The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-29 00:00:00

vie erprefo. OUTGOING ILtILS. The West ladle Maio, fatl BeMaida, Havensab, Illems, Hoidens, New Orisons, end Macke, mad embalm toes for Madeira, Gt. naa-de-Niearegva, New Greseda, mad Pere, will be made op ea May 2. The meth for British North Arita and the Halted DION will be made up as the weals, of May 3. TM mils for Mader* the Brazils, and Baena Ayres, will be slide up oaths idt of May. The mono fir linhom. Beata, tad Gibraltar will be made sp es the sunk, of May 7. The uselh vitt Mineilles, to the Mediterrissaa, Egypt. Crylas, ladle, Hong-Kong, He., will be nude up on the evenly; of May 7. The math Ire Gibraltar, Malta, Graeae, the lonia. Wards, Hopi, Goyim, lad* sad aa, via Boathaapton, will be node up as the tacesing of May 20. ■ion WATER AT WIIDCU LUDO& Ewe CRl—Rwasa. Afrawww: Mt. Ss. fil-wwww—Ewagme, Eh da. a. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 29. AT lest the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill stands first on the orders of the day, with some chance of being discussed, this evening. Though the result of the report of a committee of the House of Commons, and notwithstanding dr bill was last cession before the Commons, it pleased ministers this session to originate it fa the Lords. The consequence is that the only nay useful clause the measure contained—that which fused the episcopal and common fond—has, in its passage through the Peers, been so altered and manipulated as to continue the episcopal fund just as ;much under the bishops' mercy as ever it was. Now as the Common.' committee were " compelled t an expression of regret that such large contributions towards the building and repairing of palaces should have been made from this fund, and that more reserve has not been shown in the disposal of it," to-night's debate will show whether minieters have coorage enough to adhere to their own proposition fur the ansalgamation of the funds, or whether on this, as on all other points of church policy, they are prepared to yield to episcopal influence. The ground on which the continued separation of the funds is advocated, is to reserve the surplus of the episcopal fund for the foundation, first, of mon Roglish, and next, of more colonial bishoprics. Bat this reason denotes a foregone conclusion which has no legislative existence. Tee question of more bishops is not one that has been decided ; and they who think that it is • question merely of means to provide for more bishops, and not • question of principle as to whether more are wanted will, if it ever come to be discussed, find themselves greatly . mistaken. Already, in the Manchester Bishopric Bill, one attempt has been made to carry this question by pledging . parliament in the preamble of • statute to the extension of the episcopate ; but it was signally defeated ; and now, by this continued separation of the funds administered by the Ec clesiastical Commission, another effort is in sidiously and surreptiionsly being made to involve hereafter the leg slatare, by a aide wind and inferentially, in such an extension. Lord Powts ex pressly novel the continuance of t h e separation, and the Bishop of LONDON b sldly suppwted it, with the object of creating more bishops. It is indispensable, therefore, that the Ilonae of Commons should discuss the Lords' amendments in the spirit in which they were made; and tither fuse the funds to prevent or perpetuate their separation, to hasten an extension of tits episcopate. The principle of the bill is, in plain language, to protect the property of the church, which the le gislature has confided to the eclesiastical com mission, from the waste of the bishops who unfortunately, are now the masters of that commission. The simplest mode of carrying out that principle would, undoub'edly, have been a complete recoeaposition of the ecclesiastical commis sion, by restoring the supremacy of lay influence therein, as was, and so usetully, the case from 1838 to 1840. This, in all probability, is what Sir ROBERT PEEL would have done, had he been called to restore order and honesty to the administration t f this property. But a change so valuable and effective oaths was not to be expected from a ministry veto have, there is too much reason to apprehend, some secret understanding, if net an actual compact, with the biahope; and so thorough a reform as this the re commendations of the committee of 1848 give Lord Joust RUSSELL and Sir GEORGE GRIST a loophole to escape from. Those recommendations were, it is notorious, a compromise of opinions for the sake of unanimity. They were the least that Church reformers, like Lwd ABEILET, Sir JAMES Giteassi, and Mr. RORSMAN, would except ; they were the most that the four ec clesiastical commissioners on the committee would yield. In substance the recommendations amounted to tail, : that the management of the property of the commission should be separated from its " more purely" ecclesiastical business ; that " a small com mittee should be appointed for the purpose of mana ging in all its branches the property of the commis sion ;" and that there should be three paid commision ars (to be paid oat of that property) : two to be Dominated by the crown, and ors by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY. The design of this scheme, obviously, wan to place the care of the property in lay hands. Now this design the bill, whilst professing to carry out, in reality defeats. Instead of three lay commis goners, it proposes to a2point two only ; thus giving the bishops equal representation with the crown, or rather, with the public. These two lay commissioners are, with two of the existing ecclesiastical c3mtnie. sifters, who are to be chosen by the commission, and On. to be a layman, to constitute an listates Committee. Now, the bishops, it will be recollected, substantially oonstitute the eccleaiutical commission ; and it is they who, of course, will nominate these two latter commissioners. The consequence will be that is this Estates Committee, to bi composed el four 'ambers ; the Archbishop Of CANTERBURY will hare the appointmen. of one teseaber, the Wimps generally of two members, and the crown, on baba, of the public, of one member only. Thee, in the Bastes Committee, there will be • majority of seek- Magical over lay representatives, of three to Gael Bach an arrangement if! in e ff ect, a merely delusive mode of carrying out le recommendations of the committee of 1848. But this is not aIL The Estates Comnulttee, even thus badly composed, have not, as the committee of 1848 recommended, to " manage in all its branches the property of the commumos." Their duties are to be much more restricted. They have only "to consi(kr all matters" relative