The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-13 00:00:00

ehe erproso. TO CORIILFPON OEN IS. a Int.! •I" /be Lemma.' eent ame be Kane mrsleee .* (wattle," 4 pebtiebed every Twoday Vogel slaty h. tiwe • ee.t. Ad“stregeest. mt.". 44 foe " Time Kirre.," /liaise paw, errs be at the tlft,r, 10. Ilkomene.nseet. by Two o'l.olo oa tN ley t..b.e...tam. Hien MATKII - AT WNW)* BRIDGE Tem Imi—Vorame. 3b. •10. ..... Anemone, I& She. Twrossow—blondos, 34. -. %Reines% SLUE. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13. Asa.'lit mail from South Africa. Another month had t lapsed. and the state of affairs in British Kalb-aria, and on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colon remained unaltered. The Kaiffirs had nut lost an inch of ground ; not one thief who had taken part against us had proved unfaithful to his race ; mutinous elcmonstrations continual among the !lot tcntalts, the extent and dangers of which the colo nists had pointed to themselves in exaggcmtexl co lours; and the Comwtxtarn-ix-entu still stood on his defensive in King William's Town. MI this tends to strengthen the opinion that Sir Minn is not the man to put an stud to the Kaffir war. Ile himself says nothing, but his friend• and confidants are busily indcavouring to !rate an impression that the war cannot be termi natal hot be 1111.11 IN of great rt•infurccrncnts from England. y are inertly saying what Sir ll►;'ur 11110 W% them, if not, indeed, what lw has incited them to sas. Baffled by the rah• tactics of the Kuffirs, unable to devise a plan for bringing them to subjec tion with the burgher levies and regular troops at his disposal, he can imagine no other way to put them down than to overwhelm them with a superior tatce. •• .11w game would not be worth the canclle." The force he would require could, at the utmost', only pat down for the present the hostile chiefs- a the immediate theatre of war. iheir steejection by such mean , WoUld :Ilford no guarantee for the continu ance of peals. :111er the extraordinary forte was re moved. It %outd afford no guarantee fur the con tinuance of i race throughout the immense region in Boutlurn Africa over which the first straggling run ners of colonisation are, like MI manv strawlyrry plants. striking rout. To send sucli an amount of military form as is lavinning to be clamoured for in South Africa to British Kafir-aria, would be to place tirtat Britain in the ludierous and discredit able due aof putting forth, for the temporary eduction of a few savages, military efforts great and expensive enough to conquer a civilised kingdom. Even thou 4h tranquillity and security could be Ts:snarl' to the colonial frontier and to British Kalfraria by such means, it is questionable whether the present government would venture to employ them. It is not that we believe they would hesitate on the score of principle or national policy; it is their fear of personal 11111%11111011:1214 that would di ter them. They know that the expense would he ;mat, and fear the discussion that might arise in parliament when their bills were presented ; they know that the whole of the friends of a pacific rificy —a touch more numerous body than the avowed members of the Peace Society—would be ready to assail them. it tenure of office is not so secure, their popula rity not WI great, as to admit of their lightly pro voking new and increased hostility in so many quarter , . It is not likely that any great military fine will be despatrhed to South Africa. Nor would a gnat military forte in that quarter produce results ade quate to repay the expenditure of human life and treason.. Still it is necessary that a termination should be put, and that speedily, to the disturbances on the eastern frontier of the Cape colony. There are numerous elements of discord and con- fn.i m in `ouch Africa. The .o-ealkal Kaffirs are but the advanced g .;irol of a movement of warlike tribes from South to No; th. 11 - hen Europeans first visited that region—and for long after—the llottentot tribes extended as far ea-t ns Natal. They were gradually driven leek lw the Kattirs as fur as to thewestuf the (rat Fish River. The recent history of the in terior slims that this invasion was made (as has al ways littn the ease in great migrations of races). sometimes by warlike tribes in search of better and wider lands, sometimes by broken tribes flying from a conqueror. The intruders upon the domains of the old Itottentots wire pushed forward by an imna•nw mass behind them moving in the same direction, and the movement is still going on in the interior. On the west side of the (:read Fish River the in truding Kaffir% were met by the equally intruding hutch. The Eurtqsuns made no distinction among the native trils": they regarded all of them as inferior rums. tit onlv to he made slaves of, or driven out and dispossessed The hutch and the Kahn fought for the lands which both had wrested from the Hottentot. The war wag of that desultory. marauding eh-trader that scans interminable, and often lasts for centuries. _ _ While it was in progress. the English came in. The supercilious airs of the English officials. and the stunly self-will of the Dutch settlers, soon led to a formal quarrel. The interft mace of the missionaries and the Anti-Slavery Society—most praiseworthy in respect of its objet, must injudicious m the manner in which it was set about—increased the animosity, and compile-anal the disputes. The cause of the na tive races was urged in a partisan. unrettecting spirit ; all their vices and weaknesses were extenu ated or elmetuled ; all the virtues of the dutch were deniel The emancipation of the slaves, and the impediments throw n in the way of the colonists self-tlefc nee against marauding native tribes, lest it should degenenite into nets of aggression, raised a storm, of discontent, and led ultimately to the emi gration of the lwers. 'rho places left vacant by them were tilled up by English emigrants. The Pnglish goy, nonent pursued them to Natal, to the north of the Orange river; and as they retreated further into the interior to escape it. other European settlers were allowed to Ilettlpy their Oases. The state of affairs that has resulted from these moiements may lie briefly di:scribed. From the great lake. lately discovers:lL to the sea the ground work of the population consists of native, black tribes. frequently at war among themselves and with Europeans, among whom have arisen a succession of ruthless conqueror chiefs. Scattered among them in settlements of the emigrant inters, of mis sionaries, and of colonists retaining their allegiance to the British ('roan. The limits of the Cape colony me strictly defined, and society within them is com- Nletely organised. 