The Express. — London, England, 1848-07-12 00:00:00

practised their parliamentary tactics with success out of doors, and linked himself with a tory majority to have the pleasure of beating a reformer. llonour to the 300 independent electors of Great Yarmouth who have refused to be accomplices in this unprincipled coalition'. Their staunchness to the cause. of independence and honesty has been shown not without danger to themselves, for many who have flinched have done so reluctantly and under over powering intimidation. Had the votes at the late election for Great Yarmouth been deposited in the ballot-box, the mauls would have been very different. "If I had wanted evidence on that subject," said Mr. BAGAIAWE at the nomination, " I have had sufficient in the course of my canvass to convince me of the necessity for the introduction of the ballot into this constituency. I have found among you many most respectable tradesmen, not of the lowest class, but those in a better position, and what have th"y said to me? ' Mr. BAGSIJANI e, I know not what to do. lam applied to personally by this man and that man. They are my customets. If 1 favour one I offend another, and I would rather not vote at all.' Is that the position in which the working and productive classes of this country ought to be placed?" It is very well for Mr. RUNIDOLD, who profits by this state of affairs, to proclaim the ballot " a great absurdity." It is very well for him, after telling his audience that he wishes to "say a few words about Mr. Ht•xe'S motion," to turn away from the sub ject and say, "I ant thoroughly persuaded that the country could not get on with annual parlia ments." The shuffle is too palpable to be suc cessful again. But even Mr. lintnoLD's coalition with the tortes had not prepared us for his barefaced equivocation when on the public hustings he declared, with reference to the previous election : " No act of bribery had been committed—n•dhing mere than the head-ninney li n t been given." We wish Lord Rim( RussEtt. joy of such a friend of purity of election for a follower. Much though we regret the loss of a man of Mr. BAG:qIAWE ' S independent principles, and large mer cantile ex&rience, we cannot but look upon 'he re sult of the Great Yarmouth election as a gain to the cause of reform. It is a demonstration of the rotten ness of the existing electoral systm, by an experi mentum crucis. It shows to what uses the act•ral constituencies, unshielded by the ballot, can be turned by the two factions, who, while waging an inveterate war for place, are always ready to ally themselves in opposition to the people and their friends. IT is impossible to read the trials of the men called chartist I,a..ers, who have just b:en condemn, d to one and the same punishment, w ithout instantly perceiving the very great difference between several of the cases. It is evident that Mr. ERN EST JONES was a leader, or put himself forward as such. It appears, too, that FustliLL spoke of assassination in a way that might tempt others to commit it for political pnr wses. It is also plain, at least to us, that WILLIAMS and SHARPE were by no means guilty in the same proportion. And it also appears to us, that VERNON, the lecturer on Mesmerism, com mitted no offence to be at all put on a par with that of the others, or to be visited with the same severity. Ile was, iudeed, only found guilty of joining in an as sembla;4e, which was rendered unlawful by tf a lan guage of same who joined in it. That Mr. VERNON was one of the crowd and one of the preccssion is proved ; that he spoke is also avowed ; but that he spoke in disgust of the brutal language of others is also averred on the trial. Under• these circumstances, far from considering VERNON'S sentence as lenient, we consider it as exorbitantly severe. We wiil not deny that it may be useful, but utility is not the main or the proper end of jail - ice. We have said thus much for VERNON, although our intention was rather to remark upon a complaint made by him of his treatment in prison previous to his condemnation. What the poor lecturer complained of was, that his Mad was given to him as it is to wild beasts, literally put into his paws, to be torn asunder by those paws and by his teeth before he could contrive to swallow it. And this is the treat ment of a man convicted of no crime, and accused of merely a pditical crime, in a country calling itself civilised. It may be advisable to refuse knives and forks to the inmates of a prison ; but a spoon is no deadly weapon, ncr yet is a plate. We mentioned some time since, when speaking of Mr. NIITcuEL's sentence, that in no country in the world, not even in Austria, were poli tical and common criminals treated alike. And we were given to understand Vat Mr. MITCHEL, though condemned as a felon, was not treated as such. The same feeling of the utility of deterring, which prompted the sentence of VERNON to the same penalty as FUSSELL orJos ES may no doubt alsoprompt the treating of all three in the same style in which burglars and murderers are treated. But we, for our part, protest against the utility as against the justice. The most dangerous character of judicial sentences is that which gives to the law id its execution the aspect of petty or partial vindictiveness, or which ex cites pity or sympathy for a criminal. But however it may seem desirable, for the aui formity of prison discipline, to treat all condemned alike, and to break the heart and pride of the poor lecturer who happened to join a political procrssion, by subjecting him to the same treatment as the most hardened and sanguinary ruffian, we object to treat ing even ruffians as keepers do beasts in a mena gerie, and flinging them their food. It punishment be necessary, let it be administered in some other shape than that stated by VERNON, and corroborated in the following account from an eye-witness of what takes place at Newgate during feeding-time:— I have many times been in Newgate when the prisosen for trial have been served with their dinner, and the mode in which the food is distributed, and the pig-like manner in which they are compelled to cat I will endeavour to de arribe ; at leas., as was the cue upon the occasions I refer to. —A man, having the appearance of an assistant under-cook, with a very dirty apron before him, and with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, had befit° him a kind of large tin dish, and in that there were a number of divisions, each of which con. tainedth quantum of food alldted for a prisoner. The pri soners were called seriatim, and the man scooped out of the divisions with his hands the meat and the potatoes mei Vac( d them in the prisoner's hands—some six or eight potatoes, unpeeled, and a small piece of beef being thus dealt out to each prisoner. There were neither knife, fork, plate, nor anything of that kind used, and,the prisoners I had to hold the food as they best cenld with one hand whilst they ate with the other. Some of them I observed &wine the potatoes whole as they were, whilst others, more deli cate perhaps, gnawed off the peel with their teeth. Tha meat they had to tear to pieces in the same manner —with their teeth and lingers, and their hands coasequen'ly became covered with grease, which they could not remove, unless they smeared it over their clothes. A pickpocket of the lowest grade, a ruffian of the moat atro cious character, might receive his meal in this manner; the next in turn might be a man of ruptetability—but all were treated alike. I saw a potboy, who was transported for seven years for robbing his employer, take his dinner in this man ner as naturally iv if it had been served up in the best pos ►ible style; but the next, a gentlemanly-looking elderly man, who was awaiting trial for embezzlement, regarded his with th.: utinuA disgust. FRANCE. PARIS, TeESDAY, II A.M. I have already adverted to the untiring efforts of that small section of the public press known here as the press of terror,or the red republic, to goad on the worst portion of the labouring classes against the property, intelligence, and respectability of the country. The most vile calumnies against the administration of the hospitals and the prisons are circulated, which have not even a slight thread of truth to support their malignity. Thus the populace of the faubourgs are told that thousands of their friends and relatives in the prisons are shot like dogs, without trial, and without even ascertaining their names or descriptions, and that the wounded insurgents in the hospitals are the objects of the most