The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET & CITY

TUE BAT, HALF-PAST Two o'CLocx.—The Ex-
press packet brings dates from Monte Video to the lltb
of June, and from Buenos Ayres to the 24th of May. The
papers from the former place, of which three numbers of
the Contereio del Plata, of the B'b, 9th, and 10th of June,
appear only to have been received, strangely coolish contain
not the slightest allusion to the two successes which, accord-
iog to private letters from thence in a morning paper to the
7th of June, had been achieved over the troops of Rom, at
Las Vivoras and near Salto, by Rivera and Garibaldi, com-
manding different bodies of the Oriental forces. There can,
however, be little doubt of the fact that the two actions had
hesofaught, and not improbably with the results stated,
011111110 when the version of the affairs comes from Buenos
Visit is likely emenfrh that another colour will be given
dom. The Oomereso del Plato of June 0 contains two
Eseeseh, Os tint of which Via.
- ant shoe!. th isat the At
triad to tots'.

necessary means for suppressing such periodical publica-
,ions as are contrary to the " principles of moleration and
gentleness which ought to be respected by all." The second
decree announces that the executive ;Power is authorised to
negotiate a loan for five millions of hard dollars, either
within the republic. or abroad, to be secured upon one-half
the custom-home duties, commencing from the Ist of Ja-
nuary, 1849, until which period it would appear they stand
hypothecated to the foreign loan company of that place for
sums already advanced. In order to promote the
success of this operation, the government proposes
to grant exclusive privileges for the importation of
tobacco both in leaf and manufactured, in the same manner
as by decree of 1814, similar privileges were conceded for the
import of salt and coal. The advices by this aerie.' give
some farther particulars about the return of the " great con-
voy," consisting of 110 sail, from the Parana. It is stated
that on making the pass by the batteries of San Lorenzo
four merchant vessels were .o damaged by the fire, as cithrr
to have been sunk or burnt. One oily of these was British,
the brig Caledonia; the other three Correntino schooners.
According to the-c papers it was certain that the troops of
Paraguay had retired from Corrientes, and General Pu also,
with all the Argentine officers under him, had been
compelled to leave that province, the Governor of wh,ch,
Madsriaga, bad come to terms with Urgings who commanded
for Roses in Entre Rio. against him. Iu order better to
provide for the security of Monte Video, in the absence of
the forces detached for service clong the coast and in the
interior, the government had decreed the formation of a
corps to he comyeeed of all the citizens exempted from active
service, to he called and toad as a " public security " force,
under the direction of the chief of the police.
On the 7th of June a meeting of the mercantile commu-
nity was ellled, at which the Ministers of France and Lag-
land were present, as well as members of the government, to
consult about the best means fur raising a supply of
money. The merchants were appealed to for assistance, but,
excepting one, all declined, pleieling the utter exhaustion of
their circumstances from the effects of the wan. Subsequently,
however, another more private meeting took place, in which
arrangements were entered into for supplying the govern-
ment with 30,000 dollars per month for a limited time, on
security of the Custom-house revenues for 1843 and 1660,
under the " diplomatic guarantee " of Mee:es. Ours ley and
Diffendis, the French and 3nglieh ministers. What the
" diplomatic guarantee" meant, or how it was to be con-
strued, was a mystery with the merchants. Exchange on
Eneland was 461 at the latest date.
The British Packet, of Buenos Ayres, announce, that a
detachment of Monte Videan troops, which had been sent
from Salto to collect cattle, had bees met and cut to pieces
by Colonel Lames, only eight men escaping. This is the
same encounter alluded to above, in which the victory was
claimed for Garribaldi and the Monte Videans. Such are
the conflicting statements of the contending parties. The
Packet gives some curious particulars of the revolutioe at I
Corrientes, which ended in the expulsion of Paz cud kin
adherents, who had taken refuge in Paraguay, and the
triumph of Madariaga over him and some members of the
Correntino Congress who had sided and fled with him. Fee
the intelligence the editor soya, We are indebted to Ohl
kindness of Captain Bottum, of MAIM'. steamer Gestiem.•
Several columns of intercepted correspondence bet was
Monte Video and Corrientes, principally, it would seen of
British mercantile rallies, are given in these papers,
Show the state of affairs, intrigues, and commotion, in both
places. Exchange was 21d. per paper dollar;; before the
intervention it was 4d.

HALF-PAST TEIRKE o'CLocK.—The rands opened
and have continued heavy, with somewhat of a downward
tendency in opinion. It is probable that the spirit of specu-
lation, rather wildly manifested of late in the foreign market
may have caused some uneasiness in sober thinking
moneyed quarters as to the result, if not discouraged
by a more licrupulous dispensation of money accom-
modation, without the easiness of which speculative opera-
tions cannot be long carried on upon a scale of any particular
magnitude. Money is in effect rather more ddiacult to-day
in the Stock-market already, whilst there is no greater dis.
position of unemployed capital to flow into the funds than has
been remarked for some time past. The prices are considered
to be too high by the public, compared with the larger edsu
of interest to be readily obtained upon other nnex tionable
securities. There is no change in prices to notice,
to-day, the principal feature being the absence of ballades.
The last quotations will be found below.
The Mexican fever appears to be somewhat abating in the
foreign house. The rapid advance during the last two or
three days may probably have thrown the speculators off
their guard, and an ied them further than otherwise, more
pratingly they would have hesitated to venture. It is
membered that a very considerable amount of bonds
arising out of the late conversion are held for, and to be dis-
peenief, on account of the Mexican Government. It may
be seeeneed that. the financial agents, acting upon instruc-
tionsr lovelies sellers to some extzut upon the improved
ratan met etch is the report; but there inns be'
great sassit in reserve which on favourable re-'
will dealtlime be brought forward from t
Illiseld Ow decline, or indeed should they
eepesbdslke jobbers who shall have loaded tb
Mist IbrAns my find it difficult, and in the
holders ieffigmffisle) to Mae money upon them
et eMbeiill'ilenves and bonds have to be
*cry =mire has been a depression hanging
ihfilight Nam the home market all day, which
With the sanguine tone of yesterday's '
in prom, as will be noted 1-
in - were about thin-quarter"

