The Express. — London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

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Wlgis sad angry; lira whiteAed an extravaganza, ow litkd IN DT mins: er, The Naughty Day that Cried for the Kean MINIM C. roans pad Nam . Wein St.Casse.Herbert, R Remy. WON WAM AT memoir MUM& To DST —Men/a& lii Aftesom, MA 3Am. To4macw—Morstais. IL 15.,... Maw" MA Is. LONDON, MONDAY, DSC. 24. Tea Austrian Empire offers an example of dis organization and helplessness such as cannot be matched in Europe, and hardly in modern history. If the statesman who called Italy a "geographical " expression " were alive now be would be com pelled to acknowledge how very nearly the phrase described the agglomeration of states which he educated for anarchy. Absolutism in govern ment has its dangers, and so also has innovation. But custom mitigates the heaviest yoke ; and, on the other hand, men will bear the shock of consi derable changes when they are evidently for their good. The public men of Austria, however, have tempted the perils of both systems at once. HATNATJ and RA DRUZ; it was supposed, had so completely extinguished the disposition to demand freedom throughout the states and kingdoms of the Empire, that Emma° tyranny was intoxicated with its success, and insisted on appearing in new and unknown forms. The war of 1859 applied a touchstone to the strength of the monarchy which many affirmed had been regenerated. Solferino followed Magenta, and the truth was disclosed. A nation does not resign itself to misfortune as the Emperor Faascre Josara did at Villafranca, and has done ever since. But the national life of Austria had been sacrificed to the army, and that having been beaten, its ICKPZIIOII could not find one of its capitals whither he could repair and renew the touching appeal which MARIA Tuaasas made to her Hungarian subjects at Presburg. Ever since June of last year the EMPZIOR has been casting about to find means to persuade those over whom he rules that he no longer regards them merely as pro. ducers of the wages of his soldiers, but that the path of a true national life is opening before them. We may readily admit that even a sovereign with the disposition of a Josarli 11. would find in the heterogeneous character of the Austrian monarc►y, taken in connexion with that disposi tion to constitute or reorganize States according to affi n ities of race and language, which is one of the leading political tendencies of our times, difficulties demanding the highest qualities of statesmanship. And there is a kind of poetical retribution in the fact that so many of the domestic troubles of the Court of Vienna should spring from that principle of nationality which it derided in Italy and denied in Germany. But PRAMS J4INEPII has further perplexed the " situation " by his own wilfulness, folly, and bad faith. After all the mistakes of 1848 and 1849, there was abundant opportunity to repair the weakened fabric of the Government. The many and great errors of those years were followed in men's minds by • reaction of feeling, during which the people of every country wore willing to suffer a great deal for the sake of order and solid government. Had the Imperial Government taken advantage of this interval to introduce order into the finances and economy into the administration of the State, it would have acquired a strength in which it would have been enabled to anticipate or resist the demands sure to be made upon it as soon se the nation began to look into its own affairs. But instead of that, nearly all the attention of the Govern ment was spent upon an enormous army, required for no national purpose, but kept up to enable the Ex ratio' to coerce Romans, Tuscans, Panne se, or to help the little Princes of Ger many to imprison the people they had choused. Many a time was this headstrong Government wanted of the certain ruin in which its course mast cod, but always in vain. Its only care was to bind in new chains the people whom it scorned to conciliate. The fruits of this fatuous policy have been de. veloping themselves for more than a twelvemonth, and are now more obvious than ever. State after date, province after province, is awakening, not to a sense of fellowship with the others, in a spirit of national unity, but to a consciousness of its itelividual and private interests. The selfishness of the Imperial Government is thus repaid in kind. Everywhere we see in Austria either a dogged *nt h nnem which is pleased with nothing, or the evi dent -talon of some strong oentrifugal force. One pros ewe asks only administrative independence ; more than one want to leave the Empire ; while a third, the strongest and richest of all, declares that it is the Empire, and threatens revo lution if its importance is not fully recognised. This accounts transmitted from Vienna show only too plainly that the ministers of the Ennuis ore quite aware of the difficulties of their position, and equp.lly so of their inability to cope with them. Day by day they seek to win favour by sacrificing some part of the system of the last ten years. Now it is the high centralization of the administration el Hungary, now the Concordat, and now the restrictions on the press. Hitherto the only effect of theee changes has been negative. Concessions have liven taken only as confessions of error and fault. liecuuse everybo.ly knew that, like those of Fitt,. Is 11., they have not been granted to justice, but to gain favour for a Court in distress. That the Government should inspire no confidence is not remarkable, since it displays no decision of chancier. All its measures aro half measure*, which have to be patched up while yet new. The Etier.mat can now reflect on how much ho lost when he deprived the Hungarians of their consti tution. The re establishment of that constitution is now demanded, with the alternative of a revo lution. To maintain it on an historical basis would have excited no jealousies ; but to wive it without alsoctmeeding equal rights to the other State which are e•rely to demand thent, is itimoexible. The conference at I.:ran (ruin which.