The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1851.

and who consequently condemn France to commotion
and civil war.
We must confess, that what most grieves us in
these continental prospects is their probable effects
upon our English politics. With parties balanced
as they are, with a general election not distant,
with a new Reform Bill ins state of promise, wel
can conceive nothing so untoward as a renewal of
these continental disturbances which so alarmed'
and flung us back in 1848 and 1849. Let us hope
that we are w mug in our prognostic-. But, whatever
be the results, it is quite evident, this time,
that the true causes and originators of whatever dis-
turbances and revolutions may arise, are those
generals, sovereigns, and statesmen, that upper official
class, in fact, which monopolise political power
throughout Europe, and who know no more how to
make use of it, than the most decried of republicans.

the past and present diplomatic relations of this
country with the barbarous chiefs of South Africa.

This morning the great bell of Notre Dame, which
has been mute during the last four years, " swinging
slow with sullen roar" announced to waking Parisi
the dawn of Easter Sunday. For the moment, the I
'din of politics is hushed. The greater part of the -
representatives have retired into the country; and
the contentions of the parliamentary tribune have
given place to the ceremonies of religion and the
eloquence of the pulpit. Even the press loses some-
, what of its political tone ; and all serious newspapers
seem to deem it their duty to aid the voice of the
`pastor, by devoting the greater portion of their lead-
ing columns to pious exhortations, instead of discus-
sing the knotty questions of government. On the
night of Good Iriday all that Paris holds of greatest
distinction was assembled in the cathedral of Notre
Dame to listen to the eloquence of Father ltavignan.
Beside the Archbishop of Paris was seated the Pre-
sident, accompanied by Marshal Excelinans and his
aides-de-camp. Near him was the Princess Marie
of Baden. Mole, Montalembert, Lamoriciere, ear-
lier, the Duke de Bohan, and others of high rank
and eminence attended the solemn service.
M. de Lamartine has published in the Pays of to-
day a remarkable article, exhorting all parties to
mutual toleration and postponement of their indi-
vidual interests and aims in presence of the law.
Lamartine traces in this paper briefly the course of
the revolution up to the present moment. He deems
it folly to consider the triumph of the republic in
February as an accidental surprise, and attributes it
to the obstinacy of the last king, and the flagrant
tone of the coalesced opposition. He traces the ex-
cesive preponderance of conservatism in the Legisla-
tive Assembly to the terror inspired by the insurrec-
tion of June, which he is convinced was only a
tavern conspiracy, a storm on the dissolution of the
altlicrs nattfinaux. The royalists returned to the
Assembly in the interests of order, finding them-
selves in a majority, mistook their mission for the
restoration of monarchy. Hence by rivalry the dy-
nastic colour taken by the executive power. Coining at
last to the present crisis, when the cry of contending
pretensions is becoming daily louder and more dis-
cordant, he examines all these pretentious in turn,
and pronounces them all doomed to failure; legiti-
mism, because faith in the traditional monarchy is
I dead; Orlennism, because it has not the right on its
side ; fusion, because it wants to be countersigned by
the people ; imperialism, because there is neither an
empire nor u hero to usurp its sovereignty; terror-
ism, because demagogues are not the idols of the
people ; socialism, because it iv an illusion. Revision
by a simple majority, and parliamentary prorogation
of the President's powers, are pronounced equally
vain. The only remedy, according to M. de Lamar-
tine, is repeal of the law of May, and acquiescence in
tire legal constitutional issue, whatever that may be.
The journals of 'foulouse bring the details of riots
which took place on the 10th at Aspet, and on the
llth at St. (lindens. At the former town a few
gendarmes having attempted to disperse the givers
of a charivari to the juge-de-paix, the mayor and his
deputies interfered on behalf of the mob, one of whom
they rescued from the gendarmes, and obliged ;them
to retire to their quarters. The prefect, on hearing
of this proceeding, ordered a considerable detach-
ment of troops to Aspet, suspended the mayor and
deputies, who were summoned before the court at
Toulouse, and arrested twenty-six persons of dis-
orderly behaviour, who 'ere sent to Saint
Gaudjos to be committed to prison. At the
latter town fresh riots occurred ; the mob
attacked the prefect and authorities with stones,
indicting severe contusions on the captain of the
gendarmes and the procureur of the department. The
gendarmes, after the third summons to disperse,
charged the mob twice, sabre in hand, and ultimately
cleared the streets, and apprehended several of the
principal! rioters. Tranquillity was perfectly restored.
31. Sebire is appointed member of the Council of
Prefecture of the Seine, in the place of M. Blanche,
who has been named Secretary-General of the Home-
office.
The collections in the churches of Paris, on Good
Friday, amounted to 1-1,0001., half of which is to be
distributed in alms to the poor of the metroixalis.
The number of passports delivered throuthtout
France for persons going to the London Exhibition
amounts already to 240,000. The greater part are
small proprietors, whose fortune does not exceed
1:10/. a year. Paris is expected to furnish 100,000
excursionists.
The railway from Dijon to Tonnerre is to be
opened on the Ist of June for passengers.

