The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 80, 1852. was alight in the "em ail et elerapliew. Se Ise! lbws is no mietabe. Bat Misr NIIMIWOOD eel his friends, it is_vepeetell, mat le issatead time Mr. FRAIL and the Derby Tories mistook thelliezurrafm AT-WAlell meaning; they mieresd Wiener ; they mie applied the good and safe man, whom Mr. Fully trusting, sent, and who was willing to lie; and MB* BERESYORD is not, it will be contend e d, responsible for their conduct. How unlikely, it has further to be suggested, " that a man in his position would run such a risk. The thing is impossible. Major BERES PORb'S character is a sufficient answer to the impu tations." But this defence will be of no avaiL If Major BanasroaD's character is to be put forward is this way, issue must be taken upon it; his vast reputation, his general conduct, and all previous habits and actions will be found very greatly to increase and not to get rid of— the pro babilities of the charge now brought forward. The man who denounced the smaller free holders of his own constituency as "a rabble," is not very likely to have sent Mr. FRAIL or his friend MORGAN to Derby for the promotion of purity at it, election. No one is surprised to fi nd Major DERESFORD in correspondence with the notorious Mr. hum; no one wonders that Mr. Pam, after meshing a letter from Major lIRRESPORD. seat • of man to Derby; no one is astonished that the ails man when there proceeded to corrupt the elec tion. In all this, Major BERESFORD being the point of departure, and Mr. FRAIL his correspondent, there is, what Candide would all "the eternal fitness of things." Major BERFAVORD is found in congenial amapany ;--and must take the consequences. Evil communications, saith the Apostle, quoting the Greek tragedian, corrupt good manners. But it was not Mr. FRAIL or MORGAN, or the Derby Tories, whose communications corrupted Major BLRESFORD ; it was Major DERESFORD who cor rupted dem. And what. if this charge be esta blished, will be his punishment Expulsion from the House of Commons of course. But even there it will not end. For bribery and corruption once brought home to a member of the QUEEN'S Govern ment, all the penalties the law can affix must descend on him. Bir ALEXANDER COCKBURN has a great task in hand, and he will, no doubt, carry it through the committee zealously and successfully. ihow to get OM wt. however, say to SPA how, cat of the notheide hiders them, it will be for epossibl for the GeGnmegGens member to Ind mat ter xempla, • n e w s *ebb th e „ re. taleritl " el em*dt_ tbe ahead opera i trus;;;• will be brought emir elk eyes. But if any dirty should be Grim el lathing a perilous &dandy by moving so amendment to the resolution that wW be proposed in the sett public sittiog, upon the ground that no eellident *widows bad been laid before the his is math it to form an opinion with raged to the verdarity or freedom of the election, Itnew of nothing to prevent his doing so. Thojeosent seesaw of the Oseps Legis latif u altogetheelotra-eciaidthdellth Nene of the rules which tie them down is &say to a prescribed course in the canimd of their adinary heetoess are applicable to the promat reseeding. The house is called upon to inns a s o l emn medicate implying a previous inquiry, and it is open to any individual member to suggest the mode to which that inquiry should be carried co. If the *ftbeeee of the prefects and mayor s afford oungu Glee of the accuracy of each separate r e t ur n, Go Glee stabling them together is merely ministerial, aid by whomsoever performed, can add nothing to their value. But according to the nonage, the world is. intended to believe that it having been maliciously insinuated that the vote of Dec. 21 and 22 is tainted with an unparalleled amount of corruption, intimidation, and fraud, the legislative body, after full investigation, find just the contrary, and certify of their own knowledge that the election was spontaneous, fair, and free. Any deputy who may decline WOG in this three will do himself harm I have die to bin it the vote will ad he wasoiassoo. thwanalme boo node a pretty dig domeoloolho sem d the dignity ot tbo c urt mope= ot bum toy writ the follow* letter to M. Billautt: Pitsibest.—l desire not to take any part Is the slow swim. Walk has no other object than*, sits film at do lit relative to the proclamatisa at the I think right to inform you personally d this. cosine as CAAVVIONII. Deputy for Maiesonliaire. A ood deal of surprise has been expressed Si M. do K g erdrel's resignation on the first day of the session being a solitary one. It wasois yen en aware, generally thought that the Duke d'Unis, the Marquis de Calvieres, M. Bonhier de rime, do Owen, and perhaps some others, would main. It is mere than probable that there will yet IND some resignations before the actual proclamation of the empire, but the legitimist party is more divided than ever with r espec t to the policy of standing aloof from public affairs. In the provinces the resignations of municipal aloes have been somewhat more numerous within the last two or three days, but the movement is still so feeble, that it only serves to make tho present insig nificance of the party appear the more plainly. The Marquis de Ferreux has resigned the Mayoralty of Pont-sur-Seine (Aube), an office which he has held for twenty years. He states in his letter to the pre fect that so long as ho was ignorant of the ideas of the President of the Republic on the subject of legitimacy he felt justified in serving him at some violence to his own feelings, but that now that a new dynasty is to be founded, a regard to his own per- Waal dignity and the history of his family compel him to retire. The Marquis de Nicolai, in resigning several offices in the Sarthe, alleges that his con science will not allow him to swear to Louis Napo poleon " Emperor," the oath which he felt justified l in giving him as President of the Republic. This distinction instances which have come to my knowledge. Most of the resignations are by men belonging to the flits of the old noblesse. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Chamber of liiepuiie;was occupied, on the 24th, in voting the credits on the budget of 1831. Nearly all the items passed without challenge. The government abandons the bill for dissolving adminis trative councils. The correspondent of a contemporary writes from Vienna, upon authority which he deems excellent, that Sardinia has apphed to Austria for an auxiliary corps. No grounds for such an application are mentioned, nor, indeed, are the relations subsisting between the Cavour cabinet and the Austrian government very intelligible. We quoted last week a laudation of Count Cavour, from the official Out Correspondent ; it is now stated that Count Appony, Austrian minister at Turin, has received orders to return to his post, which he left some time since, pursuant to instructions from Vienna. The Var has overflowed at Nice, and carried away part of the bridge, and done other damage. A dill gence of the Messageries Nationales, not knowing of the accident, went on to the bridge as usual a few nights ago, and narrowly escaped being swallowed in the flood. A sentinel on the Sardinian side stopped it by discharging his musket as a warning. BANK NOTES BILL. This bill gatewl threligh esatiaittee. ENCUMBERED MATES COURT (IRELAND). , air. MACARTNET atewit for wink townie otaseetwl with the welkin of this foam Haveid that hie oldest was to meet the eirwipe that Mil b... brought against the pro owediaga et that amt. el pree:pitaiwy ea the ate ha* RAM se objection Se aao• la Re lffifeesea ea to the egamilais thoeasell bag be Ns ight • peados of the mum owed of he wall sada it es Se etagere of the .Nat. No tad wo*allew Is Os Mem Wog made it the farm et a oseliwolft of , Agway already laid ea the table of the beam EAt *pion MY withdraws. OF TUE 110OSE. _ Lord J. MANNERS mod that a stoat* restaaittse should be appointed to twofer wall dos loot awrokototoar of wurks upon such measures as ad& appear assusaty for the proper wistaria= awl liribtiag of the house, sad that Mr. •Stephearoa aad Mr. Locke Amid be the said coat- Raise. _ _ _ After a few words from Sir D. Noneare, Mr. CATLIT, sad Lord J. Mammas, t h e motion was agreed to. The hoses adjourned at half-pant Dine o'clock. Pats.—M r. Matthew Forster paired off on Friday night, in Amor of both illetioss, with Mr. Maud. Mr. Frye, Lovedow pied in fasoar of Mr. Villiers's meta" with Mr. Davit's's &pint. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and OENERAL LIFE • AISUILANCE WHITT. Mewed NNW& be mot pew of lb@ world, wittiest eztre arm red • riperl .1 • wan entre TM melt aped tome mom =dere big estresaliag ea the oiswel webs by willtweeetter Pelves' tie bre. liwaildwite Pus • lima 0••• et the NM drew bap •wweed by Ewa et ea au& 0401 P—Ilia etsataiisi Is Os ape WM ea tr whowlep• WPM. nvi SOKURES kale bees diesel; et Uwe Let,* harry, 11% watt st [l3' 113 wee said ts the Rik**, pokwies • Seem wipeswilttY tileemat epe Ibun $S 1. hi Per Nat to the he. 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I.ntwaseats laleadad fad "7b Ewald; Leaks amain papir. awd be al the 00" 111. aouariastrest. by Two Wilda da day od pstilisass. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT —aleratag. 111 i. 3.. Twaseassw—lliaralac 41 .Afitivosa. 41. 4940. LONDON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30. Tne immorality of the members of tho present government develops itself according to their pecu liar idiosyneracies and individual mental condition. In the aristocratic and lordly Earl of DERBY it assumes the bold and audacious form of coolly re questing a greet party whom he led into the quag• wire of Protection to abandon—for the gratification of his ambition—those principles in the concrete ••• ea which both he and they still profess to abide by in the abstract. In the Hebraic and Anatie Mr. Disks= it manifests itself in the shabby practice of cajolery and deception. It induces the sycophantic Mr. FORBES MAMMAS to play the bully with the only morning journal that supports his friends, in the miserable hope of abating the hostility of • rival print with a larger circula tion. And it has led the coarse and trickles Major BEREAPORD into the instigation of bribery and corruption. Such is the nosegay of virtue and morality presented to a new Parliament within the first fort night of its meeting, by an administration pledged to west and drive back the progress of democracy in ttzd. The three first named culprits and of have capped, for the present, that punish ment which surely awaits them, but Major BEERS PORN there is some reason to hope, will not be quite se fortunate. Already a petition from the Miyor and other electors of Derby, detailing the facts of the ease, had been presented to the house, and printed and Weed with its votes; and last night Sir ALtx- ANDER COCKBURN moved for • public committee to inquire into the circumstances of this remarkable ease. To this inquiry the expectant Peer but present Commoner, Sir J. Y. ButLza, assented on the part of the SECRETARY AT WAR. The serious character of the imputation against Major BERESFORD derives greater importance from tw• facts worthy of notice. The Town Conseil of Derby have since the election elevated to the oaks of Mayor the gentleman to whom activity awl seal the arrest of Moaosm and the dimovery of the "W. B." letter were owing. In addreeslog his Essex constituency, after the *Rik ewes to tight, Major Beagsrozo, it will be ressibisted. assured them that he would in his defame lay bare es foal a oonspiracy es ever disgraced the ties of English elections. This charge of eomop4uey of seems in volved Mr. Moss, the gentlemen quatimb s r, to it, as affecting him, the Tema Coosa of y hare replied by electing Mr. Man to be their chief magistrate, whilst proem/deg the investigation into the conduct of a Wake somber of her Mantle/ Ooveroment I—tbstsby giving him all the meal and materlid moppet in t he wee of the saanipality of the Seten /whisk 'or BzuweaD mihapplly seusead in g. The sem het saafkorring additional impertases ad gatvity on the motion he impish_ ie. thet it wee made by the late A2IOIIBIIV-0131111u4 a geatiesnan not apt to rush beatify sr indisrestly We a question where the Wiesen will net bear out the aseasation ; but rather certain to have flemsd a strong and decided legal opinion as to the ea at the testimony for establishing the case bebe to the house. __ _ Whet psuileddenee Major Busman, the Seasstarrat-Wat 1 the Dam Administration, can make before the semmittes to the chug* against hi:is, it is difficult to divine. At Ant, it was proposed to rely on a cock-and-when story that the letter was add:owed to the congenial Mr. FRAIL, not during the last, but in the duties of 1847; that the letter then written had falls. late the hands of a discarded Tory agent, and had been sold to the Liberals for nee on the last omega& But this idle tale is so signally contradicted by the presence of MORGAN, from fihrewsbnry, caught in the very act of bribery at the very tavern RIM, . 4 ha the lettor i , that it will, on the advice, it is understood, of an eminent parliamentary barrister, be abandoned ; and Major BERESPORD will, it is reported, resort to the Old Bailey tactics of leaving the prosecutor to make out the case against him ; then suggest its general improbabilities, and at last fall beck on his own previous good character. It is no doubt proper in the first instance to bear what evidence can be brought forward by the petitioners. But the house can hardly fail to observe the difficulties that will obstruct them in the conduct of the case. Mr. hum, the agent for bribery, for example, is Major BIRSSIORD's friend; and Mr. MORGAN, the signal briber, is Mr. FRAIL'S friend. And both may plead that in giving evidence they may be affording the means of convicting themselves of a criminal offence. This the house will probably have to provide against ; as well as to give the peti tioners every assistance in procuring, bringing up, and examining these and other witnesses. It is absolutely necessary, therefore, should Major BERESFORD pur sue these tactics, for the House of Commons to take up the matter zealously and earnestly, and not per-, mit either legal quiddities or audacious practices to obstruct and defeat the inquiry sent to a select committee. 