The Express. — London, England, 1848-03-16 00:00:00

between the two countries. The 'tarponlance, the ministerial print of Brussels. deemed it advisable on its side to assert, that whilst Belgium, free and inde pendent, would always be happy to he on a friendly footing with Holland, the latter nation had neither the intention nor the desire to be nor to appear hostile to France. The Moniteur of this morning contains the royal sanction of the law for extending the franchise. The export duty on numerous articles of Belgian produce has been reduced. Yesterday, M. Georges Serrurier, the delegate of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, presented to the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs a letter from M. Lamartine, authorising him (M. Serrurier) to act provisionally as the head of the French embassy in this capital. The Minister of War has been authorised, by royal ordonnance, to exchange a double collection of porta ble fire arms and weapons, in use in the Belgian army, for a similar collection made in the grand duchy of Baden. His Belgian Majesty has also ap proved of a similar exchange between this country and Wurtemberg. Rather serious disturbances broke out last night in Ghent, the Manchester of Belgium. Several windows were broken in the church of the Jesuits in that town, and a number of rioters, after having been dis persed, proceeded towards 'fronchiennes, where there is another establishment of Jesuits. A squadron of cuirassiers was despatched after them, and violence was, it is said, prevented. This morning the Place d'Armes, the great square or parade of Ghent, was filled with dense crowds. No business was transacted yesterday on the Antwerp Bourse. The Independance of this day devotes one of its leading articles to the proving that the recent military preparations of this country have not been made with any unfriendly views towards France. RUSSIA.—The Breslau Gazette of the 9th inst. contain. the following startling paragraph: Up to the pre sent time we have token no notice of the long-Existing report of the death of the Emperor of Russia. This day, however, the report has been repeated in so positive a manner, and in connexion with it there has been so unexampled a fall in the Russian funds, that we feel bound no longer to pass over the report in silence." The Silesian Gazette, moreover, con tains a corresrondence from Warsaw, in which it is stated that the Polish funds fell suddenly (plotzliels) from 82 to 82. It is not a little remarkable, too, that the Peters burgh 6,zette, which is a doily paper, states, in the front page of its number of the 3rd inst. ' that it will not he pub lished again until the 7th inst. No grounds whatever are given fer this extraordinary cessation. Both the Cologne Garette and the Amsterdam Ilumfelsblad, of this day, give the last piece of intelligence. The latter adds, that up to the 3rd in. t. intelligence from St. Petersburg made no men tion of the death of the Emperor. It may be asked, what is the meaning of the laconic and singular announcement of the Petersburg Gazette, that ft would cease to appear during three clear days ? Mira abaft! CHILL—By H.M.S. Carysfort we have news from Valparaiso to the 3rd December. Trade was very de pressed th..te, on account of the news of the E glish failures. The Carysfort left llshin on the 29th of January; trade there was flourishing. Exchange ruling a' 27; per milreis. The Carysfort brings two millions and a half of dollars. ANOTHER NARRATIVE OF THE ESCAPE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. The following etas communicated to the Hampshire Inaepeadcat by one who was on board the Express steamer, in which the ex-King and Queen of the French made their escape from France. The South Western Company's steamer Express, Captain Paul, left Southampton on Tuesday, the 25th of February, at about half-past right in the morning, and proceeded direct to Havre. We took our station alunriele the quay, opposite the Custom-house. The South Western Company's new steamer the Dispatch, Captain Goodridge, was also in the harbour, she having arrived from London. We re =Lined in port two days, an unusually long tiro^ for our ves sel. This stoppage at Havre, together with the silent and anxious manner of the captain, and his mysterious move ments to and from the vessel and the Rue de la Gaffe, ex cited my suspicion, and made me conjecture that we were waiting for some special and important purpose. Nothing particular, however, occurred before Thursday, towards dusk, when I found the steam was getting up. At about eight o'clock that evening the steam was blowing off as noiseteeely as possible. The