The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

2 six weeks ago, he would have spared himself much opprobrium, and us a certain amount of labour. TIIE commercial news brought by the Overland Mail from India is unfavourable, as was to be expected, but not conclusive. It is not easy to say whether the disas ters announced from that quarter can be regarded as the " be-all and end-all." The storm has broken with most severity over Calcutta, where previous shocks had left several tottering edifices. Bombay had come off, so far as was known, much more easily than could have been anticipated. The political intelligence of most importance relates to:the territories of the King of Ocoe and the NIZAM. Lord HARDINGI: and the first-named potentate had met at Caw npore. The object of the intei view, it is said, was to ameliorate the affairs of that oppressed and distracted state by " measures of coun sel and friendly arrangement." Itow idle it is to hope that the Anglo-Indian authorities can impart to any country the advantages of well regulated government so long as they allow a sovereign more or less nominal to stand between them and the people, is forcibly impressed upon unbiassed observers at this moment by the state of affairs in the dominions of the other potenlite we have named. That wretched district is in a state of absolute anarchy. The NIZAM and Ms minister are at variance : the treasury is empty; and the prince's Arab mercenaries are plunder ing the inhabitants with i,npunity. Mean while the British government, its hands tied by treaties, is impotent to restrain from outrage the childish and wayward despot whom it upholds on the throne. The Nixon has quitti d his capital, declaring that he will not return till our resident consents to the removal of the prime minister; and the general impression is that this point will be conceded. (lode, therefore, and the Nizun's territories are probably to be still longer subjected to the miseries which a morbid fear of being called ambitious of extended territory has caused our Indian government to entail on many regions of Hindostan. These tributary and protected princes are de.lhetn our subjects. The world is not blinded by the shadowy character of the independence possessed by Indian sovereigns who have an English resident at their court: we escape none of the imputations which enemies might be inclined to make by such an arrangement. But we deprive our selves of the power of legislating for the benefit of the general inhabitants : we become the accomplices of their petty tyrants. It is in this relation, too, that such intrigues originate for the benefit of Enr i lish traders in philanthropy as that affair of the late Rnjah of Sattara. It could be desired that the Company turned to more account the machinery fur organising a good local government offered by the aristocratic and proprietary classes of India ; but to enable it to do this it must boldly assert the sole and exclusive right of ivereignty over every strip of territory included within its utmost bounda ries. It must recognise no partners in sovereignty. From Scinde there is no intelligence to throw light either on the present or future of that country. In the absence of such news, howl ver, some suggestions may be derived from a return of the expenditure and charges of India for the last three years, printed by order of the House of Commons, and published yester day. From this document it appears that from 1843-4 to 1815-6 inclusive, Seinde has cost the Company 1,907,610/. The revenue received from Seinde during the same period has only amounted to 607,152/. In the expenditure is included the extraordinary military charge and war charges; an outlay which, with the Belooches for our neighbours, is not likely to be soon reduced below the amount of the last year-347,1171. The civil ex penditure of the province has amounted during the three years to 572,7221.; leaving a surplus revenue of 31,730!. for the whole period. And as the ordinary military charges of provinces are not distinguished in the Indian statemt nt, the amount of expenditure in curred in Seinde under this head is unknown. There can be little doubt, however, that it will more than swallow up the slight surplus of revenue over the civil charges for tha three years. An analysis of the return referred to is given in another column. It will be found pregnant with instruction. It shows that, during the three last finamial years, there has been a permanent excess of expenditure over revenue in India. It shows, at the same time, that the most strenuous exertions have been made to keep down the expenses of collection, without, however, impairing the efficiency of the col lecting service; that in some departments of govern ment a degree of economy, or rather parsimony, has been introduced, calculated to injure the re sources of the country ; and that, with the single exception of the Scinde outlay, every increase of expenditure has been calculated to in crease the efficiency of government. In so far as strict mercantile exactness can go, the finances of India have been well administered. Yet, notwith standing this exactitude, there is the permanent defi ciencv staring us in the face and making itself felt in the airainished dividends on Indian Stock, and the increased interest on the Home Bond Debt. The inevitable inference front this state of affairs is that the Indian government is, at this moment, as much deficient in the higher and vital qualities of statesmanship as it is irreproach able in the minor virtues of a steward or book-ki epee. The steadily augmenting derangement in Indian finances is not to be cured by accuracy in accounting and the paring of details of expenditure, but by a bold and judicious revision of the whole financial and commercial system of India. WE recently drew attention to the unequal and oppressive incidence of the duty on advertisements in newspapers and other periodical and literary pub lications. An opulent railway company announcing its busi ness arrangements for the next half-year pays ls. (id. duty in England and ls. in Inland on its advertise ment: the advertisement of a cook, footman, or housemaid in want of a place is taxed at the same rate. The business with a return of thousands in the course of a year pays the same duty as the business which only yields a yearly income of some fifteen pounds. The Frame rate of duty is impostd on an ad vertisement which gives information respecting the daily operations of six months, and the advertisement which relates to only one transaction. The ex amples mentioned have been selected as the first that occurred presenting a sufficiently striking contrast: but let the reader take the trouble to con sult the advertising columns of ar.y daily newspaper, and he will find the injustice they illustrate per vading all the applications of the advertisement duty. The poor man, with a limited range of business, is compelled to give as much to the state every time he advertises it as the millionaire, who has a greater number of profitable transactions pressed upon his acceptance than he can undertake. The financial returns for 1810 show that the ad vertisement duty yielded that year in Great Britain, 148,8741.; in Ireland, 11.0891. The case of the ser vants out of place affords no inapt illustration of the unequal pressure of this tax, but scarcely exhibits the full extent of its injustice. The advertising domestics are, in a manner, the aristocracy of their class: individuals who, having had the luck to get good places from the beginning , have had ever y facility and inducement afforded them to establish a good character, are run after by employers, and pretty sure of a place as soon as it is known that