The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS. Ilaistot.—A meeting of inAuential liberals was geld yesterday looming, at the rooms of the Liberal Re gistratioa Amociatiou, at which it was arranged to hold a m eow of the cutler liberal constituency es this (Tuesday) em o t e, at the great public rooms, BreedmeaL The an imism that there will be no opposities s 4 ground, ;burgh a bill in bloc ink has been waned. a l o e t h e electors to withhold their votes. It is e that both Mr. Berkeley awl Mr. Lingtra will address the meeting tw. Bight. CA3lnittP6i:.—Tho liberal electors bad a ranting lest week, at which it was unanimously resolved be aspect )fir Shaw Ail.or, at the forthcoming elegem. egma w i t h @q ua unaainsity determine , ' not to support the ilea. W. I.* g.iapbe U. ',base votes have caused greet 1111 to th, else tors. Mr. Movratt, the present wewsbee /se Pal. south. hes been invited to meet the electors; and a meet *: h e , been convened for this (Tuesday) its lag, at the 7,„„, n a il. which the hoe. gentleman will rues. Mr. g e rpant Clianuell is spoken of as a emboli.. Calluallitia l:NlCtitsrrY.—ln the nalvereity there am me O w; Mks against both sitting members, and the s h o o• of either retaining his seat depends (in ease of as opposition) spun several eonsideratime. Mr. Uoulburn's pere lanty contiuues on the wane, and it may be stated without tear of contradiction that Mr. Wigram has not reale,ithe anticipation. formed of him. It is stated, how., imer that the dolmans. elsagriued by the defeat of their tandolate in the cont.-t (fur contest it was. though there date no poll). between Mr. M wears and Mr. Cowling, have determined to stand aloof. If they do so it is hardly pro bable them will be any strenuote. opposition to the present nand. rs ; and it is not unlikely, bee Agile college interests to y w idet as tar as r t Urfail rlit.C2l feelings here, and the 3elinians are noted fur „ *tithing by their toundatiou." In the ta..nt el their interferenee they would, doubtless, insist o pen a candidate. 01 their own. .onl then the same difficulty will occur as before.as they 1.411 hardly abandon Mr. Cowling U that getIIICUI4II goners • to . ; ,,n,l, (II t ril Isi. Within the last few days, Sir Freehold' siuith, the Lite commanding engineer at this, pr ,,, on. h ., h,.....h e iting the suffrages of the electors of lb, horon.h, r. a rapil..l.,t. to represent them in puha si. rat at the nest central election. Iltatixialimtlitr- -Mr. King King and Mr. limiliry, the U.S candidates for this county in the pro le ennui - . intent . are Mel eanvaming the county together. At It,. and I,iblary they met with much oppositiun and at the termer place , on T hursda y last, were gems; in sulted. At la aura. they were toilowed from door to door by a moh arnica with a piece of meat enveloped in c i ze, and elevated en the to; of a pole. Another man a dindeutive loaf on the end o f a stick, which he perti• seriously carried before the candidates. LIICESTFJL—A correopundent says, that in addi tiOL to the letter preve.wle published in reply to the incitation to Sir Jcsliu e AVslni.ley to stand for this h. 0u....h et the u at election. It. Gardner, Esq., has also e,.i. 'oiled lasourardy to the liberal requisitionists. So that %h. re is carry prospect that these two gentlemen will again occurs that peeition which the torieseo sham. fully removed 111.1211 nm. and will again receive that " good name" in the onstituenry, of which their reckless opponents sought to s't'ub" them, although it tended not in the least to "enrich" their own party. M.‘losivat..—We art new' in a position to state that the only emdidates likely to be brought forward at the mat tit coo* for the borough of Maidstone, are Mr. George Ite.:4.oue of our pre. fit member., and in conjuaction with Inin. Mr. .1. 31. Fetter Lurie.—Susser Erma:. .N..lt r II LINVOLNSIIIRE.—Sir Montague Cholmeley, the - whiz peon etiount " member, addressed a very large holy of the tenant farmers at liarton-npon-liszther rester. :lay afternoon. There were about 300 proant. The hon. as mlo, is chief objects appeared to be to Ethan himself hoes the stricture, which bad been made tips his con duct by Mr. (Janke; Stanhope and his fries& holm that reathman's canvass. Ile declared that be MS •111117 6 tntweast, sad appealed to his own his oiling pars tat political life as an earnest of his Is the. e elect. Ile felt strongly with the new and Month be had been brought up in the Is lar mrs= dwell not give them any factious opposition ; bet it brought forward the question of protection, as lie they weuld do, in ouch a shape that it might be definitively settled, he would on that point most cordially support thou. ho peovocation or slander should prewas hies ben glebe *Lem a fair awl honest trial. Us she bind his himelits of outing for the repeal of the M ; sal id* hard to the intimation of Lord rM a r l y wr i sered to the education question, he stated that he would sat Mineent to soy regulation. us to the parochial whisk Mould h , ad to damp the seal of the body. Mr. Beale, Stanhope is prosecuting an active 111111.110. NtAllitOKUl:6lll.—The Earl of Mulgrave eldest son of the Marquis of Normanby , who was defeated at the last election of this borough by Mr. O. V. Y aassgg. les seaseaccd L. it, et:oe to stand for the fepstre M Yiia Is the neat tawny. Mr. Young will mina and esti& the reprearn ti...uri of Caoshridgeslum. MR. ROEBUCK AND MR. COPPOCK. TO VII SOROS OF tai DAILY MEWL Sin.--Seeing in the IMily News Mr. Coppocks to the Sun. I beg to answer It through you. Mr. eoppoek ha. entirely mistaken the spirit cad laten t a of the remarks I =ads on the St. Albans Disfraneltite. at Bill, sod hes Oven a very incorrect inter e retation to the Maned's= whack he details. I befitted that ht. Jane mg the mho bed en thi mesa= et the hies elution tees dhrweM ewe @beat t, be employed se seapegeses, dant Ibelteerer elletedseeseet tit. sod that Mr. Coppoek had ben imeleged SIB sa agent others. In order to show this I peerteed WSA him to Me to of the home. When I said that he would not have email to interfere en my behalf in any election, I had in the Ssod• In ah.efi he had described himself am at IL Albans— sad I think hr, as well as the gore GM whoa behalf I supposed him to have acted, would anyinena is the truth of this assertion. lat once acknowledge that I had own , pcadesce with hi relative ts Ittilt il =i may INI That correspondence had in it Vida PASO shicrat 04 say owe—and arose out of She stances. Its radical party in Math at that period found that they were unable to return two members of their own opinions —bat that if they could unite with the other sealer of the liberal party, vit., the whip—two liberal emimbers emold Ise tamed. In this state of things I applied te Mr. Slaw ky. now Lord Stant, y of Alderley, the. is eleston atleirs of the whig party, my olliend bift a candidate who, while satisfying the why sf the I. ctors, would not he distasteful in gay mhtmb s sal athe wr.ting to Mr. Coppock I in regal femegiodeNC ie.'h Mr Stanley, who, upon my rerselesee, smiled to lAri Duncan. Lord Duilcaa in empearame smear as kith. and united with sat in the elegise. ear somata" sod 'spews being joint. Mr. Cense IMO the agent of the government; and as I was, In let, tee elag with the government sa principal in the ease, I freshly memo that 141(,; t the fact that the letters I wrote were seat through Mr. Coppock, as their agent. Now so to the money (via., 3001.) which Mr. Coppock states he pee me. That money had bees lode aritmlY adorn' to me as a subscription by an old Mend, w sum 1 aced not mention—ho is well known to Mr. Coppock; sad the fund whence it came was a private oae, subscribed by various liberal politicians, for the purpose of being so employed, and by Mr. Coppock's hand the mousy was transmitted through me to our joint committee. In every tootested election expense must be incurred—not corrupt expiate—hut as work must be done, it must be paid for, sad to this end the money in question was subscribed. I have never made it a secret that I have ever been un willing and unable to incur the expense of a contested elec tion, and the expenses of every election in which I have 'lv prated as u candidate have been paid by subscription. Those, fur example, of the last unsuccessful contest I was engaged in at Bath were paid by friends who thought my labours in parliament valusble. Six hundred pounds for that object were transmitted to the treasurer of the joint committee of !zed Duncan and myself by an old and attached friend of mine, who is in fact nut himself an active politician. In this assuredly there is nothing which is deserving of blame either un the part of my friends or myself. I pan by Mr. Coppoik's vituperative phrases. I had no ill-feeling as respected him, sad sweat hiss me haus, The facts of the St. Albans election were not alassit me. WI stated by himself. Whateverret Mane allenbes le thera certainly cannot in say way be bird NI MO sal If the es world generally have saamal t are isms laid bare in that inquiry, the psis of that nyeshusisa is but the fair consequence of the ads sealnerd. 