The Express. — London, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

*a! has. ail leasood otte•law. ' • s harpriseu woo 4 est lie ht two. Melee•Accaut v Ile testa oodarstand the optima Crow erz_. of Ali Parka. bet ha (weld act • • • ! winch linglask punned the of las 1 a systsat whisk was skiving rsa us set • : to meows. °talks= night make light cut ohs otatioutoo hod owo fered the ••= 4TM-- au /tapirs One the skean talval light of w a r I Ho oppss'ed Se the bola ...• Ile a ' . • O tbe F . eg b i b pro* sot le ishoosinollo Mill • cos eT by allowing the h In biome ' • • s t- Mat s. •lie nod e seeped tinms that day these • a, on. HA VILTI)3I, in osesoding the modes, wad, be so hop for Ireland soli there was • :eessianos and eshnisislration. Hs con • -• ▪ '" it st at e s of eentralleation tiWie becoming :0,1 . 1 . ll' ee snletr4 the abolitloo of the s t (O lar4ft• carrying est of that spleen. Oae ; t that act would be dogma hweroso ot e ,,,, — Sie ease? ditto Otasovoallor of Leland. . ,uNgt,l„ said the* est • singisentensent had N Ise of the WI. an dm sosseloo. in leo . 1 411. toed boa sorely said the suaints. t no • • ; we.lient. Tito boa. neenhor he Mitidteera • to. secoasesta se the abase of the ease in Dug that &gratin night be awed against grivir If see argument aorta* olotioniso %hip war e, in I rel. std. it woe equally so against the ▪ There boa bees abases Is all gesernmente • , m rse• !f orst of society; but Wife We. that*- . s y .0 ail tore ravoest, and rotors to • state Ih e Nasilirb socialist or adosaasoist, tatain up serer of the hos. member for Montrose, , the faelme of that hill, tight ask why _ wog , ehould be paid Siso nub bight, ' W wenNl pod in A•fiells sad the ergs- AI Is easeaded to the =Manse of the ,t itself it was and the LAM Lientenent was ar •IMrier oaf rthabity ; but wan this not , i nsetten of every kind f (Hear) Would any to 4 atingslah the higl eases whines .1 •.e.s the butt of slander gni malignity? HI• tAd been always nay own le the Lwd•Lieu .....,,, was ivy* that 'Very MN Wombs before ••• coroidered ; and a sciarletloa was telt that What would be the ease sow ? It t to the Lonl Chassallor, who was ones. L. 4 out. the statue weld not 09 at e y was it likely the privy mime , slot the same attention and connety ,a meted from the Lord Lientenast. vita to be to pros at 'nether discontent is nit, measure pained. let miniver' beware of • 1011,1, . Es ; pare e par who called themselves tits gu- In.a.a. lb* treat argument in favour of the mo ots' etwocayeal one He doubttd 'rimier soy us „ 7 •..y .theted as regarded ths neneral reTeam; , a: ialluted on Ireland by with .n•t.i.tare of a small mem annually--about did not dank the conduct of the do . this and OS the former o:casina when Vita tuh .:•re the home, gee* much ancourad neat to t.) drw &ewer the bands which uplift'. the • U..r. burl It was sow fifty • •!•• r.rt step towards oentrafisation F•• 'ice but re de fi ed any one to riot out what darted that period. It was said istratiod wa corrept. If it was carter., . •!••• Closest of the I/ ,vernment here. (Hear) was in Diwaindmtreet, and not in !reload; T the administration would not "oe purer for . - ht the soma of corruption. (Rear, hear.) ::tmStn lees essimpt in London than they woad lion, boar.) Again, it was acid that the war i Amen hi the eandities et the it W of' : •t. a were es, surely the fault woo with those wb Ulat‘liill . 6 to lit 3TOIII it. (Hear, hear.) It • newts try for bin to go into the ecosomicel . for the n/li.e lord stated that he would ~.testi it on the argument of oisosowiy. lle eaultl only °binge, that instead of the mm ebel , i: would be increased, because it try to here Ohms in bath London and Ter tr.l to I) Olin. this measure would not . n the los of the espenditare of the the lard•lirutonant received for -cr the ttousebtlil. He had no doubt that . • .. Dubin would be lareentd between by the ab3iiti an et the cane of lord soslfor.ly furtheraidd,thatit; 1s ;;;t i freely increased in cioseequenee of this eooecga•nce would follow frxim hy the rizhi ela. baronet the masher oc the ocliel to which he had before r:- t therefore give the bill every oppositi.n sa:l that. coasideritte the manner in s• l• .. 41/ who had just addressed the :. . : e:+nod to, so parson could siy Cat net baits reewieed with attention, • c• •.• t tr•t obtain. a that ainsiders•.ion s - • - Bat. from the line of argument •• . c • . that the general policy pursued • .ar . year, bat for the whole period •• ; :. was the question is debate, and r • . ••- r ..eateaant should cease to test. ; - a was whether the nbolita of that • :te be 0.: of Ireland or not. He would take, • • sawed sire of Wags, as English toasty t toasty , and compare the two. They s • . a lard lieutenant for the costly. They would • ...1; the hon. member for the llntvardty of Dab - • . • —:he ptople of a county mansuinu their own • - .:1 a syv-es of 'mad jury. ( Hear, haw.) Hut .• hon. and loused gentleman desire ? Why, • • •c Ibe planted la Dahlia an official called • . e .*enact. whose funetiens as yet they had not bias • .1 ab••ut. (Hue, hear.) West dad a lord lieu , for Ireland ? (Hear, hear.) That was what he 1 t weertsla. (Hear, few.) H. suerted that .get the Haglish people at present there was so boci,ity :aad, and he cloned boa. inemben from Ireland to lot ou act of legislation—sot enn in the present ;; in the nfmm , :d parliament. with the exceptwo of —w9felt was hostile to Irish interests. (Hear). •`.e argument that the shopkeepers of Dublin would be .. q the withdrawal of the meek cash—why should wi:h the hum whoa logillaticr for the gnat .1 Irish plc*? (Hear, hear) He regarded the %. a etrp towards the inessimaution of the union _ . r: .:n 1900; and though he was not going to im -: sem tac o this pretest debate. he should say that be completely effected or discontent .ii„ II chunk einablishinest should cease to 'Met ..o•utsted in that «mantel. (Hear, hoar.) Is « ;.tfient aware would break down the tit • Jae. would !and to the swam of blth cow. tr • • •• of tense, and, ntakthe their interests identi c. • ..1 areveruntent repeeeentiog ate whole sad u . : • a tflev, hear.) M' • • LLY eappirted the measure of her Majesty's • r•Je it me the eotop:ctioa el the sato* I. • •v• yr hit. • ~ , AN cipresaed his etarprise that the seamed !..;t a te.sair• of sash mat importamis should have without a word of preface from the wide J or a word of comment frees say -• '• 44 'be mto r, rial bench. (Hoar, Item.) • hCoiLLL said the has. patlaatte wits had ••••mrt surprised that 14 member of dm go- It tea to defences of the 11144111111 ea the • re...-e. Int pireruaatat had takes the usual I .1 i'at.ag their itLeollB for propeshig a ragman •*, it. aid thee waitiag to see what 'NM '4• "A And oe the man! reading. The objer• whether pod or bad, were all directed Aria:wile of the imperial parliament, sad .. 