the objection of the eren to undergo certain fines, against which they appeal by general mutiny, then all we can any ie. that they wi:l cause a sweeping change in the laws of railway discipline. Englishmen will never consent to the continental remedy of transferring railways to the s'ate. Pri vate enterprises they must remain, and it the se-vice cannot be effected, discipline preserved, the lives of tie community icaured, acd VA, needful transpirt of themselves and their property guaranteed, parlia ment will interfere, and how can it interfere, but by acern-reing the power of the directing authorities? Whilst giving this warning to the men, we must at the same time offer some necessary advice to their employers. Railroad companies have for the last Tyr been runnirg continually upon one shoal or er.other, in all and each of which government wcs obliged to come to their aid, and in aiding to curial their power. The affair of audit is not yet settled, and may lead to a government inspect on of accounts, as there has been a government inspection of works. If they do not want to have a government inspec'or of locomotion foisted on them, tiny vii take measures for at once contenting so imp (runt a body as engine -driven, and at the semi time interesting Hera in being obedient and attached to the establishment. A ',stem of grace and super animated allowances, established by the company, hatted of the latter being left to the work men themselves, would crtree a lick and an incentive to mutual confidence and forbearance. Rail roads, we are aware, arc but in an incipient and tran sitory sate, struggling with adversity and disappoint meat and aiming to reconcile he often incompatible cads of economy and efficiency. Ihey have, a'. the same time, both government and the public, more xealotre caviare', and adverse than either air or fran.ily. 'Their task is, teerefure ' difficult, their ob eerie Hens ioealewlab!e. Hut with wisdom, foresight, and febesararce, rning!id with eigileaelen ' d firmcesa, all may he ram 'me, eve :a the hostility of their ser vants, who are actively poisoning and cuttirg off the henry, from which they draw 'he ir oi. II anything can in,ke the party s hich adennes supernaturc: prctensioos on behalf of thr. Church of England ashamed of the Mille') of EXLTER, it is his :~+ - _~ THE EXPRESS, MONDAY markets wherever there were men , bat had:nowhere sorra can. Oar food mist pow within the marrow Donnas of ear WWI Mead. Upon the ascertain climate of seek a small speck la the world did the people of Eagland for more this thirty fie allow their prosperity or adversity to rest. would work for the world, bat only the land of ngland mast feed them. The shrinking of the tax before famine prima little mended the ease. Foreign far. suers grew nothing for the chanties of &blish harvests. - - - Bat in the present state of the country we have a changed pieta's. Three weeks sinee, the prospects of the harvest were preordain, and the general belief wee that the wheat crop would exceed an average. But the latest accounts are that in consequence of the recent clouded, cold wet weather the crops have almost everywhere suf fered more or leer. In Cambridgeshire, from blight, the wheat will be not less than one-third below an average. In Devon the wheat on the low lands has rust amongst it. In Durham, though the quantity is an average, the quality is not good. In Gloucester the quantity is short, and there is a great deal of blight. In Huntingdon fens the wheat is mildewed; on the high lands the 9uantity la fair, but the quality infe rior, and the entire crop tot more than two-thirds en average. In Lancashire there is ' some mildew; in Lincoln a great deal, and a short crop. In Lei cester, Nottingham, and Norfolk, the quan tity short and quality inferior. In North umberland, good in some places ; in others inferior both in quality and quantity. In Northamp ton mildewed, and much below an average both in quantity and quality. Yorkshire, below an average. both as to quality and quantity; and though Stallard seems to have a fair crop, and Suffolk and probably Warwick a nameable average, it is not possible to doubt that the entire wheat crop of the kingdom is very much below an average both as to quantity aid quality. The weather, too, is still against the har vest; the reports worse than last week. In France the wheat crop is understood to be short; in Belgium the floods have swept away or utterly destroyed immense quantities of wheat and all kinds of grain. Still there is no wild speculation in grain, no sudden the in our markets; fur the last six weeks' average wheat wee set down at 435. ld. The last week's average, given in the Gazette of Friday, is 435. Bd. The average for the six weeks to the middle of August last year was 475. 11d. The crop of last year was below average. There are no heavy stocks of home-grown grain on band ; under the corn law wheat would hays jumped in the last few weeks to 765., 80s., or 1025., per quarter the prices of 1828, 1839, and 1847. The whole trade of the country would have been checked—the winter would have been looked to with dread as the sure bringer of severe distrers upon all classes of workmen. But we have escaped from the chances of the clouds of England—spite of the weather the workman has his cheap frte-trade last Wheat is no longer under extraordinary need to be suddenly scraped together for an emergency. It is regularly produced throughout the world as an article of commt rce for England, and our large and growing demand is security to the rest of the world in common with ourselves not only against famine but :;gainst scarcity, sudden fluctuations in price, and consequent disturbance of every branch of production and trade. From the first in 1816 to the lut in 1812, every corn law after corn law, each an amendment on its ucsucceesful predecessor, promised the rumen steadiness of price. It was to be 801., 705., tile., 305.; but, great or small, a certainty for the farmer to depend upon as • fouodaion for rent. There is no need we should trice dates and prices to remind the farmers how seldom wheat reached, and how con stantly rent kept, to the fixed corn-law price. At length there is some certainty of price—a certainty ensured by the varied climates of our world-wide corn fields. We have now our share in all the har vests of the earth ; fair wages for our fair day'p work, in open competition with the world ; and it rests with farmers now to mako bargains with their landlords upon the basis of the tree-trade prise of wheat. