The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 31. 1851

dournot p' few exultant prognostics as to the
i fut ..:
d centurbg to assume as indisputably
mural, e minutes portions of three rough proofs
oftin) Up on census, we may, perhaps, be warranted
iiittincludidg that the leading features are correct.
The 'estimated numbers arc as follows:

No.ot
letn•

s:c._
Revues. reitener"
?sta. plwee. 1i,,,,4r=
tg.
Yaw sa ao
New nampiiik"'„... ... 2,.... 910,003 - 3 511,473 i
Konsehusetli -......--.... 994,724 ...
Cement . ...... ....:,2,4..4 5k;433/ . -
lulfiteigli...... II ..35 ....... I 34,379
3 91 3119
onsonirat ..... ........... 970,913 -.....2 ...
New York ...... ---.......2,096,679
New ier5q....... 489,683 . „Id 24,019
re_Boo94Bala ............«».. 9.941,900341,204 ..... -
OW - .... - 2 23,241
ladliaa
88134,3•203 203 '9ll
- ... .. . .
Ml= .. ......... -.......... 307,5.. 6 -...... .....- .4 072
11l
MU 0
lowa ,„ ....... 191,000 - ...... ..-,.. 5,644
e. 144.11 -...................... 9°'lll' .W. 315 74 Ilt"9181
SI
V=i ........7.- 494 3 IRV ,
201,000 460,000 1,210680 1 4,712
N. War ....-....-..-- 460.000 286.000 6,1,000 013,914
S. Cmodles. -.. . ...... - 201.• 00 850010 491,000 20.0
833.000 363,0,0 774,000 "3 .2
ir45,000 21,000 38,209
Alalimia. 440,000 330,000 639,000 79,991
lawnipoi au,:e, 320,000 49 •,000 26,1,6
Loaliass
Texas lOO.OO 30,800 13.,000 36.821
A7b4r..
Ithroarl 590,000 91.347 614,926 83,872
Tosatime
Keutocky ..............782,000 211,010 903,600 731,017
velum,

Free. Slaws.
Free States .
6,291,934 3,037,234
blare States
District and Territories

3,170,731
The entire repremmtatiee population is about
21,710,000. The ratio of representation will be
about 93,176.
And as by the law of May, IKiO, the number of
members to be returned to Congress is fixed at 233,
the distribution of these among the six-and-twenty
states of the coufederacy will make upon the whole
a difference of four votes in favour of the free and
against the slave-holdin' states. Some of each class
gain, and several of both base representative* under
the new census; but the probable results are said to
be, that while the free states gain six new members
and lose four of their old ones, the slave states gain
but four additional and are deprived of six.
The change at first sight may appear to be incon-
siderable, but its importance is in tact inestimable.
Hitherto the balance in the lower house of the
federal legislature has long been considered so
doubtful as to render every vote into which the
question of abolition was suspected, however re-
mutely, of entering, exceedingly precarious. Neither
party would admit itself the weaker, and neither
could make good its claim to permanent superiority
of numbers. But a lasting withdrawal of two votes
from the south and the lasting addition of two votes

FRANCE.

to the north is a serious matter.
Not many days since we showed that what slavery
is to the United States, our religious dissensions are
to England. The important part of our census, then,
will be that of which we find no mention in the re-
turn demanded of each head of a household, but
which is to be gathered from answers to queries put
to the pastors of different religions. This, indeed,
will be an important return.

