The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

re quarter, and the sum of 9d. the gallon was only equi valent to about 16e. This question, though not an exciting me, amongst large bodies of people, intimately affected a e ery important clue of the community, who sought only inquiry. They had already been &fleeted by the legislation of last session, by a bill passed at the close of the session, against which they bad scarcely time to r etest ; and now, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had come down, with a scheme so rude and ill-matured, that be had been compelled at once to concede half what the distillers asked. Nothing could he less calculated to inspire confidence in the measure. Considering that an important change had taken place last year, and that the government had shown themselves so fickle, it would he better for the house to make themselves acquainted with the case, and to inquire before they decided. (lieu.) Mr. CARDWELL contended that there was, there fore, no reason to depart from the ordidiary course of commercial legislation. Let the house take the question at once into consideration, and restore confidence to the trades concerned. (Hear, hear.) Lord J. MANNERS said it was more in the ordinary course of cumin. rei il legislation that a measure of this kind kind should he investigated upstairs. So far from there being no facts in dispute, it must be obvious to every one who had listened to this debate that great doubts existed on many points. Even if the distillers of England, Scournd, and Ireland, were willing to bow to the decision of the house, it was evident the West India interest would not accept it as a settlement. And even if they did, it did not appear at all certain that minis ters might not, either in this parliament or the next, come down and propose a further alteration. (Cheers.) The house divided—For the amendment 6B Against it lB5-117 The house then went into committee, and the clauses of the bill having been agreed to, Mr. HUME expressed his regret that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have exhibited such inconsistency as so suddenly to change his opinion on the question of keeping the discriminating duty at 6d. WAYS AND MEANS. The house hiving resolved itself into committee of Ways and Means, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the sum of 18,500,0001. be raised on Exchequer Bills. Agreed to. SUPPLY. The house then went into committee of supply, when the sum of 500,0001. was granted to defray the expeuses of purchasing arson for the relief of distress in Ireland up to the 21st of nest March. The sum of 600,0001. wu also voted on account of the expenses of the Board of Works in Ireland, sad of donations in aid of subscriptions to the 31st of March. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in to of the absence of his hon. friend the Secretary of the Treasury in consequence of the death of a near relative of his, who fell a victim to the destructive fever new existing in Ireland, he would move that the sum of 50,0001. on ac count of civil contingencies be granted.—Agreed to. The sum of 50,0001. was also voted on account of the new houses of parliament. On the motion of Sir R. Prat., the sum of 20,000!. was granted on account of the British Museum. The report having been ordered for Monday next, the house resumed. AGRICULTURAL TENANT RIGHTS BILL. . _ . . On the quistion of going into committee oa this bill being S Kr. NEWDEGATE said that he did not agree with the mode in which this bill was framed. He made this state ment because hr, thought that he, being one of the committee who were appointed to take the bill into consideration, might be supposed to have given his sanction to it. The fist day the committee met, he understood that they were to meet again, but he found that the committee bad closed its proceedings. That occurred either through some irregu larity on the part of the chairman, or through some misap- Fehension of his. He now only begged to state that he believed that the relation between landlord and tenant should undergo a further and more strict inquiry before they should pp es such a bill as this Kr. PUSEY said that he acted as chairman on that com m ittee. and he would assure the house that there was no irregularity on his part, and that the business of the com mittee was understood by the members of the committee to have ceased. He wished the hon. gentleman to retract the statement which he had made, attributing irregularity of conduct to him as chairman. . . --„ Mr. NEWDEGATE said that very probably he misun devetood the matter. Mr. JAMES said that this bill did not bear the light of day. It was nothing more than an act to enable fraudulent tenants to rob their landlords with greater facility than they enjoyed at present, Mr. ACLAND corroborated the statement of Mr. Posey. Sir R. PEEL thought there would be a great advantage ' in giving the tenant as assurance that if he permanently improved the soil, and were removed by the caprice of the landlord, he should recover full compensation ; but he con sidered that they had not sufficient information before them to legislate on the subject. There were two points to be attended to first, to procure full information as to the custom with reference to tenant right in various parts of England ; and secondly, to ascertain how far it was possible to give to existing regulations the sanction of law. (Hear, hear.) He would ask the hon. member whether they could legislate on the subject without a previous inquiry on these two points ? Mr. PUSSY said the right hon. baronet was present when the committee was appointed, and they did not take power to obtain evidence. The committee sat three days, and although there were only ten clauses in the bill, they made twelve--(a laugh)—and therefore they devoted an hour to each clause. He implored the house not to discuss the bill at that hour : be had expressed his wish to post pone it until the 21st of April, and he only asked the house to give him sn opportunity of fairly discussing the bill. Sir G. GREY thought it would be better to postpone any further discussion until the bill came fairly before the house. After a few words from Col. &armour, Sir J. Y . BULLER suggested to the hon. member (Mr. Posey) the propriety of withdrawing the bill, as further in quiry was necessary. Mr. PUSEY, so far from consenting to withdraw the bill, would do all in his power to have it passed in the pre sent session. The bill was then postponed till Wednesday, the 213 t of April. DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. Lord LINCOLN having moved the second reading of this tall, Col. SIBTHORP said he objected so strongly to the measure, that he should move the adjournment of the house. Mr. Henley, Sir J. Trollop., and Sir O. Grey appealed to the hon. and gallant member to withdraw his motion ; Lord LINCOLN declared that it was solely on public grounds he had introduced the bill, and was willing to postpone it to a future day; but the hon. and gallant member persisting in his motion, which was seconded by Mr. C. BERKELEY, who said he entertained just as strong an objection to it, the house divided—For the adjournment 1 Against it 49-48 The bill was then read a second time. STATIONS OF TROOPS DURING ELECTIONS. Mr. FOX MAULE, in moving for leave to bring in a bill he regulating the stations of troops during electrons, said that, by the law of Geo. 11., it was directed that troops Amid be removed two miles from the places of election. And, as it was difficult to find stations for the troops, in massquence of the number of polling places ; and as great inconvenience would arise during a general election, both to the public and the troops, if some law was not passed to rowdy it, he proposed to bring in the present bill for that parpose.—Leave given. IMPROVEMENT OF LAND IN IRELAND. Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide further facilities for the further improve ment of landed property in Ireland by the owners thereof. The house then adjourned at half-past one. ghe eriortoo. MAILS. The ow. toe \rw South Wales Van Diemen's isnd, end No. Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31.1 Muth. The Wrr't Indio Mai* ineluding these for Menlo, °Mare& sad the ilarannah, mill be made up on the morning of the 2. April. TM mails for British North America, Bern.* mad the truit'ad 861 m, will he mule up on the evening of the 3rd April. The .”" 1 . 41 null. D. Gibraltar, Malts, GIVOCir, the lonian Islands, pt., Aden, Ceylon, India, Moog-Kong, and China, vie BoothamPtem, Vibe made up on the morning of the 3rd April. The mails for the Brasil., the River Plate, Monts Video, Pero., Wm, Bahia, Makin, and &AMOS Ayres, will be made ap on the eteeisw of the 3th April. The malls , or Vigo, Oporto, Listos, Madeira, Cad's, and Gibraltar, VII he made uo en the morning of the 7th AprtL The overland closed mails, rim Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt. Ades Peytn, India, Hong Kam, e., will be made up on the mewing of the 7th April. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 27. Mosr of as have enjoyed a hearty laugh at the tricks of the mock inquisitors described in Oil Blas. " Tell me, friend," asked LAMELA, " if you have never seen your master caress little children r A thou sand times," replied GAsPARD ; " when he sees little boys pass by hie shop, if they are at all handsome, he tops and fondles them." " Write, master secretary," sale the inquisitor, " that SAMUEL SIMON is vehe mently neglected of decoying Christian children into his house in order to cut their throats."...." Does he Tmk also of Jerusalem ?" asked LAMELA. " Very Men," replied the young man, "he relates to us the history of the Jews, and in what manner the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed." " Right," said LAMELA "master secretary, let not this piece of intelligence escape you ; write in large characters that SAMUEL 81110 N breathes nothing but the restoration of the temple, and that he meditates night and day the re establishment of his nation. What the trustyasseAßD has deposed is enough to bring a whole synagogue to **stake." This lively fiction is but a faint por traiture of the arts to which the opponents of the ministerial plan of education resort. One of their nate has said that the measure is brought forward In avowed imitation of despotic governments." The writer has surpassed LAMELA, for he has contrived to tell two falsehoods is a breath, for no such avowal was ever made, aad no such imitation exists. The Proposed measure is wholly unlike in principle to the rottinental systems, and is identical in principle with established in the state of New York, which all modern travellers assure us is anything rather than a despotic government. What course ought to be pur sued with a journalist who can have recourse to such monstrous inventions? Destroy his fib or wvphistry :—in vain— The creature's at his dirty work again. In the Daily News it was stated that the law would give redress for any injury which the reports of inspectors might inflict on charac ter, and the modern I.Anzi.A turns round to say that, on our confession, the only remedy for injustice is expensive law. Even in this, he is guilty of that suppression of truth which is equivalent to the sufc gestion of falsehood ; for inspection is no novelty in England ; we have inspectors of factories, of hospi tals, of prisons, and of asylums ; and we have inspectors of all great educational establishments under the name of visitors; but this journalist has placed himself beyond the pale of controversy ; he hazarded an asser tion respecting the articles in the Daily News, which we showed to be untrue ; he has neither retracted nor attempted to prove his assertion ; he must, therefore, be understood to persevere in convicted falsehood, and for such conduct there is but one name among honest men. We have been struck by the marked difference between the factious course pursued by the Bsisas' section of Dissenters, and that which the Wesleyans have adopted. In 1839, the Wesleyan educational committee stated their fears that a ministerial mea sure of education did not make sufficient provision for Protestant and scriptural instruction. Forth with, the organs of ultra-Calvinistic dissent assailed that respectable body with the same virulence which is now directed against the Established Church. The Wesleyans were described as cavillers and bigots; invidious nicknames were given to their most eminent preachers, and a petition in favour of state-interference was hastily concocted and presented, asking for the very measure which these same petitioners now so factiously reprobate. The Wesleyan body then exhibited no indecent haste in accepting the measure, though exhorted thereto by the Leeds Mercury, and they have equally avoided indecent haste now in rejecting it. They have ap pointed a committee to compare the principles which they asserted in 1839 with the minutes of council issued in 1847, and we believe that a compariaoa of the two documents will show that they are far from being irreconcilable. The resolutions passed by the opponents of the government system of education in Leeds, to which, as promised, we have given insertion, are of a different character, and require some comment. They set forth that " the interference of government in the educa tion of the people, is a departure from the proper province of government." If this can be established, there is an end of the whole controversy. When the inhabitants of some town in France told Henry IV. that they had a hundred good reasons for not saluting him with cannon, the first being that they had not a single piece of artillery in their possession, the king replied that he would spare them all the rest. So, if the right of the state to interfere at all be overthrown, it is useless to discuss the extent or means of interfe rence. But the denial of this right rests on the mere assertion of the Leeds requisitors, and against this weighty authority we have to set the example of every civilised state on earth, including Protestant Switzerland and the United States of America, in. eluding England itself, which has given public aid to national education in Ireland for more than half a century. Against Mr. BAINEs and his requisitors we have to set the authority of the great lawgivers of all ages and nations, from LTemmus to NAPOLEON, all of whom, in their codes, have made national edu cation a department and a duty of the state ; and we have to add the authority of Mr. BAINES himself in 1839, and the Congregationalist petition of that year. The Jesuit cry " freedom of education," borrowed, perhaps unconsciously, from the disciples of LOYOLA in France, is so palpably absurd that we wonder at its adoption. A free sale of food is not inconsistent with a prohibition to vend tainted meat or absolute poison ; and, in like manner, free education is not da maged by the prevention of mis-education, that pro lific source of ignorance, degradation, and depravity. Mr. DurroN's pamphlet has shown ignorance to be the result of mis-education, and not of non-education. Now, mis-education is what the government seek to prevent, and the Leeds requisitors surely cannot mean to contend for a liberty to train children to profligacy, to educate them for mendicancy, and to bring them up in those schools of vice established by the Ingine and Mother Coles of all our large towns. This is, indeed, a new view of freedom, which, carried to its full extent, would require the abolition of all police. The constitutional objection wasdecisivsly answered by Lord LANSDOWNE ; we, however, agree with the requisitors that national 'education ought to be esta blished by ant of parliament, and we are ready to join them in a petition for the purpose, so soon as the press ing questions arising out of the state of Ireland have ceased to engross the attention of the legislature. The distribution of patronage, as a reward for edu cational