The Express. — London, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

40CIIIAL ASSESSMENTS DILL ',opined mita this day Ora months. IletiANT SEAMAN'S FUND BILL mooed said Cara y time mouths, after a which Mf.ell, Mr. C. Lewis, sad OOPS joined. RAILWAY AUDIT DILL. that this bill also should be postponed for r',twn's; ai meted the posetantest, eves at this late n. to r.ceo with it. No interest is the rtd eu meth Irani kaislatton as the railway oil sonic meager* on the subject should be td. possibl. Ti. clauses obieeted istimem ratnhi be widadrawin, wed th e 'died and isnobjectimiable form. UERE said the bill bad come hem the tam sod there hating bets so much b e pen ct the railway interests, it would to reseed with it this stesion. As to l a by Lira Stanley In the Wave ,11r. lailsauckert) could not conscientiously *light it Go b i should he absolutely u pin the c*, then one which did y an Illative and independent system of Mita d seussisa, for porpoise wa• sgfil , el E SPIRITS IN BOND BILL. / , VI late COOSitle• se this bal. .1.1.011 of :be EXCHEQUER oared that i r lnf e seee this say dotes mead's. the rt salsa l9B AO" 121 city .se the eseudeneett .... 1 ref evetior teat early next probes he should committee to esquire into the su b j ect of , • la AMa• llttliP Mara to ask the noble lard (Lard Arc such tuejarity, he would dare tit. (It in of lasihter.) rorCLATION BILL, jmtlit, u,,r.1 teat a 'obviate !narked coca for etwriaje the occopatenns of ana added to Schedule A No. 1, . We taking as aattattut of the pupa- that the weeds after the word . ra aa sy. MI \MIA moved that the Ara there lab a eat :9 members pre ..lid id at a gamut to 2 o'clock. ri o t (' Iff of the Hoots made D.II mice Mt. S. Mettle against. mind elf sismst the reps al of .I.s r W W. Wynn. Orameoss. 01 I nOING MAILS Ihinth North America awl the u e it,g :tie ap en the eventne of July 11, , n . Spa* Gibraltar amt Gibralt us,"will be made i_g 01 July 17. : est:saw Bermuda. Haeassab, w wad lassie* and includi ng „rs 4. . Jaan-derlitharagna.Now ()Tranvi a. 1611'.r. sad , op ea the mort.irg of July 17. therein/a, Malta. Greece, the looms lalonos, and Chisa. via to Ott aormin4 of July 20. • ‘isreeilles, to the Mediterranean, 'pot, hc.. will be made sp on the r and Buenas Ayres, will owning a Au4us: 4. RATICS AT 1.0111)011 munoz. .•_ Attrmosi, • -N o ma... A a. Yaws& Ss Ka 21 - ESDAY, JULY 9. convcrehend tte sertiment which .e French Naiionc.l Assembly to pay an rat unexampled tribute of respect to the .hat great Eoglish statesman who is this his grave. It was their admiration of :cc, tut commardirg respect, wielded by in. from the sole force of his character, hie Eli his wisdom. Of all things this is what me sot want—respect for any one cf their The worst symptom with them is, that or no man has authority with or power Nor could personage or politician be in whose honour the publ:c could put veemion to power they would hail. or in .•to tey could repose. n .• moot deplorable defects of the French lltics. • • ..-e is indeed the rapidity and reckless- Err, wi•• hit uses up and destroys political chso nx:cr. N r this the peculiarity of the republic, mar si trish as it was of the monarchy. For the ors C.-.-setsrietic of the monarchy, and especially of L :•:-.l . l:tuvre, was the completeness and rapidity with which he destroyed the chaiacter and prerige of a politician, from the moment that he began to trust and to employ him. It was, indeed, the King's policy to do so, for be de tested a puhlic character that had influence or weight independent of himself. The long reign of Louis hi:LIPPE did not produce a single statesman. Those who rose to influence in his day were trained and race before 1830; 1830 to 1848, the eighteen years a monarchy, did not produce and did not leave be hind it a man. The Orleans dynasty, in fact, took France as a faros, communicwed to It not a scruple of strength or ferility, but took from it crop after crop. both of wealth and intellte, for their own MIA purposes, leaving it too exhausted and barren to bear more than the weeds we see. These reflections on the de popularization and absence of statesmen of influence is France, cottrested with the honours ',lid to eminence, heing or departed, hem, prompt the question as to wheher we ourselves are very secure of a loctersion of respected statesmen. And this at once suggests another proof of the cafe sad providence which marked the character of Sr It . List PEEL. He, indeed, sedulously reared and slirwilded himself with a band of young and capable pc: tears. He certainly tale thought for the asocession of power and for the carrying on et his opiniom to future generations. Have the sit'm shown the same foresight? We set. ablt veterans on the Tressury bench. But where are their political heirs apparent? Where are the young men whom they have chosen, not for connexion but for talent? Where is the popular element, which they, above all parties, ought to have taken :care to disc.ver rad appropfmte for the invigorating of their effete ..td seistocrauc party ? Have they not selfishly ken clesorhed in the retiutiag of place and influence for their old selves, instead of rearing up iced to the politica'. Aiiitanam, as Sir ROBERT PEEL, with mai narrower influence m the head of a national party, strove and tuckmded in doing ? Bit to return to the great compliment which tbs French Chamber and its President, M. DUPLE., paid to ILI, late Sir ROBERT PEEL, we cannot say that it was founded essay identity of feeling. The great and motile aim of our deceased statesman, to compel the donainut sod landed class to part with some of their advantages fur the raising of the condition of the indiatricsas and virossercial community, is suite unfelt', in the French Chamber, where protection in politics and political economy, and the accumulating die ad meteors of a class at the expense of the community, is a- touch in vogue as in the Carl - on Club. With acme of the French, however, and, indeed, pro-1 Isolable , with M. Deem himself, t he chief reason of the compliment to Sir ROBERT PEEL wan to con trot his foreign policy with that of the Whip. If le, it was a mean and a false comparison. Sir Bonen Peen ever regarded foreign politics as second-rate in importance ; but when he did torn his' mind or hi', slouch to them, he could be spirited ea l any man. Never were there uttered in the Homo it, Commons from the mouth of a minister declara time of greater spirit, and even defiance, than those uttered by Sir Itoem PEEL, on the Tahiti aggres sion of the French. Nor ever was a fuller determi titian spoken than that which he uttered in the midst of the Oregon dispute. On no grounds, therefore, can the