TUE more the story of the Taunton convent is
probed the worse it looks. Let us begin by
adverting to circumstances of which the Romania
side of the question might have taken advantage,
but of which they have not dared to avail them-
selves. It is an awkward circumstance that the
mother of Miss Taman should have been separated
from her husband, and that she should have con-
tracted a second marriage only two months after his
death. That the late Mr. Tatum should have
allowed his daughter to remain with her mother, is,
however, sufficient to warrant the belief that the
separation was owing solely to incompatibility of
temper, having its origin possibly in the diffbrenee
of creed. The hasty second marriage is somewhat
repulsive to our Isnosscois conscience; and the refe-
rence in a petition presented to the court by
the late Mrs. BERKELEY, to the advantage
which her son might derive from becoming a
Protestant convgs no very favourable idea
either of her judgment or temper. All these
considerations, however, are utterly irrelevant to the
proceedings now under discussion. The imputations
respecting Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEI's motives are too
palpably groundless and too contemptible to deserve
a moments attention.
}laving thus disposedof the protestant parties to the
question, let us now look to the conduct of the Humanists.
The late Mr. TALBOT appointed his spiritual di-
rector guardian to his children, and left all his per-
sonal property to the reverend gentleman. I low
much that amounted to has been carefully concealed.
The property of tho children, which has now come to
vest in Miss TALBOT alone, is estimated to amount to
WPM/. Almost the first step taken by the reverend
heir and guardian was to attempt to separate the
daughter from her mother. This he attempted to do
before he was aware of the latter's somewhat hasty
second marriage, without assigning any sufficient
ground for the separation ; and it was accompanied
be misrepresentations as to the state of the child's
gealth. In this proceeding he was abetted by the
Earl and Countess of Siinewsuelor. On the death
of the mother the Court of Chancery recognised the
rights of the guardian on the understanding that
the earl and countess were to take charge of the
child.
As far as yet appears the earl and countess
seem to have paid no attention to the child whatever
till the spring of 1850. Miss TALBOT, with her high
descent and large fortune was consigned to a convent
for her education. The cost of her maintenance and
education there was about half the sum allowed by
the Court of Chancery ; it indicates a style of educa-
tion quite inconsistent with her worldly prospects;
except during one brief visit to Alton 'lowers the
young lady was kept mewed up in her convent. All
this looks very like a predetermination to make a
nun of her.
In 18.10 the girl of 18 years was suddenly trans-
planted from her dull and narrow conventual existence
to the world of fashion. No sooner had she emerged
into this new sphere than attempts were made to
dispose of her in marriage. pier reverend guardian
had some Englishman in view fur her ; her uncle and
aunt wished to bestow her and her fortune on a cadet
of the house of LA ROCHEFOUCAULT. The young lady
did not submit to be made a mere psssive instrument
of the plans and combinations of others. She re-
fused to become the wife either of the English or the
French candidate for her hand. Immediately the
interest taken in her by her noble relatives cooled,
and she was left to herself.
Secluded as she had been from the society even of
relations. the girl, yet in her teens, whistled off by
the Earl and Countess of SHREWSBURY, had no one
to consult but her ecclesiastical guardian. Shrink-
ing from a (to her) strange and unaccustomed world,
the idea of returning to the only home she had
known since her mother's death naturally presented
itself to her. To this there were great objections.
The Court of Chancery was nut likely to approve of
such an arrangement. The regulations of the con-
vent prohibited her being admitted as a resident.
Not only was this step objectionable in itself ; there
were grave obstacles in the way of carrying it out.
That these obstacles should have been overcome or
evaded betrays a predetermination in some quarter
that the step should be taken.
She was smuggled into the convert in contraven-
tion of an existing order of Chancery. and without
any application having been made to get a new one.
'She was led to believe that she could only be ad-
mitted into the convent on assuming the character of
a postulant. She assumed that character, but, ns she
herself has declared, on the understanding that it
was a Mere matter of form, and without any inten-
tion of becoming a nun. What passed within the
convent walls is unknown, and may possibly never
be revealed ; but some facts have been placed upon
record to which we now request attention.
Miss TALBOT denies that she was intended to be-
come a nun. On the contrary, the superior of the
suavest told Mr. BERKELET [hilt Miss TALBOT was
"as likely to become a nun as not, The so-called
Bishop colCueros has gone further he has declared
that Miss TALBOT earnestly prayed .co be allowed to
become a nun. Hr. Dusts admits that he heard " that
some such notion bad passed through her mind, and
that she was wavering." All three confess that they
deemed it highly probable Miss T.t.Luar would mil

SWITZERLAND.

