The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

GERMANY.

BBELIN, Joa■ 22.
The provisional college of princes of the Erfurt
anion have decided in temporarily ignoring the
Hanoverian vote of the 7th instant to Hamburg,
Bremen, and Oldenburg.
The landowners of Pomerania and the merchants
of Rugensalde have petitioned against the proposed
alterations in the tariff of the
The poet debit hss been re-granted to the National.
The Abendpost and the rrwilfikr have again been
confiscated. The poet debit hu been withdrawn from
sevesteen other journals.
Heseenpflug hes been convicted of forgery, and not
of embezzlement merely.

VIENNA, Jmrs 18.
A courier with despa'ches from Corfu
through Vamps this evening. The limes of laZed
n-
bly had ben dissolved. A stormy debate had taken
place on the day proceeding the dissolution, and the
president had bees hived out of the chair.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.-CANADA.

TORONTO, JrNN 8.

There has been an exciting debate in our House of
Assembly during the week on some resolutions of
Mr. Bonitos, from Norfolk. These were to the effect
that an humble address be presented to the Queen,
prayira her to grant that the Legislative Council (The
secoadbratch of our legislature) be made elective,
instead of being appointed, es at present, by the royal
prerogative. The motion was lost in the house by a
large majority.
The main feature of the hon. member's plan ice, that
tLe province be divided into thirty electoral districts,
divided aooording to the number of the population
taken decennially. That the members should possess
a property qualification, of an amount to be fixed;
and that they should hold their seats for six years.
The voters also to possess a higher property qualifica-
tion than those for members of the House of As-
sembly.
The debate was remarkable, and to us in this pro-
vince exciting. I never saw Mr. Baldwin—the old,
respectable, and intelligent leader and idol of the
Upper Canadian reformers—more excited. I may'
add that this gentleman is at present the leader of the
Upper Canadian section of the present ministry. He
declared that he would never support the proposition
of making the legislative council elective ; he said that
it would be the introduction of the wedge which
would effect a revolution ; that it was incompatible
with oar present system of government, and would
have the effect of subverting all our institutions. He
strongly deprecated such a result.
Mr. Boultont of Toronto (a tory), on the other
hand, argued with much face, that the forms of the
British constitution were inapplicable to the society
of this province ; that they had not worked, would
not work ; and that the effect they had produced had
been to pleas the country in a state of semi-revolu-
tion once in ten years, inducing the belief that a state
of anarchy existed in it, driving capital, prosperity,
and emigration from its shores. He said that he knew
that the application of the elective principle to the
council would involve a charge of system ; and he
desired to have it. He compared our system with
that of the state of New link; and asserted that he
preferred the of the republic. Ile further said that
In a state ot society similar to ours, we saw that the
republican system had had the effect of producing
peace and prosperity, while the reverse had been the
attendacts upon ours.
The ministry have had some violent attacks made
upon them, but they are still very strong in the
house, with a secure majority of about one-third. As
a specimen of the kind of attack made upon them by
M. l'apintan, take the following from one of his
speeches:—" He considered the present men the
very best to maintain in power to obtain the breaking
up of the present epeeist ; and the fact of such men
being in power, with the present governor for their
slave, he considered a more portentous sign for the
dominion of England on this continent than the
emp:yitg of the tea chests in Boston harbour."
Mr. Hunks, the inspector-general, stated in his
place in the hones the °dire evening, that he had the
best reasons for bed/ming that the United States will ,1
pose a reciprocity bill. Also, that Nova Scotia had
taken off the duty from our flour. This latter makes
free trade in agricultural products between the British
American colonies.

The question of retrenchment of our public expen-
diture has been much agitated, and the government
has appointed a committee of inquiry.
Tree legislature in a body proposes to take an ex-
manila to the Welland Canal to-morrow, and your
correspondent having an invitation to see the show,
will give you a brief account of it next week.
The weather is warm, but vegetation more back-
ward than usual. LAMBDA.