The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1851.

equally effecteel plan would be to confine the new
fanctimaries to a paid Lord President, to require the I
Lord Keener, or political Lord Chancellor, as part
of his official duty to act as assessor in the clod
of appeal ; to require the same seivice in rotation
from all law lords avid Indian or other judges who are
in th•: receipt of retiring pensions ; and to impose the
like duty on certain of the acting common Low judges,
whom, time, it may be feitly expected, since the ex-
tension of the county courts jurisdiction, will be far
km occupied than heretofore with the routine bus:-
Dem of Westminster-hall.
By some sash plan se this an a4equate and efficient
• supreme court of appeal might be constituted with-
out increasing the judicial expenditute of the country
by more than the difference between the salary
et the proposed Lord President and that of the
additional Vice-Chancellor, whose serv:ces would
become unnecessary if this scheme were adopter', but
who is, on all hands, agreed to be ioevitable if the
present state of things bo allowed to continue.

THE correspondence between Mr. BENNETT'S
fr'enee and admirers and the Bishop of LONDON has
been published. On their part it is laboured and un-
satisfactory ; on his brief and inconclusive.
They appeal to the utter pecuniary ruin—to " the
deprivation of the means of subsistence "—which re-
s'i.goation will bring on Mr. BENNETT, he having
given his all to St. Barnabas; and they promise obe-
dience on his part to the bishop in all matters where
the law of the church leaves either ordinary or in-
cumbent discretion. He, having fortified himself by
prayer, and finding in their ratement " no suggestion
calculated to change or modify his opinion of the
princip'es which Mr. BENNETT maintains, and upon
which be has declared himself unalterably deter.
minedlto conduct the services in his churches," per-
shes in accepting that gentleman's resignation.
Whereupon, they inquire what they are to under-
stand by " the principles" so referred to as insuper-
able difficulties on the Bishop's part. Bud to this
knotty irquiry Dr. BeusfelEno " declines" giving
any reply. And so the matter rests ; the public being
left in ignorance whether Mr. BENNETT will resign
or not—a point the most unsatisfactory of all.
On this correspondence a few remarks only are
needful. And first, as to the appeal ad msericor-
dion made to the Bishop. Mr. BENNETT, it Deems,
eacauraged by the success of St. Paul's, by its
crowded congregaticns, and by their pecuniary libe-
-1 rally, has not only invested alibis fortune in St. Bar-
nuke, but is under heavy liabilities in respect of it,
its schools, and presbytery. St. Barnabas WAS then,
to some extent,a pecuniary speculation of the reve-
rsed gentleman's. Not, to be sure, in the eenee in
which the Stock Exchange speculates for a rise or
fall in consols ; but in laying out hie money on St.Bar-
'tabu, Mr.BENNETT sought a compeent return for his
inverement, a sufficient income, the means of gratify-
I log his charitable inclir.ations, the opportunity of in-
dulging his praselytieing seal, his love of power, and
hie ecclesiastical ambition. No doubt he imposed on
himself great labour, incurred serious responsibility,
and ran mach risk in transferring hie money from
the Three per Ceuta. to St. Barnaboe. But success
in St. Barnabas wou:d have repaid Mr. BENNETT a
hundredfold; it would have given him papal authority
ia Belgravia, might have workei a revolution in the
church of England, might have changed the fortunes
of this nation, and, at all events, would have made i
Mr. BENNITT " monarch of all he surveyed" in Pim-
lico. Such was the coup Mr. BENNETT threw ; in it
be has been disappcintel. A panic has overtaken
him just as it did railway speculators in 1847; and
he has no claim new to be helped out of his losses at
the expense of public sentiment end oeieion.
Far from us or our readers be the suspicion that
Mr. BENNETT is a mercenary men; that in thus
rashly venturing his all on St. Bernabas he was
meisly seeking there that 10 per cent. he could not i
get elsewhere. But, most certain it is, that Mr. BEN-
NETr and all his party ale darirg and ambitious
ecclesiastics; that they seek to deify a church of
which, when deified, they would wield the power as
its high priests; that its deification would con for on
them authority, influence, and as much mosey as they
want. And it is in this sense Mr. BENNETT spe-
culated in St. Banishes; and having in that specula-
tion failed, be may be the object of our pity, but he
has co claim whatever to our sympathy. Fur in the