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s Bonotrom, AUG.Aro. 1.-11riairs. Pattenden and Smith, of the late and the present government, as far as the That tickets should not hereafter be issued by • _,
li time to time. Hog Feeler', ropey. t that about 1,000 pockets of the new public works are &Interned. The instructions which committees entitlingpersons to employment on s• , ‘. .611
t 7 be only barely ;mg have trriVea , which for colour and quality are very . . works That, ins thereof, the relief commi •'• 1).„;•:/00.!
we print below, are directed to the efficient
i thcmselvis with good, and are selling at the following prices :-
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which the new relief measures are an improvement
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poems =men . Intik
peek*, to the greasseasses Meek ease.
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rtie disedess palliond by the elltif
ardspeadeady et Meld works mild me
Mee " slags of parliseest ru-
Their easider that Melees ht aid of private
subscripikeimg to nads, Mee semary, as lavetefere,
frilveriplesod ill that pro es ties dame of
Its : sad dot these &MUM my matian
to be. rule, to the properties of Rem one-third
to •of the Men •lef fie peens sabeeripdoss,
esend die igg to estigkefilligepliolM and the mesas of
its Mosehess. ' ' -
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se Ig dirs molet UMW Gat, Is mideraliest of
the sedellesh.e verireela Ile Fellollieser tp"
cresdkose( de mar essismes fagtheev:g= the
Mb eignigered by thee, should be to say
apse dogrel ea the pen Mho •det my be
ileakable ; kr plikk peon, their mum sad
llr• Meld at intim lie mei to die isiesena
et ' slim lig itad fur Oh psepise, mid say
npleaolkse Mt reg be
_farkedlet mg pillisalser.
pent displi be keersasfaraisline
la Mee to hasp fa . as fir es •p e, the maid
pile blip* to to of &MKS II tames-'
sably seemsey draZeliglimeeemiseste Med Int MI
the neat aredire Med hy dim. emelfe le meil
matins to perm we Metro toles, oo elm mesas
of prosallogibod ;—that dr at atie the Mal is sold
MAI. es seedy as be Ike. eine as the market
prises "awed ial--the the an-
Moses , set give a
in pin of wept' air exam •
=eke 0 most, in way bell ea by them
Ina trade at Nair own dlopeek than is the ease is
`tie wens comied ea wisp the
erilligLeee4 erf Werhsteitai=the should"Cil"l-"Ti.d.
ii.,6llhs Feints esepleyeest is
owed Mee be anikla
The -we modem et ram who will he,. to
Me • pad JAI Ike emenres of asselered neeessery by
dr Mr sag awls esimplels keno of the petate coup
eked& be peolleabefg allied to lide imperlan lbst tin ihr
delleine sod preenikas eldek hen bees poeselhal *3
the isivesesal lords gad Aimee hi engin eat the
relief eduatiess, with tbe eldest tif restimeg the sesesseey
interlinear Mk de taborer sod prodslea aseirMes-
active et die mien pain Meliaboin OM=
ovum eV tede imi mil, will 110 Natillild 1
the mil praisers eel Men are test pieMeroyehde
relief eamilloes Mks sideigratiee it WI hole
at their till by primes or ddle brapelmes Mir
lordship 'relare isel lt tote Mee filer eilenielly to
requat that every puma seamed wM, to the esiset of
the eihmeeppoissol * likareattevear to nemigsat a
reddetim dike seriumw of eget to awn et red des-
titution-MI seek a just esaildmilea for the irels et
mehealemeil ilaslar., Mk inermise of were
he
e =sis se deeply emooel, that iesteed4 eIZ
upeaikerieshie old whisk might Mar-
win be lipodiseled free the exteadve mama et relief
ht evesehritessjilits latfastrediallisad=fikel
sue 7 maybe beeae
me Iles* the benevolent sad nem •
lies of*, Mai sad mks of Met k semesed
to avert a mesa salm2zweasi to soimre de reemen-
der die wawa siese of essMalle with Montages
widek see at meat y imprint* =Pied ia sone parts
of freest
The Wird Grant Fund pardeled by the 101 k Viet., cep.
100, entitled " An Act to autheeke a ligthe Me of mosey
in mid of Public Works of atheinedged utility is peer Dis-
tricts in-Ireland," is, to the Ones of the Aet, ap-
plicable only to the can of illatelets, like puts of
to
the counties of Henry, Galway, arid Donne, whets,
although readsead other works be productive of sea
than tend pable simege, the Medea to. toe paw to
tsar the Men wpm el thee o sad the Act therefore
directs that la ems in whkk the ranyaisat et law to the
must teat kest a moiety of ensiled expense of such
weeks Sall bale be.. seamed, sod sash fete eon-
keelson MR lave beam & el elks Comarkews of Hat
midato Tammy shall think it to raisin from the Ma-
ndeb jelsolpelly intaiski in the predieted works, such
aid dell be sane from Skis had, in the shape of grants,
• es the men may appear to require.
The eggikelose whisk may be melted for grants under
the est ell bens to be moshlly examiaed and inquired into
by the Ominesses ef Pablis Works, who will recommend