SPAIN.

by becoming a nun ; and they all pretend to have lof the proclamation of the republic on May 4, was , sitting to-day, and erttrtuins serious interai,
I •
attempted to dissuade her from the intention—en in- ' yesterday presented to the Assembly by the Minister . proposing the sale of the municipal property
P
tendon which we have her own authority for stating of the, Interior, and urgency demaniled on it.
egamas has presented to the 1 lkl. Lopez Ballasteros has been elect( d pre
she never entertained. There is only one possible
interpretation of all this: it was resolved that Miss Pn.i.slildee.lnitaonflitilitsedleteNp.arilddic hrts' credentials as Envoy , and M. Domenech secretary, to the amnia.,
TALBOT should not only appear to be, but should be, Extraordinary and tnistFPlenipotentiary of her ! puties and senators named to superintend the
don of the debt.
a postulant. And the end to be attained by thus in- Majesty the Clucen of Spain. .
veigling her is frankly admitted by the person call- The President ----
Ling himself Bishop of GiaFrosi : it was, that the Minister of Marine, has just nominated a corn-
her of the Republic, on the report of
fortruse might go to enrich the Romish mince of 15 persons to consider the best means of
' church in England, which he alleges to be very poor. transforming the punishment of hard labour at the
1 .
Mr. HENDREN stands convicted by his own admission, 1 hulks, so as to render it of service to French cooiittisnos-
of having deliberately contemplated this consumma-Ition. Admiral de Muckan is the president of
tion; Dr. DOYLE and Miss JERNINGHAM of having committee, and Admiral Ceedle vice-president.
at least connived at ttl the Earl and Countess of SUNDAY EVENING.
SHREWSBURY of having, after their attempt at mar- I mentioned on Friday having received from a re-
riage-brokering was frustrated, abandoned their , liable source the intelligence that Odilon Barret
niece to the machinations of the ecclesiastical trio.
And it is admitted that Miss TALBOT was debarred had accepted the mission of forming a definitive
cabinet. I stated previously that M. Pussy was M.
from intercourse not only with her father-in-law but Barrot's financial minister in reel°. These reports
with her only sister. have since become pretty rife in the press. It is not
Without undervaluing the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, yet known if M. Baroche enters this combination,
it is clear that there are evils it cannot touch ; tan-
gible evils that the state can and ought immediately nor what becomes of M. Waisse if he do not make a
part of the ministry of solution. M. de Germiny re-
to grapple with. A more stringent and comre-
bemire law of mortmain is needed ; a turns to take possession of his post of receiver-general
- aw at Rouen. M. Hendon, minister of war, hopes to
on the subject of death-bed testamentary
quests is needed ; a law to suppress, or, if that be
be" replace General d'Hautpoul, whose temporary ap-
pointment will soon expire. M. Giraud re-enters the
impossible, to regulate and control, conventual esta-
blishments, is needed. But, above all, the introduc- council of public instruction, to devote himself to the
ex urgation of \ irgil and Euripides. M. Brenicr
of tiona pervading and sufficient system of secular
instruction is needed. Religious liberty implies full will nn doubt fall back upon his post of head-clerk in
the ministry of foreign affairs.
power to every individual to adopt and adhere to M. Berrycr made yesterday a desperate effort to
that religion to which free conviction attaches him.
But free choice in this matter is impossible so long as trumpet the merits of financial companies. The
phrase most noted in his speech was, that it is the
the system of propagandism is substituted for intel- duty of the state "de faire le sort des compagnies
lectual training. Priests and clergymen of all fleets
bone' that is, to put money into the pockets of the
seek so to develop the understanding as to companies.
prepare it to cling to their creed. It is the T 6 speech of M. Bineau was that which grapp;ed
duty of the state, while leaving parents and
their spiritual guides free to instruct children most closely with the depicts of the plan of MM.
Rance and Laborde, which, he said, was not. only
in their peculiar religious tenets, to ensure to the
children such a development of their judgment and founded on the bad principle of execution by the
state, but fettered with conditions which had been
reasoning powers as will enable theta in mature
tried and proved detestable.
years to choose among. the numerous creeds whose .
fhe Strasbourg railway had been conceded to two
contending claims divide society. The undertaking companies, a company of execution, and another of
no doubt us difficult. The priests and devotees of al exploitation, in the same way, and what was the
sects oppose it. The congregations represented by consequence ? The two companies had been at law
Mr. 11 its:Es are as hostile to it as the Synod of
Thurles, or the Rev. Mr. DENsilsoN. But their with each other for 10 years, and had only just ter-
opposition must be defied and overcome, if common minated their dispute by a compromise.
The arguments in favour of a financial company,
sense, sound manly morality, and true spiritual
or against the treas
religion are to have fair play. And we believe the ury undertaking the work on its
own account, amount briefly to this: 200 millions of
time has come when a government clear-sighted
enough to we its duty, and courageous enough to francs are wanted to terminate the railway from
undertake it, would be zealously and effectively sup- Paris to Avignon. Thus the state would lave to
