The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29. 1848.

of that enormous incubus brought home to the
bosoms ot all.
We say, then, that on the simple around of his I
pledging himself in favour of thorough and search-
ing retrenchment, even were his declarations in favour
of other popular measures less derided than they
are, Sir Ctmuso EARDLET is well deserving of the
welcome which he has met with from the electors of
all the districts which he has yet had time to ennuis.

three forts, • regiment d infantry, and • frigate or
tete Whiisould they be navel sad military
statists P should gotta be erected and sadism
sent to 031111 too poor to attract invaders P
Why eboidd frigates be stationed when they
can serve DO Ilertbil P TIN civil establish-
ment of the Behests:. (=s bland included) oats
this country annually 3,4004 This outlay is quite
uncalled for. The honest wreckers of the Bahama
and solteakers of Turk's Island,with the few ealtivs-
tore of provisions for them and the traitor *lt
them, and the slop-sellers who and a
emild support mat a chief magistrate sal =ll
elected bees among themselves, at less them ME the
, out of their own menaces, if left to diem-
= But if these half-drowned rooks most, reason
or none, remain • burden on this country, it will be
better to continue to pay 3,4001. a year to their civil
functionaries, than to be at the expense of erecting
forts 00 them, of raising an extra regiment of the
line to garrison these forte, and adding two frigates
to our navy to cruise off them. The regiment alone
would not east oilers than 33,0001. per annum. This
would be a curious method of diminishing national ex-
penditure, and curtailing government patronage.
The sole aim of the scheme recommended in the
organ of the colonial-office, and its only posable re-
sult, le to increase public expenditure in two depart-
manta while curtailing it in one; and to diminish ex-
penditure in such a way as to throw discredit on re-
trenchment, and produce a re-action against economy in
public opinion. The concessions held out by the red-
tapists of Downing-street, are meant only to mystify
and delude. The colonists on the one hand, and the
advocates of retrenchment in public expenditure in
this country on the other, will do well to be on their
guard against these insidious advances.
In how far is the personal character of the new
governor of British Guiana a guarantee that he
will not unconsciously lend himself to be
an instrument to this wily game ? It is
not easy to my. Mr. Banat,' has a con-
siderable stake in the colony ; he is a man of more
than average intelligence, and, for a conservative,
really liberal and independent in his opinions. Ile is
amiable and honourable. Bet he hes never yet been
placed in a situation to try whether be be endowed
with the clear-sightedness, eelf-relianee, and immova-
ble pertinacity of purpose which will be required for
the successful discharge of the difficult task he has
been persuaded to undertake. And unfortunately his
connexions have been almost exclusively with the
Jacob (Minium class—a body of men vastly in ad-
vance of the rest of what is known in this country by
the name of the West India interest, but neither fitted
by prevMus habits for the bold, active, and self-deny-
ing course of action which the exigencies of the times
require at their hands, nor sufficiently impressed with
• conviction that it is inevitable.

Tire tories are in peat pain for Mr. Rounuca.
They overwhelm him with sympathy and commisera-
tion, and weep to think how ill-used he has been by
every liberal voter of the West Riding not rallying
behind him. Mr. ituatircK will not be the dupe of
this crocodile affection. lie must know that the sole
cause of disappointment with the retrogrades is, that
ho does not come forward to divide the liberal
party, and thus throw the chance of somas
into the hands of the protectiGnista. There
is no member of the liberal party whew presence in
the House of Commons is more desirable than Mr.
Itoeurek's; and it reflects no little disgrace on liberal
constituencies that such a man should not be placed
in that sphere where none can be more useful. Hut,
for a host of reasons, the West Riding is not the
sphere in which Mr. ROEBU'CK'S coming forward is
likely either to restore him to his place in the House
of Commons or to benefit the great liberal cause.
Such convictions prevailed the other day at Leeds,
and yesterday at Maw:heater, where a meeting of
liberal electors was held to consider the best candi-
date for the West li ding ; Mr. 0. WILSON wag in the
chair. Mr. lizasnaw, M.l'., and Mr. BRIGHT
moved and seconded resolutions to support Sir CUL-
LING EARDLEY. They were carried unanimously,
and a committee appointed to canvass on behalf of the

hon. baronet.
We must own that after reading Sir CULLING
EARDLET'S speech and explanations at Leeds we see
good reason, not only to support the claim of such a
candidate for the confidence of Yorkshiremen, but to
congratulate the reform party on the acquisition of so
plain-spoken and bold thinking an English ger tlenu.n.
