The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1847.

the venerable relics of self-government, should self-go- ,
versa:sent over take its place with the " has bens."
£ s. d.
Twenty dinners, deserts, tees, &a., at 10a.
Two haunter of venison
Wiese : sherry, five bottles, at 64. ; port, six bot-
tles, at 65.; hock, seven bottles, at 10s. 6d.;
champagne, four bottles, at 10s. 6d. ; punch,
four bowls, at 4.1.
I Ice for wine, 12s. ; brandy, Os. ; rose water, 11.6..1 OlB 6
Cigars, 24.; sods, 41. 6d. ; claret, lira bottles, at
10s. lid.
Tea and coffee, 304. ; wax-lights, 3s. ; two ser-
i vents, at 10s. each ; broken glass, 3s.
House porter and waiters 1 16 0

£3BlB
Can anything be more delightful to the truly
British mind than the picture conjured up by this
document, of self-government at feeding time?
Meanwhile, under the mild encouragement of such
innocent convivialities, we must suppose the work of
sewerage going on in such a way, that out of
33,9061. 17s. ld. spent from 1831 to 1837,
14,2881. 17s. 9d. was spent in cleansing alone. This,
of course, indicates a gentleness of fall, and a conse-
quent power of retaining filth in the sewers con-
structed, which incapacitates them for what are com-
monly considered their only purposes.
Poor streets are very generally unsewered, within
the domain of the Tower Hamlets commission, as the
owners of small houses will not go to the expense of
opening drains into sewers when they do exist ; and
self-government is clearly opposed to any attempt
at compelling them to do so. However, if
these streets go without sewers, it is grati-
fying to think that they pay sewer-rates. "It
is understood that there is property in Spitalfields
and Bethnal-green," says Mr. linstr, an owner of
small tenements in these districts, in his evidence
before the Health of Tewns Commission, " which has
paid sewer-rate for the last two centuries, and is still
unprovided with sewerage." With this appro-
priate extract we may now sum up the blessings
of "self-government," as far as the sewerage of
the Tower Hamlets district exhibits them. An
irresponsible body is appointed, of which less
than one-thirteenth really acts. This thirteenth
spends more than one-half of the rates in expenses,
constructs sewers, which cost as much to cleanse as to
build, leaves those districts unsewered where sewerage
is most wanted, and compels owners of property to
pay rates for sewers which are not and never have
been in existence. Surely a system which produces
such results is a thing to struggle for.

WE believe we may state with some confidence that
the official returns of the condition of the Bank which
will appear in this evening's Oa:elle, will exhibit not
only no further decrease in either the banking reserve
or in the aggregate amount of bullion, but, on the
contrary, an augmentation of both, of the most im-
por'ant kind. Until we see the precise statistics
under the usual authentic form we reserve our
comments. In the mean time we will not lose
the opportunity of observing, that the speedy oc-
currence of such a state of things is the best illus-
tration possible of the strong objections raised by
ourselves and others against the perfectly gra-
tuitous alarm and extortion, which did all in its
power to neutralise the efficacy of the government
interference, by clogging it with an extravagant and
unjustifiable rate of interest. The fact has farther
bearings upon the question, at this time so vitally in-
teresting, of the alleged poverty and paralysis of the
country; and we shall not omit to give a due promi-
nence to this additional feature of the evidence.

The Paris journals and our correspondence of Wed-
nesday have reached us. The adjudication of the
loan of 250 millions, as authorised by the bill of
August 8, 1817, took place on Wednesday, at 12
o'clock, at the Hotel of the Minister of Finance, Rue
de Rivoli. The room in which the proceedings took
place was crowded to excess long before the hour ap-
pointed to commence. When the hon. minister had
taken his seat, he briefly intimated for what purpose
the day's meeting was ordered, and then called on M.
Calmon, the secretary of the department of finance, to
read the conditions of the adjudication, which state:
that the payment of the 250 millions should be effected
in twenty-five months from Nov. 22, 184 7 ; that a
first instalment of 12,500,000 f. should be delivered on
that day ' • a second of 12,500,000 f. on Dec. 22, 1847;
a third of 5,000,000 f. on Jan. 7, 1848 ; and all the
rest, each amounting to 10,000,000 f. on the 7th of
each month, down to Nov. 7, 1849, on which day
the lsst instalment was to b. p.id, &c.—The hon.
minister then laid on the table a sealed packet,
containing the minimum price below which no tender
could be accepted, and called on the persons wishing
to contract to hand in their tenders.—Baron J. de
Rothschild then placed a sealed packet on the table,
no other person following his example. When the
clock struck half-past twelve, the hon. minister pro-
ceeded to open the scaled packet of M. de Rothschild.
He first read the receipt from the Caisse des Depots
et Consignations for a sum of 10,000,000 f., caution-
money paid in according to the conditions.—He next
read the tender itself, which offered to take the loan
of 2.50 millions at the rate of 75f. 23c. This an-