disburse, supposing the works to occupy four years,
ported by an overwhelming majority of the cola-
.50 millions each year. Where are these 21)0 mil-
munity. lions to be got ? By a loan ; but who, in the
present state of the examiner, will have the courage
to propose such a loan. Besides, the state will take
ten years instead of four to construct the line.
ACcording to the Rance plan, the state will have to
pay the company of construction ; but then it bor-
rows the funds from a company, which accepts us
security for repayment a lease of the line. In what,
say the members on the Right of the Chamber, does
this system differ from execution by the state ? (In
the oilier hand, the predilections of the Lett are all in
favour of the treasury undertaking these works on
its own account.
The parliamentary committees sat yesterday to
examine the project of the government as to the
creation of seven new electric telegraph lines. Sonic
dissatisfaction was expressed that the important line
front Paris to Marseilles should not have been in-
, eluded, and several members expressed a wish that
' the proposition of M. Coitus, deposed some days
since, should be referred to the committee, who
would decide if it would not be better to take this
proposition as the basis of the project which should
6 discussed by the Assembly. This project has fur
its object the establishment of telegraphic lines
uniting the great centres of maritime commerce, and
giving especially to the merchants of Bounleaux and
Marseilles the advantages at present enjoyed by
those of Havre, Rouen, and Nantes.
The Union has published an extract from an un-
published work of M. de Vainly, which has excited
much attention. This extract states that on the
night of the 31st July, 1030, the Duke of Orleans
wrote a letter to Charles X., then at Trianon, in
which he engaged himself and family, in case he
were called to the throne, to exercise his sovereign
power only temporarily. Thc original of this docu-
ment appears to be in the possession of the Duke of
Bordeaux. It is as follows :
M. de will inform your Majesty in what manner I
have been brought here by force. I know not to what ex-
tent these pi ople may use violence as respects me ; but if in
this fearful disorder it should happen that they should im-
pose on me a title to which I have never aspired, your ma-
jesty may be amused that I shall only exercise every kind
of power temporarily and solely for the interests of our
house. I enter into this engagement fonnally with your
Majesty. My family partakes my sentiments in this respect.
(Signed) FIDEI.O Sty Er.
Palais Royal, 31st July, 1530.
M. Granier de Cassagnae launches, in the Contra-
tailwind, an anathema against conspiring refugees,
and, referring to the interpellattons of Lords
Lyndhurst and Aberdeen Gil (ILIA subject, concludes
his article with these words :—" Que Londres soit
l'asile du conimunisme, suit ; mais l'Europe ne pout
pas tolerer lu'il en soit la eitadelle."
Twenty German refugees, expelled from Switzer-
land, have arrived at Mulhouse on the 25th, en route
for America by Havre. Between this and the 4th
April other bodies of refugees will follow them.
The journal Le Vnte Untreenel, which has been sus-
pended-fur a month, will not, it is said, again re-appear.
Amongst the three sous-prefects culled to other
functions in the last change M. Grave is conspicu-
ous. M. Grave is the functionary who had the folly
to vouch for the perfect authenticity of the pretended
miracle of St. Saturnia, and whose extra-lyric decla-
mation was published in the Constitution/fa. M.
Grave wished to surpass his leaders. Ile has fallen
from excess of zeal.
A committee was chosen yesterday in the bureaux
to examine the usual annual demand of a sum
amounting to 200,(StOfr., for the celebration of the
4th May. anniversary of the proclamation of the re-
public. Most of the bureaux pronounced in favour of
the grant, which will pass the Assembly without
difficulty.
The committee on the street-sale of newspapers
had presented its report, which I have already in-
formed you is in favour of the proposition of M.
Base, for interdicting equally the sale of all in that
manner.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENINO.
The result of the Assembly sitting to-day was im-
portant. It agreed to take the proposition of MM.
Itanat and Laborde on the Avignon Railway into
consideration, and decided that it should be referred
to a special committee. The first question was voted
by asses et /eye; on the second there was a majority
off' 349 against 30. i. As the government pronounced
yesterday through M. Magne against a special com-
mittee, it has been defeated on this question. As to
the taking into consideration of the motion, it is true
that the final approbation does not follow us a matter
of course, and yet this preliminary approbation is
the hest earnest of success.
M. Pussy has been chosen by 16 votes out of 19
reporter on the budget of expenses.
flee Municipal 13111 Committee has decided that
the electors of a commune should in general not
vote by sections, but that the division of a commune
into electoral sections may, be established by decree
of the prefect with the advice of the council-general,
the municipal and cantonal councils having been
previously consulted.
The government several months ago referred all
the propositions relative to the Avignon railway to
the superior committee of railways. The conclusions
of this committee were transmitted a few days
buck to M. Magne, this minister of public works.
M. Magne announced yesterday in the chamber that
in the course of a week not only his bill but the re-
port upon it might be presented to the Assembly, so
