The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-15 00:00:00

BUSINESS OF TEE ROUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, Maws 11. ORDERS OF THE PAT.-access Rtamsoe-INPLeoes (De&Nth Glebe) Mate; District Fite Insurance Company of Ihrinlarrharn ; C0n2=,404116. Pond ; LOIZ ; Bills. TUESDAY, Itasca 16. NOTICE OF YOTION.--Lord Lyndhurst to more that the pow. tho Iblemlnalum and Oxford tuned" ind of %Jet gp..l., e t,=. Wolentemptre and Dudley Hallway Crearanke(pieseetee-kiich. be referred to a Select Commune. BUSINESS OF TEE WirEk IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, Years 13. ORDERS OF THE DAY. -Coluirrytae-Supply ; Woe and Mer• Saxes NANA -Orwel leirer Sole (Edinburgh); Mutiny; Fear 1141612 R.Fr vlrr (Ms 2) ; Tenet ; Poor Bella (Ireland) i=n:dratift Ira-Do of land STD. NOTICES OF MOTIONS ARISING ON ORDER° OF TAE MY. Paoa von IlwAs ka Mil into _Sider} -Mr. W In Merles le the lopertm of e timid,. do mem= leder by Aram Is me rot • Mr. P. rope, rasolosell the AAA dike prisdple respraw rekrfraL Mr. M. J. OVA" is AAA Am Aim (Is aewediree)-kr H. W. 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AO. le Ave trial; AA iirlftra of the Mir Omen of re LIAM • deedemed efllew ilser Walston tomprelks hFesir. Dr. rmew Teliiiiine to dedsreselfoo re grow AS* by Aso doerlowr es fret ito to the lohoser. . ftressm le AAR le Ames trait fi yrada. Odes IA J. WAR le Ere bill mesas( +• get Miro Aededereal OmArlalre CAA ADM OP TIES DAT.-.l4_Srd. Ade se Carew. . Rammt.- :o repth hr. Mow NIL Ommarmt..-Harb , oare. nru =sat rots Mews NM. Y. lima 17. ; JEWELS OP THE MT.-Mass Isearm-Ritho of Tem neeels (No. 2); Juvenile dtredere; Wireedh on For Railway MY. Coararrrat.-Mirka BEL NOTICES OW MOTIONS ARISING OW OSTWIL9 OP THE DAY.-PerchNM. (Oa Mod too ONAISIA Mr. Trelearny, le owe A estordeery YANA of bore ef AN Maas wW O aeon ogee er the yrist enroll AIM disk sidek. to swell isametrol Orodleee) Mr. lAA ono imerloo be lt; Ikess, 800 A Leader, and IA DnrT AMA Mom PO,-i. S. OMA to take the oars Was homes lAA WA Pear lOrddas of Moder ; the . roe thet =As WA Per Mike of WlStreir be mar THOWIDAT. Mason IS. MOTE= OF MOTIONS.-Dr. leward to roe rraO elYstrral • el the ir co smaillor ltr. W. S. Genre, le • oie=llememet wok kle be SI the AA if AAA Mr. prey OA len kr Ad lAA Lard LAN to eal AAR le l = 'els= . JAL ISINAL le A ANA take date at Orem. MOW OF TEE DAL-froam IRLDTIMIL-Eiallia Oman r a t i o n e fast ef Akar and =AEA) ; Priaoll6; CAA of Of ; rwrom-Poor Re.. Mind) BM. MUT, BM. Mt 011 LAS OP THE IMT.-eketse itamom-Mat toff Harbour: Acall..enhe ; Soleelterel Wiratre DMA. m-Oolood Dike NM. MOMS OF MOTION A I ON ORDER OP THE DAT.- Ookos Dutra& Lead O. &AA to MOTe that the bill be o dor% a AO tesorroe. rivERLAND NOTICE.—I deopl4zret to give ky make to km peke of Ifoglood, who hove ookkkot to potrooke - 7 Am la Us ping tkos the al bums at thbovatall rook somt to dole It her at utioutb, ad la amoposto at Or kokg ma Ya zuskely at tbo Postsvem khaki - lk viiit I a i rs to ptv Sok kali Might &aft sr I Mr km GM pang lootit, est ma disk Wreak pals tow Ma :ptt losomsvv - mkt hassok Is We khakis' to tartil4 to oak GA else th e bid NV aistosy am nue motet prods k morsko the ikkokor oodl °timid Gookky, t S. - May As; kr It weal *MS kiiiMilhdi MO" lbokoliipooroDs met so I wee pkaoirof Oroomolooll wok= arkbot kot am elm vary othimoo kik moo We low hmi le tam owoook, v asome: s llknoororin no =I dkprolit to trimashr. I Iwo Mika an vhb Mr. Avts, km meow, ht von* ft orrobillooklbe Imlook mmloolko of the oimelini wok Womb vita a atm tars ot Irk bon • orilmk, Okla% owl ausy Morn I have k karts be die to wok lo *a pill Mr Me riMotial rapport, hibookkot of likampov. THOMAS WAOHOR.N. Efit 01:11refsg. 11••••• tar Mg% Iwor, llisskin. Gift artGeraltar, dna mile aSo at tie ITS Km& _ll4 ,litalM.9rourObs lirle_e blab, EiTtado.OblOwire. ClOoTgaiOledbeoP. o 1 mob lip on arisbi=l Thefts Olinda. The ourbed demi oak /loodies, le Os erso, Idelian illt/Adao. (=l ar Wed lea. Ira be ma up ea Os • men deo the alb Or Om Su W Om amok% L iod Now • Solesiellbe mole up so Ole melee et fte KA IWO. • The Oat bis ma, ambellog Orel It Medea, Seederea. and tbe ilmeesek ma be soft up ea Oa wise dike dot Moab. Thema Or MOO Mr& Avesta, Densoes, od Os UAW • Ilmio Oil tomb go e. Os wig et do drift • 111.0 alb I* Or WEAN • Ole Myer Itakkliwia rersue. =Ma, Idedelro aml loom Love, w• be mob me es the OM IS Add TO OORStISPONDENTIL • Advarthad Cam at dr " MILT NEW add .EXPIIIIa* las bob =PIW tram troo,, ruzunitarr. b sib. 10, DGOvnO.sllldrlKrr,milyws ka lbsablbs Lad PaNakkas Oars • Adsrainria imassitar The apron, Isedearibiaspapar, salt tat at So dam W Two chink at the ay at oak ids. MOH WATER AT LONDONMIIMUL Two I)44—Mornias, 1M mla. post 0 ; Altracen. 06 WA. post O. Italoasow—lkorsiag, 19 Isla. post 1; Ahem% 411 =la pm* 1. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 15. DID the St. George's Channel not exist, or were there any hopes of bridging it over completely in a material or a moral sense, we might, perhaps, be tempted to go akng with Mr. ROEBUCK, Lord BROUGHAM, and the Mum in taking a Bing at the Irish. Nations have broad backs, and a certain degree of flagellation, though it hurt, yet is so far from harming, that it is at times almost as salutary as of a similar kind to children. Neither it demand say superlative degree of talent in the lagellator; nor is it necessary that each lash should be more than tipped with truth. Mrs. Taouara's book had a very great and good effect on the Ameri cans. The Times may hope to lsah the Irish into in dustry by its diurnal scourge. And Lord Baouonam, no doubt, by martyriong Irish lords, and driving poor Lord Davos out of self n, is by no reams gratifying mere spleen. who holds that criminals ought to be reformed, not punished, cannot think of trading the Ia mere 'rarely. bat the legislative anion of England and Ireland is &sr all not half a cen tur y old, and the events of that half century have not allowed the sutures of that . union to be very closely knitted. Latterly we have . been engaged rather in loosening and detaching old links, than in providing new. The landlord and the • Protestant party in Ireland were once the great chain by which we anchored. We have weakened, if not ; broken, it. The democracy we have neither won nor • saneifisted. And the middle classes, though they WO peace, and dread the disunion that mi t cause MIMI bees& in it, love not Englan . all taileires raft to Ireland, therefore, the first Barlisst is, will they strengthen the links the countries? will they make' the team ens I , In remedying the misery, which siergamml he he the chief cause of amontent, detillse eat tb sem time inspire a sense dr gratitude, sifjnilea, elf unbesi dependence and in between =sod Weed P Or, on the , are we MUM bees with the t large dole • erabsrity, suldblessil by the cent oar sepreitam and SW FM, telling Bile Irish l 7. : a te 3.1 they are to impact, Nelinanbe poor prey en the debt the fatma, the rich defied themselves settee al l MAYA Ilegland will P henceforth content herself till Sella elgoverning New, we must nay, and we do it with pain, that we do not think the union between England and Ireland so very solid and secure, as not to be affected by neseinrea es vital and grave as those new in seetemplation. If force alone were to decide such a emotion, so doubt