The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

according to the quality. Pigs bought trent ',Bs. to 50.. per cwt. Borikams in plenty and very cheap. Mou!LL FAIR, Jan. 13.—The bleak cattle stork, of good description was not numerous, yet e..ese which appeared on the green exhibited • much better e.ppearatice than usual, and aitaintained average prices of fron t 81. to 91. 10a. per head — one fine beast was purchased '..ir 131. A 141 , xnat quality of young Heifers (three year rods) brought from 51. 10.. to 71 per head ; others, in prororti.in to age and promise, dwindled down from 31. 101. to 21. 10s. per head. The Sheep Ai,- played an evident improvement, though few in number. Pigs scarce, and in little demand. OLasoow, Jan. 13—At our market to-day, prices ranged .- for best Ox beef,' first quality, from 59i. to 61e. tid. per cwt. ; second quality, from 545. to 58..; cow and inferior, 425. to 48,., sinking the offal. The supply of Sheep was small. there being only 1,200. From the great demand, 600 or 800 more could have been easily di s p osed of, at high prices. Best black-faced Wethers sold at 7d.; white-faced, GO.; Ewes and inferior, sd. to If 1. nor lb., sinking the offal. tar SatatrdaV. Anrs&is see lea pa 9•. SHIPPING. MAILS ARRITED.—IIuMaji ; Waterton!, 4 ; Donaghader, 2 ; land, 1 ; H a mburg , l ey mburg, ; and Je, 1; on, 1 Frenc; Boston, F l landers, '2 ; 1101- Lisb. LONDON, Jan. 17.—Wiud this day at noon, S. by E., fresh breeze, and cloudy. Dem. Jan. 15. —N.W. to N.N.W. —l6. Arrived Panape, ' Monte Video; Ssxon , Callao ; Sra King, St. An. drew's, N.B. ; Aliwal, Pirtou. Arrived from the river and sailed : William &ewer, Pert Philip ; Eden, Trinidad Emulous, Barbadoes ; Albion, Nevis ; Prince of Wales, New Orleans; Shoodisc, Mobile. Sailed: Ocean Queen, Per nambuco. 11/OISCIATIS, Jan. ls.—Arrived: Wilhelmina, from Cape Haytien, for Hamburg. Ponesmotrrtt, Jan. 16.—N. to N.N.W..—Ssiled Indus. Bahia. Ore ARELOW BANK, Jan. 13.—Fleetwood, Mauritius, for the Clyde. Coke, Jan. 14, calm end foggy.—Arrived Lanarkshire, Callao. Flannoroot., Jan. 15.—N.W.— Sailed : Sarah and Johanna, Monte Video; Ben Nevis, Jamaica. Ltv surout, Jan. 15.—N. ; 16th, S.E.— Arrived : Jenny Wren, Calcutta ; Diamond,Riolioche ; Leonora, Demerara ; Scotland, and Aberdeen, Savannah ; Confucius, China ; Hibernia (Ft.), New York,—sailed 2nd inst. ; Halifax, sth : Lucy, Newfoundland. Sailed; Satellite, Callao; llebbert, Rio Janeiro ; Susan, New Orleans ; Margaret, Havannah Lehigh, Philadelphia; Acadia (at.), and Esther Mary, Boston. 16th: Rajah Boca, Bombay; Courier, La Ouayra , Sea, and Them., New Orleans. Olf port Meypo, and Pernaian, Africa ; Carrihhean, Camilla, and Pink. FOWEY, Jan. 13.—Arrived : Plymouth, St. John's, N.B. _ Noricum, Jan. 14.—The Alone, of Goole, is leaky ; must discharge. LIVERYOOL, Jon. 16.—The Zenobia, from St. Petersburg, grounded in the river, received considerable damage, and has been docked. WATERFORD, Jan. 14 —Tho Lilliera, Liverpool to New York, has put in very leaky. Newnexoti, Jan. 13.—The Gebroedera, which got on shore near here, 10th inst., is discharged, and is expected off t-morrow. ABERDEEN, Jan. 14.—The Paquebot du Havre et Bor deaux, reported 13th Mg., as the I'aquehot du Havre, which went ashore on the beach here, after having struck on Shields Bar, is becoming a total wreck. • Hem., Jan. 14.—The Eugenia (Portuguese schooner), for Lisbon, has received damage, by a vessel getting athwart hawse of her. WstorLywr, Jan. 14.—A large raR of square t!mber, containing upwards of 413 pieces, was picked up about two mile off Anderby, and is now landing at that place. LYNN, Jan.l4.—A brig, with black mast-heed, sunk in about ten fathoms water, ilornepa bearing went, &stout six miles, was paned 11' h inst., by the Adeons of this port. WELLs Jan 14.—The Abdiel, which went on ,shore on Holme Beech, Bth ult., has been got off, and arrived here, 12th inst. HARWICH, Jan. 15.—The schooner Conrad, of Bremen, from Hartlepool to St. Thomas, got on shore on the Long sand, bi'sted, and soon became a total wreck ; crew and part of materials saved. CLYDE. Jan. 14.—Sailed : Chevalier. Trinidad ; Esque maux, Porto Rico. ABERDEEN, Jan. 15.—The sloop Role the Renter, of and for Aostrutlier, was wrecked near Elic, on the 14th inst. ; crew saved. Wien, Jan. 14.—A vessel, showing Hamburg colours, was ?wised, dismasted, 16 miles N.E. of Kinuaird Head, by the \ inlet. GLASGOW, Jan. 15.—A smell schooner, from Wismar, for Leith, put into Lerwick previous to the Ist iiisrant, with damage; and a skip's boat came on shore near Clickimir, on the sth instant. FALMOUTH, Jon. 15.—N.N. E.. strong —l6th, N.W.— Sailed : Dordrecht (Dutch transport), Surinam. BRLsT. , L, Jan. 15.—Sailed : Clara, Trinidad. KINORDAD, Jan. 15.—Arrived: Princely, St. John's, N. 8., fur Gloucester. idttrottn, Jan. 15.—N.N.W.—Arrived: King of the Forest, Livcrp ml, for Carliff, with damage, having struck on the Harry Furlong Reef, coast of Anglesea. CLYDE, Jan. 13.—The schooner Pantaloon, sailed from Liverpool for this place on the 4th ult., and has not since been heard of. CORK, Jan. 12.—Some account-books end documents be longing to the Arcidaco Federico, have been lately washed on shore near Poor Head. She sailed from Lisbon for Liverpool. STORNOWAY, Jan. 11.—The crew of the Queen, of New castle, from Riga for Portsmouth, which was abandoned, water-logged, and with decks swept, on the 20th ult., in lat. 69, 10n.5 E., have been landed by the liebe, having been taken by bar from the Johan Fred. rick, Antwerp to Pillau. lie Owing* MAILS The overland eshils for Gibraltar, Malts, Greece, the Johan Islands 'rept, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong-Kong, and China, rie Soulzunapton will be mode up on the morning of the 30th January. The overhand closed =ids, rot Marseilles, to tag Mediterranean Egypt, Aden, Ceylou, Hong Kong, me., will be made up on th, evening of tbe 21th January. The mails for Vigo, up on . Lisbon, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be made up en the morning of the 27th January. The mails for Britiah North America, Bermuda, and the United &ales, will be made up on the evening of the 24th January. The mails for South Wales, Von Inernen's Laud, aad New Zealand will be made up on the erenine of the Sl4 January. The moils for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made up on the evening of the 31st The West India Mails, including Bermuda, Simon, Theism's. nonituras, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampion, and Porto Rico, and excluding thorn for Madeira, Jacrnel, (Urthagens, cant. m.,row, Magna% Panama, West Count of south America, and St Jmin-Ale- IliCaralrtia, will be mode up on the morning of the 2nd February. The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Yenisei', bum Bahia, Madeira. and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on t h e craning of the 111 February. CORSUPON DENTS. Irtyrioemeste launder% kw • The Tarn..." d. *vete. poor, nese. be aloe. 10. bosynio•ornot. by Tyro t ea fire day of publlloottoo. MOM W ATM At LONDON BtiOOD. T. Dsv—alsastat, Ala. seat Alterama. 