The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-07 00:00:00

31PERIAL PARLIAMENT. --- HOUSE (W I.ORDr.tEAD.tY, At O. 8. 'Mei: lordship* sat nt 12 o'clock. Inv forma. PETITIONS PRESEN IED. The Earl of IIAItOWICKE presented a petition from the shipowners of Scarborough, complaining of Our opera tion of the repeal of the navigation laws ; also fr M om the seamen of the same port, &plaid the Mercantile a tine Act. The Karl of lIARROWBY presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce aad others of Edinburgh, praying for a moditication or mercantile law. Ilse following bills were read a third time and pared: (*allection of lines, &c. (Ireland); Constabulary Force (Ireland); Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) ; Petty Seir rose (Ireland); General Board of Health (No. 2) ; Emi gration Adrift". (Distrrmil Districts of Scotland); New Zealaad Settlements; Metropolitan Interment; Canterbw7 A s sociation; Forlishippers (Port of London). the Crawl. Estate. Paving Bill, and the General Board of Health (No 3, Kill, pared through eonunittac, and were reported to the hoer. Their lordships than adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNE4n ‘T, AUGUST & TM Animism took the chair, in the new house, at 12 Weisek. TRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lord: amindniente to the St. Andrew', and Quebec Medway bill were emoidered and agreed to Itsautsus.—The Brentwood Free Grammar &heel and Ahnehossee Charity Estate Bill and Webster's Divorte Bill were read a third tint. PCBLIC Bt:SINESS. NEW MEMBER. Lord ARUNDEL and SVIIIIMY took the oath , and hie emit ler Limerick; the noble lord was latrodeeed by Mr. Mote mil and Mr. Gould. MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR. rol REID gave notice that early seat session he would Dram forward the CRYSTAL A the m Pili ta LAC ry kE. nighta of Windsor. In answer to Mr. LA ISOUCII -.aid thaths was unaware that soy person olitainc.l admi.sion to the Crystal Palar. on the Sab bath fur the patios.. of taking copies of some of the articles contained then in. Col. SIKIIIOI4I' said he would put a que..t.oo on the et to-niornor (th.• day). f. IRA . % 001) i.e. 41141CfA100.1 to give notice of a ;mention a. to whether the government would consent to the 1111Millt1 . 111Dre ot the elpbfl POLISbet till the IRt of March, 111 cane they dill not do se till the Ist of May. Lord J. ItUsSE.ILL said that he could not girt any answer to the .iwstioni. OF CIICILCII PIIOPEItTY. On the corgi.o for reaming the committee on the Pate nt Law Amendment Bill, after the other orders were disposed of, iir R. HALL said that unless the noble lord consented to give Mtn an onortunity of bringing on his motion for an i account of the priperly of the church, he could r.ot consent to such an arrangement. Lord J. Itt:SsELI , said that his hon. friend could bring it on ut S o'clock to-morrow (this day.) The motion was then agreed to. I.KGISLATIoN loft IHELAND Mr. ROCHE wished to ask Lord J. Itusselt, whether, looking to the fact that under the late franchise law in Ire land the voters in boroughs had been reduced nearly to MAO, and also to the unequal state of the representation in that country, he o sold be prepared to extend his new reform bill to Ir e l a nd. Whither he would tic prepared to appoint • 1 - 6MITOVIIOII to inquire into the statute law of Ireland, with a view to its amendment and consolidation. Whether be had any objection to lay on the tat.le of this house, a copy of any letter written by the Chief Justre of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, to the Lord Chancellor or At torney-(ii nerd for Ireland, in reference to the system of legedatiort fur that country, and the unsatislactory state of the law. Lord J RUSSELL said, in reply to the brat question, that the boo. gentleman had better wait till he introduced the question to the house. With regard to the second if ug,tson. he win not prepared at present to appoint such a rominission. As to the third question, he had only to say that he had no knowledge of any such letter. 1011GRA't lON. Mr. MONSELL wished to know Irons the Untler-&v to for tile Colonies, whether any step were taken or were in preparation to prevent the iihme of young men and worsen ensigrating to America, being scut to sleep in the Same berths' Mr. HAWS 4 WAN understood to say that the report 011 the em?gration eommissioaer , was on the table, in which they neornsurneled that a separation of the sexes should be entOreed, and he hoped that power would be given to the Secretary id state to unhiro? ouch separation. Mr. WAK LEY wished to know whether the hon. gentle man (Mr. Nowell) would bring in a hill to promote the separation of the WM' in the cabins in Ireland ? TILE I'ItOIIDUATION. hoed J. ItUSSELL moved the following select committee to settle the linter in which members shall accompany Mr. Speaker on all OrrilsiOns when her Majesty shall command the house to attend her Majesty in the Howie of l'eers Lord John Russell, Sir Charles Wood, Sir James Graham, Mr. Thule), Mr. Goulburn, Sir Julin Tonle Buller, Sir De lmey _Erma+, Mr. Bernal, Sir John Duckworth, Sir JoialmalVelingey, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Bruthertoe, Lord Marren and Mr. Greene; three to be the. quorum. The noble lord said that the object of appoint? Mir the committee was, to prevent the couinsion which took rime oo the Leduc...soon. (blear.) If any other members wished to he appointed on the committee, they had only to signify their intention to that effect. Mr. ROCHE tamers., that all other parties in the house were represented no the committee except the members from Irabuid. The motion wee then agreed to. MEIWANTILE MARINE BILL. on the motion of Mr. Larnieen env., the Lords' amend ments on the Mercantile Marine Bill were agreed to. EPISCOPAL AND CAPITUIAIt 'ESTATES MANAUSMENT (No. 2) BILL. ha the motion that this hill be read o third time, Mr. HEN LV.V said that the further coosideration which he had been enalibst to give to this memoir,: only con firmed t h e of he• had previously made to it. (Hear, bear) Though it might aeon a paradox, he believed that the measure would wurk injuriously both for the church and for the lessees. Believing that parliament ought not to legislate on so important a subject at so late a period el the session, he should move that the bill he read a WA bar that day .ix months. Colonel 51111110 RP ft/filled the motion. lie suspected there was some ine.in underhand *bled to be obtained by so mueli haste. Mr. J. A SMITH expressed an anxious hope that the I house would agree to the third reading. (Hear, hear.) The liniwes as a body were interested in the bill paining. Mr. ALCOCii %Willi to state that he was perfectly satisfied with the words about to be introduced for the pro tection of the interests of the lessees. :iir 11. WILIA:GIIIIT hoped the Solicitor-General would explain on what principle the property which fell into the hands of the commistionen was dealt with. lie believed it to be the fact, that in every case there was a re fusal to renew. It was the duty of the house to seam to Use limo.. swine positive security, lest they should be ems petted to enfranehiee at all hazards. Mr AOLIONBY said it was a monstrous proposition that the less.," had nothing but A burr common right like that of a tenant from year to year. The government wished, he believed, to do justice to both parties ; but at prevent the balmier was rather against the lessens. The boll war, uo doubt, honestly framed, with a view to a settle ment of disputes which hail caused many heariburnings between measlier' of the church of England, but no final *Adornd could take place without compulsory enactments. Mr. ILOUNDELL PALMIIIt said if he believed thee by assenting to the bill he should manioc the views of the