The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-30 00:00:00

4 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS.—TVESDAY, APRIL 29. TIM Sties= took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock. Pitt VAT E BUSINESS. TM following DUB were severally read a third time. 1 and Oreat Northern Railway A me ndment (Nu. ) = d efied, Ross, and Gloucester Kationy ; Killarney and Velma-at 'Galway ; Leeds and Thirsk Railway ; London had Blackwell Railway (extessica of time for the widening, Ike.); North British Radway ; North and South We s t ern Junction Railway ; South Wales Itailway (No. 1) ; South Wales Railway (No. 2) ; Scottish Central Railway ; Bills. The following bilis were considered and agreed to -- Briton Ferry Docks and Railway ; Liverpool Docks (alters- Moe of management. he.) ; London and Blackwell Railway (beam& to Heyemequare, Whitechapel, he.) ; Manchester sad Anlatan-ondar-Lyne New Road; Mayfield Railway (No. 2) ; Menkland Railways. NAIrIOATION LAWS.—SHIPOWNERS OF LONDON. Mr. BERRIES, in presenting a petition from the ship. owm ri of the port of London, rtated that they (the ship owners) begged to remind the house that during the pee. grew el the hill for the repeal of the navigation laws they espresso' their conviction that such repeal would be pro- ductive of great injury to the shipping interests in general, but of still greater injury to the national interests. A year bra now expired, in which they had experienced the antici pated effect. Ihe petitioners stated they were prepared to show that the it anticipations had unfortunately proved cor rect, and had bon realised. They remarked that in that period there had been exhibited effects of a Very alarming character, not only to their interests , but also to the great national interests. They also remarked that, according to the official returns, the British shipping inwards of het year, ae compared w ith the preceding, exhi bited what was rather unusual in the of itial returns of this enuutry—a diminution of British shipping to the extent of 311,101 tons. The returns of POO were 4,:00,001.1 tons, and the returns of ROO were set down at 4,07M,010, being a dif ference in decline of about 7 per cent. They observed that in the same time, there had been a very . considerable in crease in the entries of foreign shipping . Into the British ports. The entries of foreign chipping in 1849 were 1,6811,000 tons, and in 18.40 they amounted to 2,051,000 tons, making au increase of 375,000 tons, or of 21 per cent. They went un to state that the aggregate of British and foreign shipping in 1850 only exceeded by . one-half per cent. the amount of the preceding year, showing that there bad bet a no material increase in the commerce of the country, as was expected to arise from the alteration of the laws. The petitioners further stated, that foreign shipping was very much supers...ling British, even in the trades in which it use said they never could hope to compete with them. For instance, the Canadian timber was now brought from Canada to England in Baltic ships, which was never supposed would be the case. The freights in all parts of the world had been so diminished as greatly to diminish, as a consequence, the trade of the shipowners; and, what was wore., they saw no prospect of alteration fur the better. They stated that the expected reciprocity from other countries in nspeet of the great conceasions made by the; repeal of the navigation laws in England had not been tub hut that, on the contrary , they h ad been resisted be all ; the great stattu of Europe, and had been avoided by 1 , Dithers, as in the instance of America in the case of Cale fornia, where a coasting trade was carried on between the Mates and Califontia. Petitioners stated that the sugar of ' Cuba and the protluets of Manilla were admitted into Bri tish mire• on a perfect equality, whether imported in Bri tish or Sluttish ships, whilst the tariff of Spain maintained a differential ditty very injurious to British commerce. They complained that the interests of British ship owners were now very much depressed, and in such a condition as to require the serious attentim of this house ; and the petition ended by praying that the house would he pleased to take the pniniss s into its se nous consideration, with a view to renew or amend the Na- Muslim) Act, and ell tither laws imposing restrictions and burdens on British navigation, and to grant such relief and redress as to its wisdom might seem fit. The bon. gentle man continued to say that it wits his intention to submit to the iodice o f the noose, at a fitting time, a special mu tton us, the subject. Ile therefore, in conclusion, begged to move that the petition be printed. (Hear, hear) Mr. LABOUCHERE said he had no objection whatever, particularly as the right loin. gentleman had pledged him self to bring forward a special motion on the subject. Mr. Taints ELY considered the petition of sufficient importance to warrant its being printed. (Hear, hear.) CHIEF COM MISSION Eli OP WOODS AND FORESTS. Mr. B. COCHRANE gave notice that on 1121 early day he should more for certain returns to to the attendance of the Commis itiner of Wooil" anti Forests on his various duties ,sues the noble lord came into office. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Sir W. mol.Eswolatt gave notice that on the 20th of May he nnul.l bring on MI motion in reference to Van Dicestro's Land. BORNEO. Mr. 11C MF., on the 20th of May, to introduce hill mo tion, previuudy postponed, in referenee to BOTRI.V. STATIONERS OFFICE. Mr. MOWATT, on the 21Ith of May, to move for a coin mat. e of inquiry into the management of the Stationery office. FOREIGN BtOAR. Mr. H. on behalf of Mr. 0. Berkeley, on the 1:Ith of May, to more that the prettent differential duty un fen ion sugar he continued for tire years from July, l&iI. (Haar, hear.) V.Uti.l AM IiNTAItV VOTES.—THE BALLOT. Mr. 11. BERKELEY, on Tuesday, the '2oth May, to Save that in future purlianientacy votes be taken by ballot. SPANISH DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES. Mr. BANK ES, on an early day, to move for the produe lin Of whatever correspondence took place between the British and Spanish governments in reference to the differ ential duties impossil hy Spain on British shipping. INCOME TAX. Mr. lIVME. on Friday nest, to move that the income Us shall continue for only one year. It ETV RNS. Sir B. HALL acid that on Friday neat he would put • question to the right him Secretary fur the lime Depart ment in reference to the production of certain returns ordered in the month of May of last year. Sir O. GREY mid he might then, by way of answer to the question, state that they would be ready for presenta tion in the course of the ensuing week. EXAMINATIONS AT SANDHURST COLLEGE. ...... Colonel REID asked the Secretary at War whether it was intended that the examination of candidates for commissions in the army should continue to be conducted by the professors at Sandhurst College, who were the authors of manuals and other publications of a similar character upon subjects in which the candidates were required to be examined,. oleo, whether he intended to * prop. to the house, during the present session. the ap pointment of " Captains of Instruction" in regiments of cavalry and infantry ; also, what will be the cost of this! addition to our military establishment, and whether it I will not amount to the sum of 30,000/. per annum ? Mr. F. MAULE, in reply to his hon. friend's first