The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

He also objected to the payment out of the fund of civil contingencies, which wail wended for a different purpose ; but the name of Sir C. Trove lyan did not appear ia the vote for civil coningeneice—(hear)—and in the gross vote there g ine for payments fur service. in Ireland on account o f the rent no one would suppose there was 2,500 e. included to Sir C. Trevelyan. Lord J. RUSSELL considered that when the service was concluded was the time when the government should mark its sense of it ; and. though it might be contended the vsruaunt should I o.ve no discretion, it did appear to him that those who had w itemee el the exertions and auxiety of Sire. Trevelyan his arduous duty were the fittest parties W rward him, m d that it should be dons at the time, that time bring when 1. oliament was not sitting, and when a vote could nu be er••pooed. Admitting generally the prin ciple that public r tvonts were paid for their whole time, there were exception , where great and extraordinary ser vices, as in the eare of military services, were performed, or servises perform.' dorms those times they would otherwise have at their own glosit oat, which did not neccourily come within that principle.. Mr. V. SMITH, col o admitted the great services of Sir C. Trevelyan, objectol to the principle of paying public servants in the way wore propo-id without a previous esti mate being submitted t the house. Ile thought a redistri bution of salaries of public officers should be made, some in his opinion being mud omen too high, while others were pa id too low. He had raised this ouestion before the com mittee on the miettilatteous estimates, and should support any me mber who wild raise it in the house. Mr. ISOCLBURN, AS one who felt deeply impressed with the eervices et Sir C. Trevelyan generally, com plained that by tee rune government bad taken the MUM' of Commons would have been preve•nte d, hut for the notice taken of the sulijeet by the hon. member for Middles x, joining in the , xoression of its sense of Sir C. Trevelyan's eurtiece (Hear, hear.) This was a devise non from the prieade that iu petuniidy payment for especial public sertice, the House of Ceehmuhs was the source from which that payment should come, which he must pretest against With regard to the reduction in the num. bet of Lords of the 'I reesury, he was at variance with the committee, sehowscalirLi to hare forgotten the necessity of hav ing in the House of CORIMOUS a number of esthetes connected with the guvernment to carryon the government in the house —and weo also appeal , ' to nave forgotten the importance of having these interior i flees in order to qualify gentlemen to take hereafter the Melo r "Mice, of the government. It was now an everyday t rcurvence for repessentatives of the government to be called before committees ; and thus the Chancellor of the Ex mque r wets deprived of much valuable sisistaace which he ought to re,o ire in the performauce of his onerous duties. W n Ir• t:tlr. Cloulburo) held the odic* of Chine. llor of the Exchequer he derived much important stance from the Cocretaries of the Treasury. On this question the committee had taken a very limited view. Dr. IX/WRING re.erreal to the report of the committee, and said that it ou.:ht to be considered along with the evidence. As to the I: rile of the treasury, the evidence bad been very weak. It sees moved that they should be re duced to two, and fir this live members voted. and only xis seninst it. The proposal of a reduction to three was es irri by 7to 4. I t,c committe e was of othnioti that by a different distrieutitia of the duties, more might be given them to do- C.d. DUNNE could r.ot concur in the propriety of the grant to Sir C . frevelyao, and hoped that it such an ocea n= arose ag ain in Ire:aud, Sir Charles might be sent to cam honours elsewhere. Mr. MONSELL fel, us strongly as any ram the ability and seal with which Sir C. Trevelyan had acted ; but re collecting the way in which he had thwarted the wishes of men who understood the recessities of the country better than Airmen, he could not but think that his policy had pro duced the most dimetroui result, which had !thee result tl rebellion, and which lie could not fallCli 111 with his vote. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said the relief works bud been undertaken from the best possible !naives, and with the con moue of the Irish members, but it was now prove dto have been a mistaken course, and he regretted Sir C. Trestle yon shooed have defended it. But of the great exertions and laborious services of Sir Charles no one could entertain the slightest doubt ; and he hoped the holm would not be divined en this qu scion. Still he could not justify t.e way in which the grout bad been made. Lord J. RUSSELL said that Sir C. Trevelyan ought not to b. made auswerable tor the po:icy which ministers had 'doped, The Public Work. Act had been passed alter con sultieion of the cabinet ministers with Lord Bessborough. It 'meta, therefore, b mow unjust to cast any blame for this on Sire.. Trevelyan. To prove what his sersices had been, the nettle lord read en extract from Sir Charles's evi dence, rating that he had never been called on for such exertions at he hod to make in Ireland. The government mijed be erong in their Irish policy at that time; they whew be wrong in including this grant it, the civil contingencies; but he hoped the house would not visit those errors on Sir C. Trevelyae, whose in telligence and ability were admitted by all. Auer a few woes from Mr. MonncLL, as to a plan which he had proposed for remedying the evil of Ireland, Mr. LA bOUCHEISE said th.tt Sir C. Trevelyan had la boured with as much zeal and industry to carry out views in which he did not entirely concur as those which emanated from himself. As Secretary for Ireland at the time he (Mr. Labouchere) could not refrain from hearing to tummy to the excellent course pursued by Sr C. Trevelyan. Mr. OSBOII.NE wished to recall the attention of the com mittee to the question before it ; was it proper or not that ministers should to::: a ,-uni et moues' for services rendered, without the approval of pieliament? He contei dcd that the assistants of Sir C. Trevelyan were as well entitled as Einar If to an extra grant. Ile thought the whole was an illegal transaction. lie would either divide now or on the civil centineencies. Mr. BRIOHT hoped the ill vision would not now be taken, se it would appear uneratioua to S.r C. Trevelyan to with hold the 2,5001., his regular salary. The vote was then a reed to 10,7001 expense • feud salari• sor the office of Secretary of State for Ale lieme Deriartece ht.—Agreed to. 57.500/., salaries and expeoses of the office cf Secretary for Foreign Affoils. Mr DISRAELI suggested that the vote should be taken at another period, as he bud some cheerer ions to nicks wit's respect to it. Lord J. RUSSELL sail that he sve.ukt; in that cue, take the vote on Wednes ;Ay, at 12 The vote wit then poetpoucel, and the chairman reported progress. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME BILL. Lord J RUSSELL said he pr posed to move the second reading of this bill on Friday next. He might also men tion that he proposed to proceed with the Sugar Duties Bill ce Monday. The house adjourned at a quarter to I o'clock. ELECTION CO - AMU FE ES.—YESTERDAY. CUELTE,NIRM.