bon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Aglionby) he should vote for the amendment, but he believed that such would not be the ease lie looked upon the claim of the lemmas in this light. It was.. claim " 1 the Part of private individuals 'aching their own proate interest against the public, a claim founded on no legal or equitable right —on nothing but the fact of a course of mismanagement on the part of thou• who were entrusted with the control of church pro perty, which had continued for a couriderable number of year", from which the loaves as a bO4l, had derived large benefit, and by which they heel to a meted% extent been led to expect that they would mob tines. , to benefit. Similar mismenagemeut had existed Lob case of crown lands. and be (Mr. R. Palmer) Inainnlinill that no man could acquire a vested interest in the Meow sagement of public property, well hennaing, or he ma harp done throughout, that parliament might at up um went interfere to correct abuses. lie admitted that them might be eases in which it would be right to pay woos in card to espectationa. hut to say that the expectation, In this rah' were encouraged by the legislature and on unalterable custom, was to assert what was unfounded Is fact Such a doctrine, if good for anything, would 11111.. Nish what was celled tenant right in Ireland. (Hese) He should vote in favour of the third reading, because he be breed the bill would not pledge the house to any future legislation which would recognise the alleged rights of the tessera. Mr. HHADLAM could not tse!p protesting against his hon. and learned friend's (Mr. It. Palmer's) Tern of the case of the lesser. It was neither for the interest of ' the church, nor for the interest of the public, that the lessees should be unjustly or harshly dealt with. After a few words from Mr. 13.4151UW, the *sentiment was negatived without a division, and the bill read a third time. On the question that the bill do peas, the following elaume were inserted on the motion of the SOLICITOR-11N inn •' The interest in lands acquired by any lessee under this act shall be deemed in equity to be acquired in respect of his interest under his lease, and shall be subject to the same trusts, charges, and incumbrances as his lease, or any lease obtained on a renewal thereof, would have been subject to, so far as the different natures of the property will admit ; and all covenants and agreements which would have entitled any sub-leases or others to derivative interests upon renewals of such lease contribution to the fines and other payments -wal, or otherwise, shall give the like rights, so far of the property will admit, to proportionate benefits out of and in respect of any interest in may be acquired under this act by the lemurs subject to such covenants or *grouses* span ante contribution to or in respect et Ile pegs consideration paid or giveu for tho 'ant in such lessee. That if any leads Wig slim ecclesiastical corporation shall bane bus sob covenant on the part of the nefiyhmi home to twos oontribu upon renewal, • HP, as the nature of shares and bene lands which ma who nay be ant t. a proportionate latent' or cone asquired by atm loam ham an ec • lot, with a sew Kr. LABOUCHERE, maiden"( that the house had already dammed theprovilionsoo=two consecative %porcine siegme , itionotbs be mid that lartlegess who emptied the mstmeire were acting the . of mates. One Part of the dusty of mutes it was pee sible they Takla intend to act, via, that of strangling the bill. (" Ulu," and a laugh) With regard to the colonies, ikbad *pen suggested by his right boa. Riend'why not leave cat the colonies, that it rigl part of your bill, which is to simplify the law in these countries? He (Mr. Labouchere) adopted that advice, and now his right hon. friend attacked him for having done so. He was afraid his right hen. friend was very diffieolt to please On this subject. He had no' wish to press the measure against the wish of the house; but he trusted, notwithstanding the objections that had been urged, that the measure would be allowed to paw Sir DE. L. EVANS re a ,...tts.d that any obstruction was offered to the progress of the measure, which was one of great importance to his constituents. lie thought the right hon. gentleman (Sir J. Graham) should state whether or not he was opposed to the principle of the bill ; because, if it should be lost, the responsibility would rest with him. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM did not shrink from the responsibility of requiring on behalf of the public a full discuaion of the measure—(hear. hear)—and with regard to the frankness with which he had expressed his view in consequence of what had fallen from his right hon. friend the President of the Board of Trade, he wished it to be understood that he did not make the speech until the delay was charged by his right hon. friend 33 arising from vexatious opposition to the progress of the bill. He denied that charge altogether. (Hear, hear.) Ile reminded the committee that he had voted with the government on the previous day in removing an ambiguity from the bill' His right hon. friend said that he (Sir J. Graham) objected to the extension of the bill to the colonies; but all be had said was that the government having stated it was not their intention to change the general law as to patents theme this bill, it was not absolutely licenser). to deal with the colonies in it. He had no objection to the alteration in the 18th clause in this respect, but in the 2.lth clause a question of some difficulty would in consequence arise. But he was asked was he favourable to the principle of the patent law as it existed ? That question bad not yet been debated—it had not been raised on the second reading of the bill. But they were in an extraordinary position as respected the manufactures and commerce of this country if they were to take the government for their guide. On the one hand they had the President of the Board of Trade pressing a bill through in which that principle was affirmed ; and on the other they had the noble lord the Vice Pre sident of the Board of Trade declaring against the prin ciple of the law of patents altogether. (Hear, hear.) On the one hand they had the noble lord the Secretary for the Colonies expressing a strong opinion against the exten sion of patents by the law officers of the crown to the colo- nies, and the Attorney-General taking a different view in that house. In the crown colonies they would no doubt exer cise a dissection, and would prohibit the extension of pa tents under the authority of the law officers of the crown ; and in the representative colonies, where they must pro ceed by legislation on the part of the colony, the noble lord having the power to suspend such legislation, would, to be consistent, act upon that power. There was evidently not that uniformity of counsel on the part of ministers in re spect to a measure so deeply affecting the manufactures and commerce of the country which was necessary to warrant the house in passing the bill without discussion; and there fore it was jostifiable in independent members hesitating before, in a bill Bee the present, at so late a period of the session, they affirmed the principle of the patent law. (Hear, hear.