5.3 rata. past Zsallleasow—llaratags 0 atia. paat 0 ; ZS an past 0. LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 17. I AT the inaugural dinner recently given by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Lord CLARENDON appears to have gracefully availed himself of the opportunity afforded him, in returning thanks when his health was proposed, to give expression to the sentiments by which the government of Irel and is animated. Aban doning . the obsolete tone of commonplace by which others in similar circumstances used to endeavour elaborately to avoid saying anything which people eared to hear, he spoke frankly of the " difficulties and dangers " attendant on the country's position, yet fearlessly and manfully as to the result, were the various classes of society but true to themselves. On the duty and interest of each in being so, the LORD-LIEUTENANT dwelt briefly but forcibly. It seemed s though he had re solved to appeal from t a he fallacious expecta tions of the community to the means of self-depen dence they might hope to secure by persevering industry. He reminded those whom he addressed that the commercial events of the past year had, to a great degree, incapacitated the people of England from contributing to the relief of their Irish brethren ; that the failure of the cotton crop had as directly caused a deprivation of food to the inhabitants of Lan sasbire, as the failuretof the potato crop to the popu lation of Donegal and Mayo; and that until returning plenty should visit each, the property of the locality must be made to contribute, as far as it was capable, to preserve the life of labour, involuntarily reduced to idleness for the time being. Lord CLARENDON spoke with confidence of the probability that the impedi ments in the well-working of the extended poor law would speedily be overcome. We are glad of this. We have too recently had occasion to express our ap prehensions of a different result in many districts of Ireland, and the practical grounds of our apprehen sions. Most earnestly do we pray that our fears may soon be dissipated, and that the owners of pro perty may be awakened to a sense of the guilt and folly of their course hitherto, of the infatuation of their indiscriminate evictions, and the criminality of their neglect and evasion of the rates. Lord CLARENDON, in his own apt way, reminds them that if in defence of property restraint is to be im posed upon the many, so also for the protection of poverty constraint mast be laid upon the few. The Inch executive hears coercion in either hand; for the rich, when they would lot the poor man starve ; for the poor, when they would assail the rich man's life. This is the inexorable function of just rule, to resist the double evil that would rend society in pieces, and to reduce to equal obedience those selfish and short-sighted passions that in mutual hostility are reciprocally destructive. Nothing on the whole could be better chosen than ---------- the topics of the Viceroy's eucech; nothing more judicious than the mode of their expression; and, we are bound to add, nothing could be more cordial than the manner in which they were received. In this respect, as well as in most others, a great and salutary change has come over the temper of our time. It is just five and twenty years since the Mar quis WELLESLEY, the then representative of Majesty in Ireland, was fain to quit the selfsame banquetting room, in order to avoid sanctioning by his presence one of those insensate ebullitions of sectarian frenzy which were, at that period, of ordinary occurrence. Orangeista then boasted of its ascendancy in church and state ; and the municipal festivals were peculiarly marked by the exuberance of its riot. Pelted in tho theatre, and menaced with the proposition of offen sive toasts at the table of the first magistrate of the city, Lord WELtenev,though as fearless and eloquent as his successor, could not have obtained, had he sought it, such a public hearing as that cheerfully accorded to Lord CLARENnoN. The very constitution of the recent civic assembly is indicative of the progress which has been made during the interval in political and religious civilisation. Instead of the gathering of corrupt and exclusive corporate clans, gorged with political plunder and drunk with bigotry—the catho lic mayor of the first city in Ireland, surrounded by his fellow-citizens of every creed, is found enter taining the Viceroy, with as little fear of the festive harmony being inteirupted by bitter or unwelcome recollections, as though the halls wherein they eat had never echoed with the wild shout of sectarian tyranny, or the frantic vow of "No surrender." We can quite understand the vexation manifested by that portion of the repeal press which have con sistently pursued with inveterate vituperation every act of the liberal government of Ireland—at the gene ral enthusiasm kindled by Lord CLARENDON'S address, and more especially at the frank and direct adoption, without reserve, of all his Excellency's sentiments by the hon. member for Dublin. Gifted by nature with great shrewdness of percep tion, Mr. REYNOLDS is just the man not to allow a favourable opportunity to slip for want of time to tliink, or to consult others as to what ought to be done. The contrast between him and Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL is one on which we har dl y like to dwell. • • But in justice we must own ,ifdd by fe -1 t une those hereditary claims and patern enie al s inlesson the art and mystery of an agitator which fall tattle lot of few, Mr. REYNOLDS is far more than compensated by the possession of superior versatility and vigour, by the power of mastering details, and making their arrangement and connexion clear—by the faculty of saying well whatever can be said fur a bad cause, and seldom paying ill what is to be said for a good one —by the knack of keeping up attention when a mffnect is intrinsically dull, and never wearying his auditory by common-place or secand-hand illustra tions—above all, by broad and palpable humour, sometimes coarse, but always genuine and racy. In all of these respects Mr. REY:sows manifests a larger stock of tribunitian powers than his young master. The practical difference between the two men was never more marked than on the late occasion. Afraid to seem to acquiesce in the wise and peaceable views propounded by the chief go vernor, and afraid to pro voke the disapprobation of the assembly around him, whose minds he felt coneeciow he could neither di rect nor delude, Mr. JoliN (YCONN ELL first stammered out a clumsy evasion of the topics in question, and when that was received with a silent stare, he sulkily eat down. Mr. REYNOLDS daw the error of hie incapable chief and strove to repair it. Ile saw which way the feeling of those around him went, and, true to the maxim of the illustrious apostle of agitation—never to throw away the chance of a cheer—the ready representative of the city of Dublin was loudly applauded when he adopted the vice-regal sentiment—a sentiment which every rational man in the community has long been persuaded of, but which it suits not the pauper policy of Conciliation Hall to keep in popular remembrance, " That the man whose life is spent in profitable labour, is a better man and a better citizen, than he who is sustained in idleness on the earnings of another." WE have often commented upon the present system of poor law medical relief and its concomitant evils. Scarcely a week passes over but we have to record instances of neglect, attended with fatal results, arising from this system. Yet nothing is dune. We have never been wholesale contemners or upholders of the New Poor Law. In some instances it has worked admi rably, and saved whole districts fr •rn utter ruin. We believe its most defective p tint is the administration of medical relief. Here it ac's tyrannously towards the officers it employs, and frequently sacrifices rather than protects the poor. We shall not stop to inquire to-day into the necessary effects of underpaying those who are employed to afford. medical add. They are paid in such a way that they must either act unjustly to their patients or themselves. Although we have the highest opinion of the honour able feeling of the medical profession, yet there are always circumstances which will induce men to under take duties for the sake of the position which their means will not allow them to fulfil. Such may or may not have been the ease with the medical officer of Croydon, whose gross neglect of a poor woman during her labour resulted in her death, and a coroner's inquiry, which wail reported fully in our paper of Wednesday. We have no apology to offer for Mr. BERNCASTLE. His owe account condemns him. He was called to attend a woman in her extremity, in a case that required continuous watching from beginning to end. He administered a powerful remedy (not " secala" as misspelt in the report, but the secalo cor nutum, ergot of rye of the pharmacopeia), and, in stead of waiting anxiously for its effects he leaves his patient in the midst