to such management, and "to report fully thereupon to the said ecclesiastical oommissumers." The general body of the ecclesiastical commission—that is, the bishops—still retain the real power over that property which the committee of 1848 " was com pelled" to " regret" they had abused and saisarmaged The bishops will not be bound to adopt even the re ports of their own Estates Committee ; but, notwith standing they will have a majority of three to ace in that committee, they will hereafter have as much op portunity of squa nd ering the episcopal fund, sad of emberravetng the common fund as ever they had. To sum up the defects of the bill in a few words, the episcopal feed which is rich, has to be still kept distinct from the common fund, which is iosllvent ; the bishops have to appoint three out of the four members of the Aides Committee ; and even this committee oe astaieated is not to have the " =ear n. at in all its twaeobse " of the property or the ems mission ; that, the bishops are to keep to themselvi s. No wonder the Dial:olio sad their friends in the Lords were content to accept in comparative silence, such a easessie. So far then from the bill carrying out the principle on which it in profaned to be foui.ded, it absolutely !nitrates it; so far from its being a measure for the batter administration of the property of the com mimdoe, it is one for the confirmation of all 'air ing obsess. Far from fulfilling, it eludes the recommendations of the Committee of 11448 : it creates two well paid officers, without giving them any real power; and it perpetuates the defects of the ecclesiastical oomminioo. It is a measure altogether unworthy the support of say reformer ; it has in almost every clause the impress of its real author— who was Lobe other then Mr. C. K. Mu KRA Y ! Will the !Luse of CUIMMU4II sanction and adopt the handy. work of such t men? That the bill will, a. it deserves, meet the stoutest resistance in the 11Juse of Commons, is meet certain. There is not • clause in it which is not in one way or other defective or delusive. 'fake even that which enact• that the accounts of the etteksiaetical oesamission shall be annually audited. Of what use is as audit that shall remain worst P Yet there is no proviiiin for the publication of the aooounts. The iceletiasti cal commissioners of Ireland are bound by glade to make an annual report of their proosediage and,ot their accounts to parliament Why _Amid the' so elesisaticel commissioners of England be exesipt from a similar obligation P To this hour, there has been no audit or verification of their accounts. Up to the close of 1848, the episcopal fund had received 140,6151., and spent 127,2311.; and up to the same date, the common fund had received 861,8184 and spent 530,6431. Bat for the proper and honest cre dits to,or deb.ts on these funds, there is no aliment*. All that is known is, that they have been robbed to the extent of 9,0001. Now, for the due administra tion of these funds publicity is indispensable. But publicity is the last thing the bishops want ; so not a word abatt the publication of the accounts, when audited, is there in this bill. It may be possible that • mean» so thoroughly bad can be rectified is the House of Commons. But it is extremely improbable that it will be. And— though we hardly expect our views to prevail—we confess to the opinion that the best treatment such a bill deserves is—rejection. The cause of church re f'rm will gain, rather than lose, by a little longer delay. WE could pity Sir CHARLES WOOD, but for the recollection that he has., by his own act, brought all the mortilications he is now enduring upon himself. It is not only on the floor of the HOlllO of Commons— on such occasions as when his Stamp Duties Bill and other blunders are being pulled to pieces—that he is made to look and feel sheepish. He only retires from public reprimands to undergo certain lectures. A report, which we publish to-day, of an inter view which he had on Friday lest, with a depu tation on the window duties, may c3nvey to our readers saws notion of what this much-suffering man is subjected to in private. After hearing, with Job-like patience, the home thrusts of Mr. HICKSON and Lord HOBERT GROSVENOR, he could only reply, plaintively, that "it was his duty to listen to their representations, and it would also be his duty to re ceive several other deputations that had written to request an interview on the same subject" With all doe deference to the Cif•xcEttort of the EXCHEQUER, we would remark that it is hie duty not only to fasten but to act. It is extremely pro bable that at the very time the deputation of Freday were addressing him, the Globe of that evening, with its special pleading in defence of the window duties, was lying on his table. The Globe winds up its re marks by declarirg that " while the revenue is likely to suffer by the operation, we shottli regret to see • tax of which so small a part (probably Lot more than one-tenth) is really liable to the objections urged against it—serious as these undoubtedly are— abolished, in order to remit nine-tenths of the present proceeds to the pockets of those who can wel! afford to bear their share of the necessary burdens of the state." The relish of this paragraph, in his own pet whig journal, must have been sadly destroyed to Sir CHARLES by the demolishing statements of Mr. HICKSON. The mole argument of the Globe in behalf of the window duties is that they do not fill principally apses the poorest or working classes. We would re mark, en pas•ant, that even granting this to be true, still they may be highly objectionable. They may, and indeed they do, press most heavily upon that por tion of the class intermediate between the very poor and the very rich, which Is next above the former in circumstances. The very poor may escape the full pressure of these duties, but the very rich assuredly do escape it. Only compare the proportion borne by the window tax of Grosvenor-square to the means of the inmates, with the proportion they bear to each other in the streets adjoining Regent-square. Rut the very poor do not escape the pressure of the window duties, as Mr. HICKSON demonstrated unan swerably on Friday. The Globe's assumption rests on the Arcadian fancy that except in some large manufac taring towns and commercial emporiums, the very poor are inhabitants of lowly cottages where " the swallow twitters from the straw-rootel shed." This is not the case even in the rural districts. More than thirty years ago, M. SISMONDI directed attention to the fact teat almost universally the English rural labourer had been driven to take up his abode in small towns ; that the poverty in the land was there concealed from the eye or the traveller. Referring to