The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-02 00:00:00

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But the fact is, that Mr. Ilvme's motion, like all
parliamsotary movements that do not immediately
threaten to put ministers in a minority, is met by
them with no very elaborate or coneiateet defence.
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snatch up the first impose that are to their
he first arguments that offer, and think any
or pretext good «sough to fling at a trouble-
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LONDON, B.I7TRD4r, MARCH 2.

Tns February misting. of railway companies are
now over. Convenience as well as law fixes the half-
yearly meetings ter Maury and August in each
year, unless special statutes otherwise appoint
in the case. of particular companies. Fee
'else half-yearly accounts are made up to the 31st
et December and the 30th of June respectively,
and as the railway clearing house is generally
a Math. at least, in sneer of the actual thinesetious
it se *thirdly arranges, and u railway accounts are
la themosives affairs of greet magnitude and some
, the legislature has allowed railway boards
II mem* at least to prepare their %dame stints, and
to bays their accounts audited, in order to lay before
tier proprietary a scheme whereon the shareholders
themselves (not the directors) shall declare a dividend.
Runs the columns of newepapers overflow with re-
ports of railway meetings in the maths of February
mil August, not very interesting. we fear, to the
general reader.
The meeticgs of the month which has just closed
hays been characterised by two features equally sada-
theory, viz., by improved relations between shaft-
holders and their directors, and by an slolost total
oblivion of such a proposition as a government audit.
At the North-Western meeting, for example, the
shareholders went so far in the exhibition oetheir
well-bestowed confidence in Mr. GEORGE GLYN, SO to
refuse a dividend which he had not recommemian
and, by way of supporting him, tkeyactuslly reamed
their own profits. At the South-Western, Mr. CIIAT•
LIN and his old opponents were so much recoseiled
as to induce that gentleman, who not many seemthe
ago prayed for the intervention of government
rather than the then prevalence of spear
and animosity, to declare that the meeting
was one of the most encouraging he had ever at-
tended. At the Eastern Counties some of the most
vociferous of Mr. Henson and Mr. WADDINGTON'S
former opponents were to be seen foremost in their
support of the new board of direction. At the Mid-
land a proposition to reconstruct the board was sig-
nally rejected. At the York sad North Mioland, both
directors and shareholders united to devise means of
making Mr. Henson refund to the company the larp
profits he had illegally made in its service. At the
Great Western, the prudence of appointing melt men
as Mr. Wiu.ieii WILLIAMS on the consultation com-
mittee was made appoint ; for, having made a
thorough investigation into the company's affairs,
and ascertained their soundnem, Mr. %Valium
continued active in re-establishing good understand-
ing between the directors and their constituency.
And at the Great Northern a motion for a committee
of investigation had not half a dozen hands held up
in its favour.
This improved feeling is the more encouraging, be.
cause though not of course undeserved by Isamu
boards, it does not appear to have been actively
aught for by them. It is very much the natural
rebound from a state of things to which passion and
excitement, tattier than reason or consideration, were
the ocatives. At several of these meetings
of great interest to the welfare of the dif-
larenro—oropanies have been discussed, and though apes
them important differences of opinion, both as to
c)icy and to detail, arose between directors and their
on largest shareholder., yet, a poll being resorted to,
it ' ld not appear that the board had in any ems
canvassed for or even bad received proxies.
Thus, at the Midland meeting, the director
had a majority of nearly. 2.000 votes, without
registering a single proxy ; whilst their opposes;
Mr. WYLIE, had such little influence over those he
addressed, that of the 2,400 votes polled in support of
hi amendment no fewer than 1,800 were ghee
through proxies by persons who of course did not
hear the conclusive reply given to that gentlemen by
Mr. Ewe. So, at the Great Norther& inesting.
proxies were used, but not one was held by a direatdr;
the two parties, entertaining apparently such inecon-
cileable views as to proceeding with the line between
