The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-27 00:00:00

'rinse Frederick Charles of Of Prince Charles. kswig-llolstein duet an Germans to lend their tg war, as free corps. 'ARIA, APRIL 25.—CATA, avy explosion, attended with halillon. It resembled the t number of persons rushed i_ the iron foundries" wa , in,,,,, some wo7kmen,hlackened and he into the town, running through t heart-rending shrieks. Oi house contained one - burned, and suffering ( midst of the fire which were wemen, children, and 1 , and brothers. The extent wn. One of the masters of r" Rotid.tt (the son), of La Cl is friend, and the cashier, we persons have perished, and ti yet known. The cause of to cast a very large man of iron, earth into which some water fowl alten iron exploded with great cc ES IX THE FIIENCII PRuvl mg took plug at Mantes on Sur ins. Some days previously, it nismry, had caused a list to be e Ming the names of 12 candidates ~ and bearing the words blow : ' 1 thrown into the urn." The club ine, highly disapproving of the wt (other list on 6 tturday to M. It, fet, t (see. But just as the latt, r was 1 11. Rowe came and threatened hit way his license. The printer, in- Field. The next morning, in eto by the mini. ipal count the national guard called out ; eeterminai to send M. Roux away d saw the crowd which had awl tering cites of A bas le eontrnissali ilk, and declared that he did nut fee The crowd, however, forced him tire compelled him to get into train that was going off. He ring thence to St. Germain, he took with him to establish .s at re-entered Mantes the same evenina himself at the Prefecture. The crow; eciing, forced their way:into the I' , Ling that they could lay their amnia, d with the national gut. a obliged to again take his depu elegateai from the club immediately wt r,Treseuting the matter to M. Ours , - , obtained from him that anothr t, should be sent to take M. Ito— arrived at llantee yesterday at four Union of Besancon states that a (et e event took place ut St. Germain, near nted a man who hail been conleme ting in the election of officers of'' cxaspemted the man that he layer. He armed himself wit ,nothtr in the hands of his mined the Mayor, and rushed afte an which he hat sought refuge. i was really menaced, the Mayor pal , is brews!, and, atter vainly summonim , thilraw, discharged it at the nearest , the spot. The other took to Sight. tely placed. himself in custody, imt ar yt proved that he only acted in self-de , The f 'ourrier de l' hail's states that Ikf r erior has confirmed by a telegraphic ~._ M. Chancel, sub-commisioncr in the Di ad, commissioner-general of the depart the Droste. mail the Hautes-Alpn. in to send M. Chancel to Paris. The MAWS from Saint Gaudens that M. untarrsary of the Ratite Garonne, in s of S tint Gsudens, said, 4 ' If you do , horn 1 propose to you, dread to witne sanguinary days of the `2oth of August, Aber.' - - - - irrg ON RAILWAYS.—M. Charles . a long letter to the Journal des D.:bals t, chase of the railways by the state. In says—" If it be desired to form an idea of f.ct which the taking of the railways by 11 xtheut any discussion, and aceemplished red in virtue of its dictatorial power, %Mild: nt to ascertain the impression c the representatives of the differ. nt hise. ertures which the minister mmle them envoi:ea by him. None of his numerot to of the mo lee' of purchase indicated b' isfactory, and especially none could reser' it. per.ons 'to believe themselves r must know that they are also a discussion before a tribunal of arbitre its decrees not be mole advantag , pp..aition• of the government. mu . the companies, and prove to theit that, in dispossessing them of the lines, it o spoliate them. Ai to the practical mew on of the measure, it would be too long •re in detail; it seems to me, how. no d.iscussion on the general ha-es, • s, according to which the different . treated. All the railways have different , and howeq coneeuently sliffsrent conditions c may ' ver, be classed in three very those which are completed, and have been ficicrylv long to render it possible to ce of their rev e nues—those which r 51:ruction, or which, already partirilly opened a fraction of tneir length to t. ie which have been recently terminated. rmivated and already worked for some tie deans, Rollin, Havre, &c., the only equitat them would be that which should tie calculi t of their receipts, whatever be the price at solders purchased their shares. The prit :rs, although at present there are very fe rprieee, and although they only paid the 1 sacs incurred all the risks of the affair, ty in offerii.g them tho chance of profits to at they were induced to offer their capital. E' that the promise made to them shall be shall n,t be punished for the courage which every one was so distrustful ; that they be p c line as those who, having bought their I period, paid them on the price of revenue besides gave a premium for the hopes of t guaranteed by the eahiers des charges, w) shareholder against any purchaser of the and c.en after that period, act torth in adc of the purchase by the state. The prig ilaccordiug to..the revenue eu;ht then to s p ec ially as on consulting the laws and co t t the different companies, it will be seen gm basis on which the purchase is to be s deo demands that for the lines which are stit. lion, the stasc shall repay the shareholders what they disbursed, and that it shall not - pport the consequences of the erroneous' to the companies by the government, wh bilged to accept at the beginning e possible for them to control the engineers " shs Ponta et Chauseees." trictly just with respect to th em, the i of railways in einstruction, and who at lit impossible to continue their undertaking, • aced in the position in which, confiding in '' f the seivernment, in the estimates of their e the ruain'enance of public tranquillity, they irtune. Finely, as regards the shureholdr Lich, having been able to surmount all i rived at the end of their career, and has of events to open their lines, as for lontereau to I roves, and from Amiens dosy not only uwe them the repaye ve di,buiecd, hut also a just indemnity • of which it deprives them at the very moms they were about to receive the price of their sa , mot speak here of the questions relative to '..- , i .,., .1 , by the companies, to the orders given by thi ements of every kind which they have entere , using them, to put itself in their place, ant can only take their obligations to its charge. st good sense indicates it." I.GIUM.—The c3ntinned inundations in NO A llelyiurn cause mu ch apprchen-ion. e Jewel "nt6nurg Beige says, it is really inconceivable that* ament should take no steps to remedy the Mondale teulensbron:., which, at this monaLut, is complete wged. The dykes have n bruits's in several ;duel tsequence of which there ee is a vast accumulatise t during the last few days. The oats and potatoss resj re been sown to-day, but it was found impracticable quence of the land being submergi.d uith water. 'il brow cattle-which usually graze here at the cornmeal of April are wholly without fodder. It is of tea; e por tance that instant measures should be adoptai ning of the country. :SSIA.— ST. PeTERSIII:II 6 . The if,,,imit tap e d me of the '22nd of April says, apprehensions fi tacl at t. Pete of a prohibihon to export tn of the 15th, howev v, ray that • notice has y cot vcd by the authorities of the customs from the nil minding that no obstacle shall be oppobed to the ecious metals by sea. -------.. L ,NIBF.TII PENsION SOCISTY.—This charity t, the object of which is to grant pensions to wing persons of Loth sexes, resident in the borou have never been chargeable to the poor-rate, RAI meeting yesterday evening at the Horns ington.—The Rev. Dr. Dalton, Rector of L g been called to the chair, the secretary pr the report, from which it appeared that the Into the past year were, annual subscriptions 503 subAcriptions, 2031. 75.; making, with ?Tome& of on, &c ., a total of 9671. lls. The expenses ions, 603/. 17s. ; and the balance in hands, after ments, 731.17 a. 3d. The society, which was ft 820, had received since the commencement, 16,1 i 'eh sum 12,7861.11 u been dispensed in pensions to I crying ough showing a "light increase, did not exhl),lt sir in the prosperity of the society m its great u.l the amount of distress in the estroolor borough a it would oeom ro is for. irbe Court. 1 His Excellency Baron de Beust left Osborne yes terday for town. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood awed in town yesterday, from limkletop lied, Don- Mao. i The K 8 ht Hon. H. L a b one here arrived in town witerdcf • AGGREGATE MEETING OF THE TRADES. Last evening a meeting of the trades of the metro polis tookrep ort of ce at the Nationae of de l Hall, High lloloorri, to re ceive the a committi li gates appointed at a former meeting, "to cot:eider and retort on the destitute condition of the London trades, as also to ,4tine the causes which have led to that destitution, and to state tweemi considered neceuary for it, removal." fn e hall densely crowded with working men. Shortly afn r eight o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. E. Edwaios, president of the de legates. fhe CHAIRMAN briefly stated the nhject of the meeting, o above, and said that they were ads. , ' met to exercise the comtitutional right of petition thing toe .rear, legislatu la. The con- and vener, of this meeting loved e Motto order," knowing that ant thing which interrupted the natural flow of capital tended to throw work- Men out of employment. This movement had ori ginated in a conviction that deep and wine-spread dis tress existed amongst the iudustrt me popul ationa of Lo u ne ndon. Out of '200,000 workmen, en—third hly m ployed, another third had only casual employ mast, and the tonsil:oh r were in work, but T. ert, in many ease!, greatly reduced wages. (licsr, hear.) In v the provinces things wtre still gone. Why psiw hi ? Men were willing to work ; they despised paupe aid ; but they were uuavoidably idle. (lli ar.) The committee had sought for the causes of this state i f things, and be ievei they had bit on some of the jorincipal ones. First .as the monnpoly of lard,n which ought to belong to all : the want of political was an other potsut cause, for the denial of their rights to the work ing chums was most detrimerital to emir interests. Another evil was the fixed price of gild, while all other commodities fluctuated in value. l'rison labour competed with many branches of industry; in .U, anti articles formed of tin, were actually told from the prisons at a less price than the materials cost the man i s ufac turers, while the nati on had to pay 101. per head he re) p a nnum fur the mai ntenance of roaers. ( Ili - ar, .) p The amount of labour now dormant was so great as to be equivalent in vaiue to a million wetting a day. Aionher Se rious grit vanes woe the introduction of tort ign ressiou of factures at a lower nnminal rate of duty. (An ezpdissent here escaped some one in the bed) of the mi 'tins, where upon there were loud cries of " Turn hint our," and the un fortunate diasenticut was forcibly expelted.) 'to remedy this evil the committee had suggested the establishment of a " labour protection board," the rinauliers, elictrd by the working classes, to have seats in the Ingishnure, sod A the pre sident to lie a member of the. cabinet. (Hear, Mar.) s a workman, he was touvioned that the a °elitism could obtain all they desired by aiguwent and Chia: Rational means alone. " so," from a few individuals.) Su ch, at least, was his opinion, and that of the delegate', whale report us of he wrMs uld now rend.—The following are the principal porno report : From all the information submitted to your cennmittee it appears that the number of .attune and Illeett.teleS t that is, tersons working at tradw at proem in ISSltit.ll Selettilla a t at te.lSt 200,000 melt. And trom the s.ltl-I furl. idiot ity the 41,1, gates thoe S4OOO men [nay be ,al, to is: Satiate us follow , : One-Coid wing. ed ; but many of them :it wages wholly Simko:de to trill tin for themsAlvcs and families a suttiornt sopa or the rat " t`" of life. The next third are about bolt eloploy ; and TAAL nunoars of title division are sutferinktrom great prlvAtows, and ohltioxl to dispoce of their clone , end furnitine, in the hope et being able to avoid elision, paunerism. 