The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-09 00:00:00

DREW.

Sir F. THESIGER rose to call the attention of the house
to the case of Mr. Drew, in connexion with the newly-
created Southwark County Court, and said it was necessary
for him to do little more than simply and shortly to state the
circumstances, in order to induce the house to come to the
conclusion that Mr. Drew had just grounds of complaint in
respect of the conduct which had been pursued towards him.
For upwards of thirty years prior to 1846, Mr. Drew had
been a solicitor of high standing and reputation, carrying on
as extensive practice in the borough of Southwark, and for
shove 20 years had held the office of clerk or legal adviser
to the commissioners of the Southwark Court of Requests.
In 1844, the act for the amendment of the law relating to
bankruptcy and insolvency passed, and it contained a clause
empowering the commissioners of local courts, over which no
barrister or attorney presided, to appoint, with the sanctien
of the Secretary of State, an assessor, and, accordingly the
commissioners of the court in question memorialised the
Rome Secretary to recognise their appointment of Mr. Drew
to that office. Mr. Drew was, however, in this situation :
He held the office of clerk for life, with a slliry of 5001., and
the act which empowered the appointment to the assessor-
ship provided that such assessor should sot be entitled to
compensation for the lose of his office, consequent upon the
passing of any general act for the recovery of small debts. It
happened, that at that time a bill was pending before porno-
meat for that object, and that bill contained a clause which
provided that the judges or assessors of existing courts should
be entitled to be appointed the judges of the
courts to be created by the new bill. Mr. Drew

ght Orono.

MAILS.

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the !Jeremiah, will be made up on the morning of the 17di June.
The mall. for Vigo, Oporto, Li.bon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Wheelies
win be made uo en the morning of the 17th June.
The mails for British North America, Berunda, and the United
Mates, will be made up on the evening of the lath June.
The overland malts for Gibraltar, Matto, Greene, the lonian !stands,
pt,Adeii, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, eta Southampton,
will he made up on the evening of the lOth June.
The overland domed mails, rio Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
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cresting of the 24th Jane.
The mails for New South Wales, Van Diemen'. Land, and New
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The mails for the Basile, the River Plate, Monte Video, Peruse-
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evening of the 4th July.
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which is expected to sail, from Plymouth, about the 12th. Letters,
Sze., must be marked, "By Growler."

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9.

WE cannot bat view both with alarm and shame
the doctrines set forth by a co-temporary respecting
intervention. Such doctrines are spoken with
authority, and no doubt emanate from the Foreign-
office ; and they betoken a very signal, and, we think,
a very fatal change in the confidence and in the prin-
ciples, which were wont to govern, not only the present
minister of that office, but all other ministers.
The ehronick asks, if the Queen of PORTUGAL I
thinks fit to claim armed assistance from another
power, how is England to prevent that other power
from ffording it ? We answer, by England's simply
stating to those other powers that she will not
.permit
them to intervene, for the furtherance of their own
ends and views (Spanish intervention is avowedly for
Spanish and moderado purposes, a complete conserva-
tive and party move), with an armed force in
Portugal.
If England cannot do this, and cannot make such
word of hers be respected, then the sooner she
abdicates all influence in the peninsula the better.
The present conduct of England has for ever esta-
blished the rule and the precedent, that Spain! and
France may dictate to Portugal any terms or form of
government; and that England, no longer able to
gainsay them, can merely preserve the appearance of
a little influence, by humbling herself to do the bid-
ding of those hostile powers.
The most humiliating part of the affair is, that
although England humbles herself, and offers to be
executioner of the decrees of French and Spanish
ultra royalists against Portuguese liberals, the
Spanish will not trust England with the teak, but in-
sist on doing it themselves. Had the British autho-
rities had a spark of pride, they would have said,
we will do this work, unpleasant as it is, but we will
do it alone. We will not allow the fanatic officers
of the Spanish court, who persecuted ESPARTERO and
butchered his followers; we will not allow this
CoNenA to march into Portugal to do the same by
DAS ANTAS and S t DA BANDETRA, that he did with
ESPARTERO and ZUREANO.