Askerne and York, reopectftely canvassing for votes,
whilst Mr. DENPON was quite content to abide by
the decision of the shareholders after they had boat
his frank and full explanation of the views of the
Board.
This is a preferable pectic* to thatof the Brightes
l.lleard at their late meeting. • For, though it be tens,
as Mr. Wen then stated, that railway meetings are
not attended by majorities of the peens incorporated;
yet their nonattendance does not impose any duty on
the directors, such as convening for proxiesin favour
of measures promoted by themselves ; and it yet re-
mains to be shown that the conclusions come to at
these mutings do not substantially represent the
spokes of the shareholders u a body. Wean the
propositions of a railway board require • =van for
proxtes by directors, to carry them through the
edged of a public meeting, at which there is gene-
rally (times such as the last eighteen months excepted),
• @agog tendency to airport the executive of the
sompay, those propositions are, shareholders may
Wyse it. of very doubtful policy ; and on such par-
NW quakes as the appointment of directors, the
nerve punned by Mr. &Minh LAING and the other
members of the Brighton Board is in reality destruc-
tive of the rights of shareholders, even though it
affect to have the exercise of their rights in view.
The serious position in which railway pro-
perty is at present, has bad another good effect
at these meetings; it has driven into the
background the stock centers, or professional opp,-
skim which woe was rampant, and has brought
heard a class of speakers deeply interested
,and sisal at important objests. Disunion at the
Emthe co-partners of them great commercial
in their real affairs, is, of course, most
u desirable, indeed, that there can be
homily too much of it. On the other hand, there
Mast be too little of vague declamation and of un-
prolkabb talk on thus ommeions; for thereby atten-
[ don is diverted from what is important, the directors
are coveted and protected when in error, and those
ithersally could be of service are driven away from
Owes deliberations.
New there is scarcely a railway company of any
=the meetings of which have not been in-
their very origin withaelass of shareholders
whetopar to 010 them as a debating club, to prac-
tine thin all the arta and tricks of an unscrupulous
pa irmintary opposition eager for place, to move
meson mats on every imaginable question, and to
wpm the directors merely because they are di-
nettes. They consist almost invariably of persons
idle hold very small shares in the companies, and who
7=edito hold only ea a qualification for spouting.
g to them, everything that is is wrong. Now
the remedy for all this, noir as they are concerned,
is, to cease to be proprietor in a concern of which
they have so ill an opinion : not to make bad worse
by adding to errors which do exist, mistakes that have
no foundation except in their own fertile imagination.
Adversity is, however, narrowing the opportunities
of this order of shareholder. When there was no-
thing but prompsrity_ to talk of, they had the field
all to themselves" ; and the rest of the company
listened by way of amusement. But when there is
real business to be transacted, the Chairman generally
ewe shareholders of another stamp arise as speakers ;
sad when the old hands do contrive at the end of
the day to get in with their amendment, the auditory,
that once was amused by their noise, will now scarcely
enders them.
At none of the recent meetings was the Audit
Quellsa one of prominence ; at none of them was
then prolonged discussion on it ; and at only one, the
Great Northern, was there a proposition made in favour
ei" open system of government audit." There, too, it
was wade by a member of the oratorical class jag
rehered to, apparently because it afforded the only
available. opening for a speech; and the report add%
"only six proprietors voted for it." Such, taw,
appears to be the state of this question : that at the
February railway meetings of all the companies, only
six shareholders voted for the interference of govern-
ment in their affairs; whilst at every meeting a com-
mittee of shareholders was appointed to devise
improved machinery of independent audit. It is in
vain, then, with this result of the February meetings.
to argue that there is any change of opinion on the
audit question amongst railway shareholders.
Wronged and defrauded in some cases though they
have been, deluded and disappointed in many more,
railway shareholders do not fly to the arms of govein-
mut for future protection ; they repel Lord
MONYEAOLIS'S advances, and rely on their own