And, moreover, the example is a great and salutary
one of how well the strongest religious sentiment can
be made to ally with the great pnnciples of religious
tolerance and political liberality.
Sir Cettino disavows alike the religious ascend-
ancy of the Irish Orange school, or the ascendancy of
the Saxon race, as preached by the llama in its cru-
sade against the Celt. He professes himself devoid
ot those two great sources of malignity. With no
wish to assail the Protestant establishment, out of re-
spect for existing institutions, he would still
prefer seeing Ireland with na endowed church,'
to seeing her saddled with two. This
is plain: and manly speaking ; and, as might be ex-
pected, it has drawn down upon the utterer the bitter II
hostility of every shade of toryism. With the Mess
it is the extreme of political and religious malignity.
Whilst from the PEEL organ it calls forth one of the
most insolent denunciations of dissent that the En -
fish press has ever ventured. The Standard itself
would have blushed at such bigotry. It was reserved
for the Morning Chronicle to utter in the nineteenth
century the superannuated vituperations of LAUD.
But we are not surprised at the sholer of the
tortes. Foe were the liberal and middle classes of
England to sink their religious differences, whilst
purrsing great political ends, half the scaffolding ea
which the eminence of the governing parties is built,
would at once fall to the ground ; and even if they
continued to govern, they would at least be obliged
to attend to the real interests and wishes of the
people, instead of cheating their ears and galling
their senses with bigot and religious cries, without
sense, seriousness, or sincerity.
Looking to the obstinate and interested opposition
which the came of retrenchment and reform is certain
to receive from the wealthy and corrupt of every
shade of political opinion, we do not sue how that op.
position is to be met, unless by making the desire to
promote those aims paramount to all other consider's-
tions in the choice of a candidate, and fusing into one
great mass of influential opinion the minor differences I
and distinctions which have arisen out of questions,
once the subject of fierce debate, hut now most of
them decided beyond appeal. The old distinc-
tions of whig and tory are acknowledged to be
virtually extinct: the ancient landmarks of
party are no more to be seen. Not, in-
deed, that the ambition and cupidity which gene-
rated those great parties are one whit less active than
ever they were. But two new parties are in
i process
let formation. The aristocracy of the empire s re-
dividing itself into two powerful sections, prepared,
I like the old, incessantly to contend with each other
for power and place ; sacrificing meanwhile the in-
terests, and betraying the rights, of the people, as
party motives shall dictate.
- We say then that this is not the time for the people
to allow themselves to be set at variance by the
revivil of prejudices and jealousies which it would
have been greatly for their advantage if they had
never weakened their real strength by nurturing to
the extent to which they did. A new popular party
must be formed on a wider, deeper, and more lasting I
basis than any. that has yet existed. And the more
perfect the union of the lower and middle classes in
the cause of retrenchment and reform, the greater
diversity must be looked for in the non essential opi-
nions ot their leaders. The old shibboleths of political
or polemical discord, capital ox-goads as they were
when whig leaders and tory leaders drove the I
people like cattle whither they listed, will fall more
and more into discredit and disuse the more clearly
it is perceived that the great end of the new move-
ment is a practical and economical one, in which the
interests of all sects and parties and classes are equally
concerned ; save and except of those who profit by
the abuses which it is sought to abolish. The success
of the Anti-Core Law League was in a great measure
owing to the instinctive sense of the real bearing of
that question, which prevailed am rig the people i
and which no amount of prejudice or misrepresenta-
tion could deaden or eradicate from the minds of
those who were daily paying hard-earned money for
their children's bread. Similar in its workings,
and we trust not lees glorious in its results, will be
the movement for RETRENCHMENT, when once the
mighty meaning of that word, as applied to Sixty
Millions of squandered Taxes, shall have become
familiar to the public thought—when "nee the work-
ing of the giant iniquity shall have been laid bare,
and the blessings implied in even a partial decrease

GERMANY

joritv have all but officially declared that the dispute I
will be at an end so moon as the Brandenburg
ministry is dissolved, and the Assembly is
oonrened again in Berlin. To no other terms
will they agree. The number of addresses to the
National Assembly is variously stated, ranging from
760 to 6,000. Certain it is that, several days ago, the
former number was officially registered in the ar-
chives. The pro-rector and senate of the University
of Halle have drawn up a declaration, warmly advo-
cating the course punned by his Prussian Majesty.

