The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1848.

Wit Op :profs.

MAILS.

The mails for Vigo, Oporto,Unlan,ilarleira, Cadte, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the ith July.
The mails for British North America, and the United States,
will be made up on the evening of the 7th July.
The overland cloeed molly rtes Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, La, will be mad, up un thil;
evening of the 7th July.
The Went India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Naman, Havanna,
Hondurax Now Oilcans, Vera Crust, Tammou, and Porto Rico, and
including those for Madeira, Jacmel, Carthage., scut, Martha,
Chagrea Panama, West Omit of south America, and St Juan-de.
Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 17th July.
The overland malls liar Gibraltar, Malta, Limnos, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong-Kong, and China, via tioathanip-
ton. will be made upon the morning as the 20th July.
The mail. for New South Walea, Van Usernan'a Land, and New
Zealand will be made up oat the evening of Use 3(4 July.
The male for the West Coat of Africa and Madeira will be mak
up on the eyelids, of the 31st July.
The mails for the Brasil., the tiller Plate, Moots Video, Penton.
buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be mode up au the
evening of the 4th August

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS iasued by the authorities of the
Stamp-uthce, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS WSJ 3.447.009
Thu, we believe, is within eight per amt. of the number
Mimed to the Morning Herald, Morning (Aro:tick, and
Morning Pose, ALL PUT TOOEIIIII.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Eventnr &Mien,
THE EXPRESS 778.714
Which was more, we believe, than were Maned either to
the Globe or tilandard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON. THURSDAY. JULY 6.

WHEN Lord JOHN RUSSELL introduced the greet

measure of reform into the House of Commoni, he
supported it on three grounds—en those of right, of
reason, and of expediency. The principle of right
which the minister then asserted was identical with
the principle pleaded by Mr. Helm, that by our old
constitution all but villeins and vagrants were ex-
pected to concur in the election of a member of
parliament.
As an exemplification of the reasonableness of the
demand of reform, and the absurdity and injustice of
refusing it, the ministerial orator of Mil introduced
Ilthe figure of a distinguished foreigner, who, struck
with the might and glory of England, inquired into
the basis of its representation and government,
and was told that an old wall or a green field
returned two members to parliament, whilst Man-
chester was excluded from the representation. The
foreigner iu 1831 thought this no doubt glaringly ab-
surd, but he might have excused it, as an irregularity
which had grown out of a system originally natural
and just. Hut what would the foreigner say in 1848,
when told that the old system had been changed,
that reform had taken place, and that the result of
this reform had been to distribute the electoral fran-
chise in the very inverse proportion of the population,
the wealth, and the intelligence of the country ?
Were Lord JOHN an ardent lover of reform, eager
to exemplify the gross irregularities which mar its
completion, he would first drive the foreigner across
the agricultural counties of Rutland, Wilts, Dorset,
Hants, and Sussex. He would have informed his
friend that the rated property of these five counties
amounted to seves and a quarter millions s•erling,
the population to 290,000 males above 20, and the
number of their electors to 55,500. Lord JOIIN might
then have changed his tour to non-agricultural dis-
tricts, and after perambulating Middlesex and Surrey,
might visit the West Hiding, Lancashire, and War-
wickshire. In these five counties he would have found
rateable property to the amount of 29,000,000/. ster-
ling, a population of nearly a million and a half of
males above 20, with an electoral body of 280,000.
Lord Jetty should close his inspection by informing
the foreigner that each of these so different districts
returned almost the same number of members to par-
liament.

In enumerating the boroughs, the exemplifier of
reform and its necessity might compare Arundel with
Huddersfield, 'ihetford with Liverp,ol, cnd finally
might sum up 320 members returned by 180,000
elect re, and 328 memters by 900,000 electors; the
rateable property represented by the 320 being six
millions sterling, and that represented by the 328
being seventy-eight millions.
What would the distinguished foreizner say to the
a reasonableness " of such a distribution of electoral
rights and political influence ? Or if he exclaimed
against the preposterous inequality and injustice, how
could Lord JOHN RUSSELL refute him, except by
adopting the principles and the logic of Sir ROBERT
INGLIS, who denied that the constitution of England
was a representative one, who scouted the right of any
one to any political power, save that which hereditary
traditions, or the caprice, not the justice, of the legis-
lature gave him, gnd who saw no reason in any doc-
trine, except -.hat which declared the many to be born
for the government and exploitation of the few.
The memorable expressions of Lord JOHN liussELL
in 1831, when insisting on the expediency of reform,
were, that to consider the House of Commons a re--