failurc of him and hiP, list our eat ty. All we can,
therefore, do for him is to recommend him to the care
and attention and benevolence of Sir JOHN HARRING-
TON crd the Belgravian ri,nalists ; warning them,
however, that if a sub cription be opened, emelt will
be the contribution of their neighbour, the Bi-hop of
Oiroeu.
01 his friend's reclamation to the Bishop, this must
at least be said, that any thing differing more from
Mr. BENNETT's letter to Lord JOHN RUSSELL cannot
be imagined. That was bold, hee'oring, audacious ;
this is wheedling, humble, and coaxing. That was
the production of a mau who, to all appearance, would
not yield an itch even to Queen \ ICTORIA herself
arrayed in crown and sceptre ; this is the effusion
of people who will give up every thing for the sake
of teaming St. Beinaloss. Teat bore the spirit of an
e'BecerTr ; this wears the courage of a mouse. Tee
latter does not, it is true, bear the signature of Mr.'
BENNET!. But it speaks in his behalf, explains in
his behalf, promises on his behalf; and must be
assumed to have been writ en with his authority.
Now this antagoriem between the two docu-
ments gives a very unpleasant impression of
Mr. Bittern; for in the one he is found
insolent, where he could insult with impunity;
'in the other he is all submission in the presence of
authority. He blusters like a bravo before Lord
IJOHN Russell., and bend!' like a craven Mere the
Bishop of LONDON. Mr. IIExNETC is not, then, the
hero people took him for; but a true churchmaa,
after all.
Nevertheless, the offer made by Mr. BENNeTre
friends to the Bobi ip, placed his diocesan in a
dilemma. Mr. BENNETT will, they raid, obey big ,I
Bishop on every point on which obedience to hies
would not involve disobedlnce to the church. Asa
I
piece of dialect ice' this was a skilful position to take.
IFor throughout hie correspondence a ith Mr. BEN-
MITT, the Bishop, it will be recollected, had limited
his objections to the forms and ceremonies used
is St. II Inaba; and St. l'auhr•' it was the
practices there which, be feared, bad been carried too
far. If, then, Mr. BENNETT was willing to confine
himself strictle within the ritwl of the church and
its rubrics; end ii ho agreed tolet tie Bishop be jrnlge
of his con'ormey therewith—whet more could Dr.
BLOMFILLD, in his val for forms, deare, or want, er
wish? Logically, it is difficult to see how Mr. Bal-
een and his friends can be driven from this strong
position. If it was their ceremonies the Bishop
objected to; and if they consented to regulate their
ceremonies by the interpretation the Bishop placed on
the Prayer Bock, more could not be fairly demanded
Aud by the Bishop's acceptance of this offer' the dio-
cese would have had an opportunity of knowing
what it is he regards as most fitting in the church
services; and how it is he wishes them perfermcd.
The brief reply Dr. Bnourienn makes to this offer
is moat remarkable. Fort .eriy it was Mr. BENNETT's
ceremonies he objected to ; now, for the first time, it
is Mr. BENNETT'S "principles" that offend him. Here
is a sudden and a mighty change; a complete raven
lotion in the discussion ; a substitution is the issue to
be tried :
I find no sungmtion in that memorial calculated to chines
;.r modify my opiei.m of the pilciplee which Ur. Bennett
main•ains, sad upon which he has dee wed himself unal-
terably determined to conduct the services in his churches.
I au therefore under the pailful neeeesity, netwithstardinn
the stroeg sew* which I ent:rtsist of his goal and devoted.
new, of penistine in my acceptance or bil r.signatiOs.
No wonder this answer astounded Sir JOHN HAR-
RINGTON, for it cut away the ground on which he
was standing. He aud his depwation and his cotn-
fairies thought it was about forma the differences be-
tween their pastor and his diocesan had 'riser, aud,
Just as they had yielded everything on that hi ad, the
Bishop thrusts Mr. BENNeTT's "principles" into their
faces.
Bat "principles" is wily a word, and in itself a
mosainglem word; all that it conveyed to Sir JOHN
HARRINGTON is that Mr. BENNETT'S forms were
bored on somethreinorym So h
or beliefe vetharywunatoubtjaleeityiosenekbtlde
to Wallop BLOMFILLD.
the Bishop to sate affirmatively what the "prin-
ciples" were. Bat this Dr. BLOMFILLD refuses to do,
and closes the correspondence.
Now we know very well what unsound principles
Mr. Be:sever holds. We know that he teaches that
without an ictaliiale church no man can be a chris-
tier, that honour and respect are due to the cross,
that auricular cos tension is useful, that there is small
hope of salvation except at the hands and by the
interposition of a sacrificial inediatoeial priesthood,