nouncement was received with hisses by a number
of persons, who considered the price too low, whilst
others cried out, " C'est un tres-beau prix."—The
hon. minister then stated that as the rate just named
was above the minimum price contained in his sealed
packet, the I sin was adjudged to MM. de Rothschild.
Except the immediate friends of MM. de Rothschild,
there were none of the bankers or capitalists of Paris
present.
The schism among the reform party which was
manifested at the recent banquet at Lille, and which
we have already reported, supplied a subject of lively
discussion in the journals and society in Paris on
Wednesday and the preceding days. A declaration
has been published bearing the signatures of M. Odi-
lon Barret, and several other deputies, explaining the
ground on which they withdrew from the banquet.
The policy aimed at by the Guizot cabinet in re-
ference to Switzerland is a subject of unsparing
attack, and more especially the unbecoming and fu-
rious invective directed against the legitimate and
recognised government of that country by the organs
of the ministry. The Di'bate declares that there is no
longer a Diet—that, in fact, the confederation as such
is without a government. Yet M. Bois le Comte is
still the ambassador accredited to this Diet, which M.
Guizot says is no Diet at all.
By the St. George steamer, arrived at Marseilles
from Naples, the news of the death of Count Bresson
is confirmed. There appears to have been no other
than presumptive evidence that the act was com-
mitted by himself. The Noueelliste of Marseilles
says that it may prove to have been an assassination.
The Courrier de Lyons quotes a letter received from
Naples, in which the death of the ambassador is spoken
of as an assassination. It is said that on the evening
before he was at the Opera, and was in very ani-
mated conversation with the persons around him.
A mass was celebrated on Tuesday (says the
Univers) at the high altar of the Church of Notre
Dame, invoking the divine blessing upon the heroic
standards of the Sonderbund.

M. Casamayor, president of the finance committee
charged by the Spanish government to conclude an
arrangement for the regulation of the Spanish debt
in Holland, and to pay there the last h3.lf-year's in-
terest, has arrived in Paris with the members of the
committee. He is on his way to the Hague.
The Bourse WWI very crowded on Wednesday,
from the anxiety to hear the terms of the loan.
Three per cents. opened at 76fr. 90c., and at two
o'clock were at 77fr. sc. The loan opened at 761 r. 25c.,
and rose to 77, demanded.

Letters and journals from the chief places in Swit-
zerland have arrived, to Sunday and Monday.
General Dufour having applied to the Vorort to be
informed when hostilities were to commence, received
for answer that they most begin without further de-
lay. Upon this, the general-in-chief issued an ad-
dress to the army. The manifesto was dated on
Friday last, and it was expected that hostilities would
commence on Monday.
The ministers of France and England had applied
to the president to allow the French and Irish stu-
dents of the seminary of Friburg to be withdrawn
from the scene of the conflict. A safe conduct for
this purp•se was granted by General Dufour, and
two attachés of the respective legations had been sent
to Friburg to conduct the students to the hotels of the
embassies at Berne.