—The proceedings commenced with evidence in support of the e..arge of agency. Two solicitors were examined, one of whom proved that he had acted as agent for Mr. Berkeley, had canvassed for him, and had dis tribieed to the voters card: on which were printed the names of various inns. There was no such word as " breakfast" printed on the cards. The witness, however, admitted that On the polling day some breakfasts were given, but he had declined paying for them. The other solicitor had acted as a d:tonct agent fur Mr. Berk..ley, and had di tribated cards for bre detests, b, t C3U:d Oct tell who paid for them. lied prornii el electors breikfasta on the polling day, but alter. wane retracted his pro bk., arid the parties voted against Mr. k.erkvley. Jaws Smite, a shoemaker, proved that he had been enga,ted as a nimneng, r at a pound a week, on cow:1 ion ti nt he vo'kel Mr. Berkeley. Ile voted to that sentleman, and received the consideration.—A , ljourned ro this day. HoasuAtt.—The case was opened, the charges being bribery Lad treati,:g. The first evidence went to rove that a Mr. l'adwiek had acted as si,eat fur the sitting mmler, Mr. Fitz &raid. Two tam en were next examined, and proved that previous to the election of 1847 Mr. Fitz• meld had invited them to a treat at the 11, chmond Arms. They refused, and voted tor Mr. Jervis. On crosv.examinar Lion elle of the witnesses stated that he had been induced to vote for Mr. Jervis by a vision which appeared to him the night before the elect -. o n. Did not 1 - now whether the viaion was the result of potations at one of Mr. Jervis's open houses—sorely knew that it was a vision, awl that be hail remind it to a ritiog. (The witness's de-cription of the supen,teural influent, under which he bad exercised the franchise created considerable amusement.) After hearing some similar evil , ice, the committee edjoorned sn this doe. Vie erpreoo. bably exclaim some innocent individual." These miscel laneous estimates are a trifle—an absolute nothing ; merely, as their name no doubt denotes, the froymenta of the supplies : just those loose and indifferent items that cannot be classified otherwise, and that art ac cordingly collected here for general convenience and facility. 'These may be considered at any time, and just as well on the 14th of August as on any other day of this dreary and interminable session." The utterer of such a reflection deserves to sleep through what the CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER calls " the financXl year," utterly unconscious of income tax or assessed ! But, if awake, he must be told that these " miscellaneous estimates," so far from being the skim are the very cream of the supplies; that they contain everything in public expenditure thit is not comprised in the support of our army, navy, and ordnance—our peace or war establishments (whichever you are pleased to call them) ; that with out these estimates were passed, the QUEEN—God bless her !—would not have a house over her head; that not a public servant, from that eulightened statistician, the CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex citement, down to the humblest door-keeper in his office, would receive a stiver ; that there would not be a farthing for " secret service money," nor a six pence for " printing and etatienery"—nothing to satisfy the inexhaustible voracity of the Caledonian Canal—nothing to feed the vanity of Mr. BARRY, or to citable Dr. Item to warm the tempers or tingers of our legislature. These miscellaneous estimates, in fact, comprise everything that is of the first importance iu our finan cial arrangements ; and, more than that, they really comprise nearly everything in respect of which the country can hope for immediate reduction of extrava gant expenditure. If you wish to ec irch fur a go vernment job, here is the place to put your finger on it ; and how jobs have increseed, despite public and part amentary vigilance, may be gathered from this single fact—that in 1833 the expi•nditure under this head was 2,390,000/., and that it has progressively increased every twelvemonths, until this year the estimate nearly doubles that amount ! The committee which was appointed early in the session to examine into these estimates have made a partial report, and which is certainly open to animad version as an exceedingly bare and meagre docu ment. On the other hand, it was ably defended as a report not professing to embrace the whole of a most difficult and complicated subject, but merely . bringing the results of inquiry up to a certain point. Possibly sufficient allowance is not made for all the difficulties this committee have had to encounter. Although it was composed of some of the ablest and must practical members of the house, it was, we believe, with the greatest difficulty that this committee gut un at all. They were daunted at the very outset by the magnitude and complexity of the inquiry entrusted to them. Some time elapsed before they could bring themselves to grapple with it, and when they did the difficulties rapidly increased. They found the witnesses firs: brought before them wedded to existing systems, and little willing, if able, to give information which might result in recommen dations of a large and comprehensive character. In fact, so much valuable time was 1 ist in considering what to do and how to do it, that it is only surprising that the inquiry did not absolutely result in nothing. There are points, however, about the report of this committee that are of a valuable character, because they are suggestive of topics which may next year be the suniect of more complete analysis. Where w • think the committee have been wrung is in en deavouring to do too much at eerie. Why not have gone thoroughly into one branch of the inquiry, and given to the house from time to time, in a cun7enient compass, the result of their delibera lions upon that specific topic ? Take the first four votes in these estimates : 40,0001. tbr the repairs of public buildings and the maintenance of the royal palaces; 10,0001. for the new works at Buckingham Palace; 8,4001. (more) for the erection of a palm house at Kew ; and 4,224/. for the annual expenses attending the temporary accommodation of the par liament and its officers. How valuable would have been a distinct report from the committee in a shape easy of reference upon each of the poicte included in these items! Again, look at the votes which were considered last night. We saw nothing of the estimate on ac count ot the new Houses of Parliament, which is a sebjeet requiring, as it has to acne extent received, distinct and separate investigation. But take that vote for public works in the Isle of Man, or look at the little discussien which arose about the pavmi nt the sur veyor's travelling expenses on the Holyhead road. I low could these matters have been better disposed 6f than by the pen ot the chairman of the select committee ? Surely nothing but the weakness of a public officer could have recommended the House of Commons to pass either of these items. The revenues of the Isle of Mao, if properly managed, are amply sufficient to build all chapels and court-houses required in that locality. And 600/. for the travelling expenses of a well salaried gentleman, who drives himself in his gig two or three times a sear from Holyhead to Shrews bury, to examine the mile-stones! Why, poor old SAM who drives the Shrewsbury Wonder over these llo;y -head roads would give thegovernment the most per ece intormatiou on the subject for hal: a-sovereign, and ith all the superior advantage of a twice-a-day experience upon the ground. The defence of this little piece of rrivate job bery was unique, and in the highest degree cha racteristic of the " Woods and Forests." Because the 600/. had been charged eve r siren the Holyhead roads were made, therefore it ou.lit to be continued in perpetuity. By the same rule, because the ledgers of that department have never been posted since 1839, as my Lords Commissioners of thel rummy have just discovered to their infinite