The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-18 00:00:00

-- HE GRAND POLISH BALL and CONCERT will take plass et GUILDHALL THIS DAT MilinestlaA Lied 111. The 'homily ted by the ladles of lead In L Dudley Waist; the Wlwaa Chandeliers used em ber Mulente visit ts ties Mr : the illundasted Scene of Old Id= &We W KW )rear, exhibited on lad Mayor's day: will be displayed= this Mello AlM—Tickets (including refreshments) fora lady and gentbeemi. Ha l fro a lady, 10s. lid.; for a gentleman, 15a, may be had et thelfension. =en; at the Hall.keeper at Guildhall; at the Leedom Tavern: at We Polish Association, 10, Doke-street, St. James's; of tbseselunittee; Or Jams R. Carr, FA., Hoe. Secretary, 11, LiMpoo/411111114 sad at d the principal mu= oho= COLOSSEUM. ALTERATION of T I3 IE. NOTICK—The Nobility and Gentry me respesthdly informed that the atm:inks= eMieb in the marvellous nem= of Landon by Night will take Weep l a sit.hour. Mai been till dusk, and S till half-past 10. Balm ecodatted. The DAT and EVENING EXHIBITIONS mope= the Panmesse el Landon by Day y enta new and nemvellooe Perm= at Larks by Night, e of Sculpture, gorge= Gothic Aviary, Mel= Reins, Arabesque Con servatorios and Flower Show, Swiss camp, Moat Blanc, Mountain 1 Tamest, and Stalest= Caverns tic. open Ikea 10 till dusk, and 1 Mil half-past 10.—Eveleg funny tickets to view the whole, for four and upwards, id Sc. each, may be had at the Colosseum from cNU 4, and at the principal Music Warehouses an d Libraries. The whole wed rgeet and designed by Mr. W. Braderell. kedItYCEUM THEATRE. MR. ALLC OFT'S GRAND PROMENADE CONCERTS, THIS EVEN EVE NING onday), Nov. 18. Ploo3A3olg:—Part I. Overture, Oberon. Alto-Sal Born, Mr. H. Diann. New Polka, Victoria and Albert; Ballad, Mr. Sinclair. New Quadrille, "The Royal Hunt." " The Solo, Violin, blaster Thirlwall. Overtire, La Barcarole. Song, Maniac," Mr. Henry RusselL Part H. Operatic Selections from Don Quixote. Fantasia, Trwnpet, Mr. Distin. Polka, Flan. Song, "The Gambler's Wife," Mr. Henry Russell. Overture, Zampo. Selo, Sas..Tronaba, Mr. U. Diann. Quadrille, the Neapolitan Carnival. ald l m , Ourrants.--Onductor , IL Negri ; Leaders, Messrs. ThirtwaU end Tholum.—PlL Promenade, and Cpper Poxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. ad. ; Private Boxes, One Guinea. Musa and Private Boxes to be had at the Box- e, and at Mr. Allerott's, 15, New Hondstreet, and 62, Regent-atrect. *THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. — POiITIVELY THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE of IL JULLIENE . CONCERTS. PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING, Wednesday, Nov. 18. PANT I. --Overture, Anacreon, Cherubinl—Quadrille, the Chimer., Jullien.—New Venetian Serenade (second time), front Roch. Albert's Maritime Melodies, Miss Birch, Rsch-Albert.—Symphony, the An dante from the Symphony in C minor, Beethoven.—Solo, Violoncello, Mr. Hancock, Hancock.—Valk, The Bird of Paradise, Ecenig.- - • Quadrille, The British Army Quadrille (assisted by the Four Grand Military Bands), Aitken. Parr 11. —Opera, Robert le Diable, with Solos by M. Bauman, Mr. Lazarus, and M. Barret. Meyerbeer.—New Song (second time` . , Mire Birch, en"tled, "The First Lemon," the poetry by F. W. N. Bayley, Esq., the music a:opposed ex ',ready for these Concerts by ▪ e.—New Comic Polka, The American, on popular Transatlantic Melodies. Jullien.—Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson, ILchariben.—Taren tale, De Belphegor, Jullien. Commence at Eight, terminate before Eleven. The last Concert will take place on SATURDAY, November 58, and - the season on MOND A G AY, November SU. 50, with RAND MASQCE. - ght ofr prog. MAILS. The mails hr British North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the Ibth November. (this day.) Thy overland rrails for Gibraltar, MaILL Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Men, Ceylon, India, Hong-Bong, and (limn, via Southampton, will be made up on the morning of the 20th November. The overhaul closed mails, rio .Ifiirseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Men, Ceylon. India, Ilong-bong, die., will be made up on the • evening of the 24th November The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 27th November. The mail' for New south wale., Van DICIUCteII Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 30th November. The West India tam* excluding those for Mexico, Honduras, and Havana, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd December. The moils for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam btu)°, Bettis, Madeira, and Buenos .tyres, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th Deeemter. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice, rnany;;; , :;t7; enMmunication that to rent to O. anonymously; but those who choose to address Up in confidence will End their oonfidence impeded. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. 0 .• Advertiarments Intended foe TA. lexprrss, London evening paper, must be at the Office by Two o'clotk on the day of tblication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tins DAT. Morning, 10 min. past 1 ; Afternoon, 29 min. past 1. TO.MOILItOW.—Morning, 47 min. past 1; Afternoon, 6 nun. past 2. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOY. 18. WE see with pleasure that the sanatory question has awakened an interest in the city of London. At a Wardmotc for the Ward of Farringdon With out, on Wednesday last, a proposition of the Common Council for widening Cannon-street was rejected, principally on the ground that there were other and stronger claims upon the city funds for sanatory im provements. The Wardmotc was adjourned for a week, with a view to a more complete consideration of the subject. The appearance of this spirit indirectly strengthens the opinion expressed by the Committee of the Hcaftli of Towns Association, in their report on Lord LEN:- Col N'S bill, that it is inexpedient to exclude the metropolis from the operation of that measure. The greater the zeal of the city improvers,. the more necessity for controlling and guiding it by the directions of a well-considered legislative act. In no matter is the subordination of particular parts to a g eneral plan more important than in sena tory regula tions. In no city are the evils of isolated i t action, in such matters, more apparent than is Lon don. The first provision of Lord LINCOLN'S Act is to place the supply of water, sewerage, drainage,. cleansing, and paving, under one and the same authority. In the metropolis, not only has each of these departments its distinct administrative, but its several distinct administrations for different districts. As many boards, so many centres ofjobbes7,profitless expense, and mischievous inefficiency. There is no such thing as a surveyor's map for the metropolis, furnished with contour lines, to determine the levels, in the mode adopted in the Ordnance plan of Windsor. For lack of such a guide, the different Sewerage Boards, acting each on their own plans, often inaccurate, have been work ing on different data, so as to produce the least possi ble amount of good at the greatest possible expense. From this want of general superintendence we have whole miles of sewerage with insufficient outfall. To the same cause we may attribute the necessity of constant breaking up of the streets for the purpose of aeommodating old sewers, and other sub terrancous conveniences, to new levels. It frequently happens, after new streets have been bulk, sewers formed, gas and water-pipes laid, and pavements put down, that some one of these arrang ements will be found by a particular board unsuitable or insufficient. Up comes the new pavement ; water-pipes are raised ; !MT ' pipes sunk • enor mous expenses incurred ; tra ffi c Interrupted ; and houses rendered unapproachable, all for want of proper surveys in the first instance, and the supervision of a permanent and general authority. Under the present system, both in London and elsewhere, it is very common for Commissioners to execute as well as plan and superintend improvements. A curious illustration of the effects of such a union of functions in the Westminster Court of Sewers is fur nished by the report. Mr. Leslie, one of the Commisdoners of the weeminuer Court of Sewers, states, that a large proportionof the acting Commissioners for Sewers in this district are in practise here es architects, surveyors, opens, and nollcitors, or are otherwise commend with building pro- perty ; that he regards such appointments as highly detrimental to the public intermits ; and he gives a history of the King's C.oUege , - Scholars' Pond Sewer as an Illustration of the manner in which