The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-04 00:00:00

Zia eVinzligs• 1. , ...A.:ItkaSPONUENTS. • levac Wales :t ""iCoats - rress."ssallstmas ;a1 mai s..airs'e "Il.:.sesa. 'ls pubilsbal eves, Tuesday sa I ' , lslay siala, 12 2 2 I ler sea. Setwertaswelastaseniled "Tba /apron; Laden treeing I Ira,. saw 4t odic, Is. Posars.orlosi, Sy Two o'ell.wk ow 1 / 4 lay of wabllesslos. itlo/1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trr DAT-31atutui. 4k. 11.3,.........Aftwa55a. 64 32. e. T 74. S. ....—Marasok 7k. Ms. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOP - EMBER 4. THE Manchester Free Trade meeting—three thou sand strung--endenied a proposal that, on one point at least, the Ministry should be made to speak out forthwith. This great meeting testified its enthu siastic approval of the recommendation, that either by as Amendment to the Address,or by a substantive reso lution in the house, the Free Trade majority should signify that no government will have the confidence of the House of Commons which dues nut distinctly avow its determination to odium to the policy of Free Trade, as hitherto adopted, and to carry it out in every practical way. Less than this ought not to sundry the nation. Less than this no Miniatry which undertaker to e °duct the alLairs of a nation ninoeen-twentieths of which are in favour of Free' Trade, ought to be satisfied with affirming. In making this demand we are guilty of no factious opposition to the existence and the proceedings of the Ministry. We are simply asking that which we have a right now—after years of struggle fur its establialiment, and after its recognition by the immense majority of the nation—to con sider as much a part of the constitution as the Habeas Corpus. We cannot afford to be for ever fighting the same battle over again. It is not be fitting the dignity of the greatest—we had well nigh said the only—constitutional assembly in Europe, that it should be said of it as of the drunken con queror of the poet, Thrice it routed all its tom, Acd thfice it slew the slain. We must not be juggled. But that there is a clear attempt to juggle, is evident by the conduct of the Ministry to one portion of the country—their own .upporters. It is quite certain that these deluded husbandmen hare been led to be lieve, that Lord Di.any's and Mr. Dtsitat:tis aban donment of Protection in their public speeches is merely a trick to blind tbo eyes of the Liberals and Free Traders. Ministerial seducers have patted eel taiu slow-witted bucolic' on the back, and per suaded them that they are the only depositaries of the great secret that Lord DEBBI says one thing and means another. 'The consequence has been that our top-booted friends have turned out some of the most able men in the old house—such as Mr. PCSILT and Mr. Lewis —in order to send in members who will support Lord DEturr whenever he shall think it advisable to give the lie to his present professions. We are glad, then, that Manchester—practical Manchester—should enter its protest against tole rating an embodied falsehood at the head of the government of this country. We insist upon the necessity of putting au end, at once and for ever, to a state of things in which the nation is situated with respect to its government, u the French Republicans before the 2nd of December with respect to the PRESIDENT—aIways, namely, on the qni Tire for a coup !Mat. We want all the assurance that words can give us that Lord Deane and Mr. DISRAELI are not going to treat our commercial charter as Louis NAPOLEON treated the French constitution. Like Louts NAPOLEON. the two Protectionist leaders are ominously silent—like Louts NAPOLEON, they allow their friends to persuade the people that they have the greatest respect for the prin ciples that they hate—like LOUIS NAPOLEON, they have the courage, at least, to execute their plans whenever they fancy that the time is ripe for action. Free Trade must be guaranteed, and then other work may proceed. Bat that gua rantee is the first thing on hand, and mast be dis posed . of "before Christmas." l'cople are. beginning to be impatient of the delay that has taken place in the ordinary legislative functions of the house. With we or two exceptions, legislation for the country is a coupe of years in arrest. In the year 1851, the only plans where you were sure to meet enough members to make a house was the Crystal Palace. Instead of consulting parliamentary papers, members were studying the Exhibition catalogue. In 1832 the two aristocratic parties in the State were occu pied in • series of contests, in which victory did little more than show the weakness of the con queror. Each combatant fought for • prize, which, when gained, he found wu too much for him. In the meantime, the nation was left very much to take ear. of itself. Thus arrears the pre t house will have to make I up, whilst the remarka b le position of affairs, both at i hems and abroad, will tuk all their energies to enable them to meet the emergencies with firmness ' and mean. The army and navy absorb an ewe mom podia of the public menses, sad are in many respects remarkably inefficient. The agitation coc ooning. Church matters—including the question of the revival of Convocation—is assuming as ingest aspect. A large portion of the Catholic Myram k adopted a plan of operat ions which may be pales tive of the greatest embarrassment to the gems. sent. Abroad, the horizon is still we misses Louth NAPOLEOYed attitude is too myelmiens sot to be a subject of anxiety. The ether great seardsental powers arc one and all wableshingly mimed in a crusade against liberty in their ars *Mas i and looking ravenously at the lbw remise ef free institutions still existing in the smaller stales 1111. giant, which has shown itself so well worthy of the free eemetitatioa which it has sejeyed aims the rev°. Intim is threatened by Frames. Piedmoot, with the rest of Italy, is menaced also. Switzerland is in danger. The smaller states in Germeny are bow ing wader the dictation of the pester • whilst Twiny is convulsed is the preemies of Ursa, mime, stelemet stands by ready for the Ant opportunity ef peehing his empire farther east. These are al important emotions. Is the penes "allied to deal with them ! The Sense ef=dele without the Duke of WILIMPOSIO. The How d Ommaas is without Pin. These two stiisemem lob loft is when "ger seed is the sorsit • We belt shoat is vas kr tray Wag Mae peeved talent immaget des whole Illmhby, wiMit es* bawdy is it seserted the anal eves morel their own Imprensa. The aid one of govormaist will be throws apse use mem, fall of talent bet empty of principle—whe bus sot been Is Ass a year, and whs. sow he lee wile his way to Abe, bpi= by hiking dews the Wier upon whisk he semmteL At tie very time when the Pres-tram at llab nester were rase dig their el the