of her trouble, and refuses to carry on the attendance he bad begun. And why? Be cause the patient had not got an order from the parish. Here again is this abominable order system used as an apology for the sacrifice of human life. We have before stated our deliberate opinion that if the poor law refuned all orders for medical relief, the poor would be better attended. The common feelings of humanity, independent of any prospect of being paid, would dictate to a medical man to attend a fellow-crea ture in suffering, especially under such suffering as that ef the poor woman in question. But the order system is madutheexcuse for not giving attendance. Medical men who are not parish surgeons say to the poor, " Go to the parish surgeon; 1 will not attend you." The parish surgeon says, " Get an order, or I will not attend you ;" and if the relieving officer, in all the dignity of office, is not at home, or chooses to refuse the order, the poor sick one either gets well without medical attendance or dies. This is no imaginary case : we believe we could find scores which have come before the coroners' inquest during the last year; and where one case finds its way to the public there are fifty never heard of. If Mr. Beettcssvte had not been parish surgeon he would have said at first to the poor woman Howsrto, "I cannot, or will not attend you ;" or if he had gone at first he would never have given up the case. Much as we think his conduct to be reprehended, we make no doubt that it was the first case of midwifery from which he abruptly withdrew, and it could never have occurred to him to do so but for this miserable order system. The poor patient had no " order" when he first went, and from his own account he was more anxious about the " order" than the suf. faring woman. Yes, Mr. BERNCASTLE, your heart was more set on the half guinea fee that the order would bring you, titan on the life ef your patient; for no sooner did you hear that there was no " order," and, consequently, little prospect of your fee, than you left the poor woman to shift for herself. But although all parish surgeons may not be Baas- CASTLES, we deny altogether the right of the govern ment or the pubhc to take advantage of the humanity, need, ambition, or emulation of the medical profes sion, for the purpose of fulfilling their duties to the poor. Especially do we protest against the present sys tem of " orders" as one that not only in all cases must increase the difficulties of obtaining medical attend ance, but as one that is not unfrequeutly the cause of death itself. COUNT ST.AULAIRE'S speech upon Italy in the French Chamber of Peers contains assertions respecting facts that have become matter of history, so startling and so utterly false as really to give us pain for the veteran diplomatist's reputation. The Moniteur reports the ex-ambassador to have stated three facto:—'that the banishment of the Ita lian exiles of 1831 was purely voluntary, for that the Papal government gave no reason to any party to adopt such a step as voluntary expatriation ; that when he left Rome not a single prisoner was in the Castle of &Angelo ; and lastly, that neither blood was shed nor confiscations of property were made by order of the Papal government in consequence of the tron- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1848. bles of that period. These assertions relate, as we have said, to facts that have become matters orhis tory. First, then, as to their truth. The movement of 1831 - took plate- in the modern provinces of 'the Papal states. Bologna waa the centre of utility, and it was not until the French landed, that Ancona became a poiat of importance in the agitated districts. Tim prisoners made by the Austrians, who violated the neutrality of the Roman states, under the pretext of maintaining order, and by the Swiss mere naries, hired by GREGORY XVI., were not likely to be taken to Rome, where the sigkt of these victims would, in all probability, have roused the populace to an attempt to set them free. But does Count ST. AULAIRE mean to affirm that no per secution followed the troubles of 1831? Were no distinct orders issued to hunt out all who had directly or indirectly taken put, not merely in the attacks of the national guards on the Swiss and Aus trians, but in the signature of peaceful protests against tyranny and of humble petitions for reform ? Can he be ignorant of the orders sent to all heads of departments, and of the institution of special commissions to ascertain the names of all persons, whether in the civil service or not, who took any part in a movement which, but for Austria and France, would havo blest central Italy with respon sibility of government, and with the security of the persons and the property of its inhabitants? The edicts decreeing the inquisition to which we refer are well known, and bear date the 14th and 30th of April, 1831. Wo have copies of them now lying be fore as In what professed to be a decree of amnesty, dated July, 1831, all persons implicated in the proceedings of 12th February, 1831, arc specially excepted, together with forty chiefs if the tnorement who are named. If these noblemen and gentlemen, on finding their hopes destroyed, sought to escape the tender mercies of a papal tribunal, is this to be called in the Chamber of Peers a needless and voluntary banish. ment? Their fate, if they had delayed to escape, would in many Called have been, not that of consign ment to the French embassy, that they might be sent out of the country, as M. ST. AULAIRE has stated— it would have been that doom which fell upon MARIANO BEVILACQUA and LORENZO TORELLI, who were executed liefiwe the walls of Ancona on the 26th March, 1833 ; of Geonow Sato ; of the goldsmith, Mamie!, and his son, condemned for ten years, of VESCOVI, condemed far twenty years, bo oe d e galleys, and of the notary MELLON!, condemt , the galleys fiw I (le, the criminal share of the latter in the troubles of the times being aggravated by the discovery that ho belonged to the dreaded sect of the Carbonari. At Ancona seven other persons were condemned to various terms of imprisonment on the same day, the date of the edict being 30th March, 1833. We have further seen a supplication, ad dressed by fifty-two prisoners confined in Cavite' Cas tellana to the commandant of the fortress, pointing out the cruelty and disgrace that attended the breach of the amnesty granted by the legate, Cardinal Iles vest - Tl, at Ancona, in 1831, and which induced many of the insurgents there confined arid others that were condemned to death, to lay down their arms. We do not allude to these undoubted facts with the intention of specially cor recting the statements made by the ex-ambassador. There is no lack of authorities of much greater weight at Paris, if the French public required any detailed refutation of so manifest an attempt at mystification. What has most struck us is the moment at which those statements are solemnly put forward—for they seem to furnish a key to the present policy of the French ministry toward Italy. Notwithstanding the manly disclaimer of Count PELET DE LA LOZERE and M. Cries's:, the manner in which the speeches of Count ST. AeLs1111", M. Gum; and the Duke De 13 aoOI.IE, were received by the peers, testifies to the feeling prevalent in France that it is dangerous for French interests to allow Spain, Swit serland, or Italy, to become peaceable, organised, or rowerful and united states. It seems to be acknow ledged, by the Chamber of l'eers at least, that the great ness of "la yrande nation," is measured by the weak ness, disorganisation, and demoral eation,of its neigh bours. If any exception is to be made to this rule, it must be in favour of a country intimately allied with the French court by relationship or marriage : in short, some grace is to be allowed to a useful but subservient ally, none to a nation that presumes to have a will of its own. This is the moral which all Europe will unhesitatingly read out of the recent de bate on the paragraphs of the address concerning Switz.rland and Italy : it had already been illustrated by