The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-13 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Fyn. S.
The Gazette of to-day contains a decree accepting
the resignation of the Count of Minimal, Minister of
War, and appointing General Lersumli to that post.
The motive of Count Nlinisors resignation is said to
be his objection to the reductions contemplated in
the anny.
' The committee for the settlement of the debt has
appointed for its president M. Flores Calderon, and
for its secretary, M. Muquieru.
The financial difficulties of the country continue to
be the principal theme of discussion in political
circles. The ministry have presented their plan of
retrenchment, by which, after so many protesta-
tions, they only propose a reduction of 49 mil-
.ions of reels. As the deficit is of 300
millions, and as the new measure for tho
adjustment of the debt will increase the
yearly expenditure by 83 millions of realm, com-
mercial men have their misgivings concerning the
possibility of its being brought into operation, so
that the paper of the active debt of the five per
cents. is offered in great abundance, and has already
fallen in price.
The opposition papers, especially thee/tome Publico,
have already begun to attack the minister, accusing
hint of having proposed a measure of adjustment with-
out the money to pay with. In the department of the
Finance Minister, the retrenchment does not amount
to more than 11 millions. 'flie estiniates for thisdepart-
ment amount to 460 millions of teals, or the third part
of the whole expenditure of the nation. Add to this
the money paid to the passive classes, the el( rgy,tho
nuns, the interests of the debt, amount to
five hundred millions. Total, 993 millions of
reale spent in the finance department, a dispro-
portion which has not failed to increase the
mistrust inspired by the minister. The day before
the promulgation of the bill for the adjustment of the
debt Perez Scone, the banker, whose relations with
Bravo Murillo are well known, purchased 110 mil-
lions worth of Four and Five per Cents, which rose
in value immediately after the publication of the bill,
but which have since fallen again, as I said before,
partly because of the unbelief of commercial men in
the measure, and partly because the committee ap-
pointed to examine it have shown great variance of
opinion.
Letters from Madrid bring news of the progress cif
the bill for settling the debt :
The members of the Chants r of Deputies of Spain
assembled on the 3rd in their bureaux to examine bills pre-
sented by the government. That on the regulation of the
debt gave rise to a long and interesting disciretiou. All the
speakers admitted the propriety and justice of regulating
the debt, but the adversaries of the government contended
that the moment was not opportune, and that the Treasury
was not yet able to take on itself such a great engagesneaa
with the certainty of not failing in it. In four bureaux
candidates in favour of the government bill wore Owen;
in three others they were defeated. The name of
the committee arc MM. A. Llovente, Mageitiso,
Flores-Calderon, Miola, Ciarcia-Luna, Vilches, Alonso.
Milan. The government, it was said, did not intend to
make the bill a cabinet question. The committee had de-
termined to demand the presentation of numerous duos-
ments on the matter. The president of the council went
before the finance committee, and announced that he im-
posed to effect a saving of 11,300,000 reads in the budget of
the ministry of finance, 5,000,000 teals of which in the di-
rection of the public debt. The Avoca says that the gover4
meat proposes to effect other economies of 1,000,000 reakilli
the department of Foreign Affairs, 500,000 Justiesb
1,500,000 Coaimsne, 7,000,000 Marine, 20,000,000 Warl

2,000,000 Interior. The Infante Don Henry, brother to the
Kills. has Teen authorised by the government to return to
gpsin, and to reside at Valladolid.

GERMANY.

The Danes took possession of Friedrichsort on the
Sth instant. and of the kronwork of Rendsburg on
the 9th. Into the latter place they were introduced
by the Austrian commandant of the town. Signorini.
719, event has taken the Schleswig-llobiteiners quite
by surprise, and they seem to feel their humiliation
most bitterly. The occupation of Rendsburg by the
Danes will, on the Arnim motion. be brought before
the 2ud Berlin chamber on Thursday the 14th, and
will, it is expected, provoke a very animated discus-
sum. M. Vinekils motion on the state of the
nation," which embraces every subject that is at pre-
i.ent before the German public, will also come on in
a kw days. The Deutsche Itt:l;u•ne, on the plea
that the internal affairs of the church are beyond
the competence of the government and the chambers,
concludes that the complaint of several members of
the protestant church, that they have been injured
by church authorities, cannot be entertained either
he the cabinet or the parliament, as that would be
interfering in ititt runt ecclesiastical matter.
Our Berlin correspondent write as follows:
• BERLIN, Fin. 10.