far onstioa then meths which appear to them to combine
the poled permanent utility with the relief of urgent
me die-
i:galeaellelra care that the proprieties aparially interested
to emstriban la widths to their share of the
isismat kr the applawit Of he expenses(
Terkel torgr from than. eperdeeed, in fast depot, to the special
they Min
X Milan aseridered with the easeful allieetion which
the ea the seldom desisattehrzePorecon=
le be Ma with a view to
is the Mprovidien wheat be absolutely asesassy .
et
=lasi penes ng applies of food kw ode in
didriels. le whisk the ordiaary operations of tbp preens
bads eadmot be expected to extend, the strictest regard being
st the Me tees paid to the pledge Min has bees given,
wit to Mark* in soy ease la whisk dm ie a resiotable
=ll that the neSae will be 'applied by nweentile
; and they peened to state the course which
appellee to them to be the lea adapted to secure the imps-
• Mat eldest in view.
Tiede lordship have already OTIS directions that no par-
ties efts semit email remuamg in store in the different
depft skald be said Perri for e sake of disposing of it.
It has been Sally by the experienoe of
the late operatkas, *at Ike ports ea the northers,
eastern, and southern Poists from Londonderry to Cork,
and those parts of theinterior which are ordinarily
supplied from them, may Islay be left to the foresight and
enterprise of private menisants ; and it will only be neces-
sary for the government, so far as this part of Ireland is,
concerned, to take effectual precautions that the supplies
introdueed by private traders from shred are properly pro-
tected, both while they are in transit and when they are
stored for future consumption ; and for this purpose their
lordships rely upon the Lord Lieutenant making every
asesseary arrangement in communication with the Com-
monage of the Forces in Ireland, and the Inspector-Geaeral
of the Constabulary Force.
Acting on this principle, their lordships have directed that
the supplies of food now in store should be concentrated
without delay at the following dePte :
In the Interior—Longford, Banagher.
On the coast—Limerick, Galway, Westport, Sligo.
And Commissary-General Ilewetson has been instructed to
take immediate steps for the transfer of the quantity remain-
ing in store in the depot at Cork to Limerick, in the charge
of which depot he will 'relieve Commissary-General
Coffin, who will remain on fall pay with a view to his being
employed hereafter, as the occasion may require.
Subordinate depts will be established, under the charge
of the constabulary, at other places on the western coast, as
the necessity for taking such a step may become apparent.
Their lordships desire that it may be fully understood, that
even at those places at which government depots will bo
established for the sale of fond, the depots will not be =
while food can be obtained by the people from private
at reasonable prices • and that, even when the depts are
opened, the steal will, if possible, be sold at such prices as
will allow of the private trader selling at the same price with
a reasonable profit.
The Ittlief Commission ceased on the 15th instant, since
which period Commimar7-General Sir Randolph Routh has
continued to transact such business as required immediate
attention ; and, considering the experience which has been
acquired by that officer, and his well-proved ability for the
task, their Lordships are of opinion that the duties confided
to the Relief Commission during the late operations ma
with great public advantage be entrusted to Sir Randolph
Routh, acting under the authority of the Lord Lieutenant,
and in constant communication with this board.
Their Lordships have taken steps to procure the early
arrival in this country, from the stations where they are
employed abroad, of a sufficient number of well-qualified
commissariat officers, not only to take charge of the depots
which it has been determined to retain, but also, under the
eiders of Sir Randolph Routh, to communicate with the
Local Relief Committees, and to afford, through him, to her
Majesty's government, correct information as to the state of
the districts in which they will be stationed.
Measures have also been taken for strengthening the
Board of Works, to enable it to meet the coming emergency,
on which subject a separate communication will this day be
made to the Board of Works and his excellency the Lord
Lieutenant.
Transmit a copy of this minute to Mr. Redington, and
request that he will move the Lord Lieutenant, if he shall
concur th :rein, to give the necessary directions in regard to
such of the arrangements as more immediately depend upon
his excellency for carrying them into effect.
Also transmit a copy to the Commi sioners of Public
Works, end to Commiesary-General Sir Randolph Routh, for
their information sad guidance.

