The Express. — London, England, 1848-03-10 00:00:00

Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, 535, to 563. • Holstein Danish, and Hamburg, 52a. to 565. Flour, fine, per sack of 2801 h., 375. ; extra, 38s. ; superfine,4le. Rye Meal.sl. 156 ;Kr tos. Barley, malting, 33a. to 34.. Oats, feed, per qr., 21s. to 235.; potato, 210. to 265. ; foreign, 20s. to 235. Want. new, 365. to 40s. Peas, boilers, 425. to 445. mports during the past week : Whoa!, coastwise , 4.56 qrs ; f l reign, 492. Sniesetatti, March 7.-A short supply of Wheat, which met a fair sale at 3d. per load advance. Other articles much the game. Wheat, white, 20s. to 215.; red, 17s. to 20s. Rye, 15e. to 16s. Beans, 18s. to 21s. Peas, 16.. to 20s. per three bushels. Barley, malting, 33a. to 3 4 4 .; grinding, 325. to 335. Oats, 20s. to 265. per qr. Uxeittuon, March 9.-The supply at our markeecontinues to come short, and in bad coonition. The average price of Wheat. 675. per qr. 161 10, per load wee the best price to day. The trade for Lnt corn is very heavy, without altera tion in prier's WORKINGTON. Mirth 8.-Our market to-day was largely supplied with grain ? particularly in Oats to and in general the condition was unproved. Prices may be quoted as under :-Wheat, top, 2a.. to 17s. Barley, Il e. fal. Ows, Bs. 31. per threelinp. bushels. Wheat may be said to have declined 2s. to 3e. pe- qr. since last week. EDINBUROY, March 8.-We had • g supply of Wheat from the gr.,wer, at this morning's m arket ; the quality being much improved, it met io consequence, a ready sale at fully het week', rates. The demand for foreign wee not extensive, but previous prices are maintained. Tal ho toug h t the quantity of Barley was small., sot it was fully eque demand, and buyers had no ...Acuity in suppl)lng theinselvolas a ever y ven un la d ge er the currency of last W. does lay. There wr supply ut 0 ; the finer qualities, being in demand for seed, were 1.. to 2'. per qr. higher , but the adiranee in other sorts did not exceed 6.1. per q r. Beans the tutu de arer. Wheat, i top, 80s. ; avers:,, 50a. 7d. Oats, top, 325. ; average, 249.11 d. Bsoley, top, 3.51. ; average, 30s. 9d. Bans, top, 40 9 .; average, 335. sd. GLASOOW, March 8.-The principal arrivals to the Clyde since the date of our last from Ireland, consist 2 of 390 qrs. Wheat, 2,420 qrs. Oats, 1,565 ricks Flour, ,735 loads Oatmeal. and 620 qrs. Malt; and, via rangemouth, supplies are 600 qm. heat, 3,058 qrs. Ba G rley, 1,550 rye. Oats, and 267 a.,cka Flour, all coastwise. The trade through out the week has been characterised by more firmness, and sales of all leadinz articles have been more readily effected at the full prices of this day se'nnight, but any business dose has * been only of limited ex tent. At this day's market, which was thinly attended, there was ouly a moderate inquiry for Wheat; but in the sales effected, which were much of a retail nature, the full currency of this day week was obtained fo r t he finer descrip tions. Barley was steady. Oats were held at a trifling a vance, which had the effect of checking sales. In Flour no change occurred • but Oatmeal may be not ed 6d. p er load dearer. noi Corn was wanted, and there is little of good quality in the market. Other articles remained without notice. Prices: Wheat, per 2401b5., English white, old, 275. to 294 . • ne w, 265. to 284. ; re d, 241. to 275. ; new, 253. to 275.; Scotch, whits, old. 26 5. to 285. ; Irish, red and white, old, 245. to 255.; new, 245. to 275. ; Dontsie, old, 28s. to 309. ; Pomeranian, old, 275. to 295. ; Lew, 278 to 28s. ; Dani,h, old, 254. to 299., new, 264. to 28s. ; 011 , 4a5. soft, old, 231. to 253.; Ruasian hard, old, 221. to 235. ;Coddian, old, 245. to 26.5. ; United States, old, 255. to 272.. d. Barley, per 3201 b., Berwick and Scotch, new, 224. to 224 6d.; Inah, new, 21s. to 22a.; Pomeranian, &c., new, 21s. to 22 5. Oats, per 2641ba.. I rish, Wexford, &c., new, 16s. to 175.; Limerick, &c., new, 17s. to 18s.; extra, prepared. new, 184.6 d. ; foreign, Ituuian, 01d,165. to 161.64.; Danish, 16s. to 180.6 d. Beans, Irish, per 260113 e.. new, 18e. to 19s. ; Etn ptian, per 28011 w., old, 164. to 17s. Peas, per 130Ibs. white, old, 204. to 21s. ; grey, 184. to 20s. Canadian, cid, 19s. to 20s. 6d. Flour, per 2801 be., English, superfine, old, 425. to 433.91.; !rich ditto, old, 41s. to 425. 6d. ; tine, old, IS. to 40s ; extra choice qualities, old, 445. to 455. ; American. per barrel. sweet, old, 2 4 5. to 295. 6d. ; Ca nadian, sweet, old, 28s. to 29 a. ; sour, old, 24 5. to 255 . 6d. Oatmeal, per 281b5., Irish, common cut, new, 28s. to 294. 6d. Indian Corn, per 2801b5.,171. to 235. Indian Corn Meal, 15s. to 16s. per barrel. HOPS. Bo&oUGlt MARKET, 7.0 o' Clock. Messrs. Pattonden mid Smith report that the market re mains without any alteration whatever. New Aida E. KV11.4 3!. Bto SI. 6 Yearling Itonts,p.ent. 4. oln U. 0 New WerJ,l of Keats] 16 to 3 12 Yearlarm t; to 2 IS New Roses 2 14 to 3 10 Old/109s ...... •• « 040 2 larnhaw ..... 4 4to 6 6 BASINORTOICB, March 8 —Many looking out for best Farnham' and Albans, yet those still holding are not dis posed to sell without a farther advance in price. Best Farn ham, they a.k 6/. 10s. to 71. per ewt.; Alton', 6/. ss. to 61 101. ; common country, from 41. 10s. to 51. ; inferior, up to 41. CATTLE, &c.-SwITIIPIELD. Two o'Clock.-Our trade for Beasts is hardly so brisk as on Monday, the best ai u s 7l ). = however not being very plentiful are pretty readily of ; but we cannot quote over ls. &L for anything. Borne second.rate remain unsold. We have from Holland 249, abut ICA mileh Cows, and 290 from Scotland. We have a better show of Sheep to-day than for several Friday's past; these is a very brisk trade for them, and Monday's quotations fully supported. The weather being mild there are more customers for shorn Sheep ; a few good Lambs also were readily add. From Holland there are about 200 Sheep and 40 Calves. Good Calves are in demand, and not very plentiful, au advance of 2d. per 8I:.s. is pretty generally ob tained. The trade contieues steady for Pigs. Per stone of 8114. a. d. s. 4. Per st,n, of 81b6 i, d. s. d. Bee Soots. Ileraords.. 4 6 4 8 rte.:, Do, tilt. bds. 8b 0 0 0 6 Best Short.b.dus ......4 4 4 6 slat Long wont.. 4 10 5 1 6k0015d 'loamy 1140010.. 30 1 0 Pe. de. Shorn ,00 0 0 001•411 .... ...... ...... 4 6 5 6 TWas and socaudb . uauty 4 2 4 Q 8 Bp inii . 49 6 6 Do. do. Sbutu 0 0 Dlit . 6 ils * .li:64; . le ;4 5 6 Limbs ..... Zemin st market. 6i4 ; fiboei. nod Latabs.24 , lo: 05:v(6.196: Plus. 290. BEVIILLLY, March 8.-There wet a fair Show of Beasts, but • short surply of Shep. Prices : -13..ef, 7s. to 7s. 6i. per atone. 'Hume, 7d. to 71d. p , r lb. Business being brisk, nearly all the stock was sold. NEWARK. March 7.-The fat stock muket is still very thinly supplied, owing to the scarcity of fat stock in this neighbourhood. Prices on the advance. Beef, from 7s. &I. to Be. per stone. Mutton, tr,m 7d. to 74d. per lb. Sheep, 222; Beasts, 36. ROTH 61114 AM, March 6.-The show of Sheep was larger than we have witnessed this year; but of Beef only a middling supply, its reu..ls quality and quantity. The at tendacce of buyers from Manchester, which takes the greatest quantity of Sheep from here, was not I) numerous, which used only a dull *ale, and part left on hand. Beef , ca 71. sa. to Bi. per atone. Mutton, eipped, 6d. to 64d. ; in wool, 7d. to Bd. per lb. Cattle, 210 ; Sneep, 3,100. Satroan, March 8.-We had a good show of Beasts to. slay, and the quality fair. There was no change in the value of Beef; but Mutton, from its extreme scarceness, was 4d. per lb. higher. All sold up. WAILEFIELD, March S.-There were 600 Beasts and 5,000 Sheep. Beef, 6s. 6d to 7s. rwr .tme. Mutton, 7d. to 74d. per lb. Trade was dull, a great part of the stock remaining sussold. EDINBURG'S, 'March B.—There was fully an average sup ply of Sheep. Those of prime quality may be rated at from 7d. to 741. per lb. ; middl from 6d. to 64d.; inferior, 64d. per lb. The supply of Cattle was average, aonsequently 7s. per imperial stoat could be readily obtained fur the best quality ; Mid ling sorts, from 6s. to 6s. 6d.; inferior, ss. to 6s. 61., whilst put were left over unsold. Fat Calves were selling at Bs. to 9s. per imperial .tone. Ear Yesterlen,'s .I.lartotts l't pap. SHIPPING. MAILS Anntrao.