'flat the letter addressed by the BF.CRETARY-AT WAR to Mr. FRAIL is in his handwriting it will not, we presume, be denied. What, then, was "a good and safe man, with judgment and quickness," (such as Mr. FRAIL) much given to interference in elections, and willing to introduce himself to Messrs. Cox, of, Derby with a lie in his month, saying that ho came heal Chester,—what was such a man " wanted" for, at Derby ? The interpre tation Mr. FRAIL gave to it, and the use the Derby Tories put it to, is plain enough. They employed MOROAN--RM they though t t Mayor BIRRISTORD tended he should be cmp bribery, and be FRANCE. rARIS, MONDAY EVINIWO. The Moniteur gives the following u the following as the latest known results of the vote: Y. o. No. For 86 departments 7,465,160 237,066 Army Navy Algeria : Algiers, Province of, civil population 6, 1 67 721 7,752,903 248,263 On the occasion of the proclamation of the Em pire, on Thursday next, at the Tullleries, the Prince Ptesidcnt will come from St. Cloud to Paris on horseback, surrounded by the members of his family, his ministers, several high functionaries and gene rals, and the members of his civil and military household. All the army of Paris, as well as the national guard, will be under arms on the occasion. On Dec. 2 the proclamation of the empire will be officially notified to the foreign ambassadors and ministers residing in Paris. The effect of this notifi cation will be to suspend their missions until they shall be newly accredited by their respective govern ments. In all proceedings in relation to foreign powers, the course taken in 1804 will be closely fol lowed. With this view a search for precedents has been made at the ministry of foreign affairs. The cathedral of Notre Dame is beginning to as sume indications of the coming empire. The high altar exhibits an imperial crown and rich purple velvet hangings, while other decorations may be seen in the aisles, preparatory as it were to occupy ing a place in an approaching ceremony. The Gazette itre des Ma, and La Frese. Musicale announce that M. Auber is to be named a senator. The firmer journal adds that the pat of director of the Conservatoire de Musique will probably be given to M. Halevy. Another candidate, M. Adolphe Adam, is also spoken of for that post, which he would fill in addition to that of Directeur de la Masklike Imperiale, to which he is said to have been already appointed. The Prince de (Aims' , and M. Dujardin, formerly Minister of Belgium, have arrived in Paris from Brussels. The e4lleers of the new imperial regiment of Guides are nearly all selected. They are required to possess a private fortune of 2001. a year. An innovation in the habits of the French army will be introduced in this regiment. Instead of dining in separate messes according to their rank, all the of will mess at one table, according to the English system, under the presidency of their colonel In the time of Louis Philippe, General Rumigny proposedethat this sys tem should be adopted in every regiment in the army, but his suggestion was not acceded to. At the reception at St. Cloud on Saturday a mem ber of the legislative body asked the Prince Presi dent whether the time had not arrived for using the word "sire" in addressing him. rho Prhice smiled and replied, " No, not yet ; let me enjoy the short time that is still left to me (Leiner-mot jouir demon rests)? M. E. 'de Girardin the other day expressed an opinion in the Press* that the Count de Chambord would have been wiser had he remained silent in stead of issuing a manifesto which has produced so imperceptible an effect upon the vote. In answer to this the Assembile observed that the "moves" who voted on November 21 knew nothing of the prot est, and would probably never hear of it, but that it had been carefully read and deeply felt by the elevated classes of the iiation,, who would preserve it in their memories. Girardin, who misses no opportunity of professing himself the consistent champion of naive:eel suftkage, no matter what may come of it, takes fire at the contemptuous way in which the sifossiteur des Gond, published in Paris—for so he denominates the ..1*- of the" masses." In an ar tielleela=lll. The Apl to the Cossacks," he sibs. with a " good deal of point, where are the judges who after reading the Chambord protest quitted the ben* how puny damns of all ranks hate thrown up their commissions, and how many functionaries have resigned? If these members of the elevated class of the nation, after having read the protest, and so u deeply felt it," have acted just as if it had never been issued, Girardin contends that the article in the ilssettsldie is either a mere ink bubble, moaning nothing, or else it is an appeal to the Co ssacks, and he concludes by saying that the only chance which the nephew of Imam XVIIL has of succeeding the nephew of Napoleon L, is to re enter France in the wake of a Russian army. The "tumbler and the than both venture to express their legitimist_poillestlans and expectations in very plain terms. The Amami& joins issue with the recent article in the Alfendsw, which asserted that the empire was free leg Waite olonirchy. Th• empire, it says, ins srownW like that of the Oman, it saw eta be . It then avails itself of a pent of the Ifsiedmes argument, to hang we it a remark he rive Otis sososs. _ _ _ Viersis one point which the (Asia ergaa of tlee govern meat establish**, sad we thaak it foe having dose so. It demonstrates that it hes always' been a mistake to insist 1 Impost attributing two different parts to the two branches of the boom of Soybean, and to auks subtle distinetions between the older sad younger brushes. Its argument , proves in us irrefutable maser that both in history as well as is the poplar seatisaant, there au be but Ye hoses of Bourke. Yes, thin le Mcleod bat sae bowie of Boarbon,tbe house of Fraser and it is mowed this illastrioas race that all the traditions and ideas of the monarchy are grouped. The two branches of the house of Bourbon bar munaton origin, sad they ma have but one future. They ass neither separate their cause nor elide destiny. The Union also professes to rely with "hope and confidence" upon the instinctive love of the nation for the secular traditions of the monarchy. I presume that these are the dying notes of the legitimist journals. I cannot suppose that after Wednesday next they will be permitted to talk about their hopes in the " cause "of the house of Bourbon. They must either change their politics or meat mime to be. PARIS, SONDAY ETININO. The Corps Legislatif, resolved into seven commit tees, has been working in private ever since Thursday at the sums of simple addition set them by M. Billault. By way of recreation, they were invited to a friendly undress soiree at St. Cloud, last night, where, supposing any unexpected dif culty to have ariien to the performance of their I teak, they bad an opportunity of being instraoted SWITZERLAND. The Grand Council of Berne decided on the 24th int. by the unexpected majority of 122 to 25 vote., to grant a concession for a railway on the Benue iterritory to the Compegnie de Bile. TURKEY. Advice. from Constantinople, of the 13th, an nounce the arrival there of the Prince Kavadaha, who has been recalled from his post of Turkish ambassador to the Courtpf Berlin. Oneof the Sultan's eons died, on the 10th, as also the second sultana, in the palace of Beylerbey. Another sultana is dangerously ill in the meraglio of Topkapoo. There have been violent storms of late in the Black Sea and beyond the Dar danelles. Twenty-five vessels have been wrecked in the former, and eighteen government vessels stranded in the latter, of which seven have been got afloat again by the aid of steamers. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. (PROM OUR OWN CORILWIPONDINT) (131 r ILIC7IIO TILIO/LAPII.) LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, Nov. 30. The British and North American royal mail steam ship Africa, Harrison, commander, which left New York at noon on the 17th instant, arrived in our river at a quarter to 11 o'clock last night, with four days' later intelligence from all parts of the Union than we had previously received by the United States mail-steamer Arctic. The Africa brings forty passengers, 102,000 dollars in specie on freight, and the usual mails from the States and the British American Provinces. Very serious loss of property is reported to have taken place during the gale at Lake Erie, mentioned in our last advice,. The wreck of the steamer St. Louis, and ono or two propellers and schooners, are among the disasters, attended by a large lose in cargo. Thus far the authentic accounts of the storm are not saddened by the loss of life. The dead bodies floating near the scene of the fatal disaster to the steamer Atlantic, in August, are surmised to have been cast up by the violence of the storm. Another steamboat explosion on the Ohio, involving a se rious loss of life, near Marietta, is also reported by telegraph. Six persons were killed, and a number of the crew and passengers were much injured. Advices from the city of Mexico to the 28th, and from Vera Cruz to the 30th ult., had been received at New Orleans, by the revenLe cutter Duane. The rsvolutionary movements still continued in the state of Vera Cruz, although it was denied that Rebelled° had seconded the plan of the insurgents at Jalisco. The revolution of Guadalajara seems to bo gather ing strength, and presents a more formidable aspect. A change of its plan has been made. All the public authorities who have forfeited the confidence of the the people are disarmed. An extraordinary Congress, composed of two deputies from each state, is con voked, which shall proceed to the election of a pre sident ad interim, and • reformation of the constitu tition. Gen. Santa Anna is called upon to return to the republic, and Gen . Uraga is invited to place him self at the head of the movement. By a telegraphic despatch received at New York from New Orleans it appears that the steam-ship Texas arrived at that city on the evening of the 11th instant front Galveston, with intelligence from Brownsville as late as the sth, among which is an account of an important revolutionary movement at Matamaros, terminating in the rout of the govern ment forces by the insurgents. The eight slaves who were brought by Lemmon from Virginia to New York, iii transits for Texas, had been set at liberty by the decision of the New York judges, who ruled that they did not come within the character of fugitive slaves, sa contem plated in the act of o:ingrain. Very extensive funeral ceremonies in commemora tion of Daniel Webster's memory took place in New York and other chief cities of the Union on the 16th inst., the day previous to the sailing of the Africa. The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Cap tain West, with the mails from hence, arrived out at New York on the 15th inst. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. There has been bat a Wes variation la the price of money for some time past, battle retailers padually settling down to a standard satisfaeMepts the aninseem classes who ▪ are employment money. PINS aspen his s 413 days (they being generally drawn as Muses of the Mem* stand ard of erode), will readily sell at 5 to 6jj, ma are much Inquired for. Paper of same character, at lows dates, is in request at $ to 7. Money is eztremely abundant fbr loans upon all, or for specified periods et favourable rates for the borrower. let class endorsed notes and acceptances, short +5 to 6 p. an. ilong ito6 7 1 r, s 0 0 to magi* names , paper 6 6 „ 2nd elms eadersed notes and aoceptances,short 6 to 8 i. „ 0 n n long 7 to 9 „ Loam on Government and Stabs Stooks 4l to 5 „ „ miscellaneous securities on the news from England by the Atlantic, and an advance bad taken place in prices. Large transactions were re at the following quotatiods :—Western Canal floor, 6 doh I2le. to 6 dell. 26e., very firm ; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 dol. 24c. to 1 dol. 26c. per 801 be. ; Indian cern, round yellow, 941. to 96c. per bushel, steady; Indian meal, 3 dole. 75e. to 3 dole. 8710. per barrel. The cotton market at New York had been very inactive, and pima had slightly receded for most descriptions of the staple. The sales had been very limited, and the quota tions were as follows : —New Orleans and Mobilo, middling fair to fair, 111 e. to 121 e. per lb.; Uplands ditto, 1011. to 1111. •sl i a :Mee of (raisin, in consequence of the quantity of grain shipping to Europe, and especially to English and Irish pons, had materially advanced; and shippers were asking the following prices at the departure of the Africa Four to Liverpool, 2a. Bd. to 2s. fld per barrel ; grails to ditto, 7d. to 71d. per bushel ; coma to ditto, 5-I6ths to 3.Bths of a pinny per lb. ; gotten to Havre, 1 to lof a cent. per lb. 1 The provision market was heavy in prime, and trade rather duller than at the previous mail. Mem pork was quoted, 181 ; and prime ditto, 151 doUul. Live hogs, however, still maintained fall prices. The demand for naval stores was not much improved, and little, if any, change was observable in the quotations of any article in this bra nch of business. prices were ruling for all kinds of tobacco, with a good inquiry. A more active business was doing in wool than for some time enviously, and rates had a still farther upward — ieihiage on London woe at 1092 to 110, with not ninth offering, and sales but to a very moderate extent. Ou Para, 5.13, firm. but little duisg; ilaniburgb, 344 to 36! ; Bream, 791 to 80. 8017T11 EASTERN RAILWAY.—Orou traffic receipts for the week endings Nov. 27, 1852 11,6311. 17.. 2d. ; ditto, Nov. 29, 1861, 10,2384 to. 04.1. hereon in 1862, 1,4001. Om V. _ _ 14/110RANDe MEETINO.