The Express. — London, England, 1848-11-15 00:00:00

tirade against the Prussian Assembly. Hia speech was a regular bill of indictment, interspersed with the most wanton and irritating insults, The whole party of the right, with the ministers at their head, a pplauded all the irritating sallies of the orator against the majority in the Berlin Assembly. The left several times insisted that M. Jordan shoulo_ be willed to order, but M. von Gagern uniformly; re f use d to do ea. All these indications tend to ..."now that our statesmen of the Central government are disposed to take part with the Sing of Prussia against his par liament. I repeat that this will be a grave error on their part. Bat there are positions in which people may commit faults without incurring immediate punitia. went. Such a position was that of Louis Philippe after 1850—especially in 183t-'32. Louis Philippe was teen all-powerful so lonb as he acted in the in terest of order. The central occupies at present a similar position. It commits blunder upon blunder, but even its follies tend to streugthen it. The central power is invited to crush the Prussian Assembly for the advantage of the court of Berlin ; it will crush it, tut the advantage will redound to our young unity. Another illustration of the opinion 1 have advanced was afforded in thy course of yesterday's sitting. Itioerto u , any of the Austrian deputies have kept away from Frankfort. Since the Austrian court has Itsd remain to believe that the central power 1+ suffi ciently illiberal to play its game, it has been stirring heay.:n atd earth to make its deputies repsir to Frankfort. In this way the whole of Ancria will, ere long, he represented in the German parliamtnt. Austria will thus become accustomed to see its lead ing men in the parliam ent —in a word, it wi.l become familiar with the idea of German unity. The proof that this unity has struck deep root is, that even the blunders of its friends tend to strengthen it. England Truce .. Belem TURIN, Nov. 8. The following are the words aped by the reporter of the secret committer at 14 members, which me ow htmday evening to hear the explanations of ministers an the ques tion of the resumption of hostilities and the state of the coon• try, and which mu followed ey e a seent sitting of the whole home at the request ministers. committee having heard the confidential commeeications made by the mini:tees present, declares that it does not ap. tithe conduct or policy pursued by them." Ministers, pealleg to the whole chao.ber, have succeeded in being exonerated horn the above vote of "want of contidente." The were flitting was prolonged last night to a late hoar, when min , stets, hewn* read to the chamber the diplomatic coteeerwlente with France and England, and rati,hid the ea-Monte of the chamber that the Aeglo•French me , tttion still subsisted, and that they had hopes of a good result from it, and, consequently that they had dons right in d. tetting to declare war, the eliolostures macerates the artily being also emmidered, obtained a voter of 00cti..0110r, the exact figure al which is variously stated. Things will therefore go on as bders. with Asterism rodeos. No freight. to be had. Coffee some osil woo in what. UNITED STATES. The amount or stock of the loan of 1848, issued on foreign account in the week preceding the Stet alt., bad been unusually lax, : sots .... SKOOO Germany . 01,300 Brasil 10 allmia ,OOO OO 0. , 00 % .,oef and wine, on which they subsisted until the 29th, when I they were takes off by the British barque Castries, Capt. Kinds, from Bt. Lucia, bound to Dublin. iIICIOIST, YLITSRDAT.—ALLZOED NILOLICt OF A Mr. W. Payne, at the Joiners' Arms, Wmtminsterroad, Meaning the death of Mary Las Harris, aged 61, a needlewoman.-11. Smith said the &messed was hie mother-it-law. On Tuesday week, hearing she wee ill with cholera, he went to her sad Wi s her lying SS the bed. Mr. Hooper, the pariah summnt for, mad his assistant mon arrived and directed that the deteseed sh aid be kept warm, and bottles of hot water to be placed at different parte of her body. They . had not the means of r a t thia, so they wrapped her up in all the clothes they Chiv e that would answer the same putiwrim l i The surgeon gave her money to boy brandy and an order foe relief from the workhouse. A eon - in -law of the deceased, I named King, went tattle workhouse on Wedneedsy and gat from Mr. Bodeen, the relieving officer, 21be. of bread sad Whir articles. The relief was stopped on Friday, when Yr. Ideas tanked mimeos away, but on Baturdap mime bread meat, and oatmeal wee given to King. The deeeseM ell this time wu much in want of clothing, and Mr. Hooper ordered her some, but which the relieving officers refused t• give her.—Elisabeth King, the daughter of the deemed. said that when Mr. Endeau visited the deemed on Fehleg, he said she had quite enough clothes on her. She was wrapped up in old pleas of carpet, but had no blankets. Ow Saturday, as deceased was crying out about the cold, Mr. Day, the vestry clerk, wu sent to, and he pz.vided two blankets and two pound' of mutton. Deceased di..d on 8 onday morning.—Mr. William Lock, one of the guardians, said he heard of the ease on Friday, and wro.o to Mr. Sudan telling him to do, all that was necessary for the dc ceased —Atter some corroborative evidence, Mr. Endeau, the relieving overseer. said that when he went to the de ceased on Friday and saw her in bed, it was his impression she had quite enough covering. They told him that they had not enough, and that what was there did not belong to them. He sail it was no matter where they goc the e'otbes from, for they had got them, and, therefore, he could not give any more.—Verdict, Died from Asiatic cholera," the jury expressing a hope that Mr. Endeau would be more careful in future. lived teed died and have left their remains to attest the actuality of the species during the enormous lapse of time from its beginning to the 6% of August last ! Now, a serpent, being an air.breathing with long vesicular and receptacular lunge, dives with an effort, and commonly floats when dead ; cod so would the sea serpent, until decomposition or strident had opened the tough integument and let out the imprisoned t ate'. Then it would sink, and, if in deep water, be seen no more until the sea rendered up its dead, after the lapse of the teens re garotte for the yielding of its place to dry lend—a ohanp which has actually revealed to the present generation the old saurian monsters that were entombed at the bottom of the ocean of the secondary geolo . gical periods of our earth's history. During life the ezigenetes of the respiration of the great sea serpent would always compel him frequently to the surface ; and when dead and swollen — Franca the flood, extended long and large, He would Lay dotting many a reed; in bulk as huge Al whom the fables name of monstrous sire, Titanian or earth-torn that waned on Jose. Such a spectacle, demonstrative of the species, if it existed, has not hitherto met the gale of any of the countless voyagers who have traversed the seas in so meny directions. Considering, too, the tides and currenta of the ocean, it seems still more reasonable to suppose that the dead sea serpent would be occasionelly cast on shore. However, I do not ask for the entire carcase. The structure of the ver tebra e of the serpent tribe is so pauliar, that a single ver would suffice to determine the exist, ace of the hypothetical Ophidisn and this will not be de. med an un reasonable request, wh en it is remembered that the verteln are more numerous in serpents than in any other animals. Such large blanched, and scattere d bones on an y seashore would be likely to &Watt e ven common cureosity ; yet there e ns is no vertebra of a serpent larger than the ordinary pytho and boas in any museum in Europe. Few sea-coasts have been more geneloutly searched, or by more acute naturalists (witness the labours of Sere and Lovett) than these of Norway. Krakens and sea serpents ought to have been living and dying thereabouts from long betore Pontoppiolan's time to our day, if all tales were true; yet have they never vouchsafed a wile fragment of their skeleton to any Scandinavian collector ; whilst the other great denizens of those seas have been by no means so chary. No museums, in fact, are so rich in the skeletons, skull, bones, and teeth of the numerous kinds of whales, cachalot", grampuses, walruses, sea unicorns, seals, eCela ,as thee. of D e nmark, Norway, sand See, deo ; helot any r t e marine neat. script or indeterminable monster they cannot show a tine. I have inquired repeateelle whether the natural history collectioos of Boston, Philadelphia, or other cities of the United States, might ponces any unusually large ophidian vertebne, or any of such peculiar fend as to indicate some large and unknown marine animal ; bat they have received no such specimens. The frequency with which the sea serpent has been sup poled to have appeared near the shores and harbours of the United States has led to its being specified as the "American S. a Serpent;" yet out of the 200 v. rtebrtr of