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ALTHOUGH we have received no direct or positive information on the subject, we should nevertheless voltam to say that pacific assurances from Austria, with promises of forbearant conduct, had reached Paris. The organs of the French government have hitherto carefully refrained from abating the ItaHaas, throwing out any menaces to, or even showing any mistrust of, the court of Vienna. Now, of a sudden, and certainly not without advice and premeditation, the French official journal hurries to Italian rescue, hints that government, though silent, has not been inactive, but has strenuously interfered for the Pope, and even sent arms to equip the civic guards of his holiness. Lord MINTO being on his way to Rome with offers of frank support, M. Vuizuttakescare to anticipate his lordship, sends his vessels of war to Civita, and makes the most profuse proffers to the Pope of French support and adhesion. The French court was evidently in the greatest alarm lest Lord Miura, with his exclusive offers of friendship and support, should win from his Holiness a papal sanction of the young Queen of SPAIN'S divorce. The French government, however, we may be pretty sure, did not ffy with such noisy ardour to the Pope's assistance until it had made right sure that Pius THIS NINTH wanted none, and that Austria forbore for the present to pass the I'o. M. GUIZOT is evidently in Italy in 1847 what he was in Paris in 1830, an homme du lendemain. One assertion of the Ilcbuts we fully believe. It is, l that the French minister lost no time in making diplomatic representations to tne court of Vienna, and that therein was represented the extreme danger to France and its juste milieu government, likely to arise from any open aggression on the part of Austria against the independent states of Italy. Should such an event take place, the French cannon, to use the words of ()DILLON BARROT at St. Quentin, "übtrelieraient tout setae (would set off by themselves). To prevent any such voluntary and inconvenient movement on the part of French guns, M. GUIZOT besought the court of Vienna. Other reasons and powers pleaded in the same strain, not the least of which was the quagmire into which the Austrian finance minister had sunk by a vain undertaking, on the part of government to purchase, and so keep up the price of, railroad shares. Another part of M. Graror's representations to Vienna was, that political reforms were not necessarily so very extreme, or so very dangerous. In fact, there was one model of constitutional government, as it might with indulgence be called, which had long since met with the approbation of the Holy Alliance, at a period, to be sure, when the Holy Alliance was in a considerable fright , when Austria was willing to concede anything in order to get the French out of Ancona. This was in 1931. The system has been since applied and upheld without alarm or umbrage to the sacred principle of absolute government, both in Greece and in Prussia. _ _ This system of free government we described two , days ago in speaking of Greece, as the chosen plan of ' both M. GUIZOT and Prince METTERNICH. There exists in diplomatic records a lively controversy on the merits of this system, carried on between Lord PALMERSTON and Prince kftrrEitsticn, in which the Austrian chan cellor upholds the Guizotic scheme of a senate and municipalities, whilst the English statesman scouts such a half-way-house between despotism and repre sentative government. However, thin scheme, with its concessions to popular rights, is, it seems, to be now recommended by France to the Italians. And we may add, that the most perfect sample of it was displayed this year in Berlin, when the King promul gated it and put it in practice in the new Prussian constitution. The Prussian system is precisely what the French official journal recommends now to the Italians, viz., municipal and provincial bodies, from which is to emanate a central commission, sitting in Rome, with the exclusive function of examining financial accounts. ----- Now, we agree with the Journal des Diboll; in wishing that the Italians would, for a time at least, rest contented with such an instalment of freedom, although we beg to remind the French official jour nalist that he exercised all his powers of mockery upon this very scheme, as brought forth by the King of PRUSSIA. At Berlin this was not half liber al enough for the Debate. But, it seems, it is quite sufficient for the Italians. We doubt, however, that the Italians themselves will be of this opinion; we doubt their being satisfied with mere municipal rights. The system was tried in Spain, and was that of the despotism° illustrado : and the inevitable consequence followed there, which will follow in Prussia, viz., that the people will make use of their munici pal and provincial rights and representation to procure political freedom and power. The fault of this system of M. GUIZOT, Prince METTERNICH, and FREDERIC WILLIAM, is, that it never contented any people, and that it requires a police, an army, and a government founded on intimidation, to work it. It requires, in short, all the trouble, paraphernalia, and spirit, of despotism to support it, and provokes a people to hopes and excesses which aro extinguished and punished in their blood. Notwithstanding theft* opinions, we should be very sorry to see England, or at least its government, step forward to recommend or uphold any more liberal or ultra-liberal constitution for the Italians. Let such ideas be of their own seeking and finding. As we said in a previous article, we should scrupulously avoid awakening in Italy an exaltaclo party against a moderado one, or taking up a MAVROCORDATO against a Cotarrt. With ardent sympathies in the liberal progress of Italians, and of all people, our support should be given to the nation and to its larger in terests, without entering into details, or siding with parties. Far from combating, however we may dis approve and despair of the French scheme of intro ducing the Prussian constitution into Italy, we should do our utmost to secure it a fair trial. We fear, however, that the Italians have already shot beyond it. There are two popular boons which always have been found incompatible with this system of government, viz., a free press and an armed body of citizens. But the Italians have already organised national guards. An armed national guard implies complete freedom of speech in its ranks, and its ranks include the whole of society. To complete freedom of speech, freedom of the press follows as a corollary. How will this harmonise with the scheme of M. Guizor and of the Great Powers in 1831 to substitute a financial board of control for an assembly of national re presentatives? The national guard would soon hunt such an absurdity out of existence or toleration at the point of their bayonets. When Prince METTERNICH there fore said that he would march into and overrun any Italian state that established a national . guard, he was perfectly consonant with his own opinion. And no thing but necessity and the urgency of M. GUIZOT'S representation can have made him stay hie hand. The present position of things in Italy, therefore, may be considered a truce between contending prin ciples. Final success may depend much upon the use now about to be made by either party, of the inter val during which hostilities are to be suspended. MR. C. BULLER, in his speech at Liskeard, expressly disclaims any knowledge of the intentions of the ca binet. We are therefore bound to suppose that he speaks for himself alone, when he declares that our legal system is a disgrace to the country. Civil and criminal law, common law, and chancery, even, as in a humorously apologetic tone he adds, the ecclesiastical law, is a disgrace to the country. As far as Mr. BULLER is concerned, the