merit, ascertained by public and impartial examination, is so obvious an improvement on the ex isting system, that we are utterly astonished at its meeting opposition even from the most illiberal. But the Leeds requisitors soberly contend, that if regard be paid to merit and qualifications in making appoint ments to public offices, corruption will overspread the land, and that purity can only be preserved by leav ing merit out of the question, and attending only to election interests and private recommendations. The mere statement of such absurdity is its best refutation. The power of examination given to the in spector is, according to Leeds logic, equiva lent to the power of appointment. The re quisitors might as well contend that the examiners at Hutt . ..bury and Addiscombe have usurped all the patronage of the East India Company. If they assert that it is unnecessary to make any inquiry into the qualifications of schoolmasters and teachers, why not carry out the principle and denounce ex animations for degrees at universities, and diplomas at medical institutions ? How the schools of dissenters are to be destroyed by receiving government aid on the same terms as Church schools, is a mystery which we cannot solve ; and instead of helping us the requisitors have con trived To puzzle e'en by explanation, And darken by elucidation. . . But they have been plain enough on one point ; they "peremptorily object to a system under which any preference could be possible." This is a sweeping objection to every conceivable system of government, educational or otherwise, and could only be obviated by reviving the theocracy of the Hebrew, or accept- lag the wildest jacobinism of the last century. We have read these resolutions with great, but not unmingled pain ; they are more moderate in their tone, and more fair in their statements, than any which have yet emanated from the same quarter, and some of the most flagrant absurdities in the memo rable list of objections, which we recently expose d, have been quietly abandoned. There is a hopei consistency between denouncing all interference of government, and the demand that a system of national education should be established by act of parliament ; an inconsistency which we view with pleasure, not from any paltry pride of triumph in controversy, but from the reasonable expectation that the reason able demand will prevail over the irrational denun ciation ' • that the requisitors will discern with the wise and good of all ages, that the children of citizens ought to be trained in the way that they should go, so that when they are old they should not depart from it. The calmer tone assumed by the requisitors shows that passion has cooled, and that prejudice is abated; we congratulate them on the change; and we pray that neither a fancied pride of consistency, nor a factious desire to make trial of their political strength, may make them aliens to the state—that is, to the community at large—in the noble effort so to train the youth of England, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and liberty, may be esta blished amongst us throughout future generations. 'MERE is a run upon juries just at present. What, if the assailants of the twelve were to turn their wits and pens against quarter sessions and the magistrates' bench' We published, the other day, a case tried at Leicester, which, if a pretext were wanting for such an onslaught, might afford a famous one. The ILoughborough bench has attained an unenvi able notoriety for the absurdity of its verdicts and the extravagance of its fees. We have already devoted our columns more than once to the exposure of their judicial misdoiags. But none that we have neticed is I a t all equal to that which formed the grounds for the action tried at Leicester on Tuesday, and which we commented on at the time it occurred: only a case so grievous could justify our ret Y urning to it now. Two village gossips quarrel. Mrs . TLER asperses Mrs. Caoofth' chastity in an expressive monosyllable. Mrs. CROOKS dares Mrs. TYLER to slap her face. Mrs. TYLER, like Sampson, in "Romeo and Juliet," aware that " the law is (r.ot) on her side if she say 'ay ' " to the proposal, refuses. Mrs. CROOKS, baulked of her bout at fisticuffs, hereupon ap plies to the Rev. Jons DUDLEY, and Mr. 0. 1). 0. ll.thvexs, two of the Loughborough magistrates, and these worthies issue, not a summons, but a warrant against Mrs. TYLER! The case is heard. The magis trates decide that no offence has been committed, but that Mrs. TYLER " stands admonished," and sentence her to pay 11. 181. costs. They allow her • week to raise the money. The wife of a labourer, with five children—they might as well, as Mr. HUMPHREY said, " have asked her to raise the national debt." Her miserable furniture is seized, but the proceeds are in sufficient to pay the sum, and Mrs. TYLER, in default, is committed to the Leicester House of Correction for 14 days, with hard labour. Fortunately, while in that place, she was seen by a visiting justice. Inquiring into her offence, he was told by her that none had been committed. Referring, very naturally, to the commitment, he found it to this effect : That whereas Mary Ann Tyler, on the IGth day of April, 1846, did, at divers times, and particularly on the 10th day of April, against the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, grievously annoy and abuse Enoch Crooks (representing his ' wife), the magistrates having duly deliberated upon the al legation of both parties touching the same complaints, pur suant to an act passed in th e 18th year of his late Majesty George 111., for the more effectual payment of costs to con stables, and for the more effectual payment of witnesses in certain cases of felony and larceny, do adjudge the said Mary Ann Tyler, having been duly assessed in costs on such com plaint, to pay the sum of IL 18e., and do furthermore ad judge the same Mary Ann Tyler, having neglected to pay or to give security, and her goods being insufficient to meet the mots, to 14 days' imprisonment and hard labour with 9s. costs for conveyance. . _ Well might Mr. HUMPHREY remark on this docu ment that " Never did such a commitment as this find its way into any gaol of the kingdom." It alleges, as will be seen, no legal offence, and no conviction justifying imprisonment forcosts, unless Mrs. TYLER'S application of the offensive epithet to Mrs. CROOKS be either a felony or a larceny. The case was farther inquired into, and a memorial presented to the Home Secretary. It met with prompt attention. By return of post, an order arrived from Sir issies GRAHAM, discharging the prisoner after nine days of her eon- I finement had expired. A communication from the Home Secretary was soon after made to the committing magistrates that, lon a repetition of such conduct, he would lay the names of magistrates so committing themselves before the LORD CLIANCELLOR, for the purpose of having them struck off the commission. On referring to our file of last year, we find in our paper of November 27, that these same gentlemen, unawed by the threat of the Home Secretary, indulged themselves in a prank, which if not quite as atrocious as their treatment of Mrs-TYLER, comes closely enough upon it to have fairly warranted the infliction of the Home Secretary's threatened disgrace. Two lads, sons of this very Mrs. TYLER, were, in that month, convicted by the same worthies of throwing a stone at the door of ENOCH CROOKS (no doubt the husband of the complainant against Mrs. TYLER), and thereby causing damage to the amount of one farthing. I'or thin they inflicted a fine of Is. on each of the children, with costs amounting to 11. 