The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EYENTNG, MARCH 23, 1847.

The financial movement of the Czar continued to be
the prevailing topic in Paris on Sunday, exciting
comments curiously discordant, timid and wavering,
among the various political parties. The emancipa-
tion of the Bank from its troubles is, according to the
views of some, but a poor compensation for the degra-
dation which attends the reception of relief from such
a quarter. Amidst so much dissension and hesitation,
the sentiments expressed by the semi-official organ of
the court and cabinet, the Journal des Dibals, have
been looked for by all parties with the
curiosity and interest, the more especially greatestbecause
it is well known that no important article touching
international subjects appears in that journal without
the approbation, not only of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs at the Hotel des Capucines, but of another
Minister of Foreign Affairs, occupying a more exalted
station. The Journal des Dant., as we stated in our
former correspondence, first maintained a mysterious
silence on this subject ; next it stammered out some
timid and scarcely coherent sentences upon it. Oa
Sunday, however, it lets sentiments break out which
indicate that the financial convenience produced
the pecuniary accommodation received from Russia is
not unmingled with feelings the reverse of agreeable.
That we may not unintentionally impart a wrong
colour to the comments of the official journal, we shall
give textually what it said on Sunday upon this
matter :

We wish to avoid, for the present, recurring to the pur-
chase of renter from the Bank of France, made by the
Emperor of Russia. When this proceeding became public,
the first movement wan one of universal astonishment—we

may almost say, distrust—so little was such a step expected
from the sovereign of Russia. But the immediate and un-
questionable advantage attending it son silenced all other
considerations, and we must acknowledge that, after • short
hesitation, publio opinion generally concurred with those
who approved the measure. This is certain.
We shall not interrupt this unanimity, which so rarely
occurs, by any forebodings which might appear inopportune
and exaggerated. In the face of a succour, of which France,
it seems, was more in need than we could have imagined,
we will not seek after the eventual inconveniences which the
service just rendered to us may produce at a future period.
We shall not enter Into any. polemic upon this delicate sab-
ject Several of the opposition journals chained'a have
gives us an example of reserve on this natter.

The /mental des Debate then proceeds to quote
articles which have appeared in Le Canstihdionnel,
and La Presse (which articles we noticed yesterday)
on this subject, and it concludes its observations thus:
Our intaation, we repeat, is to porpoise all political die•
cussion upon an affair, the financial advantage,. of which
only are looked at for the wiliest. Let it suffioe to say that
L 4 l'resse has misunderstood us. When we praised the
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wisdom of our government we had then in Met; the entire
policy which has prevailed for seventeen years in Frame,
and the liberal and pacific spirit which has presided over the
destinies of the revolution of July. As to the rest, the
operation which hu been concluded with the Emperor of
Rues* and which produce. the present Wow* of La
Press*, gives, we must acknowledge, es wield to the
levers animadversions of that journal upon the eating of
our finances. We are free to unfree that we mead Nat ham
believed that France could have been relayed to weigh with
gratitude a foreign succour of fifty Wiliest. We no with
regret that the financial question hen altegellsre mmithand
the political question, and that, if we may so speak, no
alternative was left.

