The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-30 00:00:00

, tl, Coma Inswayosurr, Dotabbet tl. AA S I tA LL the BEST BOOKS o f the SEASON stay be bad out tb• day ol palA t o.tloo frost MOM'S SELECT Kt by mot nabsertbor of Oat Oubtes par mom, sad by all Itrat.clao ecostry Whoa Ihri. of Two Oolong sad vowards.—For Proopretcoes apply to CEARLE.t EDWARD MULE, tt. um Ilileivoreet, Blootoolory.wooro. entreols. TO CORRESPONDS:KM Too ° bdrertbrateatotalandad br "TM Laprab" Yorke Zambia pope', mot to at die 011ie. la, llosearibatnar. by Work oa dap day of paaarrabb HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE . T.. Da..MIONIM Lia.........A1bra00k la. Os. to-soosow.-diambali 1106.—.Abaraaast. 440. LONDON MONDAY. DECBMBER 30. IT is really quite time that the public should know, ea some competent authority, whether Mr. BENNETT is to continue Incumbent of S;. Paul's, Knightsbridge, aid of St. Bernabae, Pimlico, or not. Sams weeks ago that gentleman tendered to the Bishop of LoNDoN his resignation, and that tender was accered by his diocesan. Since then Mr. Res sgrr's friends have been holding meeting after meet ing to palisade themselves that this offer is not _ binding on so " ca tholic" • clergyman es lic is; and hare had at least one interview with the bishop to induce him to withdraw his acceptance of the proffered resignation. But, though Dr. BLOMFIELD " wept " with the deputation who thus advocated the doctrine acd pracithot equivocation, and so exhibited weak and silly sympathy :Weed of just arid manly isd.gostiol at this attempt to neaps from the ;per formance of • 'solemn premise, Bishop BLOMFIELD toe sebservitot a follower of what he deems public opinion to veld, even in his tears, to such entreaties; and so, it in stated, replied that be was under " the painful necessity" of doing what he said he would do. Nevertheleta Mr. BENNETT, it is announced, has act resigned and will not resign. A benefice as only be legally resigned in the Church of England by the iccumboot executing a deed of demiesioa addressed to the bishop of the diocese. Such a deed Mr. BENNITT, it is stated, has not vet executed, and will not execute. /tad BiehoLOMTIEL D, i t is lidded. will now proceed against Mr. Batestrr in the Ecclesiastioal Courts; laving, however, divine ser vice to be performed in St. Paul's and St. Barnabas by those curates who have hitherto been Mr. BEN NETT'S militants there. Seth is the position of affairs as stated in the news papers; and assenting its accuracy, there is some diffi culty in deciding whether it is more discreditable to Mr. BENNETT 01 Dr. BLOMFIELD. Mr. BENNETT has undertaken to do an act which he now, nothing having subsequently occurred to re- lease him from his undertaking, declines to perform. This is an offence 'against common honesty which no refinement or subtlety can justify or excuse : one, too, that was certainly not to be expected from a man of Mr. Betinetr's apparent and outward frankness, sincerity, and conscientiousness: an cffenoe calculated to Asks all confidence in the promises and fair dealing of clergymen of Mr. BENNETT's way of thinking; one certain to confirm the public in the belief so pre valent of their jesuitry and disregard of the ordinary obligations of morality when at variance with their pronely tiniest zeal. No doubt it is hard—very hard — that Mr. Ilessevr should, in December, 1850. be coerced into such a promise by • bishop who, in June, 1850, sac mraged and shared in his proceedings at B'. Barnabas; but it was with a knowledge of that hard ship Mr. BENNETT promised to resign, and as an honest man he ought, by the fulfilment of his promise, to have risen superior to his diocesan ; as it is, he lass reduced hinted( to Dr. HuniviaLD's l eve l, if no t fallen beneath it. Bishop IILoIiFIELD Cannot, of course, compel of his own mete motion Mr. Buiserr to execute a deed of demiesion. But did he, by the long-continui d con eistecey of his episcopal life, by the example of un erring Wit] to the church displayed in his career, by the uniformity of his own personal vies s and practice., and by the influence which piety, modera tion, firmness, and kindness always confer, occupy in is diocese that position which a Bishop of London ought to occupy, cut even an unscrupulous tractarian would dare thus to trifle with him. It is because Dr. Ilt.onvlebn's career has been weak and vacillating, it.consistent and tyrannical, because he has reduced himself to a place which none can admire, and only sycophants con profess to respect; because he has de prived himself of all moral weight, that Mr. Hero:Err has the bud cJuragu thus to treat him; and hems. this squabble between him and one of his clergy Is discreditable to both. The bishop who would not admit a single Irish clergyman into his diocese can't get a disorderly tractatian out of it. The retri bution is fit, though severe. And no wonder Mr. Ilatencrr resists, when be finds other bishops encouraging their clergy in the very practices for which Dr. Ilbosarrecn insists on his resignation. He turns to Oxford, and what does be see there? Nothing less than Bishop WILBER FOUCZ (who told the protestant/ of Chipping Wy combe that he knew of no Itomisb tendencies in his clergy), sanctioning the appointment, as preacher in the university church of St. Mary's, of Dr. PI'SEY, ender whose tuition, and by whose teaching, Rome has for ten years been receiving increasing supplies of Eoglish clergymen. lie looks to Sherborne Min ater,and there he finds Bishop Habor "losing no time" in assuring the clergy of that church that be " con siders 'candlesticks upon the communion table in the church as one of the most legitimate ornaments in a church ;" that " they were legitimately placed there by the churchwardens, who are officers acting under the ordinary, and he as ordinary has no objection to their being placed there;" and that he "cannot there fore conceive under what supposed right or authority any indifferent person interferes in the matter." No wonder with such high encouragement Mr. BENNETT resists the authority, and treats as naught the moral influence of hie inconsistent diocesan. But what encourages him ought to sink deep into the heart of the laity of the Church of England; for it indicates where the weakness of their church really lies; in the bench of bishops. Even now episcopal lines are laid to divert the consideration of parliament from that which alarmed Lord Jons Russell tar more than papal aggression. "There is a danger which alarms me much more than any aggression of &foreign sovereign." If, then, we are to have legis lation (and most properly) for the minor danger, how much more imperative must be legislation teethe major danger? If parliament has to consider that which only provoked Lord JOUN RusslLL'e that nationr how much more incumbent is it for parlisp meet to deliberate on what roused his" alarm ?" Yet endless are the