•
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IT is Withthe greatest eatisfactOn we have learned,
and are able to announce, that her MAJIZTY has sit-
aitied royal pleasure for thq making of such ar-
iangemeets connected with the opening of the Cheat
Exhibition, as will permit as large a portion of the
public as possible to be present at the ceremony. The
commissioners are accordingly about to hold a
meeting to re-consider the programme of the
opening, and the iegulations an der whichthe holders
of season tickets may be admitted. It is certainly
no easy matter to inaugurate in very large crowds an
exhibition, which can only be inspected by moving
about. But if her MAJEsrY and suite be enabled to
I move freely, whilst the part of the public present coa-
sent to occupy places assigned to them, confusion and
crowd may be avoided.
As to the exhibitors, in behalf of whom an evening
contemporary raised its voice, their place is surely
marked out within the limits occupied by their
wares, and marked out in their compartments. Her
:11.uEirs will thus inaugurate what the Americans
call the " World's Fair in the presence of the most
fitting delegates from the world's nations, us well aa
of a gratified number of her own subjects.
e believe that the idea of greatly limiting
the number present at the opening; and thus
giving it the character of a private visit of Royalty,
by no means originated at Court, but arose from the
ill-judged kers of those on whom the responsibility
rests, of preventing, confusion and inconvenience. Eng-
lish police authorities are unaccustomed to marshal or
manage large crowds, and large crowds of English-
men arc habituated to act as their own police, which,
however efficient, is at times of the roughest. Fears of
the kind were, however, quite inapplicable to those fur
whom free entrance was demanded by the press
the first of May.

THE aspect of affairs in British Kaffraria becomes I
more grave and threatening than it was at first.
The attitude of the hostile tribes is as inimical
as formerly ; the fear of commotions on the frontiers
of Natal has prevented the arrival of re-inforce- I
ments summoned from that quarter; and it is
now but too certain that a section, at least, of the
Hottentot settlers on the Hat River have made com-
mon cause with the Kaffirs. The enemy has not
been weakened in the original theatre of war, and
that theatre is extending on both sides. Last, and
worst of all, there arc no symptoms that the English
leader has concerted any plan of action adequate to
the subjection of the enemy and the restoration of

Milo, was firlowedby the dissolution of the Cortes,
wrttes to El Ordre to explain that by hie vote he
prevented the departure of SO deputies from the
flail of Congress. Print is appointed Captain-
General of Puerto-ltieo.

PORTUGAL.

Our Paris correspondent, in his letter of Saturday
evening, writes that a telegraphic despatch, received
at the Spanish embassy on that day from Madrid, I
dated pith, states that the Portuguese insurrection
I did not increase. Saldanha had not entered Santa-
' rem, where the King and the Duke of Terceira were.
A French ship-of-war has been ordered to Lisbon.
A telegraphic despatch announcing the arrest of,
Costa Cabral is quite unfounded.
This despatch is thus noticed by the Constittal
amine' of yesterday (Sunday):
" Nothing in tfie letters of the 14th from Ma-
drid has confirmed the news given yesterday by the
telegraphic agency of the arrest of the President of
the Council, alleged to have been effected at Lisbon ;
but the first news had been received of the move-
ment attempted by Saldanha, who is said to be se-
conded by the Generals Billaboa and Perez Vento,
names hitherto little known.
" We learn this evening that a telegraphic despatch
received by our government announces that the
King of Portugal was able to anticipate Saldanha
at Santarem. and to throw himself, with the Duke
of Terceira, at the head of 13,0141 troops, into that

