The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-17 00:00:00

THI EXPRESS, 'TUESDAY- 'EVENING, 1851.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The notes of M. Cartier, published by M. Eugene
Forcadc, would by this time have dropped entirely
out of public notice, but for a personal allusion, which
has raised immense excitement. It is hinted in the
prefect's report that a M. L—, a representative,
on intimate terms at the El see, had received half the
pay of a place which he had solicited and obtained
for a client. In the original papers the name of M.
Lomulier appears in full.
It was reported to-day that interpellations would
be addressed to the ministry on this subject. Ac-
cordingly, when M. Lambit was observed to proceed
to the tribune, there was a general hush of expecta-
tion.

M. Larabit demanded to intcrpellate the minister
of justice upon the alleged traffic in a post under
government, which had appeared in the Mcuager,
and gave rise to an infamous charge against a repre-
sentative of the people. M. Rouher declared that a
judicial inquiry had been instituted, and that justice
would be done. M. Joly insisted upon the import-
ance of the fact, and demanded a parliamentary in-
quiry. M. Lemulier, who was aware that he was
the representative alluded to in the notes of M. Car-
tier, protested against the foul imputation cast upon
him, and declared that he should insist upon a re-
tractation by the prefect of police, and that he would
prosecute the newspaper until he reached the author
of the infamous slander.

M. Leon Faucher blamed the manner in which
the note had been published, but attempted to
diminish the importance of the allegation. He
declared that the government was quite as solicitous
as any person about the honour of the administration,
and that it would see strict justice done. Ile opposed
the demand for a parliamentary inquiry. M. Jules
Fevre spoke in favour of the inquiry. M. Jules
Lastcyrio opposed parliamentary proceedings as
dangerous, and preferred judicial, M. Baroeho
strenuously resisting a parliamentary inquiry as
exhibiting distrust of the courts of justice.
Finally, after several motived orders of the day had
been proposed, the pure and simple order of the day
was put to the vote, and carried by 335 votes against
306. This large minority was composed of the Left
and the legitimists. Thus, upon a most important
question of morality, the government has only
obtained a majority of 29.
The committee on the Avignon Railway has re-
jected all the propositions of the companies, and
decided that the railway should neither be executed
nor worked by the state.
The most important question at the present moment
is the procedure which the Committee on Revision is
bent on adopting with regard to the petitions pray-
ing simply for the abrogation of the 45th article of
the constitution, and the prolongation of the Presi-
dent's powers. It seems that the sub-committee
appointed to examine the petitions for revision has
come to the conclusion that the abovementioned
class of petitions is to be regarded as null
and void, inasmuch as the Assembly can only
express the wish for the total or partial rev I-
lion of the constitution, without prescribing a
special alteration. There is no question so likely to
bring the two powers into conflict as this, which
touches so nearly the attributes of both. If the As-
sembly, taking its stand upon a legal quibble, chooses
to ignore the wish very generally expressed through-
out the country for continuing Louis Napoleon in
the office of president, it will furnish the most
popular excuse which can be desired for taking the
law out of their hand, which they wrest to so absurd
an abuse.

Notwithstanding the protest of M. Leon Faucher
on Saturday, the result of that day's debate is re-
garded by nearly all the organs of the press as a
decided breach in the electoral law of May ; the reform
of which is now called for more loudly than ever. It
remains to be seen if the cabinet will stick to its
declaration. that the law of May is the Hag of the
ministry. if it does, it must resign.
The AssemliVe Nationale reports that a despatch
of Lord Palmerston to Lord Howden contains the
following passage : " The late movement in I'ortugal
has been brought about by that sort of tyranny,
against which the best remedy is military revolt."
Great is the consternation of the beetroot-growers
in the north at the new sugar law, which they
pronounce ruinous. They insist upon a fresh deli.
bernt ion.

M. do Vara'. a Portuguese agent delegn.tra by tho
Duke of Suldanha to procure a loan, has just passed
through Paris on his way to London.
In the arrangement between the French and Bra-
zilian governments to settle the dispute relative to
the outrage offered to the French flag at Pernambuco,
some special stipulations have been introduced to re-
move the difficulties attending the administration of
French inheritances.

