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London, England, 1846-08-15 00:00:00

THE SITN, LONDON, SATURDA Y EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1846.

netted with commerce in foreign grain were con-
suited iipm sui+ci, and they admitted that the
law as it stands at present w,euld be productive of
most serious inconvenience, aitd they came to this ,
unanimous opinion, noti.vithtanding that their peelitl-
cal opinions were widely different. Mr. VILLIERS,
accordingly, took the preliminary steps last night
in the House for bringing in a short Bill
to remedy the blunder, and in the course
of a short and business-like speech he expressed an
opinion that Lord G.2ORCIE BENTINCE, would not
take advantage of the error, but allow him to go into
Committee and propose his measure. Mr. VILLIERS,
however, found himself deceived in this impression.
The Member for Lynn made no secret of his delight
at the discovery, acknowledged that nothing could he
more ridiculous than the mode of regulating the
prices of peas, beans, and rye by that of barley, end
concluded by threatening the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer with the most virulent opposition, should he
attempt to effectuate the bond fide intentions of the
Legislature, and give to the people the full benefit of
the commercial change for which they had so per-
rseveringly struggled. Here is high• minded state-
man-hip ! How lofty in their views, how immaculate
in printiple are the protectionist leader, and his
izeprous coadjutors ! " Though you, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer," exclaims the Noble Lord,
in effect, " will not condescend to consider the ad-
vantage to the reevenue, nor retain an error at the
sacrifice of keeping faith with the public, yet we,
the monopolists, regardful only of what concerns our
pockets, will pertinaciously cling to a law manifestly
ridiculous, and will defeat you at this advanced
period of the session by a mechanical opposition,
should you dare to wrest from us a benefit to which
we are morally di.entitled." Such is the finishing
and graceless stroke of the protectionists in the
memorable session of 1846. Badly as they stood
before, they have, by this mean proceeding, ren-
dered themselves completely bankrupt in character.
Mr. VILLIERS and the Government were, under the
circumstances, forced to abandon the hope of rectifying
'he corn-law till next year. In the meantime the
country will not be slow to remember the disgrace.
ful tactics by which they have for the time been
deprived of a considerable boon.

We gladly turn from this discreditable scene to
another of a more grateful character. Mr. HumE
again essayed to carry his motion for throwing
open to the public on Sundays and holidays
the 13ritish Museum, the National Gallery, and
similar public institutions. He gave some interesting
statistics, which proved the yearly increa-e of visitor,
on wet k days to public places of recreation and in-
struction, since they have been thrown open, to be
very large, ar.d also that it has been attended
with a marked improvement in the conduct and
morals of the people. Lord JOHN RUSSELL expressed
nis approval of Mr. Ilume's object, but considered
~he question had better be left in the hands of the
7rustees of the different institutions. The moil.),
was ultimately withdrawn. 'We have every confi
letice that the Premier, as one of the trustees of the
iiritish Museum, will not fail strongly to recom-
:nend that its doors should be opened in the way de-
.ired, and that his advice will be acted upon. It is
.tot only, in our opinion, a moral right that the la-
:touring classes, who are pent up six days in the
.veek, should have access on the Sunday to the great
rppositories of the wonders of nature and art, which
ire maintained at the public expense, but we are
,:onvinced that no inure conducive means could
to adopted towards elevating their minds,
did redeeming them from the vicious courses
drunkenness and immorality. We are sur-
orised at the sickening cant of the late Chan-
:ellor of the Exchequer, who conceived an ac-
piescence in Mr. HUME'S motion would amount to a
iesecration of the Sabbath. Such puritanical sen-
t;ences may be all eery palataide to his academical
.constituents, but we can scarcely believe that he con-
ieientiously harbours such narrow-minded conceits.
What constitutes real art, but that which most closely
resembles nature? If you are to prohibit the poorer
classes from contemplating the varied products of
riature, accumulated from all parts of the world, and
the wonderful efforts of the art of man, himself the
toblest work of GOD, upon the bigoted assumption
that the Sabbath is thereby desecrated, you might
with equal consistency reproach the man who would
stop to survey with delight any beautiful landscape
that his es e may chance to light upon during
nis Sunday's walk. We have outlived the day when
tor reason is to be warped by such hypocritical
puerilities. This ascetic imbecility is really more
lit for derision than serious argument, and so we dis-
aiiis the subject, convinced that ere long the benevo-
lent and philosophical wishes of Mr. HumE will be
,ully realised.

