The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

states w ill then be called on to treat with Nevertheliss, the penalties of permit:ire might s o attach to the into rcouree of an English govern zest with a potentate so fallen, and so little to be mo d, Would that their abolition were better pro ,ided for than it is by, the present bill. Im perfect as the measure is, and for the reasons have stated, uncertain in its operation, we are glad that the statute-book has been purged of s es absurdity, while there was time for it. Yet a li t tle while, and it would have been too late. Whatever the ultimate event may be, we shall hail w ith malefaction, en.cl watch with curiosity the ac counts of the visit of an English ambassador to the halls of the Vatican, even though the revolutionary „ Nene , men e,tekel, uphal sips" be already legible on ON the 10th inst. we alluded to the intention of the stagnation party tit Inland to make another at tempt to overturn the system of education which has been adopted by the national board, and has worked o well for that unhappy country. This attempt was nude on Monday evetung in the shape of the follow. tog motion by Mr. G. A. HAMILTON : That an humble address he presented to her Majesty, Paying that h.! Marty will be g raciously pleased to direst ilia such a m odilicauon of the system of national iducatioa it Ireland he made as may remove the conscientious °Mese Dors which a very large proportion of the clergy and laity of the e stab'Ashed church entertain to that system as at pre test carried into operation ; or otherwise, that mesas may he taken to enable those of the clergy and laity of the este. Melted c hurch who entertain such conscientious objections to extend the blessings or scriptural education in Irelind. The effect of acting upon the principle ad vocated in the motion would be the destruc tion of the present system, under which nearly ball a million of children receive education. Those who wish to possess a detailed statement of the a rgument, together with abundance of facts to corro- borate the reasoning, are recommended to read a pam phlet entitled " The elu. sci o n of a separate Grant to the Church Mutation Society Considered." By ED WARD N. HoARE, Dean of Aehenry and Chap lain to the Lord Lieutenant. As we have no wish to set up the fallen absurdities for the sake of knocking them down again, we shall confine our attention to the motion and the debate of Monday. It is clear that the intention of the proposers of the motion is neither more nor lees than to reassert the old claim of the established church of Ireland to the exclusive right of educating the people of that country. This claim may be replied to in the words of Dr. box ea ultra high churchman, u 4th reference to the similar dim urged by the church of England. " If," says this divine, "the church of England claims a right to the exclusive education of the people, it becomes her duty to seek to supply the deficiency of the funds required. by ap propriating her property to this pnrpose. Our bishops are on this principle bound to go down to the House of Lords, and seek powers from the legislature to sell their estates, and their example should be followed by the more opulent of the inferior clergy. 'fhe help of the laity would then be sufficient. It would be better for the church to have a pauperised hierarchy than an uneducated people; and never maid the hierachy be more respectab.e than when pauperised in such a cease." The Irish hierarchy, it say be assumed, will never be induced to consider pauperism respectable ; and as it is not at all likely that their claim will be listened to, unless they psr fora some heroic act of m irtyrdom like that hinted at by Dr. Hoot:, we have every right to hope that all oproximation to such a claim wit meet with the fate the motion on Monday evening. Mr. HAMILTON called upon the government to retrace their steps, to act to wards the people of Ireland as they acted towards the people of Eng:and, and to proceed upon the principle that there was one test of right and wrong, the revealed word of GoD. Now, the method el stung this text, it is well known, forme one of the great subjects of discussion between the Roman ca &tic and protestant churches. The Roman catholic clergy have neither the funds nor the time to allow them to put their method in practice; bat the clergy d the established church have fOr centuries enjoyed the advantages of friends, time, and legal protectaon. We have said legal protection : we believe we might Lave used a stronger phrase, for unless the 7th of WILLIAM 111. is repealed, every clergyman is bound by oath to "teach, or cause to be taught, an English wheel within his particular vicarage or rectory." What, then, have been the fruits of that system which Mr. MAMILTON desires to patch up by the aid of a separate government grant ? Nothing in the way of education, but an overwhelming and incalca kbU amount of evil in the way of fostering party feel ing dad bigotry. This is no new discovery. The utter inefficiency of the exclusively protestant system has been evident from the beginning. As early as the year 1731 the deficiency was perceived, and a remedy applied in the shape of the Incorporated Society. This society produced effects so far analogous to those of the old system, that the celebrated JOHN HOWARD thought it n to make a representation on the "abject to the ec l a r s ish ar liouse of Commons. A committee me appointed to examine into the state of the schools a the society, and from their report it appeared that "the schools were out of repair and in a ruinous con dition; and that the public money with which the Society was assisted, was expended for the purpose of imprisoning, starving, beating, diseasing, destroying the natural affections, and letting the understanding nut to waste of about 1,400 poor children annually, under the pretext of instructing and converting the young generation." This hopeful experiment to edu rate, on the exclusive system, children whose parents mold seldom be induced to send them except in years of scarcity, cost the government, from first to last, about 1,100,0001. On another experiment, the chapter schools, 100,0001. was expended. The last attempt in the same direction was made by the Kildare Place Society. Established at a time, When the zeal of party men was inflamed to an ex imordinary height, when the cry of " the Church is leaner" excited more than usual attention, assisted *the wealth of the great landed proprietors, and of a 9 richest hierarchy in Europe; the Kildare Plates Satiety, at a period when education for the poor was Weroelv possible, if not received at their schools, after 14 years' zealous endeavour were enabled to reckon 137,639 as the numb,-r of their scholars. This num ber, it must be remembered, was obtained by the ex penditure of enorecous pecuniary resources, and with the effect of widening that breach between Catholic and Pneestant, which is one of the prime causes of the difficulty of educating the nation. But the aye tea was esentially artificial; it was kept up by " buy tag over" parents, both Protestant and Catholic, to bad their children to the schools ; and when the zeal of inflamed partisans cooled, the effects, as mea sared by the number of pupils, rapidly declined. It was at t hie stage of the proceedings with respect to Irish education that the government took up the subject Their success has been moat gratifying. In about 4,000 schools there are about half a million of chil dren. This number is steadily increasing, the aug mentation being disturbed only by such causes as famine, political disturbances, &c. We cannot. terefore, but express oar emphatic condemnation of say endeavour to cripple the efforts of the first suc cessful attempt to educate the Irish nation. Such an imernpt can only be the result of the most decided higutry or the - craseest ignorance. We have before *own that the result of a separate grant which must then of cour e be extended in an enormously increased amount to the Roman esthetics and presbyterians, would bet to overturn this system, a consummation which must be dreaded by all who have the cause of education at heart. If the established church wish far separate schools, let it, as Lord J. Russell, ob .' served, establish them out of its own rich endow - Monts: Tat French Assembly has passed a very severe kw against the press, which excites against it much eannadversion on the part of the friends of liberty. 