Advicea from Genoa, which come down to the 3th
instant, bring reports of one of the moat magnificent
popular ovations of which that city has been the
theatre for a long aeries of years. The reform' re-
cently made in the administration of the Mate by King

Charles Albert have filled the entire population of
Piedmont with enthusiasm, and their gratitude almost
amounts to delirium. The journey of the King from
Turin to Genoa was one continued triumph. Every
village sent forth hundreds of his subjects, eliatint-
ing songs in his praise and raising triumphal
arches on his route. Banners inscribed with
patriotic words abounded. But it was for
Genoa that the manifestation was reserved. A
report of this day's proceedings will be found in the
letter of our owe correspondent, which we give
below. Among the innumerable banners which
floated around the King, as he made his promenade
in the evening through the city, one was especially
noticed. It was the famous standard captured from
th• Austrians by the Genoese in 1746, and was on
this occasion borne by the Marquis George Doria. It
was remarkable that when the King, surrounded by
fifty thousand subjects, making the air ring with
their acclamations, arrived in front of the Jesuits'
college, there was a sudden and profound silence,
which after several minutes was broken by a shout of
" Viva Gioberti!"
The printers then presented to the King a banner
inscribed with the words, " Liberty of the Press,"
which his Majesty accepted. The populace then
withdrew, observing the most perfect order.
The Piedniantese Gazelle mentions a rumour that
Pontremoli has been again ceded to Tuscany for four
millions of francs. Public rejoicings on the occasion
of the recent reforms were celebrated at Alessandria,
Villa Nova, Monferrato, Foment), Saluzzo, Sussa, and
other places.
Lord Minto passed the night at Arezzo on the 30th
ult. The inhabitants assembled before the hotel, and
cheered him loudly ; the cries of " Long live the
friends of Italian independence, the Customs-League,
and England," were incessant. Lord Nlinto, says the
Alba, stepped out on the balcony, and responded
with, " Long live Leopold 11. and Italian mde-
pendenoe !"
A letter from Bologna of the Ist inst., has the
following
We witnessed here to-day a grand manifestation and cere-
mony in honour of Pius IX. His excellency the Cardinal
Legate officiated pontifically at the Basilic of St. Petrone;
he afterwards reviewed the National Guard, and this even-
ing will be present at the representation of " Ernani," at
the theatre. Is order to celebrate in the church, by a song
of triumph, the worthy acts of Pius IX., the incrediole idea
of executing the " &abet Mater Dolorosa" of Rossini was
adopted. The maestro himself, who was present, loudly
blamed this want of tact and propriety.

By the Levant mail we have the journals of Athens
and our correspondence to the 30th ult. The senate,
in the independent exercise of its functions, voted,
after a long debate, the address in answer to the
royal speech, which we reported formerly, containing
severe animadversions on the conduct of the ministry
in the late elections, and the abuse of their official in-
fluence in determining the votes of the electors, and
alleging that the rights of the people had not
been respected, and also commenting on the
wretched state of the finances, notwithstanding
the improved commerce, agriculture, and naviga-
tion. This address was laid before the King by
the President of the Chamber. On the 28th the
senate was again convoked, when the president of the
council informed them that his Majesty refused
to receive the address, and had nominated nine
new senators. A majority will thus have been
created, and an address (which is the joint production
of King Otho and the French ambassador) will be
voted as a matter of course. A curious scene was
presented at a late meeting of the council of ministers,
which indicates rather a serious schism in the cabinet.
The Minister of the Interior (Riggs Palamides) have
ing used scurrilous and abusive language to the prime
minister, the latter raised his fist and delivered •
punch in the face to his excellency the Minister of the
Interior, whereupon the latter functionary seized the
footstool on which he rested, and flung it at the head
of the premier; being, however, ill-aimed, this mis-
sile struck his excellency the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs. The meeting then dispersed in confusion, the
colleagues of the combatants leaving them to fight it
out.. Further details will be found in the letter of
our correspondent.
. The board of health publicly notified that a ease of
cholera occurred in Constantinople on the 24th ult.
The victim was a servant, who sunk under the epi-
demic on the 25th.

We have received the journals and correspondence
of Constantinople to the 27th ult. Bederhan
Bey, and Khan Mahmoud, after being detained
some time alder strict surveillance, were ern-
tenced to be exiled; the former to Candle, and the
latter to ltoutchouk. They embarked for these places
on the 19th. The news from Albania continued to be
satisfactory. According to letters from Salonica of the
20th, the general of the Ottoman army was at Beret.
The army was about to take its winter quarters in
Janina, Monastir, and Larissa.

