The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-23 00:00:00

ghe erp'efsgi• and the number will naturally increase daily. In • reading the proceedings at a meeting of the West meath - Farming Socie y,we have been greatly pleased by the speech of Mr. WINTIIII, and we cannot refrain from quoting a passage from it. The calamity that has latterly befallen this country will effect • total change in our system, u we will be obliged to resort more to green cropping than we were in the habit of doing ; and should our nest efforts be not so successful as we oould wish, we should not despair, as the fault may rest with ourselves. We see every day crops not property thinned, cleaned, or cultivated ; and till we lean the value of time, and apply it to those crops, we cannot be Tory sanguine of success. The amallest child can use a hoe and loose the earth about turnips when taught to do so; the time spent idling and gossiping about the reads would more than suffice to keep the crops in the best order. To be sure they can on occasions make a burst, and put a face on matters, but it requires steady and continuous application to insure success—none can be prosperous if not attentive, and we must learn to depend on our own energy in place of looking for government relief. We are fairly chargeable with negligence and careleuness in our affairs, and as an instance of it I would mention a fact that met my eye In several places as I travelled here. The hay crop, at present a valua ble one, is to be seen lying out in the fields to this very hour , with t he cattle in the aftergress dragging it out and trampling it into dung, in place of it being snugly ricked in the hag gard. In drainage, too, which we are all no anxious to see properly carried out, very imperfect attempts arc made, which generally end in failure, after considerable cost and trouble ; the farmer will take it into his head to commence draining his land, and makes a bunt by . opening up a par cel of drains which he will allow to remain so during tho winter, and in coming to complete the work in the following spring, he finds that the frost and rains have made it neces sary for him to clear his drains over again : so he goes on, and about the third year we Sad him putting in the stones, half in dirt, which after a while will become clicked up, and be of very little use ; the farmer is of course dissatisfied with the re sult, and talks of the great expense of drainage, whereas to do the work in a permanent and effective manner would have cost far lean outlay and trouble. We should all be anxious to promote the several branches of industry in connexion with the farm, to as to be enabled to meet our engagements in an honourable and fair manner, and not by scheming to super sede our just liabilities, or repudiation of our lawful debts or engagements. It is cot the tenant that falls into arrear, or strives to cheat his landlord, that you will ever find pros perous and contented ; on the contrarv, the industrious man, anxious to meet the claims of his landlord, is the man that you almost invariably see prosperous and happy. There are charges, and heavy ones, hanging over us, which must be met, and I trust the landlords of this district will discharge them in an independent and honourable manner. I regret to see that in some places they are objecting to pay their debts. The government advanced money on very liberal terms, and those claims should be met in a spirit of justice and fair dealing. Every man in his station should pay Na liabilities, whether of rates, rents, or repayment of advances • for in the end it will be found that honesty is the bes t policy. By short cuts it never can be done. - - TM overland drioal makees ll4;tallies, to the MoNforreme" I Egypt, Ado, Ogoa doi le&m, Moog Zen, he., will Demob ag es the Th e me h or NV% ilsb o=es, Madeira, cois, mat Medlar will be made RP Ca d the Ittli October. The math be Mr Said raw T Elesioth Lead. Mel Nee Zeroed will be nage up ea theemolag 'gibe id November. The wait !Lila ma. tolsalig lbw fee IMO% ilmalimel. bad the Hammed, till he meet mi ea niter themireslogof Imt Nommlim. The overlaid be Oh Mamtliesem the is•laa lauds, /Me , Advs 0 1 7 1111 4 bilM.NreglellEir aim Seathemptom wet bi =de WI. the morelogetthe Nevember. The mile be DMA soft wireasessorg" sob tbei MOM Matte, bomb up setae wain af the id Nometber. The wile foe the Dream the Nem Plate, Moats Woo, Parent Dore. Bahia, Moteln, nag Boom Ayres, will be made up cot the evening of the 4th Nommter. TO CORTISPONDINTS. .*Yort.enbest• !Mauled h The Raven, Lastlye goyim! pep, ateal be a , Of Me. 10. Boaw,yle.atrett, by Two dela.* ea au Jay of pabilealba. 01011 WATII AT LONDON-1111001t. Tan D6v-40066.0 6Ya. a6O a; Aft 02036. 16 ,n.a. 00 1. Te-IlloAsewilemla& 000 00 1 y 00000 1 00 00 2. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 23. ALL great moral effects seem to be produced in the world upon the principle of the sledge-hammer, by the incessant repetition of powerful and well-directed blows. Great, unfamiliar, and unwelcome truths must be hammered into the public ear ; and those who wield the engine are not to pause or desist because the sounds are monotonous, and the operation slow. The present rulers of Ireland are wisely making her re sound from north to south, and from east to west, with the vital and saving lesson of self-dependence. The sound is harsh and repugnant to cars accustomed to be flattered, and unused to " the language of truth and soberness." The strains of the syren arc sweeter than the voice of a Mentor, but the language of wisdom will be heard at last; " magna est reritas et prorralebit." If the business of "trying to exist," does not en tirely engross the FITZGERALDS and VANDELEURS, we would venture to recommend them half-an-hour's very . easy, bat very profitable employment—not to repair with their own hands those broken fences of which they told Lord Cs. VRENDON so affecting a tale, but—just to cast an eye, ever so listlessly, over an article in the new number of the Edinburgh Reim, on the subject of Rolland, and her marvellous indus trial history. Or, if they wish to consult a native author, let them look over the same subject treated by Mr. T. M'CuLL.tGli. This is surely no very arduous task to set any country gentleman ; it would scarcely be too hard work for the " Castle of Indolence " itself. They will find an instructive and eloquent account of what a brave, hardy, and indepenaent race of men have done for a country, not blessed as Ireland is by nature with all the materials and elements of riches and prosperity, but to which nature has from the earliest period played the part of the harshest stepmother. Compare her lavish boons to Ireland with her niggardlyconcesaions to the Dutch. The Irish people possess one of the fairest islands of the deep ; a vast extent of rich soil, a genial climate, mineral wealth in abundance, magnificent harboura, navigable rivers, every circumstance favourable to national welfare, but little that is adverse to it ; fur in those very bogs which occupy a large portion of her surface, she possesses an enormous magazine of fuel, that primary condition in estimating at the present day the capabilities of any country. Thus, earth, sky, and ocean, which form a triple league against the Netherlands, are confederated in behalf of Ireland. who has nothing to impede her progress bat the faults of her own people, while the Dutch have to wage a daily mortal fight with nature, almost with Fate herself. What is Holland but the sediment of the Rhine, with a strip of sandy beach along the shores of the North Sea? The people had to begin by making their country ; they did not receive it made to their hands and replenished with good things, like Ireland. Oat of the sand and slime they constructed it by prodigious labour, and by prodigious labour only do they preserve it from day to day, and boar to hour. That enormous water-power which is placed at the disposal of the Irish, for advantage only, whether to irrigate their fields, or turn the wheels of a thousand factories, for ever threatens to overwhelm the Dutch, and calls forth all their energies, not to employ, but to resist it. The ocean is to Holland a roaring lion, seeking to devour her; it stands over the nation a sterner task-master than the