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We cannot notice, In any way, any eomwunlcation that Is sent to as anonymously; but these who choose to address as in contklerioe will RAI their oon.idenee respxted. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. a. Advertisements Intended for The Express moat be at the 011 lee by Two o'clock 011 the day of publication. HlOll WATER AT LONDOM-BRIDGE. TIM DAT. Morning, 51 mei. part 8; Afternoon, 38 min. pent 0. To.KOlLLOW.—Morning, 13 min. put 10; Aftertrun, 50 min. put 10. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14. THE deed is accomplished. Louts PHILIPPE has attained the object which for the last ten years has been the chief labour of his life. He has placed his son on the steps of the Spanish throae, in such a position and in such circumstances, that he can scarcely fail to inherit it. What cost Lot - 1.4 XIV. and his country a century of war, LOUIS PHILIPPE has achieved by no other efforts than those of diplomacy ; and by the expenditure, not of a cam paign, but of a few thousand lime well disposed. When the French Consul, LE.IDEPR, stirred up the people of Barcelona,—nay, paid them—to oppose the Duke of VICTORY, the French KING was opening the trenches of the MOI4TPENSIER marriage. year since then he has made an advance, and run a new parallel; masking his batteries, flattering Spain, and blinding the English Court. The London press were used to laugh at his lalsours,lo mock his assiduity, and to wish him joy of all the good he got by it. When of a sudden, the other day, the KING of the FRENCH approached the completion of his long labours ;—he had removed every obstacle, sapped every obstruction ; —but when the mine explodes which lets the French KING into the very citadel of Spanish strength, onr writers and politicians affect to be wondrously sur prised, to be grievously offended, and to be outrageously taken in. The fault was their own. A child that could have taken the trouble to regard Louts Pni urrE's manceuvres for the last ten years, could not but have seen what he was manoeuvring for, and aiming at. His success is even more owing to English supineness and folly, than to his own manmuvring cunning and unscrupulous audacity. This triumph, prepared with such address, and eonsummated with such precipitation, is without ex ception the moat untoward event that could have befallen Constitutional Europe. It is a PANDon t's box, fraught with ill ; and, in all probability, with the most dire consequences to Spain, to England, and to France. When we look r.t some, the most obvious and inevitable of these consequences, one really shad ders, and is at a loss to conceive how a wise and imatious Prince, like Louis PHILIPPE, should, for any purpose of family aggrandisement, have affronted sash perils. in the first place, the MONTPENSIER marriage dig solves every trace of cordiality and alliance between the governments of London and Paris. They may not indeed go to war; they may not even go the lengths of their organs of publicity, and scold or menace ;—but the wrong rankles on one side ; the consciousness of having forfeited friendship, and the necessity of guard ing against revenge, awakens vigilance on the other. And let it not be supposed that France and England csm remain indifferent to each other's feelings or linings, and that they can go on in a neighbourly way, isolated and politic. That is not possible. In the present state of the world, no country can exist with out allies. States are vessels that cannot anchor. They must direct their prows to some point of the compass, and the current will drift them, even if the sails cease to impel. There passes not a week in which the French and English cabinets are not called upon to take decisions, in which their feelings towards one another have paramount influence. That an event achieved under such outrageous circumstan- cee, and calculated to have each a prospective and permanent effect upon the future policies, fortunes, and balance of both countries, could take place with out fatal estrangement—is tosuppose that Englishmen are without dignity, patriotism, or foresight; and that French statesmen are without the necessary sense of self-preservation. But all this entails on both coun tries great insecurity, continued expense. While courts keep up a show of mutual politeness, work will grow brisk at Cherbourg and at Portsmouth ; the solitary flag, which has so long floated dully in Malta harbour, will be multiplied to a dozen ; and the three-deckers of Toulon will quit the dock for the roadstead. And Spain? What is to become of her? We never heard a single person, at all acquainted with Spanish affairs, who did not admit that France could never manage Spain, if England chose to oppose her; and that England could as little hope to govern Spain, if France opposed her. Nothing bat either England and France leaving Spain to herself, or else coining to an agreement to act conjointly towards Spain, can give peace and orderly government to the latter cbuntry. No matter what the government, the elements of opposition are so many that the mere fact of England or of France opposing a cabinet, shakes it. Hove, then, is the present Government to , subsist Execrated by all the Exaltados, and bated by half the Moderados ; abhorred by the citizens ; hooted by the rabble ; unpopular with all classes for its stringent taxation ; denounced by a starring ald and equally feared by those who have bought ecclesiastical spoils ; there is really nothing to uphold the present Government but its military escorts, and the name of France. The country, and every town in it, are this moment organized in one vaat con spiracy; unarmed indeed, but only awaiting some anti national act of the new Afrancesados, or expecting to take advantage of a Carlist outbreak, or military discontent. England has but to hold up a finger, and the entire Peninsula would be in insurrection. She may not give this sign, but she certainly will not make a dissuasive sign ; and yet, refrain as she will, the inevitable insurrection of the Liberals will be imputed to her. Amidst this chaos, this ocean of disaster, of anar chy to Spain, and of covert hostility between France and England, what is to be hoped—what to be done ? Lord