NAPLES, Nov. 17.
The elections have just terminated, and unfavour-
ably to the present ministry. The city of Naples has re-
turned six liberals, two of whom, General Pepe and Selland,
being both of them absent from Naples, will be unable to act
as deputies; the choice of them, durables, must be regarded
as only • Moog expression of public opinion. Othsr two
are said to be eapo.laaaaroni, one a seller of old furniture, and
the other of Sour. Such of the returns from the provinces
se are yet made. are anti-ministerialist. How the ministers
eon work such a chamber remains to be seen, for the majority
against them of 35 previously will of GOUTSe now amount to
a mush higher figure. Out of 17,000 voters in Naples, only
1,000 came forward at this election. The Chamber is to
open on the 29th instant, and some important measures are
'spooled to be proposed. The immense military prepare-
dons that are going on, and to which I have already alluded,
are well deserving of attention. All the forts towards the
sea have been doubly fortified, and are bristling with cannon.
Within the last few days the walls seaward surrounding the
arsenal have been considerably elevated ; and various other
works of a similar kind have been or are to be mad,. At
the same time the army is still being much augmented.
Good authority makes it amount at the present time to
90,000 ; and I am informed that much trouble is being taken
to form a cavalry for acting on the mountains, which appears
to indicate the determination of the king to carry out his
plans on Sicily should diplomacy fail. His majesty still con-
fines himself to his palace. Two days dace he reviewed a
regiment of lancers within the arsenal adjoining the palace.
His great dependence seems to be placed on the military,
who may in fact be said to be themasters of everything, and
presume much on their present positin. Many arrests have
been made lately,—of Donne, I mean for political reasons—
and it would seem that the eel...tones of secret societies has
been discovered. Whilst the political state of Naples is thus
agitated, its social state becomes daily worse and worse;
misery and starvation literally stalk through the streets,
which are crowded with beggars. At night the city is de-
serted, such is the danger of beingstopped and robbed, and
.
so ill-guarded is every part. Nor the misery confined to
the lower classes ; there is no commerce, end the shop.
keepers are as badly off as any cites.
Mr. Temple is daily. expected. Lord Napier had an in-
terview with his majesty yesterday, to present a letter of
oondolence on the death of the queen-mother.
Great interest is felt here in the settlement of the Sicilian
question, and we have daily reports of the arrival of the
ultimatum. It is now said that it was brought on Sunday,
from St. James's, approved by the French, Russian, and
Neapolitan ambaasadors, and pledges England to enforce the
acceptance of the conditions by the Siciliens. !give it, however,
with great caution, ; it is certainly true that • queen's mes-
sengar arrived here on Sunday with despatches. Meanwhile,
the feeling in Sicily towards the king is not a whit less'
bitter. I have seen a letter just arrived from Maoism
and written by an English resident there. He says :
" A few days since the tax on grinding corn (enseino)
was taken off, • great boon, which, had it been granted
twelve months since, might have saved the outbreak; but
unfortunately the court of Naples does nothing with a good
grace, or until it is too late, Spite of the military who
fill the city, the bills announcing the lact nue torn from
the walls by the people, and stamped under foot—nothing
can conciliate them. The mountineers in the neutral came
around !detains, it is said, will accept no col-Atka+ trout
the king."
Troops left Naples a few days ago for Calabria, where
brigandage is being carried on on • very extensive scale. 1
The intelligence of the death of Ibrahim Pacha which
has arrived adds still more to the complication of affairs in
the Mediterranean. The Sidon was instantly despatched to
Alexandria, to learn the correctness of the report. A por-
tion of the French fleet is, it is said, to sail for the Levant
immediately. The Vengeanoe, now at Beim, is expected to
be sent to Syracuse within a few days. A French vessel
(Friedland), going into harbour at Babe the other day,
nearly ran aground. The Porcupine, which was much in-
jured by an American vessel, entering the port of Leghorn,
a short time since, is, it is said, to go to Malta to repair
The Queen left this morning for Babe.
The Liberfti of this morning has : " Alexander Perin has
died on the field of glory, combatiug for the holy cause of
independence. A subscription has been opened, to raise a
modest monument to our fellow.eitizen."

