The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

which government banks never fail to lead, when strong temptations are thrown in the way of their =:The depreciation of the currency followed .. immediately after the Turkish and Polish ware had exhausted the exchequer, and driven the government to contract loan abroad. Advantage was taken of the low rate at which the assigned notes then stood in the market to effect a cowp de finance, by which new rouble notes at their original value were lined, that were legally to exchange at the rate of 1 for 31 of the depreciated currency. Thus in the midst of profound peace RLIIII3II resorted to the ex pedient which in Austria and France was only deemed justifiable in a period of unsuccessful wars and a revolutionary panic. Bat it is the sequel of the story which contains the moral, that we are desirous of holding up to view at the present moment. These proceedings destroyed Russian credit abroad. Bat help arose in the interior of the country that was perhaps little expected, although nothing could be more natural than the way in which it originated. A statement published in 1843 by the Minister of Fi nance declared that of the nine hundred millions of depreciated roubles which circulated ten years before, seven hundred and fifty-five millions had been paid off, leaving but 157,268,093 roubles in circulation, of the value of nearly 50,000,000 of the new or (so called) silver currency. The effect first perceived as a result of then mea sures wee, that they 'mounted to a contraction of the airoldatz w medium. In the capital the value of the could not be raised because the treasury Er r i deersed that they should be exchanged for the new notes bearing value at the silver standard. But that they were kept in the country for the purpose of eking eat the circuladag medium is clear, frogs a decree issued sauce, which to withdraw them free& trade, obligee all dbs to the mown to be paid in the silver currency. The contraction was, at t e thee this deems issued, so severe, that the order operatid like an affective increase of duties, and was own plainsd of as such. By this substitution of 220,000,000 of roubles for a currency of 900,000,000, that had only momentarily lost worth, the demand for notes became so urgent, that another scheme had to be carried into effect, the success of which is demonstrated in the ukase of March 31. A treasury fund was created, which bought bullion against state paper. The convenience of pep& money, the security it allows in transporting, and is keeping accounts, in short, all the acknow ledged advantages it possesses over bullion when honestly dealt witlf, secured the absorption of a large sum, under the circumstances of growing trade and a contracted currency. In 1843 it was announced that the treasury vaults contained one hundred millions of roubles, or sixteen millions sterling, against which one hundred and twenty-seven millions of notes had been emitted. The ukase of March 31 declares the hoard to have by that time accumulated to 114 millions, or more than 18,000,0001. sterling. Under the sup position that the growth of trade will continue to absorb the present paper circulation of between 200 millions and 250 millions of paper currency (32,000,0001. to 40,000,000/.), especially if one-third of the amount be retained in the treasury for the emergency of a demand for conversion, the minister , shut his eyes to his responsibilities. Upon this foundation, which seems to the Russian minister to leave hint six millions sterling to speculate with, has the project of obtaining a useful ascendancy over the financial affairs of France and Great Britain been I founded. We have gone into this detailed exposure from a sense of the importance of the circumstances for this country, as its financial system is now organised. Under a sound system the Russian project would be ludicrous; under an unsound one its results, although availing little for Russia, might be disastrous to us. The Times, in one of its articles last week, sated the traders and bankers of London, who have been plunged in ruin mainly by the agency which that paper has from the first applauded, why they did not attend to the warning long since held up them in the weekly returns of the Bank of land ? It is the substitution of those returns as a s tandard of calculation for the trader in the place of his know ledge of his own business that this empire universally deplores. It is on that substitution that the Russian court alone can found the project, if it really have the intention, of throwing our commercial any political credit into irreparable confusion, by a sudden demand for six millions in bullion in the markets of Paris and London. We could find, if we were to hunt for it, no more striking exposure of our vul nerable position, than that a government, stand ing on so weak a foundation as we have shown that of Ramie to hold, should with any apparent probability of snores menace a great trading country like this with danger from the skilful mani pulation of so email a sum. It is like mounting a popgun to silence the fire of a fleet. But no man who has passed through our recent, or rather our present, crisis, will deny, that both France and Eng land, while they adhere to their present systems, are effectually held in check by the mancerivre. MADRID, Serer. 27. Salamanca has put forth in the Ma:cites of yester day and to-day four decrees, two of which are of such im portance that they throw all other topics into the shade. I shall state these measures in the order which they occupy in the official paper. 1. Reduction of the price of tobacco. 2. Establishment of fresh securities for paying the interest of the public debt. 3. Sale of that portion of the property of the secular clergy which yet Tomei= in the hands of government. 4. Sale of municipal property. The tobacco decree deserves notice for the intention indi cated in the preamble of getting rid of this monopoly altogether at no distant period. Meantime the cheapened cigar will put to rout whole regiments of contrabanclistas, and reclaim hoes of lawless arms to peaceful husbandry. The decree for assuring punctual payment to the public creditor is as follow, :—Art. 1: For payment of the interest of the native and foreign 3 per cent. stock the following sources of revenue are applied to the Direction-General of , the Public Debt, in conformity with the provisions of the 61st article of the Royal Decree of June 11. The proceeds of all the national property. The proceeds of the quick- Miser mines of Almaden and Almadenigoe, and others. The surplus of all the oolonial revenues—Art. 2. The Directive Junta of the Public Debt will proceed to stipulate a plan of contract with the Bank of San Fernando, by which that establishment will ag during the period of 10 years, to place at the disposal of the Direction of the Public Debt, on the 30th of June and 31st of December of each year, the amount of the six months' interest, with due regard to the budget approved by the Corter.—Art. 3. The surplus, if any, shall be applie d to the liquidation of the debt. The deficit shall be made good punctually by the Public Treenry. Art. 4. The plan of compact agreed on between the Directs Junta and the bank shall be sub mitted to the royal egoeshation; and, this obtained, a so lemn contract sheli be *awn up and published for the "owl*, of the sY,s creditors.—Art. 6. Of the dispo sitions Resin wileheed an mount will be given to the Cortes as area am they weezable. In the leatenbis to this decree the minister expresses a sass lope that ere long he will be able to pose a plan foommal settlement of the public debt, smiths cacao lidatiou of all legitimate claims upon the TreaFl d Mean while the Mate creditor will have before him a of tan years, desks which the punctual payment o his interest will be mowed to him by a combination of all the securities he cm expect. The article of the public debt Neenah in the to 92,000,000 of reale. tie mitt decree, it must be premised that by the °l eLtltialy 28,1844, th a sale of the property of the map elegy was stopped, and a law was passed in 184.5 re mark( • 'nation of the property to its former owners. But there still remained in the bands of government the eatates West:to hermitages, sanctuaries, confraternitice, jemeral of the public debt charged with the *ld swerrer this property have presented a report to the governmene eating forth its ruinous condition, which biomes every ley mare dilapidated. Besides, a great por tion a the foie eseeist in incumbrances, which give rise to endless litigaden, in which the government is cast, from the want of downents to identify the mortgages. The only course is, tlansellere, to realise as soon as possible the sale of these treeblemies possessions. The decree,. as follows :—Art. 1. The onspendos, ordered by royal decree on July 26,1844, of the sae cif property which belonged to fraternitiee, her miteges,eametataries, &c., is hereby removed.