BOLINGBROKE, contemplating a similar com plication of interests and prospects (for the present relative situation of the three countries does not pre sent itself for the first time) asked a similar question. " What remained to be done ? In the whole nature of things there remained but three. To abandon all care of the Spanish succession was one. To com pound with France on this succession was another. And to prepare, like her, during the interval of peace, to make an advantageous war, whenever the sovereign of Spain should die, was a third." We know not that there is now any greater choice of alternatives than a century and a half ago, al though the nature of these alternatives is somewhat altered. The first course—that of abandoning all care of the Spanish succession—is not merely a vague aggrandisement of France, but it is a sacrifice of our trade, the giving up of an excellent market. It is putting into the power of the French government to accomplish a scheme long in contemplation, namely, to make a Zollverein of the south of Europe, and to turn the Mediterranean into a " French lake," in a com mercial as well as a political point of view. Care lessness of foreign influence, or of foreign balance of power, may do extremely well for a people that has no foreign trade, and that does not take the ocean for its home. But England can neglect or lose no such influence, without wealth and trade being lost and neglected at the same time. Need we dwell on the political weight of Spain, and its immense import ance for the preservation of the peace of Europe? The dominion of Spain, with its ports and geogra phical position, doubles the naval power of France in a war; that dominion taken from France, would take from her that confidence which seeks and braves war. Give Russia Constantinople, and she is mis tress of the Ein.t. Give France Cadiz, and she is mistress of the West. The second aPernative of BOLINGBROKE'S compro mise is no longer possible. Louts PnitAreE would not listen to it. Lord ABERDEEN gave up the opportunity and the possibility. Besides, in BOLING BROKE'S time there were Spain, and the Indies, and the Low Countries; a wide empire to carve. There are now no territorial divisions or compensations to be thought of; and the marriage once concluded, what room there is for compromise, we do not see. There remains then the third : to prepare for war. This, perhaps, is the most impossible of all. In old times, monarchs and cabinets might hatch war in sz.cret; whet their swords, and charge their mines, to explode in a certain year. But statesmen cannot now levy war, unless nations and national opinion rise culminating behind. If this feeling be not excited, One cannot prepare for war; and if it be excited, it will not tarry for provocation, nor await oppor tunities. Free nations will rush to the encoun ter; which will probably be fiercer and briefer, than anything of the kind yet known. Heaven avert such calamities ! The English are a people the most averse to war ; to propose, or even to think of it ; and, strong in this feeling of disgust, and fully confident at the same time in their own quiet strength and calm courage, they put away and deride even the possi bility of warring. Noble and charitable as are such sentiments, it has been no other than the knowledge of their existence and their forte in every English breast, which has emboldened the Napoleon of Peace to achieve, per fat et alias, that annexation of Spain which is more likely to produce a future war, than any one other act or event in the politics of tho world. AT the late anniversary dinner of the Waterford Agricultural Society, some home truths were incul cated by Sir H. W. BARRON upon the landlords of Ireland. True to the principle of absenteeism, the parties chiefly concerned were not there to profit by his admonitions. In their privacy or their gaiety, however, the report may reach them, and furnish pro fitable matter for their private meditation. Nor will it come merely as the animadversion of one of them selves, upon the class to which he belongs. The opinions of Sir H. BARRON were enforced by the chairman, Lord CAREW ; and received by the meeting with strung expressions of sympathy and approval. ' It stands, therefore, as the recorded opinion of this Agricultural Society, that the landlords of the dis trict, with some honourable exceptions, fail of render ing the friendly co-operation which their tenants have at all times a right to expect, but especially in the peculiar circumstances of the present time; that in stead of making exertions for improvement, they set the bad example to tenants and labourers of desert ing their posts at a critical moment ; that their neglect and misconduct arc chiefly responsible for the dis graceful fact of land being worth one-half more in Scotland than in Ireland, and the cultivators mach better off, with higher rents ; that the extent of re claimable waste land, and the wretched condition of much that is under cultivation, are most discreditable to the proprietary ; that the inferior grades of society are paralysed by the apathy of their superiors ; and that, unless the landlords do their duty, " millions will perish, and they, too, will sink and be buried in the common ruin." Such is, not the railing accusation of party writers, nor the fervid denun ciation of League orators, but the verdict of the Waterford Agricultural Society upon the landlords of Ireland. It is to be wished rather than expected that erring landlords should be converted by a homily of this de scription, and forthwith begin to amend their ways. Some will be indignant at a censure of which they are justly conscious that they only deserve a small portion. Others, with less excuse, will affect to be indignant. Others, again, are thoroughly convinced of their right to do as they will with their own, and are impenetrable to all the remonstrances of public op inion. . ._ _ Not a few are in the condition which Pater half jestingly described es hie own ; and " (=riot afford to keep a conscience." Improvident mort- gages on their estates have deprived them of the landlord's power to do the landlord's duty. While others talk of surplus capital, they are think ing of deficient income. The rents called theirs pass by them without