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Oar corrtsp:mdent writes: BERLIN, Aro. 21. In my last letter I communicated the particulars of the late cabinet council, as far as these were known. 'Re ministers, however, have agreed to allow as little as possible to transpire on the character of that sit ting, and keep tl.eir mutual promises PO well, that the only conjecture on that subject is, that the resolu tions then taken were less honourable to Pruisia than was formerly supposed. We are dreading a new act of self-degradation on the part if the Prussian government, and so mn:h the more as Itadowitz has lately said that he had had to employ all his ski,l and powers of persuasion to re- strain the mini/14.y from making a declaration in favour of the restoration of the i eld diet. It is probsb:e that the Baron has put this statement forward as a feeler, to test public opi nion on the project referred to. You may, however, be muted that even war ,itself is regarded as a less evil than a return to that old institution, although the unprejudiced and candid must admit that the unpo pularity of the Bond has arisen less from its constitu tion thaa from the practice of the governments in Nio , lating the latter. To-day a very circumstantial report has arrived here, according to which the Ituesian army in Poland, histiad of going into winter quarters, as had been conjectured, lase, in come quence of an order fr..m St. Petersburg, moved its whole front towards the Prussian ft-on•i'r. The reasons which have dic.at d this unexpected movement are unknown. While Prussia will, as I lately informed you, name the Grand Duke of Oldenburg as one of the members of the Schiedagericht to which the Mayence question is to be referred, and Austria NN ill nominate the KiLg of Bsvezia, the umpire will probably be the Xing of Holland. In consequence not only of the strong excite went which the refusal of the government to renew the treaty lately existing between the Belgian and the Zollverein states has produced amongst the mercan tile classes, but also of the dissatisfaction of many of the Zollyerein governments, the draught of a new treaty has beeu prepared, containing the essential provisions of that which his expired. It was communicated on the 20th. on good authority, says the Cologne Gazette, that the resolu tions taken at the late council were to the follow ing effect : Peewit decidedly rejects the invita tion to send a plenipotentiary; to the restricted diet, but declares herself in favour of the administra tive commission, 'protesting at the same time against any injurious conclusions which might be induced from this assent. The teport is confinned to-day. The resolutions, although approved, were not formally adopted. To-day we learn in addition to the ab mu that besides the above-mentioned protest against all consequences inimical to the union, explana tions have been requested of Austria enceern- Log the proposed constitution of the cienmis- Men, for in the present as in former transactions, Priem Schwarzenberg's votes have cot been remarkable for clearness. Upon the Baden question ministers were well agreed ; which was so much the easier as Austria had adopted the Prussian proposi tion. This question has also called forth a protest, the object of which is to prevent the whole question of the right of removing the Baden troops froin coming before the Schiedeqericht. The circuitous route taken by the Baden troops has mrdo a bad im pression on Csrlsruhe and elsewhere. Tbe lietgnage of the Baden jaurnals, to tl e street that the people desire to s-ee a common understanding between Austria and Prussia, brought eb tut by the endeavours of all the other German governments, so that the Austragal-Instanz, or court of decision, would then be unaeccumery, is to us com pletely unintelligible. It is well known that the Austragal-liistarz sum proposed for the specific pur pose of deciding the question of the II d n t roo p s ; • hat have the other German governments to do with this? It is mentioned as a thing not improbable that the Schleswig-Holstein claims for indemnification will anon be Liken into consideration under favourab'e auspices. A declaration notifying tho formel with drawal of Meeklenhurg Se!. Nt, I li from the unite i s daily exueeted. A similar do, ume.lt may eh irtly be louk-d for from Brunswis k. In (*postilion to the widely circulated report that the sem rement had been in ' &teed by the rebult of the Ilaielt tel private) to tte'er mine to octroyer a tribunel for tiling elate processes, we aro enabled to state positively that a proceeding so repugnant to the constitution has never been 4171 3 1V4 2 .pso. thought plitioalay tie Hag oe tbo adahlry bat that the War will ipso bias tis ebonies with • bill on that oabjest. DENMARK AND THE DIIGHIES4 Amounts from Rendaburg of the 20tb, state thef the entire army of B:hleswig•Holatein wan in move ment, bat it was not known what direction it would take. Oa the other hand, it is stated from Hamburg that the Dame were fully