the Winces of this Court is conducted. It appears that the then existing IMe ofisewers for this district was ta 1007 minutely surveyed by John Es q ., civil engineer, who reported that it was not only laid down in so irregular a direction, but so imperfectly executed, be such had repair, and had so bad an outran into the Thames, that it would only be wasting money to attempt to render it perfect ; and Mr. Rmnk lays down a plan by which this with's.. thinks the drainage of this Important district would have been coiw plete. Ant tasted of adopthis Mr. Rennie's plan, the Commissioners set to work to repair the old sewer which Mr. Bennie had condemned. though the report of their own surveyor contains the following remarkable words Beggingft may be understood that lam most perfectly convinced of the superick advantage of Mr. Rennie's plan, I now proceed, in obedience to the directions I have received, to consider what alteratroos will be required In the existing 'ewer." Notwithstanding the eondemnalion of this sewer by both their I= l . ..7 eri nal advisers, and after this official condemnation of it, the have actually upended upon it nearly two hundred thousand pounds ! Thus, the entire length of the sewer being 16,522 fret, they have spent upon a small portion of It, namely, upon 5,293 feet, the sum of 70,104/. 17s. Id.; and of the portion upon which this amount of money has been expended, it is dated that it is at the pre sent moment an open uncovered sewer (with the exception of 1,009 feet recently covered baby Mr. Cubitt at his own expense), with an outlet so bed, that the wirer is penned beck during a considerable period (ail boors) of 'sande ; a most disgraceful nuisance in a great metropolis." On the remaining part of this condemned line the Com missioners have spent the further sum of 100,0001. and upwards; and with this result, t ha t the very evils of this sewer which existed prior to the expenditure upon it of a single shilling of this money, still Wet is their full forte. Of the colossal scale on which jobs are conceived and carried out by those bodies , take another example from the same authority: In the same spirit the commissioners purchase for their office a house, the property of a deceased commissioner, allowing induals of their bed, having a personal or family interest in the sale, to manage the affair. They pay for this house 5,000/. purchase money, and *emend upon it inrepiurs the further sum of 4,9031. 3s. Id., though frora the reportsof the two surveyors appointed to value the premisee it appears that theirsworn valuation, 4,5001., amountedto very llttlemore than the sum expended on repair* and u`terations alone. " The house," aziirL , Leslie, was purchased of teedamiy of a deceased can tor 3,000/. ;it cost to repair fit it for the purpose of the commission, including 1461. 12a. 6d. interest an the tradesmen's ae counts, and also including 2191. Is. 10d. law charges, 4,9091. 3e. Id. ; making the total charge to the public for that office within a fraction of 10,0001. The tradesmen who were employed, and received an amount of neatly one-half of the sum ',mended in repairs and alterations, appear to have been upon the Juries at that period. Yet Lord LINCOLN'S bill, as it stands, makes its proposed boards of Commissioners executive, instead of merely supervising bodies. Instead et charging the responsible surveying officer with : s te tims =pulsory duty of preparing plans and the commissioners of each town are, by the evailowered " from time to time, as they shall e t a , fit, ha widen, deepen, embank, alter, arch over, amend, clear, and scour out all and each of the sewers . THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1846. college dignitary. There are many of the truest friends and the most affectionate sons of Alma slater, who look forward to this condition with feelings of _melancholy foreboding. On the other hand, institutions at first private, but now assuming vast importance, are rising up one after another in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, and in the provinces, where science is made to assume its proper position, and where a useful education is pro vided for all classes of practical men. We may take a future occasion of offering some remarks on the na ture, extent, and value of the instruction there afforded —satisfied, at present, with having suggesi:d some causes which we would willingly see removed, why such new system is not only desirable, so far as it en ables a larger number to reap the benefit, but abso lutely necessary because the institutions, whose duty it is to adapt themselves to increasing wants, are sta tionary, or even retrogressive. THE struggle in Portugal has at least acquired the interest which well-contested fights command : a kind of interest that has long been absent from contests in the Peninsula. The rule of warfare there seems generally that one party should run away and the other pursue, each in its turn pre Failing, and riotino , in triumph, without any worthy ettbrt to attain victory, or any rational plan for profiting by it, when won. As far, however, as we can judge from attitudes and manoeuvres, _ the present contending parties in Portugal seem determined to fight it out, a resolu tion which may lead to some bloodshed, but which ought to have the good and unusual effect of rendering the beaten party more willing to abide by the verdict of fortune, than is ever the case in that country. At first there seemed very few hopes of the Qt EEN being able to offer continued resistance. Nine-tenths of the notables of the country, including her own uncle, having deserted the Court, and joined the in surrection, it seemed certain, that not only had the QUEEN wantonly provoked it, but that the chances of success were greatly in its favour. The staunchness of SALDAN/lA, however , and his personal influence with the military, has rallied a fair portion of them to the standard of royal ascendancy. And the army being thus divided into two camps, the citizens have more or less held aloof, and allowed the contest to go to the decision of the soldiers ranged on either side. SALDANIIA has at once shown great military vigour and ability, with, at the same time, a contempt for constitutional forms, new and ominous in one who had been their most zealous champion. The in surgent army at first advanced southward from Oporto, not reckoning upon any organized or serious resistance. SALDANII.I'S attitude in or near Lisbon, however, soon deterred them from any precipitate attack, and LAs ANras, the insurgent general, has retired upon Coimbra, leaving the unfortunate citizens of Cintra, and other towns near Lisbon, who had pronounced against the Court, completely at its mercy. The first efforts of SAI.DANHA have been directed towards putting down the insurgents south of the Tagus, in order to leave his hands free for dealing with the army in and from Oporto. For this pur pose General SettwALßActt marched towards Evora, and in his march succeeded in routing an insurgent body, chiefly of volunteers. BoMFIM, however, one of the military chiefs opposed to the Court, has thrown himself into Evora and seems determined to hold out, so as to occupy the attention of the troops sent against it. North of the Tagus, neither party seem anxious to come immediately to blows, which may have the effect of prolonging the civil war. This may operate to the disadvantage of the insurgents, for the soldiers have little reason for an obstinate resistance to the Court. They were induced to turn their arms against the QcEEN by the example of leaders whom they respected, and by the promise of certain success. The latter has not been fulfilled ; whilst the credit and reputation of SAI.DANRA and the Duke of TERCEIRA are certainly higher with the soldiery than their opponents. With the citizens, indeed, it is otherwise. To them, the names of Lts ANTAS, SA DA B...NDEIRA, the Mar quis of Lot LE, and BoMFIM, inspire confidence. And the influence . - of these leaders prevented the Liberals from proceeding at once to the extremity of declaring the QUEEN deposed, and conferring the Regency on her sea Should the QUEEN succeed in rallying to her banner any portion of the soldiery now opposed to it, and should she thereby achieve the triumph of military and despotic power, the result will be to throw Portugal into a worse state of reaction, and the QUEEN into a course of more extreme unpopularity, than even the QUEEN and government of Spain have fallen into. If such a result is to be deplored, the triumph of the Liberals is, on the other hand, an event likely to lead to very untoward consequences, both to the QUEEN and to the peace of the kingdom. We have received the Paris