—Art. 2. In eoli e' ths government will proceed to the alienation of wehpeeperty after the teamster determined by the law of Sept. 2, 1841.—Art. 3. The sale et the incumbrances will not take place till Jan. 1, 1848, and hens the interval the owners of estates charged with ma iseumbrancee may avail them selves of the right of teisegotion, paying a sum equal le the capital in three per emit bends. But Saleacesses greed psehraance is the nut dame, for the sale at amisNmi property. All the of such properly, however, which are Nod rt i re inhabitant_ iron amnion, such es postures, weeds, watering-phew, ellen" fountains, thusliam-11= dsi esr a mono, and wish weablishasente es phone, bows, lorpheb, Ile., are of owes Am oh. The rod of the posperly Ikea whale ere dunked isolated to be puolly b e e f y brides that the el these erepadiswe el" ,e the ID 'allow inhignee end The Mobs as, going to wresk, nobody " 11 111 : 1 =0 Whops le everybody; andeboutllB,ooo Mem mated with the town council nonopeerwil et lir ems we pending in the eke of essence. Pswedbe he proceedings upon such and the like thopournment sets out with the principle of k • 1 V 11011.111thle tls at Waal' d these estates MO a Iles of hmilsaisie ask realised by Ile nwilsipaStiso. sere segalar, mai lase Weal of dhissibta. The state hos ea Latina in this to the arm* et twenty per tent. After the Ws the tisias of the esseement sad tt=tantientos ha hevin‘ in ut gabb eaddledemtlefibegeemeds,tbe pressuass that • win rem* *Wet this prawn to plies is the hart el tie deasatetisas tar the ear stewed.' et rose souk use the Votes shell determine furtherer. ebe embeeM The peepety in question at pre sent yftiliffiles ales lleffif 54 millions of teals, the are beim Ilkage seat ; the whole an ti mine sollelele to lid ti soda. The purchases are to be paid he hitim esti. beads The articles of the decree mem Weft the lenalltin which are to be ob served be esmalsetisg the es* widish le to be announced by the imemelemese of the provisoes imrdtwith. Copia is taking rigorous 11111111116/IS for extinguishing the Caul= rebellion. A royal emir has been published in the Barcelona papers, ordering the blockade of the French frontier of the principality. The Junquera is the only pass excepted. In consequence of the offensive paragraph that appeared in the Faro of the 22nd, two redacteun and the director. Dm Diego Coello y Quemda, who has confessed himself the author both of the libel and apology in a public letter to the Faro, have eased to be conneoted with that journal. It is singulzr that all Salamanca's prodigious feats in the Caulk have failed to lift the funds a jot. The threes are still at 26. . _ Barr. 28. A fifth decree from Salamanca appears in to-dayh Odzette. The estates belonging to charitable institutions are to be sold. The purchased estates are to be paid for in Three per Cent. bonds. These charity-notate, are for the most part in such a miserably dilapidated condition that few of them yield more than 2 per cent. net in seam to be applied to the charitable uses for which they wen destined; and jobs and mismanagement& of all Made make away with the funds. Of course the poor are sot to be robbed by this decree, which proposes la all emu el sale an indemnity equivalent to the r.,.._l„...t.....Leavin.ttsicite is the pres enthati the the question & . nii7ll sheathe in the postal the most essential 2=eee is the premed edict are them; :—Art. 1. The ins i=l.beissiging to establishments of charity, eediessi. or Meal, which is not neasesary for th e amiss *mew asi a rinses lam than 2 per cent. net bum spat heneV asses al white it may be valued, will be Mid* rue ebas to the regulations which Mew, T o a tea againetdellelhe or fraudulent rem akes, genie with the view 411 nyammatioi the income as mesa Sea 2 per cent. ' • if azypeosiesse Should offer double the Mee .. e received in Three per O. hank the property is to he p* up to auction. IM the five decrees of which I have sent you an audios only use lies within the attributions of govern most, the tobacco edict. All the rest are illegal, and the plan for the sale of municipal property was rejected! by the existing Cortes, in April last, by a vast majority. But if that vast majority does not represent the country (the I present mamma having been elected while the chid' of the fiber l party were in exile), a law which they reject may be highly aeeeptable indispensable even, to the country at =llt ioLtill the illegality is a glaring fact, and admits no Viva is Comfitucian ! Recosura's decree of administrative reform will be signed by the Queen to-day or to-morrow. It is said to be a mea sure of immense importance, a meta Reform Bill far Spain, that will entirely change the face of the electoral system. This step, taken in connection with the dissolution of Con• great, which is said to have been finally decided upon by ministers, opms a cheering prospect for the liberals. Mean time the dri irited moderadoe - look for support to France, and hail the elevation of M. Guieot to the presidency of the council as a party triumph. The address of Espartero to the Queen, which the eti quette which hedges roy alty forbids should be styled " letter," has not emspthe criticisms of the moderatos. The Herald° began by impeaching the document as out of all order, and treating the Queen with an insolent equality. When it appeared that Espartero's address had been com municated through the channel of the government, the moderado papers changed their tactics, and pretended to discover in it disrespect for the sovereign, and eaprenions of ill omen for constitutional rights and public tranquillity. These attacks coma with a particularly bad grace from the organ of Narrate, and place the frank and loyal chivalry of the rival whom "dente livido petit" in favourable contrast with such ignoble rancour. The news from Catalonia is satisfactory. The greatest disunion prevails among the rebels. The cabecillas were &mess as soother, and ill-treating the town population, whisk Ida be more induced by such a change of conduct to as* wild Om, than by all the fierce edicts in the world *ea isplaweinerals. At Pont de Arranger& a party of 13 rehoblessed on the 20th, conducting two eabmillas whom they wore about to shoot in Valls, for degrading the cause by robbery. The bands are pursued with vigour by the in censed troops, and some have passed into Arragon, and others into the hieeztrasgo. Thirty carlists, commanded by one Gil, a lieutenant of Cabrera's, entered Calends, in Lower Arragon, en the T.2nd, but they were shortly set upon by a column of soldiers, who captured the cabecalla and many of his followers. A party of 160 insurgents pared the Ebro near Ulldeeona on the 20th, apparently with a view to gain the Maextrugo, but they were actively hunted by the troops. A Barcelona paper says that Prim was to leave Paris on the 26th for Madrid, where he was to undertake an im portant charge. It seems the apologetic paragraph of the Faro, mentioned in my . two last despatches, inserted under the exclusive authority of the director, h as stuck in the throats of many of its editors for two have retired, as well as D. Diego Coello Queiala ; and another editor, D. Gabriel Tamara, has caned out the colonel, D. Joaquin Gandara, who in sisted upon the insertion of the apology. Two friends on either side, opining there was no case for a hostile meeting, and two more pair of seconds who succeeded the first, taking the same pacific view, the Senores Tamara and Genders shook hands and parted with mutual expreseions of the highest esteem. It is said, however, that the reconciliation was helped by hints received from influential persons. The Padilla* of Gerona prints a rumour of an esparterist insurrection at La Bisbel. The commander-general at Ge rona was said te have marched thither. The inexorable Threes have been KM offered at 26, and nothing done. ATHENS, SEPT. 20. All human skill was unavailing in Coletti's illness. He lay in excruciating pain for several days, but ultimately died on the 12th, at daylight in the morn ing. During his illness, he had every attention paid him that mortal could desire. His friends were con tinually by his side. Even those whom the world never would have expected to approach him whilst in health, forgot their injuries in inquiries after the health of their persecutor. The King went to see him : the last time was the evening previous to his death. His hmeral took place on the 13th, with all the honours due to the first minister of a crowned head. The cortege was composed of all the foreign ambassadors, consuls, vice-consuls, the deputies, senators, civil and military employes. He was buried y in the church of Santa Irene. Hour guns were fired from the time of his death till his interment. Imme diately after his death, the following ordinance was published and promulgatedby the council of ministers : Otho, dc.