The Express. — London, England, 1848-12-25 00:00:00

. 1 i I \ I I i I i E ' . If i i 1 1 ti i ' I 1 , 1 . 1 I i 1 I I # ! . lli I \ ll 13 wad Ambansol, tad, ale to 40. Odom, TM. WI- to 425 . i Peak, red, 445. to 465. Rye, Pommies sod Promise WA to We. laid" 24e. to 28s. Berkey, on 21 b. W 365.; Possenalaa sad Radon, 34.. to Ws. Oats, Datek .la's le Iffit. • PemegraMan, hed, Ille. to 2011.1 li Dania, Ilk le 111 a. ; Arceangel sad lar a itt. to 18. Per, whits, ais. to lb. Beam. I F W. to We _._. Alrusedelas, 3M. lie ale The spy IN; week on: Wheat. essetwise 260' kwar e d ir .. B42 I n ' ; Bye. hedge, 130; Bexley, coastethe 4001 ,11194. Kole, Jell Nos, dehlthille. 30. per,emetwise, NO ; krolir m • looffish 107. Bases, coastwise, W ; Helga, 446. Flair , lAN liasha. Noawtce. Des. W -Om seathst to-day was abssideady = with When by the tamers; thee. meeshemseere gat. she Isrge MOO flenim ; prises for i& W Mt ao &Wades Ma be sated is .price, sold Mt musk ThaTreedel=et the tatt al lga t i Mi some lap Ma e. I'M eenalleaddhe Kell* is mash try the Ws tram, mil hawse too digmeition of the to gin the ems lea TM 11 tar Mlle is math depressed, wad bat few f. m b lesaseeliona wme sirral Wag trade Mine bat as albsoadea ha pikes. WS" Pe" Mg 04 t 11 "Beast madam ire prise. ,Firear, retail, Is. 10d. me stem. ParnMsediselliD.a. 23.-We have at dd. day's menet a geode .1.• MI rneed and Barley, with •Mt oroatity of Oafs sad ftine gala/. The sharp, said Maas, be the lathy doye bee impreved the esadities et What. yet it has Met askew sale at Is. per qr. &ease mom Ilse, me Sia niesa Minim eerie. Mirky, Is. clasp.'. OM mid Bash Wolf saskiesia late rates. Carreasy to the growers :-Wheat„ new, OM to Me; has, Me. Is 48a.; old, 46 5. to 46.. ; Ime,Blla. Barley, Ws. to 31a. • Ise, Ma. Oats new, 1111. te las.; Ise, 325. M We.; 0i1d,.23a; las, 28... Beans, aid, We. Is We. Parwonith, Dee. 13.-Thee wee aiding Mai at ear market to-day, marital say mite seminal. Paarron, Des. 23.-We an airy witboat any &mike hese ap this west, sad th e wind is new easterly, with a - sharp hest. The trade is the meander* lac, mon this whole, hoes languid. Wheat god noir a slow sale, without say suede' champ in prom Millet Oats and Oatmeal ban barn rather men sought after, mid the latter the tan higher. The sh .w of Realise Went at oar Cora Backslaps to-day was smaller than her several weeks peat, and a cleanses was Wetted et the ram of this day se'saight. Pt Ir we aloe repeat our last quotatioas, Mike were nearly muds& Pleat an. altered. Outs steady in value, and ia improved deamad. We lame hkewise expereasced a mars geseral impair, ler Oat meal, asd we are an amsathant 0 ed. par load epos oar last mummy. Brae 64. pm path higher. Other articles without change. Tee average prim of Wheat u 495. Bd. per imperial qr. RIADIVIO, Dee. 23.-What Mho exceedingly dull, although quite a null sand. ; prima declined fully 2s. per qr. Bse Bully readily made I. p , r qr. Masao& la the middling and isferive descriptions then was no improve ment. as, Peas, and Oats, may in retail demand, sad prig. @ declining. Sarthox WALDIR, Dee. 23.-Barley, prime, cmtinnes its peke; inferior very dull. Went a very heavy trade. But link, variation is ether grain. Mnawasuar, Dec. 23.-Oar market this day was well attended by both hem re and Mane and a Mir busi. sees dome in Wheat, Bulgy, and Otte, at last, week's Wheat, 48. to 665. per qr. ; Barley. 30e. to 345.; tte e , L 20.. to ale. WALMIDOITIII, Dec. 23.-We had a goad supply WI old sad sew Wheat, Mr which the demand was limited (although there was a good atteadeace it buyers), sad scarcely maim tithed List week's quomtioas. A good quantity of Barley was also ezhitirted, tad we sots a gnat improvement ia the Monad, sad lam rates fully maintaised. Oats in skew ta mest as a siight Maim. Cad sad new Beam were mg plertifel, sad 64. as le per sack cheaper for the few mho affected. Wont. 01d,42t. to 66a ; saw, 40.. to 645. Barley, 275. to We Oats, 21a. to 23r. 6d. Boma, 40s. tr 4da. per qr. Flom, 42e. to 42e per sack. WINCIIRITiI, Dee. 23.-Torley we had • large sues& men. TM 'apply Ds. mad Wheat was rather scarce, sad last week% proem eselstsined • bat the value of other do sari ' was beady espy 'reed, and the inquiry was far from setfie. We all had a goo' quan ity of B oriel on odar, sad mea the beet descriptions were rather oar the decline, whilst grinding samples sold Is. to Is. 62. per qr. cheaper, and hat • mall demand. We have no improvement is the sale of Oats, at 6d. to Is. pm qr. reduction. The trifling trade transacted in Beans is Mils°. tlsy of note. W..eat. from 91. to 131. pee load. Barley, 26.. to 31s. Oats, 16.. to 22e. Bins, 31s. x 44.. par qr. I amazed, Dee. 23 -We have a large supply of Wheat here to-day, and, the condition being improved, it mere a go - d demand, at fully last wash's priers; but moderate stow of Oats sad Beans, and each to be bought atlas money. Wheat, new, red, lathe to 62ibs., 424. to 47e. per qr. ; extra, 48e. ; whits, 431. to 495. ; extra, 61s. ; old, red, 61. b.. to 631 be., 47.. to 495. ; eatra, SOs. ; white, 48s. to 61e. ; extra, 63e. Oats. old, bib. to 401 b.., 1111 to 121. per steno; new, 91. to 101. Beans, old, 39.. to 41e. per qr. Yuan, Dee 23.-We have again 6 liberal sh o w of grain at oar market this day, and the lumen hare submitted to a reJactios of 21a. per qr. upon Wheat from last week's prices. Barley is also le. per qr. lower. Oats a slow sale, at 61. re daction. Ia other articles no attention. Dommi, Dec. 23. - The approaching holidays have cassia oar market to bar small, sad we can as.. but little Mange boat oar quotations co Tuesday. Wisest and Oats fully maintain Asir vales; but Flour is 6d. per cwt. lower, and 'Min Corn has met httle Minify. Currency: We, at, whim ' 26.. to 27e. Od. • red, 231. to 26.. per 2801hs. Oats, 9s. tolls. par 1961 b.. Barley, 10s. to 18s. per 2141 b a. Oat sisal, In. to Its per cwt. Flour, secoods, 15.. to 15s. 64. per ewe. !radian Cora, 32.5. to 365. 61. per 41011 u. Bahrain, Dee. 21.-Tee supplies 0 grain since Friday have been small, sad moderato tel Oatmeal. Wheat main tains its valeta at market, and is is fair demand Par cels of either home or ionize growth are difficult to qgit, and prime me quite nr,miaal. Flour : Barrels come tato favour, at 211 c Id. to 29e. . • home-made is a doll sale, though prices CO•Illiell to go in favour of the boyar. Barley, prime, is mane, and commands forme prices, whilst taMnor mast be cpuded 24. MU. low., Oats have recovered the dulls' (3d. to Al.) soled on Friday, and sell freely at the tax of tom day week. Oatmeal selis slowly at our quotations. ladies Caw goes regularly iato coasamptna at 2s. 6d. under the prises of this day week, my 71. 16s. to 81. per ton. Coin, Dec. 23.-The weather in the early part of the week was wet and foggy ; the past hw days have bms fine. Supplies el min from the formers to oar marlin, consider isti the period of the year, Mae been very scanty-but 1,015 bolo Wheat, 2,563 bolls. lihriey, and 6,933 MI.. Oats for the week. Wtteat, whits, per 20 state 21s. to 23. 9d. ; red, 20& 6d. Barley, per 16 stone, 13.6 d. Bert, 9s. 6d, to 10i. Oats, per 14 stem, Bs. 4d. Idietamol, Dec. 23.