The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-12 00:00:00

iMI'ERIAL PARLIAMENT. 11 f )1.; SE OF LORDS.—iIIVRSDAT, slit:Gte:T 11. The 1.91tu CHANCYLLOS took his seat at 5 u'elack PETITIONS PRESENTED. COsII'EN4ATIUN to LAW Wlll 1111.4.-111 L,rd LYNI)- HU itsr, from several persona who had been writers for many years in the offices of Masters in Chime. ry, and who bad been thrown oat of entpioynicnt by the recent &Itera t:lns, prayin4 for compensation. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the act di l not tuned° him to give them compensation; and, in truth, tho peti- Bonen *sere persons who had been emplayi d ua.ler the clerks, and were not in any respect officers of the Court of Chancery. That was the d.tli ulry. It was, however, a hard clap, and he would laol. :ato it again. A CLERGY woes Beane —By Lord LYNDHURST, from a clergyman, otheiating se perpetuil curate at Vern borough, in Suffolk, complaining that his stipend frum King's College, Cambridge, arisicg from the small tithes, Le., was only 20i.• year ; end pray .ng that the provost and fellows of the callege, woo were the unpropriatate of the great tithes, might b. compelled to make adequate provi sion for the service of the einrch , in accordance with cer tain ancient aets of parliament. The r, port of the Courts ut C4OllOlll Law (Irelsnia) 8.11 was breueht up with onseude.ents end d tu, The Assessed Tsars Bill, the i.re Insurance on Lives Bill, mil the Sheriff. (Seutlan.l) Bill were severally read • second tune. The Naval Coast Volunteers Bill, the Liberated Africans (Sierra Leone)) Bill, the Land Tax Redemption Bill, the Consolidated Aonsities ;Ireland) Bill, the 'turnpike Act Continuasce (Ireland) Bt::, and the Passengees Aet Amendment Ball, were unfitly reed a third ume and passed. The home then adjoureed. MOUSE OF COMM()NS.—Turf AUG. 11. At 10 o'clock, the hour at which tile house was appointed to first, the gallery was opened ; but the Speaker hod not unveil, and a few members only were present. Between that bur end half-past 10 about 30 members awiernbled; smog whom were Sir W. Molenwortb, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Bftveric L. 441 D. S:usrt, Mr. (Domain. , Llerkeley, Mr. F. Peel, Sir It, Inglis, Mr. Newd, gate, Mr. STrult, Sir J. Fitzgerald, Captain LalTan, Mr. Duncan, Mr. W. A. Wil kinson, S.r J. Towle Bul:er. Mr. L ,yard„ Dr. Michell, Ka T. Acland. Mr. Spaoner, Mr. Vernon Smith, the Chan cellor of tbe Escheguer, Co:nnel Sibthorp, Mr. I. Batt, Mr. Keogh, Mr. Hayworth, anu 1.4 d A. Ilervey. At twenty- Mae minutes to II Mr. Ciremodie Ilark.ley announced that tLo Speaker had reached the Lowe, and the hon. member proceeded ?try as.i..laou•Oy to make a haw., in which he skurtly succeeded. 'the Sp •..k--•c entered the boasts at five minims to 11. when the ealL ry was cleared for prayers. The gallery was wen re-opened, and the house proceeded to beanies.. PRIVATE IWSINESS. The Loreto amendments of the following bill* were read • first time --Roston and Midland Cossacks Railway and Decks (anseudments to be proposed) ; Castlemaine Estuary Reclamation ; Chord limits/ay ; Last Anglian Railways (No. 2) ; Limerick Isorovsment; Motina.uthshke Rail way and Cassel; Stern erd Wye Railway and Canal; South Wales Mineral Itaii*ay ; Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks; Mansion' sad Remedios Railway Bills. The following brik were read a third time and pumped : Duke of Cleveland's (Dart:) Estate; Ettato; Treffry's Estate Bilis. PUBLIC BUSINESS. CONSOLIDATED FUND (010,634,087) BILL. This bill paved through elmnalttee,an approcriati,n clause, proposed by the Coosanor of the Barbecues., beiog agreed to arid inserted. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. This bill iru read a third time sail passed. CI:OWN SUITS BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIELIUER moved that the order of the de, fur the third reading of this bill be dis chervd. It would not be carried through in the present session, so many questions of importance arising in con nection with it. Upon the substantial pert of the bill, the necessity (or the cro - an receiving and paying costs according to the result of the suits instituted by it, there could not be two opinions. Nevertheless, it was better that this matter should emtioue in its present state than that the bill should be passed is an inmci , lete manner. Mr. WALPOLE did out throw any blame personally on the right hon. gentleman or his coile.urues, but he could not help express.ng his regret that so impurt.int and meets wary a meow', should be kept back fur another session. The order was than diecha.ged. METROPOLITAN SEWERS ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL On the order for the 3ril — rearn . g of this bin being read, Captain LAFFAN camplained upon • previous occasion when this bill was under discussion en hoe. member had attacked Mr. Chadwick. He thought it was to be regretted that the conduct of any absent ileum should be made the I subject of an attack in that bowie, when there was no uppor- tuity fur a defence being made. L.rd PALMERSTON certainly regretted that an attack bad been made upon Mr. Chadwick. That gentleman had expended • deal of time, ab lay, and seal in the public ser vice and was very undeserving of any complaint. L;rd D. STUART regretted that the hon. member for Westminster was not in his plare to defend the observations which he had made on a preview occasion up -n Mr. Chad wick. Hs bad no doubt that his hen. friend would have been quite able to defend himself, fur he (Lord D. Stuart) was quite sure that he was influenced by no personal feel ings in the matter. Mr. Chadwick was • public lune. tionat7, and, u such, his conduct was open to the criticism of any hon. member. If that criticism were unjust, there were always plenty of persons ready to take the part of any one unjustly attacked. If complaint timid not be made of persons who were absent, no one could lie complained of bat memben of the bout: itself. That the ceniplaint in questien was not wholly without foundation, the opinion given by Sir F. Lewis of Mr. Chadwick would show. Captain LAFFAN did nut mean to say that the conduct of any public functionally ha withdrawn from the cognisance of that house. He only regretted thit the hon. member for Westminster hod attatked Mr. Cnadsvick with out giving any notice of his intention to do so. Tne bill was then read a third time and passed. LUNATICS' CARE AND TREATMENT BILL Upon the order of the day for the third reading of this Mr. MITCHELL moved the following clause : " Provided also. That it shall not be lawful fir a proprietor or superin tendent of any licensed house, to keep or confine beyond the period of months any person admitted into such house ell a lunatic under the provisions of this act, unless • jury, as in the case of a writ de lunatic* inquirendo, shall have been summoned to ascertain the lunacy of such person ; on the asanimous finding of this jury, the person shall be die charged or detained, as the case wily be ; it the Jurors can not agree, then the person shall be tranferred to the nearest county lunatic asylum, as provided for by clause twenty." While protection was extended to the poorer classes of las intim, those who were richer were left without it, espe cially as regarded their detention in the asylums. It bad bees said that he had complained that the keepers of pri vate asylums treated their patients with cruelty : but this wee only the fact in a limited sense. So far as personal treatment went there was nothing calling for con.pleint but it was his opiates that, in many instances, persons yen detained in the asylum for a longer period than was necessary. This was a cruelty which he thought it his duty to endeavour to provide against. Mr. WALPOLE rose, and was about to address the house, when Mr. MITCHELL said be would not divide the ?louse on the claims. The chime was then negatived, without • division. - - - • • Mr. WALPOLE Naomi to aid the following clause : " Aid whines by the said recited act it is provid-d Mao sorry perm to be appointed in the room of is, ecommlealeser, being a hamster of Ave years' standing at the bar, sad upwards, shall be a practising barrister of not less this live years' deciding at the bar ; and whereu hie expedient to amend the said provisions as ,hereinafter mentioned, the present or any future Secretary to the Com missioners, if at the time of his appointment to he sash secretary be was se shall beee been a praetisiut banister of not less than tin years' etan.ltner at the bar, 'bail be eligible to be appointed a eosesawiontr in the room of any sash commissioner as storessid." The clause was agreed to, and the bill was them read a third tints and pared. EVIDENCE AMENDMENT BILL. Os the order of the day for the third reading of this bill, Mr. WORTLEY said he regretted he was not present when this bill was in committee, or be shoual base 'eked for some explanation as to one of the provisions of this bill. 'ihis bill provided that a husband or wife should be /gully competent and compellable to give evidence, but to the seventh clause there was an exception which he could not nuilentand. The exceptions were two. in eons of trials regarding adultery, the reason for which exception it was not difficult to understand ; and the other exception was in criminal eases. U. could not ice why a wile or a hus band should be permitt..d to give evidence in a c.vil suit and not in a criminal case. Ile would put • sing:. st.omaty. In a county court there was nothing so common as • case being proved by a plaintiff ev.d wife, the wife keeping the accounts ; and he ma; 1-.rry to say it was no uncommon thing for the unsuccessFul party to prefer an indictment for perjury. According to this bill, the wife and the husband could not t,.' called es a witness fir the other in a ease of that kind. Th , -s might be miny eases where • wife could give mist valuable evidence en • pprr•cueion, and he thought it would be better to ;et the huoiicd and wife be called, leaving their tildqleL open to such observations u might be made upon it. Perhaps it was tog late to move an amendment, but Lc w.therd for an eapi.nation on these points. PALIERSTON said he would postpone the bill till t ••asorrow. and the suzgctitiont of the his. end learned member !Moak! betaken Into oonseltretiss. The hill win pestpnoed ao.oordisgly. 'll.e conies rit Specification" Keocil LUI, Chute( ry Suitors Farther It hef Bill , and the L•.clesi.iitical Listing Act Amendment Bill wove t. terally ci.n.idered and old, red VI he read a third time this day. Colon , 1 SI lITIIORP said he horir-1 the nob! , 'ord the Secretary fur the Home booartment would take into con.i ileratioa the prelim% dangerous pr.ctiet rd 111111140..1 , 1 - a atoppin to sat down and take up pas,engars ir. tLe middle of the street. Lord PALMERSTON rdd he .h.iokl make ti;• DM , " lU inquire particularly into the n. atta r than.: the act specified, at the hon. Awl goltint ro.lnt.er imagiefrol, that omnibuses should tale e,, ,r a.,t d twr , a t any "wheeler pert of the street, bet the puute LW a pentral power to prey' at obstructions to the tr.Letil. Be smelt call the attention :A ac Commissioners of Ebolice to the subject. The house then aejourned at a quarter to 12 (o'Clock. Sin Jun,: SHELLEY having read in the House of Commons a eircu;ar, ant by Mr. Frewen to the gentlemen of bar Zilajeety's Opposition, summoning them to appear in the hou-e on Mouday evening, to insist on the restoration of a clause prohibiting the use of carts drawn by dogs, which their lor.'ships struck cut of the Turnpike Acts Continuation Bid, the following has hen des patched to the hon. bonnet by Mr. FfeWCII •—" Sir—As I cannot but regent the reading by you in the ll' +use of Coos. mons, this tusruiug, of a note of mine mirk-4 private,' as involving a breach of confidence on the part of some member of tha Conservative parte, to wh-,ni it Lad been addressed—in justice to mr.el , , 1 &man i to know from whom you received it I—l am your obedient servant, — C. 11. FILIONEN, Whitehall-gardzns, Welntsday, Au gust 10." THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 12, 1853. tire. We have a climate, though somewhat capri cious and variable, which is, perhaps, as favourable, upon the whole, for growing a wide range of agricultural produce as that of any other country in the world. Our best farmers are skilful, and our ordinary farmers require little more than relief frum impediments created or perpetuated by mismanagement to become skilful also. Many of them are men of large capital, and all might have a greater command of capital were the business of farming carried on under sounder economical condi tions. Our breeds of live stock arc pre-eminent ; our agricultural implements and machinery exceed everything that has at any place or in any age been applied to the culture of the soil ; and, though last not least, our farm labourers possess that strenuous industry and indomitable perseve rance which hive rendered this country in all arts, save the art of husbandry, superior to the whole world. With such countless advantages our agricul ture languishes for want of capital ; the art of hus bandry legs behind all other industrial arts in this country ; and though enough is done to prove the capacity of our husbandry under favourable circum stances, the great mass of our farmers cannot avail themselves of the means of profit and improve meat which—Tantalus-like—are almost, but not quite, within their reach. The immediate cause of this is the defective management of their land by the landowners. Their farms are not in such a state of improvement as will attract capitalist farmers. The buildings are usually dilapidated and always ill-managed and inconvenient. If the land is heavy it commonly wants draining; if light, marling or