gruffest giant in romance. The great rivers which, descending from the Alpine regions, pour their waters into the Netherlands are not, like the Shannon and Blackwater, streams of commerce and springs of wealth, but devastating floods, above which herculean efforts and immense expenditure alone enable the sons of labour to raise their heads. They exist in despite of the waves and storms; but have they li mited their achievements to existence ? Has not their existence been for centuries a career of wealth, and often a career of glory? They have made them selves famous in agriculture and commerce, in peace and in war. The Dutch may indeed be said to have realised the fancinl exploit of Hotspur : to plunge into the bottom of the deep, And drag up drowntd honour by the lock.. The Irish exist, and do no more; when, had they bat hearts of controversy in their breasts, there is ne prosperity which might not be theirs, no triumph ever wonby civilised man that is not fairly within their grasp. The hands are not folded that should hold the spade and plough in Holland, as they are in Ireland. An hour of Irish life would make Holland like the reef in Mr. COOPER'S new romance, after the second earthquake had buried it in the waves. The Irish country gentleman, who talked the other day to Lord CLARENDON of " trying to exist," and explained the trial to be synonymous with "doing nothing," either to improve his estate, or his country, ought to be sent to school to Holland for some winters.'" Were the burgomasters to follow his example, the next fleet that mile for the Baltic would ride over the spires of Amsterdam and Utrecht. The normal state of the kingdom of the Netherlands is as if the Atlantic were perpetually to peer over the cliffs of Clare and Connemara, while the Shannon at the same time was familiar with the streets of Lime rick. Conceive such a natural revolution ; there might then be some excuse for a flight of the boobies and noddies up to Dublin Castle, to make Cork-hill their Ararat, and invoke the Viceroy to build an ark for them. How the men who will not fence their own fields to prevent their cows from straying would howl at the door of the presence chamber for English money to build dykes with, or cry to Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE to save them from the eels ! Fancy Colonel VANDELEGE in the Znyder Zee, or Mr. FITZGERALD in a polder, where to live is to pump. Let us figure to ourselves, also, what a people who have converted a tract of mud and sea wrack into one of the most flourishing countries in the world, would have made of such materials as Ire land. We should like to see a colony of Dutchmen established beyond the Channel, to teach the Irish of all classes the duty and the dignity of labour; but we are not so malign as to wish to see Holland in turn colonised by the Frrzotesins and VANDELEURS, for then would the Dutch be drowned—if anything can drown a Dutch man—the nation would return m a week to the slime and ooze from which she sprang. With allies of such strenuous inertia, Neptune and old father Rhine Would speedily carry the day. The Irish settlers would never put a hand to a pump without an address to the court at the Hague, or repair the casing of a dyke without an appeal to the charities of Europe. But no individual or community can permanently evade the original law that orders man to labour. Difficulty taught the Dutch to subdue difficulty, and difficulty will now assuredly teach the Irish the same lemon. Calamity has come upon Ireland, not in the form of inundation or tempest, but in a shape just as formida ble and jest as instructive. Am the floods command the Hollander to look to his sea-walls, so does the famine direct the Irishman to till his fields. None will - - This is language that does the speaker honour. We are particularly glad to sec industry recommended as an outwork of honesty, for such it is undoubtedly. The slothful farmer is unable to pay his rents, and the. faineants of higher rank arc the first to find their public obligations burthensome, and to try to shirk them. Without industry, neither private men nor public bodies can long preserve character. It is meet satiNfactory to find that Mr. WINTI:It'S speech was loudly cheered ; we trast its advice will be followed. till them for him : the Dutch drain their own polders ; the Irish must cultivate their own acres. Tke work of no people can efficiently or systematically be done by proxy. The vicarious plan is very pleasant to all but the vicars. These truths must be preached and written, enforced and repeated, in season and oat of season, until sloth is shamed into exertion, and Irish men begin to learn by comfortable experience that one guinea from their own pockets, laid out in do mestic improvement with their own hands, is better than ten thousand in the form of benevolence from any quarter of tho globe, to be expended by any bmrd of works. It is not to be supposed that there is an absolute want in Ireland at this moment of men possessing the only spirit which can ever lift her up from her present abject situation. Such a want would bo more de -1;!orable than even famine. We believe there are mat: independent men amongst the Irish gentry, ONE wholesome feature of the legislation of our time is the disposition manifested by it to abolish privileges, when the reasons for them have disap peared. It is true that the freedom from arrest claimed by members of parliament, etude, mqrando, et redtundo is still sanctioned by the courts in all the latitude which precedents have given it. But there is something significant in the comments which were provoked by the most recent assertion of this im munity. Again, the same privilege is claimed by her Majesty's servants in ordinary, and was, no later than May last, held good in the Exchequer, in the case of the Somerset herald. This gentleman seems to have stretched his privilege to the utmost. Justice PAT TESON, and Baron GCRNEY, Justice BOSANQUET, Baron PARKE, and Baron ALDERSON, have all in turn Tailed the fasces of their respective courts beforo the tabard of her Majesty's Somerset herald in ordinary. But the last ap pearance of this embarrassed functionary roused the court into an expression of regret " that questions of this kind relating to the privileges of her Majesty's servants to be exempted from arrest should arise in modern times;" and " I must say," added Baron ALDERSON, " it would be better if her Majesty were served by persons who are not in debt." In this case, no doubt, the fact that the privilege belonged not to the party but to the crown, has had something to do with the respect it has received from the courts of law. There is no such v, nerable pro tection thrown round the privilege recently claimed by attorneys, of exemption from suits in the county courts. This class of practitioners has always asserted a right at common law of suing . and being sued only in the courts of Westminster, based on the somewhat wild fiction that their con stant attendance is required in the superior Courts, " for the sake of justice, and the benefit of all the people of England. Probably the people of England would willingly exchange the benefit they derive from the constant attendance of attorneys in the superior courts for the advantage of being able to recover debts under 201. from members of that respectable body, in courts which do not show quite so much indulgence to extravagant bills of costs as the Queen's Bench, Exchequer, or Common Pleas. The question on this exemption has been often mooted lately, in the County Courts, with contradic tory. results. In the County Court of Warwickshire we learn from the Jurist, that the judge decided in favour of the privilege. Such a decision appears quite at variance with the 67th section of the County Courts Act, which enacts that "no privilege, except as hereinafter excepted, shall be allowed to any per son to exempt him 'from the jurisdiction of any court holden under this act." The subsequent exceptions are confined to the courts of the universities and the stannaries. . . . We are glad to see that the learned judge of the Bloomsbury _County Court disallowed this claim to exemption, in a case decided by him on Thursday. " He considered that the clause was framed expressly to meet the question of privilege, and