4 1=s—eadIs syite tiH. language Mr. Copps& has pow to employ with regard to myeelf, still s i mmer —Mlng big was unfairly dealt with, and that they en whine behalf he sated etre the persons really io fault. The Aisne Mesh be has made ou me has not in the lean this my belief. remain, Sir, your eenisut servant, Math 7. J. A. ROEBUCK. PRorIvIONS POR SIR E. BELCUER'EI EXPEDMOR. —The pruvi,inne, such as pemican, corned-beef, beton, t° be "applied to the new Arctic searching squadron, will, '1 au doubt, be of very superior quality,and are now in course 4 f pre paration, under the superfatenee of Captain Sir B. Parry, and Mr. Dans, of the Clarence Victualling-yard. VALLET IMPROVE/RECT.—The Lord Mayor be appointed a special court of Common Council for ttendsy seat, to resume the diming= upon Mr. Charles Poona's plan for the extensive improvements in Fining-' We'street end its vicinity. The following are the enact toms of the motion by Mr. Deputy Harrises, end the, wilfadment by Mr. Norm —Motion " That this tout do Igoe with the committee le so (much of the report as en that it if most desirable to secure, if possible, to the Pvl!lie, and the corporation of London, the great benefit illueb will arise from the proposed railway terminus, and tht it be re f s d back to the committee to confer with the ft•ptetive railway companies to the north of the Thames, or my other respon-ible parties, who may be willing to camp t w ukflalfinisand that the committee do report their e•ewd.ortv for the approval of the court, befalls say wfoorments are entered iota."—Amendment: " That ruurt do agree with their committee in so snob of their report as states that the proposed trunk line of rail *l a practicable ; bat the court is farther of opinion that tb turi oration of London cannot, with propriety, embark m say tailway scheme, though they see no objection to the tries line btino carried to the proposed termieas by other Parties, provided the works are executed subject to the coa teat end approbation of the corporation." LL RE-ELECTIONS AND PARLLA MRNTARY REFORM. (Tree use Daily Nan.) The importance of a further measure of reform in parliament, was never more completely illustrated than it has been during the last ten days by the aliens et the members who compose the govern- Ma An Englishman who values his free institu -011110114 who is disposed to boast of the represente d= NM prnie have in parliament, cannot but blush et 111, ellsedoncering mockeries which parallel the morn erne enacted at Gluten and Old Sarum. It is via a holing of disgust that the reformer reads in the midaterisl morning journal such a paean as is aniedied in the following announcement: Everywhere during the past week, the government ran didseeslave been triumphantly returned. The first law Miser et the crown met with no opposition at Abingdon. The minipill Secretary of State for the Home Department bus ham unopposed at Midhurat ; the Marquis of Chau dna as Bashioglism, and Mr. Mercies at Stamford. A Belgian or an American reading this statement in the sunisterial organ, would naturally suppose that the monopolist cabinet just elevated to power were, indeed, as " triumphant" as their party paper wishes them to be. Reading such a statement by the light of hie own constitution, the American would say, " Oh, England has reversed her policy ; free trade has met its doom ; not only has the whig ca binet been ignominiously expelled front office and a protectionist administration elevated to power, but the great electorates of conetitu:ional England have everywhere ' triumphantly returned' the members of the government. Abingdon, which appears from the map to be a great constituency in Oxfordshire. has returned without a shadow of opposition the first law officer of the crown. Midhurst, that populous seat of agriculture, has given its universal suffrage to the principal Secretary of State. The wide district surrounding Buckingham elects the Marquis of eItANDOS ' from whom the por trait of the immortal SIIAKIIPEARE takes its name • and Stamford, free and independent Stamford, sends to parliament an aged minister de voted to official habits, by the name of Ileum es." What would the American think if ho were in formed, that, so far from there being anything to boast of in being returned by these constituencies, there is something which, to right-minded men, is ab solutely degrading in the very idea of sitting for such places, under such circumstances. In the petty town of Abingdon " the First Law Officer of the (rowu" only obtained his election by sufferance, and upon the distinct condition that on the very next vacancy ho should resign every pretension to the representa tion. The representatiou of Nlidhurst, a large vil lage with 1,900 or 1,900 inhabitants, is absolutely at the disposal of a peer who lives close by, and whose eon-in-law is " the principal Secretary of State." At I Buckingham Lord Citssaxei is " at home,"—his own family tenantry being the electors, and the election being a snug affair, arranged in a pothouse by . the steward of the estate. Stamford, " free and inde pendent Stamford," is, indeed, a considerable town, but unhappily it is a place in which the major part of the property is held by one proprietor, and in which the rights of the people, political and private, have been mercilessly trampled on to suit the objects of the lord. Such are the constituencies of England for which the members of the government obtain unopposed returns, and such are the "triumphs" which their trumpeters tell the world they have secured. it is to be observed, however, that contemptible and insignificant as these places are, the members of the government are by no means so well received in them as the tory pspers would desire us to suppose. Political knowledge has penetrated even into the least frequented parts of Some:, and the farm labourers at Nlidhurst cried out for a complete revision of the inequalities of taxation with a igour and determination that ren dered it necessary even for the cautions Home Secre tary to speak out. At Buckingham, an attempt was made to get up a cheer for the new minister, and his own tenants and farm labourers gave no response to the appeal. Let the tory government carefully lay this to heart. In a purely agricultural district, in his own town, amongst his own people, an estimable young man whose private misfortunes have elicited the public sympathy, and whose virtues, we believe, have merited the tribute, is refused even a cheer, by the agricultural population to whose voices he ap peals as a minister prepared to revive a food tax. If this is the state of - things at Buckingham, what do they expect to find the feelings of the towns and districts in which not 1,500 but 15,000 or 150.000 esteems may meet to elect a representa- 1 tive ? Why, it was only yesterdey that a statement appeared, under the head eta Rhodos Now• "' h em • borough in which the government are vsetwitswely able to return a member, and la which within es last mouth they brought in thelv h F ie b e i r a miss* of two to one though he was solvates sad only in the field a week, w bleiggenentirne a popular barrister, who had made a sinmesildaut we. And what do the, ay in that smolkoesey They say " then eau ,anew of s _government candidate being breuebt hived Use, hut ho will not stand musk inn at swam aphid the present members, and erne olhdarart f he ts oaf as opponent of the cone home This is from a eseetitsaasy on which, most pliably, the government rely, as go vernments saitorealy have relied. It is from a con stituency not with 1,500 or 1,000 population, like kfidhurst, but with 100,000 population; not