The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-24 00:00:00

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The mat ter the Sessile, th e River Plato, Monis Wks Powwow Wes Dads MAW% lad BUMS Ayres will be aids up ea IP, *wig WS, 4lk hoary. •• r ( TO COITZSPONDINTI. eleadoulleminte Weeded " TTP.T4" ...UT rt....a aildia epee. 114.•46Tarest , TT T. •lelork es dm do TlT...Tendon. NICK WATIB A? LONDON saufloe. Tuts D • - orabtg, 17&. vibe 7; Afterbook 44 I. oast I. T4-ge.44.4-414•41144. S sta. pea Altenom 4444 4. LONDON, FRIDA Y, DEC. 24. ALL those journals, whose principle and anxiety it is to strengthen the arm of government, and to develop administrative power rather than popular liberties and control, are highly . laudatory of the new parliament and of its short session. It displayed such firmness, such resolution, such readiness to adopt every ministerial suggestion, and to indulge every government wish, that the new parliament is pro nounced by the governmental writers to be, what a certain French Chamber of Deputies was called, the introurable. Having announced and penegyrised this halcyon state of things, these writers proceed to the very idle inquiry, as to why parliament was called together so soon. Could it be for the currency—when ministers declared themselves in favour of the stub quo, and thought the old law, with its imperfections aad ex ceptions, the best that could be devised? To talk of an indemnity was what no one bad the face to do. The passing of the Irish Crime and Outrage Bill was, we admit, of some imminence and use. For, whatever may be its effect on the peasantry of disturbed die tricts, it has certainly acted as a petard applied to the Irish semi-repeal societies and parties, which met at the Rotundo and elsewhere. These it has certainly caused to explode to all different points of the compass, throwing Mr. Gitarrast and the Irish landlords into the arms of the government and coercion, con signing some sixteen of the gentlemen, composing the rump and tail of the ultra-Irish party, to their original paucity and insignificance, and sending the philosophic and speculative repealer home to his quiet closet, to despair of his crotchet, and to meditate on the evanescence of all great popular ideas. As a social remedy, and as the endowing of the Irish administration with a new muscle, the Crime and Outrage Bill has yet to be tried. But as a political measure it needs no further trial : its eno cese has been most surprising and most amusing. Nevertheless, ministers were not likely to call par liament together for the sake of discomfiting Mr. lons O'CONNELL, nor yet for completing the other half of Irish roads, nor for giving railway companies an extension of time to purchase lands. Ministers appear to us to have called parliament together thus early for the important purpose of feeling its pulse and studying its temperament mad aspect, before they decided upon their line of policy and upon their budget of measures for the year. There never was a general election that gave less indication of what kind of a parliament or ma jority it would bring together. And had ministers convoked it for the first time in February, it would have been utterly impossible to have decided what course they should steer. They must have been alike ignorant of where was the deep current, where the shoals and obstacles, of how they were to anchor, and when to tack. The short session has enabled minis ters to make soundin4s—to become acquainted with winds and tides. And it is pretty certain that ministers have found the navigation altogether more easy than they had expected. Never, in fact, did a parliament appear so contented and debonnaire. The oil members seemed so satisfied to get back, and the new members to get ia, that any thing like ill-humour, except with that great scape goat of the day, Ireland, was quite out of the question. First came the currency question, as to whether the great commercial public ehould manage one of its own most vital affairs, its medium of exchange, or whether government should manage it according to a particular theory. On this the feeling seems to have been, that if government knew little, parliament knew less. And the great maxim of tory-radicalism, that en en lightened dictatorship is best in all things, rallied too many of the wavering and half-informed liberals to currency and PEEL. The same maxim was quite predominant in the consideration of the Irish bill. Leave it all to govern ment and the police. Like the old Romans, when too much hurried, or perplexed, or frightered, the unfailing remedy was to appoint a dictator, though it were but to drive a nail. ow, what we fear ie, that this extreme kindness and courtesy, sad acquiescence, in the first days of the new parliament, may prove but a deception—that they may proceed from mere newness to the situation and to the business, and that all this disregard for popular liberties may end in very pragmatical stickling for them—that all this delicacy in interfering with the behests of government may turn to the oontrary ex treme of intermeddlirig, and this apparent recklessness of expense may turn to stinginess and parsimony. As to the ministry, it evidently counts upon a par lament not over jealous to guard the public liberties or the public purse. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is not a minister to take any extreme advantage of such a spirit. But it is pretty evident that one result of the short session will be a great in crease of the police force in Ireland, and of the military force throughout the empire. Ministers feel that they can count on parliamentary adherence to whatever they deem useful. Ten thousand artillery men will therefore walk into the Chancellor's budget, with fortifiratione and floating batteries, and perhaps with Sir Jolts BUBOOYNE'S 30,000 men to guard the south-east coast against the terrible Frenchmen. Having thus been so amiable in the items of ex penditure, this firm and wise parliament must of course find corresponding items in the revenue. War expenses will need war taxes, or the extension of the war taxes we have at present. Either this will be the case, or parliament will sensibly change its humour. It came in liko a lamb in November : per haps it may go out like a lion in July. And had it been less of a lamb at its autumn birth, it might have been spared the necessity of being grim hereafter. We have said it before, and we repeat it now, par liament wants &rational opposition, than which there can be nothing more indispensable or useful to go vernment. Without it, parliament will inevitably oscillate from inane good humour and acquiescence, such as marked the short session, to groundless jea lousies and benne of discontent ; while this fickle ness will have the unfortunate effect of first leading a ministry astray, and then sacrificing it unjustly for vriat was as much the fault of parliament as its own. ~! ... .' .. TER differences between the rights of people and the claims of princes, the struggle of the liberty of thought and of its expression, against the pretensions of churchmen to stifle it both in youth and man, have formed beneath the apparent repose and quiet surface of Europe a continuation of volcanic fire, which, sup pressed or exhausted in ono spot is sure to break forth from another crater. Portugal is on fire one day, Spain another. Italy has its throes, and the convulsion of Switzerland was till a very short time since of a violence, which tempted statesmen and i potentates to interfere, and seek to quench the flame. We will do the German potentates in general the justice to say, that they are now more prompt and clearsighted