4sterding to this law no one shall be allowed to pub lish his opmi sits without first depositing a round sum hit prove his being in possession, not of brains or prin. riplea, but of substantial property. In Spain this system of cautionnement or security is Imaged in a way still more convenient for govern- Immt, as the following will show. A Senhor ARANA Ras proprietor of a paper called the Siglo; it was liberal, and consequently shared the fate of all liberal *male in being first prosecuted, condemned, and fined, which did not save it or them from subsequent sapprelsion. The aenhor, however, was anxious tore sasCitate hi s p a p e r by b ow i ng to thestorm,andmaking 10 . 14 e, though n o t di s honourable, compromise with the thrtator. He journeyed to La (banjo., and negotiated for ills paper being allowed to appear without the payment of the fines imparted. His suit was granted upon one condoo.: , Ted the condition of generally supporting the go‘irliment, but this : " That he should attribute in his paper the insur rection of March 26 and May 7, exclusively to the mains arks (bad practices) of Senor SALAMANCA and FACOSCRA, and to the gold given them by the English ambassador, Sir H. L BULWER." On these express conditions being placed before the writers of the Siglo, they declined complying, and stated them fully in a published letter on the 9th of August. Such is the management of the press in two consti tutional countries. • FRANC E. PARIS. WEDNESDAY, In the journals of this morning there is nothing of the slightest interest that has not been anticipated by me in my letter of last evening. The editors of the suspended journals have pub lished a protest against the suspension, in which they declare that they were not actuated by the motives attributed to th.m in the decree, and that on the con trary they have exhorted the working classes to cam an d patience. It has been stated that an attempt was made a few s ago to burn down some property belonging to M. Lamartine at Montau. It appears, by an account in a provincial journal, that fire was set to !vane hay lofts, and that two men were taken into custody. The peasants who extinguished the fire tell upon these men, and beat one of them so severely that he was taken to the hospital. On the following day erne incendiaries burnt to the ground the farm of - M. Lasnier, in the same neighbourhood. The Messayer of Tuesday evening has the fol lowing : It has been stated by several journals that General Lefton' is on his way to Bt. Petersburg, in the quality of minister of the republic s We can add that a representative of the Autocrat is expected at Paris, and that tha two states will be re, resented by ministers plenipotentiary, althoug i in the last yearn of the reign of L Ansi Philippe Russia had only • chargé a'aiiiires at Paris. Already, and for some time, a good undentandie.g between the republic and the s sar has been opened. There relations were lent up by the consular agents, and they are ens about to be changed into • regular political intercourse. Besides, we are assured that • short time before the revolu tion of February the Emperor Nicholas declared to Colonel, now General, C--, who was sent into Runia rather on a scientific thin a diplomatic minion, that it wag hit intention to visit France in the course of 1848. The Czar at the same time appeared not to be very anxious for a reconciliation with Letitia Philippe, though he expressed himself in terms of sympathy for the people of France. In the state of mind that he manifirets a towards the ex. King, his determination to come to Fiance may appear to be tome what strange. Did he mean to thine only as a simple tr tveller ? This is a point on which he did net explain himself, and on which his interlocutor did not think it proper to interro gate him." We have received the Madrid n.aile of the 18th. The news from Catalonia is important. Pavia had judged the moment ripe for arming the inhabitants of be towns for a general start in pur suit of the rebels. The recent extortions of the Carlista since the entrance of Cabrera are said to have alienau d the sympathies of the Cate i gnarls, who are moreover desirous of peace, as they see no chances of the struggle terminating to the disad vantage of the government. Estartus'e descent upon Olot was attended with some smart fighting. M tIMD, Avo. 16.-lEree per Centd, 19 9-It each ; after Bolas, 191 cloth ; 191 paper. Fire per Cent.., 114 paper ; after 1304 ca, 11 each. giativea, 4 paper; aver Gotta, 31 cash. Coupora, 7 paper. hank of tit. Ferdinand, 34 paper. lltarount of notes, 41 per cent. Exchange on London, at 90 days, 43 40 paper. ITALY. We have received advices from Venice to the 13th instant. The Sardinian squadron, which had arrived with the Venetian fleet, declarea that, having received no orders, it world remain in the service of Venice. The forts amused themselves continually with firing on the Austrians. The assembly bad definitively named a provisional government consisting of three persons—M M. Mania, Cavedalis, and Graziani. The Chamber of Deputies is convoked for the 13th. The following proclamation was issued at Venice on the 12th by the provisional government:— VENica, Auo. 12.—Citizens ! In this hour of danger we have need to take prompt and energetic measures. To the end that you may not be without a chief, I have not hesi tated, although it be only for • few bouts, to take upon myself the office of Dictator. Necessity has made this course a law to nu, but your kindness will raider it lets painful than it would otherwise be. To-morrow will me-t the assembly of your representatives, whose first care will be to constitute a new government, and afterwards to provide for present emergencies. Have confi dence in DM. in UP, In Italy, and also in the aid of other free nations--aid which we have demanded, and which will not fail us. The provisional dictator Manin has also addressed the following proclamation to the army : Italian soldiers !—The war of independence for which you have already shed your blood, has assumed a disastrous phase for us, Perhaps at this moment our canals close the sole refuge for Italian liberty ! Venice must, there fore guard this sacred spot at any price. Courage citizens! In the name of that Italy for whom you have fought, and desire still so fight, I conjure you not to relax your zeal for the defence of this sacred asylum of our nationality. The moment is solemn. The stake is the poli tical life of an entire people, whose destiny may depend on the fate of this last bulwark. You soldiers who have come from the river Po, from the Mincio, and from the Ticino, for the defence of the common canoe, remember that in riving this city you will save the mast precious rights of your native land. Your !amities will bless you, Europe in admiration of your noble perseverance, will give that perseverance the nward it merits; in that 'day wh n Italy shall be able t call herself free, among so lastly monuments sacred to the valour and the glory of our fathers, eh* will raise 'moth. r, on which she will inscribe these words: " The Italian soldiers in defending Venice saved the independence of their eountry."