—Having been informed, to the great affliction of our eon], of the death of our President of the Council, Minister of the King's House and of Foreign Affain, M. John Came, of that man of high intelligence, who so gloriously distinguished himself during the struggle, and who has rendered most eminent and loyal services to our throne—We order that all the employee, military and civil, shall go into mourning for the period of five days. Oar Council of Ministers is charged with the publication and execution of this ordonnance.—Athens, 12th Septem ber.—(Signed) OTllo.—The Ministers, K. Teavellas, &c. Contrary to the expectations of many who imagined that Canaris would fill Coletti's post, Kitzo Travellas, the Minister at War, has been appointed. He is de scribed as a very illiterate man, scarcely capable of writing a letter—a man who owes his present rank of general entirely to his bravery and the courage he displayed during the war of independence. He can not, however, be the ignorant man he is described, for he held most creditably the office of Minister at War. He will be the president of the council. This nomi nation is another proof of the influence the French =in the council' of King Otho. Tzavellas will other tool in the hands of the French ambas sador. The Chamber has, at last, completed the investigation of the elections. The follow ing are its constituted officers : President Callifronas, vice-presidents, Jarrow and Pericles; secretaries, Pa risi, Nokos, and Antonoponlo. Notwithstanding the mourning for Coletti, the accustomed celebration of the anniversary of the revolution of 1843 took place as usual on the 16th. Their majesties assisted at a Te Deum sung in the cathedral in the morning, and ' gave a public dinner in the evening. At night the whole city was illuminated. There were a few in clined to be noisy, but, altogether, the day pained over peaceably. Letters from Negropont describe that country as in a very bad condition. Insurrec tionary movements are taking place in various parts of the country. General Mamouris, who was sent against Colonel Pharmaki at Zilista, is reported to have attacked and forced him to quit his position. He then gave up the village to his soldiers, who committed mosthorrible acts of rapine and plunder, and ultimately set it on fire. After this gallant exploit the followers of M.amouris, consisting of volunteers brought out by the hopes of plunder, retired to their homes, laden with the booty of the plundered village, and leaving their commander with less than a hundred men. He was obliged in consequence to return to Naupecte to seek for reinforcements. No correct accounts have been received of the progress of the outbreaks at Velours and Pappacosta It cannot be favourable to the government, or it would soon be published. A rising at Patras is momentarily expected in connexion with all the towns and villages on the banks of the Lepanti. Although nothing is said of the Turco- Helenic question, it is known that many secret con ferences have taken place on the subject between the King and the French and Austrian miaiatera. Per haps tolettef death will serves/ a pretext to settle it. MALTA, Bavv, 26. The cholera has broken oat at Trebiscode, and wend ports in the Sea of Aiwa% There le, aessequently, a quarantine of fourteen days at Constantinople on all ves sels coming from Trebisonde. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan is at the Prince's Isles, perform ing quarantine, haring had several fetal oases. The appearance of this disease in the porn of the Black Sea will be seriously injurious to commerce and the steam companies' who run beats on that line : vessels will saver think of going to a cholera port to load ; and those in them will , 1 orsresly know where to go to get pratique for most ' al the continental ports will be closed ag ainst then. Oa the 23rd, by virtue of • judgment of her Majesty's Ommwercial Court of Valletta, the Maltese sh *Ma Sciduna, of Strada, Livante, took out a lisrs:att distraint upon the household furniture of hie royal highs= the Prince of Cspua. The marshal of the court , three pones eerjeants, a number of attendants, with a carpenter, to remove any impedimenta proceeded to Sliecua, to the habitation of his royal highness, and demanded admission in the name of the court. The door was immediately opened, and he, with his assistants, went in. They were received in the hall by his royal highness, dressed in the full dress of • Neapolitan marshal. lie had his ser- ' rants round him. The marshal expressed to his royal highness the regret he felt at having such an unpleasant duty to perform. The Prince replied, " Make no elegies to me; you are only doing your duty, and executing the law. It is the paramount duty of every one to implicitly obey the laws of the country he resides in. 1 have not put on this costume to intimidate you in the execution of your duty, but to give ' to this indignity, offered by a consul to his sovereign, in the person of hie brother, all the merit it deserves. This act is the act of the Neapolitan consul, not the act of &Mune, to whom I have offered all the means of arrangement in my power. The Seidunes are only his tools. The consul does not with this affair to be arranged. It is intended, by a course of persecutions, to drive me to acts or expressions which will againdraw upon me the displeasure of my august brother, of whose fraternal affection for me I have receatly had reite • -....eances. They will not succeed_ my acts ever have been, and shall be, guided by a strict asime . stviinii is due to my royal brother, and of what is just and kcal. The insult," added the Prince, " is to this uniform ".—tonelting his embroidered collar—" let those who ought be responsible. If I were living in luxury," he resumed, "a step like this might lot appear to be uncalled for. Now, gentlemen, walk In, the whole of you, examine the furniture, wardrobe, plate, and the kitchen and larder of the Prince and Princess of Captia." His royal highness, attended also by the princess, then desired the servants to show the marshal through the house. A short time sufficed to strip it to its very window curtain,. Even the prince and princess's dressing and toilette 'cases were taken. The marshal, when he saw the plate, thought he might stop, but, alas ! it was only German silver. -All the litanies seized were then removed to Valetta, and the prince, princess, their children and servants, remained ht a house with bare walls. The whole of the articles taken, excepting the carriage, will not fetch 501. Many of them are now lying exposed in the entrance of the court house, and furnish no little subject for the comments of passers by. BOMBAY, Aco. 31. The Bombay Times has brought all its artil lery to bear on the acting chief justice, regarding the " Worlee murder case ;" and certainly the chastisement is deserved. Sir E. Perry has had upwards of a month to reflect on his speech and had its erroneousness pointed out to him by several journals besides the one affected by it, but he has maintained a dogged silence on the subject up to this time. The Bombay Times generously *towel"; him a month to offer atonement, but no relents tion or apology has been tendered, and Sir Efiakine has laid himself open to the stricrures he !Ids so richly merited. He is, in general, mild and conciliating enough on the bench, but at the last criminal sessions his usual equanimity seems to have forsaken him, and his can. duct has been condemned by nearly every paper in India.— The death of Major Parsons, commandant of the searine battalion, took place on the 19th at Bombay very suddenly. The lamented deceased had been bitten by a dog some M weeks before, but up to the day of his death no bad symp tom had appeared. He was ill only a few hours. Whether any of the characteristics of hydrophobia attended his short illness I have not heard, but his death was awfully saddest. He was universally respected by all who knew hire, as a man of sterling worth and ability.