The Express. — London, England, 1860-04-04 00:00:00

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Tee proceedings in one of the Law Courts of this country presented yesterday a strange ana chronism, and a still more singular injustice. The Court we refer to will not readily occur to our readers, for while it retains a nominal authority, it is so completely inediieval in its character, that most of its functions, except a few formal ones of a civil nature, have happily become obsolete. This tribunal is the "Consistory Court of London," and the case brought before it yesterday was con nected with the riots at St. George's-in-the- East. That long-suffering martyr and devoted friend of peace, the Rev. BRYAN KING having alienated both his parishioners and his diocesan by unauthorised practices, having created and in dustriously maintained a public scandal, alike in jurious to religion and the church,has endeavoured in every possible way to maintain his illegal prac tices by force, and bring the machinery of the law to bear on his indignant and rebellious parish ioners. First he brought a large body of his own friends, imported an extra-parochial congregation, to occupy the church and overawe the local dissentients. Then the church was crowded with police, who were to suppress all signs of disapproval by the forcible logic of their staves. Subsequently an attempt was made to punish the dissentients by indicting them before the magistrates for creating a disturbance. All these expedients having failed, the rector betakes himself, as a last resort, to the congenial obscurity of the Ecclesiastical Court, and promotes the office of the judge against one of his rebellious parishioners, a Mr. ROBERT ROSIEE. The offence charged against Mr. ROSIER was what is techni cally termed " brawling," a sort of crime which sounds even more archaic than the outworn penalty of " excommunication," which in the good old times usually accompanied it. The Rev. BRYAN Elmo, the law-regarding Rector of St. George's-in the-East, charges Mr. Rostra, who appears to be a respected and well-conducted parishioner, with brawling and interrupting the service of the church on the 14th of August last. This singular case was tried before the Conaistory Court, and was reported at some length in our columns last evening. Now the anachronism is that an Ecclesiastical Court at this time of day should attempt to exer cise a criminal jurisdiction. Nominally, indeed, it preserve, the power of doing so in special cues, but in these days it is rarely ever exercised, for the simple reason that if it were it would be at once abolished. Formerly, in the palmy days of ecclesiastical power, the case was widely different. Those courts inflicted bodily penal ties as well as spiritual, strengthening the eccle aisatical sentence of excommunication by the more definite and palpable help of the shears and the branding-iron. The culprit, on conviction, was adjudged to have one of his ears cut off, if he had any ears, and, if not, to be branded on the cheek with the letter F, that he might be known and taken as a fro ymo ker. But those happy times have passed away. It is no longer necessary to make any special provision in Acts of Parliament for the non-existence of ears. Even excom munications are no longer fulminated against fraymakers. If any man creates a disturbance in a church or theatre, or elsewhere, he is answer able to the civil power ; and the Ecclesiastical Courts have, therefore, very wisely resigned to a great extent the exercise of any such anomalous and obnoxious functions. Trials in the Ecclesias tical Court for brawling are extremely rare, and it is well they are so. Nothing could be more damaging to the church, or more fatal to the church courts, than any serious attempt to revive their penal authority. It is impossible, however, not to see that the trial of Mr. Rostra is intended Al a movement in this direction. It is a desperate attempt made by an extreme party in the Church to call in the penal power of the Ecclesiastical Court in cases where the Civil Court fails to inflict the desired punishment. As such it deserves the strongest condemnation. But it is needless to protest at this time against such an infraction of that personal and civil freedom which is as eleential to our national life as the air we breathe. Mr. Deems KING and those who share his anti-national sympathies may wish to revive the obsolete powers of the Ecclesiaatical Courts, but it is too late. However strong the vested interest of the Church in tyranny and injustice m ay he, its claims to possess special powers of oppression, after they have been banished from every other department of public life, cannot be allowed. The Ecclesiastical Court must be governed by the amino of e•eu►l right which are the safe guards of oar freedom, or they must cease to exit. The trial of yesterday seelciently illustrates their 'exceptional and offensive character in this respect. The administration is not protected by the ufiviude that exist io other courts. To the anachronism of the junsdiction there is added a palpable injustice in the form of trial. Hare is a good and respectable citizen tir(stl for an offence that may be visited by heavy tines, yet without the constitutional protection of a jury. Mr. ROBIIIR very naturally stated "that he had been under the impression " he was to be tried by a jury of his country " men." The Judge informed him " there were "no juries in that court." In other words, the consistory Court is an exception to the great charter of our national liberties, and is, to the extent of its jurisdiction, an in fringement on the principles that guide the administration of justice in this country. It