The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

The National Saroisien of the 3rd hid. states that a
rumour was current at Turin that a fight had taken
place near Piacenza, between the Pwdmontese and
Austrians. General Pepe is said to have driven back
the Austrians as far as Padua, and taken 8 cannon.
The Sardinian minister has declared in the Chamher
of Deputies of Turin, on the 2nd inst., that the King
of Sardinia would accept of no other than the Anglo-
French mediation.
The (]pinion of Turin of the 3rd inst. states that,
notwithstanding the entrance of the Austrians at Chi-
avenna, the insurrection extends in Lombardy. Col.
Apice has taken the steamer on the Lego Maggiore ;
2,000 of his men drove the Austrians from Lucino on
the let, and a part of that force then proceeded to
Como. The SarcUnian fleet had cast anchor before
Venice. A correspondence took place immediately
between Rear-Admiral Albini and the Austrian Ad-
miral. Letters from Alessandria state that the Duke
of Savoy intends shortly to transport his head•quar-
ten into the duchy of Piacenza.

chlats ; the Romish of one bishop and 23 curates. Tars*/
clergymen and two catechists of the former communion egg
as mach as 24 clergymen of the latter.
The following remarks on the cost of making sugar in Tyl,„
nibtaarsmnfrizmintbne
despatch to tee toutol
Trinidad, I believe no sum hoe been produced eta km mat Ursa
11.. bd. per cwt., but the average ia between t&. Md. and 20s imp
We sire his lordship lull credit for integrity in the above
and fur the best intention in hentutins the inquiries on whisk
statement is based : but we strongly suspect that his informatics*.
been derived from interested and hmainsciencod parties—hem
proud, though purse depleted, Turbots of the old school, who vegj *
any time swear to it, on a ton of bibles, that sugar cannot be pp.
deiced at lem than what include and corer not only the rent of Mk
the coat of labour, the wear of .rock end machinery, but ohm tiro 6.
mends of there wio hare mortgages on their estatis tat, *A._
more than double their value; to all which they add, with •
conscience and a brazen face. the shameful emelt-wale. and eau*
waste exhibited daily on their properties. Estates
to the leader mercies of mortgagees, mtlorbil' *iddri
Interested managers, do iv r, and will not. emits* oom
eta fair figure of mat. Tim majority of estates is Trinidad are blow
more in the paws of mortgagees, end controlled by deputies who, *
gr.-sweat, have no interest In eye but their own. It has, for ro*,
years, been taiittsr of astonishment to no, how more than hag*,
rigor estates in Trinidad could meth.= the cultivation of lb. vie
and manufeet tare of razor, o Olt the heave 1, to on money lent, r*
exorbitant charges of the supply mercharits, the pay sod per **np
ad attomies, and the careleism, et of managers. The coition ess
tweed on us, 014 tine collie:Aron of the canoe In Trial-el was Me more
profitable article of cultivation in the world. That conrielion remake
anal is daily deepened. We hare data foe our belief, tin d one
ration would be remunerative and pmtitab:e at the present pries or
augur, even tlo ugh the emit of labour were double its r.w wretch*
ratio. • • • • • We refer our readers to a eswithe letter from
a correspondent at Mayan,. Ile thinks teat stew multi be there
made and sold in town for 2 dol.. per ewt. And we woo* lik,
know what should forbid sugar being made at the came price in %het
and more acme ible quarters of the island.
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With reference to the finar.cial awl mercantile condiegg'
of the island, we read in the same journal
The euggertion contained in a despatch from the C.tarusleffice to
reference to the propriety of Jawing Treasury Dort.. ;,1 sot set
meet the prohatmo of the bowl. The subject is cookuuTeb: up
complicated one, and nut without serious ditticulthe. Amu g.' -
real property s mtuh needed In the asset; sad
(with its unmen ure'l crown larul. cult its Po
srapee:encualrk.terttLeregoekre:vilvee":mthneo!ie,:ing:nr.caub.Nt
subject is worth the earnest y can do,
reconsideration of the mama. gle-
be postponed till our next
GUIANA.—Owing to some accident, our Georg,
town papers have not cline to band. 04T file of the Der.
bier Gazelle, however, enables us to state that the combined
court met on the lith of September; that the majority coo.
tioued to insist upon a reduction of the civil list; that the
gtvernor persisted in his refusal to allow the subject to be
discussed; and that ho has again adjourned the cult sew
die. The following entracte from Earl Grey's despatches
were presented to the court :
Downing-etreet, 13th Aug., 1818.—I have to acknowledge tam,
eelpt of your despatch of the 24th June last, No. 4x, tranonittirg as
ordinance passed by yourself and the combined wart, eutitled "An
Ordinance to continue lore limited tcriod, Ordinance No. It of the
year lOC, entiied Colonial Taxes.' And I huic to convey to doe
r Majesty's gracious allowance and confirmation of this ordinance,
I have also to coney to you my epproval of your having COMtntedto
accept of a continuance of the armoires for throe month.. In the ab.
mew of my instructions, which lied not then reach.] you, you nate.
relic adopted that mums, bring that which had het u e ~t4l3,V,ted b,
Kr Henry Light. Brit in cafe of any future etteept to anew tha
supplies fora fractional portion of the animist ye you will guide
yourself by the instructions; contained in my despatch of the GO
Juneloot.—(Signed) GIiIKY.—TACUL-GONITOOf Walker. de.
