The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

gilt Oriaveoo. OUTGOING MAILS. The West India Mails. ipzelogieu Berensle, liaseuesh. Beeses, Brolons, New Walk u 4 Maine. sad inducting mese kr Kaiaks, Bt. .1 ma•tle-Nieszema, New Ormsda, Chlli. end Yen, erlll be asleep Materrow. Jea. 17. The meth for Lisboa, Nola. sod Gibraltar will be awls up temeetew, lea. 17. The safe he Gibraltar, Mahe, Grace, the balm blew* Belk Cirylea, India, sod CM.., vie fleuthasapteo, will aolle op ea the @venire of Jae. 19. The moils iri4 Moraines, to the larditerresses, Zoe, Cellos, luta, liciag-Hoog, M., will be sada op.. the mesas of Jeo. 24 . TM two& fa British North Amnia sad the Muted Bata will be male up es the swain el Jaa. TM sells for Illaderia, the Barns. mil Boma Apres,will M =Me up m the eversies el I.li. 4. ■iOI WATWII AT WIND OM NUM& l Mw.—r te mlef. I/. Me. Moira. 4b.11 a. r-4141004, MA 5i0.....--Atanaga. 4IA 4IIA LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16. A CAPITAL dodge, certainly, that of Russia, at the present time of day, coming into the London Ex change to beg for five millions sterling to complete a railroad. Tae Russian goverment has been hoirrow log and adding to its debt year alter year, with the exception of 1839 and 1840; the pause of augmenta tion in these years being fully made up by increased progress since. In 1842, however, it presented a more decent excuse for raising money, and demanded some fifty millions of rottees to commence the railroad between Moscow and Bt. Petersburg. The cost was estimated at about 20 millions sterling. It is, however, a goverameat affair altogtther. And that the millions raised from time to time by the house of STITCLITZ to com plete this railr oad m are devoted to the end pro poied is surely not believed by any JUD.SCS APZLLA amongst us. It is curious indea to perceive how directly the wants of the railroad correspond with the political necessities of the state, and how inevitable it is, teat alter the exhaustion of a cam p ago, the financial pump is applied on the Dutch and English markets to supply the emptiness of what tae oallel the tairoal cJffers, but what are really nothing else than that proverbial sieve, the Russian military chest. Nothing can demonstrate more strongly the utter disproportion of Russian efforts and ambition to Russian means than the poverty and the collapse that betels that government after every, even the least effort. Notwiths ending the sedulous puffing of its agents as to its chests of bullion in imperial cellars, its productive lII , IIV, its loans to France, and prof fered loan to Austria, nevertheless we find that it is totally unable to put ore of its huge limbs or armies in motion, wi tout straight falling down exheustid, and recurring to Western Europe for some of those pecuniary sin-we, which alone can move 'espies, even of Cossacks, in these days. Powerful for defence, Russia is evidently powerless for offence, unless the exchanges or governments of the west supply her with the mean,. And certainly the readiness of the western capitalists to do this exists amongst the most preposterous acts of suicide, of which a civilised aid wealthy community could be guilty. If there be one thing more certain than another, it is that the advance of the Russians to the Bosphorus would be the signal for an European war; and yet the pacific capitalist is called to facilitate this move ment, and to pay for every warlike step that Russian ambition and intermeddliog chucse to make beyond tilt Carpathians sod the Danube. Under the pre tence of crushing democracy, Russia has pattly sub dued, partly attached to her, the agricultural popula lation of - Hungary, proectibing its independent aristocracy. Tee success, porch:tsei by gold, required to feel Russian soldiers in their march, and an Hun garian renegade in his treachery, is now to be paid for. Hungary cannot pay—Austria will not. Its generals are cramming into their own greedy maws the fruits of wholesale confiscation. but what no people in Europe are fools enoneh, or vie enough, to do, is now oemanded of the English capitalist. The hard-earned airings of the industrious and liberal Englishman are now to go to pay the oppressors of Hungary, and t he butchers others ins, the worse time batchers.For the Russian officers in Hungary acted as decoys to entice by false promises the generals of KOSOCTII to surren der; after which all who were aot participators of Gare n ev's treason, were banded over to the Austrian exe cutioner. In our paper of Monday was published a I heir( but graphic le ter, describing how the children bad mother of Kossves were treated, placed purposely in a pestiferous larepital, in order that cheese mi tht do whet state asmerins shrink from. The same pen pourtrajed the public sale of the last sends of clothing, snatched from the bodies of thee* wleows, woo survived their husbands executions at Arad. Ruch intamous, and minute, and sanguinary barbarians—these slaughters of the brave, followed up by the persecatioes, the flogging, the str p ui g, and tee tonal flog of helpless women teed chil dren—these barbarism., far beyond the imagination of the novelist to invent, were the result prepense of the late Russian military invasion. It cost money it seems, which the property of the nation has no'. sufficed to pay. And Englishmen are called to supply the deficit. At any otter time the Czar and his agents would not have dared to affront English disgust. Bat thee is at present such a pletbory of money, so discredited and uncertain seem. every mcde of investment and proposal of speculation, that it is hoped that even Esgli-bmen will not object to make from 41 to 6 per cent. on funds advanced for blood-money. We do not pretend that we have any right to do more than to diaauace to the utmost of our power the outlay of English money in such were. Such loans as these, however, made by individuals, are national acts, bespeak a tational recklessness, and may bring down a national curse. The time is at hand. if it be not already piewent, when it is of great import ance that wealth and its uoeseesors should show them selves to be influenced by high and moral motives, as well as interested ones. Ttere are dan gerous theorists in all parts of Europe who exclaim against wealth as monopoly end injustice. But the foulest diatribes against the capitalist acquire weight, when they can add with truth that it is immoral, that it is indifferent to public or to private worth, and that it is more ready to seek per centsge from the blood money of the eles?ot than in the charitable employment of the citizen. We are by no means bitten by any antagonism or hatted to Russia or the Russian,. What would contribute to their material progress and civilisa tion, each as • bona fiels railroad, we would willingly abet. But to throw money into the gulph of her