The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—SATURDAY, JULY 3. The Earl of Bitarrnenuar took his seat on the woolsack at four o'clock, when the Militia Ballots Suspension Bill, and the Corn, dm., Importation Bill, having paced through committee, their lordships adjourned to this day. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE LORDS. MONDAY, ha, 5. ORDETta OP TILE DAT.—Conerrianier.--Pcor BeiletElaperelaion (Ireland) BilL (Lords stunadieed.)—Tartu Raaeuto.—Trusted Ite lid MU. . THURSDAY, itILT S. ORDERS OP THB DAY.—Raroor or Amsmodarol.—Poor-law Adminturation Hill. (Lordisommoood.)—Thuao RlADL:l6.—C3ergy Meow Bill. NOTICES OF BIOTIONS.—Lord Hardwick*, to more addran Mo tive to naval decorations. Lord Elrooptuun, to present artists' petition. FRIDAY, any 9. NOTICE OF MOTION. -Lord Ciaribrassil, to eallettention to third report of oceangssioncrs appointed under 19 Vic., c. 7, for relic/ of dimness in Ireland. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE COMMONS. MONDAY, JOLT S. ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Comarrthes or Surety AND OF WATT AND Mithns.—Szoose Resouros--Joint Stock Compunios (No. 9); Copyright (Colonies) ; Effie. Cossurrathrax—incumberen Estates (Ireland); Prisons; Polling at Eloutkoh (Ireland); Recovery of PuNk Moneys (Ireland); Bank ruptcy and Insolvency; Mather' in Chancery Affidavit Office; Nevi puce (N 0.2); Stock in Trade Fasniption ; Health of Towne; OZTA portion for Damages (Ireland) ; Herring Fishery (Scotland) ; Bib. Harems.—Custody of °deaden; Poet Mee; Drainage of Ueda (Ireland); New Zealand Company; Shannon Navigation; Insolvent Debtors; Mums Flattery (Scotland); Bills Tutu, licumsoi.—Thhery Pima and Harbours (Ireland) ; Railways (Ireland) (No. 21 ; Jalat Stock Companies • Bilis. COKAIDZAATION or Loops' Aumniniunts—Edtabargh Waterworks [lord Nforpeth, to move Ilwilth of Towns Bill Committee (at 12 o'ethck) ; Lord John Russell, to move Compenaatton for (Ireland) Bill Committee, and Committee of Supply, before the orders.) NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON ORDERS OF THE DAY. —(On reading the order of the day), Mr. Gregory to call attention to the case of Mr. P. Matthews.—heaters or Tows, BlLL—(lncommittee), Mr. Divett, to we additional clause and amendments; Mr. Turner, to move amenemants; Mr. IL lkykeley, to move additional clauses; Mr. T. DIMOMMIS ill more additienal clause ; ChM. Pechell and Mr. IL R. TOMOODIIIOreaseandments.—COSIMITIME OF BoPPLT (on reading the Mir Stale day garb tbl. Sibthory, to call attention to railway mei duels; Mr. Winne. to can attention to the state of Portugal ; MO. Mar s to awe tee anent committee on the Rajah of sattara's cane. L metLre oirmilles), Mr. Molf.dt, to move for committee on of MAW *rite ; Sir D. Norma, to move for Hanelproduc earreamedans• nailer 10 Vic. e. 7. (In committee), Mr. Pottier, to move zetialnleg aethontea ; Mr. Secretary at War, to move lands e•tiroalse ; Mr. Oriseallor of the Exchequer, to move British Ness= eettmebe; Mr. Dorentiek, to call attention to the slave Maio; sir O. Stranten. Is ell alendon to the claims of the family of gm lett H. then, Bob enneel et/Mion—lscon •st Ewer. , (tax man) Bn.t.—(lneteamillet 11r.Osegory,to move additional clause.— !mom Mr O. Grey, to more addi tonal elms. POLLING es Mumma (121n.eso) Brit--(In committee), M. G. Hamilton, to mom nuteedieems sad additional clause. Mr. mante amd Mutt hymn, toe adnitterl dew clause for clause 6. nies. Yr. Grosso, to more amend- INDEPENDENT NOTIC.E.S.—(At the time of private boatmen), Admiral Gordon, to move that the Wakefield New Gas Bill have leave to proceed with Ogee aramhae. (At the time of public busi ness), Ste De. L. Evans. to nose Ibr espies of correepondence on the subject of Mr. BuTitetrhem's clef his against the lust ladle Company. Mr. G. How, to move bill to facilitate the investment of trust moneys in the improvement of hind. Mr. Wilk, to ask questions of the Poetise Secretary relative to the late proceedings at Canton. Mr. Hume, to mak question of the Cider Secretary for the Colonies rela tive to tho address for responsible government from the House of Lamm* of Prince Edward** Idand. Viscount Bandon, to move for copies of letters and resolutions of the resident colonists at Welling ton and Nelson (New Zealand). Mr. Wakley, to move that certain petitions be printed with the votes. Mr. Parker, to move hill to regulate the superannuation allowances of the Irish constabulary. TUESDAY, Jovr 0. NOTICES OF MOTTOS:S.—Mr. Bond Cabbell, to move return and address respecting Military Knights of Windsor. Lord 0. Ihintinck, to move add rem relative to Spanish bonds. Mr. Moffett, to more bill to repeal the direriattnating duties on =refined sugar. Mr. B. Dads to move eonsideratith of petition of Mr. Langslow, late district judge in Ceylon. Mr. Brothertou, to call attention to petition for • uniform penny realist amp. Dr. Bowing, to move for papers relaang to the imprisonment of the great inquath at Castletown ( Isle of Mao), by Mr. DeCMStler Christian. Mr. F. Buller, to call attention to the petition of Junes Eaton and others ORDER OP THE DAY.—Secosn ILOADINO•—ArgyIe Canal Bill. WEDNESDAY, Jeer 7. ORDERS OF THE DAY.-82cottoRcuaxos—Parliamentary Elec tions ; Do. (Nc. 2) ; Poor Removal Act Amendment (No. 2); /Sills. Corinertrawra .—Registrraion of Voters; Vexatious Actions; Bilh. NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON ORDER OF THE DAY.—Reutsmus non or Worsts Brii.—(ln committee), Mews Walpole, Oalvile, and V. Smith to move amenL.2dm...mts._ VW Rix 9. NOTICE OF MOTION.—Sir It. H. Inglis, to pat questions to Pre•ideut of the Indian Board respecting payment by dm Indian go vernment in support of the temple of Juggernaut. FRIDAY, Ins 9. NOTICE OF NOTION.—Mr. B. Cabbell to call attention to a letter from the commesioners of railways to 31r. Hayward. 415 - xprosis. MAILS. The mails for the Brazils, the Elver Plate, Monte Video, Persam. Woo, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the gagaing of the Stb July. The overland closed melts, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Zap; Aden, Ceylon, India, Meg Kong, &c., will be made up on the eventng of the 7th July. A mall for the United States, British North America, tke., will be made up im the moreingof 10th July, for transmission by the steamer Wethington, from Southampton. lettersandpapers most be specially marked. "Per Washington." The West India mails, excluding those for Mentes, Bandung, and the Havenuah, will be made up on the morning of the 17th July. The malls for Britt& North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the 19th July. The overland malls few Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian lolanda, Aden, Ceylon, Indio, Hong-Kong, end China, vie Southampton, will - be made up cm the morning of the 20th July. The mails for New South Wales, Van Diemen% Lend, and New Zeeland will be made up on the evening of the Slit July. TO CORISISPONDSNIII. ' Aireatisesonets hounded ow du lbws* Ueda. sawing pew, mut be et the Wise ► y Two eleck as Or eas abstain... HIGH WATER AT LONDON.IRIDOR. T o D.laniag.l4 plat 6 ; Attaraosa.7l ail a. pad 7. To.ll —lkeda% at obla gala 7; ARataam. W. pwl S. LONDON MONDAY, JULY 5. In ever there was a time when Englishmen should make up their minds at last to live on terms of cour tesy and amity with the men of the same blood and tongue, who inhabit the other side of the Atlantic, the present is that time. A state of things has at length been attained in the new continent, which has oblite rated all the old causes of jealousy. To the settlement of the north-eastern frontier on the Maine, has sac ceeded the settlement of the Oregon. Our attempt to erect an independent barrier to the south-west of the American Union, in Texas, has not only failed, but led directly to the absorption of that territory into the Union. Mexico, half occupied, and even that half not