The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

yhor fisc than a full return to the system which ' brained before the revolution. It is an unqualified restoration of pure bureaucratic government, and is ye ytuvocally declared to be such. The cavalier ▪ *Web is naturally averse to the bu irWrmy, is violent in its opposition to this which it denounces as • poor cop/ of Louis li s p▪ oloit'.• infatuated proceedings. The Irma jell tog now stands up for the constitution, which it flyway wished tomes abolished without ceremony. It hopes to change the tint chamber into a house of 1 0 1, 4 get the second chamber fully into the hands o f the landow nets, and then establish the sway of the si i, t ,,, r scy in the rural communes, the circles, and & t orments, thus ousting the popular element, and rendering the bureaucracy subservient to its influ ence. The cavalier party, however it has leaders a predominant talent in the chambers, and the ablest of all the Prussian newspapers for its organ, cannot core uitlt the immeasurably superior strength of the bureaucracy: the opposition of the Krea: Zeituny will moiler strengthen the democratic interests than a m Its own plans. The King lately had a confer rue with M von lkthmann ilollweg, the represen- Utive of the conservative bureaucracy, from which circumstance the public concludes that the govern molt w tli decide for the pro4ect before deeertbed, or f, thing Very like it. The desired changes will, however. be proposed to the chambers in the hope of abolishing the constitution in perfectly constitutional form. The proceeding.' in the First Chamber to-day were unimportant. The debates on the budget in the ticeond. however, brought out M. Manteuffel in a tviveti upon the press. The government, he said n'ust, and would support particular journals with money. Every govcrnm. nt required means for 1:s cat(l4. and these could nut be had without moray. Other governments of gnat states, even that of England, used considerable sums of money in a similar manner. When the censorship was abolished, it was found more than ever necessary to cudeevour to influence the public in favour of the government by means of the press. An official news paper was established with more sacrifices than the result had justified. However, the government would now come forward openly and declare the intention of applying money as it seems right and prudent for the subvention of newspapers. BERLIN, Pas. 8. The clergy and the teachers in public schools for merly enjovcd exemption from direct taxation in Prie,,in. 'rho constitution, however, abolishes all such exemptions. A motion brought forward in the Virg Chamber for restoring the said privilege of the clergy and teachers has been opposed by the govern ment and consequently rejected in spite of the sup port of the reactionary united with the conservative Bethman-llollweg party. In the Second Chamber a grant of 12.000/. was made for secret service money, the smallness of which sum proves how very cheaply the government work is done in this country. For the ministerial bureau, which has to watch over the press and keep up the government's connection with the newspapers, 3001. were demanded and granted. N. Von Manteuffel praised on this occasion the effi ciency of the bureau in question, and said, among other things, that it had succeeded in establishing connections with the English press. The Russian government has declined connecting the St. Petersburg-Warsaw railroad with the Great PrutsianlEastern railway, now being built, from Berlin to Konigsberg. Russia is too intent on cut ting ott all connection between its subjects and the population of Western Europe to allow its confines to be crossed by locomotives. VIENNA Pas. 4. The riesas Lloyd, hitherto a moat violent de fender of Louis Napoleon, has, this morning, a milieus article respecting the confiscation of the Orli.ins estates, and it is but justice to the best con duit' d paper in Austria to say, that "it does not attempt to praise, or blame, or defend, or discuss the matter. but only to explain some of the reasons which probably led to it." These reasons, it states, are precisely identical with those which Woad the Orleans dynasty to banish and 111111,411111 the elder Bourbons ; the House of flaaffer• to adopt such severe measures against the Stuarts, that their last lineal descendant is a Heats sant in the Austrian army ; and Beemeistio. tedeead and bumble the mighty name of Woo. The Lip/ therefore argues, that what the world did net sew dioin in them, and even looked tqlen as a sissensaey precaution, it has no right to censure in Lash Ne. picot. It urges that we are too apt to anddir recent events under the bias of personal feelings NA prejudices, and calls upon its roadies to j meseure of the President with the ease with which they would review it had it him plass lee years ago, and the parties Winn by it MONO 'had; i. e., as simply and purely an net of good or bad policy. The Imam Blatt, Vienna paper, has been for bidden by government to appear for 14 days. The Celeste, which announces this measure, states that the editor, after many warnings as to consequences of his tactless, tasteless, manner of conducting hie journal, had tilled up the measure of his iniquity by naming the statue of ltotteck, the voluminous histo rian, after Berthold Schwarz, the Capochin, and by publishing a number of imaginary appointments of generals. The manufacturers are beginning to cry out sorely against the provisions of the new tariff which abolishes the old prohibitive system, and many of them have been obliged to dismiss a portion of their workmen. and to have the others only working short time. The trade, however, which seems to suffer wet of all is that connected with objects of luxury acid fashion, which will be henceforth almost all im ported. The Minister of the Interior has just issued sew I very stringent orders providing for the prristlisill inundation of the Danube which usually talon plan at the melting and descent of the ice bled sr and tares the suburbs of Vienna into a navigable him Lest year the descent of the waters was so iispettssas Is to sweep away everything before it, sad the damage caused to property was estimated at thew lauds of florins. HESSE CASSEL A scheme for tii;fafaiegoWrnsinet of the slob rate of Ilene has just been jointly inhmitinil r ibe Frankfort Diet by the representatives of Amble mg Praisia. It is therein proposed to abolish the Kai& town of 1831, and to form a pediment in two chambers from the estates, before which the new constitution shall be laid for p vaL Were not Up Diet in the habit of disreg r ding the public law at Germany as often as the occasion suits, the DOW plod measure could not be carried out without musk difficulty. The final act of Vienna signed by the plenipotentiaries of all the German powers, declares ( %rt. 68) that constitutions which the Diet finds ex isting and working, cannot be interfered with by the central power, and can only be modified in the way prescribed in those constitutions themselves. HANOVER. Advice, horn Hanover state that a commission is shout to undertake the revision of the organic laws. The communal law will first be dealt with, and after wards the law regulating district representation. BELGIUM. M. quinette, late minister of Frame at the sort of [ldiom. took leave of the Ring on Sunday hal. On the same day his successor, M. de Balsas% had an 'whence to deliver his credentials. He was saw ducted to the palace by one of the King's Wails tool). and in a royal carriage. The King he. sew fired upon M. Quinette the grand cordon et Ids order. ATHENS. JAN. 27. Is its sitting of the 26th the Senate rejected by kitninst 11 votes the bill for authorising a sub ',orlon of 36,000 drachmas in favour of the family %I. Colndourintis. The Minister of Finance klits presented to the Chamber a declaratory bill upon the claims against the Treasury of those farmers. I Zal of ta res w h o were compelled to deliver up pnrtions of their funds to the officers of the 11 1 16 M army during the confusion which followed the 'lestli Capo d'lstria. The government wishes to make them legal, but not recoverable. Iv ERAITT LITELLMEOCZ.