The Express. — London, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND, A letter trim Berne, of the 27th instant, the sitting of the Federal Council, to day, the c omplications which have arisen with Austria were brought under discussion; all the ma ,N. r s were present, but no resolution wu i d opt ,d, Count do Ksrnicki left yesterday. th• i, gone direct to Vienna, to which place b„ n s ummoned. lie was accompanied to the post I,..ie , ebv the attache of the Embassy and some of t he principal inhabitants. The Grand Council, at it s sitting of to-day, continued the deliberation on the propositten of the government to have thei a pprobation of the Grand Council to the letter ad dre,Ad by it to the Fed, &al Loincil relative to the s ign. of Friburg. After >ome discussion the order of the day, pure and simple, Nl Ir proposed by M. liul zeherger, and n jeeted by n majority of 106 to i 6, and the government prop anion was adopted by 9(1 to 00. The session is now closed.' Th e .Serlitcyt: Gazette announces that the enrolment of recruits for Naples has been stopped in the canton of St. Gall. ITALY. NAPLES. Cirdinol Pignatelli, archbishop of Palermo, died on the lmh inst. llu wag horn at Naples in 1770, and created a cardinal in MP. AUSTRIAN ITALY. The Atiphuni Ginette states from Milan, 22nd jag., that several persons hare been arrested at Cre mona. on political charges, and that some dangerous coffespundence of a recent date has been seized. The same letter states that a gentleman was stabbed at Milan on the 20th, while stepping out of a house. No names are given, and the cause is nut stated. The roiter 6u:ette announces, from Rome, that Monsignor Spaceapicrm has been entrusted by the l'upc nah a spec i al mission to San Domingo, for the puepo.,c of crowning Emperor Fattstm L, in accord ance u ith his request. GERMANY. BERLIN, 11AT 27. You will excuse me if I leave you to glean from the li..rtnan new.papers the pecital of royal visits and marriages, sivompli.hed or promised, of banquets. car ou#ol., and torch dances. which make up so much of the history of our two primary courts fur the last month, mid occupy the space you can afford me with some remarks upon the recent meeting of the rulers of Austria and Prussia, the event which to serious politicians appears to characterise and partly to change our political situation. You will well re member the circumstances under which the Emperor Francis Joseph paid his visit to the Kin: of Prussia last scar. Since Is-IS the policy of the two court" hai been opposite, sod almost hostile. The " punc tuation" of Olmertz, which averted war, had not restored friendship ; and at the beginning of 1532 the drfferences between the courts of Prussia and Austria entered into the calculations of the crowned and uncrowned conspirators of Europe. But a cloud arose. The President Louis Napoleon became Emperor. 'timid people feared war ; pa triotic fireman' had their apprehensions for the left bank of the Rhine; and, above all, the monarch' of the Continent dreaded plebiscites and appeals to the people on vital questions of state. Immediately, the Austrian Emperor and the Prussian King were friends, exchanging uniforms and embracing each other in the sight of their troops. The visit of the Prussian monarch to his imperial brother is now paid under parallel circumstances. To day, it is not the French but the Russian Emperor who darkly looms in the future, and whose shadow frightens the German potentates into • concord long unknown. The spectacle of the Czar openly busted among the Greco-Sclave populations of his neighbour the Sultan alarms both Vienna and Berlin. The young Francis Joseph distrusts now the council lors who canting perpetually about the " modention" of Nicholas, made him the dependent of Russia, and returns to the foreign policy of Metternich--com mon action with Prussia for the maintenance of German independence. Much has been written for English readers about the bonds which hold Austria and her ruler to the policy of the court of St. Petersburg. We are told of the ascendancy exercised by the Czar over Francis Joseph—of the filial reverence with which the Aus trian regards the Russian Emperor—of gratitude for the Hungarian intervention—and so on. All these notions may be safely put aside in the present con juncture of affairs in Eastern and Southern Europe. Seutimeutal and secondary considera tions may decide the conduct of monarchs where sentimental and secondary matters are in question, but will not turn away a jealous and ambi tions sovereign, such as is the young Emperor of Austria, from defending his interest now obviously at stake. Public affairs are not to be weighed in a private balance. The Russian alliance is not a natural alliance for Austria. The coalitions of the twu powers have hitherto tended uniformly to extend the frontiers and augment the resources of Russia, which is ant the natural ally but the natural rival of her neigh bour. . The appearance of Prince Menchikoff at Constan tinople, demanding a personal headship over the Greeo-Sclave races of the south, more destructive to the Ottoman government than the lea it a territorial district, has given these consideredeee weight at Vienna. Not that they are apprehmeled in all their significance, still less that the i!iirs4l cabinet is - mate - of jar= NO & But the atteafe rival. which may The rejectaas the 'amen Russia • the BAN' hemmed f military the Czar can tamperlsilL tits loTaky of Austrian pro faning the Greek &i', Aetna would be so tear fully miaowed that all fresimmorietiom would be bet, and she would become the laeresittiVof Russia. The danger is felt. The signs of it are apparent in the ministerial organs of the press of both capitals. The Turkish empire is no longer prellairoed Is be the opprobrium of Christendom, nor As its wills& eagerly dismissed, as it was three or four temodis Ner It Is now discovered that a real deepalion were worse for the Greeks and &laves at the Danube, and a powerful military monarch at Coostantinople much worse for his neighbours than the quiet reign of the Sultan over provinces practi cally self-governed. I had wished to notice the pleasure with which the close alliance with Austria ceganled at this court, and the influence which, for good or evil, it may exercise on Germany. But this letter is already too long. THE SARAH SANDS. (IT ILICTMC PLYMOUTH, MAT 30. - - - The Sarah Sands, steam-veseel, which arrived . here on S a t ur d ay from Australia and the Cape of Good Hope, sailed this afternoon for Liverpool. Two hundred of the three hundred passengers that came elms in her landed here. The largo nugget of gold, weighing one hundred and thirty-fire pounds tine ounces, was landed here, with fifty-one boxes of gold and thirty-eight boxes of Barer, and for warded for London by the express train, in charge or (Xptain Thompson, of the Sarah Sands, and Jolr,, HoPlmu, boatman of her Majesty's Customs. H.M.S. Hope left to-day for Portsmouth, tet is mitred to carry them out toiberri;lii: consequences. On the contr ary , in the delay larva Bruck's deperture for *nople, we proof that Alums is held'' , mit • the Emperor perceives plahat4lha itia le to remain longer in depositions: Istni!vra War is no longer melt yildes traipses, la may be safel %ft_lar a momenta at of ' tit. ejection of the . shielding nmy 4 sateen question to a irrhin*and 'oaths . . 