DUET ministry Mr. MACAVLAT I et i, was courting tel the we theme. is his reel brilliest way, to h is scestitsents. The hesiserabie gentleman confesses bimaalf utterly sane to draw say inference whatever from the @pashas ef the ministate and their adherents en the edema of Proteedes, while on that of Rehm be says: as I sat say that from the present admisitratiou I is. as to that matter. expert nothing geed. Whet lam to expect from them preeisely I do not know—whether the most obahnete apposition to every change, or the molt insane sad violent slangs For when I look to their eesdnet, I dad the greatest reasons for op. prehending that, though they may at one time resist the most just demands, at smother time, from the merest caprice, they may propose the wildest inno- vations." And these are the men who are ruling this country ea which—it is no exaggeration to say—the pence of the world depends. Have we, then, &eked too Mal ia demerg that, on one vital question at Leak they shall be forced to speak out and be made to Mligr an intelligible line of policy ? Free Trade mot be numb Imre " before Christmas." Burnam Ye head a voice at last. It speaks thread& Sir Puss LAVIIIY.. The well-known older man wine amiertook to " put down" suicide by the irseibehod, his now taken up the cud ge l s f or Beth • Ism t W--a s our readers are aware—told what he • hid to ten to the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday. Biz PM* LAVlttE,—so severe to starving and tattered culprits at the Mansion-hoagie, and so terrible towards al: wretched creatures who d.ire to seek an end for their troubles in the Thames,— stands forward u the champion of the institution whirs Miss Hymn, with other helpless wonicn,werti "sped" and psi to sleep naked in straw " in the bamesstat story, and where men are half garotted with stockings, and brutally beaten by kenptirs. And " the reason why" the Alderman updertakes this duty is clear enough when we remember that hs is him self the really responsible and acting chief of the institution. He is " President" of Bethle hem, and ruler not only of Mr. Treasurer Nteitot.L.4, but of the committee, the matron, the medical officers. the keepers, and, in short, of the whole place. Nu ordinary governor could ever suppose that a man of Sir PETER LAURIE'S station and pretensions could require supervision ; and cer tainly no governor of moderate courage would have ventured to put to him any awkward quo. tioas. Wo have before explained that the three hundred governors contribute members for certain business committees; that the members ea chosen have only partial authority; that practi eally the committees resolve themselves into a very flew acting men; that these acting men lean in reality very much on the Tr. &surer ; whilst the Tlrsosurer is ruled by the President. There is, there. gm, the very best reason why Sir PETER LAURIE should speak at last on this occasion ; and since he hos spoken we may inquire what he can really say in reply to the many and heavy charges laid against , the institution he controls. Ile stands in truth on his own defence. What does his defence amount to? In the first place he regrets that no copy of the evidence was given to the Governors—that Mr. Secretary WALPOLE. refused its general distribution amongst the three hundred gentlemen whose character for humanity is more or less involved in the Bethlehem inquiry, and whose judgment, in trusting patients to such officers as Bethlehem boasts, was clearly impugned. But this is no defence of Sir PETER or of these officers. It' ten millions of copies of the evidence had been authorised for distribution, it would not have called back poor DIARY ANN lIISON to life; or have undone the fact that she was in tolerably good bodily condition when she en tered the hospital; that she was put naked tot sleep in straw in the horrible basement story; mod that after a fortnight she came out of dos place—to die. The printed number of " con hissitial" reports had nothing more Ico do with these Sesadful statements than to expose them. If Sir PETER LAURIE six months ago was so anxious that all the governors should know the allegations *wind Bedlam, why did he not send his own copy of fibs " confidential* report to the newspapers ? But be did nothing of the kind; and it seems tolerably' dear that, unless that document had reached our keel through a totally different channel, it would, la all Immo probability, never have seen the light. based, it gore tar towards proving the complete hihre of Sir PETER LAURIE's defence, when he didelly fall back upon such wretched excuses as this. The statements given in the Espies Isere reprinted from a document issued by the INCIIETARY of firers; the report ws first psi before the public was signed by . the Earl ea' ESBURY; the allegations contained both is eelisace and report were—that gross cruelties elle practised in the institution which Sir Parsa LAURIE presides over—conies of that evidence and report had been in the hands of Sir PETER LAURIE for months before the public learned their contents through our columns. On the 21st of February last the Under Secretary of State, by command, sent to Sir PETER LAURIE copi es of the report, yet now—in November—the President postpones and =tinates, and amongst his own col gives the thoroughly unsatisfactory "explanation" that appeared yesterday in our pages. Two letters we this day publish throw bah light on the ease. Mr. HYbON—tho father of one of the Bethlehem basement patients—gives his answer to Sir PETER LAURIE'S plea; whilst in the other communication we have a governor of the charity explaining the reason why he—at all events —never took any active steps for the inspection of the institution. If other governors will now speak out, we may hope for still mote light on the solVect. Sir PETER LAtutin says ho never had " official • in formation of the investigation into the manage- I ment of Bethlehem ; hut there seems now strong likelihood that both he and the public may receive much knowledge from other sources of great value. He says that the statements were "coloured" Does he mean to say that the report signed by Lord SuArrtsnunv was "coloured " by that nobleman? Does ho mean to say that the shorthand writers "esloured" their notes taken for the Lunacy Commis sioners ? He can scarcely mean either the one se the other. In our columns both v r e e r a n and b sim ply reprinted a. have therefore, in our columns, only the " tiny inherit from Lord SuarrEaeunt's commis sion; and not one ward by way of denial, or satisfactory reply, has yet appeared. But Sir Pffteit Launtit is right in one sense, though Mt in the sense he wishes to convey. The reports arc bind eelooral. There are stains about them that mum* be wiped out; that no haze of offended dig sky can hide—no aldermanic ermine can conceal. The stains are