he could make no distinction as to an attorney." We cannot con ceive that the superior courts will take a different view of the question, should it be raised before them. The principle, on which the maintainers of the exemption rely, is laid down in the " Institutes," " the general words of a statute do not take away a particular privilege or benefit." But the words of the 67th section are not general. The addition " except as hereinafter excepted," makes them special, limiting the privileges which the act recognise?, strictly and specially to those of the courts of the universities and the stannaries. Independently, however, of this clause, the exemption in question would have been singularly inconsistent with the tone of the act towards the class which claims it. _ _ A measure which makes such rude havoc of the attorney's costs could hardly have meant to respect his privileges. Its ruthless dealing with the fictions on which he rears his bill, can scarcely be reconciled with a recognition of the fictions on which he sets up his immunity. Le stating the objections to any compulsory action by the state on the financial affairs of the railway companies, we have already observed that the actual pressure of the times may be trusted to check their progress and to narrow their expenditure quite as much as can be desirable under all the circumstances of the case. Supposing—astheargumenta for a forcible check must assume, if they are at all reasonable—that there were in the shareholders' pockets • sufficient quantity of disposable money to keep all the works they have undertaken a-going with fall activity throughout the winter, and that their funds would be thus spent, unless the process were violently inter rupted, it might very fairly be questioned whe ther, even on this extreme scale, the money would not, on the whole, be well laid out. It would not be easy to prove that the largest amount of voluntary contribution by the owners of surplus means, ex pended for the moment in an immediate employment of labour, and likely, in time, at once to return a profit to the undertakers, and to add to the wealth of the country at large, by improving . and cheapening its communications, could be otherw ise than useful in the main. It would be hard to show in what manner the labourers, workmen, and artisans whom this outlay might keep in honest independence, ciuld be better provided for; or how the transfer of their support from the parties who might have the power and the will to employ them in productive operations, to the rate-payers, who must be compelled to maintain them in aimless idleness, when work fails them, could bring any real improvement to the condition of the country at large. We saw last year, on a vast scale, the waste and demoralisation attendant on the charge of supporting numbers by artificial means, in a time of distress, when natural sources of labour either did not THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1847. afternoon in the Caire. Another rawly is that he le gain to France for medical advice, having recently su ff ered a severe Mesas. The latter is th ei more probable. Captain Tate, of the merchant navy, wee charged before 'bar s t. e a of judicial police, with having broken the • laws, by Levies his vowel in the quarantine , doming on shore, and entering the city, thereby eamenehe island of Malta to be placed in quarantine for the inn of fourteea days, contrary to the municipal law of Matte, esp. 3, reg. xli., of the regulations of the health department, which states that " The meter cad Crew of and alp, whether native or foreige, entering the quarantine har lam Me reform quarantine, are held to the vigorous obser ves's, of the orders which are given or prescribed by the health officers. Whoever contravenes, should the contraven tion directly or indirectly affect the health depart ment, or in any way prejudice it, is liabk to thepain of &mil t. And in every other case, the punishment shall be arbitrary (by the judges) but rigorous, according to the peculiar cir cumstance, of the occaeieni, and the nature of the contraven tion." After an investigatien into the case, Mr. Tate was committed for trial before her Majesty's criminal court, com posed of three judges. The examination before the magis trates took place with closed doors ; the press, however, knows enough, and has already published much more than the government of Malta relishes. it appears that the cri minal court cannot punish Mr. Tate for these reasons; he was never told to hoist the quarantine flag; be was never told to put one in his boat; and more than ell, the usual paper of instruction' or orders alluded to in the municipal law was never given ta him at all. Be has therefore infringed no orders, no instructions ; on the contrary, he was driven away from the Parlatorio by the guardian on duty, sent to land amongst the shore-boats in pratique, for he was taken to he the captain of one of three or four vessels lying contrary to the regulations in that harbour "in free pre tique. The French steamer, on the ith, brought us a few letters from Naples. Ono of them says :—" Although it is publicly endeavoured to deny the 'progress of the revolution in Calabria, it is well known that the liberals have had, and laid have, the advantage. There was a sanguinary conflict between the insurgents and a body of Swiss troops at Passo. the Swiss were beaten, and left 400 men dead on the field. The Gladiator, on her arrival from Messina, brought us accounts that the shooting of the people, after a drum-head court-martial, had been suspended for some days ; but that numerous arrests continue to take place. The city appears de serted ; commerce is at a stand ; the shops are nearly all closed; two or more persons are prohibited from walking to gether—no one can be out after sunset; councils of war sit permanently; in short, all is terror and desolation." The reported flight of the Prince of Capers was, as I suspected, untrue. The fact is, the prince is surrounded by Neapolitan epics, who report his every movement to the consul. On that day the prince had not been seen on the terrace in the garden, nor at his windows, neither had his flag been hoisted. Away ran the spies to town—" The prince has fled" " gone to 'Sicily ;"; " gone in the Gladiator, and taken with him 5,000 stand of arms for the rebels in Al bania ;" and a thousand other rumours were quickly in circulation. The prince had felt very unwell that day, and, from medical advice, had kept his chamber. The famous protest of the people of Sicily, which occasioned the flight of Poerer from Naples, is being reprinted here. The Heels steamed off for Tripoli on the 9th, taking the Bishop of Gibraltar and Mr, Read, the English vice-consul at that place. The Hecla returned on the afternoon of the 11th with the bishop on board; the health authorities re fused him permission to land, as they had put Malta in qua rantine. Another infraction of the port regulations took place on the 9th. An English merchant brig, the Eclipse, from England, hove-to off the grand harbour during the morning of the 10th, and the captain left his vessel in a boat with four men, and came ashore. No guard-boat hailed him in coining in ; no guardian stopped him afterwards ; no one took any notice of him. Guards, guardians, port officiale, were all asleep, or enjoying the deice Jar niente so much in vogue in that department. The brig was in pratique, and had had no communication since she left England ; but she might have had the plague on board, for anything our authorities knew or cared. The captain and boat's crew were put in confinement, and on the 12th were examined before the sitting magistrate. They were remanded for to day. Baron Sceberas has been cited, by Padre }limeade, ' the chief of the Jesuit establishment here, before the police court, for defaming his order, by giving promulgation, ' openly, to a report that is current throughout Malts, respect ing certain transactions which occurred in the Jesuit college between spriest and a pupil The baron has also been cited by the priest said to be implicated. The cause was brought ' before the court, and the Baron Sceberas has been condemned L to pay a fine of two pounds, and outfit' one month's impel . torment, or apologise to the Jesuits for having made use of