that the views of the government cannot fail to be
tqieedily known on this subject. In the meantime I
understand that the plan proposed by the superior
committee is as follows :—Concession of the line from
Pails to Lyons 14 a term of Pt) years ; guarantee of
5 per cent.; reimbursement to the state of the sums
expended since the close of 1846, that is of between
42 and 46 millions, together with payment of a sum
'
of 50 millions, in 14 annuities, with interest of 4 lee
cent. reckoned from the day of concession. As
to the 40 millions, the company would have to
pay down in cash 15 millions, and the rest by
degrees regulated by the advancement of the works
on the line front Lyons to Avignon. The company
would not be held to finish the section from Chalon
to Lyons before five years. Such is the first part of
the committee's plan ; as to the second, concerning
the line from Lyons to Avignon, the committee pro-
poses to allow the company a subvention of 50 mil-
lions (the companydeinands 60 millions), a guarantee
of 3 per cent. on 30 millions besides, and a lease of 99
pears . The intention of the government, in M.
Fould's time, was nut to hand over to the Ach,nion
Company all the funds of indemnity which it re-
ceived from the company of the Lyons line, but to
reserve to itself the disposal of those funds and com-
mence the Avignon section at the expense of
the treasury. It is not known whether thin
intention is maintained by the present ca-
binet ; but it is certain that such views are
strongly opposed by the committee. Such are the
outlines of the bill which the government is occupied
in examinimr, and which will be submitted, if not
identically the same, at least unchanged in its essen-
tial features, to the Assembly.
' The plan of MM. Laborde and Rance, at present
under discussion, was combated yesterday by M.
Magne and defended by M. Crunieux.
In the Assembly's sitting of to-day, the debate on
the Avignon Itailway was resumed. by M. Berrver,
who strenuously opposed the proposition of MM.
ltance and Laborde. He maintained that they
ought not to grudge a company a long lease, and
cited the example of England. As for the agiotage
objected to, the present motion would not
prevent that ; neither would it secure the
execution or the completion of the railway.
'lm.xiCremieux said that the settled opinion of M. !kr-
ryer was a new proof that they ought not to refer the
proposition to a committee which had made up its
mind beforehand to reject it. M. Bireau said that if ----
the proposition were adopted, it would occasion to BERNE, Msacii 26.
the state great disappointments, in the presence of The commissary-general sent to Tessin has pro-
which both the company of execution and the con- posed to remove all the refugees who are in that
pony of exploitation ought fail in performing their canton to the other side of the Alps. 'f he popular
engagements. Besides, there was no sufficient mo- Assembly held yesterday at Schonbrunnen was emo-
tive to induce the company of execution to furnish' posed of nearly 2,000 rrsons ; they voted with some
good work. After M. Betting dc Lancastat, the re-; modifications the Socialist programme, protesting
porter, had summed up, the assembly agreed by a i however against all charge of communism. Before
vote by oasis et lee, to take the proposition into con-leeparating, they appointed a committee to present to
sideration ; and afterwards decided, by 349 votes the grand council of the canton a petition in con-
against 305, that it should be referred to a special formity with the programme. The govern-
conunittee. I meat of Friburg has uised a proclamation
The Mositeur publishes under its official head the giving an account of the late engagement.
motived order of the day proposed by M. de It calls the peasants "a band of factious per-
Vatimesnil and adopted by the Assembly in its sit- sons," and state* that the attempt was excited by the
ting of yesterday. The meaning of this is simply to dissolved clergy, that it was intended to put to death
exhibit the importance attached to this vote by M. not only the adversaries of the present government,
Dupin, to whose orders the insertion is attributed. but all 'the partizans of the ancient government.
In the meantime, notwithstanding the clear and un- .; The Swiss Federal Council has addressed a circular
equivocal pledges repeated by M. Waisse in the to all the confederated states, informing them of the
name of the government, the abstention of the Rona- events which have recently taken place at Friburg,
partists from the ballot, and their assertions that the and calling their attention to the necessity of observ.
declarations of M. Waisse could not pledge the Pre- ing the strictest surveillance to prevent a recur--
sident of the Republic, leave the question exactly in of such scenes in their several localities.
the same state as before.
In fact there is no real importance to be attached I
to the vote of yesterday. It does not alter in the
least the state of the electoral question. The Left I
renewed their
.protest against the law of May, and
the majority wished, by adopting M. de Vatimesnil's
order of the day, to make a demonstration of their
adhesion to the' same law ; for the approbation of
Andrea de Kendrefs report was an implicit recog-
nition of the applicability of the law of May to the
President's election. On this account the names of
two or three leading Bonapartists, such as MM.
Gavini, Edgar :Vey, and de Moskowa, are to be found
in the minority 0(21.
M. Dupla nas got a month's leave of absence from
his presidential chair. His coop' terminates on
May LI.
A. bill demanding an extraordinary credit of
200,000 f. for the celebration of the third anniversary

