The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

I' among the natives, and teaching them new lessons of rapine and deceit. Comuarce, as conducted by Mr. JACKSON, humanised the natives with whom he dealt; Captain Dxstataa's negotiations with his allies in burning the barracoons, has only made those worthies greater adepts in murder aid treachery. We are increasing African demoralisation by our suppressive system. The scheme for suppressing slavery by armed force, and the scheme which we have been recommending, are incompatible— they cannot be combined. The first step to the adoption of a more comprehensive and efficient anti-slavery pokey most be the with drawal of our African squadron. To this conclusion we are moved, not so much by the considerations of the cost in money and in human lives—though these, too, must be taken into account—as by its proved in efficiency and mischievousness. It has not made slaves iii Cuba and Brazil a dollar dearer on the ave rage of years; and it has taught African chi, fs shock ing lessons in the arts of extortion and murder. _ The Pedria, of Florence, has the following from Rome, dated the 121 :—" The Holy Father hits in vited several theologians, among whom were Father Ventura and Father Perrone (a Jesuit), to give their opinion as to whether it would be harmony with the rights of the Iloly See, to grant a eonsti!ution to his Roman subjects. The theologians declared unani mously that, i; such were his pleasure, it was feasible, without prejudicing the inalienab!e rights of the pon tificate. The civic magistracy of Florence, in its sitting of the 12th, resolved unanimously topresent a respectful address to the grand duke, praying, in accordance with the last malt pruprio, which promises a national representation, that it may be founded on the princi ples of the Sardinian and Neapolitan constitution, and particularly that Cite legislative power may be collec tively with the prince and two chambers. It is said that the Marquis of Brignole-Sale, Sar dinian ambassador at Paris, will be appointed Presi dent of the new Chamber of Peers,. and will be sue ceedel in the Paris mission by M. do San :Slarzano, the present Minister of Foreign Affairs. The principal arrangements or the Italian customs' league are, according to the Corriere Mercantile, a Genoa yourn: - .1, as follow : 1. The absi,lice unim of the territories as records custom house duties.-2. Uniiormity of eustim-house laws serving u alhate of the ;: coin« rein! eel .tions M the whole 1 ague with foreign eountr:es.-3. Uniturmity cf currency.-4. Unifor mity of weigiva tind measures.-5. Uniformity in the navi gation laws.—b. Unifirinity of laws relative to mr in priyi kges of the public revenue.-7. Uniformity in the laws regulating industrial and literary property, &c., &c. —B. Uniformity of public weights ive,ssary to regulate, according to eircurnat,Eted, the position of producers. Letters hum Naples of the 11th, given in the San hinn Mere try, relate teat an indescribable enthusiasm broke out in that city in consequence of the proclama tion of the constitution. The populace surrounded the palace, crying "Viva it Ito." Michael Viscuso, a sort of Neapolitan Ciceroaccido4belongiug to the class of lar.caroni, bud gained an ascendancy over his fellows, and brcught them to order. A deputation of them, consisting of delegates from each quarter of Naples, headed by Viscuso, waited on the king at the: palace, who received Ultra graciously. Her majesty afterwards drovo through the city in an open curriui;e, and was everywhere received with enthusiasm. ROME. Flu. It. I broke off my last letter at post hoar, in the very midst of a popular demonstration, which continued to a late peried of the ni4ht, and exhibited symptoms of unmistakeable deterciination to get the power of the state into respnsible Lands, and to exercise vigilant control over ministers. The rumour of Austrian occnpction of Tnseany, as well as of Parma and .Nlolena, has stirred up a spirit here of desperate rage and defiance. The Pope is not free from the ecucral feeling, and talked yester day, in the event of their violating his frontier, of " mounting on horseback, proclahniug a religious war, and Munching an excommunication." This comes fi om parties not likely to misletul or exaggerate. Lord Shrewsbury has despatched to Home the Rev. Peter Connolly, an American priest (formerly of the church of England, whose wife has retired to a nunnery here), to meet with documentary evidence the various statements and quibbles by which the fact of indifference if not connivance at agrarian out rage and landlordicide on the part of certain " vener able" archdeacons, &e. &c., is sought to be palliated. Some remarkable passages about ie " aristocracy of the land," and the duties of subjects to the represen tative of royalty in Ireland, culled from O'Higgins, with tit-bits from the pond"... us verbosity of Mac Hale, will not a little r.stonhli due Vatican. Mr. Connolly is highly respected at I:).ne. The remark able attendance of clerical mourners at the funeral of Brian Seery (who was hanged for a murderous assault on Sir Francis Ilopkins) is a feature in the business not forgotten. The French journal Le Taphole, which was ushered in with a flourish of trumpets to demolish English influence in Italy and It nne, has o:ed still-born. So, I am sorry to add, has the Tuscan Athenceam, which arose this year in Florence, stimulated by the grow ing success of the Roman Advertiser. However, there is an attempt to revive it under the title of Florence Record, to be managed by one " Captain Joussif," a person not likely to command much popu larity. He is a sort of Florentine Joseph Ady, per petually inserting advertisements holding forth lucra tive and " genteel" employment to persons of unoccu pied capital, a portion of which is of course to be safely deposited with him in the first instance. Galignani has felt it a duty to notice his doings, and several of his epistles have come to my cognisance ' which warrant the strictures of the Parisian oreele ; but, like the quaker " accountant," the "captain" is as pachidcrmous to such shafts as any rhinoceros. Gibson has just shit fed for your ltoyal Academy Exhibition an " Aurora" of matchless grace and love liness. It is accompanied by a "Lavinia" (Thomson's "Seasons"), by young Spence, a most promising sculptor. Both statues are commissions from the prince-merchants of Liverpool. licr Majesty has Just given orders that re second marble edition of her statue of last year shall be carved by Gibson, the des tination of which is not known. CONSTANTINOPL, FEB 7. On the Ist instant the T'ope's Nuncio had an and:mice of the Suhan. Monaignore Ferrieri was received with all the honours aurally paid to for mss amltessadors on such OCCEIoiOtAS. The Nuncio presented . n address to the Sultan, expressive of the feelings of friendship and sympathy entertained by his holiness the Pope for tie spiritual head of the Mussulnion world. His Majesty's reply was in the same spirit. On the days immediately preceding the au thence granted by his Majesty to the representative of the holy see deputations waited on Monsignare Ferrieri, com posed of the chiefs of the Schismatic, Armenian, and Greek churches, and of the Israelites resident in Turkey. Tke ob r_ce of these deputations was, besides complimenting the Nuncio on his arrival at Cnnatanainople, to beg of his emi nence to express to the Sultan the satisfaction with which his Christian subjects of every denomination saw the proof of liberality and toleration which his Majesty gave in con senting to establish diplomatic relations with the holy see. The Sultan's reply to the address of M. Ferrieri cannot fail to produce a great deal of admiration in Europe. If it be remarkable that Pope Pius IX. should have broken through the prejiel:ces which seemed hereditary in his high office, and anticipatii.g the march of events made himself the apostle of civil and religions liberty in Indy, how much more strange is it that the Sultan of Turkey should show himself animated by the same sentiments an those which have made the present erudite and erdightNied successor of St. Peter the most remarkable man cf his time. The news brought here by every post of the progress of those principles which are a rresent convulsing Italy hove had no other effect upon cite Sultan than to encourage him in his deter mination of following in the footsteps of the Pope. " said the Sultan, in his reply to the Nuncio, " shared the general joy with which was hailed the accession of Pope Pius to the pontifical throne. It was fir t! a purpose of ea. reming these sentiments that I sent Shi:kib Effendi to Rome. lam happy that friendly relations have been esta blished between the states of the Catholic church and the Ottoman empire during my reign. I fully sympathise with the Pope in what he has done for his people. I consider that there is a strong slinilarity between our respective posi tiOnt. The principles which he advocates and which are now producing such remarkable effects in Europe are those which I have'also adopted, and by which I intend to regu late my conduct. Like him, I wish that civil and religious liberty should