The remains of Madame Letitia, the Emperor's
mother, and of his uncle, cardinal Feech, are to be
transferred from Cornet() to Ajaccio. The war-steamer
Vauban is to receive the remains on board at Civita
Vecchia, and convey them to thcir destination in
Corsica.

----
A pamphlet, written by Eugene Sue and others,
entitled " Republieain des Campagnes," has been
seized by the authorities.

SPAIN.

Only a few of the Madrid journals of the 11th
have arrived; and we learn from the Epoca that this
is owing to the others, and amongst them the
Herald°, having been seized, but it is not stated for
what reason. The Chamber of Deputies was occu-
pied, on the 10th and 11th, with the reports from
election committees, and some of them gave rise to
strong debates, in which M. Pidal and the President
of the Council, and the Minister of the Interior,
took put; in each case, however, the decision was in
favour of the government. The Senate, in the sit-
ting of the 11th, adopted, after some debate, the bill
for making a levy of thirty-five thousand
men for the army. The Queen, having ordered
the renewal of the permanent deputation of the
grandees of Spain, a general junta is to be held on
the Ist July. General Pezuela having accepted the
post of captain-general of Madrid had been received
by the Queen ; but the Epoca says that he has de-
clined to enter the cabinet. The Epoca states that
it is not tree, as asserted by one of the papers, that
M. Salamanca has obtained the concession of a rail-
way from Aranjuez to Alienist, and formed a com-
pany which hos already raised the necessary funds ;
but it adds that there is reason to hope that the pro-
ject for forming this line will shortly be realised
under that gentleman's care. The expenses are
estimated at 300,000,000 reels (73,000,000 k.) and it
is calculated that the line could be completed in three
years. General Peznela had arrived at Madrid to
take possession of the post of captain-general.

rested and secured in the Fortessa Vecchia. The
articles seized were put into two chests, and sealed
up in the presence of the British consul. Fourteen
persona more connected with this affair, have been
since arrested.

GERMANY.

Our Paris correspondent writes u follows:
The senate of Hamburg has protested, not only at
Frankfort, Berlin, and Vienna against the occupa-
tion of their city by the Austrians, but has addressed
remonstrances to the governments of England,
France, and Russia, as parties to the treaty of
Vienna, which guarantees the independence of the
city of Hamburg.
M. Baroche, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had a
long. interview on Saturday last with the Austrian
minister on the subject of tho recent collision at
Hamburg, the senate of which city has applied to
France, as a party to the treaty of Vienna, to back
their protest against the Austrian occupation of
Hamburg. M. Earache proceeded, after this con-
ference, to draw up a report, which he submitted to
the council of ministers. In the evening a cabinet
courier started with despatches for Vienna.

The following is the proclamation published by the
magistrates of Hamburg, and referred to in our cor-
respondent's letter given below :