'I he limits of British ('atfraria, atal: and the Orange River sovereignty are more vaguely defined. and society is in them less com pletely organised. The land occupied by the Kaffir* between British Kaffraria and Natal is exclusively possessed by independent natives. The emigrant Ivens have no newnisedlimits. and these settlers are a law to themselves. Strong party spirit per vades all these classes; and in the rude imperfect state of the laws and institutions force and violence OW continually resorted to. The gnat task to be accomplished in South Africa is to reduce this social chaos to such a state of com parative order and regularity as pervades the terri tories belonging to the North American republic. This can only be effected by the same means that have been adopted in North America. There one central government is reeognised ; that government steadily perseveres in extinguishing the native title and acquiring a proprietary right in all waste lands ; these are disposed of to intending settlers by salt : with the beginning of settlement in any district begins the introduct ton of regular government ; the rights of the local residents, and of the general government being both sharply defined ; as settlement t xtends. new provinces and states are called into — sere can be no peace for South Africa ugous system, adapted to the forms of constitution, is introduced. Till then , irbances, like that called the Kaffir iv su cceed each other in some part Africa. Sir HENRY SNIRICS in his inability to discern this a man for the occasion, and teared, may be said of those the city British empire which it, ex Necessitate, offered to Paris. All three, no doubt, disagreeable and un pleasant incidents in the contemporaneous history d London, but not, when made the most of, con elusive reasons in themselves fur the destruction of a municipality which in its day has done liberty great services. Better cause than this Mast be shown. The Corporation of London has, however, fallen from its high estate; it no longer contains, or truly represents, the great interests .ofthe-eity • its Alder men are no inure the aristocracy of our trade ; its Common Councillors have ceased to belong to the grand commerce of the Thames, and are taken front the shopkeepers of our streets and lawyers who traffic in shrievalties ; and the delibe rations and acts of its courts are concerns in which not a tenth of the city takes the smallest interest. Bat these glaring defects of the Corpora tion it is powerless to correct; they are the growth of time, the results of great changes in our social habits, rather than instances of any perverted inten tions, bad faith, or malice prepense, on the part of the municipality. It nos formerly an object of ambition in a great City house to have its head an alderman. But then City men lived in great City mansions; thought and talked, and were wrapped all in City politics; loved its narrow, dirty, confined streets, and lanes and courts, and were happy only eastward of Temple Bar. All this is changed. The number of great merchants is now small in proportion to the growing wealth and trade of London ; brokers, shipowners, and such other inter mediate division of labour in commerce have token their places; banking-house after banking-house has disappeared from Lombard-street, displaced by the greater facilities given by joint stock associations and by sharp active money dealers. The few great • 1 merchants anal bankers that are left take their places amongst the aristocracy and the fashion of the west end, or the piety of Clapham and Ilomerton. It is there they are at home. And the flocks of busy brokers, they follow the example of their superiors, they seek health, pleasure, enjoyment, and amuse ment in the suburbs, in the minor streets of Bel cia, or the pretentious squares of Tyburnia ; at M Mon or in Bloomsbury. tor these classes there is City trade, City business, City profits; but, in the old sense, City life there is none. The City has become a place to make money, to spend your businessmornings in, and to rush away from at five o'clock—to forget by six. But these classes, the mainstay of the City, its real worth and wealth, in quitting their counting-houses, leave the shops full behind them; and, in shaking the city dust off their feet as they cuter their own distant houses, they resign the conduct of its corporate affairs to the care of those whom they deem beneath them ; and it is by the shopkeepers of London, by its respectable tradesmen, that these affairs are now mana;ietl. And they are, of course, managed in a retail spirit. But, when the Corporation is condemned be cause of the hands into which it has fallen, and the men who in their spheres act according to the best of their judgment arc censured and abused as if they were interlopers and intruders, the obvious facts of the case are wilfully overlooked, and no little injus tice is inconsiderately inflicted. The necessity for alteration and improvement in the Corporation may arise out of these consequences of the changes in the social state of the City; that is very passible; but to stigmatize and proscribe the class into whose hands municipal power has thus descended, instead of con ciliating and trying to carry it with us in the at tempt to provide the whole metropolis with the orga nisation of local government, augurs far more zeal than discretion in the cause of corporation reform. It may, moreover, be doubted whether that reform which aims chiefly at re-catching the higher com mercial classes for municipal offices mid administra tion, is of a very sound or practical character. A due and moderate sprinkling of such people in the high places of our municipalities is no doubt desirable—principally, however, by way of blending all classes in one homogeneous whole ; but we must claim for the middle classes, for our tradesmen, shopkeepers, and smaller commerce, a predominance in such institutions; if only on the grounds of their numerical importance, the greater advantages of providing them with the means of taking part in public affairs, and for the purpose of improving, what is their greatest defect, thew tastes. The misfortune of the present composi, tion of the Corporation of London is that there is a monotony of position, an identity of feeling, and a uniformity of level amongst its members. There is every thing to depress, and nothing to elevate their thoughts, notions, and objects. And how, in the revolution of commercial life, can it be otherwise' There is no large and varied field of choice; and, if there were, there is no proper and there can be formed no adequate constituency in the City. Take the case of the present Mitt) Slevon ; he Is a very respectable tradesman ; a successful auc tioneer; and by no means an unintelligent person. But he is not, it must be confessed, exactly the gentle man that would have been seketed to represent Lon don before critical and sensitive Paris, had London had any real choice in the matter. He was, by his very j ignorance of the French language, well fitted to confirm the Parisians in all their prejudices as to English gentlemen ; but it would he difficult to say I how he could convey any notion of the recent im provements in the national character, on those very points on which Paris is most misinformed. And so, also, in the instances of the two last elected ! aldermen. Sir Ronritr C%tinss is a smartish j stockbroker, up to all the dodges of his line 'of life, and Mr. C %nun is a sedate ambi tious ship-broker ; but neither is at all cal culated to illustrate the advantages of local govern ment. A real constituency would not, we know, elect such men. But the constituency of the cor poration of London is a sham and a delusion; it is made up of some few thousand names on paper, at the disposal of some ward lawyer or deputy. We do not blume aldermen, deputies, common councillors, or electors, for this state of things; very probably they make the best; at all events, they make the most of it. But such is the plight of London. And that it is which must be reformed. Not, however, reformed to suit the Cif " , for it is only one-fifteenth of London. That won `t do. We must in nny reform obliterate the City ; absorb and engulf it in the metropolis ; take it up and use it for higher and better purposes than those it is now de voted to. London requires some great and compre hensive scheme of municipality, or perhaps of muni cipalities, and, in prepariag such a scheme, Guild hall must nut be allowed to impede our progress. This is, however, a great subject. requiring deep thought. and, as yet, we are only beginning its discussion. TILE TOUTERS OF DOCTORS' COMMONS. 