ques- ' Loon, begged to state that he had on a former occasion ex pressed his entire disapproval of the circumstance of the examiners being the authors of the manuals upon subjects on which candidates arc examined, and that steps would be taken to correct this evil. With regard to the second ques bon, the hon. and gallant member had misapprehended what he had stated on the subject of appointing a captain ot instruction ; he bad only glanced at the adoption of such a plan, but he was not prepared to propose it to the house. Ile felt, however, that some means ought to be afforded to the °Siren to obtain instruction previously to their examina tion. Ile wished also to state that the Commander-in-Chief had declared that the examination of officers who had pur chased their COMlllialiollll prior to the issue of the regulations should not he compulsory, but that officers might volunteer to undergo that examination. Those officers only who hail undergone their examination upon admission into the army would he required to submit to an examination be fore promotion, in conformity to the neent regulations. (Rear, hear.) ADVERTISING VANS. Mr. WILLIAMS wished to know from the right hon. baronet the Rome Secretary if it was intended to adopt any measure fur the suppression of the street van advertising nuisance? Sir U. GREY said at present there was no special law applicable to them, but any particular grievance caused by them could be taken cognisance OFFICERS. of by the police. WATERLOO Colonel CIIATTERTON—Seeing the right hon. the Secretary at War in his place, I beg to repeat my question ~f the 1-sth inst.—whether he hat any objection to have -border' in the Army List the names of those officers who Arne received the Waterloo decoration hut have since retired from the service, so the name of every Peninsular officer under similar circumstances is there inserted ? lir. F. HAULS feared the proposition of the hon. and gallant officer would he attended with inconvenience, from increasing the Mae of the Army List. however, be would further consider the matter. Colonel CUATTF.RTON—I beg to suggest the expe dience of only inserting those names periodically, which woula obviate every inconvenience. STRIKE AMONGST TUE SAILORS. PaINSEP wished to know when certain papers referring to the discontent amongst the SOSMeII of several ports in the kingdom would be laid on the table of the house ?" Ho bad previously made inquiry of the right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade. Mr. LABOCCHSRE stated in reply that he was quite reedy to produce the papers, if informed what partisans papers were recaired. LIGHTHOUSES. Mr. IIUME wished to know from the right hon. gelds man the President of the Baard of Trade when he inUnellol to iutouluee his bill in I.i:fen:nee to lighthouses ? Mr. LABOCCIIEHE tad the matter WAS under con sideration, but he could LBAnoNSt the ELECTION.n answer the question. ST. A In reply to Mr. Selases, as to what steps had been taken to secure the person* of Birchmore, Waggett, and j Heyward, against whom warrants ha d been issued on a charge of misdemeanour proved to have been committed on the occasion of the sitting of a parliamentary committee to inguirsinto the validity of the St. Albans election. The Sergesat-at-Arms stated that during the adjourn mint of the home he had used all due difigencc to elitists the warrants of that house against the parties charged therein, bat to no purpose. The police authorities had just =ettto him that up to that moment they had not been l i d obtain the slightest trace of the parties. LordlL RUSSELL said that =lmo the poetics were so prehended within a reasonable time, it would be neemsavy to address the crown that • reward might be proclaimed. (Hear, hear.) He would, therefore, move that the house resolve itself Into a committee to consider the propriety of adopting an address to beg Majesty that she might be pleased to order a proclamation, with a reward, for the discovery of Wagged, Heyward, and Birchmots. (Neer) SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE RZTHDPOLUI. Sir G. GREY rose towns forleave to introduce boarablat the better supply of water to the nesPropelis, and said doing so it would not he necessary for him to occupy the time of the house by going into the details of former pm eeedings before committees and commissions of inquiry. Ile referred to the large amount of information in posse,- Rion of the house upon this subject, contained especially in the reports of the Baud of Health, which showed, first, that some extensive change was necessary in order to insure an adequate supply aimed and wholesome water; and, se condly, that competitioe could not be traded to for that object. The first qacetion, therefore, whether the existing system should be adhered to, or that some essential change should be made in it, admitted of an easy answer ; the se- coed era.% what substitute the government should proven and parliament adopt. The Board of Health had resew mended, in the tint instance, that the existing sourer elf supply should be altogether abandoned, and that nessese should be had to deposit+ of rain water collected in paw► log grounds near Ragtime They had subsequently so he modified their r e commendation as to propose that M ideast of rain water spring water should be collected and brought to London in pipes. This very change of ispb. nion inculcated caution, and the government had WI the reports of the Board of Health and all the evidenes before three gentlemen eminent for their skill and ability, that they might report upon the chyrnical properties of the water, and to what extent the existing sources of sup ply should be retained or new sources be opened. The minuteness and labour of this inquiry had hitherto pre vented them (rim making a report, and in the meantime he had thought it better to lay before the house the outlines of a scheme by which he proposed to ouh,titute a new ma chinery for that of the nine water companies, each occupy ing a separate district. The Board of Health had recom mended that instead of a pturslity of managements there should be one combined management, as the best means of securing • sufficient supply and service of water with • diminution of cost; and this combination, they suggested, might he effected by purchasing the stock of the existing companies at a liberal valuation, but they found it necessary to depart from another recommendation, to vest the manage ment of the water supply in represeutativo bodies, and pro posed to place it under a government board of salaried officers. There were, therefore, three general modes of effecting the object in view—first, by the existing com panies; second, by municipalities, on the representative principle; third, lby a salaried board, acting under the immediate control of the government, and indirectly responsible to parliament. The objections to the latter plan were formidable, and nothing but necessity would in duce the government to adopt it. If, indeed, they were dealing with this as a new question, irrespective of private in terests and the habits of the people, he should certainly prefer the plan suggested by the Board of Health ; but se an extensensive system was already in existence, and, as tin representative machine q was to be found, the principle col . the measure he prop os ed was the consolidation of the ex isting companies into one, by the purchase of their respec tive stocks, either by valuation or by arbitration, with a consolidated capital, the consolidated