The Express. — London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

Loma Memos. Meat. 888. M.; Pettey, Mo. M. ; CM• Ms. Id.; ark ;I. 411. Olt 11 811 & &I 11 / &I • t I .. 1 - 1/451111r111, New. 9.-The @apply of Wheat at this day ' s EMU% was good ; the couildes rethar batter than ot lass ; irises as beton eneoted. Baxley ilas„ swept be best quell /dm. Primo as fellows': Whma,rsid. Is 7 1 - 10// Wilma ; VOW. is. te Du*, Ills. to Ns. pee v. Deass. es. to Is. pis Wadi. Oate, 12a. to Ills vs qr. Siam Nov. 9.-Darlsg the prommt weak. the teassuliess is Wheat bass boss liadtilds 4 11 // Edam Wal d N saber thea WWI any *dunes. Haan the turs hewer. with whisk sail a Sall sole. Beans hold foe mem assoy, will not com ply. We kayo lesslaquig t fag Feat Val=d sat for Oastaatly vicr.tuttriz:Zid *all, at rather ander the rates of this day week. Burley pee qr. lower. Oats a very slow sale, sad to have made pewees a Todastkas must have bees submitted to. Buns in good dessead, sad fully as dear. Pose maintained their value. Prior:- Wheat. English, white, per bushel of 82Ihs. Gs. 104. to 7s. 6d. ; new. 6s. Bd. to 7s. 2d. ; red, Os. 9J. to 7s. 44.; sew, 6.. 4d. to 7s. ; Irish, rod. de. 101 d. to 75.; foreign. red, fo. lid. to 7a. II& ; white, 6.. W. to de. . • Polish, Oder. Te. to 7s. 44. Danube, ss. 6d. to 6.. 6d. Bert//s Fr = 6l quarter, 31s. to_ 36.. 64. ; visaing, per 25. to 30 .. ed. Oats. English. white, per q Urter, 225. to 31s. ; Welsh, black and white, pc: 2 11911 1 ~ 22a. 64. to 23e. 6d. ; Irish (40Ib. to 421 b.), 235. to 268.8 d.; (371 h. to 391 b.), 225. 6,1. to 245.; black, 21s. to 21... Buns, Buglish,per 1961 b., old, 18s. to 17e. ed. ; new, 14e. IL to 13e. Bd.; Irish, 15e. to 16e. ; foreign. 13s. to IS. Peas, boiling, per imperial quarter, 445. to 66e. ; grinding, pee 1961 he ,1 ts 6d. to 188. Flour, per sack of 2801 b., Eng lish, fine 43.. to 455. ; *studs. 40s. to 42.. Batostrov, Nov. 9.-.o:d and new dry Wheat sold steadily at last week's prirs; in some in•Mlllerl at Is. per qr. advance. Barley dull, at 2s. per qr. reduction. Oats, Beans, and Peas unaltend. Wheat, old white, 151. to la ; new, 111. to 14/ ; red, old. 141. to 16!. • new, 101. to 121 Barley, 34.. to 375. ; ading, 25.. to 28 . . O at s, sew, 16s. to Us. Beans &is. to 38s. Peer, 38.. Burros, Nov. 9.-W. have 'suffused some improve ment is this weather, and state th e land for wheat-sow ing: but the fields aine foul, and mach work to be done. The grain and Flour trade has remained without animation. (Iva 'Pond Wheats obtain fill priori, and foreign samples are held firmly. The best melting Barley teasing in very fair demand ' • grindiag sorts dull. New black Oats are primed on this market, and good white doss are saleable. Flmar supported, but country millers sell lower. American, barrels, 4.. to 315., Wester* Canal. To day's market slued heavily, and prices remain as last week. Arrivals : Forage Wheat.l,BBo qrs..; Barley, 575. Coastwise and tram Ire. Lad, 0" 3,983 qrs. ; Barley, 650; and 1,100 sacks Flour. Davis's, Nov. 9.-The supply of Wheat to-day was not so good as last week; old was much in requst, u at.' was the hest description of new, and both sold readily, the old at fully last week's prices, and the best new at as triune. of 6d. per each ; in a few instance., primps, arrester improve. meat was mule, some parcels of not quite the best quality obtaining an advance of Is. per sack . 31s. was the top price of ohl, and 27s 61. of new ; for the 'senior damp Wheats there was no demand, but all of a saleable quality was quickie cleared off. Barley was in large supply aid the trade very dull. In Oats, Beans, and Pees then was but little doing, and no alteration in prier. Wheat, white, 00.. to 645. • best red, 58s. to 62a. • middling, 495. to 655. ; interior, 38i. to 455. 28 .. a 375. Oats. 235. to 27e. Brans, old, 4tis to 486. ; new, 40 . p 44a. Peas, Me. to 425. par qr. Flour, floe, ijs. to 495. per seek ; secoads, 41.. to 44a. - - - FAtLYMAII, Nov 9.—Wheat trade Real, at last steek's rotes. Supply limited. Wheat, from Si to lit. 101 per lead. Bar ley, 30s. to 365. per qr. Oats, 19.. to 265. I'eas, 395. to 425. Bead., 38.. to 445. 0011.111.111110, Nov. B.—The demand for Wheat here to. day was quite equal to the supply. at et ry firm rates. Red Wheat. 60, to Ms, • new. 365. to 600. • whit*, 345. to 61a. ; sew, 40.. to 565. Biriey. 2 6 e to 36 .. O at., 184. to 235. ross, 365. to 41a. Beam, 34a. to 42.. - LOCTN. Nov. B.—The Corn market to-day km lima mon waive, but without any variation In prices. There was a gold show Maniples of grain of all doseriptioes, sad the ma .rtioa was mush improved from last week. Wheat, 445. to 520. Barley, 275. to 325. Oats, 16s. to 31e. per qr. 1111AIDSTOXI, NOV. 9.—Oar mallet this cloy WY well sup plied with new Wheat, sad, althouelt the demand was not Great, former prices were fully maintained, and in some in steams better prices won mina d. New Wheat, red, 425. to 545.; white, 52.. to 5%. ; old, red, 545. to 60s. ; white, 58s. to 62 . Very lit le business was done in Bsrloy. Pees were Seam, sad very scares. Oats aad Beans unaltered. NAIININOTSIII, Nov. 9.—We have a very dull market Mi-dny for Wheat sad Balsa, the latch Is. to 2.. par qr. lower. Whom, white, old, 565. to 604.; new, 48a. to 56e ; rod, 461. to 564. Barley, malting, 30 4 . to 3 55.; griAding, Ms. to 30s. Peas sad Betas all slowly at late prices. Mime Mowieniv, Nov. 7.—We kin had a good sup. ply of old and new Wmat offering at this market, at about the same rates as last week. Barley, Oats, and Beans were also unaltered. Wheat, odd, 57e. to 695. ; new, 635. to 6sss. Berkey, 335. talk OM, old, as. to 33e. ; new, 225. to 24a. Beans, old, 44a. to 46e. per qr. NIWIOVRT, Nov. 9.—The supply of Wheat this day was not large, which meta steady sale, at rn advance of Is. per qr. on the beet descriptions of both old sad new. A better supply of Barley, and all aorta declined 11. per qr., and some quantity of infirm. left unsold. Oats, Beam, and Peas re main the same. Averages to the 4th Nov.: 1,539 qrs. Wheat, at 49r, ld r per qr. ; 455 qrs. Barley, at 335. 3d. ; 36 qrs. Oats. at 20e. 2C Pr.vmoven, Nov. 9.—At this day's market there was a mod attendance of millers, who bought more freely than of Tits, and at mem advance is price. Flour is also in demand, at rather OM money. The supplies from abroad and wist aria are man. The consumption of crannied Wheats is very large, ssd is likely soon to take off most of the late imports. ROMMIT, Nov. 9.—Owing to the fair being held oa Wed wedgy, ire had no corn market this day. The sales on the former day were rather few In number, and for mon ductile. Bons of grain the prices obtained were a shade higher than those of last week. - - ROYSTON, Nov. B.—A small market; Wheat made last week's prima. Barley gave way Is. per qr. Trade heavy. Inset. 271. to 361. per load. Barley, 28a. to 371. per q►. Oats, 18e. to 28. throcerox-cre.Targ, Nov. 8.-The fanners' supply of Sto this day's market wee gift/dangly baited. Wheat, somewhat improved in con4ition, wee in demand, at eance of ls to 2.. per qr. on the rates *tibia day week. Is South Connery runlet a large extent of business her bees intruded, and is come illiallet• last week's rates ax ended. For grinding Barley there is a good demand. Oats without change is valuer. BOW the tars dearer. Imports daring the week :-Wheet, 670 qrs. ; Barley, 260 ;Oats, 160. UlllllOOl, Nov. 9.-We had a very short supply of Wheat at to-day's market, and the condition of most samples is improved. The trade is brisk, at es advises is price for samples of hest quality. The average this weak is 575, per qr. Fee Barley there Is some demand ; and old Oats are • better nth Pees an scene, end inks 4a. per qr. Wongthotor, Nov. 8.