this fact, Mr. HICKSON stated " Cottages and farm houss s were exempt [from the window tax] ; but the great majo rity of the working classes did not live either in cottages or farm houses. They were to be found in towns, lodging in the back rooms of the upper floors of what are called under the building act third and fourth rate houses; houses that should have twelve or fifteen windows, but the occupiers of which, by darkening the staircases, passages, closets, and cellars, reduced the number below the chargeable number of seven." The window duties have caught the poor man on the horns of an ugly dilemma; if they cannot take it out of him in money, they take it out in health. He must either pay, or be plunged into a contagious disease bath. The effects of the window duties on the poor, as rated by Mr. RICKsON, were forcibly illustrated by Sir RALPH HOWARD. That gentleman remarked that " the superiority of the model lodging houses consisted in the arrangements made for an adequate supply of air, light, and wirer; but these arrange ments had led to such an increase of taxation, that private landlords could not be expected to imitate the example. Upon the buildings_ of the Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Working Classes, in the Pancras-road, they were actually paying 1621. 16s. window duty, of which sum not less than 331. was for duties charged on their sculleries and waver closets." But the writer in the Globe at least does not re quire statements like these to convince him how much the poor suffer from the window tax. He avails him self of a conlenient ambiguity of lan . He "doubts whether, except by the mouths of t philanthropists, they can be said ever to have com plained at aIL" He argues that " because the tax is not distinguishable from other items that go to make up the sum total of rent," and because the poor are " Inadajtately instructed as to the conditions of health, they have not raised their voices against the window duties. This only proves that the poor are subjected to an unequal tax, and through it to un healthy influences, but that they do not clearly see how it affects them. It does not bear out the conclu sion of the Globe that they are not "so much or so generally affected as it is now the fashion to assert." There is here the same shameless use made of vague and lax expressions, as is made in the conclusion of the article on which we are commenting, of the equally deceptive phrase "the pockets of those who can well afford to bear their share of the neces sary burdens of the state." There is injustice in laying the burden upon those who can "well afford," so long as those who can best afford are allowed, com paratively speaking, to escape. Even in the words " burdens of the state," there is a dishonest begging of the question ; for it has over and over again been proved that with our present scale of public expenditure, unnecessary burdens are laid on the taxpayers. The tax which can only be palliated by such ambi guities, evasions, and equivocations, is doomed. If the other deputations whom it will be the CHANCELLOR of the Excuitutria's "duty to receive," only tell their story in the same manly, straightforwa r d, un compromising manner that the deputation of Friday last did, ministers will discover that they can dispense with the window duties before another year passes ever their heads. The Morning Pori says :—" We believe we are in a position to affirm that the negotiations between the courts of London and Madrid, relative to the renewal of diplomatic relations, are now virtually and ratio fsctorily concluded." ST. STIPHIR'S CHURCH, HAIIIIRROWITH.-At the personal 'spas' of his lordship, the Bishop of L•adon, a ebereh bee been bailt at Shepherd'abeab, ander the direst Use of Mr. Salvia, sad wes consecrated a few dap spiv It Is to be the church of a new perish, which is to be named St. Bars, Hauntemnith; the patronage to be with the of Dindon for the time being. The building coot prises a chancel, with vestry a vouth side, ease with aisles, tax* porch, an I newer ai.d spire at weet.end of north aisle. It is is the decorated style, and of my salitfactorr character. The walla, 2 fest 3 indite thick, us timid with Kentish rag, sad the dreesings are of Beth stone. The roof timbeni, slight in eppearsars, are open. The church bas open sit Hags for 832 persons. The organ is on the NOT level, under the tower: the font is nest it. The windows were mostly sifts, as were the organ, loot, tic— The Boilikr, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1850. THE DEPUTY CHAIR AT THE INDIA HOUSE. There is a curious and not a very creditable story Levirculation in circles woolly well informed on such saldects relative to the recent eiection of Dety Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East rgts Company. The direetori Who this year made preten sions to that isikential pest were, it is well known, Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P. (whom the Globe states to be called in the City " The 'lag of India"), and Lieut.-CoL Sykes. The former, it will be recol lected, has already been twice chairman of the court; whilst the latter has not as yet been seated in either chair, bat is understood to be anxious to have that honour. The objections of the directors generally to be peesided over by whet hem been significantly termed a " diplomatic" chairman or deputy chairman were, however, thought to be so strong as to render the election of Sir James Weir Hogg somewhat unlikely ; and previously to the day of election it was generally understood that Col. Sykes had received promises of the supped of twelve directory, a number which the death of Sir Alexander Galloway rendered suffieient to place him in the deputy chair. On the important day, the court (so the story rune) was attended by 22 directors, and Mr. Shepherd, the deputy chairman daring the past year, having been called to the chair, the ballot for the deputy chair was proceeded with. In this ballot the new chairman re fused to take any part ; thus leaving only 21 directors to vote. AU of them apparently voted ; but, on the box being opened, there appeared to be 10 votes for Sir James Hogg and 10 vote. for Colonel Sykes, making only 20 instead of 21 votes. It' , was therefore suggested that there might have been some mistake on the part of the director whine vote was thus missing, and it was resolved to repeat the ballot. But, on this being done, the result was again the same; to all appearance 21 directors voted ; bat, on examining the box, there were again only 20 votes found; and as before, 10 were for Sir James Hogg and 10 for Colonel Sykes. It was in vain that the directors looked at each other for some expla nation—none was offered ; and recourse