peopled, by a race, to which no European council or aid am communicate political wisdom, honesty, or courage, has fallen by the natural current of human events under Anglo American influence, if not sway. We have not thought fit to interfere. England did not consider the preservation of the balance of power in the New World an object worthy of calling forth the display . of her strength or the risk of war. Having come to this resolution, and, we think, wisely, and in fact acquiescing in the immense exten sion of the power and empire of the United States south westward, it would be most foolish in as to preserve ill-humour, at the same time that we forswear hostility, and to display in those prints and speeches,which repre sent public opinion, a Jealousy and a hatred towards that people, for conquests as impossible for them to avoid as for us to prevent. It is more natural that we should take pride in Anglo-American peewees and success, and in its superiority to other nem than that we should feel lowered by their achievement% and that we should bestow our entire sympathies ea race apparently incapable of civil or religions began- Independent of the removal of territorial dif ferences, that great arrangement has just been con cluded by which the soil of America, ploughed by the descendants of Englishmen, is made to afford food fee the dense population of the mother country, belied in more productive arts than those of agriculture. those arts supplying the more precious and costly return. At such a time, when free and large inter change between the two hemispheres is established, it becomes a matter of the first consideration for those who guide and supply public opinion, whether the mutual sentiments of the people of both countries shall continue to be of the old, inveterate, and class kind—whether they shall coning of that contempt of aristocrat and democrat for each other, and of those tory prejudices first sowed on this side of the Atlantic, and which antagonist prejudices have pr . °. duced a corresponding crop of hatred and deprecia tion on the other. We cannot but think that the time has come for burying such sentiments as these. Wherever they are kept up, they seem to be so more from habit and traditional petulance, than from any fresh or genuine impulse of feeling. The worst ingredients of the old tory spirit have been gradually discarded and flung away by the more enlightened spirits of the tory party. It has learned religious tolerance, stooped provideto and feel for the poor. Instead of combating and defying republican and revolu tionary countries, toryism has forsworn such war, and proclaimed itself pacific and fraternising. We no to have a Lord Chancellor proscribing the Irish ea dins, a Foreign Secretary denouncing the French as Jacobins, nor any one, who pretends to statesmanship, hallooing the passions of the mob against American democrats. But the press in this respect lags behind the liberalism of public men. It remains inveterate, insulting, anti-national ; and thus asoltai in other lands a resentment which has really awed to inflame any breast at home. These remarks have been suggested by . the letter of an American, which will be found in another column, complaining not merely of the unfriendly torte which prevails in our journals, but of the misre presentations made of the conduct of the American army and generals is Mexico. Strictures of this kind, and incorrect statements made of the generals of such sensitive countries as France and the United States, are very serious things. During the war of France and Morocco, no act of the British government created anything like the resentment and ill-feeling in France, which was occasioned by the letter of a chaplain on board the British fleet reflecting on the conduct of the French admiral. And now we find that no protest of Mr. PAICENHAM, or act of any of our diplomatists at Mexico or Washington, have caused such ill blood as the reckless abuse of the Times. There .was one journal in New York, it will be seen, which for years, through good report and evil report, has been tree to the British connexion. Yet even that journal, the Courier and Enquirer, has been forced by the diatribes and representations of the Times to turn round, and vituperate England, sup posed to be represented in those diatribes, and to re nounce those opinions in favour of England, of English connexion and fairness, which it had adhered to for years. We might augment the extreme gravity of this warning, by pointing to the Irish press, which each year becomes more and more exclusively Irish, and has the effect of excluding from Irish cars and Irish minds every fair English sentiment. This is in a great measure owing to the tone adopted by the Times and too many English prints, not ' merely towards Irish agitators, but towards the Irish as a nation and a race. The re sult of all this will be that John Bull, who although a grumbler and a rough fellow, is still honest, generous, and kind-hearted, will be so misled and misreprese nted by his seltcorudituted organs and instructors, that he will become a CAIN amongst nations, with his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him. This was bad enough, when England was really , bold and quarrelsome. But then if people hated and resented, they at the same time feared, us; but now that we have grown pacific, when we resent no injuries, at least by war, and when we shrink from no concessions, for us to retain the inve terate and defiant tone of war in conjunction with the pacific and submissive policy of peace, will only expose us to ridicule and contempt as well as hatre d. THE declaration of Lord JOUST RUSSELL that " there exists a reasonable fear that a great portion of the potato crop may perish in the present year" has produced more alarm than we imagine his lord ship to have contemplated. It therefore seems de sirable to inquire into the facts, as far as they are known, upon which such an opinion must have been founded. _ ----- There is no doubt that symptoms of disease have appeared all over the United Kingdom, from Inver ness to Jersey; and in such a variety of places, as to render it certain that these symptoms are general. Our advices announce the re-appearance of disease in Germany, and although no one dares to say so in France, it is equally certain that the northern French crop is in a state similar to oar own. The symptom is a dry gan grene, which attacks the stem of the potato plant ander ground, followed by mall black soft spots on the edges or points of the leaves. In some instances the young potatoes are also bl tek or blackening; and here and there the leaves and stems have withered and decayed. Such being the state of the potato fields in numerous places at this period of the year, it is a natural inference that it will become the uni- vernal state a few weeks hence, and this it is which has excited so much alarm in the minds of everybody acquainted with the facts —an alarm in which govern ment, with its means of early, certain, and extensive information, could not fail to participate. But it is a question, whether the danger which threatens us again is so great as it appears to be. It is within the knowledge of every one who has studied this subject, that a material change in the effects of the disease took place in the year 1846 through the southern and midland counties of Eug land. The fields were suddenly blighted, indeed, and the growth of the plants was destroyed, bat the proportion of decayed potatoes found. when the crop was raised was small, and the untainted portion kept well through the winter. A large part of the potatoes in the markets was of good quality, and so little were they inclined to rot, that the remains of last year's crop is still on sale in the shops of dealers in St. Giles's. We need not say how different it was in 1845, when no art could save the potatoes from rotting under any variety of