The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-31 00:00:00

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with her !subjects; for in that ease her b
the upper hand. In order to reverse this, Queen
has but to convert the small quarrel into
• great one, to magnify the squabble into
a war, and discontent into rebellion. The increased
gravity of the case instantly relieves the Queen's
difficulties, for it calls
England or some other puissant
ally to interfere. This is preciaely what the Queen
at PORTUGAL has done. She misgoverned till her
subjects could bear it no longer. But, unable to
repress them, she is obliged to misgovern and provoke
dill more, till open rebellion is the consequence, and
then England, France, and Spain must intervene, at
the expense of the poor Portuguese tax-payers, to act
police for Donna MARIA.
Such a system as this, so replete with absurdity
I and injustice, is too monstrous to last. And
against no interest does it work so powerfully
and perniciously as against royalty itself. King-
ship is too wetly in small countries, and if
it be proved at the same time most perni-
sloes, the result will be, either that the small cometriee
mat be absorbed in great and independent once,
ashore royalty acts wholesomely end beneficently, or
the small ones mist imitate Switzerland or old Hol-
iand in adopting some other form of government than
the kingly. Small monarchies, we repeat, are public
asisaaces, intolerable to themselves and to others.
Mr. Hume is to-night to bring the attention of the
House of Commons to our intervention in the affairs
of the Portuguese. He is to ask for copies of the in-
structions given to Colonel WYLDE. Liberal =m-
bin of Parliament cannot at in patience and es,
British interference, at first ostensibly undertaken in
Wolf of the oppressed liberals and an annihilated
constitution, now so suddenly' turned to crush those
vary liberals, whom we admitted to have had just
caw of discontent and even of insurrection.
At the same time, Colonel WYLDE'i has been a
&filcult and a delicate task. The British government
is bound to keep Donna MARIA on her throne. If
the insurgents insist upon conditions, menacing or
detrimental to the Queen's rights, the British repre-
sentative has no option. We have the highest
opinion of Colonel WYLDE'S talents and discretion.
But we fear that he has been rather severe upon SA,
who had serious canna of complaint against Vointirs,
and fair grounds for attacking him.
Bat on the other hand we cannot admit the fairness
and justice of the demands of the Junta of Oporto.
We have read them with attention, and with all that
leaning towards them, which one has towards op-
pressed and injured men. But we mast say, that the
amendments and alterations demanded by the Junta
in the conditions signed by the Queen, are verbal,
puerile, and not worth standing out for. They do not
indicate a desire for amicable adjustment; but on
the contrary, either a fixed purpose of continuing the
war, or the design of preserving a hostile attitude in
order to satisfy their Miguelite allies.
Such motives do not command respect. The Portu-
guese liberals have a strong claim on the sympathy
and support of the British government and public.
But this does not entitle them to demand that the
sympathy and support should be pushed to extrava-
gance—to impose disgraceful and impossible condi-
tions upon the Queen. Our
.government has
made several very. great mistakes in this
business. The admission of the armed intervention
of Spain, not to put down MicueL, but whenever
British troops should land ;—this was a wrong ad-
mission, and will prove a most embarrsiming and per-
nicious precedent. Another error was, allowing •
dynastic or Coatis° interest to appear at all in the
matter. For this has been the main cause of the
mistrust and intractability of the liberal% as well as
of the sudden turn round of our own policy in Por-
tugal On their side, however, the Portuguese
liberals have also committed very grievous
errors. Their alliance with the Miguelites
was alone a step which they must have known to be
calculated to throw the greatest obstruction in the
way of a final arrangement. Let us hope, however,
that the junta of Oporto will not have proved intrac-
table, and that some means of accommodation will
have been found to prevent, what we should consider
unwarranted and disgaceful, the employment of
British arms, even in concert with those of France
and Spain, against Oporto. Sir CHARLES NAPIER,
we are glad to see, has nothing to do with it,

ONE of the most remarkable circumstances con-
nected with the Irish famine is the comparative
tranquillity of the lower classes. There has not been
that amount of disturbance which one might have
anticipated. The efforts of the Young Ireland party
to disturb and convulse the public mind, have been
attended with signal failure. They calculated that
the pastime of the populace could be roused ; and
dreamed of ruling the peasantry as they pleased.
Why is it that these violent tribunes, with Mr.
SMITH O'BRIEN at their head, and Mr. MEAGHER
haranguing without restraint, have been so powerless?
The answer is one which English electors should
remember. .

