The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-13

were opposing the emancipation of the serfs,
and that their opposition had led to violence
and disorder. The measures proposed by the
Government are 30 reasonable and prudent, and
the change in the relations of the serfs to their
masters Is made 30 carefully and gradually, and
with so many safeguards against disastrous con-
sequences, that there is really no ground of OBJ
lection with any who believe that servitude is
an evil. An imperial decree is published by
the Emperor Alexander, establishing in the
districts of Knew, Podolis, and Volhynia, pre-
paratory committees to take the direction of the
emancipation in those districts. The nobility,
the landed proprieters, and the Emperor, are
represented on the committees, and the general
principles upon which emancipation is to take
place are prescribed to them by the Govern
ment as follows:
l. The proprietor retains his right of property
over the whole soil, but the peasant retains the
enclosure of his habilstion, of which he becomes
owner by redemption within given time; more
over, he has the use of the quantity of land
necessary, according TO local condition, to assure
bis existence, and to provide him with the
means of fulfilling his obligations towards the
state and his landlord. For the use of this
land the peasant must either pay a rent or work
for the landlord. 2 The peasants are to be
clsssed into rural districts; the sominal police
| Is under the proprietor. 8. The relations which
| are to be established between the proprietors
and the peasants must be such as to guaranty
the regular payment of the taxes to the state.
| The London Morning Star says that the
French Government are hesitating as to their
course with regard to the occupation of the
Island of Perrin By the English. The ques
| ton is, whether it is better to frighten Eng
land, or to brighten Turkey, and on this the de-
liberations of the French statesmen may turn.
! The matter cannot rest where it now is +; and
if France does not move, the other Powers will
The London Times thus caricatures our Con-
gress:
SIN Congress, on the other side of the great
sea, our transatlantic cousins manage these
matters expeditiously. When proposition is
brought before the House of Representatives at
Washington, any honorable gentleman to whom
it may be obnoxious may defeat list, by
knocking down the proposer on the floor of
the House; I'd, by slipping across the House
with friend, and Gaming or cowhiding both
the proposer and seconder; Sd, by rush of
all the nays at all the yeas, and by general
| scrimmage;' 4th, by speaking against time,
| to avoid an immediate decision, and, during
adjournment, by pistoling or knitting at the bar
of an hotel the proposer and all members who
may seem disposed to lend him serious support
1t is quite clear that, by this mixture of force
| and reason, quicker results are obtained than
| by our own more wearisome FORMS"
| The following announcement appeared in the
| London Gazette of April I'd:
The Queen has been graciously PLEASED to
| appoint Sir John Fiennes Champion, K. c. B.,
now Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Han
over, to be Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordina.
ny and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Empe-
eror of all the Russias."
T Champions appointment has caused a remon.
/ STRANGE from the English press, and his ad-
vancement is attributed to personal intrigue.
The Tying family are of Massachusetts origin,
having descended from Gov. Dudley. Dudley
! Atkins Tying, father of Rev. DR.. Tying of New
York, WAS a lawyer at Newburyport. His
family name was Atkins, to which the name of
/ Tying, his mothers maiden name, was added
! by an act of the Legislature.
1t is confidently predicted by American resi-.
dents in Spain that respectable republican
| Government will be organized in that country
| within year. The Democratic forces are well
| organised, understand each other, and have
agreed upon q declaration of principles on
which they will establish the new Government
These are entirely republican, and include the
equality of the citizens, universal suffrage, free.
dom of the press and of speech, and religious
| freedom, with the severance of the come elton
of church and State. Whether the people of
Spain are prepared to organize and sustain
such Government may be doubted, but there
| seems to be strong conviction that the attempt
| will soon be made, and that it will be a form
dable one.
The reinforcements going out to Utah, under
Gen. Smith, consist of three light batteries of
artillery, commanded by Captains Barry, Hunt
and Reynolds; twelve companies of cavalry
commanded by Col. e. V. Sumner ten COM
panies of foot artillery, commanded by Brevet
Colonel John Munroe; eight companies of sixth
infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel
George Andrews; ten companies of seventh
| infantry, commanded BY Lieutenant Colonel
Pitcairn Morrison; q detachment of sappers
| and miners; q detachment of ordnance men
an aggregate of 252 officers, and {, 445 men.
The execution of William Muller, for the
murder of George Matthews, took place at noon
| on Friday, in Wilkesbarre, Penn. The muir
| der was committed on the frat of December
last on the Easton turnpike, seven miles from
Wilkesbarre, and the body was subsequently
thrown in a well. Muller confessed that he
Ommltteo the MURDER
AT recent meeting of the Royal Geograph-
ical Society, DR.. a. Rink, of Copenhagen, read
| a paper controvertlng the theories of the late
| DIR. Kane, in relation to an open polst sea, and
| denying the accuracy Of several of his observe
| tons.
| A letter from Aspinwall states that Col Kin.
| ney has gone to Greytown, with men, stores,
and Ammunition intending to revolutionize
| the selfconstituted English Government ut that
place, and make himself Governor. The
| Colonel has been quiet a very long time, and
must have great quantity of latent uneasiness
| to let off.
Hume, the American medium, it is reported,
| is soon to be married at Rome to a young
| Russian lady of immense fortune. he is said
to have gained his power over her by magnetic
| influence.
The unfinished monument to Mary, the
mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg, Va,
is fast going to ruin, and is badly disfgured
with bullet and shot marks, being used by the
boys as target.
The New York Tribune publishes Madrid
letter, containing q manifesto of the Spanish
| Republicans, which embodies their prepare
tons for revolution, which is proclaimed to
| be at hand.
The Sanatory Convention, in session at Bal
timore last week, adjourned on Saturday. The
| next Convention meets at New York, on the
last Wednesday of April, 1859.
| Professor FELTON,, of Harvard College, sails
for Europe to-day, and goes directly to Athens,
| to stay as long as the season will permit, when
| ne visits England, and returns home in the fall