The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-14 00:00:00

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Meami, at liefifig art, te • mmerierathesdretka grade Urt, emettee he eard preared, stei le Imre L e ire al Att et On rased ahem aed he sable maselemee: elm lagehe litadwar ihe legelidens aterhall deer ter a mho Mame ea the Mir Oa senderlerl tme tions d geillemer. art twee the direr emeheire ead eld dire ef the pemle. Isesa.—Mr. ihno. ea • dm day to move for NM el certain desperbee ead Me e the Merrie of lodide Memo to die me et the Its.llrb et *rim Prom 1014114 We day te rove As a return tithe mbar of ir = d :ed disk enema Imre this coardry for the pate of Meer, ad Maim Meg the led harm 11 NI TomuiimPitovsMiNTs. Ott the motion ordered that NO ones bills rektisi te town improvements, or to public 111111111111111161, or to seereesee, he further proceeded with by this lam Wore the Ist day of May next. RAJAH OF SATTARA. _ A messenger from the East India-house presented copies of the correspondence in relation to the case of the Rajah of Bohan. EDINBURGH AND PERTH RAILWAY BILL. Mr. F. MAULE moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that, looking at the evidence which had been taken with reference to this bill, and bovine nothing whatever to do with any of the parties connected with the measure, he was of opinion that the house would neglect its duty if it gave • second reading to this bill. It approved that the promoters had taken up the plans, maps, and section', of a defunct committee, and Shia was, he contended, • violation of the standing orders, as well as a direct violation of the provisions of Lord Dalhousie's act. Besides this, there was a suit pending between the old and new company in the Supreme Courts in Scotland, and it would be unfair to prejudge the decision In the courts, by granting to one of the parties the powers which this bill would confer. On these grounds he moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. D. BROWNE seconded the amendment. Sir W. IiIIATHCOTE observed that this ease had been specially referred to the standing orders committee, of which he was chairman, and that body were unanimously of opinion that there had been on the part of the promoters of this bill, no violation either of the letter or spirit of the landing orders. tinder such circumstances, he should sup port the second reading. Mr. ESTCOURT also supported the original motion. The house divided—For the second readiog 6B Against it l4-64 The blll was then read a second time. THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON. Mr C. NAPIER said he wished to ask the gallant Officer opposite (Admiral Hondas) whether there would be any ob. )eedoll en the part of the Board of Admiralty, to call on Ad miral Sir H. Parker for his report in reference to the per formances of the vessels in the experimental squadron, and also to lay that report on the table of the house. He would take that opportunity to give notice that, next day, he should ask the hon. the Secretary to the Admiral , whether there eras any ohjectio f n or to prod uce date ndiog ti tte oonstru of eti e on or ol er th w e h l i n ch te & been l i an y aki i i: L enbi to ch i l n i r rbee rm ge I r t e o ferred use whe t :he o r n e t ta h t e ifr r el e : d AZ Max ? Admiral DUNDAS was understood to say that there would be no objection to the production of Admiral Parker's re Sir e. C. NAPIER said his question was, whether the gal lant Alcor, or the Beard of Admiralty, wo u ld call upon Ad miral Par ker for his report ?He knew that Admiral Parker had one, and he be li eved Quid been sent into the late Board of Admi ralty. Admiral DUNDAS said a few words in reply, which were nos heard in the gallery. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COAST-GUARD. Mr. HUDSON said he had a question to put to the hon. the Secretary to the Admiralty, which the hon. gentleman might answer either now or on a future day. He had recently erased from Boulogne by the packet-boat, which had run aground, and been boarded by the officers of the coast-guard, who put the passengers to considerable inconvenience, by preventing them from landing for three quarters of an hour, and keeping possession of their luggage. They pioferesed to be ogling under the orders of the Admiralty. He wished to ask for a copy of the order. Mr. WARD said he would make inquiry, and answer the question on the following day. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. Mr. WALPOLE moved for leave to bring in " • bill to emend the law for the registration of per-gins entitled to vote iss the alactioe of members to serve in parliament for Eisslmmil gni Wales, pursuant to suggt gloms contained io the lepers silks committee on votes of electors." The object *Mean ereis te prevent the wholesale objections which had belim= ea m . ege in counties to voters possessing bona fiblo awl to wire to such voters a right to re man on eta without being exposed to (rico kno and objections. He proposed materially to alter the immehinery of registration. First, he would give to those voters who bad once proved their votes the privilege of remaining on the register, without being liable to these objections in future; and if objections were made, the objector should be under the liability of a heavier penalty. The second object, which would be a great improvement, was to draw a distinction between objections resting on merely technical ground+, and those which went to the merits of the qualification. The third object wee to give to the revising" harristers greater powers than they now possessed of eurrectieg and purifying the register. This hill was entirely iu socurd+nce with the suggestions of the committee of lest year, except that their first suggestion had not been included. Leave was given to bring in the bill. RETAIL BEER-HOUSES. Mr. MUNTZ moved for leave to bring in "a bill t tenable ,'Nail brewers in the 'midland counties to keep open their -Liewtill Swedee o'clock at night, the same as the outropo brewers." As the law stood at present, the retail 111111.11111 hit themselves placed under a disadvantage with moped to the keepers of licensed betties. As to the bill itself to assisted whether it mead be en advantage to thi browses, bat es the home h essetimed the ask o y b eer b ., assesyartlea. it seemed Nig seaseable that •.:fley should be pimped oe the seem MI" ether PP" .es. He would now stove fir awe a OM. i sttos bill. Grzczpopme lassies'. The law as it stood ' lied three bella fet the as of hem= Mein skink In Wiwi awl mid es --la Wier Wee tease eleves.