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL believed that the whole body of the house, with one or two exceptions, had affirmed the principle that the patent law ought to be maintained, and if they were to continue the system of patents,the law, being defective, ought to be amended. The right hon. gentleman and the hon. member for Stoke-upon Trent (Mr. Ricardo) had urged that, inasmuch as a party desiring to take out a patent for England would have to pay for the three king dom" the new law would enhance the expense to him. But the difference was this—the patents not now taken out for Scotland and Ireland were generally those of the lees valuable character, which were not productive Metier to the inventors or to the public. (No, no.) Ile repeated that the majority of patents taken out for the three kingdoms were those for valuable inventions which endured, and these, instead of coating as they did now Me, would cost, under the new law, but 1751.1.1iis would be the resultofthe change the bill wo uld effect. The right hon. gentleman had mistaken what had fallen from his right hon. friend (Mr. Labouchere), when he supposed he had com plained of vexatious opposition. His right honour able friend had stated distinctly that he had no doubt of the Aonafrks and sincerity of the views of hon. gentlemen opposite, but he called attention to the fact that if they proceeded to a lengthened discussion of every clause of the bill, and to a discussion of its principle over and over again, the obvious result would be the loss of the measure for the present session. All, he believed, except the lion. member for Lambeth (Mr. \V. William') were favourable to the principle of cheapening patents and simplifying the law in reference to them. Let them carry out those objects, and leave the other questions to be die. ceased in another session. After some discussion, during which the ATTORNEY. GENERAL said the patent might or might not include the colonies, according as the interested parties desired, the clause as amended was agreed to. Clauses 19, 20, 21, 2'2 and 23 were agreed to. Clause 24, with the omission of certain words, was agreed to. Clause 2.1 was struck out. Several other clauses were agreed to. On clause 47, Sir J. °RAH Aal asked whether the government had formed any estimate of the gross amount of compenaatioc to different persons which would have to be paid under this clause ? lie believed that the days of the patent laws in this country were numbered; and he, therefore, dreaded this etatutable recognition of the claims of persons to com pensation out of a fund not arising distinctly and specially from fees. The unfortunate claims of the six chancery clerks had arisen exactly this way. The ATTORNEI-GENERAL stated that one-half of the officers employed in respect to patents would be absorbed into the offices of the commissioners. The other half were gentlemen who were paid by salaries, nominally only receiving fees, which were carried to the public account ; and these gentlemen would, of course, not be entitled to compensation. Sir J. GRAHAM asked again what would be the whole amount of compensation ? Mr. C. LEWIS could not give any precise answer. It was not likely that the amount would be large. After a few words from Mr. W. WILLIAM 4, who warned the house against pledging itself to compensation of the amount of which it was not yet informed. Sir J. GRAHAM advised the government to reconsider the point, and to bring up a clause arranging the difficulty to-morrow (this day) on the report. All he wanted was to have the fee fund kept distinct. Mr. LABOUCHERE saw no objection to that course. Mr. V. SMITH thought that it would be easy for the government to make a return of the number of persons who would claim compensation. After some further conversation the clause was agreed to. The remaining clauses were agreed to, the house re sumed, and the bill was reported with the amendments to the house. The Lords' amendments on the Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill, the Land Clauses Consolidation Act Amendment Bill, end several other bills, were then considered and agreed to. Several of the Commons' amendments, on the Law of Evidence Bill, were reported as agreed to by the Lords. ARRANGEMENTS AT OPENING AND PROROGA TION OF PARLIAMENT. Lord J. RUSSELL brought up the report of a select committee appointed to draw up arrangements to be ob served on her Majesty requiring the attendance of the house on the opening or prorogation of parliament. The report, which was read at the table, recommends that mem bers who wish to attend with the Speaker on her Majesty on these occasions, should intimate their intention the day previously, and that a ballot should be taken to determine the order in which members should follow the Speaker, members of the cabinet, however, having precedence over other members of the house. The noble lord in movies, that the report be printed and considered to-morrow (this day) said it was very desirable to adopt some rules which would prevent the scramble, confusion, and inconvenience, which took place on such occasions. Ile hoped that the house would to-morrow agree to the report. Mr. V. SMITH was quite of the opinion, that It was des sirable to prevent, if possible, the confusion which often prevailed on occasions such as those alluded to. He could not, however, but regard some of the recommendations of the report as a complete innovation on former practice. He did not see why persons arriving in town on the very day should not have their names inserted in the ballot box. It was a totally new thing that cabinet miuisters should have precedence over other members of the h nue. When they hid gone to attend the corenation, there had been no official distinction whatever observed. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL inquired how hon. members would be able to give intimation of their intention to be present at the opening of the house when many of them did not sometimes arrive till the very day. He quite con curred with the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Smith) that it was an unusual thing that cabinet ministers should have precedence on such occasions. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the coronation was not a case in point, for in that case places had been set apart for ministers, as well as other members of the house and each had found his own seat. In the House of Lo rds, on the opening or prorogation of parliament, places were not el lotted to ministers, and, therefore, it was necessary they should have precedence. The point touched upon by the bon. member (Mr. M. J. O'Connell) had been considered by the committee, and it had been found that no difficulty would ensue, for a letter to the clerk would be quite Ina cient to insure the name of any hon. member being put into the ballot-box. The motion for the printing of the report was agreed to, and the house adjourned at a quarter before six o'clock. renew the under-lease, upon any ressewal of the original lease, the interest of the lessee in such Leda shall no• he taken by way of purchase under this act, by any seek siastical corporation, without the consent in writing of such salt-lessee provided always, that trash nedeoiseeeeu• net, puration shall not be prevented from making such punkas*, nor s:iall their title to any sucklands be defected in respect of the existence of any such'inder-kaaa, aided the Bahl corporation shall have had direct notice thereof in writing; bat the sub-lessee shall, in eases where a sale or exchange shall have been made without such notice, be entitled to recover such damages for the loss of the benefit of such covenant, against the party bound by the covenant for the loss Li t ho sustained by hint, us be would he entitled to in respec of its non-performauce on a renewal by the original lasses Some verbal amendments were then made, and the bill was passed. PATENT LAW AMENDMENT BILL. On the house remising itself into committee on this bill, Mr. W. WILLIAMS observed that the Solicitor-General bed not yet staled who the parties were who were anxious that this bill should be pressed through during the present session. Mr. LABOUCHERB esid it was not only on behalf of the exhibitors that be wished to press through the bill in the present session. With regard to these, however, as they had protection for one year only, they would lose that OW tection unless they registered now, and it was of great ist peetanee to them that they should be enabled to register at lower charge ; but with regard to the great body of invented, of this country, he regretted that the house had not hail more time to ciosider the measure, but he would remind them that it had received the attentive consideration of • committee of the other house, composed of noble lords mod competent to deal with the subject. and though it had law since altered in some respects, the measure remained who stantially the same. The amendments which had been M. troduccd in the Commons amounted rather to a ream nruction of some of the provisions than to any chugs in their substance. lie trusted that the house would ad refuse to proceed with the measure, in order to its being passed into a law during the present session. On clause IS being put, after • few words from Mr. Dao. vu ear.ry and Mr. J.Gaaraa, Mr. HENLEY naked if there was any objection to • prove.