-This day we had bat few samples of When, either old or new, although the inquiry was pretty good for both. Barley and Oats were she rather limited in supply, ilartiettlarly the former. Prices ruled nearly at a par with lest week. Wheat, prime, old, 245. to 26e. ; new, 21a. to 22e. Barley, 12e. to 14s. Oats, 13s. to 10s. EDINBURGH, Nov. 8.-We had a good supply al Wheat from the growers at market today, and, though the sera lieu wag greatly impend by the late frosty weather , ion the sea was dull, at barely last week's pekes. The band for kedge was sot extensive, but the trade read Me t at the surrey of het Wednesday. Barley in lugs suppily Bas malting qualities brought former pekes, but eammesa sorts were la. per qr. cheaper. at. were difficult to dispose of, and eau at a redaction of Is. per qr. a cleanse and not be effected. Beans, 2.., end white Pees le. ger gnaw lower. Wheat, tap. 66s ; avenge, Ms. 9d. NNW, top, 3th. ed. ; average, 31e. 3d. Oats, top, 26a. Bd. ; average, 22a. 3d. Bean, top, 41a. ; average, 38s, Id. GLAPOOW, Nor. 8.-About 1,300 qrs. Wheat, and 8,000 qn. Barley from the 001114. and 780 qes. Wheat, 1,0011 gn. Barley, 600 qn. Oath 800 gm Beams. an 76 a. Par kat abroad, have comprised tie impala, mie sind the Id instant. During the camsipoded t cpwaggs 9.000 qn. Oats from Ireland, about 1,670 qn. Wfteet from New York, and 7,000 banels Flour from the Umbel Slam and Canada have been mated in the Clyde. Tammany, after Ming very umett has again turned to fast The trade has scarcely varied in any respect throughout the week-the demand for Wheat being restricted es of ate is the secondary qualities of foreign, such as Fiera sad Danish, at 28e. to 275. per 2401 M., the finer deadpans remaining comparatively neglected. Most of the States mid Canadian Flour has been cleared off at 30s. to 30.. Id. per barrel. Oats and Oatmeal have found a fair mkt et Met week's pewee. In Barley and other ankles there has hoes little business parialc. At this day's market, Wheat met a slow sale, at a reduction of 6d. per boll ups. bat euelthlens for the beet qualities of old ; but in the vane ef other aorta there wee no change. Flour Wady, sad l4Wg ear. Mg. A etas ode for Oats gad themsuk atperelows rates. Barley was is fair renate f t . fer i ter m iprless. Pees more inquired for. Beans as Tke fol lowing are the prices: -Wheat, per 2401 b., Englishwhita, old, 2sB. to 29.. ' • new, 25,. to 27e. ; red. old, 275. to 275• Id • ; new, 24.. to 26e. ; Scotch, white, old, 28a. to 28.. 6d. ; Irish, red and white, saw, 224. to 265. ; Mater, old, 28a. to 294 ; Pomeranian, 28 .. to 28e. 6d. ; Danish, 275. to 275. 6d. ; Odense, soft, 26e. to 27a. ; Canadian, 26e. 6d. to 27e. ; United Stater, 265. to 275. Barley, per 3201 M, Ber wick and Scotch, old, 231. to 24.. ; saw, 225. 6d. to 24s ; Irish, new, 225. to 235. ; foreign, free Pomeranian, &c., old, 22a. to 23... 6.1. ; Danish, 21s. to 23.. Oath Per 26ilbs., Weiford, &a, old, 17s. to 17e. fid. • new, 17e. to 17.. 6d. ; Limerick, Me., old. 17.. 6d. to 180: 3d. ; mw, 17.. td. to 18.. 3d. ; extra. prepared, old, 18e. Bd. ; *rant Enna, old, 17e. se 17s. dd. Death, old, les. 64. tole. Bvtto , roman, per 4 imperial Meath, old, 17a. 6d. to 18•4 Idols, per 2801 h .01d,175. to 174.6 d-; nor, 17 0 to 178 - 6d *; per 28011.5., old, 17s. to 18e. Per, per 2801 M.,, 19s. to 19s. Bd. ; grey, 18... to 18a. dd. ; Con dign, old, 18e. 6d. to 19s. Flour , per 2801 b .., English, totoodos, ad. 43.. to 44a.; Irish ditto, 41s. to 42a.; fine, old, the. to 41x. ; extra choke qualities, 441 . to 465. • Ame rican, bared, sweet, old, 1109 to 30e. 6d.; Canadian, • 29e. 6.1. to 30.. ; sour, 29e. Oatmeal, per 2801b14, 7 I aerates est, SO+• to 311. ladbut Core. per Mao.. 20L 114. se Ste. M. Muth awa CULATIL-By lettere from these plata it le etsted tMt the ewer! of Mai= Coro woe prehibiuid hem theme ofin die SIM of October last. TM 'Mel owe et preigieltise je rid to hare arises her t►e large sea. un ipties emsert, eat likely to be perpetuated tor metals perid ly the lonian sad Turkish smite is, sad la the 1 whim...bad ma ---„, 110141.—Bosovom, Nov. 10 —Mum Nand= sad Smash moist OM all lisp with saber sod rp i r lis psi es. 43444. but Isms smiglis to ussilsolds. el &slimly Is assloyd ss raw : Plashastir, MUM. 1 44.1 ITlseir 13,3008. Om. Sig Isrlikra, 12,1101111. M. lit ; IWO asys . , 1.1/W. Os. oi.: Ilisz . L.loll.lls. 7 id. no Om= Mid cressiery Assriels are sot yet I Midi N. LIMOS. 1010 it.l3 Taalltai ZsD33.oosl 21 2 ls UM Weald st Siam .... 3 1110 3 lu Y•artlait eines .. 3 ois2 10 Dress .... ...... S 01s 3 3 OW 11505... ..... ... 1 0 1 19 113 Minhasis ...... .... 4 4103 If CATTLE, do.-Bsirrunstro, Two o'Ciock.—The supply of Basta is Ism, sad the demand small; trade is onn seqametly dull, at barely Monday's quotations ; 41. is quite the top prim far choice descriptions. Although the number of Sheep is not very large, we have much difficulty in obtaining Monday's prices. The demand is small, owing to an increased supply at the deed market', and some remain unsold. Good Calves are ant plentiful ; they are readily sold at sdvsneed priors. Prom Holland and Gor mley we hart 273 Beasts, 27 Calves, and 1,660 Sheep; from France, 13 Beasts; and about 160 mirth Cows from the Homo Comities. Par utast 611116. s. d.ad. Po Wee et Ma s. e. a. d. lam Swim Hartiotl6. 310 4 0 But Dalt 111.4611. El 0 0 0 Itot lbaraltems . 3 10 WA Laag-wuals 4 1 4 146641 gray llasiat.. 34W. 56 Man —0 0 0 Oalram . 4 0 f 0 twat and taxed yang 11 4 3 0 1 Plp 4 511 do. SWIM . 0 0 r...t I iambs_ co Datots at avartet. LOU; Steep sod lambi, 3 . ,410; balm. 194; Plea Mo. Evensonox, Nov. 6.—The number of Sheep in the builds this morning was only 3,104 ; but sales were effected very slowly, the quality being very indifferent. Top price of Mutton, 6d. per lb.; current, sd. to 54d. ; inferior, 30. to 4d. A good many were turned out unsold. The number of Cattle at market to-day was 363. A few very fine animals were sohl at 84. 6.1. per stone, this being the highest price ; current, Be. ; middling and interior, 6s. 6d. to 75. 6.1. Nearly all sold. • - • • For Yesterday's aso►bts Hi last paye. Vie Orpreso. MAILS, Tee malls far Mai Math America, and the United Maim, ill be made up enter mining of the 10th Nov. The Weft India MYL, esdading Narmada, Neiman, Ravenna, Banduns, New Bram% awl anise, anl including thaw ler St- Juan-do.laseragua, New 0rd.11.111.1, Chili, and Peru, will be mode up an the mernimt a the 17th Nov. The malls lee Tige, Orate, !Job" Madam, Calls, and Gibraltar will be made ail on the Maytag at the 17th Nev. The everand walls lm Othealter, Kate, Greece, the lonian Mande, gaps, Aden, Ceylon, India, Remg.liang, sad China, via gotithaear la. will be wade span the wean el the 10th Nor. The overland eased mails, via attraillea, to the Mediternineen, fort, Ades. Ceylon, India, llong.lioug, ka, will be amide up en the evening id the 21th Nov. Um mails be New Mouth Webs, Tan Dl-m4 Lend, and New Zealand will he made tip as the evening of the 70th Nov. ymails lee the Wea Coma tif Lbws sad Madam will be made W evening et the bah Nev. The malls Be Ileadea, the area* and Name Ayres, will be mode up an the mewing of the 41.1 Bee. Wing Wa Tie AT Lofolooll 11111103. 1••• D.t 6.-01•0•Iss. f•Ia.00•I • glars•••• I • M.M. wl I. 1..........4110000•4, as aids no Is Aliemism. 60 MM. 