In the Second Chamber to=ciny die proceed-
ings referred to the new law on the organiza-
tion of justice. Several minor amendments were
Troposed and carried without discussion. Paragraph
)6, regulates the mode by which conflicting issues
between two or more district courts of justice,
shall he disposed of. liv the new law the superior
court of apiwal is retained as the highest law court
in the realm. Dingy Gerlach proposed that
throughout this and other paragraphs in which
this rivet is alluded to, the words should be
lettered to High Chamber Court. it being his inten-
tion to move the re-institution of that court an
the chief law court of the realm. After some &t-
-eas...ion of no great interest, the question was put,
and the amendment declared carried ; on a division.
Various other amendments were proposed to the
pirivriphs diseased but without one living carried;
the recommendations of the commission alone found
favour in the sight of the Minister of Justice, and
were earned at cordingly.
A special commission is to be appointed to discuss
the law on ministerial responsibility.

111 E LYONS MANUFACTVRERS AND TIIE
GREAT EXHIBMON.

Our Paris correspondent writing yesterday says:
•• You may remember that in their sitting of the
4th instant, the Central Jury appointed to select the
olir•t% or French eonttibution discussed a demand
from the Lyons manufacturers that the articles sent
he retail dialers should be excluded, and
&ebb d that such articles should he admitted,
but under the condition of the name of the
original numufacturer being attached, as well as the
name of the contributor. Well, it %CMS the Lyons
people are greatly dissatisfied with this arrangement,
and the chamber of commerce of Lyons, as we learn
to-day, immediately deelamd that it would hare
nothing to do unit the Exhibition. A Lyons journal
adds that the eßater port of the manufacturers them
hate given up the intention of exhibiting in
L.•ndun."

PONTEFRACT ELECTION.-TIIE NOMLNA-

TION.

Until ye.tcrtlay morning, it was not expected that
any nnttc.t wuuld take plate fur the N•at rendered vacant
ha the elevation of Mr. Martin to a judgeship, but early in'
the day plaranl• :11101.31.01 on the walls calling upon the
t Itetors to auppurt their old friend, Viscount Pollinutoll,
wh. father, now the Karl of Mezhoruugh, represented the
'borough in several parliaments. The lion. U. Lowley,
t Ithst no. of Lonl Wruleck, has been Wine time in
lii e held wa a tanditlate. As to the show of hands on

the day of nomination, that is looked upon a no
pllllle whatever, the Tivoli of the electim dependinu
moms upon the influence by pecuniary End other mean,
which ran be briamlit to bear ujion the elctor, than upon
anything e 1... There are about .00 thr•Hm on the register.
nearly DUO of whom are pot•wallnpem, and the remainder
voter, by ocrupation of soon thou IW. rvotal, en•ated under
ti. lietortu Act.
. . . . .

The nonsmatton took place at 10 o'clock, in the Town-
ball. yesterday (Wedneml.)) morning. The Mayor (Rower
lints% pr siding us rt urniaq officer. 'llie hall was
1111..1. and so the middle of the audience were a number of
ills Is who appenred to lute 'A 01 drilled for emitting a
ili.torhaiwe, for during the *hole of the proceedings they
w hi.tie d, lndlossed out for " l'ollington,- and made
till mann. r of lloSissasss. 11w whole proceedings were of
mint Ilisiry and uproarious character. Lord l'ollingnm is
wr re on the l'outinent, and is brought forward with-
out hn knowledge or consent, or thnt of any of his family.
The court, hating been olc•nvl in due form, the proceed-
slings comments 11 by the• town clerk (Mr. Coleman) reading
tM• writ from the Speaker of the lloume of Commons order-
ing a new t tei tiun, and also the art against bribery and cor-
ruption. The reading of the latter dorument excited rim-
piskr.lllle merrintt•ut and laughter amongst the audience.
The Lord Mayor of York and sesend other gentlemen of
influence wore present us the friends of Mr. Lawley;
whilst Lord Pollington was represented by a Mr. Jefferson.
a sehonlnastcr (nne of Brefeild Ferrand's supporters), and
Rawson, a retired rag dealer.
Mr. /IREEN, tallow chandler, rose to propose a candi-
datt.. The lion. Mr. Lawley, whom he was about to propose
--(•• We won't have him ")—possessed qualifications which
ermined him worthy of being their repreentotive.• lie
was of an utnialtle and generous disposition, highly con-
nected, unilo w hat was better than all, a gentleman of in-
dependent spirit and of liberal principles—(applause, and
much interruptiou)— and, should he be elected as their re-
presentative, would tin his utmost to support those great
principles of progression and improvement—(hear, hear)—
to which his father and his father-in-law had been so long
attached.

