The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-19 00:00:00

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Adeeetkentente Wended far TM Tams," LOlOOO Lftalag paper, art be at tbs 011110, Boaveriewaset, by two o'c'ock us the 67 et palleleotisa. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. ism DoT—MOniAg. lb. ea— Aftcrocon, 2b. 4a. icrsoamm—Mansbli. U. 29a. Afternoon, Mt. Ho. the farmers' representatives who keep up taxes. Now, until the farmers can screw up ooursge to insist on a reduction—a large reduction of rents, and to elect members who will ent down the estimates, reg pard lees of the ministerial plaint "it can't be done, their sufferings won't end ; and it is one of the beneficial results of free trade, that until the farmers help themselves, no oats elm can. How they can h el p themselves, Mr. BiltlOW is showing the electors of South Notts • sad what he shows them, it is for them to show the 'other counties of England. TIM supply of the metropolis with its daily food, is a question affecting the interests and pockets of two millions of people. It is not a question to be trifled with, or to be treated in a tone of scoff or banter. The question is, how can the vast population of Lon don be supplied with their meat most easily, conve niently, and at the cheapest rata ? Smithfield-market is condemned altogether. It is condemnid not only by the royal comuusaioners but by the corporation of the City of London, who are to be viewed in the light of its owners. Parliament, therefore, will have next session to consider what arrangements shall be made to provide a cattle and meat market for London. It is a noticeable fact, that the royal commieskeleal who reported in favour of the abolition of Smithfield, proposed no plan of any sort for a market to soppit its place. They expressly " abstained from indicating any particular site." The commission, however, thought it highly desirable " that the government el the market should be vested in the corporation of London:" that the corporation should make the mar ket and should levy the tons upon it. They reported very strongly upon this point, and it is, therefore, to the corporation of London that we turn to see what they propose with a view to carry out the commis sioners' report. The corporation of London have recently given notice of a bill " for enlarging Smithfield Market and improving the approaches to it." The plan wh ich they propose involves the abolition or removal of the existing Smithfield Market. Upon the existing site of Smithfield Market they propose to carry out great popular improvements: the roadways to be enlarged and improved; new thoroughfares be made, greatly adding to the general convenience ; sites provided for baths and wash-houses, as well as for extensive lodging 'points for the convenience of the City poor, in the district in which of all others they are most densely crowded together. At the same time, that intolerable nuisance, NewgiVe-market, would be abolished, and Ncwgate-Oreet consequently cleared of • great part of the hindrances at present existing to free communica tion through that important thoroughfare. A locality which is now a scene of intolerable filth and nastiness would thus be purged. Lying, as it does, in the heart of the most important business portion of the capi tal, the abolition of this market may be made to afford facilities to commerce as well as to improve- merits. These concessions being made, what is it the corpo ration propose with a view to the supply of London with its meat? Probably there are not many of our readers who have passed up that unfortunate, because unfini , hed, street, which was opened at one end ten years ago, and through which we were promised an easy and strait communication from Black Mars to Victoria-street, presenting a broad and inviting front at Holborn-bridge, becomes at a little distance *black and dreary vacant space, which for ten years has lain in the midst of all the wealth of Lon don, vacant and unprofitable ground, " to let on build ing,leasse." Now, there are two causes why Victoria street has been so little built upon. The first is that it is still a cul de sac : the second is the dreadful cha racter of the neighbourhood on either side of it. Saffron-hill bounds it on the west :if possi ble a still worse locality exists upon the east. If any one wants to see the squalor, the misery, the horrors of London, in all their moat desperate and dreadful phases, we recommend a pil grimage to the courts of the parish of St. Sepulchre, which lie between Cow-croaestreet and Snow-hill. Durham-yard, Sharp's-alley, Greenhill's-rents, and College-court will compete for hideous deformity with anything that either St. George's in the East or St. George's in the Borough can present. It was here, amid the close, undrained, and ill-ventilated alleys that e s caped the fire of Loadon, that the cholera lin gered latest, detained, no doubt, by the disgusting and poisonous abominations which invited former plagues to London and which contributed to that. Here are haunts of the most flagrant vice and of the lowest immorality. It is also in these courts that the hideous tildes of the knacker, the gut spinner, and the bone dealer, are carried on—trades which exist here because in no other portion of the City can premises be found for them, and because, amid so much general equator and corruption, they pass unnoticed, and therefore escape the provisions of the law. The City propose at their own expense to clear away the entire of this locality. They would buy up all this region, and demolish it. By their new buildings on the present site of Smith field-market they would provide the poor who remain, whilst the representatives of the offensive trades we have referred to would be obliged to find another sone for their balances, and in all probability would be forced to remove to a distance from the town. Upon the sits thus cleared, the City propose to COM i struct a new market, on a greatly improved system,, affording accommodation for 5,000 (instead o f 2,750), I cattle, and for 36,000 (instead of, u now, 30,000) sheep : this market is to be inclosed. It would be se placed, as to be apart from all existing the- 1 ronghfares, and from all interference with existing traffic. The general business of the City would not be impeded as it now is, by the throng of Smithfield or of Newgate. The new market would have streets of its own, and there would be such raga. I halos' for managing the traffic to it as would pre- 1 clads the poribility of interference with the genial I business of the metropolis. The site of this market would extend from the pew sent most eastern boundary of Smithfield down the inclined plane towards Victoria-street. By this I arrangement proper provision would be made for the' sewage and clearing of the market ; and with • vises to secure that object more effectually it is also pro posed to erect upon part of the present site of Sznith-i field a large fountain and reservoir, from which there might be so abundant a supply th at the market may be flushed as often as it can possibly require it The cattle market itself would not extend to Vic toria-street. At the western extremity, and onus quently abutting on that street, it is proposed to erect a handsome dead meat market, to supply the place of Newgate. This market in its general character istics would not be %milk° Fierriogden-market—a mar ket which by general concurrence is an ornament ands convenience rather than a nuisance or a detri ment to London. In connexion with the dead meat market it is proposed to erect a convenient abbatoir or slaughter house, to stand entirely detached from dwelling houses, to be built on the most perfect system expe l rience can suggest, and to be placed under vigilant police control. The use of this abbatoir would not I be compulsory on butchers, bat it may be expected' to be very generally used, andsapersede the slaughter- 1 1 houses at present existing in the neighbourhood, to l the arrangements of which, on the score of hmesaity, convenience and decency, too many objecting mew Tuently be taken. his then is the plan of the corporation. Looking at their position with reference to this subject,— looking at the many and complicated interests in volved, and looking also at the great public improve mats to be effected, the project is one to which deliberate attention should be given. We see bound, however, to look also to the objections to it. And this we shall do to-morrow. Certain:ex.—A numerous and influential media' oa Me 'abject of Um moat prommlimis of Um mart of Roam was bol4 at Caminito* yesseeiey, ander Os poi _ Zitey of the Mayor. Tfatireit preeen . ie ea ear alums this day prodndee eves ea ratline of the maims delivered. With the eareptioa of Professor 5A444010118 opeakers who waved sad seetefeed the rowletione were Wawa. Aiwa knot of dissidents erased some tetrerseties sad dborder, bet their embers were too inagaideat to east the pee. eel tatineter of the meeting. Anti lapel resolutions sad an address to the Qeasa were orris& by overwheindes sebritia. TRZ FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT NORTHERN . . . . seliwa;it7iaiii..=i; 'sawed ea um body of Abel Wynne, TA° paeldiad la tbe fall of perms of the Mrsodorkill lomat r Mooday, wee bald yesterday by Mr. Wally. Th e ardbalma that the quaelpr at earth wYY fell did mot INISSI WI yard, be:Sfelllag *mil a ipso of Woo bowed wad , Ike minutia salidimt samba* bp mak the . ozosiodloa bed ban salad es the prestaboos of tM oosboolos set, 00l lbo dassoold was a =law of 20 roof oapadosa. Ueda death.hay did as. hulls% team s Wait el" " LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBRR 19. ThouGa there certainly arc insurrection and re bellion in the Dekery, there are not, it seems, divi miens and dissensions amongst the Dukes. The farmers of South Notts are resolved they will not have a raw recruit from the aristocracy as the successor of Mr. BROMLEY, and the Dukes are determined that the farmers shall. The farmers think that a beard and some little experience of the world would pro bably be useful in their representative; whilst the bakes are stoutly of opinion that down on the lip and trifling in the head are the fittest qualifications their nominee can have. Both aro right. Their respective choices are admi rable. If the farmers want a man of their own way of thinking, of their own kidney, and of their own prejudices, then they have one in Mr. Beartow, and in him, we must say, an unusually good specimen of a Protectionist squire. And if the Doles want to show the farmers that they are ducal creatures—ducal oxen, asses, beasts of burden and household stuf f— to be ordered about as accord; with ducal humours and ducal family arrangements ; if they arc mere couduit pipes through which 89w duoal opinions, and have no more right to have a representative of their own in the House of Commons than they have to control coonty expenditure, the Dukes cannot have • fitter elegant than Lord NY.WARK to proclaim that to the world, and to make the farmers of South Notts feel and appreciate their actual and most slavish condition. Between two such candidates there can be no mistake: what is meant by their selection is clear, and plain, and instructive enough—it is Mr. atanow and real representation; Lord New/ ate and sham representation. Nothing more nor less. The question simply is, shall the 3,000 electors of South Notts send to parliament a member of their own free, spontaneous, unbiaesed selection and choice; or shall fire peers, legislators of this country by the ac cident of their birth, and aa such forbidden by a re solution of the House of Commons, either to vote at or interfere with elections to that house—shall the will of five Leeds of parliament prevail over the rights and wishes of 3,000 Englishmen in the exercise of the highest duty the constitution and the law of their country has confided to them? This is the contro versy that now agitates the Dukery. And that the thing may be as transparent as the Chrystal Palace, the Dukes have engaged all the attornios in the Dukery to help them to put down electoral independence ; so that all which territorial influence, lordly dictation, social power, rcientiflo erganiastion, legal chicanery, and hard canvassing can do will be done, on behalf of the Dukes, in Ilassetlaw. In all probability, too, the parsons will join the lawyers; and then in every parish and ecclesiastical district in the division the Dukes will have an agent far more useful than the attoruies to whom they pay three guineas a day; and all the Dukes, all the lawyers, and all the parsons are, apparently, a formidable phalanx to resist. Yet the struggle is, in reality, a mental one; it is an affair rot to be settled by a counter organisation, by a host of agents, by heaps of money, and by cutting and slashing shoot tM Dukery like whiskered Pan dour*, or as fierce Hussars in an enemy's country. It is a matter to be decided, at the cost of very little trouble, quietly at home; by a simple operation of the mind. All that the farmers have to do is merely to resolve that they will vote for their own man and to fulfil their resolution at the polling booths. What can be easier—what simpler ? There is no occasion to tear and gallop about ; to get into collision with their landlords or to hard words with their landlords agents. If they think Mr. Ilaaaow the better man ; let them my 'Nand vote so ; and the thing is done ; the Dukes defeated and South Notts an example to the rest of England—instead of a discredit to our representative system. Success and independence and self-respect are lying at the door of