Mr. HVME last night ea:led the attention of the
House of Commons to a petition which he had a few
lays ago presented from the colony of Van Dietnan':-

Land, praying for a representative government.
['he Hon. Member avowedly brought forward this
subject with the view, if possible, of obtaining a

statement of the intentions of the Ministry, as it would
obviously be impossible, at this advanced period of
the session, to introduce any new measures respecting
that colony. In this respect the Hon. Gentleman
was gratified by the declarations elicited from the
erentier and tlw Under-Secretary for the Colonies.
i'he Prime Minister unhesitatingly avowed his opi-
ii,.n that, generally speaking, the representative

~onstitution ought to be introduced further into our
:olonies, but stated the difficulties that intervened it.
prevent 'he introduction of one general measure fur all.
Übe wide ddTerences that exist in the habits and feeling,
f the population of our different dependencies—some-
.,f them being inhabited chiefly by Englishmen, %%hilt,
Others having been obtained from foreign p)wers,
he great mass of the inhabitants are still natives of
the countries. to which their settlements briginall
belonged ; others again being of the nature of gar-
risons, where the greater part of the *in-
habitants reside only for a time, obviously
r.-quire that each colony should be dealt with '
by itself, and that a mode of government
suited to the peculiarities and the wants of its people
should be maintained therein. We have also had
the statement of the Under. Secretary, the organ of
the Colonial department in the House of Commons,
"that tile representative form of government was
the best, and that wherever there were good elements

for establishing it, it was not wily the bounden duty
of the country, but also its intere t, to esta-
' Wish that form of goverment." This is, in-
deed, pleasing intelligence. We are assured
that henceforward the just and equitable principle
of self-government will be fully recognised in
Downing street ; that, as far as practicable, our
colonies will be dealt with on a footing of equality,
and that measures distasteful and obnoxious to the
great body of the people will DO longer be forced
down their throats, to suit the whims or caprices of
officials, perhaps wholly ignorant of the ob-
jections thereto, and how injurious they may prove
to the interests of the people who may be obliged
to adopt them. Had this course been adopted when
the American people expressed their dissatisfaction,
tnat great nation would, in all probability, have stilt
remained united to the mother country ; the blood
and treasure that was expended in the vain attempt
to keep down the energies of a mighty people re-
solved on freedom would have been saved, and
both countries would have been connected by the
ties of mutual advantage, on a footing of
perfect equality. The great principle that
taxation cannot exist without xepreEentation, must
ever be kept in view—that a people can only be legally
taxed with the assent of their representatives.
Whenever, therefore, any sum of money is attempted
to be rai,ed from a people on any pretext,
or by any means whatever, the representative
form of g,vi-rnuient must be extended to them.
We may, therefore, hope that early in the ensuing
session charters will be granted to the seventeen
unrepresented colonies, or good and sufficient
reasons stated for their being withheld for a season,
The case of Van Dieman's Land is peculiarly
hard. There are no less than 35,000 tree colonists,
a.rno.t all of theta settlers from the mother
country, without any representation, taxes to a
large amount levied, and a portion of that
taxation in a single day trebled in amount.
The distress and inisery suffered liy the
inhabitants consequent upon the mismanagement of
the Home Government are of the most fearful deacrip
ti3D, and what ought to-be.one of the most promising