claying. The ie haler roads are bad, and timber and unnecessary hedgerows incumber the land, often in such a degree as to render profitable farming altogether out of the question. We are aware it will be said that much of this is occasioned by the trammelled condition of the pro prietors by their incumbrances and their settlements; .and though we do not overlook the enormous evils of such trammels, we say advisedly that so far as regards their relations with their tenants, and their power to put their farms into a state fit for proper cultivation, they may in a great degree provide the remedy. It is as much the want of business talent and energy, and the han kering after a sort of semi-feudal system of land ma nagement, which more than positive inability interfere with the good management of the estates of our landed proprietors. Here, then, good example is in estimable ; and when we find such an example set by a public department, the influence of which must operate widely, the occurrence should be noticed with approval. Readers might have seen recently in our columns, and those of other papers, an advertisement wherein the department of " the Woods and Forests . ' offered to let New Park Farm and House at Lyndhurst and Brockenhurat, in the New Forest. It is true that there is a gentleman's house on the farm, but as the farm con sists of 114 acres of arable and 155 acres of meadow land, the occupier must become a farmer, and in all probability the offerers mainly consisted of persons who desired to add to their incomes by the profits of a farm, or by farmers of a superior class, who might already have taken, or intend to take, other land in the neighbourhood. At all events, the terms on which this farm was offered are applicable to every kind of farm, and it is to such terms we would call attention. After riving a description of the farm, its distance from market towns, railway stations, and tho like, the advertisement proceeded thus : " Any additional farm buildings, and all drainage determined to be necessary, will he executed by the Crown, the tenant paying 3/. per cent. per annum on the outlay. The conditions of man-gement will be settled under liberal covenants in the lease, the particulars of which can be seen on application." Then same a description of the house, after which wee the following important announcement :—" The ex- elusive right to shoot in 174 acres of woodland ad jacent to the farm will be granted to the tenant. , The term of the lease was to be 21 years, and of course all the rights to game and sporting over the farm were to belong exclusively to the tenant. For this occupation tenders aro invited, and there can be no doubt that a pumber of persons, sure to make first-class tenants, would send in proposals. Here we find the sound commercial principle fully ipplied to the letting of a farm. A lease for a lorg term, with liberal cove nants, is offered; and each covenants may be in spected by proposers, so that any one in making a tender may suggest modifications, which it may be for the proprietor's interest to adopt. Additional buildings and necessary draining will be done at a charge to the tenant of .51. per cent. yearly on the outlay incurred. Any one, therefore, on inspecting the farm, will be able to judge for ,himself what extra building accommodation is likely to be required, and on how much of the land draining is necessary, and he may oal. culate his offer of rent accordingly. Then theta is not only no reservation of game upon the rum itself, but the exclusive right of sporting in a large wood adjoining, without which the tenant could set possibly protect himself against the depredations d game. In ordinary cases, this right to sporting is adjoining woods should be given in common to all the occupiers of farms whose lands adjoin or ap proach near to the wood; nor could there be any objection to the landlord reserving a concurrent right of personally sporting in the woods, or per haps over the farm itself, provided no gamekeepers or game-watchers were to be employed, or permitted to go on the tenants' land. If such terms are offered to all the ageicultural tenants of the Crown, ud not confined to that farm ou which there is also a gentleman's house and premise!, h is certain the Crown farms might soon be occupied by a superior class of tenants, and the management of the Woods and Forests might, in this respect, be held up as an example worthy of imitation by moat of our landed proprietors. At present there is much to be complained of in the management of that pro perty. But of that it is not now our business to speak. What are the difficulties in the way ? Mainly the want of will to concede to tenants such a complete possession of their farms for long terms of years as would attract men of capital to become occupiers; and the absence of durable improvements necessary to good husbandry, the execution of which would be a misapplication of the tenant's capital, unless he held his farm at a rent proportionably low, to which the landlord would naturally be unwilling to submit. Let the owner of any considerable farm frame a lease for 21 years with a few simple and really liberal covenants; let him offer to make addi tional buildings, execute drainage ani the like at au extra rent equivalent to 51. per cent. on the capital so expended; let him give up game reservations, I retain no game keepers, and let the right of sporting in his adjoining woods to the tenants of his estate; and let him make his rational plan of managing his property be extensively known, and there is no doubt that he might increase his rental from twenty-five to fifty per cent., and have a satis fied and independent tenantry able to stand their ground through an adverse season or two without coming cap in hand to their landlord for reduction of rent. That the comfort and pecu niary advantage of both landlord and tenants would be promoted by the change is unquestionable: Probably there arc many estates held under settle ments in which the leasing powers given to tenants for life do not admit rational leases to be granted in conformity with such powers, and a well-advised capitalist farmer would hesitate to accept a lease not in accordance with the terms of the power to grant contained in such a settlement, as not being binding on the next taker of the estate ; but the short re mcdy for that is in the hands of the landowners. No thing would be more easy than by an Act of Parlia ment to give a general power to all owners of settled I estates when in possession to grant leases that would be ample securities to good tenants, without in any way affecting injuriously the interests of persons in remainder. Such a power has, in fact, been given to the Scotch landowners by tho act of 6th and 7th Wm. IV., c. 42, and with the best effects; and the English proprietors have only to move in the matter to obtain similar or equivalent powers. But they seem to be beset with vague apprehensions of deal ing with the actual state of the law as affecting land, and in consequence to suffer themselves, and cause injury to their tenants and the public by that sort of passive obstruction the present state of landed property offers to agricultural and general improve ment. Nor are the difficulties of procuring the means of improving settled estates so great as formerly. Be sides advances of public money made for drainage, and the power under the Private Money Drainage Act of charging the inheritance with a rent-charge in repayment of similar advances by private persons, several companies, empowered by Act of Parliament, will undertake works of improvement on settled lands, receiving the cost by instalments spread over • periods extending from twelve to thirty years. Zhe rprva4o. TO CORMS FON OENTS. enteral ZAttun of "11e Lapeer: etennint.ez r Itzre vvenlNee " pt:Olted every Turel ty en: Frin‘y eight. 