oar relative might is g and eau , skill greets than ever. But the people at Bog- Lad' e abide be seereebt, and the spirit ot the times will net talent* ersereson. As the penidunent of death isexpring, because juries can no longer be heed toaws7d if. s o the rule of Ireland, or st any sheer eosatry; by insurrection bills and armies, will no limier bed imejaritiss to vote powers or fusels. It were wise, therefore not only to inquire if the men-' SUMS which we propose are such as to consolidate the union between '4ie countries, but to see that the mode of executin4 these measures, nay, of supporting them by rogument, be calculated to produce the same I effect. We can perfectly understand the outcry of a liberal party in England against the predominance of land lord", and all the prejudices and privileges which the landlord party sn . port. The English landed aris tocracy form a •. y which cannot be destroyed, and which, legislate against them or abuse them as one will, will survive and reign ; and, whether they reign or fall, there is a commercial clue, wealthy , numerous, enlightened, to combat their impremavi, or take their places whenever they may yield thee, In Ireland, as yet, there is no such oommv rc i a l class, except in one or two centres. Sweep the land lords from the face of Ireland, and the ariat ocrac y, that you will find in its stead, will be that of the priesthood, not the hierarchy of the e established church, which of course departs with '.he squire archy, but the priesthood of the s'.: millions. This vein of argument we slier' follow up no farther than to say to Englishne'm and English liberals, " Don't crush the Irish lan 4 :mrd ; don't anni hilate him ; for you may want him.. Don't enact a sweeping poor-law in districts Vetere the numbers of the poor could at up the rent of the land in a week. Don't argue from all Irele.nd to a part of Ireland, and insist that because E . einater exports corn, and Connaught harvest-reaper a, both shall stay at home, and the western pauper shall devour the eastern rent." Government, howev,er, is by the new bill to take the onus and the arli.trage of this. We doubt much whether it will ever be able to bring a poor-law, ex tending to the able-bodied into operation throughout Ireland, without levying a national poor-rate throughout, and boldly telling the east and north that it must contribute to relieve the poverty of more remote regions. This, however, is a serious measure, open to a host of most weighty objections, not the lead of which is,—why should one part of Ireland be bound to support another, more than England is? Is Ireland to be packed off, and considered a separate empire with regard to its poor, and a joint empire with regard to its revenue? The Union is singularly shaken by such arguments. But to such arguments must we come, ere all the difficulties of this great question be solved. As is natural enough, we are to begin with the very opposite extreme. Sir WINSTON BARRON is to move to-night, that every gentleman should take care of his own estate and the poor on it, letting others fare as they list. This would condemn a mil lion or two of "nobody's children" to etarvation. From this the consideration will go to the townland, the electoral district, the union—all unsatisfactory— each with its peculiar evil. These, however, we shall have, day by day, the opportunity of discussing. THE opponents of the government plan of education seem resolved to compensate by their activity, and by something more, which we shall not characterise, for the nullity of their real objections. We are sorry to see the representatives of so respectable a body as the Wesleyan association con descend to employ a very gross misrepresentation as the means of getting up a petition to Parliament. This is so fully exposed in a letter of Mr. &write- WORTH to the Rev. ROBERT ECKETT, g iven in another column, that we shall content ourse lves with thus mentioning it. These misrepresentations have been adopted by the central general committee in its objections to the government measure, which stir Dissenters by the announcement that " they are, as tax-payers, to oon tribute to the support of Church of England wheels without receiving an equivalent of their own, con ferring on the pupils and masters of Church of England schools advantages denied to the pupils and masters of Dissenting schools." The objections then to represent schools and masters as under proceed to of inspectors appointed by the bishops, and not responsible to parliament. We are very sorry to be obliged to say that all this I one tissue of untruth. Dissenters may claim just the suns boons for their schools as Churchmen, and the reports which are to sanction such grants are to proceed from inspectors, who will have nothing to do with the Established Church, but who, on the contrary, will be submitted for the approbation d the British and Foreign School Society. Dissenters have but to display activity, contribute wealth, and cultivate learning, in the same proportion as the Church of England, to enjoy an equal degree of advantage. From a letter which we also pub lish, it will be seen that the advantages held out to preceptors reared in normal schools will be extended to the existing class of teachers. Throughout this controversy, we are greatly . struck by the complete similarity of the war which is now raised here, and that which was so injurionsly, but fruitlessly, waged against the Board of National Edu cation in Ireland. When that board was instituted, the leaders of the Kildare-place Society, as strongly attached to their schools as the Dissenters in the pre lad OM to theirs, adopted the very course now pur sued. They resolved to seek no aid from the board, bet to allow the national schools to fall into the hands at the priests, and then to take advantage of the earn ed results of their own ladies by denouncing the salismai system as Popish. A manifesto was of mares prepared, very similar to that which has been booed by the general committee ; it enumerated every evil result that could by the most remote possibility follow from the grossest perversion and abuse of the Rational system, and set them forth as its natural and necessary consequences. This document, attri buted to the pen of the Rev. Br. Daly, since Bishop of Cashel, was published in the Christian Examiner, and was held to preclude the necessity of all further argument. " Have you read the Christian Examiner r said Lady OSBORNE, in her evidence before the House of Lords, " was the only reply made, when I pointed out the beneficial results of the schools which I had established in connexion with the board ; so that I began to imagine that Ireland was a country in which reviewers were employed to think for the people." Education was, however, a national want in Ireland, and the board persevered in spite of opposition. Its opponents were unscrupulous in their means of party warfare ; their motto was Calumniare fortiter, adluerebit aliquid : or, as our homely proverb has it, " Throw mud enough, and some of it will stick." They were for a season very successful ; such, indeed, was the delusion they produced, that in many parts of Ulster the Protestants began to form gun-clubs to de fend the Bible. Every idle report of those who recorded " not what they saw, but what they wished to see, " was faithfully treasu r