THE furious onset made by the Tory Protectionists
upon the constituency of the City of London; the
simultaneous movement against the new Free-trade
freeholders in the metropolitan counties ; and other
inanceuvres of the same description in different parts
of the country ; will not, we hope, escape the notice of
the Committee of Observation which was appointed
by the council of the Anti-Corn-law League when on
the eve of dissolution. It behoves that committee
seriously to inquire whether this treacherous attempt
of expiring monopoly, may not threaten peril to the
permanence of the triumph recently achieved. We
call on them to consider whether it does not merely
warrant but demand measures of defence and of
just retaliation. If their information, and we
presume they have been left in possession of exten-
sive means of information, authorise the apprehensions
which appearances excite, it will be their duty, and
what the public expects of them, not to let any deli-
cacy as to Mr. COBDEN'S absence from England, or
any squeamishness about what foes and false friends
may say, or any misplaced reliance on the mere fact
of a Liberal administration being at present in office,
interfere with the prompt and decisive step which the
emergency may demand. There is yet time for call-
ing in the wand instalment of the Quarter Million
Fund ; for remindaioning the legal employes and
vegielaution spats of the League ; for again aamem-
A.
dkoerationx, the Executive Council, with
tbesv tellectofol4oA9tWu.soNat itehesdi
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leet seliving end organisation
which was promis sae witasheifew make teethe
seal election; and the hr protatlai on leakesh.
able bent to this emexpeeted asnolt.
would quail before this mannerism, al thitaegoo.
It would affix a final seal to the settling* al the
Corn-law question.
• Voters and claimants cannot, however, afford to
wait, nor is it ash teeny on an auxiliary which may
sot epees to the rescue. Ths adeertimencnts which
frequentlieppear in our columns fine Mr. SIDNEY
SMITH, for the City of London regieration, at $4,
CornhW, will guide thine who require immediate
information and assistant. Ulterior arrangements,
on a larger male, may be made hereafter. If the old
Leapt does not revive for their accomplishment,
there nest be a sew League; that is all; a registra-
tion League for the protection of the franchise.
The attempt now making has none of the charac-
tektite of honest party warfare ; even after full
allowance for the differences between party honesty
sad common honesty. Its aim is to throw the metro-
polka* ccmstitessey radar• obeftesion. At the last
skean, which wee, * • trar4 =4 vigorous contest,
only ;121889 rim= MOO to the polL And now
$,BOO are served with objections. On that- oceaaion
the Liberals polled 6,633 votes; and now 4,000 are
served with objestioes - Noginpperesocie to ilehnd-a
vote is quits sufficient for its fasithare ; and then
objections will come ass lee death* at • time whoa
almost every man, not 411ffined booboos fetters, is
out of town. They asewarehe cravat the slightest
regard to legitimate or VOW* eons. We wok of
them,froan our own knowledge ,as dimend splashiest
which ht.ve been on every ngitiliallen AIM An
passing of the Reform Bill ; whhh ban Los 1~
pettedly objected to before, and se repeatedly esta-
blished; where there has been no change of occupa-
time, residenee, rating, or of any element whatever
of the qualification. In feet, we believe that few
City voters have camped, if any, who put themselves
into oonnexion with the Anti-Corn-law League. It
seems, to be seemed that membership of that body
is in itself to be tinted as a disqualification. How
the City will endure this insult remains to be seen.
There is but one effectual remedy : an active and
General Registration Society.
Local societies are subject to local influences.
They cannot detect the frauds in bestowing fictitious
qualifia-ttions upon non-residents, with the facility of
a general aseociation. This trick has been played,
in counties, to a large extent by the monopolist land-
owners. The multiplication of local societies is a
multiplication of expense, with no corresponding
increase, but with a great loss, of efficiency. And a
general view of the state of the suffrage, such as only
a central society can obtain, would show the relative
strength and weakness of different localities, so that
the one co-operative power might be variously directed
according to circumstances. Without some such
organisation, elections, county or borough, are in a
fair way-fir becoming a farce, or something worse.
A reintlifillen at boeselfkle electors might be accom-
plished; vote the government disposed to create an
independent commission for that purpose, with very
little trouble, and at the expense of a few thousand
pounds per annum. The admirably conducted re-
gistration of births, deaths, and marriages might
serve as a model. It would be necessary to sweep
away some of the innumerable technical objections
which are now the source of disqualification; a " con-
summation devoutly to be wished" by all except the
meanest traders in political party. A comprehensive
yet simple plan for this purpose may be seen in Mr.
G. WILSON'S evidence before the late Commission on
registration. He estimates the whole cost of •
central office at not more than 1,0001. per annum. At
ten:times that expense, it would be a huge saving to
the public.
There has been too much neglect by the wealthier
members of the Liberal party as to this matter
of registration. They have left the people to
bear the burden. Bat thoy should remember) that
the people never wanted, nor prayed for, this TOXIfr,
time and complicated system. They have had to
beer the trouble, the cost, and the frequency of capri-
cious disfranchisement. They have been taxed tar
son heavily than is wise or right. The conse-
quences have been apparent in one Tory restoration.
Is another to be waited for, before the moral is
learned? Until the law be amended, the Liberal
Is should contribute handsomely towards the
=tlevied by their own legislation. It is due
ern, until their supporters are enabled to sup-
port them without being subjected thereby to peculiar
and unreasonable taxation.

