The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-12 00:00:00

ght OnirtfllS. TO CORREISPONMIXTB. ■ A Mod Salo Itspres" assoSaas is mei embes, Ouitto.Y Osblibed lIIPM Tamil IN brig Wen. Is Sao kr psit. Advesossisslelsodol Ist lapses" Lades Valise paw, Noe bb se tie Oft% 11. llosislosinsb, by Tye Vali is dr st pabbiliss RION WALT= AT LONDON BRIDCHL Tau D•t—Manilas.lls. 710.. ...altering's. 14. lis. Irawasow—Noralas, Ili. 117.. Aturasos. U. Stn. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 12. Tunas same no longer to remain a doubt, that the entire ct the heatbsa.sevegery of South Africa have struck a league against the 'intrusion, the civi lisation, and the illthiellsoo of the population that is European by &sent. There can be no doubt of the ' enmity of the great chief, Kam, nor of the Tam. koalas. The barbarian league is general, and the governor is not more than enabled to keep head against it by the arrival of reinforcements from all iguartere, from Singapore and St. Helena, in short, • fowl every port or colony where he could clutch a moldier. In this emergency, amidst these efforts, which oat thousands per day, it is painful to hear that the , colonists, on whose behalf these sacrifices are made, " regard our cause with an apathy , little short of die . affection; that the foreign, that is, the Dutch part • of the population, are ready "for a general defec * lion," in other words, that they are inclined to join the Kaffirs against tho English; and that the English of Cape Town are ready to applaud them. . Although dinned in the Timm, we cannot give credit to so scandalous an aspersion upon the popu lation of the Caps. Many, no doubt, have been the • fault., and still are the abuses and mistakes of our colonial government. There has been nothing, how. • ever, that could warrant such sentiments and such ' conduct as this. The attempt to force the reception of even reformed convicts on the population of the • Cape was unwise; but after all it was abandoned. The efforts to endow the Cape with a constitutional and representative government were sincere, both on the part of the home and colonial government ; and if Sir HENRY 6111711 had been unwise in some of his provisions, his opponents in the colony have been actuated by a thirst of party inveteracy, which may be accounted for, but which certainly ought not to be encouraged. The documents which complete the history of the efibrts to establish a constitution at the Cape are now complete and before the public. It cannot be said that the draft of • constitution sent from this country, and drawn up by the committee of the Privy Council, erns illiberal; neither was it an illiberal proviso that it should be discussed in the Legislative Council of the colony, public opinion and public petitioning in the colony being brought to bear on it. This order, un fortunately, arrived at a time when the government Was at variance with the people of Cape Town, owing to the consequence of the convict feud. One portion of the resistance to tho government au that feud was the refusal of all respect. table colonists to take office. Owing to this, the Legislative Council, which required four or five eurofficial members, approved by the governor, was incomplete. And how to complete the number in She fat of this still during resistance, became the difficulty. fho governor, certainly in a spirit of con cession sought to overcome it be asking the different road b oards and municipalities throughout the colony, the ratepayers in fact, to name the personages they would prefer. The returns were made, and the • secretory of the government recommended that the five names which had must voteashould be nominated. The governor and the other officials objected. Of the elected members but one belonged from residence and property to the eastern district, whilst ho wee elected by the western, and was quite opposed to the sentiments of the people of the eastern district. • silie governor thought so important a province ought to be represented in the council, and ho therefore nominated, in lien of the person who had the meat I votes, another person who had, the great ma- FReuv,T,Thien fi t bur e ese m tec rs dis n trict. representing the Cape Town public objected to this, they still took their seatamid commenced the discussion of the articles of the constitution. Of course both sides differed on the subject of qualification for members and a variety . ;tif other subjects. There was, however, ample and useful discussion; and no doubt that the opinions of the four members, conveyed to London, and known to represent the opin ions of the eastern districts, ' would have had its weight, even though overruled by la majority of the council The four members, how ever, seeing they were in a minority, dete'rniiued to ' withdraw, and thereby incapacitate the government From proc eeding with the discussion of the constitu tion. Instead of seeking to enter into a discussion at •all, the opposition members drew up a constitution of their own, and were afterwards deputed to London to press it upon Lord GRKT. • In the debate's, unfortunately too few, of the Legislative Council, although much was said of aria tocracy and democracy, the true rivalry lay between this western and the macro districts, between Cape Town and Graham's Town, the former being the old capital, proud of its recent triumph over ; the English government, and joined in the pride of its triumph by the )hit c h party, which had not forgiven the English government either the abolition of slavery or the diminution of its local authority. Graham's Town, on the other hand, full of officials, its population in dread of the Kailirs, and looking to the army and the Governor for protec tion, overflowed with loyalty and conservatism. So to frame the constitution as to get not only a repre sentative assembly but a kgislativo council, in both of which the eastern districts should form a decided minority, was the aim of Sir ANDREAS STOCKEN. STROM and Mr. FAIRIAIRN. To enable the govern ment to withstand the hostility of the Cape people and the Dutch by moans of the eastern settlers, was the aim et the Governor. In the _plea so blindly and precipitately adopted the mulor for amideting the Legislative Comal. all the tax-payiag districts were to return the amen d their chaise. and those men chosen by most districts were to be elected. This threw the whole of the choice into the hands of the western districts. and left no legislative councillors to rept . sent the lead interests at any remote province. The Governor received his mistake, and refused to per whist, it in the ecustitutiun. But Mr. Rummies .party tooe it up, and recommended it, naturally, as the very perfection of a plan fur the election of a legislative council. - From this slight sketch it will be seen how much of party spirit and how little fairness "or calmness • there is on either side. For Lord GREY to have at :tiered the proposal of the delegates would have lean to give the party in opposition so flagrant a .bininpla over the entire official body and party in the colony, that the Governor and everyfunctionary mast have resigned ; and that, atthe same time, the popu lation of the eastern districts would have been highly aggrieved aad indisposed. To reject all their de mands definitively would, on the other bands have exasperated the Cape Town people. We cannot, therefore, see what was left for Lard GaET, save to suspend the consideration of the constitution question, and allow the Governor to direct his =distracted attention to crushing the spirit of hostility the Kaffirs. It is said that Mr. FAIRBIIIt= brother delegates offered on the part of Caps Town to undertake the conduct of the war and the pacification of the tribe.. The entire population of Cape Town is about 30,000 earls. The entire European population is not double that number. 