—A tutor sailing a t wiergraeltutto to gin ea KOMI of the Jadineat Peru, the rapol student replied. ha helimd 1.16. vetedge to Louie Nerthea.—Plosea. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY IL 1852. gig Court. WINDSOR, Fah. 10. The foneldni were the additions to the royal Swam prey pnissday:—The Duchess of Kent, the Carly is Wallkil, bw RAM Hish•em, Lady Vito.. Bram, the lesser dellpeth. the Marl of Kelgrrn, and Linde ' seat 47elmel Tressis r. lier Ustatre etit=stteadsd after Maser la the Code, end i dthe hilkinsing esempolitions: osstrieui ■ el'Asass" COmmeeelle. Alleys mis nen lento, •sierse, Udine% %mai Trio Aller. no.oe, i e virg i. ivi cs. /S p eenelki, emus. B:datum, lieettsovea et limbs da beef Alen "C e lle Auger. Thi el et els Royal Horse Guards performed a Meditate es the South Tames this morning. The QUIIBIIIIIIIII Prince Albert ercked in the HOMO Park sod Slopes this aserami. The Prime of Wel, s. the Princess Royal, and the royal &dares, took their usual walking uud puny exercise. The Duchess of Kent arrived in town on Monday morn ing from her madam at Fenimore, sear Windsor. Her Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Oloucister at Gion•l tester-house, Piosadilly, and is the afternoon left Clarence- house, St. James's, fur Fenimore. The l'rivy Council which was appointed to be held on Friday, the 13th inst., at Buckingham Palace, will he holden this day at Windsor Castle instead. Lord Itendiesham and a deputition had an interview with Lord John Kamen yesterday at his official rtsideuce in I)owaing•etreet. 'I he Cambridge University Commission had a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. Present : The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Lly, her John Herschel, and the Rev. W. 11. &mum (secretary). The Attorney General for Ireland had an interview with Sir Georg° Grey yesterday at the Home-office. trlmisstArs uwto.i FoREIGN-orricy, Fre. 6.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Wilhelm August }lnky as Consul Jansiea for the Free nauseant! City of Wenn', COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY TUE LOUD LEVU!, NaNT or MoNTOOlllllllllllll.—The Earl of Fascia, Vis count &shorn, Hon. T. C. H. Tracy, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P., Sir J. Conroy, Bart, J. W L. Winder, Es q., E. 11. Lyon, EN., Mujor-tieneral Proctor, nod K. M. H. Maurice, Esq., to be deputy lieutenants. COMMIOSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTE NANT OF LANCLIMIIIi.—W. E. Rada, Gent., to be lieut. in the Rochdale Troop; Hon. A. Egerton, to be comet in the Rochdale Troop; Hon. S. C. Cavendish, commonly called Lord Cavendish of Keighley, to be cornet in the Furness Troop of the Duke of Luncaoter's Own ltegimeut of Yeomanry Cavalry. Lieut. W. U. T. imount St. Law rence, to be rapt. in the Li:lmM'. Human. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTE NANT OF CIIIISHIIM.—The Hun. A. Lasalle', to be coot.; Cornet H. Hill, to be lieut. ; T. H. Marshall, Oenc, to be cornet in •he Earl of Chester's Regt. of Yeomanry Cavalry The offices of Paymaster-General and Vice-Presi dent of the Board of Trade have been offered to and ac cepted by Lord Stanley of Alderley, who in the year 1841 tilled the office of Payntaster-Oeneral. Rumour says that the right bon. Charles Villiers, M.P., has been offered one of the vacant posts now at the disposal of the Whigs. Mr. Bernal Osborne's name has been also mentioned in eon flexion with a probably official appointment THE RECALL OF BIR HARRY SMITH. COPY OP A DESPATCH FROM EARL GREY TO GOVERNOR SIR 11. 0. SMITH, BART., 0.C.8. Downing-attest, Jan. 14. lOW lave received and laid Mire the Queen your despetaltes of the 6th sad 19th of November, rippers( tb , resits of the of the war sines the date of your despatches by the preview mail. 2. I Imes fetus these despatch.. that moths, swath of this dietressiag madam has passed away, and though the fume at year disposel bed been increased to every cossider able amount, so advantage of any real importance ham bona gained over the enemy, while the Massif her Majesty's troops has been exceedingly heavy, that very distiaguished offime, Limit.Coloosl Fordyce, being included ammo these who have fallen. 3. I hare said, that no real advantage has been gained, because, while you state that positions of extraordinary strength have been stormed, aid it is clear that the moat determined courage has been shown by her Majesty's troops, these INIKONIIIII (if they can be called so) have bees entirely barren of seefhl results; and it appears from the reports of Msior-Oeneval Somerset, and particularly from his despatch dated the 9th of November, that the ground thus hardly won could not be retained, anil that the position which wee carried at the price of such heavy loss to the 74th Regiment on the 6th of November, was only held until the major general " withdrew the troops in the afternoon," when it would rem that there was no obstacle to its being re-o=u pled be the enemy, and that in fact it ems°. 4. For several months your despatches have been of • similar character. You have described to me operations which I hare constantly been assured had been attended with success, and had inflicted heavy loss upon the enemy, while there could be no doubt that the troops had fought with their accustomed gallantry ; but at the same time 1 was tome unable to diseuver that any ground had really been gained, while it was obvious that the enemy, far from being discouraged by their supposed defeats, were from month to month increasing in boldness and determination • and the lists of casualties but teo clearly proved that the loss ; they had indicted was at heist as certain, sod bore no small proportion to that which they were believed to have sus tained. S. It was impossible that I should continue to receive in telligence of this description by many successive mails with out being led to cntertaiu very serious doubts whether the war had been conducted with the energy and the judgment which were necessary to bring it to an early and sueeissful issue; but, distressing as was the anxiety which these doubts occa,ioned, I have not hitherto allowed them to induce me to deprive you of that support which I know it is of the utmost importance to the public service that theee in high military commands should be able to rely on not having lightly withdrawn from them by the advisers of the crown, when, in situations of difficulty and danger, success does not at once attend their exertions. 