THE business of the House of Commons is conducted
in a manner so scrambling as to be perfectly disgrace-
fill. The Daily News of Saturday, published the
conclusion of what purports to be the " Second Re-
port from the Select Committee on Railway Acts
Enactments." The paper was delivered along with
the votes and other sessional papers. It is regularly
numbered. It bears on back and front the imprimatur
of the House of Commons. In the votes of the 25th
of August we find this entry : " 55. Railway Acts
Enactments Committee—Second Report brought up,
and read ; to lie on the table, and to be printed."
And lie on the table it accordingly did; for it is not
what it pretends to be. It is not a report of the
committee.

The following letter from Mr. MORRISON, published
iu a contemporary of yesterday, explains what the
pretended report really is:
curve to the Tiaes el to-day. 'llk sow serge" soapy
at • esupslit I pngwiA so Minna at ths Committee
we lAMbilos, for IM rnMote el ft asmills; but,
am otamtas It to the Mr mumbles who otward Ws; It so mot
=watt& to the Met Montt *at 'sneaked Wars Ow pro-
ot ratah lbr issuers to slosh Essetashlorstios. or
ma b get a WNW number killiber hr ibastar was,
=tDot earlisre4 ssomOssi Yid before
ours obedbatly, J. momstow.—so. as
If any one pamphlet compiled by an individual
member of • committee, may thus be sent forth to the
world es the deliberate opinion of a committee, so
may any other. Juries have, ere now, awarded
damages against the publishers of parliamentary
papers ; a fact which shows at least that libellous
matter may creep into such documents. A corpora-
tion in which the forms of business are so loose, that
a draught report never' regularly laid before • com-
mittee, only shown in confidence to " the few mem-
bers who remain in town," can be sent forth as the
report of that committee, may some day allow crimi-
natory charges against individuals by one member
to be published as the judgment of a committee.
The present case is not quite eo bad as what we
have supposed; and yet it is bad enough. The private
Incubrations of Mr. MORRISON have been read by thou-
sands as the deliberate opinion formed upon careful
examination of " persons, papers, and records" of Mr.
LABOUCHERE, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, Sir JOHN
EASTROPE, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. WILSON PATTER,
and Mr. WARBURTON, with others, u well
as of Mr. MORRISON himself. A delusive impor-
tance has thus been attributed to the document,
which is published in advance of the evidence
upon which it professes to rest. And the paper thus
palmed upon the public with an authority which does
not belong to it is a skilfully-composed piece of
' special pleading, intended to show that the charges
of English railway companies are exorbitant;
that the companies are extorting from the public
and dividing among themselves, unreasonably large
gums of money by their monopoly powers; that
the English public is worse accommodated in
respect of railway conveyance than the continental
public ; and that the railway proprietors and direetors
in England ought to have their manner of managing
their railways subjected to the incessant surveillance
and interference of government officers. These
opinions may be correct, or they may be erro-
neous ; but they are simply the opinions of Mr.
Moaarsox, and net of the committee to which they
have by some aceidenst been attributed.
The great railway interests have good caws to
complain of the carelemenms which has exposed them

PARIS, Avo. 29.
Yon are aware of the reception which Mr. Cobden
has met with here; all parties have striven which should
show him the greatest attention, and every one has been
desirous offal:erg in person the hero of the democracy on the
other aide of the ChanneL Mr. Cobden was received by the
King, who expressed to him his attachment of ancient date
to the principles of free trade. He dined at Homiest with
M. Odllea Barret, who had assembled to meet him the prin-
cipal deputies of fM " Gauche; " and with M. Thiele and a
large party el the malt eminent of the " Centre Gauche."
He had an interview with M. Guisot, and at a breakfast
given by the Duke d'Harsourt, at which the leading pepllttt cal
seeseauste of Preece were present, he eler, ed the
Duke de ENO The result of all this hes ham to
streagthea the earrietions of the patties= of *es
trade, and dininie the prejudices ef their adver-
saries. Mr. Cobden left Paris
yesendai amain& and on
the very day of his departure the Eft *efts meeting
of the Free Tiede Centel Megaliths et Paris was held in
the large hall of the Rue bleateeeptism. The Duke d'llar-
court presided, and upwards of 1,200 peraille IMO present,
amongst whom were the members of EN sennittele, KM.
Anisson Durerron, end A. Renonard,_ peen ef !ranee • M.
Nampa, deputy for Bordeaux ; K. Len hoseber, deputy
for Rheims • M. L. Raybaud, deputy kw Marseilles ; M.
Michel Cheialier, formerly deputy for Bbelse, Prsksor of
the College of France; M. -Horace flay, namaher of the
Council General of the Seine ; M. 8. Bassist, Secretary to
the committee, member of the Council General of the
Landes ; M. Denitre, President of the Council " dee Prod-