body being charged with the whole supply of water to the metropolis subject to the control of government and parliament. Sir George I explained the functions, powers, and obligations with which the bill pmposed to endow this body, and observed that the plan would accomplish the ends of saving expenditure, increased efficiency in management, government controul under responsibility to parliament, and reduction of rates to consumers, realising, at the same time, the principles recommended by the Board of Ilealth of a contract between the government and the company. Ile anticipated an ob vious objection, that the companies could not ho compelled to consent to this arrangement ; but they were entitled to the first offer, and they had met the communications of the government in a reasonable spirit, reserving their decision until they saw the details of the hill, which lie proposed to refer to a select committee, so that the companies would have ample opportunity to advance their claims. The question having been put, Sir J. JOIINS'L'ONE gave various explanations on behalf of the water companies, who were favourably dis pelled towards the measure. Mr. COCHRANE considered that such a bill would only strengthen the existing monopoly, continuing all its evils end confirming its power by uniting the existing companies loco one. Mr. IIUME thought there would be no difficulty in I sitipting the principle of competition by allowing new ge•panies to clime in. Sir B. HALL was of opinion that the amalgamation of tbe existing companies, though it might save sonic expense, Toed make the combined company a very powerful one, whereas the object of the government should be to abolish a monopoly which had existed too long. Lord E BItINOTON reviewed the subject of water supply et some length, and condemned the scheme of the govern ment as defective in principle. Sir W. CLAY contended that competition could not be applied to the principle of water supply. lie admitted that the poor of the metropolis were ill pros ideal with water ; but this arose from no indisposition of the companies to supply it, or from soy deficiency of the article, hut because the proprietors of small tenement refund to take means of supplying their occupants. He defended the water com panies against the charges of extortion, waste, and extra vagance, and expressed his perfect confidence in the fair dealing of the government and the house, which, by acting unjustly towards the companies, would only injure the country. The question was entirely fur compromise, which would he the cheapest as well as the fairest course. Mr. MOWATT objected to the scheme, that it contained no pros ision for a new source of supply instead of the present impure one, and that it made the suppliers of the water responsible, nut to the consumers, but to the govern ment. Sir G. GREY, in reply, offered explanations on various points, and, with reference to Mr. Mowatt's objection, stated that the bill gave power to the Secretary of State in respect to the sources of supply. After a few words from Mr. B. COCHRANE, the motion P agreed to ENT OF DEATH, and the bill was ordered to be brought in. PUNISHM i TIIE COLONIES. Mr. EWAUT row to move a resolution to the effect : That it is expedient that the mitigation effected in the law of this country with respect to the punishment of death be extended to the colonies. In many of our colonies the law was assimilated to that of England with regard to capital crime., but in others the penalty of death still attached to many crimes which were not capital in this country. In Malta, for instance, besides murder, theft, if committed at night, burglary, coining, and several other offence's, were capital crime+. In Ceylon, and at the Cape of Good Ilope, where the Dutch Boman law prevailed, this was especially the case. The hon. member was here interrupted by a motion for counting the house, which being done, and only 3.5 mem bers being present, The house adjourned at 8 o'clock PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. LoNuoN AND BUCKWALL RAILWAY.—Tho com mittee on this company's bill report the preamble for this company's extension to Tilbu7 proved that the proposed 1 capital is 2.`40,0001.; proposedloan, 93,0004. ; amount of shares subscribed for new works, 231,4501. ; and deposit paid, 28,9311. ; the greater proportion of parties to the con tract being shareholders in the London and Blackwell. The length of the extension is 19 miles, and branch to Eastern Counties 1 mile. The committee report that the bill authorise.s the company to purchase and use steam boats between Tilbury and Gravesend, and ss the effi ciency of the railway as regarded the Gravesend traffic was necessarily dependent on the working of the steam comuni cation between that town and the railway terminus it was desirable such steam-boats should be under the management of the railway company, and the committee were of opinion that the restriction contained in 124th standing order ought not to be enforced. MoSICLAND RAILWAY.—The committee on this bill for deviations report the preamble proved; that it will not in volve any further outlay of capital beyond that authorised to be raised; and that the cost to be incurred will be 60,000 f. AYLESIICRT ELECTION.—A petition has been presented from Thomas Bradford, complaining of this election. r The .‘ public " committees sitting yesterday, but with closed doors, were those on Ctutoms, Steam Communication with India, £c., Selection, General Committee of Elections and Chairman's Panel. STICIDE OF AN EITHBITOR.—YesterdaT Mr. Cart tar, held an inquest at Deptford, touching the death of Mr. O. Stone, aged 54. • corn dealer of that place. Ann Monk. housekeeper to the deceased, stated that her master was at home all day on Saturday, and retired to bed that night at half-past 11. On Sunday morning, about seven o'clock, the housemaid being alarmed, called witness's attention to the fact that her master's bedroom-door was open and no one in the room. The servants searched the house and premises, and found the body of deceased in the granory, suspended from a trapdoor by a sash-line, which had been thrice twisted round his throat, and to the end of which was attached • leaden weight of lttlbs. Deceased was in his shirt. He had been nervous and low-spirited for several days, particularly on Friday and Saturday last, having on the former day received • letter from has son, dated Sydney, in which he stated that he had been to Cali fornia and returned to Sydney, having failed in his object, and that on reaching Sydney the banker or trustee had become bankrupt ; the combined circumstances had ruined him, and he feared he should went bread. Mr. John Wade, budder, Deptford, said the deceased had bees very much depressed at times lately. The deceased had placed an invention in the Elnibition of all Nations. They were at the Exhibition together on Friday. Deceased asameel eccentric in his manner, and was very much de =The deceased left him at the Exhibition to go to I-street, where he was carrying on an experimental business in registered articles, and had lost issue sums of money. These mitten and the letter of his son's misfor tunes, he believed, weighed strongly upon the deceased's nervous system, who, although a worthy leett, was easily excited. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary in- ANOTHER LIPS HAS run BEEN LOOT IN THB STONEAVADRIER near Brynabo, Wresham. On Tuesday moniing, John Edwards, a quarryniati, went to work, and due for about three hours, when • huge stone fell from a heizht of twelve yards upon his head, and, it is supposed caused instantaneous death. The deceased bad his work v, rya imprudently, havimi rxme seder. mined the stones around him. The el =Son tunate MAD ratite at the 11.1141 hour lee elamee r sad found him quite dead. No cries for mstidaase wets likely to have been heard, if any were made, as the dassased was alone, and the quarry remotely situated. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY MAY DAY, EIGHTFAIN HUNDRED Virry oak • pa. 41.7Na1, as 112 id NV Id. - dies, Plidneinet, odd trvoiaelAM rad irdwiddi pORTAUT of JOSIWII P.‘X ESQ.. Dettlehisi.eirtiers=ligwils Genet the butted Dens. dime, ii-U, be Esq., frau • dres in( by O. Odin, Si hive el Phis Ulf Inas IPlest Poor ea bib Popoff - 11Irmireout. i It 6 I I 0 II 14 6 lassirj, DSTW, sad odd Iss at ?riotedtem ale entrews. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ♦ Sint Miss The Expreen" containing be woo errolog's 411•011% . Is pobikbed emery Tsontloy sae hid', toglit, iu tbao kepi& iiiventimmlallielloll for The Exprono," Lando, Events; p.p, unit be se ft 0111" 10, boorortootroot, by Two o'clock os the lay of pnblibillblb HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Two DAT—Maraisig. lb. sins Afternoon, lb. no& Tinatesoow—Mernlag, lb. So Aftersoos. 24.. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. I. the present excitement of the farmers it is not safe, it seems, to trust them with opportunities of post-prandial eloquence. That was tried last year, and several honest gentlemen in top boots treated the world and the newspapers to specimens of argu ment more startling than convincing. There was Mr. CHOWLE4 for example, of the expressive cogno men, who "pitched into" the free traders in a decidedly pugilistic fashion ; and another worthy, whose name we forget, followed it up by a still more blustering appeal to physical force. This was found to be as detrimental to the con servative party as indecorous. Rather open to ridi cule before, this bared the side to quatibets intermi nable. So that this year only a morning sitting was assigned to the farmers. Such debates are dull enough in the House of Commons; but at Drury-lane the reserve of the magnates, and the empty stomachs of the isarei, made, notwithstanding the evident zeal and discipline of the daqueurs, perhaps the most signal failure that the boards of Drury-lane ever witnessed. The fact of the protectionists having no fugleman ' to lead the British farmers save Mr. Burr, the Irish Q.C., is about the most lamentable confession of im potence that can be well conceived. Mr. FREDERICK YOUNG, having worn out himself and his arguments, was dispatched into a corner, to talk to wino supplementary Babel of agriculturists, where the press could not hear him. In Drury lane, indeed, the speakers confined themselves to one species of argument, that of numbers and deter mination. And for such as these we must say that they were without their first and most fit ting orator, Mr. FERRAND. lie was the man to have given due emphasis to physical force arguments. But neither Mr. FERIL‘ND nor Mr. CHOWLER were bid den to the file. The only remarkable circumstance of the Drury lane holding-forth was the difference between the lords and the farmers for whilst the Duke of RICHMOND and Lord WINCHILSEA represented all classes of trade as well as agriculture in such utter ruin that the very operatives were about to demand protection in crowds, a Sussex farmer declared on the contrary that his class was the only one that suf tired, for the tradespeople were well off, the land owner had suffered but atrifling diminution of rent,the titheowner none of his tithe, and that in fact the farmer was the only victim. We are inclined to think this pretty much about the truth; but as the farmers, and not parliament, have the remedy of this in their own hands, it is difficult to imagine for what purpose they crowded to Drury-lane. Their be taking themselves thither may, however, be ex plained by the loud words of a man at the door of the theatre, who, as the farmers made their exit, exclaimed, " Who wants railway paws ?" The farmers had been bribed; there were twenty farmers of a certain club present, who received two guineas each for attending; or at least they had their expenses paid to and from the grand council of pro tection. If the feast of reason before dinner on the part of the farmers was dull, the after-dinner eloquence of their would-be patrons was duller still. It was the mere rump of protection. The Duke of IticliMoND, Lord WINCIIILSEA. FREDERICK YOUNG, Colonel Staritoar, and cetrres pares. There was no DisnsEtt, no STANLEY, at least to speak, no STAFFORD even. Nothing can be more certain than that the Duke of RICHMOND, Mr. YOUNG, and a few other desperados form a forlorn hope, completely detached from the main body of the Stanley - its:B, who have rallied to some secret kind of mitigated protection—in other words, agreed to fling protection altogether overboard. No other possible conclusion can be arrived at after the double failure of yesterday. AFTER all, we fear Mr. Pmerosi was right when he proposed to throw the Great Exhibition open to the public, or very nearly so, and to treat it no longer us one of those commercial speculations which was to pay itself. It would have been nobler to have made it a national undertaking. National, in deed, it is; but, unfortunately, it represents the na tion as making the most of the contributions of the rest of the world, not merely to indulge its pride, but replenish its pocket. Britannia collecting shil lings at an exhibition door cuts scarcely a more re spectablc figure than the same personage, in helmet and curl paper, sticking a wax candle in the branch of a chandelier. Neither the committee, however, nor the Prince, had a choice. The public were willing to have the Exhibition, but not to pay for it as public. And tnere are certainly fifty-four millions of reasons in the budget for this economy. But the good public did not perceive all the consequences. Amongst them are the necessity of charging not only the public, but the exhibitors, domestic and foreign, the very makers of the show, and the first subscribers who 'set it on foot, for liberty to enter the remises where 1 their own goods are placed, and which their gene rosity has reared. This may be necessary, but it is not noble. Then we have a fete. The opening or inaugura tion of the building is necessarily one. And when the managers proposed to have the opening private, the press and the public very naturally exclaimed, and remonstrated, and the managers yielded. It is now, however, apparent that the managers had some very good grounds for avoiding any solemn inaugu ration, and shrinking from the paraphernalia of a fete. For the numbers of those who have a fair claim to be present on such an occasion are so enormous that they would fill the Crystal Palace to choking. There are the original subscribers, the leaders in committees; the purchasers of season tickets; the officials, court and civic; the exhibitors, domestic and foreign. To have a ceremony, and exclude the latter without a payment of three guineas, is really monstrous. Of all obstacles, however, want of space is that most difficult to overcome. Whether, indeed a large portion of those entitled to enter might not have been allowed merely to pass through in procession, beholding the preparation, and then marshalling out side, with facilities afforded