1 r -- ---- f Southti existence. There can be no p eace or. rico till some analogous system, adapted to the forms of the British constitution, is introduced. Till then • feuds and disturbances ' like that called the Ka ffi r war. will inces s antly su cceed each other in some part I or other of South Afri c a. Si r HENRY SMITHS in- competency arises from hi s inabilit y to discern this 1 i truth. lie is too small a man f or th e occasion. and the same, it is to be feared, may be said of those f who employ him. TUE Corporation of the city of London is in great disfavour just now with an influential contemporary. Its recent offences arc, the opposition it offered to the removal of Smithfield Market ; the narrow and eon- , tractetl spirit in which it issued invitations for, and 1 ' the disorderly manner in which it conducted the s royal festival at Guildhall; and the imperfect and inadequate representation of do metropolis of the 1 1. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1851. FRANCE. SPAIN. PARIS, TrEADAT EVENING. MADRID,Avo. 7. The annual distribution of Prizes at the Sorbonne took place yesterday. M. Sibour, Archbishop of Paris; M. liaroche, Minister for Foreign Attairs; and Generals Magoon and Perrot were among the spectutors in the reserved seats. M. Guizot occupied Ins former professor's chair. ,The lovers of University traditions at the Sorbonne were delighted yesterday at the restoration of the Latin speech, which had been abolished when M. Vaulabelle was Minister of Public Instruction in 1848. The appropriate theme chosen for this revival by Professor Lemaire was a culogium of Latin eloquence. To the reformers who had suppressed the time-honoured custom it had appeared to be an absurdity that a speech should be made to an audience of whom at least half were women, in a language not understood of the multitude. It had been rumoured that some opposition would he made by the students to the return to the ancient usuage, but on the contrary, the moment the Roman accents were heurvd ore rotunda, the orator was received with unanimous and rapturous applause. And, when alluding to the embarrassment which he felt in addressing an audience, of some of whom it might be said " :lures hatent et non awlient," if the The Basque provinces company has applied to go vernment for the concession of the railway from Mathid to Irun, with permission to construct the line by way of Valladolid and Bilbao. No answer has yet been given by the minister. The Herald.) of Madrid, of the 7th, announces that the dologatoof 4161,145a1i-oreditors in that city has presented a protest against the law fur the settle ment of the debt, on the ground that it enacts that the certificates of the deterred debt shall be classed as a debt subject to be paid off, which he considers an injustice to the creditors. 'the same journal states that the law was not passed in the Senate by the majority required by the constitution, anti that on that account it is null. PORTUGAL The following is our correspondent's letter : LISBON, At . o. 8. An amended electoral decree has appeared having for its object to remedy the successful attempts of the Cabralistas to obstruct the execution of the original decree. by which means electoral eoanuissi ms were illegally elected. The first feature in the new decree (of the 26th ult.) is that the meeting of the Cortes is transferred to the Lith December. The commissions to prepare the electoral lists, which were legally elected on the 18th July under the decree of the 20th of June, are to remain as then elected. Where the commissions were null from their illegal election, or where no commissious were elected, a new hst of electors will be formed for the election of commission s every person pos sessing a clear annual income of 100 mil reis, whether aris ing from property, industry, commerce, or employment, to have a vote at the primary election.. A year's residence in the district is required, but the qualification of the elector is reduced one-half. It now stands thus : the law, pre suming every chief of family to have the income the charter requires, he must have been 'Amssed in the last assessment immediately before the preparation of the lists in 5 milreis of decima of funded or other property or pen sions, or emplo y ment in corporations, 'bundling, or other hospitals ; or 2mil 5110 rein in rural or other estates let ; or 500 rein of ilecinia of rural or other property not let, or of industrial establishments not let, or for whatever other general direct contribution. Another qualification is the being assessed in the last assessment before the framing of the lists, in five milreis of decimu fur rural or other pro perty let; and 900 reis fur rural or other property let, or establishments of industry or any other direct contribution. Instead of returning an elector to the electoral college for every 150 chimneys, one is to be returned for every 300. This meets with more general satisfaction, as many electors spread over the circle would find it inconvenient to attend the college fur the elestion of deputies. The number of primary electoral assemblies is also diminished, more 'swishes being united to one assembly than under the former decree. As to ineligibilities, only one is taken off, namely that of the parish priests who have cure of souls in the kingdom ; these may be elected deputies. The first opera tion under the new decree will take place the 15th instant, when the lists of electors of the highest and lowest assessed will be focused (in of each class in every district or bolero) ; and on the 19th the rentai g commissions fur the forma tion of the electoral lists will be elected. On the 21th the inns will begin to be made ; and fixed on the church doors on) the 13th September, and there remain till the 21st. Claims to be made for or against the in scription of names to the commissions to the 27th Septemher, and decisions may take place till the 29t11; on the Ith October alterations to be published. Ap peals may be made from the commissioners decision to the judicial authority till the 12th October, and decided by the magistrate till the 18th; appeals (rain hint to the Itelaeao to the 29th. The election of electors at primary assemblies to the electoral colleges to take place on the 2nd of Novem ber, and the electoral colleges to meet in the electoral circles: on the 16th, for the election of desuties. The Cabralistas, whose efforts to obtain a revision of the original decree for their own private advantage have been nureinitting, have gained nothing by the amended decree, while a weapon is taken out of their hands by the ineligibility to sit in theCham- Ler being letuoved front parish priests, whom now they can not excite to take part against the government on that ac count. The decree, therefore, as it now stands, gives mom general satisfaction to the country at large, and more dis satisfaction to the Cabralistas. We have therefore to see what new efforts they will use to carry out their avowed ands. Since my last letter, we have had nothing but military disturbances iu the streets of Lisbon. At this season of the year one of the customs of Portugal is for parishioners to oubstribe and have within the parish a festival, choosing some particular day for the occasion. These festivals last twit or three slays ; and, while they amuse the people, they become a vehicle, or rather an occasion, tar the distribution of alms ; the locality is richly fitted out, illuininated, and attended by all the beauty and fashion of the