journals of Monday. The King and Royal Family had returned from Com piegn to the palace of St. Cloud. The circumstances respecting M. Guizot's reply to Lord Palmerston's last note, which were given in our correspondence of yesterday, appear with little variation in some of the Paris journals of Monday. In the Cabinet Council held on Friday, at which the intended note was read, all the Ministers were present except three, M. Duchatel, who was in the country ; M. de Salvandy, and Marshal Soult, who did not arrive in Paris till Saturday afternoon. The fact of this important note being prepared and submitted to the cabinet and to the King only a few hours before the expected arrival of the nominal head of the cabinet, cannot fail to suggest certain reflec tions on the state of agreement between the nominal and real chief of the ministry. There are not want ing persons who openly declare that such a moment was selected as a marked slight upon the Pre sident of the Council ; and it is insinuated that the Court views, without any feelings of discontent, the possibility of the old Mar shal taking umbrage at the circumstance, and breaking up the cabinet. He has held himself aloof from all the negotiations of the Spanish marriages, has therefore given no offence to the English cabinet, and might he made the instrument of such a ministe rial modification as would patch up the entente cor diale. Be this as it may, all parties in Paris seem to agree that there is at this moment quite as little entente cordiale between the President of the Council and M. Guizot as there is between the actual cabinet of the Tuileries and that of St. James's. The new number of La Berme Nourelle, a periodi cal understood to express the sentiments of M. Guizot, appeared on Monday, prefaced by a prominent article entitled "De la Question Ministeriells en France et en Anyklerre, d propos de raffaire Espagnole." This article, after denying all analogy between the present question and that of 1840, lays it down that it is not a question between cabinet and cabinet, but between parliament and parliament and between people and people. It is not, according to this writer, the French government which will have to explain the cause of the quarrel, or to justify itself for having displeased England by the mere success of the national policy. As to the Montpensier mar riage, it was not brought about by M. Guizot, or by M. Bresson, or even by Louis Philippe, but by Lord Palmerston himself, who is now so loud in his protests against it. By supporting the candidateship of the Prince of Coburg, be rendered it impossible for France to aljourn the Montpen- Bier manage. In short, the entire ground of complaint on the part of England is the success of France. Mr. Macaulay is quoted against the treaty of Utrecht, and the declaration mentioned in our cor respondence of yesterday, as the conclusion of the forthcoming despatch of M. Guizot, is reiterated in the conclusion of this manifesto, prefixed to his lite- mry organ. To demand, says the writer, on the part of the Duchess of Montpensier and her descendants, the renunciation of the Spanish succession, is to menace a renewal of the war of sue cession of 1706, and not that of 1701 ; it is to dethrone Philip V. To commit such an excess without any other pretext save personal spite and pique, is, as Lord Bolingbroke said, to adopt the policy of Charles XII. We desire only to take e. glance at the difficulties which the English ministry will encounter, if it brings before parliament the impressions and designs attributed to it in the Spanish affair. The French ministry has no such difficulty to fear ; its cause is simple, and will be :easily appreciated by the good sense of the public in both countries. It is not exposed to those faults which spring from vexation and disappointment, be cause it has succeeded. It is not driven to bolster up its policy by subtleties, or to seek vengeance by chicaneries, for it has obtained for France a real success, and has done so, we must repeat, under circumstances of legitimate defence. It can, therefore, wait with confidence the opening of the two parliaments, and before these supreme tribunals it has nothing to ask save what the English themselves love to call fair play. Our Paris correspondent writes that considerable anxiety is felt in all political circles, and more cape- daily among, the financial classes, respecting the present situation of affairs betw een France and Eng land, and that it is a mistake to suppose that the public is at all incred ulous as to the very calamitous consequen ces which may ensue from the present hostile position of the government. A cont;:med steady decline in the funds and every description of stock, without any adequate cause, is an unequirooll indication of the soundness of this opinion. On Monday large orders for sales were received by all the agents of the Bourse, and few or no buyers presented themselves. Even the parties, whose opinions gene rally are influential, and who still express a confidence in the continuance of the pacific relations of the governments, do not confirm their words by their acts, and as buyers they hold back. One common feeling is, however, expres , ed by all without excep tion, which is the fervent desire of the speedy arrival of the moment at which the present most injurious state of suspense may be brought to a close by the parliamentary erlairosement at this and the other side of the Channel. The Madrid mails of the 11th have arrived. Costa Cabral, whose entrance into Portugal had been forbid den, was named Minister Plenipotentiary for I'ortugal at Madrid. The complaint raised by M. Wesson against the three journals, El l'iempo, El Epanol, and El Clamor Publieo, in which an article against him had appeared, having been brought by the Pro cureur du Roi before the tribunals, the latter decided that the Procureur du Roi, not being entitled to ap pear in such a process, under the existing law, the complaint could not be entertained. The Queen of Spain had ordered twenty magnifi cent horses to be sent to Paris, as a present to the Dukes of Montpensier and Aumale. Letters from Catalonia of the 11th state, that the country was traversed by Carlist bands, seeking to enbst the peasants. The local authorities had taken measures for their dispersion, and already several im portant arrests have taken place. Scarcely a day passes, it is said, that the French police are not engaged in preventing new attempts of Carlist refugees ti enter Spain. Forty-seven have been just arrested at Urbrana, and twenty-seven at another place, who were crossing the frontier. The Espanol had been seized by order of the poli tical chief, and did rot reach Paris in consequence. M. Bresson is said to halve withdrawn his com plaint against El Clamor l'ubaen and the Espanol, but persists in prosecuting the Tiempo. The Count de Thomar Las been appointed Portu guese ambassador at Madrid, in the stead of Baron Itemiaffe, who is appointed ambassador to the Brazils. The Progressistag have published in the Clamor PulA7co their.marifesto to the electors. It says,— " Out of respect for the independence of the electors, the directing committee, appointed by the Prngr. s sista party, will abstain from presenting candi dates ; but it calls upon them to propose men devoted to the public welfare, and not to their own interests; men ready to defend personal liberty, the liberty of the press with trial by jury, tfie institution of the civil militia ; to maintain the abolition of tithes and domanial rights; friends of order and economy, jealous of the national dignity and independence. It would be an illusion to think that the Progressistas will obtain a majority in the corning elections ; but, in taking part in .the struggle, they will at least send to the Cortes a vi gorous and independent opposition, strong in inde pendence and justice. It matters but little if we are vanquished at the elections, if the struggle of to-day prepares the triumph of the future." PARIS, Nov. 16. You have received many sombre descriptions of our ma sent financial condition. We are at this moment in a state of embarrassment, but the inconvenience we experience is not a crisis. You must look upon it only as the inevitable reaction which is caused by the folly of speculating in railroad affairs. This reaction prevails with more fury, or, if You please, with more despair, in other countries than in France. Thus. in Germany, the share holders refuse to pay their deposits ; while in France the shareholder may suffer hut be pays up. In England, the annihilation of a hundred schemes does not prevent the for mation of new ones; here, a company that fails serves at lt ast as a warning