hommes ;" H. Pullote, Vice reistredent ; M. Penpen, Prud-
homme, watchmaker i M. • t, bronze manufacturer,
mud judge of the 1 ribunal o Commerce ; and M. D.
Potonie, merchant in Paris, together with several
other deputies, a great number of political economists,
public writers, and the principal representatives of the
commercial industry of Paris. A few paella= of the Pro-
terdosiste Were also present, viz.: M. Cabrol, deputy, and
dhoolor of the iron-works at Deeezeville • M. P. Ville
neassolaperty, and ironmaster ; M. Drouillaid, deputy, sad
mentger or the foundries of Alai' , and M. Leone, deputy.
In opining the proceedings, which began at eight in the
evening . the President briefly explained the objects of the
association. He made known the permission granted by the
ministry, u well as the statutes approved of by the compe-
tent authorities; for not only does the government allow of
the existence of the society, and admit of its holding public
meetings and raising subscriptions, but is desirous also that it
should live and prosper. "Be strong," said M. Duchatel to
one of the members of the association, " and we will protect
you." When the association becomes strong, it will not
stand in need of the protection of government; on the con-
trary, it will furnish an argument and a pretext for the
abandonment of the protective system. M. Leon Faucher
than spoke, and in an address, which was frequently in-
terrupted by the applause of the auditory, demonstrated
that if the League which was being formed in France, had
to contend against more deeply rooted prejudices, and
more numerous privileges, than the English League, it
might still aux.* itself by the example and the
Impulse given by Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Wilson. '
He explained that Ike ameeislian did not propose to itself
the annihilation of esidases dads, 1 en the contrary, it was
desirous of resebe that mere productive, by removing
prohibitions and eraftg protective tariffs. According
to M. Faucher, the customs, which produce in France only
140 millions of francs per annum, might easily be raised to
250 or 300 millions. After examining the results of the pro-
tective system, he proved that the system had isolated
France from her natural allies, Switzerland, Belgium, and
Spain; that it had discouraged the natural industrial re-
sources of the soil, to give an impulse to artificial industries
which could not stand against the breath of commercial
liberty ; that in raising the price of the articles of consump-
tion most necessary to man, it had aided in rendering the
condition of the labouring classes more miserable ; and
finally, that ft had established in the country a real
industrial feudality, the fief of iron, the fief of
wood, the fief of cotton manufacture and that of
cloth, round which the working clam: were grouped
in the same relation as the serfs were attached to the
manorial rights of the middle ages. To beat down
this aristocracy, which was founded on no legitimate
power, but had its origin in usurpation alone, M. Faucher
appealed to the intelligence and the courage of Parisian
industry, the real democracy of labour. In this struggle
between monopoly and free-trade, the voice of Paris has not
yet made keel( heard. This arises from the division or par-
tition of this industry. The number of workmen had not
hitherto admitted of their inter-communication; but the
11111fra• now offers them a common rallying point. " With
support of Paris," said M. Faucher, shall we do lets
tea
the
e Boillsh League with the support of Manchester?
brisliestio been the great arena of thought ; Paris
have ilLungen thfeer.amputlisi: to
Eurventerope
re is
slseMlset a commercial revolution herein birth there also 1
Irep deubtleet, want a Cobden to lead, and be the soul of this
mremede ; but the way lies open before us, and we will set
paw till we have conquered, in the order of material inte-
nib, the liberty which should belong to the masses and an
imitility of rights." M. Riglet afterwards addressed the
meeting in the name of the working industry of Paris ; and
M. Blanqui followed, entering into the most striking details
relative to the abuses of the protective system and the evils
of our tariffs, in exposing which he was loudly applauded.
The meeting finally broke up at eleven o'clock, amidst a
general eagerness on the part of those present to subscribe
towards its objects. Fne.trade may therefore now be said
to be regularly inaugurated in France; and the association
which has thus established itself independent of the public
authorities, will inevitably compel them to quit the slough
in which they have imbedded themselves for the last thirty
years. 0.
P.S. You will have seen that the Conseitutionnel has been
purchased by M. Mosselmon, the rich capitalist, and brother
of the Countess Lehon. The Conelinstioruiel will continue
under the same editorship, but I doubt very much whether
it will remain the organ of the " Centre Gauche." No
attempt will be made to modify its politics at present, for
fear of losing its subscribers, but it will gradually glide into
the ministerial waters. It will be a great loss to the opposi-
tion, which, sooner or later, will be obliged to establish
another nee-