military expenditure, is to retard, not advance, her civilisation. What English interests, and the interests of the world demand, is the civilisation of Russia, the emancipation of her setts, the applica tion of what wealth she can scrape together to her soil sad to its population, so as to convert military and naval rivalry into commercial interchange. But to feed, or help to feed, her half million of oldies., employed in crushing Hungary, in eating up the produce and the remaining independence of the Danubian provinces—to aid Russia in the absorption of the whole Belavo nian race, and the necessary subjection of Tin key— that is merely asking English capitalists, for pewee .t gain, to sell, and barter away, every principle and every hope, morel or material, that Euglishmen should observe and cherish. Trig opposition_ given to the mimeo of eccielast;cal reform, propounded, at a peblic meeting on the 10th, for the adoption or rejection of the city of Men •h. li ter by its churchwardens, we, very chars. tensile. For. once again, a handful of discredited chartists and of disappainted tones unit. dto disturb p.pular unaw mity. The days, however, when any such unnatural combination can do eny serious mischief , have, hap. pas, long gone by. So the malicious and insiceere hostility of these worthies only served to rill for. they r otblic eupport in favour of the C'dirch wardess' Bill. But, though the opposition of the chart'sts and the tones on that oecasion is unworthy of any notice, two statements were 'hen made by the ehurchwer• dens thsmaelvea which call for remark. The find it, that, to conciliate the support of the B.ehop of NIAN OIL:4ER, they have consented there ul.ult be two ca nons of what is now called the c.thedrel, but what is truthfully only the parish church of their city, with out any cure of sins. The second is, that thy forms of parliament prevent the introenetiou of clauses into the bill to vest the property of the rectory of Man chester in local trustees. Both these statements, in our opinion, involve clauses in the scutino much lor ti 11 , *, 1; • 4 I I It VIE EXPRESS, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1850. the worse; though for neither are the rescsible. Bishop of Msxcniterza. hos , by arossatiung tbst cries of soots shall be attaehed to Zhu Damery and two of the Canuries of Manchester, admitted the principle of the Chsidgfed rati l .iti 1.5 neaforin return for parochial income. With what consistency duty in can Dr. Las then impose such duty on three of these dignitaries," and relieve other tae from all duty f This palpable inconsistency is, however, only another proof of how hopeless it is to expect any plan of thorough eccle siastics' reform from episeoyil bands. Here was • measure prepared by tch he urch laity of Man chester foe the conversion of an indecent aide siestical abuse into a scheme of church improvement and assfuloess ; and, as the price of their Bishop'' &t -sent to any part of their plan. they are comp elled, much against their inclination, to leave a job in the measure. The church laity of Manchester desire, above all things, the abolition of ecclesiastical sine cures in that city ; the Bishop of MAN CHESTER insists on the retention of two ecclesiastical obscures : both to be in his gift. The contrast is not a pleasant one. It pro ' yokes the thought that Manchester would, after all, have been much better without a bishop than with one: for while the churchwardens are propping up the church therein with what Sir J. GRAHAM exile buttresses," Dr. Lea appears bent only on " orna menting" the tottering fabric. There is little real wisdom, and rot much worldly discretion in this. It remains, however, to be si en whether parliament will tolerate the sinecures the Bishop of MANCHESTER is resolved to perpetuate. Church " dignitaries are, as such, the most useless of all human beings. They are almost invariably plu ralists, generally slothful, always overpaid ecclesiastics. Let us, par exam Ale, take ear old friends the dean and chapter of and see what they do for their money; for that is th e 2toohester, only true test of the value of such personages and such offices. As "digni taries," they hare not, of course, any cure of souls : that is beneath their dignity : al l they have to do is ' to reside two months in the year in their cathedral houses , and preach occasionally in their cath edral cruses,. The return they give to the church for the fine incomes the church gives them is, therefore, ser mons—be those discourses good or bad, edifying or somnolent. To find out their worth, their incomes must then be divided by the number of sermon. they annually preach. Taking the year 1849 as an ave rage specimen of cathedral duty, the fallowing is the result of such a division in the case of the dean and five canons of Rochester Cathedral: Mr. Dean preached 21 genuine, at £66 13 4 a sermon. Canon lniaa , 15 „ 62 0 0 „ Canon nankin; 16 „ 42 10 0 „ Canon Griffith+ 13 ~ 52 6 0 „ Canon Ling „ 10 ~ 68 0 0 „ Canon 'Lochs= 0 „ 6130 0 0 , This is what cathedral " dignitaryisin" is worth at Rochester. And it is something similar to this, that the Bishop of MaxcuasTEn sate to lerpetuate on a smaller scale in his city. For, the churchwardens scheme fully provides for all parochial duty in the cathedral church ; yet the bishop insists that two of the canons shall not, u such, have aught to do elsewhere. Go to what episcopal city you will, tbereyou will find the bishops surrounded, and paused by, cLuith sinecorists; and Dr. LEE appears determined that he snail be no exception to the general rule. More's the pity. Alas when will the Church of England ever be blessed by a real bishop ? Never, we are persuaded, until their huge incomes be reduced, and their seats ier parliament be taken from them. The original scheme of the churchwardens proposal to yea the large property of the church in Manchester in local trustees, whcse duty it would have been to have improved Its value. But this important part of their plan must, it is found, be abandoned. And why ? &cause, in parliamentary parlance, the bill as said to bee " private bill ;" and the legislature requires cer tain lengthened notices to be given to all persons whose property may, by any remote possibility, be affected by " private " legislaticn ; and, in this case, the re quved notices have not been given to the rectory lessees. Now, to call a measure fur the reform of the cnnrch in Manchester, and consequently for the promotion of religion and piety therein " a private bill " is simply an abuse of language; for it is a measure touching public interests and public concerns altogether. let, under the present parlia =ovary system, it will have to be promoted with much the eame legal machinery and staff as that with which a Chancery suit is carried ern Solicitors and counsel ; lawyers bills and barristers