-
important place.
Writing last (Sunday) evening, our correspondent
sacs:
The Bands makes the following remarks on the
telegraphic despatch of the 14th from Lisbon, iv-
ecived yesterday, by way of Madrid. by the French
government, the substance of which I communicated
in my letter of yesterday :
A telegraphic despatch, dated from Madrid, April 17,
at .1 in the afternoon—that is later l.y three days at leant
than the one which we published this morning—brings us
news from Portugal very different front the reports in cir-
culation yesterday and this morning. Far from confirming
the arrest of Count Thontar, this despatch announces three
important farts: First, that Lisbon is tranquil; next that
the insurrection floes not spread :mil gain head in the coun-
try; and lastly that King Ferdinand, accompanied by the
Duke of Terceira, has anticipated Marshal Saldanha,
thrown into Santarem, at the head of 12,0 M/ troops faithful to
the Queen. This last intelligence is the most important, and
gives reasons to believe that the insurrection is not
destined to axsitme such a menacing development an
might at first have been expecteil. In fact, San-
tarem is the mast important fortress in Portugal, the
real heal-quarters of the army, and the most considerable
depot of anus and munitions of war in the kingdom. Thus
it was naturally the most important point to occupy either
fur the government or Mr the insurgents. Huth Forties
accordingly wished to secure it at the outset; but the king,
conveyed doubtless with the troops under his command Mk
board steamers, Seem, to have got the start and succeeded.
The despatch gives no news of Marshal Saldanha ; but,
according to its tenour, he ems neither he at Lisbon nor at
Santarem. If these two Wares consinue to hold out for the
government of the Queen, it is probable that Marshal Sal-
danha sill attempt to gain Oporto or Almeida, the only
places where he has a chance of meeting troops that he gin
hope to gain over to his cause, while, on the other hand,
they furnish him with the means of escaping the govern-
ment, which is pursuing "