1 is could not fail to prove I,mnritik s. rjacos . is foe. Should liana succeed in ip ta iasepee-' aof the Lower Danube, the Melo • age of ialkan and Custitantineple, MIA" would-be led in by the Remiss terstorkse_ t hole I of her eastern frontier , shd cora - ?, both in the Bluth Sim and ipp Um Adriatic l be under Russian 000troL bllaaeed by the iry position ofttsseia pld thetfacipy with which WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. We add the following to our news received seater day by the La Plata: THE YELLOW FEVER. Yellow fever was very bad at lrinidad ; there were upwards of 70 deaths. Capt. Doraville, the collector of Customs, is one of them. At St. Vincent there are still some cases. Dominica is also very bad; the; Governor's wife is dead, and many others. The troops aro all encamped out of town and ail well. At Jamaica it is very bad, particularly amongst the shipping. The Royal mail steamer Medway left her captain and purser and several men behind at Kings ton very ill, and on her arrival at St. Thomas, several of her crew were still suffering. Mr. Mlles, purser of the Eagle, died of yellow fever on the 12th inst., off Demerara. La I'lata lost two men at. St. Thomas, and there were twenty-two deaths out of ninety cases at the hospital. All the other islands are toler ably healthy. The Morning Journal, a Jamaica paper published at Kingston on May 11, says: We are informed on credible aathority that the yellow fever is now raging in the Public Hoepital to en alarming extent, the daily average admission being six or eight. The stages of this disease are so varied that the medical gentlemen of the institution have to be in attendance almost hourly on the parties afflicted with it. It is said that ao means are left untried by them to restore to health those who are labouring under this paioful sickness. In several cases they have succeeded; but in many others the disease has proved fatal. The persons who are now suffer mg under this disease are nearly all seamen. The yellow fever has, we regret to say, broken out on board the mill steamer Medway, now is port, and two cases ended fatally yesterday, one of the victims being the fourth engineer. BRITISH GUIANA. The Royal Gazelle, in its review for home readers, writes as follows : Simultaneously with the sailing of the last mail, the coon• trg was visited with a happy change of weather. Soft rains benignly fell in great abundance to cheer the heart of the planter, and to save from ruin a very large proportion of the cane crop, which a continuance of dry weather would have lost to the year'. exports. The weather has since been excessively hot ; but the discomfort is patiently borne, seeing that it is just what was wanted fur the cultiva tion. 'reticle, already dull, has not improved during the fortnight, and every article alike of necessity and hung is still scarce and dear ; shippers, proha bly, waiting the promulgation of the tax ordi nance, which has now, however, been published. In a political sense nothing has been stirring,—in fact, it may now be said there is among us no polities. The time has been a good deal occupied in preparations for toe departure of the Governor, who goes by the mail to join his family in England on a short leave of absence. The administration of the government will be assumed by the H 0,,. William Walker, the Government Secretary, who will to-morrow be sworn in as Lieutenant•Guernor. . The change will make no change of policy. Mr. Walker has been the able and efficient coadjutor of the Governor in every measure of practical improvement, and he is not unaccustomed to the reins, having already ;.loverned here with lamb judgment and in troublesome times. We are glad to say that yellow fever has disappeared altogether from among us, there not being a ease even in the hospital. Small-pox still continues, but in a mild form. PANAMA. May 8. zx VIANISITU. IstrosTATlox OF Dols. e. April 27. Froa San Francisco lB,OOO 0 May 3. Ditto ditto Gold dust for Unita! States 2,2913,961 11 May 3. From San Francisco 321,038 59 4. From Peru and Chili Oold and silver bullion and coin for England 6. Exports from Panama by local merchants Per R. M. S. P. Co.'s steamer Dye The first section of the railway bridge across the Chagres river has been carried away, when nearly finished, by a flood of the river, and great fears are entertained that the bridge cannot be placed before next January, unless we have favourable weather in June. The railroad company are working on the Panama side of the river, and we feel confident every nerve is being strained by them to get the works finished, and we believe that passengers and goods will be conveyed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and vice versa, by the end of 1854. The health of Panama is good, tholgh the wet season has set in. Business is excessively dull in all branches. -.— The steamers to and from California now leave and arrive once a week, with passengers and mails, from and for the Atlantic States. Political affairs are in a quiet state. Admiral Blanco proceeds to England per Dee and Plata, having been appointed Chilian minister pleni potentiary at Paris. The admiral is accompanied by his family. On the 4th inst., the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Santiago. Captain Robert Joy, arrived in port from Valparaiso, Callao, &c., with the usual nails. Her dates are Valparaiso, April 14 ; Callao, 25. The Santiago brings 29 passeng e r s a n d 159,826 dole. in silver, on British account. The silver mimes of Copiapo are yielding largely. SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 16. The only items worth noticing are the total loss of the steamer (United States) S. B. Lewis, on her voyage from San Juan del Sur to San Francisco, which happened on the Bth inst, about three miles north of Bolinu Bay, in a fog ; passengers . and crew, NS in number, safely landed . This vessel is reported not seaworthy before her departure from San Jun. Au explosion took place on board of the river steamer Jenny Lind on the 11th inst., by which eighteen lives were lost and thirty persona were severely scalded. The mining accounts are very favourable, and rich deposits are daily discovered. Ship Helen McOaw, at this port, March 31, from Ns* York, reports having taken di on the 29th the crew and allows of the barque defile°, from Ban Francisco to Panama, water-logged, about 37 N. Ist and 124.20 lon. PERU AND BOLIVIA. CALLAO, APRIL 26. Hostilities have not yet commenced between thus republics, but there is no doubt they soon will. The Peruvian chargé d'affaires to Bolivia and vice-consul at La Paz had been forcibly expelled, under the .Lhsi.ge of plotting against the government of A movement in favour of (lacers' Santa Crea was to have taken place in Ls Paz on the 21st of March, but it was discovered by a sergeant to the govern ment, from whom he received 6,000 dollars for his, treachery. Colonel J. A. Lloyd, her Majesty's chargé d'affaires to Bolivia, was at Lima. - 41.EPARAISO, APRIL 16. We have very little newv; in oar political world things are quiet. Flour has a decided downward tendency. C scarce ; price 22 dole. per 1001 be. on board. Copper scarce; Scotch and Welsh 15 do's. to 20 dole. Freights : Copper ore to Swansea 41. 