The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

THE FXPRESB, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1850.

among the laboariag classes, and to maps from the
galling yoke of the Seventeen, by adopting minis.ers
who would conciliate the support of the liberals, and
occupy themselves with measures for the relief of the
lower classes.

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The Assembly will occupy itself on Saturday with
• foreign question, which is not without importance.
The report on the petition of the monks of St. Ber-
nard will be presented. Yon are aware that after
the war of the Sonderband the radical government of
the Valais confiscated the property of this religions con-
ration. Tee Frond; government, op to 1848, contri-
buted to the support of the convent by an annual
pension, which INS then suspended by M. Guisot.
Proceeding upon this hint, the souks claim the ro-
tection of Fromm fur the re-establishment of
despoiled hospice. Petitions have been sent to the As-
sembly, to the President, and to the Minister of Foreign
'Affairs, soliciting support against their adverseries.
Oen Labitte seems to have taken up the cause of the
monks with a seal worthy of M. Onizet, the thread
of whose snapt policy, after lying by for two
lyears, is once more the clue followed at the
Hotel dre Capncices upon all foreign matter..
General Lahitte is determined to avail himself
of this opening to bully the Swiss radicals. On
the 4th of June he restored the suppressed pension to
the " Hoppies " of St. Bernard ; and this act is said
to have been accompanied by the despatch of an
energetic note to the Swiss government, demanding
an indemnity to the convent for the spoliation eizer-1
cised in 1848. The government conceives the mo—
ment ripe for asking the Chamber to sanction, by •
vote, its further proceedings in this matter.
It is observed that General Baraguay d'Hilliers has
frequent and close iaterviews with the President.
Tne trial of the publisher of the National for an
article against the President of the Republic took
place yesterday. The jury, after deliberating about
twenty minutes, returced a verdict of acquittal.

S. u.
P.S.—To-day the trial of Proudhon and Lan-
grauct, for seditious articles in the v.a du Peupie,
was heard in the (hart of Assize of the Seine.
There was an immense crowd of people, eager to
learn tho r. cult ; and among the occupants of
the public tribune were several of the most fashion-
able ladies in Parie. 'the article upon which the
pros. cation was founded appeared on April Di. After
1 .ng speeches in defence of the accused, by MM.
Montjau anti Cremieux, and an oration by Proudhon
himself, which was listened to with much interest,
the jury re:t:red for an hour, and, reappearing at six,
verdict of "Not guilty" upon any of the
CAI as in the indictment. This acquittal, on the an-
niversary of the 13th of June, makes an immense
sensation, and is a great leather in the cap of the
Reds.

dors Mirth ; Leander, Ind fatigable. Melbas,
Phaeton, Thoth, Arrogant, Encounter. and Conflict,
undtr eaey tail, off Cape Roos, B.b, W. 9 WIN. Oa
the ith, the Vengeance, la tow by the Ism, sailed
for England.

SOUTH AMERICA.

By the Valparaiso papers resolved by the last West
India mail, it appears that the Pacific Steam Naviga-
tion Company, which oonveys the English mail. be-
tween Panama and Valparaiso, are petitioning the
Chihan government for a renewal of their privileges
for live years, and have offered in return for such
privileges, to ran their summers south of Valparaiso
to Talcahuano, Valdivia, and Chloe. The province
of Valdivia is becoming of immense importance to
Chili through foreign emigration. It contains a fer-
tile soil and a salubrious climate, and is likely to
prove to Chili what the far west is to America.
According to the Chili= journals, a company in
Wurtesberg, in Germany, have purchased land in
Valdivia, and the Wortemberg government have dis-
tributed 2,000 acres of this land gratuitously amongst
emigrants. A number of these emigrants are expected
in the course of this year. Owing to the great
number of English in Chili, a newspaper called the
flilpara4o Mercantile Reporter is published at Val-
paraiao lin the English language. It is expected that
Chili will for many years supply California with
wheat, and the Chilians are busy projecting arrange-
ments for a more frequent communication with the
agricultural districts of Valdivia and other por-
tions of the south, and also for railway communi-
cation with the interior. The Chilian reformers are
advocating the redaction of the time for emigrants
to obtain citizenship from six to three years, and also
facilities for allowing inter-marriage among all creed',
to suppress the prevailing immorality. It is proposed
to abolish the excise and tithe taxes,and to impose an
import duty on tobacco and a land tax. It anpeave
that it is not the amount of taxation that is objected
to, but the evils lamp/rolls from its collection.
" The excise officer," says a Valparaiso paper, " enters
into the houses of our citizens without any previous
notice, vexes and outrages private decorum, and
tramples on family feeling." It appears, also, that
the tithe tax is collected most unfairly, for while the
poor man, who grows ten fanegas or wheat, has to
contribute one, the rich landowner does not contri-
bute one in a hundred.

The excise and the tithe, however, are two branches
of the revenue held up by the priesthood and the
londowners. A man of more foresieht than Vial, and
more courage than Lastarria, would fell tie tree of
these evils with one stroke of the axe, but Vial is too
timid awl Lastarria too weak. The tithe and the
excise will therefore outlive the legislat.on of 1830,
and will keep op the power and influence of one party
and manifest the debility of the other.