fees ; a private committee, long speeches, days of evidence, opposing counsel, and heavy parliamentary fees, are the means by which it is to be got through parlia ment; as if it were a railway extension bill, or an act to enable Lord GLENGALL to raise money on settled property. So that the churchwardens of Manchester, to enable them to promote a bill to reform the church in their city, have been obliged to ask for an " optional church rats" of twopence in tae pound. Now, surely there is something so manifestly irrational in treating this 'measure as a piece of private legitlation, that the glaring absurdity will at lost induce the House of Commons to lay down some more reasonable and less expensive rules of distinction between what really are I public though local, and what are manifestly private bilis. So much for the principal statements made at the meeting. Now for a few words on a point which was not referred to there. The dissenters of Manchester (to whom religion may he said to owe almost everything in that city, and who yet provide more than double the church accommodation that the establishment does) with great good taste and feeling have abstained from taking any part in the discussion of this matter. They have not offered, and, as we hear, do not intend to offer, any opposition to the Cburchwardens BilL Now their abstinence from any hostility, so creditable to them, renders it imperative on the promoters of the mea sure to take care that none of its details shall infringe on the rights which dissenters have, by their own spirit and determination, acquired in Manches ter, and that it gives them every security for the future maintenance of those rights. In Manchester, the dissenters have practically Fettled the church rate question by rendering a voluntary rate impossi ble, aed by defying the church to lay on a minority rate. Church rates in Manchester are now merely " optional ;" they are assessed by the churchwardens for the repairs of the parish church, and are paid by such only as please. Under tie system of compulsory church rates nearly 6,0001. a year was raised; but stone the "optional " system was introduced in 1835 the following have been the receipts: 1836 .. £1,157 2 10 1842 .. £l,llB 18 11 1836 .. 1,170 8 0 1843 .. 1,031 2 1 1837 .. 1,327 11 4 1844 .. 1,043 2 6 1838 .. 1,646 0 8 1845 .. 1,086 13 9 1839 .. 1,538 '2 6 1846 .. 1,098 1 6 1840 .. 1,421 5 0 1847 .. 1,051 13 11 1841 .. 1,3'29 1 3 1848 .. 828 210 From these figures it will be sees that the amount der iv d from "optional church-rates" is falling off in Manchester, paitly, no doubt, from the present churchwardens having thrown the support of the district churches on the district congregations, and consequently not requiring such large muds as their predecessors ; but partly also from the increasing dislike of church-rates in acy shape. This falling off has, very naturally, made some of the lead ing dissenters anxious on the subject; and they apprehend that the division of the parish may in some way or other lead to the ruvital of com pulsory church rates. Now, though we think that rip best security against any such consequence of the division is the superior power of the dissenters ia- Mancherer ; and that the Churchwardens Bill has ne such tendency,--indeed, it contemplates, and provides tor, at no distant period, the legal extension el church rates in Manchester—stilt we feel that It further security on this poiut can be given to the dis senters of Manchester, they are richly entitled to it : not only because of their services to religion. but from the handsome manner in which they have received the Churchwardens' Bill. LITERAST Goestr.—Dickens will start i weekly joarasl in Much, and tie Is: of thy, sass swath Magi's Jerroid will prodoos the first number of a new maintain*. A new sa knit publication is Min( organised, Kenn ) Meadows in to liI4W br it, and the lit. tary eA.tributor- are m . a. f moms •tsudina. The tile ileac!, upon is Paquin. The firs . number will spa' sr on the 18:h it st. Mr. Dangler i.m.,dy s mew nearly reedy fir tha aterti it . 4 1 be oridursti a• t''e lisymstk e , u , s- of 'testis's .-I,orsoos Currapondeta of the Manchester Examiner, A.FILLEUOLD LAND SOCIETY, after the Liverpool sr dtl, t n“w is wane a organicolos to Cokhister. A regUtet as beak •••ted. and o rt,he mooing wAI b. Ma FRANCE. Worium I SI FAL The chief news to give you is the Weir& keel 9th inst. the Chamber Deputies • . that on the Ul~the treaty Z.. Vtith Mattis bj- 17. General Schramm, who was sent to the College of La Flectie, in consequence of the recent °Mtwara there, has returned to Paris. It is said that the pupils of the two first divisions of the school have been expelled. The Five par Cents. went down on Saturday even ing in the Pantie de rOpera about 400. lower than they closed in the parquet during the day, being Awed at 93f. Mc. The reason of this decline was certain rumours which were afloat about a remark attributed by some of the journals to M. Fould, con cerning the Legislative Assembly having lost the esteem of the c sentry. Yesterday they somewhat re covered, closing at 94f. The Committee on the Budget on Saturdsy nomi nated M. Vitet its reporter for the Paris and Avignon Railway Bill. All the resolutions on the bill and on the Cahier des Charges have been come to, and the report will be ready to be presented to the Assembly by the end of the week. Its expected that the dis cussion will come on about the 24th inst. M. Guisot, it seems, is to be chosen in the Charente as candidate for the vacancy in the national represen tation. It will be curious to find in the same camp the two antagonists, M. Thiers and M. Guise% the former having joined the Orleanist Club of the Duke de Broglie and M. Piscatory. The President of the Rtpublic has issued a decree, admitting duty free ores of all kinds coming direct to France from Algeria in French vessels. The Sleek says:—" It is psitively stated that Car dinal Dupont, Archbishop of Bourgcs, has left for Italy on an extraordi lary mission in the name of the whole of the French episcopacy, to accompany the Pope on his return to Rome." Tree Archbishop of Paris has just addressed to his clergy a pastoral letter accompanying three ordon nuns relating to ecclesiastical matters. The first establishes for five years severe examinations foe young priests on th.e principal polite of ecclesiastical knowledge; the second prescribes certain m.difies dons in the diocesan conferer coo established at Paris by his predecessor ; and the third orders for the dio cese of Paris conferences for the examination of cane of conscience, as is pructised at Rome. They are to be held every two months, under the presidentship of the archbishop, and are to be composed of all the priests of the diocese. The first of thin conferences is fixed for February 8, and is to be held in the