° much a as expected has formally demanded the amended in 1848 ; and the ExPILIOI is called upon to say " Yes "or " No" to Hungary, to the most warlike and self-reliant people which have owned his allegianoe. It is by their bearing, or their want of bearing upon Hungary that all great measures of Austrian policy are just now judged. The reforms by which, as our telegrams show, M. SCHIMLLNO is marking hie accession to office would be highly important in any circumstances other than those of the hour. But the main question is wh►t to do with the demands of the Hungarians, that their Parliament and that only shall vote Hungarians for the Imperial Army, Hungarian money to the Imperial Treasury. Until that is decided not a step can be taken towards a real settlement of Austrian affairs. ED. Court. WDITMIOR CASTLE, Dtc. 22. The royal dinner party yesterday comprised the Prince of Wales, Prism Alfred, Princess Alio*, Prince Louis of Hew, the Prince sad Princes. of Leiningen, Lord Augustus Loftus, Lord and lady Bloomfield, Sir James Clark, Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Jones, Baron Von Wasters,ller, Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, Major Cowell, H.R., and Major Elphinstone, R. E. The band of the Soota Fusilier Guards played daring dinner : Grand Maretr—" VAimenalon." gelection—" Martha" Flotow. Yam—. Panicle Flower" etude, Jun. Selection—. Don Pugnale" Donizetti. Dinerah" Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the Drawing-room Auber. Intreduction ia. Zr‘and kowtow Defiant, pianoforte, Mr. W. 0. Cubs rackettung Meyerbeer. The Queen, with Princess Alice, walked in the grounds of the Castle this morning, and visited the Duchess of Kent et Frogmen. The Hoe. Emily Cathcart and the Hon. Horatio thoplerd were in attendance. The Pesos Consort, attended by Major-Gecend the Hon. C. Grey and Major du Plat, went to London and honoured Mr. Durham's studio with • visit, to inspect the model for the memorial of the Exhibition of 18M. His Royal High ness then went to Buckingham Pasco and afterwards re turned to Windsor Castle.' Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Baron von Wader wellar, accompanied the Prince Consort to London, and re turned with his Royal Highness to Windsor. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred skated on the ice in the Home-park. Lord Augustus Loftus, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and Lieutenant-Oessesl Sir Harry Jones have left the Castle. The royal dinner party in the evening included the Prince of Wales, Prince !Alfred, Princess Alice, Prince Louis of Hose, Lady Caroline Barrington, Baron von Westerweller, Lientasent•Colonel Koppel, and Major Cowell, R.E. The bend of the Royal Hone Guards played during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the Drawing-room : overture, " Die InsUgen Welber von Windsor" Otto NicolaL Selection, "Cesar nod Zimmermann" IW n iilltiin st er A fr c !uka ti i4i an er t t e ru . lee Manch Weber. SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Princess Alice, Princess Helene, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Prince Lads of Hesse, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. Dr. Goulburn preached the sermon. A deputation from the City of London Union, counting et Mr. John Bowing, the clerk, and Mr. Baylis, the solicitor el the union, and also a deputation from the pariah of St. Nary, Lambeth, consisting of Mr. Geo. Taylor, church warden, Mr. M. Goddard, overseer, and Mr. J. B. Clark, clerk to the °veneers, had an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, at the aura of the Poor-law Board, WhitelsalL The Duke of Newcutl• left town on Saturday for his seat, Clumber-perk. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town for Hawards• Coatle, Cheater, oa Friday evening. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial offtra to the Governors of Canada and the &henna. Tas Muctirreir. —Moat of the Cabinet Minister's have left town for the Christmas holidays. Lord Palmerston is stayingat his seat, Broadhead*, Hants. Mr. Sidney Herbert km been entertaining a party at Wilton Howe. Lord John Rowll returned to his residence, Pembroke Lodge, Rich nsood-park, on Friday evening, from Woburn Abbey, where hi loedship's brother, the Duke of Bedford, is lying very IL The Duke of Argyll, Use Duke at Somerset, Lord Granville, Hr George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and Mr. Milner Gibson are also absent from London. Egon, Prince of Thurr and Taxia, has left the Clarendon Hotel, Bendonrset, for the Costumes. Rim Excellency the Sardinian Minister ham left Mire on a visit to Viscount and Vamountem Palmerton, at headlands. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have returned to Progual„ Kent, from visiting the Masquis and Marchioness of ATlsabasy, at Tottenham Park, Wilts. Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe and the Hon. Misses Owning have returned to Grosvenor•guare from lady Margaret Beaumont, at Arran Hall, New assilwon-Tyns. Lord and Lady Palmerston have consented to lawcess patrons of a county (Hants) bell in aid of the funds for the support of the Southampton Ride Corps. Mr. William Law, first clam clerk in the Trea sury, has been appointed one of the principal clerks in that department, in the room of Mr. W. &toe, deceased. Mr. E. C. Rockland, second clam clerk, goes into the first claw, in meression to Mr. low. Mr. R. Earls Welby became' second clam clerk, in the room of Mr. Rockland. The Reverend Hamilton Dicker is appointed chaplain to Ow British Consulate at Dunkirk. Mr. Henry Thring, conveyancer, of Lincoln's inn, who has had considerable experience in preparing government bills, is appointed parliamentary draughtsman to the Home-office, in the room id Mr. Waller Coulson, Q. C., deceased. Mr. Edwin James will address his constituents ou Moodily, the Val January mat, at Hall's Riding School. Su. Janie' Duke, M.P., will take the chair. Yesterday morning, the Bishop of London hold a general redinatios in the Chapel Royal White hall. Prayers were said at 10 o'clock, and at their close the service was for a short time suspended. At eleveo o'clock the mermen was preached by the Rev. Dr. W. C. Magee, of Ttinity College, Dublin, minister of Quebec Chapel, St. klarylebone, who has just been presented to the rectory of Enniskillen. The Munich Gazette announces offiCAlly the rupture of diplomatic reLitions between the courts of Ba varia and Turin. In announcing this rupture the Bavarian journal also explains its causes. It alleges, in the tint in stance, that the policy "of which the Sanlinian govern ment has made itself the willing instrument" his infringed the right. of three Italian princes " closely connected with the royal family by the bonds of relationship and friend ahip." At a late pitting of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in answer to a question on the subject of passporta, declared that the Belgian government had Leen for some time peat in commu nication • Ith foreign powers, for the purpose of effecting • general and reciprocal suppression of the passport system. - • - THE RICHMOND MEMORIAL.—OD Monday Jut • meeting of the committee for raising a food for the Rich mond Memorial was held st the Ship Hotel, Brighton. The Lorill,ieittenitat. the Earl of I licharter, was retool to the chair. After eioriiili.rntile diRCIIIRAI.III, it Wilt agreed that the memorial Amid Ire a bronze statue, and that It should be placed in the open sir in Busse:. It was also rewired at the meeting that the maximum amount of subscription shall be s', each, and nut 31.—Susic.r Ezprou. STATUE tor SIR WILLIAM PRIM. K.C.B. —A statue in marble, woven feet in height, of the late Sir Wil liam Peel, N.C. 8., of the Naval Brigade, executed by Mr. W. Theed, at the expense of the Right Hon. Frederick Peel. was placed in the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital, oa Saturday. CITY Or LoNININ HOtIPITAL TOR DIRRARTA Or TIN Vr TOM t.PARK.- The 1111111ber of patient,. relieved at this institution during Let r eek wee Sli6, of whioh Itti were ucw came s.PsEstl,_.Mi NDAY LAT. I-IN' JGENCE: POPULAR EXCITEMENT AT ROME. ROME, Dsc. The Pope delivered an allocation in the consis key held on the 17th inst. His Holiness spoke of the persecutions of the Christiana in Byria and China. He condemned the pamphlet of M. Cayla, entitled " Le Pape et PEmpereur ;" and announced that the Grand Duke of Baden had violated the Pontifical concordat. The Roman patriots have posted up on the walls of Rome bills bearing the arms of King Victor Emmanuel and the words, "We desire annexation to Sardinia." The posting up of these bills has not led to any arrests. Crowds of people are reading the bills. ITALY. NAPLES, Lac. 21. It is stated upon reliable authority that the French fleet is about to quit ita station off Gaeta. Great demoralisation prevails among the besieged army. The batteries planted on the heights of Tortola reply to the fire of the city. Naples is tranquil, and the state of things in the provinces is satisfactory. A reactionary conspiracy, organised at Rome, has been discovered. The city of Naples will give a grand ball to the army. A great rise in the Neapolitan and Sardinian funds has taken place here. The insurrectionary bands have intrenched themselves in the mountains. It is said that a decree is in course of prepara tion ordering an extraordinary levy of men between 18 and 85 years of age. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SUZDAT. The official Wiener Zeitunp of to-day publishes a circular addressed by Baron von fichmerg to the governors of the provinces explaining the leading principles of his policy. The baron says : " It is the minion of the ministers of state to carry out fully and effectively the resolutions and intentions of the Emperor, as expressed in the imperial manifesto of the 20th October. As regards freedom of religious worship, it is the will of the Emperor that political and civil rights shall in that revcst also be preserved against any encroachment, and that the mutual relations of the different confessions shall be established upon an equitable footing and upon the real love for one's neighbour (nhchstenliebe). "Public instruction will be promoted by every possible means. The free development of the nationalities is accorded. " With respect to the public press every pre ventive interference is removed. "The development of agriculture, commerce, and industry will be pursued with redoubled energy, on the path hitherto followed. " The communes will enjoy an independent existence. " The administration of justice is to be sepa rated from the governmental administration. " Publicity and the oral form of proceeding are to be introduced into the civil and penal courts of law." As regards the provincial statutes, the Ministry of State has been authorised to introduce into the fundamental laws the principle of representation of the different interests by means of direct elections, and the extension of electoral rights and eligibility, the right of initiative, and the publicity of debates. On the Council of the Empire, to whose province belongs the general legislation, while the provin cial diets are