parish, the higher ranks taking part in it. The other classes have also their festivals on a minor scale, and the most popular music is generally played at them. Thera was one lately in the Lapa, at which the malcontent municipals dared not inter fere, but in other minor ones, on the playing of " The Mar shal's Hymn, - they have attempted to stop it, while their opponents insisted anon its execution; hence "a row." The municipals had since gone out daily in search of the grenadiers, or others of the "Regenerators," and blows, and in some instances wounds, hare been exchanged ; as this was beertning a growing and serious evil, Saldaulia re moved (on the Ist) the grenadiers to St. them, and the 16th infantry to Maim ; and the Ist Caeadores and 7th infantry sapply their places in Lisbon; while the municipals remain untouched. The municipals, by the way, the sworn friends of Cabralism, were the aggressors, amp they escape all in convenience; while the grenadiers, a regiment devoted to the "situation," is punished by being sent away from their ancient quarters, and a strong barrier—the Tagus—placed between them and Lisbon; while again the disaffeeted 16th aro sent to Marra, from whence they could return to Lisbon in three or four hours one night, join the municipals, and put all again in confusion. It is said the . 2nd Caeadons also to go from Lisbon, and the Bth Cavalry to come in; but this 1 cannot vouch fur, it being but a report. Were the "situation" secure, little or no importance would attach to the return of Fluke Marcos, but as intrigue goes on, and he has been specially invited to return bySaldanlia, at the request of the Queen, it has excited considerable surprise. Ile has the car of her Ma jesty, is a determined plotter, devotedly attached to the Cabral taction, and the very man the latter wanted to carry on its insidious designs. The following is the decree reinstating Saldanha in his former p ost of chief of the staff to the King, as commander in-chief of the army : " Taking into consideration that, in the official com munication made by the Duke de Saldanha, marshal of the army, on the Gth of March, 1850, if not wanting in the decorum and respect due to my person, as chief of the state, to whom he had always given indubitable proofs of veneration and attachment, he used severe phrases in ex pressing the just vindication of his offended military honour, and censure of the acts of the ministry which then formed my council; without passing the limits of that liberty which the most illustrious men of this nation, occu pying high stations, use in addressing themselves to the throne upon matters of the highest importance and gravity, which is always permitted and considered laudable ; and agreeing with the proposal which has been laid before me' in respect to it by the King, my much loved and valued consort, marshal general and cull/mender-in chief of the army, it is my will and pleasure to revoke the decree of the 13th of the said month of March, commanding that it remains of no effect, as if it had never existed, and that the said decree, as well as any other patents with which it may have relation, shall be cancelled and shut up, in order that not the least vestige remain of them; and it is also my will and pleasure to restore the Duke of Saldanha, marshal of the army, to the post of first aide-de-camp to the King, my much loved and valued consort, marshal general, commander-in-chief of the army. The Baron de Trances, Minister and Secretary of state ad iiderini for the affairs of war, will thus understand and cause it to be carried into effect. Palace of Necesai• dales, the 6th of May, 1851. Signed, the Civets ; counter signed, the Baron de TrtaNeos. This is of course another triumph of Saldanha over the unmeasured and revengeful intrigues of Thomar. The Minister of the Interior bans, it is said, dismissed 'Jail administrators of districts, all Cabralistas, fur abuse of power and tyrannous conduct to the people. Notices from Bija arc most unsatisfactory ; the party of the assassins arc so dominant that no one dam swear against them, therefore the conclusion is, that the charges are not sufficient against the national battalion there to warrant its dissolution. Ilse inhabitants who ilo not partake of the charac ter of the terrorists are emigrating; while correspondence is stolen, to ice if any smbold enough to describe the real facts for public information, in order that they may be immolated. Such a state of things would exist nowhere else in the world. I mentioned in a former letter that Count Lavradio would go to London. His appointment as Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary has at length been gazetted. St. Vincent, one of the Cape de Verd Islands, having become a place of call for the steamers of transit, and being deficient in accommodation for such an intercourse, building materials are permitted, by decree, to be imported into it duty free for five years, such as stone for building, door and window supporters and corners, lime, bricks, and tiles, iron for houses, and glass for glazing windows. It is said that Cabralista intrigue assumes a serious face, arid that it has communications with France, through which its manceuvring is directed to arrive at a Spanish occupation of Portugal. As it is accustomed to precipita tion, some proximate attempt may tend to develop its designs and render them again abortive. The plan of Senhor Ferrao is to allow duties to he paid in approved bilis at 3,6, and 9 months' date, for all wine, tea, and raw cotton, cleared within twenty days, by which he loruerttho bpenTnithroenwtnoufupoimineintir:tyrehainaLs thinks to obtain a tolerable sum, available at a trifling dis count. The next is to issue notes to the amount of 800 contos, in amounts of .5, 10, and 20 milreis, bearing interest otes amount u n u n n e o d money recovered other h i market ., e k duties; i o o e ;: . talc,.these e n n d n e s t at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and receivable in ono e ed it fourth arc already rubbing their hands in triumph. The fromissue of which a o v thee E disc a i filif on PT in l p OL ani A fortunes of man y , rrcii:: created panics, and the gonernm ed ent th a e t which led eeTnt.,—conThtiiiisucinthete, 3 al: 4 Viet. c. 89, for the exemption of inhabitants from last taxed the public to redeem' those notes (the poet liability to be rated in respect of stock-in-trade or other ace of a letter is even taxed with its per tentage property to the relief of the poor, to the Ist October next to that end) ; and out of 5,000 comm, there was left, year and to the end of the then next session of parliament. on the 4th • instant, after amortising 60,940,800 reis, mammas and sisters did not understand the words, they could at least read the applauding countenances of their sons and brothers. M. fliers is at the present moment the victim of a curious species of impalpable libel. He has a half sister named Madame kissed, who has long kept a table trhoote in the Rue Basso du Rempart, where her custom was to distribute cards with her own hands among the guests, on which her relationship to M. '!'biers was mentioned. She has lately removed to the Rue 1)rouot, at the corner of the boulevard des Italiens, and, encouraged by the success of her cards, she has exhibited a painted board outside her house, with the inscription " Madame ltissert, sister of M. niers, formerly a minister,kecps a WA: dlible, at 3 fr. and 2 fr. at/e. for ladies." Crowds of people assembled to gaze at this unusual association of ideas. The police were asked to remove the board as a pub lic scandal, and great was