6.1 muntak the lord bestowing, bat to repeal • "apposirer the repeal of the corn laws to 1111 41 Ireland, the Irish representatives world •••••• e :atom a puliamen• sitting in Dublin that sat t. hey* peavel. The mischievous character wide to the legislation of the United Kimeata, *•to • .ty irticb was said to have boss istlistai by .aa UM ~ ,metiose which on soma ether ocaseita It .t.e e, i•ethe .• . 4 ...As. Re w give up Williams • meow who chose to adhere he bin; •"*.acr. r. i . as raery altogether, and oaly ads= tr.• .". •"'t Lvl notluag to do with the sae bean 'Lt :- 1 44 .L. then before house was the =air "?! “tat et the office of Lord Liseshowst. e Wry bad eoedesensd this aessawre by •••• bath word " eentreliestioa"--a weed T•ry ousissa. (" Hear, beer" sad ismer ".•-• 't we , proposed so pander load powers to l' , ‘• - rameat, the government most coped to ' r.: that the advantages of local government • - ;.rderred; bat with respect to the impeded •• adausistratios of the country, be bed 't denied that to bars the power. of Wolk - 1140M was - an airs TM ► th, abolitioa ol this Mks formerly woe that **.t• tte time which i t t oo k to no to I re l an d it would t• , trmstitt to talks such a step. With MI" to srd ► r "a•do, it was obvious that there must leg a boil estates it would be too absurd to attempt ' • ...la Inlet fad Casale in this country. Bet did there AUCII %Sualiso with regard to Inland) He could • ..r. - :• ,, szet that oNtscles coined many yule allfot wtsen • .emeteat w u th ree d ays in performMo the jwassfiT : and when he w an fortymiskt hours bed heard of • lord lisatenant=l s - oe the see b e f ore he could resets I Irk!! uudentand the imminent thes saying. " We • titot spinets, of let our instructions be delayed . °einer . : tr; tut when mechanical science had almost • Irma the wwle were tilled upon to do, annihilated .Pue, then the Ir• nual rule that then ought 1 'me admaistration in this coantry should be ;.,•.*:`: tut elect, and that was the rule on • the hill was founded. The tumourable gen : . P ": ` ' t ih" , spoke lest said that 100,000 i. • year Wall 'a 11.144 throsok the peewees of the kird lit (Lord Joie Itemmilli supposed that the •••r• th.t Prioola. a year would still have • mid it would be far better if ins Mad of going • 1,4 ripthd it, they meat it liviag on their own hear) Ness as the two countries were to th.r. kr could sot in any reason for haying for •at tout for the two kingdom. Ile saw no reams for at mutable sod reflection of royalty in the el l of hear.) The dieadvaateses which it was thui measure most already exist in Cork far the lord-limitemat was no MO,* • t!irrr. thAa in this coseatry. Meat, busr.) Tit* VI which ho hal beard nig.J4 objection sew rr, • 'Le 4"'"‘l t he •ens 4uertion, whether it would not be ali 41 the whole the United nn- ,m-,,tverr4 by one hecrstary of f State. Wills Ki She Ileum was time astralart, he should be alb la show that dna ONOinsmonsm Mating to lirsind, es nosy %omelet e _ that it was Maitallin hare • noloblie oast ilsom. (Erma Weir.) An Ma. pallmona bid aid that be ammett ias atom taps wash b as mina to gin to head It:: snare by gleingths enrstary a Ono in TM an twenty st ha ammors one he to mho the MVsf Ireland loortis that of Ragland. P s * eta heard a Seat deal odia as imja vissarittag Eva =bon hot that whoa men year tbs° • IMAM to sholish MN* 3 . 1 Z be leis that it was on of the paint (Laughter.) This mmencre wee nutilse b =amitut ter • Legg time. Lest sinntr, whim lime Cloanies on in I he (Lord J. Roineilf nolo in bit to that thooght Oa In as of ISO mad as pilho of pool; the goversnist iranid he oblo In as saws of as past sondem to intro ems moisten he the h a rm.. of lbs Ind lionsaaney. Laid Clarrndoe, she weighed toetwine. cuss to the saimaiallatiftle W illaill aft l it wt• with advise and •00011M•110 MO Oho insisne had as proposed. (Hear, an) Mr. ANerzY ran amidst lend arias of " divide," and moved th., sasurnasnot st the dolma Lod J. RUSSELL eeuid wet to the adjouenment. Mr. SOULLY thou ht it weald be hardly bit, was cooly own Irish ntembets had onion, for the prennon to Mass the proposed mdkonumunt. Mr. F. FERNCiI hoped the gongs/ant weed roman that soon mann bad not spates, whom all Unglued and Ireland out wish Is bear. (" Oh. a.") He believed the greatest man in Zealand—Me Treks of Welliastes—wea statues/able to the mean ; sad the house had set baud W epish.' et that estimate stetsons* the right boa. also her kir Yammer*. (Hear, hear.) The banes then divided, when them appeared, Tor th• soljaeramunt Agaisst it Oa our man to the gallery we town Mr. ROCHE means for an adjeerament et the bons. The O'GORMAN MAHON scanted the merJos. Sir R. PEEL mid that he pm hie eta far the motion for the adjoin neat of at &bats, beano he amen it mot at all uoressocabir, after • four hews' discussion ea the *mood reacting of the bill, Irish gentlemen should be allowed the opportunity of stating tbsir opinions on such a complete change in the administration of Ireland. Lind J RUSSELL said that If the motion for the ad joarnment of the house was withdraws, be would sins to the adjoorensat of the debate. The smiles for the adjournment of the house was then withdraws accordingly, and the debate was adjourned till Monday ant. SUMMARY JURISDICTION_ (IRELAND) BILL. TURNPIKE ROADS (I RELAND) BILL. These hills were reed • mond time. THE JUDGES OF ASSIZ E BILL. . . This hell - wTs;rs - si iiaTa THE BOROUGH COURTS OF RECORD BILL. This bill west Walsh sammitses. COPYBOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL. On the notion of Mr. F. M•SENZIE. the ceder for the trooLd reading of this bill at 12 o'sink on Thanday was discharged. ACT 10 GEO. IV., CHAP 41. _ Oe the inotiotioill taros o rd ered WWI of the amount of ton sad Loatpeasatioa paid to two hitter woiphin avian the provisions dais net. MONEY ORDER DEPARTMENT.—POST-OFFICE. _ - Mr. ANBTEY moved for amble of mamoriale receded from sad oorrespoadence with the clerks of the money order department in the Post-sfli se, from the Ist day of January, 1849, inclusive, on the subject of their salaries, leaves of als mace in slckLeas, and monism payable by I k ea for obtaining such leaves Yr. HAYTBB having maid a Pew words in objection to the prodosti as of the copies of Mess mein 'ries, Kr. BBOTHERTON moved the adjournment of the homes, upon which question the house dtsi led. For the adjournment 63 Against it ll-52 The mouse then adjourned at a quarter past 1 o'clock. Zia enareglS. 