only competent to legislate on pro vincial questions, is therefore conferred the right of originating projects of law and publicity of debates. The Council of the Empire will be composed of members unconditionally elected by the provincial Diets, and will besides receive additional members. The provincial governments of the minor crown lands, recently suppressed, are to be re-established. In conclusion, Baron &timerling exhorts the public functionaries to a conscientious discharge of their duties, to the furtherance of the interests of the inhabitants of their provinces, to a strict ob servanoe of the laws, and to candour in their offi cial reports on the condition of the country. SAXONY. DRESDEN - , SATURDAY EVENING. The official Dresden Journal of to-day announces that the King, after having suffered during six days from a severe cold, was attacked on Friday by ineautles. The ministry are entrusted with the entire di rection of the government during the illness of the King. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, SATURDAY, 3.95 P.Y. The Bonne remains very depressed. Rental closed at 68.30, or 100. lower than yesterday. UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN. SAAY. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Capt. TITILD Stone, from Boston on the 12th, and Halifax on the 13th imitant, arrived here, at 4.30 p.m. to-day. She brings 81 passenger& The Arabia landed all mails, except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 4.50 p.m. All well. The Europa had arrived out. Advioes from Washington show a more hopeful political feeling, and a better prospect of the pacification of the country. Mr. Cobb, Secretary to the Treasury, had resigned, with the intention, it was said, of joining the Georgia secessionists. NEW YORK, Dec. n, Evrenco. &eta Stocks have advanced Ito 2. New York Centrals, 74; Illinois, 56; ; Erie, 24i. The money markets strin gent, sad It is almost impossible to negotiate outdone. Exchange is unsettled. leddtriffs quint and st.y. Cotton nominal. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX. NSW YORK, Dye. 13, F. V IiNINFC, The stock market is steady. The following are the latest quotations :—New York Centrals, 73; Illinois, ; Erie, 28_ . Cotton is firmer. Middling Up l and is quoted 10c. Breadstuffs slightly better. Provisions heavy. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 12, Evrtnto. The news by the Europa boa imparted a better tone to the cotton market, and gnotations have advanced ic. Saha to-day, 11,000 balm Yiddli g Upland, 91c. to 10e. QUEENSTC4N, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steam Austrabudan arrived heft at 1 p.m. to-day, embarked the mails, and pro ceeded at 4.18 p.m. All well • The Aludralasian made the passage from Liver pool in 20 boars. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal mail steamship Arabia arrived here at noon to-day. In addition to the summary of news already tele graphed from Queenstown, she brings the following intelligence : Advises from Havana are to the 7th inst Be gan and freights were dull. Money was very tight. Sterling exchange, 15 per cent. prem. Vera Cruz dates nre to the " th inst., and from the city of Mexico to the 2Stlieult. The liberals were comi7etelyinvesting the city. Great distress prevailed on account of the scarcity of food and water. California &drive are to the 28th ult., but con• taiu no news of importance. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAT. The Royal Mail steamship Australasian, which sailed this afternoon for Now York, took 170,0001. in specie. The Toronto Globe says :—" Dr. Morris, a well known phl siciat of Quebec., has devoted property to the value of 11,000". or 12,00111. for the extahlishment of a onl ine, and for the providing of better acconimodntion for the High School. The institution will, we uoderstand, he ueder the dinetion of members of the ehtuvli of soothind, to which coniumm..o Di. !lonia has el wsys belobged —but CIO beuebt of it will be equally open to all denominations. TIN(, DECEMBtR 24, 1866. =IWO FROM PARIS.,• (nom oua oww PA RlB, 86/IDAT EVICRIN4I. In consequence of the snow we have no letters or papers either from England or Italy, and the telegraph brings no news of any importance, except the analysis of M. de Schmerlin,g's political pro gramme. The uncertainty of the rumours from Gaeta, and the mystery which veils imperial projects in that quarter, is the subject of general remark. The Patric considers as " premature" an asser tion in the Nord, that " France, in spite of all the difficulties raised by the cabinet of Loudon, has effected an arrangement with the Ottoman govern ment fur a prolonged occupation of Syria by a French army." The papers say that a fourth regiment of Grena dier Guards is about to be formed immediately. There are already four regiments of Voltigeurs of the Guard, and it is wished to have the same strength of Grenadiers. Several French journals speak in terms of honest indignation of the conduct of the Saxon govern ment in giving up Count Ladislaus Teleky to Austria. The Debate observes that the law of nations does not justify the extradition of political offenders, and it appeals from the justice of the King of Saxony to that of the Emperor of Austria, who it hopes will be led by considerations of honour and interest to treat Count Teleky as an honourable ad versary and not as an enemy. A curious case of a prosecution of a judge for a libel came before the Imperial Court of Paris yes terday at the instance of M. Procnreur-General Chaix d'Eat Ange. K Huot, a judge of the Court of Colmar, was charged with having written in the Petite Gazette des Dibusiasz Crimiiwie de r Aimee of and concerning M. Moncorier, a justice of the peace of Ussel, that he (M. Moncorier) aspired