The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

— vim of er nations. (Hear.) There was a 111.".—▪ :bthst had been laid ea the table, which was a loess____; 6 4 : o , o m e let gentlemen appointed by successive ad .„„,graTirr Mem of no particular political bias, and having no • view but to give information to the FOreign.office. _,..lritten nom all pars of the world, without any po ls" — n munication on the part of the respective nevertheleer. there could not be a more than was contained in that document 200 years of encouragement to the commercial that• II " res h d u l- e d in its infinite superiority over other h a noble lord would forgive him if he said wou ld rather trust to the gentlemen who du• t , u p t noble nil bins for a the true rep o or pinion than on to th e matter. stnised m ore fully than he the importance of °oas keep" reee • h d •finsive resources of the country, and if the t e , ,f the drfens , ve navy depended on the commercial - .• e7t'his *tore r ion ronrtitution was altered the better, mit leant on a broken reed. Although these laws might h 0 0 ,,,,d be time, yet they ought to examine and num esiste them, instead of taking the ir beauties on trust, or they ht be educed to the condition of the frogs In the fable 0 , yawn Jepiter s, nt a king, whom they regarded for some Mae with much a dmiration on account of the aplash he i n the w ar r, hut whom on inspection at last they totin g to hr ,N mere log. til• tr.) gr. HENLEY' opposed the proposition of the right hen. gratlemin. The hon. member againet who poke t last seam had got ▪ e u se of abuse en in ; ore ), en d he had rested his case ma inl y on iliese-hook, in which, at all events, there was a considerable weber of cenfrailictory statements. He would no more -silt of estimating the character cf an (ulna people by the env ied by the magistrates of a country to the eight tickee them, then he would of terming his 'the ch tructer and habits of seamen from evidence • blue-book. (Hear, hear.) Whet, he would rate of insurance at Lloyd's for these ships, eirdinst to the bon. gentleman. with such disso and such ignorant careens ? Why he found that veld get their goods insured in there shipe for ; could in foreign ones. (Hear, ha ar.) Tbore who oriel down the mtrehent service would do or in mind the source from which the British ten manned. (Hear, hear) That navy beat g it e !countered, and it was manned principally .e m reheitt service. (Hear, hear.) And he had a' of leen. that if war were to commence again, in spite ejurt imputations lavished on there men by the hon. opposite, these men would again do their duty to their te.een and country. (Cheers.) .HELL cited some cases of the unfair working of law, and the injury done to the trading inte- These special caste of injury, however, were few in number, because these laws had existed has 200 years, and few persons indeed would think rag over goods to ihi. country in opposition to the rescrieed by them. There wee one statement made 100. member for Oxford, which he could contradict — 'teas on foreign vesrels were insured at a cheaper if on English b teams. Now, his conviction was bolt, on the whole were better than foreign ships. that the first close English vessels, such as a the East India and China trades, might be peer terms than any foreign ships. The reason ; f.r not only were the ships better, but their re educated men, well qualified to guard the in te erecter and to protect the property of the mer e° freights wire entrusted to their care. It hap in other vessels the captains were principally men m Moore the mast, and who, though well able to ship at sea in a storm, were whulty incompetent to nirees. or to set as example to their crews when on o should be glad to see in the merchant service of ry the system adopted which was practised in the states of Europe, where no man was admitted to land, or even as mate, on board a merchant ship tad pureed an examination, not merely in navigation knowledge of language., _the rules of exchanges, rat of the Irai , clies of the education of a gentlemen. ,hose countino-house was visited by captains of mer `ot must be struck with the manifest difference .f of the English and those of the ft reign mer e. He had Mom If fouud that in 200 charter came before him in the course of a year, there one to wt ich the signature of an English cap ible. From these causes the shipowner was in property jeopardised. It had been said that if a laws and the apprenticeship system were would be no meal's of manning the royal case of a war. Now he (Mr. Mitchell) contended 'or difflaulty would arise under the present ',a wes the number of apprentices, that there was of able- bodied e. amen, who were driven into the service. Hew could that surplus lie brought back a war On the whole, if he could think that opine would su'tain the slightest injury from the proposed in the navigation laws, he should be selopting those changes; but he was convinced management would arise from the spirit of corn which these changes would create ; bad habits -et rid of, and activity and despatch would be ..ARRIS rem.eked that be had heard nothinb .enure of thi. discussien to induce him to withdraw lactate he had given belore the speaker leR the chair, of intention to move, when the chairman reported progress, e the ciremittee should not sit again until the report of dards' committee was laid before tLe house. He did wish to interfere unnecessarily . , but he must a word or two in relation to the question the commercial marine being the nursery for et the royal navy, aLd therefore for the of the sati , mal defences. On this aubjec!, r naval officers Lad volunteered to give their ly one, Sir James Stirling, had been examined eel oonomit , ee appointed at the instance of the - for Stoke (Mr. J. L. Ricardo). lie should be are an explanation of that circumstance, because he exception to many parts of Sir James &idiom's - That gallant officer, for whom he entertained the p et, had stated that of the seamen in the royal ore than une-te uth had been brought up in the trv..e.e. This was ni gatived by returns made by r of seamen, which he (Captain Harris) held in , and which showed a totally different state of not only with regar I to the ship Sir James himself comm inded at the time he gave his 'set wi:h reference to the crews of the Howe, and the Amphitrite, all of which had into commiseino within the last year. lens made by Sir J. Stirling were true, namely, of 20,000 men in the royal navy, only 1,000 were up in the eernmereial service, there would be at red of the whol , . question, ;as far as the navigation I concerned. The only observation be had to snake statement was, that it was utterly incredible, and :by possibility be well founded. ills own personal led him to form n directly opposite conclusion, , on a visit to Spithe ad, he had fitted no smaller on than two to one of the seamen on board larch, end other ships lying there, who had '.t up in the merchant service. (liear.) . hon. members, before voting on these results : for the report of tLe Lords' committee on the ors. He hoped the right hon. gentleman oppo ,ijourn the further consideration of his resolution inattee had reported. MiCHERE said he could not consent to this would be altogether unworthy of this house. atleman dissented from the resolution, Le a that dissent ia the usual way. lie now pre ijourn the further consideration of the resolution ly next. A message had been sent to the other seating that when the evidence of their committee ter!, it might be communicated to this house. ;DSON wished a postponement for a fortnight, on of the great importance of the subject. Looking , iaess before the house, the Health of Towns Bill masons, it was probable that this would not oc tter delay. Only two petitions had been so yet in favour of any chong , in the navigation laws. ROUCH ERE—I presented Pea