dismay, then.fore it is in the highest degree unnecessary ever to poet them hereafter. The votes of last night for the new Houses of Par liament lead to very serious reflections. What a cost has been entails el upon the nation by the un fortunate cireumeance of the housekeeper of St- Stephen's retiring to her couch one wintry night in 1834 without seeing her tires pi op, rly extin guished' With regard to Mr. BARRY', bills, members seem to have arrived at the conclusion that there is nothing for it hut 'o " grin and bear it." People may sigh, however, to reflect how many thousands of pounds have been spew, not for the yellow-pinnacled pearte, but for what is facetiously •ailed "the tem porary accommodation of the houses of parliament." Why, the rent of the houses in Parliament-stree, Great George-street, Bridge-Mmt, Abingdon-street, Duke-street, Eaton square, Palace-yard, Richmond terrace, and we do not know where else, that have been taken for " the temporary accommodation of the houses of parliament," would pretty nearly have paid Mr. Batter, which is saying a great deal. The hire of the SPEAKER'S chandehers for the last twelve years would have bought the best set that Mr. BLADES cool I have eup plied ten times over. The c--et of moving the papers b eckwards and forwards mi ;let abselutely have built' a house to keep them in. There is one item that has been voted in this est mete ev, ry yesr tha' really s. ems so monstrous that any explanation of it would be acceptable. It is this : For the probable expense that will be incurred for taking up hair cloth, mats, etc., and elearinz dirt from under the house and the sapid) of hair cloth and mats which will be required from thine to time to make good what is worn out . . . 1,1601. This same estimate of "probable expense " has appeared precisely in the same form for these ten years ; leaving us in a state of pleasing surprise at the reflection how nicely the" probable expense is every year estimated, and how skilfully it is contrived that precisely the same quantity of dirt should be cleared and the same quantity of hair cloth and mats re quired. But probably the house fancy that the man who removes their dirt richly deserves to be well paid. It is doe to remark that the estimate of 4,2241., which is the amount demanded this year, is a great reduction upon the ordinary anneal expenditure for the "temporary accommodation of the houses of par liament." In truth it was time. In 1841, the sum voted on this account was nearly 20,0001: in 1846 it approached 9,0001. The details of this expenleditusson re fo , it r is now, alas, useless to discuss, except as a the future. Suffice it that the 110/. per annum for the hire of the SPEAKER'S chandeliers, or the 6001. for what was called " the outfit of his kitchen," and the thousands upon thousands which have been voted "for alterations according to the estimates of Mr. BARRY," are only samples of about as senseless a squander as ever was made of even the public money. MAILS. T..e West India Mail', eacluding Bermuda, Nassau, Havanna, flisaiiiras, Ni. Urlt.r.w Vern Cruz, *I Annan., and l'urto Inca, Iliad 0t.'!.. , g Woo, for Madeira, Carthagen , Santa Martha, Coaces, Panama, West Coast of South America. and St JuL.n - de - Naaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 17th August. The mail, fur Vigo, °port°, Laura, Madeira, Cad* anti Gibraltar will be made up on the'morninnot the 17th Aug. The made for British North America, and the United States, will be mane up this evening of the 10th Aug. Ile overland mats lot Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, rept, Aden, Ceylon, India, Moog-Kong, and China, via lioulliampa toe. will be made up on the evening of the 19th August. The overland chord mails, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, gent, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, Ste., will be made up on the evening dale 24th Aug. The Walk for New South Wale., Van Diernan's Land, aad New ttidand aid be made up on the evening of the 31st August. The mats for the West West of Africa and Madeira will be wade lean the evening of the dial August. The for tle linazils, the Inver Plate. Monte Video , r ermu '" ham , . Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up o n the teams of the 41b September. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number or STAMPS breed by the authorities of the Starap-ofhee, during 1847, to *he DAILY NEWS wu 3,447.009 Thin, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number :mad to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, end Morning Post, ALL PVT TOOETHItt. In addition to tic above, issued to too DAILY NEWS, livening Paper, there were issued for the 'seating Edition, THE EXPRESS 778.714 Wh h was mere lee Y elieve, than were i.auo'! either to % , ...;1r 4 ,110T Sfandtird, Freeing Paperr. Hum FAUX AT 1.0/11 , 0/1 211411208 Tei•l , ..-1./town., IS vela. Pe. 2. Afternoo., IS .1.112 P.M E 10. aaaaa past 2 , Lito7llool2, W an 3. LONDON, TUESDAY, ALIG.IS. - - AFT ER sit log nine entire months, the Commons House of Parliament have at last, in the middle of the month of August, commenced the consideration of the miscellaneous estimates. " And what of that ?" will pro- WHEN the traveller through Scotland finds any dis trict of country exhibiting signs of more than ordinary neglect—when the fences are decayed, the land drained, the the roads in disrepair, the farm steadings THE EXPRESS, yUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1848. imperfect, the mansions ruinous, and the trees cat down—ho will be informed, in answer to his in quiries,' that " there is a deal of entailed land in this neighbourhood." It will appear very unaccountable should the stranger not be satisfied with this solution of the problem ; for to the sagacious native it appears quite as conclusively, and irremediably, to be the cause of desolation and agricultural sordidness, as peat-bog is the soil of heath and rushes. The pro prietor cannot afford to occupy the mansion, and dare not sell it with the estate to a comfortable capita list; therefore it is let to the tenant of the home farm, who occupies a room or two. and lets the remainder „,o to ruin. The gardens and pleasure g, ounds suffering a like fate are partly con verted into pasture, and partly are covered wth dockers and nudes. The old ancestral trees have been cut down by the creditors. Unless there `:appen to be old leases on the property, the boasted skill of Scottish agriculture finds no room to develop itself; and the tenants, rack-retiteii to supply the immediate wants of their lord, cannot afford to give the soil the advantages of skilful husbandry. The circle of deso lation ep•eads still wider, and abundant types of its presence rray be found in the neighbouring towns. The builder applied to by the lord of so wide a tract of territory has not he itated to enlarge the mansion ; the upholsterer has been too glad to get the job of furnishing so fine a house ; the coachmaker, looking to the security of so handsome an establishment, eon tribtres his proportion in the shape of the family cha'se; and the wine merchant cannot refuse un limited c. edit to the perion who drives to his door in an equipage so imposing. . . . lila a well known swindler's trick to aasume a con sequentially sounding firm that has an old familiar tune about it in the ears of dealers to obtuin the tern- porary use of premises, and to give them the air of being well stocked and business-like. If a whole sale dealer is caught in the snare, others are sure to follow ; and when some fine morning the premises are shut and the rogues have bolted, each dupe finds that he has suffered from an implicit reliance on the gene ral appearance of