the expressions he did. The oaron paid the fine, and de , dared he would suffer even death rather than retract one iota of what was true, known to be so by hundreds in Malta, and was the common topic of conversation throughout the city. The baron was therefore led off to confinement in the common gaol. exist or were notlbeeskt at to be opened. Now, unless you could get rid of the working man at the E time that you resolve to close the sources from which his wages are paid, this same wasteful and in jurious process must always take place—it may be in a lees degree, but similar in kind to what we beheld last year in Ireland—whenever he is disabled from sustaining himself on the demand for his work, and thrown, in whatever way, upon the state for his main tenance. This neceesil ; and ita conseveneee in various directions, are so grievous in their action, that ' we could hardly, we repeat, in any spontaneous use ot capital, one main condition of which is the hire of labour, see other than a generally beneficial tendency. Any inconveniences to be apprehended from it would be greatly compensated, to the public at large, by the infinite good it must produce to the poorer classes, and the serious evils it must help to keep at a distance both from them and from the nation—that cannot, we must remember, escape from the charge of their maintenance, in one way or another. This view of the subject, however, as applied to an undiminished flow of money towards railway woks, can now only have a speculative interest. Had the expenditure assigned by our alarmists to such uses been justly the object of fear they have depicted, supposing it should really take place, it is now evident enough that the amount they have taken for granted, in estimating the demand for the next six months, has been purely imaginary. The exaggeration as to the matter of fact will be found to be in keeping with the random na ture of their arguments. We have already pointed out how the natural effect of our present straits must be felt in this class of business, as well as in others. The railway Company is not, as closet speculators seem to fancy, a mere sense less machine, like the man of FRkNXENSTEIN, whose ima 'e has frightened the Examiner—which, onceformed and act in motion, will go on wildly, using its utmost powers under all circumstances, regardless of what may be before and around it, of the mischief done to others, and of its own exhaus tion. The men who compose this body will only con tinue to lay out the money, which is their own, while they find reason to expect a profit from so doing ; and when money is dear and hard to come by, there is no need whatever to put on the screw in order to prevent them from spending too much of what they cannot easily procure. The pressure of actual wants in times like these will quite sufficiently restrain them from much exam; and it may be, indeed, that the just cause for fear, as far as the country at large is concerned, is not lest they should give too freely, to keep railway works open, but lest they should so far partake of the panic, and be alarmed by the menaces thrown out against their enterprises, as to draw them in farther than their actual condition may justly require, or than may be well for many other interests in the state. Already, we know, the railway companies in 'furious quarters are narrowing their operations, re vising their plans ' and cutting off their liabilities with great diligence. Of the new works not yet brought under contract, few, we apprehend, will be let duriug the next quarter. Of those contracted for, the pro gress, while it can be slackened without mischief, will be retarded as much es possible. Materiels ordered will be countermanded whenever no imme diate necessity for using them exists ; and the new orders given will be confined to indispensable wants for some time to come. The directors will have be fore long to render an unusually strict account of their stewardship to general meetings of their pro prietors. The circumstances that are pressing upon many of the latter must be present to the knowledge of every Board. Nor can they personally be much disposed to impose upon the Company needless bur thens, of which, as large proprietors, they must them selves feel the weight quite as fully as any of their co-partners. These circumstances are altogether acting, and will continue to act, with growing urgency, to reduce the outlay applied to new works within limits as close as can at all be desired. It seems pro bable that before any plan of interference could be brought to bear upon them, the only ground on which ' its action could be justified will have already been cat away by the mere operation of natural causes. Meanwhile it may be discovered that a seriously diminished outlay on railway workissvhether produced by internal necessity or by external force, will not by any means be the unmixed good that certain parties may represent it to be. We have already some illus trations, not of the most gratifying kind, of the man ner in which the tendency to retrench is beginning to make itself felt. A letter from Birmingham, published this week by ono of our contempo raries, states some facts in connexion with this process, which we fear will not only be found too true as regards the neighbourhood of that town, but may be followed by numerous similar instances elsewhere. " Many of the companies," says the writer, " in consequence of the pressure from without, have resolved upon suspending operations, and countermanding the orders they had given for carriages and other articles "—with what effect on the industry that would hare been required to supply them, may easily be guessed. " Last week," the re port goes on to state, " the proprietor of one of the largest carriage manufactories in this district, if not in England, called together several of his workmen, and informed them that several railway companies had withdrawn orders which they had given, and suspended others for the present; and it was with regret that he felt compelled to discharge many of his hands. Notice to leave was then given to 70 men, and it is understood that many more will weirs notice on Saturday next." The men thus discharged from a respectable employment and good wages will look in vain jest now for similar work elsewhere ; and will most likely be unable to find other work of loy kind whatever. They must go on the parish, if they have not some savings to fall back upon ; and these cannot be expected to give a lasting supply.. In the meanwhile, their consumption of necessaries must instantly fall off ; the loss of their ordinary custom tells upon the shopkeeper ; and he, in turn, will thereby be compelled to buy less from the merchant, and will alsobe less able to pay for what ho has already bought. The process in this instance, multiplied by thousands all over the country, is surely no very hopeful ens ; to impose it by forcible means, as a cure, when it is already going on, by the action of natural causes, in a way that is so visibly distressing, would be apt, we think, to turn out a piece of perilous quackery. