The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1850.

the empty to attend one of their protectionist meet-
legs; and, being expected to make a speech thereat,
Mr. GIANTLET BERKELEY treated his audience,
other things, to a little account of himself—
aametbreet upon which he is well known to, be singu-
larl eloquent.
Ir. OrtarrrLav BIRXILEY endeavoured, upon this
oionsioe, to show that. all his misfortunes were the
natural results of a system of free trade. We can
hardly conceive a joke more suited for a Blandford
audience. Whether the declaration would be accepted
in London is another question : here, we apprehend,
there are a Variety of gentry of the trite of LEVI,
whom such a tale would seemly satisfy.
" I am," said Mr. GILANTLKY BERKELEY, a the pos-
sessor of six estates in the West Indies, which, thanks
to free trade, do not bring me in a farthing of in-
come." This declaration, we are told, was loudly
cheered. "Poor Mr. BERKELEY,* exclaimed one
farmer. " There's an instance for you of the working
of your system," bawled out a squire. " Hoor-roar !
hoor-roar I" shouted every. one, little considering
whether they were cheering what they all " the
sentiment," or Mr. BERKELEY himself, or the fact
that he possessed six estates they knew nothing of,
or the declaration that all the said estates were un-
productive. It little signified, however, what they
cheered, the" boor-roar " was general.
Now, Mr. ORANTLEY BERKELEY will, perhaps, reply
to us when we pat a question : Is it not a fact that these
estates of his in Derbies were abandoned, not in conse-
quence of free trade, but whilst they were under asse-
ts= of protection P Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY will, per
haps, fix his dates. If he will, his next audience, we
believe, will learn that his " six ectatos in the West
Indies," were abandoned before there was any reduc-
tion whatever of differential duties.
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S estates in Berbice
were some years ago among the most productive in
that colony. Two of these estates are in the most
favourable situation that can well be conceived for
the production of sugar. They are not more than
three miles from the town of New Amsterdam. They
are close to the river Berbice, and they adjoin estates
which at the present moment are highly productive.
Why are not Mr. °BARTLEY BERKELEY'S estates
equally productive P Has he tried to make
them so? Has he gone out to Berbice and
settled down on his estate there, and em-
ployed his capital in endeavouring to make his
property productive P Not a bit of it. Making
anger has trot been exactly Mr. GRANTLEY BERKE-
LEY'S element. Nor, that we know of, has he been
employed in making anything else one half so awful.
It is almost unnecessary to say after this that Mr.
°BARTLEY BERKELEY'S Wret India properties are
in raMs. There are so manufactories span them—no
dwelling-houses—no labourers to cultivate the land.
A small portion of one of these estates has ben sold
at very high prices to the negroes, who have erected
houses and cultivated provision grounds, but the
rest of the property. is lying barren. The same with
the estates on the laver Berbice. The labourers who
were engaged on them, and who would willingly cm-
tinue their services, have been driven to seek labour
upon other properties. These estates are waste in
every sense of the word. And so, under present cir-
cumstances, they are likely to continue.
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S protectionist friend,
Mr. FARQUHARSON, is receiving an income of some
thirty or forty thousand a)eer from hie landed estates
in Dorsetsilire. Suppose Mr. FARQUHARSON were to
discharge his tenants and servants, sell his cattle, lock
up his farmhouses, and let his property go out of cul-
tivation, what right would he have to accuse the
government or parliament of having occasioned or
accelerated his ruin ? Yet this is just what Me.
GRANTLEY BERKELEY is doing. And he thinks that
in talking as he did at Blandfori, he is bully ad-
vancing the cause which occurrences have driven him
to support, instead of effordine, as all such orators do
afford, opportunities for expo.-ing the hollowness and
the absurdity of what are culled, by courtesy, the
" arguments" of the protection ate.
Before Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY talks about his
West India estates again, let him go out and see them.
Let him take with him an adequate capital to invest
in needful and well-considered improvements. Let

him reside some little time on his estates, and make

some effort to bring them into cultivation. If he does
this nod fails, he may be entitled to complain of free
trade. But under present circumstances, if he has
to complain of anything except his own carelessness,
it is certainly of the so-called systsm of prreection.
When Mr. BERKELEY next speaks of his West India
estates, he may also tell us, it he so please, what pro-
portion he obtained of the "twenty millions " paid as
compensation on the emancipation of the negroes, and
whether he employed any, and what part of it, in
qualifying his former slaves for freedom, and in ren-
dering his estates productive ? These would be facts
worth knowing, and we should think a candid state-
meat respecting them of far more public moment thau
• declaration that free trade had ruined an estate four
thousand miles away, and which its owner probably
in all his life never set his eyes on.

FRANCE.

PARTS, FRIDAY, 5.30..r.x

The Legislative Assembly dimided iCsterday to
annul their vote of the previous day on the question
of urgency, and to proceed to a new one. This course
was decided on by a majority of 123, the nu there
b.ing 371 to 218. A new division on the question
of urgency then took place, when an affirmative de-
cision was oome to by a majority of 29, the numbers
being 329 to 300. This result leaves the ra%tter as
it had been already resolved by the rectified numbers
of the vote the day before.
The majority of yesterday, small as it was, eou!d
only La gat together by great difficulty, all absent
members having been called in to vote. The Con-
stituttonnel sap that it is astonished at finding so
few members repentant of what they had done.