6. Hat the information I have now received has converted what was before only a very serious doubt, into conviction ; and it is my painful duty to iulorm you that having con sulted my colleagues on the subject, they have concurred with me in coming to the conclusion, that upon a maul re. view of the events of the war and those which pert...led its breaking oat, there is in idence, which it is impossible longer to resist, that yon have tailed in showing that foresight, energy, end judgment which your very dinieult position required, and that therefore we should nut be justified in shrtuking from tendering to the Queen our humble advice that the government of the Cape of Good Hope and the conduct of the war should be placed in other hands. It bar accord ingly been my duty to submit to her Majesty my advice that Major-General Cathcart should be appointed to relieve you, of which her Majesty has been pleased to approve, and that officer will very shortly proceed to the Cape for that purpose. 7. I need hardly assure you that I cannot make this com munication without great pain sad sincere reluctance, and that nothing bat a sense of imperative duty would have led my colleagues and myself to take the course we have felt ourselves compelled to adopt. We do full justice to the ardent zeal fur her Majesty's service which you have uniformly displayed ; we have not forgot how greatly you have distinguished yourself on for mer occasions, and what • high military reputation you hare deservedly obtained ; but we have been compelled to believe that, perhaps teem the failure of your health, sod your being no longer able to exercise as close a personal superintendenro as formerly over the conduct of affeirs, you have failed in giving either to your military operations or to your political measures bearing upcs the war, that charac ter of vigour and judgment which are neecserry to inspire confidence in the iuhecitauts and troops, and to command sneers+. I must remind you that the first error which was committed, and to which I believe the failure of • policy otherwise sound, and the calamity of the war, are malniy attributable, wee the premature reduction of the British force under year command. I must take upon myself • share of the blame for this mistake, inasmuch as I had pro bably too often and too strongly pressed upon you the im portance of reducing the number of troops as soon as this could be safely dune. Still your discretion was unfettered; you were left to decide for yourself when the troops should Ito out home, sines this was • point on which a judgment ossid only be funned us the spot; and the error, therefore, rem your own of supposing that • large proportion of the Ems which you found in the colony could without danger 16 sum be dispensed with S. I mast also remind you that up to the eve of the actual boosking oat of hostilities you continued to tend me the smerences that there existed no real danger, ' Zerrthi spprchemhons expressed by the frontier farmers were anfuWsd. Even when the war began you were so little aware sf its true character that you made no applies ; ties to me Re additional force; and neither in your public =private letters did you eV, me the slightest inti dist such aid was require); and,the reinlorcementv, I which IMO immediately despatched, as well as those which have bees subsequently sent, have all, with the exceptioo , of the Last, 'alienated your demands for theta. It is not fee me to express any opinion us the detail of your military operatiose; but it mast strike eves an unprofessioaal di ssever, that by the employment of MMUS which you mai . dined mdequate for the purpose se serious impression ap e pears to have been made on the enemy. It follows that you have either bees eaurely m i staken is yourjudinestokad have someequestly led het Majesty's governmest Mrs error as to the character of the war, and the amount of hem required ; or aim *m have failed es vim with east dis Wee at ' your disposal 9. With regard to the yolked masons beating upon the moult of lama war, I mkt raw you to the despatch , whisk 1 ham hem esnipviled to aide= to pm by the pre twat mail ea the 'Neglect of the pragmatismo obolowely vo quired, ha ardor M siestruct the sew* of ammilen es ' the eammt essi ne hail in this mast no emit he par t M the Colombia when you bap a lt t in 'huge of the goverment et Caps own ' • bat Wyk had intimated Mme that Mr. Montagu could no t ohms Wm , quately disclaims its arduous duties which demand him in your abase" I skald net hive failed ' to have allbeded yen hake refire re, by the of a civil hentenamseresse, to reeks at Cape C ai n "Illine darkig the war—a step I propose adoptiag, now that the seeemity he it km thus bees disclosed to me. 10. I meet aim observe, that_ pm have, I Wiese, truly ! sgpreeented to me, that if pa me, bed bed ab =aim ealy to aimed with, the MST 11011 M Mei Mee hare been breeOs to a close ; and that what bass teal e Ore oak theridake enemies has been the anistmese they bar embed Rees the rebel Hottentots, too many of whim hod beam redned am ' soldiers in the realm of the DAY arsq. lint if kis is, se I believe, • wrest view of the salgeet I rut roped it 0 as • met fall error that the der inkness of tram aremen kb aim of the Wuhan., ef the Clip wore met Asa WM atm peeeptly and awe semely, mkt arias the bend Mt, had shis bra Mk aorifts of dimedisettea lave ham egged, atbs jano prisite• ark ef the Ind Imam mil isva n amino**, haw aste . sally united ameaptthe white Mohawk by /Mae their heartily, end vernal thee Me preedsdM esiemists of Rewe deep* nom bare led to efteria Ind display that ilhadrkele *May of their selensed tallow sub ' jeek while ha hew, as there is Ise mkt urea to fear , tan man el Mein dirdbriem sky of she um.; ' who were met erleimelly I.eLad le it : 11. Lastly, I mast regard it es a seismal anew that you have allowed the adminotratios of the Orange River Tor rigors so roman too keg in the heeds of an eller le yew elk eelnlerrestual so Mr task, rid Mt by this muff elhar I Miriam In war managrasst of re DIM Mahatma of M heathy ileists you have Idled to medlar that =t dray ekes mid se-reestiem lbws en be so rat yee maid boo bek enabled es belie kg war , te • rash earlier herimatien ken ohne h now • per f ect of ; while, ea the eentray, by re disliesisd waifsa of ' the seak, year Manilla la Kirk bre bra my subs* itisisarad. TM mom in which, by pairs meeemnik Its. hr anseseded is Natal la essetring the merldnnsitand atteohmost of the Del* hsware, es &- I scribed he paw dispirit No. IM, ales* pwe that if pro , per!) , mead, they may be rewired lapel ed useful sub , pats of dm gmern. 12. It's§ kin with nee rieeleme eel I have entered is, this review of the mos whielyeassar to re to have Oomiguod, but I buys Anglot it duets year_ plink sad be yew high segratien le dm Ong Iftberre ar mee km ate aulserkill ie akin the Qom to mm , came you is the midst of the war, wither orisient use he doing is ; and ler this ream Maki as it bee Ma to sam M write to in sae\ • Mae of osemen, I have been 'earned to peW eat the sense bile u pa bar been IssatayeL It it beverver, ems selshation ft re be be are to add, that I bar me desk It has been pew Jude.rast sal y which hes been in litedt, and that, M IMe hem of leer ablility, you have eadomosred to asmmk yensadf of imtiseof as ordinary &Ideally c um de I desk that in men 'eight weehek spier • lised may, erd pi licz military opereelsom had lisea lies complisatal by dlMltlea,yee mold have ashieved the Ism missms by which pen had hersri . i . be i s so mesh disikeuldbel.-1 set Re., Oise. Limutleseral irergaith, Bart. Tan Mansura Cr.leatia.