Such are the style, tone, and spirit in which the
Journal des Debate, on Sunday, comments on the
transaction which has engrossed all Paris during last
week, has stimulated its commerce, and raised the
public funds one per cent. Great must be the draw-
backs in the opinions of those who inspire the Debuts
which can prompt such a notice of such a transaction !
Notwithstanding the great though temperer,. relief
afforded to the financial interests of France by this
measure, it must, nevertheless, be admitted that those
interests, as well as those of commerce generally,
still look towards England as the only natural and
desirable alliance. The tendency of the comments of
the Debate betrays a like feeling. The friends of
M. Guizot affirm, emphaticslly, that he is English to
the marrow of his bones. They repeat, again and
again, that the present Foreign Secretary is the sole
cause of the existing estrangement between France
and England ; that en the part of Louis Philippe
there is a rooted and implacable aversion to him "
which nothing can mitigate or subdue ; that during
his visit to Paris last year he spared no pains to esta-
blish a friendly footing there, and to efface those re-
collections of the past which might produce inconve-
nience in the contingency which would restore the
noble lord to office, but that, on the very morrow of '
his departure, Louis Philippe and M. Guizot shook
their heads at each other, and mutually acknowledged
that the urbanities of the noble lord had not oblite-
rated a single trace of the invincible aversion and
abiding distrust with which they regarded him.
This picture may appear strongly coloured, and
perhaps exaggerated, but we arc assured that it is not
overdrawn, and that it faithfully represents the actual
state of feeling in the French court and cabinet—a
feeling which, it would seem, nothing is likely to
modify or efface. It is but right, however, to say,
that none of those hostile sentiments are extended to
any of the colleagues of the noble lord.
Le Sleek, on Sunday, devotes a large portion of its
leading columns to an analysis and review of the
article which appeared in the Daily News of Tues-
day last, on the subject of our foreign relations.
The disturbances in various parts of the provinces,
arising from the dearness of grain, continue to pre-
vail. On Saturday afternoon, government received a
telegraphic despatch from Orleans, intimating that in
most of the communes of the Valley of the Loire, the
population was in a state of alarming fermenta-
tion, and were menacing a descent upon that
city. In the evening, a body of troops were sent to
Orleans by railway. The increasing price of bread
was assigned es the cause of these disorders.
The Baron James de Rothschild has informed the
municipal council that he has appropriated five mil-
lions of francs to the purchase of gram and flour for
the supply of Paris, to be purchased in foreign
markets, and sold at the current price in Paris. If
the operation be attended with lose, the house of
Rothschild will bear it. If, on the other hand, profit
ensue, the amount of it will be appropriated to pay the
supplement of the price of bread above 2d. per lb., to
be distributed to the necessitous families in Paris.

It is stated that the actual stock of flour at pre-
sent in Paris is about 1::0,000 sacks, or 22,500 tons.
The daily consumption of the capital being 300 tons,
this will represent a supply for above 70 days. The
operation projected by M. de Rothschild will give a
supply for about 30 days more, which will make, inde-
pendent of current arrivals, an actual stock suffi-
cient to feed Paris for more than three months.

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The debate on the project of M. Duvergier de
Houranne, on electoral reform, was to have com-
menced in the Chamber on Monday.
Friday being the evening of M. Ouizot's private
reception, the salon' of the Hotel des Affaires
Etrangeres were unusually crowded with fashion
and rank. Among the visitors were observed
the Duke of Montpcusier and Lord Normanby.
This was the first occasion on which the
British ambassador had presented himself at the
hotel of M. Oub.ot since the reconciliation. All the
members of the corps diglioinatique were pressmt,
with the exception of the c d'Affaires of Russia.
Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated actress, died
after a painful illness at ten o'clock on Saturday night
She was born in 1778, and her age was therefore 89.
Oar correspondent assures us—in corroboration of
the doubt we expressed in reprinting it—that ho has
good authority for stating that the letter signed Lola
Monte*, addressed to the editor of the Times, is a
fabrication.

The Madrid mail, with the letters and journals of
that city of the 16th, has been received.
A great excitement had been produced on the sub-
ject of the proceedings adopted by the ministry to-
wards General Serrano, to which we alluded yester-
day. The Cabinet was determined to find some
pretext for removing that senator from Madrid. The
Duke of Sotomayor accordingly sent for him, and
offered him the post of Captain-General of Navarre,
which offer General Serrano declined. An ordon-
nance was next issued, ordering General Serrano, in
his military capacity, to go to Navarre and the
Basque provinces, for the purpose of inspecting the
troops. He was ordered to leave Madrid in twenty-
four hours, being informed that specific instructions
would be delivered to him at Pampeluna. This
order the general declined to obey, and solicited an
audience of the Queen, which was not conceded, upon
the plea that her Majesty was at the moment leaving
the palace for a promenade. The general then
41:ad-
dressed to the Queen a respectful nee
against the orders imposed upon him. The.
brought the affair before the Senate, ' its
sanction to institute proceedings spill** .
Serrano for disobedience, which sanction aft en
with one dissentient voice. The same question was
to be brought before the representative chamber, the
decision of which had not yet been obtained.
" This mysterious affair, says El Clamor Public°,