to perceive the signs of the times, and that they are anxious to conciliate public opinion, instead of stifling it by bayonets. The general senti ment, even of the courts of Germany, was decidedly against France and M. GUIZOT is their proposed dragonade against Switzerland. Thus we we the present moment chosen by the King of BAVAILIA to modify or mitigate his law of censorship, declaring ihe press free,save in certain excepted points. Baden, more liberal and advanced than Bavaria, is removing the fetters of its censorship. Whilst the Ring of PROP.MA, who lest year refused to grant periodical sittings every four years to his centralised Diet, has already found a pretext for summoning that body a second toss. In the midst of these gentle tendencies towards liberalism there has sprung up in the midst of Ger- - .w. , THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1847. porations, the eatered-for of sewer commissioners, the sacrificed-to at select vestries, the pampered of poor law guardians, than followed front cholera, in the year of its worst visitation. There is at this moment in London a form of typhus as malignant and fatal as the plague of Cairo or Alexandria. But the grim guest has been housed among us so long, that we are broken in to his presence, and tolerant of his ravages. We have grown familiar with his ghastliness, as the Egyptians with the skeleton at their banquetting tables. But few of as ever see fever at work. The parish doctor tracks him hardily, but use has deadened him to suffering. Here and there one, at once more sensitive and more energetic than hie fellows, astonishes the every-day world of newspaper readers with a sample of his experienoes. The clergyman sees the pestilence busy among his poorer flock, but he has not the' science which discovers at what point, and how far, the mischief is preventible. But the mass of men, even if they do cast a careless eye over the registrar's re pert, or perforce have obtruded on them some of the increasing flock of sanitary publications, pass the documents by with a shake of the head and a trite re mark on the unhealthiness of the season, and go their way to business or pleasure without ever dreaming that the figures they have just read concern, in the remotest degree, their own health or their own pockets. It is true that what is everybody's business is nobody's business, in sanitary matters as in all others. There must be a special machinery to do the work necessary for preserving the public health, as there is one for attending to individuals when they are sick, or supplying them with food when they are well. Agitation is wanted, not to take the place of such a machinery, but to enforce its establishment on a willing government, and 'to neutralise the efforts of a set of mischievously obstructive local bodies. And, until every town possesses its board of health, and its compact local board of sanitary administration, su perintended and aided by central authority, it bewmes every man who understand' the po , pular wisdom of such phrases, as "Prevention is better than cure," " A stitch in time saves nine," and " penny-wise is pound-foolish," to lend the weight of his wits, and his means, to the forward ing of all sanitary improvements and the establishment of permanent sanitary boards. Now that a bishop has taken up the subject, it must be voted a " great fact." The gig of respectability is an ignoble vehicle in com parison with the sober episcopal chariot, with the mitre on its panels. Now that CHARLES JAMES LONDON has spoken from Fulham, let us hope that Lambeth at least will no longer remain an epprobrium for filth and unhealthiness, even among metropolitan parishes. Why should not the clergy of London and the suburbs form flush special sanitary board, to communicate and co-operate with the Health of Towns Association? The topics of the bishop's letter, though they may be novel in a pastoral charge, would be stale in our columns. They are well put, however, u they are indisputable. The text of the letter is the report of the Metropolitan Sanitary Commission. It mists, at length, on the connexion of cholera with filth and intemperance, and its non-contagious character. Much more important than the letter itself is the source from which it emanates. The episcopal blessing henceforth rests on the sani tary movement. So sanctioned, it must go on with redoubled vigour and an increased army of agents. Our Paris letters of Wednesday say that a consi derable agitation was manifested on the Bourse on that day, in consequence of a report generally circulated, and credited, that the King was very seriously indis paired. The Threes, which closed on Tuesday at 75.80, fell at the opening, on Wednesday, to 75.20, and even at the closing did not exceed 75.25. In the course of the day they fell to 74.70. Our corre spondent assures us that he has ascertained, on authority ou which he places implicit reliance, that the rumour which produced this decline was altogether destitute of foundation. The King is iu perfect health. lie transacted business as usual with M. Ouizot in the forenoon. The Queen, and most of the younger members of the royal family, were at the Italian Opera on Tuesday evening to see Alboni in " La Cenerentola," a fact which proved that no serious indisposition could have affected the King on that evening. In a word, we have the strongest assurance that his Majesty Louie Philippe enjoyed on Wednesday afternoon his usual good health. The report had its origin, no doubt, in the fact that a concert which was to have been given at court by the company of the Comic Opera, was suddenly and an expectedly, and for no known reason, postponed. Count Mole had an audience of the King at the Tuileries on Tuesday. The merchants of Bordeaux, by the organ of a special commission chosen from amongst its members, recently addressed to the President of the Council a letter, setting forth the present situation of the sugar trade, and calling on the government to take some step to settle the question definitively. The following is the reply of M. Ouizot, dated Dec. 13 : Cientlemen,—l have read with all the attention that it merits the statement which you have drawn up relative to the sugar question. The government is fully aware of the importance of that question, as well as of its difficulties. I am happy to find that you reader justice to the efforts which it has hitherto made, unfortunately without effect, to settle the matter in a manner favourable to thegeneral interests of the country. Although the proposition, which it has already laid before the chambers have not been favourably received, it will not the less persevere in eeekiug out such practical means as may be calculated to put an end, or at !cast to afford some relief, to a situation which very justly occupies your solicitude. I shall, in consequence, be most happy to learn from you what conclueions you may in the end arrive at; and, although the question belongs more especially to the attributions of the Ministers of Commerce and Finance, the advantages of a prompt solution are too evident to my eyes for my department not to eagerly co-operate in any in vestigations which may facilitate that object. The Union Monarchique contains the following:— " The Minister of Marine, we are informed, has just countermanded in two of the great naval ports, the preparations of departure commenced for several sail tog vessels, previously designated to reinforce the blockade of Buenos Ayres." The regular Madrid mail of the litk did not arrive in Paris on Wednesday, but despatches of that date were received by extraordinary express. Nothing of importance had occurred in the