'fake the property and the force, that is, the male adult population, and we doubt its ability to cope with the overwhelming numbers of wild, armed, end agile savages that now threaten the colony. Tho men and the population of the Cape or of its western districts, who are now playing the parts of O'Cox- Watt and the Irish, or of PAPINFAU and the Cana dians, have not the numbers, physical force, or moral weight for the part they have und er t a k en . They are a mere handful of men, scat- I tend over a barren territory, which is not, and never can be densely peopled. That it was wrong to allow such a population to spread, and grant so I. indefensible and wide a frontier to barbarians, is now too late to say. But as things are, we do not think the European population able to maint a i n i ts ground I against the other races, without constant keen support from Europe. People in this Nadi tido are not like the Canadians; nor have they any right to dictate terms to the mother country. The parliament and the govenesent , at Y.'agia°sl iii. PEW, POSEY indign antly theanthority of Mr. Disaiiu to rule arrest Be scortiftdly repels the assumption mi pewee* the part of the Carlton conclave to par* the kleall into parliamentary Nouggeries and pro: Inelienist pleeleille. England, he avers, is still a fine esa and ill melts in the ancient rights of sei& rale.~ltepselealetion ia one of these, and its ems= lies in its yeelseelty. Imposed members for eoai the, sea ankelmel ambers for boroughs, were beg week le to lest eek:lia. But the dictat• that ass was at bed Mod Each county wit lorded over and be-nrnebotil by its resident dictate'. The lord of the chief pets[ the soil might not be the fittest judge of who amid sit at Westminster on behalf of the bailiwick; but he was at all events identified in many ways with the real or supposed interests of the locality, and to say, the truth, the lot for counties seldom fell on a stranger or one not born in the particular portion of the land ho was desig nated to represe nt . The old anti-reform bill system was certain ly a good one; but in justice it must be admitted that it was not a private plot hatched in town and worked by secret telegraph throughout the country. It was a blunt, jolly, out-spoken fraud, that cantered along in top-boots, and only laughed when reasonable people complained of the violence done to their fences and feelings —swearing sincerely and being half-believed when it swore that after all it meant no serious harm. Men grumbled and grudged, and got angry at last and knocked the old system off its horse, and so made an end of it. But Mr. POSEY thinks, and we agree with him, that whatever may be the faults and short-comings of our present mode of cheering and of returning members (and more especially want, members) to parliament, the worst of all conceivable systems would be that which he openly charges Mr. DISRAELI with seckingfurtively to introduce, whereby a nameless clique sitting in Pall Mall, would prac tically appoint who should be and who should cease to be the representatives of English counties. Mr. DISRAELI loves to talk and write of the polity of Oreat Britain by the . equivocal epithet of ' our Venetian constitution :" intimating thereby his axed belief that all real power is vested in a • self-appointed few, who practically govern the mechanism of the state, chiefly by keeping up an outward show of popular forms which in reality are little more than a political phantasmagoria worked by hidden wires from behind. Of these, parliamen tary representation is one of the most remarkable. Far from believing in it as a reality, Mr. DISRAELI has from first to last ostentatiously treated even its conventionalities as tricks. First he tried to do one of these, and failing, with perfect sang fr aid attempted another with better suc cess. To get i nto the House of Commons, ho was ready to play radical airs in any key, however high or loud. Not succeeding in that, he took to just th e opposite line, and tried what he could do in a thorough base part in the solemn swell of PEEL. There he can hardly be said to have been more fortunate; far though admitted to figure as one of the shifting puppets of the scene, he attracted little notice for a long time, and it seems doubtful whether as a charm singer his voice would ever have become distinguiga. able from the motley band of BANKF.S and Mum and CHRISTOPHER, multiplied by three hundred * which constituted the legislative force of OW servatism. But when that crazy compromise bras down, Mr. Disaimil boldly aspired to more than he had hitherto been. He was w :ney illi S playing puppet, and he determined to set upt ro m pot-manufacturer. But this he had too m uc h s ness to do openly at first, in his own name. $ long as BEN fINCIC lived the concern was conducted in his name ; but since that time greater peen cease has gradually been given to the working pother le the firm; and though it is not exactly known to the world at large who are and who are not admitted M a participation in its geriend direction, it daily be. cornea more obvious that all that comes forth fists the workshop of Protection bears the imago and superscription of Benjamin the Oreat. Mr. Posen doesn't like being branded with the letter B. His fleece, he says, is his own; and upon the first touch of the shears be takes to butting and biting like an old one in a rather exasperated manner. " Indeed, I cannot, and I will not be an Israelite," he exclaims in voice loud enough to make all Berkshire ring, Mr. Dimmer.' can no more teach me what is good for agriculture than I can teach him this atraiylst way to altos." Rather sarcastic this equivoque on the word straight, considering the many crooked turns the member for Bucks has lately taken in his impatience to become a " right honourable" and a minister of state. We were always under the impression that the benevo lent representative of Berk', was a very churn of the milk of human kindness; but it is evident that any milk may, under certain circumstances, be turned sour. Mr. Fuser has been meek and mute for a long while; but what temper can stand seek provocation as he complains of ? Has he not been served with a summary nodes to quit the representation of the scanty be. cause, as he indignantly supremos it, he " waft bow down to the idol." 'wit* lie Pr stectionists hay* set up ? A secret organise*, her been formed, eel is now about being put Inepeilem, for the yetiese of pledging the mine and Imeses not to vote es* for any one wholes, alit veer the laraelitish Poor Mr. Puszi eleality deprecate • the giving of any p ledge the mt. Perhaps, he argue , theme may eno diessileden fire twelve month% se am far two years. Plow nen sad things may wry ElMilg a l s 3 =te r val. Per haps, by the time sir twaiad, the electors of Berkshine Eli ill sword once more their *in !weer of their old member." All this is matter for local reflection principally. Bet the odious nature oY the new attempt to dictate and domineer at elections by an unknown and irre sponsible cabal, sitting in the metropolis, is matter for more general reflection. It must be carefully watched, and unsparingly exposed, wherever it shows itself. It is & conspiracy against the most elementary rights of ' free election—au unlawful combination which cannot bear exposure to the light. BT. ALBAN'S ELIXT/ON. Tui MEWING WlT wassas.