—meet la the .es eft He law MO neon for disturbing this arrangement ; the Ada don in linear of the beer-houses in London had tees aegis Is mesidoestien lathe ream efficiency of the pollee same. vides. Ti. Ma. taehtlee bed doubted whether the alters tise maid be tbe tbe odastep arise parties ; and he (Sir G. Grey) doubled abeam it would be for the advantage of trotisey stigar.H. said he felt bound to take the sense of the hemp athis The loess divirleM- 611- For the introduction of the bill Against it QUAKERS' AND JEWS' MARRIAGES. Mr. CHRISTIE moved for leave to bring in " a bill to remove doubts as to Quakm' and Jews' marriages which have been solemnised before the 2nd of Msrch, 1837." It bad been the general opinion that, since the passing of the general marriage act, the marriages of gushers and jews were legally performed according to their own respective rites. But recent inveMigations, and the opinions express, d by the judges and the law lords, had thrown considerable doubt upon the complete validity of those marriages which had been celebrated before the passing of the act of 1837. It was thought that Lord liardwicke's act had done no more than leave those marriages where they were before it parsed; and hence the necessity for the bill he proposed to introduce. Ile trusted that no opposition would be made to his bringing in a short bill to remove all doubts concerning the marriages to which be alluded. Sir G. GREY said that it was supposed that doubts existed with regard to the legality of these marriages. He himself had consulted a legal authority on the matter, and that gentleman stated it to be his opinion that etch doubts were groundless. He had no objection, however, to the in troduction of the bill of the hon. gentleman. Leave granted. PRIVATE BILLS OF COSTS. Mr. HUME moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend an act to establish the taxation of private bills of costs. He said that the bill which he wished to introduce would give to the Speaker of the House of Commons the same power with regard to the bills of costs of this house which the Lord Chancellor had over bills of costs of the Courts of Chancery. There we. one question, which was one of considerable difficulty— lamely, whether all bills of costs for the business of this keels should be taxed or whether it should be at the option of those who had the bil's of costs to pay to apply for their taxation. The committee of that house had made it a gene. sal rule that the same course should be adopted as in the other marls, with this exception—that in all eases where corporations, oir ladtvideels in trust for others, should bring in bills of vests, they &add enforce the taxation of every one a them before the pieties should be allowed to pay any punka at their expenses. la lin red 1843 the immense sea of 82,3311. was expended on applications to this Louse Is, the promotion of the public welfare, and the carrying on of business in the town of Liverpool. If a proper system of taxation had been adopted there might have been a con siderable reduction in the amount. If the house would sanction his bill the evils arising from the absence of such a system would be remedied. There was the case of the river Clyde, the trustees of which had, since the year 1836, expended 66,0001. in applications to this house, for the improvement of that river, and in matters of litiga tion, yet the whole sum expended in improvement did not amount to that. Some such regulation as his should be made, if the house wished to protect the public against rob bery and plunder. He wished, before he sat down, to state that in last si aeon the bill of costs served on them by an at torney for a short bill brought in for the continuation of another act, which only occupied the attention of the com mittee for about one hour, amounted to 1,9551., and that the hill of costs for the London and York railway bill amounted to 432,6201. Such immense expense ought to be put an and to. Leave was granted. BUITLY. - - On the report of the committee of supply on the navy estimates being brought up. Mr. HUME wished to ask whether the present board of admiralty took advantage of Burnet's invention for the pre servation of timber immersed in water? Mr. WARD said that the invention was very largely ap plied in all the docks. Capt. PECHELL wished to inquire what steps the Secretary of the Admiralty intended to take with respect to the subject of the treatment of lunatic officers in Hasler Hospital, which he had already brought before the notice of the house, and complained of the power which the law gave sheriffs' officers of arresting lunatic officer; on account of debts which they were not morally responsible for, and which they knew nothing about. He gave, as an instance, the case of Lieu tenant-Forbes, who wan lately arrested for debt. Mr. WARD said that it was the intention of government to take all possible steps to afford comfort to the inmates of the Hasler Hospital. With regard to the law of arrest, it amdkorttuntely did happen that in the case of Lieutenant Perbre, who was not legally pronounced to be a lunatic, the sheriff had the power of arresting him, but when the matter came to the ears of the board of Admiralty, immediate steps were taken to contribute to his comfort while in prison, and the earliest opportunity was taken to procure Lis liberation. Sir 0. GREY said a few words in corroboration of the statement made by the hon. gentleman, the Secretary to the Admiralty. The report was then adopted. FEVER (IRELAND) BILL. On the third reading of this bill being moved, Mr. FFRENCH said that be had just returned from Ireland, where fever was very rife; and he wished to call the attention of his right hon. friend (Mr. Labouchere) to the fact that, unto , ' they appointed some competent medical inspection of dispensaries in Ireland, it wou:d be of no use to given& extensive powers of taxation to the electoral LABOUCHERE said that he was quite aware that the question was very important; but the honourable gentleman should remember that this bill was of a temporary nature,. to accomplish • temporary object, which was to afford the best means of stopping the progression of fever in Ireland, and that it was not de sirable to mix up with such • bill a matter of a permanent nature. He would assure the hon. gentlemen that the government had not lost sight of the subject which he alluded te. Mr. Labouchere then proposed the introduction of two clauses in this bill—one giving the treasury entire control over all payments and salaries under this bill; the other enabling the different boards of health, as fur as pos sible, to separate those attacked by fever from those whs were not attacked by that malady. The clauses having been agreed to, the bill was read a third time and paned. ARMY SERVICE BILL. Mr. F. MAULS said that, considering the nature of the Army Service Bill, which was to be read a third time on Thursday, he thought it would be more expedient that the two purposes for which it wu intended, via., first to limit the time of service in the army, and secondly to render effective the service of the Chelsea and Greenwich out. pensioners , should be made more distinct, and that the house should have an opportunity of expressing its opinion as to limited service in the army, unburthened by any other consideration; he should therefore on Thursday move that clauses 4,6, 6, 7 and 8, referring to the Chelsea and Greenwich out-pensioners should be struck out ; and on Friday he would bring in a separate bill for rendering effective the service of the Chelsea and Greenwich out pensioners. Ilia object was merely to divide the bill into two parts. The house then adjourned at • quarter before seven o'clock. 