—HANlN. Venice, Aug. 12,1848. Peachier* and Piacenza have been surrendered to the Austrians by the Piedmontese troops. -•• • • The following is our correspondent's letter : NAPLES, AUGUST 14. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 12th, questions were pot to ministers (five of whom attended) regarding the treatment of the Calabrian and Sicilian prisoners. Scialora asserted that it was infamous • the mir inter, ors the contrary, asserted that they were treated with the greatest humanity, and that the king had given orders that the rooms where hey were confined should be enlarged, or new ones lull% This gave rive to a fear that they wete not to be brought to trial, and a commission of inquiry was inked tor. The Chau her of Peers continues to bs highly conservative in its character; that of the deputies more and more anti ministerial. In deed, I may state as a fact, that Bouellt, perhaps in consequence of the impossibility of his being able to work the present chember, has offer- d his resignation to the king, as well as the entire ministry; whether these re signations have been accepted I cannot with equal certainty state. The names of a portion however of the new ministers are confidently spoken of ; am input wh'cb I have heard those of Longobardi and Filangieri, names detested by she liberal party. Twice within the last week we have had demonstrations of a significant character; in Toledo and Monte Oliveto, in which some of the military joined, and cries w're heard of " Viva il re," " A basso to cogistitucione." Yesterday, another demonstration, of a similar chrracter,and on a nun larger scale, was announced, but every preparation was made to put it down by the authorities. To-morrow, another decided demonstration is spoken of. Such is the apprs hension, that some heve sent their families out of town for some days. In some quarters, soldiers have been kept under arms ; and the demonstrations of Thursday and Friday were tonsil red of sufficient portanee to be sonde the subj• ct ..f debate in the House of Deputies, and inde. d gave rise to the project of a law on attack upon the constitution. What part does the king take? Of course there are sea-,. who believe that there is a plan in peel°, formed by the king himself, for doing away with the constitution. Others believe that his majesty I will be faithful to it, and that these them nitrations are got up to place him in a more favourable light. I have heard it stated that ter-morrow the king is to lava the nal , :ce for the first time, to go to the church of Madonna d.lle ()retie ; it Is the Fite of Assumption, celebrated throughout Naples with great solemnity, and it is not unlikely there may be some demonstrations, if not rows. Considerable supplies of linen have this week been ad ministered to the Sicilian captives, by private and royal charity. One hundred and fifty have been removed to Caput.. Those who were minfined in St. Elmo, have been removed to Nisida, and a few boys have been taken to the Hospital for the Poor. Bois-le-Comte, the French charge d'affairee, left a few days since for Turfs; and M. Rayneeal has already presented his letters to the king accrediting him ai r t he French envoy extraordinary and minister plentpotentiary. On Saturday morning early the Porcupine cams in from Corfu, or rather from Meedna, where it touched in order to (made the quarantine at Naples. I am informed by come one on board that the inquiry her proved that the capture of the Sicilians was:made aightfouir a distance ftomCorfu, so thee England cannot interfere. The Porcupine sailed scan with descatches for Leghorn yesterday morning Thetis for no one knows where, but I heard it sailed yester da y also jectured for Palermo . . The Beet still rentains at Cas. talisman, where the alumni has taken lodgings. The Renate steamer sailed for England a few days since to be paid off. I bear at the last moment that the Thetis has gone off to Leghorn with a view to protect British interests in case of y distuibaooe consequent on the advance of the Austrians. frightened into order. an The Calabria+ are perfectly cp_riet, My informant went through Finn two or thee* days after the alleged sack of it, which has been held up throughout Europe as such a barbarous outrage. /1• could not find the THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1848. T wi g ., of one houme that had been burnt, though he wan. dared rive every portion of it. la about • dozen cams he found that the doors had been formed or broken into by the hatchet, and such is the amount of the tragedy of Piss,. Thera was no probability of any farther outbreak, and from t h e ' Dart of Si c ily ,:here was not the slightest expectation of hottile incursions. indeed about Reggio the report was rife that the royal i st party was much on the increase near Syracuse. At Messina there had been an attempt to get up a demonstration In favour of Ferdinand. which failed miserably some say but which produced here the report that Messina had declared in favour of the King. The ministerial journals still speak of the expedition to Sicily as being near. The manceuvres of the fleet in the Gulf still continue; indeed, everything is ready, and why the King should delay, except that by delay he hopes still further to weaken the Sicilian:, I cannot explain, At Pa lermo some effirts have been made to form an army with • view to resist the landing of the royal troops. By private letter I hear that a report having been spread some nights since at Catania that the Neapolitan fleet was off the coast, the whole city ran to arm', and the houses were all illuminated. every act of treachery. Welden had crossed the Po, and evact wed the legation. A letter from Path, of August 13th, says: The Hungarians have taken the strongly fortified position of the Servians, near Verlssz, by storm. According to Hungarian accounts, from 2,000 to 3,000 Serviane, and about as many Hungarians, were killed. SAXONY.—A letter from Dresden, of August 19, says : The King of Prussia arrived in this city on the 18th, in a special train from Leipaic. He was re ceived at the railway station by Prince John, and proceeded immediately to Pillnitz, where the Queen of Prussia had been for some days. In the same number of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeilung which announces his Majesty's arrival in Dresden appre hensions are expressed of the approaching resigns lion of the liberal minister Oberlander. HANOVER.—From Gottingen we learn that,emong other recent professorial appointments in the univer sity is that of Dr. Webber, one of " the Gottingen seven," who were unconstitutionally and arbitrarily deposed some years ago by the King. PRUSSIA.