The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, Ni WEKBER 21, 1850.

Revolutionary ideas have extended even as far as
the Celestial Empire. From the latest dispatches, it
would appear that the revolt-, long fermenting in the
land of the parasol and the pagoda, has swelled at last
into a really formidable insurrection. Rumours of all
kinds were, of course, efloat as to what had already
occurred, and likewise as to the supplementary disasters
that might be expected. In one direction the imperial
army was falling back, in cons'quence of having en-
countered a severe and unexpected discomfiture. In
another the local magistrates were flying before the
rebels on the road to Pekin. Here one consider-
able town was being sacked by the conquerors,
there another was groaning under the horrors of
bombardment. Opinion was divided as to whether
the forces of the Brother of the Sun would be suffi-
ciently powerful, or rather sufficiently capable of
immediate concentration to repulse the violators of
the public peace and the assailants of his imperial au-
thority—or whether the Chinese EMPEROR would
be driven by the emergency to call in British
assistance. Certain it was, under any circum-
stances, that the situation of affairs was most
urgent, and that an instant di ciaion one way
or the other was absolutely requisite. As an evi-
dence of the necessity existing for some immediate
settlement of these difficulties, it is only needful to

in number-
ing no less than 30,000 men the oggres..l,„ ~0
ceeded to within a distance of only one hundred and
twenty miles from Canton. Hitherto, moreover, it would
appear that this redoubtable body had triumphed over
all obstacleF, had compelled the militia to fly before
them in panic, had routed even the Imperial soldiers,
and had reduced the surrounding country to a com-
plete state of subjection. The reality of these events
had forced itself upon the judgments of the most incre-
dulona among the English merchants by reason of the
black mail levied upon all commodities passing within
reach of the insurgents. From this particular alone
it will be perceptible that the rebel army is less ac-
tuated by high political motives than by a lust of
power and spoliation.
Scarcely a reasonable conjecture can be formed of

the origin of these singular disturbances. No motive
whatever had as yet been avowed by its leaders ; and

the whole seemed to have been fomented less by
demagogic agitation than by the natural cupidity
of men inimical to all ordinary restraints
and enamoured of the lavish spoil and law-

less life of banditti. Out of these sentiments,
rather than out of any noble ambition for political
improvement, the whole scheme appears to have
sprung, armed to the teeth, and ready to crush all
military opposition. Upon the course pursued by the
EMPEROR the fate of his dynasty is most assuredly
more or less dependent. Either he will put an end
to the movement by a vigorous act of generalship, or
be will find himself compelled reluctantly to demand

the aid of British intervention. Under the former
contingency he will be enabled, no doubt, to repress
fur a while the marauding spirit which, during the
last few years, has convulsed the greater portion of
his dominions—but without any prospect of thoroughly
eradicating the vices of incipient rebellion. Under
the latter contingency his rule may discover an im-
mediate and appreciable security—but while accept-
ing the beneficial influence of British support, he will
be inevitably dooming his power to a gradual and
ultimate absorption. Directly the Anglo- Saxon race
obtains the toe sews, the spot on which to move the
lever of its enormous influence, then commences that
system of indirect appropriation which in the end
eats into the very heart of a kingdom, however remote
or gigantic. The fact has in a great measure been
illustrated by the British Government in almost every
quarter of the globe, but nowhere so remarkably as
in the empire immediately contiguous to that presided
over by the Chinese EMPEROR. The progress of
our power as conqueromover the various provinces of
llindostan has been altogether of too remarkable a
character to have escaped the observation of the
Chinese Government. From having witnessed the
consequences of our invasion of those provinces, first
in the aspect of protectors, and lastly in that of lords
paramount, the Ministerial admirers of the Celestial
Potentate will be anything but desirous of placing
him, by a similar course of proceeding, within the
grasp of a power so dangerous in the multiplicity of
its appropriations. Nevertheless, although the Im-
perial Councils at Pekin may be reluctant to call
into its assistance a friendly authority more
perilous, because more insidious and potential than
the openly hostile one which it is at present solicitous
to vanquish—it must be evident that it is not in any
way debarred from so doing by any wholly insur-
mountable obstacles. Indeed, there may be found a
precedent so striking of its kind as to induce the
Chinese ruler and the statesmen of his despotism to
waive all their terrors of Anglo-Saxon subjugation,
and at once annihilate the hopes of their assailants by
availing themselves of our friendship. This precedent
is none other than the memorable circumstance of
their requiring and receiving the aid of our military
and naval armaments against the pirates in-
festing the oriental seas. Havine, consented once
to acquire security et our hands, they may again per.
chance commit themselves to the like protection—
though this time we cannot but regard the chanco of
any such requisition as in the highest degree impro-
bable. For one thing it must be remembered that
the danger is not external but internal, not along
the maritime frontiers of China but in the interior of
those dominions. Consequently the Celestial 14:ef-
PEROR would be anything hut solicitous to admit our
forces within the sacred barriers of that territory
which has never yet been allowably and openly trod-
den by the feet of races deemed by its inhabitants to
consist only of barbarians. The sanctity of the