---The i&rals are in power, and by a acs gular combi-
nation of circumstances they are enabled to rule
Ireland, without recurring to the arbitrary measures
of a Wry cabinet. The liberals are able to come into
active communication with the great body of the
Irish people; a tory ministry would be utterly unable
to do so. Without having recourse to the army, or
the courts of law, Lord JOHN RUSSELL in a most
disaatrons crisis has governed the Irish masses.
He has won over many of their tribunes to
his service; be has hushed a score of their de-
claimers, and extingukhed without, a proclamation
many a meeting of cavillers at British power.
How comes this ? How is it, that, while in
1843 the Irish masses were on the brink of
rebellion, now in 1847 they are comparatively
docile? The problem finds its solution in the
facts that the men who move the Irish manse are
tractable with a whig cabinet, but agitating and im-
prieticable with a tory ministry in office. Sir Rome
PEEL, with his majority of ninety-one in parliament,
was scoffed at and upbraided by the monster meetings
of the repeslers. Lord J. RUSSELL, in a minority,
finds in bind no popular or national opposition to
his authority.
If to the social suff • of the famine we were
compelled to endure the and ferocious agita-
tion that have hitherto been identical with Irish
polities, our state of affairs would be more gloomy
than it ie. Political agitation has been laid in Ireland;
a vast body of organised obstroctives does not now
rival the government in power, all because a liberal
party has great influence in Ireland • the English
tories have none. Nor is this surprising when we
recollect the past polities of the two counties. We
would like to place this fact in its simple truth before
oar readers, as it would help in dedding whether it
be better to English interests that Pm or Russeu
should govern the empire at the present crisis.
From the fall of Lord NORTH 's cabinet in 1782,
down to the retirement of Sir It. FEEL in 1846, the
English and blab whip have acted in close concert,
and on one broadly-oonceived system of polities.
English opinion and English ideas of right have been
brought to bear upon the liberals of Ireland; while, in
return, the peculiar circumstances of 'lreland, and the
state of its partied, have been made familiar to the
English liberal leaders. This political union was
further powerfully augmented by the family ties sub-
sisting between the great liberal families in the two
countries, and it was made illustrious by the friend-
ships, ardent and sincere, that took place between
those master-spirits " dear heirs of fame," who like-
trated in these islands the clew of the last century.
The powerful whir peers, Lords ROCKINGHAM and
SHELBURNE, acted in concert with the Irish Sri te-
critic leaders, the CRARtemoirra and FONSONIMI.
The duel houses of the BENTINCKS and the OERAIe
DINES professed similar views on the two WOOdtiot.
Bemis, who oast the parts of the ROCKINGHAM mi-
nistry, and GRATTAN, the real moving power of the
CUARLKMONT interest, were firm friends. The
English whip had recruited their debating
forces by Irishmen of talent, Sir PHILIP
FRANCIS, General FITZPATRICK, and Colonel BARRE.
Thus the remarkable fact (overlooked by many poli-
ticians) was presented, that while the islands had two
different legislatures, their decisions were materially
influenced by one great combination of power and
genius, devoted to rational liberty and civilisation.
Between the English and Irish wings there were com-
mon principles and strong personal sympathies. The
records of political biography contain nothing more
beautiful than the affecting letters between 13eRire
and GRATTAN upon the death of the former's son.
Thus, in the hastiest review, we perceive that the
lines of ADDISON to the whip of his time, are equally
applicable to their more celebrated successors:
•Lhryfr=eit's pr"sul'f:" bYol:=7"t'
Om the plot lkk, of demre thee rel.,
Proms {wog-gnat Pah, and freet•dgAip'a holy rip.