—The mono of the Utah territory is sikially published is the Weaditspeors Republic stud luta&power. Front it we learn that the number of dnellinp in the territory when the seam was taken wee 2,322; families, the same • white male inhabitants, 6,032; white &nuke, 6,306; tot al nastier whites, 11,330; free coloured males, 12; and the same sousker of (make; snaking the total free population 11,364. There are 26 slaves, all of whom reside in Utah conaty. The number of death; daring the year was 239; and the number of farms le the territory was 9'26; number of manefectering ens blishinents, 16. The total popelatioe of the territory, free and slave, amounts to 11,380. There are seven counties, respectively named Davis, Oreat Salt WIC Doe, Ban Pete, Torras, Utah, end Weber. The most populous of these are Great Salt Lake, with 6,167 inhabitants ; Utah, with 2,026; Weber, with 1,186; sad Davis, with 1,134 AGRICULTURAL DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN it U VSELL. Yesterday, a deputation, consisting of members of the Eastern Counties Agricultural Association, waited upon Lord Juhn Rosen, at his official residence In Downing street, for the purpose of impressing upon his lordship the necessity of conceding the r: peal of the malt tux, en equi table measure of tenant right, a thorough revision of the present mode of managing the county expenditure, the abo lition of the game laws, the removal of restrictions to the growth of exci.eable articles, and the adaptation of the tithe rent charge to _present prices. The deputation was introduced by Lord Rendlesham, sad amongst its principal members were Mr. C. H. Lattimore, Mr. T. B. Johnson, Mr. R. Hawerd, Mr. C. F. Fitch, Mr. I'. K. Welch, Mr. J. Oarrould, and many other influential tenant forams re; ' siding in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. The 811CRITART to the association read an address to his lordship, stating that the deputation were desired by their brother farmers to represent the present serious depression under which the agricultural in terest was suffering, and to suggest such practical measures of relief as would in their judgment tend to improve the cooditicn of the cultivators ofthe soil without inflicting the least injury upon other classes of the community. His lord ship's attention would be chiefly drawn to the injurious in fluence of the malt tax, end the pressing necessity for Its speedy end entire remission. Arguments would be ad vanced enforcing upon his lordship the impertanee of libe rating the agricultural interest from this nio,t pernicious impost ; and, while the gentlemen who were to whinge his lordship would thus contend for this necessary freedom fur their industry, they . would also plead for a just and fair measure of tenant right which should give to their capital sad skill the same security as was enjoyed by the commer cial and trading interests. Other incidental JDOSSUrtS of relief would be most respectfully suggested to his lordship, such es the power of controlling the expen diture of county rates, the abolition of the game laws, and the removal of the restrictions to the growth of excis able articles. But the chief stress would be laid on the argent importance of the total and immediate repeal of the excise ta r y s i molt. His 14 b egin/ H heard this address, LA ORE eibeerved that he was happy to say *is was the lost deputation of the kind widish - had ever smog* redeem from the government made" dm mama Mr somseassess. no present nasty mtfol thip =ll"ef paikeiai peteesseina se inteedlelle hum g a vrZ es loky Po petitigea, hat en Oasis relief au.* they ame r sived paned meek too heavily Imo* them, sad to carry ma certain epeemione with a view to promote their owe interests, sad to hese& the eimaranaity at large. The deputation were aware that the Ma *jams of the aleeeiii dm might be resolved into two—the asemeity of obtaining freedom for their industry awe monies, and security for their capital. Ups those Oats they trusted they timid he able to scoriae* des gmeromont that the tenant farmers wool gadded le web alteratisa its the laws as would be oraissios * their welfare. They matended that all se ek* dal* pesseed severely spa the rridastanal, sad the malt tan del es in a peculiar regassit woo*, tiaasthatar. They _animal it a matter of great isPotioe that 60 pice of eat& food was dearer than bread emu. The avenge prise of wheat in Desember, 1815, was Ks M. pm penes slid that el breed sake at the WU was Y. lb. pm sus. Ass meek lis afar Phnom, *Ns solgeolsd 0 611 *oft should be alliond r some We semputtes Kissed sakes tar odd@ /M. r sestemled ad the ex = melt mid melt tom WOE be esmikeelly si fts he dos er=ft:e. oewels li =olhed *lleop ; eml be might edgy say that ampese, Is rapes to malt asd malt lioper, was sEpoder te any other coon try. It Ink therefore Mani that the repeal of the lan world be a viloallls been to the country, seed as/ sloe believed ihnt caltirsties of W ▪ wood be grestly advised by Ile removel of this dear *Gmbh X:- UP* Mt *lit of theta the &potash& whhal la Me Isseiblp that the Sala of the Malt tax was te esneempam *mpg soltivatims end m imes the Om of cattle food, witrabyth, lostalig fifths mil was detsrisaleg, the demand 4 Mow lasteas4 lb, social semforts of the people rattly impaired, std the swum' of soilloolwoold ImPilsd. Kr. Ismissee pessosisi ea pint est that ow of the peat evils *lab led ee ties present de- Cilla. of the eßriealiaral Mimi* wee the awns litiow et the law la rapist le the relative position of bodeed and Must. and the —hors of this 'societies bared Ihst veld amiss he fhb km was absolutely mom way. nor e dot the geweesment would admit that the tenant MINIM IMO Idelaostltied to redress wader the tbsy sompielsea to ia this leope=t- s. I= B ; 44s edimittel their ame to his lordship's des lir. S. B. JOHNSON thin whbeeeed Ids Lab*, Ind entered tat. arreoseas amen to Om of the Speaker. He also elated Ned the==ers st L els ore: meat Wined tire s a tab teems le. to wee, marigod. soy eieemelieseee. be were &dem is sel in sued ef keine deeded by s ar me =le rely open *NW ves, mod ploy sod seam that power to whim th e Stay hid k view. Hr. &ba ses presiwini to tsd the olliatisa of hie lordship to Ike wlYwoollios one lone hi their pliant Rea. I s =rore imi esti the Alma Nay Mind le whim the NM, wide Oak iNekimeat weak' be an a 4 Se to the Pare' hem% ao steeeher of the Naas sky ea& Ives. 111 r. Hawass, eddrowed his Mr. Ntroa, sod Hr. Wawa having seveeelly lordship, Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that he could mot at =asenter into all the isoreetnot mature whisk hid hrenght mew We netise, but he would ass fall to re:isti e rt the iliket esoidteelies. He might observe, triih to No melt ter, it met be leader steed that it se bye a soarer of retirams that ths Chemellir of Haaartera amid hardly ellerd to spare it. la remelt to the mile duties, he demehted whether they could mite out their we that the toonnolisa of own woe dleabieled by the deity in malt, liseame It met be resellested that the beer dot, was taken rain ISIS, aid the war duty was repealed after the pesos. He could set day that the excise chaise were in sow respects inforiten, but he thought it would be a serious thing for the work meat to props,, the entire abolition of the salt taloa te attempt to sebelitata another tea for it. The eldsollem however which had bees broths/he forward were well worthy of oossideration, and he promised that they should rentlee the attention of the government. Lord RENDLESHAII thanked his lordship for the courteous meaner in which be had lietated to the observe- Wows of the speakers, and the deputation withdrew. A REKARILARLS CIRCMINTANCE tlf THE CORN T&A,DIS is baked by the Hull Nyco s—At the present lion there are not 1.000 quarters of foreign barley, malting or grinding qualities, is the three iaportaat ports of Hell, Newcastle, and Leith. Last year, at the Nino fins, there were above 100,000 qn. • ELECTION NEWS. PERTH ELECTION. RETURN OF TILE RIGHT HON. F. MAULS. Ma nomination of candidates to