government is in no way pledged to the correction of the gigantic abuses which he denounces. The cabinet may, for all that appears at Liskeard, be of opinion that the law of England is the perfection of human reason, and the administra tion of it the brightest triumph of common sense. Nevertheless, we are not sorry to observe the strong language which Mr. BULLER uses. If he is lot re sponsible for the plans of the ministry, he has had t TEE some little experience of public affairs, and is not either so dull or so rash as to rest the future reputation of his party on a course of policy of which its leaders disapprove. It is very possible that he may wish to stimulate their activity as well as to publish their inclination, and to commit them to a coarse of action, when at present only their o pinions are known to hi m : but it is not likely that the most able and acute of the subordinate members of the government would select for public censure any class of grievances, unless he had reasonable ground to suppose that his friends would attempt to redress them. There is, indeed, no party reason which should induce any administration to delay or neglect the improvement of the law. It would be impossible to unite an opposition in defence of assignable terms, or of special demurrers. The prejudices of laymen, whatever may be their political persuasion, are always opposed to legal abuses ; and lawyers alone, even if they were united in opposing change, could not endanger the supremacy of an existing government. Nevertheless, there is a lion in the path. Law amendments, if they do not involve the risk, are also devoid of the excitement and unrewarded by the po pularity which attend . political reforms. It is only the learned and industrious who can appreciate their wisdom ; it is only the individual litigant who finds their practical value. It is easier to brave danger than to face the difficulty which takes the prosaic shape of trouble ; and there must necessarily be great trouble in forming a general or a partial code —ia making acts of parliament simple and consistent—in retrenching the superfluous formalities which encum ber every legal proceeding. Many men who are ca pable of good, and even of heroic acts, will shrink day after day from the trouble of arranging a mass of ac cumulating papers, or writing a few necessary let ters ; and it is from similar indolence and want of deci sion that the abominations of law are allowed to acts ' mulate from year to year with so little strenuous effort to reduce the heap. We can only advise those who have the power to begin. Twenty reforms might be mentioned in as many sentences, which have been over and over again recommended, and only neglected because the whole question of the im provement of the law is so complicated and formid able. Vigour and determination alone are wanted ; there will be no want of useful and ingenious sugges tions for the government to work upon, if it will only prove that it is in earnest. It will not do to appoint commissions and to collect information only; there must also be experiments made without delay. It requires no commission to tell us that techni lit objections which the courts overrule, if they are not made in eight days from the delivery of a document, may be dispensed with in all cases; or that thieves ought to be punished, even though a clerk of indictments or a lawyer may have been misinformed as to the chris tian name of the person whom they have robbed. If no subordinate absurdities are to be got rid of till a general remodelling of the law in completed, it would perhaps be better to give up all ambitious hopes of a code, and content ourselves with increased activity in botching, and patching, and darning. Mr. Butt ER is quite right in treating the county courts as the remedy for only one among the many defects of our jurisprudence. The new tribunals give retail tradesmen a convenient method of getting in their bills, and that is nearly all that can be said of them. It is an object aaffi ciently important to justify all the praise which has been bestowed on them —it is most fit that just debts should be paid; but simple debts, as we have explained on a former occasion, scarcely belong to the province of litigation. The tailor and his customer cannot be said to have any dispute between them, because the coat has been de livered and not yet paid for. The county court judge compels the wearer to pay for his coat; and we believe his jurisdiction might usefully be extended so far as to secure the coachmaker payment for his carriage. He also has a litigious jurisdiction to a small amount—bat the whole range of litigation for property of more than 201. value is subject to all the uncertainty and injustice which a casual legislation interpreted by a minute and sophistical logic is capable of producing. Our criminal jurisprudence is, as we have often said, the most efficient part of the law, with all its faults. It secures the acquittal of almost all the in nocent, and the conviction of a large majority of the guilty. Its faults and absurdities, flagrant as they are, lie on the surface, and are easily separable from the system. An act of parliament of a page might sweep away three-fourths of the useless technicali ties of criminal law, by getting rid of grand juries, and, consequently, of indictments. A longer and more complicated statute might attain a part of the same result by extending the power of amend ment to some of the obsolete formalities which are at present held sacred in criminal pleading. A statute of jeybils is always an improvement. " I have made a slip," the pleader is allowed to say (whence the Norman-French jeVails), and to correct it. It is better that a technical slip should be cor m eted than that the right should fail ; but it might, perhaps, be simpler to remove the elide which has been constructed to try the sure-footedness of justice. In this department, however, we are satisfied that the government must and will do something. It has Tea to its hands the code of the criminal law com almoners almost eiginti annorum lucubrationed, to Width it n eed only give the sanction of law. We by no means think that the code will preclude the necessity of future change, but it will be an improvement upon the present law as embodied in the learned labours of Mr. ARCHBOLD and Mr. GREAVEB. The so-called ecclesiastical law, which has little or nothing to do with the church, has long been recog nised as an anomaly. To an impartial observer there is something not a little ludicrous in the virtuous in dignation with which the Queen's Bench decides, in a suit of prohibition, that the ecclesiastical court i has transgressed its constitutional limits by entertaining collaterally some question of title to property. ft might be supposed that the tidings of Henry VIII.'s separation from Rome had not yet penetrated into Westminster-hall, and that the judges were still sternly defending the rights of the nation against a =or a rival tribunal. That a court should have tion over wills, as far as they relate to sad yet yet be incapable of knowing whether life possidenn which they contain as to landed pro pwty me good or bad, is an inconvenience which could only arise from our dogged determination to let all legal arrangements depend upon accident. There is an urgent demand for a cheaper and more efficient mode of proceeding in the numerous cases which now belong to the ecclesiastical courts. It is aimed incredible that some of the moot important civil rights should be determined by reference to such obsolete fictions as that the goods of intestates pass to the ordinary for charitable purposes, or that courts take pr oceed ings against individuals in salutem anions. Of all our courts, we believe the equity tribunals are meet efficient in attaining their object. The specific performance of contracts, the