they are disengaged. Upon them the tax presses compara tively more lightly than on any others of their class. There are many who, with all the ability and disposi tion to make as good servants, have not had the same opportunities of manifesting them, and who, conse quently, do not derive the same advantage from several advertisements that the former class do from one. There is another consideration which ought to be allowed much weight here. It is always of use to increase the number of those who, having it in their power by average good con duct to establish a character for trustworthiness, are taught to feel that they have a pecuniary interest in retaining it. The advertising class of do mestics are among menial servants, those who indis utably belong to this class of society. Every houee holderr has an interest in the increase of their number. Were the duty (ranging from 100 to 120 per cent. of the coot of each advertisement) taken off, the adver tising servants who now patronise the 7Vmes to the extent of at least a column daily, and who not un frequently fill up two or three of the columns of one paper, and have been known to fill six, might be mul tiplied to an indefinite number. It is upon the young and untried that the tax presses most heavily ; it pre vents them from having recourse to advertisements at the time when they arc most needed by them ; it ex cludes them from the advertising class at the period THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 184+4. with fortune. She gevo him ono crown. Hi► Ma jesty insists on winning two, or losing both. His moat strenuous efforts aro in this direction. The unexpected event announced in oar Paris cor respondences yesterday of the arrival of Ahd-el-Kader at Toulon engrosses a large space in the Paris jour nals of yesterday (Monday). A variety of interesting circumstances respecting that important personage which took place previous to and which led to his throwing himself on the protection of a nation againat which he waged a war so protracted, so obstinate, and so sanguinary are mentioned. We select the fol lowing from a mass of matter too prolix to interest the British public : When Abd.el•Kader reached Nemsurs (Djemma Ohs, zaout), where the Duke d'Aumale had arrived in the morn ho appeared cast down and worn out with fatigue. Has demeanour and his language in presence of the Governer- General were marked with respect and with the resignation which the hlusoulmau religion teaches to its members. The deira remains encamped • few leagues from Nemours. It is crowded with wounded who are attended by our surgeons with their usual devotedness. It consists still of from 5,000 to 6,000 persons. The regular cavalry eft r.• returning in small parties; about 150 were encamped at Nemours."— The Tottionnois of the 30 h ult. says:— " Before guittiag for ever the soil of Africa, and in the midst of the great emotions which must have agitated his mind, the Emir wrote to the Duke d'Aumale a letter of thanks for all the attentions which he had received from him on the war from Nemours to Oran. This is not the only proof that he has given of his respect for the prince since his captivity, for he had already made him a pre snt of his famous black mare, which has been so often spoken of in the recital of some of the episodes of the adventurous life of the ex-Emir. Abd-el-Kader is of middle height; his countenance is mild; his complexion has not the perfect purity of that of Arabs of distinction; his face is marked with what appear to be traces of small-pox. He has in the middle of his forehead a slight mark of tattooing. His beard is very black, slid not thick. His dress is of a simplicity which is not perhaps free from affeitation. The voyage of the Asmodee was a very rough one ; nearly all di- Arab passenger were sea-sick, and And-el-Kader was PO affected by the motion of the ship that he scarcely loft his cabin during the voyage. He only appeared on the deck of the frigate for an hour, on the day alter oho left Oran. Col. de Beaufort, who leaves this evening fur r.tris. will probably only return to Toulon to accompany Abl-el-Kader to Paris er any other town in France which may be fixed upon for his residence, for we do not think that the ministry will at once accede to the desire expressed by the Emir to go and finish his days in • Musaulteen country. In the suite ef the emir there are many women l and children. Amongst the pevonagis of distinction who accompany hint areoue of his brothers.in-law, Kadji•Musta phrsen•Taroi, who was charged to execute the barhsroa• order ei massacre the prisoner* made at Sidi-Brahmin ; his kalifa, Kaddom-Ben-Allal. brother of Sidi-Embarack, and the age of his regular troops, Mahmoud-lien-el-Kour. lie has also brought with him his mother, his three wives, and two son., the eldest of whom, Mahmoud•Ben-AMlel Kader, • child of a very interesting countenance, is about eight years old. The Marquis de Beaufort, Aid-de-Camp of the Duke of Nemoura, who accompanied Abd-el-Kader from Oran, arrived in Paris on Saturday. He was received at the Tuilleries, where (says the .Tnernal des Delbatn) ho presented to the King the pistol of the celebrated chief. Tim sabre of Abd-el.lKader, which was pre- &ited to General Lamoriciiite by the Duke d'Aumale, was also brought by the Marquis de Beaufort, and delivered to Madame Lamoriciere. 'l'hc effect of the news of the surrender of Ab-del- Kader on the money transactions in the Passage de l'Opera, has been very trifling. The Threes rose about a tenth per cent., at which they continued without further increase on Sunday. The opponents of the government affirm that the surrender of Ab-del-Kader to the Duke d'Aumale had been for soma time secretly arranged,but war delayed until the moment at which, by a coup-tie-theatre, ►t could be made best to tell in a paragraph of the royal epeech. Some hitch in the stage mechanism pro crastinated by two days the entrance of the Arab chief, and so the effect was lost. This was truly French. La I'atrie• says that Ab-del-Kader with his family and suite surrendered to the Duke d'Aumale on the condition of being seat to Alexandria or St. Jean d'Acre. It is, however, understood that this cele brated chieftain with his suite will be invited to visit Paris before hie departure for Egypt or Syria. A Cabinet Council was held at the Hotel des Affaires Etrangeires on Sunday afternoon. No receptions take place at present at the Tuilleries. The religious services connected with the obsequies will take place at Paris on Wednesday, and at Dreux on Thursday, where the remains will be deposited in the burial place of the royal family. The King and Queen of the Belgians were expected in Paris. MM. lupin and Odilon Barrot a - e the executors of the will of the late Princess Adelaide. Since writing the above we learn that Ab-del- Kader and his family are expected hourly in Paris. The will of Madame Adeluide has been variously and erroneously represented in the journals. The following particulars may, we believe, be taken a• correct : The total annual income left amounts to 70,000/. ster ling, representing a capital of nearly two millions and ahalf. Of this sum, tO,OOO/. is left to the Duke de Chartres+, second eon of the late Duke of Orleans; 4(10,0001. to the Duke of Nemours ; 40,000/. in smalicr legacies ; and the remainder, amounting to something less than two millious, in equal shares between the Prince de Joinvillo and the Duke of Montpensier. The Madrid mails of the 21ith and 27th have arrived. The Moderado partisans give out that the ' only cause of the recent modification of the Cabinet has been the bad health of M. Orlando. M. Roca de Togorea, who has entered the Cabinet, was the for mer colleague of