NOTICIL—On the evening of Whitsunday an occurrence,
which is greatly to be deplored, took place. It was caused
by a gunnel, in which soldiers belonging to the Imperial
Austrian service joined, together with the Austrian mili-
tary quartered in the town of Altona. In consequence of
this the commander-in.ehief of the Austrian corps has causes'
some of his troops from the neighbouring Holstein to oc-
cupy the suburb of St. Pauli, without the consent of the
hon. council of your senate.
Your lion. Council of the Senate has already taken steps
to cause a revocation of this measure, and will leave no-
thing undone which may serve to maintain the rights of
the city.
It is, at so serious a moment, and in order to prevent any
further danger to our city, the sacred duty of every indivt-
dual subject of the state, as well as that of every stranger
enjoying hospitality within the same, to avoid, as much as
possible, giving vent to any ebullition of feelings of any de-
scription against the Austrian troops quartered for the time
being upon, and passing through the territory of the
state, and in gase of their supposing themselves even justi-
fied therein by any cause of provocation given on the other
side, not to have recourse to any means, either in word or
deed, of taking justice into Their own hands.
Every Hamburger who loves his native city should bear
in mind, what he owes to the troops of a confederate State,
temporarily residing among us, and with whom hitherto a
good understanding has existed. Should, however, indi-
vidual transgressors be found, regardless of this warning
and admotion, guilty of allowing themselves to offer any
insults to the Imperial soldiers, either individually or col-
lectively, thereby causing to their fellow-citizens and their
native city any fresh disaster, they will have the most sum-
mary punishment inflicted upon them forthwith.
Given in Council usembled, Hamburg, June 13, 1851.
Our correspondent writes as follows :
HAMBURG, JUN, 11.
The city is still agitated by the outrage of the
Austrians. *Yesterday and to day there was hardly any.
thing else spoken of on 'Change, and many enormities and
true ties committed by them since they came here were
mentioned, that were not generally known before. For
instance, hauling up little boys before the police for hav-
ing thrown, in a playful mood, snowballs at an officer. The
general himself going to the police-office, and threatening
that if an exemplary punishment was not inflicted on those
urchins, on the next offence being committed the offender
would be run through by the sword of the offended.
On Monday about 2,000 men, infantry and cavalry, were
quartered on the inhabitants of St. Pauli, and the Circus
seized upon as a guard-house. The senate protested
a Taint this arbitrary invasion, referring to the agreement,
according to which the uumlwr of 4,200 for the city and its
territory should not be increased ; but no notice was taken
of that protest, nor did they wait until an arrangement was
made by the proper authorities, but sent tile soldiers into
the houses without billets, though the housekeepers had
nothing to do with the riots.
Lieut. Lorenzer, of our regulars, who commanded the
post at the gate on Sunday when the crowds were driven in
by the Austrians, after the fugitive, had got inside, had the
wicket gates shut and did not admit the Austrians, because
it is the rule that no foreign troops be allowed to enter the
city without permission of the Senate. At the same time
lie placed his soldiers in front, so that if the Austrians had
been firing they must have hit our soldiers, who would
have screened the population and given them time to get
out of the way. The Austrian authorities highly blame this
judicious arrangement, and want to have M. Lorenzer be-
fore a court-martial because he checked them and prevented
the riots spreading from the suburb into the city.
The Austrians have not given up to the civil authorities
the persons they arrested on Sunday, and it remains to be
seen what the Senate will do. _

dv:vz 13.

The indignation against the Austrians first manifested by
the purul.c is now prevalent amongst all classes of society.
The senate has wisely suspended the military exercises and
manoeuvres of tho Burgher Guard, which annually begin
after Easter and terminate about midsummer. The other
evening a battalion of the militia returning from their
afternoons exercise, entered one of the gates and took up
the whole space; an Austrian officer, it vs said a general,
driving his carriage, wanted to get cut of the city, and im-
patient to wait until the battalion had passed, tried to push
through the ranks. The commanding major remonstrated
with him, telling him that as a military person high in rank
he ought to know that this could not be done ; upon which
he replied he saw nothing but a " concourse of people be-
fore him."
The senate has protested against the second invasion of
the Austrians in the suburb of St. Pauli with an addi-
tional force of upwards of 2,000 men, but the commanding
general, Field-Marshal Lieutenant Legetlicz, took no notice
of that protest. Copies of it have since then been for-
warded to Vienna and Frankfort; but pretexts will not
be wanting to that Jesuitical cabinet, and its holy allies, to
represent such occupation as necessary for the peace of
Europe.

Jris 14.

The proclamation of the Senate, placarded in the
streets last night, and published in our newspapers this
morning, gives general satisfaction, and is quieting people's
minds. Should, however, the grievances expressed by the
Senate not be redmied by the Austrian government, there
is no telling what the results will be, exasperated as every
man is against the insolence of the commanding officers,
who want to reduce 113 to the level of their slavish menials.