for seeing into the inside, is now too late to moot. But it must be admitted that domestic exhibitors are hardly, and foreign ex hibitors most uncourteously treated, by being denied all participation in the opening. What amends can be made to the foreigner, is a mat ter for after consideration. If each class of trade and commerce were to welcome those of its own calling from over sea, it would be a source of mutual amusement, instruction, and pleasure—a gracious and generous thing where there is rivalry, and brotherly where there is not. The eminent amongst the exhibitors will, no doubt, find welcome of this kind amongst their eminent brethren here. Of this we have so little doubt, that we may spare advice on the sub ject. But then, the less eminent amongst the fo reign exhibitors run the risk of knowing no more of l ag and and Englishmen than is to be gleaned by fe~d it' or bussing backwards and forwards between dr ymarket and Hyde-park. Anything like a fete is forbidden by the mercantile law of profit, which the Exhibition has assigned to itself; and we are sorry to say, that the same prin ciple and aim necessarily prevails in the arrange ments and admission. And it is on this account that we cannot but allow that Mr. Pa mot's proposal, made some months since (on which we observed complete silence), had considerable foresight and reason in it. No one, however, would then enter tain it ; and there is nothing now left but IG, APRIL 30, 18514, , to carry out this Exhibition on the plan with which it waistarted, and make it self-paying. If this may on foreigners hardly and niggardly in some res pects, it is for the public in its individual capacity, and professional bodies to make amends, and show that we can be a generous and hospitable, as wel as a calculating and prosperous people. ME good folks of Kensington are running to the rescue of their gardens ; and it was high time. The portion of Kensington.gardens covet ted by our exclu sive equestrian exhibitors has been definitely pointed out. They wish to take possession of the avenue which bisects the gardens, extending from the gate near the west-end of the Crystal Palace to Bayswater. This is not a substitute for Rotten-row,but an extension of it, for the Belgravians can only reach it by passing along Rotten-row. unless, indeed, they prefer the high road to Kensington, which can scarcely be called sore secluded. It in clear as daylight, therefore, that the occupa tion of this avenue as a" ride" is not intended to be temporary. The Tyburnians want to have an entry to Rotten-row from the end of Westlxiurne-termee, as the Belgravians have from the end of Grosvenor place. The crowd and the steam-engines of the Crystal Palace during the Exhibition are a mere pretext to obtain permission to get their horses into Kensington-gardens. They say they only mean to remain there for a short time, but it is easier to keep them out than it will be to turn them out. The practical effect of turning this avenue into a " ride' will be, to throw all that part of the gardens which is to the east of it into Ilyde-park, and to bring that part which is to the west into immediate contact with the hubbub of the gallopers. It will re duce the gardens to one-half of their present size, and deprive what is left of them of their present se questered character. In - to accomplish this txs”-' seeking __ .shionables arc animated by the same amiable spirit which instigated Allan to covet and appropriate the vineyard of NABOTU, and drove a better king to com mit the sin rebuked by the parable of the rich man who took away his poor neighbour's ewe lamb. They seek to impart additional zest to their revels by scampering across the little garden plot in which the obscurely industrious take pleasure, and trampling down its flowers. If the sole object of the intruders were to obtain a ride during the few months Hyde park may be crowded, is not Itegcnt's-ixirk open to them ? FRANCE. PARIS, Tt7CSDAT EVENING. A proclamation, inciting the people to revolt and massacre, has been disseminated from some unknown source through the departments. This document, equally influnous whether forged to entrap mal contents, or expressing the designs of the directing committee of an organised conspiracy, is designated "The loth Bulletin," and signed by . " The Cextral Committee of Resistance." The opening paragraph is sufficient as a sample of its style and explanation of its objects: Citizens !—The moment is come to resume the musket and to exterminate from one end of France to the other the in famous ari.tocrats whom the 24th of February had gene rously spared, and who have not ceased to crush, rob, and ruin you. On the first sound of the tocsin rely on the energetic co-operation of your brothers of Paris, as they will rely on yours if circumstances should induce them to ini tiative. The the The day of rising is mentioned as being at hand. The proclamation has been clatlestinely printed ; it has been distributed through the ateliers of Pane, and sent by the post into the country, under envelope, stamped from the Batignolles. I call your attention to-day to an article of Emile de Girardin in the Presse, denouncing in terms I which do equal credit to his talents, feelings, and judgment, the infatuated attempts of the ultra-de mocrats to stimulate an insurrection. There seems much reason to believe that the incendiary bulletin which has drawn forth this eloquent commentary is the invention of some zealous agent of power, rather than a serious emanation from a club of con spirators, its vein is so atrocious. Cruelty, revenge, plunder, bloodshed, flames, mingle their furious elements in this polluted composition, which leaves pale and colourless by companson the insanest appeals of raving Jacobinee. Since it is evidently the policy of the Bonapartists to inspire terror, if the presumptive evidence of " cur bone" is to be any guide, we should be led to the conclusion that some zealous Decembriat had adopted this ques tionable stratagem of ml lying adherents to the standard of the Flys& through fear. If the document be not a forgery, the signing . source, " Central Committee of Resistance," is self-stigmatised in a way which ren ders all further condemuation superfluous, except to warn the departments. In all cases the article of Oirardin sums up all that can be said against the deplorable design of an appeal to arms, now, w the people, if they only wait patiently until 1852, will have a legal opening for se curing the fruits of all previous revolutions. It will be time enough to take the gun in hand when they are attacked either by an attempt to upset the republican form of government, or any other pillar of the constitution. The democratic party must be guided by the dictates of its parlia mentary representatives; and, whatever the sugges tions of exiled chiefs or of their agents may be, no regard is to be paid to them. Girardin calls on Ledru Rollin and consorts to disavow the proclama tion in the Voi.c du Proscrit. It will speedily be known from what quarter it comes. A new plan was proposed yesterday, in the cabinet of one of the ministers, which consists in appointing the committee of revision, in voting the budget of 1852, and in proroguing the Assembly until Sep.' tember. This scheme has no chance of success, for, the question once opened, the Assembly would not adjourn. M. Leon Faucher is to be heard on Thursday be fore the committee on the National Guard Bill. The committee has fixed at one year the duration of domicile