The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1847.

tier, in one sense, may be described as the aggregate '
work of institutions. This is the only national edu-
cation England has known, the indirect influence of
its past legislation and history. This education,
though indirect, is complete as far as it goes, involving
both instrnotion and training, the imparting of in-
tellectual activity and a certain discipline of the
character. It remains for our ale to discover
how this indirect education may be aided by a more
direct application of means to inform the understand-
ing, and develope the conscience of those who are now
left to the wasteful and irregular discipline of cir-

cumstance.
The Penitentiary Congress which is to meet this
month at Brussels may perhaps help out a solution
of one of the many problems preliminary to this
master achievement. The treatment of criminals, it
must not be forgotten, is a subject with two aides to
it. The one presents to us the punishment of offences,
the other the reformation of criminals, as the principal
object in view. As has been well said in the report
of the Law Amendment Society's committee on cri-
minal law, no determination of the relative value of
these principles is called for from the law reformer.
Both principles should co-exist in a sound sy stem of
secondary punishments. The best discipline is that
which punishes while it reforms ; which makes the
convict a better man, while it inspires his associates
with dread.
If the discipline of the prison began and ended
there we should not be justified in devoting to the
subject the time and space we afford to it. But
this ie not the case. The prison and its
evils are the plague spots of the social
body. Their presence indicates a deeper malady
while it is not less a malady in itself. Reform of
the prison is a little matter, unless we apply our
efforts at the same time to the sources from which
.the prison is supplied. Turn your penitentiaries into
schools, gift your juries with infallibility and your
edges with superhuman wisdom, make your criminal
w the most perfect the world has known, yet, unless
you do your best to educate and spiritualise the
clam on which prison, judge, jury, and law have to
operate, you have done next to nothing for the per-
manent interests of the nation.
Prevention is better than cure. In vain do we try
to dam up the stream of crime while we neglect to
drain away the springs that supply it. Of the poor
creatures who crowd and cram our prisons, a large—
an overwhelming portion are the orphans of the
state, who have no one to care for their training to
what is good and useful, and whom the state is, there-
fore, bound to take under its especial care. Survey
the metropolis alone. In Spitalfields, Shoreditch,
Ratcliff, Saffron-bill, Seven Dials, the Almonry,
and similar purlieus, are to be found the
gardens in which young thieves are grown.
The inmates of these quarters are scavengers,
sweeps, helpers in stables, costermongers,
ballad-singers, charwomen, match sellers, rag-
sorters, dog-stealers, and prostitutes. From five to
seven in the morning these and other equivocal
industrials sally forth, often into distant localities,
to pursue their respective occupations. They leave
their rooms closed during their absence, having pre-
viously turned adrift all their children, or at most taken
the youngest along with them, and do not return to
their abodes until, perhaps, six or eight o'clock in the
evening. During the interval the children are left to
roam at large and find shelter and sustenance how
they may. Sometimes they are compelled to bring
back with them the fruits of the day's begging or
stealing. The wretched creatures have never in-
side of a school or home of prayer. They prowl about
the areas of houses begging or pilfering as opportunities
offer. They join in parties of three or four, and ex-
tend their operations to most parts of the town and
the outskirts. They are learned and adroit in the
profession of crime—regularly educated to it if to no-
thing else. Once committed to prison, they are sure
to return again ; sometimes in forty-eight hours at
farthest in the lapse of a few months. At each re-
committal a heavier punishment awaits them, till
they are ripe for banishment, if not for the gallows.
Of this class, 2,032 were in custody for trial or re-
examination in the county prisons of Middlesex, be-
tween the 29th of September, 1843, and the 20th of
April, 1846. This gives an average of 66 to the
month in these prisons alone. Among them there
may have been a few boys of better parentage but
depraved dispositions; such cases, however, are rare.
The greater part of them, however, are of the class
we have described, who have worse than no parents.
While we write we have before us a record of
authenticated cases of such beings. Turning its
leaves at random we light upon one aged sixteen,
who has been ten times in custody ; one of the same
age who has been nine times; one of eightears
who has been three times, and so on. And each and
all of them have either been in infancy deserted by
their parents, or thrown habitually upon the streets,
in the manner above described. Punishment has no
effect upon them. The sense of shame has been ex-
tinguished in their breasts before it was developed
into consciousness. Their only pride is in being dex-
terous in their profession. When dragged into court
they eye the array of jurors, officers, and witnesses,'
without the least sign of fear—gaze at the face of the
judge with perfect cempoeure, and await their sen-
tence with the apathy of red Indians.
Let senators enact and tribunals decree what pu-
nishments they please, fresh recruits for the ranks of
this army of crime will continue to be spawned unless
the state interfere. After mature reflection and in-
quiry, we can really see no remedy but in the institu-
tion of asylums to provide homes, education, isolation
from depraved sessiates, for these young aifs and
shays of our ovsemerwried and defectively-organised
society. _ _