ed , and when the accumulated nuns seemed strong enough to so .rt a case, an appeal was made to parliament. e inquiry for which they asked was granted, and never did a case so signally and ludicrously break down. In the Lords, the Bishop of Exrraa made a feeble effort to proems a censure of the national system, but in the Commons no one could be found to hazard a similar attempt. The board, on the contrary, was so slmagthened by the attack, that the parliamentary was immediately raised, and a large body of the • and Episcopal clergymen who had been its opponents, became its ardent supporters. But, during the period of contest, many schools had been founded, and many local committees appointed, from which t he Protestant clergymen found themselves mlf-excluded, without being able to see any easy isnis of retrieving their error. Some frankly went to the schools, confessed that they had acted on mis taken views, and were at once admitted to a share in the management ; others, yielding to a natural reluc tance to make such an avowal in the midst of neigh bours, remain perfectly wave. But the injury which the ultra-Protestants did to their own came by such a course of proceeding, goes beyond mere exclusion from management. So long as their manifesto enlisted the passions of party in their favour, there were landlords who would not give ground on any terms for the erection of schools; and hence a very great number of the schools were unavoidably built on the only available ground—the chapel-yard, or other localities previously acquired for catholic purposes. The result has un doubtedly been, that undue preponderance in Irish education has for the time been gained by the Rotnish priesthood; but this preponderance was not of their own seeking—it was thrown upon them by the opponents whom the passions of party rendered blind to consequences. Were the niajority of En6lish dissenters now to follow the factious counsel given them, it would lead to similar results, that is, to a strengthening of the power of the established church over education. We by no means pretend to say that the government scheme is the beet imaginable : bet it as the only chance TUB • it 7 .4" - to - thT . 411140atiff the ramie po• or. Dieseetfre and churchmen may go hand in 1 hand tzt tow"; l ead their rivalry shay prod are the beat i effects, in brir4 f ing the entire mans of youth into the circle of edr..mtion. But, in rural and remote districts, the Chur..h of England and its clergy can alone do this foe these many years. And we are strongly for giving them-the power and the means. ;We call oa dissenters earnestly . to look at the ef.fects of the opposition to the ministerial measures 'of education in Ireland. The state proffers equal ad vantages to the church and to dissent : if churchmen profit by those advantages while sections of dissenters spurn them, those dissidents will find themselves Riving a more decided superiority to the church than it could obtain by any . other means. Education is felt to be a national want, and, in spite of the most active minority, that want must be supplied. The English government must re cognise as a duty that which is accepted as a duty jx l: ,t y every other civilised state under heaven theperformance of that duty may be impeded, may be elayed, may be resisted—but it cannot ultimately be prevented. In all sincerity we tell those who have signed the manifesto that the evils they predict can only arias from the course of conduct which they seem resolved to pursue, and we implore of them to pause before they commit themselves to a:policy which can only injure the cause they are most anxious to serve. LORD BROUGHAM has published a "Letter to Lord Lyndhurst on criminal police and national educa tion," which consists for the moat part of harmless generalities and common-places, mixed up with a due proportion of the autobiographical matter which so agreeably distinguishes all the writer's composi tions. We "do not observe any part of the pamphlet which bears on criminal police, unless that term is applied to the trial of prisoners or to the treatment of convicts, nor is there anything new or striking in the theory of crime and punishment which it con tains. Lord BROUGHAM holds that, although he has done much to improve the criminal code, there is still roam for improvement, but that his exertions in the cause of education would have the strongest tendency to diminish crime, if their success were not delayed by the neglect of successive govern ments, and by the influence of sectarian jealousies. We do not grudge Lord BROUGHAM the jest coin. placency which he feels in the recollection of his forty years' exertions in favour of education, nor even the somewhat exaggerated estimate which he forms of his services to criminal jurisprudence ; but we regret that he has on the present occasion done little towards elucidating the theory of crime or the practice of punishment, beyond enunciating a few propositions, which are at the same time hackneyed and disputable . In adopting the modern phraseology, which speaks of crime as a disease of which punishment is the proper cure, Lord BROUGHAM assumes that punish. ment can only be justified on two grounds, either as an example to others, or for the reformation of the offender. Experience, he thinks, has shown that it fails as a warming, and he would therefore hence forth adapt it exclusively to the purposes of reforma tion and cure. It migkt be objected by a captious opponent that, as punishment has much more dis tinctly and universally failed as a mode of reformation than as an example, the more natural inference would be that punishment should be given up altogether. If it is useless as an example, which Lord BaouollAM assumes, and almost always insufficient to produce reformation, as experience teaches, and if there is no other ground on which punishment can be justified, then the sooner our jails are pulled down and our courts shut up, the better. It must be confessed that popular opinion to some extent concurs with Lord BROUGHAM. It is generally assumed that pain is inflicted on a criminal either by way of warning to others, which would be flagrantly unjust to the sufferer if it were the sole justification of the punishment, or for his own ultimate benefit, though neither be nor any one else really thinks that it will be for his good. But here we are speaking only of opinion as expressed in writing or in talk. Popular feeling and common sense comes to very different conclusions ; and Lord BROUGHAM, as a philosopher, would do well to watch more carefully the instinctive judgment which men form in particular cases, and to be slower in adopting the vague general propositions with which they content themselves. The first thought of a plain, right-minded man, on hearing that a great culprit is convicted, is not that society will be protected, or the delinquent improved, but that "it serves him right." The saying that revenge is a wild kind of justice, has deservedly passed into a proverb. We would ' suggest to Lord BROUGHAM, as an addition to his ' theory of punishment, that the converse of the pro position may not be without meaning, that justice is ' a regulated species of revenge. It is, or ought to be, the practical expression of all that is just, and ' exempt from personal feeling in the indignation felt 1 by the injured