If the junta does not submit, if the liberals refuse
to trust the promises of the Queen, on the " collateral
security" of England, what then ? The Spanish troops
reduce Oporto, aided by a British fleet. Blood is not
spared, nor proscription. The liberals are exempted
from pardon. The constitution is a nullity. And
Spain will have done this under French orders, Eng-
land not oely looking on, but playing third fiddle
under the flaming walls of Oporto.
These new doctrines, preached by the organ of Lord
PALMERSTON, are neither more nor less than the old
ones of the Holy Alliance. According to them, any

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sovereign who meets with difficulties, in se ottnmpt
to destroy the rights and liberties of )1111 sabjeote,ntay
apply to his neighbour sovereign, and the absolutist
troops of one court shall lend aid to the absolutist pur-
poses of the other, cresting throughout Europe a league
of tyrants against constitutions, and of courts against
names, which shall for ever stifle and prevent the
development of a liberal principle. Such a league did
the despots of Europe form thirty years ago, and
against such league did England protest, and more
than protest.
Now, it seems, in 1847, the courts of France, of
Spain, and of Portugal, have entered into a similar
league. And England &wet not protest. Lord
PALMERSTON declares that his only means of pre-
venting Spanish intervention in Portugal, is, by affect
ing to approve and join in it, to modify its worst effects.
He sneaks into the league, in order to cheat it.
Though yesterday making common cause with the
Portuguese liberals, he now pats on moderado
uniform, and enlists in Spanish and French service,
with the hope of beguiling them, but with the cer-
tainty of being, however little his lordship may de-
serve it, contemned as a deserter by the Portuguese,
and mistrusted as a spy by the Spaniards.
If any one would wish to estimate what the foreign
policy of England is, and compare it with what it
wan, let him imagine what would have been the
words, and what the acts, of GEORGE CANNING,
towards such a Spanish minister as PACHECO, threat-
ening to march troops into Portugal !

DIE rale at the Colonial-office is, that no complaints
or charges from any colony. against a governor can
be received, unless communicated to and forwarded
by him. The intention of the rule is excellent; it is
to guard public servants from clandestine and ma-
licious denunciations. Experience suggests a wish
that it were more explicitly declared to be recumbent
upon governors to forward all charges or com-
plaints thus communicated to them, and also that
governors were held bound to communicate all
complaints or charges they may make against
colonists to the parties accused, before transmitting
them to the Colonial-office. The principle of re-
ceiving no secret denunciations is excellent, and
ought to be more extensively acted upon than it is.
It is strange that throughout the late discussion,
both in and out of parliament, on Mr. GteDsrost's
conduct towards the late Sir EARDLEY WILMOT, no
allusion whatever has been made to this rule. Apart
altogether from the other repulsive and discreditable
features of Mr. GLADSTONE'S conduct towards that
unfortunate gentleman, it was irregular In the
extreme, in flagrant violation of a self-imposed law
to which the Colonial-office, for the security of
colonial governors, has for a long tract of years
conformed in its transactions with that class of
officials.
Mr. GLADSTONE, contrary to a recognised role of
action of the Colonial-office, received not anonymous
perhaps, but clandestine denunciations of Sir HARD-
LLY IViwtor, and recalled him on the strength of
these imputations, without communicating to him
their nature, and the names of the witnesses who
vouched for them, or affording him time to refute them.
Mr. GLADSTONE makes indeed a wretched attempt to
clear himself of this charge by equivocation. He at-
tempts to distinguish between the resolution to recall
Sir EtnnLEY from the government of Van Diemen's
Lozil, and the resolution not to appoint him to any other
government. Whether these resolutions were simul-
taneously formed it is impossible to say, but they
were simultaneously communicated to their victim :
the public despatch intimating to Sir EARDLET
that he was superseded, and the private letter
intimating that he was not to be employed
again, are both dated the 30th of April. The
only difference between the two intimations Is, that
the former is a blow struck openly, for which the
party injured would feel himself called upon to claim
redress; the latter, a secret stab, which was sure to
wound his feelings, but to which he might, perhaps,
submit without open complaint. The public recall,
as well as the whispered slanderous imputation, is
motived by reference to private unauthenticated de-
letions. . .

