The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-16 00:00:00

Bo OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.- A LECTURE ow the DRAINING of str.ng TENACIOI. 7 3 YA, for surtice water, will be delivered in the public by W. NULL.% Wiownis, Esq., to the Theatre of this Institution, TO MORROW (Thursday). Dec. IT, at half-past 1 hree o'clock. The other lectores and twhibitions us usual._ A ffIRONE ROOM, CROSBY HALL.—Madame ddelarde,Mad.arne tilichau Davie, sod Mnan. Louie d'Egvil e, Awe the honour to announce that their REUNION DANSANTE is kid at the above room every Thnreday evenlng.—Yor particulan apply at 7, Bury-street, Si. James's, 18, Monnt-etreet, Grosvenor spare, or at Crusby.hall. Ii DEMPS'rER'S ORIGINAL BALLAD SOIREEB.—Mr. Dempster, composer of the '‘ Lament of ths (;migrant." Blind 80T. Hiy Queen," and other Americas Melodies, has the honour to announce that his run MUSICAL ENTERT INDENT will he given at the PRINCESS'S CONCERT ROOM, Cadle street, OxforcLetreet, THIS EVENING (Wednesday), December on which occasion he will sing a selection frand..h own onspcsitions. To commence at Eight o'clock. Tickets, R ese rved Seats, 2.. W. ; Gallery, is. To be had at Duff and Hodg- Kee, 66, Ozford-strect ; the Doors; and of Mr. Dempster, 11, Howard-street. Strand. MUSIC. —LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITU TION, SOU ITIAIIPTON-BUILDINGS, CHANCERY-LANE. --GEORGE BUCKLAND, Erq., will Lecture illl9 EVENING (Decembei 16), st half-past F.t oloci, on MUSICAL CHARAC TERISTIN, in which he will introduce the following popular wings: The Bear Hunt-4 le thatte loves a rosie Cliecke -Festal, an Air nom ge:l by a Russian Captive-Bulfo Song, Cinderella. (An Interval of Minutes.) 'The Enigrant Ship - Kitty Creagh- 0! Ruddier than the Cherry-The Ship on Pire-Butfo Song, nape Rosamonde. ilistorical Romance, A.D. 1164 . Tickets forte present Q en uarter are sow issuing. Subscription, 6s. per quarter, with 2s. 6d. trance. angle Lecture Tickets, 6d. etch. A. WEARLANE, Sec. RURENT'S CASINO, ROYAL ADELAIDE OALLk:ItY.-Extrannlirmry Success.-Nigtitly Overllow.-The singe:We for music and Miring Ims induced theproprietor Inse cure all available talent, sisal, instrumental. and tertlerheeeen. The wondeni of the "modern republic," the LAN CUM ETGIOPIAN SERE NADERS, have been 'reared, regardless of east, and will appear THIS EVENING. No expense or pains will be spared to render their entertainment m attractive an imsiole, Admission, One Shilling. Open at Seven, commence at U dfirast, and term:nate at ItalLmat Eleven. -ilailime MiAktud's nrw Neapolitan Dame taught by the Masten 0 the Ceremonies every Tuesday, Tbuniday, aucl Saturday. Terms, 10a. 6d. the 'three Lessons. VOLMAN . 6 CASINO de VENISE and BAL ninon°, at t o BATHS, 218, High Holborn, WILL OPEN MORROW F.YENINO, Dec. 17th. The Orchestra will em irate upwards of Forty Performers, seeded from the Philharmonic, Ancient Concerts, and tier Majesty's Theatre. ',melees —Messrs. IL Ma grove and Paley. Conductor—Mr. G. Cooke. Principal vocalists—Miss 21. O'Connor, and Memen. Wrighton and Bu;k1 anti The Salon de Donee, the moat superb ball room In the metro', .lis, will be under the superintendence of Mr. C. O'Brvan. A Turkish Smoking Saloon, Persian Galleries, and extensive Floral Promenades. Choice refresh ments, Sic. Cusixrt. at Half-past Seven; lisp ut Half-past Nine. —Admission, Is, y ke ,EU U M TH EAT IL E.—BAL MASQUE.. Ur. A LLCROrrs NEAPOLI TAN RAI. MASQUE will take TO-NIGHT ( Wednewley),. Dec. 16, it being positively th e last this sawn. A new orchestra will be erected at the extremity of the Lbw, leaving a spacious area, which will he newly carpeted, the ese theatre will he brilliantly Illuminated and ornamented. The orchestra will convert of ONE HUNDRED first-rate ARTISTS. For the comfort of the visitors, twelve muter* of the seremonies have been appointed. Ladle.' Tickets is. Gentlemen's Tickets. 7a. esl. Spectators (dress circle) . 4s. upper hose*. 2e. 13d. Railleryis. Application for tickers, private boxes , and places to be made at the Box-olllce,..and at 62, itegentsureet, and IS, New bond moil and mie Mr. liMmons, ~ Tavivtisik-street, Covent-garden, is appointed costur. Doors open at half -put Nine ; dancing to commence at Ten o'clock. FRENC FR ENCH PLAYS. ST. JAMES'S THEATIVE7— Mr. Mitchell begs to announce that the Rehearsal of Scribe's H ET RATON having been Interrupte d b y the lion of Madlle. BROHAN, it has been found impassible to Vthat piece this Evening; in eon a eq uenee of which, there will a oltrformance before FRIDAY NEXT. Wednesday, December It. qhe prelSO• MAILS. The mail. for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 17th ikeember. '[hr West India mails, excluding ,bur for alexia), Honduras, and the Havannals, will be matte up on the morning of the 17th December. Tb. overland mail, for Gibraltar, Maim, Greece, the lonian Islands, Urpt, Aden. Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, via Southampton, will be made up on the evening of the 19th December. The overland closed TAU+, rio Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong,will be made up on the evening of the 24th December. The mail. for New South Wale., Van Dlemen's land, and New Zealand will he made up on the evening of the Ile December. The mails for Rriti•h North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the evcniart of the 4th January. The mail. for the Brasibt, the River Plate. Monte Vtdeo, Pernam buco, Bahia, Ma rein, and Buena. Ayrc., will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. R. M., Ilminster.—There WAS no mistake in our quotations of the Glasgow sham market on the 9th inst. What Amino states relative to the French expresses is not the fact. Advertiaereents intended for l'Ae keprese, Landon evening paper, • must be at the Moe by T.O o'clock on the day of publication. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-BMWS. Two DAT. Morning, min. past —; afternwrt, 16 Wm past 0. To-Moanow —Morning. 37 min. past 0; Afternoon, 0 min. peat 1. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16. CONSIDERABLE anxiety and doubt have prevailed, both at home and in the colonies, as to the intention of the government in respect of the great questions of transportation, convict-discipline, and the entire system of secondary punishments. From the known opinions, indeed, of those of the ministers who have paid most attention to the subject, and who, from their positions, are called upon to examine and to weigh, and form a decision respecting it, a pretty certain inference might have been drawn, that the whole system of transportation would be suspended, and a bread experiment made, which might serve as a guide and a step to its total abolition. This much, indeed, might have been inferred from a reply of Sir GEORGE. GREY'S, late in last session. Such a measure was in complete accordance with the recommendations of the committee of 1838. That committee, however, limited its recommendations to prohibiting transportation to districts already set tled. A mixed experiment was therefore made, after abolishing the system of assignment, of sending con victs to isolated spots, from whence they might be employed either in probation gangs, or later with tickets of leave, to improve, or furnish labour to, no very distant settlement. With this was coupled a doubly penal colony for the refractory convicts in Norfolk Island. We need not say how both portions of this ex periment utterly failed. The horrors of Norfolk Island arc too shocking to be credited, or even re corded. The evils brought on the unfortunate free colonists of Van Diemen's Land are told in their petitions, and in their condition. The failure of all the ends of transportation, with respect to convicts themselves, has been equally manifest; and the enormity of the failure, proceeding from the utter impossibility of enforcing discipline, or preventing the most gross immorality in probation gangs, toge ther with the equal impossibility of finding profitable work, has absolutely necessitated some bold and decisive measures. Such measures, we are glad to learn, and from undoubted authority, have been taken. They