night was rather dark, but not sufficiently so to prevent me from seeing Capt. Good. ridge sauntering about the quay in the neighbourhood of our vessel. While be was than employed I saw a stranger, well muffled up, approach and speak to him, and soon after wards leave him to speak to a gendarmes, who had ap proached near to the spot where they bad been talking. The stranger, while in conversation, appeared to be peering about, and shifting his position, till at length he could com mand a sight of any one who come to the vessel round the left hand corner of the Custom house, while the back of the gend'armes was turned towards that spot. The convereation between the stranger and gend'armes continued for a short time, when a party came round the left band corner of the Custom-house and approached our gangway. Without any hesitation one of the party, an old man, apparent y lame, dressed in a large travelling cloak, and his face nearly covered with a 'heal, a pair or green spectacles, and a travelling cap, came on board, assisted by the British consul and Captain Goodridge. While coming on board I heard the consul say to him : " Take, rare, uncle," as if he was speaking to a relative, and warning him to be careful how he stepped on the ladder. The passenger was immediately conducted to the engineer's room (a most unusual place for a passenger to be shown into), but owing to its small site and a fire burning in it, he was unable to retrain there, and was obliged to go into the saloon. The consul spoke to him, end of him, as if he were Ma relative. Aa soon as the old gentleman was on board, Capt. Good ridge escorted an elderly lady down the gangway. I heard her say to him, " I am obliged to you," and from her pronun ciation I knew she was not an English woman. She woo very plainly dressed. Her hair was as white as silver, and I thought I never saw a c metenance in which anxiety, fatigue, and fear were so vi-ibly depicted. As soon as she was in the saloon I could perceive that she had been, and still was, weeping. As soon as these two were on board, and the rest of the party had joined them, I saw the stranger to whom I have before alluded leave the gend'arrnes and approach our gang way, and at the same time watch the gen o 'armee walking away from the vessel. The stranger got on bored rapidly, and immediately crouched down under the naddle-box, as if to prevent the gendarmes from observing where he was. The only luggage brought on board was a small box, which weighed very heavy, a reticule and bag which appeared to contain memo., and two or three cloaks of a rich and costly description. The instant the party were on board, and the consul and Captain Goodridge had gone on shore, prepara tions were quietly made for slipping iron the quay. This was a very anxious moment. The strange way in which our passengers came on beard—their having no luggage—their silent manner and anxious countenances—our leaving with out the proper officers coming on hoard to examine pass pens—the respect paid to the gentleman a d lady who first came on board—together with the captain giving his orders in a subdued tone of voice—convinced me that our paasen gen were persons f distinction, and that we were leaving Havre surreptitiously. During the time we had been at Havre I had felt a dread of going on shore. The people of the place appeared to have left their usual occupations, and Ind a moody and discon tented look. Groups of the lower orders were to be seen in different parts of the town, some of them armed with mus kets and other weapons. I confess, therefore, that just as we were leaving the quay, I felt rather nervous, and was every moment expecting some alarm, and that our departure would be prevented. Just as we were leaving, our progress was impeded by some French barges, and my fetus. I sup pose, got the better of my senses, but I could not help fan cying that the men on board the barges were assailing us in unusually loud language, and were most remarkably unwill ing to get out of our way. - When we got out of the harbour, all on board seemed so breathe more freely; the captain spoke louder, and our pet. setters seemed in better spirits The person who first came or. boa ad had now tsken off his cap, eha'el, and spectacles ; and although he had no whiskers, and had en a skull-cap be cause his head had been shaved, I was too well acquainted with the heads on French coins not to be emtvincea that we had on board no less a personage than Louis Philippe, the proscribed and discrowned King of the French ; and from the respect paid to the lady whom I had seen weeping, I felt certain that she was the aged and unfortunate Marie Amelia, his