The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1847.

it would appear, have not escaped the notice of the
Irish gentlemen who are now moving in the matter of
emigration. In the letter which accompanied their
memorial to Lord Joust Russeu., they intimate that
their scheme contemplates—systematic colonisation
from Ireland to Canada on a large scale, and with
government assistance : provision to be made for the
religious wants of the settlers; and the agency of pri-
vate enterprise in carrying out the plan.
When their memorial, with all the details of their
scheme, is published, we shall be in a condition to form
a judgment u to its practicability. Meanwhile, we
may express our concurrence in these its cardinal
principles. And wo may add that the memorialists'
expression of " willingness to accept an income and
property tax, for the purpose of defraying the cost of
the emigration," speaks volumes in favour of their
earnestness and honesty of purpose.

The Debats of Wednesday has another article on
the subject of free trade. The present suspension
of all restriction upon foreign commerce in pro-
, visions will cease on the 31st July. The object of
ministers is, by means of the press, to bring
public opinion to bear upon the chamber, so as to
enable them to carry a law continuing the present
suspension of all commercial restrictions until the 31st
July, 1848, and to do this at once, without waiting
for any further results as to the quality or quantity of
the next harvest. The ministerial argument is shortly
this. It is assumed as an incontestable fact, that the
potato crop of the present year will be almost nothing.
This is proved by the fact, that no potatoes are being
sown. The usual amount produced annually of this
article of food is above 100 millions of hectolitres,
a quantity equal to the amount of grain produced
in France. It is affirmed that no crop planted
in spring can, on the surface left vacant by
the potato, produce anything near the same alimentary
resources. The corn crop must therefore be sulfa-
' ciently superabundant to cover thedeficiency in the
potato crop, to suppose which would be to anticipate
a harvest altogether without precedent. A large im-
portation would thus be indispensable. But such an
importation cannot be hoped for through the ordinary
operations of commerce without due notice. The
transit only would occupy a long period. It may
be assumed that three millions and a half of quarters
will be wanted. This would fall 800,000 tons of
shipping, which at the average magnitude of vessels
would employ from three to four thousand ships.
Bach is the fact, and such the inferences put forth
by the French government, as their justification for
the intended appeal to the chambers to continue free
trade, not only in corn, but in every species of ali-
mentary provisions.
L' Union Monarehique says, that the correspond-
ence between the court of the Tuileries, and the cabi-
net of Madrid, is more active than ever. It is feared
on both sides that the natural progress of events will
lead to a complication with England. The Duchess de
Montpenaier will leave Paris for Madrid next month,
preparatory to her accoudiernent in that capital, as
heiress presumptive of the throne. The duke will, of
course, accompany her, and as she will take the rank
of a Spanish princess, he will assume that of Prince
come.

We have received the Madrid despatches and jour-
nals of the 26th alt.
The ministerial embarrassments still continue.

Although the present ministers command a large majo-
rity in both chambers, they acknowledge, both per-
sonally and through their organs of the press, that
they are surrounded with difficulties almost insur-
mountable, and that their stability can only be insured
by strengthening their ranks with recruits from all
shades of their party, and, above all, by receiving une-
quivocal manifestations of the confidence of the crown.
The admission implied in the last condition tells the
wholestory of thepreeenterisis. Tee truth is,theQaeen
desiresto obtain the resignation of the cabinet; the minis-
ters are unwilling to give it, and if they did, a difficulty
would still remain to find ministers who would ven-
ture to accept office with a majority of the present
chamber against them, and the consequent necessity of
a dissolution and a new election,which under existing
circamstaaces might be hazardous. Nevertheless, re-
ports were generally spread that it was probable that
M. Salamanca would take othi e, and succeed in fu: ur
ing a practicable ministerial c unbination. On the
25th the Minister of the Interior proposed in the
chamber a project of law nape( Log the • in corn.
Rumours continued to be ret tired of .dit move •
ments in the provinces.
The works on the railway from (tom to
Mataro were to be immediately reaumci
La Patrie, Paris journal, mentions "4. report that
General Serrano has succeeded in let ring Madrid,
and that he was expected at Bayonne.

CONSTANTINOT )(Arum IS.