onti of
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.4ident,
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opera*

ROME, MA nen 21,

GERMANY.

MADRID, MARCH 25.

The Gazette contains the dismissal of General
O'Donnell from the post of Inspector-General of
Infantry which devolves upon General Cordova.
General Cordova is succeeded in his office of Captain-
General of Madrid by General Pezuela. General
Prim's appointment to succeed Pezuela as Captain-
General of Puerto Rico, although not gazetted, is
I also certain. _

A Russian adjutant-general has had an audience of
the Queen. The :sonic was occupied with the bill
for the levy of 35,000 men. The Chamber of Depu-
ties had entered upon the discussion of the bill for
the settlement of the debt.

The committee on the oettlement of the debt held a

A telegraphic despatch announces the arrival of
the Emperor of Austria at Venice on the 27th. The
patent making that city a free harbour was iimted on
the same day. The leavily-smitten city preserves
its pride, even in misfortune, and to the last refused
toinvite its foreign ruler. The restoration to tho
city of the privileges of a free harbour is attributed
to the representations of Marshal ltudetzky, who
sees clearly the importance of attaching the Vene-
tians to Austria by ties of interest. It is said that a
conference between the young Emperor and the Kin
of Naples will take place, in which the relations of
the Peninsula to France and Piedmont will be
discussed.

It is reported that the famous brigzind, 11 Pasco-
tore, was killed by a body of gendarmes in tho
neighbourhood of ltuspi, ltomagna.