execution 01% trusts, and the other litigated duties which they have to en force, are in fact considered by the Court of Chancery with a regard to substantial justice, to the real intentions of parties, and the actual state of facts, which is impossible to judges who are bound by the technical limitations which have established them selves in the common law. Even in the department of costs, the power of a judge in equity to award them according to the justice of the case, without re gard to the form of the decree, enables him to avoid some of the most grievous oppieesions which are prac tised in actions at law. The only ground on which a defendant resists an action is often to be found in the exorbitance of the costs. In Chancery, the court has power to look to the real merits in this as well as in other respects. The great grievance of Chancery is the expence and delay of its pro ceedings. A more convenient machinery for ascer taining facts, and the substitution in some cases of oral for written evidence, would form one of the first steps to an improvement in the efficiency ef these tri bunals. Of the common law we have often had occasion to weak. With the exception of the system of the Ecclesiastical Courts, there is no part of our juris prudence so oppressive in its ine f f iciency. It provides a clumsy, expensive, and uncertain machinery for the recovery of simple debts, and a mixture of charms and of a conflict of ingenuity when disputed rights call for adjudication. We are well aware how easy and how useless it is to utter general strictures on a system. We have not been wanting, and shall not hereafter be wanting, in practical and detailed suggestions for the redress of the grievances of which we complain. At present, our object is only to confirm Mr. BULLER'S general statement of the condition of the English law, and, as far as possible, to tie him and his colleagues down to a pledge to commence the _ . . necessary &OM. IC they Politte . this course with wisdom LA vigour, they wal have the sup port O f praihnt lawyers as well as of the public. The affairs of this ' country will bear much more litigation thin they can afford at present. Compromises and arbitrations are but proofs that law is defective. Ten suits decided justly and cheaply would be more profitable to the profession than one however complicated with issues of law and of fact, with demurrers and motions for judgment non andante reredicto. Nor when the law yer had increased his gains would he regret to know that nine suitors had established their right or resisted injustice, who under the old system would have been compelled to submit to wrong, and would not have contributed to his profits. We have become accustomed to a published state ment of the affairs of the Royal Bank of Berlin, which appears monthly, as the statement of the Bank of England appears weekly. Do any of the readers of our money article, when they see the two state ments in juxta position, take this similarity in the mode of communication with the public to indicate a similarity in the principles on which the two establish ments are founded? Many, we dare say, who are not much interested in the state of the Prussian funds, assume that it does. Others, who have watched the phases of Prussian finance, shake their heads, and ex claim. How can a bank founded by royal ordinance be compared to one that has been set up with mercantile capital, and all whose movements follow the pulsation of the national trade ? We are, nevertheless, inclined to think that there is at the present moment a greater similarity between the two establishments than many would suppose. We have certainly, as yet, had no order in council placing ten millions at the dieposal of the Bank and recommending it to get them into circulation as fast and on the best terms it can. Still less have we seen the Bank of England faollitate a traffic in foreign bills by taking them at the cur rent price to sell them at a moderate gain to those who may chance to need them unexpectedly. The Bank of England confines its operations' to nk ing, strictly se called. It discounts the bills of others, and allows itself to be drawn upon but it does not assume the office of bill-broker—it does not part with the bills that it has once absorbed from circula tion. The nature of the trade carried on by the Bank is, therefore, one-sided : it aids only the humerus that is done in England, or which is done abroad, through the agency of English houses. No foreign bank is in this position. Neither the Bank of Berlin, nor that of Paris, nor that of Vienna, would refuse to discount a good bill on London or any other commercial capital. These foreign banks must, therefore, provide a means of getting nd of the bills they take. They are mere facilitators of ex changes of credit. They cannot easily create artificial credit, for they must take care to accept of nothing that pill not in the free course of trade be taken from them again. These banks poasess a safety valve which the Bank of England dive not.command. For if the notes which they have issued are returned to be exchanged for bullion, they can go into the market with the bills which they hold, and, submitting to the necessary difference in exchange, can at any time command bullion for them. The bills they discount cannot, therefore, be said to be withdrawn from circu lation, in the manner in which those lodged in the Bank of England are. These are, however, differ ences in matters of detail which may be modified without affecting the main question. To understand the principle on which both banks are founded, we must inquire into the sources of their power to issue notes, and the use they make of that power. Governments alone can, and do, interfere to create credit when private credit has been disturbed, or, for some reason, does not exist. When private credit is in a healthy state there is no opportunity for govern ment interference. Banks founded by private enter prise, and managed by private industry, do more, better, and cheaper business than a government bank can. Indeed, considering the temptation which go vernment banks have ever held out to unprin cipled ministers, no government has of late been con sidered very safe when it meddled with banking; and, both at Paris and at Vienna, pains have been taken to give the banks an appearance of the greatest inde pendence. This can arise from no other motive than the desire to inculcate a belief that the issues are based upon the regular demands of trade; that no notes go abroad for which value in the shape of some deposit has not been received. Anyother supposition is carefully precluded, as injurious to the credit of the Bank and of the government. But a case may be sup posed when the demands of trade exceed the power of private credit. Such a case can arise only out of some disturbing cause that has operated injuriously upon private credit. In Prussia we are at no great loss where to look for such a cause. When, after the termination of the revolutionary war, the financial affairs of that kingdom were settled, it was judged most convenient for the crown to reserve the exclusive right of issuing small notes, as the easiest mode of keeping up a certain amount of unfunded debt. The late King of Prussia found it necessary, however, to put a limit on those issues, as the sole means of raising the value of the national stock in the money market. He accordingly appointed a commission of men of note, who were bound by the most solemn oaths not to allow of an addition to the sum of the national debt as it stood when they took this oath. The paper circulation of Prussia was thus limited to a certain sum, no regard being paid to the demands of trade. Private banks of issue were nowhere tolerated in Prussia. As a natural consequence, the government notes, which were not circulating in excess, although