odious neglect lied maltreatment. Happily the executive has shown a dispo sition to repress those abases of the press. The en forcement of the caution money required by law has to-day had the effect of suppressing another journal, Le People Cons'ibtont. This as also the Represesdaid do Petside, suppressed yesterday, as already stated, was avowedly edited by a member of the assembly—the former by M. Prudhon and the latter by the Abbe Lamennais. lam informed that at a meeting of the moderate majority yesterday in the Rue de Poictiers, it was an nounced as probable that the executive government would today apply to the assembly for permission to prosecute M. Prudhon for the article I mentioned yesterday, recommending the populace to order the assembly to confiscate one-third of the revenues of all persons having property. M. Prudhou being himself a member of the as- sembly, this permission is indispensable. It was resolved, however, that in case the executive govern ment should nut take the initiative in this matter, that the assembly itself should be moved upon it. In what I have said above respecting the press of the red republic, I have only referred to its organs in Paris: La Reforme, Le Peuple Conatituant, and Le' Representant du Peupk. These, however, are mode rate in their tone, compared with the journals of the departments, some of which direct agai• et the assem bly a torrent of abuse of which it would be difficult to give an adequate notion. We read in the 3fessayer of yesterday evening : " Mention was made at the National Assembly, this day, of the discovery and defeat of a plot at Sedan, at the moment when it was on the point of being put into execution. It is said that twelve of the princi pal establishments of that to - en were to have been burned, and vengeance to have been exercised upon the manufacturers who had refused to accede to a reduc tion of the hours of labour. It is proper to state that certain deputies of the Ardennes declared that they had not received any information of this kind; but, on the other hand, letters containing the news, and coming from an honourable source, were spoken of." By the will of M. Cliweaubriand it is ordered that his =moire, which he calls Andre Innabe, shaii 1 33 published under the direction of MM. Mand 'roux- Vertamy, Louis de Chateaubriand, his nephew, Hyde de Neuville, and de Levis. We have received the Madrid mails, with the journals and co:respondence of the 6th. That capital was kept in complete ignorance of the Carlist movements in the provinces, respecting which the most absurd statements had been circulated. The defalcation discovered in the batik was estimated at 63 millions of reale. Aisnuu, Jeer G.—Three per Cents, 14 paper; after hake, 19i cash. Flee per cents., 121 taper; utter nuke, 12f cash. Cuestres, 41 paper; after !Salsa, 41 cash. ....• efts. s paper. Mink of at. Fee - &wad. 65 paper. Discourt of notes, 9i to 10 per Cent. Esc I.at Al London, Ott days, 4- SO paper. GREECE.—By the Levant mail we have re ceived the Athens journals and correspondence to the 29th ultimo. The insurrection still prevailed on the Turkish from iers. Sir St.at ford Can ning had left the Pitteus on the evening of the 20th, in the steamer Antelope, intending to touch at Pores and Cape Surinam, before going to Constanti nople. During his stay at Athens he had frequent interviews with the King, which had given hopes that, by his counsels and persuasion, a change might have ben effected in the deplorable policy of the govern ment. Much disappointment was, however, felt at the absence of all result. The same system which has prevailed hitherto was still continued. GERMANY. RECEPTION OF THE FRANKFORT DEPU TATION BY THE ARCHDUKE JOHN. AUSTRIA.—We have received the Vicnnajournals of the 6th, from which me take the following account of the solemn reception of the Frankfort deputies by the Archduke John ma the sth : The Frankfort deputation went in state oa the sth to the palace of Archduke John. At ten o'clock in the morning the civic authorities sod the national guard and student,. went in procession to the house where the Frankfort deputies had taken up th it abode; and, alter an exchange of greet iog between them and the heads of the procession, they got into court carriages prepared for the occasion, and, followed by the rest of the procession, went to the state chancery. The procession was greeted as it passed by the most enthusiastic cheering of immensecrowds,w hick had assembled, and the rir giug of hells. The streets were hung with flags and banners. The deputation was accompanied on its entrants into the state chancery by the civic authorities, and they were received by his Imperial Highness, sur rounded by the Austrian ministers, the ambassadors of all she German states, and numbers of generals. Baron Andrian, as vice-pre side nt of the national assembly, addressed the Archduke John, giving him greeting. The address was then read by the cuiet secretary, Herr Jucho ; atter which Herr Heckscher came forward, and thus addressed the Archduke : " Your Imperial Highness now sees before you the deputation upon which the c outituent national use mbly has devolved the glor.ous charge of laying before your Imperial Highness the intelligence, that after deciding on the foundation of a provisional central power far Germany, it has named your Im perial Highness Vic a of the Empire. In entrust ing the office to you the great principle is pro claimed that the German people, in its national assembly, represents the enure. and the fount of the highest central governmental power in Germany. The irresponsibility of the Vicar of the Empire, which is also proclaimed, denotes the permanency and stability of the highest power of the state. Your high virtues, the love of the German people, and the confidence of the united nation, were the mo• tiles which determined the election to fall upon you, and the joyful cheering and gr. klieg of the whole nation have contained the choice of its representatives. Germany hopes and expects to find in you the faithful guardian of its freedom—the right of the petiole. It hopes to attain under your auspices a return of order and cools device, and in your righteous and powerful government a worthy representation of it in the eyes of the world. But one desire is expressed hy the whole nation, and it is that your imperial highness will determine to accept the high (Ace to which its love and its coefidenco has elected you. We await the assurance of your acceptation." Archduke John replied: " Gen.lemen, I feel flattered and honoured by the election which has fallen on me of Vicar of the Empire, and to which, as the Germanic Diet has in formed me,the German governments have e ivere their consent. The confidence set in me, and the favour shown me, imeose great obligations upon me, which it is my profoundest desire to fulfil. I feel in its full force the great honour as well as the importance and difficulty of the trust imposed on me. May Gee! give me the strength necessary to answer to the wishes of the German fatherland ! May I be supported by the co-operation of all the friends of Ger many I This desired object can only be attained by unity, mutual moderation, disinterested views, and love of recti tude. I beg you, gentlemen, to bo convinced that I desire no other honour than to devote the last strength of my old age to the united fatherland. One thing embarrasses me, and that is my present position, which prevent+ me at pre sent from deciding upon the time at which I shall assume the office of Vicar of the Empire. I will immediately com municate with the Emperor, my gracious master, u to the way and method by which I can combine the performance of my new office with that which he has entrusted to me." Baron Andrian then advanced and said :—" The national assembly will receive with joy through us the assurance of the acceptation by your Imperi l Highness of the post to which they have elected you, and it will find the conlideioce returned which it placed in you for the love of fatherland and according to the sense of Germany." The Archduke then shook hands with the deputies and said, " " Now we are all broth: rs ;" and going out on the balcony, he spoke a 'ew welds to the crowds on the Fran sensplatz. A salute of ono huneired tool one guns was at the moment tired. An immense mass of voices struck up the German patriotic none, and the Archduke having re ceived the congratulations of those around him the depute. tion returned as it came. Herr Ileckscher and Raveaux addressed the people from their windows, and the deputies were all called to be greeted by a general hurrah. The following is a letter from a correspondent : VIENNA, Juxx s.