-The weather is now cold and dry, with MRS frost. Weeatuowing is more general; many farmers sazioas to get seed down before another break. The tea trade for the week has been but dual, with the sleep- Ma of Whim, for prime samples of which higher prices were paid. At this day's market theee war, but a moderate sandy, without any change in value Oats and Barley can be purchased more easily, at a reduction of Id. per Moue. The late heavy gam having kept oat the armee of loam Corn bound for this port, the W ia dm kinds ol sellers is small, and, althorage the deemed is act good, the price is firm, at our qeotatioos. The millets ban a good supply in stocks and tne eels of loam& Ideal Ming slow, this snide is sot advancing . In other articles the usual truisms at this sewn. Wheat, red, 134. to 16d. per stone; white, 14d. to 17d. Oats, 74d. te ild. Barley, 814, to 91. Galata India. Corn, 91.6 e per dm Mail, &e., W. ; American, yellow sad white, 91 ; In dian. Meal, 92 10s. ; Oatmeal, l'a. 10e. ; Buleynteal, 91.; Wbalameal. la. WATIRPOILD. Des. 23.-We have had this week a slight assemen to one Mate supplied, of grain, and very largo ar rival' from &bread ; (hie, together with the denims in most aa • leader Bailin maskete, has bail a very deptes.ing east oa the made here, sad prises of all articles have n estled MOM air I.a slate this day stemight. Wheat most be emoted lower by M. to Is., sad Oats 31. to 4d. per barrel, • Barley madams dull, at former rates. Fine Flour is stump r clangssbm t Is. par seek, but in the nine of amen sorts no en be noted. The consumptive demand of Indian Cora hes oossiderably increased, bat last week's peen are barely neaten. d. The Fauna' g are the gestations :- Madded, new: ahem, millets', pee 20 st., 246.6 d. to 26a. Bd. shipping, 22a. to 235. Berkey, .althea, per 16 6/004, lls. to Ilia , _.• grinding, Ile. 9,1. to 13s. Oats, whit*, per 14 eteme,l 9. 34. to 10e ; black, 9a. to 9a. 6 i.; Inge (pre med) sad fusion: Wheat, millers', par 711 mom, 275. to We. Id.; shipping. 235. to 26e * ; Polish Odessa. 29.. to 30. ; Psesel& white, 30. to als. 1,1.; red, 29,. to 30i Barley, malting, per 16 et 12s. M. to 14s. Oats, white, per 14 at., li. 61. to Its. ; inek, 10e. 11. to 10.. 9d. Flour, surn ame per seek, 38e. to 395. ; seconds, 36e. to 36e. 6d. • thirds, 30s. to 31e. • Motile 22e. to 24s Indian Corn, Danube, per 20 eMere, 21e. Id. to We. • American, yellow sad r d, 90. 6d. to 20a. 9d. ; Spunk and Pertagams. les. tr. Rea,. white, 20a. to 90 •. dd.; Indian Corn Meal, per owe, 9a. 1341. to Oa. Oatmeal, pee cwt., Ile. to lls. 6d. Brea, per 6 stone, 3.. to 35. 3d. KIRCALDT, Dos. 113.-The weather daring the early part of tke week was dry; ;ince Wednesday we have had very bard Met, a eantianasee of which will greatly improve the condithea of all kinda of vrain, m ,re particularly that which was exposed t, •he rein in October. At our smus•ry mar kets this week we had lair supplies of all kinds of grain, for which, with the exeldian of Wheat, which was about la. rrer i zlower, last week's prk , a were pail ; a considerable po i of the strop', was tak• n off by the local consumers, Mutes rucks seem to be reduced to a namoiw commis. Here to-day we bad good in,•plin of all kinds of anis, sales of width promeded sl-owly. Wheat was fully Is. per qr. lower. Bexley, of g ad and inn qualitim, brougnt shoat lest day's ram, bat inferior was 6.1. per qr. lower. Oats of fine colour brought Ire week's rates ; hat discoloured, of which the balk of the 'apply censidol, wss lc per qr. I errs. Wh. at, pa qr., 435. to ets. Barl , V. 22.. to 30s, Oats, 15s. to 211 li. CATTLE, &a. - 82SITIIPISLD. - Two o'Clock.- This being Cerium s.day, there in bat 1 rd a business dein,. Tbe market closing at 11 o'clock did not allow time to make a &armee, although the supply is not largo. The another of Brute, how. Tar, is re h. r larger that exp. are; lam quotatioas are well supported ter the lint qualities A very mw Sheep oa offer ; trade is 0110011‘1 for the mut sell,.scriptihut it is very oil- Malt to maks ant more money. Trade for Caves is only assidaal, Aare he ing eir !ow. From Holland and Germany we ban 101 Beasts and 1,210 Itheep. e arg...l. aseleat otto. •d. a d.! lese nom alai' a. S. s. d. Usestere.. 404 4 , 11‘ A Dor. • I if.-14e. :Or •0 0 0 3 10 4 2 , “n-et L0pg...r44, . 4 1 4 f: 210 3 ft i Do. 4,.. .6vore V 0 ~ 0 3 4 4 10 . .40. 430 ovou.l quality 3 6 4 o tiR;: i ............ 4 4 ! . P.. •M . ''''''' 00 0 0 00 0 0 gissigio. Lour. pb,co Anil ' 1016.4. 6.500. 1 . 41,.., 4 ; Pt,. 10. thasoow, Do. 91.—1 a riot of goaltty ws had rather art ialsior slowly of Cutlo ; the sualbsto won oho Sewn. Soho i• tai boot dworiptiono of stalk want min ofeetod, at • doh figtry; bat tor esit ihrhe tato narks wet solithe awe es lot week. Bodtoalkao, ds ; waved. 46, MM. prows.; sodium, hat M. hi. to Oa prisms Smithy Um ofal—a he left sassid. Ws boll • hi, will! of Shoop, whisk woo tally peal tio tha dame& We Mod Mary, m* last "Wes plias; boot, yid. W•ailara, ed. per lb. ; them of ram set will Mod Ms own, at 6d. per 441. to 41d. pro lb. oblilag the --a har tarsal oat sasold. Sofordsy's web& am he pap. Vie farrefo. KULL Se ado fr Tlipt o=attles. Mar% Ced er Wks trill be upes rube the et the VW Dee. Tm mile for nolo Amends. sr the Odra Err 'ld be ride up islet entrap of the Iris Dee. Ike mei kr kr Orr Weir Tea Desses% Ind. sr Neu teekrl.ll be are up es re rear et the let ha, nil milk kr the poet Darr. el Akfai rd kadelre TM be ask MI On reeesuir et the let Jr. Dr Wilt Nis Muth. Whirr Bremsde. ttarr Yew odour, asil Midi% mod ezetstlas tree kr L Paw Omni.. CUM, sr fir.lnk be node wart reure d re Sr Jr. The rile kr MOM% the in" rid arm Arm Via b• ere Op ea On waft, eft kb Jew The ~kr olleskr Melte. Omer lbe kakis blear Pair II" k id fs. Plarplter. aid Mir. pis loathear or. WI be are apes the mare se the Dr Na NAtZ ..... rk••••• De b r••=; " 71811:1=ZonDZill4abarts/7 =k2= SIMI WILT'S AT LONDON BMW& Tet• Mt —*weft. II we. paw I Allimenre. Le min Mst Te ••••••—llenr& .5. rag 1S Ma. pest /I. LONDON. MONDAY. DEC. 25. Enot.tancas have every reason to be thankful for a happy Christmas. Compared with the circumstances ander which the natives of almost all the other coun tries in Europe celebrate that festival, Eoglish com fort, freedom. and security constitute a paradise. We have reason to be thankful to providence for this; but, under providecoe, we have also to thank the wisdom oe our soesetors, who did not leave to complicated social times like the present the assertion or establishment of those great civil and religions rights, generated by a representative government which other nations at this late day are doomed to grope, and revolutioaise, and suffer for. The blame is not to be laid, as our twice would lay it, to Germans a^cl Italians, for making their revolutionary attempts : the fault and the mishap lie in their making them so late. 