Chambers. The Furs announced the nomination of four ladies of honour to the Queen—the Princess d'Anglona, the Duchess &Alba, the Countess of Pino Hermosa, and the Countess of Revillajijedo. Adviors hal been re ceived from Lisbon to the 11th. The government had issued a royal order to suspend the forced circu- Ilation of the notes of the Bank of Lisbon. The journals and despatches from Rome, with the letter of our own correspondent, which we give below, to the 14th, have arrived. It is stated that very general discontent prevails in consequence of the pre dominant influence of the retrograde party in the fro vernment. Cardinal Ferretti, who is about to retire, will, it is reported, be replaced by Cardinal Bertini, who was formerly secretary of state under the late Pope Gregory XVI. Count Pietro Ferretti had left Rome for Naples, and was not expected to return. The evacuation of Ferrara, like the cup of Tantalus, continually ritreats before the hopes of the public. It is always about to take place, but still postponed. In our last despatches we ]carted that all was ar ranged, and that nothing remained but an interchange of some diplomatic formalities between the Austrian ambassador and the Pope. \%e now, however, learn that the convention signed by M. Fiquelmont on the part of Austria, and Count Bailly Ferretti on the part of Rome, has not been ratified by General Ra detski, the commander-in-chief of the Austrian army in Italy, and that in consequence of this the Austrian ambassador at Rome had expedited a courier to Vienna for instructions, until whose return all pro ceedings towards tile evacuation must be suspended. A letter from Malaga, published by the Constitu tionnel, and dated Dec. 13, gives more definite intel ligence as to the position of Abd-el-Kader. " The Spanish war-steamer Pile entered Malaga on the 12th, coming from Melilla, which she left on the Bth. She brought the news that the troops of Abderrhaman, which had, as has been stated, marched in three divi sions, had approached the camp of Abd- e l-K a d er , situated at six leagues distance from Melilla, and that an engagement would probably take place on the 13th. The Moorish troops number, it is said, 30,000 cavalry (P) and 6poo infantry (?) Abd-el-Kader has scarcely more than 3,000 men, and is under the disadvantage of being without his lieutenant, Boa Hamedt, whom he sent on a minion to the emperor. It is generally believed that the Emir will be routed, and that, being unwilling to tall into the hands of several Lamoricierc, who awaits him at the frontiers of Algeria, he will come into Melilla. The quct.tion then will be : What will the S pa niards do with him? They will probably, says the Constitutioosnel, give up the famous African chief to the French authorities." ROME, DEC. 14. After a long and stormy debate in the Vatican par liament, yesterday, the hall came to a most important vote, aod, by a majority of 20 to 4, decided that all its deliberations, speec hes, acts, and individual votes, should be published, and nothing kept unknown save on the occurrence of " most urgent motives." This is hailed by our Roman brethren of the press as an im mense step in representative government, and a dozen journals are making their arrangements for a corps of I reporters for the Vatican " gallery." The assembly I had on Saturday come to a decision that no written harangues would be listened to, and that all members i should speak their minds and transact business in the order of usual occurrence. Much applause is given to this and other " rules of the house," as indicating that the reign of mystification and political humbug is utterly passed away, and no more masks, daggers, or darklanthorns are to be used in Rome. With the exception of the Roman Adnerliser and the stupid old Mario, all the Roman newspapers re• juice in the downfall of the Swiss Sonderbund, and vindicate the measures of the new cantonal govern men'. It is well known here that all religious orders have not bees sent out of Friburg ; we happening to know that in that town there are at this moment Fran ciscan and Augustinian friars, monks of St. Bernard, Carthusian", sister Capuecines, Visitandines, Ursu lines, and hospital nuns, all in full popularity. Rome is becoming full. We have but few celebri ties here as yet. In literature we have only Mrs. Trollop! and Lady Charlotte Bury ; whereas Flo rence rejoices in Harry Lorrequer, Colley Grattan (" High-ways and By-way."), Robert browning (" Bells and Pomegranates") and his gifted wife, Elizabeth Barret, the first living poetess of England. The lovers of eccentricity are glad to know that Dyee Sombre is to be among us to-morrow, and the sculp tor Tadolini, who has been 20,000 dollars out of pocket in erecting a monster mausoleum to his grand mother (?), the Begum of Sumroo, hopes he may get repaid. This mausoleum is, by Dyce Sombre's directions, adorned with over twenty marble statues of various personages, the Begum herself, smoking her hookah in grand state on the top of the cenotaph, and Dyce (aforesaid) in full uniform standing sword in hand before her. There are angels performing various i operations, also a platoon of sepoys in black marble and a few elephants, the lout ensemble (re var) being the drollest monumental conglomeration in Europe. Where it is to be put is undecided. You are already aware that the gigantic catafalque which originally served for the funeral service per formed here in her honour, and which was paid for by Dyce Sombre, contrived "a double debt to pay," being used this year for the obsequies of Mr. O'Connell. many a esureign determined to follow in the steps of King Ran= of Hanover. The reigning family of Huse Owed his been long known for the oddity, avarioe, and capricious despotism of its princes. The events of 1830 produced a great effervescence in Hesse Cassel, which ended in the grant of a conetitu tion, the exile of the then reigning prince, lately dead, and the elevation to the regency of his son, who now succeeds to the electorate. Although this prince was raised prematurely to the throne, like Louts PHILIPPE, by a revolution which he accepted, and a popular constitution that he swore to, the Regent of Hesse Cassel has never ulna to persecute the liberals,. The virtuous JORDAN, President of the Chamber, and the chief author of the constitution, was flung intoprison, and made to linger there six long years. This prince, now Elector, has determined, like the King of HANOVER, to repudiate the constitution. The states have got over the difficulty of his taking the oath as king, by declaring that as he had already taken the oath as Regent, there was no use in repeating it. Not content with this advantage, the new Elector called on the troops to take an oath of fidelity to his person. The little army of Hesse-Cassel mustered, and mur mured and communed together. AU declared they had already taken the oath to the country and the constitution, and that if there was a new oath to take, it was for the prince to declare himself, and do so. These murmurs and the resistance frightened the general officers, and the army was informed that a new oath of fidelity to its colours was all that was demanded of it. The soldiers had no objection to this, and instantly took it. But the Elector remains angry. He has appealed, like King ERNEST, to the German Diet, against his constitution. He has seized several deputies, and caused prosecutions to be commenced against them for writing in foreign jour nals. Wleeeast vs has scorned to deny his having ' written in the Heidelberg liberal journal, and the imprisonment of JORDAN probably awaits him. These event., as may be supposed, have caused con siderable