° for reserving the rights of the crows in the colonies ? 'the ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that, with the view of avoiding unnecessary discussion and delay, it wee proposed to leave the law with regard to the colonies as it at present stood; therefore he proposed to omit the wade having reference to the colonies. In reply to a question from Mr. J. BELL. The Al 1 ORNEY-OENERAL stated that persons who had new patents fur England would be allowed to extend them to Scotland and Ireland on payment of oue-third of the whole fees payable under the existing law. Mice a few words from Sir D. L. EVANi, Mr. RICARI)O desired to call the attention of those bon. members who were favourable to cheapening the coat of patents to the fact that the biU would add to the exist ing charges. In 1!46,494 patents bad been granted for England for three years, at a cost of 931. each; 178 for Scotland, at a cost of 631. each; and 90 for Ire land, at a cost of 1191. each. By the schedule of the bill the cost of a intent fer the three countries would be 1751. If he took the whole cost of the 762 patents granted in lain, it would amount to 67,3661., and if those patents were taken out under the new bill they would amount to 133,350/. (Hear, hear.) lie wished to know from the Attorney-General whether there would he any means by which that result could be avoided, by allowing the party to take out his patent fur one country instead of being compelled to take it out for the three at once ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—The fallacy, as it ap peared to him, of his hon. friend's argument was in assuming that every patent taken out under the new law would pro ceed to the last stage. The party would be enabled under this bill to pay the amount in three sums—that was one ram in taking out the patent, and the others after wards if he should find it profitable to extend the term. At present about nine-tenths of the patents ended in nothing, and produced no benefit either to the public or the inventors. Yet, as the law now stood, the =venter was obliged to pay the whole charge at once before he had any opportunity of testing the advantages or the naults of his patent. It WWI now proposed to proceed upon this principle. Assuming that the same number of patents would he taken out for the three years as at present, and that at the end of that period many of them would be discontinued, and a very small portion renewed for the next term of three years, and a still smaller number would be carried on to the seven years, the aggregate charge would be considerably reduced. And though it was true, if every patent were continued to the full term, the ITV would have to be paid in each case, yet as the great majority would not he carried on beyond the first term, the charge would be materially lessened, and espe cially in reference to such inventions as conferred no benefit on the public, or profit to the inventors. Though they made a man pay for the extension of the patent to the three kingdoms in the first instance, he believed that would he found to be an advantage, the the only remain why parties did not now take out their patents for Scotland and Ireland as well as England was the great cost. Mr. HENLEY gathered front the eburvat ion. of the hon. and learned gentleman that nine-tentlis of the patents taken out now were good fur nothing ; still it followed that the remaining one-tenth would se worse off under the new I law than the old. (Hear, hear.) This admission of the hon. and learned gentleman's would occasion some discussion when they came to consider the compensation clauses. But he would ask the government what was the prospect of the bill becomiug law this year. It was understood that; parliament was to he prorogued on Fri , dav, and suppling they got through committee to-day, the third reading could not take place before the day of the prorogation. lie would appeal to the government whe ther they thought it worth while to take up the time of the house, under each circumstances, with the measure. Mr. LABOUCHERE had told the house that he at tached very . great importance to the passing the hill in the present sess ion, and the government were most anxious to is all they could to induce the house to go with them. At the same time he was quite aware that it was in the power of hon. members effectually to obstruct the passing of the measure if they thought fit, and by . availing themselves of the forms of the house, and repeating over and over 'again the argument. which hod beta already used and answered, prevent the possibility of the bill tossing. (Hear.) He did lint complain of the course the hon. geutleman opposite was adopting ; he might entertain a strung opinion against the bill. and might consider himself fully jeudificd in interfering to prevent its passing ; but what ever the hon. gentleman's opinion, he believed he was right in Raying that the public voice was generally in favour of the measure. As he hail said, the bill had nceived the attentive consideration of the House of Lords; it had been communicated to those who were interested in it throughout the country, and upon whom its failure would inflict great disappointment. With regard to the probability of the other house adopting the bill in its amended form, it was a matter for the other house to consider whether they would adopt the Commons' amendments, or not; but, seeing the great interest th- ma jority of the House of Lords attached to the measure, be believed they would—(hear, hear)—the more so when it was considered that the alterations which had been intro duced did not materially alter the substance of the bill, though to some extent they tended to diminish the sphere of its operations. (Hear, bear) He believed if there was a disposition to do so, there was ample time for the house to discuss the remaining clauses. Sir J. GRAHAM remarked that his right lion. friend seemed to think it was sufficient for him, as a member of the government, to do his duty in pressing for- , ward the bill, without consideriag that it sou equally incumbent on other members of the house to do theirs in ascertaining what was the nature of the legislation pro posed. (Cheers.) And his right hon. friend had assumed a tone in his observations as though there had been unfair obotruction% offered to the progrees of the measure from that (the opposition) aide of the house. He could safely say that he had been no party to such obstructions, and having attended all the discussions on the measure, he was not swim that anything approaching to unfair obstruc tion or vexatious opposition had been offered. (Hear, hear.) But whatever might be the duty of his right hon. friend as a member of the government in the matter, he could not consider that independent member of that house would be discharging their duty by taking this bill and passing it with its amendments wholesale the day' hut one pieceding the prorogation without discussion or' consideration. (Hear, hear.) Ile would never be a party to unnecessary obstruction or vexatious opposition for the mere purpose of delay, but it would be a neglect of duty it he omitted to urge any objections that might occur to him in reference to this or any other measure because of the latenessuf the period at which it was brought forward. (Hear.) But suppose the bill were taken ;And no objection offered. 