French ream tinkle claim sympathy with the statesman whom all regret. hie Itt,IIERT PEEL, for all the better and in fluential years of his life, was a progressist. And it is as such that the country from one end to the other 15 Ozziooi, and enthusiastic to pay to his memory every tribute of iespect. Ever 7 town and community evinces this; even Birmingham, where both his monetary and his free-trade reforms were more questioned than in any civic community of the kingdom. The citizens of that town propose to close their shutters during the two hours in which the funeral at Tanewoeth takes place. Those of London will not be wanting in similar respect. And thus it will be shown that if free-trade hes lost a champion, it has at the some time engraven a ptinciple indelibly. And whilst the mortal remains of Sir ROBE/ET Pus. are borne to their last reetisg-place, the cause, which, if be aided originate, be at least rave his best miles' s and sea rificed his power to establish, resales arid/ weed is 1 the law of the 000DU7. sad enthasisatical4 is i'a hose. Om the 4th of June, 1839, Sir Heatarm FLMIT , WOOD eramitted to the House of Commons a mods* for ea amendment of the Refe e r b rea oh tit.se .aeraMsgale a character that it at ease aff! nearly 100 members. The has. toleeltre .IProPial aas to extend the right of in Imam to the occupiers of houses of the Meat annul yds, of 10L, 'asis at present done is bormsba. He was able to I show that, as the phrase game lie teadeney of sash a ! Measure would be "eimismatlver that It iileteiti admit to the franchise a body of gesdassa slime. leer, property, and eleAfee, who are at the pima time excluded fees Om right of voting la Nam queue of accidents commuted with their resides's. A gentleman taking up asefraide resides°, in Devesehire, fur instance, rents a hems at 401. a year, bat is re eluded from voting beams he has not ea many Multiage worth of freehold land in the same county. ♦ Liedon merchant rents a villa on the Brighton line et railway. If it is at litigate he is placed upon the nester as a voter for that borough ; bat if it is at !Csyydon he is precluded from exercising the privilege of an Englishman, because, though Croydon is twice the size of Reigate, the schedules of the Reform Aot the one town is a county, whilst they made • hof the other. Ihe absurdity and impropriety of this arrangement was admitted. 'I he desirability of amendment was allowed. Lord ions RUSSELL himself expressed his belief " that the prac tical effect at such a chino would be that the electoral body would rather be improved than otherwise by the addition." No serious objection was made to the proposal, which was opposed on merely technical and parliamentary consid-rations. Sir Rostra Pm. was the only member who raised his voice priest it upon princi ple, and his argument was based entirely upon " the anal settlement" mourned to have been contemplated by the Perliamentary lteform Act. Eleven years have since passed without the small est extension of the suffrage being at any time adopted. Vastly as the nation increases in opulence, in intelligence, in population—the tendency of our electoral system has been to check, rather than to en courage tee exercise of the undoubted right of Englishmen. The grievances and the anomalies of our representative system have become more dove-' loped, their operation is daily becoming better under stood, and the feeling of the people with respect el them is certainly greatly strecgthened. It is at this time that it is proposed, with only too great a degree of moderation, to renew the motion of 1839, and to take the opinion of parliament on the very just and simple extension of the right of voting ehich Sir lIESKITH FLIETWOOD then proposed. Mr. Lome KING, who submits such motion to the House of Commons this evening, has practical experi- Sees as a county member of the unequal e [firs of the! enlisting law. The question to which he asks a reply is this :—Why is not a 101. householder in the country as well qualttied to vote as a 101. householder living in a town? if any one can give a satisfact ory answer to that question, we cede the subject. We want to know why an arbitrary line marked down upon a map at the discretion of a boundary commia , iocer should disqualify as a voter a gentleman living upon one side of it, whilst it would qualify the same I gentleman if he lived upon the other side ? Yet such are the anomalies of the county system of England and Wales. We need scarcely say that they do not stop here. A man living Ma! borough town, in his own freehold house, is at the present time divested of his right to vote fur the county in which he lives by virtue of that freehold; but let the same man happen to live, nct as a five holder, but as a tenant, in the house adjoining to his own, then he has a right of voting not only for the borough, but for the county Mae. Let him go and lire abroad, disseveriog himself entirely from resi dence upon his property, and he then absolutely has the right of voting which is entirely denied to him it he lives upon that property. These seomalies nave grown, to some extent, out of the operation of the CIIANDOS clause. But that is no reason why they should be perpetuated. The proper system of reform is that which remedies defects when ever they become developed practically. &lice the passing of the Reform Bill we have been discovering such defects daily. At every succeeding election they have become more and more exaggerated. What has been done to remedy the evil ? The statute book, as regards measures of redress, presents almost an entire blank, el' bough the authors of the Reform Act have held office for no less than 13 of the 20 years since that measure was into a law. We look with it il etore interest to the debate pro posed to-night, because the present is really a moment when the public may fairly desire to know something of the views of ministers upon the subject of reform. The liberal party have not been impatient : on the centime . , great forbearance has been shown, and a strong disposition has been evinced to wait for the measures which the government might think proper to pre-ent to parliament. We need scarcely say, that the motion itself, however far it might have gone to satisfy the country in 1839, would hill far short not only of public expectation, but of gene ral requirement at present. Elva Lord BRo':GUAM insists on giving the franchise to artisans; and we cannot see why all, who have a stake in the hedge, be it ever so slender, should not have a vote at the hustings. Amendments of detail must now give way before gent ral mei/urea of reform. But amendments of details often involve great principles, and are still more frequently calculated to elicit the discussion of great principles. Th's is one of those occasions, and we look with anxiety to the mode in which different parties may employ it. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENINO. A scene of the greatest gravity bee taken place in the Assembly in the course of the debate oa the law of the pr m ess, wh:ch came on to-dsy. M. It ulter, in the course of his speech, designated the revolution of February as a disutrous catastrophe. At this word the whole opposition r se, and with tremendous clamour called as the president to call the minist r to order. This M. Depiu refused to do; but called M. Girardin to order instead. After the noise and tumult which lasted halts- -hour, were someibbat abated, M. Girardin, having mounted the tribune to explain, declared that he, for cne, would not sit in an Assembly in which the revolution of February wu declared a disutrous event far France, without the speaker being called to order. Still more offensive was the conduct of the president in exiting to order a representative who did his duty in protesting against language so unconstitutional, and so particularly improper in the mouth of a mi nister. He thought that if the minister was not call-el to order, all the members of the opposition ought to relinquish their seats in the Assembly. Tl.is opinion of M. Girardin did not, however, seem to Hod a uni versal echo on the benches of the Left, and was re ceived by the Right with jeers. He then descended, quite pale with excitement, and proceeded to write on a sheet of paper,it was thought, a resignation of his seat in the Assembly, with the motives of this act. The sitting terminated immediately &Leeward' in the greatest disorder. The electoral lists, drawn up in virtue of the sew law, have been published in the mayories. The nuase l bar of electors for Paris is about 74,000, that is len by 130,000 than the number of electors for Paris on the lists of March last according to the old law, which accounted to 224,000. The difference in the provinces will not be so enormous. The house was not much fuller than usual to-day at the beginning of the debate on the press, and the reports of the crowded audience that would fill the tribunes were completely belied. The public are in sensible to political crests of the gravest interest. It was oral) on Saturday that the fact was published to the world, that 150,000 electors of Paris had been disfranchised by the electoral law of then ce of May. It bar been received with every sppe of the calmest indifference. The ascent of M. Poitevin, dangling astride on a pony from a balloon, is en affair which interests the Parisians at the present moment far mere than laws which concern their dearest liberties. First the question of urgency wu disclaimed. M. Emile de Girardin demanded to speak with reference ' to the was of the home, and maintad that a special report was aseemeary to establish a ca s e f urgency. M. de Bt. Priest observed that the report wu explicit enough_ this point. The Assembly inclining to this the incident dropped. rAgc — T iNi • ttb .. . 111,•1:el TILV 011 • tt o p, ot 1 . 6 ' we"' itn•ltllle 11 0 ° — Ilig .1 I tr" gip. ll o de I t • V'l os pd• o s gip •eft.° Ott t. •.th 1 1 1.,ee r." ▪ 1 .I 111, ". • L It de Et S .l I 1.• p, • Nil L , w • • "0 • • " 1.1. • • Se neti dr Mee • %I ts . • NI A t` I or • . ; ,a .% 4 4 !' t r hr . . it tn. I „ ll j 1;;;"• 1; 011 •••• M• V %,'„1: t A> '• . , *• tAt g •e 2wt • - 'FS . t , , / 101:tir .Vt." •••: a' • ' ere.at I.:ate , ▪ t 4 ft ... v. Tv . • sr I. s s., ▪ ‘• f••• 11e , • lb . !Jr •;$ "'• 1 ' 2 ' IL , Et.... el Lep. Co•a• e s, r • :re .Utt-t • wi ser I s •at t • LONI Wr Cr, ft r) r,•,,,ted ire TAL2:• •-,..,Lt sa =et:l43 . ' 1..11 eat r.;'o C. 36 espy a the Frrr, n mar.. erei to t:t 9. at tr,C, • or.s ••• • . sse.s, wl • no:er. N Mt It with wMck Pri ° that h g° e bo It was, hide tested a pot itdepeadtts kI;:LIPPIL who rose 1 rade betas cf moriaret Lod it am France se • strengtt crop. both latest purl to bear mo these absecce wrist( d hrir.g or as to Rh of a sac this st sad brovi , ' IC.. am 1 almousde sz:cre,:os of Ms I the St L'o lb:. rater tht4 ?el met who for ta.ent the!, also disc .Ter gets -LI been sbt for their patical WrOrn stn BA ti French to tho le yea foe bask domino sham istlesti lo the sad pa taster; is s- With THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 9, 1850. A private letter from &Upset the 29th ult. states that upwards of 100 robbers have been arrested in the provisoes of Ravenna and Ferraro, and are likely to be shot. CJunt Guieeioll, who was a member of the Roman Constituent Amembly, and who hitherto lived oneetakd to the republio of San Marino, has escaped from the Roman States, it would appear, through the connivance of the Austrian authorities, and is now at Venues, where he possesses large property. IL Mathieu (de la Dries') attacked with vehe mum the reastiosary march of the government, with* seemed to wish to seemed to substitute sword rale for reluVar and constitutional administratios. He was strongly opposed to allowing urgency for the bill. IL Rouse, Minister of Justice, replied briefly to the ts of M. Mathieu, and maintained that the t speech of that honourable member writ the best proof that urgency was neoessary. M. Isles Furs insisted upon the importance of the qnsetica, and on the weight of the interests en gaged ; and argued hence that the law should be de bated with all the guarantees required by the cons '- Intim. H. denied that the MU wore the character of urgency, mist), the committee had been four months, silos the 10th of Merck, in getting up its report. IL Prosper de Cbeeselottp Laubat, the reporter, spoke next in favour of urgency. M. Emile de Oirardin Laving mounted the tribune after him, them was a general cry from the benches of the Right for the close of the preliminary debate. The result of the ballot oa the question of urgency _gave 370 votes for, and $5l against. Urgency was m consequeuee declared for the bill. Forty-one members of the Assembly, of all shades of opinion, have submitted a proposition for the con cession of the railway from Paris to Lyons, and the railway from Lyons to Avignon, to two distinct corn penis s, which are to be constituted by public and direct subscription with shares of 100 fr. each. The Droit says that the insanity of George Walker has been officially ascertained. The President of the Republic is highly displeased that, in spite of his ex press orders to keep the affair as close as possible, the story has been bruited abroad with the minutest de , tails. Walker's father was a compositor at Galigaani's. He was stretched on a sick bed