'n Uwe fee poet. I Pen wee , eta: , inter ded her " The Pr trt-e," Lori:vs 'r.• ^e int paper, ewe , . 'ye ~.be line% 10, Houveritasteoet, by Two rielcck on the Jay of p2WoAloo. 1110 H WATER AT LONDON BRID3II. Tn. DAT —ltemise. 6h.: atlernwe. To.uoiwww.-11awslag. Cy-moon. 511.19 Ea. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG CST 12. TUERE iz reviewing at Spithead and reviewing at Chobham. Our sailors and soldiers have been ex pending a vast quantity of powder, without any in tention of finding the ordinary " food" for it. It may be all very well for Military and Naval amateurs to make holidays to see thousands of men playing at soldiers and sailors, and it will be still better if any practical utility can be deduced from this gigantic game. But what advantage will the nation get from all this Naval manwuvring ? It must be remem bered that the evolutions of a large Naval and a large Military force differ from each other in a most re markable manner. The one are distinguished for their simplicity, the other for their complication. Neesos showed clearly enough the nature of naval tactics, when he said that, in case of any uncertainty with respect to instructions, no captain of a vessel could be wrong who laid his ship alongside of one of the enemy's and commenced an attack. Now a general who should issue an order before a battle, to the effect that no colonel of a regiment could do wrong by charging that regiment of the enemy which happened to be nearest to him, would most assuredly make admirable preparations for s defeat. In a naval engagement tactics go for little, while the perfection of the individual vessels is almost everything. In a military engagement, tactics are all in all. If every man-of-war, including that of the Admiral, comes into action thoroughly pre pared, the work of the Admiral will not greatly extend (after the first general order) beyond fighting his own Alit. A General, on the contrary, has Lie whole anxiety directed to the manoeuvring of masses of his forces. All this shows that while a plea can be made out, with some modicum of plausibility, for occasional reviews of troops on a large scale, very little can be said in favour of naval reviews. The Navy depends for its efficiency upon the perfection of the single vessels of which it is composed ; the Army, on the contrary, places its great trust on the genius of its Generals. The show at Spithead was a show, and very little more. It could scarcely teach any indivi dual captain to work his vessel with more precision than before. Any commander who did not know as much the day before yesterday as he knows to-day is not fit for the grave responsibility he incurs when he assumes the command of a man-of-war. Neverthekrs, a show was wanted, and the show took place. Whether it was ima gined in certain quartets that the Conti nental powers needed some information as to the ex tent of our resources of offence and defence, and that the steeliness of our display at Ceobham needed the exhibition of a much larger display at Spithead, we kuow not. The only thing certain is that JOHN Bret. has had his show, and spent an enormous quan tity of money and powder upon it. The Portsmouth review yesterday excited all the elements of a nine hours' wonder to an exaggerated degree. The town was crowded with thousands, who caught occasional glances of the water by looking over each other's heads, and hundreds of whom will return to town, innocent of seeing one single incident of the great transactions of the day. The innkeepers and lodging-house-keeper obtained fabulous sums for doubtful accommodation. Provisions were at famine prices. Not a boat was to be obtained for love or money. In the meantime the two Houses of Parliament were enduring sea-sickness with a mar tyrdom worthy of senators. The high legal func tionaries of the kingdom were sighing for the trou bled waters of the law, as they were heaved pitilessly upon the unquiet waves of the ocean. The SOVEREIGN, whom no fatigue can subdue, whom no weather affects, was gliding, like the Spirit of the Scene, over the waters, untouched by any of the ailments which subdued many of the sturdiest of her subjects. We do not intend to give up so much to criticism as to deny that there were numerous elements of grandeur in the display of yesterday. The fleet was the noblest fleet in the world, albeit its occupation was unnecessary. The manmuvring of the vessels was all that could be desired. It was consolatory to refleet that the men engaged on the vessels could easily turn from play to earnest. After looking upon the evolutions, few persons would be cynical enough to deny to the mast unsteady of young gentlemen proceeding home from supper in the even ing, that " Britannia did not need any bulwarks other than her men-of-war, or that her home was "on the deep." There would be as little disposition to investigate the title of the said lady " to rule the waves," or to express any doubt as to the correctness of the assertion that as long as this would be the case " Britons never, never, shall be slaves." The sight of yesterday was not without its effect in clenching these national traditions with a still closer rivet. In a word, the review gave reasons for believing—what, perhaps, we have been too content to believe without reasons—that our naval force is still supreme. What we protest against is any course of proceeding which shall tend to continentalise us with martial shows, or shall tend to fester in the minds of Englishmen a silly idle desire for sham soldiering or saibaring. Let us be prepared to fight when the time requires it, but do not, by needless military and naval displays, foster a false national 'spirit, which may hurry us into quarrels, out of which we shall not be able to emerge, without a terrible ruffling of the plumes on which we have so much prided ourselves. HOW TO RAISE THE VALUE OF FARN:S. V) THE EDITOR Or VIZ F[)•1111.41. Stri,—llonour to whom hor.our is due. It is a hope