—Sir R. Oliver paid the gover nor a flying visit last week—it was thought to consult with him regarding the naval memorials, the whole of the sub : scribers of which have refused to alter one tittle of them, though threatened with trial as mutineers should they refuse to do as required—expunge the most ob noxious paragraphs. These go home by this day's mail, entire as originally drawn up.—Colonel Grant, of the Engineers, has been directed to proceed to Aden, as superintending engineer. He will remain a few months each visit. Capt. W. S. Jacob has been appointed executive officer there, in room of Captain Kilaer.—Capt. Turner, of the Mint, is, through ill health, obliged to leave by today's steamer for Europe. A very grateful address was presented to him by his European assistants, requesting that his eldest son might be allowed to accept of a gold watch from them, se a token of the esteem and regard in which the father, precluded by the mite of the service from accepting of it himself, was held by them. His place as Mint engineer has been taken by Lieut. Bell temporarily. Lieut. Suart will get the berth on hie return from England.—The ass of ether as an aid in surgical operations is being practised largely, by means of Weiss's inhaling apparatus, sae me reeding to admiration. The trade of the port has again opened since the 25th, or Cocoanut day. after which country craft have no fear in going to sea, the marine deities having been propitiated by offerings of cocoanuts. The opening of ' the season for European goods already promises wall fer act active business when the merchants from afar shall ewer in the market. The presidency throughout COntill.6o meat healthy, and the official reports of the elate of the weather are favourable—the crops everywhere being in high condi tion and holding out hopes of an abundant harvest. The total fall of rain in Bombay amounts to 63 Inches, 12 short of an avenge monsoon; and it is not likely we shall have much more this season. The Custom-house trade report for 1845-46 has just keen published, which shows the total trade of the port to have amounted to 22,477,2291., of which the imports were 12,541,3311 , en which 250,7731. have been col lected in the shape of customs duties. The trade during 1845-46 was greater than during the four preceding years, but it is said to have fallen off during last year. I subjoin • couple of interesting tables : Table showing the Value of the Imports and Exports for the last Five Years, and the avenge of these, as compared with the Imports and Exports of the Year 184546. Imports. Exports. 1640-41 _ 8,07,63463 7,71,68,436 9,83,13,427 8 11 65 303 iiii-ii 1812-4 1114344 1844-43 60,92,98,890 44,30,90,385 Arerege-906 me year 1642-441 Immese—le Mem of 1845-46 2,3133,579 1,07,60,897 The Mewing hi ea Abstract View of the Commerce between Bombay sad the ild 121agarma, Mies the ogeol—ag of the Trado, al =WM fib, cmcbadlog the .ahle Ompan i g J: : 1813.14 1814-13 1615-16 1616-17 1817.16 1118-19 11119-20 181041 1631-32 1022-23 1813-24 1824-23 1825-36 1826.27 1827.28 102849 1820.30 1830-31 .__. ..._ 1,10,ea,360 ,40,090 U* o 7.0417.7•' 883.98 1,10.83,688 - , 17,737 883434 81445 PUS 18947 887-311 9394" -.. !,11,77,110 1839-40 1,36,72,7 U .... .. 1,19,08,46$ 1940-41 1941-42 ...- -... . 8. 7 2.30.223 .. .., 1,23,67,008 1842-43 ......... .. 1,9473,666 - ... 1,36,04020 1843-44 .... .. .. 8.4 2 , 32 . 7 18 .. - -..... 1,70,46,148 1944-96 _ .. M* 44187 . ........ - . 1,1.1,0,9,101 Rupees - ii:ii:iii In Goomsoor the investigations of Mr. Grant progress but slowly, as Brigadier Dyce refuses to bring any specific charges against the late agent, Captain M'Pherson, whose removal was as summary and unceremonious as though he had been guilty of some atrocious act. Disturbances have made their appearance in the Goloow. dah districts. A large body of insurgents bad assembled in the Viragapatam collectorate, for whose dispersion eight eompaales of Bepoys had been ordered to be despatched. This state of matters is to be attributed to the policy pur sued in the Goomsoor territory, the insurgents of which dia. tricts are tbounht to be in communication with the people of Oolcondah, instigating them to join in harassing our go _ We have had but little news from the Nisam's dominions. General Fraser is said to have been reprimanded by the governor-general in reference to the state of mattes under his eare—cenceiving, and not unnaturally, that had sufficient vigilance been exenised, the affairs of the prince, at whove court he resided, could never have got into such irretrievable conturion. . . . — The governor-general and commander-in-chief leave Simla about the beginning of October. Lord Hardinge for the City of Palaces, to prepare for his retirement from the government; Lord Clough on a tour of inspection. Sir John Littler b at Lahore, but will doubtless join the gov e r nor . general on Lb ma ch to Calcutta. Major Burt, of the B enga l E ''•, has been convicted of defrauding govern ment, and the service. Hem is hie ernst-usartial. He wu defended be a barrister, Mr. Lung, foreserly of Cal cutta, uovr editor of the Meerut Mofureare H....treegige im agele, ISth Aug., 1847.—it a gegureignolgoettiel oldie Allehabed, Thani Mk g, tart,lghogies limos+ Burt, et as 'Wren, wee oa the eigt—let. lee ade& ea er Yam C l = N o .,..i,T w ast ambling, eh the emeden of lie big hum dosing= at liellighe amsbour st lb, Eh digits et Se w meat Opel& vetbe,la his trwahrlill brae asses ikikteetelever to the dim tete "dreg high Oipt.Wilimeof 0086 reglofteotadive isholry, Erb szaintie ilrega lie era mak, tome saionnt of Compliers Upset 1;182 9 8, or theveboate, tor doer, door-lodis, THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVEXING, OCTOBER 5, 1847. t 22=6 e ttels. lightning r a tt a mmi edam e s ker% r widi the Wen. the enthe las% adhu li ebairtgbaiSla Witham dm meliathilialt r e i reemithe mimed thaw by Wee Isel. the the Perthist the sit Wv al leistheistel Othothronopese(l4,llll6 14 Itheg thew about" ad Meths Nish* therm Is hlopmenies widths/ b ou sebandiettheresseer,lll4% menthe ithintion et delkseibe smayst Sit Fa Mem oftst bobs beth ro. = mi me the deifies tithe dth Meth= etas degeetant mine worded werirhMei to Insudie 4046th Willesee two smignmeole Mae et worth is dot theleles. the ime doled IMh Novessbor, ga4 tooth the ether MOM die MO lathery. 11141, ter 3,llllropeas end retained*, mid mthementh meths esel remiss' Ipso them, in hie posswia, meth en or ~this 16th n a aangsar, Me. with the third= of dithearling gothethient of ere sow Mosing.,--The tours, twigs setsuely wasted mid llllllikeed the eividessohnosiit forward in moppet of the I tie% ingather with OM shamed on the defense, are of apnea, that the pAeear MAW Themes Seymour Burt, of the Begleaset of Ee{Yers, Is, o • So gni shine, guilty, but they end the exact mined menthe.* to be eampany's rupees 11,734 6 6.—On the mothilehervagvHl7.—On the third charge, guilty. Bemire.—The am% heath" gond laspelsoner guilryas above specified, de adjudge Mth e z i. letil *jar Themes Seymour Burt, of the ,them! of to is thither' the servioe.—Approved and confirmed, (Siged) 0001111. Ram.,alta ST Tap onntaalma-m-Cortar.—With regard to the ° d e mo t e, of overdue's@ as made by the court, the Commander in-Chief comiders the amount stated to be nearly accurate, and on the whole favourable he Midair Burt. Madras supplies a Ilew items of interest. The Madding. ton was to take 100,0001. of specie, on her return to Calcutta. from the Madras treasury--30,000/. having been before sent by the Hugh Lindsay to the eastern settlements. Several works of improvement had been sanctioned by the govern ment, all which shows that the benighted presidency is well off for cash. From Bengal, the death of Major J. D. D. Bean, for merly a political agent in Cutchee in the time of Mr. Ross Bell, has been announced.—The ship Stalkart, with the Meanee guns aboard, has been abandoned, government having purchased the wreck for the sake of the trophies buried with her, and which they intend trying to recover. The names o f least half a dozen persons have been men tioned as the probable successor to Sir Charles Napier. First we had Mr. R. K. Pringle; then the Hon. Mr. Reid and Colonel Melvin ; next came Colonel Sutherland, of the Bombay army; and now it is stated that Sir Harry Smith has been offered the bet th by the heme government. A couple of young officers from Sultkur went out on a tiger-shooting expedition, accompanied, as usual, by a num ber of natives as beaters. Two of these latter were killed by a tiger ; whereupon some letters appeared in the Kumchee paper, condemning the officers for exposing the poor natives, unarmed, to the attacks of ferocious beasts, while they them selves were fully armed. On the appearance of these Sir C. Napier ordered a court of inquiry, the result of which cannot be better expressed than by his owe quaint general order : Head quarters, Kurraebee, Tuesday, 29th July, 1847.