prepared fora renewal of the conflict, and that they have retaken the town of Tonning. It wee reported, however, at Hamburg, that an offer of mediation by France bad been re ceived, and would probably prevent the renewal of direst hostilities. latter to the churchwardens of Brampford Speke. If it do not, it certainly ought. For It is the climax of intolerance and uncharitableness; it *sorsa the bible ; substitutes the Prayer Book fur the Holy Scripture ; elevates the Catechise! over the Articles u p a question of dogmatic teaching; confers ea the biahcfs own interpretation el selected pampa the authority of i n r . .llilOlity I and torislgne to the rains and penalties of 514 ,-,:hilat all who dare to dispute the word of h lrp . r g eTate who was ii;Stelitived on his oath by a jury of his own episcopal city. It is not only, however, offensive twine the spirit of true religion, by its substitution of a human insti tution for divine revelation, and by its attempt to proselytise by the terrors of the criminal law ; bat it is also repulsive of those elements which, when brought into oombinatioo, develop society and advance civilisation. For it denies to Mr. GORHAM that sincerity and devotion to truth which it so loudly claims for its author; it presents him to his pardoners as a orsecious culprit, as a reprobate, who, knowing his errors, refuses to reform his vises, as a wolf coming amongst them to devour their lambs, as a clergyman resolved to teach them damns tion. Regarded from this point of view, the tone, the spirit, and the tendency of the letter are quite shocking, almost demoniacal. Not one charitable thought is bestowed on Mr. GORHAM; all is denun ciation, insinuation, malicious suggestion, slanderous hopes, and libellous prayers. Throughout, Mr. Goa nag is treated as an ecclesiastical outlaw; a priest to be baited by his own flock, and to be degraded by his bishop. Were such principles of judgment in differences of opinion generally to regulate human conduct; were such modes of discussion usually to prevail in human controversy ; were such habits of intolerance to gain predominance in human debates and discussions; and were such sets of persecution to be aimed at by disputants, society might con thine to exist, but it would become the so ciety of wild beasts, not of men conscious of the fallibility of their own judgments, and conse quently charitable and tolerant to each other. However, then, persons may dissent from Mr. GORHAM'S opinions, or assent to the super-naturalism now claimed for the church by his opponents, every one has an interest—deep, direct, and immediate—in suppressirg the anti-social and inhuman tendencies of such a letter as has been addressed, in the sacred name of our Blessed itedeemer, to the churchwardens of Brampford Speke, by their " father in God," who himself offered to institute Mr. GORHAM to that benefice provided he would supine.? the publication of his examination. _ Without offering any judgment on the point in dispute, it can hardly, we submit, be denied by Mr. GORHAM'S bitterest opponent, that his conduct and bearing throughout this unhappy and mischievous controversy have been altogether worthy of a Chrstian clergyman ; and as such afford a very favourable con trast to the brhaviour of his disorderly, contentions, and disputatious ordinary. In t he first in stance, Mr. GORHAM submitted unrepiningly and without a murmur or remonstrance to exa minations such as no other clergyman in the church has ever been subjected to; examinations offensively conducted, inconveniently appointed, and inquisitorially seeking for the means of rejecting the QUERN'S presentation. When rejected he sought re dress from the tribunals of his country in a spirit respectful to his diocesan and to himself. Disap appointed in obtaining redress in I)octors' Commons, he appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; and there, with assent of the two arch . . bishops, found what ' he taught. But neither before nor since that judgment has Mr. GORIIAM appeared personally before the public : neither b, fore nor since has he complained of the long, costly, and anueetsary litigation into which he was plunged; not one harsh, ungenerous, or unkind word against his persecutor has he been betrayed into; though irritered and sorely tempted, he has refrained from controversy or publication; satisfied with vindicating his own I,gal rights and his own conscientious opinions. he has maintained his temper, his dignity, and reputation ; and he now quits. far ever let it be hoped, a discussion which will preserve his name to history, without having given just cause of personal offence to cne human being, without having[soiled hie character by a single scandal —a credit to thoie who suppoi tee' him and a contrast to his bishop. To Dr. Vitamin , ' intolerance Mr. GonuaM has opposed modesty ; to the bishop's abuse he has replied by silence ; and unappalled by the bishop'. three'. be will justify the past by the purity and devotion of the future. _ . . Still irreligious in the best, and anti-social in the strictest sense of those words, as the Bishop of EXETER'S last letter is, it has its uses. It teaches us what we hart. to expect if his party ever become dominant in the church ac.d powerful in the state. In that event the comprebensioa f r which the church of England has hitherto been so distin{tuished would be de taro} ed ; and in its place the spirit of perreoution of restiiction, and of exclusion would arise. The bishop himself knows no agency of proselytism but ecclesiastical censures ; pr.:sccutions for what he calls heresy, and deprivations for what he deems schism. Others of his party, taking a lesson out of Cardinal FRANIONI'S book, are even now complaining that they aro compelled to give Christian