The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-26 00:00:00

CUSTOMS DUTIES ON SPICES.

We have the satisfaction of announcing that the
Lords of the Treasury have made a beginning in removing
tho anomalies of the customs tariff of duties on spices. To
a memorial presented by the nutmeg planters, they have re-
plied that henceforth the same uniform duty (2.1. 6d. per
pound is to be tieedottil allan uttitr.g%a&dethsat the
ice du6dt .
tariff, which we pointed out about • week ago, require the
aid of the legislature for their abolition. We trust it may
not be long withheld.

ST. CROSS HOSPITAL.—One of the brethren of
St. Crow Hospital, near Winchester, Hants, has recently
died, and a petition has been sent to the government pray-
=hat the Rev. the Earl of Guilford may not be per.
to fill up the vacancy, but that it may be filled up
by the Lord Chancellor or the Attorney-General. It
said that the present Attorney•Gettersl, Sir Frederick
Theaser, is as zealous as his predecessor, Sir Alexander
Oookbors, in his desire to reform the gigantic abuse of St.
Outs Hoopitel; and to compel the Rev. the Earl of Gad-
flies' the enormous funds he has derived from the
bomb* bossequence of his not having been legally ap?
riagssatar.
Fm OF ME. BOYD.—The Duke of Nortkum-
Woad km, it is undentood, directed a ship of war to call
M the group of Pacific Islands, known as the Solomon.. for
tits purpose of investigating the alleged murder of Mvt
Biujamin Boyd by the natives, and their subsequent
act of cannibalism on his remain., and, if esta-
blished, of chastising them. As yet, however, the any
thority for this termination of Mr. Boyd's extraordi-
nary career rests only on the statement of the crew of
the ship the Wanderer ; and there are not want.
ing dreadful suspicions that the unfortunate gen.
tletnan wu made away with in the vessel
itself, which was afterwards wrecked in Macquarrie Bay,
all hands getting safely on shore. The nest arrivals front
Sydney will probably throw light ou the affair, at present
alsrowded in mystery and terrible doubts. Mr. Boyd was
formerly a stock-broker in London, and was subsequently
the representative in New South Wales
.of a disastrous
banking institution, which, though established for It phi.
mate purposes, he turned to its utter ruin into a great
sheep-gracing speculation. Its affairs are now being
" wound up."
ALLEGED MURDEZ AT ISLINGTON.— Yesterday
morning Mr. T. Wakley M.P., held an inquest at the lied
Lion Tavern, Lower-roaJ, Islington, on the body of Samuel
Wilkinson, who was found lying in the cellar of his rrsi-
deers, with his bead nearly severed from Ms body, caused
bye deep wound in his throat, ors the morning of the 191`
instant. It appeared on the former occasion...
and his wife lived very unhappily together, ma AWE Ory
cutostonees which transpired, the eoroont was inducedto
adjourn the inquiry until the present slay, for the purpose
of listing the contents of the stomach analyeed, R. a sea.
picion bud been raised that the deceased had been druggsg,i
and while unable to offer any resistance, his life had lien
taken by some other persons. The jury, after a fey,
minutes deliberation, found "that the deceased
himself, being then of unsound mind."

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FRANCE.

BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
PARIS, FRIDAY Movusixe, HALT•PAIT 8.
The Mowiteur pabliales the law on adminiatrativo

The decree of 28th March, 1848, on clubs, is re-
pealed, Article 13 excepted, which prohibits secret'
societies.
A decree regulates the disciplinary system of
the merchant navy.