was, eons,- quently, obliged to be had to that provision of the 33rd Ciro. 111., c. 135, which enacts that equality of votes in the Court of Directors is to be taken as a rejection of the motion, except in cases of election to office or place where there shall be more than oce candidate ; in which case the determination shall be made by lots, to be prepared and drawn by the treasurer of the company. As, however, there is now no treasurer of the Bast India Company, the secretary, Mr. Melvin, prepared and drew the iota on this occasion ; when Sir J. W. Hogg proved to be the fortunate director. lie was accordingly forthwith installed into the deputy-chair, and will, in due course, be spin chair man of the court. Oa the breaking up of the court considerable ex citement and curiosity very naturally prevailed amongst the directors as to who the defaulter was ; and a companion of notes has, it is added, induced a general belief that he is a gentleman formerly in the company's commercial marine, and who subsequently was in China. No little annoyance is also upraised is to the deception thus practised on the court. FRANCE. PARIS, Sarranav, 7 rat. The nix du Peuple was seized yesterday for an article attacking, not a measure of the government, but a plan set forth by the Coastiltdionnel as intended by the government to relieve agricultural distress. This plan, which I sent in my let•er of yesterday, is perfectly analsgous to the measure adopted by the Provisional Government to relieve tradesmen by the establishment of warehouses where goods were de posited, the receipts given being negotiable like bills of exchange, only in the present instance agricultural produce will be warehoused instead of manufactured goods. Whatever be the merits of this scheme, people are at a loos to conceive why it should enjoy an exclusive immunity from discussion. The article in question is written in a tone which might serve as a model to the moderate pipers for coolness and logic, the only strong expression being in the heading— " Organisation of Famine." Nothing can be more mischievous than this absurd suscept:blity of the go vernment, which will not allow • word to be uttered in public against a project indicated in a semi-official paper. In Spain, in Prussia, even in Austria, an op position pr ess is allowed, in which articles daily ap pear with impunity, compared to which the article for which the Vu i x du Pavia was seized yesterday is meek. Is it to be supposed that France will endure i gag which no other government in Europe dares to impose It is impossible to conceive a more furious persecu tion than that which is waged at this moment by M. Culler against the opposition press. Taking ad vantage of a decision of the Court of Cessation, which has settled that pamphlets and other compositions =nut be sold without • bookseller's license, or an authorisation from the prefect of police, this func tionary has given notice to those who had opened their shops as a refuge to the persecuted liberal papers driven from the pavement, that legal proceed ings will be adopted against such as resist seizures, or persist in selling papers. Oirardin, however, re marks that the sentence of the Court of Cessation, as well as the prohibi'ion in the law of July, refers to pamphlets, not to newspapers. The following resolts of the military votes are given to-day : Garrison of Toulon, voters 55: Eugene Sae, 31 ; Leclerc, 17; lost votes, 7. Orleans, 25th Regt. of the line : Eugene Sne ' 48 ; Leclerc, 5 ; lost votes, 2. Blois, 24th Regt. of Light Infantry : Eugene Sue, 17 out of 19 votes. The following addi tional returns of the votes of the army, for the elec tion of the Seine, Republished by the Consfittetionnel: —Thionville : ielerc, 21; Sne, 0. Gien : Leclerc, 14; Sue, 5. Villefranche : Leclerc, 11; Sue, 0. Le Puy: Atclerc, 11; Foy, 1. Peron= : Leclerc, 4 ; Sue, 15. Bethune: Leclerc, 15; Su, 8. Avesnes : Leclerc, 20; Sue, 35. Sarreguemines: Leclerc, 37 ; Sue, 0. A very numerous meeting of the friends of M. Leclerc was held last night in the Rue Berger., M. Lacrosse in the chair. After several communications from different arrondiesemens of a nature to inspire confidence as to the prospects of the party of order, antigen was made to a report that M. Fernand Foy had not frankly and cordially withdrawn his candt datesbip, and that many of the electors might be ex pected to vote for him, and thus, by division in the ranks of the moderate party, give victory to the so cialists. A letter from M. Foy, which has been pub lished in the Everternent, though dated so far back as the 18th, was mentioned as showing that M. Foy's re tirement was not of such a nature as to convince his friends that he had the snows of M. Leclerc at heart. The chairman announced that this misunder standing would probably be cleared up, as M. Foy was waiting in another room to give explanations. A de legation was therefore appointed to wait on M. Foy, and request him to give a fall and satisfactory solution to the difficulty which had presented itself; the dele gation returned with a declaration from M. Foy, that his secession was sincere, that the letter in the &tine mast had been withdrawn before that journal pub lished it, and was therefore without effect, and that he requested his friends to vote for M. Leclerc. The fol lowing communication of this result has been addressed to the journal by the committee of M. Leclerc: A letter of Fernand For, inserted in the Evinenterst of last evening, pee rise to some explanations in tie me e ti ng of the Rue B , Ngi re. M. Clary, representative, K. Paco:, and K. Anse de Fleury, having communicated with M. Foy, who was In an adjacent apartment, annosneed to the assembly that Y. Foy had declared to them th a t he persists in his withdrawal of his candidateship, glees the 18th to the Rita torsi Union, that he 'maintains it in the most formal manner completely and without arriimpenste. Re moreover af firmed that he had withdrawn the two letters published last evening, and which bad been inserted against his will. An experiment was made yesterday at the Elysee, by order of the President of the Republic, of the electro chemical telegraph of M. Bain. The telegraph was fixed up in the grand saloon of the palace, and soon after one o'clock the Experiments commenced. The President was attended by the Minister of the Inte rior, his chef do cohinlU, and M. Chevalier, secretary general of the )'residency. M. de Persigny, the Freuch ambassador to the court of Berlir, was also present. M. Loverrier, of the Institute, who has t.kt.n great interest in the invention of M. Bain, and eeho was present on Thuredly at the Ministry of the leterier, when th e t e l egrap h co iveye d a long despatch to Lille and back, a distance of 325 English