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Chinese soil will not, after so many centuries of
insulation from the rest of the human family,
be opened to the desecration cf our footsteps for any
light reasons or under any ordinary circumstances.
Of this we may rest satisfied. The customs conse-
crated by the practice of so many successive genera-
tions will not be abandoned at the first glimpse of
peril, at the first blast of the horns of a body of free
booting insurgents, no matter how formidable they
may be intrinsically and numerically.
Without desiring to witness the commencement on
our part of a system of Chinese spoliation, we may
yet be permitted to look forward with hope to some
remarkable turn of events such as would lead to our
closer intimacy and more frequent intercourse with the
Chinese population. The moral, political, and
intellectual stagnation of that ancient and, in many
respects, distinguished race, has been now of too
long continuance to admit of its wholesome perpetua-
tion. At a period when the whole genius and ambi-
tion of mankind appears to be fermentating prepara-
tory to some great and hitherto unprecedented ad-
vancement, it is melancholy to witness the continuance
of their ancient torpor among the Chinese multitude.
To behold its abandonment we must now, more than
ever, aspire : and, as a possible step towards this end,
the revolutionary movement in the interior of the
empire is, to a certain extent, a source of satisfaction.

The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the
Law has rendered many valuable services to the
community. Numbering among its members persons
of profound learning and vast experience, who have
attained the greatest eminence in the legal profession,
it is by no means surprising that the existing abuses
are clearly exposed, and suitable remedies suggested
fur the consideration of the Legislature. These
abuses may be sufficiently obvious to persons of all
classes in society. It requires no great degree of
fn ennae.noul the enormous injustice per-
petratedunder the existing unaneery ayatiatir, zinc ea,v
harassing delays and ruinous expenditure to which
the suitors are subjected ; but it is easier to de-
nounce the evil than to provide a fitting substitute.
The utmost caution, the calmest deliberation, must
be used, or the remedy may prove worse than the disease.
A new system, hastily andrashly adopted, might prove
more mischievous, more intolerable than that which
has been so generally complained of—so unequivocally
condemned. When an eminent judge of the Court
of Chancery, in pronouncing a decree, declared
it to be " the usual decree for destroying
an estate according to law," no controversy
can exist as to the imperative necessity for the intro.
duction of large and comprehensive measures of
Chancery reform. But to what extent shall the
pruning knife be applied ? Where shall the intended
innovations stop ? Is it intended to overturn the en-
tire edifice, to abolish the Court altogether: or is it
merely desired to cleanse and purify it from the filth
and excrescences that heve grown up during succes-
sive egos, until at lergth they have arrived at such
rank luxuriance as to convert what was intended to be,
and which, under a judicious syatem, inight have beer;
a blessing to the community, into a curse—whet should
have been ameans of relic. f into an instrument of oppres-
sion and persecution ? These are interrogatories that
must he seriously pondered over before any fitting re-
sponsescan be returned—problems, in the due solution
of which the interests and welfare of society are in-
volved in no ordinary degree, and the modern Uoirus
who undertakes the arduous duty of unravelling th
mysteries of the legal Sphynx must be thoroughly
acquainted with the subject in all its varied ramifi-
cations, so as to trace each abuse to its
source, to ascertain the fountain whence it sprung,
and the means by which it might be diverted from its