ful sign of 'betimes to find a public department setting an example of improved mai: agement, in a matter rn impot taut as the letting of farm-. F. - to may the tru:h, this is now one of the wenktst parts of our sorial and economical system. We possess a soil, to a wide extent, of great natural fertility, and, even where not natur.hy fertile, capable, Guth the appliance of u husbandry, of king rendered very prolue- AMERICA. A telegraphic summary of the following appeared yesterday in the Express: The United States mail steam-ship Franklin,Jamcs A. Woton, commander, arrived off Cowes late on Wednesday night, and landed the mails for Englund, on her way to Havre. • The Franklin brought dates from New York to the 30th ult. ; specie value 850,000 dollars, of which 30,000 dollars is for England, 00 passengers, and a full cargo, for England. The Georgia arrived at New York on the 20th ult. with specie value 1,600,900 dollars from California. Her news had been anticipated by the Northern Light. The New York papers publish news from Sydney of the 15th of April, received by way of Panama, but the intelligence had been forestalled by more direct accounts on this side. Tho Asia reached New York on the 25th tilt., from Liverpool. Dates from Havannah state that a well-known slave-dealer had been arrested at Belize, Honduras, for shipping Indians from Yucatan to Cuba as slaves. According to the American papers, the gold depo sits at the United States Mint during the month of June amounted to 4,533,000 dole., all of which but 60,000 dole. was from California. The deposits of silver bullion amounted to the unusually large sum of 678,000 dole. The gold deposits would have been larger if the Georgia, whose treasure was due at the Mint in June, had arrived a day or two sooner. As it is, her freight list, amounting to over two millions, will go to swell the deposits for July. Amount of gold deposited at the Mint during the first six months of the present and two past years was—ln 1851, 20,742,314 dots.; in 1832, 25,180,155 dole.; in 1853, 29,709,010 dole. The coinage at the Mint during the month of June amounted to 4,774,243 dole. in gold, 650,000 dole. in silver, and 3,667 dole. in cop per—total, 5,427,912 dole. Entire coinage of the Mint in Philadelphia since the let of January, 1833 :—Gold, 28,634,018 dole.; silver, 2,043,366 dole. ; copper. 25,291 dole. This is an aggregate of 30,677,384 dole. The:coinage of the entire year 1852 was as follows:—Gold, 31,523,688 dole.; silver, 847,310 dole.; copper, 51,627 dots. ; total, 52,404,569 dole. At the present rate the entire coinage of 1853 will exceed 60.000,000 dole. The silver coinage of this year already is much more than that of all la't year, nod has an advantage in the fact that it is nearly all of the larger coins, while the greater part issued last year consisted of three cent. pieces. Sil ver currency ought now to be much more abundant throughout the country. The amount of specie ex ported to Europe during the month of June was about four millions. The entire shipments since Jan. 1 amount to about 10,300,000 dole. Deducting this from the deposits at our Mint, and we still have an excess of specie remaining in the country out of this year's receipts of over It/ millions. The Smyrna affair was recei% big much attention in New York, and the conduct of the captain of the St. Louis was much lauded. A large meeting had been held in Newfoundland, at which it was resolved that unfettered commercial relations with the United States were necessary for the continued success of the province. From New Mexico the accounts state that General Friar had withdrawn his troops from tho Nlesilla Valley, under an order from the Mexican Minister of War. The moat cordial understanding prevailed be tween the military officers of both governments. Tho yellow lever was prevailing at New Orleans. COMMERCIAL. The Asia's news had advanced the prices of flour and breadstuff, on the New York market, and prices wire firm and buoyant. The crott.mt market was also I igher. Free purchases had been made of wheat at 3c. to sc. per bushel advance. A.4)14.11 were in fair demand. _ _ _ Freights rather firmer, with more offtrieg from Liver pool. The stock market had slightly decline'. Bills on London were quoted Rol to 1. The fall trade fa dry goi.da had fairly cantaieced aad every branch wee more or leas active. A NEGRO MURDERER BURNED AT THE STAKE. The negro man (says the Boonville 0 4serrer), b e _ longing to 11. Franco, of Heath's Creek, Pettis emuty, Missouri, who murdered the wife of John Rains, I:ein; i n the lame neighbourhood, was burned at the stake in or near Georgetown on the 13th instant The eireurn‘tanees attending this murder, so far as we can learn, were as folio , r 3 : The negro man, aged nineteen or twenty, visited kir. Rains's house on Sunday morning, the ilid of July, w H e Rains was absent at meetine, for th e di a b o li cal purpose, according to bis confession, of committing a rape u p on the :n: was brutally mur . person of Mrs. Rains. The consequen ce was t h at this lady, daredwithin w a it few a weeks chib it o h f e n a e7r aiu)ti le tern ru p t ed to kill h er o l dest boy, and fancied he had killed him, fearing, as he saisl, tl.at he would tell on him; end two younger children were sadly bruised, and thrown in a fence corner, because, so the negro said, they annoyed him " by crying about their mother." When Rains returned hone he found his wife dead, and his eldest boy so badly bruised that it was thought be could not recover, but he distinctly hdd his Esther who it was that had committed the outrage. This demon in human shape was immediately apprelunded fur trial, but the citi• yeas took possession of him to burn him immediately, and delayed the execution only to ascertain the motives of such a villunous outrage. The negro at first said, as we understand, that it was not him who committed the murder, but his brother ; and next, admitting his guilt, said he was instigated to the act by bi s young master. Ilia young master was immediately taken into custody, but was released because the negro exculpated him from the charge, admitting that it grew out of his Ms tention to commit a rape. The only cacti.° which can be oW•red for the awful rem buti•on of burning this negro, is the nature of the (dente, and the frequent attempts of late years of negroes to violat e white women—several instances of which have occurred in this county—and the impression among the community that it required such an example to protect them from the re. petition of similar outrages. The negro's crime was horrid indeed ; hut his punishment will be regarded by many at cruel, if not barbarous. Had it been a white man, instead of a negro, there is no doubt but what he would have ‘hared a sitniltr fate. The citizens of Pettis county having some suspicion that the negro was instigated to the perpetration of the deed by his master, or that he knew more of the murder than had been disclosed, and in consideration of past offences, held a meeting on the 13th instant, and passed the following resolutions: Resolved, that Henry France and family be notife'd to leave Pettis county within ten days, and that William France he notified to leave it at the same time. Resolved, that Heury France be notified to leave the state within thirty days from this date. ltesolved, that we, the committee, guarantee safety to kirnself and property for ten days—provided be behaves himself as a whi , e maa should—and fur the following rea sons, Ti..: Ist. For aiding and abetting. as we believe, in the mur der of Elizabeth Rains, on the 3rd day of July, 1333. 