myself. :IISON read from a return which stated that up '?lay only two such petitions had been pre right hon. gentleman had strongly abused the I.of the ceuetry. This reminded him of the ',actions to a learned counsel : " No case ; but to abuse the plaintiff's attorney." (Laughter.) :me, notwithstanding the right hon. gentleman's that the m , reantite navy lived in the esteem and of the people of this country. (Hear, bear.) t hon. gentleman had admitted that British-built tee the best, and that British sailors were the best but this wan a qumtion which did not depend on lay of our shim or the excellence of our sailors. therefore read wish great regret the disparagement hipping by some of the consuls; perhaps the reason • that they were largely interested in foreign He was confident that the borough he tepee ' of the largest ports in the kingdom, would 'We this measure. The right hon. gentleman . ship-building might he carried on without 44 as well as other manufactures, but he seemed to itexotteu that the cotton and other manufactures were nod by a duty en foreign praducts. When the free allesserca were prop rad two years airs, they were held i aie greanst liessiegs th.t could he devised; he should to know what benetits had been derived irons them. %'der trecdrade preposal now made would entail niter ee the 'Lie ing trade ; and though it might be true oe is st ariele w , s the cheap. 4 its the long run, it was "eel use who could afford to fitly the best article ; and loslnseley was that /hip-Leading would alnaat en . hoe tb s country. lle earnestly hoped that the sight ,1 5 ,. theenn would defer these resolutions for at leost a aould scarcely be sufficient time for the reePese of the penderous Health of Town Bill. iIIOUCHERE hod no wish to press the matter un ; Ar. ea this was only a resolution on which a bill was Ir .uded, he thouebt it not unreasonable to ask the wreseme its c , usalerathai this (lay week—anxious, as Nat the bill should become law in the present ste (Hom, hear.) As to the wercontile marine, he had " sweeping ensure upon it. Admitting the skill, o and ebkeesmaiaship of the men, he had state d, on the of sequationslae retu-ns, that the ship-master " i ciest is the re qu'isite qualifications; an I i.e making ~e al tarot he thougf.t himself a much better fri. and to -?4 llde marine th an an y one w ho would withdraw heel the fact. (Hear, _hear.) In the. China and l ed ether trades , h , Maestri] the qualifications of the i s h cr7 s most neexcaleionable ; but in other trades, 1 ,..7ecy is skill, and the consequent • :int of disci- Imelneitig deplorable consequences, wl.:ch could e e e:"l be brought under the nuuce of the house. .e ent W i nhSON .g 11; 4 , the Who lee made by tli. se consuls , I. ud to en man's charact s would he safe. Lo 411 1:10 more,! th-t the chairman sboull report thowa t aire to art agent. wadthh would be s very blown*. ii org ave anPh , l ny aim" hr .subt helot • 'sas of the ch teat heard in a blue-b oof the rate ul according to crews and snob i reheats could get than they could demo who crier? to besr In mi rg was then man] rythirg it e !cow them rehunt • c nfl tem , that the unjust imputu tlemen opposite, y well to their Mr. MITCHELL the present by it. These els. few in at orate than 200 y• bronsing over go preAmihed by the hon. member pod• on fore than if on Eng • En:lish, on th :seas satisfied thu engaged in the at loser ter. obvious ; f no • .rs wen' educe.. • of the ow oer is whose freight that in other eht fr m hetore age • ship at sea duct husirees. or Hc should t country the cyst •era states of E command, or en he hsrl passed is the knowleds jg 'Vet 14 the I. p see whole count t ships hut mug ea those of thi -tile service. He ;es which came I scarcely one to ems legible. F sad his propel strigation law el, there wut in cue of the flue difat.• , for such was tl ;usage of able. strylce. cue of a war: • shipping we Pe , DOW prlpae chary in 11 lopt • road managem non which du be got rid t tatted. Captain HARR] the more of thi, service of the ro tenant* of the eat many naval offic only one, Sir J !be select commit' somber fur Stoke to have an ex planati exception to man • . That gallant' veep et, had eta , Lot 01014 than one bani errv'ee. This registrar of oeamen, hood; and which I . not only wi'h at himself crown • , but with refe Leander, and the put into corns s 'lawmen' made bj oat of 20,000 men t up in the con ea ei.d of the wht.l me concerned. 'I that statement was. at by poosibility I ier.ce led him to newly, on a obit to gooortion than two kmarch, and o broupt up in mnested hon. men to wait far the rat um laws. He he 'sold adjourn the ft that committee had . lABOUCHERE , which would be say hon. gentleman express that disse to adjourn the (us H•tday nest. Ana ,reeplesting that v reported, it might . HUDSON wishe t of the great i • business before tt odur memorise, it rooter delay. ( •cd in favour of a . LABOUCHERI . HUDSON read 10:h of May ant] The right hot tile navy.of the inAructikaas to abuse the stew, notwithsta . that the no , rca ins of thy pen r.cht hon. gen t were the best, • ; but this was cozily of our eh 41 therefore real shipping by eon be that they . He was co one of the It • 4 , premt• e this that ship-in from vet, it to the , that ships. asked crying aust to 4 pm , him in m-11.4 nd out upon • , a gviutt rv. Ae or ROT p. were g coin cargpes al e cargo finding rt • d the To,y r thy d in th..t new the at ore at ill conic o would ice. lie roarrifico ,hown fur no object the bill, 1 nytrio , .her 200 Meet 10 silent course. Let the house wait for the result of the in• quiry before the committee of the other house ; that would be much lees derogatory to their dignity than to hurry on a discussion of this kind. The navigation laws dated ham the time of the commonwealth, and ought not to be got rid of without due deliberation. He demanded that time should be given, and should divide the house if the government would not consent to postpone the matter for a tortnight. The motion that the Chairman do report progress end ask leave to sit again was agreed to without a division, and the house then resumed. Captain HARRIS then moved that the debate be post poned until that day fortnight. The Marquis of Granby supported the amendment. as did Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. Wawn, and Mr. W. Miles. Mr. LABOUCHERE felt bound to oppose the amend ment, for he could not assent to any course calculated to pre vent the measure horn praising into a law, if such were the pleasure of the house, during the present session. Mr. HUDSON asked why, if the Eememment were so earnest to pun the measure this session, they had not intro duced it at an earlier period ? Mr. HENLEY called upon those who were opposed to the measure, to impede its progress by all the means which the forms of the house admitted. Col. SIBTHORP said, that the conduct of the ge vernment in this case was only another example of the prin ciple acted upon by all governments--of forcing on their measures by every sort of miserable chicanery. The house divided—For Capt. Harris's motion, 28 Against it Col. SIBTHORP then moved the adjournment of the debate. The house divided.