to a large amount, came into demand. They now frequently bear a premium locally. Pri vate credit, which is not of rapid growth, has been repressed during the last thirty years, and it is now unavailable for the wants of the trader. Under these circumstances alone was it possible to _ found a new bank of issue under the government management, without causing a rapid dechne of the Prussian funds. The announcement of the pro posed issue of ten millions of dollar notes last year, did for a moment lower the price of stocks, and the minister was obliged publicly to deny that the state was responsible for the new notes. Still the obnoxious element in the Royal Bank subsists the governor is an officer in the service of the crown, and the bank has no power to issue other notes than such as it is authorised by the crown to emit; but necessity has conquered public opinion. A nation mast have a circulating medium. Now we do not see how, under the Bank Charter Act, the Bank of England's position differs much from that which we have here described. The manufacture of notes is taken ' from the banking side, that is to say, from the Bank, and is transferred to the issue department, that is to say, to the printing press. Who keeps the press key? Who is responsible to the public for the issues—that they pass through no channel but the Bank? Is not the government here, too, comp troller and dispenser? The similarity in another point is also striking. We have a currency that is not elastic to the demands of trade. It is fixed to a certain point, beyond which it can only be stretched by means of deposits of bullion. This novelty was introduced with a contraction of the right of private issue, in other words, with a pressure on private credit. No such plea could be, or was, attempted as the Prussian government put forward after the was. Why was this pressure submitted to ? Whatever the motive, the result has been most disastrous. Houses of first-rate respectability in the City are obliged to suspend their payments with their cases full of bills which they have every right to deem negotiable, but which the want of competition in the banking world renders useless. Railroad and other speculations calculated to furnish the population of our islands with the means of im proving their condition and accumulating wealth are put a stop to. The last result that has been pro claimed is, that the high rate of interest and scarcity of money make the tradesman balance between the chance of profit, if he accommodates a customer, and the gain likely to result from a command of cash. That the first victims of this new calcula tion have been in aristocratic circles is no evidence that it will not deeply affect the course of trade before long. When all classes are reduced to the utmost need, we shall have a crisis. Will it be solved in the Prussian fashion, and a shower of notes independent of bank mediation fall like manna from the issue department under the avowed risibility of the minister? Or will the old anglish fashion of self-government be recognised, those who abandoned their palladium when they were prosperous, stand up for it in defeat and ruin ? XP&ESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1847. The Moniteur of Monday publishes the following royal ordinance: Desiring to give to the Marshal Duke de Dalmatia a tar timony of our satidaction commensurate with the great ser vices which he has rendered ns, and the distinction of his glorious career, we have ordained and do ordain as follows : Art. 1. The Marshal Duke de Dalmatia is nominated Marshal-General of France. The ordinance is dated Saint Cloud, the 26th. The Moniteur also contains the following note in reference to it: The King, in conferring on the Marshal Duke de Dalmatie the honorary title of Marshal-General of France, has done for him what was done in 1660 for Marshal Turenne, and in 1732 for Marshal de Villars—a merited recompense of their great services and their glorious careers. "It was reported yesterday," says the Prase, " that the Minister of Finance ha d positively an nounced to several 'members of the Chamber of Deputies that the loan would be indefinitely post poned, and that he had found means to procure re sources until the spring. The formation of a com mittee of receivers-general, with M. Delahaute as president, to centralise the resources which these gen tlemen can offer to the treasury until the loan is effected, was also spoken of. The minister, it is said, in order to do without the loan until spring, reckons on the disposable resources of the Bank of France, of the Caisse des Depoui et Consignations, and of the receivers-general." The (barrier Francais says: A letter from Athens of a very recent date informs us that the very day after the death of M. Coletti, very serious dis cussions arose with respect to the division of his political succession. The minister of England, Sir E. Lyons, having learned that the King, on the solicitation of M. Pis eatery, appeared decided to confide the presidency . of the council to M. Rigas ralamides, Minister of tho Interior, went to the King and signified to him that the choice of that per sonage, a declared enemy of England, would be regarded with a very bad eye by the government of Great Britain. The Nouvelliste of Marseilles gives on the authority of its correspondent at Naples the following in refer moo to the insurrection in Calabria ; but from the uncertainty attending all communications in that part of the peninsula, it must be received with reserve: The inceesa of the insurgents in Calabria la ...armed. Every day, fresh communes declare in favour of the move ment, and reinforce the bands of the insurgents. The greater part of the coast connected with the principal towns which are in insurrection has also declared in their favour. A sanguinny csnflict has taken place between the bands of Romeo and the royal troops commanded by General Nun simile, who has five battalions under his orders. Upwards of 300 of the King's soldiers were either killed or taken pri soners; amongst the deed were found a colonel and a captain. On their aide, the insurgents had also a good number killed or taken prisoners. Alter this affair, Romeo sent to propose to General Nunziante en exchange of prisoners, but he re plied that it was too late, as the prisoners who had fallen ints his power had been at once shot. Romeo in reprisal had the prisoners taken by his men also put to death. The tactics of Romeo appear to be to advance constantly, organ lying the insurrection in all the districts he passes through, respecting in all cases the property and persons of the inha bitants. It is these continual marches which the govern meat journal calls a flight before the King's troops. The government has sent moveable columns into Calabria and the other provinces where it is afraid that the insurrection may spread. As I have already stated, General Stratella has assumed the command-in-chief of the Calabrian troops. It is stated that the King has disapproved of the executions ordered by General Nunziante; but the latter has alleged in his justification that orders were sent him by which hn was enjoined to have every insurgent taken with arms io his hand put to death. It is very difficult for me to make you acquainted with what is passing in Sicily; no letter reach.