The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-25 00:00:00

BAILWAYB.

This being Christmas-day the Steck Exchange is,
of course, closed.

MANCRIaTER, Doc 24.

Itroult-limeawou.—There was a dull, quiet market, and
prime showed a further decline. The only heavy stock dealt in was
North Untoss, at 226.

BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 24.

STOOK-EXCIRANOIL—To-day was almost 'holiday on this
ezehange; very tittle business was dose. Prices the same as on
ssturday.

BRISTOL, Dec. 24.

BToC[•EXCHANON.—This has been observed u s tolerably
general holiday here, and no badness has been done.

HAMBURG, Dee. 21.

BOISENnaLLn. Hamb. Bugd., 944 bills; Beilia
lamb., 824 bills, 924 money; Worm Minden. 94 bills; Magde-
burg Wittenburg, 66 bills, 6Ss money ; Altana Kiel, 931 bills, 03
may; Mecklenbarg, 334 bills; RendsWrg, 116 money; Gluck-
stadt, 27 bills ; Copenhagen, 40 bills; Berlin Hamb. Priority,
Four-s-llalt per Cents., 94 bilis, MI money Berg-
Priority, tire per Cents., 104 bills, 1034 money Cologne Minden,
ditto, Your-and-a-Quarter per Cents., bills, n money; Ditto,
Priority Five pin.(knts., 103 bills, ion money; Mecklenburg, Ditto,
Pour-and-a.haU per Cents., 100 bills.

DUBLIN SHARES.—(From the Freeman's Journal
of Dec. 24.)—1n ishires, rather a large amount of business
has been done, although in most instances at lower rates.
We note, among the rest, a heavy fall in City of Dublin
Steam of 111. per share, or, allowing for dividend, of 81.
This must be attributed, we presume, to the furious and
determined opposition now being carried on. Great Siutbern
and Western, 30 (11 decline) ; Midland Great Western, 231 ;
Dublin and Kingstown, 132; Dublin and Belfast Junction.
ri
3i ; Waterford and Limeck, 81 ; Royal Bank, 111 ; Hi-
bernian Bank, 2.5 (an improvement of 104 ); City of Dublin
Steam, 73; Ship Building Company, 42 Of decline); l'a-
triotic Insurance Company, 7; Wicklow Copper Mine, 10,
91; CJIISUOISte Gas, 51; Mining Company of Ireland, 41.

