The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-27 00:00:00

1 .1 pan], it is sahl, will give ap for the Cambia line the pre- there is such andostme ea there of our govern- GERMANY. gilt Court. gilt eratreofs. FRANCE louation•ovearde Lyons, and ni consequently, oases to plocie the. Wants of the Paris to Lyons company' is peril. - meat to enforce this treaty, se MO can well imagine. ----••- PARIS, FRIDAY EVIIIIIIINO We ars snared Mat the Orleans company, In exchange for BERLIN, Bunco 22. Besides the waters and the tributaries of the La To eottnIMPONDIDITIL The Monday contains to-day several decrees of theytion Id the oonemelon of the Centre, Bordeaux, Re and Zit:7egenti ,ilweys, will moues of a ministerial crisis still circulate, not withstanding the contradictions they reoeive every Plata river are open to us and to our trade for expleeThe Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace ration, and our morbid Secretary of State refuses, - Palace. ow., eelose,re llie Femme," emOrMan the mem eventieri high importance. I announced to Son several weeks e line • yesterday was the birthday of the Duke of Cambriar of the Centro the railways et:prole, CilleertruniZ, antbd Li . Genet. ,`• is publedict every Teseday ma rtukey 'led. i° tb" ago that there was a project on foot for extending few Sys' lif .M. Bethmann-Hollweg, the leader of the even after the nomination and confirmation of our Prises Albert, attended by Lieut.-C I thei afternoon e The ton the Duke. f c,tamthlittl gree M, and on the Bordeaux line, to euntinue the railway bureaucratic conservative, whose opinions are rere- consuls in that quarter, to give them their instrue ...ditetienoriwnee.ilthsevte.llon Gordon, paid a visit of congratulation at three Weir WI r'''.- -ie. eat:mended toe" The Itsreweketankin averts, papas the powers of the prefects, and erecting these civil frpm powor„ to Rochefort 41''' 1.• "m«, 10, ficeverie.stresfs be Twa o'clock se the governors of the departments into a sort of tented by the. Preussischellischeroblatt, of which ho is dons, that they may proceed in their duties. w„..:1, 0 i The minister of finance, the day before yesterday, ; di, sil ;shillalas. with discretionary power over concerns whictraltav ' Commodore Goldsborough has been appointed flag eta. at B • gave • prinite audence to MM. Ardoin, ltiLardo, Ex- 'ndeed the principal founder, is mentioned in all the tea rayuckingham Palace. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. been hitherto referred to the ministry of the interior.e pellets, and other memrs of the beard of directors hypothetical combinations that one meets. There is captain, and Commodore Stringham commodore, of ri e Alfred and the Princenes Helena and - v-is nat-Wormus. ie. sta..........aftemem sa. ss- This project, styled by a singular abuse of languaste tour squadron in the Mediterranean. their accustomed ezetem yesterday in the gar little doubt that the king, and still more the Prinoe a..„..-110asss. WI Ste. ...-...Atmeasen, eit.Csa. aof d ' • • - c'• project ecentralisation, is developed at length the Bordeaux t Cetto Ital way, aooom •d b panic y „„, . of ruesta, would be very glad to get rid of H. Man- Kossuth has arrived at St. Louis, whore he was lathe= Palow. the rtiresentatives of Meyers. Locke, Massey, Betts, in the official journal, and is certainly one of the[stiffed, if he knew how. This minister's position is per- escorted from the steamer by several companies of ' vtratleesr Majesty and Prince Albert, with LONDON, 8.177-111)..1 Y, MARCIE 27. gravest picece of legislation by dec on which the and et°' members of this English and h the directors of the foundries of Decaseville, committer, Chu: ana the most anomahusoccupied by any public man German militia. He keeps up his spirits admirably, by the Countsun f Royal, and the Price, Captain thefirmoJM fueutntlEdgeumbe, t' President has yet ventured. Properly . .speaking, to tillon, and Commeetry. in Europa at the present moment. He is anything but seems to be a little fretted at the diminution of .1 tut, R.N., u We cannot swell the chorus of approbation be- decentralise is to increase the municipal indepen- The Gazette de France says: but popular ; the chambers dislike him, and out- the material aid which ho has so earnestly implored. honoured the Princess'. Theatre at' stowed by our contemporaries upon the Loin) CHAN- deuce of the departments and communes • whereas vote his party. lie is not regarded with favour by The Hungarian Bonds find little or no sale, and I evcuing. . ind 'teas Orleans, The treaty of union which 0 to take plate between thel.:ler _Majesty's Private Band act al toil, in consequence of the bull introduced by him the present decree destroys all municipalthe court, and yet he manages to hold office to the very much fear that the estimate that I formed i.aonttloa.::%, ilii,:ririle, 111md Nantes Railway Company, ander the title of the Law ist Wills Amendment. dente, and arms the deputy of the central goci;tran--The fact is, the king and some months ago of the amount he would receive is rprolatminrotV played t' signed.orou'llOhrre cePrciT'tiatt::,?..l7ototr. exclusion of better men. His first appearance as a law reformer is, in our went, the prefect, with the arbitrary authority Of a It"" companies yesterday'teY hadarc so glad to have been delivered, us far greeter than t, ut which he will actually receive. Finale, "Martha" laktnent, a failure, and gives bad promise as pro-consul. The prefects will continue to subinit to to of Public Works. The new company, formed from this his friends they hope, from the revolution, that they will put up The Senate of the United States has voted 5,000 dots. The Duchene of Kent visi' will execute a branch line from Clermontyesterday, at Uloucesterli out of its contingent fund, to pay KoNsuth's expenses to the larger and more comprehensive reforms for the decision of the Minister of the Interior the `mien of the kw' a groat deal of personal unpleasantness to keep }errand tou Boanne, and thus open a line parallel to that with oho, the public look, and which are to be introduced departmental and communal affairs which' raff t from Pans to Lyon.. things quiet. The Chamber are at the mercy of the while in the city of Washington. A deputation from t' slider his auspwes. The subject to which he called directly the general interest of the state, affect The Prefect of Calvados has communicated to the government, and the people arc not in a political Robert Stephenson, • attention wee of general interest. Theobject proposed as the approbation of the depart ntal budgets,,nun council-general the followieg letter, which has been mood. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. ~ Tyler, R.E., had car to he I Meted -namely, the nanoval of doubt and on- traordinary aseessments, and territorial delimitatioa nsa ; addressed to hint by the Minister of Public Works, The dramatic poet, Ernst Raupack, was buried to- The f New YORK, MARCH 13. r .atn advises received this morning per Asia - yesterday, at the certainty in the mode of executing testamentary die- but they will henceforth decide upon all other affairs and which 'flakes known the intentions of the govern- ._ . • day His funeral was attended by nearly every actor were cemsindeered favourable in ico m quainting him t' 'anions -was WIC whose importance is admitted on which required hitherto the decision of the head of meat relative to the railway from Paris to Cherbourg : ° ' Berlin. The Rev. Mr. nydow, who officiated at and had a good effect upon. our marketre taeneporaili;yt .of sLim pointed a corer whines, and all sides. The grievance was one loudly demanding the state, or of the Minister of the Interior. These the interment, . delivered an address over the bier, improved. Exchange on Europe was hallyy ,• billion Lon mment has decided on concedieg mins.: for sonic noent judicial decision, in the affairs art• eltiesed in schedules, each item of which the Coltirie rranflnt'- ;rho rye. ens to Cherbourg. This line will use and alluded in excellent taste to the services which d°" sold at 1101 to 1101; I'aris 6.171 to 6.18/ ; Amster- ~.„("hli'o. tiler Etvleadastieal Courts were not too strongly de- is well deserving of attention; but the examination the It^uin iil7tlyitr:nny, whence it will be directed by Levee:, Rau pack had pa rendered to the German stage. dam, 41 to 411; liandiurgh, 36 to 3111 ; Bremen, 7141 - min nr to tial indi• Refilled alien characterised by one noble lord as of a few will exhibit this incredible levity with which ;--erquigny, Berney, Lesieux, and Mesidon, to Caen. From • lesterday's number of the (!onstitutional Zeituny - •. • 781. Since our last re rt there has po • twin no change re- Adr Cherbourg It will follow a direction to be ultimately de• quarin a notattt in the mow market '1 he su I over sroolting.- lit this, therefore, his find reforming so vast a revolution in the internal administration was confiscated. end .E.,the regular Y • - pp Y jurY dby the government. The section from Paris to e attempt, the l'il %Nil tiox had everything in his has been undertaken and carried into effect. Thus t'll'in' ..ingsbury Gazette states that the Emperor of is large and increasing, anti if the Culifornii 14' istateerioviiltlitebecocuu mpleothed in at delay of three years from the The favour- a popular subject. a real grievance, and the no department of administration prownts more dirt- eiiiisnin nian, The mincenisca itto .Clwrbourg in Austria has accepted the invitation of the Czar to be steamers to arrive bring anything near the esti eymeathits of his audience and of the public. Yet he cultic. than that relating to riven and water con the three sepresent at Moscow during the fetes of June. mated quantities of gold, the price for money Leh. nwt In a h whiche... nay mit oeyes.ful. His hither& introduced, contained The convenient and equitable distribution of these have beer ""nd by the councils-general, will remain to assist is WURTEMBERG. lower than the rates now ',aid. Fir.t class paper fin lair clause.: the remedy proposed by the first clause natural sources of mechanical power, fertility and armed ready sale at 6to 61 per cent. bloney "on call** is i.l.,imrsubivoeuntion which the state promises to grant to this The Filet or Upper Chamber has confirmed the abundant, that it is not an easy matter to place it at ' far an rill universaPy itdmitted was questioned, but in health, so indispensable to the communities settled it understand Monsieur le l're . t.•et, bow im the Lower II ouse, cancelling the declaration cent. ;merest. Many of the banks have large sus consequence of the magnitude of that evil, allowed along their bunks, tonna one of the chief desiderata Pole.■nt it will olthat the ''l. nvote of councoif age eral ot your i departmenti f with hi soution to stand. The house refused to sane- and most perplexing problems or a central govern- should assist in the success rights promulgated in 1849 by the Frankfort par- and ,sre anxious to dispose of them at our IllitIRIV GM the alteration, of the present law contemplated ment. A raver like the Loire, which flows thron h . interests it. You wall also see project that the cioeceinewumnitte.Tig 1). shall iio. lament with the approbation of the king. for approved securities. We quote-First else have already voted funds in aid of this measure notes and acceptances, short, 6 per nrinurn ; km to the ....veld and third clauses, and rejected them; • dozen deitartments before reaching the sea, er.v. 1- rnediatel ratify their 'yh previous deliberations, in order that per annum. First-class single names paper, 6 and the fourth clause was allowed to remain as me dent'', involves a multitude of interests, which require th • num. Second-alas t•ndorsed notes mud acer Cozzirsycl'eehacemme at the same time as the votes of the DENMARK. of minor importance. and become its injurious effects for their adjustment the vigilant control of the cen- Larrtivan.DvitrYl.6. 