The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-18 00:00:00

ST. JA KES'S ASSEMBLY, RAMAMIS4I (late Crottford's).—TlTlS EvniNo. the FIFTH UALL of the present seeks will take place, commencing at Ten o'clock. The pHs of the uristocroey and rat . , now in torn' ore the patrona of these tolls; sad all ;be fr'....lrCre of this magrulicent and opiensild artahlishment ate emplo• of to give them Octet. Subecriters mom OA received at all else principal lolwarles in the Cite and at the Hat red; also ut 11r. Okra's ..ttic, u.ijo.o . og the csloblishnicnt. Gentle- NM, hs.; lacky and Gehtlerneui. 7s. Ed. The bieth Hello( the parent series will lake glare next Thursday; and on Monday, the Id a G rand Onsarmst. by mobscrilltion. w il l be WPT peen. - = which will be forthwith pannunced. MR. BARON honour BARON NATHAN hen the of immune:Mit to the public. that Ids ANNIIAL BALL mill take „thee oa WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 4 at his Assembly Rocena. Remission. from Double tickets, 5.., simile So, to be bad of Mr. Nathan. The tell will open ate. Rebook and families attended to an out of tone. EIPPERVS SOIREES DANSANTES. PRINCESS'S CONCERT WOMB—THIS EVENINO (today}, JIM IS, and every Monday. A Subscriber of Two Guineas Is entitled to a 'Amble Tr referable Ticket for Sis Nights, and the sotemiption can ccromenee oo any Monday. The Palace Band ccs. sista of tbe isms artistes that attend bee liviestyk state balls and Abaackk. Cleatleem, Mr. Weineet loathe. Renee ZerbbaL Otimet-i-alstems, Mr. penile}; opMead— aM. Pray pace: M. C.. Mr. Oasis. 6ommsamat ten o'clock. Tickets, Is. milk at thalami's Quedrthe-oflce, Cl, Solmerthare. - S• ACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. — The momencement of a new year offering a favourable opportunity, persons desirous of becoming subieribeni are requested. in order to wenn admirsion to the Cott SUBSCRIP HON CONCERT ("The CREATION," TO-MORROW' EVENING), to apply immediately to Mr. Rooter, 33, Charing-cross. The aubscription is One Guinea, or for reset red seats in the arra or gallery Two Guineas Inn annum; and during the pat year there have been 12 Subscription Concerts. The committee have much pleasure in ennonneing that in the rasing moron they hope to be able to produce several works which have not yet been performed by the Sextet,; among others Dr. Mendelmehn's Oratorio, 't Elijah:" and that Or. ohs has also accepted their m. citation to conduct the performanc veral of his compositions. THOMAS BREWER, Hon. Sec. §ACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER II %LT.—TO-MORROW EVENING ;Tuesday). Jan. 19, and on F.SDAY, Jan. 26, will be performed HAYDN'S ORATORIO, TILE CREATION. Principal Vocal Performers—Miss Birch, Mr. Lackey, and Mr. H. Phillips. The Band and Chortle will reenlist of above 300 Performers. Tickets, Is. each; Reserved seats, 55., may be obtained of the prin cipal Music-sellers; of Mr. Howley, 33, during-cone; Mr. Rim, 102, Strand ; or of Mr. Mitchell, 39. Chorine-ere., THOMAS BREWER, Hon. Sec. THIS EVENING.—EXETER-HALI..— ENcipm music.-- The FIRST of a Reries of FOUR OONCERTs, Rlooratire of the Money of Ern/HAI Vnnal /Carr. will be held Tilts EVENING, Monday, Januare If, at T.iabt o'ciceic. Principal Vocal Performers:—Min Rainforth, Xliaa 0.41 W, Mr. Blaneers, ant Mr. W. 11. RI lin. A New Organ will be erected by Mr. Robson expressly for these acemerts. Tiekets—Area, 2.., for the series, fin ; western paliery, Xs. Gd., for the series, 10a. 6.1.; rescreen seats, 7... for the aeries, 214.—may be bad of Mr. Parker, publisher, 40, West Strand, of the principal inasSuellera, and at Exeter-lull. EGYPTIAN -HALL, PICCADILLY.-LANI'UM ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, TO-NIGHT, Jon. IS, and every Evening daring the 'reek. The Grand Room has been fitted with every attention to the enottort of vivitort, in order to give lull etTiut to their highly no-tutor Entertainment, and that sintmlArly &landfill instrument the lAN rUM. The programme wN oe varied every evening, forming an ever-changing variety of Muir and Song.— Rearrvrd Note, ; Back acute, la.—Doors open at h.ilf-past Seven, commence at Eight.—Morning performance Tuesday and Thursday, commencing at Three o'clock. - -- ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.- PROIES:4OR SCIIGNBEIf'S GUN-COTTON, and other Explosive Compotunl., with brilliant F.xperimenta, lectured on by Dr. Ryan, daily, at half-im.t three o'clock, and on the Evenings of Mondars, Wecinpdays. and Frillnya The principle of the various ELECIRO-MAGN MC TELEGRAPHS explained daily by Professor Haebbeffner, including the patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheat stone, m use on the Railways, and the more recent patent or Maws. Nott and Oamble. The various Models explained. Magnified specimen, of DisFAsEn POTATOES exhibited by the OXY-HT DROOF-N MICROSCOPE, with the Destrdetive Insect, supposed be A. Brace, Ewa. , PALS., to be the mine of the dice me. A beautiful of NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments. The PHYSIOsCOPE, New CHRO DATROPE, 8a Se.—.Admiraion, la.; School.. half-price. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.—For One Night milv.-711c HORNS. Kennlnuton.—The celebrated KtHIO PIAN SERENADERS (Pell, Harington, White, Stanwood, and Her mon.). ',lune performances have met with unexampled scrums at the St. James's Theatre, where they continue to attract MOO crowded and thahionable audiences. will afro their inimitable Entertainment. at the above Roonm, on THURSDAY EVENING next, Jun. 21, com mencing at not o'clock. Ticket. may now be had at the above Roomo, and at the dnors on the Mutt of performance. It. THOMAS J. SERLE will read the Play of WILLIAM TELL, TIES EVENING (Monday), at the RYLERONE LITERARY and scw.xneic vs - Ili - 0110N, 17, Edward-Y-4feet, Portman-aquae. The Char will he taken at Half payt Eight rielock.—Ailini-noti, Nan-sulaieritety, la. Triumphant soccer. of Box's New Chtintrame Piece ! The New and Splendid Pantomime every Evening. A greet hit! THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM. Under the Management of MR'. KEELEY. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednerday, the New Drama founded on the New Christman Annual of CTIARLF, Diesels, Es and adopted to the Mane by Albert Smith, Esq., called THE BATTL E OFOF LIFE. Prin cipal characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Leigh Monne, Mr. F. Vin ing, Mr. Turner, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Mien May, Mire Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the Favourite Drama TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. With a New Corni: Pantomime, entitled THE BUTTERFLY'S RALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Clown, Mr. J. W. Collier; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough; Columbine, Miss Hicks; Attendant Sprites, Madero C. and F. Lauri. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELP Gloriow Christian Amoaement—Dedded hit of the new Drama of W. the Comican Stater." The wonder of the age, the celebrated "Entertilationinta," and the magnificent Fairy Spectacle, founded on " Gistfile."—THlS EVENING, the Romantic Drama ef "COLOMBA, the Omit= Sister." Messrs Howe, Lambert, Selby, Wright, P. Beeped, 0. Smith, Made. Celeste, Mm Yates, and :Visa Woolgar. —With the celebrated " Entortilationieta," Mr. John Lees and his Three Pupils.—And "THE PHANTOM DANCERS, or the Wilts Bride." Giaelle, Made. Celeete. u'he I WOO. MAILS. Tb, overland wails for Gibraltar, Malts, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, llong-Kong, and China, via Southampton, will be made up on the evening of the 20th January The Overland closed mails, ran Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, theyo, India, Hong Kong, Be., will be made up on the evening of Fith January. The malts for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Widens, C.adis, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 27th January. The mail. for New South Waters, Van Diemen'. Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31st January. The West India malls, including those for Mexico, I londuras, and the Ilavannah, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd February. The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the United Rates, will be made up on the evening of the 3rd February. The mails for the Broils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th February. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • Adrertiwmente intended for The Repress, London evening paper, mu t be at the Ocoee by Two o'clock on the day of publication. MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Ton Der. —Morning, 46 min. pest 2; Afternoon, 9 ono. put 3. T►Mouow—Moroiog, Si mkt. put 3; Afternoon, 53 mkt. put 8. LONDON MONDAY , JAN. 18. 1 . 111 , , arena of parliamentary contest opens to morrow. The hottest and most interesting combat about to take place there will not apparently be a combat of party, for there is really no great party question stirred at present. But onslaughts will be made upon ministers, to damage their reputation, if not to turn their purposes, or shake their power. Of these the fiercest will apparently be made by the Irish landlords. A great struggle has in fact been going on during the last five or six months between the Irish landlords and the ministry, the re sult of which in Ireland has been the defeat of almost every purpose of government. The landlords are now following uptheir triumph by uniting to assert, that the whole fault of the present chaos of things in Ireland is owing, not to them, but to the government. And what they demand in consequence is, that government shall cease to interfere in Irish matters, except to perform the office of treasurer, raising fund, from the - English people to be advanced to the Irish landlords, who are tq undertake to spend this money on their lands, and employ each his own share of the population in this manner as best they can. We do not think that the Irish landlords will be able to force any English government into a, sy such terms. The views of Lord JOUN RUSSELL, when he stepped forth to the assistance of Irish di deem. and brought in the temporary laws of the close of last session, were not to disturb from their habi teal labour and agricultural employ that portion of t`lie peasantry engaged in the service of the buidholde.". Ile merely proposed that the surplus population, naturally and habitually out of work, and dependent on con-acre and small plots, the produce of which bed failed, should receive employment and wa ge s for public works apart from agriculture, and that it should for this receive less pay than the agriculturist, whilst the land was to be charged with the eleemosy nary outlay. The natural effects to be expected from such a measure in any rational country would have been that the landlords, in order to escape the future burden of this expense, would exert themselves to take the labourers from the eleemosynary and un productive work to labour on their own estates. In order to do this, they might have borrowed money under the Drainage and Million Act. But no: the Irish landlords folded their arms, allowed all the pea santry to fling themselves on the public works, which, not organised for having the wholepopulation on them, unavoidably left many to starve. The Lord-Lieutenant then took pity on the help lessness of the Irish landlords, and resolved to modify the order of the government, so as to allow the landlords to suggest and obtain the expenditure of the labenr rate on works of a mingled public and private e j ia geter. No sooner had thin reverie' of thestate policy of governmenttakenplace,reverssl, weiv, for insteadof °WNW incentive or cceipalsion to the landlords to take the peasantsoff the ‘Abour-rate, it supplied a strong incentive to put th.ern upon it —no sooner were the Irish landlords indulged in this, than they found that they could get funds from the state more advanta geously by the old Drainage Act, which they despised. Amidst all these chopping., and changings, and igno rance, the Irish landlords have done nothing except complain, distrust, and mar every purpose of the government. In the meantime, government, on the eve of parlia ment, has meditated and prepared a series of measures for Ireland, some of them intended to relieve the land lords, and find employ for the surplus population ; others establishing imposts on the land, and providing for the levy of the sums expended, or, at least, of the instalments due. The Irish landlords have met in Dublin, and insist, that the labour rate was an impolitic and pernicious law, the failure of which they assert to be owing to the government, not to them; and they conse quently demand that the empire should bear its share of the money thus spent--in other words, that all should be paid out of the treasury. One should think, that before the landlords of any district could make such a demand, they ought to come forward and prove, not only that the usual and annual rate of numbers and employ have been kept in their barony, but that these had been augmented, and fair exertions made to support the Labour Rate Act, by throwing as few men on the public works as could be. In those counties where landowners folded their arms, and flung all the population on the unproductive works under the act, they have no shadow of right to come forward with this exorbitant claim. If the Irish landlord, however, remain unreasonable with respect to the past, he is not so much so with regard to the future. The government measures have had at least the result of arousing the Irish land holders to some of the perils likely to follow a con tinuance of their wonted apathy. And accordingly they come forward to grasp at most of the proffers of government for absorbing surplus labour, and they at least admit certain principles, such as the right of the poor to be supported by the property of the country, the right of the tenant to expect compensation, if not fixity of tenure; in short, the landlords have been brought into that frame of mind from which activity and co-operation in the great work of social reform may be expected. Their demands for the future are, however, not always modest or practicable. The simultaneous petition that government,dispensingEnglish treasure, I shall at once absorb the surplus population by the manifold schemes of emigration, reclamation of lands, fisheries, and, at the same time, furnish funds to the Irish landlords to employ the remaining popu lation on their own estates, and not only till their land, but find them seed—these resolutions of the Irish landlords represent them as coming forward in' the character of innocent minors and helpless or phans, after a manner quite ludicrous to behold. Whatever terms be granted to the Irish landlords, it is manifestly the duty of government to bind them to certain conaitions, enjoining and necessitating those changes in the agriculture of the country without which every effort, expense, and legislation will have been thrown away. If potatoes are to remain the sole crop,—which they will be despite of the disease, should the con-acre survive instead of the system of holdings and leases, which require that more advanced and general agriculture of a due succession and inter mixture of crops, necessitating in turn a better distribution of work, and a greater variety of food — if this great revolution be not enforced or brought about in Ireland, the country will never be other than it is at present. WE congratulate both the country and the party of which the Standard is the organ, on the rapid conver , aion of the latter to sound views of trade and of taxation proclaimed on Saturday. This sudden change is too welcome to induce us to cavil about its possible cause. Whether, like Corialanus, the fiery cham pions of protection deem it advisable on the eve of an election to doff the lordly robes and to court the " sweet voices" of their fellow-citizens is more homely attire —or, ,jealous of the fame acquired by the political knight-errantry of Lord LINCOLN at Manchester, they choose to venture a more hazardous lance in the nuqh of parties, we inquire not. We are content to take as a " fait ac compd" the confession that the existing distress must be relieved, and that one mode of relieving it is by abolishing the last remnant of monopolist protection— *. 