may be said that the character of the judge provides a sufficient guarantee, and this maybe true at the pre sent moment. The Consiatory Court happens to be presided over by a judge equally able and impar tial. But that is a mere accident, and does not affect the real question at issue in the least. No judge ought to be placed in such a position, nor ought the administration of justice to be exposed to such hazards and accidents. Nothing could be more injurious to the public than for the verdict of the court in a criminal case of this sort to depend on the individual character of the pre riding judge. These are the very cases too where strong feeling is excited, and in which therefore even the most upright judge may be unconsciously biased by his own sympathies and convictions. We do not apprehend any specially injurious re sult& in the present case. After the worthless evi dence given in support of the original charge, it would be impossible to convict Mr. Rosie& But it must be remembered that the mere trial, though ending in an acquittal, is itself a heavy penalty. It is necessarily tedious and expensive, and involves a considerable lows of time and money. And no man ought to be exposed to such a loss on mere frivolous and vexatious grounds. The present case could not have gone before any ordinary tribunal at all. No magistrate would have entertained it, and any grand jury would have been sure to throw out the bill. The defendant in such an action ought to have ample sesursnce that he would have a full and impartial trial. But there is no such guarantee in this court, and it ought therefore to be impossible to revive their rusty machinery for such purpose. The attempt in the present case is a purely vexatious one, and if it is repeated we venture to predict that the jurisdiction of these courts in such cases will be finally done away with. gbe Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Tummy. The Queen and Prince Consort, shortly after arriving at the Castle yertenlay, visited the Duchess of Haat at Fregemore. Princess Ahem also visited her Royal Highness. Her Majesty sad the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wake, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, walked in the Home Park this morning and visited the Duchess of Kent. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess of Leiningcn paid a visit to her Majesty in the afternoon. The Earl of Caithness and the Hon. Rear•Adminl Sir Henry Keppel have succeeded Lord Cremorne and Lieat.• Colonel Kingacote as the Lord and Groom•in-Waiting to her Majesty. Mr. i3uthwell, the photographer, of Baker-strost, has had the honour of attending several times at Buckingham Palace to take photographs of her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and other members of the Royal Family. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Rus sell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan cellor of the Exchegner, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. E. CardwelL Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of the North American colonies, De•patehes were rot to the Governors of Canada, Malta, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Labnan, and Gibraltar, and to the Lord High Onsimisrioser of the lonian Islands. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Counts= de Persigny will leave Albert-gate House in a few days for Paris, where they intend to ran the Easter room His Excellency the Saxon Minister leaves town to-day for Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose entertained a select circle at dinner but evening at the family mansion in Belgrave-square. The Earl and Counteaa Stanhope have left Ornevenor•pkaoe for their seat, Chevening Park, Kent, for the Lister holidays. The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, who has been suffering from a cold, will leave Berkeley-square in a few day. for Middleton Ark, near &center. , The Earl and Counted% of Euaton leave town to , day fur the Continent. The Earl and Counteea Delawarr and Lady Ara bell Backville West left towel yeeterday fur Beekbarst Park, Same:. Viscount and Viacounteas Combermere left Bel grave•amstre s few days since for Ganbermers Abbey, Cheshire. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M. P., and Lady Emily Peel left Whitehall• e -ankaa yesterday, for their chateau at Gear's. We regret to learn of the death, on Sunday, at his residence, 9, Devonshire-terrace, Hyde-park, of Thomas Keogh, FIN, Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue, aged 64. - The official programme of the arrangements which have been made for the Earl of Shrewsbury's entry into Altai Tower,' is published in the local papas. Great preparations are being made by the inhabitants of Alton, Uttoleter, and the neighbourhood, for giving Mat to the feativitiesliThe noble earl will give two balls In the amity town, at the shire hall, on the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday nest. The ball on Tuesday will be attended by the aristocracy and the leading inhabitants of the county, and that on Wednesday by his lordship's tenantry and radeamen. To all partite interesteil in a pecuniary sense in the late county Cork election, it will be gratifying to learn, cm the competent authority of the Cork Zramtieer, th a t arrangements are in progrem for the settlement of the en. pewee arising out of the late contort. In a few days it is hoped all win be squared. Professor Owen delivered the ninth lecture of his wens co keel mammalia at the Nam= in Jermyu.etreet, ea Friday. Of the extinct carnivore that waged war with the abundant stocks of ruminant creatures mice occepyieg this country, Professor Owen spoke of an ancient real "British 10,n," of a British bear and a hyena, the evidences of whose drstruetivenees are distinctly visible in the bone- eaves of this country. The WA hair, will be delivered ois the 20th of April. DEATH Or THE COCNTEHS (DOWAGLR) or ELGIN. —We have to announce the demise of the Counts Dowager of who died on Sunday, at Paris, after a protracted Moms The demised countess was mooed wife of Thomas, limb Ear? of Zigia, sad wee mother of the present peer. The late coaster, who was youngest daughter of Mr. Jas. Townsbend Vewitki, married Septmber 21, 1810, by whom, who died ie N,wenaher, Iftel, her ladyship leaves surviving we the Berl L i Cohmel dui. Hon. Robert Bruce, CIL, the Bea P: HIV Bruce, e:leey lit Chins, he. By this ensischady event museums fews.