effervescence in Germany, hut, unfortunately, more in the citizen and enlightened class than amongst the lower orders. It may be necessary to state, for the information of these who do not know the secrets of the map of Germany, that the potentates of Hanover and Hesse-Cassel reign over districts in which the language of LUTIIER, of GOETHE, end of SCHILLER is, for the peasants, a foreign idiom. The Hanoverian and Hessian boors do not speak a mere patois, like the villagers in some parts of Somersetebire and Yorkshire, which is unin telligible enough to ears polite. The Low German is a language written as well as spoken, and possessing an ancient literature, to say nothing of the belief of the people (who have English taste to back them) that their dialect is euphonoue, while the Frankish is the reverse. The political result of this state of things is, that tke peasants remain in different to changes, and often to progress which does not assume a shape that immediately affects their order. An indistinct perception of a ruling and a ruled caste benumbs the political nerves of men whom accident has deprived of the Ii gitimate means of exerting intellectual power. This circumstance, which recurs in many parts of Europe, alone explains the little opposition made to the changes in Hanover, where, if the peasants had no love for Eitaesir from the knowledge they obtained of him at shooting par ties, they had yet little sympathy with the educated classes who had extorted a constitution from his pre decessor. The Elector of from another SSEL derives importance Having, like his father, married a subject, he leaves, indeed , a numerous family, but no heir to his throne, when he dies. The heir presumptive married a daughter of the Emperor NICHOLAS, and, although a widower, he is said to be entangled in the meshes of Russian politics, of which one feature has ever been the desire to assume the protectorate of the smaller German powers against the encroachments of Prussia or Austria. Berlin has never been decided in dealing with Russia, and Austria has her hands full with Hungary and Lombardy. At such a juncture does this little prince, with 700,000 subjects, think fit to throw down the gauntlet to all the constitutional states of Germany, and to abiogate popular con cessions which he solemnly guaranteed when assuming the post of CO-REGENT, in 1831, by virtue of a vote of the Diet of Representatives at Cassel. It is one mischief resulting from the con tinual playing at soldiers, in which continental princes delight, that they lose all sense of the importance of this arm which is entrusted by a confiding nation to their command, and are disposed to attempt to wield it on frivolous pretexts. Germany is, however, like Switzerland in one respect. The armies are essenti ally national, and every man is a soldier. In such cases, whatever is effected, or whatever is tolerated, must be the wish of the majority, who have the means of enforcing their will in their own hands. Should the Elector of Cassel take the lead in an anti-liberal crusade, he will lay the match to a train that promises to cause no insignificant explosion. IT is a hopeful sign of progress in sanitary matters that we see the ministers of religion coming forward iu the cause of public health. Still more remarkable is it to find a bishop addressing to his clergy a pets. toml letter, of which two-thirds are occupied with the precautions by which the possible arrival of cholera should be anticipated. It is a still more sig nificant fact, that this episcopal sanitary reformer should be COARLES JAMES LONDON. HIS grace hes always shown a disposition to plunge somewhat hastily into opinions, and often to scramble oat el them as hastily. For example, he dived into the doctrines of the formalists and symbolisers of Oxford, with as much intrepidity as an enthusiastic swimmer into the Serpentine on a breezy April morning, and scuttled out again into the high and dry land of old-fashioned orthodoxy as precipitately as the same swimmer seeking the kink, with a strong but un comfortable conviction that his plunge has been pre mature. We do not apprehend any such rapid revolution in his grace's sanitary opinions. No university has yet thought of looking for symbols in sewers, or deep doctrinal significance in drains. We have had no mischievous battle-cry of " secular sani tary measures," and " religious sanitary measures.° Fighting about words has, in this question, not yet distracted men from fighting for things. We have had no new terms, in dealing with this important subject, so fixed, to use the words of BACON, that whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the term in effect governeth the meaning." But if sani tary reform has not yet, like education, arrayed opposing bodies under misleading banners, its advo cates have to overcome the external resistance of apathy, and vested interests, all the more active fee their narrowness. It is of the greatest importance, as against both these adversaries, that the clergy should he interested in the cause of sanitary improvement. They come in contact, at many points, with that part of the com munity which suffers most from filth and pestilence. They carry into ; their agency all the weight which spiritual authority can add to benevolence and com mon sense. If they need any inducement to aid the sanitary reformer, besides those which their expe• risme of the sufferings and wants of the poor must supply, they have it in the fact that their spiritual ministrations are little better than mockery, among a population, whose habitual life puts decency oat of the queetiea, destroys self-respect, and all bat justifies intemperance. It is gratifying to think that many of the clergy have notwaited for episcopal exhor tation to commence their sanitary labour. That cause numbers few more active supporters than many of our metropolitan clergy, pastors of rural parishes like the Rev. CH klars GIUDLESTONE; labourers in gaols and towns, like the Rev. J. CLAY, the chaplain of the Preston House of Correction; and the Rev. W. J. ODOEM, whose excellent papers on the sanitary con dition of Plymouth we have Just received and read. We are pleased also to notice that in the numerous sanitary associations now springing up through the provinces, the names of the ministers of religion are ir [eort ry where prominent. And now that episcopal auction is given to such labours, they will become a of professional duty, at least in the diocese of London. The bishop bases his appeal mainly on the cholera. It is probably to the apprehensions roused by the ap proach of this dreaded visitant that we owe the marked increase lately observable both in the interest about sanitary questions, and the organisation for sanitary purposes. Whatever their spring, the effect of snob efforts must be good. But it should be re membered that fever is more fatal as an inmate, than cholera will be as a guest. We record every year more deaths from our pet plague, the caressed of cor- Mg Court. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. —The Most Rev. T. Muff grave, D.D., Archbishop of Trk, had an audience of the dueen this day in the Castle. and did homage on his trans lation to that see. The Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, her Ma jesty's Secretary of State for the Home Deportment, and the Rev. J. Vane, M A., Deputy Clerk of the Clo,et in Waiting, uaisted at the ceremony. The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. The royal family took walking and pony eget.- ' vise this morning in the grounds around the Castle. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. His Royal Highness was attended by Lord Waterpsrk, Lieut.