every individual that should have lived and died in the Atlantic since the creation of the species, not one has yet been picked up on the shores of America. The diminutive snake, less than a yard in lengt h, " killed upon the sea shcre," epparently beaten to death " by some labouring peop le of Ca p e An ts, " United States (tee the Svo pamphlet , Ih l7 . Bolden, page 38)' and figured in the Illustrattli London New', Oa,OUCT 28, 1648, from the oror iginal American memoir, by no Mean' satisfies the conditions of the problem. Neither do the socchans of Mitchell, nor the ophiognathus of Harwood —the on ry e 41 fest, the other 6 feet, g ; both are surpassed by some of the congers of our own coasts, and, like other mare:mid fishes and the known small sea (hydro phis), swim by undulatory movements of the holy. The fossil ye rtehrie and skull which were exhibited by Mr. Koch in New Yara and Batton as these of the great sea serpent, and which are tow in Berlin, belonged to different individuals of a species which I had previously roved to he an extinct whale ; a det. rmination which has subsequently been confirmed by Prof, setts Muller and Agustin. Mr. Dixon, of Worthing, has uncoved many (testi vertebee in the Eocene tertiary clay at Er icklesham, which belong to a large species of an exttuct eenus of ser pent (paleophi , ), founded on similar vertebere irom the same &rotation in the Isle of Sheppey. The largest of these ancient British soak• s was '2O feet in length ; but there is no evidence that they were marine. Thu sea mentos of the secondary periods of geology have been replaced in the tertiary and actual seas by . marine mammals. No remains of c!taina have been found in has or colder, and no remains of plesiosaur or iethyosaur, or any other secondary reptile, have been found in cocotte or later 1 tertiary deposit, or recent, on the actual sea shores, and that the old air-breathing saurian floated when they died has been shown in the Geolo9ical Transaction , (vol. v., second series, p. 612). The interence that may reasonably Indrawn from no recent carcase or fragment of such having ever been discovered, is strengthened by the corresponding ab sence of any trace of their remains in the tertiary beds. Now, on weighing the question, whether creatures merit ing the name of " gnat sea serpent" do exist, or whether any of the gigantic marine raurians of the secondary depogin may have continued to live up to the present time, it seems to me less probable that no part of the carcase of such rep tiles should have ever been oiecovered in a recent or unfoe silised state, than that men should Lave been deceived by a cursory view of a partly submerged and rapidly moving ani mal, which might onl be streoge to themselves. In other words, I regard the ne g ative evidence from the utter absence of any of the recent remains of great sea serpents, krakens, or Enaliosauria, as stronger agannt their actual existence than the positive a etements which have hitherto weighed with the public mind in favour of their existence. A larger body of esi lens from eye-witnesses might be got together in proof ef ghosts than of the sea serpent. IRELAND. DVELIN,Nov. 14. The Court cf Queen's Bench was occupied yesterday with the case of Martin r. the Queen, in error; but the arguments were not concluded when the court adjourned. The proceedings in this case disclose another dif ference between the practice of the courts here and those of Westminster-hall. In England when the subject complains of the crown, the subject, like the plaintiff in cases between two subjects, has the " last word," or the right to reply. In Ireland the right, it seems, belongs to the defendant, the crown. Cases of this kind ought really to be conducted like other cases; and it does seem, in the words of Mr. Justice Perrin, "very Irish" to prevent the complainant from summing up the arguments. Is it not Limo that such di.tinctions in the practice of the courts should cease, now that steam has broight us within thirteen hours of London ? Rumour in " the hall of the Four Courts," announces Mr. Justice Perrin's retirement. The health of the learned functionary has not for some years been so robust es usual, and it is now said that the proper parties have offered to facilitate his retirement upon en allowance of 2,3001. a year, which, however, the learned justice spurns, demanding his full salary of 3,800/. His period of service, I believe, entitles his lordship, or nearly so at least, to this latter amount ; but of late years it is very unusual for an Irish justice to leave the bench while his health permits him to discharge his functions. Whether there is any truth in this on die I should be unwilling to plecL:e myself, but it is not the first time it has been in men's mouths iu that great theatre of legal and political gossip " the hall." Should this retirement take place, Mr. Monaghan, the attorney-general, would dinbtless oc cupy the vacant seat upon the bench. The Rev. Mr. Leahy, president of the Roman ca tholic College of Thurles, has written to the journals to say that John O'Leary, arrested recently near Clon mel, is not, and never had been, a student of that college. One of our few Irish newspaper celebrities has just departed from the scene where for many years he had enacted a prominent and not uninfluential part. Mr. Nicholas Murray Mansfield paid the debt to nature upon Saturday last, after an illness of some weeks. This gentleman had been proprietor of the Evening Packet newspaper for a series of years, during which he had rendered that journal a very infimmtial organ of the opinions, sentiments, and changes which have pervaded and influenced the high ascendency party in this country. Personally, Mr. Mansfield was kindly and winning, while his readiness to oblige any mem ber of his " estate," of whatever politics, as well as his abstinence from that ulcer of Irish political warfare, personality, were as remarkable as rue. S:rong and partisan in his politics, stronger in his polemics, there is no man who krew him who will not be ready to say, " Peace to his spirit !" SCOT LAND. EDINBURGH, Nov : 13. The trial of John Grant, printer, Henry }taken, and Hobert Hamilton, for sedition and cor.spiracy, came on this morning before the High Court of Justiciary. The witnesses for the prosecution having been examined, the case for the croow•n closed, and the trial was adjourned till to-morrow. PROVINCIAL. LANCA,iIIRE. A VALUABLE PUBLIC TEaTIMONIAL, cot siring of a dinner service of silver plate, with a b. medial centre piece, was on Wednesday last preeented to tdajor.Oen. Weynyss, tt , =te e iu di r nnAr r, !o that e , oM . ce . m r hz: r h o e r, l i ayer pect far the manner In which he had conducted h.tnee.t while connected wan the district cootatend.ht fr on 1836 to 1847. The senior included up -cud/ of 20 p'ece- of plate, and its value. is not meek eh p r dr,bly of 2,0001. WARWICKIIKB. ----- Tll6 CHIPPING - NORTON AND CHIPPING CARP ozN Best.—lu the District Court of Bankruptcy, et Bir mingham, y nerds!, Wore Mr. C 0011169111011. r B_lguy, Nl”ers. John and Charles B. Matthews, w i,, , l on business as busker, at Chipping N RCM . 1 I I‘. toy . .... Cant or, era- ... ~ ti th-ir that e.= 0 V I 'elicitor, of Birestazham, who, with jig ].; ~. •i s n• st, -• % ...., A I's. • •:-..: ~ - ...( 1 1 .) el. ct , „,.._.,. . .. •••- 1- • ~...; :i _Lb ..tt.. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1848. FRNSCE.—Pownt REYoll.lll.—People of bosineos begin to iaqwre, with ' use solicitude, whether the French ga ga reknit, which Is to COW into oyerati.ll2 OR the let of Isuary, will pro '.ate say distinution in the porage of let ters to linglatid. At present the postage of • letter, weigh ing not more than a quarter of an ounce, to England, is 10 which is shared 'quietly between the two post, t ees. By fi the new postal stiff the poatege of such • Ir ter to Calais or Boulogne, nr say other part of tho fr mtier, will lao its four sou", or teropeime. Upon the pr incinle of equal charge , ' primate to any tart of Great Britain from Pane mid be only ',tarpons. .iesd of tempest', as now. It is oat sap po eel that the P oe t Ala aultormice here would throw any olatac's ia the way of such an equitable arrangement. MAIL 0011 S ICATIOM unit SICILY. The °pia:Journal of Palermo of the 20th contains a notice frees the pat tete deparnient, stating that, by order of the French republic, the Marreille* and Constantinople hoe of steamers rill touch at Trapani during the outward voyage et the eth, 14th, WI 24111, and during the nose voyage on the 3rd, lEth, and 23,4 of every worth. doctattaT BAIKIVIT.—A socialist and democratic barman took pines • kw daps ago at Lopatin' ' depart ment of the Adis. A toast was given to " th e repub lic oldie prolitn re—to the red republic!" and an indivi data' shouted. " D two with the than:am! Down with na med. Dates with hones ! Down with carriers!" After the dinner the I,uesn yrercenaded therstreets with dramas& Buts, ser'smi g revulutiunNry soar, and shou eg bra gasa! g bee Barbels sod Ledru Raab' ! Dow* with Cavai The flat ßSunk ter ! Harrah for the 'Whisks, ! " deputy store aced some of the mandates of the nuntielped waned of Cason were present at the bouquet. 