dethroned Queen. The gentleman whom I ease talking to Captain Goodridge, I found out afterward', was General Dumigny. The King now became talkative, and 1 heard him say that he always felt safe under the English nee. It was the captain's intention, I believe, to proceed to Southampton; but it was the earnest wish of his Majesty to he landed at Newhaven, on the coast of Sussex. He said he knew the coast well, and he had confidential friends in the neighbour. hood. When we got outside the harbour the sea was exceed ingly rough, the wind blew hard, and the vessel tossed and heaved violently, which made all the party in the saloon very ill. The King became very unwell, and worse than any of the rest, and was repeatedly held by the steward oa his knee. The Queen, with a lady attendant, entered the ladies cabin about 10 o'clock. A bed was made on the floor of the saloon for his Majesty. The other gentlemen and servants were very ill, and were lounging about in different parts of the saloon. None of the party undressed, not even the Queen. About midnight we were nearly run down by a large brig. No vessel ever had a more narrow escape ttan ours. We wire within three or four yards of the brig. Fortunately we were going at about half speed. Tne noise and con fusion on deck arising from this disaster aroused the pas eengers. Her Majesty rushed out from her cabin into the silken exclaiming •• Oh! where is my dear gentleman! Oh! where is my dear gentleman !" The King endeavoured to console ker. She embraced him affectionately, crying bitterly, and talked to him, lamenting that his dangers were not yet once, u ass itlettanding the many he had escaped. The King was much affected and he wept and subbed Tio. lently. Her Majesty was implored U. return to her Cabin, but she thalami' tha• she would no' again leave the King, and she lay down by h:s side on the floor of the saloon during the remainder of the night. I sLould observe that the cx-King and Qaeen spoke prin. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1848. advantages might be pointed out. With respect to ohjec• dons, it may oe stated that a free government has nothing to fear from a frugal, industrious, and saving class of indi• viduals. Such a body can never orm a "dangerous clams." In order to prevent fictitious voters, imprisonment with hard labour, besides fining, could be awarded to persons seeking to create same ; but to be Just, the " tempter and the tempted" should be punished alike.—ONE WHO 18 NOT A VOTER. ;--- INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—DF.ATII FROM SWALLOW- I INO COAL Gas.—By Mr. Baker, at the Royal Oak, Mar- 1 garet-street, Hargerstone, on the body of D. Chambers, aged 5.5.—W. Pals, a paper-hanger, said that on Monday I afternoon, about 2 o'clock, he was at work at No. 2, Bath place, Cambridge-heath-gate, when the deceased called to repair the gas pipe that communicated from the main to the I house. Ile had opened the ground about four feet in length and two feet deep, and had almost finished connecting the pipe, when he won suddenly overpowered and fell back. He asked for somehrandy,and stated that he had swallowed some of the gal. He observed that he had been nearly in the saute state on other occasions, but that he knew now he should never recover. Information was sent to the Imperial Gas Factory, upon which some men were sent and he was conveyed to his home in Margaret-street. Mr. T. R. Mor gan, surgeon, Hackney.fields, a tended on deceased, who was insensible. Witness prescribed for and bled him, but without effect, and he died about four o'clock the following morning. Death was the effect of inhaling the gas, which produced cerebral and pulmonary congestion.—The foreman of the jury remarked that whire there was danger in the cutting and reconnesions of gas-pipes two men ought to be employed by the company.—Mr. Richardson, inspector of the out-door department in the service of the company, stated that the deceased was used to the work he was en gaged upon, and that since the establishm,nt of the com pany, which had existed 30 years, this was the first accident that had occurred.