supply the 'm attreproemnstion of this city e erio sod hr the IK the 1144bt Hon. Fox Hanle to the i resi stible lead of Control, took pleas on Monday. The right hon. pesthlinen solicited a renewal of the suffrages of w e j ; 1 1.Pneed by Charles Gilpin, Esq., of London, the MOMS= en the liberal interest. The lIIIVOIS Was OlOMMOmad_ OS both sides on Saturday morning, MIS aostiorma tbronalmen the day with peat spirit. The holdings, obi* were crested fa front of the County Beibliags, were serreauchil from an emery hour by large crowds of the eleeters sod nem-electors of the city, and at 12 eie.lock there Auld not have be e s l e es th an 3,000 perilous protest. Mr. ÜBpin , who united first on the hustings, seounipenied by his committee, and preceded by a band of music, was received with loud cheese, mingled with Aimee., and warn noon afterwards followed by his right hon. oppu sent, who also met with a warm reception. Mr. Sheriff Ciaseruieu having read the writ for the election, and, the act of parliament against bribery and corruption, The Lunn PIOTOOT proposed and Mr. OREM seconded the nominative of the Right Hen. Mr. F. Mauls. Mr. LAW then nominated Charles Gilpin, Esq. Jan= MIAOW*, Esq., seconded the nomination. Number candidate having been proposed, The Right lion. FOX MAULS then addressed the electors. lie proclaimed himself a reformer of twenty years' standing, and congratulated his opponent on the advantage which he possessed in being enabled to state how ler be could go on the march of reform. Ile had told them already that her Majesty's cabinet were that night (Monday) to propose in the Hues, of Com mons a measure of reform, the principles or provisious of which, however, he was precluded from divulging by • solemn obligation. ((lines and great confusion.) He (Mr. hiaule) did not, however, intend to give his vote for vote by ballot. (Loud and continued hissee, mingled with cheers.) Ile might state, without being drawn into a debate, that he was °Rimed to the scheme of reform pro mulgated at the recent Manchester meeting. lie would, however, as far as was consistent. with public credit, en deavour to remove, item by item, the duties upon the dif ferent articles so much consumed by the muns of the country. (Vehement cheering.) The right hon. gentle man conclud,d by appealing to them to support him no a moderate and progressive reformer, and to continue their coutielence in him. (Cheers and hisses.) Mr. GILPIN next presented himself, and wit received with loud cheers mingled with hisses. He strongly advo- cited the adoption of the ballot as a protection for the boned voter, and to make the House of Commons repre sent the people and not the aristocracy. He believed Mr. Mauls the beer y men of his party ; and he did nut flatter him, as ho could not expect anything from him. (Laughter.) If the electors believed Mr. Maude to be the real reformer they wanted and the best representative of their views then they should send him to parliament, and be (Mr. Gilpin) would content himself with thanking theta a I for their cordiality and kindness, and simply say to whig and tory the good old quaker word—farewell. (Cheers.) Mr. Sheriff CRALIFCRD then called for • show of hands for both candidates, when a large majority was held up in favour of Mr. Oilpin. The result was announced amid loud and protracted cheering. A poll having been demanded for Mr. Mauls, Mr. GILPIN intimated that lie hod received a commu nication from the Association of the Non-Electors of l'erth, wishing him success; and also a communication from the conservatives, stating that they haul resolved to vote for Mr. Maul.. Sy a show of hands (although his hon. oppo n rat declared a little ago he could count the noses of thee, opposed to him) they bad declared him (Mr. Oilpin) the representative of the people of Perth, but be would not go to the poll tomorrow. Sheriff CHAUFURD then declared that in consequence of Mr. (lapin having now retired brunt the contest, the Right lion. Fox Mauls was duly elected member for Perth. (Cheers and hisses.) The Right lion. Gentleman then thanked them for the honour, and proposed a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff, which was cordially passed, and the large earemblege then quietly dispersed. GREENWICH ELECTION.-THE POLL. The polling of the constituency of Greenwich com menced yesterday morniag at eight o'clock, when the friends of the respective candidates assembled in strong force. The several towns presented the uses! appearance of a contested election, but the moat perfect good feeling prevailed throughout the entire morning, and beyond the parade of bands of miter, with a few tags of the colours of the candidates, and occasional cheering and counter-cheer ing as the voters presented themselves at the hustings, there was no strong ebullition of feeling on either aide. The first' impermion of yesterday's Ezpress contained the polling up to half-past one, and the second edition to the close. The following is a statement of the number of votes to the clogs of the proceedings: Stewart. Chambers. Two Half-put Three Pour 2,961 .... 1,249 Showing • majority of 1,715 in favour of Admiral Stewart. It appeared that the gross number of voters from the respective towns of Greenwich, Deptford, and Wool wich, were u follows: _ Stewart. Chambers. Gmenwich 6 t 5 .... 523 Deptford 938 .... 391 Woolwich 2,964 1,249 Majority At the aces of the business, Captain thilloway and Mr. Pomace endeavoured to address the people, but their ob servations were not listened to, and AdmirdBtewart made an equally unsuccessful attemptto speak from the window of the White Hart Motel. ILA voice was drowned by the clamour of the multitude, and by the drecordant 1110110 of the musicians, who seemed determined to avow the caw of the defeated candidate. _ _ The returning officer ultimately gave notice that the numbers would be of declared at ll o'clock this morning. NoIaHAMPTON. —Yesterday, the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, the newly appointed Becretai7-at- War, was elected for the borough of Northampton by a large majority. WEST KESIT.—Tho illitatfono Gime& cautions the liberal electors whist placing relianee on certain rumours whirl hare been emulated as to the probable retirement of Mr. llodgos, and announces that that gentle man is gaits prepared again to content West Kent on the part of the liberal electors. The employers having opened their workshops for the operatives, on condition that they sign the agreement Sled apes by the committee of the Central Association, it is reported that • number of them have gone to their employ, that • proportion of the unskilled labourers have also been Wren es. At the committee-room of the employers we were assured that the number who had taken work on these tonne w quite egad to expectation. From the committee of epondives • very illferent account is received; they deny that MOOD *PI • few have gone to work, and them stem who will have to he dismissed. They stets Met Me men lately working at Meson. Nu llities ssishm, Peraterett, have received natice to quit Mohr atlsgw mat week, and the following is • espy of a iw4 odes Issued to one of the workmen et Mum ?Weer at Newton-le-Willows Vulcan ressdry. seer Warrington, Feb. 4, 19.52. air,—Not har ts. say msly le my note of yerterday Mr. Tallest. desires =a will give up your cottage by 10 us., es y next.