episcopal intrigues now in pre gross to avert the consideration of the greater subject, and to confine attention to the smaller matter. Amongst other devices is a characteristic one. We are, it seems, to have the old scheme of "more bishops " revived. This is Dr. BLOMFIRLD'S remedy for all our ecclesiastical ills. To checkmate Cardinal WISEMAN he proposes at once to create Anglican sees of Westminster sad of Southwark; and so to bring the cardinal's territorial titles within the repressive provisions of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act; the new sees to be maintained whilst he live*, out of the funds of the ecclesiastical commission ; after his demise, ont of the revenues of the bishopric of Lou don. And to some such scheme as this, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT and Lord Mutat will, it is said, lead their suPPort- Of such plans the laity must hewers. Sir JANII3 GRAHAM long ago told them that the went of the church of England was clergy—protestant clergy—not bishops; and to create additional sees until some security is taken to preserve the protestant character of the church is to increase, not to lessen its danger : for it has been by the active agency of some bishops, and by the supineness of the rest, that there is now a danger in the church which alarms Lord lone RosseLL " much more than any egg - reason of a foreign sove reign." Before, then, the question of more bishops can be profitably ente rtained by the legislature, two other questions mast be settled :—L What is the church of England? 2. Where is the church to be found? We have throughout England parish churches num berless, and clergy in every parish ; but in them we have no uniformity of doctrine, of views, or of press thus. There we are taught to believe in ecclesiastical infallibility, here in the all-sufficiency of holy Scrip ture; in this parish we have a sacrificial mediatorial priest, in that an unpretentious minister; in one church we have an altar, in another a communion table; in Pimlico we have auricular confession insisted on ; in Li verp ool we have the punishment of death recommended as a penalty for such a practise: in short, dimities it sa we may, we have two different, I nay, two antagonistic schemes of redemption taught in the church of England. Wba•, this, le the church of England ? Where is it to be found ? These are not questions to be shirked by mking for more Tut public, we trust, have 'mot been snikely re tardier of the circumstances which occurred during the past week at two borough elections in the vic'sity of London. Thom elections occurred in two towns infamously notorious—the one for election deb inche ries, the other for the most flagrant electioneering corruptions. Alter many exposures to which theme phases have been subject, it might have been hoped ihat lise elector. would have learned a lesson. Expe dites% indeed, shows that where corruption has once lobe root nothing is more difficult sten to supplant k. Bet though Sudbury illustrattd this, yet u Sudbury her paid the penalty of its misdeeds, Aylesbury sad Sc. Alban y might have profited by the exam ple. We are sorry to believe that they hays neither of them done so. The circumstances of both contests appear to have been of the usual character, allowing, of course, for the political circumstances of the period, and the improved feeling which undoubtedly prevails among men of respectable position. St. Albans has long been notorious for its avowed and unblushing political profligacy. We have mom than once told the tale of this most corrupt borough-1 the ruin it has brought upon candidates—and the opal' way in which the town has been uniformly sold tol the man, no matter who, who consented to pay the highest price for it. One of the recent candidates stated upon the hustings, in the face of all the con stituency, that the man who sold the borough in 1847 told him that the late Mr. Itamust. paid 4,00 W. kr it, and that whilst the election wee going on one ell tie ommitte• had to post up to London for 70W. monk or they could not have secured the mat. This woe the state of things in 1847. lie the borough im proved since? Mr. Alderman and Sheriff CARDIN made the following statement in his hustings speech : Bet I will tell you something more. Before I thought of apossiog down, a yawn applied to me in London to know if I was &wow of swat in parliament, and in the mune of conversation he modestly asked 2,0004 as the cost of it! I observed that it was a large runt, end asked what it was for? when the gentleman replied, " Oh, you base nothing to do with that —you have no right to risk the questioo." He than told me that the borough we. Bt. (Great cheering and groaning, and miss ot • Name, name.") I plates my surd and honour to the trirl of what I say. When I understood what the money was for, I told the gentleman at once I would rot give it fee inch a purpose. He then went away, and in a short time returned to my offim, and asked me if I would give 1.1C04 (Renewed confusion.) Mr. Alderman CARDEN did not state who the party was who made this offer; but if he knew, he was, we think, in dray: bound to ?mooed to the cry of the electors, that the individual should be .. named." What cause or reason could the re be for concealing the name ? If he was an elector hie brother electors, at the time of an election, had a special right to de mand that he should be denounced. If he was not oee of themselves they were entitled to be informed who it was beyond the preciects of their borough that was engaged in this endeavour to sell the representa tion of their town. Mr. Alderman CARDEN made the following state ment in his speech : My opponent has been introduced here by a man who bag but little reputation to lose, but who, without even a vote in the borough, without any ir Buena over the relpec • table inhabitaate, as go late the lanes and bye alien end trek for votes there. (Laud and groans—" It's true.") It has been booted that Mr. Bell's great Nip pon', ems canvass the borough better in his bad than any where else; and he ones hirsute observed he did net want say great train of gentlemen when he -eat to movers , ; but that be could do it better by himself. Yes ; he goes down the back lanes, and seeks the per man's cottage who has 71. or Be. a week, and some halt do sea children, and there it is he look, for votes. (Cheers and grout.) This, then, is the way the representation of a borough , in parliament is managed. A person who, by the basest means, has acquired influence over the poorer voters of a town, comes up and gets 4,0001., or 2 00W., or 1,5001., se best be can, from some rich man in London. He gem down and expends one-half of this money among the poorer voters of the town; pocket. I ing, most probably, the other half himself. Princi ples and politics are of no moment ; the privileges of a body of electors are trel'ed with contempt and