IT is lucky for lie !or IUIXT DIDDLERS in the
House of Comma= that the average respectability of
their brethren is so high. Had this been otherwise
their immunity from arrest would long ago have fol-
lowed other extinct privileges. Their scantiness pro-
tects them. The nuisance is not sufficiently felt to
rouse a public opinion for its abatement. The privi-
lege adds a cheap dignity to the representative cha-
racter. It is not often that creditors wish to arrest
an M.P., and so the country is content to say,
with a sort of pride, that no M.P. can be arrested.
There is a relish in these immunities for all bat the
people who suffer from them. Probably there are a
few dozens of very sore creditors who are at this
moment grumbling bitterly over batches of unpaid
bills, contracted by popular members with safe seats.
But the country at large does not care very much
about the matter. It trusts to the habit, generally
prevalent among members of the House of Commons,
of paying their way, and while this habit happily
continues in vogue we do not anticipate a crusade
against the privilege that secures the member's
shoulder against the tap of that now broken-spirited
practitioner, the bailiff.
This privilege, however, is only the lest of a chain,
whose successive links have disappeared before the
corrosive tooth of time and its concomitant, com-
mon sense.
The member of either house of parliament ori-
ginally enjoyed privileges of which this of safety
from arrest is a very insufficient representative.
Not only was he safe from arrest himself,
but the same privileg extended to his ser-
vants and his property. His butler, or his
bailiff, might launch out into the most reckless pri-
vate expenditure, and no law could lay hold of him.
He stood within the charmed circle of his master's
privilege, and:the great
.devil cryiaa,,.and the imp fi. fa.,
howled powerless outside of it. No distraint or exe-
cution could be levied of a member's property. A
right was claimed and allowed of exemption from all
civil process whatever, of either member or his ser-
vants They were, moreover, discharged from the
liability to answer subpoenas and to serve on juries.
In fact, in those times, which may be said to ex-
tend to the reign of JAMES THE FIRST, the member
was a sacred animal, the odour of whose sanctity
communicated itself even to his man-servant and his
maid-servant, his oz and his ass. It cannot be sup-
posed that there was no reason for this, that it rested
on any inherent holiness in the person of the
member. The privilege was limitsd. to the time
which he was engaged in going to, attending at,
and returning from parliament. In those days par-
liaments did not sit the year round, as they do now,
with only the intervals of prorogation. They sat for
a month at a time, perhaps, often for less. Originally
these brief assemblages were not even annual. Than
the privilege stretched over much less of a member's I
life than the same immunities would do now-a-days.
Moreover, in those times of unsettled law, and tierce
conflict of contending powers in the state, the safety
thus extended to the persons, servants, and property of
members was really useful to the community. It often
protected a stout bulwark of parliamentary authority
against royal prerogative, or some honest assertor of the