peace.
As for the non-arrival of the Zulu allies that, in
itself, would afford little cause for regret, The pre-
hence of some thousands of rude and undisci-
plined barbarians would only have added to the
embarrassments of Sir HENRY SMITH. War with
them is hut marauding on a large scale; they would
have added to the confusion and horror of the strife,
and rendered the adoption of measures for the re- FRANCE.
establishment of order more difficult. They have
never been accustomed to obey a general like civi- PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
limed troupe, and the results of Sir Ilteate's attempts It becomes daily more apparent that the word
to make the Katfire amenable to his commands, o fusion" is a mask for the conversion of MM. Guizot,
augur ill of his success with the Zulus. But the Duchatel, and consorts, to legitimism. There is no
caus• of the non-appearance of these his savage allies member of the House of Orleans who recognises or
is sufficiently alarming. The chief from whose au- approves the task professed by the fusionists, which is
thority they have withdrawn themselves, to seek to make the Orleunist interest subservient to the
protection within a British territory, contemplates restoration of the elder branch. The ..,Iseentleby
availing himself of the troubles in British Kaffraria, Nationak continues to emit a daily article setting
to bring them again under subjection to him, and forth its desire and belief that France will with one
'they dare not leave their families and herds expmed acclaim in 1552 call for the restoration of the
to his aggressions. There is, in short, reason to ale monarchic principle and of the throne of the I.lonr-
prehend a war with the natives in Natal similar to bons of the elder branch professing constitutional
that which has broken out in British Kuffraria. doctrines, and supported by the reconciliation and
The Hottentot insurrection in the Kat River Settle- allegiance of the princes of the house of Orleans.
ment is immure mellowing stilL The sere of this MONT- The men of the Atc.endelie Solionale indicate to
ment is within the colony, and implies a wide spread still more clearly that the amount of their sup-
disuffirtion among a rave upon the loyalty of which port to the prolongation of the President's poweis
the British authorities have hitherto fead good reason will be zero. " If, say they, "by the maintenance
to rely. The fact is. that the tribes commonly known of the I'ncident's powers, is meant the maintenance
by the: name of Kaffir, tire, in the regions immedi- until 1e52, we shall be happy to do all in our power
ately ;adjoining the Great Fish River, quite us much to render the task of government easy to hini, as
f Ign interlopers as the Europeans. In the district long as he observes the constitution, until the legal
called Albany, and in great part of British Kaffraria, termination of his mission." The President really
the meal names are all of Hottentot origin, and ought to be thankful to these gentlemen for their
the narratives of the few voyagers who visited generous offers, which sound very like mockery.
this region vu late ax an ailvanced period of The flag of the Assam/We Nittamile is Own the
the eighteenth century, convey the impression white Hug, but as the party are ashamed to proclaim
that they were then inhabited by Ilottentots. The their tergivelaation, and their abjuration of the
Katlits arc refugees from the north, flvieg from wars language and principles which they held for
and persecutions which had their origin in the ambi- twenty years under Louis Philippe, they do not
tion of powerful chiefs, who, possessing a more dare opoile to hoist it, but keep it like
energetic physical and moral constitution, drove time a handkerchief in their pockets. Fusion is a cant
feebler Hottentots before them. These invaders term, which they have invented to cover their dcser-
were encountered in the district of Albany by the tion to the cainp of the Count of Chambord. In fact
European immit.,mmuts who were pushing their settle- to undertake the fusion of two principles, one of
meets thrward from the west. Long and desultory which denies the other so completely, us the
wars were waged between these interlopers with bourgeois monarchy and the monarchy of divine
little reglad for the rights and interests of the right, is no more feasible than to operate the innolgai
aborigines. lint since the Cape became a British motion of Roman catholicism and protestantism ;am
colony, more care has in general been taken of. more M. Guizot and his friends are so many political
humane attentions paid to, the ilottentots, who have Puseyites, for whom there is no resting place short
repaid the kindness with a loyal attachment. of entire conversion.
Unfortunately the present change of sentiment The directing committee of the Asseinhke Nalionak
arwmg a numerous hotly of the Hottentots is but too consists of MM. Mole and Guizot; time administra-
easily explained. The 'lien River settlements were a tive, of MM. Duchalet and de Valmy; MM. de Mar-
benevolent project, of men whose humanity is greater temart, de Noailles, Damon, de Pastoret, and others,
than their knowledge lit' human nature. They were assist at the. deliberations. Thus the chiefs of the
fumed on the assumptive that it is possible to pies concern are six Orleanista and six legitimists. Al-
vent a mingling of the European and African races ready dissensions are spoken of in this amalgamation,
in the same territory. and that such prevention is not rocrors of the prolongution of M. Adrien de Lara-