'The reinAining third are sntirely out of noel., and have been SS tor ecreral moves past : Af this thirit it may be truly said, that whilst tome are now livinA - noun credit, a:ter having disposed of their effects, housand, arc uldigiAl to sr .ept, so a lust noottree, tit • hutolul budge of unwilling pauprism r u tsi doe watts of union worklioures. Seen, lour mmautte: say,a X. bt A ChM though deci,ive dcaniption of the actual eat, cot tau: London tart" in March, Ibid. The muds which hate, step by step, urkginated this amount of misery are, ni the o f or your committee —I. The usurpation and private no of land, which, being die tr.lt of the Almighty, as the me no lion which man was to olicobi subs's:ewe, sholild always be held In sacred trust fur thu benefit ut the people at large. 2. The murpation of political power to make laws that govern the mecoos, thus unenfraacboaug and politically &land ing the productive clanks. 3. 'The tlxed pries ot gold As the medium of exchange. 4. Competition with wane maaiinery, and the intro duction ci tereign manufsetures, wain:sine, with felon and workhouse labour supported by public red parses Loul funds. 5. The sunupliea and motection which government maintains end affords to ull its employ! , 4.! eate and enureh. 6. The cruel and reAkliss neglect of the legislature not snaking the rem: red arrangements ; first, to use fully employ the destitute ; and secondly, to properly educate the ignorant. Co commence the ineoltoble change needed in the existing system of affair , and their man:,gement, your committee recommend the following regibmons, a, wnning a funnektion of principles whereon to construct, artier at once or ultimately, the eleaSeTeS tar the ame lioration ..nd better protection of the labouring cinema : 1. That as ekin awl Ito, ir are admitted by all tu be tse pninar agents in the toedu.:.etian of capita, it f Mows oe a conuque es. that t'le compulsory in which it large portion of the in, clashes are kept is an unbc.rable enl to minutiae+, alanui , g to the peaceable and w ed.disposed, fuintnlli t, the national re emcee, and, it not aPeeddY remakes!, mast lead to e, hoe and awirehT. 2. TOM it en api Unary duty of toe government to introduce nicasioes that will immediately secure employment and educatiou for all who require them, with a guaranteed suincienc.y of the necticsaries and eUel tom of u.e to rain. 3. Th..% as Great llntain and Ire lowel, So p tuins ••sup.a-abundance of land and other mate support enteral times presenttl7" nr:,', . 7 , l''s em, PklYcomfos tabby government should ter rrriu•-• a 1.6111e-talatiiiii4 41 sigrol s iliVLott colonies, olicrein the surplus labour of the country might be em ployed, ar.d the mad coalition of the workers permanently im r.— 4. Tbat for Mc pist protection ef tne right& of lahour, a shadur-protecting board' be es;ablpheil, the mothers of which e elected by the working classes, anl, in virtue of their - ap pointroent, be entitled cosh to a teat in to House sot Commoris—the president being amembei et tlocabinet—as the representatives ot labour and the guardians ot its rights.—. s . 'ilust the trades of London should riseetly but thusly ilvinatal of the legie'ature to extend the elec tive fronctoe to every loan of 21 yeas of age, of sound mina, and ancontammated by crime. 6. That tamtion should be equalised, by propertysubsuting for all otlwr eases, no matter their character, a graduated r too. 7. That a currency be issued by the uovernment, based cm the credit of the nation, and equal to the wealth offered tor exchange. S. That a measure shoulA be passel to protease the lahouring classes from the tooting unequal system of comsetitton from foreign upon manu factures MIA felon and workhouse labtur, a e a trade being called to determine what anionat of work woubl constitute a tair day's la bour, and the tow aftiting upon that amount a for remuneratMu. la conclasion, your committee have to state that, from ail reports which have reached them, thtrade of Lon ion are formed of men of pence, who wish to maintain B order s let they cannot conceal the fact that flew is, ill the Foo-ress of every nation, a crisis which mast either tend ta the penperity and happistos of the people, or came anarchy and decay. That Great Britain is now approaching that crisis; awl, in trier to produce the proaperit,- wonted, political rights mu-t be conceded, so lel degnadation removed, the orgauniation of labour firmly established, and, us far ea possible, a full measure of justice guaranteed to an. Mr. A. CAMP u ELL moved the adoption of a petition to the legislature, founded on the report. He expressed his con viction that the present was ' the beginning of the end," and said it behoved every one seriously to reflect on the pre sent alarming aspect of affair:, which indicated misgovern ment to a sad extent. It was monstrous to talk of the popu- i lotion pressing on the means of existen rat th knoewledge countryof, cu ltivated as it might b e with our pres agriculture. was capable of sustaining WO millions of inha bitants. What was wanted was a reorganisation of capital, labour, and skill, so PS to emote full employment one milli- cleat wages to all. (Hear, hear.) Whatever the composi tion of the government Whig, t o or or chartist, peace could not Ise maintained with ' out a ritorgaubation of our institu- *ions. (Cheers.) Seeing the numbers who were pining away, and fast approaching that point at which it • became more palatal to live than die, the greatest ' wonder to him was that the people were so quiet. ' (Cheers.) Ho hoped they would continue quiet, but firm, that was the oest sad shortest way of gain.ng their , end. (A voice, " motharr.") It VMS well for them to , consider what they os needed, and he thought this wan the right to live comfortably by their labour w ork the power to educate their children. (Cheers.) Thelions sought no interference with property ; let those who bad wealth keep it ; but let the millions have the power of create ing wealth for themselves. (War.) 'rho land, the birth right of the people, ought to be toe common property of all; but they sought not to take it by violence or fraud. Institutions must be changed ; the prem.! of the human mind demamled it ; and nothing short of a miracle could I prevent that change. He exhorted the operatives to do I away with all aristosratic feelings among themselves, whereby them who were the best paid were sometimes led to look slightingly on their less fortunate brethren. (Hear.) Let them seek to elevate labour by union, firmness, and a I high moral feeling, and to convince all elssses that without 1 1 labour capital was valueless. If capitalists chose, let them leave the country, and take their capital with them ; they could not take the land, nor the muscular arms of the working classes. It wa s onl y by doing justice to those dames that her Majesty's crown and government could be maintained in security. (Loud cheers.) Mr. 110LMES seconded the adoption of the pe.ition, and said the trades had ample power, if they chose to employ it, to work out their oan amelioration. If properly united, Ch op could paralyse the government whenever they thought proper, w ithout any resort to force, which he, for one, would sooner employ than go through such another winter as the last. Sooner than be reduced to the state of their brethren in Ireland, be thought it would be better to risk their lives against the sword. (Loud cheers.) Petitions like the one now proposed had already been adopted in Manchester and other towns ; and surely government hear) would not turn a deaf ear to the general demand of a united people. (Hear, ffir. CHURCHILL said he should move an amendment to this petition. Ile denied that capital was more essentisl than labour to the proiloctiou of wealth ; it was far less so. The only capital req • uired in reality we, sufficient for the workman to subsist on tall ho could produce more wealth. Capital had always leen favoured by legislation ; and it was not likely the capitalists would give way on their sending in this bit of paper which they called a petition. Others of their brethren had called on the legislatur2 for justice ; they ought, therefore, to co buttoe with others, and demand, not only universal suffrage, the other points of the charter, and repeal of the legislative union with Ireland. (Loud cheers.) Ile moved an amendment to that effect. Mr. St:ELTON SeeOndcd the amendment, which, after a long and somewhat stormy discussion, was carried, ap parently by a large majority. ---......-.-. ORDNANCE SURVEY OY LONDON.—The membcre of the Civil Surveyors' Association met last evening at the Freemasons' Tavern.—Mr. H. Baker took the chair, and stated that since the last meeting the committee bad sent in a memorial to the commissioners of sewers, which had been received by those gentlemen, who had stated their intention to take it into their serious consideration. A copy of the report from the ordnance surveyors and the cast of the survey were already before the members of the association. It was now for them to act vigorously in the matter, and to secure their own rights as civil surveyors. He had rece jivects ed assu rances of support from all (pi - erten. The ob of the usosiation had been extensively advertised, and rules were now drawn sip for the guidance of the members. It was their duty now tot rsevere until they obtained a charter, and were empowee groat diplomas, like other professional bodies. Already eighty surve yorswere enrolled as members, and the business of eveninge was chiefly to enrol all who were ready to join the association. — Mr. Cloutt said that the commissioner. of sewers had held out hopes to the committee of civil surveyors that they should have the survey of London given to them to execute; but he should doubt the ability of the civil surveyors to execute the work in any given time. The survey of London would he a very extensive operation, and it was the desire of the committee that all duly qualified surveyors should par ticipate in the ben( fit o f that employment. The blunders an d malpractices of many persona who had assumed the names of civil surveyors had given real cause for censure on the profession at large, and had occasioned the commissioners of sewers to feel reluctant to employ them in the London survey. It was, therefore, their duty to remove those stains from the profession at large ; and the first step towards doing so was by associating themselves as a body, and by confining the exercise of the business of a civil Bur veyor to properly educated persons. The association was' open to all such, and soon all the competent surveyors in the' . kingdom would be enrolled in it. The most pressing busi.. l l nese at present to be transacted was the preparation of esti mates for the survey which they proposed to under take. The scale upon which the plan was to be mode was sixty itches to a mile. The ordnance estimate for executing the survey was 31,0001., including the cost of triangulation. But it ought to be recollected that the mill eery pay of the officers of engineers and the sappers and miners employed was not included in this sum, and that, during the three years the survey . would occupy, would be no small sum. (Hear.) The question was whether the civil surveyors could compete with the military in point 0f cost. lie thought they could. The plan proposed to be executed included an area of 201 square miles, being the apace in cluded within a ra , lius of 8 miles round St. Paul's. There was ne greats r difficulty in executing such a plan th-in all civil surveyors hail already overcome, and again were pre pared to surmount —lsle. k. Baker urged the importance of framing such estimates as might gent in by that t any he eisiwhole l cur. veyors upon such data as would prove plan of sureey had been accurately studied, and not merrly guessed st.