"in which the ministry are supposed to be prompted
by improper motive*, has produced a great sensation.
The ministry are reproached on this occasion, 1.3 well
as upon others, with want of respect for the t'irone.
Since the Afrahasado party has prevailed in Spain,
we have had nothing but crises, scandal, and discon-
tent. This lea affair is the most anomalous, extraor-
dinary, and inexplicable which has yet occurred. We
cannot solve the enigma."
Private letters say that a report was current in
political circles that the King had,on the 15th, defiled
M. Salamanca not to return again to the palace, since
his presence was useless there.
It was said that overtures had been made to M.
Pacheco to undertake to form a Progressista cabinet;
that deputy, however, replied that he could not ac-
cept such a commission until the ministry had given
its resignation.

El Tiempo says, that on the 16th the Queen had
sent for several distinguished personages, to et nsult
them on the present ministerial crisis.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Maecn 7.
Yesterday the Turkish steamer arrived here which
had been on the let inst. to Greece with the Sultan
letter to King Otho. It appears that M. Coletti is
determined to resist the demand of the Porte for an
apology. The evil effects of the attitude assumed by
the Greek cabinet have already begun to show them-
selves. The extensive coasting trade carried on
between Turkey and Greece has nearly ceased, and
the aspect of events has even begun to have a bane-
ful effect on the affairs of the Greek commercial houses
of Pera and Smyrna. Without the intervention of
some of the great powers, it is evident thatrAiletti will
not yield. Supported by M. Placatory and the French
government, he has hitherto considered himself a ar-
ranted in adopting this course ; and an event which
has just occurred here will doubtless still further
encourage him to preserve the hostile attitude he
has assumed. On the 4th last- Count Sturmer, the
Austrian internnncio, received by an extraordinary
courier a despatch from Vienna, the contents of
which he communicated on the same day to the

Grand Vizier. Prinoe Metternich, by whim the
despatch ismgned, condemns strongly the conduct of
the Porte in the difference which has arisen betwres
it and the Greek government. He pronounces the
demand for an apology from Coletti for the insult
offered to M. Musurus by King Otho, and his mill
on its being refused, as a proceeding which displays
a meat unwarrantable precipitation. This display of
petulance on the part of the Austrian minister, is et :-
dently the result of feelings excited by the refusal of
Reichid Pacha to approve of the annexation of Cra-
cow. Upon England now falls the whole weight of
preventing Russia from advancing its encroaching
policy which is so eminently favoured by " the ran
with the hare and hold with the hound" system of
France, and the spitefulnera of Austria.
The Porte has issued a finnan forbidding the ex-
portation of corn from Salonica.

ITALY.—NAPLES.—TIIL PRINCE OP CAPCA AND
rus Kis° OP NAPLE6.—Letters received at Rome on the