15s. to 51. per too, for A 1 ships; saltpetre, 41. to 51. Ex change on England, 49d. to 490. for 60 and 90 day bills. Bar silver, 9 dole. 25c. per mark of 8 oz. span ; very plentiful, but few sales made on account of price. !Wines: The copper mines of Coquimbo and Copiapo, as also those of silver belonging to the latter place, are yielding abundantly. Her Majesty's ship Amphitrite has sailed for the Sandwich Islands ; the Portland for Pitcairn's Island, with Rev. Mr. Nobbe; and the Trincomalee for the coast. SPANISH MAIN. The resignation of the Vice- President of New Gre nada, Senor Jose de Obaldia, not being admitted, a alight riot took place at Bogota, caused by the stu dents and other young men having met and proceeded to the Senate,vociferoualy requiring that the above re signation might be admitted. The troops were called one, but without effect. Senor Florentine Gonzales, however, made a short address to the youths which had the effect of inducing them to disperse quietly. They, however, remained outside of the senate house, and on the appearance of Senor Gonzales their en thusiasm again burst forth, accompanying him to his resident*, crying "Viva Fiorentino Gonzales, down with 'Jboldia." GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.—At a special erecting of the Leads town council held yr.terday (Monday) afternoon, it wu agreed to petition vtiaat the government Education Dill by a majority 01 73 to 11. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1853 THE AITST.RALIA; GOLD FIELDS. We have received by the Saab Bands copious Sire of Australian papers, from w hi c h w g :elect the following extracts : VICTORIA DIGOIRGS. The Melbourne Argus, of Feb. 10, in reference to yield of gold, and the social prospects of the district, we: The statistical table drawn rap by Mr. Westgarth exhibits as accurately as possible the produce of the Victorian wines up to the end of last year. It will be seen that the total represents the astonishing amount of four millions eight hundred and ninety thousand ounces. Our own cal culations made it something lower, but they were founded upon less carefully collected data, and we have no hesita- tion in expressing our belief in the superior accuracy of Mr. Westgarth's estimate. Since the commencement of this year the quantities brought dawn by escort have been as under : ELECTION EXPOSURES, LIVERPOOL. Yesterday the committee re-assembled at 11 o'clock, consisting of Mr. Ingham, the chairman; Mr. Frubfleld, Mr. W. Williams, Hon. .1. P. Maxwell, and Mr. J. Ball. The oonsmittee.roota was much crowded throughout the da Mr. Serpent Kinglake opened the cue for the petitioners at great length. Mr. W. Bathbone, jun., merchant, of Liverpoal, was the flat witness examined, and said he had paid a portion of the expense of the petition-100 guineas —and a number of Liverpool gentlemen had subechbed to pay the rest, in all he believed 2,0001. Did not make any formal proposi tion to Mr. Bold, to the effect that if the seats of the sitting members were given up he would withdraw the petition. He was never authorised to do it. They had conversed about it. The object of the petitioner was to stop the sys tem of bribery that so degraded Liverpool. The eubsenp don was entirely by the whig party in Liverpool. Mr. R. W. Ronald, the second petitioner, stated that be was not aware of the proposition alluded to, and that he paid 251. es hie share of the subscription. After a long technical argument as to certain informalities in the bribery I.st handed in, Felix Maelevy, a freemen, and ship carpenter by trade, examined by Mr. Bodkin—Voted at the last election hit Mackenzie and Turner, and at the time of the election was i n th e employment of Mr. Msjor, a shipbuilder. Kam Evans Jones, who kept the Old Oak beer-house, Tortoti park-road, aad was is his house on the polling day. WI. nese saw him at half - put 7 o'clock in the Park-road close ta a polling-broth, and Junes told him that if he came to his house he would get breakfast and be paid for his day's work. Witness went to Jones's house and took some drink, and Jones told him he should be paid for the day and for loss of employment. He had not at that time made any promise of ' his vote, nor did Jones mention anything about the vote. He had three or four glasses of ale and his breakfast. When he went there at eight o'clock he was shown into the front room up stairs, which was full. There might have been thirty people there. Those the witness knew were (tee med. He remained there three-quarters of an hour, and then walked up to the polling-booth with Maxwell, who was also a freeman, attd who was in the breakfast-room. The polling day was on . Wednesday, and . witness polled nine -- between , sad ten o'clock. He returned to Jones's in the afternoon, but having taken too much on the road, which he paid for on his own account, he did not know what took place. Oa the Saturday following be went to receive his 65., and a female at the Oak asked Jones if witness was oneof the men that voted from his house. Jones said "Yee," and the money was paid to witness at the time, Jones and his wife being there. Witness went to Jones Weans* he was told by Jones be would get paid for his day's work. He had more drink after he was paid, He saw William Dod in the house when he went to be paid. and Dod and witness had same drink together, and witness borrowed half-a-crown of Dod, who was in the part of the Dense where the money was paid. Saw also Croft, who was a freeman and voter there, but did sot remember seeing any other person. Witness was told to go to the room at Jones's, where the monej was paid, by some other men (freemen) in the Liverpool Docks, who said they were also geese to get paid for their day's work. Witness had voted twice before, and on the "liberal " side on both as but could net inactly say whether he was a liberal in politics. He scarcely cared about it. He knew bir.Wil• Liam Buckley Jones, a shipwright, and saw him oaring the election at Jones's bringing up men to vote, and taking an active part, and going from the house with voters in omni buses to the poll. The omnibuses were full, and a Liver. pool omnibus held twelve persons. W. B. Jones !eft the Old Oak with cargoes of the voters from the breakfast-room twice while witneu was there, i.e., in the course of three quarters of an hour. By the Chairman—The ship hands were knocked off on the anodes day, the melds not regains. the men to eisit h ret inns thefts Malay. Ermine, examined by Mr. &rimed Ringlike Mated that he was freesia of Liverpool for nearly thirty ran, and a shipwright by avocation. Worked for Mr. at the last election, and knew Ashton, Clayton, and OLP **dip-builders. He knew also Edward M'Evering• Ma,atte of that firm. Humphrey Smith was fare sift if de marks, and witness met dmith in Mili aria, Weir going to the poll, and had some talk Milk lam •en Om subject of the day's pay. Smith wembeLmbesm his day's pay, and guaranteed it to him, shag with him for Mackenzie and Turner. 