—D aid .3 ; Waterford, 1; Donaghadee, 1; French, 2; Flanders, 1 ; Holland, 1. LONDON. March 10.—Wind this day at noon, S.W., moderate breeze and dull. SEAFORD, March 9 —The Columbine, from London, out ward bound, swung to lit r anchor' , this morning to the east ward of this place and has Irft, supposed making water, having struck very he-wily. A French barque, from Rotter dam to Naa'es, in Lar ia t, a l s o stnick at the same time, is much damaged, and it is feared will b.: a wn ck. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIOIIT, NISSCII9.—The Amethyst, Southampton, to Dartmouth, drov' on the shingles Bth inst ; wan assisted o ff after striking Trry heavily, and II now off Jack in the Btaket, making a little water. SALCOMBR, March S.—The Peri, hence to St. Michael's, put hick to-day from lat. 38, long 23, with loss of bowsprit and fore-topmest, stern loosened, &c., havir.g been struck by • • two heavy seas. Loon, March 7.—The Speculation, from Southampton to this place, got on the Nailsee Rocks, at the entrance of this harbour 7th inst., bilged end sank, but is expected off again. Ilarte, March 7.—The Fame, from Swansea to Port teeth, was driven on shore near the latter place this morn ing, and h., become a total wreck. Ltvneroot., March 9 —The A:rey, hence to Callao, was fallen in with, 4'.h inst., in lat. 48, lon. 12, is a sinking state, and with only the lower main anti miton Maite standing, d crew taken off by the Hesperus, arrived here. ItAItMOUTII, March 9.—The Wimbleton Packet, of and for Manningum, got on the Barber Sands to day, but got off d proceeded. DEM., March 9.—S W. to W.—Arrived : Sea Gull, Mauritius ; Teske, Charleston. Arrive Mc d from the ri adras, ver : Li ma , Sydney, N. S.W. ; Lady Donald, M &c. ; Randolph, and Packet, Barba:lots ; .linny Lind, St. John's, N.B. Arrived from the river and sailed George and Ann, Pernambuco. Ore New RogNEv.—Arrived : London, Mauritius. Orr POIMXOI.I7I, March 9.—Arrived: London, New York. Cowes, March 9.—S.W.—Put back: Mary Caroline (to stop a leak), for St. John's, N.B. LITEIWOoL, March 9.—WS.W Arrived : Hesperus, Bombay; Baron Ayrean, China; Palotine, Calcutta; Vic toria, Monte Video; Metoka, New Orleans; Kalamazoo, Philadelphia. Suile.d : 9th, Warwick, Calcutta; Sailor Prince, New Orleans; Tir.anaara. Ceara; George Evans, Boston; Italy, act Given of the West, New York. OFF level - wont, March 9.—Arrived: John Tamwortb, NORTHUMBERLAND, March 9.—The Henry Ilabie, of Aberdeen, from Queen's Perry to Warkworth, struck on North Sunderland Point this morning and sank; crew saved. Sniztos, March S.—The schooner Alert of Bridport, and the Dorothy of this po,t, got in contact when under weigh ; the former lost her mainmast, and the Alert must put hack. FALMOUTH, March 9.—The buoy on the Manacle Rocks Las shifted its position front two to three tastes to the W.S.W. Sittr.t.ns, March B.—Sailed Rokeby, Boston. • • Hanrutroot, March R.—Sailed : Mersey. Rio Janeiro. BaLraerr, March 7. —Soiled: John Bromhan, New Orleans. Orr COll.l, March 7.—Arrived : Bangalore, Singapore. Conn, March 7.—Arrived : Eliza Killick, Shanghai, and sailed for London. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Thee]SE OF LORDB.—TIMISDAY, MARCH 9. W) GIANCIILLOS took kis seat at 5 o'clock. THE LATE DISTURBANCES. The Marquis of SALISB URY begged to call attention to a paragraph which reflected on • stagnant@ of meteo polls, In connexion with the riots which had recently taken place in the metropolis. On the first day there were multi persons taken before the magistrate at Bow-street, and the first case heard war that of • young man charged with ex citing the mob and throwing stones. The primmer, in reply ts the charge, said it was impossible for the officer to disein soda who was the aggressor, and denied having made use of some observations attributed to him. /Ir. Hall thereupon ordered him to pay fine of Mts. Another person was charged with assaulting the police in the execution of their duty, the sergeaat stating that past before he took him into custody he had been assailed by a large Indy of stones The prisoner in his defence said that he had just parted from some ' rim his friends when he receiim, ved a blow on the head from a polim which stunned h and the report added:—" Ordered to be discharged by Mr. Hall, the constable being enable to explain why he had need the truncheon in such as indiscriminate and cowardly man ner." Now he considered the cowar dly manner . ' most fully jug:died by the law. Mr. Justice Coleridge at the assizes at Hertford, in reference to a riot, had explained to the bread jury that a blow given by one cf the parties en. gaged in unlawful acts must be considered as the blow of the whole, and it did not appear that Mr. Hall was acquainted with that interpretation of the law, In the case at Hertford Mr. Justice Coleridge sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment and hard labour for precisely the same offence—namely, that of assaulting a policeman in the execution of his duty during a riot; whilst Mr. Hall thought a fins of 20e. sufficient. He did not see why a policeman's life was not to be protected as well as that of other persons. (Hear, T hey hear.L performed their duty with great forbearance and • doses, and conducted themselves very well, and they ought to be protected. (Hear, hear.) If, in the outset, more severe sentences had been upon the rioters in the metropolis , order would have passed at once restored. The agricultural riots of 1829 were the result of these sort of timid sentences in the first in stance. (Hear, hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that it was possible expressions might be adopted i ncorrectl y by papers and he believed the passage complained of had not appeared in all the newspapers. He was, however, not surprised at the observations which the noble marquis bad made upon the paragraph in question. He had been himself struck with the singularity of the expressions attributed to a most able and upright magistrate ; and he mutt do that magistrate the justice to say that, beforo an inquiry could fan made on the subject, he ba d attended at the Home-o ffi ce (seeing the effect which such a report must necessarily have) and totally denied the use of the expressions attributed to him, stating that he had not made use of any language reflecting on the police, and that he bad pasted sentence on all the of fenders who bail been brought before him for the late dis turbances, except the iodividu it referred to, and considering theme was some doubt of his being a participator in the dis turbances, and also taking into cousicleratioa that he had not altogether escaped punishment, he did rot think it necessary to pass a sentence on him. Ho (the noble margins) had no doubt that the person in question (with many others) had been cured of his love of excitement in w itnessing a mob, by the necessary interference of the pike. (Hear hear.) In the metropolis, as well as in the north of England, the constabulary force had exhibited the greatest promptitude, firmness, and forbearance in the performance of the duty which had been imposed on them, conduct which had been duly appreciated by their fellow-citizens. (Hear.) Lord STANLEY was glad to hear the statement which had been made by the noble marquis, and to bear his maretesti nan to the good conduct ef the police. There never was • contemptible mob one with less purpose, and exhi biting greater cowardice. Their lordships then adjourned at air o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIURSDAY, MAncra 9. The SPEAKER took the chair atBUSINES. o'clock. PUBLIC SECOND RFADINGS.—Quern's Pri.wa, Exemption of Small Tene ment, from Riding Bill. THIRD READlNG.