and a lesson to others. The depreciation which at present weighs h. Icily upon commercial securities began when the English and German speculators, who had inve-ted money in French railways, and perhaps aken more shares than they found convenient, wished to sell out again. ' The vendors suffered losses; and their example has caused dis couragement in ail qusrters; the best securities have felt the influence, and money became as scarce as confidence. Add to this, political circumstances of an unfavourable nature ; the consequences attending a bad crop ; and you will under stand the cause of the embarrassment. At the end of Oct., the treasury, which generally contains from eighty to a hun dred millions of francs, remained only in possession of forty millions. Since that, twenty millions have been received as reimbursement for works executed for the Great Northern Railway. However, the taxes are cheerfully paid into the Treasury, and the public receipts are on the increase, while the current rate of discount does not exceed four per cent., the bankers of Peris have limited the credits which they allowed to trade. The Bank of France continues to discount very freely. Its reserve in specie is still a hundred millions, although the purchase of corn has taken away a good deal of money out of the kingdom. As to the indus trial manufactures, they do not suffer ; work goes on briskly in the principal manufacturing cities, and wages remain the same. The only difficulty which has any real foundation is in the payments required by the great railroad companies. These payments do not represent a sum difficult to be ob tained, and if confidence were greater they might easily be effected. Here is the rjation,* : The Lyons Company asks for thirty millions of francs in December; that of the North, 30 millions in January. The Strasburg com pany will make a call of 18 millions in April • and that of 'Nantes one of 6 millions ; and with 8 or 10 Millions from Montereau and Dieppe, there will be a total sum of 90 millions to he paid up in six months. For the rest of 1847, Lyons, the Northern, Strasburg, and Nantes, will require a total sum of 60 millions. On the whole, the Bourse will have no more to furnish than 1.50 a small sum, when it is considered that the savings of France amount to 200 millions of francs at least per annum, and that the Paris Bourse has as yet had but twenty months to pay up the loan of 200 millions, not counting the payments to be made on companies in course of execution. What is really distressing in the position of affairs is, that the Lyons company should not have delayed making its call for two months. Any demand of this nature is inopportune in the month of December, at the period when all commer cial bills fall due ; for money ought to be sought from capi talists at the moment when receipts occur, and when necessi ties are pressing. The Minister of Finance has raised from 2i to 3 per cent. the interest on treasury bills. The liquida tion of the affairs of several railroad companies is talked of. O. FRANCE.—During the violent storm which lately raged in the Newfoundland seas, the commander of the French war-steamer Flambeau saved and took on board the crew and passenger% of an English vessel which was wrecked in sight of Miquelon. Among them were the Asses sor, Mr. Acton, and Judge Emmerson. The Marquis of Normanby has just expressed to the French Government the grutitude of the English Government for the ready and assistance rendered by the governors and other autho rities of Saint Pierre and by the commander and crew of the Flambeau. The government has received the important news of the discovery, at Guadaloupe, of a considerable mine of sulphur in the Solfa-Terra of Basse-Terre, the surface of which sank during the late earthquake. THE ACCIDENT AT FAMPOUX.—A verdict was re turned on the 14th, in this trial to the following effect : That the accident was to be attributed to the train going off the rails, but that notwithstanding every effort of the law and the assistance of men of science, the real cause of run ning off the rails had not been ascertained, and that in con sequence the accused were acquitted without damages or costs. GERMANY.—SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, Nov. 9. In the sitting of this day the motion of the Councillor of Justice, Leesen, was in the order of the day. It had been postponed on the 6th t) make way for Dr. Oulich's motion. The proposition, which demands a reform in the monetary department, was referred to a commission by a majority of 24 votes. The Prussian Chargé d'Affaires to the States of North America, Baron Gerolt, has arrived at Berlin, to re ceive in person instructions from his government relative to a treaty of commerce and navigation to be concluded be tween the Zollverein and the North American states. He was to leave shortly for Washington. Since the departure of H. Wheaton no new ambassador has as yet been appointed to Berlin, by America. SWITZERLAND.—Gnisos.—ContE, Nov. B. The most important news here is the mission of the former Austrian Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland, M. de Philipps berg, who was the bearer of direct communications to the cantonal governments. The following is reported respecting these communications :—Under the present state of the affairs of Switzerland it was still in the power of the Orisons to hinder a civil and religious war. The Emperor of Austria, who had always proved himself a good neighbour, nourished the hope that the Grisone would not aihere to a resolution of twelve votes in the question of the league of the seven can tons, and would not join in any violent measures. If such did occur, the Orisons might expect reprisals on the part of Austria. TURKEY.—ComrrAwrirroPLE.— A letter from Constantinople to the Augsburg Gazette, dated 28th ult., lays :—lt seems that new dangers are menacing the Nesto rian Christians in Kurdistan. The famous chief of the Kurdee, Bederkhsn Bey, has, with two other chiefs, Noun. Ullah Bey, of Gakiari, and Abdes•Samed Bey, concerted a descent into the districts inhabited by the Nestorian. Two maths, the Cheik Mohammed of Mossoul and the Cheik Yussulof Zako, are the principal instigators of the project. The governor of blossom', Tuhir Pscha, threatened tlem with severe chastisement, and has endeavoured to dissuade Dederkhan from his sinister intentions; but it is doubtful if the endeavours of the Pacha will be crowned with success, as the tract of country of Gakiari inhabited by the Neste, inns is in the Pachalick of Erzeronm, and soma distance from Mee soul, the i turbulent inhabi t of which give the Pachs enough to do to prevent hs interference in others. Inc from. WINDSOR, Tar:DAY.—Lord John Russell arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit, and remains to dine with her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Her of Gloucester went to Kew yesterday, and visite!' their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge , aild the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meekisnsburg-Strelitz, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederic of Ifeb.. - c. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke aid Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence on Monday evening. EXTRAORDINARY SPORT ON TILE ROYAL PRESERVE!: NEM: NVINDSOU.—The Prince Consort, who shot over the royal preserves at Virginia Water on Monday morning, attended by Lord Byron, the Hon. Capt. Gordon, and Major ' General Bowles, killed no less than 210 head, including 42 brace of pheasants; the remainder being made up of leverets and rabbits. The game was forwarded to Windsor Castle, and the rabbits to Mr. Humphries, of Egham, the contractbr for the purchase of all rabbits killed in the Home and Great Parks. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer y.sterdaT, at Lis official residence in Down ing-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office trom the Governor of Gibraltar. Mr. Warburton had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We understand that Mr. E. E y re is to be appointed Li eutenan t•Oovernor of New Zealand under Governor Grey. . —Tunes. The commission for the approaching winter assize will he opened at York, before Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Justice Wightman, on the bth of December. Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams will open the commission at Liverpool on or about the same day. (From InNt niehea Gazette.) WINDSOR, N0v.14.-11er Majesty having appointed the Right Ron. 0. A. Earl Cowper to be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Kent. his lordship this day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon. WHITEHALL, Nov. 17.