`bre of rabic are Owed In mommiag. 7%. Aw 4 of the costs wit delay the de parture of the BM d ligia fur Chins fen don. Sr. Jam's Pearcz, MASeR 11.—The Queen, has been plumed $ cadet George ?soots Robert, Lord Harris, tole one el /hip Mob in welds( in Prdinarfto ber Majesty, is the room of Gawp AMMO, Lord Wm's, me 'weed. The Queen toe eke be pleased to app. rt George A WOJO. Lord Byrne, to be as extra lord is wiLt:r4 to Fee Ilsiarty. 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QZOOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. 1-7 SIAM ma Ot. low • Wits assortment of Ilseasil-brod Mm by the mut aillsemett makers. at molly Mead Bekaa.— t. Isplabdrest THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 'NW LATEST ff INTELLIGENCE. OARLIST tIOVEIIENT IN SPAIN. The following despatch Ors been received at the Spanish Luba, : " MADRID, TUeeDAT, P.N. " General Ortega, Commander of the Balearic Isles, embarked the troops under his command and disembarked them near Tortoee. As soon as the troops obtained knowledge of his pro ject they refused to follow him, and General Ortega was obliged to take to flight, pursued by his soldiers, who have remained faithful to the Queen. General Ortega is still at large, but is being closely pursued. Perfect tranquillity prevails everywhere. Private advioes say that General Concha sent troops against General Ortega, and that other troops were also despatched from all parts of Spain to suppress the movement. The in surrection met with little sympathy. Several loyal addresses have been forwarded to the Queen. " The Bank of Barcelona has offered 40,000,000 to the government." " From my own private sources," writes the Paris correspondent of the Times, " I learn that Count Montemolin, now proclaimed as Charles VI., arrived in Paris 10 or 12 days back ; that he met here Cabrera (with whom he became reconciled after a long estrangement), General Elio, and some other's of less note ; that he proceeded to the Balearic Islands, of which Ortega, formerly an ultra-democrat, was captain-general ; that Ortega and the garrison proclaimed Don Carlos ; that they landed at Valencia, where they were well received, and Montemolin also proclaimed, it is said, by the troops. Montemolin was accompanied by Cabrera and Elio in the expedition ; Elio, who is • native of Navarre, no doubt to try to raise the north, and Cabrera Catalonia and part of Valencia. A friend of Cabrera has advanced 24,0001. to Montemolin." FRANCS. The Moniker of this morning formally denies the report that the effective of the infantry regiments in about to be reduced by two companies per regi ment. INDIA. (PROP THE INDIA OFFICE.) The following telegram has been thin day received from India : BOMBAY, MARca 13. " The steamer from Suez, with overland mails of the 18th of February, arrived yesterday. Items of English news up to February 27 were at the same time received by Red Sea telegraph. " The following troops have sailed, or will sail, for China :—Her Majesty's 31st Regiment, Feb. 18 ; 3rd Native Infantry, 20 ; 100 of the sth Native Infantry, 20. " The remainder of the bth Native Infantry and No. 3 Battery Royal Artillery will sail in a few days. " The Punjab Infantry are to will from Kur rachee to-day. " Six hundred horses and 600 mules will elso:be despatched to China as early as possible. " Mr. Wilson explained in the Legislative Council his scheme for a convertible paper currency for all India on the 3rd of March. Notes of from sto 1,000 rupees to be issued, to the aggregate value of 5,000,000 sterling. Gold standard condemned. " The ship Clifton Bell, from London, with soldiers' families, arrived at Kurrachee on the 6th of March. " The steamer attached to Bourne's Indus Steam train foundered outside the bar of Kurrachee Har bour. Endeavours are being made to raise her. " Obituary.—The Rev. Mr. Steele of the Free Church Presbyterian Mission; and Lieutenant B. Christie, of the Bombay Artillery. " H. YOUNG, " Chief Secretary to Government." BOMBAY, MAacH 13. The regulations in reference to the issue of the new paper currency have been published by the govern ment. The notes will be of five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred, and one thous►nd rupees; and the iOllllO will be effected through the commissioners of the Bank of England. The convertibility of tie paper will be provided for by one third of the amount of the notes in circulation being kept in coin. Two-thirds are to be invested in government securities. The notes to be burnable only in exchange for coin. AUSTRALIAN MAIL MELBOURNE, Fn. 17. In parliament the Land Bill is progressing. The estimates were nearly voted, and the bill to authorise the purchase of the Geelong Railway was to be brought in on the evening of the departure of the mails. The government has agreed to the a:teration in the mail route, on the condition of other colonies sharing the expenses. The formation of a volun teer corps is