Mr. GLADSTONE, in his public despatch, told Sir
EARDLEY that he was recalled because he had not
"applied his mind with due diligence and with ear-
nest concern to the government and improvement" of
the convicts under his charge. Mr. GLADSTONE ex-
pressly states as his reason for forming this opinion,
that—" It is only with extreme rarity that you
advert in your despatches to the mural condition of
these men." And he hastens to prevent the reply
that this silence was attributable to lack of matter, by
intimating that he knew from other sources there
was much to communicate. " This is not, it is true,
systematically stated to me in official reports, because
those by whom it ought either to be stated or denied
are altogether silent on the subject. . . But from
the evidence before me, fragmentary and indirect,
though, I regret to add, too concordant as it is, I can
entertain no doubt of so much as this," Ste. Mr.
GLADSTONE here states that he had other informants
besides his recognised and official eorre.pondcnts, and
that he acted upon the information of the former. In
the private letter to Sir EARDLEY. Mr. GLADSTONE
says that his secret sources of knowledge were neither
" slight rumours without presumptions of credibility ;"
nor " charges or information supported by the names
of parties tendering it," but something that " occupies
an intermediate position." By referring to Mr.
GLADSTONE'S litter to Earl GREY we find that this
strange expression implies " persons who made known
the existence of rumours, and did not profess to sup-
port their credit by statements of particulars, but to
found them on general notoriety." In plain English,
Mr. GLADSTONE recalled the Governor of Van Diemen's
Land, and in the same breath whispered a deadly in-
sult in his ear on the strength of second-hand gossip.
And to lend a finishing touch to the disgusting fea-
trues of this case, Sr JAMES GRAHAM stated in the
House of Commons, on Monday, that "as to letters
or documents, not a vestige of anything of the kind
remained in the Colonial-office."

It also deserves remark, that while Mr. GLAD-
STONE, in his eagerness to get and keep Sir EARDLEY
WILMOT out of employment, was acting in defiance
alike of the conventional decorums of polite society and
the rules of the Colonial-office, he extended an amnesty
to that gentleman for a grave political fault. In the
legislative council of Van Diemen's Land Sir
EARDLEY'S financial measures encountered an uncom-
promising opposition. A majority of the council dis-
approved of them, and could not be convinced by the
governor's logic that, as nominees of the crown, they
ought to act upon different views of policy and jus-
tice from those upon which he conceded it would
have been their duty to act had they been elected by
the colonists. And Sir EARDLEY, failing to convince
them, " pressed forward," to use Mr. GLADSTONE'S
words, " by the exercise of the entire privilege which
the constitution conferred upon him, the bill by
which alone regular provision could be made
for the primary exigencies of the colony dar-
ing the year." In other words, Sir EARDLEY
forced a finance bill upon the council is a spirit de-
cidedly unconstitutional, by forms of very question-
able legality. Not contented with this, he appears,
from Mr. GLADSTONE'S statement, to have in-
dulged in his despatches to the Secretary for the
Colonies in unfounded imputations on the to alt?
of those members of council who opposed him. There
is retribution in Sir EARDLEY'S having his own cha-
racter whispered away as he attempted to whisper
away that of others. But for the fatal dinouement
of the drama, one might have been gratified to see
him " caught like a woodcock in his own
springe ;" but death to himself and dilapid-
ated means to his family are beyond the due
bounds of retribution. Doubtless, it was the
arbitrary and unfair conduct of Sir EARDLEY
which induced Earl GREY to reject that gentleman's
application for some other appointment ; and had Mr.
GLADSTONE summarily and finally dismissed the Go-
vernor of Van Diemen's Land, for his unconstitutional
and vindictive proceedings, he would have done no
more than what was right. But Mr. GLADSTONE passes
over the coup d'etat and scandal-mongering, so conge-
nial to his own nature, with a gentle reprimand—de-
clares that it "has no part in the motives which
have led her Majesty's government to advise that
your (Sir EARDLEY'S) administration of affairs should
be brought to a close," and reserves his indignation
for the governor's want of metaphysical profundity
and spiritual unction in writing about crime and cri-
minals.
The mystical cant in Mr. GLADSTONE'S despatch,
if not its meet culpable, is undoubtedly its most dis-
gusting feature. " You have discussed," writes the
ex-Secretary of State for the Colonies, " the
economical questions connected with their [the
convicts'] maintenance, and you have even en-
tered into argument, though in a manner