with some 300 testae, as at Buckingham, but with 3,000. Surely such symptoms Es theme are unmistakeable. Let the anstitneneiss have the ballot even as they are, and how may nessabers of the government would have been returned to _parliament ? A bold man at Stamford told Mr. Humus, for one, that with the ballot he would sever have been chosen. The people of Stamford whe have groaned and writhed under their political eMiction let Mr. Ern me know plainly that they did not return him, and that he was not to go to pediment as the eliest of Asir choice. " I have again presented uryodt he year choice." said he. Great uproar in the crowd, and aria of " It's Lord Exam's choice!" "I trust yes will send me to parliament," shouted the candidate. " Lord Rama will send pm,* replied the so-called animate ! " I continue to hold opinions in asserdanee with those of the inhabitants of Stashed." " It's not on opinion, but Lord Earnest; tried the crowd. Such are the circumstances whisk attend the " triumphant return "of the government candidates. " inn about the ballot ?" inquired a Memird elector to wards the end of Mr. limas? Mikes lem against the vote by ballot (responded he). (Great groans and laughter from the crowd.) I can believe that a modally of any English constituency will ever sup port to truly an on-English a mode of choosing their repre sentatives as the dark and sinister ballot. (Great uproar, and • ay, "If we had the ballot, you would have no chance hem') Mr. HERaus knows that very well, and therefore it is that he opposes the ballot. But we should like him to have told the Stamford people which he thought the most " dark and sinister mode of choosing a representative ; " that system which en ables him to arrange in private with a steward or agent the preliminaries of an election, and to thrust himself upon a constituency who vote for him from fear; or the system which would give to that consti tuency the opportunity of exercising their suffrage, free from an apprehension, amounting to an almost certainty, that if they dared to vote against him their homes would be broken up, and their cherished household gods immediately destroyed. " Extend the suffrage to 61. householders," said Mr. HERRLES, in continuation, "and I believe I should not be worse off for such a change." Mr. Beanies calculates correctly upon the power of " fear" over the minds of the poor. W h atever might be the case elsewhere, probably in such a town as Stamford, an extension of the suffrage alone would only result in more evil sz ei e mion and to the voter. But extend the with the pro tection of the ballot, and where wool Mr. /IEIRIES and his friends be then ? Let him be sure that even amongst the small agricultural constituencies —even in the Midhursta and Buckingham', and Abingdon" and Stamiorda—there would not be a man " tri- wmphantly returned" who did not agree to secure to the nation those two greatest and most inestimable blessings, peace and plenty—no foreign quarrels, and no tax on brea d. WESLEYAN Musrowury boam.—The womb of the Wesleyan Misaboary Soei.ty, preparatory to the an nual May sooting, hare been made up, with the ozooptice of goons balances from provincial roodations. Tb. rocolpes for the year 1861 will, it la said, woad 190,0001. MILITARY DESPOTISM ON THE CONTINENT. Yesterday evening a meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth, convened be the seamy of The Friends of Italy", took place at t h e British ftintol Room, George-street. "to consider the three te aspect of foreign powers, end the position sad duty .1 Wand is the present state of the continent."_ . . _ Mr. F. HOULTON wee manimemly sailed on to pro side. He observed that hitherto doe debt of foreign coun tries had excited little interest is linikad, but thank' to the teaching of Kossuth, Massini, sad other illustrious exiles, this was the ease no longer. (Cheers.) Some said it was a matter with which we had little to do. This was a great mistake. Liberty was one all the world over; and • blow could not be annul at it in env part without its being felt elsewhere. (Hear, hear.) In • mere selfish point of view it was essential that there should be an enlightened public opinion on foreign affairs. Who could quietly look on and sec the deeds now tested in France under the name of liberty ? (Ilea= It was matter of congratulation that the English press gear rally hail been faithful in this cause; while certain of Mr statesmen had degraded themselves on the opening of par liament by discountenancing the vigorous protest which the press had made against deeputisin. (Hear, hue.) This question was one which would come nearer to us, and when it did he doubted not the E n glish people would express themselves plainly on the matter. The l'rinee President of France, or whatever lee called himself, was looking towards Belgium; and, if he succ.eiled in his designs there, he might look somewhat, else, for ho ruled at the pleasure of th e army, and must find something for that army to do. (Hear, hear.) Mr. D. MASSON moved—" That this meeting views with deep concern the triumph of despotic and lawless power abroad as confirmed by the suppression of French liberty by Louis Napoleon. That these advances of des potism abroad are fraught with danger to the liberties and the interests of Groat Britain ; that, therefure on grounds as well of self.defence, as of just regard for Other peoples, it is incumbent on this country to hare and to maintain a decided course of foreign policy; and that no set of men are fit to conduct the government of this country at the present time who have not, among other Mimes, • bold and liberal apprehension of Englanil'aplace and duty in Europe." Ile observed that there prevailed over the continent a system of despotic and even of lawless rule, or misrule. Both were bad things, and the former generally was converted into the latter. tome thought despotic rule, where it was mild sad according to law, better than a wrangling parliament; bet those persons should remember that unless speech and the press were free, there would be no real national in accordance with the ideas of the people. Cheers.) if a despot, of the best intentions and the largest brain in the world, arrested free speech, he de stroyed the nation's progress. This kind of government now prevailed all over the continent. In fluids, every one knew them was nothing like free speech; the people were in that condition from which we escaped centunca ago; they had not yet learnt to demand the right of free speech. Still there were numbers of the intelligent class who la boured under the same disability, and held their lives and property at the mercy of the t Aar. Going further south, we found that great nation the Germans, who gave us the printing press—(cheers)—when, if ever, despotic rule might to have been hung up in a museum—we found them too groaning under despotism. in Austria, a mere sprinkling ot Germans were spread through a variety of ether great nations ; and there was, in fact, nothing Au*. I Visa but the Austrian despotism—a mere diplomatic fiction. (Hear, hear.) Destroy that government and there would be nothing left of Austria. (Cheers.) Recently this des potism had trampled out the liberties of a great and free na tion, whi. h would have been a worthy brother to England in the European family. (Chun.) In Italy, whore people were the moat intellectual race of Europe, a body of mili tary, aided by papal domination, held in thraldom the whole nation. (Hear, hear.) It had been said in reference to Italy, that a nation deserved not to be free unless they desired it. What stronger proof of their desire for liberty could have been afforded than was given by the inhabitants of Rome when they barricaded their city, and defended it for a month against the treacherous French—the picked soldiers of Europe ? (Cheers.) Looking to the present state of France, and the recent elections, he would ask what was the value of universal suffrage without free speech ? It was a mere name, and nothing more. (Cheers.) Louis Napoleon was • thorough despot; and what was more, he was not one ot the clever despots who had gained the applause of some ; but, judging from his writings, he was one of the most stupid men that ever tried to be clever. ' (Cheers and laughter.) Not only had he resorted to des- ' tootle rule, but to misrule, imprisoning and banishing