mie compatible with, hut likely to contribute to, lette a powers. us nabearne-en-chae.
the happiness and mural improvement of the Afri- The old rivalry between Guizot and 'fliers seems
cans. The attempt has had two mischievous results, to break out with more bitterness than ever in the
In the first place, it established on the Kat River a polemics between the Messoyer and the -Isseethke. MADRID, Arati. 13.
community markedly different from the communities A tof M. 'l'hiers on this subject is pithy enough The newspapers of every shade are eagerly attack-
by
by which it was surrounded, and therefore in an- to deserve quotation : " Guizot aun journal, e hien, hug or defending the present• or late ministries, the
tagoniem to them. In the second place, it left the ever- taut mieux ! it sera Ming:: de mettre Ic nez a la fe. different purtisans of which are about, like the frac-
cis• of authority in that district ni the hands of a few netre, et on time deems!" tions of the Progresiata party previous to the full of
European functionaries, who pots:wawa uncontrolled The proprietors of the Sier'c have held a meeting, Espoicru, to enter the lists against each other in the
power over the Africans. That power has lwen un- nt whieli they hove resolved on su importing the can raethee • g elections. In time meantime, the
wisely and harshly exercised; these functionaries didature of General Cavaignac for the presidency in Minister has not forgotten the lessons he learned
have imposed taxes on the Hottentots, a kind of 1e.52. Notwithstanding the continued alienation of when he belonged to the former administration.
servitude they abhor; and hence the revolt of the ultra-socialists from this candidature, the acs's- There is not a province in which he has not super-
the Hottentot settlers. Could the insurrection be sits of union lIIIIV eausc it to Ite ultimately accepted seded every employ', however humble his runic and
confined to them the evil would be comparatively by the reel republicans, and by the party of Gwardin. category, who may have presumed to cull in ques-
trittin.,; hut the sympathies of the whole race are In the meantime the Si.. de and the Porete can/ tion the new governmental measures. In acting thus,
naturally with them, and their alliance with the on a sparring engagement of polemic's; an he plugs a double game; first, he gets rid of enemies
Katfirs imparter to the present conflict the character in fiet division reigns equally in mill ""1"' anti frightens lukewarm friends into activity ; and,
of a war of colours. It is black men ngainst white, conservative and republican. The Ortice
assails the 2ndly, as he does not plan: other men in the situations
lfessooce
contending which rice are to remain undisturbed issemake, the .Igennetekr kits out at time . •.,, he renders vacant, he will be able to diminish to a
lords of the soil. the Messayer pitches into time Octliledionierl, win •h
very considerable degree, as he has pronased, the
While' the war of races is then spreading both to in its turn fal a foul of the Union and Opinion Pielr- • ‘ ~ : 1.. lost ;
1111111.1er of Corneal. slug rather than ht•lp polo
the west and to the east of British Katfraria, no steps liver. Nor are the journals of order more in accord tic busino..
The general subjesa of conversation
have yet been taken to put an cud to it there. Sir in foreign politic', than at home. The organs of the to-day is time refusal of the government to give Gen.
II MIT SMITH, when the last advices were de- Elysee are distinguished by the virulency with which Narvaez perniiasion to return to Spain to see his sick
epatched. remained stationary in King William's they assail time liberal conservative' gum-eminent of mother. It appears that the general made applieu-
Town. Ile was at the head of a form strong Bravo Murillo in Spain, and the zeal with which tion in the first place to the Marquis of Valdegunias The Cuiagne Gazefic intimates that the contents of
~ugh to repel any attack of the natives, but they t•lamour for the restoration of sword rule and Minister Plenipotentiary fu the republic of 1-•rance,
not strung enough to aubjeet them. His columns were waateful expenditure under Nurvacz, to whose the last Austrian note are as follows :—The note re-
for a passpirt, not dreaming that there would be any
jects totally me partition of powers, but consents to go
able to scour the country iu all directions, but not to absence from the Min at Madrid they at- difficulty in its being grunted. The Marquis refused 1
k•ommand a foot breadth of territory beyond what tribute the insurrection in Portugal. The same to take upon hinisell the responsibility,
and advised mock to the old Diet, under the condition that essen-
tial reforms are to be brought about in Frankfort.
they occupied for the moment. Clouds of guerilla payers accuse England of being at the bottom of the the general to address an application to the Pressi-
iluifils threatened them in front, gulled their flanks, rising against the govermnent of Count Thomas., and dent of the Council, Bravo Murillo, upon receiving These reforms are, aiming others: Anew mode of '
and hung on their rear wherever they moved. The proclaim the fall of that Minister as an event topave voting in the plenum as well us in the na wercoun-
the application which was etude him in the name of
naked, undisciplined, eomp ra ativelv ill-armed enemy w the ay for the ruin of the Prt ougu rnie
ese monarchy, their for colleague by Pid walled a ul, cil ; the establishment of a general Aust Germanic