1)isEET101 1 or TIIE Pante THLITII.IIB.—The pre 'radial! &aun ib t is Fans , or the prenewpation of the public mind with matters of more importance and sore lasso diate aitllik hes modally thianed the theatres of that eapieal. Of this we have an amusing account in a recent feuillek. e of M. Bechs Dells, the musical critic of the Amens: des DiGoie, IR a renew ni hl. Clapiv-on'e new opera oof Jeanne La Palle," ymodund at the Theatre de la Nation oa day last. 31. Berlioz rly lornonts the sad he the eat betw the crowded hou s es of the " old tints," sad half nap ee n birches of the I, metal. Before the revolution. appear tl.et there was a regular system of intrigue practised by the amateur s, the ladies especially, to obtain *Ws for the retained of new op roe, and, on the Brat night," the boss were crowded with rank, beauty and fashioa. " hat Dow," adds poor Berlioz, "if yen encounter a fined la the Sue Logisl!stk7, an your way to the Fr , Open, foe the purpose of assietist at' the performance of a sew Ogee, aa allusion to matters musical only provokes • shrug of sad your polite offer of • ticket of aoli is met with the moat chilling indif ference." 01. aspirant% opera was esessefld, notwithstand ing the thinness of the, t else. The absence of foreigners from Paris, and the indisposition of the lents towards public amurcinents, baying lowered the subscription of the Italian Opera to &point which remien the entrepreneur wa ab'e to keep hopes, government, rather than have it cloeed, in about to 'pp:, to the Assembly fur a grant of 60,000 _ _ _ *saes. NATLRAL SON OF NAPOLEON. L unt Leon, sa r on g son of the Halpern' Napoleon, has addressed the a letter to the journals st atin g and offering proot that impeller let. swill, of which Gen. Mantholon is executor, and whirl was duly registered before M. Tabourier, notary, at per, is whisk there era matters affeeting the interests of Count Lien, end that sun hat be about h will has been hitherto suppressed. Coast Lieu announc es tis to appeal to the tri bunals to adores its disclosure. BELOIUM.--At FAIN Or "RDNICOIte TOliT. e —nie Proarvoi en Cessation of the prisoners la the " Itliquons Tout" affair has been rejected by the Cour de Cavallo& at Brussels. remains the sentence now maiss in forces it is exPectsd that a commutation of runi s h ment by the royal prerogative of mercy will very shsrtly take plac e. GERMANY. Tun ROTAL Baitße of Berlin and Breves ere depositing their reserves of gold and silver bullies in the fortre ss of Msgdebiug, where they will he in greater safety in ease of a *worse. The re movals of cash are made by means of C..e night trains on the Berlin and Cologne Rai.way. OLMVTZ, BRUNS, AND I'RESBURG.—Theire towns which previously occupied no crest plate is Germany and the north, are now, by force of cirrumsences, playing apart which engages us to give the following de tails. °haute, for instance, which is now inhabited by the impede court, eestains but 19,000 wets, i..eluding the gar rison ; it is. however, very well fortified. Frederic If. besieged it without 'arena in 1778. It was in the citadel of °lairs that General Lafayette was kept a prisoner in 1794. The town now possemss a university recently founded,' college, a library, and an archbishop's palace. Being a fortress peace Is easily maintained there. Brune on the contrary, is • manufacturing town. Formerly fortified, but dismantled is 1808 by the French, it owes its existence to its industry slows. Its manufactures of silk, cloth and cotton occupy a print *umber of hands. This explains the dir urb t - ances which occurred there. The distance abou eg.les between Vienna and Bruen, where the civil sad military chiefs of Moravia reside. On a height sear Braun * the castle of Spielberg, celebrated as the e ple of captivity of Silvio Polite°. Ohnuts, of which we hav just ipsken. is about 37 miles north-esat of Brunei. c ad in the same direetios, about 19 miles from Olinutx is Kronsier, where the Diet is to meet. Although Brewster has net more than 4.000 inhabitants, it is one of the finest towns of Moravia. The palace which the Archbishop of Olmatz possesses them th is sugnifiemal, and will probably t be t figured he place of the meeting of the Diet. As for Freiburg, i has fir a long time in history. lt was hounded in the time of the Romanis, in a situation oa Vs. side of the Danube, about thirty•six mike from Vines. Freeberg, since the reign of Joseph WaS the capital of Hungers. The Hungarian diets met there till lately. The neighbourhood of Vienna, beautiful scenery, an easy and cheap mode of life , a theatre, and libraries, gav r. e the p. vitiation a character store sedentary than turbtlen It was at Prealmers tk it the Austrian princes wire formerly crowned kings of Hungary ; it wax there also that. after the baits of Austerlitz the treaty of low was sign• d, by which Yenite nos celed to France and part of Tyrol to Austria; It was at T:eshurg that the Hungarians pronounced the 1415 , 11. oath Jr tor their Kissg, Maria Theresa. Further on to the south , ut hut still on the Deaube, in the city of Pesch, towards which the Austrian forces are sow marching. Pecth, taken he, times by the Turks, nom only mar e g. talon from them tit 16146. It is now the most commercial ard peppiest city ol Hungary ; every year adds to itr PQM*" ritT , The uopmetios. is upwards of 50,000 souls. PERSIA.—Drarn OF M. HOHNAIRE DE HELL: This gent cumin, will known for Lis scientific researela and his 'raves. expired at legalists, of putrid fever is the court ci Augutt Lo 11 t. M. , 432015i1t de Hell had been sei 1515 on a scientific mantissa by the French government.— YMCA:FLA.—News from Porto Cabelln, dated the OctoM r, has bon naive lin New York. On the let al Oct i,ser tiler. am a battle ou ght:g at Coro. be. twee this government troops and the Par in which the governeent troops a ere vietorious, Laving killed govern and talus prisearn about fittO of the Pais party. Ms was at men" lest, oe five brigs and six ratsoonar.. r li" . 0 oo the 4th, ethics is provisions sad wafers and allies the netwary preparations for an smash on the Si and city of Msracaiao. went to sail for that place o. the Sth of Oc:ober. On manias of the 4tle as ea le re, noes laid on tb. poet. Geseral Pees. it was sad, was at CYtti sal ifs ft , t, at tat accounts, wax et Da .n.as wee very dull, and the saute* were well Ft +IA 'feral do See,l9o Of this amount about 130,000 dole. were transferred by Messrs. Corcoran and Riggs, being the first stock vexed for them on foreign account since Mr. Coroo ran's reoent sale in London. The following letter is from N K r, wn correspondent : YORK, OCT. 31. Ina few days the presidential election will be over. We see nothing to change our opinions as to the result as hetet• tofu, expreued. The cutest appears to be a cline one, end the friends of General Cam and General Taylor are madly [ serafideat. All the principal speakers in different states are "em She stamp," or Is other words, discussing the claims mid merits of the caadidame, in the presence of large as -110/Miiii. This imam 6u the effect of making the people a i lm~~perfectly familiar with net public men, and if t he y , they do it with their eyes open, end have no one to blame but themselves. This reconciles us to all the trouble amending our political campaigns. Our news from Tampico is rather important Thar is in *pretest desire in the people of that town to 'et up for themselves. The national guard has driven the Mexican Mope without the city, and the resident foreionen have Rimed four companies, each 100 ATOM, to protect them selves and their property. The national guard forcibly entered the house ot Mr. Chase, the American consul, awl took from him a mountain howitzer, which they used against the colliery. That there will be •fieht before the matter is iettled we cannot well doubt. Latest accounts famish additional information to easy fin Tampico. The brig Tai has arrived at New Orlesna from Vera Coos, with dates front that place to the 13th, and from Mexico to the 7th. There kos been a dillthlty at Guadalupe between the governor and the slimly commander of the suite. It is *wronged quit illamea Anna's friends are at the bottom o; the mores meat. The government had received informstion of the rising at Tampics, and were hastening to put it down. • sad diequietude prevailed at the capital, and it was belicsei that the army, to a man, dished the return of Santa Anna. The states of Durango, Zacatheu, and flan Lois woe threatened with devastations by the Indians. In seneet, l Mete co presents • most pitiable spectacle. It is positively I stated that the Tampirsos have issued &plummiest's*. ' annexing themselves to the United States. Tnit, of muss Y a wetter is which we have something to say. From the city of Mexico we learn that congress has been officially informed of the exhaustion of the thuds received from the Unit d States. The elections had terminated in a majority for the menu chide and moderates over the federal ism. It was believed that a general movement was sliest to lake place in favour of General Santa Anna, and greet gloom amid ammety prevailed throughout the respeemble portions of the people. On the 30th of September, Senor Aranda was chosen Pre. 