—Last evening a valedic tory meeting of the emigrants per ship Woodstock and their friends took place at the Cowpoustreet School room, City•road. Dr. Oxley presided, and encouraging addreascs wen delivered by Mrs. Jamie and the Rev. Charles Wood ward from Australia and the Row. Mr. Pools, chaplain of en wool. SPAIN. We have received the Madrid jltirnals of the 24th. Reports were current in well informed circles that the ministry had induced the Queen to change her intention of not opening the Cortes in person. The opposition party in the Senate now reckons 77 mem bers. The different shades of the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies have not yet decided on their candidate for the presidency. The Assesailis Nationals of Paris ayes we kera kr wattle, by our private eerrespendenes frees Made* that as December 2 the Ilesairk ste=frs lens se the Ceram bills far rebukes the sad *fishmeal kw. Three bills will be se karat se te Imre a mmeaterekee =Mile sf the royal presegetive by s or remlfzessorimirs tbe sewer of way from Ilsoogeose to =has been oenselled to a llpodeb esorpany a royal decree. The line is to bosh at larlde, Moons, and other p&apal points ((the kir provinces through whisk it panes The Hessian government hu commenced proceed- Ups& Fulda against three members of the former Own° National Assembly Burgomaster Foerster, Preiessor Hildebrand of Marburg, and a manufac turer, Schwarxenberg, for their participation in the at Stuttgart, in 1849. Minister Von Hu i threatens to sue the members of the former 11/41116111 Chamber in their private capacity, and woke Asa pay the costs of the military execution randsand aseessary by their refusal to rote supplies. Theis oasts weald amount to nearly 2,00 W. a head. The *pastor of the museum at Cassel is imprisoned, for rebWag the collection of medals and coins to a largeamount. Austrian railway over the Semmering heights, a very costly and difficult construction, has become impassable . , two very long tunnels having broken in. The Austr ian government contemplates reducing the postage of a single letter to a penny for distances under fifty miles, and twopence for all greater dis tances within the imperial dominions. At Hamburg preparations are making for the emigration of several hundred pereons from Den mark, men, women, and children, who are about to via Liverpool and New O rleans, to join the proceed on the Salt Lake. Special sailing vessels and steamers have been chartered, and special rail way trains ordered for the occasion, no expense spored. GERMANY. • BERLIN, Nov. 20. TM Seem Zeitung of this evening writes : "Direct communications from Damascus, down to the 4th instant, in 110•1300 that the Turkialioampaign against the insurrection in middle Syris has totally failed, and that, in consequence of the winter s having set in, there can be no idea of resuming; operations for the present. We shall give the details tomorrow." .., ............. The Prussian press is threatened with a new and very hard blow. By 1 every person must give evidence on oath when inq . is wade for the de tection of a criminal ; and an it Is a musical act for any °filial to divulge fatermation obtained in his oMoe. The courts have &sided that altars most name the authors of mash* when the govern ment demands it, on 'suspicion that the inirmstion therein contained may have moss from ea sacral source by a breach of the imposed:Bl4=7. This, of course, will enable the pvarnment to .. institute the most vexations and oppressive procentudi Eitu:uut 1 all contributors to oppositional papers, add Witt also force ogcials to avoid all casual conversation in pub lic, and restrict their intercourse to their own c la ss, cu t where they must render themselves one-sided and um . Prussian government has matured, and is about to conclude its new treaty of customs union with Brunswick. While deliberating lately with this state on the execution of the September treaty, it requested Hanover to join the conferences on the subject. Hanover, however, replied, that it must decline entering on separate negotiations, and will wait till it can treat, not with Prussia, but with the Zolleerein. M. von Bruck has been called from i Trieste to Vienna. Some people surmise that he is to take the ministry either of finance or commerce, both of which are now held by M. von Baamgaertner; but it is more probable that he is only wanted to give hie advice regarding the resolutions to be taken in the conferences with the Darmstadt coalitionists. The Austro-Germanic union was first broached and Chby M. von Bruck; and he will certainly do all in power to realise the plan; but as he is actuated chiefly by commercial, and not by political considera tions, it is probable that his influence may lead the Austrian government to avoid all violent ciAiision, and induce it, instead of invoking then armed autho. city of the confederation, to allow the coalitionists to renew the union with Prussia on the protectionist principle, which must.at coo distant period, inevitably draw the whole Zoltretwin, Prussia anti all, into the Austrian nets, 1 I .. ... a... .4110•............... ......—..., ? obose b t d ie t amer regretted nisi twee, end though he w wa el by no MOM oppose the wood radial' of the bill, would take re l i t. = a rep gestiai sore setter In which it be hiss tbe till was wor th reconsideration. maim wad parcipal point on whic°l the hoe. and learned gentleman addressed the house w as on the desirability of 'Maisie( these forma of mass w hich the hon. and learned rothaten stated hie inteotimi so shoiisb. Hr hoped the besmears and foamed g•- tonal would direct his attention to ibis matter, so r t o law tun a more eatistesteeo footing. Be with ' ,meet to judgment. Under the repeat system time was acrid technical judgment for every hem of action in • c0 , 0 n,0, law, but if they abolished those forms, how was o w Judas to act? (Hear, hear.) The boo. gentleman w ouctuded by ezpressing his general satisfaction with the sal .Su A. COCKBURN, being still • member of dm Cosi wed or Commission, wished to say • few words on the wa hret. Ile thought it would be a great pity if the bill were not read a attend time at once; and if these mottos of detail were prematurely brought before the home, i e etead of being left for consideration in committee. (Hear heir lie quite concurred in what had jest been said b; t h e b at . and learned gentleman the member for Kidder. • r, ly, that the bill was /really in advance of the I"*.n.ili‘b Common Law Procedure Bill. (Hear, boar.) The a bolition of the forms of action had born noomatoodod by the ,oramissiuners, but the proposal meeting with the dim• approral of certain great legal authorities, who hedlneenie sleeted les: the commissioners should be gear to too greet length', they had been obliged to withdrew th, m to save the bill. (Hear, hear.) Ile very se a t regretted this, and be tnoted that the principle would be intended to England. (Hear, hiter,) an, commissioners had under consideration at that mos meat many very important questions that would farm matter for their report, which would be before the house More their nest meeting. Amongst them was the toes ti,ni of the various instances in which the equitable jun"- Lewin of the Court of Chancery might be transferred to the .vutts of common law. Fur