circum stances. It would, therefore, appear that the consti tution of this root had materially improved in 1846, and this gives room to hope for a further improve ment in 1847. Nor do the symptoms hitherto observed diminish this hope ; for they advance slowly, are in themselves slight in comparison with what they have been, and are certainly disappearing in some instances. The dry underground gangrene is only dangerous when it eats into the centre of the stem, its effect being the sadden blight of tho whole plant; when the gangrene makes but a superficial wound, its action is unimportant, and the crop will be formed notwithstanding. Now it is within our positive knowledge that in some cases this gangrene, after establishing itself, has lost its virulence, the parts affected have dried up, and new sound living matter has been formed below it. Wherever this action takes place, the plants will re cover, unless new causes induce a relapse. It is obvious that since the disease has apparently . given way in some cases, it may in many ; and herein is an element of hope. The difficulty is to judge of the cause of the improvement. If it arises from in crealed constitutional vigour in the plants, it may be expected to go on ; if the disease has only been stayed by a low temperature, gloomy weather, and the slow growth attendant upon them, in that case the disease will probably resume its course with hot weather, bright suns, and heavy rains. lbw this may be, no man can tell ; but it is to be observed that, if the healthy state of the crop can be maintained for a few weeks, a large part of it will be placed beyond the reach of danger ; for, in consequence of the general adoption of autumnal or early spring planting, a course which, it will be remembered, we long ago strenuously advocated, a very considerable portion of the potato crop of England is considerably in advance of former years. While, then, we entirely concur with government In seeing cause for present alarm, we cannot but fancy that there is also more reasonable ground for hope than we have had at any time for the last two years. But there are other grounds for attaching less im portance to the failure of the potato crop than in 1845 and 1846. There is very much less of it tofail. No doubt can be entertained that upon the whole the quantity of land ander potatoes in the United Kingdom is much lees than formerly. Some speculators have perhaps been tempted by high prices to venture upon a larger breadth than usual, as, for instance, on the banks of the Humber; but they are exceptions to the rule ; and we should doubt whether in England as much as two-thirds of the ground planted with potatoes in 1846 is so occupied in 1847. The state of the seed-market in May last afforded conclusive evidence upon this point ; for long before the end of the seed season it became impossible to supply the demands upon the merchants. Con signments to Ireland, more especially, were enormous; and the result has been, the substitution of other crops in that country, to the extent, probably, of full five. sixths of the old potato land. It was stated in the debate which has given rime tol these observations, that three acres of corn are re quired to replace an acre of potatoes, and we believe the estimate to be correct But, independently of other considerations, this fact loses much of its force' when it is remembered that other crops besides corn have been largely introduced into Ireland, and that the nutritive value of parsnips, carrots, beet, and turnips, is not materially different from that of potatoes. Upon the whole, then, we feel justified in saying that, although the state of the potato crop is each as to render it desirable that the moat serious attention should be drawn to it, while there is yet time to get other kinds of food upon the land between the potato rows, yet that there is good ground for hoping that no such universal destruction of the crop as that of the two last years will occur, and that, if it does recur, its consequences upon the country will be much , less disastrous than heretofore. thus I LORD GEORGE BENTDICIE does not object to the importation of foreign corn in times of scarcity, pro vided he can prevent importers from getting ships to THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1847. bring it in. He lets the Corn Importation Bill (No. 2) pass, and reserves his opposition for the Na vigation Bill (No. 2). To oppose the former he knows would lay him open to the charge of preferring the interest of his own class to the safety of the people; to oppose the latter he hopes . may be ascribed to disinterested concern for the interest of third parties. The subterfuge is too transparent. Moreover, Lord GEORGE, like most mon who take up a trade for which neither nature nor education has qualified them, seems fated to do harm where he means to assist. The assertion that Lord Joint RUSSELL'S pro posal to suspend the navigation laws is " nothing but a flimsy pretext by which he proposes to undermine the existence of those laws " is the severest sarcasm that could be uttered against them. It describes them as so intolerable, that if suspended for a month or two it will be impossible to persuade the nation to submit to their re-enactment. Sir ROBERT PEEL saw that if our ports were once thrown open to foreign grain, the attempt to shut them again would be fruitless. Lord GEORGE has the same prophetic vision of the consequences of admitting foreign shipping; he has an intimate conviction that if once the people of this country contrive to slip the collar of the navigation laws off their necks, all the coaxing of himself and colleagues will fail to induce them to submit to its being padlocked on them affain. Not satisfied with thus giving the navigation laws a bad character by implication, Lord GEORGE men tioned some reasons why even shipowners must feel them oppressive. These laws Lord GEORGE frankly admitted were "not designed for the advan tage of oar commercial marine, and the ground which he assigned for this opinion isconclusive. Under the navigation laws British vessels must carry four men and a boy for every 100 tons of admeaaurement : the shipowners of the United States find three men for every 100 tons quite sufficient. Lest the prey of the press-gangs should become deficient, Bri tish vessels are obliged to carry for every 100 tons they measure one man more thin is needed, and, as if this were not enough, eta apprentice, to pre vent any possible diminution in the number rot superfluous seamen. The navigation laws compel British shipowners to employ crews more numerous by two-fifths than is absolutely necessary, and to have one-fifth of them apprentices. Journeymen are apt to grumble when they think masters, by taking on too many apprentices, so increase the numbers in the trade that wages must, by competition, be of necessity beaten down below a fair remunerative rate. And here we have a class of master.; compelled by law to take on a succession of apprentices in such numbers as must necessarily produce this effect. In this way the navigation laws have compelled shipowners to train more seamen than they can find employment for. And what is the consequence ? That our surplus seamen are compelled to seek employment on board the merchantmen of the United States. All things considered, the pay in the American mer chant service is not better than our own, and the treat ment of the seamen much worse. Any person who is sceptical on this point need only read DANA'S " Year before the Mast," and BROWN'S whaling adventures, or the account given by Captain Nirtutes, in his narrative of the United States discovery expedition, of the treatment experienced by sailors on board the Ame rican merchantmen and whaling ships in the South Seas. The American commercial navy is nearly one-fourth manned by English seamen, because the constant succession of swarms of apprentices made