—We have received Berlin newspapers to the 21st of August. It would appear that " the pure Prussian blood" is not only averse to "Prussia resolving itself into Germany," but to the admission of the Neo- Prussians of the Rhine provinces to admin's trative offices in Prussia itself. On this how it is re marked in the Berlinisthe Alsehrichten: I. Aid complaints are made breau e the Ministers of Finance and the Interior have brought (Adele from the Rhine and given them appointments here. Were the report true we could not blame ministers for taaing such a step; for the re organisation of our ',stem of government re quires an additional force. Nothing more natural in etch eircumsta ices than for ministers to employ cfficers whose ability and political soundness are experimentally known to them. But the report it false ; it is a weak invention of the re-action. Hitherto we have been accustomed to hear the Rhinelanders grumbling, on account of their being deluged with officials from the old provinces. MALTA, Aro. 12. By the French steamer Leonidas, on tie 6th, we were favoured with the arrival of Cardinal Ferretti, from Civita Vecchia, under the name of Cr.O. Ferretti, Abbate dell' tre Fontane. He fled from Rome, in consequence of the outbreak of the _people, demanding a declaration or war against Austria. *He has taken up his quarters at the refuge for the destitute in Florian. The new French contul for Malta, a Col. Fellesaier, came by the same steamer. People here are curious to know if he is the hero of the African tragedy, in roasting and smo ,ing the Arabs at Djounedey, being o' the same name as that worthy per sonage. On the 7th a Sicilian aperonera brought over eleven Jesuits from Noto; they had been :pelted that city by vir tue of a telegraphic despatch from Palermo. There is a report extant that the government intends to send all foreigners from Malta who are not guaranteed by their cousuls. The weather has been, and continues, dreadfully hot. Many old Indies', and others who have served on ch i 'coot of Africa, have declared that they never felt the heat so oppressive. Notwithstanding this heat, from 90 to 96 in the shade, the English soldiers mount guard and go 06 sentry with the same dress and accoutrements as in the depth of winter; the only di f f erence it a pair of white duck trowsete, instead of cloth. After sunset, they put on a great grey coat over-all, probably upon the Spaniels principle that what keeps out the cold will keep out beat, It is really pitiable to see the really fine lads of the 44th and 69th, for they are but boys—standing sentinels in such • dress, ex posed to the glare of a sun at 160 deg. It is killing the men, as the general will discover before the summer is over. Surely the duty can be as we'l done in a shell-jacket and a foraging cap; it has been so done, and during the Dommand of some of the smartest generals in the British army. A Mr. Phocion Roeque has been appointed consul in Malta, for the King of Greece. The French steamer of yes terday, from Constantinople, brings us the news that cholera had entirely disappeared from Constantinople, but was on t he increase at Smyrna. The new dock is nearly finished. The Ardent steamer will be the first to enter after her return from Alexandria. The shells and coral on her bottom are several inches thick. Count Castigbone son of the ex-Duke of Parma, 4 still here, awaiting the arnial of the Hecate (so ), ordered to Eng!and, for a passage in her. The exchange has fallen to 31 premium, but English money is still scarce. Moat of the English metchant vessels here have been char tered for Constattinople and the Black Sea. Some at 9s. per qr. from the former for England, and the latter at 12a. for same. CONSTANTINOPLE, Auo. 5. The cholera may be said to be almost gone ; only a few isolated cases ere now heard of. At Galata and Thralls it has ceased in toto. it still existed at Odessa, hug in a minor degree, on V e 21st ult. Rifest Pacha has en tered Galata with 4,500 Turkish troops. Ia consequence of despatches from St. Petersburg we hear, by a courier arrived this morning, that the Russian troops have retired from Moldavia and re-entered Bessarabia. The Ramaxan commenced on the 31st alt. with the usual cere monies and salutes ; in the evening a fire broke out which consumed about 30 houses—it formed an immense bonfire in the midst of the surrounding illuminated mosques, palaces, and houses. An ambassador from the King of the Affghans has arrived here to congratulate the Sultan. lie is accompanied by a numerous suite, and has bad an audience of the Sultan, at' his palace of Tcheragan. The Persian rullsessador extraor dinary, Mires Mehemet-Ali Khan, who came here charged with the ratification of the treaty between Persia and the Porte, left yesterday in the 'learner for Trebisoode, on return to Teheran. The English steamer Tartarus has returned from Athens and &denies. The cholera has appeared at the latter place. Wheat is a sheds higher :—Hard, 19 to 20 pies. the kilo. • soft, 14 to 15. Freights for England are 9s. the qr., to load in the Danube for England, 60e. per ton. Exchange on London: 3 months, 110 piss. the pound sterling. GERMANY. FRANKFORT.—The Deutsche Zeitung,undee date Aug. 20, announces the nomination of the ministers who are to convey the official intimation that the Vicar of the Empire has entered upon the discharge of his func tions to London, St. Petersburg, and Paris. They are,—M. Von Andrian, to London (M. Von Andrian arrived in London from Paris, on Tanday) ; General Von Auerawald to St. Petersburg; and M. Von Rau mer to Paris. The first-named of these envoys is Vice President of the Parliament, and both the others are members of that body. The Deutsche Zeitung thus comments upon the appointment to Paris : AL Von Hamner has, without doubt, the most difficult minion ; for it eanoot ne taken for granted that M. Savoys, the French Minister resident here sends despatches to his government calculated to awaken a friendlr disposition towards the central power, insomuch as his personal licisti lity to it may be inferred from his habits of intimacy with its meet vehement opponents. The same journal speaks thus of the impressions which the members of the parliament present at the Cologne festival have brought back with them: The representatives whp have returned from Cologne bring back very diversified impressions, according as their hopes were previously more or lees confident. Those who wero aware how matters stied in Prussia rejoice to bare found Germanic sentiment more prevalent than they antici pated; these who thought that a mandate issued from Prenkfurt was sufficient to enforce unity see now that the mil, way is that of mutual ooncession. But all parties agree that the political tendency of the fe►tival was most im portant. The more hessrdous the attempt was in such a period of excitement to bring together the most prominent representatives of local pretentious, and the most uncom promising advocates of unity, the more salafactory is the mutual good-will with which they parted. No ona who has been in Cologne now entertains a doubt that the great work of uniting Germany into a state confederation will be sitcom The following remarks, purporting to be a private communication from Frankfort, appear in the Berlin ische Nachrichten of the 20th instant. We are by no means confident that the article is not of Berlin manufacture, and intended to subserve the equivocal policy of a party in Prussia, but we give it valeta quantum : Our new oonstitution for the Germanic Confederation will be at all events an expensive affair. There will fell to he paid not only the expenses of the representatives (amounting to 2,400 dollars per diem), but the salaries of the ministers, presidents, and their bureaus. There has been already voted For the president 24,000 florins ; for the vice-president 10,000 ; and for the secre taries 6,000 are spoken of. The expenses .of the bureaux, including the printing of the short-hand reports are estimated at 80,000 florins. To these must he added the outlay for attendants, for heating and lighting the church of St. Paul's, fie. It ham been proposed to allow each minis ter 12,000 florins, and the president of the cabinet an addi tional 60,000 for exercising hd.pitality and maintaining a due state. To these must be added the salaries of the under secretaries and all the clerks in the offices, and the lutnre ambasaadon, who mutt be fitted out in a way becoming the diguity of the government. The saving from the suppression of the old Diet is more apparent than real, for all the states in the union will have their plenipotentiaries resident at the seat tlf the central power, and these will receive the sense ea bait, as their prerlecesinrs attendant on the Diet. All this outlay will require additional tries. The central power has opened