things, and the sagacity of his fel- lows. Their position is very like that of the entailed proprietors' creditors—they discover all at once, to their horror, that he is not owner of that fine estate, . . but is merely entitled to a life lease of it, the owner ship of it bring, in fact., by some mysterious juggle of the law, extinguished. And he, the being not in existence when the entail was made, yet for whose sake these contortions of the natural law of ownership have been made—does all this ruin make him a great and happy man ? Romance paints him :entering on his unburdened possessions Hushed with youthful hopes, while the poor duped creditors of hi , ancestor endure their losses in obscure -. silence. Sober truth would often more accurately depict him as the chief sufferer in the general wreck. His immediate predecessors have carried to the utmost their privilege of providing for their widows and children, and he himself has in anticipation spent half of his lite interest. He is virtually a poor man, pos sessed only of a slender annuity, but the social institutions of his country compel him to hold the name and rank of a rich man, owning a large estate ; and society, mocking him with a shadow 'of the substantial rights of property, expects that he shall substantially perform its social dutif a. It is not in human nature that the man so placed should be a good member of society. It is sometimes difficult enough for those who might live in humble obscurity if they chose, to avoid expensive ostentation ; but surely if' any man is excusable in spending more than is justly his own, it is he whom the law hes arbitrarily compelled to hold a rank as a rich landlord, while in its humbler capacity of adjust ing the accounts between debtor and creditor it finds him to be a poor man. This system has been in force in Scotland longer than a century and a halt Every yean adds to the b eadth of land brought under restrictions, which, if they remain in their existing rigour, will wage a war of extermination with agricultural improve ment. The evil has cut deep. It is a mistake to suppose that the old aristocratic houses are the sole supporters of entail. It is a law far more popular with those who found than with those who succeed to fortunes, and while the descendants of the old families are wincing under the lash of its inflictions, every rich shopkeeper who realises a few hundreds of acres, desires to perpetuate the fame of h;s success, much to the prejudice of his order, by marking out the line of succession applicable to it for some few centuries to come. Such dictation to pos terity, when the law is complacent enough to under take the enforcement of it, is a privilege which few men have virtue enough to resign. An attempt was made to mitigate the igotirs of the entail law by Lord ABERDEEN'S act of 182.5. It was passed for the benevolent purpose . of enabling owners of entailed estates to make provisions for their idows and children. It is believed to have done more harm than good, by reducing the owner's an nuity, and driving him farther into a corner, where he is set more desperately at bay with the rest of society, a signal instance of the impossibility of ex tracting good from the operation of Item essen tially bad, of gathering grapes from thistles. It would amuse and astonish perhaps in some cases check the public—were we to publish the secrets of some of these entails. The religion to he professed by the holder is a not unfre quent condition. It is sometimes, for instance, provided that he must forfeit the estate to the next in right if he be not a sound protestant ; imagine the next in right coming forward to demand the estate on the plea " I am holier than thou," and insisting that the court of session shall adjud ge between them. If the courts of law are bound thus to enforce protestant ism, they are, of course, bound to enforce catholicism. Would they give the same sanction to other denomi tions of religion, and find that the holder of an estate must be a unitarian, or a muggletonian, under penally of losing it ? It is clear that all this is a relic of barbarism not to be tolerated in a civilised country. Upwards of a century ago Lord fisienwleee and Lord KAIMEC had settled between them the propriety of is total extinction, but some legislative accident interposed to transmit the nuisance through the first French revolution, which frightened statesmen out of the capacity of undertaking social reforms down to the present day. If we had a choice of measures for the alleviation of the evil, we would without hesitation say, that the beet arrangement, both for present times and for pos terity, would be the complete abolition of the power of cntailirg, accompanied by " an equitable adjust ment" of all existing interests in entails. We hold this abstract fixing of remote possession to be as great a mistake as the French system of coercive distribu tion, the one being the antipodes of the other , and equally an interference with the sound rule, which is the old and simple one, of permitting every one to do w hat he likes with his own. If a man desires to give all his landed property to some particular in dividual, let him. If he desire that one person shall hold it for life, and another shall sue coed to the reversion —still let him ; but to carry this system of destination beyond individuals to whom he can point as in existence—to allow him to lay out a figurative geaealogical tree, which the law is bound, a century after his death, to attend to and make the criterion of the disposal of a portion of the property that may then be in existence, is de manding mere than, on any sound principles of the moat absolute respect for vested rights, the citizen is entitled to. Look over the Scottish case books : every now and then there occurs a question about the meaning of some expression in some old deed of entail. Justice is delayed. Important questions be tween living men cannot be settled ; heartbroken 1 clients pray for the judicial adjustment of the most I momentous affairs of modern stirring life ; all must I be postponed because the skill and patience of the judges are taxed to the utmost to discover in what manner a man who has been a hundred years in his grave meant to say that some portion of the earth's surface al ould be appropriated at th's moment. With respect to the LORD ADVOCATE'S bill for amending the law of Scotland relating to entails, which passed through committee of the Lords with an undergrowl of cavils but no serious oppo sition, we are bound in candour to admit that it is much more comprehensive than we had any right to expect, and quite as strong as the preponde rating interest among the electoral class in Scotland is prepared to submit to. Considerable privileges are conferred on the new comers who have no vested in terests, that is to say, on those who may hold under entails date d before the passing of the act, bat are themselves born after its date, or who, holding under subsequent entails, are born after the date they bear. In fact every person so situated is to be entitled abso lutely, and without. requiring the assent of any other person, to diseolve the entail. A less effective privi lege is conferred on a holder who may have been alive at the time when any future entail is executed. He may cisentail, but only with the assent of .the next heir, if that next heir be 23 years old and born after the act comes in force. The immediate effe t of the act when it passes be to enable the holder under an existing entail, to dieentsil with the consent of all the next heirs if they be fewer than three, or of three of them if they exceed that number. There is often a probability that while so many persons are successively