° us, and no one can attempt, without compromisiug himself, to penetrate tke mystery in which the government envelopes all its acts in this country. The Nuremburg Correspondent, Sept. 23, says that the news of the dysentery having broken out among the Austrian troops in the garrison of Ferrara is confirmed. - - The Augsburg Gazette says that it was Count Fiquelmont who demanded and obtained the dismis sal of the Prince of Canino. The viceroy would have wished to have avoided an l'elat, and to have preserved the prince in the Venice congress on account of his re markable learning. Three commissaries repaired to the prince's residence and delivered him his passports. The prince said he had fully expected what was now taking place ; but that he would offer them a present before he set off, as a keep-sake. Ho then presented each of them with a pontifical cocarde. The republic of Saint Marino has just felt the counter-stroke of the affairs of Italy. It is known that this little spot, surrounded on all sides by the states of the church, has always preserved its inde pendency. It counts a population of about 7,000 souls, all agriculturists. Its government is composed of two captains (regents), to whom is entrusted the executive power; of a secretary of state for home ' affairs, and of another for foreign affairs, and of a council of state. This last named assembly has just been converted into a chamber of representatives, named by , all the inhabitants, and it has been declared that all deliberations in this assembly are hence forward to be public. The Madrid mails of the 22nd have arrived, but their contents are unimportant. Mr. Bulwer had left Madrid on a visit to La Granja. M. Urrea had arrived from London, with a letter from General Es partero for the Queen, thanking her Majesty, and assuring her that he is animated with a desire to defend her rights and interests. NAPLES, SEPT. 11. The accounts which have appeared in various prints relative to the state of Naples are vague, and in many instances without foundation. The difficulty, in fact, of ob taining any information in this city on the revolutionary movements of Sicily and the Neapolitan provinces is exceed ingly great. Every morning brings new reports, which are generally . contradicted in the evening. The policy of the government is to conceal, as much as possible, every event calculated to excite popular curiosity. Notwithstanding, a stifled feeling of indignation and fear possesses all , classes. Sicily is completely beet to us ; no communication whatever is allowed. Occasionally the official and only news journal of Naples does not appear. The accounts of the late movements in Sicily were scantily re corded in that paper. I have the best authority for stating that the government has not much faith in the army. Some officers and many privates joined the people both in Palermo and Reggio during the late events. These officers are now imprisoned at the Castle of St. Elmo. Arrests are daily taking place. No questions are asked ; the suspected parties are taken off at midnight, and we hear nothing more of them. The King is no longer seen. A great many pro motions have taken place in the army. In case of any popu lar demonstration in Naples, the Austrians are to be called in, which declaration has incensed the Neapolitans beyond measure. Spies are about in every direction, droned as priests, beggars, &c. No one dares to speak one word of politics, yet all the youth of the city are known to be ready to fly to gram A pamphlet appeared some days since, entitled "Storia di Santa Maria della Glaris," and was sold throughout the city. It contained a history of the present King Ferdinand 11. and his mother, the Dowager Queen. The scandalous life of the latter was fully narrated. The author throws doubt on the legitimacy of the reigning monarch. His priestly education is condemned. That his mini was com pletely moulded by the church there can be little doubt, for up to this day he is the tool of Monsigneur Cocolo, his con fessor, through whom the royal car may be gained—by paying. You may imagine how soon this publication was suppressed ; and now sax ducats are paid for a copy. A French printer was arrested u the publisher of this work, and whipped to confess. However, the unhappy man had nothing to say. A certain De Raffaele a said to bo the author; he escaped on board one of the French men-of-war which are hovering about the bay. The French fleet left on the Ilth. Bennucci, who held a very high post in the customhouse, was arrested three weeks ago, upon the supposition of his having assisted Romeo, the head of the insurgents at Reggio. He died sud denly the name night. No one is any longer safe in Naples. A revolt ie daily expected. For my own part, I think it more than probable that some movement will take place, and a portion of the army of 60,000 men may join the people. But the Swim regiments will stand by the government, and no doubt triumph. On the other hand, Naples is not ripe to receive any constitutional reforms. The Neapolitans are the least educated and the most bigoted of Italians. A corrupt government has thoroughly entered into the spirit of the people. I could give you many other reports, but I prefer con fining myself to such facts aal know to be correct. I must add, that it is well known his Majesty intends to resist, at any cost, that dictation which the sister states of Italy are forcing on their respective sovereigns. FRANCE.--PARie, SEPT. 27.—MDLLE. DE LUZZI. —The investigation into the affair of Mdlle. de Luzzi is still going on. Several witnesses have been interrogated, and commissions to examine have been forwarded to several tri bunals in the country, and especially to that of Melon, to in quire into matters anterior to the period of the crime, and connected more particularly with the position of Mdlle. de Luzzi in the Priudin family. It is not until after those in quiries have been concluded, that she can be again examined. She is now kept less strictly than before, and has received permission to receive certain visits. COURT AND CAMP AT COMPIEGNE.-011 Friday, 1 the King took leave of the camps at Compigne. The whole of the royal family (except the Dukes de Nemours and de Moutpenner, who had preceded them in order to be ready to receive them at the head of their respective divisions), left the palate in chars-d-bane for the ground, accompanied by the coin c and attended by their suite. In one of the carriages was the Persian ambassador, with his son, son-in-law, and mounted his horse to ride along the suite. On* reaching the Plateau of Corbolieu, in frc:nt of 1 the camps, .the King ranks, followed by the Queen and the rest of the family in the carriages. The two divisions occupied a space of above a league in diameter, around which were rising grounds affording the spectators a full view of the whale scene. The King, attended by the princes and a numerous staff, and followed by a great number of personages specially invited, among whom was the Persian =humidor, rode along the fronts of the lines, each company, as he passed, saluting and hailing him with cries of " Vive is Roi !" This operation, which lasted two hours, being terminated, the ' troops were formed in squares in the centre of the ground, his Majesty placing himself in the front. The colours of each regiment were stationed at the head of the columns, with the soldiers of all ranks who were to be invested with the cross of the Legion of Honour. The drums having called attention, Gen. Trizel, the Minister of War, called over in succession the names of those who were to be created mem bers of the order, or raised to a higher rank in it. This cere mony concluded, the King and royal family moved to the Plateau de Marignv, and here took up another station, while his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, attended by his staff, filed off in front of his Majesty at the head of the whole of the troops, which made a most martial and well-disciplined appearance. The royal party then returned to the palace, which they did not enter till six o'clock. There was a grand dinner, at which, as on the preceding day, the Persian ambassador was seated on the left hand of the Queen. In the evening there was a reception. The ceremony of the distribution of crosses comprised an interesting episode. In the 3rd company of Sapeure are two twin-brothers, named Moulinier, from the department of the Herault. One of them was drawn as a recruit, and had no grounds of exemption, and therefore was forced to enter the army. Their separation was so distressing to both that the other brother went and offered himself as a volunteer, on condition that he should be placed in the same regiment as his brother. This was acceded to, and they have constantly remained toge ther. One of them, but not the other, was engaged in the siege of Constantine, and, in consequence of his good conduct, was marked for the cross. This distinction, however, gave him more pain than pleasure, because his brother was not to par ticipate in it. By some means this feeling became known to the Duke de Nemours, who, sympathising with it, joined with the Minister of War in petitioning the King to grant a cross to each. His Majesty at once consented, and among those who received crosses on Thursday were the twins of the Wraith. The King, with the Queen, the Duchem of Or leans, the Count de Paris, and the Duke de Chartres, left Compiegne on Saturday for St. Cloud, where they arrived at seven in the evening. SAXONY.