burial to the remains of these whose lives they arrogate to themselves the power to judge. Already in Lancashire has a youthful devotee of this ecclesiastical faction declined to marry parties who had not been confirmed, and forced them into a life of sin. By Dr. Fusee the QUEENN supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs is so qualified and restriced as to be practically denied. By Bishop BLoMFIKLD a spiritual curt of heresy is demanded. And by Mr. SEWELL, Mr. BENNETT, and Mr. laostt, the power of legislation sad of administratio . is adrecated for the church. The practical tendency and the legitimate object of cal these manifestations and &signs is made arparent by the GORIIAM case. What is wanted is the power and the opportunity to narrow and rt strict the Church of England; to deprive her of her national and to give her a sectarian character ; to bestow upon her supernaturalism by driving cu• cf her fold ore half of her clergy, a-41 probably tvm-:birds of her laity. Contrast the Bishop of I.xxital*!, persecution even to imprisonment of Mr. Si:tmE and his crusade against Mr. GORRAM, with his patronage of Dr. I'usEY when silt need by the University of Oxford, with his laudation of the saintly character of the Tractarian nunnery at Devonport, with his refusal to interfere for the restoration of peace and de c :ncy when d sturbed by novelties in worship in one of the churches of Exeter, with his denunciation of a charity ball to raise Nude for the allevia , ion of human suffer ing,with his entreaty to the churchwardens of Braun ford Speke to play the part of spies over their minister ; and then we shall have some, though a very inadequate, notion of ti.e changes in our church system aimed at by VA> party cow to quasi rebellion against the law of the land. BEFORE the repeal of the corn laws, August was en anxious month. Its rain or drought, clouds or outshine, heat or cold, were to determine the prospe rity or adversity of all cleans and interests throughout the country. Up to that month all might be prospe rity and premier; the grain fields heavy laden, food cheap, trade good, employment ebundant, gold plenty in the coffers of the Bank, comm roial confidence and credit firm, education spreading, and pauperism and crime declining amongst the people. A few days of storm, a week or two of cold cloudy weather were sufficient to change the whole aspect of affairs. In view of damaged fields, farmers held their corn and, brought less and less to market, gr,:in rose rapidly, dealers speculating on the barometer and eliding scale gambled in foreign corn—the Hidden demand must be suddenly paid fir in gold—the bank must put the screw on, raise its interest, icemen its facilities —week by week workmen paying more for bread must spend less on clothes, and Its, on ten, sugar, coffee, and all other imported end revenue paying articles. With shortened demand for foreign pro ducts the demand abroad for cur goods declined, and the excheq ter felt the forced frugality and spread of poverty amongst the people. There is no:need we should tell over the mhery, the staying of the hand of industry,' he breaking down into pauperism, the giving way of education and walking abroad of disease and crime in years posed, years of high priced food ; not all ur willtrgnese to work, , our gathered skill, our wonders of machinery, our ships on all seas, our custom re spread far and wide throughout the world, our utmost foresight could ensure us from actual want by virtue of the corn laws: even in this wnretn use and workshep of the world, we were pined at the mercy of a low hours of cloud or eunshine. We had explored the universe, planted colonies at the antipodes, opened FRANCE. PARIS. SATITZDAT EYIWING. The President ha. made a speech at Strasburg, which will maks still more noise, when publicly known, than hi. manifesto at Lyons. As this is th e important thing of the day, I begin with it. The =was delivered in reply to the chairman of the or of Commerce, at the banquet given to the President by that body i and a. the Lyons speech was aimed against the legitimists, then the chief object of Louis Napoleon'. displeasure, so the Stras burg demonstration is a blow at socialism, whose pranks at Besancon and elsewhere seem fresh and smarting in the presidential recollection : Oentlenems.—Accept my thanks for the frank cordiality with which you releiVe me among you. The best way to fele me is to promise me, as you have just done, your sup port in the straggle whisk has began between utopias ano useful reforms. (Prolonged cheering) Before my depar. tars people wasted to dissuade me from visiting Alsace. It was said to me again and again " You will be ill received there. That region perverted by foreign emissaries knows no longer the noble words of honour and country, which your name recalls, and which have made vibrate the hearts of its inhabitants for forty years past. Slaves, without dreaming it, of men who abuse their credulity, the Alsatians will refuse to see in the elect of the nation the legitimate representative of ell rights, and of all interests." But I maid to myself, "It fs my duty to go every where, where there are dangerous illusions to dispel and good citizens to confirm. (Cheers) Old Alsace is calumniated. In this land of glorious recollections and of patriots sentiments, I chili Ind, I arr. aura of it, hearts, which will understand my miasien and my devotion to the country." (Yes, yes,) A few mouths, in fact, do not transform a people, deeply labs d with the solid virtues of the soldier and the labourer into a people the enemy of religion, of order, and of property. (I',l-..nged cheers.) Besides : why, gentlemen, slvuld I have been ill received ? In what have I chanced to forfeit any of your cor,fi knee ? Placed by