fields for the enterprise of cur hardy emigrants, 50
drterioraed, tat 11.eret,:, from this country
has practically ceesed. Aittch of this evil may be
attributed h iaet te g been selected as
the deli& for our convict population. A small num-
' ber of that class might advantageously have been in-
troduced into a country where there was an inadequate
supply of free labour, but the energy and industry of
tl2;', free population has been checked by the extraor-
dinary numbers sent out ; and they have also been
most inequitably saddled with the expenses of the
support and maintenance of an enormous police esta-
blishment, rendered necessary by the criminal cha-
racters of so vast a body. Their well-grounded
complaints require immediate consideration, and
the adoption of remedies calculated to meet
the mischief. W e are, however, assured that it
is at this moment receiving that consideration,
that it is occupying the closest attention of the able
and talented nobleman at the head of that depart-
ment. It is now universally admitted that the
sending of a large number of convicts to one place
has been a signal failure, and that the first thing
must be to remove at least a part of the difficulty
arising from the preponderance of a convict
population. If this be done, and the policy
announced by the Premier be fully carried out,
we may look forth and confidently to a vast im-
provement in the condition of the people of
that country. We also consider, that without re-
ference to the state of Van Diemen's Land, that policy
will be of great benefit to the mother country. It must
be borne in mind that transportation now forms the
chief of our secondary punishments—that it has
been substituted for that of death in a vast number of
cases, and anything that makes the public too
familiar with the mode of punishment, and makes it
regarded with less horror than would otherwise be
the case, must greatly take away from its efficiency
as an exampie, as a thing to be avoided, and
which will have the effect of repressing crime.
It must also be considered that the sending out of
each convict occasions a considerable expense to the
nation, and that a great saving may be effected by
doing so only in cases of the most serious and aggra-
vated crime. By this means rersons subjected
thereto will be really punished, and we shall no longer
hear of applications by those who have committed
sonic petty offence to be sent out of the country. and
the granting the application being looked upon as a
great and valuable boon.

Alarming intelligence is now, unhappily, pouring
in daily respecting the spread of the dreaded potato
disease throughout the teidland counties of England
and in various quarters of Ireland. Unless some
active and immediate measures be adopted by the
Executive, we fear the most calamitous consequences
will develop themselves. A feeling of panic is, ac-
cording to the most authentic information, alarinitig
the imagination and increasing the despondency of
tee poorer inhabitants of the districts afflicted with the-
infection. Considerable cierision has hitherto been
cast upon those who were credulous enough, towards
the conclusion of 1845, to entertain the most lugubri-
ous apprehensions of starvation, of contagion, of in •
subordination, and of a terrible decimation of the
multitude, in consequence of an accidental decay
in. a certain description of vegetables. From a mor-
bid attachment to a fallacious principle in commerce,
they endeavour to continue those rumours of the de-
ficiency in food which was &elated to have resulted
from those principles being carried into operation.
They overlooked the immense importance of those
vegetable crops to a population subsisting almost en-
tirely upon tubers ; they closed their ears to the la-
mentations and supplications of the sufferers; they
accused Sir ROBERT PEEL of employing a poetical
exaggeration for the purpose of tampering with the
judgment of Parliament, when he pictured to the na-
tional representatives of Great Britain the malign
phantom of famine threatening to curse these
islands with her presence, and the phantom also of
"that pestilence which follows famine." Even during
the past fortnight the common sense of the public has
been insulted by a repetition of this frivolous scepti-
cistn. Those who have insisted with so much of ar-
rogant confidence and self-sufficiency that their dis-
credit of the reported destitution in the sister country
has been justified, inasmuch as none of those calamitous
consequences have transpired such as were originally
predicted, have overlooked the earnest lab.►urs of Go-
vernment, and the activity of many unhired philanthro-
pists, by which alone the condition of the sufferers has
been ameliorated. But for the exertions dun extra-
ordinary commission of inquiry, and for the admirable
and spontaneous co-operation of individuals, the
mortality must have been infinitely greater, the epi-
demic must inevitably have assumed a more fatal cha-
racter, the meal-bins of the peasantry must have been
altogether void of provisions, and dangerous senti-
ments of discontent and insubordination have been
propagated by the very intensity of the penury. On
the contrary, quietude has been preserved in the
afflicted neighbourhoods, the immediate nece3sities of
the labouring classes supplied b_•th by the importation
of cheap and nutritious commodities, and by en-
gaging upon national works the thousands who had
hitherto remained without employment. In the ex-
ertions thus made by the late Administration we
recognise a noble and judicious example for the
guidance of its successors. Let a spirit of emulation
he once instilled into a Ministry, and advantages
cannot but redound to the community under its pro-