acredit account of two millions of florins with Rothe &lids to meet current expenses. AUSTRIA. Dates from Vienna are of the 18th instant. The papers are full of gossip about the Emperor. The Ip/deur/et verbs ad dressed by his Majesty to the president and deputation of the constituent diet, in Schdnbrunn , are now published. "Gentlemen," said the emperor,l " you have deemed it necessary for me to come hewer I have done my duty and here I am." With these words he turned his back upon them, and retreated from the audience chamber to his private apartments. It is stated that the emperor walks daily without attendants in the garden at Schonbrann, plainly dressed, and wearing a black, red, and gold ribbon over the shoulder and across the breast. The probability of ministerial changes, alluded to by our Vienna correspondent in the letter which we published on Saturday, is now publicly spoken of. It is said that Wessenberg will retain merely the presidential office and transfer the portfolio of foreign affairs to Count Thorn. Hornboetel, minister of commerce, is expected to resign. Brack, the resident director of the Austrian Lloyd's in Vienna, is pointed to as his successor. Schwarzen's remaining in or abdicating office it is understood will depend upon the verdict of the jury in the cases of the two editors Ebersberg and Lobenstein, whom he has ordered to be prosecuted on account of attacks upon him in their journals. Lord Ponsonby arrived at Vienna on the 15th, and the conferences on Italian affairs were expected to begin immediately. In the sitting of the National Assemble, on the 17th, a qwetion was pot to the Minis'er of War by *mem ber, who wished to be informed if the contingent of troops to be sent to Schleswig Holstein, according to the demand of the Minister of War at Frankfort, was ready to march? Count de Latour replied negatively, stating that the Administrator of the Empire bad expressed a h. pe that, in consequence of the armistice which will shortly be concluded, the 8,000 men re quired will be no longer wanted. Another member desired to know the reason why General Leichtenstein bad entered the duchy of Modena, and if the ministry intended to rei-state in the duchy the former sovereign? The minister replied that the march of the Austrian troops into Modena was aDm ssary military operation. As to the return of the duke, the prince was at firs . at the head-quay ars of the Austrian army, and afterwards at Mantua, from whence he returned voluntarily to Modena, on the news that the Austrian troops would be received with open arms by the inhabitants. With regard to the war in Italy, the Mini-ter of War made some statements which are rather im portant. He stated that he had received, by a conrie• , explanations from ;eneral Welden, which placed the whole affair in a different light. The general had advanced to Massa, in order to reach the left bank of the Po; he was obliged to occupy Sermide with a small detachment, when they were suddenly fired upon from all the windows, in con sequence of which he sent some hundreds of men, but these were obliged to withdraw, as they were fired upon from the houses and barricades. Two days after General Welden felt himself compelled to attack the place with increased force, as its possession was indis pensable to his croesing . the Po. Grenades were used, and the place was soon in flames. The inhabitants had all withdrawn; the Austrian troops had the satisfaction of delivering fi om cestain death twenty-four per sons who had been shut up by the insurgents in a church which had been set fire to. This fact Lad been grossly misstated. General Welden, with his small corps of 4,000 men, had crossed the Po, to cover the movements of Count Leichtenstein in the flank and rear. They fell in with a body of 14,000 Crociati ; but the general's small force scattered them like chaff, and pursued them to Bologna, where he received orders from Field-Marshal Radetaki not to enter that city, and to evacuate the legation. He had, however, already entered into a convention with the city that he Crociati should not halt in Bologna, in order that, if needful for the Austrians to pass through, they might do so without molestation. On the evening of the 7th, Gen. Welden quitted, after having taken up al military position, and even erected batteries, in the event of the city not accepting these moderate de mends. On the morning of the Bth, several officers, in reliance on the concluded convention, repaired to Bologna. Three of them were assassin a ted, as were also several soldiers. Upon this an armed mob rushed nut of the city and fired upon our vanguard, by which five were killed and sixty wounded. Perglu had been left in command by Welden, with orders to march on the Bth to the Po. Bologna was bombarded, and Perglas immediately after commanded his counter-march to the Po. These were facts, and when soldiers were assassinated, and when troops were attacked, they were bound to defend themselves, and to punish Ebt eourt. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.—The royal dinner party yest-rdsy included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Mason, and the Baroness de Sprth. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Friday) the 25th at Osborne, isle of Wight, at one o'clock in the afternoon. Summonses were issued yesterday from the Privy Council-office to the minister and officers of state. A deputation, including Mr. Charles Russell, chairman of the Great Western Railway Company, Mr. Saunders, and Mr.Hunr, had an interview with the Commis eioners of Railw.iys yesterday, at their 31TICII in the Board et 1 rade. Sir J. Guest had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Anldjo, Mr. W. Chapman, Mr. A. I. Moore. and Mr. Atcheson, directors of the Trust and Loan Canal:any of Upper Canada, had an in terview with Earl Grey yeeterday, at the Colonial-o ffi ce. Sir IL George and Sir J. Cochrane had inttrvievrs yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Colonial-office. THE LORD CHANCELLOR has issued an orliernip pointing F. A. Warburton, Esq , barrister-101m, an 15515- tant-Registru in Mr. Cimmissioner 11.ilroyd's court, in ccn sequence of the prolonged and serious illness of Mr. Miller, the rezistru, who hu been ill for four months past. This is the third instance in which an uistant-registrar has been appointed under the let. MARRIAGE IN HIGH Liva.—The marriage of ars Caroline Amelia Grosvenor, fourth (laughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, and the Hon. William Hen Leigh, elde.t rhn of Lord Leigh , was solemnised on Tuesday last et St. George's Church, Hanover-squ ire. The ceremony was performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. The bride was attended by the Ladies Octavio and Agnes Grosvenor, and Miss Victoria Charlotte Gros. veunr, her cousin. A sumptuous entertainment was given at Grosvenor House, by the Marquis and Marchioners of Westminster, to a large party. The bride and bridegroom left town for liatchforl-park, the Earl of Ellesmere's test, near Cobham, to pan the honeymoon. THE EXPLOSION IN ALBANY-STREET. Last evening the inquiry, adjourned from Monday last, concerning the death of Mary Bentley, one of the sufferers My the ezploohn in Albony.stroet. was concluded by Me. Wakley, at the Chester Arms, in the above street.