too little penetrating, upon their offences against
the laws. But into the inner world of their
mental, moral, and spiritual state, either you have
not made it a part of your duty to examine, or else,
which for the present issue is, I apprehend, conclusive,
you have not placed her Majarty's government in
possession of the results." And this Pharisee of
transcendentalism thus rates a colonial governor for
not inditing treatises of mystical metaphysics, while
he himself was blasting the reputation of the person
he addressed on the strength of rumours received at
second-hand. Such conduct is but too common with
those for whom the plain working-day world pre-
cepts of morality are not good enough. There was
but one act required to complete the degradation of '
Mr. GLADSTONE all exhibited in his own letters, and
that is, the abject tone of his apology to Sir EARDLEY,
when driven to confess that he had greedily caught
up and acted upon worthless rumours to his disad-
vantage; though even in this apology there does ap•
pear something like a malicious attempt to hint that
the rumours were worth attending to.
Enough of Mr. GLADSTONE. It is not likely, even
though he may succeed in fielding a constituency to
send him to parliament, that any minister will ven-
ture, by restoring him to the Colonial-otfiee, to awaken
the distrust and indignation of every gentleman aho
holds an appointment under that office. But it ap-
pears, from the statement made by Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM on Monday, that there is a person holding " high
official station in this country" who was a prime
agent in persuading Mr. GLADSTONE of the truth of
the rumours to Sir EARDLEY IVltstor's discredit, and
who shrank from the responsibility of the ac don to which
he prompted. Who is this Sir BENJAMIN BACKBITE or
CRABTREE, of the late Secretary of State for the
colonies—this secret carrier, and vencher-for, of mis-
chievous slanders ? Is he still in office ? Does he
possess opportunities of " pouring his lep'rous die-
fitment" into the ears of other ministers, or are his
bad services specially devoted to the secretary for the
colonies? These are questions of practical import-
ance; for while such a creature is tolerated in office—
while he remains in a position to whisper away the
fair fame of honourable men, secure from detection—
the most constitutional, the most just and benevolent,
the most efficient of our colonial governors are not
safe. For the safety of colonial office-bearers, it is
necessary that this ame donnas of Mr. GLADSTONE
be exposed and dismissed.

ONE of the results of the late debate on the State
of the Navy, and of the long discussions that have fol-
lowed, and are still following, has been at least clearly
to point out the existence of grave defects ; we wish
we could add, that the remedies had been indicated as
clearly : that, however, is still, it seems, if we may
judge from the opposite directions in which it is sought,
among the truths of an undiscovered region of know-
ledge. It is, however, of some importance to render
as definite as possible and clear to all eyes what it is
that we have failed to do, and how we have failed.
This is the first step to improvement,
It appears, then, clearly, that the English nation,
justly celebrated although it be over all the world as
the great emporium of steam ships, as the great
promoter of steam navigation, as the birthplace of the
Invention, as the workshop in which nearly all the
I best steam-ships that Boat on the seas of all nations
have been moue ; that this nation, whose merchants
build steam engines and ships for half the
world, has totally failed in obtaining an ef-
ficient steam-fleet for the protection of her
own coasts and colonies, for which also she has pro-
vided hitherto no other adequate defence. It appears
that notwithstanding the expenditure of very great
sums of money, we are not only without such a thing
as an effective steam.frigate : that having expended
millions, our steam-ships of the Royal Navy are
neither able to crawl off a lee-shore, nor stand up-
right in a gale, nor carry their guns out of the water,
nor stow adequate stores and fuel under hatches, nor
undertake a long voyage without lumbering their
decks with coal-bags and being buried so deep in the
water as to impede effective steaming.
It is not to apathy or wantof industry in attempting
a steam navy that our failure is to be attributed. We
appear to have tried everything excepting perhars
the right thing. Every form, size, and shape of ship;
all varieties of engine; every possible proportion of
engine power to ships' capacity. We have done this to
every possible extreme ; cc have now no two ships
alike. If, therefore, we have failed, it is from no
poverty of invention or want of expedients. On the
ships tlemselves we have tried every shape of bottom,
from a sharp wedge-floor to a flat warming
pan; we have tried every proportion of breadth
to length, every variety of depth of hold to breadth of
body, every degree of sharpness and fulness, with
this difference only, that if they are not all failures
in equal degree, they are all at least equally failures.
They have none of them accomplished the object in-
tended, of furnishing a standard for the construction
of good steam-ships. We have not now in the British
navy a single steam-ship to which we can point and
say " There, keep continually repeating this till
further orders."