the Duke of Sotomayor and M. Bravo Murillo. Tito Progresists, hew ever, ridicule this, and affirm that it is appa rent that there is a split in the Cabinet. Nar vacz and Mon are opposed to each other. Mon has a majority of the cabinet with him, and the influence of the Queen Mother at his back. Hence Narvaez has been reduced to the mere presidency without a port folio. Ile is the gilt chair of the ministry, and nothing else. According to the progresists, he will be thrust out altogether on the first convenient opportu nity. Mon and Pidal representing the extreme opi nions of the moderados, and the devoted servants of Christina will come in, arbitrary power will gain the ascendant, and all reform, amnesty, and progress will be at an end. There was no Bourse on the 25th or 26th. A report was generally circulated and credited on the 27th, that Narvaez had resigned. It was not, however, confirmed on the 27th, but a crisis was still expected. General Cordova was appointed inspector of infantry in place of General Figucras, called to the ministry of war, The general impression was that nothing would be done in the impeachment of the ex-ministers. In fact, it seemed probable that another movement of the sliders of the political phantasmagoria would be made, and the figures on the canvas changed, before any thing could be seriously effected in that matter. On the 23rd December, at eight o'clock in the morn ing, the Austrians vacated all the posts in the city of Ferrara and withdrew into the citadel and the bar ! racks of St. Domenico and St. Benedetto. Thus the status p in Ferrara is re-established. . MADRID, Mo. 27.—Thros per Cent..., 541 at :in too'. 27i 13 Pi, ov.hr . 274 paper , Fare per Cent,. 15i at Su da).. Si rah ; Paw., or, .5 taper, 399 ood ; Coupoor,llotaudx. Rank of ot. Ferdinand. 125 , Bonk. •,f at. trobella, 125 paper. Exchange 1...10n, 4h 34 100 paper.i Letters from Parma continue to announce the mili tary preparations against the contingency of a popular movement. The fortress was strongly garrisoned, and a squadron of Hungarian cavalry waa stationed in the town. The funeral of the late Arch-Duchess was appointed for the 23rd. A faint hope was en tertained that the new sovereign would yield to the dominant idea of the age, and grant some popular reforms. A letter from Leghorn, dated the 20th ult., says that that city is in a state of the greatest agitation ; that the Tuscan governmeht has resolved on calling out 5,000 men of the reserve; that the artillery in Leghorn is about to be augmented, and that it was expected that battalions of volunteers would be im mediately organised and armed- Letters from Milan, quoted by the Journal de Frankfort say, that the Swiss Sundcrbond refugees, including General Sails Soglio, are in a state of great personal distress there. It is not true, as was announced, that they have been received into the Austrian service. They have applied for that pur pose, but have been refused, They were obligd to sell their horses to obtain means of living. Letters from Tilsit announce that the cholera has in Prussia. of their career when habits of self-respect and steadi- I ness are to be formed. But menial servants form, after all, no very con siderable number of the section of society upon whom the advertisement duty falls with undue and often crushing weight. Young people of both sexes who seek their livelihood as tutors and governesses— " light porters" who, in the phrase of the Wesleyan Magazine wrappers, " fear God and can carry ten stone"—skilful and steady artisans just " out of their time"--small capitalists starting in a retail business — young mon qualified by a sound education to Ft as clerks, private secretaries, &c.—tkese are specimens of one class upon whom this tax presses unfairly. It cannot need many words to explain the cruelty of this. There is no mat among the many adorning Eng lish society who have fought their way upwards from obscurity and narrow means to competency or even affluence and a distinguished position, but is aware that the greatest difficulty lie experienced in his career was to gain an opportunity of showing what was in him. The most painful of situations--the most under mining to bodily and mental health—is that of an in genuous disposition, asking no more than leave to labour, and unable to make its want and capabilities known. Every artificial addition to the difficulties which naturally lie in the way of such persons when seeking to draw attention to themselves is an act of cruelty towards them, of injustice to the society which might benefit by their talents. The next numerous class upon whom the adver tisement duty falls with disproportionate weight are the unfortunate. In every newspaper the advertise ments of sales bear a large proportion to the rest. And what are these sales ? Often avowedly they are sales of bankrupt stock; sometimes they are the re- Boum of individuals whose misfortunes oblige them to contract their expenditure; again, they are for the benefit of widows or orphans when the head of a family has been struck down in the outset of a hope ful career, or has given way heartbroken beneath a protracted struggle against adversity. To this close of advertisements must be added a numerous hetero geneous assortment announcing various second-hand articles for sale at reduced prices, and such like. In exacting the duty from such advertisers the state dips its hands as deeply in the pockets of those who are tottering on the verge of pauperism as into the pockets of the prosperous in life. So far we have been keeping our eye upon the effect of this duty on the advertisers. The case of the publishers through whom they advertise is also deserving of consideration. There are many ways of advertising, but only one subjects to the advertise ment duty. The Is. tkl. in Great Britain, and Is. in Ireland, are only paid " for arid in respect of every advertisement contain( d in, or published with, any gazette or other newspaper, or contained in, or pub lished with, any other p. riodical paper, or in or with any pamphlet or literary work." The omnibuses and steam boats are becoming as regularly recognised media for advertising as the " advertisement vans." The "external paper-hangers" pay tribute to the proprietors of sheds, blind wall., &c., in favourable situations, to obtain the exclusive use of them for posting bills. Innkeepers, bikers, all shops, and houses of public resort, lend themselves to afford facilities to the advertising public for love or for " a con-si-de-ra-tion." Any one and every one is at liberty to add some extra gains to his regular profession by becoming an advertiser, except publishers of " gazettes and other newspapers, other periodical papers, and pamphlets or literary works." The advertisement duty is one to which the capitalists engaged in literary and poli tical publications are alone subjected, while every other class in society is exempted from it. Of the 139,963/. yielded by the advertisement duty in 1106, it is no exaggeration to say that two-thirls were extorted from those who, straggling with the difficulties of beginning life, had their efforts crippled by it, or from those who, having lost their all or nearly their all, could still worse afford it. And the indirect check which every such tax must Wipee upon the extension of any business affected by it, is confined to the capitalists engaged in the publishing trade, all others being exempted from the operation of the tax. THERE are several circumstances connected with the fall of AIID-LL-KADER which should render it a subject of congratulation not only to the French, but to the people of other countries. The not merely de feat, but extinction of the Emir, must strike all the tribes