7 to 8 per annum ; long, 8 to 9 per one bad not tarn notiecel. Such is the result, so far, of Owl government. Now according to the present de- The i'a gives the following ys the bill a Melt, ha% Mg peered through committee, was cree every prefect is perfect lord and master of the • which the Bank of France will make advances on The session of the Danish Chambers was clotted miscellaneous securities, 6to 7 per e money we observe more activity us th reportut as misled to the House of Lords last lion of the river which flows through his department. railway securities: • on the 20th by commission. On the previous even creases. The rates, however, arc ate' night. WI:. n '.:rd LtNeinALE introduced the pre- Ile may autheriee without appeal all mills, forges, 1. The • ing the King had a int .will lend 80 per rent. on the par of railway rent Wiris ait. ilitre was nu point upon which he sluices, works of irrigation, and employments of th bods whebna both houses. 'fho term for ehich the lower house rations see principally in red am quotations in IthierBqtoucuittatii;,reshaphaloll'im laic par, rid on the dwelt mom earnest:, than the nerd of providing one water for public or private use. It is needless toelected expires on the 4th of Ikeember next ; it Ilisheelst of the forms, r brought 97 anew decision, however, only 761 peribeewnLenwirinbeeraelvatb'neicidi was clear. simple. and uniform mode of execution of wills, point out the confusion, abuses, quarrels, and reels-sleitrected that its dissolution will take place very osisatiihoi latter at 1087... laoydis 1; on the bonds of the Avignon to /Armlike line. 2. Aileen and it RA. with Rib, Alen. enacted that every will mations which must arise from the independent o. the amount of 60 per cent, will be made en shares °l't y. opening of the river, at 7, should he signed "at the foot or end thereof.' In management by a dozen prefects of' successive sec f railways of the first class n • , namely, Northern, Rouen, - ---•---- -- opening of the canal in adopting this, the onlinary mode of signature, and in tions of the same river. Phis arrangement will, if I St. Cierm.tin,Orl . ' .ans entre, Strasbourg and St. Etienne queer at 76 to e. 80c., wit' prescribing it in words so simple and so general, it am not mistaken, be found to be one of the most to Lyons. These advancesI. are to be calculated' on. the ITALY.more quo- - firm, Jersey and would seem that it was intended to establish the fruitful sources of discontent in the present decree. tations, deduction made of the calls remaining to be t,id. State, 45c. to 47e. C NAPLES. export demand is d'thug, der the Northern, the paid-up shares of 400 fr. being safesttrweible form. but the judges of the Ecclesies- Another feature of great pulite is that which cm- " NAPLES, MARCH 17. Southern white ar quotedt. at would at the par of 600 fr., the advance of 60 per teal Courts have darken( d knowledge, and if the sig- powers the prefects to make concessions to a ia- calculated on the real capital represented The official journal contains a new treaty of coin- this port from be nature has not Errs placed precisely at the foot or tions, compenics, or individuals of works of depart. b)ln wNonortheber wr share, that .is to say, on the 400 fr. merce and navigation betwceu France and the king- Wheat... end of the will, and even when plated after the con. mental interest. Thus a temptation to endlessjob- mu a p, th the premium of 150 fr added, or dem of the Two Sicilies. elusion ,'f the will if it be not written immediately bing is held out to an officer whose pa be 660 fr. When on the shares of the L • * y ranges - a a yens Railway, . rho moat important articles are : C0r0.... 2.50fe, shall be paid up, they FLOUR below the end, the language of the act has tween twenty and forty thousand francs. A.nether the "re "nit-tenths' or toare to be ranged in the first class. 3. Advances up 1. All productions of the two countries, or of their respee- export ' been held not to have been complied with, and important responsibility, which was hitherto vestedwill be made on shares in the railways of live dominions, coming from the one, or that can be ex. rates , the will ha. consequently been set aside-although iu the councils-general, but is now transferred to the IN. ecoPcesr mitre. Tarr etneothet%tehers,asmheallsbdevapnlaced under the tam- tariff, East. the document on the whole has been such as to prefects, is the acceptance or refusal of gifts and vance. on these Tr' -willtr-e,tl 2Lt.3.13a1et. fu The ad or French v tar In the sashs:i a ped in 11,. leave no doubt of the intention of the testator. The legacies to the department, a discretion which ought that is to say, on the value indicated bine henquotation, of the previous day, deduction being made the the cans all productions that can be legally exported wayor # tedges have assumed that the signature to a will manifestly to be controlled by some competent Sri- which remain to be paid up. 4. Nothing will be reexported from the one or the other country, shall amt he in a certain position. tuelthey have considered banal, and not veated in the hands of a single person. ...tnetton the shares, of railways which do not give regal_ enjoy the same rate of tariff, and shall receive the same that it was simply their duty to consider whether the Many of theprot isions will be found impossible toexe- It reaaundtoAnTry", Bore ryivitegees., reductions, r coneeinsolia, or. restrictions, whern chiaoshtthazeroftom7-I'.""tt will h..' such a sin-mature or not. In this estimate cute. 'rhos, the prefects are to appoint the directors deauseteo"feeet:teaw, rte,:t;oenueinto they o becouhrrey. re-exported in ships of the one or °Eaten' defies they contrast unfavourably with and agents of the de`, es de losendietV, while fee- Beaune. 5. The railway of the Grande Courne, which at the same time works coal !Legg, 2. All vessels of the Two Sicilies, which may ar earlier judges who upheld the validity of a will qui:idly •a single establishment of this kind is main- to a rrnp"y cannot, on account of that mixed position, be admitted to ports of France, and all French ships which may e (then nquired to be attested in the presence of the tamped by the contributions of four or five separatethe ports of the Swo Siciliee, shall be equally ' thentdbeneofit of the (levee. 6. A decision has been postponed treater in case it appeared that the witnesses, departments. Scarcely less perplexing for the neantitnoa4nhall bteheol)deciltreispecting etivery.resdprutesu rorefekttouorge, Vats, and, • when signing their names, were placed in such a feet will be the exercise of his new power of appor.tet-- It he securities of etl:enll).c Versailles right hank, and Versailke left Dieppe a ocamP' respective porispof France. nand', the Twowwmft;iP position that they might have been seen by ing the commissioners of police in towns of lea., than The situation of the last two lines will be regulated railways.afte 3. In addition to such advantages already the testator. The older judges stretched to the 8,000 souls. So obnoxious to certain classes of the the definitive constitution of the Western Company and Sicilian Majesty NM" that ell Ffeinch lament limit the construction of the Statute of population are those functionaries, that it is found the exchange 7of their shares for the bonds of that corn- the French postal steamers, shall be al' Freed. in favour of the testator. so as to give effect continually necessary, in order to protect them from In case or a fell in the quotations of bonds ports of the Two Sicilia on the same' to trot one wary dispositions, which, if not established, popular vengeance, to shift them from one depart. ti7nys•hari:s supplementary security will be demanded "la. although they May have tour' are incite:Oily lost ; and by this wise admiuistration, ment into another; and nothin less than the from '' g - borrowers when the fall shall be 20 per inerchandoe at any intermediate y that statute remained in all material points, eo far as tige given to them by the direct appointment of the rent' on bonds and on shares of the first class, and of per cent. on shares of the second class. Income the sup- _ ____ _ wills were concerned, unaltered for 130 years, while central government is sufficient to make their autho- in elementary securities shall not be supplied by the borrowers the narrow views of their successors in Doctors' rity respected. But, as soon as they become the within three days after a simple demand I.y an extra judi- UNITED of Commons compel an amendment of the law within nominees and creatures the • Prefect, - 15 years after it has been passed. of both parties will be diminished, and their ann.. Bourse, by an agent de change, the whole part of the But if the authority of parliament be requisite to pularity Increased. On the whole, it may be said '....- securities ran which it may have made advances.c 8. Any ARRIVAL C person of known:solvability who may demand from the Bank A sum of th remedy the present very defective state of the law, of this decree, that it bears throe hout the a loan oa railway bonds or shares•must subscrib.. an engage- the Express"Y we agree with Lord CRANWORTII that it weal be stamp of the despotic system of Louisg N wmietrintonlztythdeayssilfvnarnes nrlsi.thVltie sixty 4t lenigenftorylthalll7.tntasnit i, i:i far better to deal with it in general terms than by lean. For the cake of swiftness and despatch,a special enactment to point out particular modes and it destroys th.e. guarantees which shield the citizen besides on the part of the borrower, the obligation to make The s-ram' tart. oflrsiagnatuporTul‘:ihricrho shall rm bel hpertn:scurtrier be bcd forlUanffiy. against the injustice, caprice, caprwitoer ,u and temitneitintiton of an whenevere t o this ltluatiihk tall tscrnatttaiikif thehe fallro whriteihohmaydnrise ea way to Hate 9 The council-general of the Iranlir shall fix, ran thet dollar. I. Puree, there moat always be a point of alight Several other decrees follow, of which it is import- abwae.each week, the sum which may be employed o'"'„,:o-' :Lest! .. d meetingncet dof dertation, which may appear to constitute a hard- ant to notice two. The first of these abolishes ther- For the first week te...u• ship in invalidating the whole process, and in this decree of the provisional government on clubs, with the creditn will probablyl sharesize7 'l'ooo ,n nnn~„,„ fi.