—Passengers' Bill. COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES. Lord HARRY VANE brought up the report of the Com mittee of Privileges, which was ordered to by printed. CASE OF ANNETTE bIEYERS. Lord NUGENT wished to know from the right hon. baronet, the Secretary of State tot the Home Depart ment, whether government had received any further report from the Chief Baron, respecting the case of that most unfortu nate and deluded person, Annette Meyers—Cob, oh)—and whether the right hon. gentleman intended to recommend the case to her Majesty's merciful consideration ? Sir G. GREY said that he should best discharge his public duty by declining to answer any questions on the subject ENGLISH ARTISANS IN FRANCE. Mr. A. STAFFORD wished to ask the right hon. baronet whether he hud received any official information respecting the summary expulsion of large numbers of British artisans and labourers from France, who were arriving in this country jut now in great numbers and misery ? lie %lobed also to ask whether government contemplated any measures of re taliation? (Oh, oh.) Sir G. GREY said he would answer the last question first. Government had not the slightest intention of adopting any measures of retaliation. (Loud cheers.) On Monday last be had received a letter from his noble friend, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, enclosing a statement from oar consul at Havre to the effect that the French workmen in the rec tories at Rouen bad demanded the dismissal of all the Eng lish men and women emOoyed there. In consequence of this conduct a considerable number bad been obliged to leave Rouen so suddenly so to come away uithout their wages, and in many instances without their clothe s . Our consul ' went on board the steamboat in which they had come down, and, finding them in a destitute condition, and acting on directions given generally to our consuls abroad, and somewhat extended recently in the ease of French ports, he immediately made such provision as woo necessary fur their present comfort, and sent them over to Portsmouth, where , they arrived on Saturday night. Some had remained to look after their goods and debts in Rouen. Immediately on receiving this information, he (Sir 0. Grey) had written to the mayor of Portsmouth, desiring him to make provision for their arrival, and had received an answer from that gen tleman reporting that two vessels had arrived, the Brighton and the Dieppe, having onboard 97 flax.workers, andstating that he had taken from them an account of their names and places of residence, and of the amounts of wages due to them in France, as also of whatever goods they might hive left behind. The mayor added that arrangements would be made for conveying them to their homes. Of the persons who had arrived, several were from Dundee and Glasgow ; but the greater number were from Dublin and Belfast. The arrangements bad been made with a proper regard to economy, and the p irties had expressed themselves grateful for the attentions they had received. Our consul had applied to the commissary of Rouen for redress ; and, in Paris , Lord Normanby had called on M. de Lsmartine, and received an assurance from him on the pat of the govern ment, that the parties should receive the met liberal com pensation for their summary expulsion. (Cheers.) M. de Lamartine added that he had sent down to the commissary orders to prevent the recurrence of such outrages. (Cheers.) Col. MUIR asked if government had received any intima. tion of cases of similar treatment experienced by English workmen in other parts of France? Sir G. GREY—No such information had come under hie official cognisance, but he believed at Granville and some oth. r places English labourers employed on the railways had been compelled to leave their employment. Mr. LOCKE, in answer to Lord DUNC N, said that he had heard that in the neighbourhood of Tours many Eng lishmen had been sent away who had been working on the railroads. IRISH POOR LAW ACT.—THE QUARTER-ACRE ZiAbsi. - . Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved 6r leave to bring in a bill to amend the lr'sh Poor Relief Extension Act, with a view to repeal the 10th section, commonly called the quarter-acre clause. Under that clause no pereun who held a quarter of an acre of land could receive relief; and, as the landlords in numerous instances refused to accept the surrender of such holdings, rsons reduced to the greatest distress were left to starve; and when the landlord accepted the surrender it ems no uncommon practice for him to pull down the house during the absence of the tenant, who, when he left the workhouse, had no home to go to, and was m ade a p au p er for life. This provision was not necessary for the efficient working of the law, nor was there anythest like it in the English poor law. Ile proposed by his bill to allow the guardians to give relief to persons who they should be satisfied required it, though they should be holders of a quarter of an acre of land, such relief to be by way of loan, the deeds of the holding to be deposited as a, curity. Mr. O'FLAHERTY secoaded the motion, and read a long letter corroborating a statement he had previously made as to the state of the prison at Galway, and the suffer ings to which the prisoners were subjected in consequence of the crowded state of that gaoL Sir W. SONIERVILLE opposed it, and argued that his hen friend altogether mistook the interpretation of the clause and its effects. His hon. friend hail confound-d two things—the operations of the clause, and the conduct of the landlord; in dealing with the emaller class of tenants. His bon. friend had said that the landlords when their ten.ints were in distress refused to take their holdings off their hands, so as to qualify them for relief tinder the poor law ; or if they did not, they pulled down their houses during the absence of the tenant, and so made him a pauper fur life. If the landlord would do this during the absence of the tenant while receiving relief, he might do it during his abeence at market, or elsewhere. (Hear, hear) But to show the con struction which had always been put up in the clause by the commissioars he would read a letter :addressed by them to the guardian., of the Balling Union. That letter distii.ctly stated that in the case of occupiers of land am ,unting to a quarter of an acre, and having open it a house c r cabin. the refusal o f the landlord in accept the sun , nder of the land did not disqualify the party. The actual occupation of the land was necessary to dirquidify a person to relief, and the guardians were not bound to enter into the question of title, or Lto ascertain whether the epplicact'e interest had been legally determined or not : but it in other respects he was entitled to relief, and had divested himself of the occupancy of the land, they would relieve him, without reference to any statement or representation which might be made by the landlord or agent as to his possession of the title to the occu pation. The vioe-guardians of the same unit n had addressed a letter to the commissioners, stating that in all cases, before refusing relief, they required proof on the part ofthe landlord, agent, or other person objecting, that the applicant was really in possession of the land ; and adding, that they bad in structed the relieving officer in all such CAMS not to act on the word of any landlord or agent, but to refer the matter to them. And to prevent any possible mistake, and think- rHE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, Is4B. _ lug It possible that the guardians might trAll put to. harsh a construed.