'two c nturies ago revolutions in these benighted and oppressed countries would have been harmless and wholesome. Now the remedy is painful and =oval sive, but unavoidable, if life and health are to be re stored to the half-extinct bodies politic of despotic =Retries. If these revolutions have left us unscathed, if the eyldecay found no virus or predisposition here, white would allow it to take, we owe this decidedly is oar liberal institutions, and to the conservative spirit which they generate, and not to that tory con servatism which would deny to foreign countries the liberties whiel. we possess, and which, in the same spirit would, of coarse, diminish for us the portion that we have. It is, however, not merely comparisons with the state of foreign countries, which should make us more contented, but comparisons with s miler anniversaries amongst ourselves. Last year trade was stagnant, credit prostrate, the commercial world not recovered from the hurricane which had swept it. If food wu plentiful, it was food purchased, not on fair calculation, but with precipitate haste. The Irish were recover ing from the exhaustion of famine, merely to judo's* in the excitement of rebellion. And as if matters were not bad enough, it pleased our idle classes to fall into a sadder' and un-ccountable panic, a dread of the most absurd and unlikely contingency that could have been found in the chapter of chance. Rad they foreseen foreign revolutions. there might have bees some prescience in them: had they been ems dered anxious by the fearful consequence and aoom pant. menta of a financial deficit, followed by an open and avowed resistance of the community to pay increased taxes. this would have been foresight. But no—the wizards foresaw nothing that was really coming, and merely became alarmed at what could never come. their fears this time twelvemonth were of French invasion. And, on Christmas day, 1447, there appeared in the Ilmrs a fearful vaticinatory letter from no lees a person than Lord ELLESMERE warning the nation of the expediency of instantly "effecting an insurance" on all that it pos— sessed, "the stake being neither more nor less than oar capital, our arsenals, our lives, oar property, oar wires, our children, which he (Lord ELLasouts) he I lieved a few hours might place at the mercy of aa unscrupulous and relentless enemy." Such was the Christmas-box, and a stroke of der pair it certainly was, with which Lord ELLiassas and the Tines regaled their public friends at the close of 1847. We will be bound to say that his lordship entertains, this Christmas, more, genial and cheering thoughts. At least his friend and organ, the Tinter, does. Though not going the length of Lord Rums ales fright last year, it still talked I of fortifying dockyards,an4 organising half • millet of militia, and it insisted on mussing army, navy, and ordnance, besides adding to the colonial corps. The lord and the journal :ben mocked Mr. COBDEN for doubting the necessity of these precautions or the existence of the danger, on which they were founded. At Christmas, 1848, the tory journals (Times in cluded) have very nearly come round to Mr. CM DEN'S opinion. It so happens that the member for the West Riding, L imitation, perhaps, of the bag-a-boo budget which Lord &Lust ERZ and the Time got up and presented as a popular Christmas-box last year, l has got up a budget of very different materials, which be has just presented to the English pub lic. Though want , ng all the apiece and all the sweet frosting of financial confectionery in general, Mr. Cosocit's cake seems to please very generally. All welcome it, every one is eager to partake of it. And so simple and pa- 1 =table is it, and so economical withal, that not even the tory bons violins durst turn up their nose thereat. The Peel folk laud, whilst the organ of the reigning oligarchy avoids not merely its will 1 1 t .ne of abase, but shrinks even from disapprobation. It merely questions the digestibility of the Christmas cake. It hint', indeed, t ha t some treachery say lie in the bringing together so many simples. But its timid censure and cautious irony betray the emit manse that retrenchment is not a thing to be esented or openly attacked in these times. Have we not, therefore, reason to congratulate the puhlic,the ever liberal public,on •he advance of political opinion, and the retrocession of financial exigencies be tween Christmas,lB47,andChristmas,lB4BP The tided common sense and of commercial prosperity are simul- ' tanuesly ui on the turn, and everything portends a successful campaign for the party and the prin ciples ot retrenchment and reform. We have heard this party scorned as but fifty, some time last year. The mockers have sines been rendered serious by dis covering that its numbers are legion. THE archdeacons were anciently called the "eyes of the diocese." If this term is wire applicable to the archdeacons of the diocese of Chichester, it must be allowed that the two clergymen who are invested with the dignity in question, have been chosen with lino larly appropriate reference to the position of tie church not o.ly in that but in every other dieser of England. If the bishop wishes to take a high-elmrsh view of his see, he can make use of his Puseyits eye, Archdeacon Massimo—if his lordship desires to view the portion of the church committed to his care, se a protestant establishment, be may make use at the evangelical eye, Archdeacon HEEL The ' two pictures of the church thus permeated to his mental eyesight would be as different as the successive representations in the dissolving views. The Pao pits eye looks upon the churches of the thirteenth and eighteenth eel tury as idet tically the same, and the unsuspicious prelate who should trust implicitly to this one organ of vision rni.eht fanny episc , pil thunder to be as granule an article now-a dsys as in the days of BECKET ; while, on the other hand, the protestant eye, Archdeacon HAILS, would .how his lordship that the two churches rested on totally difibrent foundations, and quoting his own charge, observe that all such representations Se those made by his reverend brother are fallacious, and are only mannfactuted by " those in oar days who belong to the tibe of the S•. yen Ste p is, and who fancy that the world is standing still at the point where their minds fall asleep." K.. tame these facts in ' , leer, it must surely be granted thrt there is a prima facie case against the THE IMPRESS. MONDAY EIWONG, ehureh's dean he be the eels erideatir of the eatisa. W. miotOmem the thee& would be divided ardastin that ell tipon this ail impalas; questions. 'The events pens the eorrestuene et Mar reasonhea. laa a Ct das meelhig et the frahaestry of Chichester Mt list s tonessed i* the purpose of ofiglidat the gemenesent is the mailer et education, Ankles. esm th enAMO (th is = r. esidede dished up aid en the me beet edeoation a new &Ap t ale=s rimmed the meet ing by the quad meaty of the aixtere, that it agreed nee& son. to a whale series of intolerant propo sitions. Now it so happens that in a very resent charge of Arsideneem Haan (the protwe tent eye), ttee same question between the National Society and the government committee of council is considered at great kerb, end all those arguments and assertions so pompously beouiht for ward by Archdeacon WINNOW are set cep in anticipa tion only to be most et mpletely knocked down, out. reasoned, and oontisdieted, with a completeness worthy o f the protoandeM reasoner and the most learned theologian in the church. It is not our busi ness to occupy our readers' time with a collocation of all the propositions in the speech of Archdeacon Matitritio, which are contradicted in the charge of Archdeacon Haas; • few only will suffice tor our I purpose. P•rsone, (says Archdeacon ][ analog) who spoke of separatism; mauler mid religious cdaeaties evidently talked of what they did not animated. So far as the state de parted owe hair's breadth hem the priaciple of the church is education, so far it departed from its ewe benefit, ins much as it introduced a lower standard of edesation than the church maintained. So that when they saw say i eloilFer mess between the ehereit and the state they ht be ; assured that the Wadi.