of that vast region with the conviction of the utter inutility of resisting a power so rich in all the means and materials of war. The abandonment of resistance on the part of the tribes will take away all pretext for keeping up military establishments and force, and under the influence of the Chamber of Deputies, which is eager for a civi lised colony, Algeria may cease to be a place d'a'mes and a erne of disquietude to other countriss. Another thing, shown by ARD-EL-K %DER's capture, is the effective vigour of the Empire of Morocco. It was hi.herto represented as in a state of decadence, the Emperor with no power over his fanatic subjects, and no army which could be brought into the field even against the Arab Emir. We now find, on the contrary, that it is ABDERRAIIMAN who has effected whit Marshal BCOEAUD and the Duke D'AVSIALE utterly failed in effecting there, V 2., the final rout and re duction of AIM-EL-KAM& It would appear, in deed, as if the French defeat of the Moors at the battle of Isle had awakened the spirit of the Morocco government, and roused it to that joint policy of pru dence and exertion best calculated to preserve its in dependence. Henceforth a common degree of quiescence will enable the possessors of Algeria to make the fair ex periment of its worth. The French still entertain hopes of the success of military colonisation. So eager are their authorities on behalf of this favourite scheme of Marshal Bees:AMA, and eo annoyed at the utter failure of all attempts of the kind, that it was seriously meditated to remove the seat of at least military government from Algiers to Illidah, thus to effect by the expenditure and patronage of a capital, what colonisation alone could not achieve. We need not say that this would be an unfair trial. The plains of Africa have often indeed been reaped and sown, and even exports of corn have come from its barren soil. But this was the sowing of men's lives to produce ears of corn. A slave popu lation was employed in cultivation, and the culture flourished, like the sugar plantations of modern days, as long as slave labourers could be replaced as fast as worn out. But with the extinction of the old classic slave-markets expired the fertility of Africa, which, in thus ceasing to grow corn, relapsed to its more natural character of the kenum arida nutria. It is one of Louts PHILIPPE'S usual pieces of good fortune to have quelled his African foe and brought home the modern Jugurtha in chains at a time when years are at least abating his own vigour and turning his foresight rather to a successor's policy than tohis own. The French King has, indeed, wisely got rid of all far and transmarine causes of quarrel. 'I he ques tion of Oceania is at rest. POMARE, like ARD-EL KADER, has, bowed the knee. The rivalry of France and England in the Plate has received orders from the highest authorities to cease. The aims and anx ieties of the French government are concentrated at home, or at least do not extend beyond the countries and courts of Europe which border upon France. We cannot say that here either the usual good for tune or prudence of Lows PlllntrrE have been con spicuous. Every month the French court weaves fresh webs and ligaments around the Spanish court and govern ment, and every month this same Spanish court and government break them, and put the King of the FRENCH, his minister, and his diplomacy to infinite trouble to repair and re-knit these links. Some weeks since, there were grounds for hoping a recon ciliation and accordance of views, with respect to Spain, of France and England. These hopes have, for the present, disappeared ; and there is every prospect of Louis Pommes bequeathing to hie grandson a second war of succession. Know ing, however, that England of herself will engage in no rush struggle, the whole effort of the French court and government is directed towards flattering and winning the eastern and absolutist courts of Europe. No sacrifice is too great, or too base, no recantation and disavowal of liberalism too broad for this. But in this policy of winning foreign support and absolutist adhesion, the King of the FRENCH is daily weakening and risking the little hold which he possessed over the popular mind at home. Even the Chambers revolt. The very Conservatives are disgusted. And the universal remark is, that the dynasty of Orleans is endangering its possession of the throne of France, in order to grasp more surely that of Spain. Louts PHILIPPE IS, in fact, at the end of his days, playing "double or quits" appeared - - By the arrival of the Levant mail we have received papers from Athens of the 20th ult., which announce the important fact that the Greek government had at last submitted to the ultimatum of the Porte in the Mansura. affair. The Courrier d'AWnee says, that atter the receipt t Athens of the answer of the Emperor of Russia to the letters of King (Rho, the council of ministers was convened daily either at the Palace or at the ministry of foreign affairs, for the purpose of coming . to a decision in the Museums affair. It was finally decided that M. Glaraki should write to Ali Effendi the letter of apology demanded by that minister of the Porte, expressing the regret of the Greek government at the misunderstanding which bad given rise to the present differences, and requesting him to express the same regrets to M. Mussurus. This letter was delivered to M. Persiani, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, and by him despatched to M. de Titoff, the Ituesian envoy at Constantinople. The bearer of the letter, Mr. Nicludoff, left Athens on the, night of the 12th of December, on board one of the Austrian Lloyd's steamers. The satisfaction demanded' by the Porte being thus granted, it is to be hoped that the measures taken by the Divan with regard to the Greek consuls and navigation, will be revoked, and the relations between the two countries ' replaced on their old footing. Tne Ilfoniteurl aril., the official journal of the government, gives the following version of the insurrection at Patters, which was reported in general term. by I the last arrivals from Malta. This statement must, of course, be received with all the distrust due to the quarter from which it proceeds, and indeed it bears internal evidence of distortion and misrepresentation: According to this journal Captain Merenditi, commanding the irregular troops at l'atras, being a partisan of Wiese, having gained the concurrence of his subordinates and the troops, seised the person of Major Stournari, and took from him the flag of the regiment. At the head of two compa nies he then proceeded to the residence of the nomarch, er prefect, who being absent, the house was pillaged. They tee n went to the Austrian consulate, where the prefect w a j suspected to have taken refuge. This house was also pit- I lager!. They next proceeded to the reeideece of the sue cureale of the bank, whom they compelled to surrender to them the sum of 120,000 drachmas. They next went to I the treasury of the government, from which, however,' they were repulgAl by the regular troops in charge ofj the place. They returned the following day . with in creased force, and succeeded in seizing it, but in the in -1 terval the specie deposited there had been carried away and placed iii the charge of the British consul. The barracks of inn regulars were next attacked, and, alter two days' resistance, surrend red. An attack was then made on the Castle of the Mores, where a great quantity of arms and ammunition was known to be deposite I. The citadel of Paints was attacked, and, after some resistance, our reed. red. Merenditi was now in possesaion of the place, and made come dispositions for its defence. Meanwhile, however, the