at the time of his son 's attempt, and hes since died. The legal pro ceedings are going on. 2d. Ledru-Rollin's anathema is not the only one, it appears, which the Mountain is doomed to undergo. The refugees of Geneva, the convicts of the lath of May, of June 1848 and 1849, imprisoned in the fortress of l)oullens and Mont St. Michel, are going to publish a fresh tulmication against the p0:iii0111 Call duct of the Montagnards, whom they accuse at being the dupes of the National and Prom. The Patric mentions with approbation a pamphlet by M. Latour-Pumoulin, which attempts to prove that the only poss:ble solution for the pol.tical situation is to proceed immediately to the revision of the constitu tion and to prolong the powers of the President for at least two years. M. Latour-Damon:in, is a re dacteur of the Assemblie Nationak, and contributes to four other organs of the majority. The bill conceding a credit of 60,000 fr. to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce for the ex penses relative to the freat London exhibition of 11831, was adopted by 582 votes against 18. General 31olliiire, who was recently appointed to the command of a brigade of the army of Paris, has Ijust died, after a few day's illness. He was one of the youngest generals in the French army, bat was a distinguished officer. He signalised himself in Atria' and in the siege t.,f Rome. The following is the proposed budget of expenses GERMANY. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JOLT 4. It is again reported by several of toe journals, with the remark that the source of their information is trustworthy, that towards the end tf August or the beginning of September, the state of siege is to be removed and the coronation of the Emperor to take plane. It is toped that these two acts will be sec im peaied by the publication of a general amnesty. The coronation of the Emperor is an sffair of little im anLe; the publication of a general amnesty would tof great mercy to the numberless inmates of the crowded prisons and forts ; but the removal of the state of siege would be an act of inestimable value, would restore to the people an amount of freedom without which trade and commerce cannot be profitably canied 00. The state of siege has lasted twenty months now, with hardly any relaxation of its original severity. Negotiations are going on in Berlin on the German question, which it is believed may possibly lead to a successful issue. Count Bernstorff, the Prussian ana humidor, who left for Berne. wadi ago, carried with him proposals of a conciliatory nature from this go vernment. The exact nature of these proposals is not decidedly known, but they are believed to be of a two-fold character. Tee first is for the establish ment of another interim, and the second for the esta blishment of a new central federal organ, in which Austria and Prussia shall have an equal share of the executive power; the old plenary assembly of the Band to be succeeded by a " Staaten Collegiate," or college of states, composed of members appointed by the government or elective from the chamber of the several German states. The newspapers here do not mention a word of these negotiations, but connect the presence of Prince Albert of Saxony here, and the visit of the Bing of Saxony to his Majesty of Prussia, with hopes for a speedy solution of the vexed question. Prince Athert is to leave to-day or to-morrow. The LomberdoNenstian statute has been laid before the Emperor for his election. The chief points in this statute are, I believe, a separation of the two provinces, with a double chamber in each. The in habitants of the two provinces have drawn up a petition to the ministry, praying that the two may he united into one province, with a double Chamber. In their petition they propose that the Senate shall consist of 80 members, 18 to be appointed by the go vernment, and the remainder to be elected by the communes, the universities, and the learned associa tions of the country. The bank returns for the past ninth show an in crease in bullion of 4,761 florins, and an increase in the notes in circulation of 719,000 florins, notwith standing 9,000,000 florins in silver were paid in as compensation for the war in Sardinia. The share holders, however, are great gainers; their profit during the last six months amounts to2,9B9,oooflorins, of which one-half is to be divided as a dividend, and the other half reseived for the next half-year. The bullion in the busk amounted to 31,349,890 florins, the notes in circulation to 211,322,005 florins, and the amount of bills in the central treasury to 30,433,573 florins. The railway bridge which connects Venice with the Continent has been re-opened. It will be remem bered that this bridge was destroyed during the recent war. for 1&51 : ORDDILZY lUDOIT. Public debt Dotations Justice Foreign Affairs Public Instruction BVonrip Interior 126,634,350 Agrieul.ura and Comenercei Public Works 67 676.245 War Marine• 34,687,832 Colonial servos Finances (pee serving) • -- 719,540,964 .... 148,9,59,600 76,611,680 Eapenves of eollsetton Reisabureements and restitutions Total of ordinary budget 1,337,515,004 IRTRAORDINART HI•DORT Publie Wotks 57.976,539 W ar ~,, 3.710,000 Marine 3,965,000 Worship ------ 65,891,638 1 THE INSURREC LION IN BULGARIA. Advice, from Semlm to the 26th and Mb Jane lead to the belief that the Turkish arms have not been so successful as was originally stated. The in surgents are said to be collected in great force in Serbia, and to be still in arms in the district of Bel gradcien. Foreign iafinencc is said to be very active in promoting the insurrection. Total of aspaosta This total presents a reduction of 2,000,000 com pared with the budget of 1849. The funds were somewhat heavy daring the early part of this day's business, but they afterwards reco vered. The Fives commenced at 95.80, a rise cf 5c., acd fell to 9550, and closed at 9590. The Threes closed at 57.60, a rise of Sc. The share market was active. PRUSSIA. BERLIN. PM' 8. BOURSE, One of the articles of the peace with Denmark, or rather of the protocol which accompanies it, provides that the Swedish troops in the Duchies shall begin to quit the Duchies on the fifth day, and shall have en tirely left on the eleventh day after its ratification. By letters from Copenhagen we learn that the treaty of peace had arrived there on the 4th inst., in charge of Chamberlain Sick. It was stated that he would leave in the evenirg of the same day for Berlin with the treaty ratified. The ministerial lithographed correspondence states that the promised cemmunications respecting the negotiations with Austria were made yesterday to the Provisional College or Princes