thousands of patriots, and causing his army to sweep away thousands more. (Hear, hear.) In process of tine the despotism of the continent would swallow z o th a r a little states where freedom yet existed; mad then I would stand alone. Dil any ono ask. Nat had we to do with such a state of things u that ? winter ferenee was very well as a principle ; nut it bad PA Mona. There were certain things which ought not to be by other nations to be done ins any part of the . (Hear, hear.) Suppose the Turkish government should go about to murder all the Christians in that country; would so one say that was not a fit subject for interference ? (Cheer.)He maintained that things had Men done in Austria an other countries which equally demanded interference. (Oh!) Already the despotism of the continent had come home to this country ; witness the insolence of diplomatic intercourse on the part of some powers ;—an in.olenee which would never have been stood by Pitt, even ; though he was on the wrong side. (Hew., hear.) The gre it means for checking despotism was • large and liberal measure of parliamentary reform. (Cheers.) Whatever government would deal rightly with respect to the continent ought to put this country in • state of self-defence, by the organisation of a citiren-force, independently of the standing army. Mr. JAMES STANFIELD seconded the resolution, which was carried. Mr. SIIAEN moved "That the Society of the Friends of Italy, absady asistieg, sad, an excellent means for testi fying these stralmeats holly and constitutionally, and especially for emprering empathy with the oppressed people of Italy,sod *at dbe present meeting is prepared to support this society fa Id speedier and aims." Mr. T. W m•Militii Me umelution. A vote of thanks a Ow linkman doted the proceedings. LOBS OP LITE Ole THE RAILWAY AT KILBURN.— Yesterday, Mr. Waltley, M.P., held an inquest at the Bell Inn Tavern, in the Marrow-read, for the purpose of in vestigating ie airsmatences by which three plats-layers, maned Gomm Gagman, aged 22, Richard Penick, aged n ke atWMliala BAssistg, aged 36, lust their lives. 'I he shareed that hassles weeks past, a number of men have been mood on the London and North-Western line rs-Lying the !ails. On Friday morning, a gang of firemen, among wbeneweire the unfortunate deceased, were sent imem the ins am 41110 yards from the spot where the main help wine mss/ eel, to prepare the road Tor the work. For the leatietisa of both the trains and the men tha 0111111.111111 pissed a policeman, with signals, &c., on the ii a s wins - to tap of the rails was going on, and the ise i g ag g i a °remit for • similar purpose,as well se to see theme& was properly executed. The re-laying ergs nib hiseg the sat important part of the Me wor an k, the most w espesielly heat with led. le the safe transit of the Mains,plo d int et the labourers were emyed, eempied the whale Otte inear's attention. The opening psi, where the deesessil we. were not within his, the else's view, aseesiesstly he s but little chance of WIN/SiSS them of Amer. The hem= was she along with the main body of ma. The . spring out " meg appeared le have no Wise: Sege eat teyipallee to htiheir ;mi tes, wither use there say ]ate Mt for them whatever. The two survivors, Brew mil Babes, imilatmed the einem, that while at week ea the am they wale petweneed to keep a look out and _give the ahem to roe amellier ea a train coming up. Their explanation of the resident was, that at about sieves o'clock in the meanie( in question they were ehinded liip hearing the appeal of a down train. 'They weft at week helms, the rah es the up line. limas was the hest me. smut Willman, the o thers being Respectively abet* lane yards apart, and, per ceiving the SW WSW, he tumid his head to see whether marthhig wee memehhig en the line they were u pon. To hie agioniameni be saw Me mail train clam upon tbcm, 0010 Its swab" me bass the whistle. He jumped aside, all disseed three sr Dm lima to the others. Nono of Ikea mega Swim seemed to beat him. The train sum im. Ind est lie demist sea hewn almost to pieces. It emeriti thst eine Mire& dews the line, where the doomed were enegieged, vie a seal siding and semaphore sigma The mss who worked it had no special instrue• = art See owing to a tune hat. Nat they were at work, though he he pointed hie _sigma gee down to the nails, so as is I i to the driver of the mail train that die were Wag interfered with in the vicinity. The it sevend nos !wa ver seem to have been anticipated by the driver, wire. that he must be near tbo spot where the rubs IMO , had turned o ff Itiesteam. The driver Irept • limp est, sad had not pared the signal, which wee dews sad desetiag that all was clear some time before he sew the me.. They were in too ekes a prozimity for the driver I. avert their frightful deaths. It was clearly shown that die alarm whistle was in operation all the time. After antes& protracted in quiry the jury re turned a verdict of " sesidental death, " with a mom mendation that in seam M prevent the recurrence of an y catastrophe of the MEd the directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company, or the contractors of any of the works ape. that line, should station a plasm o: superintendent over every gang of mem to give them snai -1 cleat information of the approach of trains. The coroner said hs would forward the recommendation to the proper quarter. The sufferers were all married men, and have left large families. TELEGEAPII AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL—Dr. Pitman, the zealous physician attached to the hospital, animas of getting rid of the annoyance. occasioned to the patients by the noisy transmission of orders through the clifferent wards (thus the hall-porter was accustomed to ring a large bell in the ball until it drew all the nines into the corridors, and then he shouted out the orders he had to give them), requested the assistance of Mr. John Braith waite, the engineer, who visited the hospital, and suggested the manner in which it should be done. In the ball is a column 3 feet high, having in its top a dial on which are engraved a aamberof signals:-on the walls of the different wards are earrespending dials similarly engraved, but much larger; and when the pointer to the dial in the hall is moved to any signal, all the others move In precisely the same way, and at the some time a little hammer Me en a small bell, and draws attention to the het that the pointer W loosed. la this way sleet lily sloes are transmitted daily is each ward without the possibility of error or the least noise. The eat In the first instance, we Sr. told, was very trMing, and that of maintenance is really nothing. The same arrangement might be made useful in dwelling booms he ordinary domestic am.--The Builder. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1852. THE LEAGUE FUND. The fund continues to receive acceecioaa with every pod, and tits correspondent* of the League so vols. nunous in days prat, appears to hays swung into full enis• tenet again, as if under the wand of a magician. Mr. James Pilkington, M.P. for Blackburn, gives 1,0001., and Mr. B. Oliveira, of London, 1,0001. The Right Ron. the Earl of Radnor has written to *sprats his hearty concur rence in the steps which have been taken, and gives 1001. to the fund. Messrs. George Andrew and Bon give 6001. ; Meson. bison and Sun, 6031. ; Mr. Robert Stuart, 2001. ; Mesas. Samuel Heginhottom and Sons, Ashton, 3001. ; kit sirs. John Mason and Son, 2501 ; Mr. P. Arrowamith, Bolton, 200/. ; Mr. Thomas Thorneley, M.P. 1001. ; and some other tunas of 1001. down to 101. swell the t otal to about I 40,0001. THE CONFLICT ON BOARD THE QUEEN OF THE WEST, LIVERPOOL. In one yeatertlaye publication wo gave the particulars of a sanguinary collision that had taken place on itlaturday, on board the Queen of the West, American packet-ship, lying in the Melee'', as they had then tran spired; and that the cams boil been transferred from Liver pool to Birkenhead, as the ship was lying within the jurisdiction of the Cheshire magistrates. On Monday (yesterday), accordingly, the magistrates assembled withiu the justices' room at Birkenhead, to hear the charge of mutiny preferred by Captain Mere against his sailors. Captain More said—l em muter of the Queen of the W,st, an American vessel, lying in the river "lency. On Saturday last had part of crew on