* betweea pod and evil wee • ut to eestmenee I Now, it in to be remarked that the system alluded to by t he speaker has been ones tried ; its effects are thus described by Archdeacon Ham : The emalt. in= the whole system were no other than wine a ergartous men would have anticipated. Oa the one heel tbe lane, beteg almost preeieded from taking part la dill 811.7 works ef the church, grew to deem teat tear v e mesa mas altogether secular, and es it is sesraly passible far peels es preserve a lively istenet is that la which they end semen for action, many, is/wanly el the Dumb tuailigat mans the higher classes, lapsed late die repine of pennies) V set of speculative i..adelity, the evil of which woe rather hiereseed ass diminished by itsoombientioa with a nomisal outward oratormity. Oa the other hand the clergy them selves, from occupying this false position, became outwardly weak, and, in a grievous number of ewe, iswardly hollow weak from the want of that help whisk they ought to have sought, bat which they hat rather repelled—hollow, as we are apt to grow when we are destitute of the inter- Asap, and reciprocation of our feelings, and when we are mate emotions of our rights thins of oar duties. The task is so immense, tte difficulties so enetnints, tuat we must needs feel perpetually how utterly inadequate we ere to it; sad what urgent need we have of help, prtaterily indeed a divine help, but also of human. Now, we ask again, is there not &prim; fade case against the claim of the church to be the sole educator when two of its high authorities, representing two large parties into which the church is divided, express opiaions on the subject thus diametrically opposite : and when this op, osition of opinion ts not confined to this one subjee, but extends to every important doctrine of the church P Is the government justified in giving the money of the state unconditionally to a body which is thus divided in essentials? This money . is collected from all the subjects of the state indiscriminately; unless re presentation, then,is afarce,is money to be parted with except the grantors exact conditions to ensure its due appropriation ? Why should the government be de barred the right possessed by every other body of having some security for the accomplishment of the object for which it supplies funds? The church has never yet been able to educate the people. It not able now, or why does she ask for assist ance P Why, then, should the state which has recognised the right of the people to be educated, be required to give up the money it has set apart for the purpose of education to a body which rejects all interference ? The concessions made by the government committee are acknowledged in the resolutions peened at Chichester to be neither few nor unimportant: what ground can be shown that more should be made, unless it can be shown that all conditions are unrighteous? The two remaining claims of the dissentients are, that the clergyman of tee parish shall have control not only over the religious Pieta uction of the scholars, but over the school itself in its moral and religious discipline— and that an ultimate appeal shall lie to the bishop of the diocese. Alter what we have said above as to the utter uncertainty of doctrine or discipline in the present church, is it to be imagined that the state can grant money to a school which is to be under the uncontrolled authority of the clergyman fur the time being ? Is there again any reason in the world why an appeal should tie from the local com mittee, who are acquainted with the fame, to a bishop who is acquainted with none? The claims them selves are as absurd as the claimants are intolerant; and we trust that there are still enough enlightened and liberal clergymen left in the church to form at least • respectable oppo-ition to an agitation instituted by • bigot party to serve its own purposes. WISHING a merry Christmas to our readers all and sundry, and sending an affectionate greeting to our friends in every clime, there is no contemporary with whom we more cordi ally reciprocate the compliments of the season than our old and respected friend, the Almanac! de Gotha. His eighty-sixth annual volume is now on our table. Such is the venerable age the high-priest of royal and diplomatic privilege is entitled to bout. But Age Newt wither It, or etu.toat stale The infloste sameness of the information which he collects with a seal and precision, long appreciated in every part of E rope, and winch has made the publi cation net only the cherished manual of kings and courtiers, but a necessary book of reference fur the statesman, the journalist, and the historian. Almanaclu of every kind possess indeed a strange vitality. They have as many lives as a cat, and often survive for generations, not only the individuals who projected them, but the social and political bonsai ties which they were at first intended to supply. It is a hundred and forty years since SWIFT amused the town, and drove the then prince of almanaok makers half-distracted, by first foretelling his death • and then in due time announcing the fulfilment of the; prediction with that particularity of incident and command of countenance in which no man could equal him. At Christmas in the year 1709, people were consulting their new almanacks to see if PAR TRIDGE could prove himself to be alive, in spite of Squire Biekerstar a overwhelming evidence that he we. dead and buried. And now that we are on the threshold of 1849, " Jahn Partridge's Almaxack" is still printed by the Company of Stationers, and sold at their Hall. Francis ifoore's Almanack is still published at the same place, and the lineal descen dants of " LILLY" and " CADBURY" might still, we believe, be traced by a diligent bibliographer. air diplomatic contemporary, though Nestorian enough, and a elpering Esemplera WWI a OOTIlle• seclude, cannot boast a pedigree so ancient or an sauterne so protracted. The first appearance of the Almartoeh de Gotha was in 1763, coincident with the peace of Versailles. Two revolutions, the American sad the French, has this favoured annalist of royalty beheld and survived; and now its pages record the opening incidents of a third, which will probably be known to future generation. as the European revolution. It was, therefore, notwithstandmg all testimonies se to the vitality inherent in the race, with some anxiety that we looked oat for the reappearance at our ancient guide through the labyrinths of royal genealogies, and the mightier and more marvellous maze of the governmental and diplomatic entities and nonentities who keep up the farce of managing the affairs of this world ; and whose exits and entrances, under the influence of either royal or popular caprice, are woot at times to be so inconveniently rapid. We greatly dreaded lest the sudden shock of so unforeseen a chaos bad proved too mach for our old friend,Ulyeseantbough his experience has been of the ups and downs of life, and countless the kingly vicissitudes which his pages have already recorded. Why should an alnaanack-maker be made of sterner stuff than a historian? And if the revolution of 1830 killed the great hilletrlia, with intolerable forebod ings of the events which bare but recentle come to pass, why should not the revnluhon of 1848, menacing as it has been to monarchs, have proved equally fatal to the historiographer of the elite of the human race; the Faubourg St. Germain, not of Paris, but of the entire oiniised world the powers, princedoms, and po eposities, who never dine without music, and who pass their lives in semi duous and most successful demonstrations of the truth of thmorrisares maxims? If a false, or at least a 25. 