MADRID, N0v..5.
The ministerial and other official changes announced
in the Gazette of yesterday were settled only a few hours
before they became known to the public. Most of the persons
displaced knew not of their misfortune till they read it in
the official paper. Among these were Cordova and Jose
Concha. It was in the fore-dawn of the 4th of October that
Roe de Olano, with modest serenity, presented himself be-
fore his colleagues with the decrees which he had counter-
signed for their dismissal, introducing General Nareaez as
the new President of the Council appointed by the Queen.
In the fore-dawn of the 4th of November General Nereus
expresses his gratitude by countersigning the royal decree
which seals the fate of his serviceable friend, Roe de Olen°.
It is not without much concern that one hears traits of
character attributed to Isabel, upon better grounds than mere
popular hearsay, which remind one of her Bourbon blood.
• She dismissals which made their appearance in the Gazette
of yesterday, and of others which I shall presently have
to state, are said to have originated in the following circum-
stances Notwithstanding the exertions of the moderados to
hedge the Queen exclusively with their own creatures, it
seems that they have not succeeded so completely but that
the progresistas, not quite a week ago, entertained consider-
able hopes of a division in their favour, brought about by
persons in the confidence of the Queen, or, at least, who
contrived to procure access to her. Among these was one of
the late mininers.whose name it is not necessary to mention.
Suffice it to say, that the ministerial combination proposed
by him, and to all appearances acceptable to the
crown, would have included some progresistas. Cordova
was the only minister that was to remain in ; and
the post assigned to him was pretty much the same
that wee played by Rol de Olano on the night of the 3rd of
October. He would have countersigned the decrees dismiss-
ing the Duke of Valencia and the rest of his colleagues and
appointing new ministers. General Don Isidro Alan was
the man pitched upon to figure as the new president of the
council. " And what sort of man is Alan?" said the Queen.
" As I hear," the ex-minister replied, "Alan is a man who
would make no more of shooting Narrate than of drinking a
glass of water." When the interview terminated report
says that the daughter of Ferdinand VII. sent for Nervaez
and for her mother, and repeated to them the whole of the
preceding conversation. Let us trust sincerely that in this
instance, as in so many others at Madrid, report is a liar.
At all events the action of Isabel, which at first appearance
looks so much at variance with the known amiability
of her character, may have proceeded from motives not
unpraiseworthy. She may have been startled and shocked
by the rash supposition which was brought forward to illus-
trate the iron firmness of Alan, and Lave imagined that
what was only a phrase, an emphatic figure of speech,
covered a sanguinary design against the life of the prime
minister. She may have thought, under this misconception
that it was her duty to loge no time in thwarting socriminal
an intention, and that the beet way of doing so was to put
Nemec upon his guard. Such is the story which I hear,
and which, of course, I should not have noticed, if it were
based upon no better authority than the million of absurd,
idle rumours afloat on the same subject. The moderadne
profess to have discovered a terrible plot; and cafe, oracles
give out that its grand performance was to be the murder of
Nantes. The mind of the Duke of Valencia would seem
to have been influenced by the apprehension that some such
attempt was really contemplated, by the violence of the
measures which he has taken, and from the character of the
men whom he has named to high appointments.
Balboa, whose murders of children, as second in command
under l'erarraez in La Mancha during the Carlist war, has
made his name execrable throughout Europe, had been
named Captain-General of Burgos, and set out yesterday
morning at six o'clock to replace Cm:miner°. Path has been
restored to the command in Catalonia, which he disgraced
by cruelties fresh in the memory of your readers. Alai: re-
ceived yesterday afternoon an order from the Minister of
War to repair instantly to quarter, in l'aleocia. To-day it
is said that Salamanca has been sent away front the capital
far having had a finger in the conspiracy.
The chief feature in all these changes is perhaps the
rupture between Nareaez end the Conchae Don Manuel
Concha is at the head of .50,000 men in Catalonia. lithe**
troops were disposed to second hint in resisting the govern-
ment, here would be an opportunity for rebellion, highly
flattering to an ambitious temperament. If Concha were to
march upon Madrid with his 50,000 arm what troops are
there here to oppose him ? There is on the other hand one
regiment upon the good services of which, according to re-
port, he might in ail probability reckon. The possibility of
such a contingency leads an exciting interest to the moment.
The Popular of last night attributes to the joint attempts
of Mr. Bulwer and Salamanca the abortive deluge of forming
a progresista cabinet, in which Sig. Cabello would enter
with Salamanca, Iles, and Cordova, retaining their places.
Arming the militia, deluging the streets with the blood of
pneeful citizens, and, above all, murdering the Duke of
Valencia, are the Innocent doings which were to wait upon