For nearly seventy ion fie iirltip :of t—
end Ireland have professed similar principles. 'II,
have bean attached to the esthetic -question—to con-
stitaticsal reform—to freedom of the press—to the
furtheranee of the irreatest liberty compatible with
order sod the stability of the empire. The result is
betas assess at the present day.
To every party Ireland presents a social difficulty •
Ma to a esanaTative minister it is riot only a social,
bt else phlitial, difficulty. And the reason is,
besimas Item the days of Ptrr to Peen the
AO& helms or conservatives never exerted any in-
inemseivertheir nominalallies in Ire Lind. Between the
Lee and Irish tories, there never was any alliance
or dose union imilar to that which prevailed amongst
the whip. Mr. PITT never actively interfered with
the management of Irish affairs ; he left Ireland to its
oligareh_y and its "miserable monopolising minority"
—the Protestant Ascendancy. Ile left the country
to his Viceroy, and the Irish landlords and borough-
When the Union took place, and when he
immeelVaght into close junction with the men who had
been his allies in Ireland, he was much surprised.
His disgust and indignation at Lord Chancellor
CLARE have been recorded by WILBERFORCE, and
there are still living witnesses who could testify to
Mr. Pirr's reprobation of the Irish tory party.
It is remarkable that Sir ROBERT PEEL, in his
conduct towards the tories, has followed the example
of Mr. Pirr in doing nothing with them, except,
perhaps, expressing to a chosen friend his disgust at
their narrow views and selfish obstinacy. Mr. PITT,
sided by the war, and acting on some hints by the
drat Marquis of LANSDOWNE, built ups vastparlia-
=eatery combinatioa in England ; but he never
sought to mould the Irish tories to his own superior
views, or assist them with his intelligence. In
the same way, after the Reform Bill, Sir ROBERT
PEEL laboriously constructed his conservative party ;
he took no notice of the Irish tories. He left them to
their insular ignorance of the state of Europe, to their
local bigotry,. religious and political—to their half-
stifledOrangemm—and to their hereditary antipathy
to the catholics of Ireland. When the "No Popery
cry was raised against the hiELBOURNE cabinet—when
O'Suit.tv.tri and Mcsause embittered society. in Dub-
lin with certain disgusting charges against the
teachers of Roman Catholic doctrines—Sir ROBERT
PEEL stood calmly by, and appeared to feel no inte-
rest, one way or the other, about Irish tories It wee
in his power (who can doubt it ?) to have influenced
the course of the Irish protestants ; he might have
made half of them conservatives : he preferred to
leave them to themselves, with their retrospec-
tioas of ascendancy, and their hostile antago-
nism to the mass of the Irish people, in-
cluding the middle classes. He made public
demonstrations in Scotland and various
of England, but he kept aloof from Ireland, though
one might have 'opposed that even curiosity might
have tempted him to visit its shores, and witness the
changes since he was its youthful, and, we are bound
to add, its able and intelligent, though sectarian, Chief
Secretary. He trained up a school of young states-
Met 4w England,—Lord DALHOUSIE, Mr. SIDNEY
11.111 BERT, Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. CARDWELL, and
others; bat he carefully avoided noticing any of the
Irish tory politicians, whether old or young. Hence
Sir ROBERT PEEL and his party have no ties in Ire-
land. There is in that country no combinatioa of
distinguished persons ready to place themselves in
conjunction with him.
It is for those reasons that there is not a vestige of
a Piot. party in Ireland. It is now too late for him
Ito make one. He should have done so years ago—in
1833 and 1834, or while Lord MELBOURNE Was in
power. Hence, Ireland is to Sir R. PEEL a great
political difficulty. He could only govern it by the
army—and by the sheer force of the British authority
used in its most naked way. That moral influence
which the English liberals possess over the
Irish leaders, he OM never hope to obtain.
While the whip are in power, Irish popular
leaders of various grades in society, and of dif-
ferent mental powers, can be turned into place-
men " all tranquillity and smiles." This appetite for
piece amongst persons who would fain have us be-
lieve that they " are bursting with heroic rage," is
doubtless very ridiculous, we may add, contemptible.
But we am not responsible for the idiosyncracy of the
hishpspillee put y. It is enough for us, as &ilia-
man.l4 lnaaw that in Ireland it is held to he dispose/el
kr (*than and popular polititians to accept plum
from a sumervative cabinet, while under a wing mi-
nistrythemoeptance of office is compatible with honour.
From 1841 to 1846, Sir R. PEEL was able to de-
bauch only one Irish whig or liberal of any note,
while of the agitators reduced to tranquillity by
Lord I. RUSSELL in a few months " their names are
legion!"
Table wits and idle jokers may laugh and sneer at
such a state of things, but men of the world, con-
versant with life, will see that the whip have moral
power in Ireland, when the popular leaders are so
ready to help and assist them in preserving the peace.
If the tories were now in power, all the old and dis-
gusting sores of Irish politics would be ripped up.
The peculiar awkwardness of Sir R. Peet's position
is the absence of a conservative Tarty in Ireland.
When he is in power the Irish aitlice are placed
under the immediate authority of their tory squires.
It is the old ascendancy once more upon their
shoulders. No wonder that they become violent and
difficult to rule.