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for their maeter's safe condnet through roads infested
with robbers, and almost impassable from want of
traffic and neglect. These were not the palmy
days of macadamised Wimples and snug inns,
still less of railways and electric telegraphs. Weeks
and months were consumed in journeys for which
days and weeks are now More than enough. As to
the security of property spinet distraint or execu-
tion, this also was not nnresarmable in times when
the presence of the parties to a suit had so much to
do with the way in which it was decided. While the
knight, or burgess, or baron was at Westminster, or
Winchester, or Northampton, attending the King in
parliament, it was very possible that a wealthy neigh-
bour, or lord, at political or private feud, might be
earwigging or bribing the sheriff in the county court,
and stealing a verdict adverse to his opponent.
None of these considerations any longer exists.
Parliament, if not sitting the whole year round, takes
care never to be prorogued for more than forty days
at a time, and thus the security which was formerly
limited to a comparatively short period of each year
is now good often for seven years, always for a very
long time. Nor are the interests of a constituency,
now-a-days, so singly bound up in the person of their
representative as to run much risk from his incarce-
ration for a just debt. Members are no longer
paid as they were when their privileges grew up.
The difficulty is not now to find representatives, nor
do we find towns, as in those days, using every effort
to get rid of the onerous honour of sending a member
to parliament. The constitution now provides against
the encroachments of one element of the government
upon another. Lincoln need not tremble for her fran-
chises if the gallant SIBTHORP were hauled off to
the Queen's Bench. The Tower Hamlets might lose
an eloquent orator if the irreverent bailiff were to
nail Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, but would ran little
deeper hazard. Westminster did not suffer sensible
prejuclice from the sporting sojourns of Mr. LEADER
at Cannes, nor did Oxford severely miss Mr. DONALD
MACLEAN. -

All the other privileges, except this of freedom from
arrest, have fallen before the statute law. The
still-surviving immunity owes its continued exist-
ence less to any inherent reasonableness or neces-
sity, than to the fact of its having been
less inconveniently felt than the others. Ireland,
perhaps, would clamour most loudly against its abro-
gation. Some of her members might see in it a fresh
blow of the Saxon against the Celt and his liberties.
Perhaps the cause of the sister island might not be
the worse for the passible purging of her repre-
sentatives that would follow from the destruc-
tion of this anomalous privilege. It does certainly
seem absurd, that in a commercial country like ours,
the one place from which a debtor may laugh his cre-
ditors to scorn should be the bench of the legislator.
There appears an incongruity in trusting any fraction
of the national credit to a man who has no credit of
his own, and in committing the voting of the supplies
to a gentleman avowedly oat at elbows. We hope to
see this anomaly done away with, and the truth recog-
nised that the best security for the performance of
public duties lies in the rigid discharge of private and
personal obligations.

'An outline of the following appeared in a portion
of our last evening's impression.]
It was announced in the Gazette de France, on
Monday evening, and reproduced by the Debuts, with-
out contradiction, yesterday, that a resolution had
been taken by the government to supply twelve thou-
sand muskets to the Pope, and that M. Rossi,
the French ambassador at Rome, bad been instructed
to submit this offer to his holiness, giving every de-
sired latitude for the payment.

The Madrid mails of the 2nd instant have been re-
ceived. Before the formality of resignation, M.
Pacheco had, by order of the Queen, directed Gen.
Narvaez to return to Paris to resume his functions as
ambassador. The general replied that it was his in-
tention to resign that office, and would do so as soon
as a minister of foreign affairs should be named.
The cabinet of M. Salamanca is completed, with the
exception of the ministry of foreign affairs and that
of justice and public worship. The Duke of Frias
was expected in Madrid on the sth; until his arrival
the cabinet would not be completed. Gen. Manuel
de la Conchs was named captain-general of Catalonia.
For the details of the events we refer to the letter of

our correspondent.
Despatches from Gen. Narvaez were received at
the hotel of the Queen Dowager, in Paris, on Mon-
day, when a council was held on the situation of
affairs at Madrid. It was affirmed in Paris that con-
siderable funds and letters of credit had been sent to
Names, to enable him to meet any emergency which
should present itaelf.