—The ministry of Pillersdorf has rendered itself most unpopular by the regulations which that minister proposes for the Austrian assembly. The liberal press call loudly for his dismissal. Stadion is trying to enter the ministry. but he is considered to be a menibetr of the old liberal school, an aristocrat after the heart of Joseph I I , and a friend of the liberal provincial develepment. As for the new National Assemb'y of Austria, thr e-querters of its members are melt of the R. catest ignorance and incapability. Two of them are well known to Rave been par icipators, if not leaders, in the massacre of Tarnow in Galicia, and from which province there are also 30 members woo tan neither read nor write, and whose poverty is such that they sleep on straw in rooms provided far them in barracks. To crown all, there is one-fourth of the members of the esscmbly who cannot speak German. There is a great want of leaders amongst them. The following is shout the state of parties: Tho Camara's, led by Jesuits and women, form the ex treme right and are in the proper ion of one-lii teenite ; the German aristocracy and Sclavenic peasantry six-fitteenthe; the conservative or ministerial party who wish for Austria's independence of Germany is represented by three. fifteenths, and rallies round the black and yellow flag. The party of the left, with Archduke John, have as their symbol the red black and go.d Hag, which represents the in terests of Germany as a oottfederaey in the proportion of three-lifteenth*, and the extreme left, or radical party, of two fifteenths. It is probable that this assembly willbe forcibly dissolved, the dissatisfaction and apprehens:on respecting it being general. PRUSSIA.—The Berlin journals of the Bth have reached us. In the Berlin constituent assembly on the 7th inst., the president of the council declined to answer a question, having in view the ascertaining . what mea sures were taken to protect the Prussian frontiers against Russia. The minister of finance declared that the funds in the national treasury, instead of diminish ing during the last six or seven years, had increased. The 600th anniversary of the laying the foundation stone of tho renowned cathedral of Cologne will be celebrated with extraordinary romp on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of August next, on one of which dates the newly-constructed portions of the edifice will be consecrated. It in fully expected that the vicar of the German empire and the King of Prussia will be present. There is also some talk still of the Pope coming here on the occasion. HAMBURG.—The following is a letter from our correspondent : HAMBI:110, Jura. 7.—We expected to hear both from Co- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1848. penbagen and Berlin before now, that the treaty of the ar mistice signed at Malmo was ratified by the two govern ments. The newspapers of the former city arrived to-day seem to doubt the ratification, if not altogether, at any rate on the terms mentioned by our reports. The Berlin papers do not mention anything about ratification, while tome pri vate letters state the treaty will not be ratified; others men tion the Prussian government cannot do so before it has laid it before the National A'sembly at Frankfort. Time will show which of the two versions is the correct one. In the meantime our ships are detained or condemned by the Danish prize courts, and the German rivers watched by their men-of-war to prevent ingress and egress of German chipping. Nor are warlike preparations by land stopped altogether; this afternoon, again, • Prussian battalion passed through the city on their way to Altona, to be for warded by the rail to Rendsburg. By letters from the St. Thomas we learn that several Hamburg and Altona vessels are put under embargo there, which is a serious loss to our merchants who arc engaged in that trade. Funds and rail way shares, which had risen in expectation of a speedy peace fur the tut three days, got a chick this afternoon when the reports of the non-ratification became known. FRANKFOICE—In the sitting of the national assembly on the 7th inst., M. Merck presented, in the name of the commission for affairs of political co nomy, a report relative to the probibition on the part of Austria to export Eoltl.. The report urges the assembly to a'kpt a declaration to Austria, in sub tottacc that such prohibition is prejudicial to the other', German states, and incompatible with the unity of Ger many. A debate ensued on the report of the commis sion relative to the immediate armament of Germany, the pith of which is t hat the national assembly ought, through the Germanic diet, to call upon the govern ments of Germany to bring up their federal contin gents of every arm as soon as possible to the number fixed for them, viz., one per cent. on the population according to the last census. To this motion the committee then added one, in substance as follows: to get in readiness as soon as possible a first division 01 this militia to the number of 340,000 men, inas much as the armament of the whole people cannot take place as speedily as circumstances require. No vote was come to on these motions. _ _ _ Some disturbances took place at Frankfort, or rather in Sachsenhausen (one of Its suburbs), on the night of the 7th. A barricade was erected at one end of the main bridge, which separates the above suburb from the city proper; but early on the Bth inst. the barri cade was removed by the authorities. It appears that some gendarmes who had attempted to arrest a num ber of individuals in Sachsenhausen, for some local misdemeanors, were attacked by the populace of that district—the \Vhitechapel of the above tree city —and driven away. The military were then called out, and being also attacked, they were obliged to fire on the crowd, tour of whom were carried off wounded. Some of the popu lace fired in turn, and one of the military was shot through the forehead. The tumult increasing the majority of the troops were obliged to leave Sachsenhausen, and to escape in boats to the other side of the river. The rioters then barricaded several streets, and their end of the bridge. The troops in Frankfort itself were under arms during the entire night, and strong detachments were posted at the city side of the bridge, in order to prevent any communication with the insurgents. During the, night, the few solders who had remained in Sach senhausen were disarmed. Several persons were arrested the next day in Frankfort, amongst others the president of the Mechanics' Union. According to the latest accounts tranquillity had been restored. BAVARIA.—We learn from Munich that King Maximilian IL bad written an autograph letter to Archduke John, congratulating hint upon the new honour conferred upon I,im. the quantity of merchandise in warehouse on the 30th of June, with a comparative statement for the corresponding periods in the years 1843, 1846, and 1847. were submitted for the information of the proprietors. From these it ap- peered that a considerable falling off had taken place during the last six mouths, of the probability of which he (the chairman) had expressed an apprehension whea he addressed the proprietors in January brit ' • but in the corresponding six months of 1847, there had been from the peculiar cir cumstances of the time, which were well known, a very great increase in the importations of corn and flour, prov sions, rice, sugar, and other bulky articles, as compared with the first ,ix months of 1846. Those peculiar circumstances being no longer in operation, and having been succeeded by an extreme depression of trade, the importations, as far as the St. Katharine Docks were concerned, had been reduced to what they were in the corresponding period of 1846, the difference being the most trifling plisible, viz.: The st:ck of goods in warehouse June 30, 1846, was 63,433 Was And June 34, less Leas 548twa of goods landed during air nnutlas ended June 3', 1318, the quantity was 62,716 tons June Less 939 loos After some further observations from the chairman, relat• ing to the comparative importations, the proprietors pro- ceeded with the ballot for twenty-one directors, who were elected tor the year ensuing, and a vote of thanks passed unanimously to the chairman and the rest of the directors for their a•tention to the interests of the company, when the meeting broke up. COLONIAL BANK. The half-yearly meeting of tais company waa held yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishops:rate-street. ANDREW COLVILLE, EST, having taken the chair, Mr. CALVERT, the secretary, read the report of the direc tors as !allows : The statement of the debts and mods of the corporation, as required by the charter, has been made up to the 31st of December, 1057, showing the profits made by the bank during the half year ending at that period, and meow liubruilieu by the directors to the proprietors— : maws. orreblation £207,726 6 8 Depoatte and other liabilities 775,968 0 0 Pald-up capita BOO,OOO 0 0 Profit C 1,504133 2 10 Specie y 198,075 10 0 Due to the bank in the colonies on bills dircoranted and purchaser' including those part and duo Due to the tuck in the colonies on melt credits and current accounts 171,030 18 9 Due to the bank in London, cabals remitted, umbra bankers', &c. Balance of btd and doubtful debts 6,175 5 4 hank premises told furniture in London and the colonies 17,295 1G 7 .C 1,502,153 2 10 In their last report the directors adverted to the ruinous deprecia tion in the value of augur, and to the numerous failures which had taken plate in consequence of the injurious operation of ths act of par liament of 1818, and oftne monetary preature existing in thiscountry. They also stated that many bills were in abeyance trona which the bank mutt sustain loss: and they regret now to add that the depression under which the markets for Wont India produce have continued to la hour ever since the period of the last half-yearly meeting, has had the effiet of noca+ioning further (Alines, from which additional lout must be anticipated. There calamitous events are still of too recent occur rence to admit of the directors laying before the proprietors an accu rate statement of the bank's leases; but as they are anxious to afford all the information they can on the subject, they have endeavoured to form as correct an estimate as possible; and they are sorry to state that they cannot calculate the probable los+at leis than 100,000/. It Is extremely painful to the directors to have to make this commu nication ; but in doing so they think it due to themselves to point out to the proprietors that the losses of the bank have not arisen from any want of caution on their part, for, as mentioned in their last repoit, immediately . on the pawing of the Act of ISM they transmitted cautionary instructions to their managers, which have knee been constantly repeated, but the fall in prices has I provd so imprecedentedly heavy, and the depression has continued no long e that it has baffled all ordinary calculations. Under there ch.- cnnistanoes the director entertain no doubt that the proprietors will agree with them in opinion that it would not be proper to declare a dividend at this time, hut that the correct course IP to devote the profits reported above tothe extinction of the balance of old, Dad, and doubtful debts, and to the commencement of a hind to meet those losses which are anticipated, but cannot at present be ascertained. The directors consequently propose that from the amount of profits made during the halt year ending 314 December, 1817, after deduc tion of all current i spews, viz., 20,4381. 7e. 241., be deducted the balance of old, bad, and doubtful debts, 0,1731. ss. 4d., leaving 14,1031. 1.. 10d. as the commencement of • toad for new bad debts. Wrh regard to the future, the directors trust that tin the evidence taken before a committee of the Mouse of Commons on the sugar question has caused her Majesty's government to propos, a nicalithation of the act of 1810. the result of that inquiry will prove beneficial to the colonic% for although the measures of govcrnme t are considered inadequate to meet the exigeneiei of the case, the discussion which has taken place on the subject will render the public of this country more fully cognisant than heretofore of the hardships under which the West India colonies (have suffered PO long; and by the innuene^ of public opinion, the advisers of the Crown may hereafter be induced to afford them that further eupport which they are entitled to u-k, as long eu they arc espo44 to the competition of slave labour. la the meanwhile, it shall be the care of the directors to conduct the ',misers of the bank under such pre cautionary restrictions as to avoid km% no far as possible ; and as they are no longer subject to the competition of the West India Bank, they trust this mar be accomplished with less diminution of profit than would otherwise have been the case. Large a+ the sum 1 which has been mentionel as the pro bable amount of the bank's loss, the directors do not consithr it such as to impair the efficient working of the inotitutlon, or to ren der it necessary to call further capital from the proprietors. In con cl.ion the directors astute the proprietors that no exertion shah be wanting on their part to improve the pDAtiOn of the :bank, and they trust circumstances will permit their endeavour. to be suc cessful. Mr. LEVY moved and; Mr. WHEELER seconded a motion that, in cinsequenee of the losses sustained t.y the hank, and it is dscouraging prosp cts. the company be dissolved. Mr. S. GIJRNLY thought it would be unwise to wind up the concern ; he should, therefore, hold up his hand for the adoption of the report. Mr. VALVE, Mr. MADDEN, and others, insisted on know ing the annu it expenses of continuing the comrany. The CHAIRMAN said the expenses amounted to about 38,0001. annually. (Hear.) It must be remembered that for this they had banks all over the West Indies, some eight or ten establishments, and that they had to pay very highly for the services of their officers in unhealthy climates. (Hear.) Mr. Minus?' had every confidence in the honour of the directors, but whilst the government were Fcciug on in each a ruinous way towards the colonies, ha could not see how the bank could maintain itself there. He could not see how any bank could exist without leases under such circum stances. The CHAIRMAN would advise the shareholders to leave the question of diasolution in the hands of the directors, re lying on them to curtail the operations of the bank as far as possible. Any ten proprietors who thought that they should at once dissolve the company might call a special meeting for that purpose, when the dirt ctors could lay before them fur ther information on so important a subject. The concern was not so bad, after all, as had been stated, for it was proved that their dividends had averaged 4 per cent. per annum till lasi January. (Hear, hear.) The amerdment was then withdrawn, and the report was adopted. A resolution was then passed for postponing the dividend. Mr. S. 0 vits;Elf then moved a vote of thanks to the chair man and directors, which was seconded, and passed unani mously, when the mesting adjourned. DCBLIN.-ELECTION COMMITTEE, YESTERDAY.- Four votes were struck off the sitting member's majority dui ing yesterday's scrutiny. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF COLONIOATION.- A public meeting of this society was held yesterday in the Queen's Concert room, Hanover square. The Esrl of Har rowby occupied the chair, and opened the trceocdings wish some general remarks with regard to the vast incrrao, of po pulation in this kingdomleatimated at about 1,000 a day. This country had colonies thinning for population, and a population here dying to be employed, and gifted wi'h an amount of e-.terprise and industry which peculiarly fitted ' them for the occupation of those lands. Indeed there wit no country whcse population was so eminently fitted for t:.e task as the En,slish, for whose habits of independea , action and self-reliance the colonies supplied so fair a field, extend ing to the colonic' the habits and opinions of the mother country, which was a point of great importance. The secre tary then read a stet, merit of the scheme of the society, of which the full swing are the main points: To eillect and diffuse information regarding the colonies; to com municate with landowner s, boards of guardians, and other private and public bodies In this country; to establish ageacies, and corre spond with parties in the colonies, with a view to establish a steady supp.y of labour. In furtherance of these objects a letter was addressed to the Secretary of state for the Colonies, stating the fates- Cons of the society, and requesting "a relaxation of such part of the existing regulation, in respect of emigration as would admit of the proposed Van being carried out." The reply was favourable, and the emigration commisiioners con rented to such a relaxation of their rules as will enable the plans of the society to come into operation. The existing rules of the emigre tion board absolutely exclude u any valuable ooloniate, who, on account of age, number of children occupation, or other moire, are ineligible fora free passage. The board, justly reserving to itself the right of rejection, on particula grounds, In each individual case, is willing to modify these regulations.