—Sir, your obedisat servant, Joenvx Las." —The workmen of Messrs. Tayleur, living in their cottages, to lama them whet were addressed, had thus only three dale M en they we turned out of house and lam them lave gone to reside at Manchester. The of workmen, on Saturday Last, to the amelipmeted Ileshily, were MEW., being SA Oyer the amount eabesellied in any previous week. At a meeting of workmen last evening, held at the Comper-eareet Wesehooms, City-roed, to isonekler what MON Ie Wept esesequence of the dispeis.between the lad /1111rien. reselatioss wise nisgi to the riot lies meeting. esnigneed of workmen of nd various wades, hit thes t rieellea between the terglacere and their lies had a epos the rlghie of all indigent • thee dle meeting wee 'plaits SIM the emplyen of thi operative miaow; having madated the right of each to do as he liked with his own, and denied the right of the operative to do as he liked with his own, smelt conduct was wastrary to Justice and humanity, and an %swamis*. able attempt to prevent the itemise o f a right universally recognised by law • and a third, pledging the meeting to Milli the most 44:R00m efforts to aid the Society of Anvil wasted lingineen. Mr. Newton was present daring the proseediage. NAVAL NISCIIFTS AND EIPXNDITsar----Yestza day a rebut was rutted albowlag that for naval services I 11150-51 the sum received was 6,672,688 f., sad the sum ex pended 6,186,2761. 12e. Ild., leaving a surplus of 487.3111. for " ways sad means." Surely for them Ma sailboa t stiwilag we ought to have ships enough for dodoes la the Tat CORPORATION or LONDON.—Yesterday some totem the City of London, obtained by Sir Were printed. la the 26 wards of the City sire 28 aldermen and 206 common coun cilmen. 0. as register of parliamentary electors within the City. Y tie 1116041, there were 20,842 persone— , 13,218 Itenadinl and 7,312 liverymen, whereas in the yew 1•4441 IM ismatter was 18,993, of which 11,324 were kowlmildlus awl 7.871 were liverymen. The number of persons on the register of municipal electors last year was as follows in the following wards :—Aldersgato, 173 ; Ald gate, 222 ; Bassishaw, 86 ' • Billinetrate, 163 ; Bishopegate, 474 ; Broad-street, 120 ; Bridge, 134 ; Broad street, 361 ; Candlewick, 116 • Castle Baynard, 202; Cheap 163 ; Coleman-atreet, 223 ; Conlwainer, 11l ; Combat ' , 128 ; Cripplegate.within, 258 ; Donate, 90; Farrineon-within, 476 • arringdoa-without,F 783 • Langboarn, V 7 ; Limo. street, 82 ; Portaoken, 203 ; Qu4shithe, 72 ; Tower, 670; Vicar', 86 ; and Wslbrook, 88. THE INUNDATION AT HOLMFIRTII. The weather on Monday was much more favour able for carrying on the *earth for the dead, and in the forenoon the body of a female, about 14 yeses of age, sup posed to be a daughter of Richard Woodcock, was dis covered by scan labourers employed to repair and cleanse the Hohnfirth Mill dam nob .dy of a boy was also dis covered in Whittaker Mill dare, Dalton. The hody of a youth was also discovered on Monday at Dalton Lee , who appears to have been blind of one eye, or to have sustained of Use eye, as • green shad; was still tied over it when the body was picked up. The coroner's jury meet for the further identification of bodies on Friday. A curious circumstance occurred in the identification of the bodies of the deceased on Saturday. When the jury visited the bodies lying et Bury Brow, a little intelligent girl, daughter of Sydney Hartley, ono of the deceased, came forward to identify an infant as the body of her sister Ellen. She was asked bow she knew it, and replied, because it was "calf-licked," like herself—pointing to a peculiarity of the hair on the forehead—so denominated in Yorkshire. The coroner took her deposition, but afterwards the same child was claimed by a man named Bailey as his daughter, and he ultimately obtained possession of the corpse, and interred it. The little gin's narrative of the horrors of 'Thursday night is a dis tressing picture of such a scene. She waft' that her I mother, Mrs. Medley, had heard on Wednesday night that the reservoir was likely to burst, and resolved not to go to bed. She, honorer, put her family of eight children to bed, and sat up to await the issue, hoping to get sufficient warning to enable all to escape, it the report should prove correct. She sat up until ono o'clock on Thursday morn ing, and then went to bed. The alarm reached almost im mediately she hail retired to net. The girl states that the water burst upon them before they could get out of the chamber, and, when her mother found they could not escape, she held up her infant child alcove the water outride the window, hoping to save it, but finding the front of the house giving way she turned and bade her family farewell, and wag swept away with the babe in the foamnig torrent. So also perished the father and four other children; hut thin little crea ture, ssith two sisters and the apprentice boy, who bed also been sleeping in the house, being suddenly floated up to a part of the roof which yet re mained, caught hold of the rafters and clung to them. When the flood began to abate, the apprentice, John Dearnley, got out upon the roof and assisted the three girls to do the same. Here they remained at least twenty minutes. Ile afterwards earned them one by one into the portion of Holmfirth Mill which had escaped destruction, where, in their night clothes, stsnding up to their knees in mud, they ware exposed to the inclemency of the night air and to the falling rain. Ultimately, however, they discovered a way into a room nearly full of wool, and burying themselves amongst it obtained the warmth they so much needed, and remained there till morning. The three orpharui are now residing with their relations. The Holmhrth Ladies Committee met on Monday even ing to distribute clothing. The subscriptions raised in the town now amount to 1,0501. At Huddersfield a goal deal of sympathy has been manifested for the sufferers. The Rev. J. Glendenning preached a sermon at the Indepen dent Chapel, which led to a collection of 201., all of which was nest morning transmitted to Holmfirth for the relief of the immediate necessities of the distressed survivors of the On Monday • public meeting was held at Huddersfield, in the Philoophical Ilall, to take into consideration what measures should be adopted to allesia.c the destitution ace eioned by the late Hood. Mr. John Brook, of Armitage bridge, was called to the chair, and the Rev. J. Bateman, M.A., the vicar, moved a resolution, expressing sympathy with the multert ra end with the survivors, of whom it was said that many had been reduced from comfortable circum stances in life to utter ruin, and about 2,004 operatives hail also been deprived of work. The resolution was seconded by Mr. 11. L. Brook, and carried. The Rev. John Glendenning moved a resolution pledg ing the meeting to use every exertion to mitigate the distress, end commence subscriptions "tor the imme diate relief of pressing distress, and afterwards by affording 'such further aid as the amount of subscriptions would allow." The chairman stated that the promees of aid al ready brought up the subscriptions to • handsome amount for Huddersfield, and the Earl of Dartmouth had promised to contribute. Mr. J. D. Crossland declared that mere local efforts, however liberal, would be utterly inadequate to relieve the distress, and requesting other towns to aid Huddersfield in the task. Mr. li. L. Brook stated that the ecmrnittee had been called upon for clothing by a young lady on behalf of a family who, prior to this accident, were worth upwards of 10,0001. This was corroborated by Mr. J. Charlesworth. Mr. J. La sock, in seconding the resolution, said that the operatives of Messrs. Brook and Co., of Armi tag e Bridge Mills, had commenced • subscription, and alre ad y rai 1021. A