every elector, if he will only pick them up and use them; and not let them be snatched out of his hands by dictation, corruption, and treachery. Mr. &meow and Lord Nsorsax are both protec tionist:, both tories, both high churchmen. What interest, then, have we free traders, liberals, and church reformers in the succeed of the one and detest of the other ? All the interest in the world. First there is the question of freedom of election and of electoral independence at stake ; and that is a matter of primary and surpassing importance to every one who is sincere In his opinions. There can be no use ful available intelligence where there is not inde pendence. When men are independeat they begin to feel their feet, as an expressive phrase has it: to walk without assistance, to go where they cheerer, to observe what goes on around them, to drew conclusions from their observation, to think, and to possess opinions. From independence they thus proceed to intelligence. So that, though in choosing Mr. tenow, the &emirs of South Notts may not send to parliament such a member as we thick most desirable, they will have taken the first step either to improve Mr. BARROW, or to find a better man hereafter ; and that is gain enough for an election. But what a difference between Mr. BARROW and Lord NEWAILIC. The one a frank, hearty, free spoken, honest thinking, active, sincere man, loving apiculture for its own sake, knowing and appre crating and performing the duties of a resident country gentleman, respecting the teneatry of the county and by them respected, busy and foremost in that system of local administration, which Is, with all its faults, of inestimable value. The other, a stereotyped re-production of unmeaning, senseless, stupid conservatism venting fie.itions opinions; a sham himself, and willing to be a sham in the hands of others. Why, in Mr. BARLOW there is hope, and heart, and work ; in Lord NZWARK, nothing bat empty words, and, we reprise, a well-dressed person. Nature and a generous ftosition made the one ; art and the tailor the other. For Mr. Beneow, to do him justice, feels; he wants high prices for bread; that is a great pity; but as we know he can't get them, so let us pass lightly over his fault, and encourage his good point. But, besides high prices, he wants lon taxes; he is an advocate for reduced expenditure, greater economy, and lower establishments, both in imperial and local concerns. And it is herein that be is emphatically a manifestation of the farmers want; it is because of this exceptional qualifioetion in protectionists, that they have find their hearts on him ; it is because oil this that he his our hearty wishes for his sucesse. There is no class in the kingdom so deeply interested in cheap government, imperially and locally, as the farmers. They are sewing from high rents, high taxes, and low prices; and until they can make taxes and route comforts to Firs, suffer they must. Yet it 11*" timid kies4 who keep up gents; sad • THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1850. ---- 1 GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Our corespondent writes: BERLIN, Dec 16. The • invitations to the free conferences, issued by Prussia to her aka, bear date the 12th of Decem ber. The deponent is not drawn up in the usual curt and canons form of an invitation to a meeting, but is spread over four or flee folio sheets of paper, and enters at length into the history of the various fruit less efforts of Prussian procure extensive alterations in the oonstitettoo of the federation. It begins by stating that for several decennia the necessity and wish for a thorough reform of the onstitution of the Germanic confederation had been manifested in the clearest and most unmistakeable manner through out the whole of Germany. It was generally acknow ledged in extensive circles, and most painfully felt by all true and well-meaning friends of their country, that the supreme administrative authority created by the constitution of the confederation, established in the year 1815, had answered the purpose for which it was declined only in a very small degree ; that its efficiency, both at home and abroad, was small ; that it did not sufficiently closely units the states of Germany ; that it failed to pro mote noble and generally useful measures in any part of Germany ; and, finally, that it did not represent the corporate body abroad with that activity and determination which the mass of the spiritual and material powers united in Germany, and the recollections of the past with justice demanded. The other complaints of the inefficieicy of the Bund estag having been referred to, the invitation proceeds with a reference to the events of 1848. In that year the constitution of the confederation had proved to be utterly incapable and unsuited to with stand the approaching tempest, and to afford protection to the individual states mostly threatened by it. The constitution virtually Dot its power, the foundation of the confederation was shaken. This is an important admission by Austria. The invitations are, it must be added here, drawn up by mutual consent, and are understood to be despatched by Austria to her allies in the same I terms as by Prussia to her allies. The gover nment of Austria has always maintained that the constitu tion had never caned to exist, and that its full powers remained untouched and ulemened by the dissolution of the organ of the confede ration in 1848. This admission is, indeed, most important, for it proves that Austria really de sires alterations in the constitution of Germany, which every friend to the strength and unity of Ger many must admit to be necessary, whether they In of a liberal or a reactionary nature. The faults of the constitution, and the events which followed 1848' having thus been discussed, it is announced that the governments of Austria and Prussia have determined to summon their respective allies to send representatives to Dresden to attend a eon (cranes for the purpose of deliberating on the nece alterations in the constitution. The name givent i o s = Assembly is no longer" free," but." ministerial " ear ferences. In the copy of the invitation which has been shown to me, the date on which they are to assemble was wanting, but I am assurer that the 'statement which has before been made with respect to the 23rd is perfectly correct. Toe invitation being given, the letter announces that the two powers have agreed that the results of the deliberations shall re ceive by consent the solemn sanction of all the mem bers of the confederation which appertains to them in their corporate capacity by the development of the federal constitution; and shall be published by the supreme federal authority, which is to be freak mated, an the fundamental laws of the confab's tin. This is en equally important concession