be established in my donairs , nns ; I wish all denominations fmy subjects to have equal rights and pri vileges; I wish them to love their common country, and to look upon me as one who would govern them through their affections, and not by the exercise of arbitrary authority." On the 2nd inst. Lord Cowley and M. de Titoff, the Rus sian minister, had a conference with Ali Effendi relative to the boundary queetioo, so long in disenssinn between the Porte and Pea:,,. It is said that this tortuwis sitar is lie ,- very nearly brought to a close. On thn :;rd inst. Lord Cowley sent Mr. Purdue as special courier , with despatches for the F.:inapt: oaks. PORTUGAL. We have news from Lisbon to the 16th. The most important items will be found in the following letter of a correspondent ; LISBON, FEB. 15, 10 a.m. The packet from the north, due on Sunday, has not yet arrived, and very general apprehension exists as to her safety. A steamer, supposed to be the Madrid, was tele graphed as having pawed Oporto on the ni ;ht of Friday ; she showed the usual signal!, hut, from the state of the weather, could not be communicated with. The avenge time for a steamer's run between Oporto and Lisbon may he stated at 20 hours; 24 is considered extreme tim- ; and should the vessel telegraphed have been the Madrid, it is feared she may have been run into or founder d during the late gales. Had she gone ashore anywhere alonu the tout, we must have heard of it long before this. The admiral despatched the Scourge yesterday morning in search of her ; the Scourge has not, up to this hour, r; turned. The Stromholi, that has been advertised to leave or Enghted ever since the 11th, but has bean detained waiting the arrival of the mail, will, I belizse, be sent off in the morning. Sh.: token 1. tters, so I take advantage of the opportunity. Of political news there is scarcely an item that calls fer remark ; the business of the session in either house may fairly be described as at a st tned atill. One subject alone ergiosecs the public mind, and has been, and is occupying the attereion of the lezislative chamber. It is the Times' sffsir, to which, in brief words, I made hurried allusion in my last. More than one week has now been r ittered away in the Chamber of Peers in diminish!n upon the subject, in &trete and counter-charges, and in mutual recrimination; in fact, the subject has assumed an interest to the exclusion almost of every other topic, nor can a newspaper be taken up but the eye retch, s the word "Times" in every column, nod in all manner and all kinds of type. in fact, a perf.ct Times testimonial. I would gladly have dispensed with the neces sity of returning to the subject, hut the publication in the Portuguese journals of official coreesoundence, in which all disguise in cast aside, and tae;' yr:claim! el, and names of persons inserted in full, retnoves all reuse far reserve ; in deed, the assumption of Belie try would ha affeciation. Tire " transaction," discreditable in all its ramifications, now forms a page, and a pretty proiuinimt ore, too, is the history of the tdministration of Costa Cabral and his corrupt and mean stock-jobbing associates. In my last letter I alluded to twoportarina of the Queen's government being produced in, and read en. the House of Peers by the Count Lavradio, the*: portarins being the authorisation of the financial (Portuguese} asteut in Landon, to employ a certain amount of the public moneys in the purchase of l'ortuguese bonds, to be held in trust fir the benefit of a heparty, whose llama Count Layradio, with delicacy and for arance, abstained from mentioning to the hoes Count Jujal, the minister who had authorised the transaction, had uu such scruple, and his reply you are already in possession or. I now furnish you with a literal transl ttion of the two portareas in nuestim: . (TRANSLATION.) - . . Fir ance-office, tad Direction: Tee Queen orders, through the Mini:try of Finance, that the financial Emmy in Lon don shall buy the sum of 10,0301., in inscriptions of the external debt, with coupon:, or in their mead an equal amount in bonds of the converted fund, preferring, however, the fint of these operations in case it can be etlemed. These titul-s are to he withdrawn from the market, and aro not to be inserted in the accounts of the agency, as the operation is made on account of Terence Mahon !Nate s ; hut the ngeacy shall report eonfidentiMly to this department what. tier contracts may be entered into by vir.iie of this order. —Palace of Belem, Oct 1,181 (Si medr)—Do (TRANeLATION.) Finance-office, 2nd Direction.—The Queen entre, through the Mini-try of Finance, that the financial ugvncy in London shell buy the sum e 10,0001. in bends of tho ne-I fund on account of Terence Malien Hughes, and shall eheierve with respect to this transaction the instruction eeitinued in the portarins of the lot and 23rd Octeb , r last, relative to the purchase of an equal amount of bond-. likewiel on account of the said Terence Mahon 11 eghee.— eidece of Necec.idades, Nov. 4, 1844.—(Signe1)—Do T 0.1.11, Upon the Duke e f Pelinella's ni!nistry inierueting the Portuguese financial agent iu Londoe to communicate with Mr. Hughes, and to pees, file a settlement cf accounts, the Litwin.; two letters ate found connected ith the corre spondence. Yuu will observe that they aro here given through the medium of a re-translation. (oIte•TILINEILATION.) 1.. Mornington-place, Hampstead•road, July 9,184 G.— Confidential.—Sir,—With ref.:Twice to your , ommunication of yesterday, I giaittly regret to say the: the recent great fall iu the Portuguese funds has to ineulm d me it a trans tetioe ,pct from that which you have &tern* d en my account, as to disable me completely from at once cl. eine the purchase you have made for me. Su confident was I in the stability of the state of things in Partnere% en 1 so dm rived with re epect to the defeat of the guerillas acenriling to the news pub lieied, that I continued until very recently the transao'ion which I kept open, in consequence of .Inch I suffered u lens of 1,3031., the payment of wnieb, a:mottling se en aereenaent I have made with the brokers, is to be reels '4l quarterly by ' a moiety of my salary. This prevents me front paying up the 9001. which, at the present rate of the lends, weld be required to close the transaction w:iich you erfecte.l on my account be in structions front Count do Tojel ; Mutest: ere is, very likelihood that the funds will semi rise to - 31, at which e rice the trans ac.ion can be closed without loss, I trust - Duke of Pa rnell' will allow it to remain open until price can be obtained; because, having solemnly reeeleed r At to derive any advantage from it, I likewise wish to avoid lose. The fact of my having kept these bonds so lon is the clearest proof, as will of the sincerity of my cenvictii n that reietegel could face all her expenses, es of the ho .eat immessiun under which I wrote, and which I still res tin, that, with tran quillity and an enlightened a lininissr atiou, a.l difficulties could be overcome. . . . I had this conviction, and still havei , . notwithstanding my king a victim to it. The understancli-iz I hei with Count Tojet when you bought the bonds use -ny ace on., wan that the business was of a friendly character, and should n• ver be considered as en official transaction ; end et that very time I refused with indignation the mousy oilseed to me by Costa Cabral, as I had previously refined the commandery ie the Order of Christ, offered to me by —, on the part of Costs Cabral and—. I Lay's the hoveur to he (Signed) T. al. 11171311E5. To the Vice-President of tho Portarmese Financial Agency in Id :ratan. • (nie-raivesLATION.) llanwell, Middlesex, La% August, 1846 —Sir,—ln ac knowledging the receipt of your letter of the liith inst., in which you acquaint me with the greet hen re=ulting from the sale of the 20,0001. Portuonsiee stock, I has.' to cell your attention to my former letters, wherein I inf:rmed you of the causes which prevent me teens at once milting good any part of that loss ; and I maw beg that you will request of your government to allow me time for the payment of this debt, which you may rest assured I will satisfy as soon as I Possibly can. (Signed) M. 