—The followiss return " of an reser transmitted by mereeemers employed nadir the authority of Ha bane relative to the appreheuren of triremes inserarii the At. Alban's Electra Committee, who have bin lada by d to abscond," was rued this easier Hare of May l9.—My Lord,—lce eonipilance with yen Isidides directions, I proceeded to Boulogne on Fridaykse, es es derour to obtain Lionisation respectiag the milmense ia the St. Alban's case, who have absconded. 05 my =deal at that place I waited on the British awed, who accompanied me to the Police and Pamportoodisia. Prom the official hooks I there learned that OtOTWO estiley Waggett was lodging at No. 62, Rue de mid that James Shags; sad Thomas Bartansore were at a small pub. lie-house on the Port, called the Anchor and Hope and that the only other lodger there wet a Mt. Frederick Edwards aged' I also learned that John Hayward had been at the Hotel des Bair f two n ' m, but had loft for Paris about ten days sines. for two Inspect. Beckenon (the officer employed to meta the parties at Heelegae) to call on Wag gem which he MA, and gave him a copy of the proclama tion, otT ring a reward for his apprehension. After reading it, Waggett stated that he certainly should not return to England, r ha andsratood the Speaker's linnet was of no avail at Daraagro sat tlionght of to now plass in the interim e Trosee, if be would obtain a Wag Seeder isetsdat BO that he was not &wan el l = and Isehes ILIOWL• • but that be bail seen Heyward. win bed roe to Pari s . nen, and bed not ratans& Tbe latipestee sinned that be nest law bee+ et ensiderable expense la essibes then imptesslembenda bipia • heels. plan ,es veld& beespliedlibet baled bees r yet . Hying • mull Wean et Meows. bet be weagediai very abort of money, and Skeins* .sad Insane widened &ley." He dna seemed to Weak be had any teenwels, wed dinged die ealiset of aunessatiss...Widtaelweale Shea art liersebswee, I bed basses& mate that itweeld ben, dialysis to neon am bikinis+ with dim et their betel. I therefor male a pit of meeting sham ea the nails, where they dilly take exercise, and tederroared to enter into eanisietion with them, but it was of ass avail. I beg Iselbee to state, that the 'polies ar Annie at Bodsipa her. beim most actin vrotehiag de praise, alai bon Akisded Is pacer anliseese every sad iidetaase.—l have, cafe QlldwasH 8.. = l i a t, sa irsiftiat sekiseat.—To Lord de , de., Re., serjambeitrents.—Cartus 1. 7. Menu, see . - feast-at-arms. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY .A I ,y!:N.[NG, JUNE 12, 1 pine thethrehy. called oathdecide between the republic and the An. 2. In the event of the republic hen; confirmed, the d AVy wie lsell decide whether me legislabve power shall to two Assemblies; sad whether th e chief of L —wk . power shall not be elected by the two Amem bolted. Asa 4. In the event of the monarchy being adopted, the shell draw up and promulgate a constitutional sleetar. ila sturessee of which shalt be sworn to by the Mir e t a ad. an his amending the throne. The MA Om proceed, in the plenitude of the powen have WM delegated to it by the French people, M rig eat the ossim who shell be invested with the mo naseldod power to aret wrait it hereditarily. It is impossible to deny to this motion of M. Cretan the merit of great distinctness and apparent feirsea ' But it is essentially unpopular, for the simple ream that it aims at making an Assembly absolute Mew see of the destinies of the country. It is out of dee question to suppose that the French people will ever submit to the dictates of a convention. The imps. polarity of the legislative bodies since 1818 hie arisen entirely from the violent and arbi trary which it has made of its sovereign power. lieaa it is vain to think that a kind of election whicheerat fitter to be entrusted to universal suffrage than any other, the choice namely of a president or of a mo narch, will be ever committed to an Assembly. Equally improbable is it that the new constituent will be allowed to decide the question of monare or the republic. The French fear too math mei too justly the juggling and intrigue' vi sway the decisions of an Assembly to commit 1111 the MEWS of an election d deux degres so vital the form of government. M. Cretan se with MM. Thiess, Base, de Mornay, Placa tory, de Remusat, Chambolle, one of the foremost of that clique whose aim is to starve and wither the executive power , and to invest the sovereign Assem bly with its functions, with a view to the restoration of monarchy of July. The most dangerous lettere about this party is that they are abetted by the Left in the means by which they propose to arrive at their end. The Left, or at least a great portion of that side of the chamber, would equally desire the Assem bly to become, by an absorption of the executive power, a convention, because they wish also to change the fundamental form ofgovernment by abolishing the presidency altogether. But to suppose they would ever delegate full sovereignty to a body chosen un der the law of May is out of all question. Now IL Creton and his compeers are the most uncompromis ing sticklers for the law of May, for the excellent reason that all parties have loot by it but the Or leanist. Hence the irreconcilcable difference between M. Creton's party and the Left. The legitimists are equally decided against deferring to en Assembly the choice of a monarch ; because it is a forfeiture of their principle. The ultra-legitimists would appeal to the nation at large by universal suffrage, but they would never allow a convention nominated by the law of May to decide upon the fate of Henry V. Lastly the Bonapartists, whose principle is a perpe tual appeal to the country at large from the factious aggression of the Assembly on the President, may be readily supposed to entertain aversion for a plan which proposes to defer the appoint ment of the President to the Assembly. Hence the motion of M. Creton for revision is likely to find favour with no party but the pure Orleanista. But the general ground of objection to it must be that it aggravates immensely the crisis of 1832, by making the double elections of May of much vaster moment than they would be by doing nothing at all. In tho meantime, it aims at the exclusion of Louis Napo leon by deferring the revision until the termination of his power, and consequently retaining the legal disqualification involved in Art. 45. M. Creton is chiefly known for a motion which he is in the habit of bringing forward every six months for abrogating the laws of banishment against the Bourbons of both branches. The object of this mo tion being to start the Prince de Joinville as a can didate for the presidency, the legitimists, who are still more averse to Orleantem than to the cause of Louis Napoleon, have always figured as the most determined opponents of M. Creton's proposition, which has been favoured on the other hand by the Mountain, with the hopes of aggravating the divi sions of the anti-republican parties. In the trial of M. Form& has been produced a themmeat which he received from the Prefect of Paw, which makes great noise, and may lead to the dismissal of that functionary. The document is a report by M. Carlier to the