are— first, the suspension of all transportation for male con victs during two years. Female convicts are to be trans ported as before. The necessity of diminishing the mass of convicts in Van Diemen 's Land, in order either to effect their reform, or to render their labour profit able, is too obvious to need proof. There are at present about 30,000 convicts in Van Diemen's Land, who may be classed as follows ; On ticket of hare 7,250 Passholders In probation gangs 10,500 Instead of allowing them to be recruited by 4,000 new convicts annually, as would be the case did transportation continue, the above numbers will be allowed to thin by the usual course, the ticket of leave men in certain numbers obtaining conditional pardon, and probably 8,000 of the other classes ob taining tickets of leave. The diminished numbers be found in employment partly by individuals, rest by the government. As the system of road making has not been found efficient, those who cannot employed on either colonial or government work, 11 be engaged in the building of villages, and the cultivation of ground around them, two acres being allotted to each cottage, and the industrious having the privilege of purchasing a cottage and garden at ten years purchase of half the rent. Such is the plan for finding work for the mass of convicts already transported. And we need scarcely add that, coupled with it, and with the suspension of transportation, is the abandonment of the proposed colony of North Australia. A more important and difficult consideration has been to fix upon that system of secondary punish ment which will at once have the effect of deterring crime, withoutdebruting the convict, and of giving fair opportunity for reform, without, at the same time, rendering him a pet, and thus making his condition and prospects an invidious contrast with those of our moral and domestic population. The first year after conviction is to be spent by the criminal in seclusion, as practised at Pentonville. A second term is then to be passed under the dis cipline of the silent system. It I. only after having passed' through these, that convict enters on the probation system, a portion which is based upon the ideas of Captain Macostoe 14 T P new . • gtZ.llant humanitarian is, how- The system of th is Punishment is not e ver, by no means fully allot. 44 to eneet to able, is too about 30,0 be classed I Instead new con` transports allowed t leave mei pardon, a taming t will be f the rest b makn h 11 I be e i mp g lo will be er cultivatio allotted tr privil ege years' pin Such if convicts r add that, • transport ' colony of A mor I been to meat wl crime, wi opportun renderin! ProsPeeb moral an I The fir criminal A sea cipline o , It is c the convi 11 . of whic klecoso4 The s, ever, by 4 1 • • to be lost sight of by a governing wer, even for the sake of reforming the guilty. Neither could it be hoped that any sort or system of ,narks for good conduct could suffice to keep in the path of duty the criminals who had been sentenced by our courts. Captain MACONOCHIE would govern his convict establishment by hope. Practical men insist on mingling with it the salutary ingredient of fear. The system of marks is, however, to be largely adopted, especially in the meting of indus trial exertion. In order to this, the work of convict establishments is to be task-work, the amount of which for a definite period is to be calculated in marks, so that the active may, in a certain degree, accelerate the completion of their task, and accumulate those claims, which, coupled with good conduct in other respects, may accelerate their advance and final liberation. The convicts on Norfolk Island are instantly to Le withdrawn to Tasman 's Peninsula. Tnit Town Council of Liverpool have recently , de termined o appoint a medical officer of health, whose especial duty it will be to watch over and improve the sanitary condition of the town. A local act, passed last session, gives powers to the corporation to make this appointment. This is the first case on record of a professional man being entrusted with the charge of suggesting and supervising civic improve ments, and contrasts strangely with the class of men appointed as officers of health by corporate bodies in ancient and modern times. In the middle ages, when the black death and sweating sickness cut off one fourth part of the entire population of Europe, and one-half of the inhabitants of• many towns in England, we find civic authorities establishing the first health officers and sanitory regulations. But the regulations simply consisted in rearing a red croon with a pious inscription on the infected houses, and forcing the inmates still unattacked by disease to carry a white rod " at least two foot long ;" whilst the public officers of health were merely commanded to enforce these regulations, and to prevent the entrance into the town of wandering mendicants and the red cross ascetics. The main causes which gave malignancy to the disease were never removed; eater- nally to the houses there was no attention to cleanli ness ; internally, ERASMXS LAS us that the floors were usually covered with successive layers of rushes which I were never removed, and were impregnated with offal and garbage. It was at this time, with the view of improving the state of medical science, that HENRI' THE EIGHTH, acting under the advice of Cardinal Wotsev, founded the college of physicians, and passed the general act, under which sewerage is still executed (23 Henry VIII., c. 3). This act addresses commissions "to indifferent and sub stantial persons" and to restrain " outrageous springs aid land waters," and to remedy other points is sewerage which were found defective. The simul- 1 taneous improvement of medical education, of town I drainage, and, as its natural consequence, of the in ternal arrangement of dwellings, caused the complete eradication of that dreadful disease, the sweating sickness, which the physicians of the middle ages were wont to consider essentially , connected with the climate of England, as do indeed some few even now allege of its successors, the typhoid fevers. The nation had been so accustomed to the heavy mortality arising from its successive plagues, that, after their disappearance in their most malignant form, it sunk into a sluggish apathy. So much has this been the case, that, notwithstanding the advance of engineering science, there is actually at present no more efficient act for cleansing and draining a town, than that of Henry VIII. alluded to, unless we ex cept a few modifications contained in 3 and 4 Wm. IV., c. 22, and some slight alterations in local acts, none of which have been decided improvements on the old measure. Liverpool has had the unfortunate pre-eminence of being the most unhealthy town in England ; her mortality being much greater, and her artisans hav ing a lower age at death than in any other part of the kingdom. These circumstances have acted upon the people of Liverpool in the same way as they did upon the nation in 1318, and have induced them to call in the aid of medical knowledge to assist them in elevat ing their sanitory condition. A few years since the inhabitants of Liverpool were jealous in the extreme of the character of their town, and endeavoured rather to conceal than to remedy its defects ; but now we find theta assuming the far more dignified attitude of exalting their position. Their first steps in this direction were by no means happy. It is not above five years since they obtained an act, perhaps the most arbitrary and impracticable that ever passed a British parliament, granting a power, on a certain fixed day, of turning out above 20,000 poor tenants of cellars from their habitations, without being compelled to furnish new dwellings for this ejected population. Of course such an act was found, to a great extent, inoperative, and, being clogged with other provisions scarcely better conceived, we again find I Liverpool, last session, amending its health acts. To prevent the recurrence of ary such ill considered provisions as were contained in the first act, powers were demanded and granted to appoint a well-qualified medical officer, whose