—For the motion 26 Against it 63-37 Lord 0. BENTINCK was surerised that the government persisted in pressing forward so important a question as the present without allowing ample time to the country to ex peels its opinion with regard to it. If the noble lord at the head of the government was in the house, he was sure he would consent to the adjournment. Mr. LABOUCHERE consented to the adjournment of the debate till Thursday next, when his noble friend at tie head of the government, who Lad the disposition of the pub lic business, would state what course he would pursue. The debate was then adjourned LIGHT DUES AND MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND BILLS. On the motion of Mr. LAllOreltEliE, resolutions were agre , dto for the purpose of ensbliii.l government to bring in bills on these subjects. PUBLIC HEALTH DILL. Lord MORPETH moved the re-committal of this bill pro forma. Col. SIBTHORP thought that when the bill was printed time ought to be given to consider it. He should wish to know whether the number of persons who were to receive salaries had been reduced. Mr. DIVETT and Mr. HUDSON repressed the same wish. Lord MORPETH said that the number of thosewho were to receive salaries was very much cut down. lie now pro posed that they should proceed with the bill on Thi;rs - and go on with it till 9 o'clock on that evening. The SI•EAXPIt then hit the chair, and the bill was com mitted pro furnaa, the amendments inserted, the bill ordered to be reprinted and to be r,committed on Thursday next. The house adjourned at a quarter to 2. ELECTION COMMITTEE. LANCASTEL—Tbe Oenerel Committee of Elections met yesterday, and the Miaowing members were nominated to try the merits of the petitions pres.nted ag ainst the return of the Hon. E. O. Stanley t—Mr. Pinney, Lord Adair, Mr. Ewan, Mr. 0. Duncombe, and Lord Courtenay (chairman). vie erpregf. MAILS. --- The We'd India Melly excluding Bermuda, Nawau, Havanna, 1 Rondonia, New Orlema, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and includlng three for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthage., Santa Martha, Magma, Panama, Weld Coast of South America, and St. Juitn.de- Nicaragua, will be made up on the RIM rung of the l7th May. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Liatim, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of the 17th May. The mail. mr Britlrh North America, and the United States, ' will be mane up en the evening of the 19th May. The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greve., the lonian Wanda, ERVIS, Aden, Ceylon, India, llong-Kung, and China, no Southamp ton, will be made up on the morning of the loth May. The overland elc-ed mails, rid Marmillta, to the Mediterranean, NUS. Aden, Ceylon, Idia, Hong-Kong, &c., will be made up un the evening of the Itch May. The mails for New South Wales, Van !Orman's Land, and New ' Zealand will be made up ott the evening of toe 31st 31. y. The mads for the Bit& Wad of Afnca and Madeira will be made tap oz the cicalae of the 31 et May. The mails for the Brasile., the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buena, Ayres, will be mode up on the evantng of the 3rd Jane. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-otlice, during 1817, to the DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Post, ALL PUT TOCIETHILIL In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, THE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. SIGH 'PATER a? LOB DOR BRIDGE. • D•w—Moret BB V. min pea 0; Alten.ass. I s de. pea I. • •usso...—Mormow. Si rm. pent I Mtwara. 6.1 peat , LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 16. We. hive perused, with due attention and respect, several essays or articles on the subject of Ireland, re cently published by Mr. THOMAS CARLYLE in the Examiner and Spectator. Thu first of these commu nications seems to assume that the repeal of the union was the great panacea for Ireland, and that the main tenance of the British empire was the cause which prevented the Claddagh fishermen from sailing forth to cast their nets, and the other branches of Irish in dustry from being equally active and productive. This, we fear, is a mistake. There are but three things possible In Ireland—the still upheld ascendancy of its upper classes ; or the acquired ascendancy of its lower classes; or British ascendancy acting as umpire between them, preserving the peace, and gradually producing a compromise. The Irish gentlemen who form the Protestant Repeal Association may fancy they could ensure the first state of things—a vain hal lucination. A repeal of the union could lead to Lo state but the second—a predominance of the great Irish popular mass, led chiefly by its priesthood, or by men who dare not contradict that priest hood. That ascendancy would sweep from the Irish soil every Saxon element, including capital, political and commercial experience. Ireland, in 011116 no foreign power took possession of it, would relapse into that state which monkery prepared for Paraguay —that is, would perpetuate its present idleness and poverty, and leave the lower class not one whit bet tered by the massacre, moral or material, of the claw now superposed upon it. In his later essays Mr. CARLYLE sets aside theques tion of repeal, and treats of remedial measures, but censures remedial measures, such as the extension of the franchise and electoral right as idle, as an attempt "to mend the rent in the masonry of an edifice with two Whitechapel needles." Instead of this Mr. CARLYLE recommends an organisation of labour, and an enregimentiog of Irish spademen. Now, we fully admit that the remedial measures of the Premier are inefficient and feeble. But we can scarcely blame him for • not doing more. For why ? Lord J. ResseLL is no unconditional minis ter of this empire. lie bath parliament to consult, two houses of parliament, one of which is totally mo nopolised by landlords, whilst, in the lower house, as Mr. MACKAY shows, the said landlords possess 491 out of 638 votes. Go—and tell a minister to organise labour in the face of such a majority as that. Go vernment did try to organise labour by a law for the reclamation of waste lands in Ireland. What was the result? The landlords were partly indignant, / partly contemptuous. Pen scmiti d it. The Irish repeaters themselves, anxious for landlord alliance, and dreading a good measure fur ridding and contenting the peasantry, pooh-poohed it. And the poor whigs pocketed their measure, just as they have done the sanitary one. Precisely the wane story might be told of the 11.11 for the Sale of Ineumbered Estates — a mere nullity as at present brought forward. It is quite idle and most unjust to accuse Lord JOHN RUSSELL, of doing what neither he no PEEL can do in parliaments coustituted as i they are—however ad roit PEEL may be in trick ing landlordism out of its monopolies. But such tricks eennot be repeated ad in . /indult:. The only path now to secure work fur the Irish peasant, scope far Irish indnstry, justice and consideration to English labour, is to change the s p irit of parlia ment, to liberate it from the monopoly of the land lords, and to let other classes he heard and be felt. The only way to effect this, short of rep lution, is by extension of the franchise, by augmentation of the constituencies. Mr. CARLYLE bemocks the extension of the Irish franchise and the adoption of 111. rating as a qual fication, and rays, what is this to a population that want potatoes . ?l e beg to say that to feed the hu n g r y and the &ell- I lute is one duty, but it should not preclude the other duty of placing the la w-mekieg and toe providing for the hungry and destitute more and more in the hands of the citizens at large, instead of leaving R as it in, the monopoly of the reckless THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1848. rich. Mr. CARLYLE addresses the popular party ' telling them—never mind electoral or political rights. Clamour for bread, demand employ. We beg to say that this can at most make successful mendicants. And what is wanting is not full-bellied mendicants, or sleek, contented slaws. We want freemer, intelli gent men, active, industrious, self-subsisting men,wbo can carve their own fortunes, earn their own bread, choose their own representatives, and lift up their faces to Heaven, as, the poet tells us, man's face was made to look. Unfortunate Ireland is at present floating between two leviathans—one of which hu long fed upon her, the other merely waiting to take its turn at'the re past. An English proteetant