those of secrecy--k —to the most pitiable, the mast afflicted family of man. melty—brutality helpless, of the THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1852. • FRANCE. • PARIS, WIDXVIDLT To dey has been a metastable high-day and holy day at Vanillin. Although, until the appearance of the alonitevr this morales,* was not very generally known that the promise of the President of the Re public to show Abd-el-Kader a cavalry review was to be realised on the plain of Satory to-day, the notice was quite long enough to bring considerable crowds to all the early trains for Versailles. A spe cial train to convey Abd.el-Kader was ordered to be In readiness at a past 11. Some ministers before that time, the minister at war, Gen. St.Arnand, Gen. Magna], and several staff officers arrived at the station in the Place du limn. Precisely at the appointed hour Abd.el-Kader stepped out of his carnage and as cended the steps of the railway Mallon. He was received by the crowd without any cries, but with much respectful deference, not unmingled with un mistakeable signs of companion ; most of the men I near him took off their hats as he approached. He paused several times while mounting the steps, and acknowledged the salutations of the spectators with a sustained dignity and grace, which many Emma sovereigns might study with advantage. There is an extraordinary and captivating beauty about his regular, delicate features, and large wild eye. His adventurous life and the sorrows of his long captivity do not appear to have a b a t e d th e v i gour of his wiry frame. He does not look more than 40 years of age, although some of his biographers fix the date of his birth so far back as 1802. In height he is below the middle size, but so far u the loose Arab dress allows one to judge he is admirably proportioned. There is a grace, light , nese, and activity about hie every motion and ges ture, which, united to the imposing dignity of his I demeanour, is most striking. Although his coun tenance pl ainly bespeaks the gravity of his character, I there is about it none of that nil admirari indifference so much remarked in the Arab sheiks who were here in May. On the contrary he seems to be on the look out for new impressions, and the play of his features clearly evinces the interest he I takes in the many novelties which meet his eye in this the land of his conquerors. The Minister of War received Abd-el•Kader at the station, and conducted him to a state car riage in a train which started immediately for Versailles, and arrived there by a quarter to twelve. At the foot of the steps of the station at Versailles horses were in waiting for the emir, the French generals and the staff. Abd-el-Kader vaulted lightly upon a slightmilk-white Arab charger, belonging to the Prince President, the same which ho tried on Monday at St. Cloud. This charger was richly caparisoned ; the saddle was covered with crimson velvet, and the bridle was of burnished gold. Tho horse had richly gilt winkers closely fitting to the eye, which gave it an unusual appearance for a charger. The party being mounted, Oen. St. Arnaud conducted the Emir to the reviewing-ground on the plain of Satory, a distance of about three-quar ters of a mile from the station. The whole popula tion of Versailles, reinforced by the contents of nu merous special trains from Pans lined the way. The weather was charming—a perfect specimen of a Martinmas summer day. As the cavalcade ap proached Satory, the turf terraces on either side of the road were seen to be thickly studded with groups of well dressed gypsy parties sitting on the round, and enjoying the animated spec tacle which the disposition of the ground allowed every one to see with comfort. The appearance of Abd el-Kader's white burnous upon the vast plain of Satory was the signal for a roar of artillery, and the review instantly commenced. The line of cavalry extended farther than the naked eye could reach. There were, I believe, fiftysquaclrons upon the ground. The review being confined to cavalry and horse artil lery, the movements were executed with extraordinary rapidity. The celerity of the evolutions of the artillery, in spite of the exceedingly muddy state of the ground, was particularly admired. Although a large number of manceuvres, extending over a very large space, were performed the review did not last more than en hour and a half. I had forgotten to mention that, contrary to general expectation, Louis Napoleon was not present. A decree in the Moniker makes the following appointments in the departmental commission of the Seine for the year 1832:—M. Delangle, president; M. Perier. vice-president; M. d'Eichtbal, secretary; and M. Possoz, vice secretary. A Paris correspendet of the Emancopation, of Brussels, says : At the time of the return of General de Castelbajac, French ambassador in Russia, it was everywhere stated that the general would sot return %obis post. I put you, however, ou your guard against this report by saying that the Emperor of Russia had demaaded,tbrough an influential personage, the maintenance of this diplomatist at St.Petemburg. General Ciatelbajac, after an glance of two months, sets of this very day for the Russian capital. Great importance is at tached to this departure; and it is said that M. de Kisseleff, the Russian minister, who left Paris at the moment of the return of Louis Nap oleon, may return here before the pro clamation of the empire. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Riforgamento of Turin of the 31st ult. states that the ministerial crisis there has not yet by any means received a solution. It appears that Genera ls Dabormido and Lamormora, Baron Manno and Count Revel have all declined the offers made to them ; uff it was rumoured that Count Balbo had ahead/ resigned his new powers iuto the hands of the King in consequence. The Turin correspondent of the Official Savoy Gazette states that Count Balbo has only accepted office on the express condition that the Paedmontese constitution be maintained in its integrity. The great est existing difficulty is the dispute with Rome. The Pope, who, it is said, is disposed to acknowledge the Bacardi law and the abolitionef ecclesiastical pri vileges, will not consent to the Civil Marriage Bill, and the mission of the new minister, whoever he is, must be to settle matters with Rome. The follow ing list is circulated in well-informed circles : Bebe, Foreign Affairs and President of the Council ; Revel, Finances; Belo*, Justice; di Pollen°, Interior Moses, Public Works; Broglie, War. elle Court. WINDSOR. Nov. 3. The following had the honour of dining with Lir Majesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Nemours, the Prince and Princess of linhenlobe Langenburg, the Prineesa Adelaide and the Prices Her mann of llohenlobs, the Marquis of Hatter, the Lady-in wafting to the Duchess of Kent, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, and the Right lion. B. bteraeli. Prince Albert, eseepopasied by t h e Duke of Nemours, went out shooting this morning, attended by Lieut.