usual channel. The probable consequences of any
new rule of principle or practice must also be accu-
rately calculated, so as to ascertain that its meaning
cannot be perverted or made to operate in a manner
totally opposed to the objects for which it was origi-
nally framed and promulgated.
Oa Monday evening a matter of more than usual
importance was brought forward at the meeting of the
society. Mr. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, an American
barrister of high standing, and one of the commis-
sioners who proposed the New York code, whicl•
abolished the distinction in procedure between law
rind thof .+.t.• attended and clearly and
distinctly explained the nature of tee ‘,.,
changes that had been introduced, and their effect
during the period that they have been in operation.
The alteration wes indeed cne of no ordinary magni-
tude; it was of a truly radical character, striking at.
the very root of the matter. It appears that
New York had originally, and until within the last
three years, a judicial constitution very like that of
England. There was the Court of Chancery in every
respect analogous to our own, guided by the same
principles. The decisions of English Chancellors of
judges in equity were quoted more frequently, and
more strongly relied on, even than their own. And
the admirable works of Judge STORY and of
some of his eminent brethren prove that we
also may receive valuable instruction from
the other side of the " broad Atlantic."
There was also the Supreme Court, corresponding
to our Queen's Bench. The divisions of law and
equity were in fact as clearly observed as at West-
minster and Lincoln's Inn. As, however, the same
fruit will spring from the same seed, complaints arose
in New as well as in England, of the delays
and Yok,
expenses
r of
the equitable tribunal, and of the
occasional defeats of justice by an over-rigid adhe.
rence to the strict rules and technicalities of the
common law. But there to discover an evil was
to insure prompt attention to the means
by which it might be eradicated ; there
is not the same slavish adherence to mischievous
forms, merely because they have been in existence for
centuries. An erroneous system will not be perpe-
tuated merely because it is

Aofnoaugre dully
ancestors i
estors is only respected when
e, a grey inequity."
it is really shown to be •
The wisdom"
e wisdom," and gross and
palpable folly is not dignified by the epithet. Com-
missioners were appointed
to investigate the
matter, and to report , on the nature of
the most efficient remedies. There learned
men faithfully discharged the important trust
confided to their charge, and the result of their
recommendations has been _the e total abolition of the
Court of Chancery in the
But this was not all. The good points of both system
of law and equity were
retained, the bad ones
discarded. A happy mixture 1
of law and equity
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was erected on the ruins of both systems, which was
entrusted to the administration of the Supreme Court.
The old forms of pleading were abolished, and
thenceforward there was to be but one form
of action ! ! The natural system of
pleading was
adopted, that is, such a system of allegation as the
litigants would adopt in familiar life in asking advice,
or stating the case to an arbitrator. The plaintiff
put in his complaint, stating the facts, the defendant
his answer. The plaintiff might reply, but there the
pleadings closed! These are, indeed, important
alterations, but we are assured by Mr. FIELD that
" no difficulty had arisen in the practical working
of the system, but very great convenience and
the same code had been adopted in other states al-
ready." Tbis is powerful evidence of the value and
efficiency of the new code, the novelty and importance
of which will justify a closer examination as to the
principles on which it is formed, and that we may
be assured it will speedily receive In the Society for
Promoting the Amendment of the law.