presentation of the people of England was a mockery,
and that the people in consequence had lost all
confidence in the House of Commons. Whether
the great measure of 1832 has not left it still a
mockery to assert that the people of England are
fairly represented in parliament, is a question which
we leave facts and figures to answer. And whether
the House of Commons has completely recovered thtt
confidence of the people which the present minister
declared it to have lo4t, is a question which every one
is able to answer, and one which, in our opinion, the
great majority will continue to answer in the negative,
until all cavil and cause of malcontentment is taken
away by a principle, not of temporary expediency, but
of permanent justice, being adopted, as the basis of
the representation. The multitude even of liberals
object to change, and are eager to embrace finality
and fixedness in settling the foundations of the con-
stitution. We, too, are partisans of fixedness in eo
vital a point. But we repeat it, there is no fixedness
in expediency; there can be no staving off of
change by pleading that the present system,
however unequal and unjust, works well, and
that it is dangerous, especially at the present
moment, to alter it. This excuse, not defence,
of the present system, goes to shake it, and to
render it far more insecure than the most open attack
or the most radical objection. The franchise, which
I is the very foundation of our constitution, ought to be
based on the granite of principle, not the perishable
pile of expediency.
The worst of the present system is, that it is based
on nothing at all. It is not based on population ; it
is not based on property ; it is not based on intelli-
gere. It is founded partly on chance; partly on pre-
scription, with a very small int, or affectation,
of justice. It is built on the old ed system, which,
" as a mockery, had lost the confidence of the people,"
bolstered tap with a new principle. It is an old vemel
eaalked up to go anotheryear's voyage, but with timbal
so rotten as to inspire the crew with terror, not
bc,":, and which is considered a permanent or safe
11Te y none Dave the rats that have burrowed in it,
and which are unanimous for the expediency of not
breaking it up.

At present there are two questions for the minister
to himself to. The one is, the extension of
the franchise to a thus of electors as industrious
and intelligent ea the present, but who have not
attained the same amount of security or of property.
The other is, the equalisation of the frimthies Ammo
that class, already esteemed worthy to possess it.
Both am important, and we do not want to make the
ate yield to the other. We merely would premise, that
the ts which apply to the rebutting of the one,
do suffice for the rejection of the other. If
minister, ar if parliament are determined that no one,
save the inhabitants of at least ten pound houses
shall participate in the franchise; if determine
that the great man of the earners of • country
shall go still unrepresented and unreoonciled ; that is
no reason for contanuinf to keep the middle claws
political Bah of the higher ones. That is no reason

for subjecting trade to land, and monied industry to
rentedidlenees. That can be no reason and no excuse
for conglomerating and monopolising electoral rights
and a parliamentary majority, in counties and
boroughs under the complete sway of the agricultural
interest, whilst the mere crumbs of political power
are let drop for that great majority in the country,
which are cheated into furmiug but a minority en
parliament.
What ministers and what true conservatives mast
obviate is, the possibility of such accusations as these
being made—what they must destroy is, the
existence of inequality and injustice so re-
volting and so dangerous. It will not do to
say, that the system cavilled at is far from
perfect, far from just, but that the system re-
commended in its stead is impracticable, is visionary,
is pernicious. Nothing can be so pernicious as for
the governing class to hug the misshapen and ini-
quitous system by which they profit, on the pretence
that justice is impracticable and relorm dangerous.
We deny that they are so. We deny that the re-
forms proposed are either visionary or revolutionary,
or even democratic. No one in the ranks of re-
formers wants to divide England into electoral
squares, count voters like sheep, or swamp the
rica and the intelligent by the indigent and the igno-
rant. If popula' ion be thought too democratic a prin-
ciple, whereon to apportion out the franchise, do not
take population as a principle. Take population and
property together, and let the number of members to
each district be in the combined ratio of both. It is
the blessing of England that population and property
go together. If in our emp:re there be districts
where there is population without property, do rot
give them the franchise, or allot the proportion of
members to mere numbers and rotten pauperism. A
property qualification demanded for the district will
imply and secure it in the election of the members.
This is not visiosary —this is not unpractical—this is
not democratic. On the contrary, it is feasible as well
as just and as a principle, with one hundred times
more fixity and ust ice than the nc-principle laid down
in 1832—that moving sand into which the whigs have
cast the ever-dragging anchor of expediency.