917 COOING MAILS. The maid for British North dowries and the United Strum will be made up en the evening of June 16. The maid for Limbos, Spain, and Gibraltar will be mad. up on June 17. The West India Mate, excluding Bermuda, Brrannalt, Velma, lia,dueas, New Orleans, and blexlm, and including hese far Piatein, St. Joan.de-Nietrarua, New Granada, :hili, sad Pers. will he made up on the morning of June 17. Ike mails let Otbraltar, Malts, Chime, the lonian blends, 3wypt, Ceylon, India, and China. eta Southampton, will be mode up on the morning ol June 20. The mails Marreillee, to the Mediterranean, Egypt. ylon, India, Hong-Kong, de., will be made up on the eireniaz of Jaw 24. Ise suu for Mederia, the Brawls, and Buecos Ams, wiU mate up ea the evening of July 4. WON RATA AT LONDON ARTTION. Tau D:T:Valf;;;;:i;:iis.7::: — . Dunn& Tontomm—Yonan4, 3.. 11. A. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 11. TasNiis to the Southampton seam packets, a voyage to the West Indies is now a matter of easy accomplishment. You can go and come in six weeks, and see every island en passant. Ur.fortunately, iiurneying in the West Indies, after your arrival there, is pretty much the same sort of affair it ever was. You arrive, for examp!e, at Port ltiyal, with a dozen letters of introduction from Mincing. lane and Diwning-street. At Kingston you are re ceived with open arms by the hospitable merchants, and stuffed upon turtle steaks and 'haddocks to your heart's °patent. You run over to Spanish Town to present your letters to the Governor, who makes a Government-house dinner, and, it may be, a ball for your amusement. But you are anxious to be up the country. The friends to whom you are consigned are nosily desirous to facilitate your progress. They pro vide you with horses, boys, and sumpter mules, and send you on your journey; one of the mist intelligent of them accompanying you, as your route is " all upon the way to hie estate." On your progress you are received with open arms. You are taken by the most picturesque route through St. Thomas-ice-the-Vale to S. Anne's and Trelawny ; are well primed upon the road about the "distresses" of the country, and are told, over the best Madeira after dinner, of the " ruin" brought upon the island by emancipation and the sugar duties. You are in vited to go a few miles out of your way to see • " thrown-up" plantation, and are asked to guess how many millions it produced Mr. BECKPORD, and bow many hundreds it sold for last week. You hear also a great deal of St. Domingo and something about Cubs, and you believe the information must be all authentic because the islands are so near,—not knowing that your infirmsnt gleaned " facts" from a Kingston newspaper, in which they were reprinted from some journal of equal veracity at home. And so you Igo on, " examining," as you believe, " all the island," but in fact seeing only just so much of it as suits the purposes of your companion ;—"judging," as you fancy, "for yourself," but in truth having all your opinions implanted by your island friends. If you return to England unconvinced that Jamaica is rained ; that emancipation is amine; that free trade Is a robber; ; that the negroes are irre claimable; and that the f'iture hope of the country consists in a return to the lash of the slave-driver, and a prohibitory duty upon every sugar bat Ja make sugar ;—if you leave the island, we sa7, with any °the. views than these, why you have visited it very little to the purpose, or at least verflittle to that purpose which your island friends intended. Wean sorry to find from Mr. STANLEY'S pamphlet that his visit to Jamaica has been just of this descrip tion. He has seen the show places of the island to as much and no better purpose than the majority of young gentlemen who spend a few weeks' holiday within the tropics under the same favourable cir cumstances. The planters have found him as pliable, as they could possibly have wished. He has become, in a marvellously short time, a thorough brother of their craft. If the trade of politics failed, Mr. STAN LEY might set up as a planting attorney next week, with a stock in trade, in the shape of strong opinions, quite equal to the most bigoted amongst them. In the absence of a prohibitory duty in favour of Jamaica sugar, Mr. STANLEY is dready entirely convinced that a restoration of slavery and the slave trade is the only means of saving the West Indies. He should oertainly have obtained a seat in tho island legisla ture : he would have done credit, to it. . To any one conversant with the subject, it is obvious, from Mr. STANLEY'S pamphlet, that he never thought of examining or Inquiring further than just so far as the planting interest have prompted ' him, He went the length, and he takes great credit for it, of making some extracts from the accounts of certain sugar estates, which showed upon the face of the boob, unimocessful cultivation. He was entirely satisfied with the accuracy of those accounts, but he never thought of inquiring mot: minutely into the circumstances under which they were made ap. He found large items entered as paid for " labour." It never occurred to him to examine how much of this !about might have been dispensed with by the appli cation of mechanical improve cents. He found consi derable sums entered for purchases of" stock " (cattle). He does not appear to have Italia whether, under an improved system, these cattle might not be dispensed with, or if those absolutely needed might not have THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1850. been bred ea the estate. English supplies" heated a coesiderable item of expenditure. He did not think it pow to inquire what those supplies were, and how large a proportion of then wire thrust annmemarily upon the no doubt embar rassed planter by his merchant and mortgagee at home. Neither did Mr. STANLEY 111.4 Mine the Mats al ealtivatioa, or farm aa ”isi= for himself bow hit tits lead might be turned to more profitable amen Under a differeat system of smiths tioa. He essisated Memoir with examining the books and selishiag himself of their correctness. Why, the hoof redone% hr all the purposes of his Familial*. mpg bow Gibbed all this information, and a geed deal mere, by driving fa his broogham after breakfast, from St. James ' s -square h eat,nen lit e 4w lti-ift and oessulting any sugar broker n ' t eihin ,c f under hogshead of "flee Imam" result Mr. SUNLIT arrives at is this: to enable a body of shientce proprietors to " live at home at ease," to supply them with vast incomes from properties they never see, to afford them means to bear the curtain over-charges and extortions of middlemen who manage distant propeetim, to com pensate them for their lose of capital by throwing op mills and mansions, costly engines, coppers, and machinery at their fancy or caprice or becalm of some temporary disadvantegei—to do all this for proprietors who will not exert themselves, and who reject with morn the idea of ordinary returns upon their ventures, Mr. STARLIT proposes to subject as in Europe to a heavy tax (meager, to afflict all Africa with a revival of the slave trade and to re-impose the galling Attars of the slave at the emancipated popu 'sties of our transatlantic eolouies I IT is certainly in the power of the