4s. duty. The acquiescence of the Tories in this measure removes one more difficulty in the way of the ministry's efforts to check the progress of famine in Ireland. If any one seeks a proof of the effect of duties upon the importation of food, we would refer him to the list of imports and exports which has been published for the eleven months of the present year, ending December 5. A very small importation of foreign wheat is noted in tan past year, not exceeding 1,316,547 quarters, whereas the quantity entered for consumption, 1,941,482 quarters. is, within a fraction, equal to the quantities imported both in 1845 and 1846. The im portation in 1846 must have been restricted by the prospect of a good harvest in these islands which pre vailed throughout the summer. Consequently, the addition of a duty of 4s. per quarter, when our har vest is abundant, suffices to extinguish foreign specu lation. But the experience of ten successive years, from 1835 to 1844,shows that an average importation of 1,471,829 quarters is required to eke out our home supply of grain, and that under the high duties of the sliding scale, this quantity was imported. There wee, therefore, a fair field for foreign speculator' in the reduction of the duty in 1846, and yet they were deterred, by the prospect of a fair harvest, from seeking our ports. When unfavourable reports were spread respecting the yield of the wheat crop of 1846, there was but a scanty stock of foreign grain to bring into the market, and the result has been the present ruinous price of wheat. An able writer in the Edinburgh Review has stated the cost of supporting an Iriah labourer in 1844, when wheat coat 51s. 3d. per quarter, at Is. 9d. per head per week. With wheat at 765. per quarter, and other grains advanced still more in proportion, it may be inferred that a corresponding increase in the expenditure for the relief of the Irish poor will take place. For this augmentation of the burdens of the country at so critical a moment, the nation is indebted to the protectionist party. We do not, therefore, wonder at their desiring to shrink from the responsibility. But, as we have said, we are more desirous to record the sudden conversion of the party than to inquire into its cause. Since cheapness now appears desirable on all sides, and one notorious cause of the dearness of foreign grain is the high price of freights, there can be no more objection to the only feasible mode of speedily increasing our command of merchant shipping than to the abolition of the proscribed 4s. duty. We perceive a report in the Constetutionnel of Saturday of the discussion in the standing commit tees, on the proposal of M. Ovum to take off the duty on corn, and abrogate the French Navigation Act. All the members who spoke,—influential per sons, too, like Messrs. FOULD and DARBLAY, insisted on the necessity of giving a prime of four francs the hectolitre to importers of corn. Whilst others insisted on prohibiting exportation. The French deputies seem to be somewhat angered that we should offer higher prices than they for American corn, and recommend that England should be pre vented from drawing to it, in a similar manner, the c orn from the Mediterranean and elsewhere. Tere should exist little doubt that facts of this kind, coupled with so many others, will induce the English cabinet not to remain behind the French, both with respect to the corn duties and the navigation laws. The relief conveyed by the latter cannot at once be great, but anything contributing to alleviate the pressure of distress at the present moment is not only desirable but imperative. When two such favourable occurrences es the repudiation of monopoly on the part of English conservatives, and the publication of an intention to be guided by economical principles of some kind by the Irish aristocracy precede so immediately the opening of the session, it may safely be predicted that the it will be propitious both to the ministry an nation. IN the sixth general report of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, presented to parlia ment last session, we are told that the government emigration agent. in the United Kingdom had insti- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVE: tuted sundry prosecutions of masters of vessels, passege-blokea l Acc. is to be feared that these govefriumt ehuq iop egehtS would be none the wore' of Bevil* a few prosecutions instituted age theingelves. The ease of the Sarah and •I'.lizat which cleared from Killala, could scarcely have been so bad had a proper inspection been made of the vessel and stores before sailing. And the facts ascer tained respecting the state of provisions on board the Tennessee (of which an account appeared in our Fri day's publication) raise a strong presumption of neglect of duty on the part of Liverpool officials. The Tennessee, which sailed from Liverpool for the United States with a number of emigrants, was obliged to put into Halifax (N.S.), on account of her leaky condition. The leak or leaks were so serious that the stores had to be taken out and the vessel hove down. An investigation before three magis trates, under the Passengers Act, was commenced on the twenty-first of December last, and had not closed when the packet sailed. On this account we refrain at present from any judgment as to where the prin cipal blame rests. %Ye will say nothing of the evi dence of the passengers which may have been partial or exaggerated, and open to contradiction. But there are facts which have been sworn to by officers of the customs, unprejudiced parties, whose 'evidence in such a ease is above suspicion. These we are entitled to assume to be correct, and it is diffi• cult to reconcile their testimony with the belief that the duty of the emigration agent has been properly discharged at Liverpool. The quantity of meal or flour allowed for each pas senger per week was 6 lbs. Several of the passengers having asserted that the vessel in which their meal or flour was served out was a short measure, it was examined. On the second day of the investigation THOMAS BROWN swore that " he had tested the mea sure, both with corn meal and oat meal, and found that when 41bs. of oatmeal was put into the resume, the meal rose above the mark •, and that 31b. 13oz. of Indian meal just filled the measure up to the mark." Mr. BLACKMORE, an officer in the Customs, was appointed to examine; the state of the provisions. At the investigation he swore: " I found the meal not damaged, but so four that it is unfit for any person to eat ; the flour was also four, but not so bad as the meal ; the bread was all mouldy, but not so bad as what has been shown in court. As an officer of the Customs, I would not pass such bread." _ . "Itt, I The management of the investigation is in good hands. Messrs. \V. YOUNG and L O'C. DOYLE act for the prosecution; Messrs. CLAREE and GREY for the defence. There