'with Yftiet mention the sum, but every one knew what k was, asst that it was according to their wages. Witness west and polled, and Smith was at the poll bar along with him. He did not get his money until a week after, wiles he sent his wife to M'Evenngton's yard—witness he beard something about payment there as the likeliest pals—Bed abut seeing the foreman she came back, and in of what she told him he sent her afterwards to 41 11=C; e 8mith, to whom she went twice, bat got nothing. TM die of Humphrey amdt, however ' ease afterwards save him to understand del mud Oder person had he witness's name and gel the mneep g but she atin gle& paid him the 6e. Witness ffiffmegeligien the Se., that Warday's wore , and would diebeibcp a b out Prise, refrimsker eed beenee, ermined—At the WS Maid be std kr Teem ad Mackenzie, and had amp dad es tia °ter Me. Ede Wm. Coward, a did diem to blegellepany on 'Widening of the dee ded Dellis and Oaken were in • beam with them, and Orr met Arthur Darden" star. lielariesten's foremen. Daub asked them it they led their dime a beaked," and wends told Davis he woe going to vets ter Terser and Mackenzie, but said the, hod not their fella booked, and they were told to go to Ames's, at the White Lies, in Bt. hineee-strest, to get their names " booked." Davis also led a book out of his pocket, and put their names is it. He eedentood by this that they were to get their 6e. for the has of their day's work, as he told them they should be paid emir day's wages. Witness vas paid the week fo ll owing, at M•Everington'ii yard, and dew M'Everkeglee give Coward W money with which Coward paid weeds. There were good many voters is the due at the time. Witness at tended a meeting of the ropemelrese a meek beide the else tieeiraeVect of the meeting being memege to carry idea Talbot, brass moulder, and a based of Liver peel Mee 1170, examined—Had voted et meat of the slin ging eltele that period. Voted for Keelmeds sad Turner at fib bet deeds. He knew a Mr. Durehell, who kept a draft's and broker's shop. On hie seeing Barthel! before Mks election, he said, " How are yea mem to vote ?" Wit sss said, "Oh, on the old side," ma that he belonged to Osethi-street Ward; whereupon Bezeliell invited him to go to a public-house in Christian-street, celled the Pontack, kept by Clegg, and told witness be understood there was to be something like "a day's wagee ;" and white= said, if it was so, "so far, so good." This was on the no mination night, at eight o'clock, and when he went to the Pontack, he saw three or four doses freemen there. Burchell was there in the course of the evening. He saw there also John Weetsore and Brown. Witness stayed there an hour, and on the next day went and voted, and then went with Westrnore and Brown back to the Pou ted'. Harebell was there on the following day, knocking about, and taking the voters away to vote. Burchell de sired them to get out the coaches, which were had, witness presented, to do the business quick, and they went off and polled. The next morning he went to Bluebell's house, and bid him good morning, and said " Ws voted for Tur ner and Mackenzie." He said, " How do I know that, Robert ;" and witness said he would soon find out that, and he would not come there and tell a falsehood. Bur shell put his hand into his pocket and gave witness Its. for himself, Westmore, and Brown, and said he gave it as long as the three voted together. They told him they bad Ito the actual wealth of lb: enalmulati is "Odd% PETERBOROUGH. Pr"imee the gold ie P rwenred • :rim bewedli Is j dw ' When Hi committee t - t a 0 me )c, er ay, rived, not from its existence, Lux from -^ ""• Bail e y, printer,. who had been examined v on Saturday, Both coldeies wit: y e : have to learn that gild is but a vim thee it ii us of tillage had been a voter forPeterborough for five or six years. He mast yield the palm to L I " Pr°d°c--L''..,,.„ will - h .. had printed for Mr. Cornewall modity, vakelme till brentbt into commerce ; and that even 7' l " cr""" examined h 7 Mr. Serjtant Allen—N duets said be Lewis's party as well as for I es: PS°finsts is made in date discover.. 7, w __,."' " — ,„i n T r .„ - ii Mr. Whalley's par.y. He was employed to print for Mr. I I as‘lts!'" d '. `Meanwhile the cobasy abound, in . - "...e.. ••••.74,7, t Cornewall Lewis, not directly but by a third party. Printed :nom tise.7l than gold, which are ever being 0..7 4 ". ; tome tickets for him in th a t wa y w i t h " lisi treating "on but which await the applies's!' of Industry to make . tiles. ..tb. • 'ln. Wittier was one of the parties who signed a requi available. We may state here, that the Argots newspaper i ...,,z . .,, ,;,..• My, Whalley. Mr. Vergett, aw l . other person., estimates the total yield of gold at the Victoria diggings to , '''"'",.. ''f,.. It . i.silsr at a meeting at the Corn Excharcr , at Twhamitiwodu l is a .a co:n ery mit i t n ee con m ve e n e 4 .7 aps. ..... the close of last year, at 3,998.321 oz. Our government e nt Li' e r s •, :i,,,, 5 • al i o au .' :4d...7 . 11e first meeting, which ' he has forwarded 10,0001. to 2 egbuid for a mint apparatus for ~ „ was at the Golden Lion. Sydney, which will necessarily include an assay office ; and vt of the town and the when this is secured, the value of our gold, whether pro cured from oar own diggings, or those of Victoria, maybe committee ant...equently adjourned Wen maeimis Black Boy publis•-house, which was more central. The expected to be much enhanced. one. Witnees Our basking institutions are satisfactorily progressing. meetin g s at Lb° 2111:1 B°3 " were open tw Way • • h frequently went to those meeti n gs, and brought !Wenn. IT The new erection for the Ba..k of New South Wales is him, but he never saw any drink In the room. .Mr. Whale; to the nearly ready for use. That of the Commercial Bank is in progress. Bath will he ornament, to the city. The former was frequently asked at those meetings if he testi); intended to stand for the borough, b u t h e did not g i ve • deciei.:4 en.company had a m ee ti ng on t h e 20 t h , and the latter on the ewer till very shortly b e f ore the nomination day. H e said 25th inst., for ge nera l an d spec i a l a ff a i rs. I t has been he would first canvass the oofistituency thoroughly, and he determined by both to es t a bli s h b ranc h es i n t h e Ci ty of would be guided by the result of his canvass. The monster' London, with a view to con d uct t h e i r own augment i ng ex tea party allude* to was attended by people witho u t distinc changes. The Com merc i a l B an k , a f ter d educting 25,000/. don of party. He knows th a t many women, w i ves and dough for the payment of th e new s h ares recently a l lotted to ten of these who voted fo r M r . L ew i s, were at the tea shareholders, and setting aside a profit and loss account of 5,8941. Ts. Id , declared a dividend of 10 per cent. This party. Mr. Whalley and other gentlemen made speeches at that party. The speech es were c hi e fl y on t h e taxation of may be taken as a sample of Wanki n g progress. That of the the country, and did not a ll u d e to opening public hous e s o r Bank of New So u th W a l es i s, perhaps, still more wonder treating of any sort. The speakers said the condition of th e ful. The New J o i n t S toc k B an k , which was opened for women with regard to political questions had hitherto been business on the 24th i nst., h as, we believe, received a larger amount of support than was anticipated by the dim- neglected, and their position in that respect ought to be on or shareholders. raised. Drunkenness was spoken against by all the gentle men who addressed the tea party, and the ladies present were urged to use their influence with their husbands to prevent drunkenness. After the tea was over a large number of gentlemen of both parties came into the room. A short time before the election a large number of low persons —strangers —came into the town. They had sticks mostly. Thinks they came in the day before the nomi nation day. There was an alarm generally among Mr.Whal let's supporters, in consequence of these persona parading the town. They had Rags a n d mus i c a l so. The n ight be fore the election there were a great many of the non-elec tors so alarmed, that as