Our readers will remember that when we first
announced the intelligence of the " plot discovered"
at Rome last July, there was among the most ob-
noxious of those who were charged with directly or
indirectly promoting and countenancing that most
atrocious scheme, and who were compelled to fl, from
Rome before the storm of public indignation, a
certain Cardinal Lambruschini, against whom the
most foul charges were made. This individual had
been formerly secretary of state and prime minister
to the late Pope Gregory XVI., and was, in fact, the
head of the retrograde, and the arch-apostle of
Austria at Rome. e disappearance of his
eminence from Rome after the 15th of July, simul-
taneously with the expulsion of his worthy colleague,
M. Grasselini, various reports were circulated as to
the place of his retreat, some journals having stated
that he had withdrawn to Tuscany. The fact
was, that he quietly retired to Civita Vecchia,
of which he is the suburbicarian bishop and
that he has remained there ever since, a passive
but net unobservant witness of current events. The
population of that port daring his sojourn there have
not scrupled to impute to him intrigues against
Pius IX., and to declare that he availed himself of
the facilities of one of the chief ports of the ponti-
ficial states to maintain a correspondence with the
enemies of the government These reports and the
excitement of the population have moved his holi-
ness to cause it to be suggested to the cardinal that
his residence at Civita Necchia was open to incon-
venience, and that his removal to same place in the
interior of the states would be desirable. For a con-
siderable time his eminence resisted these instances,
but he at length yielded, and it was lately sig-
nified by him that he would remove to a chateau
situate in the interior of the country. His departure
was accordingly fixed for the evening of the 29th,
when his carriage wee prepared, and an escort of
cavalry in attendance. His eminence appeared,
entered the carriage, and ordered the curie-ye to take
the road to—Rome. The astonishment was uni-
versal, and the public at Civita Vecchia was lost in
conjectures of the object of so unexpected a resolu-
tion. However, the ex-secretary of Gregory XVI.
did depart for the capital, where he would have
arrived on the morning of the 30th. This intelli-
gence was received in Paris on Monday from a cor-
respondent of the Journal des Debate at Civita
Vecchia, who wrote the day after the departure of the
cardinal ; and that journal expresses no doubt of the
correctness of the statement The DElkals adds,
" We sincerely desire that the presence of M. Lam-
bruschini in the capital at the moment when the
affairs of Ferrara have produced so much agitation
may not be regarded as a provocation, may pro-
ductive of disorders."
We continue to receive, by various routes, in various
forms, and under various dates, information of the
adhesion of the Italian states to the cause of the sove-
reign pontiff, insulted and bearded in his own house,
so is speak, by the brutal soldiers of Austria. We
now learn, from La Bilancia, of the arrival of fresh
assurances at Rome from the court of Turin. The
same journal (which is understood to be the semi-
official organ of the cabinet of the Vatican) adds, that
it is given as certain that the King of Naples and
the Grand Duke of Tuscany have sent the same de-
clarations of adhesion as the King of Sardinia. The
latter prince has sent, as a mark of his approbation,
the grand cross of St. Maurice and Bt. Lazarus to
Cardinal Ferretti.

A correspondent of the Alba, a jonraal of Florence,
under the date of Turin, the 23rd ult., sayi that
eight waggons containing muskets had Isit the
arsenal of that city for Rome, on the night of the
22nd. They were to have been shipped at Gems.
The Corriere Lirornese says the Count Cristofero
Ferretti, brother of the cardinal, who had arrived in
that city, had declared that he had seen the auto-

goaph let to the Pops by width Kin-, of
4
&rads premised Whimerer required • corpli of
30,000 men, supplies Of arms and ainumnition, mid
the formation of a military cordon along the line of
the Po. Letters from Turin date that eight military
contingents were called under arms, and that the
regiments were put on a war footing.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 3rd inst., under date of
Rome the 23rd ult., says that the army of observation
of Forli wastoconsist of 13,000 men ; that a medal was