aristocracy has been the old successful leviathan ; an Irish catholic demo cracy, or theocracy, is the new and the threat ening one. To save Ireland from both should be the aim of every liberal and philanthropic mind. And this can only be done by appealing to • middle and an intelligent class in Ireland—if such can be raised—fostered, ruid endowed with the pride and the self-confidence and the power requisite. The go vernment have no more efficient way of going about this than by granting municipal rights, extending electoral rights, and doing everything in its power to conciliate and strengthen some clam in Ireland equally independent of Ireland's past and Ireland's future dominators, the Orangemen and the priesthood. Not only is this necessary in Ireland, but it is equally requisite in Ireland and in this country to give birth to a large electoral class, such as may one day return a House of Commons free from those routine and class prejudices which render the task of government or legislation an impossibility, and which incapacitate any minister from facing the terrible exigencies and difficulties of the present time. As to the prei.ent parliament inventing or suffer ing any scheme for pacifying or saving Ireland, that is out of the question. Even our English aristocracy can scarcely hold its head above the rising tide of popular difficulties and demands, and in that po sition it will not yield an atom of its privileges, except what is wrung from it by fear. Still it matters not. Thorough liberals should never despair, and never relax exertion. It would indeed be culpable to do so. For we are confident that the moment liberal Lopes become extinct and liberal alarm become paralysed, then, and at once, commence the fears and the prospect, and the inevitable advent of revolution. So long as the Pope remains a temporal sovereign, and directs the earthly affairs of the Roman States, his holiness must not hope to escape from the n spun ssbtlitiee, the dangers, and the weaknesses attendant on such a sovereignty. Like other princes, he must take all its charier s and run all its risks. Though he may personally be freer from faults than most of his contemporaries, and be animated by a higher and holier spirit than they, his subjects have, neverthe less, feelings, passions, prejudices, animosities, and partialities, like the people of states less directly con nected with the other world; and the Papal govern ment can no more expect to be exempt from the effects of popular influences than the Grand Turk or the Emperor of China. As it is in Paris ss must it be in Heine; what the people will there with unanimity and energy must produce corresponding effects on their governments; and resistance to the general determination of the Roman people is just HS revolutionary in its tendencies, as Loos PHILIPPE found resistance to the determination of the Pari sians. Doubtless so beneficent and Food a sovereign as Pio Noso deserves great consideration at the bands of his subjects ; but no one can deny that their conduct to him has generally been characterised by affection and gratitude. When, therefore, we learn that threats of deposition have been held out to his holiness, the inference clearly is, that the provocation must have been very great. And so, in truth, it was. Pio NONO, after having roused Italy to a due sense of ] the enormity and degradation of Austrian domina tion ; after having brought together the princes and people of Italy into a league, the real object of which was the emancipation of the peninsula from German thraldom; after having excited his subjects to a per sonal quarrel with the Austrians; after having permitted volunteers to come in and march from his territories in support of the Lombards in their glorious struggle—at the eleventh hour refused to allow the Romans to participate directly, honour ably, and as a state, in the war of Italian indepen dence. Surely there was provocation enough here? In the position in which Italy now is, the refusal of an Italian prince to join in the war now waging against that foreign power which for centuries has been the blight and curse of the country—the holding back of a prince whose adhesion to the national cause would carry with it a moral force far superior to any military force he could furnish—this unwillingness en the part of a sovereign to yield to the universal wish of his people to aid their brethren, might well produce a burst of disapprobation, nay of indignation, even against PioNoNe, whose name had fur months been the watchword of Italian patriotism. The war now raging in Lombardy is a war of inde pendence in which all Italy is interested; it is a war for the emancipation of the pent nsula.from the German yoke; it is an effort to restore Italy to the Italians; it is a national crusade, in which the sympathies of all civi lised nations are with the Italians. Can we, then, be surprised that the Romans should desire to dedicate their newly-recovered freedom to such a cause? Would not our wonder rather be that they should be content to look on the struggle ae distantly inte rested spectators only? In such a cause the vanguard of the national army was the proper place for the Roman people : they felt it to be so, and they be came offended only with their sovereign when his estimate of their duty to Italy fell beneath their own. It is idle to talk of the treaties by which Austria has acquired rights in Italy. The only rights she ever possessed there were those of the sword ; her possession was ono of force, sub mitted to because of her supposed gigantic power, and of Italian weakness and disunion, endured as a conquest to be thrown off on the first favourable opportunity. And now that the opportunity has arrived, for England or any power to tell any portion of Italy that it ought to rest in quiet whilst other portions are in arms, may be what statesmen call policy, but it is such policy as men, wishful to be free, as nations resolved to be independent, will de spise. Austria was a stranger in Italy—a con queror there—holding what she had conquered by foreign troops ; forcing her despotism on the courts of the minor princes ; supporting the despotism which she forced upon them by military power whenever she thought fit; denying even to such parts V Italy as she had no pretence of right over, the vestige of constitutional rule; depriving Italy of fair play, its natural influence, and of its physical and geographical advantages in Europe ; and reducing it to an appendage of the cumbrous, barbarous relics of the old German empire. Was such a state of things to be eratireda moment longer than it could be avoided ? Had not every Italian, an interest 7 a direct, immediate, material, and moral interest in terminating such a domination ? And would not the world have cried shame (whatever statesmen might have done) on that state in Italy which hung back from the charge that will sooner or later drive the Austrians beyond the Alps? In such an emer gency, at such a crisis, it was not to be expected that the Roman people would place much reliance on, or give much heed to, the im eirtance of the Pope remaining on good terms with the gnat catholic pow r 01 Central Europe. Ttiat would indeed have been too large a price to pay for papal government. But how long is it that such was the master policy of Pius? It is not many months since he himsele theereened Austria with the wrath of the eharcla f violating 11 e territ ivies confided to his care. And was the violation of Ferrara of more importance than the independence of Italy? To ba free internally-7 to enable the people of Italy to consolidate in their several states the freedom they have won, the Italian peninsula must be independent. All Italy fee ls this great truth ; and, in threatening the Pope, the Itoman people have only shown titer appreciation of it. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SELT-AIIPPORTINO VILLAGE St/CIE/Y.—A public meeting, in aid of this society, was an nounced to take place y. werslay at the Hanover-aquae , Warns. At the oir appointed a large number of pemns ha I aesembl , d outside the doors; but it being understood that a considt rattle nua.ber of tickets had fallen into the hands of some ol the most violent of the chartist body, from whom en interruption of the proccvdings was anticipated, it was dctermint d that they should not be admitted, and in conic qneoce of their endeavours to obtain an intone the ma nager of the room , refused to n:low the meeting to talc" place, and it was torotrain,;ly p-qponed to another day. It will he n.en by a ro!tpote • to our pnlire report, that the atlait faro:Asa some employau.nt lot the magisttat: of the local court. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY, 101 A.M. °refit anxiety is felt and many precautions taken respecting the popular manifestation announced for this morning. While I am writing these lines the Place de la Bastille is covered with some thousands of citizens, as they call themselves, about to I march in procession along the Boulevards, with the ostensible purpose of demanding from , the National Assembly a resolution in favour of , Poland. Poland, however, is but the pretext, the , real purpose being to produce disorders, out of which the chances of predominance for the ultra-democratic party may be favoured. The question (says La Presto) this morning) is only a pretext of foreign war to kindle at home the flames of civil war, and to renew the law of the suspected. The executive commission held a council last night and resolved on the following proclamation, which has been poetsigirough Paris this morning : MAI' 14, lniallglgUrrizitsia,—The republic is founded en, end cannot exist without, order. With order a:one can you have work. With order alone the great question of the amelioration of the lot of the operatives c►n be discussed and resolved. You have urderatood this truth. France applauds your attitude, at once resolute and calm. From the day when public manifestation, the inevitable result of the first days of a revolution ceased, confidence and commerce were restored, and with them iodustry. Since yesterday, however, Paris has again seen some 4' attroupe meets," which have engendered new fears in the minds of many. Paris is astonislitil, nut frightened. Citizens, the re public exist., power is constituted, the whole people exerts its will in sod through the National Assembly. Right and power are centred there: they cannot exist else where. Why, then, these attroupements?" The right of meeting, the right of discuseien, the right of petition are sacred, do out cuinpromiee them fey public and imprudent agitation, which can add nothing to their force. Ciusens, public tranquillity is the guarantee of labour—the safeguard of all into ests. The commission of the executive power, convinced that all excitement to illegal or *bruit manifestations destroys labour and compromise* the exist ence of a people, will know how to maintain with vigour and in cart ry quarter the public tranquillity which is threat ened. The cumuli Ginn in the accomplishment of this duty calls on all sincere RepuAicans, end relies on the excellent spirit of the Parisian population, which has hitherto pro tected, and will continue to protect, the revolution, as well against anarchy as against reaction.—(Signed) Arego, °fer nier Pages, Marie, Lamartine, Ledru-Rollin. Blanqui's club has offered for some days a remark able feature. It is: that Blarqui himself is outdone by his followers. One of the orators has demanded that the people should act immediately. He proposes that the people should go to the Assembly, and present their ultimatum on certain questions, demanding an answer " yes," or " no." He will not allow a few day s for deliberation before the answer shall be given. M. Blanqui has for two days opposed this speaker, declaring that it would be impru dent thus to hasten events ; thst the mewl of the people are not yet sufficiently enlightened, and that by this precipitation all would be risked. Yesterday evening, a violent scene nearly occurred, because a person supported the views of Blanqui, and asked if the first speaker was not playing the part of an agent of their enemies. We have received the Madrid mails and corre spondence of the 10th. They cor.tain little intelli gence of general interest. Olozaga, it appears, was re-taken at the moment he was crossing the boundary at Gibraltar. An alarm of another insurrection was given on night of the oth, when the audiences of the theatres suddenly evacuated their places and ran home. It appeared, however, to have been a false alarm. MADAM, MAY 10.—Three per Omits., 211 mooast ; rive per 0 . 4144., 411 paper; osisives, si paper; Coupons, sy pain; Bank of M. Ferdiasmi, ez. 4ir., 110 sash. Exellange on London at 30 days, 41 paper. PAPAL STATES.—From Rome, under date May Gtb, wo learn that a great demonstration had taken place the preceding evening before the palace of the Sardinian Minister, on the arrival of the news of Charles Albert's victory at 13ussolengo. It is now stated that the correspondence of the Cardinals was , not read to the people, as stated in former accounts. By letters from Constantinople, under date May 1, it would appear as if the political cents of Europe have had also some effect in Turkey. There has been a great change in the ministry. The Grand Vizier, Reschid Pacha, has been dismissed. This took place suddenly on the 28th ult. Sarim Pacha, the President of the Grand Canton of Justice , has been raistd to be Grand Vizier, and lialil Pacha to be President of the Council, in place of Sarim Pacha. ITALY. LOMBARDY.—The bulletin of the Ministry of War of Lombardy of the Bth May says :—At Treviso Gets. Ferrari has 7,500 men ; and if to these be added the corps franca under Marmora, and the regular pontifi cal troops under I)urando, there are 18,000 men con centrated at Monteleluna and Treviso to defend the passage of the Piave and take the offensive. The Neapolitan cavalry and infantry are expected. Advices fiorn Somme. Campagna of Bth May say : In the different affairs of the 6th May, under Verona, there were 659 wounded. The brigade Aosta, the grenadiers and ehasseure, five and six regiments, the brigade of Savoy, and the brigade of Savoy and Parma, suffered the most severely. The greater num ber of wounds are in the leg and not severe. The killed are 08. Col. Cacehia of the sth regt. has since died of his wounds. The Marquis del Caretto, lieu tenent of artillery, the Marquis (.4',11i, and the Chevalier Bulbio, aide-dc-camp of Gen. Sommariva, have been killed. $0 soldiers and two officers (Ger mane) have been made prisoners. The first line of our troops continues to hold th' position from the Po to the Adige passing round Mantua, GJito, Villafranca, Somme Campagna, Sons, Sa Guistina, Pastrengo. The enemy does not dare to come beyond the protec tion of the cannon of his forts. Field-Marshal Nugent has sent a bulletin, dated Conegliano, the 6th of May, to Vienna, in which he states that the province of Bellano had surrendered to the Austrians. Belluno itself surrendered on the sth, after a slight defence. The bridge of Capo di Ponte, on the Piave, bas been burnt, but the stone bridge near Belluno was complete, and Count Nugent entended to pass the Piave by it. PAPAL STATES.—A letter from Rome of the sth, says that the ministry was at last com pleted, greatly to the satisfaction of the public. Tranquillity was re-established. The National Guard presented to Count Mammiani, the prime minister, a memorial entreating the government to assist in the " Holy war, and to aid in the cause of Italian nationality and independence, and not to consent to any compromise with Austria, or to accept peace so long as the flag of that nation floated south of the Alps." The Duke of Parma arrived at Civita Vecchia on the 3rd, where he was received at the hotel of the British consuL lie was en route for Malta. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—Tho following letter from our Cologne correspondent shows that the accounts of the capitu lation of the Poles of Posen was premature. COLOGNE, MAT 13. The account given in several German Journals (including the Cologne Gazette) of the surrender of the Polish ineur gi rile, turns out to he an unfounded, at lent a pri mature, one. It was stated that the capitulation sank place on the 7th imtsm, but it appears by an official &watch from Gtnerals Von Pfuel and Von Colomh, that up to the 9th the hellieterent partite were near . ash other in the direction of the eastern frontiers, but that no decisive cogagement had taken pare. It is rated, however, in the despatch that the c 4i:inlander of the insurgents, Von Bra. (who, it ap pesrt, has suneeeded Miereslawskil, had offered to capitulate at Schroda ; rind that O •neral Von Pruel wan wiling to &low the natives of the kingdom of Poland. G.dlicia, and Cracow, to be conveyed to a depot bestir:an the Elbe and the ser, or to receive passports for France ; and the natives of the duchy of Posen to be escorted. for their own protec tion, to their variousdistriets, where they would be set free. Deserters from the army and the Landwehr would be sent to Posen, where they would be recom mended to the royal clemency. It L not y...t known whether the capitulation wan signed on the 9b. Meantime, it is asserted in the despatch alluded to, that the insurrec tion w as still spreading ; that there Waal/ cens rat arming of the people, and that large beads of Insurgents had apieareal in various parts of the province, and even in the vicinity of Peen. A conflict had taken place at &yeti*, where tie insurgents lost some small field pierce end had 30 men killed. On the night of the Bth notneeons Pru.s'an troops marched towards Stenszewn, wh re grew numb( rs of the insurgents had assembled. The emit of the collision, if one I occurred. has not yet transpired. The priests display nn- hounds d enthusiasm for the Polish canoe, and ezelte the people in all possible ways to defend it no the last. The dis• tribution of anon of the German inhabitants n: the capital of Ithe duchy has given great offence to the Poks in that town. The Emden government have urged the King to mesa I the Prince of Prussia from England u soon as possible, chiefly en the ground that his presence will be necessary in Berlin, in order to give his sanction, as the next heir to the throne, to the constitution which will be drawn up at the next dint. The King, in his reply to the ministerial docu ment, states that the Prince of Prussia hes frequently ex premed his perfect satisfaction with the new form of govern ment. Major Lane has been commiuioned by the King to notify to the prince the royal plcuure that he should return forthwith to Berlin. The above officer is also appointed first aide-de-camp of his royal highness. Herr Valdenaire ' who was elected depaty to Berlin for three of the enrol districts of Traves, has been arrested on the charge of having taken part in the late movement in the above town. _ The elections in Stettin have terminated in favour of the nobility exclusively, and those of Stralsund, on the contrary. exclusively in favour of peasant candidates. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Dusseldorf Gazette, it is reported in Berlin that if the constituent as sembly, which will shortly assemble: in that capital, declare in favour of the formation of only one chamber of the Icgis lature, the King will abdicate. It is added, however, that this report is probably circulated by parties favourable to the two chamber system. Considerable discontent has been en gendered in the minds of the officers garrissned in this city, by the refusal of the Minister of War to allow them to assemble for the purpste of discu.sing the necessary reforms in the army. It nppears that the object of General Von Pfuel's miadon to St. Petersburg (whither he will proceed so soon as cir cumstances in Posers admit) is to give an explanation to the Emperor respecting the concessions made or promised to the Polish inhabitants of the above duchy. Russia bee always manifested much uneasiness respecting any favours granted to Posen ; and the late King of Prussia was obliged, at the demand of the &lip: ror Alexander, to &DOHA the name of " Polish legion," which he had conferred on the Posen army corps. The Prertstrische Stoats Anzeigen states that Kraut hoter-Krotowski bar been taken prisoner in the vil lage of Konazewo, near Stenechewo, where, after the castle had been taken by the soldiers, he fled into the garden, where he buried his arms, and on being arrested pretended that he was the gardener. Lepinski has also been brought in prisoner. JIADEN.—It appears that some remnants of the Baden republican band are still loitering about Todtnau ; the Feldberg Hecker, one of the discomfited leaders, has gone to Paris. The Baden government is preparing a bill for the introduction of trial by jury, upon a system bearing a stronger resemblance to the English and Belgian than the French one. SAXONY. The elections in the kingdom of Saxony for the German parliament have for the most part terminated in favour of the democratical party. Professor Wigard has been elected for Dresden, the well-known Robert Blum for Leipsic, and Dr. Joseph for Freiburg. The commercial affairs of Leipsic con tinue very depressed. AeL•co ding to the local paper of Hilburghauaen, the Thuringian princes are nego• tiating among one another respecting a certain amal gamation of their states, by which each of the princes will be in turn, and for a certain period, at the head of the entire territory. AUSTRIA.—It is stated in the Vienna Gazelle that the Emperor of Austria has decreed, at the in stigation of Lis government, the abolition of the Re demptorists (male and female) and of the Jesuits, on ' the ground that they give rise to disturbances, that they are disliked by all the intelligent classes, and that the existing tech siastical institutions are suffi cient for all purposes of religion and education. It is reported that the papal nuncio at the court of Vienna has received his passports, end that Austria intends to break entirely (.arch lossagen) with the papal see. Count Montecuculi remains director of the affairs of Lower Austria. The accounts from Pesth, up to the 6th inst., are alarming. In the districts boidering on Gallicia the peasantry are committing the greatest excesses against the nobles, the townsmen. and the Jews. The important commercial town of Waag-Neustadkel has been plundered and destroyed. The peasants demand a division of property. Numerous towns and coun ties in Hungary have forwarded addresses to the Emperor declaring that they will bear no part of the national debt of Austria, and demanding the recal of the Hungarian troops from Italy. The intelligence from Prague also, up to the 6th inst., is equally alarming. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. HAMBURG, MAY 12. A letter from Elsinore, of May 9, mentions the tol lowing notifications respecting the cargoes of British vessels bound to harbours under blockade: A circular of the British consul, Herr Moses Kuper, dated May 7, gives the official communication, that the British vessels which may put in here on their way to some Prussian harbour, and which may not be able to reach their th stination in consequence of the blockade, shall be at liberty to deposit their cargoes at Elsinore or Copenhagen, and shall be respected by the Danish governmt nt, which has declared that the cargoes of British captains skull be regarded as their property, and shall in nowise be molested. A letter from Copenhagen says : Intelligence from the seat of war states that two battalions had come to, Alsen and the Mainland, to erect some works which mightprotect the comm u nicat i on between the Mainland and Sonderburg against the fire of the enemy. Gen. Hedemann has confided the command in Alien to Col. Hansen, and has gone with his staff to Fuhnen, where he will act as commander-in-chief. He had previously proposed to Gen. Wrangel the mutual de livery of the prisoners taken on both sides since the commencement of the war. The reply of General Wrangel,which has already been received at the head quarters, will be speedily made known. The Danes estimate the losses at Schh swig at 130 killed and be ween 400 and 500 wounded. From Stockholm, under date May 4, an army of sixteen thousand men is to be assembled for the present at Sehonen, to consist of three brigades, under the command of the Crown Prins, and General-Adjutants Von Dahlstrom and Peyron, with the rank of Major-General. The Daylight Allehanden mentions ten regiments which have al marl been ordered to Schonen, and two battalions of guards arc to set out for that place next week. Orders have been received to hasten the equipment of the fleet at Catlsenna and Gothenburg, and the Prince set out for this place by laud to-day. 4,000 Norwes gian troops are said to have been ordered to Schonen. ADJOURNED INQUEST ON 1113 LATE ME. W. DAKIN. The adjourned inquiry on this gentiemau; who was killed on Friday sennight by the expiating pf one of Messrs. Brown and Co.'s patent cylindrical ovens, erected is the demand's warehouse, Shoemaker-row, was :wormed UM evening in the Parochial School-room, church ents,Y, Liars, before Mr. Payne. Mr. John Farey, contulting engineer, having dean"bod the cylindrical power, proceeded to give his opinion at tal how the accident arose. It obviously wall caused by th 4 water in the oven having a greater pressure than the metal could resist, the metal being at that part exceedingly porous and unsound—boneyeombed is the technical phrase—A, Juror 1),) you believe, sir, that the iron used in coating the cylindrical oven was the best pig iron ?—Mr. Farey dear no—very bad. In that portion where the fracture has taken place I do not think it is half se strong as it should have been. Forams of it are altogether defective, and cow Min small groins almost like shot. Three plugs were forced out by thee:W.:mien ; one of the passages was a little stripped out not as much a. to lead to the impression that it had been forced nut before the explosion of the even itself. Mr. James, who attended on behalf of the patentees, ap pealed to the learned eoroner as to whether it would net be advisable, seeing that it was impossible so important as in quiry could be completed that evening, to adjourn the pro ceedingest once to a future day; alleging that in the corner of the room where he stood the heat was at least 500 de grees—he was unable to sit down, and the pressure he was sure was 2,000 lbs. to the square inch. (Laughter.) It was, however, arranged, to proceed as far as possible that evening; and Mr. Renion, foreman to Messrs. Robinson, was called, and corroborated Mr. Ferry's evidence ILI to the cause of the ac cident in every particular. The proc ethnics were then adjourned until Tuesday next, to re-assemble at the LOrtroll Coffee- house. Before the jury broke up, Mr. James said Messrs. Brown bad now in work machinery of the tame description on their own premises, and if any of the jury would tavola them with • visit the members of the firm would be very Nippy to (:plain its mode of optration.—•The Coroner said if it appeared nem.- eery they might possibly visit Meters. Brown's work, whew they met again on Tuesday mat. THE ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY SOClETY.—Yee terday a meeting of the board of din ctora of the above iusti. tutiou (of which her Majesty the Queen is patron) was held at their rooms in Basinglialistreet, City, for general pur poses. The report stated that there are now on the funds 10 males end 19 t, males; the former receive 21. 6s. and the latter U. 10s. per month. The recipients are composed, ao cording to the statute of the society, of decayed merchants, hankers, prier:Musa men. master manufacturers, tradesmen, their widows and clerks, and single females, daughters of persons, belonging to such classes of society. The dona tions and sateeriptmns tinting the past year exceeded the pre vious ones by 606/. 19e. 94., and were the largest tor 17 years. At the atiniversury festival in February lu., presided over by 0. Hudson, hsq., M.P., 1,3671. was realised. The re ceipts fur 1847, from all sources, were 1,3961. 3a. 2d.; the ex penditure leaving a balance of 801. 15e. 4d. The report concluded by an energetic appeal far rontinued aid towards alleviatiug the eistress of tae important clam of persons re. listed by this society. FIRE ET THE SUN.—Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o't:ock, a fire broke out upon the premises belce-ging to Id cc ss . Cook, Sone, and Co., warehousemen, of kit. Paul's Churchyard. The premises are of considerable magnitude, and are numbered 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25. Tao moment the news reached the engine-station Mr. Braidwood started to the place, and sent messengers for the aid of the City and East-end engines. Upon arriving, however, he found that the outbreak had occurred in the upper floor, used as toe piece-room, but owing to the timely assutance of the workmen on the premises the damage was confined to the destruction of 26 cotton dress-pieces, some waistcoat pieces, and the demolition of 18 sguarss of glass. In making his return to the insurance offices Mr. Braidwocel gives the following:—" Camas of Fire: A linen curtain, which hung before the top-floor back window, took bee at the open part of window first. The window faces the south, aid, being higher than the opposite buildings, is completely teemed to the sun." The firm is insured in eleven of the principal tire offices in London and the country. THE REFORM MOVEMENT. EQUITABLE TAXATION LEAGUE. I net night a meeting, convened by circular, wan held nt the Hail of Commerce ;of deputies frtm the numerous equitable taxation societies recently formed in the metro po.is, to receive reports from those bodies, and consider what steps should be taken to farther the objects in view. I). WIRE, Esq.. was cdh d to the chair, and said . The nearly universal nature of the reports was in favour of embraciag the question of parliamentary reform, as the only means of attaining the objects in qut %lion. Hating entered largely into the anomalies of our Mocel and representative system, he concluded by hoping that the meeting would "openly and advisedly" make each • declaration on the subject as would lay the foundation of a great metropolitan movement. Letters were read from Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., and Mr. I'. A. Taylor, c o rdially agreeing with the objects of the meeting, and ihe latter enclosing a subscription of 101. Mr. W. lieu. moved the first resolution That the chairmen and secrets, ice be a commith e, with power to add to their number, to carry out the object of the societies, but that the title of such league be left to future consideration. . - This having been seconded by Mr. WESTERN, Mr. W, WILLIAMS (late member for Coventry) addressed the meeting at considerable length. He considered it one of the most important meetings that had taken place in the metropolis for some years past, and that great good would proceed from it, but that it was ni cessary to proceed on clear and distinct principles. It must be in the recollection of many there, that o committee had been recently formed of certain members of parliament to co-operate in the general question of reform, and that tines their statement many meetings had been held in all parts of the