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H.M. steamer Heat arrived here en the 11th inst.
from Greece with &apaches froir Sir E. Lyons for
the Hon. Mr. Wellesley. The F rench steam-frigate
Cuvier left the Piraeus four hours after the Heck, ~ud
arrived in the Golden Horn on .1 o 13th inst. The
envier was the bearer of despatches for M. de Bow,
ciumez, and also of one from M. Coletti to M.
polos, the Greek Chargé d'Affaires at Cowden-
' irinVe.- MM. Coletti and Piscatory found. it every
day more difficult to maintain the position they had
taken up ; and they were completely isolated as far
as regarded the corps cliplomatique. Habit might
have rendered a man who had gone through such a
career as Coletti, insensible to aversion or con-
tempt, but the French envoy had sufficient amour-
propre to feel keenly the sentiments so openly mani-
fested by his colleagues. By the advice of M. Pla-
catory, therefore, Coletti determined on changing the
' colour without altering the spirit, of his resistance
to the demand of the Porte. In this view he wrote
to M. Argeyropolos, with instructions that his
despatch should be communicated to Ali Effendi,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In this communi-
cation, which is as uncomfortable in its tone as
clumsy in its conception, M. Coletti tries to separate
M. Mumma from his official capacity, and grounds his
refusal to comply with the wiehea of the Porte on
personal rather than political motives. He adds that
popular feeling is an strong against M. Muslim,
that it would be impossible for hint to adopt any
measure which might be construed into an amoral
of the conduct of the Turkish envoy ; but that if the
Porte will consent to send another representative, he
will do all, and even more, than is required by the
Ottoman government. The Grand Vizier assured one
of the representatives of the five great powers, who
had an interview with him on this subject, that the
Porte was determined to reject in tots the proposition
of M. Coletti, and to adhere to its original demand.
If the Turkish government were to comply with
the proposal of the Greek minister, it would
be an unequivocal condemnation of its own conduct.
The proceedings of M. Mumma, as they had
been authorised, were naturally approved of by the
Porte from the very commencement. He refused a
to the ex-bandit, Tamathasao, because he
Cadirxr express orders to that effect; and he afterwards.
demanded his passports, and returned to Constan-
tinople, in compliance with instructions from his
government. The recall of M. Muenrus was approved
of, if indeed it were not proposed, by the emnants-
tires of the five great powers, who saw in his pet-
ters at the king's ball, a treacherous trick on the
part of Coletti, and in the expressions addressed by
his Majesty to the representative of Turkey, a gross
and unmerited insult, which nothing could have war-
ranted. The despatches of the Russian, Austrian,
and Prussian envoys to their colleagues at Athens,
exist in written testimony of this fact

ITALY.—RoME, MARCH 19.—A private letter re-
ceived from Leghorn brings news from Rome to the above
date. The alarm and agitation created by the establishment
of the censorship, have been considerably tranquillised by
the character of the individuals who are to exercise its
functions. Contrary to what was expected, the board is
composed cliitfly of the laity and of individuals known for
their enlightened and moderate opinions. They are the
Marquis Autici, the Abb6 Coppi, and MM. Matti and Vaa-
-1 masa, the latter a lawyer.
-LEGHORN, MARCH 20.—The report of an intended
intervention by Austria in Tuscany is daily becoming more
certain. This intention is said to be to land 2000 Austrians
in Elba, which is part of the territory of the duchy of Tux
tiny, so that they may be brourcht into the Italian territory
at a moment's notice. In Piedmont, Tuscany, and the
Roman states, the most lively apprehensions are entertained,
and it is feared that, notwithstanding his enlightened end
liberal opinions and intentions, Pius IX. will not long be
able to resist the Austrian influence, especially as that in-
fluence is, to say the least, connived at by M. Cluisot and his
colleagues.
OEHMANY.—Aosrats.—The dividends on the
Austrian Kaieer-Ferdinands-Nord-bahn, which, in 1844,
were 4i per cent., have been fixed at 8 per cent. for 1846.