2nd. For various and divers depredations committed on the live stock of his neighbours. 3rd. For various threats to commit depredations aol injuries upon his neighbours. . _ 4th. Fora bad example set before slaves by elnvcrsing with tht in in relation to the virtue and chastity of whits women, and in defamation of their character, thereby fluenciog them to commit deeds of crime and rapine. sth. And in view of thesc reasons, we do not fed that our families and interests are safe whilst they remain in the neighbourhood. A MIDLAND COUNTIES FARMER. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. VIENNA, Aro. 9. It has transpired that the note sent to Constanti nople, and which was not despatched from this ca pital before the 3rd inst., has been drawn up not in the name of the great powers represented in the conference in this city, but in that of the Austrian government, which acts as if its mediation had been accepted by the Czar. It must be stated, how ever, that the English, French, and Prussian cabi nets approve of the note in question, and that their respective representatives in Constantinople will re ceive, or rather, have already by this time, received instructions to support that note and to advise the Porte to send a favourable and amicable reply to Vienna, as well u to consent to despatch an ambas sador to St. Petersburg, for the purpose of finally arranging the Russo-Turkish question. The Porte is virtually required to take the initiative, and. to all intents and purposes, to go a-begging of the Empe ror of Russia to effect an arrangement, and yet the latter has kept himself perfectly free from any engagement respecting the Danubian Principalities. The Sultan is urged to declare that he ace; pta all the provisions and stipulations contained in the treaties of Kainardij and of Adrianople ; that he will be bound by them; that he will faith fully uphold all the rights and privileges conferred thereby on the Greek orthodox church, and that he will maintain all the concessions granted 'by his late firmans. All that being done—hut not till all is done—the Czar will be happy to teeeive an Ottoman ambasaador in St. Petersburg; the latter, of course, giving his own interpretation t 3 the above treaties and firmans, as well as to the Sultan's pro mise to adhere to them. Telegraphic despatches from Constantinople of the Ist, three days later than our correspondence, have been received. The Porte had issued an address to the nation in answar to the manifesto, signed by the Czar. There was still a willingness, on the part ol• the Turkish government, to bv guided by the counsel of the Western powers. The Russian consul at Adrianople had left his post—a fact which had been seized by alarmists for their purposes. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 23. The following note, to which I alluded in my last, has been sent to Vienna to be discussed by the re presentatives of the great powers. It is the lam measure of concession consistent with the honour and independence of the forte PACHA TO COCK? NESSELRODE. Emellency,—Aware of the profound interest which his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, an well as the great rntlio - of his people, take in all that concerns the religion which they profess, and appreciating entirely the motives of that interest ' I had great pleasure in notifying to your Excellency the firmans which my august master Sovereign promuigated towards the end of Chaaban of this year. And with a view of removing all doubts on this subject, I have further to assure your Eacellcncy that the Sublime Porte, in reserving to herself the sacred rights of sove reignty one her own subjects, has the firm intention of se curing perpetually to the Greek church the enjoyment of those spiritual privileges and immunities confirmed therein, and grant to it, moreover, such other privileges and immu nities as it may please his Majesty the Sultan hereafter to grant to any other rite amongst his Christians. Lastly, I have net the smallest doubt that these assurances, founded on the abovementioned firmans and which have produced - rill afford also satisfaction roufidence everywhere, w, _ mum.— . to (Signed) REscnin MUSTAPIIA. The war party prevails in council, I may say, throughout the whole empire, and even lately the majority of the great functionaries declared on oath that this the foregoing note shall be their last act of submission to the lawless aggressions of Russia. Resehid Pacha's position in the cabinet is still un fortunately precarious, notwithstanding his late vic tory. His eminent qualities as a statesman, his liberal views and great attainments, expose him ne cessarily to continual intrigues and pereecwion. War is the watchword ; even old Khoerew, now an octogenarian, declared lately in council that he was all ready, if required, to repair to the camp in defence of the national cause. Advices from Omer Pacha contribute not a little to foment and exasperate the war cry. He evinces the strongest desire to commence the struggle, and declares that it will be utterly impossible much longer to restrain the ardour of his troops—but im pressing on the government, that should money and other necessaries fail, he cannot answer for their con duct under arms. The Smyrna transaction between Austria and America is still pending : it will give rise to some disagreeable complication, it is feared, in respect to the refugee question. Moreover, our mediator, M. de Bruck, it is said, hu availed himself of the pre ' sent difficulty, to raise some pecuniary and territo rial questions with the Porte. Two vessels, L'Jena and Austerlitz, have rein forced the French fleet. Lord Palmerston is above all others a favourite, a sort of Deus terminus, with the Osmanlis, and the few words, in his usual firm and epigrammatic tone, replying to Mr. Layard, contributed not a little to r store confidence, and neutralise the deplorable effects produced in this country by the wavering and temporising policy of our government. The capta►n of the Inflexible died here a few days ago. Letters from Tiflis of July 13th state that the Russian government is preparing a new expedition against Caucrsus, to be undertaken at the end of this month. A