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 7. Within the last few days the greatest activity pre vails amongst the members of the RUSliAll legation. M. Lantz, whose mission here I told in a former letter, has left for St. Petersburg, and M. Chintiot has been sent by M. de Titotf with despatches to Athens. The departure of M. Lantz for St. Petersburg, and of M. Chimiot for Athens, took place atler an interview which the Russian envoy had had with Ali Effeadi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to communicate the contents of a despatch which M. de Titoff bad received from his government. In this despatch the Emperor approves of the coercive measures adopted by the Purte in the Turco-Greek question, and blames the government of King Otho for their ob stinacy. lie regrets that this question should have taken so serious a turn, and offers himself as a mediator to restore amicable relations between the two countries. M. Lznti mission thus seconded had naturally every chance of success. The present Greek government know their duty too well not to conform to the suggestions of Russia, and the Turkish ministers, under the influence of M.de Titotrs argu ments, seem to look to the settlement of the difference be tween them and the Greek cabinet as certsio. M. Chamiot's return is daily expected, and already do the Porte anticipate the result of bis mission. Within the present week two Greek ships arrived from the island of Mytilene at Constantinople. Though the coasting trade had been suspended by en imperial firman since the 21st of September, the cargoes were landed from both vessels without the least opposition on the part of the Custom-house authorities. Russia, in all her dealings with Turkey, hes never made a concession, or performed even an apparent act of friendship, without exacting something in return. Her aridity his in creased with her influence in this part of the world, and what satisfied her at the time of the treaty of Cakiar Ske lasi would doubtless be considered as insufficient at the present moment. When the government here heard that Bederhan Bry had arrived at Samsoum, they sent the Eregly steamer to bring him to Constantinople. Bederhan Bey and Mahmoud Khan arrived here on the Ist; they had a numerous suite. When they landed from the steamer they were placed on horse back and escorted by a !strong body of troops to the Minister of Police. Strict orders have been given in respect to these two prisoners ; they are not treated like common men, they have all they want, but under an active surveillance. It is said that they will be tried by the Supreme Council of Justice. _ Though the apparent cause of the insurrection in Albania was an attempt on the pert of the Turkish government to introduce the conscription into that province, yet it was known to the Porte that Greek and Russian emissaries were active in encouraging the revolt. The latter fact is now, at tenet, in one particular, placed beyond a doubt. Djoulaka, the chief of the rebellion, lately addressed a demand to the Greek government for a supply of 300,000 rounds of ball cartridge. The Greek government excused themselves from complying on the plea that their funds were low ; and that, moreover, the state of their relations with Turkey were such as to render it incumbent on them to be economical of their arms and ammunition. This circumstanoe coming to the ears of the Turkish ministers they have communicated it in a circular to the representatives of the five great powers. The way in which the demand was made, and the tone of regret which marked the refusal of the Greek cabinet, show sufficient''', were other proofs wanting, that this was not the commence ment of relations between the Hellenic government and the rebel chief Djouleika. The state of Syria must always be of interest, ss it is the constant theatre of struggling between the agents of foreign powers for supremacy of one or other of the Christian sects existing in that part of the empire. It is lamentable to think that politics in the East should have assumed the name of religion, and that the word of God should be blas phemously distorted into an excuse for every horror at which humanity shudders. The ruin which fell upon the Mann ites, and all the bloody and hideous crimes more lately com mitted in Kurdistan, were provoked either by European fanatics, or by more designing knaves who had assumed their cant. The appearance of Christianity formerly existing amongst these unhappy people has now given place to a re volting infidelity. These sacrilegious squabblers, not con tent with bringing ruin and death upon the greater part of their unhappy victims, have by their example robbed the survivors of the little faith or principle which they originally possessed. No place on the face of the earth perhaps presents at this moment more revolting examples of a contempt of every thing sacred than are to be found amongst the self-styled Christians of the Lebanon and of Kurdistan. It is satisfactory to learn by the last reports from Syria that the Porte has taken an important step towards checking the disgraceful intrigues which the agents of rival powers have for years carried on amongst the inhabitants of the Lebanon. Kiamil Pacha, the late governor of Saida, was dismissed principally at the suggestion of the English government. He was a weak and prejudiced man, and, therefore, totally unfit for so delicate a task as that of keep- ing the Lebanon in order. Mustaphe Pacha, his successor, is a manof entirelyoppoeite qualities. His reputation as a good , general is not inferior to that which he has acquired by his learning and his liberal ideas. Already has his presence been felt in the province over which he has been placed. Both the agents of foreign powers cad the local authorities concur in praising the changes which he has effected in his administration, and there is every prospect, through his ex ertions, of the Porte being for some time kept free from the eternal question of Druses and Maronitee Since the equinoctial gales have set in, the cholera has dis appeared from Trebirond. It has, however, broken out at Bagdad. Baron de Weymar, the French consul at th a t c it y, was again attacked by the terrible epidemic, but has since recovered. MADRID, Ocr. 16. You have no doubt learnt long ere this that Queen Christina has arrived here. She came, accompanied by Munoz and Mon, between three and four yesterday morn ing, having accomplished the journey from Paris in four and-a-half dap. Unattended by any suite, the Queen-Mother drove to her palace in the Calle do las Rejas, where she received an early visit from Nervier. Soon alter she proceeded to the palace, where the Queen received her in her apartment, embracing her mother with much effusion and tenderness. Abundant ' tears were shed on both sides. Nannies stood the while at • respectful distance near the door. But Isabelle, disen gaging herself from her mother's arms, ran towards the hus band of Christina, embraced him, and called him familiarly by his name. Munoz lifted the royal hand to his lips. The Queen then retired with her mother to her private rooms, where they remained together an hour. The Ring soon joined the party, and then his sister the Dusheis of Seca. Alter some time the Queen lent for the ministers. The Minister of Grace and Justice, Arrasola, who happened to be in his office, was the only one who received this summons in time to answer it without delay. He was soon followed by Nunez. After a conference which lasted some time, the Queen-Mother took leave for the present of Isabel and the Prince-Consort, and returned to dine with the royal couple In the evening. It was midnight before Christina retired to the Calle de lac Rejas. This street was thronged all yesterday with the 'Tapers of the moderado aristocracy, who came to pay their visits of welcome to the Queen- Mother. . . I am sorry to have announce to you the extinction of the Itzpertador, the vigorous organ of the great body of progre sistas. Two of its numbers have been denounced as subver sive and sedirione by the prometor-fiscal; and Senor Cordero, the Crcesus of the liberals, fearing probably that the customary deposit of 600,000 reale, which he had lodged in the bank as caution money for the E.rpectador, would be endangered by that paper's uncompromising hostility to the government of Names, yesterday withdrew the sum, exhibiting therein a , prudence which has not increased his popularity among the party hitherto indebted to his good offices. The day before yesterday the junta of commissioner§ re ' premmting the manufacturing interests of Catalonia were to present themselves in the Finance-office, to confer with the minister of that department about measures connected with the protection of their industry. It is really singular the apathy of the rest of Spain, in presence of the activity of a monopoly which fleeces them with such remorseless effron tery, and saddles them with an excessive taxation to feed an exohequer whose most legitimate and fruitful sources are cut off by the smuggler. ATHENS, Ocr. 10. Ms Majesty King Otho returned hither on the let from his trip to Thebes. Whilst at Thebes he celebrated his birthday by reviewing the troops and holding a levee, where he distributed several eroeses of the order of the Saviour, and promoted several individuals who had distin guished themselves in the victory over the rebels on the 18th August last. The inmrgents are not yet put down : we hive accounts here from Linde, which