We reckon it therefore a great gain to the empire
that at each a crisis in Ireland, the whip should have
power. The circumstances of the country would be
more gloomy if the tonics were in office. We may
perhaps return to this subject again.

Our Paris corresponds's°, of Friday and Saturday
Las arrived.
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Petitions have poured into the Chamber in favour
of postage reform from all quarters. The manifest
advantages of this administrative and axial improve-
ment were made still more manifest by the speeches
of M. Dufaure and other leading members of the
Chamber. Their reasoning was unanewerable and
unanswered. The proposition was, however, met by
the dogged silence -of M. (kind and the invincible
inertia of the pair ty whom he leads ; and in a house
of 349 members the measure of postage reform was
rejected on Thursday evening by a majority of 25.
The " pacific promenade" of Marshal Bugeand
through the territory of the Seeks, es the Moats
I insisted on calling this military exSalme been
I already attended with the resells frees it.
The unoffending inhabitants of the &bid
Imre bepn ennearl in defence of their Aside, Boehm, gad'
dwellings, and engagements have taken place near
Bougie, in which the French troops have sustained a
lees in killed and wounded, the amount of which is
differently stated. According to the Debate, 67 of
the French have been killed and wounded. According
to the Seek, four Akers are among the !killed • sad
the lame journal says that a telegraphic dups.& has
brosottothegorienment thole that 126 men
laeem lulled, and that the expedition has reached
Bougie. The Dilmste adds that three villages have been
burned on this " pad& promenade," sad the other
say, that rivers of blood of the Kabyles have
'ilig Bowed. The tribes are represented as having been
ultimately forced into submission. Indeed, a tele-
graphic despatch received in Paris on Saturday,
no doubt of the submission of the whole of

The meet remarkable feature about these proceed-
'rigs is the fact, that the chamber had previously
passed a vote, disapproving of the expedition, and
refusing the credit demanded for it, and the minis-
ters, themselves, refused to advocate it. The governor
of Algeria, however, makes very little account of
either the ministry or the chamber.
The Duke of Montebello, late ambassador at Naples
and recently appointed Minister of the Marine and
Colonies, has arrived in Paris.
The season continues to afford the most gratifying
prospects for the harvest. The temperature is, fee
this period of the year, unusually high. On Friday,
at noon, the thermometer, in the shade, was at 86/
deg. ; and at two, p.m., it nee to 90 1-3 deg. With
this temperature is the day, is alternated rain at
night, sometimes accompanied by atmospheric com-
motions. On the night between Friday and Satur-
day there was a smart thunderstorm, succeeded by a
heavy fall of rain.
Advicm from Vienna say that a cabinet courier had
been despatched from that city for Constantinople,
bearing despatches to the Austrian ambassador at
the Porte ; the result of which, it is said, must be the
submission of the Greek government to the demands
for satisfaction, especially when, as appears from the
letter of our own correspondent at Constantinople,
which we give below, even France is compelled to
accede to the views of the other powers.