-1. An un- I justifiable attack was made by en anonym,. writer in the newspapers wpm the conduct of two otbeers of the 11 th regiment B.C. who, a idiot* time ago, went out shooting tigers near iiukkra. 2. Lieuten ant-Colonel Shaw, commeallng in Upper Seinde, very properly orikeed a court of inquiry to examine Into the deaths of two natives who were killed by the tiger on the occardoo. 3. The result of which inquiry shows that the natives were armed. and were not more exposed than the officers themselves,, and that the conduct of the two gentlemen In qUestion we, In every way correct and gallant. The party (it or 10) all armed alike es. up in line to receive t :Urge of the wild beast, the Europeans fully as much exposed " away when the charged, whereas tient& Davison and Iluteher stood till their arras were discharged. At this moment the tiger, fortunately for them, let go the native be bad seized, and taking the poor man's gun in Its mouth, went tack Into the wood. The natives were all intereiged in the sport, and joined voluntarily. There was another man killed. Tao of thin. ran away from the party, and on the bank of the river, seeing the beat Jesse from the wool and he down, thought he was dead, went up to him, when he seised them, and wounded one mortally. It was altogether a noble hunt, and boaourably conducted by Lieut.. Davison mid Thatcher. 1 consider that tkie order Leduc to the character of thaw gentlemen.—(higned) C. J. Berme. "The inquiries into the accounts of the Camel Baggage tCorps, had not terminated. Large defalcations are mud to esut, and the three local lieutenants, or quartermasters, viz., Harvey, Lawrence, and Fitzsimons, were under close arrest, all their papers having been seized. Mr. Gordon, of the Indus Flotilla, continued a prisoner at Minors Point, awaiting the opening of the season, to allow of a sufficient number of naval officers congregating at Kurrachee tar his trial. Mr. Acting Second-Muter Tyler died at Kurrachee on the 27th of July, and was interred next day with mill. tary honours. The new Pendell' (temporary barracks) erected at Kurrachee, which cost upwards of 10,0001., are said to have shared the fate of the barracks built at Hydrabad; they i have been found unhealthy, and con demned. In both instances they were erected on sites pro nounced by medical committees unsuited for the purpose. Sukkur has been altogether abandoned u a station for Eu ropean troops, as also his Hydrabad. Two European corps are to be located at Kernel:tee. The Rev. Mr. Goldstein had reached Hydrabad, and was to be stationed there for some time. The river at Kotree had sunk a couple of feet. It bad risen considerably at Sukkur. At both places the weather was cool and agreeable. The Amecr of Xhyrpore was about crossing over to the latter place in one of the river steamers. The steamer Napier was at Kotree repairing; the /dunes had reached Bahawulpore, on her upward voyage to Lahore.—The first of a series of " Total abstinence" assem blies had taken place at the residence of Col. Shaw, at Sukkur; it was numerously attended.—The Bom b ay trade trade report for 1845-46 has ju,t been published, whi ch shows the total amount of imports into Kurrachee was 4.50,0001. ; and of exports from that port 40,000!. (about). Of the former probably a third are for the use of our troops. This would leave 300,000/. Upwards of two.thirds of which are consumed by the inhabitants of the country, the trade of the Indus above Scinde thus amounting to 100,000!. at the utmost yearly. Sickness pre. Tads amongst H.M. 60th Rifles and the Ist Bombay Euro pean Fusiliers at Kurrachee, the deaths averaging one a day. The men are said to exhibit signs of the influence of the climate on their constitutions, which imperatively demand a change ; and this in the only station reckoned healthy in the country: H.M. 22nd is, I believe, to relieve the Rifles shortly. Nearly the whole of Sir C. Napier's staff are re ported as being about to quit the country on the retirement of their chief, and doubtless, after a residence of four or five years, a change of climate is necessary to them. The Punjaub supplies but little in the shape of news, but that little is highly satisfactory. I formerly mentioned that the highest judicial court at Lahore had been taken in hand by the resident and his assistants, it being attended alter nately by Colonel Lawrence and two others. This step not appearing to be altogether palatable to the chiefs was of fered to be abandoned; but they—fearing, I suppose, to dis please the " Company Bshadoor" —requested that the arrangement should be continued. The people look op to our resident for justice with far greater confidence than to the Bulbar, in proof of which I may mention the following circumstance : —The inhabitants of a rent-free village, having been this season taxed in common with others, presented a complaint on the subject to the Barber. The ease was examined into, and it was found that the tax-gatherers had exceeded their instructions. The tax was ordered to be restored to the villagers, the order being signed by the several members of the government. This would doubtless have been enough, and they would assuredly have had the tax refunded • but they requested that Colonel Lawrence would sdhibit his name also to the order, they knowing right well that his fist was of far more weight than that of all the ethers put together. The tax-gatherers were at the same time ordered to be dismissed. A detach ment of troops under one Colonel Tara Singh, while en route from Hasareh to Sealkote, would seem to have helped themselves to forage, &c. without recompensing the owners. They immediately comp lained to the durbar, who ordered the revenue officers in their vicinity to pay them for what had been taken from them ; they being ordered to bill Col. I Tara Singh for the amount, the colonel being given to under- I stand that ho would be sent about his business unless the money was repaid into the state treasury. This is another sign of the altered state of matter' in the Punjaub. What villager two years since would have dared complain of the exactions of the Sikh soldiery passing through the country on duty? A relapse by some of the members of the Durban into their former careless habits had been visited with rebuke by our resident. Certain returns called for by him from the commandants of the troops not having been furnished, Colonel Lawrence complained of the neglect to the darbar, who ordered the colonel's wishes to be complied with. You will remember that the Hazareh districts were transferred to the Lahore Durban by the Maharajah Goolaub Singh, is lieu of other districts made over by him in ex change, and that at the time it was reported that he was well pleased with the bargain. It is now said that he, having prematurely taken possession before the arrangements for the transfer were properly settled, had been directed by the Dur bin(? our resident) to withdraw his troops forthwith, and wait till the proper time for the assumption of the govern ment of the districts should come round. Complaints were still made that many of the officers' quarters were (beginning of August) unfinished. Bar racks for a second Bciropean regiment in the cantonment of Anarkullee (outside the city) had been commenced, and would not, it was thought, be ready for twelve months, so slowly did the workmen progress. If such should be the case, the 53rd Foot will be in anything but a desirable Mime- Con (in tents) in the approaching hot weather. Sirdar va Singb, President of the Sikh Durban, has been e Rejah of Sealkote, and raised to the peerage. The ceremony of installation was performed on the 7th August, Mr. John Lawrence, all the political', Brigadier Campbell, and • numerous assemblage of our officers, having been invited to witness it. Additional honours, and Persian titles of dis tinction, were at the same time conferred on fourteen of the principal sliders end officers of state. The services of Lieut. W. A. Anderson, of the let Bombay Fusiliers (a son of Mr. G. W. Anderson, not long since acting-Governor of Bombay), having been applied for by Col. Lawrence, that gentleman, at present with his ca rp s in Scinde, has been directed to proceed forthwith to Lahore. The country throughout was quiet and healthy. The system of