—DRESDEN.—A letter from this capital states that the municipal council of that city had decided to petition the novernment against allowing ctpital executions to be public. The municipal council considers, that iude pendently of such sights producing a bad effect on the spec tators, they are in evident contradiction with the courses of criminal proceedings in Saxony, where all such matters are conducted with closed doors. . . . HAI ri.-PORT-A1.7-PRINCE, Arc. 23.—A letter of the above date, and later by a day than the advicee lately received, states that the disturbances which had taken place there turned out to be of a less serious character than had been supponed. It was, in Get, only a conflict between the pretensions of some chiefs of the armed forces, which had led to the collision that so alarmed the people, The Minister of the Inkrior put an end to the disturbance, by sending off Generals Semclien and Alerts to the Haitian Cape, where the President was staying. COLONIAL. WEST INDIES.—SAN Ll:ClA.—Files of thePalbk dam have reached us—they extend to the 21st of August, but contain little of interest. On the 15th two smart shocks of earthquake had been felt, of which the second, which came on after a momentary interval, was the more severe. Ebt Court! The Queen held a Privy Council, yesterday after noon, at her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. It was attended by I'rince Albert, the Lord Chan cellor, the Bishop of London, Lord J. Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Marquis of Clanricarde, Postmaster General ; and Sir J. Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India. A form of thanksgiving fur the late abundant harvest was ordered. The Hon. Wrn. Bathurst was the clerk of the council in waiting. The Bishop of London, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Sir J. Hob house travelled from town to attend the council by a special train on the London and South-Western Railway ; the Lord Chancellor from his residence at Copse-hill ; and Viscount Palmerston from bis seat. Brosdlands, Hoots. The party crossed from Gosport to Cowes in the Garland, commanded by Capt. Smithett. A chjelaner was served to the noblemen and gentlemen attending the council. After the Privy Council, the Bishop of London, Lord J. Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, the Marquis of Clan ricarde, Sir J. Hobhouse, and the Hon. W. Bathurst left Osbeene, re-crossed in the Garland to Gosport, and took their departure by a special train on the London and South- Western Railway. The Queen took a drive in a char-a-bane on Mon day. Prince Albert returned from Portsmouth on Monday afternoon. The royal dinner circle included the Duchess of Kent, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Anna Maria Daw son, Lord John Russell, Colonel the lion. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, and Sir G. Couper. Yesterday morning the Duchess of Kent took leave of her Majesty and Prince Albert, crossed in the Fire Queen, commanded by Capt. Johnson, to Gosport, and took her de. parture for her residence, Frogmorc House, near Windsor. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Meiningen and the Duchess Ida, Prince Gustavue and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Hon. Miss Hudson, the Earl of Denbigls, and Captain Somerset, left Marlborough House for the Euston square terminus at a quarter before eleven o'clock yesterday morning, travell, d to Watford by the London and North Western Railway, and proceeded to Cashiobury Park. The illustrious party partook I of a dijejner during their stay, and in the afternoon took their departure and returned to town, arriving at Marlborough House at a quarter past fire o'clock. Lord John Russell arrived at his residence in Rich mond Park yesterday evening from a visit to her Majesty at Osborne. The Marquis of Umiricarde arrived in town on Monday night. I)espatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governors of New South Wales, South Aus tralia, and New Zealand. Despatches were sent off last evening from the ColonialPffice for the governor of Van Diemen 's Land. SEPARATION IN HIGH LIFE.—We are sorry to hear that a separation has taken place between the eldest son of a duke and his wife, who is the daughter of one moving in the highest closes of the nobility.—Globe. DEATH OF EX-JUDGE BOSANQUET.—Sir John Ber nard Bomumust, who, for 12 years, was one of the puienejudges in the Court of Common Pleas, died on the 26th lost , at his residence, the Firs, Hampstead-heath, aged 74. The deceased was a member of an Essex family of French extraction, and wu son of Samuel Bmanquet, Esq., of Forest-house, in that county. In 1800 he wu called to the bar, and continued to practice with much success for many years. In 1824 he was made a serjeant-at-law, and in 1827 a King's sergeant. In 1830 he was called upon to fill the higher office ofjudge, the appointment having been conferred on him by the Doke of Wellington, the premier of the period. The duties of this office he discharged with attention and impartiality down to 1842, when he resigned, owing to ill-health, and was suc ceeded by Mr. Cresawell, M.P. On receiving the judgeship he had the honour of knighthood conferred on him, and was also in a privy councillor. In 1835 and 1836 ho was one of the commissioners for executing tke office of Lord Chancellor, while the post was unoccupied. By his demise a pension reverts to the crown. (From last night's Gazette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28.—The Queen has ap proved of Don Isidro Lopez de Aroe, as consul at Malts for the Queen of Spain. WAR-OFFICE, Sera. fft. Royal Reset of Done Oda—Coe. D. J. Baulks, to be beat., by pur., vice Sir C. Mida i r. Bart., who ret.; the lion. P. Sidney, to be cor., by 2 p n u er...bLie j°' . Ods.— e 'llssist.Surg. A. S mith. M.D., from 93rd F., to be assist..surg., vice Wheeler, app. to th e g ataff. Ord Regt. of F. —Cluartermast. J. Cartenall, from 63rd P., to be ouartermast., vice Colborn, who each. 29th V.—Lient. M. Turner, from 32nd F., to be lieut., floe Patter. eon, who each. 29th F.—Ensign It J. Evans to be beat, by par., vice Gauge, who ret. Ensign J. P. Draper, from 39th F., to be sea ., vice Evans. Evae 32nd F.—Lieut. W. Patterson, from the 20th F., to be Heat., vice Turner, who each. 33rd F.-9taff.Barg. of the 2nd dam J. T. O. lola:mice, M.D., to be nurse. , Ow J. M. Dryedide, who retires npon 39th F.—II. R. Hilibert, gent., to be am, by pm., vice Draper, app. to the 29th F. ". 48thF.—ill O. Daub', pat., to be too, by per., Tice Johnston, wbo tet. _ _ • - ••• - • • Tali Kinahon, gent., to be ens., without par., vice Hall, dee. 86th P.—Pm. N. Kendall to be lieut., by pur., vice Potts, who ret. ; A. H. Dunbar, t., to be ens., by Inn., etee Kendall. 