'Lyceums. Illmo. Sen. Joao Maria de Carvaliso e Oliveira Vice-free. of the Porteeuese Financial Ageucy in London. Comment upon this little affair I deem to be !oreieu to my province. I place before you facts and doco:neuts, and leave you to draw your own concession. Count Tojal and his broths , count (Costa Cabral), have attempted to wriggle out of tee affair in t:,o best way they could ; but facts, and clip::. itle pen act ink facts, are troublesome things to deal wi . h. e ienst 'D I VA, in his flippant and shameless defence, or re jestifl eition, of the job, boldly charges the entire licit,-dt press with senility, and as serts that the agents of the j,tola of Oporto, during the late struggle, had bought the whole of the Lontom press, with the solitary exception of the 2'imes, whsle Costa Cabral declares himself to be ealable of preying, and hints at the possession of docurueuts that will prove, that the Times' correspondent, upon a oerteie ores ion, solicited favours at his hands, °feting as the price of lb is concession that the columns of that journal should be placed at his dis posal, but it is justice to remark that no such proofs have been adduced, and that rho putlie have only M. Costa Cabral's word for the wines d fact, end those w ho are to at capable of appreciating the yelue :of It pledge attach but small weight to the word of this greedy and mean adventurer. One of the letters above, you will see, heirs date front Han ' well. The locality sugaeats a refleccion—for surely Hanwell will be deemed the fittest resident, for any man who, after this expos.', can be so sorry a . dup as to sp•culate in the funds upon the faith of Times' °limier..., or who will venture to invest even the ghost of a s sugary farthing in the bonds of Donna Maria Seganda, or in the .ttoek which the jobbers and legs who compose her ministry have the droll effrontery to speak of as Portuguese securitica. The Stromboli, that came into the Tagus on the Bth inst., brouzht orders for the reeal of the fleet, and in a few days Sir Charles Napier, with kis erdeman.l, will sail fur the Channel, unless the news from Napes should i n t er f ere w i t h this destination. The Ilgwe 110, is to remain for our pro tection, as also a couple of ilia 6112X1/CT steamers, the Comet and the Jackal. The sickness on beard the squadron, I am happy to say, has very materially abated. Yesterday, the 14th, took place the great public subscrip tion ball, at the Abrentes Palace, on behalf of the indigent military officers of the Miguelite party, and the widows and orphans of those who have died since the Evors Monte Con vention ; the assembly we.s of the most brilliant character, nearly four thous end guests bi lag nessent, included in the number being nearly the entiro ut the- f.' Intl aristocracy. Sir George Seymour and Sir t Napier were liberal subscribers, and both life—. C.• 115111 and vice consul took tickets; a good sprin'..l • r the officers of the squadron were present, but, wit:, Y. . ,zeption of the members of the Brazilian legation, tee ago diplomatic body were compelled to stay away ; tv..t tear eleventh hour, an intimation, forwarded to each uni e•y..nated that their patronage of the charity would he cu. di spleasing to an illustrious individual. Sir Charles Nee, e, Isowever, who had presented tickets to his officers. - reiused, mail with proper spirit, to forbid their attendance, nor did the dread of her Majesty's displeasure prevent the gal lant admiral from paying a visit during the day to the noble Marquis of Abrantee, Dom Jose de Leacutre, who is, by the way, the descendant and representative of old John of Gaunt, " time-honoured Lencester." The admiral, ushered by the marquis, was conducted over the whole suite of splendid apartments, and expressed himself much pleased with the arrangements. The ball opened at nine in the evening, and was kept up until alter seven in the morning, and even then the English blue jai kets seemed to tear themselves away with reluctance from the fascinations of the dark-eyed doutellaa, their partners in the dance. The funds raised by the ball must be consider able—hundreds of destitute families will be relieved. The animosity and mean spirit exhibited by the Queen and the Prince upon the occasion, is said to be explained by the determination of the stewards of the ball to admit any of the Cabral family, although the exclusion was in no way whatever connected with political erouedi P.S.—Feb. 16.—Late last night the pacee: from the north came in, in company with the So. urje ; hes, y gales off the English coast calmed the detention, the steamer having to put back twice. The admiral is to inspect the Howe to-day, and she is then to be put in condition to proceed to Madras, to fetch her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The exchanges are quoted: London, 30 days, 531; 90 days, 53i RIO JANEIRO.—By the arrival yesterday of her Majesty's packet Peterel, Lieutenant Crewr, at Falmouth, we have advices from Rio Janeiro to January 9, this vessel having accomplished the voyage in the short spier of forty four days. She has brought hut a small freight, in gold and diamonds, supposed not to excecd 2,0001. in value. There is nothing reported in the shape of news of the least moment in politics, but in mercantile matters the activity recently exhibited in the coffee market continued to prevail, sal... having amounted to rather more than an average quantity for the month of December, at the cost, on board, of ate. fW. for washe 1 ; 295. sd. for superior ; and 275. 6d. for first good, per cwt. There was, however, a tendency to lower qualities. The sugar market fur Europe was but very partially thought of—the quotations ruled at 2r. d. 800 re. per aerobe. Exchange, 274 to 4. Stock, 87. The "Annual Review," published at the close of Decem ber, mentions, that alth6ugli business at Rio had been ex tensive, both in xport and import, it was not satisfactory in its muff, from advent.: circumstances—the system of long credits; the disadvantage of the high freights, consequent on the scarcity of s . iipping that had prevailed; and the law legalising payments in gold and silver coin, during the year, being of considerable inconvenience to large payment transactions. CUBA.—The brig Caroline, from Neuvitas, arrived of New York, brings news from that port to tho Bth of January, from which it appea.a that the filanters were com mencing to grind. The crops were not near so fine this year as last ; there would, hewer, r, be about the same quantity ti go forward, as a great deal of additional cane had been planted during the last year. Less mahogany would go for ward than usual, as the quantity got out WO much smaller than heretofore, on account of the very low prices at which it had been selling in America. Tho railroad from Neuvitee to Puerto Principe hail been opened six miles further, and measures were being taken to complete it to euerto Principe during the e 'mini year, which would give a great impetus to the trade of Neuvitas. THE EU)RF SS, THURSDAY EVENINC4, FEBRUARY 24, 1848. 6ourt. The christening of the infant daughter of the Mar quis and Marchioness of fOereorn took place yesterday ranretinz, in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The Vponsors were Prince Alert, the Countess Cowper, and the ineuntess Jocelyn. The infant woo named " Alberthn Frances Anne." The in. and Rev. C. L. Coartenay offi ciated at the cerem.ny. Tho Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg visited the Ditehess of Kent yesterday, at her residence, Clarence. house, St. James's. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, ac romr.nied by the Duko of Saxe Coburg and Count Arthur Mensdortf. _ The royal dinner party at the Palace yesterday evening included tho Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Ducheu of Saxe Coburg, Count Arthur Mensdorff, Baron de 11;ust, the Nlarg4is and Nlareldonea of CLL.nriearde, Lady F. Howard, )t drone le Baronne de Waugenheim, Baroness deSpeth, tho Earl of Aberdeen, the nightlion.W.Lascelles, and Baron Friugh. Lord Elphinstonc has succeeded the F.atl of Morley as the Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Major the Hon. It. Boyle has succeeded Col. B. Drummond as the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Hon. F. Scott, M.P., bad an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. J. Duncuft, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. E. S:rutt yesterday, at the office of the Com missioners of Railways i•: the Board of Trade : Mr. Sollteron and Col. Buckley had an interview yesterday wi:h Sir G. Grey. DEATH OF LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSET, M.P.— This nobleman died at half past ten o'clock last evening, at his residence, 81, Harley-street, aged 46. His lordship had beets suffering far some time from heart disease and general depression of the nerves, owing, it is said, ti mental ex. eitemen... He was scared son of the sixth Dude of Beaufort, by Lady Charlotte Sophia Gower, fifth daughter of the elfish Marquis of Stafford. Ile was horn on the 27th of December, 1792, and married on the 27th of July, 1822, to the Hou. Emily Smith, daughter of the late and sister of the present Lord Carrington. By this lady he has had issue fire childrm ; the eldest being a son, Granville Robert, burn in 1824. Lard Granville graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, and at that university, in 1813, obtained the second prise in classics. In 1818, on the interest of his father, he was re turned for the county of Monmouth, • constituency which he continued to represent up to the last general el-ction, with the support of the late and present Duke of Beaufort. On the last occasion, however, owing to his support of Sir R. Peel', free-trade measures, he was opposed by his kins. man, Captain Arthur Somerset, who was defeated after • sharp and, we regret to add, bit', r contest, by 47 votes. Al most from the moment of his first entry into parliament, Lord Granville was an active politician. In March, 1819, he was appointed by the Berl of Liverpool, then premier, a Load of the Treasury, and subsequently filled other offices, always acting with the conservative party. Diming the brief co mervatire administration of 1831-35 he filled the office of Chief Commiodoner of Woods and Forests ; and on the accession of Sir Robert Peel to power in 1811 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Loneuter—an office which he filled up to the accession of the present govern ment to office. On Sir Robert Peel proposing the repeal of the cern-laws to his cabinet is 1848, Lord Grauville dis sented from the right hon. baronet, but subsequently adopted his views, and voted for the abolition bill. Arlin from politics, the deceased nobleman was a moat ueful man, end his business habits have been productive of much benefit to the nation. He was chairman of the metro palitan lunacy commission and other bunts. For many years he was chairman of the Monmouth quarter sessions. We need scarcely add that a petition is at the present mo ment before the House of Commons against the late return for Monmouthshire ; but death has now set that aside. COLONEL HOBERT CANNON.