—The Queen has directed letters patent to he passed under the Great Seal, granting unto Admiral Sir IL Gould, G.C.8., the office or place of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and lieutenant of the admiralty thereof, and also lieutenant of the Levies and seas of the mid United King dom, in the room of Admiral Sir G. Martin, 0.C.8., pro moted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. BLOCKADE 01' ME DOURO. FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 16.—1 t is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Atfaira, has received ftom Mr Southern, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Lisbon, a despatch, en closing a note addressed to him by Marshal Saldanha, Secre tary 01 State for Foreign Affairs of her most Faithful Majesty, announcing the establishment of an effective blockade of the River Douro, together with a copy of the decree declaring the said blockade.—lter Majesty's Charge d'Affaires also transmits a note from Marshal Saldanha, announewr that positive instructions had been given to the ships of war eatablishing the blockade, to allow British ships of war to enter the port unmolested, and not to prevent the delivery, and reception there, of the mails conve)ing the correspon dence, or the landing of passengers, or even the departure of British subjects who may wish to embark in the packets. ADMIILALTY, Nov. 9. Her Majesty has been gracioudy pleased to appoint Or: six ollicer. midi/rotund to be Naval Aides-de-Camp to her Majesty .—Captinns M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., Hon. G. A. Crofton, Sir G. It. Sartnrius, A. Falll.llaTO. C.U., Lord J. Hay, C.ll. Sir G. A. Westphal, vice Cap tains lt. Hope, C. 8., Sir S. J. B. Pectiell, Bart., C. 11., P. Ilornby, C.H., Sir F. A. Collier, C. 8., K.C.H., Sir C. Napier, K.C.8., and lion. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, C. 8., K.C.H., promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral. And her Majesty has also appointed Capt. Lord A. Fitsclarence, G.CJL, to be an Extra Naval Aide.de.Camp to her Majesty. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 16. BOVAL Aerrmear.—To an COLONLIE.—Breveta.:(IIA. J. S. Dastard, vice Forbes; T. G. Browne, vice Munro; D. Grant, vice Cockburn; H. A. tioatt, vice Birch ; T. Dyncley, vice Armstrong; 11. C. Russell, vice Paterson ; S. Rudyerd, site Myer ; W. Cator, vice Lacy; C. C. Danwy, vice W. G. Power. To at: LierTSKANT.COLONEI.6—Brevet-Majors C. Otway, vice Mac. donald, removed as a general officer; W. C. Anderson, TIM Bastard; R. Palmer,ice Brown J. It. liora.sbr, vice Grant ; It. S. Arm ctrong, va se Scott; 11. Itsaus, vice Dincley; G. T. Rowland, vice Itumel; Brevet.Licut.-Col. J. N. Colqukoun, vice Rudyerd ; Brevet ' Majors A. IL Harrison, vice Cater ; 11. it. 1% right, vice Danasy. To as C.serrow.—See. Copts. A. Thee, vice Otway; C. J. Dalton, vice Anderson ; W. H. Forbes, vice l'alnaer ; D. E. Wood, vice Hornsby; 11. M. Tulle, vice Armstrong ; W. E. Ileitland, vice Evans; G. antics, vice Rowland; F. E. 'Wilmot, vice Colquhoun ; J. W. ritZElEyer, TICCILEETimgOE ; G. R. 11. Kennedy, vice Wright. To as SF, O,ID CAFEAINd.—Eirst Linda. F. A. Campbell, vice Tylee; It. P. Goodenough, vice Dalton; G. B. Stiakespear, vice Forbes ; IL 11. Crofton, vice Wood; M. B. Dorlsworth, vice Tuite ; M. 0. Nixon, vice Without; 11. L. Gardiner, vice limes; B. Bathurst, vice F. E. Wilmot; H. B. 0. Smile, vice litzinityer ; R. I'. Radcliffe, vice K dyeruse. To DE FIRST LTETTENANT!.—SEC. LIMAN. J. Goe3h,y,' vice Camp bell; D. S. Greene, vice Goodenough; I'. F. Miller, vice G. B. Shakes pear W. W. Parry, vice Crlftan ; J. T. Orme vice llodsworth ; G. it. entomb, vice Nixon; G. W. D . Hay, via Gardiner; T. 11. Harding, vice Bathurst; P. 1). Murgcmcni, vice H. B. O. Savile ; 31. Stewart, vice Radcliffe. ROYAL E.TatNYTIV.—To ne. Courcerui.—Brevet.Cals. Sir J. M. P. Smith, vice Cardew, removed as a general officer ; R. Jones, vice F ers, ditto • T. Moody , vice Fanshawe, ditto ; J. ()Meld, vice Can , di tto; M. ('.Dixon, vice Colby, ditto. To ar. LIEUTENANT-COLONELN.—Brevet-Majors C. J. Selwyn, The Smith; W. IL Gossett, vice Jones • D. Bolton, vice Mealy; F. W. Whinystes, vice Oldtteld • A. W. RObe, via Dixon. To LE CAPTAIN..—S 4. Capts. J. William., vice Selwyn; E. W. Durnford, vice Gossett; E. T. Lloyd, vice Bolton; 11. James; W. Robinson, vice Whinyates, promoted; T. 1L Mould; G. 'Wynne, vice Robe, promoted. To sr inniovn CAPTAINS.—PIeat 'Amts. H. St. G. Ord, vice Wil liains• D. W. 'fylee, vice Hondo:it ; 11. C. B. Moody, vice Lloyd; J. L..\. Simmons, vire Robinvori • C. A. Leach, vim Wynne. To se Freer LiroreNts - r , .—gee. Limits. C. T. Hutchinson, vice Ord ; E. M. Grain, vice 'Mee; A. P. Smith, vice Moody ; A. M. Lochner, vice Simmons; P. Eavenhill, vice Leach. of the said town." No obligation is laid upon them to consult their surveyor much less to adopt his plans and surveys. A public 'body, to be effective,, and to escape the contagion of ,jobbery, should have unity, permanence, professional skill, and responaility. The Commissioners, under this act of Lord LINCOL.N r s, may be at once fluctuating, devoid of unity, irrespon sible, and entirely without professional knowledge. Such bodies, when they do exist, have, from all time, been very hotbeds of rascally and ruinous jobbery. Lord LINCOLN has been careful in creating a new machinery to implant in it the seeds of every mischief from which the community already suffers at the hands of the old one. The Committee recommend the following alteration in the functions of the commissioners, and their rela tion to their surveyor : And be It further enacted, That the surveyor of the COMlligeoll shall prepare plans and estimates for all alterations of the sewer% by deepening, widening, einbanldng, arching over, or otherwise altering the same, and shall inform thereof the owners and occupiers of the lands and houses drained by such sewers; and if the commisdoners shall approve of each alterations. they shall direct public notice thereof to be given as hereinafter provided, and shall bear obit etlomi thereon, and shall, as they shall see at, direct amended plans and estimates to be prepared, and shall have authority to direct notice or public adver tisements to be made for tenders to execute such works upon con tract, &a. They further suggest that all plans, before they are executed, must be submitted to, and approved by, the district-inspector; that all work shall be done by contracts on open tender, to be made for terms of years, and paid for by a special rate, to be levied on the property . in the several localities benefited. On this plan, as is observed in the report, " no immediate outlay is necessary. The burden is distributed over a series of years, and being comminuted into an annual rent-charge, is not practically felt even by the poorest tenant." In the present bill, the proceedings to enforce sewerage and drainage, paving, and providing a house with priv . y aid cesspool, arc m ated as in the old local improvement acts. The owner, on notice given, is to do the work, if he will; if not, the commissioners are empowered to do it for him. In all cases the owner is to bear the expense. These provisions, the Report shows, on evidence compiled by the several sanatory commissions, to be at once "practically inconvenient and altogether vicious in principle." The plan recommended by the Report, on the other hand, converts the expenditure on such im provements into a rent-charge, and spreads the repayment, both of principal and interest, over a series of years commensurate with the duration of the works. We need not take up space in show ing. how superior,. both in justice and facility of exe cation, this plan is to that of the Bill, and we have little doubt that the alteration will be adopted. But the necessity for such supervision of an official measure by an unofficial body strikingly illustrates the slovenliness of our boasted legislation. In many, and those the most important, functions of government, the necessities of the country 6Ce1:12 to have fairly outgrown the machinery of office. That so important an enactment as Lcrd LINCOLN'S, founded on evidence so sufficient, should admit with advantage the tinkering of a London asso ciation, redounds as much to the discredit of our administrative system, as to the credit of the body who have so intelligently and boldly come forward to repair official shortcomings, and correct the blun ders of the Executive. IN a recent article we alluded to the subject of popular instruction, es one that it iimately concerns the people of Englandto consider. Every department of education, however, concerns as, and