ridicule. One individual gets the profit : a whole town gets the shame. And the' nation is injured by a member who goes to parlia ment to sell him vote to the government toe place or patronage. Bad as was the system before the Re form Act, was it worse than this small borough system now ? Leaving St. Albans we turn to the (case of Aylesbury, a borough in no way similarly circum stanced, but where there are influences at work at an election which it would be scarcely lees desirable to expose. Aylesbury is one of the four boroughs in which the Reform Act reserved the right ot voting to the residents within the surrounding hun dreds. This borough is consequently, in extent, a miniature county. The boundaries include, we be lieve, nearly 30 parishes, and extend seven miles around the town on almost every side. Since the I Reform Act Aylesbury has not been free from bribery; bat the extent of the constituency, who number nearly 1,800, has rendered it impossible to employ that de smiption of direct corruption in the same way as in a smaller town. A less expensive, though a not less potent medium has been employed. "Beer " doe, that which gold effects elsewhere. It is a engem at Aylesbury to open the public-houses throughout the entire district for the free use both of the electors and non-electors. At the election of 1847, this precice was followed, and one of the members, Mr. J. P. Dreamy, was, in consequence, unseated by an [election committee, their decision being that "he had, by his agents, been guilty of treating in the borough.. , What course was taken in con , segartee of the warning thus given to the town? Why, a candidate was brought down to it who, through a long parliamentary career, may be said to have literally fasted into the House of Commons upon beer and brandy. Of all the boroughs of England, Maldoa in Essex is the most notorious for debauchery at its elections; and of all the candidates that ever stood for Malden, none ever event half the money at the public-houses that was spent by Mr. Quiterts Mex. Well, Mr. QIIIKTIII DICK was found to be very acceptable at Aylesbury, and was elected by a large majority. He is a tory I d the stennehest stamp. The death of his colleague made a vacancy in the borough, which was supplied het week. Was the member elected one of the same politics? No. A stanch supporter of the preeentgovern sent. Who is this new member ? A Mr. CALVERT : a name which smacks of treble X to the ears of very lover of the beverage. Out of the 1,800 elec tors of the borough this gentleman appears only to have received the suffrages of 499. Out of this poll we shall De obliged if some independent man at Aylesbury will let us know how many are publicans and relatives of publicans? We are informed that*, streets of Aylesbury were full of drunken men oaths day of polling : that in fact, despite the warning oI 1847, the election practices of this town were just as had upon this occasion as they ever were. The coer cion of voters dependent upon the large landowners of the district is understood to have been just as rife, and the quantity of beer consumed, (or said to be troasconed) is said to have been just the same as usual. If this was it), we see no Men why Mr. CALVERT Shona not be subjected to precisely the came =std d paaldlusent Mr. Dawn°. If pub- IMMO ego, let the fact by all means ho made knows to parliament, that the home OW judge of the utility of the measures they at present take to cheek ooremption, sad that they may have an opportunity of learning what are the praotee by which, under the present system of represeatatim, ammbers fi nd their way to the table et the Mum IT is maims ud instructive to notice the efforts made, wheeler by nature or by art, to compensate the law or delloimicy of any accustomed supply. Thus, almost coincident with the partial failure of the cotton crop there have been contriving and maturing the means ter bringing into economical use a substi tute; and this proposed substitute is a material which, in the progress of Illszaractures, bas been to a great extant supplanted by the cotton that now, in its turn, it threatens to drive out of the market. The really quilt's§ of the fibre of the flax plant, aa romeely premed, realer it unit, for being con verted Me yarn by web ebechaninn ea that of the Miss uOll henee, though the actual cost of the raw modal h esediseibly lees than that of cotton at its THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1850. resat prim the cut of manufacture by each slow mottoes ea those to which only it was adapted bare made the linen fabric much dearer. This difficulty of Manufacture seems likely to beiovereome by the new roods of dressing flax invented by Mr. aduesall, in efliielt the fibre is prepared without being steeped. The object of the various processes which the flax thus eledergoes is to reduce it as closely as posit& to the lbiaraeter of wool, and the result of some reeentexperi meat prove that this object has been in a great measure amemplished. Messrs. batours, of Rochdale, have afforded Mr. Chaussare the opportunity of testing the properties of his prepared fl ax, by placing at his c o n e the mechanism of their cotton mill, and we perceive by the Manchester Examiner of Saturday leek that the result has been very satisfactory. The experiments were conducted principally to determine whetipr a mixture of equal parts of flax and cotton mild be spun, with a view to the introduction of flax es a partial substitute for cotton, so as to diminish the demand for the latter proportionally to the diminished supply. For thin purpose, therefore, the coarser kinds of yarn were tried,as the greatest consumption of cotton takes place in throes qualities. The cotton and flax were found to work well together, and the yarns produced are said to have been of an average quality, the thread being somewhat lees smooth and more uneven than the best cotton yarns. As this was the first trial of a new material, the most sanguine of those interested could not have expected perfect results; and the fact that flax mixed with half its weight of cotton was spun byahe ordinary mechanism of a cotton mill, proves that the supposed difficulty has been nearly surmounted. Farther trials and adaptations of the machinery to suit the peculiarity of the material, will, no doubt, lead to further improvements, and though as yet only coarse and rather uneven threads have been produced, finer and more perfect yarns will most probably be shortly obtained. The experiments at Messrs. batour's cotton mill seem indeed to have almost settled the question so far u the mechanical part of it is concerned. The next important problem to be solved is, can the raw mate rial be supplied on such terms as to render it email mically available as a partial substitute for cotton The price of flax in the straw is 41. per ton, or rather lees than one halfpenny a pound ; but the quantity