miles, io less than one minute, explained the process to the President of the Republic. The Prince compre hended rapidly the principle and the mode of execu tion, which, he said, were almost marvellous, and complimented M. Bain on the labour nod intolli rgenos which be had displayed in bringing his inven tion to sash perfection. As an insfance of the extracedinsry powers of his telegraph, we may men tion that, ha the promos of the President of the Re public, a despatch containing 1,327 letters was conveyed in the space of 53 emends, being at the rate of nearly 1,600 letters per minute. PARIS. SUNDAY, 7 P.M. A letter from M. Fernand Foy, written yesterday, is published to-day in most of the moderate papers, stating that he is at a law to explain the doab•s raised se to his resignation of his candidacy, after the declarations made on two distinct ocean ,ns by the Electoral Union. He renews that resignation in the most formal manner, and declares that he will vote with all the men of order for M. Leclerc. In answer to a challenge of the Park, expressing a desire to know the canes of Eugene tine's retract from military and naval service, the socialist candi date hu Addressed a letter to the editor of the mode rate evening paper, giving an outline of Lis military and naval career, and proving the motive of his retirement honourable. General Lamoriciere has opened a subscription to defray the ezpensrs of M. Leclerc's election, and he has himself subscribed 100 f. Yesterday M. Carlier set his sergens-de-ville on a rezzia, putting to rout all the lit le coops where old women sit selling papers. All the prints of the oppo sition, whether on stall or in shop, were seized wherever found except at booksellers' shops or in the offices of the papers. Hilt Paris MIA bewildered by this sweeping stroke, and no one could get his Sleek, National, Preis°, or any other liberal pap( r, unless he was a regular subscriber, Of went to the above-mentioned sanctuaries, which the police durst not invade. Three thousand copies of the Evencment were sold under thepwri cochtre, in the Rue Montmartin, which opens to the office of the Prem. The Moniteur contains a semi-off:141 article justi ry ing the seizure of the Voix du Peuple for attacking the plan for establishing warehouses far the deposit of grain and other agricultural produce. This is the first authentic intimation which the public has re oeived that the government really harboured such • plan. The Irons die Peuple maintained that the mea sure would occasion dearness of food by fome'ting speculation, and pointed out the mischief of aiding artificially the tendency of capitalists to acctimulate grain for purposes of cupidity. It is, I believe, ad mitted sea prinoiple in journalism that when the government brings forward a measure calculated to promote the interest of a few at the expense of the many, it may be fairly charged with dishonesty be its intentions what they may. How am Ito tist the purity of a minister's intentions except by the drift of his measures. I am not bound to know whether the defect in his administration arises from ignorance or corruption, if the effect of his ignorance might have been produced by Ifs corruption. A measure which is corrupt in its working may bo fairly attacked as corrupt in its origin; and if the government puts money into the pockets of a certain ewe of men to the detriment of the common weal, its complicity with that class may be obviously inferred without calumny. Toe Mom leur's justification of the government's violence, be cause its intentions are misrepresented, is therefore puerile, unsound, and unconstitutional. The Legislative Assembly has skipped over the budget of Public Works to get to that of War. M. Mathieu de la Drome opened the debate yesterday upon this branch of the public expenditure, with some general considerations which made up in truth what the wanted in novelty. It was not, he said, by means of a powerful army that the institutions of the country could be consolidated. Many govern ments which counted as many bayonets as the present had fallen. Therefore, some higher base and one more secure for the establishment of order must be chosen. Wise laws, useful institutions, well-administered finances, these were what Franoe wanted. Let the ge vernment grant satisfaction to legitimate wants; ad vance, instead of retreating ; protect, iamb ad of oppn s nug ; conciliate, instead of dividing. It will then be de fended by its acts, by its populanty, and by the gra titude of the country. It will have no need to fortify itself against the people, for the people will be on its side. He knew that his advice woull not be fol lowed, and he regretted it. An army of 100,000 min must be the ruin of the country. Coercion and beg gary reproduced each other. Liberty and prosperity went hand in hand. A free people was always a rich people. General ee Grammont was not at all satis fied with the state of war in which society was conti nually placed. He proposed seriously that the seat of go vernment should be removed to some provincial town. He affirmed that before long the government would be called to deliberate on this step. General d'Hautpoul, Minister of War, condescended to reply gravely to this intimation. The minister could not accept the idea of removing from Paris the meat of government. After this preamble the Assembly passed to the dis cussion of the articles. M. Charras kept up a amen fire of amendments, some of which gave a highly ani mated turns to the debate. lie took occasion of one of these, in which he proposed a reduction of the credit allowed for the staff of the minister of war, to quarrel with tbe military costume and attendance of aides-de-camp, with which the President of the Re public appeared in public. He had no more right to dress himself up as a general of the national guard than he had to wear the toga of the president of the Court of Cessation. (Cheers from the Left) But the kernel of the debate lay in another motion of M. Ch to reduce the item of " gendarmerie." The minister of war hod presented a bill for the creation of a new battalion of "gendarmerie mobile." The committee proposed to authorise this creation bya provision introduced into the budget. This question, touching so closely the constitution of the armed force, was the signal for a fight between the African generals on the one side and the ministers and committee on the other, in which the former were beaten. General Leydet complained that the govern ment wanted to resuscitate privileged corps ; which drew from Gen. d'Hautpoul a remark which grazed the susceptibility of the military men. He said that he accepted the expression ; the geudarmie were pri viliged for the defence of order. General Lamoriciere swooped with his usual aquiline impetuosity upon the subject, and complained loudly of the levity with which the committee had acted in cutting the knot ore question which touched so nearly the constitution of the army, and could not in his opinion be settled without without a special law. General Cavaignac also supported this view with weighty arguments. 