party. Forbidden in civilized society to avenge himself, he is entitled to be avenged by the ' law, and not he only, but every one who feels a rightful anger at the unlawful act of the offender. That this consecrated revenge, this pursuit of justice for the sake of justice, is the historical origin of punishment, and the universally recognised prin ciple of it among all nations who have not yet learned to invent theories to fit their prac tice, we might prove by experience extending from the time of Moses to that of Judge LYNCH. We are not, however, concerned so much to prove our position as to appeal to common feeling for its truth. It is not so practically unimportant as many suppose to form a right notion of the principle which justifies punishment. The barbarous and indiscrimi nate severity of our old criminal code was founded on the exclusive attention paid to the effect of punish• ment as a warning. The gallows by no means expressed the degree of indignation which the public felt against shop-lifters or forgery : the infliction was felt to be out of all proportion to the moral guilt ; but it was thought that shop-lifters must, at any expense, be terrified, and it was known that nothing is so terri ble as death. Property must be protected, said one judge ; theft is increasing, said another ; and circuit after circuit scores of miserable victims were put to death, because a false theory was fashionable, and crime was thought to be punishable not on its own account, bat for the purpose of obtaining some colla teral benefit. The reformation of the offender was put wholly out of the question even when it was not, as in capital cases, rendered impossible. The changes which have taken place in oar criminal legislation have brought the administration of justice more into harmony with natural feeling. There are still grave anomalies and wide exceptions ; but the object of deterring future criminals is no longer exclusively regarded. The criminal himself is held to have a claim to justice, to exemption from suffer ing beyond what he has deserved, and, if pos sible, even to the means of improvement. There seems, however, some danger of our falling on the other horn of the false dilemma which we have men tioned, of forgetting both the duty of satisfying jus tice, and the propriety of deterring future offenders iu an exclusive attention to the object of reforming the criminal. In this case, as in the other, the error consists in confounding one of the collateral objects of punish ment with its original principle. Punishment should be contrived to deter crime as far as is consistent with justice to the offender: but, as a general rale, even for example excessive severity should be avoided. Punishment, again, should be adapted to the reformation of the offender ; but it must be remembered that it is not for the sake of the offender only or primarily that it is instituted. Reformation is a benefit to the party reformed, and criminals have no more right to claim it from the state than any of the unconvicted but vicious indivi duals who remain at large. The duty of reforming convicts is imposed on the state as a consequence of its absolute power over them. It is wrong to neglect such an opportunity of doing good, but it is not for the purpose of creating the opportunity that criminals are subjected to absolute control. In one sense crime may be called a disease, but the absurd consequences which may arise firers carrying the illustration too far, and treating a prison as strictly analogous to an hospital is shown by& proposalof Lord BROUGHAM'S that all prisoners should be sentenced to imprisonment—not for a definite period, but till they are cured. Now, in strictness, no criminal can be said to be cured till he is made a perfectly virtuous character, very much superior to those who legislate for him or them who sentence him. But supposing a lower standard of convalescence to be established, how is it to be tested, and who are to decide upon it ? The occupation of the St. Simonian bier- 'GI, MARCH . 15, 1847. archy, which ie to place every man in the occupation 1 and condition best 'suited to hia character, wield lie scarcely more difficult than the function of the inspector who would have the ~ower of retaining or dismissing the sheep-stealer liatient : "If he be re formed, I finally demand least right we have to con tinue his imprisonment or.. hour, unless for the sake of the example afforded by his suffering--a reason the weakness of which I have really, I think, suffi ciently proved." 'PLO same right, we should reply, which we had to imprison him at first—because he deserved it—becr.use it " served him right ;" but sup posing Lord BROCGRAM'S theory to be correct, we again ask, what are the symptoms bytwhich his diag nosis would decide on the perfect reform of an old receiver of stolen goods ? With respect to children, we fully agree that re formation should be the primary purpose of their imprisonment. Against their offences society has no right to feel indignant. It should rather take ad vantage of the opportunity of their having broken the law to fulfil the parental duty which has been neglected. To grown men the state cannot under take to act as a parent ; but for the security of society, and from the duty attached to the exercise of abeolute power, it is bound to reform them if possible. It is at lea st bound to secure them from additional tempta tion to crime ; and we hope the present government plans may tend to farther this desirable object. ous attention has been celled to a circular issued by Mr. TIDD Pit Arr, officially, to the trustees of Savings Banks. One of the judges is reported to have said, that a great many people, who lodge their money in savings banks, would be rather astonished to learn that by not claiming it for six years they might be barred by the statute of limitations from any right to claim it at all. On this Mr. TIDD PRATT refers to the act by which the trustees may (and we know they always do) add the interest of each depositor to kis principal as it becomes due, that it may thencefor ward be principal, and bear interest, as if it had been actually paid to the depositor, and by him repaid to the bank. From this the learned barrister argues that the statute of limitations does not apply to such deposits. This consequence is purely inferential, and it is arguable on the other side that the legislature only intended to give to the depositors that absolute right to compound interest, which other creditors can only get by looking, after their accounts term by term. But, whichever way it may be, the depositors have a much better security than any construction of an act of parliament. We all know how little confidence lawyers put upon an interpretation, until a case has decided it. Every depositor may be assured that the Savings Banks are, as they ought to be, peculiar favourites of the legislature, which really appropri ates many thousands a year for their encouragement. If there were the slightest appearance of any case of hardship arising out of the action of the existing law, every_ one most feel confident that a new enactment would soon set the matter right. We have received our Paris express of Saturday. The unusual occurrence at this season of the year of a heavy fall of snow, preceded by several days of severe frost, took place in Perils on Friday, on