The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-12 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The German papers are filled with comments on
the note of Prince Sehwarzenberg to the smaller
states. The Berlin correspondent of the Koiner
Zeitung communicates, it says from a good source,
new propositions of Prussia ; they arc that the
presidency of honour should remain with Austria,
whilst the real presidential functions should be
exercised by Austria and Prussia conjointly, viz.,
that all the acts of the Diet should bo signed and
published by both presidents. The seventeen votes,
according to this new project, arc to be retained, but
differently distributed : 3 for Austria, 3 for Prussia,
2 for Bavaria, 1 for each of the three kingdoms, 1 for
Baden, 1 for the two Hessen, and 4 for the other
small states. The Franif9rt Journal says, however,
that in well informed circles it is reported that Prince
Schwarzenbcrg will eventually consent to return to
the old Diet. The news from Bosnia is that on the
26th February, the Bosnian insurgents took posses-
sion of Banjaluka; and that on the 6th March, after
having been once repulsed, they had also obliged the
citadel of that town to surrender.
Our correspondent writes as follows :
BERLIN, MARCH 9.

I forwarded by last night's post the result of the short
debate on Vincke's motion for an inquiry into the state of
the country. The recommendation of the committee ap-
pointed to consider it, via., to proceed to the order of the
day, was adopted by a
majorityy. of 228 to 41 votes. The
only persons who spoke were ir incke, Bodelschwingh (the
reporter to the commission), and the minister Manteuffel.
fhe arguments on which Vincke supported his motion
were, that the ministry war in duty bound to inform the
country, through the Chamber, of the position of the foreign
policy of the country, of the true nature of the meetings at
Warsaw and Glints, and of the intentions of the govern-
ment with regard to the reconstruction of the central federal
power. A large party in the Chamber demanded this informa-
tion, and ought not to be left to seek for information in the
columns of discredited ministerial organs. The policy of
the government in the affairs of Schleswig-Holstein hod
resulted in the presence of from '20,000 to 25,000 Austrians
on the left bank of the Ellie, endangering the communica-
tion with the northern and Baltic provinces, and able to
unite with the Danish army in the duchy of Schleswig.
The same was the case in Hesse, where Austria had inter-
vened without hearing both sides, and had ruined the
most peaceful race in Germany. Thousands of Hersiaas
were being compelled to emigrate to America, when their
forefathers had in a former period shed their Wood to fill
the exchequer of a former elector. The Austrians and
Bavarians held a position in Hesse enabling them to cut
off all connexion between the eastern and western provinces
of Prussia. The country had a right to inquire what kind
of treaty had been concluded with Austria. Were all the
provinces of Austria to he admitted into the confederation ?
`'incite then alluded to the Erfurt Union, and declared that
the humiliation of abandoning the scheme might have been
accomplished without putting the country to an expense of
32,000,000 thalers—a sum which might have been spent in-
finitely more to the advantage of the best interests of the
country. The ministry, no doubt, were desirous of an op-
portunity of justifying their policy; he was glad to be the
instrument of affording it. Until that justification was ac-
complished he must assume that his view of the state of the
country was shared in by the majority of the people ; and if
this were so, one of the necessary bases of the state, respect
fur the government, was wanting.
Manteuffel in reply, as usual, tried the house at a
joke, and, as usual, failed. He then quoted a para-
. graph from a speech made by Vinckc in 1849, in which
that gentleman declared that it was not the parliamentary
custom in England to lay bare the wounds inflicted on the
history of the country by former events, still less, if it were
done, to greet them with approval. lie applied this quo-
tation by requesting the Chamber not to use their parlia-
mentary freedom to represent the condition of the Prussian
state worse than it really wu. Prussia was in a different
position from the year 1648--it wu strong again in its own
good right and strength, and lee advised the Chambers to
prove to the country and to the foreigner that Prussia was
strong under its new constitution through its internal
, concord. - . . . .

After a few words from Bodelsehwingh, and an explana-
tMn from Vineke, the Chamber divided, with the result al-
ready mentioned.
The Dresden conferences were to have resumed their sit-
tings Toa..rday, but, under existing circumstances, a longer
delay to anticitsted. Several of the newspapers auert that
the resumption of the sittings of the Frankfurt diet may
shortly be expected. These are at present mere supposi-
doss.

TER PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S
SIZAXILA SINUAI-010!, which is about to take out troops to
the Cape, as stated in swieril.iy's E.:press, was heavily
coaled for India. She wilt now be unburdened of some of
her cads, in order to accommodate as many troops as pos-
sible. She is advertised to tale out a ship letter mail to
the Cape, and, as she is a remarkably fast steamer, it is ex-
weed that it will be a very heavy mail. It should be
borne in mind by the public that correspondence to be sent
by her must be specially addressed per private ship, or per
Singapore. As the Singapore will start from Southampton
about the same time as the Cape mail screw steamer from
Plymouth, there will be a good op ytunity of testing the
zebtive merits of the ,crow and r.d.bvs deanier.