'But little regard was paid to these remonstrances by the Assembly, whose eye was on the political interest of the measure. The provision, which creates a second battalion of gendarmerie mobile, was there fore voted by a large majority. Meanwhile the go vernment may live to see this precedent turned against them. If the opposition ever bring forward a proposition for the redaction of the army, instead of resorting to the ambers of a special law they will only have to propose it simply as an amendment to a chapter of the budget. The committee on the Transportation Bill has de cided on adopting the proposition of M. Vatismenil, which refers to the tribunals the application of the law. But it is not easy to see how the amendment ' of M. 0. Barret, which declares that the law shall only be applied to crimes posterior to its promulga tion, can be got rid of. A cabinet council was yesterday presided over by Louis Napoleon. A serious split is said to have opened in the ministry on the subject of the wish expressed by the president to put his aide-de-eamp, Col. Vaudrey, at the heed of the committee of artillery, which is op posed by General d'Hautpoul. The cabinet was divided on this question. MM. Dumas and Parieu abstained from siding with either party. It was reported that General Lahitts would take this occasion to resign with the rest of his colleagues.' The President was only waiting for the result of the I I election to forma now cabinet. . . M. Dounay, Archbishop of is presented by the government with the cardinal's hat vacant by the demise of Cardinal Girard. The bureaux of the Assemby terminated on Friday their examination of the budget of ministers. Out of 30 committee men only two belong to the opposition. The new plans of the Minister of Finance were in general favourably received. The diminution of the land-tax, the reduction of duties upon mortgage deeds, the reform of the door and window tax were approved as being in the interest of the poor. Despatch was recommended to the committee-men in all the bureaux in order that the report might be got ready in time enough to diecuss and vote the budget this year. All the socialist clubs in the banlieue of Paris have been cloned by order of the authorities. That of Mon treuil was shut up yesterday. TLe Abbe Mated warn yesterday condemned by default, by the Court of Assizes of the Seine, to one yal imprisonment and 500 fr. fine, for an outrage on blic morality and religion in a speech which he del red at a political meeting at the Salon de Mars. The following are the prizes which will be run for at the races in the Champs de Mars to-day :—Prize lof the Minister of Agriculture, 2,000 fr., six horses entered; extraordinary priz 3,000 fr., three entered; spring prize, 3,000 fr., nine entered; Jena prize, I,ooofr , four entered; Pavilion prize, 4,000 fr., five entered, all celeurated horses ; produce stakes, 4,000 fr., twelve entered. The last prize will give the winner at least 12,000 fr., including the entries paid by each horse. SWITZERLAND. In two electoral district, of Berne, the Emmenthal and the Oberland, the resells were favourable to the radical candidate., although only one, M. Lehmann, candidate for the Emmenthal, obtained the absolute majority. In the Oberland, M. Herten, the radical candidate, obtained 5,569 votes; M. Knechtenhoser, the conservative, 6,322, oat of 11,283. The National Council was occupied on the 23rd and 21th with the monetary question, the most important of the session. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our correspondent states in his letter of the 19th instant that a grand ceremony was performed at Rome on the preetding afternoon. The Pope, stand ing on a stage erected at the foot of the Vatican steps, gave his uenediction to the French army of occupa tion ass-tabled in the piazza of St. Peter's to the num ber of 8,000 men. On one side of his Holiness stood the French Cardinal Dupont, and on the other, the absolutist minister, Cardinal Antonelli. Tbe Statute of Florence says that a cuosistory was expected to be held on the 20th. Our correspondent states, in his letter of the 21st inst., that the Pope seems by no means disposed to lead the retired life that was expected, and shows himself frequently in public. On the 20th his holi ness assisted at the conclusion of a triduum at the Santa Maria Maggiore. SARDINIA. The Courrier des Alps, of the 23rd, states that the Piedmontese government intends substituting the Spanish mode of execution, called garrote, t, the gib bet, at present in use. The garrote is a species of pillory, with a screw passing through the post, and havi, g a hsher at ita extremity, which, put round the neck of the culprit, and suddenly twisted by the agency of the screw, produces immediate strangula tion. Experiments have already been tried at Turin upon animals, with complete success. The °mew(ha of Turin states that on the 21st a pastoral letter of Monsignor Fraormi, Archbishop of Turin, in which he excited the clergy to refuse obedi erce to the law of the land, was seized by order of the government, bath at the printing-office and at the archbishop's palace. It also mentions a rumour that the erchbis"op, having attempted to resist the order, had been placad under arrest in his own palace. TUSCANY. Tne Stated° of the 20. h instant announces that the dispute between the British and Tuscan governments was on the eve of arrangement, thanks to the good officts of M. Walewski, the French minister at Florence. SICILY. . _ A shock of earthquake took place on the 14th inst. at Ragusa, which exceeded in violence and duration that of 1843, and threw the inhabitants into a perfect state of consternation. The undulatory movement first began at one o'clock in the day, and was pre ceded by a bright light, which soon disappeared. The gases or the city were opened in order to give egress to the inhabitants in case of need. Many of the wells and roars of the houses were damaged, and the fur niture in same of them thrown down and broken. Similar shocks were felt at the same time at Jara and at Stsgno ; at the latter place several houses were thrown down. SPAIN. Our Madrid correspondent in his letter of the 22nd instant, descri'es erraordinary military precautions taken by Narvaez in order to prevent the installation of a new coalition cabinet, headed by Rios Rosa' and Gonzales Moron, by a palace intrigue. The king was at the bottom