expressing the
traders, and others
The memorial to the LORD MAYOR,
feeling of the merchants, ba,nhers,
of this city, that a Tribunal of Commerce would be
a great boon for the commercial world, and request-
ing his Lordship to call a public meeting, in order
that the feeling of the citizens of London may be
fully taken on the subject, has now grown to a most
ponderous roll of parchment ; the originator of the
movement, Mr. FitANCI3 LYNB,being determined, as
it is said, to convince the doubtful, at a first sight,
that the feeling is universe), that " the commercial
law of this country is not administered with that
simplicity which its circumstances, as well as truth
and justice, demand."
The memorial has been signed by firms of the very
highest resp2.ctability, representing the following
trades:—the corn, wine, spirit, coal, tea, drug,
colonial and foreign trade of the country. In afe
hours last week upwards of one hundred leading
hOuS-iis in Mincing-i;ino Signed the memorial; and
although the members of the Stock Exchange are not

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amecliitely connected with commerce, t bey have
larked their sense, of the wisdom of the 3 movement,
y signing the. memorial to the LORD X tATO3I, the
tairman of their committeeleading thews: r. Such,
the present time, is the history' of this n lovement,
which may be added the pleasinglact th at Liver-
ol,- Minchestekand Glasgow..have decla red their
infOhy with the movement, and re,adine ies to do
ything to -acid weight, to it; and who can wonder
such a simultaneous barst; when ail so * ell know
tt Omni* Upon thousands of cases, onl; y fit for
iA4bitration:court, or Tribunal of Conim erce, are
ner referredfill et/err expense of ,every • sort has'
bh exhausted, under the guise that a j adge and
im in the . Nisi:Prins Courts ewas the of aly proper
Plaf4 its decision; and'irhencat i gat, t here, with
all a fees paid,, and nothing further left I.Sut labour
for e orofessionals, then the -gentlemen i n silk dis-
cove as they modestly tell the judge, wl to quickly
agni, that "te natter might be more sat! isfiaorily
sett,
_N by being rellnied:' The n?erchant are now
quite k:E of this honoirable species of rc Ibbery, on
the pat .)f the honourable profession ; and therefore
now wirl one voice' demand a Coirt of h jbitration
or Tribnal of Commerce, wherein, at a tri iMing cost,
they m:T settle. their commercial disputes.
The pblict feeling is now so ripe on t he subject
• that tblawyers cannot avert .the change al they
know, tiough their name be Legion; and ; the most
respectable are now wisely ready to second the mer-
chant' present movtment, founded, as. they must see
it iF, on common sense • and simple justi ice ; and
many thousand cases,' which now rathain in a beyance,
mustcontiOte so to do till the law is altered.
Triminals bf commerce are of extreme .ant equity
and it val'the vice which natntally groys ci nt of an
artificial sate of society that brought into be ,ing. our
present'. system, "invented for the creation c /costs,
and not,6r,the daaadminiatratien of justice ;"
4o,a4ki-tti,fiAtilio a •Victory but too oftY:o over
ruttiand jilstioe., :It ,lits been a lucrative. Weld for
. those lawyers, Win; iovst so to make money. Holy
Writ points at such a system in the 29th, clk fir of
Isaiah, 20th verse-4' The terrible one is br42glit:to
nought ; and the scorner is consumed, and a itl that
watch for iniquity are tut pff; that maker a' I Man an-
'offender for a word."' In a
,short that
of Com-
merce, by LEONE LEM we realdig the it tikllo
instituted in 116Q5. by. thg. C:"ltutum tutu of Pim,.
tribunals of coamtbrce; and;lit; this time, it i 3 well;
known, they work well in France, Finders, Rhonishi,
Prussiii;-and elsewhere';.it Western Europe, and esti'
very' hest effeAlts are ackloivledged. Take Prot-4;
for an exampl6, 220 seciallAtinals are establish
in the most commercial departments, and there
also I rociiil ttihunals, which also take cognizance, Or
commercial mittere. -'1.0846 there were introduced
207:;279 new caseibeforafthese 390 tribunals, 177,446
were brought bgoo the 220 special' tribunals, sald
29,833 only be N: the civiliribunalei judging com-
mercial matters.
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There can ,rio doubt that t taw: country
has' not kept packs-Arith the terns of oar fist-growing
society ; and that we are Oist -when truth'
and justice refuse to he trcholelled I Twe gnat
subjects are now attracting public- attentro4tl4*
rend Religion—;-and it is somewhat r'emarkabf3, that,
two of the boldest champions now before the public
should be Mr. LYNE, of No: 6, and Dr. CUMMING, of
No. 7, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square ; 'told we
expect Cardinal WISEMAN will find Dr. CUILMINGP as
tough this afternoon, at the H-'.:..:%.,.-square
Rooms, on the subject of Romish °digs opposing
lawyers will find Mr. LYNE, at the forthcoming.
meeting at the Mansion-house, in opposition to quirk
and" quibble. The success of the latter gentleman
is
as necessary as that of the fanner to keop Gospel
truth alive in this country. We are convinces every
fudge on the bench must at times feel ho-x unjust
and cruel it is, after a man has expanded vast sums of
money, labour, and anxious care to get bia:Matter
settled quickly, to be told by the judge that ho has
done no good for himself, as his case was one for a
court of arbitration, and not for a court of law I Is
this justice ?

UHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

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We have received the. Paris journals of yesterday.
The following-communicated note appeared in the

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"The Petrie of this day concludes an article on the
present 'state of Germany with a viokrit, Jet tack upon an
allied Government (Russia). It is the dutyof the French
Government to protest against this article in the most
formal manner. The sole policy of the Government is that
which is clearly and honestly laid down in the Message
of the President of the Republic. The Government knows
no other. It has always given the example of respect for
nationalities and foreign government. It will never de-
part from this line of conduct" (commnnicated by
Minister for Foreign Affairs).
The article in the Petrie warned the Government
of the designs of Russia and her vassal Austria on
Prussian and German independence, and urged the
necessity of France coming forward for the protec-
tion of Prussia, should necessity require it ; the ar-
ticle is understood to have been written under the
dictation of the PRESIDENT himself, and to express his
sentiments, while the contradiction emanates • from
General LAHITTE, the representative in the Cabinet
of Absolutism and Legitimatism.
The Patrie of yesterday has the following observa-
tions on this communicated note : .

" The Minister of Foreign thought it neces-
sary yesterday to publish in the Moniteur a (.lommuni-
rmted note, in which he protests against our article of
Saturday on the affairs of Germany. We are forced to
avow that in reading this note we experienced a move-
ment of surprise perfectly justifiable. Why was this note
published ? What necessity was Slier° for it? The
Minister of Foreign Affairs points to the Message of
the President of the Republic. So do we. What says
the Message? That the Government will reotain neutral
between Pussia and Austria, up to the day oat Which
French interests should be engaged and compronised an
the struggle. We said nothing else ; only, we explained
what, in cur opinion, French interests demanded fee m the
foresight and patriotism of our Government. What did we
say that could call for the intervention of the Minister of
Foreign e'sffairs? Did we call for war? Far from that; we
expressed the most sincere desire for the maintenance of
peace. Have we made an appeal to the revolutionary
passions which Prussia has sometimes the wrong of
over-exciting against conzervative opiuiona from which
Austria never departs? Certainly not. In fine, have
we demanded that France should espouse the cause of
Prussia, no matter what occurred? Our attitude in the.
Danish question has in advance replied to that question.
Such s thought cannot be found anywhere in our two
articles on German affairs. We merely foresaw the
case Where Austria, aided by Russia,
annihilate Prussia, In might desire to
that case, there could not be
two lines of policy
to follow, there could be only one—
that which Louis XIV. followed before Napoleon, and
which Napoleon followed after Louis XIV.; that which
the restoration adopted, for that policy is neither poli-
tical non'menarch:o.l; it is better than that, it is French.
That policy is the one which prescribes to France to
prevent Austria from increasing beyond measure on the
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imprudently allow Russia to extend her arm to our
frontier. Who could disapprove of it?"
The Ministerial paper, it will be seen from the
above, protests against the ambitious designs of
Austria, and declares that France will interfere to
prevent her from beyond measure increasing on the
Rhine and the Po. On the other hand, the equally
Ministerial Constitutionnel gives the following warn-
ing to Prussia
" Does Prussia believe that it would be sufficient for
her to triumph over Austria, and to eubdue the second-
rate kingdoms? That this question would not, from
being German, become European? European equili-
brium could not be broken with impunity. France,
whom no immediate interest calls at this moment beyond
the Rhine, would not allow to be modified to her de-
triment the neighbourhood created for her by the trea-
ties of 1815; she would not permit there should be este-
' blished along her frontiers an uninterrupted dominion
that would -isolate her from the continent; she would not
allow to be overthrown to her prejudice the actual pro-
portion of forces. France, whose arms have so often re-
established in their estates the Palatine Electors and the
Electors of Bavaria, could not without dishonour permit
any power to destroy, or absorb the second-rate states
which are her traditional allies; to do so would amount
to the abandonment of all her interests, and the deser-
tion of her past history; it would be to desert the policy
uniformly followed by Henry IV., Richelieu, Mazarine,
Louis XIV., Vergennes, and Napoleon. France has
made Kings beyond the Rhine, and these Kings shall not
be turned into subjeete,"
The National, which believes that the Govern-
ment has joined the great Absolutist and obscurantit
conspiracy, of which RusAa and Austria a-' tie
heads, has the following excellent remarks on the ire-
cent increase in the army :
" It is only four months since General cl'He."Ton I de-
manded an extraordinary credit of 12,-100,000 francs.
It is not enough I His successor, General Schramm,
asks a supplement to this supplemeet 10,400,000 f. as
the consequence of the Presideetial decree, which has
ordered the immediate incorporation cf 4' 0,0000 men
taken on the contingent of 1849. \Ye have paid upwards
of sixty millions for the Roman expedition against a
riendly Republic, wo must now pay for putting Franco
in a condition to go to the support, in case of need, of
Austria and her &lies, who are in the way of complet-
leg the destruction of the liberties. of Germany and of
securing there the preponderance of absolute Govern-
ments. Thus, are the words of the President becoming
t6ii,a,ted into clear and precise acts."
On the same. day General SCHRAMM presented a