= on die clause, they again wrote to thous, Math= that the men refuel of the landlord to accept the land was in no toes to disqualify the spplicant, provided in other respects he was entitled to relief. The forcible ejectment& abided to by his boa, friend were not dependent upon the poor law, and it was not by any altention is that taw, or by repealing the outer-acre ' clause, that they could hope to put a stop to those eject ment,. (lieu, bear.) For these reasons, and believing that the bill of his hon. friend would unsettle the whole law in Ireland and give rise to hopes which would not be realised, ' be moat beg of the house not to consent to its introduction. lir. FA AN said that if there were abundant agricul tural employment in Ireland there might be some justifica tion for this quarter-acre clause ; but with 2,300,000 people in • stets of diatitutien for six weeks in every year, and 96,000 families endeavouring to subsist on farms under one sue, it was certain to work both cruelty and injustice. Mr. P. SCROPE complained of the want of auffieient au thentic information as to the operation of the poor law in Ireland ; but, as far as he had been able to ascertain, his wont suspicions as to the effect of this clause, which he originafy made, as he'rliandetrewacrle, th e b i i ns ni fnm ee l b ro d f cl b e y iota beingu upon a small scale. Mr. F. O'CONNOR complained generally of the want of sympathy in England for the Irish pour, while the warmest sympathy wag evinced towards the English in France. If the government persisted in their unjust and cruel treat ment of Ireland, that country would not remain much longer subject to the dominion of England. Mr. CLEMENTS addressed himself to the question of the poor law unions, observing that he did not think the commission promised by the government for re-modelling thou unions would be attended with advantage. They were all anxious to have the poor law fairly tried in Ireland, but it could never he done unless the area of taxation were greatly reduced. The unions in Ireland were three times the sin of those in England ; and as the right hoc. gentle man, the Secretary far Ireland, had not given any pledge for the diminution of the area of taxation, he hoped the eon templated commiesi , a would be abandoned. Th. y had suffered in Ireland already too much by the habit of trusting to the government of the country more than to themselves, and to their own efforts. ( lieu, hear.) It it was , determined that the poor laws should be ad ministered in that country by per f guardians, their admi nistration would inevitably be much more oppressive than even it was at present. lie trusted, therefore, that the right hon. baronet would tee the necessity of reconsidering the matter, and that the government would show some regard for the opinions of so many . gentlemen connected with Ire land upon the subject of having the poor lain administered by paid guardians. There was another matter worthy the consideration of the house—he alluded to medical relief. Persons seeking relief in Ireland constantly applied on the ground of sickness. The boards of guardians had no pos sibe means of scertaining whether the applicants wcre fi objects for relief a , or what sort of relief should be granted.t It would, therefore, be necessary to employ a larger num ber of medical officers. Sir W. SOMERVILLE, with reference to an observation made by one of the hon. gentlemen who had previously spoken, denied that he had attributed personal motives to alrson ir G. GREY said that the motion bet= the house bad been altogether lost eight of, but the hon. . gentleman (Mr. Clements) who had given notice o f a mot ion, which stood fourth on the paper, was determined the house should not lose the benefit of his speech ; and the result wee, not one word had been uttered by the hon. gentleman with reference to the question under consideration. Itwas a dangerous ex ample, and he (Sir 0. Grey) hoped other hon. gentlemen would abstain from following it. As to the poor-law boun daries and their proportions, the government would be happy to receive suggestions, and hon. geutlemen would tee there should be more sanguine grounds for satisfaction than seemed to be anticipated. The question before the house was dis cussed at very considerable length about seven months ago. The clause was not in the original bill, but it was introduced in committee by Mr. Gregory, the then member for the city of Dublin, and there were only found nine gentle men to oppose it. Six of these niue were English members and three were Irish. (Hear, hear.) The clause was adopted in consequence of the state in which Ireland was situated, and the manner in which the soil was suffered to remain uncultivated. lie regretted so Pay there was still a great deal of pauperism in Ireland. There were many persons there who held quantities of load —in some instances so much as 20 or 30 acres, who were living at the public expense, and neither cultivated the soil themselves nor would surrender it to the proprietors, who would !limit cultivated by others. The land was thus suf fered to remain uncultivated, and it was quite clear a ma terial injury would be inflicted upon the country if something was not done to prevent the continuance of that state of things. He would ask the house, under these circumstances, whether it was wise, because there may have been some in dividual caeca of hardship arising from the operation of the clause in question, that the restrictions it imposes should:be removed and the door again opened to a repetition of such evils? The hardships enumerated by the hon. mem. ben for Nottingham and other hon. members could not have arisen from the operation of the quarter.aere clause. The bon. member (Mr. O'Connor) said that when persons who had been compelled to receive relief from the poor laws re turned to their dwellings they found them levelled. Now, the clause did not require the occupiers of land to give up posses+ion of it; but as they haul abeented themselves from their dwellinee, and bring, in the majority of instances, only tenants-at-will, the landlords no doubt exercised their privi leges, and put an end to the tenancy. In whatevi r way the house might think fit to deal with the clause, he felt bound toss; that the government now relied exclusively upon the opera tion of the poor laws, as the only source of maintaining the poor of Ireland. Ile was very sorry to have to repeat that pauperism and suffering existed still to a very great extent there, notwithstauding the large charitable expenditure which was being made in aid of the ordinary rates. By the returns it apparel that from 94,000 to 100,000 children were fed fer many months past, and continue to be fed by daily rations distributed through the instrumentality of agents connected with the British Association for the Relief of Distrem in Ireland and Scotland. By another return it appeared that 150,000 children were fed from the samesource where distress was severe, and that 20,0001. a month were dia. tributed in relief in 26 or 30 unions where poverty and desti tution were excessive. He had not, in enumerating those sources of relief, referred to the land improvement loom, or the other moneys available for the improvement of Woad. (Hear, hear.) He wished then to take that opportunity to refer to a question put to him a fete evenings ago by the hon. memher for Galway (Mr. O'Flahcrty), whom he maw then in his place. The hon. gentlemen's question re lated to an application made to the Lora-Lieutenant of Ire land for temporary relief for the prison of Galway, which was represented to be greatly overcrowded. It was said the Lord-Lieutenant had rehired the application on the ground of expense, and he (Sir G. Grey) thought he had ! explained the matter. However, he foun d, b y the report in the Ti nice, that the ar.swer he had given the bon. member' had been completely misapprehended. lie had looked over all the other morning papers, and he found his answer had been correctly reported. He wished now to repeat what he wished then to convey distinctly. He had not denied the fact of the gaol of Galway tieing overcrowded to an inconveniee, even to an alarming deree. But, it had been stated that the application hid been made to the Lord Lieutenant for temporary relief, and that it had been refused upon the ground of expense. What he had stated was, that he was convinced the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was moat anxious to remedy the evil complained of, and to provide such accommodation as could be legally given ; but if the persons wha were imprisoned were not under sentence of transportation, they could not legally be removed to a hulk. Col. CONOLLY vindicated the landlords of Ireland, and opposed the motion. Mr. E. B. ROCHE