on the part of Austria, but only a necessary consequence of the former. The ignoring of the Bundestag, and the confession of its virtual incapacity and semi-exist ence, naturally requires that what may be decided on at Dresden shall not need its sanction, which Austria formerly imperatively demanded. The knowledge of this fact by the members of the Bundestag explains their ire and the wrathful pro test which they . are known to have drawn up. It was, however, imperatively required that Austria should make this concession in order to avoid a war. The ministerial conferences in Dresden will show whether the results expected by Manteuffel from it were really oontemp'ned by Austria. The invitation concludes with the enunciation of a firm hope that all the members of the confederation will assemble and assist with equally federally-friendly opinions. I find in several journals full confirmation of the statement made some days ago that Mantsuffers plan is to divide Germany into two great political bodies, presided over by Austria and Prussia, and with a joint organ in Frankfort. Austria apparently is not disinclined to this plan, but it will moat assuredly meet with energetic opposition at the hands of Ba varia, Wirtemburg, and Saxony. Hanover will be not less active in its opposition to the plus of Prus sia, but will possibly require the return to the old constitution of 1815, without the slightest alteration. In either case the conferences, the title of which has been well changed from free to ministerial conferences, will prove anything but amicable and friendly discussions. It is to be expected that threats will be necessary front the great powers to procure adhesion from the refractory. If Austria and Prussia un prepared to take such a decided step, which does sot seem probable in the former, the conferences will hot bat a short period •, but should the plans of Prus sia be regarded by Austria as mere proposals for dimension, they will prove next to interminable, and Austria will finally carry out her own plans by dint of sheer patience and perseverance. It has been stated that Hanover, Brunswick, Olden berg, and the Huse Towns, with Holstein, perhaps, we about to form a N or th German ion, and would act together in Dresden. This is an error. Brunswick is estranged from Hanover during the life of the present duke, whose matrimonial wooing. in Stuttgart, were some years ago crossed in the most = ant and insulting manner by the bold and occupant of the throne of Hanover. Olden burg and the Huse Towne have, it is true, signified their conviction that all bonds created by the treaty of the 26th of May have been dissolved, and that they are free to act on all German matters as the y . please, but they are not unwilling to aot with Proms in Dresden on all questions of importance ; the same is the can with the duchy of Nassau. Prussia will not be without support at Dresden. Puttkammer, the temporary Minister of the Interior, is again mentioned as likely to fill that office perms neatly. Mantenffel,who is unwell, from the hard work, migrates to the Foreign-office on Wednesday. Von der Heydt, who has been leR in peone . by the papers during the last few important weeks, is spin fallen foul of today and asked to resign. Reports of his resignation are spread about, in order to be contra dicted, with the remark that the news is too good to be true, or, that "it will not be believed until the Gasetho brings a confirmation," or some other equally characteristic allusion to the tenacious map of the minister on his portfolio. A letter from Vienna states definitively that a cabinet courier had started far St. Petersburg, to n call Count Bnol, preparatory to his departure to the Dresden conference. Some of the papers received this morning announce (without reffrnng to the previous statements of a contrary nature) that Lieut.-Gen. Peucker had started for Hesse Camel, in the capacity of Prussian aim missions; and that he and Count Leiningg n have paid their respects to the Elector at V(' and have proceeded to Camel. - Binunt,Dno. 17.—Voluntar1 Loan, 1031 ; New Loan, Poaroad+Half pee Coate., 981 ; National Debt, 84 ; Commercial Marine Society's Premium,: 120; Bask Obaree,93l. _. .. .-- Vramire, Die. 18.— Five per Coat. Metalliques, 941; Frerr-ead-e-Halt per Coats., 821. Beak Btu% 1148. i llsebasse as Leatioa. 12.15. FINDING OP ONE OP THE BODIES OP THE BELNIN DIOVIIIID OPP WORTILING .-01 Tuesday afternoon, as ems of the Medea dierma wire pinion the cliff in the brief Weevils si hlr weather, they obsorted a dark object &aides la the vary. This proved to be the body of a fishermen, sal so doubt was entertained of its being the raraaiss it sae of the wifortnabl =ea drowned a fortnight Saes si Worthing. Wkiek of them it was, it was difficult irag, al the fase sad hands were =Only eaten away, and there remised /sly • sautilated Sauk. It had oa a gaermy, • pair of drawers sad seeks The body was taken to the TOWS Hall, where it awaits ea hums. Two sere beams an resoled to have washed ashore between Lawing mad Worthing. The finding of these bodies is act easaimeted, hr the Inagua being rough and the wind W. 8.17. that, is, blowing directly is the direction when the boas ugliest hammed, it was, considered probable that the wild Ages lip. FRANCE. PARIS, TENSELY EVENING. In the National Assembly to-day the debate on the hill for the reform of the law of mortgage was re amed by M. Valetta, a professor of Civil law, who made a speech of two hours in answer the speeches el MM. Michel de Bourges Dopont (de Beesac). The assembly li steaed to M. Valette with great attention, but the subject is not of any interest oat of France. The debate still continues, and is not likely to close to-day. M. de Vatimesvil, the reporter of the committee, is replying to M. Valetta. At the commencement of the sitting, M. Duche complained that no report had yet been made by the committee of parliamentary initiative on a propo sition brought forward by him lest year relative to industrial and agricultural associations. M. Gasc said that the question had been dropped at the commence ment of the vacation and not resumed, but that, as he had been appointed to draw up the report, he would do so with the least possible delay. For the last few days the legitimists have been is great spirits, in consequence of a step taken by the Comte de Chambord to counteract the effect of the rather too famous Barthelemy circular. It will be remembered that the circular in question nominated the Duke de Levis, General de Bt. Priest, M. Berryer, the Marquis de Pastoret, and the Duke des Cars, as a comfits in France to represent Henry V. in his absence. this committee has been broken up, and the following gentlemen have been appointed as a committee in its steed, namely—M. Berryer; the Duke de Nosing", oz-peer of France; the Viscount de Fallon:, cap minister; M. Benoist d'Asy ; M. de Vatimesvil, minister ; General de St. Priest and M. &invite Barthelemy, representatives of the people; together with the Duke de Clermont-Tonverre, ex-minister; the Duke de Valmy ; M. de Raineville ' ex -d eputy; the Marquis de Pastoret ; and the Duke des Cara. The Comte de Chambord has written a letter to IL Berryer, in which he directs him to call on all the GI \meats of the house of Bourbon in the Legislative Amiably tooppoes the renewal of the dotation of three millions of francs to the President of the Republic. A duplicate of this letter was sent to General de St. Priest, and M. Berryer complains that the Comte de Chambord, by doing so, not only shows a want of confidence in him, but precludes him from using any discretion as to the publication of the letter. It is parable that the affair may produce a fresh split in the ranks of the legitimists. P.S. 7 o'Clock.