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vote of credit for theproposecl increase in the army.
It was ordered to be referred to the Bureaux.
"It was rennrked on Monday," says the Pouvoir,
"that General CAVAIGNAC abstained from voting in
the ballot on the election of General LAIIITTE."
Although: there was DO considerable amount of
business tretrisacted at the Bourse, the price of Govern-
ment stock ;was firm, and the improvement which
took place after 2 o'clock was well maintained to
the close. 'The Five per Cents. opened at 92f.
90c., fell to 921. 75c., and rose gradually to 93f. 35c ,
at which price they closed. The Three per Cents.
closed at 581.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 787 f. 50c.;
Bitten, 610f.;\ Havre, 2461. 25c. ; Great Northern,
462 f. 50c. ' • Avignon, 187 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 375 f. ;
Beale, 127 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 387 f. 50c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 3421. 50c.; tours and Nantes, 2411. 25c.;
the New Piedmontese Loan, 85f.
BUSINESS DOSE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 20.
'Boulogne and Amiens, 8 - Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 14:3/I—Dutch Rhenish, 2%—Northern of
France, 14% Orl4ans and Bordeaux, 2 '4— Paris and Stras.
bourg, 834—Rouen:and Havre, 3%—Sambre and Meuse, 2%
—West Flanders, 17f3 ex div.