the Spanish marriages. The statements made respecting the events in Italy :a 1831 and followi•ig years would lead to the infer ence that the policy then pursued was to be again attempted. This consists in allowing the friends lof civil and religious liberty to encourage their fellow-citizens into some overt act of libernlism, and if possible to entangle them in some military attempt, which should furnish an excuse for France r..nd Austria to interfere to keep the peace. An am nesty is then offered to all who will submit to the arbitration of these intelligent friends between the people and their governments. Such of the leaders as are silly enough to believe in these promises, desir ous to avoid the bloodshed inevitable in a contest with regular troops, submit, and are forthwith incar cerated. The others escape with damaged reputations, and cannot easily acquire again the position they have lost. Austria produces improvements drawn up speci ously on piper, which are published under an express guarantee from the courts to whom the reins of power are once more confided that they shall never be carried out. Foreign mercenaries are imported, to keep down the people during the sanguinary emerge that is to follow. A loan is contracted at the expense of the people, of which every party to the transaction gets a slice. Finally, the occupying army withdraws, ex pressing its extreme anxiety to respect the inviolability sf territories, which it has shown can be trodden under :not with perfect impunity, and professing eternal friendship for a nation whose moral power and self respect it has annihilated. The Italians were disarmed, both in 1821 and 1831. by political concessions granting all they required, and by amnesties of the most extensive kind. When both were broken the insurgent leaders were taunted with incapacity, and the people who sided with them with cowardice ; whilst not impunity, but severe persecution and vengeance awaited those who dared to resent such treatment. On all these points Lord SEYMOUR'S letters are extant to contradict the glaring falsehood of M. Ounoe's diplomatists. We have received our Paris despatches of Friday and Saturday (those of Friday having appeared in part of our impression of Saturday). The session of the French legislature is always opened by the Chamber of Peers, where the addressor answer to the royal speech is first brought forward, and affords the opportunity to the minister of the crown to give a calm statement of his policy and in tentions, uninterrupted by attack, and unawed by the prospect of a rejoinder. In fact, the Chamber of Peers has never risen to the excitement of what might be called a debate. Opposition, or semi-oppe sition, is there merely ventured by individuals, who are severely brow-beaten by the Chancellor for such presumption, and who humbly beg pardon of the Chamber for daring to differ with the minister or with the crown. Encouraged by the presence of an obsequious audience, M. Ouizot and his two intimate friends and chief diplomatists, Saint Aulaire and de Broglie, have addressed the chamber at length, all three upon the one theme, all three echoing the one idea—viz., a close alliance between France and Austria. The ne cessity of pleasing Austria was boldly avowed by Count St. Aulaire, who declared, " that nothing stable or desirable could be done for Italian liberty without the consent and concurrence of Austria." The same principle was avowed with respect to Switzer land. In short, the Austrian alliance is the programme and symbol of the Guizot ministry of 1848, ant Prince Metternich is declared the arbiter of Europa, and the meter of its liberties. Count l'elet do la Lozere kindly acted chrono logist for this new policy. He reminded the chamber that the Spanish marriages were decided in Septem ber, 1846 ; and iu the October which immediately followed, the Austrian alliance was inaugurated by the despatch of the 24th of that month on the affairs of Switzerland. The entire policy of France with regard to Europe, said Count Pelet, hinged upon these marriages, and changed with them, deserting England and the cause of liberty and constitutionalism, from which the French court and cabinet finally separated on the Spanish marriages, and going over to the cause of despotic governments, France selling her liberal influence in Europe in exchange for Austrian support in Spain. This "right about" of M. Guizot has too often been ex posed in these columns to need more than the remark, that Count Pelet, himself an ex-cabinet minister, corroborates the corractnesa of the judgment. Thus originating, thus based on the mere dynastic interests of the house of Orleans, the Franco-Austrian alliance proceeds to establish itself, as the God Termi• nue, which is to arrest every liberal movement and progress in Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. " Italy," says Count St. Aulaire, " must not stir a step be yond the desire and permission of Austria." "Switzer land," says M. de Broglie," was endowed with inde pendence solely on condition of her remaining divided and weak, She wassplitup into parts and cantons, each as independent of the other as Saxony and Bavaria." So says M. de Broglie. And any attempt on the part of the Swiss to revive the federal conAitution, and thereby to have a unity of military force, com mercial intercourse, common right of citizenship, or general system of education :—all these necessary steps in civilisation are to be denied to the Swiss, be cause, forsooth, it would give umbrage to A ustria. In vain does Count Pelet say that the Swiss will re vise their Pact or federal constitution. In vain will it be alleged, that the Swiss sought to revive the Pact and centralise their government fifteen years ago, when Count Rossi, M. Guizot's own triend, drew out the plan, whilst neither France nor Austria made the least ob jection at the time. But the law of Europe with respect to Switzerland has become very different now, since the formation of the new holy alliance. A law of finality has passed, signed by the ministers of France and Austria, and liberal Europe has no alter native but to rebel or submit. Almoet the entire sitting of Friday was occupied by speech of Count Montalembert, which sought to prove that the Jesuits were the only true liberals, end that the radicals were despots of the same school rune Emperor Nicholas. As a sample of the logic mad of M. Montalembert, we may mention that he accused Sir Stratford Canning, the noted friend of Greece, with having plotted against that country, and with having actually killed General eoletti! After this sample of the temper and vera city of the Count Montalembert, we may be spared extract or notice of his frantic discourse. The committee of that Chamber adopted on Satur day all the paragraphs of the address. The whole of it will be communicated to the Chamber on the 17th. A letter from Turin of the 4th instant, in the Augs bnurg Gazette, states that Sir Stratford Canning had addressed a note to the Swiss Diet, under the date of the 15th of Drnember, in which he recommends mo deration, and to avoid all that might cause the least trouble in neighbouring states. Sir Stratford ex , presses a wish that a general amnesty should be granted, and that more equity and indulgence should be shown in the repartition of the contributions im posed on the conquered cantons. This, adds the Augsburg Gazette, sufficiently explains the coolness which has sprung up between the British representa tive, and the chiefs of the Swiss radicals, and which has manifested itself by the non-appearance of Sir Stratford Canning and Mr. Peel at the diplomatic banquet given recently at Berne. A CST It I A.—VIENNA.— The Prussian Unirerea! Gazette under this head says : "The army of Italy, in eon s, iiumice of the reinfrcements it has just received, is now really tor all events. It numbers 75,000 men. In ordinary times it is composed of 30.000 only." THE Y-sl2 ITS DISMISSED FROM VIENNA.—The nut, h papers state, on the authority of an account received Irma Fraakicrt, that the Jesuits who sought the hospitality o. Austria when banished from Salts, timid hare once more kit Vienna to seek sly her elsewhere. UNITED STATES.