Zoll Canon ; a fide 1 - - -tof • t • - '
rei /AI. elIl public ma iuc
gave 1a
way
-fore every charge' of bee British troops, and time establishment of the republic. council of ministers, in which it was re-
but cloaed after them as soon as the regiments had The Noteeture states that on the question of the tion, or the establishmeneof pieltools and universities
wired that the general should not be permitted to
loomed as the water closet behind the keel of a ship. Revision, the Mountain will vote the previous plea- in Germany; and, finally, the institution, not of a
return to Spam till the elections are over,
HARRY Smolt was able to wend reinforcements tion, as long as the law of May 31 exists ; and in all prilitical, but of a militury power, to maintain order
Sir
as his presents:ln Spain would netessarily give re- at home and peace abroad.
lot men and fond to his beleaguered forts ; his cases will vote against the revision. Hewed courage to his friends. It is, however, confi- .
troops were able to destroy and burn the M. Leon de . Malleville is mentioned rem likely to beMe German papers apprehend that Prussia will
... -., ... .. dent!y stated that Nurvaez,whose love for his mother
huts and crops of the moires. and drive off put in nomination tier the office of v seri resident of be under an obligution to acknowledge, cam her re-
is one of the softening feetureo in his can admission into the Diet, all its acts since her Romeo-
. their cattle, but the unsubtlutd Ksffirs swarmed the Assembly in the plat' of Leon Faueher. . character, will come, even without permission. The
in every wood and ravine. The belligerent The rumour; of a reconciliation between the PIM- tion from it, whertby she will condemn her Whole
anti-Narvaez journals affirm to disbelieve, in time old
tribes gave no indicatians of being wearied of the dent of the Republic and General Clan gamier havepolicy of the last three years as illegal mud unjustifi-
lady's illness, and insinuate that it is a mere pretext
war: and the others obeerved what can at least be been muds exaggerated At the time when the re- able. An imperiul statute has summoned a Reiclueretth
of the general to get his foot on Spanish ground
called only a dubious neutrality. Nothing had been voention of the General was resolved upon, themein Vienna. This council is to pulite with the
again. As site is upwards of 95 years of age, there ministry f„
done to bring thc war to a terminaton. nor NT.IS there was a meeting of the members of the majority at thlegislative matters, but in other matters
is nothing iprobable in her indisposition. The
any appearance that a plan had been formed from house of the Duke de Broglie, to diecusa the mime merely to offer sugaestions. It appears from an ex-
coming of Isturitz to Madrid has given rise to much
width such results could be anticipated, or that the to be ursued. M. Lion Faucher, who was present,tract taom the Octil Reiche %rifting, that the insur-
eB illation as it is whispered that he uee
mucous of earning such a plan into effect existed. spoke against the revoeation, and advised a paha- yea •is Q n I maim in Bosnia is by no means completely quelled.
Christina's President of the Council in pello. The
The British possessions ut South Africa are wide ; mentary manifestation, but without any appearance The Prcassische 7 ..ritlo4,l(bellbiChe IktbrIll) says that
committee of the Moderado party is organised, end
and straggling. the colonv properly so called, ;of hostility towards the Pretdent of the Re•public. the Pope is about to aPply to Austria for tary
is working actively aguinst the minister. The two
British Katfturia,thc Orange 'River Sovereignty, and ; It ia natural to suppose that .1. Lam Faucher, afterhelp; that it is probable ihut on the be 'nein,. Or
or three dieappoieted generals that belonged to it,
Natal, thinly inhabited by Europeans, have I having expressed his regret at the dismissal of Gene-next month an Austrian 1 i. de will glenter *the
such as Pavia, &c., having received hints that the
the disaffected boera and the independent , cal Chun garnier, should be desirous of effecting on Papal States; and that, inwune case, the: f • •
Wur Minister thought of sending them to the Canary Lai . -
•
natives on their noeffurn and eastern Iron- '; proper grounds a reconciliation with the hoodent, Lombardy will bt greatly augmented.
Isles, have prudently withdrawn from it.
tier. and independent Kalfrana in a central ; but I have mason to believe that nothing beyond the Count Alvenaleben, who has returned to Dresden,
APRIL li.
position among them. No less them four s'- i expreseion of this desire has taken platy. Yesterday, in the circus theatre the Progresista , has definitively refused to accept time post of Prussian
pal and distinct settlements have to he defendeill rhe funds continue subject to brisk fluctuations, electors, to the number of upwards of 4,000, held a • cc.'
like • t • ' t Frankfort.
'lrtel'tl
lasry
alrainetnarived at Berlin from C
a hostile spirit, which appears to be spread. , The Fives fell 13 centimes and closed at 9130. meeting to take into consideration the conduct to be ;ha a' ;se has ar :. °Pen-
tug wall the African tribes. fhe melodramatic i while the Threes rose 10e. and closed at 57.1,5. gen to assume the functions of Damsh ambassador
pursued in the forthcoming ehytions. The Kisumu .TI ' ' 1
locus-poeus trickery by which Sir INUIT SMITH SUNDAY EVENING. chiefs of this party addresnd the electors in long and ' the war ministry in Wurtemberg I pt 1 *