country, for the redpcti, n end rovi.ion of taxation ; but that the general resolt of their deliberations had been that nothing effectual of that nature could be accomplished without a reconstrue• lion of the limo,: of Commons itself. That the wisest course then to pursue was to a r point a committee who would take into censidenition the purposes of the league, and net forth the nature of their future proceedings, and to Fubmit their report to another, and more extensive meeting. With re gard to the mere question of taxation, he considered any eoential modifies:ion entirely bopelass with the present House of Commoes. A prolonged discussion took plate, in which Messrs. W. Carpenter, Front, Pearce, Elkins, and others took part, as to the best coons of proceeding, and the following resn'ution was ultimately adopted in lien of that moved by Mr. Hall:— That this meeting is of opinion that with the view to the more equitable appoitionment of hisation, a league shall be formed haring for its object a large esten.ion of the aulfroge, vote by ballot, trim uial parltaments, and equal electoral districts. A vote of thanks to the chairman was carried by acclama tion, and the meeting adjourned. trbe Court. The baptism of the infant daughter of the Duke and Duellist+ of Sutherland took place, yesterday morning, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, in the pre sence of the Queen and Prince Albert. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, , her Majesty's domestic chaplain, efficiati d at the ceremony. The sponsors were the Queen, Lally Rivers, and the Duke of Bedford. Her Majesty nam. d the infant " Alexandrine." Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace at eight o'clock yesterday evening to honour the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with their company at dinner, at their residence, Stafford House. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Cherlemont, lady in waiting ; Lord Byron, lord in waiting ; Viscount Clifden, lord in waiting to Prince Albert; Colonel the Hen. C. Grey, equerry in waiting to the Queen ; and Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, equerry in waiting t 4 Prince Albert.—The Duchess of Bent also honoured the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with her company at dinner last evening. Her Royal High ness wee attended by Lady Augusta Brace and Colonel Sir G. C :oui.er. Mr. Power, M.P., had an interview with Sir G:orge Or y yesterday. The Earl of llarewood had elm inter view yesterday with the right hon. baronet, at the Home office. The Bishop of St. David, the 13ishop of St. Asaph, and Sr. Thuums Phillgs, hail nu interview with the Lord President of the Council on Friday, respecting educatieu the principality of Wiets. The Right Rev. Dr. Davie had au interview with , Earl Orey e.t-relay, at the Colonial-office. The Lion. Edward Curzon had an interview with Earl Oraaville petard iy, at the office of the Beard of Trade. Despatch( a were received yesterday at the Colonial office from thu Clam rent of Lidwalmr. 'rue LAw ASSOCIATION. —The 31st annual gene ral meeting of the law atatclaiion, established for the bete. Gt of widows and families of pro'es tonsil men in the initropoli, and vocinity, was held yesterday in the hill of the Incrpo rated Law Society, C:laite!l7.l is". Augustus Warren, EN.. one of the trerautain, was in the chair. The minut. s of .hc last annual court having been read and confirmed, the seers- 1 fury, Mr. John Murray, wee called upon to read the annual Brava or van COMITitY. —A murder wa ;wo-pttra'.: ,, on report, which commute , d by congratulating the members Wednesday night near Euniacymon, county Clare. Th 3 of the society on the increase in tilde income • but at the cause assigned is that the Victim, namtd I.l.l.insiira, '.ad same time, it regretted that some meralwrs Of the society 1 prosecu'ed at the last Clare ris-iae. three min f,r cow. steal had been tobligk ct to epply foe re!iet, w's:ich thq had sec ii ed. 11.4, wi O W. e ss 55 ,,5, m5 ,.,1 to 5rm ,.. 0 ,, t i,,„. i t i s moo': m m The sum of 2001. stock bad be a purchased by the society 1 pr.ibable, tiORUT r, that the duvet of the murderert was during the preccdinr year. The receipts amounted, in- i plunder, ta. every availehle chattel in the deoeu:d's bow% eluding a balsa's! of 1801. 13a, to the sum of 1,6511. ; 8501. was t..a r en au iy, even to the shirt off his body. T 4... had bi en voted for the r. lief of e idows, and the remoinder gross, stun to be levied off L = m: rick coun'y N „, for other applients for r 8.1. T•ie funded steak of tie grand jury azaewment within the Lest hair. ,oar society was 20,5002, which is for the benefit of thous families, 1. 37,9)21., of which there is for re - ply meat of of d ceased =lnters who may hereafter require assiatince. relief adva,:ces 13,8751 This latter, under th e t,,,4 hill The report having been adeptel, the Rielit non. list of rho Chancell.ir of the Exchequer for r .assu i n „ 4w ,, a Lyndhurst wits elect( 4 the president ; the Visc-Coanecan kviiii, will, wind former aroess.seuza fur the, maw A rea°. of England, ant Vice_chowel,s 8...., with Vie-Via , .. I give the cmuty for fl fishing the Inc , n l l , / etc public works a cellor Wigesra w i re re-eieesid vice-presidci ts. 0 ' officers havi..g been elect. I,i tn, usual oireplimimter / t eso elusive of the ar;isms, in -gn not, Aro. stonecut•ers '2oo ni a lutions wee pasieti to the diremors stud othir sills e .th.irers. enkiged i n •h•:L .a ee Limerick d rs, and g o o ~,,,R the ' 4 ,..... 44. At, sum stover 20, 00 f.; said war n we kilo ds Luis mere au „ . cx. A vote of thanks to %Ito chairman closed th• prola,ediosit. w a i,hs, the purees of employ- A pt i n t h at muck at the IRELAND. MUSLIN. May 14. We yesterday announced the arrest and COMM ttal of Mr. Mitchell. On arriving at Newgate, the governor ushered him into his apartment, which is in the up per story of the prison. Its naked appearance at tracted Mr. Mitchell's attention, when the governor obeerved that the furniture corresponded with the prison regulations—a straw bed end wooden bench; but that he would suffer Mr. Mitchell to avail him self of any reasonable accommodation he would re quire. Accordingly Mr. Mitchell was furni-hed with a hair mattress, and to-day he was supplied with a better breakfast than the hard prison fare. A few of his friends visited him to-day ; but the pressure was not inconveniently great. Among the earliest were Messrs. Meagher, Reilly, lloheny, and Reynolds. He walks about the calm:lots and appears very thought fuL His trial for the last offence will take place on the 20th (seat Saturday). His resolve at present is to defend himself. His family are allowed free en trance to him at all hours, and als ) his friends ; but the latter are not suffered to visit him in his private apartment. Smith O'Brien has not yet been among the sympathising visitants. It is not to be denied that there is come sym pathy for Mitch:ll because of the resirictions to which he mast necessarily be subject, and partly because there always ex;s:s in Ireland a sympathy oppowd to the law; but thie so little a•sune a Shape %Lick time authorities teel called upimn to deal with, that the approaches to the prison of this " levier of war" are unguarded, and the prison is kept by the usual force. 'Do coun-il of tho Confederation, such of them as are kuowu to approve of Mr. Mitchell's vio knce, seem to be Liken quilts milmtek. They ace touch chagrined at the li tic excitement, or rather the übs• nee of it, and probably are unemnfortable also hemmer they teal no disposition t 3 realise the rem:A Thrusonbm. They have not yet ile.fideg on what to be b.at done, but I heard one of the body ebsermu with some bitterns , , that he believed lir. Mitchell might be expo rnettd without any effort be'ng made by the people to prevent it. PIP" - • 1 I '