President of the Re public, concerning the manoeuvres of Gen. Hautpoul and the Society of the Dix-Decembre against Gen. arampsuifer. Nothing but the rank malice of Ge moral Charigamier could dictate the production and publication of this old report, merely with the view of breeding ill-blood and sowing dissension between the President and high functionaries, and of aggro vatting the weakness of the government and embar rassment of the situation. To-day took place the trial of the Erfinement for an article on the execution of the assassin Monchar mont. The court was crowed to excess by persons anxious to hear the promised speech of Victor Hugo, who pleaded for his son Charles, writer of the ar ticle. The ge , rant, M. Erdan was acquitted; M. Charles Hugo was condemned to six months of im prisonment and SOOfr. fine. Thus one comniendable feature of the law on the press has been M relieve that scope-goat the ye'rant, and to throw the.punish ment upon the signer of the article. The committee on the Avignon Railway has re jected, by a majority of 8 against 5, the proposition of MM. Rance and Laborde. The bureaux met to-day to appoint a committee for examining the government's bill for prolonging the law on the suppression of clubs. The debates were animated. Only four members of the com mittee chosen are stgainst the bill. The only modification made yesterday in th 3 Sugar Bill was the adoption of 6 fr. instead of 3 fr. as the reduction of duty during the next four years in favour of colonial dut . The Assembly pro to-day to adopt, without any debate of interest, or any modification of im portance, several artistes of tho Bugnr Bill, which was expected to be detinitivelypaased before the end of the sitting. M. de Palk, a Danish officer, who greatly distin guished himself in the late war in Holstein, was yes terday received by the President of the Republic, who presented him with the decoration of the Legion of Honour. The Preue states that M. Roily, the democratic candidate, has been elected, by an immense majority, member of the Council-General of the Loir-et-Cher, in the non of M. Germain-Sarrut, recently con demned to imprisonment for the Tart he took in the affair of the So idarite Ri , pubicoose. A very significant incident lately occurred at Roanne, after the partial elections of the tribunal of commerce of that place. When the newly elected judges, who were well known for their violent dema gogical opinions, presented themselves to take their seats with the rest of their colleagues, the latter de cimal dm they would not act with them, and monstely withdrew. M. Gent, brother of the ex-representative of Van cluse, was arrested on Wednesday last, at his country-house, near Orange, on a charge of being concerned in the conspiracy at Lyons. The funds were steady. The Fives rose 35c., closing at 91110; the Threes closed at 55.0, with a rise also of 34e. PORTUGAL. By the Triton, arrived at Portsmouth, we have a letter from our Lisbon correspondent, dated Juno 6, which informs us that Oporto was quiet, and con sidered secure from attempts at reaction. The Mignelite peers (the decree in whose favour has already been published in the Express), as will be seen by the following, have refused to accept the boon offered them : The undersigned having seen in the Diario do Govern°, No. 123, the decree of the 23rd instant, which annuls the decree of the 28th of May, 1834, by which those peers were expelled from the Chamber of Peers who took part in the manifestation made by the nobility of Portugal before the meeting of the Three Estates in the year 1828, which disposition was afterwards extended to their emieemors, and the said persons who signed, consider ing what they owe to their preceding acts, to their honour and per onal dignity, even lately offended by the tenor of the said decree of the 23rd instant ; and besides, the sue • mews of those whom they represent, neither failing in the respect which it is their duty to show to the memory of their deceased fathers and ancestors, nor desiring to stigma tise the spontaneous acts done by them; declare that they consider it a most rigorous duty not to accept the conditions referred to in the decree of May 23.—Lisbon, May 30,1851. Signed by the Marquis Lavradio, the Marquis Pcnalin, Count de Barbecena, Duke de Lafoes. Joe* di Mello da Cunha, representative of his father, the Marquis do Olhao ; Count de St. Lourenco, representative of his father, the Marquis de Sabegosa ; Counts Cintra, Mum, Redondo, repre sentative of his father, the Marquis de Borba ; Counts Figueira, de Pombeiro, representative of his father, the Marquis Belles; Counts Louse°, Atabia, represent*. live of his father, the Marquis de Tone's; Count Car valhacs, Antonio da Cunha de Lorena, representative of his father, the Count de St. Vicente; Count da Egn." The Duke of Terceira has been offered the appointment of ambassador to St. Petersburg, but it is probable he will go to Paris instead. The Viscount Sada Bandeirs has been offered the embassy to London, but hes not RA yet sig nified that he would accept it. The Viscount do Aseaga, brother of the Duke of Suldanha, is gone to Madrid as am bassador. The government has to receive about 300 contos of de cimas already due, and has received proposals for a loan of 300 contos, in which will enter some receipts of employes. The 7th company of the municipal guard is to be imme diately dissolved. When the different: movements shall have taken place, Lisbon will have the Ist, 2nd, and 6th infantry, Queen's grenadiers, lancers, and some other cavalry of the regene rating denomination, and the municipal guard, 2nd Coca dores, and 10th infantry, decided Cabralistas with the 10th, which would act with them, and th e artillery which has not shown to which party it has decided to attach itself, while the national battalions, or militia, as they arc more properly called, may turn some to one side and some to the other, and thereby make the confusion greater, which ren ders it necessary the duke should look to the organisation of this force before it be too late. Ile apparently wishes to reconcile Don Carlos by having offered - him a regiment, which the latter has refused. The Duke de Saldanha has dissolved the staff of the rege nerating army, and of its first division, the officers return ing to their former posts; while dissatisfaction has been shown at the supposed increase of expense caused by the extensive promotions-he has made ; but not more than six persons of those who have had a step of rank given them are to receive the pay attached to the rank; theiefore the additional expense is trifling. A thorn also begins to pierce him by the people commencing a sort of clamour for the dismissal of all influential Cabralistas. The second com mandant, three captains, and two ensigns have been re moved from the municipal guard of Lisboa, and two ser geants discharged. There were rather notorious in their way. The nation]. battalion of Midoens which had been commanded by the notorious assassin Marsal, is dissolved. The majority of this corps were prototypes of their com mandant. el England are most serious es. meet righ b be- E fritANC. \ . t , ‘ .* •. ' SPAIN. pert constitutional liberties to tWapee But e , stF el.4..—se .al A s , •••• . * • of the west of that colony are in no to .f, -. , - r of s, mi ritt : : ? ataujii i‘'s Our i carrespondent's letter dated Madrid. Inns 8, them by force, and to play the 4 1 . .