supported the motion. He admitted that the Irish landlords wore very badly treated in that house. Whenever a difficult question relating to Ireland was to be dealt with by the government, they deliberately turned round and made the Irish landlord the Rade. Even the Secretary , for Ireland took a fling at there that night. (Laughter.) That right hon. gentlem in held up his band, and seemed horrified with the " exterminator." But he (Mr. Ruche) would show him a greater exterminator— s greater criminal—than the Trish landlord, and that was the present government and that house. (" Hear," and laughter.) Ile therefore told them plainly, that the British House of Commons and the British govern ment were the real exterminators, and were mach more guilty than the guiltiest and most oppressive of any of the Irish landlords. Mr. AGLIONBY, after expressing his determination to adhere to the question itself, said he admitted that few members bad an accurate knowledge of the condition of Ireland, and few English members, himself included, could form any just idea of the relations of the rich and poor in that country. They were mainly led by the representa- ' tions of the Irish member,, which were themselves suffi ciently various. Probably he should have supported the " quarter-acre " clause, and have voted with the 117 against the 7, had he been in the house ; but now he thought the clause a monstrous one. Under its operation a poor family might die in a ditch, without any pos.ibiiity of the clause being relaxed in their favour. (Hear, hear.) It was in effect a sentence of death, und.r certain circumstancee ; even the Lord Lieutenant himself could not give relief in such cases. (Hear, hear.) After a few worrie from Major MACNAMARA, Mr. R. M. FOX advocated the continuance of the quarter-acre clause, as absolutely necessary fur the efficient administration of the law. Mr. REYNOLDS, believing that the proposal before the house would remedy cr e of the most ohnoxious yrovieions of the new poor Inw, should give it his support, He deeply re gretted it should be opposed by the right hon. secretary for Ireland. The question was simply whether pauperism was to Le increased or diminished. (Hear.) It was said the poor-law commissioners in Ireland had placed a humane interpretation on the quarter.acr.• clause, by allowing desti tute tenant+ to divest themselves of their holdings. If this were done it would be a fruitful source of increa-ed pauper ism. A man, suddenly impoverished, who held 10 acres, might claim relief by giving up 91 acres; he would thus be deprived of his means of suppert, be reduced to a quarter of an acre and a mud cabin, and must remaiu a pauper al ways. (Hear.) There were doutel, as some liberal and kind-hearted landlords, hut they were a smal minority; the great bulk of them were of far different character, and were largely responsible for the destitution of their countrymen. (Hear.) Anxious as he was to maintain the principle of the Irish poor laws in its integrity, as the foundation stone of the prosperity of Ireland, he ebould support the motion of the hon. member for Rochdale. (Cries of " Divide.") Mr. MONSELL conceived that the repeal of the quarter acre clause would afford means for landlords to throw their tenants on the poor rate. The complaint now was that the rates were over-burdened; while the proposal now made wou ld vastly aggravate that burden. In the Rathkele union, at the present moment, about 25 per cent. of the were resseiving oat•door relief ,• the rate was KlP6mktilirthe posed on the whole union, and yet the amount of relief only averaged minimises a heed. Let the house imagine the effect of throwing a larger number of persons on the rats. The consequence would be to deprive the whole population of relief. It wee a great mistake to introduce the poor law alon e ; it should have been accompanied by measures for the reclamation of waste lands, and for muting emigration. The evil of enforcing the poor law without other remedial measures had been much aggravated by the size of the unions. The hon. member for Cocker mouth was quite in error as to the construction of the quarter-acre clause, by which he supposed relief in urgent oases was prevented. Mr. WAKLBY said that was clearly the common sense interpretation of the clause, which had been well described as • sentence of death against the poor occupiers Better would it be for the house openly to doom these poor wretches to destruction than to do it in this insidious way. (Hear.) lie took blame to himself for not being in the house to op pose the clause when it was passed. Its effect was even to preclude medical relief from being administered in the most urgent cases. He could not conceal his conviction that this house, largely composed of landowners and rich men, had little sympathy with the poor. This conviction was growing and spreading; and he warned the house, gentlemen calling themselves conservatives especislty, to beware of the result. If some landlords could be made to change places with their miserable tenantry it would produce a wonderful alteration in their views. For a long time all parties, whip and radi os* as well as terries, had oppeeed the introduction of any psor law into Ireland. end it had only been introduced at the lest moment. Had such a law existed there since the time of Elisabeth we should now have beard little of Irish distress. It was &gross calumny to call the Irish an idle people. In their own country they had not the physical ability to work, owing to their destitute condition ; bus, in London, where properly fed and paid, they performed work which Englishmen could not do. Out of 20,000 bricklayers' labourers in London only about 500 were English ; the rest were all Irish. (Hear, hear.) The inevitable conseauence of the house persisting in its late course of legislation to wards Ireland must be that the people would, themselves, take possession of the land; they must either do this or starve ; and they could not be expected to lie down and die quietly. He, for one, should be perfectly willing to let the Irish gentlemen try the experiment of legislating for them• selves. (Hear.) It was his settled conviction that there would be no proper legislation either fur this country or Ire land so long as the aristocracy had such a powerful share in the legislature. He had been in this house 11 years : and he felt it his duty to his constituents to make this declara tion. The hon. member for Rochdale was a kind and benevolent landlord, a practical man, and intimately ac quainted with Ireland, but not being one of the aristocracy, nor • rich man, he had not been able, during the 10 years be had been in the house, to obtain the passing of any of the numerous measures which be had proposed for the benefit of his country. (Hear) Last year government had held out promises of remedial measures for Ireland ; those were still un proposed, still in process of preparation. Did the govern ment propose to meddle with the overgrown church esta blishment of that country 1 Not at all. (Hear.) Unless remedial measures were proposed, and that soon, he feared that a feeling of indignation would spring up in that country, which weuld endanger the existence of the throne itself. Mr. DRUMMOND said that the picture which had been drawn of Ireland in 1642 by Dr. Madden might serve, by simply altering the dote, as a representation of that country in 1848. That house should not be charged with the tai sery of Ireland, because the people of that country were tee same now that they were several centuries ago. Ile main tained that the house departed from the true principle of a poor law by admitting the quarter-acre clause at all. (Hear.) Col. DUNNE thought that there should be enquiry be fore any alteration was male in the law. He considered that there should be some limit to the right of relief. With regard to occupation, he Klieved that it was not n see? to give up the title to the land to acquire a right to relief. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said that the clause undeg coa aideration was an unpopular one, but it was easier to cry r e Ljainst evils than to suggest remedies. He had sup• the clause when it was introduced, and he saw no teem to regret that course. He thought the cases which had been referred to as having taken place in the west of Ireland should be investigated, and the government would not discharge their duty if they did not punish those who committed the illegal acts alluded to. He looked upon those who committed those criminal acts as more guilty than the criminals of Tipperary and Roscommon. The question they had to determine was whether the right to relief in Ireland should be unlimited. He thought that by giving such a right the great benefit of a poor law, which was designed for the really destitute, would be altogether defeated. (Hear, hear.) It would keep up that system which had been found so injurious In Ireland, namely, of basing persons who were neither farmers nor labourers, but something of both. (Hear, hear.) He should there fore give his vote against the motioa of the hon. member fur Stroud. After a few words from Mr. CRAWFORD, Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that where a poor person offered to give up his lend, and upon inquiry the guardians found that the surrender was not a bona fide surrender, he would not thereby obtain a right to relief ; but wh re he made a bond/de surrender of his land, even though the landlord would not accept it, he would he entitled to relief. The house divided—Against the motion For the motion POOR LAWS (IRELAND). Mr. FOX postponed his motion for a bill to substitute towulands for electors! diei.ions as the area of rating. EXPIRING LAWS. The following members were appointed as the committee on expiring laws: Mr. Parker, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Attorney- General, Mr. Bernal, the Judge Advocate, the Lord Advo cate, Mr Hume, Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, Mr. Bellew, Mr. Greene, Mr. Gibson Craig, Sir 0. Clerk, Mr. Cripps, and Mr. Stafford. The house adjourned at half-past 9 o'clock. ELECTION CONIIIMEES.—YESTERDAT. LuvcoiN.—The evidence for the petition was finished by the examination of the landlords of the ration, inns at which the " free-and-easies" bad been held previous to and during the late election.—Mr. Wordsworth summed up for petitioner, and the e.ramittie adjourned until this day. BEWDLEY. One or two witnesses were examined, and gave evidence as to the system of treating carried on in the borough. Ooe of them (a messenger to the committee) proved that nine voters had been "bottled up" at the Swan Inn the night previous to the nomination day.—Mr. Serjeant Kinglake then summed up for petitioners, and the committee adjourned to this day. Ilanwicu.—Three witnesses were called, and proved that Mr. Attwood's and Sir Dudley Hill's committees were virtually the same. The bribery cases were then pro- needed with.—J. Harnock, a barge-master ant freeman of Harwich, proved that he had received 20/. expenses to vote f.r Sir D. Hill.—Two other bargemen proved to having re ceived, one 20/. the other 161., under similar circumstances. —Adjourned to this day. Itht Orpregg. MAILS The malls for British North America, Bermuda, and the Unitei Staten. will be made up on the evening of the lo'h March. The Weet India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Hanna, llonduras, New Orleans, Vera Crue, Tampico, and Porto Kloo, and including those for Madeira, Jamul, LUnhagena, Santa Martha, Chagrin, Panama, West Coast of South America, and tit. Juan.dm Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 17th March. The OW rland mails for (iibniltiu, Malta, (Otero, the lonian Wanda, Vap b t i: Aden, Cry made up on the in nt of the M.ircb. or Southampton The made for New South Wales, VAR Oterneres Land, end New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31st March. The mails for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made up on the evening of the SIM March. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of the l7th March. The nails for the Snails, the Kiser Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia. Madeira, and Bloom Arm, will be male up on the evening of the 4th A prils fun overland elosed mall% Ma Marseilles, to the Mediterranean Zgypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Bong Kong, Be., will he made up on tRI evening of the :4th Aptil. NOTICE. - - Tits number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY NEWS by the authorities of the Stamp-olfice, during 1847, was : From Jam. 1, to Doc. 31, 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per eerie. of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Post, ALL PUT TOOPTHIEL In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, THE BXPItESS, From Jag. 1, to Due. 31 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were hatted either to ,the Globe or Standard, Evening Paper.. TO CORRESPONDENT& .4/wt....newts lateltet.4 fee t' The Tames." tt , ..ttkS sNr. mo.' b. at the elks. ItlßoarertotureTt. ►) T‘ , . ..0 . 1. 1 t N tka a., of tt WAWA.. MOO %TATUM. AT LONDON lIIIIDOS. Tv,. Mt —Mambo& NJ 4 Gun. 666 t b Altawa. 4:511u. Put 5. To-llonsow—ltoW6. W. 544 t 6 . Miaow. 2 i 661•. pan 6. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 10. Tnis evening the debate on Mr. Ilusiz's proposal to let ministers have their uniform income tax, but for one year only, will be renewed. The division on Mr. HUME'S motion will afford a good many liberal and independent constituencies not a bad test of the trust worthiness of their representatives. Without positively asserting that it is easy to find an able and enlight vied legislator, it may be received as an axiom that it is much more difficult to find ono of firm charac ter. Men of the best d'apositions, and with the ut most exemption from selfishness, are sorely tried in parliament. No sooner do they give an independent vote, or betray an inclination to give one, than they are beset with whispered remonstrances. Their good nature is appealed to—" would they press bard upon ministers in their difficult position ? " Their prudence is invoked—" would they run a risk of ex citing the public out of doors by discussing delicate questions on such an emergency ?" Their earnest ness is quizzed—" will they make themselves re markable for Quixotry by a' ' at impossi bilities ?" They aro not put upon their guard by open deliberate attacks upon their integrity, but they are bewildered into half-conscioue Now, the member of parliament who undertakes - to do the people's work must be proof against all this tam pering, and as few can be expected to be so, it is in cumbent upon constituencies to be on the alert to counteract its influence by the strong motive of fear of their displeasure. The independent members who supported Mr. HoasMAN's motion for a more equitably *mewed income tax" have lived in a perfect parlia mentary purgatory ever since Mr. Ileue's motion came on. Their duty with regard to this latter mo tion is clear and unequivocal. Ministers, relying on Sir H OB ERT Pees's support, have refused to concede a more equitable assessment of the income tax this year. Ministers, backed by Sir Roamer PEEL, will, there can be little doubt, prevail upon parliament to grant them, under existing circumstances, a re newal of the income tax. There remains, therefore, for those who seek to have it equitably assessed, only the resource of having it granted fur the shorter.t par , sible period, in order that they may renew the discussion as soon as possible. It is worth while making the attempt, for there is the chance that those who are on principle opposed to the income tax may support them, inasmuch as they also will naturally wish to have an opportunity of renewing the argu ment as soon as possible. With this chance—be it great or be it slender—in view, the member who sup ported Mr. HORSMAN'S motion, and shrinks from re cording his vote in favour of Mr. HUME'S, lays him self open to the imputation of not being sincere in his advocacy of a more equitable assessment of the in come tax ; for he who wills the end must will the means, provided they