Tim Incumbeeed Estates Bill seems at length in a
fair way of being thoroughly discussed, and we trust
eventually carried. The delay which has hitherto
arisen is so far unpropitious to its success, that it gives
colour to the insinuation widely and industriously
propagated by the opponents of the measure, that the
government are not sincere in their professions of
desire that it should become law. Their culpable
negligence in the manner of originally framing the
bill, and tardiness in pressing it forward in its amended
shape, have done enough towarrant distrust of their real
purpose. But we are willing to acquit them of
any thought of playing false to the country on so im-
portant a subject; and the presence of nearly all the
cabinet who are members of the House of Commons
during the morning sitting of Tuesday, which had
been specially appointed for considering the bill, ap-
peared to be intended to give an assurance that, how-
ever late, they are at length in earnest.
The explanatory leatement of the policy of the
measure and of its principal provisions was made on
behalf of the government by the SOLICITOR GE-
NERAL. It is no disparagement of the lucid and well-
arranged exposition of Sir J. RomILLY, to say that we
have more thanordinarycause for ri grettingthatthere
is at present no Irish law officer in the house. On a
question so intimately connected in every branch
with the peculiar details of local practice as to land,
and money, and law, imperfect information on the
part of those who seek to change the enactments
regulating all of these matters is much to be deplored.
It is not the fault of any English practitioner that he
is unacquainted practically with their details ;
tt has never been his business to know
them. Their sphere lay out of his sight
and out of his range of Inquiry ; and, however
astute his understanding on general subjects may be,
or how great soever his facility in "making himself
up" for a particular discussion, it is neither possible
that he should be thoroughly cognisant of all the
bearings of the case, or that parliament or the public
should believe that he is so. Justice compels us, how-
ever, to add that everything which industry, care,
and ability could reasonably be expected to do, has
been done by the Soticeron-Gessiw. in the present
Matinee ; and his speech on moving that the house
should go into committee on the bill was listened to
with great and merited attention.
We gather from it that the amended bill now
affords two distinct facilities whie, did not heretofore
exist for the sale of encumbered properties in Ireland
The creditor and the owner may if hn chooses proceed
by way of petition instead of by way of bill in equity.
This alternative is one of practice, not containing any
new pri .ciple. Petition is said by Sir JOHN
HOMILLY to be a cheaper mode of proceeding
in Chancery for the purpose of compiling a sale, and
therefore he gives it. Many of the best informed of
the Irish lawyers and solicitors avow their belief
that it will be fully as costly and tardy as the old
method, and we suspect they know more of the mat-
ter where a question regarding their own gains is
concerned than any English law-officer can be sup-
posed to do. But if there be a chance for economy,
and no strong objection can be urged to giving the
choice suggested, by all means let it be given.
The second concession is of a different kind, and
leads to much wider consequences. A power is given
to any proprietor of freehold estate, or any creditor
having a legal charge upon the inheritance, to sell
the whole or any adequate portion of the lands, upon
certain conditions, of which the principal are that
notice of the intention to sell shall be duly served
upon all other parties who may be interested in the
estate, as persons having charges or incumbrances
thereon ; and that in all cases whatsoever the pur-
chase-money shall be paid into court, to be thence
distributed to those who may establish their claims to
it respectively.
It is to this permissive power, as opening the door
to collusion and to fraud, that the most plausible op-
position is raised. We say plausible, because with-
out denying that there are some grounds for it, in the
nature of the proceedings so allowed, we wholly dis-
believe the notion that other and very different motives
mingle potentially with them ; nor have the speeches
delivered by Mr. NAPIER and Sir Lucius O'BRIEN
upon the first stage of the committee tended by any
means to weaken this impression. '1 he amendment
moved by the latter gentleman, to the effect that Eng-
land and Scotland should be included in the bill when
at the same time its provisions are denounced
as mischievous and wrong, needs no commen-
tary. And the unmeasured terms of reproach with
which the principle of liberating land from the fetters
of entail was assailed by the learned member for the
University of Dublin leaves little room for doubt as
to the political quarter whence the opposition springs.
In due time we shall, doubtless, have Mr. STEWART
and Mr. HENLEY, and others of the protectionist
chiefs, bringing up the main body of their forces
to resist all further change in the right direction.
Some few Irishmen like those we have named may be
induced to lend their aid or sanction to the opposition;
but to the great majority of Irishmen, both in and out
of parliament, the hope of seeing the present destruc-
tive system of land-owning to Ireland gradually
changed is but too welcome, and by them it will be
zealously supported. The speech of Mr. MONSELL,
the tory member for Limerick, is a tolerably plain
indication of this. Like many others of his party,
Mr. MONSELL sees that the true interest of improving
landlordism is to get rid of bad landlordism u fast as
it is possible. They feel that both are encompassed
by common dangers, and that to bide by the wreck is
inevitably to perish. They are for striking oct boldly
while there is time, and swimming for their lives.
They are right ; let them have courage and constancy,
and they will yet be laved.
But the obsolete notions of the sanctity of entails
must be resolutely abandoned. In a country circum-
stanced as Ireland is they amount to infatuation. If
the landed gentry are wise they will see their true in-
terest in time, and follow it. They will gladly rid
themselves of pecuniary liabilities which now oppress
them, by getting rid of property which they hold but
in name, and are wholly unable to improve. By this
path there may yet be salvation for them; but as-
suredly there is none by any other.

