The Express. — London, England, 1850-05-20 00:00:00

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IT is intolerable to think that two such countries as Frame and Ragland, each containing millions of an indaserfons population, having, in reality and troth, no rival interests of any kind, but on the contrary &multitude of interests in common; having the same wants, the seise sympathies, the suns advanced ideas of civilisation ; both brave, and so high both of them in reputation, and so rich in the harvest of glory, that nothing in the way of renown oe victory can possibly be wanting to them—it is intolerable, we repeat, that two nations, so situated, should have been placed within the most distant risk of collision or war by the Witless", the sullenness, or tha 'elfishness of those @tweeter!), or of those coteries., that usurp the named political party. %%Ist is most vexatious in them quarrels, or in these approaches to quarrels, is that whilst the origi nal and fundamental and still during source of differ ence between the French and the English people is that the latter live under an aristocratic rOgirne, the immediate came of quarrel between French and English statesmen has invariably been that English policy and English tendencies have been too liberal for French politicians. What NApoLioN hated us most for was, we verily believe, our free press and our repreeentative govern- , meat. Toe elder Bourbons were scarcely seated on the throne than they found our very Writs far too liberal for them. One of the grand accusations against our foreign policy at present is that it hes arrayed almost every power in Europa in hostility to it. Bat the tory government of England, with Lord Lrvinitooa at its head, was in precisely the same predicament. And the Duke of WILLING. SoN, at Verona, was in precisely the same isolated minority, opposed to Russia, to Austria, and to France, as his Grace would be now were he to join a congress met to consider the affairs of Europe. That the legitimists and tlAtir statesmen of the right divine should hate England, was, however, not so astonishing. But the am,zament is, how the politi cians of a government which, though mono-chic and constitutional, was founded on popular choice and popular compact, should also come to detest us. Th a case of the ORLEANIST dynasty and politicians being arrayed against us, was not perhaps, at first, so much owing to tittle illiberalism, as to the fact of thediscoecry that their enemies made use of the old national grudge to aristocratic and powerful England, as political capital, which they worked upon, in order to injure the court party of Louts PHILIPPE. That he was sold to England, and truckled to it, was the great, the unfounded, awl unfortunately the sucoesttfal cry. Begun by the BARROTS and the MAUGUINS— tho IVat;onal and the Conatitationnel—it was taken up by those very men, those liberals, who ought to have sympathised with &Tian! and her institutions. All the statesmen, intend, who at first sought to resist this anti-English clamour, as GUIZOT and Tutees both did, were carried away and almost wrecked by its force. Sa that even they were compelled to throw their sails to the breeze,and pretend that strong anti-English feeling, which, although they did but affect and trade upon it at first, they have since embraced and adopted as a genuine feeling, and even as an inordinate passion. Although OCIZO2 and Louts PHILIPPE threw them selves latterly into the Austrian alliance for the purely selfish purpose of placirg en Oxaxans on the Spanish throne, they had been previously driven into the same reactionary policy by the taunts and the eloquence of opposition working on the popular jealousy which exists of England. The ministers of Louts NAPOLEON now find them selves in the same predicament, and are driven, In order to save and stiengthen themselver, into the same claptrap hostility to us. Singular to say, that majority of the as embly which rules the coun cils of the PREAIDENT and the destinies of the French nation, Is at present composed of the remnant of all the court parties that hare enjoyed power for the Met half century. This party comprises the chiefs of the old Napoleon's! regime, those of the eider Bouseons, and those of the younger BOURBONS. Messrs. Not.a, THIERs, and GtIZOT, put their heads together. Imperialism shakes hands with divine right, and the dynasty of July with the general of the Jesuits. All that is intolerant, all that is bigoted, all that is antiquated and retrograde have met to club together their old hates and grudges, their ex ploded systems of government, their worn-out mantles of state, their odds and ends of opinion. All that is anile in monkish intolerance, all that is odious in juridical prosecution, all that is brutal in mere soldier discipline, all that is puerile and cruel in the regimen of the police, have united to form a political body guard to poor Loots NAPOLIWN. That such a party as this, composed of tho sweep ings of the bureaux of every old government, should have attained supremacy in France, as the result of the February revolution, is certainly so monstrous and mortifying a juggle, that one is not surprised to see men of spirit turn even Socialists in the dep h of their disgust. That such a party should, alter having abandoned North Italy to Austria, and conquered Homo to re-establish there the rule of the Jesuits—that such • party should lick the feet of the CZAR, and pander to the impo tent despotism of Austria, is not to be wondered at. And that it shouldseim the first opportuity of pushing Louie NAPOLEON'S government into hostility with England, is not to be wondered at either. They thereby conciliate the favour of the Austro-Ruseiaa mart or courts, awaken the old anti-English feeling In France, which in reality was that which first shook and then overthrew the ORLEANS dynasty. They entail fear, and disorder, and expenditure upon se, and upon themselves perhaps. Bat they thereby pave the way for the restoration of the Duke of Boa- Dear: and his priesthood; and they hope to drag back the curtain of the 16th century, to cover the ten and blackened scenery of the present time. We trust, however, they will prove impotent to accomplish these designs. We trust that there is sense in the French nation, a cool and impartial spirit in the English, to nee through the follies, the selfishness, the manteuvres, and the blunders, that would set them at variance. Englishmen do not wish to meddle or intsrlere in tie struggle of French parties, and England ought n t to be made the. victim or the dupe of any one of the parties in its attempts to overreach or over-embarrass the other. England can hem no wish to offend the dignity, thwart the