progressing. A merchant named Duffy has been committed to prison for extensive forgeries. A firs has broken out at Creswick. The gold receipts had decreased 90,000 ounces as compared with the same period of last year. Victoria had won the cricket match by 69 runs. The following are the departures of gold ships : Jan. 17, the Greyhound, 5,000 ounces, for Liver-' pool ; Jan. 24, the Monarch, 29,000 ounces, for London; Norwood,9,ooo ounces, for London; Ockan chief, 32,000 ounces, for Liverpool ; Jan. 28, the Montmorency, 9,000 ounces, for London ; Feb. 8, the Lightning, 13,000 ounces, for Liverpool; Lincolnshire, 32,000 ounces, for London. A REIVAIA—The Great Britain, after a passage of 55 days ; White Star, Southampton, King of Algeria, Omer Pacha, Bosphorus, Ladyhead, Wil liam Cuavill, Silistria, General Williams, Forest Oak, Black Eagle, Glendower, Marco Polo, Con stantine, Dawn of Hope, P r i nce o f Wales, Revenue. SYDNEY, Fr.n. 17. Parliament had met on the 24tk of January. Mr. Cooper, the Speaker, has resigned, and Mr. Mur ray is unanimously elected in his place. The bringing forward of the estimates has been post poned. Extensive frauds had been discovered in the storekeeper's department The officials have been suspended in consequence. An increased subsidy for the alteration of the mail route has been refused. Great floods have caused the de struction of a large amount of property. The rail way works are progressing satisfactorily. Advices from Adelaide are to the 18th of Feb ruary. Parliament is prorogued until the 3rd of April. KINGDOM OF UPPER ITALY. TURIN, TUESDAY, Aran. 3. The protest of Austria against the annexation of Central Italy to Piedmont has been delivered to Count Cavour by the Count Brassier de St. Simon, the Prussian minister at Turin. Count Cavour has announced to Count Brassier de St. Simon that the answer of Sardinia will be forwarded through the Priusian ginlimisy at Vienna. DRESDEN, Aran 3. Th e G ram ' Duke of Tuscany, _who resides he re , has adiriosed woke. dstad v igarch to all the courts of Europe I%6atust Ibr sznicuak e of his states to Piedmort. • THE PAPAL STATES. • _lO/11, Msacx The Giornik di Roma pulleshet a letter of General Gwen, declaring that several journals have gives it very inaccurate account of the pro w*. et the 19th March. He says he cannot admit, as has been pretended, that the French officers brought about the release of the persons arrested by the pontifical gendarmes. The general also protests against this supposition ' as incom patible with discipline, and concludes by saying : We are all conscious of our duty, and the object of our mission is to assist the Pope to the best of our power." NAPLES. NAPI.IO3, Kasai 31 (vi* Mmumnimi). The rumours eoncernirkg an approaching minis terial modification have ceased. The propaganda in favour of annexation to Sar dini► is becoming more daring. Copies of Mr. RI hot's despatches are widely dis tributed. About thirty prisoners, among whom was Signor Gatti, have pissed through the street Toledo ' and have been tr a n s p or t e d t o th e i s l an d o f Capri, to which they are banished. A Capuchin monk has been prosecuted at the criminal court for his preaching, which had been denounced as being of a seditious character. VEENNA, TUZSDAT. The Oesterniehische Zeitung states from a reliable source that the Neapolitan army will not enter the States of the Church. THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY. VIENNA, TOLIMA; Aran 3. It is asserted that the three northern courts have agreed to occupy themselves with the demands of Switzerland simply in the usual diplomatic way, because the great powers, by assembling in a con to consider the claims of Switzerland, would tacitly and implicitly ognire the legality of the annexation of Savoy to Fran ce. Therefore they intend to abstain from taking part in a congress or conference the object of which would be the settle ment of the question of the annexation. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, TUESDAY. The Budget will be published shortly. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aram 2. Kiamel Bey will leave to-morrow for Galatz, to receive the Duke of Brabant. THE UNITED STATES. THE HOSTILITIES AT VERA CRUZ. SOUTHAMPTON, WIDIIIIIDAY. The American mail steamer Vanderbilt, Capt. P. E Lefevre, has arrived off Cowes. She left New York in the afternoon of the 24th March. She brings ninety ( our passengers and 280,000 dollars in specie for France. The Etna arrived out on the morning of the 24th March. Advice. from Canada are to the 13th March. Johnson, murderer of the captain and crew of the oyster sloop E. A. Johnson, bad arrived at Providence. At Porto Rico stock' of sugar were rapidly accumulating. Sugars, 4c. to 4jc. Exchange on the United States are dull. The bombardment of Vera Cruz was renewed by Miramon on the 13th, but with little effect On the succeeding day a flag of truce was sent to Juarez, which resulted in suspen• sion of hostilities and preliminary steps to an armistice. From all accounts received, Miramon had lamentably failed upon the stronghold of the liberals. General Garza had resumed the governorship of the city of Tampico. A Washington despatch says that Spain will be called upon for respecting the fitting out at Havanna of the steamers recently, captured by the Gulf squadron, and that if the [explanations are unsatisfactory the neu trality laws with Spain will be suspended. Nothing important bad transpired in commune M •. SARDINIA. 