RFFORNIERS have RR ream@ to be downcast at the
division oo parliamentary reform. It indicates pro-
gress—not very marked or rapid, it may be—but
still progress.
In 1149 the vote on Mr. Humes motion stood :
Arm, l'2; noes, 288; majority, 186. In 1850 it
stande :—Ayes, 98; noes, 242; maim its., 146. The
pipporters of reform in the House of Commons, as
indicited by this vote, are wore numerous this year
;bon they were last, its opponents fewer, and the
mitjority teeniest reform reduced by 40.
A Yr-inti' of the division list shows that 29 mem-
bers hire voted foe the motion in 1850 who did not
vote on the question in 1819. It also appears that
18 members who voted for reform in 1849 did not
vote for it on Thursday night. But not one of the
1. rota against it, and with one exception all of
them are still in the house. We are therefore en-
titled (including the tellers) to estimate the minority'
is the House of Commons, friendly to Mr. Humes
plan of reform, at 115.
The number of members of the House of Commons
who have by their votes avowed their approbation of
Mr. Home's plan of parliamentary reform, is only
two short of the number who went into the lobby
with Mr. DISRAELI on the largest division he con-
trived to make in his factious opposition to the Irish
franchise bill ; although on that occasion he was
backed by Mr. GLADSTONE and the rest of his sec-
tion of the Prelims, who, tired of wandering in the
dry desert of rational conservatism, have wended
their way hack to the flesh-pots of the tory Egypt.
It is only 23 short of a full half of the majority of
Liberals who saved ministers by rejecting Mr. Dm-
Lieu's notable scheme of financial reform. It is a
melt greeter number than the few AZDIELS who
riu maintain unshaken their allegiance to Sir
ROBERT PEEL.
if the state of the vote is thus encouraging, the
tenor of the debate was still more so. The conserva-
tives kept a mischievous silence, pleased to see minis-
ter, fighting their battle in opposition to their most
trustworthy supporters against re-action in our com-
'swig policy. And ministers conducted the argu-
ment against their own professed principles, as Mr.
Baum: tauntingly told them, "in the spirit of a
pries lawyer."
Toe parliamentary reformers complain that the
Commons of England are not represented in the
House of Commons. The counties swamped by the
tenants at will, and backed by the small nominee and
corrupt boroughs, enabled the landed aristocracy, titled
and tattled, to pack the house. The mercantile
and manufacturing interests, the liberal professions,
and the small capitalists, are in a helpless minority in
the home, and tne intelligensad industrious artisans
are utterly unrepresenteL The laws are made, aid
the taxes =posed, in accordance with the prejudices
and to subserve the interests of the great landowners
and the cadets and dependents of their families who
are saddled on the country in the characters of mili-
tary aid naval ofE,:ers and churchmen. There is no
chance of steady consistent legislation and financial
administration spore equitable and national principles
so ;aog as the House of Commons remains composed
oat pres-et. The parliamentary reformers do not
ask a House of Commons in which the moneyed or
mercantile interest shall preponderate ; they ask a
Home of Commons in which all classes and interests
shall have their due share in the representation—
which shall legislate in harmony with the national
intelligence.
Ws wise do ministers the justice to say, that we
believe them perfectly sensible of the necessity of prole
portMning representation at least to property, and el
giving sash kind of property, imbeciles industry, its
dee weight in Bee-tang the important question of
tazatioe. Bat all Lord JOAN said (the house
miring the minimize, and acknowledging its truth
with marked applanse),if heattempted to weigh endear
aid screed his mils without a strong popular breeze
bowing at the time, he and his party might drift on
the rocks. Never was the necessity of aplation more
clearly poitted out to the country. Theirs shall be
reform and equal taxation, as soon se they bee& them-
selves to demand it.