duty would be to aid the council in the execution of its measures, and consider their effect upon public health. This is a vast improvement upon the class of ill paid and worse qualified officers, known as inspectors of nuisances, who are at present the only representa tives of health officers in our towns, and who are far more versed in removing visible obstructions in streets than in causing the eradication of those con cealed causes of disease which depopulate our cities. We, therefore, look upon this intended appointment of a medical officer of health by the Liverpool cor poration with peculiar pleasure, and trust that the success of this enlightened measure will be such as to induce the legislature to extend the provision to every large town. There are few persons who now ' deny the connexion between filth and disease, and, with adequate remedial measures and intelligent supervision of their execution, such as here indicated, we may fully expect that many of the epidemics now so prevalent in this country may become known to us only by history, as in the case of the epidemics of the middle ages. We trust that other large towns will follow the example of Liverpool by appointing special medical guardians of public health. We should not forget that the apprehension of a speedy return of the cholera has not yet passed from medical men, and, though we may be powerless to prevent the approach of this dread enemy, yet we know that the power rests in our hands of rendering it almost in nocuous. We look with anxiety to the appointment of the Liverpool corporation. Upon its success de pends the rapid adoption of its example. For the attainment of success, it will not suffice to procure a fit and qualified officer, but he must also be placed in a proper and not too subordinate position, being re sponsible to the council for his acts, but not being fettered by formalities from a due execution of his duty. His duties will be invidious, and, in many cases, unpopular, from their supposed inquisitorial character, but, if well supported by the corporation and by public opinion, he will be eminently useful in extirpating those causes of disease which have so much diminished the value of life in Liverpool from the commencement of the eighteenth century up to the present time. ABOUT this time, according to the MOORES and ZADKIELS of county meetings, ruin to the agricultu rist should be looked for. What do we find in the reports of the farming societies and agricultural asso ciations ? The sullen, silent despair of the Turkish fatalist, when the plague enters his house, or the noisy defiance of the sailor, who breaks into the spirit room when the ship strikes, and drowns drank ? We are glad to say that the country papers describe neither one nor the other of these ways of meeting destruction. If the agricultural interest is expiring, " nothing in its life becomes it like the leaving on't." It never, since we have noticed its general behaviour, thought so rationally, talked so sensibly, or worked so usefully, as at present. Comparing its cheerful anticipa tions, its ready recognition of past mistakes, its dawn ing perception of responsibilities hitherto ignored ; its cordial welcome of scientific improvements ; its mis givings as to the mutual relation hitherto subsisting between prize pig and peasant, with the savage impu tation and silly bravado of last year, we are either tempted to think these fruits of corn-law abolition premature, or to anticipate from the same cause future effects which we dare hardly trust ourselves to dream of. Much absurdity has been vented on the subject of these agricultural associations, with their extrava gant appreciation of fat stock, and their paltry rewards to lean latourers. There can be no question, among persons acquainted with the a sew. rely wounded ra po of l t i h c e e. sec T u tiz d anesm ; * o..,. ; to them very evidence that they had sought to be bought cg, ealculat 0116 they have deduced coneequences, reanimating itself ;t h e was far from conclusive. The whole eff • advantageous. The Carlist party is eir e „ make their calculations respecting the future ; and from these eecution, and an attempt to discredit the wita ---- exses h feeblestsigee oflife, is sod- dog-hole of a cell, and leaving him and his compani en g aina corpse, incapable of maniiestitigt e deoly incorporating itself w or Dia . sons so callous as to lend nu aid till morning, lad ; youth ; and ventures to augur triumphwit h 'us ith all the energy of its impetuous either out of human hearing, or a ithin the bean w o y rse o. t h ha a n ve la n x o c t on p d ro it v i ed m u ct s f t g ls u e d C l o2u p n l i es al Carlist party, considered by some superficial obeervers as a mere ugly look. The lockiag up of Pardia" and the retreat f r om Oran.. fuund itself in bitted with the readiness ot the policeman to l • ock up*, t le to re- severely wounded man upon their ex par ts statement such a state of decomposition that it than during the fir t days which succeeded t w he ho ca the case look still wo t : w T h here a p re roc sem .. orefet e h 4 o : t:Tial '7 "enm. e t : c n trc h P a b ve c they themselves in the evidence against the prieoneni, but this ss . " selves explain this miraculous resurrection ; may (e d it s it e h of ad th o is n p ec art b y e he would not have tion (the witnesses were Spaniards and Ind* ) France and Spain with his own had ,MEN to a t favourableto his inexperieneed reporter. The charge of the j u d g e ' n e e= sou say, that if Montemolin could have directed the policy of to the embarrassment of ignorant men, to imperfect tri a d, g co li gn va is n e iz i ed t fo th r e w c h ° a rP t en wh ? e . n T i h e e . them. succeeded in directing it in • manner so and impreisive ; interests as those who are actually directing it. The trea ty of the Quadruple Alliance—that treaty whi ch . imposed an perfectly correct ; but th ole ntiefectory termination m e s as been jury's deliberations, and the very unfavourable light of - insuperable barrier to all the ass flutist pretensions—has by the upon the state of the police, call loudly for f urt h er • definitively broken by the disagreements e cc hl inquiry. Yontpensier marriage between France and Englan d ; w st, - - - st t h e L ime time, the latter is perhaps preparing to strengthen the alliances of the North, which are hostile to all the reigning dynasties in the south of Europe, and to keep Louis Philippe, and t he other monarchs over w ho m that sovereign exercises his influence, in continual check. Impotent in her state of isolation, France remains con demned to a shameful state of inaction, condemned to en dure humiliations without the power of righting herself ; condemned to swallow affronts without force to avenge them ; condemned to behold lying on the around the gaunt let so insolently flung down to her by the Holy Alliance without daring to take it up. In order to prove the estima tion in which they hold her, the great Powers incorporate Cracow with Austen; and if " she does not accept the chal lenge involved in this infraction of the treaty of Vienna, let her prepare for fresh insults, from which it is certain that the great powers of the north will not refrain. If the Napoleon of war were to rise from his tomb and see the state to which France has been reduced by the Napoleon of peace, he would inquire," Where is Femme?