-W. the lion. A. Gordon. The Marquis of Exeter and the Right Hen. D. Disraeli left the Castle to-day for London. The Earl of Weirdos' has been invited, and is expected to arrive this afternoon on a visit to her Majesty. The Queen and Prince accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Nemours and the Prince and Princess of Hohen lobe Langenburg, drove out this afternoon in two open carriages and four. Prince Hermann of Hohenlnhe rode on horseback. Colonel the lion. Charles Orel and Licut.-Colunel the Hon. A. Gordon were in attendance on horseback. ..... Mr. Edward Simla% of Birmingham, bad the honour of attending at the Castle with his patent safety lamp, and other improved household lamps for the inspection of his Hoye' Highness Prince Albert. Sir Robert H. Inglis bad an interview with Sir John rakington yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer retained to town yes terday front Wind.or Castle. Mr. John Woad, Chairman of the Board of bland Revenue, had an interview with this right hen. gmtleman at his official residence; in Downing street. Mr. Waddington, Uoder•Secretary of State for the Home Department, arrived in town yesterday from the Deanery, Durham. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. Despatches were also received yesterday from the Governor of Gibraltar PRINCE ALBERT AT TRINITT-noose.—Yesterday, at 2 p.m., his Royal Highness Prince Albert visited Trinity house, and was installed Master of the Trinity Corporation in the room of the late Duke of Wellington. The Prince wore the Trinity uniform. After taking the oaths nod his seat, the Prince partook of a rhiesetier with the members of the court, and having inspected the models, plans, nod other objects of interest in the establishment, took his de parture. Sir George and Lady Carroll will leer() England on blentlay nest for Gibraltar, co route for Malaga, whrre they intend to pans the winter, on account of the delicate state of Mies Carroll's health. THE ADDRESS IN REPLY TO THE ROYAL SPEECH. -It is believed that the address in the House of Commons will be moved by Lord Loraine, member for North Northumberland, and seconded by Mr. K Christopher Egerton, the member for Macclesfield.— Morning Herald. This being the customary period for effecting the reliefs of regiments serving in the Mediterranean, arrange meets have been made to send the service companion of the 31st and 67th Regts. (rein Ireland to Corfu, to replace the 41st and 47th which proceed to Malta, to replace the 76th which proceeds to Nova Scotia, to replace the 97th which is to return home. The 48th and 71st Regis. proceed to Corfu, to replace the 49th and 92nd which proceed to Gibraltar, to replace the 44th which proceeds to Canada, so as to bring the 20th 'tee. home. Tim 2nd battalion Ist Foot proceeds from Cork to the lonian Island., to replace the 30th ltegt. which proceeds to Gibraltar, to replace the 26th which proceeds to the West Indies, to replace tho 34th which proceeds to Nova Scotia, to replace the 42nd to come home. The lith 8440. proceeds to Mauritius, to replace the 2nd battalion 12th Foot sent from thence to the Cape of Good Hope. BELGIUM. MINISTERIAL DECLARATION. BRUSSELS, WZDNISDAY. The Chamber of Representatives re-assembled this aftermen, imam it was expected that ministers would Rake a statement respecting their line of policy, the pulls eadreeemml trees, as well as the one ap propriated he the emotemedation of the diplomatic corps, was leowded. It was remarked that on M. Hosier, the lots pfte mdaister, entering the Cham ber, be preseedet to the government benches, and she* Mob very semßally with every member of the new cabinet. After some preliminary business had been con cluded, M. H. di Broacher?, President tithe Council gegjigigeteeciff Affairs, 02040 unlit proestind red the circumstances undir which to= team a reiniatry. et the miluid donna of hie Idejedy. He (the Ethane) freely edsehted that remit - paellouseataryelestiona end the meek et the votes, ia ileptentber last, for the poet of Clilaof theCbserber,_ _bed disturbed the old n t lajority; but he did not believe that that majority had been Mopes up. He was convinced that the libend pony hod still a majority in the Chamber, end he Would adduce in plod the election of the meant honourable pest. The new misiatry was one et moderetien, and it would be as mmelliating as pomade ; bat no one should have jest mess to mew it of conceal ss or betraying the liberal bg whisk he and his eellsegam bed se ling upheld. He we. happy to my that the ablest wee a perfectly homogeneous me, se dilheeene of ilialiNalffligul a r any points of palsy. Ho 1~ lu hype the new ▪ which had nailrne desired nor sought power, and which adopted the principles of moderation, would obtain the support of the Eight, and of the w iseh tmedority. The country was in a deli c at e an d position, and it behoved all patriots to give it a helping hand. The present cabinet had made no demands or promises in other quarters. So l o n g a ministerial crisis as the one just ended would pro ems the mast serious inconveniences in other ooun tries, but in Belgium it had only served to manifest in a strong light the good sense, prudence, and pat notism of the people. Belgium would continuo to de serve the esteem of Europe, as well as the confidence of European governments. The minister, in conclu sion, passed a warm eulogium on the National Con gress which had drawn up the admirable constitution of Belgium, and urged all present to keep the labours of that illustrious assembly in view. On resuming his sett, the minister was cheered on both sides of the house, but not very unanimously or warmly. As I was leaving the Chamber, the rap porteur of ono of the section or committees com meneed rea.ling an analysis of the petitions against the ratification of the literary convention with France. MUNICIPAL ELP.CTION 3.—The municipal election here is just over. Tie tories made a desperate effort to return the four memben, think ing to pin an ascendancy in the council chamber, where politics have for the last fifteen years been unknown. The retrogrades .hsving, however, given the challenge, the liberals accepted it, and gallantly returned three out of the four. Clove of the poll Beynon, hheral, 2.Y..); ral, ; Harvey, tory, 221; girychureb, liberal. 217. The council, as now constituted, gives 12 liberals and 4 Wks. r, Nov. GERMANY. The Cologne Gazette of yesterday contains the fol lowing telegraphic despatch : VIENNA, Nov. L The minister you Buol-fichauenstein, in the smash by which he opened the Zoll conference, said, " Shedd des &dank be broken up, a customs unioe of 48 valllises el men will supply its place. For the rest it is formally de clared that Austria does not wish that dissolution, nor does she yet give upnll hope of explanation', for which she is still read)." WELLINGTON AND NELSON. TO Till IDITOk Or TM! ETIMMIS. 