for the Erfurt Union. It states further that these communications showed that a proposal made by Austria for the establishment of a new German interim had been decidedly rejected, but that a proposal for the reformation of the Germanic confederation in a new shape was under consideration. The reformation alluded to is not to be in the form of the old plenum. I mentioned the day be fore yesterday, that a college of states, formed of members front the several German parlia ments, is the proposed new organ of the confederation, with the executive power placed equally in the hands of Austria and Prussia. It was also announced that the Grand Duchy of lime bad oflicially notified its withdrawal from the union. The publication of the I protocol of the sitting is promised. The answer of the Senate of Hamburg to the Hanoverian note was also read. The Senate refuse to enter upon the plan by Hanover for creating a North Germa n =: d for commercial purposes. It is rumoured that a new difference has arisen in deo ministry respecting the proposed alterations Is the tariff of the Z Alverein. It is stated that Von der lleydt, the Minister of Commerce, will be com pelled to resign. It is also said that differences of *pinion have arisen respecting the German question. Mannteuffel and the Minister of War, General Stock hausen, advocate the definitive constitution of the Erfurt union in opposition to Itadowitz (he is not a minister), and several of their colleagues. The King of Saxony has arrived in Pillnitz. The Augsburg Allgemeine saes that a convention has been signed between the two principalities of Hesse, guaranteeing mutual assistance in the event of revolutionary movements in either. Herr von Dallwigk, the now minister in Hesse Darmstadt, was a member of the notorious Msyence commission of 1834-38. LA PLATA. The Courier de Haore say, "The Phil) :ix has arrived with letters from Buenas Ayres to the 27th April, at that date Admiral Lepridour had been for about twenty days in negotiation with the Argentine government. Nothing had transpired as to the result of the conferences of the admiral with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the republic. From some private information which we have reason to think correct, an arrangement completely satisfactory to the two flags is nearly concluded. Everything induces us to say, morever, that M. Goury de Realm, destined to the post of Consul of France at La Plata, will, so soon as the peace is con cluded, immediately enter on his functions. At pre sent the captain of the port of Buenos Ayres, Don Pedro Ximeno, appointed by General Roue, protects the interests of French subjects. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITYI AuSTRALIA.—A meth» of several loiluential members of both houses of parliament toek place yesterday to devise the best course of proceeding »order to induce her Majesty's government to approximate the Australian albedo by means of steam to Great Britain. Amongst thaw present were Earl Nelson. Lord Montearte, LordlVodebouse, Lord Naas, M.P.. Bon. F. Scott, M.P., Sir William Molesworth, Bart , M.P.. Sir William Verner, Bert ., M.P., Sir B. Gore Booth, Bart., M.P., Mr. Adderley4M.P., Mr. Mesh, M.P., Mr. Shame, M.P , Mr:M.Gregor, M.P., Mr. Seholefield, M.P , Mr. S. Dickson, M.P., Mr. C. Forma:sue, M.P. After a fell diuretics of the various featur es of the question, its present position, and the obstacles opposed to the carrying oat of the object, It was unanimonalv resolved that active steshould be tome diately taken to bring the whole subj ect under the special attention of both hone» of parliament, with a view to ha speedy and final settlement. As a preliminary course it wee arran/ed, amongst other measures, that an address to her Ka eety should be proposed in the House of Comae= by Lord au M.P., praying for the hassedlste establish ment of stea m eomanaloatima with the Australis's whales. It was also announced that the petitions to the legislate» oa behalf of the object were in ow» of signature. The meeting was attended by Mr. 1)1 Sells and Mr. Logan oa the part of the association for the praised= of stem oomanal- Wigs with Assinlia. far Aswan. PARIS, JuLif I. I Fee ll opeing Mow. ialibest., I pat Oats. l7 se /I 57 SS 57 50 17 GO 5 per Oasts. 95 4S 193 511 93 50 93 el S do. Dew Luau • N 11 ma (bate. 6333 ll : • OP • et Ime Cent+, 74 20 „ . „ , „ • Exchange on Loudon : at sight, 2 5 45 , 10 days, 45 3 I. l:. 5, 1510 5, lin 1150 77 Lona 1550 77! • Do. 4 Utl. 25 Piedmont 3 per Costa 47 40 „ Bank Mares llooass.— St Germain, 4410; Vermin's (debt busk). 160; ditto nett bank). 140; Par,. and Orleans, 770; Paris and 13,uen, 585 . Rouen gad Hann, 237 SO; Marseilles and Avignon, 1 , 5. Stralboing and 15.4 e, '10; Orleans and Sinn" US 75; Orleans and Hordeaug, 397 SO; Norte, 45: 26; Pane and Strnabonrg, 440; Twits and Nantes, 237 50 ; Montanan and Troyes, 90; Dieppe and Fe camp, 165. 37 73 113. 53 Lowest. I ClodDg. MADRID. JOLT 3.—Tbree pat Cents , 32; ; attar Balsa, I 3211-16 rash. Four per Coats., 124 cash ; atter B Asa, 321 paper. Five per Cents., 12 13-16 sub; attn. Balsa, 12 1:1.16 cash. Coupons, 71 milt. Passive., 31 cash; atter Balsa, 313.16 cash. Bank at Bt. Ferdinand, 84 cash. Ex ' chi:loon LAuton, 60 40 The following letter has been addressed to Prince Albert by M. Cranes Lupin, President of the Na tional French Committee for the Exhibition of all Nations : Prince,—l am requested to transmit to the oommitta pre sided over by your highness the expression of the feelings of grief which anininte us. On the first rank amidst the mem ben e your committee the foreign nations to which your exhibition appeals were flattered at numbering amongst them the illus•rioue legislator who fora long time adminutered his country with good will and justice to other states. Our French hearts are yet mused by the last words uttered by him in the British parliament,—words of esteem and friendship for one country. In It eying the unexpected sad lamentable loss of this great man, the national com mittee of Francis has unsnimmsly decided that its president should express to yeti the deep-telt regret which it shares with thn generous spirits not only of the United Kingdom. but of all the raw where genius, moderation. love of art, and respect of peace, are held in esteem. If any thing can console ne, it is the thought that the equitable and liberal spirit of Sir Robert Peel, far from being extinct, will survive and increase in the committee, of which he was so great an ornament.