° as to accent the ea sdidates re commended for emigration by the society, on receiving payment of a portion of the passage money. Under this arrangement the society proposes to make advances to those whom It may consider eligible emigrants, of such saws as, joined to these own means, may enable them to avail themselves of the passages thus offered by the emigration commiesionem In the cane of fondles in terested in sending out emigrants, who are apptoved of by the com mittee, a reaaonable sum having been contributed by the pariah or union, the deficiency (if any) between that nun and the amount re quired by the commissioners maybe advanced by this society. In the ease of loodords from whose estates persons are deeirous to emigrate, the society offers to stub landlords as may be wilting to assist them by making the necessary advance. the benefit of its ma chinery and agency for recovering, in the various colonies, I the aura:int of such advances mule to the respective emigrants. In order to secure repayment of these advances, it is proposed that each emigrant who MaT be so required by the l and lords other advancing money for him 'should grant his promissory note person advancing I amount, to be recovered by a simple process, and winch the society is cone lent will prove efßeacious and satisfactory; and there is reason to believe, that the local legialattue would readily pars each an enactment—in reference to colonial laws of contract—m might be required to aid in carrying the purpose into effect. The colonies have this farther claim upon the bounty of Great Britain towards the relief of her own poor, inasmuch as charitable indivi duals in one of her most distant colonies New South Wales) have shown such sympathy in the distress and misery here, that they hare there raised by voluntary mhecription a sum of 2,4001., and re mined It to a gentleman now a member of the committee of this w inery. applicable to those parishes of seottsnd and Ireland which may be willing to raise funds for the purpose of relieving their poor by emigration. —Lord Ashley moved the first resolution, and said he very much rejoi ed that the subject had at last been taken op as a great and substantive question by the working classes themselves, and he hoped they would shortly propound some great scheme by which, from their own resources, they might institute a great system of continual and regular emigration. In fact, he cor.sidered it to be the only means whereby the great mass of the working emus in this country would be able permanently to alleviate their present and to 1 attain the elevation of their future condition. The evils prary resulting from the want of employment at home were shown by the fact that, out of 62,000 persons apprehended last year by the police, 28,000 had no calling, avocation, or employment whatever. He could not believe that this state of things arose from the free choice of the individuals them selves. He concluded by urging them, in strong terms, to lend their aid towards the object, as &duty which they owed to themselves, to their children, and to God. He moved : That it is eligible and expedient that the cost of procuring the ad vantages in which the United Kingdom, the colonies, and the emi 'ranee themselves, alike participate, should be defrayed in due pro wet on from the three sourme. r. Mills seconded the resolution, which was carried unani- Esously.—Resolutions were also adopted to the effect that corresponding societies should be established in accordance with the objects of the society, and that subscriptions should be raised from the public towards its objects.—Lord Mont eagle, the Hon. F. Eccitt, Mr. A. Campbell (a working man, who er..lze of the favour in which emiention was held by * nit class), Lord Farnham, Mr. Slaney, M.P., and other gen tlemen, delivered addresses in support of the resolutions, and a complimentary vote to the chairman brought the proceed ings to a close. THE CLERKS' AND GENERAL BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETT AND S•TINGS FUSD.—The members of this society held a public meeting yesterday evening, at their offices Crosby Hall, Bishopsitamstreet. Blr. Edward Devonshire, the secretary of the East and West India Dock Company. took the chair, and stated to the meeting the objects of the enciety, observing, that the main principle on which it wan founded was that of enabling tenants to purchase the house in which they resided, in c a ses where the annual rent which they were:required to pay as tenants exceeded the ordinary interest on the sum for which such houses could be pur chased. He was followed by Mr. J. A. Joseph, secretary of the Australian Mining Company, who most ably and fully explained to the meeting the advantages to be derived from the society, into whose plan and working the most searching investigation was solicited. He congratulated the society on their having obtained the services of Mr. F. F. Toole as secretary, whose tables and rules, with the whole plan of operations, were of a much improved and most complete character; and also on the fact of their solicitors giving their services without receiving fees, so desirous were they of ad venting the interests of such a society. Several members were enrolled and subecriptions received, and thanks having been voted to the chairman the meeting upended. PERUVIAN BONDROLDER9.—Yesteetioy a meeting of the Peruvian bondholders took place at the London Tavern for the purpose of taking into consideration resolutions drawn up by their committee with respect to a communication which they had had from the Peruvian government, placing before them a certain proposal for the satiterciion of their claims. Mr. G. R. Robinson, M.P., took the chair at 2 o'clock. —The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, gave a history of the efforts which had been made to obtain from the Peru vian government a settlement of their claims up to the time when Meson. Maclean, Roe, and Co., of Lima, undertook to become agents for the bendhslden. They persevered in the most zealous and praiseworthy man ner to pre.s their claims on the Peruvian government, and he believed that they were indebted to their exertions for the proposal now made by that government. By a decree of the Peruvian government, in Jan., 1812, six years ago, the bondholders were to have the benefit of half the proceeds of the guano; but, notwithstanding that decree, not a single shilling of those proceeds was appropriated to the use of the bondholders. He would now state what the main objects of the proposal of the government were. It wa., in the first place, proposed that the bonds in the two loans of 1822 and 1825 were to be given up, and that new bonds were to he issued in lieu thereof, either in London or en Peru ; these new bends to be issued for the principal debt—namely,lool. capital, which was to beer the interest of 3 per cent. from the Ist of De cember, 1819, so that the first dividend, according to this proposal, would be le per cent., to be paid in the month of June, 18.50, and that rate of interest should be paid up until the 30th of November, 1851, from which time the interest was to increase I per cent. per annum until it should reach 6 for cent., the rate of interest that was originally contracted for, and there it was to remain. Then as to the arrears of the coupons, the bondholders were to receive an addif onal bond for 1001., the arrears being 1351. on which no interest had been paid, and both bands should bear 1 per cent. interest from the lot of Decem ber, 18.54, to increase one-fourth per cent. per annum to the year 1862, when, if any of them lived so long, and the Pe ruvian government were unable to pay it, they should be entitled to receive 3 per cent. interest on them, and that in terest should remain stationary. The next part of the proposal was, that the bond for the principal debt was to be made available in reclaiming the waste land in Peru, that they wculd approprate a sum of money not mentioned to redeem that debt, and that one-third of the proceeds of the guano was to be applied to the payments of the interest on the new bombe And, lastly, they were told as a sort of threat, that if they did not accept the present offer, it should be considered null and of no effect ; that meant, as he took it, that if the) did not choose to accept the proposal they could not get anything. The Chairman then reed a letter from the Peruvian Minister of Finance on the subject, and concluded by observing that the object of the present meeting was that they should, after due consideration, determine whether it was their intern to adhere to their original claims, and retain the originm bonds, or whether, on the promise of the Peruvian govern ment—which he believed to be of no value whatever—they would give up these bonds for new ones, and accept this pro posal, with the chance of getting somet hing? (Cries of " No, ne.")