stopping., and only rest in the coffers of the mortgagee. They cannot borrow for im- provement, unless itioe of theGt;vernment; and Gov ern went must be very liberal in the matter of security. They arc paying 61 per cent. ; it is only tantalising to tell them how a handsome outlay would realise 10 per cent. In public, they are lords of the land; in secret, they are slaves of the money bag. They are only representatives of ownership; and destitute of qualification. They are not the mau that had lost his shadow, but the shadow that has lost its man. They are the galvanised corpse of Landlordism. The vital power is gone. It is vain to call on mockeries and shams for the discharge of living duties for which they have no living powers. This is the Chad on whose behalf a poor-law is identi fied with confiscation. The next straw is the last, and will break their backs. On their nominal squ are miles they only hold by a few square inches. Mort- • le • r • . • ! - THI4 'TXPRESB, InglY )4 k . gage obligations haves up twit Moral obligations. Of their feudality, is lost save the honour ; and honour has no 6lltailus — Faiiital for - agri , cultural improvements. The good example to their tenants, which Sir H. BARRON recommends, is beyond their means. They cannot afford to become patterns of improvement. Empty pockets make barren fields. Borrowing is their bog, and cannot be reclaimei. They are hungry for their share of a public grant. Give them money, and they will employ the poor ; themselves included, as diligent spenders. One almost pities these people, under the pelting of a volley of agricultural ethics. Exhorted to help others, they cannot help themselves. What must they feel under such an admonition as this? I call upon the landlord.' to come forward and sa y to the peasantry, " You shall do so and so, and improve this spot of ground, and I help you; I will give you turnip seed for thi, geld, and cl o v e r an d mangel wurvel tor that, and I will have my steward to inspect your crops —I will give you my advice—l will give you my money to assist you in bringing about this change that must take place." Without these things are dace—without great sacrifices ath. made— I dread to loch to the consequences to ourselves. All very well, they may say, for you to call, with money in both pockets; but as to us, you may call again. We give all these things, where shall we get them ? Seeds do not descend from heaven. Money will not allow even mangel wurzel out of 61 per cent. No, we must go to the Government ; and let tenants and labourers go to the Government after us. And thus does a pauper class, is a false position, pauperise the spirit of a nation. The Irish people are infected. Not the entire body, any more than that of the landlords; but probably about the same proportion. They seem to consider starvation as one evil, and work as another, and want Government to relieve them from both. They dictate the rate of wages, when all employment is almsgiving. They find it difficult of comprehension that Govern ment moneys should be earned, or Government stores paid for, before they arc distributed. They . take a second look at famine, when regular labour is the alternative. They have as little stomach for roadmaking as their landlords for fencing and drainage. The chief lesson they have learned from their betters is that JOHN BULL is a great mileh cow. They take the extreme terms of the series, pub lic money and public feeding ; and disregard the intermediate steps. But this disposition is no more to be attributed to the entire population, than the class just de scribed is to be identified with the entire body of Irish landowners. Each is a section only, though there is an intimate relation between them. The one owes its existence to the other, and, together, they constitute the great difficulty of helping the Irish people. They chill the warmest charity, and bring a blight over the wisest plans of benevolence. They are worse than famine to contend with, because they present the greatest obstacles to rendering the pres sure of famine subservient to the amelioration of the condition of the people. And yet this is not the time to be severe on the accumulated embarrassments of the one class, or the misguided ignorance of the other. We must be content to take them as facts. They are part of the difficulty to be faced. They enhance the labour which the season devolves upon all honest Irishmen and generous Englishmen. And to enhance the labour will stimulate the exertion. Ireland must be raised from the slough of Despond, to firm footing on the solid earth. if the evil be deeper, and the enterprise more arduous than at first appeared, that only shows the moral impossibility of halting, or of turning back. The work must be done, and tho roughly ; and done for futurity. In this spirit we rely on its being undertaken by the government ; and this is the spirit required of those who co-operate, whether in Ireland or in Englar.d. The problem to be practically wrought out, is not only the relief, but the regeneration of a people. Without that, the relief will be wretchedly incomplete. For famine not to be periodical, the means must be found of rendering perpetual an improved condition and improved habits of industrial action. "We are come," says Sir H. BARRON, " to a state of awful transition ;" but a clear perception of the crisis, with all its difficulties and horrors, is one element of deliverance and hope. Awful transitions are the pathway to blessed results. TILE subject of National Education has been pretty largely discussed for about twenty years. Books have been written, pamphlets published, and speeches made. But that which is written about and talked about, is not always thought about. On the contrary, speculative discussion, in this as in many other in stances, has had the tendency of diverting men's minds from the consideration of what is necessary, and what is practical. If all were once agreed that something must be done, and that right early, we should have had far less of hair-splitting and straw balancing as to the means of its accomplishment. While we write, talk, theorize, dogmatize, do every thing but work,—while we are motionless, time con tinues its ceaseless flow. Every day and every hour carries other