5114—Permit • suggestion that at the Duke's Funeral a place should be allotted, to enable the old war gainers of Greenwtah Hospital to witnew t►e promotes. The route to be taken being now settled to be by Pall-NA Charing-cross, the Strand, due., the Nelson Column is Tin. falgar-square will afford au excellent site for their amen motlation. The main body of these veterans should be ranged at the foot of the pillar, some of the older Trafalgar heroes being grouped on the rising steps of, and at each corner of the column, which might be decorated with ap propriate flags. The close proximity of the river affords facilities for bringing up these old men without undue fatigue, while another advantage will probaby arise from the adoption of %hie suggestion, that of causing the removal of the unsightly scaffolding at present disfiguring the base of the column. B. 'i4.;5;115 - 2. A VALUABLE 1)00.—A master butcher of ()mode l'inte, near Paris, was seated at supper with his family on Saturday nigLt, when all at once one of his do g s b egan to bark violently. Ile went out, and the dog, barking still louder, fixed his eyes on the window of the hed-rourn. On looking up the butcher perceived a man, hesitating whether to cinema or not. Ile called to his assistants to keep watch outside, to prevent the man from escaping, and then went upstairs with two of his dogs. The dogs rushed at the bed, beneath which the thief had crept, and if they could have got at him would probably hairs done him great injury. The gendarmes, having been sent fur, arrived, end arrested the man, who had not ventured to stir from his hiding place. In his possession acre found two gold watches and a bank-note of I,ooofr. The fellow bed placed two pistols and poignard en the talde. Unfortunately it turned out that before 11-ing diroorered he had thrown two bags, con taining 1,600 fr., out of the window, and that they had been carried off by accomplices. SIR PETER LAURIE AND BETHLEHEM. TO VKB IDITOk OF THE DAILY NMI. 81/I,—ln justice to myself, my witnesses, and the public, allow me to trespass on your valuable space to reply to Sir Peter Laurie's answer concerning Bethlehem Hospital, in the Court of Aldermen, held yesterday. Alter the Lord Mayor stated that Sir P. Laurie " was most anzi• ous to address the court on the extraordinary proceedings which had lately taken plate," S,r Peter commences by saying, " He was very glad that the questeon bad been put by his honourable friend. Nothing would have given the president mid committee of Bethlehem Hospital greater pleasure than to have forwarded copies of the report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to every governor, but they bad been prevented from making such communication by the Secretary of State, for whtee information the inquiry wee made, and to whom, therefore, strictly speaking, the report at present exclusively belooged." Whoa* fault war it that the Secretary of State ever had such a "report" brought to his notice ? Why, let me wit Sir Peter Laurie—why was not my word, nay, even my en ' treaty, to be listened to ? Sir Peter showed me letters he had received on my first mil to him confirmatory of my complaint. Wee Sir Peter jealous I should pluck some of the laurels from his brow in bringing to light abuse ? It was not a swindling transaction. It wee a cue or cases of cruel treatment, and that in an establishment in which Sir Peter Laurie was the president. I say that "report" would have shocked the public ear had Sir Peter en tered on that inquiry, as it was clearly his duty es presblent to do, when I sacrificed my time and health honestly to lay the circumstances before him personally. Now, sir, I ask so , honest man what can he think of Sir Peter's " ignorance in answer to Alderman Copeland's question ' Was he to undentaild that the governars of Bethlehem Hospital had no knowledge of the commission which was sitting to investigate their conduct?" Sir Peter Laurie—" Not oj!csally. They bad never re received any official communication upon the subject." How can he say be was ignorant of that commission ? He had himself been called to attend at Spring-gar dens ' • so bad his nephew, so bad the hospital medi cal st aff, his resident apothecary, his matron, his treasurer, his steward, and many female and male attendants of his "modal institution ;" and yet Sir Peter has no knowledge, " officially," of the commission. Allow me, Sir, to say, in Sir Peter s case—" 'gnomes is bliss; 'tie folly to be wise." "Facts are stubborn things ." So it appears, thinks Sir Peter, and so he Sods the " report "—they are facts. Sir t'eter acknowledges having received it, ' printed," on the 2nd of April (now seven months back). Where is his an swer ? Has be given any ? No. Ile wishes for near ano ther fortnight to elapse before as answer is given. Did he ever grant eight months for the slimed to enter on his de fence? He also says:—" But knowing the ease with which charges against lunatic hospitals mart made, and the diffi culty wi'.b which they were rebutted, even when totally unfounded, he felt moored that tint wart, sad the publil, would take a very Mimeo mew hem that adopted by the commissioners, sad time bellare they filmed a conclusion they would bear in mind the Maariptlon on the wall of the court—' Hear both aides.' " . . . . . Peter 7 knOW; ; Thad no easy job in substantiating my charge* against his "model instituting." This is nu privata affair, but one that concerns the eommunity at large. God only knows who may in.. that greatest of all I beg, sir, to conclude by returning you my sincere thanks for the noble part you have taken in this ugly busi ness, and asking perwission to meet Sir Peter on the flour of his own court (of aldermen) with my witnesses (upwards of 20 in number), and let the publie " bear both sides." I have not yet stated ell I know. I am, sir, your humble servant, 6, Park-place, Henniagtowairm. T. J. IIYSON. THE AUSTRALIAN SCREW STEAMER MELBOURNE. The Australian mail packet Melbourne left London for the latter end of September. She experienced os damage and delay is going down the Channel, MA Odd not start hem Pismire* with the mails at the W. Altar she bad been repaired, and was leaving so meek' an her route, she met again with some tlemer i l e n that Isasicoar, which caused some furthe r delea. At she /sally left Plymouth on the 16th of ' but had net bees two days at see before she bow limestaid and Inky, sad her screw became en ameled- Tee till 2s alto am coarsely manageable, and ara at lila 1111811,7 of the waves. She bag nann