committee was appointed, and a spirited subscription was opened in the meeting, which in the course of an hour or so raised the preliminary subscription, we mentioned as having been commenced in Huddersfield on Saturday, to 4,9341., besides 61. Ils. 101 d. collected in boxes at the doors. Mr. W. Willana announced that a friend in London had also forwarded him a ■um of la It is said that • majority of the Holme Reservoir Com missioners were anxious to make seasonable repairs to the embankment, and that haring borrowed 40,0001. on mort gage, at five per cent., the mortgagees came forward and offered to reduce their claims to three-and-a.half per cent., if by so doing they could enable the commissioners to raise upon mortgage the additional sum required. The commis idonen went before parliament last session but one, backed by the mortgagees, for • new bill to empower them to raise this extra money ; but they were vigorous'y opposed by a part of their own body, who had been ohatructives all along, and through the influence of these men Lord Beaumont de feated the bill before the Peers, alleging that it was contrary to the principles of legislation by which the house ought to be guided, to suffer mortgagees to come before it for the purpose of improving the security on which they had ad. van.ed their money. The objection was not correct in fact, but it was fatal—fatal in more senses than one ; for probably to this objection, so successfully urged by his lord ship, it is that we owe the destruction of so much life and property. It would be dieleult for strangers, in some places, unless familiar with the valley and its buildings, to comprehend 'the extent of devastation—so clean had - been the sweep. The rent made by the flood in the reservoir from which the water escaped was regarded with intense interest by all who visited the spot. An immense chasm of 80 to 100 yards wide and 00 feet deep, removed from the front of the clam, and cut clear out from top to bottom, leaving the edges as sharp and square as if some vast in strument had been used for the incision, leaves little room for weeder that the body of water which burst forth should have committed such ravages. The site of the reservoir is a deep vale or ravine near the summit of the lofty range of bills which divide Yorkshire and Lancashire—perhaps 1,800 or 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. It es at the foot of an extensive mom, which drains into it. The whole of these hills are remarkable for the deep clefts and ravines which divide them, and they become the drains for immense quantities of water, which fall here, during the winter months - cially. It is in one of them the Manchester corporaWa have constructed their Museum reservoirs, on the same principle as this which has buret with such lamentable consequences. The bed of the reservoir above Holes firth, which is an area of somethiqr like eleven acres, is now only covered by • dap* of black mud. The valley below is o aotl4 in a high state of culti vation. The kills rise to as immure height, but are in many places nigh pion prows and well wooded. la many plasm the vale prase& assess against beauty, and is highly Akag the sides of the stream which winds the beam In the apace of the three miles to IMO twice very Ins stone woollen mills. Wadi sums lawless swept entirely away others have had es- end we eft in& the remnant. of ma 'history and shafting _am lib ifirngling over the stream. Most althea have had Whalr polum• windows forced out of the first and swami elms, and here and them yen see the idea et dims mills covered with lushes sad heenshes of trees for two or three Marys in height, whirl lb• leseent had brought down in whole kedge-rows at ewe, dal pled up sad accu mulated there. The large iessesgen sftebed to each of three mills, as private stone of erase, have all been burst, with one exception—their embankments. in most eases, tors down almost entirely, ilesiiiiMse fleeted awaL e c t r o; verse b u nt si u apes, sad the nftep hen the of then carried away and may bass in depth over adjoining fields. Here sad there yes see a Geld which was coos tine meadow Lead a barren waste—eovered with stones, and mud, and simile, like the ea seat. Yee see sa immense steam-bailer, the ityllader of • Fewer. fell eagle*, the heavy senor et • arena me diae, a dye pea, ow ,nor deem pipe, Ohs la the midst of • sessnik la • field far from the tall to which they had betrayed awake et hay sad fora have hews heated down bodily and leashed also let remote plasm. I. the middle of liointrtit the teem of Wordisi aeallwa swept has the ante above esea have e meted Ilhe huge dab @obi the haulm sod ether badly, eat laws we desks se sash assenistiss of pro party THR FLOODS IN LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.— , Mr. Bateman, the engineer for the Manchester corporation waterworks, has put forward a statement which show, how imams was the fall of rain that took place in the valleys found is the range of Yorkshire, and Cheshire hills, on the side of one of which Holmarth stands. He calculates that the depth of rain which fell in the Crowden valley, a little above the Woodhead Reservoir, since the beginning of the month, is 6, inches, but that that noes not represent more than two-thirde of the average eluantity upon the whole district, which, es the highest hills, must have exceeded tan inches. The quantity of water impounded into the' Crowdea Reservoir was at one time not less than 160,000,000 gallons, though it is far from finished. For twenty-four' ours the quantity dtsearged was the seonnous total of 1,730 cubit) feet per second, and during thb rains on Wed nesday and Thursday at one time the Food attained so im mense a bulk as to flow along at the rate of 4,000 cubic feet per second. The pipes of the lowest reservoir were ince,. gently dibeharging from between 600 and 600 cubic. feet Fa swat HULL BATH CoMPANT.—Yesterday, Mr. Good chap, the official manager of this company's attain, pre sented his balsam-sheet to the Master, Sir W. llorne, from which it appeared that he had received, on account of the 2'21. call made in December, 2,3841., leaving but a small sum remaining uncollected. It is expected that no further call will be required to discharge liabilities, as to the above sum will have to be added the amount to be realised from the sale of the bathe. THE NEW REFORM BILL. (hem the Daily Neon.) - • The Palms MINISTER having laid before parlia ment his long-expected scheme fur improving and extending the representation of the people, the in terest with which every sentence of the noble lord's exposition was received by those who heard it spoken, can hardly exceed that wherewith each phrase of the elaborate statement has been read alike by friends and foes of popular right throughout the country. On a topic of such universal and paramount impor tance, it is before all things necessary that the exact meaning of each particular should be fully under stood, in order that it may be wisely and dispassionately weighed by the nation at large, be fore any irrevocable verdict is pronounced, or any decisive action, ono way or other, is resolved on. In a matter of so much moment, any other course would be unworthy of a deliberate people. Our rights, and those of our children, may be Jestingly affected by the decision which public opinion shall pronounce on the ministerial proposi tion. Confessedly it in a step; but whither? If really in the right direction, and thereby facilitating further progress, it will be our manifest duty to see that it be made good without delay. And if upon the