14s. Oid. We venture to ask if Messrs. DUDLEY and DAN- YERS are still in the commission, and if so, whether it would not be well in Sir GEORGE GREY to remem ber the promise of his predecessor? But the misconduct of these persons does not end here. Mrs. TYLER'S action of false imprisonment, in the natural order of things, would have come on last assizes, and before a common jery, composed of per sons in a rank of life nearer to that ofJORN TYLER, the labourer, than of Messrs. DEDLET and DARvERs, the magistrates. It was put off; on the sworn affi davits of the magistrates' clerk, that a witness named POTTER was absent, whose testimony was essential to the defence, and that the trial could not safely pro ceed without him. At this assizes, the trial comes on before a special jury, and Mr. POTTER, the necessary witness, though present, is not put into the wit ness-box. M'hat are we to think of this, or how explain it, ex cept on the supposition that the trial was deferred, not because Mr. POTTER'S evidence was wanted, but that the cause might be tried before a special instead of a common jury • before twelve gentlemen, who might be expected to sympathise more with neighbours and brother magistrates than with a labourer and his wife. If this coarse was adopted with the connivance of the defendants, it would aggravate the case against them, and materially strengthen the inference to be drawn from their lawless convictions, that they are unfit for the functions they exercise, not so much from ignorance, or prejudice, or stupidity, as from a want of that love of fair play which is assumed to be a national characteristic. However, if their trust were in the sympathies of the special jury, it was idle in this case. A verdict was given against them, with damages, small, as it appears to us, for the hardship inflicted—so small, as to serve moot imperfectly for a lesson to the defendants, but still enough to mark the conviction of the jury that the ac tion was rightly brought, and the defend ants properly punishable. But the matter, we repeat it, should not end here. Connecting the offence of April with its repetition in November, a clear case seems made out for the interference of the Home Secretary to remove from the commission magistrates who have disgraced their class and abused their powers, and a magistrate's clerk who has, on a groundless pretext, attempted to secure unfair advan tages on a trial in which, indirectly, he was con cenied. We have no inclination to join in the cry against the present exercise of judicial functions by magistrate's in petty or quarter sessions. But it must be confessed that such cases as these, of which there are more than are ever likely to come to light, tend to give great force to the clamour against "the great unpaid. While they continue to occur, without provoking the prompt and efficacious interference of the Home Office, we should be afraid to stake the continuance of the present jurisdiction of justices of the peace upon the question propounded by Mr. Pniumroxe, in his pamphlet on Law Reform —" Would you, or any man fit to go about without a keeper, knowing yourself to be innocent, choose to be tried by a Court of Quarter Sessions, or by &Judge ?" Certainly, the question of guilt or innocence appears to be one little likely to suggest itself to such heads as Messrs. DUDLEY and DANVERS, or to be suggested, ab extra, by such advisers as Mr. BURNABY, their clerk. Our Paris despatches and the journals of Thursday have reached us. The debate on electoral reform was proceeding in the Chamber, and the question had assumed a much more serious aspect than the ministers and their friends had expected. Instead of being scouted from the house as unworthy of discussion, as the Debate declared would be the case, it seems likely to be one of the most serious debates of the present session. The ministers have accordingly taken up the question with more energy than they had intended; and M. l)uchatel declared in the Chamber on Wednesday that the rejection of the measure in this its first stage was regarded by himself and his colleagues as a cabinet question. The debate had not concluded when our express left. With a view to case the financial pressure, and facilitate the progress of the public works, it has been decided, under certain cenditions, to return, by successive instalments, the deposits which the railway companies have made with the state. They are to be returned in the proportion of the sums which the companies actually expend upon the works. Mr. O'Connell arrived in Paris on Wednesday, eft route for Italy. He was accompanied by one of his sons. Since the Boulogne railway was open to Abbeville, the delivery of the London letters and despatches has been retarded three hours. This appears to be a very common effect of railways in France. There was a eonsiderable fall in the price ,Of grain in Paris ou Wednesday. NO Spanish Mail was received on Thursday. PRANCE. COPYRIGHT. A curione litelliT7 question was decided, on Tuesday, by the Correctional Tn bunal of Paris, after hearing very lengthened arguments. It appeared that, in 1828, M. Fraysainous Bishop of Hermo polio, ceded the copyright of some of his works to Messrs. Leclerc and Co. A translation of these works into Spanish was made at Madrid, and at later periods this Spanish trans lation was twice reprinted at Paris. The question then arose, whether it was a piracy to print in France a transla tion of a French work. The tribunal declared that it was, and condemned the defendants, Messrs. Lecointe and Las- THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1847. ...,,,, to 100 fr. fine, to 2,000 fr. damages, and to the confisca• cation :f all the remaining copies of the two editions of the translatio-7 :..... ... BELGlUM.—Seventeen persons were killed on the 23rd inst. by an explosion of fire damp in a coal mine in the wood of St. Ghialain, province of Hainanlc HOLLAND.—AMSTERDAM, MARCH 24.—The go vernment have just informed the States-General that the new coinage during the year 184,5 amounted in value to the sum of 5,033,572 florins, and during the year 1846, to 20,8.30,190 florins; altogether, 25,863,762 florins. Up to the Ist inst. the value of the old coins which were with drawn from circulation and melted down amounted to 59,282,821 florins Sc. To cover a part of this amount go- moment have issued paper to the value of 30,000,000 florins, and the treasury have received new coins is the • due of 20,647,645 florins. It is presumed that the ex change of the old coins will cause a loss of 4,518,402 A. 721 c. SARDINIA.—A letter from Turin, of the 20th, says that the health of the King of Sardinia has greatly im proved, and that his Majesty had been able to transact business with his ministers. G E RMANY.—Aaorn Ea THEATRE ON FteE.—A letter from Berlin says, that on the evening of the 19th inst., during the representation at the Grand Opera of that capital, the house was on fire. Happily the flames were got under with • loss of only a portion of the scenery. LOLA MONTHS.—The Rhenish 05serrer states, on the authority of loners from Munich, that Lola Monte* has at length been created Countess of Sternheim, and that her letter of nobility_ is to be presented to her on her Kte-day. GERMAN EMIGRANTS.—A letter from Bremen states that from the let to the 17th March, 3,804 emigrants from Germany embarked for America. They were conveyed in 26 vessels. Of this number 1,426 were going to New York, and the remainder to Baltimore. It was thought that no less than 4,000 would embark between the 17th March and the Ist April. DENMARK.—COPENHAGEN, MARCH IB.—The King of Denmark has issued a decree taking off alt duties on grain, vegetables, potatoes, flour, &c., conveyed up the Elbe, till the end of September nest. lIADAGASCAR.—The Sentincile de Maurice of Dec. 7 states that it is the intention of France to abandon its erablishment at Noseibf, where the European popu lation has hitherto been decimated, and two-thirds of the troops fall yearly victims to the insalubrity of the climate. The island of MaTotte will thus become the sole military position of France to those seas. COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOAD HOPE.