nernerch, who at the commencement of the affair had es caped from the city, had raised a few hundred men in the surroueding country, who were united with a company of regular infantry. With these he attacked the town. The siationsl guard remained neuter; but it is said that some of the inhabilants took part eeriest the insurgents, who were at length reduoed to 51 men, 15 of whom were woundei. Ultimately these, finding resistance impraciesble, were re ceived on boanl a British war steamer moored is the har bour, and 34,000 drachmas were deposited by them with the British annul. The noruarch demanded the surrender of the refuge...a and the treasure. The Br:tish commander de clined either until he should receive swat re front the British minister et Athens. The steamer transported the insurgents to %ante. Such nrc the facts as rt•la'ed by the Athens govern ment official journal, which adds that the next mail was anxiously waited for to bring further intelligence of the final issue of the affair. The Chamber of Deputies of Athens had autho rised the government to appoint thirty-five new eenators, for the purpose of creating a majority in that assembly in favour of the ministry. The ministry had resolved to demand of the Chambers en authorisation to indemnify the National Bank fur the losses it may prove to have suffered in the tumults at Pares. FRANCE.—Paats.—SAN'INGS BANK.—The Say legs Bank of Paris has made up its accounts to Dec. 31. Its operations for the last year present the following results: ' —lt hit received in 240,450 deposits, of which 28 953 were from new depositors, the sum of 31,690,951 f. ; in transfers of receipts by the deuatunental savings banks 1,219,523 f. 19e. It has capitalised on account of depositors the int. rest in 548.211 parte, forming a total of 3 013,672 f. It has mole 112,616 reimbursement', of which 30,418 were in full, to the amount 41,251,218 f. 65c. ; 1,601 transfers to the departmental hanks, amounting to 1,128,8701 30c, and in purchases of 222,4201 of rents. i.t the desire of d. positors, costing the sum of 5,260 , 005 f. 30e. On December 31 it held 80,146,3511 &lc., due to 138,449 de positors. This statement, as contested with that of 1810, incites a reduction of 11,718,3011. 74c. in the amount due to deposit .rst ; but the sums employed in the purchase of notes, and the repayments made in order to redwe the deposits within thu amount limited by the law of June 22, 1841, h iving riseo together to the Burn of 8,295,353 f. 45c., it follows that the real reduction impteable to circum stances has been, in fact, only 3,422,910 f. 29e. The conclusion is therefore warranted thst the dearness of p 'one has exercised a less disastrous influence over the dep.sitors in the Savings Bank than has been feared. Anothi r fact not less remarkable is that the number of depo sitors b a decreased by only 1,459; for, on the Ist of January, 1817. it was 184,908, and was still on the 31st December 183,449. In this last number is to be reckoned, it is true, the .1,000 workmen who recently participated in the first instalment of the legacy left by M. B. Delessert. It will be recollected that M. B. Udmurt bequeathed to the Savings Bank of Paris 150,000 E, to be enipt”yed in opening 1.000 accounts of 50f. e,ch during three years to so many work men as would engage not to draw say part out of them, or otherwise dispose of them, tor two years, adding in the mein time such savings as they might be able to make. DIME. DP. GENLIS'S OPINION OF MME. ADELAIDE. —Madame de 0. nlis, who, as is known, was the governess of the King and Madame Adelaide, speaks as follows of the late r in her " Legions d'une G.,uvernante i sea Elie's," which were published in 1791 : " I can say with truth that never knew a single defect in Millie. d'Orleans. She had, naturally. a lively piety and every virtue. She committed faults; hut, I repeat, she had no defect, that is to ray, no had inclination, no bad dominating quality. I have no inte re,t of self-love in admi:tinz this truth, for I should have had touch greater merit in having well educated her if na ture had not given her such a perfect character. She had mental power, and that power resembled greatly that of her brother. It had particularly the qualities offinessc and proeos, which, united to virtue, to reason, and to beauty, made her a person as amiable as she is affectionate in the in timate relations of life." EItMANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, I)Ee. 30. The assembly of the committees of the State. (Auretehiine) of Prussia commenced on the 29th, undcr the presidency of Count von Schwerin, Count von Arnim lotting been pre vented by Muse from presiding. CIIILE.—We have a file of the Arauratio paper of Santiago de Chile to the 16th of October, via 'Panama, by the Wt at LAM steamer, but the contents consist almost entirely of reports from the corresponding ministers on the affairs of the treasury, of religion, public instruction and the colotruction of roads vicanul and highway. The republic wan in peaceful progress. COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. GUIANA.—Our dates from this colony, by the Severn, are to the Bth of December. The domestic intelli gence, though on the whole satisfactory, is not of mark. The recent announcement of the intention of the Dutch govern ment to open the ports of Surinam to general commerce im parts an interest to the following statement and commentary which we find in the Guiana Royal fia:ifte of 2.5. h Nov. : There is a report in circulation that the Dutch govern ment have at length resolved to emancipate the slaves in the neighbouring eolony . of Surinam, and in the other possessions , owned by Holland in the West Indies. Whether there is any foundation for this report we know not. Probably there may be no more truth in it than in the many similar ru manes of like kind that we have heard almost every year since the abolition of slavery is the Briti.h West Indies. We think it, however, worth while to mention the report, because the principle on which it is said the government of Holland have determined to proceed is not devoid of interest to our selves at the present moment, and because, moreover, though diametrically opposed to the principle on which Great Britain proceeded, it has in its favour the sanction of anti quity and experience. The secret of the difficulties experi enced in the British West Indies since 1838 has not so much consisted in the bare exchange of servile for free labour, and the substitution of money wages in the room of the expenses of maintaining the slave, as in the want of an attachment to the soil, and of steady local connexions on the part of the emancipated peasantry. Foreigners very clearly saw this from the beginning ; and our own government have at length become alive to the same truth, as is manifest enough from the desire latterly evinced in Downing-street to introduce into these colonies, as regards coolie and other immigrants, some general system 'of indectureship, which would have the effect of binding those classes to particular spots for definite and calculable periods. Now, the pima stated to be in contemplation by the Dutch government is not, in setting the slave free, to release him from local obligations to his former master ; but, in giving him a reasonable degree of indulgence, to bind him to devote a portion of his labour to the plantation to which be formerly belonged as a Aare, in return for the fair and current rate of wages to which as a fr;eman ho may become entitled. Incorrigible idleness, vagrancy, and depravity are to reduce him, for longer or shorter terms, according to the degree of his offence, to his former condition of servitude. In this there is