nations forward in their intellectual career ; but it also adds to the vast amount of evil and of danger which has already resulted from our multiplied anomalies and uncorrected abuses. One great cause of apathy has arisen from regard ing the question as between education and non education. But there is no such thing as non-educa tion. Every human being is educated ; that is to say, he derives habits of thought and principles of action from the persons and circumstances by which he is sur rounded. What is education but such a training of the mental and moral faculties as to fit a man for his future career in active life? The FAGINS are about the most efficient schoolmasters in the community: the thief is highly educated, so is the pickpocket, so is the incendiary, so is the poacher, and the housebreaker. The most efficient industrial schools are provided for these classes; and the pupils sent oat are always among the shrewdest and cleverest of their class ; first-form boys without a single exception. Now, we are not satisfied with this " truly-English " system of education; and much as we love established institu tions, we should be glad to call it truly anything else rather than English. We have great respect for voluntary systems, but we cannot avoid viewing volunteer policemen with some feelings of suspicion. It is true that the public apathy, which some identify with public liberty, has not prevented the establish ment of many valuable schools; but neither has it hindered the founding of academies preparatory to the college of Newgate and the degrees conferred at the Old Bailey. It is believed that because we have no system, nothing exists as a substitute for a system, and therefore that we may leisurely discuss the vari ous schemes propounded for our consideration until we discover that which most nearly approaches ideal perfection. But whi!c the vonnium &mum is sought in theory, the +luny:sum malutra prevails in practice. Taking the educational age as ranging between five and fifteen, it is a lamentable fact that while we have been discussing the subject two generations have slipped away; we have lost for ever the opportunity of moulding their character, and we have entrusted the future destinies of our country to chance ; or rather to the moral certainty that they shall be less brig ht and less flourishing than it was in our power to have made them. He whom we have forgotten to teach to read, may be an apt scholar in picking up a licentious song or a seditious ballad; and the man who cannot hold a pen, can set a snare or fi re a corn-rick. Our no-system is not a mere negative; it has a very real and positive existence. Anarchy is no form of government; but it expresses a state of things as substantial and as absolute as monarchy. Igaoranee has been ignorantly termed the mother of devotion; for the devotion it produces depends for its oontinaanoe upon caprice, accident, and chance. Bigotry is subject to frightful fits of re-action; men I who have believed unreasonably, are not indisposed to disbelieve unreasonably. None had been previously more blindly submissive to the hierarchy, than the population which embraced the tenets of JOHN of Leyden and ,:ft;SzErt; forms and ceremonies were f . • . • I•. 4rESDAY Offr^l--- FC7 _ 14, 1846. nowhere more strictly observed, than in the parts where priests were worst treated during the French revolution Spain has exhibited some frightful symp toms of similar re-action ; and the spirit of inquiry, which might have led to dissent, was unknown among the followers of Timm of Canterbury. The fact is, we impose upon ourselves by the most simple juggle of words. We imagine that a negative term implies an absolute non-existence; we suppose that " igno rance" means a want of knowledge, and nothing more ;—but it also implies the presence of something which the possessor mistakes for knowledge ; on which he will act as if it were knowledge ; and of course, in consequence of his error, will and must act wrongly and mischievously. To say that " ignorance is better than false knowledge," is to talk non sense ; for ignorance is itself false knowledge. The ithholding of education is itself "a gigantic system of godless education." The belief that while we are doing nothing, nothing is done, is a palpable blunder, which we never make in any other circumstances of life. If we neglect our gardens, we know that weeds will spring up where we have omitted to plant flowers; if we do not attend to machinery, we know that it will be consumed with rust ;—but the mind, the youthful mind, so susceptible of impression and so retentive of impress, we leave exposed to every thing that is dangerous, and everything that is in jurious; not only withholding positive good, but in flicting positive injury. We are guilty of more than not doing right—we are conniving at wrong. When we keep back WILDERSPIN, we set forward FAGIN. It is not until people thoroughly understand that ignorance is a positive thing; that it is a mischievous substitute for useful knowledge; that it is false, not true principles of morality ; evil, not good motive for action; a dangerous something, not a neutral nothing ; —it is not, we believe, until people have mastered this very plain and simple truth, that they will regard ignorance as a nuisance which ought to be abated. But we may be told " all this is very well ; we agree that people ought to be educated, but who are to have the charge of education ?" The answer is simply, " Those who are most interested in having education rightly conducted." The State is interested in having good citizens; localities are interested in having good neighbours; and the several religious denominations are interested iu having worthy pro fessors. Here are three interests not only easily re concilable, but naturally concurrent. With the State education is a question of police ; with localities, a question of society ; and with ministers of religion, a question of doctrine. Morality is common to all three ; for each has its separate system of duties, often coin cident, bat never clashing, except when perverted in genuity is exerted to bring them into collision. There is no reasonable ground on which any one of the three interests can claim to absorb all the rest; there is no plausible