'I It would pass through committee to-day—it must be reported to-morrow (Thursday) with numerous alterations, it could not be read a third time until Friday, and then the House of Lords would have to consider the amendments probably at a few minutes before the prorogation. It was obvious that unless the Lords took the amendments without consi deration, the bill must be lost, and the time of that house (the Commons) in further considering the clauses thrown away. But he would not pursue that point. It was for the government to say whether, under such circumstances, they thought it right to pass the bill. His right hon. friend had mid that the bill had been carefully considered elsewhere ; hut what b-came of that consideration when the first act of the guiernment was to recast it to the extent of intro during upwards of thirty new clauses? What were they doing with the clause under discussion The bill as it came down from the House of Lords included the colonies, and now after about a quarter of an hour"s conversation, the govern ment abandoned that part of the bill altogether. They had been told in the other house that it was important that the eelasioi should he included, but now the government were t e pad t i o throw over the colonies, which they considered as compered with the urgency of passing the bill. (hhiem bear). And then they had the extraordinary an nouncement front the Attorney-General that 9-piths of the Mink of the patents granted were alike useless to the public and profitless to the patentees; and yet they were asked to festinase a system which was deocribeil by the host and yard pad...man m so defective. The hon. gentleman balm him (Mr. Ricardo) bad referred to the ease of patents Ihe useful inve whets being rendered more expensive by this hill than they were at present. That argument, as it ap =to him, was an irresistible answer to that of the ley-general, who had appealed to the 9-ldths of use ,Ms patents. If the heave were not to be mere mutes in the matter, passing whatever measures government might consider necessary to carry, it was their duty to discuss the clauses of the hi, and if tUtry were to be told that by doing so they would be considered m offering a vexatious obstrue tiou to legislation they had better withdraw from the house altogether. (Hear.) THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1851. ite •xprefili. TO CORRESPONDENTS. formd Edition .7: 4 71; 1.;;;... ...t n .. Giivette,'' it petaled every Toceliy nal Friday Right, in time for port. gavettinetannts Intended too " Tke Ewers," London Evening porn. Otitkt be at the Ofilas 10, Bouverac-street, by Two o'clock on the day of pabscatiorn. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tots DA-9lontiat Wk. Um. Artenkkon. lOe. 49m. ."""auw—M,lll9l9. Ilk. 27k. Altemeos. lA. Om. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. A GENTIEMAN travelling in Turkey has sent us an account of what is called public education in that country, neither unamusing nor uninstructive. The subject and the hopes of education in Turkey form in themselves a topic well worthy of being treated. But in the present instance what first strikes us is the broad caricature which the Turkish efforts or non-efforts present of the attempt to monopolize and stifle, under the plea of promoting and purifying, education in Europe. Turkish reformers are, of course, imitators ; eager to adopt from the most advanced countries of Europe their wisest institutions. A ministry of public in struction was, naturally, amongst the first creations suggested. It was no sooner propounded, however, than the Scheik EL ISLAM, the head of the Turkish priesthood, interfered, and declared that education meant religion, and was included in the duties of public worship. He had no objection to govern meent and the people of the provinces contributing conjointly to the founding of schools; but the ap pointment of masters and the handling of the funds belonged by divine right to the church. Of course there was no contravening the claims of a body so powerful. A decree nevertheless went forth, that a school-house should be erected in every town, and facilities of education opened to the rising generation in the provinces. To do justice to the government their part of the money was in general forth coming; and to do justice at the same time to the Greek population, wherever there were sufficient members in easy circumstances, their contributions came also readily enough. But what was to be taught? No sect or creed would go beyond the book of its faith, which, in the Mohammedan case, is not written in the vernacular tongue of the population. Neither could Armenian and Greek agree better than the members of any other educational society. The Pashas did not wish to see the myah or unbelieving population made wise at state expense, when the young Moslem themselves could not be so; and the quarrels of the several sects of Christians gave them a ready pretext whereon to fling the blame of failure or non-exertion. We need not, therefore, say, how unpromising of success is the scheme of public edu cation in Turkey:, with the dominant church unable to make use of it, yet unwilling that others should profit, whilst those others cannot agree either about the nature of the boon, nor the means of com passing it. Yet, state education is due to no race more than to the Turks. Personal ability, independent of birth or fortune, has always been, amongst them, the great claim to eminence—a claim shared by the rayah races, whose young were taken per force, and reared in the serails. Nor was advancement confined to these; any provincial chief or individual endowed with talents to command, acquired that command; and indeed all Osmanlees enjoyed many of those benefits boasted to have been obtained only by very recent revolutions in Europe. All this, however, is disappearing, and has become impossible in Turkey. European institutions and armies, and administration have been adopted there, —unavoidably adopted. And more than European acquirements are necessary for the Turk who admi nisters them. The Turkish paella, the Turkish bey, is despotic as the Sultan. He must do all, and in the present requirements of office he requires to have obtained in a special school that knowledge which a European official is left to pick up. Your pacha re quires to be a political economist and a financier : to quote the Koran and cut off heads will not suffice. And except in cases of corruption or imperial rela tionship, still too frequent,the cleverest and best edu cated men get appointed even to the highest offices. Youths, to acquire much education, must be the sons of the rich, or else be reared by the state in public colleges, or perhaps be sent to England and France to study. The uneducated Turks are thus disinherited. They can no longer aspire to dignity and to three tails. The cobbler no longer becomes a vizier. High office becomes by degrees the appanage of a narrow circle of families, and will conic to con stitute that bureaucracy so much detested in Prussia and elsewhere. If this exclusiveness, founded on new necessities of education, is unjust to the lower orders of the Turkish race, its effects upon the Christian and subject races are equally remarkable. These for many centuries monopolised