can be little doubt that the real merits of the ease will be elicited. When we know exactly where the blame ought to rest of supplying the Tennessee with bad 'provisions and a false measure, it will be time enough to call for their punishment. But what was the emigration agent about when he allowed an emigrant ship to put to sea with such provisions and such a measure? This is a matter that cannot be too soon inquired into; and it is the duty of the Colonial Land and Emigration Com missioners to institute the inquiry. When emigra tion on an extensive scale is spoken of as one of the remedies for Irish destitution, it is indispensable that the agency charged with the superintendence of emi gration should be placed on an efficient footing. The diplomatic correspondence respecting the Spanish marriages, and the annexation of Cracow, continued to occupy attention in Paris, as well as the leading columns of the French journals, on Friday and Saturday. The Journal des Debella of Saturday contained an elaborate article addressed to England in a con ciliatory tone. While it denies that the Moutpensier marriage was a question of family interest merely, and maintains, on the contrary, that it was a question of high national policy, it nevertheless affirms that the sympathies of the public and the chambers in favour of the English alliance have rarely been manifested with so much appearance of unanimity as at present. The English journals having animadverted upon the paragraph of the royal speech which refers to the treaty of commerce concluded with Russia, and having attributed that paragraph to a desire on the part of the French government to conciliate, if not court, Russia, the Debcda repudiates the idea : The English journals (it says) are much more correct when they say that public opinion in France would repulse an alliance with Russia. On this point we entertain a con viction still more deep, and have never dissimulated it. No. France does not desire an alliance which would be treason against liberty, civilisation, and the revolution ; and we are more than ever convinced of this, when we see among the representatives of the country in the midst of the voices raised in favour of the English alliance, that not one has dared to make itself heard in favour of an alliance with Russia. This, it must be confessed, is pretty strong lan guage for the habitually reserved and temperate organ of the cabinet of the Tuileries. The Opposition journals, with the Constitutionnel at their head, continue to postpone all discussion of the marriage negotiation, until the documents now given to the public only in a garbled state shall be published complete. This is considered the more essential, inasmuch as these very documents are those upon which the whole question must rest. They can not fail to be made public, for if M. Guizot persevere in concealing them, Lord Palmerston will be sure to make them public. We will examine them, then, altogether (says Le Conatitutionnel) and the discussion will loot) nothing by waiting. It will then be evident by what incre dible want of ability, by what strange processes, our government has placed France in the situation in which she is found to-day ; it will be seen who will be con founded and overwhelmed by the effect of this complete publication. The committee of the Chamber of Peers on the address concluded its labours on Friday, and the Chamber was convoked on Satorday to hear the address. M. Barthie's pro,/'et d'adrease was approved of. It was expected that the report would be read at the public session on Monday, when the debate would commence, but M. Guizot was deter mined not to speak till Tuesday or Wednes day. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Friday, the committee on the address assembled, and it was resolved to request the attendance of ministers to give the necessary explanation. It was expected that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, of War, and of Marine, would attend. The committee also decided that it would require the Minister of Foreign Affairs to communicate those parts of the diplomatic corre spondence on the Cracow affair and the Spanish marriages which have been suppressed hitherto. The committee of deputies upon the address, although composed altogether of the Conservative party, took up on Saturday the two leading questions respecting Cracow and the marriages with consider able spirit and energy. Oar correspondent learnt that it required the Minis ter of Foreign Affairs to communicate the diplomatic correspondence on both questions more fully than he had done. They have demanded the correspondence between the Foreign-office in Paris and the French embassy at Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburg from the 3rd April to Bth November, which was omitted in the documents already laid before the Chamber. They have also demanded the answer lately received from Prince Metternich to the protestation of France, and have requested M. Gnizot to supply written proofs that the memorandum which appears annexed to the documents laid before the Chambers, was communi cated to Lord Aberdeen. M. Guizot has refused to communicate the docu ments demanded by the commission on the address, but he has declared that he will lay them before the Chamber when the debate on the address shall come on. M. Hebert has been named to draw up the address. Marshal Soult attended the committee along with M. Guizot. M. Martin du Nord left Paris on Saturday or Sun day for Italy, with leave of ;absence, but with the well understood intention of not returning to office. The cabinet is already engaged in electing his successor. M. Hebert was named ; but has met with !ouch opposi tion at the chateau, where it is feared his appoint ment would be displeasing to the clergy. It is pro bable that M. Dumon will take the portfolio of Justice and Public Worship, and that of Public Works will be given to M. Hebert. M. Billault is just about to be named Advocate of the Civil List. M. Dufaure was offered, but refused, the Ministry of Justice. We have received information of the substance of the last despatch received from the cabinet of Vienna by M. Guirot, on the subject of Cracow. It was ex pected it would appear in one of the ministerial journals in Paris ou Sunday. The style of the note ING, •JANUARY 18, .184, Sr* WS courteous. The powelffigettit that they coffiii4er themselves as having .a to set as 0%67 have 'acted,; that the existence of . w was I thair work; that the other powers associated in the congress of Vienna relatively to this question, merely registered the final act, and that they cannot be regarded as having any share in the ne gotiation which led to it. The powers declare further that they will not undo what they have done, or consent that France or England should have any part in it. M. Guizot, to whom the Austrian Am bassador has communicated this answer, has already adopted his course. He will not reply to it. The discussion, so far as diplomacy is concerned, is there fore at an end. A splendid ball was given at the Tuileries by the Duke and Duchess of Nemours on Friday evening, at which the principal members of the diplomatic corps , and their ladies were present, with the exception of I Lord and Lady Normanby. The resolution of the Bank adopted by the Council on Friday to raise the rate of discount from four to five per cent. produced an immediate effect at the Bourse, where stock and shares of every description immediately fell. It now appears that the Bank has borrowed 20,000,000 of silver on the security of the government stock, in which a part of its capital is invested, an operation which has been facilitated by the Bank of England. It is expected that the in creased rate of interest will sufficiently cheek