—A Bondholder then suggested that they had better adont the proposal of the government, and try what thee could get thereby; but, etc!. a brief discussion, he withdrew that recommendatien.—The resolutions drawn up by the committee for the rejection of the proposal of the govern ment, for this reason amongst sere eel others, that the whole course pursued by the Peruvian government in the matter indicated such a want of good faith, and such a total disregard of the first principles of national honour, that it was impossilie it could be persevered in by any nation pro. fessing to conduct its government consistently wish the ac knowledged obligations of justice and integrity, were then put to the meeting, who unanimously cement them.—The Chairman then said that from a conversation which he held with Lord Palmerston on the previous evening, he felt sure that that noble lord would do anything that was possible to serve the bondholders.—The thanks of the bondholders having been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated. THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—The half-yearly general court of the Royal Humane Society was held yes terday afternoon, at the office, No. 3, Trafalgar-square ; B. Bond Cabbrll, Esq., in the chair. The minutes of the preview court having been read and confirmed, Mr. Cearlier, the secretary, read the report, from which it ap peared that, since December last, the number of persons who had been successfully treated alter immersion in the water was 61, beyond recovery 3, attempted suicides 18. In Hyde-perk, since December last, 19 cases had come under the attention of the society, out of which 17 persons were successfully treat, d, and 2 beyond recovery. There had also been 11 attempted suicides during the Fame period. The society's honorary rewards were voted to Lieut. W. R. Smith, ft N , for saving the life of Mr. West, the second muter of her Majesty's ship Endymion ; to Mr. F. Hutch inson, surgeon, t t Farringdon-street, fur restoring, by skilled and unremitting exertion, George Thornton, also for his valuable and prompt s. sistance rendered on frequent occa sions, and to Mr. H. A. F. Lusignan for saving the life o, Edward Blundell. The Archbishop of Canterbury haring been elected one of the vice-presidents, in the room of the late archbishop, a vote of thanks was passed to the chair man, when the praccedings 'erminated. INQUEST, YESTERDAY. SUICIDE AT BLACK FRIAILS.REIDOE.—Before Mr. W. Payne, the rity coroner, at the Gluier Arms, Water lane, Eackfrien, on the body Of Mary-Ann Colwell, aged 31, who threw herself from Blackfarabrieste on Searday night last.—lnspector Bridge, of the Thames ' proved having fouled the deceased on Sunday morning last, at 4 o'clock, lying en the abutment between the second rind third arch of the bridge. —',V. Net rep the pierman of Blacktriars-pier, said that on Sate. day night an alarm was raised that a woman bad jumped over the bridge, and he rowed to the spot pointed out to him, but was unable to find any one. He heard a child cry out" Mother!" several times, but ..s the voice grew fainter he concluded that the child was drowned. On Sun day morning his attention was called to the de ceased lying on one of the pier-heads.—C. Greene, of 3, Meeting-house.court, said that on Saturday night he saw the deceased, who was in the company cf a man and a child run into • recess anal throw herself over the bridge. Wit ness laid hold of her elething, but was unable to keep her from jumping over. The man who was with her did not run after her or pay any attention to her.—Police-c meth!. White, No. 360. said he heard the deceased quarrelling with a man on Saturday night last in New Bridge-street, and he ordered them away.—Mrs. Elizabeth Biddlecombe, of Brent lord, said the deceased was her sister. She had taken some money from her husband, and he had is consequence ill treated her. The bruises on her face and over her arms were caused by his ill usage. She had been stopping with witness fur a fortnight, and on her returning home he womb' n Allier her to go to bed, or even to take a drink of water. Oa Saturday evening laid she left witness's house, and fob lowed her husband, who called there to take his child home. Ho thee sold that she should never again enter his house.-- N. Colwell, husband of the deceased, s lid his wife hal ruse him into debt and pawned almost everything he possessed. He believed that she destroyed her life because she was afraid of meeting her neighbours again. —Verdict, Tem - insanity. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Almal namea During Monday several important persons arrived at York, including the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke o. Richmond, the Doke of Buckingham, Lord Shelburne, Lord Yarborough, and Lord Chichester. In the afternoon of Monday a meeting of the coattail of tt e aoiety was held at the De Grey Rooms, the Earl nt Yarborough in the chair, when sonic prelimiaery businels was transacted. The cattle and implement show-yards are situated on the Boothatn Stray, about a mile north of York, at the late:sec tion of the Helmsley turnpike-road with the Scarborough Railway. As soon so this site was fixed upon the local com mittee proceeded to take steps to have upwards of 20 acres thoroughly drained, rolled, and leveled, and the total area inclosed by the contractor was upwards of 15 acres. It was incased by strong wooden paling. or rather phial& g, from ten to twelve feet high, and was divided into two compart menta, one of which was appropriated to implements, and the other to stock. The approaches to the show yard Iron. the nil are by the York and Helmsley turnpike road, at tte side of which there is a convenient foot road, and by the Bcarboro' Railway, along which trains are kept continually running. The yard is divided, in the first Inatome %yr a temporary fence int, two pirtitiont, the nor h portion being devoted to implements—the other, or southern portion, to the live stock, which will be opened to the public on Wed. 'lmlay (this slay) and Thersday, when the partition fence will be removed and the whole area thrown into one attrao five spectacle. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the implement yard was thrown open for the inspection of such of tne public as were disposed to invest 2s. 6d. in the sight. The various plements occupied 160 stands, said comprised nearly 2,000 separate entries. The horticultural fete commenced yesterday, and was a very attractive affair, on an immense scale—the tents occu pying an area of 10,000 square The trial of implements by the judges was privet.. The following was the programme of the order of the businesi : Srenissima • Dereannure—Mr. Sluha y.—Trial field.; including phsughs, skim and other ploughs, I arrows, markers, dr.:is, dtbhia% manure depositors, clod crusher% miters, eultvators, hm se ham hsymakingmi.clunes, horse rakes, puverisers, and other field ample. manta. Col. Challoner Steam-, gine% steaming apparatus, tin machine, thrasher machines, awl drainingtools, Mr. M. show, jun.: Barn machine., chat( cutters, churns, crushers and min., corn dram ing machines, turnip cutters, weighing machines, carts, waggons, and all other miscellaneous article% such as fete" fire-engine.„ pump% wheels, go., dc., and all other unclassified articles. Jurnis' DLPARTWRWT.