the intellects and intellectual offices which the Turks require. The Greek Fanariot was the diplomatist of the Turk, the Armenian was his banker and financier, the Greek islanders manned the Turkish fleet, and the young Christian, ravished from his parents, swelled into the formidable though 'Mussulman janissary. But the Turks have now determined to suffice for themselves. They monopolise all offices, all duties. The Fanar exists no more; its families are ruined or expatri ated. There is no soldier that is not a Turk. In civil as in military duties the SULTAN depends on his Mussulman subjects, and offers the Royal' now nothing beyond toleration. The Turks are thus more and more isolating themselves as the mus ters of a great empire ; and they require education to enable them to exercise this mastery. Hence military and engineering, and medical and naval schools are as numerous and as good at Constantinople as at Vienna or St. Petersburg. They arc amongst the necessities of despotism. They fill the place of po pular education, of which, in truth, their existence marks the utter absence. The only chances for the SULTAN'S escaping from the manifold difficulties of such a situation would be the making such use of his absolute power as would set him above the absurd claim of his own religion to monopoly and supremacy. No doubt there is danger also in policy of this kind. But after what .MAit- MOVD has done, and done successfully, much more might be undertaken to render the SULTAN the father of all his people. If the Christians cannot be taught to look to him, and to hope for something more than toleration, they will look elsewhere, and the reign of the SULTAN, at least in Europe, will cease. It is on the question of education, of legal procedure, and of local employ, that the first step might be taken, not indeed to an amalgamation, but to a more equable treatment of the different races. If this cannot be done, it will be one day —Adieu, Turkey. IF the Spirit of the Time could with audible voice make itself heard within the walls of St. Stephen's as the Commons are summoned to the bar of the Lords, there to receive their release for the rest of the year from the lips of the Qt'EEN, we fear that its accents would be those of sadness, not unmingled with reproach. A session of the usual length, and of more than ordinary activity, has come to a close i with as beggarly an account of unrealised hopes land unezecuted schemes of improvement as ever formed the subject of popular vexation and regret in the days when boroughmongery was unchecked and unquestioned in its monopoly of power. The Reform Act of 1N32 was an attempt to break up that system of legislative engrossing; and to some extent it has destroyed the severity' of the oligarchical preserve. But if anybody asks what essential change has the partial Reform Bill of 1832 effected, let him look at the results of the present session, and comparing them with those when Hug titssoN and CANNING and PEEL had the conduct of affairs is an avowedly and unblushingly nominated House of Commons, we apprehend that he will be forced to admit that there is hardly as much efficient good done now in the space of six THE GREAT EXIIIBITION.—Yesterday the receipts I legislative months as there frequently was then.. for lea/011 tickets amounted to 221., and the payment at the , Just enough of the popular element has been infused doors realised 2,633/. is. 6d., making a total of 2,8561.45. ed. I i n t o parliament to make the dictatorial and high- I I J he 39 number of visitors, according to the police report, was handed style of good law making no longer pos- STRIKE OF LINEN WEAFERS.—BARNSLET, A. ,1. sible ; but not enough to enable a minister, when 6.—ln Consequence of Messrs. Charles Tee and Son having rightly disposed, to stifle or crush resistance from made an attempt to reduce the price of weaving some kinds the still powerful and compact phalanx of aristocratic of drills twenty per cent., his weavers have struck, and opposition. several meetings have been held during the week in this , Let us cast a glance over the list of government WWII and the surroundiu; villages, at which the conduct of m e asures ca rri ed , mutilated, and abandoned during the above firm was cativ.issed and severely censured. There d is every prospect of the weavers getting their old rate of the session now about to terminate it s talkativ e an wipe. troubled existence. We confine ourselves necessarily to those which deserve the name of national in their interest and imperial in their scope and aim. The Ecclesiastical Titles Bi ll has been curried, and the window tax has been commuted into a tax on inhabited houses and—literally that is all. To dignity such measures as that for the ap pointment of a Vice-Chancellor, or that for the extension of the principle of county court jurisdiction to certain matters in equity, or that for the modification of the law of evidence, into great legislative changes, would be preposte rous. Equally ridiculous would it be to ex aggerate the importance of the still doubtful alter ation in the patent law, or the very equivocal changes which we adverted to recently in the local administration of justice in Ireland. These may be light or they may be wrong; but right or wrong, they are subordinate measures, or rather adaptations of existing measures of subordinate and varied de tail. But not one great thing of any kind or sort — fiscal, educational, judicial, colonial, or political—has been carried by ministers to completion. In church reform there were high expectations, but nothing was even attempted this session. In popular edu cation, it is true that a promise of some thing has been elicited for next year; but for the present no plan has been broached—no scheme of general adequacy has been forth-shadowed. In the great abuse, the Court of Chancery, no effort at cheapening the cost or equalising the approaches to redress for rich and poor has been even whispered. In colonial rule, not a step in the right direction has been essayed. In organic change, one private mem ber has carried the principle of a rateable county franchise by a coup de main, and another has carried for the third time a resolution affirming the prin ciple of the ballot, by the sulky sufferance of the house, while the valueless concession of a property qualification for members of parliament has been made by the Premier; but not a point of reform has been this year actually carried. We are to all intents and purposes as we were. The list of wounded bills is equally brief. Instead of a renewal of the property-tax, we have seen a temporary bill keeping that measure in force for twelve months longer, forced upon an obstinate Chancellor of the Exchequer, because he would not condescend to modify those justly obnoxious portions of it which public opinion has irrevo cably condemned. The consequences of this will be painfully obvious when parliament re-assembles. The whole question will have to be debated over again, whereby many weeks are one way or other sure to be lost that might otherwise have been devoted to other topics. The same may be said of other ques tions, especially that most interesting one the law of 'local self-assessment in counties. It is absolutely impossible that the great deep of agricultural dis content should ever be dried up so long as this re mains as it now is. The occupiers of land wha pay county rates must have a voice in their imposition and expenditure, as the corresponding classes have in towns. Without this they will never be satisfied, and they never ought to be. Foremost amongst the slain we lament the loss of the Oath of Abjuration Bill. On this subject the timid and time-serving conduct of the government last session has wrought its baneful effects. As far as the ministerial measure for the admission of the I .lews into parliament is concerned the cause seems rather to have retrograded. Nobody ap ' pears to have believed in the bill as a reality, and hence the diminished numbers by which it was sent up to the Peers. Had it not been fur what was done by the electors of Green wich, by Alderman SALOMONS himself, and by the anti -ministerial minority, who, night after night, in sisted on debating the question—the whole subject would have sunk out of sight and parliamentary re membrance, owing, we must say, to the half-hearted and chilling tone of those in power regarding it. An unhonoured crowd of little dead follow the Oath of Abjuration Bill on its road to Hades. We shall not vex our memory by trying to recall them. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The ball of the Hotel de Ville went off last night in the most brilliant style. In the vast suite of apartments, crowded with SAO guests, every sort of dance in vogue succeeded without interruption. The Salle des Banquets and the Salle du Trone, il luminated by hundreds of lustres, and ornamented with flags, presented a magic spectacle. 'ken from the galleries, the interior court below, with its fountain, had a Moorish look, full of romantic charm. In the rooms, the habitual monotony of the black coat was varied by uniforms of all nations, among which the English red coats were conspicuous. The Lord Mayor and aldermen arrived early. Sir Charles Musgrove wore his scarlet robes, and the aldermen their brown dresses with the sword. The Pre- sident arrived about 10. and passed through the rooms with M. Berger, Prefect of the Seine, Lord Normanby, the Lord Mayor, and several of the ministers, Ihe Chinese mandarin was not the least object of curiosity, and promenaded about with unembarrassed placidity. The immense crowd circulated without a great deal of difficulty in 1 the magnificent suite of rooms, and the visitors ex pressed the highest gratification at their cordial reception by . the city of Paris. The review to-day was brilliantly successful. At half-past 3 o'clock the President of the Republic left the l'alace of the Elyst , e, accompanied by a -numerous and brilliant etae-major. On his right rode 'Marshal Exelmans, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, and General Oudinot, and on his left Marshal Narvacz. Ten or twelve other generals of brigade and division followed, together with officers belonging to every army in Europe, dressed in their uniforms. At four o'clock, Louis Napoleon having reached the Champ de Mars, two signal guns were fired on both sides of the river, and hostilities commenced. The pantonniers im mediately proceeded to construct a bridge of boats, under the protection of a heavy fire of artillery and musketry, which was responded to by the troops on the right hank. In less than three-quarters of an hoar the bridge was completed, and a battalion crossed it au pas de course. A similar movement took place on the Pont de Jena, and the attack of the heights of the Trocadero commenced. The two armies were afterwards to defile before the President of the Republic. The river was covered with boats full of spectaors, and the quays lined with immense multitudes. The manmuvres passed off without any accident, and were favoured with the most beautiful weather. This morning the Prefect of the Seine gave a mag nificent &Yellin' to the English visitors. Covers were laid for 200. An excellent orchestra performed an admirable selection of music during the (I , Yeuni. The Orleanisti, are about to bring forward the Prince de Joinville as candidate for a seat in the As sembly at ono of the earliest vacancies, following in Ithis the course pursued by the Bonapartists with re spect to Louis Napoleon, who was elected represen tative while in exile. The ground of this proceed ing is the opinion of the Conseil d'Etat, which I re ported to you some time ago, concerning the validity of the possible election of the Orleans prince. The election of the prince, however, would not, if successful, be followed, in all probability, as in the case of Louis Napoleon, by admission to take his seat, as there is n strong coalition between the Legitimists and Bonapartist% on this question, which commands a majority in the Assembly, even were the Left to vote in favour of the admission, a step which they might be induced to take with the view of promoting disisions in the majority on the eve of an election. A rumour is afloat, which would make the Prince de Joinville candidate for the Seine, in replacement of General Magnan ; and to-day there was a good deal of talk in the Assembly on this sub ject. Nothing however is fixed. The Opinion Pel64ne insists to-day upon the ab solute necessity of bringing forward a constitutional candidature for the presidency. Notwithstanding the apparently firm tone of the ultra-leetimists in opposition to the Elysee, it is thought that, at the last moment, the fear of seeing the Prince de Join ville enter the lists will drive them into the camp, of which they at present affect so great an abhorrence. ' The Messager leads the assault against the Elysee ' with a venomous pertinacity,- worthy of its soujicur, General Changarmer. You are aware that the editor of this paper, M. Eugene Foreade, was recently con demned to three months imprisonment for publish ing a statement, which he was unable to substantiate, that the Minister of Wax bad issued orders to the colonels of several regiments out of Paris to hold themselves in readiness to march at a mo ment's notice on the capital. As if to retaliate for this chastisement by the authorities, M. Port ;71 . 0 has published in the dr:cower of last night a docu ment which has been eagerly taken up by . the anti- Bonapartist papers of this morning. This is w i thi n; more nor less titan n prospectus, published in London, and circulated at the Stock Exchange iimnediately before the presidential election in 1818, concerning loan to be secured on the claims of Louis Napoleon on the French government, as the heir of his mother, the Duchess de St. Lcu, better known us the Queen I lortense. The article in question is headed " The financial consequences of prolonging the powers of the President." The prospectus, which the -1/easayer prints in large type, in the En g li.,h language, is as follows : The late Duchesse de St. Leu, formerly Queen line al:llW, at the time of her decease had claims upon the French government to the extent of 28,847,001 Hr., or 1,115,1h0/. sterling, which claims were founded upon the treaty of Fontainebleau, and were confirmed by royal decree of the 30th May, ISt-I. The legitimacy of such claims was never needon yet to serve politica purposes i • no , fuithe , r allusion on the l present wh endeavours were but too successfully made, undo. the last French dynasties to neutralise t heir effect. Ilk Imperial Highness, l'rinee Napoleon Louis Bonaporte (who after nearly 30 years of proscription and exile, has at last recovered his country and his rights of citizenship), as sole heir under the succession of his mother, the said Duchess of St. Lou,is the only party entitled to demand the settle ment of those claims. The political purposes referred to have been rendered inoperative by recent events : those that are now passing in France, independently of other favouring circumstances, lead to he conviction that:claims that have too long and too wrongfully remained unliqui dated will speedily receive the consideration and sati,Lie tion they merit. Of these claims 10,000,000 f. or 400,000/. were for the considerations mentioned in an " Aete sous acing prise," hearing date the 15th day of Novem ber lust, assig ned by his Imperial Highness to , Ir. X. of Paris, banker, then in London. This " Aetc " has been duly deposited with the underrnentioniel notary public, and has further been duly