SIIOCRINO MURDER BY A BOY AT BRISTOL.—A
shocking case of murder occurred at Bristol on Sunday
afternoon, the perpetrator of the shocking outrage being •
boy of little more than 14 years of age, and nu victim 6
youth of only 19. Toe fatal occurrence took place at Bed-
minster, in the neighbourhood of which • painful degree of
"'citron nt haa been produced by the fatal occurre n ce:
The deceased, William Braund, was a respectable young
man, employed as a light porter by Mr. Gillett, spirit mer-
chant, of Itedcliff-street ; and his assailant, Alfred Dancey,
an errand-boy, in the service of Mr. Prowse, surgeon,
Guinea-street ; and the murder was committed with a pistol
loaded with ball. It would appear, from the particulars
which have transpired, that 00 Sunday afternoon, at about
halt-past four o'clock, Dance y and Cs,lline were
amusing themselves near Bedminster iron bridge,
jumping over an iron post, when Braund, with
two companions, named Horgan and Coggan, who Were
out taking • walk, named them, and ea they did so Horgan
said " 0 •er it." Hollowed is Ducey and Collins began call-
ing names, and them, wing atiwiso language.
t.pon 11.nsam turuusg round to them they ran away; but
as they continued to hewn him, he followed them, and
catching Collins by the railings of Zion chapel, he struck
him twice, then came behind him and ware him a blow on
the face. Horgan tnen ran towards Dancey, who immedi-
ately pulled a pistol from his bosom and presented it at him,
saying " Come on, I'm quite ready for you. Come on, and
I'll have you." Horgan then lett them and followed hie
companions to the er.d of Brown's-row, Redcliff-criacent,
where they hated. Dancey and Collins continued to follow
and abuse them, and at e end of Brown's-row the
Pater pulled out a life-preservther, and shook it at them
in a menacing way. The deceased Braund turned
towards Cdlins, and said I will tell your mother
and you'll catch it for having that thing," upon which
Collins again shook it at him, using some threat. Braund
immediately made a rush at him, and grasping bold of the
life preserver, • struggle ensued, in the course of which they
both tell down in the road. While the scuffle was going
on Dancey more than once said he would shoot Braund.
and went towards him for that purpose. Horgan tried all he
could to prevent his getting towards the deceased, bat
Dancey was very determined, and having deliberately:naiad
his pistol, fired at Braund. The poor fellow staggered
and tell forward, and on immense quantity of blood pawed
from his mouth. Some bystanders, among whom was Mr.
Brown, the magistrate, woo had witnesse I the munler from
his: window, came to his help, but lite was extinct. Dance,
ran away and was followed by several persona, at one of
whom he threw the pistol. He was, however, secured
and taken to the Bedminster police station, where he was
searched, and a bullet mould, several bullets and pd', fercuou ssind
on
caps, 31. Is. lid. m y, and a pack of playing car
in his pockets. On his way to the station-house be said, "I
suppose I shall get 'cragged for this ;" but afterwards ho
said Sae pistol w.ut off upon the halt-cock, and denied that
it was loaded with ball. He has continued to show • good
deal of hardihood.not appearing to be in the slightest de-
gree alive to the painful position in which he is placed. The
body of the deceased was taken to the general hospital, and
on an examination it was found that the bullet had entered
the chest, passing through a rib, and thence obliquely and
upwards to tke back .01 the shoulder. It passed entirely
through the substance of the lungs, through the wiedeipe,
and divided the lags artery in its course, and carried with
it a piece of the deceased young man's coat. The dreadful
occurrence has given rise to the most painful feeling, and •
coroner's inquest has been summoned to investigate the
circumstances connected with it.