teci ion.
That much was really accomplished in behalf of those
who were most grievously affected by the deficiency
iast year's potato crop, and that the principal pro-
portion of that assi,tance is traceable to the interpo-
sition of the Government under Sir ROBERT PEEL,
no one can for a moment doubt who has examined the
official statistics issued upon this particular. In tes-
timony of the acciu acy of this assertion, we may be
permitted to enumerate a few circumstances attendant
upon that interposition. Foremost amongst the endea-
vours to compete with the ravages of the potato pestilence
must be mentioned the expenditure of 185,4321. 7s.
7d. upon the importation of Indian corn and oatmeal,
:tor distribution at a moderate charge. Then there
was an additional gratuity of 67,9111. 10*. entered
as donations from the national revenue, in aid
of subscriptions made by Relief Committees. A sum
of no less than 452,7271. 14s. Bd. was likewise granted
tor works to be executed for the relief of urgent
distress. Another amount of 133,5361. Bs. 3d. was
placed at the di: posal of the proper authorities in
case of any emergency. Again, there were 2,210/.
appropriated to extraordinary instances of deititution
not otherwise calculated. For the requisite offices
and expenses of the Relief Commission 2,8231. 9s. Id.
were reserved; while for the purpose of facili-
tating local inquiries 7,8401. were additionally
advanced. To estimate the advantages which
must by necessity result from such laudable
munificence, we should examine their substan-
tiated effects in the improved social disposition or
the populace, in the wholesome activity of a com-
merce hitherto afflicted with sluggishness, in the
diminution of infectious disorders, and in the firmness
of the markets. One tact will, however, be sufficient
for our present object, namely, that 44,121,574f1b5.
of Indian corn and oatmeal have been by this
generous assiduity imported for the starving po-
pulation of Ireland since last November : in other
language, a quantity sufficient to afford sustenance
to 490,240 persons daily during three months, rating
the consumption of each individual at 11b. per diem.
Such are the simple products of this interference on
e part of the late Government—such are the most
duper:ant details of their interposition. Heartily
du we trust that a spirit of euiulation will be infused
into the members of the present Cabinet, seeing
that the aspect of the approaching Hinter is anti
thin,: but propitious, and that the horrible con-
tagion, wricli formerly alarmed the community,
while it rendered a wholesome article of nourish-
ment either excessively detrimental to health or
absolutely poisonous, is beginning to re-appear,
if possible, with threefold virulence.
So numerous and disheartening are the descriptions
of this most calamitous blight that we are baffled in
endeavouring to cull the most important. In War-
wickshire the disease has manifested itself as vio-
lently and as generally as in '1 ipperary. We are
assured by very credible informants that the pesti-
lential appearance of the fields in the former
county is beyond the belief of all but an
eye-witness. Within the soil the tubers are
discovered to be shrivelled and pulpy; the leaves and
stalks, -very recently of remarkable luxuriance and '

vetclures are now sodden uptsn grohnd ih a mass of
vegetable putrefaction, Nor are these the only con-
comitahts of the deboLti, n Hslpporfable stench,
together eih a pt srift n n v;:p.a.-, duced by "a
species of fermentation among the diseased roots,"
rises from the fields in question, carrying with them
the embryos of infectious maladies—insomuch that
English cholera is exceedingly prevalent in their
vicinity. At Sherbourne no less than thirty-four in-
dividuals, out of a population of scarcely 500 souls,
have been destroyed by that malady. Monster meet-
ings are being again convened in Ireland, with
the avowed purpose of calling the attention of
those in authority to the prevalence of destitution
and the dismal and portentous aspect of the future.
The potatoes are again diseased—the very foliage of
the hedges is blackened and scorched by the infec-
tion—thousands are unemployed —money and meal
are rapidly diminishing—and a sullen despondency
characterises the afflicted districts. The Ministers
will assuredly have no idle moments after the proro-
gation of Parliament.

Tranquillity is by no means completely re-esta-
blished in Austrian Galicia. Although the insurrec-
tionary movement has been put down, incendiarism
is increasing, and the peasantry, in every instance,
refuse to render the least assistance in extinguishing
the flames. The following is from the Breslau
yazette

" A traveller was lately going in all haste from Wieliezka
to Bochnia, when, just as he reached Gdow, he perceived
a considerable fire raging at about a league from the high
road. Soon afterwards two men on horseback arrived,
crying, • Open the barrier quickly.' They were two
domestics from the burning chateau, who came to demand
assistance from the commandant of the garrison, the pea-
sants having set fire to the barns which contained all the
product of the late harvest. The owner of the chateau,
having called on the peasants to as'ist in extinguishing the
flames, offering to each of them a recompense of five franc',
they laughed in his face. The commandant of the cara.
bineers hninediately sent twenty-four men to protect and
escort the unfortunate proprietor, Baron de Lipowski, to
Slawkowice. Fires are seen almost every night in different
parts of the country. The Galician peasants, who are at
this moment in a most demoralised ',tate, seize on every op-
portunity to injure the lords, either by destroying their pro
Deny or attacking their lives. Such are the results of the
deplorable revolt which has taken place; the innocent and the
guilty suffer Iron- the same blow."