Notes can more folly deprecate the predominance
of a mob than we do ; none can be more convinced,
than we are,that any system or chime, which places the
enlightened classes of a community under the guidance
or control of the unenlightened and unprovided
deplorable, and for any length of time unendurable,
being tot only a mast cruel oppression of the en-
lightened clam, but a very useless and pernicious en-
joyment of power by the lower orders, who in arms
can destroy old institutions, but are incapable of
founding new ones.
But admitting all this, it must also be acknowledged
that there are countries and governments in which
the old despotisms are still more intolerable, and
where revolution is the only means of arriving at
anything better. A tory journal the other day com-
pared France and England, end, allowing the many
benefits which France had *Naked from its great
revolution, alleged that it had paid too dearly even for
those benefits by the utter destruction of all principle
of sovereignty or authority. This, however, has been
the fault of French rulers, not of tke French people.
And the tory writer forgets altogether and puts out
of view the circumstance, that England itself made
two revolutions, which placed our throne upon a mach
firmer basis, and gave us all the blessings we possess
in civil and religions liberty.
Revolutions are, however, like all powerful medi-
cines, dangerous if not wisely made use of. And it is
the duty of the people, as well as of statesmen, to
study what, we repeat, is a natural phenomenon.
There exists already a science of impeder
discontent, and if we were called upon to state
the first axiom of it, we should say, that wherever
the middle and lower class become united in exe-
cration of any government, that government is un-
tenable, and can only oscillate between tyranny and
insurrection. Now, in all the parts and spots of
Europe, in which revolution has lately broken forth,
it was never the lower class which stirred first : the
populace never rose, but at the example and bidding
of the middle class. The middle class are, in fact, the
counsellors, the lower orders the soldiers, of insurers°.
Lion ; it only breaks forth when one calls out the other.
lint the victory once Raised over the old despotic autho-
rity, there then ensues the difficulty of satisfying the
populace, the soldiers of insurrection, and of bringing
back their excited minds to industry, and to the
wholesome control of authority. How easily this can
be done the history of Pails during the last six
months of 1830 is a proof. The great element of
success, indeed the indispensable element, is the
arming of the citizens as a national guard, and the I
formation of a government or a party in authority,
which has the confidence of this national guard, and
whose object must be not brutally to repress, but to
conciliate and gradually restore the lower orders to a
normal amid tranquil state.
Countries generally manage to do this satisfactorily
when lett to themselves. When, however, to the
trouble, fear, and effervescence of this domestic anarchy
are superadded three's, and dangers, and interference
from abroad, then the process is disturbed—the lower
class, instead of being allowed to settle down, is re-
excited, summoned to anus, forced to act the legislator
and the soldier, whilst the middle class loses its in-
fluence, and the revolution, instead of being arrested,
is perpetuated. Such was Paris in the great revolu-
tion, menaced by the coalition of foreign sovereigns.
And such are all the free states and cities of Italy,
menaced by an armed ri action and invasion from
Austria, and prevented from settling down, as they
naturally would, were Italy left to its internal strug-
gles and national independence.
There is no fact more clearly established in the his-
tory of the French revolution, than that it was the
threats of foreign armieswhich enabled the republicans
to triumph over the moderate constitutionalists, and
subsequently the jumbling over the moderate re-
publicans. It is Reeerset's triumph and menace
in Lombardy which have driven the people of Flo-
rence and of Rome into • mingled state of terror and
audacity, during which the people have flung off all
guidance and insisted on power being in the redo
hands which alone were trusted.
Above all, the l'epo became tho object of mistrust
to his people. The natural desire of a sacerdotal
sovereign was to keep peace, to forbid his subjects
to war, and neutralise any martial effort being made
in his dominions for the liberty of Italy. The spirit
of the l'ope's subjects, above all of the Itionagneee,
naturally rebelled against this; and the suspicion
arose that the l'ope had a secret understanding with
Austria.
In an evil day the Pope bethought him of entrust-
ing power to one of the Gutzon school of politicians.
Count Rossi was an able diplomatist, a man of
great talent and acquirements, but resistance
to popular demands was his
.principle, con-
tempt for popular opinion his device. There is no
use in such defiance unless a minister has a devoted
army at his back; M. Outzor's fall proved it. Count
hosier undertook to defy the opposition of all classes
in Rome and all parties in the Roman parliament. True
to the OUIZOT policy, so proned by the Timm, he would
make no use of the civic guard. Ills reliance was on
• regiment of earabineers, which he summoned to
Rome, and to which he entrusted the guard of the
parliament. The official journal of Rome was as defi-
ant as those of Paris. It denounced the national
guard, the liberals, and the parliament. And
when that parliament met, there were about
half-a-dozen members behind the ministerial
bench, all the rest had crowded to the:Left. When M.