—Mr. Riciiardson said that the present was t h e eleventh hour, and the civil surveyors must at once determine whether they would advance or stand ll would be glad to knowow man of ose pre nt were prepared to take a shar e of the su y rvey th provided the commissioners of sewers consented to entrust them with it ? It was of the utmost importance to make some demon stration on the part of the civil engineers, for, in his own private conneaion, he had become practically aware of the fact that,in consequence of the government having undertaken to execute a survey of London, private individuals and public copanis had declined to employ him in makin surveys of particular portions of the metropolis, because th e y expected to have those surveys executed for them at no cost whatever. : —Mr. S. Chauncey said that if the survey of London was entrusted to the civil surveyors, the latter were prepared to' enter into a bond to execute it satisfactorily, or to refund any advances that might be made by the government on that behalf.—Mr. Pringle said that hail such an association as the present existed before, the world would never have heard anything of the military survey of London. He re commended the immediate enrolment of al civil !surveyors in the b e no as, when the association was t es tablished, tncre would be no necessity for civil surveyors to go about from place to place begging for employment, as some of them now were obliged to do.—A long and very desultory einversa tion ensued, which, not having been attended with any results in the shape of resolutions or otherwise, it is unne cessary to record. The meeting, which began at six o'clock, was 'sot finished at nine, at which hour members were being afterwards, put a summary finish to the pro , Ming voted to the mayor before the &seem- ..------ ' rince Frederick Charles of P of Prince Charles. The ene u g, leswig-llolstein duchies ha s iu se se iiis E ..n Germans to lend their oasis w h foe The CI ng war, as free corps. Wood am 'e ster. The 1 Ants, APRIL 25 .—CATV1TROPne yeeterdoY of envy explosion, attended with l ose Chatillon. It resembled the shock e . at number of persons rushed into t h e a AGOR the iron foundries" wag jBB(arel, c a Diet 4 some workmen,filackened and burne d i pole too into the town, running through th e oat heart-rending thrieks. O n aer i e % former c ove the Ty house contained one or mo re tin 0 medium burned, and suffering excruciatin g y midst of the fire which was de em which ti. consider were wemen, children, and men callin cr owded me, 'tad brothers. The extent o f the ' their sr , own. One of the masters of the for g e, t Rotidat (the son), of La Chatre , and am le r fhe ( is friend, and the cashier, were anion •' Yaw' persons have perished, and the num, e mstitu et yet known. The cause of the acci. enters e to cast a very large man of iron , th ey order," earth into which some water no wed, the ill nmiten iron exploded with great noise. men t ES IX TILE FRENCII PROVING Otte' as took place at Mantea on Sunday, tress es ne. Some days previously, et Rom: Out of ismry, had caused a list to be extensi Play ed ' ining the names of 1.2 candidates for rentals' , and bearing the words h. low ." T. ' reduce thrown into the urn." The club of still w' rine, highly disapproving of the whole they other list on 6 iturday to M. It, cot, the • idle. ace. But just as the latter was aho this st M. Roux came and threatened hint i the pe - 'ay his licence. The printer, in conseq'u - ought Meld. The next morning. in consequ other eto by the mini- ipal council, th e d fag el I the national guard (-Ale 1 out ; it evil a determinoi to send M. Roue away, s, fluete d saw the crowd which had assembled, '' beam raring airs of A bat le coopoissaire , tin, ailk, and declared that he did net fear • I" Ise crowd, however, forad him to turn .re compelled him to get into one of ' aims train that was going off. lie alithtc, - The 'eroding thence to St. Germain, procure . couv m he took with him to establish his autho riota • re-entered Mantes the same evening at eta himself at the Prefecture. The crowd, in her e 1 c eding, forced their way - into the Prd:eet opal ything that they could Toy their hands 02. for t ternisi d with the national guard, and.* eN" so. obliged to again take his departure.* 'la elegateei from the club immediately went * wor r.•prescuting the matter to M. Ouraed, side if, obtained from him that another coo woe et, should be pent to take M. Il.mx's pl all arrived at Mantes yesterday at four in (": Cnion of Besancon states th ,t a few deg °Pi e event took piece ut St. Germain, near Leipp, noi vented a man who hail been condemned I* re; oting in the election of officers of the intim* 1 o exasperated the man that he resolved tit tl 2,' . ayor. He armed himself with a pis*, An other in the hands of hie blether, ran: rsued the Mayor, and rushed after phi o r in which he had sought refuge. Sqin tz. wis really menaced, the Mayor pulled • ar . breast, and, after vainly summoning W i g .0 i'.hdraw, discharged it at the nearest mut, qi .. the spot. The other took to Hight. The ee tely place 4 himself in custody, iut an ins► si g proved that he only acted in 8( If-defence, bet ti The ( 'sorrier de Clare states that the min* ° terior has confirmed by a telegraphic despite% 1 M. Chancel, sub-commis ion . r in the Draw. - rd, commissioner-generel ef the department@ r the Drone, and the Hautes-Alpes. Ord* ; mto send M. Chancel to Paris. fhe Gazelle I states from Saint Gardens that 111. July, UPI I inMs.ary of the 'lame Garonne, in a speak ot S tint Gsuder.s, mid, •• It you do not .lest om I propose to you, dread to witness a reu sanguinary days of the 20th of August, or • her.' TTY. ON R.tILWAYS.-1. Charles Lan!, a long letter to the Journal des Ahats on the hose of the railways by the state. In the says—" If it be deemed to form an idea of the i, et which the taking ef the railways by th• itheut any discussion, and aceempliihed by It red in virtue of its dictatorial power, wood( sullieit ut to ascertain the impreesion caused he the representatives of the differ. nt lines of rate ertnres which the minister made them in t noodled by him. None of his numerous p e of the D3O les s of purchase indicated by hi sfactory, and especially none could restore co ~ •r persons 'to believe themselves in ele/ must know that they are also ha I a discussion before a tribunal of arbitratiore e its decrees not be mole advantageous to the* • eettione of the government, ea. atonaa the companies, and prove to their unmet° that, in dispossessing them of the lines, it , spoliate them. AS to the practical means on of the measure, it would be too long to ..re in detail; it seems to me, however, tl no discussion on the general lease% on the ge according to which the different compan treated. All the railways have different eghi , , and consequently different conditions of ex , may, however, be classed in three very disti lose which are completed, ar.d have been wor' i eicia , lv long to render it possible to cstim • co of their revenues—those which are only .. • struction, or which, already partially tcrminat A , paned a fraction of tneir length to traffic which have been recently terminated. For tills evaluated and already worked for some time, An leans, Ilutun, Havre, &c., the only equitable bede them would be that which should be calculated* , t of their receipts, whatever be the price at whisk alders purchased ' their shares. The primitba is, although at present thera are very few ia rprieee, and although they only paid the priss avz incurred all the risks of the affair, mid ly in offering them tho chance of profits to be .at they were induced to offer their capital. Equity that the pomise made to them shall be kesd; shall nit b e punished for the c mrage which tiler every one wee ao distrustful ; that they be pla •• e line as those who, having bought tneir sham period, paid them on the price of revenue of the besides pave a premium for the hopes of the guaranteed by by . the cahiera des charges, which es. shareholder amunst any purchaser of the line ha and men after that pen.), act torth in advance all of the purchase by the state. The price of shame id according to . .the revenue eu;ht then to be main. pecially as on consulting the laws and cahiers dos .I the different companies, it will be seen that it c h ran basis on which the purc hase is to be regale . demands that for the lines which are still only to tion, the state shall repay the shareholders * what they disbursed, and that it shall not nub . port the consequences of the erroneous cetim elite to the companies by the government, which tbee bilged to accept at the beginning with* possible for them to control the we* engineers " ihs Ponta et Chauseees." To b icily just with respect to th em, the shine of railways in einetruction, and who at pee . it impossible to continue their undertaking, ough cell in the position in which, confiding in the Fe the t tovernment, in the estimates of their engine* he ruain•eitance of public tranquillity, they expellee nune. Finely, as regards the shareholders of th jell, having been able to surmount all difficult* rived at the end of their career, and have been eht , of events to open their lines, as for instance then ontereau to droves, and from Amiens tee Boulogne e doe" not only awe them the repayment of effle ee disbursed, hut also a just indemnity for the* of which it deprives them at the very moment e ,ey were about to receive the prim of their sacrilege , , ot speak here of the questions relative to the WO ted by the emnpanica, to the orders given by them, 0 • • ements of every kind which they have entered Wu : . r i sing them, to put itself In their place, thur t can only take their obligations to its charge. In -t good sense indicates it I.GIUNI.—The continued inundations in ma .1 - Ilckiurn cause mu ch apprehen-ion. The Jtosonol mbourg Bel %e says, it is really inconceivable bah! . input should take no steps to remedy the Mundial eulensbrors, which, at titis mom..ut, is complete rged. The dykes have been broken in several pleat • equence of which there is a vast accumulatilet during the last few days. The oats and potatoes of e been sown to-day, but it was found impracticabil i uence of the land being submerged avith w c a o ter. T runs cattle-which usually graze here at the t _ . of April are wholly without fodder. It is of 111 *mportance that instant measures should be &dotal' • aining of the country. "SSIA. ST. PaTERSBUItG. The Ha orhe spondme of the 22nd of Ap prohibitionrehensos I tuned at St. Petersburg of a to eerier no b the 15tb, howev , r, ray that a notice has pi.: ht en y the authorities of the customs from the nt am . ending that no obstacle shall be opposed to the et, 'ions metals by sea. Thucharitable kNIBETII PENSION SOCIRTY.—T ~,,, , the persons which is to grant pensions to • 1 1 1 • *ng both sexes, resident in the bornn i , have never been chargeable to the poltt ,, L . _._ • meeting yesterday evening at the kerns .! angton.—The Rev. Dr. Dalton, Rec tor o oc, lif , g been called to the chair, the secre t he elm the report, from which it appeared. tat.. ng the past year were, annual bubsunption ,_ b o. subscriptions, 2051. of.; flsnking, with ?sneered , i "on, Nee ., a tot al of 9671. Ils. The expan ses _te ions, 60P1. Gs. ; and the balance in hands, as af . meats, 731. 1 7 5 . 