The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1848.

escape of the man. There he sat, taken at his word
at last, after fifteen years of successful pos ponernent
and practical avoidance of the great question of the
suffrage ; it actually seemed likely to be fairly raised
and fully debated, with certain chances, moreover,
in favour of its being ultimately if not immediately
carried ; and this—not by FEAROVS or his man Fri-
day, to whom alone he imparteth counsel, and who
alone is faithful found—but by more downright
honest and known friends of reform in all other
things as well as the representation. Could any
situation be more trying to a man of his temperament
and tendencies ? His vocation was in jeopardy—his
craft in danger—the whole universe of popular delu-
sion, violence, and fanfaronade about to bo rolled toge-
thee as a scroll entitled " An Act to amend the repre-
sentaton of the people in parliament," and the very
elements of his turbulence being about to be con-
sumed with the fervent but temperate heat of the
rational friends of progress. We must confess we
think great allowance ought to bo made for the un-
utterable feelings of a desperate man.
What, then, shall we say of the arraignment, sen-
tence, and prompt execution of tho assailant of his
friend by Mr. Connes ? So pitiless and scathing a
denunciation—so scornful and irrevocable a repudia-
tion of all or any junction or fusion between the legal
and constitutional advocates for household suffrage
and the physical-Pree chartists, with Fesnotis at
their head—could hardly have been condensed into '
so few and simple nentences by any other man
than Mr. Colon:N. Referring to the hi
story
ouse of
the Anti-Corn Law League he told thh
and the country that the advocates of free trade
had always had to contend against the open
and the hidden endeavours of Mr. O'CoNsion and
his allies to thwart and impede them. But, in
every instance, their mischievous attempts had been
met and baffled,ul advance of as this new design of frastrating the
safe and peacef popular libetty would
infallibly be.
A futile attempt at a second explosion frost the
disowned and discarded member for Nottingham, ap-
pears to have been summarily put down by the autho-
rity of the chair, whereupon Lord JottN Ressew,
equally unexpectedly and unnecessarily saw fit to
volunteer a sweeten
ping and general declaration, that,
in his opinion, " neither univet sal suffrage nor house-
hold suffrage was desired or dem toiled by the middle
or the working classes." At first, wo own, we tool,
this strong and startling declaration to mean the
expression of an advice tendered byad thbettero Premier
to the community at large, that they h l
things pretty much as they arc. But, on further re-
flection, we think it will be obvious that Lord Joit:s
has only enigmatically conveyi d a very different
meaning. He knows that it is impossible for any
minister to think of undertaking any really gnat or
useful change in the fundamental structure of our
institutions until he has been unmistakeably called
upon to do so.
Lord JOHN probably desires, as any wise man in
his position would, to hear the voice of the country
clearly and intelligibly pronounced on so impottant
a question as that of its electoral constitution. Ile
sees doubtless, asany man with half hislong experience
must see, that a period of difficulty and danger is not
distant ; and he wishes to be sure of his crew betimes.
What he has therefore said on the postponement of
Mr. Ilumes motion may be taken to mean this—
public opinion has not yet been decisively pronounced,
and until it be I cannot take any cognisance of the
wishes, however earnest, of a portion of the people.
This, then, is a challenge or an appeal—call it
which you will :—how will it be answered ?

Ir is not fair to lac all the blame of revolution upon
those who make it. Those who by misgovernment,
by no government, or by defiance of popular opinion,
render revolution inevitable, on their shoulders ought
to be flung the chief culpability. The revo
ts lutiof the
on at
Vienna was achieved by boys, by the studen
university, by bold and beardless politicians,
who, when they cried out that the govern-
ment consisted of old women, and very in-
capable, ma.icious old women, were echoed by
all the citizens. As the old woman, MerrEnNicii,
was so far like his roofe,,re, izoT, as to be unpro-
Tided with even a competent military officer to com-
mand the few regimen's requisite to protect the go-
vernment, of course Mrrvitits:cit fell. And what did
he leave behind him?—an Emperor, who is an idiot,
surrounded by a few aristocratic clerks.
The Time+ and our English tories cry fie upon the
Austrians and their revolution,
because they
havea e not
found a minister or a government. How nearth
should they, when for centuries they have been denied
political ri;hts, !fluid, i pal freedom, a press unfettered,
a judicature other than secret ? In what school
could a statesman be found? The Austrians could
do nothing but what they did do, viz., trust to the
clerks that NIETTEKNICII had reared, the FicrUEl.-
MONTS and others, associating with them o
the tooted notabilities whose libeialism had at-
tracted confidence.
But Fnaezt.mosv and the old clerks were as in-
capable of taking a resolve or having a policy,
as if the brow of Marrs:lolcl' still frowned
on them. Instead of framinag an e
onlectoral law,
and calving immediately national assem
they pothered, and hesitated, and put off the
evil day, as if a representative government were astne.
thing so horrible that they hoped some intervention
of Providence might deliver them from it. Meantime
Hungary fell off, Bohemia menaced to fall off. The
poor clerks were full of humility, and granted every-
thing. The only persons to whom they still refused
their demands, were the Viennese people. Of
course these lost patience. At the news of
Mr:TrEit:stelt being visited by DIETRICIISTEIN in
London, a fact heralded by our courtly journals,
FiquELmosT was visited by the populace, and obliged
to resign. His successor went on in the same hum-
drum way. Like Lord JoteN RI:SMELL, they did not
believe, forsooth, that the Austrian people cared for
reform ; and, like his lordship, they deemed that elec-
tions got up and dictated by the aristocracy would just
serve the Austrians as well 118 the nonsense of free
elections. The Austrian people answered the Austrian
ministers, as Lord Jowl lit:fest:Lt. richly deserves the
English people should do. And the consequence is,
tthatrac there is no government in Austr The aris-
tocy and the court monopolised the science and
the traditions of the government so completely, that
since the aristocracy and the court have declared
themselves incapable of carrying on the government,
there is no one left who can even try. It is
the natural result of despotic governors, and of mak-
ing polities a trade, of which the apprentices can only
come from a certain caste,and be affiliated to a certain

LONDON, THURSDAY. MAY 25.