1848. premature, alarm killed tie wino filasona, why might sot a tens alarm peg Of loyal horror at the disasters he would have to mimed, and the ermines be wield be called ca to make—have proved too vouch for the shamrock-maker P The mere sddltlosal labour imposed oa the editor of the Atirsaisech d. Gotha might, apart from all his sympathy far his superiors, have proved tee mach for any but German industry. We have often figured him to Gunshots, boiling pitman conference with his pabliaher, and addressing him somewhat in the terms of the old play—" Hazy weather, Muter Noah r as the deluge of revolution roes higher, and the splatter of submerg leg royalties was heard on every side. To be sure the Oacipal galleons, rotten though their timbers were, sad incapable their crews, have wonderfully weep tiered the storm. But this, though a vast consolation la isms respects, is but a signal tar fresh toil on the pest of the conscientious compiler of the Almanach de Goaa cabinets and councils of state. Caere'se. and irpu . ations succeed each other with the rapidity and laeoberency of a dream. A man might as well at tempt to daguerreotype the as in a storm, or perform simultaneously on three pianos, as attempt to chro nicle in one pocket volume the perpetual shifting. of the revolutionary scene, together with the struggles and catastrophes of the multitudinous seeneshiftenn And then the perplexing thought, what to do with your outcasts and exiles, your desdiehados and des perados, ex-kings, and ex-ministers, too, if they be loig to princely houses. Where to put them, in what closet or niche, or at what aide-table, in the Valhalla of legitimacy, where their pride will not be wounded by the transference? We were especially curious to see what was done with the House of OR LEANS, on account of their connexion by three intermarriages with the fortunate House of Saxa-Conowto and Gyros, under the shadow of whose wing the almanack maker wrote. France has not only repudiated them, bat abolished their titles for ever. We searched, and we find them and their titles; all the dethroned BOURBONS—the branehe coddle, as well as the branche sine—pitehterked in as an appendage to tits seassat of the royal family of Spain. There the Quito de CDADIRORD and the Comte de NECILLT, With all their respective kith and kin, lie perdu and patient, like MONTERINOS in his cave, awaiting soother restoration. The nest and well-packed little volume—which is a marvel in its combination of smallness, copiousness, sad cheapness, and goes nearer than any we have seen to solve that bibliopolic problem, which may be Benthamically stated as, "the go ...est quantity of matter in the smallest possible space —oontains many another si.;nificant token of the times, if we had Weave or inclination to compare it with come of its predecessor.. The frontispiece, for instance, is a por trait of the Reieltwersneser, the imitablee but sturdy old Archduke Jolts, so long the ntauetris so jet of the house of 11A11111URO-I,OItRAINE. We should have liked to see the face with which Herr Peonies, the publisher, and Dr. EWALD, the editor, would, twelve months ago, have listened to a pro posal to give the place of honour to a liken use of the liberal archduke, who was so popular in the Styrian hills, and so unpopular with the Cr/me of Ger , man aristocracy everywhere, the especial patrons of the Almanarh. To ally himself morganatically with a countess or a baroness, is rather a feather in tt.e cap of a German potentate, if he be of the right sort. It shows he haa a will of his own. But a ausallianre with a simple postmaster's daughter! all the blood of Germany, that boasted 32 quarters and upwards, boiled with indignation at the thought. And now the Archduke is head of the German empire, and his priestlike visage bedecks the Abounoch de Gotha itself. But Tampons atelonter et nos erenteter in this. Next year probably the frontispiece will be LOUIS NAroLtox, and had fortune decided in favour of LAYARTINE or CAVAIONAC, they, too, wuuld, we sup pone, eventually have been exhibited cheek by jowl with the tenth transmitters of foolish fares, whose likenesses the Alauntach delights ti collect for the worship and consolation of the numerous tourtiers, the missal of whose devotions it was, before it com menced supplying that statistical information, which now not hse than the accuracy of its diplomatic de tails and its comprehensive diary of events, recom mends it to political and general readers. But enough, for once, of an almanack. The mania for pictorial illustrations, and the vast improvements effected in decorative printing, are making this by pre-eminence the age of Christmas books. But from none of the multifarious publications of the kind could we draw so pregnant a moral, or find material fur so impressive a homily, as in the turns of human fate, registered without note or comment in the pages of the Almanac's de Gotha. SWITZERLAND. The Case to of Tessin of the 19th lays Monseigneur Mariner le about to I. escorted to the French fron tier. He is prohibited frost again entitling the four cantons forming the diocese et Lausanne. ITALY PIEDMONT.—The Genoa Gazette of the 18th says that Dominique Buffs, the Mit , i4ter of Commerce, and royal commissioner, on arriving at Genoa, published a proclamation, preceded by the words " Viva la Con stituante Italian& !" in which, after stating that the ministry was resolved to adopt the " constituante," and had, in fact, already proclaimed it, he says they had appointed persons to go to Tuscany and Rome, to con cert a ith these governments the mode of immediately t Erecting it. The proclamation ordered the troops to leave the city, and offered to the national guarc the occupation of the forts. Advice* from Ancona of the 12th state that on the following day the Sardinian fleet would sail for Venice and Trieste. Roman troops were being embarked for Venice. The Austrian naval commandet INC been changed. Rear-Admiral Sorda had replaced Gudria'ski. VENICE.—The Sparer Gazette announces, on the authority of a Vienna letter, of the 17th, that Venice had entered into an artnistic for two months, on con dition that the negotiations for the independence of Italy should be continued. Tne citizens were allowed to pass the barriers, and provisions were carried into the city. ROME.