—where is that nation which re sisted all the coalitions formed against her by Europe com bined ?" He would ask, " Where is that nation—an army it it self—that at the first sound of the trumpet made every man a soldier ?" Unfortunately, all that now passes before our eyes is no more than a mere prelude to that which may ensue ; it is the brightness of the beaming lightning and the re-echo of the distant thunder which announces the tempest that is gathering in the north of Europe, and gradually approaching to burst on the south, where its devastating ravages and its dismal convulsions will be felt. And, however terrible may be the fate of certain dynasties, they may resign them selves to it, and consider it as only a righteous expiation. They may learn, although too late, that he who owes every - - thing to the people may not play the people false ; and that it is impossible for him to maintain his ground for any length of time, except by the same prieci plea as those which were limited for the purpose of securing his elevation. An hour must arrive when those who have taken so much pains to stifle public enthusiasm, — in which those who have dried up almost all hearts, by in trilling into them the narcotic poison of political indiffer ence, will draw back with horror before their own work, and seek in vain amongst the people fur the patriotic ardour of other days. They will only encounter selfish ness ; they will only final the deadly results of that venom inoculated with all the members and penetrating the very marrow of the body politic. What will it he when the people, who have la en chastised for their love of liberty , shall hear the cry of liberty raised by the very individuals that considered it as a crime, and the people shall not reply ? But oo! we hope at all events that the sacred wordier( " liberty " and ' coutery " will find some eche in the generous hearts that formerly palpitated for such dear ob- Ijeets' and that the rattling of the chains , whic h, it is in tended to unite those that arc already borne, will rouse the people from their lethargic slumbers to dis pute the victory on which Absolution, confidently trust ing to the general apathy, has presumed to rely. We cherish hopes, at all events, that constitutional Europe will not sue comb to the yoke which she is being prepared for her, if she be liberated from that which she already bears, if those who are at the head of the constitutional nations of Europe strive to re-animate the public spirit, be- handling other instru ments, surrounding themselves with more popular advisers, and banishing from their sphere of action all liberticide in fluences. The defiance of the 11 sly Alliance is not only offered to liberty, but also to dynasties. The Absolutists' ' deny it mot ; they deem themselves too strong to think it worth their while. PRICE OF CORN.—The Rc fforrne announces a rise in the price of wheat in the corn-markets of Lille, Havre, Montvilliers, Louviene St. Poureain, Bergues, Luneville, Coulourmiers, and Ferte Gaucher ; and a fall iu the markets of Poutrieux, Montlueon, and Colmar. The markets of Neves and St. Male remained without variation. The Courrier de Marseilles re ate that there are at present 400 waggons and 1,600 horses employed daily in conveying wheat from Marseilles to Lyons. The Journal d's Debats publishes a letter from Marseilles, dated the 7th inst., which states that the 400 vessels which had been so long detained at Constantinople by contrary winds had at length been able to get into the, Black Sea, and proceed to their destina tion with favourable weather. The major part of them were destined fair Odessa, to take in wheat for ghorn, Genoa, and Marseilles. The Nati.nal states " that the different journals received from the departments are filled with afflict. tng details relative to the existing distress occasioned by the high price of provisions. In some places the population, exasperated by the high price of corn, have assembled in the market-places, and fixed the price at which wheat should lie sold. In other districts bands of mendicants compel the farmers to supply them with bread. Elsewhere malefactors attack the millers and corn-factors, and indulge in the most criminal excesses. The distress must indeed be great when the populace proceed to such unlawful extremities." GERMANY.—VIENNA, DEC. 6.—The Austrian ambassador at Rome is, it is said, appointed to persuade the Jesuits to withdraw voluntarily from Switzerland, as other wise civil war was inevitable. The Cologne Gazette of the 12th mentions that there was a rumour on the Vienna bourse that Queen Isabella would be Shortly recognised by Austria. This recognition by the three powers—for it is not likely that Austria wou:d act without Prussia and Russia — would he a fatal blow to the sCarlists. Letters from Vienna do not speak of the illness of Prince Metternich. The bourse is firm. We read in Austrian Lloyd's Gazette :—The naviga- I Zion at Odessa shows great activity. Unhappily, that of the sea of Azoff is interrupted. The Don is covered with floating ice. Letters from Leghorn of the 2.5 th ult. state that corn transactions were very brisk there. At Venice, Milan, Fiume, and Carlstadt, a considerable fall of price had taken place. Great quantities of wheat and barley had arrived at Trieste. The government of Lucca had suppressed from the Ist December the import duty on corn, but had increased the duty on the exportation price 11 lira. The 400 vessels which were detained in the Bosphorus by contrary winds have been enabled to leave for their respective destinations. GIiEECE.—ATIIESS, Nov. 30.—The opening of I the third session of the national Congreas seems to prove that, notwithstanding the illness of MI. Coletti, the ministry will ' not only be powerful enough to withstand its opponents in the Chambers, but that it will retain a majority. It is true that the Opposition has succeeded in returning one of its can didates, M. Anastasius Landos, as vice-president in the ,elute; but this fault is rather to be attributed to the minis terial party itself than to the power of its adversaries. The government has succeeded in returning all its candidates in the Chamber of Deputies. The Opposition candidate for the presidency, M. Vlachos, only obtained 22 votes out of 85. For the last fortnight the health of M. Coletti is gradually improving, arid for the moment the project of provisionally completing the ministry has been abandoned; the different motions have been adjourned, out of deference to the head of the cabinet, who, it is hoped, will soon be able to resume his place at the head of the government. M. Coletti already receives visitors. The King visited him on the 29th, and remained half an hour at his bed-side, and ex pressed his hope to see him soon entirely restored to health. He informed him, at the same time, that the King of Bavaria had sent him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. His Majesty expressed on his departure, to the family of M. Coletti, the anxiety he had felt, and hie joy at the recovery of a man so highly esteemed in Greece.—liis Royal High ness Prince Oscar of Sweden had arrived at Athens, and in tended making some stay. Frince Luitpeld of Bavaria was also expected on his return from Palestine, to visit his brother, the King. Ebt eroutt The Queen will hold a Privy Council at Windice Castle on Saturday neat, the 19th Instant, at half-rag tw , o'clock in the afternoon. Her Majesty and ber Royal Consort took thi r usual early walk yesterday. Her Majesty and suite will leave Osborne Ifo ft on Friday morning, at ten o'clock, for town. The Duke of Cambridge visited IL 1111. th s Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. The Earl of Devon had an interview with the Cha oellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official remdeace ie Downing street. The Bishop of Newfoundland had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial Office. Sir J. Pelly had an interview with the Chancello r of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Strutt had alto an W u . view with the right hon. gentleman yesterday. (From bat night's Gazette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 10.—The Queen b at at. pointed Lord Howard de Walden and Seaforl, G.C.B.aaw her Majesty's Envoy Extraonlinary and Minker Plea*. tentiary to her Most Faithful Miijesty, to he her Majesty% Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary t o t h e King of the Belgians ; and Sir G.ll. Seymour, G.C. H., now hi e Majesty!' Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoteeni n to the King of the Belgians, to be her Majesty's E..voy traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to her Most ha, ful Majesty. Also, to upp Out It. Alcock, Esq., es , h i , Majesty's Consul at Fon chow-too, to lie her Majesty's co t . sul at Shanghai; R. B. Jackson, Esq.. now British vies Consul at Canton, to be her Majesty's Consul at Foo-choe. Coo; and T. H. Layton, Esq., now acting as her Myer s Consul at Amoy, to be her Majesty's Consul at that post DEC. 14.