'BM I. LONDON. FRIDAY, NOV. 10. IT is really difficult to keep up with the impatient speed of our frantic contemporaries. The National Assembly has been just suopressid at Vienna, and freedom of every kind trodden under the hoof of the Croats, and already our tory ress,unslaked with military rule and b oodshed, are impatient for similar scenes in Berlin. They denource the King es pusil lanimous, and arraign him for not at once delueeg the streets of his capital with blood. When these gentlemen have been indulged in the burning and massacre of Berlin, they will be just as wild for that of Frankfort, and then no doubt for offering . up Peels in holocaust to Loris NAPOLEON. Our turn is to come last. For as the avowed principle is to cauteriee every continental effort to obtain freedom by fire and sword, these disciples of METTER:vim and woe shippers of JELLACIIICH cannot think of leaving such dreadful people, as retormers, alive in Great Britain.' Our worthy citizens may think it very conservative and very proper to put down liberalism and destroy constitutional governments in all the capitals of Europe, and substitute military despotism in their place. But Englishmen may re'y upon it, that fir from restoring pence, prosperity, or commerce, such triumphs of the bayonet are even worse than the triumphs of the mob ; and that to compress violently the free aspirations of atick a people as the Germano, is, not to terminate • struggle, but to commence one between princes and soldiers on one side, the people and the citizen classes on the other, which will place Europe in permanent I convulsions for the neat half century. We are far, indeed, from considering in the same light the courts and governments of Berlin and of Vienna. The house of Austria has been from first to last the greatest curse that ever was imposed upon an un fortunate people. In the 16th century all the provinces which compose the Austrian empire, were in possession of freedom, independence, popular and municipal rights. In wealth, instruction, and enlightenment, they were the foremost in Europe, and far more than half the population of Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, and the other states, had embraced ti. e protestant re- The house of Austria followed then the same policy . which it has pursued now. It crushed the Bohemian by the Austrian, the Austrian by the Bohemian, and by its employ of mercenary troops =the constitutions and estates of each abolished the privileges of the citizen class by Illemereing and hangin.4 that class itself, and SA to the protestant faith it actually drowned it in blood. The populous and reformed Bohemia it con verted into an absolute waste, leaving not enough of serfs to till it, with nothing above them but lords hire WINDISCHORATZ. and priests to aid them in the mental and bodily enslavement of the population. Hisleey tells a very different tale of the royal house d which was but born in that hour of woe sad degradation to Germany, and which has ever deco then with the rise and been developed with the ritof German intellect and independence. Prue eslBls has not been ruled by an imbecile monarch, whose pastime was the torturing of prison en in his state dungeons, nor by a stupid minister, Ignorant of the first requisites of • people, or the lest elements of government. Mind was at least free in Prussia, and the population was allowed that free exercise of its faculties required to peeper* it for constitutional government. Municipal rights, pro vincial stater', a national and not a mercenary army, with • representative system however restricted, were given by the King of PRUSSIA to his subjects. Whilst beyond his frontier the same monarch laboured with sagacity and success to unite German interests and prepare the way fur the future unity of Father. _ _ _ Such a government and such a dynasty, however short it may have stopped of the people's expectations, are still not to be classed with the stupid inquisition which was installed at Vienna, which called itself a government, and which was but a curious com pound of the nightmare and the vampyre, a dead and crashing weight upon the intellect of its subjects, socking the best blood of every province, with no ad dition of health to its cadaverous eel?. With the great loyalty and devotion that existed in Austria for the reigning house, and with a con servative majority in the National Assembly at Vienna, nothing scald have been more that revelation an beast ministry than to have conducted that revelation within constitutional and salutary limits ; but the stapideourt of the Emperor did not contain a Waterman. Intrigue and trickery formed the sole principle et government; and even this they had not the art to emiseal. An exposure of it produced an outburst of }spider indignation, and has caused that destruction of Vienna and the Viennese, now creating such a national and dangerous ferment in Berlin and Frankfort. All Germany compares the destruc tion of Vienna by WIN DISCHGRATZ, to the sack of Magdeburg by Tni.Y. The one city held out for the freedom of religion, the other for poli deal rights. The armies and generals of Austria acted in both cases the part of the executioner, the destroyer, and the oppressor. The sack of Magde burg, however, instead of being the ruin of protestan tisen, was the signal and the main cause of Its rescue by the indignation which it excited. The sack of Vienna, say the Germane, will have a similar effect upon German freedom. The King of PitungrA has unfortunately had not the same chances and facilities as the Austrian court. A majority of the Berlin Assembly has all along been perverse and rancorous towards the King, and there is no trust, however much forbearanoe, between them. No doubt the attitude of the King augments this. En trenched at Potsdam in the midst of the more faithful regiments of his army. he seems to defy the people of Berlin, the Amenably, and the revolution. Nevertheless, 1404. 4. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1848. the King, by his demeanour tow eras the Assembly, and ' his soadoet towards the Central rower at Frankfort, hr evinced an unmistakable desire to head, rather than thwart, the great Herman movement. Though some of his military chiefs, at.d other people as frantic as oar Pau. and M stymie len organs in London, daily incite the King of PRUSSIA to the bombardment of his capital and the dissolution of its Assembly, he, on the contrary, refuses to break with liberal Her many. He continues to hope, and trust, and tolerate. Already things were improving, and better symptoms apparent. burgher guard had, on several occa sions, put down the mob, and even the Assembly was growing more rational, when these unfortunately precipitated events at Vienna burst forth, throwing back Berlin and its population into their old frenzy and ram enormous dinxers at times, but they devolved the task of eating—every man for twenty—upon their retainer , . The civic dignitaries of London are the only migrates on record who perform at once the parts of the fords of the holiday and the consumers of the oxen roasted whole. Mena is no doubt," admits one of the officers of the Orphan Asylums, " that the number of children provided for by these institutioes is very limited, but you most rev:elect taat that number could be at any time leavened in proportion to the contributions of I ths public. If we had more fund., we should take m o r e children." Are these societies, then, in want of funds ? Is it with good cause that they issue touching appeals far more subscriptions? Is there any justice in their ex cuse for closing their doors against the poor ? Further examination into their accounts