OUIZOT last entered the French Chamber of Depu-
ties he was greeted with cries from the nationalgurirds of A Gas Guizot !" to which he returned a
look of defiance. The unfortunate Rossi was inspired
by the self-same spirit, perhaps by the reminiscence
of his friend, for when he, too, came to the door of
the Roman parliament, and encountered looks and
shouts of hostility, be replied by a gesture of defi-
ance and contempt. This was too much for Roman
patience, and the foremost ruffian did, what is the
habitual impulse of an Italian, drew his stiletto, and
plunged it into the unfortunate minister's throat.
After this insensate act of guilt, came, of couree,the
deluge. The populace rose in arms, they besieged
the Pope's palace, and, under a threat of setting fire
to it and exterminating all within, compelled the dis-
missal of the Swiss guards and the appointment of a
democratic ministry. The final result of this will, no
doubt, be the march of the Austrian troops, in
obedience to a papal summons, iuto Rome, and, of
course, into Florence. There may be more or
less resistance, more or less bloodshed, bat
the upshot may at ouoo be foreseen, viz.,
the delivering up of the peninsula, from one end to
the other, to the RADETSKIS, the WINDISCLIGRATZ6B,
and the Menge/4101S. All the efforts of the last
years will have been thrown away, and the despotic
and barbarizing flood of the modern Huns will over-
run Italy, and tread from out it every spark of intel-
lect, freedom, and commerce, just as ATTILA did four-
teen centuries ago.
We do not altogether acquit the Italian populace
of having in their folly much contributed to this
disaster, but in our opinion the rulers of Italy have
been still more culpable and foolish. And as to the I
unfortunate Count Ross; we will say this, al-
though we think him to have been an honest sad "
conscientious man, that had Austria employed
a subtl' agent to bring affairs at Rome to a troublous
[Alois, such as would afford a good pretext for inter-
vening and stifling liberty, that Austrian agent could
not have pursued a course more astutely calculated
for his purpose than the whole conduct and policy of
sot Rossl.

NEW YORK, Nor. 14.
During the last week, the American politicians
have been engaged in counting up the electoral votes of the
different states. The predictions made by me in my former
letters have been entirely fulfilled by the ascertained results.
General Taylor is elected the next president of the United
States. His majority is a very large one, hut not so great as
that of General Harrison in 1340, who received 234 electoral

votes.
At the recent election some singular elements of distrac-
tion were introduced. The secret history of their origin is
nothing, In.n no lam then the personal wievatent of Mr.
Van Buren. No American statesman of the north ever
sustained the policy of the southern states as did this gentle.
man. His intimacies, his relations, his obligations, all
tended to make him a close ally of the slaveholders, and he
went further in and out of place to sustain their views
than any other: northern politician. But, in consequence
of his being sacrificed at the Baltimore conven-
tion, he resolved to defeat the influence that de-
feated him. The free soil ques•ion was raised by his parti-
sans, and his son, of whom I have spoken in a former
letter, entered into the canvass without hesitation and with-
out fear, and it was for a father that he exerted himself. The
indelicacy of the action itself appeared to be entirely over-
looked by the thousand' who listened to his harangues. The
question thus raised iproved to be a two-edged sword. It
cut the whip to their very hearts in the states of Ohio,
Illinois,: end Indiana, two of which were usually safe for
them. It helped them in the states of New York and
Pennsylvania. But as the gain and the loss seemed to neu-
tralise each other, we do not consider that " free soii" in
any way determined the present result. This must be very
much ascribed to a natural feeling of gratitude on the part of
the people to a man who discovered great abilities in the
field and displayed them to their honour, and else to the
firmness, yet modesty, of his deportment under the trying
circumstances attending his nomination. Much also is due
to the feet that the people at large wee. disposed to rebuke
the leaders of the parties who have so successfully embroiled
the nation in difficulties without a real cause or necessity,
and who, under the pretence of patriotism, have too long ap-
propriated to themselves and their factions the power and
the dienities of the nation. The triumph is complete, and
the consequences will be salutary.
It is quite impossible to predict what the opinions of Oen.