obligatory by the navigation laws renders it impossible for them to find employment under their own flag. And this cruel injustice both to the sailor and his employer is necessary, Lord GEORGE and statesmen of his calibre coolly say, in order to keep up the stock of pressable men. The country party would preserve game for the battues of squires and nobles; they would pre serve sailors for the battues of the press-gang. Hence the navigation laws are in their eyes almost as sacred as the game laws. The letters of our correspondent and the Paris journals of Friday and Saturday have arrived. More detailed accouritsof the movements of Abd-el-Kader on the frontier of Morocco have been received through Spain. It is now said that the Emir has changed kis policy, and while he aims at establishing a peace with France, to effect which he has solicited the good offices of the Spanish government, he has turned his hostility against Morocco, and if reports do not exaggerate his designs, he even meditates the over throw of the sovereign of that state. The Emperor of Morocco, thus menaced, and seeing Abd-el-Kader within his territory, ordered the Kaid El Amar, at the head of a small body of troops, to seize the emir, and carry him off. This was a commission, however, not so easily executed as conceived. The emir, at the head of 500 horse and 200 foot soldiers, was attacked on June 14 by El Amar, when the latter was repulsed with a loos of seventy horsemen. An other unsuccessful attack was made on the lath, after which the camp of El Amer was invaded and pillaged, and that chief himself decapitated. If these accounts be trae,Abd-el-Kader is now in occupation of an extensive province of Morocco, called the Riff, on the frontiers of the French colony, and including sea ports, by which supplies of every sort can be ob tained. It is repeated that Abd-el-Kader still con tinues to express a fixed determination to maintain peace with France. The French legislature is under the persuasion that the progress of public works, and more especially of railways, has been pushed more rapidly than is com patible with the healthy operation of the commerce and finances of the country, and it is determined to apply the break to the national enterprise. The minister of public works had demanded credits for the railways projected and in progress, amounting to a sum equivalent to nearly two millions and a half sterling. The committee of the chamber to which this demand was referred, has reduced it to lees than a million. The majority commanded by the ministry in the chamber has been sufficient to extricate it from the difficulties produced by the disclosures of M. Emile de Oirardin, so far as concerns the chamber itself, but has done nothing to exculpate it before the tribunal of public opinion. The character of the accuser in this case would operate favourably for the accused if the inquiry had been allowed to proceed, but the evi dence prodaced, and more still, which it is believed would have been elicited by a searching investigation, is too decisive to be neutralised by the questionable morality of the editor of La Presse. M. de Oirardin reiterates his charges, and they are without refuta tion, and even to a certain extent without contradic tion. The following are his allegations in their moat condensed and most emphatic form 1. That M. Adam, the patentee of the new opera house, paid 4,0001. for the privilege granted by M. Duchtitel, mi nister of the interior. 2. That a memoire of Baron Lambert had been bought up for 1,2001. 3. That 50,0001. had been demanded from the postmasters of France, as a donoeur to bring in a law in their favour to indemnify them for what they must loss by the railways. 4. That the cross of the Legion of Honour was sold to a bankrupt. 5. That 2001. per month was That for the support of the Globe newspaper. 6. That an insulting condition was annexed to the offer of a peerage ; and, 7th and lastly, that the promise of a peerage was sold for 3,0001. Several of these allegations have been sup ported by documentary proof of incontestable authen ticity, and none of them have received any conclusive contradiction. In a word, no individual is found in public or in private who seriously doubts their truth. The official returns of the commerce of France foe' 1846 have just been published. The gross amount of import duties paid was 1,258 millions of francs, that of the export duties being 1,178 millions. There is a diminution in the former, and an increase in the latter amount, as compared with 1845. On the whole, there is a alight increase of nine millions. It is expected that the Minister of Finance will present to the chamber, in a few days, a project of law for a new loan. The Madridjournals to the 28th with the letter of our own correspondent, which we give below, have been received. Important changes are reported to be in progress in the customs, the effect of which will be an extensive reduction of the import duties on nume rous classes of articles. Advices from Barcelona to the 25th bring en account of en engagement between a party of Mentemolinists and a detachment of the royal troops, in the mountains of Catalonia, in which several were killed and wounded on both sides. The Montemolinista on the approach of night effected their retreat into the mountains. The Queen's troops had seven killed and sixteen wounded. The insurgents had twenty-ono killed and several wounded and prisoners. The Queen appeared for the first time on the 27th in her promenade unattended by the Infante boa Francisco, her father-in-law, and the Infanta Josef', his daughter. The circumstance excited many com ments in political circles. One of the opposition journals mentions that a dis solution of the codes will probably take place. It was intimated by M. &meth, the pope's legate, that his Holiness would give the next cardinal's hat to a Spanish bishop. El Heraklo says that some capitalists have offered to advance two millions sterling to relieve the mone tary crisis. The contract between the bank of San Fernando and the government had been terminated, and all its advances to the government were about to be repaid. MADRID, Jeri! 28. The scandal occasioned by , the connexion imputed to Don Francisco de Paula with a secret society, seems likely to terminate in the expulsion of his royal high ness from the court. The peculiar situation of the Queen renders more regrettable the necessity of dis missing from her society a near relative, who ought naturally to supply the place of a father towards her. But Don Fiancisco has neither the sense nor the dig nity corresponding to such an elevated responsibility. If the reports, which I hear from good authorities, are true, doubts may be raised concerning the sanity of this royal individual. lam told that he informed the Queen himself that he belonged to a secret society, one of whose sworn objects was to take her Majesty's life. The consummate folly of such an avowal can be only equalled by the criminality of its truth ; unless, indeed, we make the charitable supposition that the only object of Don Francisco in becoming a member of this society, which bears the precious title of the " Avengers of Aliband," was to watch and control its operations for the protection of the Queen's life. But the Queen's safety, one would imagine, would have been best secured by the instant destruction of any conspiracy which threatened it. Meanwhile, it is hardly worth while discussing so hideous a sally of senile imbecility. The political chief of Tarragona has informed the government, in a despatch of the 23rd, that the main body of the Carlist bands was overtaken on the 22nd by the column of Don Fulgencio Smith at the bridge of Armentara. An obstinate engagement took place which resulted in a complete dispersion of the rebels. These were pursued to hlontagat, and left upon the field 21 dead, some wounded, a prisoner, and various arms. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNK 17. There is no country in the world which offers so many facilities for national education as Turkey. Schools are attached to every mosque throughout the empire, with lands and funded property for their support. The number of pupils in these establishments has hitherto been very limited, and entirely out of proportion with the revenues at their disposal. It is unnecessary to say that the system of education pursued in these schools is of the most defective kind. The studies of the pupils are entirely confined to the Koran, or to some distorted remnants of the astronomical and medical sciences, which flourished amongst the Arabs. Hatred of the infidel and contempt for his acquirements, are the result of the lectures on the sacred writings ; and as for the rest, horeecopes are studied se the rules for men's actions, and charms as the panacea for the evils to which their natures are exposed. The Turkish government have determined on the gradual reform of these schools. An ordinance has been issued by a committee of public instruc tion, containing a plan of the studies to be pursued, with rules for the admission of the pupils and the discipline to which they are to be subjected. And parents and guardiaae, es well as masters of slaves, will be punished if they preveut their children from taking advantage of the instruction gra tuitously offered them by the government. The different schools have been classified for the admission of pupils according to their acquirements, and the normal school and the university which are now being built at Con stantinople will complete the system of education de termined on by the government. There are in the neighbourhood of Constantinople, a medical, • military, and a naval school, all under the direction of European professors. These schools have had considerable success. French is the only European language taught in them, and is exclusively employed as the methum of instruction. A professor of English, however, will be appointed to the usiversity which is being built at Constantinople. All this has been done for the rising generation, but little or nothing for the instruction of those who are past the age of school boys. Something of the kind has however been begun, not by the sultan or his ministers, but by the Englishmen who are employed in the government works in the neighbourhood of Constantinople. Between the Seven Towers and St. Stephano, a village on the Marmora, there are manufactories of different kinds, all under the direction of English en gineers. In this district, which stretches along the sea oust, there reside from sixty to seventy English workmen with their families. It is wonderful the effect which their example has already produced upon the people of the surrounding neighbourhood. The fields are better tilled, the houses better built, and the whole place wears an appearance of bustle and activity which is most un oriental. They have made Masrekeny, a village midway be tween the Seven Towers and SeStephano, their head-quarters. Here they have established a Mechanics' Institution, which numbers already more than a hundred members, amnncst whom, besides Europeans of different nations, are Turks, Greeks, and Armenians. The Sultan, when the circum stance was explained to him, at once perceived the benefits which such an establishment could not fail to confer not only upon the immediate neighbourhood, but by the force of ex ample upon the empire at large. He therefore made the members a present of a house, and promised to take the institution under his particular protection. A reading-room has already been opened, and the founda tion of a library begun. The most competent amongst the members have been chosen to lecture upon mathematics, the mechanical arts, and other branches of useful knowldge. A few days ago we were present at the inauguration of the " Oriental Mecbaalcs' Institution," as it is called. It was certainly with no small feeling of satisfaction that for the first time during twelve long years of absence from home, we found ourselves in the midst of so large an assem blage of Englishmen. And noble specimens they and their families are of the race—their blue-eyed, fair haired daughters, their chubby rosy-cheeked children, and their comely matrons. The gratification of that moment was worth a much longer exile. It is very probable, from the interest which the Sultan and his ministers have taken in the establishment of the Mechanics Institution at Macrekeny, that similar societies will be formed in the other great towns in Turkey. The Porte have given Mehemet All, the viceroy of Egypt, permission to go to the baths of Lucca. It is not probable that he will visit either France or England. In the early part of the week the treaty, regulating the line of frontier between Turkey and Persia, was signed here, by the l'orte, the Persian envoy, and the representatives of England and France. M. de Behr, the Belgian minister, has demanded from the Porte the punishment of an Armenian banker, by whom he was insulted, • few days since, on the quay at Buyukedere. It is said that he threatens to demand his passports if satis faction be not accorded. Per., one of the moat matter-of-fact, prosaic little towns in Europe, has become the scene of an event as full of tear ful interest and dramatic excitement as any to be found in the pages of George Sand or Jules Junin. As for ourselves, we can only relate the simple facts, without the /frac dui drapery and other artistic additions which they might re ceive from abler hands. Mademoiselle Marie was the daughter of a wealthy French tradesman. She was pos sessed of accomplishments superior to her station, and of beauty rare even here, where loveliness in woman is so common. Like Emma in the ballad, she had many suitors, and on one her affections finally settled . He was, however, anything but " the pride of swains "—a shallow-hearted, worthless creature, the life and soul of the greasy fre quenters of the oifis and wine-shops, for whose amuse ment he would often read the letters which, during their courtship, he received from the poor girl The father and mother of Marie were naturally opposed to her marrying such a scamp, but, with the per versity of her sex, this only caused her to love him the more. Amongst the many who sued for her hand there was one particularly favoured by the par ents , and who, notwithstand ing the repulses which he received from the girl, still conti nued his attentions. This man and Marie's lover met and fought, and a lawsuit followed, when the most shameful reve.. llamas were made. On the trial Marie's lover showed his true character, and she could shut her eyes no linger to his defects. In parting with the illusion which she had so long cherished, her heart broke, and from that day forth she pined away. Her parents, who ought to have comforted her in her sorrow, loaded her with reproaches, and even subjected her to cruel persecutions. She wee weary of lite , and, though she felt that death was coming to her relief, she thought his approach too slow. The suitor favoured by her parents still continued his addressee, but without success. That Marie Amid marry him, her father and mother were , determined, either because he was wealthy, or because they thought it might remove any slur thrown on the girl's cha racter by the events of the trial. As, however, she showed no symptoms of yielding, it was agreed on by these cruel people that he should woo her <1 in Mirabeau. With the parents' consent, therefore, he concealed himself in Marie's sleeping room, and when the dying . girl retired there at night, he effec ted her min, and then withdrew. So far, the plot succeeded. But when the mother came in the morning to rouse her victim, Marie was dead. Though Marie felt she had not long to live, she could not endure her dishonour, even for so short a period. Fearful of some such catastrophe, she had already possessed herself of arsenic, and when her ravisher left her, she swallowed the poison, and so put an end to her sorrows and her shame. The foregoing circumstance is at the present moment the t o subject of an inquiry at, the French embassy, but the result een has not yet transpired. the BELGIUM.