Letters from Berlin state that the last Prus,ian
note to the Austrian cabinet contains a proposition

to constitute the central power by appt-Onting tivo
factors, with seven votes, of which two are to be
held permanently by Austria and Prussia, and the
others alternately by the remaining states. The
best that can be said of this project is, that it is more
favourable to the smaller states than was the last.
This note to the court of Vienna is said by
the Note Preussisehe ituu9 to be an ultimatum.
A few days ago the Prussian commandant of Cassel
wished to celebrate the birth-day of the Prince
of Prussia by a review of the Prussian troops
stationed there. The I lessian governor of the town
required, however, that the Prussian commandant
should he responsible for " any demonstration of po-
pular feeling' that might take place. The comman-
dant declined this responsibility, whereupon the re-
view was countermanded. " That government," says
the Promisehe Zeiitiny, "must be in very ill odour
which fears that honour dune to a royal house, •
near ally, may tltruw disgrace upon itself."
The circulation of the pamphlet called " Tho
Dresden Conferences" has been interdicted at Vienna.
The Austrian Limit! is indignant that the smaller
states have resorted to this mode of stating their
case to Germany, and hopes that the arrow shot by
the Gotha party may return and wound themselves.
M. Matiteuffel is also griotly irritated ut the publi-
cation: his organ, the Promise& Z itony declares
that the document " can only have been made
public either by a criminal bmach of official trust, or
by an act of downright theft. Those who encourage
such acts are not much better thatt those who com-
mit them; but in due time they will find their re-
compense."
The Belgian treaty of commerce with the Zoll-
vcrein is prolonged ftw a year.
Our correspondent referring, it will be seen, to the
ultimatum spoken of above, writes:

BERLIN, MARCIE 28.
The Krell.: Zeirung attaches the character of an ulti-
matum to the last Prussian despatch to the Vienna cabinet.
A former letter of mine sketched the outlines of the on
gunisatien of liermany which it 'imposes, and 1 am utterly
at a loss to understand upon what grounds the reactionary
journal, which is usually very careful in the use of terms,
' can call the despatch an ultimatum. My information
due's not allude to any expressed determination on
the part of the Prussian government to return to
the Bundestag, by deputing a plenipotentiary to
Vienna, toles the Prussian propositions are accepted.
On the contrary, I am led to believe, that on the most
points the Austrian government will cordially approve of
those propositions, and that the only exception will be the
parity demanded by Prussia in the proposed executive
college of live with nine votes. On this point the negotiate
thins will be continued until some kind of sham parity is
discovered with which to put off Prussia ; ftr no one
imagines that Austria will consent to place Prussia on an
equal footing with herself. Nor is it true that the
Prussian government bargains with Austria respecting tho
admission into the confederation of all the Austrian pro-
vinces. Herr von hinnteulfel consents to this, and will not
join in any opposition even to the admission of the Loin-
banbeVenettan provinees. The tiro,. %M my is rather
anxious about the question of the right of making
peace and war, and fears that Austria will not
renounce the exercise of that right independent of the
confederation, and that Prussia with her allies will bo
unable, even if she dues, to outvote her upon such a point in
the federal Assembly.
The First Chamber has commenced its sittings in the
concert room of the theatre, which is described as very un-
comfortable. The business transacted yesterday referred to
the introduction of a class and clasilied income tax. The de-
hate which anise on the bill for the purpose produced two fea-
tures of interest,the first being the fact that,as in England,tho
income tax is proposed and adopted to make up deficient re-
, venue, and at the same time to :Owlish old and incommialious
taxes. Such at least was the original proposition reqa..ete
ing its introduction. The meal and meat taxes (mina)
were to be abolished, and a 3 per cent. tax levied on all
incomes above 1,000 Oaten, sad ;idlest:ix on all persons pos.
sowing incomes less than that amount. The progress of timo,
however, and the increasing wants of the state, have super-
. induced the necessity of maintaining the meal and meat
, taxes, as well as imposing the income tax. The other fea-
ture of interest was the banding together of the landlord
party to maintain the privilege of exemption front the pay-
meat of taxes, which exemption was decreed in March,
- 1818. The landlords carried their will; their privileges
were regranted, and the chamber sanctioned the imposition
t. of the income and the maintenance of the meal and meat
_ tax.