'Ely Court.

OSBORNE, Trnsuar, MARCH 11.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert ,took their accus-
tomed early walk this morning in Osborne Park.
The Prince or Wales and the younger brunches of the
Royal family walked and rode.
The Marchioness of Douro relieved the Viscounte.A Can-
ning as Lady in Wititin* this day.
There was no addition yesterday to the Royal dinner
party.

A deputation from London, Liverpool, and Birmingham,
on the subject of the adulteration of coffee, consisting of
Mr. Thom.ui Baring, M.P. (chairman), Mr. G. Moffat,
M.P., Messrs. Twining, Peek, Drone, Quick, Antrobus,
Henry Cooper, Turner, and Farrer, jun. (London) ; Messrs.
Shand, Bromley-Moore, Sharpe, and Harrison (Liverpool);
and Mr. Griffin (Birmingham), had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday at his official re.idence in Downing-
street. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was present with
Lord John Russell at the interview.

Sir William Clay, M.P., had an interview yesterday with
Sir George Grey at the Home-other. Sir John Burgoyne
had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman Of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview yesterday with Lord Johu
Russell at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr.

John Wood had also an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Divett, M.P., Mr. Bad-
ham (sivretary), and Mr. Clark (solicitor), of the Bristol and
Exeter Railway Company, and Mr. Charles Parkes, parlia-
mentary agent, had an interview yesterday with the Com-
missioners of Railways at the Board of Trade.
The American Minister had an interview with the Right
Hon. henry Labouchere yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had an
interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
A deputation, consisting of Major Beresford (North Coun-
ties Union Railway), Mr. Lang (Direct London rind Ports-
mouth Railway), Mr. Young (secretary), and Mr. Parks
(solicitor), had an interview with the Commissioners of
Railways yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
The Oxtord University Commission met yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the lreasury, Down-
ing-street. Present—The Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of
Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. U. Liddell,
J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. U. FL S. Johnson, and the
Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary).

(Perin last niste's Gazette.)
FOREION-OFFICE, MARCH FL—lt is hereby notified,
that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal &ere-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received despatches
from her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at °maternala, dated
respectively the sth of November and the 2nd of December
last, ludo:mut two letters from Commander Hayes, of her
Majesty's ship Champion, which had arrived off the coast
of the State of Salvador, by order of Rear-Admiral Unruh'',
Commander-in-chief of her Majesty's Naval Forces in the
Pacific, stating in the first, that he had placed an embargo
on all traffic in the port of " The Union, ' and declaring, in
the second, the entire coast of Salvador to be in a state of
blockade.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCU 7.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. John Watson Bain as Consul in
New Zealand fur the King of the Ilawiian Islands.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCR 11.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint William Barrow, Esq., to be Chief
Clerk in the office of her Majesty's Treasurer for the Island
of Mauritius.
IVIIITELIALL, MARCH B.—The Queen has been
phased to present the Reverend Grigor Stewart to the
church at Kinloch Likart or Kinloch Linehart, in the
parish of Coutin, in the presbytery of Dingwall, and shire
of Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend
Duncan Simon Mackenzie, late Minister there, to the
church and parish of Gairloch.
COMMISSION SIGNED RI THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF
DERHYSItIllE.—Edward Sacheverel Chandos Pule, jun.,
Esq., to be deputy-lieutenant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

WORSIIIP-STREET.

Ann Fleminl, an lriahwuaun,waa---clL;ged with a.ssaulting
Jane Spilling.
The pour woman, who was in a state of great exhaustion,
and carried an infant in her arms, stated that prisoner was
her lodger, and lust evening, while in estate of intoxication,
insisted on some money being lent her. This being refused,
she seized a poker, and struck witness several times on the
head, till she ran screaming from the house.
The constable who took the prisoner into custody de-
posed to the complainant staggering into his arms, covered
with blood. The baby was clinging to her neck, and at the
AMC instant he distinctly Saw the prisoner throw tke poker
at the woman, whom it missed, and struck the head of a
paver-by.
The only defence the prisoner offered was that she had
been aggravated.
Mr. Arnold said that, but for the circumstance of the
complainant being unable to meet the exp.•nse of a prose-
cution, he would send the case to the sessions ; as it was, he
ordered her to pay a fine of di., or be committed for two
months.