The journals and correspondence of Madrid of the
23rd and 24th ineL have been received. The Queen
returned from Aranjaez, and arrived at Madrid on
the evening of the 24th. The King was still at the
Pardo, but it was understood that he would return to
the palace at Madrid as soon as he shouldbe informed
of her Majesty's arrival in the capital. The journals
did maintain the controversy respecting the cause of
the state of personal estrangement, which unhappily
prevail' between their majesties. Fine distinctions
are drawn between conjugal rights, which are con-
oeded to all husbands, and the constitutional rights
which are inseparable front the person of the sove-
reign. The King Consort surrounds himself with the
Moderado party, and lends his ear to the French am-
bassador. The Queen, on the other hand, leans to the
Progreasistas or Liberals, and would favour a policy
more in harmony with England.
El Eco del Coniereio has the following
The first days of the union of Queen Isabella with Doe
Francisco de Avis were happy ones. The royal pair (mays
that journal) seemed satiatled with the mutual marks of
affection they mandated towards each other. Since then
the Want Don Francisco has been deprived of the society of
a brother who was dear to hint, and of a sister who shared
all his afflictions, and for whom he entertained the ethernet
affection. A foreign intrigue found it necessary to isolate
the prince, so that nothing should deter him from giving ear
to pernicious counsels. The genius of evil has seized hold of
two youthful beings who might make the happiness of the
nation. It was au important point tcr the diplomacy mized
up in these affairs, that the Queen of Spain should have no
issue ; that the prince chosen for her husband should not be
happy, and that despair should fall heavily on their existence
to make way gradually tor the sou of Louis-Philippe to the
throne of Spain. We beseech Don Francisco de Awls to
tear away the bandage that has been placed upon his sight:
he will find hia.self surrounded by the enemies of his
mother and of all his family, who wish to snake Spain a
feudal possession of France.
A private letter of the 23rd, from Madrid, is quoted
by dakplanis Messenger as follows :
A report is current to-day in the best circles that the king
has consented to return to Madrid to receive the queen, who
it appears is to arrive on the Zith, and to reside with her
constantly.
M. Bragnelli, the Pope's nuncio, was expected in
Madrid on the 2.lth.
On the 24th, a meeting was held at theßank of St.
Ferdinand, to which all public creditors were invited,
in accordance with the royal decree of the 13th April.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Mar 12.
Despatches have been received at the Perte from
Soleyman Pasha, the Turkish ambassador at Paris, which
tend to confirm what I had predicted in a former letter.
These despatches state that a great change has taken place
in the sentiments of the French cabinet relative to the dif-
ference existing between Greece and Turkey. Soleyman
Pasha says that he can with certainty attribute this change
to certain cemmunicatMns which have been made by the
Russian envoy at Paris to M. Guizot. The Turkish ambas-
sador's despatches give the details of an interview which he
had wih the Minister of Foreign Affairs, of which the
memorandum lately sent to the different courts of
Europe formed the subject. In this interview M.
°Meet mid that ho had carefully perused the memo-
randum of the Porte, that the resume there given
of the misunderstanding existing between the Turkish and
Greek cabinets p.eerueer to him to be correct, and that the
reasons put forward by the Sultan's ministers for the conduct
they had pursued in that affair were "Ira plausible." Be
requested a day or two to reflect on the matter, and he said
he bad little doubt but that the determination to which the
French government was lisely to come would be each as to
give satisfaction to the Porte. Soleyman Pasha concludes by
saying, that the French steamer expected here on the 14th
hist., will bring instructions to M. de Bourqueney relative to
the conduct which he ought to pursue in the present ques-
tion, and that he has good reason to believe that these in-
structions will be of similar import to these already received
by Mr. Wellesley and M. d'Oustinoff on the same subject,
from their respective governments.
The effect produced rte the Turkish council by these des-
patches was one rather of misgiving than satisfaction. They
fear an alliance between France and Russia, to the exclusion
of England ; they fear • unity in the operations of the two
most powerful and most untiring enemies of their country.
Weeks since, it was predicted by one of the most enlightened
members of the Turkish cabinet, that some such event as
this would take place. That England, as she had done in
the Syrian question, and in every other question is which
she has been engaged, would remain true to her word, and
pursue her object to the end. That Russia, whom chance
alone has allied with her in the present affair, would abandon
that alliance the moment her interests pointed to such a step,
and that whatever sacrifices the policy of Great Britain
might entail, would be supported by her alone, whilst
the advantages accruing from it would be appropriated by
her natural rivets. Of the policy of Russia in the Bale,
there has
of late, as it has been totally undisguised since the arrival of
M. d'Oustinoff at Constantinople, and the policy of France
is now equally well understood by the Turkish ministry. I
do not make these statements for the purpose of flattering
the British public. In this I merely repeat the words of the
leaders of the Turkish government, not expressed in official
communications to ambassador, and their dragomans, when
their sincerity is doubtful, but uttered in the fulness of the
heart to those of whose friendship they are assured. The
anticipated measures of the French government in the pre-
sent quation will at least have this good effect, that it will
show beyond all future doubt the little reliance which is to
be placed upon their word, sad that the France which in
1840 abandoned Mehemet Ali, is the same that ts-day throws
overboard its protege, Coletti. The Porte has never had the
slightest confidence in the professions of Russia in the
difference between them and Greece. The Turkish minis-
tent, with more penetration than the British representative
here, saw that the alliance between England and Russia
was one of chance and not of principle, and that it would be
abandoned by the latter power fur one more congenial to its
interests the moment an opportunity offered. It was known
at the Porte that simultaneously with the emperor's loan to
the Bank of France, M. d'Oastinoff, in consequence of in-
structions from his government, made amicable overtures to
M. de Bourqueney. The Porte also saw the duplicity with
which Russia war acting towards themselves in the same
question. At the very moment that M. d'Oustinoff was
protesting against the conduct of the Greek cabinet
through his agents, he was assuring the Greeks of his sup-
port and countenance in any emergency ; that Greek vassals
should have permission to hoist the Russian flag in case of a
suspension of commercial relations ; and if a war were to
break out, that Greek subjects residing in Turkey would be
taken under Russian protection. It was said yesterday at
the Porte that the rumour of the Greek cabinet having de-
termined to give the satisfaction required, was unfounded.