—BRUPBELB, JUNE 29.—1 t appears h, an official document just published, that during the first live months of 1847, there were imported into this country 66,400,000 kilogrammes of wheat, rye, barley, oats, and vie., being, strange to say, 36,300,000 kilos, less than the quantity imported during the corresponding months of 1846. This fact is set forth by several jeurnah as a proof that COMMIT• cial speculation was not active enough during the former months of scarcity, and that that inactivity ought to have been remedied by the renewed activity of government, in --- - procuring a sufficient supply of corn, &c. On the other hand, there has been an Increase, but not a considerable one, in the importation of oxen and sheep, and an increase to the amount of some nine millions of kilogrammes in the consumption of colonial articles. The importation of manu factured goods shows a slight increase. With regard to ex port', the figures show a gross increase of 201,188 kilos. upon the various articles the produce of mines and metals—each article, by the bye, contributing its share to the gross quan tity. Oa the other side there is a falling off of 350,000 kilos. in the exportation of linen threads ; of 5,000 kilos. in that of cotton stuffs; of 6,000 kilos. in cloths; of 3,000 kilos. in other woollen stuffs ; and of 298,000 in linen stuffs, The export of refined sugar has increased by 1,300,000 kilos. The decay of the linen trade appears to be progressive. HOLLAND. —GRONINGEN, JUNE 30. —Serious disturbances took place in this town on the 28th, on account of the excessive dearness of food. The troops had to he called out. They made use of their arms, and it is said killed four persons and wounded twelve, souse of them very seriously. Most of the younded persons had taken no part in the disturbances, having been present only as spectators. On the morning of the 29th, order was re-established. GERMANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, Julie2'l. The king arrived at Potsdam this day on his return from Silesia. The object of his excursion was to attend the in auguration of the statue of Frederick the Great, at Breslau. It is all very well for our pious monarch thus to pay reverence to his not very pious ancestor, but, if Fritz der Eirtz.ige could speak to his successor, he would tell him that the monument of which he is most ambitious, is a line of monarchs on his throne each as effectively the man of the time as he was himself. The ceremony of unveiling the statue passed off well ; the most impressive feature about it was a group of veterans from the times of the great king at the foot of his statue. One of them, as appears from his certificate of baptism, is 109 years old, having been born en the sth of Feb., 1738. It was a touching sight to see this old men, in an unifora of the seven years' war, offering his military salute. Oa the 2.3 th lust., a farewell dinner was given by the members of the first chamber to their marshal. As the Prince of Prussia took part is the proceedings the tone was of course courtly. Oa the 26th, several hundreds of the deputies dined together. Four members of the first chamber (the Duke of neither, the l'rinco of Corvcy, Prince Lychnowski, and Count Dyrhn), were present. The most powerful speeches are said to have been delivered by M. von Beckerath, M. von Rath, M. von Auerswald, M. Mohr, and M. von Saucken. In proposing a cup "to the great recollections of the combined estates," M. von Beckerath said, "The seed of liberty and justice has sprung up throughout the Prussian land. Let us wait to see whether the eagle of the Hohmizollerns will sweep boldly , onward with its pinions, throwing itself upon the at Dam phere of the new era, or what is to be the destiny of the people ? No one can foretell ; but this I know, that we have learned to know each other as a race of brothers destined to advance under the guidance of the monarchical principle to freedom." M. von Saucken, in pro- posing a twat, "to our next meeting in strength and unity, when we are again called upon," suid : " My heart is heavy at the parting hour, but not without hope. My reliance is grounded on the men of honour who have surrounded me. Our influence is not at an end; it is rooted in the conecious nen of public duty. When the time comes we will meet again." M. von Auerswald gave, "The men of the future, who shall and must arise . ' M. Krause, "Thu 138 and emancipation." N. " The 133, and prosperity to our country." JITNE 27.—1 t is rumoured that the Emperor of Rusela has resolved to place here a very considerable cum of money ; some accounts say 11,000,000, and others 15,000,000 silver roubles. It is asserted that this loan will not be made to the Prussian government, but has been offered to the King personally. The importance of this fact will not escape 0 any one who has followed the recent incidents of our internal politics. It is not useless to add, that a personal loan to the King is net a new thing ; when the extraordinary expenses occasioned by the state of Europe iu 1830 exhausted the Treasury, the King personally contracted a loan of 10,000,000 Oakes. _ _ " HALLS, JUNE 30.—M. von Auerswald, the deputy from the province of Prussia, arrived live yesterday. He is on a journey to Treves. The new: , of his arrival spread like wildfire, and a deputation of the inhabitants requested per mission to wait upon him. A number of students assembled meanwhile to serenade him. M. von At/crewsld camo out to them, and expressed, in tke name of himself and his CA leagues, joy and gratitude for the sympathy of their young countrymen. COBLENTZ, JUNE 29.—The wharves of the steam boat companies, the hotels on the river side, and all the vessels at anchor were prodigally ornamented with flags to day, in honour of our deputies, on their return from Berlin. Messrs. Carper, Stedmaun, Raffauf, and Zunderer arrived from Frankfort, in the Cologne steamer, about mid-day, and were heartily welcomed by the assembled multitude. These gentlemen are of the members of the 60 deputies (31 from our province alone), who refused to take part in electing the standing committees. _ BRUNSWlCK.—(Fromacorrespondent.)—Sereral German newspapers have confidently stated that Duke Wil liana of Brunswick is, or is about to be, betrothed to the Princess Louisa of Mecklenburg. The Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Journal undertakes to prove that it is impos sible the news can be true. The reasons assigned are is well known that arrang ements are made for the marriage of Duke William to a princess of a house mediatised since the beginning of this century, as soon so Duke Charles shall venture to marry. The brothers are used to keep each other in check, each fearing to marry lest he be compelled to leave his descendants the sad legacy of a contested succession. The reigning duke is afraid to marry, knowing that Austria would probably throw its weight into the scale of his brother's children. The King of Hanover, to whose family the suc cession fails in the event of both brothers dying childless, abets the policy of Austria, in the hope that both may ho kept from marrying. Austria's bigotted adhesion to regular succession in the line of the elder brother is made use of by Haaover to ensure the dying out of the house of Austria! If Prussia had a king such as it has had ere now, and Duke Charles had the sense to see that as mediatised heir of his own lands, incorporated into the constitutional state of Prussia (of the first chamber of whoee diet he is a member), ho might leave his/min both wealth and influence ; the heraldic fana ticism of Austria and the callous selfish intrigues of Hanover might both be set at nought. The free princes and nobles of the empire often exercised their right to enter into contracts by which the deem:Wants of each were to inherit the territories of the other failing direct heirs. The free sovereigns of the confederation have not relinquished this right. fhe sove reigns of Brunswick and Prussia might agree to incorporate their dominions, on the condition that the supreme power be vested in the King of Prussia and the descendants of himself or brothers; and that the reigning Duke of Brunswick and his heirs be recognised u Premier Duke, with the right of succession to the crown failing these. Convention or no con vention it will end in something like this. BOHEMIA.