6th inst. from Naples announce that a reconciliation has
taken place between the Prince of Ceps» and his brother,
the King of Naples. The wife of the former is to be re-
ceived at court, and is to have the title of Duchess of Mes-
cal. The prince is to be allowed an appanage of 60,000
ducats and arrears to the amount at 160,000 ducats. His
sons, as princes, are to receive the annual income of 6,000
ducats, and a marriage portion of 30,000 ducat/. An officer
of the court left Malta to accompany the
_prince to Naples.
This news had canted a great sensation. The Prince Royal
of Bavaria left Palermo on the 3rd inst. for Messina, from
whence he will proceed to Greece. The Augsburg Cosine
says that it is reported that Naples will he declared a
free port.
GERMANY.—We learn from an authentic source
that before the letters patent of the King of Prussia, respect-
ing the mates, were published in Berlin, they were sent at
full length, and in copies, to the Emperor of Runic and to
Prince bietternich.—German Paper.
VIENNA, MARCH 13.—The proceedings against the
officers and cadets implicated in the conspiracy of 1839, most
of whom belong to Count biazzakelli's regiment of infantry,
an well as to some other regiments, are now concluded, and
sentence has been passed ,• the punishment of death has been
in every ease avoided, and in moat instances the sentence is
confinement for five years in the fortress of Mankato, in
Upper Hungary.
HANOVER, MARCH IG.—The treaty of commerce
and navigation with North America, respecting the import-
ance of which to our country and to Germany in general
there is only one opinion, will shortly be followed by another
measure from which we expect equally important advantages.
The government has it in contemplation to declare the harbour
I of Harburg, including the whole territory of the town of liar-
burg, and the Octet harbour, which is now constructing, to
be • free port, and to obtain the assent of the states during
their present session. We hear that the project of law on this
subject will be presented to the chambers in a few days, sad
there is no doubt that this new proposal of the government
to encourage our commerce and navigation will be readily
supported by the Mate.
CUXHAVEN, MARCH IG.—All the Greenland whalers
of Hamburg, Oluck.stadt, and Elmehorn, have put to acs.
BAVARIA.—The King of Bavaria, according to
accounts front Munich dated the 11th inst., is indisposed.
lismsesn, Msncn 16.—The mild weather which
has set in with a south-east wind, has greatly diminished
the ice at Schulau and Blankenese, so that the Elbe is
quite tree.
BERGEN, Msecti B.—The herring fishery for this
year may be considered as ended. On the whole, 250,000
tons have been put into salt.
POLYNESIA.—A SHIP RUN AWAY FROM lIER
Chew.—The following extract from the log-book of the
Inca. communieated by Captain Jackson, will be read
with interest. It is not often a ship is in a position
t• run away from her entire crew On the 224 day of
July, in lat. 69, 26 N., while laving off and on at Middle-
ton or Rose Island, the ship struck upon a sunken
ledge of rocks, about four or five miles from the land,
which the most part of the time showed no signs of
danger, the water being very smooth ; but occasionally
I there would be a heavy sea and breaker rise over them—
but the man at the masthead, and some twelve or fifteen
hands that were on deck, saw nothing of this until the
ship struck. There are no such rocks or anything of the
kind put down o. any charts that I have, or have ever
seen—and I have good charts of the whole Pacific Ocean.
When the breakers came up they would raise the ship
and set her down with such force as to render it impos•
Bible to do anything on board of her ; and the brat mate
and the rest of the crew, being twenty in number, became
alarmed (myself and the second mate, with two boats'
crews, being at the time on shore) for fear the masts would