just views, or injure the just rights of the French people. Let nail= speak to nation, let the people understand and strive to understand each other, setting aside the interested misrepresentations and recriminations of the party organs, and which thunder merely to pull down this minister or put up that. There is not one of them that would not sacrifice the dearest interests of either England, or of liberty, in order merely to spite a Lord P., or to give a Lord A. the chance of power. They have no pr:n• iple save those derived from s.;filli views or personal spite. We most begin by setting these jabberings aside. A difference between nations is a thing too serious to be contemplated with the narrow views and eager cu riosity excited by a ministerial crisis. IT would be difficult to determine whether the debate or the division of Friday night, on the bill to abolish the viceroyalty of Ireland, possemed less meaning or significancy. The debate of seven hours' duration deserves no better name than a hoterogc • neous mar of le%ity on a *trim; subject, and irrele vancy on a matter eminently worthy of the best attention of the assembly that evaded its discus- Mon. We don't affect to understand why Lard Joust Russm.i. should have declined, as he delibe rately did, to enter upon the real merits and subetan sive details of his plan. Possibly he deemed it expe dient to reserve himself on this important point for that stage of the bill when discurion is more usually and may doubtless be more intelligibly taken. If so, we cannot help regretting, though we may forbear to cee sure, the coarse which he adopted. A prime minister most fairly be allowed to choose his time for the exposition of his policy in &frisbee( weighty concern ; and both usage and raison entitle hint to ask parliament to consent to y ead a Hist time any propoeition which, upon his high re spoodbility,lie undertakes to show good and sulliment reason' for adopting. Bat the case of those is somewhat different who insist upon coming forward prematurely to discuss a proposition of whose details they are ignorant, and the reasons for which have not been disclosed. If their oonfidence in their own knowledge and expe rience be such, that they cannot wait to read in printed form the substance of themes's. propounded by the minister, they are ell the more bound to make plain to the listening world that no possible details can render the project acceptable. Or if, upon the other hand. gentlemen volunteer the vindi cation of motives and the exposition of pro visions which the responsible advisers of the measure have postponed, we have • right to expect that their explanations and their ressorungs should be something more than a tissue of truism, or a con fection of bons mots. We must confess that we have looked in vain through the debate of Friday night for anything satisfactory of either sort. Of political gossip, anec dote, and sarcasm there was sufficient; and of the ordinary dull deprecation of want of patriot ism there was enough. Bat political ideas on a subject eminently suggestive of tkem, there seem to have been literally none. A graver or more °apprehensive question could hardly be enunciated than the one thus trifled with. How are the affairs of an extensive and populous kingdom in future to be administered? And if all the forms hitherto subsisting are to be changed, what are to be sith.tituted in their stead ? We cannot etioctive a wider or nobler field for political diseussiou; nor can we imagine anything better fitted to fill the minds of thinking men in Ireland with more bitterness and resentment than to find the im perial senste affecting to deal with such a subject in the manner which, so far, it appears to have done. There was nothing alleged of the executive system to Intend that may not be accounted for by other influence of other causes than any inherent quality of its own mil-formation. That favouritism and frivolity should belong to it is only an incident to the nature of a court. That i; should attract and con centrate party passions in a country where the spirit of party has always run high, is what every executive must infallibly have done, whatever its shape or ap pellation. We own we set off all such commonplaces against the miserable talk about vice-regal expendi ture as a stimulus to trade; and consign them with out hesitation to the limbo of defanctfitme. The sole consideration worthy of a thought is this —mu a more e ffi cient, and at the same time a more responsible form of administration be devised than that which has heretofore subsisted in Ireland ? If not, the old one had better stand ti.l a better can be found. If it can, in heaven's name let ns hear dis tinctly and definitely what it is, before we are asked to make up oar minds about it. But as yet we have positively heard nothing except some half dczen bigeiounding phrases about a " fourth secretary of state;" as if that was the whole story. What we want to know is, ,rho is to do the daily business of the state, and where is it to be done? If the shallow crotchet is about to be tried of trans acting all the local affairs of a difficult and discon tented country in Downing-street, then, as we have the most profound faith in its speedy and disreputable failure, we are averse to any needless expenditure on the experiment If the special and pecu liar care of adminivration in such a country as Ireland be no longer considered worthy of separate attention, let them be neglected at the Home office and ignored at the Treasury—so long as the caprice shall last—and let us mak' up our fiends to pay dearly for the comequenoes fire or six years hence, when the accumulated vexations and indigos ti.,ris of the whole Celtic nation can no further be made bureaucratic sport of. Only in the mean time let us have but one Home-office and not two. If a Home-cffice in London can govern Ireland through Menai tubes and by means of electric telegraphs, we have no objection that it should do so. But we have an invincible objection to the organization of a new permanent job, in the shape of a second Home-office. Three secretaries of state are as many as any elderly empire can afford ; we see no use whatever in adding a fourth. Our own conviction, not now for the first time ex pressed, has always been that administratively Ire land, like Canada, can only be governed in Ireland. We don't call holding a country down by the throat governing it. Neither do we call it government, where local opinion is set at nought in order that the confidential reports of mere police agents may be quietly and irresponsibly relied upon. That may be the snuggest scheme of centralism that ever was con ceived, while it lasts ; but last long it cannot ; and