—l have the honour, &e., BARON C Durex. ITALY. SARDINIA. The Chamber of Deputies of Turin having termi nated the gentral discussion on the bill concerning the emission of six miliions of francs of seats, com menced tLe discussion on the articles in the sitting of the 3rd. The Genoa Casette states from Leghorn, 28th ult., that the garrison of that city has be.en summoned by telegraph to march to the Romagna, in order to put down the system of brigandage which desolates that part of the country. ROMAN STATES. A letter from Rome of the 30th tilt., in the Union, says A eireumstence has occurred here which has caused great impression ea those who witnessed it and understood its signification. You are aware that every year, on St. Peter's day, that the pontifical mass, the Pope, in returning, stops in the middle of the church to hear the prayer made to him by a conaistorial advocate , kneeling, to renew against the King of Naples the excommunication which weighs on the son reigns et that country for having placed a sacrilegoue band on a part of the domain of St. Peter. The Pope pennons the exennaunteaulon, but immediately removes it. This year the ceremony became more embarmaing. The souvenir of the hospitality given by Ferdinand caused the faults of his predseemors to be somewhat torottea, and I am mauled that Pius IX , in his inexhaustible bounty, was disposed not to issue en astatherea against a king so devoted to the church and to the sovereign pontiff but the cardinals whom he reunited were of opinion that the usage ought not to be abandoned, and that the only arm which the church pos sesses for the defence of her temporal domain ought not to be allowed to be broken. Tin exchtununication acoord iagly was penoanaid, bat alter the absolution the sovereign pontiff made in a lo u d voice the most complete eulogise& of the magnanimous Ferdinand, of his very dear son is Jeans Christ, the Xing of the Two &cities, recalliog in the most flattering terms the service, he has rendered to the Holy See sad the Soverian Pontiff; and expressing his " inviolate attachment and complete gratitude for such a Christian I Primo." DEATH THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glonasster arrived at Cambndga•houss at half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning to learn the state of her royal brother. T!e medical gentlemen having met yesterday, Waned the following bulletin : " Caatheklie Hew. July 8,1860. " The Doke of Cambridge was is a very exhumed Mate during the might, lest hi. Royal Hilliness hue sallied en elienbly this morsiag. " PNANCRS HAWITINS, M.D. Telowas WATSON, M.D. Dicsaao BRION!, M.D. ROSIEST KZATS, Ch. " HINNY B. ILunowouve, Ch." His Royal Highness Prince George went from Cambridge House in the forenoon to Buckingham Palace, end had an interview with her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at Cambridge House in the middle of the day, and were received by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. accompanied by Prince CI urge and the Princess Mary. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and Lirut.-Colottel the Hon. Alexander Gordon ' at tended the Queen and the Prince on horseback. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took leave of the Duchess of Cambridge about one o'clock. LI consequence of the serious indisposition of his Royal Highness, the following notice was issued yes terday : " Lord Chtunberlain'sofilee, July 8, 1850. "Notice is hereby given, that owing to the alarming illness of his R,yel Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Drawing Room intended to be held by her Majesty at St . James's Palace to-morrow, the 9th inst. ; and the Sate Ball at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday next, the 10th last, wit not take vises." Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glcueeste returned to Cambridge Roue at half-put nine o'clock last night, and ten minutes afterwards the Duke of Cambridge expired. The following is the bulletin announcing the death of his Royal Highness : " Cambridge House, July 8, 10 P.M. "His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge, alter pass ing a tranquil day, expired somewhat suddenly and without suffering, at 20 minutes before 10 o'clock. "FRANCIS HAWKINS, M.D. "THOMAS WATSON, M.D. " RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D. " ROBRUT KEATS, Ch. " HENRY S. ILLINOWORTH, CL "EDWARD H. HILLS, Ch." Directly after the decease of his royal highness Major Baron Knesebeck, principal equerry to the royal duke, went to Buckingham Palace to announce the melancholy intelligence to the Queen and the Prince. His Royal Itighntsa Prince Albert, at tended by his equerry in waiting, immediately pro ceeded to Cambridge-house to pay a visit of condo lence to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge and his Royal Highness Prince George. Prince Albert remained until a quarter before 11 o'clock, and then returned to Buckingham Palace, attended by I.:tint:Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. Her Royal Highcess the Duchess of Gloucester re mained some time longer with her afflicted re latives. Mr. Edmund Mildmay, equerry to his late royal highness, is staging at Dover, to attend her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklen berg Strelitz (daughter of his late royal highness) on her landing, the hereditary grand duchess having been sent for from the Continent. We are informed that hia royal highness was attacked by indiipositien on the liith ult., with cramp in the stomach; but after the severity of the attack had passed away, all danger was thought as over. The royal duke was attended by Dr. Francis Haw kins, Dr. Bright, Dr. Watson, Mr. Keate, and Mr. J. Kingworth ; and it was judged, up to within the last four days, that he would recover, although suffering from loss of appetite asd much debility. The duke recently became so debilitated and pros trated, not being able to sustain any nourishing sub stance, that he continued to sink rapidly during the last four and twenty hours before hie death. The Duchess of Cambridge, who, during her royal husband's illness his evinced the greatest solicitude. was at the bedside of his Royal Highness up to the minute of his dissolution, and it is nei diem to observe is in a distressed state of mind at her irreparatle be reavement. Prince George of Cambridge, on leave of absence from his military duties in Ireland, was also present at the death of his father. The only member of the late royal duke's family absent from this country (but to whom intelligence of his serious illness was forwarded last week), was his eldest daughter (the Princess Augusta), at present with her tusbind, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklen burgh Strelitz, in Germany. A royal messenger was despatched to Lord John Russell with the fatal news shortly after