The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-27 00:00:00

to re
habit the town, exacted some 1,200 dollars from the says Mr. FRANCIS Baows, in his evidence before
inhabitants, and,
on re-enibarking fired a side at Mr. Iticanpo's committee, " was enforced by the ,
the town. The alleged object of these; violent pto- (fall of Dimmers thavegbent the whirls of India, was
esediegs was to recover some hundred themmnds of %make it impseeible for say Brieish merchant, or
dollars due to British merchants. , . astriative 'mordant, to trade with a foo4ner." The
1 Oa the 16th of the earns mouth we have a.= nt'bition was some few years afterwards repealed,
what Moiler scene enacted eit air Limed of solar as coneented Britialt!sad native ships, but the
la the Gulf of Couchette* (on the -Pacifie posit of double tine on imports and *sports in foreign
Honduras), also at the itstigation of Mr. CHATFIELD. TONI& wu continued until an act plumed by
Au armed force was there landed front the British the preset Governor-General in council, on the
war-stessor Gorgon, which pulled down the lion- 4th of March, 1848, opened, so far as the
dame flea and heisted the British. The pretext for Comploy were °weenie& the teed* with India
ihit file sonspinen of territory was the sou- en equal terms to the ships of all nation. This act
satisfastisa et the skims of certain British subjects came into force on the pith of March in the same
by the Ho
t; bat inter proolama- year. But it in no way keened the restrictions in-
non already te, it is stated that the emontander posed by oar navigation laws on the trade with India.
of the liorgea intimated " that the government of It could still be carried on direct only in our own
Mr Britannic Majesty soateeipbated, if nearamiry, the ships; and the 17th clause of the Bth and 9th Vio-
of other measures—that is to say, that even tons, esp. 88, emoting that the native smilers
lion
daises main by the consul were satisfied, he of British India were not British seamen, still made
weld still fed it seaway to take the course be it practically impomilde for ships so manned to trade
bee adopted.° with England. In our ports the Lascars were held
This saber mdgmatioal seetenes refers to what is to be, though British subjects, foreign sailors, and the
the meet d though not the most discre- ship must take another crew on board before
&table part the 'Air, inasmuch as it brings she could clear outwards front our porta or from
as into cobbles with the government of any port in our oolouies ; and as native Indian
the United States. Mr. Mamma) had previously ships were British ships, and Lamers foreign
intimated to the Honduras authorities his intention to milers, our act shut these vessel' out from
lay bold of the lama of e, in order to establish all participation in foreign trade, so that the eoly 1
a lim on it, as a security for debts doe to British beyond-end trade in which they had any peat was
subject& The Modems government, aware of their in carrying cotton to China and rice to lUurilles,
own incapacity to withstand the skt British from both which places (there being but little back-
force, resolved to theniside Berlenr the
An ward freight from Canton, and Mauritius being a
tion of the united' States. Misr
ames, the Ante. British colony, from which, therefore, they could 1111 t
sim„ envoy in these countries, who has been zit clear with a crew of Leocals), they bad to return
blies with Mr. Man= about Mosquito almost entirely in ballast. Lord Deenomnz's Act
and the Nicaragua Canal, desired no better ; he prepared the way for India to reap the full benefit of
accepted what the Hosannas minister calls e • de. the abolition of our navigation acts.
posit of the Island of Tigre, and on the 28th of Sep It was given in evidence by the late Capt. loot, ,
timber formally notified tot,
the diplomatic agents of who had Uog laboured to have the British Indian '
all countries in Central America that " the Island of sailors acknowledged as British seamen, that they
Ilgre. in the Golf of Fonseca [or Conchagual his were active, able, trustworthy sailors. He had even'
been ceded to the Unitedt States of North Anne in midwinter and stormy weather brought a vessel
ries, by the republic o Honduras, far the time manned solely by these men to safe ancliorage in
pending constitstionid action, epee an existing eon. Portsmouth, and sixty of that native crew remained
Teatime between the two repai- ." Mr. &WIEN in this weary far ten years without suffering any ill