the ni arly unanimous vote of France at the head of a power legally restricted, but immense by the moral oatluence ol its origin, have I been tempted by thought, or by advice, to attack a constitution, framed, however, as is a secret to nobody, in great part against myself ? No; I have respected, and I shall always respect the .overeignty of the people, even in what its expression may have of p. everted or hostile. If I have acted thus, it is because the title, which is the chief onkel of my ambition, is that of an honest man. (Pro longed sensation.) I know nothing above duty. lam happy, therefore, men of Strasburw, to think that there o a community of sentiments between you and me. Like me, you wish to have your country strong and respected. Like you, I wish Abaco to resume her ancient rink, to become again what she was during so many years, one of the most renowned provinces of France, to choose the eiticens most worthy to represent her, and to produce for the inahr. tenianos of her glory the most valiant warriors. To Alsace, to the city of Strasburg ! (Prolonged applause.) Telegraphic despatches from Strasburg : Aticue. 23, 8 a m.-0.1 the 21st, at .1 o'clock, the President of the Republic received the authorities, the constituted badies, and the functionaries. The recepti in was very nu merous. On the 22nd, at nine in the morning, the old sol diers of the empire, those glorious remains of our great wars, crowilid about hem, and welcomed him with 4lasin. Till Presatic.t then received the maims of the de partment, who came in great numbers from dist.n: com• mimes, to ewes. the sympathy of the inhabitants of the Bea-Rhin. At 2 ~clock there wags brilliant review at the Polygon. The President then attended a banquet and a ball Witted by the eomsseree and inhabitants of Strasburg. AVG. 23, 10 A.M received this morning (21 , 11), at 9 .—The prefect of the Bas-Rhin to the Nltilister of the Interior: The banquet off. ri d by the chamber of curimerce to the Prcsldent was magoifieent. The eperch or the President was greatly chterrd. The ball was rem ,tkuble f r:te mast ritiN nee. The r.eeption given b the Pretil..nt warn warm and sympathetic. I understand farther that telegraphic despatches have been received, announcing that the President lett Strasburg on the 23rd for Nancy and Mrr'z. He is to open the section of railway lying betaceu the two latter cities. it is said that cllolera has made its appearance at MarEeilles. The enemies of poor M. 1)-61111N make a grout outcry against him, as if the (I.,sase had been cau.ed by his dissolution of the Board of 11,alth. At the sitting of the Cammittee of Permanence held to-day, twenty members were present. 'two books worth mentioning have appeared to day. Oae is "I: Ere des Ce.ars" by M. Romieu, in which this hot partisan and aseiduons courtier of the Elysee wants to prove that nothing but the regime of fens will do in our day, and that during the last halt of the nineteenth century a military despotism must prevail. The other book is " A Nate to the C General on the Revision of the Constita:ion," in which this question is discussed in a Bonapartist ann. At the Bourse there was no news of importance. The Renter experienced • slight rise of 10 c,ntimes ea the Fives and of 5 on the Threes. Just as I am about to close my letter I hear a ru mour that a pistol has been fired at the President at Strasburg. But this report has no official founda tion. Proround sensation was yesterday caused in the 1 quarter of the Nladt Leine by a deplorable covaltrophe. M. de Th--, who occupies a high position as a banker, went with his son to dit.e with his brother, Baron de Th--, Ne. 4, Rue de f!i:-/.e. A diacussion on matters of interest aroso between the three, and at last the brother of the Baron flew into a furious passion. lie drew a poignard knife from his pocket, stabbed his brother in the breast, rear the right shoulder, and hie son in the bowels. Be then threw himself from the window, and in the fall broke his arm and received other injuries. Medical caisistaeca was immediately procurid, and the mounds were dressed ; that of the brother is not d.tngeroug, but the eon's is so serious that little hops is ertertained of avicg his life. The father was conveyed on a littcr to the Hospital Beaujon, where he died soon atter his arrival. A vast crowd assembled in front of the house, and municipal guards had to be required to prevent the circulation from being interrupted. The two brothers are twine, and are about fifty years of age. SUNDAY MORNING. A telegraphic despatch from St rastmirg, dated 23rd, at one in the afternoon, announces that the President, after having lisited on that morning the civil and military hospital, the fmndry, the arsenal, and the cath.dral, took his departure from the city, amid acclamations of " Vise le President r M. Schmitt, governor of the province of Arlon, has been commissioned by hie sovereign, the King of the Belgians, to congratulate the President at 'Metz, in the name of his Majesty. The ministers at Paris have met several:time'', at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliberate on the subject of the Prince de Joinville's residence at ltrus , sells. An interchange of notes has taken place with the Belgian government on this subject. The Mondeur contains a decree of tt..e Presidt nt of the Republic, cm.ferring decorations of the Legion of Honour ou several officers of the army. Gentral de Garrembe is appointed to the etm mand of the Ardennes, in place of General S llegur, placed on half-pay. The councils-general of the tit partments intet to morrow. Th, re is said to be much division on the quastion of extending the powers of the President of the Republic. Our l'aria e.wrerponditoce of last orating hod arrived at tho hour of wing to press. SPAIN. Ti:e British minister, Lord Howden, leads a very retired lite. Tito corps of 4,000 men destined to reinfor.e tha garrison at t',e Ilavannah, w It be ready to sail ou the tat of next month. MADRID, At iev..r 411.