4oi owi oomstomincrr.) TURIN, MARCH 31. We are ex.oollinnunieated. After lung hesitation and perAgidlr the Pope has at length published the excommunication, which is general, mentions no names, and is without interdict. You possibly are aware that we had already incurred this penal visi tation for having abolished the ecclesiastical court, and that during the last seven years a good many have died or been born as before, that we had fortune on our side both in the Crimean war and in that. of independence against Austria, so that these thunders of the Vatican are as harmless as a rattle, while the benedictions from the same quarter would seem to be injurious, seeing what has happened to Aus tria since she made her concordat with Rome. For these reasons you may easily conceive that, in spite of the excominuuication and the Pope's protest to boot, we sleep pretty well and eat with our usual appetite. I spoke about the political elections in my last, and all I have at present to add is that this parlia ment may be truly called the parliament of Italy, seeing that every part of the Penin- subs will be represented in it, even the part still enslaved. We have in proof of this the political economist Busacca, a Sicilian, and the historian Giuseppe La Fanna, also a Sicilian. Of Neapolitans we shall have Carlo Poerio, Bonghi, the philosopher, Francesco Carrano, the author of a beautiful work called " The Siege of Venice," and moreover a comrade of Garibaldi's in the late war, in which he was a staff officer in the Cacciatori dell; Alpi. He has written an animated and truth ful narrative of the combats fought b r his valiant band, and it will very shortly see the ht. Then there will be also among the Neapolitan eputies the economist Scialoia and the advocate Mancini, a man of great eloquence and extensive practice. He is also a professor of international law at the University of Turin. All these able men are of course exiles. Among the deputies and senators there will also be Venetaans and Lombards from that part of Loin beady which, after so many imperial promises, and Prince Napoleon's topographical studies, was never theless left in Austria's hands. One of the mem- Avis last alluded to is a Mantuan, the Count Giovanni Arrivabene, who, having been banished in 1822, resided at Brussels for more than thirty years, after staying for a short time in London and Paris. He has been recently created a senator, and, although an old man, left Brussels to come here and t ak e his seat in this Italian parliament, which has been the dream of his youth and the hope of his whole life. In the midst of all this national joy we are troubled and annoyed by the news we receive of the vexations to which the inhabitants of Nice are exposed through the machinations of the French. A visitor there writes me word that he is shocked at what he sees going on. He tells me the French consul, Fillet, is violating every international duty and every law of good breeding. English men and Russians are already on the wing, and prefer paying up their house-rent to staying out the full term for which they have taken lodg ings. Many Italians are also leaving, who meant to lave spent the spring there, and several citizens are abandoning their houses. Sympathising with these voluntary fugitives, the municipality of Turin has offered citizenship to all such citizens of Nice as shall desire to transfer there their domicile. Turin is crowded witliforeign from other provinces, who have come here to wit ness the opening of parliament. Large arrivals of fresh guests are expected to-night and to-mor row, and the difficulty will be how to accommodate such a host. One of the visitors is M. Pietri, the chief of the Parisian police. He has paid a visit to Count Cavour, to express his regret for what has taken place at Nice, as if the agents of the French government were not principally to blame for it all. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money market without change. Money freely offered: Brokers, 5 percent. Discount houses complain of a scarcity of paper. Stock market steady, but without particular ani mation. Foreign exchange flat. Bankers ask 1081 to 1084 for sterling ; 5.164 to 5.17} for Frame Omit few transactions at these figure*, remitter's wants being suppliedtby cotton shippers. Cotton market unchanged ; ales - , - 806 - & - Tlou e firmer ; common grades, extra brands, without alteration. Wheat inactive. Corn, fair demand. Pork less buoyant, ; sales of new mess, 7Ch. to 755. Beef steady. Sugar, good demand ; sales, 800 hbds. Coffee firm. Freights steady, at full rates. Moans, MARCH Z.—Sale of cotton, 3,500 bales ; mid dling, 104 c. to 10}c. QUEENSTOWN, TUNIDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Petrie, from New York on the 24th ultimo, has arrived. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rßom out% own coßanrorrmszcr.) PARIS. TOISDAT EViNDIO. The Patric thinks itself authorised to say that there is no foundation for the news telegraphed from London, on the credit of the Morning Nereid, that a treaty of alliance offensive and defensive has been concluded between France and Denmark, and that negotiations are going on with Sweden and Norway, with the view of forming a maritime league against England. I dare say you will scarcely re quire this contradiction of the statements in ques tion. The Pays does not give any contradiction of its own to the above report, but reproduces a note of the telegraphic agency to the effect that the news is given with " all reserve." A very comic accident has happened to M. Louis Veuillot. He arrived in Paris yesterday from Rome, bringing despatches from the Pope to the nuncio in Paris, among which doubtless there was the bull of excommunication. He was, however, watched by a trusty spy, and on his arrival all his papers were taken from him. The Patric contra dicts a report which appears to have been current, that he had been arrested. SOME FRENCH FACT% ABOUT LORD BROUGHAM.