application was made to the ma gistrates on the subject. The night before the nomination day, and daring the nomination and polling days, the town wssin • Eats of excitement and alarm in consequence of the presence of those persona. On the polling day he was about at the polliag-booths nearly all the day, but he heard of no threats used to any of Mr. Whalley's supporters. On the night before the polling da3 witness and two or three of his friends were out through the town, and they were ac costed by some of thou) stickmen in a threatening manrer, end they were considerably alarmed, and went home as soon as they could. Mr. W. D. ()eche examined by Mr. James—Witness is a solicitor of Peterborough, and was engaged on the part of Mr. C. Lewis. The character of the speeches made by Mr. Whalley was most democratic. He would call them inflammatory to the lower orders. The substance of them was to exhort the lower tattlers to com pel thee* who bad votes to support Mr. Whalley. Those speeches were addressed principally to noa.electora A printed placard was handed to the witness, which ha said be saw extensively circulated over the town. It was signed by 606 non-electors, and called upon the electors to vote for Mr. Whalley and to defeat the Milton interest. It was in consequence of that placard that the staff.men were appointed lay Mr. C. Lewis's committee in order to preserve the peace. Witness believes the majority of those who signed that pla card were the scum of the neighbourhood, and many of them were not ratepayers. Thinks there were about 300 staff men employed, and the staves were entrusted to Mr. Brie- , tow, the head constable, to distribute to the men. They did this in order that their voters might not be impeded on their way to the polling booths. The men got directions not , to use thaw staves except far their own protection. Those staff.men came from the suburbs of the city. Witness saw various houses placarded "Mr. Whalley's sub-committee room." (The witness here named the different lanolords of thorn, public-houses who voted for Mr. Whalley, and pointed out the positions of the houses on a map of the borough, which was prepared for the occasion). He saw any of those places used as committee-roams, though they were placarded as such. Mr. C. Lewis had but one emosaittee-room. That was at the blue-room, and they , sgetiolly avoided all taverna, or public-houses. Mr. Cross eallml split witness once on some matter connected with I , dm thighs. . Cross-examined by Mr. Cook—When Cross called upon him, either Mr. Vergett or Mr. Heady was with him. Thinks between 100 and 200 of the electors are tenants of Lord FitantHim. The number of the electors is 612. Bristow, to whom the staves were entrusted, is sheriff's officer. Can't say whether or not Bristow was one of Mr. C. Lewis's committee. He does not know by whom the head constable it appointed. Does not know that half the magistrates of the borough are appointed by Lord Fitz william. William Holland, examined by Mr. Power, deposed to fern tickets being left at his house for the tea party at 'the blue-room. Himself, his wife, daughter, and niece went. He paid for nothing. There were a great many wives of rotas at the party. Witness was not convinced by Mr. Whalley's speech, or the other addresses, and be voted for Mr. C. Lewis. Was a tenant of Earl Fitewilliam. He was personally canvassed by Mr. Whalley, but he told him that his father and grandfather had always voted for the Fits william party, and that be should do the same. Mr. W hal ley said if he voted for him, he would see that his land was not taken from him or his rent raised. On the morning of the poll, Mr. Burstall told his wife that he was not to vote until he had seen him, and that he wished to have some private conversation with him. Cross-examined by Mr. &desist Allen—He did not apply for the tickets to the tea party. Thomas Percival, landlord of the Great Northern Hotcl at Peterborough, stated that he gave a dinner at his house to 110 persons, to celebrate the return of Mr. Whalley. The dinner was ordered by Mr. Whalley. The tickets were ss. each, which included wine. The bill for the wine was 361. 10s. The total amouat of Mr. Whalley's bill, including the wine, the dinner, his own private expenses, and ear ri,ges and horses, was 91. 7s. 7d. Mr. Whalley had not paid any portion of that, and he had given directions to his solicitor to MO him for it. Cross-examined—Had charged four guineas a day for two pair of harem Could not say whether that was the ordinary • Robert English deposed to seeing several electors at the dinner. Matthew Wilkinson said that Mr. Whalley cams to the office of his father, who was agent for Mr. C. Lewis, sad offered to accept service of a writ in respect of Mr. Perci val'. bill. He complained of no other item in it except that fee horses, carriages, and postbnys. At four o'clock the committee adjourned until this fig• Yesterday, when the committe again met, the first whams, called was Mr. Laurence M'Ternan, who said he is a solicitor in Sligo. He saw Mr. Towneley on his canvass, attended by Mr. Stoner, and priests Phillips, Quinn, end White. Wit ness attended regularly at the Friary Chapel, which he con sidered a more prep►r plate than the Sligo Chapel, at which Mr. Phillips officiated. Witness proposed Mr. &men, on which Mr. Phillips shook his fist at him in • threatening manner, which was the signal for a general uproar. He attended Mr. Somers in his canvass ; but the rioting at the foot of the market-place was so great they could not proceed. On the following day witness was present at George Gethia's. The priests oa that day were actively engaged in conducting voters to the poll for Towneley. The Rev. Mr. O'Gara was on the hustings, sad when Mr. Somers got up to return thanks, Mr. O'Gara said, " Don't allow him to speak" Mr. Towneley was at that time standing behind Mr. O'Gara. _ . — brose-examined—Witness took an active part on Mr. Somen's behalf at the election of 1848, but he had no vote on that occasion. Mn. Winnifred O'Brien, wife of Patrick O'Brien, a broker at Sligo, said—Father Phillips came to her house the evening beide the election with two or three other person.. He asked for her huMand, and he came to him. She doesn't know what wee said, as she never interfered in election matters. This was late M the evening, and an alarm was created outside that they were besting the priest. She was not struck that night, bat she was the next morning, by a woman who was out of her mind. This witness was not eremmxemined. _ . Patrick O'Brien. husband of the last witness, said Father Phillips called on him the evening before the election. He (witness) was never stench in his own house except when his wife and he had a row when he was tipsy. He wasn't " sworn to it" when he told some people he had been beaten. This witness was not cross-examined either. Thomas O'Connor said he war a voter. He met Father Phillips on the market day before the election, who asked hint to vote for Towneley. He (witness) replied that, "Which ever side Father Phillips and the clergy took, he would take." He would not swear that ha did not tell Graham (Mr. Bonen' agent) he would vote for Mr. Somers. He did not remember whether or not he told Graham that Father Phillips said, if he did not vote for Townley, he would denounce hire from the altar. Croee•aumined—Wken he saw Graham he (Graham) treated him, and he wee in consequence "a little lively." Some other 'witnesses were examined, whose evidence went, like the t of the foregoing, to show the influence ex ereised by th•, priests to procure votes. The oornroittee then adjourned to this morning. LETTERS FOR SAVANNAH AND THE BaumAs.