Taylor will be on many points ; but, as the whigs will have
a large majority in the Rouse of Representatives, and pro-
bably walleye, in another year or two, a majority in the
Senate, it is quite probable that some of their favourite
measures will be adopted. I believe that neither Mr. Webster
nor Mr. Clay will form a part of the new cabinet. Both these
gentlemen have been unfavourable to the nomination of
Gen. Taylor, and, in addition, it is probable they would be
but too ready to give a partisan tone to the new administra.
ton if they were a pert of it. The imprecation is that he will
surround himself with moderate men—l mean by that, men
of moderated views. His secretary of war will probably be
Major Bliss, a gentleman long a member of his military
family and his comrade in the hour of danger.
This gentleman, somewhat celebrated since the war
with Mexico, was educated at our military academy
at West Point, one of the severest schools through which •
young man can pass. He was there so distinguished an
Akre, that his fellow-students gave him the name of
" Perfect Bliss." He is a man of extraordinary abilities,
and a fine scholar. He certainly would make a brilliant
rat the head of the war department even in peace.
ere truth is, that our numerous porta on the Atlantic and
the Lakes, and our outposts in our new territories, require
superior admiListrative qualities, and now that our drum
beat is to be heard on the Pacific, and our marches like those
of Xenophon are to be long ,_and through hordes of enemies,
the American Secretary of War hes enough te engage his
undivided attention.
It it supposed that Mr. Themes Butte Kline, of Georgia,
will be the next Secretary of the Navy. as been dis-
tinguished while in Congress by his extreme desire to pro-
mote the interests of the service, as well as that of our steam
marine—a marked contrast to those stereoty pod officials
whose incubations are those of the chicken-hearted, and
whose world is their own egg shell. But for the dogged
inaction of our Postmaster-General and Secretary of the
Navy, and their utter opposition to everything like progress,
we should ere now have had twenty new steamers afloat,
and an earlier arrangement of our postal difficulties. We
cannot help noticing one curious fact, that our Secretaries of
the Nay) moat usually are Liken from st.stes that have little
or no commerce. The service is, however, a desirable one
and an honourable one, and very much desired by our
southern youth.
It is believed that Mr. Crittenden, the present Governor
of Kentucky, and formerly Attorney• General of the United
States under Oen. Harrison, will have some place in the new
cabinet, while Truman Smith, a 'lug senator from Connec-
ticut, a very highutinded and able man, will also be called to
some department.
It is also quite probable that a mmafication of the tariff
will be effected in relation to our products of coal and iron,
and while the incorporation of a United States Bank is
totally out of the question, some alteration will be made in
the sub-treasury law, by which the excessive accamutations
of specie in the custom-hone vaults will be prevented. The
genera policy of the country will continue fixed as at pre-
sent. We also anticipate occaaimal grants from the govern
went for the aid of those internal improvements which will
clearly benefit the nation at large, such as appropriations for
the improvement of the harbours of the lakes, and of the
rivers connecting the grist states. The democratic party
has, through its president, generally prevented these appro-
priations on the ground of their unconstitutionality and dan-
gerous consequences in the shape of favouritism and corrupt
contracts.
The question of free territory, if not settled by this con-
gress will doubtless be by the next. I have never attributed
to it any greet importance, and have so expressed myself in
this series of letters. We cannot forget the agitation which
attended the famous Missouri Compromise. The territory of
Missouri sought admission into the union. A proposition
was made to prohibit the introduction of slavery in the New
State, and the subject not only became the leading topic in

PRUSSIA.—The journals, which declared that the
Earl of Westmoreland, the British minister at Berlin,
approved of the proceedings of ministers with regard
to the transferring of the National Assembly to Bran-
denburg, now assert that the English cabinet, after
consulting the legal authorities of their country, have
come to the conclusion that the King is in the right,
and consequently that the above Assembly is in the
wrong. The last rumour respecting the intentions
of the court party is, that, if a sufficient number of
members do not meet in Brandenburg, tne King will
Laivoke the United Diet, the one that voted the law
of election', and call upon it to decide between him
and the majority of the National Assembly. That ma-

on
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being those of all the states, the ulavaholding pee% t 0.-44
ad
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property belonging to the United
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compromise taking the ld'
that
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do precisely as they
please, if they do nof violate any existing law
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whoa it
is well ascertained that the people in the new not,
rronrier
have declared already in audible language that theyti
LOwloNeuria,dtembele:covhemurypaltantie. not
ment than Mr. Calhoun. If he were not living )IQle ,0„.-;
comparatively
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t:liave;:::l:Boeirthfththisj
back the enforcements of hie speech, and he has been
peruse he
son
southern
aith btoi:htl limihfriewrec.inof
exceptions,
country.
