The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1848.

candour, but also wise abstinence from loosening and
ing tendencies! The results of this Diet will de=
position of Bavaria in Germany. Let us set a good example
to all its people. Let our device be freedom and legality.
The announcement of the amnesty, the abolition
of lotteries, the representation at the confederacy,
and the last words of the speech, elicited loud cheers.
There was to be a great popular meeting at Heidel-
berg on the 26th, in order to discuss the present
state of affairs.

declared himself to be the sole custodian of the royal peer°.
plies, and that it was unconstitutional to require from him
any stipulation or promise as to his future exercise of it, in-
=ouch as such promise, by fettering his discretion, might
maks it impossible for him to obey orders sent to him by the
crews, to which he was responsible. The ministry resigned,
can somber of it only excepted (Mr. Daly); the House of
Assembly voted confidence in them, and declared its =ivie-
d= that they had been misunderstood by his lordship, end
were incapable of desiring any unconstitutional con-
cessions from the representative of the crown. I need
not go into those minute details of the history of
the past with which you and your readers are fami-
liar. I only desire to connect together present and
pest events, having an immediate and pregnant connexion
with each other. Lord Metcalfe was inexorable—sought in I
vain to make up a ministry that could take Viet place of the
one that had retired—and after addressing every section of
Upper Canada in answer to addresses presented or trans-
mitted to himself, in terms of unqualified condemnation of
his late council, arraying agaiest them the prejudices of the
loyal by raising the cry of revolution, &e , his lot dskiip at
length dissolved the parliament, and at the general election
obtained • narrow majority. The condition of the ministry
was very satisfactory, even to themselves, if we are to
judge from the frequent efforts made to attach the French
party to them—efforts always abortive. At length, with a
magnanimity deserving all praise, if magnanimity it were,
or with a weakness of which it need only be said that it
brought its own punishment, the Metcalfe ministry made a
held appeal to the people, unasked and unexpected, emanating
solely from themselves, and at least 12 or 15 months
before the period of the natural expiration of the parliament,
during which they might have retained the sweets of office
end patronage, and at least the semblance if not the sub-
stance of power. The result of this appeal you have in the
vote of 54 against 20, affirming that the present ministry do
not possess the confidence of the country, and ought not,
therefore, to retain that of his excellency.
The new ministry will probably be composed as follows:
—Mr. Lafontaine, President of the Council; Mr. Baldwin,
Provincial Secretary, in place of Mr. Daly ; Mr. Sullivan,
Attorney-General for Western Canada ,• Mr. Aylwyn, At-
torney-General for Eastern Canada; Mr. Prier, C01211:111/1
"Muer of Crown lands ; Mr. Malcolm Cameron, Chairman
of the Board of Work.; Mr. Blake, who is on his way from
Europe, will probably he Solicitor General for Western
Canada, succeeding after • time to Mr. Sullivan's place,
on that gentleman's very likely promotion to pre-
side over the equity court in place of Mr. Jameson, who
has lung sought his retirement. Mr. Drummond or Mr.
Dumas will probably receive the appointment of Solicitor-
General, East. Mr. Minas will, it is supposed, resume his
former office of inspector-General. Mr. Parent, from bring
Assistant Secretary, will, it is thought, wee a high place in
the Board of Works. A Iteceiver-General has not yet been
matter of rumour. It may be held for a while for Mr.
Dunn, now in England, but who held the office for nearly
28 years up to 1843, when, upon the rupture with Lord
Metcalfe, he resigned with his colleagues.
The new ministry will come in with a full recognition by
Lord Elgin of all that was claimed as the rights of the
council, but refused by Lord Metcalfe. From and after
November, 1843, indeed, these rights have been fully con-
ceded in practice b every governor, beginning with Lord
Metcalfe himself. Thes gain, as in all such struggles is al-
most invariably thetisse, has been entirely to the popular
side. The change of power from one set of hands to another
has been marked by no acrimonious feeling as yet ; and
there seems to be among all parties and persons, whatever
their disappointment or political bi s, c desire, based upon a
patriotic conviction that it is due to the country to give fair
play to the new government.
Much speculation exist. as to the course Mr. L. J. Fapi-
nem will take in the parliamentary tactics of the moment.
Its has spoken upon questions relating to contested elections,
but not upon general politics; and it is predicated front
these efforts that his eloquence has lost nothing of
its forte, and that he will regain his former ascendancy
over the minds of his countrymen. At a preliminary or
" caucus" meeting, as it i. termed, of the opposition, to bear
read the amendments proposed by Mr. Baldwin, Mr.
Papineau urged the adoption of an amendment to the effect
that the mother country, although " powerful," bad not been
" just "in her treatment of Canada. The phrase in his Ex-
cellency's speech was the "blessing of peace had been secured
to the country, under Providence, by the patr °tarn cf her
531111, and her connexion with a state which was both jut
and powerful." Mr. Papinesu'e proposal was angrily de-
uneed by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Lafontaine, and he did
nos speak at all on the debate on the address in the house.
The debate was confined to some half-doz 'n speakers, and
the division was taken before midnight on the first day, in- I
stead of lasting, as was expected, for several evenings. There'
is a very decided and fierce rivalry between Messrs. Lafon-
taine and Papineau, each of whom aspires to be the
leader of the French-Canadians. Mr. Papineau is resolved
apparently to get a party in the house and the country.
He is in a position to embarrass the new ministry by urging
on the French population to make demands that cannot be
conceded ; and he seems most heartily well dissooed to do
them all the damage he can. The prints is his interest al-
lege that he has b en treated with too much indifference by
the Lafontaine party, and that his family during his'exile
were insulted and injured in various ways by M. Lafontaine
and his friends for having joined the administration under
Lord Metcalfe. It is possible that upon the report of the
address this day, before its adoption by the house, Mr.
Papineau may speak Out the bitterness that is within him,
and so provoke an angry debate.
An emigratinn bill was weed rapidly by both houses, re-
ceived the royal assent, and was sent home by the mail that
left this on the 3rd instant, to meet at Halifax the steamer
that leav,s Boston on the 11th. The purport of the bill is
to levy a heavy tax on sick and aged emigrants, according as
they are likely to become burdensome to the country. The
scale is from 10a. to 20s. There were 96,000 emigrants last
year, of whom, in Lower Canada, 22,000 were sick and
11,000 (Ned in the streets. The expense to which the pro.
vince was pot in forwarding _paupers from Grosse Isle, and
hospital charges, was 160,0001.