—Friday's Gicet le contains a notification that the Queen has been pleased to grant to Robert Cannon. E-q., colonel in the service of the Queen of Spain, and knight of the first and second class of the national and military order of St. Ferdinand of Spain, her license to accept and wear the insignia of a knight of the number extraordinary of the royal and die tinguished order of Charles 111., which the Queen of Spain huh been pleased to confer upon him. EAST INDIA SERVICE.—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of Major-General S. B. Auch mnty being placed upon the staff of the army serving in the East Indies. THE VACANT MASTERSHIP IN CHANCERY. The resignation of Sir Giffin Wilson, as one of the Mu tes in Chancery, has added anotht r dr p to the shower of patronage which has fallen recently upon the pre sent ministry. Two gentlemen have been mentioned as likely to succeed to the 2,400/. a year—one a tory, the other a whig. The qualitiestions of these gentlemen for the office are about equal ; yet it is rumoured that the tory is at pre sent the favourite. Should this prove correct it will much increase the perplexity which the friends of the cabinet have lately felt in fathoming the principle upon which it has lately distributed its patronage. Their now Archbishop of Canterbury is a tory. The Premier is rat variance with his supporters respecting the budget, yet he is, it is rumoured, contemplating the selection of a gentleman, to fill a lucrative and easy office, from the ranks of his opponents. Does the ministry intend to strike its own colours, and go over to the tory camp altogether? REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET.—On Tuesday an investigation, commenced on Monday, was proceeded with before F. H. Goldfinch, Esq., and W. H. Hoskins, Esq., commissioners, appointed by the Commissioners of Wood' and Forest., under the Improvement of Towns Act, for the purpose of receiving evidence with reference to the establishment of the New Smithfield, or Great Metropolitan ' Cattle-market and Abattoirs. The market is proposed to be erected on a piece of ground, consisting of 57 acres, situate between the Camden-road and Maiden-lane, the proposed East and West India Dock Railway passing through it. The first abattoir on a vacant piece of ground, at present in use as a brickfield, between the New North-road, Shepperton street, Islington, and the Regent's-canal; the second at Bethnal-green, by the aide of the Eastern Counti,s Railway, and extending to the Regent's-canal; the third by the side of the Surrey-canal, in the Old Kent-road ; the fourth at flatteries, between the River Thames and the South- Western Railway; the fifth between the Kensington-canal and the London end Westminster Cemetery; and the sixth at Weatbourne-green, on • piece of land between the Regent's-canal and the Great Western Railway. The 1 evidence taken on Monday consisted principally of the esti mates of Mr. Galloway, the engineer to the company, from which it appeared that the entire expense of purchasing the land and the erection of the buildings in the different locali ties would not exceed 3745001., leaving a surplus out of the capital of the company (400,0001.) of 28,5001. to meet all contingencies, which would he amply sufficient. On Tuesday several witnesses were examined in reference to the eligt bility of the proposed sites and arrangement', and the meet ing adjourned. .MEETING TO MAINTAIN THE NAVIGATION Ltwg. —Last night a meeting of seamen, shipwrights, and other marine artisans of the port of London, was held, pursuant to public notice, at the Eastern Institution, Commercial-road East for the purpose of adopting measures to induce the legislature not to sanction any alteration in the navigation laws. There were upwards of 3,000 persons present. M. Wigram, Esq., East Indian shipowner, was called to the chair, and was supported by many other extensive ship owners and builders.—Mr. D. Dunbar, the chairman of the General Shipowners' Society. moved : That It is the aonliction of this meeting that they have raised and sustained the naval power of Great Britain ; providing the means of maritime commerce, they have encouraged a never-fatting supply of seamen for manning the royal navy, and of skilful and of industrious artisans, whose eerricee have always been available for the =stns. lion of equipments of Oaths of war for public service; and that, under the system established by the laws of coonneree of the country at large, the port of Great Britain in particular baa attained ita present prowadneuce; and that the subversion of the system would endanger the safety of tbe state, by placing in bawd the most important element of national defothe; it would also entail a ruin on a ll trades connected with shipping, and involve dirtrere and pauperism on the vast population of the Tower Hamlets, whose subsistence depends oa the employment In the 11160111 establishments created and main tained by British ships resorting to this port. Mr. Tyndall neon lid the tr. dion, which was carried unani mously.—Mr. Thrhe moved the second resolution, to the following effect: • That, with these sentiments, the inhabitants of this district pa. seine with anxiety the efforta in peopn for undermining the navl ption laws, and regard with the deepest alarm the intention on the par: of the executive government, without any wlsb for such change honing been expressed by the people, to introduce measures banns to that principle, and consequently dangerous to the state, and fatal to all dame connected with the shipping. Thu meeting therefore mile oa all who value the public interest and their own, to unite In oppos ing all attempts to repeal the narigatica laws, or subvert the prin ciples on which they an founded. The resolution was carried nem. con.—Mr. Spence then moved that petitions be presented to both houses of parlia ment, praying that no alteration might be made in the law., and especially calling upon the legislature t) grant them a select committee of inquiry, of which notice of motion had been given by Lord ilardwicke.—This being approved of by the meeting, and Mr. G. F. Young having addressed the assemblage, the customary thanks a the chair were carried with great applause ; and vociferous cheers having been given for the navigation laws, the proceedings at a late hour terminated. LONDON UNIVERSITY.—The annual meeting took place yesterday, in the lecture theatre of the university, Upper Getter street. Mr. Warburton, M.P., presided. The attendance was not num roue. The first business was to ballot for officer* for the ensuing year, which mu merely formal, there being no opposition to the re-election of the late officers, as follows:—For President: Lord Brougham. For Vice-Prelideut The Earl of Auckland, G.C. B. For Treasurer: J. Taylor, Esq. F.A.S. Fur Councillors: J. R. Blunt, Esq , the Earl ' Forteseue, J. Heywood, Esq M.P., J. It. Mills, Esq., J. L. Ricardo, Esq., M.P., the Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan. Fur Auditor J. Welty, Req., M.A. —Mr. Atkinson, the secretary, then read the annual report of the council. The total number of pupils during the session 1846-47 had been 888, being an Increase of 76 on the preceding year. These were diatrinuted as follows :—ln the teculty of arts and laws, 24t ; faculty of medicine, 303 ; pu pils in thejunior school, 3.51. The total receipts had been from feta of students 8,413!. 13s. ; from acnool pupils, 4,087/. 