MINISTERIAL DISPUTES AND CHANGES.
PARIS, TIEVISDLY Brum,.
On the point of skiing my letter 1 have just mostrod
him a reliable me news of the highest impasse,
whisk seew be memideeed as all bat 'Main Oa 011-71ss
71ss &paten between MM do Mayes and
Falligny lam M Met produced a iniaistmial M.
At this hear tho, of pollee is aballehad. M.
ilies!relsis Ms Hie roeirmtlsa has km
aid be go abroad as ambassador to
some oft at the great worts. The inspectorship«
general of yolk* are seaintained, but subordinated
to the ministry of the interior. M. de Pusesivy is
to be minister of state in the place of M. efteabi-
anat. This department will henceforth be the lead-
ing one. The President and M. de Pereigay will
manage the affain of the realm between them. M. do
l'hongay is to be minister of the interior. M. BMW
will be M. de Persigny's secretary-general. Decrees
Nettling these and other changes are expected to ap-
pear in the Numileur of to-morrow. All I can say
is that they are reported to me as certain at the
present hour. Whether changes so vast and sudden
will be arrested at the point I have indicated, or se-
same, before the night be over, a fresh shape, can be
only left to conjecture.
M. Berard has decidedly resigned his place as in-
spector-general of police at Lyons, in consequence
of not being able to come to an understanding with
M. Vincent, prefect of the lthone, on the limits of
their respective attributions. M. Berard has played
throughout the deputes of M. de Parsley and M.
de Maupas, a leading part in the transactions which
have led. it I am rightly informed, to the abolition of
the short-lived creation of the ministry of police.
You will see by the .11untleur of to-day that the
system of repression inaugurated by the goveroment
of the 'lad December, instead of relaxing with the
submission of the country, becomes, on the contrary,
aggravated in proportion to the patience of the pros-
trate nation. It was thought that the war waged
epos opinion had reached its utmost limits with the
late decree on the press, which enables the executive
government to suppress newspapers without trial of
any sort before the tribunals. But that edict, which
greatly exceeded in arbitrary severity the ordinances
which cost Charles X. his throne, has, it appears,
been deemed an inadequate curb for the merman of
thought ; and fresh fetters have been forged to re-
strain • power which gives no longer any sign of
life.
A decree, issued on the report of the Minister of
General Polio', dated the 22nd, enacts that hence-
forth no one shall be allowed to be a copper-plate
printer if he be not licensed and sworn ; also that no
one shall be allowed to pcssess or use a press, how-
ever small, of whatever nature, for private impres-
sions, without the authorisation of the Minister of
General Police at Paris, or of the prefects
in the departments. Offenders are to be pu-
nished in the way set forth in Art. 13 of the
law of 214 October, 1814. The same decree
requires type-founders, stereotyper*, manufactur-
ers of presses of all kinds, and dealers in
printing materials, to register in a book signed by
the major, the sales effected, the date of them, and
the name, quality, and residence of purchasers—and,
as each delivery is made, to transmit a copy of the
said entry, in tie form of a declaration, to the minis-
try of Feneral police at Paris, and to the prefectures
in the departments. Any violation of these regula-
tions is to be punished by a fine of from 501 r. to
200 fr. Another decree, dated the 22nd, declares
that for the future the licenses of printers, litho-
graphers, and booksellers, shall be granted by the
minister of general police.
Aoother decree assimilates the position of the pre-
fect of Lyons completely to that of the prefect of po-
lice at Paris, and seems the complement of • law
paused by the Assembly with the same view, and
termed the agglomeration of Lyons. In fact its ope-
ration will annihilate the independent powers at
present exercised by several distinct municipalities,
and reduce the mayor of Lyons, who has hitherto
possessed considerable control over the affairs of the
city, to a level with the mayors of the arroodime-
manta of Paris, Whose chief function is to register
births, marriages, and deaths. The decree orders
that the communes of the GuillotiOre, the Croix
Rousse, and Vaise, shall be united to the commune of
Lyons, that,until a law regulating the composition and
mode of nomination of the municipal council of Lyons
shall be passed, • municipal commission of thirty
members, nominated by. the President, shall discharge
the duties of • municipal council, but only discuss
each questions as the Prefect of the Rhone shall
submit t 3 it ; that Lyons shall be divided into five
municipal arrondissements, each with a mayor and
two deputy mayors, and that the communes of Vil-
leuxbane, Vaux, Brea, and Venisuieux shall came to
belong to the department of the Lire, and be added
to the department of the Rhone, canton of the Guil-
lotiere.
It is expected that, on Saturday or Monday next,
the Bank will commence lending money upon the
deposit of railway shares, pursuant to the recent
dame.
At the Bourse, the Five per Cents. rose 40c., cica-
lae at 100.80. The Three per Cents. rose She., and
demi at 71.60. A report that the government in-
finite redone the legal rate of interest had a good
Whet wit the market. Railway' rose,s=satt
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_llOl4 Tam and Nantes, and Rowan,
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