-MEXICO, The Hibernia, Captain ltyrie, arrived yesterday evening at Liverpool, from New York and Halifax. She left the former port on the 2nd. and the latter on the sth instant. She brings 90,000/. in specie, on freight. The Caledonia had arrived out at Halifax. The news by this arrival is not of great impoi t once, its chief features having been anticipated by the intelligence per Liverpool. For home intel ligence we quote the following front the New York Courier and Enquirer : The Congress of the United States is preparing to arm the executive with new power for continued war. Already bills have been reported for adding ten r"giments of regulars to the army, and authorising the acceptance of twenty addi tional regiments of volunteers to serve for three years, unless coiner discharged. No movement has yet been made u to replenishing the treasury, which will be the difficult part of the business, fur iu the existing state of the money market an issue of a large additional amount (seventeen millions is the sinallest sum that will be required) of Treasury notes or U.S. stock, could only find takers at a great discount or a higher rate of interest. The prier of Treasury notes being o per not, interest is now 981 to 99; of U.S. 6 per cent. stock of 081, and trim these prices could not be obtained far any large sum put upon the market, and which must be sold. The state of the Foreign Exchanges also disturbs the money mar ket. In spite of the excess of our vapor s last year over the ordinary average exports—an excess greatly exceeding that of our inip..rs irons ahroad—although they were larger than usual, the rates of foreign exchange now are against the ountry, and consequently lead to a 'teeny, though at no one time, very large 'sports of coin. The Britannia will carry out in gold 348,000 dollars. Sixty day bills on London being readily 10; per cent, but there is so much distrust about bills drawn on Looktin houses—not thoroughly well known here—that this must be looked upon, as in some sort a fancy price, and not as in- dicating the real debtor and creditor relations between the two countries. It nevertheless produces in the export of coin the worst consequence of an adverse exchange induced I by importations beyond present means of payment. Our cotton crop remains unshipped—partly because of the prices which planters are not willing to accept—but morel).- cause or the difficulty of negotiating against shipments. Our breadstuffs are at too high prices here to justify their ship ment, eats pt in fulfilment of orders from the other side, and moreover the crop of Indian corn—very large this year—is riot yet in a state to be safely shipped. in the general Prices Current wilt be found the quotations of the day for flour, wheat, coin, eite., and hence we do not reproduce them here. The papers publish the protest of Mr. Bancroft, : 1 'American Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in London, addressed to Lord Palmerston, on the subject of the late order issued by the Bri tish Poatmaster-General, levying double postage on all letters conveyed in American mail packets from the United States to the United King dom, and from the latter to the United States. It is the only document which, of all t he papers for warded by Mr. Bancroft to the state department, was considered proper for publication, consistent with the public interest, pending the negotiations with England. On the subject of Maryland the Courier and En quirer says: The Governor, in his annual message just received, gives a gratifying assurance that the law which passed last year, declaring that Maryland should, on the Ist January, 1818, redeem the payment of the interest on her public debt,will be carried out in perfect good faith. Ile said :" I will not be deprived of the gratific►tion of announcing to you the fact that the gross receipts of the Treasury in the past year have amounted to more than 1,300,000 dols., and more than double the interest for the same period upon the whole public debt of the state ; nor will I be deprived of the still greater satisfaction of informing you that after reducing the arrears of interest to be funded below 900,000, the treasurer has provided for the January . interest on both the sterling and currency debts, and has in the treasury at the present mo ment more than enough cash to pay the expense of the pre sent session, and the quarter's interest which will fall due in April next." The unacknowledged debt of the state of Missis sippi on the bonds issued in behalf of the Union Bank, weighs heavily upon the moral sense of the good people of that state; and an effort, peculiar certainly m its kind, is now in progress towards its liquidation. Of Pennsylvania, it is satisfactory to be able to say that her revenue greatly exceeds that of former years, and renders sure and comparatively easy the puuetual payment of her dividends. There is some later news from Mexico, but it is of little interest, the dates from Vera Cruz being to the 16th December, and from Mexico to the 14th. Gen. Patterson had reached the city of Mexico, having left a garrison at Rio Frio, where a perma nent depot was to be made. A train left the city of Mexico on the 9th inst. for Vera Cruz, under command of Oen. Twigge. Oen. Pierce is coming down with it. The Mexican Congress had a quorum on the 6th of December, the latest date from Queretaro. Many deputies were still absent, and six or eight others were expected to leave during the week, notwith standing the critical state of affairs in which the re public is placed. The government was occupied with the regulation of the army. A decree was about to be issued on the subject, contemplating the number of the standing army at 20,000 men. There was some design entertained of sending a Mexican com saissioner to Washington to solicit the appointment d commissioners to meet at Havana, and arrange the terms of a treaty of peace. How authentic this re port may be we cannot state. At Vera Cruz the papers have a rumour of the de feat of a division of the American troops at Llano Grande. Letters from the capital show it to be un founded. A letter in the St. Louis Republican gives the de tails of the causes which led to the arrest of General Worth by General Scott. The first cause of complaint against Worth in the first instance was the unqualiti-d disapprobation by the latter of the terms of capitula tion entered into by the former with the municipal authorities of the city f Puebla, in his advance upon, and occupation of, that city. The second cause of complaint on the part of Gen. Worth against the General-in-Chief, was the disap probation by the latter of a circular addressed by the former to his division alone, at a period when the en tire force of the army, including the General-in-Chief, was garrisoned iu the city of Puebla, with the excep tion of a small force left at Jalapa under Colonel Childs. The circular purported to convey the in formation to the first division, of which Gen. Worth was the commanding officer, that a design was con templated by the citizens of Puebla to poison the fountains from whence oar army drew their daily supply of water, and in that way destroy us ; and placing them on their guard against such inhuman and nefarious designs, if in reality there was any ground of apprehension whatever, that such threats had been made or if made, whether there was the slightest possibility of their being put in execution. To the exceptions taken by the General-in-Chief at these two official acts of General Worth, the latter became greatly incensed, and, permitting his feelings to pervert his better judgment, became most violently and bitterly inimical to the general-in-chief. The result was, that every reflecting . officer in the army most deeply regretted a rupture in those friendly re lations which for upwards of thirty years had existed between these two gallant and justly distinguished military chieftains. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEw Youx, JAN. 1, AFTERSOON. — The lull in Trea'ury Notes la progressive. They opened to-day at !mi. and left off at 961. Considerable nuns were sold. U.S. Sines of '62 brought 981 ; Chin sixes Un, and Kentucky 991. There were not much doing on 'Change, either In cotton or breadatuifs. Sixty-day bills on London, of favourite signature., brought u• I high ea 11 per cent. Sovereigns are quoted at 4 149 dols., which is Just 10 per cent premium, and as shipping ehargea and interest amount to 12 per cent., the shipment of gold costa 1 14. Thu Hibernia takes 370,000 dots. in got.. The country bank note hurry, which was at its height yesterday afternoon, has in a good degree subsided to-day. The rumours of broken tanks have not been realised, and upon the whole, the bill holders have bound out Utak they were more frightened than really endangered. Mllla.—Thera .ha been a steady, active demand for pot - ashes dur ing the week at 5,30 duls., and all the small parcels offering for sate nt this rate have been taken. leads have been duller side at 7 cents. per lb. Corieft..-Te , market is quiet 3.50 bags Jav a has been sold at 81 0.; 30 bugs IffeCtl !woozier, . Corros.--Mince the arrival of the Hibernia the market has been firm, and although the demand ha. been principally conk,. to the wants of the snore's, mum advance of 1 to 1 cent. per pound has been obtained. The talcs of the week amount to 5,100 bales, :-- Up & Fla. Mobile &N.°. 2,900 bolo. 2,20 0 balm Ord. to good ord. Middling to good mid. Middling fair to fair Fully fair to good fair lino Flues.-The market boa been quite unsettled this week, the English orders being limited much below the present asking rates. For the better class of Genesee holders are firm at 6 dois. 22e. to 6 della. 371 e., with retail maim but the lower grades of Ohio, Stiehl min. aid Oswego, may be quoted at 6 dol.. to 6 dots. 181 e. About 3,500 barrela Oawego are reported as having been sold fur export at 6 dots. ; for March delivery there were sales last seek on private terms. la South-rn the sale. have been 400bbis. Ihmall Rich. nand City Mills, at 7 dens. 30c. ; MO) bbla. Petersburg, on private terms, and revend hundred hart+, of Baltimore and Alexandria, at 6 dui/. 44c. to 6 d015..56c. ; 200 Milt. Brandywine brought 0 dais. SOB. ; rye flour 1,1 inactive, at 4 dole. 27e. to -Idols Site ; corn meal is lower, with few salts-30 Wide. Brandywine .Id at 17 do's.; ISO blds. Ohio, at 3 dub, Inle. ' • Jersey may be quoted at 3 dole. 31 c. to 3 dole . 371 e. ; with a sale for Mich. at 3 dolt. 3. Ac. IiMAIN.-The Oaths:thole in Wheat have been quitelimited during the week Nat. The Iliberni newt woo deprestiag, and the tran sactions have been ut several rents. reduction on former rate.. The sales 030.1.M0 f 7,000 ba. Ohio and Western, on private term.; 1.000 bu.tienesee at 186 e., 1,500 bu. Ohio at 13 e.;1,400 bu. inferior South era at 110 e. Northern Rye remains inactive, the last sales were at 87 to Mc. Naas of 2,1610 Ink fair Barley at hoc. Northern Oats are melting at An. to Sic., and 45c. for Southern. There has been rather a better inquiry for Mtn, the dittillefs having purchased more freely store the strainer's arrival - a'out 511,160 busheb, of all kinds are reported as having changed hands. The range of prices has been to 70e. for new Southern and Northern ; 74e. to 75e. for fiat yellow, old; antl76e. to 78c. for •r und yellow; one cargo of white North Carolina, new at 69e. A part of the old woe for export. PILOVIPION..-Beteressigins inactive at former prices. Met, Bto 91, and prime 74 to 8,00, as in quality. Sides confined to immediate wants of the market. Pork la dull of sale, and prima lower. Old mess is now selling at 11 d 01.., and prime 74 dole.; new mess U 4 dole. to 12 dole.; und prime 8 del... Ste. Saha light. Lard of prime (polity is wanted at R. and kegs 81, the stock of old being nearly exhausted. Butter is in fair demand at prices quoted het week, from 11c. to 22c., aa in quality and kinds. Cheese is not whin at 6to 7 ; very little held higher than the latter price. City smoked hawk 9toll ; do. shouidert, 7to 71. Pickled do., 5; hams, 7to X Smoked beef, Ge. to 7e., and drev.td hogs. Ge., and dull. FMI6IIIK -There LI but little 'Bright offering fur Europe at pre sent, and a further reduction has taken place in rates. We quote To Liverpool-Cotton, per lb., 4d.; Beef, per tierce, Ss. to Ss. ; Beef and Pork, barrel, to. to 2s, fial. • Flour, Is. to Is. 3d.; Turpentine, Is. 3d. ; leather. lb., 4d.; heavy ;gott 3 s, per ton, 225. 61. a 23a.; Grain, bushel, lid. To London: Tobacco, per Ida, 25a. a Sin.; Flour, bbl., 2e, Gil, Turpentine, 2.4. GL; Spirits of Turpentine, per 252 gallons, 305.; Measurement goods, tun, 30a.; Homy Goods 355. to 40 -. ; Beef (304 lbs. to 336 Its.), 55.; Beef and Pork, brl., Sa. to Sol. 141. To Havre f Cotton, failure bales, per lb, 1 c.; Floor, hrl., 3,00.; A-bra, tar, N dol to 10 dolm.; Rice 8 dol. to 961015.; Measurement Goods, 8 dots. to 10 dots. ; Cluereitroaßark, a dots. to dots.. ; Whalebone, per lb., 1 e. ; Tallow, Lard, tan., 4 c. - • TILE ACADIA STEAMER, Captain Stone, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for Halifax and Boston. TILE TAV.—By the Montrose we have some fur ther intelligence respecting the Tay steamer, which left Southampton with the West India mail on the 2nd December. It appears she left Corunna on the 20th Wt., and nailed for M..deira, in hopes of catching the Medway, which left Southampton on the 17th ult. Fortunately, she succeeded in meeting the Medway at Madeira, on the 26th ult. The Tay then transhipped a porti.•n of the West India mail on hoard the Medway, retaining only the St. Thomas and Porto I Rico mails, and proceeded to Bermuda, and from thence to the Gulf, with the Mexican mails. By this arrangement the West India mails will be delivered about a fortnight earlier tbau would othirwise have been the case. LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S BRIG, " SNAKE." We have, flays the United Sercice Gazette, been favoured with the copy of a letter, written by an officer of her Majesty's brig Snake, Commander Thomas B. Brown, describing the total lose of that vessel in the Mozambique Channel, on the 29th of August. The details contacted in the letter will remove all fear respecting the safety of the officers and crew. The accident which occasioned the brig's destruction appears to hare been unavoidable : Sir,—You will be sony to hear of the total loss of her Majesty's sloop Snake, whi, h is now lying with her side open from the port gangway down to the keel, on a coral reef about six miles to the southward of this anchorage. After visiting Zanzibar and Anjuan, or Johanna, we were returning to this port, when, on the after noon of the 26th ultimo, if I remember correctly, we made the land somewhat to the northward. We stood off to the eastward for the night, under easy sail, and the next day found that the set had driven us upwards of 50 miles to the southward. The wind was from the southward and westward, with a tremendous set directly in the contrary direction. The latter it was that baffled our endeavours to reach the port during the next two or three days. At sun set, on the 29th, the outer (or easternmost) one of the small islands off Mozambique, was observed to bear about north. When these islands ceased to be visible, owing to the coming obscurity of the night, the Snake steered north north-east, so as to pass a couple of points outside of all. But the tremendous set 1 hsve mentioned, together with a flood tide driving us in towards the land, the north-north east course we were steering became, in fact, a north north west one, in consequence of which, at 7.45 p.m., we found ourselves aground, unfortunately, j test at the top of high water. As the tide receded the vessel heeled over till she reached her bearings, when site settled down with her deck at an angle with the horizon, of between 30 and 35 deg. Being a weak vessel, her butt-ends started, when her lee, or port side, immediately filled. As, even then, it could scarcely be credited that the current had set us to the westward, to , the extent I have