to be a member of the council-general, and other things of a nature to lower him in public estimation. The court found the judge guilty, but considering that the damage done was necessarily restricted within the narrowest limits in consequence of the general esteem in which M. Mon corier was held by his neighbours, ►nd considering moreover, " that the article incriminated must be attributed less to a malicious intention than to the unfounded pretenaiona of the defendant to be thought a satirical writer," it merely sentenced him to pay the costa of the trial in full for all damages. The Patric correctathe idea which it says has been mistakenly entertained by many people that the decree of Dec. 16 modifies the law of passports with regardto Frenchmen ; they cannot leave Franoe for England without providing themselves with a pass port and a permission to embark as heretofore. This was quite clear from the text of the decree, and I am surprised that any explanation on the subject is thought necessary. I remarked at the time, as a singular con sequence of the reform, that it gave Englishmen a privilege in Franco which French citizens will not enjoy. The Patric now, if its note is to be relied upon, satisfactorily answers one of the queries which occurred to me the other day. I observed that the decree, if literally construed, only relieved English men from the necessity of showing passports when "entering" or "circulating" in France, but said nothing about leaving the country. It is plainly to be deduced, however, from the above paragraph that Englishmen are intended to step on board any vessel bound for England not only without pass ports, but without even a local " permit." Tant inieur. I again laud the idea and hope there will be no difficulty in the working of it. Dr. G. Msynier and M. Louis d'Eichthal being about to start ou a journey to Southern Siberia, the Amoor River, and China, have applied to the Academy of Sciences for instructions calculated to guide them in their researches, and the Aca demy has ►ppointed a committee, consisting of MM. Milne, Edwards, Rayer, Moquin-Tandon, and Saint-Claire-Deville, to prepare the instruc tions solicited. PARE. SATURDAY EVLICING. There has been a hotly contested election for the municipality of Marseilles, but on the eve of the decisive ballot the independent candidates pub lished an address, announcing that in consequence of " very serious misconduct" on the part of the authorities, which had been made the subject of a complaint to the Procureur-General, they would not go to the pcll. The France Centrak of Blois, which was relieved from suspension by the late amnesty to the press, was to have re-appeared on Monday, but its printer is afraid to go ou any longer. Consequently it is announced that pending an action, the object of which is to compel the printer to perform his con tract, the journal cannot appear. This event il lustrates the objection often made to the Napo leonic laws on the press, that they implicitly con stitute the printer the censor of the journal. Letters from Bucharest speak as of a fact univer sally spoken of the existence of a tacit understanding between Prince Coma and the Court of Turin, iu pursuance of which the Principalities will make a diversion against Austria while Piedmont attacks Venetia, and that in return Piedmont will subse quently second Prince C 071171 in his annexationist designs upon the Rouman subjects of Austria. The Bourse is worse than ever. Money articles written in the bull interest have been written in vain, all the week preaching the doctrine that the is fall a good sign, because low prices will tempt capitalists to buy. The fall goes on every day. The Bente is now at 68.30 (both for cash and account), 10a lower than yesterday. There is little hope of any material improvement for the next week, for people are already very anxious about the Emperor's New Year's speech, which, seeing the state of Europe, it is feared may be warlike. Mobilier fell 2.50. The Northern Railway rose 250. In the other lines there was scarcely any change. There were violent fluctuations in the Calms) Mires, and rumours con nected with the Turkish Loan were not without influence on the market. The Toulonnais of Dec. 20 says that the Minister of Marino is about to offer prizes to all branches of the naval servioe for the b es t reports on practical improvements. It is announced that the Princess Clotildo has long been in an interesting situation. The marriage which had bee,, announced between Baron Bend Reille, captain of the staff, and orderly officer to the Minister of War, with Mdllo. Gene vive Soult do Dalmatie, took place the day before yesterday in the church of St. Clotildo , in presence of a great number of perttons connected with the army. The bridegroom is eon of Marshal Reille, and grandson by his mother of Marshal Maqsdna, and the bride is granddaughter of Marshal Soult. " The following," says the Merle, "is a very unforeseen result of the treaty of com merce with England :—An extensive tinman in Paris lately purchased 6,000 cases of English block tin at 32f. GUe. the 100 kilos., and ho is now =- exporting it to Englund ma de inta utensils of dif ferent kinds. He has calculated that the lower rate of wages paid to French workmen, as com pared with that of the English, will more than compensate for the expense of carriage and duty (Bf. 60c. per 50 kilos.). The French block tin ma nufacturers have now reluoed their prices from 70f. to 621. 