— The Paris o o of a Brussels paper writes :—" The ex-Chancellor of England has collected into a single volume the purely scientific works which he has composed, from 17Ri to our own day. Lord Brougham was brought up at Oxford, an assemblage of religious edifices, churches, con vents, cloisters, as well as colleges, which M. Du in, in his travels in England, called ' The Mecca of Science. He has been recently appointed Chancellor of the University, and it is to this oelebrated establishment that he has dedicated his book." LETTER FROM SIR ROBERT PEEL TO CHEVALIER Smear& —The following letter, which was addressed twenty_voua ago by Sir R o be r t P ee l t o Ch eva li er Bunsen,published m • biography of the great statesman, written by Herr Kunst] :—" My dear Herr Bunsen, — The only purpose of this is to invite you to dine with me and Herr Cornelius on Friday next. I assure you that whatever attention I may have paid to this ilistinguislied artist, I am abundantly rewarded by the satisfat.tion which I derive from his personal acquaintance. He is one of • noble people, distinguished alike in every art of war and peace. The ultimate union and the patriotism of this People, spread as it is over the centre of Europe, will offer the best guarantee for the peace of the world, and the most powerful check for the propagation of doctrines, pernicious alike to the cause of religion and order, and to that free dom which respects the rights of others. It is my earnest At the theatre at Tourmai, in Belgium, a comic hope that every member of that illustrious race, while be incident occurred on the performance three night s ago o f loves the country of his birth, will extend his devotion the Mutat de Portici. Some soldiers of the garrison were beyond its frontiers, and pride himself upon the name of employed as supernumeraries, and, in the scene is which a German, acknowledging the common fatherland to be they have to repress a revolt, one of them seeing the entitled to the love, affection, and patriotic exertion of all cipal perf e en we raise a dagger, b ecame re . a l arme d as t o . its sons. The sentiments of every German are, I hope, oar forget he was acting, and struck him • sharp blow on th e I rectly estimated by me, when judged from those awakened head with the butt-end of his musket ; but fort - anately th e in my breast—the breast of a stranger and • for e i gner —by blow was not dangerous. The man's comrades jokin g ly a simple sung, which seems to concentrate within itself the pretend that the soldier considered the revolt serious, and will of a powerful nation--a song which proclaims in ell that he has claimed to be promoted to the grade of c or p ora ] thane/die word,— for his menu in repressing it. ' That they shall not have it, The Bolfehrt Agricole, of Lons-le-Saulnier (Jura), The free German Rhine !' arm:—" Our vine-growers have ascertained , duri ng th e No, they shall not have it, and the Rhine will be protected recent operation of pruning, that the vines have not suffered by a song so long as the feelings inspired by that song are so much from the frost as was at first apprehended, and if, 1 glowing in every Teutonic heart. But you will believe me al there is every meson to hops, the well-watered ground a regular German if Igoon in this way. If cordial wishes supplies an abundant and uninterrupted flow of rap, our fir the union and welfare of the race ran give me • title to vuseyarda eriM again thie veer prove a sourc e o f wea l t h to Cat name, lam ona—Believe me, my dear H err B this ahrt of Me country."' fic.,—Roult7 Mk" 'um"- The English booksellers in Paris have within the last two days sold off all their stale copies of " Tristram Shandy," and I am not sure whether any numbers of the Tautchnitz edition can now be found on the Boulevards. The reason for this extra ordinary demand for Sterne's immortal work, is that it coutaina with laughter-moving commentaries and interpolations, the substance of a papal excom munication—witneas Dr. Slop, Uncle Toby, and Obadiah. The Bourse was very firm during the greater part of the day, and although some perturbation was introduced by the news of a rising in Spain, the Rente left off with a rise of 35c. for cash and 15c. for account, at 69fr. 60c. and 69fr. 50c. Mobilier rase 7fr. 50c. Railways (with the exception of Eastern, which fell Ur. 75c.) were from 2fr. 80c. to Ur. higher. SWITZERLAND. M. Kern , Swiss Minister has sent in the fol lowing note to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, announcing the intention of his government to call for the intervention of Europe in the Savoy question : Paris, March 2S. Monsieur le Ministre,—The government of the Swiss Confederation, after having made itself acquainted with the stipulations of the treaty by which his Majesty the King of Sardinia consents, under the reserve of the sanction of the Chambers, to the union of Savoy and of the anon dissement of Nice to France, which was iwed at Turin on the 24th, regrets to see itself obliged to take new measure with the government of the Emperor, in order to protect the interest, of Swiss neutrality. The object of this treaty evidently is to unite all the province, of Savoy to France, and consequently those which are comprised in the neutr ality: of the Helvetic Con federation. But the present state of things, as established by the treaties of IFIS, (1112110 t., and ought not to be changed without the pDrevious consent of the powers of Europe and of Switserlasd, which is particularly intended therein. The Emperor's government cannot fail to see that where rights and uiteresta of the nature of those referred to are at stake, the cession by one