The southern press., 1851-04-01

ceived this morning. Our London papers are
of the l4th of March and Liverpool Of the 18th.
We are informed that large portion of the
newspaper mail intended for the South did not
reach the depot in Boston in season to be for
warded by the mail of last evening Owing to
very strong wind, the ship did not reach her
dock at South Boston until late in the after
noon. small steamer went alongside of the
Canada, and took off the letter mail and por-
ton of the passengers; both reached this city
this morning. The bags of newspapers, &c.,
will probably arrive this afternoon by the New
Haven rail road.
LONDON, March Ia, 1851.
POSITION OF THE MINISTRY.
During the last week the public business Of
the country has not made the slightest progress
Although the Russell cabinet are now safely re-
instated, it is with no increase Of power. They
have been again beaten upon the only important
question that has been discussed, and have also
sustained further damage by giving up the most
stringent portions of their Papal bill
Last Friday evening" as you will have learned
by the Franklin Lord John Russell announced
that he intended to proceed with the Papal bill,
and to persist in making it applicable to Ireland
as we'll as to England.-As he proposed, how
invalid when made 70 priests bearing the terri
torial titles which are to be prohibited, feeling
of intense disappointment was raised through
out the country, among all those who have Ia
ken part in the prolonged agitation upon the
subject The Roman Catholics openly mani
tested their triumph, for it was this portion of
the bill which had stung them IN ,st and the
conduct of the Irish members speedily showed
what it ia to grant concessions to them for the
sake of expediency. Their inflated denuncia-
tions against the remaining part OF the meas
ure are now far bolder than those they uttered
against the whole.
Tonight the bill again comes on for discus
sion, and the feelings on all sides is so strong
against it, although from wholly opposite mo-
tives TINT it seems impossible it can pass with
out further notifications. The papers hitherto
most friendly to the government on the ques-
ton, clamor loudly against the mixture of weak
ness and obstinacy which has mutilated the meas
ure for England, where its full force was de-
manded, and has fastened it upon Ireland where
II was unnecessary.
Hence although every man sees the necessity
for toleration toward the governments after the
crisis which has just been passed, there are signs
that it will be impossible for matters to continue
without new disocation. On Tuesday Lord
Duncan, an independent member Of the House,
brought forward motion for the better man.
aQement Of the crown lands. Recent exposures
had led to a national convention of the necessity
of some reform. But the ministers were unpre-
pared with measure of their own, and refused
to have one forced upon them. A division took
place, and the result was an ignomnious minority
Of one, the votes being 100 against 10.
Three weeks of session, which was to be
more condensed than any previous one, have now
been lost, but the ministers and the Parliament
still seem upon each new difficulty to stand and
look at each other with vacant surprise as to
what is to come next. Last night the bill for
the emancipation of the Jews was to be brought
forward by the government, but there were not
enough. members present to form House.
This seems to betoken more confusion, and the
proceedings tonight are consequently looked
forward to with new interest as it some further
singularities would transpire. Nothing will set
matters right but some event more extraordinary
than any that is likely Just yet to happen, but it
seems az if we should see strange things in Eu-
rope before the year is over.
1t is curious fact, considering the storm got
mp against him last year, that Lord Palmerston
10 perhaps at this moment the man who could do
more than any of the other ministers, if he were
at their head. He is the only one of the body
whom the party Of progress regard without ut
ter Indifference, and who could command upon
any emergency their united support.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
From the continent we hear less and less of
what the people think and feel, but more than
ever about the intrigues of their masters. The
ludicrous perplexities between Prince Schwartz
enberg and Baron Manteuffel in the Austrian
for N in
crease, and there now seems to be no probable
solution except return to the old German Diet,
precisely MS it existed before the revolutions of
l848 After three years of oaths, slaughter,
treachery and persecution, Germany is to re-
sumo that position which every one from Prince
Metternch downward had then predicted must
end in an earthquake.
In Hesse Casse, there is reason to believe
the Elector and his Minister Hnssenpdug are
exceeding in their open outrages all that could
have been anticipated. The whole Of the men,
bers of the permanent committee of the cham
Der, who so nobly supported the people in their
resistance to the illegal ordinances, have been
arrested and are now in prison. These things
moreover, are tacitly sanctioned by Prussian
commissioner.
But although the German governments have
effectuaIy sealed their own doom by silencing
their subjects, that disaffection for the future
will never be accompanied by premonitory symp-
toms, occasions still occur to demonstrate what
is working beneath. The building which was
used for the sittings of the upper chamber Mt
Berlin has just been destroyed by couAagra-
ton, and the sight was watched by the whole
city with the most unequivocnl expressions of sat
isfsction. 8" 1t was startling" according TO the
words Of an eye witness, " to notice the exulta-
ton and mockery with which the crowd looked
on. The people seemed to identify the build
ing with the institution, and TO imagine that be-
cause one was perishing before their eyes the
other was sustaining fatal blow also" On the
following morning, it is likewise said, the event
was spoken of by persons of position and educa-
ton q with careless levity or positive malicious
satisfaction It was thought visitation on the
government and sinister augury for its system,
and was enjoyed accordingly"
Yesterday, in London, the German refugees