regular payment of the Sikh army has worked a wonderfal change in that, at one time, insubordinate rabble. It has been reduced to 10,000 cavalry, chiefly composed of the Goor• chars tribe, and 24,000 infantry, with 50 pieces of artillery, a force now fully equal to the duty of keeping the country quiet, whereas formerly four times that number were unable to preserve the peace. The troops are allowed leave to their homes, and receive their pay regularly, and have thereby been transformed front the worst into nearly the boat of soldiers. Lieut. G. R. Newman, 38th N. 1., died at Lahore on the 11th August. Sr John Littler was to remain at Lahore until after the celebration of the Dumerah festivaL There has been a slight disturbance at Jallundhur, arising out of the circumstance of our Mahomedan troops having taken a fancy to a feed of beef—the first time, it would seem, that the followers of the prophet had perpetrated such a (in the eyes of the Hindoo inhabitants of the town) sacri legious act since our occupation of the country, as the kill ing of a cow. It would seem that up to this time no oxen had been killed, but that on their petitioning the authori ties the Mahomedans were allowed to erect a butcher's shambles outside the town. The Hindoo shopkeepers on this became outrageous, and on the 24th July shut up their grain stores, and refused to deal with the troops, and in a body to the number of fifteen hundred waited on Mr. John Lawrence, who was then holding his circuit court in the city is comm i ssioner of the province, and complained to him of the outrage which had been committed on their religious prejudices. They were informed that the law of the pro. phet permitted the Mahomedans to eat the flesh of the cow, and that therefore their doing could not be put a stop to, re even we the authorities willing to do so. Upon this the shopkeepers became riotous, an the peony of the court were ordered to disperse them, which they attempted, but could not effect. They were well " hustled" about by the crowd ; and on a party of irregular horse being sent on the same errand, they were pulled from their hones, and several struck with brickbats. Mr. Lawrence now came out, end was in like manner saluted with a shower of missiles. Things were now being carried too far, so the treasury guard was ordered out, when the sellers of grain, oil, and ghee, were fain to make themselves scarce. - They fled across the country, pursued by the troops, and, of course, many of them were taken. The fanatics, by this behaviour, merely hurt themselves, as grain from the surrounding coun try was ordered in, the shopkeepers losing in a few days up wards of 2,0001. Up to the 3rd of August they had not opened their shops, and great inconvenience would have been experienced by our troops but for the Sirdar of Alloo seal, who at once directed grain shape to be opened in the bazaar. The bigoted fanatics talked of sending deputations to Lord Hardinge to represent their grievance. A European regiment has been added to the Jullundhur force 61st). It was expected that General Hunter would succeed Sir John Littler as commander of the forces beyond the Sutlej. Major Christie having been appointed to the com mand of Alexander's troop of artillery at Unthallab, was about to quit Jullundhur. Three native and one European corps are in future to be stationed here, in place of four of the former. Beautiful mess houses and bungalows had been built by the officers: the climate was delightful, and the health of the troops, European and native, " unexception able." Altogether, the station of Jullundhur is considered one of the best on or near the frontier, and is deservedly highly spoken of. The fall of rain this season had been the most favourable known for the last nineteen years, and the cultivation was as a consequence in a most promising state. PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, SEPT. 29.—THE POLISH Tawn.—After an interruption of eight days these trials were resumed on the 27th. None of the sentences h►ve yet been given. COLONIAL. VAN DIEMEN'S LANI).—We have received files of the Hobart Town papers to the 24th of May. A question of great interest wan agitated in that colony ; it was, whether any more convicts sentenced to transportation were to be received there. A very large meeting for the public discussion of the subject was held in the Victoria Theatre in Hobart Town on the 6th of May. The abolitionists mus tered in great numbers, and carried several resolutions ad verse to the admission of convict labour. An attempt was made by two or three speakers to support the system of con vict labour, but they could not obtain a favourable hearing. After some other speeches a very long petition to parlia ment war agreed to. The petition is remarkable for urging the necessity of having a representative government—as much as the abolition of convict labour. The word, of the prayer of the petition are u follow Tour petitioners met humbly pray that transportation to Van Die men's Land may be for ever aboEnhed—that 12,000 free emignnta may be Sent to this colony at the expense of the English government —that our land fund may be restored- and that the measures we have suggested in reference to the convict., or stub other measure. as may appear to your honourable house to be moat couducive to their welfare, May be adopted. The opposite party have drawn up a protest against the proceedings of the meeting, at which they contended there was not free discussion ; and praying that the aforesaid peti tion might be taken at its just value. MAURITIUS.—Papers have been received up to the 4th August from that island, by which we learn that the colonists are about to forward a petition to her Majesty for an elective council. It was in contemplation to ask his ex cellency the governor to authorise a public meeting for the purpose of bringing the subject more immediately before the public. The new crop of sugar was ready for the market, but had not arrived for shipment. The weather was stated to have been favourable, consequently the crop was expected to exceed the preceding one. A calculation had been made by which we learn that 140,000,000 lbs. would be the quantity for shipment. There ha d been a calm in the commercial transactions of the port, July being one of the dullest months of the year for business. The continued ar rival of speeie placed matters in a very different position to that of laat year, as regards exchange, but the kigh rates of freights, food, provision, tic. and labour, as well as the chance of low prices for produce, were causes for some in quietude. Mt Court. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe-Weimar yes terday, at Marlborough House. The Duke of Cambndge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen on Sunday. Yesterday his Royal High ness. attended by Baron Knesebeck, left town to honour the Earl of Westmoreland with a visit, at his seat, Apthorpe, Northamptonshire. The Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, accompanied by Prince Gustavus and the Princess of Ssze Weimar, and attended by the Hon. Miss Hudson, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his ofEcisl residence in Down ing-street. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council) arnved in town on Saturday evening from the continent. On Sunday his lordship visited Lord John Russell, at his residence in Richmond-park. Yesterday the noble marquis, accompanied by the Marchioness of Lans downe, left town for his seat, Boa ood-park, Wilts. The Right Hon. IL Labouchere has arrived in town from Stowey, Somersetabire. Despatches were received yesterday_ at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Mauritius. HOAX.—A MARRIAGE IN HIGH-LIFE.--A correspon dent informs us that the account of the marriage of the Mar quis of Kildare with the daughter of the llake of Sutherland, which we copied a few days since from a morning paper, wu a hoax. The ceremony will not take place for some days. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY or LONDON.