the next apparent heirs to an entailed estate, some child may come into existence who 'shall exclude them all—persons so situated may be made to fe 1 it their interest to join the holder in a distritail. The advantage which creditors will enjoy under this arrangement will be, that when they attach the holder's lite-interest they may induce him to negotiate between them and his successors, so that the estate may be virtually divided among the parties so interested in it. FRANCt. PARIS, MONDAY, 11'30 A.M. In spite of the interest which the crisis that has taken place in northern Italy is calculated to excite, the attention of the public and the press is almost wholiy engrossed here by the question of the publi cation of the documents and evidence collected by the Insurrection Committee. Notwithstanding suc cessive decisions made almost unanimously by the as sembly, that this mass of inkrmation shall be published complete there is still a hesitation and a doub'. The party which for the moment holds the ivies of power trembles before the terrible conflict of persons and passions which must follow the publi cation of three monster volumes. Meanwhile the republicans of the morrow, on the one hand, insist on the publication in the hope of casting odium on the republicaue of the eve, and the ultra-democrats clamour for it because they du not choose to be made the scape-goats of the offences committed by others as well as themselves since February. It is certain that the government desires to sap press the evidence and throw overboard the question. This course is strongly advocated every day by the Natio/id, but General Cavaignac shrinks from the responsibility of such a proposition. I have reason to know that the printing of a large portion was finished on Saturday night, and es the work proceeds incessantly, these blue books will have already swelled to much larger dimensions The printing will not be completed until Wednesday evening, and the distribution will take Kam the next morning, unless government can find some way to get out of the "e,/i/xteress." I um assured that this massof evidence and documents will fill three or four quarto volumes. Sir 11. Bulwer, who arrived in Paris on Tuesday, left on Friday last for Turin, charged, it is said, with a diplomatic mission to effect an arrangement be tween the Austrian and Sardinian courts of the affair' , of northern Italy. The Gazette de Lyons &tat , s that the Marquis Joseph Ricci, Under-secretary of State for Foreign Attiirs of Charles Albert, has arrived at Lyons to make arrangements for the reception of the army of the Alps, in Piedmont, in the event of its crossing the frontier. M tram., Avo. 9.—Three per Cant,., 191 paper ; after D 01.., 191 each. k'it'e per Cento., 11 paper ; after hot., lu/ cardh. Purrivee, 4 paper; atter Dole, 31 can. Bank of $L Ferdinand, is to .50 twrh. Diacount of notes, 91 31 percent. Exchange on London, GU days, 40. ITALY. We have received letters from the Sardinian head quarters at Vigecano, to thcBth inclusive. According to these advices Charles Albert had establish. d field hospitals at Asti, ('hiari, Carignan°, and Anneet y. A force of 800 men had arrived at Aleseandria, and further reinforcements were exp. cted. A letter from Vigevano, dated the Bth, says: Our army is rallying and organising; the King so well seconded by the two princes, his sons, is still at its head in spite of the profound affliction of Ch..rle -Albert, his counte nance calm and full of dignity in the midst of the criti cal circumstance in which we are placed, inspires the greatest confidence in the troops and the most lively enthusiasm amongst the rural population. Colonel Cosset°, on his return from Milan, where he wits lent yesterday, by the King, has brought the consent of Marshal Itadetsky to the exchange of all the nrisonen. Right or wrong, for it is very difficult to know the truth in the midst of ao many paw ono as are let loose, General St. Mare ri, thief of the military commissariat, as well so General Sommariva and others, have been cashiered. The line of the Ticetio not affording • sufficient de fence, it is supposed our head-quarters will first be removed to Condit' and afterwards to Alessaniria, where a cons;derable force is collected. Meanwhile, Marshal Radetsky, who, by the capitulation, had guaranteed the life and property of the Mdanme and who undertook besides to forget, as much as possible, the past, has entered on his old system of intimidation and persecution. Hardly installed at the Palace Borromeo, he launched three thunder bolts, martial law, an immediate levy of all men able to carry arms, from eighteen to forty, and a decree enforcing the immedia e return of all Lombards who have left the country under pain of coefiecation The fouriiitha of eublesse and the bourgeoise fled the city, and they who remained showed • calm and profound indignation towards their old masters. The lower class alone. with the anarchists, whom the farmer Provisional Government as weak as proud, could never reduce to order, applauded the solstice of the Austrians. It is this abject part of the population alone that outrared the King and the troops. It is easily conceived that such persons could not act other wise, and it is they who, after the departure of our troops, devastated the city, and sacked the custom-house and the indices. A letter from Milan, doted the 7th, says that Itadeteki had assumed the administration, and that l'rioce Schwartzemberg was appointed Governor of Milan. Letters from Florence of the Gth announce that the spirit of disorder had been repressed. The grand duke, finding that the Gonfalar,ieri, Baron Bettino Ricceoli, after two days fruitless efforts had given up the task of forming a new cabinet, insisted on the late ministry retaining their offices, and that the Counts Ridolfi and Baldassaroni should continue at the head of affairs. These ministers acceded to the commands of the sovereign, but only on the condition that they should be assured of the cordial support of the chamber. Upon this an extraordinary see-ion of the two cham bers was held on the night of the sth, at which a vote of confidence in the Rtdolfii cabinet was passed by acclamation. Next day appeared an important pro clamation, signed by the grand duke, and counter signed by Count Ridolfi. It says : It arms alone could completely preserve us from the dangers which so closely threaten, it would doubtless be • noble resolution to place in arms alone every hope of safety. But at present we cannot be certain of our ability alone and unaided to resist by arms • power ful and victorious enemy, who has already occu pied two neighbouring states without encountering any successful resistance. All hope is, however, rot lost, and victory may still crown the arms of coulederate cowers. The force of Italy in not yet exhausted by her re verses Europe has not abandoned her, but en courages her in s a noble an enterprise. The mediation of England and Femme gives us confidence Vast our froatins will not t e vi d if internal order be preserved, and if the measure- to be adopted by government tor our de fence he executed without disturb once. My go v, raiment, wrong in the vote ~f the wembly, haiiresolved, for the common good, to ~crept the friendly mediation of the two powets. Since the above was written we have received the ,journals and correspondence of Turin to the 10th. The ministry had resigned, and the King was about to form a new cabinet. Meanwhile the ministers held their offices provisionally, and took all the necessary measures for the maintenance of order. Il Corriere Mercantile is cited by the Opinione as having announced the departure of an extraordinary courier, the bearer of a despatch from Charles