—A model was fixed in the inquest. room of nearly t .e same dimension as the meter destroyed, and the coroner and jury here viewed the situation; and the mode adopted by the boy Lucas in putting in and taking out the shutters was ex. plained to them. S. May said he was a gas-fitter, and worked for Mt. %Lowell, in Albany-street, and hod been frequently to No. 60, Albany-street, to take water oat of the gas Om I There was sometimes too much water in the meter. Zs I thought dry meters the beet. H. Larkin, an inspector of the London Gas Comp aq, said : I have 'been twice to Mr. Loten's to inspect the gas; the first occasion was in June last, and I went to take the register of the meter by order of the office. No complaint was made. I went again on the 20th of July in consequence of an order from the office on account of want of light. I found there was not sufficient water in (the meter. I pat some water into it, and tke gas in the union burnt very wel then, but the light of the side burner jumped. I sent Mr- Cogan, gas atter, of Mansterxtreet, to see what was ret qulred.—By the Coroner : I made no complaint about the position of the meter. We nee both wet and dry meters. The choice of them generally depends upon the tenants. The most modern Invention is the dry meter. I should re aemmend the water meter myself. There are more of the letter used by the company than dry meters. When I was at Mr. Loten's the second time no complaint of the gas elamelng swat made. If there had been an escape I must have dasevered it, because I had a candle with me. W. Cogan, a gas-atter, examined: Went to No. 60, Albany-street, at the request of the last witness, to examine the meter and repair the pipes. That was shoat three weeks before the 'Cadent. The complaint made was that the jas lights at the side of the s''.op lumped. That was eaoai cousi a the collection of water in the pipe, which was Nothing was said about the gas escaping. Mr. Mande, the secretary of the London Gas Company, put in a letter received from Mr. Lotto, complaining of being nearly without gas for a whole week, but in it he made no remark about the escape of gat. Cogan was directed to examine the model, and in answer to a juror :aid that it was perfectly passible for shutters drawn in ono . 0 - -ze aganst the meter and the main gas-key to turn the gee Aff; a violent blow might break the cock. In answer to the Coroner, the witness said that he never c o mpl a i ne d t o Mr. _Uteri of the dangerous position of the meter. Knew plenty of places where there were meters situated as Mr. Loten's, but he could not say if the abutters were placed there in the Same war—By Mr Hinds ; I am positive there could not have been any escape of gas at tie time I was there, brunt* I tried all the pipes, and red my blowpipe to solder a part where I took water trees.— Mr. Hinde begged to observe that the company were desi rous of showing that there ltd h t en no complaints made of an escape of gas. Mr. Wm. Douglas, collector to al.' eomPany. Proved that he called on the 28th of July for payn,•set, but no complaint was then made. It was his custom If Cc 'nPlaints were made to make a memorandum of them and Pert them to the board. George B. Pettitt deposed to fixing up .the Ras fittings at iNo. 60, Albinj-street, about nine years ego. He fixed the 'meter under the shopboard by direction of .Mr. Hatfield. He bad fixed many meters like it, but could not whether the shutters were taken in and nut of the at utter-box. :When Mr. Hatfield suggested the placing of the ...Geier, he told him that some protection of wood-work would I.' hem nary, and he said he would do it himself. Mr. Richardson, the superintendent of the Imperial Com pany, said he had caused the main pipes of the London (..om pony and also the Imperial to be uncovered, and he sou Ist ware the coroner and jury that there was not the flighty% amps of gas discernible. This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner ad. dressed the jury. He trusted that the melancholy event would teach a useful lesson to those who were in the habit of burning gas, and that the moment an escape was found means would be immediately taken to remedy any defect. With reference to the fixing of theenteter, it was a matter of congratulation—if, under the circumstances, they could con gratulate one another—that, although strict search bad been made, no other meter similarly fixed could be found in the neighbourhood. The jury, after an absence of half-an-hour, Mumma the following special verdict—" That the death of Nary Bentley was caused by a mortal fracture of the skull, occa sioned by the accidental explosion of en admixture of coal gas and common air in the house No. 60, Albany-street; and that whether the said coal gas escaped into the sai , l shop in consequence of an accidental blow given to the meter or fitting thereof, by the removal of a certain window shutter, there is not before jurors sufficient evidence to show." THE SALE AT STOWE yesterday consisted entirely of china and other household furniture, some of the lots of which produced a high price. The total proceeds of the day amounted to about 2,7001. -- - . VACANT OFFICES IN THE NEW FOREST.—III reply to various Replications for appointments to the offices vacant in the New Forest and elsewhere, in con& quenco of the re cent disclosures before Lord Duncan', committee, it has bean intimated that it is not the intention of her Majesty's government at present to fill up any of there vacancies. It is understood that no appointment whatever will be made in connexion with the Woods and Forest, pending the inquiry and its consideration by government and tile House of Commons. THE NEW FOREST TIMBER RORBERIES.—At the Queen's House, Lyndhurst, yesterday (Wednesday) after noon, Thome' Grant. a woodman, was brought before Mr. Compton, M.P., and Mr. H. Sloane Stanley, the presiding magistrates, charged with stealing two oak trees from a part of the New Fcrest known as Bentley-wood. Major Free wan, the government commisaioni r, and two attorneys em ployed by the crown, attended to prosecute. The prisoner was undefended. The main evidence against him was that of a millwright named Henbest, residing at Fordinghr:dge, who deposed that lest Christmas Grant applied to him to build biro a cart, and said that he would supply him with timber foe the purr's. Re accordingly went into the forest with Grant, who showed him two oak trees, which he au thorised him to cart away. Witness took them into his yard accordingly, and supplied the prisoner with a cart built of other wood. Some days since Grant called on him, and asked what had become of the wood, stating that be hoped it was cut up, or it might get his friends into ' trouble. The stumps of the trees were produced, and fitted to the stools, and corroborative evidence was given bi the carter and others concerned in the removal of the timber. In his defence Grant stated that he had ap plied to the deputy surveyor of the forest. Mr. William Reed, for a pea of wood to build a cart. Mr. Reed said that when his son James, who acted as his assistant, came to Bentley Wood he should look out a tree for him. A week or ten days after, Jamie Reed came up and asked him which tree he wanted. He (prisoner) pointed to two, and said either of them would do. Reed said he might have both if he liked. Whereupon be said he would take both, and if Mr. Reed would set a fair value on them, he would pay for them next quarter when he came down to New Park. Mr. Reed said, Very well; it was all right," and marked the trees. One was a tri.e that had been rended, and another was iilmost dead wood.