therefore, if for no other reason, we wholly object to its being tried. That the QUEEN should hold her own court at Dublin as frequently as her MAJESTY is so disposed, instead of delegatirg that duty to a subject, there can be no conceivable objection. That, instead of being called lord-lieutenant, the head of the Irish department would be called the Minister for Ireland, there can be as little. That, instead of half-a-dozen lounging fops called aides-de-camp, he should have about him so many more skilful clerks, few will ques tion. All are agreed that such a minister ought to ha of the cabinet, and ought to sit in either house of larliament in order to initiate there end to explain egislative measures. But the less important duties of law-making over, the proper place for such a minister would be in the midst of the more important duties of his uffioe, those, namely, of law-working. If a Home Secretary in Whitehall can do all this an Irish minister is no longer wanted; but it an Irish minister is a specific necessity, then where the necessity is, there let the minister be. We are not surprised at observing how many of the best men among the Irish members declined to vote on tie first reading of this still-unexplained measure. We think their &lence and reserve an ex cellent sign. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNIXO 11 Aar A semi-official communication to the Petrie oontra dicta the statement of the Union in these terms: The Union gives some pretended details concerning the recall of M Drouyn de L'Huys, which are completely at va ries°, with truth. It is tales that the recall of the ambas sador was decided in the sheens* and without the knowledge of the President of the Republic, during his residence at Fontainebleau'. It is false.that during his 'been°. a council of ministers was held, or that any statesman not in the cabinet was consulted on the measures to be taken. The resolution to recall the ambassador was taken by the head of the government in union with the council of ministers. The strange omission of General Lahittds speech and despatch from the lifoniteur of yesterday is thus explained by a statement of the quastors of the As sembly inserted in a supplement of last night. In consequence of the very natural excitement caused by the entire Million from this day's Mintiltur of the speech made yesterday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs is the National Assembly, es well as of the despatch read by him from the tribune, the newton of the Amicably have lost no time in isguhing into the calms of that omission. It result. from their ievemigatlon : that the stenographic copy of the mielaties speech, and with it the despatch, were Immedi ately forwarded to the agents of the Monsieur, who were in attendance ; that these documents were a few minutes after taken to the bursae: of the precis-Terbium to be cow muoicated, accardisg to a long-established custom, to the eoaductors of the various Paris aewspepen, each of whom took a copy of the assia ; that the original ripen were afterwards returned to the agents of the Moniteur; that the spots of the journal La Patric, who had not copied the papers at the time when they were first placed in the bands of the Parisian press, applied at the herein to be allowed is make a copy, and that in consequenoe of such application they were placed in the bands of the conductors of that martial ; lastly, that the sub-thief of the bureau of the process-verhann, thWltht, that the Mon item- would sot now ri quire the documents, locked them up in his desk ; the ' seadnetors of the Mottitrur did not make any application for them, nor perceive the hiatus in the report which was canted by their omission. The questore, convinced that this re gretteble accident was not the result of any 111 Intention, but of carelessages and neglect, have taken thisetricteet measures to guard ageism a repetition of the fault. A. Onus i ßlielacteor- other. RINIST rancasucaa, Directeur-0 rant. It is reported front well-informed quarters, in spite of mini-official denials, that extraordinary activity prevails is the French marine department. The hotel of the English embassy was closed lest night. Lord Normanby, who had retired to his summer residence at Versailles, had not demanded his Yesterday in the legislative assembly the connive was applied on the requisition of M. Dapla to M. Met. M. Miot has the honour of being the only an paid member of the assembly ; as he maaagia to vet censured once a fortnight, and thus loose the whole of his Wary. The Republique reappeared yesterday in a half sheet. The new printer found for it had applied the censorship on his own responsibility, and cut out all articles and phrases likely to prove offensive to the government, in order that he might not be visited with the calamity which has befallen M. Bonlie, and lose his license. The Republique has therefore been obliged to wander in search of a third more enterpris ing printer. M. Menduit, major of the 11th legion of National Guard, has been demiesed from that pelt by a decree of the prefect of the Seine, for having subscribed tiO francs to the papers interdicted from sale by M. earlier. Several adjuncts of mayors have resigned. Several arrests have taken place; and several visits of perquisition have been made in the last few days by the police. SATURDAY STINT/10, 7 ~it. This afternoon in the Legislative Assembly after mice of members from the left had presented peti tions against the electoral law, M. Lawn Faucher ascended the tribune, and read Lis report upon the government bill. The alterations of the committee, which were confined to the first ten articles, may be described briefly u follows: 1. The condition of three years domicile is extended from the commune to the canton. 2. Functionaries shall be inscribed upon the electoral lists of their commune, whethe; they have resided there three years or not, provided that they have served three years in office. 3. Soldiers shall be inscribed upon the list of the commune in which they were enrolled. 4. In case of refusal or obstacle to the certification of domi:ile on the part of fathers, mothers, masers, or employers, the certifi cation shall be made by the five de pair. 5. Be-I side; the catesories desenbed in the bill u excluded from the exercise of the electoral franchise, are ex-I eluded all persona condemned in virtue of article 330 of the penal code for outraging public religions and social morali ey, all persans coodemned to more than one month cf imprisonment for rebellion, offering outrage to public functionaries, &c.; those who are condemned for hawking prints are excluded for five years. Those are also excluded, who have been condemned to three months of imprisonment, in virtue of Art. 444 of the penal code; and soldiers condemned to the clog (boulet), or to public works, or sent for punishment into companies of discipline. 