the efflux of specie from its cellars; but should this fail, should the exigencies of commerce be so urgent that • the increased rate of discount will still be submitted i to, then the expedient mentioned in our correspond- I ence on a former day will be resorted to, and notes I will be issued for 100 and 250 franca, instead of I. adopting, as at present, 500 francs as the minor limit • of its notes. Advice& from Switzerland justify the apprehensions that severe reactionary measures will be pursued in the canton of Friburg, the theatre of the late unsuc cessful movement on the part of the Protestant libe rals. A great number of arrests had already taken place, and a great number of citizens, holding the highest social position, became the object of severe persecution by the jesuitical party. On receiving the news of the events in Friburg the government of Lu cerne and the other cantons of the league culled out the military. The council of State of Friburg, addressed a cir cular to all the cantons, to inform them of the event. This document was remarkable not only for the in vectives levelled against the conquered party, but for the insinuations it included against the conduct of the canton of Berne, both as the seat of the federal government and as an independent canton. Reports were spread at Berne of the arrival of threatening notes from several foreign ministers. It is neverthe less certain that the movement in Friburg was quite independent of the free corps, however much the can tons of Vaud and Berne may have sympathised in the The Spanish mail, bringing the Madrid journals and correspondence of the 9th and 10th, arrived in Paris on Friday and Saturday. El Clamor Public° mentions MM. Casa, Trujo, and Viluma as likely to form a new ministry. The Chamber did not sit on the 10th. El Espanol publishes a report that Don. Miguel had been proclaimed King of Portugal by the Junta of Oporto. The 10th being Sunday, the Bourse was closed. Advices were received in Paris on Saturday even ing that M. Olozaga had arrived under an armed escort on Tuesday night at Bayonne. FRANCE.—BREAD Mgrs.—Bread riots similar to those at Rennes have taken place at Laval. The market commenced as usual, and some hectolitres of wheat were sold with a light rise of price. At nine o'clock a crowd of men, women, and children filled up the spaces between the Backs, and the dealers found themselves compelled to sell the wheat at if. the double hectolitre. The authorities interfered, but without success. At noon four companies of the 12th regi ment of the lino cleared the market-place, and stopped all ingress to it. Order seemed re-established, but at half-past two some rioters, followed by a large crowd, entered the Rue d'Amboise Pare, and smashed the windows of a house which contained stores of grain. The crowd was dispersed by the military, but some of them broke the windows of houses in the Rue d'Auvers, At six in the evening, eight men, accompanied by an immense concourse of people, proceeded to Port Valle'e, II and demanded the person in charge of the grain deposited there to give it up. Ile replied that he had not got the 1 ' keys. The doors were then forced, and a quantity of grain carried off; one man fell under the load he had and broke his thigh. They had first offered money, which was refused. On Sunday an attempt was made on the house in the Rue d'Ambroise Pare, which was protected by a detachment of troops. In the evening two cart-loads of grain were pil laged at Croix-rouge. On Monday 120 Carabineers arrived from Mans. Order is restored. ..-- FRENCH REVENUE.—The Mimiteur publishes the following table of receipts of indirect taxes for the past year : 1648. 1045. Registration dam he 214,831,000fr. 212,640,000 ft. Stamps Customs, Nalidsla. gig. 105.566,000 100,422,000 French Colonist/pia 37,127000 42,948,000 F .relign Sugars 11,2 .1,000 6.425,000 1 1Zirgi n ovnts e' r = m".."l ...-....- Salt Dues ) Sslt Dues OHNoultlsß) ....._....» 1113117,000 19,589,1100 Potlble Ikases Public Carnegie MK sell INE Tani 41,488,000 40,648,000 Tobacco Mu Gunpowdereis• 6,845,000 5,581,000 Letters awl dial w as wilding money.— 50,322,000 48,452,000 For Pa. tie Manes-Pones— 2,199,000 3,385,000 Ditto, by and Packets 1,121,000 1,093,000 Total Showing an increase of 19,389,000*. Compared with 1944, the increase is 3.5,427,000 fr. ITALY.—The ordonnance of the Secretary of State of the Ist Jan., relative to the organisation of the Courts of I Justice, was received at Bologna ou the 7th. It dots not include a general and definitive reform in the administration of justice, which still remains under discussion. The docu ment refers only to a reform in the criminal courts of the capital, according to which the four criminal courts at Rome, La Sacra Consults, that of the Govern°, of the Udilorio della Camera, and of the Campo&glio, are reduced to two, the two latter being supprmed. The Sacra Consulla is to be divided into two twmi or Chambers, each consisting of six prelates, (ponenti) but each is to have an assessor (avocet auditeur). The Governo presided by the governor of Rome is to consist until further reforms take place of two chambers having each a prelate, four vice-presidents, and five advocates for judges. Besides which, a 'solicitor and five lawyers, an equal number for the poorer classes, are to be attached to each Chamber. The criminal courts of the provinces are to be in communication with the Sacra Consulea, so as to provide it with the means of forming a periodical statistical return of criminal pro ceedings, so an to enable measures to be taken for the pre vention of crime. The ordonnance concludes by saying that the promotions and appointments would take place according to the merits and the capacities of the employe and not to their length of service. Owing to the scarcity of food in some of the provinces Cardinal Gizei issued a circular on the Ist of January prohibiting the exportation of corn until further orders. GERMANY.—Under the head Berlin, 11th Jan., the Cologne Gaulle, of the 15th inst., says •—" Whilst in nearly every part of Europe, where the press is allowed to discuss openly the probable consequences attending the in corporation of Cracow, whilst the replies of the 'Northern Powers to the protestations of France and England are anxiously expected, whilst the rumoured absorption of the kingdom of Poland into Russia is spoken of as doubtful, the moment is approaching when all doubt will be at an end, and the reality will be manifest—in short, the hour is nigh striking when the kingdom of Poland will have ceased to exist even to the name. Information, just received from authentic sources, leaves no doubt that the determination of the act is irrevocably decided, and when the fact is carried from ear to ear and from lend to land only when the act is accomplished, the present may be regarded as a forerunner to announce it. We will not here stop at conjecture, about the exact date, and the manner in which it is to he accomplished--enough, that the moment is not far distant, nor will we endeavour to guess at the deliberation of the high authorities of Warsaw who have been called to St. Petersburg on the subject, but we can add that according to all likelihood that the journey of the Czar to Warsaw was in close connexion with the accomplishment of this act. VlE:mt.—Unfavourable accounts are in circulation roaring the health of th e Archduke Palatine.