perhaps none more so, in its bearing en soekty at large, than the nature and extend of informal on communicated to the middle classes, and especially to that portion el the middle classes who• form the increasing body de nominated professional men. As schools form the subject of interest i n th e education of the masses, so do colleges and uni versities replace them for youth, mare advanced in life, and supposed to. req•dre something beyond school instruction. It is worth while to consider the nature of institutions of this kind in England, for it is a subject constantly before us, and one which attracts growing interest. Our English university—a system :18 peculiarly and exclusively ours as ary point in OCT national cha racter—has always been acknowledged to possess many and great advantages, in, spite of its imperfect action and nan ow spirit% It in certainly effectual in developing those qualities and powers which belcag to the gentleman. It is successful inducing certain habits et reasoning. It produces admirable divines, excellent lawyers, an& first-rite mathematicians; and I in each case the foundation success is laid in early manhood. So far as mere guidance in certain direc tions is concerned ; so long as we look only tee, the successful cases in which is seen the firvaerabk action of mind upon mind,. and the ripening of the judgment by association with men of acute intellect and kindred pursuits ; so long may we dwell with satisfaction on this, perhaps the richest and the most enduring, fruit of the philosophic and religious charity of the middle art!: ....stances, however, may occur which induce us to think seriously of the terms on which we enjoy this benefit, and consider whether the result, however beneficial to the few whose especial pursuits are fa voured by it, may not be a very unreasonable sacrifice of the interests of society to these few individuals. From the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge together, about six or seven hundred young men per annum are sent out into the world, or, at least, take their degree of Bachelor of Arts. With comparatively few excep tions these are distributed in the church and at the bar. Some become country gentlemen and poli ticians. Some few are afterwards physicians, and some are mere resident fellows of colleges. The latter, it may be as well to mention, form a curious and locally important tiers etat in the univer sity, most of them too idle to learn, too well paid to starve, neither governing nor governed, who have exhausted their energies in obtaining a high degree, and who sit sown at the age of twenty-one, satisfied that they have done their work for life. They are willing to exclaim "Eregi !" but, alas, where is the " monunientani" of their labours ? Now, we ask, ought the state of these richly en dowed universities to be such ? Are there no other interests in England at least as important as those here provided for ? Are there no classes which, in their future intercourse with society, are as influen tial and prominent, and for whom, therefore, a na tional system ought to provide? The evil of our university system is, that it is not national : it par takes of the mischief of class legislation. There is in this country the vast mass of the middle classes, numbered by tens of thousands. We have amongst them young men who are to be employed in all the varied and important applications of science to the arts of life. We have, for example, the medical practitioner, the chemist, the engineer, the manafac turer, the merchant, the mining agent. And what education does our University system provide for them ? There is absolutely no provision for these classes : they are utterly and entirety neglected, so far as the country and the great national institutions are con cerned; and if they have any resource, it is entirely the result of private speculation. But we say more. Science in all its phases, apart from pure mathematics ; scientific knowledge, scien tific tastes, scientific principles, and scientific pursuits ; are things not merely disregarded in our universities: they are positively disliked. Instead of being taken advantage of as at least in some cases assisting in the work of education ; as founding habits of observation co-ordinate with habits of reflection; everything of this kind is discountenanced and "put down." But if these great institutions will continue to check in every way that mode of intellectual advance ment which characterises the period in which we live ; and if, in spite of this check, the mighty power of scientific research, and an opinion of the practical 1 1 usefulness of scientific knowledge, still makes itsway then the old university system must ultimately be remodelled; for a well-grounded opinion on any sub ject, felt and expressed by the mass of intelligent people of this country, never fails in obtaining the attention it deserves. It may be, however, that respect for age and past services, and a dislike to interfere in what many will regard as private endowment, will for a long time prevent any direct external influence from being exercised ; but during this time public feeling on the subject will undergo great change, and that system which was once all-powerful, an instrument acting at the most favourable time on the most plastic mate rial, will degenerate into a mere scholastic institution —a seminary for the clergy and a retreat for the SURREY PROTESTAIiT ALLIANCE. A meeting of this association took place last eten ➢ug in the large room of the Horns Tavern, Kennington. The room was well filled, the company consisting chiefly of ladies. Col. Sir Digby Mackworth took the chair. The Rev. Mr. Duke having opened the proceedings with prayer, the Chairman addressed the meeting, con tending, by various arguments and instances, that although knowledge had progressed, and the naiads of men had become more liberal, Rome remains unaltered. He then made tho following singular statement:—He had been told by Capt. James Gordon that the speeches of Pro testants in defence of their glorious religion in the British senate, were garbled by Papist reporters. He had been told by that hon. gentleman, also, that the whole of the six teen reporters of the Morning Chronicle were Roman Catho lics (A voice : " And the editor too "), and that thir teen of the reporters of another morning paper were of the same religion. He was also assured that young men were trained in Catholic colleges to be reporters for the press, with the view of enabling them to suppress the speeches of Protestants, whilst they did ample justice to those delivered by persons of their own faith. Was it not time, then, for Englishmen to arouse from their lethargy ? Was there not real danger to the people of this country? When they saw the disposition of Lord John Russell to endow the Irish priesthood, and Sir Robert Peel to support him in his Irish policy, was it not necessary to open the eyes of their countrymen to the real nature of Popery—to its idolatry—its sinful doctrines, and its intolerant spirit ? They must look to the intelligent middle classes, rather than to the higher ; they must depend on the electors of England more than on her aristocracy, for an effectual stand against Popery. He was happy to say that Protestant Alliance Associations were being formed throughout the land, and that the people were beginning to arouse themselves ; and if their Dissenting brethren would but join them, and all were to act in concert, England would yet be saved, and (rod would be honoured. Mr. C. SHAW moved the first resolution, to the effect that " the organization already adopted by the Protestant:: of Southwark, for the defence of the institutions in Church and State, be extended to the county of Surrey." The Rev. HOBART SEYMOUR seconded the resolution in a powerful speech, in the course of which he contended that the Irish priesthood held the destinies of England in their power, as proved by the fact, that every Whig ministry had been broken up by, and every Conservative cabinet wrecked upon, an Irish question, and urged the necessity of Protes tants combining throughout the country to oppose the pro gress of Popery, and instruct the lower classes, in order that they might stand by the Protestantism of the country. After referring at length to the idolatrous practices at the festivals at Rome of which he had been a witness, and the character of the Jesuits, the speaker alluded to the jesuitism practised in this country, and stated the following case, which had come under his knowledge :—Whilst on a visit to the Rev. Mr. Merewether, in Leicestershire, a short time since, a gentleman then inclined to tracterian principles, Mr. M. told him that a