THE revenue returns for the year and quarter end-
ing bth July, 1848, certainly do not warrant the more
hopeful tone in which the CHANCELLOR OF THE Ea-
=mum affected to speak of the financial prospects
of the year, in the debate on Dir. BRIGHT% motion
respecting the sugar duties.
These returns show a decrease in the ordinary re-
venue of the quarter ending bth June, 1848, as com-
pared with the ordinary revenue of the corresponding

quarter of 1817, of 327,7411. Tne ordinary revenue
of the quarter ending sth April, 1848, was in excess
of the ordinary revenue of the corresponding quarter
in 1847 by 67,3911. The ordinary revenue, therefore,
of the first half-year of 1848, falls short of the ordi-
nary revenue of the first halfiear of 1847, by
260,3501. And it must be kept in mind that on the
ordinary revenue of the year 1847, there was a de-
crease of 1,453,143/., as compared with the ordinary
revenue of 1846.

The only items in which the ordinary revenue of
the quarter ending sth July, 1848, shows an increase
upon the corresponding quarter of 1847, are the
excise, the crown lands, and miscellaaeous. The in-
crease on the crown lands (10,0001) and on the mis-
cellaneous (81,56114, is not so oonsiderable in
amount as to inspire much confidence, nor are these
items, from their,tiature, such as to be reliable indica-
tions
of the actual condition of the revenue or the
country at large. The increase for the quarter on
the excise is 182,7511., of which about 80,0001.
must be set down to the transference of the
carriage duties from the stamps to the excise. In
the quarter ending April 5, 1848, there was an in-
crease of 349,7361. in the excise returns, as compared
with the corresponding quarter of 1847. This in-
crease must also be abated by about 80,0001. (on
account of the transfer of the carriage duties noticed
above), in order to institute a fair comparison be-
tween the excise returns of the two years. The
apparent increase in the excise retains for the first
half-year of 1848 over the excise returns for the first
half-year of 1847, is 532,4871., but deducting the
160,0001. yielded by carriage duties, it is only
372,4871. And the revenue from excise was
1,093,4921. less in 1847 than it was in 1846. The
excise revenue is not recovering from the severe de-
pression it experienced in 1847 at a rate calculated
to inspire confidence in our financial prorects ; and
it was to one item of the excise duties alone that the
Chancellor referred when he professed to entertain
better hopes of the year's revenue now than he did
in February last.
The customs returns for the quarter just ended show
a decrease of 71,2871. as compared with those for the'
corresponding quarter of last year; and the returns
for the quarter ended sth April last showed a decrease
of 55,023!„ The customs revenue of 1847 was
622,6511. less than that of 1846. In the half year
just closed the renewal of the corn duties tends to
make the falling off appear less than it really is.
The falling off in the returns from stamps for the
quarter ended sth inst., as compared with the corre-
sponding quarter of last year, is 311,824/. ; in the
quarter ending April 5, 1848, it was 198,6141.
This gives an apparent decline of 510,4381., or, de-
ducting 100,000/. for the carriage duties transferred
to the excise, a real decrease of 350,4381.