leads us to very dif ferent conclusions, and induces the belief that their performances fall very far short of their promisee. We take the " Landon Orphan Asylum." In its report for the current year the board of managers re- 1 gret their inability to extend the advantages of the institution. They state that, " notwithstanding the number e candidates is unusually large," they do not feel themselves justified in admitting more than 30 children. They "invoke their benevolent supporters to renewed efforts on their behalf." They "think that their strong claims on general support have not been adequately met." They " urge, therefore, the importance of every exertion," and conclude, as usual, with " the widow and the orphan," and the reference to the "heart that sang for joy." Well, we turn from this piteous appeal to the ba lance sheet, and what do we find ? In that page of the report, be it remembered, there is no cajolery. Gen tlemen of high standing in the City, who consent to act as auditors to a public body, will put their names to no balance sheet that is not accurate and straight forward. A reference to the " widow and the or phan " will not stand with them in place of a clear and comprehensive schedule of what you have in hand. It won't do to tell City auditors that you caused " the widow's heart to sing for joy." In place of such vague and general statements, they request to know the precise particulars of year as sets and liabilities. Accordingly, in the report of the London Orphan Asylum for the present year we find the following set out with due and proper parti cularity : Balance in the hands of the treasurer, 1981. 2a Stock : 45711. 4s. 51., Three per Cent Reduced ; 4611.11,. C•msols• 3,5471. 16.. 9d. Annuity. terminable sth Jan., 1860; :Ise, 3,4711. 10.. Three per Cent. Reduced, in true: fur presentation; and 4,7001. New Three-and-a-Quarter Annuities, for the Wellington Fund.—Audited Jan. 13. litib:W JACILEON, BENUE CAPEL, J AIIIM DEAR, auditors. Well, now, would not the expenditure of some of this money " have caused the widow's heart to sing for joy " a great deal more than talking about it? For what purpose are riches heaped up in this way P litre is a sum of nearly 17,0001. of charity money, available at the very moment that the board of managers are lamenting that " notwithstanding the number of candidates is unusually large, they du not feel justified in admitting more than 30 children at the election." Thirty children, out of probably more than 130 candidates! The " Royal Asylum of the St. Anne's Society," being an " asylum" for " the children of those once , in prosperity," feels it unnecessary to enter into those vulgar particulars which the " orphan asylums " (low institutions!) degrade themselves by giving to the public. If the St. Anne's Society given a general account of what they have got, that is quite enough. Brien', auditors are not quite so knowing and pre cise as those of Capel-court. The St. Anne's account wrordingly is rendered u follows : Jan. 1848.—Wehave compared the foregoing accounts with the books and vouchers, end find them correct, and that there is a Wane/ in the hands of the treasurer on the pre sent account of 731. Ils. Cu., and on the building fund ac. count of 191. 13s. Bd., bends the several amount: of stock standing in the names of the trustee: of the instatution, and also a sum of hl7l. Os. 2d., three per cent. consolidated hank annuities, separately invested on account of the new " Town School Aiqlum Fund," and a balance of 41. 3s. in hand on account of the Exhibition and Reward fund. Oar contemporaries of the Times and Chronicle see and desire no cure for this, save bloodshed. We alto gigher deprecate that extremity, which, whether in Paris, or Berlin, or Vienna, will infallibly make mat ters permanently worse, whatever apparent tranquil lity it may effect for a time. There are ample ele ments for a rational conservative party in Prussia. The provinces have lost some of their effervescence. And a re-election, whenever it takes place, would restore the King and assembly to unity of purpose and understanding, if sanguinary collision be avoided. Peace and patience are the tzuest principles in in ternal ea in external pulley. There is always reaction after revolution ; an ebb succeeds the Bow ; and if princes will but wait for it, and take advantage of that popular ebb, they would far better conciliate order with liberty, than by attempting or even sue , oeeding to crush both by brute force. IT must afford matter for intense self-gratulation to every well-regulated conservative mind, in this age of revolutions, to witness tie unchanged and seemingly unchangeable character of the Lord Mayors and other corporate dignitaries of the City of London. The crown , has been shorn of its patronage and the civil list regu- I lated ; the House of Commons has been reformed ; the church has been subjected to the inquisitorial proceed ings of commissions, and its bishops have been put upon allowances; but tho Lem) MAvott and Lord Mayor's ])ay of 1848 differ little, if any thing, from those immortalised in the " Dunciad." There has been no successor to ELKANAH SETTLE— tbe voice of the bard has been silenced in the Man- 'ion-house—but the broad furs and broad faces are as warm, comfortable, and unmeaning u ever. It is not therefore to be wondered at that a dove- like spirit of conservatism should have yesterday brooded over the LORD MAYOR'S guests and inspired their tongues. With the exception of M. OUsTAVE DE BEAUMONT, who in few and hearty words re turned thanks for the cordial reception his country men recently received in London, the one theme of the speakers was the wonderful snows of the corporate authorities of the City in pre- serving the peace of the City during the late troubles' times. A stranger unacquainted with our recent his- tory might have been pardoned, if, while listening to them, he had imagined himself to have arrived. not in the city of special constables who turned out as the 10th of April en mouse to show they were all peace-makers, but in some city of discord, Mien bloodshed and contusion had only been prevented by the peaceful influences emanating from Guildhall, thu temple of Peace, and the Mayor I and aldermen, its officiating priests. He might nave fancied the Mansion I louse to be to wild Londoners what Fran MINNETROsT's castle in the " Zauberring" was to the wild Frieshinders. The oratory way worthy of a Lord Mayor's dinner, composing, tran quillising, admirably calculated to promote quiet digestion. Turtling for a moment from the solemn feast of the evening to the solemn pageant of the forenoon, it must be remarked as a misfortune that the annual procession of the Loan MAYOR should follow so close upon that of GUIDO FAWKES. The heroes of the two ovations are apt in courquence to get so closely ammo elated in the imaginations of youth, that in matarer years men are not always able entirely to rid themselves of the habit of regarding the chief magistrate of the me tropolis as a kind of more magnificent and living Guy. The procession of the man stuffed with turtle, and that of the doublet staffed with straw, bear somewhat the tame relation to each other that was borne by the real coronation of GEORGE IV. to ELLISTON's theatrical reproduction of it. Still it cannot be denied that the stability of these civic institutions of which the LORD MAYOR, with his man in armour, his sword-bearer, and his state coach, are the Corinthian • capital, is mainly owing to the annual procession and dinner of the 9th of November. In our boyish days we make interest or scramble for places to see the for mer; when the judgment begins to develop itself we canvass for tickets to admit us to the latter. The Why so very particular about the 41. 