of fibre extracted from it does not by the common pro saw exoeed one-fourth of the gross weight. Mr. CLAIM• sax expects by his plan to obtain 6 cwt. of fibre from one ton of straw, and he offers to supply the prepared fibre, bleenhed and ready for manufacture, at three-1 peace per pound, which is about twopence per pound less than the present price of the best cotton when allowance is made for waste. In the present state of the cotton market, therefore, there would be an im portant saviog effected by the introduction of flex fibre into cotton manufactures, especially in the coarser kinds of goods. It must be borne in mind, however, that cotton wool is now selling at rearly double the price it fetched in 1848, and should the prevailing scarcity be followed by an absedant season flax fibre could not compete with cottos, even admitting that it could be spun with equal facility. It would nevertheless be an important advantag?, if we looked no further, to have an available supply of raw material at command to render our manufacturers in dependent of the fluctuations of the cotton crop, for the range from which the supply of flax night be drawn is not limited by specialties of soil or climate —in our colonies, as well as in England and all puts of the Continent, it may be cultivated with success. The prospect opened by the improved process of preparing flax is not bounded by its nee as a partial substitute for cotton in mixed manufactures. If the fibre, without admixture of wool, can be spun a..d woven with the same facility as cot ton, the linen fabrics thus made wool so closely approach the :price of calicoes, even in the lowest state of the cotton market as greatly to diminish the demand. Notwithstanding the compara tive cheapness of cotton fabrics, the manufacture of linens constitutes hII important item of national pro dace. Teo flax imported during the put year amounted to about 200,000,000 lbs., and adding the quantity growing in this kingdom, the total amount would be 250,000,000 lbs., which is equal to one-third of the largest annual import of cotton wool. Looking forward, therefore, to the time when linen cloth may be sold et the same price as calico, the expectations of those who contemplate the substitution of flax for cotton seem to be not without foundation. We shall not now enter into the agricultural part of the question, nor glance at the picture which has been painted, couleur de rose, of all our paupers fully employed in the cultivation of flax, and our work , houses empty. The manufacturing and commercial view of the subject is enough for the present. It is possible that the prepared fibre may fail to realise in practice the anticipations founded on experiments, and the cost of preparation may prove greater than is calculated, but the matter has now assumed suoh a practical aspect u to deserve attentive consideration. neither be arrested nor prosecuted in arlurinel matters, unless with the permission of the Assembly. Bat the constitution of 1848 makes no mention of corporal re straint. Such were the prise plesaired by M. de Lswehe jacquelin inherent. of M. Manguin. He observed that althoughtbe constitution of 1848 only laid down the rule in criminal cases, amid was silent with regard to civil,thissilenos arose from theciretunstancethat corpo ral restraint had been abolished when the constitution was voted. Re placed M. Mauguin under the pro tiction of the sovereignty of the Assembly. M. Ronber, the Minister of Justice, insisted upon observing the independence of the judicial and legis lative powers. The latter made laws; the judicial power interpreted them. Bach ought to remain within their limits. The case had been decided in the first instance. Two degrees of trial remained. The courts most pronounce sentence. It was impos sible to annul a judgment which had been given without invading the independence of the judges. The Assembly would take a very questionable coarse in decreeing the liberation of a representative who had been committed to prison by virtue of a judicial sentence. The proper course would be to bring in a bill declaring the inviolability of represen tatives in civil matters. Until such a bill was passed the decrees of the tribunals aught to be respected. M. de Vatimesnil vigorously assailed the position of the Minister of Justice, by insisting on the paramount eavereignty of the Assembly, which was personified In its members. Certainly the independence of the two powers ought to be respected. But in this in stance the independence of the Amembly was invaded. If one representative were arrested, what was to binder a mutilation of the legislative body by the arrest of several. Finally, under the term inviolable, the constitution of 1848 intended to include civil are ' well as criminal eases. M. Reedier rose again to re ply, and explained that the constitution of 1848 had not followed the charter of 1830, in interdicting the bodily restraint of representatives, because the old legislative power was intermittent, wh the National Assembly was permanent. Formerly a de puty might be imprisoned during the recess ; but if a permanent inviolability were claimed for tho members of the present legislative body, an encouragement would be held out to; representatives not to pay their debts. But this argument is easily answered by the autho risation to prosecute resting in the hands of the As sembly, which would assuredly protect its own dignity. The house then adopted M. de Larochejacquelin's motion for setting M. Mauguin at liberty by a large majority. This vote of the Assembly was considered as a serious check for the government, considering the pertinacity with which M. de Larochejacquelin's motion had been opposed by M. R)uher. Imme diately after the vote M. Deign drew up a copy of the resolution, and charged M. Duponcean, the head .• Aniarier,” to wo and set 3L. Mauguin at liberty. While a conflict between the legislative and judi cial powers is opened on the subject of the imprison ment of M. Mauguin, the old schism between the executive and legislative threatens to break out in all its former violence on t►e question whether M. Yoe, the Assembly's commissary of police, is to be main tained iu his place or not. The government, and the organs of the Elyse. especially, insist pertinaciously on the necessity of dismissing a functionary who has made his trust a soarce of scandalous personal annoy ance to the head of the state, by his weak and ern dulons admission of calumnious accusations from the lowest spies against the Bonapartist,. Oa the other hand, there is a very strong party who think that the Assembly would lower its dignity by sacrificing a zealous officer to the resentment of power.) Allah' has appealed against his sentence of one year's imprisonment. The new Dotation Bill is expected to be presented in the beginning of January. Ihe council of State terminated, in its sitting of December 