There is a falling off in the returns from the pro-
perty tax during the quarter just closed of 48,1161.
as compared with the corresponding quarter of last
year. In the quarter ending April sth of this year
there appeared an increase of 8,5681. as compared
with the corresponding quarter of 1847. This would
seem to indicate an extra exertion to call up arrears
in the first quarter of the present year, with a view
to present as favourable an account of the revenue as
possible, leading, by a natural and necessary reaction,
to the more considerable falling off in the secoad quarter.
The decrease of 79,0001. in the Post-office revenue
for the quarter ending sth inst. is accounted for by
the payment of arrears greatly exceeding the defi-
ciency in question to one of the railway companies
for conveying the mails. There has been no falling
off in the correspondence of the country, though the
rate of increase has been seriously checked by the
badness of trade.

Altogether the state and prospects of the revenue
are such as show the necessity of far greater reduc-
tions in expenditure than were announced on Friday
last by the CHANCELLOR OF TILE EXCHEQUER. They
show the urgent necessity of an immediate revision
of our whole system of taxation and of the whole of
our expenditure. The ordinary revenue of 1847 was
nearly a million and a half less than that of 1846,
and, according to present appearances, the ordinary
revenue of 1848 will be at least half a million less
than that of 1847.

Tne worst feature of the case is the palpable leaning
of ministers to make delusive favourable representa-
tions of the state of the revenue. The CHANCELLOR OF
THE EXCHEQUER effects to believe that it will turn
out better this year than he at first expected. The re-
turns for the years and quarters ending sth April, and
ith July, 1848, have some peculiarities of form about
them differing from those of former years, which have
the appearance of an attempt to soften and gloss over
the unfavourable state of the revenue. The petty in-
crease in the property tax returns for the quarter end-
ing sth April of the present year, and much larger
decrease in the returns of the quarter just closed, tend
also to raise suspicions of an effort to represent
matters en beau. It is to be apprehended that mi-
nisters are afraid to tell the country the plain truth
respecting its financial condition—perhaps to
look it resolutely in the face themselves. Such
paltry attempts at popular and self delusion can only
aggravate the mischief. The country ought to insist
upon knowing the worst, in order that there may be
some chance of remedies adequate to the emergency
being had recourse to. The truth cannot long be
concealed, and all that ministers can gain by flittering
misrepresentations is the loss of any little financial
reputation they may still retain, and the responsibi-
lity of increasing the national embarrassments.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 11 A.M.

Great division of opinion prevails in the Assembly
respecting the project of the constitution. As
yet the discussion has been confined to the
bureaux, of which it will be remembered
there are fifteen, each containing sixty members.
The preamble containing the declaration of rights has
been hitherto the chief subject of discussion, and on
the question of rejecting this " in toto" the bureaux
have been very nearly equally divided. The " en-
semble " of the preamble has only been admitted
by very small majorities, and even where ad-
mitted the articles composing it have been
seriously modified. M. Cormenia himself, the au-
thor of the preamble, has seen it necessary to
propose the withdrawal of the unqualified acknow-
ledgment of the right of labour and instruction. It
is evident that the entire project will undergo serious
modifications. The question of one or two chambers
has also muchdivided opinion.
It is intended that a debate on the principal points
shall be geld in the Assembly at an early period, in
which all the leading members will take a part.
The report which I mentioned—that M. Dnpin in-
tended to propose that Gen. Cavaignac should be
appointed president for 15 months, and which was
generally credited here, is, I am assured, witl'ont the
least foundation.
Although the loan agreed upon by the former go-
vernment with the Bank of France of 150 millions
has been adopted by the present government and
sanctioned by the c .amber, this has not been done
without some reluctance, and under the pressure of
over-ruling necess:ty.
The election of General Lebreton at Questor, which
I announced yesterday, is another triumph of the
moderate party in the chamber.
Among fifty arrests which took place yesterday of
persons thawed with participation to the late insur-
rection several are of a very important character.
Among them are the Mayor of the 12th arrondisse-
ment, a Captain of the Etat Major of the 12th Legion
of the National Guard, a Captain in the Garde Mo-
bile, and several officers of the National Guard.
As I announced yesterday would probably hapFellf
a division of the army of the Alpe arrived last
at Vincennes.