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The malls for Vigo, OpLlikon, Msekirs, (}di:, mid Gibraltar, wM be made on en the marnlag of the 11th April. The ambient malts for Gihrsltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian !elands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Howilang, end China, eta Soutnampten, will - be made op on the morning et the loth April. The overland closed midis, via hlanedllee, to tile Mediterranean, Keypt, Aden, Ceylon, WM, item, he., will be made up on the evening of the 24th Aprils The matte for New South Wales, Van Diemen's land, and New 74uland will be made up on tha ..e• of the 19th April. The made far laritiah North Bermuda, and the United Mateo, will be made up on the evening of the led May. The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Maleira, and Banco Ayres, will be made up OS the evening !Attie 4th May. .e Adrertleemeeta tateeded for The &rpm., I,erlou evening pyre sea be at the 0113, by Two o'clock oe the day of pobbeatloa. KWH WATER AT LONDON-BRIM& . Two Deo—Morning, 35 mkt. pod 0; Afternoon, 19 min. part 1. To-Moasow—Morsdng, 42 eta. pet 1; Afternoon, S nut. poet 2. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14. . - ONE little circumstance has been omitted in the catalogue of events which have lately occurred in Spain, and which interests us, from its so closely affecting the future understanding between France and Eng land. Unfit as this circumstance may be to become the theme of the journalist, still whatever has in fluence on the prospects of great political parties and the fate of countries, cannot be passed over in silence. The purpose for which Queen Cniusviss lately paid her precipitate visit to Paris, was, as has been everywhere correctly stated, to in duce the King of the FRENCH to exert himself, end support in power at Madrid that Afrancesado party, which was tottering, THE EXPRESS. WEDNESII whisk wed losing its hold of the Cortes, and which MCA fall, ankle teletained. by some powerful demon stration al the French court. So certain was CHRIS IINA of anselaing in her mission, that her sole and parting in; i tusetion to the minister SOTOSIATOR, and to those elamberlains, male and female, who ruled the royal household, was, that they should hold fast their places as long and as firmly as they could, even em ploying a little physical violence and resistance, in order to defeat any mere palace intrigue, like that which upset OLorsos. CHRISTINA hied on her way. And we have seen how tenaciously SOTOMATOR held his ground—held it. indeed, till he was kicked out of it. The Camerara-Mayer, the Duchess of SANTA Cane, and her littlesacred bandofehansberlains and equerries resolved to do the same, and, instead of obeying the first order of dismissal, rushed back to the queen's closet, and there sought to employ the usual way of coercing the young queen by loud vociferatioa and menacing gesture. ISABELLA was proof against the dowager's explosion ; and the arena had the effect of producing merely inextinguishable laughter. The Duchess of SANTA CRuZ could not believe that the reign of French influence could be so soon eclipsed, or that the queen-mother could have failed in the object of her mission to Paris. And, in truth, the royal lady had every reason to hope. Con fidential word had come from Paris to Madrid, that the young Duchess of MONTPENSIER was enceinte. It was a fair excuse for her return to Madrid, in order that she might give birth in the Spanish capital to the future heir of Spain and the Indies. This had been a favourite project of Louts PHILIPPE himself, which was to do no less than "remove the Pyrenees." The presence of the Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER at Madrid would alone be an immense support and countenance to the Afrancesados. The residence of the duke and duchess would be the rallying point of deputies and generals; and if BREasoN ruled Madrid from his embassy, how much more easily could the 11IoNTpENsIER.9 rule it, when the future hopes of the succession evidently centered in their progeny. One simple circumstance has dissipated all their dreams, with all the hopes and the proposed policy built upon them. This is, that the Infanta-Duchess of MONTPENSIER turns out not to be enceinte at all. She is merely progressing, like her royal sister, in embon point, and presenting the same peculiarities of health and temperament. Political speculators, especially those that reside in the idle purlieus of a court, are fond of leaping to a conclusion. And now these people declare that neither Issuer-LA SECUNDA, nor the Infanta LOUlSA—neither Don FRANCISCO nor the Duke of MONTPENSIER—wiII have heirs. We are rather ashamed to dwell upon such particu lars, or record such surmises, but when they are I suffi cient to turn the scale in the ups and downs of poli tical party, and when they really have more weight than the talents or address possessed or exerted by the chiefs of party, they must be stated. Should events tarn out as their fears and hopes would indi cate, it will at once be perceived that the great and ir removable quarrel between the French court and the English government vanishes altogether. The proba bility that both the daughters of FERDINAND the SEVENTH may prove sterile, must give rise to a new set of political combinations and provisions. The effect of such a prospect in Spain itself would be very sensible. Nowhere is there so large a party dis posed to worship the rising sun, and to direct devo tion to the point whence the successor to the throne must come. The Carlist party would undeniably receive an immense accession of strength. The absence of all competition, owing to the universal dis credit which the sons of the Infanta Don FRANCISCO have brought upon themselves, would alone ensure the success of the Legitimist heir ; that is to say, if he made the concessions demanded by the spirit both of the age and of the Spanish people. But no matter how liberal such a prince might be, in words and in intentions, the machinations of the ultra party behind him would have to be counteracted. And this could be best done by England and France uniting cordially in support of a truly constitutional system. The political events of Spain have proved several things : one is, that Spain left alone can with difficulty reach a solid and liberal system of adminis tration. Another is,that Englandand Franceseparately cannot maintain Spain in such a position. Which ever of the countries finds; its counsels rejected, will, in its own despite, have a party making use of its in flueace to embarrass the Spanish government And thus the old state of oscillation between French and English parties in the peninsula will be perpetuated. Now, too, there will be a danger, which of late years did not threaten, viz., the resuscitation of the abso lutist interest, and the possibility of Russia or Austria regaining their old bigot influence at Madrid, whilst England and France have been struggling for mere