10a. ; from hospital pupils, 2,623 k 18t. ; total, 13,1301. is. The members entered for the current session had beta as follows: in the faculty of medicine, 284: in the faculty of arts and laws, 199; pupils in the junior school, 263. With a view to render the school tuition more eft. Went the council lead made ar. addition to the masters, and lied found it Ilf oessary in consequence to increase the charge to pupils by A legacy of 2,0001 ., bequeathed by Mr. Holloway art Hereford, had been invested in the tunas, and the proceeds would be applied in defraying the school charges of deserving boys. The late Dr. Huline, of Man chester, had bequeathed the residue of his personal property to the medical department of the univeriity and it was expected this bequest would amount to 20,0031. indepen. Wooly of a valuable library of books. Amongst the gifts of the year was a collection of the works of the late celebrated sculptor Flaxman, by Min Denman, hissurviving executrix, in all about 150 pieces, for which acrammodetion would he provided in the college. The proftssorslop of the oriental languages, and the teachership of the German lan guage, were now vacant. The vacancy caused in the sur. gical school, by the death of the late Mr. Liston, had been tilled up by the appointment ef Mr. I. Symea. The council had to deplore the loss of two of its valuable memiers, Mr. Duckworth and Mr. Webb. The expenditur of the past year (the particulars arc given below) had exceeded the re. ceirta by 8081. as. iii. The additional buildings at the hospital had been complete I, in aid of the expense thus in. wand, a donation of 5001. had been received from Charles Dixon, Esq , of ilelmslev, and a festival was about to be held to nisei further funds. 'The additions to the general library during the year had been 2,549 vols., making a total of 13,653 vols. The treasurer's account showed the fall. wing items:— Cash in hand and at banker's, Sept. 30,1846, 2041.7 a 5 I.; fees of students, school pupils, and hospital pupils 15,1301. ls. legacy Irem C. Holloway, Eaq., of Heref ord, 2,0001.; amounting, with other receipts, to 18,7681. The expendi ture embi aced tile following items t—l'apnents to profes sors, 5.8151.; masters of junior school, 3,3531.; hospital committee, 2,6281.; expenses of the college establishment, 3,0111. ; cash in hand, 3161. 19a. 3d.—Mr. Thornely, M.P., moved the adoption of the rep rt.—ln answer to a oueetien, Mr. Atkinson stated that there was an insurance of le,ooo/. on the building, covering the whole, and of 14.090/. oa the furniture. The motion was then agreed to. Thanks were toted to the members of the council, and to the chairman. Allusion having been made by one or two genticuisit to the thin attendance, the chairman said he did not think it was a thing to he regretted, it was rather an evidence of the satis faction of the subscribers with the affairs of the institution, which was also proved by the large bequests they were re ceiving. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—The twenty. seventh anniversary festival of this most useful eta: rity took place yesterday at the London Tavern. Rear-Admiral Dundas, M.l'., was in the chair. The usual loyal toasts having been done honour to, the Chairman proposed" Pssperity to the Seamen's Hospital Society." During the last year the society had received as patients in its hospital, the Dread nought, moored off Greenwich, 2,893 seainso of all nation, admitted without certificates, and solely in the character of distressed sailors. The benefits of this valuable iistitution had been extended, since its first (urination in 1821, to no fewer than 56,430 persons, 2,809 of whom had been last employed in her Majesty's navy ; 1,797 in the service of the lion. East India Company, and .51.774 in the service of merchant vessels of different nations. Toe printed repirt acknowledged donation. from the King of Swe Isn•nd Norway, of 1001, ; from Ibrahim Pecha, of 73/. ; and from the executors of Robert Lowrey, Eaq , Bridlington, of 2,1311.13,. 9d. ; and among the suioscririona of tke evening were —liar Majesty, annual, 10.5/. ; the Queen Dowager, annual, 10 ; Trinity Corporation, 27th donation, 300! ; East India Company, 25th donation, 1051.; Admiral H. Whitshed, 6t h donation, 101. ; Captain Sir J. H. Pelle, 6th donation, ; !tear-Admiral Dundee, additional, 10/. 10s. G. H. Foster, Esq., fish donation, 201. ; John Cartels, Esq., 11th d. nation, 101. tOs. ; John Pepys, Esq., 11th donation, 101.. W. C. Drysdale, E.g. 3rd donation, 101, Bowles, M. P., responded to the toast "Prosperity to the Societs" in a well-tamed addretw. The toast of "The Army and Navy" was briefly responded to by Capt. Sir W. Pell. A variety of other toasts were , celebrated ; and, note withstanding the absence of Mr. Gengc and hie fellow -vocal ists, who had been engaged to 'acid, the evening passed off pleasantly. Messrs. Bathe and Breach fulfilled the duties of caterers with their wonted liberality. 'fire LOCK HOSPITAL.—The friends and supporters of this excellent charity . celebrated the 102n.1 anniversary at the London Tavern, iscount Morpeth in the chair. The dinner and wines were of the usual excellence, and after the cloth was r moved the cuatomary loyal and patriotic toasts were proposed and responded to.—Lord Morpeth then rose, ' and in a speech of mere than ordinary . excellence, entered upon the theme of the evening by drawing the attention of the company to the melancholy fact, that the expenditure of the last year had been upwards of 1,100/., whilst the receipts did not much exceed 700!. Such a budget he feared would be almost as unpopular as that recently announced In another place. Several other riddreases were made by the Bishop of Madras, Lord Kinnaird, the lion. Arthur Kinnaird, Mr. B. B. Cab ' bell, a .d the Rev. Mr. Gamier, chaplain to the hospital; and a very handsome sum, amounting to some hundreds of pounds, was collected on behalf of the charity. The inter vals of the toasts, which were delivered in excellent style by Mr. Higgs, were agreeably filled up by the performance of glees by the choristers of Winchester Cathedral. SOCIETY FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW.— Mr. Heaillarn, M.P., presided at a meeting of this society last evening, at which Mr. Jas. Stewart submitted a report arena a committee appointed to consider " whether any fur ther alterations can be made in the whole system of the I jurisdiction, practice, and constitution of the masters and the masters' offices, with a view to obtain a more apeiidy awl cheap administration of justice in the Court of Chancery." The report upon this subject, which extended over 15 printed pages, concluded with the following resolutions That a pertain number of receivers should be appointed be the Lard Chancellor, among wh ins, according to the necasitun of the case, should be apportioned the red estates under the management of the Court of Chancery. That the business should be so apportioned u to enure the services of experienced land agent". That there retailers should render their accounts to one common head or department, which should be authorised to Came regulations on this subject, mad to allow disbureemente for the benefit of the lands wader its care. That to this department should be also intrusted the sale of estate. directed to be sold, by . the court. That the whole fee system of the Court of Chancery requires revision and notation. That a small per tentage should be levied on all payment. made by the acconnt,nt-general of the moneys administered by tare, which per center. abould form a primary fund, to be applicable to the pay ment of the juolicial establishment of the court; sad any deficiensy therein should be rateable by foes payable by the suitors in coatentious matters before the court. That a sufficient number of aceountante Mould be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, to whom should be assigned the duty of taking all accounts required to be taken in the admirdstration of equity. That ouch accountants should hare the same powers of easy communication with the master or tee judge, as is now enjoyed by the chief clerk with the master an similar mansion.; and thet with regard to all contested paints, the cocoa tacit should occupy the same position on the present chief clerks of masters. That a sufficient number of officiel assignees sbould be appointed by the Lord Cbaaeellor, who should, on the motion of one or more of Site parties to the suit, or at the discretion of the court, he attached to the cause where their services were required. —Mr. James Stewart having supported this report in a brief speech, Mr. Miller took objection to it en the ground that there were no facts stated on which to base such Important recommendations. He deprecated these speculative and th:oretical "amendments" of the long-established system of the nation, and instanced the now defunct Court of R.:- view as an example of the failure of such attempts at " im provement." Some comments having been made by other speakerson various details of the report, Mr. Stewart. replied, admitting the failure of the Court of Review, but urging that the failure of the court was not to prelude attempts at reform in other directions. The report was received. THE INCOME TAX.—MEETING OF THE MANTLE BONE V special meeting of the vestrymen of the parish of Marylebone was held last evening in the court home, to consider the propriety of calling a great public meeting to petition parliament against the proposed increase in the income tax. Mr. Stanford took the chair. and it was arranged that the meeting should take place or. Monday next, in the workhouse-yard of the parish, sod that applica tion should be made, in addition, for the use of the school room. A committee of five wee also appointed to manage the details and arrange the proceedings of the meeting. SOTER's PAROCHIAL MODEL KITCHEN.