—Three poi amt., 33 1 ; ow Rotes, 31 1 es.n, 38i paper. Four per Crate., In ova. Faro per c•ws., 141 cod. ; titter II .111, 14{ yi.prr. Coupons. cash. Poitiers, 4 cub ; ..oter s, 4 cash. bash of St, leordinasti, 68 os.h. Its4..hmoce cn Lin don, 6036 SARDINIA. TURIN, .k1:111 . t•T 21. The Minister of ‘V or, Genorsi do It MmlllUrd, a i:11 M. F. rdinard Borrot, has n•turcul from his mission to yons, to greet the Pr. sident. The King's illm so has nothing cerious; his Majesty is muoh better. PORTUGAL. 4 1" be 0/lental &en Ran s steam-pncket Pacha, Capt. Fasnois Meehan, am, at Southampton yesterday, and leaded her mails' ender the charge of Lieut. J. W. Langtoe, EN., Admiralty agent. Her detainers : Gibraltar, August 15; Cadiz, August 16; Lisbon, Aug. 19; Oporto, Aug. 20; Vigo, Aug. 21. Amongst her cargo :are 7 ipackages of specie. On leaving Cadiz a deck passenger elm, on board in so pick and worn-out a state that he died the same evening, in consequenoe of which the ship was placed is quaran tine at Lisbon, and the passengers, to their great in- 1 convenience and annoyance, were sent to the laza retto, as the ordinary officers at the health office had no power to act, and the Board of Health meeting only once a week (Tuesday) to decide on matters out of the usual course. So that ifs ship should perchance arrive on a Wednesday, she would, with her cargo on board, be obliged to remain at Belem till the follow ing Tuesday, supposing she had the misfortune to lose a man on her passage. All this is a serious ob stacle to trade, and a great drawback to the prospe rity of l'ortogal, whose revenue is chiefly derived from the custom-house dues. Our correspmdeut writes : LISBON, Aram 18. The government, though plainly convinced of the unpopularity of the new law to repreas the abuses of the press, gave publicity to it on the 10th inst. in the Diarso Government Gazette and it will be pat in force sixty days after. I mentioned in a former letter that a wall woe in the course of construction to surround the town and to prevent the admittance of anything without paying the duties of consumption. From such eircumvalla tion the public might, amongst other advantages, derive that of a good and pleasant walk or ride, but, like everything else in this country, the road is bad, narrow, and without footpaths. All the crops here are very bad; the worst they have had for many years. Add to this that, either through accident or malice, a vast quantity of wheat has been destroyed by fire in different parts of the country. It I. estimated that the crop of wine will be leas than a third of what it was hat year ; the crop of oil must be equally bad. Rye has been attacked by a disease; the authorities have been obliged to inter fere to have great quantities destroyed, consequently all the produce of the country is rising in price. The season has been so irregular that there are many dieesses ; after very high winds for some days it has been followed by a very oppressive heat. In consequence of the mutiny of the B.li Cseadores, mentioned some time ago, thirteen of toc ringleaders have been sentenced to transportation. Lisbon is quite deserted, the heat has obliged all those who can &Tad it to go to Cintra, or to some other place ; therefore no news of any kind have transpired, except that after a council of state an express was dispatched to Count de Thomar, at Catdas. The Qaten is yet at Cintra; she held a levee on the [sth Wet. The price of stock is the following : Inscriptions of Five per Cent., 4S to ISI ; ditto Four per Cent., 39 to 391; ditto Thne per Cent., 381 to 391; Paper Money, 20 to 21 ; Bunk Shares, 378,000 rein to 380,000; ditto Porto, 200,000 to 201,000; Discount Lisbon Bank Notes, 6i to 6 per cent. Exchange on Landon, 511, THE BRAZILS. UM JANEIRO, In' 2. I take advantage of a steamer's leaving for Per sonifier°, to forwara you a her lines and inform you of some of the extraordinary proceedings of t►e Eugliih crui ser! of am en this station. It has now became a question which i' the most unjust— the slay,• trade, or the m awes taken by our cruisers to suppress it ? But I incloeo ycu a plain statement of facts extracted from the ✓ornol d Commerrio. The statement there contained is probably the ugliest of ; but those extraordinary things are occurring daily, sod it wool! really seem tbs.: our truism have changed their purpose, and that it is now the Ingrid coasting trade of the Brands rather than the slave trade that they wish to sup . - . - - W have dates from Monte Video up to the 13th of June. The ,t flow [ever taken [rem her by one of the French ves eel•, was raging with prom violence on board the squa- dron. A protest had been *lined by all the iftl:ers and men against Admiral Le Predour, for prohibiting the dis embarkation of the French troops. The protest hat been sent to the Admiral at buenc,s Ayr. by a French vessel, but the teen% • as nut yet known. . . Our c tree crsrk , t hag sutr• rcii a s*lll farhcr ecchre in pries, hut the stock is reduced to '20,000 bags. Eichl.r.ge, Yi ; list. ihisfever which had greatly decreased is again fi.ling the and we begin to Isar that we shall never again be left by the unwelcome Nititur. I am, I'aii filming is the statement referred to CABO FRIO, Ji NE 26. F. Tony. • - About live o'cluek this afternoon an English steamer, the Cormorant, approact•ed the fortrcm• of Si.. Matthew, from the bar of this city, and taking in her sails in the roadstead, let di•wn theme boats filled with armed men, to the number cf ab.ut SO, who were led by officers provided with pistols in their