PORT-AU PRINCE, HATTI, JAM. 23.
The island is at present quiet. It is still, however,
a matter of surprise and regret among the peaceably dis-
posed inhabitants, that General Sinailien and his associates,
who, by their conduct during the absence of the presithnt in
the northern part of the island had well nigh involved it in
a civil war, have not been punished, and are now said to be
in higher favour with the President than ever. Whether
this disregard of justize and their rightful claims on the
gallows proceeds from fear of consequences, or, as some will
have it, from a pArtiality to his own colour, I will not venture
to say, but certain it is that in late promotions to posts of
honour or profit, his excellency has shown a very marked
preference for blacks over men of colour; this has not been
unobserved by the latter, and has given them great offence.
This obliviousness of the claims of so large a part of the po-
pulation if persevered in, may, in the end, be productive of
grave consequences. Though elected for life, there are at
present three other presidents living besides the ene who at
present fills the presidential chair ; Boyer and Riviere at
Kingston, Jamie*, and Pierrot at Cape Hayti.

HOLLAND.—THE HAGUE, MARCH 24.—CHANGE
or MINISTRY.—It has been officially announced that the
new provisional ministry is composed as follows :—Count G.
Schimmelpenninck. President of the Council and Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Finance; M. L. C. Luau, Minister of
the Interior end of the Reformed Religion ; M. L. A. Ligh-
tenvelt, Minister of the Roman Catholic Religion; M. Diek
Donkey Cultists, Minister of Justice; General Neprell,
Minister of War; M. J. C. Ryk, Minister of the Marine
and of the Colonies.
HONDURAS.—The Belize paper, the Honduras
Observer, of the sth ult., contains a protest against the part
taken by the British government with respect to the nccu•
pation of territory on the aorthem boundary of Honduras,
by the troops of the said government acting as the " protec-
tor of the so-called Mosquito nation." The supposed right
of the Mosquito chief to the territory in question, which is
declared in the protest to have been seized solely by employ-
log the greatest force, has not, it is alleged, been examined
as it shbuld have been, nor is it allowed that the so-called
King, or his protector, the English government, boa made
the necessary remonstrances, through the medium of accre-
dited agents, according to" the principles admitted by unani-
mous assent by all civilised nations of the world." In order,
then, that silence may not be interpreted at any time in any
scanner prejudicial to the rights of Central America, of
which Honduras forms an integral portion, the supreme
g vernment of this state, in the name of the general con-
tinuation, solemnly protests against the consequences which
Mffltanitusue from the occupation of its territory, and from
an nAttli compliance with the will of the commandant of
Truxillo, to withdraw the guard at Roman, and his "pun-
ishable forbearance in permitting the Lending of Engl ■h
troops in the port," as well as against any other acts which
might give validity and existence to the rights which are now
protested against,those that may follow from the occupation.