fall upon them, lowered the two boats that were on the
cranes, led all got into them and left the ship without taking
anything with them except a few clothes. I discovered from
the chore that there was difficulty on board, so I mustered a
boat's crew es 60011 as possible, and started for her, but had
not got far before I met the mate, who stated that the ship
was going to pieces. I made no stop, as I felt anxious to
secure something out of her. I soon pereeive4 that every
roller was driving the ship along over the rocks, and I tel
in hopes that I might be able to do something with her:—
When I got half-way from the shore to the ship, she
drove over the ledge altogether, and filled away, headieg
out to sea, the yards being trimmed that way when she
struck, though the topsail halliards had been let go; but
the jib and foresail were trimmed aft so as to draw well, and
I there we.s a good beeeze at the time from the eastward,
and the ship headed to the south-west, and want so fast that
she got about ten or twelve miles from the shore before I
could come up with her. As soon as I got on board, I hove
the ship to u dead as possible, and took up my boat, and
then ordered the men to start the pumps while I was ex-
&miming the damage done. The men freed her of water in
shout ten minutes, and all the damage I found was the
I rudder was gone, and planking about it considerably da-
maged, with the tiller and wheel broken to pieces, and the
hurricane house over the wheel knocked to pieces. In
about three-quarters of an hour after I got on board
the second mate came, stating that the other two boats
were close in shore when he left. We now began to
study how we should get the rest of the crew off the
island. The ship was drifting away from it fat, and the
weather thick, so that we could not gee it. It was near
night, and I knew if we drifted until morning there would
be vary small chance that we should see the island if it were
clear. S 5 I got the deep-sea line and sounded, and fund
that there was only 60 fathoms water, with a smooth sea,
with not much wind, and that was growing lighter. I
ooncluded to anchor. I got up a kedge, and bent a hawser
and both:my cutting falls to it, and let go and brought the
ship up about 16 miles from the land. It was now nearly
Berk, and the weather thick, so I thought it would not ba
But
to send a boat in that night ; but dill not know
but they might hear a gain'on shore, so I fired three times
and set the watch. At 2 a.m., on the 23rd, we called all
hands, and got some breakfast, and then I sent the second
mate 011 store to (-etch the men and everything off as quick as
possible. The ship lay very easy by the:kedge, and'only leaked
about 50 strokes per hour. At 2 p.m., the boats with all
hands came. It was now nearly calm, and the ship would
be entirely unmanageable, without a rudder; so I let her
lay, and went to work to make a rudder as fast as possible—
but we had no blacksmith, and with the tools and materials
we had to work with it was no easy job. We got it done on
the 25th, and hung it about nine, p.m., then we took our
antler (we had been laying all this tame by the kedge, with
scarcely any wind) and got under weigh immediately,
and started to the south-east. I did not know what
the state of her bottom was, so I started for Oahu, and
thought I would follow the coast down until I got near the
latitude of the islands, in OM anything should happen, that
U we were compelled to leave we would ant have so far to
get with our boats. August 11, in lat. 43 N, long. 137, we
had strong breezes and rough sea, which broke oar rudder
loose from the false stern pat, so that we had to take it in
and secure it again, which took us three days, the flip all
the while drifting about, she being almost entirely unma-
nageable without a rudder. We fixed it much stronger this
time, and then put away for Oahu."—From the Polynesian,
Sandwich Island Journal.

