The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

THE FRPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, IMO.

to New Turk the mistimes of a simile: feeling in the
princdpal localities of the surrounding states. The
any
of aoutliseners, when enexplained, in
town, is treated as a eireansstanes suffi-
ciently suspicious to pat the friends of free-
dent on the alert. Two of them were seen not
long_ dime prowling emit ore of the inter:or towns
of Ftnnsylvanis. Their purpose was immediately
surmised, when each a site of feeling was exhibited
towards them, that they deemed it pendent to decamp.
Nothing but the New York c ise was wanting to give
the coup de grew* to the Fugitive Slave Bill, and to
teach the south that, by drawing the string too tight,
it will not only gain nothing but loee much. We ad-
here to what we have already said, that this measure
mast be abandoned or greatly modified, for, as it now
stands, there is no power in the government to carry
it out, though it should back its attempt. to do so by
the whole military force at its disposal. Public
opinion in the north will soon be, if it is Dot already,
unanimous in its oondemnation ; and against public
lopinion so organised, government in America is
powerless to act.

Ws published yesterday a correspondence between
the Secretary of the Birkenhead Dock Trustees and
the Secretary of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce,
which deserves the attention of our commercial friends.
Most people will remember the great parliamentary
campaign in 1844 between Liverpool and Birkenhead,
which did so much to bring the latter place into fa-
vourable notice. Birkenhead won the privilege of
making her docks, and having last session got rid of
Lord CARLISLE and government interference, is rapidly
taking the place toe proprietors of her dock works
intended she should do, via., that of a cheap and use-
ful addition to the dock accommodation.of the Mersey.
The years of deposition she has passed through, the
jobbing of the Woods and Pereira and their creatures,
the ruin of hundreds who bad staked their fortunes
on her success, have not, it seems, allayed the bitter
feeling of her old Liverpool opponents, which has even
penetrated into the " Chamber of Commerce" of that
distinguished mart of all nations, which now boasts
a foreign commerce far exceeding that of London.
It seems that in the docks at Liverpool fires aed
lights are not allowed, to the great discomfort of the
crews and expense to the shipowners. An emigrants'
home on the dock quays is also very much wanted,
but the municipal wisdom of the town will not admit
of the one being used, or the other erected. Sailors
may go to the devil their own way on shore, sod emi-
grants may be plundered and cheated ad libitum by
the sharpers that waylay them, in that particularly
pious, moral, and well-conduc'ed emporium: the Li-
verpool Town Council cannot meddle in the matter.
The American trade suffers the most, and the well-
known firm of Baows. SHIPLEY, and Co., applied to
the Birkenhead Dock Trustees to know whether an
emigrants' home would be erected there, and if fires and
lights were to be allowed on board ships in the docks.
The answer was in the affirmative ; whereupon the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce applied for copies of
the correspondence, had a meeting, and memortalieed
the Town Council to grant the demands of the Ame-
rican trade, in order to prevent its transference to
Birkenhead. The secretary of the trustees writes a
very temperate letter to Mr. HORSPALL, the Chair-
man of the Chamber of Commerce, regretting that the
Chamber should have treated the Birkenhead Docks
as anything but an increased eccommcdatioo to the
ter.de of the Mersey and receives for reply—that it is
the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.
This is very pitiable. Think of LLOYDS' repudiating
any connexion with Southwark, or the corporation
levying a toll on London-bridge to prevent trade going
to the Borough!
One would have thought that a "Chamber of Com-
merce" would have voted thanks to the Birkenhead
Dock trustee', and cheered them on ice the race of com-
petition, bat the chamber it appears is hermaphrodite,
and has two functions—to protect commerce AND the
town of Liverpool.
We are sorry to see any body of men calling them-
selves merchants, trying to perpetuate the absurd no-
tion that the trade of the Mersey is to be confined to
the Liverpool side of it.