It is generally assorted that Count Munich Bellinghsuaen
intends resigning the double funedons of Austrian minister
to the Diet, and president of that assembly, and that he is to
he appointed Minister of the Interior in the Austrian domi-
nions. Ills successor at Frankfort has not been named.
PRAGUE, MARGIT 14. FOOD RIOTS. Several
mannfecturen having been obliged to dismiss a number of
their workmen, the latter, reduced to a state of famine,
attacked and plundered divers bakers shops in the town.
Sit handled artisans sent a deputation to the burgomaster,
to beg of him to alleviate their distress. The result has been
that the cotton manufacturers have engaged to pay a
certain sum weekly for the support of workmen out of em-
ploy. All workmen, not natives of Prague, or who have
worked in that city for less than three months, are ordered
to leave it immediately.
MADAGASCAR.—The Moniteur, Paris official
journal, denies the truth of a statement made by the Journal
an Havre (and copied by us) to the effect that the island of
Nossihd was to have been evacuated iu December last. No
such step has been taken, nor have the authorities of Bour-
bon or Mayotti received any instructions towards carrying
such a measure into effect.
EASTERN AItCHIPELAGO.—Duren SErnz-
mst4Ts.—At Bali, it is stated that the hostile feeling of the
princes who have lately been vanquished still continues.
Entrenchments have been thrown up near the Dutch fort at
Belding; the intercourse between the inhabitants and the
garrison of that fort had been suspended. The health of the
Dutch troops was bad, so that it was necessary often to re.
Ikea them. The fort was in a perfect state of defence
against any attack from the natives. Attempts made by the
Balinese emissaries to excite the princes of Lornbek against
the Netherlands government had tailed. Ecaieraries had also
been sent to Singapore ; but the Balish authorities seemed
to have given them to understand that they could expect no
aid from that quarter, and that their wisest course would be
quietly to conform to the treaty which had been concluded.
The Prince of Belding was busy in repairing his palace,
which was destroyed during the late expedition, being urged
by the popular belief that if it were not inhabited for more
than one year, the whole of the prince's family would become
extinct.—Dutch Paper, March 31.

ef)! ealln.
WINDSOR, TBITBBDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked this morning on the Eastern Terrace and
slopes of the Castle. Their RR.HH. the Prince of Wales
and the Princess Royal took walking and pony exercise this
morning in the grounds adjacent to the castle. Lieut.-
Col. F. H. Seymour has arrived at the castle, and has
relieved Col. Bouverie in the duties of Equerry-in-waiting I
to his R.H. Prince Albert.
A deputation from trke-r-eneral body of dissenting
ministers of the three denominations on the subject of the
government scheme of education, had an interview with
Lord J. Russell yesterday at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.
Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki left
town yesterday on a short visit to Brighton.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) was
better yesterday. His Lordship received a deputation front
the dissenting body at Lansdowne House.
The Right Hon. F. Milner Gibson (Vice-President
of the Board of Trade) was sufficiently recovered yesterday
from his recent illness to attend at the Board of Trade.
A deputation to the First Lord of the Treasury
from a Public Meeting of Protestant Dissenters and of the
Friends of Sunday School Instruction, held at Finsbury
Chapel, Leaden on March 19. on the subject of the Minutes
of the Cominitteit of Council on Education, had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday.
The Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, has left town.—The Earl of Minto has left town
for Scotland.—Viscount Morpeth left town yesterday morn-
ing.—The Right Hon. Sir G. Grey and Lady Grey have left
town, for Fallodon, Northumberland.--Lord Campbell has
left town.—The Right lion. E. Strutt and Mrs. Strutt left
town, yesterday, for their residence, Kingston, near Derby.
—The llarquis of Clanriearde has left town.
Despatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colo-
miss.
l)ivine Service was performed yesterday (Maundy
Thursday) in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Bishop
of London afterwards confirmed some of the juvenile
nobility.
The Royal Minor Bounty and Gate Alms were dis-
tributed to the aged and peer on Monday and Tuesday, to
upwards of 1,000 persons, in sums varying in amount from
51. to 13a, and 31. The number of blind very much increased
on the present cassion.
Yesterday the Royal Maunday was distributed at
Whitehall Chapel, in the usual state, during divine service,
accompanied by the prescribed prayers for her Majesty's long
life and happiness. The number of persons who received
the royal charity was 28 of each sex, being the age of her
Majesty. The numbers increase one of each annually, to
correspond with the age of her most precious Majesty. The
clergy and gentlemen of the Chapel Royal were in attend-
ance. The boys of the Chapel Royal were present, and else
-.ix children of the national schools (three boys and three
girls), who attended as a reward and encouragement for goad
conduct. The distributions were made by the Sub-Almoner
to her Melesty, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Canon of Christ Church,
and Principal of King's College, London, assisted by Joseph
Hanby, En., Secretary to his Grace the Lord High Almoner,
anal Yeoman of her Majesty's Almonry, and attendants,
under the immediate orders of the Venerable the Arch-
bnhop of York. The oldest recipient of the royal charity
SAG of age. The value of the royal charity to each
aaat, including the silver pennies, was 41. 75. 4d. Each
assn end woman received as many pennies as the age of the
sovereign. At the close of the ceremony the national
anthem, "God Ws the Queen," was played as a voluntary
ea the organ.
DEATH OF LORD SAYL AND SELF.—This much
respected noblemen expired on the evening of the 31st ult ,
at his residence in Grosvenor-street, aged 49, after an
illness of about eight days, which it appears arose from a
odd only recently caught. He bad hitherto been in the
eniersent of good heath. Lord Saye and Sole's compa-
ratively early death will be much regretted by a numerous
aide and by the lovers of aquatic sports in particular.
His lordship, it will be recollected, succeeded his late father
so recently as November, 1814. He was a prominent member
of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, and on the occasion of
the re-election of the late lamented Commodore Harrison,
whom he has survived but a few days, gave a piece of plate
for competition between Erith and Greenwich to celebrate
the event. In politics, his lordship was a reformer,
but never took any prominent part in public
fairs. The deceased peer, William Thomas Eardley
Twisleton Plenum, twelfth, baron in the peerage of England,
was born Apri! 24, 1798, being the son of the eleventh lord,
who died in 1844, by the Hon. Maria Eardley, eldest
daughter of Lord Eardley, on whose demise, in 1824, that
Me became extinct. The only other issue of this marriage
was the lion. Maria Elizabeth, who married, in 1825, the
Count Von °endue' of Prussia, and died in the following
year without issue. The deceased never married, and the
title and estates fall to the Rev. Frederick Twisleton, his
cousin, who is a canon residentiary of Hereford Cathedral.
The father of the deceased, in 1825, assumed the name of
Fiennes, after his patronymic Twisleton, and in the same
year took the name of Eardley, on the death of his father-
inlaw. The tenth lord succeeded in establishing his claim
to the barony in 1781, it having remained 107 pure in
abeyance. The family estates lie in Oxfordshire and Kent.