be honest. Let all consti tuencies, therefore, whose members voted with Mr. HOKSMAN, keep their eyes upon them now. If they are not found voting with Mr. Home, the presump tion is that they have been ear-wigged—that they are of a yielding disposition, and tameable by paw ing—that they are not made of the stiff obdurate ma terials required to work out important reforms. This question of a more equitable assessment of the income tax is a vital one. It is a question upon which strenuous resistance is to be expected from official UM. Its importance is shown by the fact that Lord J. RUSSELL felt it necessary to descend into the arena to throw the shield of his protection over an uniform income tax, and that Sir It. PEEL felt it necessary, in turn, to hold his shield both over it and Lord JOHN. This is a touching modernisation of the old Hemet ie picture of the lesser AJAX shooting his arrows from behind the buckler of the big one. Lord Jona started with the proposition, " The state assumes that all classes are equally bound to bear its burdens." True ; but the state does not assume that all classes are bound to bear them equally. The very income t'x Lord Jolts is defending takes more from a man with 1,0001. a year than from a man with 5001. a year. And all that the advocates of a more equitable assessment ask is the carrying out of this principle, so that unequal values shall not be , squally taxe d. This proposal Lord Jolts seeks to evade, by arguing that it is impossible to ascertain the exact value of every indixidual income—to ask whether a man's estate is free and goes to his daugh ters, or entailed and destined to some alien male. It is impossible, and this minute scrutiny is not asked for. But the distinction between incomes preceding from the interest or profits of capital, and incomes received in return fur personal exertions, is broad, tangible, permanent, and susceptible of being ap proximatively estimated, without' recourse being had to special inquiries. All idea of distinguishing in special cases, such as alluded to by Lord JOHN, is re hnquished because it is impracticable; but such dis• Bodkin, is insisted upon in classes of cases because it is practicable. Lord JOHN sheltered himself behind political economi-ts and their differences of opinion; but the task undertaken by those abstruse thinkers and by the practical statesman are quite different. They may go on refining as long as they like, because they do not profess to act. At the political eco nom y I club the subtle and somewhat dreamy intellect of the author of the volunteer budget, published a y ear l or two ago, may wrestle with the logical in tellect of him who canvasses omitted topics of po- litical economy, and the representative of northern economical science may try to bawl them both down by oaths, as "over-reseed"—a charge which certainly cannot he made either against him or his doctrines. And this wrangling may extend to the day of doom, and no one the worse. But the statesman is called upon to act, and where a perfect system is not to be had he must put up with the next best. Lord JOHN ought to remember this, and accept his uniform tax for one year, on the understanding that the tax will be renewed for a longer period as soon as he consents to assess it more equitably. Fur to tell the Commons of England, as he did on the night of Mr.Hoasstatt's motion, that he " will not accept a tax" except upon his own terms, is rather presumptuous language for an Enelish minister to use. Sir HOBERT PEEL argues in support of a uniform income tax on the ground that to make any distinc tion between means derived from realised property and professional incomes would be to tax capital, not property. This is an idle play upon words. When it is proposed to tax property instead of income, or incomes from property at a higher rate than pre carious incomes, nothing more is meant than that the amount of a man's property should be the standard by which he is to be assessed. Every prudent man will endeavour to limit his expenditure so that his property tax shall be paid out of his income ; and the improvident man will frequently have to pay his income tax out of his property. The rationale of an income tax is this: The state protects (or ought to protect) every citizen; the man of property in the possession of it ; the man of no property in that confident assurance of perssnal security which is required to give free play to his ener gies. The state, in short, is the direction of a great mutual assurance company, and every citizen ought to pay a premium in proportion to the value of what he has insured. The owner of property, on this prin ciple, ought to pay in proportion to the income he derives from it, which is a permanent annuity. The man who lives by his industry (of head or hand) ; ought to pay as iu possession of a precarious t er minable annuity—ought to pay not in propor tion to his actual income, but to a permanent annuity of the same value. It is revolting to hear Sir It. PEEL coolly arguing against this equitable arrangement that a great many existing taxes spare property; that in the case of the window tax no distinction is made between the capitalist and the man dependent on his industry for support. This is affirming that two blacks make a white; it shows that Sir HOBERT has not yet entirely emancipated himself from the selfish delusions of the section of society of which he was formerly the champion. The question is a vital one with the toiling class of society; and no flinching or compromise will be tolerated on the part of those members of the House of Commons who have aspired to the honour of advocating the cause of jus tice. We do not exhort constituencies to mark recalcitrating members, who having stood firm with Mr. HORSMAN may desert from Mr. HUME. The constituencies are on the alert already. Liverpool has taken Mr. CtIIDWELL, and Manchester is about to take Mr. MILNER Glesox to task for delinquencies on this head already perpetrated. This is setting to work with a double barrel, and bagging a reelite at the first and a Russellite at the second shot, with laudable impartiality. Ost of the most fatal doctrines that can be enter tained or preached on the subject of revolutions, is that which attributes every popular triumph to a want of firmness and unflinching courage in the mo narch. The Times has preached this doctrine with respect to the recent revolution in France, the success of which it attributes to the weakness of LOUIS PHILIPPE in dismissing M. GEIZOT, and his subse quent cowardice in abdicating. By these arguments our contemporary would imply that M. Gutzon might have successfully resisted and put down insur rection ; nay, that Louts PHILIPPE himself, by simply refusing to abdicate, might have retained his throne. All these assertions and suppositions are founded on error. No force of talent or resolve could at any period of the memorable week have enabled M. Gutzon to triumph over the Parisians. M. GtIZOT WWI an object of detestation to lower and to middle class alike, to the national guards as to the operatives ; and no body of French troops could have been got to fire upon and massacre indiscriminately all classes of their fellow-citizens. The King, therefore, in dismissing M. Guam, acted wisely, and indeed could not act otherwise ; and had he, the moment that he dismissed GuizoT, summoned Taints and BARROT, and given them fn powers, the emetite would have been stayed. But the King lost a day with Mote, and t h at • night in higghng with 'Pumas ; and when the sssssr ing of Thursday came, the troops were eo de ised and starved, and nuprovided, having i le a% food nor ammunition, that Marshal Bunuto, whe a l / his daring, declared that the military means pro v e% for checking the [mute were insufficient ewe to the extreme of beiig ridiculous. Had the moldier', in this state of things been left at their p oe i in the streets, they would i.ive fraternized aid the people : indeed, they were already doing la and to recall thin was indispensabl e . e e taa' their recall, after the capture of the Palais Royal sal the Chateau