r.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Ago. 12.
Mr. Wellesley has commenced his career as charge
d'affaires, by presenting a note to the Porte relative to the
Erseroum disturbance. In this document he points out the
necessity of instituting a strict inquiry into the business,
with a view to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. It
is, he proceeds, greatly to be lamented, that Each a scan-
dalous explosion should have occurred at a moment when
everybody had hopes that the differences with Persia were upon
the point of reaching a satisfactory settlement. He expresses
a hope that speedy reparation will be made to the parties
Injured by the riot, in order that the nagotiatkme, which
mast necessarily be ineffectual till this new mum of alma
be entirely removed, may MOM their cease, and be
brought to a hen/ Mendaatioa. He site with
the blame of the .sense to which the sisters psaeaaied
epee the week of energy displayed by the Psalm ; sod
recommends the disealmal of so week • front a poet
&sending minimally the Walk* /loom, and
oenrage.


yea seise te thiswfsw NOW OW are who could be
seems a
f irie amrst
wise, oertabeip of wham tbseiftm eh, could be said, it
.• MVOs. oom• &-
mead lie bal. Grant lb*
=LMend Puha might be Me 111•11101 sommesebam sloe
em asidiar-lika metal pLte mama •
turbuisatimehelik
_metal* Wan IC et intend
admisietratisa whiellar ha softly Is Ih• &dais et
the rade. Pm the ft has bras korissistfk bend 1111,••
oat to mama fiat and eliwastma, as govemmipbado
districts disturbed by rameamme aulmasitios and jmlme
grudges, in our own and ether memftise fa ancient and ma-
dens times. But how stands the present ease ? A scandal-
eie &lip, in all likelihood asst ',by the malice of some
misildonsue Turks against the Persian pleiiipotentiary's
hemeehlisl to Idea than from their quarters, is brought
fad •He &mimes the accusation as malicious
and The ilmatital crowd murmur. Next day
the braes is mobbed. His secretary Is
fa sheepdog to The troops arrive, and the
riot is The Pasha is blamed for not calling out the
semese. No doubt it is always well to be prepared •
but ft sot so easy to beibrekand what fall in the hero!
meter of popular feeling pentads a hurricane. And as this
dielemeis .11- fp still nem Moult to judge aa affair Ishii
=l.wanny=uln. 'Wares to .romusta an the spot.
reasene me _t think that our ntheiller bag acted
with precipitation in ming tie dismissal of *snub& befrats
a searrliag inquiry lase Ms mods Into the sem.
I informed yea is my bet of es inesffreaties which had
broken out at BMsam in the Pada& eir Mullion& and of
the smell meows widalbad ea yet attended the pie
effirts to put down the imargente. Later news t
them, lalwever, as having bum entirely beaten in an e
meet with the Pasha's iroollll, which took place before the
arrival of Omar Paeha, who was despatched with 790 men
to the governor's assistance. The accounts of the disturb-
ances in Van seem to have been e
On Sunday, the 9th, the Frenziggeerraarted-weamer, Cassini,
made her appearance in the Bosphorus, having on board Ad-
miral Teeple, the commander of the French fleet in the
Mediterranean. The admiral had left the Triton, his flag-
ship, at Tenedos. The usual salutes of 21 guns were inter-
changed between the French steamer and the Turkish
schooner that does the Porte's saluting duty at the mouth of
the Golden Horn, and the Cassini proceeded to Therapia.
The Turkish fleet, which has been lying this long while
as " idle as a painted chi p upon a painted ocean," has been
animated with a sudden fit of activity. About eight ships
d the line are going to dart to-morroxt under the coa-
-1 *and of the Capitan Paeha, for a cruise in the Medi-
lerraneen. No sooner was Admiral Turpin informed of this
Om he thought of Tunis. " I must go and look after
Mem Turkish cruisers," quoth he; " they may mean some
=Algeria-ward." For it seems any demonstration of
naval power, even off a dependency of the Porte,
gives umbrage to France. And the great protecting powers
countenance France in this singular pretension that Turkish
men-of-war are not to cruise off Tunis, lest the Algeriaas
should tank: it into their heads that Turkey intends to sup-
port them against their French conquerors, and become
troublesome. And this is the way in which the lesser powers
get bullied by the greater. But it is far from probable that
the Turkish fleet will do anything more extraordinary this
year than it doTs on other years. It generally makes a round
annually to pick up tribute from the various islands and
provinces under its sway: parading a very imposing force
along the subject shore, which, no doubt, conciliates respect
ftemteibutanes and makes the business of tax-gathering
mom e
si:;Mehemet Ali, upon taking his departure, will sail
for Ha his native place in Macedonia. He has nema a
mosque an a school there. His stay at Constantine* lose
not made him popular with the Turks. They me a mew
marinas people, and great lovers of urbanity in their prima
intercourse : and the Viceroy has a bearishness of manner
whisk grates them. They say he is very well till he notes
his mouth ; but then thantone and topics of his convervation
and his manner of delivery, do away with the charm of his
venerable appearance. It is easy to account for this. Mehe-
met Ali is a rough practical man, who has not spent his life
in lolling on cushions and reading Hafw, but in dealing with
rude and boisterous realities. He has been a hard workman,
and kis nature is cased in the workman's callous skin. His
mind itself is a sort of great workshop, from which rushee
the fruit of untiring labour, hay-t ever been going fix*,
All elegant rubbish it utterly disdains, and claps on a early,
pride in the presence of pompous nullities. What is these
here is move the respect of Mehemet Ali What little
work there is is chiefly botchwork. The French amber
maims, with a bevy of other fair ladies, paid him a
visit at Reshid Pasha's. He sat smoking gruffly upon I
his rug, and hardly seemed sensible of the honour.
At length when it became necessary for the aged lion to
speak, to 'turned to the interpreter and said, " Tell these
ladies that Alexandria is a tine town ; we have excellent
shops there, and broad streets, and carriages." The ladies
went away highly diverted with his eccentricity in paying
to himself instead of them. Characteristic
era to
told of his youthful stapes. Upon one occasion
betook a strong fancy to a female at Stamboul ; and fully
determined upon carrying her off in the ship which had
brought bins (then a soldier in the service of the Porte)
to the capital, he drove her down the street before him to
the quay, with a pistol in each hand, and his ystaghan
between his teeth, defying all lets to his savage will. The
people ran out of their shops and pursued him with
polo. They would have stoned him, but they thought it a
pity to kill so promising a young man. At length ho was
eseured rid imprisoned.
The Austrians have succeeded in getting an Austrian
annul allowed to reside at Rustchuk. Their ostensible
ye for maintaining a consul there is to protect the
Transylvanian shepherds who past the Danube annually for
pasturage, to which they have, it seems, an ancient right on
payment of a 'mall tribute to the Porte.
The concentration of Turkish forces at the eastern angle
id the Black Sea at this moment deserves attention. On
Friday, the 7th, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Achilles and a Turkish steamer left the Bosphorus,
for Trebisond, with 1,500 men, under the command of Omer
Paeha, an officer who his distinguished himself in Syria and
Albania. Two regiments of the army of Anatolia have been
ordered to the same destination. Two steamers and a brig
will 00-operate with this land force. One can hardly ima-
gine that the trifling outbreak occasioned by the escape of
Kent-Hussein Bey, and his machinations in Lazestan, can be
anything more than the ostensible cause for so considerable
an expedition. Perhaps the real one is to assume an impos.
ing attitude near the Persian frontier. The common people
here attribute all these movements to the presence of Mehe-
met Ali. The Cireissians, particularly, cannot be persuaded
that Mehemet Ali has not induced the Porte to go to war
with Russia.

On Monday, the 10th, the Grand Vizier gave a dinner to
the Viceroy aad all the ministers. On Tuesday next he will
be entertained at a grand banquet by the Sultana Valide, at
the palace of Tcheraghan, and on Wednesday by Lame
Sultana, the Sultan's aunt.