the night of which day, the streets and roads were covered with snow to the depth of several inches. On Friday morning, the thermometer of Fahrenheit stood at 18 deg., or 14 degrees below freezing point. During the day it did nrise above 25 deg. In the evening, the wind changed and the thaw commenced, which became rapid and complete on Saturday, when the snow disappeared. All the southern mails were due up to a late hour on Friday in Paris, owing to the roads being ob structed by snow. In the neighbourhood of Mont pellier the snow was reported to be above a foot deep. The anxiety on the 'object of subsistence still in creases. The municipal authorities of the ports have been directed to enquire into and report the number and magnitude of the arrivals expected, those in the western ports being supposed to be delayed by easterly winds which have now prevailed so long. The Mayor of Havre has published a statement of the supplies of grain and flour, of the speedy arrival of which the mercantile houses of that port have been advised. From the United States 45,000 barrels of flour, and 7,000 quarters of wheat are expected ; and from Den mark and Hamburg 20 ships laden with wheat, besides 30 bound for Rouen ; from St. Petersburg and the Baltic 180,000 tons of wheat ; and from Mar seilles 30 vessels with wheat. - The committee of the Chamber has reported in favour of the project of law, authorising the govern ment to grant the use of four large steamers to a pri vate company to ply between Havre and New York, the company engaging to carry the mails free of expense. M. Martin (du Nord), keeper of the seals, and minister of public worship, died on Friday morning, from an attack of paralysis, under which he has been for some time suffering. This event was officially announced by the President to the Chamber on Friday. The arrival of Queen Christina was expected in Paris on Sunday. The Spanish mail, with letters and journals from Madrid of the 7th, was received in Fans on Friday. Another ministerial crisis had taken place. The ministry had resigned in a body on the 6th, and on the 7th the Queen had not yet made any communi cation to the cabinet. The mail of the Bth, which was due in Paris on Saturday morning, was clause quently looked for with some curiosity, but the courier from Bordeaux arrived without the Madrid beg. The apparent occasion of the present crisis has been the removal or resignation of General Breton as Captain-General of Catalonia. The ministry desired his removal, but the Queen refused at first to sign the order. On further persuasion, she appeared disposed to yield, but when the ministry propoeed for the vacant post General Don Manuel Concha, a leader of the puritan party, the Queen peremptorily refused. The ministry having persisted, her Majesty said she would take time to consider of it. The journals of different parties disagree in their reports of the circumstances. According to the Heraldo, the proposal is to dismiss General Breton, and to accept the resignation of General Graft, Minis ter of War, the former to be replaced by General Pavia, and the latter by General Manso. It was reported that communications had taken place between General Narvaez and M. Mon, between whom a reconciliation bad been effected. El Heraldo publishes a communication, addressed to the Cortee by Don Enrique, dated Toulon. In this document the prince complains bitterly of the undue severity with which he has been treated, in being compelled to leave Spain, and of the opposition which has been made to his marriage. FRANCE. —M. limas Lorna.— LIBEL. —On Friday, in the Tribunal Correetiotusel, M. Jules Janin brought forward his charge of libel against Messrs. Lepon twin, Laurent, Pooch, sad Laboullays, the respective edi tors of the journals Le Corsaire-Satan, La Frame Thai- Irak, and Li Fred de France. M. Janin was not named is the said libel, but was plainly pointed oat by the so/wi ener re. orifices +nerd," which was the title of a feuilleton U. Janin on the ocration of his marriage. erib a si by 11 attacked the private life of the prosecutor. The to aorissiaed the first-named editor to eight months' imprinnassat sad • fine of 1,600 francs ; the se soad to six naordes' lapthassawa, and a fine of 1,000 franca ; the third to gig mortise imgraent, and a fine of 1,000 francs ; and the fourth to tn... MOO& ill44lllllllllllak ind • fine of 600 francs. Besides this, these gestimen sotto pay to M. mania, in compensation, the following soma ;—Laurent and Lepont:evin, together, 10,000 franca ; Punch, 2,000 francs ; and Labou ll aye 000 fiance. And this judgment is to be inserted in the jOurnals condemned, and also in four Parisian and two provincial Journals as directed by M. Janin, at the expense of the defendants. SPAIN.—A leroe r from the fmmtiera of Catalonia t o th e 'name BerflaM, dated ilk lissa, " AU doubts are now at in end • the Corlista entertain serious thoughts of again Wing die elanderd of civil war. Some important derr ai e thereihre be shortly expected, wash has been snly de account of the rigours of the sewn awl of the snow in the mountain/. I as inbea yea as good walkway that the Carlin chide have *aided that their lLwoaltell all be dressed alike in b allemelenned toilet Wevrien, and grey beaver caps. masks of dews hive already become an object of commerce in Cariagesorad wall-haewn firm has entered into an agreement to fosnielt a begs weber of these ar ticle. I only =entices these bale be peeve to you that I do not speak at hazard when I say that some great move ment will shortly take place. The =p ow gone to by the Carling leads to the supposition that they have funds, sad the adoption of a uniform would seem to denote that they intend openly taking the field." HANOVER, MARCH S.—TREATT WITH THE UNITED STATIS.—The Hanoverian government has just communi cated to the Chambers a treaty of commerce and navigation concluded with the United States. It will probably be pub lished during the week. In 1840 Hanover concluded a similar treaty with the United States, but • few years' experience proved its inefficiency, and rendered anew treaty indispensable But what has most contributed to the conclusion of the present treaty, is the establishment of a regular line of steamers be tween New York and the LowerWeser. The government of the United States having, in 1848, notified its intention of establishing a line of communication between New York and some point on the continent, different states endeavoured to procure this advantage for themselves, and Ham and An twerp entered into competition with Bremen. Antwerp especially had in her favour that she exacted no transit duties, and thin American goods could be sent from that part in every direction. This caused the Hanoverian go vernment to reflect. It was important, if only on asemmt of the railways, to make the lower Weser the terminus of a steam communication, and to make the communication be tween Germany and America pan through Hanover. The government having been already authorised b y . the Chaa been, in 1844, to reduce certain duties in the tariff, if MOW wiry, began by reducing the duty on American prodostissa, opsaislly on raw cotton, which is now only 12 pimaings, sr shwa lid. per quintal. The transit duty's lams hasidos lama redamod. But the mad important feature of this treaty Istia similisa of • German port on the continent for tram. ado* ormionicetion. MADEIRA.