25, the first part of the great law on inter nal administration. This first part relates to com munes, and will be followed by three other parts relating to cantons, departments, and councils of pre fecture. The government has sent up to the council of state a bill on oaths. In its last sitting the club of the Rae des Pyramides pronounced for the rejection of the proposition of M. de Tinguy relative to the extraordinary convocation of the councils general. The same club seems dis posed to refer the Sunday bill to the council of state. The Moniteur contains a decree allowing letters and 111)1ln:tale to be directed to California by the way of England and the Isthmus of Panama. The single postage of a letter is 2fr. SOc. The bureau of the Assembly, which was to hold a meeting to-day, to come to some resolution on the affairs of M. Yon, has adjourned its sitting till to morrow. M. Casimir Perier's report on the treaty of naviga tion and commerce between France and Sardinia was distributed. The committee reeommenda the adoption of the treaty. For AOO2liLtU . _. P4lllBl, Dic. ZS. rat Wassy. Opals( Digbest Lowest. Closing. 1 per 055t5..:„L..... 57 50 ' 07 50 57 50 57 43 57 50 3 pet Costa. 93 30 93 33 95 35 93 30 93 30 S do. New Lao.. lt OS Of St N per Cam& l. .• . ... 1 per Isob Oasus 7V23 ssige as Loudon :at di e t, 24 95; 5. 90 dayi,s4 ' 74. Eleigisa,s, 1840 Messy I Naples Motes Money Do. 5, 1841 Do. 44 Do. 1850 s 4 . DO 14 — : Tnewory Bonds— Pildmoot 56.0.1849 84 30 • int Mores 1260 " Boons.—St. Germain, 417 60; Versailles (right bank), 166; ditto (let bank), 166; Para and Orleans, 867 50; Paris and Rouen, 680; Rouen and Hans, 270; Strasbourg sad Bale, 137 60; Boulogne sod Amiens, —; Orleans and Bordeaux, 400; North, 481 26; Pans and But.. bourg, 355; Tours and Nantes, 261 26; Montanan and Trays., 95 ; Mantillas and Mignon, 193 76; Cants., 402 60. SPAIN. MADRID : Dec. 23. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber the Minister of Foreign Affairs declined to give any explanations with regard to the negotiations with Rome for a concordat. The Chamber continued the discussion of an amendment to the report of the committee for authorising the government to put in vigour the new budget from the commencement of the new year. MADRID, Dec. 22 —Three per Ceuta., 36 7.16; after Bola, 351 7 16 malt, 361 paper. Four per Ceuta.. 121. Firs per Ceuta, 121; after Bolas, 12 916 paper, 121 cub. Cou pais, 61 ; after Betas, 61 paper. Passives, 31 paper ; after Bola, 3 13 16 cash. Bask of St. Fudisead, 93 sub. Bedtime ea Lawton, 60.45 paper. CHOLERA 11t JAmttcs.—The memorials from the merchants and betaken of the City of London, praying the government interference for the relief of the sufferers ken cholera I. Jennies, were on Satordey morning presentet, through Mr. Masterease, M.P., by Mr. J. W. Dover, to dio Lords of the Admiralty and Mr. Hanes, M.P., Under Boom tar, of State for the Colonies The latter gave seen/sem that the subject of the memorials should receive his imme diate attention. The copies of the memoriel lying at the Stock Bachame and other public places have not yet been , brwarded. The following were among the signatures to the menorialepresented by Mr. Dover: Lawr. Gurney ; Barnett and Co.; Davison and Co. ; Hawthorn Thadden ; Gled stems and Co.; Scott, Bell, and Ce. ; Stephenson, Galt, and Sarni Cetera, !torten, and Co. ; Ribbed and Co.; Toon son, Really, and Co.; Gillespie, Moffatt, and Co.; Lucas, sad Co. ; John Schneider and Co. ; Phelps and Co.; Joha Scott; Todd Brothers; Jas. Thomson and Co.; Alen. Grant; John Dawson; J. Guttenberg; B. Jacob and Co. ; Goring and Co.; Thos. Wade and Son; Martin, Levin, and Adler; G. W. Spelt sad Co. J. C. Nob:waif; Thos. Alen sad Co. ; Webster, Gord on,a Can't, sad Co.: Blackburn, Tempe, and Robinson ; Jas. Cock; Jes. Field and Son ; Hebron, Syn., and Co. ; Joke Twang ; I. J. Rounds. ; J. W. aid J. Styes and Co. ; Wi 1.. Field; J. B. Tilley and Son; Jacob Maeatta ; George Beasley ; Inc. Richmond; August Faber &ad Co.; Henry Bull; and J. W. Dover. PAPAL MISTING AT HMIT- Ildieeday balto is "mom, of a reeelltise to the high shalt deed by ND of the pulas4a laity gild gortr o p es of the yeasty, a arewied M~IPIS held la the Court at the Twin Nan, //1 it address to be pretested to her Ksiesty GS du parsilhogs of the Bishop ef Hems. J. IstoreaaN mader.ebraft, stud. The Bad of Eleadwieb, Bud ?Rawness, the am W. M'Ohee.lhe lb. prima KLIMA/My (a dleseassz), took part is the preesoiloye. old* resulted fa the adoption of as sati.pspeladdrase lithe Gesso. CrillOtstCONDM—ln 1833 the late Record Com. Wideness lased eirealar ouottions to the municipal sot , perstkes of Bog Led sod Wes, requetlas TIZIALS infer ; mime sub qualms ass Ike following :—" Do 111111saslsas prima, or lave any remarkable ens..— Foveae. told& merooq, la Wades to the sere =miss amsasessylig the of osoperace ah em annul proseesismi. hist; ft, a* mafiosi 1 the plated Mamie or sessoalo of rear low*? Dona, them, if there he sass." To this qoselMit lbe Masai of Oldppen r=.., replied as follows The sorposatea dia. Swim . soir s yew, and pay /or it thselsolossl—Noter Qwrin FRANCE. PARIS, SATIRE/A EVENING. The adjourned discussion on the bill for the intro duction of tho produce of Algeria into France free of duty occupied the Assembly to-day. The 'discussion has already been a long one, and is likely to last for some time longer. The whole debate of to-day turned upon details, of no interest to any one who has not passed the Mole at Algiers. A very important decision was given yesterday by the President of the Civil Tribunal as regards the liability to arrest for debt of representatives of the people. M. Mauguin having been arrested for arum of 1,093 fr. 50c., urged his non-liability to arrest u a member of the National Assembly, and demanded to be taken en:rlfere before the President of the Tribunal. The President declared that the arrest was legal, the constitution of 1848 not having reproduced the pro vision of the charter of 1830, by which members of the legislative bad y were protected from west during the session, and for six weeks preceding and follow ing it. It was thought that the arrest of M. Magnin would give rise to some discussion in the Assembly. the members complaining that the decision of the tribu nals has annihilated the inviolability of members of the Assembly. M. de Lsrochejaquelin accordingly put questions to the minister of justice respecting the arrest of M. Mengel', and announced that he would propose to the Assembly to order his immediate liberty. He considered that the arrest in question was a violation of the constitution, which declared all members of the legislature inviolable. M. Rouber, minister of justice, declared that the Assembly might make a new law to regulate each a matter in future, bat could not now interfere in the decision of a judge without establishing a dangerous precedent No decision had been come to up to post hour. An order has been hued by M. Caliber to the- 1 Sergeoe de Ville, directing them not to obey M. Yon any longer. It is thought that the subject will be brought before the Assembly on Monday. 