73rd F. arg. B. Swift, M.D., from 63rd P., to be assist.- surg., vice Tooter, who resigns. 73th P.—Lieut. H. Wrorlane, from h..psy allth T., to Minot., vice Tierney, app. paymaster ; Era. C. P. Tyler to be Hoyt, by pur., Moe fieForhane,who ret.; A. IL Jones, gent., to be ens., by put., vice Tyler. 83rd F.—Quar.thaat. W. Colborn, from the 3rd F., to be quar..mast., vice Cartnuil, who ezetanfree. 37th IT—Second Lieut. H. Lloyd, to be first lint, by puss., vice Patterson, who net.; H. Stephenson, gent., to be second lieut., by puss., Moe Lloyd. 93rd IL—J. Webster, M.D., to be assisLourg., oleo Smith, app. to the 2nd Drag. Gd.. Wtb P.—Lieut. JAL Howson, from the 70th F., to be payment., oleo IVAl;dn, deceaaed. CZTLOX RIM/ R.:GT.-1600T 0. Cochrane to be lieut.-ord. by par, vice Tronelleti, who ret. ; flpt. W. T. Loyard to be major, by qtr., vim Cochrane; Lieut.W. C. Vanderspar to tempt-, by puss., vice Layard; Second Lieut. A. J. D. Smith to be find lie t., by pm., men Vander ' rpm ; A- C. K. Leek, gent., to be oecond Scut, by pur., vice Smith. 111,11TACBED.—Brev.-110. W. White, from Capt. h.-p. unat„ Tower Major of Dublin, to be major, without pm. Honorer. firarr.—Moist..Surg. T. H. Wheeler, from the 2nd Dreg. Ode., to be staff-avg. of the see. class, vice Johnston, app. to 33rd P. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE.—Ssrr. 24. Corps of Royal Ensineera—Brev.-Major 11. It. lirandretb to be If eut..col. ; Bre...Major C. O. Streotflcid to be lieut.-col, vice Geer em, ret. an full-pay; Boxed Capt. F. A. Yorke to be capt, Tice Streatheld ; First Lieut. A. F. H. Dacasto to be eecotal ea L, vice Yorke ; Second LietiL Hon. J. J. Bury to be first lieut., rice First LieuL J. Rayly, to be mood oapL, rice Laffan, placed on et courted Wt; See. U. A. Wakens* to be fret beat., rice 8a717. THE AFFRAY BETWEEN POACHERS AND GAME KEEPER/I.—A reward of 1001. has been offered for the appre hension of the two brothers, Arthur and Reginald Bristow, for stabbing two gamekeeper* named George Targett and James Martin, on the 11th inst., on the grounds of R. A. Frogley, EN., of East Horsley. The unfortunate MU are still under surgical aid. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of business, Tax SMALL Denys Acr.—Mr. Burn, the chairman of the officers and clerks committee, brought up the report " to the establishment of officers under the London (City) Small Debts Act," &c. It recommended the immediate appointment of a chief bailiff, and the appointment of two of the present clerks of the Court of Requests as assistant clerk* of the new court, and two of the beadles of the Court of Requests as two of the minor bailiffs of the new court. The report was agreed to, and Mr. Ilockley Frederick Wood was appointed chief bailiff, and two of the clerks of the Court of Requests were appointed assistant clerks of the new court. Other officers are to be appointed under the new act, CITY OP LONDON IMPROVEMENTIL—Mr. R. L. Josue brought up the report of the improvements committee. The following is an abstract :—Tbe attention of the court has long been drawn to the necessity of an improvement at Holborn-hill by reducing the acclivities thereof, and they authorised an application to be male to parliament in the last session for power to purchase and take down the houses, 79, 80, 81, 82, and 83, Holborn-bridge, with other premises in Field-lane, towards that purpose. That such application received the sanction of parliament, and the premises are scheduled accordingly in the act above referred that your committee recommend that we be empowered to give notices for the purchase of the premises in question, as a period of not less than six months must elapse before any payments can be required for tho purchase of the property, and it is highly important the houses should be removed to enable the accurate levels to be taken, in order that the whole improvement may be carried out in the most advantageous manner. The Chairman stated that the corporation would be enabled by the arrangement comprehended in the report to effi•ct a great improvement in est abl 'shins something towards a level in the locality.—The reportwas unanimously agreed to. SANITARY IMPROVEMENT IN THE CITY Of LaNDON.— Mr. R. L. Jones brought up the following report: We, your committee foi effeeting imprencnients r within this City, to whom it was referred to examine the allegations in the petition of the inhabitants of Farringdon Ward Without, praying the court to set aside a rum of money to improve the sanitary condition of the ward, and to adopt such measures as wiU improve the habitation of tba labsuring classes, and on the petition of the inquest of the parish or precinct of St. Anchew's, Uotborn, in the mid ward, and the danger at the public heath arising from had sewerage and other entree, and to report our opinion thereon, do certify that we have proceeded fe the consideration of both petitions, and been attended by the deputy of the ward and the foreman of the inqui et, who repre sented that the principol objects contemplated thereby were to en. sure an increased and adequate supply of water, csrecialy in the porcrteranUties; an improved state of sewerage, with powers to compel landlord, of houses to drain such houses dauct into the mews; an extended ventilation in nartow and confined courts and alleys, by w ;diming the same; and for restrictions being placed on citumon lodging-house-keepers as to the number of inmates to be lodged. We find, with respect to the complaint as to the supply of water, that the commissioners of arwers hove taken steps to remedy the same, and have arranged with the New River Company to grant a daily supply thereof to the various courts and alleys within this city, which arrangement has been carried into effect. With regard to the rake. • sinn of the sewers in those localities, a consideraVe portion has been effected under the direction of the commissioners and contracts ban/ been made by them for the formation of adeUtivaal ticecri., MUM are proceeding as quickly as circumstance. will admit; that they have taken legal proceedings to enforce clan emptying, rie ming. and re . pairing cestpools and drains in homes requiring the same, where the parties bad neglected or refused to attend to the repriscntations of the commistdoners ; that many awls parties, when applied to, have readily performed the requisite works, whereby great bone. fits have been conferred uppoonn the inhnbitants of those of which they are fully ; and that the commissioners, finding they have not the power to compel landlords to drain their homes into the sewers, and that various other additional powers:ire requited to put the whole system of sewerage of this city into the most perfect condition, have agreed to recommend the court to splay to parliament in the next session for an act to amend and extend their preset powers, with such edition.' powers as are necesed - y tee meet the public requirement*, and have directed a bill to be prepared for these purposes. With respect to that part of the petition which etym. mends the widening of narrow and confined courts and instead of the formation of anew lute of street /torn (Unnonotreet to fit Peal's, your committee have to report that the court . having agreed to the plan for such new street, and apPard to parliament in the last season for authority to effect the caner, and the act authorising the formation thereof hiving been passed, the outlay for which must of necessity amount to a very considerable sum, we we not at present pre pared to recommend any extend." or additional work.; and are indeed already restricted from proceeding with those thus authorised till such time as the court have agreed spin the mode for raising the funds required for the same. With reference to the alleiraVrin for powers king obtained for placing