belt. Oar of the bsirs male for the port of Fort A. za, and landed an offizer heating a paper in his hand, which wa' maid to he a bill I del; paned in tho English parliament, authoristag the bearer to outer any port whatever of Brazil, and there to starch every sad atly vessel he might think proper. As this officer proceeded t.) the gate cf the fJr•rese, the second and third boats were 1 rcught up and came within the har,notwithstanding the repeated intima. bons given from the shore, through the spessing trumpet, that the entrance cf armed Totals withia the bar would be considered on insult to the 'esti, nal tisg. The commander of the forams was so aliened by this armed dessioratratimi, that absadoning his pr. per of retistanee,andsurielcirg the national dignity heonght to have maintained, he sat roe dared all to the discretion, cr rather to the Carri:e of se Inc sclera. The three boats then proceeded to the anchorage of the national schooner. the RiviL and attempted to b3s"rei that revs, lam .1 a discharge ot fire- arm'. Immediately that •he crew t and themselves attache 1 they loosed the ship end I t her run cue with the ebi ins tide; the schooner vets soon outside the bsr, and so freed her from the Teats, which were compelled to det.ist from the pursuit in eider to . go in search of fuel fa the steamer. Jbana bile the steamer throughout all this bueinisa had lei! rinbt under the guns (+fibs fortress, u it to aggravate the inatilt. This prontdine talc place in the pr. strip mart' hundwde of people drawn to the shore b r y the stranfonee; of the emit. and of all the author ities. The boatswain ti the schooner remonstrated with the captain of the stet:-.er on the respect dna to the national ate, but he wcs replied to with abuse. What answer can the British government nuke to the di mind for reparation cf the injury, which the governor atlas Baai's will certainly LA PLATA. The Napoleon, Captain Itabardy, bas arrived in Havre with intelligeoca from Buenos Ayres np to the 26th June. At that time it was rumoured that the French diplomatic agents had at list succeeded in coming to an unceretanding with the Argentine go rerun, r.t. I , was net, howtv:r, stated whether con majors had been muue by tee former or the latter ; nor was it known if the convention said to have been' agreed on could be definitely c , relutled by the French agents, as it would ri quire to be susmittcd to the ra tification of the French gortrnment. CAPE OF 6001) MOPE.—There are further advice. from this colony to the 16th June. They an nounce the die.covery of large deposits of guano on Damen Inland, hr a Mr. E. Cneappiai, but which, being on public lands, is claimed by the government. An importar.t improvement with the harbour of Table 11,y was under consideration, by the construction of a lntekwater, extending from the shore near the Chsvenna-battery, embracing that portion of the an; chorsge where the deepest water is to bo found, and by a curve towards the cx'nmity, protecting from the action of the tide ar.d the surf a large portion of the arcs of the bay. The want of a hsrbour of refuge at Table Bey has long been telt, tud the ptet.ent pro ject is ore of considerablo importance to the colony and the shipping interest. The number of vessels which entered Table Bay in 1849 was 600, of 156,000 tons. MANSLAUGHTER AT HAUTON. LINCOLN•IIII:E.—In this tovinehig ou the tight of Monday wash a p.raoti nutted Sanderson—who has hare° held the character of a quirt and loot t sive men—attacked another named Thom. ann, who, it appears, bad been employed on the railway near Dante. The apparent prove cation onl brit g that the cheesed. in a drauken epree--along with another putt amused Hass. lf with throwing stones at S Indus ni's window, wberenp m Satidentot, after 'Ming a: me alviratug, rushed out with a poker and struck &ceased a blow on the hcad, fr. la the effect, of which h. died on N rdnescisy. An inquest was held on Friday, wl.en a conaioer,blo imintity ut riders. was adduced in moll) wo of the charge against the atones. , , the heing a ver.'iot of manslaughter. and Sanderson's co ,, e ,, tu e rn e c. iginit..l for trial on that chew. AN 0 ER Lveirlta M tTett ACCIDENT.—On S or day a ,rk, a young Ind name I (lotion, ann of Mr. 0 inlon. buteher, of New lirigaton, Carshire, was &fold burnt to de.th He went to a piggery near his father's house. sued w:,:'e yl ying watt tem- lu ma•ches, a tpt•o l'T shavinAi l ing near was if' i id. The flows cninniva i•eted to his cloths', and the result woe, •hat bet 'vs any a Aslant,* anitud, hr was so =eh burst that ha died shortly after wards. AMERICA. ARRIVAL CF THE STEAM -SHIP CAN a .th l. rag o c e a n , tie owe oo Ekes a Teanpoiattiese, LIVERPOOL, moaner Hoax:.. By the arrival of the stearn-ahip sold e. placed in poesession of one week's later inter,' from the United States and the British s enh 't . t rican possessions. The Canada left New York on the 11th inst., made the ordinary cell at Halif ax to land axe! re v : - mails and passengers on the lithe She large number of 102 passengers and 300,9i5 j in specie. The steam-ship Piscine er e ,,, ed York on the 11th inst., after a passage of cleric di at foar hours. The steam-ship Cambria arrived at Boston c e morning of the Bth instant. San Francisco was rapidly reqvering from ttc a fire ; the new buildings lacing erected were of t ile . deal. The yield of gold was not abund‘ot, th e tee being very high in many plac s. The President is reported to hare receireet mation of the formation of another Cuba from Porto Rico. Ihe prorogatirr, of th e re: nadian parliament took place on the Itith. Sir George Simpson had returned to laehis e , e t. having made a tour through the ihttrior. of the sou's the Fr H ank ay lin e terri xp .dtory, ition.bat without hearing any:h.:le .4 (TELEO/LkrEl TO HALIPAT.) NEW YORK, The California State Admission Bill hicitg the Senate, the bill establishing the t.r:-;!;r': vernment of New Mexico was yestardh7 The House of Iteprestmtatives has not wed" either the civil or diplomatic approirw:)l, setting apart upwards o f li o ,o o o moo branch of the public Gerrie-, occupying ;., tention. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGEN7I. Business throughout the United States rva tiovernmrnt Sucks firm and in rerre• • • „ soli today at 1071; Slum of ICI. at 11; . 'lm • lay's telegraphic announcement tor to-. :f .r - . Niagara mail adected the cotton. M o ' mats / prices slightly receded. New Orleans M fair, 131 c. to 14:. per lb., 'b ow i ng a and Florida, 131 e• to to r 'Lowing a f‘ll • • accounts are better. The sto c k i n N ew 60,000 bales. Flour is very dull. W•ltert t:„ firm, 41 to 6. Number two, 3 dots. bi t• I • :t • . • in bond, 41 doh. to 1 dots. Indiaq tan • - •1 • * mixed yellow, 64 to 615. tiennesses wt , te 28c. to 1 dol. 32c. Canadian, in boor!, 1 , lo: .•, • . • There is a moderate demand for iron ; ::•1 • r pig hays been sold within a day or two, at :1 , • • months. Linseed oil is held more firmly, and ro F.'4 had at the close below Dz. Ashes continue or.wdy, wl:b secs dolt. for pearls, and 6 dols. l 2 in Pr pot. In freight. the :-.trkst is very firm T , flour, one firtlynu for cotton, l2 s ,1 . • 1 To London, 3,000 bales were tak^n at I , NEW ORLI A.N- A Cotton is slmort nominal; sales for ps bales. Middling, it 121 e. per lb. Vie Court. 0 , 13( Her Majesty arrived of Oab)rLe fire o'clock, CID from Os:etol, ana ~cu for bretk'ast. The RinhtHon. Sir Franeis Bar r./ le't for Suthaistpton, in the L.. landed. The royal squadron put int.) Derr ytr• after dinner conunued tLeir voyage t V TM Queen and Prins', ace-nr.sn, Wales and younger members ct tae r.. morning in °Mom Park. lier Majesty and kis itryal }Lea. r.. gentlemen'of the hr.toetold, a•cei noon •: Osborne. The Rev. J. 1 .... . Royal Highness. ofli lewd. . Colonel the Hon. A. Goullr, cairn rived at Osborne yestsrdsy al•crn• There was no other addition tJ .ne ~y TILE QUEEN'S JOU itN r.. 1" t. As at pri tent arranged, her 3let'ity accompanied y the royal did on Tuesday snort idg at eight Londol by the South Wcater^. Hr.:way. Eaton- square station of the N,rt'd W the royal party will start be spec.a...•ts the seat of the Earl of Carliile. Her M ing at Castle Howard trona Tuerlay I:burning. She then resumes her j route for Dslrnorsi. Prepareti• tt commodi us end splendid wile I jetty and Prince Atbert at itarwi,?. latter place gar Majesty is to t. Cu: eeiviag as atlartu. THE DrfiE OF WELLINui,N 1.0. by the Queen Risser in 1 . r : •• Hyde•park. in the root of t. e :s:t MINISTERIAL MOVEMN\ f l accompanied oy Lily Truro, 't t. • .1- • country for the escation.—Tb - •.' • • . . Russell intend to make a tour of. 11 . night. and after paying their r.e; • • '• • the Peirce Consort at Balaor t near Hawick. • u a triatt to to . where tho noble lord arl isdj : • . • The Mugais of Laaldowoe ••.• • •!-. •• Bowoo,l Fark, 5utt.....1: • t e t cirele.—The Right Hen. Sr ii••••:•• • • :odor, near Alnwick, this ! to receive her Makty anA . A • tamily at the railway :trtain.u , the Eal of Catli:lo at Cu.:: II . ••••• net, as M. me S C7ltt .7y, t art. her Majesty dueng the r•lal ;r• .•. • . lisle arrived at Caetle Me. sr.! • from Haworth Cloth., to mice 7- • ' •• reception u: her Maj...ty to tn rt.. •••• l'.)owsister) Lidy Mat , 11 .•••• • there trout the Duke of I).Y vs . :: The Duchess cf Sather' yid ar..: Li • • Gower, Lttly Dente and the it • • . Hon. W. T. and Ltdy C.12,::11, i..• . • Grey, and other m,mbers of th tau...r• a Castle Howard to tact Q • quit and Marchioness of C•auric•r i• • • s to Brighton.—Tre Lord Privs S. Countess of klinto and the Lets ,•. .t• • Rouse, N. 11, on Tuesday la.t, f: nu too . • The Earl and Countess Cir• y ii.ter • • Castle until the middle tux: is expected to return to Lon en tY t. cc. •• State stavieg in London.—Viscout.t rs. ,•• town, azd is not expected to lease t. r i•• •'• in Rants. for three weeks t, ;it - Francis T. Boring arrived a'. the Admiralty 0:. Saturday afterr.oo.. • attending her Majesty on her merit.. •• • The Right Hon. Baronet and L ~:y Ar family shortly leave Lien for Bright...', Smitten Carle. Hants, for the 114:tilui• Sir Char ce with Lady M ire, te . • • visits in Scotland; also the Hight 11 . 1.1. Ii • : The Right Mon Fos Msu:e is at 1. Dunkeld, N B .and It not ya., , rett.i m 1. a • The Right lion. Sir John t'stu 11 1.1; .u•• • , siding at Etlstoke Falk. Wi,t, The DIKE of WELLINGTON lrar • A this day for Widmer Castle ter the so ii i. . Wellesley and family, who kir: - .ar • sojourning at Fo:kerone, leave !hot, • noble and gallant duke at Wa:l‘.,t Lord John Rowell . zit 11% ti The Esti of NI into h%+ sir.v.,l . Canto. Haburgh.hire. LOWS OF A CLAIM , : Sint' ‘‘ The barque whme rt. •,• M Saturday's Ervre“. le • , ‘: 360 taut, cleated from the • far Nannies, with a Ya cloths, !Salt S. end of whom were shipped horn It . ••*- men and boy.. hendee the m ' • roma itut-hinsaa. rower: W Ales.md,r lk cm t • • ' ' John Barker, steward ; cooper: Alertan-ist Out-. • '• la land, James (tell, • *• • '. 5n14% , .. apprentices. There w.. ,'• ' bee not turn • '.. lost by OW wird( atuvut.t. • • •e Nail) nn.irt,lntut that 1 1 . , ' Liverpool, and it i. 1 , , •I man. The first mate • long bold the charge. - oi f. • • sea was much respcetea * • monied folly s I Clyde. The st c trd 1., ~.• ,• • ' the esrpe , ,tre to At. , t .t , I to. king at the Ito. th . Otto.. • learn g the harhour, on • ' that at; t • NI. .• I • r voyage. Th. w • Suntlerlan.l. 'lb • o.e . . . MII amount, with the 1111.1.fdl: ..t. it 111 probable, was issurar4 at 5W..1,1 I ~ I