excuse for the neglect of the in terests confided to its charge, in any one of the three parties. In the application of these principles to professional life, we are all pretty well agreed. No one contends that the College of surgeons should be superintended bythe bench of bishops, or that a synod should regulate the College of Physicians. Dr. Mc HALE stands alone in demanding that professors of anatomy should be provided with certificates of orthodoxy from a pre late. It would be deemed a monstrous thing if theo logical scrutiny were exercised by the Inns of Court before young men could be called to the bar; and though there was a time when such follies were per petrated, we find no one asking for their revival. It may be said that this only refers to professional education ; but all education that is worth a straw must, to a certain extent, be professional ; that is, it must have definite relations to the pupil's future career in active life. Were we as thoroughly con vinced of the necessity of having citizens educated, as we are of having physicians and lawyers educated, there would not have been any real difficulty about the matter. So far are we from regarding the controversy respecting education as evidence of earnestness in the cause of education, that we look upon it as a proof of the very reverse. Had we been in earnest about the matter, we should, instead of talking, have been long since up and doing. But as the sage declares, " the slothful man saith there is a lion in the path, a lion in the streets;" and so great is our slothfulness, that we act as if we had to face a whole menagerie. We can of course complain of difficulties, and dwell upon objections; for, as SOLOMON says, "the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason." Sluggards in this instance we undoubtedly are, or rather something worse ; for we give more authority to some obstinacy, real or sup posed, which we ourselves stigmatise as irrational, than to the seven or seventy-seven men who can render a reason. Apathy, not reluctance ; insincerity, not oppo sition; are the evils which we dread. So soon as a man begins to stickle about the conditions on which he will support National Education, we are led to fear that his heart is not in the matter; ad unless he gives us his heart, we are content to leave him his head at his own disposal. Them is a vagueness about those propounders of conditions which is per fectly intolerable ; we cannot find out what it is they really want, or what are the limitations which they mean to propose. But before we discuss the con ditions, we must see that the main object is honestly sought. We must not have the old juggle of Catholic Emancipation played over again, and years wasted in wrangling about securities by those who never de signed to make any concession. We have had too much delay already, and this delay is in itself proof of the weakness of our convictions. Even now we fear that the want of a national system of education is rather acknowledged than felt ; it is the subject of otiose assent rather than of living faith; and the object of philanthropists should be to change imperative opi nion into vigorous principle,—to show that the subject is not speculative but practical,—that it is one in which every Englishman has a direct and personal interest. GERMAN Y.— (From the Saale.)—We have already stated that the negotiations of the Danish court with some courts of Germany, relative to another marriage of the Crown Prince of Denmark, are said to have entirely failed. It is to be observed, besides, that a new marriage of the Crown Prince with the tacit consent of the reigning Grand Duke of Oldenburg Schleswig-Holstein, would not have the effect of rendering the future descendants of the Crown Prince qualified for the succession. According to the family laws of Schleswig-Hoist/4r, the senior of the two principal lines descendent from Frederick 1., that is to say, the Gluckstadt and the Gottorp lines, is the head of that house, as the Grand Duke declared in his late protest. The head of the family has the well-known right to give his consent to the marriages of the members of the house, that they may be valid, as contracted according to the laws , of the family. Now the senior of both lines is the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. IHe was born in 1783, whereas Christian VIII. was born in 1788. THE RHINE, Ocr. 2.—The divorce of the Crown Prince of Denmark and his consort is already accomplished. The Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz has resumed the title of Crown Princess and every apanage. A new marriage will be immediately contracted-6n it is still hoped in this manner to put an end to the dispute respecting the woes sion to the throne of Denmark, except at the last extremity. STUTIGARDT, OCT. I.—We can state, on good authority, that the report of the convocation of an extraordi nary Diet is well founded. It is supposed that it will, in ail probability, meet in January next, and have to discuss tho question of the scarcity of provisions, and the means of re medying it. It is said that the commissioners havo already been sent to Hungary and to America to buy up corn ti the amount of three millions of florins. It is proposed to resell it in our kingdom at a lower price, by which half a million or florins may be sacrificed. BERLIN, OCT. s.—Respecting the refusal of the government of Saxe Weimar to permit the association of German Literati to meet in that capital, we learn that this resolution has been adopted in oonaluonce of an agreemout hetween the German governments, by which such permission shall not be granted unless the Pres;deot of the association or meeting in question engages, or gives a promise, that the dis,:sussion shall be confined to the proper object of the asso ciation, and all political matters be wt. Aly avoided, or in no case made the subject of pubhe discawion. TRIESTE, OCT. 3.