vainly 'unskilled he could impose upon the Kaffir* The government is actively employed in obtaining ;much applauded speeches, urging them to lay aside all .
the reintroduction of the cane and ''t MS
' .°G
foie'
1 ri. use into .
has only irritated them, and made him their laugh- ; information with regard to :he state of nolitical ! those divisions which have lam so deplorable in ...my' At present
the matter remume undecided,
ing stock. He stands irresolute in King William's : parties throughout France. This task absorbs all : but the privy council of the King has declared
! their results, and unite for the elections. .k commit- •st the l.
Town. apparently quailing before the storm he has the time of the Minister of the Interior. Great pre- ; tee was appointed, whose mission is not only to agallin w'
rmiridtGillie.
conjured up. ! parations are being made by the military authori- ' watch the elections, but to organise the liberal party. "gall" a ' •lan cattle are now carried
What is wanted in South Africa at this moment is ' ties to meet the first show of ,sneente with vigorous The committee is composed of liberals of every shade; by railway to Hamburg for exportation. The other
a man who. to the qualities of a eonsummate general, repression. Some alarm is entertained that the an- , the honorary president is General Espartero, the dayo ' '
' 1-0 pigs were delive • red in Hamburg, being part
adds the common *MAC of a practical statesman. ' niversary of the ath of May may not go off so quietly
,chairman Gomez Bieerra. Among the members are f a contract.
That Sir Mimic Snuff can tight well; that he' can as last tearA letter from Frankfort, of kpril la .— '
4 Oluzaga, the editors of the Clamor readico, the SaCilin„. T. . . , „ , - • says. •
ruanuurre a division of any army in the field skil- : I believe, from what I can gather. that the grand' Mudoz Olozaga, &c. As every kind of manifesto- ins morning, Count Hum, the Austrian Plenipo-
fully and energeneallv. is beyond question : but that 111.0guil of the men of fusion is the reconciliation of , non of public opinion has Veen forbidden these tentimy at the Diet, returned here from I, Irma.
he can form the plan of a campaign adequate to Changarnier with the Elysee. There is an expres- many years the joy seemed unbounded. Almost VIENNA, Arum 13.
conga r a peace, does not appear. And tin- the task sion dropped by Dr. N'eron in the Oeustitotioneel ; every speaker was greeted, on presenting himself on The great news of the day is the approaching re-
of re.-o.tahlislting order, he labours under the in- to-clay. which is understood to allude to the. imminent', the platform, with three tremendous cheers. Negrete, turn of Prince Metternich to Vienna. For mouths it
superable defect that neither European nor African realisation of this project. He says: "A report cir- the ex-minister of commerce, whose vote was the has been rumoured that he was about to visit his
has the slightest confidence in his judgment. eulates that thoughts of order, of conciliation, germ principal cause of the scene that led to the diasolu- estates in Bohemia, hut now his villa in the suburb
It is me:unite:on upon the imperial government to in the high regions of power." It is thought that tion of the Chambers, is about to publish a manifesto Rennweg is anew fitted up for the reception of its
interfere without &hey, and with decision. It is tar the command-in-chief of the army of Paris will be of the reasons of his eonduet on that oceusion. It illustrious proprietor. We cannot preciewly hay that
.it to determine at once whither Sir II %MIT SIIITII given to some general in the confidence of Changer- : appears that a number of members, private friends, public opinion has changed in regard to the delete-
,is the man to put a speedy end to the war. But the Hier so thac, in ease of an outbreak, the latter mar . though political enemies of his, had gone home to roux influence of his political principles ; newt-the-
Impel ill v.:rums:lit seems incapable of acting with In at once re-invested with the supreme control of, dinner during the debate, on his assurance that there less, it is nut without some satisfaction that people
the requisite firmness and promptitude. The Duke the troops ; but this arrangement will only be would be no voting, and that he' had refused to be a i look on his return, as they hope that his influence will
'of Wk.LIANGTON, when cousulteeL said thut two ad- adopted m case of an emergency.
; party to the kind of thimble-rig proceedings by , upset the minister,Dr.Bach, the very man who inNlarch
Iditionul regiments would be awaited in South lime ••fueionists" manure to be assailed more which Bravo Murillo thought to pass the bill with a ' ISIB, had most efficiently contributed to turn out
Arne% and only one was sent. And now, instead fiercely than ever by the: reaaentists, who, in league ° view of extens:ee stuck jobbing. i the celebrated statesman of the Holy Alliance—
Of evading out proper inatructioua, or it mat- be a new , with the ultra-legitunista, challenge M. Guizot and APRIL 15, though but to pursue the sane policy, replacing
, commander-in-chief, gortrinneut has got 'the House ' his allies to mill off the mask mind declare themeelves M. Fernandez Ncgrete, whose separation from his Prince Metternich's cunning by cruelty, and his
lot Commons to appoint a committee to investigate . legitimist at once without reserve. I colleagues on the vote on the motion of M. Milian aristocratical manners by overbearing insolence. The