THE scene which took place in the House of
Commons on Tuesday night upon the announcement
of Mr. Ileste's intention to postpone his motion for
reform until the 20th of June, however unworthy the
occasion, is nevertheless by no means likely I.) be
every
speedily forgotten : for in eve t-taint of view it
may b.: nil to have been eminently characteristic,
and whutever is so is likely to be remembered—that
is to say, as long as anything done or spoken under
the sun has a chance of being now-a-days borne in
human recollection.
The house in its wisdon. havicg spent or mis-spent
the evening in debating the right of members
to go to see tho Derby, and the right t t Lord
GEORGE BENTINCE to call for useless and vague
returns, professed itself ready and stilling, at half-an•
hour before midnight, to hear HUME open his
case on behalf of the ledunrensse millions of the
United Kingdom for a thorough reform of parliament.
In the exerciEe of wise dis
usion to the chronocretion—although,met perhricaaps,l
with too brief and frank all
reason of the thing—the member for Montrose inti-
mated his unwillingness to enter Ripon such a subject
at such an hour, and the conseq:ent necessity he felt
himself under of postponing his motion until the next
open day, which, by the notice bank appeare
20th of next month. Whereupon every individual who,
when once he had seen Mr. Ht7ste fairly started on his
midnight path to a count oat, would have made hiscon-
servative way to bed, burst forth into a loud laugh or
ironical cheer at the insinuated abandonment of the
motion. But JOSEPH knew his brethren, albeit they
knew not Joseett. "Go en, go on !" They might
as well have ask d the revolution of February to
stop. The shrewd and experienced champion of
Reform was not to be moved—neither to be
taunted nor cajoled into spoiling his case for the special
amusement of the men of the Ilerby; and the whole
affair was on the brink of being quietly disposed of
for the evening as a matter of course, when Mr.
FEARGUS O'CoNtson rushed to :he rescue of the cause
of mischief and absurdity.
In a fierce tirade of some ten minutes or more the
worthy member for Nottingham sought to impugn
the sincerity as well as the good sense of Mr. HUME,
in the coulee he had just taken. It was, in fact, a
golden opportunity for Feam.us, and ho seized it
with the instim t of self-preservation. People may
talk of his folly ani }cc• pardonable qualities : but let
tl.cui only think o! the fesni.l danger and marvellous

corporation.
In this paralysis of all government, produced by •
the action and rea• tion of an imbecile court and an
ignorant mob upon one another, the Emperor has been
spirited away. 1, ita.DIN AND has accomplished a second
edition of the flight to Vermin s, except that
his flight h:is been successful. He has betaken his
imperial self from his unruly capital to his army, and
to those provinces, which have hitherto displayed
most loyalty to the imperitl family. 'fhc Tyrol, by
its stubborn resistance to the French, once say, d the
Austrian mor artily. I litherto scarcely thanked fur i
the sacrifice, it is now asked to repeat it, and to war
or. behalf of the imperial house no longer with F
should
rench,
but with Austrian citizens. In lIS, we
two sets
[ think, there will be in Tyrol, as elseS where,
of opinions on that subject.
The Tyrol, however, at its best is but a fortress, a
revolution or even constitutionalism to penetrate their
strong position of defence. The Tyrolese might forbid
mountains; butthey would scarcely under take a crusade
against tho estates of Lower Austria. The imperial
hopes lie therefore not so much in the Tyrol as in the
army. We know not whether it is to NUGENT or
to MOUSE!, that the EMPEROR 10Oki to bc his
Marquis DE BOUILLE, to reduce to its old METTER-
NICH ri.gime this turbulent city of Vienna. Ban
ut
' ltsnr:rsut or NC(, NT can scarcely think of such
expedition until they have successfully ended the
Italian campaign. For them togive up Lombardy
tacindtheretrl
etaritlianfsrOmandthemafoerch
to
oackfetutepor n
thVehiencnitai!
zen, that will not do. It is too
m
the hangman school of heroism. They must tight,
uc of
and if the Italians hold out, whe
too re are the Austrian
supplies to come from? 'rho Tyrol is poor to
furnish a florin.
And the Austrian army, this new and grand support
of the imperial autocracy, how is it to be kept together,
even if paid? The Hungarians have qud it. The
Tcheles of Bohemia will forbid their sons to fight
for a fugitive and reactionary emperor. The south
Belavontats therwelves are rebelling, and the very
Croats will desert the imperial standard. Them was
i one licpe fur Austria —that of its imperial family and

its emancipated liberals marching together, giving 1
and taking, the court espousing the necessities of
liberty, the liberals respecting the imperial dignity.
'Chia might have kept together the force of the Em-
pire, restored order and credit, and prevented the
tnettabra diljecta, the outlying imovinces, from
setting up for themselves. By this means a bold
front might have been maintained even in Lombardy,
and the Italians forced to concede terms honourable
and advantageous to both parties. But since the
EMPEROR'S Night we despair of any one good result.
'Co the danger and the drain of a civil war with Italy,
and a quarrel with Hungary and Sclavonia, it super-
adds a civil war in Austria itself, a war of monarch
against citizen—an armed reaction in fine, which, to
be successful, cannot be limited to Austria, but must
extend to the Rhine.