'Meet, and Senor Mae , do Vies President. Mr. Clifferel, the American minister, had presented his thedentiate, and was then on hit way home. We lulu that our military forces, on their way to Cali fermis, were in good hesit ',mid making their way through the country with prat facility. At Chihuahua, Col. Washington gave a military fete to the governor, which was attended of a loci concourse of Mexicans. Governor Trims gave a dinner in return, and the greateet cordiality prevailed among thou recently such warm enemies. From California we do not hear so mace, about the gold as we did, yet eseessionally the arrival of large sums from that quarter is annum@ el in the wester& pipets. One wipe who died reared) , on the " golden sands," where be had been at work, le ft a poor relative io this vicinity 230,000 dol lars, the gains of a few mottles! I must not forget to say that the late of Smith O'Brien excites much attunes. I have come to the cui.clusion that his lite will be spared by the gracious act of the queen he r eef. Her private character is much admired ins this country ,• and it is believed that her humus disposition will be allowed to show itself on this ocession. To take the life of this person would be to leave a world of power behind him fer future misehiet. The coffin of Idaho mat hes perpetuated the Malt mean devotion. We have had some heavy failures in this city within • few days past, and more are expected. Business is quite dull and mese, is again tight in the street. It I. believed that there exists in this city a secret club of " rowdy " sympathisers, who are organieed for the purpose of making mischief in Quads. It is said they have cemete ries in the province' who are endeavouring to instil among the inhabitants any other moderns than those of sutheission to the crown, and that they are only waiting for an eppor tune occasion to set fire to the theta they have laid. This occasion is to be a general war in Europe, which they oath. dently anticipate. While it must be adm itted we have a set of idle and worthless people among us who would be glad to create trouble with England, they are chi. fly fereigners, who, enjo)iog the freedom of our institution', hove no other consequence than that which attends their disorderly con duct. The people of this country ere utterly opposed to any disturbaace of ear relations with England. 'fog _____- _ €bt Court- WINDsOE, TafteDAT.—The Prince"" and the Princesses Ellis, Adelaide, and Feeders of Hihenlobe Las genbiurg, took leave of her Majesty this morning, and left the Castle for the C intinent.-Bir R. and Lady (indium lastle ett the Castle to-—The Royal dinner part? at the C this evening will include the Brehm of Kent, the Princess A01.1i2 cf Hohenlobe Schillinagarst, Sir O. and Lady U. Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, end Sir O. Cooper. The General Board of Health sat yesterday at Gwydyr Hoene. A deputation from Lthemter, consisting et ) Ir. R. B. Areeetroag, ALP., Prufes.or Owen, the Mayor of Lumpur, Mr. liowitt, and the Town Clerk. was re ceived by the Elul of Carlisle, and Mr. Chadwick. Lied Ashley afterwards took hiss. at at the boned for the first time, having been previoudy absent from ill health. Sir John Pally had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial•othce. Mr. Macgregor, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Hodges, bad also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet is Downing-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial ofilce from the Othersur of made, and 1110 from the governors of the other North American colonies. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left town yesterday for his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts. SUPPLY OF OAS TO THE CITY. A meeting of the commissioners of sewers was held yesterday at tree Bowen-office, Guildhall, the Lord Mayor in the chair, " to receive a report from the committee of general purposealn relation to the supply of gas to te trim City, and ts recommend that the neasu►l no:ices be gin ot application to he made to parliament for the supplying this City with Pl. Mr. Deputy Paacnci, who had taken the chair before the commeomment of this portion of the butiness of the day, the Lord Mayor having left to attend his magictenal duties at the Mansion.house, stated that the Conti mitres of general purposes, to whom the gas qua. tioa had been refined, had taken considerable pains to inquire fully into it. They had been materially assisted in that duty by the City Solicitor, who had given his valuable aid sod 'aperients in the drawing up of the report which would be now read. lie might add ' that the mita of the inquiry was an unanimous opinion on the pert of the committee t the price of gas was much too high in the City—and tha of t was not reduced one way, by the gas companies themselves, it must by another. Theztfockwi as then read, as follows: We t h a t we ! u m m et, a nd been a ttended by the City will atm, wbo before us a grommet whkla was read to us, and bevies Illelidesed the plans proposed ther ein . we recommend to your eowt, ea the only pro b a bl e means of obbilaing a reduction in cot of Ons. Uwe lerote. be at thee prepared and advertised as required ; that year IMAM will apply to parliament for powers to erect gas works, sod to bey d o wn Oipe. and mains within the city and lib.rtiea, with Y pan nee the work., ropes, and mains of the existing gas or of any p,s company banner to be established within trpower = e llermeid; sod as the last day foe giving such notices is the lease Sowindeer, tt le imperative that decision thereupon shoed be nes The to Mr= toes statement was then read' It Termed to the etromets wheh, thirty Fens ago, the chartered Gee ClomPlae and the City of toroth Gas Company had retired into in the wasp ce gas foe the stree t-lights of the City of London, the Coambelimes or Severe Whig the power, under the Gis Ads, to pardons l ee. the ceetenitu et the nomination ol the control, the re elm vent seal at • fair valuation, or, at their Film, to give wain in their removal. The two emnp.aies, avoid ing commoltion with each other, p a rtitioned out the City between them, en enlargement, in many respects, while advautrolvilil to the co mpanies, was emieseint to the citlsens. The inhabitants of the I City, however, see crottbsd from their situation and thee:teat 4 their 001111t1111ptioes to have a ewer and better gas than the inhabitants of the metropolis mattered over a wider district tan obtain, becaueethey may be termed wholesale customers, and are entitled to have the coo linodity at a wholesale orlon V. akin the City of Lcodoo these two complain have derived • rental of upwards of 130,0e0t. per ammo I from a singte set of mains not more than sixty miles tri length, the retains thus averaging uPwanie df Tiaedl• t ee l 1011% whereas, the anise of the Chartered, the Imperial. the Equit. able, th e London and other companies, traverse niany hundred. of miler, so metimes two or three sets of main! In the same stmete and iroads, without dividing among.t them half curb a rental. Coe w a s formoin sold to the consumer at Ss. per thousand, but now it is reduced . ts . ai the prime oast of the article, allowing for interest on capital in erecting, in the Gatary, and all expentos, and • large and profit, does not exceed Is. 6d- per thouronto The roans el amend go boorooniee touch doe upon toe frontiers of the City is endothelia"; and if he corpovatith of L on don, co Unties , 11111•04=11•111 ileum, nods , the romisione of the ceiginal a. t, were so petease el sues and pipe. of these °colonies, now in the anairt, at a minettok they would be enabled to supply the article at a ON mil& ewe anew of its being sold to the inhabit oh' at N. rod dowaraad sails be—b rate Isidro, after MAW* an adequate alawase it .11 expeeses, and interest of capita l in outlay far topic .), would leave a emeiderable Ola th e us and of th e sewers' Me t or to defray the con o f sanitary improvements, or M etz euw athe kind improvemints that =Oro be deured. If tie Cite comparou roll mince their charge to 4s. I fs thousand, there could be no term fur a change. If a unabeatiost an be Parsed amend the wee pa peen , nes to defeat plan by refuting la tree% their °Meet would not be 1 obtalmed. far apemo 'Wel, Immerse le ma verbs and practically ammainted with all the wackier eagle of yesmena toturing, hod Weed le supply the whole quality mere& of the vin ta leatja:2 , as to viwky and illuminates: rem, st Is. Id.. M feet. - PorthavW at this prise. ti NC toy eadeseM Wile diem/ the gis at 4s-, and collect the resat hwart' allows of the Newer' cachou to the athaagement of the ememiodsono who !Melt apply the brad in Mal of the rater tr Obits Importiat made *este, the Oceassimemen of sewers and the eorporaden geeing their manna to the City co nenmers to form • company to f a sobb a suffi cient capital (tio,OOrt.) to lay down mains sad