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Gap mid In dm Antinliso colonise, and the gar&
anus Obi* aloe hos those which prevail among
our estlismenia in the ihr nit of Asia.
It is thew d the petestioniste to represeut di
fromial sail dimesitent et our cohesive as arising
the adeptin se a free-trade policy. To do
this they are
theab to ore tacitly the existence
of any but Noah Anserioaa and West
Indian groups of colonies. With the grievances
of whidi the rest complain Tres trade has
not the remotest connexion. The Australian
sob:miss again and again petitioned to be re-
lined from the very alight mosission of oar restrictive
torero to which they were subjected before the vic-
tory of fres-trade was acbieved. Free-trade to an
extent yet unknown even here bas been the law of
due its Itet establiahment.
Billfr re geed to the colosies of America and the
Antilles there is doubtless a protectiosist party there
as well se in the mother country, end its peevish
mall may be bard mingling with the general corn-
• ts of those colonies and adding to the cos
argument, and experiene of the benefits of free
lode slow cia silence dais element of the clamour.
'Dm free teases bare and in the colonies will unitedly
their battle against the fallacies of the protec-
If any danger threaten from the free trade
may, it ii owing to the fragments of the
tattles 'yawn which have yet to be abrogated. The
emancipates of the slaves in the West Indies, and
the wealth sad intelligence of many among the black
and mimed clines there, render the resuoitation of
slavery impassible. Yet these colonies while exposed
Is the competition of free trade in their produce, have
bun denied free trade in labour. In like man-
the retention of the monopoly of the
seareng trade, in deference to local interests
is Great Britain, operates gr.eally to the prejudice
dow North American colonies, by placing them at
I a disadvantage in their trading inters inn with the
, Vatted States, and through the United States with
this sundry. It is more, not less, free trade that is
mania to relieve oar American colonies, and assuage
their exasperation. Bat the most irritating griev-
ances of which these colonies complain are of quite a
diliment nature. It is of the meddling of the imperial
gemument in their local affairs; of the mismanage-
ment onneelneut upon the interterenee of distant and
neeemesily ill-informed legislators and administrators;
et the enormous expense entailed upon them by
griming salaries and establishments to the notions of
eon place-hunting aristocracy, instead of the circum-
stances of the colonies. To the resistance offered to
judicious retrenchment in Jamaica and Guiana i to the
refuel of responsible local government in Trinidad
sal- Guiana; to the annoyance and expense en-
Idled upon Canada by tranderring the test of
1 legislature and government within a few years
from Tomato and Quebec to Kisgston, thence
le Iteallreal, and thence back to Toronto, with
, the prospect of a subsequent move to Quebec ; to
two- and similar specimens of wilful and wayward
bugling, contumely, and extravagance are in reality
owing the discontents and disturbances in these
colonies. Not a mail arrives but brings some new illus-
tration of the folly of attempting to carry on colonial
government in Downing-street. Downing street has
lately. given Guiana a Reform Bill ; the journals
received yesterday inform us that this precious piece
of legislature has diminished the aggregate midi-
toency of the colony by no less than 200. And
this system of Colonial-office mis-government is
making the people of the mother country as
kick of the colonies as the colonies are of the
mother country. Grants to clergymen and others
are made out of the imperial exchequer, in the vain
hope that the colonists will thus be bikini to cease
from their well-founded complaints; and fleets and
armies are maintained in the colonies not to defend
them from foreign aggression, but to keep them in
subjection to England. Against this sur-addition to his
excessive burdens, Joie( Betas wrath has of late
years been steadily growing.
Tin main grievances of the Cape and the Austra-
lien colonies have till of late been mainly the same as
those d the American, uncomplicated by the
question of free trade. There, too, local re-
sponsible government has been refused as long
es it could possibly be withheld, or at the
bet hour an illusory sham appearance of respon-
sible local government his been granted instead
of the reality. The prejudicial reaction of this
strikingly exemplified at the Cape, than per-
haps, with the exception of Canada, any other
colony. We have of late had two millions
to pay for a Kaffir war; and that Kaffir war would
never have existed bad not the hands of the colonists
been systematically tied up from self-defence. The
border marauders among the Kann carried on a per-
petual system of petty picking and stealing, knowing
that the home government could not repress it and
would not allow the colonists to do so ; and at list,
emboldened by impunity, they poured into the colony
in force. The war was occasioned by the impolicy
of the home government, and its expenses were
enormously increased by the desultory opera-
tions and enormous jobbing which took place
under its lax system of administration. To all
the confusion has been added the convict quarrel.
With respect to more remote settlements, Sir
STAMFORD RcirLES laid down the right principle—
" Our object is commercial, not lemlorial ex-
tension." With this view Singapore was founded,
and had it been adhered to, we should hare escaped
the subsequent ex heirs
and b!cinders of our policy
in these regions.

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lay miss asst eat of them to the tax-gedswer,
me, pcs:haje..isisal fermar
all other iimaMdes4while for ; all we
eeenrr
' is, that we want no addition whatever
to the revenue. The income to the exc.he-
Alter is quite large encash. We are looking
about us for some taxes to be reduced, not for any to
be aided. We have had bad times, bat the lowered
duties and oppress* to free-trade in timber, °oar,
and sugar, and the free-trade price of bread leaving
the people so murk more of their earnings to spend
in Wier articles. have, despite of suffering at home and
markets abroad, half closed by revelation, kept up
the reveals. It won't do, therefore, to talk of a
bread-tax for revenue. It used to be said—weir
said at that very county meeting at Huntingdon to
whichwe have referred—that if we repealed the sem
laws, we would beggar the exchequer and rob the
fundholdas. Now we have free trade and a rides
exchequer, and the fandholders at all events Isom to
have no hare, for the fonds are higher now than they
were when that meeting was held, and we were nadir
all the blemisgs of the corn laws and general pee-
tuition.
There is no need therefore for a breed tax for revenue.
And all Ettenthis country with any power or any
sense tor out of it, representatives or
thou w chows them, ministers in °Mos or
eat of dike, have long since made up their
minds that taxes for anything else than revues are
robberies of the great mass of the people for the
special profit of a few; and no such tax—no tax on
bread or anything else for protection—will ever be
tolerated in this country again. The people have bad
enough of such impositions, industry enough of such
hardens.
The present concern of the nation is to retrench
expenditure and remit taxes. Let farmers help
the move, and they may have the five millions of
malt and hop duties remitted to them ; and let
them demand from the landlord either improvement
of the land or lower rents, and in any caw leases and
protection from baviag their crops devoured by game.
Let them set to work in earnest to meet foreign com-
petition,as manufacturers have long since met it, by
increased and more economic production. No one
pretends that the lands of England grow all the food
for men or beast, or feed or fatten all the beasts they
might do. The English farmer has the best market
in the world at his own doors, and if he lets the
foreigner, coming from a distance by land and
Neosho it from him, it can only be because he
has rested so long upon protection, and allowed
himself to be so long deluded into the belief that par-
liament could help him, that be bu become inferior
to all other Englishmen, and lost the power to help
himself.
It may suit landlords, agents, and auctioneers well
enough to turn away the attention of farmers from
leases and improvements, from lowered rents and game
laws, to rend them on the false scent of getting
back protection; but it is the farmer's interest to
understand that protection is an abolished nuisance—
tree trade a Axed fact—and that he and his landlord
must come to terms, under the conviction that there
can never again be a bread tax.