the royal duke expired; also to Viscount Palmerston, by whr m a cabinet courier was to be sent to the King of Hanover, the King of the Belgians, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and the other connexions of the royal family in Germany. The London Gazet'e Extraordinary, just published is as follows : Whitehall, July 9. Lest night, at twenty minutes before ten o'clock, his Royal highness Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, uncle to her Most Gracious Majesty, deputed this lire, at Cambridge house, to the great grief of her Majesty and of all the royal family. The illustrious duke, whose death we have to day to record, was the tenth child, and youngest 800, of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, and was born on the 24th of February, 1774. He was brought up with the care which marked the early instruc ' tan of all the family. Having received the rudiments of his education from tutors appointed by his royal father, he accompanied his elder brothers, the Dukes of Cumberland and Sussex, to the University of Got tingen, where be was entered a student on the 6th of July, 1786, being at that time only in his 13th year. The prince was accompanied to Gottingen by a governor, a preceptor, and a gentle man, he was lodged in a house with his brothers, and on their admission two grand institution dime= were given, to which the professors and some of the students were invited. Professor Mayer was the duke's instructor in German, Mr. Heyne his Latin muter, the celebrated ecclesiastic Lens his instructor in religion. Having completed his education his royal highness was ap pointed to a position in the army, and in 1793 he was sent to serve with his brother the Duke of York in the expedition against Dunkirk. Prince Adolphus Frederick was at this time only 19, but even at this early age he experienced some of the vicissitudes of war, for in a retreat before:a supe rior French force at the close of the siege, the royal brothers were both for a short time in the possession of the enemy. A reinforcement under Gen. Walmoden coming up at the critical moment, defeated the French with much slaughter, and relieved the royal princes from their perilous predicament. In 1807, the prince having sheathed hie sword, was called to his royal father's course's by the titles of Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron of Culloden. lu 1802 he was made a privy councillor. His royal highness was not destined, how ever, lung to enjoy the tranquillity of peace. In the following year the cour se of war was d irected against the Hanoverian territories of the king of England. No steps had been taken by the English government to secure this German territory. At the East moment, however, the Duke of Cambridge was sent over as commander-in -chief of the Hanoverian army, and proclamations were published in his name, calling on all the inhabitants capable of bearing arms to defend their country to the last drop of their blood. It was not to be expected that such a proclamation, issued at such a time, could produce any very good effect ; to suppose the citizens and peasants were to form effective armies at the moment the enemy was entering the country, was altogether as absurd as it was unreasonable. The Duke of Cambridge pledged himself to share all the dangers of the people, but his display of gallantry was too late. On the sth of June, Marshal Mortier was in possession of Hanover, and had taken up his residence in the palace which the King of Eng land his it is furnishedsaid,o f 60, and e m bellished for his son at an expense, In December 1805, the French having in their turn I l been obliged to evacuate Hanover, the Duke of Cam inidge. was again sent over " entrusted with the dilution of the military affairs of the country." From this period history records little of the royal duke down to the year 1813, when the electorate of Hanover, having obtained an seda tion of territory by the annexation of the principality of Hildeshisim, it was thought desirable to appoint a prince of the blood royal to reside as governor in the electorate. The Duke of Cambridge was selected for this office. He made his entrance into Knauer on the 19th December, 1813, accompanied by Count Munster, and was received with every demonstration of the public joy. In the evening the city was brilliantly illuminated, and the duke rods through it, accompanied by a large train of followers, and at tended by the Burgher Guard. His appearance was considered an auspicious event for Hanover, and he confirmed the hope and expectation of the people by a mild and gentle rule. Daring the early period of the dukes residence in Hanover, his royal highness is believed to have formed an attachment to the widowed Princess of Salm. Braunfels, who was a daughter of the reigning Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz. The projected union was, however, broken off. The princess, in 1815, married the Duke of Cumberland, now King of Hanover. It is stated that Queen Charlotte strongly expressed her self on the impropriety of this noion,after the intended marriage with another member of the same family had been objected to. In 1818 the Duke of Cambridge was married at Cassel, on the 7th of May, to the Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, youngest daughter of the Land grave Frederick. The Princess Augusta of Hesse Cassel was born on the 25th June, 1797, and was consequently twenty-three years younger than the prince whom she survives. The marriage ceremony was again performed in London in the month of June. The marriage proved a happy one. Tte first issue of it,his Royal Highness Prince George William Frederick Charles, now Duke of Cambridge, was born at Hanover on the 26th of March, 1819. This was the only male issue. Two daughters were born in 1822 and 1833. The elder, the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, married, in 1843, Prince Frederick William, Hereditary Grand Duke of Meclelenburgh Strelitz. The younger, the Princess Mary Adelaide, is unmarried. The greater part of his Royal Highness's subse quent career wee passed at the Feat of government in Hanover. The orderly and tranquil people of that electorate gradually came to place more and more confidence in the amiable prince who was appointed to preside over them. The first and almost the only occasion of excitement occurred in 1819, when several important reforms were proposed by the states, all of which:did not appear acceptable to the imperial government The states desired a reduc tion of the Hanoverian army from 30,000 to 17,000 men. The English government expressed an un• qui vocal wish to the contrary, but ultimately the standing