that there is a real propene" in the sacramental
elements of the Lord's Supper, that the church of
England is a member of the mystical body caled the
church catholic; which is to be found nowhere, that
without epostolical succession there can be no proper
administration of the sacraments and such otter
Popish figments. These the public know are some of
his principles. Bat when the Bishop of LONDON ir-
sists on Mr. BENNETT resigning because of his
"principles," it is very desirable we should be told
to what and which of them the bishop objects; and
we cannot see the justice of condemning any man
because of his "principles," without tell ng him in
detail what the offending principles are. And this is
all the more imperative, because at present the pub-
lic is very imperfectly informed as to what the
Bishop's own " principles" may be.
We know Archbishop Scoriae's "principles," we
know Archb'shop WHATELY'S " principles," we
know Bishop TURTON'S " principle'," and we know
Bishop HAMPDEN'S " principles;" and how, and to
what degree, the " principles" of those prelates diff,r
from Mr. BENNETT. But wherein Bishop BLOM-
FIRED does dissent from Mr. BENNETT'S "
p:es" is not clear, and certain, and definite. And
until it be made so, this discussion between him and
Mr. lletiNerr cannot clGse, convenient though it may
be for the bishop to decline answering Sir Joits HAa-
RINOTON'S pertinent and proper inquiry.

FRANCE.