—A correspondent, writing from Fun chal, 30th Jan., announces the arrival at that port of the Forth steamer, after a far from agreeable passage. " Among the passengers brought out by the Forth," he says, " are Mr. M' urge, British Consul at Gemara', Hayti; Mon sieur Broniard, a French officer of Engineers, who is sent out by a French company to explore and report upon the mineral resources of the country lying in the neighbourhood of the projected canal across' the Isthmus of Panama ; and two Eng lish gentlemen, who are proceeding to Guatemala, to take plans of some mines recently discovered there." RUSSIA.—TtiE CAUCASUS.—It is said that the power of Chamil Bey is on the increase. Cireassia, instead of declining the unequal struggle in which she has been engaged for so many years, appears on the contrary to find new resources in the courage and the alliance of the sur rounding tribes. The Caucasus has become the refuge and the rampart of all the mountaineers who defeai their ancient Mortise ; sad sash is the general confidence in the future, eat this 'military leader is already considered as the founder of a monarchy. around which the populations of Georgia, Armenia, and Inghestan, are to be grouped. His batteries of artillery are numerous and eomplete, and each pies is a trophy which has cost the enemy dear. Murtilman enthusiasm surrounds him with • religious respect; but he, with an ele vated end tolerant spirit, leaves to all his soldiers, as well as to the populations under his authority, the free and full exercise of their worship. Liberty in this respect contrasts so advantageously for him with the religious despotism of the Russian government, that it has gained him the sym pathies of the Christians persecuted by the official church of lb* emperor. -. • AMERICA.—PHOGRZBi OF TEMPERANCE.—It is estimated that not fewer than 800,000 persons in the United States have joined and belong to temperance societies, and a great number besides abstain from intoxicating drinks who do not belong to any society, Out of this immense army of water drinkers there are probably 100,000 persons who, pre vious to their reformation, did not obtain a suit of new clothes once in three years, and whose families were equally ill clad, but who now get one or two suits• year, hats, shoes, nockings, and shirts, in a like proportion, and whose wives and children have likewise experienced the same advantages and improvement in their comforts and appearances. It is not an unfair calculation to say that 4,000,000 dollars a year are now spent in clothing which formerly went into the pockets of distillers, brewers, tavern keepers, and conductor, of dram chops; and it is to be hoped the amount will be doubled, trebled, or quadrupled, before many more years have passed away. In this point of view alone it deserves the adhesion and support of every good man and woman; but, if we add the diminution of crime, the blessings of health and moral elevation, it presents an almost overwhelming import ance to society, whether in Europe,Asia, or Amenca.—Phi lode4elia eorreeponeknt of the " Beonomst." COLONIAL CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—We have received papers from Cape Town to the 9th of January (inclusive). The South African Advertiser of that date contains the fol lowing : " The latest news from the frontier are to the effect that a division of the force., commanded by the governor in perion,.has marched for Creili's country for the purpose of seizing, in the territories of that chief, 20,000 head of cattle due to the colony,. either as cattle actually carried off by the hostile chiefs du ring the war, or equivalents for such cattle known to have been placed there for safety, and also for the purpose of subjugating the refractory chief Pato. The troops were moving over the Kei, in three divisions, and are said to be well equipped, and supplied with everything re. quired in inch aserviee." The same papermentions rumours that Col. Somerset was indisposed, and that dysentery had appeared among the troops. It was thought that Pato had been entrapped in a kloof on the west bank of the Kei, Krell having refused to let him enter his country. Some of ' the Cape merchants have joined together, and intend este blfihinga trading station at the month of the river Umrum rooboo, in order to open mercantile intercourse with the in terior tribes. The accounts:from the Zoolah country state, that Panda was about to take the field against the Ames wans, who had entered his territory for the purpose of plunder. Having given refuge to a British missionary and his family, driven from their home by his enemies, he had laid the whole case before the lieutenant-governor, asking protection for his country and people during his absence with his army. His nieesengers who waited en the British autho rities received an assenting reply, and his good faith and con duct were eulogised. The Graham's Torn Journal states, that many of the frontier inhabitants intend retiring from exposed districta and, in some cases, from the colony altogether, selecting u the scene of their future settlement one or other of the Australian colonies. (From the South African Commercial Advertiser, Jan. 6.) The state of the country within the ancient border, now delivered in a great measure from the inroads or marauding parties of the enemy, is at present very little understo od et least at this dinettes. Private letters throw scarcely any light nun It, sad governisset b istirely silent. There can. a A but be math mann' g and dietress, not so much amongst the " poor." who readily find employment at good wages, nor assonet Indere of any descripuon, as business is be aming lay more active, and certainly not lees lucra tive than in thaw of peso, ; nor amongst mechanics ; are, ha ghat. lIMOIX any clam accustomed to li ve by sorviss this COMM by the distribution of the nee...s ada and luxuries of life ; the distress must be chiefly amengst the producers, the farmers= whose herds and flocks sod mops and houses the whole farce of the enemy's de famers powers fell in the first butanes. These, by their golden in a new country, the most respectable cl ass of the orseminnfty, may be at this moment, in hundreds, at the veep boars of the scale, distressed and helpless. The bowie of relief, the liberality of resentment, and the noble =Pagof their fellow-colonists, have carried the " poor" e rr van comfortably, over the dark season of invasion. Mereisents, traders, and dealers of all sorts, carriers, me eludes mad the like, have taken, and will continue to take, good care of themselves. They have not been outwitted by the commissariat. The former class would feel it the greatest of all misfortunes to be compelled to approach the board of charity ; but with the spirit and poddes el in dependent men, they are, for the time, is as but favourable of all imaginable situations. The and means of production have been swept al or They have neither sheep, cattle, hones, nor tonit-men.. least unfortunate are crippled in all thus reepeaa. sod many are wholly disarmed. To the restuation 0 *kale in the first place should the whole energy el sovernsmst be directed ; to their restoration, that is, to malls good to thins the direct losses sustained by the prunes of a foreign enemy within the colony. Thb compensation, as