Albert to the Venetians. The object of this despatch is to en courage the Venetians in their resistance, represent ing to them that the capitulation of Milan was adopted under overruling necessity to save the army, that the war will continue, and that French interven tion, pressingly demanded, has been loyally granted, and that its effects would be speedily felt. Letters from Bologna, of the 6th, say that the mortn-proprio of the Pope had restored confidence. All the bells were rung that morning, the gate on the Ferrara side was shut, and the civic guard was under arms. The Prolegata published the following procla mation : The topographical condition of the country, the refusal of the troops to make a defence considered impossible, and the concentration on a more strateeic point, have induced me to send to the head-quarters of Marshal Walden a depu tation with the following protestation against the violation of the pontifical territory by the entry of Austrian troops into this province. This to only an act of superior form, which can in nowise prejudice the plenitude and immunity of the sovereign rights of the holy see in this prOvince. In the name of the sovereign pontiff we will maintain sate, and will reserve, all rights and titles, and abave all the keeping on feet the civic guard intitutled by tee mortu•proprio of the 30t.1i of July, 1847. We make all reserves for indemnity for this fact either directly or indirectly. The civic guard will continue to occupy the posts, and to preserve order, with the dignity necessary to the circumstances. _ . _ . • The Patria of Florence of the 7th says that a courier of the Tuscan cabinet has arrived at the legation, the bearer of a protest by England against all invasion of the Pontifical territory. Letters from Rome of the sth say that the new ministry had not yet been formed, nor was any report circulated as to its probable composition or programme. The news of the surrender of Milan had not yet been received there. GERMANY. AUSTJtIA.—We have news from Vienna to Aug. 9. The deputation of the Diet to the Emperor, at Inns prtak, requesting his immediate return to Vienna, has communicated to the Diet the successful result of their mission. _ Our correspondent at Vienna writes as follows : VIENNA, AUG. 7.—Yesterday our German garri son, only two regiments of infanty and one regiment of cavalry, in company with the national guard, had a great parade. The German colours were hoisted, three cheers were given to the chief of the central government, and by this act of solemnity Austria has openly declared her intention to unite with the whole of Germany. Last night we received dos- patches from M. Hornbostel, our Minister of Com merce, who has been sent to the Emperor, in advance of the 12 deputies of our constituent assembly. The Emperor will now, it appears, return. There are two important facts in this imperial resolu tion, the first is that the emperor acknowledges :hat the national assembly and its deputies are the true expression of the nation ; the other is that he recog nises the necessity to obey that expression. Such a termination of the affair, surprising as it is to every body, is considered the most important victory of the demwratic principle. Wessenbcrg, who has not yet accepted the presidency of the council, and who is at Frankfort, will not come to Vienna. He is an old friend of Archduke John. Prokech, to whom the portfolio of the foreign affairs had been offered, has not yet accepted it, feeling himself incapable. The ministry, with all its success, has still its fears. Itadet zki is advancing in Italy at such a pace, that we are afraid he will not resist the occasion to cross the fron tiers of Sardinia, a success which we openly decline to enjoy, our war in Italy not being made to conquer, but to obtain an honourable peace. The strictest orders will be sent to Radetzki, not to cross our frontiers. Amounts of the 31st of July from Jassy slate that the Itus4ians had not up to that time taken their departure. PORTUGAL. The Jupiter, Capt. Meehan, arrived at Southamp ton last night, with the Peninsular mails, in the charge of Lieut. Rainer, Admiralty agent. Her dares are—Gibraltar, Aug. 4 Cadiz, 5 ; Lisbon, 9 ; Oporto, 10; Vigo, 11. She brings 40,000/. in specie. The intelligence from Lisbon is that the Cortes would close on the 14th. It was stated that at a drawing-room held by the Queen, her Majesty had been ' treated with diliespect. The political prisoners still remained incarcerated. The son of the late Spanish ambassador had been ordered to quit Portugal. The northern provinces were in al i xcited a state that dis turb:in ?es wer.i expi cted every day ; while in the northern garrisons numerous desertions had taken place. Gas has been introduced into the streets of Lisbon. 'flu re was a rumour afloat that the Queen had been fired at while at Cintra, but it was believed to have arisen from the fait of additional troops being sent to protect her. She has lately, however, driven with a guard, which is quite unusual, except on, state occa sions.. The discount on bank notes was 39 per cent. Ex change on London, 30 days' sight, 52; ; 90 days' date, 52;. Little business done.: Our correspondent, whose letter, with the :Lisbon papers, we have received since the above was in type, Says In either house the debates:havebeen without subject of public interest beyond the blazoning of the shameful tact of misappropriation of treasury funds being carried on to the absorption of nearly the entire riventice of the country, by the Queen's ministers, their relatives, and the court par tizans, while hopelees and hourly aggravated bankruptcy brine the miserable state to which Portugal is at present redaced to. . On Sunday, the 31st July, a disturbance took place at the thronged arena at the Campo &iota Anna bull-fights, which for a time threatened seri. wily to compromise public tran quillity. A Spariard, newly introduced to the circle, had been advertised u the performer of sundry novel ►nd agile feats, one being that upon the first rush of the bull into the ring, he wu to spring upon its btor and then disable it. The alight dilfererce, however, in the pleasing pn gramme, and the fact as it occurred wu, that instead of the cavalier's jumping upon the bull, the buil first knocked his antagonist down and then jumped upon him. The th,lppoint. d opt ctators set up loud and angry cries, and the bliffi Ni matador first receiving a savuze beating from the government director of the sports (the man bring held by others while he was thus kicked and beaten) was then handed over to the soldiers, who also cruelly maltreated the faiwing wretch. The spec: wore relenting, expressed their disapprobation and disgust at this cowardly and savage proceeding, when, from some unexplained cure, the military guard and a portion of the lookers on commenced a contention : on the part of the police soldiery swords were drawn, a miserable abortion of an officer setting tne example, sabre cuts were dealt out riAlit and left, and severe wounds were received by many. It re quired some exertion of the authorities to restore order, and, from atter precautions taken by the military, it would appear that an attAck on them was anticipated. Fortunately no further collision occurred. .h:bt aurt. OnDONN, MONDAY.