COLONIAL.
WEST INDIES.

GUIANA.—Ti ceent ofthefortnight intervening
between the despatch of lait m sad that which preceded it,
was a public meeting, at which the governor presided, to
promote a subsertption for the relief of the starving poor in
Scotland and Ireland. The generous: feelings of sympir.,:v
expressed by the speakers—the sincerity of which has been
shown by the activity of the committee and the proven. of
subscriptions—show that distance only enhances the sense of
British nationality. One passage in the opening address of
the governor is striking enough, when we turn our thoughts
hack to the anti-emancipation times, when such vehement
appeals used to be made to our sympathies for the poor ne-
groee in the West Indies. " While I address myself gene-
rally," said his excellency, "to the present sumessobly, wh,
require no exciting appeal to their generosity, I du most
earnestly call on the Creole labourers of this colony—
mast of whom Aare rampant:ire affluence and luxury—
'to think of the starving labourers of Ireland and
Scotland. I call on the labouring population to
show their gratitude for the benefits they have received,
in due reward for their industry, and to prove that
they can feel fur their white starling brethren who reside
across the Atlantic, and who, whatever may be their in-
dustry, cannot obtain food."
The first session of the supreme Criminal Court, under
the system of trial by jury, had ceased. The following can-
did and honourable testimony to the working of the sys•on
is borne by the Royal Gazette, which had beets sceptical as
to the expediency of introducing it :
The jurors cleverer credit; except, perhaps, in one instance, their
verdkte were, according to the potadar irk 1, which we consider to 'rei
always right in questions of justice, tale and nennibla. In thin ren;set
there wan a great improvement over the 11.11,411+. We own we were
among those who hal feat" in thin peculiar country," or we
have no often beard it called, th;jury cycle', would prove unman ape.
able, and a failure. We are agreeably dirappointed by Iwuld sea
be ashamed to avow the teeth. Our intermit,e in, that if trial by Jury
has worked so enoothly, MI with equal nmoottincos may work inning
us other changes framed upon an Englinh model.
One drawback the Gazette Li:dicer, the extreme prolixity
of the proceedings; and sensibly suggests that circuits might,
to a comiderable extent, remove this disadvantage:
Surely it would he cosier for a or judge, with two or :Mee of tap
elerlin of the public buildings, to travel occasionally tiro Malvelpl63,
than for two or there hundred gentlemen to be enetantly dragged up
tram the country to the public haddingn in tmoreetews, away from
their homes and their Imminent in order to attend legal trial* for two
or three weeks together, sin juices or anomie.
A Coolie had been condemned at the SCIVIiOII,I to be hung
for the murder of a female of his own nation. The coroner's
inquest on the death of a Coolie, noticed in an extract from
the Guiana Times, in our summary of the news received by
the preceding mail, had terminated. The jury found that
he had died of a disease of the lunge, and of no other
cause. From the remarks of the Guiana Times it would
appear that some rather discreditable efforts had been made
to "get up" a case ageinst the police out of this incident.
During the fortnight the weather hod been uncertain,
though not unfavourable to the planter*. A great deal
of ram had fallen, but there had been several very hot days.
Cultivation was flourishing as much as could be expected
under the restricted ripply of labour. The agricultural
population were steady and quiet.