ANTICIPATED VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO Pal-
. —lt is now fully anticipated that her Majesty will
honour Pembroke Dock-yard with her presence on the oc-
casion of the launch of the Victoria, first-rate, which it is ex-
petted will take place very shortly. Should her Mikkety
honour the neighbourhood with her presence, the Earl of
Cawdor will place his scat, Stack's)le-court, at the disposal
of her Majesty. The dock-yard strength has been increased
to 898 men.
STEAmEns.—By a recent arrival from Per-
nambuco intelligence has been received of the movements
of the Teviot mail steamer, which took out the first Bra-
zilian mail from Southampton on the 9th of January last.
It appears that she reached Pernambuco on the 2nd of
February, which is the day she should have reached that
port. This is satisfactory, as it shows that she kept time
during 4,000 miles of her outward voyage. The Petrel,
which has just arrived nt Falmouth, is the last of her Ma-
jesty's sailing brigs that will bring a Brazilian mail of any
importance. Rer Maksty's brig Seagull has to come home
from Brasil, but her dates will most probably he anticipated
either by the Teviot, which is now due, or by the Tay,
which will be due the beginning of next month. It
was stated in the Times on Monday that British mails
were sent out by the American packet Franklin, which left
Cowes on Saturday. As the Franklin and Arctic are both
American mail packets, and as they both started on Satur-
day for America, one from Cowes and the other from ,1
Liverpool, it was a matter of some importance to know
which took out the American mails made up in the General'
Post-office on Friday last, and whether any letters posted
subsequently to that day were forwarded by either of the
American packets. Inquiries have been made at the Gene-
ral Post-office, and it has been ascertained that the Ameri-
can mails were despatched by the Arctic, that no mails
were sent out by the Franklin, and that all letters posted
in London alter krill', night last, will be forwarded by the
British steamer Canada, which leaves Liverpool on Satur-
day next.
filE SAILOfts ON STRIKE, who visited Manchester
early last week to make subscriptions on behalf of their
brethren at Liverpool, arc still in that town, to the number
of 180 or 200, and go about in companies of three or four,
handing the begging-box to housekeepers, shopkeepers, and
others. On Saturday they presented themselves at the
mills at wage time, and the hands coming into posse:sib* of
money were generally disposed to be liberal in their dona-
tions. They have a committee-room in Anenats, where the
public are invited to visit them at their meetings, and they
have it in contemplation to get np a ball. On Sunday
morning they proceeded, a little before eleven o'clock, in a
procession to the Cathedral Church. As they went
through tho streets, thousands of curious people col-
lected about and accompanied them. They were
too late for the opening of service. The cathedral was
crowded with a fashionable audience, whose gay dresses
would have contrasted strangely with Jack's more homely
attire ; but the admission of such a body of men to the
sacrist edifice at that time was out of the question. The
Mayor of Manchester and Mr.Birley, senior churchwarden,
left the church to have an interview with them, represent-
ing to the leaders the crowded state of the edifice already,
and they ultimately retired, but not • much pleased with
having to do so. llithiTto they. have so conducted them-
selves as to leave little room for interference with them by
the police. Their leaders maintain something like discipline,
and any misbehaviour, such as drunkenness or swearing, is
punished by cropping off nearly the whole of the hair,
after which the culprit is taken to the railway station, his
fare paid to Liverpool, and sentence of banishment carried
out without appeal.
ADMIRALTY, MIAMI 11.—PROMOTION. —To be
Acting Carpenter, Richard Calloway.
Areot.terwesra.—Flag-Lieutenant F. G. Prohyn to the
Penelope. Lieutenant (additional) J. It. Alexander to ditto.
Masters J. E. Barton to the aeon, and R. D. Stuart to the
Trafalgar. Pursers John Williams to the Monarch, and
W. Young to the Penelope. Secretary's Clerk Robert
Bone to ditto.
DETACRMF.NTS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—
' Yesterday it was mentioned that orders were received at
Southampton to prepare the Singapore for the conveyance
of troops to the Cape. These troops will consist of drafts
from the depots of the 6th, 4.5 th, and 73rd regiments, and
from the lit battalion of the 91st to strengthen those regi
memo now serving in the Cape Colony. We have
already alluded to this but repeat it now because an erro-
neous
impression is afloat that a regiment in addition to the
' 7ith is to proceed to the Cape. No other regiment will go
there unless the government should receive despatches of
such an unfortunate nature as to necessitate further rein-
forcements.

TILE STARVATION CA ~E AT BATlL—Edward Spa-
ring, the husband of Harriet Spiting, whose dtath resulted
(ruin want of the common necessaries of life, as reported in
the Express, bas been apprehended and committed to the
Bath gaol, under the coroner's warrant, to await his trial at
the ensuing Somerset assizes, on the charge of wilful mur-
der. It will be recollected that Sparing absconded as cam
as he heard that an inquest was to be held on his wife, and
had sot been apprehended when the inquiry cbsed. It
now appears that he went to Bristol, where be bulged for
some days, in great secrecy, and whilst there enlisted into the
30th regiment of font, under the name of Edward Woodmen,
and on Wednesday last was sent off with other recruits to
his regiment. He was apprehended in Widmer Barracks,
Sent' sad pawky kdged in the Bath gaol.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MARCH 11.
Evidences are not wanting in the lrihh papers to
show that the mothheation4 of the Eeelmastical
. .