the inauguration of the new ministry. The Queen, con-
tinues the Popular, gave notice of the horrible crimes con-
templated, and showed a list of the candidates for office
which had been put in her hands.
The Gazette publishes the decrees dismissing Pacheeo
from the embassy at Route, and appointing Martinez de la
Rosa in his place.

GENOA, Nov. 4.
This magnificent city has this day been the scene
of a most extraordinary demonstration. I must premise
that his Majesty Charles Albert, after many misgivings and
much hesitation, has recently granted some concessions to
the popular desires; sad for these concessions it was deter-
mined in Genoa to make a grand public manifestation of gra.
titude to the King, on his arrival here from Turin. At noon
the citizens began to assemble in the gardens of the
Acqua Sole, where they were formed into divisions,
and immediately filed off to take up positions on the Turin
read. Each division was headed by several banners, on
which the following inscriptions were observable Viva
King Charles Albert, the Reformer;" " Viva the reforming
King;" "Viva Italy;" "Viva the People;" "To the
reforming King, the grateful Commerce of Genoa;"
" Gioberti and Union ;" &e. And here I may observe that
two of these flags were horse by priests. At 20 minutes past
three o'clock his Majesty reached the city, and entered it
at a smart trot, and soon after the citizens formed into
procession to return and pass before the royal resi-
dence. The scene had now become extremely ani-
mated, from the vast numbers assembled, and the
enthusiasm that prevailed. Probably not less than four-
fifths of the respectable male population of the city were
marshalled in perfect order, among whom might be seen
many members of the nobility and great numbers of the
clergy. There were places where as many as fifteen priests
might be counted all together. It was interesting to witness
the extraordinary spirit of Italian nationality that evinced
itself as the procession, more than a mile in length, swept
along the magnificent Strada Balbi, Strada Nuova, &c.,
beneath those palaces which have secured for Genoa the
title of Superb, and every window of which was occupied by
anxious spectators, the majority ladies, who aided the
excitement by their approving smiles and waving kerchiefs.
As the van reached the royal palace, his Majesty took
up his station at the entrance, in advance of a
brilliaut staff, and received with repeated bows the
acclamations of his subjects. The city echoed for two hours
with repeated cries of " Viva Charles Albert," " Viva the
Reforming King," " Viva the People," "Viva Italian
Independence," " Viva Pius the Ninth," " Viva the Liberty
of the Pres.," " Viva Reform," &c. &c. Not the slightest
interference occurred on the part of the authorities, and the
multitude quietly separated at dusk, without accident or
disorder of any kind. In the evening the city was bril-
liantly illuminated, and the weather being exceedingly fine,
the whole population was abroad. The Xing, apparently
gratified et his reception, lett the palace on horseback a little
before eight o'clock, with no other escort than half-a-dozen
officers. He rode slowly through all the principal streets,
preceded by numbers of gentlemen bearing torches, and
was everywhere again welcomed with the same enthusiastic
cries as on his arrival. As a most powerful demonstration
of the popular desires, aceemplished in the most peaceable
manner, it cannot but produce its effect on the royal ntind.
I cannot conclude without noticing an incident, trifling in
itself, but as indicative of the feeling of the times. Iu a port
of the city in the Piazza Colombo, a flat square. stone is let
into the pavement in the centre of the street; on this stone
is chiselled the outline 01 a mortar, and it marks the spot
where the firsteannon was fired when, in the olden time, the
Germans were driven from the city. Here the porters of
the vicinity had established an illumination of their own,
and the patriotic souvenir was brought to public recollection
by a score of candles, around which were assembled nume-
rous spectators.