26c." HVNGARY. (fox ova OWN coaszspoirrimm.) PEW% Drc. 12. The excitement of the eagle-chase has subsided the double-faced imperial bird has disappeare d from public buildings and tobacco shops, not without conflicts with the military—for instance at Leutchau, where the Austrian officers took:it upon themselves to protect the imperial arms on the county halL The barracks, however, and the treasury buildings retain the double-headed eagle, though mischievous boys and the mob sometimes deface them during the night, at the risk of being severely chastised by the foreign soldiers, who resent most keenly the insult offered to the arms of their impe lrial master. But the agitation begins to spread even among the army, and but yesterday some Hun garian and Polish private soldiers, excited by drink, began to detach the eagle from their forage caps, much to the annoyance of the officers. We do not doubt that this small incident will spread alarm at Vienna, and lead to a reinforcement of the garrison. We get news from the different counties where the reorganisation takes place. All of them hove l until now solemnly and unanimously declared that Ithey cling to the laws of 1848. The ministerial in structions sent by the chancellor to the lord-lieu tenants to be accepted as the standing orders for the county meetings and elections were rejected, either by the lord-lieutenants or by the county meetings, as being contrary to the constitution and common law. In the metropolitan county of Pesth an address was voted to the chancellor, de daring that the county cannot acknowledge or submit to any judges who were not elected by the 'county. In Borsod, under the chairmanship of the chancellor's own brother, the elections have already taken place, and against the directions and stand ing orders of the minister. Tax receivers, too, were elected, and a public prosecutor. No taxes have been paid anywhere since the Ist of November ; and un less the Diet is soon called together, it will be rather difficult to collect them. One of the most impor tant features of the present strife is the solemn de claration of the Cardinal Primate that he firmly adheres to the laws of 1848. After this emphatic rejection of the ministerial programme, which will be unanimously endorsed by the conference of the "notables "at Gran on the 17th, it becomes impos sible for Baron Vay to remain in office. Together with Count Badmen he over-estimated his influence in the country, believing that the Hungarians, de sirous to get rid of the vexations of Austrian offi cials, might be persuaded to sacrifice some of their constitutional rights, in order to guard their autonomy. But if Baron Vay and the comae/dons of the 20th October, failed to conciliate the Hungarians, what will the Austrian cabinet dot Are they prepared to send an army of one hundred thousand men to Hungary, and, cancelling the famous promise of the Emperor, return to the rule of the sword, to martial law, to poliUcid prosecu tions, to the gibbet, and deportations ? If they arc not, they must yield to necessity, and try whether Desk and Baron Eaves might not be in duced to step in and save the empire from dissolu tion and complete ruin, as soon as Garibaldi, on the lat of March, forces Italy into a war with Austria. Desk, indeed, and his friends are states men of the highest order, superior to the Rechbergs and Schmerlinge and Pleners, whose nostrums can not heal the festering wounds of the empire ; but neither Desk nor Edtvos are likely to accept office and to jeopardise their honourable name without guarantees that the laws of 1848 will really and honestly be accepted by the cabinet of Vienna as the legal basis of the reorganisation of the coun try. We hear that M. Sohmerling is to succeed Count Golnchovsky at the Home Affairs at Vienna, and the doctrinaire liberals of the capital sound the trumpet of praise and see in him the regenerator of the Austrian empire. The Hungarians do not in quire how lie conducted the affairs of Germany in 1848, when he was prime minister of the Archduke John, the then administrator of Germany ; but we cannot forget that in October, 1849, he was Austrian Ministm- of Justice at the time when Haynau had our generals and ministers igno minously executed. The blood of Count Louis Batthyanyi, of Baron Prenyi, of Ceanyi, and of the thirteen martyrs of Arad, forms an insurmountable barrier between him and Desk. The colleague of Count Louis Batthyanyi cannot sit at the same board with the man who, by remain ing Minister of Justice during those murders, shared in the responsibility of the bloody deeds. But if Deak should not accept the ministry, where is there the man to be found able and willing to prevent a revolution in Hungary 1 The people have been roused by the concessions of Oct. 20, — the country cannot now relapse into the dejection of former years. Wheresoever we cast our glance we cannot see any way for a pacific solution. With hope and manly determination we expect a change from the coining spring and the threatening war. All Hungary is now united, the aristocracy and the people, the different races of the country— all parties are unanimous in detesting the Austrian yoke. Since it may be asked why the laws of 1848 are so popular in Hungary, I subjoin a summary of them, which accounts better for the character of the present movement than any long dissertation. The first article is purely historical, and contains nothing beyond a eulogy upon the memory of the late Archduke Joseph, who was Palatine of Hun gary for full fifty years. The second records the election of the Archduke Stephen to the post of Palatine. The third establishes an independent responsible ministry for Hungary, to have its seat at Perth, and to be in no ways subordinated to the German ministate. It is divided into seven branches—the Home-office, the Finances, the Public Worke, Com merce and Agriculture, Public Worship and Edu cation, Justice and Grace, and the Defence of the Country. An eighth minister was to reside at Vienna, for communication with the German minis ters and