—At the sitting yesterday, Mr. Wm. Willis, of the pariah of St. Ann, Blaekfrian, described as residing at No. 10, Water-lane, was objected to on the ground that he did not reside at " No. 10," but at " No. 11." It appeared that the house was generally known as No. 10 and 11, but that the latter number had been omitted from the list —The Revising Barrister said that as the party was rated fen No. 10, the omission of the other number did not constitute a sufficient reason for expunging the name. It was accordingly retained. Under the head of " St. Christopher Le Stock" it appeared that a general impression had prevailed that the whole of the houses had been absorbed by the erection of the Royal Exchange. It turned out, however, that two or three small ones still remained, and for these certain parties claimed to be registered. There being no list prepared for the reception of names the Revising Bar rister said he had no apparent means of allowing the claims if proved to be in themselves valid. The result of the day's revision was aa follows:—liberal claims, allowed, 18, dis allowed 15; conservative, allowed 1, disallowed 13; liberal objections sustained 41, failed 40 ; conservative sustained 46, failed 28. Objections by both parties sustained 27, failed 3. The court will proceed to-day with the wards of Cheap, Cordwainer and Dowgate, and Cripplegate- within. MIDDLESEX.—The barrister yesterday held his court at the New Globe Tavern, Mile-end, and disposed of the lists for the parishes of Bromley, Poplar, Limehouse, Itatcliff, Shadwell, St. George's, Whiteehapel, Wapping, hide-end Old sad New Towns, Tower, Trinity, Miseries, St. Botolph Without, St. Peter ad Vincula, Stratford, and Bow. In the St. George's list Kemal new claims were ob jected to by Mr. Payne. On the first being called on—that of a Mr. Ashcroft, of York-street, Cevent-garden, whose al leged qualification was a share in certain freehold houses— Mr. James questioned the validity of the notice of objection, on the ground that the residence of the objector was insuffi ciently described. The address given was 9, Park-place. Hackney-fields. There was no such place as Hackney-fields now, but there were three Park- places in the neighbourhood of Hackney, Haggerstone, and Shorediteh. He and others had made diligent inquiry. and found that the objector really resided in Park-plaoe, Shoreditch. In the case of " Woollat and Davis" the court had held that " the Oaks" was not a sealekst daseription of residence to entitle the banister to take aphelia et the objection ; and in the present case, no lode at imaiy Wig stated, the description was not suffi itglexplkit to enable the claimant to find the objector.— ayne contended that the description was sufficient. Letters by poet reached the objector in due course when ad dressed in accordance with the notice. Though Hackney fields were built over, they were still known as Hack ney.fields, in the same way as the parish of St. Giles, though densely housed, was known as St. Giles in the Fields. The barrister decided that the notice of objection was in valid, but on the ground that the county in which the ob jector resided, was not stated. This decision disposes of all the objections put forward by the conservatives for the pre snit revision. The court will sit to-day at the Green Man, Bethnal-green. GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—A general meeting of subscriben to this valuable charity was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing four pen sioners. The Right Hon. Viscount Lake in the chair. The directors state that they hope to be able, before long, to an nounce that the paymenta to the pensioners are increased to their maximum amount, namely, 11. lls. for man, and 11. 2a. for women. The following are the names of the sucemsful candidates, with the numbers who polled for each Henry Thomas, Andrew Waterston, Elisabeth H. Simpson, Mary Hooper Arnold. - - DISPENSARY FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES Or THE Curar.—The first general meeting of the sup porters of this institution was held yesterday at the offices, Margaret-street. Regent-street, to approve the plan for the management of the institution, as prepared by the sub-cont =Ate', acid to authorise the necessary 'taps for carrying it on. W. 8. Featherstone, Esq., presided. Mr. W. T. Hud son, the honorary secretary, read a report, from which it ap peared that the present institution had been projected in consequence of the Hospital for Consumtion at Brompton harm ( abandoned their branch in Great Marlborough -stmt. It had been set on foot in February I'4, when subscriptions were entered into and rules wore drawn up. In May the house in Margaret -street was taken gam t te d dot the purposes of the dispensary. The amount of subscriptions we. 1611. 12e. Mr. F. 0. P. Neuon moved the adoption of the report. He expressed his be lief that the institution would prove a most valuable one, Of the necessity for it no doubt could ex i s t , as one-third of the whole of the deaths in London, of persons between 60 and 60 years of age, were ascribable to consumption. P er the treatment of this disease, a dispensary was more fitted than a hospital, as in the prolonged preliminary stages of the disease, the patients were seldom invalided. The present institution would be a valuable boon to the working cl asses, great numbers of whom were located in the immediate neighbourhood. It was not intended as a rival to the hoe. pitel at Brompton, but rather as as auxiliary and extension of that institution.—Mr. Hey seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to.—Dr. Hastings and Dr. %veleta were appointed physicians to the dispensary; Mr. Ferguson, consulting surgeon; and Mr. Hudson, surgeon. A commit tee, consisting of 21 gentlemen, was then elected. Mr. A, R. Johnson was appointed treasurer, and Mr. W. T. Hudson re.accepted the office of honorary secretary. Mr. A. Howard and Mr. W. Nelson were:appointed auditors. Thanks were then voted to the general committee.—Mr. Hay, one of the committee, in acknowledgment, said there was ample room for two or three institutions such as this ; so that there could be nothing like rivalry between this institution and the hospital at Brompton. So far from that being the case, the secretary of the last-named institution had offered to sub scribe to this, if it was found to answer well. The subserip. tion list showed that this dispensary had made a good be ginning, and he hoped its success was beyond a doubt. Should the subscriptions increase as it was hoped they would, it might become a question whether they would admit in. patients, as the demand on the Brompton hospital was ex treme.—A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. TILE SANITARLANS OF ST. ANDREW'S, ii01.1301tte,... Yesterday • meeting of the inhabitants of the united parishes of St. Andrew and Si. George-the-Martyr, Holborn, and who wish to advocate the establishment of baths and wash-houses in that denselv-populated district, took place at the private residence of .fohn Robert Taylor, Esq., in Bed Lion-square. —Mr. Stephen Pearson, the churchwarden of the district, on taking the chair, observed that he was extremely gratified to find that the reablution of establishing baths and wash houses in the parish had not fallen to the ground by the minority which followed the poll demanded on the 10th of August last ; indeed, that temporary defect had rather stimulated the efforts of the supporters of the charitable object so far as to lead to an unshaken conviction that, before loeg, the benerolent work would be carried out to the fullest extent, notwithstanding the ownition of a party who were truly described in the Duily Nevi en the 13th of August last in the following terms, is allusion to the poll which had just terminated Those who voted en this poll were, probable, persona of the middle elms ; few among them likely to feel or suffer from the want which the proposed baths and washhouses are intended to supply. As the originnl expense mast come out of their packeta, or at least be risked on ilium security, they ect the proposal. They do not think, for ■ moment, of the thousands of poor, neglected, netofuloisi inhabited, of the district ; unclean for want of water, either wearing the tame rags, week alter week, because they have no room or woven:cum fee lambing them, or with their miserable rooms made yet More [him:- robin by the steam of wet clothes, and encumbered with water.ressel and washing-tub, when already too erowskd for dcoency or hcaal. This elms is both actually and virtually unrepresented under our present parochial system of government. The tmiy official aho comes Into contact with them is the relieving officer, the workhouse master, or the poor-law guard.. When the pear man comes on the parish, the Rosh recognises his existence and his wants. Until then It refugee to be troubled with him. It forgets, meanwhile, the mono. mica) effect of is sordid and disgraceful neglect. Want of rducatim and failure of health are the great morons from which the workhouse is filled. The parish grumblingly pays its poor.ratts, when it might cut off the drain by taking the stream lower