•1 •. .pro 101114d011 Iling 7 • 11114 Ai IS Y s ' gratiefaL And we in thiailEg - i the .. e ' fe . a teissebly bi 34; ton . : • • ... " Fresh modifications are expected in the cabinet. delible injury on the Cape me so toe their wrongs, and their ht •. atur_tbeir twr Lsilisglve - Chanthae,-s c omt i tmat A , spoken of as nearly certain. He is expected to _he *nee, se to encourage them in Quiz° 1 - ,. Let as @sedgy' bs convoked in enter to pies ere il to t h e to ut replaced by Cordova or Pesach. Gonzalez Roman give them full aid to obtain their liberties, but no revision of eautitution of 1848. ` - f; I and Arleta are reported to be also on the point of support in the gratification of their personal OP party imr t a li T . lle c i e lava P theith it a ! thk the the this ' re e ia ° ll 4 the seeligisisfi asin tsslese is expeoteel to decline the Peet - . lier understands dull the powers tit* •• o f . sPitc.• - - - sc atty shall =Very n etta i bll isli thr i. "hit- ' Pi to .16- ' Ma. PHILIP PUSICT ind_ignantly rejects, and este at m it e n t i u re 4t o ei s the tioft atiMinis soc i li tsitos etei r A. the . cous bly u 7 ° L n In be T r am .: nought, the autho ri ty of Mr. Dualism to rule over. PORTUGAL. I ITALY. A letter dated Turin, June 8, states that Count Ca7our i said to have concluded a loan with English capitalists of three millions sterling for railways in Piedmont. Our Roman correspondent states in his letter of the 4th that the - French are strengthening the ford cations of the Castle of St. Angelo. A new property tax was expected to be impaired. Mr. J. 0. PHILLIMONZ, the Reader of (Sell Law sad Jurisprudence to the Society of the Middle Temple, b to deliver his second lecture On the law of entracte, in the Middle Temple Hall, on Friday. GERMANY. BERLIN, JUNE 7. Severed conservative papers (especially the Schles wig Zeitung) have declared theme:lves decidedly opposed to the rniuisterial ordinance with respect to the provincial diets. The paper just named, in a leading article, has the following: " A struggle is preparing in the press and in public opinion in which not only those who stand upon the ground of the constitution will be engaged, but many who up to this time have stubbornly opposed the constitution. The ministerial ordinance for the re-establishment of the old provincial diets, which will doubtless be shortly peruse. neatly restored on the Lime basis as before 181 S, is the cants befit. Granted that the ministry has not the inten tion, as is universally believed, by this ordinance gradually to undermine our constitution; granted that he conscien sciously believes his construction of the constitution, by which he may justify this act, to be the right one —one thing it is certain the minister cannot do : ho can never make his view of the consti tution a prevailing or a popular one; and therefore the war of the press and of public opinion he must needs have against him, and there is no authority to decide between him and the people but the Chambers—no other authority can decide outhis constitutional question." The Se/ilesicoy Zeituag then calls attention to the eet, that many presi dents of the provinces have resisted the ordinance which the Kreu: Zeitung calls upon the government to enforce, " without losing any time in vain words,"aud concludes as follows:—" But the fact that the official* to whom the ordi nance is addressed bare sworn to the constitution, as well as the Minister himself, but, on the other side, are by no means shielded from consequences by the ab sence of a law on ministerial responsibility—this feet, which no logic of the Kreuz Zeitung con remove, puts the officials, as it were, under the necessity of follow ing two masters; and out of this dilemma there is but one way, which we have often alluded to. Laws con stitutionally omitted can be only changed or modified by constitutional organs. A matter which belongs to the crown and the chambers should not be placed in the hands of officials. Thst is right, and right must be right, whether it be historical or whether it dates from yesterday." Thus the conservative paper appeals from the popular agitation to the chambers. What will the ministers say to this ? 1 Fresh instances of resistance to the new ordinance are mentioned in the papers daily. The Yawner-he Zeitung professes to have received commu nications from Warsaw, whch leave no doubt that the per sonal efforts of the Emperor of Russia have succeeded in removing the chief difficulties to a real intimate union between Austria and Prussia. The conclusion of a mutual protective league between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, that is, a renewal of the Holy Alliance in its original sense, says that paper, has certainly taken place. Oa the other hand, the Austrian papers would represent the royal conference' as nothing snore than friendly inter views between the monarchs. That more was intended is admitted, but as • congress of the three sovereigns did not follow the interviews between the Czar and the King, no more, it is said, was accomplished. It is remarked, fur ther that the King excused himself from meeting the two Emperors at Olmuts, on the pretext that he must be pre sent at Berlin at the inauguarstion of the statue of Frederick the Great, whilst he found time to accompany his royal brother-in-law to Oderbcrg, a few miles from Ohnute, and to spend severe! hours at Ratibor ; also that he arrived in Berlin on the 29th, whereas the inauguration did not take place till the :fist--all which circumstances seem to show that the breech between Austria and Prussia still remains open. JUNE 8. Many here who really rejoice at the restoration of the provincial diets are, nevertheless, very uneasy and very dis contented at the manner is which that measure has been brought abost—vo glaringly unconstitutional, so arbitrary, and, it wag paribig qua out, so illegal. I mentioned yes terday that M. Witeleben, who has several times refused to enter the ministry on amount of his resolute opposition to the new parochial system (gnashed* ordnung), has yet pro tested eltednet the new ordmanee am the ground of its gality, and the whale censtitatiend party of Prussia will adopt no amid the same Mae of seneinet. Clothe other hand, those who regard tie mesenre as a nasal triumph over the revolution, preeinia their victory in a tone likely to provoke the mimed eppseithma Rom the other side. The Kress: Zeitung bre set the example of this. It sets up what it calls the right of the provincial diets, above all the ether rights of the people of Germany ; it says that these are the "ancient," the " sacred" rights of the people, of which the revolution had sought to rob them; and in several places the same strain of assertion has been adopted. At Delimit, the diet formally declared that their restoration should be considered as a direct intervention of Provi dence in behalf of Prussia; and at Bclgard, although thanks were abundantly showered on Mr. Man tesfel for the ordinance, • regret was expressed that the minister had called the Diet merely provisionally together, and had not boldly declared that they were sum mooed by virtue of their "rights," which they had never forfeited, and of which they had never been deprived. HAMBURG, JoNE 9. The Whitson holidaTs, a time of recreation for all classes, arc turned into grief and mourning, thanks to our unwelcome guests, the Austrian soldiers. The suburb of St. Pauli, commonly called the , Ham burger Berg, which I ca nno t d escr ib e b etter to your readers