for inscription on the registers of the national guard. M. Faucher wishes three years of domicile, as in the law of May, to be the qualifica tion. The government has announced to M. pussy that the demand for the arrears of pay of Jerome Bonaparte will be withdrawn. M. Falloux has arrived at Angers. The petition movement is still pushing in the de partments with all possible vigour by the Bona partists and legitimists. Committees arc organising, and subscriptions opened for propagating rival interests. In Paris the notabilities of trade and ma nufactures have already met several times to discuss the means of exciting a striking manifestation of public opinion in favour of revision. Still the greatest apathy is visible in the great majority even of the Orgeoise. To-day a fresh ballot took place in the Legislative Assembly for the election of a councillor of state. MM. Come, Darcy, and 31andarous-Vertarny were still the leading candidates, but as none of them ob tained the absolute majority the election was once more adjourned. The committee on the Municipal Bill decided yes terday that the council of prefecture should be pre sided; in the absence of the prefect, by the eldest of the councillors, instead of by a delegate of the pre fect. It was settled after an animated discussion that the debates before the council should be public, except in certain cases mentioned in the bill. Dr. Veron expresses the wish that tho malencon trease dentande of Jerome Bonaparte may be with drawn by the government. The Sugar Bill was again adjourned, without a step having been made. nothing else of interest took Place: The rumours of dissensions in the ministry con tinue. 'I o-day it was reported in the Assembly that M. Baroche would be replaced by M. de Mortemart. The Messager reports that the council of ministers was occupied esteay it the pctition-inovement is the departments a rd nd tha t it was decided, on the eof M. Faucher, that the government jo no initiative on this subject, but let the Assembly and the country act. General d'Hantpoul is expected at Marseilles by the Titan. General Pelissier, Commander of Oran, and appointed to take the post of governor-general ad interim, had arrived at Algiers. - General d'Haut poul is said to have been detinitively recalled. The new governor-general, it is thought, will be either General Anpick er Lahitte. M. de Lamartine, who has been long advocating the revision of the constitution with a view to the prolongation of the powers of Louis Napoleon, ap pears now so convinced of the impracticability of • ,s that course, that he fills the first page of the Pays with an earnest exhortation to Louis Napoleon to prefer the part of abnegation to that of perseverance , and giving up all thought of aspiring the fresh lease of power, to retire risignedlv into rank of a private citizen. lie shows the President how, having missed the prize of ambition, he may still gain an elevated rank as a private citizen, be chosen Pre sident of the National Aasembly, and exercise great influence upon the election of his successor. The concessions made to the parliamentary majority have, in the opinion of M. de Lainartine, gone too great a length for Louis Napoleon ever to recover the confi dence of France. To-day the court of Assizes of the Seine was crowded with people eager to witness the trial of Vion for the murder of M. I)esfontaines, the muti lated remains of whose body were discovered in a chest at Chateauroux. I may observe, on this occa sion that the columns of the 1 newspapers devoted I to miscellaneous intelligence, teem ordinarily with stories of crime and violence, such as would, if they occurred in England, rivet public attention and occa sion a fresh edition of the morning papers, to add the latest intelligence. But here comparatively little sensation is occasioned by recitals of the most atrocious purport ; and part of this insensibility is doubtless traceable to the fact of many such horrible incidents being pure inventions, while others are moulded with a mixture of romance upon the slenderest thread of truth. Still the per ceutage of actual crime which remains is quite enough to exhibit a fearful disorga nisation in the domestic relations of society through out this country, which is doubtless traceable in a great degree to the wild ferment of political passions, which renders the lower orders callous to the per formance of all social duties, and leaves education to be scrambled for between the Jesuit and the Jacobin. Yesterday the sale of Louis Philippe's modern gallery at the I'alais Royal commenced. The sabre cuts, tears, and bullet-holes in many of the works were still visible, and although they had been re mounted on canvass, they had not been re-touched. Leopold Roberts' "Burial at Rome" tached 15,: 3 nnfr. The funds, after undergoing brisk fluctuations, closed with a slight improvement on yesterday. GERMANY. We learn from Berlin, that General Rochow has been appointed Prussian ambassador at the Diet, greatly to the dissappointment of M. Bismark Shon hausen, and of his party, who have made every effiirt to obtain for him, as n representative of the feudal retrograde party, the Frankfort mission. M. Bernstorff is talked of as ambassador, in the place of M. Roehow (whose health has suffered by the Prus sian climate), at the court of St. Petersburgh. The (Moyne Gazette says that very frequent diplomatic communications have lately taken place between Paris and Vienna, and that M. Dietrichstein has been sent on a confidential mission from the latter court to the former. BERLIN, APT!. 27. As the Dresden conferences could not succeed in oda- blishing the alterations desired in the organisation of the Confederation, every reasonable person would have supposed that they would be adjourned at once, and the time and labour of the plenipotentiaries, and the funds of the govern ments economised Not to, however. The spirit of German bureaucracy is opposed to leaving anything unfinished ; the conference' , must lie closed in slue form ' • the afters must be carefully collated, the proceedings of each commission scrutinised and arranged separately, and then re-arranged as a whole, so that on paper at least the conferences will appear to have fulfilled the task which they undertook. These often will firm a, very considerable, but I believe not very valuable addition to the federal archives, in the pigeon-holes of which they will I remain, neatly ticketed and tied , until some more I than usually enterprising historian shall plunge into the sea of matter to have the few ideas which can be discovered in the mass of writing. The labour will be her culean. The third commission of the conferences has held its lard sitting, and has signed, scaled, and delivered. 