fleet is arming in the sea of Azof to support the land operations. Since the quarrel with Turkey there has been great agitation in the Russo- Caucasian provireov. FRANCE. ' , Ants, THURSDAY EVENING. The Cimstitutionnel has a smart attack upon par liamentary government in general, and Lord John Hassell and Lord Clarendon in particular, apropos of the Eastern question. The cautious language of those ministers in reference to a piece of news which the government journals hero aro instructed to accept without reserve does not suit the purpose of those parties whose sole object is to write up the Bourse, and paint everything couleur de rose for the fetes of August lath. According to the Condi tutionnel Lord Clarendon merely showed his ignor ance in tuliiing about what the conference of Vienna might do hereatter,becauseeverythingis done already, and Lord John I teasel l's statement that there were t wo notes sent from Vienna to St. Petersburg, is conclu sively answered by the Grand Cross given to M. prouyn de Lhuys. When the Conseitsitionnei pro. fe*es to give the English Lords and Commons in timation upon a matter of fact, which the English cabinet either withhold or misrepresents, it is entitled to a hearing, and 1 therefore send you the article in full : There is something really marvellous in the parliamentary r. - yitere. Members of parli meat to k a great deal, it is tru, but often to say nothing. Mote—the more they seeds, the less is understood, the less information is imparted. Thus we defy the most sagacious and elvar•ighte .1 to explain to themselvesthe langu ige of Lord Julie. It msell in the House of Commons, and the speech of Lord Clarendon in the house of Lords. It 11 naively " imagined in Paris that the interpellations announced in the English ',aliment would be the development stud explanation of the telegraphic despatch in the ilmiiteur of Sunday last. But now that the public has a full report of these interpellations, it is somewhat less advanced than before, in the knowledge of the real state of affairs in the East. We know not whetl.er the cabinet of Louden has taken the commerce of the city for , another (Minus, and whether, like a new sphinx, it has proposed to itself to give a riddle to be guessed. But it has at all events succeeded in ruaking such a tangled web of the Eastern question, that it wou!il be difficult to sepa rate the threaus, were we not to call to our aid common sense, happily 1211 obscure than the language of parliamen tary oracles. And moreover public opinion iu France has now for its guide in the field of conjecture the imperial de cree elevating the Minister of Foreign Aff des to the dignity of a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, in con ; sideration of his eminent services rendered to the country in the direction of diplomatic affairs. This is a justly merited distinction, and one that will be ap plauded without reserve by all the friends of European peace and national honour. But certainly nothing can better demonstrate that the g ivernment considers the E 'stern question settled. However, the ministers of the Queen of England were singularly obscure upon the sub ject last M .nday in both houses of parliament. Here follows a translation of the debate. The article theta goes on : It is impossible to see in the silence and the reserve of Lord John Russell sal Lord Clarendon anything else than a piece of tactics produced by the necessities of the parliamentary reginh , . We arc even of opinion that in the laoguag•• of both one and the other, inexactitudes and contradictions, inevitable in replirs made on the instant to unexpected questions, could be pointed out. Thus, when Lord Clarendon says that nothing will be coeclutled at Vienna without the adhesion of the governments of France and England, evidently ho tares into a question of the future an act already accomplished. Nothing has, in tact, been done in Austria without the +went or the cabinets of Paris and London. But that assent no lor,ger to be given —it is accorded to the conventions of the congress of Vienna, and the more so, that it was the notes originally drawn up by the two cabinets which served as the basis of these same conventions. Lord J. Russell, on his part, expressed himself incorrectly when he spoke of two notes from Vienna, saying that the despatch of August 3, dated from St. Petersburg, applied to the first and not to the se cond. There are not two notes from Vienna. There was a pro posal from Constantinople, which was set aside, and a pro posal from Vienna, concerted between France, England, Prussia, and Austria. It is to this last propiral that the ex• change of despatches now going on between St. Petersburg and Vienna refers. That of the 3rd, which announces the adhesion of the Emperor of Rusia, relates to this project, which stands alone. Only, a confsnion has hitherto existed between the general sense and the complete text of this note, and it is that confusion which, in the English Parliament, ha obscured anew, though without cause, the Eastern question. This is the way in which the facts took place :—On July 24, the representatives of the four great Western powers had a conference at Views', in which they decided on the conditions of arrangement to be proposed to Russia. The result of that conference and the sense of the arrangement were communicated to the ea4net of St. Petersburg by a courier, who set out the next morning, and it is on that communication that the Empe• rue of Russia declared on August 3, that he adhered to the note of Vitona. Thus, although it is true that the complete test of this note only left on the 2nd of August for St. Petersburg, it is not the lees certain that the adhesion of the Emperor Nicholas to the conditions of arrangement concerted at Vienna betseen t: e four great Western powers is now ensured. There is conse quently no doubt to be raised either on the veracity or the character of the telegraphic dispatch published by the 3/oniteur on Sunday. The above article is signed Atnedee do Cesena. I understand that the monthly accounts of the Bank of France, which will appear in the Moniteur to-morrow, show a further increase in the discounts, to the extent of five millions. The market fur public securities has been dull to day, yet prices of Hordes were steady at the close of business. The Three per Cents. for cash and for the account have advanced, the former 30c. and the latter 35c. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents., how ever, were not so firm, having given way 10c. for cash, and only maintained the precious day's quota tions for the account. No change has taken place in the value of Bank Stock. The following are the closing prices : Fur cash : Three per Cents., SOL 10c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 f. 30c. For the account : Three per Cents., 80f. 25c. ; Four-and a-Half per Cents., 104 f. 40c. Bank Stock, 2,835 E Northern', 8931. • I'aris and Orleans, 1,217 E ; Paris and Strasbourg , 9SOf . 