the astonishment expressed when Madame Itissert produced a permission from the Prefect of Police fur the very announcement in question. People then went so far as to say that the government adopted this means to annoy M. fliers as a political opponent. It turns out, however, that Madame Itissert having complied with the police regulations, and paid a certain tax, has a legal right to advertise her call ing in this way, subject only to the interference of the police in case the gatherings in the streets at tracted by the board should be of a nature to disturb the public tranquillity, The police have now made a compromise with Madame Itissert. They have made her erase the words " formerly a minister," , leaving the public only informed that she is "sister to M. '!'biers." This mitigation of the incongruous conjunction of a great minister with a small table dliale seems to have succeeded, for the crowds have dispersed. The only morning paper which gives an unre• served support to the Elysee is the old and influential amttientionne!, now the sole property of Dr. V‘a-cm, a wealthy man, formerly director of the Opera, and whose portly person is well known to all the fie quentersof the Cafe de Paris. This gentleman's otiginal connection with the press was entirely of a mercantile nature, and at the time when he thought the lead ing articles of M. niers and his friends a good in vestment for his money, he was irreverently styled by the writers in the Cm/We/Wound as the ion pere nar Erns. It is only within the last year that, feeling necessity to be laid upon him by the extreme peril of the times, he has occasionally wielded the editorial pen himself'. It is well known that when Louis Napoleon first returned from exile, he sent for Dr. Varin as an eminent political personage, whose acquaintance he desired to make. Hitherto it has been supposed that the mainspring of the unequalled enthusiasm with which the Cineseitutionnel battles for the re-election of the President, was a certain gratification to his personal vanity which Dr. Wron experienced from the notice taken of him in high quarters—an irresistible feeling of gratitude for more intimate confidence than was athirded to re sponsible ministers. Certain it is that many lead ing articles of Dr. Wron, holding out hi,pes of reforms in ease of the re-election of the President, and more particularly a recent one relating to the octroi duties, which was repudiated by the mi nisterial journals of the same evening, have been generally assumed to emanate directly from the Elysi , e, through the medium of confidential commu nications to the proprietor of the Constientio»net Dr. Veron, however, now, in an article against the candidature of the Prince de Joinville, informs the public that his support of Louis Napoleon is wholly independent, and more than disinterested. He la ments in pathetic language that if his feelings and his self-love were to take the inventory of what he has got by his respectful relations with the Presi dent by his faith in the justice of his cause; if his pride attached any value to those delicate attentions which are so much prized by the world, his convic tions in favour of the presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte would long since have imposed upon hint the most absolute silence. All his labours, he avers, have failed to produce fur hint so much as one of those affable and obliging words which the calculated gratitude of princes knows so well how to find, and with which disinterestednms is satisfied. In anticipation of the opening of the Marne and Rhine Canal, between Nancy and Told, the iron masters of the Haute Marne have given orders for pit coal at Saarbruek to the extent of twenty millions of kilogrammes, to be delivered at liondelaincourt in the early part of November. M. Colfavru has written to the papers to deny the statement of the /Won that there was a violent scene at the meeting of the Mountain in the Rue Richelieu, or that his expulsion was voted. He admits, how ever, that he and his friends left the room for reasons which he thinks it unnecessary to explain. A M. 'fenault has been condemned to six months imprisonment for having cried "Down with Napo leon" at the review of the national guard of Chatel hemult on the occasion of the President's return from Poitiers. The funeral of Marshal Sebastiani was celebrated at the Invalides to-day, with the military honours due to a marshal of France. Detachments from every corps in the garrison of Paris were present. After the funeral service the body was placed on a hearse upon the esplanade outside the railing, in front of the Invalides, and the troops fi!csl past. An alarming accident happened in the church before the coffin arrived. Owing to the carelessness of one et the children employed in the religious ceremonies about the high altar, the draperies placed there for the occasion caught tire from one of the wax candles. The flames spread so rapidly that they reached the flags which hang on each side of the roof of the church, sonic of which were consumed before the fire could be extinguished. Two new democratic journals are announced to appear at the end of October. One to be called the Eyuldique narrowlle, under the patronage and di rection of the refugees in London, will be in French, Italian, and German, and thousands of copies arc intended to be sent to Italy and Germany. The other will be entitled the Journal des Elections, and will recommend candidates to the electors. 100,000 copies of this are to be distributed gratuitously in the country. The funds will be supplied by the central purse in London, which is said to be well filled. The farewell letter of M. Charles Dupin to Prince Albert, dated London, July 27, and 'the Prince's reply, dated Osborne, July 31, arc inserted in the Mop/deur this morning. General the Marquis of Roche Dragon died sud denly of apoplexy yesterday, at the club on the Boulevard Nlontmartre. M. Pierre Bonaparte's horse fell with Lim yester day, and broke the hon. gentleman's leg in two places. He was gallopping to get some medicine for a servant who was ill. The President of the Republie instantly came to him. The fracture is going on well. The slight rise in the funds yesterday was attri buted to the lowering of the interest in Treasury bills, but the measure is not looked upon with much favour at the Bourse. The Fives to day fell 13 centimes, closing at 93.70; and the Threes 13 centimes, closing at 57.23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS. Sta,—}laving arrived in London from Scotland, and baring occasion to call at Doctors Commons to sec a friend, I was greatly surprised at being accosted by some men wearing white aprons, and having generally the appearance of porters, but who 1 have since diseovered arc called touters. Being a stranger in London, I was necessitated to inquire the whereabouts of the firm by whom my friend was em ployed. by which means I was brought in contact wit), this most disgraceful nuisance tiS the profession. Having stated the office I required to one of these men (presuming him to be a porter', who stated he would show me the place I inquired for, he misled me to the office of a person in Carter-lane, who en courages these touters. where I underwent a strict examination as to whether I wanted a marriage license or not, or what other business I had in Doc tors Commons: and after having, by dint of great exertion, satisfied them that I did not consider their assistance necessary, I was then very readily shown the office that I required. It is much to be regretted that these gentlemen of the proctorial profession to which I