state that General Ma. MALTA, Ocrr. 14. The French steamer Cairn, which arrived yester day from Alexandria, had Ibra him Pacha on board, with a select suite. It is said that he intends to take pratique here, and hence go to England rid France. Ac he has not yet landed it is probable that he will go on to Marseilles this mottria had arrived in that city at the head of 150 mot only, the remainder having been diaperrsd between the Hypatee and the frontiers. Pappa-Hoslas, Condojamus-belentsa, and their adherents have only retired for the moment beyond the frontiers to moue and assemble their forces. They number about 700 men. All bushiest' is completely at a stand in that part of the country. Every family that can is removing from the place, fearing more from the amnestied brigands composing the greater , part of the king's forces, than the rebels or anythies , I l e noted brigand Flores hat :sue his suiposi:sion to the King. He has eon sequently been appointed to a command in the royal arm, and will be enabled to plunder by royal authority—a saf er method than his previous one. On the sth the chamber wee engaged in the discussion of the following project of a law re specting the debt of 500,000 f. contracted with Mr. Eynard : 7 Otho, &c.—Art. I. The payment made by the Phil hellenist, Mr. Eynard, of the sum of soopoof., or 558,000 drachmas, on account of advances made by the British government for the service of the Itoth•child loan of 1 Mars of the present year, is acknowledged as • public debt, and as such will be inserted in the ledger. Art. 2. The hypo thecation made by the government, of an equal value, in shares of the National Bank, in liquitation of the said sum shall continue until the extinction of the debt. Art. 3. The . . towards the Arab prisonen in France, on the 0001}11.M of the appointment of the Duke d'Auntale as Governor-General of Algeria. Amongst the prisonen . who have ren set at liberty are 70 women, 66 boys or girls under twelve years of age, and 26 old men. All the others belong, it i.s said, t o tribes which were the most turbulent, but which ore now submissive and obedient. government is authorised to negotiate, definitively, with Mr. Eynard, in all that concerns the terms of the payment of the said sum, the interest of which must net exceed six per cent. Athens, 29th September, 1847. Signed, Onto, Corfiotakis." The debate was adjourned, but there is no doubt but the law will ultimately pass. There are some little signs of a split in the cabinet. M. Riga Palamidi is not so popular with his colleagues as his patron, M. Placatory, would desire. When Coletti died, M. Piacatery said that he considered M. Palamidi bona fide his successor at President of the Council. This gave offence to some, who thought they had as good, if not a better title to it, than M. Palamidi. For some unknown reasons they wish to get rid of him, probably as the only minister yet clinging so pertina ciously to the French policy. He is the only remain ing prop of M. Placatory, who has recommended, in the event of his retiring, that he should be succeeded by M. Christitli, a well-known partisan of the French system in Greece. Whether M. Palamidi or M. Christidi remain in office, will be of no benefit to Greece until her whole internal and external policy be Changed. The files ge on as if this was the richest country in the world, and Otho a second Cromns. The King's birth-day was celebrated on the 30th ult. with unusual pomp and splendour, although , 1 Otho was at Thebes giving away crosses and decorations to the liberators of Eubea. It is a pity he had not thought of 1 bestowing a few drachmas on those unhappy families which suffered so much from the rapacity and plundering of his " victorious" troops That would have been an act worthy of him, as a king, a man, and Christian. On the 7th was the Queen's birth-day, when their majesties took a trip to Salamis, and returned to a splendid ball at Athens. ITALY.—FLORENCE, Ocr. 12.—The Alba of the above date says: " The very moment we were going to press, we heard that a great public manifestation took place yesterday at Pontremoli, in which the inhabitants of this town—Tuscans in their hearts—have wished te testify their discontent relative to a clause in the recent agreement be tween the Duke of Lucca and the Grand Duke of Tuscany, by which l'ontremoli is main over to the future Duke of Parma." On account of this manifestation. the bishop and gonfalonier of Parma have just arrived at Florence, to ac quaint the grand duke with this fact, and ask his orders. - - SWITZERLAND.—SIoe, OCT. 11.—Tho upper part of the Armanny, one of the highest rocks of our canton, and which is situated on the right side of the Dramse, in the vicinity of the village called Sembranche, fell d min sud denly, with a most dreadful crash, into the valley of the Dramse, which was covered with its ruins. An immense fragment of the broken rock rolled towards the border of the Dramse, passed over this river, and continued to roll on the other side for a considerable distance. On its way it overthrew one house three stories high, greatly injured un other two stories high, and destroyed some outhouses and stables. In the first house, eight persons were in bed, and asleep; they were buried under the rubbish, from whence, by a most prodigious chance, they have been withdrawn, all alive, but more or less injured or mutilated. The inhabi tants of the other houses had time to escape. In tho stables, several cows were mutilated, and several sheep killed or hurt. AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, OCT. I4.—Archduke Albert has been seriously indisposed for the last few days, HUNGARY.—PnAntre, Ocr. 12.—Great conster nation reigns here in consequence of letters received from Vienna, according to which the orators who have spoken at the last diet for the refusing of the subsidies demanded by government, and for the necessity of expressing grievances, are, in virtue of an imperial decree, to be henceforth ex cluded from all deliberations in the diet. Among the mem bers of the order of nobles involved in this decision are, Prince Auersperg, Counts Deyn, Wurinbrand, Thu, and Laranski. The authenticity of this report is still doubted ; the rigours with which the representatives of the progreeista party are treated, in proportion to their dis courses at the diet, can be the less justified, as they are authorised neither by the spirit nor by the letter of the laws of the land. The conflict between the government and the states had already reached its highest pitch, without this late measure, since the right of voting and assessing taxes, a right belonging to them, may be considered as being abolished or suspended. Till now all were agreed in considering the constitution of Bohemia in this light; that the taxes could neither be collected nor assessed before government had concerted with the states on the demand (pos tulaeum), and without a record of the proceedings being addressed to the states. Now at the last diet, an opposition was manifested to the postulatuoi being granted in its integrity, and notwithstanding the threats of the marshal of the diet, Count Solm, the majority voted for the retrenchment. la this conjuncture, the aulic chancery, that is to say, the imperial government, has in nowise en deavoured to concert with the states on this subject ; in con sequence there has been no regular closing nor record of pro ceedings of the diet ; and yet the collecting and assessing of tax have taken place by administrative measures in the course of September. The enforced levy of taxes and the sequestration of the estates of some of the great land-holders have already excited too much discontent for government to endeavour to increase it by rigours practised against the members of the state, and to create political martyrs, who never fail to excite the warmest sympathy. EY.—A LB AN lA. —J NI NA , SEPT. 16. The insurgent troops have been entirety defeated by the imperil troops. They have been completely driven from their intrenchments and dispersed. The Seraskier left Bust, for Avlons, to reunite his term, and lay down a plan of attack. After having subdued the provinces of Beret and Avlona, hie intention was to go northerly into the province of Delvino, and thus get in the rear of the insurgents. Although • very difficult manoeuvre, he completely succeeded, and his anticipated success has been fully crowned. Rappo, after his defeat at Beret hastened to rejoin Djouleka, they occupied most imposing and well defended positions. The imperial troops penetrated into the Courveilos mountains by a little valley, at the bottom of which runs the river Sour.