to be struck in commemoration of the protest made
against the occupation of Ferrara, having on one side
the head of Pius IX., and on the other the profiles of
Cardinals Ferretti and Ciacchi. It is reported that the
Austrians are lees offensive at Ferrara, and that the
posts are diminished.
Le arriere Livornese, of the 28th, gives the follow-
ing from Pisa :
On the evening before yesterday a demonstration took
place in this town to celebrate at once the institution of the
council of state the creation of the civic guard, and the
news just arrived that an engagement had taken place at
Ferrara between the Roman and Austrian soldiers, in which
the latter had been worsted. A crowd of upwards of 400
persons started from the Union, coffee-house, and went to
the palace of the governor, with the cries of, " Viva
Leopold II! Viva la Consuela Viva la Guards
Civica!" &e. His Excellency the Governor appeared
on the balcony, and acknowledged those demonstra-
tions. The crowd, which was increasuig every instantmet
us it parsed before Saint Zones with a body of the civic
guard, who immediately placed themselves at the head of the
people, and opened the march to the sound of trumpets.
The whole cortige proceeded in this manner throughout the.,
town, and every citizen they met joined them in their crimp.,
and agitated green branches and flags es a sign of their
ascent. This immense crowd very quietly dispersed about 10
o'clock. Yesterday evening bonfires were lighted in several
squares, and demonstrations, similar to those of the previous
evening, took place, not only among the inhabitants of the
town, but also among a crowd of people from the environs.
During these two evenings the greatest order prevailed, and
not a voice was heard to oppose the sentiment/ expressed by
the population.
••- • •

. .
The Bt!anew affirms that the proposition of Austria
to settle the Ferrara question by arbitration cannot be
safely accepted by the Pope. There is, in fact, no
question to arbitrate. It is intimated that many
formidable instruments remain to be resorted to by
the pontifical government before the actual resort
to military force will be necessary, among which not
the least powerful are the thunders of excommunica-
tion, which it is a great error to suppose have lost
all their terrors.

We gave yesterday intelligence from Berne, of the I
3rd instant, to the effect that the Swiss Diet had
come to a definite resolution for the expulsion
of the Jesuits from the territory of the con-
federacy. This is the last of the great questions
involving implicitly the internal tranquillity of
Switzerland which the federal legislature will have
for the present to decide. It will be remembered that
the following resolutions have been successively
adopted by the same majority of twelve whole can-
tons and two half cantons, of the entire number of
twenty-two:-1. The dissolution of the Sonderbund,
or separate league of the seven smaller cantons. 2.
The dismissal from the federal service of all officers
entering the service of the Sonderbund. 3. A revi-
sion of the federal pact, with the purpose of prevent-
ing in future the internal discord of the confederacy,
by strengthening the central and common legislature
and executive. 4. The expulsion of the Jesuits.
All these measures have been voted, notwithstanding
the persevering efforts of the diplomacy of France
and the despotic states of Europe, which have
neglected nothing which could encourage and
stimulate the resistance of the minority, by menaces
directed against the federal government on the one
hand, and by open promises of support and secret aid
in money and the munitions of war to the resisting
cantons on the other. But as yet these decisions of
the Diet are nothing more than declarations of its will.
They have not only received no obedience from the
parties to whom they have been addressed, but they
have been met by a formal avowal of resistance and
non-compliance from one of the cantons of the
league, and the like course will certainly be adopted
by the others. Besides this, the Diet has not pre-
scrbed to the vorort the means of coercing the recu-
sant cantons, and enforcing the executions of its deci-
sions, and, until this is done, the resolutions are mere
br alum fulmen. An adjournment of the Diet was to take
place in a few days until the beginning of November,
when it will re-assemble for the express purpose of
coming to a decision on the means of forcibly carry-
ing into effect the above resolutions. The interval
which will elapse in the meanwhile will answer
several purposes. In the first place, the recreant
cantons will have time for calm reflection, and the
excitement attending the discussions at Berne will
have time to cool down. The cantonal governments
of the majority will have time to discuss the means of
enforcing the execution of the decisions of the Diet,
and will instruct their delegates accordingly. The'
commencement of winter will render the communi-
cation between the cantons for military purposes
impracticable. Thus the Valais will be deprived
of the power of aiding the resistance of the
lesser cantons. Berne and Argan can coerce Lucerne
and Zurich, Thurgovia and St Gall can exercise the
same power over Zug; finally Vaud and Berne will
lay their strong hands on Fribourg. As to the means of
execution, the only doubt of an energetic decision
rests with the canton of St. Gall. This canton has,
by its delegates, voted with the majority in all the
vital questions. But its grand council gave no in-
struction as to the means of execution. If, through
the influence of the diplomatic agents of France and
Austria, a division should be produced in its council,
and that it should recoil from sanctioning the execu-
tion of the measures of the Diet by armed force, then
the confederacy will be still in the Fame state of inter-
nal distraction and discord as hitherto. If it should
decide in favour of energetic execution, then an inter-
cantonal war seems at present inevitable.