But it may be at least said, that if it has not been
proved what kind of ships we ought to build, the
foundation has been laid by showing what we ought
not. To close up one after the other, in the search
for truth, every erroneous path, is at every step to
enhance the probability of finding out the way to
success. This is, indeed, the acknowledged principle
of invention by " trial and error;" but to reason thus
is to forget that the process of exhaustion only applies
where the number of errors is defined. Here, we
fear, it is infinite; and the purse and power of trial
undergoes exhaustion faster than the courses of error.
That so many experiments should have been made,
and the cost incurred of so many failures, " without
the elucidation of any one definite practical result," as
was admitted in the late debate, is most lamentable.
The total absence of systematic plan, of unity of in-
tention, of intelligence in the general design, must be
self-evident. The absence of that something neces
eery to bring order out of all this confusion is self-
evident. What is that thing? If we can discover
the exact seat of the disease, we may, perhaps, indi-
cate the way to the specific. A thorough diagnosis
should precede the prescription.
Our readers may have noticed in the naval intelli-
gence daily recorded in our own columns and those of
our contemporaries, such paragraphs as the following :
—" Portsmouth, Monday.—The Odin, steam frigate,
built on the design of Mr. Fincham, master-ship-
wright of thin dockyard, of 1,326 tons, and 360 horse-
power, was taken into the basin this afternoon in
readiness for docking, to have her machinery repaired.
It is now said that a miscalculation of the
weight for the engines and machinery will cause
this finely-built steamer to swim much deeper
than intended." This is the latest specimen
we have noticed of the long succession of "mis-
calculations'' by which it has happened that our
steam-ships have drawn so much more water than
they were designed for; have carried so much less
fuel ; so much fewer stores ; so much smaller ar-
mament; and realised so much less speed. The fact
is, that the ship and engines, one the work of a ship-
builder, the other of an engineer, designed apart
from each other, by parties knowing little
of each other's business, with independent ac-
tion and total want of concert, come to-
gether for the first time, after being sepa-
rately completed, and happening each to possess ele-
ments unknown to the designers of the other, they
produce effects that were not anticipated; and the
union of heterogeneous elements results in an inoen-
gruous whole. The ship and engine disagree, and
failure is the result-

It seems to have been forgotten that there is no
single element in the construction of a ship that
does not, to a certain extent, affect the per-
formance of the engine ; and that there is no
element in the construction of a marine engine that
does not in a very great degree affect all the qualities
of the ship. It is not, we think, too much to assert
that these elements never are adequately taken into
consideration by both designing parties. We believe
that a steam-frigate is constructed and planned by a
surveyor or a ship-builder without adequate reference
to the distribution of parts and performance of func-
tions in the engine, and tire rerea; that the
engine-builder neither knows the draft of water, the
stability and other properties of ships, the disposition
of weights, nor the velocity through the waterof which
the form and displacement of the ship will admit.
When it is considered that it entirely depends on the
ship whether the engines shall be able to develop 400
horse power or 600—whether her fuel will carry her
1,300 milesor 2,000 —whether she shall make 10 strokes
a minute or 15—it will be seen that the engine-
builder who works in ignorance of the qualities of
his ship and their effect oa his engine works in the
dark. When, further, it is remembered, as in the