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TRINIDAD. The ordinance " for promoting
immigration into the colony of Trinidad, and the Industry
of Immigrants," passed in the Leeislative Council on the
9th of February, by a majority of 9to 2. Mr. Fuller gave
notice of pririen. The ordinance would come into effect on
the let inst. The Attorney-General gave notice that at
next sweetie' he would introduce an ordinance to carry
into effect Mr. Marryat's eugmrstions to Earl Grey
with respect to certain clauses in the Land Ordi-
nance. The governor thereupon observed that he
thought it would be better to pay for immigration
by increased taxation than to raise any loan at all. Inci-
dentally on the reading of that clause of the immigration
ordinance which presides that any regiettred immigrant
may commute his caesium back to his own country for its
value in crown land at the up-set price, Mr. Burnley asked
what was the up-set price of crown land, and whether, in
fact, there was any upset price at all P—The Attorney
General replied that the only law on that head was the
Queen's will and plecaure.—The Governor intimated that
the instructions of the Secretary of State were, not to dispose
of lands in less than lota of 200 quarries at a time, which
were to be put up at the up-set price of 16 dollars per
giants.
From the rod of Spain Gazette we learn that an es-
Quire tire occurred en the Friendship Estate, at North
Naparima, on the 12th of February. A piece of canes
recently cut, from 8 to 12 quarrges of fine standing canes,
and a regress-house were destroyed. "In this case again,
as in so many last dry season, the fire originated in • spark
from the boiling-house chimney."
The weather was propitious up to the time of the mail
being despatched. The canes looked unwontedly well.
Almost every mill was at work, and several estates had
already made a large quantity of sugar. A better crop was
t spested than in any year since the abolition of slavery.
' The Rev. Janie' Robertson, minister et Careoage, died on
the 3rd of February. Ile was a licentiate of the United As-
sedate Chweh in Scotland, end get apart te the work of the
ministry on his return to Trinidad. For more than seven
years Mr. Robertson conducted the National Borg School,
with credit to himself and advantage to his pupate. Many
youn3 men, now occupying responsible situations in Trini-
dad, are indebted to his training for their position. Mr.
Robertson's scholarship was respectable; his character firm
and persevering ; his reli.rious principle vital anal efficacious.
WINDWARD ISLANDS.—Tho only piece of
news in our BARBADOS files relates to an ebullition of the
aristocracy of colour, which has furnished matter for discus-
sion in the House of Assembly. A Mr. Belgrave, of what
shade does not appear, but obviously not quit* white, ap-
plit d for some vacant sesta in the chapel of St. Jude's. The
rector's reply was : "As far as I em individually concerned
I would most readily rent you the Feats to which you
, allude; but owing to the existing prejudices, aver which
I have no controul, I think it would be imprudent"
The circumstance was noticed by Mr. Premed in the House
of Assembly, u propoo of the curate's bill. At nest meet-
ing Dr. Thomas came forward with an elaborate ecology for
the refusal, in the form of a personal attack upon Mr. Bel-
grave, whom he accused of leaving his parish church because
the clergyman was a Fuseyite ; of applying for the seats in
question, bemuse those he occupied, being among the
necmies, he wan annoyed by their stank, tote., dtc. These
allegations, if true, only show that Mr. Be/erave was labour-
ing under the tame morbid ft clings of colour " gentility"—
in other words that he waxes great a fool as the parties be com-
plains of. These feelings will survive for some generations in
the British Antilles, but anything like a legal recognition of
them must be ruthlessly trampled down, if the colonies are to
prosper.—The intelligence from TOBAGO would seem to in-
dicate that the council and officials are still smarting under
the rap over the knuckles administered by Governor Reid.
As to agricultural prospects, the Tobago Chronkk states :
That mast estates have commenced surzliakiag, and, we are
glad to say, with every prospect of making rrotri than those of
lam year. There is a general complaint that yielding of the cons
is indifferent; it ix one, however, which an only be of .:•ort dura-
tion, if the present dry weather continues. A scarcity of tabour,
partientitly in the Windward District, is a worth of aunoyanoe on
several of the (suttee, for which, for the present, titer,: is no remedy.
The sokiect of immigration will, no doubt, occupy the serious atten-
tion of the New Mouse of Assembly, when eon* Knanacnt provioke
(or that purpose will be provided.
The newspaper fends of St. Lucia continued to rage with
unabated violence. The governor-general's decision in the
case of the late acting governor, and certain officials who
wrote against him anonymously in a newspaper, is a,i follows:
I have so intention of implying that officers heldin p, situs-
nous are to abstain from contributing to the press. Men of eduentios
and ability in our 0310niett have en opportunity of heiptag to raise the
tone of the load prole, and thereby elevate the character of the moiety
in width they floe, but the articles which you have brenght Mks*
me have a contrary tendency, and arc diegracend to the tothorry be
they whit they may. The public officers of St. Linea av a body ate
Intorered In controlling, and if posethie discovering any amongst
, hem who thus abase the invaluable privilege of the freedom of the
I am now identified with the public oftteem of tit Lucia, and
rr%) upon them as a body to strive to establish and nththtain • cha-
racter beyond reproach.
The Legislature of Granada met on the 16th February.
The speech of the lient.-governor, and the addresses of
the house, contain little beyond an interchange of com-
pliments. The report of the Committee of Asri:mhly on
Supply a,.d Ways and Means, recommends that 18,5491. be
round for the service of the year 1846-7. It has been fennel
necessary to raise the export tax from 11 to 3 per cent. ; and
the asaessment tax from 11 to 3 per sent. ; and to impose •
tax of 101. on transient traders, as io St. Lucia. A retiring
salary of 4001. has been voted to the chief justice, although
an appeal from the house against him is pending before
the Privy Council. In recommending the vote, the lieut.-
governor stated that the chief justice had expressed a
wish "to retire for the public good." It is expected and
wished that the next chief justice may be a professional
lawyer.