The Express. — London, England, 1850-08-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS.—BSTIIRDST, AUGUST 3. The Srasnsa took the Asir at 12 o'clock. BUBLIC BUSINESS. SUPPLY.—THE MONUMENTA HISTORICA BRITANNICA. The mod a the committee of apply was brought up, apes which Ms. HUTT took the oppertaaity of calling attention M tho want a liberality a tho publication and distrlbutios tire Wearied week sale/ Maatemeata Histories Britannia, 112=114110 the maary had rid 10,0001 towards seek the Flee of M ftw aft olanse now charged wee C too laigk. The had beta fra , a came, bet that Lica pat& wad almost as a probibuirm to the eirentaties d the bask gall eta espies hams been sold of it ; sad at the ranged gam oat of aa edition of 600, say 46 sepia had berm agora of. Be thought, under eireassmacee, the book shah! be sold kr themeta tdtg the paper sag printinghea. Mr. C. LEWIS d *at the 23. k would be band ealleleady low to plea the work I. the leads el the public Marge, if not the salami should be takes iato osaWers. tion. Mr. HUME thought the price should he so refaced as as Wag the week the mach of the balk et the people. He samosted that a espy el the week skald be emit to every public hbeary. Mr. BIOTRIZTOS sad Mr. G. Tnoareow matured la this reggestion. whim It Mr. 0. C. Lawm said had bees to some meat carried at. The report Ina the agreed to. WAYS AND MEANS.—CROWN PROPERTY. Urn Me motion for briogiag up the mom oa ways and seas, Mr. HUME &dared his itsfentiea dWolin the ra penditure of the public money awe eine* thew ear during the costa of neat maims and skald espesisily demur to say vote of supply being Proposed ekes eatielght. Mr. BROTHERTON also aerated tbe leniency whisk he had shown to the hoar and the 6oeesusat, as whisk they bad presumed, br prouactiag debates, sal peados bills at very late hosts of tho asousing. He ahead ant year she on the Speaker lamas the chair at 12 o'siock sag aight. The report was mad to. ()RAND JURY CESS (IRELAND) BILL FEES COURT OF COMMON PLEAS (No. 2) BILL. These bills were read a third time sad awed. NATIONAL GALLERY (EDINBURGH) BILL. -- This bill awl:pa lilloll/b 0•01111i1WIC SPITALFIBLDS AND SHOREDITCH NEW STREET BI This bill was read a second time, mad referred to a edict committee. The house adjourned at 2 o'clock. Sir Wm. Molesworth has paired off for the remainder of the session with Mr. Buck, member for North Devon. gite Orono. OUTGOING MAILI!... The mails for Maderia, the Bramls, sad Buenas Ayres, will to made up this evening. The mails ail Marnellee, to the Mediterranean, Ceylon, India, Hors-Kong, ite., will be made up fin gY gi evening of August 7. The mails for Lisbon. Spain, sad Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of August 7. The mails for British North Aunties, Bermuda, and the United States will be made up on the evening of August 9. The West India Idsi:s, excluding Honduras, Nassau. Be numb. and Jacruel Domingo), and including Vene• smile, New Granada, and firer Town (St. Juan de Nicaragua) will be made up on Auenst 17. The mails for Havanitals, Honduras, Nassau, Jaemel, Chili and Pent, will be made up on August 17. The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greene, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China. via Southampton, will be =ads up on the 1110,11114 of August 20. The math for Mexieo will be made up on September 2. SION WATER , AT LONDON =IDOL. Tan Day—MaN..IM.2S. ARnaaaa lib To. owl , —Noma& 12, ..... Afierasea. U.. D. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 6. TEE tenor of the report of the committee on Irish Savings Banks will be sufficiently obvious to our readers from what appeared in our parliamentary report on Saturday. This committee, it will be remembered, was appointed last April, in oppo sition to government, but having been appointed, miListers managed to get upon it a large pro. portion of officio.' and other friendly members ' who throughout the inquiry have certainly struggled hard to prevent the threatened exposare. The evidence, however, has been overwhelming, and all the efforts of the commA•ee have been unable to save the officials from some degree of condemnation. In thi course of the present session we have had =ulna to disclose the culpable mismanagement of savings banks concerns by the National Debt Com missioners. Anxious is this committee hu evidently been to shield these Commissioners and all their offi cer', a more thorough condemnation than that con veyed in their report it is really difficult to conceive. They state that where the Commissioners ought to have stepped in and to bare 'net-cited their powers to prevent loss to poor depositors, they did not do so, partly from a misgiving as to the effect of an exer cise of their authonty, and partly from an unwilling ness to run the rick of throwing discredit on the in stitutions. "Nevertheless," soy the committee, "it seems titer that if the Commissioners had noticed publicly the irregularities in fur nishing the accounts, or if either in 1838 or 1843. the commissieners had closed their accounts with the defaulting institutions, the losses of the de puking would have been less than they eventually have been." If the Cube-street (Dublin) Bank had been stopped in 1838, the depositors would have re ceivtd 16s. 6d. in the pound ; and if in 1845, the loss would not have exceeded Ls. in the pound. But the Commissiocers, the authorised guardians of the de poeitors, knowing the deficiency, nevertheless allowed this back to go on, until it was obliged to stop in 1848, with 904 asse ts, and no leas than 65,0001. lia bilities! But this is not the extent of the Commissioners' wrong doing. It is absolutely proved, in the cue of the Dublin Bank, that, by their officer, they ad vised aed counselled the back to go on ! The first discovery of a deficiency in this bank was made in 1831, when the registrar, a Mr. DeNNE, absconded. Mr. TIDD PRATT wu then sent over to examine the claims on the establishment, and without properly acquainting himself with the condition of the bank, he absolutely went the length of advising that it should be kept open, and of stating to the poor depositors that from " his experience in matters oon- Laded with savings backs" there was no cause for them to fear! The amount deficient in 1831 was 18,000/. In 1838 the bank reported to the commis sioners that they owed 23,0001. Still the commis sioners allowed them to go on. The real deficiency at that time exceeded 36,0001, and it increased until it amounted to 65,0001, the commissioners still