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votedbisil,
bill
limiting
t Gen. for rneßs n t
c. election,kvmore
o
totheslpanvesirydeinncyth.e aboThistraiacta, bcoumt
territory; while the northern and middle antes. whott
decline mskieg
it the ode question in our politica, have actually elected,
nada:eh:l'l4lP: opposed
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us no real alarm whatever. It is the last thing on iutej
use it as a stalking-horse
Having passed over this branch of the subject let me
teed to another, more pleasing to my heart, more heath/
my pen. And, in doing so, I most compliment the Er.
press for the very excellent as well as sagacious view dim
taken of the presidential election, and the rebuke it ha
justly administered to the Times. Its article has been ro
published here, and has elicited the warmest approhnies.
And may we not ask the Express to espy is to its readers its
of:otos:14:h
poaTnyueh'
peabiltdfhoisisresereildi
,t,ehe
admiration of the spectacle which it h id foreseen ?
We have gone through a most exciting and wanalycee.
tested election, in which the people have illustrated their
character and exhibited their determination, It was endear
they intended to change their rulers, and they have done a
They have cast down from their high places the men whom
in good faith and with all trustfulness they had placed there,
not quite a lustrum since, bat whose conduct sad shoat
policy they disapproved. This is the desire of all neon
who feel themselves betrayed ; but, alas! what Woe hat
ours can so peacefully accomplish it ? The people at Eurspe
are convulsively agitated by hopes and fears which have co
certain termination. Even England has found her innerid
sway disputed by the meanest of her suldecte under the feel-
ing of a wrong and the agony of despair. Everywhere ths
elements of change are at work, and a general sir senate
be the tendency of these strifes of races and of kings, paw
is it that these impending difficulties cannot be avowal
peacefully and without bloodshed
What must we think of man, what of cur race, when we
contemplate these bloody contests, apparently the only,*
thod of deciding questions which forbearznce, justice, ha.
manity, and religion might easily decide? The heart flatfil
at the spectacle of this inceassat war between dares, all
claiming to be inspired by the highest principle, and tenet
agreeing as to what it is.
It is not so with us, at least on those great wakes
when the nation determines who shell he its mien. We,
ton, have sought a great and a decided change in our govt.
meat : but while Europe is on the brink of Woodshedsal
ruin, while the universal mind of man is asking " who will
show us any good ?" we decide in a single day, and in the
spirit of patriots and philantheopiste, the greatest gentian of
our country. Nor is it the decision alone which is ion-
makable, but rather the hearty and honourable acquiescent,
on the part of those who lose by the change.
Now, however much your writers may sneer at our rant-
ridicule our manners, or decry our inatitutions, let
them show us any other nation on tho Get of this
globe which can, at will, change its supreme mica.
dye authority peacefully and with,nt bloodshed. Let
them point us anywhere else to a struggle for poem
among twenty millions of people, without the destradiatof
property or the loss of life. We surely have achieved sow
thing when we have learned to govern ourselves; and del
be well for those who have predicted our downfall Radtke
extinction of our example to observe us at this moment, sad
tee, in the hearty acquiescence of the minority to the will of
the majority, and an the perfect tranquillity which presoak
among our electors, whether their hopes are, by any paii-
bility, likely to be gratified. The truth is, the nation ea
never more contented than nt this moment—never mow se-
Ale of the advantages of its institutions than at this or
pored—and never more united than now in the &termite,
don to live and die republicans.
Ihe British steamer Foith sailed this dry for Bet-
muds with a few passengers. It is a pity that the
intercourse is not more profitable. I am informed that
there is excellent land in the Bermudas which night
be had cheap and turned to account. I may have alnadj
intimated to you that they could easily supply the,
market with the most debglatful products of the Men
(tor the climate would permit it) at good roue& plot
if the inhabitants would bestir themselves. Hundreds el
Americans would also pass the winter there if there wets
erected course lent hotels for their reception.
From Venezuela we hear that the Electra has been sent to
Maracaibo to protect the interests of the British raids&
At Porto Rico a rising of the slaves was hourly expected by
the Spaniards. Advises from Yucatan state that the
po
'cerement has recaptured all its villages and towns that wire
in the possession of the Indians, and that 30,000 of then
have actually joined the whites against their own gibs
We have nothing of interest from South America.