Church of the Madeleine. Intelligence from Route his been received, dated the 6.h instant. It was known that the Pope had re ceived the diplomatic corps, who expressed in a body their desire that he should return to Rome. The Pope thanked the ambassadors of the European powers for what they had done, and expressed his intention of returning to Rome in their company. This long expected step will, therefore, take place snortly. Before the commencement of the debate on the law on public instruction, M Base, reporter of the initia tive parliamentary commission, presented a summary of the deliberations of that committee on two proposi tions presented in favour of the augmentation of the pay of the non-commitsioned officers of the army. These propositions, which emanated originally from Messrs. Charras, S ubervic, Faure, Rasped, and other members, are deemed by the committee as nothin.; more teem amendments to the law presented by the Minister of War, tending to an augmentation of pay to the amount of 20 centimes per diem each in favour cf the non-commissioned cfficers. The initiative commission propose, in consequence, to the Assembly to infer the prect to the commission under the pre sidency of M. 0 . Barret for its report ; which was agreed to. The Assembly then proceeded to the order of the day on the question of public instruction, amidst marks of unusual attention. M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, commenced by de claring that he was a sincere partisan of the freedom of wince but upon mature consideration he thought nevertheless that the convenience of the father of a family should be subordinate to the nem esities of the state. The right cf the state should be superior to that of the family. The right superior to all others was the right of NocietT. I laving thus stated the principles which should guide the law, M. St. Hilaire said that he should proceed to consider the question of education from the two prints of view —the political and the scholastic. With reg .rd to the scholastic question, he thought the caesiderations were less numerous, and its importance also of less weight, and he would therefore commence with it. M. St. Hilaire then entered into a minute exonira tion of the dispaitions of the project ot law, which regulates the cons header, and the attributes of the Supreme Council of Instruction sit ting at Paris, and of the academic councils which ought to be established in each department. He foupd the organisation of the Supreme Council to be vicious, in Me sense that it gave no little authority to the particular individuals who form a part of the permanent section, and too much to the ma gistrates, the functionaries, and other members who had never directly participated in pub lic instruction. In the amdemic councils of the departments the same vice existed. Of the 10 mem bers who compered each of the council; one only, the rector, was fit for the purpose ; all the rest were strangers to the body ot teachers. M. St. Hilaire could not comprehend why those individuals who ought to enjoy the confidence of the state were to be dispossessed of all influence in fa vour of men, taken from all sides, who were better qualified to represent the interests of society. 'the hon. deputy then touched upon the difficulty which would arise from the introduction of a Jewish mem ber either in the superior or in the academic councils, and alluded to the resignation about to be given in by all the members of the central Jewish Commission sitting at Paris on the occasion of a difficulty which had arisen in La Vendee between a Jewish professor, M. Cohen, and the bishop of the department. ( Inte rruption.) M. Le Parieu demanded permission of the assembly to say a word on the incident mentioned by the orator. (Speak, speak.) I declare then that the re signation of the central Jewish Commission has sot been occasioned by any motive which refers to the law of instruction under discussion. M. B. St. Hilaire continued. He did not know whether the professor to whom he had alluded had been compelled to quit hie college for a cause foreign to that which he (M. St. Hilaire) had indicated, bat it was certain that there had been underhand dealings in the bosom of the academic councils. (Interruption from the ministerial benches.) If the Minister of Public Instruction wished to make any observations he (M. St. Hilaire) would leave the tribune. Our reporter's despatch was necessarily closed be fore the conclusion of the debate. At the time of going to preen our Paris parcels of yesterday had not arrived. A telegraphic despatch from our Penis corres pondent, dated Paris, Tuesday, 8 p.m., informs us that it was positively stated that in addition to the loan of 150 millions which the Emperor of Russia is nego tiatiog, the Czar has given orders to the hoods of Turoeyeen, in Paris, to sell the two millions sterling of stock that he has in the French funds. Six millions of the Roman loan have been subscribed. Cloang prices of the Bourse on Jan. 16:—live per Cent. Witte', 94.301 Three per Cents., 37.76. Bank of France, 2380. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.— A general court of sewers wen appointed to be held yesterday, at the eines, I, Greater:int. Soho, for the purpme of mak ing a district **wets rate, on the Ranslaah district. The time adverti►ed in the notice convening the awing was 12 o'clock, but at that hour only three con missionen were re. sent although six an required to constitute a nwirum. Up wards of half en hour having elapsed, miming. r. were sent to the rendition of various cemmiasionen, reminding them of the business they were called lip m to transact, nod within a few minutes of 1 o'cl ek two other gentlemen arrived, thus incensing the number to five. The reporters (who had been kept standing for nearly an hour on the atone osteircaise, outside the court-room) were then &omitted, sand Mr. Hawes was voted into the chair, the oat. r com missioners present being Captain 'Vetch, Illr.Lawes, Captain Dawsoo, and Mr. Hardwick. Aim. wailing until the cluck 'truck two, in the hope that a *irk corontiaoion , r ns;ght yes make hie appearance, the chairman anaounred the object for which they Were assembled, aad and he believed that t•.e reason there were so many gentlenent rho nt was that the notices calling the court had only been sent out on toe pre teens, day. 11.. very midi regretted that tl is had been .he ease, and as their number was insufficient to enable them to proceed to business., he must adjourn the court—The en"' we. aooorufalilY adjourned, until Friday ne;t at 12 o'clock. arra. la the framing of en& a law is not claimed zr.of the chambers. 