nothing which is not quite in accordance with justice as well as policy. Under an entirely free system the same bad quali ties reduce the citizen to the servitude of some convict settle ment, a servitude far more severe than the slavery of any plantation. One advantage which would result from the rumoured scheme of the Dutch government would be the avoidance of a source of embarrassment and disorganisation, which has been found to operate since 1838 to a most inconvenient extent in the British West India co lonies. We mean, that the heavy expense attendant upon increased p 'lice establishments, enlarged convict settle ments, and an ampliated administration of criminal justice, for all of which, owing to the increase of public crime since the emencipation it has been found necessary to make pro vision in the British colonies, will be saved by the cape- dient, at once sensible and jur, attributed to the govern ment of Ilelland. The el&ct of that expedient will be, that crime will not injure society : it will merely injure the cri minal. The criminal, by committing crime, will not de prive society of his labour: on the contrary, he will be forced to apply it in a mode in which its value wilt be most appreciated. The plantation will be the penitentiary, an establishment maintained without petting society to the expense of one ativer for the reforistaUon of the cri minal. The sentence completed, the slave reverts to his former condition of a freeman. In all this—which is PO ad vintegeous for all parties, the planter, the slave, the colony, the mortgagee, the government, the home manufacturer — there seems to as to be an almmt infallible guarantee for the smooth working of the emancipation experiment in the co lonies of Holland. Indeed, a passion very strong in every breast, and by no means dead in that of the peasant of the tropics, self-interest, will be so powerfully appealed to, under the system above indicated, in behalf of the welfare of so ciety, that tnere can be little doubt an to the success of that system. Care of course must be taken that the freeman shall not too easily sink into the condition of the slave for offences of a trivial character, although there can be no deny ing that court* of juotioe are in all countries in the habit of depriving individuals of their liberty tor long periods of human existence, on account often of offenc , s Visit a mild disposition would deem sufficiently rebuked by a grave ex position of error, and admonition to better conduct. Bet that such care will be taken by the Dwell government we cannot for a moment doubt, since nothing less can be ex pected of those who, without the least compul-ion, consent to a social revolution in their colonie s for the sake of humanity." TRINIDAD.—The dates from Trinidad are to the Bth of Dec. We find the following statement respecting the measures adopted in this colony with reference to the stop page of the West India Bank in the Port of Spain Gaulle. ' We regret to state that io consequence of very mischiev ous, and we h..ve every reason to believe wholly unfounded, reports, circulated here with regard to the stability of the batiks, one of them, the West India, after in vain striving, during several days past, to r.store confidence by large payments of specie across its 'minter, has been compelled to decline opens payments until a fresh supply of that desirable article can he obtained from some of the numerous quarters from which we understand measures have been taken to procure it. In the meantime the merchants of this town hive come forward, in laudable imitation of a similar step adopted, under similar eircumstancre, at Itarbedurs—and have signified their readiness to receive payment of out standing accounts and settlements in West India Bunk notes. We trust this measure, and others which we under stand are afoot, will be sufUent to restore confidence. In this all parties an interested, the merchant just as much as the planter. Fur if the circulation, by a general rejection of bank notes, is restricted to specie, all must suffer from the known scarcity of that article. and the general stagnation of business, which will be the infallible consequence.' The same journ..l thus comments on the report of the dis solution meeting of the Trinidad Rally iy Company, which had been received by the last mail: "Tee directors report, and the speech of the chairman, are replete with the ehamelt falsehood and daring charges to the discredit of the Legiele tive Conned and the colony generally, which hare been fully and frequently disproved in the various journals of the island, and to whieh the enthusiastic character of the railway meet ing g.ves the crowhing disproof as to the public feeling towards the project of a railway for Laic island. One feature, Ihowever, of tne meeting is exceedingly gratifying, namely, the unanimous desire felt by the shareho!dere that in the event of the railway being carried on I under more favourable eireunneances, the preference I for Cie shares should he given is the shareholder' in the late company. This circumstance, we repeat, is gratifying, as proving the assertion of Mr Curtis, that the shareholders only wait the demonstration of the strung feeling exhibited by the public of Trinidad, to come forward and complete the share list commenced in the island. Mr. Moxon, the well known wealthy member of the Stock Excbauge, suggested that the company should lie in ewy ance fur three year., in order that the shareholders might aval themselves of any change which might transpire; and when the information now in transit for England arrives, there can be little doubt, the opinion of the shareholders and the public will be strongly expressed on the subjeet of Trini dad railways, and that Mr Curtie's exp ectations expressed at the meeting will lie realised by the sha re list being promptly filled up. One circumstance creditable to the directors of L the company must be mentioned, that they offered the plans a gift t the colony—a boon which we trust the colonists will be worthy of, in carrying out this magnificent project." WINDWARD ISLANDS.—From Barbadoes we have journals to the Ilth of D.tember. In the Globe we find the fallowing encouraging statements relative to the West India hank: on reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen thaahe secretary of the Went India Bank, by order of the emote( directors, has requested a meeting of the share holders of that institution, resident in this island, at the Batik-buildings, on Weilneeday next, for the purpose of their appointing • joint committee of a certain number of eligible persons from their body, and • like number of the directors, to examine the state of the batik's affairs and re port thereon for the information of the shareholders and the public.' Thin is • very straight . orward proceeding on the part of the board, and one eminextly calculated to n-move all daunts and suspicions, by whomire'er entertained, of any intention existing on their parts to keep the shareholders iu the dark as to the real position of the institution. It would he perfectly gratuitous for us to offer these parties any ' emaciation under the eircums'auces, confi tent as we are that amongst them will be found many fully capable of entering into the investigation and of making the report, as pmposed in the advertisement in question; but we respect fully take leave to observe to the public at large, teat in • monetary crisis, it behoves every member of a community to assist in getting through it as reedy, as quickly, end with as little inconvenience, as possible; and it is in the power of every individual, however small his mean., to contribute his share to the public good. Na oae, we believe. who knows anything