force was fixed at 20,000. A decree had been jested 'forbidding actions to be instituted for the payment of the arrears of interest of the royal chamber. The states remonstrated against this decree, bat at the same time proved their liberality by offering to pay the arrears of interest. Another great question de bated was, whether the nobles should share in the liability of the third estate to contribute to the public burdens. The deputies of the nobility apprehensive on thisl occasion of being outvoted, euught to evade a decision by quitting the chamber; the deputies of the third estate alone not cumbering 52, which number waslegally necessary for the trans action of business. The stratagem, however, which was thus contemplated, was frustrated by a member of the third estate, who placing his back against the door, detained the fifty-second member until the pro position was carried in the affirmative. Among other occurrences of tbis time the Luke of Carohriege ob tained the thanks of the chamber, by declaring that the estates racier the administration of tie chamber of convents should in future be separated from the civil hat, and applied exclusively to the support of schools and churches. This was an act of liberality worthy of a British prince, and it will be recorded to his honour in the pages of Hanoverian history that he gave that country a fair, and, for the time, even a liberal constitution. The Duke of Cambridge took no active part in the me morable proceedings connected with the trial of Queen Caroline, nor did he vote either upon Catholic Eman cipation or the Herm m Bill. Upon the death of William IV. in 1637, his 'Majesty's next male heir succeeded to the throne of Hanover, and the Duke of Cambridge immediately returned to this country, leaving the people among whom he had resided for so many years amid lively tokens of their affection and regret. Since his return to England his royal highness has cultivated the more intimate acquaintanceship of English society. 11'ith the people at large it is imposible to say that his royal highness has been a favourite, because by them he has been insufficiently known. But with the public of the metropolis the Duke has always stood well. With the aristocracy, without distinction of party, he has been on terms of very in timate and friendly intercourse. With the middle class he has ever shown himself anxious to cultivate kindly relations ; meeting and mingling with them on all social and festive occasions ; joining in their amuse ments, and frequently throwing off the restraints of rank, and visiting at their houses upon terms which left no reason to suppose that he meditated e. conde scension. The distinguishing feature of his royal highness's social life has been the share he has taken in the more scientific musical societies of the metropolis. The Duke of Cambridge: inherited that lave of music, and attained that proficiency ir. the rrt, for which so many of his race have been remarkable. In the Duke of Cambridge many of the more inte resting charities of London will lose a liberal patron and promoter. His royal highness, as is well known, has not enly been accustomed to give of his wealth to objects deserving of benevolence, but he has also given a large portion of his time whenever his perscnel attendance appeared likely to pro mote the objects of the society he patronised. The duke's bonhunirsie and freedom from restraint, his urbane manner and companionably accomplishments, endeared him to all who were accustomed to meet him upon these occasions, and as his liberal example and exhortation rarely failed to have its due impres sion upon others, he was constantly sought as the president at anniversary dinners, and other occasions where the charitable are congregated together with a view to an appeal to their liberality. To these societies his Royal Highness will ba a great loss. The country may frequently have lest greater men, but it is rarely that a distinguished iudividual descends to the tomb at the mature age this prince has reached, leavirg a character so free (ruin blame, and a name associated with so little of either public or personal hostility. His late Royal Highness was a Knight of the Order of the Garter ; a Knight Grand Class of the Order of the Bath; a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphio Order ; Grand Mister and Firs Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. hlich t :tel and St. George ; and Knight of the Prussian Orders cf the Rack and Red Eagle; a Field Marshal in the army ( appointed 26 Nov. 1813) Colonel of the Coldstream Guards (*printed sth Sep., 1801); Colonel in Chief of the tiOth lilies (appointed 22nd January, 1527); • Commissioner of the Royal Mili tary College at Sandhurst and Royal Military A.ylum. His late Renal Highness was Ringer of Richmond Park; and on the death of the Duke of Susie:, in 1843, was ap pointed Ranger of Hyde Park. On the death of the Right Hon. W. Sturges Bourne, he was appointed Ranger of the New Forest. The late Duke was Chancellor of the University of St. Andrew's for many years, and in 1842 had the degree of D.C.D. c. , nferred on him by the University of Cambridge. His Royal Highness was a member of the Privy Council, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and weal other learned societies. TIIE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The rotaries of Sir Robert Peel will be interred in the family vault in Drayton-13aisett Church this afternoon. Mr. (now Sir) Robert Peel arrived in town on Sunday afternoon tram De , where be was staying when the melancholy news of his father's death reached him. Mr. Peel, his cou sin, left London on Tuesday at midnight, to communicate the unwiloome intelligence. He reached Genera on Fri day morning, and returned with Sir Robert Peel immedi ately, the journey out and home having been accomplished in little more than 100 hours. Sir Robert Peel, immediately upon his arrival in Whitchall-gardens, left town for Marble Liill, near Twickenham, to see his mother, Lady Peel, and the other female branches of the family. Sir Robert has glace visited Tamworth, but returned to town yesterday. PROPOSED NATIONAL MONUMENT TO SIR R. P EEL. —Our Briool eorrespondent states that the proposal to treet, by penny subeetiptions, a national monument to the memory of Sir Robert resi has been taken up in that city in more than OCIV quarter, and wit a great number of pennies have skied, been enbeeribed. •smaisINIIONIONgIii ..-,- 1 1 ! ; tt l i 1 C • 1 li I,' P i i' ll i 1 l ' ' I.' . 1. ~, 1 4 , I " ' ~. 1 I. t i ' 1 ' 1 Ii 1 ' Ol ( , 1 1 , ~. ilk ' 1 . 1 • t ft,l l I I' 11" : 1 1 1 ‘1 't .• h• 4• l ' , 1= N. s,* : • ‘'. 1 . ) i" 1 ) I'd