semblance and shadow. WE are sorry to see the City of London taking the first steps in opposition to the Health of Towns Act. The report of the City commissioners of sewers prays the exemption of the City from the operation of that measure. It enumerates all they have done in the last sixteen years, and expresses a deliberate conviction, that the City of London, " for health, cleanliness, effective drainage, lighting, and the supply of water to its inhabitants, cannot be surpassed." It is very possible that, in comparison with some of the other metropolitan commissions of sewers, the City board is a very active, pure, and efficient body. But this challenge involves something more than ' such questionable credit It staggers us. We are I not unfamiliar with the C:ty. We have a vivid recollection of the sweet-smelling district between Fleet-street and the river, and the pleasant places about Smithfield, and the savoury purlieus of Hounds ditch. It is something new to hear these localities defying the world in the matter of cleanliness and drainage. Nor is other evidence wanting to back up the testimony of eyes and nose. Who would be pre pared for such details as the following in the best, paved, best drained, cleanliest city in England ? Dr. WRAY, a medical officer of the West London Union, is asked (in 1843) Do the sewers often emit offensive effluvia?—Very often, even in the large pablic streets. I was standing the other day at a snuff shop in Fleet-street, when the effluvia from the gull hole of the sewer was so bed, that it was sanely endurable. The people in the shop mild not remain there without shutting the door.—ls 011“ so cleansing the sewers?—Yes; there is much claming going on. For example; the other day the sewers were cleansed in Water lane, by taking off the top, and removing the deposit by buckets, and mating it away. They have been putting a new sewer in Water-lane, Shoe-lane, Fetter lane, and Chaneery-lane, all in my district —Effluvia, however, still escapes from the main sewers into the streets ?—Yes, it does; and that is perhaps as bad for the public as the other is to the poor. At the present moment there is a great deal of fever in the neighbourhood.—He is then asked—Doeslthe state of filth, and the effluvia caused by defective sewerage, by inespoolizinivies, and decomposing refuse kept in due-hiss, tally a ff ect the health of the population ? He lays— es, it does. It always occasions a- state of de premioa, that render, persons more liable to be acted upon by other poisons, even if it be not the actual cause of it. The line ofhabitatioea badly cleansed, and in this condition, almost always formed the line of cholera cases. From some of these places, such as Plough court, Fetter-lane; Plum tree-court, Shoe-lane; ffobiar clod met, Shoe-lane ; Water lane, Fleet-street; Silver-street, leading from Bouverie street ; Field-lane, Union-court, Plough-court, Holborn-hill, we have still constantly fever cases. All these places are distisgaished by filth and want of drainage, and proper washing. Nine-tenths of the diseases come from these filthy Nam Mr. KELSEY (the surveyor of the City commis sioners) is, no doubt, of the same mind as the framers of the present report. He considers the City sewers admirable. It is true there is no apparatus for " flushing" them, so as to carry off the accumulation in a state of solution. But it appears the London sewers have a pecaliar virtue. They do not require such a process. Filth refuses to accumulate in them. Here, again, however, there is a curious discrepancy between the statement of the official 'And the evidence of the medical man : You have stated that there are a few accumulations in the sewers. Within the last few months there has been a great deal of evidence taken from medical officers, and your attention ia requested to the following statement in the evidence of Mr. Thomas Abrahams, a surgeon. He is asked—Are you aware that decomposing matter is allowed to accumulate in them ?—lie says—Yes; very recently they took up the refuse in our street, Old Broad-street ; it emelt very badly, and it-wee-erhick and horribly filthy.—He is asked—How long before had the sewer been cleansed do not know; I do not remember its having been cleansed before the last September since I have been there, which is about nine years.—Do you rem-caber to have perceived the smell from the sewers before the last September ?—Yes ; there is a gullybole near my own house, from which there was constantly an offensive smell ; it was much worse after • thaw in winter, or a shower of raic in summer. A neigh bour, living two doors from me, being more annoyed by it than I, made great efforts, and at length succeeded in getting it trapped ; and I have not since perceived any smell from it, though I observe it now in other pin's Tbe gully holes are trapped now in most of the respectable street:, but in the ►ye and poor streets they are not trapped. He is then asked—From the er:clence which has come before you, Y - EVENING, APRIL 14, 1847. Aare you say doubt that the existing state of sewers in the City to the latent cause of mush disgust) and death I—l have tot the lean doubt of it in the world. A great deal of ac tive disease, which creeps on gradually and insidiously, may be traded to that cause.—Do you consider that a correct ac count 1-1 think I can expiate that. List September the oommissioners were about to repave Broad-street, and they always take advantage of the repivement of a street to trap the gullies; sad when the gullies bad to be trapped, the l i sewer was cleansed out, an a matter of course, to commence with.—lt might not ►ave been cleansed for nine years be fore ?—No. Mr. HENRY DLLNICARNE, a surgeon in the City of London Union, u asked : • • - . Are yon aware that in respect to sewerage, it is the prac tice to allow deposits to accumulste in the sewers, and then, when the private drains are stopped up, to open the sewer and get out the deposit by meaty of buckets, :and remove it in carts ?—Yes, I am—Have you seen any illness result from this prance ?—I cannot state a case, though I have no doubt of its highly injurious erects ; but can decidedly speak to illness arising from the accumulations. The ill ness is just the same as from cesspools; a low depressing nervous fever, most like that which is described to be the form of the jungle-fever. In November or December last they were taking up the deposits from the sewers near Broken Wharf, in Upper Thames-street; the stench from'' it was quite sufficient to have produced any fern. ; it was not within my district, and I do not know what were the effects. Fortunately there was clear weather, and the wind bl:w towards the riven—Have you any doubt that the 111 , moral of such refuse, as well as the accumulation, must bs attended with danger to life ?—Yes; if any person in a state of mental or bodily depression were exposed to such an influence, it would produce low fever; it would be den serous in proportion as it was stagnant. —ln passing the the City, have you been assailed with smells from ray holes?