Abe Court.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday,
at Buckingham Palace.
The Prince of Prussia paid a visit to Prince Albert
yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. His Royal
Highness was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, and at-
tended by his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian
Minister. In the evening Prince Albert returned his Royal
Highness's visit, at the house of the Prussian Minister, in
Carlton-house terrace.
The l'rince and l'rincess Augustus of Coburg and
family left Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon for the
continent.
Prince Albert, attended by Mr. 0. E. Anson, at-
tended a meeting at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, in
Somerset.house yesterday.
A cabinet council was held at twelve o'clock yes-
terday, at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were
Lord J. Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lana. I
downs, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exehequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir
J. Hubbouse, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labou-
there, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Viscount Morpeth.
The council tat two hours.
Viscount de Moneorvo, the Portuguese minister,
and Count de Reveatlow, the Danish minister, transacted
I business yesterday at the POTIVII-office.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF PHICSSIA.—The Prince
of Prussia, brother of the King, and heir apparent to the
crown, arrived in London yesterday morning, rid Ham-
burg, and alighted at the hotel of the Prussian legation, at
Carlton-terrace. His Excellency Cher*li.r Bunsen received
' and remained closeted with his Royal Highness for some
considerable period. His Highness's arrival having been
forwarded to Buckingham Palace, shortly before four
o'clock one of the Queen's carriages arrived at the residence

of the legation to convey his Royal Highness to the Pa.
lace, where he had an audience of the Prince Co*
sort, being introduced by Viscount Palmerston. At
nine o'clock last evening 'his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick et
Hew, arrived at the legation, and had a long interview
with the Prince. The Duke of Cambridge had previously
called on his Royal Highness during his absence at Bucking-
ham Pelson. Intelligence of the arrival of the Prince having
got abroad his Royal Highness received several complimen-
tary visite during the afternoon from members of the corps
diplowatique and others.
THE PRINCIPAL CLERK OF 711 E HOUSE OF LORDS.
—Sir David Dundu has received his appointment as Prin-
cipal Clerk of the House of Lords. The :earned gentleman
has resigned the Solicitor Generalship and also his seat for
Sutheriandshire. The former is to be filled by Mr. John
homily, and rumours are afloat that either Sir John Hob-
house or Mr. Macaulay will be returned for the latter.
DEATH OF SIR WM. GOSSET, K.C.H.—Sir Wm.
Gosset (serjeant-at-arms M the House of Commons) expired
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The deceased was son
of Mr. Matthew Onset, ofJersey, and born 1783. He married
in 1808 Miss Daniell, daughter of Mr. Daniell, R.A. He
served in the expedition to Holland in 1799, and afterwards
repaired to the island of Ceyion, during the Kandian war.
He was afterwards called to act with the British force in the
Mediterranean, end afterwards, at the Wink on Algiers,
under Viscount Exmouth, and had the honour of being on
board the boat which Entered the harbour and set on fire
the Algerine marine force. He was created a commander of
the Bath and a knight of the order of St. Ferdinand for
his services on that occasion. In 1813 he was ap-
pointed secretary to the legation under Lord Heyteebury
to the Barbary States, and in 1828 he was appointed to the
post of secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance.
He was afterwards elected to fill the office of private secre-
tary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1829, and had
the honour to act as under-secretary with the Marquis 0.
Anglesey, front which official station he was removed, on
the vacancy occurring, to that of serjtant-atarms to the
House of Commons. In 1831 he was nominated a knight-
commander of the royal Guelphic °resit of knighthood.
We heard at a late hour last night that the Hon. Spencer
Lyttelton, brother or Lord Lyttelton, was selected to till
the vacant appointment.