After such a confession it would be very cruel to
anathematise ministers for resisting Ilr. Hunts
motion; very gratuitous to expose the utter want
of scope or me_aning that characterised Sir
CrtaiLGE GRET'i 'Meted horror of democracy. Is
fists any need of refitting Lord Joan Ressates
affected fears that extending the franchise would
auntie the public securities! Has the Reform Bill,
or as now constituencies, benught in ens man who
era broached snob a doctrine? If repudiation is to be
feared. it is surely nothons the- ranks of reformers,
hat from those of their ultra-oppcinente. Has
the el.dest chartist ever known in England,
tretidoctrines ball se subversive as these of
etir Derattoen 10 Even Sir JAMES GRA-
atm got astride his old earreacy ideekthe other day,
in the house. If Lard 'oar had said that the oleo-
total franchise should be widened, in ardor to secure
property and credit, there would bare been more
tenet and fairies, in his demand, than in the false
Etathat the landowners are the sole stanch up-
rsasof all state liabilities.
Lord Juns extenuate, his reluctance to act upon
hie own principles, by professing an intense longing
to devote himself to practical administrative reforms.
Ile affects to fear that if popular attention
is devoted to the question of a new Reform
Bill, it will be impossible to find time
for administrative improvement, which are urgently
rcloired. Experience does not warrant these apprehen-
nom The great administrative reforms of our day
—the new poor-law, the emancipation of the slaves and
of mere repidlyadvanced to maturity daring
the Reform Bill agitation than at any tonna prided.
The progress of administrative reform bee legged in
the interest in meatitutimal reforms
Ca ges= as
and grown languid. AM *bat are the
administrative reforms in promotin width Lord
JURY bep not to be distracted by
Um for parliamentary reform ? The memere will
he and his colleagues are pushing forward meet nee-
lo,ely, upon which the moat obstinate battle of the
swim has been fought, is the bill for extending the
Irish franchise.
Lard June Rees= sought to meet the wawa
for representative reform by another argument certandy
as Loyal as it wee untenable. He endeavoured to show
that if we did something to equalise representation
re should be throwing power into the hands of the
ilifftcaltunra, and thereby increasing clam dill,-
mew. Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Dereaddra,
mid the noble lord, are not represented in properties
to population. If they are not, by all means let them
be so. hilt the illustrations are ill chosen. Derbyshire
btf, ma the Reform Bill retuned 4 members to the
zl'Acti of Commons. It now sends 6. Lincolnshire re-
tuned 12: it now sendel3. Devonshire retuned IC it
how sends 22. These counties, therefore, ream es
mazy ultrebas as they ever did, and when use ems
to look ciustr at the case, it will be found that peeper-
tiotately they return too many. The West Riding of
Yorlcature has a population of a million and a quarter,
--it returns two members : those three counties united
Lana population very little exceeding a million, and
they return twelve members. So much for Lord
J"!!‘', pet counties. The noble lord defeats his own
of in defending marked inequalities by such
11,44p;e5. The three counties which he cites return aa
we shown no lose than 41 county and borough re-
Presentativrs to parliament. Lancashire, with a po-
Pistlon nearly one-half larger, returns 24; mem-
''rrr ; and all Yorkshire, with double the population.,
"4 :r; members. The counties, therefore, on which
!'4 d JI,IIN lays such stress, return, compared with
to !,ac,4.1, re, or Yorkshire, half as mall more members
Ihiriiiunent as they ought to do.

THE FXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 2, 1850.