MADRID, SEPT. 2. 1,
Of the two seats which remained vacant in the ca- ;
binet one is assigned to D. Garcia Goyene, who ar-
rived yesterday from La °ramjet, and has accepted the
portfolio of Grace and Justice, and the other, the
Ministry of State, is said to Live been offered to '
Ayllon, the Spanish ambassador at Lisbon. Concha 1
ie appointed to succeed Pavia as captain-general in
' Catatonia. General AWn will probably be named
captain-general of Madrid. The place lately occupied 1
by Cordova, of inspector-general of infantry, will be
given to General Bluer. Three candidates are put
in nomination for the poet of political chief of Madrid,
vacated by Escosars, namely his brother D. Narciso,
D. Francisco Cabello, and D. Miguel Rods—the last
a progAfter the construction of the ministry, the first step
will be to come to a clear understanding with the
grat mass of the liberal party, or rather with their
leaders. Without the effective support of these,
Salamanca's cabinet is a house built of cards to be
blown down by the first breath. Everything, there-
fore, depends upon the nature and number of the
concessions to the progresistas, which will appear in
the ministerial programme. It seems that Senor
Salamanca has assured Mendizabal and other leading
men or the same party, that they may count upon his
administration being based upon the following prin-
ciple, and directed to the achievement of the measures
which I am about to indicate :
1. To recognise and practise principles of absolute tolera-
tion, ample reparation, and impartialitutioe.-2. To forget,
as much as possible, the history of past dissensions, and
look at men in relation to the present and future, rather
than the past.-3. To admit, without regard to olitical
party shades, all citizens to the participation of honours and
public offices, judging them by their merits alone. In the
military, civil, and diplomatic mew will figure men pf ell
opinions.-4. A pardon will be published in favour of the
Carlists, of which they may avail themselves within a cer-
tain period.-6. To compewmte, in part, some of the wrongs
which the progresista party have received from the exeltudons
and monopolies exercised by preceding governments, all
will be acknowledged as senators, who held that reek at the
time of the political change which took clan in lea com-
prising among others, General Linage, hiseeks As he gam
Don Eamon Gild. la Cuadss, Dow Alellaire lavas, and
Don Pedro Acuns.-6. Don Beldemsne Bogart= shall be
named senator, and permitted as Mass to Spain.-7.
Considering that the palace-cotestiew belongs by its origin
and nature to the class of private geestkme, and that the
discussion of the same in the peen eengerembea the dignity
of, and tends to sap loyalty iOl/111611 the throne, its public
handling in the papa* will be prehilated, in the same
manner as the ffiseumon of the right of the Duchess
of Moatpsasler to the enseenice, a snidest inti-
mately cowateted with the Weft question-bis been
prohibita-11. Two additional miniterial aepertamats
sill be gresali, separating the dim
and easeasaree from that et ha
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solassisl-ase to take the &salsa of the ander ite
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'omits! reforms, announced in the decrees of August 1
and 8, will publish others introducing important modi-
fications in the system of government monopolies.-
10. Senor Salamanca will actively promote the sole of na-
tional property, and will apply himself to every species of
liquidation.-11. Senor Cordon has determined to put into
immediate execution the decree framed by Senor Serrano in
November, 1843, upon the recognition of the ranks and
honours conceded by the Duke of Victoria during his re-
gency.-12. Senor Cordova will also embody in a decree the
favourable reception given by her Majesty to the late peti-
tion presented
iby progresista senators and deputies on
behalf
of officers n the arm who shed their blood and
spent their fortunes in the defence of the throne of Isabel
11.-13. The some minister has also manifested a favourable
opinion in behalfof the claims of the soldiers, corporals, and ser-
geants who served in the last civil war—claims acknowledged
by the Cortes, 30th Sept., 1839, and recently favourably
entertained by the government. —l4. The minister to be of
grace and justice will find employment for the services of the
magistrates and judges, that in consequence of their prin-
ciples have remained out of office since '43.-15. In the
meantime to the same magistrates and indeed will be
awarded an order on the treasury for not less than one-fifth
of the pay which they received during their last employ-
ment.
_ _