of this attempt to upset the govern. ment, aad was said to be detained as a prisoner in his apartment. It seemed probable that he would be seat to the castle of Segovia. Father Ful:•encio, the king's confessor, had been dismissed for being in the confidence of Narvaer. Hank notes to the amount of 63,000,000 of reale, engraved in England, had arrived at Madrid, for the bank of San Fernando. MADRID, APRIL 23. The palace affair still occupies men's minds. The King-Consort had resolved, u I mentioned in my last cfmmunication, to carry his plan into execution, and the doubling of the gu irde and other precautions were taken to prevent the King's going out of the palace, the necessity of which measure the ministry had in sisted on to the young qneen. In the cnneil assem bled at the palace, one of the ministers stated to the King-Consort, in the presence of Queen Isabella, the deep displeasure felt by the cabinet at the political dissidances which existed between them and him, and that it was high time, fur the carrying on of the Queen's government, that such disaidences should be put an end to. The minister then explained the matter upon constitutional principles, hint ing at the anomaly of responsible ministers being influenced, or having their acts modified, by an irresponsible prince, and concluding that they had acted, and would continue to act, according to what they considered their duty. The King-Consort, who had little or nothing to say on the subject, placed as it was under, to him, a new point of view, replied with commonplaces. lie was glad to hear these ex planations, he said, and would take them into consi• deration. Scarcely had the council broken up, when the King hastened to quit the palace, and found, to his great indignation, that he was virtually arrested. Hurrying to the Queen's apartments, he broke out into the bitterest invectives. He would no longer live in the palace while this ministry remained in power. The young people, as they usually do after a violent scene, sent for their mother, Queen Christina, who, ever full of sagacity, understood very clearly that the question could only be efficaciously resolved by a change of ministry, and at once proposed it. This was quite enough to effect an immediate reconcilia tion, and in order not to give motives for the public to surmise that the royal couple were not on good terms, they drove to the Prado in an open carriage, accompanied by Christina. 'They were sitting toge ther in the Queen's apartments in the evening, when Narvaez was announced. The young Queen rose, and advancing to the door of her apartment said, "Retiraos" (go away). These words, pronounced with considerable harshness, were sufficient to convince Narvaez that his fall was inevit able. Intriguing then became more active than ever ; the ministry, though convinced their fall was resolved upon, yet relying in some degree upon the doctrine of chances, that is to say, that something might in the meanwhile turn up in their favour, give out that a perfect reconciliation has been effected, and that all tor the future will be smooth sailing ; while the Cla mor Publico asserted this morning that public opinion is at length to be satisfied, that the N ministry is to be changed, and that this desirable event will be brought about pursuant to the will of the Queen, and and d a te cco h rt uee nce n i ith t u ht e h r e . King-Consort wishes of the GERMANY. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, APRIL 24. The Vossische Zeaung, this morning, has the fol lowing article, which contains the chief points of the Prussian ultimatum in the Danish question, handed to Lord Westmoreland on the lith instant by Baron Usedom, the Prussian plenipotentiary : la the ultimatum in question Prussia relmes the various negotiations which bare taken place between the two powers sins* the signing of the preliminaries for peace on the 10th July, 1H49, and adds that as they all felled to obtain the de. &arid result, the Schleswig Holstein Statthalterschatt had in consequence undertaken the work itself, and had commenced a direct wegotation wi:h the Copenhagen cabinet. Pruscls, relying upon the full powers granted her by the Contest Federal Comasiesion, proposes therefore a peace between Denmark and Germany. It the proposal is accepted by Denmark a special article will be introduced into the treaty guarding the rights of both panics. With regard to the rights of Germany, if we are well informed, it is expressly stated that the (edema &chanson( the 17th Sept., 1848, are to serve se • guide. The proposal has been communicated at the mum time to the several governments lof the cosfederation with the request for an imenedists reply eoesptiag or re jest ing it Forty-three pers ona were taken into custody ye s , terday for riot and assaults on the constables befor e the Opera House, while waiting to obtain tickets for the forthcomir g performance of the "Prophet." On Monday afternoon the marriage ceremony we e performed at Dresden between the Duke of Genoa and the Princess Elizabeth of Saxony. The augu s t occasion was celebrated by a splendid fete and a ge neral illumination. Ludwig Tieck, the celebrated writer, is danger. ously ill. APRIL 25, The Berlingsche Zeiturig, of Copenhagen, publish-s the sentence of the court-inertial appointed to try the captains of the Christian VIII. line-of-battle ship, and the Gefion steam-frigate, for the loss of their ships, The former, it will be remembe re d, was bl own up, while the latter was captured by the Germans at Eckernforde. The court-matial acquitted Capt. Meyer, of the Gefion, but found Cwt. F. A. Paluisu, of the Christian VIII., together with the commander of the fleet, Commodore H. G. Gude, guilty of neglect of duty, and sentenced the former to two, and the latter to four months' second class fin-tress imprism meat. His Majesty has, however, seen fit to increase the severity of the punishment ; for t e has altered the sentence on Garde to six months, and on Paludau to three months. They are to be conficed in the citadel of Freidrichshafcn. The decree is signed by the king, and countersigned by the Minister of Madge. Another monster trial has just commenced. fine hundred and twenty-three persons accused of basing assisted in the insurrection at Elber'eld last May have just been brought before the maize' for that di ,, trict. The trial of the five men accused of murderiug Lch nowpky and Auerswald, at Frankfort, still continu'. The prevarication on the part of the witnesees is general; not one of them in open court sticks to the facts sworn to in the depcsitions taken in private. The last day's trial has, however, produced the con fession of one of the accused, that he find a shot at Lichnowsky, which tcok effect in the hand. 