Tire news from our Indian dominions are still the
news of peace. 'They are almost again the news of
prosperity. In that land of hardy and keen adven-
ture, where the hazards of health and tk
ssione pas ucitywhi oh
f
capital are repaid by profits and commic
sound like romance in the ears of
nglish competon, men habituated to
the vanishing per centagee of E
the casualties of trade are recovered with a rapidity
not altogether dissimilar to the amazing exuberance
of' tropical vegetation. Last autumn tiei whole com-
mercial credit of Calcutta was broadly described as
being swept away. Behold the contrast : even
before the cold season has disappeared, ands
before the monsoon has brought with it it
terrible plagues of heat and hurricane, the accus-
tomed steamer drops down to ;the Sand Heads, and
leaves behind her a bazaar as full as ever uf its keel
and partieoloured congregation }Endo° and Arme-
nian, Mahommedan and Malay, a plentiful sprinkling
of Cnristian men cast in the decisive mould of the
knotty race who pride themselves on being North
Ili-done, and here and there a shrewd and sedate
Parsee; all these odds and ends of many nations,
whom the security of our rule hs attracted to Cal-
cutta, arc again as busy and full of !schemes as
ever. Our readers will do us the justice
eser-
to
remember that from the beginning of throe di
' tees we have not depicted their results in the
usual lugubrious strain. The people who commit
themselves to the hot meridian of the capital of
Bengal make up their minds before they start not to
be extinguished by any of the ordinary mishaps of
fortune.
No one who has been conversant with the recent
tone of Calcutta society will regret to find that the
most prominent article of news relates to a moral
reformation, partial perhaps and small, but still a
solemn and distinct recognition of some rule of con-
duct which cannot be expressed through the medium
of Coceeh's Arithmetic. The English commu-
nity on both sides of the water are already fa-
miliar with the scandalous notoriety which has
fallen upon the late ecclesiastical registrar of the
supreme court. There seems to be little doubt that
Sir THOMAS Ty tyros has contrived to impoverish the
suitors fund committed to his care to the extent
of a very enormous sum. This ill-starred money
has been dissipated, it would seem, in some of
the delusions or less excusable traneactions which in
the end will render the Union Bank of Calcutta an
Asiatic epitome of the South Sea babble. The autho-
rities of the court have of course relieved themselves
of the honour of Sir T. Tr wroa's further attendancehat
To this act of public decency a somew
eccentric condition was, we believe, originally
attached—the defalcations were to be recovered not
from Sir Ttiosses TUKTON, but by placing his suc-
cessor in office upon a reduced salary for a series of
years. This was a species of ingenious equity which
could not pass current even in the Supreme Court of
Bengal, and as far as we could understand the coliver-
Batton in the House of Lords the other evening, the
matter is to be " inquired into"--an inquiry, surely,
of the most needful and, we should think, not of the i
most abstruse kind. Well, Sir Tttostas itTON pro-
posed to return to the bar. But even among lawyers
two words are required to complete a bargain,
and we rejoice to say that the members of
the Calcutta bar have not failed in their
duty to themselves and their profession at all events
on this occasion—they have intimated their fixed
purpose to re fuse every brief upon which Sir Twi-
nes may have received a retainer. This resolu-
tion may be of most opprtune use as a precedent.
There is understood to be treasured up in some safe
keeping place iu Calcutta a secret history of these
famous bank post bills which have been so fruitful a
theme of law and casuistry during the last six
months. Whenever this curious document sees the
light, as it may do on some not very distant day, let
the merchants and bankers of Calcutta emulate their
associates of the bar, and do themselves the honour
to
to stigmatise by their true names, and relegate
their fitting obscurity, the grasping and the incapable
men who have squandered the patrimony of the ab-
sent, the helpless, and the bereaved.
In the midst of reassuring symptoms there is n
one
'concurrence which will occasion as sincere a regret i
I English as it has excited in Indian circles. 'Fho Bri-
tish public retain a vivid recollection of the appear-
ance among us of a mild and intelligent llindoo gen-
' tleinan, who came over to our country with every
flattering credential which the esteem and confidence
of the rulers of his native province could accumulate
upon hint. I /WARKAN.Iu-rit Theme: came among us and
was received as one of the first plenipotentiaries of that
intimate treaty of alliance, on the basis of equal rights
and intelligence, which we hope some day to see ex-
tended between the British nation and the whole of
the natives of our eastern viceroyalty. No ambas-
sador ever received a more cordial appreciation
nor do we believe that the frank and hearty honesty
of the English character ever produced a more favour.
able impression than upon the mind of the patriotic
Halloo. It is now close upon two years since
DWARKANAUTII TAI;(»tl: died in London. The metro-
politan idlers who gathered about hi, hearse circu-
lated among themselves marvellousstorics of his amaz-
ing wealth. Ile was to them one of those fabulous
deities, a rich Indian prince. It is not needful to in-
quire how much of this was hasty exaggeration, norhow
speedily, among those whom these ranters of personal
history concern, a more correct judgment began to
prevail. The issue is all with which the public have
any proper concern; and that issue is simply, that the'
firm which bore the name of this distinguished orna-
ment of his nation, and upon the successful erection
of which he expended no trifling share of his great
skill and sagacity, has been driven into the Court of
Bankruptcy—not literally perhaps, but substan-
tially. There is every wawa to believe that the
sons of this liberal-minded Asiatic will not be
unmindful of his example in this emergency
and it is quite within the scope of Indian
re-adjustments that the memory of DWARKANAUTII
TAGOILE may not only be remembered on the banks
of the Sacred Hives as the friend and patron of every
noble scheme for the enlightenment of hie race, but
also as the chief founder of a fortune which was re-
covered by perseverance and skill out of the jaws of a
general wreck.
There is little to add o this abstract of the con-
tents of our pacific despatch. The recent wise
policy of Lord Demme:sty., with reference to the
navigation laws, has already begun to have a benefi-
cial effect; and if' the important cheapening of freights,
advised by this arrival, continue through his instru-
mentality to prevail in India, the British as well as the
Indian public may congratulate themselves on the
attainment of a reform which accomplishes much and
accomplishes it well.