described, doubts began to arise as to the , islands we had seen at sunset being in reality what we had taken them for. Hence a painful anxiety existed during the long night we had before us, for we were perfectly aware that had we to take refuge on shore, at any distance from Mozambique itself, we could only have maintained a preca rious footing, by constant hostility with numerous and war like tribes, not unprovided with hre-arms. Tht re was some - apprehension, also, lest the ship should fall over altoge ther on her beam-ends, or the masta go by the board, neither of which could well have taken place without the loss of life to some, and severe injuries to others. But I am truly happy to be able to add that no one has lost his life, or been hurt in any manaer ; indeed, we have not had a death on board since we were put in commission, now nearly twenty months ago. From the inclined position of the ship, nobody can live on board, and the crew are ac commodated on shore abreast of her, at the distance of about two miles, in excellent tents made with the sails and some spars. They are busy in saving stores, &c., and will, pro bably, be removed to this place in a few dam the governor baviag removed the soldiers from the San booking* barrack' to make room for their reception. The French barque-cor vette Voltigeur, of 20 guns, arrived here on the 7th instant. As there is no British man-of-war in the Mozambique Chan nel, I believe that, if none arrive here before the end of the month, merchant vessels will be taken up to convey us to the Cape.—Mozambique, Sept. 10, 1847. P.S. Sept. 18th.—I have nothing particular to add since the foregoing was written. The whole of the crew were re moved h eon Monday last, the 13th inst. I have reason to think thin will reach you before the original, as that was sent Mai Zanzibar. It was found impossible to get the guns out by means of the lower masts, as their inclination had al ready caused an immense strain on the weather rigging, the heart of which was gone ; and, owing to the surf, K was found impossible to rig a derrick on the bottom,ccuisequently the saving of the guns is fur the present given up. But a Por tuguese man-of-war schooner is going out on Monday morning, manned by a portion of our crew, to watch the breaking up of the vessel, now near at hand, and, if possible, to . pick up some of the guns. DEATH OF TEE EARL OF MORAY.—The demise of this nobleman took place at DarnawayCastle, Morayshire, late on Wednesday night. The deceased, who w-s in his 77th year, had for several years been in delicate health, and having been attacked with the prevailing epidemic, it became en dent that he could not long bear up under it, Cht Court. Lord John Russell left Claremont on Friday g um . ing, and returned to his residence in Richmond-park. Sir Robert and Lady Girditier had the bosom o f joining the royal circle at Claremont at dinner on F e k te , evening. Thu Viscountess Canning left Claremont on site,. day morning. The Counters of De•art arrived at Clum s/eel in the evening; and has succeeded L.rdy Canning a e t h e hay in waiting to the Queen. Her Majesty and Prinee Albert, and the ladies sa t gentlemen of the court, attend •d divine service yeaterd a . Cl are mont. The lion. and Rev. C. L. Csurtonay 0E44.. A messenger arrived in town on Thursday si g h from Hanover, with the intelligence of the aide mint of the Crown Princess of Hanaver of a princes,. The pa. tying announcement was communicated to htr Majesty and the different members of the royal family. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Pa w , Howard, arrived at her residence, Clarence-home, at James's, at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from p r , g . mo re-house. Her Royal Highness left Clarence h ouse at ita o'clock, on her return to Frogmore-house. The Duke of Cambridge attended a meeting of jEs trustees of the British Museum on Saturday. The Governor of the Bank of England W m interview with the Chancellor of the Each&ikier on Frit i The lion. Colonel Anson had also an interview with right bon. baronet ou Friday, at his official risidenta j a Downing-street. Mr. Hume, M.l'., Mr. H. Ilosack, and Mr. H. liintbay, had interviews with Earl Grey on Saturday, as th s Colonial-office. I)espatehes were received on Saturday at the CA N nial-olhce from the Governor of South Australia. ...- Despatches for the Governors of the Went wi t Colonies, and also for the Governor of the Mauritius, v as rent off from the Colonial office on Saturday evening. Colonel Maberly had an interview with the Cho. color of the Exchequer on Saturday. Lieut.-Gen. Sir E. Kerrison and Lady K err i sm arrived in Great Stanhope-street yesterday, from Utley. park, Suffolk, en route to Brighton, until the meeting parliament. The Hight Hon. H. Labouchere has left town ti Brighton. DEATH OF MRS. DAWSON, SISTER TO SIR ROBERT Peet..—'this lady, who had been ailing fur a considerable time, died early on Saturday morning, at thi tempera, residence of her husband, the Right Hun. George Davila at Brighton. She was eldest daughter of the late Sir Robles and was consequently sister to the e:-Premier and to Lady Henley. Her surviving husband, the Rght Hon, Geurge Robert Dawson, of Castle Dawson, county of Gerry, and I:ppyr Grosvenor-street, L union, has held s semipro. minent situations in the state, and is now deputpchsalssa of customs. RESTITUTION OF TITHES TO THE CHURCH. CHURCH. Lecclith:edt7coe°Roto:omelb;:r•oluthrl%thl Robert e , telte? a p ;:d? i o!t r n e l io r ri be' Stephen l f e t rgybPm restoring (i"o e l Ynft the Springer,n andißi Right tithes the John Ran D 14 e lay imprepriators to the exclusive use of this church. A pre. liininery meeting was held in Septembs r last, tor the par. pose ot associating together those who were favourable to the object; and, the requisite means far carrying on than operations having been adopted, the committee alluded% hes been formed, and has published the fuliowing explain tion of its objects and principles: The admitted insufficiency of the present revenues of the church of England to maintain a body of clergy adequate to her canting wants Ind to the demands of the leer ' population of thin country, and the success, however par tial, which has attended the vsriou, expedients adopted with the view of remedying this state of things, justify a belief that every member of the church will readily BOW than and assist an effort to provide • more Wog and comprehensive system of church endowment On reference to the report of the ecclesiastical commiseicome laid before parliament in 1834, it will be seen that the pug or anadll titoes, anti in many instances both, producing an be come exceeding 1,000,0001. sterling, have been alienated fren 4,862, or nearly half of the 10,718 benefices which then es. i•te d in England and Wales, and that amongst otbrr malts of chi, severance of tithes from their original &gingko, there were, at the date of such report, about 4,600 pardbee wi,huut glebe-houses, and about 4,800 benefices under 2001. 