Hamelin agents and organs in this eoeetry and in Paris, and or the legitimist General LAMM!, to make a pretty quarrel with this country out of the Greek difference. This quarrel, which is merely kept alive by personal pique and rivalry to one of our ministers, may be aggravated by the easy mode of the French cabinet's insisting on the execution, pure and simple, of the convention of London, in lieu of that concluded at Athens by Sir Thomas WYSS. For the fact is, that the French herein demand an impossibility. Both conventions have three principal clauses for settling the three principal points at issue. The first are the indemnities for positive claims. The conven tion of London awards 8,6001.; the agreement of Athens has compelled the payment of only 03,3001., which is already distributed, and the receipts from the different parties already sent home. How can this be undone? The second condition of importance is the letter of aeology. Bat that has been written, has been received—the mortification and the satisfac tion alike accomplished. To substitute excuse for apology is now impossible. The remaining condition is certainly somewhat differently provided for in the two coneentione. It concerns the claims of PACIFICO in regard of vouchers on the Portuguese government, said to have been destroyed. In London, Lord PALMERSTON consented to have these claims examined and decided upon by three arbiters—a Greek, a French, and an English one. The agreement concluded in Athens refers it to be settler& by two arbiters—one Greek, and one English —who, of course, are to appoint a third, if they dis agree. There is no woLdrous difference here; except that, in the present state of the case, and the experi ence we have had of Baron GROS, it is evident that a Greek and a French arbiter will outvote the English one, and allow nothing whatever to PACIFICO for these claims. When Lord PALMERSTON consented to this in London, his lordship could have had no idea how completely Baron Gaos had identified him self with the Cheeks, and how completely he acted as their agent, instead of remain. ing independent, as a French one. Moreover, the concession of a reference of their claims to arbi ters, the majority of whom was adverse, may be considered to have been compensated by the larger sum awarded for positive claims, being 2,2001. more. Now, seeing that the principal of these stipulations of the agreement concluded at Athens are executed past recall, we ask, how is it passible to demand the re establishment of the convention of London pure al (1 simple ? We forget another difference in the agree ment, viz., the lodgment of 150,000 drachmas S:r THOMAS WYSE'S hands, as security that Don PACI FICO'S ulterior claims should be satisfied. Sir THOMAS Wvse, however, consented that this sum should be placed in the Bank of France. And this maso-termine, as far as it is concerned, may now, no doubt, be adopted. But with respect to the arbitrage. it is but fair, after all that has happened, that the Greek and English arbiters, if they disagree, should be permitted to appoint another arbiter of any other nation. If such offers as these were made to the French cabinet, in the actual impossibility of recalling the situation, or executing the letter of the convention of London, nothing bat the most perverse and insidious determination to quarrel could warrant a refusal on the part of the French government. One of the bad accompaniments of a constitutional system and of a free press is certainly, that foreign powers do make use of the parties and divisions of both, to neutralise the efforts of whatever govern. ment thwar.s them. The activity and interference of Russian agents, both in Paris and in London, are as clear as noon-day. In Paris they subsidize the legitimists, and even keep alive the labour of the Mountain. In England they have got p ossession of the press—of the government press . . _ And the act undoubtedly is, that the British Mi nister of Foreign Affairs, for having dared to abet co: stitutional government in Italy, and for hav ing frankly disapproved of Russian invasion in Hungary and dictation to Turkey—for this crime the court of Russia, and its agents in Athens, in Paris, and in London, have pelted and punished Lord PAL MERSTON so severely that they have literally brought him, and England too, almost upon their knees. And we do certainly at this moment cut the most dis graceful and pusillanimous figure. England is like a schoolboy undergoing a whipping, for the sole crime of having been vocileronaly, yet passively, liberal. Jong BULL may well awaken, pall hie night-cap from off his eyes, and ask the reason of all this pother. We beg to inform him that he is prin cipally in In fault ; he, that will remain care less these matters, and that will aban don the complete management of these grave affairs, in which not only England, bat the world, is interested, to a mere coterie of intriguers. There are but fifty men in the country who take the trouble to follow the not very profound science of foreign policy. And the members of this clique either play into each others hoods, or squabble and slander each other,with feminine rancour,making a pretenoe of the country's interests to cover the merest and the emp tiest personal spite. Had Lord PALMERSTON con sented to wield his tongue and manage his portfolio, as one of this clique, as one of a diplomatic masonic lodge, who think .of nothing save the betrayal of popular interests for the ease of royal and aristocratic patrons, he would have been as much respected as NESSEL RODE, and the reins of power might have remained in his hands unmatched at, till they fell, uthey did in MirrrEnutcu's cue, from the trembling fingers of oadueity. But Lord PALMERSTON has felt as an Englishman, he has stood out for the constitutional rights of the Italians, immolated by Austrians and French, for the national independence and ancient" constitution of Hungary and of filially, and therefore every one of the owls and rooks of di plumy and foreign chanceries combine and plot against him. These foreign foes have great advantages over a British minister. They have no parliament to thwart them, or if they are hampered by political rivals, they then have at least a popular and awakened national spirit to appeal to for support But there is no liberal spirit or information in this country an subjects of foreign policy. If our foreign minister maims a Was step, however well meant, and gets es and himself into trouble, this is quite enough to con demn him. No one will take the trouble of icquiring whether he was right or wrong, justified or not, whether his aims were high and his purpose liberal. It suffices that he has got into a scrape, for all that calla Ruff liberal to abandon him to the vengeance of the leagued absolutists and tories of Europe. MINISTERS have advised her MAJESTY to comply with the