power to another of a neutralised territory must be considered as an essential change affecting the bans itself of the relations in question ; and that the annexation of a terri tory, guaranteed for the preservation of the neutrality of another country, bears a very different character to that of the territory of states which are not placed under such ex conditions Any execution of the treaty indi te far as concerns the neutralised provinces, would be considered by my government as contrary to stipulations which possess an international character. The Federal Council sees itself, therefore, under the necessity of pro testing any measure for the execution of this treaty se • the neutralised provinces . It very particularly protests—whilst demanding the maintenance of the thaw quo--against any vote on the annexation, and against any taking possession, whether military or civil, of those pro vinces, until an understanding with the guaranteeing powers and with Switzerland shall have been come to. The Federal Council will apply for a meeting of represen tatives of the powers which guaranteed to Switzerland the neutrality of the three provinces, and reserves to itself, as representing the country which is most interested, and in conformity with the principles of international European law already recognised, to uphold therein the rights and interestsof Switzerland. The Federal Council hopes that the French government will recognise the justice of the ob jections which have just been made, especially as in Art. 2 of the treaty of the 24th March, France engages herself "to come to an understanding on this subject both with the powers represen ted in the Congress of Vienna and with the HelveticConfederation." It is, therefore, only a natural and necessary consequence of that stipulation to renounce any measure which might have for object the execution of the treaty, as far as concerns the neutralised provinces, be fore that understanding shall have been brought about. It is with this hope and with full confidence in the sentiments of just the Emperor's government that the under signed ha, he honour, ix., KERN. LOUIN NAPOLZON AND SIVITZERLA.Vb It is well known that, in the autumn 0 I Ny when tiwitzerland called out her troops in ordei to ..ipp.ot in defiance of France, her light of keeping within I ritory a citizen of Sallenstein, in the canton of a certain gentleman named Louis Napoleon or d er t o prevent a aanguinery conflict, voluntarily .a , ,:to! the country. On that otxmaien he wrote a t ,!. government of Thurgovia, from which the sages are taken, and which it may he useful to red• , :,,• the present moment : " Switzerland has shown fur the last mouth, to getic protests, and now by the decisions of such of councils as have hitherto been assembled, that -I ready to make the greatest sacnfices for the r.ake •4 dignity and her riOta. She has known how to do lo an an independent nation ; I shall know how to do tiros.., remain true to the voice of honour. I may be but I never will be debased. 'rho French anvt.llo,..t, having declared that the refusal of the Diet to vietl t demands would be the signal fur a conflagration of Switzerland might become the victim, I have no to leave a country where my presence in the am.- unjust pretensions, and where it might become the 15..., or great calamities. On quitting this d a y, lit will,_ the only cottotry in Europe where .„ with support and protection, and on leaving me spots endeared to me in many way*. to prove to the Swine people that I was worthy of tin. marks of esteem and affection which they har.. Isvt•te-1 upon me. I shall never forget the noble conduit .4 11. cantons who have pronounced themselves with courage in my favour ; and, above all, the gencoon. tion which the canton of Thurgovie afforded me, a ill deeply engraved on my heart. I hope that this separation will not be for rye., that a day will oome when I shall be able, without voi„ ) „.,. mining the interests of two nations which ought to rerr....o friends, to find again the asylum in which a resides twenty years and acquired rights had given m e a country " 1 request, Laudaniman, that you will convey h. 7 feelings of gratitude to the councils, and believe duo thought of avoiding troubles to Switzerland can alone the regrets which I feel on leaving it.—Receive, ir.c. (Signed)) " NAPOLZON, IMt "Arenenberl, Sept. mt, 1838." N. VEUILLOT AND HIS TRAVELLING COMPANION. M. Louie Veuillot, the ex-editor of the left Paris some six weeks or two months since for Rot, He had, after the suppression of his paper, accepted ins r French capitalist the place of inspector of the Ronan rob roads. On leaving Paris he found himself in the same rime with a respectable-looking man of good Milt*, cad agreeable manners. They soon entered into conve-moPt, the stranger appeared charmed at finding himself with ,o famous a person, and M. Veuillot learned with, pleasure that his attractive acquaintance was also on his way to Rome on some commercial matters. They .igreed to travel in the same carriage, to put up at the same hotels, and even to descend at the same lodgingbotae is the Eternal City. Their acquaintance grew cloer they went along, and by the time they reached the end of their journey they were to all appearance. the last friends in the world. B. Veuillot announced after soma weeks, that circumstances compelled him to return to Paris. His friend expressed deep regret at his speedy departure, and said that he himself wanted only two or three ,Lys more to finish his business, when he also intended re turning to France, and that it was a pity they cold t come back together. B. Veuillot observed that, after a day or two did not much matter, and that he should w..it