14 'and 15 accepted. The will not come cm in the chambers before, a late day in next week. The declaration of the Thmlochs Reform, mentioned in my letter of yesterday, that the ministry will stand or fall by the propositions of the crown, is con firmed by a private letter of M. Manteuffel to a deputy. BERLIN, Lax. 13. In the tail-piece to the revised constitution pro poaed by the king, five articles alone are likely to rase any discussion in the Chambers. These are : The extension of press restrictions; the power to create new entails; the abolition of ministerial re sponsibility ; the peerage; and the erection of a spe cial tribunal for the trial of political offences without jury. Of these the first curbs thought; the sewed binds properly ; the third converts the constitutional king into an arbitrary despot, and degrades the pea pie's statesman to the kitg's valet; the fourth pulls down merit to exalt an heir, and cliea's the people out of valuable services to bestow influence on . here ditary incapacity ; the fifth is a star chamber. The . committee of the First Chamber has accepted the two first propositions, rejected the third, not Ceeided on the fourth, and rejected the fifth. The Chambers would probably act as this committee has done as far as the propositions them selves are concerned; but it has been noticed that when either hens. has in • fit of indignant virtue parried an 'sunk on a constitutional principle, the next day is marked by a weeknees which looks like treachery, and the same motion clothed in the form of an amendment is allowed to pus. Thus was it with the control over taxation by the Second Chamber. Therefore it is probable that at first a peat show of resistance will be made, and that the main principle. of the changes propoeed will return afterwards, dis guised in a new dress, and be thankfully accepted. It has been given out that if they are not accepted " ministers will resign," but the alternative ought to be added—" or the Lhamber dissolved." Meanwhile, on the 26th of February, the First Chamber will die a natural death, its commission then expi, lug. The committee of the Second Chamber will limit its deci sion to an unqualified acceptance or rejection of the propositions, while the committee of the First Cham ber makes advances towards an understanding with the crown. Camphausen returned to Berlin yester day, and took part in the discussion of the committee of the First Chamber. Von der Heydt called upon the members of the committee to show their patriot ism by exhibiting the same spirit of self-sacrifice as the ministers, and admitting the demands of his ma je,ty. This was thought carrying the usual ministerial cant beyond the bounds of decency, and Von der Heydt was reminded that his conception of the nature of patiotistn was not quite just. The Cel vie Gazette says, in a telegraphic despatch from Berlin, that the committee of the tit cond Chatnise has rejected Par. 10, respecting the creation of the haute tour ; also Par. 13, respecting the validity of the ordinances; bat has accepted, Pars. 11 and 12; the former refers to the judicial prosecu tion of officials, and the latter coo tams the opening sentence to l'ar. 105. A second edition of the same journal contains ano ther telegraphic message from Berlin, on te.e evening of Mond..y. A compromise between the Chambers and the mi nistry .s regarded as highly probable The committee of the Upper Chamber have deeded upon moving the rejection of Pats. 9, 10, std 13 (re spectirg the S cond Chamber, the special political law courts, and the validity of ministerial ordivaneee), and the adoption of Pars. 11 and 12 (resit( eing the prosecution of officials end the opening ecuteedes of the parochial laws). VIENNA, JAN. 8. The year has begun with an inundation of ordi nances. On the 3rd there appeared a fit arc:el state ment from M. Krause. Some tit xterty is exhtb ted in draping the ragged state of the Exchequer, and the most is made of the reduction of t: - .e army proosised in the Emperor's proclamation on New Year'a day. Unfortuuately the public is equally incredulous with regard to the accounts given of the past, and the eeo nomies promised for the future. A man who gravely assumed the ti.ores for genuine would be laughed us Napoleon's bulletins were made to produce a moral effect; and so are the accounts of M. Krauss. The cramps of the money-market have been alighey re lieved by this narcotic; the Fire per Cents. fur the moment have ceased to fall, and Foreign Each - nage to rise. Frequent allusions are made to the Reichstag, and it would stem as if the Fi nance Minister were desirous cf distirgninh ing himself from his enileeenes by displaying his veneration for constitutional forms. On the 4th I.llowed the ger.eral ordinance concerning the orga nisation of tl.e provincial Landtags : on the 5:11 th, organisetion of the Landtag of Lswer Austria coun tersigned by all the minieters. The effect pneiueei on the public mind by these decrees has been irrita ting in the extreme. I shall recur to this impertant subject in a future letter: in the meantime, let me direct your attention on some of the electoral prim stone. The candidates are only allowed to address the voters front the hustings during the two first hours; so that should there be eight candidates, which is possible, each will be allowed 15 minutes to sit forth pis political views to the constituency. The Landtag is to be called in the November of every year: wherehy the convecstion of the Reichstag, the composition of whose upper house depends on the Landtags, is put off at least till the year 1851, a piece of information which for the rest had previously tonnd its way into the columns of the Lloyd. Dr. Bach has earned for himself, by bis lion's share in this perfidy, an additional lead of unpopularity. In Croatia, Styria, Sclavonia, and Syrmia the dis turbances assume daily a more menacing character. Even the ministerial Reicli.neitittsy dares no longer to deny the truth, and publishes an article (which I inclose), sufficiently indicating the greatness of the danger. The rebellious Mete of the country in this article is ascribed to the manifesto of 1)r. Palseky. which is stated to have fallen like a stroke of lightning on the South S:lavonians. It is possible that the Czech leader's voice may have contributed to sustain the impulse towards a more unshackled nationality ; but long before his celebrated letter appeared the news from the Lower Danube was not less alarming. Important intelligence may be soon expected from this quarter. To-day the weightiest matter I have to communi cate is, that we are on the eve of a change of ministry in a sense still more reactionary. Prince Windisch glitz is expected on the 1 i th. He comes, I under stand, from his retirement to assume a leading position in politics. He must now be enunted as the man on whom the court depend for carrying out their schemes of absolutism. It is highly probable that he will be minister of war and president of the council. The position of &timer zet.berg is considered as no longer