request of the House of Commons' address respecting Sunday labour in past-otfloes. The col lection and delivery of lettere are to be entirely sus pended on Sundays throughout the realm, and an in quiry is to bo instituted with a view to ascertain whether the transmission of mails on Sundays may not be altogether suspended without injury to the public service. Were this thebe-all and the end-all of the reatter,we should have been disposed to maintain silvan with to the deteenneati on ministers have arrived at. regard d do not well ne bow government could have refased to act as they have done. If the plop!. of Great Britain wish to have so postal delivery on 1 Sunday, they are entitled to have no postal delivery. And locking is the amber of signatures to the pan ties. en whims Lord Minxes main was bend, and the nos-azitlenee of senseer-pnidon4 we are 'added to one that the people of Great Britain concurred in the address voted by the House of Commons. But the matter cannot aid will not close here. The collection end delivery of letters on Sunday is to ones; bat the suspeasion of the transmission of mails on Sands yis only to be Inquired into. The advo cates of the tota l intermission of labour In the Post al* en Sunday are already mustering their witnesses and marshalling their ts with a view to have the travelling of the mails on Sunday put an end to. The mule energy, the same organisation (flushed and invigorated by a partial nooms) which have carried the abolition of letter deliveries an Sunday, are already in satin 'parades to stop the transmission of the mails es that day. Nay, out of the words of the address a controversy will be raised as to what government have really conceded. Lord asin merely .in represented the word " collection " as techeical phrase which did not appl_y to the dropping of letters into the Poet-office on Sunday. Bat by stopping the collection of letters on Sunday, he admitted that he meant stopping their assortment. And if letters are not to be separated and assorted on Sunday, how an they to be trans mitted P Government will be told in a few days that they have virtually conceded the petition to stop the transmission of the mails en Sunday, and a clamour will be raised against them as word-breakers if they do not actually stop them. Now, though we ere disposed to acquiesce in the cessation of Sunday deliveries, we are not disposed to submit without remonstrance to the imposition of additional shackles. We regard the transmission of the mails on Sunday as • work of necessity. We believe that arresting the progress of all letters towards their destination on Sundays would paralyse the whole public aad private btunness of the country; and we protect in the most solemn and emphatic manner 'rind the making of such a dangerous and destruc tive concession. We believe, too, that the demands of the parties now seeking that concession would not be satisfied with it, and that yielding on this point will only encourage them to more extravagant demands. We mean no disrespect to these parties. We be lieve most thoroughly that they sincerely entertain the principles they profess, and that their views, though they appear to us narrow and erroneous, de serve respect both for the sentiment which animates them, and for the ends which by mistaken ways they seek to attain. But in order to estimate the extent and nature of the further demands they are likely to make it is necessary to analyse their views and sen timents with unsparing truth. The argument most prominently put forward by the Sabbatarians is the utility, the necessity of an institution which allows every man one day's rest in seven. From this view, in this generality of expres sion, no sane or right-minded man will dissent. We desire earnestly that every man should have a day of exemption from the breathless hurry, and petty cares of mundane toil once in the week. We believe that this end can best be attained by the aggregate body of the nation agreeing to regard one fixed day in the week as that on which no business, not absolutely incapable of suspension or postponement, shall be transacted. We would reduce even the necessary labour of that day within the narrowest possible limits ; and to the oom psratively few who were obliged to work more toeless on that day,we would concede en exemption from toil on some other day of the week. Nay we will go farther : we believe it to be a graceful and elevating arrangement to associate with this periodically re curring day of rest the discharge of public religious worship. We would have the weekly day of rest and the weekly day cf public worship one and the same; and we think it desirable that the same indi viduals should not always be called upon to sacrifice the Sabbath even to works of necessity. We believe that the views we have now expressed coincide pretty exactly with those entertained by the more intelligent advocates of the suspension of Sun day labour in the Poet-office. But they are not the views of the most active and influential leaders of that movement, or of a majority of their followers. The parties, to whom we now allude, bold the views of Sabbath sanctification which are by some called Ju daical, and by some . paritanical. We adopt these epithets with no disloratic meaning attached to them, but simply as descriptive. By these men the Sabbath is regarded as a day set apart by divine ordi nance for humiliation and penitential discipline. They believe it sinful to do any work on that day ; they believe it sinful to indulge in any worldly thoughts, in the most innocent pleasures or recreations on that day. They aim at enforcing, not a weekly day of rest, combined with cheerful devo tion, but a weekly day , of penance, self-castigation, and stern asceticism. They will not be contested with shutting up the post-offices and stopping the mails on that day ; if victorious in that struggle, they will next address themselves to some other depart ment of Sunday labour, until all toil is proscribed on that day. And they will not allow those whom they thus; set free from mundane avocations the choice of how they are to spend their Sundays. The leaders of the movement against Sunday labour in the Post office are the same men who, by their crusades against Sunday railway trains, are seeking to debar the me chanics of our extensive and crowded manufacturing and trading town. from access to country air and health-giving rural sights and sounds on the Sabbath. The parties who have triumphed in the postal movement are seeking to impose upon men a for malist burden too heavy for men to bear. They are taking one step after another to the legal enforce ment of their own peculiar views of Sabbath observ ance upon all. Every concession made to them is a link added to the spiritual chains they are forging for us. We do not deny their right to observe the Sabbath as they please ; we