--By the Cressy, arrived in the Channel, we have papers from Cape Town to the 22d of January. The governor arrived in Simoe's Bay, from the frontier, on the 19th, accompanied by Colonels Cloete and Slade, Capt. Maitland, and the Rev. B. Maitland. The go. yernment Gazette of the 21st contains a proclamation, dated Graham's Town, Jan. 13, declaring that whereas the mea sures taken to suppress armed resistance to her Majesty's forces had been " crowned with such a measure of success as to promise a speedy termination to all military opera tioll3," martial law should, from and after the promulgation, " wholly cease to be in force in any part or portion of this colony." Government notices of the 20th intimated the appointment of Lieut. D. Davies, 90th Regiment, to be superintendent of native police in British Kaffirland; and John Maclean, Esq.. to be commissioner for the tribes in Lower British Kaffirland. Notice had been given, towards the cloth of December, that tenders would be received till the Ist February, for contracts, to begin on the lot March, 1847, and end 31st December, 1848, to convey mails—from Graham's Town to Somerset in 14 hours, and back in the same time ; from Graham's Town to Bathurst in 41 hours, and hack in the same time ; from Graham's Town to Fort Beaufort, rid Fort Brown and Keenan% in 8 hours, aid back in the same time. • A government notice in the same number of the Gazette contains the details of the expedition into Creili's country, to exact satisfaction from that chief for his treacherous con duct towards the colony, to reduce the ['Shamble tribe of Pato and Cobus Congo; and to afford an opportunity to such of the Butterworth lingoes as desired at, to retire from the eastward of the Kei and place themselves under British protection. The forces rendezvoused at Warden's Drift on the Kei on the 27th of December. On the 30th they were formed into three divisions. Lieut.-Colonel Vander Meulen, with 600 men, occupied a position near Warden's Drift, with the seeming intention to cress the river by that ford; Captain Napier, C.M.R., with 600 men descended the Kea, and crossed at at a ford nine miles lower down at daybreak; the remainder of the troops under Colonel Somerset, proceeded to the sea-coast, leaving a party to watch an intermediate ford. Colonel Somerset advanced eastward along the coast, as far as the Coega fords, which he reached on the 3rd of January. At day break of that day, he had an affair at the mouth of the Nanga river, in which be captured a drove of cattle and frustrsted an attempt of the enemy to pass to the rear. On the 4th, he moved along the heights towards the head of the Coega river, where he saw several parties of Kaffirs, mounted and on foot, driving their cattle into the deep sallies of the Coega, in full retreat to the Bashee country. About 1,500 bead of cattle and some horses were captured, but owing to the difficulty of the country and the dense fogs the Kaffirs escaped. Col. Somerset returned to Butterworth camp, on she left bank of the Kei, on tha evening of the 6th, with 2,000 cattle. In the meantime, Captain Napier was scouring the country round Butterworth capturing cattle, and in one engagement killing seventeen Kaffirs with the loss of one of the Cape Rifles. On the Bth. Col. Somerset was again in motion wail his whole force. On the 10th. he reported as the result of these movements, that the whole country west of the Kei had been cleared of hostile tribes, and that 10,000 cattle had been captured. On the 11th, he intimated that he had learned from two prisoners that on the previous night Creili sent messages to the chief Bookee to assemble forces and assist in seizing Pato, whom it was his intention to deliver up to the government, con sidering_ hint the only bar to the conclusion of hostilities. Sir P. Maitland had arrived at Cape Town. linic Caen. - - - The Queen held a chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The knights companions of the order assembled at one o'clock in the palace, and were robed in their mantles of purple velvet by Mr. Hunter and Mr. Ede. The knights also wore their splendid collars. Garter King of Arms called over the names of the knights companions present in the Green Drawing-room, and the knights and officers of the order proceeded into the presence of the sovereign, in the Throne or Chapter-room. The Queen, who wore the mantle and collar of the order, was seated in the chair of state, Prince Albert being by her side ; his royal highness also wearing the mantle sod collar. The Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes, and the Countess of Gainoborough, Lady in Waiting, were behind her Majesty. The Lord Chamberlain stood on the right of the Queen, and the Lord Steward on the opposite side. The knights companions present were his R. H. Prince Albert, his R. H. the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Marquis of Exeter, the Duke of Hamilton, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Duke of Beaufort, Earl de Grey, and the Mar quis Camden. The officers of the order present were the Bishop of Winchester, Prelate; the Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor; Sir C. Young, Garter King of Arms • and Sir A. Cli ff ord, Bart., Gentleman Usher of the Black End. The knights companions being seated, the Chancellor signified to the Queen that the Hon. and Rev. 0. N. Grenville attended at the door, and humbly prayed to be admitted to take the oath of office as register of the moat noble Order of the Garter, whereupon, by her Majesty's command, the regis ter, wearing his mantle, was introduced between Garter and Black Rod, the former carrying, on a velvet cushion, the gold chain and badge ; the register knelt on the left hand of the Queen, and the oath of office was administered to him by the Chancellor. The register was then invested by the Sovereign with the gold chain and badge, and having had the honour to kiss her Majesty's hand, retired to his place at the bottom of the table. The Chan cellor signified to the chapter her Majesty's royal will and pleasure that the vacant stall in the royal Chapel of St. George at Windsor, should be filled, and as, by the sta tutes, nose but a knight can be elected, the most noble Francis Duke of Bedford was introduced between Garter and Black Rod The sword of state, born by Sir W. Mar tins, gentleman usher, was presented to the Queen by the Lord Chamberlain ; and her Majesty wee graciously pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon the noble duke therewith. His Grace, rising, kissed the sovereign's hand and retired. The Knights Companions proceeded to the election, and the suffrages having been collected by the Chancellor, were presented by him to the Queen, who com manned him to declare that the moot noble Francis Duke of Bedford had been duly elected a knight of the most noble Order of the Garter. By the sovereign's command the Duke of Bedford was received at the door of the Chapter room by the Marquis Camden and Earl de Grey, the two junior knights companions present, and was conducted between them to the Queen, pre ceded by Garter, (bearing the ensigns of the order u • crimson velvet cushion,) and by Block Rod. His Grace knelt wear the Soverign, and Garter King of Arms on his knee presented the Garter, and her Majesty, assisted by their RR. NH. Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge, the two Senior Knights' Companions present, buckled it on his Grace's left leg, the Chancellor pronouncing the usual admonition. Garter King of Arms presented In like manner the Riband and George, and her Majesty, mended as before, put the Riband over his Grace's) left snoulder, the Chancellor pronouncing the admonition. The Noble Duke again kissed her Majesty's hand and peered round the Chapter Table, receiving the congratulations of each of the Knights Companions. His Grace then withdrew. The Chapter being ended, Garter, by her Majesty's com mand, again called over the Knights Companions, who, with the Officers of the Order, retired from the presence of the Queen, with the usual reverence. A guard of honour of the yeomen guard lined the grand hull, under the command of the coon in waiting, Captain Sadler. The Queen's guard of the Foot Guards, with the band of the regiment, was on duty on the palace lawn during the court. H.K.H. Prince Albert presided, yesterday after noon, at a meeting of the commissioners for promoting and encouraging the hoe arts in the rebuilding the palace of Westminster. The meeting was held in the new palace. The Prince arrived shortly before three o'clock, attended by Col. Bouverie. The commissioner present were : the Earl of Aherdeen, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Ashburton, Lord Colborne, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Mahon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir R. Peel, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. H. Hallam, Mr. Vivian, Mr. Wyse. The secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. Mr. Barry, the architect, attended thecommissioners during their anspectionof portions of the new building. The meeting broke up at six o'clock. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace ineladed the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Ccrantew Granville, and the Right flog, Sir J. Graham. INCREASE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.—We have again the gratificati , in to announce the approach of an event calculated to increase the domestic happiness of our sovereign and the prince consort. The Morning Port, whose calcu lations respecting such interesting events are seldom erro. neous, names August mat as the auspicious moath. Yesterday was the birthday of H.R.H. Prince George. Their RIZ.HH. the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary dined •ith H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, last evening. A deputation from the Mauritius Association had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-othee. The following members of the new bishoprics commission yesterday attended • meeting in Whitehall-place; The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord John Russell, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, Chester, and Lincoln, and Sir G. Grey. The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Lord J. Stuart had also an interview • ith the Right Hon. Baronet. Lord Rowden had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon on Thursday at the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Itinsdowr.e was better yesterday. The Marquis of Sligo leg Terrance's Hotel yesterday for , 1 Ireland. RELIEF OF THE HIGHLANDERS. —The arum of 3301. has been remitted to Edinburgh for the relief of the Highlanders, as the proceeds of a private fancy bazaar, held' at Stratheden House, by Lady Stratheden and Campbell, with the assistance of her friends. DEATH OF SIR HENRY ROBERT CARDEN, BART.— Accounts have been received in town of the demise of the above gallant baronet, whose dissolution took place a few days since at Templemore House, county Tipperary, Ireland. He was second son of Sir John Carden, who raised the 30th regiment of Light Dragoons, which regiment was reduced' at the peace of Amiens. He served in that regiment under the command of his father during the several campaigns in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington, and also shared the glories of Waterloo. lie retired from the army shortly after the general peace. On the death of his brother, Sir Arthur, in March, 182'2, be succeeded to the Karonetey. The deceased was born Bth Feb., 1789, and in March, 1818, he married Louisa, only child of Mr. Frederick Thompson, of the city of Dublin, by whom he leaves issue four sons and three daughters. Hu eldest son, John Craven Carden, who succeeds to the baronetc_y, is a captain in the Bth Hunan. DEATH OF THE HON. SIR EDWARD VAYASOUR, Bentz—We have to record the sudden death, near Dijon. in Buz sandy, of the above hon. baronet, who was ►t the time on his way to Rome. The melancholy event took place on the 15th inst. The deceased baronet was second son of Charles, 16th Lord Stourton, and uncle of the present peer. lie was born 6th May, 1786, and married sth August, 1813. Marcia Bridget, only daughter of Mr. James Lane Fox, and by her ladyship, who died in 1826, he had a family of Rye sons and three daughters. In 1826 be inherited the ancient family estate of his kinsman, Sir Thos. Vavaaour, Bart., of Haalewood, Yorkshire, and thereupon took by ei t in manual the name of Vavasour, in lieu of his patronymic. In 1828 he was created a baronet. He was a knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and a deputy-lieutenant of York shire. Tile deceased baronet is succeeded by his eldest eon Edward, born Jan. 17, 1815. (From last night's Gazette.) DRAWING Room.—Notice is given in last night's Gazette that her Majesty will hold a drawing room this day. The regulations respecting the presentations, and the setting down and taking up of the company in their carriages, arc precisely the same as those issued on former occasions. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 23.—The Queen has approved of Mr. 8. Solomon, u Consul at St. Helena far her Majesty the Queen of Spain. THE GOVERNMENT MEASURE OF EDUCATION. _ _ A numerously-attended meeting, convened by the central committee for opposing the government in their pro posed educational measure, mu held let evening in the School-room, East India-road, Poplar. The chair was taken by JOSIAR COMMIE Esq. The Rev. J. KENNEItY proposed— That this meeting views the educational measure of the govern meat, aa eiretained in the minutes of the Council of Y'ducation. with wipe alarm, as involving an unnecessary and prodigal expenditure of the public money, so virtually giving increased influence and wealth to the established church, or threatening injury, if not destruction, to schools declining government aid, as dangerously increasing the power and patronage of the government, and as affording indirerimi. are support to the teaching of all roligioua sects ; and that this meet ing regards it ► an aggravation of three evils that, in violation of all constitutional principle% the measure ia sought to be carried out without the ennetion of parliament. Mr. Wu. Mounts seconded the resolution, which the chairman was about to put to the meeting, when Mr. J. R. Esvnta begged to propose an amendment. The CHAIRMAN considered that the meeting being called for a specific purpose, no gentleman bad a right to move an amendment to a resolution thus propcoed. He would, however, put the question to the meeting. The question was put, and carried unanimously in favour of the amend ment being proposed. Mr. BAYNES accordingly came forward, and was received with considerable applause. After observing upon the new law for public meetings, which, he considered, the chairman had attempted to institute, he proceeded to comment upon the arguments which had been adduced against the measure, and concluded by moving— That this meeting is glad t.at the government has determined to help in the education of the people of England. Mr. Soat t. seconded the amendment. He was of opinion that the government measure would induce a better class of men to enter the profession of schoolmasters, which, of course, would result in better pupils. The system of training was quite jut ; because it was right that while a man was allowed seven years to learn a trade, that a schoolmaster should be instructed in his art. . . The Rev. J. limienT, as mover of the finft resolution. having replied, the resolution and amendment were put, and the latter was carried by a considerable majority. The meet ing separated, after a vote of thanks to the chairman. Tae PALMONTOGRAPEICAL SocIETY.