„be for instance, if, instead of one place of signature to a the exception of that articlewhichprohibits Will being directed, namely the foot or end thereof, societies; and subjects all public meetings whatever branch banks. A' halta-dozen places are particularised, the only to the jurisdiction of the penal code and the law of The Times, alluding to the opening address of the change is, that there are an increased number of April 10, HIM, thus • restoring matters to their for- President, to be delivered on Monday next, to the cues in which the ingenious minds of judges mcr state under the monarchy of July. Assembly, . Legislative says • may disport themselves. But Lord ST. Leo:autos The other decree is more deserving of attention. After having spoken of the internal situation of thinks otherwise, and he insists that the best It abolishes the law passed May 15, 18,10, which country, it is anticipated that the President may touch way of meeting the present difficulty is by enacts that no national property can be appropriated no less difficult subject of foreign policy ;on the gre enacting that a will shall be valid .. if the eireateee to a public service except by a law ThusLo' Na n's peas questions; on diplomatic negotiations; on t, Atli he so placed at, or after, or fulloseisg, air solder, poleon takes away all obstacle fro. m the future ap- the 1 tepublic; and on the disposition toward Or besar •• • 1•to • . . ippos/ / the end if the arid, that a shall propriation to his own service of the domains of Fun- powers. Ile may, too, mention that itt appirrni time the testator intended to pore effect to tainbleau, Compiegne, or any others he may take foreign 1815 had been imposed by fcrce on Fn the erding siynerl us his rod( by sent his signature." a fancy t 0• and conquered ;" that France never aver With all submission to the author of these words- By another decree, the directors of the Colonial herself to those treaties, but submitted and with unfeigned deference to his talents and legal Bank of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and the Ile de la annulled them twice, both as r seamen as a draughtsman-we much doubt whether Reunion (Bourbon), are required 'to be of without Europe have the law uto the execution of wills will be even as 20 shares in the respective banks, and the director e°Datiniti°°' therefore, she has establiahed Clear at the end of another fifteen years as it is now. of the Bank of Guyana of 15 shares. Then comes a If the plain words .. at the foot or end thereof" very long decree, preceded by a report of the mi- regulate her own affair. as she t' have given rise to the painful questions of which meter of marine, regulating with great detail the she pleases. The President r they have been the innocent occasion, what may not authority of captains of merchantmen on board their nevertheless, continue to be the effect of the six additional illustrations by, vessels, the discipline of the crews, the form of pro- 1816, or rather t° what r which these plain words arc proposed to be rendered ending in prosecutions of sailors for cri and have an influential vole plainer ? Simple-minded persons may now not offences, 8:c. &c. This is followed by a decree, claim the justice she ' unreasonably ask for an explanation of the difference which, for the better despatch of civil and comma, and 1815. between a signature placed" under, or beside, or oppo- dal affairs in certain parts of Algeria, enacts that the site to the end of the will ;" for if opposite mean the " commandants de place" shall continue to exercise same as " under or beside," then it would be as well the functions conferred on them by the decree of the omitted; and if not, it is difficult to know what it Governor-General of Algeria on the sth of August, One of intends, unless " opposite to the end" be construed 1843, in all localities in which there is no civil an- tenant as" at the beginning." And if these doubts arise even thority, but that there may be an appeal from their arrest, before this legislation be complete, it is more than decisions to the Tribunal of the First Instance probable that the prophecy of Lord CIIANWOWni will of the nearest province. Lastly, a decree raarn be verified, and that this amendment will be the declares that, in consequence of a tax of ;- , fruitful parent of litigation, and thus the cause of lofr. per 100 kologrammes having been placed '' bitter distress and suffering. But even here the ob. on salt employed in the manufacture of soda, it it jections to the clause, as now framed, do not stop. important to augment the import duties on soda art l'oiler the present act, signature " at the foot wend native carbonate of soda, in order to reserve to' th ereof" is conclusive, except of course in the case of soda manufacturies the supply of the home mar' fraud; but wider the intended alteration, the will is and it accordingly enacts that the import dot good only where the signature is so placed " that it all sorts of sodas shall be 26fr. 50e. the ' shall be apparent that the testator intended to give grammes, and on native carbonate of sods effect to the writing ;" and therefore the fact of SW I infer, from the Mondeswoontaining tar nature will not be hereafter conclusive, but it will changes in the ministry which I war Its open to any disappointed legatee to raise the terday were oficially decided, that r question of intention, and to harass the rightful occurred in this matter. Still I am' possessors by dilatory proceedings. It surely would to the present time the change, have been better to have left the law as at present, For the rest you will find the contlesive as to wills conforming to the present confidently announced in the I enactments-and to have given a power to the judges The Public has an article e vritbin defined limits to establish any will which bore in Switzerland, on the plea sport the face of it an intention by the testator to of the Great St. Bernard. give effect to it-although it might in some slight ment lays down a doe degree vary from the precise form now required to be PatieY of the flint rev' adopted. the nght to interven In reference to the second clause, by which it ie It is said that M enacted that " the provisions of this act shall ex- end M. 41 hi Gl' tend and be applied to every will already made," it ,__Tha Jowl": i is not pueblo to speculate upon the interpretation ~,,,e aaaaal:rminiater which may be hereafter given to it. It may be re- te=moZboaerr striated to wills trade since January 1, 1838, when . errih7. the present act came into operation ; but if, on the of the de/ other hand, it be construed according to the sense of The the words, then this claase will throw a doubt ea the We validity o sills of oenonaltv which, dated st,4„ to Fear DOI, are now exempt from 'the forms provided by 7' the present Wills Act. The questions raised by the bill affect, however, so closely the interests of every One that the measure will doubtless receive from t) Commons a more careful consideration than bee it bestowed upon it in the house of its parentage. Tice COMIItaND at MALTA.-I 1 is 'dread- AM Lieut.-General Ellice returns fres% the ' flreas at Malta immediately hie sWHOM, IS ' cc. ar altheagh the name of the general officer wh lend..Cieneral Ellice has not been °Skean, ban beard it stated in military circles the will sin the emensead in question to Barre 0. Smith OR his arrival in tit' Cape if Oeed Hsu. Aronscmuss' HALL.-Na' posse their examaaatior. in th sodienee, and received middle day. March 26, 11452 : -Thole And rt w'a court. It'd hom t M"Y`' 7 Bartlett Long./it Willhiln, ilionieghsm • hemming, Kinsholtow. WAIN.; Petrick Jan Sutton-place, Baehr gilt @x moo. FRANCE pony, it is midi. win give up for the Gabe line the pro lontion • owarde Lyons, and nil, uentl, ewe to plan g e a the. taunts a this Paris to Lyons conseq eonipany y in peril. We are mewed that the Orleans company, In exchange for the prokagation Id the ocutemaion of the Centre, Bordeaux, and Nelda h away., will engage to complete on the line of the Centre the railways to Moulins, Clermont, and Li- Mean, and on the Bordeaux line, to continue the railway from Poltien to Itochefort. GERMANY. there is such a reluctance on the part of our govern ment to enforce this treaty, no one can well imagine. Besides the waters and the tributaries of the La Plata river are open to us and to our trade for explo ration, and our morbid Secretary of State refuses, even after the nomination and confirmation of our consuls in that quarter, to give them their instruc tions, that they may proceed in their duties. Commodore Goldsborough has been appointed flag captain, and Commodore Stringham commodore, of our squadron in the Mediterranean. Kossuth has arrived at St. Louis, whore he was escorted from the steamer by several companies of German militia. He keeps up his spirits admirably, but seems to be a little fretted at the diminution of the material aid which ho has so earnestly implored. The Hungarian Bonds find little or no sale, and I very much fear that the estimate that I formed some months ago of the amount ho would receive is far greater than t• ut which he will actually receive. The Senate of the United States has voted 5,000 dole. out of its contingent fund, to pay Komuth's expenses while in the city of Washington. Zbe Court. TO CORR Iit3PONDZIITS. PARIS, FIIDAT Rvanrxo The Mietitenr contains to-day several decrees of high importance. I announced to you several weeks ago that there was a project on foot for extending the powers of the prefects, and erecting these civil governors of the departments into a sort of with discretionary power over concerns whictr ag uive been hitherto referred to the ministry of the interior. This project, styled by a singular abuse of language a project of decentralisation, is developed at length in the official journal, and is certainly one of the gravest pieces of legislation by decree on which the President has yet ventured. Properly . speaking, to decentralise is to increase the municipal indepen dence of the departments and communes ; whereas the present decree destroys all municipal indepen dence, and arms the deputy of the central govern ment, the prefect, with the arbitrary authority of • pro-consul. The prefects will continue to submit to the decision of the Minister of the Interior the departmental and communal affairs which affect directly the general interest of the state, such as the approbation of the departmental budgets. ex • tnionlinary assessments, and territorial delimitations; but they will henceforth decide upon all other affairs which required hitherto the decision of the head of the state, or of the Minister of the Interior. These affairs arc clused in schedules, each item of which is well deserving of attention; but the examination of a few will exlibit the incredible levity with which so vast a revolution in the internal administration has been undertaken and carried into effect. Thus no department of administration presents more diffi culties than that relating to rivers and watercourses. The convenient and equitable distribution of these natural sources of mechanicul power, fertility, and health, so indispensable to the communiti e s se ttl e d along their banks, forms one of the chief desiderata and most perplexing problems of a central govern ment. A river like the Loire, which flows throngh a dozen departments before reaching the sea, evi dently involves a multitude of interests, which require for their adjustment the vigilant control of the cen tral government. Now aceoldiug to the present de cree every prefect is perfect lord and master of the