who are not acquainted with this place, than ,by call inglli it the Wspp ing of this city and of Alt ons , always the re sort of sailors ' who muster of c ourse i n l arge num b er on holidays, and are met at the dancing saloons by servants, journeymen, and females. Last night many of the Aus trians quartered in the city and Altana Socked there. A quarrel Bose between one of them and a civilian,. which was taken up be their respective friends. It began in a saloon called the loachimsthal, and was fought out in the street On each sides man was killed, and a picket of our soldiers cleared the place, and probably the matter would have rested had not a patrol of four men and a corporal came from Altana to fetch the Austrians, who were at a guard-house of our soldiers and protected by them. That patrol was - lqig* •-*lteitli k y some ink Aladin, near the gate, and, some say, aluby the mob. It returned to Altona. But a whole regiment, eommanded by Field-Marshal Lieut. Thciner, slew arrived,, and fired these rounds —one, it is stated, into the alwerr-mantiemed salitee, and the others amongst the clowds in the street. mar killed and wounded indiscrimi nately men, women, MI children. At the infirmaries there were this manias eight dead sad twenty wounded. Amongst the former is a girl of thirteen, who was carrying bread in a basket. Amongst the letter, a man of seventy and a boy of nine, whose arm was amputated this morning. How many more there may be at private houses is not known. If the Austrian military authorities cared at all for the tranquillity of the city, they might easily have prevented those riots, by forbidding the men to go near the sub urb; bat they seem to wish for disturbances, that they may have a pretest for their repressive mea sures. The spirit of independence which our population is manifag, and which characterises the German, race, has longbeen a sore in the eyes of the Austrian officers, who aft accustomed to the obsequiousness of the blare. Some of them were heard to say long ago that they would break that democratic pride es soon as an opportunity 1 offers. A betalion was commanded from Pinneberg to St. Pauli, and has pro bably arrived there by this time. This afternoon cartri dges were distributed toad the soldiers here, and part of them marched to the same suburb. Artillery, too, was moved to the ramparts, so as to be ready fur action at a minute's notice. What more mischief they intend to do remains to be seen. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN. (111 Opeirks Telegespla (IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MOANING The Franklin has arrived off Cowes. She left New York 31st May. She met the Washington, bound for New York, on the let June. The Franklin has about one hundred passengers for Havre, and a valuable cargo, including eight hundred thousand dollars in species. She landed fifty-three passengers at Cowes. From Boston we learn that thirty witnesses have been sworn on the side of Scott, charged with rescu ing the slave Shadrach. George Thompson was at Boston, lecturing against the American Colonization Society. News from Mexico confirm the statement that the Mexican authorities► had detained an American ves sel containing supplies for the Boundary Surveying Commission. Both houses of the Mexican Congress annulled the Tehuantepec grant to Garay. They refused to modify the tariff by removing prohibitory duties. Congress adjourned on the 20th of May. The governor-general of Canada had refused to produce the correspondence with the American government, in relation to reciprocity of trade, and tt was recommended as the future policy of the government to close the Welland Canal against American vessels as an act of retaliation. New Youi, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 6 r.w. The stock market continues active, and the disposition to purchase is daily getting stronger. BRZADATUPFS.—WO noticed more activity in the flour market to-day. The receipts were not so large, whilst the demand was more animated. Corrow.--The sales to-day were about 1,000 bales, at steady hut irregular prices, generally on the basis of 91c. for middling Uplands. FBEIGHTS.—hates to Liverpool were steady to-day, but not active. INDIA AND CHINA. Our telegraphic advices from Trieste state that the Indian mail had arrived at Sums on the let, with letters from Hong Kong to the 23rd of April, Calcutta, May 3; and Bombay, May 14. (17 ?) The deficiency in the assets of the North-West Bank is estimated at 80,0001. India was tranquil, but the western frontiers of the Panjaub were still threatened by the robber bands of the mountair.s in that locality. Ample reinforce ments had, however, been sent to the irregular troops which guard the mountain passes. Rain and hail storms had been frequent from the north-west in Bengal and Madras. The perpetrators of the thefts on the Bombay Oriental Bank have been discovered. The money-market was firm, and the rate of inte rest high. Imports dull; exports very active, especially in cotton, which sells at 78 to 115 rupees per candy. Freights to London, 21. 10s. to a 3s. per ton. Exchange on London, six months' sight, 2s. 11d. to 2s. 1;d. per rupee. Hong-Kong.—Exchange on England, 4s. Bd. to 4s. 9d. THE TEETOTAL MOVEMENT.—Last evening a "tea festival" and public meeting took place at the National-hall, High Holborn, to adopt a petition to parlia ment for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the laws affecting the regulation of the manufacture and sale of strong drinks with a view to the suppression of drunkenness, and the elevation of the morals, literature, religion and polities of the people. Mr. L. lleyworth, M.P., presided, and was supported by several welt-known advocates of the cause cif temperance. A liberal supply of tea was provided, and the evening's entertainment was en livened by some musical performances, which alternated in • most agreeable manner with the various speeches deli vered on the occasion. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting in favour of teetotalism, and resolutions were passed in furtherance of the movement. A petition to par liament embodying the sentiments above mentioned was agreed to, and • general feeling was expressed against the evil effects of intemperance, as exemplified in the dis tressed condition of a large portion of the community. COALPIT EXPLOSION NEAR BARNSLEY.—We re gret to announce that another fearful explosion from fire damp took place about • mile from Barnsley, on Monday last, at the works called the Ardsley Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Firth, Bailey, and Co. This colliery was the scene of the disufirous explosion which took place about four years ago, when upwards of 70 p oor f e ll ows pa id t h e forfeiture of their lives; and since that period a partial discontinuance of the works has taken place until recently. Three men only have, however, been working in the pit from time to time ; and on Monday they pursued their occupation as usual until the shift arrived at 12 o'clock. The three men were being let down the shaft, which is 284 yards deep; and when about 80 yards from the bottom a terrific explosion suddenly took place, the fire-damp rushed up the shaft with frightful violence, and issued at the top like the eruption of a volcano. Two of the poor fellows, on being brought to the top, were found to be dreadfully burnt, and of course quite dead. Their companion, how ever, had been thrown from the basket and precipitated to the bottom, from whence there is little hope of his reco very, at all events for mine time to come as the water at the bottom is more than 12 feet deep. This unfortunate man (whine name is Thomas Billington) was aot regularly engaged to work in the pit, but had gone as a substitute on May in lieu of a companion who was attending a club dinner. Two of his brothers lost their lives when the ex plosion took place in the Ardsley pit, four years since. 