tenable, even by the court party, from the blundering policy he has adopted on the German question. The rumour which was general during the last days of the old year, that the Austrian troops had entered Salley, seems to have been not wholly devoid of foundation. In feet, the order was given to the commander of the Bohe mian corps (Formic to occupy that kingdom, and was imparted to the Prussian ambassador, Count Berns tort. The latter protested, and observed that in case of such an intervention a Pruden army would also enter Saxony, as the Saxon government had not applied for Austrian assistance. In oonerqueuee of this emphatic and unexpected deciarsoio t, a telt gra ehic despatch was sent to the Archduke Albert to countermand the movement. On the last day of the year a soldie r was con demned to 'run the gauntlet. His comrades turned out, as commanded, but when he ran thiou:h the lines not an arm was uplifted to strike bum. I lx-. sieve they thrash offenders in this way with their crosshelte. This was aby no means uninteresting in cident to close the first halt of the 19th century with; and is, I understand, the first instance ever known of ouch a demmistration of manly dihnity ott th part of the common soldiers. They disdained the function of executioner imposed upon them by officers less civilised than themselves. This unanimous and silent protest on the part of the men agaiest a both roue mode of punishment, and rejection of the base 'chance hod on them to become instruments ef torture, has s mething about it well worthy of attention. Tne top of society in our days must be taught by the bottom. Awearmsg.—We understand that Vte government in spector is expwv.ed on ttondisy, to gn over the p irtinn of the main line betwixt Limpet !dill and P.irtleth.n ' and the nom completed hell of the Mantras branch. Both, Rd bt lieve, will h e °Pee° for Passaprr traffic in a feW thereafter. —.Vomit as Review, GERMANY. Oar cenvmpredeub at Balk and Vienna write u follows: BERLIN, JAIL 11. ruirre attal... l r ' t!!!!!`t4ey to the reception which' the Chambers are likely to give to the ministerial measures. Various rumours are afloat on the subject ; I hear that seven], portions of the opposition, who have held prints meetings, have determined on op g the proposed alteration,. I learn a most excellent source that the mode este Left in the upper chamber, at the head of which are Dahlman and Baumetark, will not support the ministry. I am told that the Left in VI. second chamber will pursue a similar course. Beckerath is said to have declared against every further concession to the government, and to have remarked at the time, "if we support these pro posals we should deserve to be spit upon. In the upper chamber the Dahlman Baumstark party approach pretty closely to the oentrom ; but in the second chamber all must depend on the amount of sup- port which the Beckerath &rams party can obtain from the centre with its supporters on the Right. For this purpose a meeting of the two parties takes place this evening, at which the liberal party hope to come off victorious; Ina I know that Simeon has expressed himself very confident as to the result. Recollecung the rather astonishing fact that the ministry the other day publicly voted in the upper chamber against the creation of a purist and that it suddenly now makes a proposal itself to that effect, the Deutsche Reform endeavours to explain the remark able inconsequence in the following manner : We can imagine that the ministry were powerfully in fluenced by the following view of the ease previous to the salt being taken to the constitution. Foe two years Pius ,is has been preserved from destruction only by retnnete Malan (aeries deeds), the strict legality of which cannot be maintained. As soon as the constitution shall have been sworn ta, such "reflood+, Marine can only be dose by ' breaking the most solemn oaths. The night, then. for., appertains to the crown to ask itself, previous to taking the oath, whether the constitution to be adopted really affords the confidence of en regular a development that the then illegal " rett•nefir Mates" shall no longer be nrceassry. If then that power in the state upon whom, next to the crown, this confidence must principally devolve in a constihrional state—if the first chamber—has not been definitively estob. lashed. must it not be considered the duty of a couseientious wearer of the crown to peril all in order to obtain this gua rantee before swearing to the constitution ? The ministry has dearly considered the matter in this light, and it is willing in faithful devotion to the crown, in whom strength sad authority it sere the principal support of public prosperity, to peril its existence for that great and serious consideration. Let the chamber consider what the country pnm'sses in a Brandenburg ministry, and what will be the consequences of its Temptation. The chambers ere tree to give a more or lam serious consideration to this point of the ewe, and to permit it to exercise a greater or less it ilium in their de. c lions. We tat them again, the ministry stand/ or falls with tAe message of the 7tA January. In order that proper weight may be given to this article, I must add that the following sentence in italics, " the Brandenburg ministry stands or falls witn the royal message, h is more than a mere threat. I know from the best soured that if the proposals of the government are rejected by the chamber., the ministry less decided before hand on resigning, and that the King . has promis,d to accept their resignation. This is the I view entertained by the bourse here ; for after the lands had risen in cons"quence of the royal mesear, they became very dull, and now threaten a fall, fears being entertained of a charge of ministry and its consequences. The most imp rtant question in the royal meessge is the influence which it will have upon the German question. In this respect I think I cannot be mistaken when I flay that it gives the deathblow to the "Three Kings' League." It the Chambers approve of the principal points in the demands made by the crown, it will hardly be possible to find a German state which would not be too ashamed of so dishonourable a government and so dishonourable a representative of the people to con tinue to act in union with it. If the Chambers reject the propositions, they will doubtlessly be dissolved, and the new ministry— Arnim or Gerlach, or whatever it may te called— will octroy as laws not only the present demands and so destroy the miserable remiLs of the Prussian con stitution, but will hasten also to undo all that has been done on the German question. While writing I have received the Constitutional of this evening. It confirms, in its usual diplomatic mode, what I have lust said respecting the probable results of the royal message. It says : The debates in the several