added, that " speedy possession " would be table in effects from the climate-
the name of the Usated State& that the existing pert But whether these Indian country 'hips and nee
end ether montions in tee island %meld remain en. tive seamen trade with this country or not, the new
altered, and that the United States would not look Me ovens a wide field to them of commercial enter-,
whey can trade henceforth with our Australian
with indiffersoos on " soy ineasere which shall affect Prise-
the minting cede of things " in Honduras. In the colonies and New Zealand, with Mauritius direst,
he
et this iodisation lir. Cumin]) carried his between the fast rising colony of Natal and the Mae•
meshy into execatioo, and Mr. &WIWI has appealed ritius. They can carry cotton and ries to Canton, and
he egged to his government, and is endesvoanng to tea from thence to the West Indies and the United
sdr mei Repair excitement against Great Britain, in States. They can carry coolies to Jamaica,
dm Wan 13tatse, by means ot the press. sugar to Marseilles or Trieste, and retina
'De really serious practical qaestion now at thence with assorted mess of manufactured goods
Imo is between England and the United Bites. to Oaken& or Bombay.. But most important of all to
Die proneeding to remark upon it, however, these ships is the growing intercourse with the Paci-
me wet be allowed to observe that the violent Bee " beetle numbers of Chinese labourers (says ear
and domiseering deport= rot of British officers, New York correspondent) are now brought to San
cavil and military, towards the feeble govern- Francisco ; their appearance there is hailed with ices.
meets of Central Metric' is Trost eiscreditable and a promising trade is opening with the East
to this country. 'lb. 180,000 square miles of that Indies." 1
country is wh
ich
le by a population of some two First in position to carry these emigrants, and take
minions, of which lees tt an 300,000 are whites, and advantage of this trade, are the native country ships
lie is Wit up into haien_dosen states, constantly and native seamen of India. There are no better sea-
squabblMg with each other. It is degrading. to ring ships than those of native Indian build; they
a power hire England to disregard, in its transactions est longer than any other ships afloat. The native
wilLI
sacy
whirr IttTitould be careful .lath those ids
observe
of com
toil and st!identlacrisphtsageve n:franerylackeopendiinngteLligftrierancrad energy
iust
the United States and France. There has been, there an be no doubt that this liberty to Indian
&whew, mach dishonesty and Awning in these shipping will speedily increase the commercial marine
sountries with regard to debts due to British sub- of India, and even now it is considerable. There were
juts,but the unfortunate Central American Govern. 65 ships of 36,000 tons belonging to Bombay alone,
have not always been in the wrong. The late and ten of these ships measured from 1070 to 1731
Menu DUNLOP. in his valuable work on: Central ton& Other native ports have also fine craft
America (published posthumously) throws light afloat-0011/0 of the best teak ships the Com-
upon the manner in which some of the claims of PanY owned in its trading days are amongst
British subjects against Central American govern- them, and as sound in their timbers and seg-
ments have been established. At p. 61 of the book worthy as ever. Bat the present trade is
referred to we read:— no measure of what may be expected for
At the request of Messrs. Medina and Oenl, I remained them Indian ships and sailors. There will no longer
a day at Ban Meisel te enable the latter to write
quiff be any difficulty in finding ships for native cotton, let
British sossal regardisg .the forced sistributions ri it only be grown and well prepared, and st the coast,
from' hie by the reen"eent, rertti V) the "tee" °I and there will always ba ready Meath for it to Eng-
tope do having been seised on his refusal to pay the
wiatrihation ; and as chi. INS part of souse roods pureireasd land and the other markets of Europe. Nor is it un-
by hi. from maw gnsiks inenstinin in Arapninian, be was likely that it should on the construction of a railway
&amides to make it appear as Briti-h property, and as each or water-passage across Panama be, with other Indian
to meter a claim through her Britannic Majesty's consul- and China produce, carried largely by na.
general. tive ships to San Francisco, and thence'