restrictions upon lodging-house keepers as to the number of inmates to br lodged and housed, we do not offer any suggestion, the more especially as bee. Xlid. sty leag been pkascd to appoint a commission to inquire what spread means may Le requisite for thr improvement of the health of the metro polia, of which the chairman of your committee is a member. That commission will doubtless, among other subjects referred to, turn their attention to this point. We avail ourselves of this opportunity of reporting that in addition to the step" taken by the CallleliNaolllll of sewer*, no before I toted, the Court of Aldermen directed mown. tons to he instituted against Kemal parties for nuisance arising from the mode in which slaughtering of cattle weaseled on in Warwick. lane, in some of which cases the nuisances were immediately abated, and the 'aortas removed from the premises ; and In others the parties hare continued their business without now creating a nuisance to the neighbourhood, and are under recognisance to appear and take their trial upon indictments preferred and found against them if requited at any time hereafter. The said court also directed a proseution against partite in (treat Bell-alley for a serious anti dangerous nui sance, occasioned by the melting of !sachem' fat and kitchen moth which was highly offetuive to the inhabitants of the euljmning Fa mine., and upon this indictment being preened, and true hills found, the nutunce complained of was immediately abated. The report was unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be printed. CITY IMPEOVEMENTB.—Mr. H. L. Jones brought up the report on the subject of the completion of the line of street from Farringdon-new-street to Clerkenwell-green. It stated that unless some arrangements were made for pro viding funds for carrying out this purpose during the pre sent year the time must necessarily be delayed probably for veers ; that the committee did not feel themselves justified in recommending the court to comply with the application for carrying On an improvement beyond the limits of the City; but, inasmuch as the measure itself received the sanction of parliameat, who granted the sum of 25,0001. towards effecting the same, they were of opinion it was a fit sub ject to be brought under the notice and consideration of the commissioners for metropolitan improvements, to whom it appeared to them legitimately to belong, and they recom mended the petitioners to apply to them accordingly.—Mr. Anderton thought that as the City of London were suffering from the non-completion of so necessary a work, the court ought themselves to apply to the commissioners of metro politan improvements, and to all others by whose influent' metropolitan improvements could be advanced.—Mr. Burn moved an instruction to the committee to mske application to the effect suggested by . Mr. Anderton, and approved of by Mr. It. L. Jones. Unanimously adopted. MONUMENT TO 811.11.X8PEARE.—Sir Peter Laurie said that he did not at present intend to press his motion for a grant of money in aid of a fund for the erection of a monu ment to Shakspeare. He had received many communica tions highly approving of the proposition; but he thought it advisable to postpone his motion until the return to town of many on whose support and influence he relied. Tkere wu another reason which weighed strongly with him, which wan that the committee for purchasing what is called Sbakspearesi House at Stratford had appealed to the public, and he was unwilling to interfere in any way with that body, or to divert into any other channel those funds to which they looked for reimbursement.—Adjourned. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY or LONDON.—Sir hue Lyon Goldemid was objected to by Mr. Brown, as resident director of the Royal St. Jego Company ; and, not being in attendance, his name was crossed out. He afterwards came into court, and Mr. Smith applied to hare the cue re-heard, urging that, as the lists had not been closed, it was 'till perfectly competent to the revising barrister to insert the name.—Mr. Brown said that the case having been once heard and disposed of, it was impossible that it could be reopened.—The Revising Bar rister observed that, in several previous instances, eases bad been reheard before the final closing of the list. He did not care what might be the station in lire of the party concerned, but, if satisfied of the validity of the title, he was exceed- ingly unwilling to disfranchise any one.—The case was then proceeded with. It appeared that, as one of the directors of the company, Sir Isaac occupied 'apartments at 38, Broad street, and that he transacted in them his own private busi ness as well as that of the company, and that, together with Mr. Thompson and Mr. Robinson, he was responsible far the payment of the rent, rates, and taxes. Sir fuse was in the habit of meeting such liabilities, and the company repaid him.—Mr. Smith maintained, that under the circumstances Sir Isaac had power to eject the company from the occupa tion of the premiss.—The court was of the same opinion, and ordered the name to be re-inserted. Alfred Penny was objected to on the ground that he was not rated. On inquiry it turned out that the name was on the rate in pencil, and the collector explained that this kind of entry had been made with a view to the proper making out of the next rate.—Mr. M'Christie said he could not re- ceive the explanation as evidence, but must take the pencil mark without inquiry as to the cause of the insertion hung made in that form. The fact of the presence of the name was sufficient —The vote was accordingly allowed. Jesse Phillips was objected to by Mr. Brown. Ilk name was on the list, and he was rated for No. 29, whereas he occupied No. 30. It was contended for Mr. Phillips, that the error was one which could be corrected under the act; but on the ground that section 40 precluded the reception of evidence as to any other qualification than that described 06 the list, the revising barrister refused to make any alteration, and the name was consequently omitted. The following was the result of the day's revision; — Liberal claims—allowed, 8; disallowed, 20. Conservative — allowed, 0; disallowed, 2. Liberal objection—sustained , O; failed, 6. Conservative—sustained, r 3; failed, 28. Objec tions by both parties—sustained, 28; failed, 0. The court adjourned until Thursday, when the following wards will be proceeded with:—Bread-scree', Queenluthe, and Vintry. In this ward there are 16 parishes. WEsnaNsTEß.—Yeaterday Mr. F. Bailey, the barrister appointed to revise the list of voters for the city of Westminster, held his court in the Vice-Chancellor of Eng land's Court, at Westminster-hall.—Mr. Huggett and Mr. G. E. Hennes appeared for the liberals. No professional gentlemen appeared for the conservativea—Mr. Charles Hibble appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of Mr. Cochrane.—lt was arranged that the parishes should be taken in the following order:—St. Met, St. Clement's, St. hiary-le-Strand, Savoy, St. Paul's, on Tuesday (yeeterday BBB ); St. Jantea's and St. Martin's, on Wednesday (this day) ; t. George's, St. John's, and St. Margaret's, on Thursday. The number of new claims is:—Reformers, 38; conservatives, 12 ; polities unknown, 7-67. Objections by the reformers : House voters, 371 ; soot and lot, 60-431. The claims and objections in the parish of St. Ann were first proce e ded with. In the case of Joseph Smith, of 22, Earl-street, who claimed as the occupier of a house which he rented at 60 guineas a year, it appeared that he only occupied a cellar, to wbich he had free access, and let the remainder of the house in lodgings. He valued the rent of the cellar at about one shilling a week.—The barrister was of opinion this was no occupation.—lt was urged that he clearly had a legal omit