'f he second and first, with whom the differences at first origi nated, seem to find it equally difficult,to close their labours harmoniously, if their repeated sittings have not some other object unknown to the world. Twenty-nine persons publicly acknowledged their con version from the protestant to the Roman catholic faith at Bn.slau on Easter Sunday. The labours of the Roman catholic priesthood have not been in vain, nor the cardinal's hat recently presented by the Pope to the Archbishop of Bres lau been without influence. It is anticipated that in consequence of the alterations re commended by the commission of the Second Chamber, that the government will not proceed this session with the new press law, the necessity of which is in reality not very great, seeing that the government can octroy ordinances of what ever character they please, without running the risk of a condemnatory vote in the next Chamber. Under these cir cumstances, the Chambers will probably he prorogued im mediately after the Income Tax Bill has passed the Second Chamber. During the past year 3,15.5 persons emigrated from the kingdom of Wirtemberg, the whole of the population of which hardly exceeds a million and a half of souls; one-half of this number of emigrants carried property and capital with them to the amount of 1,400,000 florists (140,0001.) The King of Prussia is to visit Mecklenberg-Schwerin in the beginning of May, to assist at the christening of the infant crown.prince. The Empress of Russia is to visit Ems again this summer. Some time ago the king refused his sanction to the ap pointment of a certain person as Mayor of Breslau ; a similar refusal has just been given to the election of Herr Grainier to the mayoralty of Magdeburg. In both cases the political principles of the parties is the cause of the royal displeasure. In 1848 a ladies' committee raised sufficient funds to pur chase a gun-boat for the Schleswig Holstein marine. In consequence of the dissolution of the navy they have re claimed their present from the federal commissioners, who have referred the matter to the Diet. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The committee for regulating the boundaries be tween the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein are very actively engaged in their difficult task. They have not yet reached the kernel of the whole—the fortress of Rendsburg, a point naturally of great mi litary importance, one part of which is claimed by the Danes as belonging to Schleswig, and equally claimed by the Holsteiners as belonging to Hol stein. The worst part of the Ca-90 is that both views arc supVorted by historical evidence of undeniable authenticity. If, however, the actual citizenship of the persons residing in the disputed locality is to be held decisive, the commissioners must side with the Holstcincrs, because there are documents—receipts — to prove that even north of Rendsburg the inha bitants paid taxes levied on behalf of the German empire to which Schleswig never belonged; but if, on the contrary, the language of the treaties re ferring to Rendsburg is to guide their judgment, the case is doubtful. At all events, there is some hard work cut out for the commissioners with the histo- rians and geographers of both parties. The latter are already working away at pamphlets, essays, plans, and sections of greater magnitude perhaps than any drawn up in reference to the Oregon boundary. The Austrian troops will remain some time longer in Holstein • the decrease of the numbers of the gar rison has been countermanded. Prince Schwarzen- berg and his colleagues in Vienna object to remove the Austrian troops until points in dispute shall have been settled. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 8. I know that in spite of the efforts of the absolutist powers, the intense interest the English people took in the fate of Kossuth has not yet subsided. I, there fore, endeavoured, immediately after my arrival at Constantinople, to ascertain if there is any probabi lity as to the liberation of the illustrious patriot. 1 was informed by the best sources that the Porte had solemnly declared to the Austrian fovernment that the Sultan had fulfilled the pledge given in the auto graph letter of September, 1h49, and as peace has not been disturbed in the states of the Austrian empire, she cannot detain any longer the Hungarian refu , and is willing to restore them to full frFed m, which is their natural right, in the hope that the justice of the cause, the power of the Porte, and the good will of England and France, will pro tect her against every aggression of Russia and Aus tria which might ensue from the liberation of Kossuth. But the despatch of Prince Schwarzenberg claims the further detention of the Hungarians for two years more, and it is now to be decided if England has any influence in the East, or if Russia rules without control in Constantinople. If Sir Stratford Canning cannot prevail against M. Titoff in a cause where justice and the European sympathies go hand in hand with the intentions of the Sultan, then Eng , land has no longer any need of an ambassador to Constantinople ; the squadron in the Mediterranean can easily return to Spithead, no Turk will ever have any more doubt that there is but ono real Em peror in Europe—tho Czar. For, he sees it, that every order from St. Petersburg is complied with all I over the world, and he believes, therefore, that Downing-street is nothing else than the branch establishment of St. Petersburg, and Lord Painters ton but the first clerk of the omnipotent Csar. You do not imagine how anxiously the expectation is raised about tho ultim ite decision of this cause; everybody feels it that it is the decisive diplomatic battle between England and ltussia, and if England is out-genemlltsl again, as it has been for these last twenty-five years, all the liberal speeches of Lord Palmerston, which insure him the majority in the House of Commons, arc in vain ; they cannot maintain the English infl uence in the East, for the Turks draw their conclusions from facts not (ruin words. In the meantime the tidings from Kutaja are of a sinister kind; for tho last weeks the rumour is cur rent that frequent cases of poisoning have happened at Smyrna, at Ismid, and there is no doubt that in Kutaja four persons at least met an untimely death by arsenic. In the last week of March a grocer had invited the prior of the dervishes, a holy man, celebrated throughout Asia Minor. They par took of some sweets for breakfast, and both died in a few hours, under dreadful convulsions. Soliman Effendi, the commander of the fortress, had the case investigated, and it appeared that the sugar was mixed with arsenic. A few days later two other persons were poisoned by sugar. People became alarmed: it was found that in other shops the coffee was infected and Soliman was obliged, in order to calm the general anxiety. to put under seal all the groceries and pastry-shops; and even the salt is sold only in one place. The excited people curse tho Russians, for they feel instinctively that all the evils of Turkey come from Russia. Now the explanation of these poisonings is very simple. Arsenic, sugar. pepper, sublimate, cuflio, aro sold promiscuously in the Shops ; the grocer does not clean the spoon with which he measures the arsenic, and puts it immediately,perhaps,in thesugar; he does not wipe the scales after he has weighed the poison, and a mistake can also easily happen. But all this is a very poor consolation for the detained Hungarian refugees, who are now in continual fear of being poisoded so much the more, as the Turkish authorities themselves had warned them in Shumla as well as in Kutaja against Austrian assassins. They all have been of course long ago condemned to death by the Austrian courts-martial, and the Austrian government was never too particular as to the execution of a death warrant. Who can, therefore, assure the refugees, that instead of the usual powder and lead or tho halter, the Austrian government will not resort to arsenic ? The result is the same, and the induce ment to do it is now stronger than ever, since tho Sultan has declared that he is willing to set Kossuth at liberty. And if an accident should happen at Kutaja, would not the Turkish