—A meeting was held on Tuesday, the 23rd lost., at the rooms of the Geological Society, Sir Henry T. De la Beebe, in the chair, to establish a society, the object of which is to figure and describe as completely u possible • stratagraphical series of British fossils. It is proposed that the work shall be in quarto, and that each plate shall on the average contain about 20 figures, illustrating half se many species, or more, according to circumstances. The work will be produced in the form of monographs, by various authors. As a commencement of the genes, the whole of the British tertiary fossils have been promised to be described by, and figured under the superintendence of, Mr. Searles V. Wood, Mr. T. E. Edwards, Mr. Flower, &e. No precise order of publication will he adhered to, but it is proposed that monographs of portions of the secondary sena shall also be produced as early as the nature of such undertakings will permit. It was resolved that the society be called the Palatontographical Society • that each subscriber of one guinea or more'annually shall be considered a mem ber, and be entitled to one copy of every publication issued for the year to which his subscription relates, but no mem ber shall be entitled to receive his copy or copies until his subscription has been paid; and that the business of the society be conducted by a president, treasurer, honorary secretary, and a council of 16 members. The following gentlemen were then elected for the current year :—Sir H. T. De la Bache, President; S. V. Wood, Esq., Treasurer; J. Morris, Esq., lion. Sec.; with 16 other gentlemen as a coun cil. The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Bowerbank, for his exertions on behalf of the society, end also to Sir H. De le Beebe, for his able conduct in the chair. It was inti mated that gentlemen who are desirous of becoming mem ben should forward their names to the honorary secretary, J. Morris, Esq., Kensington. ALARMING FIRE AT PIXLICO.—Last night, be tween ten and eleven o'clock, a fire, that caused consider able slarm, broke out upon the premises in the occupancy of Mr. Ciumbleton, boot and shoemaker, Grosvenor-row, Pim lico. The flames originated from some unknown cause in the front shap,end were first perceived by a police-constable. An immediate alarm was raised, and momengen were sent to give intelligence of the outbreak to the engine-stations ; meanwhile the fire conticued to spread, se that in a very brief space of time the whole of the stock in the shop be came wrapped in one broad sheet of flame. With all possible expeditition, one of the escapes of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire arrived, as well as several engines of the London Brigade, parish, and West of Eng land office. Plenty of water was obtained, from which the firemen set to work most vigorously, but before they could get the mastery over the flames, the whose of the stock in trade was reduced to ashes. Fortunately, Mr. Oumbleton was insured in the Sun Fire-office. ATTACK UPON MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL—OD Tues day an Irishwoman died in this hospital, whom body the surgeons deemed it necessary to open, her death having occurred under suspicious circumstances. Thursday night her husband, accompanied by a large body of Irishmen and Irishwomen, went to the hospital with a coffin, and insisted upon getting the body, and when the officers of the hospital refused, the mob threatened to take it by force, and were about executing their threat when the police arrived, sad they were partly terrified and partly dissuaded from so doing. This is the second attack that has been made within two months oa the hospital, with the same intent. INQUEST, YESTERDAT.—THE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT THE CAIIDIN STATION.—At the University College by Mr. Wakley, M.P., on the body of Edward Whflman, aged 35, who was killed by the fall of arches at Messrs. Piekford's warehouses, Camden.town, undercircuss stances which have already appeared in this journal. The jury returned • verdict of" Accidental death," one or two of them, however, being or opinion that the work should not have been done during the winter. THE FATAL STEAM-SHIP COLLISION OFF GRAVESEND.—MANSLAUGHTER. GRAVESEND, FRIDAY EVENING.—The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Henry Shillibeer, aged 50, and James Emmett, aged 30, two of the unfortunate crew of the schooner Rose, run down by the Royal Victoria London and Leith steam-chip, on the river, off Hole Haven, on the morning of Sunday, the 28th ult., was resumed this day at noon, at the World's End Tavern, Tilbury Fort. William George Wells was first sworn. He said I am a Thames bargeman, and reside at Rochester. On the morn ing of Sunday, the 28th ult., about half-past three o'clock, I vim going down the river in my barge in Sea Reach, near Hole Haven. When *boat three-quarters of a mile above Hole Haven I saw the steamer bearing down towards me. The steamer paned me about a quarter of a mile above the schooner Rose. and, as she did so, I heard a voice on her deck sing out, " Starboard." I could see the steamer was going a wrong course in amongst the craft ; and I remarked to my mate, " My God ! he'll be over something." The steamer was going at a very fast rate when ohe passed me. After the steamer passed, her smoke prevented my sight ; but in a very few minutes I heard a moth, as if the steamer had run into some thing. I put my barge about, and sailed towards the steamer, but the schooner had sunk be fore I could reach her —By the Coroner : I have been enamed in navigating the Thames, on and off, for the last fiftsvn years, and am well acquainted with that part of the river where the collision took place. The spot where the schooner lay is one where all small ream!' evp:ct to lay in safety, sod protected from the cast wind. At the time the steamer struck the schooner she was out of her proper course. When the steamer pawed me, I saw ime man either on the paddle.box or bridge, hut no one else on deck. Had the steamer " ported " her helm at the time I heard the word "starboard," she might have cleared all the craft below me. If there had been a good look out on board the steamer, I think the collision might have been avoided. The schooner might he seen more that half a mile off, and I never saw Sea Reach more clear in mid-channel, which was the pmper course for the steamer, than on that morning. The tide at the time was as Rear halfebh as possible. Ido not think the tide bad set in sufficiently to prevent the steamer answering her helm. Mr. Geolre Brown reside at Gravesend, and have been a Thames pilot from Gravesend, up and down channel, for the last thirty-six years. lam perfectly well acquainted with that part of the river off Hole Haven, where the schooner Roae was alleged to have been run down. The proper coarse for steamers at that paint is mid-channel. To avoid the flood tide it is proper to Lep to the south shore. The tide sets In at the place where the collision occurred parallel with the shore. That would not be at all likely to prevent a ship answering her helm. Alexander Ross, second mate on board thp Royal Vie toria.--I was et the helm on the morning of the collision, and the captain was on the bridge directing the navigation of the vessel. The brat order I received was, " Starboard," the next "Steady!" then "A-port, a-port!" and then, " Hard a-port '" These orders came in quick succession, one after the other; and after the last order was given, the collision tank place. I obeyed the orders of the captain as be gave them. By the Jury.—There was not sufficient time for the vessel. to recover from her " starboard" helm, and answer her "port" helm, before the collision took place. The steamer always hangs upon her " port" helm. I ears give no opinion as to the cause of the accident. On leaving Gravesend, it is usual to have the half of the ship's company on deck, which is 14 in number. I don't know who was on the look-out at the time of the eullision.