SWITZERLAND.

CANTON OF TESSIN,Apitu.

SPAIN.

You are aware of the persecutions suffered by the
refugees at Geneva, the expulsions that have taken
place at Lausanne, the extraordinary complaisanees
of the Confederation's executive towards Austria,
the deliberations at Berne in presence of the French
ambassador, and at his dictation ; the federal
decrees published in Paris before they were
made known in Berne. You may als) have
known that a federal commissioner, M. Planta, front
Reichenatt, had been sent into the canton of Tessin,
where endless vexations were the result of his mis-
sion. In addition to all this, the unfortunate Tessin
has been invaded by a cloud of spies from Austria,
France, and Herne. Old and infirm men have been
torn away from their homes, and even peaceful mer-
chants, with their families, sent away; and all this
is called the right of asylum.
These vexatious were not sufficient, however, for
M. Planta, who on Saturday caused two disguised
abirri to arrest in his bed Cul. Francois Sigel, for-
merly general-in-chief of the republican troops in
Baden. The colonel was thrown hound into the bot-
tom of a cart, in which he was taken to Itellinrona,
and there brought up before the federal commis-
sioner. Then, utter a short examinalion, he was
placed in another cart, the intention being to bring
him into the Grisons.
All this had been done by a deceit practised on
the chief of the Tessin police, and without the know- •
ledge of the cantonal authorities.
'flu, citizens of Bellinzona, however, were informed
in time of what was going on, and they succeeded in
rescuing the general from the hands of the agents
who held him. The government of the canton was
then hastily assembled and the general placed at its
disposal.
The general is now on his way to England, he
having been ordered by a decision of the authorities
to be accompanied to the frontiers of France.
I What will Englishmen think, when they learn
that it is possible in Switzerland, in 1>;:s1, secretly to
take a man out of his bed and carry him off, without
the slightest legal authority ? All here are indignant
at so bold an attempt, and the cantonal goveinment
has threatened to resign en masse.

GEItMANY.

great abettors of the Prince in his strife against the
ministry—which in 1818 styled itself the dune/era-
tient one, and insulted the Batthyanyis and Szeche-
nyis as aristocrats—are of course the Hungarian
old conservatives, Baron Josika, the Mailaths,
Count Ismsen, M. Soinsieli, and their friends,
men of talent, trained in the routine of business.
During the Hungarian war, this party remained
neutral ; hut now they use the greatest encnics of
the centralising, scheme-; of Vienna. Baron Kubeck,
before March Minister of Finance, is now entrusted
iby the Emperor with the exuminati (((( of the finan-
cial state of the realm; this seems the first step to
his return to office; we may see, in a short time, all
the men of 1817 reinstated in the ministry. Sad as
this is, it is, after all, the best course for Austria;
for all the plans of 1/r. Bach proved complete
failures—the stubbornness of the Italians and the
passive resistance of the Hungarians prevent the
possibility of their success, as we see it every day.
One of the great financial nostrums of the present
ministry was to he the introduction of the tobacco
monopoly in Hungary—they expected several
mil-
lions from this measure. The result was very dif-
ferent, the tobacco planters abandoned this culture
as soon as they were to be subjected to the inspec-
tion and the restrictions of the police, and they rear
now oil plants on their fields, which yield the same
income to the grower. without exposing hint
to the vexations of the government. At
Debrecuin, one of the chief places of the tobacco
district, the planterr assembled on the mar-
ket-place, where they kindled a bonfire and
burned the whole stock of their tobacelesced. The
demonstration took place on the very Kline spot,
where, a twelvemonth past, the Kossuth notes were
burned by the Austrian military authorities. This,
then, had been a heavy blow on the finances of
the inhabitants of Debreesin ; they now retaliated
it. Though the country is still under martial
the spirit of the people manit'ests itself everywhere.