—The Queen has approved of Mr. F. C. Dickson, as Consul in London, and of Mr. W. h e k m, Consul at Liverpool, for the republic of Chili. 1)./WNING-STREET, I)EC. 15.—The Queen lug tit. pointed G. G. Lowenfeld, Karl., to be Financial AccotuMat for the colony of British Guiana. TILE ATIIOL FAMILY.—Thete is a notification is last night's Gazette that the Queen has been pleased to gesx to the brothers and sisters of the Duke of Athol dualis t titles, place, pre-eminence, and precedence, as would l um been due to them in case their late father, who died 011 ty 14th September last, had survived their elder brother da present duke. This order and declaration to be register,' in the Royal College of Arms. COMMISSION BY TILE QUEEN.—E. Dwen, Gent., to be Adjutant, with the brevet rank of Captain, vice Gilder of Montgomeryshire Militia. POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN SOCIETY. A meeting of the parishioners of Marvlebone as held last night at the Princess's Concert Room, 01lude market, on the requi:ition of the Poor Ilan's Gaudin Society, for the purpose of investigating the cause of the death of Louisa Mordaunt, &c. Mr. B. B. CARRELL, M.P., having been called to the ebsir, the Secretory, Mr. Turner, read the resolution of the society, determining to convene the present meeting, and attias forth the objects thereof. He stated that a copy of that re- solution had been transmittal to the vestry clerk of Mulls bone, who hod, in reply, merely acknowledged the receiptd it. He also intimated that letters of apology had been ea ceived from their represen ativeo, Sir B. Hall, who newt • himself on account of having to attend the funeral of the late Sir C. Morgan—and Sir C. Napier, who dcdiaed attend, because he did not think that a public meeting ea the proper place for investigating the facts referred to. sod because such a course was within the province of the rem, who were chosen by the rate-payers, and who had the power, and ought to punish the bo ard of guardian, if punishment they deserved. (Hisses.) The CHAIRMAN said that every man had of coarse' risk to adopt his own course, subject to the control of path opinion. (Hear, hear.) He quite agreed with the past commodore that the vestry ought to punish the bonds( • guardians, and he honed they would ; but whether they fal or not, he thought that an expression of opinion no the we of that meeting would be likely to accelerate their denim upon the subject, and lead to a recosrnifon of the rights sad privileges of the poor. (Hear, hear.) But he did Rot agree with the gallant officer that the matter was not one with which the public ought to meddle. No. he hoped that** public, by interfering in such matters, aided, guided, sad controlled by the press, would evetituaily bring shout &total repeal of the present poor law, which was a disgrace to the legislature that paned it, and to those successive admits. trations that had suffered it to continue. (Cheers.) If Et thing could hasten the removal of that odious and tyrants' law, it wan such meetings as the present, and remand k ought to be, for it was a monstrous thing that the porskosli be allowed to starve in the midst of plenty. (Hear, km) Mr. C. COCHRANE then brought forward all the het et the case of Louisa Mordauot, collected from the Daffy NAM and other papers, leaving it to the meeting to decide whehr the jury had or had not given a proper verdict in decluti that their fellow-pariahiouer had died from starratica, a consequence of timely relief not having been gin by the parochial authorities. For him part, he could not thee wise than regard it as the conscientious verdict of twelve ire dependent, honest, and unbiassed men. (Hear.) Rees brought forward a charge against those authorities of re uncleanliness in the wsrkhouse, instancing, Intoned that facts, that there were but two jack-towels of 2 yards Pig IP le yard wide, amongst 200 persons, and these only chalet twice a week; that none of those persons had had thir bodies washed since their entrance, although msny of him had been there from two to five years : and that ways( them had not had their feet washed Mr five months. (Math disapprobation.) He made this charge from hi• owe per sonal inspection of the establ shment. He concluded by moving : That having carefully considered the verdict of the jury ask inquest of Louisa fordannt —toe remarks appendel thereto Magog the general treatment received by her from tie parochial weenie during her sickness awl distress, and having well weighed the saki. quest evidence given awl observations made by the board , guardaoa of Mill ylebone workhouse, this meeting is of ophlion that tae rermii of the jury was a just and conscientious one. That the said Louisa ilws daunt did die from starvation ; and that sach treatment of tae pants a disgrace to a Christian country and opposed to the carom rsait do• fates of humanity. Mr. Hoonixs seconded the resolution in a forciblespetk and declared, as a barrister knowing something of DOA juries, that the board of guardians had not the lea:apaches . tion for insinuating that because the coroner drew up the verdict, it was sot the unbiassed and constitution pod of the jury, who were sworn to decide according tots evidence. He objected to the system, which in the opinion of that jury had caused the death of one of their parishioaots end under which they saw an many others in the tants) sinking from want of food. He was anxious to see pore!, treated as a calamity, and not as a crime; and the rightly the poor, as well as the property of the rich, fall, Po' tected. (Applause.) The resolution was unanimously agreed to. The Rev. Mr. STODEIART condemned in still strocterkla guage the whole system of the poor-law, which he said an based, and openly avowed at the time of its passing. urs niggard economy, by which the workhouses might be Pi so disagreeable, that a less number of poor would 'MI ! it relief than under the former system. He was of opts' that where relief was much needed, it should not be nest' Pry for the party to belong to the parish ; that the bra test should be applied only to the vicious and the prefliti*. and that out-door relief should not be withheld undercoats circumstances. He had great pleasure in moving— That taking into consideration the inhuman, repulsive and .]told'_ he disclosures which have startled and horrified toe country rs, nue to the New Poor-law and its administration. the prinfiltit: which are a violation of the rights of the poor, -arcopprded toll= tat rests of the nation, and ate repugnant to the feeling: and woos of all civilised communities, this meeting is of opinion that sive a poor-law tends to grind the faces of the pour, incrtilM miseries, and embitter their sufferings, and to brutalise th e character and deaden is. generous seminally And that WI psi' law is a foul blot on the statute book of British l gishuiva Mr. Willis having seconded the resolution, it was caddy agreed to, an was also the following : That in consequence of the declarations embolic.] in the tax. I".' re; reeling resolutions, this meeting is of opinion that the ;wiest means of protecting the po w against the cruelty and om"i"t evinced towards them by bawds of gu.utitims, and to ensure thrall the hoar of adversity that amount of relief and respavt to whiff' fr.; are legally entitled, is the existence of a Alamiebane Auxiliary = Man's tiotardian Society; and that the scone be now formed; meeting further pledges itself to promote and strengthen by irstnerr hon., and by every other means in its power. The committee was named, and the meeting broke up. THE PARISH OP ST. PINCIPot AND Tilt Pte' LAW COMMISSIONER/J.