But if the news from India be pacific, that from
China is of a different complexion, inasmuch as it is
of a nature to inspire doubts of the permanence of
friendly relations between that country and Great
Britain. There have been collisions with the n
oth at
atives
at Whampoa, at Shanghai, and at Ningpo. B
Whampoa and Shanghai the Chinamen were the
aggressors. At the former the militants had the
worst, and the Chinese authorities appear disposed to
admit the justice of the rough handling they re-
ceived, and to permit the affair to drop. At
Ningpo the missionaries appear to a certain
extent to have drawn t attack upon them-
'selves by venturing beyonhe d bounds, and conse-
quently out of the range within which the Chinese
government is bound to protect them. It appears,
too, that the maltreatment they experienced was
from a rude class of society—the boatmen on the
great canal—who were at the time straggling about
the country in a state of compulsory idleness, and ripe
for mischief. It is difficult at this distance to form a
correct judgment of the line of conduct which the
British authorities ought to adopt under such circum-
stances. In justice both to Englishmen and Chinese,
the native government ought to be compelled to do
fu'l justice at all times to the former. Its well-
knevvr. weakness cannot be admitted as an excuse.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 101 11.1.11.
It appears that the committee of the assembly has
recommended the adoption of a decree of banishment
against the Orleans family. The committee on the
constitution, which sits daily, is said to be in favour
of proposing a plan which will include only funda-
mental basis without details as being tho most likely
means to enable the assembly to come to an imme-

diate decision.
We read in the M, ,say :—" The number of the
killed in the days of February, and of those who
have since died of the wounds then received, does
not appear to have exceeded 300, of whom about
30 were municipal guards.
The reports which were circulated yesterday of
another popular manifestation, determined the presi-
dent of the assembly to transfer to Gen. Cavaignac,the
Minister of War, the full command of all the troops,
a' well within as without the palace of the assembly.
I mentioned yesterday in general terms the great force
which 1 observed under arms there. From the official
lewd to-day it appears that there were in the chief
court a battalion of the line and six pieces of cannon ;
in the garden and on the peristyle, two battalions of
the line ; on the bridge, a battalion of the natil
, guard ; and in all the adjacent streets, companiesona of
the garde mobile.
The dissension reported to prevail in the executive
commission is disavowed.
The Paris journals of this morning aro filled with
details of the Hight of the Emperor of Austria
from Vienna, and the departure of Sir 11. Ilulwer from
Madrid, both which events occurred on the same day.
According to the German journals it is hoped that the
imperial family will be
noniduced to return; at all
events, there seems to be inteution to declare their
forfeiture.
The insurrection which I announced yesterday as
having taken place at Naples on the 17th, appears by
further reports to have led to the formation of a new
ministry, under the presidency of l'rince Cariati, and
to the disbanding of the national guard. The advices
which have arrived supply us with no clue to the
cause of this movement. Many of the inhabitants,
includilig a dozen members of the Chamber of Depu-
ties, took refuge on board the French ships.
General Courtais has been transferred front the
Luxembourg to Vincennes.
--_.

MADRID.—The Madrid mails of the 19th have
come to hand.
The accounts r• ceived from Seville have been of a
confused and contradictory kind. According to the
published accounts, Shelley had pursued and beaten
the insurgents, while private letters representtd
that captain-general as having returned to Si ville
on the day following the revolt. Beyond
all doubt this was the case. The captain
general said, that after having dislodged the
insurgents from San Lucas on the 14th, he was on
the point of continuing the pursuit of them on the
road to Huelva, when he received a letter from the
political chief of Seville, beseeching him to return in
all haste to that city, which was represented
to be menaced by a revolutionary party
among the citizens, who would take advan-
tage of tho absence of the soldiery, to master
the principal points. Shelley returned from San
Ulcer, which is three leagues from Seville, that af-
ternoon, with all his force. Upon arriving in thee city
he found it perfectly quiet. Gainza dned
himself by ascribing his message to the
apprehensions of the Infanta, no less than
the excited state of the people. lila excuses were
not admitted, and the city being in a state of sieg,,
the paramount military authority dismissed the civil
magistrate from his post, and appointed another in
his place. Shelley, when he wrote the despatch,
giving this news from Seville, was on the point of
sallying forth early in the morning of the 13th once
more in pursuit of the insurgents. He would have left
immediately, but was obliged to give his tired soldiers
a breathing space. It will appear from this account
that the state of things is very critical at Seville.
The force of Shelley is too small to be divided, yet the
state of the Andalusian capital evidently requires the
presence of a battalion or two to overawe the civil
conspirators. If the captain-general comes up with
the revolted troops under Portal a second time, it will
prove that the latter consider themselves strong
mei& to stay d an engagement, as they will
not have availed themselves of two days
start upon the road, for escaping into Portugal.
It is said that Narvaez flew into one of his rages on
reading Shelley's despatch, and immediately wrote to
him, saying that if the next despatch from Andalusia
did not bring news of the entire destruction of the
revolted troops, he hoped at least that it would con-
tain an honourable token of the exertions of the cap-
tain-general in the cause of the Queen's government
by reporting the death of his excellency on the field
of battle.
Forces have been embarked at Cadiz, which are to
land at Huelva, and cut off the retreat of Portal across
the Portuguese frontier.
On the night of the 18th, a feeling of deep Lorroi
prevailed throughout Madrid at the announcement
that thirteen of the sergeants of the regiment of Es-
pagna, who had been caught since the 7th, and tried
by the council of war, were condemned to be shot,
and placed in chapel at the city gaol to Ire-
pare for their late on the morrow. hverybody w
a.ssured that there was no lope of the royal p
being extended to these doomed criminals and that
General Narvat z was inflexibly bent upon seeing the
Gee
sentence carried out.