in l l 4lo pestangers as heard, and their accent mmialle• sow became oseerabia At length the Melbourne samemiliod into Lisbon, wham her passengers and cargo WSW bmthsd It is not axpeoted that she will ever be fit to left as yoyage that to Australia. Ekght of riiall 1111 messeeses an England yesterday, in the Penin sular podia. Madrid, and numbers of the other passengers are pesprhei to soma to England by the first opportunity and sue the Asumatian Mail Packet Company for damages. This is emit disaster, not only for the company, but al o for the nahrtaaaas wengers of 'he Melbourne. The lose to many of them, by the delay in reaching their destination, will be very greet, and, la elditlott to this, they have suff,red much San bodily discomfort and mental anxiety. The Mel• bourne was a Queen'. ship called the Glasgow, and was pur chased of the government by the Australian Company. It would appear that the Glasgow was first-rate chip. The government inspection of the Melbourne must have been very loosely performed previous to her departure with the math, as she became leaky in almost smooth water, and when she became dismasted the weather was not very tem pestuous. It would he a proper act on the part of the go • varnment to immediately despatch a strew steamer to Australia to tate on the mails and pamengers of the Mel bourne. The mails are heavy and very important, and there will be no packet again before December. Cunsider ing the tra ffi c which the gold discoveries i n A u st ra li a h ave called forth, arrangements more eMcient than theta made by the Australian Mail Packet Company might have been expected from the capital and enterprise of Great Britain. GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY IN TUE MEDITERRANEAN. —Tito Trieste Gazette of the 28th ult. sa)s : "An English courier, who arrived here yesterday a few hours after the departure of the reAular steamer, hum, dintcly enzsged a special boat of at: Austrian Lloyd, at a cost of 8,000 floriug, to esetinue the voyage to l'atras. This is the third courier who has arrived hero within tin last hw days. LYING IN STATE AM) FUNERAL Or Tit DUE OF WELLINGTON. The design for the lying in state has been com pleted by Professor Cockerel!, assisted by the peach. cal experience of Mr. Holland, and has also been seen and highly approved of by the Queen and Prince. Albert, to whose inspection it was submitted the evening before last, by the Marquis of Exeter, who went down specially to Windsor for the purpose. , Her Majesty was, we understand, most warm in her expressions of admiration. We were favoured yes terday evening with a sight of the completed draw. ing, and venture to anticipate that the royal approval will be ratified by the verdict of the public. Cont. mencing at Queen's row, the public will pass into the hall through a partially covered way draped with black cloth, into the vestibule, the dome of which, nearly ono hundred feet high, will be gracefully fes tooned in the same sombre material. The long I draperies will descend to the floor, mid be finished and held together In the centre by an enormous plume of black feathers, descending in the form of a chandelier. A dim light will be hero diffused by means of a few large candelabra, this sombre illumination being purposely arranged in order to bring oat in more sulking contrast the ex treme gorgeousness of the interior. On entering the hall the eye, assisted by eighty-three enormous can delabra' ranged round the hall, will be first struck with the sable hangings with which the walls and ceiling ac completely covered, and the niches, in each of which is tll stand, with arms reversed, soldiers in pairs of the Duke'a regiment. A passage strongly railed off, and eight feet wide, will carry the public up to the dais, the magnificence of which will far surpass anything that has hitherto been seen in this country in the way of funeral decoration. It will be tarty-five feet wide by thirty-five deep, and com pletely covered with cloth of gold of the most costly description. From the ceiling will descend a mug-' nificent canopy of black velvet spangled with silver stars, and fringed with ornaments of the same material. Over the front of the canopy will be thrown a heraldic mantle with the family arms of the deceased emblazoned iu gold. The lining will bo silver tissue decorated with black spangles, and the corners will be looped up in festoons also suspended from the ceiling. The coffin, which has already been described, will be placed on a raised platform, surrounded by an ornamental fence massively silvered, on the pedestals of which will be placed lions rampant, each bearing a shield with one of the Duke's numerous armorial devices. The dais will be lighted from ten hollow columns having reflectors inside, and so arranged as to throw the light completely on the bier, while appearing them selves dark and sombre to the spectator. The designs of these columns will represent bundles of spears bound with laurel and studded with hatchments. Besides these the bier will be surrounded by twelve smaller candelabra silvered, and containing four lights each, the whole so arranged as to throw the whole body of light on the dais and its contents, while the remainder of the hall is left in compara tive gloom. The back ground of the whole will be formed of a " Trophy," consisting of the flags captured by " The hero of a hundred tights," in his various well-fought fields, while, at the foot of the coffin, in front, will be seen a touching memorial of his greatness, being a collection of all his military insignia and decorations. Among these are nine marshal's batons, foreign orders innu merable, and last, but not least interesting, the sword he wore at Waterloo. At the head of the coffin will be placed three handsome chairs, for the chief and two assistant mourners—functions which will no doubt be fulfilled in turn by some of the most distinguished personages in the kingdom, as there are tew who would nut deem it an honour to be re corded as one of those who had so officiated. The whole of the draperies of the hall will be trellised with silver cord. The difficulty of carrying out all these elaborate and costly arrangements in time will severely test the resources of Messrs. Dowbiggin and 'Jutland, especially as several of the materims to be used must be specially manufactured. Among other things, they have had to send to Germary for a large pun tion of the gold and silver cloth, it having been found quite impossible to get it in sufficient quantity in England. 