MALTA, Nov. 3.
On the 27th Mr. Wright, the proprietor and editor'
of the Malta Times, was tried in the criminal curt for a
libel upon Messrs. Robinson and Corlett, in some remarks
made in a communicated article. After atr al of two
hours' duration, he was condemned to three months' impri-
sonment, or to pay ten pounds fine to her Majesty the
Queen. The amount was immel lately paid by the writer
of the article in question, me were also the expenses, amount-
ing to about as much more.
The funeral of the deeply lamented Capt. Willes, late of
H.M.S Vanguard, took place on Friday, at 4 p.m. The
barge of the Vanguard, containing the body, was towed to
the landing place on the Marina, convoyed by the boats of
the rquadron. Lord Rely, Mr. Sim, acting chief secretary
to government, the Hon. Mr. Thornton, with several of the
respectable inhabitants, joined the procession, which was
nearly half a mile in length. The funeral service was read
by his lordship the Bishop of Gibraltar, assisted by the chap-
lain of the Vanguard.
A few days ago an English schooner, named the Europe,
arrived here from Messina, having on board three persons
compromised by the recent events at that place, and whom
the captain had managed to get away and save from being
executed. Immediately they arrived here, it is said that the
Neapolitan consul applied to the government to prevent
them landing, and insisted that the vessel should take them
on to England, whither it was bound. The government was
willing enough to listen to the consul's suggestion; but the
captain, as an Englishman, and a man fully cognisant of the
laws of England wherever the British flag flies, insisted upon
landing them, and they were landed, but not at liberty : for
they were kept in close confinement fur three days, having
intercourse with no one, until some English gentlemen came
forward as their vow..dere. Wo have had assassin., thieves,
villains of all descriptions, seeking a refuge in Malta, and
never objected to by the consuls, but immediately admitted;
but no sooner does a poor political offender venture to ap-
pear, than he is hunted to death.
Accounts have been received of the death of Limat. Moly-
neux, of her Majesty's ship Spartan, off Beyrout.

ATHENS, Ocr. 30.
The debate in the senate, on the projected address
to his majesty, sent to you in my letter of the 201 b, was
brought to a close, after a stormy discussion, late on the 22d.
It passed by a majority of 7 votes, 23 being for and 16 against
it. The principal points of discussion were, the paragraph re-
lative to the manner in which the minieters had acted in re-
gard to the elections, which stated that the rights of the
people had not been respected, and that the country had
thereby suffered many and serious evils—this passed by a
majority of 21 to IS ; and another paragraph, which speaks
of the wretched state of the finances of the country, notwith-
standing the advances made in agriculture, conimenie, and
nasigation. Immediately after the voting of the address it
was signed by the commission, given to the president, and
by him, the following day, laid before the King.
On the 28th, the senate was summoned by the President
of the Council, accomp►nied by the Ministers for Foreign
Affairs. of the Interior, and of the Marine, to bear his Ma-
jesty's reply. After some preliminary discussion, the Presi-
dent of the Council spoke to them as follows Mr. Presi-
dent His Majesty having been informed, with regret, that
the address voted by the senate, in reply to the royal speech,
infringes upon the rights exclusively conferred by the
charter upon the other legislative body, has charged me to
announce to you, that protecting the constitution, and jea-
lous to rigorously maintain the rights of the nation, and
the good understanding so necessary between the two legis-
lative bodies, he does not think it right to receive such an
address." The President of the Council of Ministers, K.
Travellas.

The astonishment of the senate on hearing this rind sore
rejection of their labours, was not a little increased on hear-
ing another announcement of the president, that his Majesty
had created nine new senators; men who will no doubt
serve hint fusthfully, and obey his instructions to the letter.
The new senators are : Generals Tzanetaki, Plaponta, Staiko,
Antonio, Mavromiehali, and Nikita Stamatelo ; Rear-
Admiral A. Kriezy ; Colonel Yoldansi ; and the Deputies°.
Notaraa and Kattris. It is said that the project for the new
address will be the one I mentioned in my previous letters,
no being the joint production of his Majesty and the French
ambassador. This occurrence is something new in the an-
nals of parliamentary legislation, and it furnishes another
and a convincing proof that Greece is yet doomed to be ruled
by the tyrannical and unconstitutional measures of the de-
funct Coletti, now kept in force by and with the counsel and
advice el Messrs. Metternich and Ouizot.