—Augsburp A entente Zeitung. It is well known that the Jews, to have the right of residing in Vienna, are forced to pay every fortnight a cer tain sum per head—the rich four florins, and the poor two. One day that U. de Metternich had invited to his table M. Meyerbeer, a knight like himself of the Prussian Order of Merit, the police presented themselves at the residence of the illustrious composer to demand the tax in question. M. Meyerbeer, having threatened to leave the city immediately if this absurd law was applied to him, the officers of the Grand-Chancellor replied that they would elude the law in his case by inscribing on his permiss ion to reside his title of knight, in place of hie denomination of Jew. The French Jews were 'objected to the tax up to the time that M. de St. Aulaire protested against it in the name of his government. The same law also exists at Warsaw, and the celebrated violinist Ernst quitted the city from the same circumstance that had occurred to M. Meyerbeer at Vienna. Let us add, that when the police came to find him he had already given five concerts to the poor. RUSSIA.—We learn from St. Petersburg that the Emperor of Russia has ordered an increase of one-half in the land-tax paid by the fits peasants in every part of Ulnas. THE INDIA EXPRESS. Sir,—The signal triumph you achitmed over your ' high-priced and confederate antagonists, sin Saturday, the 2nd, in anticipating them in the recei , ,,t mid publication of ' the overland extraordinary express, ai/pCIII% to me to call fur ' a few remarks in addition to those you offered on the occa. don, especially an a most unworthy attempt has since been made to deprive of his fair share of credit the gentleman to whose indomitable energies your priority was attributable, viz. Lieut. Waghorn. First. Let me repeat that the despatches were delivered at the Daily News Office by Wsighorn's agent, at four o'clock, a.m., in time for nearly the whole of your impres sion, and were accordingly given in nearly the whole of it. At eleven o'clock. a.m., ur seven hours afterwards, the Chroniele and i'ost gave the very time news that you es did, suppressing all mention of the source, and merely saying it had arrived rid Trieste ; hut that it was literally copied from your columns is sufficiently notorious by their unsus pecting adoption of your alight alteration of the summary front the Bombay Times. Now, here occurs • question, the answer to which will elucidate another question, to be put immediately. Sup posing that despatches through any other channel than Waghorn had arrived in London for the combined papers at the same time the Daily News despatches arrived, each one of the allied journals would, of course, have had the same intelligence : such is the basis of the copartoery, and such, it is evident. would be the just and commoa sense mode of carrying out the agreement. How, then, comas it, that the Titres did not fall into the trap which ensnared the Post and Chronicle? That the Times gave the summary horn the Bombay Times direct, and not with the verbal transposition of that summary, as printed in the Daily News! Where was that second copy of the Bombay Times procured from? No Bombay Times, or any other Indian papers or letters of any sort arrived is London on the morning of the ' 2nd, gave and except those brought by Waghom's extra ordinary express from Trieste. Surely it in a new element, an unprecedented feature in newspaper competition, surrep titiously to profit by the successful exertions of a rival, and then to laud the exertions that palpably and completely failed. Thus we have the Times availing itself of papers (how obtained is lees of a mystery than that journal thinks), brought exclusively by Waghorn on the 2nd, repre senting those papero as having come to hand in the ordinary course. This is precisely the sort of conduct which the Times would have been delighted to stigmatise had it caught • contemporary perpetrating it. The Morning Herald having fully participated on Satur day with the Times in the craftily obtained Bombay papers brought exclusively by Waghorn, superadds on Monday one of its habitual panegtries on the Marseilles route ; and in doing so commits itself even more conspicuously than is its wont on this head It complains grievously that the Volcano steamer is a wretched vessel, and took four days between Malta and Marseilles, when a really good steamer would have achieved the whole distance from Alexandria to Merman in five or five and a half days, but it altogether loses sight of a fact obviously implied by that admission, via , that if a good steamer can make the distance in the time specified between Marseilles and Alexandria, necessarily in a much less time should she male the distance between Alexandria and Trieste, which saves 360 miles of sea steaming ; and as to the low character of the Volcano, she is, at all events, preferable to the melancholy thing called the Ardent, placed at \Vaghorn's disposal, only able to go three miles an hour in her memorable November voyage, and rarely reaching eight miles, for • continuance, same. It is not by disguising their obligations to Wagborn and the Daily A ews on occasions like that of the 2nd inst. that the combined press can impose their own pretended excel lence upon the public, nor is it by exaggerations and sup pressions such as the Herald adopts that the superiority of the Trieste route can long he prevented from being uni versally recognised.—Fatir Ptair.—Jan 8. WEST INDIES.—LIGIITROUSE IN BARBADOPS. —Sir,—Captain Denman, of the royal navy, one of the admi ralty surveyor*, stated in his evidence before the select com mittee of the House of Commons, appointed in 181-5, to in quire into the state and management of lighthouses, &c., that such an important affair as the erection of a lighthouse should not depend upon those who are restrained front apply ing for it by knowing that a toll for its maintenance Intl be laid upon shipping. Ito was, therefore, of opinion that the lights of the country ought to be placed under one central board, which should have the authority to decide in all cases where lights, beacons, or buoys are requisite, with out waiting for shipwrecks to eat the attention of the public to it." The last antence will no doubt be appreciated, and its truth fully acknowledged by every mariner and every philanthropist. Yet there is a place where wrecks (some times as many as four) occur every year ; and sometimes, as in the ease of the Royal George, involving the low of two hundred and eighty-one human beings ; where the necessary funds for the erection of a light-house to prevent such catas trophes have been lying ready for such an appropriation ; but where, in consequence of the obstinacy of a legislative council, the erection has been prevented. The place alluded to is the loyal colony of Barbadoes. Sir C. Grey, the late governor of Barbadoes, in his address to the legislature, at the opening of last session, referred to the continued want of a lighthouse, and recommended the council to confirm the act passed by the House of Assembly for its erection, in a former session ; the necessary sum having been deposited in the local bank. The necessity of a lighthouse on some prominent point of the dan gerous coast of Barbadoes, had been urged by several comman ders on the North American and West India station, and was recommended by Admirals Sir C. Adam and Sir F. Austen. It was, no doubt, in consequence of these recom mendations that the British government proposed to bear half the expense of the erection of the lighthouse, if the colony would furnish the other half, and provide for its maintenance. This proposition WWI gladly met by the representatives of the people, who provided the necessary means from the Molehead tonnage duty; but the legislative council had twice refused its assent. Sir C. Grey drew the attention of the council to the circumstance that the maintenance would not prove a heavy burden, as the Molehead tonnage might be appropriated to the maintenance of a light, that duty being no longer required for the repairs of the pier. The council, however, have again