of the affairs of the West India Bank, and who may be otherwise acquainted with business iu general, but is convinced that whatever may be the fate of the, share holders,—the holders of its notes, and those who keep ac counts there, are perfectly safe from loss ; but whilst the batik is repl Dishing its coffers wilt specie, let the commu nity in general, as well as the customers of the hank, con tinue to receive their Rotes in payment ; for even if they can not perfect new contracts with them, they can pay off their old ones ; and, as we are all generally mutually indebted tine to another, including the bank, they will serve as a me dium of general liquidation, somewhat in the manner in which that operation is carried on by the London banks daily, at their clearing house. In speaking of the powitmlity of the shareholders losing, we ace far from imagining that such will be the case; but, on the contrary, we contioently expect to see them again continue to receive handsome dividends, if the present eri-is should prove, as we consider it, merely transitory, having no doubt of the bank being soon in a position to resume active operations again, and even with a greater certainty of future prosperity-, from the touch of adversity which it has just felt. It is most gra tifying to its to be enabled to state that the' labour, is., in all parts of the country from which reports have reached us, are conducting themselves in the pre eat monetary crisis which has fallen upon the island in the most exemplary and praise worthy manner; on several estates they have voluntarily offered to accept of 12i cents for their day's labour, and on • °then they have proposed to their employer. to give them food in lieu of • certain amount of wages, and that they will cheerfully wait for the cash balance until such time as specie , again becomes plenty in the colony. This proves the exist ence of the hest feeling between the proprietors mid the la. , bourers—is highly creditable to both parties,—and to the public journalist a most pleasing fact to record." In the St. Ltwia Palladium we find the commencement of a report oh the proceedings before the court of inquiry into the disputes between Col. Torrens and Judge Reedit,. The report is, however, so defective, in addition to its being incomplete, that we must decline the risk of Riving incor rect statements in attempting to abridge it. There can be little doubt but the official report of the proceedings, to gether with the decision of the court, will be called for by parliament. Col. Torrens has returned to this country, and will of course have an opportunity of stating his own cue at the Colonial-office. Judge lieddie applied fur home leave, in order that he might enjoy the same advantage, but was refused by the officer administering the government. NEW ZEALAND. We are in receipt of Auckland papers to the 19th of September. The legislative council was in scssinn, and busy with the Marriage Bill. There was an active and strenuous, if not numerous, opposition to the council : out of doors, however, it was thought by unbiassed met to be quite as much the representatives of the land-sharking Interest as of the Auckland settlers. A rope-walk 540 feet in length, completely roofed in, had been established by Mr. Robinson, at Mechanic's Bay (Auckland). It was in full operation, and had produced inter alia a first-rate flax c hle, weighing about 18 cwt., for the copper works at Kawan. The Inflexible had just returned at the date of the latest accounts from a cruise undertakes to fix a site for the newly-arrived pensioners. Governor Grey had resolved to locate them in some suitable situation at a distance from Auckland. This had occasioned considerable dissatisfaction in the northern capital. The inhabitants said that Earl Grey had meant the pensioners to be lecated in the vicinity of the town, with a view to its defence in case of necessity. They added, that the difficulties in the way of finding such a site, arising from the penny and ten-shilling an acre pre-emption claimants, had been exaggerated by the governor. It was also objected that the removing the pensioners to a distance from already existing settlements was making them suffer for the sins of the first occupants. Of the pensioners, and their view of this subject, it is said in the New Zealanelet They themselves are grumbling like burnt bears. They must feel themselves incompetent to the severe task of breaking up and subduing a new country. They . have not the stamina required, the youthful vigour of constitution needed to bear up against the fatigues and privations which are inseparable from such an undertaking ; fur they have not turned oat to be the healthy and able-bodied men pro mised in Loid Grey's despatch ; and, certainly, if we may go by the mark of the mouth, not at all under 48 years. The real boon to the colony is nut so much the c iris of min, but the families of those men, which we may suppsie to have been respectably and morally brought up, [rum the consideration that the pensions of their fathers were earned by many years of steady good conduct." INDIAN REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. . The return of the revenue and expenditure of Bn- Cali India for the last three years, presented to the Roux of Commons on the motion of Mr. Hume, shows an excess of expenditure over revenue, In 18434 of £1,139,121 In Isl11-5 of In 1845-8 of During t'le.e three years the pen revenue, the charges of collection, and consequently the net revenue, have scarcely P. 13.4 INI4-3 1115-8 varied in amount ; on the whole thore has been a slight j et _ crease in the gross rev,nue, ace iinpanied by a less ramited increase in the charges of co.locti•iu, tearing, of c nve, increase in the net revenue. Sobj..ined is a atstement erto o revenue after the allowances and a•dgnm•nts p tysnle m a, treaties or other engagements have been d , •ducred, the drugs/ of collection, and the available rovenuc for the three yew • Gears revenue. Chlrgeaufoollection. Net revenue. f 1843-4 20,200.1c1 . 3,027,C , 11454-S 1845. h The deductions under treaties, 6:c., all ,ve alluded to hen been nearly stationary ; ere..ping slowly upw.,rd , however, They amounted to 1,779.4041. In 1843.4 ; to 1,639,2291. in 1841-5 ; and to 1,8.59,2201. in 1845-6. The receipts from the six principal sources of revenue, and the charges of collecting each, are shown by the t wo following tables : OKO' 1.1031.1.. 11443-4. 1841.5. 1845 E, Z Z E Land revenue Muter, Akburry, 48e 810,349 ... &36,453 _ mom Custom. • intludingduty on 11410 Hale of salt 9,137,329 ... 2 . 19 4 CM - 1 , 877 .212 Opium madopiumpesees 1,47.1,313 ... 1,14..0,1 ts ... 3,354,377 fuboteo 7,4,814 .. .9,823 . . 5.1,44$ _....... —.—. .—.—..- - - Cif 04 (11L1.11. 110 S. Laud revenue, Sayer, Altharry, ....... . 1,601,600 .. 0.3.3 . • I,3es,nt - - 40 2,399 ... 120,4_14 ... Ity vs., Cost and charges of salt iyz 3n9,1-4 Cog Iteharxesofupium. ... 626,78 n 72643 7 Costrzeharliesuf tonna. 21,173 ... 18,673 This shows an upward tendency in the returns from nil these sources of revenue, secosupsnied (except in the ease et opium) with* steady th.nigh n large decresse in threes, pi collection. The returns of the stamp duties, the item cf revenue next in importance, s..or a richer different stated offers: Grow receipt. Chime nt collodion. 