25c.; Yaris and Lyons, 061 f. ; Paris and Rouen. 1,104 f. tiOc. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 782 f.; Western of France, 760 f. .50c. A SCENT IN THE FRIENDLY ISLAND.•z. We had an agreeable walk back to Nukualofa, where, previously to returning on board, we ♦i.ittd the grave of poor Captain Croker. Ilia remains lie close to the Mission Chapel, and a head-board, with a plate of copper, which we renewed, records the date of his nitlaneholy death. The gentlemen of the mission accompanied me on board to dinner, to which I also invited Mumui and old Vaca-ten-ola. Although dressed in native costume (a flow ing robe of native cloth, leaving shoulders and chest ex posed), their behaviour at table was that of Halsted gen tlemen. We had a good deal of conversation, carried on, of course, through the missionaries, on the subject of old dignities and family names in Tonga, the chief relating the origin of many of the latter, and Vice teu-ola ex plaining that his name, literally translated, meant " the canoe that is successful in catching the sh..rks." They seemed pleased at being interrogated on these points, and to have an opportunity of talking of their family connexions and dignities, which are evidently still highly valued, and were so much flattered by our atten tion to these minutia that they declared before going away that they lad never been treated so like chiefs before by any strangers. Our drums and fifes attracted, as usual, a great share of attention ; the colt sound of the former, according to them, excelling all other music. Although the evening was cool, and Mumui was suffering from a pulmonary complaint, and seemed to feel the exposure to the dew, they would not leave the deck, but, unrolling the train of their robes, and wrapping it gracefully round the upper part of the body close up to the chin, somewhat after the manner of a Spanish cloak, stood listening to the music, looking like beautifully draped statues, until it was time to depart. A few rockets completed the entertainment, end added to their gratification ; and, an we were to sail in the morning, many adieus and good wishes were exchanged ca all sides ere they were rowed away to the shore.—ErsAi/ki Journal of a Cruise. A PICTURE OF FRENCH THIEVES. The Court of Assizes of the Marne, in its last sitting, tried a young man named Rennevier, an ex-school muter named buffet, and Uranie Buffet, daughter of the latter, for robbery. On the 22nd August last, whilst the Abbe Brayer, cure of Sezanne, was celebrating mass, his ouse was broken into, and a basket of plate, a sum of money, three Roman bonds of I,ooofr. each, a pair of pistols, and a gold watch, were taken away. On inquiry, it turned out that the two male prisoners had become ac quainted in the gaol of Epernay, where they were both confined, snd that they there concocted the robbery of the cure : Buffet, who belonged to his parish, having no doubt suggested it, and Rennevier having planned and executed it. The two prisoners then came to Paris, where they took the female prisoner into their confidence. She was a Loretle, known by the nickname of Pervenche, and was notorious at the Chateau Rouge and other public dancing gar dens for the skill with which in dancing she managed to knock off the hat of her partner with her foot. Rennevier, in his interrogatory, frankly and even impudently, admitted his own guilt; but said that his accomplice was not Buffet, but a Jew named Max. He, however, stated that Buffet came to Paris with him to dispose of his booty. " How could be have done that," asked the President, " if he had not been concerned in the robbery ?" " I had ordered a supper for two in a public-house at Epernay," answered the accused, "and expected Max to join me. But as he did not come, I asked Buffet, who had just arrived, to join me at table. He did so, and in the course of conversation, I being heated with wine, let out what I had done. But, re flecting a moment afterwards, I said, ' Now you know my secret, I will not leave you for a moment, lest you should sell me ; and if you attempt to betray me, I nig kill you without hesitation.' It was after that that we agreed to come to I'aris together. On our arrival," continued the accused, "he lent me clothes, and I went and sold the plate for 595 f. lle after wards introduced me to his daughter, and she became my mistress." Buffet, in his interrogatory, denied the charges simian him. The female accused admitted that she bad been kept by a man, but had at the same time two other regular lovers, and a number of others whom she picked np by chance ; also that she had accepted Rennevier as another lover the moment he was presented to her. She had, she said, taken him for a rich man whom she could pluck; and he had given her papers to take care of, which he told her were bonds for 58,000 fr., though they turned out afterwards to be only printed advertisements. Evidence was given clearly proving the guilt of the two men ; also, that the woman not only knew all about the robbery, but bad at tempted to sell what she conceived were the bonds, un known to Rennevier. The jury declared all thr,c guilty, and the Court condemned Rennevier to fifteen, and Beth t to eight years' imprisonment with hard labour, and the female to five years' ininrisonment. A woman named Vihtinie Genet, servant to titanic Buffet, was tried atth the hand; but there was no evidence against h r, and ;Le was discharged. ExPI.OsION AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Butsroc.—Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, shortly before one o'clock, a very serious explosion occurred at the Zoolo gical Gardens, Clifton, Bristol, which happi'•y was unat tended with loos of life. Preparations were making for a grand gala on Monday nest fur the benefit of Mr. Gyngen, the pyrotechnist, who has a shed in the gardens near the bear pit for the manufacture of fireworks. At the time of the accident some of the parties in hie employment were engaged in rameo;ng the composition into the rocket eases, when, from some unknown cause, the materials ignite?, and a terrific explosion ensued, by which the whole of the shed was blown into the air, and the tirewerks that had been already made were destroyed. Two of the workmen were seriously injured, and one of them so SeTtqtly that ho had to be at once conveyed to the Bristol Infirmary. Aopes are, however, entertained of his recovery. 01. Duke Duce Trio 1 Count G on a vial day, fro by rail. For: Arno Mite to The . reulet, 1 James The Alfred, Wiens, visitors I and Steam 3 o'cl naval re liar° family, tart stud the PAs , " the tien vensbou the gm The evident classes ing fro took w and sai hatted their ti possess eneune British was b, water =diet] other Due al two h, crowds Binary fil!ed that 1 same sing reek the t bent well unifi Val Bra ign lor rie Lc H. Si, ful