for him. He did wait, and both arrived in Paris last Sunday morning. They proceeded to the same hotel. M. Veuillot went out for a bath ; his friend took another direction, On the former returning to his lodging he was Inturated, to his astonishment, that police agents had been to his apartment, and had wined his portmanteau, containing his papers, kc. He went at once to the Prefecture of Police, and one of the first persons he beheld was the amiable coma panion of his journey, who turned out to be nothing more or lees than an agent of the secret police. He gave informs. tiom that If. Veuillot had brought important despatcher for the Papal Nuncio in Paris. "B. Vanilla" (writes a Paris correspondent), "demanded his papers ; some were re• stored to him, but the greater part, to the address of the Nuncio, retained. He went off instantly to the Nuncio, and informed him of what had happened. Hie Excellency was greatly excited ; he went straight to the Foreign-office, demanded explanations, and declared that if his papers were not given up he should there and then break off all diplomatic relations with the French government, demand his passports, and quit Paris. It was explained that the seizure of the papers was in consequence of information being given that B. Vend lot was made the channel of oommunitation between the clergy and the Court of Rome. with a view to certain manifestations on the part of the clergy in the matter of the bulls of excommunication. The Nuncio's demand was, however, complied with, and the papers given up. The Nuncio was so far weak that M. Veuillot had forgotten or neglected to have himself described in his passports as • courier, or as • bearer of de 'patches to the Pope's Ambassador in Paris. Then was no seal on the papers, and otherwise nothing official about them ; and, moreover, it was an leg fraction of the post-office regulations to bring letters Of despatches as a private person. The Nuncio has got hie papers ; Veuillot has got those that belonged to him, and will doubtless take care not to be too intimate with the plausible persons he may happen to meet in a railway carriage when next he goes to Rome. The matter is a good deal talked about here, and, as people laugh at most things, it is a good subject for pleasantry." THE FRAUDS IN THE AUSTRIAN COMMISSARIAT. TRIESTE, MARCH The engrossing topic of the day is the gigantic frauds discovered in the commissariat department, whii- 11 1 no doubt, were in no small degree influential in lainging to so sudden a termination the recent hostilities between the Austrian and Franco-Italian armies, and which drag to light, despite must powerful influence, a series of disgraceful Este, involving a multitude of names, some of them bidding psis tion P so high as to render even allusions hazardous, i u charge of the moat flagrant political and motel turpitude. The to counta in the Vienna and other Austrian newqoperi are meagre in the extreme ; and, but for the suicide of fenced Eynatten on the 70-Bth inst., which admitted of no couces.l• ment, these frauds would probably have never been :.Iluded to. The deficit amounts to the astounding sum of no less doe 17,000,000 florins, or 1,700,0001. sterling, of which:l,ooo,o o 3 florins, or 300,0001., is laid to the charge of some ut the leading capitalists of this city. One was imprisned. tio have fled, and others are undergoing forced examinations of books, papers, documents, &c. The strange...! part of the tale is, however, that which is certainly the Wet known. It is said, and from the sources from whence I bear it I believe it is true, that at the celebrated meeting of the rival Emperors which led to the armistice, and subsequently to the prelitoinares of the treaty of peace at Villafrancr., when Vas poleon and Francis Joseph were left T rost ,done fax nearly three quarters of an hour, the former, addressing the latter, said, " Your Majesty would do well to listen to friendly and well-meant counsels. You are surniuudel by traitors. Your Majesty believes that your fort ss of Mantua is provisioned for sic months ; I tell you," elc• phatically raking his finger, "it has not foal for R as, days. Test my information, and set accordingly." .tod so it proved, and afforded another lesson also of the !ohs cite superiority of the French over the Austrian `,.t,", ad apionaage. To give some idea of the barefaced effrontery of tba fraud, arid the number of accomplices necroory. . one ins stance will suffice, though, if needful, I could :Odin , m any others. Mantua is a walled city, and the bullock.: which were driven in at one gate pained through the toss! , oUt at the opposite, and then, making the half circuit of th., walls re-entered at the first gate, and every bullock made this parade five times! The richest part of the tale in c..iiir•iioc with Mantua is yet to come. A firm in Trieste nue! , A epees tract with the Austrian government for the hide- of the bullocks supplied fur the use of the troops. sow, Although each bullock did duty living for five, still he could killed once, and supply one hide. The coal:I:tor , 0,1 " fore, called upon and actually received from the g.o , "' ment the forfeit, as stipulated by contract, of one upon every hide short delivered ; thus profiting to the .t• tent of 30,000 florins for the non-delivery of the .kin" of animals which had never been killed Timor. The Courricr de -Varmilk states that the corvette Medved, which is now in that port, has en 1..- 4 some hears, which ct certain times are let limor ..1. ' 1„I4 and allowed to amc,e themselves by climbing u 1..,.1 the rigging. The animals are so well disciplined as to I ."— ut no danger. Crowds assemble on the quays to see throufh their strange gating.