These, then, are the chief features of Salamanca's
bargain with the progresistas, and if he carries the
same viForously and without delay into execution, he
may, without doubt, count upon their support. The
storm of opposition which is raised against him by the
moderados may be easily conceived. But as the chief
part of their arguments reduce themselves either to sheer
abuse or raking up the antecedents of the present minis-
ter, as a banker, contractor, &c., they are really of very
little weight No stain whatever rests on the cha-
racter of Salamanca, whatever vicissitudes of luck
may have attended his career; and generally he
bears the reputation of a man of jnteirrity and talent.
For an adventurer (as he is disperaqm6ly called) to
become minister is nothing new in Spain, where the
regency, the best government which the country has
seen, was headed by the son of a humble carretero.
The weak point in Salamanca is his aunarWa con-
nexion. If he had strength of mind enough to lean
more on the country and less on the court, his position
would be much more respectable, and, perhaps, not
less firm.

It is said that Narvaes, having received orders from
the government to return to Paris as ambassador, has
resigned that poet. The Faro has been recently di-
recting a series of spiteful personal attacks against
Duke Ventura de la Vega, generally reputed a harm-
less person, without much political influence. It is
supposed that the Faro, not being able safely to make
a direct attack upon the Queen, wreaks its displeasure
I upon her Majesty's secretary. The same paper flatters
Concha with the view of keeping him out of office.

FRANCE. The scientific congress of France
opened its 15th session at Tours on the let of Sept.—Deksts.
PARIS SAVINGS BANK.—The following is the re-
sult of the operations of the Paris Savings Bank : Money
received by the Paris Savings Bank on Sunday, sth, and
Monday, Bth Sept , from 5,600 deponents, 550 of whom
are new ones, 604,006 franca. Reimbursements during the
same week to 1,865 deponents, .508 of whom paid out,
566,653 francs. 92 centimes. Stock bouAt in for deponents
during same week for a capital of 25,595 francs. Demands
of reimbursements on the sth of Sept. kr 621,549 francs.—
DOW& _ _ _

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Monday
afternoon, a winc dealer named Boccage, whose shop formed
the corner of the Rue du Bon Puits and the Rue Travervine,
near the media des Plantes, had his life attempted by a man
named Jafvier, a sawyer, who had long threatened to wreak
upon him his vengeance under the impression that Boccage
had seduced his wife from him. In fact Jafrier's wife had
deserted him, and taken up her abode in the house of Boc-
cage, who, besides his wine trade, took in lodgers. Here
she died two years ago, and yet the vengeful spirit in hairier
had not left him. Watching his opportunity he found Roe-
cage alone behind his counter, and entering discharged one
of a pair of pieols at him, and turned the other against
himself. The attempt at suicide failed, but Boccage, though
not instantaneouely killed, is believed to be mortally wounded.
Jafvier was immediately arrested.
BELGIUM.—THE TRIPLE MURDER AT BRUSSELS.
—Seri. 8.--Notwithstanding the most minute investigation,
nothing certain has yet been discovered relative to the per•
petrators of this dreadful crime •, it is, however, hoped that
they may soon be traced. On Saturday afternoon a woman
carrying a buket accosted a peasant with an air of great
embarrassment, and inquired of him the road to the gate of
Namur. He was about to point it out to her, when she com-
menced speaking in a hurried manner of the asausination,
inquiring what was thought of it in the town, whether the
murderers were found, &c. The bewildered look of the