Here the approach of winter, the closing of our nnigatim,
and the anticipation of the gayest season of town life, ham
their local importance, but would scarcely amuse an English
reader. I shall allude to our fashionable circles by and by,
and describe at length the routine of an evening pun. The
episcopal church continues to give tokens of further move-
ments towerds Rome. An order set young females, to
be called the Sisters of Charity, is organieed, to be under
priestly direction, and to visit the sick. An order of ping
priests es also established, who take *met vows of celibacy
be ten years and absolute obedience to their heed. Ann.
eider confession is openly
.recommended in some quarters,
and a demand of tenths is actually made in one or two
parishes, for the glory of God and the salvationist souls. The
sooner these persons exhibit themselves in their true colours
the better. There is rot a doubt that as soon as the laity
Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, one of the leediog rotates
of the Oxford school in this country, is at present dangerunif
untliedcehrstauurchd what
is
going on there will be a regulu battle to
.
ill. He was the son of a house carpenter in Laic rot) , eve
educated at Union College. and was a class-mate of Hithea
Potter, of Pennsylvania, who bore off the highest bemoan.
The former was a young man of imagination and coot:dery
ble pretension. Potter was also of poor parentage, but s
man of judgment and possessing an exact mind. Dome
beimme a poet. Potter a logician. The former wean s
cross, like the Roman catholic prelates ; the liiter is tiara
tending, and is thinking of every .
thing but his personal
pearance. The one is " high church,' the other is a protee
tent of the old English schools. These two persons repro
cent their classes of admirers.
Since my last we have had another musical arrival iron
Germany. Gung'l's band is here, and his name on immense
placards, meets one at every corner. Some of the leash wteu
they first saw it, believed that it was another name for the
cholera We are fast becoming acquainted wick all the
fiddlers, oboe players, and idolises of Eurepe. I hear to-day
that Strauss's band will arrive shortly in this country. Ca.
tale it is that the troubles in Europe are driving much of it 3
talent to our shores. It is really surprising to see the nun•
ber of artists of all kinds who are come amongst 0.
You can hardly walk in the street without rue•
ning against a protestor of some kind or other.
And, somehow or other, they manage to .get on very well.
They live economically, and at first work cheaply. Cat k
premier pen gal nate. After that, sU is well ; and, thosfb
we are often annoyed by the ignorant presumption of the
rabble rout who come boldly " knocking, knocking, knock-
ing at our door," the country at large gains by the saint
of these learned scholars and excellent artists, who seek their
bread in our fertile and hospitable land.
I will only add that our money market is somewhat esep
though we hear of specie being Will about to mon off
The amount of Mr. Corcoran's operation could have pro-
duced no real relief in our exchanges. Large amounts of
foreign account continue to be subscribed to the penmen
stocks. Last week over one million of dollars were tan,
and the largest portion for Oceanus.
it
their investments, and when they learn how quietly
is plflateenanotuiogash tallei!.mtheirPecacmpitaltiniustse wtheillirluo3Qllstatbhh; career,
lcdittir,
r
very safe sort of a country after all.
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aftathis

FRANCE.—GIINERAL CAVAIGNAC AND THE "CON.
erriniriogsrel.."—Several journals of Paris and the depot.
meats having puhithed a statement of a conversatOu bs•
tween General Centimes and M. Venal, the chief editor el
the Conatitutiotinol. with respect to the election of the Ft*
aident, and this having been the subject of room
comments at the Bourse, the theatres, and in public circles,
the Coastifutionnel published a recital of the coverts-
tion. After stating that a former interview had takes rasos
between these parties, when it was alleged to have ben, 09
intention of General Cavaignac to aupprem that jourasi,
which occasion the editor, M. \rave, offered to coder with
General Cavaignac whenever the general thought he costa
afford any information which would lead to the adhestos of
the Conatirufrotinel, it gave the substance of the conversatios
Cavaignac You led me to expel, )1•
Veron, some *tippet from the Coatitutionnel. It boa ito
however, shown Itself very friendly.—M. Veron : Siam l
had the honour to see you, M. le President, the Cwittii.*
tionsel has been nearly nainisterial.—General Cavartiosc:
Ministerial That's very good. Let us see. (The pro'
dent then took from his portfolio some extracts from*,
Corestitutionnel, in which the general himself wasted
highly ot. Peron: You see here is the proof.
Cavaignac Let that pale ; and now fot the question of t)1