—The Alba, of the 16th instant, says the clubs had presented an address to the ChM hers demanding the constituent.. The declaim to appoint the govercmental junta was voted is the chambers by 36 against 16. The Canter's porous°, of the 14th, says that General Zucchi hss embarked at Leghorn for Oasts, and that the Pope is about to leave Gaeta for Marseilles. The oonsistory is stated to be adjourned to the 21st, A guard of honour is established in the palace of Gen. Garibaldi. The eamejoirnal also announces the arrival at Ancona, on tt e 11th, of the Asmodte steam-frigate, with Admiral Rigaudie on board. Gen. Zucchi has been re-elected a deputy at Bologna. A lett& r from Gaeta, of the 13th, says :—" This morning the holy father received intelligence that the Chamber of Deputies at Rome had proclaimed a sort of provisioeal governm nt, consisting of the senator of Rome, the senator of Bologna, and the gontalonier of Ancona. The Alba of Florence, of the 16th, publishes the following . letter from Pius IX to Count Spaur : The assistance and support we have received from you, Count, at the moment of our departure from Rome, imposes upon us the duty of tivisg you a proof of our gratitude. It is therefor we name you a Grand Cross of the Order of Pius, and your son, a knight of the Order of Christ. We hope, however, that more propitious eirounutances will soon permit as to express to you all our sentiments. And, in the meantime, we pray the Almighty to shed hie grace upon you, upon your cAssort the countess, and upon your Pon. it eoeive the apsnolieul Messina we give you in the effusion of our beert.—Pros Nov. 27. NAPLES.—The Lucca Gazette of the 16th states, from Naples, that rumours of ministerial changes are afloat. The following list is circulated as probable : Filangieti, President and War ; Interior ; Ciardulli, I'ublic Works; Spinelli, Foreign Affairs; Falcon, Justice; Fortuoato, Finance. Ii Nazionale of the 16th says that the number of political detenus in the kingdom of Naples is nearly 7,000. GERMANY. AUSTRIA.—We have said that Field-Marshal the Prince Windischaratz commenced, on the 18th, a general reeennoisanee from his camps at Brack, on the Leither and Prellenkirches. He t atc nded his troops, consisting of the let corps or tix alloy and the rtservo corps, on ali sides, and sillered the Magyars battle, which they refused to take, bat retired on all points. The defence of two villages was indeed attempted, but it was gtv:m up after a smartish cannonade fr om the imperial art:!- lery, From the army bulletins we extract the following additiokal particulars: Oa the 18th, a detachment of troops took by storm the little town of Volk& Broderstioef (where 28 Magyar moldier', including two officers, were captured), and then marched to Klingeubach. The Magyar troops who retired before Windischgrats, fell hick on Wit:Winn. On the night of the 18th, the head-quarters of the Ban of Croatia wet. at the Oisimer larm-house, near Alten burg. He bad previously driven the left flank of the Magyars beyond Znrcdorf, in the direction of the Neusidler Lake. On the 17th, the second army corps (under Lieut. Field-Marshal Wehaer) were to cross the March, attack Neudorf, and advance over the heights towards Freiburg, whilst the main body ad vanced along the right bank of the Dariuhe towards Eugenau. According to the SeAksische Zeitung (Breslau), a courier had arrived in Vienna at noon on the 18th, bringieg the intelligence that Freeburg had been taken (or rather had quietly surrendered) late on the previous night. It appears that Jellachich was at one time in great danger of being taken prisoner, and that he owed his safety to the fleetuens of his hor,e. It was reported in Vienna that Gene. Mows and Rem (in the Hungarian service) had been hanged in Pesth because they bad formed a coesoiracy against Kossuth. It must be remai ked here that all the accounts respecting the state of affairs in Hungary are no, moray derived from quarters hostile to the Magyars. These accounts, therefore, must be received with caution; but on the whole it must be admitted th.t their prospects are had, and that it is all bat impossible that Pest h can hold out long against the vast force which will shortly in vest it. The probability is that it will be in the hands of the imperialists before the end of the year. Letters from Agratn, of the 12th, state that Pestb jourosls of the Bth assert that the Hungarian Diet has denounced as traitors all persons who acknowledge the new Emperor of Austria as King of Hungary. The Journal of Austrian Lloyd's, the organ of C ,nut Stadiun, evinces great hostility to the Bank of Vienna. This establishment has, it is true, many vulnerable points ; but it is strongly suspected that this sudden burst of anger has been occasioned by the refusal of the bank directors to meet the finan'ial schemes of the needy cabinet. Meantime paper money is becoming almost worthless, corn of any kind extremely scarce, and misery more prevalent. A ministerial crisis was spoken of. Kraus, the Miniteer of Finance, had, according to accounts re ceived at Vienna, resigned to make room for Stadion, Schmerling, the late minister at Frankfurt, taking the Ministry of the Interior. A woman has been found murdered in her bed, in consequence, it is given out, for having denounced a relative 'o the public authorities; and a ya,er was shot on the 17th for discharging his piece at his superior officer, just as his regiment was leaving its quarters. Count Stadion has set on foot a popular journal, from which the best efforts are anticipated in giving the minds of the town classes a more wholesome direction ' • and the government has acquired golden opinions by promulgating a very liberal communal law. According to the latest intell'gence from Gallicia, the fostered animosity between the Polish and Luthe nian races is more violent than ever. It is now clear tnat the Austrian government rely upon the latter for doing—in case of another Polish insurrection—the sanguinary work which the Gailiciaa peasants some time ago performed, and now bitterly regret. PRUSSIA.—We have letters and journals from Berlin up to the 22nd inst. The Prenuielie Staals-Anzeiyer, of the 21st, pub lishes the law respecting the entire or partial aboli tion of feudal dues and certain other burdens on land. There will be a conference in Berlin, on the 15 . h proximo, of teachers deputed from the communal schools, gymnasia, colleges, and universities of the kingdom, with the view of aiding ministers in pre paring a good law on education. The state of siege will be raised before the begin ning of the elections, but not until a provisional law has appestat. for repressing the abuses of the liberty of the press and the right of association. In consequence of the octroi of the constitution, the Russian envoy at the court of Berlin has been charged to send a note to the Prussian cah'net, which con• tains a detail of the dangers to which the King of Prussia exposes himself th•reby, declaring that Russia can no longer give his Prussian majesty any aid against his revolutionary subjects. According to the "lithographic intelligence," a sudden change has come over the political spirit of Wurtemberg and the majority of the small German states, and they axe more favourable to the election of the King of Prussia as Emperor of Germany. Some of the conservative journals are clamouring for the total