6UNDLY ETINING. The Assembly wu occupied yesterday with one of these knotty questions of parliamentary privilege which seem destined to renew perpetual conflicts between the legislative and the judicial authorities. A representative, M. Mangan had been arrested on Friday , for a debt of a thoseand francs, in virtue of a augment pronounced by the tribunal of commerce, January 7, 1845. On the point of being committed to prison, he demanded to be conducted before the president Debelleyme. This functionary referred the matter to the court, which decided for carrying the imprisonment into effect, upon the around that the constitution of 1848 accorded no immunity to representatives relative to imprisonment for civil :or commercial matters. M. de Laroche jacquelin undeetoek to bring forward the cue in the Assembly. According to the 29th Article of the charter of 1830, a peer Gould only be arrested by the authority of the Chamber, and tried by the Claw ber in criminal matters. According to the 43rd article no &pithy weld be imprisoned during the ses sion, nor in the six weeks before or after. The 44thi article prohibited the prosecution ce arrest of a deputy during the soudoe, for a criminal offence, without the authorisation of the Chamber, except in the case of flagrant delinquency. Now these provisions have been modified by the constitution of 1848. In the latter charter representatives of the people are declared ' , to be inviolable. The owe of flagrant delinquency in criminal matters alone constitutes an exception. In this case a representative may be arrested ; but the ' prosecution most be curried on without the authori satioa of the Assembly, which ought to be im mediately Wormed of the arrest. Excepting in the can at Issont delinquency a representative can GERMANY, rfRLEGEAPHIC DESPATCH DRESDEN, FAIDLT Evaximo, Dim. 27. The conferences are not yet constituted. Count Alveasleben is president of the committee for the veriftsation of powers. The Austrian cabinet counsel lor, Thierry, is president of that for preparing the Further executions are going on in Cassel; arms not yet delivered up are to be seized without further delay. Austria, it is said, has required and obtained from the Dirt plenipotentiaries for the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein affairs. It is also said that the Stadtholderate has shown a disposition to yield. Our Cologne express brings us intelligence by telegraphic despatches that the Elector of Hesse returned, on the 27th, to Camel. Previous to his doing so, the demand made by Count Leiningen, that all officials should give in their adherence to the ordi nances of September, was re-called. The resistance of the officials has produced this effect. The Elector was received with acclamations by the troops, and the Hessian and Prussian regiments with acclamation by the people. In Cassel a curfew order has been issued by Count Leiningen obliging all citizens to keep within their houses after nine o'clock, and shutting up all the public-houses at that hour. In the conferences it is said that M. Pfortden is losing ground, and that all probabilities are in favour of the " Duality." M. Man teuifel, accompanied by Prices Schwartzonberg was to be in Berlin on the morning of the 28th instant. It wee stated at Berlin, on the TA that the go vernment intended again to prorogue the parliament. Our correspondent at Dresden writes as follows: DRESDEN, Dec. 25. The conferences between Prince Schwarzenberg and Her von Manteuffel are of infinitely greater im portance than the conferences of the whole of the ple nipotentiaries, because if Prussia and Austria can agree on the alterations to be made in the constitution of the confederation, the other states will be corn• pelied to agree to them also, and though the Napoleon-made Kings may protest and object, their opposition will be overruled by the majority of the lesser States. The conferences are not likely, therefore, to terminate quite so soon as was anticipated; but the main points will certainly be decided in a very prompt manner. It is understood that the unfettered deliberations of the ministers of the great powers have led to an understanding on most of the points on which they have hitherto been at variance. They both appear to have been guided by the view that the affairs of the Germanic confederation have hitherto only been regulated after a war, when one or the other party exhausted by its efforts has been com pelled to submit to terms not exactly con sonant with its interests ; and that, therefore, the relations between all have been loose and incomplete, the corporate body weak and unable to beer the slightest internal or external shock, and rendered still weaker by the sad agitation with;", arising from discontent. Had the p mere made war on each other on the ground of their present differences, on its termination the affairs of Germany would have again had to be arranged, and the victor would have imposed terms on the vanquished, such as the latter would on the first opportunity en deavour to alter or shake off altogether. War having been avoided, the two ministers agree that it will be wiser in the midst of peace so to re-arrange the rela tions of Germany. that the just pretensions of both shall be gratified as far as is possible, but that, above all, a strong executive shall be created within the Band, with powers and authority sufficiently strong to withstand every movement from within as well as to raise the German nation to that respect and power abroad which its po.ition in Europe, its extent, and i's intelligence require. Concessions to liberal ideas are not to be cx pen ed within the confederation, though it is not im possible that some kind of sham may be set up which shall have the appearance of a popular element in the confederation. Guided by this view, which it must be confessed, is reasonable and just, in the two men to whom the fortunes of Germany have been confided, Schwartzenberg and Mantueffel have to-day succeeded in settling between themselves what they will propose to the conferences. Yesterday the two ministers were still unsettled on the question of poli tical unions within the confederation, as Manteuffel pressed for an alteration in Art. xi. of the Broulesakt, which would enable Prussia or any other state to establish a political union of real importance without contravening the constitution of the confederation. How this question has been solved, or that of the parity of Austria and Prussia in the executive is not yet known, neither is it known in what shape the settlement come to between Manteuffel and Schwartzenberg will be laid before the conferences ; whether as the joint