sec• teen of the river which flows through his department. Ile may authorise without appeal all mills, forges, sluices, works of irrigation, and employments of the water for public or private use. It is needless to point out the confusion, abuses, quarrels, and reels ' niations which must arise from the independent management by a dozen prefects of successive sec tions of the same river. This arrangement will, if I am not mistaken, be found to be one of the most fruitful sources of discontent in the present decree. Another feature of great gravity is that which em powers the prefects to make concessions to associa tions, companies, or individuals of works of depart mental interest. Thus a temptation to endless job bing is held out to an officer whose pay ranges be tween twenty and forty thousand francs. nother important responsibility, which was hitherto vested iu the councils-general, but is now transferred to the prefects, is the acceptance or refusal of gifts and legacies to the department, a discretion which ought manifestly to be controlled by some competent tri bunal, and not vested in the hands of a single person. Many of the prey isions will be found impossible tocze cute. Thus, the prefect+ are to appoint the directors and agents of the deii;es de nay ndiciV, while fre quently a single establishment of this kind is main tained by the contributions of four or five separate departments. Scarcely less perplexing for the pre fect will be the exercise of his new power of appoint ing the commissioners of police in towns of less than 6,000 souls. So obnoxious to certain classes of the population are those functionaries, that it is found continually necessary, in order to protect them from popular vengeance, to shift them from one depart ment into another; and nothing leas than the pres tige given to them by the direct appointment of the central government is sufficient to make their autho rity respected. But, as soon as they become the nominees and creatures of the prefect, the authority of both parties will be diminished, and their unpo pularity increased. On the whole, it may be said of this decree, that it bears throughout the stamp of the despotic system of Louis Napo- Icon. For the make of swiftness and despatch, it destroys the guarantees which shield the citizen against the injustice, caprice, and corruption of an individual armed with power uncontrolled by laws. Several other decrees follow, of which it is import ant to notice two. The first of these abolishes the decree of the provisional government on clubs, with the exception of that article which prohibits secret societies; and subjects all public meetings whatever to the jurisdiction of the penal code and the law of April 10, 1834, thus restoring matters to their for mer state under tho monarchy of July. The other decree is more deserving of attention. It abolishes the law passed May 15, 1650, which enacts that no national property can be appropriated I to a public service except by a law. Thus Louis Na poleon takes away all obstacle from the future ap propriation to his own service of the domains of Fon tainbleau, Compiegne, or any others he may take a fancy to. By another decree, the directors of the Colonial Bank of Martinique, Guadaloupe, and the Ile de la Itimnion (Bourbon), are r equired to be possessors of 20 shares in the respective banks, and the director of the Bank of Guyana of 15 shares. Then comes a very long decree, preceded by a report of the mi nister of marine, regulating with great detail the authority of captains of merchantmen on board their vessels, the discipline of the crews, the form of pro ceeding in prosecutions of sailors for crime and offences, 8:c. &c. This is followed by a decree, which, for the better despatch of civil and commer cial affairs in certain parts of Algeria, enacts that the " commandants de place" shall continue to exercise the functions conferred on them by the decree of the Governor-General of Algeria on the sth of August, 1843, in all localities in which there is no civil au thority, but that there may be an appeal from their decisions to the Tribunal of the First Instance of the nearest province. Lastly, a decree declares that, in consequence of a tax of 10fr. per 100 kolagrammes having been placed on salt employed in the manufacture of soda, it is important to augment the import duties on soda and native carbonate of soda, in order to reserve to the soda 'manufactories the supply of the home markets; and it accordingly enacts that the import duties on all sorts of sodas shall be 26fr. 50e. the 100 kilo grammes, and on native carbonate of soda 21fr. 50c. I infer, from the Moniker containing no hint of the changes in the ministry which I was smeared yes terday were oficially decided, that some hitch has occurred in this matter. Still lam informed that up to the present time the changes in question hold. For the rest you will find the same modifications confidently announced in the Independence Beige. The Pitblic hue an article in favour of intervention in Switzerland, on the plea of restoring the harpies of the Great St. Bernard. This organ of the govern ment lays down a doctrine worthy of the foreign policy of the first revolution. It say% "France has the rlght to intervene wherever justice is violated." It is sad that M. Granter de Caravan will Eno cud If. de be Guerronniere as editor of the Pays. Tbs albsrusal du Havre says : The INlleiser of the Marine hes, it is rid, just given seams he semi vessels of war to paned to La Plata, for the pesessebe sf the iatenets of the French subjects, in the =Wet et As prism events which may aria la esereptease ef the atm rad flight of Beep. The Petrie says : Ws ape lIIIIIIred that the areselediss el **Casio of Freon ell be sandaled by the new assess ea niseetion, whisk are Me pinkie of elrisee ap plainest Ilt i asMr e eetee Is be spelled is tbe mimeo, sal the loleuelien ta Me weabllimmee wlll be= MI die poet of OINIIIIIIIt eardessdey d a im earelsred indisputable die every bean* ef the tuluesity. The first proldemib and pessorsenegeedrass of the provincial alerts of appeal lave boss anmseed to Paris for the 10th of April nest, in order te tabs the oath before the Prince President prescribed by the constitution. BERLIN, Mime' 22. Rumours of a ministerial crisis still circulate, not withstanding the contradictions they reoeive every few days. M. Bethmann-Hollweg, the leader of the bureaucratic conservatives whose opinions are repre sented by the Preussische Wocheralatt, of which ho is indeed the principal founder, is mentioned in all the hypothetical combinations that one meets. Them is little doubt that the king, and still more the Prince of Prussia, would be very glad to get rid of M. Man teuffel, if he knew how. This minister's position is per haps the most mimed ma occupied by any public man in Europe at the present moment. He is anything but popular ; the chambers dislike him, and out vote his party. He is not regarded with favour by the court, and yet ho manages to hold office to the exclusion of better men. The fact is, the king and his friends arc so glad to have been delivered, as they hope, from the revolution, that they will put up with a groat deal of personal unpleasantness to keep things quiet. The Chamber are at the mercy of the goverood.nment, and the perpl e are n o t i n a p o liti ca l m ;f" I be Eimer," someibEic the wee evening% t,.. M publubed every Toddy sa4 nifty hriver.o.m rat. inieo,!ed toy "To Itareso.," bum. , t ,eor, Bcoverfwelatel. Tv. o'clock es the no , • day or 7 abliostioa. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDOIt. p„....7g o rn, t ,g t 54.43 a. ---,Abair% k 4.. anoasev—illorstac Bb 240. Sit. 47 is. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Yesterday was the birthday of the Duke of Cambridge. Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Culimel the lion. A. Gordon, paid a visit of congratulation at three o'clock in the afternoon to the Duke at his residence in St. James's Palace. The Duke of Cambridge afterwards visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Prince Alfred and the l'rincenes Helena and LOlll4/I Wok their 'condensed ezeseise yesterday in the garden of Buck ingham Palace. liar MMesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the l'rinceu Alice, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, the Earl of Morton, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, R.N., and Colonel llutiverie, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence lust evening. Her Majesty's Private Band attended in the Palace on Thursday evening, and played the following piece.: Overture. ''llerseret" •lN3br. Finale, "Martha'. .. The Miami of Kent visited the Duchess of Oloucei.ter yesterday, at biluucester.linuse, Piccadilly. The minister of finance, the day before vesterday, gave • priviite audence to MM. Ardoin, ltiLardo, Ex- Pellets, and other members of the beard of directors lof the Bordeaux to Cette MCI way, accompanied by I the representatives of Messrs. Locke, Brassey, Betts, and Peto, members of the English committee, and the directors of the foundries o f I)ecaseville, Chit talon, and Commeutry. The Gazette de Fraser says: The treaty of union which is to take place between the Orleans, Centre, Bordeaux, and Nantes Railway Company, is about to be immediately signed. The representatives of these companies yesterday bad *conference with the Minis ter of Public Works. The new tympany, formed from this union of the four, will execute a branch hoe from Clermont Ferrand to Roanne, and thus open a line parallel to that from Paris to Lyons. The Prefect of Calvados has communicated to the council-general the following letter, which has been addressed to him by the Minister of Public Works, and which makes known the intentions of the govern-, ment relative to the railway from l'aris to Cherbourg : ' M. Ic Prefect,—The government has decided on conceding the entire railway from l'srts to Cherbourg. This line will use the }Lunen line to Rom y, whence it will be di reeted by Brevet, t-a.equigny, Berney, I.sieux, and Mesidon, to Caen. From Cherbourg It will follow a direction to he ultimately de. tertainid by the government. The sec ti o n from Paris to Caen will be completed in • delay of three years from the date of the COISCI wino j that from Caen to Cherbourg in the three succeeding years. The local subventions which have beer conditionally voted, and which will be con firmed by the councils-general, will remain to assist is the subvention which the state propuses to grant to this line. You will understand, Monsieur le Prefect, how im portant it is that the council-general of your department should assist in the success of a project which so materially interests it. Yon will also see that the communes which hove already voted funds in aid of this measure shall im mediately ratify their previous deliberations, in order that they may reach me at the same time as the votes of the Councils General. Larstkvien.DeliCYl.6. The Pays gives the following as the bases on which the Bank of France will make advances on railway securities: 1. The bank will lend 80 per cent. on the par of railway bonds when their quotations shall be above par, and on the quotations in the Stock Exchanee list when under. Until new decision, however, only 70 per cent. will be advauced on the bonds of the Avignon to Marseilles line. 2. Advances to the amount of 60 per cent, will be made on shares of railways of the first class, namely, Northern, Rouen, St. Germain, Orleane, Centre, Strasbourg, and St. Etienne to Lyons. These advances are to be calculated on the quo tations, deduction made of the calls remaining to be p tid. Thug, ter the Northern, the paid-up shares of 400 fr. being quoted at esker. at the par of 500fr. ' the advance of 60 per , cent. would be calculated on the real capital represented 'by • Northern share, that is to say, on the 4001 r. paid up, with the premium of 150 fr. added, or 5.50 fr. When on the shares of the Lyons Railway, the five first-tenths, or 250 fr., shall be paid up, they are to be ranged in the first class. 