ITALY.—Some disturbances have taken place at
Leshiwn on the publication of the decree relative to the
press. The people cried, " Long live the Grand Duke!"
and then went to the house of the Austrian Coanl, oar!
shouted, "Death to the Austrians I " The Governor
theirte which had been projected for the 13th in hussar al
the Pope's birthday ; but notwithstanding, the people anew
Ned in crowds, and shouted, " Long live the Pope I " Lon
lire Italy " " Down with Austria! " The dragoons halm
he nlUd oat to disperse the assesiblisie.
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PRUSSlA.—SiLesui.—Aocipturr TEI Slut-
sun RAILWAT.—A letter from died list May,
lays : Yaw... May morning ea eetwned es ewe of
the trains ea the kw& Mae whisk *aim esw tows te/Laiesr•
Plehhesulls Whs. Sur apadoe hum the woke at hie be
the tassellitir sole& et the Priam Chasela (a Baselea),
whisk wee ea a Week, and it was witirsiy dieheyed, with all
the valuables it entaiaed ; saweept ether Weep two packets
ot Aweriat beak wet's, sad a pereien ef the wardrobe of
i4.l=l7.—ilfisiaapin, Mai 14.—The dime et the
Great Duchy bee jut adaeledAhe 10.011 et Ivy ef the
seeestwe SAMISEM, UM Nina UMMUMI Orlon of
memo of Tomei to the mem mime*
deaf med Darby. The imam** is to oseaateate Iron the
let imam zest.

VIntNA, MAY 19.—A govenmoust
emir isit on the Mk for Constantine&mstbe.
beam et relative Se Se Turbo-Omsk
The Duke Bersleanz was an the of leaks llama
for Venice. Prime Angestne et bed
arrived on a vWt, acampumiad by Ids ,
Clementine, a daughter of the King tithe French. Prlaear
MAY 22.—ACCIDENT ON MR GERMAN NORD-BARN.
—At a quarter to one, am. (says a letter from Vienna),
In the 20dt inst., the train from Brannan came in collision
with the mein meting from Hundenburg. The violence of
the shock canoed the instantaneous death of two stokers and
an engineer. One of the conductaurs had his arm fractured,
and another assistant was wounded. None of the pareagere
were hurt. The damage occasioned to the two engines is
estimated at 4,E001.