—The debate on the clause of the mortgage reform bill, under discussion for the last two days, has terminated by the adoption of the amend ment proposed by M. Rouher. The following was the result: Number of voters For the amendment M. Pascal Deprat hue given notice of his intention to put some interpeUatioos to the Minister of the Interior respecting lotteries in general, and especially respecting the Loterie des Llnyots d'Or. The inter pallations have been fixed for Saturday. WZDNIMIDAT EvININO. In the Legislative Assembly to-day the adjourned discussion on the bill for the reform of the mortgage system has been resumed. M. Riche and M. (ire mien: have occupied the whole of the sitting till the hour of post. The proceedings are not of the slightest interest. The Erenlment has been seized foe giving pre miums to its subscribers, and an action has been raised against the editor of the paper by the procureur of the republic, is which a claim of fines is made which amounts to 21,000 fr. It is said that the arrears due to the employ's and tradesmen of the Epee amount to upwards of 1,200,000 fr., besides 700,0001 e. borrowed from a great Paris banker, on bills payable within the first three months of 1851. In consequence of the financial embarrassments of the President, it is supposed that the ministry will be forced to bring forward the question of the dotation in the course of the month of January, notwithstanding the formidable opposition threatened by the legitimists and republicans. The President of the Republic has sent his bast to the workmen of Dijon who subscribed for the flag which was presented to him on his visit to that town. The present was accompanied by a sum of money, destined to be placed in the savings bank, for the re lief of the most necessitous of the workmen, and by a letter from the President, assuring them that he takes great interest in the labouring classes. The Chambre du Conseil of the Tribunal of the Seine yesterday decreed that Allele, the police agent of the Assembly, shall be tried by the 'Tribunal of Correctional Police, for having made what the law calls a calumnious denunciation in convection with the alleged Bonapartist plot for the sessaivation of General Changarnier and the president of the Assem bly. The trial will probably commenos on the 24th. BOURSE. PAM, Du. IS. ice - Many. Opnew . 67 50 0 . 0020 1 • • n lAadas I 41111abset. Lowest. Clcsang. ---I II per Cents. 67 33 97 60 37 50 57 60 I per Cenu 93 20 93 40 93 10 93 33 6 do. New Loan ,. • , • it i per Cents. • et • • 4 per Cubango on ..---A t i,t de% t, 34 90;"90 dess734 775. " Ur,, 1840 !, 11142 Da R — ... Do. 1830 Tesssury Bonds_ !NMI 3 p.Ct.1849 94 30 . Bank Shares Doviss.—St. Germain, 410 ; Versailles (right bank), 170; Ditto (left bank), 172 60; Paris and Orleans, 842 50 ; Para and Rouen, 655; Mown and Havre, 261 25 ; Kamilla@ and Avignon, 193 75; Strasbourg and Pole 135 ; Centre, 415 ; Orleans and Hardman:, 391 25; North , 478 75; Paris sad Strasbourg, 357 50 ; Tenn and Hanks, 248 75 ; Montanan and Troyes, 90 ; Dieppe and ',camp, 180. UNITED STATES. TWO DAYS LATER. By the arrival at Southampton of the Franklin steamer, we are in possenion of two days' later intel iligence from New York, the dates being of the 6th Want. A telegraphic summary of the intelligence in yesterday's Express. 7:have received our New York correspondent's litter, from which we make the following summary : The ravages of the cholera at Jamaica are really dreadful. The citizens of New York propose to send some relief to the suffering inhabitants. The news received from this island by the Merlin is of the most frightful and distressing character. Up to November 14, six days later than our advicee by the Crescent City, the epidemic, which had been raging with increasing virulence for more than a month, was carrying off its victims at the rate of from 150 to 200 per day. Coffins could not be pre pared fast enough for the dead, and many bodies were left upon the surface of the ground, to poison the air, for the want of necessary help to dig pits to receive them. We shudder when we reflect that this scourge has been raging for some twenty days since any tid ings of its ravages have been received. A month has already elapsed since we were advised, by a private letter, that the physicians were all broken down with fat'gue, and unable to attend half the cases to which they were called : that the stock of medicines was exhausted, and unless a supply was received from abroad, the island was threatened with depopulation. What adds to the horror of their condition is, their isolation, aggravated by the pestilence, which has prevented the New York steamers from landing there with supplies, and from carrying away those who can afford to leave. The Evening Poet says : Do aot these facts call upin us In this city to make some effort to alleviate the distress, before which the people of Jamaica are utterly powerless ? Ought we not to take step s to send them medicines, physicians, and such aasistance u are now most necesany. Unless something of this kind is done, the probability is, that all the white population who eau a ff ord it, and whom the pestilence spares, will leave the ' Island, beggars, sad those who remain will be liable to I become early victims of the cholera and of their growing poverty. By the arrival of the brig Nszitiski, Capt. Nelson, this morning, 11 days from Turk's Island, we learn I that she left Ponce, (Porto Rico) on the 16th Nov., and that at the time of her departure the Governor of Ponce had ordered oat all the troops, and mustered the citizens, who were patroliog the streets and I wharves, in anticipation of an attack from General Lopez. It was reported there, that the hero of Car -1 dense was in the vicinity of Ponce, with an expedi tion designed for the capture of the island, and the people were in • state of general consternatio n . I The money market