Mr. MOOREIIOUSE, of Knottingley (a lime burner),
accotulcd the nomination, and amidst much interruption

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poi,l it high compliment to the character, talents, and
lie services of their late representative.
Mr. JEFFERSON next came forward to propose Vis-
count Pollington. A gentleman near him rose and stated
be was nut in the kingdom. (Cries of " Turn him out,"
laughter, and interruption.) Now the fact was that Lord
Polling_ too was within a few hours' ride of this county. He
would be down amongst them, and if elected be would
SIM them. (Applause and cheers.)
Mr. MATTHEW DAWSON, after reading a list of the
number of votes given at different elections for Lord Pol-
(Merton and his father, seconded the nomination of Viscount
Pollington.
No other candidate being proposed,
Mr. LAWLEY said he stood before them the advocate
of liberal principles, which his family had always held.
One of the first questions asked of him on coming to Ponte-
fract, and 011 which he gave his sentiments fully, was the
aggression of the l'ope on the spiritual and temporal fiber
ties of the protestant people of this country. He was
happy to say that he found no one louder in the
expressions of their opinions than himself as to the
insofence and insidiousness of that aggression. (Hear, hear.)
He did not, indeed, wish to see restored any of those penal
disabilities by which their Roman catholic brethren had
been formerly deprived of their liberties, as he wished to
claim for them the same liberties which he claimed for him-
self. (Hew, hear.) The Pope's bull, however, he consi-
dered an infringement of the Queen's supremacy, and he
should support any proper measurefor preventing it taking
effect in brigland ("Hear, hear," and a voice, "The
game laws.") He declared himself in favour of a repeal of
the window tax, and opposed to the substitution of a house'
tax in licuof it. therefore he should vote for free and un-
conditional repeal of the window tax. (Hear, hear.) Ano-
ther subject alluded to to-day was protection to agriculture.
As they had beard, every shilling he possessed or hoped to
pewee was in land ; and therefore he must necessarily feel
deeply interested in agriculture and its prospects.
(Hear, hear.) But though his sympathies were
with the agricultural interest, he had been for a
long time, and was at that moment, opposed to any system
of protection for the staple articles of food in this kingdom—
(" beer, hear," and applause)—and he would assure them
that he should resist any attempt to reimpose protection,
for were they to do this, they would injure other classes with-
out restoring permanent prosperity to the farmer. (Hear.)
lie concluded by thanking the audience fur the hearing
him, hoping that they would carry him triumphantly
at the poll to-morrow. (Applause.)
The Mayor then took a show of hands for each candidate.
A large number were held up for Mr. Lawley, but a still
larger number for Viscount Pollingtem, who was accordingly
lirto be nominated.
etion. Mr. Lawley demanded • poll, which the Mayor
fuel to commence at eight o'clock this morning.

TIM TAXES ON CAIIIAOES.—A deputation of
snsehinakere, who yesterday waited on the Chancellor of
the Etchequer for the purpose of smesting a modification
of the taxes upon e , after &Laing to the depressed
nat., of the trade, and • owing the decreased revenue from
this lOURC, proposed that, instead of the present high rate
of taxation levied on upwards of twelve claming, to place all
carriages under three classes only, at reduced rates, com-
mencing with 31. for the highest, V. for tho nest, and 11.
for the lowest, exempting none, as at present, but aka/ging
*ern at the lowest rate. Thy arrangem cnt, if adoptesl,
would not, it was urged, materially Ws= the menus,
whilst it would give the required impetus to nada.
_

Tics Lamm. Baum have °warmed a com-
mits*, as wall as the ithipmaten and boastlin' "-house
ka pus, in order to carry out their opposition to the late
Mercantile Maria• Act.