1 per annum. If toe revenues tnus alienated were restored to their original sacred purpose, a fund would thereby be nips plied for the relief of the present lamentable spiritual demi tuliun of England and Wales. The necessity of r,medyieg this evil cannot be over-rated ; and not only So the additional curates' fund and pastoral aid societies, in each succeed ing report, deplore their inability to meet the num berless applications to them for kelp, but her lildjesty's ecclesiastical commiudoners in their report fur 1845 expels their deep regret that the limited amount of their means, even after the expedients for increasing them, to which, , antler the sanction of the legislature , they had deemed it ' right to resort, compelled them to leave uetouched a con siderable portion of that spiritual destitution, the removal cif whin h was the main object of the crown in issuing the ori ginal commission of inquiry, and of paean:en . . in confirming its recommeadations. Public attention to the subject bans( thus been awakened, a meeting was held last yi or, at which a committee was appointed to arrange the requisite prelioi naries tor associating a body ot clergy and laity, whom labours should be directed to the collection of funds, will, the object of regaining alienated tithes, thereby affording Les all a 'strictly legitimate object fur the dedication of MeM offerings to the glory of God, and preseutica to owners of tithes an opportunity to convey the same to the church, The announcement of this movement at once attracted this favourable notice of many, and communications from owners ot unprofitable tithes have been received, showing a readi ness on their part to meet the views of the committee, mad, in some instances, expressing a willingness to make • con siderable sacrifice in so doing. Encouraged by these facts, the committee recommend the following plan of operations for effecting the objects desired : " 1. That meads should be presented to all desiring to ea slat in this work by the formation of • body to be denomi nated The Tithe Redemption Trust for the Church et England and Wales.' "2. That the affairs of this body be conducted by a board consisting of clergymen and laymen, and assisted by a secre tary and other requisite officers. " 3. That the two archbishops and the bishops of Eddied arid Wales be requested to undertake the office of " Coun cil of advice and direction," and that no appropriation of re-acquired tithes or the property of the church be made by the board without the previous sauction of the council. — JOHN MANNERS, chairman." Lord It. Grosvenor, M.P., the Right lion. W. E. Glad stone, M.P., the Bishop of Exeter, the Bean ot Chichester, and Lord J. Manners have consented to act as trustees of this funds for carrying out this work. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. The brief notice of this accident which we were enabled to publish on Saturday provis to have bees cornet in all important particulars. The following additional do tails will, however, be read with interest The exact locale where the accident occurred is a plan called Rook.heath, a barren piece of moorland, over whkk the railway crosses by an embankment of tiny feet. From Woking station there is a gradual ascent of the line for nearly tour miles towards Southampton, terminating at a place called Frimtey. It was on this hauls, about two miles from Woking, that the c ill-ion took place. The passenger train was propellid by one of the meet powerful engines be longing to the company, the Maseppa. On arriving at the place above stated the eccentric strap broke, and the works of the engine were, of course, instantly stopped. Scam time was occupied in repel& g the broln.n strap, sad some of the passengers gut out meantime and walked about the line. Markland had completed the repair Of the eccentric strap, and was tying up the clack of the kede pipe, when he requested the head guard, by the light if whose lamp he was working, to desire the passengers to tee same their seats, as he should be ready to proceed in/us than five minutes. The guard had scarcely obeyed his ill structiooN, when the luggage train, propelled by the Rhinocero., a very powerful locomotive, was obeened rounding the curve at this part of the Hue, and not men than 200 yards from the passenger train. Although the speed at winch the luggage train was travelling, by the CPl current testimony of several witnesses, does not spin:sr* , have exceeded six or seven miles an hour, there was no time to warn poor Markland of his danger. The poor fellow was himself utterly unconscious of it, inasmuch as the load noise occasioned by the blowing off of the steam from hi own engine entirely prevented his hearing the appresek of the luggage trim; and when the collision took place, being still engaged under his engine, lie was crushed to death by the as —pan, his skull heal nearly beaten to pieces, and his left arm fractured at the shoulder joint. The force with which the luggage trail struck the passenger train had the effect of driving the latter forwards 200 or 300 yards. All the carriages passed over,/ mutilated bode of Markland, and he was taken up quit dead. The stoker of the passenger train, Thomas Calvert, sustained very serious injuries ; the index finger of his right hand being turn off, and his head being much bruised and hurt. The driver and stoker of the luggage train were un injured, and it is a remarkable fact that they declare they hardly felt the collision. The guard of this train, however, Thomas Furtescue, who rode on a brake van immediately behind the engine, was frightfully hurt about the head, be sides sustaining a compound [picture of the left arm. It appears that when the driver and stoker of the lugger train observed the red tail lamps of the passenger trim (and this they declare was the first intimation of danger which they perceived), the sto ker threw piece of coke at Fortescue to warn him of the dan g er they were run ning upon, on which Fortescue ! t ot up from his seat and ap plied the brake to hie van, standing upon the lever to give it additional force. From this point be seems to have been vielently hurled, as he was picked up at some distance frets the train a short time alter the accident quite insensible, in which state he has since remained without the slighted hope of recovery. The rear of the passenger tram consisting of the Gosport portion—viz., one first-dui carriage, one second class, and two luggage sans-10- tained the most severe injury. The buffers of all dine carriages were curled up, and the carriages more ce ism broken, and forced from their beds. The passengers in the second-class carriage were almost all injured in raw way. One gentleman had his leg broken, another susennei a severe injury of the arm and two or three ladies said severely from the shock. The punnets in every pat the train were me in the coupe of at pletely through ti well much cut in:( The passenger I n ot having snivelupxy'S SOUL It th iscaver the CALIII4 a plate Is} er, wh a ccident, arrived the disaster. Mr a mile and a ree d e d with a se the spot where fore Mr. Miller the pilot engine could be removt their arrival at V medical geatlem *nee, and, the pa their several cal them. Mr. Mill , those who had a the neighbouring a single ezoeptic town, and the I broken csmagei past 10 o'clock. of Forteecue, svl tame to town u /darkland was le Upon the errs Calvert were im where amputatit at once perform fractured. The possibility of att not yet rallied, n of the passenger proceeding men copied copied a camp risge, were so convey the in to Statham and • to attend them. Mr. Ridings, o the arm, and cc Riding', • sev Hutchins, leg the forehead, ai the rev. gentle! man has recov• Ridings' tractu noon by Mr. St morning Mr. C department, NI Beattie, of the to view the Seel and instituting the purpose of In the court. foot by Mr. St wee enabled I which the acci was very littl being broken. tragic was see melancholy ev Godalminiz, co F posed the inq day. The gal the train cont., long time whit The only del la rithe Fletcher, t r etie !or his patient On inquiry ascertained lii who, as state( cident, had re some hopes w• much injured but until his • it has received which he has it is feared hit i passenger trii grossing fawn broken leer w• Elms, is iU a I Ridings, and Hutchins, the All these parti seen by our L were brought INQUEsTs, at No. 8, Wal aged 17 sears, ron, Dignam, pistol. It apt aerviTe ot the I ducted ormolu previous eveui but he ought I did. About 11 came into the pearitnce that fellow-servant might have u leave the lam ewer, which I Sbortly at.r , stairs, when, deceased blee sent for, who pistol shut, • nam said he the act, not throw some 1 diet of " Ter —By Mr. V sea, on the who commit was the son church of E tap, No. 4, of the larg offered for c merit, and, sessful one. jest of " Kii him," whic others in V ceased, aith was never linit had grt was last SO night, whe The next ir on going it hint still it kerchief ro closer, anc son was c telling his neighbour, and Mr. SI deceased tc sat his thr , The coron with its ati room and I the impov( which was inquiry, a found dew but that It show their did it."