is abundantly supplied, and a steamer from Chagres with the halt-monthly remit tances of gold is daily expected. The cotton crop is undoubtedly short, but we think your spinners are sharp enough to keep the market down to the rates they wish. We are so completely influenced here by your quotations, real or false, that prices rule a ccor dingly. A home market for cotton is the only corrective we have. We learn from South Carolina that the legislature had resolutions ander discussion declaring their de termination not to elect United States' senators to 811 vacancies, and instructing Senator Butler and the representatives of the state not to take their seats in Congress; also, a resolution instructing a committee to report a bill of non-intercourse with all states that throw obstacles in the way of the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave-law; and another, with • long pre amble of grievances, declaring that, in the judgment of the legislature,secession was the proper remedy, and that South reline, sooner than submit to the aggressions of the Federal Congress, will interpose her own sovereignty to shield her citizens from future outrages and wrongs at every hazard. The Governor of Virginia in his message to the legislature says : Virginia, and, I think, all the slave-holding states, can and ought calmly, but explicitly, declare that the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, or any essential modification of it, le • mutual repeal of the Union. The faithful execution of this law is, in my judgment, the only means now left by which the Union can be preserved with honour to ourselves and peeps to the country. Advioes from St. Domingo City to Nov. 2 state that, through the intervention of the English and Americans, a treaty of peace has been concluded between the Dominicans and Haytiens. There had been some brink fighting between the contending parties previous to the arrangements, but no serious losses on either side. Au English man-of-war was in the port during the negotiation of the treaty. The remaining prisoners connected with the Cuban expedition had been released. By the enterprise of the Cunard Company we shall for the future be placed in regular communication with the West Indies tel New York. The steam-ship Merlin, first of the new line, arrived at New York previously to the sailing of the Niagara. LOSS OF THE HELENA SLOMAN SCREW This vessel, u stated in yesterday's Express. we. lost en her passage from Southampton to New York. She was a new iron boat, built two years since by Pim, of Hull. She had already made two saseessful trips between Hamburg and New York. She left Southampton on the Ist ult. with a valuable cargo and 180 souls on board. The punengers and crew were principally Germans. She was discovered by the American packet Devonshire, Captain Hovey, after having been beating about in great distrew for eight days. In the attempt to rescue the persons on board the steamer, four of the crew of the Devonshire, and five of the passengers of the Helena Sloman were lost. Frogs the time of the Helena Sloman'e departure from Son th'.pMm, on the let of November, until the 10th, a of note occurred. On the evening of the 19th5te enesr tired a fearful gale, which she braved gallantly salt eleven pm when a heavy . sea struck her on the etma and starboa rd quarter,"causurg her to quiver from stem to stern. The rudder was then found to have parted fres the ship. The steam was then blown off. Considerable uneasiness now prevailed—rudder lost, stern•post gone, ship leakiag propeller not able to be worked by her sails, owing to h e r gnat length (225 feet). Oa the 21st and Had the gale wee most violent, and the pumps were waked without Intermisint by means of the engine. On the 22nd a distress rudder was tried end found to be wholly ineflldent. At ten a.m. on that day a barque was seen about tan miles distant, with all sails set, end steering west. Distress signals were hoisted on board the Helena Sloman without sucess. About three pa. the crew cams aft, and begged permission to lower beats and pull for the barque. The captain, Waldo, it =and their ability to reach the barque impracticable After much discundon amongst the crew, whist: we. likely to end in a mutiny, the crew aequisseed. At omen the twain and crew of the Helena Bloom succeeded la 'Meg bar head round, but all to no pupae. On Than day, the Mb, all was jey en board, at the an nosammeat of a sail in were made whisk were happily observed ea tinse l t r ali mil, and which sell timed out to be the Aniline pedal Devonshire. A. aeon es the Devonehire some seer the lieleas Illemea she commenced nohow melelemse, and samesiai la loin all the prompts eml sew, with t h e assegilen el in, but in her sable eadeareaz the lam fear of bra own mew. The mplein ri this Ileimm Bloom remained on beard until the lost, end he wished hie moo who were aleaside la the boats wetting for him to some ea board, ee that they might be melded to netify that the ship was elaWarr, but they refused, sad be then saved .11 the pa= k eeniel, sad then kilt to bee One. She sunk soon UM of perms dowsed : —The names of the four of the mew el the Newlin who were lost in the noble ea delieeer to we the mew and paeemgere of the Helena Mamas were se fellows Mr. Johnson, third mate of the Demuth, ; Ida Ham" of Londcarlarry ; Gawp Riley, et Ha; and Daniel Msearthur, of Montreal, seamen. The 111111111111 th e 118111111110111 01 th e Helena Blooms who wen h o g vigs.-I{r: Mama of Mecklenburg; Dr. Lute, of Zellbreai m t= g laweabsek, of Mecklenburg; John ; end Henry Otterbarg, of Hanover. Plelk a eiglaa pessingen who jellied the Helena Woman at thenthemcloa were—Mr. Madden and hie John Yams Ms. J. P. Geary, Mr. Ettehilen, and Mr. B ihar . A FIERY linzow wu °bowed from Waterloo Bridri this easealag. about halfleet oas, la a north easterly direction; and at the same time a bright star wee seen in the sans direction, which disappeared a minute or attorwarda. CANADA. Our correspondent writes under date MONTREAL, Deo. 2. A highly important and influential public meeting was held the other day in this city, for the purpose of taking preliminary step. for the construction of a railroad from Montreal to Prescott and Bytown. Prescott, as you are aware, is situated on the north ' bank of the St. Lawrence, about 100 miles distant from this city, and 80 miles from Kingston. It is at the head of the rapids of the St. Lawrence, and the foot of the natural navigation of Lake Ontario. By town, on the Ottawa, is a little more to the north, and is situated on a tract of country of great resources. There were present at the meeting the Hon. A. N. Morin, Speaker of the House of Assembly; the Hon. P. WOW, B. Holmes, M.P.P., John Young, Esq., and a number of our most influential merchants. . . We have at present very magnificent