—Only yesterday, in passing through the City, tins smells from many of the gullyhules were very offensive; and several medical friends agree wi.h me in attributing extremely prejudicial consequences as arising from this cause. The Commission have so sewer at Broken Wharf; Ido not know what particular sewer it refers to. The sewer in Thames attest has been occasionally obstructed by floating substances washed there by the river, sad es sionally the head-water has not been sufficient adman is. Again, we cannot understand, if the drainage el Loudon is perfect, how there should exist such plates as the courts near St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate—nests of pestilence and filth, from which fever is never ab sent the whole year round. There is one explanation of Mr. KELSEV'a perfect satisfaction with this state of things. He informs us, in his evidence, .• that he &isnot smell." This is certainly a very comfortable peculiarity for a City surveyorof sewers. But we cannot be quite satisfied with the report upon stenches of • gentleman whose olfactory powers are thus deficient. We are sadly afraid that the commissioners have taken too much on trust of their gifted surveyor. We would respectfully recommend them to smell for them selves. We have no doubt that Dr. LYNCH is per fectly able and perfectly willing to take them to scenes, within five minutes' walk of the Mansion house, which will satisfy them that something re mains to be done even in the City. But it most not be forgotten, in estimating what the City commission has done and left undone, that its circumstances aro peculiar and favourable. It comprises within its juiisdiction a greater amount of wealth and a less dense resident population than any surrounding metropolitan district; one, too, in which is comprised a great length of old sewerage work, some of it probably even now unknown to the stir- veyors. The great defects in the drainage and clean ing of the city of London, where everything is pecu liarly favourable to the operations of the commis sioners, are so many arguments in favour of Lord MORPETEeB measure applicable to places less fortu nately situated. The commissioners rely most on what they have done in the way of sewerage. But sewerage without drainage is useless, and sewerage without flushing apparatus positively mischievous. The City sewerage has no corresponding system of drains, and no machinery for flushing. The sewerage of a district under the present system is really placed in the hands of two or three persons, though nominally entrusted to a commission of fifty. At least as much field for activity would remain open to the City func tionaries under the proposed as under the present system. There is one way in which they may pre serve that freedom of local action which they so prize, without throwing weighty obstacles in the way of sanitary reform. Let them co-operate with the officials proposed by the bill. If they do this, they will find themselves precisely in their present position, except that they will have larger powers of good. They will be able to do all they can do now and something more. If they are even now doing their duty, the new Board of Health and Public Works will show no eagerness to take upon its own shoulders (sure to have burden enough laid on them) a superfluous weight of work. If, as we suspect, much remains to be done which the present board, partly from want of power, partly from a vicious system, has failed to accomplish, the new board will invest them—the same body, though with a new name—with the authority they stand in need of, and furnish that advice and guidance the want of which, we apprehend, few but the commissioners themselves would be inclined to deny. Ix has been said that the Martello Towers in Ire land were erected for the prepense purpose of pus sling posterity; and perhaps it is a moral duty is every generation to perpetrate something which may serve to stimulate the ingenuity and exercise the acuteness of that by which it is to be succeeded. Some such benevolent object must have animated those who assembled yesterday at Crosby Hall; and we have only to complain that in their anxiety to provide for the perplexity of the next generation they generated rather too large a supply of mysteries, and rendered their problems too difficult of solstice. A mere glance at the puzzles this conference has prepared for posterity is enough to excite anxious commiseration for the coming age. An assembly al divines has been collected for the special purpose of protecting the sacred rights of ignorance and the constitutional privileges of vice; the self-called repre sentatives of the nonconformists of lingland have the met to protest that the principles of . _ Pilgrim Fathers are naught, and those of the Jesuit Brother the perfection of excellence; men, calling themselves liberals, have come to amen that the poor should be held in bon to the casual charity of tacker the superior classes, by ing compelled to accept as a boon what they should claim as a right • persons calling themselves patriots aver that the mo ral depra vity of their countrymen renders it unsafe to tender to them the same advantages which are proffered to other nations ; and advocates of civil and religiose liberty have come together to show that ignorance sd rights is essential to civil freedom, and that authorised instruction in the nature of obligations will he fatal to religious independence. Since the days of ROBES. PIERRE there has been no such bold attempt to ides tifillaidberty with licentiousness. as all this is, it would be infinitely worse if the gentlemen of the conference were to be held bound by the propositions which they enunciate. Bat this would* be a course not altog eth er fair in any contra venial:agitation, and, least of all, in the present. There is some probability that TITUS OATES had per suaded himself into the existence of a popish plot, and l that hetherefore felt freedom of conscience in inventing evidence to prove its reality. From the signs around us, we doubt not that many of the noncon formists have been deluded into the belief that some dire conspiracy has been formed to bring them over, to orthodoxy by a coup de main, and so they have resolved to denounce reading because the Catechism has been printed, and writing because the Thirty-alai Articles may be copied. It was obvious, however, that " the plot " ma by no means satisfactorily proved to all the members of the conference. The slowness of the proceedings ex hibited proof that there was some difficulty in getting rsufficient pretexts for panic, and, indeed, the resolu tions adopted seem rather apologies fur exciting a premature alarm "to frighten the isle from its pro priety" than the groundwork for any rational course of action. The first of these resolutions asserts the anxiety of the assembled deputies for the promotion of national education, proved, as they declare, by their recorded acts. We do not withhold our assent to the assertion, when we find these gentlemen de claring that the minute of Council cf 1839, which the more recent minute has only expanded, is " the