board, when I went ashore to get the government agent to clear the passengers. When I came back, which was between 12 and 1 o'clock, the mate was mustering the crew. I told the mate to go below and look after the passengers and I would muster the men. Twenty men answered to their name,. I told the shipping master to go ashore and get six more hands, which, including the carpenter's mate and en ordinary ' ' seaman, would make 28 of a crew. Oeo. Freeman*, can et the crew, then stepped forward and asked um what I meant by having only 26 men, when the was 30, and swore he would not go in the shi;il=l coolly to the man, and told him 1 bad gone to sea with km men, and asked him if be could do more than one meals duty ;to which he replied ye s, and Olathe would bar i t , do it in this case. I told him to go forward. Ire did so. On Freeman joining Alexander Jack and Henry Downes, they all began muttering. I followed the men to the fore rigging to see whether they would go to work. When I got forward, Freeman said it was time to get breakfast. I asked him what ho wanted that he did nut go to work ; 1 and ho told me in answer to go to hell. Thereupon I took hold of him by the collar, but before I could say a word all the prisoners, particularly Freeman, Jack, Dowers and Fowler knocked me down with handspikes, belaying pins, die. ; and when I was down they struck me on the head. I managed to get up, and having all the officers except the mate below, I ran alt to the wheelhouse, and got a revolving pistol. I went forward again, took hold of Freeman, told him he was my prisoner, and ordered the others to stand back, or I would shoot them. Upon this two of them closed in upon me and I fired at Jack. The pistol missed, and the men closed upon me again, armed with handspikes, belay ing-pius, dc., knocking me down, and cutting me severely all over the body. With that the mate came along with a cutlass, and commenced to strike away at the crew. The third and second mates also came forward and struck at the men to enable me to get up. As soon as I got up I told the mate to give mo his (cutlass and to get another, which he did, and we :then cleared the decks in a very short time. The Government Surveyor, Lieutenant Fryer, was on board at the time, and went on shore in a steam tug for the police. Eight of the crew went on shore in the steam-boat, when be gate them into custody on landing. I then ordered the ringleader* to be secured. Downes was so violent on being brought aft that the three metes could not manage him. I was at the time in the wheel-house getting my head dressed, and I jumped out and lent them a hand. Downes was so violent that I tied him up to the rigging and flogged him. Soon after Superintendent Ride came on board, and took the portion of the crew on board into custody. lam a Berman. Cross-examined by Mr. Aspinall (for the crew) I have never been before the magistrates in this country for illtreat ing my crew, but twice at New York for illtreating pence gers. Did not strikOreeman. Before I went for the pistol the men had struck me. The principal part of the men were on deck during the occurrence. No man struck me a second time before I drew the trigger of the pistol. The pistol was loaded at New York out. There was no cap on. I thought at the time there might be one cap on, and I fired with the intention of shooting the man if he resisted. Only the mate had a cutlass, the second mate had a belaying pin. I sung out to the passenger, to assist me, but they did not. By Mr. Snowball—The pistol was a revolver. There were three caps on, and three of the nipples without ceps. I don't recollect the particulars of the affairs for which I was tried at New York. I was fined 11. or 21. James P. Risk, the mate, was next examined, and gave a similar statement to the Captain's as to the conflict. He detailed in addition some attacks upon himself, the secur ing of the men, and the flogging of Downes, which he stated the Captain did himself. In cress-examination tho mate admitted running after the men with a cutlass and striking at them alter the conflict was over, but he could not say he struck any one. He also stated that he assisted to hold up Downes' shirt while the captain flogged him. The second and third mate, and a little boy from Manchester, who was aboard at the time, gave evidence to much the same purpose, identifying allselmt portions of the crew as being engaged in the andiet, and detailing the manner in which they were wounded and the parties who committed the acts. The boy Mated that Downes re ' (rived two doom and two lashes, and *a atuaresaminatiaa stated that he had asked • the captain an gawp nermaing to take hint to sea with him, but he mimed tbim an the =that he took no boys ; however, an eosin added bile proceeding to the court in the vansiti, Its agreed to take him with him to America. Mr. Bradley, surgeon, stated that he had dressed the head of Captain Mors, and found that be bad received three contused wounds on the head, which would be in dieted by a blunt instrument. John Murphy, a passenger, deposed to the general features of the captain's evidence, and stated in addition: —I heard the pistol click twice, and then saw it flying into the water. The captain came out of the scuffle, and got a man down and kicked him, while the man's hands were tied. This man tried to get on board the steamer, but was driven back. Saw him taken into the wheel-house, when he was put in irons. Saw Downes seise the ladder leading from the main to the quarterdeck, and call for help from the passengers. He was seised by the hair of the head, and pulled up by the first and third mates. Then saw the captain flog him up to 18 lashes, when the mates wished him to atop, but he refused, and gave the man two or them more. When the 'Seers were securing the men, saw one man with his arm nearly cut off at the elbow. A Liverpool police officer deposed to taking the men into custody. A number of the men were very severely cut ; some of them wounded all over the body. Two of them, Peter Ryan and Thos. Morton, were at pre sent in the hospital, and he had a oertificate which stated that they were unable to be removed. Ryan has his arm nearly cut off, and complains sadly of his wound. Morton is also wounded in the arm, but not so severely, and he has also a scalp wound. Another passenger, named Thoe. Moray, deposed to the captain striking nem= first, and to seeing him after wards run after the men with a cutlass. Sir Edward Cost here stated that there was evidence against only Fowler, Jack, Trainer, Downes, and Freeman, When Mr. Aspinall requested the others might be die charged fur the sake of the other prisoners. The magis trates, however, after consulting together, thought it better to keep them in the dock with the rest. Patrick Martin, a shipping master, deposal Os skipping a number of men, after which, in answer to queediene Ikea Mr. Aspinall, he stated that the shipping madam resolved a pound for every man they shipped, of whisk me more captains received 6•., and some 10s., copra esking asiblas. Mr. Aspinall then proceeded to address the bomb agli , a summary conviction. He stated that he had abundant evidence, to ge before a jury, to gives very different odium. ins to the case made on behalf of the captain. Mr, MONA was addressing the magistrates when our ;mei Wes de spatched. MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION AND Faun TsAnn.—A special meeting of the directors of the Manchester Commercial Association was held yesterday, at which Mr. James Aspinal Turner presided. Sir John Potter moved and Mr. Johnidaloolm Rose seconded the following resolution : " That this association, deeply conscious of the great advantages that have accrued to the general interests of the country from the adoption of a frec•trade policy, feel called upon to deprecate in the strongest manner any attempt at the reversal of the commercial legislation of the last few years. That this association is firmly of opinion that any return to protective duties cannot be permanent, and that any attempt at their re-establishment would only lead to continued and organised agitation. That a state of uncertainty is at all times prejudicial to the operation of trade and commerce. This association, therefore, would respectfully but earnestly call upon her Majesty's govern ment at ones to declare its future commercial po licy." Moved by Mr. John Peel, seconded 17 Mr. W. A. Wood, " That the above views be embodied in petitions to both houses of parliament, and also in a memorial to the Right lion. the Earl of Derby. That the petition to the House of Commons be entrusted to Wm. Brown, Req., M.P., and that to the House of Lords to the Right Ham. the Date of Newcastle. There were present at the wasting, In addition to the gentlemen above maned, Messrs. Imam Atherton, D. R. Davies, R. J. Far bridge, J. C. Presoak Robert Smith, Samuel Schuster, Leopold Reiss John Peel, R. J. Jones, Faraday Smith, Wm. Oibb, John Hunter, Stephen Franghiali, and Mr. Hugh Fleming, secretary. AccESSION TO THE RANKS Or FREE TRADE.