The following extract from a primes deepatch was cod:
Extract from kg; etch, dated Ang. 15, 1849, from Earl Grey
With regard to the reduction of the expenditure of the colony, I arms—
deeirous to be understood as lean ng It entirely to the Combined
Court to consider and determine what reduetions tan safely and pro
pub, be made • and, except g regards the civil list (on which I have
already expregied my opinion in my despatch of the 15th February
last), her Majesty's government desire to exercise no control over the
11111.11 t cal arrangements of the court. I would obverts, however, the
I shoutd regret, from the conviction that 1 hare, that adopting such
course would be injuri cot to the true tote:este of the colere, if arty
ill.considsred and hasty measures of reduction ,liveld be acoptsg
under the pre-moire of ininiethate clime'.. Thrs ww.td, in the event.
lam vote, prove to be very far from bring real cc noety, of which
providing for the efflerency of the public eetdbiiebnunta, t. no km as
eventiut part than on cutting down minces-ley eapenditure.—
(I/geed) Gaay.
Mr. Croat moved, and Mr. Brand seconded, the following
resolution :
Resolved—That this rout, in consequence of the deep movie
entertained by it, in come on with the inhabitants geney, that the
diminished resources of the colony call for a reduetios of the civil
list, and every other branch of the public expenditure, barleg ~
sorted to every wastitutional means, short of an setual stoner et
the euppliee, to procure the co-operation of the home government la
affording relief to tle tax-payers of the colony, but without effects'
yet, mw moue& with the colonial estimate under protest, India the
nem reliance that the British parliament will iota row its authority
to there the colony horn the weight 1•1 nix ition occasioned, ins
great measure. by a civil list no entirely disproporioned to the present
elate of British Golan,
After a long debate the Governor said he had no objection
to the resolution proposed by Mr. Croal ; but he thought it
nee scary to state distinctly that he could not, under any
circumstances, consent to a reduction in the civil list, at
whatever time the subject might be brought before the
court.—The resolution was then put to the vote. For it:
Messrs. Brand and Croal, the Government Secretary, the
Collector of Customs, the Attorney-General, and the Chief
Justice-6; against it: Messrs Davison, Conye s, Duff,
Watson, Gordon, Porter, Jones, Rose, and S:u rt—O. The
resolution wan Croat then moved that the resolu-
tion of 20th July be rescinded ; he thought that that
motion would have a good effect. lie did not know whew
then bon. member" had made up their minds to allow the
tax ordinance to expire, but the majority of them seemed to
think that they were fettered by their nnolution. That ap-
peared to be the only obstacle in their w iv.—Mr. Brand
seconded the motion, which was also lost —The Attorney-
General next moved :
That his excellency be requested to give instructions for the intro.
duction of an ordinance renewing the Tax Ordinance of 187 from the
30th of September, 1848, tothe WM of June, 1849, unless In the meas.
time a tax oidizunace be pesenL
The Chief Justice seconded that resolution. When the
court divided, there appeared :—For it, Messrs. Brandied
Croal, the Government Secretary, the Cellector of Custom',
the Attorney-General, the Chief Justice, and the Gunnar-
7. Against it—Messrs. Duff, Watson, Conyers, Davison,
Gordon, Porter, Jones, Stuart, and Rose-0. The resole-
tion was lost. Mr. Davison then handed in, to be recorded
on the minutes, the reasons of the majority of the court far
voting a reduction in the civil list :
We, the undersigned elective members of the Combined Conti, de-
sire to place on its minutes our reasons foe having refused to vote for
the continuance of the civil list, as placed on the estimate by boa Ex-
cellency the Governor : —let. Because the general distress prevailing
throughout the colony is so great, that it is utterly unable to continue
the prevent rate of expenditure. 2nd. Because this distress has not
been produced by the ordinary fluctuations of enmmere, but by the
acts of her Majesty s government. 3rd. Because at the time the said
tied list woo renewed, the colonial legislature conaidered that the
faith of her Majesty's government and of the imperial parliament wag
pledged to the exclusion of sugar, produced by slave lab or, and they
never contensolated tho possibility of that faith being broken. 4th.