The Emperor of RUSSIA has ordered a large firce
to be concentrated in Volhynia at the beginning of
Seilem ber.
The Duke of SAXE COBURG-GOTHA has issued an
ordonnatice. ordering all proprietors of game to pa 3
the farmers for the damage the game may do to the
crops, and authorising the farmers to kill game when
it does too much damage, provided they first give
n6tice of their intention to the forest keepers.
The King of DENMARK has .ddressed the following
rescript to the Duchy of Schleswig-Hol)tein,Lauen
b,,urg :
" We have been inform,d that at a public meeting held
on the 20th of July, at Nrumunster, there were di,cussionts
on the subject of our Royal Proclam.ition of the Bth, con-
cerning the order ul succession in tile Duahies of Schleswig-
Holstein and Lauenbourg, and the relations which the.)
stood with regard to Denmark in virtue of public right, and
that resolutions were come to hiving for their obje4 to act
contrary to what we had published on that subject. We
therefore see ourselves plated iu the sad necessity of adopt-
ing measures to prevent in future such steps, which cannot
be tolerated. It is consequently el:joined on the police au-
thorities of the Duchies of Holstein not to permit any meet-
ings A here the relations above alluded to shall be made the
subject of discussion, or where it may be proposed to draw
up petitions in order to exercise an influence on the said re
latione, and not to permit any announcement of such meet-
ings to appear in the journals, and to immediately dissolve
any such meetings at which questions of the kind may be
raised. It is at the Fame time prohibited to circulate any
petitions concerning such objects, and to collect signatures,
even in the places where there may be no meetings."

Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived. The
11Praldo has another violent article on the subject of
Portugal, recommending the invasion of that country,
nominally "to require the execution of existing
treaties as regards Spanish emigrants," but really to
restore to power the CABRALS, the tools of the
Afrancesado faction. The army assembled
in 1820 for the invasion of South America,
proclaimed the Constitution in the Isla de
Leon, and freed Spain from despotism. It
is not impossible, but that the army destined for
the invasion of Portugal may follow their example.
Desertions to the Portuguese take place daily, not-
withstanding the ferocious bandos of Villalonga, and
it is evident that the Spanish army is by no means
well disposed towards the existing order of things.
The same paper publishes accounts from Lisbon of the
4th, which represent a Miguelite movement as impend-
Mg in the north of Portugal. We do not attach much
credit to this rumour. It has been the policy of the
CABRALS and their supporters to represent every
movement in Portugal as Miguelite. Even the move-
ment which ended in their banishment, and in placing
in power Viscount SA DE BANDEIRA, the chief of the
Septembristas, and one of ,the few honest states-
men whom Portugal possesses, was represented
by the CABRALS as Mig►uelite in its
origin. The arrival of Don FRANCISCO D'Asqz
was daily expected in Aladrid. The Duke DE
YEaßikauAs has been appointed corregi, tor of
Madrid, in the room of the Marquis of PENA-
FLORIDA.

MADRID BOLSA, AUGUST B.—The Three per
Cents. vk ete dune at 33,E fur cash; the Five per Cent>.
at 22i ; the Four per Cents. at 21i; the Passives at
64 ; and the Coupons at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
HENRY was examined on Wednesday by Duke
PASQUIEB, the Chancellor, and the other members
of the Commission.

The Debats sa s that he has confessed that one of
the pistols was loaded with a piece of i od-iron of the
ealib,-eof the pistols ; but the Gazette des Tribunewix
asFerts that he has still refused to declare how the
pistols were loaded. The distance fri,m the spot
from whonceErday fired, to the balcony, has been
measured, and found to be 61 metres.

The zllintster of I'ublic Works is going on a tour
of inspection along the coast. On Wednesday he left
Havre for Honflt-ur.

