The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-15 00:00:00

GERMANY.

By last night's mail we have no papers from
Frankfort, Berlin, or Vicnr,a. From the subjoined
ahatrict of the latest Berlin intelligence in the
alatme Gazette, it will be seen that some unpleasant
MOVI molts had occurred in the Prue'ian capital on
the 9th and 10th of June ; not, however, of sufficient
consequence in themselves to warrant any serious
apprehension, but for the coincidence of the non-
appearance of the Berlin journals. The non-arrival

gistration Acts, namely, the necessity imposed upon of the Frankfort journals is also unpleasantly asso- paper, - •
the convectors—prom rters they are politely calker in ciated with rumours of anticipated disturbances in disappointed buyera and calculation", for, al hough
the acts—of these schemes, of appointing certain ape- that city on Whit Sunday, which had previously been it was known that large supplies had gone forward,
cified officers, de fining the powers of their governing received. From Vienna there is no reason to appro. there was some confidence that, once having started,
bodies, reed the objects and modes of scion of each hend any disagreeable intelligence. The only news the prices would be sustained and even advanced
particular scheme; and in the virtual publicity af- relating to the Austrian states in the Aligetneine by restored demand for the manufactured article.
forded by means of the returns required to be nee'e Zei,ere/ not previously received, is the postponement But the apprehension of war on the continent still
to the registration-effiee. There any one may inspect lof the meeting of the Provincial Diet of Bohemia. keeping down mercantile speculation and enter-
all these Matteis 14 a shilling. This is attributed to some scheme for weakening the prise, having, together with the large import, reacted
Within the last few years not a few bubble comps- authority of the meeting of the States General in upon the I.'verouol market, the rise in that of
vies have burs' whsle undergoing, or because they Vienna, by snaking the opening of the two assemblies Havre, to which the supplies had been so compara-
could not undergo, the positive but not very stringent take place on the same day. There appears, how- tively small, afforded little compensation for the fall
regulations of these statutes ; and one of the latest, if ever, to be something of excessive suspicion in this in
tendenc Liverpoo inl.
riThefo general result
and for here is adstuffs ; the declining
not the least, of such experiments on popular credu- conjecture. y prices n brea
lity, seems likely to share the same fate. PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, JUNE 11.—The state ot this latter must go still lower.
We have in ire than once referred to Mr. O'Coe- city has been very unsatisfactory both yesterday and The steamboat Halifax burst her boiler on the
Nou's scheme for a land lottery, which he designates on the preceding day. A debate commenced on the 23rd while passing through the locks at Augusta,
the '• National Lat.(' Company," and which is now Bth in the Constituent Assembly on the motion of M. (Me.), and three persons were killed, and some were
undergoing the ordeal of an inquiry into its merits by Berends, " that the assembly, in acknowledgment missing or injured. The accident was attributed to
a select committee of the House of Commons. of the revolution, resolves to enter on its minutes a racing.
Goaded by the murmurs of his subscribers, and declaration that the citizens who took up arms on the The dates from the city of Mexico are to the Bth of
the openly-expressed suspicions of hie opponents 18th and 19.1 of March have deserved well of their May—from Queretaro to the day preceding. Congress
amongst the working classes, Mr. O'Coseoe, after country." The debate was adjourned, and on the oth was organised—a quorum having been formed—and
=eh delay, sought to place his scheme under the pro- the order of the day was carried as an amendment on actually engaged m business. The commissioners
tection of the law. First he tried the Friendly So- the motion by a majority of 196 to 177. Both in the from the United States were still in Mexico, but it had
cieties Act ; but Mr. MEDD PRATT, the certifying provinces and in the assembly the motion was gene- been arranged with the government at Queretaro
barrister, found the scheme open to objections which rally regarded as highly objectionable. The revolu- that, as soon as their presence was required in that
excluded it from the purview of those statutes. Then tion was actually accomplished before the 18th of city, they should proceed thither with an escort of 60
Ix our comment last week upon Lord ASHLEY'S Mr. O'CoNeon tried the Joint-Stock Companies March, and the barricades of that date are dragoons as a guard of honour.
proposal to grant a limited number of free passages registry-office, where his project has been provi- generally believed to hate been called into exist- General Scott is said to have expressed his convic-
ts) the colonies annually to some of the most pro- eionally registered. Whether it can ever be com- ence by an unlucky mistake. At least the severest tion that the treaty of peace will be ratified. A eon-
mising pupils of the ragged schools, we adverted to . pletely registered is a matter which yet remains in reformers believe it better to take for granted firmation of this was hourly looked for in New York
the advantages this country might derive from sys- I doubt. But in the meantime Mr. O'CoNson has pre- this view of the case, and not perpetuate embitter- when the Caledonia left.
tematic colonisation. rented a bill to parliament for the express purpose of ment and distrust by further inquiry. They prefer From Yucatan it is stated that the temporary truce
The establishment of a good system of colonisation legalising his scheme, and it is that measure the se- basing their constitutional rights upon a contract concluded between the leaders of the Indian hordes
will be no less difficult than it is important and lest committee we have mentioned is now limes- gracefully entered into, to attributing them to a civil and the Yucatan chief, lasted but a little time, and the
urgently needed. The use of the term systematic .igating. We have no doubt that the report of the broil, however brief and local in its sphere of action. warfare or rather massacre anddevastation on the part
implies superintendence and direction -of course on committee, anci the evidence taken before it, will be The minority of 177 ismd to include many who of the Indians, almost unresisted by the whites, were
the part of the government. Yet in colonisation, sufficiently strikirg and instructive. entertain this view; who voted against the of the
with all their horrors. The accounts from
quite as mach as in any other industrial exertion, it In the meantime, it may not be amiss to order of the day because they wished an explicit Sisal are to the 10th inst., and represent the condi-
is indispensable that a large latitude of free play place before the public a brief statement of negative ; others who wished the allusion to tion of the whole peninsula of Yucatan as helpless and
should be given to the enterprise and inventive talents the objects, the regulations and present state the barricades expunged ; but more desirous deplorable, and only one vessel of war, a Spanish
of :host private individuals who engage in it. In of the scheme. Having been provisionally re- of avoiding, a vague vote that could expose to sue- brig, is spoken of as off the coast.
what manner, and how far government can gistcred by the name first, of the " Chartist Co- picion the sincerity of their attachment to the In Oregon Indian massacres have been perpe-
take part in the enterprise without incurring operative Land Company," then as the " Na- revolution. It is not, however, the vote of the As- treed, and the mission settlement in the Walla-
the reek of diverting the efforts of the colonists into tional Co-operative Land Company," it finally as- tremble, but the scene which ensued out of doom that Wallah valley rendered desolate. The chief of the
other than na'urnl channels, e inseiring them with an awned. in D:c• mber, 1846, the title of the "National effords ground for alarm and regret. The doors of mission, Dr. Whitman, his wife, and some I'2 other
unhealthy dispositim to trust more to external aid Land Company." The directors of the company arc the building in which the Assembly meets had been white American settlers had been massacred, The
than their own iu-born ruourcee, is a question of the Mr. MOYNOR himself, Mr. THOMAS CLARIiE, and at. 'whiled at an early hoar by a dense crowd, which cause of this tragedy is laid to the doctor's 1113BUCCCS8-
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