admit that there is a stern unlovely majesty about their asceticism; but we deny their right to make their practices compulsory upon others. Even admitting that their gloomy views are true, they will admit that the sacrifices they insist upon have no merit, no value, except in so far as they are freely and voluntarily made. All who make them grudgingly and under compulsion are,' even in their own view, =benefited by them, morally or religiously. We take our stand upon the ground that religious observances must emanate from free conviction. We are prepared to resist to the uttermost a pharisaic, a formalist legislation in matters of religion. We be lieve that strict regulations in such matters have ever been productive of unmixed evil. The rigid spirit of the brief era during which the Puritans had the ascendancy in England provoked the reaction, the gross dissoluteness of the days of CHARLES 11. The scrupulous severity of Sunday observance in Scotland, where even a quiet walk on Sunday evening is deemed sinful, or at least disreputable, by the ma jority, has done more than anything else to encourage the habits of excess in drinking for which that country is not very creditably distinguished. 'Ube Court. OSBORNE, Itrwn 10. The Queen and the Prince, aceoutpanied by the Duchess of Rant and the Prince of Lainingen, walked at an early hour this morning in Osborne Park and grounds. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger members of the royal family, walked and rode in the park. There was no addition yesterday to the royal dinar Ply A deputation, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Taylor (Glutton), the Rey. W. Bracellidiabureb), Mr. Anderson (Chairman of the Parochial Baud, Glasgow), and Ur. Thomson Aikman (from Glasgow), had an interview with Lord John Rumell_yesterday, at his o ffi cial reeidence, in Downing -stmt. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. Maanecor, M.P. Lord John RuassU was acoompanied by Sir George Grey. A deputation of Sufferanee Wharfingem had an in terview with Earl Granville yesterday, at Milo office of the Board of Trade. The deputation eresiated if Mr. Alderman linnt_Pbsrf, Mr. George Smell, Mr. Willson, Mr. Parker, and Mr. C. Griffis. A deputation of Legal Quay Wharangars, easeigt^ isg of Mr. Garber, Mr. Bodi l y. Kr, Stennett, Mr. Bell, sad Mr. Kalil, had an interview y esterday with Berl Granville. The Building Committee of the Royal Commhslon for the Exhibition of 1861 set yesterday in the New Palace of Westminster. Than were mond Mr. MAIM (chairman), Mr. Barry, Mr. C. R. Cockerel, and Mr. T. L. Donaldson. Colossi Reid, R.ii., attended es chairman of the Ereentive Committer. Mr, Digby Wyatt and Mr. Owen Jones were present. Mr. Macgregor had an interview with Earl Gran ville yesterday at the Board of Trade. PAPA lux: 10. Tar layoff. 03 81112 6 111 0 10 Lowest. Closing. --- II per Coats. 53 90 56 60 36 35 53 60 56 23 11 per Cants 93 10 92 73 03 30 92 60 93 SO S do. Tasks's u N u u N di per Omits s N N s s 4 per Cents CC :Id " t, li 52 4 10 dal; 55 42il y a.rrirsi A.., Naples &Mut 6. 11551 DO. N e. DO. Piedmont 3 per Oasts 66 40 . Beak @hares .. . 2310 Boaass-84. Clersaalia, 383; Verrill's (right bank), 153; Paris spg Wrenn 733; Parts an d Rouen, 551 S• • Roues and Harm szs ; sad Avidness. 172 50 ; Otrasbatirg and Bakt, 106 75; Orleans sada Memo, 143 75; Orisons and Borderaz, 390; North, 443; Psis sad WWll:ours 131 IS; Tours sad Nana" 117 6O; Maps sod retaasp, 176. MADRID, Jots 15.--Three per Coate., 33 9.16. Four par Cents.. 121. Five per Cents., 12j . Passives, 3 16-16. Coupons, 71 oast. Bank o 1 Bt. Ferdinand, 86 earn. F..z change on London, 60.30. Tun NEW Comm.—Pray, air, can you lame any umber of the Mouse of Commons to find out why the lately Cosigned mown has not been icruck at the Mint ? It is WA to have been withdrawn beosuse it was limier to de prive the public of it than. to settle use squabbling about it amongst the inferior ofileers of the Mint. And when are we to have the forint—C. M. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. BRUIN, Jelin & The tenth anniversary of his Majesty'. acceseme to the throne of Prussia will be remarkable in history for the publication of a law against the freedom of the press, severer than any which existed previous to the days of March, 1848. In one respect the pre mut law Mats from the previous eras; it does not reintroduce the censorship. The censorship was, however, always 000sidered an impractical, imperfect measure, and its duty is, therefore, transferred to thb post-office. Among the 14 clauses of the act, the first Is certainly the most important. It gins to the poet. office the power of refusing to forward or receive orders for any newspapers. As most newspaper. are subscribed for at the post-offices, where a special office is established for the purpose, and, as the post-office has a monopoly of all parcels weighing less than forty pounds, it will be lathe power of the government, by mews of the post-office, to cripple the circulation of every opposition journal in each a manner that it Fast prove an unprofitable speculation. The Berlin journal against which this measure is particularly directed, are the Abendpost, and the National, and the Unoahkr. The circulation of the two first is principally provincial, while the letter is mainly me tropohtan. In the case of the National and the Alkendpost the goventnent then can co ,trol their in fluence over the population of the provinces and smaller towns. The large sumo required to be deposited as caution, are not of the importance which perhaps may be ascribed to them. The Abendpost and National are the properties of shareholders, to whom it will not be difficult to raise the sum of 5,000 thalers. The Unoahler, too, has a very large circulation among the lower orders of the metropolis, and the sacrifice of one year's profits will enable its proprietors to provide the necessary amount of caution-money. Ice Berlin there is a species of journalistic publications, common to the rest of the Continent, called lithographed cor respondences. They are a kind of modern news-letters, lithographed, and in general contain earlier intelligence of current events than can be found in the newspapers themselves. They have all a certain political tendency, which is displayed in a kind of leading article to their daily letter. To the proprietors of these publications the depositions of the large sum of 5,000 dialers will be impossible, and they must therefore cease with the let of the ensuing month. The smaller class of journals which appear weekly, the comic periodicals, which are perhaps the most hated of all the journals, must, if they are able to procure the requisite caution-money, so completely alter the tone of their articles as to deprive them of all point and saliency. Such will be the effect of the new law on these. The punishment