That is a very small majority, after the disgraceful and
afflicting spectrcle of which we were witnerees. We should
have believed that there would have been as many repenteat
members in the moderate party yesterday as there were re-
set:4l's on the previous day. The majority bad before i:s
eyes the BA example of the disorder and odious anarchy to
which the national representation was subjected when a
division took plea in Ste ranks. All the voices, all the in-
terruptions of thy Montagnerds rung in their ears the enor-
mous fault which they had committed in voting with them.
They saw what a terrible pledge they Lad nearly given to
socialism, by the desperate efforts made by the Montag.
nay& to retain that pledge whir& the recutied ballot tor*
from them.

To-day the La Plata question was again brought
forward. The ardour of M. Thiers, who is
to speak to-day, did not abate, and his movc-
manta were remarked. The Orleaniats and con-
servative*, with M. Piscatory at their head,
seem disinclined to follow the lead. M. Daru read
his supplementary rep3rt on the amendment of M. de
Rance. lie sad that the committee had not thought
proper to indicate a solution of the matter, and lid
left it in the hands of government ; but that the ref r•
ones of M. de Rance's amendment had imposed a pa-
ramount duty on the committee. The body of which
Ls came for ward u the organ, persisted in thinking
that Lepredour's treaty was unacceptable, and that
new negotiations would be vain, unless they were
backed by a sufficient force. It had been said that
the course proposed involved war, but war was at the
end of every system. If war broke out, it could not
be denied that France had done all she could to avoid
it. An armed negotiation would have the advantage
of throwing the responsibility of a struggle upon the
Argentine republic. With respect to the means to be
employed to attain either of the objects in view, the
committee thought they must hs proposed by
the government alone, and that the Assembly should
vote the funds when they are required. The com-
mittee, for these reasons, proposes to substitute for M.
de Rance's amendment the following resolution : "The
Assembly invites the executive power to support the
neguciatiuns of La Plata by a sufficient force to en-
sure its success, and to protect the French interests
in the country."
M. de Rance was left at the tribune defending his
amendment.

The metallic reserve in the Bank of Prance con-
tinues to increase, though not to the same extent as
for some weeks back, the present augmentation being
about 11 millions, the amount being 21 millions
greater in Paris and 1 million leas in the provinces.
The discount accommodation shows en increase of
nearly 3i millions in Paris, and about the same aug-
mentation in toe branch banks, the amount of the
farmer being 45,896,021 francs, and of the latter
76,840,681 francs. The p.otested bills have
slightly decreased both in Paris and the de-
partments, the amount of the former being now
2,226,4:18fr., and of the latter 1,687,270 fr, On the
side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have in-

creased about 10 millions in Paris and 31 millions in
the departments. The account current of the treasury'
has declined about 31 minions, the present amount
being 72,007 fr. Private accounts current in Paris
have fallen off about 31 millions, and in the depart-
ments have increased about 21 millions, the amount
of the former being 78,343,806 fr., and of the latter
29,657,313 fr. The whole amount of the metallic re-
serve at present is 4321 millions to 4611 millions of
notes in circulation.
Yesterday forenoon the Turkish ambassador had a
long conference with General La Ilitte, at tho Hutch
of Foreign Affairs. The English ambassador also had
a conference with the minister.
The Moniteur contains the followingdecree, creating
the ex-king of Westphalia a marshal of France :
The President of the Republic,—Considering the law of
Avg. 4, 1839: Considering that by the effect of the law of
Oct. 11. 1848, the General of Division, Jerome Bonaparte,
was restored to the plenitude of his rights as a Frenchmen,
end as &general °Meer belonging to the active service list :
Considering that during the campaigns of 1807, 1809, and
1812, that general exercised, in virus of imperial decrees,
the eomurind•in chief, before the enemy, of Corp dismal•
composed of several divisions of different arms: That in
1813, and later in 1816, on the field of blahs of Waterloo,
1 he was again at the head of a division of the army, and was
one of the last to return his sword to its scabbard, when tat.
enemy invaded France : 0, the report of the minister of war,
come to in a council of ministers; decreo a:—
" Arr. 1. The General of Bosnian, Jerome Bonaparte, is
raised to the dignity of Marshal of France.
ee Art. 2. The minister of war is charged with the execu-
tim of the pre lent decry a.
e' Done at the Elyse* National, the let Jan., 1850.
The President of the Republic,
"LOUIS NAPOLZON LIONAPAKTIL

Countersigned. D'll*—uir-o—erf.,-fdinistor of War."