The embroilment of the British and United States onward in our own and other vessels of 1
agents in these countries, however, has in reality little the west and north. Be that as it may, a sh in 1
or nothing to do with the question of justice to the the carrying traffic of the world lies open Wieseo
governments of Central America. It M a continua- Indian ships. There is need that some measures
dos of the antagonism between them, arising out of should be taken on the spot to emancipate the seamen ,
the disputes about the construction of a ship canal from the grasp of the native crimp, who have them
from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific by the lake of in fact in a condition nothing short of slavery, and 1
Nicaragua. English and American adventurers demoralize them to the utmost in order to rob them of '
have been contending for the privilege of their wages. The would be no difficulty inn adeptin
making this canal, and each have enlisted their in India the plare n
of our act (p r °posed to g
rid ot
national representatives on their side, by giving the the like nuisance of crimps at home), to sea"
coatroverey the appearance of a national dispute. cfficers in the several ports, before whom all contrasts
When Mr. CHATFIELD proposed to occupy an island with seamen should be made, and to make all inter•
in the Gulf of Conehegua, upon which is situated one ference of the crimps illegal. This dose, we have no
of the alternative termini at the Pacific end of the doubt that the native built and native Manned com-
p rra canal, the jealousy of Mr. Sums was im- mercial marine of India will soon hold a leading place
niedimq slanted.slanted.He fancied (set unnaturally) at sea, and that Mr. RICARDO will be gratefully re-
that allaa a step was a mere preliminary to establish- membered there as having won for India the greatest
Zing on the part of Great Britain such a command of boon she has yet bad from England.
the Pacific termination of the • canal as was being
lean& to be established in the name of the Mosquito -------
Lag an its Atlantic termination. To avert this
=id encroachment he obtained from the
government a conditional or temporary
emirs of the island in question. The British Consul-
Goma and the American Envoy have
logratel and
culpably allowed themselves to be set at Leads
by the instigations of rivals for the job of ma ing the
penal; and they are now endeavouring to make their
respective governments Fortner' to the fray in which
the
have
It is to besitaredithat the Cabinets at Washington
end St. James's will evince mare of dignified aelf-
segimte more regard for the interests of the nations
Mires destinies they wield, and the peace of the
weld, than to allow themselves to be involved in so
miserable a squabble. Mr. ABBOTT Wrung made
a most satisfactory public, declaration with regard to
this same Nicaragua canal, and also the contemplated
Panama railway, at the dinner of the Se3ttish Hos-
pital last St. Andrew's day. He *sid—
le, hogged to say that Me United States asked tor no
alder privilogas in either of them tow. They would
ask this manta to submit* with themselves towards the
t of tame gnat objects. They would mit
SlG:stVikautabisto joist with *m in guaranteeing neutrality
et Mena in thaw great high_ways. Tea hay
uket far no ea
skim privileges, sad they lid sat moan to grant any. The
timitacy would be 'pea to all the world.
This is, we are confident, all that the British nation , 2 me pats .
r ei 11
wants; it is all that jostles requires iit is what coin- . . re 14 I :17451 el is
seem recommend'. We firmly believe that Mr.
Lemma= faithfully expressed the views of his
gommismiene sad that his government is sincere in its
prdmisa Odom views. We therefore confidently en-
=bat the siendwhich has been raised by the angry
of We CIISTITELD, and the somewhat head-
I Isms pulpsose of Mr. Simms, will be dissipated
1 by See obi Min of the administrations at Wash-
ington awl IIL Ism& It would be lamentable to
see mo smelt gevenumente precipitated into hostilities
under false pesances, at the urgency of a few private
spendaters.
his to be bugled that mama will immediately be
taken to reembeldish with the Central Americans the
character of Englishmen for justice and deference to
the rights and feelings of the weak, which recent
events have rendered somewhat questionable. As to
the United State., we trust that the cooler heads at
the head of affairs will allay the ferment excited by
their hot-headed employes.