leading Catholic convert in the neigh bourhood had written to him to state that if he would privately conform to Romanism, it should be concealed, and he might continue to hold his living as a Protestant clergy man until it was convenient to declare his conversion to Rome. He (Mr. Seymour) would declare the name of the Catholic to whom he had referred [which, however, we refrain from publishing.) (A Voice : The same thing has occurred at Hastings—it is well known.) He had seen the letter written by that individual, and it stated that there were thirty Pro testant clergymen who had privately conformed to but who were still holding their livings, and would continue to do so until it was convenient to declare their altered faith. The writer then went on to invite Mr. Merewether to join them, and pledged his honour to keep it secret. Such con duct he (Mr. Seymour) considered unworthy of a man, in compatible with the character of a gentleman, and inoon &latent with the honesty of an honest Englishman. Mr. Joxes then detailed the operations of the parent society, " The National Club," and read the rules, which he said had been drawn up by Mr. Colquhoun, for the proposed Surrey Protestant Alliance. He stated that upwards of 1000 persons had joined the society which had been formed in Southwark. The Rev. Mr. JENNER and other gentlemen afterwards addressed the audience. The several resolutions having been unanimously adopted, the meeting separated. OPENING OF THE BEDFORD THE LONDON AND NORTH WEEnne-' The opening of this jga ctan , h..., - ali I L had originally been fixed for a 'ik --7 • . % ! sidence of the embankment between Ekdai,L . •. "ki a postponement necessary. It would - '''''S has been made of the interval, as yese i t t ,tisi appeared throughout as solid and coin 2. main line. The branch line is sixteen and - , l ''! NSiat° m mln:attla:lethit u inefa r ogre a rdh t al ornamental id, stations,llWesternMenhO nUdaelte.t.trd.alilgestii,noelahr.bnen'tths.:truihab,:reeiti.einwunirthntteh,P;aci‘lise,innictwa:Penh,.Path;inilttych°twlee-tulej."-Illegkidtilti":4l:st6.—:u,d:d_l4L9ll:oa; bqowniboth with which hrerdthoo t fe h mo e rmy branc h tand. :, o p °econstruction, exceeded 17,00/. cuitous, exceeding the coach read in I L miles, but the company mean to obsiatenis,,,.'` to this extra distance, by chargin g 0,4'; , 1 Bedfuid, literally carrying passengers ti e 7 no thing. Besides Bedford, the towns g g -- Woburn, Ridgemont, Liditgeoi, an d 1 ..,, a41 ( accommodated by the line. The p .. --",... instance ay iedependent one, originatin g i n - . 1 "; t ford, but sr..; subsequently taken up by u p , K ..., Company, who leased it, guarmteeing In i .,_ four per cent. on their capital. Tile erns ,• ' 4 line was opened yesterday was rat Cr en . a. • - ' elating of twenty-night carriage:, tilled ,i h rri per milaen.eawAl f t bh il snuie t at te rl4.t itiloi l. ottotth. - h; ? : j .. .1 directory and their friends. It st arted y nni tt o'clock and proceeded at an easy p ace to 1342,77 arrived in about three quarters of an boa . , • ' hap, and was there joined by a con,idcrable ""es.ll pany, both from the metropnhe „11-I Several carriages were added, and di e? ,„Y'i refreshment ihe train, whi t t had "7: formidable dimensions, started on its m in ,. ward journey was quite as prosperous utll,k,,'' that in going into the the eaten CiTY'J., line, to the great alarm of the the m ' tine injury to life or limb. Here indi yd , had provided an excellent dinner for thei eh : half-past three o'clock, about two haadraileT men sat down in the New Rooms to a tails I the delicacies of the seasen, and prag ig i ii „ champagne and other wines, an of extenesiZ chair was taken by Thos. Greene, p, .'", i ,..4 the Bedford board, supported by H. Stun:L e - 7,J H. Verney, M.P. Alex. Houseman, Eli 671 ford, L. Whitbre ad, Esq., the Recorder ~,- die . The room was densely crowded, awl sesessi,k : to be added in order to aceommedate th e i nn ,* On the removal of the cloth, the C RAll lz u l posed of the usual loyal toasts, iroceeded to pv 7l4 to the Bedford and Bletchley Railway." 4 ge„: 1 1 , occasion to point out the great advantages s hitherto conieetely isolated, was likely to 4,,, participation in railway commuoicafion. Inni 4 ,, 41. it lay right in the way of the caster and nc ,„,,' the counter, and when other railways we were completed, it would, he bad no clink, 6 e ;,7, central depot fur the commerce which Ind Lynl carried away through more circuitous & ski 1 ., detailed at sme length the hist oe y d i,'" from its first commencement to its mos& a s , Greene concluded by avain proposiag the i.e. received with much enthusiasm. The Cu.atieuix next gave “ The Chemise i.O of the London and North Western Company n , said Bedford Was much indebted for the seasic k Lion which was that day opened. Has* la d / k that great company had expedited the web, Ilse in all their great resources; and in ill their e with the local directors, bud behaved in da mc.. and liberal manner. Ho regretted the sb , ree, tag whom he had hoped to see there, but who at 4. town by important business; hut there WV 6,4 present who would acknowledge the •Cennis vie , was sure the toast he had proposed semi( 61 (Much cheering.) Mr. TooTAL returned thanks. The great.. sources of the North Western Company bag, betel alluded to ; that power, almost ton gnat Wet cumstances, was, he believed, in the proem lea d a necessary evil , of one thing he waxen', std that by the company, of which he had *ban working director, it would never be abused. ilkal In the present case they had not been abk teen* of Bedford direct communication with the sefripi the circuit was inconsiderable, ana, ma ed d u , * flict no additional cost of transit on the slaloms it hear.) Mr. Tootal concluded by propoingtbeiani chairman. Mr. GREENE returned thanks. Sir H. vERNET myt t u h t en aield p ini ro thy po: nim, d . ":lte tool D . reras n i l l O wth w a Th e f y o;d b e ilni a C gage n u el tit l t ß l inn ß l sg e m tc , : c t h hh N l ci e cahi, anthde efa7termts wienekc.ithd: 7,..,t, ni , monopolymol,.f. when laugh)—would manure . tehnha)n it — company owr e o o l I f t t e l h icim w e h a siNdahvoaeri people, o h s, i t one N n A c s t nothingt b o h e f : r um: to do o i n 4 x s money ,:i v b: with ii:,; y c mi . : : tig 7 .07 i i ii i their l f m o t roeeny convenience aedi monopoly they enterprisee h ,‘ a e .: and l 1 ;d i l linnit h u etd s e, t er e‘fayaonur had hdiol c afi , dt i t t u h t . kept public.i everyl3 , l.le i c , d . , i a i si . ry4 : : l ,. ~. i: ..... s 7. ~ ~ , : iii The other toasts on the chairmao's ha sea 4 111 1 and the return train started for Bleu* S o ld?rtill o'clock, where it smiled in time 13 Mir . 1 •Ol ud sengers to the ten o'clock Lerida* trios. It ,_.! but,Blete as hle in y, th on e e fo o r r m tn er o ca of .e ,e no carris oil f::.4sgsmiceoPea."." ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.—Vesterditt ,55. waited on the Court of Sewers, at Crailall4.:. ll a application for permission to lay down the elt.ro in a part of the City of London. It was stated ea' that for the protection of the city it had bees call the consent of the commissioners of sewers 11111 to lay down any pipe or tubes under any awe al The deputation stated that the object of the coeprY unite the various lines of rail' by means of onerat graph, and that it had been intended to soshee terminus at the West-end, but it was now resana it at Lloyd's, and the company requested pennisin up the pavement for that purpose. At precento r , the compal,y were not matured sufficientlyto oil deputation to enter into details. The comantria deliberation, granted the required palmier* , wt t therefore, will be the great cent ral termmaidsllt communication. THE ALLEGED DESECRATION OF TEL Yesterday, a meeting of the directors aad poor of Si. Pancras, was held in the boardroom at* house, when the subject of the recent allegeddeate in dead the burtal-greund of St. Giles's-the diately adjoining the St. Pancras workh ouse, sr o After a series of observations had been nude, se , was appointed to wait upon the Rev. Ilr. PIE : burial-ground, in whose abse nce from home Pc ". sexton accompanied them to the pit where the' * been lodged. On their return, air. Batten e "' committee had fully investig ated the refire" which had been removed. There were ' a grot . boxes, one of which was open ed. There wo . nor any unpleasant smeil, and the committee so , fled. But the committee d id had, ou vielist•- thoroughly, that a large quantity of earth and caf raised up against the wall of the infirmary , eh necessity have a tendency to damp the walls, lea'''‘ men were altering a place in another part from which a quantity of gaseous and panicle; The Rev. Mr. Pratt having arrived, enured explanations, which were declared satisfies:l,e-- ing_separated. .