—An other seaman having corroborated this statement, and there being no further evidence, The coroner proceeded to sum up. He remarked that there could be no doubt of the fart that the deceased parties had lost their lives by the Royal Victoria steam-ship run ning down the vessel in which they were. Then could also be no doubt that the spot where the schooner Rose lay. was one usually adopted for safety by vessels at night, and that the steamer wee going out of her proper course. The question was whether the captain who had command of the vessel, had been guilty of any wilful neglect in running the steamer so close to the north shore, or if the occurrence had resulted from circumstinces over which he hod no control. If the jury considered that proper vigilance had not been observed, then it would be their duty to return a verdict of manalaughter ; hut if they believed that those who com manded the steamer had no control over the circumstance, then they would return a verdict accordingly. The court was here cleared, and after an hour's delibera tion the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaueliter in both eases against David Meiklereid, captain of the Royal Vic toria steam-ship." The coroner said he had also a paper just put into his hand by the jury, which was am follows: " The jury recommend the Leith and other steam-ship com panies to navigate their vessels at less speed at night up and down the river Thames." Ho considered the supra stion a very excellent one, and had no doubt but that it would be attended to. The coroner haring issued his warrant for the apprehension of Captain Meiklereid, and bound over the witnesses, the proceeding. terminated. ANTI-EDUCATIONISTS. At a niunerous meeting of the requisitors for the Leeds Borough Meeting of Wednesday, the pith instant, to oppose the government measure of Education, held on Mon day the 22nd inst., in the rotunda of the admixed Cloth-hall, Edward Baines Esq., in the chair, resolved- That this meeting hue area, with great surprise, the published re port of an interview between the president of the council and a depu tation from a meeting held in the Leeds Court-house on Monday, the oth Gut., consisting alive Rev. Dr. Book and other gentlemen. The deputation appear to have taken upon them to state, not their own views, but the objections felt to the measure by those who disapprove of it, and to have obtained from the prmidtnt of the collard replies intended to remove such objections, an d these statements and replies are pohkohed both in the London and Leeds newspapers as the only report of the deputation. The requisitorn protest ngain‘t the etat, ments made by the deputation on perfectly inadequate reprecnta. don of the view. entertained by the opponents of the government 'Demure. Theme pews are briefly and In part expressod in the rest, turbo. and petition premed at the borough meeting. Toe objet tkons of the requiaitors are net merely to the details of the minute, of council of August and December, Is4G, but Mill more to the lined.- renew of goverrinient In the education of the people—an intern", are which they mold as a departure from the proper province of government, an unnecessary—no intompstibk with the freedom of education, and as shown by the present measure to be dangerous to public liberty. They regard with the utmost chum the proceedings of the committee of onincil on education, which assumes, by its minute. of August nod December, taib, to revolu tionize the system of public elementary school. -taking the minters and an Immense number of newly created assistants, Into the pay of the state—dangermody extending the inllluenorof the CIIVYLIVO and the elency ; prescribing a system of instruction for pupil-teachers and stipendiary monitors, and otherwise interfering in such a manner and to an an rxtent, as Unpins, ael dm and an intention to bring the education of the country under the control of that conlmittee: and all this without even coon.lting garli l ament, except on the application =trr:r f it tb a e mon.7 i. . m kk-e . cal only f c or a trin Wm w ir r l f e ,t vo r t r e of on eedom ori education for the people, uncontrolled either by direct aut homy, or by the equally eff dual and more corrupting influence of pecuniary granb, IRELAND. DUBLIN, MARCH 25. The reduction of 20 per cent. hats created a very strong feeling of uneasiness throughout the country, without any more violent manifestation. One ease alone is excepted, and that has occurred in (71are, where 60,090 men have been employed on the public works—very many of them comfortable farmers. Two thousand labourers, dismissed at l)ungarvan, were only restrained from violence by the presence of the Scots Greys, and supplied with bread by the bakers to prevent their shops from pillage. The Waterford Freeman gives a different version of the same affair. The numbers are acknowledged, but no attempt at violence. " The workhouse bread was being conveyed in carts to the establishment at the time; it passed through the people, and not a single hand from the vast multitude was raised to grasp a loaf." Much commiseration is felt for the condition of the numbers reduced, but a dis tinction should be taken between the worthy and un worthy. The uniformity of the rule might have operated harshly in some districts, but generally it has left the really destitute on the public works and I cashiered the small farmers. The Kerry Eraminrr, which represents the popular feeling of a very impor tant county, very fairly remarks— Tbs orders of government are not only justifiable, but perhaps necessary, and it is, in our opinion, unfair to blame government for the act of disemployment merely, when such disemployment is absolutely nixessary to force the spring operations, and thereby prevent another year of famine. One fifth, or 20 per cent. of the labouring population is the very least that should be required for the spring agriculture. An sseociation, of which the Duchess of Leinster is patroness, has been for some time engaged in pre paring for a bazaar, to be held about the 15th of next month. The work is principally to consist of speci mens of Irish lace-work, embroidery, fine knitting executed by oar female peasantry in schools and their own poor cabins. The object is not only to afford Srt relief, but to encourage habits of future in urtr;. The arrivals of foreign corn and other provisions augment every day. All our ports are crowded with vessels corn-laden—all our granaries are groaning under the burthen of the corn housed in them. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, MANCH 25. Some of the inhabitants of Glasgow are exhibiting extreme shortsightedness in opposing additional hos pital accommodation for the increased and increasing fever oases of that populous city. Although an auxiliary hospital was lately opened, the in-door fever patients are about equal is those out of doors; hence all attempt at classification, or otherwise adequate treatment, is rendered impracticable. Yet, while matters are in this state, certain proprietors oppose the conversion of a building in a suburban district into a temporary infirmary, which, in two or three weeks, would draw off some hundred patients from the rank and crowded wards of the old establishments. They have applied to the sheriff fur an interdict, but no decision has yet been pronounced. The general fast was, it appears, well observed. This, in Edinburgh, was partly owing to a fall of rain, " which," writes a correspondent, " prevented country excursions." Perms? Ikon COACH.—Mr. Aitken, of Aberdeen, has taken out a patent for the manufacture of iron coaches. His trial oeinffnu, carrying nineteen persons, Insides driver and cad. weighs only ll cwt., and can be drawn by two ordinary ►ore at the rate of ten miles an hour. PROVINCIAL. YORKSHIRE. INOOZPOILLTION OF BILtUVU/SO. —On ThurpOny lea; Major Jebb, who bad been deputed by the 4 u n t f .r the • Privy Council to visit Bradford to ascertain the Melia inhabitant generally on the proposed grant of ..t rno, of incorporation, had an interview at the Sun Int oevanl of the leading gentlemen of the town who angjokiaesur the incorporation, and with lame of those whO mie nopohnd to thu grunt. Major Jebb stated that the d conacil had leen delayed from the 6th time kw a counter petitico to be got up if though d s.