3s. and so entirely careless about w the several amounts of stock standing in the names of the trustee' of the institu tion" ? This is remarkable. Several years ago a curt of pamphlet was published giving an account of the "origin" of this society, and filled with an immense deal of bombastic trash about the asylum. It was then stated that the society "had funded upwards of 5,0001." We don't understand that word " upwards." The society has gone on reprint ing this statement almost word for word every year since; and though it gate on purchasing stock every year, it does not deign to state what that up wards" is meant to convey. There is however one index to the amount of their capital—namely, the dividends upon funded property of which they are annually in receipt. These amount with income tax to about 8001., which at five per cent. represents 16,0001. They must have put their money to very bad use, indeed, if they have less than that amount invested. Every farthing of this they must have received for cha ritable purposes, a portion of it probably from the altar of the church, and nevertheless they continue to hoard it up, adding to the number of boys purchased into the asylum, but certainly not increasing the number to be elected from among the "orphans or not" who present themselves as candidates. Does this not look like proportioning the children to the means at command ? We turn to the Orphan Working School, a society whose governors state themselves to " stand in the place of guardians to the helpless—u friends to the 'friendless, and take by the hands of charity and kind ness the destitute and forsaken ones." Fine ideas these, though perhaps not expressed in exactly the best English. The grammar, however, would be of very little consequence if the "guardians to the helpless and friends to the friendless " did their duty. We fear, however, to use their own words, that i they "stand in the place of the guardians to the help lees" in another sense than that in which they employ the phrase. What is their present position? In 1847 they opened their new building, with accommodation, u they boast, for :40 children. Contract the board-rooms, which mo nopolise the best parts of thelrailding, and aooommoda tiot would probably be secured for 300. Well, how many children are there in the institution ? On the 26th of April last the number was only 152; on the present day there are, we understand, no more than 164. Can a good reason be assigned for limiting the numbers in this asylum to one half what it might accommodate P Is this institution so poverty-stricken and wretchedly provided ? By ita last report we find that ita pro- perty consists of the following : Term per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities £2,240 Three per Cent, Reduced Annuities New South Sea Annuities 3,800 banner. and the bargemen defiling in long array be fore us fill the eye and the fancy; the one thousand two hundred and fifty pints of " real turtle " are an ocean of luxury in which the imaginations of even the uninvited can wallow like leviathans. The Lord Mayor's day and the Lord Mayor's dinners were the theme which awakened our wonderment in the nursery: to have dined on this great civic anniversary in the Guildhall is an era in our lives. Without them the world would be as drab-coloured a one as Tom PAINE maintained the Quakers would have I made it had they been consulted at the making of it. We do not reverence the Lord Mayor's day out of our respect to the corporation whose high festival it is, but we are loyal to the Corporation, because were it subverted we might have no Lord Mayor's day. This world has witnessed many unaccountable forms of government in its time, but none that for strangeness surpasses that of the City of London. Some governments have swayed their subjects by priestly mummery, like that of Egypt ; some by pa geantry, like the Persian dynasties ; some by myste rious secrecy and affectation of the invisible, like that of Venice; but London is governed by means of eat ' ing. The real onerous duties of the civic function aries of London are all comprised in the one item of eating. Other charges of municipal government they discharge by deputy—the judicial by their Recor der, the police by Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY, and so forth; bat eat they mast in propriis personibut, and eat they do on a scale that is astounding to ordinary capacities. The citizen of London eats his way to the lower grades of civic dignity ; he eats his way up through them to the highest; and the chief magistrates year of office is spent in dining and giving dinners. 'The aspirant after the civic honours of London commences by being enrolled in a company ; he works his way up till he becomes a member of its council ; be next, or about the same time, becomes a member of the common council ; he then gets himself made an alderman ; and in due rotation he comes to be Mayor. In the companies he serves his apprenticeship to the mystery of dining. The com panies are in possession of funds—the accumulated bequests of centuries—of which a moderate portion is devoted to the maintenance of schools, alms-houses, &e., and the immense surplus has to be consumed in eating and drinking. It is as much as even the practised gobblers and 'wilier, of these companies can do to eat and drink their way through the annual revenues of their companies. The youngest member must face his twelve luxurious dinners annually, ' and the councillors their weekly gormandisings at the lead. The mayor and aldermen must eat their corporation dinners, and their company dinners also. And as the aggregate stomachs of any one company generally prove inade quate to get through their year's eating in the course of the year, the members of the Tarim companies, with a self-devotion that is truly magnanimous and , affecting, mutually aid each other. The Loan MAYOR s dinner is merely the climax of a whole year of dinners. The annual labours of a true civic stomach are to the feats of HELIOGABALUS as the labours of HERCULES were to the toils of ordinary mortals. It is no slender testimony to the innate strength of English intelkets that individuals can be found ca pable of uneergoing these huge trencher labours and yet remaining shn wd, capable men, when business calls upon them. Yet no man will deny that the civic dignitaries of London have been found ere now ade quate to trying emergencies. It could be desired, how ever, that some way of spending their surplus revenues more consonant to the tastes and habits of the age than mere eating and drinking could be devised. A little attention devoted uccivionally to the patrooage of the liberal arts, the promotion of education, or other pur suits worthy of the rulers of the capital of England, might agreeably diversify the monotony of ever ' recurring dinners, and impart better appetites for the feasts that were retained. The feudal barons of old of the WE this day devote a portion of our columns to civic festivities and banquets. The circumstance has made ns, by contrast, pay more attention to rustic meetings and enjoymentsot the same kiud ; and we must own we are struck by the contrast. Country folk are generally represented as high and mighty dons, disdaining all contact with their humbler fel lows; whereas civic folk are supposed to be the middle term, the link, as it