After causing the greatest painl throughout the
city, the government all the time intended to pardon
them, but kept their intention a secret.
The (;a:,,rtf.• came out on the morning of the 18th
with a decree of indulto to all the 13, who have
had their uniforms stripped off with military formali-
ties, previous to being sent off to presidios.
nem e,Msv 1111.—Three per Cents., 201 mit ; after Bella, 20 11 -11;
cash; 201 paper. Five per Cent., 131 paper; after Solna, 134 cash.
54 piper I after Doha, If e.ash. Bank er St. Ferdinand,
s impur.--Fichallge on Lond.n, at 30 ilays, 42 caah.

But then, that weakness being known, English- ITALY.
men oughti) not to be encouraged to increase its diffi-
collies y exacting redress when they have trans- ----
gressed the limits within which that government is Intelligence from the Sardinian head-quarters, at
Sore Compagna. dated May 17, gates that vi”lent
bound by treaty to tolerate and protect them. Mr. prevented the attack on Peschiers, which bad
Consul ALCOCK certainly does not appear to have
erred on the side of conceding too much to the been fixed for that day.
At Florence, on the 19th, was officially published
Chinese authorities. But, aware of the delicate and
the decree uniting the states of Mesas, Carrara, and
difficult position in which he stands, we are not pre territories of the Lunigiana to the Grand liuchy
pared to condemn him in the present imperfect state
of Tuscany.
of our information. At Ningpo the collision would
B Republican° of 17th May publishes a protest
appear to have been provoked by brutal conduct on
against the proclamation of the Provisional Go-
the part of British subjects. The consul seems to have
vernment of Lombardy, requiting the people to
acted properly, but the whole circumstances ot the affair
vote for the union with Piedmont, in which the
are very imperfectly known. Without, however, pre-
parties signing it say the government has furnished
suming to characterise the conduct of individuals in
a pretext for foreign interference ; that they will not
these affairs, one general inference is irresistible.
resist it,because resistance would be the
protestorcmmence-
No approach to a better unders'anding between
ment of civil war, a they lemnly
the English and Chinese appears to be making at any
against it before Italy and Europe. It is signed by
of the ports to which we trade. Everywhere we hear
members of the society of popular sovereignly, and
of occurrences likely to increase and perpetuate the
several other clubs and persons holding similar
existing alienation. In this state of affairs, it is not
opinions.
agreeable to hear rumours from Pekin of the ap-
The Bulletin of Milan says : " Durando has
preaching death of the sovereign, of the successor to
changed they isposition of his lines, extending them
the throne being a minor, and of the constitutional
towards Moiano, so as to be prepared to retake tile
regent (the Dowager Empress) being so devoted to
initiative. The division of Ferrari has been re-
the war party, that KKT treci's recall has been tinder-
orgrinized, and will be united to that of Durando on
stood to be motived by the necessity of finding a the 16th.,,
counterpoise to this influence. Is this country des-
A private letter from Wriano, of the 13th, where
tined to play over in China the game game it has had
was the camp of Durando, says, one of the daughters
to play in Ilindostan ? le the acquisition of Hong
of General Nugent is detained us a hostage at Tieviso
Kong to entail upon us the necessity of undertaking
and another at Venice.
the government of "the Central Flowery," in the
The Piedniontese Gazette of the 19th states that,
same manner that the acceptance of the jagheer of
„The l'rovisional Government of Venice has decreed
Calcutta compelled us to become sovereigns of British
acena t.
cent"
loan of ten millions of livres at five pe
India ? The prospect is more threatening than
alluring! —,, It also says—"Treviso has a strong garrison. The
rommand of the place is entrusted to Gen. Filippo
Ducalante Moutefeltro."
Advices from Somme Campagns, the head-quarters
of Charles Albert, say :
The army continues to fortify its pmition, with a view of
being in circumstances to protect the si. ge of l'eschiera
agaimt all aggression of the enemy on the side of Verona or
Ronal, the borders of the Like di Garda or the Adije.

GERMANY.

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ST. PANCRAS WORKTIOUSE.—Yesterday a meeting I
of the vestry of St. Pancras (including a large number of the '
newly-elected vestrymen) took place at the new ves,ry
rooms for the purpsse of considering a motion of which no.
tier had been given by Mr. l3rettingham, having for its ob-
to dc fs at the decision of the old vestry to erect a new
*Ject
wing to the workhouse at a cost of nearly 20,0001.—After a
I warm discussion, bating upwards of four hours, the question
was put, and detested.
A NEW DEVOURING ELEMENT.—You all know
Soyer the Philanthropist, who pretends to be so full of his
fellow-creatures' Caa you doubt it after the ',snowiest ?
Read it, and feel " like Rom's tiesh" all over !—" &lees I
New Sauce for Ladies and Oenticmen !! !" Was there ever
such a cannibal ? And this is the man who would wish to
setting our society and our dinners! Why, it is regularly
setting man against wife, son against motker-in.lsw, pauper
against beadle, boots against cook ! No lady, no gentleman
is safe. The aristocracy is on the verge of the sauce-boat.
We denounce Soyer as the greatest Traiteur in Ragland u
i , or
even kilted, and the latter is sa)iiv,, atnm-
mense deal.— Punch.

l' ItUS SI A.—BERLIN, MAY 22.—The constituent as-
sembly is to meet this day : the anniversary of the da
vey
on which thrte-and-thirty years iigo a representati
constitution waa promised by the then king. The elec-
tions have not been altogether satisfactory. M. von
V incke, elected to the German parliament, will nut
have a seat in the l'russian Constituent Assembly, un-
lese he be returned by some of tkuse constituencies,
where new elections will be necessary in coesequence
of their having returned represehavinnt:di ties
w choice of
ho will
elect to sit fur other places, g bee the
several.