by fine or im prisonment of publishers, agents, distributors, vendors &c., are not so very severe ; nor is it needful that they should be, as the government can at any moment con trol more than half the circulation of every news paper, and can by legal proceedings, which in such cases require but a short time, destroy the newspaper itself. They are however sufficiently revere to pre vent a general transgression of the law. I stated above that the first clause is the most im portant in the act. Such is the case with regard to its direct action in the prep. The last paragraph however, equally important for it withdraws from trial by jury all offender* who shall distribute, pub lish, sell, or print, prohibited periodicals. This with drawal is founded on Par. 94 of the constitution, which leaves to a law to dec de what press, political, or criminal offences shall not be tried by jury. It most, however, be regarded as the commencement of a series of such exceptions, which, from the loose wording of the clause in the constitution, may be car ried to any extent. I am assured that the law would have been mach severer, but for the opposition of the king himself, who is very favourably inclined towards the provin cial prees, the majority of which is very loyal and conservative. The official account has just been published of a frightful accident which happened on the 2nd inst. at a place called slewe, not far from Marienwerder, in Eastern Prosaic. It appears that a body of pilgrims, in number about 200, proceeding to a religions cere mony at Lonk, were crossing the Weichsel at Mewe, in the ferry-boat, which suddenly upset, and upwards of 100 unfortunate beings were drowned. The cause of the accident was a leak in the upper timbers of the fore-part of the boat, which only showed itself in consequence of the heavy load depressing the beat below the usual water line. The appearance of the water created a sudden panic in the pilgrims, who all rushed to the stern-poet, causing it to sink below the surface, and the water to rush in and fill the boat, which instantly turned over. Had the un fortunate people remained quietly seated no danger wou'Al have been incurred, for the leak was but trifling. Only fifty bodies had been recovered on the evening of the sth. P.S.—While closing my letter, I learn that the Nattonal and Abendpost have both been suppressed thie evening. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The attempt on the part of the Duchies to conclude a peace by means of direct negotiations, has failed; the Danes having obstinately refused to treat on the basis proposed by the three men of confidence, notwith standing that it had received the sanction of the Russian Ambassador, Count 3leyendortf. As this is evidently the last attempt by the duchies to negotiate a peace, a few words of explanation are desirable. The men of confidence who proceeded to Copenhagen were not appointed or entrusted with any mission by the Statthalterschaft, bat were elected by a portion of their fellow countrymen, and were to endeavour to conclude a peace. Since their arrival in Copenhagen they have made several proposals, all of which have been rejected. The last, which must be considered as the final one, since they have already left Copen hagen, was a proposal drawn up by Count Reventlow, and submitted by him to Count Meyendorff, the Rus sian ambassador at Berlin, whose sanction it received. The terms of this proposal were that Schleswig and Holstein should receive a common viceroy, but sepa rate chiefs of departments, with separate administra tion, both to be chosen by the King of Denmark from a list of names to be proposed by the present Statt halterschaft ; that a landesversammlung should be elected in each duchy, on the basis of a law to be agreed upon by the king and the present Statthal terschaft ; that the Schleswig Holstein army should be reduced to the strength of its federal coatiugent; and that this provisorium should continue in force until all the questions in dispute were settled, includ ing the right of succession. The Statthalterschaft disapproved of the terms of this proposal, but ex pressed its readiness to lay it before the landesver sammlang, that the representatives of the people might decide, provided it came from the side of the Danes. The Danish government has, however, re fused to listen to the plan, and, as has been already stated, the men of confidence have left Copenhagen. It is stated that the mulish obstinacy of the Danish government on this question has been much increased ' by the tone assumed by our ambassador in Copen hagen. Sir Henry W. Wynn is said to have assured the Danish government of the countenance and support of Lord Palmerston. The nego tiati?ns between the Danish and human plenipotentiaries have remained pretty much in the same position they were after the rejection of the simple peace by the Danes. In the duchies the in habitants expect the revival of hostilities and anxiously hope that they may be commenced by the Danes. On several recent occasions the inhabitants of Kiel have been excited by the appearance cif their port of several Danish men-of-war. On the sth last. they were again disturbed by the approach of one line-of-battle ship, two frigates, and throe large steamers. FRANCE. PAWS, 1110XDAT ETINING. Omit sensation Lee been produced by the para graph in the Consliertioisisol, which I sent yon yes y; and most of the papers contain articles con demning the tone of menace in which a conflict between the President and the Assembly is pointed oat es the mosesery consegasamo of a refusal on the part of the latter to vote the flotation M. Bets, the candidate of the party of order, has been elected a member of the Council-Genand of the Basses Alps by a majority of 1,196 votes to 326 given to the Socialist candidate. The President of the Republic, in the uniform of a Claiof the National Guard, left the Myst* Fester ming, about nine o'clock, in as open derri, for the Na Railway. He was nemmpnaied the Ministers of War and of Comsarres, and two or derly officers, sad wee escorted by a body of Lanese& A special train was waiting to carry him to Saint Qttentin, for the inaaguratim of the railway from that place to CreiL The President was to pass the night at St. Quentin; and he intended to leave at half-peat 10 this morning for Ls Per,, where he was to pees the national guards in review, to visit the arsenal, &o. He wee afterwards to proceed to Chaim, to review the national guards, and at half-past four was to set out for Paris. The speeches and toasts delivered at the bonnet of St. Quentin will only appear in the papers of this evening. There is no importance in them, as the spesebes are manly funnel. But one demonstration of mach significance in the streets of St. Quentin must not be omitted. A large crowd cried " Vise la Republique Demooratique et Bociale r