34 . The society, which was _ 82G, had receive,' s ince the commencement " , t° ,1 ' h sum 12,7851. bee been du' penved in Pen,sr, -e a,.. horoug h - I " ...._ - axles of Pni, - :lies ha s i sau The gene His E' IL for Ci] dtheir adore a. Wood ar ri es re ter. The N- 2ATA'ITRopn e iseterdaY• Led with loss of ded the shock it mixed intotb e s AGGR' 4.44 insianly „. Last e ned end bur ne d poles took g through th e a rive the eke. On arrivin former 0 me or more un cooditi,. °° it excrucia t i ng which "e 4 icb was demo considere , and men milli!, crowded is extent of th e chair we rtes ci the forge, legates' f La Chatr e , an d fhe C tier, were amen so 16°V.. I, and the num comtitui cause of the acci mum , o I ' s of iron, they order," se water flowed, the nie with great noise. men o CII PROVINC l inseed es on Sunday, tress ea ously, he it,,,,,, e, Out of list to be extensi Pi°Y ed ; : 12 candidates for re _ -' eras h. low : " T ' reduces a." The club of still we Mg of the a hole they 4 to M. It, fat, the idle. later was ado this se threatened hint, i the pit elates., in con scqu ought ning, in consequ other I pal council, the d ing chi 1 cone I out ; it evil w ii. Rout away, % fluctu: h had assambled, brand s le conunissaire! tin' t he did uut fear less cr, forced him to tuner ) get into one of anew off. lie aliehte, The Germain, procure cO li ‘ establish liis autho irons e same evening at at a I are. The crowd, in here 1 ay - into the Pri. , :ect opal Id Toy their hands ra . forte ational guard, and, as evil take hi, departure % " lal b immediately went wort er to M. ',humid, sides that another coo woe site el. limo's 1 ,1 all t I sterday at four in (" 1 states th +t a few deg OPli t. Germain, near Ler, nee a been con-lemma i ff mP t officers of the lanolin' e n that he resolved to ch it' himself with a piste'. a t to e ands of his brother, m a Ind rushed after Idlea o f i ought refuge. Smog foe the Mayor pulled • are vainly summoning Iris .u.' it at the nearest mast s 4 4a' ter took to Hight. The se , a custody, . ut an inv.. so acted in se If-detente, he th ere states that the minis o f y a telegraphic despite% y' ' Maim., r in the Danes. Lend of the departmenla n Hautea-Alpel. Ordeal P to Paris. The Gazelle ti ,udens that Dl. Jolt, the i', to Garonne, in a speak 7 dd, " It you do not , lee i a, dread to witness a re. , he 20th of August, or le , 1 .—M. Charles Laflit* urns! tiV3 A:bats on the I by the state. In the el to form an idea of the g of the railways by the , and accomplished by It iictatorial power, rout& the imprersion canted II the differ. nt lines of relies sister made them in t one of his numerous p irchase indicated by hi ly none could restore co „ sere themselves in see t they are also la 1 a tribunal of arbitration s rte advantageous to theig 7nenent, Can dune ee. prove to their unmet° them of the lines, it to the practical means would be too long to e ms to me, however, tl general lia:es, on the ge a the different compan says have different ea h i fftrent conditions of ex` awed in three very disci Acd,ar.d have been woe' der it possible to cstim ;—those which are only lready partii:lly tcrminat A tneir length to traffic ently terminated. Fur:, worked for some time, l &c., the only equitable bade hich should be calculatedri itevcr he the price at whisk ✓ sheets. The primithre sent there arc very few be they only paid the pebe e risks of the affair, zed ho chance of profits to be to offer their capital. Equity le to them shall be kept; for the courage which they 'ustful ; that they be pla sd having bought tneir shim he price of revenue of the am for the hopes of the too- shiers des charges, which se. ay purchaser of the line ihe !read act torth in advance the to state. The price of shame route eught then to be mak. ng the laws and cneiers MN tier, it will be seen that it b I purchase is to be regulate& ae lines which are still only repay the shareholders * and that it shall not makil es of the erroneous cetimele the government, which dm it the beginning whims so to control the writ outs et ChausAes." To b aped to them, the shale struction, and who at re into their undertaking, or. which, confiding in the re e estimates of their engineer blic tranquility, they expert , garde the shareholders of th le to surmount all difficulties err career, and have been AI air lines, as for instance thee and from Amiens to Boulogne them the repayment of alele i a just indemnity for the ad i them at the very moment e dive the price of their sacrible questions relative to the Lae to the orders given by them, 0 d which they have entered Wu at itself in their place, our r obligations to its charge. 1. 1 . :• •, EXPRESS, THURSDAY BlItTll9 AND DEATIIS IY LONDON .—The number of births registered in the metropolitan districts during the week endii:g April 22 was 1,208, of which 691 Isere males and GOI !males. This number exceeds that of the preceding week by 59. The number of deaths during the same time was 991, of which 472 were males arid 4 30 females. Thus the births this week exceed the deaths b 7. The latter, however, exceed the weekly average for the last five springs by 48, but are Its' than the deaths of the preeeding week by rid. The maeorolngiral report states that thym e of ean tempera t u re of the week exceede d the mean temperatur 2 6 the corees ion ding week, on an %vane of 25 years, by , degrees. ;Moiled. ORPTIAN WORKING SCHOOL.—A general court of th g e overnor' o this charitale institution was hela ester day at the Hallf o f Commerce b , to receive toe half-yearyly re. port of the committee on the state of the charity, and the auditors' reportelect pfficers r thear ensuing, to ma ke certain alterations in the rule s, and t o erect by ballot 25 children into the schools ; viz., 17 buys and 8 girls The repor t Apri l 18 17 was 131, since when 50 hadchildren been elected, 33 hsd left the institution, and one had died, leaving the present nu mber at 1.52, which, by the election of that day, woul increased to 177. The late French revolution having obliged the managers of the British Orphan Asylum in Paris to close that establishment for want of funds, this instaution had been applied to by Lord Ashley, on the part of the commit tee for tiding British refugees from France, to take charge for three morths of a portion of the 2.5 orphan children thus thrown on British sympathy ; and in compliance with that r quest, the committee bad at once given shelter to six of them, who were now cnjnying the benefits of the insti tution. This. however, would not operate as any restriction on the number to be admttud at the' present or future elections. The number of candidates for election was 92. The total expense of the new building at 1 , Haverstock-Mil was 19,5101. 12s. 10.1., of which 10.0611. 3s. 61. had been raised by special a ppeals to the governors and subscribers. To defray the balance of 9,4461. 93. 4d., the committee had horn compelled to sell out stock to that amount. This deficiency in the funds it was necessary for the interests of the institution to make good. In furtherance of that object a we under the nd fanc py atrofair wculd at he be held in alay, at Willis' s Rooms, nage r Majesty, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchete of Glouctater, and the Duchess of Cambridge. During the last year the institution had suetained a severe loss in the death of its president, li. Weymouth, Esq., to whose family a vote i on condolence was recommended. The report alsa recom. mended J. It. Mills, Esq., the treasurer, as Mr. Weymouth's successor ; Mr. T. M Coombes as the Ueasurer; and that S. Al. Peto, Esq., M.P. ; and S. Gurney, Esq„ be added to 1 the list of vice.presidents. As showing the progress of the 'charity is public estimation, it was stated that 450 new names had during the last year been added to the list of governors and subscribers. There was a bill for incorporating the institution now before parliament, which had already been read twice in the Hous thatairds, and which the com mittee expected would pas; w difficulty. The report was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be printed and circulated. Resolutions were also passed for carrying out the s ballotcommittee, for the electionof the 25 children—the number admitted each half year—took place. IRON, HARDWARE, AND METAL TRADES' PENSION SOCIF.M—The annual festival took place last evening at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate•strect, when about 150 gentlemen sat down to dinner, the Lord Mayor presiding. The usual preliminary toasts were drunk with due honours, after which the toast of the Vfetllll4 was proposed by the chairman. In so doing he passed a high eulogium upon the benevolent objects of the institution, which are to grant perma nent relief to the de servin g and necessitous mdows, embers by of the above trades, and to their wi pension or otherwise. lie observed with satisfac tion upon the fact that the subscriptions to the last year, had in a mount trebled those society during of the year preceding. Tne health of the chairman having been drunk, Mr. H. L. Taylor proposed a similar compli ment to the sheriffs, which was respoaided to by Mr. Sheriff Hill. The report stated that the recome of the society during the past year amounted to 1,0101. lls. 62. in dona tions and subscriptions. The funded property of oath society bad been •increased within the past yb a ddition of ;950 t 1. Three per Cent. Consols, pur chased at the cosof 8151. 9s. 3d. ; and of 1. Three per Cents. Reduced, purc hased at a cast of 2541. 3 7 00 s. lid. ; which, with the 1,a091. Three per Cent. Consols previouslypurchased , made a total of '2,7501. The pensioners in receipt of the bounty of the society during the previous year were only four in number, the payments to whom amounted to 401. 19s. The election in November last increased the num ber to nine, and the a mounts to which they were entitled would increase the item in the present year to nearly 1401., irrespective of what may be required in receipts consequenu r iog the ce of the intended election in May next. The d eve ning amounted in donations to 2851., and in annual sub scriptions to 751. Is. 6d. THE MODEL MAGISTRATE. —He is a barrister with a subdued practice, and but little known beyond the usher of his court. Ile soon learns, however, that the scales of justice have two sides—one for the rich, one for the poor. The ba lance, as he holds it, is rarely equal " for . For the the other there is one there is a tine, " which is immediately paid ; toe House of Correction, with har labour. The nentleman is invited to aseat on the benche d the pauper is kindly in formed that "he had better mind what he is about." lie knows the intrinsic value of every aasault, and has fixed a market price for every limb. An eye costs very little more than a case oi ls— runkenness. A broken head he puts down at a coup of sovereigns, or a donation to the poor-box. Ile is sorry to see young gentlemen, „ who have been dining out, forget themselves so, and will only line them five shillings this time. He is sure he has seen every applewoman before. He will have no trading on the kerbstones. lle has great faith in the words of the po lice, and calls them by their real names. He has a just hatred of a cabman,only to be equalled by his profound aver sion for an omnibusconuctor. lie sees a poacher in every smock-frock. All beggars he sentences to the mill. He ad dresses a pickpocket as " Sir," and is sarcastic upon boys, calling them ' young gentlemen." He delights in summon ing overseers and beadles, and enjoys a good collision with the workhouse. lie regrets exceedingly to commit a noble man. lie has a private room for a lady shoplifter, and is glad to inform her that she " leaves this court with her character impugned," though the matter has been coinpromised wit q uite un hiu his hearing. lie has the most sublime contempt for the opinions of the press. lie does not care what they say of him, though he do es invei g h somet i me s rather strongly against them. He does not lie his law to be questioned, but of the two e v i ls p refers a lawyer to a barrister. He jokes sometimes, and the whole court, excepting the poor prisoner, at whoseexpense the lugubrious joke is cut, laughs tremendously. The model magistrate ar rives at the police-office at ten, but does not mind keeping the court waiting. lie leaves as soon as he can, though he is not very partial to visits at his own residence. But what he likes least arc remonstrances from the Home-office, for, strangely enough, a magistrate has been dismissed before now. This may have some little in fl uence in keeping the race of model magistrates rather restricted. May it sooe, it is most pitiful to hear of a renteistege bcOemmicomettizngtinhictm'self instea4 of others.