HurrnioDos [Mr. CORMS was wont to may) was
the last pleas in England that burnt old women for
witches, and from the direct descendants of each
people there ere no very great things to be expected ;
as the lathers were the -last to take women to the
stake fa talking to the devil, bewitching people's
pigs, cows, and children, and flying across the moon
on broomsticks—it is not to be wondered at that the
present men should cling closest to the corn laws, and
est up most determinately all the sophisms of
1606•1001 Y•
We very well remember the great county meeting
of the Anti-Corn Lew League in Huntingdon. The
decimatioa carried round by landlords and land
agents, and auctioneers, and signed and marked by
some 1,800 farmers and labourers, by way of prepa-
ration for the meeting, and before they had heard one
weed upon the 'abject, or knew anything shoat it,
pledging themselves to vote against free trade. We
remember, too, the sharp look out kept from the pro-
tectionist platform upon the crowd of farmers,
and how if one moved away, he was forth-
with ran after and brought back by some
one of a set of men posted round like shepherd dogs
to keep the flock packed close together. It WAS vain
to reason with men so pledged, and watched, and
marked. A goodly number did vote against the corn
laws ; a great many never raised their bands cue
way or the other ; tut the majority of the real far-
mers present had no freedom, dare not express any
opinion of their own, sad hence paid mall attention
and learned little from what was said.
It is, therefore, not matter for surprise that
Earl Frravritutu should find there some farmers
again gathered under the eye of these same attorneys
and land 'gents, to demand protection back, without
exactly knowing what they mean by it. Some would
have the sliding scale of 1813, which landed them in
such dire distress in 1821-27; some the slide of 182%
which brought the miseries of 1834-35 ; others the lest
amended short-lived scale of 1842, with which it was
impossible to face the potato rot and Irish famine that
set in in 1841:, ; and a few would like what
they called "the government jobbing trade," a perpe-
tual potato rot aid famine, which gave them 100 s.
a quarter in 1847. Some again would have a fixed

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 25, 1849.