most unexceptionable measure for national instruction, as it regards the rights of conscience, which has ever been eugge"ted by any body of t he advisers of the crown." The second resolution is one to which we refer with feelings of sorrow. Degraded as is the scholastic profession in England, notorious as are the evils arising from the inferior position held by the educator, we can hardly believe that grave divines understood what they said, when they declared, that the offer of honours and emoluments—of the most trifling and inadequate kind—to those who hold in their hands the training of the rising generation, and therefore the future destinies of the country, is injurious either in principle or practice. The contemptible jargon of economic terms in which this proposition is enunciated may safely be left to the ridicule it must meet from all who have mastered the alphabet of economic science. At the folly thus perpetrated all sensible men will I laugh, but the consequent evil all honest men must deplore. From many causes, dissent has a strong hold on the working classes in England, and it will be no gain to the social happiness of the nation, if that hold be rudely or suddenly relaxed. Let the opinion once get abroad in the manufacturing districts, that the object of this anti-education movement is to keep the operatives dependent on the bounty of their employers for that which the state should give them as members of the community, and a prejudice will be raised against nonconformity, which, however unjust, cannot be said to be entirely unfounded. When the operatives see, in this very conference, men who have pressed upon the government the establishment of schools of design for the improve ment of their manufactures, protesting against the establishment of schools of instruction for the benefit I I of the working man and his children, they will be led to form conclusions which we wish not to antici pate, but which they have already significantly inti mated at Barnsley and Bradford. Doctors CHALMERS and CANDLISH have protested aginst this anti-education movement, and shown how utterly untenable are the pretended religious grounds taken by its promoters. We, from the first, have lamented the obvious hoetility which the anti-educationists exhibit to the industrial and la bouring classes of the English people. Wo assert that the operatives and labourers of England are as worthy of the protection of the state as the same classes in New York and Massachussetts ; we deny that our bard-working countrymen are more likely to be corrupted by paltry bribes than their brethren beyond the Atlantic; and we shall not tamely stand by when any conference meets to libel our working men for the purpose of perpetuating injury on their children. The project of law for the reform of the French tariff was made public for the first time in Paris on Monday, in the leading . article of the Journal des Dawes. This measure is more valuable as a prog nostic of what must follow it hereafter than for any substantial benefit it may confer on international commerce. The first and most prominent feature which it presents, is the suppression of prohibi tion on certain classes of articles, and the substitu tion for it of a high import duty. This is valuable, inasmuch as it effaces at once prohibition as a princi ple from French legislation. The articles thus allowed to be free are not, however, either nu merous or important. On a second series of articles there is a reduction of duty, but this reduction is not sufficiently great, nor the articles themselves sufficiently numerous, to give much practical value to this part of the measure. Another portion of it, however, combines practical import once with its value as a principle, for it erases altogether nearly three hundred articles from the tariff. Of these, upwards of a hundred will be allowed to be imported without any condition, and the remainder, though free of duty, will be subject to some conditions; thus some few must be imported in French bottoms or by land, others must arrive under the French flag and from certain countries. The gross amount of the duties which those 300 articles, now declared free, brought into the treasury lin 1843 was 1.5.5,000 1- , the chief part of which was produced by saltpetre, soda, dye-woods, mother-of pearl, copper, ivory, hides, bamboo, deal, whalebone, and lead ore. Free importation is also to be allowed to iron, copper, zinc, and hemp, to be used for ship ' building. This project of law, as the writer in the Dards says, is, notwithstanding the extreme timidity and caution observable in it, a step in :he right three ' don. Struggling with vast protective interests, com plete commercial freedom can only be established by slow and cautious steps. But it may be assumed that henceforward the reign of absolute prohibition has ceased. The schism in the majority of the chamber by which the cabinet has been hitherto supported, is becoming every day more manifest. The new conservatives, or progreesist conservatives as they are called, are estimated at a number varying from 30 to 60. In reality, there are about 30 whose convictions are clear, and who are ready to act with decision. There is, in fact, the fair nucleus formed of a new party in the chamber, which must henceforward materially affect the proceedings of the existing cabinet. This new pregressist party are expected to have, at an early period, a meeting at the house of their parlia mentary leader, the Count de Castellane. This meet ing, which was to have taken place a few days since, has been postponed in consequence of the decease of the mother of M. de Castellane. Late on Sunday night government received despatches from Algeria, bringing the intelligence that Abdel Kader has again made his appearance four days' march south of Mascara, and has already been joined by several tribes. Immediately' on the arrival of this news, M. 'lemon, eons-chef of the cabinet of the minister of Foreign Affairs, was ordered to start for Tangiers on a special mission. He is to go by Madrid, to which city he takes despatches. The Paris journals were silent on this subject on Monday, the matter not yet being allowed to appear in the Debate. A heavy fall of the funds took place on Monday, owing partly to the decline in London, and partly to the announcement in the Debate of the issue of bills. Tre ArWebert, who vacated hie seat in the chamber in consequence of his appointment to the Ministry of Justice, has been re-elected. Advice. from Madrid to the 7th have been re ceived. Queen Isabella continued to receive in public the same manifestations of popular favour. She appeared frequently at the theatres, bull-fights, and other public places, and was everywhere received with acclamations. M. Pedro de Epee, late Inten dant of the Palace, who had been diemiased, has published in El Heroldo a disavowal of the improper and disrespectful conduct imputed to him on the I occasion of his dismissal. He declares, also, that the statement that he was put under arrest is without foundation. General Serrano has been permitted at his own