—Yesterday an unusually magma meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor of Pancras took p)jce in the board-room of the workhouse , ". the purpose of considering a mandate from the l'oordals Commissioners issuing rules and orders for the Mara management of the poor, and assuming absolute roomiest,: the parish. Mr. Churchwarden Wagstaff was in t he ehair ..a . The official mandate having been read, Mr. ' Pougla" — ",_ this was certainly a declaration on the part of the loas - ttl e Commissioners, that they intended in reality to bring 0 . Pancras under their control, but he questioned w hether the! had the power to do so now, any more than they had they called upon the parish many years ago to elaws gua r :, diens, and when they were suemasfully resisted as* beaten. He, for one, was prepared to meet this wandate with a resistance as determined as it was on that occasielb and with that view he would move that the wbo is matter be referred to the vestry. Several director s s P 4e, and a general feeling of determined resistance having Wel declared, the resolution was carried rem eon., and the bea rd adjourned. HAKLUYT SOCIETY.—A moctin; of gel:ide al° interested in the publication of early v.iyagea sui to* iiii E EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1846 matter, that a great improvement in the breeds of placable foe. He was for putting down everything cattle, and an increased knowledge of stock-feeding new, from gas to fox hunting, and keeping up every promises, has followed from such exhibitions as that Was old, including filth and beggary. Yet the man lately open in BAer-strect. wiui no blockhead; but, having started with the Th. addition. of the labosners' premiums to the' a seesaw's of our ancestors" party, his sense of con- Agricultural Amociation's prizes msi comparatively sistinicy suggested a spirit of no surrender, even in a recent thmight. It wan for the stock-yard, and cot sinking cause. The man of the exigency lately ap the cottage, that these bodies weft) instituted. The union of the two may suggest good points for in- tleman named Ruseoni, who, fifteen years ago, retired pointed isecretary to the provnal cabinet is a gen vidions and painful comparison, but we might be from Rome, disgusted with Gregor 's proceedings, better employed is indicating a better mode of ac- and has since lived iu retirement at Naples. Return tion, than in piling up ridicule on what is commented ing a few months ago, he had an interview with Pius, in kindly feeling, however imperfect, and carried on and his lucid views, as to what ou at ght to was be dot one, nce so from a real though not lofty sense of duty. There is forcibl y impressed the Pontiff, th he o some force in the remonstrance of the Rev. Mr. HART, a dmitted to state cou S ncils everal edictsh , and will ye beenet direc iasued t the of Arundel : Papal go vernment. av He was sorry to observe that it bad been the custom bitterly for some persons to ridicule societies of this nature; The old-established bank of Brancadoro and Co. "a itwhaouhrd d w th o t e t d h2 award ed o a the or sam one e m p a r s e te m r iu: tes they has just closed its doors, and rumour says under cir on local matters this week. slam to a fatted pig. It appeared to hi that such persons c umstances not very creditable. The Portuguese fisv' entirely mistook the reason for which those premiums were minister is a sufferer, and also a celebrated character, given. A soldier did not receive a medal or a ramie as a reward for his past services, but as a mark of distinction ,000 dollars—in fact, a good portion of Gaetanino, the late Pope's barber, whose suffering amounts to 8 among his fellows ; and so the labourer received his pre the legacy he derived under his defunct master's will. minm, not as an equivalent forhis labour, but as a testimony of the feeling with w h ich he was regarded•—as one who had People laugh at his disaster. endeavoured to do his duty in his station of life. The pre- By the death of Card nal Gaysriick, Archbishop of mium was given to the owner of a fat pig, not because he had set before them • monster of obesity, but because he had a hat has fallen in and as there are now more endeavoured to solve a problem in animal economy. by show- resit half-a-dozen vacancies, a new creation is spoken ing how an animal could be fattened in the weigh t , shorteg time, at of. Gaysriick was a true German of the old school, the least expense, and made of the greatest t and a strong opponent of the Jesuits, whom he kept It certainly takes from the comparison of the out of Lombardy to the last. labourer's certificate with the soldier's medal, that the I took occasion some posts ago to notice the apathy I l a tter may, in some cases, look forward to Greenwich or Chelsea, while the horizon of the former is inevita- of Prince Borghese in the cause of national advance ment or the improvement of his country : a noble bly bounded by the union workhouse. It falls, how- o pportunity of throwing the weight of his immense ever, to the lot of few old sailors or soldiers to end territorial property into the scale of the progressive their days in either of these palace-asylums. With p a rty has been let pass. I regret to find that among the majority the highest gain must be the decoration other frivolities which occupy the leisure of the and the poor pension for a life-long service. But in Palazzo Borghese, honurnpathy is now paramount. all, save a very few exceptions, there is something and through female influence this nonsense has be substantial, however trifling, from military or naval come positively mischievous. Last March the Duchess service. The pension stands between the veteran and of Piombino was a victim, and this week a lovely s t arv ation. It would be well if in the case of the daughter of Colonel Brian, of Kilkenny, died under labourer, the parish allowance replaced it either in I this treatment, none of the many English physicians amount or the feeling with which it is offered and ac- resident here having been imffered to attend. She aepted. A change in our Poor-law administration might had arrived here but a few weeks ago in perfect belptojuetify Mr. HART'S comparison. When amarked I h ea lth. distinction is enforced in the workhouse between the treatment of the habitual pauper, and the honest, ' industrious, worn-out labourer, the union may be to the latter his Greenwich or hie Chelsea Hospital. Till then it can be but one degree beyond his goal in comforts—may be infinitely below it. The present system of premiums professes to reward men for the stoical and frugal endurance of misery ; for serving the same master, for years, on a wretched and irregular pittance of wages; for supporting, with out parish aid, a wife and family on means insufficient to maintain a single man in comfort. It appears to us that even the virtues fostered by such a system are doubtful ones. Here is a man who struggles through life himself, and supports his family in the effort, honestly and independently, against cold, hunger, nakedness. You reward him for it. Your reward may be paltry, but it is well meant. Paltry as it is, it is a new thing to reward such men at all. But the struggle is rendered necessary mainly by you who reward the bravery which endures it. If the Patagonian savage bears unrepiningly the cold of Cape Horn under a short seal-Ain cloak, and keeps up his animal heat against its perpetual frost, on a scanty supply of roots and fish, he is not, for that, a peculiarly deserving member of society. You will not raise him in the scale of men by giving him a necklace or a blanket for his endurance. Yon must begin quite at the other end. Teach him that, by ingenuity and mechanical aid, he may resist the cold and satisfy his hunger, and you have done him a real service. Our agricultural societies, working with kindly intentions, seem to be working upon this false system. They reward men for manly bearing of ills which the rewarders might better em ploy. themselves in removing. At their doors lie the ignorance, brutishness, and much of the physical wretchedness of the labourer. The landlord's doing his duty to the tenant is the best security that the tenant will fulfil his to the labourer. If the land , lord, for example, would give rational leases, the tenant would have that security which engenders improvement, and the labourer that increased em ployment which tells upon wages. Why reward a man for concealing the squalor of his cottage under climbing roses, and robbing the walls of their wretchedness by the bright ness of