-IK-, , • ITALY.
'SAPMo--ow comepondent
Nmilli
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To
talons;
plan for abeolyieg the Xing front
his talons; oath is progreseing. Fro& the pro-
vinces. I lean petitions, praying his malsety to amid
;the coostitides, are now being presented he all=
get ienlarly landowners. It may be many
will have the mertW..to rotas!
_signiegAinder the
a apißee which Observes no law bat thal
I know of so Mere whatever of the email-
Oen=lathe pelmet massent. empting that
nereal. which itill Mairis the wei4
• lhmiolder The goverarneat hes violated wog
emethldenal law sloes the closing of the
Cambers: It fixed the budget without say vets
st the Chambers ; " decrees" have stifled the imam
dthe press ; the sort of Adorns corpus of the new law
hes bean met at nosgbt; the king has failedto call the
chambers within the limited tame; and, in fact, It
maid be next to impossible for the most corrupt est
et ass to meet a national assembly after what hoe
token place. The only plan open is that adopted. ,
to frighten people into a prayer to the king for
the destruction of the name constitution. It will
be said, after theme plans are completed, that the
majority did not desire a free and open govern-
ment. h truth, this is the great game of his
Nesplitan Majesty. and I can refer to his organ
in the British press as a proof of this statement ; but
if this be the can, I ask, wby have so many arrests
Wm place for conatitadosal opinions, and why have
twortbirds of the nobility and nearly all the
re educated
ming the kingdom Ben from Naples ? cord the
weliknown facts, the reader will supply the answer.
The frisk of the " Conception of the Virgin ' was
this year celebrated in the city of Naples. His H
sm, Pio Nom, came from Portici to bless the
t
who (atter a ceremony in the royal chapel, at 1121
the king, the foreign minis emend General BMW'S,
II d'Hilliers assisted) filed off before the royal
he palm to
various lively tunes from modern operas. 'r mill-
tary had it all to themselves, as very few people
attended the ceremony.
The position of the Pope stands thus. The French
general, who is armed with diplomatic as well as
military power, still lingers in Naples to persuade his
Holiness to return to Rome. The Pope refuses
to do so unless be is promised full power. I
am informed Cardinals Antonelli and LumWsdni are
highly indignant, whilst Pius IX. is anxious to throw
himself into the arms of France. The Gaeta cams:
rills is still working hard at the President, and if
they lose the paw it is not for want of exertion. The
Spanish troops have left the Roman states, that ,is to
say, es many as the steamers would ecoommodate,
and I believe the remainder will be shipped off as
soon as 'possible. The Pope, therefore, must return
protected by French soldiers, and have the tears and
doubts of the Jesuits.

TURIN.

OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS,

SPEECH OF THE KING.
At the opening of the Chamber of Turin, on the
20th inst., the King in person addressed the parlia-
ment in the following terms :
ILT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN. KENBZU OP THE SENATE
AND Csawnaa or Dsrirriss :
The cameo which Induced me to dissolve the parliament,
and atter an appeal to the country bring me hem at present
to convoke another. cannot protium any discomfort in our

minds.
They mature ruin the only school at which we can learn
what is indispensable in political life—that of experience.
They have been the *maim of a noble example of trust
and concord between the people and its sovereign.
They have furnished the country an opportunity of proving
that it is capable of supporting its political order, and that it
is deserving of the liberties it possess,.
Our situation, which I termed serious four months ago, is
not much altered.
Our relations with friendly pmen have become more
facile than they were heretofore; and our national credit
has improved, yet the most important questions, both into
and exterior, ere still pending.
Such a situation of uncertainty would, if it were to last,
deprive us of all reputation abroad, end would disgust the
nation at home with those institutions which, while promis-
ing a good salamis. ration of public caffein and progress,would
on the contrary have arrested the latter, and have thrown
the former into disorder and confusion.
It is for you to prevent those fatal ormarqueues. There
rites within my breast a renewed and stronger trust in the
future fate of our country and of our inadtations. Tie else-
tors have listened to my voice. They eine let large numbers
to the elections. lam happy, on this solemn occasion, to be
able to testify my gratitude to them. The advantage that
they have thereby produced for the public weal I consider as I
if done to myself, and it h also more grateful to my fitellap,
as I em the more heedful of the public good than my own.
It is needless to enter upon the questions that on amount et
their urgency require an immediate solution. They are set
ficiently known to you. It only remains, therefore, for me
to recommend to your predawn their speedy settlement.
OINTLIDNN, SINATORS AND Dartrrtss
In order to strengthen that p.olifical order of ;hinge which
was instituted by King Charles Albert, my father, of august
memory, I have done what bete been in my power. But
we wish to see it shoot deep roots in the hearts and minds Si
the universality el the people, it is not suffloient for a kiss
to desire eg dhow it, if joined thereto there be not jweu
which shell dsmenstrate truly meta and beneficial :senile
in their yeesisal application.
This indlipessable sanction is henceforth confided to your
pasrlitie whicat. I remind you that there never was a
greater gawks to make use of it; and, in the name of our
sameecy. idlest we ali love so well, I beg of you to lay aside
al Ohm ommiderations, and to think of healing her bleeding
mettads, and mere her honour and safety.
The King was enthusiastically received on his pla-
nar, to the Chamber.

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