refused to confirm the act of the assembly, and among other arguments they rest their refusal upon the assertion that no case of shipwreck need occur on this coast without great and reckless negli gence. The Barbadoes almanack will show that the pollee who hazard this assertion are not men of nautical experience, but sugar-planters, with the exception of two members, one of whom is the bishop of the diocese, the other the rector of the pariah of St. John, who must have frequently witnessed from his residence the horrors of a shipwreck. Parties acquainted with the working of the machine called the Legislative Council in Barbadoes, know how such a body resists the expressed wish of the inhabitants and her Majesty's representative. But if the members will submit to the dictation of one of their number, to such a degree as to set aside the duties of humanity, it is high time that some check should be put upon them. The appointment of the council rests with the crown. This is urged not in favour of Barbadoss alone; many of our brave sailors, and much British property are endangered by the perversity of the council : the statistical returns from the colony prove, that upon an average of the last five years there entered the island annually 835 vessels, comprising 88,917 tons, and manned by 6,413 sailors. Ibe Qroutt. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. Y esterday her Majesty walked in the slopes in the afternoon, attended by the fdarehionesa of Douro. . . . Count Sehimmelpenninek, the Netherlands Mi nister, the Saxon Minister, and the Baroness de Beust, Viscount Palmerston, and Sir H. and Lady Seymour, took their departure from the Castle yesterday. The Marquis of Douro arrived yesterday at the Castle, and had the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner. The band of the lit Life Guards attended during dinner at the Castle. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent had an evening party yesterday at Frogmore House. The Queen and Prince Albert were present, and also several ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite. This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk. Their R.H. the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took walking and pony exercise in the grounds around the Castle. Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. G. Leshe Courte nay officiated. Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert will leave the Castle this morning (Monday) for Buckingham Palace. I Her Majesty is expected to return on Thursday. The Queen held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock this (Monday) afternoon at Buckingham Palace. A Cabinet Council w7w7l7eTrat 3 o'clock on Satar day afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Mon. H. Labouehere. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town from Windsor Castle previous to the meeting. The council eat two hours. The Bishop of Tasmania had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Sir G. Gipps had also an interview with the noble earl on Saturday. Mr. .1. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at his official residence in Downiag.street. The Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Ministers, assembled yesterday, and had a lengthened conference with Viscount Palmerston. It is understood that the meeting had reference to Prince Metternich's answer to our foreign secretary's protest against the incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian dominions. Mr. Tufnell, M.P., Secretary of the Treasury has left town for Wrothain.park, Barnet, to attend the funeral of the late Mr. Byng, this dal7. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from he Colenial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. ----- The Duke of Wellington attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. lames's, yesterday. ROYAL VISIT TO RELVOIR CASTLE.—The Duke of Rutland was honoured by the company of H.R.H. the Du chess of Cambridge and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, at Belvoir Castle, from Monday last, when the illustrious guests came from Belton House, near 1.• Grantham, *here they had been visiting the Earl and Countess of Brownlow.up to Friday lust. TIIE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—Lord John Rua as premier, will give a grand full-dress parliamentary entertainment this evening at his official residence in Downing-street. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Pre sideot of the Council, as ministerial leader in the House of Lords, will receive a numerous circle of peers to dinner at Lansdowne House this evening. Lord Stanley, as the recognised leader of the Pro- tectionist opposition in the House of Lords, gives a sumptu ous entertainment to his political friends this evening. A QUEEN'S LETTER FOR THE STARVING IRTSII.—It gives us much pleasure to state that a Queen's letter will shortly be ismed for the relief of the distressed population of Ireland.—Observer. IRISH SUBSCRIPTION FUND.—Sir,—I beg of you to read the following paragraph : DI.PAInI'OF OF A STEAMER 1405,1 Mini FOOD MD iftFl.AND.—On Saturday morning at as early hour, the powerful government +reamer Dragon, engaged by the "British A‘ronation for the Relief of the Distressed Poor in Inland." sailed from Deelfonl for the Irish coa.; having on hoard a cargo of several hundnd ton, weight of food, clothing, flannel blanl.eta, and other nivemariee, for di.tribution us the mint dktresaed dkriete. This is the lint ve.ael despatched by the araociation, but others will follow in AUCCerAiOII as speedily al practicable. No port is, you perceive , indicated, and it is a question to say whether it he, advisable that so much of the money ex pected to be subscribed should he laid out in hiring such steamer, and keeping her going from port to port, indefi nitely, or whether it would not he wiser for the articles wanted to be bought at Bristol, Liverpool, or Glasgow, and other towns opposite the Irish coast, and immediately for warded to the harbours ne crest to the scenes of distress. Tho paragraph in question has induced many to trust to tha natural course of trade for sanding over asaietance to the poor in Ireland, rather than trust to the chance of one iron steamer performing the voyage safely ns well as speedily round the whole island.-1 ant, Sir, your obedient servant A. J. F. IBRAHIM PACIIA AND THE POOR OF LONDON,— Ibrahim Pacha was so highly gratified at the reception given to him by the late Lord Mayor, Alderman John son, that he transmitted • cheque for 500/. to his lord. ship, with a request that the eistrioution of that sum might be made among the poor citizens when any emergency should take place. The time has arrived when effect can he given to the kindly dispo-ition of the Pacha greatly to the relief of the numerous indigent families in the City of London, which, with all its means of administering relief, partici r et* severely in the general distress; and we trust and be. hove that Alderman Johnson will exercise his usual judg ment in superintending the distribution. BARRISTERS AND ATTORNEY'S CLERKS.—A corre spondent has forwarded to Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper a statement that en attempt is being made to esta b lish a lite rary and scientific institution for the use of this body exclu sively, The endeavour has originated with a fewl aw clerks who have joined together to carry out the necessary steps fur the successful formation of the project. There can he, says the correspendent, not the slightest doubt, but that the want of an institution of this kind has long been felt by them, and now that an opportunity presents itself to remedy this long complained of evil, I cannot but think that they show by their exertions their determination to render ell:1.y assist ance in their power. Two NEW THEATRE?.