instance quoted above, that the 81%ipThrui er hss
planned the lines of his ship without having been able
to take accurately into account the weights and els.
menta, and effect's of the various parts, and distribu.
Lion of fuel, water, and machinery upon the ship ;
we
shall find no great difficulty in understanding vh,
one half of our steam-ships cannot carry their gv,j,
nor the other half their fuel ; why one half of then
are slow, and the others draw so much water an to
make them unserviceable ; why the Gorgon could act
prevent herself from being dnven on a lee-shore, nos
the Retribution stand upnght under her guns, we
may now understand from the intimate eon.
nexion between the performance of the ensile
and the ship, and the independent origin of tine
integral parts of a steam-frigate, how prom
the want of unity of design, in this compound
structure we may find, as we have found, that a vei7
well-built ship may receive a very well-constructed
engine, and the ill-matched union of two very good
things may give rise to those very bad compounds
which disgrace the name of the Queen of the Sift
This want of perfect adaptation of all parts sad fuse,
Lions of the engine to all points and qualities Odle
ship, is one of the most prolific sources of evil: and it
II remains for a future occasion to inquire whether saes
adequate remedy be not within reach,

The question raised in the chamber respecting m.
Emile de Girardin occupies almost excluaively en
circles in Path. Combined with those previously
raised in the affair of General Cubii,res, it has ruled
the public to a high pitch of excitement respecting
the apparently unbounded system of corruption in.
puted to every branch of the political and civil achni•
niatration of the country. It was the subject of ea.
elusive conversation in the calk des confirenees of the
chamber on Monday, where it was the prevailing
impression that the assumption of an offence again*
the Chamber of Peers is a mere subterfuge to with.
draw attention from the objects really menet
Deputies collect around M. de Girardin, eager to
gather information on the question. On Saturday,
the leader of the young conservatives, surrounded by
a crowd of his inquisitive colleagues, was Leant to
say : " I cannot allow the question to be
viewed in the manner in which it is pre.
tended to be pat. It is not a question
between me and the Chamber of Peers. I
have written nothing to offend the peerage. I
have, on the contrary, served it. Far from do.
siring to offend the peerage, I have never *eased to
defend it. The question is not, therefore, hetwen
the peerage and the rp7rant of La Press, but between
the ministry and the deputy of La Crease."
The journals and correspondence are generally
barren of news. A great and rapid fall has taken
place in all the provincial grain markets, varying
from Bf. to 13f. the hectolitre. Letters from Frank-
fort say, that wi,hin eight days wheat has fallen in
that market from 26 florins to 13 florins per matt.
A cabinet council was held at Neuilly on Sunday,
to deliberate upon the course to be adopted in the
chamber on the questions to be put to M. Guirot
Monday, by M. Cremieux, respecting intervention in
Portugal.
Le Courrier Francais says that the ministry hes
decided to evade the difficulty of naming a RUMOR
to Marshal Bugenuil, by leaving the marshal WI
nominally governor of Algiers, with a cm/9j for
year.

Adciees have been received from Madrid to the 2nd
inst. The court was still in the capital. The retire-
ment of the Queen to St. Ildefonso was spoken of,
but no decision on that subject was made known.
The Legate was presented to her Majesty on the 2nd.
Great pain was acid to be expressed by him at the
domestic estrangement existing between the Queen
and her consort. The Madrid Ga:ette, of the 2nd,
contains an ordonnance, restoring the Prince of Peace
to his rank, property, and honours, and authorising
his return to Spain. Another decree gives the rank
of grandees, with the title of Duke of Baylen, to the
children of Castanos. The announcement of the
general amnesty and the restoration of Esportero,
was premature. It seems probable, however, that
this measure is only postponed, but not abandoned.
M. Angel de la Rica, accused of having fired at the
Queen, is now allowed to see his friends. A general
belief is entertained that he will be acquitted.
The law on the currency is published in the gazettes.
It was supposed by some that this in only the prelude
to a general adjustment of the finances.
The details of the intervention of Spain in Portugal
under the conditions of the protocol of May 21 were
settled by M. Pacheco and the Count de Theme.
Spain places 14,000 men at the disposition of the
Portuguese government. Spain will pay the troops
as if they were in her regular service, and the extra-
ordinary pay will be made up by Portugal.
A letter from Rome of the 18th ult., received it
Madrid, says that his Holiness is deeply concerned at
the dissensions between the Queen and her consort,
and that the nuncio has been instructed to use every
means to put an end to that state of things. On the
17th, an agent of Don Cubes arrived in Home, and
immediately obtained an audience of the Pope. He
brought good letters of recommendation. It was said
that he was the bearer of grave communications re-
specting the court of Madrid and the attitude of par-
ties there. His Holiness is represented to have said
that the evils which press on Spain were only addi-
tional reasons for patting an end to the isolation of
the catholic church in that country.