-Col, Hon, A. N. Hood, Col. Hen. C. Grey, Col. Bouverie, and Gen. Bowles. The Queen and Prince Albert are elpected to honour the Duchew of Kent with their company at Frogmore-house this evening after dinner. Mr. G. Burnand had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Wickham, Chair man of the Stamps and Taxes, and Mr. Pressly, Secretary to the Board, had also en interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet, at his official residence in Downing-street. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last, her Majesty's royal charities were distributed at the Almonry in Whitehall to the aced and disabled poor, according to the usual custom, under the immediate direction of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, High Almoner, and the Rev. Dr. Jrlf, sub-almoner, and assistants. The number of persons ex ceeded 1,000, who received a crown each; and the Royal Gate Alms were at the same time distributed to 168 poor aged and blind persons, who received 13s. each. The Earl and Countess Grey left town yesterday for their seat, llowick-hall, Northumberland. Sir G. Grey returned to town yesterday afternoon frem Windsor Castle. Sir T. Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, and Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had interviews on Wednesday with the Chanoellor of the Exchequer. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere has left town for Brighton ; the Right Hoa. T. M. Gibson has left town fur Theberton Rouse. HER MAJESTY'S NEW YEAR'S GIFTS TO THE roc:la.—Her Majesty has just commanded that on the morning of New Year's Day a liberal quentity of provision is to be given away to nearly fi ve hundred poor families, re siding in the parishes of Windsor and Clewer; the recipients of the Queea's bounty being selected from amongst the most deserving of the needy and distressed, by the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay (her Majesty's domestic chaplain), the Rev. I. Gossett, the Rev. 111 r. Gould, and the Rev. S. Hawtrey, assisted by the churchwardens and overseers and the ladies of the visiting committee. CONVENTION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TWO DAILY MAILS BETWEEN (}BEAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE. ---- This convention, which wee ratified on Monday last, establishes the following regulations;—That after the 36t inst. the principal exchange of international or foreign correspondence shall take place twice a day. that is to say : I. On the pert of France, by Boulogne and by Calais al ternately. On the part of Great Britain, by Dover. 11. The mail by way of Boulogne shall leave Paris daily et eight in the evening, and shall re/eh Boulogne next day at four in the morning, and London at half-put ten in the morning. The mail from London by the lame route shell be despatched daily (Sundays excepted) at eight in the even ing. The mail shall he delivered to the Post-office of 800. loene next day at half-pat two In the morning, and shall reach Paris at half-past tea in the morning. 111. The m►il by way of Calais shall leave Paris daily ►t noon, and shall reach Calais at ten at night, and London at half-past four next morning. The mail from London by the same route shall be despatched daily (Sundays excepted) at eleven in the morning. The mail shall be delivered to the Post:office of Calais at rise on the evening of the same day, and shall reach Paris next day at half-past four in the morning. IV. The einveyance of the mails between the port of Dover on the one part, and the two ports of Boulogne and Calais on the other part, shall be effected, provisionally and by way of experiment, in the manner following :-1. The French packets shall oonvey the mails, out and in, between Calais and Dover ; that le to say, they shall convey the French mails to Dover, and shall bring back to Calais the Eoglish mails. 2. The British packets shall convey the mails, out and in, between Dover and Boulogne; that is to any. they shall convey the Enrlish mails to Boulogne, and shall bring back to Dover the French mails. V. The system of service established by the preceding article shall continue for one ear. At the expiration of that period it may by common consent be either modified or continued for another year, and so on. ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCILMEN. BILLINGSGATE (8).--The poll for this ward was re-opened at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and finally closed a* 4, when Mr. Ald. Sydney, M.P., announced the numbers to he as follow, : Curling (Dep.), 107 ; Williams, 108; Ro twria, 107 ; Bower, 105 ; Phillip., 101; Barnes, 104; Knill, 101; •Causton, 68 ; Piper, 67. The worthy alderman having deel.red the find 8 gentlemen duly elected, the candidates severally returned thanks, and the proceedings terminated with a vete of thanks to Mr. Ald. Sidney, Poltrsoxer.—The following is the result of the pollifig for this ward :—Wright (Deputy), 155 ; Christie, 149; Parker , 119; Jutsum, 152; Haywar d, 133; Dunferd, 108; Killby, 150 ; Thomson, 133; *Vial, 76. The first eight were declared elected. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX. Yesterday morning a meeting of the rate-payers of St. Martin's-inthe-Fields convened pursuant tea requisi tion of upwards of forty of the inhabitant househo:ders, was held in the vestry room adjoining the church, " to take into consideration the window duties, and their effect as nor& the health of the-metropolis." Mr. W. H. DALTON, senior churchwarden, took the chair, and said that the window tax was objected to, not only by rate-payers, but by every one except the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was objected to on account of the inequality of assortment, bet still more with reference to its effect in a sanitary point of view, Mr. Cosnarr read the report of the late committee of vestry which stated that although public interest in regard to the window duties had not in the least abated, and the agi tation of the subject both in and out of parliament had met with inertia/ad support, hitherto the exertions of the com mittee had not been attended with any favourable result. Changes in the administration of affairs of the country and the agitation of measures of free trade, combined with other causes, had been the reason for not priming the matter on the attention of government. Them obstructions now no longer existed, and the onoralttee trusted that in- Waal legislation would remiss its share of attention from parliament, and that all imposts whereby the health of the public is affected would be removed. The eowtruittee consi dered the time bad arrived when, with propriety, this tax might be abolished. • M. La Santo:: mooed the adoption of the report. Mr. LABARE said that es one of the committee be thought the rate-payers entitled to a more detailed amount of their pro ceedings then that contained in the report just read. They should know whet had been dens since two years ago, when they were appointed; and with their permission he would bnefly inform them. It would be recollected that they ware appointed in Mareh,lB46, taco-operate with other parishes, and to act under the guidance of Lord Duncan, who brought the matter before the legislature, but who was foiled in his object by pressing measures then before the hones. The committee. conjointly with the metropolitan delegates, bad published pamphlets on the subject of the window tax, 'simulated them in every parish, and drawn up petitions, which obtained a large number of signatures, but which were never presented. The next thing that frustrated their effort" was the change of ministry, and since