dissolution of the civic guard throughout the kingdom. FINANCIAL STATE OF EUROPE. (From the Breeds Nation.) No one can doubt that the economical and financial position of Europe has been in a great degree the cause of the late convulsions which have occurred—equally in those equi,tries in which political causes have produced the revolu tions, as in those in which apparent tranquillity now exists. A coup. d'aril, therefore, at the general financial state of Eu rope would be a criterion for measuring the interests of the crisis and its probable results. That part of the charge which is now most oop-essive generally on the people is the debt c lusted ny the long wars into which the various countries have entered during and since the reign of Louis XIV., and especially at the commencement of the present century, and the expense and maintenance of the permanent armaments which halm not only absorbed an infinitely large portion of the productive labour of the people, but have occupied the labour itself of a lute portion of most efficient and healthy claws of the community. The debts of the various countries of Europe may be thus clamed in roared numbers: Great Britain £840,000,000 France Holland 160,000,000 Russia and Maud Spain Austria Prowls Portugal. 33.000,000 Belfiusa .. __... . ....»». 23,00,000 Demist Melly . Papal esealwins. 13,00,000 BMA 600,000 Preeddert 1,000.000 1,400,00 /1,715,000,009 Debts not enumerated 213,000,000 12,000,000,000 Requiring an 'mina provision to the extent of 100,000,00 W. for interest, in addition to at least 20 to 26 million pounds for expenses of collection, administra tion, Ac. In addition to this change, already sufficiently large (when it is remembered that the labour alone of the people can produce the means of paying it), is to be placed the cost of the permanent armaments and their incidental expenses. The smallest estimate of the permanent armies now em ployed in the various states of Europe is about 2,800.0 a, kept up for the prerection as well on the land as at sea, of the several existing governments, feeding, clothing, equipping, arming, and pa)inst such a anmtwr o? men, as well as arsenal', fortifications, ships, and all the concomitant ex bediture, according to the several official document", cannot leas than an annual charge of 120,000,0001. ; and suppose that each man so employed could, in agricultural or other labour earn a sum of Is. 13d. per day, the total sum of money thus totally lest to the public weal, and which ought, con sequently, to be charged to joint expenditure, cannot be fairly stated at much leas than W 0,000,0001. per annum. And again the char.'s, already heavy enough, attendant on the administration of government', the numerous einecares and pensions granted from the productive resources of the people, and which cannot be estimated at less than 26,000,0001. a year, and we shall then have some notion of the causes which prevent the labourer from deriving that recompence fi om his w Ark, to which, under other circumstances, he might be justly entitled. And if, even in addition to all this, we add the innumerable mass of idlers of all aorta, and persona of every description, who earn nothing by any effort of mind or body towards their own subsistence, and therefore live on the work of others, then we shall cease to feel surprised that in spite of all c , mbinatior aof governments, of the efforts of economists and philanthropist*, the 'workman becomes from time to time more impoverished, and the pauperism continues to increase in its intensity throughout Europe. The population of Europe is about 2,50 million of souls ; armaments of all kinds, including police, eke., 2,800,000; various employers of government, 2,000,000; idlers end un producing claws, 20,000,000. Is it not evident that this charge is too heavy for the population—that government and police coat too much—that permanent armaments, paid, clothed, lodged, fed, and armed by the people, tend greatly to perpetuate the system. And does not all this show clearly that any late revolutions are bat sea feather in the balance se the cause of the existing distress throughout Europe, whilr. the attention of all governments, if they wish to attaia quiet and tranquillity, should be directed to the reform of the wasteful expenditure and ruinous system of pre.ent management, and to endeavour to place within reach of the labourer a gr, star share of the produce of the soil which he e share in the countries. es, and to producers of all bon. --- ; I thsi, THE BOTITHAIIIPTON PORTION or nig liAl.P.—The Indus, Capt . B,y, arriv e d at ,th, with tor Southampton p ti oecal of the lia rani morning. fih• left Malts the liith in n it. d , led d i k i i7 the 18th. The Puha, which l e ft Southampton unlit% II ninsular mail on the 7th, had Lot fitimi arrived at . the Indus left. or Ebz alfuulci WINDSOR, BUNDA7.—This morning b ar x t ....• Prins Alb er t, and the Iftelv6 Pn4 geri'leme n o f t h t , Af household snowed divine wrviee in the chat* s t w Castle. 4 41 _ The Earl and Cow:dent Grey left town on N L for Doncaster l , and will afterw ar d s proceed to 110%0 Nortkumberand. As The General Board of Ileal*h had a meetis de Saturday at 0 wydyr-hous. , Whitehall. Despatches were sent off on SMOrdif Etli z from tfie Coloniml.cfllee for the G overnors of Cepa Hong Kong, and also for the (I , ver,or of M e l ts. COLONIAL APPOINTYr.NTS.—Jae. Coeklunne, is appointed stipendiary tosai , tra.e in th... U m , Hare, Erg., is appointed cl.rk in the. treasurer's 4, 4 Kong. TILE CITY WARDNIOTES. On Saturday n.e elections for common of the contested words closed The .seeessisi Zit FAHIHNODON WITHOUT ...re: Mays. Obbard, Teylor, Barnard, Walter, Ishersne4, Fox, Edkina, '!arner, Hod.gat, Ar•d-rton, Bites, I ns, Vas, Mr. Fowler having be.n rek.cted. The riesshentta% far CHIPPLEGATE WITHIN were : ?dewr-. dark ID Brew, Horde, Br ,wn, Ltrt. 13.nnoch, D-ear, and Cs* l l Wilson wee not return In POKTSTOKIN: 16-111.1,46% Cloi•tie, Parker, Ju su.n, Duitu.l, tab! and Thomson, were elected; Mr We. was A A The electors of CASTLE BATSAND chore (Deputy), Hop e, BAt4v. Evre', Meng-rids. Ad o. Carlin, sad Barber. NL wan r. j curl. The ehusen lor COM/WAIN' 44' were: Mesasfoti Croucher, Joyce, Taylur, Tress, and Click; Mr. Loab not successful. NEW POSTAL ARRANT ENIENTS WITH FILSECE—.% Marquis of Clanricarde. the P.,st.nueter•Georesl, Fins tare ed from Paris, where hi s has been f or pose of arranving the mode in which the postal clam tiOne between the two countries should be anklet* the t xpiration of this mewl', at which period Map," convention will terminate. To'- French env.nunent themselves unable to perf .ren the nail service T u t u% Dover and B iutsgne by tht it psrkete; but, as it e ,g,l h unjust towards the Britoil. agreement and to /mew s* , tit imprint upon themeElnaively the greats r delete, la u , and nip( nee of that route, it is intended t o d espatc h " g ki; day and night mails to Frans esd Celan, sae a, 15th of next month. The mail despetened frog p u s in the evening` will reach London rust as quickly a h i , tofore. notwithst tiding the cluinge ea r route; bat is i s ," feared that there will be a delay of at least nee hour is ea arrival at Paris of the night mail from London. Thiseil doubtless be a serious inccnvenienee to the commercial** inanity of that metropolis, but the blame must to ,„,„, y , French government. During his stay in Paw W "g" marquis bad see. cal interviews with th e 44 , kaj ties of France, and discussed with them the 'sodas" d reducing the present rates of pocket Oa the leren pea l s between the two countries. ibis subject is still nada (1 4 , sieeration, but there is every rev on to believe the the Deg offers made by her Msjr.tv'a Pommaster•Genenl accepted by the French government, althansh, a dl Miniver of Finance had not then been appointed, it rags possible to ascertain positively that the vi-ws of al rotas merit were satisfactory to that of France. At pmmt ty cost of a letter to or from France, if it is paid in this cooly is teupenee, of which fivepence goes to each Potefet This rate is obviously too high when compared with th inland rate of England, and with that of %woman, eta will be the inland rate of France on and alter ths lea January.