determination and energy to save themselves from the
recurrence of such " plessantriee," as Mr. Hutoote and
his creatures practised on them. Had it been other-
wise; had railway shareholders rushed to government
fee safety in the hour of their distress, the whole sys-
tem of oar society and government, would have re-
ceived a shock ; and that spirit of self-reliance, on
the malt of which we have for centuries prided our
selves, would have been damaged.
At one of the meetings, it wu observed by Mr.
Gums( HUTCHISON, who stated that he wu one of
the largest railway pespristors is the kingdom, that
"n 0 audit bill would be of the load use unless it secured
to shareholders 'amassed Rowers." In this remark
oar residers will fled to opinion repesadly pressed
on their attention. A proper system of audit is
of emcee most important, bet it is not all impor-
tant; for even with a system of really efficient
audit, the affairs of a company may be very ineffi-
ciently conducted. The best Imam of audit that can
be devised is but a system of verification; and con-
tains within itself no adequate security foe good
mam~emeat. It will, of course, prevent accounts
from being " cooked," " things" from being " made
pleasant," and dividends from being paid oat of capi-
tal, and such other Hudsonian rogueries. But it will
not prevent extravagant expenditure, unwise con-
tracts or injudicious arrangements; it sill not name-
skate the closing of the capital account ; it will not
settle the much disputed questions of what (Amgen
ought to be made spinet capital, what against
revenue; it will not compel directors to lay before
shareholders half-yearly estimates of coming expendi-
ture, alter the manner of • parliamentary budget.
And these are platten of quite u much importance as
improvement of the audit system—matters which it
is much to be hoped will not be overlooked by the
committees recently appointed.

&dose of the armistice by the Imes of arms as is desired,
is riot merely • protease, but • real este Is. Prowls.
Deabshady the trade of the Bahia sass isteasively from
the mere deaunciaties perked of six weeks, bemuse it un-
settles all orders. If the Prussia* governmeat, therefore,
could have eared the esuatries is question from that km by
weds( to the Danish eenditkar, it would have deem se
without hesitation ; that It did sot de so fully the
impossibility. It maned possibl be o how
small were the amass at the disposal of the Prestos
severnmest for this eldest; that Denmark
shook' have been three wish • renewal of hastiltiles
the Meads of the moieties asset amsredly would not deem
advisable. On the other head, we have nude as &amebas
which could have compensated Denmark for the psalms
dos, salsas we had at ones thrown aside the *sly mesas of
negotiettim the pease. Nevertheless, the Pram= ranso-
med, r we are rightly inferred. an ortitigeslia sad ae•
no* resavoubsg to orals is speedily as and in
the peeper way, a formal proleagatioa of ardedee, in
Nall le Mare to re trade aged shlppiag lateness en their
deer at least Is, the dandles of the summer, that essarity
"Shoat wide they would sass extern/Ave aa
Theism the most important points ea virtartke ens-
mittes have expressed a desire for explanaties. It met ap-
pear, Wisner, unadvhable to bring on a dlemassioa en the
oubjest k the ;lumber itself; the present isomer
that aseethies, cal course should be pained, Mello:
sa satiAls. sae ; and • ll.eurka might from many parts ef
the house be carried on bath with respect to Denmark sad
the duellist without that reserve wki& the interests of pokes
aid for..

with this view of the government eonsmiss' loner,
the net decided at once not to propose lay delibera-
tion as the subject in the chamber.

GREECE AND THE LEVANT.

The Neapolitan steam-frigate ErodeMALTA
arrived hare
on the 19:h, from Palermo and Lampedusa. Upwaeds
of seventy vessels took advantage of shift of wind
and this weather yesterday to put to sea. Among
them were seventeen bound to Cork, with wheat and
Indian corn. Daring bet night the wind shifted
again to the westward, blowing fresh, and no doubt
eke greater part wilt put back again. Some of the
vessels have been trying since the middle of Decem-
ber last to get to the westward, bat without success.
A letter received last night from Athens, by the
French steamer Leonidas, to the 18th, states that
the Greek question is in stabs quo, the government
having decided to wait for and act upon the opinions
of the courts of Paris and St. Petersburg. Meanwhile
all commerce is impeded; every vessel caught at
sea or in harbour under Greek colours is
immediately taken to the Bay of Salamis, and placed
under the guns of the fleet. Then are upwards of
eighty vessels thus detained. The Greek corvette.,
Amalie and Ludovico, said to have been by the Rag-
limb cruiser', are still at liberty. One is reported to
be at Previa', and the other at &denies; no doubt
they are in some neutral port, where they cannot be
touched. Some *of the Greek journals are very
severe in their attack upon the English. The
poet Alexander Soutzo has written an article
in the Riede, intitaled "The impious English."
"See," :says he, "these ravishen, these Car-
thaginians, who have seized the ships of Greece.
The troth of their crime can be seen floating on the
sea; but whilst a single Greek exists, he will hand
down to his posterity a relation of this disastrous
epoch."
This 'pouter goes on to ay, " Courage, my friends,
courage ! There is a God in heaven, and the earth
has not been given up to the tyranny of Great Bri-
tain, like the sea.
" Diplomacy at Athena and at Constantinople is
generously working in oar favour. Already are
steamers ploughing the waves, and carrying to other
courts the news of this crime of England. Behold
the Emperor Nicholas raising masses of men to crush
the Ottoman.