were, between the aristo ' erivic folk and the mere enlightened of what the French call theproletariat. So much isthis felt elsewhere, that we will be bound to say that the municipality of Paris, or Berlin, or Vienna (not at present—Heaven forbid that we should allude to such a state of things as the horrid present)—but in the meet palmy days of the monarchy, would not think of giving a bat quet without inviting the notabilities of sciesee, art, and literature. Such considerations, however, do not pene trate the thick rind Bceatian fog which surrounds the London Mansion-house. . Turn we, therefore, to the rustics, at whose banquet in Maidstone we find the press and its re presentatives in great honour, and in full speech—so full that they almost oat-talked the noble chairman and the counts , member. And they did perfectly right. Fur the Earl of ROMNEY, who presided, being piqued by the gnat-sting of some querulous corre spondent in the columns of the local journal, straight, with the headlong frankness of the country gentle men, denoin ced the press, which, from the character of being anonymous, he ordained that no one should mind. . . What writers are to do between such high authorities as Lord ROMNEY, Lord Ilacuoitast, and the Times we do not know. Lord Itourrer would kick the press out of society and consideration because it is anonymous. The Times declares its great title to re spectability and consideration depends precisely on its remaining anonymous. And Lord BROUGHAM records a quite contrary opinion—that every ass should sign his name to the effusions of his own donkeyism, a rule to which his lordship in his own case rigidly conforms. Now, what is a plain man to do between two lords and one great commoner, of such divergent opinions ? It would puzzle the very " hop judges" to decide. Kentish men, however, have no idea of preserving the" anonymous," and when attacked are quite ready to turn out for a round, even with a lord. Punch has well depicted Lord BROUGHAM in the character of a bear, sting to desperation by the inmates of the press-hive, whom his snout bad disturbed. Lord ROMNEY seems to have assumed the same character, set out upon the same quest, and been visited the same castigation at the Maidstone dinner. Mr. WHI TING'S speech was a pungent one. At the same time we must do Lord ROMNEY the credit to say that he bore the retort in very gentle. manly and good-humoured part. Instead of chafing, frowning, er standing on his dignity, his lordship proposed a toast to the " Next merry meeting of the Association." And we really think the the Maid stone press and hie Kentish lordship ought to shake hands thereon. We do not see that great difference of opinion, which should prevent them associating to reward ploughmen, agricultural, non-agricultural, and female servants, as well as helping the "judges" to decide between the three best cants," offered to their impartial and worshipful decision. £10,890 Two and a half shares in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, producing 851. per annum. An annuity payable by the Accountant-General Court of Chancery, .rodusing 601. per annum. An estate in the City-road and an estate at Haverstock hill, producing 1,4001 per annum. Yet the committee of this asylum have the temerity to 'tell the public in their last report that the in terests of the charity cannot be sustained without farther funds are placed at their disposal. " Cannot be sus tained," forsooth ! Some of the poor orphans, we sup pose, are to be turned adrift because the treasurer is unable to make further purchases of Consolidated An nuities, or Liverpool Canal Shares, or estates in the City-road, or Hampstead. It was said of a statesman of some standing, that if Great Britain and Ire land were given him for an estate he would want the Isle of Man for a kitchen-garden. Give these pmple all Lombard-street, and they would not be sadist unless George-yard or Abchurch-lase were Wad * it. The grasping, wealth-heaping chandler of these asylums cannot be better exemplified dies by this instance. At the last " general oast," as they call it, of this Orphan Working School, there were no less than 92 candidates on the list for admis sion. Of these, only 25 were permitted to enter. In do face, therefore, of this enormous rallerty -11,0001. in tne funds, canal shares, and aed es tates showing a rent-roll of no less than 1,4001. per annum—the managers of this asylum condemned the friends of SIXTY-SEVEN unhappy orphans to all the heart-sickening misery of disappointment —to the keen anguish, possibly, of desperate despair. At the present time they tell us, in large ca pitals, with a view to obtain more money, that " Orphans from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are seeking admission, and even France has added its number." Shall they, whiningly inquire the committee, " shall they ask in vain ?" On the part of the public we answer NO. Let them be admitted instantly. , 100 would t, the hike. 1 n or by p i reee reati n i' t g ee in . sUartein nomination': to make a" ' bY "la / (ig fereemil'Cin'evaltip:en'scq One word to prevent cavil or misconception. If these mylnms had laid slide a motkrate portion of their his ;he 1 tha t e ranee cue we might, in deckying f oss hi, or re. ah ii i ! na o s f Lwt a oh n de u eilto nu sa s u nal ayl: tbe m o dera te 0- grow might o reee a beiPts eesson quwitee sb o r r i m' gh t i t h d e to n ..u ot pro h v a m i v d sta e s number of applicants being pl Iced upon the ' , cl i a c ' c es ei n o!i ip in the name nf the mo dera te: , there be no c m di. lists. If each asylum invested the amount, say, of one year's expenditure upon its orphan inmates we condition .. It would, moreover, be the di •.4 of t wdb"4 might have thought the step wise and prudent. But of t h Berate t P parry, e a w .t hie w h h. e.l i enprim e in France at lend nine-tenee°. the managers have no right to invest in the funds candidate ;bora we leeili g y h r t ou n ld sawn a pert to be given to u t t what is given them to be spent in succouring the For these motives I believe :h at e e t — w a put ta the Pneee em i lftik ti . fatherless and the widow They are not justified in to follow its/wee/go/a, and not preee e u m t a i e t t a leaee ' the -' hoarding np ten, sixteen, twenty thousand pounds at a acc ' w " undulate oases time. The money was given them for the poor, not for the purposes of trading on the Stock Exchange. To deal in canal shame, house property, and landed es tates,and in the face of their immense investments to turn away the orphans who are beseeching charity at their doors, and still to shake the platter— still to call upon the public for " more, more"— not to be spent on the fatherless andafflicted, but only be invested like the rest—this is really to reach a point so tar beyond th e limits of the widest discretion on the part of managers, that it is difficult with courtesy to give such acts their proper designation or a name. "a:thee:lk: tha tei "ii We have received the Madrid mails of the 3rd and 4th. The Gage te, of the 3rd, contained two official announcement., in one of which eighteen primers of the republican faction, newly arisen in Al:cant, an said to have been shot in colu blood by order of the commandant-general of the province; and, according to the other, eight stragglers of the Cellist faction of Glamundi, caught at Fortanete, were subjected to the same fate. AiAl.ll/1% Nov. 4. Three Per ( hate, Ili Parer; after Boa, lel h a per etata.. 11. Parer; after Boa, aj cart. Paa. ram a parer , after Bola. i rash. Cooroo - . 