3. Advances up to 50 per cent. will be made on shares in the railways of Linder., Nantes, and Strasburg to Bale. The ad vances on these shares will be calculated as set forth above, that is to say, on the value indicated by the quotation of the previous day, deduction being made of the calls which remain to be paid up. 4. Nothing will be lent on the shares of railways which do not give rega le, revenues, such as those of Montereau to Troyes, Bor deaux to Teste, Montpellier ro Cette, and Anelrerieux to Roanne. 5. The railway of the ()rand Combe, belonging to • company which at the same time works coal mines, cannot, on account of that mixed position, be admitted to the benefit of the decree. 6. A decision has been postponed until more ample information shall be obtained respecting the securities of the Rouen to Havre, the Dieppe to Fceamp, Versailles right hank, and Versailles left bank railways. The situation of the last two lines will be regulated after the definitive constitution of the Western Company and the exchange of their shares for the bonds of that com pany. 7. In cue of • fell in the quotations of bonds or shares, supplementary security will be demanded from borrowers when the fall shall be 20 per rent. on bonds and on shares of the first class, and of 10 per cent. on shares of the second class. Incase the sup plementary securities shall not be supplied by the borrowers within three days after a simple demand hy an extra judi cial act, the Bank shall have right to cause to be sold at the Bourse, by an agent de change, the whole or part of the securities on which it may have made advances. 8. An person of known:solvability who may demand from the Bank a loan eta railway bonds or shares must subscribe an engage ment to pay the advance within sixty days for share and within ninety days for bonds. The engagement shall contain besides on the part of the borrower, the obligation to make up to the Bank the amount of the fall which may aria', whenever such fall shall attain the proportion indicate ; above. 9 The council-general of the Bank shall fix, in the first meeting of each week, the sum which may be employed in advances en railway shares or bonds. For the first week the credit will probably be fixed at 14,000,000 fr., of which 10,000,000 fr. will be for Paris, and 4,000,000 fr. for the branch banks. A deputation from the Society of Arts, consisting of Mr Robert Stephenson, M.l'., Professor Sony, and Lieutenant Tyler, R.E., had an interview with sir John I'akington, yesterday, at the Colonial-office, fur the purpose• of ac quainting him that the Society of Arts had recently ap pointed a committee fur developing the resources of the colonic•, and *vitae tiug his assistance and co-operation to citable them, in the 14,4 instance, to !dote them , . Ives in communication with kindred institution■, and with influen tial individuals in the colonies. The dramatic poet, Ernst ltaupnck, was buried to day. His funeral was attended by nearly every actor in Berlin. The Rev. Mr. lsydow, who officiated at the interment, delivered en address over the bier, and alluded in excellent taste to the services which Itaupack had rendered to the German stage. Yesterday's number of the C'onatitutional Zeilung way confiscated. A deputation, on the subject of the Irish Railway (hand Jury Presentment■ 11.11, had an interview with the Right lion. J. W. Henley, and Lord Colcheati r, yesterday, at the Board Of Trade. The deputation conoilecil ail laird Mont eagle, Mr. Tennent, M.l'., Mr. Devereux, and Mr. hPeullagh, M.P. A deputation, on the subject of the Passengers Act, con sisting of Sir James Duke, Mr. J. M. Gull, Mr. J ohn Chap man, Mr. William Philipp, and Mr. Nornmn M'Lcod, bad an interview with Sir John Pakington, yesterday, at the Colonial. office. The ..Ingsbury Gazelle states that the Emperor of Austria has accepted the invitation of the Czar to be present at Moscow during tha fetes of June. WU RTEM BERG. The First or Upper Chamber has confirmed the vote of the Lower House, cancelling the declaration of rights promulgated in 1849 by the Frankfort par liament with the approbation of the king. The Mar quis _ of Salisbury had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-othe... Mr. It. C. Moldy&ld, had an interview with the Hight lion. J. W. Ilenl, y, yestcriay, at the lim.nl of Trade, to present a memorial from the shipbuilders said ellipowners beloi.ginp to the port ..1 Whitt-haven. A deputation, on the subject of the Hertford coal duty, consisting of Lord Mahon and the lion. W. T. Cowper, had an nib rview with Lord John Manners, yesterday, at the Office of Works and Public Buildinum, in Whitthali-place. A deputation, consisting oh the night lion. U. A. Chris topher, Mr. Hindley, M.P., Mr. Gore, M.l'., Dr. Ryon, Messrs. Irvine, G. II ohm, .1. S. Christopher, At kin., Vardy, Spooner,M.P., N. Spooner, MWerinott, suit Newall (parliamentary agent), had an interview with tho flight lion. J. W. 11. nley and Lord Colchester, yesterday, at the Board of Trade. DENMARK. The session of the Danish Chambers was closed on the 20th by commission. On the previous even ing the King had given a dinner to the members of both houses. Tho term for Nhich the lower house was elected expires on the 4th of Ikeember next ; it is expected that its diesulutiaft will take place very shortly. ITALY. NAPLES. The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yes terday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the 'Treasury, in Downina-street. Present—The Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Mater of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. O. 11. S. Johnsen, and the km A. P. Stanley (secretary). A deputation, including Me•sra. It Baxter, C. Few, and Blunt, had an interview with Lord John Manners yester day at the Office of Works and Public Buildings in White hall.plaoe. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday front the Governor of St. Wiens. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governors of the North American pro vinces. NAPLES, MARCH 17. The official journal contains a new treaty of com merce and navigation between France and the king dom of the Two Sicilies. 'rho most important articles are : 1. All productions of the two countries, or of their respec tive dominions, coming from the one, or that con be ex ported to the other, shall be placed under the sam• tariff, shall enjoy the same advantages whether shipped in Neapolitan or French vessels. In the same way all productions that can be legally exported or reexported from the one or the other country, shall enjoy the same rate of tariff, and shall receive the same privileges, reductions, concesmons, or restrictions, whether they be exported or re-exported in ships of the one or the other country. 2. All vessels of the Two Sicilies, which may arrive to ports of France, and all French ships which may anchor in the ports of the Swo Sicilies, shall be equally treated in every respect u regards tonnage, pilots, and port Ferrule tions and dues, provided such vessels come direct from the respective ports of France and the Two Bieilies. 3. In addition to such advantages already rcciprocated,his Sicilian Majesty agrees that all French vessels, especially the French postal steamers, shall he allowed to enter the ports of the Two Sicilies on the ume terms as national ves sels, although they may have touched at and embarked merchandise at any intermediate port of the Mediterranean UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN. A summary of the following appeared yesterday in the E.rpress: SOUTHAMPTON, FILIDAT, 2 P.M The Franklin has just arrived off Cowes on her way to Havre. She left New York on the 13th inst. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 170,000 dollars. On the 23rd, at 4 p.m. ' lat. 49.53., long. 22.09, she passed clipper bhip Mercury, nineteen I days from New York. Sho encountered strong easterly winds throughout the whole Amelia her passengers is Mrs. It. J. ee Walker, lade of tho Hon. It. J. Walker, of the United States. The Times, alluding to the opening address of the President, to be delivered on Monday next, to tho Legislative Assembly, says: _ . After having spoke; of the internal situation of the country, it is anticipated that the President may touch on the no less difficult subject of foreign policy ; on the great Euro pean questions; on diplomatic negotiations; on the allies of the Republic; and on the disposition towards France of foreign powers. Ile may, too, mention that the treaties of 1 1815 had been imposed by force on France " betrayed, and conquered ;" that France never accepted nor resigned herself to those treaties, but submitted to them ; that she annulled them twice, both as respects her internal constitution, without Europe having protested ; and that, therefore, she hu established her absolute right to regulate her own affairs as she thinks proper, how and when she pleases. The President may add that France will, nevertheless, continue to resign herself to the treaties of 1816, or rather to what minims of them, until she shall have an influential voice in the councis of Europe, and claim the justice she was refused after her disasters of 1814 and 1815. The following items of news are from the New York papers of the 13th inst.: The proceedings of Congress, which, during the present session, have been unusually stupid and dry, were diversified yesterday, in the house, by a bit of • row. Two members from Mississippi, one, Mr. Brown, a State rights democrat, the other, Mr. Wil cox, a Union democrat, were the pugilists on the in teresting occasion. Mr. Wilcox gave the he, and Mr. Brown, a la Tom Ilyer, planted a blow in the face of Wilcox. A rough and tumble bear-fight fol lowed, to the infinite amusement of the boys in the galleries, but to the disgust of all lovers of decency and decorum. The following is the report of the Mr. Drown—l desire to ask my colleague does he moan to say I have been guilty of a faleehood ? The inference may be left in the minds of some gentlemen. Mr. Wilcox—l have spoken boldly —my language cannot be misundentood on that point. Mr. Brown—De yes mean to my that what I have stated is false t (Look* slimly at his colleague.) Mr. Wagon—Uri mina to say there is nobody in Mir sheippi in Sem olf envies, it is false. The last VIM see seareel7 uttered, before Brown drew off and *MA $ lbw in Wilcox's face. Wilcox returned it, and hulk dumbed. Is • moment the house and galleries were Seems lan the wildest alarm and °octagon ; those in the selbeleeerneehing over to on the