request to leave Madrid for Andalusia, until his health is re-established, and until the proceedings taken against him shall be brought to a close. The greatest excitement prevailed in Madrid on the evening of the 6th and the day of the 7th, produced 1 1 by the folwi circumstance :—A cabinet council 1 had been held n in g the *sae on the 6th, in conae quenee, as was reported, of intelligence which was received by the government, that the queen-mother was to leave Paris for Madrid on the sth mat, and that the object of her voyage was to cause Queen Isabella to be declared incapable of directing the affairs of the state, and to transfer the sovereign power to the Duchess of Montpensier, as regent. The government, it was said, immediately decided that Queen Christina should not be allowed to eater Spain, and that Ge neral Don Manuel de la Concha should be despatched immediately to Paris, with orders, in case he should meet the queen-mother en route, to per suade her to return, awing that the gates of Madrid would be closed against her ; but that, in case she should persist in entering Spain, then Gen. de la Concha should produce his full powers to arrest her. Such, according to the prevailing re ports, was the result of the deliberations of the cabinet on the 6th. What is certain is, that immediately after the cabinet council in the afternoon of the 6th, Gen. de la Conchs WWI sent for by the ministers, and started in a chaise de poste immediately for Paris, ac companied by Don Joachim de Zayas, the commandant of the etat-major. It was reported that the Duke de Glucksberg, Charo d'Affaires of France, was present at a meet inz of the principal members of the Afrancesado party, when it was decided to counsel the king-con sort to publish a manifesto to the nation, in comm. suenez of the position he finds himself in respect ing the queen. Royal ordonnances have appeared appointing Field-Marshal Fernando de Norez Agarey Captain- General of Extremadura, M. Ricardo Schelly Captain- General of Grenada, and Gen. Loriana Soinz Vice- President of the Colonial section of the Royal Council. Gen. Pezuela is named Captain-General of Andalusia, and private letters say that the appointment of Nar vaez to the Paris embassy is certain. M. Martinez de la Rosa has refused the embassy to Rome. FRANCE.—Pairs, APRIL 12.—A grand dinner wa• given at the Tuileries on Saturday. Among the com pany were the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aileabury, Earl and Countess of Hardwick', Lord and Lsdy Granville, Earl and Cooley Wilton. Lord and Lady Holland, Mr. and Mrs. Standish, Count Kielmansegge, Hanoverian Minister to the Court of St. Junes, Colonel Komilly, Mira Barrington, Dr. Hawtre l , Gel•eral Fox, Lady Mary Fox, Count Louis de Noodles, eg, Tocncomo, APRIL 10.—A fire broke out at si ne o'clock on the 9th inst., at the station of Tourcoing, c a Northern Railway. Everything was destroyed except th e walls. GERM.kNY.— PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, APRIL 10.—e The cause of free trade is finding supporters in every Gantry in Europe. It is now the turn of Prussia to get up a be e trade agitation. The Cologne Gazelle says that • free trade association was formed in Berlin on the 7th, although it the near foundering at the outset, from the want of that gab, licity which such undertakings require. A meeting li ft held in the Doreen Seale, in which resolutions sere Maid , after two hours' discussion, to the effect that !ree wad s in every article is universally beneficial o industry. that it is time to obtain by every means possible Ur eider' and adoption of this principle which should S s the object of the association to gain and spread io •egerd every article of trade and commerce. These tulilutisiss were poser' and signed by upwards of 80 pecans persist at the meeting. APILIL 10.—Several members of the diet have arrived* Berlin, and preparatory meetings and conferences have beep held between the most influential deputies from the differ provinces. The public was anxiously expecting the 0664 announcement of the order in which the debates were to take place, and this expect ition is increased in proportion the time for Om opening of the diet approaches, It wee thought that the debates of the first week would suffice to show the character likely to be taken by the assembly, oA which so much depends not only for Prussia, but for all the states of the German confederation. There was a re. port at Berlin on the 9th, that a mernorandars drawn up in a liberal spirit by a Royal Prince, would b e presented to the assembly. Among the different propositiom to be brought before the assembly, the most important are those concerning the relative position- of the Jews toward' the state; a modification of the taxes, and the establishment of an income-tax on the plan of that established in England ; and the construction of the Konigsberg railway, the mot of which is estimated at 36 million dollars, to which effect a loan of 20 millions is to be contracted, and the 16 remaining millions defrayed by the state. Of the regulations of them. senility the following has transpired N. Rechow been appointed Landitogs-Aforacholl, or Merslial of the As sembly of the States. The marshal is to read the order oldie day, and he has the righted interrupting any of the speaker'. The members are obliged to speak from the tribune, and sis written speeches are allowed. Whets a spencer sits down the marshal appoiuta the person who is to follow. Tls assembly has the right of publishing the debates withal: censurthip, giving the names of the speekers. The n however, has the privilege of erasing offensive paw= the royal commissary can put his veto upon the publictuiem of any article he may think fit. This latter treulation win be opposed by the members of the assembly. The Prussia* Goitre contains • royal letter patent on the subject of new religious sects. It declares that whilst on the one hand the state is resolved to uphold the evangelical and Ramie Catlia lie tenets as the established religion, it at the same tins recognizes the freedom of conscience of every citizen, sail their right of meeting together for the purpose of pubis worship. BRESLAU, Arnim 3.—ln the month of Match, 1846, M. Itonge was condemned to a month's imprisonment for having preached at Magdeburg without the permission the authorities. It was thought that the meatiest of this condemnation had been abandoned by the government, by such is not the fact. M. Runge received, on the In kit, from the police of Breslau an injunction to undergo the sea. truce pronounced against him, and yesterday he rendered himself a prisoner. Upwards of 2,003 persons aceompanied him on his passsge, crying, " Rouge foe ever !" " Religiose fly fur ever !" hut this demonstration gave rise to no disturbance. BAVARIA.—Mcmcn, APRIL s.—The king Ma completely recovered from his late attack of illness—a RAILWAY-STATION ON FINE.—A fire broke oat on the Mk instant in the railway terminus at Munich, and in a short time consunr d the wooden sheds erected round the carriage yard. The property lying about was all saved, with the ex ception of 300 bushels of wheat intended forManheien The service underwent no interruption. TURKEY. —CONSTANTINOPLE, NlAncn 27.