acting upon the report of Mr. TIDD PRATT in Ib3l, which report "recommended the bank to be kept epee." We cannot but feel," say the committee, "that, as regards she depositors, who are chic, fly of the poorer elan, A DIFFERENT COURSE WOULD HATE PRE VLSTED THE LO3B OP ALL THEIR RAVINGS." What is to be done now ? The committee have recommended, in the first plow ' the institution of criminal proceedings against the registrars or stare taries, 31e,srs. JOHN and Jowls E. Iluours. But these criminal proceedings will not recover for the poor depositor. the 66,0004 of which the culpable re missness of the National Debt Commissioners has .n! fend them to be deprived. " The committee, there fore, influenced by the consideratiou detailed in the preceding paragraphs (i. e., by their sense of the Commissioners mismanagement) recommend theme f tAs depositors to the favourable consideration of her Mo p,sty's gorerninent." In other words Mr.enstiezu.osof the lixeuanuna must put hie band into the public parse for this 65,0001., or the larger part of it. Well, this is very considerate to the p oor d e p os it ors , w h o are objects, no doubt, of great pity and compassion. But did the committee consider the cue as it stands between the public and the National Debt Commit. sioners ? The public did not recommend that the bank should go on, but the commissioners and Mr. Tim) l'itArr did. Surely those who advised the =enures which have occasioned the loss ought t , bear at least some part of the responsibility. Why should poor John Ball be saddled with the consequences of these people's culpable re:Disuses p The committee admit that if the commissioners had done their duty, they "would have prevented the total loss of all the savings" of the poor in this bank ; sad yet having thus condemned them they not only permit them to escape, but absolutely inflict these puoishmente upon the public, as it they alone were guilty of the error. In the Trielee and Killarney eases, the committee make no recommendation. "These eases," they my, " have no peculiar featurnistrongly differing from those of other banks which have suffered from the dishonesty of actuaries." The committee appear to thick tbst in these cases there is sufficient remedy as against the bank trustees. But what an example they permit to be met to these tauten. A gigantic fraud has oared a less ef no less than two millions of Savings Bath rs=; which eft now to be in the of the Milli& Debt Comedians's, sW " ; mate ef miner misdeeds have ocemetoned, as to Owl Colh4lllloE Me, wins lames to poet &palace. In the cans the wrong doers are in no way made to weirs the pub& is salad epos to bear the whole sagest of loss. Bat where, comparatively speaking, trill's defalcation have ocnrredis comesquenco of the Ile=carelesesess of one or other of the ma ths committee would pan spa lbs w ile Mody of trustees te the lams, and ferns every ems althea to bear the Meet amosnt of liability. There is soaresly strict jades la this, however well sash a course may snit the government convenisece. The committee conclude by expressing their satis faction" at the introdnetiem of a Savings' Bask Bill by the CHANCELLOR of the Excinatrza It dose not appear that this bill was ever before them ; that they ever moldered any one ohne or paragraph of the measure I that they were ever dewed by the how to onsider a Moils section of it. This para Ptherefore, would be a gratuitous pine of im lena, most offensive to the House of there did not autos to be circumstances with it that render it especially ridiculous. The truth le, that the Clummizon of the EXCHEQUER himself was a member of the committee, that he assisted in drawing up this report, and that the last paragraph of it received his especial care, attention, and ap proval. The case of the gentleman who, constituting a public meeting in his own pawn, proposed and unanimously carried a vote of thanks to himself for his extremely able conduct in the chair, finds its parallel in the paragraph in which Sir CHARLES WOOD, forming the committee upon Savings' Barks, expresses his own extreme satisfaction "that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has introduced a Savings Bank Bill calculated to remedy several im portant defects in the law." Wten a tradesman is very much blown upon indeed: he goes into: part nership with a "Co.;sad puffs wills double assi duity. The Crurecitzon of the Exenectuza, in paraorship with his "Ca." or committee, tries in the same way to invite another inspection of his very damaged wares, which, however, there seems daily to be less and less disposition, on the part of the House of Commons, to examine. WHATEVER may be the opinion formed of the judgment of the House of Lords in the melancholy case of " Patterson r. Patterson," it will, we think, be agreed, even by those who uphold the Lords' judgment, that for the highest appellate court in this kingdom, for the last Gant of Appeal from the common law and equity tribunals of the realm, to consist of a single judge, be he who he may, is a ver y . unsatisfactory state of hinge In no other country in Europe, or America, does there exist, even by accident, such an anomaly. Yet, for some time past, one single law lord, not being &judge, has to all intents and purposes constituted the House of Lords on appals. The law lord in question has nominally bees assisted by a lay peer or two, and an occasional bishop; but their attendance, like that of city alder men at the Old Bailey, is merely matter of form : real value to the judicial proceedings they are sup posed to hear, their lay or spiritual lordships are, of course, none. When the law lord who sits as de puty speaker magniloquently moves their lordships' concurrence in the judgment he delivers, his mutes nod their heads aagentiogly without feeling, and what is of much greater importance, without having the smallest responsibility for the validity of their learned president's opinion or for its consequences on the pro perty, the happiness, and the reputations of those affected by the affirmation or disallowance of the tippet/. But to describe the House of Lords as at present consisting for appellate purposes cf a single law lord is very imperfectly and inadequately to p?urtray the delusive and unsatisfactory state of its judicial beginner. For it consists of a law lord who is free from any official responsibility as a judge. The LORD CHANCELLOR has been accustomed at times to sit alone on appeals from courts other than his owe. But to preeide over the appellate