FRANCE. COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH DEN-
MARL.—According to the National a commercial treaty is
about to be concluded between France and Denmark, and a
French Consulship isto be established at Kiel, on the Baltic.
FORGERY OF GOVERNMENT STAMPS.—In a case of
forgery, which for several days has occupied the Paris
Arises, a verdict was given on Saturday. In France it is
requisite for the way-bills of carriers to be stamped, and it
was lately discovered that the exchequer had been defrauded
to a very considerable amount by forged stamps on way-
bills. The fraud was on so extensive a scale, as in some
quarters to cause an apparent deficiency in the revenue. It
was at length discovered that there was a regular traffic
going on between the author of the forged stamps and the
clerks of the commisaionaires de roulage, or some of the
principals. A number of remiss engaged in that trade were
arrested, and a strict investigation set ou feot by justice, but
the author of the forgeries, and one of the most active
agents in abetting the fraud, were alone sentenced, the first
to ten, the second to five years' imprisonment. The commis-
sionaires de roulage got off with a condemnation of damages
to the Unwary, on the supposition that they had employed
the stamps without the knowledge that they were forged.
SPAIN. Extract of a Letter from Barcelona,
Aug.,2l.—A considerable body of troops, chiefly artillery,
have just left the town to scour the country. An outbreak
is much feared. A great store of arms and ammunition
was discovered yesterday two or three doors from the
Contain-General's own palace. The authorities are evi-
deitly alarmed. How far the general excitement which pre-
vails may be connected with, and encouraged by, the Pro-
gresista party I cannot tell ; but the issimasiiate muse of the
rise, deny there be, will be the sessidess spleen of taxa-
tion introduced by Mon, which the peogis are utterly unable
to bear. About an hour ago there nem same diebrelemeses
in the Rambla and some of the primed's' elms* in maw
queuee of a body of armed policemen eampelling all those
shopkeepers, who could or would net pay fie tax claimed, to
shut up their establishments. A poor unman, dealing in
salt fish, the whole of whose stock was earteinly not worth
61., WWI taxed 161., 300 per cent. upon the total value of her
goods. Of course she allowed her scanty desk to be seized,
and placing herself in the midst either:monied market began
to complain aloud in the most bitter teems of the *justice
and rapacity of government. She soon gathered around her
a large audience whose sympathy began to assume a rather
threatening aspect towards the authorities, and it had to be
by force; but I do not believe that all is yet ended.
621171 V.—THE LATE EARTHQTJAJCFM.—LEOHORN,
Avo. 22.—Sines yesterday the shocks of earthquake have
completelmise& The fears of the inhabitants are gra-
dually . accounts from all quarters give the
number of at seventy, and the number of wounded at
one hundred sad eighty. Owing *the number of habitations
destroyed, more than fear thousand persons arleZived of
home and shelter. Subscriptions have been o in the
principal towns for the sufferers. The Grand has just

FALMOUTH, SUNDAY EVENING.
Arrived here her Majesty's packet Express, Lieut.
Herrick, from Rio de Janeiro, July Ist ; Bahia, 13th ; and
from Pernambuco, 20th. She brought on freight 20,0001. is
gold and diamonds, and had the following passengers :
His Excellency Paulo Barham da Silva (Brazilian Minister
to the Russian Court), Messrs. Milligan, Alston, Oreenup,
Gordon, Fry, De Young and family, Tailor, Steel, Ribero de
Silva, Pinto Perot°, and Rugertios ; also four miners. The
Express spoke, on August 24, in 'at. 48 14 N., lee. 16 22 W.,
her Majesty's ship Orestes, from the Mediterranean, bound
to England. The whole of the naval squadron was at the
river Plate, with the exception of the Crescent, Grecian,
Petrel, and Retains, which remained at Rio. The law r
brought up a river Plate mail, and awaited the Seagttlis
arrival out.

Her Imperial Majesty s accouchitment, although hourly
looked fcr, had not taken place when this packet eared.
Of political or other news none appears to have transpired
from the tailing of the America frigate, which vessel sailed
from Brazil a week before this packet. Butner continued
limited u heretofore as regards imports, which was in part
attributable to the holidays, but the primary cause of the
prevalent dulness is the fact of the mark' t being super-
abundantly supplied with also every description of goods.
[For the Commercial and Money News, see the 4th page,
under the usual headings.]

(From aCorrespondent.)
The Express, Commander Herrick, arrived at Falmouth
on the 31st ult., with dates from Rio de Janeiro to the lit
of July; from Bahia to the 13th of July; and from Per-
aambuco to the 20th of July.
For those of her Majesty's subjects owning property in
Brazil, she brings alarming servants.
On the Bth sf June, a meeting of the British residents
was convened at the British consulate in Rio de Janeiro, by
the following advertisement:—
"tier Britannic Majesty's Consul at this capital hereby gtves nodes
that a meeting of the British residents is convened for Monday the
nth host, at eleven, A.M., at this Consulate, for the purpose of oom-
municating to them occurrences which have arisen from • correspon-
dence between her Majesty's Minister and the Imperial Government,
relating to the interference of the Juts dos Orfeos with the property
of deceased British subjects.
(Signed) " Roams litanrre, IT,B.M.'s ConsuL
" British Consulate. Rio de Janeiro, June 6. 1846."
The meeting was fully attended, and its object explained
by the Consul in a few words, :—To inform the British
residents that, by a recent decision of the Imperial Govern-
, ment, contained in a correspondence with her Majesty's
minister there, the British Consul was inhibited from pro-
tecting, or in any way interfering with property which
might be left in Brea by deceased British subjects ; and
that all such property, whether the deceased should have left
• will, or should have died intestate, would be entirely sub-
ject to Brazilian law sad authorities ; the property only of
French subjects being protected from the law, or from any
interference of the Brazilian authorities, by aperpetual
treaty made years ago. The greatest anxiety existed amongst
the British merchants.

Hopes were entertained that a memorial sent to her Ma-
jesty's government on the subject from thence, at the com-
mencement of the year, might have met with immediate
attention, and thus render the closing of many British com-
mercial establishments unnecessary.
_ .

The hostile proceeding on the piit of the imperial govern-
ment was supposed by many to have been caused entirely by
the bill which was passed in the British parliament last year,
relating to the slave treaty with Brasil: and the cry was,
that the slaves had met with more protection from her Ma-
jesty's government than her Majesty's loyal subjects residing
(or owning property) in that country.

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