5 Parer . Tishale on Inaba, deyr, 41160 ash. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY, 11 A.M. The journals of this morning announce that Gen. eaviignac's manifesto as candidate for the presidency will be published on Sunday next, the day of the promulgation of the constitution. That of M. Ledru Rollin is expected to appear to-day. The address of Prince Louis will not be published until after the Cavaignae manifesto. A manifesto appears to-day in La Reforme, La Repubb're, and the other organs of the Montague, which is signed by fifty-six members of the assembly of that party, including M. Ledra- Rollin. This manifesto, which is entitled, "De claration an People:' is a ext of declaration of principles, intended, no doubt, as a sketch of what the party would have desired the constitution to be. It is divided into several sections, under the titles, " Ge neral principles.," "Education "" Taxation," "Credit;' and " Asaocia.ion." The subscribers say that they adopt with pride the name of the Mountain : Heirs of the Mountain we glory in that name, to which we could not aspire, and which our adversaries have bestowed on us so a reproach. We adept it modified by the added means that time and science have acquired to it; we adept the polities' and social principles of oui pr. decesson, their pro. found love for justice, and the people their virtuous hate against privileges end aristocracies, the courage of their devotion and their faith in the future. Our principles, our votes, and oar actions shall prove whether we or our enemies have moat at he art the sentiments of justice and humanity, whether on them or on us has devolved the heritage of bloody tradition; we who, in the ardour of our democracy, have willed the abolition of the scaffold, or they who in the calm of their moderation, would and have maintained it. This manifesto concludes with the following sum mary of the requisitions of the people: Unity of power—distinction of functions—liberty of thought—liberty of meeting and association—gratuitous edu cation—the revision of the laws as to military service—the immediate abolition of the taxes of primary necessity, such u salt, wines, &c.—tie reform of the income tax, octroi, and patents—the establishment of a proportional and progressive tax on net income—the repurchase by the state of railways, canals, mines, &c . —administntive, judi cial, and penal reforms, gratuitous justice, that is, therinspli tying forms and reducing the costs—the" droit en traviii" credit —association. In fine, peaceably and progressively all the consequences of the three great principles of the re volution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—that is, the go vernment of all, by all, end for all. We have already announced that the Club of the Rue de Poitiers, after a dismission, had resolved not to recommend any candidate for the presidency to its members. The following were the observations of M. Thiess on this subject : lam perfectly disinterested in the question, having re fused the candidateship to the presidency of the republic offered me by several departments. I am neither a candidate for the presidency nor for the ministry under the two mai dents at present possible. I know neither Gen. Cava*nac nor Prince Louis Bonaparte ; I am not icfliiencul with re spect to them by any sentiment either of affection or hatred; I only seek to discern in the future which will do good or harm to the country. General Cassignat appears to me to have en undecided policy, which may lean, in certain cues I to another side than the moderate one, and for this motive preserve with respect to him a distrust, not of him perso nally, but of his opinions. No doubt General Ca is worth more than the governments which pratedel= since the 24th of February, but he is not such a man as could be desired to make a decisive effort in his favour. At this moment the country is attracted towards Prince Louis Buonaparte. To check it en effort would have to be made which would be without cause, for we have not sufficient confidence in Gen Cayaignsc to devote ourselves to his can didateship. Would it, therefore, be right to propose a third candidate to be presented to the country in the name of the Club of the Rae de Poitiers ? Ido not think it. I think that at this moment a third candidate would place the moderate party in an awkward position, us be could only ob tain the support of a portion of the moderate party, the other portion being inevitably certain to support Prince Louis Buonaparte. Two things would therefore re sult ; first, the moderate party would cause its numbers to appear small, by securing to its candidate only a portion of the vote' which naturally belong to it ; secondly, the division of suffrages preventing any of the candidates from having the absolute majority, the elec tion would, in virtue of the new constitution. fall to the Na tional Assembly, which would undoubtedly nominate Gen. Cavaignac. Consequently, in proposing a third candidate in the name of the moderate party, it is the nomination of Gen. Cavaignac which would be secured. We must know what we do, and say to °umbrae that that is the result at which we should arrive. Now, if it be the nomination of Gee. Cavaignas which is desired, we should may it frankly, openly, end labour for it earnestly. We ought even derive advantageous results to the country from that ITALY. Garibaldi having beea received with enthusiasm it Florence was preparing to leave for Lombar ly tojoin the insurgents. The Archbishop of Turin, who has been obliged to leave Piedmont, because he a as opprsed to the expul sion of the Jesuite, has arrived at the Chateau de Di vonne, in the Pays de Gex. GERMANY. AUSTRIA.—Our accounts from Vienna of the evening of the 3rd Met., state that the Dist had dissolved itself, only 60 members being present in the capital. The head-quarters of Windischgrats were still at Sch.inbrunn. Jellachich had taken up his quarters in the palace of Archduke Maximilian d'Este. PRUSSIA.—The &ilia journals of the ith inst. have arrived. It was supposed that the ministerial crisis would be put an end to in the sitting of the con stituent assembly on that day. COLONIAL. COST AND CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIAL MISGOVERNMENT. On this subject the Manchester Examiner says: From alv.ust all points of the compass we have tidings of war, revolt, or disaffection in our colonies. The latest irtelligence from India dispels the fon ' hopes entertained by the friends of peace that Lord Dalhousie's rule would be dis tinguished beyond that of his predecessors by the promotion of agriculture, and commerce, the prseress of internal im provement, and the avoidance of domestic or external wars. Scarcely have the congratulations with which Lord liar elitism was received on his return ho re died upon our ears, hardly have we ceased to lavish on him substantial proo's of our gratitude for consolidnting the peace of our eastern em pire, when lo! the Temple of Janus is again opened, troops are everywhere in motion towarc s the scene of our last con quests, and those resources which ought to be available for making long projected railways, deepening navigable rivers, and c,nstmcting tanks and canals for irrigation, will now be expended upon munitions of war, and the conveyance of troops to the remote field of military operations. Another of our Eastern possessions, second in importance only tc the compapy's territories, Ceylon, has been in a state of armed revolt agaiast the government of Lord Torrington, originating in the imposition of some new and