—The dis tress now existing amonget the artisans of Spitalfislds has once more brought Mr. Soper into public nceice. With the aid of the Rev. Joseph Brown, of St. Matthias', and other benevolent individuals, Mr. Soyer has erected a soap kitchen in one of the most densely populated parts of the dis trict, from whish excellent peas paned* and meat soup are distributed to the destitute, in quantities amply sufficient for a hearty meal, at the cost of only one penny. Many hundreds are daily relieved at the kitchen, while the re mainder of the soup and bread is daily given away to many poor families in the neighbourhood whose exigencies are more pressing, and demand additional relief. Subscriptions for the supp,,rt of the undertaking are of Course necessary, and it is to he hoped that the claims of the industrious weavers of Spitalflelds on the sympathies of their country lees viii not be overlooked. I'IRE.—AT THE WHITE BE tR HOTEL, PICCA DUAT.—Lest evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, a fire broke out at the White Bear Hotel and old enaah.office, 219. Piccadilly. The flames commenced, from some unexplained cause, in one of the sleeping apartments aver the top, and were not discovered until they hod gained 10 firm a hold as not to be easily extingii:shed. The building being for the most part composed of timber, it formed a poses rial auxi liary to the fire, and very speedily several of the upper rooms were blazing away most fearfully. By the exertion of the firemen, to them, however, the fire was confined. The property was insured in the Union-office. INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—MIL. " ROMEO " COATES. —By Mr. Willey, touching the death of ti.e above gentle man, who expired on Monday last, from the effects of in kjuries received by being, as before mentioned in this paper, nocked down by a cab as he was leava.g Drury-la. .e Theatre on the previous Tuesday evening. The eeidenee bore out the facts already stated, and the jury, attributing grout eareleasnesa to the driver of the vehicle, re' urned a ver , ict of Manslanghter egtinst tome pers . :m nr.known. The police were directed to use every means tri their Fewer to discover and apprehend the pony in q.:estion.—LIPV TENANT Bowie, 11. N , rite ALLEGED ‘‘ ILL FOROEs.—By Mr. Wm. Payne, the City coroner, at the Compeer, Oiltspur street, on the body of Peregriee Bowen, a ii, atineht in the Royal Navy, aged 61, who committed selcide.—The de c.used was charged at the Mansion-bcu , e police-court, on the 12th inst. ' with having forged and tittered a will par puling to he that of his brother, Wm. Muserwe Bowen, also an officer in the Royal Navy, who died at. Team in Chins, in 184'. The brother, iu September, 184 a, executed a will in favour of Mr. Richards, a gent:emeti resid:ng at Tenby, which was duly provtd when the news of the t stater's death reached England. Shortie afterwards the deceased pr.duced • :Aer will, purportiog he executed in China, bequeathing all his bother'. pro pertv to biclself. '1 hla will was attested by John Bell and John Wu d, who wen not in any woe described. The deceased rsonatel the latter person, who -mane the neces sary affidavit at D'ctors' Commons. He appeared to ho a caminun sailor, chewed •obacco, and had a good deal of hair about his face. Mr. Richards, euspccting foul flay, em ployed Heddington. a detective officer, 'to Oisrenred the thud. De ceestd was ther,fore token into custody et Liver pooh—Stephen Smith, a turnkey, stated that the deceased had been an inmate of that prison since he wan remanded by the Lord Mayor. Yesterday morning, upon returning men chapel, witness heard that dece lied was wanted, and he went to his cell, where he discovered him hanging by a rope a hick he had made by twistinga piece of Lis shirt, which he passed through a loop hole in the door, end fastened by means of two spoons. He called for assistance, and one of his brother officers came and cut h i m down. The governor and the 'lector were sent fee, end the letter tried to bleed him, but wit:..t Lifer , . A letter was found on deceased, addressed to the gov.rner of the prison, in which deceased thanked him r his kind ness, and requested that his old clothes might be given to one of t'.c prisoners, named Brent, and his money to his wife. He also expressed a desire that his innocence might be c‘tabli‘hed and res prosecutor puniih.d for lake imprisonment. Ane:her letter was addressed to the deceased from the comma , der of his vessel, in which he stated that he had trnese..,ted his re quest for leave of alrence to the Lords of the Aimiialtv, but they bad stated they could not grant it, a-. 4 that he (the cones miler) had been obliged to report h:m al-eat witnout leave. Deceased h.d written an that letter " 'lbis is cruel— i- fatal," and signed his name. He hsd been 40 years in the service.—Verdiet, " Temporary insanity?' TILE PARIS NEWS IN THE ENGLISH PROVINCES. The startling Paris news contained :n our piper of yesterday appears t, ht.re created very c asiderable excite ment in tho variotts prav:nt:al towns. Our 31.t.sicittsran corra•p,ndent writing last night, rays : The extraordinary news from Paris cont.:dyad in the second and thirst editions of the Daily _t,:wo anive.l in Alanehester beLre the copies of the morr.:ni: papera by the mail train ha coma to hand, and was tie c,use of very :teneral excitement. The fact war that tie 7.le.staph Odiec made use of the Daily News' second and t',:ird ett.i.ons, and transmitted short substattive versions of t..e report, which they were enabled to do without mush net of time; and the ManeAeoley Courier very hon, uratly acknow ledging the source of their informaticn as tam the Daily Nero, In third end fourth editions, almost All the advantages were derived by the commenid community . of this northern city from thtse editions of a LoLdoa morning journal which would h:::e kern derived frtm the pub..cation of them in Manchesar." . . . . . . A LIVEUPOOI. coriespondent states that " the electric tele graph, at half-past two o'clock, cousinunicat.d ;he contents of the second edition of the Doily News, cont.iinirg the news from Paris, to the Exchange Newsroom. The txcite ment was more intense, than has been exp..zienced here for many months." Our BrtistlNOZA7l correspondent write,:—" At a few minutes after twelve the public were stuzied wit., the im portant intelli;ence fr,m the French capiti-1, particulars of which the Electric Telegraph Company transmitted to the principal newsrooms, avieleir.e then author:ty to he the sicouil edition of the Daily News, as a guarantee for the ac curacy of the information. The most extra: rdicary feeling of excitement resulted; and the yr., if anytniag, asermentad when, at half-mist one o'ciack. copies of the second edition of the !laity News arrived. The nem shops wore instantly hisieged; and in a very short time a copy mild not he pro cured, and wherever the paper Ives to be seen icons of per sons thronged to obtain a sight of it. roe heads of many mercantile houses have warmly expressed their cAnowledg. ments for the spirit of enterprise which has prumpted the proprietors to furnish them true early with such important intelligence. Such a thing was never hefere known here : the details of great events in the capital of Fre.:cos received in London, printed, and circn!ated in the centre of Englar.d, within IS hours of their occurrence ! It is semoely possible to glean an idea of the general feeling to which the mad peliey of Louis Philippe has given rise ; it has excited scarcely so much of alarm as sensati in, staz? many regard it as an efficient screw-propeilir tor nuking our own govern ment yield on the obnoxious proposal contained in the budget. It is now 6 o'clock, and tl.e Doily Neu.* is the only one of all the morning papers that has afforded us any details respecting the occurrences in Paris yesterday." From SOUTHAMPTO:7 we learn, from a correspondent there, that " copies of the second edition of the Doily News containing the alarming iotelligenee of the commencement of a revolution in France were received at too e'Liock. Messrs. Rayner, the agents, imincriarely communicated the news to the principal bankers and merchants of the town. No other London morning paper woe received in Southampton which contained the inform - ition. The most ir.tense curiosity and excitement prevailed. Persona were seen going from a I directions to Messer. Raynel'i, to read the news or purchase a paper. In comonoticatieg such interesting and important information exclusively the Drily Niles has achieved an other great triumph in Southampton.