pipes, and to mound tor the wbolinale sop. ly of the quantity remdred. The CILAIRMAX soted that as the court was now in porismeloo of all the i., some members of it should move that the report he received. Mr. Aid. LAITEMICI admitted that the thanks of *s nort wen due to the City ealictot foe the trouble he had taken in the matter, but he deni,o toil mew wer e i n rests tiolt of th• •toroat7 facts to enable them to peened as re. commended in the frt. r.aa Be f ore they entered into such • whom , the Shou ld O. least have something like evidence to go upon. it wt.o stated that gas could be manufactured at 2s. oas per 1,000 feet. It might be so but there was no evi dence on thts point yet before them. There were between .50 and 60 mil* of pipes laid down in the City. How much mosey would their purchase require ? He was not asking Wen questions for the mere purpose of raising objertions, but for information. If the estimate as to the cost of making gas wee correct, no doubt, the citizens of London were paying too high • prioe for that article, but he should be sorry to go to ' parliament, upon the mere evidence of a letter, mu from so talented a mass as the City solicitor. If the recemmenda doe were adopted, the corporation would become not menu. factutens of gas, but protectors and patron, as it were, of some gas eompany, who should ropply them wholesale, they resutilitungt thet ges .p o o u ra t titoon th co e ulcr properly u N n o d w e ' rta l lt e e * su ss ch nin a duty. (Hoar, he r.) It was suggested that if the corpora don Wahl purchase at 2s. 64., and were to guarantee ella ply the eensumer at 45., there would be generally a dimemblem to contract for five or seven years at that ice . But what security would there be ha 11116 i • contract? For such were the eon. *ant changes in a place like Loudon, that in the purse of five or seven years, many of the parties would have left or become bankrupt. Again, he wes t e rnised that there would be a loss In retailing gas in the way proposed of from 20 to 25 per cent. inthe quantity, as compared with what they would have to pay for in their whole-ale purchase from the manufacturers. He wanted positive information upon this point—also, from the evidence of 'scientific tan, what ! gas mould really be manufettured for per 1,000 feet, and what ' would be the cost or purchasing the present, or laying dews new, pipes. He was delighted with the report as far as it I went, but it did not bring conviction to his Naiad 1 so m to Induce him, were he about to deal I ice himself, and with his own money, to enter upon an undertaking such as that suggested. He hoped, however, that the result of the inquiry would be to , open a negotiation which should I.A the parties who now I supplied the gas to the City of London, to reduce their price I to, hew Ida not say is., but ss. • 1,000 Int. I Mr. RA14E111024 remarked that if the worthy alderman ' had attended the cemmittert, he would b- well convinced that gas could be supplied to the citizen of London et 44. a thou sand, leaving ample margin for profit. With respect to any further redact on t.t price being made by the two conpani. a who now supplied the city, the court would her in mind that they wore last year corinctly told by the two gen denten who attended on behalf of thole companice, that they could bold out no hole of any further reduction ; and it was then that the commission felt that they were bound to proceed with the inquiry which had resulted in the present ' report. And he was Creepy to say that he believed the sub ' int was now taken up with a determination to carry it out. (Coons.) An observation which had be :n made by the chair • man of one of the gas companies convinced him that a little more pressure only was needed to bring about a lower price. That gentleman told them that the reason why the camoany I reduced to 75. and afterwards to tie. a thousand, was because the Imperial Company—which did not come into the City at all had reduced their prices ; and he also stated—and this was still Oloreremarksble—that gas companies which had been long established were not doing so well as row companies. He (Hr. Harrison), trom this explanation, came to the conclusion that the new com panies were enabled to do better than the old, because they availed themselves of all modern improvements in the menu facture of gas, and were not burthened with the exertaive expenditure which the old companies had incurred Ho had no desire unnecessarily to disturb existing arrangement. and interests ; but knowing that, if the supply was thrown open, the citizens of L radon might obtain gas at a mirth lower price than they were now paying, leaving • large sum of money available for City purpose, (end it wee nut impossible, if negotiations were entered into, that the companies who now supplied them might fall in with the arrangement suggested in the report), he felt it no smeary, in order to enable the court to act fairly and do joa ties to their fellow citizen , that the proper notices should be given of an applcation to parliament. Thirty years ago parliament in its wisdom, and at the iseglesti.n of that court, inserted a clause in the Cu Company's Act, em powering the vapor...Couto purchase the gerpipes and works at a fair valuation at any time, should they find tht supply deficient, or at the termination of any euntract; but after -1 wards, when applying for a bill to raise fresh cepttal, the gas 1 company had managed to insert a clause resciuding that power. This amount of protection, at all events, they ' should endeavour to raestabl eh ; let thtm then give the notices, and they would then be in a better outsider' to neerstiatt and to avail therneelves of any offer that might he made. He would move that the commission agree with the report of the coromittrt, and that the City Solicitor be in structed immediately to lodge the pedantry notices. (Cheers ) Mr. Deputy Breezes emended the motion, and referred to the evidence of Mr. Lowe, Mr. Cu:, and other gas engineers, given before a committee of the House of Com mons, as Showing that gas could be manuf ctured and sold at 2s. 63. a 1,000, leaving ample profit to the manufacturer. Mr. WALI ER observed that Soaletiall ego he had stated to the court that gas was supplied to the Eastern Counties Railway Company , at 3s. 6d. a 1.000 feet, and that the party supplying it had laid out 10,0001. in the necessary works for the purpose, and had contracted to continue the supply at the same prom for several year., and he (Mr. Walter) now begged to hand in a letter to the court from as party who would undertake to supply the City at the same price, and to build the work., lay down all the pipes for the purpose, and give ample security for the performance of his contract. The motion was then put, end carried unanimously. CROLERA.-Yesterdav the Board of Health received reports of the following mire cases :- Stepney, 1 ; Lambeth, 1 Southwark, 3-1 fatal ; Sstterses, 1.-Edinburgh, 13- 2 fatal; Leith, 6-3 fatal. Total uew cases, 25 -6 deaths.- The Regirtrar-Oeneres report,issued yesterday, states the total deaths front all muses dunog last week to have been 1,165, the average being 1,154. The following notes ere appended relative to the cases of cholera registered In the week ending the 11th inst. Seven are oases in which in deed' were held ; the remainder are all reported to be cer tified by medical attendants except two: M. John's, Westminster : M ., 26, " Arlene cholera (2 days)," be. mint IL, 42, "Asiatic chub re (4' hours)," ineueeL /X above two pees occurred in the Millbank prison. A cue of death by con doned fever, is mid to have been accelerated by the her of uking chokes, a Whist suffering from cholera haring been carried from the ward.-Statuford.bill : M., 42, "Fula& cheers (SO home): 14 monbs. " Aette cholera (14 bouni)." IL, 6, .speemodie blue elvdere ( 21 hours)." Mr. Montaigne, the Mistier, Motu that " tits above three cases of cholera marred at liigh.hal Perry. The first was that of a foreigner 42 years at age ale worked al • emmise factory, which is situated on • swum gime of ground thee to the river Lea. In frost dit c h the side el t s ar seni Bodies, thereto, rues • black nneoeerei wh eginelge the sewage from Mount Pleasent, Springfield, and other et lase 1,12. It commences at the end of Springfield, sad Mgr nimiese sense hundreBl yard% empties Welt into the river Lea bier the Weary; in its program It runs eo clone in the rear of heameMeges, that in wet weather It washes their side walls, and at all ▪ as It Urns very offeneively. The other two awe were of shildren st a taseutieg wok with a w ise and four other children, occupying ease cram of a Mese. slick (my informant asp) is so damp that in, weer dell& en the walla The privy flooring is so bad, that when iheffnerier dr well becomes intolerable. Tne water used by the MOW et the inhabitants is that of then eer Les, labia re. "Mies Woke enter al two ar three factories in the neighbourhood. 012 f-reed t F. $ t, "WM cholera (5 days)."