PARIS. WEDNIIIDA.T EVENING.
A great number of representatives repaired to the
Elyse(' yesterday evening, to offer their compliments
to the President on the occasion of the new year.
Among the first who presented themselves appeared
M. Lapin, accompanied by several memeers of the
bureau of the Aesembly. The conversation, a small
portion of which I sent you in my letter this morning,
and which took place between the President of .the
Assembly and the President of the Republic upon
this occasion has stirred a good deal of public atten-
tion, and is thus reported upon semi-offie:al authority :
M. Dupin—Monsieur le President, I bring you the sincere
wishes of the bureau.
The President—M. le Presidere, I receive the wishes
which you Ming me, and doubt not that they are sincere. I
is of importance that the good harmony of the priers should
not be interrupted in the difficult times which we liana to
traverse.
M. Dupin—All the acts of the Assembly, all those of the
harem are inspired by a ',Wound attachment for your
person, and the liveliest desire to preserve the union between
the two powers of the state.
The Presifent—l am willing to believe it, Monsieur le
President, since you tell me le. You and I, each within the
limits of cur atuibutions, ought to attach ourselves to mak-
ing the laws of the country and the authority given us by
the constitu• ion TO, peeled, without one power encroaching on
the other. I ass not tenacious' about the prolongation of my
powers, but I am anxious when I deliver up to the people the
power etti..ch I have received from it to return lit intact and
respected. My conviction is that France desires pose: and
order, and it will consider that of the two powers which
should attack the other us in the wrong.
M. Dupla—lt has always been in in our country. You
may rely upon the sentiments which I express to you.
The President of the Republic—lt is fortunate that there
an epoch. wh.ch separate, as it were, the peat from the
future. One era ham just finished—another consistences.
Let us hope !
After the representatives the President received the
members of the council of state. Earlier in the day
the President received the diplomatic body and the
clergy.
The President received this morning the ministers
and marshals, and in s =mien the several consti-
tuted bodies, closing with the army and navy.
The summary manner of the release of M.
Mauguiu from imprisonment is canvassed with
much earnestness. The order of M. Lupin, de-
legating M. Base to effect the release, autho-
rims bim to call in the public force to assist him
in executing his commission in cue resistance should
be offered. This authorisation rests on a somewhat
' questionable interpretation of the 31st article of the
constitute o, which allows the Assembly to " dispose
of the armed force, which is established for its secu-
rity, and for the maintenance of the respect
due to it in the place where it holdreits sittings." Uu-
questienably the intention of this article was to protect
the Assembly against those popular invasions, with
which it was so frequently threatened in the first year
of its existence, and one of which violated Its sitting
on the 15th of May. But it may be doubted if any
representative who was a party to the framing of
this article contemplated its application to the rescue
of a single member of the Assembly from the effect of
a judicial sentence. In the opinion of many the
Assembly has in this instance been guilty of a very
grave act of usurpatiou, encroaching no less on the
prerogative of the executive than upon the in-
dependence of the tribunals. It threatens, by
its organ, M. Dupin, to employ a force, which
the executive power is alone authorised to dis-
ese of, in order to reverse a judicial sentence.
Not content with making the law, it usurps the func-
tion of the judges in interpreting the law, and the
function of the government in executing its own in-
terpretation of the law. Such is the position into
which the Assembly has put itself, and which will no
doubt need very serious elimination Wrote it can be
allowed to form a precedent.
The Council of State has jut published the result
of its deliberations on the bill for the organisation of
the evil administration in France. It proposes that
in municipal eleeions one-half of the electors inscribed
shall vote to order that the elections may be legal, or
if this number cannot be obtained, the elections shall
not be final by a relative 'majority until after a third
ballot. The mayors and deputy mayors are to be
chosen from the municipal councils, and in communes
of 3,000 inhabitants and upwards are to be named by
the President of the Republic; in other cniimuces
they are to be named by the prefects. The power of
sn-pending these functionaries is to be given to the
pref.cte, and they may be definitively revoked by a
decree of the President of the Republic.
The Minister of Public Works has granted an ex-
amination into the plan for substituting a railway for
the lateral canal of the Garonne.
In the phenomena of the day is the enlargement of
Go:if/haat alt-tanger, which appears on a broad
sheet, worthy el the London press.
The Bank of France is said to have discounted
more bills on Monday than on any day since the re-
volution of February.
The Bulletin de Path,' alluding to a statement in
an English journal that the French commission as
the gold question bad resolved to recommend that the
gold cohrege should be withdrawn from circulation,
declares that to decision has yet been come to, and
that nothing indicates that the commission has takes
this view of the question. It adds that the only im-
portant member of the commission who bad enter-
tained it was M. Thiers, and that there is reason to
believe he has changed his opinion.
TNI:XaDAT &Timing.
The only iccident worth mention in regard to the
receptions at the Elysee on occasion of the new year,
beside the conversation with Lupin, wan the Presi-
dent's epeech to M. Portal's, the venerable head of
the Court of Caseation, meant as a sharp hit at the
recent proceedings of the Assembly in liberating
M. Maui/aim He said :
e I feel much pleasure in expressing to-day to the Count
of Caseation, and to the meeis'eacy, my lively sympathies.
My desztst wish is that principles should remain always
above the rimiest of parties. It was said formerly, ' There
are ledges at Berlin.' It wi thus that the meaning was ex-
male- *hat :here was a dyke to resist even despotic power.
This is much truer in France. No person is ignorant of it.
The enlightened, independent magistracy obeys only its
conscience, and knows that the government will olive's
respect this fir= t guarantee of civilised societies—justice I"
The republican regime seemed to have rid France
of those speeches of ceremony of which so copious
I and fruitless a use was made under the monarchy ;
and the taciturn disposition of the President appeared
suited to the new and plainer custom. The occur-
recces however at the Elyeee, on the last day of the
year, teem to indicate a return to the prav ice of
speechifying without the observance of ceremonious
forms. The sparring dialogue between the President
of tte Republic and the President of the Assembly,
Winds the chief tepee for the two or three papers which
epr esr tc-day to dilate on. The absence of M Bore from
the deputation of the bureau, and the brisk and disre-
lei:ireful withdrawal of General &dean, at the first
hint of irony and iedireceerebuke from the President,
have added disagreeable features to this interview.
It would, perhaps, hays been more dignified on the
part of the President to have abstained from mani-
festing his soreness at the recent vote of the bureau,
but one can hardly wonder that the cool effrontery of
M. Dupin in declaring that all tee acts of the bureau
were inspired by a profound attachment for his per-
son, coming immediately upon the heels of a hostile
vote, should hare irritated a character so frank as