fractions of the chamber were very excited. Nothing can be predicted with certainty of the result. (That is to may, the result is, at present, en. favourable to the opposition, or else the organ of the Beekerath Samson pa' y would assuredly announce it.) In both fractions of the left and centre the view seems (?) to be entertained that in par icular the proposition respecting a pairie cannot be adopted without an equivalent in money mitten being granted to the second chamber. Jaw. 12. When the constitution of Dee. 5, 1848, was oc troyed, the last article reserved to the chamber', convoked on the dissolution of the National Assembly, the right of a mature revision. The King declared, in the patent which accompanied the charter, that if the two chambers could not agree upon the revision of any article, the text of the octroyed constitution was to be accepted definitive y ; and then the King, the Chambers, and the functionaries of the state should immediately take the prescribed oath. Tne Chambers met at the close of February. The opposi tion which the government encountered in the Sealed Chamber against tie ministerial bill on the right of usembly, introduced as a necessary preliminary to the removal of the rate of siege, and the frequent defeats which it sustained upon the most important divisions, caused the sudden diescheien of the Second Chamber on. April 27. That night the "oldie's tired on the people, and several persons were shot in the square in front of the Chamber. In the elections which followed for the new chamber the democratic party took no share. The most illustri ous member of that party was shut up during the whole summer in a prison, upon what grounds we have lately seen with sulleient clearness. In the new chambers the King found as instrument apt beyond his most sanguine hopes. They did his bidding to the letter, and sounded the basest stringof humili y— no, not the basest—they have yet to go one rote lower. The constitutional party, false to all the prin ciples they had ever preached, to all the pledges they had ever given, showed by their votes a determina tion to be governmental a tout pees. Their speeches for the most part were a sophistical recantation of their lives. They gave up one by one with a cowardice unexampled in the history of parliaments all the guarantees of the subject, all the prerogatives of parliament. They divested the people's house of its main right, control over the supplies. They gran t ed ministers full liberty to legislate upon the most im portant subjects during the recess. They excused , the army from taking the oath to the constitution. 1 hey pissed a law on the right of assembly, which allowed a acumen policeman, at any moment he saw tit, to disso.ve a public meeting, and to call in the military to enforce his command to the members to disperse. They did, in short, with matchless obsequiousness, whatever work the government called on them to do. A common king might have been satisfied : not so ebe King of Prussia. In proportion as his parliament yielded, his appetite for power grew more unlimited : in pmportion to tee facility with which a bridle was imposed upon his people, the least obliga tion grew odious to himself. The committees of both chambers held yesterday ver y an imated sittings : in that of the Second Cham ber four of the ministers were present. The peerage proposal of the crown was kept for the last. Tne pro jewel to make toe p. inter, &c, respensible for publi cations, was carried by a minority of one in halter of the government. Propositiou 2, 'spiting to the lend surm, unanimi.utely carried. P ro p sition 3, l o a fi ng to the burgh. rwebr, IDC,,nimously carried. Pi °pow tion 4, relating to tie erection of fiefs and eliteiled estates, passed by a majority of 1. Proposition 5, removing reeepuneibilit) e f ministers, rejected by a large majority. Proposition 6, relating to the term within which the chambers meet bo cue yoked seer a dart-ulution, unanimously adopted. Prop aliens 7en e 8 nit yet discussed. Proposition 9 acce e iteo tumid %-usly with blight moditieutiou. Proposition 10, relating to the erectio t of a high court, rejected by 7 evilest b; but admission of a pp cud jeer) court t- be est.shlished by a law ter the trial .of high Velum: end other politica effenee 8. Propositiou 11 unveiniteuely adopted. Pr position 12 rejected by a small majority. Proposition 13 (im portant), wheel...big the 1. grey 01 odtuu.ete of the government, rejected by 11 against 2; but following amendment passed : V at no online: co is to be dis puted by lay authority ae lug as the right to co- PORTUGAL. ARRIVAL OF THE IBERIA. [By Electric Telegraph.] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNISDAT MORNING. The Iberia has just arrived from Lisbon, with dates to the 9:h. The Cortes opened on the 2:id, when the former speaker was re-elected. The com mittees are in favour of government. The finance minister declares that there will be neither stoppage of payment nor bankruptcy. Public securities are rising. Her arrival has been delayed by heavy northerly gales in the B .y of Biscay and on the Spanish covet: The English squadron had returned to the Tagus. It seems that there was no truth in the reports spread in Lisb m respecting a commencement ut re volutionary acts at Evora, Chaves, and other Oleo.. The Portuguese charge d'affsires, recently returned from Madrid, had stated that 30,000 Spanish troops could be ready to enter Portugal upon the first requisition of the Count de Thomar. The Count di Larradio was to more an amendment to the answer h. the throne in the Upper House on the 12th. _ _ From the 0:h inet. vessels will obtain pesticide a. Lisbon, except from Liverpool Exchange, 44; dis count on Batik note, 12. 7Zl)t Court. WINDSOR, ,Lix:lb. The Queen end his It ysl Highness Pnnek: Albert drove to Irogmore this morning. The Hen. MON Cavendish, Colonel Hon. It Boyle, Low' Chubs Fi.zroy, Colonel F. H. Seymour, and Mr. Birch, were is attendance npun her Ma jute and hip Royal Highness. Prince Albert with ti..e get.tlemen in avendance, enjoyed the die.rnon oeskatirg on the otnameetal water in Fr.,g. more gr01312.1e. ' Her !deputy and her Royal Highness the Duchess 0: Kent were present. Tneir Royal Highnesses the Prime,. RIM and the Princess Alice took walkh.g exercise in the /Moves end Windsor Park. . . . . . The RI) el dinner 'tarty this Imola; atelades h r li ighnee, the Ditches. of Kent, Ltd Finny Hower , it nets de Sp tr, the IL t t,,otes Normimby, um, C Hon. C. B. and Mr.. Ptippe. Mr. Maurice Crowe (Dublin). Secretary, t•..hv miesionere ut Natiunll liounvion in Ireland, h.d sa mi r view filth th• &aka Ho,. 11. ury Laboal.her yrcor the office of the Board , A Trade. _ _ _ The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady NI, Wood arrived in D ...ming-street yesterday Milli ,r, 'r ti.eir rusidencc Hick tk , •:r. Hall, near Done...ter Ilezpatcbte wen , tmeic•ci 3eaterday at the ice from au. Cluvtrcor o: the Felluaad ioucts. 