—Punch, REPRESENTATION AND TAXATION. Sir, -- There are two things which the people of England demand : com plete and equal representation, and a reduction of eapen diture. Toe first ia not only art advantage in itself, but must be regarded is the means whereby all other reforms will be effected. When the people are fully and efficiently represented, class legislation will cease to be fashionable ; the good of the great bony of the nation will alone be consulted, and the interest of minute, inconsiderable, and profitless sections will no longer be tho only thing considered by par Bement. At present the House of C immons does not repre sent the people. With one or two honourable exceptions, it represents the peer.. If this should be thought a rhetorical figure of hyperbole and exaggeration, behold a few arithme tical figures to make the matter clear. The population of the empire is nearly 30.000,000 in round numbers, but the electoral franchise is enjoyed by only 1,000,000, while the male adults are about 6000.000 in the whole. Vine the subject in another light. In England 1 man in 7 has a vote ; in Scotland, 1 in 11 ; and in Ireland, 1 in 17. Again, a majority of the Commons is returned by one-fifth of the electors, or, in other words, 200,000 persons, notoriously under aristocratic influence, elect a majority. Take as an illustra and tion 25 paltry ooroug hs, with about 130,000 population 9,000 elector+, which return 50 membere while 15 of the largest cities and constituencies in Great Britain, with More than 3,000,000 population and 150,000 elector., only return 32 members. Then there are 64 eldest sons of peers, 35 younger sons of peers, 45 brothers of peers, and, in all, more than 200 members relived to the peers, to say nothing of these who ; are under the influence of the aristocracy, and who, with u few exceptions, are neither more nor less than all the members of the Lower House. But aristocratic in fluence is not only seen in the constitution of the House of Commons, but in its acts. Witness the divisions ou the income tax. Yet the incomes of the industri.ius classes are taxed in comparison of the proheperty di vi of the idle classes. as 7 to 1. Witness also t sions on the gagging bill. "Taxation without represen• tation is tyranny." But the unrepresente d classes pay the bulk of the taxes. Take the male working classes at 5,000,000, which is below the mark; take their average wages at 130. per week ; this in the whole is 09,000,0001. Tuke the taxes on the nec..aries they conntme at 4s. in the pound (which is under rather than over the truth), and it presents a total of 600,000/. a week, or 31,200,0001. a year. So that it is plain t working claws, who are not represented, pay the bulk ohs te taxes, which in the whole are about 57,0000001. pelannum. And yet the House of Commons was founded, unff exists at this day, on the principle " that taxation without representation is tyranny.' But the absolutists say. "On, the lower orders are nut enlightened enough for the suffrage." I have a double answer for this: First, I say 7ou ve with held education from them, and you have no nght ate ke ad vantage of your own wrong ; give them the franchise, and they will get eduertim fur themselves, and soon become as rational and enlightened as you could wish. But, what is more to the purpose and more immediately desirable, they will not col) , become enlightened, but their burdens will be lightened, and you will be compelled to bear your just pro portion, shish you have contrived to ehift to their shoulders; and, in the ith it place, I say it is a libel on the people to pre tend they are ignorant, and besotted, and demoralised, as not to know right !rum wrong. I maintain that the indus trious intelligent operative, who frequents a mechanics' in • stitute, and reads all the best newspapers and periodicals of the day, while drinking his heavily-taxed tea, or c.ff , c, or beer, or spirits, or smoking his exorbitantly.taxed tobacco, not only boa a right to a vote, but is a more fit and proper person to exercise it, and more knowing, and enlightened, and better educated, than the majority of those who enjoy the suffrage. Why, numbers of enti re constituencies have e no free will, their vot es being the property of some (ig) nobl ELECTORAL REFORM. —TILE PROVINCIAL PRESS. We continue our selections from the comments of the provincial press on the attempt which is being made to unite earnest and sincere reformers for further improvements in government. Our object is to let the timemetropolis kn prov ow in cial how the provincial pulse beats, and to let communities know how far their views are in accordance, and wherein they differ. So many men select their newspap , r with a view to find their own opinions reflected in it, or con firmed by it, that each journal may be taken as a tolerably fair exponent of the political sentiment, andfro general views of its subscribers. By quoting indiferi ntly m pape all principles we shall not only obtain a pretty . correct notion of the themes which engross public attention, hut also pretty close in to the views respecting them which pre dominate in the reading public. The Lincolnshire Times expresses itself to the following effect: The grand principles of reform are to be immediately acted upon- The attsntion of parliament its about to be ealied to the eentimente now publicly expressed by u large portion of the middle claws, and which will be received es cheering in..icaliorie of an awakened feel. ing in the considerate anti rititctive, who, although ae iippi,sed to revolution as to the bursting Birth of • mighty to endangering • life, are firmly attached to reform, as to a progreviee stream that ' both feds anti nourish life. The iddle chet+cs who view the points of the cherter as es Utopian owl i m m p r acticable, are sensitively alive o a orter duration of parliamenta, to the suffrage being eCi•eittellsiresh with taxation, to the el ections being by ballot ; and that by seeming these points, a reduction of expert , dilute, equality of Msation, and a general advance of re ' form principtes would neces-arily follow. • • • • • We do nut augur much from mere league. and mere party combinations let principles be the beets, and thin the architect, plenty of work men wilt be found; justice will be firmly established in her seat ; wrongs will be redeemed ; and internal peace immovably estublished. If by co-mete:Mon these effects are to result, we hope the feeling will go forth throughout the length owl breadth of the nation. Tlits Le ' the time for union. The chartist demonstration faded, not from its 1 , threatened violence, but from the firmness of the middle clatters. And now th a they have achieved so lough, by adopting a firm, con ' sistent, proctual course, they will be, what they ever ought to be, the ' meet intelligent, the most influential, the largett, and the most iin. portant party. Blanchester toryism, speaking through the Courier of that town, opineth that some concession must inevitably be made to the movement, and, " hoping against hope," looks for a • retrograde movement towards protection as a consequence : Perhaps in the niitLst of the prevent political thetractions of Europe `h i s ceenturtly prove a not unfortunste thing fee the interests of country that a kind of modified radicalism has taken posseaston of ' Men-es. llume and Company, who, to give them their due, are re spectable politicians, and, from their stake in society, r esponsible men . Herein lien a security fo e the internal peace and 'safety of the country. Tin " movement" of the new oppOotion They" removed the hopes of the c hartish% f ather o ff thm ever. Moeement " hag stepped in with comparatively moderate demands, which will be strongly urged in p at liament, and in some d e g ree, probably, supported b) :the middle classic, whose sympathies the chartists never could have. The effect of these demands will pro bably be the daneeeeion of a number of additional representatives to large towns and thickly-Peopled diatacht—the popnlatitm of which has doubled since IN32—taken from const itu riddeencies a con..emned for b r ibery and corruption, with poisibly a few d ; further effect will be, Increased vigilance and care in the public expenditur, Be,, ere the suppress ion of useless but extensive offices, and co forth. long, pat liament will be cashed upon 10 do something else, no t very palatable to Mr. Cobden a nd the free-trade members of ache e ee new radial opposition. It is manifestly members o tr trade in corn, If not also in n long lid of other com modities formerly testa, can he suezvesfully maintained funded in the face of the heavy taxation to which the debt and the large and indispoundfie nasal and military establish ments of this country make the people liable. We say tin- mele pendently of these other considerations which must arise in the inter national view of the question with reference to the .11V in which we may be called upon to ,but Feu hostile tariffs. Talation of sonic kind we must submit W. but nheeitatingly say that direct taxa tion will never be submitted to. The storm rshed throughout the country—anti especially in the commercial circles—by the proposal to i n and perpetuate the income tax, le an irmeistible proof of this. Anil the only eventual alternative will be to return to the system of taxing foreign coin and over foreign commodities. We will at pre sent can no morn than ch i e, that the seeds ot mortality are thus sown in the new radical ion at the hour of its birth. lin this point we may very safely relitUre tO be prophetic. As might have been anticipated, the Vail; organ in Man chester is mere alarmed at the prospect of renewed advance. The luckless Manchester Guardion cavils at the parties who have been among the first to make the move : protests its willingness to go a certain length towards extending the suf frage, and vows that it ardently desires a better distribution of representation ; but wishes ail such changes to be put by till a " proper time," and, in the meantime, " looks to govern ment and the legislature" to "detest the present move ment." Though not disposed to condemn the forthcoming scheme of an extemion of the suffrage before seeing it, we candidly confess that the selection which its promoters have made of a leader and parlia mentary organ, d es not fill us with any eepecial preporseseion in its favour. The choice of the author of a piece of mischief to repair its effeete to certainly not prortheing; and if any man umong the liberal party is to blame for an undue preponderance of the landlord interest in the House of Commons that man is Mr. Hume. • • • • • • To such a scheme of household suffrage, then, we shall offer an uncompromising opposition ; but as we stated hot sr eck, we arc quite prepar.l to support, at a proper time n.coneiderable modification of the representottve system of the country We see no reason whatever why the parliamentary franchise ahoold net, like the municipal franchise, be extended to every rate payer, who, by haring duly paid his taxes, national and local, has fully disil.rgot the obligations of citizenship. such a change would not only remove an invidious dintinction, lost would also add very considerably to the number of voters, particularly in the emaller to where the constituency is now the mad limited; and although wens, do not far one moment pretend that it wold not involve some anomalies, still it would place the franchise on a u much more intelli gible ana defensible baste than that upon which it now rests. But if the House of Commons, as now constituted, does not sufficiently express the spirit ot reform and amelioration which per vade* the pcmge, it O not so mush the suffrage as the distribution of representatton which in at fault. The large and populous borough constituencies already return a great majurit) of decided liberals; anti if the right of returning members were more fairly disuibuted among the towns, according to their population and importance, we believe there would h e to be any practical ground for complaining of the operation of the Chanties. clause. But although such are our opui, and we have thought it right to exprem them, now that the question I has been raised, we cannot admit that the present Ls a stritable time for