— The Queen and Prince Albert, 'he Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Langenhurg, the Princess Eiiza, and the Royal hou s ehold, attended disuse service y. sterday morning at Whippingham enur‘h. The Duchesi of Kent attended divine service at East Cowes Chunk. The Royal dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, Prince and Princess Hohenlohe, Prince Victor and Princess Eliza, Lady A.. 1. Dawson, Viscount Morpeth, and Sir G Ciuper. Lord Morpeth left Osborn tor London this morning. The Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday morn- Ina on a trftit to the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence in Richmond•park. A deputation, including Mr. Hodges, M.P. for Kent, Mr. Pomfret, and Major Cortei., had an interviLw with Lurd dorm Iturweil yeate-day, at hit res i dence, in Downing-street. The Marquis of Lansdowne returned to town yes terday from Nunehara-park. Viscount Morpeth arrived in town yesterday morn ins from her Majesty's marine residence, Osborn, Isle of Wight. TfIE QUEEN DOWAGEtt'd BlRTllDAY.—Yeaterdny, the anniversary of the bath of her hlejesty the Q n wr-iter Adelaide, who completed her 56th year on Sun day the 13th in tent, was c lebreed with the customary re• joicings in the m tr .polis, ant at the royal residence, Bushy park. The royal stauderd was displayed on the pithlic inns, the tower and steeples of the churches of St. Martin's in-the-Fields and S. Marg., Vs, W.stasinster. In the evening her Majesty's Theatre and the houses of the royal tr 'people were alurninat Toe custsinary rural fkc at Bushy was postponed in consequence of she state of the weather. DEATH OP MR. GEO. STEPTIENSON.—It is with much concern that we announce the decease of Mr. George. Stephenson, the celebrated engineer. He died at his esta blishment in Derbyshire on Saturday last, aged 67. Few men hare obtained or deserved a higher reputation. He rose from the humblest life from the elasticity of his native talent overcoming the obstacles of narrow circumstances and even confined education. No one could come in contact with him without being struck by his superiority and origi nality of mind. In his profession he was as happy and inge nious in his discoveries as generous in imparting the benefit of them to the coed. In the history of railroad interprite and movement the name of George Stephenson will live. UNI VERSITY REFORM.—The memorial praying for a royal commission of inquiry into the beet methods of se curing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford an.; Cambridge, which had been signed by nearly 300 graduate' and former members of those universities, as well as by some of the fellows of the Royal Society, was presented to Lord John Russell, in Downing-street. on Monday, the 10th July, by Mr. Lyell, F.R.S., accompanied by Sir C. Lemon, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., Sir D. Brewster, F.R.S., Mr. E. H. Banbury, M.P., the Rev. Prof. lienslow, the Rev. Prof. B. Powell, F.R S., Mr. Senior, Mr. T. J. Phillips, Mr. M. Thackeray, Viscount Melgund, M.P., Mr. E. James, Mr. Robartes, M.P., Mr. H. B. Adair, M.P., Hon. P. J. L. King, M.P., Mr. B. C. Tufnell, Mr. J. Heywood, M.P., F.R.S., Mr. C. Fortescue, M.P., and Mr. Hearn/an, M.P. Mr. Lyell observed that the study of many Important branches of knowledge, both moral and physical, especially the mole mnressive ones, now nominally taught at Oxford, had of late been virtually abandoned ; ctrietly because, according to the present system of examirsatious, no proficiency is those sciences coul 1 lead to di.stinction in that univo.sity. The classes of experim e ntal philosophy, comparative ar,a tomy, chemistry, geology, botany, modern history, poll- Heel economy, and many *then, were nearly or wholly deserted. The colleges, by dividing the student, into many distinct sections, were unable to furuish and support au ade quate staff of able and permanent teacherv, each devoted to one department; and lastly, in times comparatively modern, the clerical body had endroor d an increasing and undue shore in the management of academical tuition.—Mr. E. Banbury, atter adverting to the existence at Cambridge of the same evils as those indicated by Mr. Lytll at Oxford, pointed to the great disproportion between the funds of the university and those of the cell. Ft II as one of the principal causes of the undue preponderance of t..e latter, and drew attention to the constitution of the academic holy itself, as opposing great obraeles to the introduction of necessary re form., especially on account of the abatiute veto possessed by every member of the caput, and the want of ail power of discussion or amendment of graces in the senate. He stated at the same time that the immediate object of the memorial ists was not to urge specific measures of reform, but to oh. tabs a preliminary inquiry by means of a :opt' commission. —Lord J. Russell, in reply, iated that he would take the subject into his serious consideration, that his attention had already been dr Iwo to it, anti that he found that • great variety of opinions were entertaintd as to the best method of effecting reforms; but that he agreed with the memorialtsts u to the existence of defects in the present system. NATIONAL REFORM LEAGUE. Yesterday a public meeting of the electors and non. electors of Mitrylebone, convened by the above anode.- Wu, was held in the Portland Rooms, Foley -street. Mr. Nicholay oresided, and opened the proceedings in a brief address advnca , ing reform principles. Mr. Ewa moved the brat rieolution, which was to the eft ct that the present position of this country preteuts a sub ject for the deep and serious cons;drretn/n ut the community, and requires that Fame wise and prodeat exertions be diately made to prevent agitatien and rernire tranquillity to the nation and prosperity to the people. In mooing the resolution he spoke of the vast resources of this country, which were amply suificie:4 to main tain its population, but who were to a great extent deprived of the means of existence, because labour was not protec'ed and they were not fairly repros, uted in parliament. lie considered, indeed, that uo etas, were r. presented in the legislature but the landed and the money interests of the country, and it was therefore time that the people should exert themselves to remedy the evil. In pursuing this course, however, he urged them to b., united, and to endea vour an ter as possible to reconcile email differences in pur suing the common end in view. It was their object to pre vent the enaction in this country of .s sy.rem of agitation which had been so destruct ye to tee iuti rata of Ireland and France, and these evils be considered c ...Id only be avoided by carrying out the principles of the leseue. Mr. I. Windom eecondedthe mulatto:4, which was adopted unanimously. Mr. HUMBY then moved a resolution expressing the opinion of the meeting that little g , :cid could be ettectid or ho, ed fee but by the united simians and moral intelli gence of eNctors and people employe in co-nperoti with faithful representative., and that wine system was necessary to secure that co-operation. Mr. RUMELL seconded the resolution. While advocating the principles of the people's charter, he expressed himself opposed to the violent course red ntly adopted by its advo cates—opinions which were received with loud expressions of anaent, in the midst of which Mr. Itnssell continued to urge his views. . . . . . The reso lution basing been carried, Lord D. Sn'Aftr, who, with Sir 13 Hall, attended at the request of the committee, then came forward to address them. The meeting ha assembled to discuss a question of as high a degree of importance as well could be—vie., how where the people to be represented in parliament an how were they to be goverred ?—[A Voice " An d how are they to be fed ?"]