canals, which complete the navigation to Lakes Ontario and Erie; but these are frozen over during six month. in the year, thus cutting us off from the western trade during the winter; and this autumn it unfortunately happened that an accident occurred to the Cornwall Canal in the shape of a break. This obstructed the navigation during two or three of the busiest weeks, land produced injurious consequences to the trade of Montreal, to inch a degree u was graphically stated by one of the speakers at the meeting, that "there was not a man in the city who had not felt the effect of it in his business this fall." It was stated at the meeting, I believe, on unquestionable authority, that 100,000 barrels of flour went over the Ogdensburg Railroad, that but for this accident would have come to Montreal. The existence of this Ogdensburg Railroad is an other cogent reason why we should have the proposed one to Prescott. Ogdensburg is also situated on the St. Lawrence immediately opposite to Prescott; and from it one enterprimiog southern neighbours have a railway, placing it in communication with New York and Boston. This, as you will readily imagine, " tapi " as it is termed, the St. Lawrence above Mo ntreal, in a very formidable manner for the interests of that city : and if it is not to be left behind, it will have to display on its part an energy equal to its rival on the south side of the St. Lawrence. Moreover than this, Montreal, at immense expense, is constructing its portion of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, which it is stated will be completed in 24 months, and which, when it is completed, will put this city in communication with the Atlantic at a poet (Portland) accessible at all seasons of the year, so that to give this road its due efficiency, or " to pre vent its being set aside altogether," in the language of Mr. Young, at the meeting, we must have com munication with the west in the winter. These two last arguments are of paramount importance. It was further urged at the meeting, and with much force, that the proposed line would - be only the first link of a great chain of railroads, westwards, along the banks of the St. Lawrence to Kingston, and the borders of the Lakes to Toronto, Hamilton, and to Sandwich, opposite to Detroit. Then from Detroit there is railroad communication now nearly completed that would place us in ooneexion with the head waters of the Mississippi. These links, it is not unreasonable to suppose, will in time be constructed by the people of the different localities ; and perhaps it is not too much to say that they would have been ere this had the colonists manifested the energy of the repub licans. After the preceding remarks, it is needless that I give you a synopsis of the speeches, or of the reeolu time passed at the meeting. A subscription was im mediately oommenoed for defraying the preliminary expenses of the survey, and several large sums were contributed. When holt the road is completed, the province will give its tee for the other half. I think the railroad will be constructed. INDIA AND CHINA, THE OVERLAND M.UL. We have received our usual filet and cone epon by this mail. The dates are: Bombay the 16t, Calcutta the 7th of November. The folio ' win / from our own correspondent : BOXBaT, Nov, i There has been a quantity of discussion ie Indian papers during the last fortnight on the gambling cue, and the trial of Major Bartlemen, endeavouring to seduce the alfectiucs a a broth, officer's wife.° On the former, two or three long et e ments have been published—one by Mr. Meh:en defence of himself, and another by Mr. Barr. Lang (of Simla "Rose" celebrity), uptettlog Dependence seems to be placed is ilia latter, eel is represented as a fall, true, and particular tim e the affair from beginning to end ; and if so, the c : ‘ seems the only party implicated in dithcnou dealing—card-playing for large sums of moue apparently being considered among th e bi g L deserving the name of gambling. Mr. Mtule-j moat probably receive a quiet hint to fall and so be compelled to quit hdlg for a son ; in two years all will have been forg, This is said on the assumption that Mr. Nl‘Cili guilty as set forth by Mr. Lang, whose Irtte however, appears to be rather too highly colu r the occasion, notwithstanding the Fre irg of will alleged by the latter as having at first tertained by him towards the former. Mr. Ni.l is probably a youngster, much more sinned ago, than sinning. Major Bartleman's case has cue good deal of talk ; it certainly is one of a dart ratter. The misguided lady who wa. the obj his illicit desires can scarcely be pitied ; shu re guilt wilfully, her only excuse being the bad t of her huslemd. The poor old father of the woman is the only one of the eat who de i?ve path y : in the confidence of friendship he cot his daughter to a wretch whom he had obligations for favours conferred, and he hail repaid by treachery. Another affair in the north-west, where 0 one is the wife of a minister of the gospel, her an officer in the army, is likely to engage the tion of the military and civil courts shoniy. things speak ill for the tone of Indian soe:ety. The news of the fortnight may be coturrif few lines. The Governor-general left Simla lower country, in progress to the Punjaub, 31st ult., and Sir C. Napier leaves to-mor, - - - - downward journey to Kurrachee. The I. governor, north-west provinces, quitted th. Agra on the 25th, and Sir J. Thackwell has to Meerut, so that Simla has been forsaken b great folks. The disagreements betwixt Sir (' and the Governor-general have been the to in India : the former did not call on the lets return to Simla from Chines, but i aide-de-camp to request to know what marquis had any business to tranate him, and if so, to name the time and plan marquis replied, through one of his s!a when he wished to see the gallant gcer. , l he would not fail to name the place and date which would be most convenient to him to do so: !M.G. Borkely intends resigning on Sir W. Gomm's ass s• leg the command in chief in India, u he cannot serfs under one so much his junior, and it is °aide dots Gen. Auchreuty at Bombay, should a junior to him be sp. pointed to the Bombay command. General Stavety from China will succeed him on the staff here. Its Bishop of Madras continues at Bombay, performing the functions of his sacred office to the satiefuction of all. The Nepsul embassy arrived from Europe on the 6th: they left on the 14th on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Dwarka, from whence they return on the 20th, and when the Atalanta has re-coaled they gut for Calcutta. They were entertained on the nth by Sir W. Yardley; on the 9th by Sir E. Perry. le the return of Lord Falkland, on the 21st or 22nd, they will probably be entertained by him at ParelL Sir W. Cotton returned to Boat* yesterday; he will very shortly be leaving 1/11. CAL R. Bulkley, 2nd Bombay Grenadiers, died at Bbooj of inflammation of the bowels on the :sth tat., very much regretted by all to whom he wan kreer.