COLONIAL.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Papers from gyilney had been received at Singa-
pore to the middle of February. An important ter-
ritorial discovery had been made. Darling Downs
has hitherto been the Wilma thuk to the west of
Moreton Bay, but there is now rising behind another
district—the Maranos—now almost unoccupied, but
which promises to become one of the most produc-
tive of the northern districts. In illustration of this
fact it may be noticed, that tenders for runs fur no
less than one million of sheep had been received
within a few months. The newly discovered country
lies to the westward of Darling Downs, its boundary
with which is about 150 miles from Brisbane ; it is
watered by the Condamine, Balonne, Barwau,
Moonee, Mammal, and other rivers, and creeks out
of number. There aro considerable scrubs, but
along the waters there is generally a belt of fine
forest, from 2 to 10 miles in breadth, covered
thickly with grass, mixed with salt-bush and
herbage the finest of puture; and in the north-west
aro Fitzroy Downs, described by Sir Thomas Mit-
chell, the surveyor-general, as the finest country he
had ever seen. The climate is stated to be delight-
ful. The few settlers now located in the district
followed Sir T. Mitchell's track along the Balonne,
and until last year invariably resorted to Maitland,
a distance of from 500 to 000 miles. Mr. ltoderiek
Mitchell was then appointed commissioner, and, with
his usual enterprise, opened up a road into Darling
Downs, which brought the more distant parts of the
north of his district within 300 miles of water car-
riage. The discoverers of this new territory were
Mr. Gideon Lang and a resolute old dragoon guard,
named Walker, of many years experience in the
Australian wilds.

Connected with this discovery is a report current
among the blacks that the indefatigable and enter-
prising Dr. Leichardt and his whole party were
murdered, more than eighteen months ago, in a lo-
cality still more distant. In confirmation of this
melancholy intelligence it is added that the pack-
mules of the unfortunate band of adventurous ex-
plorers were still running wild there.
Smelting operations were being carried to a great
extent, not merely the produce of New Zealand and
South Australia, as heretofore, but the ores of the
I province. Sydney was about to have its weekly
1 sales of copper as well as wool and tallow. The
smelting is carried on at the mines, whereby a
heavy amount of cartage is saved, and mines here-
tofore profitless on this account are now being
worked with advantage.

VICTORIA.

Melbourne and Geelong papers have been received
to the 20th of February. The whole province was
in a ferment on the subject of anti-transportation.
The delegates from Van Diemen's Land were re-
ceived with public honours, and the proceedings at
the various 'breakfasts and meetings at Melbourne
and ita sobarban port, Geelong, strongly and unntis-

takeably indicate a fixed resolve to resist to the
uttermost the moral pest. One single de-
termined act (says the South Australian Gazette,
Feb. 27th) on the part of Van Diemen's Land
alone—and that a duplicate of the resistance at the
Cape—would do more towards the final abolition
of transportation than twenty years of orderly
and peaceable resistance. Sir William Denison
would probably try to shoot, by the help of his
troops, a few of those who first resisted the further
landing of convicts; bat, in the end, he would be
either shot himself or shipped off, a la Illigh, and
the matter would there finally end. A " League
and solemn engagement" had been entered into by
the delegates in the conference held at Melbourne,
January, 1831, by which they bound themselves:
lit. sot to employ any
for
hereafter arriving under
sentence of transportation for crime committed in Europe.
2nd. To use all the powers they possess official,
electoral, and legislative—to prevent the establisluuent
of English prisons or renal settlements within their
bounds; that they will refuse assent to any projects to faci-
litate the administration of such penal systems, and that
they will seek the repeal of 311 regulations, and the removal
of all establishments for such purposes.
3rd. From the Ist of January, 1852, to refuse all
dealings, intercourse, and fellowship, so far as may be
consistent with religion or natural obligations, with any and
all colonists who may be found advocating or endeavouring
to procure the transportation of British convicts to the
Australasian colonies.

And, lastly, They solemnly engage with each other
to support, by their advice, their money, and their counte-
nance, all who may suffer in the lawful promotion of this
cause: and that they will never dissolve this league until
the transportation of convicts to these colonies shall entirely
cease.

The principles of the league were being responded
to with an avidity not to be mistaken.
An awful conflagration had visited the neighbour-
hood of Geelong on Feb. 6, which was more disas-
trous in its consequences than any that had ever
occurred in the colony. The crops, stacks, live stock,
and homesteads belonging to upwards of thirty
farmers had been reduced to ashes, but the aggregate
amount of the kisses sustained had not been ascer-
tained. The loss of life was frightful. Among others
the wife and four children of a settler named MeLel-
land, residing on the banks of the Diamond Creek,
one of the tributaries of the river Plenty, had been
burnt to death; and eight persons in the Geelong
district had suffered in like manner.
A public meeting had been held at Geelong, at
which resolutions were carried, deprecating the
power given to the Governor and Council of New
South Wales of determining the electoral districts
of Victoria. The meeting was presided over by the
Mayor, but was thinly attended,