allude, should encourage such a disgraceful imposition and annoyance on the public. as they not only practise a principle of extortion on their unsus pecting victims. but brand with infamy and shame • the credit of a profession of the highest respectabi lity. I have since been informed that the policemen are also encouraged to impose on the public in this way, and I trust. therefore, that this intimation will . I attract the attention of the proper authorities, who will, I ant sure, adapt some means to suppress this most disgraceful proceeding. I beg to solicit the favour of your inserting this in your paper, trusting it will be a caution to the public generally. I am. Sir, yours, & c ., Jermyn-street, Aug. 12, 16.51. C. R. but 1,750,698, 800 rei n in circulation, which will 'HEALTH OF LONDON DURING 'IRE WEEK take more than two years longer to redeem. The plan now appears to be a repetition of the bank-note issue in another form, which may entail fresh calamity upon the country ; it anticipates the revenue, upon the Thomar principle, creates a positive debt snore indefinite than a loan, and en sures a loss to the country equal to the discount at which they may be sold and the interest they are to bear: while time would have restored things to a level. The steam navigation of the Tagus is put up to competi tion ; the conuition is that eich company proposing shall deposit four coutos in public funded property . ise-enehr end if a foreign company take the enterprise, it is to be con sidered Portuguese. 90 days from the lth of August are allowed fur proposals, and, upon the concession of the privi lege, the deposit will be returned. A charter has been granted to an agricultural company, and a law enacted by decree securing copyrights to :inthor.. The four sergeants implicated in the late revolt, and upon whose conduct a court of inquiry sat, have been liberated, one has been discharged the service, the others transported to different corps. Exchanges: al discount of Lisbon hank; notes 21 per cent. (From the ItNi.trar Geseral'•R. barn.) .- - The sickness to which Young chiHren are subject at this period of the year is apparently the cause of a pro gressire incrmse in the mortality during the but the e ..., weeks. In the week curling July 19, 873 deaths were re gistered in London; in the two fallowing weeks they were 916 and 1,010; and in that ending last Saturday they ros e to 1,038. Making allowance for incretaran of population, and excluding the year of epidemic cholera from the clam -parieon, It does not appear that the present return dial Ts materially as regards the grass marmot of mortality, fr o m the average experienze of corresponding weeks in Vie years 1811-50. This reason of the rear, when the general population usually enjoy some improvement in health, affects injuri ously the lives of iuhaata ; and from whatever came., the fatality which it brings to children has been exceedingly aggravated in London during the last six years. In the five corresponding 441,4'4,4 of 1811-15 the deaths from diar rhea varied from 16 to 62; in those of 18M-50 tle low( st number was 106, and the highest IJi ; auel in the week end ing lust Saturday this complaint was fatal in 135 eases. The t o t a l num b e r, l a st week, arising from diarrinc a, dysent , ry, and cholera, was 162 ; and of these only 21 occurred among adults. In the present return the whole number of eases ascribed to diseases of the symmic or epidemic class is 331; amongst which, Inaidea those already mentioned, are 22 caused by small pox, 19 by measles, 2.) by scarlatina ' 28 by hooping cough, 19 lay thrush, 59 by typhus, and 9 by erysipelas, In the two previous socks severally 12 fatal caws of cho lera were registered; in the present return the number has increased to 16, of which the following are the particulars as registered. In the sub-district of St. John, Paddington, on the 4th August, the son of a gentleman, aged weeks, died of " English cholera (2 days;." In the game sub district, at 19, Albion-mews East, on Bth August, the s o n of a coachman, aged 4 mouths " cholera (39 hours)." The medical attendant states that " the window of the room where the child slept opens directly on the St. George's burial-ground ; the child never had indisposition till this fatal attack." in Kensington, at 3, James-street, on 4th August, the daughter of a plasterer, aged 11 months, " cholera infantum (20 hours)." In South Chelsea, at 15, Wellington-street, on sth August, the daughter of a servant, aged 4 months. "cholera infantum (3 days)." In the same subdistrict, at 3, Elizabeth-terrace, on Bth August, the son of a brewer's servant, aged 7 months, "cholera Wantons (17 hours)." In the sub-district of Ilanover-square, at 16, Conduit-street, on 31st Jnly, the (laughter of a licensed victualler, aged 8 months, "cholera infantum (1G hours)." In Belgrave sub-district, at 11, Spring-garde:-place, on Ist August, the daughter of a labourer, aged S weeks, "English cholera (5 days)." In the sub-district of All Saints, Marylehone, at 1, John-street, on 2nd August, the daughter of a coach.builder, aged 3 year", " cholera infantum (5 days)." In the sub-district of St. John, Marylebone, at 17, Princess -street, on Bth August, the son of a tailor, aged 16 months, "English cholera (8 hours)." No medical attendant. In St. Rotolph, at 5, Three King-court, Alalgate, on sth August, the son of an ostler, aged 9 months "diarrhea, cholera infantum ." In North-east sub-district oiCity of London, at 9, Sussex-place, on sth Aug., the son of a brass-finisher, aged 3 mouths, " diarrhea , I. end ing in cholera." In Ilaggentone-west, at 35, Fellows street, on 7th August, the daughter of a painter, aged I year, " cholera infantum (7 days)." In Bethnal-green, at 11, New-street, Turk-street, on 2d August, the daughter of a weaver, aged 1 year, " cholera infantum (3 weeks)." In Mile-end Old-town, at 12, Sykes-terrace, on a th August, the daughter of a hop merchant, aged 2 months, "cholera (21 hours)." In Limehouse, at 12, Georgestreet, on 4th August, the son of a carpenter, aged 6 months, " infantile cholera." In name sub-district, in Fore street, on Ist August, the son of a greengrocer, aged 11 mouths, " malignant cholera (31 hours)." Of thew, Mentioned above, who `offered from cholera, it appears that the oldest did not exceed three years of ago. The following cases of accidental choking from hard substances passing into the throat occurred to children, and were registered in the week:—On the 3rd August, at 8, Scarborough-street. Whitechapel, the son of a carman, aged 7 months, (lied of " suffocation from a glass-stopper; tracheotomy (3 'laws be fore death), laryngcal ii.thammation (2 slays)." On the sth August, ut Exinonth-street, the son of a cooper, aged 3 years, died from " the presence in the throat of a halfpenny piece, swallowed on the 28th of July last; hannorrhage (8 days)." Pat modem. The births of 719 boys and 728 girls, in all 1,477 children, were registered last week. The average number of six cor responding weeks in 180-50 was 1,286. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer nn Tuesday was above 30 in. ; the mean of the week was 29 960 ia. The mean temperature of the week was 611 deg., Whial is 2 . 