MOROCCO.—The following letter keen Tangiers,
dated the 16th, appears is the Comfier Memel : —" All I
ham mid ia my lest letters on the imams, et the embassy
to
`oldames, ea the wettest of the Rmlwir Abd-el-Hader,
wl ta meta essinmatiam. ik kw days ago we re-
coiled iwt=wwe gmat pieties oldie Rif had revolted
Abler-Ilabeema, and proclaimed Abd-el-
=whim The Inge east Is We retaliation hare
boa owepletely bola by the Illikara. who
lea nearly talent primmer iaii Bram, tar emir
taoioet of this xpedition who hai just wag Laid
Dew Ake. This rewhatheseyneawnent
awl the um. et the Beal Amara, anunset whontrAla
Law, takes the lead. All this dissamearts our repressaia-
den, who thew find all their promisee so the goeseemeat
delisted, putiederly their amaraame that Ahil-damisr
hat ao looser any mit was Islay without power to
haunt say are fa imam I have hand arm a
piths souks that Atxl-ellterler kr lately received
aemswitila from Gibraltar to hinge quantities, andel
plant NM b a condition to teaks a plat at Algerian be
lads it his Interest. Of this we may be amend ha will
&veil hanself, on the fiat opportunity for 116=111111 buy-
lion, sad will endeavour to surprise some w Ishatied
poet, in order to give himself the Eclat of Wk. Owed a I
first victory, and thus increase the real and
of his
partisans. About a month ago there arrived here anUn-
man, who wished to go into the Rif and confer with Abd-el-
Hader. Not being able, from some reasons, to undertake
this journey himself, he charged another Englishman with
the mission. He had been formerly privets secretary to
the English Consul, a roan 'of resolution and well-
acquainted with the country. This person act out for

Tetuan accompanied by some other Englishmen, under the
pretence of gouts on • sporting party. But the Fresch con-
ed on the following day was informed of their real objeet,
and sent Wan express to Kaid Aehech, governor of Tetesst,
making his acquainted with the fact, and giving himorders
to use every means in his power to stop theta on their way.
The poor governor of Tette= was thrown into • state or
great perplexity, not knowing what to do to prevent Eng-
lish subjects from travelling. He sent for the party
communicated to them the despatches he had received:
, and as he wee known personally to the leader, informed
him that, if he persisted in his intention, he, the gover-
nor, would be seriously compromised with the emperor.
The English consented to continue their journey by sea
and Kidd Achach put a boat at their disposal. But the gee:
tlereen, nut wishing to make their object known to all the
world, contrived to get themselves conveyed to Ceuta, and
thence to Gibraltar, where they hired a boat to carry them
to the ltif. I must mention that before they undertook this
journey, they had written to Abd el-Kader. On lan ,ding
the Englishmen found four guides waiting for them wiat
between 400 and .500 horsemen ready to escort them Limy
miles up the country, where they found Abd-el-Koder, and
were presented to him. He received them with all possiwe
honours, and, admitting them into his tent, treated with
them on wveral important affairs. They were more then
content with their reception. This at least is the account is
circulation."

DUTCII EAST INDIA ISLANDS.—The Hague
journals of the 27th contain intelligence from Java to the
31st of Muth. In the month of February there were very
heavy and continued rains in the residence of Semarang,
which caused great inundations. and interrupted the coni..
munication between the capital and the interior. 17„4,
these circumstances, the price of rice had risen very comb
derably in Semarang. On the 20th of March, at halt.pana
seven in the morning, there was a short but very violent
shock of an earthquake at the capital of the residency, sad
on the lame day a very great column of smoke rose from the
crater of Mount Slams. From Timor, under date of 27th
I August, it is announced that the rice harvest in the district
of Babson, which is considered as the storehouse of Kos.
pang, had entirely failed, so that the crop. which generally
amounts to 3,000 pikers, does nut yield above 200 this year.