The hope at first entertained that the severe de-
feats recently sustained by the l'olcs would put an end
to the struggle in losen is weakened. 'the l'oliith land-
owners have mortgageti. their estates to their full value
to obain the means of prolonging the struggle. The
high nobility of the province have not taken part in
the struggle; but not one of them has dared to accept
official appointments offered them by the Brim go-
id
vernment. They fear (cr know) that the respect pa
to their possessions by the insurgents would cease if -
they took such a step. Emanuel Arago arrived
d,
at
Potsdam on the 10th inst., charged, it is unders
to nezotiat.e in name of the French government re-
specting l'olish affairs. Ilia instructions are said to Tbt Oriental Company's steam-packet Tiger, Capt.
bo rather peremptory. The following declaration 3. K. Joy, arrived at Southampton last eveuutg, earl
With reference to the duchy of Posen was published landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. J. J.
by General Willisen its the Gazefe Po/skit of 10th Wilkinson, It.N., Amiralty agent. Her dates are-
May : Gibraltar, 15th May; Cadiz, 16th May ; Lisbon,l9th
i feel a bounden duty towrecoards myreiff and towards others to May ; Oporto, 20th May ; Vigo, 21st May. She
brings 29 packages of specie. The following is the
rui:tiAtathe finillutn'nar Ivor
fearing to t a fitter topopurtrnunity the Tapaaiitit:l antitief
my lhole conilffit anal the pulffic aion of all official wets awl dorm letter of our correspondent:
menu, i arrivad et Pown with the repot alistinct erratalate of LISBON, MAT 19.
putting an end., tritlintat.cfusisan of,blooliZ to huneetile attitudet of The news from Madrid has been received herewith
the pi
tle
..th Ono; 1
iii April the 7th. with thye iii'formotintotandll'ilts the most vivid sensation, and the apprehensions of the p-
e▪
eing determined to attack the I.oiiii
at
the next day. of course 1 vesnment may he best judged of from thy extent of their
was hound to protest againet such a determination. The attack precautions ; additional defences are litio„r hourly added to
so often advised, and formerly so easy of execution appeared , the Cootie of St. George, t atm guns placed in battery, the ee
to me wine injudicious the moment when
e 4
arrived with the mis- I tadel itself has been pravisioned, and artilltryconveyedto the
Piot ill pose. What eICUPII could I offer, or Vim who have sent me,
Palasie oftheNccessidailes the al res*d n • stron i aea
if a who bad come to stop the effusion of blood, had that very instant , rep i c ce.
.gpei
oanctioned a battle ! After a king Macureion my reasons were am pollute the streets, while a portion of the garrison is kept tit-
-1 dcleureearm.
(Ds
.nFigehmtimanddofiaaye.comOpnatnhieedl64l,.ti,hestaltrus,hanvisditeol tit
tio"Ym".rotteurta,Ytarlateell sul
i pi
fl d— 'hailer e c
sooner of
'Zia: me ted"'
".iihPot'd.rt foarnad Litt". a,
Owaerwatian of le' dYs and a c'et"fl'is. c‘mnden't in mY castle in persan, and inspected exteriorks in progress, his
own abilities, than the blame of bring neolleffily protracted ' which, by the way. consist, of defences commanding
the tour, and delaved the uw of *rant. I was un- i , • from the city by which the cues
oble to can any thin" certain about the country beyond the i the various approaches ,
fortress of
It and as immediate vicinity, where the tr tops bad ' is most susceptible of assault. Theta woras have own rise to
been poor& It was conoidored indirpewable to collect large musses \ the lest re, bet well merited, observation, that Donna/lona
of troop, before any
could)effectu procredings could he adoetol. On the . a constitutional Queen, is the first sovereign Do
boa mud
other hand, all that I arn froa. the
to
led me to think that l a
barricades " to he erected against her own subject& By
I had a force of at least from 13,n00 to 20,0a0cdm%, [
Although
~,•,., i the packet from the south, which entered the Tagus the
le7l'al IYt l'etalalenteetirta, heeeil ranth '4%ma,ndwhich mw.naa- only. Lou 3P-...i.Lil I day before yesterday, we learn, under date from Seville, that
rat 'in such ant enterpriar, supplied all thew defects. Ti lan outbreak had occurred in that populous and impanel
Liffl,il llpell such a force to lay down tlwir arms without the cit uon the occasion of the Montpensiers baying restored
slight. st re.i.tanoe moseyed Lit me impossible. I cal Mated, no thither Tne statements are, however, so viiried and ow
doubt, up in being able to centime them how Le they were mistaken tradictory that here little is ken •n beyond the hue bet
in thin plan of cawing on immediate war with Russia, and that it
won wrong to employ the forcer, collected in that ramie, against the that there had occurred disorders ; but even this fat,
1 d • hthe h ' • • muslin d
l'autrions. however, I teat the immense difficulty of allaying coup e with rumour tat ministers arc in p
the erithusloon hawing at its command such masses, and late news, per telegraph, from Madrid, and which they task
to prevail on ' them to give up suddenly their dearest ob- from publishing. adds greatly te the agitation of the pahlie
feet. Hence it is clear that • general disarming could only mind, and it will not surprise me if my tient pocket's heart
take pi ice a ter a long and lively dtscasrion and under condi- should have to netail the occurrence of grave events a
non. calculated to satisfy the heels wow of honour ot the , ,_bon. The
op, .
excited people; and when I had tried every means to vanquish xs.ofthe t -that tho
nession
am
their dooms:, my efforts Mae many a time on the point of being merest spark it only required to set things in a eases, .