—We have learnt with unmingled satisfaction, that one of the leading men in this county—Sir Wm. Heathcote, Bart , of Hunley l'ark—has renounced all faith in protectionist delusions, and is prepared to assist in consolidating tho operations of free trade, end to support an extension of the sue* Loot so tar as the late proposal of Lord John ItumelL—Mots Independent. EXTENSION Or RAILWAY TELEGRATIDL—The tele i graph is now nearly completed over the route of the Greet Northern Railway from London to Lincoln and Hull. It is also being constructed—by the Electric Telegraph Company, who have about 1,000 men daily at work—on the Lancaster and Carlisle , Maryport and Carlisle, and along the western coasts ; also on the Shrewsbury and Chester and Shrews buiry and Hertford railways. SLAUGHTER HOUSES AND COMMON LODGING HOUSES IN THE CITY. On Saturday last, the Commiasioners of Sewers of the City of London hotted a eerie' of rules and regale ' tions respecting slaughter houses and common lodging houses situate within the City and the liberties thereof. The rules proposed by the committee appointed on the sub ject, provide that every slaughter house shall be paved with flag stone, set in hydraulic mortar or cement, and laid with proper slope snd channel towards a gully. Each slaughter house must be drained by an adequate drain, communi cating directly with the public sewer; the gully at the inlet, communicating with the drain, to be well trapped with a stoneware syphon or other impermeable trap, and be covered with a fixed grating. Every slaughter house must be provided with adequate cisternage and water supply, for flushing the drains, each day after the work of slaughtering has been finished the flushing pipe to communicate with the syphon trap of the gully. Each daughter-house must be thoroughly ventilated ; and no privy, water-closet, cess- Cr l 'co o ns r tru bl e ° tre l l h° w le fthi s n .i" or heuf permitted n a pic to wo re t zat c. o c r The internal surface of each slaughter -house to be lime-whited at least thrice a year. Each daugh ter-house must he thoroughly washed and the drain be flushed after the slaughtering is completed. Vepsels having proper close-fitting corers are to be provided in each daughter-house for the purpose of receiving the blood, garbage, °Mil, or filth • they are to be constructed in man ner and of material to be approved of by the commission, and be kept in a thoroughly clean condition. A copy of these rules and regulations is to be affixed and retained in a conspicuous place in every licensed slaughter-house, and from time to time renewed, so as to be always in a legible and perfect condition. Penalty for breach of rules, a fine of not less than 10s. and not exceeding 49x. With respect to lodging-houses it is provided that water shall he supplied, e:ther cisternage or core taut supply, on each flour of every house, with sink, flue separate and distinct privy shell be constructed to every 20 peremis in a house. Every room must be duly ventilat.d, and no room without a window or fireplace be let as a separate holding nor be used as a sleepiug-wom unless it coininuni cites by • door with another duly ventilated. Du. t and ashes., to be removed from every houso at least once a day ; that public dust-bins be affixed and set up in the Inc tittles in question by the commissioners, and that the contractors be ordered to empty them daily, and to call at each lodging house for the like purple l'eteeday, and ey in each west. In hou.e. where rooms are let out in lodgings to more than one firefly,' card is to be set up in each room, to state the limits set to the number of occupants thereof. Their number to be proportioned to the cubical contents of the room, and its facilities for venti lating, fixing 300 cubical feet as the minimum for as adult. Each such room to he lime-whited once in three months at least. Thu owner of each house, or his agent, or collector, to visit each room on an appointed day, at least once weekly, between the hours of 11 and 3, and see that the fluor and other woodwork of the room have been pro perly washed on that day ; thaty.hu room be free from all dirt, rubbish, or offensive smell; that no abjectionable trade be pursued in it; and that it be generally in good and proper repair. lie shall ace that the premises gene - rally be in a clean and wholesome condition ; that water he I sufficiently supplied, and the dustman ' s work regularly perforated, and failing either of the tto latter conditions, he • shall forthwith lay complaint thereof before your commis , sion. The lodging-houses in l'lumtree-court and els.% here i are to be consecutively numbered; also the rooms in each lodging-house to he numbered. UNIFORM FOREIGN POSTAGE RATES. When the committee was first formed - during the Great Exhibition to effect a reduction of foreign postage, it was generally considered that the object could be best at tained by friendly negotiation :between the British and foreign governments. Many persons, however, who have taken great interest in the matter, and who, moldering how backward foreign governments have hems in followiug tho example of England as far as the introduction of a low and uniform inland postage rate is concerned, have thought some gem may be devised by which the British government sushi test at once the practicability of a low and uniform lessen postage rate, and adapt a policy by which other ge -1 Moments would be compelled to give the suhjeci of (heap kieign postage au immediate consideration and trial. Considering that England Ilea adopted in all its integrity a low aad uniform inland postage rate, that she is the prin cipal ocean carrier for the correspondence of the whole world, and that she evilest* a van amount of fore:go post age for other nations, the fielowin„• definite course of o eedure it has been deemed advisable should be pressed on the British government. Let the colonial and ship letter postage rate be at once re doted to a low and ueiforni one, say teopence a letter. Let the prepayment of this rate by stamps ho compulsory on outward correspondence, and on inward correspondence let it be paid on delivery. The lucal colonial pirstago rate should be collected abroad as it is is moat cases at the pre sent time. As this latter rate is now a low and uniform one la almost all our colunies and dependencies, it would nut im pede that vast increase ofeomespundeuce which would natu rally arise from the reduction of the ocean rate. This plan could at once be adopted by the British government without any negotiation, and without soy interference with the local administration of the colonies. By adapting this plan, an enormous increase of colonial cortespouilence would, doebtlem, take place ; the expense and treuide which result Iro,u optional and money prepayment of colonial postage, and from keepine move! accounts with the colonies would be areided; and the vieue of a reduction of ocean postage, upon an extensive scale, would at once be practically brought to the test. With regard to postage on letters to foreign reentries— such as those on the European coutinent for ustanee— perhaps success might attend our tithes in negotiating a reduction of foreign postage with those couutris* with which we here a pack. t communication, if their nopectiee, government: bad adopted the po:iey with regard their interne correspondence, but unfortunately this ix hi the case. The great difficulty, however, of the negotiating principle would b found with inland couutrico, where the foreign postage on letters to which, is enhanced by the toll demanded by the governments of intervening states, through which those letters must necessarily pass. What course, then, should the British government puieue to avoid the endless difficulties and delays of negotiatieu with fo reigngovernment. fir a reduction of foreign postage, and to bring those goveruinents at once to reason and an en lightened policy in this matter. Before pointing out a course it will be advisable to state some particulars respecting our present foreign postal sys tem. At the present time letters to many countries can be sent from England four, five, and even seven different routes. They are often charged according to different scales of weights ; they must be specially addressed to go some routes, but not others. 