'these articles, which will cost respec tively 31. ss. and 21. ss. a y ard, will be among the most expensive features in the detorations. The inscription for the coffin plate, which was only returned from the Lord Chamberlain's office yester day evening, ism; follows: " The most high, mighty, and most noble Prince Arthur, Duke and Marquis of Wellington, Marquis Douro, Earl of Wellington, Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington, and Baron Douro of Wellesley; Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, one of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council, and Field-Marshal and Com mander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Forces. Born Ist May, 1779; died 14th September, mu.. It is not expected that the preparations will be completed until the 14th, and consequently the 'funeral procession cannot take place until the 21st. There will be no private or preferential view, except one visit by her Majesty and Prince Albert. At St. Paul's, notwithstanding every exertion, the works get on rather slowly : The timber work is extremely heavy, and there is great difficulty in moving the large beams, arising partly from the absence of machinery, and partly from the peremptory order of the Dean and Chapter that nothing should be rolled or dragged along the pave ment. The gas mains are all laid, and preparations are being made for an experimental lighting up for the inspection of the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Mr. Banting's men have already begun to cover one of the galleries in black, but there is no truth in the statement which has been published that the interior of the vast dome is t o be decorated with the same material. Although the men work until ten o'clock every night, there will be great difficulty in getting the fittings ready by the time appointed. His Grace the Earl Marshal, attended by his private secretary, Mr. Dandy, and accompanied by Sir Charles Young, Garter Bing-at-Arms, paid a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday, for the purpose of in specting the arrangements in progress within that sacred edifice. His grace was received by Mr. Plucknett, one of the partners in Messrs. Cubitt's firm, and conducted by that gentleman over the works, which are now in a very advanced state. The duke made minute inquiries as to the accom modation to be afforded for the public, and carefully examined the various galleries, addressing a number of questions to Mr. Plucknett as to their stability, Ike. His grace, having made a complete survey of the building, expressed himself entirely satisfied with the works so far as they had proceeded, and promised to pay another visit in a few days. Two non-commissioned officers and six men from each corps in the service, are to attend the Duke of Wel lington's funeral. The Berlin correspondent of the Journal la Frank fort writes: The deputation of the Prumian army which is to attend the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, will be eompoeed of Baron Hiller de Gartringen. General of In fantry, on the retired list; two Aides-de-Camp of the King; and of the colonel and some officers of the Vith Regiment of Infantry,of which the Duke was the cowman. dant. M. de Hiller is the only Prussian officer noir dying who commended a considerable body of troops at Waterloo. In addition to this official deputation, more than 40 generals and officers of the staff will attend. It is said that the Prince of Prussia will leave Coblentz on the 14th for Lon don for the same purpose. M. de Khselcff will return to Paris in a fortnight. General do Wrangel will return from his journey to Constantinople at the beginning o f Novemts r." SOUTH LONDON BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY.— Yetterday evening, a public meeting in connexion with this society was held in llawkatene-hall, Waterloo-road. The chair was taken by Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M.P. The secretary read the directors' address, from which it ap peared that the society is constituted on the terminating and completing plan, but without any redemption fee. The directors claimed the confidence of the public, both borrowers and investers, as having been the managers of the South London Temperance Building Society, now at the commencement of its ninth successful year. After the reading of the report, Mr. Pellatt addressed the meeting in 1 1 recommendation of the subject. It was then moved by Mr. T. A. Smith, and seconded by Mr. James Sears, and carried, that the meeting having heard the statement read by the secretary of the objects end priutipita of the society, was opinion that this society was deserving of the cordial sup port of the middle and working classes. PARLIAMENT. (From tits Daily New.) PARLIAMENT meets to-day, and its first business will be to choose a Speaker and Chairman of C mittee of Ways and Means. It ie generally under. stood that Mr. Sitaw leeeevne, who tilled the same high office in the last Parliament, will be elected without opposition. Entitled by his length Of her , vice to a peerage—the customary reward that awaits persons filling this eminent and tesponentile station, —it was hoped perhaps by the present government that Mr. LE:FEVRE would not again have offend him self at the last general election to the constituency he has so long represented. It is certain that more than one of their own party w as ambitious of the enviable distinction. Fortu nately, however, fur the Lite:rale—and fortu nately, perhaps, for the Ministerial minority likewise—the same expAieneed hand is cer tain to be chosen once more, and in preeem e of such a competitor neither Mr. Waeteet.e. nor Sir FitemeleK Tilesinete would have any chants: of success. Government makes a merit, therefiere, necessity, and abandons meekly the customary claim of nominating the President of the Commons. The campaign time opens by . a decisive abandon. ment of one of the great positions of the field. It is the unfurling of the Hag of retreat, which cannot be hidden or disguised from either friends or fees. 'Tie nut that the Speaker has often to give a casting vote, or that either side expect or desire tee obtain any party advantage from having a friend in the chair. Traditional equity and the high tone of constitutional manners--which more than any wri•te n forms govern our Legislature--render it 'aimed a mutter of incredulity that any political leaning should bo shown by the first gentleman in the highest assembly of gentlemen in England. And it is obvious that on all ordinary occasions the political party who place one of their number in the poet of umpire practically make a sacrifice of a voice and an influential vote during several religions. Nevertheless, it is universally . understood and acknowledged that the Speakership is the highest honour in the immediate gift of that party for the time being pred o . meant in the I louse of Commons, and, as such, its bestowal has a grave and deliberate significancy 14 renter than any other formal act which the Heeler branch of the legislature can be called on to perform. Ministers are fully conscious of