the Emperor. The fourth article orders triennial parliaments, to be held at Path during the winter months. The fifth establishes the franchise at 10/. of cer tain and constant, not precarious, income a year, and arranges the electoral districts ; the parliament to consist of 377 members, out of which 48 to be elected by Croatia ; should Transylvania wish to unite with Hungary 69 would be allotted to her, thus increasiug the number of members to 446. The sixth article attaches the counties Kraazna, Izolnsk, and Zarand to Hungary ; the seventh makes provision in case Transylvania should desire the re-annexation. The eighth extends the duty of haying taxes and tolls to all classes of society, abolishing the immu nity of the nobility. The ninth emancipates the peasants and. converts their copyholds into freeholds. The tenth regulates the affairs of the commons and pasture grounds.. . . Tile eleventh abolishes the manorial courts. The twelfth gives au indemnification to the landed proprietors for the transformation of the co holds into freeholds. The thirteenth abolishes the ecclesiastical titles. The fourteenth establishes a bank of credit. The fifteenth establishes free trade in laud. The sixteenth organises the oounty meetings upon the new basis of the electoral franchise, the parti cipation in the county meetings having previously been restricted to the aristocracy. The seventeenth treats of the county elections. The eighteenth contains the freedom of the forest, and the laws which aro to regulate it. The nineteenth treats of the reorganisation of the University of Pesth ; the twentieth proclaims reli gious liberty ; the twenty-first re-establishes the rights of the Mungarian areas and colours formerly usurped by the Imperial eagle. The twenty-second organises the national guard. The twenty-third article is the magna charts of the towns and buNemes, granting complete self government and all political rights to them. The twenty-fourth contains regulations concern ing the magistrates of villages. The twenty-fifth organises the district of the Jazygians. The twenty sixth the district of the Hajduks. The twenty seventh the maritime districts of Fiume and The speaks of the offices connected with the palatinate ; the 29th restricts the privilege of immovability of the officials to the judges ; th e 30th gives instructions to the minister of public works ; and the 31st speaks of theatres. Of these laws, the Imperial diploma of October 20 confirmed the Bth, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th articles. The counties and towns insist now especially upon the revivification of the sth, 16tb, 17th, 23rd, 25th, and 28th articles, about the fmn tibiae and the organisation of counties, towns, and districts ; together with the 18th, about the liberty of the press. There is no doubt that the confer ence of Gran will accept them all. As regards the third article, creating an independent and respon sible cabinet, the country has at yet remained silent ; and if Austria should yield on all the other points, the Diet might be will ing to strike out that law from the statutes, and seek some other guarantees for the liberties of the country. The march of events is, however, so rapid, that it is difficult to see the way clear. Prudence and forbearance at Vienna, two qualities which until now were not to be found at the court and in the cabinet, might perhaps make an arrangement posaible, but according to the views which predominate at Vienna, and to the general distrust in Hungary, there remains scarcely any possibility to avoid an explosion and a confla gration. The country cannot so easily forget the oppression of the last eleven years—tempua ipsa pace stevum—nor the perjury by which she has been robbed of her rights. . SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 18th have reached us. The Cortes, on the previous day, were again occupied with the matters which have been so long under discussion ; the Senate with the bill on military promotions, and the Congress with the estimates. It was reported that in the early part of the year, the Minister of Finance would present • bill for effecting Customs reforms ; also, that M. Gonzales Bravo intends to propose to the Cortes the re-establishment of the law of 1845, on the press. A royal decree enacts that the commission charged to superintend the execution of the law on weights and measures shall be permanent. PORTUGAL (now ova owe COMIPOND11111%) LISBON, Bac. 18. A good deal of excitement has been caused ire in consequence of the contents of a despatch of the nuncio, Mgr. Ferrieri, having transpired. The provisions made for the levy of Peter's pence throughout the kingdom of Portugal haveawakened the wrath of the Jornal do Commercio, which paper has declaimed very bitterly on the subject, and some bad feeling exists. The Kiug and Duke of Oporto dined on board the Mersey. Some of the high state functionaries were also invited, and partook of the hospitality of the captain. During the recent stay of the English fleet in Lisbon it was generally remarked that there occurred fewer cases of disorderly conduct among the men when on shore-leave than usual. There appears to have been a much better vintage in the Port wine districts this year than for several seasons past ; but it will still take some time before there can be anything like a stook laid in or a reduo tion of prides obtained. Latterly a great propor tion of the spirit used for fortifying wine, both in Lisbon and Oporto, has been imported from Eng land—chiefly from Glasgow—and this fact evidently shows the sad falling off in the quantity of wine produced. It is considered here that the measure adopted by Mr. Gladstone for levying the duty ou wines according to the quantity of spirit they contain