-crippleseere : er 1, memee.mert, F. 44, "cholera Asiatics (9 home)." This person wee eery beemperste; m' hursday, Saturday, and Sunday , ehe west in • sleasi ettaingleaike• She mac taken 11l on Monday, but the surgeon wee asiesst for till Tuesday monis', when be tooted her lateuring =der efeeHedtmff.reed : At 1, Co " Boundary. ..t. & R orer e 4 e - ecid.inaker, 7, Asiatic cholera (6 bours)." ini 1, baftyrood.wreet, Bouncturstreet, eon of • bedsteadmisker, , "diode cholera (IS hours)." At I, Collingwood-etreet, Boundary. snot, wile et • silk-dream 67 e "Asiat:e cholera (18 hours)." Mr. Munn, the registrar. makes ttte following statement respecting the eras of sisters originetiag In No. I, Collingwoodstreet, boundary. Dethasi.Oreea, in the immediate vicinity bend Shoreditch smear, •-"Mra. Tyler, the wile of • labourer, had been to Pelham. eereet, eld, on Thursday, Nov. 2, and was attacked with erismes et dee see in t h eedp, otreet im he r way beck. Medical moist ameemes ImmeidleaMy aced. Ilex mother,ll.Blseliy,aime toollielate es emese, wen with MlAtie cholera, and died on sutcl the 50. On the same afternoon, Jame. LLCM, the too of beg otead. rile, ions elm attacked, and died the next morning, in 18 hours: be hid maim • emeaderuble quantity of grape. Os the eth, a daughter et the swim ear, was also attached, and died oil b“ure. Mrs. ▪ the Are originally attacked. was toes four ehildren Mee illmi Ilitbaii. pis warehouse, where 1 uninformed by 51r. Apr, likeleargecie, she end two of the children have cried of Adie. X making Mx persons in or from one house. On a minute =.1.0... t h0th the (amides to be poor, but not destitute, and the crowded, but not, as regards public arrangement", elbrrefee terivioue to health. There were 14 prom resident in this helm built for four rooms, but actually containing three, the two ✓enme am having been converted into one Inhabited by Luis.. The =ere 11y in this neighbourhood are itregular in their diet, often and not attendee to the cleanliness so seemeary to health. -1 1 1X0lig : M., 25, " epidemic chaktrt (5 dye)...-lit. Sanour :in OA ileur's Wothbouee, widow, 65, 'fever, with bronchitis (15 ta , T): cholera (11 hours)."-St. °lore :on the 6th of November, at 3, Ster-emst, Beresendepy-street, wife of a lebstuer, 24, " Asiatic ehotera ; typhus ore . queut thereon (9 days)." F., 3. " cholera Asiatics (48 hours). -Bermondsey, Leether-earket : IL. 73 . " me; lignem enders (X house)." M., 14, ...triode cholera ;27 haurd.' F., " chokers." F., 11. " cholera." F. 10 years and 8 months cholera (14 hatere)." F., 5 months, " cholera." F.. 3 rem and • menthe. "Merrier I (14 boss:.: cholera Adolf's% !it bours)."- Beemandeer : M., 7, " Asiatic cholera ( 21 hours)" M.. a, " Asiedle elleiefa (3 dors)" U., 13, ..tcietic °bolero." P., 40, " Asian* &aims (16 ti edst after milmiseice.;" F., 58, . Mimic Pbelein Ile hoers.)" F., d, " dierriges 5 5 days; . Asiatic cholera 10 mum) Kent-reed :At S, Crosn-yard, lateiVer, 31, " epteurehe cholera ;23 Isers.)" At 22, limy-street, woof A labourer, 19 months. "cholera (5 days.) . At 63, Kent-erect, labourer, 29, " spsmodie chol"re (18 heme.)' * - 1 1S Mary, Sewing. on : 1., 41, . dlerra. ill hours); elders (Samar Trinity : F., 3, us-tried= 4 day.) sapPeemsd by elsokra."-Lembsth : In Batalestreet, Nev.ein (deneely MX ,' Idled, 12 aseneed sad drained), daughter of a lebaneee, li d " cholera •Wl i. bours) 'Mixes, diarrheas" r., 56, " cholera (3 days) aolleme." female livedbyeelling triSeeis thestmetesnd atembhc-hoinee: she resided la theharewhere the preordingesse occurred. These is another pence ill. At 19, Belvedere.rosel, John *met. miners. an. " epee mock cholera iSO boars)." At 3, Cheitenhons.plue, widow of a aawainalfer.Ba. "cholera spasmodic% (17 hours). „ At 19. Jeletell. tarok, d , a ri rter , of a mere, ,i, "cholera +4c hours,. At 62, tbekley ' diner, eea an _POW OS, " Miele chelers ' , ye iICBB'S; all, disrrhirs ;6 weeks)." At 52, Oalley-atreet, wife of a shoemaker, 31, " Asiatic eh dere (4 days)." M. 4, .ebelera spaetnedies 4 day . ;' At ti, Dvecsureasrest. wile of a rope•epian,r, 6,..cholere +plc. modica (6 days)." At 13, Jolui.seeet, sea of a 1 ibsuror, IS, "chc lera a°6l°' tall."-Casslyerwell; In Teethe...l%ll,W Lunatic Asylum, M., se idiot, 85, " speemsodic cholera ,6 hours,." A spin. err ;idiot), 3D, . spasmodic &Mesa (54 days) end coasecetire fever." wife of a labourer, 5.e. "'purslane charm (es hours)." Mid ew of a shoemaker, 52, .spismdlic cholera (S days'," At 4. Asir. Oeorgettreet. C emberwetl, daughter ef a honorer. 9," cloiera Pi n hours . At . I, 51.diegru..dinete Wyndham-mad, M, 4, WO ef a Lai uicr, . choler, I it... , ." 51., 6, son of a I Mower, ..taistie ...Art , Jo hous.)." ' :the .. me ease , were ins close confined Peel whose medmadwi llass bnesiou l uerag eas te orkeekast msta atina k a des su r dowis .6.1 7 4 , t 8t I hasneesa. " 111"rnal lie 4, b asi ll ef e i= fe t 4 1/16.141.1 %surodualie (II ,:r Mend Ity llis kik. Ms yea r hedik p et kiosk ha i r 18 " bil• Wm woe _kw toe knes by kirk hisses a ltildithe : P.* 111 . " "mai ems& BS IBMs)." F.. TS. " disks 0 4 Mow)." 1 1-r=elefie ehircs (II lassisj."—Wislair• Dot trel s 111.14 ' Wwir..ao ti t ossl. kis an no firsisnd tent el andeed Wes bred thee's. " lob aw Ilw elw• Th e WIS is. mowed user Os all. nlgo, se. emu% " ghee[[ dam asithe shalom (4 days * togs& ~ .....w. Allam.gbielera (4slll" 7. l•lsit. ~ Se,••imeNti mei ($ 6 0 6 ), iv:abalones (I day ," M., es, ass " Whim (11 elape, Adak *NM (3 trrisreL IL. ROA ewa. via, . opthetra:L1111111). Mildo *okra (II daya),dloOna (7 days), bow (1 " birst.—Gresawnit :la Dresksays Mei. gt. lio IL mitam "—amebas :r, __ _4. " stern (le the— : M. = " Nokia cholera (1 wet)." I Net tentiled—es sadist at Heinen . wo opprohenied la the shres are ask the dig Inks the dad dad. • asked mm ens as kat for, who yeseked ts km, dada est. I haw nade penile:he Istalrin of the bogy, ak hos no nom le sapper it was earning but • else asensen lisilsb deism Tits Stator or LONDON bee isneed a thtpeatoral letter to the clergy of his dioessa,calliege m pone i s m e u ni t e o d r their utmost in their various loaditiek to remove I mined canoes of the extension of cholera. " A line of duty." I he obeervee, " in .f w ett h de ich iwr ohffi t i h eesh e i: c s l i e soeu rgi fitoy ma inTig y do. ren t a tick themselves na u t w ur i e u o l e w m it i h ne th n e dy 6:knispanshiPmdeoniceff and to minister to his maven be one of their plainest dative it is a still more blessed work of charity to rescue, wider the Missing of God, whole mares of their poorer b rethren from the inroads of disease. Intemperance and filliness," says his lordship, " are too frtquentle the result of wont, and unless something be done for the relief of extreme indigence, it will be an empty mocker y . to tell those who are borne down and crushed by its weight, that they would be less miserable if they were Ina filthy." His lordship, in conclu sion, dwells emphatically upon the necessity of eembati. - 4 the fallacy that cholera is contagious. " Let it, then, be one object of your pastoral visits to remind those members of your flock whom providence has entrusted with the means of alleviating the misery of their fellow.creetures, that a portion of their charitable expenditure can hardly Is more safely or properly directed than towards defraying the ex pense of cleansing and ventilating the miserable sho.' es of those by whose labour they are directly or incidentally benefited." LONDON TEMPEItANCE LUOVE.—The central monthly meeting of this association seas held on Monday evening at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, J. Dunlop, Bag. in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Beggs, Rev. A. P. Black, and Mr. H. Clapp, of the United States. The neakne pointed out the immorality and crime occasioned by the custom of drinking, and urged the audience to support those friends of social progress who were endeavouring to rid this country of whet they regards,: as one of the greatest evils by which it is afflicted. BACK:VeiI PAROCIIIAL AtMOClATlON.—Yesterday, a meeting of this useful arsociation was he'd at the Mitre Tavern, Downham-road, for the purpose of affirming the principle of self-government, and of economy in the expendi. turn et the parish funds. The chair was taken by Mr. Mat. son, who briefly explained the objects for which the meeting was called.—Mr. Wickham thee, d the first resolution, to the eff..c., that the district of Kingsland and De Beauvoir Town being suflUently important in number of inhabitants, and I in extent, to be entitled to hove some share in the manage ment of the parochial affairs of Hackney, of which pariah it is part, it was expedient to divide the said parish into weeds, of which Kingsland should be one, and that immediate appication be made to the poor law commissioners to exert the power vested in them by the set of parliament for the division of the pas ash of Hack ney into wards.—Mr. Wickham entered into some details with respect to the mode in which the very extensive parish of Hackney was governed by a certain clique in Church street, and stated that, whilst a tee-pound householder was qualified to filen an M.P., it required a forty-pound rats payer to elect a vestryman or guardian of the poor.