—Observer. THE CITY GAS BILL.—Mr. Deputy Harrime amendment, condemnatory of cheap gas, which image at the previous Court +1 Commissi. aces of Sewers, by sa l jority of one, was resent', d on Saturday by a siceilu sqr rity, to evenly are pszties ranged tor and against noise parliament for powers to procure gas at a cheap rye. 11 bill having been thus again br.ught forward, its clansmen then gone through seriatim, and alterations were goys (also by a majoril of one), to the effect of linitold power of the cocomi , sion.rri to borrow to the smut 100,0001. instead of 500,0001., and of meatier they fro possessing the power of purchasing the gas works and is compulsorily of the existing compan:es, and of mikapi themselves for the supply of the city. Toe bill is thud rendered almost nugatory. CHOLERA.—Ten fresh cages were reported 101 Board of Health on Saturday as bavine occurred in Lai and its vicinity, of which eight were Mtal. We ham fi Portsmouth the deaths en board the convict ship at Motherbank have been 3 in number, and there are at CUSS on board. No new cases were reported on Satan Four persons have been attacked at Berwick•upoo-Tie two of whom died, and one has recovered. Frans Scotl 126 new ogee are reported, with GI deaths and 15 wove Of these 87 took piece in Glasgow, out of which I were 35 deaths. EMIGRATION VERSUS STARVATION.—Sir,—I t received the following statement from my brother, oho been for some years a settler on the Darling Hassid district of Moreton Bay, New South Wales, which pet you may like to publish in your newspaper— . 1 hen ' 1 wady arranged to boil down for their fat a flock el wethers, 1,200 in number, the gross weight of which vi about 62,0001 be. of meat, and would feed 100 peopl twelve months, at the rate of 1211 n. per wadi each n duel. I calculate these wetbers will realise 18,00016 e a leaving a residue of 42,001i1b5. of animal matter, sad ' the nutritive portion, to be cant away;; people here say, 'there will be a curse on the land for this waste of the b of Providence ; but I cannot look upon it in this light, we do not boil our surplus stock it would have to be t into the bush, and thug become the prey of the ink (our great enemy), as we have neither labour to tea people to est our flocks—Darling Downs, July, 1848" 3. Pirre, Dee. 23rd, 1848. kilVD3Ores eatif COMPANT.—Sir,— It is now understood that one of ttc first subjects which will co for dissuasion in parliament next session will be a for a committee of inquiry into the conduct sd tration of the Hudson's Bay Company. Of this the lords of Vancouver's Island. and the venerable died days of yore of "seventy per cent. on a capital Sias augmented" seem to be fully aware and not a lie prehenaive, as they have just issued their "else," I with no little ingenuity, end at no small mew, well.known writer on colonial and statistical subject this performarce it is unnecessary for me to earl observations, es a full and elaborate reply to it i ready for publication I trust in a ow days. In the time, as a remarkable and important circumstance ference to the validity of the co mpany's charter ol granted by King Charles 11., in KM, I beg resp to draw your attention to the following ca the treaty of Ityswiek, concluded in September, 16 tween William 111. and Louis XIV. of France.. " Commissioners shall be appointed on both sides to e and determine the rights and pretensions which I the said kings bath to the places situated in Bud's but the possession of those places which were Win French during the peace that preceded the Ww and were retaken by the Bagliedi during this WI be left to the French, by virtue of the !ongoing The capitulation 17111116 by the Emig, Is on the sth her, 1696, shall be observed, SCCOTaillit to its k tenor; the merchandise therein mentioned shall be r the governor of the fort taken there shall be set al if it be not already done; the differences arisen ing the execution of the odd cap.tulatiun and the the goods these lost shall he adjudged end deters the said commissioners," &e. The capitulation a ferried to may be found in the second volume of voix's "History of New France" The for' el were the company's five factories, ell en the shores son's Bay, and by this treaty tormally ad d &balm 'yer to France, thereby acknowleagiog and rail claim that country had always male to the wholi eon's Bay. The p: or Hudson's Bay Company much as alluded to in the course of the who This view of the extent of the French polemics rica at this time is supported by MI the old Fr corium of what was anciently termed La Bouvet!, such u L'Escarbot, De la Potherie, La Halton, an Toil, and more recently by Rayne, Bancroft, lea chetle, and other modern authorities, from inoontestibly that France claimed, and indeed to able extent occupied, the territory at present Melia the limits of the Hudson's Bay ompany's chute fore that company was in existence. La Nouvell therefore, as " belonging to the subjects of auothei power" (see charter of the Hudson's Bay Comp! ' be expressly excepted out of the grant of King C and would thus leave the Hudson s Bay company to enjoy under their charter, and by the treaty o that little was taken from do en. By the cession o Bay and other territories of New France, under of Utrecht, concluded in 1713, the right of Beim I to trade in the territories so ceded would folio tional rights acquired by the " Kingdom end Great Britain, under the twelfth article of than enjoyed by the French Canadians previous to tl The Hudson's Bay Company, however, by quiet into the pomasion of the unoccupied country, 1 I been ceded to them, end by brandishing tin charter in the face of all comers, and iodusti fying the country at the same time, as min; habitation, have from that time to this retail disturbed possession of this immense territory, right your readers, from the facts now fo j lb submitted to the public, will be able to uni 111BISTEIL. To ASK AND TO HAVE.—AI an inquit Thursday, before the Sheriff of Surrey, to award lion to the firm of Brown, awclun. end Dunn, Gravel lane, Southwark, for presidia required poem of the London and South Western lisubirsy extension to London -bridge, the claimant' I pensation to the amount of 14,7424. 6s. 10d., am returned a verdict for 1,3941. la. THE BOARD OF ORDNANCE. — Sir, —As hoped that much good may raise from tiosnoim