Another crowd got up the opposition cry of " Vive PEmpe reur r This is really the only event of importance which has marked the progress of the President. The Legislative Assembly was occupied today with discussing the first article of the bill for establish ing mines do retraite, or retiring funds, in favour of the working claws. No vote was arrived at, and the debate was devoid of interest. On the other hand the appointment of M. do Mor nay as president of the committee on the Dotation Bill is a fact of much importance, as M. de Mornay made a speech in strong opposition to the bill when dis cussed in the bureaux. The commissioners already appointed on the Re cruitment Bill are Gen. Lamone•ere Gen. Bodeen, Gen. Cbasgarnier, Berryer, Ad m i ra l Cecile, Gen. Oudicot, and M. Thiers. The remaining eight ap pointed to-day are : MM. Ayme, Bocher, Prosper de Chaneloup-Lsubet, de Cronstilhes, Darn, (Milos Barrot, Pliny, Gen. de St. Priest. You will perceive the absence of Gen. Cavaignac's name from this list. Lamoriciere was only elected through his wife's in. fleerce in the Faubourg St. Germain. M. Thiers set out yesterday for London, accompa nied by his wife and Mdme. Doses. In order to guard against uncharitable emstructions as to the motives of his journey, M. Thiers had an interview with the President before his departure. He did not, it is said, disguise his intention of visiting the ex king, but represented this step as a duty which he owed to his old master, whose life was fast ebbing under the progress of a fatal disease. Lcus Philippe is said to be dying of cancer in the stomach, and his physicians state that his life can scarcely last a month longer. AU Paris is occupied to-dity with the singular revelations contained in a letter published by the Sleek. You may remember that M. Rigel, a member of the Left, moved not long ago for some statistical document, connected with the working of the Elec toral Lsw. M. Itigal having oompletei a report, founded on these papers, whereby he made it appear that the re sult of the new law would be to cut off six millions of electors from the exercise of the suffrage, applied for an audience with the President of the Republic, in order to submit to him the argamenta by which he arrived at this conclusion. The law had been already voted by the Chamber when the interview was soli cited ; and when it was granted, the term of three days allowed to the President for deciding on a fresh deliberation having expired, the law appeared pro mulgated with all due form in the Moniteur. M. Rigel, albeit a day too late for suspending the blow dealt on universal suffrage, nevertheless repaired to the Elyse' at the hour appointed. Toe circumstances of his interview having been incorrectly represented by the Stick, he has written a letter to that paper, communicating the most minute details of his con versation with the President. A fact of the greatest importance results from this disclosure. The Presi dent is proved to have laboured under the delusion that the new law was not applicable to presidential elections, and to have imagined that the chief magis trate of the republic would be chosen according to the special law passed by the Constituent Assembly, by which his own election was determined. This confession is so carious that I give M. Rigors own words Having explained my petition with respect to the Presi dent, informing him that I bad not voted for his election, I entered on the question of figures. The President livened with great interest. I proved to him (permit me to say so) that universal suffrage will undergo • reduclon of six mil lions of electors, and I added—" Thet is just the number of votes which msde you President of the Republic." The answer was—" The bill promulgated yesterday is special for the nomination of representatives. The President of the Republio will be elected in virtue of the special law made by the Constituent Assembly for that case.' I did not conceal my astonishment at such a doctrine, and added : " But sup posing that it was legally possible to resuscitate for a great day universal suffrage, is it net to be supposed that the peo ple would have but little sympathy for the magistrate in presence of whom, if not by whom, it saw itself deprived of the right to name its representatives;?" " That touches on a personal question. Whether it is lor any one else, is ne matter. ins election of the President of the Republic is not not regulated by the new law." What can lie assigned as the source of such a sin gular misapprehension? It is impossible that Louis Napoleon should not have consulted his ministers on this point. Were the answers he received such as to lead him into error? If so, one can hardly conceive a more serious case of ministerial responsibility. The 116th article of the constitution settles that the first election of the President shall take place according to the law of Oct. 28, 1848. The organic electoral law not having been at that time framed, it was indispen sable to proceed by a special law. The transitory character of the special law appears clearly from its first article, which mentions the date Dec. 10, 1848, when the law is to be applied. Besides, in the Elec toral Law of March there are several articles men tioning expressly the mode of its application to the election of the President of the Republic. These are so distinct that unless we had the asseveration under the hand and seal of M. Rigel, it would be difficult to conceive how the President should have become im pressed with so gross an error. It is expected that some interpellations will be addressed to the govern ment on this subject. The Journal des Dibate declares this morning that the speedy revision of the constitution is indispensable, and ought to be made in the intention of establishing a conservative republic. Abd-el-Kader is labouring under a serious attack of Ulnae, and a consultation hu been held upon his case at the Castle of Amboise. The English fishing.boats, the Wonder and the Hunt, were seized and taken into Havre two days by the government cutter the Myrmidon, for fishing for oysters in the part of the coast proh►bited to Eng lish fishermen. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. - - We have received Cape Thwn journal' to April 13, one week later than previous advises. They contain nothing of importance. A requisition was lying for signature at the Town house, to call a public meeting on the 23rd, to take into consideration the propriety of addressing petitions t o the Queen and both Houses of Parliament, for granting to this colony a representative legislature. H.M. ships Seringspatam and Geyser were in Simon's Bay. CANADA. TORONTO, C. W., MAY 23.—The motion for an elective Larislative Council has been negatived is the Assembly by a large majority. The vote stood as follows: thirteen for, and fifty against the ohange. Ale' i