'The other two men are named Charles Richards and James Bailey, and have loft wives and families unprovided for. An inquest was held at Barnsley yesterday (Wednesday) on the bodies of the two men t a k en ou t o f t h e p i t, and a verdict of " Accidental death" recorded. The colliery was yesterday on fire, and in so dangerous a state that it waa impossible to descend in order to search for the body of Billington. SUICIDE AT STRAND-ON-TIIE-GREEN.—Loat m i tgqht an inquest was held at Mr. Dough's, the Steam-packet Tavern, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, before Mr. H. M. Wakley, upon the body of Mr. Samuel Thorrington, aged 68, • coal-merchant and barge-master, lately residing at Hill-cottage. The catastrophe had excited much sensation in the locality, the deceased being comparatively a stranger, but well-known at Windsor, as carrying on business there many years. The general report was that he was living apart from his wife, and had done so for some years, allowing her a separate maintenance. She came to his house during his temporary absence at Brighton, and on his return home ho took no notice of her, and wandered about the neighbourhood for several days, declining to go home, where he had a very aged mother, and he had previously said that if ever his wife came to him he would destroy himself. The first witness called was Sophia Thorrington, the deceased's widow, who stated she came home on Monday evening, but the deceased and herself were the only persons in the house. About eight o'clock she went into a room occupied solely by the de ceased, and in which he transacted business, and asked him for an envelope to enclose a letter she had been writing to one of her daughters who is living at Wind sor, and he said " I won't give you one," and went into an adjoining bed-room, and the witness went back to her room and sat down. In a few minutes he walked in, hold ing a pistol in his right band, and exclaimed, " Now, old girl, the time has come." She fearing that he was about to murder her, rushed towards him, caught hold of the pistol with one hand, whilst with the other she opened the front door and ran into the garden and called out " Murder— police." A policeman was passing at the time, and as he was entering the garden the report of a pistol was heard by both of them, and she returned to her husband's room with the policeman, and found deceased lying on the sofa wel tering in his blood, and the pistol grasped in his right hand. He was then snuggling in the agonies of death. Dr. Hold nets, of Windsor, had attended him for 15 years ; had said he was decidedly insane, and ought to be under confine ment. He always anxious for business, and closely attended to it. After hearing some other evidence the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." :bt Court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied hp the Duke and Duchess of Base Coburg Gotha, and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg arrived at the Exhibition of th e Works of Industry of ' all Nations soon after nine o'clock Eyesterday morning, to continue their inspection of the xhibition. Her M ajesty and the royal circle were attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget, Baroness de Wangenheim, General Wemyst Colonel Bcuverie, and M. B. de Tre.kow. The Prince of *ales and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr, Birch, also visited the Exhibition yesterday. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, attended by Miss Hildyard, also paid a visit to the Exhibition yesterday forenoon. The Queen and Prince Albert and their royal visitors left the Exhibition at half-past eleven o'clock and returned to Sootiness= Palace. Lord Broughton had an audience of the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, to present same presents from Newab Num of Bengal to her Majesty. The articles con sisted of an elephant's state trappings of velvet and gold. The houdah framed of ivory inlaid with gold, with cover ings of gold and silver embroidery. A state palkee or palan. quin also of ivory inlaid with gold, the covering of similar rich materials to the houdah. A throne or state resting couch of crimson velvet and gold, with a canopy richly em broidered with the precious metals, and supported by silver columns. A pair of gold moorchals or emblems of rank, and a palkee or palanquin for evening conveyance. These Presents were brought from India under charge of Dr. Young. The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Cambrid,ge, and their Serene Highnesses the Princ e of Leiningen and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, visited the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. PrineeArthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took an airing yesterday, in an open carriage and four. The Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester-house. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The company included their Royal Higlinesais the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe e,)- burg Gotha, the Duke Ernest of Wurteinberg, and the Prime Gustavus of Wasa, his Serene Highness the Princo of Lciningen, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, the Marquis of Westminster, Lady Fanny . Howard, Ba rone,' de Wangenheim, Baroness de Spetn, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Baron Itoppert, M. B. de Treskow, M. Emma de Feiner. _ In the evening Herr F. Kaufmann, from Dresden, with his eon and daughter, attended in the Palace, and had the honour of performing before her Majesty and Prince Albert and their illustrious circle with novel musical instruments, via., Das Hurmonichord, Chordaulodion Symphonion ((hio selbstapielenden Kunstwerke) :and Orchcstrion, also, Der Trompet Automat. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Despatches were also received from the Governors of Sierra Leone and the Falkland Islands. THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—Yesterday the Crystal Palace was visited by the Queen and Prince Albert, and about 45,000 of the public. _DEPARTURE OF TROOPS FOR TILE COL—Between 4 and 5 o'clock on Tuesday evening, the first division of the 12th Royal Lancers (dismounted) embarked at the North wall for Liverpool, en route to Winchester and Portsmouth, there to take shipping for the Cape. The Lancers were preceded in their march from the barracks to the quays by three full bands, and were followed by a large concourse of persons, attracted by the rare occurrence of n regiment of cavalry proceeding on " war service." The men appeared to be in high spirits at the prospect of a " brush." THE REPRESENTATION or BATn.