d'Eau, when the advance was made the 'Tuileries, for the King to have refused to at: cate would have been merely the signal for ti t I massacre of himself and all his family—and % whether he actually escaped from the Tuileries, not. Every one of the royal family might have bin followed and captured. Instead of which, the p eft of all was favoured ; and the Duchess of Oatuii with her son, was escorted oat of danger by en s the members of the Provisional Government, el a provided her with funds, resiored her her jewels, IN behaved to her as a loyal and generous cavalier. The danger of preaching that popular insane* can always be put down by royal or nunisterial fun ness or obstinacy, need not be pointed out. A xample is not wanting, for CHARLEi the Tem ; tried it. He changed no ministers at the list • ment, he recalled no troops ; his orders to the were to sweep the streets with grape. He pad s•, ten or twelve thousand of his troops personally * tached to him. All perished. And FO willran monarch or minister, who dares the enmity of bal l looter and middle classes. No parliansean r/ forme or majority can save the ruler ee s risks this. The plan of covering it ibegl and arbitrary government by a tort m•jorey has merely had the tffeet in France of mining au, the parliament along with the throne ; and here Ins M. Guizor's mistake. He trusted too much in dis name of the chambers and the possession of a asis. rity, forgetting that a majority which ideatifita ited/ ; with a government, and shares its selcautages We i unpopularity, incurs the same risks and tempts a s same aggressive measures for its deetraction. Lots Piiittere and M. Guizor trusted too much to e a majority of parliament, a , d imagined they were it England. They were in a quite different sea fis t ,1 what they fancied, and, instead of casting the D al into the depthsof French society, and observing item* and shoals, they steered boLly ahead, and ea t dashed to pieces. The Times and Chronicle talk be . sense, and dangerous nonsense, in saying that mu boldness would have saved them. It was not b o le sees they wanted, but prudence, foresight, end see, mon attention to popular sentiments and desires, There is, perhaps, no stronger contrast. name complete opposition to the policy of Louts Pattie; than is presented by King LEOPOLD of helve Whilst Louis Premiere sought to mil h throne to the ground, and himself to di throne, King LEOPOLD has sate as loo t * as a sailor balancing on the deck of a twig v e ssel. Whenever there came a change of p* Leopold has bent in the right direction. Noumea what the sentiment prevailing, Cieholic or pep* Leopold lent it his royal ear. During the late * vescence of republicanism, King Leopold is said have addressed some of his liberal servants whittle observation, that lee had no very deep orotetinate ds s fn ir r e th to nni re , m b a n i t n t t ha he t ir i kng tha t i h ne hadthe d e one his b way, becoa most willingly withdraw. Eve ry one wee, is ea sequence, most desirous to retain a monarch tilt obstructed no liberal interest or propels, te l who, in resigning, would have left the state prey to anarchy, commerce a victim to baultruptel and ruin, and contending parties no preteens against each other. The middle and commercial* of Belgium—all, in fact, that is influential in B. gium—prefer King LEOPOLD to any republic. lk would the same class in France have /week Louis Pnitirre to any republic, if he woad let have let them. But Louis Pmitirre's whole soul and edit were directed to Madrid and to Vienna, tad his anxiety was about kings and tennis when, had be been wise, he would have been revise ing and contenting his national guards. lie gm b hati l t e ld i e iq sf u atn e r t o keepers of the Rue St. Denis , tied the man ufactmi g b s h e i t t s acourtiers , population of the Faubourg St. Marce au:. lk t ca u yn ;n d ed 6btaarB rii ns s t a oto tte fho n ir t se te igega n n to eThra th ilaigen' e L she ik Niajesty so obscured his horizon with crowds I coot tiers in red ribands that he forgot the mob ul the paving stones, on the very heaps of which be be mounted the throne, and which were u midi! thrown up to scale it again. No—let it tof be said that Louis Penn lities which as a man he eminently p osessed,bt p w e a r n ie t h n e f d anfromminnnwansetassof and d u en rag m e tn — o he perished n prudence, ha from which, as a king, he allowed himself to secluded, till he lost their warning and their clue. THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE, The substance of the follow ing was given is i Second Edition of last evenimes F.cpress. The government has come to the resolution tote hero the national guard from a part of the Mk onerous duty of the service of the posts of Pariat combining with it the troops of the line. Awl? ingly from this day all the posts will be occupied by tk regular troops, having associated with them half tke number of national guards. From day to ai the proportion of the regular troops employed Lids service will be augmented, until the citizen at pi sent called from their avocations can be allowed t resume their business without each interruption. A commission for organising the judicial systelis France is stated to have been formed, and among* persons who have consented to become members di the following are mentioned, vie. :—MM. Oahe Barrot, Baroche, Billault, Jules Fevre, end 'Yak*. professor of the faculty of law at Paris. A conference was held yesterday, between the* ulster of Finances and the delegates from theme chants, manufacturers, and traders of Paris, mkt establishment of a discount bank, and the additit* delay or days of grace to be allowed for the pays* of commercial bills. Another conference was sad for this day. A meeting of a certain number of the English sidents and visitors took place to-day, at the Had Meurice, when a deputation was appointed to waits the Provisional Government with an address. The pavioure of Paris have struck for an in** of wages ; they refuse to resume their work units* government gives them Bfr. a-day in place of 4fr, tie ordinary price. The government, not being incliad to yield to such a demand, has employed journey* masons to re-pave the streets. The most perfect tranquillity still prevails is tl! Vendee, and everything leads us to believe an: remain undisturbed. This is a pretty good proof* the population of that portion of Prance are set religious than monarchical, and that they will reeplo any government who will consider it their duty respect public worship. The elme quiet does la however, reign in all parts of France, as will awl by the following Serious disorders, which, however, had no pofitilli tendency,broke out at St. Gaudens, in the departs*, of the Haute Garonne. A band of nearly two thaw * people came down from the mountains, and Weak the plain, pillaging the houses and chateaux of * rich. The drums immediately beat to mins, to cut the national guard of the towns of St. Gaol Miramont, Valentine, and Montle:jean. Soil celumns of them immediately marched, as well si company of infantry and three brigades of darniene. In spite of the haste with which the ditti retired towards their mountains, with their bSotl a great part of them were caught, and some Altogether one hundred of them were taken privet immediately on the intelligence becoming kits at Toulouse, the Court of Appeal met, and, on the wand of the procureur-general. a commiseion, posed of a president, a councillor, an avocat-genee : and a substitut, left on the morning of the sth W r to the spot and seek information. In the morning of the 6th the soldiers of the of military engineers at Lyons commenced the demo lition of the forte, bastions, and fortified barrea? situate be'ween the towns of Lyon s and La Cr* Rousse, in accordance with the following deers given by the commissioners of the Provisional Goers meat for the department of the Rhone : Fre* Inasmuch as it is necessary for the welfare of the , republic that the city of Lyonsahould pr serre o f its !tres_i_f, and all its means of defence it is so fo i r m i s t i lig; `over meet of the people t hat the wall