far as it is practicable, is to be taken out of Kaffirlud. The Kaffirs are in the same position as the Chinese were in the recent war. They provoked hots: tilities, they destroyed or. seized private property, and they must, as far as they are able, pay for bea. The charges of the war, on the part of governesent, one claim ; the private property seized or forms another. Privet* claims, however, 'innTh be satisfied, w the public, thro u gh its rignseinifileet, the government, have the charge of print* within its territory, or under its flag, as enemies. Governments the grand Manna people, to which every individual pays an annual under the name of taxes. This may sot smug ftS printed form. It may sot be set deal is any sat emit ; but it is in the apish M awe ewe= lam and it forms the tint artide of raided ammo sense. That such *5 Or her lilkeisfes ministers may be inferred the apgdatmat of Sir Henry Pottinger to be governor and COMOIONION, for winding up the war. He did this very thing in China. He made them pay for the private they had seized and destroyed, and them prew ar= of costs incurred for conducting the case to judgmeat and execution. In the present case the ball of cost, whisk Is understood to be rather heavy, will probably be laid aside for a timg, or at least till the private claims are satisfied. It is with this view, amongst others, that Sir Pseegri oe Maitland has now stepped over the Kei. He wants back 20,000 bead of cattle for the farmers, or more, but certainly not less. About this number, or mmo ' may have been already recovered, or rather taken from the Heirs and Tambookies, its the course of the war, some of which are dis tributed amongst the sufferers. Br the way, where are the Kaffir horses t They were said to have exhibited a formid able cavalry:at the commencement of the quarrel. Very few of them have been killed or captured, yet of late nothing is heard of them. A great number ot solanial banes were also carried of daring the war. Thins wQ nat, Mums, be lost sight of. Besides their valise to the eelets, they are in strument; of war in the heads of the Kea* who NSW be considered disarmed as lose se they are iseested. • • The commissariat is sail te be new is • ant easiest Ovate on the frontier. The miss sad beeseh.hat apaidly the mules mint from this Obi of the achy, hew hem signal senile, not only for dm& art oushis, WI far offensive operations in the 611 AL T aterisr, k seldsh wad unknown to the Kaffirs; aid upss• see coariat, whoa • strong body of them were midi, down upon a tram et I waggons, one of the mules of the party, by occident or Lk.. stint, opened hie mouth and littered that peculiar woke, which the poet Cowper supposes may farm ISO of the pa nithreenta of wicked souls in the next wed& The:e turned and fled u if five hundred lions hod boos et= heels. This service hat not yet been acknowlede u r e i t any aloha dispatch ; hat it rests on a pretty breed aping* intelligence. If true, it illustrates the eredibalty alf Hero dotua, who relates how an army of deythiene was pt to flight by the braying of an w. Zbt eoun. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by eglA Princess Royal, took a drive to Newport, on Friday aftet noon, in a carriage and four. On Saturday, her Maims, and her royal consort drove out in an open Larriage; t‘ Prince driving. The royal children took their usual airings on Saturday, and yesterday morning went to the sea hawk Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the ladies and geed& men of the royal suite, attended divine service yesterday morning in Whippingitam Church. H.H.H. the Duchess of Kent attended divine service yesterd•p morning, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge visited Christ's Hospital School yesterday afternoon. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent honoured the Itali4 Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. A Cabinet Council was held it three o'clock oi a Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It wa• attended by Lord J. Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of LW downe, the Earl of M into, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palomino', Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir J. Hob. home, Earl Auckland, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeffi, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Cliutricarde, Gs Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay., and the Hitch' fl an. N . Labouchere. The council sat an hour and a half. A deputation, consisting of Mr. B. Hawes, Mr. Coward, Mr. Akerman, and Mr. Grey, had minimiser with the Right Hon. R. Strutt on Saturday, at the offiee 6f the Commission , ra of Railways, in Great Georgestreet. , Plumptre, M.P., and Mr. Rodwell, had an interview the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his residence, in Downing-atreet. A deputation, consisting at Mr. Masterman, M.P. ; Mr. Pattison, M.P.; Mr. M.P. ; Mr. Atcheson, Mr. Jones, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Huns, Mr. Saunders, and City Remembrancer, had an . view with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at his official sidence in Downing-street. Lord Hewden had an intaniew with the Earl of Clarendon on Saturday, at th.. , officeohltia Board of Trade. Mr. Macterman, M.P., had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. William Evans, M.P., had an interview on Saturday wtilt the Right Hon. E. Strati. Despatches from the Governer of New South Wale were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. VISIT OF THE DUCHESS OP KENT TO GERMANY.— ruie S The Duchene( Kent is expected to leave England early the spring for the continent; proceeding brit to B on a visit to her brother, the King of theßelgians, thence to Germany, to pay a visit of some two or three months' duration to her Royal highness's relstives at Sae Cobourg and Saxe Gotha, and en some other of the German states. It is stated that H.R.H. will prob.hiv take Poi en route to this country from Germany, and that the Duchess will be the guest of his Majesty Louie Philippe, at the Tuge. ries, during her short stay in the French capital. THE MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON's CONVERS4, stores.—On Saturday night the President of the Royal i Society had his third converse:none at his lordship's rem deuce n Piccadilly. As at the other reunions which UPS preceded it, the attendance of fellows and mimbers of the different literary and scientific societies was exceedin t eg numerous, for on this occasion not less than 600 individual honoured the noble marquis by their company. In the several saloons a variety of interesting scientific mels of recent in vention were submitted for inspection. Those which auricled especial attention comprised the new electro-nammatio telegraph, the invention of Meters. Non and Gam ble. A solitary wire is used instead of several, and its simplicity is sivh that a person of or*. nary intelligence may be able at once to make env*, and communicate without any difficulty or mistake. The telegraph can communicate by letters to spell a message, me by figures referring to a signal book. The mechanical coa -1 struction of the apparatus is simple, and from not being necessarily delicate s not liable to derangements that might interfere. otherwise The battery and two dial plates were I displayed