6 de g. above the average of the same week in ten years. The mean daily temperature was above the average on every day exeamt Wednes day and Saturday. The wind blew generally from the north-east. ITALY. ROME, Aro. 4. Cardinal Antoine Marie Cadolini, Bishop of Ancona, died on the Ist inst. MILAN, Aun. 4. Pestalozzi is about to resign the functions of Po desta. Ile will be succeeded by Cuunt Ambroise Nava. The liberals intend to observe the anniversary of the unfortunate capitulation of 1815, to-morrow, by wearing mourning. AGGRAVATED AsSAULT ON .t MILITARY OFFICER. —The Wakefield magistrates were occupied a considerable time on Monday last in investigating a charge of assault preferred by Lieutenant Charles B. Davenant, of her oo Ma jesty's 82nd regiment of Ft, against Mr. Thomas Banff, a sharebroker, residing at Wakefield. It appeared that the defendant, while recently on a visit at Scarborough, had offered some insult, the nature of which was not suffered to transpire, to Lieutenant Spilling, of the 11th Light Dra goons, with whom, as well as the complainant, he had been on terms of previous intimacy. Lieutenant Spilling, in consequence, empowered Mr. Davenant, as a friend and brother officer, to demand redress fur the affront, and ac companied hint fur that purpase to Wakefield, where they arrived on Sataclay, the 2nd instant. Mr. Banff being temporarily absent from home, nn interview could not be obtainul with him till the Monday following, when it took place at the Strand Arms hotel. Lieut. Dave 'tont at once made known his errand, and the defendant tendered the following written apology, which was read in court :—" Wakefield, August 4, 1451,—Sir,—I regret that what has happened should cause any disagreement between yourself and me. I can only' apologise, and regret that I should so far be wrong as to insult you in npublic room.— Yours respectfally, Turmas BANrr.—Lieut. Spilling, of ll.M.'s 11th Dragnons."—With this apulogy Lieut. Dare nant professed himself perfectly satisfied on the part of Mr. Spilling. It would seem, however, that the latter had a claim on the defendant in respect of " a debt of honour " incurred in London, in allusion to which Lieut. Dave nant remarked, "Oh, there's that 101. owing to Lieut. Spil ling, which we may as well have settled." Mr. Banffileelined giving an It) I` for the amount, but offered to admit the debt. Mr. Davenant signified his readiness to accede to the proposal, provided the admission was made in presence of a witness, and stepped to the bar for one. Returning with a person named Roach, he (defendant), after vainly requesting an interview with Lieutenant Spilling, denied any acknowledgment of the debt ; and on being remon strated with by the complainant on such ungentlemanly conduct used a bitterly contemptuous expression in refer ence to both the gallant officers, winding up with the ex clamation that " they had come down to Wakefield to rob him." Mr. Davenant insisted on an explanation, on which Mr. Banff said he was a " d—d scoundrel" Indignant at the epithet, Lieutenant Davenant repeated it twice, and was approaching the defendant to inquire what he meant by such offensive language, when Mr.Bantistruck him a violent blow on the face, causing aliberal effusion of blood from the nose, and rendering surgical advice necessary. Mr. West moreland, the defendant's solicitor, subjected Lieutenant Davenant to a rigorous ems-examination, with the view of eliciting that the object of his journey to Wakefield was to provoke Mr. Banff to fight a duel ; but this being positively denied by the complainant, Mr. Westmoreland, after some caustic o bs ervations on the fact of a gentleman a commission in her Majesty's service voluntarily taking upon himself the office of a hum-baliff, in pressing for a do bt due to another individual, said he WAS instructed by Ids client to state that Mr. Davenant was the aggressor, having struck him (Banff) twice before tho compliment was re turned. The complainant, on re-examination by Mr. Wainwright, the attorney who conducted hi, case, distinctly swore that he had merely endeavoured Ito ward off the blows aimed at him by Mr. Banff. Mr. Dunn, the surgeon who examined Lieut. Davenant's wound, gave it as his opinion that it had been inflicted by the sharp edge of a ring, such as gentlemen are in the habit of wearing. Ile did not consider it dangerous. The magistrates, after a short consultation, said - they were of opinion that a most violent and unprovoked assault had been committed, and inflicted a fine on Mr. Banff amount ing with costs to 51. The court was crowded during the hearing of the case. The complainant and defendant are both young men, apparently about five-and-twenty years of age each. LlvEltPooL Docx COMMITTEL—SO important has this great trust become, that the election of members is a scarcely less exeiting'event than that fur members of par liament. This day (Wednesday) the election of twelve gentlemen from among the merchants and d u ck r a t e p a y er , under the late act, to form with the twelve recently elected from the town council, the future dock committee, will take place. There have been several preliminary meetings, and various names proposed; but those which.have received the greatest support at present arc as follow (all merchants) William Barber, Poulton Hall, Bebbington, Cheshire; Thomas Bold, Fair Lawn, Bankfield-road, West Derby; Ralph Broeklebank, Annesley, Aigburth ; Eyre Evans, 73, Shaw-street, Everton ; Samuel Robert Graves, 3, Falkner. square, Liverpool ; John Lockett, 65, Shaw-street, Ererton; Joseph Malcolmson, 6, Canning-street, Liverpool; William Nicol 6, Abercromby-sq u a re , Li ver p oo l ; R o b ert Rankin, Bromborough Hall, Cheshire; Francis Shand, Sthdfield park, West Derby; James Smith, Stallath, Lithtrland; Henry Steele, 21, Abercrombpsquaw, Liverpool. MEETING OF MILLERS IN LIVERPOOL—After tho business of the corn market had concluded yesterday, there was an attempt made to form a meeting of millers, in rela tion to the present law permitting the importation of flour on the same terms as wheat, and with a view of adopting a petition fur the next session of parliament, for on alteration of the law in that respect. After upwards of an hour had been spent in endeavours to form an assembly, the parties who had tried to concentrate the attendant., at market re linquished their efforts. MOVEMENTS OF TILE ROYAL MAIL COMPANY'S PACKETS.—Contract mail steamer Esk sailed ut 915 a.m. on July 11 from Rio Janeiro for La Plata, and on July 23, at 7.30, passed and exchanged colours with contract *team . packet Prince, steering to the 6.W, —Vessas in port o f Bahia, July 19, Emperor (barque), Mary Miller (barque), Bragansa (ship), Rochinvar (brig), Bodmin Castle (schooner), Pasha (barque), Zulaka (barque), Baba midu (barque), Jane Catherine (barque), Richard Mount (brig), Pilot Fish (ship), Mail (barque). TWO MIMES, The grand criminal court of Naples has condemned Gaetano Reale, for the crime of printing the " Martyrs of Cozenza," to seven years' banishment, the prohibition to exercise the trade of a printer for one year, and to the costs of his trial. The grand court of Aquila has sentenced Joseph Ferriol and F. rorchiazzi to seven month's imprisonment, a fine of six ducats, and the costs of trial, for having sold a book printed abroad called " Satan and the Jesuits." —eurrirre Mercantile. MK Court. OSBORNE, TCESDAT, Ara. 12. Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales embarked yesterday afternoon, at half-past one o'clock, in the royal yacht Fairy, for Southampton, where a special train was in waiting to convey them to Salisbury. Licut.