business of the Lords is part of the duties of the distinguished lawyer who holds the Great Seal • and for the mode in which he performs those duties and advisee their lordships on appeal', the LORD CHANCELLOR is officially responsible. Let him be inefficient, hasty, or incom plete in the performance of his functions in the house, and the crown can, and would, withdraw him from • position for which he would be unfit, by recalling from his custody the Great Seal. Bat in the ease of a simple law lord, when he constitutes the house under similar circumstances, there is no such direct or effective responsibility; he has neither the favour of his sovereign nor the dignity of high office ; neither the patronage of 700 benefices nor a salary of 14,000!. • year to be deprived of. His pension is safe. The utmost that he curs lose is—reputation, and it may already be gone—gone, too, beyond all hope of return. For the House of Lords to consist on appeals (in cases, too, either of the largest pecuniary importance or of the most difficult points of law sad practice as its appeals usually are), of one law lord being a re tired judge, however eminent, is, then, obviously im proper, because in that position there is no corre sponding responsibility. It is, too, unusual. The value of law lords hes hitherto been that they have assisted the CHANCELLOR in these appe ile, by sitting with him at their audience. But the principle now being exhibited in the House of Lords is that of a single law lord, not being a judge, superseding the CuaNceema and undertaking and performing his judicial duties in that assembly. This, , 4 e say, is at variance with the practice of the great lawyers who have hitherto held the Greet Seal. They all received aid willingly, gratefully ; but all looked on the trans action of the appellate business of the Lords as part of those personal duties which were not under any cir cumstances to be waived. No Chancellor ever felt this more strongly than the great judge who lately parted, somewhat reluctantly perhaps, with the seal. Lord Correeeem, it is notorious, refused to sanction such a state of things as is now exhibited on appeals in the Lords, even when illness bore heavy not only on him but on suitors; and though on two occasions he sus pended his rule, and gave his sanction to a single law lord hearing appeals alone, on the former occasion the circumstances were special, and on the latter he limited the sanction to such cases as those in which consent was given by the parties. His rule was not to permit the House of Lords to be resolved into a single law lord not a judge ; he twice made excep tions to that rule, but be did so most unwillingly. To tolerate such a state of things is to place the people of the United Kingdom, when they sue or are sued in the common law or equity courts, at a disad vantage they are not placed in when they are parties to proceedings is the ecclesiastical or admiralty tri bunals ; and to give colonists and the Queen's sub jects in India a substantial benefit over them. For appeal from the latter courts and from India and the colonies lies to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and such a thing as a single law lord con stituting it b unknown, and would not be endured for an hoar. Why, then, should it be attempted in the House of Lords ? The Judicial Committee is never attended by fewer than three competent judges. Why should a single lord be suffered to trans act the appellate business of the House of Lords P Dare is no sufficient reason for the anomaly of the contrast; what is morn, the contrast itself ought to have been prevented. For who is the law lord that now constitutes, single handed and single-headed, the House of Lords on ap peal.? Lord Baovon*m! Now, Lord BROUOHAK may be a lawyer as profound as Coax and a genius as mi mes! as BACON : he may have the comprehensive views of a Heanivicen, the learning of en ELDON, and the rare capacity of adapting legal prineiples to an altering state of society which adorned Lord Careitrinem. He may, in addition, know more Scotch law than the whole College of Se nators when assembled in the Parliament House at Edinburgh ; and he may, Ned's, have an elegant familiarity with Irish statutes and decision,. AU these qualifications Lord BROUOHAK may paseiblY have. Yet, if he have them, it i s certain, despite their possession, that neither the legal profession nor the general public has much confidence in him as a judge; and wanting that ocinfidenos and all respect, he ought not to have been allowed to occupy the position he his occupied, for the first tine, sines Lord Tann became Chancellor. To say sore, however, on this point might bring down on our printer the wrath of this great man, who sometimes falls into a great passion with newspapers, which are k THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1850. all, bat the Standard, " askappy so we • pike it see Bertha. Loreitatneo, we ken% found. on *kelvin the e Great Beal, ha arrow la the appellate tininess aT the Coat whisk must have lees quits eggemeiva to se sessedesdees and enielkst a man ; Cad no Weeder beast abbot its redone' vigorously sad steadily. • Bet his bar warned the LORD CRARCELLOR that the • se sageemmt be had nods ter Lard BRODOHAII trammodag **appellate basins of the Lords for the remainder orals soaks yokel not work well and it has sot. The amber douse " knocked off "in the Lords has been eossiderabie i but whether they have been gravely sad attentively heard, maturely Goad dared, and satidactorily despond of, is a geodes which will not be agreeably &amoral .IS inquiry amoart the able men who ilk six weeks pest have been pleading at tiro kr el lb. Hoes. of Lords; eves though Ow inigekt " knocked off" has peodesed a parsing& la Se dm, bright is typerapileal distinctions—U*lM amides le Oast to be ocahned on Lord Basuallik. with remainder to Mr. WUJJAX Basuouon eel his heirs male, to mark the seam entertained by Qoeen Vecroato of the great judicial lahmrs and services of the stoat wan k% of her sabjecte—if a subject Lord laouonex dill be. anal* sip 4 remMi of the fornitwe el the civil list, wedging in Bmenr of A• credits yragand by the Moister K PeM Works far this purpose. The capture sad burning of the Brazili• slaver Beata Crim, by the British steam.. Cormarest,has ex cited math attention here, and draws were opu lent, from the orpas of the Preach government. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has toned CiTellifir walla, on the prefects of depart ments to make retiree as to the ptvdoes of the har vest, with a comparative statement of that of 1849, sad also as to the propriety of establishiog the male of grain universally by Weight instead of by measure. It is stated that an English company is on the point of being formed for the extension of the Rue des Pyramids to the Botdevards. The capital will be con siderable, and the hoesee large and of great archi tectural beauty. SPAIN. MADRID. Jars 29. According to the recently published statement con cerning the receipt and expenditure of public revenue, exclusive of the supplementary credits, the deficit amount. to 64 millions of reels, although the receipts for this year have expstirmoed en increase of 78 millions of reale, the greater part of which consists of fines paid by retar dator tax-payers, and about 20 millions of reels reduced by the reform in the cus toms. The money sped in interest upon the floating debt is upwards of 8 millions, and the capital 157 millions of orals. At the end of the year the incon veniences of this system, which keeps itself up by borrowing, will be deeply felt. Nothing definitive has yet been done with respect to the war ministry, and General Figueras still remains, because it has not yet been decided on who shall succeed him. The affairs of Cuba appeared to give Nervier en oppor tunity of getting rid of Concha, who was offered the viceroyship of that island. Concha, who is wealthy and, besides, ambitious of being a minister, refused, alleging ill health. His brother, Jose Conchs, in spector-general of the cavalry, has been talked of as minister of war, in order to make a vacancy for General Serrano, whom Narvsez is anxious to employ. Concha, however, is known to be stiff-necked and indocile, and would by no means suit the dictatorial humour of Narrate. Nothing definitive has there fore been yet resolved upon. Advice, from Madrid of the 30th bring intelligence of the arrival of Lord Howdah He arrived on the 29 tb, at 6 o'clock in the evening, in a travelling car rier', preceded by a courier, and wee followed by Mr. ()twat', secretary of legation, and Mr. Elliott, attaché, in another carriage. He alighted at the British embassy. Tae Duke and Duchess of Montpensier were to have a grand reception on the 31st. The Treasury receipts for the month of June were published in the; Oa:eUe show an increase over those of the corresponding month of 1849 of 12,643,640 real, arising principally from the customs, the direct taxes, and the farmed revenues. The customs give a surplus of 4,616,000 reels, the direct taxes 3,823,593 reels, and farmed revenues 2,470,617 reels. The receipts of the Trea sury, from the beginning of the year, are 598,319,597 reale. MADRID, lutx3o.—Tbree per Cents., 331; after Bolsi, 33 1-16 cash ; 334 paper. Four per Ceuta., 121 cash. Five par Ceuta., 121 cash ; after Boles, 124 cash, 121 parr. Coupocs, 74 paper. Passives, 31 ; after Boise, 3 13-16 cash. Back of St. Ferdinand, 86. Exchange on London,lo.4o. lENMARX AND THE DUCHIES. Our cagresposdid: ILDSBURO. The main body of William's EN army is in n position some miles to the northward, and the avant-guard still remains in fiehestedt and the neighbourhood, baring arrived bore late on Monday night. A slight engagement between the outposts took place yesterday afternoon elm to Wohlde, a small village to the east of Freidrichstadt, without much lon to either side. 13(xteen offfoers have arrive! since yesterday With offers of service. A telegraphie despatch, dated Rendsburg, August 1, states that the head quarters of the Schleswig army remained at that plane. It was resolved to complete the army befons recommencing operations. The trona vavy a strong position on ether side - of the Eider, the vanguard extending to Sehestedt ; the Danish vanguard press their reconnoisance as far as the Eider. WEST INDIAI MAILS. ral The Royal West India mail,•packet Dee, Captai n Allan, arrived at Southampt on yesterday morai and land.," her mails ( West Indian. and Yar ; n ne, ander the charge of Lisa. Rae, R.N., Admi ty agent. The Des had strong heed winds from Janic e* . Bt. Thomas. The Des's dates are :—Pansma, June 25 ; 0,.. Town, June 25 ; Chagres. Jane 2 8 ; stuta m ert i;! June 19; Carthagena, July 1 ; Jam a i ca, , N:y ;s . Dameraria, July 6 ; Tnutdad, July h ; fini, oea : jely 11 ; Grenada, July 9; Porto Rteo, July 14; S. Thomas, July 15 ; Psysl, July 28. Among the passengers are M . Castro , ex -president : of Cysts, Rim; M. Aguilar, N tee-Prandtnt of Cori Rica ; and M. Toledo, from Grey Town ; Litut.-Ge k Berkeley, his lady and family, from li irbadoes Lieut.-W. Thorndyke, Captain 13 - 11 e, a n d m i ., id , Chlelie, &c. The freight on bard consists of 1,400 , 8;3 den, from the Spanish Main, on merchants w ent. rot, p ac k ages o f plains, 38 serous of indigo, tiro pack age , of pearls, four barrels arrowroot, 112 bath parilla, four barrels . ginger, 87 bags pimento, sod packages of sundries. When the Dee sailed the Tsy was g're to ti Gulf of Mexico; the Avon to Jamaica, es wa Chas o v n the Demerara; the,ro ute. to Bermuda; and the Eel There is no political news of any implrtatec fn the Pacific. We learn from Valparaiso that ti t au t . kets were in a satisfactory state, and that the tiler i mines of Copiapo continued to yield very e n , lively. The Lima and Calla? Rail way bad comities, laying the permanent railing, and its c)mpbtion • looked forward to with much interest and ausiete, is not expected, however, that it can be finished fifteen months. The choice of the electors of Lima for the tee sident will doubtless fall on a civilian. Geteral. Domingo Elias, instead of General F:chneq ue WU first proposed and generally ail met , f.' reason of the revulsion of feeling is that the pee chief, Castillo, bed pronounced stroegly in tar o , Don Elias, and had thrown all his intluence, p, and otherwise, into the scale to secure his *lee. At Chsgres, preparations for the railroad Progress. The Dee landed a number for the works from Carthageno. de , reception was formed at Nevey Bay. Tr had ran up a great number of houses old town of Chagres; already considerahl, these new-comers had begun to matile-t the natives. The steamer to he eropli Chagres route had turned out a failure f• sufficient depth of water. rite: truth, Isthmus was as active as ever. Letters received at Grey Town fr, - .,m represent the influence of the America, United States as on the decline in the ea* male and Nicaragua ; in Coeta Rica it we sidenble. Mr. Squiere, the American about to return to the United States. steps had been taken in the matter of the A gale from the S.W., accampai.len lightning, and heavy rain, passed rcc. tt Sea on the 12th and 13th Jul.. Ile tun have been chiefly spent on the crerthcm tieularly Dominica and Goadeloupe. 