6. Lastly, the conditions of majority of votes required for election are changed, so that the sole condition is made by the committee to consist in polling one quarter of the votes inscribed on the lists. Yon will see that these modifications are ideLtical with those mentioned in my last letter on thissubject. M. Leon Faucher's report was marked with that qua lity which passes with the moderate party for energy. Attar finishing his report, M. Leon Faucher read the bill as amended by the committee. The debate was fixed for Tuesday ; on Monday there will be no sitting. The budget of receipts wog finished, and paascd by a majority of 473 votes against Ibo. Of course no one believes in the official excuses given for not inserting the speech and despatch of General Lshitte in the llloniteur. Report says it was not inserted, in consequence of a direct order from the Elysee. SCNDAY EVENIXO. Lord Normanby is still at Versailles., -- ----- There are 41 members inscribed to speak on the debate lon the a hctoral law-6 for and 33 against. Amongst the latter General Cavaignec, and MM. Lamartine, Arago, St. Hilaire, Fevre, &c. &c. The following important amendment to the electo ral law supported by Gustave de Beaumont, Chapot, Favreout, Nettemont Randot, and Vesin, was Lid, yesterday, on the table :—Art. 3. The electoral domi cile is attested : Ist, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, as in the bill. sth. By the drawing of lots for the recruitment of the army and navy. First, with respect to those who reside habitually in the commune or who are embodied in the army. Secondly, for those who residing out of the commune will justify by a declara tion of the Mayor of the commune is which they have resided six months at least, that they are not in scribed on the electoral lists prepared by him. This amendment, which will comprise a large number of voters who would be excluded by the present project of law will, it is supposed, pass. M. Deludre and E. Louglet, ancient members of the Constituent°, have sent their adhesion to the petition against the electoral law. The various parties of the Assembly are arming against the great battle to open on Tuesday on the electoral law. Immediately after M. Leon Faucher had read his report, which treads in the steps of M. Baroche's preamble to the bill, and was listened to in perfect quiet by the Left, the members who were about to speak in the debate went to get their names set down on the president's list. In ten minutes not less than forty-five orators were inscribed, the first of whom is Gen. Cavaignac, against the bill ; Mont alembert isthe third, Thiers the twelfth, Lamartine the twenty fourth ; Gen. Lamoricidre and Victor Hugo will also join in the debate. Odilon Barret is reported to have announced his intention of voting one or two amendments, but will refrain from speaking. At the last sitting of the club of the Con seil d'Etat, 250 members of the majority agreed to adopt the bill without any amendment which tended to modify its provisions in a liberal sense. The mem bers of the Mountain have changed their tactics, and, after en animated debate at their club in the Rue du Hasard, have resolved to drop the course of abstaining which they adopted in the bureaux ' andtotakeavigor- OW part in tie disc ussion of the bill. Many ofthe orators are accordingly inscribed to speak against it. The members of the club of the Rue Richelieu have determined to vote for no amendment which is rejected by the committee. The legitimists who were harangued by Berryer at their club in the Rue Rivoli, on Friday night, are mostly far the bill of the committee. There is, however, M. liberal sec tion of legitimists , represented by M. Nettement, editor of the Opinion Publique, who will vote for the above amendment. There seems every chance of this amendment, which is supported by the tiers-parli, being carried. If so it will go a great wcy to reintegrate the mutilated franchise. The leading organs of the cabinet, after their first crash, have singularly softened their angry key. For the present we hear no more of the " rupture" with England, which was so emphatically announced from the tribune by M. Lahitte. The affair is re duced to much humbler proportions. The Journal des Debate only regards it as a misun derstanding which will be readily explained, and it is not quite clear that the contradiction which exists between the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and that of the Marquis of Lansdowne, if not of Lord Palmerston, may not be cleared up in a manner favourable to the English cabinet. Alter the report of M. Leon Faucher had been reed at the Assembly yesterday, the discussion on the budget of receipts was continued, and brought to a close. The last month's returns of the customs show a de crease of 1,600,000 fr. on the importation, which, by certain of the journals, is attributed to the stagnation caused by eating circumstances. The decrease is principally on raw materials, such as cotton, wool, silks, oils, &c. The duties on exports have improved, partiouhuly on silk and woollen manufactured 'goods. An increase has also taken place on porcelain, glare, articles of dress, and refined sugars. The Evenement states that searches were made on Friday and Saturday night, and will be continued on many points. The police is on the track of some of M. Bogle, the priteer, whose establishment has been closed by the government, has appealed against the conviction for printing a paper without the printer's name. There has been an improvement in the funds to day, in consequence of the doubt which aroseyesterday ' as to the fact of Lord Normanby's recall, from the er roneous versions cf Lord John Rinselre speech in certain of the London evening papers having been dissipated by the news arrived this morning. The recovery of the English funds from the fall of the preceding day has also contributed to relieve the market here. The Rents exhibited much more firm ness at the Plunge of the Opera. The Fives rose to 87(r. 7k., to close at 87fr. Bk. ; a rise of 30c. upon the prices of yesterday. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. HOVE, May 10. The papal benediction was yesterday imparted to the stray sheep of the Eternal City, for the tint time since their manifold transgressions against their spi ritual pastor and temporal sovereign. His holiness once more spread abroad his hands towards his people from the lofty balcony of St. John Lateran, in sign of forgiveness and blessing, and it now only remains for them to hope devoutly that the outward and visible form may speedily be followed up by the reality of sovereign pardon. Whether it was doubt on this head that chilled the devotion of the crowd customary on such cceasions, or not, I cannot say, but certainly the majority of the people seemed very irrtve rential in their reception of the bit sang, many hardly uncovering, and more still neglecting to kneel, a duty which war, however, scrupulously performed by the troops present, as well as by the swarms of country people who had flocked in from the environs. The regiments of bath nations were, for the first time also, assimilated under the mystic sign of the cross u dispensed from the Pope's uplifted arms, the French being placed upon his right, and Lis own rebellious soldiers on his lett, the generals and staff officers of both armies occupying the centre. The usual distribution of indulgences took place after the blessing, and was attended by the usual scramble. General Baraguay d'Hilliers leaves this city to-day, having staid to see the usual round of illumination, benediction, and girandola nor were his eyes offended by any tricoloured republican allusions in the tire works, the prudent artificer having studiously avoided the beautiful green transitions, and limited his effects to red and white fire. Letters from Copenhagen state that General von Below wu received by his Majesty in an audience on the 12th, at which he presented to the King an auto graph letter from the King of Prussia. The general bad subsequently had several conferences with the Prime Minister. The letters state that the conclusion of a peace on the Nisi' of the recent proposal, made by Prussia may be considered as not very distant. General Below was to leave Copenhagen on the 15th or 16th. Letters from Munich state that the Bavarian troops in the palatinate aro to be increased. The first chamber in Hanover has approved of the government proposition for increasing several of the customs duties. Both chambers have agreed to the proposition for making Hamburg a free port so long as the Stener Verein shall continue to exist. Marburg is a small town on the Elbe, opposite Hamburg. It contains about 8,000 or 8,000 inhabitants, and is con nected with Hanover by a railway, since the opening of which its trade and commerce, as well as its popu lation, hays greatly increased. It is rumoured to-day that Herr von der Heyde, the minister of commerce, is about to resign his office. BERLIN, MAY 17. The congress, it appears, did not hold its final sitting until yesterday afternoon, when tho whole of the a'sembled sovereigns, minister', &c., were received by the King in the old palace in Berlin. The speech made by his Majesty on the occasion is summarised in the Deutsche Reform of this evening : His Majesty commenced by stating, in a few sentences, the results of the preceding sinter, and exprts•ed his great gratification at the rapid provers of the proceedings, which he described u unexampled, and only possible through the premise and active co-oemati in of the regents of the union, together with their thorough and lively conviction of the cc ctseity of honest commutiion. Exactly a week ago his m.jssty had, in an address to the scvere'gns and the repre sentatives of the Haase Towns, explained the chief points with which the congress would hove to deal, and already the object of the negotiations had been obtained. 03 that occasion his Majesty had laid before the assembled sovereigns and the representatives of the free tewns the serious and important question, whether they should retain the union, or whether the sovereigns who hive the govt rnment of the free towns ecnsid,red themselves, alter mature deliberation, In a position in which the abandonment of the union was neces sexy. To this question a unauimous answer had been given by the renewal of the convention of the 26th of May, 1849 On the same occasion Me Majesty had recommended to the governments desirous of retaining the union the acceptance of proposals for alteratiors in the constitution made by the Erfurt parliament. The majority of the united eovernments had in this matter ass.ciated themselves with the goy, tenant of his Majesty, slid had accepted the proposed alters ions. Unar imity bad, however, not been obtained, as same of the governments c.,uld not loind themselves. Under these circumstat cc!, it was impos• sible at once to carry out the coussitution of the union, and the establishment of anew prof:is:rides had therefore becfore neceseary:. As foundations for the establishment of this preeisortues, it had ben decided to adopt the legal provi mons of the conventional statute. It had been decided to contrnue to the crown of Prussia the authority conferred I upon it by that convention as the provisional Verstand of I the union, but to transfer the powers hitherto confided to the Vsrweltungs-Rith to a provisional wlltge of princes. On this basis a provisional government for the union bad been resolved upon. Although thorcuiti unanimity had not been obtained on this point, nothing had occurred which would prevent the indispensable regulations of the uni n trom being successively celled into hem. His Majesty then referred to the result of tie deliberations whit h had taken place on the subject of deputing to the Frankfort Congress. This question had beets decided in the affirmative, on the ground that no measures ought to be left unattenipted which might lead to an understanding with the other governments of Germany. The great majority of the governments had at the same time decided on adopting a neutral course of proceeding at Frankfort. They were to transmit similar declarations, to the Vienna cabinet and the other courts of Germany, and to issue similar instruc lions to their plenipotentiaries at Frankfort. They had fur ther agreed to the formation of an interim authority for the direction of the affairs of the confederation, and would act in eono,rd with rtapect to the basis of a deficitive new forma tion of the Bund. These were the resolutions of the united' governments ; further decisions, both with respect to a pro longation of the provisorium of the union, and the course of the negotiations in Frenktort, are reserved for the future decision of the provisional organ of the union to be ajpointed. His Majesty added to this account of the results of the negotiations, a general viow of the condition of Germany, sketching the hopes and dargers of the Fatherland in energetic words, words which, notwithstanding the serious dangers, awakened fresh confi dence in the happy solutiou of the difficulties, and the attainment of German unity. The greater number of the princes have already left Berlin; several, however, remain to witness the marriage ceremonies of her Royal Highress the Prin cess Charlotte (a daughter of Prince Albrecht) with the Prince of Saxe Jleiningen. The marriage takes place to-morrow. General von Below has returned from Copenhagen, without having obtained a satisfactory reply to the proposals contained in the letters which he carried with him from the Kieg of Prussia. Denmark re quired explanations on certain point■ in the fourth at.d fifth articles of the proposed treaty, which the general was unab:e to give, and also that certain con dition should be appended to the treaty. These con ditions would havo given to the treaty a binding character on Prussia with regard to the future state of the duchies, which this government has always refused to undertake. I understand, however, that another attempt will be made to renew the negotia tioas on the same basis. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1850. passports, not had he received from his government ceders to return to England. Oa Thursday night the peesidutp_gave a ball at the Elyse*, at which, of course, Lord Normanby wee not present. All the Ecglish invIIII had received in. Wyse. of the recall of the Free& ambassador from London in time to 'betel°. 8~61 Bargraves, who ventured to congratulate the progilistipss the treble round of cheers in the areembly,_ which Widths en campment of the recall, were dread by the mid most and sternum of the reception they nosanntered. The evident oorreion exercised by the Engraves upon the President, and the symptoms of dissatisfac tion manifested by Louis Napoleon at being saddled with a peaky which leads directly to the restoration of the monarchy, and is perhaps dictated at Clare mont, give some colour to the surmise that he will Bad some means of escaping from this thraldom, and &dot= policy at once inderndent and national. is talked of u Minister of War in a future cabinet. _ _ _ _ _ the refugees of London who have arrived mysteriously at Peri& The socialist agitation hes commenced its propaga tion in the departments of the south. At Villeneuve d'Agea the municipal council hes declared the project of the electoral law a breach of the constitution. M. Baroche has announced that this council will be dissolved. M. Bub's, ex-President of the Constituent°, has resigned his offios u member of the municipal cora minion of Paris. _ cessions by the merchant and the manufacturer for their own personal advantage. Aeoorditg to the Conaistestional, N. de Persigny, the French ambassador, who returned from Paris three days ago, has handed to the Minister for Fo reign Affairs a note expressing the perfect under standing of the French government with the present policy of Prussia in respect to the union. Sir H. W. Wynn, our ambassdor Cops/Anal; has arrived here from London, previous to his return to the seat of his mission. The Emperor of Russia will arrive, it is said. be tween the 20th and 22nd inst., at Warsaw. It is set tled that the Prince of Prussia will proceed thither to meet him. NAPLES. NAPLES, blur 10. The special criminal cart has again been the ace of one of those sad comedies which history must record under the imposing title of sate trials. Prince Ssogiacomo, one of the many distinguished Neapolitans charged with high treason, has been tried and acquitted pro tempore for want of sufficient evi dence. Fortunately for the yriuce, his high position and favour at court saved him, when the power to arrest was issued, from an immediate imprisonment ; had he been a hiss distinguished personage, he would have shared the fate of hundreds who now tenant the prisons which lock up constitutional opinion as a crime. This is one of the few instances of a triumph over the government paid spy who denounces politi cal offenders. The prisoners charged for high treason .sa belonging to the United Italians, will bring no less than a thousand witnesses forward when their trials take place. 'the government still hesitates to ap point the day. , - The French fleet still animates the bay, and from all I hear it is likely to remain here some time. The resuli of the late Paris election was received with joy by the crews, but with very different feelings by the majority of officers. Neapolitan Fives, 973. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAT 16. It appears that the latter sittings of the Congress have been attended with greater conceit(' and harmony than was apparent in the earlier one.. Tne Elector of Heise is said to Lave so far moderated his tone ts to demand only further delay before the union shall be di finitively con stituted; in this view of the matter he was sup ported by Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Schaumburg. Strelitz, though from very different motives. The steps which are to be taken by the members of the union in other respects were unanimously agreed to. In the sitting of the 14th, the important question was discussed whether the members of the union should depute to the Frankfort congress ; it was unanimously resolved to do so, upon the condition, however, that the step could in no way prejudice the interests of the union. With regard to the leading principles to be observed in deputing to the congress, it was resolved that all the cabinets should simultaneously address a note to the government of Austria, scmewhat to the following effect. The states of the union will depute to the Frankfort congress, in order to prove their sincere readiness to co-operate in the reorganisation of the affairs of the Germanic confederation ; they protest, however, in advance, against the claim put forward by Austria to exercise the presidial right, which ceased to exist with the dissolution of the Diet, and I also against the supposition that the Frankfort con , green represents the plenium of the old Diet, as they can regard it only in the light of a voluntary Baum ' bly of the thirty-five German governments for a certain purpose. The terms of this note will correspond very closely with those of the dispatch addressed by Schleinitz to the Prussian ambassador at Vienna on the 3rd inst., and published in the Ex press of the 13th, with the addition that the states of the union cannot permit any reconstruction of the federal constitution which snail not award to the anion its proper position in the confederation. The instructions of the plenipotentiaries were also settled; they are only to consent to the establishment of an interim, the competency of which shall not exceed that of the previous federal commission, so that all questions connected with the constitution must be de cided elsewhere; further, that, in its formation, the present division of the supremacy between Austria and Prussia shall be retained. In the yesterday's sitting the protocol was signed, and the draft