that of Louis Napoleon, and drawn from him an
ironical expression of the hops that these compliments

were sincere.
In order to show the embarrassment which might
have arisen from the order of M. Dupin to liberate
M. Mauguin, and from the menace of M. Base to
bring a battalion to force the prism-gates, the Petrie
quotes from an order of the day by Den. Changarnier
the following insti uctions to the troops under
his command : —l. To obey no requisition without
having first received the order of the lieut.-general.
12. Not to listen to representatives. 4. To shoot
traitors on the instant. 20. Every order not pro-
seeding from the general-in-chief to he null and void.
21. Every requisition, summons, or demand of a civil,
juoicial, or political functionary is to be rigorously
repelled.
This is the first public mention which has been
made of each an order of the day, and it seems likely
to draw vehement attacks from a lu-ge portion of the
prem. It was expected that Gee. Chanirsraier would
be iaterpellated in tie Chamber with regard to ic-
structions which might be interpreted as flat rebellion
against the constitution.
It was expected in the sitting of the Assembly to-
day that interoellations would be addressed to the
government by M. resin on the subject of the con-
versation between M. Dupin and the President, re-
ported in the Constitutiontael, but up to six o'clock
this incident had not presented itself.
The rest of the debate was not of much importance.
A bill, opening a credit of 33,000 fr., for going
towards the expenses of the colonial indemnity was
passed by 325 votes against 84.
Then the last deliberation began on the bill relative
to the commerce of Algiers. The question was raised
if the wools of Algeria should be admitted intisFrance
free of duty. Tne 2ud and 3rd articles of the bill
were adopted without any debate of interest.
The committee of initiative has voted the taking
into consideration of the proposition of MM. Lopez
lichee, and Favreau, relative to slavery. The com-
mit•ee considers as just, politic, and indispensable,
the delay demanded by the propoeers of the motion
for the proprietors of slaves, and has adopted the con-
clusions of the reporter, M. Flavigny.
The Simaphure of Marseilles states that the bank
of that place has just refuted to receive in payment
a large sum in gold, the gold pieces ot 20fr. of
Charles Albert, which hitherto have always passed
current in France.
At the last sitting of the French commission on the
gold question the following papers, by M. Merlotti,
the director of the Paris Mint, was communicated by
order of the Minister of Finances:
I had the honour of addressing to the Minister of Fi-
nance, on the 4 h ult.. a note, in which I endeavoured to'
show that the decline in the premium on gold was to be at.
tributed mire to the importation of Dutch 10 florin gold
pieces than to the quantity of gold sent from California. On
the 7th alt. the min:st. r asked me for another note en the
measures which ho should adapt to protect the country
stalest too considerable imputations. The difficulty of
solving this yestion arises from the fact that everything is
hypothetical in all the intcrmation that can be obtained.
Thus, since the decimalsystem was adopted, there have been
coined in Franc* up to the present time —ln silver,
4,290,000 k. ; in gold, 1,300,000 r. Serious nu n pretei.ded
some years since that we au looper had in France more than
from 160 to 206 millionsof gold; and an experienced banker
estima•ed the amount at tidy 60 millions. These a ncunts
are doubtless below the reality, for it must not be forgotten
that there is much of our gold in Italy, and that, it some
day remains of interest should induce the holders of it to get
rid of it, we Oswald again see it in circul,.tion. It may,
thers'ore, perhaps be rerincable to estimate the ::mount it
gold, the nonplus' value of which is guaranteed by the stamp
of the state, at from 300 to 400 millions. It is only sines 1848
that there has been may guestion of the produce cf California.
The gold of unknown origin brought to the Mint amounted
in 1849 to 21,500,0001 r.; in WO, to 22,400,000 fr. I know
that all this did not come from California, and it would,
perhaps, be correct in estimating the amount from that
same at two-thirds. According to the quantity which is
Weight from that country, it is probebte that each state
will be supplied with gold mat direcly, and the resource
et selling our gold at a premium will be 'octa-
-1 Maly lost to us. If the question was only from
18 to 20 millions per year, or even double that um, there
would be no reason fa thinking ouch of it • for thi.t quan-
tity would only rvaliso slowly the desire which France mwi
tested some years since to tee coil coin in circulation. If it
be exact that California in 1850 has produced '250 milli oak,
we have not received more than about the twelfth part of it.
What leads me to think that foreign osmium has no inte.
rest in overloading us with gold, is that, for the lint eighteen'
months, there have arrived at different times in Fresco large
sums in 51r. pieces, which had been exported about 1847, at
the period when we were in want of corn. At this very
time !active gold from England, but that is in consequence
of the abundance of paper on London, to which our ex- '
portations of wheat give birth. I, therefore, do not, up'
to this time, sae anything to show that we shell soon be in-
undated with gold, as some people appear to dread. My
csneasiOn is, that there is nothing to be done at present, and
that it lb, necessary to beware ot any small or labs measures,
which might tend to alarm commercial ioterrsts It gold were
to be directed on France in such suits that it went
be ur.ent to guard easiest the export of our silver, what
course should be pursued. Thu only efficacious measure
would certainly be to interrupt the coinage of gold. In that
case it would be to be feared that the present holders of
20 fr. pieces would get alarmed and seek to exchange their
gold fur silver. Italy might also act in the lame manner.
And the consequence would be that our export trade would
be disturbed. I have heard a course of proceeding suggested
which appears to me to be impracticable—that of tubed-
tuticg, for our geld coinage, small lingers stamp d with the
weight and crudity, bat without any indication of their
value. The state, by the accounts which it oubliettes periodi.
ally, would give the average value in Eur.pe of the
kilo,ranutte of fine gold, and it is on such a date that
transactions would take place. But whilst the state slimed
not pledge its responsibility with regard to gold coinage, the
lingo's would sot be accepted by the commercial world ex
apt when the price of gold should be is its favour. There
would therefore be in this issue of !ingots, in addition to the
expense of making th.m, which the public would not incur
without just complaints, numberless diditulties in the exe-
cution of the plan, wLiCh I cannot at this moment point out.
If therefore the state anould one day think it its duty to
momentarily or definitively suspst.d the coinage of gold,
there would be reason, I think, for leaving gold within the
Comain of commerce.
M. Cheron, at whose suit the representative M.
Manguin had been arrested, has given formal notice to
the governor ot the prison of Clichy that he intends
to proceed against him for the lose incurred by the
illegally setting his debtor at liberty.
BOURSE.