then Lord Duncan had had no opportunity of bringing forward the subject until the present time. On the Bth of this month the delegates met at the Marylebone Courthouse, when it was resolved to approach the government by • formidable deputation, enlist the metropolitan members in their cause, and create as much agitation out of doors as possible. That was how the question stood at present. They must now not rest from their labours, but go to work with twofold energy. Mr. COBBITT said the only way to bring the matter before the government was as ooe of sanitary reform. When it was urged a. a question of money, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer said be could not remove so large a source of revenue. They might reasonably hope for sanitary reform when they found it one of the chief features of the royal speech. Mr. Cobbett then alluded to the recently published tables of mortality in the metropolis, showing the deaths for the week to the 11th of December to have been 2,418, while the average for the live previous years was but 1,048. There could be no doubt that influenza prevailed to a great extent; but there was no doubt, also, that something like malaria afflicted the health of the metropolis. The question of sanitary reform had certainly advanced, but sufficient was not said of the baneful effect of the window tax, of the ob. struetion of light and air. Was not the pure air sent for their health and a rength of any icaportauce / Sanitary' re form, he mei.itained, was of no use without the abolition of the window tax. Mr. Witee said that in the question of sanitary reform the government was in advance of the people. The govern ment had appointed a sanitary commission, the secretary of which was Mr. Austin, a gentleman connected with an asso ciation for improving the healli of towns, The report of this association, which must have been approved of by Mr. Austin, the government officer, stated that "the window tax operated most injuriously; it was even more injurious than the tax upon tood." The report stated, moreover, that they might rather to offer a premium to builders to let in as much light and air as possible, than to erect houses with the lowest number of windows. Mr. CUAUDIES also spoke in favour of the repeal of the window tax. As • botanist, he could affirm the importance of light to plants; and why should it not have the same effect on the human frame ; The repro.. of the committee having been adopted— Mr. ))stones, late churchwarden, moved " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the window tax is detrimental to the health of the metropolis, and should imme.iatoly be abolished." The resolution h aving been carried— Mr. Wattle mover that a petition be prepared, embody ing the above resolution, end presented to parliament by some member hereafter to be chosen, and that such petition be signed by the chairman on behalf of the vestry, and the resolution was carried. On the motion of Mr. WEFT, seconded by Mr. Le 13!:ETON, a comm,ttee was appointed to mint in the movement Ea the abolition of the window tax. JauEs WYLDB, Esq., said that having the honour of a seat in the Souse of Commons he would willingly un dertake the presentation of the petition, and would do all in his power to get the window tax abolished. lie knew some thing of the dwellines of the poor in London, especially in that parish, and consequently knew of the insu ffi ciency of light in their dwellings. He spoke chiefly of those who did their work at home. A vote of thanks was passed to the churchwarden', and the meeting broke up. METROPOLITAN ASSOCIATION FOR IM PROVING THE DWELLINGS OF THE INDUS- TILIOUS CLA&3&S. The annul meeting of the proprietors was held yesterday at the offices in Colenion.strect. Sir RALPH Howanu presided. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, Viscount hi ottPETH moved, and Vise cent EIaIISOTON seconi.ed the motion that they be confirmed, which was carried. Mr. Joseph Toynbee was then re-elected to • place at the board of directors, and Mr. llorace Wil son elected a new direeese in the place of Mr. rowlee, who retiree. Mr. Hurry was or, re-elected an auditor, Mr. C. GATLIPP, honorary secretary, then read the report, of which the following is an abstract: In the second report of the dirt ctors the shareholders were informed that an agreement fora lesse for 99 pure. at • rental of 901. per an num, had been entered into with the Brewers' Company, for a piece of mead opposite the church in the Old Pancras-road. The th rums have now the gratification of slating that the buildings are bat apinuching completion, and that the whole will be tit for habita tion arrly in February next. Tbey have also the satiefac ion of in tonsing the shareholders that, even in their present unfiabbed state, 52 sets of rooms hare been applied for. The buildings are five stories in height, • plan which was of Met conceived to be objectionable, as likely to came difficulty in letting; but the contrary has proved to be the fact, ae the whole of the rooms in the upper story, and the ms.. jority of those on the third floor have been the first selected by the applicants. This is g tributable partly to a decreased rent in propor tion to the height, and partly to the arrangements made for avoiding the neeessity of conveying anything up and down stains, except arti cle* of daily oonsurtaptioo. water being laid on, and facilities being afforded in each dwelling for the discharge of liquid and dry refuse. An itourance has been effected on time buildings to the extent of 4,0001., in the AireSt9llllo,tr Fire (gce, • sum which Is considered to be sufficient, the whole of the building being nearly fire-proof. The director. In Veir last repoetstated their inability to ado', t a satisfactory ustemof ventilation, and, in addition to the difticultyof devising a plea which could be made effeeineein abuildine not under the exclusive con trol and management of their own agents, they find that the expense would be such as to endanger the titaness of the whole plan u • remu nerative undertaklng. The staircases, however, bare been provided with Kite's patent ventilators, which, although not eupplying the houses with warm air, as aas so much desired, will, from the situ ation of the staircases in the centre ..f each house, have the effect of keeping up a contact supply of fresh air. arrangements hare been entered into with the New kiwi. Oomp.ny for a supply' of water at a oonaideratde reduction in the price usually charged. A deputation hom the directors had en interview with the Chan cellor of the F.xcheguer, on the 15th of November last, on the subject of *reduction in the window duty on three dwellings. This tea, as at present iesessed, cremes with great severity on dwellings of this elms. None of these hours hare more than four windows; were each home a separate cottage, it would la , entirely exempt from the tax ; hot bum the present mode of assessment, ten of theee dwellings an charged at the rate of a forty-wlndowed house. The deputation wen informed that if the association would submit clauses which would relieve their dwellings from the operation of the tax, and at the same time protect the revenue from ion, by parties being admitted to the exemption who let lodgings to tenants of a higher clam, or who let todeings to the working cismw without affording the like sanitary arrangements, each chimes would receive consideration. Your direo tors, therefore, feel that as your objects were appreciated and pro. rooted by the late advisers of the crown, no her Majesty's pre sent advisers see equally disposed to aid your effort/ for the improvement of the dwellings of the Industrious dames; and the directors therefore call upon the emaciation to ow their heat exertions to citable the government to carry any mesenre that may be introduced, for admitting to the habita tion. of the poor an unlimited supply of light and air. The director. beg to call the attention of the shareholders to the expediency of erecting a dormitory for single men, similar to that established in George-street, Bloomsbury, by the Labourers' Friend Society, which Imo been attended with the greatest saivese, newts every bed being occupied nightly la that establishment; but, previohaly to coming to • determination on thin point, teey wish to consult the share, holders nn • measure which will entail the neeemity of an additional call. The total number of shams which have been taken amounts to 1,101. The each aceuent of the annpony, up to the haffi of Sept. last, hushotMg • batman of Metal. Bs. id. remaining from last year, showed • total of receipt. amounting to 13,8111. sa. Id, and ex penditure to 9,9101. 