instance, there was die eotery by the ealimination of the parties to the suit. They (the conimissiosers) would propose that the common law everts should have the power, by no expensive procedure in equity, but by simply bringing up the parties sad pet ting them to the torture of cress.ezanniastioe, to enable the jade* to strike out the pleas. Bo also these who had only en equitable right, or who had only an equitable defence to a suit, should bare power to commence, or to plead to an action at common law. (Lien, bear.) Again, by the pre sent rule a common law court, though it could give &mew, for a breach of a cataract, had no power to order a specific performance , but he (sir A. Cockburn) could see no reason in the world why it should not be able to do both, and the commissioners proposed so to extend wad mould the order of mandamus as ihat it should effect this most desirable improynnent. (Hear, hear.) The smounin lows would Aeolic. propese to do away with all these technicalities which were nothing more than mere obsolete forms. They would also suggest for consideration the question whether juries should still be required to be One- IBM Ma in their decisions ; and what was even of greater importance, whether the judge should be left by consent, as' in the comity courts, to deal with the question of fact, in stead or compelling the parties ta every ease to hare yo. tautw to the more expensive sad less satisfactory decision of +jury. (Cheen.) Ile (Sir A. Cockburn) felt that one frown why the County courts had proved so successful was lb-circumstance thee if in the course of the trial asythlag should turn up, there being only one judge, he could clew the books and order the parties to come beeore him again; whereas, in the superior courts, if anything occured by ear. prim, the party bad no remedy but to sutler a nonauit and to act a new trial on the payment of costs. (Hear, hear.) These matters, which were all under consideration, would be viewed in a liberal light, and with a desire to make the prceedure in common law as nearly perfect as possible. The fault of our present law was that it was imperfect and bed, stabboro, inflexible and incapable of application to the waste of the age ; and yet the legislature, instead of mending it, had only abated the lawyers. (Cheers.) If the law was inconsistent with the wants of the times, the first thing to be done was to male it better ; sod to effect that to which we were tend ing, namely, to do away with ail distinctions between law and equity. (Cheers.) Ile trusted that they had all started in this great and long-deferred work with • con &avenues desire to discharge their duty; and he was proud to dine that from one end of Westminster Hall to the ether there was but one common feeling, namely, to lend their hest aid to this reform. (Cheers.) I' was quite a mistake to sdppo. that it would be against the interests of the lawyam • foe the present system, by preventing parties from uisistag upon their rights, was really as injurious to ins profession as to any other class of the community. DI . Cited it DER gave his cordial support to the bill ; but be was astonished to find that the various improvements to;which reference bad been made had been introduced into this bill, whereas they had been omitted from the English act after the attention of the law offieers of the cruen had been drawn to them. The Alit/IL% EY-OEN E HAL, la reply to the observa tion of the lion. and learned gentleness who had preceded him, remarked that they must have forgotten the circumstances under which the law officers had the charge of the Eaglish bill committed to them. It was utterly ine possible fur them to have acted differently. The hon. and learned gentlemen opposite seemed to have forgotten the impatience with which hon, members on that side of the house had listened to any proposal at all on the part of the government to introduce new measures. Every such ab tempt was viewed as an endeavour to prolong the session unni meanly, sad to disappoint the expectation that they formed of an early dissolution. (Hear, hear.) The bill Mlle down at a very late period from the liouse of Lords, sod it was perfectly impossible to introduce any amend. meats, unless at the risk of liming the bill for that cession. lie (the Attorney-General) was, therefore, not a free @gest in the matter; sad as for the present bill being in advance of the English act, they must remember that a dwarf on the shoulders of a giant could see farther than the giant himself. (Laughter.) The Irish law reformers had had an opportunity of seeing how far the English had gone, and of considering how much further the might go themselves. He (the hon. and learned gentleman should await with much anxiety for the report of the cosmos • Law Commissioners, but it would be necessary to consider rf carefully their suggestions (and more especially one of them), the nature of which had bees intimated to them by the bun. and learned gentleman (Sir A. Cockburn). The house must not rush at once into all the reform which bad been proposed by ardent reformers, but Inset carefully ' wench their propriety. Ai to the auggesticess of the hon.' gentlemen who had spoken, they were sadesbOodly ofgreat value but they were somewhat ill-timed. The question at present before them was the petaciple et** bill—its details ' had hest be left fur committee; gad be hoped they would ell come to the sonsidastion o f the 11101111111 with a desire to make it as good and preened • Wl as possible, and sae that/ would furnish tie SW easmgie to Maglish law redeemers es the Xaelish bill had set to of Ireland. (Chases.) Mr: COLLIER thought the hill one of the most 00.111M hensure that load ever bees beseght in hi a /mpg; sad be thought that the hen. end inroad redeem (the Attorney-Geneva') had lebes ea meseeeee view la sup peeing that any refection had ban intended ea the ceeduct et the law• °Metre. The MIA edvestage of the bill wm that instead of attempts( to pal& up the present erten; of technicalities, it bad thieve It entirely aside, and adopted an altogether new eon Mesh bear.) He did set think them wee any reticent_ between law and equity. Equity was la het a nue eniesseenee, whisk bed grown imp is einerguenee el die dowse sr W, law. Bat it was another geneses window lbe We maid at ewe be fused and mailed issues. Theme wee ma the slighted ob jection even to the peneemeet seeenden of the equity marts; bat what wee eiguiggeebie wee, to have tee dif ferent tribute dealing leirllne seldeet natter_ epee dif ferent principles; or le bete twe warn whisk had a par- Mal Paris !Melon in the erne kiwi et i.e. Diligent Nene might be retaine;te deerwith diligent Wade of boo on the principle of divides ef WNW. (110 WM D Sir . !WICKETS reonmeeded a inn tribes of the County Court ;wiggled'. be berksll, gs ems of the most obvious nodes of erecting die Melee& MI at asking law cheap and edlcieaL He bad Mk I pertinger_ Inquiries as to the working of the last extesolos a lad be brad that It had been followed by the most borstals) easelt• Mr Will I'ESIDE said a few Wegdo_etelemelve of hie