-Colotiel the lion. A. Gordon was in attendance on Prince Albert, and Mr. Birch attended the Prince of Wales. Their royal highnesses proceeded in a carriage front Salisbury to Stone henge, and, after inspecting the remains, returned again to Southampton and reached Osborne at a quarter before eight o'clock. Her Majesty and the Princess Royal, attended by the Countess of Desart, the lion. Caroline Cavendish, and Lord Alfred Paget, and accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, who have arrived on a visit, drove out in the neighbourhood of Osborne. Colonel Wylde also arrived on a visit. The royal dinner party y,sterd iy included the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the llou. Colonel and Mrs. l'hipps, and Colonel Wylde. The Ozford University Commission had a meeting yesterday at the official re.idence of the First Lord of the frcasury in Downing -street. Present: The Bishop of Norwich, tile Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. li. G. Liddell, the Rev. Professor Powell, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (ravretary). The Right lion. henry Laboueaerc left town yesterday for Stoke l'ark, near Windsor. . . . . Despatches were ree,ived ye‘terlar at the Colonial otliee front the Governor of the Cape of Good hope. Despatches were also reedved front the Governors of Sierra Leone and South Australia. (From last night's C.zette.) CROWS -OFFICE, Auc. B.—The name of the peer of Scotland chosen to represent the peerage of Scotland in the parliament of the 1, rifted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of James Andrew John Lawrence Charles Viscount StrathalLm, deceased: Lord Colville, of Culross. DOWNING -STREET, Arc. 12.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Cutfc, E 4., to be Itegiutrar of the Supreme Court of the bland of Ceylon. A VACANCY has been created in the representation of the East Riding of Yorkshire, by the death of Mr. Henry Broadley, who expired on Friday la-t, in his 58th year. EXPERIMENT WITIIA NEw LIFE-110AT.—MT. Wit ran (chairman), Captain Paxton, Captain Saumarez, R.N., Captain Perrott, members of a committee of the National Shipwreck Institution; Mr. Lang, master shipwright; Mr. Chatfield and Mr. )'cake, assistants to the master ship wright ; Mr. Greener, gunmaker, Birmingham, one of the competitors for the Duke of Northumberland's life-boat prize of 100 guineas ; and a number of naval officers and gentlemen assembled yesterday afternoon at the basin at the west end of Woolwich Dockyard to witness the buoyancy and facilities for rowing of a life-boat constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Peake. The boat is constructed entirely of wood, and is 30 feet long by 8 feet 9 inches wide, and her draught of water 1 foot 5 inches. The bottom is deeply padded with cork inside ; and a band of the same material, covered with prepared canvas, is carried round the outside of her wales, and both ends of the vessel aro alike in construc tion, that she may be steered either way by an oar. On each end several air-tight cases have been fixed, and, with the cork, give her a buoyancy equivalent to two tons, that number being also the tonnage of the boat. A coxswain, or steersman, and 10 rowers having gone on board, they proceeded round the basin several times, to show her capa bilities for rowing; and they then all sat on one side to show her stability in the water, and their whole weight did not bring her down on one side to nearly the edge of the water. Eight plugs, about four inches each in diameter, were then taken out of her bottom; but the ad mittance of the water made no perceptible difference in the immersion, and she was again rowed round the basin with equal facility as on the previous occasion. Double the number, in all twenty-two men, went on board, which gave her an additional draught of water of about five or six inches ; but as she is built to be high out of the water, nearly similar in appearance to the north of Scotland fishing boats, she might be crowded with as many persons as she could hold, and still prove a good sea boat. It was intended to have her filled with water, but that experiment was deferred to a future thy, when the carriage making for her at the Royal Arsenal will he ready, and the facilities fur moving her on shore and other experiments will be made. Lieut.- Colonel Colquhoun, of the carriage department at the Royal Arsenal, was also present yesterday. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, the President of the National Ship wreck Institution, is using every exertion to have life-boats of the most approved construction made, to be placed on the various localities where they may be most required, ar,d. has, with a view to their efficiency, approved of rules for their management. FIELD-t. txe RAGGED Settoom.—The ninth an nual report of this celebrated seminary has just been printed. The committee gratefully acknowledge the heartiness of the response elicited by their last year's appeal, and the large measure of success which has attended their operations. During the past year it is stated that homes, formerly the seat.' of vice and misery, have been made orderly and happy, thieves' and low lodging-houses have been constantly visited, their inmates have been invited, and numbers of them regularly attend the Friday evening and Sunday schools. Boys giving evidence of reformation have been provided with a refuge, and been enabled afterwards to gain a land remote from the degrading influences of their past life. From these emigrants highly gratifying accounts l of their progress have been received. Females, again, who had fallen, have been rescued from degradation ; others, previously sent to asylums, have since been restored to so ciety, and are now either with their friends or in situ ations in honourable families, beyond the reach of infamy. The numbers attending the day schools for infants and children, and the evening schools for youth and adults, have increased. The industrial classes arc more popular and useful. For a long period it was a source of anxious regret to the committee that they had no refuge to offer to the destitute, no alternative but to send the penitent or re morseful back again to old haunts and companions, there to renew the intimacy and inclinations of vice. By the aid of a kind benefactress, a night refuge is now opened, contain ing one hundred separate sleeping berths, and three hot and cold water baths. This refuge is placed under the superintendence of a qualified person, and the inmates, previous to leaving the dormitory, are supplied each with six ounces of bread. The report is crowded with details respecting each of these departments of exertion, whose number gives to the original school all the development and organisation of an institution. The committee hold fast by the principle of not incurring debts ; but as there is a cer tain annual outlay of 3501., independently of 150/. for the recently-added night refuge, and as the yearly subscriptions have hitherto not reached 901., it is clear that much re isordtF;Oibanen}cmelaGhiNnasta iii eet e i d iip i u n plu i : t c l ei e d tli o c b i ky en t e h i e NeGoLtISHof Policy Policy, British Guiana, admitting into this colons. foreign reprints of English books on the payment of an ad valorem duty on the Goon fide price of 20 per cent.—whereof five per cent. is to go to the collecting officer, and the remainder to the English author. The publication of this ordinance has excited a warm controversy in our columns, a reference to which will at once convince our English copyright author, that even in this di s t an t l an d t h ey h ave a sturdy and rep): lute champion.—Demerara Colonist. GERMAN MINING CO3IPANY.—It is found impos sible at present finally to wind up this company's affairs, in consequence, it is understood, of the continued unsettled state of Germany. The property at sale is estimated to bo worth 20,0001., and Mr. Odenherman, Government Sur veyor of Mines in Germany, confirms the value of the pro- Pert/. !"