—A witness named Peckham corroborated this statement as tar as he was cognisant of the transaction, but the mogietrates (without calling either of the Reeds) com mitted the prisoner for trial at Illineheeter, admitting him, however, to bail, himself in 2001., and two sureties of 1001. each. THE CROPS. The long continuance of showery weather, and lat terly the heavy rains which have ham, excite considerable anxiety, net only amongst agriculturists, but with the public. Until about ten days ago the rain though frequent, the in tervals of dry weather seldom exoeedmg twenty-four hours, had not been heavy. and was to some extent partial, For instance, in the north-cut of Hens and in Cambridgeshire a good deal of wheat was carried in fair condition during the time all the surrounding districts were visited by such frig. quent showers that little torn could be carried, though a large proportion of it had been cut. Since last Sunday se'n night, however, the prospect has become more gloomy. On that night and the two following days cold rain poured down from the north-east throughout the great pert of England, and subsequently most districts have experienced very heavy rains for many hours in succession and after very short in tervals of dry weather. The wheat is nearly all cut, and stands in the field waiting only two successive warm days to be carried into the barns atd stack-yards. The little which his hitherto been stacked is in a very damp state, while that which still remains in the fields has bens somewhat injured with but little prospect of future improve ment. The general temperature hes been low, which hie hitherto prevehtea the grain from sproutiog in the ear where the fields ere open, but where they are surrounded by high hedgerows anti much timber a good deal of the wheat has already grown ; and should the wet weather continue many days longer more ot lees of grown wheat am inevitably be found in every field. Amongst the peculiarities of the pre sent season man be remarked the failure of the barometer to denote accurately the state of the weather, some of the hea viest rains having occurred with a very high barometer. This was the cue with the long-continued rains we have before mentioned. The temperature Du been on en ;teeny ,till ten degrees lower than the average temperature of the month of August. Toe depth of rain, too, which has fallen in August is far beyond anything we have had for some years past ; thus for the first sixteen 'days of August last year the depth of rain was 0.84 inches, and in the first six teen days of the present month there fell no lees than 3.06 inches of rain. On i,londav, the 14th of August. nearly three quarters of an inch was ascertained to be the depth of rain io [settee hours. The observers and recorders of these tuts have justly designated them a* alarming." For farmers the aspect of the season is very di , heartenina, for while it is certain that the great bulk of their grain will be of inf. riot quality, it is now pretty clesey ascertained that the quantity will hardly reach, if it does reach, an ave rage. Much of it will be unfit for threshing until aster the winter's frosts, and the growers who are compelled to sell their corn earlier must be content to re nivel low prices ; another of the many striking lemons the menet semen has afforded to the British farmer is the im prudence of farming without sufficient capital. Everywhere the sample will be rou,th and ot had colour, and great looses will be sustained from the shedding of the corn in the field, which the constant alternations if wet and dry wr ether and long standing in the fields must inevitably occasion. From the agricultural pat of the community we must he prepared to hear much complaint. For the consuming public we do not anticipate art y inch high prices as occurred in 1846, when the first general failure of the potatoes took place. There is a good stock of old and dry wheat in the hands of farmers ; there are likewise good crops in ore of the most important corn growing couprries of Europe, and in America; and from these sources will be derived sufficient supplies of good dry corn to mix with our damp English wheats, i.nd prevent any material de:eriora'ion ot quality in flour ,• and these sup plies of dry corn will, in truth, benefit the English farmer, for without it his damp corn would be scarcely saleable. In the north of France and Belgium the corn is stated to have r.een pretty well gattored, and the crops at one time though' to be abuodant are now sed to be a fur average. I n O. rmany some of the wet we complain of bas been expt riveted, and t e crops are nut eve,. ; there is, hose.ver, no fear of defici nay, and there is no fear of any such conti nental competition in the world's corn markets as we met with in 1846. It would be affectation to doubt the failure of the potato, at el events in England and Ireland, and we believe that the accounts to the coatrary received from Scotland may be attributed rather to the comp-ranee backwardness of the crop than to any pro bability of ultimate escape. But it is admitted that every- ' where very large breadths of potatoes have been planted, and I that the produce is most abundant ; and, as all potato growers now know that when the disease has shown itself in the crop it is melees to attempt to keep any portion of it, this esculent will be at once brought to market, and by its cheap ness and abundance during the autumn months will serve to economise wheat. Hence it will most likely be found that the present not very abundant crop of grain will carry as tolerably well through the year. In this . way the loss of the I potato crop will be far less felt than it was in 1846: then all sorts ot plans were tried for keeping potatoes, and all ended I in almost total tom; now few will try to keep them, and they will furotth a large part of the autumn food et the most numerous clam of the population. The operation of this is now felt in the corn market. Thu the Mork-Ism Express, in its review of the corn trade, _esps—" The disease uun donbtedly general all over the kingdom, and has extended to all the late as well u the early varieties Whether any portion of the produce will be sufficiently sound to keep lin pits is questionable ,• and, so long as a free sale can be found, the growers are likely to supply the markets freely. In London the quantity brought forward has not been so great in proportion seat some of the country places, still the ' consumption of bread has fallen off a good deal in the metro , polio; and in the rural districts the poorer classes are almost subsistmg on potatoes. This has had the effect of lessening th_ demand for wheat." Now, as by thus bringing the po tato crop at race to market, a large prop,rtion will become available for food, which, if attempted to be kept, would be utterly lost, there can be no doubt that it is good indivit nal and national economy ; and, if for the nest two months po- Wow largely displace wheat, the ultimate effect of the failure of potatoes will be much lessened. The price of wheat in Mark-lane advanced about 3s. per. qr. last Monday, and arise of about the same amount occurred on the previous Monday ; in all the chief markets of consnmp• Lion equivalent increase of price has obtained. The naw wheat which has appeared, at market is, as might be ex pected, " in poor condition," and the quality is reported by some factors to be "very variable," while others call it bold and good." The truth is, that the English wheelie of this year's growth will ,be found to vary as much in quality on different farms and in different districts as they do ha quantity; and there is protiabl no season en mooed in which the variations o. quantity will be found so greet as the present. Believing, as we do, that there will be no serious de ficiency of food in this country during the ensuing year, though prices may range somewhat higher than in years • when the crops are considered more abundant and are well got in, we do not espied the present unpromising wagon as ah unmixed evil, because the cloud which hangs over our pro spects, impeditg, as it must, the revival of trade, will assuredly prevent any protectionist attempts to stay the ex tinction of the corn monoynly, which at one time there was reason to believe that unteachable party meditated. And after the shrinking of the government on the sugar duties, who an tell what they might have yielded on corn t Now, however, even the intrepidity of Mr. D,srseli, and the ob tuseness of Lord George Bentinck, would scarcely lead them to propose to continue a tax on the nation's food. IRELAND. DUBLIN, AUG. 23. If ,:s well known that the inspectors appointed for t h e h et ter carrying out the provisions of the poor law h an ich a act wet e only temporarily appointed. Their missions were to have entirely ceased on the let September next. 