woman excited the suspicion of the peasant, who tome-
diately informed an officer who was near. This per-
son immediately joined the woman, and, entering into
conversation with her, led the subject to the mur-
der ; and being also struck with her extreme em-
barrassment, gave her in charge of an agent of the police,
wbo was passing. She was taken to the police-office, and in
her basket was founds scrap of paper, on which was written:
Evenepoel . . . . place Saint Gery . . . house inhabited
by three women." The result of the investigation of this
woman has not been made public ; all we know is, that the
woman is still in custody. The two servants were interred
at two o'clock on Saturday, at the cemetery of Molenbeck,
in a very quiet manner. The remains of Mademoiselle
Evenepoel were taken to the cemetery of Lacken, at four
o'clock, attended by an immense crowd of persons. The
hearse was followed by nineteen mourning coaches, con-
taining the relatives and friends of the deceased lady.
TUE ANTWERP ELECTION.—ANTWERP, SEPT. 6.
M. Rosier, Minister of the Interior, and M. Veydt, Minister
of Finance, have been reelected representatives of Antwerp,
the former by 640 votes, and the latter by 648, consequently
out of 2,088 voters whose names are enrolled only 685 took
part in the elections of the day. On the Bth of June last M.
Cateaux Wattel had 781 votes, therefore 133 electors who
gave their suffrages to the candidate of M. Rogier's political
opinions in the month of June had absented themselves. In
184.5 M. Rogier had 1,064 votes, and M. Veydt 1,0.5.5 ; M.
Veydt, therefore, had 407 votes less than in 1845, and M.
Rogier 424. It is a pretty evident standard of public
opinion.
GERMANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, SEPT. 2.
Tux rowels TazeLe.—The court was this day occupied with
the case of Dr. LiebelL _ _ _

BErrmA.--The Berlin correspondent of the Co-
logne Gazette states that Madame von Arnim will not ap-
peal against her sentence, bat submit to the two months'
imprisonment.
GREECE.—DEFEAT OF GRIZIOTIS.—Acconnts just
received from Athens state that the insurrection which was

organised by GrisiotL u sons u b• e;cipeci from the prison
of Cheris, has been completely put down by the royal
troops. The number of his followers amounted to 4,000
men; they consisted of peasants and the lowest and most
disreputable characters of the city. After General Grivu
had taken preeautionary measures, sufficiently reinforced
the :number of his regular and irregular troops, and hod
surveyed the position chosen by the rebels, in the vicinity
of Challis, after the island of Negroponte had been de-
clared in a state of blockade, and a royal proclamation
had commanded the inhabitants to return peaceably to
their homes, a simultaneous fire war opened upon the
entrenchments and passes erected by the rebels. Grisiotis
himself was wounded by the four first balls; his left hand
was taken off, and the lower part of his body severely In-
jured. Quite unable, notwithstanding his personal bravery,
any longer to take the command, he was carried by some of
his people into the interior. From the report of General
Grivas to the government, it appears uncertain whether he
survived, as there was a great want of medical aid. Imme-
diately after Griziotis was gone, the insurgents took to flight.
The loss was very great; and it is probable that the num-
ber of troops killed and wounded equalled the rebels. Active
search is being made for Grisiotia, and he must certainly be
taken unless he has effected his escape in an English steamer,
which was seat to take him on beard at Kurni or Karysto.