his little flower-garden, when you might destroy the prize-worthiness of such ornaments, by building him a substantial and decent cottage? Why give a 2/. premium for forty years' service under one master, when masters might be urged to such dis charge of duty as would make long service the rule and not the exception? Why give a card for sobriety, when education might be imparted, which is a more fatal enemy to the beer-shop than the temperance society? Why acknowledge, with a coat and buttons, the merit of a man's un aided support of his family, when by doing your duty as landlords and tenants you might place adequate means of such support within the reach of all who chose to work? In a word, why give rewards for killing giants, when the giants are of your own creation ? On the whole we cannot help thinking that here lies the pinch of the matter : Landlord do your duty. Learn what is the highest standard of it and strive to attain to that. The parson of the parish will be more fitly employed in teaching it to you than in after-dinner speech-making in praise of the Lord of the Manor. While you refuse leases to your tenants and leave the curate and vicar to bear on his poor overburdened back the weight of the parish school, which the tithe of a tithe of your in come would support in efficiency, while you allow your labouring population to herd in cottages unfit for beasts, when, by . keeping their dwellings in pro per repair, and fixing their rental at a reasonable sum, you might have them comfortably and decently lodged; while you confine your attention of all on your estate to the condition of its stock, and the amount of its rental ; while you go on in thiswa3 - , you are not doing your duty, though you doubled your labourers' premiums all round, or decupled them. You never can do your duty on such easy terms. Giving money is the least of your duties, even could you give it in sums adequate to deserts or necessities. But you cannot measure the one, nor satisfy the other, by ibis machinery. What we want are societies for rewarding landlords who do their duty. With a system of these in full operation, we should hear little of labourers' premiums. FRANCE.—MURDER DISCOVERED BY CIRCUM STANTIAL EVIDENCE.—We lately mentioned the murder of two young girls at Albi, under very mysterious circum stances. The perpetrator of this crime has since been dis covered by a curious chain of circumstantial evidence. It appears that in the chamber of one of the girls was found a shirt stained with blood. It was by means of this slight indication that the law-officers of the Crown have succeeded in coming to a knowledge of the murderer. The Procureur du ltoi and the Juge d'lnstruction, on seeing this article, conceived it very likely that the mur ' derer bad slept with one of the girl., and getting up in the night had cut her throat whilst asleep. The depth of the wound in the neck of one of them seemed to war rantmothims suopfpothsietiosnis.ter,Haendt,heanfte, rtheaystsruupgposoc,d,,,,wceentee9reedithe in cutting her throat also. The murderer then, finding his shirt stained with blood, came to the determinuma to take it off, and in bit agitation probably left it behind him. The shirt, the Procureur du Roi remarked, was new, never having been washed. It was not, there.ore, unlikely that it had been lately purchased, and in all probability in the tows. He immediately summoned to his office all the persons at Alb' that sold ready-made shirts, and submitting the article in question to them individually, inquired if they could re member that they had sold it lately, and to whom. One wo man, well known in the place for her probity and respecta bility, declared that she had some recollection of having sold a week be:ore a shirt, of about the texture of that produced, to a mat, who appeared to have been a soldier. What made her recollect the circumstance was, that a young workwo man, having been employed in making the shirt, had in serted one of the wristbands with the wrong side out, and, In addition, had forgotten to place a second buttonhole in front. The soldier had perceived this last-named fault, and had got a second one made, which, being worked by another person, was better done than the other one. ll' the shirt submitted to her, the woman said, was that of which she spoke, the tokens just alluded to would be easily perceptible. On examination, the marks alluded to were all found to be exact, and there conk be no doubt that she hail mold the shirt to the murderer of the two girls. The woman added that she recollected also that the man had said that he had been a drummer, and had spoken of lodging at the auberge of a man named Geese. The latter being brought forward, deposed that a man had for some short time lodged in his house, but he did not know his name. He also declared that the man in question had returned home exceedingly late on the night of the 27th of November, which was the date of the murder. The question next to be solved was, who was this man 1 A workman came forward, and stated that he had known him for some time ; that his name was Carcasses; that be had been a drummer in the army, and he generally resided at Puylaurens, in the department of the Tarn. A. corroborative proof of the identity of the man spoken of with the murderer war afforded by the deposition of a trumpeter of the 21st Light Infantry, who declared that he had contrived to get out of barracks at halt-past one, on the night of the 27th, and had gone to the lodging of the two girls. When be knocked, one of them told him that he could not enter, as the drummer, whom he had seen a few days before with them, was inside, and they could not admit any one that night. The trumpeter then withdrew. The chain of evidence appearing complete, measures were then taken to arrest Carcasses, and he was taken prisoner at Puylaurens. One of his boots was found to be stained with blood. He had in his possession a sum of 344., for which he could not satisfactorily account, and had also in his room some handkerchiefs bearing the initials of the girls. Ile was interrogated at great length by the Procureur du Itoi, and, being unable to account for the manner in which he spent the night of November 27, refused to answer any other questions. He was then delivered over to the custody of the gendarmes, who locked him carefully up. They, however, were so imprudent as to leave him by himself, in place of keeping him constantly in view. The consequence was, that when they entered his room in the morning, they found he had hanged himself with a handkerchief—Galignani. HORRIBLE PARRICIDE.—A youth of 19, named Chevillon, and a boy of 10, named Guy, were tried on Thurs day, at Versailles, by the Court of Assize of the Seine-et- Oise ; the first for parricide, and the second for complicity in the murder. The circumstances of this Cage are horrible. The father of Chevilloa, a labouring man, little more titan 40 years of age, was, about twelve months ago, attacked with a paralysis of the limbs, for which he was treated with out effect in several hospitals. The poor fellow, however, did not despair of recovery, and, having a little money, he resolved on returning to his lodging—a room on the ground floor of a house at Versailles—and there obtaining medical assistance. His son, also a labourer, but a youth of dissolute life, and very profligate habits, occupied the room with his father, who was so completely helpless that he could not rise from his bed, and it was recessary, when he wanted air, to lift him from it, andplace him at the door. On Aug. 23 last, he was still sanguine of recovery, and hails foot-bath, and took some refreshment. Only a day or two previously he had re ceived from some member of his family, on whom he had claims, a sum of 200 f., which was placed in a bag near his bed. On the following morning, at half-past seven, some neighbours were called in by young Chevillon, who told them that his father was dying. 