—The re solution being seconded, was carried unanimously.—A ou declaratory of the opinion of the miming se that the increased charge far the police was extremely op pressive, and that it afforded another instance of the reckless manner in which the present government squandered the people's money, was proposed and agreed to unanimously, after which the meeting separated. ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY. —Yesterday a special general meeting of this society, convened by public advertisement, was held at the London Tavetn, for the pur pose of considering certain modifications in the rules to be proposed be the dirt ctors. The chair was taken at 1 o'clock by the Rev. W. H. Jones, after which the secreta'y read the advertisement convening the meeting The chairman then stated that the object fur which the subscribers had been called together was to propose one or two modifications of the rules, which would have the effect of increasing the use , eefulinne.gsscoefnteshewchhiuchitcyce. u T rre he d y in we th rs e all .w aw . are of et.d oft i h da e t dis ee, w heut- ho ' in spite of all the exertions of their friends, were unable to succeed at a first election, and that in many cases the most worthy candidates retired in despair after one col test. In order to remedy this as much as possible, the directors pro posed that fur three successive elections all votes for toe unsuc cestul candidates should be carried to their credit at the elec tion next following. The other alteration proposed by the di rectors was that there should I. e two elections in each year, instead of one as at present —Mr. Beebe a subscriber,muyed a resolution embodying the first alteration, which was seconded by Copt, Allen.—Mr. Brewster disapproy.d of the principle of carrying forward the votes, as detrimental to the charity, end not good for the candidates. It had been esta blished in the case of the Deaf and Dumb Institution, and the consequence was that the only exertion necessary was to inscribe the name of the candidate, and he or she was sure to be elected in three or four years. This deprived the friends of the afflicted of all motives fur seal or exerts in. The St. Anne's Society had a rule which he should wish to see adted in the Annuity Society. It was that when a t an election the number of successful candidates had been declared, the highest of the unsuccessful candidates should be elected at the next following election.—Mr. Brew ster moved an amendment in harmony with his suggestion. —Air, Bidden supported the original resolution, end men tioned a case of of great hardship which had occurred at the lasteleetion, when a candidate,who had pulled 1,090 votes was thrown out at the close of the day by a small pecuniary effort I on the part of his opponents. The new rule would also put an 1 end to the treffic in proxies which at present gave rise to to much disappointment.—Mr. Brewster withdrew his amend. sent. and the original resolution was put and varied unani mously. The motion fixing two elections in the year instead of one was alai put and carried, and the meeting separated. INDIGENT BLIND SCHOOL. —Yesterday a general meeting of the subeaiben to this charity took place at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing four male and four female pupils. Tnero were 62 candidates on the list, and of the eight selected three can only distinguish light from darkness, and the others are totally ..lind. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.—A lecture was deli vered on Monday at the White Conduit-house, by Mr. W. Coat. s, in explanation of the Totten' Emigration Society's plan for providing employment for our surplus labour. The lecturer, a working man from the Potteries, commenced by reading the prospectus of the society : " the operative potters of Staffordshire offer to their fellow-workeneaelt the United Kingdom 20 acre farms and an efficient means of protecting the value of their labour without resorting to ruin ous and expensive strikes. Contributions to be payable at 61. per week for each share of 11 Is. 6d., giving the right to a ballot for priority of transmigration to a 20-acre farm at the cost price of 61. 10e , the sum of 41. Bs. 6d. being ad vanced from the society's funds, together with the migrating expenses of each member and family to the farm, the cost of erecting the leg house, breaking up and fencing five acres of the land, and sowing the same with wheat and Indian corn. Credit to be given for 12 months' provisions. The whole of the sum thus advanced to be repaid in ten years." The lee Direr said that from the ruinous consequences to the potters and all other trades from strikes and combinations within the last 18 years, all of which had ended in their beingcom- pelted to submit to their employers' terms, attention bad been turned to the purchase of land abroad, and it was found that in the United States of America ens y wield get possession of twenty acres for the cost of one acre in Eng land. A c-de of laws had been formed, approved by Me Tied Pratt, the society enrolled, end, notwithstanding great I political and general opposition, they had at length sea (ceded in purchasing, to commence with, 1,600 acres in the state of Wisconsin : the estate was named Pottenville, and upon it re: families from this country were already located ; I these families, previously without a sixpence, and who had the workhouse staring them in the Ise*, were in good health and doing well; their latest letters stated that they n wished to return to England. Of 60 of his friends who had emigrated two or three years since, not one bad died, or had any sachets, but enjoyed better health than in this country. DEBBY SWEEPB.—HOLBORN SEBsIONS.--Yenter -1 day the magistrates for the Holborn divisioo met to I transfer licenses for the division. The chairman previous to the applications being granted, told Inspec tor Dodd of the F division, who was present, that it was the desire of the bench that every licensed victualler in 'he district should be informed that the bench were determined to refuse any license to a house at which in future monster sweeps or Derby sweeps should be allowed. Notices would be for. warded to the police, in or ler that they might be left with every licensed inctuallee so that there might be no excuse in March next, when the renewal of licenses should be applied for. THE CHARGE OF FORGEELY.—MICANZISANDPHIL - Lirs.—Sir, —On reading your repel' , of the proceedings in this matter in your jcnrnal of this di, I observe it stated that " everything in the shape of a claim against Mr. Phil. Ups is withdrawn by Mr. Sl'Kensie." Such is not the fact. It was merely agreed that the parties ►h,uld be placed kith* same pcsitioa in respect to o, en accounts, jest as if the ate ceptance fur 3,0001. had never elist, , d. I trust, in justice to 31e. 31•Kenzie, you will alio./ this to appear in ynnr columns, for the impnnion c mveyed by the report would suggest that a conpromise of the alltur had been made —I remain, &c., i F. Bontia.—Bucklasbury, Nov. 14. BBIrWitICS AND Loss OF TEN Ltves.—Theßarque Carmelite, of Bangor, Capt. Cole, from Fayal, 9th Sept., for Boston, with carrel of sperm oil, wines. Etl.. end thirteen pas-engem, was abandoned at sea on the 29 , n of Septemb•r, Hi a sinking condition, having yin boarded by a sea while scudding in a gale on the 23rd. in lat. 26 40, N, 100. 63 30. W, which swept the decks and broached the ...sled to. She was got before the wind again, leasing badly ; soon became unmanageable, and broache.i to a second time, and capsized. Capt. Cole, two maces, Eve seamen, and fur passengers, soot eceded in regaining the vessel ; nine passengers, three of ' them femal. i, and one se►man, were drowned. Ahout one hour after, the vessel righted, with mainmast, fire and mizen vpsails gone, and full of watvr. Sr.e cams to on the ocher tack, and lay on her beansends during the night. At daylight neat MOWN! the reesel was a cons ,leas wreak, the sea making a clear breach over her. Both swot were Wally disabled, the crew whoUy ezhaustad, and one pas s ni t er had a broken leg. Tile crew succeeded in clearing the Trick of broken span, and mein; a small quantity of THE SEA SERPENT AND PROFESSOR OWEN. Professor Owen, of the College of Salvors, has published a letter in which be makes the following remarks on the sea serpent. The original communication was groom , palsied by a sketsb, which the writer describes as " a reduced I copy of the drawing of the head of the animal seen by Capt. Quaae, attached to the submerged body of a large seal, showing the long eddy produced by the action of the termi- nal flippers" Thu sketch (says the Professor) will suggest the reply to your query w h e ther the monster seen from the Thrialue be anything hut a Saurian r " If it be the true answer it destroys the romance of the incident, and will be anything but acceptable to those who prefer the excitement of the imagination to the satisfaction of the judgment. I am far from insensible to the pleasures of the die corm of a new and rare animal, but before I can cniriy them certain condiOns, e. g. reasonable proof or evidence of its existence, must be ful filled lam also far from undervaluing the informsticn which Captain M.Quhae has given us of what he saw. When fairly souped it lies in a small compass ; but my knowledge of the animal kingdom compels me to draw other conclu sions from the phenomena than those which the gallant cap t iin seems to have jumped at. He evidently saw a large sow mal eso—' rapidly through the water, very different from - • .