unpopular taxes upon Runs and doge, which the natives declare to be indirpensable in a country overran by wild elephants, begs, and other animals. The insurrection has of course been crushed, although not without an importation of fresh troops from Bombay ; martial law has been declared in some dis tricts, snd we are sorry that the same leniency has not been exhibited to the convicted rebels which has so generally pre vailed under similar circumstances in Europe. Without attempting to go fully into a discussion on the subject of Ceylon polities, it mutt be stated as a strong proof that every thing is not quite right, that at the very time when the natives of the interior were in rebellion a very temperate and loyal memorial to Lord Grey was drawn up and signed by upwards of a dozen British merchants of Co lombo, who, whilst they condemn the conduct of the rebels, at the same time point out the• impolicy of the new tame, I and draw attention to the extravagant expenditure of the local government. The opreition newspapers attribute the I troubles in the island to the incapacity of the governor, who is treated in this unceremonious fashion by the Colombo Observer: teed John Rowell, prime minister of Britain, le the son of the third Duke of Bedford by a daughter of a Visconnt Tmrington. This explains the appointment of so young and undistinguished a man ea the present viscount to so high d post, and leaves little town to hope Oar his immediate removal, be his vagaries ever so wild or ea fearful In their result*. But this anti other like cases will hasten the day when the finest colonies of Britain will no longer be looked on merely es the pre" of a grasping and unprincipled aristocracy. The Mauritius, another of our eastern possetsions,although not in • state of revolt, is only not so, if we may believe its local organs of the press, from a sense of prithence, and not from any affection to the British authority. Wo have read some bitter articles extracted from the newspapers of the island, denouncing in unmeasured language, almost amounting to the open and advised uttering of treason, the extravagance and oppressiveness of the British govern ment. Coming westward, we find thins fertile provinces of the Cope colony, which would afford room enough for almost the whole population of England, a prey to civil war between the government and its Dutch subjects. Here again have we been doomed to disappointed hopes. We had flattered ourselves that the closing scene of Sir Harry Smith's hats with the Kaffirs, where he made the chiefs kin hie foot (!) was the beginning of a lasting peace ; and we were trying to forget the million and a half of money expended in that war with the savages. But it seems that our rule is I not more popular with the Dutch peasantry than with the Kaffirs. The farmer abandoned their homes and the graves of their fathers, and with their flacks and herds emigrated beyond the settled portion of the British territory. Thither, however, they were followed by the government authori ties, to demand their oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria. The battle of Bloom Pleats was the consequence, where, amongst other exploits, we are coolly and exultingly told of one round shot which killed half a dozen flying Dutchmen! Well might Sir William Molesworth describe the Cape as cur Algeria. If we cast our eye to the Mediterranean, we find the lonian States, of which we are the gratuitous sovereign pro tectors, at an expense of upwards of 130,0001. per annum (at much as our exports to three islands amounted to in 1844), for military alone, in such a state of disaffection, that even the presence of 2,500 English troops did not prevent it from recently manifesting itself in the form of an armed resistance to our authority. Craning the Atlantic, we behold discontent not lees strong, although varied in its origin, and in its manifesta tions taking a more constitutional form. There is Jamaica, our largest tropical island, threatening to stop the wheels of government by refusing to vote the supplies, a course which bas been actually entered upon by the Court of Policy of Galena. In all probability this example will be followed by these other sugar colonies which possess legislative 'stem bass; whilst in the crown colonies the taxpayers have begun to race the question as to the right of the government to levy taxes even for local purposes, excepting through their own representatives. I We have thus glanced at the disaffection which prevails in so many of our colonies, according to the latest &deices, with out feeling at all certain that we know the worst ; we dread the arrival of news from OUT distant possessions, bemuses we feel how helplessly we are exposed to all the conseluences of the acts of othars, over whom it is impossible that we an exercise any control. It is quite possible, for example, that the next advices may announce another war between the New Zealand settlers and John Heki, or some other native chief. The governor, under such circumstances, would feel himself justified in calling to his aid, if necessary, for the protection of his colony, fresh regiments of troops from Australia, and ships of war from the India and China station. Before an answer could reach New Zee land from England, with an opinion from the Colo nial-office as to the origin or conduct of the war (the opinion at such a distance of time would, of course, be useless), hundreds of thousands of pounds might have probably been expended, which the English taxpayers, after much grumbling, would be obliged to pay. In fact we are, in one way or another exposed to a drain of money of un limited amount, from between forty and fifty colonial ceta blishments, every one of them being interested in as large an expenditure PI possible of English money ; and we are much mistaken if the bills to be presented nest session do not open the eyes of the English people to the danger of allowing the present system of colonial government to be continued, even tar another year. For our pert, the course we have marked out for our selves upon the subject of our colonial policy is this : Both in the interest of the mother country and the colonies we shall advocate the enrrying out logically the principles of free I trade in their relationship with each other. To the colonists we would offer self government, and an absolute control over their own expenditure; but having done justice to them, we will maintain that the people of England ought ant to be subjected is a farthing of expense for the civil or military government or protection of such colonies es Comas, /males, the Cape, South Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, & c , If we choose to keep thousands of soldiers upon a bar ren rock like Gibraltar, or Malta, they must be supported and paid by the English pecple ; and if we empty eur gaols upon the shores of Van Diemen's Land, we mast, of course, expect to be called on by the colonists there to find soldiers to keep the convict p ipulation in order, but with exceptions such as these, we see no reason why, in the imerest of both parties, the mother country should not be altoget see relieved from any charge on amount of the civil or military establish ments in the colonies. In this view we are, as tree traders, only carrying out one step further the principles of Adam Smith, who in his ' Wealth of Nation, ' declares that ' in order to render any province adventigeous to the empire to which k belongs, it ought to afford an time of peece a re venue to the public sufficient not only for defraying the I I