gratification at the meaner la with& the bill bed been re ceived, and the valuable ensiataast he bad bed la drawing it up from various gentlemen of great legal authority. He rejoic..d to hear the improvements that had been sug gested by Sic Cockbern, mad honed that doe ooasidera tion would be given to diem. Tula out w• 2, founded 04 the practice of the County Courts and the Scotch Prow tire Bill In Ireland there woe not es meek neeinity for Chancery refers, se by a rapid promo is see there, up apearde of 1,540 SLICOW.IIIIheII bad been disposed trim a very abort time. Mr. GEORGE obj ected to theta being one kw for Eng land and another for Ireland. As the Common Law Pro cedure Contilig•loo WA% about to report shortly, be thought it absurd to introduce a b i ll sp e cially for Ireland. He hoped that. when their suggestiess were matured, they would be made applicable to both the Irish and Eaglak Mr. PIIILLIMORE expressed his gratification at the provisions of the bill before the house. Ile hoped that this country would not long allow Ireland to have the start of lair in legal reform. If, was opposed to the sunweemsry multiplieation of oaths in courts of law, and therefore doubted the propriety of haring pleas verified in the, way. helievine the interests of the profession to be concerned to ti.e improvement of the law, he rejoiced in the efforts now making fur that purpose. Mr. NAPIER hoped there wild be no jealousy becatue Inl and on taking the lead in law reform. (Hear, hear.) ,. klr. BC IT point e d ou t w h a t h e conceived to be a prin ter's ern r in the copy of the bill,—the omission of a sche dule of the repealed acts. Mr. W promised that this should be supplied, and the hi I ies• read a second time. WEST INDIA COLONIES. fie., LOANS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Oa the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. F. PEEL urged the importance of the loans being applied in • way twmefieist to the colony. Sir J. PAK INGION said the bill had been brought in to give etLet to the act of 1848, the late law officers of the crown being of opinion that that act did not authorise any retrospective application of the loans. It was mainly applicable to Jamaica, where, from the distressed state of the planters, they bad been unable to keep faith with the Coolies by Binding them back. There had been repeated Tell29rAtraLlCl;s on the subject the colonial legislators had , resolved to raise 100,0001. under the act of 1848, and had passed two acts for that purpose; those acts were not cuts ! lifteat with the pr011i!.1 , 1124 of the act of 1.48, and hence the necessity for this short hill, the demand for labour In the cola . n x being vary urgent. no bill Wig thee teed. mead dam gut court. WINDSOR, Nov. 29. The Queen and Prince, with the royal children, accompanied by Princess Charlotte of BAgiuni„ and the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by the Idarchionew Ely, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Colonel the Hon. Chowlea Grey, Major-Gan. Buckley, Mr. Gibbs, end Lient.-CeL Biddulph, left the Castle this morning, at 25 minutes poi 10 lo'cloek, for Osborne. A guard ul honour of the Sett battalion of Grenadier Guards, with the band of the mgt. meet, was at the railwey station. The Duo de Brabant and the C•ente de Piandres, at tended by Colonel de Moerkerke, the Comte de Briey, end Sir Robert Carswell, left Windsor by an early train this morning for Orford. Monsieur Van de Weyer, the Bel gian minister, arrived at the Castle yesterday, and accom panied the Belgian princes to Orford. Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. J. E. Johnson, president and treasurer of Dethlem Hospital, attended at the Home-ethos yesterday, had an Interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, and presented the reply of the Governors to the Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy. Mr. hl'Donnell, the Licut.-Governor of St. Vincent, had an interview with Sir John Pakington, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Ker bad also an interview with the right hon. baronet. Mr. Thomas N. Hunt, representing a commercial estab lishment connected with the Island of Newfoundland, ae companied the deputation to the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, on Saturday, in support of an application for the grant of a royal charter of incorporation to the " London, Liverpool, end North American Screw Steamship Company." Lord Dudley Stuart, the Vicar-General, and Mr. Bulkeley Hughes had interviews, yesterday, with Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the Hoassroffice. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Hoe. Privy Council sat yesterday, in the Council Chamber. The lords present were—Lord Creaworth, Lord Justice Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Venison, and Sir Edwd. Ryan. An appeal from the Court of Arches. " Smith v. Deighton," was heard ; and " Rogerson v. the Queen," in the Levin Lank, from the Admiralty Court of St. Heleaa, was part heard. RETURN Or TAE COURT TO ORBORNE.—POWM YOUTH, Nov. 29.—The special train from Windsor, 006* veying her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal children en route to the Isle of Wight, arrived at this port at five minutes to 1 o'clock ts•day. On its arrival in the 'Loyal Clarence Yard, salutes were fired by jbe Victory, fiag•hip; Neptune, 120; Blenheim, 0O; and Leander, 60—the crews of which ships manned rigging and yards. Her Majesty was received, on alighting from the royal carriage, by . the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Thomas Brig" G.C.M.G. ; the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Simpson • Captain Superintendent of Clarence Yard, W. Johnstone;H. Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitsclarence, G.C.H.; Lieut-Colonel Routh, 93rd Regt.; the Gag Redstart officers of the poet and garrison; Messrs. Davis and Pin horn, of Clarence Yard; and • guard of honour from the 93rd Highlanders, commanded by Major Ainslie, Caps Fraser, Lieutenant Stewart, Lieutenant and Adjutant Mid dleton, and Ensign M.Donald, together with the band and fifes of the 93rd. Her Majesty immediately p oceeded og board the royal yacht Fairy, Captain Crispin, laying along side the jetty, which got under weigh at 1 o'cl•ick, passing between the boats of the ships in commission, and through the harbour, her Majesty being again saluted from Platform Battery by the garrison. Her Majesty arrived at Osborne at 1.46 p.m., the weather being tree from rain, though cold and overcast. PRINCE ALBERT AND THE MARTLEDONE FREI LinnAsti.—Prince Albert, in addition to permitting hie name to appear as patron of the Marylebone Free Library, has transmitted through the Hon. Col. Phipps to Mr. Oli veira, the chairman, the munificent donation of 504. towards the establishment of that institution, thus showing the . . lively sympathy evinced by his royal highness in the im provement of the intellectual condition of the working climes. This excellent example will, we trust, be followed, in proportion to their means, by men of all classes in the country. Every locality ought to have its Free Library. NEW LAW ON TUE PREBB.