—We cannot ab3olutely joio in t h e zen e ra l i a mentition reepec•iug the appreh, wird ,wareit,' of corn, sin ce we base radii the journal of the Au.triau Lloyd, inn letter dated Geiser, Sept. 9, that nearly 700 favoured by a south wind, had sailed from the Bos phorus, bound to the several ports of the Entine and Sea of Azoff and the Danube. What a vast quantity of corn must be accumulated there, may be judged from the fact, that this extraordiu..ry number of ships is not sufficient, so that many m're vessels will be required, and on very advantageous terms. A great deal of bnjoes% has been transacted in our market, and the sales during the last week have been very considerable. SWITZERLAND.—ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE GENEVESE INBURRECTION.—On the night of the 6th the ope ratives rose en misuse, and established barricades on the bridges, and on the 7th the militia attempted to carry them. After about two hundred cannon shots, and a most determined resist ance, the barricades were destroyed. The insurgents, how ever, entrenched themselves in the Faubourg, and, although the militia had bean successful in the first instance, it was no easy matter to occupy that point. The militia made the attempt on two points, but no sooner was that force per ceived at the entrance of the Faubourg than a deadly fire was commenced front the windows and from the tops of the houses, which were literally crowded with people. The mili tia fought resolutely, hut as the chiefs who had led the attack were wounded, and some of them mortally, no alternative was left but to retreat and recross the bridges. The militia, however, retained possession of the lower town, the insur rection being concentrated in the faubourg. In the night of the 7th the insurgents set fire to the bridges, and as the po pulation of the lower town was then increased, it rose in its turn. The auxiliary force of the Canton of Vaud, com p,sed of liberals, which arrived about this time, and in great numbers, then lent its rid to the insurrection, and, as the militia was threatened on all sides, it surrendered, and abandoned the contest. The crowning effort of the day was the resignation of the Council of State, which event was followed by the occupation of the arsenal, and all public establishments, by the insurgents. A Provisional Government has been organised ; but the Liberals are so elated at the victory they HMI gained, that some excesses are likely to ensue. The courage with which the commanders of the militia faced every kind of danger has been fatal to them. Several of the most respectable families at Geneva have to deplore the leases they have sustained. Amongst the dead may be mentioned the names of Colonel Chateauvieux, formerly of the Royal Guard, and of M. Pavie. The following is a translation of a letter published in the Journal des Dchats : " Geneva, Oct. B.—lt is, with the utmost melancholy that I inform you of the fall of our worthy Council of State, which abdicated this morning. I hasten to tell you that its conduct has been throughout Siren and honourable. The Saint Gervais quar ter was yesterday cannonaded and mitrailli , for several hours together; the militia, especially their leaders, behaved in the attack with as much bravery as troops of the line; but all the bridges had been so strongly barricaded by the Saint Gervais people, that it required several hours before an entrance could be oened. The militia then penetrated into the island; but the fire kept up from all the windows, and every noak and corner, was so murderous that, in order to avoid a carnage, the cummandants ordered a retreat. Night passed quietly ; but the inhabitants of St. Gervais availed themselves of it to enter the town indivi dually, either by the breach or the lake, i 3 that this morning most menacing popular gatherings took place on the Place du Mulard, and in St. Gervais, whilst the government forces held but the barrack and town-house. Thus situated the government, dreading fresh calamities, and wishing to put an end to bloodshed, preferred resigning en mouse, and has entrusted its fallen authority to the admi nistrative council of the town. At this moment the firemen are endeavouring to save the wrecks of the four bridges on the Rhone. which the people of St. Gervais set fire to last night. The militia have had several killed and many wouuded ; as yet we know not what loss has been sustained by the insurgents, who, despite the well kept up cannonading and platoon firing, cannot have snared very severely behind their works. The utmost consternation pre vails in our unfortunate town. The most respectable families of Geneva have cruel losses to deplore; among the killed are Col. Chateauvieux and M. Pavie." An extraordinary courier, with despatches from the French Minister in Switzerland, arrived at Parson Saturday. Zbe Grotirt. - - - WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent this morning, at Frogmore Lodge. The Royal dinner party at the Castle, this evening, will include her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, h‘r Rpral Highness the Princess of Hesse, his S , n.eue Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Lady in Whiting on the Queen Dowager, their Excellencies Mona. and Mdm. Van de We)•er, Earl Howe, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Cowley, and Le llilou Meyhenbuch. The baud of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards attend during dinner; her Majesty's private hand afterwards attend in the Castle the remainder of the evening. The Queen Dowager, it is understood, will not leave the Castle on her return to Cashiobury before Saturday next. The Princess of Howe remains at the Castle, and will accom pany the Queen Dowager back to Cashiobury. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg.Strelitz, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederic of Hesse honoured Mrs. do Itothschiid with their company at dinner on Monday. Mr. Thomas Wyse had an interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the G3Ternor of Malta. James Campbell, Esq., so long known and respected as the chief clerk to the Secretary of the General Post-office, has been promoted to the office of Assistant Secretary, on the vucancy occasioned by the death of the late Thomas Lawrence, Esq.— Times. DEATII OF LADY ANNE lIAMILTON.