defeat,' by the oppootion of the more violent amongst them, the slightest successes of the Spanish hberals would comer
wino continued to Pay :-. No, they are again deceiving as, they tote such a spark.
will not give you any thing-when they. WO you disarmed, they Her Majesty seems perfectly ieiifferent as to the state of
will return to their old practices; nothing is left in but to fail
with glory." The mod dlfficuit cireumrtanor was to tweak throngh things throughout the country. It is now dated (very.
the °Parma entermined Wwards the present miniatry and their where that even the Duke of Saldawk Patha'slets. is loge*,
opinions, and to convince. the people of the weakness of their the Queen being bent upon conferring the powen of
military position. Let others testify what crawl" it required, and government unon the court favourite, Costa Cabral. Tag
whether it could bare been accomplisbed by any one who had violent dissensions agitate the court in respect to this litter
lee of their confidence than niyeelf. During three three days of the individual is, I believe, pretty certain. The Queen not
matt trying circtianstavent, t was continually urged by the Germans . •
to shorten the delay taxed for andst et stove I Int besif•ca with inlets I Costa Cabral to the dignity of a Dig.
anal upon e t eating gap
meet unjustithable complainta, arcoundleas teas; instead of former guis. This is resented by the actual mioistrl ad .
fraternity, the ticnnan population gave way to such irritation that it litic. Should, therefore, the Queen persevere ia
bloke out two days he into open violence, when 1 returned her resolution, as in all proashilay she will, tic
((OM the camp to the town for • oingle all ght, in order to office". present ministry must go to pieces, while the accesion ol
with the civil governor' rome important measures for effecting the the Messrs. Cabral to office will inertly precipitate area
pacification of the country. In coneequenco of this clamour and dis-
order, the military at proem"' tome, me, &subtle...with the best D • the put w k
During
.. e a modification of the ministry val
possible intentions, that I should leave the town, which, of courre, tolked of: Costa C bra d 2 et, the
Ito have the h,me epa tm. a.
~
I could nut comply with until I had Meffiioll to proceed again to the Duke of Saldanba retaining the war portfolio while x.
enemy's camp, to accelerate their dispersion mad keep a watch on Falcado, the miserably inellicient Miniver of Finance, ms
their InOrelliflllt. IL will be easily Collit ived how, unites ouch to be ousted, and to be succeeded by M. Gomes de Cason
circumstances, my theition grew every day more and more diffi-
cult, r,;
meshy as even the army nouriohed
at of irritation Arms continue to be landed at various points of the emit
1 4 ofmuskets I. od din the Mishs
against me, scarcel lees in degree than that the German Fithousan stan were .1 ef. , .
population. In thee meantime, the emanation of Jarcalawiee last week, from an English schooner, and a urt e
war concluded. In complhuice with its plot isiona the Poles• hbourbood of
derable supply, alas, in the south, in the ntig ••,
vo re willing to disperse, but it wan neer-wary to (Nominee them I Sines; in the vicinity of the latter port it is also near
that they would be enabled to do w without being molested bK that s
era sixty odd Spaniards had disembarked polities'
the troops.. With this view a distinct article bad been wit
Oiht ill.erted in the convention, and it rays., si As p ,
risoners, who had mastered the crew of the vessel inland
ransportation to the NIX
WWI greatsa the Callliti liil'ill be broken up, sit military proccedines shall they had been pieced on board for t _ ... ,_.
be slopped immediately.' But, unfortunately, another plan was of Africa. Even this apparently insignificant force 1 ess'S
adopted, and prevented the peaceful solution of the queotion. On the lasted, in the present state of the counr to
lath of April, the camp at Wresehen, which hod been foe two days cause feelings "at some uneasiness. The SUSpegliiil
di•Litriiiilg, was alarmed with the news, that our trimpslout approached the guaraWees is daily laoked for, althogh, 0
within four mils. of the town; and even the pat.liii.ra- nloires lent to of liti
gets.foati, came back bearing marks of ill.treatinent and vim do M. Costa Cabral jostle., he personally is
ures la do
haw Then, and not till then, the Pmiali forces gave way to the et- to deprecate anything like extreme mew •
Tit _
mootexcitenient .ind crying "
In attacked their leaders and meantime, the financial embarrassments of the goma aira
begun committing ex.:woes. In courequency of this distort:awe. are (if it he possibly.) on theincrease, and the wherewitaal.
which nearly cost the liver of all the nmonandera, the forces hot m -et the exigenci, sof the soldiery press most onerously
-rlO
Wra when on the morning of the lath, and pi. weeded to Scustadt on the scanty resources of the state. One thirty days' (ow
the Warta, whore, out of 7,000 men, warmly 400 or 500 of the most ofpay, and I would not hazard much for the_ lethk!
ma-
disciplined portion came to reablioh theirearaven. From similar cause
arrears . • • • .
a similar couvulsion took place tat Miloslow ;fur our out
'Y placed of the Lisbon gams ,
on • as it is., murmurs, ana s
too near the Calllp 'Mill igoormice or mistake-very iikely to occur more than murmur, are said to have been receny a ma-
under such etre 11l a l +lances-pushed back some of the detachments festcd by the troops, and not even excepting the picked ear
which were Rohm home -nn error which did not pare without OM- forming her Majesty's own boly-guard.
sion of etooa, ender thew. circumetancro a question was raised The Trafalgar (120), with the riag of It savAdrairal F. 4
whether the convention ohoulai not be considercal as broken, and it .
was propmea, unless the leaders were delivered up, to Roach the
Lucius Curtis come into the river on the lilih. She woke
any bands at every point. I coohl not by any pli.ibliily CAW/tit-eV but brief
unless should d her detention&
stay, events nu er
anything that had happened as a violation of the convention on the pedient. Item I nre with lasi
artist'', I believe, is in accor. a
~ •
part of the Poles. llow could the leaders or the Vole comp. be rally instructions, recommending to Admiral 1 arker nal!
male arowerable for the misconduct of single individuals! Thore vessels of the Mediterranean squadron homeward-hos .
who had commiited excesses had loog ago moped muter the cloak of
net. Ihe tenders !Valid have been only bound to final them out, should ouch at Lisbon, to be at the orders of our tonna,.