1 on her pussage from Barb idoes. was oral. nicate with these ielands. The ever.' mage doe can be only impeeirc'y kr arrival of the next packet. At Anti:, t tell suddenly, and several vessel.; te em ir , Dominica a ship was on shore. N dim to the shipping at St. Thomas. suffered from the floods OCCUiOII. y t.., The Medway, from Barbadoes, r. pens'. • casualties :—Off Grey Town , l•iII t 6, Ellen, barque, capsized ; cite v the Osberr.e. Captain Cousin , . a • saved. At St. Kitts, the Ca•har.t.l (.1 wreck ; crew saved. West 17 (L.: • expected, from meteorological odieert.: cane this season, and many im-glned that the gale which parsed over the ( . 4.163 on the 121 and 13th of last moan w prelurk to one. The Dee was at Porto It:- gale was blowing, arid felt it oify slight:s. A poor widow woman, with ttree child:. home as fore-cabin passengers is the Dec. d jumped overboard, and took one of her .!.. her after the steamer had left s'. Thome were drowned. It is believed that she act in a ti: of fretzy : she jumped from The reamer was immediately hove me manned, and the bodies were shortly atte bat life was completely gone. Tile tw riving children appeared soon to brget loss, owing to the kindness of the calla passengers. Captain Allan immea iv of the children, and acted with tr2e Upwards of 801. was collected amongst the for the future support of the children. The planting cultivationthe cotton t c o od b- e e e e co s: r a:e Antigua. Several planters of Dominica have one parts of that island. The St. Lucia Pal adiuns menti.ms thc of a plot amongst the labourers for of the government of the island, and c mm: predations on property. The itut. , ri were on the ahrt and arrested about 12 ~: rat Irs, and, when the packet lett that the tranquilli!y of the colony JAMAICA. There are no political news from •!:s tial rains hal fallen and improv:,l .!.: newspapers report the death of W Deputy Postmaster-General, on the :d,: had been attacked by paralysis about a :oi's tore from which he never rallied. It was r that Mr. Monales, speaker of the House of A was likely to be offered the appointment of the parish and precinct of St. Catherine's, wi. Turner had resigned, on the alleged ground sons having been placed on the commission peace, whom he does flat consider fit for the The name of the gentlemen is price, a blase: member of the House of Assembly for St. John, sal to be a mos: respectable and intelligent man, and it superior to many who have been intrusted wnh commissions of the peace. The vacacey in the representation of St. Catherine, caused by the retirement of the Hon. Charles Miller Farquharson, who has been appointed chairman of quarter sessions, was filled tip by the return of Mr. Francis Roberts-in Lynch, clerk of the pc ice for the Same pariah. Mr. Lynch, like his predecessor in the Assembly, is attached to the government party. On the day of the packet's departure an eloetlon also took place for a member for Port Royal. Mr. Dallas having resigned, in consequence of ho re ceiving the patent as clerk of the markets; heir; in opposed, he was re-elected. Trelawny was to be subjected to a warm eon:et: the day after the packet left. between Mr. 11e::;:' Lyons and Mr. William Smith, who arc eentete::; for the seat vacated by Mr. Samrel Magnus. By the 'libel nia we have papers Lin Kotaest. , t: \ a , the 13th (a week later than those of the they, however, contain nothing of importance. S,nis parts of the island are sudering from dry mea.!ar, while others have been blessed with copious slioacs. The Despatch newspaper has ceased to es,. I , : 1 separate publication, and is now iunalgamat,,l the Standard, the editor of which latter w several years the editor of the former. The healthy and quiet. GUIANA. The Demerara journals bring little news, the C..2rt of Policy having been !engaged on matter s et local interest. The weather had been very lay , 'r* able, and the heavy rainy season appeared to to' 0: I , end. Three more execution sales of vit;ualile ties had taken place —viz. Plantation 11. 1. - the main coast of Essequibo , ter 1,201 Mr. ('olio Simeon ; Plantation Vreedestein. •"a, west bank of Demerara river, urchaseil for dollars by the representatives of Sir John Bart., the mortgagee; and Plantation Flandres, on the west sea-coast of Demerira.r. 1 •••1 for 6,000 dollars to the representatives of M M'Garal, the mortgagee. The Globe of Bth July publishes the followinrl ii• • • Mary of local news : The political items which we can throw together. the packet for the information of our absent wen. , • . and not very important. Of legislative topic' we sre .r. FA• a'amd CIVIC e, c aptsis morning, Id P ac i f i c) Admi ra l ty Jame,ica t o 2; • G rey Its a, Jo , ,y g. 1J14.5 . ; rpresside t t tut of C osti , I.ieut: Gen, li irbadoes ; aod 813 d a ll ies o NO connt, pa c k ages bales tas- ulto, la d : it to-e to t h e Cfs r N O, f, t the F A & )rtatee frost hat the m ars at the ail,* Vtry ext, 4. commenced 'spirt ton Ala antirtr• ft the tea Pre. Ger.eral Irm ltneq ue , ate rt f. the creetet in taros 4 nee, p, oed a ER , is of coo! f)r their ne Af.n.trealle 0 PP"....e :Le lie jra,,,L.or fit itM .0 .Oyla for %var.; g ic acr:ss the . r.te , •!.r acs fr..ft Ize ates as Lt, WE- L •r.•., 'vas N, I..rtLet el..p rack. a t. the ( fee epptlf- M,LITay, he to .t ot thr ; flr.•::.ter - 1;e l• 2.7. e to ..h .e [Mary rain. •he the}fag wr,C, ;Tern. a • is a! .I: v.% m It:r. ' 4 t e. d o tht to. . - 37. • > Ittr ta.:t it,t :..e ,y t▪ he C t£l:l3:ca th,. •:_l•try • ;1 %.4 ••••• r. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, Capt. C. F. Barney, arrived at Southampton on Saturday night, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant W. Perue Newenhans, RN., Admiralty agent. Her dates are, Gibraltar, 24th ; Cadiz, 25th ; Lisbon, 29th; Oporto, 30th; Vigo, 31st. In her cargo are five . packages of specie. ' The Amencan ships of war Independence and Mississippi had arrived at Gibraltar from Lisbon and Cadiz. The ships are going up the Mediterranean to make some demand at Tunis en rrnefe. The latter ship called in at Cadiz en route to Gibraltar, and re mained a day or two there. The squadron left the 25th for Madeira, and to sail thence to Gibraltar. The Queen's yacht Victoria and Albert bad exited a good deal of curiosity at the various lints at which she called. At Gibraltar the crowds to go on board were so great that a guard of soldiers was necessary to re gulate their movements. She was not quite " gaudy enough in ornament to pleas foreign tastes," but her speed astonished people. LISBON. JULY 28 . . . . . . Though the chambers have voted all the sums asked by the ministry to meet all the branches of the , expenditure, and M. Mils had solemnly engaged his word to pay a month's salary to every one within every thirty days, he applied to the Bank of Portugal to continue for a twelvemonth to discount the pay of the officers doing regimental duty and extending it to the naval officers when afloat. The bank sent this re quest of government to a committee of shareholders, who gave their report on Friday last. Though the directors had a desire to comply with the request of the government, they met with a very strong opposi tion, grounded upon the very same words of the Mi nister of Finance, such a request being a clear proof that he did not expect to organise the finances of the country. After a great discussion of some hours the Bank of Portugal came to the determination to con tinue to discount only during six months, the amount never to exceed eighty conics de reis, the government giving the same guarantees as before. The American claims continue to occupy public attention, though the squadron, with Mr. Clay on board, h ft the Tagus on the 20th inst. The English squadron under Commodore Martin sailed on the 23rd, it is said on a cruise. Tee Doke of Palmalla, with his son-in-law the Caput of Aleacovas, his physician, and rervants, go by this steamer to England ; his object is to consult the English medical men; the duke may, by his state of health, be said to ba dead for the political world. M. Marral Joseph Ribeiro, Secretary of Portuguese Le gation in London, better known in the btock Ex change than in the diplomatic corps, goes by this steamer to join his place. Vega is from Malta after the 30th June are to per form quarantine. Exchanges on London, 541. Discount Lisbon bank notes, 5 to 6 per cent. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correapondent, writing from Civita Vecchia on the 29th July, gives the substance of a notification ➢ublished at Rome on the evening of the 27th, by which five millions of treasury bills were to be issued, and other measures to be taken for the speedy extinction of the paper money now in circulation. The Austrian legation had published a declaration in the Wornale di Rome against Prince Chimp, who claims the duchy of Mantua as his right. Cernuachi was stated to be still on a French steamer at Civita Vecchia, and the Spanish steamer had left for Spain. GENOA, Jexy 30. The Consul-general lot Peru at Genoa announces that in the province of Carabiza there aro very rich gold mines. RUSSIA. The Emperor Nichols. has issued a ukase ordering seven men in each 1,000 of the population of the western provinces of Russia, and ten in each 1,000 in some other province., to be raised for the army. The population of these districts is computed at 31 mil lions, whereby an additioa" of about 114,000 men will be made to the already formidable military force of Russia. THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Pottinger arrived at Southampton this morning, from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar. She brings a large cargo and specie value 94,000 k BELGIUM.—Tho Belgian papers state that M. niers, on arriving at Brussels, had an interview with Prince Metternich. Baum, Loom L —Voluntary Loan, 1081. Now Btato Loin Your•onda Ralf pot Coati., 09. National Dabs, 89. beig ona l i s olol . Morino &Wars Famines, 108. Beak Vuonto, Almon 2. —Fla per Coat. Metallique, 97; v Fouancl-s-11.11 pal Crete., 84t. Bank Sbara, ,182. Eschango as Locks, 11.39. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY Nystrom. Telegraphic despatches were received to-day by the government announcing that an emensta had broken out at Muer'lles, in consequence of the government's ouppression of the Board of Health. The Prefecture was forced by the excited mob ; but order was quickly re-established. The apprehension excited at first by this news soon went down, in consequence of the riot. not being of a political character. fhe Assembly in its sitting of today, refired to authorise the prosecution demanded against M. Ilen nequin. The discussion of the budget socosedei, and the last articles were adopted. Several additional sticks were successively rejected. The only one which deserves mention was proposed by M. Hu guenin , who wanted to impose on public functionaries a tax varying from 1 to 30 per cent., according to the im portance of their appointments. The vote on the ensemble of the budget was adjourned, and the de l bate on the Bordeaux and Nantes Railway Bill was resumed. The first paragraph of the first article, which prolongs the concession to 30 years, was adopted. A long debate then took place on the second paragraph which exonerates the company of the Tours and Nantes railway from the obligation of reimbursing to the state a sum of seven millions for buildings and levelling.. M. Versigny moved an important amendment which excused the company only two millions, and proposed that the payment of the rest ahead be only postponed. This amendment was supported by M. Paulin Gillen and opposed by M. Ducal. After a long debate, without interest, the house divided, and the amendment of M. Versigny was rejected by 301 votes against 248. The report of M. Gomm upon the bill for abro gating the forced circulation of the bank's notes was presence to-day. It concluies in favour of the adoption. Another humiliation has been suffered by General d'HautpouL This minister had given orders that the honorific reception offered by the municipal bodies to General de Cute:lane should not take place at Besan con, probab to prevent the recep t ion of the Presi dent of the Republic,who will shortly visit that city, from being eclipsed . General de Castellane stirred some influences at Paris in his behalf, and carried the day. The ovation at Besancon has been permitted. The Minister of Finance, M. Fould, is going, at the end of this month, to the Hantee-Pyrenive, where he will attend the session of the Council-General of that department. His successor, ad interim, in the department of finance, is not yet named. Pari-ian society has just sustained a heavy loss in the demise of Madams de Marliany, who expired last night at her residence in the Rue d'Aguesseau. The Bourse