FRANCE.

PARIS. FRIDAY 5.30 P.M:

Eight regiments are to be moved to the eastern de-
partments.
Two of these are to be furnished by
Paris. They leave to-morrow. To-day they were
reviewed on the Plaoe de la Concorde, byithe Presi-
dent in person. Upwards of 10,000 people were
present. and demonstrations of loyalty greeted the
president from a great majority. Several Monts-
gaud members who were on the ground raised the cry
of " Vire la Republique," but the mention of this un-
fortunate institution did but increase the ardour of

the majority.
The preliminary elections of the Union Electorale
commenced to-day, but little animation was visible,
however, at the pulling-places. The Bonapartist com-
mittee and the legitimist@ have put forward their
several candidates in great placard.. It is supposed
that the preparatory votes will eliminate all but
Bonjean Lahitte and d'Arbouville.
To-day in the Assembly Id. Barrot laid on the
table of the Chamber the long-looked-for project of
law on the mayors. It gave rise, however, to no
debate.

M. Bertholon opened fire against the government
a-propos of a project of law granting a sum for ex-
penses of couriers, in order to enter into a general
exhumation of the policy pursued for the last year by
the executive. Cries of " Question" did not induce
M. Bertholon to stop, whereupon the vice-president,
General Bedeau, consulted the Assembly u to
whether they would allow the speaker to proceed. The
Assembly decided in the negative, and M. Banns
ascended the tribune. He begin by saying that he
had a right to treat of foreign again d-propos of the
subject then under debate. He had a right so to do
as long as the Roman affair remained undecided, and
se lug so any danger was to be feared for the inde-
imbue. d Switserland, which was being invested
ea all Wes ; so long, in fact, u the ministry gave
dm to enspiFion.
The minister of foreign Ralik, interrupted M.
Beau to inform him that the state of external rels-
doss was not such as he supposed. for foreifn powers
were giving every usurance of friendship. With
regard to S witzaland, it was easy to state what was
taking place there. The federal council had been
invited to remove to a distance from its frontiers
a number of refugees, whose proceedings caused a
certain anxiety, and the federal council had done
what was requested of it. In this there was nothing
to slam, nor anything to show thit the inde-
pendence of Switzerland was threatened.
The law then passed, and the Chamber resumed
the deliberation on the Avignon Railway.
M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, who spoke in the same
ems as M. Letrane yesterday, was at the tribune at
post-hour.
It will be sun from the returns of the Bank of
France that the metallic reserve continues to augment,
being nearly 21 millions more In Paris, and about a
million more in the branch-buks. 'he discount
accommodation is greater in Paris by about 71
millions, and less in the departments by 11 millions;
the amount of the former being 46,687,0831 r., and of
the latter 85,849,829 fr. The protested bills in Paris
have decreased about 40,000 k., and in the provinces
about 20,000 fr.; the amount of the former being
1,880,097 fr., and of the latter 1,481,185 fr. On the
side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have in-
creased in Paris about 81 millions, and in the pro-
vinces about 1 a million. The account current of the
treasury has augmented 41 millions, the present
amount being 87,758,641 fr. Private accounts-current
have declined in Paris about It -milieus, and in the
departments about 120,000 fr.; the amount of the
lama being 73,286,119 fr., and of the latter
91,9111,1101 fr. The whole amount of the metallic re-
igns now amounts to 472 millions to 4761 millions
of IMAM is circulation.
The idnieter of commerce, with the authorisation
d the Proddent of the Republic, has formed a com-
minion for the purpose of organising the measures
siceeseary for the interest of such French manufac-
tutees as may wish to take part in the general exhibi-
tion to be held in London in 1881, and to come to an
understanding with the English committee an the
subject. 11. C. Dalin, president of the central jury of
the national exhibition d 1849, is president.
BOUM.