proposals of the two great powers, or as instructions to their plenipotentiaries. It is also settled, I understand, that Austria shall enter the confederation with all her provinces. The examination of the powers of the plenipoten tiaries is nearly, if not quite, completed, and the As sembly has been divided into sections on the several division■ of the constitution. On Friday (the 27th) the conferences will again assemble, when the straggle with Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Hanover, &c., will corn fence. The political system of the Confederation will not alone be discussed, it is understood that the plan of the Austrian Minister of Commerce for an Austro- German Protective Customs Union will again be 1 , broached, and will be pushed with all the energy and influence of which Austrian diplomacy is capable. The wavering and uncertain policy of the Prussian government hu withdrawn from it some of its allies who are at the same time members of the Zollverein, and who in politics have united themselves with Austria. Here lies the danger to the Zollverein and to Prussia, for the overthrow of the former would lessen, if not ruin the remaining influence of the latter in Germany. The Austrian plan pretends to be • liberal one, but its liberality is confined to the lesser articles of trade, whilst all the larger articles are to be taxed with heavy duties. The governments of Hanover and the Haase towns, together with Prussia, and several members of the Zollverein, will naturally cause this plan to be opposed as energetically as possible. We must await the result. The government of Saxony, notwithstanding the interests of Leipzig, is inclined to side with the government of Austria. Mr. Ward, the English Consul at Leipzig, is at present here. He is well versed in all matters re lating to the Zollverein as well as the German politics, and may be able to employ his information in a bene ficial manner, by private communication with the members of the conference. Of course, no step can be taken in any official way, for Lord Palmerston, mindful of the events of 1849, when he was en the point of acknowledging the Frankfurt constitution ; and the Bing of Prussia, as Emperor of Germany, has on this occasion addressed a circular note to all English agents on the continent, requiring them to maintain • strict neutrality on the question in dis pute between Austria and Prussia. An unfounded report, in ciroalatiou yesterday, brought Hassenpflug to Dresden. Hourienpflug will not come. A substitute has already arrived in the person of Herr von Baumbach. Baron Leaven, the Austrian envoy to Hanover, together with M. Dom berg, the charge-d'affaires from Hesse at the court of Berlin, have alio arrived. DRESDEN, Dzc. 26. The speech with which the Prince Schwarzenberj opened the Conferences on Tuesday last is of in& rawly greater importance than could be perceived from the mere outline which I was enabled to com municate on the following day. I have therefore procured the greeter portion, which I have translated literally. It will be perceived that the Prince laid great stress on the necessity of the restoration of the confederation, though with those alterations which the experience of the years 1848 and 1849 had shown to be necessary. He blamed, in tolerably plain language, the ?ramekin policy of the last two you% the failure of which had at last led to the agreement of the two great powers that the restoration of the Bend was necessary. The plenipotentiaries were flattered in a delicate manner, and the Prince concluded his address with an ear nest exhortation to the conference to exhibit concord end unity, and to act with de cision and rapidity. Prince Sohwarzenberg opened the conferences with the following speech, a great part of which, I regret, want of time compels sae to omit. He said : I enter tale the conviction, gentlemen, that not only the mutual and great object of this meeting has united us hers, bat elm that everyone is animated by a heartfelt dl his powers. ; t readine s s w nt n, desire to see this object obt a i ne d as . is ee d,i s , as possible, adwill ue onset in praiseworthy he work with which the high autho rs o r your ere dentists have replied to tt e invitations iseaeeC; them by Austria and Prussia, togeth e r w i t h the ele c. tion they have made of their representatives d." spatched hither, are a guarantee that we are assm bled in the spirit of union, mad that the work of a • will commence with success . The Gaman canted:" tion, the result of a necessity, the recognition r O " f which was produced by the teachings offered us in a period rich in historical events, has, during a period of 33 years, been one of the guardians of th e public peace, and has aided materially in maintai n . I trig it. But, in the interior of Germany it h as also done much good, though this has been wilfally misunderstood by many, and by otters n ot 'elm - ow ledged, because the confederation did not operate iti cording to their wishes, or because it did camel to life all the good the germs of which wise foresight ha l planted in its constitution. This latter reiroaca may contain much truth, bat it ought to he moderated by the consideration that there exists nothing t enni , which is entirely perfect. The advantages, 6;4 - ever, which the Bond has givi ii us are sh ow ; 'by a retrospect of the rich blessings whi t e have been spread abroad in Germany under its pro. tection, and by a glance at tho condition ot the pre. sent, the development of which, we owe to a period in which nothing but protection could be sufSc'ently efft teal. This latter period ought also to be a les s el to ti; and ought on this occasion, as once before wan the seriously to warn us to take advantage of our dearly. purchased experience. We have leernt th.t at tempts to cria , o something entirely new d o not lead to the desired end. They have proved that the bseis on which the ehMtedtratioa rested was not only good and useful, but that it was the only one suitable to a building is which a coal. munity of stater, suet as Germsny secludes within its confines, can possibly remain together in miter and general prosperity. These experiences have ae the same time caused us to recognise the errors which the present constitution of the confederation con tains, and has pointed out the blanks the fin. log op of which has become a neeessitr. Such a necessity is above ail the strength ening of the supremo organs of the clefede ration by mew arrangements, which shall 'secure it to the future, shall erect a dam to the floods of revoke. tion, and shall protect the monarchial pric4le against the latter. The noble speaker here briefly stated that the government of Prussia was animated with the same views, mid had united with the government of Austria for the purpose of considering with the representatives of the other states of Germany those attentions in the constitution