11414 /:(11,061 £22,796 1144-5 417,43 ., 23.2311 11 15-6 408,1419 In this case a downward tendency in the return is RMS. panted by a steady incrmeo in the char. es of collection. There is a continuous decrease in V., Mint duties : whisk amounted to 121,032 f. in 1883.4 ; to 1103,459 f. in 184445- and only to 72,1161. in 184.56. This is neciinarity and; able source of income ; bat ii•lluckily the exp,iis -s hire ben creeping up while the returns haze been falling off. Ty Mint charges amounted in 1813-4 to 56,7= (newly ma. half of the receipts) ; in 1814-5 they ros • to 72,2441. (rather more than two-thirds); ant in 1815-G they re, ironed nearly stationary at 72,1871 (a trade nt:tre than ye receipts). The post-office returns show an increase in the collecting. accompanied by an increase (less in proportion, however) in the charges;— 1R43-1 Ih4l IKu, cblteecicb•. 1: ICA,. i 4.1 174,910 Charges. 5173,174 17n.r 133,,;43. The increase in the expenditure already noticed - Vitali both in the English and Indian diaburseraeuts, but to greater amount in the former: — he; Chorine Disburned in built. in Engird'. 18434 ..... Cls,.sAti43 .C1,94,073 11144-S 1845-6 Total. - C 18,614916 1 '. 04 g. 6 0 19.107,795 In the charges of the civil and political establishments there is a downward tendency in the revenue, whichie praiseworthy, if not tffect,sl at the coat of diminished efficiency:— £1,647,281 I,sri7,‘Sin 1,65,,1305 There are on the other hand three items of in , !ial expen diture in which tlavre is au incee.‘se, but r.g..rdel which there is a presumption in favour of the propriety of the augmentation as indicating more liberal expenditure, for the purpose of adding to the efficiency of the courts of law and the police: Supreme court, and local courts 1013-1. 1041-5. 1811.4. under kit jurisdiction 1:181,223 .C 104,601 Sadder, provincial, and salon court, 1,148,090 ... 1,171,210 ... 1,109,097 Provincial police On the other hand there are two items on which the de crease of expenditure appears to indicate a degree of inja rims parsimony. The expenditure on public works has been decreased, although India is so much in need of better com mon roads and railroads ; and the navy, marine, and pilotage charges are eurtailet, though previtnnly brought to an inja. riously low figura: Buildinge, rsada, gm. inclusive 1013-4. 1844-S. 18134 et repairs). £120,304 £13.5,201 £169,44: Pilotage, he. The accounts of Singapore and the Straits settlement show an excess of revenue : Revenue. Churn. 1811-4 ....... £72,621 .0.1,018 1014-8 69.137 011,47.1 1643-4 71,160 64,123 When in addition to these returns, the flourishing condi tion of Singap , re and the prospects of the other sentential' are taken into account, a wish is irresi‘tib:y inspired that the Colonial-office would taco a leaf out of the books of t h e East India Company. There is also an excess of revenue from the territory ceded by the Burmese 1811-4 1814-5 1845-6 11, WIMP. 1;173,532 164,915 171,,5e3 .1:11.;,444 1116,510 101,423 But very different is the balance in '• Young Egypt," es &lode has been sarcirtically denominated. litre is the date of affairs in that acquisition : Revalue. Charges. 11143-4 ....... •. 87,072 £718,404 1844.5 258,913 318,831 1345-8 282,377 ..... 84u,405 It is worth while analysing, as far as the details give& will permit, the expenditure on this costly acquisition: Total War Chit Renex. charge,. charges. charters 1843-4 ........1718,144 1621,372 ... .08,942 ... 187,932 111144 348,331 ... 362,899 ... 1 8 2,932 .., 231,943 1845-8 ... 640,403 ... 347,447 ... 294998 ... 262,377 This statement, however, do. s not show the whole of what Scinde costs the Company. The ordinary• military charges not being distinguished in the Indian statements, it is impas sible to say how much of them are attributable to this province. The increase in the E.vliah disbursements is mainly re ferable to an increase in the furlough and retired pay to military and marine ,ffieers, and to the augmented expends. tare for the extension of steam communication. Teen is aa increase for 1815-6 in the invoice value of storm consigned to India, which is probably accidental and temporary. Ia the interest on the home bond debt there is an increase, bat a decrease in the amount of dividends to proprietors of India stock 1844-3 1813-6 Intermt on home Dividends. debt. C59,3u3 64,349 ti2,ou9 69,271 623,163 Cbt Court. WINDSOR, MONDAT.—Prince Lowenstein and the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn took their depart's . , from t►e Castle to-day. The Duke of Cambridge enjoyed the sport of shoot ing yesterday forenoon in Richmond-park. Ihe Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Sophia yesterday. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Trearury. The commissioners present ware the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-Governor. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General, was in at tendance. Mr. Justice Wightman had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood arrived in town yesterday, from the seat of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn-abbey, B e dfordshire. The rigkt hon. baronet and Lady Mary left town in the afternoon on a visit to the Marquis aad Marchioness of Lawsdowne, at Bowood park, Wiltshire. Despatches for the Governors of the West India Colonies, and for the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta, and also for the Lord High C,mmissioner of the lonian Islands, were sent off from the Colonial-office on Saturday evening. THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD. The following letter hes be addressed to the Bishop of Salisbury : " My Lord,—As one of those who had, previously to reading your letter of the 29th ult., supposed that your vote in favour of Dr. Hampden at Oxford, in 1839, im plied a belief that the opposition to his appointment as Itegius Professor was ill-founded, I stand corrected for believing that your recent remonstrance was in consistent with your former judgment. Still I am at a loss to reconcile the entire proceedings of your lord ship with the view you now declare yourself to have uniformly entertained. Soon after your silent, but now explained vote, you were selected by the same ill judging patron who had promoted Dr. Hampden, for your present high position ; and one of your first acts was to reject from ordination three gentlemen of Brasenose College, whe, in consequence of the injunctions of the head of their college, Dr. Gilbert (now Bishop of Chichester), did not produce a certificate of attendance on Dr. Hampden's lectures. You now say that, notwithstanding your silent vote, you always entertained sentiments at variance with those attributed to Dr. Hampden; and would have pre vented his appointment, had you been able, in 1839. 1 do not understand whether you share in attributing these opi nions to him, but, presuming you do, why have insisted on Dr. Hampden's certificate then ?—if you do not, why 61I1C tion the calumny now I—l remain, my lard, your obedient servant, B. D. °to:v.—Oxford, Jan. 1. " A correspondent, whose letter we subjoin, show: that the consent of the dean was not legally necessary to toe doe elec tion of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford. Sir,—The objection made by the Dean of Hereford to the election of Dr. Hampden, on the ground of the non assent of the dean, will be found baseless on reference to 33 Henry VIII. c. 27, which enacts that all peculiar statutes and rules whereby the majority may be let or hindered by the minority, contrary to the form, order, and cou.se of the common law, shall be void and of none effect. The persona called by the dean "honorary canons " are not so; as the dean surely ought to know. The act of 4 and 5 Vic., c. 99, declares in what cathedrals there shall be honorary canons, and does not name Hereford. The gentlemen are non.resi dentiary prebends, having all the rights but not the reve res of their predecemon, 3 and 4 'Vie. c. 113. Whether they have a right to vote in the chapt:r depends on the fact whether or not the old now-residentiory prebends were part of the chapter.—Commore Lew.