fight, while the member imaged from their desks and Dew to the seen of conflict. Several memento elapsed before the belligerents were separated. Brown, with diflintlty, was removed fifty feet from his antegenist. Wilcox jumped upon his desk, crying "I can whlp kisa—let me go!" nundishing his arms in the air. Cries se " Where's the Sergeant-at-Anna ?" "Store the fighting." "My God, has Wilcox got a knife?" "No." A hundred voices joined in the confusion, calling for the Sergeant-at-Anns, &c. Several of the runner boys were knocked over in the excitement. The greatest alarm prevailed. Ultimately, both of the combatants explained, apologising severally to the house, and neither was arrested. A duel, however, was anticipated. A most heart sickening tragedy was enacted in Baltimore on Saturday morning. James White, rendered a maniac by liquor, cut the throats of two of his children, fired the house, and finished his sanguinary work by cutting his own throat. When the fire was extinguished, the charred bodies of the father and offsprings were found amid the ruins. The Louisiana Democratic Convention have no minated Cam. Five thousand dollars had been appropriated to Koesuth by the Senate to pay for lus Washington reovtion. The following is from our New York correspon dent : NEW YORK, MAIIOII 13. With regard to the steam-ships plying between this country and Europe, it is believed that some grants will be made to the Collins' line, to Mortimer Livingaton's line, and to the Sardinian line of Li vingston, Wells, and Co. In the latter instance, the unprecedented liberality of foreign governments in granting large and exclusive privileges to an America line cannot but meet with some return d liberality on the part of the American Congress. One of the principal topics of UlO day is the arm ing of a squadron which is about to proceed to Japan, under the command of Commodore Perry, and which is to demand redress for the detention of some Ame rican seamen, and with this excuse to open by force a trade with that country. /tumour says that a landing is to be effected at Jeddo at all hazards. The squadron consists of three steamers, the Sus quehanna, the Mississippi, and the Princeton ; three sloops of war, the St. Mary's, the Plymouth, and the Saratoga, and the brig Perry. Public opinion seems to be rather against this expedition, since it is an evident violation of the policy under which we have so long proceeded. It is rather considered an am bitious attempt on the part of the Secretary of the Navy, and Conmodore Perry, than sit measure. If the administration wishes to have a tight, it had much better send the squadron down to Sun Juan, where, notwith.huiding all the apologies of the British government, and the civil letters of the British admiral on the West India station, the treaty of Nicaragua continues to be daily violated. Why The Cherbourg Railway will be won Net about in format. The council-general of the Seine-Inferieure hes voted for its compfetion a credit of 1,800,000 fr., and that of the Eure two millions. 7'he Pays says: - The council of state appears to have given • favour. able opinion on the projected fusion between the Orleans. the Centre, the Bordeaux, and the Nantes companies. However, notwithstanding this opinion, the fusion meets with serious diMeulties from the government. The legiti mate interests of the treasury and of the Paris to Lyms company appi sr likely to gain the day, and the fusion was gravely compromised, but the Orleans company gave their consent to important ntodilicatious, and they, it is said. have disarmed the Paris to Lyons company, and, consequently, the Mans The Orleans com- ~alhi.. - LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCIE 27. We cannot swell the chorus of approbation be stowed by our contemporaries upon the LORD CHAN • hin. in eons:elm-nee of the bill introduced by him ander the title of the Law art Wills Amendment. His first appearance as a law reformer is, in our lodgment, a failure, and gives bad promise as to the larger and more comprehensive reforms for which the public look, and which are to be introduced 'ordering auepices. The subject to which he called attention was of general interest. The object proposed to be iffected —namely, the removal of doubt and un gertaintv in the mode of executing testamentary die positions —was one whose importance is admitted on all sides. lbe grievance was one loudly demanding ruins.: for sonic recent judicial decisions in the raelesiassical Courts were not too strongly de grrihed ahem characterised by one noble lord as ▪To i n s ." In this, therefore, his first reforming attempt, the Cii ese 'leant had everything in his favour- a popular subject. a real grievance., and the e,mrithi.. , of his audience . and of the public. Yet he ice it,., oiceessful. Ills bill, as introduced, contained four clause s: the remedy propoged by the first clause far an es ti univenell'y admitted was questioned, but in ectivetue nee • of the isiagnitude of that evil, allowed with hesitation to stand. The house refusal to sanc tion the alterations of the present law contemplated be the second and third clauses, and rejected them; and the fourth clause was allowed to remain as ooe of minor importance. and because its injurious effects bad not been notivill. Such is the result, so far, of the bill whi..h, hieing passed through committee, war repated am, mice. to the Howe of Lords last night. it tin I..vd I. eNtintee introduced the pre- Pent Wills ad. there was nu point upon which he dwelt m o r e earnest:, than the need of providing one clear, pimple. and uniform mode of execution of wills, Bud it MI. with this view enacted that every will should be eigned "at the foot or end thereof. In adopting the, the onlinary mode of signature, and in prescribing it in words so simple and so general, it would seem that it was intended to establish the easiest lovable form. but the judges of the Ecclesias tical Courts have darkened knowledge, and if the sig nature has not been placed precisely at the foot or and of the will, and even when placed after the con elusion of the will if it be not written immediately below the end, the language of the act has been held not to have been complied with, and the sill has consequently been set aside—although the document on the whole has been such as to leave no doubt of the intention of the testator, The jedges have assumed that the signature to a will must he in a certain position. anndthey have considered that it was simply their duty to consider whether the will had such a signature or not. In this estimate ef:their duties they contrast unfavourably with earlier judges who upheld the validity of a will (then nquired to be attested in the presence of the testator ' in ease it appeared that the witnesses, when signing their names, were placed in such a position that they might have been seen by the testator. The older judged stretched to the tamest limit the construction of the Statute of Frauds in favour of the testator, so as to give effect to test tine unary dispositions, which, if not established, are irreeevably lost ; and by this wise sdmiuistration, that statute remained in all material points, so far as wills were concerned, unaltered for Irk years, while the narrow views of their successors in Doctors' Commons compel an amendment of the law within l 3 Scars after it has been passed. But if the authority of parliament be requisite to remedy the present very defective state of the law, we agree with Lord CL%NWORTII that it wou'd be far better to deal with it in general terms than by special enactment to point out particular modes and places of signature, which shall hereafter be suffi cient. If a particular form be prescribed for any purpose, there must always be a point of slight deetation, which may appear to constitute a hard ship in invalidating the whole process, and in this instance, if, instead of one place of signature to a will being directed, namely the foot or end thereof, balta-doeen places are particularised, the only change is, that there are an increased number of cues in which the ingenious minds of judges mar disport themselves. But Lord Sr. LEONABDS thiiiks otherwise, and he insists that the best tray of meeting the present difficulty is by enacting that a will shall be valid "if the signature shall be so placed at, or after, or following, or wader, or braid, .or opposite to the end of the will, that it be apparent that the testator intended to give effect to the feeding signed as his toil( by such hit signature." With all submission to the author of these words — and es nth unfeigned deference to his talents and legal acumen as a draughtsman—we much doubt whether the law as to the execution of wills will be even as clear at the end of another fifteen years as it is now. If the plain words "et the foot or end thereof" have given rise to the painful questions of which they have been the innocent occasion, what may not be the effect of the six additional illustrations by which these plain words arc proposed to be rendered plainer? Simple-minded persons may now not unreasonably ask for an explanation of the difference between a signature placed " under, or beside, or oppo site to the end of the will;" for if opposite mean the same as " under or beside," then it would be as well omitted; and if not, it is difficult to know what it intends, unless " opposite to the end" be construed as " at the beginning." And if these doubts arise even before this legislation be complete, it is more than probable that the prophecy of Lord CRAY wownt will he verified, and that this amendment will be the fruitful parent of litigation, and thus the cause of bitter distress and suffering. Bat even here the ob jections to the clause, as now framed, do not stop. Under the present act, signature " at the foot or end thereof" is conclusive, except of course in the case of fraud; but eider the intended alteration, the will is only where the signature is so placed " that it shall be apparent that the testator intended to give effect to the writing;" and therefore the fact of sig nature will not be hereafter conclusive, but it will be open to any disappointed legatee to raise the question of intention, and to harass the rightful possessors by dilatory proceedings. It surely would have been better to have left the law as at present, coodusive as to wills conforming to the present mmetments--and to have given a power to the judges within defined limits to establish any will which bore upon the face of it an intention by the testator to give effect to it—although it might in some slight degree vary from the precise form now required to be adopted. In reference to the second clause, by which it Is enacted that " the provisions of this act shall ex tend and be applied to every will alreel m mad ies si de l is not pueblo to speculate upon the which may be hereafter given to it. It may be re stricted to wills made since January I, ISM, when the present act came into operation ; but if, on the other hand, it be construed according to the sense of the words, then this clause will throw a doubt on the validity o wills of rersonalty whi c h, d a t e d ...tine to II:18, are now exempt from the forms provided by the present Wills Act. The questions raised by the bill affect, however, so closely the interests of every one that the measure will doubtless receive from the Commons a more careful consideration than has been bestowed upon it in the house of its parentage. Tit?. CONIIIAMD AT MALTA.