EMIGRATION RROM IRILAND.—A memorial, em-
bodying a plan for emigration from Ireland, was presented
on Wednesday to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell. It
was accompanied by the following letter :
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embed emmerliel, with the lit of near which we have beat
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bodies, andlealisi them ehe hue OPUS esodfse aremelme
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feeeises, W. It. OIDAST, M.P. • J. frOmesta. ILP.; I. R.
Othur.—The Right Hoe. lord J. Hornell.
Newts authorised to be attached to the accompanying
nmenorial —The Arebbiehop of Dublin, the Marquis of
' -Ormond., the Marquis of Ely, the Earl of Devon, the Earl
of Dysart, Lord Farnham, Lord Jocelyn, Sir A. J. Foster,
Bart. ; Colonel Wyndham, M.P.; Evelyn J. Shirley, Esq.,
M.P. ; Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, M.P.; Alex. M'Carthy, Esq.,
M.P. ; Sir Chas. Coote, Bart., M.P. ; R. B. Osborne, Esq.,
M.P.; Hon. James Muwell, M.P. ; Major Layard, M.P. ;
J. H. Hamilton, Esq., M.P.; Hon. S. Spring Rice, M.P. ;
M. J. O'Connell, Eirj.,M.P. Wm. H. Gregory, Esq., M.P.;
John Robert Godley, Esq.
BRITISH IRON COMPANY.—The annual meeting of
this company was held yesterday, at the office in Thread-
needle-street : Sir George Larpent, Bart., took the chair.
The moments showed a balance of 4,5.311. 9s. 4d. in favour of
the company, liable to be increased by further receipts which
are expected for compensations for calls, but also to be di-
minished by any new claims against the company. The
chairman, to answer to a proprietor, said he did not see how
the company could be finally wound up under a twelve-
month, as some considerable time would be necessary to get
in the debts which had been compromised, and many of them
were attended by difficult circumstances. He hoped any
sum of money that might come to the shareholders from the
meets would be made before that time and the company then
dissolved. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and
directors of the company.
Tillt COMMON COUNCIL AND THE GOVERNMENT
PLAN or RDVOATION.—The Lord Mayor has appointed Mon-
day, the 12th MU, for the further disunion, in the Court
, of Common Council, of Mr. Bennoch's motion respecting
; national education.
MIDDLESEX 110SPITAL.—ELECTION OF A PRE-
. INDINT.—The directors of the above hospital met yesterday
r the parpose of choosing a president, the office having
become vacant by the death of the Duke of Northumber-
-1 land. The present duke, having signified his willingness
? to undertake the office, was duly elected in the place of his
• late illustrious brother.
ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC TO THE ZOOLOOICAL
GARDENS, RECIENTR-TARE. Yesterday the Zoological
Society resolved to admit the public to their gardens in the
, Regvnt's park on each Monday and Tuesday throughout the
. year, end on every lay, except Saturday, in Easter and