—Thc canvass for the respective candidates to fill the vacancy in the repre sentation of Bath is proceeding vigorously. Mr. Sutcliffe's address to the electors, devoid as it was of any expression of political opinion, has created some dissatisfaction amongst members of the tory party, and more than one pri vate meeting of the protectionists has been held, with the view of bringing forward a candidate whose opinions would be more in accordance with their principles. As yet, how ever, no announcement of any other candidate th an Mr. Sutcliffe, on the conservative interest, has been made. The liberals are not only active in their canvass, but Captain ticabell, their candidate, who declines, with the full concurrence of his committee, making a per sonal canvass of the electors, has taken every oppor tunity of making his sentiments known to them col lectively. Besides the address issued and the public meeting held lest week, as noticed in the E.epress, at the time, he has this week addressed the electors of the impor tant ward of Walcot at a crowded meeting, held in tho large room of the Three Crowns Inn, and his speech ap peared to give general satisfaction. Mr. Town Councillor Edwards moved a resolution, that Captain Scobell was a fit and proper person to represent the city in parliament, which was seconded by Mr. Town Councillor Barter, and carried unanimously. Captain Saumarez and Sir John Hero also spoke in favour of Captain Seobell'a qualifica tions. - - - COURT OP LIEUTENANCY.—A very numerous meet ing of the Commission of Lieutenancy for the City of Lon don was held on Tuesday at the Guildhall, for the purpose of electing a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal London Militia, in the room of Alderman Thompson, who had been appointed to succeed the late Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, Bart., as colonel of the regime n t, th o fli g ht li on. t h e Lord Mayor in the chair. When the glasses were opened, and the numbers were cast up, the Lord Mayor declared Alderman Wilson elet ted to fill the vacant appointment by a majority of 50 votes. Alderman Wilson then having proved has qualifications, took the usual oaths, and the commission having been ordered to be issued, the court broke up. GRAY'S INN, JUNE 11, 1851.—The annual exami nation in law instituted by this society took place in the hall ort Thursday and Friday, the sth and 6th instant, and the to:lowing Is the class list of the successfu. candidates for honours on that occasion, which VIM published this evening in the presence of the Leachers and members of other inns of court. 1. Mr. William Fowler, of the Inner Temple; 2. Mr. Oliver Claude Pell, of Lincoln's Inn; 3. Mr. Edward Samuel Dale, of Li nco l n ' s I nn ; 4 . Mr. Richard Fisher, of Lincoln's Inn, Mr. Horace Townsend, of Lincoln's Inn, .Eq. ; Mr. Leonard Field, of th e I nner Temple, Mr. Joseph Napier Higgins, of Lincoln's Inn, /Eq. ; . Mr. John Lindsey Reed, of the Inner Temple; 7. 111 r. David Kitcat, of tho Iz,ncr Temple, Mr. Oeorge Taylor, of the Inner Temple.E.+ Mr. Fowler received f rom the lecturer, Mr. W. D. Lewis, his prize, consisti ng o f a complete set of the Reports of Vesey, Junior (20 volumes). SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The first conrerrazione of the new series was held last night, and was numerously at tended by the foreign commiasionors and exhibitors, and by the members and their ladies. The arrangement of the suite of rooms has been much improved. The music for the evening was • selection from English composers, per formed by various popular glee singers. MANCJIESTER SUNDAY SC7IOOL.S. —On Monday morning last, in accordance with a custom long established, the children attending most of the Sunday schools con nected with the churches of Manchester and Salford had their usual procession as the opening of their Whitsuntide festivities. The number of children present was 13,749. We have been unable to obtain the usual semi-official list of the number of scholars in average attendance at the dif ferent schools taking part in the proceedings of Monday, with the number of elder scholars from each admitted to the cathedral. Last year the average attendance at 20 schools was stated by this list to amount to 13,018 scholars, on the previous year there were 13,356 in connexion with 25 schools, and of these 1,615 were admitted to the cathe dral. The number attending the anniversary on Monday must have been a close approximation to this.--Manchester Guardian. - —• SUPPOSED TRACES OF Sin JOIIN FfLINKLIN.—A morning contemporary gives circulation to a report as to some supposed tracts of Sir John Franklin. These trace', which are said to be " by far the most important, presump tive or otherwise, which have yet reached us respecting the missing expedition," consist of the following : " From the voluntary testimony of one of the seamen engaged at Strom new for the Prince Albert, we have the following facts, elicited and taken down in the presence of Mr. Kennedy, the commander of that exp e diti on , an d ot h ers ; and the statement is attested by the seaman in question, William Millar, who declares that, if required, he would make the same upon oath. He states that he was on board the Prince of Wales in 1848, when, early in September, during very thick weather, they entered (as they believed) Lan caster Sound, and steered west, advancing slowly. The fog continued very heavy for some days, when it suddenly lifted, and high land was seen on the larboard side, over the mast head. The captain, being at first doubtful if it were the loom of icebergs or of land, sent a boat off to ascer tain the fact, and of this party William Millar formed one. He states that on landing the marks of shoe prints were distinctly visible in the mad, above high-water mark ; close by was a small c oo ki ng pl ace bl ac k ened by fire, and s a little further on a well-built cairn, about four or five feet high, of which the party pulled away • few stones ; but, being recalled by a signal front the ship, which was being driven in shore by the current, were compelled to return on board immediately." From the above it is inferred that some of Sir John Franklin's party must have visited the spot, and that beneath the "cairn" is deposited " distinct information of his past progress and future intention." - CHARGE OP LARCENY AGAINST A L ADY.—A singu lar cantles been before the magistrates of Stonehouse, in which a married lady, the daughter of a naval officer, figures as defendant in a charge of burglary and larceny. Mrs. Robinson, the wife of a gentleman connected with the mercantile service, resides at 16, Caroline-place, having as a neighbour a Mrs. Westlake, keeping a respectable semi nary. From some cause the domestic servants of the two parties quarrelled, in which their mistresses took part, and for some time past Mrs. Westlake has been subject to the most extraordinary annoyances, the most glaring of which was the constant breaking of the glass of her kitchen. In addition to this injury she has recently missed several articles from her kitchen without being able to discover by whom they were removed. Amongst other things which, it seems, were lost was a sugar boson, which, on a search being made in Mrs. Robinson's house by the police, was found in her back parlour. Other missing articles were thrown over the wall between the two houses, into Mrs. Westlake's garden. Witnesses were heard as to the sugar basin being seen in the defendant's house, and also in reference to Mrs. Ro binson's delicate state of health, which had confined her to her bed for some time past. The bench eventually com mitted the prisoner for trial at the next general quartet sessions for the county; offering, however, to ad m it th e prisoner to bail, on providing two sureties for her appear ance in 501. each. i i