•' METROPOLITAN SANITARY COMMISSION. The following !3 the commissioners' recapitulation of the couclutiont, from the evidence, .4 forth in their second report, which was pr , rentad yesterday We now beg le, r to Nand: the chief co tetations which appear to us to be deducihn term the ince diardion - we have nude since we submitted our rind repart maven too "it additional Mint minion as to the pr' gees oaf atokra Mit iris Europe, and all to the means of its prevenuon, we dal that the as It has recently appeared in Perda, in Treh.ifsol, and in Asada, is unchanged in its eeneral character, that it is ut the present time, anointing to the latest i domination, In a aim ::t• position to th•-t In *orb it was in P 331, when ha progress was arrested by the frost, previously to its cleanse upon Europe immtedlately alto the thaw Woic pt oce. That the more re cent experience in RUaliti L 4 hot to the general abandonment of the theory of its propreidt,i, eon:mien; a ematnion in which, after a foile::neidcretioa of the evidence prescakal t o us, we tally concur. That the views which we adopted ht rotation to the ine.nediency of special cholera homphuia, ester: on caws of perii.or neoessatiy, have been tonfirmed by the wand - I -7 , n: .adoption of the mine cott:iisaomsiiilturaia. That we have rec•lecd much information.. tending to establish the conclusion, that chafe. a is not the sudden cheatoos which has hitherto been suppomed • :Mot the commonly known form of the malady as, in reality, its second stage; that its first stare is mandested by the premonitory imenotorn of donerhoe; whin: is commonly unattended to, but which, ft Met be the sty" obaervonce of proper regimen, and by appropriate methane, may be arrested before parsing into the more violent and f otai st.ige of the disease. That, in addition to our former recommendations, we further recommend, that prep-ration he made for sta . . appc.t - A to be one of toe most important mea sures of alleviation, vie ev•abllahrnent of local dispensaries, where permits affected with the Grot adage of the &male, as manifeated by the premonitory estop:can. may be immediately placed unove the proper treatment for misname the further progress of the malady. liming examined, as . laxly at the time and moan, at our ditporal would permit, the late rotes military increase of mortality in the me tropolis, amocrtiag in eleven mocha to 6,145 death, above the Ugh,' average, an excess of nun Lility Oaring those eleven t ees,. greater than the entire rortplity from 'he cholera in the metropolis during the it weeks when It prevailed in the year 1533; we find—That of this excess of 6,145 deaths, 1,-112 deaths were registered ea death from epidemic imam: ea, but that the deaths from epi demic typhus, and hood pneumonia, bronchitis, and the whole Class of diseases of the lungs, commonly brought on at all times by cold, damn, and, atmospheric Minority, have also been very numerous; the number of deaths from typhus haring been during tie eleven weeks 999, and the ;umber above the average from dimwits of *l.s lungs apart from intim:tea) 2,511. That eickness and mostaiity loom diarrhou and from typhus, of pre. nodethe same type ea Piot which preceded the former visitation at cholera, hare been exec ffive amongst the populaii m of the low, ill. drained, illeleansed, and overcrowded neighhofmamds, that are marked as the cholera :nets of th 2. That the chmatoriel changes otemeed, as antecedents to this recent *mem of mortality in the me tropolis, have been an exam of humidity is the air, and rapid and extreme changes of 'temperature; and that soda excessive humidify has been the chief observed antecedent to former etiolation. of in , limn.. That the inmates of a model lodging-boogie, and the pit tonere in the chef yeses. in the methopoi-v, where the drainage, cleansing, dirt an, I,ntentl , n, amt warmth, are better than ordio.ary, have been distinguiehed by proportionate immunity from typhus., influenza, and other ebidaniC disease, affording au exem plification of the freeikow tram 'ilea disease which would probably follow the extension of 'similar sanitary arrangements. That in the lower. the ill-drsined, arid the worst cleansed dis tricts, in the elm, sheets, eau rte, and alleys, chiefly' occupied by the poorer population, typhus and other epidemic are now nteralent, with an increasing frequency and intensity, constituting, in oar opinion, the state of evil comemYsted by the Contagions Disease Pre , ren d es act, which of:Monies the appointment of kcal boards or , health, with powers fee cleansing and the adoption of other preventive measures. That seeing tie advautages derived from the Malta a:ulex ertionaofsuchboards in 1.12, and the probable length of time which mast elapse before new and combined works of drainage, cleansing, and water rapply couid be executed, we recommend that boards o f health should be immediately constituted, with a view to carry out, more especially in the districts where the visitation, of epidemics have, of u been most germ, such measuree as may be practicable, as well for sheeting the progress of typhus and other prevalent mala dies, as for making prepare tion against the probable inseam of Asiatic cholera. Having observed the excessive mortality in the northern districts and certain of the se: tube, se compared with the central portion of the metropolis, we directed our attention to their sanitary condition, and we find—that Urge :rants of suburban land, namely, the Poplar marsh, the Isle of Dogs, the Essex marshee, and the Greenwich and Plutristed marshes. are in an exceedingly bad condition, and that mutt of the uplands in the other suburb consists of stiff undraino -1 clay land, excessively charged with moisture. That three marsh =Chained land, are extensively Intersected with open, ill-kept, stagnant ditches. That there being no systematic lend drainage, a.L:. no proper presdppuc.x.i system for the drainage of laud be need tor the into, e: new suburban dweiaags, vs Le a mff.. dwellings me calitoacti.: a grew: put of the drainage from the Cu', urban houses la carried tato these open stagnant Went,. That to one of den marshes the proportion of open ditch is l& to 410 aeres, or one acre of ditch to 24 acres of land; stage nating and giving off emanation from the decomposition of animal as well ao vegetable refuse ; and that in the Surrey district donne alone there are neatly ;0 miles of uncovered Mine. and open watercourse% complained of sa being stagnant, as receiving house drainage, and sa giving of much offensive moisture. That marsh disease. prevail at times among the agriculturel ipiopulatiam of the Fans, Plumated, and other marine; and thou after the wind has gavelled for some time from these ilisdraieed lands la the direction of dwelling-houses, marsh dioceses are constantly notieedlLLl.o44 the adjacent population. That there is no doubt that the mkt. and humidity aging from the suburban ill-dmined laud ale carried amidst the habitation of toe ao4oining ilia:ire% and exercise at CI seasons a perrumen influence on the be dila of the Imputation, That there are perm:l:Pale differences in the amount of epoange dim ease in the agneultural suburban districts, according as th..y are wall or 111 drained; and that where drainage works ore proper y carried out the amount ol louniidey and mist is epode) , diminished. That the noes of moisture on. he marsh and i2-draintd land Is detel. mental to the protective power and value of the land, :old to good husbandry . . That the operation, for letterer :11g the land I drainage arc obstructed by the exceedingly imperfect drainage arrangements; only acme of those arrangements being, while all of them iniebt to be, within the general drainage jurisdiction of the comi,isieners of sewers. That powers ehould be Iron to the cenamiegenera of wooers enabling them to cover in all open ditcher, to drain a node, and to eututitnte for ditcher tubular drain% in cor.nesion with the general dronage keels. Teat if such drains are properly le - 4 down, and connected with the green: drainage works, the quant.tg of otrignant surface water will be ditr.inisho d to a very important extent; the made will be lint drier, in conrequenee of the greater dr i nks o there drainage, and the more rapid discharge of .surfge tenter ; the Lade rat to the rota will be greatly relieved of surname saeleitre ; and valuable coattails will be formed for the land doting e.:sh is eow much obstructed by the gate and construction of the eitches used for the drainage of roads. That In connexion with the eoneral drainage works, under the direction of the Comm' Conine of Sewers, halide" should he given to owners and occupier. foe the dra;nne of the lands adjacent to the euburban district, by advances on loan, mat) ahle by instalmeate, with the sdrantalte o the gentral emery. and the is, o the renerinondene • of the officer. of the eiwatelnion That where Lind continue, in a sta . e of main thjerioe. to In health of the population compuberry powers of drainage sho u ld he given, and exerriaed in relation Oct It. That ben - ever per'eet the drainage of the interior of the urban districts may be, Ito b nelieial effects on the tepulation must be greatly diminietiol tmleas the drainage of the eub.e ban lend be put in proper Matron it. All which we huchly worthy to your Ilajoety.—(Sigted) —K. (iallaol.Xoll ;LS.), L. CHAUSIea. (i.. 8.), T. 8. Ferro (LS I, It Cu vs ;Ls.;, 1.. loses (Le.)—eiwydyr Hone, Whitehall, Feb. 19,104 e. 111gLAND. Dentrx, Fen. 2d. Waterford is now the centre of contending parties. The weakest of all, however, is the Young Ireland denomination, which has never been able to fi:Aver in presence of that scorching Old Ireland light, Alder man Delahnnty. The hopes of Mr. Meagher from the beginning were but slight : weak as they were,. they have grown s till more evanescent through the course pursued Ly his father, who has declaied his intention of resigning in the event of his sou's success. This settles the pretensions of Mr. Nle.