135 , which lett a halarce of 3,3371. Ins. ed. There were ahems taken to the amount of 30,0001. out of the 100,0001. which was the proposed capital of the association; and the amount for which the present shareholders were liable to be culled upon to pay in satisfaction of their shares wu 14,2101. Lord it. GROAVIPIOR moved the adoption of the re port. He begged to congratulate the meeting on the posi tion which the association had rained. It was that position which they had so ardently desired, and which promised such sivisfactory results. The fact which they had proposed to demonstrate to the public was the excellent accommoda tion which could be afforded to the working classes at a re munerating price, and by paying a boa rent than they now pay for very inferior accommodation. They (the association) had not exactly accomplished that object; but from the num ber of applications for lodgings he taw no ground for supposing that the expectations which bad been formed would be disappointed. Since the project had been first set on foot other societies had taken up the same Ws, and he believed they might claim the credit of having lams the muse of the establishment of the Model Lodging. Imam in George-street, and also of the dormitories which leed since been erected in St. Giles's. Therefore, if they bad Me no more than that they might consider their exertions ads to have been thrown elev. It would be seen that the ' intern was something like five per cent. ; but even if it was ire than that, they would not' be dissatisfied. They had bon at a very great expense for paying for the cheerer, and had incurred other expenses which would no: fall upon a Wider ; therefore he considered that there were even better I prospects before them. The Chancellor of the Ex. chequer had desired them (the committee) to ez. emu' their ingenuity in order to get themselves exempted from the window tax, oa account of the new building of the association ; but he thought the shortest way of effecting this object would be to reperl the tax altogether. The fact was, that it was the people who could not pay that tax, and not the people who co u ld, w h o suffered front the deprivatioe of light and air. To be sure, the money market and the state of the revenue were not such u to encourage the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be lavish in taking off taxes ; but he hoped that the ingenuity of the friends of the association was not so completely at fault as to prevent them from discovering some means of avoiding pay- • anent of the tax in this instance, Dr. S. Sarni seconded the resolution. Whatever the defects in the working out of their objects might be, he felt that none could be mote sensible of there defects than the IlaoCiatiOn themselves; they had gained some knowledge from experience, and he could not but think that their next effort would be both cheaper and mere complete. He hoped therefore that those who looked at their bui!dings with a view to inquire into their merits, would not consider them as pretending to be perfect, but would rather re gard them as what the association wee able to do upon making their first *Toms, and would compare that the presen t to u important object in the building ea it easily is with what the people for whom it was designed are obliged to pay at present for any inferior ee tLisampwrollee:mdlienb:xril'of tt it ed d h w re i e n l g llinga r window tax, he would fear to p of e res ntle i tain e t T u r i a t iy t a hy h th o rc pe o peal i t e h n a d t ma the the , but If they regard to its amusement they (the association) would reap • st , a o e o f v fi it"com3 court, make nd a all a l . h I w e f 4m as th th andien e m ffner tiff e o r : aw t i ert nht g o r i l ew i t ero hw a iche us w r e e w ; mit n e f ca o n gi r ptrrrYe w w t md h i er ingth ey e li "mi h ouuPa r el tn to dam izi era p ta th a hlb y le t l em i i much more for their building than those who nns separate buildings, they would not he i t t being under one roof, 10 of them would be chg ( l windowed house. Re thought th a t t h e person ;2 ought to e ff ect some alteration, at my ray y it , el earned the association. It was a rtmarksble f 0 ,1 14 history of the tax, that when the whip were in 06;,,al they actually did make that very adjumment whin association) were so anxious that th ey should to, ZS I he hoped, under these cireumstaneee, that the etTo T t uL4 of the associstion would be listened to. Mr. J. JIFPItIiT considered the subject of the a new building for sing:e men, which had been eke . the report, a most important one, and thought th t sent was the proper time to consider it. Ile 1e..., I what was its estimated root. ki Mr. OATLIPP said, 4,6101. After some further conyersation the report or, and Mr. JEFFREY then moved a resol u ti on to th, in case a sufficient number of new shawl wero.;:'.o._ taken up to enable the directors to erect a &uni t ., additional call upon the present sham s h ould that be purpose. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Toms . A discussion ensued upon the relative scrip of 4 , tory for single men, and a building for the .. married men with their families ; and .1. 0 uto - t Tre lity of a junction of the two. Mr. HIL L. and 2,40 gentlemen, were favourable to the first P.O was an equally strong opinion manifested on the chi,: Dr. Sournwoori SMITH thought that the jects of the association would be hest carried oat by tt 4 struction of residences fur families. Another resolution was substituted for the one *a t been previously carried, by which the question w a ,.! mended to the serious and immediate att ent i on of tk,"' mittee; but in the end this alwi was withdraws, considered that their attention was ilrelo y 4 4 toward. it. Mr. HILL then moved the formal motion for Agi n . corporate seal of the company to the regutry o f in g Q! and the proceedings concluded after the weal dr i : been voted to the chairman and directors. POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS ON CHRIST3I.I4O. The money-order-office in Alderagate-street, - General Post-office, St. Martiu'ole-Grand, tbei ggd 1 Lombard-street, the Borough, Charingerow, o b i 01! vendish.street, as well as those in the different metropolis, will be closed to-morrow, both • granting orders. There will be no deliverin F Zl Genera and London Distr Cl Post-offices after 0 2 hut the General Post and receiving -houses will hs the usual hour, both for letters and newspapers. PROPOSED NEW METROPOLITAN Roxotocti Wednesday evening a meeting of the inhaainra parish of Bt. Luke, Chelsea, was held in the 7 • hall, New-road, Sloane-street, Chelsea, for the p er . petitioning parliament to confer the right of re removed tram the borough of Sudbury, upon rig • Chelsea, Kensington, Hammersmith,and Palhas,b, them into a borough. Mr. Keay having bees • called to the chair, Mr. Dowling opened the boia ' announcing the receipt of letters of apology fee Thompson, M.P., Mr. It. B. 0-borne, M.P., 111 Robert Gr osvenor, M.P. He then went on to WOO district proposed to be formed into a legough wags most wealthy and extenaive round the metropolis,. gg Mined a population of 108,000, none of whom was telleetual, or worse educated, or loss capable of the importance of the right they were endears*, lain, than the residents of the existing metropolit. The question they were going to raise was not a but one that came home to the breast of every within the four parishes. The speaker then read of a petition, embodying • prayer that the district trim enfranchised, and moved its adoption by the St..llwood seconded the motion, which was curia mously. It was reslved that Lord Robert Gros* requested to present the petition ; and, a committee been appointed to carry out the measure, thanks were to the chairman. and the meeting broke up. CANADA COMPANY.