—The Attorney-General last night said he proposed to move fur leave to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to the stamp duty on newe papers. Lisa this proposition anything to do with the pro secution now pending against the " Household Narrative" of Mr. Charles Dickens ? Rumour is busy just now in London, and declares —amongst other things—the probability of the Budget not being ready by Friday next. No notice of it appears on the Rouse of Commons books. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is said to be very ill, and gossip says that Eastern teasel might possibly benefit him. There are good and easy berths vacant in that quarter of the world. Coe jecture finds a successor fur him in the person of an honour able member who voted on the Palmerstonian amendment. All these flying rumours can only be accepted for what they are worth; but one thing is certain, that the sooner the fast.and.loose men, now nominally in the liberal ranks, tie themselves to the Varies, the better. MR. ALBERT SMITH'S ASCENT OF MONT BLANC. Mr. Albert Smith's description of his memorable achievement, the ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, was one of too most interesting and successful entertainments of the metropolis during the whole of last season ; and, now that he has resumed it, promises to be as attractive as ever. He gave it, for the lint time this season, at the Egyptian hall, in Piccadilly, last evening. The room, as formerly, was crowded; a great number of persons having assembled before the doors were opened ; but Mr. Smith's arrange ments for the convenience of the public) were so judicious that there was not the slightest pressure or discomfort of any kind, and everyone present was able to aro and hear perfectly. It would be superfluous to speak in detail about an entertainment which has become so deservedly popular and is so well known; but we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of expressing the gratification which its repetition has given us—fur we know of few things that are better able to bear repetition. Nothing could have been happier than Mr. Smith's idea of making his adventurous achievement the subject of an oral and illus trated narrative ; nor could anybody have worked out this idea more feliciMusly than he has done. His style is animated, perspicuous, and graphic; always in good taste, and without any affectation of grandiloq uence -- a simplicity which has the greater merit when we consider the temptations arising from the grand and striking character of the objects described. But Mr. Smith's simplicity of style is the very reverse of bald or feeble ; and by the help of his easy, spirited elocution, he places the terrors and ambling ties of the Monarch of Mountains" in a more striking light, and impresses them more strongly on the imagin a tio n than has ever been done by anyone before him. The ad mirable illustrative views, painted by Mr. Beverley, of the terrible and magnificent features which the mountain presents at the various stages of its ascent, give great es 'instance to the fancy of the spectator; and we out almost feel as if we had accompanied the bold adventurers is their perilous journey. Several remarkable additions have now been made to these pictorial illustrations. We have in particular, the dangerous path from the hese of the Aiguille du Midi to the upper moraine of the Glacier des 801110111, and the view from the small plateau which forms the very summit of the mountain—a seen., we should imagine, not surpassed in the whole world. There is moreover a view of Chiunonni during the inundation which did so meek damage to that town and its neighbourhood in September last; a picture which gives a vivid idea of the tremendous nature of the visitation and the devastation produced by It. And there are other additions which heighten the interest to the entertainment. Mr. Smith gives a light and rapid soomist of his Journey from London to Chamouni and back, with some capital sketches of hie fellow travellers, especially his own genet', folks, who succeed so admirably is making themselves ridiculous on the continent. With these his audience were as much amused as they were struck and impressed by lie descriptions of the sublime scenery of Mont Blame. Duni or ADMIRAL AturfEN.—ln our overland despatch from India we announced the dem& of Rear-Ad miral of the lied Charles John Austen, C.D., the COM. mander-in.chief of the Boat India station, which took plass on the Bth of October, in the expedition to Prom*. This gallant and distinguished officer was born in 1779, and wee the younger brother of Admiral Sir F. Austen K.C.B. He entered the service in 1791, a n d h a d seen a good deal of hard service. He was promoted to his flag rank in 1846, and was appointed commander-in-chief in the East Indies in January, 1830. By the death of Rear. Admiral Austen the following promotions and removals take place : Captain Sir Thome Herbert, K.C.8., M.P. C 1822), beennes !tsar_ Admiral of the Blue ; Sir Edward Lyons, moving to the white squadron ; and Peter John Douglas to the red squadron. Sir George 11. Brooke i'ecbell, Bart. (December 26, 1822), is now the senior captain on the list. Captain George Berkeley Maxwell (1830) succeeds to the senior half-pay list, and Lewis T. Jones (captain of the Sampsou) to the second senior list. The promotion of Sir Thomas Herbert gives another good-service pension to the patronage of the Duke of lionhumberlend ; and Sir Thomas having become a rear-admiral, a new patent will be necessary, and the Board of Admiralty will now include the.. flag officers. GREAT ISSUE OP NEWSPATER STARPS.—The very large number of upwards of 2,000,000 newspaper stamps were issued last week to supply the immense demand (or copies of the papers containing the account of the prepara tions for and the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington. The number of stamps issued last week has far exceeded the number ever required in one week under any circum stanced, although large numbers had been issued in the same period of time during the railway mania of 1846, during the French revolution, and the Great Exhibition. INCREASE OP OUR NAVAL FORCE.—The govern. ment (says the Times) has resolved to call upon parliament to vote the necessary supplies for a considerable addition to the naval forces of the country. The commission which! has been sitting for some time past to consider the best means of manning the navy, has adopted several valuable suggntions from officers whom judgment and experience may be relied on; and we presume that It is in consequence of these recommendations that the government and thei Admiralty have ice lved to add about 6,000 seems to the fleet, with a proportionate addition to the Marines. This othee pra ne c ur t y ic c i nai o d f di d toi isc ot hi u r ag gi reh ns t iret t t h ou e nicer w od e to lt. tobe train copm ed utmli e n re d w e s thnde of tos l d re- otif this important elan of the community, they should ba adopted.