-.gher, junior. Mr. Lamle Murray has also retired, with a quasi stipulation that he is to be invited to fill up the next vacancy. Ills place has been occupied by Sir H. Winston Bar ron, who is proceeding actively on his canvass. Un deterred by the prudent conduct of his father, who objects to the monopoly of the representatieu b i t• one family, the junior Islr. Meagher assembled Its fe 1- lowers on Sunday, on the bill of Ballybrecken, with confederate band and banner. In the evening, while regaling themselves with lofty patriotism and exqui site music, a crew of Old Ireland boatmen boareed, and drove the young gentry under the hold. The mayor interfered, s'Al peace v: as restored. Clare has not been taught by the late commission. A Mr. Daly has been served w;th a threatening notice by " Mies Maguire ;" and Mr. Daly raj aims by stating, in a letter to the Cla•r Touraal, that tuirteen murders have within the last dozen ; can been committed in Ennistymon, for which as t one culprit has suffered. He expresses Lis resolution to beard his secret enemies. SCOTLAND. En'Nnunor Fyn 2' A meeting of the Edinburgh Merchant Company is immediately to be called, for the purpore of re sisting the contemplated increase of the income-tax. The Edinburgh presbytery meet to-morrow, et hen resolutions against diplomatic relutious with home will be moved. It is expected t:.at they will be all but unanimously agreed to. COMMISSION riv THE LOHD-LIEVIENANT OF LINLITiI - J. Pringle to be major, vice Jobu stoue, in lst or Berwickshire, &0., Ragiineut at North British Militia. ~ • THHE EDI:CW*IIOK STVI , ENTS —The trial by the Flee:awl Academicus of the fear students who were supiin.i.d to be the ringleaders of the late riots has b..en I to a conclusion. Two hara been suspended from 'liar stu 11, or " rusticatsd" far two years, ri.ee fir one year, and on• tor three months. They have taken the opinion of counsel so to the legality of the sentences. Tie g•nerat feeling is that, in " rusticating" fur two yen's, the k. L..tus Academic= has been harsh. PROVINCIAL. PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO THE INCOME TAX. The local papers report the very general die 2cotent existing in all parts of the ecuntry respecting the proposed increase of the income tax. Much stress is 1::::l linos the propored imposition being made witliout any distinction between incomes obtained by personal exertion and inc-roes arising from realised property. Yesterday, an int:neut . ...l meeting of the liberal party assembled at the Town Ball, Derby, to consider what steps sheull Ito taken to thwart the ministerial scheme of ways and means, and against wh:ch men of all parties protest. A memo rial to the borough members was drawn up, t amp:sive of the surprise and indignation of the memorialists et the proposed increase of taxation ; pointiog out the od:ous character of the income tax, its inequaiity, and to.: injustice of taxing precarious incomes at the same rate as investe d property ; showing the deter mination of the usernerialiats to go for a redection of the national expenditure—the certainty, if the budget pats in its present ferm, that it will lend to the dissolution et the liberal party, not only in the borough of Derby, but also throughout the kingdom—and earnestly entreatingthe. ment hol's to give to the present proposal of her Majest)'• govern ment their most determieed opposition The men-oriel was proposed by one of the leading whip of the borough, and carried by scam:diem. It has recetv4 d the siguaturts c,f nearly all the leading and active liberals, and a &pun:time will wait upon the minahees in London. A petition to toe lions° of Commons, of which the following in a eiiiiy, has also been agreed to. :.nd it will (says our corresiendeiro be numerotudy signed by men of all parties : Your pew ionvrs have iv ail with surprise and regret the prope-eal of her Baleen's got ennui at to increase the taxation oleic eonntry tad add to the burden. which already press ton severely apes tie iiiilus. trious portion of the pupnlation. That, independently of ll a °nom and inquisitorial character of thn ieri e oe tan, and the ummiley and injustice of levying butil nn iropot In time of peace, your petitioners cannot but view tie Fopteed increase from 3 to 5 per read. waali set. grounded Indignation :nil ::'arm; and your petitioners are deterinicA to make every constitutional effort to mid such an imposition. That your petitioners protest again, t the mint test injustice of taxing the incomes of those who are dependent upon their exertions equally with those derived (ram ilea pr.iperty ; arid agree in the opinion 4.1 members .f your hon,urablc Lowe, MY if, under prevent eircurtitmees, it be found impossible to e id:rely abolish the tax upon bean, vii.ur honourable hou-.c oo.rht ~claht, instead of increasing it, TO levy the tax open a fair equitable, end graduated Peale. That year petitioner. are weary of the yovirty ;a creasing ixpenihture, and pray your honourable tiaue to adopt the wo e economical course of reducing the expenditure to the loselit pre siblc scale, being convinced that in reduction alone is the sea-Mingo( the country to he reeraht. That the only effectual mode of curtailing expenditure is the Tering of aopplies : fatal e ape rlence having taught the ;Toole that whatever mil be the amount in grants, ministers will csperal them, and still be raking for more. That to your honorable house your petitioner., as i• their right, look for protection, and humbly suggest, that if minlitry cuter ministry Li allowed to go on increasing the burdens of the coi.ntry, and all alike ',unmet( d in their extravagance, the hearts of the peooe will fail fir in, and all enr.tdence in the legislature be last. Vu' le pen. donee, therefore pray that your honourable house will no: paw mint bill to increase the incline tax; that by rigid emu Loy the experath. tore of the country nosy be reduced, and no more be levied by tax ation than absolute necessity requires ; that by revisal° awl teed,- tion such tales as press heavily on the poor may be repealed; mind that, if it be too much to ell lot that the Niece should to, shift-el from the poor to the rich, the rich may at least he made to beer their just proportion of public burdens, impaled mainly for the protection of thennelvesand their wealth. If necessary, there will be a public demonstration against the budget. The exclusion of Ireland is a sore place. At Leicester, on Tuesday afternoon, a highly respectable and influential meeting of merchant', rr ar.ufac turn". professional men, and traders, was held is the Town hall, John Bigns, Esq mayor, in the chair ; when it was re solved to petition parliament against any increase in our military or naval expeniiiture—and likewise against le e pro- posed mereese of the income tax from three to five per cent. A very strong opinion was expressed upon the injustice of the latter proposal of the whig minister, seeiag that real property was still an highly favoured by it, and that Ireland was to be wholly exempted from its operation, en the plea of the suffering the Itieh people had ,:edergone of late, although it is notorious that a large I if tv.,:. the chief portion of the landed property in that coun try is held by noble and corporate owners, who reside in Berland. Upo,l these points—the unequal operation of the income tax, the exemption of real property, and tee pm tiality displayed towards Ireland, as if with the view of pro pitiating the Irish members to the support of tie budget en Coto—the petition now in course of signature wales in very decided terms; and the borough members will be imbed upon to support then:diens of Mr. Mormon, Mr. Bright, and Sir B. Rail. The Lirerpool Courier says, in reference to the meeting to be held there this day, that a strong desire is expressed that it should not only be held in the largest building in the town, but that shopkeepers and others should close their places of business during the time the meeting is held, in order that all may have an opportunity of being present to testify against the unjust and iniquitous augmentation of a tax already cuff t'iently burdensome and odious. "Every one will admit," continues that journal, " that it is no ordinary occasion that could induce a number of tradesmen, in the most respectable part of the town, to leave their establishments in the middle of the day, and form themselves into a deputation for the purpose of im pressing the conductor of the press with the views enter tained by themselves, and by every one of their class with 1 st. hum they had communicated, with reference to the mew ' irnpe:t intended to be laid upon them. Yet each a ' ' have we Lad of the unpopularity of the - • A.,- i i..2.i . : 2 !•: .n ; and it is one vrli w ch. is o' Op 5 • .. ;-!. ps 1 s , ....utres.'" -- In Brighton a pubbe nee'' Mt . • --1...? , ,e.. I ProPoseas '' to protest again,: weeleful e • .• '...:::, ~‘ _.... . k. . :. ~. ....,•(:: • • "3 •.'.! .. ..: PS ..- • ••• • 1- .....' WI 4 , , P ~ ...1. .', . ° OP • 5i,......:LZ-9,,,