- chile*. They immediately attacked Rappo and Djouleka, and dispersed them. Several engagements have since taken Place, in which the Sultan's troops were victorious till at ast Djouleka seeing that all further resistance was melees, retired into the heart of the mountains with a few of his followers. Thus the insurrection in Albania may be consi dered as at an end. A few straggling bands now in the mountains may exist for a time, but the winter is approach lag, and the cold will soon force them to descend. The serukier is at Delviao, with 2,000 men. The remainder of the army, 17,000 in all, is distributed through the country in pursuit of the rebels. The greater part of the chiefs of Argyrocastron have gone to him and tendered their submis sion. Our communications with the neighbouring towns are now quite open. AU the superior officers of the rebel army who have fallen into the hands of the commander of the imperial troops have been sent on board the ships of war off the coast. for conveyance to Constantinople. BRAZIL.—Her Majesty's packet Penguin, Lieut. Swainson, commanding, arrived at Falmouth on Thursday, too late for the mails to be forwarded to London by that morning's conveyance. The Penguin's freight amounts to about 100001. She left Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 2; Bahia on the 1 1th (where she met the following packet, the Swift); and Pernambuco on Sept. 17. The exchange ruled at these ports at from 271 to 271. The elections at Pernambuco, on the eve of commencement, on the 19th Sept., excited much party feeling. The report of the good fortune of a rich cutting of about 3201b5. of gold on the new purchase of 'the Congo mine, is repeated by this packet. The royal prince was said to be extremely delicate, and not very likely to survive. The dates from the River Plats by this arrival are to Aug. 10; the Griffon and Satellite having arrived at Rio with mails and despatches from thence oa Aug. 30. The British Poehet, of Aug. 8, has the following postscript:— "Although hostilities were resumed on the other side of tie river on the 2nd instant, we rejoice to state that the hope of seeing this fratricidal war , kept alive 'by and for' the stranger, speedily terminated, has not altogether vanished. The Montevideo Constitutional, of the ith inst., announces that it was in contemplation to send a deputation of native inhabitants to the camp of President Oribe for the purpose of treating for peace." MARANUAM.—The Urgent, which has arrived at Liverpool, has brought advicea from Marankam to Sept. 11. The news is unimportant. Exchange had advanced to 284 d. ALGERIA.—The Algiers journals to the 15th in clusively, have been received in Paris. The Moniteur Al. ge'rien gives a satisfactory account of the state of the colony, with the exception of one circumstance. It appears that the belief entertained by the ex-governor-general that the Kabyles had been effectually coerced Into submission was not wall founded. On the morning of the 3rd the Kabyles in the environs of Gigelly, to the number of about 1,200 ex cited by a fanatical marabout, who declared that the moment for the expulsion of the Christians had arrived, attacked the outposts of Gigelly, but were so warmly received that they had reason to feel that the mo ment was not arrived, and fled leaving a few dead and numerous wounded on the ground. - The garrison of Oigelly had only six persons slightly wounciea, and no deaths. On the following day about 300 Kabyles again made their appearance, but were dispersed by the firing of n few shots. The accounts from Morocco in the official journal of Algiers do not confirm the statements which have appeared of the total discomfiture of Abd-el-Kader ,• on the contrary we are informed that " he maintains in the Riff his menacing attitude against the Emperor Muley Abder rahman, and turns to account the success which he bad gained over the people of Quelaia and Kebdana, and plunders their silos for the use of the deira, which is still near Kusbat Zelousn." In addition to this we are told that no vigorous measure against Abd-el-Kader had been adopted the emperor's tamp. The Moniteur Alge , rien states that a sensible diminution of sick in the French possessions has taken place, notwithstanding the continued intense heat, and infers that the sanitary measures which have been gra dually adopted are beginning to predate most beneficial effect'. There is • notice in this journal of the act of grace ebe Court. - - - WINDSOR, FRIDAT.—The Duchess of Sutherland and the Duke and Duchess of Argyle took their skpartoi s from the Castle to-day. The Duke of Cambridge returned to town yes terday from honouring Sir Charles Kuightley with a visit at his ,eat, Pawsley-park, Northamptonshire. A deputation from the Mauritius Associati ,n, con sisting of Maus. Barclay, Hunter, Guthrie, Gowi ~ Steele, Clifford, James Blyth, Irving, Milligan, and Bak , r. accom panied by the secretary, Mr. Rawlinson, had an it ., erv i ew with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.—' , ir John Burgoyne had au interview with Lord J. Russell y ., terday, at has official residence in Downing -street.—A potation from Norwich, including the Mayor of Norwich, Mr. John son, Mr. Pete, M.P., and Mr. Skipper, had an ~,terriew with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods ano Forest] yesterday, at their office in Whitehall-place. More O'Ferrall, Governor of Malta, had an interview a..tx E ar l Grey yesterday. The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission held a meeting at Gwyd)r Home yesterday. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Presid, nt, left town yesterday.—The Marquis of Clanricarde has i..t town, [From last night's Gazette.] FORTIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 20.—The Queen Lai been pleased to approve of M. A. L. Cachelet, as con.s.renerst in London for his Majesty the King of the Frenen.—The Queen has also been pleased to approve of M. Le Fens - re. as consul at Southampton, for his Majesty the King of he 13el gians.—The Queen has also been pleased to appror. of Mr. 11. Keenan, as consul at Dublin for the United States of America. WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 22. oth Drag. GLL—Licut. J. Forster, from ith. F., to be lieut., Kee Carter, who each. I ith LL Drugs.— pt. H. E. Doherty to be major, by tor., eke Atrudie, prom.; Lieut. A. Fenimore to be Cr,mt. by toe. floe Do. herty; Car. H. Edwards to be lieut., by pur., vice by_ W. D. Blyth, gent., to be cor., by pur., vice Edwards. let F. --Ems. 11. Y. Junes to be Beat., by par., race Hawkins, who ret.; J. Aytoun, gad., to be ens., by pur., vice Jones. F.—Lieut. the Hon. A. G. C. Chkhester to be adjt., rite Dew, ker, who resigns the a 'jutancy anly. 7th F.—Lieut. It. L. Outer, from the oth Drag. Gds., to to lim i t. vice Forster, who exch.; sec. Lieut. H. W. Aldworth, from the 60th F., to be Ueut, by pur., vice Ilarriott, who ret. 29th F.—Lieut. E. H. We,tropp, to be capt., without . or. , vice Kirby, deo ; Ens. E. B. Hart, from the 60th F., to be boat, vice Weetrapp. 60th. F.—W, Kure, gent., to be see,lieut., by pur., vice Aldworth, prom : In 7th F. Girt E.Lespi. J. Campbell to be major, witbout pur., nice Douglas. dec. ; lieut. W. A. Dely, from 21st E, to be alpinist rice 63,d F.—Cupt. E. S. T. Saryny to be major by pur., rim woo ret. ; lieut. b. F.C. Anneliey to be capt., by pur., sire es yny • ' Eu., 8. Fairtlougb to be lieut., by pur., vice Annesley : C. C. rote, gent., to ens., by pur., vice Fairtlough. 73rd F.—bus. W. Iturnop to be adj., vice Bicknell, promoted. 89th F.—Ens. B. D. Moore to be lieut., by pur., vice Duff, woo ret.; J. Allinson, gent., to bc enliga, by purchase, vice Moore. Usirractwo.—Major C. P. Alain.. from 14th Lt. Drsgs., to be lieut..col., by purchr. . MR.VOLNI/l..—ktsjor-Gerk. C. Beckwith, upon nnatt. pay, as a general officer, has been allowed to retire from the aerrice by the sale of an unattached lirutenant-coloaeley. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Ocr. 19. (brim of Royal Engineers—Lieut.-Gem J. F. Birch, to be ooLaommandant, Moe toe S. T. Dickens, deceased. ADMIRALTY, Ocr. IL Corps of Royal Martnes.-11. B. Roberts, gent, to be eve. lieut.; J. Shute, gent., to be see. that. Serrautstost OF BULL-FiGairs.—Since the exten sive circulation in Paris, and in Spain, by Dr. Fenn r.Of the address of the Animal ' Friend Society, of 457, West Strand, the King of France has issued circulars to all the magistrates in the south of France, where bullstights were on the point of being regularly established, as in Spain, to prol,ildt them and other similar cruel sports. The Queen of Spain's birth dahas also, it appears, passed off without any boll. fights. RELIEF SVPPLIES.-A vessel has just arrived from New York, having on board, in addition to a general cargo, 1884 barrels and 12 half- barrels of doer, 347 bap, 16 boxes, 2 bundles, 1,600 barrels, and 18 casks, " contents unknown," continued to the " frith Relief Committee," and imported by wav of England for their ultimate destinati ,n. Them arrivals are interesting as evincing the continued ossistance whick is being rendered to the poor of the sister island. ST. ANN'24, WESTNIINSTER.—ADJOURNED VENT/IT. —Yesterday, the vestry was opened at ten o'clock, and the polling proceeded on the question of the appointment of the Itcr. Mr. Bloomfield to the office of reader of prayers before the Sunday evening lectures, with a stipend of 30 per an num. The rector, the Rev. Nugent Wade, presided, and the polling was conducted acc.irding to the prosisione of Sturges Bourne 's Act. At four o'clock the poll toady closed, and the numbers were declared tv stand thus:—For the ori ginal motion, 131; against it, 261 ; and, consequently, the appointment of the reader was negatived by a majority of 130 votes. Thanks were voted to the rector for his conduct in the chair, and the vestry was then dissolved. ALTEN ASSOCIATION.—The usual annuli meeting of shareholders in this association wan held yester day, at the offices, Old Broad-street. John Labouchere, E-q., in the chair. The report stated that the perdue of the first six months of last year was considered highly satisfactory, being 1,100 tons of ore, producing 64 tons of copper, which enabled the directors to declare • dividend of ss. per share in October. In consequence of an inundation at R a ipas, however, the produce of the last six months fell considerably short. Hence the produce for the year did not realise the expectations formed; but the results, on the whole, were satisfactory. In comparing the produce of the first five months of the past with the corresponding period of the present year, the directors found, in 1846, 737 tons of ore returned to the ameltinglouse, producing 45 tons of copper; this year 831 tons of ore, pro ducing 50 tons of copper. The returns exceeded the estimates, and the advices lately received led the directors to expect an increased production at the Raipas mine. From the report of the manager, it appeared that during the last few months, not only had the quality of the ore improved as well as its quantity increased, but that fresh discoveries of a promising character had been made. Although the profits of last year had not reached the point anticipated, amounting only to 1,0061. 17s. 94., yet the directors felt justified, under the improved 'tato of affairs, to recommend a dividend of ss. a share, payable as soon as the copper in hand and on the way was sold. In conclusion, the directors congratulated the shareholders on the improving prospects of the association, and expressed their full confidence in the management of the mine by Mr. Thomas. The directors also suggested that it might be desirable to amalgamate with the Qualm:igen company, which had been worked by some Norwegian workmen, and which was found to be very rich. The disbursements for the year amounted to 8,7731. 120. 4d., the receipts to 11,030/. Is. The report was received and adopted, and the thanks of the meeting voted to the chairman. PACPERTSM, AND INTERFERENCE OF ME POLICE. —Yesterday, at a meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor of Bt. Marylebone, held in the boardroom of the workhouse, New-road, Alfred Daniell, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Thorne, the secretary, laid before the board some letters, from which we extract the following: D Division.—Report oa owed persons lying outside St. Murk , bone workhouse at Med: Paileasergema Qualm Hawker, 9, re ports that, at ten &Ant Ye MYR kewassea, S men, and 2 childros were lring down oa the OW paassannt Wide the workflow wall. in Northumberlandofreet. The fact was reported to the workhouse porter. A man and woman were taken in, thought to be skit the others remained In theleweet the whole nieht. At I a.m.bat needs, low station. The kapesterge wok noon lamed' the ....... ..ragr0d• Indy or detaining then under t Act ; soh helbee Id me POW =art wit bed la be el& a t =l " • breed and a cup Media. sughlrets mpg , biliNalent to attend spa Wok dukei r rZhinilli DS . PM the occurrent*: art ea klswwra, as eudt wee Ferber tsar dm, It was deified br tusessrenr. that the Oka Mow WI *he to charge. wise the Vagrast het. prom had reeethesee, they tortes reemilie entent kr Wag thera mill red mot di em iodine stelae dr piths ea &ay 01111111 , seek mem yea oussies bereallor, mime VA lbs do. at some diem Prom the workhom itded to hie Mahan atth *Oa —(Blgeed) &mom Rey Ilgarintimint. In answer to the Bro. E. &ohs% Mr. Thorne said the magistrates seemed to amen that all aureate vim ahem to lay on the pavement outside a worthies, dm bed a relemb blc ground - for being there.—Mr. Soden Slued the melt of this lamentable state of things would bee lesiiihe enactment for the establishment of nightly mlums he Me clue of persons described. He knew the difficulty dile criminating amongst those miserable objects as to who was deserving or not, and he was aware if Nur lebone opened their asylum for the destitute they would come from far and near. lie therefore thought that government asylums for vagrants at night would prove a great benefit to Marylebone.—Mr. Potter we of opinion that neither the magistrates nor the police did their duty in this matter.—The Rev. E. &obeli said all mare of real distress which came to their doors were promptly re lieved, but it was monstrous to suppose that the officers of the workhouse could be there all night as well as day to ad judicate upon cases. The cases referred to clearly terse under the laws against vagrancy, and it was highly improfw: for the police so shift the matter from their shoulders co to that of the guardians. Every pauper who laid on the pave ment was prams facie a vagrant under the law. and th e police bad a right to deal with them as such. That board were not the conservators of the public streets, but the polite were paid largely for that object, and be considered the police authorities had in this instance acted unfairly and been most neglectful of their duty.—Mr. Soden mewl. " That the communication from the poor-law commissioners be referred to a committee, and that such committee take into consideration the propriety of mopening the npi htl i asylum."—The motion having been seconded, Mr. otte r ?gen po sition. —After said he should oppose any attempt to carry out the letT M an e d furth a co er mi t i seuniottee aappotinhteed rote' power to wait on the magistrates as • deputation if they deemed such a course necessaryTith cantors CHARGE AGAINST A VISTRYNAN.—ir. Potter wished to know what steps had been taken with re ; sp mt to the prosecution of Mr. Wilson, a vestry Ito arylebone, held to bail on Saturday last for a criniinsl assault on a girl he had taken into his service from the work house ? He was much surprised to hear that Mr. Randall, the solicitor, and Mr. Clarkson, the standing counsel of that board, were employed for the defence. lie considered the board ware bound to see that justice was done, and he mo ved that a committee be appointed to conduct the prosecution. The resolution having been seconded and carried, Sir James Hamilton remarked that if the party accused were his own brother he should feel bound, as a member of the board, to see that there was no juggle or collusion, lie therefore