—When the Countess of Dunmore's death was announced in the papers a few months ago, it was said that she was the only surviv ing daughter of the late fluke of Hamilton. This was not true, as her elder sister, Lady Anne Hamilton, was living at the time. Hut she has now followed her sister to the grave, having died at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. Lady Anne Hamilton was one of the Princess of Wales's (afterwards Queen Caroline) ladies in waiting. When the Princess of Wales went abroad in 1814, Lady Anne did not accompany her with her other ladies; but when she became Queen Ca roline, and was on her return to this country, Lady Anne joined her on her way back to Flanders, and she entered London in the same carriage with the Queen. After Queen Caroline's death, Lady Anne Hamilton retired once more into private life, and incourse of time her means of a comfort able existencl were very greatly reduced. After several changes of residence, she at last retired to a small house in White Lion-street, Islington, where she ended her days. Lady Anne Hamilton was the eldest daughter of Archibald, ninth Duke of Hamilton. She was born on the 16th of March, 1766, and was consequently in the 81st year of her age.—Standard. FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 10.—The Queen has ap proved of Mr. T. Salvesen, u Conan' at Grangemouth, fi r his Majesty the King of lianover.—Gazelle. THE REGISTRATIONS. LONDON.—Mr.Arnold,yesterday, went through the list of the following parishes: St. Sepulchre, Bndewell precinct, St. Bride, St. Dunstan in the West, and the pre cinct of Whitefriars.—Mr Brignt, `M.P., who was on the list of St. Donstini, in roipect of the offices recently occupied by tho League, at 67, Fleet-streot, was objected to by the Tories. It appeared, from the evidence of a witness named Connell, that the premises were in the occupatioa of the League up to the 29th September, but that the greater por tion of their property hod been sold off on the 2 , lth of July. A. number of blue books and papers, however, belonging to Mr. Bright. had remained on the premises. The witness had continued in possession after the sale, and said that if Mr. Bright had come, at any hour of the day or night, he would have been admitted. Under these circumstances Mr. Arnold held that the occupation was sufficient, and allowed the vote.—The same dectsra was given in the cases of the following gentlemen, who were on the list in respect of the same premises : Messrs. Richard Cobden, R. R. R. Moore, Abraham W.Paulton, Peter Alfred Taylor:mid Geo. Wilson. —Result of the day's proceedings : Liberal objections sustained, 17; failed, 62. Conservative objections sustaineJ, 124; failed, 96. Double objections sustained, 2) ; failed, 9. Liberal claims sustained, 11; failed. 34. EAST SURRET.—The revising barrister sat again yesterday at the Board-roorr, Bermondsey. There were four claims to vote in respect of a rent charge upon houses in the parishes of Bermo4dsey and Rotherhithe, which were objected to by Mr. Meymott, the Conservative agent, on the ground that although the property had been in the posses sion of the claimants for the period required by the act, viz., six months, yet as no payment had actually been made, they were not entitled to vote. The revising barrister, who had reserved his decision, stated to-day that in his opinion it was sufficient for the parties to be entitled to the amount for the period specified, and that it was not necessary for them to have actually received it. He therefore held Z.he claims to be good, and the names were placed upon the PROVINCIAL READING. —The revising bar rister, Charles Shapland Whitmore, Esq., opened his court here on Monday. More than ordinary Interest was excited from the attempt on the part of the Conservative agent to disfranchise a large number of the Liberal voters, who were objected to on the ground that the overseers had omitted to insert in the list the numbers of the dwellings, as required by the statute. The revising barrister decided that although the uct required the insertion in the list of the numbers of the occupants' houses, yet he had the power to amend it, and consecxuently the objection could not be sustained, which be accordingly disallowed, with costs. In consevenee of this decision, nearly 350 objections have fallen to the ground. The town in the evening was paraded by • band, with an immense mob of the lower orders, as a rejoicing over this triumph. _ _ COLCIIESTER.—On Tuesday last, a court was held by the revising assessors, H. If/olton, Esq., the mayor, F. B. Phi[brick, and F. ii. Newell, Esqrs., for the purpose of revising the burgess lists. There were no objections by either piny. hilt 22 claims, all of which were estabiPied with one exception. The number of burgesses now upon the roll is 1,935. Irswiett.—On Frida7 last %f. Prendergast, Esq., °paled his court at the 1 own-ball, for revising the list of vot.sis for this bor..tcb, which oecup ed the learned gentle man till tl,rce o'clock on Monday. Tito objections made by ;he Libetall were 41 0 of which they sustained 2. claims IS, sustained 15. The Conservative, they sustained 28 ; elaunr 8, sus tage of 5 votes to the Liberals. HOME-OFFICE. —The basin removed to apartments in the Tr will be required for completing which are now in progress. THE SPITALFIELDS RAG% a numerous and respectable nu Spitfifields, Bethnal-green, used held at the British S:1001 ROY ney-road, for the purpose of girl of the Spitalfields Ragged Schc The Rev. Mr. Branch presided port, which stated that since tl about a year ago, a consideral place among that class for which while several benevolent 'edict shoes, and other articles. Short schools were opened four night, 25 girls attended; but the appli, ingly numerous. On the first S 1 class was formed of boys about tl the week they had 74 on the be. Sunday evening clool was es attendance soon varied from GO t was a great want of teachers, as there was only one teacher for that since ragged schools were they have extended into almost land and Scotland ; and they ha most happy results. In Louden there are 42 scholars without who for weeks had no home. adopted, a resolution was sign objects of the meeting, which th The Court of Common marked changes next term—a new puisne judge, with a rout, exclusive privileges of serjeatite end to, alter an existence of COI session of parliament.—Gloise. HOME-GROWN GRAPES.