this, and with their usual desire to "dodge", they will endeavoueit is supposed, to cover their retreat front the steps o f the chair by placing a newly-found ally at the right hand corner of the table; they will strive to compensate themselves for the humiliation of a Whig Speaker by impressing a Peelite for Chairman of Committees. A Prone tioniht for either place they dare nut name ; and in their forlorn and destitute condition they are oniy too glad to affect unbounded deference for a Whig opponent, and impartial appreciation of business talents in a Peelite adversary. Mr. WILSON PATTEN held North Lancashire against them, and voted in their teeth for six long years ; and he is now to have his reward in their humble solicitation that lie still do them the honour to allow them to name him Chairman of Ways and Means. There is an exqui site consistency in these two steps in the business of the session, eminently characteristic as they are of the party who at present hold office without power. No denunciation of customary privileges is too abject, no abnegation of vows and professions too open for them. Let them but be allowed to tie and untie the tapes, and to be paid for the tying and untying of the same, and they are contented. Let them but have permission to bow at the bar and bring in bills founded on any principle, they care not what the principle is, whether one they aro entitled to call their own, or one they have picked by sleight of hand out of their opponents' pocket. Were it possible for the measures of a few mer cenary men whom accident has placed for the hour in a prominent position to peril the character of great assembly—an assemble, the oldest and most powerful in the world—Mr. Minim.' and his col leagues could not fail to do so. Happily there is no danger of such misconstruction; the nation has pronounced its opinion unmistakeably. It has not indicated by name whom it would have for minister of the crown, but it has distinctly and impressively declared its distrust and disgust of a cabinet of double dealers. The majority whom it has sent to the new House of Commons to express this opinion may he sitate or waver about its utterance—but uttered it assuredly will be ere very long, and that in a tune which cannot be mistaken. Tho duty of electing a Speaker and a Chairman being over, the house will next have to discharge the duty of verifying its own constitution. Its members must be sworn at the table in the anomalous fashion which still unhappily exists, whereby some three or four different furuas of solemn adjuration are pre scribed as necessary to be observed by members of different creeds. Surely it is time that something so like solemn Wiling or profanity should be put an end to by the adoption of one common test of loyalty to the constitution. Let us hope that this is the last occasion on which the Churchman, the Dissenter, and the Catholic, will be called upon to stand at the same table and to call Gen to witness that they hold themselves bound by the terms of three separate vows, regarding the interpretation and meaning of which terms they are utterly disagreed—as the votes of the last Parliament in the case of Alderman SALOMONS confessedly prove. The dignity and honour of the house imperatively require that en end should be put to this scandal, and that one uniform oath should be imposed upon all who are chosen by the people as their representatives in Par liament. The members of the house being once enrolled another duty devolves upon them. Many returns will be impeached fur invalidity of various kinds. IThere will be the old traps and quirks regarding property qualification and other merely technical points, to which it is unnecessary further to allude. But by far the greater number of election petitions will, it is probable, raise the grave and serious ques tions of intimidation and bribery. It deeply con cerns the safety and influence of the House of Com mons, that such practices should once and for ever be dealt with in a wise and firm spirit of correction. Random projects, like that of Lord BeouonAst, for converting political larceny into felony, were worse than useless. Swiftness and certainty of detection are infinitely better guards against the perpetration of crime than revolting and impracticable penalties It is plain that society does not look with the horror on electoral corruption that it naturally does upon bar glary or horse-stealing ; and society is right in re fusing to confound what lunatic legislation alone would seek to equalise. But public opinion e: neither indifferent nor callous to the shame and till of corrupt practices, because it will not call them by wrong names, or commit the hypocrisy of regarding them as crimes of the first class. Public opinion ears earnestly and loudly for the efficient repression of these base acts, and points with true discernment to the cheap and ready means by which they may be held in check, if not wholly eradicated. If pick pockets were still subject to be flogged through the town, branded in the cheeks or otherwise tortured, nogentleman of humane disposition would be able to keep a silk handkerchief twenty-four hours in his possession; he could not bring himself to be the instrument of bringing punishment so dispropor tionate on the poor and ignorant, and rogues would profit without check or scruple by the impracticable severity of the law. it is even so with bribery. It must be made an ordinary misdemeanour, and punish able as such in the ordinary courts of justice. Tbis and the cheapening of the trial of contested returns are the true means by which an honest Parliament may vindicate its sincerity in the cause of ri presen tative rule. Let us hope that the new House of Commons will turn its back upon obsolete prece dents and practices in this matter, and thus add a new chapter to the code of law reform. STARTLING DISCOVERY AT THE IVATEIII,OO t riox. Yesterday, while come carpenters were • in plo3 ed in the removal of some cupboards in the apartment forint rly aced as a cloak room for the deposit of luggage and travelling gear at the principal station of the S ou t h Western Railway, in the Waterloo-road, they one of them a paper box, of the dimensions of an ordi nar y , hat box, to which they drew ths? attention of the clerk s!.l that department. 'I his person, on discovering that it emitted a most offewdve stench, resolved to examine it ! contents. The box was aecordingly opened, and wa s t ‘T nd to contain the body of a full-grown fs male Want. The circumstances connected with the department show t?, the box must have lain in the precise spot white it "" found fur upwards of twelve mantha, but it is n kn.esa by whom the box was depoaited at the station. discovered In MIL .gaii We i of ag Gen bel:l3 REM knee men anco day In Oct of tt ars in fro the del ca/ th, lib ha