'lite Judicial Committee of the Privy helore valuta the app: .1 et " Gotham o tae B Est:. r" *ts argw.l. td private vatic iec Privg Co.o oil ofhcA. Tr.ae sere pr. seat I, t.. 11, 'ht. Mailer of the it'll% the Vice-Char,co ler Brace, Mr. Berm Pertc.,, the Chaaestllot of the I) t;twawel., it.d the jun.:: of tart krostrel• y Archt.ahops of C ,L. - • ~,ry aid Tuek .ad . London were a'act 'Trom iv t biaht'e Gazette.: DOWNING-STREET. Jr.. Qlren r.. phased to app ict lit.rry Samuel Co u_4:l a .htn, Elie._ to Irt Jo.lits of the fia. C battery of 'Saw Zeal .1,1. H. r Mejeety bar els to ippeint Joseph ... O'N All, Fog , h.r ; Advocate foe the wiony 11 6: •rni Leon.. Her M j • 1111 , fter bt•.n pleau4tb upp..int Algernon :1 be S: pendiary Meptstr,:e f ., :r Ler Majr.4'. tue Ealklat..: I COMMISSION SINNED BY THY LON) or DuitslTHlitlite.-1 rtncis Pitaty firouacker M.,‘ be Deputy Licutecuat. MANSION 1101:41.1.—LePt evaniag a on:en way .iven by cl.c r and L.,dl 'Mar civic brethra: anu Cover. were 1 arnor.gst tne ducats we r.. 1! cel l L e wd John Masterrain, Eul., kt P , .4r.ot Mi4ll, 5:41r4., 01 York. and Mitts :At.. M.eyor of S•alf:(1, and, Lady K••y, Sir A tn. .1 airs *That , Sir ti L,dy Carroll, Jab es Bart., M P.. ani; Mr Ald. Fare or...sner Hum hers, M P., trpt If umpltery, Mr. t.• Mr. All. Hooper and Mrs. Itioper, Mr. Aid Mu. Mrs. titusprwt. Mr. Aid. ‘1,...m and Misa, M.414!1, Car Jen and Mrs. Carden. M.. Sheriff L terms. e Lawrence, Mr. Nic Il.tnd (his si 9r; the COMIII6.i .4 r . Pearson Under-S writt Ainard and Mrs Millard, • Wire snd Mr-. J. 1 . L 114 e, E.q., the 1: idsrecall , hc L id Mayor) :no M. E . I'. It. Stone, So' diner a ball was Ilse.; 1.1. Egyptian I tail to wen been prewi , u• i -- sited. Sur; r the old ball flank at PL o'clock, and the stool a late hour of the EXHIBITION OF 1531. 7 -PUBLIr sC I)N. The executive commit ter have received or; t the royal COWLS 160 i .n. re, ..tri sated for th= pent it inhibition, to publish •ollowing corm: tnicati.o . " The royal coneutirrio. • re hf ye felt it their elut e their first nuetiog, to irk in o their imuteriste c 0...., , , toe propriety of ent.firm g the e•.nersot which has rii - tered into with the Mere, 'Standar Thy are perfectly esti tied hat the co - tract was e with the sole desire en part of the Society of Ar • Promoting the objects of the e matiation—.hat in afire it at a time erten ch, sure. in of the ',thrne was s till doubtful. the Idrner. Monday evieeed a mint iii.. spirit—that it bee hi hero afforded the weans of deft. •s . all pteldr inary opens s—and :het its a ttli , CAll are poir hi ressmsble, and even tavoardde to the public. " Atter hearing, h,:tverv , r, the notice: sits made by dual members of the coximisition—after oommanicatiod ••• the omen:ire commi:tee —and atter fell consideration 'a whole subject—'he cahandosioners have coma to the sMn that it will be more co:sonant with the public too,. and therefire more condi:vise to the objects for w. ich commbsion bus been appointed, to enemas the pow. r r served, and at Ott* and abeilutely to terminate the cow,. with the Messrs. Monday. " This detertainatton nec nerdy throws the wh. Le hut•• of the exhibition upon voluntary oontribntions. The ca. meat is of • national eharactir, and the conernissionrre o that it ought to r , st for its support up-in national a) 0.. • thies, and upon such libt ral contributions as these ryo pt thin may dictate. " The amount of the fends which the public elle Flocs ii• the disposal of the commissioners mint determine the x•i of accommodation which can be provided for the and the terms on which admission can be given to the az-t..le to be exhibited, and upon whit* also the pubric cart be ad• milted to inspect them. " The commistiorers wish it to be understood that they are invested with ut.restrictei power over the swilicatioi ut rho funds ; that it is their inform , : to invite competition in r..- epect of all breaches of exp nature to which compatiti .0 can advantageously be apples; and that they will pence. 1, without delay, to establish regulations for insuring an eff... tual control over the expenditure, and satisfactory a..:;: of the accounts. " The COMMISIIO . IO . I9 feel that in thus abandoning e_ eon tract which, reitatdril in a pecuniary t tint of view shiA.., undoubtedly advantegeou• to 'he public, and resting :to. , cess of the proposed .•sperttnent entirely upon pub.,: 0 pithy, they have adopted a course in harmony site In. ncral feelings of the community. " It now rests with the public to determine, by tite of their ountr,bu'iona, the - character of tbeirinuol Es' bition, and the ettent of hameilt to industr t .11 Alt branches which will result tram it. "It is desirable that en sctiptious for this grunt purp immediately comm, need thr .u,:hout the Untied lii , g. , aui the result sucrtsired wrb the least pn.slbk " In the mean:line the c munssiotters Int Da act.,l , _ . gtg , c 1 in prepartr g thy ',trout immures, upon st nun i he their duty to come to a octal dt•ciuion as soon tt. enabled definitely to ascertain c•e t VPt t of the turn cactus which still be placed at char disposal." DEATII OF ADMIRAL SCROMBERG• no. I gallant and highly distui,uisheck naval *dicer h,e• )• removed by dech. Alexanii.r Wilmot Schumeerg, .t in of the Blue, expired un the 13th bar., at Lis seat. Bognor, Su.srx, axed 76. DEATH OF MBA. BlltTLl.T.—This lady, who for many years a brilliant ..tursueut of the tra t i • • on Monday me.ruitm, at her residence, No. W• h square, after a at vete and pretraced illness, wh seven years. Her diservter wss a general paralysis, tht consciousness w u petter. up to the moment of h. r •• lion. 'rho deceased was tormorly Smith, who, ••• I made her first curtsey to a London audience in el. , e garden. During the very tint sexton or her pt • celv.r. hire. Biddons returned to the stage, and se, v., board.; aid the best moot et M N . g ir t,. 7 .. geo m. •• he given is, that they ply d &Derisively .41iese • Shorn without detriment .o the Cuss of the y and On the destruction by art of C nest-g. .den 111..i -1808, Miss Smith aosepts an eewagennent on in Dublin. She remained in Iry land ter three yrs.+. end of whieh p, ri-d she mad* her teco..l app,nr Covent garden, is 1811. Wee at.. remained, first, re and u 'theist a rival, on a 1814, when she mit.. • f• , services to new Drury.l.ine. Ba,n slur she b. :so- Bartley. the wife of the excellent coati di n. died in the 05th year of her age She who numb , ten 1 Baillie and Bit Walter Sect' am-eg her RAI m et it „ I f4adi,t mhuiren, and who bUllllll /11‘ I'M, Ce.stle and Buckingham House to charm the ear et 1.• by her incomparable elocwimt, can have been no •:rn woman—no ordinary actrelh fa 111 .1. • . • Ll' wblr Wt I la I: . r . •,... It i 1 . I 11.