—It is already known that Lieut.-General Pallier Myrna from the omunand of the forces at Malts immediately kis snosemor is appoint= although ths Rases of the geaeral Meer who is to Lear-General Ellice has mot been Scully anmounced, we have heard it stated in military circles that die goornment Will offer the esmamiad in question to Lieut.-il Sir Marry G. Smith cm his arrival in this country from the Cape of Gael Hap. Arurrusauuss' HALL—Names of gentlemen who porn their examination in the intense and practice 0(1 medicin, and received certifleates to granitic, on Thurs day. Mirth 23, IM2 —Thous, George David Davies, St. Andover court. Mahon. hill ; Alfred Jackson; John Noy. y Bartlett Langoortliy, Modbury, DOTOII ; John Willies, Danis !than ; Samuel Dr,w, ; John Ili miming, Kind:mhos ; Alfred Freer, Stourbridgv, Worces tenhire ; Patrick Jams . Mullarky, Margate ; John Vinall, Sutton-place, Hackney. yections to the cleuse s.- 7asrow Tramertra7ll; Under the present act, signature " at the !bet thereof' is conclusive, except of coarse in the fraud ; but under the intended alteration, the good only where the signature is so placed " shall be apparent that the testator intended effect to the writing ;" and therefore the fact nature will not be hereafter conclusive, but be open to any disappointed legatee to re question of intention, and to harass the possessors by dilatory proceedings. It surely hare been better to have left the law as at y coeclusive as to wills conforming to the ensetmenta—and to have given a power to the within defined limits to establish any will wh upon the face of it an intention by the test give effect to it—although it might in some vary from the precise form now regain adopted. In reference to the second clause, by whie enacted that " the provisions of this act a tend and be applied to every will already at is not possible to speculate upon the inters, which may be hereafter given to it. It maj stricted to wills made since January 1, 1831 the present act came into operation ; but if, other hand, it be construed according to the the words, then this clause will throw a daub validity o wills of rersonaltv which, dated 19:x, are now exempt from the forms prop the present Wills Act. The questions 111 W till affect, however, so closely the intervene • OM that the measure will doubtless receive 1 Commons a more careful consideration than I bestowed upon it in the house of its parental CONMAIrD AT MALTA.—It is already that Liost.-Ossoiral Ellice returns from the camas teems at Malts immediately kis ~seem is spoofs although the name of the general °facer who is a loeut-timisral Ellice has not bons °facially snaps have heard it stated in military girths that the gel will offer the esmamiad in question to Lieut.-Gel Harry O. Smith ea his arrival in this country 1 Cape af Geed Hers. Arerretacsiums' HALL—Names of gentles eased their examination in the mimes and m asolicise, and received certifieatee to praetkie, a day. March 23, IM2 Thomas George David D Ando w's court, Mahon. hill ; Alfred Jackals klor.y Bartlett Lingoottliy, Modbury, Deem Woligoa, Itioniegham ; Samuel Dr's', ( I .,Thwe Kintbolton ; Alfred Freer. Stourbridge terabit.. ; Patrick James Mallarky, Margate; Jot Sutton-place, Hackney. SPAIN. MADRID, Mmicm 20. One of the secret police, Pedro Ague, the lieu tenant of Chico, the Spanish Vidocq, has been arrested for having, with his son's help, forged a mass of treasonable correspondence, with the signa tures of many of the most distinguished public men in the coantly, implicating them in a pretended con spiracy with the regicide Martin Merino. The wretch has given proof, in his forged letters, of a marvellous inventive faculty. It was only by the merest acci dent that the whole affair wu brought to light. This villain has been recently dismissed from the service, but like many other ez-polioe agents had occasional jobs given him to do, by way of finding out criminals difficult to be got at. A remarkable incident which lately occurred at the town of Bergs is strikingly in harmony with the re. ports of the rising pretensions of the clergy which reach us from all parts of the continent. A young priest, native of that town, had been saying has first meas. The cure deemed this a fit opportunity to pronounce an eulogy upon the young minister, but, carried away by his enthasisani, he wes unable to restrain himself from an excursion into the field of polities. "The Xing of Spain r said he; "It is the clergy. The Queen of Spain ? the clergy. The clergy alone directs the mind and will of individuals and human societies." Several officers present, scandalised at this im promptu, left the church to inform the governor of the town. By this time a number of the citizens, having minds and wills not diverted by the reverend orator, were assembling and murmur ing at the church doors. The governor dispersed the crowd, silenced the speaker, and made a report of the occurrence to Madrid. It seems impossible to get rid of the extatic nun, Sister Patro elm°, whose name never fails to turn up in every palace cabal. A few days ago the ministerial Orden informed us that she was on her way to a Roman convent, and described her escort. On the same authority we are informed that she is at Burgos, and intends to remain for some weeks in that town. It is rumoured that there is to be a descent of the Carlists on Catalonia before April. Mason 21. By royal order, the engineers Page, Vasquez, and Manatigui have been appointed to drew up plans for different railroads. Page is to study the scheme of a railway from Salam anca , by Cantalapiedra and Ma drigal, to Arevato, where it is to join the railroad from Valladolid to Madrid. Vasquez, the railway from Cuenca to Almansa; and Mariatigui, the railway from Ciudad Real to Aleazar tie San Juan, and from Aranjuez to Almansa. TURKEY. We have received accounts from Constantinople to the 10th. They state that Moustapha Yacht', ex froefrirtatoef, i C r 1 6' 6 o n amed i l a i i ti le P n ac t gfa.the Coun cil oka=srai COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NRW Yeas, MARCH 12. The foreign advises received this morning per Ails were considered favourable in I commere:al point of view, and had a good elfeet upon our markets generally. Stocks improved. Exchange on Europe was heavy ; billion Lon don sold at 1091 to 110/ ; Paris 6.171 to 6.181 ; Amster dam, 41 to 411 ; liamburgh, 36 to 361 ; Bremen, 781 to 78k. Since our last report there has been no change re quiring a flatle^ in the money market. 2he supply over and above the regular wants of the business community is large and increasing, and if the California steamers to arrive bring anything near the esti mated quantities of gold, the price for money will undoubtedly be much affected, and rule lower than the rates now paid. Filot clam paper finds ready sale at 6to 61 per cent. Money "on call" is so abundant, that it is not an easy matter to place it at 6 per cent. interest. Many of the banks have large surpluses, and ; ere anxious to dispose of them at our minimum rater for approved securities. We quote—First dust, endorsed notes and acceptances, short, 6 per annum ; long, ti to G per annum. First-class single names paper, 6to 7 per an num. Second-class endorsed notes and acceptances, short, 7to 8 per annum ; long, 8 to 9 per annum. Loans on government and some stocks, 6to 8 per cent. Loans on miscellaneous securities, 6 to 7 per cent. In uncurrent money we observe more activity as the spring trade in creases. The rates, however, are steady and uniform. GRAIN.—The market is rather firmer for wheat, the ope rations ere principally in red and white southern--6,0001 bushels of the formic brought 97c. to 99c., and 8,000 bushels of the latter at 108 e. Rye is firm at 85c. ; within the last mouth several sales have been made fur deliscry on the opening of the river, at 76e. to 76e. for export, and on the opening of the canal in May, at ille. to 71e. Barley is quiet at 76e. to 80c., with sales of 800 bushels. Oats are more Sri,, Jersey and River selling at 40c. to 41c., and State, 45e. to 47c. Corn is in good supply and with a light export demand is dull. Sales of Jersey white at 63c. to Ciale. Southern white and yellow 63c. to 6.3 c. The export (ruin this port from Ist to Oth March : 18.52. 1861. Wheat 27,654 bushels. .... None. Corn 20,684 bushels. .... 1,290 bushels. FLOOR.—We have no material change to notice. The export trade being en materially curtailed by the high rates of freight, tee demand is mostly for home use and Slattern order*, which are both quite limited. Corrox.—The sales for the past three days were 10.200 bales. The demand still continues active, which holders have freely met. We have no change to notice in our quo tations : Atlantic. Rortda. Gulf Porta. • Lawlor Low to 80W ord.— IW W :: to t° . 7 Low !nomad Will Bto 8 9 1 Bto Bto 9 Kid. fair to fair 81 to 81 to 8 ... !alit° good do. 9 i to FaZIOIITA.—There has been an active demand for freight to Europe throughout the week, and rates have been steady. To California there is not quite so much offering. We quote to Liverpool: Cotton, 5.16 d.; ft mr and meal, per hrl., 2.. ; heavy goods, per ton, 22.. 6d. to 235.; baton and cheese, 22a. 6d to 255.; grain, iu bulk, per bushel, 61d. to 6/d. To London : Flour, per hrl., 2s. 3d. ; turpentine, per 280 lbs., 2s. 34.; meuurement VO , lllll, per ton, 2.55. to 30s. ; heavy goods. oil, &c., 255. ; beef, per tierce, 40. to 4a. 641. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MARCH 26. Mr. I). S. Kerr has just issued an address to the electors of Down. Mr. Kerr offers himself on the conservative interest, but he abandons protection. As it is doubtful whether Lord Castlereagh wi I accept the invitation of the county of Down electors to stand, Mr. Kerr would seem to have some chance of getting in with Mr. Sharman Crawford, to whom the liberal electors of the county stand pledged ; but Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Crawford are the popular favourites. Mr. Serjeant Murphy has published his address to the electors of the city of Cork. Mr. C. G. Duffy's canvass in New Ross is still doubtful, the electors having referred this subject to the parliamentary committee of the Catholic Defence Association, and that body not having yet pronounced an opinion on it. A portion of his constituents have been for some time labouring to undermine the interest of the Hon. Cecil Lawless in Clonmel. A subscription of 5/., which he remitted to the parish priest, has been, by a public vote, returned to him as not accepted. 'Me Cork contested election cost Mr. Scully 5,0001., and Mr. Frewen 7,0001. _ _ A small estate in the county of Galway was sold yesterday in the Incumbered Estates Court, for 13 years' purchase on the net rental. BEETHOVEN QUARTETT SOCIETY.