The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-10

adds for our rights. We have come to the de-
Iiberats conclusion, that II II be our fate TO be
left alone in the struggle, alone we must vindi-
cate our liberty by secession.
Correspondence Of the ~ Y. Commercial advertiser.
LONDON, April 25, 1851. +.
Parliament not having been sitting, and our
foreign news continuing wholly without inter-
est, the arrangements for the opening Of the
Exhibition, on Thursday next, have constituted
the sole topic Of attention during the week.
The only fact from abroad of the slightest
Importance has been the sudden and apparently
complete failure of the military. insurection in
Portugal, attempted by General Saldanha. How
he could have plunged into such mistake is
incomprehensible to all persons conversant with
the recent history of that efete country, for his
position in the State and his popularity with
the army were such as should have enabled him
TO calculate his prospects most accurately. Per-
sonal Animosity against the minister, Count de
Thomar, Resulting from offended vanity and
ambition, appears to have been the cause, and
~ the general is just as much an aristocrat as
the count, and would merely have used the
liberal party for his own convenience, he has
failed to secure popular trust, and has found the
soldiery too cautious to keep their promises
with him in the absence Of any public enthu-
sasm. According TO some accounts he has Ned
into Spain. Others deny that his cause has be-
come desf crate. and assert that he will still
maintain himself. Under no circumstances
could the affair create much general interest,
and the only suggestion that renders it worth
even passing notice, is that great events usual
~ begin in the most obscure and unexpected
quarters, and that a successful revolution just
now, of any kind, in any country, might act as
the first thread drawn from the compact web OF
continental reaction.
In France, no less than in this country, the
arrival of May is anticipated as a momentous
epoch. although from very different causes. As
the time for the revision of the constitution APP
proaches, the efforts to accomplish fusion of
the respective partizans of the royal houses,
become more and more desperate, and appeals
representing that by such course alone can the
country be saved from anarchy" and the Demo
crafts, resound on all sides. Thus far. however,
nothing appears to have been de6nitiyely ac-
complished. Still there Is a sufficient agree
ment on the part of the re-actionists of every
shade, to cause an increased use of restrictive
means to suppress all manifestations of popular
opinion and, by a vote of 400 to 226, the As
sembly, which met yesterday for the first time
after the Easter holidays, passed a measure to
prohibit the sale and distribution in the streets
Of public journals of any kind. Prosecutions.
taunts, and military demonstrations, are like
wise continued with undated activity. In short,
although perhaps no outbreak is now contem-
plated, every step taken by the government and
the dominant party, recalls the blind and silly
manifestations of repressive power which are
peculiar to French statesmen, and by which, on
all former occasions, commissions have been pre-
coded.
The progress of Sardinia continues to be most
satisfactory, and treaty of commerce and navi-
CATION, which has just been ratified between her
and England, will tend to augment the growth
of this prosperity-To Aurtria, Naples and the
Pope, her condition is the subject of intense
modification, and the feeling is increased by the
daily accommodating financial embarrasments OF
che government Of Vienna. The notes of the
national bank Of Austria are now nearly at for
ty per cent. discount.
It is believed that the old German Diet will
meet at Frankfort on the 18th Of May, and that
the Dresden conferences are to be regarded as
having persisted by default According to the
positive a. france given by the Turkish govern
mont, tits understood that Kossuth and his con-
panions are TO be freed from their detention at
Kutayia at the end of the present month, and
It il Of course presumed they will immediately
avail themselves Of the vessel of war granted by
the United States government
In home politics we have Just nov by CON-
mon consent an absence from all element
except that the PROFESSIONALS hive been taking
advantage of the parliamentary recess to get up
meetings in the provinces Regarding these, It
is only necessary to repeat that the statements
made on such occasions, should be received BY
people in your country with about the same de-
gree of reliance, As we in Engiaed ought to be-
stow upon the outpourings Of certain parties in
America, when they announce that dissolution
Of the Union is arranged, and may be expected
in month or two. Notwithstanding all the a.
sertions TO the contrary, your readers may rest
assured that il would be just as easy to re-es.
tahlish in England the rotton boroughs that ex-
listed before the reform BILL as to get back
single sixpence of protection on wheat or on
any other article.
LIT were possible, indeed, that the question
could be more effectuay settled than it is, these
very meetings would accomplish that end, owing
to the daring recklessness of the assertions made
~ the speakers who attend them. At de-
nonstsstion the day before yesterday, at Edin-
burgt. this was carried 40 far as to be absO-
lutely hanfkattng to the characters of the public
men engaged inA M. Alison, the well-known
historian Of the Peaiasular war, distinguished
himself in particular. He pointed to the board
of trade returns to show that under free trade
our exports were declining, since for the last
month heir declared value was 100000 less
than Tor the corresponding month Of 1850. to-
tally suppressing the fact that the entire year Of
1860 showed an increase over l849 of nearly
f5,000OO0 and that the returns of the first
months Of this year, as far ~ they have been
published, show an increase over the correspond
ing months Of last year Of E690,O00 after allow
imp for the diminution during ore month of The
petty 100000 in question. When it ia added
that the staple of all the speeches on these &C.
casions, is mnde up Of similar perversions, the
canton that should be exercised by foreigners
in ths reception of them will be fully under
etood ,tnt
The disappointment that was threatened, In
cossaeriea with tho arrangements for the state
opening Of the Exhibition, has been entirely set
aside. An announcement has been issued that