're . ‘"Y have this week recei v ed a rene w al of p d p e o c i i n a t re m s e n t e for e s t ia m a another h e which ch y ear, a the their appeL itments for six months from that day. In reality, this is circumstance which poor l aw s oh °. rities form of the prospects of the close of this and the F we-harvest period of the coming year. It would secs: that neither in incidents or results can Irish trials b s conducted like any other trials. We have challenge to the stray and challenges to the poll, and speei. 11 challenges, all of which are not.ed in the text-boa ks as occurring in other places. But in challenges to .the counsel we make our own precedents. The Atter. ley-General during the s'ate trials of 1844 challenged one of the counsel for the traversers—the counsel f 'r the prisoner, in 1848, challenges the Solicitor-Lleneral. On last Sa'ur day night, Alderman }Judson waited on the Soli citor-General on the part of Mr. Butt, to require of him that he would retract certain language, in which, as Mr. Butt conceived, he reflected personally on his character. The Solicitor-General thereupon assures him he did not intend the language offensively, and there the matter ends. One cannot help con cluding that our official men would manifest more dignity aed our counsel more grave self-possession, if they could see themselves as others see them. A correspondence upon the subject has appeared in the Dublin papers. The London journals due in Dublin yesterday did not arrive at the post-office turd four o'clock p.m. The London evening papers of the same date (Mon day) were in the hands of the public fully three hours previously. No circumstance could occur to prove more conclusively the superiority of the route by Holyhead as a line of communication with the metro polis. The Holyhead route in this case beat the Liverpool route by nine or ten hours. Much of this is, however, owing to the slowness of the boats on the Liverpool line. Some observation has been made upon the circum stances that the Brescia] commission should be fixed for the capital of the north riding of Tipperary, whereas Mullinahone, Bailingarry, Boulagh, sad Slieveardagh, as well as She ver.amon, are in the south riding, as is also Thurles. But the act of parlia ment dividing Tipperary into ridings expressly ex cepts cases in which special commissions shall issue, when the body of the county may be summoned to either place. Besides, in cases of treason the trials may be had in any part of the kingdom. The venue is not local. The presiding judges are not yet named ; but there is no question that Chief Justice Blackburne will be one of them. The Lord Chancellor has just issued an order re specting the terms of setting of property of lunatics and idiots. His lordship says that the custom of setting property in such causes before him for a term " pending the matter" or cause has an injurious effect upon the property and those who are tenants thereon. He therefore orders that in no case shall the demise of property of lunatics or idiots made by the masters be for a less period than 21 years. Several arrests of clubmen have been made st Don nybrook Fair. They are parties whose names have never been before the public. It seems they could not debar themselves of the humours of this old haunt of jollity, and, losing their dieguise with their discre tion, fell into the hands of the police. Prices were up yesterday at our corn exchange; but the purchases were limited, because as yet the real condition of the harvest is not sufficiently esta blished to enable millers or merchants to venture upon stock. [For figures see Dublin corn report in first Me. The ] largest market of potatoes for the last two years shown in Dublin, was that held yesterday—a strong proof of the injury done to the crop, as It shows how anxious cultivators are to get rid of them thus early. Of course prices receded. A tremendous flood Mu carried away the bridge over the White River near Dunleer, Louth, on the line of the Belfast Junction Railway. The Nenagh Guardian records a brutal outrage. It is, that some ruffian entered the lands of Kiljustin, Toom, Tipperary, and stabbed in the bellies three horses, four milch cows, and three heifers. In Clare and Tipperary the work of eviction goes on rapidly. Not a local journal we open which does not record some each. A sure indication of what we shall have to expect in the coming winter, which pro mises not to need that aggravation. A dreadful fire occurred in Cork in Monday night, in the endeavour to extinguish which a man, named Short,lost eis life. Threeothers were ber , oua'y injured. On the 6th instant an affray took place between the military and people in or near the towu of Tipperary, whicti ended in the death of a soldier ,f the 43rd, named Joshua Colville, who was so severely injured by a blow of a stoic in the forehead that he died some days atter. An inquest was held on the body at Templemore on the 18th, when it appeared that Colville and eight other soldiers had been drinking on the 6th, and had got tipsy, as some of them were confined for drunkenness that night. On their way to barracks the party overtook t trier, who was on hors-beck. A soldier named Mason says the friar used some bad language to them which he could not recollect ;" at all events the party commenced swearing at the Pope, and one seized the friar's horse by the reins. On this tie peo,;de became excited, and were about to attack the eoldiets, when the friar in terfered to make peace. He, however, rode on, the police having come up ; and then some stones were thrown, one of which struck Colville on the forehead. According to Mason's evidence the friar could not have been near him at :he time. The party who flung the stone is Lot known. A verdict in accord ance with these facts was retur.ed. David Coughlan, of Drowgan, Tipperary, Paving a commission of colonel in the rebel iorce on him, bas been arrested. The constable Haniver, who had the warrant film the arrest of Mr. S. O'Brien at the Thuile. station, and who was on the platform when Halme hid hands on him, has been promoted to a first-class head onatableahip. SCOTLAND. EDIMBIIROH, Are. 22. The weather here has not as yet been to any extent characterised by the severity which has been so much complained of in other quarters. We have had no rains remarkable either for duration or intensity, and the crops, including potatoes, look well. The effeeta of the pcnic, however, are observable in the CAW of the latter, as large quantities are offered in the mar kets at low prices. On Saturday, Bailie Stott and Mr. Georgeson were liberated from gaol, their annuity dues haying been raised in penny subscriptions from among the inha bitants. They quitted " durance vile" as privately as they had entered, no mob being collected or excite ment of any kin d having taken place. Last night • soiree in honour of their liberation took place in Queen-street Hall—the Music Hall, our most aristo cratic place for public meetings, having been refused for the purpose. Mr. Rurewli, who was incarcerated onin for non-payment of the e.rinuity tax-wasa, ,y ears ago, •, presided at the festival. Railiwithitia Aw. y 've the drelT amount claimed for anlnitaila " fi di eof the league for the abolitiF; . lel/11 . , 1 . 4 ..:.-/.. c .........-, 77 .4 I „I .: 1 ......._ ! ..) in .4...zi..!' pin linh rith I be ioUS tiler 1 i •11