acknow ledged by his Imperial Highness and Mr. X., he sn act passed before the same notary, his Imperial filch I ness thereby engaging that the proportion of claims ~o a'- signed by him shall he entitled to settlement out of the first that may be directed to be satisfied by the French govern ment. Mr. X. having divided these 10,000,000 or 500,115 W. sterling into 100 parts or shares, helbas prepared 1011 certifi cates representing 100,000 fr. or 4,0001. sterling each; and he proposes issuing the same to such parties as may he will ing to pay 4001. sterling upon each. The' e certificates purport that Mr. X. will prosecute the liquidation of the chums, assisted by the advice of two of the largest holders of eerti. i • ficates; that he will divide the amount he may recover, first deducting the expenses he may incur in the prosecution . thereof, as follows :—First he will repay the 41/01. per certi ficate to each of the holders ; and secondly, he will divide , the residue into two equal moieties, one of which moieties ) he will retain for his own use and benefit, and the other of such moieties lie will divide rateably amongst such holders. _ _ ...... - Mr. X. also proposes assigning a portion of the moiety so retained by him, upon terms to be communicated by the same notary. Applications for certificates of shares, or for portions of the moiety above referred to, to be made to Mr. A. de Vinna, notary public and conveyancer, foreign and English, at his chambers, No. 3, Bartholomew-lane, Royal Ex change, London. The article then sets forth an attestation of Mr. ltupert Rains, of London, notary, dated June 24, 1851, certifying that at the request of Mr. Thomas Michel, of Pans, he had called upon Mr. de l'inna, who had admitted the genuineness of the above cir cular, but that Mr. de Pinna had said that the " acts " of November 15, 1818, was no longer in his possession, and that for all further in formation he must refer to his imperial highness himself, or to Mr. X., whose name appears in tho printed circular. Mr. de Pinna prefeiTed not to state the reason why the affair was not proceeded with in London. or to say how many certificates had been disposed of. Mr. Foreade affirms that the claims of M. L. N. Bonaparte, as the heir of Queen Hortense, are not more valid than the analogous claims of the other members of the Bonaparte tinnily, which are said to amount to 1000/00,finfi fr. It must he assumed that M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte be lieves his claim to be valid, or he would not have . . offered it as a security. The article concludes by stating it to be a serious question for France to con sider, whether the day after a re-election she might not be imperiously presented with a little bill of 109 millions of francs in the name of his imperial highness. M. Eugene Fun-ado was yesterday arrested and taken to prison, but this was in pursuance of the sentence to which I have alluded, and a few hours before the above article appeared in print. The profession of a journalist now-a-days in Paris is one requiring no small degree of courage, us the following list will show :—The prison of the con eiergerie contains at present 2 editors of the Prose, 3 of the Er ,, nemcsit, I of the People, and 2 of the Messayer de l'Asstlobb'e. One of the editors of the Siecle will probably join them to-morrow. In the Assembly to-day, atter the rejection of M. Cremicux's amendment by 381 against 211, the ministerial plan for making a temporary provision for continuing the works on the Paris and Avignon Railway, by a vote of 0 millions of francs, was adopted by 538 to 34. Urgency was afterwards voted on the two railway hills, i.e., that from Paris to Lyons and that front Lyons to Avignon, and it was decided that the discussion of both the projects should stand on the order of the day on the 10th of November next. A meeting of deputies of the Right. who are mem bers of the councils-general, and of legitimist mem bers of the councils-general who happen to be in Paris, was held yesterday, at the house of M. Ilerryer, to decide upon a course of action during the vitia tion. M. lierryer was of opinion that, pursuing this line of conduct which had been commenced in the Assembly, the legitimists should use all their influence in the councils-general in support of the principle of total revision. Partial revision might be dis missed from their minds, because that idea was equally foreign to the speeches and the votes of the recent debate. M. de Laboulie inquired what there was to say or do in the councils-general. M. de Ful loux answered that there was a great deal; that they should point out the advantages which the mo narchical principle had gained by the revision debate and organise committees to prepare for the parliamentary elections of 1832, in concert with all sections of the party of order. 'the meeting then adjourned to the parliamentary club, in the Rue de lttvoli, where all the legitimist deputies had been in vited to attend. The assemblage was very nume rous. M. Berryer addressed them with great energy, in continuation of his previous remarks. Ile added, that on the subject of a candidate for the presidency they ought to maintain the greatest reserve. Legality was for them a defensive arm, to be kept ready fur use against all follies and adven tures whatsoever. But it was not their mission, as monarchists, to do the work of the republie, and to seek about for a candidate. They would wait, keep their position, and act according to circumstances. M. Berryer's reasons were adopted unanimously by L those who were present at the conclusion of the meeting M. Alfred Nettement, of the OpiniOlt Mdk' liglle, had been present, but left without voting. • The adjournment of the Lyons Railway question L now inevitable. • The Councils of Arrondisemcnt commenced theit - sessions on Monday. Those of Rouen, Chateauroux, - and Montreiul-sur-Mer have voted the revision of the - constitution. The trial by court-martial of the offenders con cerned in the plot of Lyons began yesterday. The accused are 50 in number, 14 of whom have taken flight. MM. Cremicus and Michel de Bourges will o plead on behalf of the prisoners. n At the Bourse to-day the Fives rose 15c., clo•iiii; 3 1 at 93.95 ; and the Threes rose 13c., and closed at 'n 37.43. a GERMANY. BERLIN, Acct. I. Two new ordinances, at the instance of the com missioners of the bund, have been published by the Hesse Cassel government. The first suspends the action of the remaining standing committee, and brings to public know ledge that the ordinance of the 26th Dec., 18.50, of the com missioners of the band interdicts all efficial assembling vi the permanent committee of the Chambers, any disilie dience to which ordinance will subject the offebiliaX parties to the sentence of the military tnbunal alluded to in that instrument. The second edict published on the same authority relates to the execution of the late rules and ordi nances issued at the instance of the commissioner, and declares that "all explanation or criticism touching thc`o ordinances on the part of the electoral authorities and otti cials is strictly prohibited, as well as all comments respect ing their legality and validity, or the authority whence they have sprung, or any conduct or proceedings. direct or indirect, tending to impede their being carried into effect, and that any act or acts which can bear this construction shall he regarded as rebellion, and dealt with acconlinoY. , The Cassel Zeitung "announces further, that additionn edicts are about to appear, which refer," that paper :If'. " to publicity, liberty of speech and the jury, whereby all 11 1. ' proceedings will be made much simpler and much cheaper, ' as all small causes, which cost more money than they am f worth, will be withdrawn from the jurisdiction or sentence I