which the experiences abase Cloth to had shown to be necessary. He also thanked the government of Saxony for its readiness in granting the city of Dresden for the seat of the free conterencts. I hope to be able to-morrow or neat day to give the pagan( a entire. The speech concludes with the fol lowing :—Agreed on the point of &par :4;e, direction, and the object, we shall b 3 obi 2 tuton to obtain the last. Let us proceed to our +telt with honest intentions, mutual confidence, the tlisitie of God, and therefore with courage, and we shall out:et C. The Prince Schwarzenberg was fuilow.vl, as has been before stated, by Baron Must and It VO3 Met teuffel. The latter spoke very shortly, and in his usual broken manner. What he said wad the to! lowing : Baron Manteuffel : Permit me, gentlemer, . press my thanks for the readiness with which :he it. citations issued for the conferences of to-day have been accepted, and that at last, after var:ous dissa tions and melancholy estrangements, which have continued more than two yearn, the plenipotentiaries of all the states of Germany have assembled here, unanimously resolved to co-operate with each other towards a successful solution. I may add a word of hope and confidence. If we desire to avid the re•urn of those painful experiences, lit us show to the nations of Germany that their "goeimments possess the intelligence and the strength tcussarr for the removal of existing deficiencies, and f r the iron dation of a great, truthful, and firm work. Manteuffel having concluded, the Haver an plcn: potentiary, Herr von der Pfordten, rose, end in a fi , words declared that the intelligence of the Garman people demanded alterations in the constitution of the confederation, which he was prepared to advocate. Nothing further of importance was said in the first sitting. They meet again to-day. I was in error yesterday when I stated that the F , ctioni had already been formed; that is one of the oilers ot rho day for this morning. The first section will be that to which must be confided the cxaminatieu and car. rection of the protocols of the sittings. I have ascertained that the agreement between Prince Schwarzenberg and Baron Manteulte , has hen reduced to writing, and formally signed. The agree. ment in question is very short, but not the lees im portant. The two ministers have agreed nut to make mutual proposals to the conferences, but to give to their plenipotentiaries general instractioes of the same nature, and to direct them on all oceaeioes to vote together. The nature of the settlement which his been come to between them on the poirts at issue is yet unknown, but your readers may probably Leer more of it to-morrow. That the facts are so is can. firmed by the statement that Manteuffel will warn to Berlin to-morrow or next day. I mentioned yesterday that Lord Palmerston had instructed his agent in Germany to preserve the strictest neutrality on all questions in dispute be tween Austria and Prussia; be has him:cif however, caused a circular note to be presented to the governments of Germany, in which the admission into the Confederation of all the Austrian prov:nces is protested against in very strong language. This protest will most probably prove of little avail, foe the two great powers, Austria and Yrusirs are agreed on the point, and as they an the chief parties concerned, will not pee wore than the necessary diplomatic attention to it. The minor kings may seize hold of the opportunity to prolong their resistance, but they must finally give way to the all-powerful right of Austria and Prussia. They will also prove wee troublesome to deal with when the question of the constitution in each particular state shall come before the conferences. to Ex. I few DRESDEN, DEC. 27. P.S. Prince Schwarzenberg accompanies Nlseteuffel to Berlin to-morrow. The most perfect understandillB has been obtained between the two minis :km BERLIN, Dec. 213.—Voluntary Loot, 105; New Lem, Four•and.s-Half per Cents.. 99k; National Debt , 64, Cop inertial Marine Society's Premium, 120; Bank Snares Vtarries, Dec. 27.—Five per Coes. Metailiques. Four-and-a-Hell per Cents., ditto, 821. Bask SIAM 1135. Exchange on London. 12.20. DEATH PROM STARVATION.—Last Saturday Ml' lug Mr. Wakeley, M.P., held an inquiry of genre' boon . duration at the Torte J ohne, White Lion•street, Protearak, touching the death of John Berknell, aged 60, who tom starved to death. The parochial authori t i e s and a log e number of rate-payers attended the inquiry. The in/ w ... ," 8 horrified at the awful spectacle which the body prwow" The bod y to in • room at 4S, White Li on -street, shrivelled and cram up, on a heap of sacks. The shirt which de ceased on was purchased by a neighbour who gold 1 sheet to enable her to do so. Sarah Debunk stated tbst de ceased had been out of work and getting_ but one meal o f us or weak gruel a week for some time. He had been doping about in outs and cellars until permitted to occulif th ° empty room in which he died. When in work his wane had been sixpence a day. He had been for toms time. Mr. Menu, the perish surgeon, said that he saw deemed on Christmas - da y , on a parish order. He found him io s aka room in an exhausted state, requiring not food but niedigioiii He wrote a certificate of the poor nesn's sot be and endorsed it " Urgent." Mr. Crowder, °veneer, siodb° was in the workhouse when the order came, but it .a° written so illegibly that he Gould not read it. The Coroc st tf said that the surgeon could have ordered nourishment once had be so chosen. Mr. Crowder said he sant deceura a shilling sad a loaf. The Coroner summed ap at ft" ; length and with great minuteness. At the close of Muttr the room was cleared of strangers, and the jury, Ulf an hour's deliberation r e t u rned the following " John &skull died f rom exhaustion caused by the of the memos necessaries of life. And the jury b.of '" l' e a Mr. Maas that he is math to blame for not beros4 sc, with promptness and precision an d for not o°b seen perfumed what should have been done for draw" will sot Aid they hope that in all future similar cues he a eos with promptaies, and immediately order adati to sure the holm. The jury further expect that Mr. Mannegittl upon time suggesticea." After the inquest, the turned so worthy coroner endorsed the summonses of the several coor witnesses who gave evidence with a certificate of their beica. proper objects for parochial relief, which benev olent act highly lauded by all present. ROBBERY„—On Saturday night BOON export thie ve/ effected an entrance, it is supposed by means of skskotoll keyr, into the promisor, 28, Crarematreet, Strsodi carried o ff a large iron chest, containing W . . t ie/ 311, 10a. in diver, and several Bank of England notes tt must have had some difficulty o removing the chief, _ weighed several hundred weight. •,.."' TOEICI r ot (olio' MT. Tb foul valU and sod The its a "~