P.illlq, I. 2. r For 1,1
Mow. I

fat Amount.

Opening qligheet. Lowest. Closing.
—t—
3 per Cents. 67 6 1 66 70 31 0 36 10 37 0
3 per Cents. 9S 13 94 63 93 IS 94 73 93 10
5 do. New Loan 96 21 94 63 93 23 96 63 93 23
t 1 per Carte. P. le SO le ••
i per Cents. e
Eacetange on Lando.' t of sibt. 24 93; 90 dapr. 74 271."
Belidan,S, 1640
17e. 3, 1641
Do. 4$ —n Do. 100 7' .
Da 21 — Treasury Bonds...
Piedmont SpAX.I949 94 70 - Bank blames

Botruz.—Versailles (left Dank), 165 ; Paris and Orleans,
862 50; Paria and Hawn, 672 50; Strasbourg and Bale,
13G 25; Orleans and Bordeaux, 400; North. 481 25;
Yarn and Strasbourg, 355 ; Tours and Nantes, 250 ; Mon-
tereau and Troyes, 92 50.

ITALY.
NAPLES.

The offirial Journal of Naples publishes a royal
decree of the 12th ult., permitting the introduction of
foreign cheese into Sicily free of duty, owing to the
great scarcity of that commodity in the island this
season.