'fluy must be prepaid or sent unpaid to some places; to other places the prepayment is optional. To various parts they can be prepaid to their destination; to some countries they can only be prepaid part of the way. The whole of these complicaad regula tions arise from the various foreign postal conventions which are in existence between England and other nations, and they entail great expellee to this country, and cause much inconvenience to the public. English ni. reheats find correspondence returned to them after a foreign mail has lett this country, because some postal regulation in ad dressing or prepaying has not been complied with. Now, according to parlhuneutary evidence, the English govern ment, twenty years ago, collected only its own foreign postage, and other nations collected theirs. This was done by the enforced pro .payment of postage on all for. is, , n cor respondence mailed in England to the foreign termini of the British mail packet liner. This Postage was a variable and much higher rate than the present British one, accord ing to the evidence above alluded to. Having premised the above, it will be understood why the British government should be pressed to renounce as quickly . as possible all postal conventions at present in exist ence with foreign governments, and recur to the original policy of collecting only its own protege, and let it make the foreign rate a low and uniform one, instead of a variable and comparatively high one as it is at present. Let the British postage on a foreign letter mailed in Eng land for the continent of Europe be twopence, paid in advance by means of a stamp. A large amount of expense would then be saved in working the foreign department of post offices throughout the kingdom. Tho public would be spared much perplexity through the simplicity of the arrangements, and a vast amount of foreign correspondence would originate in England, compared with what originates at present. home persons may think that this would be foolishly generous on the part of England, because foreign govern ments would not reciprocate, and reduce their rates on foreign letters; but foreign governments would be obliged to reciprocate. No person in any country can be compelled to accept of correspondence addressed to him, and govern ments always fix such a rate of postage on htters as in duces the acceptance of them when introduced into their territories. No govern:neat is so mad or stupid as to fix such a postage ou foreign letters as to have any consider able portion of them thrown on its hands. Letter postage with all governments is a source of revenue, and no go vernment, however absolute, would be permitted to make such a charge as to induce the rejection of correspondence when by lowering the charge they would get as much or more revenue, and increase the trade and intercourse of their respective countries with other nations. By the reduction on the part of the British government of the postage on foreign letters mailed in this country to a low and uniform charge, England would have to laud an immense amount of correspondence on foreign shores at a great deal less expense than the management of her foreign correspondence costs at present, by which the postal revenue of this couatry would scarcely suffer, and Great Britain could say in effect to foreign nations, " There is the cone spondence for your country, charge as high as you please for it ; only remember that we do not take it back again." Depend on it that all such correspondence would find its way into the possession of the public. A foreign government would not refuse to deliver a thou sand letters at a low figure when it could get more by it than by delivering one hundred of them at a higher one. All the English government requires is, that if the British postage on foreign letters be reduced from eat shilling to twopence, that four or live times as many letters should be written as at present. It would only re quire such an increase to make up the deficient revenue. because the expense of Post-office management of a simple foreign postal scheme would be much less than by a com plicated one. The advocates of cheap oc,ain postage may safely guarantee such an augmentation from the demand for increasing facilities for correspondence, consequent on the extensive intercourse between different nations, and which has arisen from the extension of railways and steam packets, and the development of trade and commerce all over the civilised world. SUPPLY OF SPIRITS TO TIIE BLtECO.tT Information having been given to Alderman Kelly, the head of the Ward of Farringdon Within, in which Christ's hospital stands, that certain publicans within his jurisdic tion were in the habit of supplying some of the children with ardent apirits, and that great evil was likely to result from this practice, immediately consulted his brethren upon the subject. The alderman immediately directed that the town clerk should send a copy of the section of the act of parliament to every.licensedvictualler in the ward, together with the assurance that the penalties should be enforced, and that any complaints would be particularly attended to on licensing day, with the view to more severe punishment than the law provided fur its violation. The following is the part of the enactment alluded to. 2nd and 3rd Viet., cap. 94, sec. 27, entitled an Act for further improving the polico ftt and near the metropolis: " and be it further enacted, that every person licensed to deal in excisable liquors, who shall knowingly supply any sort of distilled excisable . • M. LEON FAUCHER ON THE ENGINEERS' M. Leon Faucher has, in the Journal des Eeono *titles, written an interesting paper upon the Engineers' Strike in England. His views are strongly sgaiust the doctrines and proceedings of the workmen. He considers their demonstration as • step in the same impossible direc tion as the attempt of Louis Blanc, which failed at the Luxembourg in 1848. Ile gives • translation of Lord Cran worth's letter, of which ho entirely approves. With refe rence to the suggestion of Lord Goderich, that the diffe rences between the masters and workmen might be settled by • sort of [mixed tribunal of pride/ Itommes, he explains that no such tribunal as the English operatives sup posedexists in Franca. Lord Cranworth was right in ra conjecture that the condition and remuneration of labour were things essentially beyond the jurisdiction of auy court whatever. The pruiehommes in Franco merely decide questions of contract between masters and men. M. Faucher thinks that the masters went too far at their meet ing. of December 9, when they resolved to close their fac tories against all workmen whatsover, as a miens of re ducing the Amalgamated Society. In this he is of opinion that they were wanting to the duties of humanity. But against the Amalgamated Society his verdict is es unequi vocal as that of Lord Cranworth. The following is a lair Ppeeimen of the bold and forcible manner in which the ex rime Minister of France expresses his opinion of the prin ciple of association as applied to large industrial under takings. " It is a chimera to suppose that operatives abandoned to themselves can organise and successfully carry on any ' great industrial undertaking. A manufactory can no more than an army dispense with a general to command, • staff to reconnoitre the ground and to transmit orders, and officers to lead the soldier' in action. An army that should elect its own officers, and should deliberate instead of obey ing, would not survive the first campaign. A manufactory so carried on would not bold together for • year. Industry, to prosper, requires unity of impulsion and the stimulus of person al interest. A collective interest can only be brought to bear upon certain