—The Oirleruhe Gazette, of the 28th ult., publishes the petition of the states of Bohemia to the sovereign, against the censorship, and the speech of the Prince of Damberg in proposing it. The petition, which is drawn up in conformity with the speech of the Prince of Damberg, states that the censorship, which is becoming more and more severe every day, is a vain attempt to set up a moral terrier against the intellectual intercourse of nations, which is becoming general by the establishment of railroads, which bring them into rapid sad frequent contact. The censorship, says the petition, is attended with • bad result for the government, inasmuch as it is not able to prevent the introduction of forbidden works, some of which are highly mischievous, but are read with avidity because they are forbidden, whereas, if the press were free, there would be fair and liberal discussion, and the government would by its own journals correct any misrepresentations that might be made, and keep down any tendency to the abuse of true liberty. DENMARK.—A Russian fleet has been at anchor in the road, of Elsineur, where it had attended the Grand Duke Cesarewitech of Russia who is aow travelling through Germany. This fleet has been reinforced by three vessels of the line and three frigates. The squadron is to perform ewa lutions in the Baltic. Another squadron, consisting of a frigate of 50 guns, a brig, and a steam frigate, will shortly pass the Bound on its way to London, to await the departure of the Grand Duke Constantine. ALGERIA.—The Commerce extracts some leading points from a report on the French establishments is Algeria, which are worthy of notice,as showing that industry and colouisation were making a more favourable progreas there than is generally understood. In the first rank of in dustrial enterprises, which present the most favourable chapati' of extensive development, is placed that of mining. The iron and copper mines of the Mousaia, grants of which were made in 1844, had already, it is said, begun to realise the expectations entertained. No results are, how ever, given, as the long and laborious execution of the preliminary works had not permitted their appreciation at the date of the report; but the works were followed up actively and it was hoped that in the next comets rondos (for 1E146) more ample details would be forth coming. Towards the use of 1840, the government had made four new grants of iron mines in the neighbourhood of Bona, which postured the advantage of being situate near the ex tensive forests between Bona and Phillipeville. Some rather important steam-engine works had been established in Algiers by private enterprise, and others were forming. Twelve bnck-making works were established in the vicinity of Algiers, and there was scarcely a village not provided with them. Haws in manufactures of various kinds were daily made, and the results so satisfactory that they wue constantly extending. The report proceeds to notice the establishment of chambers doommerce, authorised brokers, and other appurtenant offices, as in the metrepolitan state, of industry and commerce in all the leading places. The table of produce and merchandise brought by the Arabs to the markets of the three provinces of Algeria in 1845 (for 1846 not yet published) states the following quantities: 184,632 oxen, 443,724 sheep, 28,336 homes, 18,802 mules, 20,417 uses, 562,328 fowls, a 13,98.5 hectolitres of w 148,259 of barley, 17,815 of vegetables, 86,898 loads of forage, 365,264 loads of wood, 160,661 loads of coal, &c. The number of Arabi who bad frequented the markets in 1845 was 1,781,864, being 292,582 more than 1844. This number, of course, would comprise, to a great extent, the repeated visits of the rune individuals. The supplies of the markets were yearly more abundant and en increase. The arrivals of noel had increased by one-third in several of the market. The total quantity was 942,000 kilogrammm b y - GOVERNOR OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL—The Ob server says, the appointment will be conferred upon Sir H. Codrington, unless, indeed, the reasoning of the Merrius, Herald as to the " petty cares and responsibilities of such a situation " should deter him from its acceptance. THE NEW HAGISTR VIE TOE HAPLBOROIIOII - Hamill will succeed Kr. itterlinson, the late magistrate at this police-office. Ebt (court. The Queen held a court on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. His Excellency the Duke de Broglie had an audience of her Majesty to deliver his credentials as ambassador extraordinsry from his Majesty the King of the French. His excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmers• ton, G.C.8., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Col. the Hon. Sir E. east, K.C.H., her Majesty's Muter of the Ceremonies. The Queen owls audience to Viscount Palmeritqn. . Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and their RR. H. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited the Queen end Prince Albert on Saturday, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and her royal consort. H. R. H. Prince Peter of Oldenburg visited the Queen on Saturday. H. R. H. Prince Waldemar of Prussia, attended by Baron de Laner, Count Ori la, and Count Groebtn, visited her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by Dr. Carswell, returned to Buckingham Palace, from Clare mont, at half-past 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The royal suites con- Meted of the Countess of Desart, the Countess Vanderstraten, Lord Byron, Major de Moerkerke, Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their RR,IIII. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Sue Weimer, and Prince Peter of Oldenburg, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with her presence. Her Majesty and their Illt.llll. were attended by the Countess of Sheffield, the Countess of Assenburg, Hon. W. Ashley, Count de Beust, and Baron de Ziegesar. Their RR.IIH. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Hammer. stein, also honoured the performance with their presence. The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service yesterday, in the private chapel in Buckingham Palate. Their Majesties the King and Qaeen of the Llel eismi visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester and their RR.HH. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians yesterday. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and Milli. the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe cimar attend, d ciii eel , ice yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, and the Marquis of Anglesey, attended the early service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday, at Marlborough house. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary attended divine service yesterday. in St. Michael's cht.rch, Cnecter-square. The Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yeeterlay, in Grosvenor chapel. H.R.H. Prince Waldemar of Prussia visited the exhibition of drawings of India and the Punjaub by the Hon. Charles Hardinge, on Saturday, at Mr. M'Lean'e gahery. H.R.H. Prince Waldemar of Prussia honoured the Chevalier Buneen, Prussian Minister, with his company at dinner on Saturday, at his residence on Carlton-house-terrace. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJE ;TY AND PRINCE ALBERT pea CAMBElnoz.—From its being generally known that the royal party would leave Buckingham Palace this morning, a numerous and fashionable company assembled as early as 10 o'clock to witness the departure from the palace. A large body of the police was oar the ground. At half-past 10 o'clock the royal travelling carriages, three is number, each drawn by four horses, left the palace, and, accom panied by an escort of the 14th Lancers, proceeded at a rapid rate to Hyde-pack, and from:thence to the Regent's park, through the lower end of Camden-town, by the Br,cknock Arms and Seven Sisters-road, to the sta tion at the Eastern Counties Railway at Tottenham. At various points of the route considerable numbers of persons were congregated to witness the passing by of her majesty and royal consort, both of whom were loudly cheered, a mark of respect and loyalty repeatedly acknow leaded by Prince Albert. Tottenhate, however, was the paint of attraction, it being the first visit ever paid toiat by the monarch. The entire population made it a holiday; while not only the inhabitants., but these from the immediate vicinity and from more distant parts, were crowded together round the terminus. The guard of honour placed at the entrane consisted of the members, of the West Middlesex Yceomanry. The hand of the Artillery company was inside the gates; and, upon the arrival of her majesty and his royal highness, they struck up the National An them, which at intervals was drowned by the shouts of the populace. This enthusiastic reception was acknowledged both by the quern and her royal coo ort, who, upon alighting, were received by Mr. Hudson, M.P., the chairman; Mr. Waddington, the deputy-chairman; Mr. Sheriff Kinnaird, one of the directors; Mr. Roney, the secretary, and several other officials belonging to the company. In the marquee erected for the reception of her majesty, a cold collation was laid out for thy royal party. In about half an hour atter wardslt he train being ready, her majesty and the prince entered the royal carriage which had been lent by the London and Birmingham Railway Company for the occasion, and, under the guidance of skilful drivers, proceeded towards Cambridge. Her majesty and the prince appeared to be in excellent health. HER MAJESTY'S MOVEMENTS.—The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal family, are expected to visit Osborne next week. Her Majesty will shortly afterwards return to London to dissolve parliament, and then repair again to Osborne, where the court will sojourn until the departure for Scotland. During the absence of the Queen and Prince Albert the royal children will remain at Osborne. Mr. Bond Cal,bell, M.l'., and Colonel Reid had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home. office. Sir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hammik, and Mr. Edw. Rumhton had interviews with Sir George Orey on Saturday, at the Hume-office. The French Ambassador visited Viscount Palmer ston on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. Baron de Ziegesar left town yesterday for the Con tinent. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor General of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North Americus pre winces. PENSION TO MIL NEWPORT, F.R.B.—Her Majesty. on the recommendation of Lord John Rummell, has granted a pension of 1001. to this gentleman, better known as one of the founders of the Entomological Society, of which institution he was lately . president. In the letter in which her Majesty's gracious intention was announced, the premier expressed his regret that the very numerous claims on the fund devoted to this purpose prevented him from making the grant more commensurate with Mr. Newport's nicotine merits. THE CAXTON MONITMENT.—Sir,—I wish to tall the attention of the public, and the printing-trade in parti cular, to this subject. For some years there has been a printers' almshouse fund, in a languishing state, and I am quite serious when I say, in all probability the discovery of perpetual motion will become a matter of history before they are built, unless proper measures are taken to unite it with the agitation now in existence concerning the Caxton memo rial. An asylum for aged and decayed printers claims higher and sounder grounds for support in this free coun try, than any of the proposed obelisks, fountains, or colnmne. Of course, a statue in honour of Caxton will be included in the catalogue of worthies to be thus honoured with a place in the New Palace of Westminster. It would not only be in the spirit of the age in which Caxton lived, it would resemble the trade he followed during his peaceful and important career, in its tendency to render mankind happier; it would allow of unlimited respect to the memory of Caxton ' who deserves not one, but a hundred peaceful and useful time-enduring monuments; it would allow every opportunity for encouraging the Sue arts, in connesioe with every . virtue that can make us better and wiser men ; it is equally adsptcd to the site of the pro memorial- (the asylum and the venerable Abbey ed Church, within whose precincts Calton laboured,. could be made mutually to increase the beauties of each other); it would be thankfully welcomed by many so whom Canton's mantle hath fallen, whose grey hairs tee doomed to suffer all the horrors of purgatory in a workhnase, and descend in sorrow to the grave. It is one of the contra dictions that are continually occurring, that I should humbly advocate a retrograde movement as a reform in the WM century. It is no idle, antiquarian suggestion. Thoroughly convinced of the folly of spending large sums of mon, 3- in useless memorial. to commemorate the existence of valour, of talent, or of virtue, I humbly, yet earnestly entreat all who take an interest in this matter to adopt the time honoured practice of by-sone ages, when, from feelings of trot religion, or a superstitious notion of the value of such whom, our fore fathers founded almshouses.—J. W. NEGLECT AT ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—We have reselved a letter from Mr. Travers, jun., complaining of ea minim in our report of the inquest—published on Satur day—on the child who was killed by swallowing a cherry stone, and whose life, it me® be inferred from the evidence, might perhaps have been saved had there been a qualified =in St. Thowsee's Hsepital to operate in the can— there weans*. W. Travers says : *. Fattie s the smilemt sgetheeary whose name Is net ewe Orel la your mat. agiirl as ramie et my edam. as mt • Imenewmgm#st Imktilint it Yr beirK with ZM akin li sad lava way erleasywelliesimal &seed s sme wee se mop' Vila this seektent esearred This milsostime apron to relieve Mr. Tenses pertollsill from a pwdem at the bhats, the whole of which our re port nes he rest on him. On the other band, it d ee p l y Implicates tee system under which he holds his office—Mr sacembei me of a resident surgeon, empowered to Is ahead es seweit and as often as his pnvate Pr! r the &EMIL We have made inquiries since remit MO& iseller, sari find that he is one of six gentle silk "flag e at at the least one, of whom, me isiwi & pv, tie be em at all times, namely, three surgeons Pi these . na . That an establishment like St Themes% groaning . under the weight of get undated should be without the means of gi. 2 l instant sweglea l aid at any hour of the day or n i ght , i s swell en abuse which ought to be promptly remedies. We art however, dmirous et relieving Mr. Travers, j un., from as said of the Mme in the case in question as does not belong told* BItIITAIITY TO CALVES.—At the City Polite Cele• mime, on Saturday, Mr. I. Cotching was summoned , at lk* :,? f 26- 0