-0n those questions the prosperity of the people depended. Hewes fully sensib:e of the fact, lead since he had had the hon'ur of representing the borough there had Bien no reform measure brought forward to which he had not given his support. Besh'es parlia• mentary reform, he had voted for the reduction of public expenditure, which be had always conceived to be a most important qui ethos. He was aware that with a large and heavy debt, such as was hanging over this country, the people must • ndure a large amount of tar.tion ; but he wanted to reduce its present amount, and, what was more, place it on a fair and equitable basis. He :bought English men should never rest until they .Tro ensured that no tax peened mere heavily on the poor nits than on the rich. It seemed to him monstrous that they should be then endee routing to obtain that whicu it was ridiculous to suppose could be refused in this country. It was his object to have the people fully and fairly represented; he had therelore voted for Mr. Hume's motion, and should continue to follow the same courtse whenever he had the opportunity. It was with the greatest pleasure that he had the other night found himself in the majority on a resolutiou in favour of the ballot. (Cheers, and cries of " Where was Sir B. Hall?") He would leave his bon. friend to answer the question. He hoped it would not he meg be fire a bill was brought into parliament for the 6111118 object, although he was no believer in its early adoption. He had also given notice that he would early next session propose a motion in favour of triennial parliaments. (Cheers.) He was also in favour of every other measure of reform proposed by Mr. Hume; and when those measures were passed—when the people was fairly represented—when they had no corrupt influence (for the legitimate influence of property, united with thee reeMr, must ever remain), then a better order of things woull be seen : parishes would not be saddl II with unjust police rates, policemen would not be armed, taxation would be put on a proper basis, labour would have its rights, and this country would acquire something :ike a degree of prosperity. (Cheers.) Sir B. Hash then came forward, and in the first place begged to explain his absence from the house on the night when the resolution upon the ballot was brought forward. which he said was caused by a domestic event of a pleasurable chsracter, and one which required his presence at home To all the measures of reform the mem bers tor Marylebone lent their advocacy; but, being at pre sent in a minority, the most efficient assistance mold, be ren dered by the people thecosi Ives. T., show that he had not been idle, he would tell them that ho had moved for a re turn which would put every man in possession of the exact state of representation as it stands at pre'-nt. (Cries of " We know all that," and " How about the gagging bill ?") After alluding to the present state of represen tation in Marylebone, and the difficulty which he had experienced in getting a bill through the house for abolishing the payment of assessed taxes and poor-rates as a qualification to rote, he pioeeeded amidst continual in terruptions and allusions to the " gagging bill," to express his opinion that whilst a great duty devolved on the mem bers, an equal necessity existed that the constituents should exert themselves. lie concluded by hoping that they would, during the recess, lend their co-opeudimi to the exertions which it was the intention of their representatives to make in the next session of parliament. The hon. member then retired amidst general applause. Further resolutions were afterwards passed in favour of the principles of the association ; and a long address was delivered by Mr. Hydd, the chaitiw, who, wh le he would nut move an amendment, expressed his conviction that the entire principles of the charter were necessary to be carried out rather than more partial reforms. In the course of a somewhat noisy debate upon the question at issue, Mr. Fogg. and tooth. r speaker condemned the proposal id the league to oleain the opinion of every man in the country with re gard to the Tharter, as being impracticable, aid leading to an expenditure which the usocist:on would be unable to me. t. Mr. Willoughby defended tb • measure, and urged its desirabh ni as and expediency. The rueetit g bcparated at a late hour. TIIE LONDON AND NORTII WESTERN RAILWAY, AND THE ENGINE DRIVERS' DSPUTATION.—Yesterday a.ternoon a deputation from the enuinedrivers, late in the employ of the London and North West- rit Railway, hod an interview with the members for Itlarylebine, Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir B. Hall, on the subject of the re cent depute and their stcrasion from the company's sersice, and the safety of the public under existing circumstances. The deputation were very courteously received by the hon. mem bers, aid they proeeeded to state that th, it object was to show a substantial re.son why the government ssould be called upon to appoint a committee of inquiry in order to see if, under existing circumstanees, the safety of the public was really guoranteed as stated by Mr. CI yo, the chairman of the North Western Company • whether it was true that the e nein , s on the line were placed ut.der the control of posies selected from her Majesty's dicky arils; whether the po ice had been employed to take place of porten placed on the trains, in accordance with Capt. Heist's ilreolar ; a d also th :t they would be pleased to luquire of Mr. Giyn whether there is or is not any truth in the statement made at the meetings of the engine-men relative to accidects and delays on the line during the past week. The deputation pro ceeded to state that they were prepared to vouch for the statements which had already appeared in the public press; and they added that on that morning the line had been blocked by three testes coming in ell at the same time, and that the train which ought to have arrived at Euston station at 10 o'clock from Peterborough, did not arrive until 20 minutes after 11, or one hour and twenty minutes behind time.—Lord Dudley Stuart informed the deputation that, at the morning sitting of the House of Commons that day, Mr. Glyn, in answer to a question put by Mr. Thornely, had stated that an attempt had been made by the engine-drivers' clubs to induce the men from Rugby to Carlisle also to resign, but that it bad failed; and also that a great number of the men who on the southern division of the line had sent in their notices, had withdrawn them, and had resolved to stay in the company's service.—Mr. Brown (the chairman of the body) begged to give this latter statement his moat ex plicit and emphatic contradiction; and, as a proof, he begged to inform the noble lord end the honourable baronet,that on that morning the whole of the men at i @Aden, Wolver ton, Northampton, Rugby, and Birmingham, had taken in their coats and watches belonging to the company, and had rtoeived their last week's salary, whict it was the custom of the company always to keep in hand.—After a full explana tion of their grievances, Sir B. Hal; suotested that the engine-drivers should tontine their statement to matters of fact ; that they should make out a statement en writing of the delays which had taken place on the arrival of trains at Euston-square and other places during the past week, and place it in the hands of his noble colleague, for the purpose of inquiring whether such statements were founded in fact or not. It would then, in the event ot the answers not being satisfactory, be competent for a member of the house to tasr Td move for a inquiry as to the state of the li skyre sent capabilities tor ensuring the saWy pule, Lord I ). Stuart having concurred, seat e would give S r. Glyn due notice of his intention to puTt s quebtions.—TheA (I — potation then withdrew, and suf, end: waiteid on Mr. B. Osborne, 'M.P., Mr. Waklek P., Mr, Iluar 23 ri M.P., and other members of parttime& \ ....] . - . ..- : J ,! OS •r• ;,, .. • • • '. ..)11 • , . ', ...;