Because the compact fur the renewal of the civil list, haring been vim
sted by her Majesty's government, is no longer hinting or the cob-
nista; and it in bath unjust and unreasonable to expect the eolonyto
maintain the compret, when, by its violation, on the part of her Is.
trsrtfoveroment, the reaources of the colony have been M
y curtailed—Wm. Davison, Chu. Canyersalo.
ss
VeZeTt Ow James Stuart, Jilin Jones, Thos. Porter, jun., J.
A. Duff, Fit, Peter 31. Watson, P.R.—Sept. 23, 1849.
Mr. Croat reserved for himself and his hon. friend on his
left (Mr. Brand) the right of placing on the minutes their
reasons for the course which they hal followed.—Mr. RODS:
It was not Imre, he believed, to introduce a resolution
without having hest given notice of it. lie suppoeed the
court would meet again on the following day, and he begged
to give notice of a resolution to the effect that the receiver-
general be instructed not to pay out of the colony chest any
public money until the pawing of the estimate.--Governor
After the decision to which the court had just come, and
of which, be trusted he would be permitted to say, he was
extremely sorry, he had no other alternative than to follow
the same course that he had followed et the last meeting.
The court stood adjourned sine die.
The Gut of Policy has also been adjourned sine die by
the Governor. In other words, representative government
is at an end in British Guiana, and the Governor has con-
etituted himself dictator.
WINDWARD ISLANDS.—ST. VINCENT.—The
general election for the island legislature is in progress. It is
impossible to foretel the result.—ST. LUCIA. —The following
announcement appears in the Palladium of the Gth of

October :
On Wednesday nest, the Criminal Courts of this Island will, for the
first time, be opened under the jury Bildern. The absurd system of
egistasors hitherto prevailing, under which the law, as well se the fady
kll to bejudged by the meson, who also tech an equal pert with
the learned judges on the bench in awarding the punishment for each
cafe of guilt, will henceforth come, and the simpler task devolve upon
the jurors of confining their inquiries to the fact charged against the
primer, leaving the law and sentator entirely in Ihe hat &of the
Judges. We have laboured keg and anxiously in endeavouring to
obtain for this our country. the priceless blessing of this time.
honoured and deservedly chmishM palladium of the lives and liberties
of Englishmen. It is with no little pride and gratification we sow
bail its solvent In the community, and congratulate our kliomins
habitants upon the greet step thus pined towards those tree and
literal instituuons which characterise our great nation, secured to us
by Magna Cbarta—Judicims patient aut loy.e term.

FRANCE.—ABD-EL-ICADER.—We announced yea-
terday the departure of Abd-el-Kader from Pau on Thurs-
day last for his new residence near Nantes. His arrival at
Bordeaux created a lively sensation in that cite, He alighted
at the Htitel des Princes. On Friday the mayor and muni-
cipal council visited the prisoner, being introduced to him
by Capt. Fournier of the staff, whn is Appointed by the go-
vernment to attend him during the whole of his journey
from Pau to Amboise. Oa Saturday evening Abd-el-Kadar
was prevailed upon to go to the theatre. He was rewired
by the audience with every mark of respect, which, in mita
him
of his oriental gravity, he evidently showed afforded
great satisfaction. He did not retire until the whole of the
performances were finished. Re was to leave Bordeaux cm
Sunday morning.
WEST COAST OF AFRICA.—ST. PAUL DE
LOANDO, SIIPT.—The Portuguese corvette Oito de Junho ar-
rived here about the middle of tut month, with a new governor
and anew commander-in-chief of the naval forces, nape
unexpectedly the late worthy and respected chiefs Oil
whom a great stop had been put to the slave-trade by
Portuguese cruisers. Fears are entertained that we shall
not look on their like again, for they were most zealous in
assisting our commodore to abolish thts traffic, and instants
have occurred of slavers, fearing the vengeince of the Go-
vernor of Loando, running down to an rote
of to
avoid being taken by a Portuguese cruiser, in sight at the
sometime. The Penelope, Grappler, and Plow steam-mmels
have been here recently, and give good accounts of thehealth sue-
or of our own squadron, which is at present in good .
The Penelope bas captured the Teresa steam-slaver, and a
noted slaver, the Polka; and the Grappler, on her passage
from the Bights, a Brazilian brigantine, with 337 slaves on
board. The Contest has taken another fast vessel, the
Feliciodade, and the Dart captured a lame schooner on her
from the Bights of Benin. In the Bights. the
gOtpal%, after a lengthened chess, captured a fastrialling
vessel with 200 or 300 slaves on board. The Waterwitch,lo,
Commander Quin, has arrived on this coo-, and the Flew
steamer, Lieut. Kchardson, bringing hitt Iligcnre fromwax.
SIA:
he WitArwitt,
land up to the meddle of June. T