pressing (.sward important constitutional changes. These are best considered in periods of commercial tranquillity, when the public mind does not come disturbed by wide.spread physical distress to the ' discuseion of questions in themselves sufficiently exciting; and when Icon mischief will result from the temporary check to con fidence which, under the most (avowable etrcumstances, semen. ramie-6 the agitation of political changee. Any ti t retomi which this movement might achieve would come too late to mitigate the present distre , s : while, if 1: errescrin in, it will effectually. pre vent the adjustment of the navigation laws, and the pf any o ther practical measures of amelioration which the ministry assing may pro • • • For the defeat of the presen t movement we must look pOse k to the government and the legislature. As it took its rise in the dissasfaction inspired by the financial policy of the m inistry, so it ti can onlv t su ppresecsl by an energetic determination to make the best use of the remumder of the parliamentary session for the carrying out of practical financial and administrative reforms. It is passing strange that the Guardian, after deprecating the discussion of financial reforms at present, should end by exhorting ministers to set about them immediately. ------=------_—_______ OATHS OF MENIBERS OF FARLIA)IENTire . , Report of the select committee appointed "to inqu whether the oaths required to be taken at the table by members of this house have been duly taken by Benjamin Hawes, Esq., and to report their opinion thereupon." The statates which require the members of the house to be sworn at the table are the 30 Charles 11. sess. 2, and the 13 and 14 Will. M. cap. G. They enact, " That no person ',hat now is or hereafter shall be a member of the Rouse of 1 Cammons shall vote or sit there durimi any debate in the said House et Commons after the Speater is chosen, until such member shall take the oaths and subscribe t h e Fame i" --- CRUELTY IX A 110SPITAL.-A mae of great hardship has occurred in the county of Cork, at liilmore. A lad, named Timothy Shanahan, had been for a considerable time con fined in the fever hospital there. Ile became convalescent and the attendant physician directed heshouldbedischarged. The lad was, however, without covering of any kind, and he remained iu the hospital in bed, for he was still weak. The that direction to discharge him was given on Friday ; on day and the next he had his rations ; on the Sunday and Monday ke had none. This was by order of the nurse tender. The doctor having been told on Tuesday that he had no rations for two days, was very angry, and ordered food to be instantly given him. On the next day and that succeeding, the nurse-tender again stopped the rations, and on Thursday put the lad out of the hospital, having first stripped him of the hospital shirt, so that save an old tattered cloak he had no garment. He endeavoured to make his way home, but sank and died that evening on the way. The coroner's jury have properly found that Shanahan died of this woman's neglect. A Mr. Longlield, of Cork county, is said to have evicted 73 families, comprising 379 individual, within a few months. SCOTLAND. E DINB UR4II, APRIL The liberal press is still dissatisfied with the Lord Advocate's Entail Bill. Here is the opinion of the Aberdeen Herald • In our first notice of the Lord Advocate's Entail Bill, wit expressed our disapprobation of that part of his measure which went to tie on us one system of entails for another. We declared our conviction that the feeling of Scotland was against entails in any shape or degree, and we hope that th e Lord Advocate will be made to see this. Indeed, so thoroughly arc we, after the most mature consideration of his bill, and especially after the perusal of some remake on it in the number of Tart's Magazine for the present month, evidently written by sonic one familiar with the subject, and P. of eidarged and statesmanlike views, convinced of this, that we would rather see the present system continued, than this bill of the Lord Advocate's become t ae few e law of the laud. There would be a hope that years' longer continuance of the present iniquitous and injurious entail laws, would make them so intolerable, that the whole thing, root and branch, would be thrown down at once. The sole effects of the Lord Advocate's measure is to benefit a few of the more closely tied up entailed land lords, and to throw an immense deal of business hereafter into the hands of lawyers. In fact if this bill pass, in a quarter of a century a great part of tho landed property of I Scotland will be under the management of the Court of Sea- ' eion, and the transfer of laud will be as dillieult, sod even impossible, as is the case with the " encumber ed estates" of Ireland, the legislating for which is now the most difficult which the government of this country has before it. We observe that the town council of Edinburgh have agreed unanimously to petition against the entail laws. If our town council should wish to show their desire for progressive end ce ll do able reform by doing the same, we trust that they wi de mand that entails in any form be in future prohibited in Scotland. The Lord Advocate's bill is not even the " in stalment" which Sir David Baird and some other of the opponents to the entail laws unheedingly declared it to he. The country must check him in this attempt to benefit merely landlords for a time and Edinburgh lawyers for ever. We said before, and we say it sgain, that acute lawyers are never great legislators. Andrew ltutherfurd, with allcon- his g reat legal talents, cannot grasp a great principle, nor, seq uently, found on ft a statesmanlike measure. If be will only hut be done with his mischievous peddling, some one hereafter will earn the gratitude of the country by making short work with entails. Cr, APRIL 27, 1 and they subject the member who shall presume to vote without having taken such oath to the penalties which the acts impose. The statutes do not precisely define the period at which a person elected is to be considered a member of the House of Commons. It appears trona the evidence before your committee that 11th March ; that the r eturn was delivered into the Crown office on the 18th, and that he was sworn at the table on the 15th, three days before the receipt of the return by the clerk of the crown. A doubt has thence arisen whether Mr. Hawes could be considered a member until such receipt of the re turn, and whether the oaths so taken by him before the re. ceipt of the return were duly taken. Your com mittee felt it their duty to examine Mr. Ley, the clerk of the house, in order to ascertain the practice of the house as to swearing of memb elected during a session of parliament, and also the circum stances which had caused a departure from that practice in the case of Mr. Hawes. His evidence is annexed to the re pert. It appears from it that the uniform practice of the house has been to require from every member coming to the table to he sworn, the production of a certificate from the Crown-otfice, that the member has been returned for the place which ho professes to represent, by an indenture deli vered into the Crown-office. A reterence to the evidence will show the circumstances under which that certificate was not in the present case required. The omission to re quire it is admitt d to have been an irregtlarity. Your committee find no precedent 60 precisely in point as to govern their judgment with respect to the effect of such an irregula rity upon the eight to sit and vote in the house. It appears to your committee, however, after a careiul consideration at the several statutes and proceedings of the house which have ant bearing on the subject, that although the return of the indenture to the Crown-office has always been required by the house as the best evidence of a member's title to be sworn, yet that the absence of that proof cannot affect the validity of the election. nor the right of a person duly elected to he held a member of the house. Tour committee ore therefore of opinion, that, notwith standing this irregularity, the oaths were so far duly taken by Mr. Hawes as not to justify the fame of a new writ for the borough of Kinsale. Adverting, however, to the incon venience which may result from admitting members to be sworn, as in Mr. Hawes core, without producing what the house has hitherto considered indispensable evidence of their eh ction and return, your committee deem it their duty strongly to recommend a strict adherence its future to the practice of the house, of not permittine any member to take the oaths, until there shall be produc. d a certificate of the delivery of his return into the Crown-odice, or, in cases in which that may be from necitlantal circumstances impossible, have otherwise given satisiactory proof to the house of his title to be admitted as a member. IRELAND. puma, APRIL 25. The course to be pursued by the Attorney - G eneral on Mr. Mitchell's plea, is, I understand, iu confor mity with what I have already stated. He will allow the plea, enter a nolle pmsequi on the indict ments, and await a new offence under the recent act. So far as I could hear, the occasion has already pre sented itself, at the eeting, yesterday, in the Prince ss ' s Theatre, over m which Mr. Mitchell pre- sided. The defalcations in the Tralee Bank arc close on 40,000/. ; and it is said that 20,0001. will not cover was the deficiency in Killarney. Mr. Tidd Pratt engaged in investigating the Tralee accounts, and dis covered sufficient to charge the trustees with respon sibility. la Killarney he will he likely to form a similar judgment. These disastrous results have sti mulated still more the "run" throughout Munster. night of Monday. Mr. Thomson resided at Legh Lodge, Ardwick, and had been low in spirits for some tftne, but up to Monday evening,when he was lam in convene, did not ap pear more depressed in spirits than usual. He has been amongst the most liberal supporters of charitable icetitu tions in the town, and his loos will be highly regretted. A correspondent adds : " Mr. Thomeon was a gentleman of high scientific attainments, and possessed a great taste for the fine arts, of which, with his ample means, he work a liberal supporter. The extenders c alico- p rinting works of the concern are situated at Primrose, near Clitheroe, in the north of Lancashire, which hive, and have long had, the reputation of producing the most finished work and choicest styles in the trade. Mr. Thomson, the head of the house is, like his brother, a /11311 Of great science and fine house, he has latterly resided much of his time in Italy. He is F.R.S., and highly appreciated in that learned society. In the history of the cotton trade no greater names survive than those of the Messrs. Thomson. The fatal act of Mr. E. P. Thomson is attributed to a dspress'on of spirits from long-confirmed had health, with a persuasion that he was' the victim of an incurable an d fatal disease of the heart. To I I this persuasion the enfeebled mind of a once manly intelli fence appears in an evil hour to have succum ed." —PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. —In addition to the ' 1 association formed in Manchester on Monday night, under the title of the Collegiate Church Ward Reform Samety (for obtaining household suffrage, vote by ballot, triennia parliaments, and equal electoral districts), reported in the Express, other ward or branch societies are to be esta blished for the same purpose, and a preiimivary meeting of the burgesses of Exchange ward was held ys sterday, for the purpose of considering the matter. It was attended by highly respectable middle-class men, meat of whom, on com the paring opinions, declared themselves universal abstract, but willing to join in the present more moderate movement, believing it more practicable in the present state of feeling. The result of the conference is, that a public meeting of the ward is to be held on the subject to-night. IRISH SEDITION IN LIVERPOOL. —On Tuesday a meeting took place, which is thus reported in the Liverpool Courier of yesterday:—" Messrs. Mitchell and Duheny, two of the sword, pike, and rifle gentry from the sister country, arrived here by the mail steamer and repaired to the Ange Hotel, on Tuesday morn i n g. They had been deputed, w e understand, of course by their friends and cohorts in Inland, to proceed on a martial tour through this country, and to hold meetings, in the first instance, in Liverpool and Manchester. In the course of tho day large placards were posted on tho wane announcing that the Liverpool meet-' ing would be held at the Portico, and that they would attend—the chair to be taken at 'half-past seven o'clock. 