Titles Bill will have but little effect in propitiating
the hostility. to it in this country. Another missive
from Archbishop M'Halc has made its appearance
this morning, in the shape of an epistle to Lord ,
John Russell.
Never, perhaps (says the Lion of Judah), in any former
period of its eventful history has there been such a strong
union of all classes--a union, thanks to your lordship's
policy, brought about by the conviction of the hostility with
which they are threatened, and the necessity of the most
strenuous exertions to avert it. You now, forsooth, condo- j
osend to bring in your penal bill in a more mitigated form.
No mitigation short of its utter rejection will satisfy the
catholic people of Ireland.
To the Irish members he administers the following
gentle hint:—
The eyes of all are turned now to parliament, watching I
to sec whether their members are at their pests, though,
like the Roman senator of old, they should be carried
thither on their couches. No apology can henceforth plead
with the people if those members do not exert themselves'
in stopping the present penal enactment. Opposition—stem,
persevering opposition—to your hateful measure, in season
and out of season, is the paramount duty of every Irish
member of parliament, as well as opposition to every other
measure you propose until you abandon the bill which in
an evil hour you proposed, oruntil imee more you abandon
the helm.
The following account of a desperate struggle
with an agrarian assassin, and the death of the
latter, is furnished by a correspondent of ,Sattruferis
News Letter

PAasossrower, SATURDAY.—About the hour of o'clock
on Friday night last, when Timothy (loran, who resides at
ltathbeg, within about three miles and a half of Parsons-
town, and less than a mite from the police station at Shan-
vogue, Was returning from hi,. work, when within a few
yards of his own house he was fired at by a man named
Patrick Morgan, who, with another person unknown, lay
in wait tar hint. Fortunately the shut did not take effect.
Morgan finding he had not accomplished his deadly ob-
ject seized a gun front his associate, which he presented at
Cloran, but it missed fire. Morgan then struck Cloran
with the butt-end of his gun, which cut his head and
injured his chest. Cloran then seized the ruffian by the
breast, and loudly called out " Murder ! Police !'' which,
no doubt, induced the unknown man to make away.
Cloran's wife heard his cries, and she ran to his assist-
ance, when a desperate struggle ensued between Morgan.
Cloran, and his wife, during which the latter, with a stone,
so severely wounded Morgan in the head, that he lay in-
sensible until the arrival of the police from Sharavoguc,
who procured a ear, and removed Morgan to their barracks,
where he died about a quarter past eleven o'clock same
night. In his pockets were found a small bottle of wliskey,
souse balls, and a few percussion caps. During the conflict
Mrs. Cloran succeeded in capturing the gun, which Morgan
had snatched from his comrade, after discharging his own
at her husband, and which she handed over to the police
on their arrival ; it was capped and heavily loaded. Cloran
is bailiff to Captain Richardson, an extensive land agent;
' he has been recently placed in care of a log, from which his
predecessor was dismissed. Ile also within the last week
purchased and retains in his possession a cow and ass, which
were seized and sold for non-payment of rent. These are
the causes alleged for the attempt to deprive him of life.
Morgan, in the agonies of death, loudly called on some
persons to come to his assistance, and those to whom he
alluded have been arrested, and are detained in custody.
A coroner's inquest was held next day on the body of
Morgan, when a verdict of " Justifiable homicide " was re-
turned. The jury also attached a " rider" to their ver-
dict, recommending, in the strongest manner, Cloran and
his wife to the consideration of the government for their
valorous conduct. It is stated that Morgan was a tailor,
and it is generally believed he was hired to shoot Cloran,
as neither he nor any of his faintly has had any connexion
whatever with the property over which Cloran acts as
bailiff. On Sunday evening, the second person engaged in
the attack on Cloran was captured. His name is Patrick
Mnylan. lie was identified, and at once committed for
At the Waterford Assizes last week two men,
named Cody, father and son, and l'hos. Carty, were
tried for the murder of Thomas Phelan, one of the
most remarkable of the agrarian crimes of last year.
The trial occupied two days, and the jury, after be-
ing locked up from Thursday evening until Saturday
morning, were at length discharged without agreeing
to a verdict. The learned judge was aroused at two
o'clock on Saturday morning with a statement that
the lives of two or three of the jurors were in danger
if they were detained any longer, and his lordship
went at once to court and discharged them. Nine or
ten of them are said to have been for a conviction.
It is said that government has issued directions for
the prosecution of some of the apprentice boys of
I )erry, under the Processions Act, for their last riotous
party celebration.