— GENERAL POST-OFFICE, MAT, 1863.—The Royal Mail Steam packet Company have established a packet to run, OF,CII • month, between Savannah (in the United States) and the Bahamas and Jamaica. This packet leaves Sa vannah on the 4th of each month, and arrives at Nassau (Bahamas) on the 6th, and at Jamaica on the 11th; and any letters or newspapers addressed to the Bahamas or to Jamaica, may be fOrwarded by it in a closed mail through the United States, if specially directed " viA Savannah." Letters that may be sent by this route will be liable to the following rates of postage—vie.: Two shillings if not ex ceeding half an ounce in weight, four shillings if exceeding half an ounce and not exceeding one ounce, and so on ac cording to the scale in operation for charging inland letters. Newsmen will be chargeable with • postage of three pence each. These rates of postage may either be paid in advance, or lett to be paid on the delivery of the letters and newspapers, at tVte option of the sender. THE SLAVE TRADE.—Yesterday was issued a paper showing that a new vote is required for the current year— namely, 2,175! . as " nerards for services in suppression of • the dun ink"; mir AND CLERICIA XI KE) * • ••• congregation tion of the Spioningihouse, and which has bsen of the plat' proposed by the governors tor the ic proved a; this es tb l e 3MYßali igDGr Secretary aP : 5 ( IselT State. 2 8:17 : 41 :1 ; . a n ;s il s o n g t h s p g already been given. bava At the same congregation the Rev, Thomas York, RA fellow of Queen's College, incepted for his M.A. degree. Conoco n.ort's ENGLISH ESDALLIST.-11.1t. IL Use Chancellor's English medal fur the best English *le or poem in heroic verse has been adjudged to Herbert John Reynolds, scholar of King's College. Subject, Wanner Castle." MINI/MRS' PRIZEIM.—The members' four annual prices for the best dissertat ons in Latin prose have lecen adjudged to:—Bachelor.—l. J. Chambers, S.A., scholar of St. John's College ; 2. C. H. Chambers, B.A. Trinity College. Subject, Quotients' nobs' veter t s in col ' ocin de ducciunadtnese—xeml. oplosm. Sale, qn scholar odiniteet ofr rTelriqinuiety College ; 2 " Under_ I gra Foley, St. John's College. Subject, " Utrum cx giurim cupidino an ex honest' ergs rempublicum studio, magna plerumque et bellies facts oriantur." CORPUS Casten CoLLEoz.—This morning a gratifying testimonial of respect was presented to the Rev. T. T. POSCWHP, fellow of Corpus Christi College, some years cit rate ot . St. Michael's parish, under the late lamented Pro fessor Scholefield, and who is now resigning his office. Mr. Perowne has during his curacy been the active superinten dent of the parish Sunday school. The testimonial con sisted of a handsome pocket communion service, with *suit able inscription, and was subscribed for as a mark of respect for the rev. gentleman's beneficial exertions by the teachers, parents of the children, and others interested in the school. BY PRIVATE ESCORT. Ounces. January 7.—From Mount Alexander 14 Ditto 21 Ditto 91 28 Ditto February 4 Ditto Total 114,928 BY GOVERXXiAY ESCORT. January s.—From Belmont 6.—From Mount Alexander 20,007 „ 12.—From Ditto 6,870 „ 12.—From %hunt „ 15.—From Mount Alexander „ 17.—From the Ovens 15,427 19.—From Balaarat „ 19.—From Mount Alexander „ 22.—From Ditto 4,577 „ 26.—From Ditto 6,617 „ 26.—From Balaarat 29.—From the Ovens 13,729 29 —From Mount Alexander 5,943 February 2.—From Ditto 2.—From Habitant „ s.—From the Ovens „ S.—From Mount Alexander Total 126,617 By private Escort 114,828 Taken to Adelaide by Escort 20th Janu ary, 1853 Total 274,308 Ottoces. Estimated produes to 31. t December, 1832 4,890,926 Do. from lot January to bth Febru ary, 1853 276.308 186,234 Grand t0ta1.... 6,1 Which, at 755. per ounce, is equal to £19,373,377 The produce for the present year shows that there is not yet any reason to apprehend a sudden failure in t►e yield of gold ; but even if the amount were leas than it fa, there are still abundant evidences of the inexhaustible character of our mines. Of these the most remarkable Is the feet that within the last few days three unparalleled masses of gold have been brought to light—such as perhaps the world has seen before. They were fooad in a spot never much frequented hitherto, and there are reports of numerous smaller lumps having been found in the same locality. The largest of these three great lumps weighs l3tilbs., of which upwards of 12016 e. are pure gold. The otner two lump, weigh 93Ibs. 2uz. sdwt. and 831bs. Sox. sdwt. respectively, only a very small proportion being quarts. They are superb specimens of gold and quartz inttrelended. The largest weighs many pounds more than the famous " Kerr hun- dredweight" of New South Wales, and has the additional advantage of being in one solid lump. The fortunate Baden are taking it to England in the Sarah Sands for ex hibition. The locality where these splendid manes have been found, is called the Canadian Gully, and is a branch of the Balaarat diggings. These diggings were the first opened up in Victoria, and attracted a large number of people; but they were almost wholly deserted when the superior richness of the Mount Alexander diggings was discovered. They have lately risen again into favour, however, and there is no doubt that tens of thousands will now flock to them, and explore them more thoroughly. The difference between the two localities seems to be that at Modnt Alex ander the gold is finer end more eqiiably diffused ; while at Balaarat it is in larger lumps, and occurs less fre quently. A similar difference has been observed between the Ophir and Turon diggings, in New South Wales. The difference would seem to indicate the existence of an original matrix or fountain heed of the gold deposits, to which Balaarat pro bably lies nearer than Mount Alexander. Our scientific men eau help us but little in the solution of that problem ; but there is no saying what continuous exploration may reveal. There really seems no antecedent improbability of the existence of some such original gold-bed. The price of gold in Melbourne has gradually risen to 31. 16s. en ounce, and it is lik e ly t o continue rising till ft reaches the Mint price. The abundance of specie, the com petition in trade, and the raising of the rate of exchange by the banks, have inereated.the price, and almost annihilated the profits derivable from exporting gold. Yet the number of brokers is very considerable ; and tte dubiousness =ach ing to the transactions of many of them is proportionately increased. The Sydney people have organized a private escort to the Victorian diggings, with the design of drawing some of our gold is their direction. The scheme is not at all feasible, and it appears likely . that it will fad. Our neighbours may well be satisfied with their own diggings and the large quantities of our gold which—as M r . Viestgarth's table shows—find their way to the Sydney market in the regular way of trade. Socially, ear sedition is muck about the same as at the date of oar penises summary. Yet there le a great de al of interest in eat BMrldar Mims day byy. Ten thousand mule irlf• Meld to ear population last swath. Memo are 1O wiebtaisable, teats extravagantly kfgh. seelettlimellhelemeimemarea&nnof crime prevalent. Tlie