— home-growth has not, for man in the present season, and so pr it was remarked by Dr. Lindley ticultural Society, last week, th pitious, this might become a c abundance has caused a great from grocers, for the manufactu DEATH OP MR. 130 ND, the unexpected demise of Wil magistrate of the Westminster c place on Saturday last), three : meter became vacant, viz., the recordership of Poole, and the comity of Dorset. Mr. Bond, suffering from a disease of the Vincent-square. no later than night he wasi.eized with a v:olm and lungs, and ere many hour. having breathed his last, at hi Temple. Mr. Bond was appoic square police-court in room of Graham, about four years Aga, a discharged his duties most ett tively speaking, a young man, I but a short time since. In to the bar by the Ron. Society . practice, owing, no doubt, to health, was never very consider in his native county, Dorset, settled for years. IMPORTATION OP COns.- the Customs have issued direct , of the revenue at this port, an troller' of the customs at the set United Kingdom, to prepare at General of Imports and Expo, delay, the undermentioned acre late to their respective ports, quantities of foreign and color tiourlistinguishing each sort) Kingdom, from the Sth of Ja Octo r, 1846; showing the coo 2. An account of the quantities grain, meal, and flour (again di ported from the bonded warrho during the same period; alto ported. 3. A like account of th kh corn, grain, meal, and floe exported from the United Kingd showing to what countries expo: RAILWAY SIGNALS.—Titer good sense in the following sagg pondeut: " The ingenuity of • contrivance of Is, I think, the tase with railway Nita railway signals arc intended to increa they are only meant to save expenr. whatever, b.: it as clever as It mav, tote for a well-trained body of police this well enough, but then thine ea at Mast ; for the real truth is In the 1 There is one railway in England whir of its signals,—the Eastern Counties I have they been carried out so full. signal is announced, ten to one it has Eastern thuuties. Now this railwa fairly or not we do not say,—but sum the intent d ingerous and unlucky line Is this merely a coincidence or someti Is hardly too much to say that the act Monday could not have happened, hat melons and ellident body of police. and stoker. are busy making up for la train which is coining—it is nobody's when it is heard, somebody lo sent off late. If we haves few more such seri true meaning of" railway signals." ' on tho whole, we should be guinea A TIMID MAN. MORE. ACCIDENTS ON TE RAILWAY.—Since the serious line of the Eastern Counties Hail of Monday, two mere accident. and one yesterday, near the Brox bridge with the Hertford line. the quarter-past two up train, wl don at thirty-five minutes past tt time, being driven by engine No Be.abourne Junction, which ha main line, the driver of the erg the engine had gone of the line, stoker, jumped off; the engine, t in which was the guard. turned embankment into a pond, the so in the fall. Fortunately the cc the engine went off the line, shock, end the carriages conk left standing on the Rite. Al another engine was sent doe information having been sent t that place, and the affrighted pa London. Mr. Samuels, Mr. Sec superintendents of the various d visited the spot soon after the Captain Coddington, the Assist made an official inquiry into fin the result has not transpired. which is one of Stephenson's la size and weight, had not been although upwards of fifty labour day in trying to extricate it.— whiph preceded the quarter pa, on arriving between Ware and S trucks which were standing on been used for carrying materials laid down between Hertford an were destroyed and the line bl however, were forwarded by nut and by a Cambridge train, whi their destinations. On Monday Bishop Stortford, and investigate near that place on Saturday mor be entirely accidental. RAILWAY PROFITS.—In Friday, I find the following obserratit prevalent opinion, that every sixpene, ways beyond the actual cost of the eluding a fair average profit on that c Yates (a correspondent, to whom the attempts a justifleattm by denying r rfrthus: Mill, however, the ether the proprietors of railwa) to take, more than a fair rate of p agree with the writer that these old whether they are reasonable, or NI oonaistent with the mammy of mica' These prevalent opinions mast be ham public have a right to interfere with U to limit it to what the public amide public does not usually imagine it t private property, there must be some with railway property, which wok rule. I would wish to know what t would Brat ask, as all rights involve d right of curtailing pronto' to a fair of a lola, the public, who claim ti to male up the defictt, if any. Upon party claims a share of profit+, they n lam. But then, it is urged, retina, s a the public hare a right to interfere. It to be private property at all, but be to in the exercise of its discretion, dowel ride, but left them to bo made iron having been obtained, the money :rat success or failure incurred, the public any claim founded upon their being choice of slaking them with public Ix they chose the latter, and they mut D tweaking their contract. In all future what claims and stipulations they plea artablietwai, the terms of the arranges persons think that as railways cannot of Parlianaent,that Parliament hare, sc to interfere. Waterworks require Ac' the loss of Sir liugh Middleton in bet New River, nor has exercised on of the shares to • fair average Pont. rose to 14,000/. each. Gas-works, cam takings require the concurrence and m in such one no right of milrequent sr has been claimed. And why should it am that is ever assigned is —that from are in fact monopolies; and therefore I put them down, or at Icon to regulate that if they ere monemlies, thelegiatil Lure, as one party, g ire the power, a party, incurred the risk and aubscrlbed was a public advantage to have railwal it was bottom a protit was expected ti money; and it mil not do for the k suffered you tolocur MI the risk, aril w the apecnlttioa tiled, it Is true you we neverthelem, we did 'not expect the p and therefore you must now be mourn' and give all the surplus to the nablie. tend railways are Dot moooptdiesowid fence of the public is competition. L affords to the proprietors sonic beet that magnitude made the risk and that consequently the from that circumstance, is cue which 1 .