was a good deal more animated to-day. There was a rise of 20 centimes on the Fives, which closed at 97.30, and of 13c. upon the Threes, which closed at 68.33. SUNDAY ETININO. The itinerary of the President seems to be settled in the fdlowing order. First, he will go to Macon, and from thence to Lyons; Besancon and Strubnrgh are the next cities to be visited. Then the President will proceed to open the railway from Metz to Nancy; after which he will proceed to Cherbourg. The plan of visiting Marseilles seems for the present to be given up, in consequence of the ill blood bred by the diem lotion of the Board of Health. The journey to Touloue is said to be pat off until next year. Several representati Tee havin g acceptA directorships in the Californian companies, which swarm on the Boulevards, this return to habits which occasioned so much scandal during the late reign, has been strongly discountenanced by the great majority of the Assembly, and many of those members have been called upon by their colleagues to resign suoh compromising posts. The growing differesces between the moderate and extreme legitimists have, it wimp, determined M. Berryer to repair to Wiesbaden, in the hope of re covering at the hands of his master sufficient autho rity to keep the mutinous and impatient spirit of his party in due subordination. The great question on which the two fractions split is the amount of support to be given to the President. The ultras have thrown themselves into decided opposition, while the moderates pull pretty well with the Go vernment. The ultras fear the ambition of the Pre sident more than the agitation of the socialists. The moderates hold it essential to support and terengthen the President, in order to keep down the Iteds. Hence they voted the dotation and the electoral law, bout of which measures are deeply regretted by the /rune Draft.. The Gazette de France contains a violent article against M. Berryer, which is a symptom that , the split between these fractions of the legitimists is growing wider than ever. .Le Peuple de 1850, which will henceforth appear three times a week, contains to-day a letter from M. Proudhon, stating that his motives in replying to the Preterit were to repel a personal attack, and to repudiate principles which have ruined the cause of democracy ; but that he was far from the intention of sowing discord in the ranks of the republican party. The disturbances at Marseilles do not seem to have been so serious as was at first apprehended. The Courier de Marseille gives the following account of the matter: To-day, on the breaking up of the Bonne, a crowd of persons engaged here in commerce repaired, in a state of street excitement to the Prefeeture to protest spinet the decree of the Government dissolving the Hoard of Health. The Prefect appeared, with sone other person' on the balcony, and consented to hear the remonstranees of the crowd. One of the persons on the balcony having exclaimed " We will right oarselves," General d'Antin, who stood by his side, rebuked him for the impropriety of the expression. This was the signal for a tremendous row. The mayor ar rived at last, and succeeded in restoring order. The first a a§plication of the penalties declared in the new elector aw has besejust made by the Correctional Tribunal. On e Ponpardin, a dyer, having falsely at tested that one of his workmen, Hilbert, had been in his employment three years, has been condemned to 18 days' imprisonmenti and five years' interdiction from his electoral rights. Pane Le swarming to•day with curious visitors from England and Belgium, arrived by tho huge " trains de plaivir." The towns of the departments traversed by these linked waggons, Ion; drawn out, have also emit an ample contingent of citizens in search of Sun- day recreation. On the other hand, the capital has emptied forth its own thousand in twenty different lines to destinations far and near, well furnisaed with all sorts of holiday attractions, so u to trim the balance of displaced population. Mush nobs has been made by the dimities! of M. &awe, director of the Odeon, from his post,lby the Minister of the Interior. M. Baroche 'sagas as the featly* of this harsh step that M. Boeage has, during the whole of his continuance in office, attempted to make us of the stage u a political engine for disse minating principles hostile to the government. The report of M. Montigny on the proposition of M. Do:auras]; relative to the bringing into cultiva tion a part of the waste lands of the communes, was distributed yesterday to the Assembly. The committee, in accordance with the views of the counells-generei, object to the partition of the communal property, and recionintend compulsory cultivation, laying down certain rules of proceeding to effect this object. In t i ne, aye th e report, " the project of law (proposed in It) by nting the partition of the property b etween the inhabitants effaces the last truce of those revolu tionary laws which proposed the depriving th e 00m . muss of their property. The report of M. Mortimer-Terns: upon the pre- PROTOCOL OF THE LONDON CONFERENCE ON DANISH AFFAIRS. The protocol signed in London on Friday con tains some alterations from that which was initialled on the 4th ult. by the representatives of the power' which, in conjunction with England, have thought proper to join the new attempt at intervention. It begins by stating that the governments of the republic of France, of the kingdoms of the Queen of Great Britain, of the Emperor of Reads, of the Emperor of Austria, of the King of Prussia, and of the King of Sweden and Norway, considering that the maintenance of the integrity of the Danish monarchy, with reference to the general interests of the balance of power in Europe, is of great importance to the preservation of peacelave met, on the invitation of the King of Denmark, to confirm the perfect agree ment which subsists between their cabinets on the ne cessity of upholding that principle, and have autho rised their plenipotentiaries to af fix their names to a series of settees. These articles are four in number. The first affirms that it is the unanimous desire of the powers that the integrity of the Danish monarchy shall remain intact. In the second the powers acknowledge the wisdom of the views which determined the King of Denmark to regulate the order of succession in his house in such a manner u should facilitate the arrangements by meats of which the above-mentioned object (namely, the integrity of the Danish monarchy) may be at