—Mepen.Outhwalte and Iteowltine Plough% skim ploughs, scarifier% harrow% clid crushers, hose hoes, pal, verisers, dc.. haymaking machines, horse rakes. Messrs. Puget soul Wallis : dibble% manure depositors, tile machines and tooL% grinding mills. Mears lave and Laster Thrashing machine% dress. tag machine% barn works, including chaff cutter% corn dressing ma. chines, turnip :utters, gorse bruisers, carts and waggons. Mews. h and Be, Won. MiscelLuseous articles; i.e., all those not . shore. Messrs. Clyburn and Parsons: Steam engine% .4=M. Ibe order of trial was as follows:—Henn. Onthwaitc and Meow stator, on Friday, 'elected ploughs of sorts, scarifier% harrow', clod crushers, horse hocs, pulverises, bay-making muchines. and hone rakes ; Saturday, they tried ploughs, harrows, clod crushers, Bed and cu Monday, they completed their trial of the above, turd delvered their award. Meson. Paget and Wallis, on Friday, selected iii. machines, grinding mills, try grinding mills; on "Wain:lay they tried tie machines, select drills, dibbles, manure depositors; and on Monday, comiaued the trial, and &livered their award. Maws. Love and Lister, on Friday, ,visaed thrusts. ing machete% dressing machino% barn works; on Satur. day they tried thrashing machine% attached to MAIM power; and on Monday tisey tried thrashing 1111:101OCCA, attached to horse power, and isomplrted their trials of barn works. Messrs. Attest* and Bayldon, on Friday. .elected sock misoellaneous articles as they wish, d to try awl examine get orally; on Saturday they tried mireli laneous articles, and continued gene,' examination until Monday afternoon, when they determined upon the distribution of mtslai among the miscellaneous articles, and &livered their sword. Slessrs. Clyburn and Pumas, on Friday, se:rated unl eximaiied cram enaines, and tested them with force rest:der ; on Saturday they tried ateaur.engines, Be., with thrashing machines attacked; and on Mon day they outatinurn the trial of steaniwingira s until midnight, but were unable to give their award till the iollawing day}' AWARD or eaters roe 1111P1.100,1,—BrOI,1•101.11[11fOr hoary toad, 101., to Mr. Busby, Newton-le.Willovia, near Botiale. Best plough for light land, ltd., to Messrs. lloward and Sun, lksifor& Best dell! for general purpose% 111., to Mr. Moresby, apittlegate, Grantham. Beat turnip drill ou the flat. Rd., to Mr. (Jarrett, loaaton Works, near saldroundham. Bed turnip drill oa the ridge, 10f., Mr. itorroday, Spittlegate, near Grantham. Beat har! drilling machine, Sl., with held. Best scarifier or grubber, VW, to Meyers. Sharman mid Co.. Wellingborough. Beet machine for walnut draining tiles or pipe% 20/., to Mr. Whitehead, Bedford. Best harrow, 51., to Niessra. Howard and Son, lkstford. Beat ateaming apparatua, to :Reaves. Sharmaa and Ca, Wellingborough. brat slim or paring plough, M., to Mr. Kilby, Umitinhorough, neer Rearsby, leicesterddre. Best horse and dibbler. 101., to Mr. New. berry, 'look Norton, near ("hipping Norton. Best our horse cart, SI, to Mr. Eaton, Woodford, near Terapstoce, Northamptonshire. Best waggon, 101., to Mr. Stratton, Bristol. Best steam engin% 501. to Mr. H ninsby, spittl gate, Grantham. Best curse bruise,, 5/, to Messrs. Barlett, Exalt, and Co., Reading, Berkshire. Bea implement for distributing pulverised mama.% lot, to Mr. Moresby, spittlegates Grantham. Best grate or stove for cottage% 51., to Mr. W. N. Nicholson, Newark. snow.n Mr-DAM—Norwegian harrow, to Mr. Croskir, Beverley. Haymaking machine, to Mr. Smith, Stamford. Howe rake, to Mr. Ilensman, Woburn. Rom hoe on the flat, to Mr. Garrett, Simmund ham. Horse hoc on the ridge, to Mr. Bushy, Nosnon-le-W Mows. Grass land cultivator, to Mr. Busby, Yea trin-ie-Witiows. linseed and corn crusher, to Sharman and Co., Wellingimmogh- Liquiid manure drill, to Mr. Thomas Chandler, Stockton, near Melte.- bury. Chaff cutter, to Mr. Cornea, Itarbrulgo, to' ,> Cake breaker, to Mr. W. N. Nichol.an, Newark. Root wit-lin, to Mr. Crodelh Corley.Be Cesspool and tank cleanser, to Messrs. Dean, Dray, and don. Cheese pews, to Mr. Brucksham Long Stow, ahropshire. Shock remover, to Mr. Suuintee, Wold Newton, Bridlington. Level, to Mr. Blundell, Islington, London. For his improvements in the traosparent water gauge as attached to the steam engine, to Mr. llowe, Southwark, Lonuou. Steaming appa rates, to Mr. It. Robinson, Rano- Mr. if 01116 by may be considered a most successful tromps titer. His steam-engine, to which a 50/. prize was given, is thus described in the catalogue: " A viz-horse power porta ble steam-engine ; invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibitor. It is simple in ea construction, fitted with governor., said easy to manage, with tubular boiler, fire-box, and smoke-box complete." The drill for general purposes, which gained the prize of 161., is an improvement upon that which has already been successful on former similar occasions at Bristol, Derby, and Newcastle. Mr. Bub?, plough for heavy land "is capable of working twelve inches deep when required, and with a lighter mauld•board will not be found too heavy to be aged a. a two-herse p eugh." Mende. Howard's - . plough for light land is an improvement on their potent iron plough with two wheels, which has been suet uful at all the meetir.gs of the society. The alteration introduced is a new method of fixing the wheels, by which the width of furrow may be alterA more readily than upon the old plan ; it is also superior for deep ploughing, and upon dirty land, where the soil accumulates en the old alidinir axle.—Mr. Garr, tt's "turnip drill on the fl it i. de scribed as a four-row lever drill, for the purpose of depositing turnips or mangel wurzcl seeds with artificial or well rotted farmyard manure, for either flat or ridge ploughed lands. It is made with improved levers and coulters, whereby the manure may he deeply burkd in the land loelew the seed, and any quantity of soil placed between them. The seed welters may be adjusted to drill the seeds either deeper or fleeter, as circumstances may require. This drill is also adapted for drilling beans. peas, and carroty, with manure, at auy intervals apart."—The steaming apparatus of Moors. Sharman and Co., the catalogue says: Is adapted for quickly generating steam to be applied to the purples of cooking linseed, chaff, potatoes, and other food for cattle. It is made of copper and galvanised iron, and can he used without the aid of brickwork. A jet of steam is so introduced into the compeund tub as to keep the food in agitation, and obviate the necessity of stirring it up in the ordinary way.— The machine for asking ti ling, drains, and pipes to which the prize was awarded, is very strong, and the hex will contain 3,744 cubic inches of clay. It is thus described as one which may he euily turned the whole day by one man, who also may tilt the hex, while a boy cuts the tiles off and carries them away. The front of the box is 'erg, enough to receive a die-plate, with seven li-inch or five 2-inch tiles in width, and, if placed one upon another, twelve 11-inch or nine 2-inch tiles. Any descrip tion of tiles may be made by this machine. A wrought-inn screen-plate may be attached when tiles are not being made, for the purpose of extricating stones from the el.y. SPAIN. The usual mails from Spain have not come to hand, but we find the fallowing details as to the movements of General Cabrera from his en' ry into Spain up to the 2nd inst. : Atter croe ing the frontier with two aidehde-camp and the chiet of his staff, General Arnao, Cabrera met the column of Baeguies, who was waling for him. Cabrera pat himself at the head of his troops and marched on Gom breri, where he formed a junction with Generals Forcadell and Critelli, having under their orders some companies principally composed of officers armed with muskets. On the 25th Cabrera passed the night at Perafita, and the fel leering evening formed a junction with the forces of the Chief Altaseira, and marched on Castell-tersol, six leagues from Barcelona. On the 27th he received in the environs of D'Aigua-freda a reinforcement of four companies of infantry and a detachment of cavalry commanded by Cabecilla Pozen All the united forces encamped that night at Sarsalus. On the 28th Cabrera having heard that a division of 1,500 men, under General Nianzanos, had advanced with an intention of surroumting him, immediately prepared for an engage ment. Generals Castells and Forcadell took up positions on the heights of tne Sierra do Caluca. Cabrera commanded the rear guard with • part of the company of Puzai and all the cavalry he could spare. Shortly after the firing commenced. The enemy, being superior in numbers, endeavoured to surround them, and could is shape have succeeded had not Cabrera, taking a sudden resolution, and putting himself at the head of his cavalry, broke by a desperate charge the centre of the enemy's column : this charge had the effect he anticipated. The column broke in the centre, retreated on its wings, leaving some prisoners in his hands and several dead on the field. Alter this success Cabrera marched towards St. Saturnin, and passed the night at some distance from L trrupa, the garrison of which made no attempt at a sortie. The 30th was passed in skirmishes between the troops of Cabrera and three columns of the enemy of abt art 2,000 men. Cabrera having received towards the end of the day a reinforce. ment of 300 men, led by the Cabecilla Salanis, determined to attsek the enemy at Vidra, but the latter retired. On the Ist JOT, at break of day, Cabrera marched rapidly to repass the Ter at Ripon, and took up a pssition at Gombreri. On the 2nd, everything showed that a decisive combat would take place at Ibis point. (This did take place, and, as we have stated, Cabrera obtained a signal advantage over the Qum 's trcops.) RUSSIA.