of the general note just mentioned, together with the instruc tions of the plenipotentiaries to Frankfort, were agreed to. The Elentor of Hesse required that them should be admitted in the protocol a declaration that the government of Hesse was opposed to the Mtinehen project, as well as every other constitution for Ger many establishing a triple-headed government, and desired to see the direction of the affairs of Germany confided to Austria and Prussia. Yesterday the whole of the assembled sovereigns and suites proceeded to Potsdam, whore they visited th e u s ual show places, dined et the platter, and re turned in the evening. To-day they are received by the King at dinner in Charlottenberg, and to morrow moat of them will leave Berlin. Rumour points out General Radowitz u the pleni potentiary to be appointed by Prussia to Frankfort. General Radowitz is, however, suffering from severe domestic affliction. A week his hardly elapsed since he buried an only daughter, and he has now been re called to Erfurt, to attend his wife, who is dangerously _ _ Letters from Frankfort state that the congress there has not yet met. Of course the plenipotentiaries have born waiting for the result of the congress here. The alterations in the tariff of the Zlllverein, pro posed by Von der Heydt, the minister of commerce, have excited the anger of the Schutzziillner or pro teetionist party, who complain bitterly of the total disregard of the agricultural interests, in the prelimi nary Prussian congress now sitting on the subject From such a congress, says ono of the organs of the party, nothing could be expected but the approval of measures calculated to advantage the merchant and the manufacturer to the disadv►ntage of the consumer and the agriculturist. So far ea the proposals of the minister had been sanctioned by the congress, they are described by the Neue Prettssitche as mutual con- AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAT 14. Advicce have been received from Trieste of the Emperor's arrival there on the 12th inst. His recep tion is described as most brilliant ; thousands of the people uniting in noisy demonstrations, flaming illu minations, depute; ions and addresses exceeding every thing in splendour and loyalty. Field Marshal Ha deteki did not accompany toe Emperor to Trieste, having been detained at Laibach by a slight injury to his foot. A ministerial ordinance has been published abolish ing the Elbe dues on Austrian vessels between Me:- nik and the Saxon frontier. On some articles the duty is retained. Prince Wiudischgfatz has declined the income of 400,000 florins offered htm by the Emperor for his ser vices in quelling the Hungarian insurrection. Daiwa, MAY IS.—Voluntary Loan, 1031 ; National Debt, 9.52 ; Rink Shares, 941. rIYNNA, Mar 17.—Fire per Cent. kletalllques, 921; Dank &area, 1035. Eachanie on London, 12.9. MALTA, MAY 10, Tease, I' X. On the Ist May the Bishop of Malta issued a pas toral letter to the Roman Catholics of the island, call ing upon them to get up a general illumination on the night of the 4th inst., and to attend at one of the churches on the sth to hear high mass, and offer up a solemn thanksgiving for the return of his Holiness the Pope to his chair. Some of the transparencies were very singular. One opposite the " Carmine" church represented the Pope in a chariot driving three lions over a heap of prostrate men with books in their hands, whilst a giant of a fellow in the rear is kicking them into a burning fiery furnace, flaring up like bricks to receive them. Underneath is an inscription signifying that " The Holy Apostolic Roman Catholic religion is always triumphant." The poor fellows who are being so unmercifully whipped and kicked are supposed to be the Italian liberals. Her Majesty's steamer Terrible arrived from Gib raltar on the 2nd, and remains to caulk and refit. Her Majesty's steamer Odin left for England, touch ing at Algiers and Gibraltar on the Bth. Letters by her front the fleet at Salamis mention that the Spite ful steamer had been despatched to Naples for an' answer to the demand for indemnification for loam suffered by British subjects at Palermo, Catania, Mooing, and Naples, during the revolution. The Greeks at the Pincus are very sorry for the departure of the fleet : it will be a long time before another 100,0001. are again spent there and in Athens. The merchant steamer Dieppe came in on the oth from Constantinople and Smyrna. The Turkish steamer Eason Oedid arrived on the Bth from Con stantinople and &lonics, with 717 officers and men for Tripoli. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Pottinter arrived on the 9th at 8 a.m., and left the same day for Constantinople. She brought about a dozen passengers. That on of the correspondence published in the Daily Nein betwoon Mr. More O'Ferrall and Lord CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY b.—The affairs cf Bosnia and Samos keep the ministers prett c fill employed ; they have meetings duly at, the hurt Some of the chiefs at Samos have nanaved escape ; the others have been arrested by Mnetapha Puha. Before they left the island they levied a contribution of 2:i,000 piastn in the village of %mils. Juni Leceta, one of the chiefs, has arrived here, a prisoner. The array des tined to subdue Banta, consisting of 38,000 men is quite sufficient to restore tranquil ity ; it will be corn mended by Omer Pacha. A steam frigate has ;eft or Varna, to bring him to Constantinoplo. The frigates Mirai-Zaffer aid She! ab-llochri, with the brig Surag.liachri, are fitting fur a cute: to Cl the Italian and French ports in the Mediterranean, and thence proceed to England. This is done to practice the Ottcman seamen in a long voyage —a practice they much require. Fifty-four Polish and Hungarian officers, who have embraced Islamism, have arrived at Vona. Trey will be sent to Syria. A conspiracy has been discovirrd at Candi', al.: •3 had for its scope an intent to overthrow the gwern meat. A certain Georgio Lambriti has been am-ted. Letters of importance were found upon him, fully re vealing all the plot of the eonspira'ors. A courier from Persia brought us the news that the Shah's troops had taken Mesehed, the seat of the r, • writers. It is thong:A that all Korassan will shorty submit. A letter from Smyrna mentions that to era: slight shocks of an e rthqu Ike hare bet n felt, and t' .at tEc country is so infestcd with bri;,ands that tmvellizg, even well-armed, is nniale. INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received our &spate:hes in anticipation of the Over land Mail which left Bombay on the 17:h ult. This mail brings intelligecce from Hong Kong to the 30. h of March, from Calcutta the 7th, Singapore to the 6th, and