goveniment bo accused of a want of watchfulness ? and would there not be raised a general outcry against England, that it has not supported the Sultan, when he declared his intention to set Kossuth at liberty, but had not the energy to do it without delay. APRIL 15: Austria has raised fresh difficulties about the liberation of Kossuth and his companions in exile, and insists upon their continued detention. Sir Stratford Canning had had an important interview with the Sultan. The Russians seek to prolong their occupation of the Itanultian provinces indefinitely, by raising claims with which the Porte is not in a stato to comply. AMERICA. Our correspondent writes : NEW YORK, Aram 16. Mr. Seward's party in this state, having at present the control of the legislature, have there a majority ready to sustain the policy of their leader nut only in abolition but iu finance. And there is something at hand which is likely to affect British pockets, and lower our own character more than anything which has ever before happened in this state. The Erie Canal some years ago having been towed too small for the trade upon it, was, by former acts of the legislature, to be enlarged. A considerable portion of the work was done, but much remained to du. In consequence, how ever, of a decline in the credit of American Stocks abroad, and a cuusequent want of means at home, the debts of the States lissome a subject of alarm, Our own state was temporarily embarrassed, and the comp troller was on several occasions forced to borrow money to meet even the ordinary indebtedness of the state. it be came necessary at once to curtail our public expenditure, and it was provided in the new constitution that the legis latures should not create any new debts except in a parti cular way—limiting them in amount, furnishing adequate security for each loan, and requiring the sanction of the people at the ballot-boxes if a sum was at any time requisite above one million of dollars. Now it turned out that as new and onerous debts could not be created consti tutionally our state soon recovered from its embarrass ments, its credit rose, its stuck bore a high price, and its recent prosperity has been unexampled. But Mr. Seward has other views. Ile is for enlarging the Erie Canal at once, and not for waiting the delay of a few years and the application of moderate annual appropriations. Ile is de sirous of having 9,000,000 dull. to expend fur the enlargement of the canal immediately. The distribution of that money will be in the hands of his own friends, and hit own politi cal power will be supreme by the indirect influence of that money through the favoured contractors, previous to and influencing the nextelection. If this law passes, an immense amount of state certifl catsis of indebtedness will soul' be afloat, and the holders of American stock abroad may consider their investments re duced 50 per cent. in value. Daniel Webster, however, has given an opinion in favour of this new violation of our state stitutiun, while our own Attorney-General most vette _ mently and ably argues against it. The New York and Erie Railway, between New York and Dunkirk on Lake Erie, is finished, and in a few days we shall have the trains in full operation. All the light fregihts of the upper lakes will come over this road to New York, and a saving of ten days in time will be ef fected in their transit. So fur as this kind of freight is concerned, the lower lakes and the Welland Canal will be sufferers. It is the finest railway in some respects ever constructed in this country, and its revenue will be enormous. It not only opens a new route fora vast trade from the interior, hut it develops the industrial resources of, at least, one-third of the area of the state of New York, hitherto cut off from any economical connection with 'the Atlantic ports. We arc looking anxiously to the world's fair. Many fears are entertained here of thu efficiency of the building, but we hope all will be well. Our circle of amusements continues to enlarge. We have two French :mulles, both detachments from Fnumones, of which Caroline Loyo and Madlle. 'l'ournaire dispute the palm. Never before have we seen such graceful and ele gant riding. These women are perfectly fascinating in the ring, and draw immense crowds. Loyo is next to appear in London. Our theatres arc crowded every night, and the English artists, such as Julia Bennett, have no reason to complain. The Humboldt, steamer, has been tried and found to work well. She will leave for Havre next month. As you will perceive from the list of the passengers by the Baltic, a large number are on their way to your country for the " World's Fair." The Brother Jonathan was expected to be chartered for the purpose of taking passengers to Southampton during the fair, but on her first trip s.,uth ward, she was disabled, had to put into Baltimore for repairs, and has now lost her good name. She will not probably be " entered for that heat." As I close this letter, I find there is intelligence from the city of Mexico to the 22nd of March (one day later than that given in yesterday's Rxeress) . . It is important in one particular. The Treasury is again empty. The Ameri can indemnity is spent, and there was a deficiency on the let of the month of two-and .11. half millions of dollars, Credits of the house of Drusina, which has recently failed, were selling at from 40 to 70 cents. per dollar. Payno is on his way to England by the West India route, and is understood to have art arrangement of the Mexican debt in contemplation, and some projects of a national and commercial character in view. Arista's ad ministration promises to be a good one. Almost all the men who are now prominent in active public life in the capital appear to have great private merit and political honesty. Within the last two days upwards of 4,000 emigrants have arrived at this port, and chiefly Irish. I should like to know how many more of the Hiliendan race are left. The public are beginning to get alarmed at the excessive increase to the numbers of the paupers and beggars which is occurring. All our humane institutions are overflowing, and the taxation in this city for the support of the poor is enormous. If these emigrants would go into the country, where wages ale high and labour wanted, it would not be so bad, but too many of them prefer an idle life in the city and a residence where they can be fed without work. THE ROBBERY AT THE. GOVERNMENT GUN POWDER WORILII AT WALTHAM Alsll¢V.—Yesterday the prisoners, George ltowe, John Cornish, Charles Eve, and Jestsy Oriffiths, were brought up for final examina tion, before the magistrates at Waltham Abbey. Mr. Bodkin appeared on the part of the Board of Ord nance, and said it was not intended to examine more wit nesses for the prosecution, but he would call on the monis trates to commit the prisoners for trial at once on the en deuce already produced. The evidence was then read over, and counsel having addressed the bench for each of the prisoners, the magistrates, after retiring a short time, said they would discharge Eve on his entering into his own re cognisances to appear to any charge that might ho preferred I against him; the other prisoners, Rowe, Cornish, and Griffiths, were then fully committed to take their trial at the next autumn BASiZCS. Application was then made for the money found in the possession of Rowe and Cornish to be given up to them, which was peremptorily refused. The prisoners were then conveyed hack to Ilford gaol. G