—Con EXPORTATION.—An edict for prohibiting the o 'portant% d core, with c:rtain saving clauses, has been promulgated at Constantinople. This document has been received, tad Marseilles, by a reepectahle mercantile firm in London, this day, from their correspondents in Constantinople: DIEKOHANIIUM AllllMolsa to run Cower or Memos sr ma TIMMIon Goyim', vv. vi.--The considerable numb sea of grain ribs this year in Turkey, for exportation into Europe, baring pew d an advance In prices, it is to le feared that by as enema of cupidity the inhabitants may dispose eyes ef the wrens nmewary foe their own subsistence, and for rowing, sod Mao im pose themselves to suffer from the mint of grain. Os the other hand the famine which reign. in the different coriatrim of E urope makes it a duty of humanity to facilitate exportations. Not M fail hi this date. end at the same time to preserve Turkey heaths inceavenienota of a scarcity M corn, the Porte ems noobiection the the surplus of grain which is In the lands of speculators, mesh be sold, and that all the Iwrohan a made till now by contract shoed have full execution. Only apart this surplus of the quantity rm. ivory for the wants of the country and the inhAbitanlP, it has ban dr tided that prov i sionally no sale of corn Man take pLice, and Mita this decision has been met to the Governors of at ichichiaeleist Galata). Tams, Widdin, Fen* Rodorto, Sarthan. (Adrian, Olt Trebieend, Costamony, Smyrna, and lemidt. Your excellency do well to adv i se the merchants thereof, through the medium deli! immolates, and give the nevem, y instructions in the proper Teem for theprompt rue. anon of this manure. The s Rebut A k ir, INV How much and how favourably the considerate and haws provisions of this measure towards foreigners contrasts with the abrupt decrees of some Christian nations, such as Frame and Spain, by which at the instant, and without minims notice. the export of grain was prohibited, and even takes from on board ships at Bayonne and on the Spanish ease in whi oh after purchase it had been shipped, of which in stances can be given, end for indemnity for which British subjects are now appealing to Lord Palmerston. TM law a Turkey is that all contracts must be on stamped paper, m that the Turkish government has an easy means of preyed ing more shipments of grain than what have already bps contracted for. COLONIAL. HONDURAS.—Col.Fancourt, the superintendent, had just returned to the settlement from an expedition lit Ruatan on the 20th February the date of the last do patches. The February Gran d Court was to open its maim on the 22nd. The Honduras Observer and Gazette states that tits " cuttings" of mahogany this season will not be more this one half of last year's—say 74 to 8 millions of feet. The number of " gangs " employed for this season were less the for the last; and wages had bees greatly reduced-12 to 16 dollars a month. The following list shows the number of gsaP of logwood cutters actually employed in British Honduras towards the end of February, and their distribution. TM list begins with the boundary river to the north (the Roads) and proceeds to the river which constitutes the southern boundary of the territory (the Sarstoon). The last dee would seem to imply that thirteen gangs are at work withal the territory of Central America: Rio Hondoand tributaries, 14 gangs ; New River, 1.5; Northern River, 2; Betas River, 16; Sibun River, 3; Deep River, 2; Golden Strums, 2 ; Riddle River, 1 ; Rio Grande, 2 ; Temash, I ; Samoa. 2; Southern Rivers out of limits, 13; total number sr WV , 74 - In the first week of February the Honduras Observer ea Gazette began to notice, for the first time, the movements d the coasting trade in its commercial lists. This is a Telltale addition, and perhaps better calculated than any other hied of information to impress home readers with a just appro anion of the actual and possible value of the settleassat These notices must for a time be incomplete, but daring the three weeks for which they had been continued, they also arrivals of 21 bungoys from Baader (in Yucatan), 3 feu Isabel, 3 from Oman, 1 from Sesta Tomas, and 1 five Truzillo (all in Central America). From Busier, Balls appears to draw no inconsiderable portion of its suppries_d ' firewood; and also ' • oonnsho pi;visions and ; to Import • quantity of logwood, with abeam, sugar, lime, sapodilla pasts, &c. Cattle are imported horn Isa bel; cattle and sarmparilla boa Oleos. Doubtless some steatite on the part of the home government to the colonisatiss if this territory would soon create within the British beer claim marts as eligible for trade as say of those we he* named. The Iforuirraz Obserrer, of 23rd of January, "e"" some iteiciotts remark. on the extent to which sreeffllhei in the settlement. This is scarcely to be war Fe;t;ir at, consider . * that a duty of 1 dollar Per Pi:, lee is imposed on all spirituous liquors imported, I" that the country is thinly peopled and full of cab, which seem to have been made fur clandestine lade "Despite the most stringent laws and watchfulness of the revenue officer," says the journal we have named, "o 1 gling will continue and prosper, until the tariff on swami liquors is so reduced as to render its illicit introduction eV the settlement no longer a source of greater prattles , the payment of the just and legal duties imposed upon it ebe evun. ----- The Queen and Prince Albert visited Her Alsjegi the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough-house. Her Majesty and His Royal Highness were attended br g a r General Wemysa and Captain the Hon. A. 14. G His Royal Highness l'rinoe Albert rode out on horwheri yesterday, attended by his equerry in waiting. Her He I peaty and Prince Albert honoured the performance at Her Majesty . Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambride honoured Her Mout-sty', Theatre with her pretence big evening. _ The following members of the new bishopri....% l3l commission attended a meeting yesterday in S'Autss% place: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord John Burs , the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bradt of Chester, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Chichester, sod IS Earl of Powis. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterdsl from his seat Broadlands, Hants. The Earl of Clarentiss arrived in town yesterday from his seat, Grove-park, B The Duke of Wellington has arrived in town. The Right Nom T. Milner Gibson has returned to town. The Lord Advr este of Scotland and Mrs. Rutherford arrived at Ferrante Hotel, Upper Belgrave-street, for the semou, yestrodsh from Edinburgh. Mr. Tenured had an interview with Sir 0:0 7 13. Grey yesterday at the Home-office. (Front kat Gazette.) DRAW ING-kooMs.—Notice is given in the &au, that her Majesty will hold dralriogroorus at St. James e palace, at two o'clock to-morrow, aid on Thursday , 3 13 Y 21 ' to celebrate her Majesty's birthday. ~._ ...