—Private information, not to be gainsaid (says the .4thenerum), apprizes us that the move ment in promotion of a theatre under Mr. Macready's direc tion is going on,—so well sinesred (to coin a verh), that, sooner or later, it must gain its point —The 06serrer an nounces that shares to the amount of 10,000/. have been taken for the erection of another new theatre in Leicester. square, to be under the direction of Mr. Buckstone, the comedian ; and when a sufficient number of proprietors is secured to place the completion of the building beyond a doubt, the operations will commence. THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A LADY AT TWICKENHAM.—On Saturday morning the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, who, it will be remembered, obsoppeared in a mysterious manner from the house of her husband, Pope's tills, Twickenham, on the night of Sunday, the 27th ult., was picked up in the river Thames, off Lambeth, and taken to the dead house of that parish, where it awaits a coroner's inquest. INQUESTS, SATURDAY.—MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A FEMALF.—Before Mr. W. Payne, at the vestry-ball of St. John's, Horsleydown, on the body of a female unknown, apparently about twenty-eight pears of age. A witness proved finding the body, entangled by her clothes, in the chains of a ballast-engine, lying off Hoialeydowis. She had no bonnet or shoes on. Mr. Makin, stirecan, said he had examined the body, and found the temporal bone on the right side of the bead fractured. The injury had been received during life, was the result of violence, and sufficient to cause death. The coroner said the case must stand adjourned for a week, in order to afford time for inquiry. The police had been informed of the cirturustances.— DEATH RT THE. FURZE CHARCOAL.—On Saturday, before Mr. Bedford, at the Valiant Trooper, Oxford-street, on the body of Hannah Hallett, aged '23, servant to Mr. Carrington, horse-dealer, No. 255, Oxford-street. The de ceased had been three months in service, and on Thursday last her mistress gave her leave to have a pan of lighted charcoal in her bedroom, to air it; but at the same time gave her a caution of its dangerous nature. In the afternoon, it coming to the knowledge of her master, he made her bring it down into the kitchen, but before going to bed she again took it ul to her bedroom, unknown to the family. On the following (Friday) morning a female friend of Mrs. Carrington went to call her as usual, and on entering her bedroom she found her in bed insensible, and the remains of the charcoal fire on the hearth, the chimney of the fireplace being blocked up. Mr. Drury, a surgeon was called in im mediately, who pronounced her to have been dead some hours. she cause of death arose from inhaling carbonic acid gas, generated by burning charcoal.—Verdict, " Died from inhaling the vapours of charcoal, ineau tiousl placed in her bedroom."—SitoeXlNG DEATH ON THE. SOUTH EADTERN.—Before William Carter, Esq., the coroner for Surrey, which occupied considerable time, at the Lureber Inn, at Reigate, as to the death of James Armaworth, aged 33. The jury upon viewing the body of the deceased were horror-stricken at the appearance it pre sented ; the bead was nearly torn away at the top. and one of the legs was severely fractured.—Jas. Robinson was the first witness. He deposed that he and the deceased man had been working on the South Eastern Railway line ; about seven o'clock on Tuesday morning he was on a loaded truck waggon with the deceased ; they bad been filling twenty eight trucks with draught chalk, which had fallen along the aides of the line. Two locomotive engines were attached on the London side of the Meratham tunnel, for the of being taken to the station called Battle bridge.e s An open truck was provided for the workmen on the line, and the whistle was sounded when the train was ready for them to get into the carriages. The men thought this was awkward to get into, as they usually got on the loaded trucks. He and deceased did so on the same truck. After the engine and train hid passed the tunnel the speed was slackened, and the train WAS apparently stopped. ' It was found that the train had not gone far enough by twenty yards, and it was moved on. This canoed a jerk, and the deceased was thrown out head first. Witness ba d just before asked him to remove the side-board, so that they could begin unloading as soon as possible, and he was in the act of reaching his spade when this occu rred. The train was stopped almost instantly, and upon witness going back he found the deceased lying on the rails, and two of the trucks had passed over his head, which was so torn to pieces that he could not be recognised by his features. A signal was always given when the men were to get into the open truck, or when there was a stoppage on the line, but he did not hear it that morning.—The Coroner What were your orders as to riding in the loaded trucks ? Witness; Our orders were, always to ride in the empty trucks, but we wanted to get our work done as soon as pos. sible.LCoroner Then you acted against your orders h—Wit. nese Yes.—To the jury : The empty truck was very easy of access—The Coroner said it would be advisable, he thought, to discharge all the men who were in the habit of riding on the loaded trucks, for there was no telling what might one day be the loge of life.—The jury fully concurred in this, and returned a verdict of "Accidental death," at the same time recommending the suggestion of the coroner, which Mr. Watts said should be laid before the directors. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAN. 16. The meeting is the all-absorbing topic : it lingers fondly on the memory of the landlords as something of which they feel reason to be proud, and they return to their homes satisfied in having laid the train ' for their own and their country's regeneration. Time alone can test the truth of the sentiments. \WY generous words were no doubt spoken, and all ar peered conscious of the necessity of reconciling popular confidence—a revolution in the proprietorial mind; but when some touchstone is applied—for instance in the question of tenants' compensation, or the taxation of the soil for colonization, or some other national pro ject, we shall see how the syrup works. The meeting was certainly an imposing and influential one. There were, I should think, about 800 present—many from the remotest parts of Ireland. The speeches were generally brief and apposite—moderate in their tone, and free from any approach to intimidation. Some times there was a burst of vehemence, such as Lord Erne's denunciation of the " infernal Labour Rate Act," which provoked loud acclamation. The afrets.r silence was equally deep when he described the position of the landlords as " half way down the precipice." The tumbling metaphor was rather confused. First, they were on the brink, then ova., next midway in the descent, and they would be soon and surely at the bottom, without the remedy of the ris inerliae. According to many, the essential question of food did not receive that prominence in the debate to which it was entitled. this may have arisen from the difficulty of dealing with a subject whose correct principles are so little understood, as well as from respect to ministers, who are quite se anxious for the preservation of the people as the landowners themselves. The Irish representatives will take counsel together in London when the inten tions of ministers are better known. The only speakers who forcibly alluded to the food question were Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Latouche, and Lord Bernard. I give you a summary of the principal component