1 . Short as the notice wee, Newington was crowded with the I lower classes of Irish for an hour before the time appointed for commencing the proceedings, and when the door of the Portico was t h ro wn open, we never witnessed such crushing, smashing of hats, and tearing of coats as there was to get into the house, which was by fifty degrees too small to hold the numbers that were assembled. About a quarter to eight a working man made his appearance at the entrance, and announced that the meeting was adjourned to the top of Leece-street, on the stone-breaking ground, oppoeite the New Music Hall. Thither the audience winded their way, but, on their arrival, it was announced that the meeting would be held in Queen-square. Then there was a general rush for the square ; and on our arrival there we found a Mr. Smyth in too chair, if chair the steps of a hall-door can be called, fur the orators took up their positions on the steps, and there held forth. The audience consisted of some hun- dreds. Doheny's speech was in the usual strain of violence and republicanism. lie repeatedly called upon the people to arm, arm, arm, and he counselled the buying of pikes and rifles. He said that a man walked the streets more proudly, and could enforce hie requests more firmly, wheu he carried a rifle in Lei hand; and when he bad a memorial to present to the Queen, or a petition to the House ot Com mons, the possession of the rifle caused the memorial or peti tion to have considerably greater weight. (Loud hurrahs, and cries of " Bravo, Dolieny !") He had no hesitation, then, in spite of the gagging bill of the government, to tell the people to get rifles sod pikes with all speed, because, in the first place, there was no law to prevent the mile and purchase of these valuable weapons, and because, in the next place they were essentially useful. (Rened O h ! hs and cries of " What about Colonel Browne ?") Colonel Browne had kept his spies in Dublin to find out where the pikes were made; and the consequence IV" that colonel's doings were found out, 20.000 pikes were manu. factored now where only one was manufactured before. (More hurrahs, and cries of " There are spies here.") Spies of course there were: where were they not? The government of England could not afford money to bury the unfortunate people of Ireland who had died of hunger and disease, but they had plenty of money to employ spies to watch honest and devoted patriots• lie wanted to have England for the English, not for the English oligarchs, but for the English people, and he wanted to have Ireland for the Irish. Of whit advantage was it to the English menu lecturers that the poor were living in rags and dying in thousands wd in by l a r n ela i n m d po ? ve li yi e s i h th ed e r , tpobodwrntoyr..etrilectlibee: copuleodplbee, \ 20,000 of whom had been consigned last year to coffinless graves in the churchyard of Skihhereen. The time was come, then, to tight the wrongs of Ireland, and to elevate that noble country from the position of a province into that of a nation! (More hurrahs.)—Mr. Lawrence Reynolds, of shoneword-forseven.pence notoriety, was the next er speak ; but he said he must sing small, ae the gagging act had become law. A time was coming, however, when he could and would speak out; ands e solemnly swore I. that be would hereafter meet the peopwhen there should he no gagging act in existence. (" Bravo, Larry. ") He thought there wits no harm, not a bit—on the contrary, there was a great deal of good in having the people armed, particularly now, when all the people of Ireland were repealers, and three-fourths of the people of England were chartists. He had addressed thirty-five thousand people at the North Shore on Good Friday (this was only a cypher more than the speaker ought to have put in, but your men of the sword are not particular about trifles], and when their hands were held up in support of the revolutions, the forest of hands was so great that even the very waters of the Mersey stood still and seemed to feel amazed.—(Renewed " hoorays," andmore cries:of "Bravo,Larry—more power to your elbow.") These were the only speakers, and the whole of the proceedings were over in less than an hour. Sundry cheers were given at the clue—for instance, for three cheers' for Mitchell;" three for the Crated Irishman," " three for Dan O'Connell," " t hree for Doheny," and " three fat Larry ;" and then the crowd accompanied Dohenv along Murray-street into Dale street, to his lodgings. )aitchell was not present at the meeting. YORKSHIRE. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AT DEWSBURY.— On Monday last, the young man, George Ebenezer Water house, charged with shootine at Mr. Simon Crawshaw she was leaving the independent chapel, Dewsbury, on Good Frid, was brouht before the magistrates at the Court- 1 hous ay e in that tow g n to answer the charge.—Mr. Crawshaw, although progressing favourably, was unable to attend, bat 1 the following deposition, made by that gentleman on Friday immediately atter the occurrence, was put in : " I was coming from Ebenezer chapel this morning. I did not see I the prisoner before I wise shot. I was bidding good-bye to Mr. B. Clay at the coiner of Mr. lugram's shop. I heard a pitol go off. I felt that I was shot. I turned round and s s aid, ' George Waterhouse has e hot me.' I saw the pistol in his hand. I said,' Oh, lam shot,' and ran home. I have known the prisoner since he was a child. I have had no quarrel with him."—By the Prisoner : How fur from the corner of the shop was you when you sew me?—Mr. Crawshaw: I reeled on to the middle of the street. I was eight or ten yards from the corner. You were in the street when 1 saw you. lam confident that you are the person that ehot me. —Mr. James Bagshaw deposed that on the day in question he was in the Market-place, Dewsbury, about ten minutes after twelve at noon, watching the people coming from PROVINCIAL. chapel, when he heard a report, and saw the flash of a gun or pistol. He saw the prisoner walking behind Mr. Craw- LANCASHIRE. shrew with a pistol in his right hand. Prisoner walked BARTON, IRLAM, AND lIIGGI NSON'S AFFAIRS .- At leisurely after Mr. Crawshaw fur about twenty yaps.rds the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, this when he was apprehended by Mr. Sheldrake. case was further beard before Mr. Seejeant Ludlow. A con- Hemingway deposed to having attended Mr. Craw siderable number of debts were proved, and amongst the shim. Witness found some blood and one perforation claims was one for 600 dollars upon the property of the bank- In his shirt. There was a perforation in one brace and 60111 C rupta in the \Vest Indies.—Mr. Lowneles, for the assignees, blood. He afterwards examined enterc , and found two objected to the proof. It appeared that, according to the marks, one as if reeulting from a eeere blow with a small terms by which the claim upon the estate was held, six months' hard instrument, which lead not ed the skin. On the notice was required before the debt could be demanded, and left side of the back, opposite the middle of the shoulder that at the time of the bankruptcy this notice had not been blade, there was a contused wound, as if perforated by some given.—The consideration of the claim, which involves nye- blunt instrument to which powerful force had been applied. rat others of a similar character, was postponed to the next He had not been able to discover a ball, but appearance zneeting.—The Commissioner observed that the balance- shows the ball is lodged. Witnees did not consider Mr. sheet of the bankrupt Higginson, which he understood was Crawshaw can be removed in less than a fortnight. Be is to be filed on Saturday, would, no doubt, be one which could doing very well.—The prisoner was then remanded for fur not be looked over in a moment, and, as several ther examination until Monday, the Bth of May. persons would wish peruse it, he suggested that a faith- SUFFRAGE MEETING AT BnADFORD.—On Tuesday went time should be given for that purpose. Ile presumed afternoon a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough that Mr. Higgins on himself would be ready at any time.--- of Bradford, convened by the Mayor in compliance with a Al some discussion, in the course of which the official es- numerowey signed requisition, was held at the Temperance signer stated thataion, a month at least would be accessory after Hall, and, by adjournment, in an adjacent field, to consider the filing of the balance sheet, tho last examination was the propriety of petitioning parliament for such a change in fixed for the 7111 of June.—Two sugar plantations in the the represents' ive system as will make taxation and repre- West Indies, belonging to the estate of the bankrupts, were sentation co-extensive. The Mayor presided ; and after a l here put up by auction, under an order of the court. Ac- few observations, in which be intimated an opinion in favour cording to the conditions, as read by Mr. Lowndes, the pro- of a further extension of the suffrage, requested that a patient party consisted of a sugar plantation, called Springhead, in hearing should be given to all the speakers . — Mr. W. E. the Island of Barbadoes, containing 360 acres of land, with • . Forster rose to propose the following resolution - mansion, en. Also another plantation, in the same edam', That this meeting, rec ognising :he atwolute , testy of maintaining called Faitts, containing 260 acres of land and maritime. The order, while it is impressed with a cooviction Mat the present state of property, besides being mortgaged to Sir Samuel 0. Gibbet, the nation earnestly deroani.s the most rearching reforms, both as re hart., was subject to an annuity of COOL for the life of Lady girds the representation and the taxmon ot the people, does yet P. Acland, now aged 70 ; also to adult due to Messra. Nelson and Adams of 7,5001., and a legacy of 1,0001. due to Phil '" ?ter'ooti'vetenc°l4itit'hu talotall'erresl43 to t V i l l iri:- nos r r ig f ge ° , l o b r y any pr m er eal e i r b . vation of the public peace, having full faith in the pawer at moral ' Osborn Gibbes, Esq. The conditions having been rea I force, by the conftitutional expressaen of public opinion, to procure all Mr. Winstanley offered the property for unreserved sale, needful changes in the lowa of the country. when Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbee, Dart ., the mortgagee, Mr. Forster having spoken at some length in support of his b in war present, offered 500 f. for the property, and there motion, it was seconded by Mr. B. Godwin, who declared being no other bidder, it was knocked down to him for that for a large extension of the suffrage.—Mr. Le.ghtoseler, who sum. After one or two questions, put by Mr. Higginson, had been the delegates for Bradford at the late London con respecting some sugars, the learned commiseioner thought it vention of chartists, supported the motion, which he said he would be more convenient to all parties if the examination should willingly vote for, as they would refer obtaining the of both bankrupts, Mr. Dean and Mr. Higgs brother could be charter by the moral power of the peer le, and it was only fixed to come on at the same time. —Mr. Dean (lirother to in case that power should fail that they would think of re the bankrupt Dean) agreed with the commissioner, and sorting to any other power to effect its accomplishment. The stated that from letters which he hail received he expected resolution passed unammoud.r.