It is announced that Bing Charles Albert has
invited Marshal Bugeand to take the command of
the principal corps of his army, and that the Marshal
has arrived in Paris, to come to an understanding
with the Government on that subject.
Sixteen hundred prisoners confined in the Fort
divry, have attempted to escape by excavating a
passage from their dungeons with large nails.
A meeting of the principal officers charged with
the examination of the insurgent prismers took place
on Monday, to speay, such as taken with arms in their
hands, are liable to be transported to the colonies. A
special commission is to be appointed to examine into
this matter.
Gen. &dem, who, when confined by his wound,
was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, has de-
clined the office, and M. Bastide, who was to be
transferred to the Ministry of Marine and Colonies,
remains in the Hotel des Affairs. Etrangems. Who
is to occupy the Marine is not yet settled. The

Ministry of Public Instruction is still in &he
It is understood that M. Carnot will retire s
It is announced in the journia of to-day t
Prince Louis Napoleon declines the office of rep
tatire of Corsica, to which he has been almost o
mously elected.
Short as the period is that has elapsed site.
establishment of a new government, givinz game
like a promise of security, it has sufficed to rt.,
oonfideace, and many of the Paris manufacturers
had closed their workshops have already ris
business.
On Sunday night 200 prisoners, confined io •
l•arracks of the !tire de Tournon, dug throogh
ground to the quarries beneath, and desceudeo
them. There is, however, no issue to the quarts!,
that escape is impassible.
A lieutenant des ateliers nationaux fur a pottot
the 2nd arrondissement, having examined a lie the men employed under him, has anertai*t6
out of 53, there were only 15 who ought to hare brlt'
inscribed.

LO:III3.IRDY.—/1 Itisoryimento of July 1 r„,,
that an envoy of Radeteki had arrived at Va 11,,,,„
with a despatch for Charles Albert. It wu saiet;
it contained proposals to conclude peace.
The 1111lah Gazette of the 30.1 i says that its%
reported that Radetaki was about to enter %rat
with 15,000 troops, with a view of marching ,
Milan. The Ducal Palace was being repaired, it._
said, for the ez-Duke of Modena. Cann°,
heard on the aide of Chiusa. The Pieducoter 148—•
great numbers passed the Adige to attack Vernal,„
the left bank of the river.

NAPLES.—We have received despatches from oer
Naples correspondent to the 28th. The condition
Naples is such as to render the future fate of the
kingdom extremely doubtful. The emit
of
the attempt to procure a parliament, seimetd
by a different spirit from the last, has eat
been favourable. Some of the provinces, es No
Calabrias, have risen in open insurrection, otr,
at Apulia and the Basilicat have refused to eh*
deputies, in consequence of those they forraerlyelesto
being dissolved, and others have reelected die
former deputies. The Marquis Dragonetti openly
threatens to impeach the ministers for dissolving ate
chamber. It is said that the dissolution was tett
of Bozzelli, and not the suggestion of the King.
The Calabrian insurrection had assumed a fze.

midable character, the insurgents not only heirig
animated with a desperate enthusiasm, but shoots.
sisting of large numbers. It was though', hovels,
that the military farce was sufficient/3' strong to
suppress them.
A revolt had taken place on the 25th among*,
galley-slaves at Procida. It was said that this ono.
Dated in the refusal of the government to liberate
those who had completed their term d
punishment. Some contend that the moreslegg
was political. In the morning, while the awl:lain"
and troops were occupied in a religious proemial, .
1,700 of the slaves armed themselves with swords
axes, and crow-bars, and attacked a body of about 100
men left in charge of them; the latter were sox
reinforced by the Islanders and a portion of the Nfr
tional Guard. The conflict continued several hoary
until reinforcements arrived from Pozzuoli and from

Naples. At length the insurrection was subdad,
About SOO of the prisoners were killed and wounded,
about half that number, at least, being killed.

CONSTANTINOPLE.—We have letters fret
Constantinople to the 19th ult. Prince Ca'honk,
ambassador at London, had sent his resignation
se
consequence of the dissolution of the cabinet
Reschid Pacha. A despatch, however, was
to London requesting him to retain his post.
case he should retire, it was understood the
he would be succeeded by M. Massaro;
Turkish envoy at Athens.
The Greek government had still evaded the
stances of the Porte to obtain the surrender of t
assassin who attempted the life of M. Muslim
Said pacha ex-Seraskier had been exiled to Sinei
in consequence of his political intrigues.
A large portion of Pere was destroyed by first
the night of the 17th. Upwards of 3.000 houses me
burned. The the lasted about ten hours. Sir Sus
ford Canning was still at Athens.