Letters from Berne, of the 3rd inst., my, that the
elections made by the grand council of the directing
canton have excited the greatest agitation among the
ultra-montane pexty, the journals expressing whose
opinions have raised the most intemperate outcry.
Some of these go so far as to affirm that the cantons
of the league will not send deputies to the Diet, if
they are to be presided over by M. Ochsenbein. Such
a course would, if adopted, be similar to that pur-
sued by the canton of Neufchatel in 1833. Thtt
canton was nevertheless compelled to send deputies to
the Diet. But it is not probable that the catholic
cantons will force the Diet, in the present case, to tech
an extreme course.
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The French ambassador, M. Bois-le-Comte, had in
interview lately with the newly-elected president,
Ochsenbein, who is now the head of the confedera-
tion. It is reported that some very animated obser-
vations were on this occasion interchanged, and that
the ambassador declared that the support and counte-
nance of France would be withdrawn unless the Diet
should pursue a course marked by the utmost modera-
tion. It was not expected that the ministers of any
of the powers except England, France, and lkigmw'
would appear at Berne.

FRANCE.—PARTS, JUNE 7.—FRENCII MOMS&
—ln the Chamber of Deputies the general discussion ca dr
bill demanding credit for the military and civil serer,
Algeria was opened. An important amendment in, hit
before the chamber by M.M. Abraham Dubois, de 3oblsri
the Marquis de Chasseloup Laubat, Colonel Oraisoc,lo
General Oudiaot, demanding that a sum of three rillises al
francs be allowed in the budgets of 1847, 1848, sad 1849,60
the colonisation in Algeria of married soldiers or sod" of
men who bad served their full time, the prefeream to
given to men who have served in Africa. To this Asti!
sum of one million of francs to be allowed in the bed
Fe ,
1847 in the department of the Minister of War. Any of
the credit granted which should not have been emplort
be carried over to the budget of the following yea—
a
Cremieux called upon the Minister of Foreign Affsurs to ft
day for giving exploration regarding the line of ps!gt
followed in Portugal.—M. Ginza replied that he.
~110
no objection, and Monday next was accordingly VW
upon. The commission for examining the bill relative*
the prorogation of the law of Jas. 28 and Feb. 21, 1847,01
the corn-trade, have terminated their labour.. They prollge
the prorogation to Jan. 31, 18a8, and to suppress the fang
accorded to the government by Art. 2, of proroguitllo )11
ordonnance. The commission on the Paris and Arse
Railway meet daily. On Sunday they heard the Miaow
of Public Works, and on Monday M. Talabat, the direr),
of the amalgamated companies.

THE ENGLIBH TN CTITNA.—From an official real%
it appears that the number of registered British subjs.:llls
each of the five Chinese ports open to oar commerce is INN
was as follows:
Canton ... .......* SS
Amoy
Fooelmew-fee ..
rinse— . -
Rumba
Total
The following table, from the Name document, weeds,
comparative view of British trade at these_2.3,_'______....-•••uin I 846:

Imports. E91:22118
,Toons.To; %*slibes. T 000394
__L,..,....ri
Canton . . 1 91,896 ,C 2,219,116 16 6 68,930 £5,334W I; 3
Amoy 9,078 167,933 3 0 9,978 k 436.1,
Fooohow-roo
Nimypo I 3,382 1 8 3.70., Ily
Slumghai
I 1117,343 x3,196,634 3 2 112,411 /4,001

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