4 SPAIN.
Madrid journa4 of the 15th have arrived. Their
contents are unimportant.
'The Boise was {closed.

GERMANY.
The news from Germany which has arrived is, as
usual, of a.contradictory nature, some the journals
declaring that everything indicates war, others as-
serting that the negotiations between Austria and
Prussia have taken 'a decidedly pacific turn. From
Berlin we learn that on the 16th there was another
fall in the funds, which was attributed to the increa-
ing agitatzlikr in the Inaivinces, and to the addresses
which blurt len voted to the KING, calling upon him to
stop in the path of concessions to Austria. Oa the other
hand, we find, in the Austrian Observer of the 15th,
an article in which it is stated, "from a positive
source," that the Austrian Government has already
complied with all the ,essential points of the demands
oftthe Austrian Cabinet. This journal adds that
Aden and Hamburgh' are to be evacuated ; the Prus-
sian troops in Electorrit Hesse: are to confine them-
selves to the military, passes ; all the uMcers and
rrlISBl9,ll volunteers ba'ie been recalled to the duchies;
'the' dissolution of the College of Princes and of the
:Union is promised, and the free conferences for the
re-organization of Germany are to commence in the
course of the month. A letter from Kiel, in the
Cologne Gazett4 states that the Prussian Cabinet
ha-• informed the Provisional Government of the
duchies that it is to reduce the army, and that if this
be not done Prussia will do nothing to oppose
he occupation of the duchies by the federal troops.
-7.311 this, if true, is important, as it shows a determi-
! nation to settle existing 4fferences by negotiations;
" but the most important information is from Electoral
Hesse.. According to accounts from various points
of that territory, the Prrissian General had given
notice that, an armistice 'with the federal troops had
been agreed to. Some of the acconnai say that the
Armistice is limited to a week ; others, that it is with-
otit limit, but may 'pe terminated at any time by either
party, on -giving twenty; our hours' notice. The
fad of an armistice having been made, however, is a
pro &f that both AusLla and Prussia are desirous of
2r. writing any collision which might interrupt the
negaVadons fo?;, the maintenance of peace.

;TAL .
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin
of the 16thi,tha Bill" for the further continuance of
the treaty of commerce :with France was passed by
10(osotes.oit of 107. The motion of Signor ROSEL-
LINr,
proposing that the Bills left unfinished at the,
closcof the present session should be continued in tae
following-one,*ivithout having to recommence Lien;
was set aside by tne adoption of the ot6er of the. day.
In the same sitthig the Minister of Agriculture and
Commerce stated that no treaty of commerce had been
stipulated between England and Piedmont, adding
that those two countries were on the most friendly
terms with each other, and that he wis happ.~ to as-
sure the Chamber that the good understanding; exist-
lug between them we." daily increasing.
. • On the Bth inst. a sum of 510,595 scudi (3,060,000
francs), paper money, withdrawn from circulation
during the preceding month, was burnt i.:4; the Palazzo
Borron3eo, at Rome.
_Prince PIGNATELLI Rtrrro, a member of the fmily
of the Dukes of Monteleone, died at Naples on
the 7th. . .

"GOD AND MY PIGHT."
ENGLAND SPEAKING TO THE POPE's

Clayton seems determined to give Cardinal Wire-
man no rest; he haslhere produced another excellent
caricature, in which-our gracious Sovereign is repre-
sented as addressing to the Cardinal from her throne
the immortal words of Shakespere
" What earthly name to interrogatories
Can task the free breath of a sacred Queen?
Thou canst not, Cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous,
To charge me to an answer, as the Pope.
Tell him this tale; and from the mo7lth of England
Add thus much more ;—That no Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our domi::iosis;
But as we under heaven are stlpren2.-
So, under Him, that great surtemacy.
Where we do reign, we will aloud uphold
Without the assistance of a mortAl hand;
So tell the Pope; all reverence set apart
To him, and his usurp'd authority."
The Cardinal exhibits a ludicrous look of terror, and
seems to feel that he is in fa scrape, and to wish him-
self well out of it.

THE PAPAL AGGRESSIONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—At a public meeting, held at the Guildhall
in this city to-day, :for the purpose of protesting
against the Papal aggression* and agreeing to: a
loyal address to her Most Gracious Majesty upon the
subject, Captain Murray (a citizen) struck at the
root of the evil, and moved an amendment to the ad-
dress, to the effect, "That her Majesty would be
graciously pleased to adopt Lneasures for removing
from the Church, and from plane, office, and emolu -
ments within the Church, thost, ministers professing
Tractarian 'principles."
This amendment being seconded by Alderman
Plummer, was carried by an immense majority. If
such a clause had, or even now were to be introduced
into the loyal addresses laid ihefore her Majesty, it
would considerably strengthen the good and wise in-
tentioDs of Lord John Russell, ara, sir, &c.,
AMICUS.
Canterbury, Nov. 20, 1850.