"Citizens of free Greece, prepare yourselves. The
English compel us to beanie another Alexander, to
out this Gordian knot--this important Eastern ques-
tion.

"Let us recommence the war, and the nation be-
come an entire army ! Let us, under the auspices of
France, Austria. and Germany, restore the empire of
the great Constantine, and thus be in possession of
Western Greece from the &rotas to Inns, and of
Eastern Greece from the Nile to the Euzine, with
three capitals—Athens, the seat of learning ; Constan-
tinoplei, the seat of government; and Jerusalem, the
seat of religion."
The poet forgot another capital—money. Would
any one credit that such bombastic rhodomontade
could have been published at learned Athens in the
present age ?
The Puma is still blockaded ; no Greek Tees' can
leave. The Bulldog steamer has blockaded Syra.
General Mamouri, aide-de-camp to the king, and
military commandant at Phthiotide, pnblishectan ap-
peal to arms to the people of his department ; when
Otho heard of it he immediately removed him from
his command. The islands of Sapienza and Cervi
have not yet been made a subject of discussion ; they
will remain uatil the preasntquestion is settled, when,
it is mid, Great Britain will take possession of them
by force if denied by the Greek government. The
cold at Salonica has been intense, the thermometer
for days standing at from 10 to 14 degrees below
'Zero.
Aoletter received here (Malta) from Smyrna states,
that " the French squadron is still at Gude*.

Nothing is known is to its fature movements.
The French brig Seraphiu has been lost on the
Isle of Cervi. The brig Maurice-Antoinette, Caphtin
Clavier, is also lost on the coast of Miteline ; all the
crews were saved. Business is dull. Opium, of
which there are some 250 chests, is selling at 108 1
piss. the reequi. Yellow grains keep up prices.l
There are about 300 sacks in depot, selling at 19 toi
22 pies the oke. Cottons are in demand ; nO. bales
of Kirksgats have been sold at 295 piss. the muter.
There ape 1,600 toles in depot. Some little afire
have been does in galls ; white at 315, green at 325,
and black at 545. Gums have fetched 30 piss. the
oke. Colonials and manufactures calm. A few par-
cels of coffee have sold at 810 to 815 pim. the hun-
dred okee, in bard cub. Exchange on London,
1111 piss. •
Letters from Constantinople mention that the cold
still continuos, the thermometer being !morally below
zero. The government disbanded for the winter
about five thousand troops, and gent them home.
Rostand's steamer came in this morning from Mar-
seilles, and will leave in the afternoon for Syria,
Smyrna, and Constantinople. H.M. steamer Merlin
will take up the next Indian mail to Marseilles about
the 25th. The council of government proceeds with
the discussion of the new criminal mdse.

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dad litswkaalg. 7s; Tom aad
Troyes, 107 SO.

ark and Room 530 ; Avignon
hod Be* 11l 76; Wenn and
, 457 60; North, 443 75; park
Mato. 250; Montanan and

SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN.

[Comladed from the Express of yesterday.]