The distribution of the prizes of the Concours
General, between the colleges of Paris and Versailles,
took place on Wednesday, in the large amphitheatre
of the Sorbontie, which was crowded on the occasion.
M. GUIZOT, who had just returned from the country,
was present, and took his seat on the bench reserved
for the professors of the faculty of letters. Precisely
at twelve o'clock the Minister of Public Instruction,
Grand Master of the University, entered, preceded
by the deans of the faculties, the academic
council, the inspectors-general, and the royal
council. As soon as M. DE SALVANDY had
taken the chair, the usual Latin oration was pro-
. nounced by M. FEUGERE, professor of rhetoric at the
Royal College of HENRI IV. When this was con-
cluded, the Minister of Public Instruction addressed
the pupils. After which, M. BOURDON, Inspector-
General of the University, rose to read the list of
the prizes. The first prize for the second class of Greek
composition was awarded to PAUL DE SALVANDY,
son of the Minister of Public Instruction.
The pupils, when his name was proclaimed,
applauded loudly, and did the same when the
name of young VICTOR Hu©o was announced
for the first accessit of Greek translation en
seconde. On the name of young GUIZOT being
twice proclaimed for prizes in the fifth class,
for Latin translation, nearly the whole assembly rose
spontaneously and turned their eyes towards M.
GUIZOT. The son of CASIMIR DELAVIGNE had an
accessit in Latin composition. The announcement
was followed by a loud call for the Parisienne, which
was played when the prizes had been all pro-
claimed, the Minister of Public Instruction first ob-
serving that he had ordered that this should be the
case before the call was mate from the galleries, and,
however irrtgular that was, he would not retract
his determination from respect to the memory of the
illustrious pcet who had bequeathed this national song
to France. When the Parisienne NHS over, the
Minister of Public Instruction rose, and stated that
the business of the day was ended.
The pupils who had gained the principal prizes
afterwards dined with M. DE SALVANDY, the Minister
of Public Instruction. The young VICTOR HUGO,
CASIMIR DELAVIGNE, and GUIZOT, were specially in-
vited. Some of the papers state that M. GUIZOT, on
his entrance, was salutt d with vivats by the majority
of the audience, although some of them struck up the
chorus from the opera of Charles "Jamais en
France l'Anglais ne regnera," but that when his son
was announced as one of the Laureate, the cheers
were general and enthusiastic.
The Three per Cents. cb,sed on the Paris Bourse on
Thurbday et 831 65e„- the Five per Cents., 1224 10e. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,270 f.; Rouen, 9C2t: 50c. ;
Havre, 693 g. The; Great Northern, 705 t. ; Avig- ,
IVmat Mf. 75c. Vierzon, 622 f.; Bordeaux, 558 f. 7Sc.

Dieppe, 415 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 495 f.; Tours and.
Nantes, 505 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 517 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avig-
non, 4951. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 485 f. ; Belgian, 41.;
Spanii•h Active. 32if. ; Ditto Three per Cents., 361/2.
The following are the quotations for new lines !
AlAnsEtcLEs, Auto. B.—Mareilles and Avignon, 872 f. 50c.;
Northern, 710 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 505 f.
LYONS, Auo. 11.—Avignon and Marseilles, 902 f. 50c. ;
Vierzon, 631 f. 20c. ; Northern, 712 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons,
526 E 25c.; Paris and Orleans, 1,276 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, ArrcusT 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12% —Dutch Rhenish, 6i —East Indian,
%—Gr at Indian Peninsular, %—Namur and Liege, 3—Orleans and
Vkizon, 14!,i Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Paris and Lyons Con-
stituted, s—Sambre and 3leusc, 4—West Flanders, 3%.

CABINET ConNaL.—Summonses were issued on
Friday to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council this
afternoon at the Foreign Office, Downing street. All
the Ministers were expected to be present. The meeting
was appointed at three o'cli,ck.

AAIERICAN NEWS.

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.— The Great Bri-
tain arrived at Liverpool this morning, bringing papers
of the Ist inst., one.day later than those brought by the
Cambria. The intelligence contained in these papers
i.as been anticipated by the papers brought by the
Carob: is.

On the 31st, the Texas Navy Bill passed the Senate,
hy a majority of 31 to 18. The Sub-12rL asury Bill was
under discussion. The Warehousing Bill would, it
was expect( d, pass this session. Congress was to
adjourn on Monday, August 11.
The Tariff Bill received the signature of the President
on the 30th July. On the Ist December, therefore, it
will come into operation.

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