TO THE EDITOR OF '."HE SUN.
EMPJON V. COLQUI/VON.
Sln,—ln your report of this caso in The Sun of yes-
terday, the defendant's name is moron gly spelt. It should
be as above, and not "Colanham." This correction is
necessary, as there might be a gentlornan on the Stock
Exchange of the latter name.—l am, Oir, &c.,
H. GRAINGER,
Solicitor for the Plaintiff.
27, Bucklersbury, Nov. 20, 1850.

Love can excuse anything except meanness; but
meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection : without
esteem true love cannot exist.... Eliza Cook's Journal.

The Marylebone Exhibition Committee of 1851,
yesterday received subscriptions of 211. from the carriage
department, and 111. ls. from the engineering department
(London division) of the Great Western Railway. These
two liberal subscriptions are. understood to be but the first
iLAAahnent from these departments.

_____
Orders have been issued from Scotland-yard for
the enrolment of the superannuated police,_ who will be
called out for duty during the approaching Exhibition in
,AB5l.
Tun DEVOURING ELEMENT.—Thee police foree.--
Punch.
CARDINAL WIsEMAN.—We understand that several
of the Foreign Ambassadors have paid their respects to the
Cardinal since his arrival at St. George's Cathedral. At
Seville there have been great rejoicings on the Cardinal's
promotion, it being his native city. The Cardinal was the
guest of the Archduke of Tuscany and of the Emperor of
Austria on his way from Rome to England.
AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS.—The American mail
steamer Arctic, Captain Luce, sailed from the Mersey yes-
terday forenoon, on her rei urn voyage to New York. Con-
trary to usual practice, the Arctic sailed direct from the
Huskisson Dock, where she hue been lying, the capacious
gates of which, eighty feet wide, were opened at tide time,
and having got up her steam, received the mails and passen-
gers (about fifty-five in number), she steamed out of dock,
s ehilde the
an-1 proceeded down the river in beautiful
style,s r
cheers of a large number of spectators _
onni s ttohcek , 1 the 6 th
t°
witness her depgrture. The Baltic, Cap
third
Ysinorke
p
third ship of this line, would leave New "
•
instant, and is expected at Liverpool about Tuesday next.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a
man hardly knows whether he is an honest mnn.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.
TAE DEAD or ........ • -10 --The year 1850 has been
of the President of the United
-- -nay notice those
them N• e a e the Emperor of China, the
remarkable,.so far for the deaths of notable persons. Among
of Franc ,
States, am; -Kingfx-..,oroirtgo, the Duke of Cambridge, Sir
President of tit, 40
Sir Francis Jeffrey, the mas-
f the most distinguished Prime Ministers
Rubcrt Pen],
England ever had;,
one
John C. Calhoun, one of the oldest se-
dswortb, the Poet Laureate; Neander, the
terry critic ; IN:v.
nators in tliC
Christianity % the Rev. Dr. Judson, the
able defender of
~.
Baptist Missionary; Margaret S. Fuller
United Stater;
venerable A ra•ricar; •ri Essayist; Jacob Hays, High Sheriff
the vigorous America. ror to evil doers" for over half a yen.
of New York, and a " tel- of less
.._.Themark snow
hex.
tury ; and a host of others . ,
already
SNOW IN TAB PYRENEE‘. -enees. A few clays since
and a
manbelonging
,ri were buried in a snow-drn, • • •
cau-ed several accidents in the Py, ~
two women .1 a similar manner,
to Saint Jean Pied de Port perished 1, of chAnonn, i
while returning from the Spanish village ----,'"---1
.112.cloiMrc.
French raper.
The Earl and Countess of Shrewebull 1 °-
John Talbot, who 11„ived
at some from the St.
Frarce, intend to depart from that city early in the aly•-
month for Sicily, for the winter. Mr. Talbot's he 9,1131 Lliv
delicate.
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