'this was indeed the case ; they found the father insensible, and removed him to an hospital, where he died a few hours afterwards. On a post ,modem examination the medical men declared that the man had not died of the malady under which he had so long suffered, but of suffocation ; and as it was known that the son was in com pany with Guy, the younger prisoner, and had passed the night of the 23d of August in debauchery, spending a good deal of money, and as the 2.001'. which the father had re. ceived were not to be found, it was supposed that he had stolen it, and caused the death of his parent. Young Che villon and Guy were arrested, and the following confession was made by the latter. He said that he was in the room of the deceased with the son, who purchased some charcoal at the desire of the father, to makes small fire on the hearth to warm Name broth ; but instead of doing this the son made a large fire on the floor, and unseen by the father, took away the bag containing the 200 f. The room became very hot ; the sick man complained, but the son told him the heat would do him good, and then left with Guy, closing the door after him. They went to a dance, and when that was over, to a public house, where Chevillon drank in company with several persons of bad character. At about five in the morning he sent Guy to his father's lodging to see whether he was dead. Guy returned, and said that he had not had courage to enter the room, but had looked through the window and seen the father in the agonies of death. Chevillon remained drinking for about two hours, and then went to the place himself. Finding the father speechless, and, therefore, unable to give any information as to the cause of the hopeless state in which he was lying, Chevillon, after sweeping the remains of the charcoal into the fire-place, went out and called the new' hbours. Chevillon, at first, denied that he bad made any fire, and pretended that his father's death had taken place in the due course of nature, but some of the witnesses having declared that the stone floor of the room was hot when they entered, and that there were still embers on the hearth, he shifted his course, and made the following statement: His father, he said, had become weary of life, and resolved to abridge his sufferings by suicide. He had given the 200 franca to his son, as being no longer of use to himself, and desired him to make a large charcoal fire on the floor, in order that the fumes might produce death, and when the fire had been kindled he ordered the son to leave. This statement did not impose upon the examining magistrate, and it was contradicted, not merely by the confession of Guy, but by much circumstantial evidence. The prisoner Chevillon per sisted in hie falsehood, and pretended that he thought he was doing his duty in obeying the injunctions of his father. On the trial the counsel for Chevillon endeavoured to shake the evidence as to the eauseof the death of the deceased • and secondly, supposing that he might have died of suffoc ation, suicide ch evino is . notguu guilty of guilty o f parricide, m urd but with The jmurder. sought to obtain credit for the statement of his client, unitiug at the same time that in law the man who assists another , n r oth , heorwtoever commit found, extenuating circumstances; and be was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour. Guy was acquitted. —Gatignani. FRANCE AND THE NORTHERN Paw ERR. —The pre sent state of European polities and the interior of the Peninsula (says El Espectador) has allowed the Carnets to Itt 1815 ROBERT OWEN dedicated his New Views of Society to the Holy Alliance, the Prince Regent, and Mr. WILBERFORCE, confident that this miscella neous assembly would take upon them the office of his apostles. In 1846, ROBERT OWEN invokes the Americans of the United States to realise his theories—equally confident that they will work at his bidding: It must be confessed, however, that his langu now indicates a more just estimate of the character of his new agency, than his language then did of the old. " During the next Presidential term," he says, " faith in words will cease." When we reflect on the Pennsylvanian bondholders, it must be confessed that this is no rash prophecy. " You are in the straight road onward," says Mr. OWEN, "and nature declares that onward we must go." — The - go-ahead propensi ties of the republic, expressed in its longing looks at Canada, its nibble at Oregon, and its gulp at Mexico, are not unfelicitously expressed in this phrase. We trust that Mr. OWEN is equally right, when he pro ceeds to tell them—" You will cease wars and terminate the principles w - fifiß — Ve ars proceed." Mr. OWEN exhorts the Americans to " let the coming elections be to secure universal education, beneficial occupation, and local and general good government for all, amidst superior instead of inferior and mixed external circumstances." This, especially the last clause, is not, it must be confessed, very in telligible ; but probably Mr. OWEN uttered it in hopes of occupying his fellow-citizens with attempts to guess its meaning, as we propose riddles to children to keep them out of mischief. ROME DEC 3 . I know not whether the return of ootint . Rosii has given additional impulse to the progress of Roman reforms, but there is unmistakeable evidence of re newed activity in every department. The grand blow, as far as the capital is concerned, was struck at the beginning of this week, when the old " governor," Marini, got notice to quit- His successor is not yet appointed. This riddance is of paramount maftni- Jude. Every amelioration found in Marini an un- COLONIAL HONDURAS.—PROTRACTED TRIAL—The greater part of the double sheet of the Honduras Observer, of the 17th October, is devoted to a report of the trial of Lieut. A. F. Connell, R.A. ; and Henry Symons, Esq., Clerk of Courts, for murder. The Court of Oyer and Terminer which tried them, opened on Monday, the 12th of October. That day's proceedings terminated with the grand jury finding • true bill against the accused. The trial before the petit jury commenced on Tuesday. Tuesday, Wednesday, and pact of Thursday were taken up by the opening speech of the prose cutor, and the witnesses for the prosecution. The defence commenced and concluded on Thursday. The judge charged on Friday, the 16th of October, and at two o'clock on that day the jury retired to consider their verdict. So far the Honduras Ob-errer. A private letter, dated Tuesday, the 20th of October, informs us :—" This day the jury was discharged, not having .been able to agree upon a verdict.' It is not easy to gather the real merits of the case from the report in the Obserfer. The party killed was a poor Spanish fisherman. The witnesses examined for the prosecution were two of his comrades, who were on board the fishing boat in which he was said to have received the fatal blow ; his employer and one of the employer's neighbours, who only witnessed the scene from a distance ; and the medical gentleman who attended him. The witnesses examined for the defence were aconstable into whose custody the deceased was given immediately after the scuffle, by the parties now ac cused of the murder; and several persons examined with a view to prove that the principal witnesses for the prosecu tion had offered to leave the colony if paid 400 dollars each. The story of the witnesses for the prosecution is :—That the deceased, with his two comrades, were sleeping in their boat near a wharf attached to the house of the prisoner Symons ; that they were awakened by Mr. Symons and Lieut. Connell coming into the boat and beating him; that Connell struck the fatal blow ; that the deceased and one of his comrades were given in charge to the policeman by their assailants and locked up in a cell ; that the deceased was soon after taken so very ill that his comrade called fur assistance, but remained unheeded till morning. The deceased was then carried to the hospital, where he soon after died. The medi cal witness attributed his death to a fracture of the skull and consequent effusion of blood on the brain, which might have been caused by the blow described. From the evidence of the policeman, it appeased that the deceased was given ints custody charged with an assault by the parties subsequently accused of his murder. 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