Upwards of 20,000 old soldiers of the empire have
already sent in their claims to penaions, incompliance
with the invitation to that effect in the recent circu-
lar of the minister of the interior to the prefects. It
is suppoecd that at least as many more applications
will be made, is which cue one of two thing.; «pielly
objectionable met result. Either there will be a large
addition to the budget of expen- Lure, which, in the
present state of financev, will give public dissatisfac-
tion, or many thousands of old 'Metiers after having
had their expectations rais.d, will be filmed to die-
appointment.
ThP Press. hes the following on a statenEnt by
the &dub" of Florence, that M. Cernucchi, one of
the Itomal republeane, had been t.lsen from Civita
Vecchia by the French to delis .r him up to the
Papal government. The Pr' fie does not believe the
Skarifo. P. might havu aided how the Stated°
would contrive to bring a French vessel to Koine
from Civita Vecchia :

Althouoh we have read these !inis, borrowed from the
Stal,to; —" Lmi at ,ewe.—M. C. romchi has been trans-
ferred from Cora& Vecchia to Wane Ai hoard • French
vessel, and delivered up to t.e Pontifical tribunals," we
do nut hesitate to say that it at r.ot true, that tt cannot be.
A French v.ssel could not go to Civ.ts Vecchia to fetch M.
Cernecchi in filer to deriver him up to the Poct.fical
tribunals. Once more we repeat, Fr ince could nut have
Riven up • patical exile, M. CerrlUC,lii, to the l'Aititied
tribunal..

M. de 1\ ewkerko, the new dir. ctnr of the must um-,
fought a duel yesterday with M. Bullion, the editor
of the Liberti, in sh ( h toe latter was wounded.

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deaux, 401 73; Pfeil, (nil 51M1...v. 3:4 40; Tern, and Sant,.,
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MADRID. Arc. 28.—Three per Cebu., 3 I-18 pAr.,r. Four per
Cents., 121 paper. Five per Ceuta., .3 ueeouo:. °upon, 8 paper.
of at. Ferdinand, MI paper. Kiebara.e on London, 5U.43.

ITALY.

Letters received from our correspondent at Naples,
under date of the 24th ult., state the Pope's d. p tr-
tare, announced for the middle of January, is again
postponed. It is said CAL: thu lung will grant an
amnesty on the 14:h inst.
Our Naples correspondent writes as follows:

NAPLES, Dr(' 24.

An important ecclesiastical meeting has taken place
in Napes, convened by the bishops, for a very dif-
ferent purpose than that vrbic`i was stated. Th-
alarm felt by an evident clisposaion of the people to
turn from a church whose Christianity is eo obvicuslv
subservient to the politics of petty princes, has ind-c
the heads of the jesuitical papacy of this kingdom to
take into consideration the best means to combat
the "growing evil." It is extremely difficult to
gather correct information of what takts place at
each meetings as these ; I therefore give the statements
with some reserve, at the same time I should observe
public decrees are daily confirming the pol cy which
I am assured influences the Homan church through-
out Italy. It app: trs the conclave, efter a long ow-
CUSEtiOD, agreed to address the government of Naples a
reties of demands: A more strict revision of book- in
the Custom-house, particularly those belocgiog to
foreiguers ; great care was to ba observed that the
English Bible Society should not introduce th-Ar
works, and that spies should be employed to
watch if Englishmen were occupied in distributing
the Scriptures; the working' of religious societies
in England were to be reported; priests whore sen-
timents are supposed to be hostile to the existing
state of things must be carefully watched. Such, I
am assured, were the resolutions of this ecclesiastical
committee; and that the Neapolitan government will
co-operate with it, there can be little doubt. The
feeling of dissent, not front the &urch, perhaps, but
from its political slime, is far more extensive
Ihruugheut Italy than is generally supposed, and 1
am convinced a reform is near at band.

Within the last few days the government has com-
menced in earnest with the editors of La Stampa, a
journal which fought hard for the constitution, until it
was illegally and by force suppressed. M. Tessier, a
French gentleman, whn was responsible editor of that
journal for some time, has been at rested and taken off
to prison with irons round his wrists. Signor Aleli-
Burg°, another editor, world have suffered the same
indignity, had he not escaped on board a French
steamer. Added to these facts, M. Borel, the printer
of the paper, was actually imprisoned, because the
latter gentleman addressed him a note from the
French steamer, and which note, by means of a spy,
fell into the hands of the police! M. Ravneval, the
representative of France at the court of Naples, has
endeavoured to release hie countrymen, at least until
it is proved that they have offended the law.
The following is from the letter of our Roman cor-
respondent:
Amongst many changes for the worse it is satis-
factory to observe one for the better, which partly tends
to eradicate the remnants of feudal dominion still ex.
istingin several diaries of the patrimony of St. Peter.
Prince Rospigliosi has formally renounced his feudal
rights over the towns of Guiliano() and Culonna in
favour of the holy see, whose representatives will
take possession of the halls of justice, prisons, and
other public buildings b:longing to the ex-feadal
sovereign, in the name of the reigning pontiff on
the 27th and 28th of this month. The feudal rights
exercised over Vitorchiano, Cori, and some other
places by the senator of Rums is the name of the
people, a kind of sovereignty dating from many cen-
turies ago, were assumed by Pio Nino at the period
of his creating the Roman municipality, so that
only Bracciano and a few less importaut feuds remain
in the hands of the nobility.