tained without altering the relations existing between the Duchy of Holstein and the Germanic confedera tion. With regard to the third article, the alteration in i is merely such as was called for in consequence of the conclusion of peace between Prussia and Denmark. Instead of exprt sting the determination of the power. to continue their efforts for procuring a speedy con clusion of the negotiations for peace going on between Previa and Denmark, the powers congratulate them selves that a peace has been concluded. The fourth article is virtually the same as the one previously initialled. The protocol in this shape both Austria and Prussia have refused to sign. The envoy of the former power declared that he would refer the matter to his go vernment; the fact being that his instructions were plain not to sign unless some guarantee were in serted in the protocol, by which the rights of H stein, as a part of the confederation were rendered sure. And although some such addition has been made, es will be seen by reference to the second article of the document signed on Friday, theguar antee did not seem sufficient. On these grounds, although the Austrian rhorill was present at the conference, he declared his intention not to sign, but to refer the matter to his government. Chevalier Bunsen did not limit himself to a mere absence from the conference. He sent in on the morning of its sitting, a vote, in which he stated that he had peremptory instructions from his govern ment not to sign any such protocol as that proposed by the powers. With regard to the alterations made between the initialled document of the 4th of July, and that cf Friday last, the latter only materially differed from the first in so far as the proviso in the second article bearing on the relations of Holstein and the con federation was concerned. The assurance there given was in itself vague enough but when coupled with the expression so often used of "the integrity of the Danish monarchy," it became completely nentratztd ; for what other inference could be drawn from that expression, but that the duchies formed part of the Danish monarchy? Such a pretension as this was, however, quite preposterous : as well might Hollerd claim to call the Duchy of Luxemburg an integral part of the kingdom of Holland, which every one knows it can never be ; inasmuch as were a new dynasty to succeed to the throne at the Hague, having no hereditary right to Luxemburg, the principality must necessarily revert to Germany. The case of Holstein with regard to Denmark. was exactly parallel ; a new dynasty having no right of succession in the Duchy. could not be allowed to rule over Holstein. Yet it was in the face of this positive state of things, that the powers talked of the integrity of the Danish monarchy. It could not but be borne in mind, further, that the treaty of peace concluded at Berlin was quite sufficient to regulate the future march of events, and rendered quite superfluous the participation of the powers in any protocol like the present. For it was distinctly laid down in the 4th article, and in a seps rate clause of that treaty, that the King of Denmark, as Duke of Holstein, might be able to claim the in tervention of the Germanic confederation to assist in re-establishing his authority in the duchy, communi cating at the same time his intentions with respect to the pacification of that country ; and further that the King of Denmark would submit a proposition to the great powers on the subject of the succession. Now, the King of Denmark needed no assistance in this matter from the powers of Europe. He had not yet taken the initiative on the very points for which those powers seemed so solicitous. Such solicitude on their part might have been better understood at a time when no peace existed between Prussia and Denmark. Was it indeed to be supposed that Prussia could join in the fulfilment of this protocol, seeing that it could entertain no expectation that Denmark would come forward and make proposals on the sub ject of the question of succession, and guarantee the rights of Holstein ? Denmark had not come forward to make these communications to Prussia ; she had been silent 'ince the conclusion of the peace, and until she came for ward Prussia could take no part in • protocol. The preamble of that document certainly stated that the King of Prussia had been invited by the King et Denmark to join in the conference in London, but there was no foundation for such an assertion, inas much as no such invitation had been given. Finally, it should be borne in mind that it would be difficult to efface from the public mind in Europe the tact that this protocol, was originally devised by the powers and by Denmark at • time when the latter was at war with the confederation, and that its existence was kept a secret from all Ger many; that it was conceived when peace was only considered as in Afton; that it was made to reappear with modifications, which were not calcu lated to allay suspicion ; and that it was only now after the actual conclusion of peace that Prussia was asked to abandon a secure position, and before the King of Denmark bad made those communications which, according to the treaty of peace, should first have come from him relative to Holstein. The above is the substance of the reasons assigned by Prussia for not signing. Austria and Prussia refusing to participate, the protocol was consequently only signed by Lord Palmerston, Baron Koller, Count Reventlow, Drouyn de L'Huysh and Barons lirunnow, and Itehausen. Loss OF THE COUAIR EMIGRANT SUlP.—This noble vessel, nearly ono thousand tow burthen, wee, we regret to my , totally Ices on her last outward passage on the ustont Banks of Newfoundland, with a very near unifies of all the pauengere. The ship, which wee the property of Kern. Pollock sad Co., of Glasgow, wiled from Liverpool in the latter put of 'daybed ler New York, carrying out 300 emigrants. After a passage of 35 days eke was making for the south-out point of the banks of Newfoundland, when she unfortunately struck on SOSO rocks. There Me s stress; swell running inwarde,oausing the ship to thump tronasudossely. soot battering in her bottom, sad the me Illhag ker. Thu preservation of the *lamed paragon moo the first we of the muter and odium • repo was got to the shoe, thus enabling the i crew to p iece the esalgrante safely on the land. Sub*. fluently t he mewl was surrounded by a gang of desperate wretches, who plundered the binge of the pauengers of everything that wee valuable.