Letters from Missolonghi mention that the torture is still
in use in various parts, and that the Minch Tzinos has
cruelly illtreated whole families, paying no deference to age
or sex. I will ascertain the whole particulars, and give them
to you in my next.
Her Majesty's steamer Recta arrived here a few days ewo,
with despatches for Sir Edmund Lyons, who had an inter-
view with the president, and also with the Russian ambas-
sador. On the 24th the Heels sailed with despatches for
Lord Cowley. at Constantinople. It is supposed that they
relate to the Grecian-Turkish Mumma dispute, which here
appears to have been entirely forgotten, or only recollected
when some patriotic Break ventures to express an opinion
upon the debasement of his country and the ruin to her
trade. The French steamer Chacal arrived in the Pirteus
on the 28th, with despatches from the French ambassador at
Constantinople to the French minister here. On the 28th,
the English steamer Meteor also arrived from Constantinople
with despatches from Lord Cowley for Sir Edmund Lyons.
There is something brewing which will explode before
long, especially as the split in the cabinet has so far in-
creased, that Messrs. Rigel and Tnavellu came to blows
about it the other day in the senate house. It appear, that,
during the sitting of the council, and whilst discussing the
affairs of the nation, M. Rigaa Palamides, the Minister of
the Interior, proposed the immediate settlement of the
Turkish-Hellenic question, by according the satisfaction do
mended by the Porte. No sooner was this proposed than
up jumped the president, with his face as impassioned as a
turkey cock, who exclaimed, " What do you say ! Give oaths-
faction to the Porte ? Never, sir, never, whilst Taavellas sits
as president of this cabinet !" This rude speech raised the
dander of Riga', who abused Trarellas in such
" good set terms" a+ would have been no disgrace
to the classic purlieus of the St. Oiler's of Athens.
Trevino", with true Spartan valour, then struck Riga a blow
on the head ; this Riggs returned by throwing a stool at the
president's head; it fell, however, into the arms of the
Minister fur Foreign Affoire. Some of the ministers, who
are no admirers of the manly art," rushed out of the scene
of tumult, leaving the parties to fight it out. A ministerial
change has been spoken of ; in fact, this morning it was re-
ported as certain that Metaxa will be Minister of the Inte-
rior and President of the Chamber; that M. Cristeeopoulos
will have the Finances; Capfuls, the Marine ; these, with
Tzavellas as Minister at War, will constitute a cabinet com-
posed of what is celled the Napist faction.
The report which was abroad some time ago, that Otho had
written an autograph letter to the Emperor of Russia, re-
questing
his intercession in the Museums affair, is ascertained
to have been true, and also that the Emperor Nicholas
refused to act individually, and recommended an appeal to
the five great powers of Europe, as the meet likely way to

sett,
anTdhila dis"vip::',
cla se"envttojustheard, the Porte to that effect.