SPAIN.

MADRID, DEC. 27.
Rumours of ministerial modifications still contioue,
but there is nothing certain known. The discus4on
of the report of the committee of authorisation still
goes on in the Chamber of Deputies.

Our Madrid correeponient, tinder date of the 26th
ult., writes :—" Yesterday, Chris.mas-day, the well-
known hospitable banker, Mr. Henry O'Shea, Rave a
sumptuous dinner to H. E. Lord Howden, the British
ambassador, and to the English reside...to at Madrid.
It is currently reparttd that the res'gnation of Gene-
ral Figueroa, Mints'er of War, hes been accepted, and
that he will be replaced by General Sane."
_ _ _ _ _

?Lump, Dm; 27 —Thre• per Cents., 347 ; Vier Bolsi,
347 rime, 35 psi er. Four per Cents., 12. Five per Croce,
121 Coupons, 61 ; after BA's, 61 paper. Passive', 31
paper ' • after Bolas, 3 13 16 cult. Bank of 6t. Ferdinand,
931 eaab. Exchange n London, 50.60.

FRENCH FISHERMEN.—Ninety boats of Boulogne,
of 2,47 d toss, with 979 men os board, have bees this year
num. d in the herring fisher! os the coast of Scotland.
They hits brought home 17,866 toes of salt herrings.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—On Christmas-
day the clerks and others employed by the Eastern Counties
litilway Company at Brick-lane etstim presented Mr. W.
Moseley with a silver tea smite as a token of their respect
for Ms public and private character while their superinten-
dent dozing a period of four years.

GERMANY

Our correspondent writes as follows:
DRESDEN, Dec. 30.
The ministerial journal in Berlin has published the
commissions appointed in the conference on Friday
last, to the astonishment of all the plenipotentiaries,
who had been strictly enjoined by Herr von Man-
teuffel himself to preserve the deepest silence regard-
ing them, an injunction which they scrupulously
objed. It seems, therefore, that this silence was en-
, je;ned by the Prussian minister for the sole purpose
of promoting the interests of the ministerial paper,
and of restoring to it part of the character which
it has loot during the last twelve months. You
will have seen these commissions in the paper in
question, but will prebably have been somewhat at a
toes clearly to understand their meaning. They are
of far greater importance than they appear to b 3 ;
they havo provided a method by which the discussion
of the question of the parity of Austria and Prussia,
and of the admission of Bavaria as the third great
power, has been avoided in the full sittings, together
with the formal but no less difficult question of the
presidency in the conferences themselves. The first
question will now be breeched in the commission
presided over by Austria, in which Prussia is
also represented, and in which they are secure of a
majority should it c dne to a division. Too other
question, that of the presidency in the conferences, has
been settl d in this way : The president of each
commission will take the chair in the full conferences,
whenever the eectiou of the constitution which is
under the examination of his commission shall come
before them. This is a good arrangement, will save
time, and will negative many of the intrigues which
the representatives of the Napoleon made kings will ,
inevitibly concert. The plan is understood to have pro-
c cried from the Prussian minister, who is indebt, d
for it to one of his inferiors. Manteutfel wished also
that Austria and Prussia should come before the con-
ferences with joint propositiors; the Prince Schwarz-'
enberg, however, who saw the danger of this pro-1
ceediog, succeeded in convincing his Prussian col-
league that the plan which he proposed was much
better, viz., that general joint-propositions should
l not be made, but that on each individual question
Prussia and Austria should vote together, having
beforehand settled between themselves the ex-
act nature of the alterations which were
desirable. I mentioned this in a former let-
-1 ter; and 1 only repeat here to show bow
complete is the understanding between them. It
is natural that they should cause the strictest silence
to be preserved with respect to the details of their
plan until each question shall come before the con-
ferences, and the public will therefore not expect to
be made acquainted with them immediately.
I have stated in a former letter that the main idea
in the plan of the two ministers for the restoration of
the Germanic constitution is the division of Germany
into too political bodies, the heads of which are to be
Austria and Prussia, with a joint organ fur
controlling the whole, in which they will
resells the chief power. It was at one time antici-
pated that these conferences would terminate in an
extensive mediatisation of the smaller princes, a mea-
sure which by many of them would be welcomed
with joy, provided their future prospects are gilded
with a bountiful appanage. Among the sovereigns
tired of the trouble of governing knruly subjects,
without foreign support, are the Dukes of Olden-
burg, Brunswick, Saxe Coburg, Schwarzberg, and,
several others. 'Their representatives do not hesitata
to say that they feel it to be their duty, in all
deliberations on the German question, to be pre-
pared at any time to cede the sovereign rights'
of their meteors, but that they must take care to
secure for them a future free from care. I use
expressions which I myself have heard on more than
one occasion. It was anticipated that these and other'
small sovereigns would here have ben required to
lay down their crowns and retire upon full pensions..,
I believe that the two ministers have settled between
themselves that the proper moment has not yet
arrived for such a measure, and that the alterations
which they will cause to be made Li the coa-
stitatien of the corfederation will be such as on
this point will pave the way for a future, and
perhaps general, sweeping away of all the
small principalities. All clear-sighted politicians
agree that the tendency of the timed will lead to the
division of Germany into two great powers.
The next conference takes place, I believe, to-
morrow. Count Alventilebon returned late last night
from Berlin, and Prince Schwarzenberg was expected
this evening. I understand that Manteuffel will
not return to Dresden at present, nor will the Aus-
trian premirr remain here more than a few days.
Baron Alat.ttuffrl will remain in Berlin to meet the
Chambers, when it is expected that they will again be
adjourned for a few weeks after voting the budget for
three or six mouths. The adjournment must, how-
ever, proceed from the Chamber, and not from the
government; under the circumstances, this will not be
difficult to procure.
The sanction of the Prussian government has been
given to the pt,sage of the federal troops through
the Prussian territories, and they will be forwardvd
per rail to Hamburg tin Magdeburg. The name of the
Austrian commissioner is Major-General itlensdorff.