conditions and with the meet vigorous precautions. Upon the battle field of compention it is useless to present oneself without being armed with the power of decision at any moment, of acting withanteantaol, without fuss, and without appeal. Enter prise,. eireled on on behalf of shareholuen, sometimes suc ceed wisest the managing director unites an active intelli gens* W • wise and absolute dictatorship. But industrial eseesistione formed by workmen why put their labour and the produce of their labour in common, place themselves in a situation against nature. Independently of their incapacity to manage large affairs, and without speaking of the discussions which must be the inevitable consequcuce of an agglomeration without concert, is it enough to open a factory for construc tion, to have a certain number of experienced workmen, and a managing director who understands buying and sell ing? What these co-operative associations pretend to sup press is nothing else but the soul of industry, the genius of invention, the guiding mind. People forget that the cus tomers of a manufactory and the value of its products de pend upon the ability of the head of the establishment. This is mere true, perhaps, of establishments of construction than of any other manufactures. Tho value of the factory is measured by the merits of the engineer. You must be • Stephenson, a Sharp, a Crampton, or a Fairburn, to furnish engines that shall be competed for by all the manufacturers aid all the railways of Europe." Tax ELECTRIC Tnzaams.—A correspondent says :—" On Friday next, in the House of Commons, • contest is expected to take place on a bill introduced by a company, called the British Telegraph Company, asking for powers to lay down their wires along the several lines of railway, on condition of paying the companies a fair and adequate rental for the privilege. Telegraphs are of vital importance to the trade and commerce of all commercial mantries, and our merchants, traders, shipowners, &c., are very properly in favour of the further extension of this me , &era and wonderful agent, as its powers in the hands of a taw become a monopoly, both as to expense and informa lities'. The leading merchants, manufacturers, shippers, aradere, &e., of Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle, Rail, Shield., &c., the members of the London Corn, Coal, sad Stock Exchanges, and the large hop factors and wharf ingers of the borough are petitioning in favour of the powers asked by the British Company, and a petition breathing the same prayer is in course of signature by the shipowners, dte., of the port of London. The telegraph 5: dela • in America are numerous, and all of them are ... most respectable profits, their charges being to low, as to their advantages and benefits within the reach of the humblest both foe trading and dialectic purposes." MASTIC OVER WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.— On Sa- .. li uors to any boy or girl apparently under the age turday I counted the car ri ages which pus my door going to, ' P 16year,to be drunk upon the premises , shall be liable and coming from, Westminster-bridge: they were about 500 o f o a penalt y of not mnre than 40s and, upon n conviction of per hour ; and as the grinding of the way scarcely ceases a t hi r d o ff ence , s h a ll b e liable. , to . a penalty of not more till two or three o'clock in the morning, and begins again t h en gto at five o'clock, you may readily admit that 10,000 of all sorts of carriages pus over Westminster-bridge daily, of ANTI-MAYNOOTTIMEETTNGS.—TUNBRIDGEWELLS. which Parliament-street gets so large a share, that new —Two influential meetings of the friends of the Protestant granite stones laid on it scarcely show the places where they Society of thi-, town and its neighbourhood, which is esta were laid on the next day. Does not this immense traffic blished on similar principles to those of the Protestant point out the necessity of an additional bridge, and in the Alliance in London, were lately held in the Corn Exchange meantime a better regulation of the old bridge ? Suppose and Town Hall of this town, for the purpose of petitioning the bridge were lighted in the middle, and carriages obliged the Houses of Lords and Commons for the discontinuance to go only one way over the parts, the footways narrowed of the grant or endowment of nearly 30,000!. per annum 1 foot 6 inches each to be giveu to the oueiage.way, and for the support and maintenance of the Roman Catholic foot-passengers obliged to go on one side proceeding, an d College of Maynooth. They were presided over by U. C. on the other side on returning; this order would give Courthorpc, L'q., and the Rev. Sir Henry Thompson, • abundance of additional convenience.—Correspondens qf morning and evening. After hearing the addresses at the Budder. leng th of the Revs. J. W. Franklyn, George Jones (Hunt- THE MINIR RIPLE.—The practice carried on with on minister) , J. Haldane Stewart, William Chalmers this new arm on Saturday last was at 500 yards, and very ( e Marylebone, London, presbyterian), R. Davies, C. R. satisfactory. The officers and non-commissioned officers on Pearson, W. P. Lyon (congregationalist), Rigsby, and the ram day proceeded to the marshes and fired a number Light, and Mesas. Yaldwin, John Finch, and William of ramie at 800 yards range. The practice at that distance Delves, several resolutions and the petitions were agreed to gave a rank of one in every five balls fired striking the with only one dissentient. 111111 tlerjull went the entire length of the range.. Yes- MONMOUTHSHIRE AND GLAMORGANSIIIRE BANN • tied on at the Royal Arsenal too COWPANY.—Yesterday a meeting was held before the stet:g li rrir a rt e° ge, w a si nd g :l i f n e practice was remarkably good . ' Master in Chancery Ferrer, when, in considering the ques ta:le A derthation of the Hanover-park rifle cope were present tion of the liability of parties, two important questions to witness the practice of the Minie rift.', and are so saris- were raised. First, whether executors should be held per iled of Its advantages sad efficiency, that they intend sonally liable or only in their representative character; adopting in their corps rifles of the same bore as has been and, secondly, whether trustees should also be held per mieggad by government. During three days of last week a @online liable, or only to the extent of the assets which Ms was shown on a plan submitted by Lord Itantlagh, and formed the subject of the trust. Another material question sans very good practice made with it at 600 yards range. was mooted, vox-, whether, under the peculiar wording of Uls much thicker in the barrel and about a foot shorter the deed of settlement incorporating tho company, shan dies the Millie rifle. holders should be held responsible for losses anterior to THE ISLAND OP MAURITIUS.—A parliamentary their becoming the transferees of shares. And pending the presented to the House of Lords, has just been to the Colonial E? i contai n ing a despatch from the Oovcrnor of the 61;dRita ut ce received on the 20th of ti, ber last, giving a favourable opinion on the state of determinist' of these points, the decision in which will rule a considerable class, the Muter thought it expedient not to settle the list of liability as against the other contri butories, until these questions are argued by counsel at a (he rural districts, and stating his opinion that the course ePeeial Meeting' taw adopted would prove a mighty engine "to the canna- DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON RAILWAY.— dna of slavery, and to the suppression of that accursed On Saturday an application was made on behalf of Sir John traffic." The Governor fully believed that the island was Key, a member of the provisioual committee, bef ore Master growing towards wealth and prosperity. in Chancery Tinney, to discharge an order calling on him On Sunday evening the Rev. George Evison, late sissy 75/., his proportionate rt amount of liability. Mr. Bag • priest of the church of Rome, renounced the errors lay and Mr. Martin in suppo, end Mr. Roxburgh and of popery in the church of St. l'aul's, Bermondsey. This r. H. Harris against. Tho Master, after a long technical gentleman was late chaplain of the Roman catholic congre- argument, refused the application on the merits, with seven 'titian at Poetess games costs.