from Madras to the 14. h of April. The following letter of our correspondent coatains all the intelhg nce of import, brought by the prevent mall, from India : BOMBAY, APRIL 17. My present letter must begin with an account (.1 the murder cf a Mr. Healey (au apothecary appointed to the medical charge of te.e. let Punjsub Impair Cava'!" ), near Kohat, by tLe Afreedies. Toe unfor tunate man was on his way to joie his corps (Daly's) stationed et Kohat, when having gone on some dis tance in advance of his escort, he was on the 22nd March set on by a large party of the hill men, and received a wound in the head which shortly after its infliction proved fatal. His two servants (a groom and a grasseutter) were cut down with him—a t ativs doctor and a fourth party escaping to Kona.. On hearing of what had occurred, Captain. Daly with a party of his horsemen moved on: to search of the murderers, and succeeded in capturiur a number of men secreted in a village bard by who were supposed to have been concerned in the crime. ai they did not belong to the pl ,ce in which they a ere found, and hod no ostensible reason for being where they were. Poor Healey was carried into Kolar. where he, shortly after his arrival, expired. He L been warred, when leaving l'eshawur, not to :tr.: away from his guard, but he prob-bly though*, as had reached almost within sight of his dest;nation. be might safely proceed ahead of them : hie life paid the penalty of his temerity. Ihe Afree dies are said to have been aware of his 3F ptoacb, and to have concealed themselves in a forest on the road side awaiting him and his party. The tribes bear us the deadliest hatred, and as :t would be little short of madness to thick of com menciug the work of extermination amongst them the sooner we withdraw our post from Kohat the better, as it is of no earthly use to us, and only keeps up the irritation of the Afreedies against us. Sir C. Napier is believed to have set his face against any further expeditions into the hills ; he witnessed one, and must have felt the inutility of exp *log our troops to the fury of half savages at whom we had no chance of getting ; anu like a ii ise and humane commander has forbidden our troops being again led into the mouths of an almost invisible—certainly an uncome foe. For this he has been taunted by some heal streng, hot-blooded youths, no doubt, whose heads turn on nothing but excittmen• in the field to dispel the ennui of a cantonment life; but by all riot thinking men his resolution is regarded as the w.ses: that could be adopted. It is useless kicking against the pricks. Were the hill tribes taken into pay by our government, there is little reason to fear they would prove faithful as the guards of our fro, tie; highlands: as enemies they can harass us a: ttieir pleasure with impunity. The Lahore Chronn of .lie 61 inst., which arrived this morning, states teat tae men caught by Captain Daly, as above mentioned, had been set at liberty, there being no eri !ence of their having been concerned in the murder of Mr. Healey. How could there be any ? At least the fellows should have been kept prisoners for a time. in case anything should turn up. The old store of the chiefs being with Colonel Lawrence at Peshawur. making overtures, is again repeated. licir object this time is said to be to allow their crops to be' gathered in, after which they will be at liberty for some months to gather crops of plunder from these they now pretend to wish to conciliate. This is alt very natural, and just what might be expected. A young lieutenant of the 71st N. 1., named LfeweLyn, shot himself at Peshawar on the night of the . 20th of March—whether accidentally or otherwis •.01 course can never be known, as the unfortunate ze::- tleman was dead before assistance could reach h.m. He bad had a couple of friends dining with him fila: evening, and they had only just Ittt hint when Inc report was heard, so that it appears most likely he met his death accidentally while seeing it his pistols were all right, as he is affirmed to have been a little excited" when his friends lett him. Colonel Law rence was to leave on sick certificate for Simla on the 10th of April. Cantonments for troops we* being marked out at Attock, which are to be occupied by the 2nd N. 1. from Rawul Pindee. The god Punjaub cavalry had proceeded into the Fusofzie country. for what purpose is not stated. A sanitary station 100 been chosen on the Murree 11111, near Hestia' Pintlee. by the commissioner, Mr. Thornton ; and a commit tee ordered for the purpose. Heavy rain had cc carrel all over the country from Lahore to Peshao accompanied with violent squalls; and at t:fe teeo places named a slight shock of earthquake had i•ceil felt. The duty on timber brought down the Rat* from the territories of the Maharajah Jamoo to Lahore has been remitted by tioolaub Singh, ‘• by request." Sir Charles Napier quitted Lahore on the '..!t;th air. for the Jullundhur Daub. in a very poor state of health. Ile AVM at I'et►ukate on the 3rd instant, and intended leaving for Noorpoor next day, and so round by Kangra to Simla, where he is expected about the 23rd instant. It is said he positively goes home in October. The treasure escort from Mooltan to Wuzeerabad, under Major litroh, were relieved of their valuable charge by troops who met them at Jhahg. The detachment 41st N.l. out at Leigh had been relieved by a party from the ilea ly raised sth Punjaub Infantry. The troops in the tort are to move out during the present month, and build houses outside for themselves, a garrison of 3 00 •'r 400 men alone remaining within. The weather ars excessively hot, but sickness had luckily kept so tar away. From Soinde there is nothing to record, except the departure of Mr. Pringle on duty to Sukkur, where ho is, along with Major Lang, from Catch, to inquire into the misconduct attributed to our very faithful Ally, Meer Ali Moorad, of Khyrpore. Sickness was Grey relative to the Italian rekiees has bee n repub lish. d in II Mediterraneo, with an Palen translation and apposite comm. nta. The 13is1'op of Nla:ta's letter to the governor has created no small sensation amongst the rising generation, and a fteht g anythi ng but amiable towards their reverend plater and master. The , squadron, consisting of Queen, H owe, CalE. annia, x hrer;i L., am" ....prd gtip of the line, and Firebrand and D ragon steam-frigates, came in th is morning from Salamis. The Howe and Vengeance will leave for England on the I.lth, att er the arrival of the overland mail. The fleet will rifit immediately. The Dragon is going home. T4O Ganges remains at the Pirmus. We have received our correspondent's letter of the 13th but it contains no news of immediate iniport,,r , (. 1