The German papers state that Count Reventlow,
an envoy from the Stadtholderate, had an audience
at Dresden on the 26th with Prince Schwarzen-
berg. The Prince r,carnmended simple submission.
The count, it is said, replied that that could not be.
Prince Schwai zeuberg left Berlin for Dresden on
the night of the 30th ult.
An article in the Deutsche ellyenteine Zeitung, sup-
Fsei to be rorni-lfficial, and coming from Hanover,
asserts that the sole purpose of Prussia and Austria
at the conferences is only to modify very slightly the
existing conritution of the diet. The voting by ma-
jority, instead of by unanimity, is mentioned as one
of the slight modifications intended. But this mcdi-
ficaticm would be so important that other pipers think
there is to possibility of its ever beit.g carried.

A Berlin correspondent of Dec. 30th, says .—" A
conference took place this morning between Barcn
Manteuffell, the Pentagon premier, Prince Schwarzen-
berg, and the commisgaries appoin•ed to pacify
Schleswig-Holstein. A ministerial conference was
held at noon, at the close of which the premier left
for Cnarlot'enberg to meet the Ring. The Prince
will leave Berlin to morrow by the night mail train.
Whether Manteuffel will return to Dresden is as yet
uncertain •, in any epee he will be present at the re-
opening of the chambers. Yesterday the Prussian
premier gave a dinner to Prince Schwatzenberg, to
which all the members of the cabinet were invited."
Another letter of the same date has as follows :
" Prince Schwarzenberg, who dined to-day with the
Austrian Ambassador, Baron Prokesch, will to-mor-
row take leave of his Majesty in a private audience.
A setting of the cabinet council was held at noon,
which was attended by the new Minister, Von Rea-
mer. The new Minister, Count Westphalen, went
• out yesterday for the first time since his sickness; be
is still very weak and incapable of transacting busi-
ness. It is stated, that in consequence of an agree-
ment between Prince Schwarzenberg and Baron
Manteuffel, the Prussian and Austrian Commissti ies
in Heise will act henceforth in the name of the
Germanic Confederation ; not, however, in the name
of the Diet.

COLONIAL.