—The firet meet ing this season of this society took place last night at the Beethoven Room., Queen Anne-street, Cavendiah-sq l uare. lance A few yearsit would have been held impossib • to have drawn together an audience by the offer of an enter tainment consisting entirely of instrumental music,)elected, moreover, exclusively from the works of one composer. Now, however, with th e progress of sound musical taste, we find people intently listening throughout • whole evening with real comprehension and enjoyment, to • series of works, any one of which, not very many years back, would have been " caviare to the gene ral." The audience at these performances, " fit though 'few," are evidently drawn from that comparatively small clam who look on music as • high intellectual enjoyment, I and not as a mere idle pastime. The programme of last' night, in accordance with the plan usually followed' here, contained specimens of Beethoven's style at three different periods of his career. The early phase of his genius was illustrated by the quer tett in D from opera 18, composed in 1792, when he was still influenced by the style of Mozart, whom he took as his model. Still, even here, Beethoven's indi viduality is plainly apparent, sod we find frequent traces of that grand and original genius which was afterwards more fully developed. The second period was exemplified by the quartett in C from opera 69, composed in 1808. Hera Beethoven is found in his mature per fection. Nothing can be imagined grander and more original in idea, or more perfect in construction, than the three quartette which form his opera 69. That in C, selected last night, was perhaps the most successful per formance of the evening ; and the masterly playing of - Mr. Cooper, who led it, is deserving of unqualified approbation. The quartett in E fiat, opera 127, was selected as a sped men of Beethoven's third or later period. This work, corn-' posed in 1824, in common with most of Beethoven's latter compositions, is deficient in that clearness of design and in telligible plan by which his earlier efforts are distinguished; and the fine thoughts and gigantic conceptions in which it abounds, are as if "seen through a glass darkly." The quartette were admirably interpreted by M. Sainton, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Hill, and Mr. Rouseelot, and were agreeably varied by Beethoven's pianoforte sonata in D (from opera 10), extremely well played by Mr. Sloper. OMNIBUS DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS.—A meeting of omnibus servants was held on Thursday evening, at Exeter-hall. The chair was taken by Mr. Spurr, who stated that the meeting had been convened for the purpose of contradicting the statements that had been put forth by interested parties with regard to the treatment of the men by their employers.-6. Mr. Taylor then rose, and stated that he had four questions ta ask. This was a sigma foe a scone of confusion which can be more easily ise thea described. The business of the meeting was completely interrupted for some time by shouts, cries, and fighting in the middle of the room. Interludes of a similar &scrip don varied the programme several times during the evening, in spite of the remonstrances of the chairman and the more peaceably-disposed part of the mseembly. After some difficulty the first resolution was read, which wee to the 1 following effect—" That this meeting considers it their bounden :duty to the public, their employers, and them selves, to repudiate thine statements which have been p ut _ forth by designing men for their own "—Mr. Pryor, who moved the resolution, said that Mr. Scully, the manager of the Provident Society, had set the master and men at variance, and the latter would be the sufferers. He hoped that the effect of this meeting would be to put an end to their differencee.Two other resolutions were passed. The first denied that any of the servants had been com pelled to sign the declaration published by the neadoes a short time back by thread of dismissal. The second "censured the conduct of a certain individual," and stated that they were all well satisfied with their present situation.. The resolutions were all carried, about a fifth of the meeting holding up their hands In favour of them. Very few were raised against the motions.--After the legitimate business was concluded, Mr. Scully in vain at tempted to speak in his defence; another row ensued, in the midst of which a vote of thanks VI IA carried by melon:A- Ilion to the chairman. and the meeting setarated. WEST FLANDPItS RAILWAYS.—Grose traffic for the month of December, 1861, 1,0141. Ps. Bd. January, 183'l, 1,2141. Is. 3d. (Pram last Nlsitt's o.ssite FOREIGN•OFFICF„ MARCH 25.—The Queen he been pleased to apnrove of Mr. Josiah William as Consul at Waterford, and Mr. George E. Bevan u Vioc-Consul at Swansea, for his Nl:qes:y the King of the Belgians. DOWNING -STREET, Mancn 26.—The Queen has been pleated to appoint the Rev. Henry Merin icn Von Dadelszen to be Colonial Chaplain of Trinity Church, at Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, and the Reverend Wit ham Henry Simons to be Colonial Ckap!nia, at Kandy, in that Wand. --- CRon;-OFYICE, MARCH 21.—Members returned to serve in this present Parliament.—County of Salop (Southern Division): The Right Honourable Orhuido George Charles Bridoman, commonly called Viscount Newport, Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household.— County of Cork: Vincent Scully, of Memon-aquarc, in the city of Dublin, Esq., iu the room of Maurice Poser, Esq., who has accepted the office of Governor of the island of Saint Lucia.—MARCH 26. Borough of Colcraiue : The Right lion. Richird Ssuthwcll Bourke, commonly called Lord Naas, of Pelmerstown, in the county of Kildare, in the room of John Boyd, Esq. ' who has accepted the o ffi ce of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern liundreih.—Borough of Dungannon: The lion. William Stuart Knox, one of the Grooms in Waiting on her Majesty. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 2. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will Auld a Draw ing-room, at St. James's-palace, on Thursday, the lot of April nest, at two o'clock COMMISSION SHINED Br THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OP WIOTONSIIIHr.—Sir Andrew Agnew, Burt., to be Vice lieutenant. COMMISPION SIGNED BY TILE LORD-LTECTRNANT Or STIBLINORII JlM—John Alexander Henderson, E.q., to be Din* in the Stirlingshire Militia. W.IR.OFFICE, r.Fru 2e. 1 7 th Reid. of Clete. Drace.—Lieut. IL Wiens to be mitt. by par., vice Bletherda, who nth. lad Beet. o F. -Ya.. R C. Tommw to be lieut. by por. vice Joe- M. wits lets.; Lieut.l. Noche be adj it., vice J:ieson, who ma Sth F. ga — & Acting Asaist..eurg IL B. F . gbh vice Be bP, dee. It Y.—LieuL F. PAIX[I, from 1b. , . SStit F., to be lent, vice Ship- ley, who 14th If.—aulebami. J. IC Leer, from the 33th F., to he ramjet-tare., Wee lark pram. le the 54th Y. 21st F.-51e. Last. H. W. CLAIMe to be Am lieut., he pur., vice Klee, who rote.; A. Twourw.e, pat., to be am by pur., viee Clerke. nth P.—Kam. Lemma be be heat, by par. ' viee Mynas, who refs. 33rd P.— Copt. R.. T. Pseud, (ram the 33rd P., to he rapt , vice Gore, who exam.; Lem. J. E.. T. Q,411.11 to be e ,et., by pur., vire 111Wo, who rot.; Ea. V. Evens?r I. be (teat., by pur, Wee Quay'e. 35th I".—Ea. P. W. BYTOM, fr. to the 4th Y., to be tee., eta Bee. wick, prom. 46th IV—Lieat. far A. H. Daum, Dort., from the 74th V.. to be lieut., Wolrlge, who each. F.—Copt. A. P. Ours, from the 33rd F., to be mpt., vim l'ar. her 'Mesa. lath P.—Lleat. W. D. Sent or, from 7th P,. to he lieut. , vice refiner, who each. 601 Assist.-11 arr. 1. O. Inoue, 11. D., from 10th F., to be aura., vim Amber, are. '4th P.—Lient. IL P.. Woumon, from 46:h F., to be bout., vice Sir A. II Mos, Bart, oho each. P.—Lent H. I. Watteau to be apt, by pu'., Mew Rush, •bo reta. ; EaL, R. WALIMLIT m be lieut., by puc., vice Wallach. I!t► P.—W. 0. CI.A/Kll. gent, to be mast-surf, vie. Cwt oPIL to IOtA P. Lt _ 1140.—Liest. IL Hswitrapt, from b..p. 1010 P., to be Heat., Moe IL JOON, who OiCh. ; Sae. C. J. Wong* o bo lieut., by par., vise Hew, twos, who rms. lird M. 1. Iteet.—Lieut P. J. MoCOOVALD to be apt., without par., vice BrevAlaJor T. Proularpst, who rem. cm Lip.; Las. O. Coto to ha lieut., without per., Moe Macdonald. Bather.-.apt. & A. Almon., of the blot Missal Native Infantry, to bare the teak or =Om la the Lae Indian oencz OF OILDNANCI. Memo 24. Boni Best of Artillery.- Lint-Col. W.Bw. to be col • vice Crut. tesedeu. dee.; Bre...Major C. W. Wistortu.o to be Lieut.ool., vibe Deb; Bee. Capt. L. BLecuwecto-Patcs to be apt.. vice Wingfield; First Lieut. 0. COLCUMAIII to be see. coot.. vice Blackwood-Price ; Bet. Lieut. H . P. P. Pasues to be first lieuL • vice Cotelough. THE SURPLUS FUND OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. TO Till ZDITOII. OP THZ DAILY NEWS. Sta,—Many thanks for your excellent article upon the Crystal Palace, in lest Monday's paper, which has caused the members of our mechanics' institute to address &letter to Prince Albert, a copy of which I forward you, The eternal thanks of the working-men of England will rest upon Prince Albert if they spread the surplus fund as you suggest : tens of thousands will then benefit by the Exhibition, and men that never did or will see London, or the Crystal Palace, will be made glad by the aid that would be given all over the country. The 301. sent up to the royal commissioners from this town would be a God-send to our institution, as laying the foundation of a museum we much want. —With many thanks on behalf of our institute for your timely notice, I remain, your obliged bumble servant, WM. SMETHURST. Cockermouth Mechanics' Institution. Cockermouth Mechanics' Institution, March 25, 1862. May it please your Royal Hiehness, We, the undersigned, members of the above institute, Dave been appointed a eub-cemmittee to address your Royal Highness in reference to an announcement in the papers that the " Crystal Palace " wee to be removed, and conse quently the "Guarantee Fund " would be appropriated towards increasing the efficiency of mechanics institutes' museums, public reading rooms and libraries in the large towns of the kingdom. We accordingly approve of the wisdom and justness of the liberal and generous sentiments by which thousands of the working men of England would then participate in the benefits of that noble monument, of which your Royal Highness was the founder, and beg most respectfully to put in a claim for our Mechanics' Institute, which has been founded upwards of six years, during which time it has been of great benefit to the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, the average number of members being 200, but owing to our limited funds we have not been able to establish a museum, which is a great detriment to our sae fulness. . Ws, therefore, humbly hope that your Royal Highness will take this our respectful prayer into consideration; should the "Guarantee Fund" be distributed as suggested, we should then be enabled to extend our usefulness. Feeling assured that the working men throughout the kingdom would, in common with ourselves, ever remain, Your Royal Highness's grateful acid obliged Humble servants, WM. SMETHIURNT, JOHN BVIINETT, Wr, YOIIDALI. To his Royal Highness Prince Albert. CIIARITABLE DoNATIoN.—Tho lium of 500 j. has been awarded, by Admiral Sir Chalice Ogle, Bart., from a fund left at his disposal by the late Mrs. Henry Bertram Ogle, of Eaton-place, to the Spinal Hospital, Portland road (founded by the late Dr. Venal), for the cure of de ' formities of the spine, feet, chest, nd woe, L*l