—The overdrawn Scinde prize-money has been ordered tale refunded by the Court of Directors. The pecuniary distress this will occasion will be enormous, and tbs order has been received with universal =deuces. The recipients asked not for more than their due—it was paid them voluntarily by govern:nue- It has, of course, been spent; and now those who are pro. rerbially as poor as church mice are to be out Older stoppages for six months till it is repaid! This about to leave India must pay up at or eii2— a quiet rap at Sir Charles Napier, who has heretofore relaxed to acknowledge the right of government to retiemb what they had bestowed unasked. No officer a, so the order, to be allowed to quit India until it is paid. Sir Charles must, therefore, either cons down with the coin at once, or cool his heels at Bombay till a reference is made home roe on the subject.—Colonel Jervis, chief engineer at Bombay, and Colonel Grant, superintending Mi. neer, Poona division, are, it is raid, both about to retire from the service—the former will be sac ceeded by Colonel Waddington, C. 8., now at Ades. Captain Shortrede, 2nd lim E. L. L, formerly in the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India, has bets ordered up to join the Governor-general, with a ere to being employed with Colonel Boileau in the surrey of the Punjaub. The Indus river steamer Nimrod left Bombay for Kurrachee on the 23rd ult., and els from stressof weather, obliged to be rue ashore os the 26th close to Dwarka, en the coast of Kattiawar. Her engines, &c, will be saved (they are the same which were taken oat of the Indus, wrecked en same coast a few years since), but the bull 1614 feared, be loot. She had been lengthened 25 feet and thoroughly repaired during the monsoon at a Isle expense. Doubts were from the day of her ,tartitig entertained whether .he would ever reach Enri ches : the weather was stormy in the extreme. Thu sergeants of the 78th Highlanders bare just pre Rented a silver cup to their late se r g eant Mr. M'Leod, who hu been raised to the rank of ensign in the corps after a service of the n aci p ai u r b: is of he th d e , i an n ! tit u g ti iv o years. The Oriental Bank audit report he ;st, there are who grumble at the low rate of interact (7 per cent.) paid on the capital, but this has es bees satisfaotorily explained, the lbuk prefenieg profits without risk to a chance of ruin with 01 1 dividends. A considerable amount of sie.knes pre veils at Bombay. During the past two months ICU Ives ataalelhieetarbiranng charnSteel murders have been committed in the Wand; lb ' perpetrators in two cases oat of these are for trial!' next unions. The 28th and let N.I. have Ice,toirt Scinde, and the 14th Ni., head quarters, gni'? the presidency since my lut. The 83rd Feet , it Poona, have also embarked for Karrathee. Sir Peel, Chief Justice at Calcutta, had returned from. ,! sea trip undertaken for the benefit of tiedbea°,4 wilt& had been rather infirm of latter he ratttl improved by the voyage. to Punjaub —from very war pe w val m : oi nt tan thro w u e gi l b e e a u, " nothing but fever—fever. At the formeestatioett_ officers of the 61st Foot, Dr. Lucas and Lieut. Ara' strong, had died—not from the endemic, hot._ and the European soldiers were dying off delif• N o r d dical supplies were running short, and altett er beitg force wax in a miserable plight, curl! a aa" in hospital. A rumour prevailed at Knew* a descent on the fever-stricken camp w as a ntieipaf. from the mountaineers (no foundation for theri,??2r, is however given), and that the tribes on the frontier were at the same time to pounce on our ie f, Only let the latter try their luck, and eer pats aoo and his Scinde Horse will make of them • . 0 Murree. know too well from experience the ra d , they would meet with to attempt anything af li At !Ahem on the 25th October, there were eirt., d officers and 1,516 men, oat of a force of 146 offieelar 7,725 men. Twelve European soldiers bad dis t e l t du in the week—not one native. Ensign Brig ... awi t 89th Native Infantry, died on the 28th illeta'_`t e e, Jhelum and at Wanerabad sickcess wales p t r: rho as at Lahore. Mooltan had also come in for and it is not improbable Upper Scinde seru, e ,,„l season very unhealthy. Captain R. Hill. ataZ tr lis Native Inhntry, lately arrived at Bomber a" north-west, died here on the 12111 inst. _ ice d P.S.—The Lahore Chronicle of the 6th2„ e , rae‘o,, this morning, has the following items:ill!of n or-general joined his camp on the _ ffri°T rev b Sutlej, on the evening of t he 2nd, and Wow • A mod of Me trial will be food la soother siesta. I. lll4 l ita i :E el, ....-• s‘tg lk iiirTi,cu,.ttutt.ririlt,uf,etyte...ce . ;.lolbart..: ,4.t.e .1 lab' 10 4 bur to re with Fell l'lte eatti rot Oct< rum I the tom at L oho the' thot thei :r.ster Ides 00111 ISO Cal • .V itro Oe n gala!e drof er not roc lulk k g had iy wil ens 11 sick, The a rt. cam floe Shy ce.ent, ult. in d f or of 1 I good. Fen le' ' L . con '(.1407 in e &gam had rinsed a .rk ch. I bject of Car ran into A der temper but eat 'es lyz. pro osipied Bri 1 ceder as ban At A low sr .t e h:t t frlt i• er' l l . l r. r. rite sloe the en fa on the la ;or on hie C nte-otto Ills fer too rourued t ay al the in i'. Napier al: et al ter en ha Cot ins 'T 'bee the a eet with L ace. the C stall. thot 0 : .erul he are which h r: Sir G, o n's aura x - f scot seise t dots Gm. I im be op. I I Stacey i 1 Lem. Toe 1 wforming • oketion of ape on the lige to the urn on the they gar the rich by ' 'eery. (Ia at or 22nd, him g ) 11,,mhy rag us. Col. .11 et Bhooj a ult., eery own.—The !down to he heis the , and ideanatioa. heir due—it :nt, Lim, ho are pro. re out under ai! This r (2 —a quiet afore retuied t to Alvah fficer is, old die until it either curse of bi% heels home e;sie engineer V. rndisg ersi• both eat i will be sa ow at Aden merly in the ia, has bee , with a ci, al in the survey amer Nimrcrl alt., and wc.s on ashore ol of Kettiswer. ere the same reeked on the bull will, it it rcl 25 feet ad on at e lege f her etutiag m a Kunt xtreroc T he ice just pre , Igeant-Inole e, to the rat% mviee of :5 poraccount t hie il g . inches. ..ie le wilota,schi:E:rert.ure'.meorddootetf.ehffaitorlrairtfaifusiihfrhinselionansesceisianittg.dill,ek:no,eehisFwoiteroutttlyesiodh:dhitglithirrit olialic.eerisic!:tctbeagbilp,,icrtoreltldrer:t...m....v.i:edui:ll,ll; throug hout tig, o w e hear el o on they * t nee on om 000 . k, and see 'T: The Loth° re‘ l i u 7, t yl ll' oiriel d ig Illanl e b ig6W motor r no° ‘ i t i rfrf 6r ePdit i li eh;ttlitTS:(lll°C "'l'd " g l .illfi:a r..: Mr 4th Be }be gllblY h" o ,_ ye eired 0 6..., , ..e. i