down. St. Georgedha. Martyr, and St. Andrew, Holborn-above-liars, are types of a class too nUMerstil among the parishes of England. They are prune wigs and pound foolish. They grudge the penny for a bath or • school, and thereby do their beet to perpetuate the pound for a rate. In the leading article which he had just quoted the Daily NC/01 had most nobly supported the establishment of baths and wash-houses, and he believed that article had convinced many of the parishioners of the absolute aecensity e their adoption. Several hundred copies of the Doily News of that date were distributed in the parish, and in addition the leader was reprinted in a circular form, so that he believed every inhabitant of that populous district had read it, and many, he (Mr. Pearson) felt assured, had perceived the truth of the observations contained therein. The worthy chairman, after very eloquently dwehing upon the numerous scenes of dirt and poverty which daily came under his notice within the boundaries of the united parishes, and which, he believed, might be greatly mitigated by the establishment of baths and wash.houses,ooncluded by earnestly wishing every success to the project, which had already met with the sup port of a very numerous portion of the inhabitants of the extensive parishes with which it was connected.—Mr. Taylor said he was most happy to observe such a spirit of unanimity among those who could alone be looked up to fur support in the carrying out of so necessary an object. His only wish was to bring comfort and happiness to the poor man's home; and, in advocating the 3reat principle of the erection of baths and wash-houses, he felt, in common with many others, that he was but performing a Christian duty. It was a fact that nearly eighty summonses had already been issued against resident individuals of the united parishes for suffer ing accumulations of filth, such as dust and dung heaps, overcharged cesspools, &c., to poison the air of the surround ing neighbourhood. He (Mr. Taylor) was determined to go on with his project, conscious as he was that all men who had the welfare of their fellow-creatures at heart would cordiaPy support him—The meeting having been addressed by several other gentlemen, a resolution was passed for the immediate calling of another meeting for the carrying out of the object of establishing baths and wash-houses in the united parishes of St. George the-Martyr and St. Andrew-above.llan, Holborn. CO-OPERATIVE LEAGUL—A tea-party and soiri",e to promote the objects of this society, took place last evening at the Central Hall, King's Arms-yard, Snow-bill, Mr. W. Howitt in the chair. The room was tolerably well filled, a large number of the company being females, and several speeches were delivered in furtherance of the views of the lecgue, which, in their own words, are to " supersede sel fishness by universality—undue restraint by full individue liberty—antagonism by peace—competition by brotherly love , and thus a state of existence may arise founded on the principles of wisdom and goodness, yielding its fruit in the happiness of every member of the human family." The fol lowing resolutions were adopted : Moved by the Rev. A. Raynrt, seconded by Mr. Goodwyn Hamby : Co-operation a human brotherhood. May the present disastrons state of the commercial world, brought about by the competitive modes of life, lead men to perceive that anarchy and confusion moot be continually recurring where antagonism and individual intermix are allowed to exist--Moved by Mr. Jameson, seconded by Mr. Alexander Campbell Monetary reform. May the people speedily exert themselves to devise and adopt a currency that shall pewee the quality of being unchangeable in Its value, and coextensive with the exchangeable wealth of the nation— Moved by Mr. Walter Cooper, whoxided by Mr. Roberts : "Our co operative brethren in America and other parts of the world. May the offers recently made by the friends of co-operation at Cincinnati be the corturneneement of a eerie* of exchanges carried on in the spirit of brotherhood between the different nations of the earth, burying ln oblivion the batik spirit of rivalry which hoe hitherto existed, and leaving men to recognise the beautiful privileges of universal lose and goodwill." NOVEL STREET CAB.—Yesterday several Talkies named " fieptibus Victoria Cabs," made their appearance in the thoroughfares of the metropolis. They ilek very mach like an omnibus in miniature, the entrance being at the back, with seats and windows at the side ; they run upon four wheel', are drawn by one horse, six persons can ride inside and one out ; they charge the same fare as the other descrip tion of cabs. MONETARY CRIBIB.—A SUGGESTION.—Sire—WiII you allow me, through the mediudt of your widely circulated paper, to suggeet in a few lines the sketch of • bold and im mediate applicable remedy for the present crisis, when trade and commerce are nearly at a stand, or must soon come to one, if this fearful monetary stringency continues ? Some thing must be done, and what is it to be ? If merchants, and factors, and manufacturers are to stop, millions to whom they give employment either directly or indirectly will have no earnings, and misery and confusion will spread and increase. What, then, can be done to meet the evil? The only remedy appears to be at present • free circulation if money, and that immediately. We have no time to wait till parliament assembles, to discuss, amend, or repeal the Bank Act of 1844, or until the anti-gold-league succeeds in its plans. We want immediate resources—how can they be achieved ? When the tradesman cannot get his trade bills discounted his trade must cease ; when respectable middle class merchants cannot sell their bills on 'change the com merce of the country is at an end. Go to the banks. They will and can discount first-class bills only. They do not doubt the ultimate security of • middle-class bill, with drawer and acceptor, and one or more endorsers, but they cannot give you money for it. The discounters have no money for that class of bills, and the consequence is ruinous to trade and commerce. Let me suggest, therefore, that the people—the middle classes--help themselves in this dilemma, and unite for mutual assistance in opening immediately a universal commercial association. Let every one pay dowel 11., for which certificates shall be given, which certificates may be used as securities, or where even as • medium of circulation, by which the capital will be doubled. Let these certificates bear 5 per cent. interest (or in coupons of 6d. for eta months), the capital so brought together to assist iu mem bers only, and not to interfere with any existing establishment. The capita/ to be used in discounti n g bond fide trade bills, and making temporary loans on good, safe, and available se entities, dock warrants, staple commodities, &c. Suck an association can be formed and be in work in a few days after this suggestion finds favour with the public. One pound paid down, with no calla and no liabilities, may bring a capital together large enough to assist, to some extent, the bona fide trade and commerce ; and, with a prudent ment, may in • little while increase and work benefit:ll7C even the higher mercantile undertakings. I have been de sired ,to give this proposal some publicity. Your readers may consider the propriety of such an association, and whe ther they will more or less participate in its formation, and assist either with one pound or one hundred pounds, as the may feel inclined. Whether this proposal be considered practicable, and whether it may be adopted or rejected, it may lead to some other proposal, better adapted to the wants of the great commercial body of this country, who labour under daily di ffi culties, which, I believe, can soon be reme died by such a union of strength through small means as an association of this kind would effect. I throw out this suggestion in the hope that it may call attention to some mode of relieving the present severe preemie, and enabling tradesmen and others to get their regular business trans acted.—A. B. 6, Walhrook, Oct. 4. ' SINGULAR CAUSE OF SIIIPWRECK.—Yeaterday in telligence reached Lloyd's that the schooner Msric An toinette, Vincent Latribourt, master, bound from the Isle du Nord to Neath, had been wrecked on the Cornel Seed, near Pimbury, in Carmarthen Bey ; the vessel was boarded by a pilot, but he could not speak 1. tench, and the muter of the Marie Antoinette was totally unacquainted with English hence they were unable to communicate, and the French skipper shaped a course for Golden Island with the above result. I