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The following is the conclusion of Here Von Use-
dom'e report to the Upper Chamber at Berlin :
It has been remarked that anarchy reigned in Schleswig,
that it was a lasting revolutionary iosurreetion, which might
be suppressed in the same manner as those in Saxony end
Baden were by the Prussian troops if it was really desired.
The affairs of the duchy are, however, not to be
:of so tinily. What is generally denominated " revo-
taloV tine blind resistance to every, but more puticulasly
to monarchical authority, is, in fact, not to be found in the
duchies. So far as Schleswig Holstein is German it is
peopled by a wise, prudent, and in every respect worthy
roes of North German nature. It is true that there exists
between this rase and the Danish element a violent hatred,
which has shown itself most powerfully at several periods of
their existence. That hatred is however towards Danish
nationality and Danish rale, mad not towards the monarchical
principle cc the person of the monarch. The Schleswig-
Holstainer holds with extraordinary tenacity to what he con-
siders his good old rights; he defends " fueros " not
only with democratic fire bat with aristocratic obsti-
nacy. This piesliarity may be carried too fez, it
may, in eatain oirmunateness, where it might be neces.
nary to give way, endanger the very interests of the country
which it endeavours to preserve; but a conscientiosui ob-
server cannot enrol such a movement in the category of com-
mon revolutions. It is to be hoped that the Pran PolieY
and the Prussian army will be able utterly to destroy the
eery existence of low state•deatroying democracy.
It ham been asked, what means have been employed by the
government to bring about a prolongation of the armistice ?
The reply to this question is, that Lord Palmerston,
as minister of the mediating power, proposed •
short time ago in Copenhagen a prolongation of the
armistice for another six months. But the Danish govern-
ment made it a condition of agreeing to this propoW. that
the armistice should be thoroughly carried out in Schleswig
and that its fulfilment should be guaranteed by different
parties. For the reasons developed above this condition
mid not be accepted by the Prussian government, because
the promise of fulfilment could not have been kept. Who.
ever will rightly weigh the circumstances can from this
algae judge that the impossibility of carrying out the coo-

The Courtier di Athena mays The sufferings of
our commerce, and of all those connected with our
shipping interests, are increased by every day's de-
lay. Employment is wanting in consequence of
business being at a stand,
sequence, payments are made with difficulty, and
threaten, if some change does not moon take place, to
be dlttlnitively suspended. To these calamities may be
added dearness of provisions and the rigours of a
winter unexampled in this country."
The Malta Mail states that M. Zsimus, a relative
of M. Londe', the Greek minister of foreign strain,
has been appointed consul in that island, in the room
of M. P. Roque, who has been named secretary of
the Greek legation at Paris. ,

DEA= FROM HYDROPROBlit.—Yesterday an in
quest was taken before Mr. W. Baker, at the Acorn public
house, Great Cambridge street, Hackney-road, es to the
death of a child named Alias Smith, aged five years, who
died from the effects of a bite from a mad dog. The de-
ceased lived with her parents at No. 7, Albsrt•treet,
Bethnal green. On the 15th of November the deceseed was
being washed by her sister, when she suddenly got away
and ran out into the garden at the beck of the house
screaming. A small terrier dog which was kept in the
yard, flew at her left leg and bit it most severely in three
places. The father of the deceased, on hearing of the oc-
suirrence, instantly shot the dog as it had bitten another
child on the previous day. The &aims' was usually fastened
up, but on that morning the deceased had, unknown to the
family, let the dog loose. The mother bathed the wounds
with warm water and also poultised them. In
a few days the wounds healed and no farther
notice was taken until Friday last, when the deceased was
suddenly attacked with sickness, and complained of violent
thirst. On water being offered to her she went into violent
fits, and at intervals she howled like a dog. Mr. Wilt, a
surgeon, was called in, who said the deceased was sulfating
from symptoms of hydrophobia, and prescribed the usual
remedies, but she languished in intense suffering until Sun-
day afternoon last, when she expired. The dog hail not ex-
hibited any signs of canine madness until the day previous
te its biting the deceased, who was constantly in the habit
of playing with the animal. Mr. West said the deceased
had died from hydrophobia, which he had no doubt was
produced by the bite of the dog in November last. She ex-
hibited unmistakeable symptoms of that disease, which was
incurable. The jury returned • verdict of Death from
hydrophobia, resulting from the bite of a dog, supposed to
I be mad."