CONSTANT' NOP LE, OCY. 27.
Six deaths have been reported since yesterday
morning, but though the symptoms in each e ie were these
of cholera, the doctors are undecided whether it be the mar.
adic or malignant form of the epidemic. At this seams of
the year, especially in • country where fruit is a pond,:
aliment, cases of cholera, and those fatal, are not unfrequat;
nor are seven deaths within twenty-four hours, in a city
I containing a million of inhabitants, • thing to excite wand.,
or fear. The cholera has disappeared from Trebixond and
Erzeroum and from all that part of Turkey in Asia, and the
general impression until now was that Constantinople would
escape this terrible scourge, at least during the present win.
ter. The consternation which prevails here at present ern
still believe to be premature. We have convened with
Englishmen who inhabited Mown! and Bagdad during the
whole time that the cholera raged in these cities, and tnq
told sae that it had never given them the lest disquiet. No
one of those who lived well, and avoided tutu, was at.
tacked; upon the profligate and the poor alone the hand./
death fell. At first sight it appears dreadful that the wicked
and the wretched should be united in • common fate, but
that which was a terrible visitation to the first was ouly
mercy and a blessing to the others.
One of the finest barracks in Europe was that a
Scutari. It was a quadrangular building of stone, en,
gable of accommodating 15,000 men. It was sawed
on a point between the Mermora and the Bosphonn;
and was the first monumental edifice which struck the
stranger on nearing the Golden Horn. Here the Imperial
Guard, composed of the picked men of the Turkish army,
was quartered, and close at hand was the residence of the
grand seraskier, or commander-in-chief. Last night the
whole of this splendid building was burnt to the Krone&
Thousands of the Sultan's soldiers were present; fire.
engines, and every requisite for extinguishing a fire won
there, and yet no effort was made to check the prim. of
the flames. The soldier, waited for the orders of their sups.
riors, and the superiors looked on, if not with the stihs.
Lion, at least with the indifference, of • Nero, till the whole
of the vast edifice was laid in ruins. It is not yet knows
how the fire originated, and dark suspicions exist as to the
cause.

HOLLAND.—Tres HAGUE, Not•. 10.—At the
sitting of the Second Chamber of the States General, on the
9th, the project of law relative to the withdrawal of paper
money, came under consideration. The total amount of the
paper money to be withdrawn amounted to 3 millions of
florins ; that of bills of exchange to about 8 millions , and
the sum total of what remains in circulation, on the Ist of
Jan., 1848, is 21 millions, the calling in of which the govern-
ment purposes to prolong till the 31st of December. 1818,the
term first fixed by the law of the 18th December, 181-5. This
project of law did not give rise to any serious debates
in the course of its examination by the sections•
The members requested information on these two points;
first, the amount of money which had been coined since the
lit of April, 1845, to the close of last October, and that of
the sum of old coins which has been withdrawn from circula-
tion, deposited in the Bank of the Netherlands, to the end of
the month of October last. The government accordingly
communicated two documents to the Chambers. It appeal
from the fin•, that from the lst April, 184.5, 31st October
last, there has been coined in the mint at t'trecht, in pieces
of new money, the sum of 51,095,262 florins, i, e.:
Piece of 21 Os. Pk.= of I IL
ISIS
1846
180

31,493,300 16.101,762 31,093,263
With regard to old coin withdrawn from circulation and
placed in the bank, it amounts to L 1.66,275,399,681, i. e.
Duvall, coins of 3 (ranee... j and their subdivision 1 ~.1,8,5:68ji
Madinat:id demi.liorins. 41,!,59 889,0,88!,000

Coins of f. 1 50 .
Wins of f. 2 fin
(nine off. 230 1,001,607,30
Coln. of 23 sous ........ 5,7 S 1,45420
Coins of 3, 2 mid 1 sous 2,271,634,41
A. 66,273,399,104
From this must be deducted thetas. on current coin,
which is estimated at about
The calm of what is actually deposited a. 61,223.0.11,224
On the observation made in several of the sections,—whether
it would not be desirable ti put into circulation, towards the
termination ot the time flx,:4 for the withdrawal of the paper
money, a aura of ten mll.ions of paper money, to be guaran-
teed by giving the value in effecta of the national debt
brought by the state, which would, on the one hand, offer
great commercial facilities ; and, on the other, economise
400,000 florins of the revenue—the government replied, that
it would take this subject into its ulterior consideration, and
bring it forward it it deemed the measure useful. In the sitting
this day, Messrs. Gouvernem and N iep demaniLd some expla-
nation on the depot—the Netherlands bank —of some ancient
coin withdrawn from circulation, and upon a point in the
project of law. Ili' excellency the Minister of Finance re-
plied briefly te both these points, and the project of low was
ultimately adopted.
TURRET. SALON TC.4, Oct. 22. The Turkish
army in Albania will shortly go into winter quarters. A
part of it at Janina, another at llitolia, and another at Larissa.
fhe Turkish squadron left this place for Orlac on Friday.
The English schooner, the Research, commanded by Lieut.
Sprott, has made a survey of the whole gulf. The Research
has sailed for Smyrna.

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