—The half-yearly general of directors of this company, was held yesterday at offices, St. Helen's-place, Mr. Charles Franks, the go in the chair. The first business transacted was the of Mr. James William Freshfield as a director, in the of Mr John Easthope, who had disqualified on ill health.—The report of the directors to the p was then read. It statad that the affairs of the were proceeding with regularity and success, and ILA transactions of the year 1847 bad been highly far the company ; that the emigration to Canada, espial . Inslund, had been unusually large—the *mimed ' landed in 1847 amounting to 92,818. Many of thus,' ever, were found to ho very deficient in that gmerd • Fence which was so necessary to be poseased by in that colony. Others came but ill provided the means for their support, whilst sassy from diseasei under which they laboured s time of their embarkation or which they had con board ship, so that on the whole great loss of lii attended the emigration of last year. In the AIM 1,432 emigrants had been added to the population • now amounted to 16,643 persons. Of this aditire I few consisted of this year's emigrants, but nearly*. number consisted of a valuable class of old *ten removed with their stock, capital, and imamaa from other districts had gone to join their friends, could not fail to do well. The directors stated tht had received • detailed account of err ry settle, capital and means of soccer. The report coots* meat of the lands meld and leased during the porn 24th November, being the date of the last ad* from :this it appeared that there had bees si crown reserves 11,217 acres at 17s. 5d., and of the tract 12,684 acme, at 15s. 5d., making together 23,ffi at the average price of 15s. bd. per acre. The lands leased during the same period and up to the was, of crown reserves, 16,620 acres at 149. sd. pare. of the Huron tract, 61,574 acres, at 17a. Id. pees* a total of 78,194 aeres, leased at an average price in per sere. The total amount disposed of up tether Nov. 24 was 101,995 acres. Ming an excess over* for the same period in 1846 of 58,065 acres, aadst creased average price of Is. 31, per acre. The the company amounted to 37,2071.179. 7d., exceed* to the same period last year by 6,,0U81. 39. 6d. The remitted to parties in Canada through the hands el* pan y was 25.872/. .59. 5d., while the amount TI settlers in Canada to their friends In Europe tbtree. hands of the company was 12,3871. 2.. lid ,111 tZT taunts averaging 61. 4s. sd. each. In coneladostb tors had no hesitation in stating that the pre* making rapid progress in wealth and prone* they believed the unsold land of the company, to one million acres, would be disposed of on terms, the large advances they had mode Miag well The chairman then read the resolution which the • reeommanded to the adoption of the proprietor,* was, that a dividend at the rate of 6 per cut. per . the paid-up capital stock of the company be* 11 income-tax, for the half year ending the 10th Ismer The resolution was unanimously adopted, and ths sh been voted to the governor and directors, the teed UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.—At a meeting d council on Saturday, it was decided that Er. 5 6 Edinburgh should be appointed successor to his . Mr. Li-ton, as clinical lecturer on surgery, &e dam" surgeons to the hospital. ANTI-GOLD-LAW LEAGUE.—A very small aott c o b ( o th r, is s ta t :l n y d t . o:a n k d ; o r last d evening, untiafte a r t the b r e ai o d i sr a r 1 INTERCOURSE WITH TIM CONTINENT.- 14 i the week ended 19th lost there were 962 paremerl l o Boulogne and England (against 681 in the extffill week of 1846), and 196 between Calais and lineball 26.5). Of the Boulogne passengers this year, 522*. England : from Folkston.) 42,4, from Dors r 1, 00 Landon 94-440 were to England : to FolkstoesElte . London 77. THE STOCKPORT RIOT.—ADJOURNI INQUEST. The inquest on James Bown, the man kee l Stockport election which commenced on Saud* w surned on Wedne sday, at the Borough Court-house After several witnesses had been ezemined. Mr. Cobbett said he bed many other Molests; w thought ha had traced these picking pegs, the kiaa del with which the man was killed, to the source freed they came. He thought it wia not neeessiry to gelid —l'he Coroner asked Mr. Vaughan, the prisnnos see whether he had any witnesses to cell ?—Mr. Vou be should decline to call Witiltall before tie mum. The jury (which was composed of an manometer tisane on either side) were locked up till a gall , twelve o'clock at night before they could soils verdict, which was Men laughter against the four other persons unknown.' THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK—A (Abridged from Dretio's MiscatasaF) Mr. Brooke, descended by both pattO ancient families, was born on the 29th of Ape. Coombe Grove, his father's scat, in the Bath. It is an observation which has often bee! most men who render themselves remarkable w.ti development of their moral or intellectual Va. - the first germs of their success in the csr l 7 their mothers. Mrs. Brooke was a weso strength and delicacy of mind, who was not oily the knowledge usually possessed by ladies, butelft, tog sympathy which, when it operates OS a IseelN"r" sore to kindle a lendable ambition. Food as t be of all her children, she would yet appe ar I: seived peculiar hopes of this son, whom she ns• Rajah of Sarawak, though the happiness win 04 .0 her of greeting him with a mother's Woes( or' ' return to England. Intended for the military service of the FAA pany, Mr. Brooks received an education sent; ' and expectations, and went out at a Toy Bengal, in which presidency lie spent the gat . his youth. On the bresking out of the Bet' accompanied his regiment to Assam, what . , Or olßungpoor, the ancient capital of the prnetneylj through the lungs while attacking a stockade, 5'.740 some time between life and death. The trengePlo and the benefit of his native air having beeefr sacy for his recovery, he returned to Europe, . 0 1 • ,;,,i as his improved health would permit, he Kai" . " .- 0 of his boyhood, and rendered himself "lie, modern langusges, which he still speaks Intly / 74 travelled also t hr ough Frenor, Sniturla nd ' . " - if in the last-named dusk land acquired a sinet._ . ,f antiquarian researches' which. up to the Pr." , ✓es' occupied a portion of his 'akar*. It was a t t ies id that he became arqueinted with the poet/ d literature of Italy, and translated pesstilldt° lll of for fidelity and el oquence One sot parlor go.. I - 411 , ~• i..