whole it shall appear to he a step aside rather than onwards, then we should be false to the great prin ciple of progress if we shrank from exposing its ' erring tendency. All thin gs i n p o li t i ca l change are 'of mingled elements, and of necessity combine ad vantages with drawba c k s . Th e question is always, to which side in c lin es th e scale? And if the good preponderates, does it so fur outweigh its opposite as to determine popular judgment decisively in its favour? Let us ngain go over the list of the Palms MINISTER'S propositions and carefully scan their cha racter. The first and best feature of the proposed hill is the extension of the franchise in cities and boroughs throughout the United Kingdom from III!. house holders to those rated at rif. This concession will, according to Lard JOHN'S calculation, increase the constituencies of towns in the aggregate in the pro portion of six to ten. If this fails to reach the main body of the working classes, it unquestionably pos sesses the merit of overpassing the line of demarca tion that has hitherto subsisted between them and the middle ranks of society. In the manafacturing districts a considerable number of those engaged in the higher processes of operative labour will by this provision be admitted within the boundaries of active citizenship. The ice is thereby broken, and we know that the progress of u thaw is always m ire rapid after the long impenetrable barrier has once been infringed on. Closely con nected with this portion of the subject is the raising of the minimum of electors which is to be observed as a test of the borough representation. No town not having at present tidd voters is to be suffered to remain as it stands. With it are to be linked two or more adjacent places, so as to form an electoral group, by whose conjoint suffrages the future repre sentatives are to be elected. This excellent principle is to be applied to Ireland as well as to England and Wales. In point of fact, the dilapidated state of the Irish borough franchise renders its application on , the western side of the Channel more imperatively necessary, if possible, than on this. And thus in two remarkable particulars the practical experience of Scotland will be followed by the rest of the em pire. Groups of boroughs may hereafter be formed in all; and for all the absurdity of requiring a property qualification for members will henceforth cease to exist. The county tenant•at-will franchise is to be re duced from .501. to 201. Why it should be fixed at the latter arbitrary point it requires some effort to discover. The PRIME MINISTER argued truly that a man who was fit to be a county juror could not decently be said to be unfit to vote for members of wliament. That is unquestionably true. Hut Mr. BRIMIT (who expressed his concurrence with Mr. HUME'S cheerful though cautious acceptance of the measure as a whole) asked, with point and force, why a man rated at 51. in a country town was to be deemed worthy of the suffrage, while a man rated at 191. in the county was to be pronounced unworthy? We may probably see a 5/, county franchise moved by way of amendment in committee ; and we shall then see how far the vaunted sympathy of landlords for the agricultural classes generally will carry them. General disfranchisement of small boroughs, after the fashion of 1832, there is to be none; but per manent provision is to be made by a separate enact ment fur the successive disfranchisement of places proved guilty of corruption. St. Albans is to be the first instance of this new system. In every case judicial investigation is to be held into the practices of venality alleged, and, when sufficient proof shall have been given, a short bill shall in each rase be in troduced for the purpose of transferring the forfeited privilege to some other town named therein. There does not appear to be any restriction imposed upon the transfer to a county rather than a town; but Lord JOHN stated that, as far as his own views ex tended, he was not prepared to disturb the balance established by the first Reform Bill between the com mercial and agricultural interests. When the debate upon the Bill arises, we may probably find some independent liberal ready to propose the removal of one member from certain small boroughs that now return two,—and proposing further that the members thus at the disposal of the House be given to certain large towns and districts at present imper fectly represented. Farther, it is proposed that instead of the present wretched medley of oaths prescribed to be taken by protestant and Homan catholic members of parlia ment, one simple oath of allegiance should be substi tuted to be taken by all in common, and in such a form as would no longer exclude the Jews. We believe that the idea of making the question of Hebrew emancipation a condition of the new reform measure was first suggested in the columns of the Daily News. We need not say, therefore, with how much pleasure we now regard its adoption as part and parcel of the ministerial scheme. We think it just, wise, and statesmanlik e • and we trust it may be stedfastly adhered to by those who have seen fit to propose it. Lastly we have the creation of a novel suffrage, founded on the payment of forty shillings in direct taxes—a plan by which thousands of intelligent men, hitherto voteless, will be put upon the register. One or two other matters of comparatively trivial value complete the programme. Such is the sum total of this new measure; and now that it is before the country the people at large must pronounce their i judgment upon it. Within ts range are certainly many . good points. It is a step in the right direo- tion, if but a short one. But we cannot too deeply deplore the one great and lamentable emission—that of THE BALLOT. We have again and again urged the indispensability of protection to the voter, in any popular aye. tem intended to be permanent. We shall never cease to reiterate that opinion. Nay, so strong is our conviction regarding its necessity, that we scruple not to say we think re flecting men will be very much swayed in their mode of receiving the government bill by the consideration how far its acceptance may tend to pro mote the speedier attainment of that essential guarantee of popular freedom. As a means of arriv ing more qiiickly and quietly at that most desirable end, the qualified extension of the suffrage will be hailed by many who, if the bill were offered as the price of surrendering the ballot, would scornfully reject the proposal. The minister may or may not, upon a division of the house, consent to permit secret voting for members of parliament to form a part of his plan. If he decides against the concession. he may rely upon this that the passing of the New Reform Bill will be but the inauguration of a renewed and still more powerful demand for protection in the exercise of the franchise. _ An Extension of the Suffrage if not coupled with—must be inevitably followed by—the Ballot. HULL AND SELBY Ramerair.—The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Hull and Selby Railway Company was held on Monday an the Sees at the Railway BUBB*, HELL Riehard Tottse, Req., in ,•11, It appeared from the report that the . the company amounted to 31,8821. 7s. 9d. ; •t" " recommended that, after the payment of • • t r 4 quarter shares up to the lit of February, ' , should be declared by the meeting of 21.8 s „. the whole, or 504. shares; and of 11. M. • •• - '17 4 - 2_16 1 ;;F , ' the half, or 261. shares. after the transeetMn of some ramie, b • • — lil J separated. • 4 . 5 • '!" •