amid sipeet, as ft etches a perms newly arrived, must be wales d to he for him attractive. Iles" it is not uassamon for inch persons to feel an indignant soavictioa of having been imposed upon when told of the wealth and comfort to be gained here. We constantly receive litters from new omen, complaining of having been deceived by mierepreeentatioss, and even charging mas parties to the deception. The troth is, it is the ignorance, the thoughtlessness, or the impatie n s. of immigrants, hat are really the caws of discontent and failure, Ilea meet accesamodate themeless to the Inevitable eimernetaasse of the pleas when they cams here. They mud help thsamelves. They taut with. lasteed:of com plaining of the difficulties and diessillsets that meet them apes leading, they must adage them, mad bravely struggle throne' them. There is room ho every am who will and can work. la a land where gold ma he picked up la large mesas, when destitution is inipsmille kr any puma with ever as small a Mare of energy, it is ridicules' Ise people to be groxibliag about hardships and primulas& Once fee all, we sales a person to come to Vieleria who is not pre pared balk to work heed sad to raft awns Moon vesissme.' j i te s =ides to apply the pressing wools of Mass se ts some enlist, hm iamiesdl Essig the past mem& Meth* hat the eserwh, sad m" sle=midemaess el immediate Mai avast moue et is the city and Doped the, dry bawd. swim awl eves within WM% tho everiloaS population We abetter Ismail inn sat weeds, ba nd;ng* . and Mate. Meats fes the hula= poem of the city are still nriaga i ll nem tele et prepeely Mob prim as high es would briag is say of the first maintercial lovas The moil condition of the colony is still gloomy, notwithstanding the expensive body of= military, and the self-coogratulations of the seethe apes oar peaceable state. The criminal calendar for the present meth shows a list of 140 primmer, for trial in Melboutae, although a separate court has been established at Mount Alexander. The principal crime is robbery, generally with violence; but murders of peculiar atrocity are shockingly frequent. The act for preventing the immigration of Van Diemen's Land convicts, however, has been calmed in sense Instances lately, and its salutary severity has Kruk terror into that depraved class. We look for a demean of crime from this circusestaase, as the minded part of the population is almost wholly essapmed of steeped convicts from the neighboariag Waal. The legiallature has wisely refined Ito saltation the sale of spirits at the re d lap, rightly judging that in cased crime would be the Metela result of permitting it. The diggers are abase' of asesealty a posseahly disposed body, if they are not provoked he ratee ; bat are ems sions they can exhibit a spirit of retaliaties. At the Ovens the other day a constable accidentally shot a =NV the population supposed the act was intentional ; they in great force, end were very nearly lynching some of the constables. It is creditable to the d4gers that they have always reposed the tendency to lyuch-law, although they liave„more than once been sorely tempted to adopt that wild system of summary justice. SYDNEY. done so, and upoa this witness gave the ;thee two the money, The Sydney Empire of January 27 says: i.e., as. each. John Westmore wan being examined on a similar train The gold districts are nearly all indicating proofs th at of evidence, when the committee adjourned to this day. they have been under-estimated. The number of persons at several of them is gradually increasing . The Tema keeps its hold on the public miad. The geological reports from CLARE. the northern diggings am impulsive. The Ovens diggings, The committee resumed their inquiry yesterday, however, now carry the chief influencer, and as new die- when the witness Keane having been cram-examined at marries are being made in that direction, they always tend considerable length, in the course of which he stated that on towards New South Wales and Sydaey. There is a strong the polling day he was armed with a dagger and pistol, disposition to mend the gold procured there to this place for Csptain Eager, of the 31st, said he was engaged with his sale and the establishment 91 our Escort Company will regiment on the polling day in taking voters to the poll, and contribute to the developmeat of that branch of ear trade. described the rioting and firing that took place at the Six- With regard to the gold fields of New South Wales, it is ob- mile Bridge polling-place, and which the hon. chairman servable that they spread over a very broad surfaas,discleeing abbreviated by observing that these facts were already well trams of connection from time to time between distant known and notorious local diggings. It is difficult to estimate the richness of any Thomas Corrigan deposed to having seen priest Bourke district comparatively with those of Victoria, as it is be- meeting the mob during the affray at Sixmile Bridge, and lined that the number of diggers in our colony during the with that exception the election for Clare was as quiet as past year has never at one time exceeded 10,000 or 12,000. ear oth e r I r i s h derma, (Laughter.) Regular employments have been always adhered to with Game Marshall, t h e pr i vate of t h e ' m e t w h o was maw. a greater degree of sobriety than in Victoria, and the ad- rially injured, described the nature of those injuries, and vantsee has been, and continues to be, felt in the general L u ke Hanrahan, a voter, described the rattling of stones stability. about the cars, and to the injury he received on the first The amount of gold exported from Sydney up to last day. It was such se did not make him wish to vete en the week was estimated at 3,570,1051. It wo od not be practi- second—"faith, no; not if he was paid for It, at all, cable to state the amount of %htr which was derived from at all." the southern proving , . It is of little comeinelico The committee stands adjourned to *la day. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, MAY 30.—APPOINTMENTS. Cap. tains J. Kiagroye, to St. George ; and H. Smith, to &mom. Chaplain Rev. J. Thempoon, Naval instructor C. Osborne, Clerk G. Faulkner, and Midshipmen Hon. C. Crofton, R. H. Wilkinson, and E. R. S. Lampeer, to Si. Jean d' Acre. PORTSMOUTH, MAT 30.—Admiral Sir John Om mammy, commander-in-chief at Plymouth, arrived at this port to-day on board the Sprightly, steamer, which lift Plymouth on Saturday night. She also brought super numeraries for the ships here. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam ship, Captain 11. B. Mantinbent, sails to-day. The Blenheim, 60, screw steam ship, Captain Henderson, is ordered to go out of harbour to Spithead. She will go either this afternoon or to-morrow. The Ban shee, steam packet, Lieutenant-Commander Hocken, has steam op this afternoon, and is expected to sail this even ing with important dispatches in reference to the future movements of the channel squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Corry. The Rhadamanthus, steam trans port, Master Comander Belem, arrived to-day with stores from the Thames. She sailed again this afternoon for Pembroke. Vulcan, steam troop ship, Commander Von Donop, came alongside the dockyard to-day to emb..rk troops for Canada. It is reported that the Connie', 8, screw steam sloop, and Strombali, 6, paddle sloop, are to go to Plymouth to form part of the steam reserve there. MILITARY. THE CAMP AT CHOEHAM The common rights over the site for the camp are claimed by the inhabitants of Chobham and Eghatn. and an:tough the surface of the two commons, embracing a district of about fifteen miles in circumference, scarcely affords herbage for as many sheep, the moment it was known to have been selected as the site of an encampment, which could not fail to attract vast multitudes of spectators, the churchwardens and overseers determined to let the ground for the erection of refreshment booths, /to. Adver tisements were accordingly issued, and applications peanut in. The parochial authorities were congratulating them selves on their sneeeu, when an announcement came t from the commander of the camp, Lo r d S ca t he , to the effect that he would on no account allow of the erection of booths for refreshments, or for any other purpose, in the vicinity of the camp ;_ and that, in pursuance of the rules and regulations of the service, after the 14th of June, all suspicions persons on the field would be apprehended and sent to head-quarters. The Chobhantites, with a wholesome dread of military law, immediately issued the annexed no tice := The Encampment on Chobham Common.—Notice In consequence of the a gements of the government re specting the portion of the ground that they may require. n the common not being yet completed, applications tor taking booth., &c., are not required to be sent to Mr. Hai• cent, as stated in a former advertisement, until further no tice is given.—By order of the committee.—Chnlaittm, May 25." Meantime, while the most strenuous exertions are being made to induce Lord Sexton to withdraw his mandate, a third who has sprung up in the person of the Earl of Onslow, who, as lord of the manor of the district, contends that he has superior rights, and that, acting under legal advice, he will let the ground in the vicinity of the camp to whom he chooses at a merely nominal rent. When the camp is formed, each regiment will have a mess marquee thirty feet in length, for the accommodation of • its officers. Every field officer will be entitled to a marques nine and a half feet wide by six and three•quarter feet long, with a small rough table in the centre. The (Abet Meets will sleep its " bell tents," exactly 'hailer to those furnished to the troops. These tents are between forty and fifty font in circumference, and about fourteen feet in diameter. One tent will be allowed to every fifteen men of the infantry regiments, and to every twelve of the cavalry. MARYLEBONE FREE LIBRARY. Last night a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of idaryleboue was held at Blagreve's Concert Rooms, Mortimer•street, Cavendish-square, for the purpose of promoting the establishment of a free library for thedis trict. The chair was taken by Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., who, in his opening speech, dwelt upon the advantages of a system of national education purely secular, and recom mended free libraries as an agent for effecting it. His Exci.l - Mr. Ingersoll, the American minister, moved the Ant resolution, to the effect that the establishment of free libraries is eminently calculated to elevate the social condition of the people, and in doing so recounted the great progress made in America in conse quence of the general diffusion of education, wondering that the establishment of free libraries should have been so long delayed in this country, when he found Gib bon at the period that he was writing his great work coin plaining of their non-existence.—Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., seconded the motion, and complained of the money already subscribed (1,00041 Oa insignificant when compared with the district.—Mr. Ewart, supported the motion, and ea *hied how his bill might be modified so u to enable pa rishes u well as towns having municipal corporations to erect free libraries and to rate themselves for their support. —The motion was then agreed to.—Mr. Macgregor, Ma., moved a resolution, pledging the meeting to establish lush an institution is Marylebone.—This having been seconded by Mr. °region, ALP., was unanimously agreed to.—kfr. B. Oliveira, M.P., and other:gentlemen, having addressed the meeting the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman. LODGINGS TOR THE DIOOERS.—A few daps age we entered the grounds of Clift House, Bristol, where Mears. Amman, Morgan, and Co. formerly carried on their extensive operations, and at first sight fancied we had dimovered a new settlement. Scores of snug, compact, unit ban little dwellings were ranged side by side, and larger sonstructions were in program. It turned tut that we bad stumbled upon Mr. Hemmings manufeetory of port able iron houses for emigrants. The housed, which ate simple in construction, and efficient in gement, ecetaist of a timber framing. The walls end root are of galvanised corrugated iron. The walls are lined in the inside with half-inch boarding, covered with canvas, seedy for papering, leaving a space of three inches throughout the entire building between the irons and the wood work, by which means a complete veitilation is effected, and the temperature in summer roach lessened, and increased in winter, or the framing may be filled is with sun-dried bricks. The ceilings are of canvas with telt above, ready tor papering. The erections are entirely put together with iron screws and bolts, and may be put up by any inexperienced person in a few hours, every part being carefully fitted and lettered. The cost of a two-roomed cottage is 601. and a cheaper sort is made for 3.51. The furniture cant 101. The shutters are arranged so as to serve in the day as sun-blinds. The houses pack very cum rtumri lad partly to save freight, the box forming 100 feet of inch leering. Mr. Hemming has in progress a lodging-house 1 114 feet by 46 feet, with 14 bed-rooms and 56 ;beds. It ihaelu o d t e h l e t r w a o paruo sittin t r t oo .. rasT2hOefceoeatt of hy2Othfaise,t,wluitgh hiri gage ~ r complete, but exclusive of freight, will be 1,5001. A par sonage-house has been commenced for the Bishop of Melbourne, and a church is ordered for the same place 72 feet by 48 feet, with 600 sittings. The cost of the c,burcb, including pulpit and fittings, will be about 1,0001. The undertaking commenced with an endeavour to make a light portable house for a sen about to emigrate, and now Yr. Hemming employs some hundreds of workmen.— TA. Builder. MONUMENT TO SIR ISAAC NEWTON.—The town 1 1 council of Grantham have granted a site on St. Peter',..h:ll for the erection of a statue to the memory of this great phi. losopber, and 1001. for the preparation of the ground for he reception, and have authorised Mr. Winter, the ex mayor, to lay the resolutions before the Royal Society, with the request that it will take such measures as its council macount fit. It was stated at a special meeting of the townl that Vie present time was most appropriate for the object, as the inauguration of the statue could not take place until 18.54, whica would be exactly 200 years after Sir Isaac Newton had entered a free boy on the foundation of the Grantham Grammar School. This will be the first national monument erected to the memory of Sir Isaac, the one at Westminster having been put up by his family, and that at Cambridge at the expense of an individual. Mr. Winter stated that Lord Rosee, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Brougham, and Lord liarrowby had expressed their appro. TI Of the proposal. P