party. M. Deposit de l'Eure was insatioried as the
candidate of the republicans for the representation of
the Need. The fallowing letter, published by the
Netioteol, seta forth the sentiments of this authorita-
tive member at the democratic party.
Rougepiries, Bare, Oct. 26.
My deer ex Colleague,—l neaten to reply to a few weeds
to year latter. It I lad the honour to be an elector Le the
&apartment du Nord, I should swathes I Milled s sacred
duty by abstaining from voting is the elastics of the 3rd
November, and I shosld so protest 'galore the law of the
Slat May lest, which suppress. universal enfirage. I give,
then. all my scent to the ?minion which the republican
elteues have ukaa of not presenting themselves at the elec.
lion. I say more—l woutd refuse say smididateship and
any deputation which sight be soshrred on me by re-
strio•ed suffrage substituted by the law of the 31st May to
the articles of the 24th sad 25th of the Constitatioa. I need
sot develop the motives of this opiates, as the liberal press
lon
dose it much better than I sold do. You aak me ff
lon may oommuniests sty letters to the National, and if
seems to its poblisbine the Sheldon which I give to the
resolution du Nord ? Very willingly, if soy good eon re.l
OPON't (de Mare).
salt. D
Henoe General Labitte will have all the field to
himself. Bat even to walk Ayr the course he will
need one-fourth of the voice a of the electors inscribed
as the new lists. It remains to know whether he'
will bo able to canvass so many.
A crowd of persons assembled yesterday in the
Champ de Mars, to witness the promised tourna-
ment. But the weather scowled upon the pageant
quite as discouragingly as on the occasion of the
Eglinton jousts ; but the knights did not exhibit the
same mettle, for no champ-on armed at all points
appeared, and the tilting was put off till Thursday.
The Bourn was much agitated to-day, and a con-
siderable fall took place in the funds. The tone of
General Schramm's order of the day is interpreted es
Iliadication of division between the new Minister of
War and General Changarnier. The displacement of
Gen. Newmayer was also spoken of as oertaiu. The
Five. closed at 92.10, with a fall of 50e. upon Saturday.
the Threes fell 35c.; in the railway share market the
only change deserving notice was a declension on the
Havre line of 675 upon the last quotation. A geed
deal of reliance is placed upon the conferences of
Warsaw for the peciflo denouement of the German
and Danish questions.
M. de Reiset, secretary of the French embassy at
the court of Turio, has arrived in Paris with des-
patches for the government.
The municipal elections at Sens are favourable to
the cause of order.
The editor of the Repubiecail de la Dordogne has
been condemned by default to a fine of 500 fr. fee
infection of the provision of the press law relative to
the signature of articles. This is the first condemna-
tion of this kind which has been recorded, as verdicts
of acquittal have been given in all other cases hitherto.
The "National Italian Committee," sitting la
London, consisting of Menial, Saffi. and four others,
has promulgated a plan for raising a loan of
10,000,000 fr., to be subscribed, one-half in sums of
10O1r. each, and one-half to sums of 25fr. The money
is to be depcsited in a London bank, and is to be de-
voted to the service of the national cense in the
"inevitable struggle" which is represented to be
coming. Vouchers are to be given to the subscribers
as in regular government loans, and the bonds are to,
bear an interest of 6 per cent. per annum ; but the
cameo of persons who do not wish to be known are to I
be kept secret, though a note is to be taken of them,
to prove hereafter, if necessary, their sympathy fur
the cause.
The lest accounts received from the wine-growing
departments show the following results: In the
south : Landels, Provence,and the banks of the Rhone,
ordinary crop; the Gerd, Luriel, and Montpellier,
more than one-third more than last year; Mete,
average; Per.enas, two-thirds; B een. five-sixths ;
Narbonne. the Aude, very bad, scarcely a half; the
Rorusilloo, three-fourths. The produce of spirits in
the south will, however, equal that of 1849. Toulouse,
Galilee, Cabers, Agee, and the banks of the Loire,
more than last year. In the Bordelais the quantity is
larger than was at first expected, but the quality is in
many cases so inferior that it will only be fit for dis-
tillation. At Armagnac, Saintonge, and Nantes, or-
dinary quantity. On the banks of the Loire and at
Solonge, i.e than last year ; in Champagne, Lorraine,
and in Alsace, average quantity, but very bad quality ;
in Bourgogne and the Beaujolais, quantity and
quality pretty good. In the north there is a falling
elf in quality, but not in quantity.
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Pot ASSU4III.
PARIS, Ocr. Si.
Mos. Oyes* MOW. Lowest. Closing
I pet Cents.
5 per Cents. 92 20 92 33 92 30 91 90 ;92 10
S do. New Loss „ . a a a
14 per Cents. l.O 10 111 SO 00
8 per Dears.
Ezehenge on Lerida : at sleiti, 15 176 ;"90 days,"l3 5.
8•1&40.3. 1340
6, 1341 ...... . Roman Leers 1649 78 ..
Do.
Lye„ 9j— . Treasury Lode— 4 .
Fledmost 6 per Cetus. 94 0 . flask Shares — .
Booms —Versailles (left bank), 135 ; Paris and Orleans,
760; Rouen a. d nano. 243 76; Mareilles and Avignon,
170; Strasbourg and Bale, 118 75 ; Orleans and Vrersoa,
355; Orleans and Bordeaux, 68825; Nortb, 48125; Pars
and Strasbourg, 84126; Tours and Narita, 24125.