to illustrate the explanations of the inventors. A I new apparatus for the inhaling of ether was exhibited by Meows. Weiss, of the Strand. It consisted of a tubular reservoir of brass about four inches in length and two inches in dime*, furnished with four cells filled with sponge saturated with ether, through each of which the air mimed previously to its being inhaled, and thus compensating for the want of seem contained in the more bulky apparatus. There was also a very ingenious contrivance on the top, for alara• lating the quantity and strength of the ether inhaled. The inventor stated, that in the construction of the apparatus he ' hail also in view the necessity that existed for an inhaler he the curative vapours, such as iodine, he., lied that that appa -1 ratus was calculated for that purpose by the application of heat. Mr. J. W. Cochran exhibited a working model of his new machine for cutting by the saw curved or bevilled tim ber, more particularly adapted for ship building purposes. The model exhibited was worked by hand, but the Lore of the Admiralty have in the course of construction two large machines for the dock-yard at Portsmouth, to be worked by steam, as well as two self-acting machines dame magnitude. On the table containing the Daguerreotype magi melts, we observed some new productions of N. Claude., being portraits made on a larger scale than have been before at tempted. The expression of these portraits is superior to those of a smaller size, and the details are less modified and true to nature. Among the specimens was a photograph of the skull of Bellingham, who assassinated the Lest Hon. Spencer Percival. Mr. Cheverton brought a figure of Mr. J. Foley's admired statue of " Innocence," in alabaster, reduced by machine sculpture, &swell as some much admired ivory busts of distinguished personages, and classical bee reliefs in =Mature by the same mechanical process. The reunion was in many respects the most agreeable of the series. VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S AssEMEiLT.—r. count and Viscountess Palmerston received the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lane- dowse, the Earl of Mint* and lady, and a distinguished circle to dinner on Satarday last, at their mansion in Carl ton-gardens. Her ladyship, at a subsequent period of the evening, opened her salons for the reception of a brilliant circle of the caps diontatique and aristocracy. On Saturday Lord Campbell gave a dinner at Stratheden-house, to Lord John Russell, the Earl of Lin coln, the Earl of Harderieire, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, Lord Stanley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Sir James Graham, General Fox, Mr. Lockhart, Mr.t in4 ine, and Mr. Danvers. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the Howse of Com mons had a parliamentary dinner on Saturday last at his mansion, in Eatonequare. The Master of the Buck Hounds and the Countess Granville gave an elegant entertainment on Friday evening to their Royal Highs:awes the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlPE.—Viscount Ebrin i gten, eldest son of the Earl Forteecue, was on Friday married 4a Crane, Doraetshire, to Kiss T amer, eldest daughter of las Hon. Col. and Mrs. Dawson Tamer. After the ceremony, which was attended by a large circle of relatives of beth the noble and distinguished families, the noble pair kilt for Dropnior.:. CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION REFORM. The committee of the whole court upon the car ration privileges assembled on Friday. The proceedues testified a firm determination in the majority of the mem bers who constituted the meeting. to apply to parliameat for a limited interference in reconstructing the civic gover ment. Mr. Richard Taylor was called to the chair. After the minutes of the proceedings of the last meeting were rod, the City Solicitor reported to the committee that he had NO witted the various questions propounded by it to the law officers of the corporation, together with briefs ; that a Me• rat wish was expressed by them for an enlargement of the time given for consideration, on account of their ?brims enements, and that the Recorder mentioned his judicial obligations as likely to prevent him from deciding when he shonld be able to Five his opinion. Some of the menthe" said the Recorder s " when " meant " whether." Sir Pete Laurie stated his impression to be, that the Recorder muse inclined to answer at all. The City Solicitor aid that all the other learned gentlemen had expressed their intention to answer the questions fully. He suggested that the time should be enlarged to the 12th of April, so that the other avocations of tne officers might not interfere with the me sideration of the questions. The motion was unanimoesif agreed to.—Mr. HOLT—In the mean time let tut prepares bill for parliament. (Cries of " No, no.") Mr. Bum believed they should be obliged 40 0 Mi t f y to parliament; but they ought to apply with and consistency, and hand in hand - with the Court of Aldermen. There was, as yet, no reference made to g et the authority to go to parliament ; but he hoped the Led Mayor would all a court to give the authority to prepare a bill.—Sir P. LAUMS said he was altogether against rig to parliament. He WY not prepared for encountering_ Hen t danger. Lord Brougham said to him yesterday , " What arc pot coming to us ?" (Laughter.) " No, th ank said he (Sir Peter), for he was of Palgnive's opinion think? going to parliament the City would incur the guilt denied'. —Mr. HALE said there was a time when he concurred the opinion just expressed, hut be was now decidedly 110 going to parliament Mr. APHOEST then moved " That the committee mere a report to the Code of Common Council, that the weer lion requires reform, which can only be effected by the aid of parliament." Mr. Howse supported the motion, and hoped that the minion of parliament would not be allowed to pare without bearing evidence to the sincerity of their long-tapered feeling. Mr. HALL WY convinced that the Court of Cisme Council ought not to decide upon going to parliament sal the *pinion' of counsel were known, and he impala argue in the court upon the expediency of not made( any application to parliament at all. (Hear.) It Ma been raid that the Court of Aldermen intended to &WI! that authority themselves. That was an error. The Wir* men could not go to parliament, except as part end pared m „ the corporation, for they had in themselves no cares* capecity. (Hear.) Mr. ANDERTON was surprised at the bugaboo Jack+ , Lantern mention of parliament. (Laughter.) It wits like the big words used to frighten babies, and produced a ere responding effect upon the great babies of the corporation. He did not believe that government considered it to be that interest to do the Corporation of London any mischief, or that they ever contemplated any injurious interference wink the privileges of that body. Alderman SIDEST agreed in thinking that some rotors was necessary, but they ought to settle upon the points whist required remedy, before they proceeded to parliament, eta they ought to avail themselves of the ex nenoe and I meat of the Court of Aldermen in diseoarmg the oaten esr ooneideratlon. Mr. HARTLEY contended that the act of Edward 111., eonarrnatcey of the privilege* of the corpontion, wag 15' -- P• MOND*T