---..,d—neither a whale &gum A MOVing „ Idling be Lad trfore any,. _ pee, agreat shark, an alligator, nor any other of the larger sur face-swimming (nouns which are fallen in within ordinary vos ages. He writes On our attention being called to the object it eras disowned to be an enormous serpent" (read " animal"), " with the head and shoulders kept about four feet constantly above the surface of the sea. The diameter of the serpent" (animal) "was about 15 or 16 inches behind the head; its odour a dark brown, with yellowish white about the throat." No firm were seen (the captain says there were none ; but from his own account he did not see enough of the animal to prove his negative). " Something like the mane of a hone, or rather a bunch of sea. weed, washed about its back. So much of the body as wee seen was " not used in propelling the animal through the water, either by vertical or horizontal undulation," A calculation of Its length was made under • strong precore lotion of the nature of the beast. The heed e. g. is stated to be " out any doubt that of a snake ;" and yet • snake would be 1 , the last species to which a naturalist conversant with the bons and characters et the heads of animals would refer such a heed as that of which Captain M'Quhte hes transmitted • drawing to the Admiralty, and which he certifies to have been accurately copied in the Ilksetrated London News for October 28, 1848, p. 265. No sooner was the captain's atten tion stalled to the object than " it was discovered to be an enormous serpent ;" and yet the closest inspection of as much of the body as was visible, u _llene drag, failed to detect any undulations of the body, although such actions constitute the very character which would distinguish a serpent or serpeuti form swimmer from any other marine species. The fore gone conclusion, therefore, of the beast's being a sea serpent, notwithstanding its capacious vaulted cranium and stiff in flexible truuk, must be kept in mind in estimating the value of the approximation made to the total length of the animal, as "at the sery least 60 feet." This is the only part of the description, however, which stems to me to be so uncertain as to es inadmissible in an attempt to arrive at a right conclu sion este the nature of the animal. The more certain characters of the animal are these :—Head, with • convex, moderately capacious cranium, short obtuse mimes, gape of the mouth not extending further than to beneath the eye, which is rather small, round, filling closely the palpebral aperture; colour, dark brown above, yellowish white beneath; surface smooth, without males, mutes, or other conspicuous modi fication' of hard and asked cuticle. And the captain says, " Had it been a men of my acquaintance I should have easily recognised his features with my naked eye." Nostrils not mentioned, but indicated in the drawing by a ere sceptic mark at the end of the nose or muzzle. Ail these are the characters of the head of a warm-blooded mammal ; none of them those of a cold-blooded reptile or fish. Body long, dark brown, not undulating, without dorsal or other apparent fine; " but something like the mane of a horse or tether a bunch of sea-weed washed about its back." The charatost of the integuments would be a most important one for she zoologist in the determination of the class to which the above defined creature belonged. If any opinion can be deduced as to the integuments from the above indication, it is that the species had hair, which, if it , was too short and close to be distinguished on the head, was visible where it usually is the longest, on the middle line of the shoulders or advanced part of the back, where it was not stiff and upright like the rays of a fin, but" washed about." Guided by the above interpreta tion of the " mane of &horse, or • bunch of sea-weed," the animal was not a cetaceous mammal, but rather a great seal. But what seal of large size, or indeed of any size, would be encountered in latitude 24 deg. 44 min. south, and longitude 9 deg. 22 min. east—viz , about 300 miles from the western shore of the southern end of Africa ? The most likely species to be Core met with are the largest of the seal tribe, e. g. Anson's sea lion, or that known to the southern whalers by the came of the " Sea Elephant," the photo pro. boscidia, which Wain the length of from 20 to 30 feet. 'r nevi great seals abound in cert.in of the islands of the southeen and antarctic seas, from which an individual is occasionally floated off upon an iceberg. The sea lion exhibited in Lou. don last spring, which was a young individual of the piton proboacidia, was actually captured in that predicament, hay ing been carried by the currents that set northward towards the Cape, where its temporary resting place was rapidly melting away. When • large individual of the phoca proboecidia or phoca konines is thus borne off to • dis tance from its native shore, it is compelled to return for rest to its floating abode after it has made ite daily excur sion in quest of the fishee or 'quids that constitute its food. It is thus brought by the iceberg into the latitudes of the Cape, and perhaps further north, before the berg has melted away. Then the poor seal is compelled to swim as long as strength endures; and in such a predicament I imagine the creature was that Mr. Sartoris saw rapidly approach , log the Beduin from before the beam, scanning, probably, its capabilities as a resting place, as it paddled its long stiff body past the ship. In so doing it would raise a head of the form and colour described and delineated by Captain M'Quhae, supported on a neck also of the diameter given ; the thick neck passing into an inflexible trunk, the longer and coarser hair on the upper part of which would give rise to the ides, especially if the apes ice were the phoea leonine, explained by the similes above cited. The organs of locomotion w.uld be out of sight. The pectoral firs being sot on very low down, as in my sketch, the chiet impelling force would be the action of the deeper imwersed terminal lies and tail, which would create a long eddy, readily mistakeable by one looking at the strange phenomenon with a sea serpent in his mind's eye for an definite prolongation of the body. It is very prebable that not one on board the Daedalus ever before beheld a gigantic seal freeay swimming in the open ocean. Entering unexpectedly upon that vast and commonly blank desert of waters it would be a strange and exciting spectacle, and might be well interpreted as a mar vel ; but the creative powers of the human mind appear to be really very limited, and on all the occasions where the true source of the "great unknown" has been detected —whether it has proved to be a file of sportive porpoiaw, or • pair of gigantic shorks,—old Pontoppidan's sea serpent with the mane has uniformly suggested itself as the represen tative of the portent, until toe mystery has been unease PO. The vertebrae of the sea serpent described and delineated in the " Wernerien Transaction," vol. 1, and sworn to by the fishermen woo saw it off the Isle of Strolls% (one of the Orkneys), in 1308, two of which vertebra are in the Museum cf the College of Surgeons, are certainly those of a ge' at shark, of the genus +cloche, and :.re not distinguishable from those of the sonic , called "basking shark," of which indi viduals from 30 to 3-5 :eet in length have been from time to time captured or stranded on our coasts. I hare no unmeLt c atifidence in the exactitude of my in terpretation onohe pl.enomen e b the captein and ethers of the D al ian. lam too witn sensi ssed ble o ar the inadequacy of the characters which the opportunity of a rapidly-passing animal, " in a long man swell," enabled them to note, for the determination of its species or genus. Goring due cre dence to the mast probably accurate elements of their et. scription, they do little more than guide the zoologist to the class, which, in the present instance, is not that of the ser vant or the saurian. But I em usually asked, after each endeavour to explain Captain 3Pcluhise's set serpent, n Way there should wet b a ereat sea serpent i"—often, too, in a tone which seems to " Do you think, then, there are not 111 , Th marvels in the deep than are dreamt of in your philosophy And, freely conceding that point, I leave felt haunt to give a reason for scepticism as well as f sith. If a gigartic sea serpent ae'uolly exists, the Teel, s mast, of course, have won perpetuated throw+ successive generations (omits first oration an.l introduesieu in 'ha seas of thie planet. Conceive, then, the number of individuals that must have 1 i~ ,