—Mr. Clow,tutor al the his brother would arrive from the West Indies about the baptist academy, moved the next resolution : . beginning of June.—The case was then adjourned to the That this meeting is of opinion that the people of this col:lntr.' 7th of June. great and just mug of comp laint against the government for its no.— .., expenditure of the nubile wealth, its inattention to the compLaints of THE CHLT.CHWARDENS OF NIANCHESTER. — Ine the people, and its demur of their and legitimate right. ;and this contest for churchwardens after all did not come to a poll. meeting is further of opinion that no government in this ronnny with Tae in the kingdom who is of sound mind and untainted The parties met at the Town-tell yesterday morning, but either canoe ought to have theconfidence of the people until eeee7 the church reformers having gained their object in the ors- c ull e e -- , i. put in .m of the &cue . , theththe. ginal list, the amended on e was dis p osed of by an arrange- lie regre tted that he had not strength to advocate this ment with its promoters, to prevent expense and ex. resolution as he could wish, for it was one on which he had eitemeut. set his heart a great many years ago. The resolution was MELANCHOLY OCCCRRENCE AT MANCIiESTER. A painful sensation has been crested in Manchester by the That this meeting deems it necessary and desirable, in order to put - agreed to.—bir. Charlesworth then - moved : statement which obtained cureeneLyesterday, and turns out a stop to bribery and cortuption at elections, that voting by ballot to be correct, that Mr. E. P. Thomson, of the firm of oughtto be insumted. Thomson, Brothers, and Sons, calico printers, had corn- Mr. Samuel Bottomley seconded the motion in a very mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor during the cursive speech, and it was adopted. A sweet, shower of rain, which fell soon . cecalings, thanks bly broke up. LITERATURE. The Staliatieal Companion. In 1843 Mr. Weld, the assistant secretary of the Royal Society (at that time, we believe, secretar the above y to the Statistical Society) published under title a set of statistical tables on au enlarged scale. The reception which the compendium met with has encouraged Mr. Weld, in conjunction with Mr. Bon field, statistical clerk to the Council of Education, to prepare the presen' more complete work. the book is of a convenient size ; the tables (as far as we leave been able to examine and collate them) from the most authentic sources, and compiled with great accuracy and judgment. The arrangement of the matter is excellent. The tables embrace almost all fa:cts in physical geography and applied mathematical science—re toting to measures and scientific instruments, or im portant in statistical researches, whether vital, economical, or political. The resume of English statistics is most complete, and embraces some ems which we have not before seen presented to the public in such a condensed and authentic form. 'fake, for example, the deisrtment of ecclesiastical statistics : or the results of Me,srs. Bonfield and Weld's tabular display of the effective force and emoluments of the church of England. We learn from this :able that the array of dignitaries and ministers of the church is as follows :-2 archbi shops, 25 bishops, 29 d eans, 58 archdeacons, 355 prebends, 291 eastern , . 10,754 incumbents, 4,837 curates. As the patrona4e of the church is frequently divided between dikrent classes of patrons, the enumeration under the head " patronage of the church," does not exactly agree with the preceding. According to the report of the etch siestical commissioners, there are 952 benefices in the gift of the crown, 1,248 in the gift of archbishops and bishops, 787 in the gift of deans and chapters, 1,851 in the gift of ' , dignitaries," 721 in the gift of universities and hospitals, 33 in the gift of municipal corporations, and 5,006 in the gift of private owners: in all 10,708. The resident incumbents of the church of England are in number 5,859 ; the non-resident, 4,307 : makes this, with 376 miscellaneous cures, vacancies, &c., up a total of 10,742—a tolerably close approximation to the two preceding totals. The non-resident incumbents are distinguished into the following categories:-1,878 resiaing on other beneficies ; 937 non-resident without license or exemp tion; 647 non-resident for want, or unfitness, of par sonage house ; 369 non-resident on account of infirmity or illness; 279 non-resident on account of their filling public offices and 197 non-residentmiscel laneous" (which we presume means " unexplained") mum,. The value of benefices varies from under 10/. to 7,3061. There are 11 benefices under 101. ; 19 of 101. and under 201.; 32 of 201. and under 301.; 235 of 301. and under 50/. ; 1,629 of 50/. and under 1001.; 1,602 of 1001. and under 150/. ; 1,354 of 1501. and under 2001. ; 1,979 of 2001. and under 3001. ; 1,326 of 3001. and under 4001.; 830 of 4001. and under under 500/.; 951 of 5001. and under 7501. ; 323 of 7501. and 1,0001.; 134 of 1,0001. and under 1,5001.; 32 of 1,5001. and under 2,0001.; 16 of 2,000/. and upwards; 1 of 4,813/. (the rectory of Stanhope, in the county of Northumberland) ; 1 of 7,306/. (the rectory of Dod dington, in the county of Cambridge.) There are 62 sinecure rectories, averaging 275/. each ; and there are 178 from which no returns have been made. It appears, from the reports of the commissioners of charities, that landed and funded property to the amount of 4,433,594., yielding an annual income of ' 7 BL, is held in trust. ftlusit. LONDON SACRED lIAMIONIC SOCIETY.—This is 1 newly-formed society, which has arisen out of the breach between the Sacred Harmonic Society and its late conduc t tor, Mr. Summon. The dismissal of Mr. Surman &pikers noto have been unanimously concurred in by the members of that society ; and the consequence has bean the establishment of ' a rival arsociation, of which Mr. Surman is the conductor. We made some observ..tions on Mr. Surman's dismissal at the time it took place ; and shall only now repeat that what ever grounds there may Lave been for that step, something more than a change o conductor is necesstry. The orchestra and chorus must be cleared of inefficient (or worse than in efficient) performers, and a strict system of discipline must be adopted. The new society had its first public perfcrm ante last evening in Exeter Ball. It was in aid of the sub scription for the relief of the Englis h refuges a,tisans from France. Being for a c.haritable.‘ ppose this perfotroancs is not properly a subject fur criticism but we shall have raasy opportunities of comparing the proceedMgsin of the two rival societies. The oratorio was " tudas accabeus," which was performed with Mr. Ferry's additional accompaniments. The solo parts were sung by Mites Birch, the Misses Wil liams, Miss Duval , M iss Stewart, Miss Byers, Mr. Siena Reeves, and !du Machin. The orchestra were not ar ranged as at the performances of the old society, but in the manner adopted by Mr. Mullah. The instrumental performers were in front, on a level with the area floor ; and the cherist. ma, placed behind, were raised a little higher. The orchestra was not numerically strong, but exceedingly efficient, being led by Mr. Blagrove, and ' composed almost entirely of our most eminent instrumented ' ista. The chorus appeared to be nearly as numerous as that of:the old society. Before the commencement of the oratorio " God save the Queen " was performed; and at the end of the first part a new national hymn was introduced, composed by Mr. Vincent Wallace. It consisted of two solo verses, sung by Miss Birch and Mr. Reeves, intermixed witoral paasages. It is a fine composition. The melody ti c bold and pleasing, and the harmonies are broad, simple, and effective. It well deserves to become " national," and to be generally used on great public occasions. The composer conducted its performance. It was received with enthusi. astic cheers and encored. 'the hall was crowded in every part, and this new society has certainly made a promising be ginning of its career, Mit. GERIIAItD TAYLOR'S CONCERT.—Last evening this gentleman gave a " grand recital" on the harp, in the Hanover-vinare Looms. Be is a young Larpiht, little known to the public, but his extraordinary, powers have of late attracted a good deal of notice in musical circles. Not having exalted notions of the powers of this instrument, we were not prepared for fond ntire novelty of Mr. Taylor's manner of performance, athe greatness of the effects he produced. Ile ha snce, followed no model, but, pursuing his own course M study and practice, he has broken through all the conventional modes of treating the insrument, and ren dered it capable of things which hitherto have not been dreamed of. There tying no music of a hih class com posed for the harp, he plays pianoforte music, and executes the works of the greatest masters of that ins:so/tient, unde terred by the obstacles of chromatic harmony or complex modulation. Last evening he performed difficult pieces by Dreyschock and Liszt, several of Mendelssohn's " Lieder [ Ohne Worte," Thalberg's " Etude ehromatigue I queue , mains," and a movement of a sonata of withutmost brilliancy of execution, and fine tone and expression. In his hands, in short, the harp has the powers of the piano forte, with some charms peculiar to himself. The room was crowded, even to an inconvenient degree, and his perfor mances were received with the warmest applause. Zbe Drama. FRENCII PLAYS.—Lafont took his benefit yester day evening at the St. J ames's Theatre. There was as sembled, perhaps, the best house of the season hitherto, and the programme was most attractive—" Le Chevalier de St. Georges," as the hero of whish Lafont preseuM a us with somet hing closely approaching the perfection genteel comedy, and "Jean," wherein he is equally capital as the impersonator of low comedy. In the first piece, we regard as a most masterly performance his embodiment of the soi disant chevalier, the runaway creole of hot, haughty soul, w h o , conscious of lofty superiority in all the higher at tributes of our nature to the insolent aristocrats around bun, yet writhes in the tierce struggle with them which his sooty hue and his suspected origin render for a while so unequal. He was, in this character, moat admirably supported by bide. Paul Ernest, the proud, impassioned West India heiress, in whom love ultimately triumphs over the force of even. \Vest Indian prejudice against s av e r th e people, in a ve ry high degree effective and affecting. We must not forget to mention that the performances last night were somewhat overcicuded by an to em of the sup p l y it y of gas, a contretemps which every exertion made to remd --raved unsuccessful. CLERICAL. CUESTF.R.—The dace of Appariwr-General has become vacant in thii dioce-e. The confinnatioo of the hop of (Uri Graham) expected to ta►e place either on the or or loth of ay. PILEFERMENT.— te•. llmier, tO Sbouldhara, P.C.. Norfolk, tr. khouldhara Thorpe, P.C. 1211.; J. Liam, llart. NAVAL. ' MOVEMENTS or ll.M.'s SHIM—At Gibraltar, April 15: Polyphemus, Commander .1. T. M'Clcverty.—M Li‘bon, April 20 : Havana, (.Ipt. J. E. Ertline.—At elaccriams : btrocaboli, Capt. Right lion. Lord A. W. Beam:a:: i and (mum, Lieut. and Commander C. It. inset. ys PORTSMOITTR, APRIL N . —The Gorgon, at., is orde red ba , el . I t to the Cbannel Islands, to mas mite on board many moldier' ail can be spared, and convey them to Ireland. BREERNEBIL APRIL 25.—The elm Ranger has this ag= day arrived here Dom the COWL of Alrica. and will proceed on to to-morrow, to be paid off there. ADMIRALTY, Arial. 26. APPOINTMENTS. MA Chief EllgtoCoT Ord elan) : B. Hoar, to Flamer. —Clerk% estant: F. T. Robins, to Blenbelm.—Arrast.-Ddrtneer : IL Sicensan, to Vilens Nara Cimict : V. Mt:liana, to V% eteradeb. MILITARY. PORTSMOPTH, APRIL 26.—The Masts, hired transport, arrived here thia morning, having Onboard a portion-I' the 91. t. rcpt. . froth the Cape of Good Hope, which she left oo '2sth F eb t h e Te .le ot of this regh Wog at (keeport the. u.th sauct be dd at this port. r 1,