FRANCE.

PARIS. WIDNISDAY, 11 A.M.
Very few journals appear this morning, on account
of Christmas. Those that do appear are completely
devoid of news.
Yesterday at the Passage de rOpera the Five per
Cents. were in demand, and closed at 921.30 c.
From Italy there is almost as little to notice. The
Turin Chambers, as late as the 22nd, were busy in
preparation only. The conservative candidates fn
the chair of the Assembly are Pinelli and
Bassompagni ; the democrats are putting forward
M. Pareto. The King has received Count dAppane
the new Austrian ambassador. The visit was not
official, nor for the pupae of presenting credentials.
On the 17th inst. at Home, Gen. &repay d'Hil-
Hers passed a review of troops goiog to relieve the
garrisons of Albano, Frascati, and Tivoli.
Our usual Paris parcel of yesterday evening did not
arrive until immediately before going to preen. It
contains nothing of sufficient importance to justify
delay.
son's..

PARIS, Mc. U.

rel. A• 110 Via.

ar
MFoney. Opening Highest. Lowat. Closing.
---- ---
II per Cala ... 66 63 56 60 SI 73 NI 60 NI 70
6 per Cats. 92 43 92 20 92 45 92 15 91 40
a do. New Lem ...eeee . n
14 par Oats. :4 nnn
4 ger Cana Si" 1,. .
labange on London : =Try) 10 days, 25 43; 10 Lye. 26 2.14-
Bari 4, 1640
5, 1942 994 ~ Roan Loan — ~
Do.um 11
~ Bask Shares
Bona. Pas and Orleans, 767 50 ; Paris and loses, 652 SO ;
Boson and Hews, 140; lassioneg ad Ban 116 73; Oates (Va-
nes), 321 26; Orleans ad Swam; 407 50; Nee* 456 25; Paris
sod assaarg. 254 7S ; Tars and Banta 276 26 ; Avignon and
gaseUles, 217 SO ;Versailles (right beak). 207 50; Do. (let bank)
166 7s; 140Otlefean and Troyes, 107 50; Boulogne and Arnim, 16250.

To no part of the world does the repeal of our fumi-
gation laws bold oat the Name prospects of advantage
as to our possessioos in India.
Up to the 25th of March, 1848, India laboured
under a double system of restriatiou. Whilst the
Company retained its exclusive commercial character,
, all ships, except its own, were virtually prohibited
from any trade with India. In 1815, the Ameri-
cans were, by special treaty with our government, al-
lowed to tradeurith the ports of Calcutta and Bombay.
At a subserkaent period, the like liberty was granted
to British ships. In 1819 the privilege was ceded to
Portugal, and at later dates to other countries, as the
Indian
.government continued to charge double duties
on all imports and exports in foreign bottoms, but
the privilege was practically of little value, and was,
in fact,:med almost alone by the Americans and Poe.
=nese. And even so lately as 1828 all native ships
ship, except their own were, in common
peithig2rdign ships, obliged by tlie Company So ry
issue dam on experts, whether to formgn
gob fro lay or to &egad or any
itims. lir opsestios it this net:idiom, 5=

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 27, 1849.

ALGIERS.

The ifogilesr .Algeriers of the 20th, states that the
last official accounts from Constantine of the state
of affairs in the sub-division of Bathos are patio-
factory. The chiefs of the Ogled Bohan, Ogled
Ali-ben-liabce, and other tribes, bad implored
pardon. General Herblik had returne
e, not thinking his
Femme any longer necessary, d
to Coo',tenant', and kit Colonel Canrobert to termi-
nate the submission of the tribes is the Bathos
trict. In the rest of Algeria all was tranquil. The
meet affairs in which the French have been engaged
at Z atolls, &a, cost them 19 officers and 300 soldiers
killed ; 61 officers and 600 soldiers wounded, end 200
men carried off by the cholera or fatigue.
The AkAbar of Algiers, of the 20th, anneaces the
arrival in that city of Mr. James Richardson, on his
t way to explore the interior of Africa. His under-
taking, which takes place under the auspices of the
Engliell government, la to be partly saisnulle, partly