...
and give 7Th
up iuto the hands of justice. As for me, 1 was erica Sic George Hamilton Seymour.
canctliced that If the guilty t
he ideals bad been discovered, the The Stromboli is still itere. In the way a stow. nant
(ter bog PO
lead,-N would have been the . Hist to punish them. In the ties we have a new invention here, which, a
third I received on the 1 lth information that in tte
._, noised some time, has just made its appearance, 599 j
third camp`"e et Xiehr. the Polish forte yi,,,hllf there.."A'''' remises advantages. It is a combination fss •
'killed Its
leader",
and
woeld
eaan
tit"' --
-- - - It•gather)greatof different w rs-eteam seems to bear MO
neighbourhood and devartate iL. The information reemed can
on • but '2OO r cent of extra po
to be so positive, the distailo so minute (foe even all the small prorti pe • _ . _.,,,„ i
names were given), that I felt obliged to believe it, and I exprreerd \ prewnt spates:a, os said to be achieved by do uo,ewn.,
made on thew', w•
my a pinion tbat on this point, and only twohs point, the contention improvement ; two trials have been tu . •
might lie considered to betaken. During t days the news remained with apparently satisfactory recoils. The greatest lea-.,
uneuntradieted, as beyond apy posse:day of doubt, and every prepa. i
ration wait made to attack the camp, when suddenly Mr. otefariski, bee - d The invention is the property of a Ohalagi
o rte .
who had been sent thither in older to prevail upon Eno CoUntryMen the head of which
is the wealthy Marquis of FAO •
to disperse, returned, and surprised by the news, made a solemn Duke of Palmella's son. thstb.
declaratioa that it wan Pillar in even' particular, and that tbe In the Portuguese navy some little excitement
the
diabanding nowhere preeented with such order as at Simla• created by the withdrawal from the service et
72
Thin
fling
ealtalae will be eenteieht te *hew the °term.'" English °dicer lately remaining in it, a Captain Sahel,:
fabric of tiro and otratageout with which I was surrounded.
having withdrawn the orders given to the army, I proceeded nal', . otti at the period of the last insurrecti,m, common
h 0 t edlion to the sout,
myself to Xi 7, and I found there so prolound a tranquillity that I naval portion ot e por o cep i 4,..„„ign
remine them for twenty-four hour. with ant the slighteat incon- by the British squadron. An n
o. ml was !ir,faig
omience.. From thence I went to Kmmin .ind Pimlico, from whence destroy Captain Salter, who io now 'offering treat r_.:;a-fa
the Prusalan authorities had withdrawn loam the commenconent of of poison (sugar of lead) administered to him by staas.r.4
these eventand I devised means for the final iiiti;Viptm of the camps. unknown. During the past few days he was nomO__,:.
I iouad the greateot order in that too lion of the duchy; the Prussian eagle
was everywhere lobe wen. anal the only alteration was in the white eaglecommand off the coast of Africa, when, in th refot izsr, „,
.
Ming placed ut its side. it in there that for the dist time I saw again the he pleaded his state o e t as a
fhal h reason for usillf_M
nt
gendarmes antiwar full equipment, who came to report themeelvestome. employ, accompanying his refusal by eorapete
if
cs."-vr to
Tilt only circus which kept the minds of the laileo in a feverish certificates. Being then enjoined to present lunar
u,jo
tate war the vicinity of a Proadan detachment of from 1,1,00 to meat at the Marine Hospital, Captain Salter ral!f,:g
1,300 men at Doffir.yea. The people assured me teat mon this us- his reply to the Major-Oeneral of Marine, the Isar.
mainoss would disappear as soon an this detachment was rertMed. I
tool upon myself w obtain it. Our troops went to Krotoam n, ant i ars s Laz XII that he might be permitted to relinealatl
erss"
have not hearth of asingle instance of any disturbance there till after honour of further serving her Majesty or the go, _A
the trooos had again enterer these districts, agalrist tiny wish most and on the 17th a royal decree •appetred in the gown-
fimly expreeted. TWA is the explanation of all the deplorable events ice anal seCelola.
Diariu, exonerating him from the servi , ... now
at Oostyn, Kor and Odolany, which, as far ant am able to resignation, and Portugal thus loses one ot 11 r
judge at thio distance, might have been iliViiiill if Use spirit cl. '• uished naval commanders. aCO
ot conciliation and mutual forbearance had wersaled, which and lasing . the London firm of Shaw 10-, jig
would have been perhaps ow of place in the midst of The suspension of
actual war, but which was highly autioublr ill t countiy, has been felt here ;several Lisbon houses are talk's:jot
remised. One a tb'uo
no nearly pacified, though now thrown again into the wildest anus 'Change as being seriously comp , _ ur.
motion. The next impcd'ment I met was in the conduct of some established British residents died this week, n aa•
so
landratha who, although scarcely posiewing a shadow of authority the senior partner in the Lisbon wine-house ot Luom,
(as, for instance, (he Tan of Krotowyn and of Itawirr). would
and Gabble ,-..111'.
~,,, •,i any amount permit the introduction of the I:.ettlitt'S ...s .• , . .... ,
0., .... 4 %,,,,,ki ge, to espy-
aela,:a hase peatacta die best caeca . i ether ia-Aitete, -int efedit, 01 tuO •Lisv .. 0 e

PORTUGAL.