will put the Portuguese wines under great disadvantage, as they are all full bodied and highly brandied, and will not consequently be able to compete with the lighter French wines. Since the departure of the last packet there has been little alteration in foreign exchanges. The rate on London is 154.80 as. to 54.90 as. with more paper than money. ITALY. A Turin letter of the 19th, in the Debate, says : The news that Francis H. had refused the armistice has been a surprise to everybody here. It was thought that the young King would take advantage of the negotiations pro- posed by a friendly power to escape with honour from his present awkward position. He has, however, shown no disposition to do so. The withdrawal of the French Beet is here considered rutin, necessary consequence of his refus ing the armistice, sad great hopes are entertained that the place will not hold out long when attacked both by sea and land. It is supposed that Francis 11. expects to pro long his existeuce till spring, which does not appear very likely. Perhaps lie indulges illusions as to the extent of the royalist reaction in tho Abrnui. The Italian tutin the interest of Austria all notice the amphlet, the ►ppearance of which is ear tahily the event of the day in Italy. The Verona Journal reprints the whole of it, and adds a commentary of exceed ing violence. If these journals express the real sentiments of the Vienna cabinet, there is nothing to be hoped from negotiations, sod it is easy to undendand why Francis IL prolongs his resistance The mobilised national guard of Modena left yesterday, and the battalion from Perugia is to arrive to-morrow. The Monitors della Guardia Nazionak of Naples, says Os the 15th the King gave • grand banquet, at which many ladies and many superior officers of the army were present. Hui Majesty was in excellent spirit', and at the end of the banquet announced that he had just been in formed that the French dent would leave Gaeta in • few days. Count Pepoli, royal commissioner in Umbria, continues to display the greatest activity in encou raging and introducing reforms. Immediately after his decree suppressing convents, he had published another, dated the I3th, in which, adverting to the Minimise prevalence of vagrancy and mendicity, especially in the case of children, he orders houses of refuge for mendicants to bo opened, and also assigns 100 000 f. (to be taken from the tax of 2 Per cent. levied upon all ecclesiastical property) for the encouragement of infant schools, the relief of work men's families, and providing work for thaw who are iu want of it. A communication from Rome, of the 16th, pub lished by the Gazette du Midi, a legitimist journal, contains the following information respecting Gaeta : On the 7th inst. General Cialdini informed the coin. =admit of the fortress that he ceased tiring in obedience to orders from Victor &amend. The following day be sent a flag of truce to propose a suspenaion of anus far three months, and that meanwhile lie should be left in peaceable possession of the Bourg. The Senlinians wanted (as was soon seen front their own admission) to employ that time in dunning their works unopposed. The - King, suspecting some rare, replied that he wanted no truce, end conse quently should not cease firing from the fortress yule', the Piedmontese raised the siege. After this refusal a Sardinian steamer entered the port of Gaeta, with a lig of truce to repeat the'propoul of a trues and offer the King a free passage from the fortress for all the UM' less troops whom his Majesty might wish to gold to their homes. Thu King again refused to listen to any propoaals unless the lialmontase retired beyond the Gari gliano. Two Sardinian brigs laden with provisions and asr stores for the Piedmontese army, having been driven by s storm into the Bay of Gaeta, were rimers' by a steamer of the royal navy. Part of the provisions on boon' was true shipped and sent to Measles to residual the citadeL The governor of that fortress, General Pergola, has formally signified to the authorities of the town what be hail already declared to the Piedmontese, that he should only surrender the place on receiving a written order to that effect from King Francis 11. Gaeta is well supplied with provisours and military stores, thanks to the zeal soil talent of Lieutenaut-Colunel A/an de ltivera, of the artilloy, who may be called the Totlehen of this siege. lie has just succeeded in rifling an MO-pounder, which has been found to carry well. This skilful officer has un dertakeu to rifle a similar gun daily, so that the artilloy of Ulu fortress will soon be in no way itiferi,r to that of ire liesiegers. The pyrotechnical workshops, directed by s native of Toulon, an old pupil of the witted of 4h t; turns out daily a great quantity of booths and projectiles ei dl aorta. Lastly, the magazines abound in everythiug veer um The King himself is commandant of the fortze.f, sod has under his orders Lieut.-General Viral, Ite flatten, Sigrist, and Marshal Count de Tour. Gen, oil Bosco, who is idolised by the soldiers, commands in all sorties. The artillery on the land side is very 'tidy •lire.Pd by Colonel Oaeoni. * Among the officers ,/ the star .rd leveret Frenchmen, viz., MM. Urbain de 'burette. rel.!' di Borgo, De Puyferrat, De Lautreo, Dc CM isten, court, Lc. Sine FROM CHINA.—The clipper viiip Ballarat, which sailed from Shanghai on the 10th ..f September lot. bound to London, was off Plymouth at 8 e.lO. on t 7. la) last. Captain Jones, her commander, ronaliou;cutoll Mr. Willi:oche, the 'west for the owner, I. Punic!. L-1.. sending in his despatches by one of our pilot cotter.. T A ' Ballarat bass valuable cargo of 3,200 1.81 , a of salt. `, an. o!' Ito f.U . .-“rd on the COth lost., ~t n ; 1 • Mortally Nro-r. E.