-Y ___ THE PEACE SoClETYeSterriar eve-- public meeting of this society, at the gill ethhe : " Threadneedle-street, the third lecture of delivered by Mr. John Stock , Baptist re fined - ham. The subject was defensive war. , - ' KENSINGTON INSTITUTE. —On 3lonase, bitants of Kensington, at a public meetiq ,tß ` blish an institution for that neighbourhood, W: ' Hall, Esq., the chairman of the meeting' '..., president. Reading and discussion rooms ese' diately opened, and the magazines newspete riodicals taken in. Classes are to be'formed fad* tat/pages, music, discussions, &c. &c., lb , "? which are to be participated in by ladies. h*; course of formation. During the evening to' .. persons entered their names as members, Wt. subscriptions, Mrs. S. C. Hall being the hi ' '. entered her name. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECII9 i Yesterday, the annual meeting of this 6066 ! been established to protect its members anus „ rally from malicious and vexatious prowl:4iinformers, from losses sustained by robbe ° - yenta and others and also from brutal awauttst; cution of their other , was held in the t v. Tavern. Mr. Thomas Robert Elt in the chair ?: the secretary, read the report, which stated the : _; was successfully progressing, and had almodeto the common informer, and had also great l L es , outrages and robberies to which the trade had -, exposed. The receipts, including subcriptid*t„, and a pleasure excur , ion to Brightee.."', 3,555/. ss. 5d., and the expenditure, incladoe ment of 200/., figured w 1,3081. 9s. Ild., leseet.,, of 2,2461 . 158. bd., which exceeded that et '"..,.1 year by 2341. 6s. sd. The report Wl' 16 „ 1 ;i: , officers f'or the ensuing year were elected. h..,s a vote of thanks to the chairman, the neeet 4 74 THE QUEEN V. HENRY COLWELL AND is t' ; Sir,—ln ?reference to the above case, of a presecOtl , , prisoner here, reported in your paper of tic j,,cr remarks on the certiorari granted yesterdg °F ' o ,;,ge 4 in the Rail Court, by which the indictment is fel ...0 teal Criminal Court to the Queen's Bench. ova (L,a Herring, complained that the expertise would ha l ......" and there uppears to have been no particular nves 4 should be subjected to such expense, care t ha y ' ', , : ; . turnkeys, and that the assault was c onnecud ?ro b 5 , 5 , regulation of the Secretary turnkeys, of State under whie) .' been put in solitary confinement in a strong room ',„,g,...5 that &criminal prosecution in the Queen's nos , ~,d , , , least, and there is all the same delay and susiss ° , ;: 1 . : trial to which the prosecuwr is liable in cisii sca , ~.,,. quite clear and settled, if this precedent is to la w o ; 4 "„,- who is in the first place falsely imptmeor d ° t ool 4 • may then be losocktd about and his few clotbm. _ 3 O say the least of it, without the possibility of hof, s?.. complaint : whereas a person in other e t as uasn.4,. means of obtaining hisliberadon if be is end w• • ;7:'I7IINCH OF HE BEDFO ai l teefo : rndif, e th ste e rn em li : e nk t:::: bet z stw ._l7 l..,i,...44 o!, sotr p oigiTile . comeny T en h tb e eieun b nec ran nee s s ary fit l ue h dP° li l;l th i l l s e t: co osdi e l n 7 l "-- ': -'ultll lis: . i be lhg tge gradient. a d, eai enn d bdrt e f cthhl t th rune,ebe r eei exception e c v i p: a a s : s ot e au t :: . : t hic and hthe m iledl;7 4mn' luleasrathtool3ed:antiemude Bedford , temhcottagesstations , t and. throughout :ery opocioali,.bnts.uTihi inflict htth,ih a uniw l 3 i tn d eas w bet yutni exceedinglyat:u red for construction, and the " the e rested 17,00/. per mile. At (14 1. t im °f - ous, exceeding the coach road i I g t h' cc, but the compa n y mean to obt'°ate i,, this extra distance, by cha rg i ne l u !ford, literally carrying pas seng i: a •g e ' ang. Besides Bedford, the totals Pier burn, ltid Lidi gemont, tgtai, an d immodated by the line. The me i .' — "L- ance itidependent one , oei ••••• ematmg but w3a subsequently taken up by t i q apany, who leased it, guarautteitg la 44 ' • per cent. on their capital. The tray 6 • was opened yesterday Wall ruler an • rig of twenty-eight carriage:, tilled etory and their friends. It started t ree 4 ,1 tick and proceeded at an easy pace to Ned; cod in about three quarters of as how,. and was there joined by a considerable-in.s' dy, both from the metropolis al' al carriages were added, and ate, eshment the train, which had ridable dimensions, started on its d journey was quite as prosperous sa th e ; t in going into the Bedford Atha , to the great alerm of the paseeigen, lint iry to life or limb. Here the licepeadie yg , provided an excellent dinner for their past three o'clock, n bout two hundred sc sat down in the New Rooms to a taileese!. delicacies of the seassm, and preiusele,-2 mpagne and other wines, all of exerlles%:', it was taken by Thos. Greene Bedford board, supported by H. Stun: i ll ••••'‘ 'Verney, M.P. Alex. Houseman, $1, 4 1 . „,. L. Whitbread, Esq., the Itecurelee,....u' : room was densely crowded, aitl anenj ui.t . e added in order to accommodate the a nac in the removal of the cloth, the Ceatu u • id of the tutus' loyal toasts, troanded to ta•i -.1 he Bedford and Bletchley Hallway." hi, : ," salon to point out the great 'demure tern) completely isolated, was likely to a e ,., ticipittion in railway comtauoication. Inc; • ty right in the way of the eastern and s ni t.... country, and when other railways las - e completed, it would, he Lad no drik-61,--; teal depot fur the commerce which had l•-•-- ied away through more circuitous etne.:l, ailed at simae length the Instate a its first commencement to its ene concluded by again proposing the 'ived with much enthusiasm. he CIIAISLMIN next gave •• The Chairant he London and North Western Company • ~ Bedford was much indebted for the lcag which was that day opened. Bating great company had expedited the work„ 11 their great resources; and in all their the local directors, bud behaved in the , liberal manner. IL regretted the abets-- -.:lt on he had hoped to see there, but who n by important business; hat there wee cut who would acknowledge the •e•temeeitt, , sure the toast he had proposed woad 5, . ach cheering.) Ir. ToorAt returned thanks. The great pad rue of the North Western Company had, h e: dad to ; that power, almost too gnat wee- 'stances, was, he believed, in the present it:. • aceasary evil, but of one thing he was are, ads t by the company, of which he had arhasea king director, it would never be ahead• ISw he present ease they had not been able toned, Bedford direct communisation with themes' circuit was irconeiderable, and,rmall kw no additional cost of transit on the idling& r.) Mr. Tootal concluded by propping the leia irman. Ir. GREENE returned thanks. he CILAIRMAN then proposed "The Dadra ford and Bletchley Railway," it H. VERNET returned thanks, and tokamak obligations which the fulness were vnd,ra es vs in getting cheap and easy transit furthtie • - nure. lie was not one of those who coulinf nopoly of the North Western Compuy. Tae e • ' that company had sunk their mosey Urgers' en more timid people, himself moor the • - d foresi'dit Besidextheftlr tot, rest nopoly well ; they had kept e it enterprise an . •re felt- fzi • y e g , li th )— ey w h ou ad lel a ha ju ve st n au o d thi e n ,i g ui t t. ,, ,w d e o , wi li. th sat' had ever made, and had in even- items medial ivenience and interests of the public. (Basel fhe other toasts on the chairman's lie yea owl 1 the return train started for Bletdlley Oval luck, where it arrised in time to truster il5_ l4 X tigers to the ten o'clock Londoa Mit brat etehley, one or two of the carriages maize-ed.! t, as in the former case, no cell cussequemea,.. . • ELECTRIC TLLECRAPII deed on the Court of Sewers, at plication for permission to lay dawn the a part of the City of London. It was ats at for the protection of the city it had been,aw S e consent of the commissioners of sewer, ar tof the • • • an deputation stated that the object site the various lines of rail by means of aph, ov car and that it had been intended to ni, ` minus at the West-end, but it wu now . 4 s -, at Lloyd's, and the company required P ( ' At rest sit lay down any pipe or tubes under any street if the pavement for that purposf.. nd) to , The commies: rputation to enter into details.permiss i on. terefore, will be the great central tern= MU ?i c lib, c . o ra m ti p o a n t. immunication. TION 01 TE E I TuE ALLEGED DES'ECR.I . and 'esterday, a meeting of the directors i. d ro pf,. ,cr w al ore ted no th t for of St. Pancras, the required was held in the ~~ --..-~--