—The CllOLEßA.—According to the Air la Chapelle Gazette at the 9th, not lon than 3,500 coats of choler► had occurred in St. Peter•hurg up to the latest intelligence from that city. It appears, however, that the malady is not of a very virulent kind. Two or three casea have occurred on board a steamer which arrived at 8 winemund, Ebt (Eclat. - Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, went yesterday morning to the review of Prince Albert's Own liuswirs, at Wimbledon common. Prince George and Prince Edward or Sams Weimar were also present. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yester day, at Buckingham Palace. Lord Duncan had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. The Solicitor General had also an inter. view yesterday with the noble lord at his official residence, in Cowning.street. Sir T. Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, hai an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday, at his official residence, in Downino.str. et. Mr. Lloyd, solicitor to the Birmingham, Lancaster, and Chester Junction Railway Cempiny, and Mr. Towns end, solicitor to Messrs. Brown and others, had an interview with the commissiontm of rmlwa)s yesterday, at their office, in the B.Ard of Trade. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, tram the avvernor of the Mauritius. The Bishop of Gloucester had an interview yester day with Lord John Russell. 'Viscount Morpeth left town yesterday morning, to attend the agricultural meeti•c le York. [Front last nigt.t's Gazette.] WVITTEIIALL, JULY B.—The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John William Dupre, Esq., the office and place of Procurator Genera in the island of Jersey, in the room of Sir Thomas Le Breton, appointed Bailiff of the said Wan.: ; also, to John Hammond, Esq., the office and place of Advocate General of the island of Jersey, in tho room of John William Dupre, Esq., appointed Procurator General of that bland. ST. KATHARLNE DOCKS.—MEETING. The half-yearly general meeting of th . pro prietors was held yesterday, at the llack-house, Tower-hill, tor the purpose of declaring a dividend for the half-year ended the 30th of June last, and for the election of 21 directors for the year ensuing. T. TOOKE, Esq., war in the chair, who addressed the pro prietors, and adverted to the purposes of the meeting, as described in the notice convening the same. According to the provisioni of the dock act, the accounts of receipt and expenditure were laid before the proprietors only at the an nul meetings held in the month of January in each year, and inasmuch as the amount of dividend for the preceding half-year at that time agreed upon was understood to govern the dividend to be declared at the half yearly meeting in July following, the directors had merely t 3 propose that a dividend be declared the same in amount as in January last, namely, of two per cent for the half-year ended the 30th of June on the capital stack of the company, and upon the instalments paid on the additional stock subscribed for; and further it was proposed that the amount of income-tea payable oa such dt vidends be defrayed by the company, the dividend to be payable on Saturday, the 22nd instant, and following day, Sun 'ays and holidiCys excepted, which proposal wai agreed to alter same d scussion relative to the payment of the income tax by the company, it being under stood that the expediency of discontinuing the same would be fully considered at the ensuing annual meeting of the proprietors in January nest. The usual abstracts of returns of shipping and tonnage that entered the port of London with cargoes from foreign pouts., and also of the ships with cargoes that entered the docks from like places, and of the goods landed during the preceding six months; also of IRELAND. MALIN, 411.1. Y 10. A gentleman of considerable reputation, the Rev. Mr. Archer Butler, Professor of Moral Philosophy in our university, has died of typhus fever. Ile was a man of great literary attainments, and distinguished as a writer, lecturer, and pulpit orator. He was only in his 34th year. The slight excitement consequent on the arrests has subsided. In the vicinity of Nesegate todayp there were a few loiterers ; and several of Mr. Duffv's friends presented themselves for' admittance, which was granted on to one o'clock in the afterr.oon. The time would have been extended, on a special order of the inspector of prison, to three o'clock, " on business only." Mr. Duffy has notified that the period for visits should not extend beyond the latter hour, inasmuch as he had scricokbusiness" to occupy his evenings. The seizure of all copies of the Irish Felon, by order of the police commissioners, has led to some slight disputes with the police. An ardi nt confede rate to-day purchased a copy of the " second edition" vf the Felon, which was seized by the authorities eo instanti. The question was referred to the police magistrate. The discussion will be found below. It is stated that a warrant has been sent down to Cork for the arrest of Mr. Meagher, who attends the sortie to Smith O'Brien this evening. Other arrests were spoken of to-day, but nothing has taker, place up to post hour. According to one of the organs of the repealer., warrants are out for the arrest of Mr. Darer Illogic, Mr. Joseph Bruno, Mr. James F. Lelor. Dr. Antiscl, and others with whose names the public ere not so familiar. The statement gains credence from the fact of the papers and manuscripts of the three yroscribed journals which were seize I by the police on Saturday being now in possession of the government, whence they could, with identification, be produced as evi dence against the several writers when put upon trial. The commission of oyer and termir.er stands I adjourned till the Bth of August, so that the prisoners already in custody will have ample time to prepare their defence. The Chief Baron aud Baron Richards are to be the presiding judges at the next commission. Rumours of an immediate special commission are in circulation, but it is not probable the government will travel out of the ordinary course, in consequence of the near approach of the ordinary commission. The " Irish League" holds its first meeting at 7 o'clock to-morrow evening, at the Mosic-hall, in con sequence of which the general gathering of the clubs, fixed for this night, has been postponed until further notice. At a recent gathering of one of the Cork clubs the health of "Madame Blanc," whoever that lady be, was toasted with acclamation, bemuse she had cut off the heads of five of the Mobile Guard ! THE MANIFEiTATIONS ON TIIE APPROACHING TWELFTH JCLT.—The arrangement• for the assemblage of orimzedoel on the 12th, are spoken of by the northern journds with great exultation. The Derry Sentinel, the Down Recorder, the Avnacigh Guaraian, the .Norelsera Standard are amongst the most exulting and confilent. The Tyrone crangemen wil assemble at Omagh, where those of Derry will " frater nise" with them. At Dungannon those of the upper rortion of Down and part of Antrim will usemble. At Armagh, Monaghan, and Newry there will be meetings also; and in fact "the whole protestant north," stye the Derry Sentisel, will be on foot. In the city of Deny there will be no open auernblage, but the brethren will sup together in their lodges. PROGRESS or ISPROTEICENT.—The WOI • he Lough Cerrib drainage, between Lough Cp b Ow GJ way, will commene , forthwith. . to • f . Galway last week, and adjudicated thg _ ' Isrkeo l dgegg r,..4 sites affected by the drainage . At riliesset, stn I ford and Wexford, on the coast, alrgyind• • about being erected, to which the Ros 4 bf. _ . , mot_.. :::.: • • '.! t 7 \ • ..u.- ri .. 1 „ la: 1 1 1 ...i.........t,.........._ . s' L... : : - r f . .' .•VI . r 4' 1