26. The Prussian Minister of T ra d e an d Public APRIL Works has for some time past been most active in his endea vours to promote a general understanding on the puital system among the princes of Germany. Some weeks ago I announced that he had succeeded in negotiating a new postal treaty with Austria, by which important facilities are afforded to the mercantile world, with at the same time a great reduction in the postage. With Hanover and Brunswick arrangements of a similar nature were made at a much earlier period, but in several of the other states great difficulties presented themselves. The views of the governments differed on some of the most essential points ; the postal tariff was different, and the numerous frontiers Interrupted the regular course of the mails. After a bug counts of fruitless negotiations, Herr von der Heydt, the Minister of Trade has at least succeeded in settling the princi pal points of a general German postal treaty. It the negotiations now pending result in the general adop tion of the details of the plan, postal communication throughout Germany will be very much facilitated. The postage is to be reduced to 1,2, and 3 silbergro schen from distances of 10, 20, and beyond 30 tierrn an miles ; the weight of letters paying simple postag to be increased to one ounce and an eighth. l'russian postage esn be prepaid to any part of Germany, and a mod,- rate extra charge to be made where it i, not prepani. Alterations of a similar advantageous character are co.- templated by the treaty in the forwarding of book., magazines, and pamphlets under cross bands, as wc:l as in the postage of letters addressed to non-German states. Great credit is due to the Prussian Minister of Trade for the perseverance and ability which he has displayed in conducting the difficult negotiations to the point at which they are at present, and he has the good wiehes of all the friends of the material interests of G -rmany for the final success of his plans. A general postal system, of a favourable nature, is great step towards a unity more calcul eted to advance the interests of the people than ail the political unions ever contemplated. At'ention having recently been drawn to the great neglect of the rich layers of marble, granite, end porphyry in srveral parts of Silesia, the minister of trade and public works has ordered an official ex amination of the quarries, for the purpose of drawing the attenti In of the moneyed world to what may be made a very profitable investment. The various kinds of marble found it Silesia haze long been em ployed is small quantities as tables, pillars, chimney pied, &c. ERFURT, Arm fl. Tne report gains ground that a csogress of crowned heads is likely to take place, in the coarse of the ensuing month, at Gotha, in order that personal corn. muncation and explication may smooth a vay the difficulties which are said still to exist among the rulers of the s'ates belonging to the union. Letters from Gotha, this morning, speak of the affair as err 'sin, and even describe preparations which are said to be making to do honour to the august personages to be assembled there. As yet no person, in connection with thegovernmentor the Verwaltungerath, hes denied or confirmed the report; but it is very extensivi:y credited by the deputies. The Volkshaus held a short sitting this morning, bat transacted no business. It is not expected that the parliament will be adjourned immrdis'ely after both houses have concluded the revision of the cocsti tion : on the contrary, it is believed that the,Verwal tungsrath will, on Thursday next, lay before the par liament some statement of the other measures tires nary to the establishment of the union, and that then measures will be introduced as speedily as possilic. Neither house meets to-morrow, as it is one of :he fast days ordained by the Prussian government APRIL 2 government The werer to-day presenud at T by and Liebe. The order of the day was the dehave on the report of the committee on the constitution of the High Court. Commissioner Lepel said the reports of the commit tees of both houses were now before the asserob'y. For the most part they agreed, but section 17 pre sented differences of opinion ; they were now inli•ed to declare whether they would pass the altered clause as an expression of their wish, or make its form a condition of their acceptance. The alteratiors proposed by the committee to be made in.sections 1,4, .1, 10, 12, 17 were then adopted. In section 22 the committee proposed to make the provision for the widow and children of the president of the court depend on a separate law : the proposi tion was declined. The committee's alterations in sections 24, 25, '27, 15, ;ht. 37, 40, and 42 were adopted; 47, 49, 50 were struck out. Count Rittberg proposed that the question whether the constitution of this court should take its place among the organic laws, should now be decided. M. Borntaum remarked that the committee had not occupied itself with the question, nor could it if it were a constitutional queivion. The assembly de cided to refer the solution of this point to the com mittee of justice. The committee's amendment, pro posing the acceptance of the whole of the law on judi cial proceedings in th: , High Court, was accepted. The Volkshaus met at half-past 10. The business was the consideration of the report of the commi!tee on the points on which the two houses have come t. 3 opposite conclusions. The first deviation concerns the 104th section ; the proposal of the com mittee gives the Stastenhaus co-ordinate power ' with the Volkshans on the Budget, reservirg the confirmation of this right to a subse quent assembly. The amendment was adopted. The proposal of the committee on section 1.52, was accepted. It provides the freedom of house hold instruction. The committee of both houses hare agreed to the following on the right of public meet ing : "'the Germans have the right of assembling peaceably and unarmed without requiring special permission. This freedom does not extend to open air meetit•gs, which are subjected to the f,regeing laws." The following propositiocs were submitted ' and discuseed: 1. Every German state shall have a constitution with popular repro. entat ton. the supremo legislature belong the determina tion of the fundamental principles of the .o constitutions. 2. The supreme legislature shall de termine the principles on which inhabitants of the single states shall vote. Until the issue of such a law governments are authorised to coatit.ue the elicra: Lion of the present elretorrt IVA'S. A thud pr00.2.A! by Iltsselbach, consisting of the tint clause ot eitso.nd amendment, was, after three div: o,o— . accepted. ACS rittA. 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