—Verdict, "Accidental death from in haling a quantity of gas ; and the jury recommended that at such work two men should be employed instead of one." not have made head-way against an ordinary tide in the Thames. The blunder is a serious one for the nation, (or it has oast in the case of the thrze vessels at least 9,0001., and it is the more inexcusable, because Maudslay, Seaward, and Ditchburn, had previously built iron-screw steamers, which, with a small amount of power, had averaged seven, eight, nine, and even in one or two cases twelve, knots an hour. What the remedy for these errors and blunders is to be it is hardly within my province to inquire. The facts are DIN before the select committee, and it is for them to de►ise such a remedy as will meet the evils thus brought under your notice by—A DUCILTAILD IRELAND. DUBLIN, MARCIE 14. Your Sunday papers would amuse, if the matter were not too serious for jest. They describe the situ ation of Ireland as " most alarming," sad dignify the follies of the Confederation with the high-sound• sag titles of " proclamations." Such stimulants may force readers, but they dishonour truth. There is really no ground whatever for apprehension, notwith standing the magnifying gasses through which every thing at present in Ireland is seen at your side of the Channel. There is not and has not been a single vio lation of order in any part of the kingdom since the accounts of the French revolution. The address of the Chamber of Commerce to his Excellency, pledging the subscribed gentlemen to co operate with the executive in the maintenance of order, bears the honoured name of " Leinater." Preliminary steps are being taken for prosecuting Mr. Mitchell, the proprietor of the United Iriehnint, and the affidavits tor grounding a warrant for holding him to bail are in preparation. An important circular has been issued from the Poor Law Commission office. In consequence of the labour required at the present season for the cultiva tion of the soil, and the influence which the continu ance of out-door relief might have in the restriction of available labour, the commissioners deem it ad visable to suspend, on Saturday next, all orders for temporary relief to the able-bodied destitute. They have written to the inspectors to report on the matter as soon as possible. The Orangemen are once more lifting up their heads. They come, of course, with professions of the most devoted attachment to the throne and the altar, not without inclinations to " ascendancy in church and state," whose days are long buried with the memo rials of Orange turbulence. These skeletons of '9B are creeping out in small clubs, and getting up ad dresses to the Earl of Clarendon ; but he has no faith in their professions, and will not accept the million men in buckram promised last night in Whiter: iars street. The confidence of the community is a beaer foundation for order than Colonel Phayre's moonshine battalions. A heavy record is now being tried at Limerick,' " The Queen against Col. Wyndham." The real plaintiffs are the town commissioners of Ennis, who have brought a seine finite to repeal a patent granted to the late Earl of Egremont, by William IV., in 1833. The filets briefly are these : By an old patent to the Earl of Thomend, whose representative the Earl of Egremont was, a market was to be held every Monday in Ennis. The practice was, for many years, to hold the market on Saturdays, and the Earl of Egremont, like his predecessors, received and applied the tolls. The commissioners disputed the right to to consequence sot be disturbed. Should, however, unfortunately, this nut be the owe, I am well aware of the resplasibility that will be imposed epos me, and nothing that a sense of duty dictates shall then be neglected for the suppression of outrage and the maintenance el public order and tnoguillity. A numerous crowd of persons had assembled in College green in expectation of seeing the procession, amongst whom were several of the student. of T.C.D., who walked up and down, in their caps and gowns, and were lustily and heartily c. eered by the populace. The student•, haring been disappointed in their pro- cession to the Castle, pros:soden to parade round the statue of William 111., opposite the college, and raised the usual cries. This produced hooting from the crowd about the green, and the authorities thought it pruper to confine the students, and c:ose the college gates fur some hours. No rioting, however, took place. The horse-police paraded before the college, and at Hee o'clock all was again com posed, and the gates were open as usual. SCOTLAND. EDlNnunctt, MARCH 14. Ever statistical, the Glasgow prison authorities have been catechising the late rioters entrusted to their keeping, and the information elicited throws . . _ . ate light on the origin of the late divturbancea : Number of prisnnen 64, of whom 20 have been convicted, and 44 are untried. Ages—eighteen and under, 14 ; above eighteen and under twenty-fire, 27; twenty-five and under thirty, 11; thirty and upwards, 12. Nativity—Scotland, 24; England. 2; Ireland, 36; foreign, 2. Married, 20; Single, 44. Employed, 38 ; unemployed, 26. Occupations: labourers, 23; weavers, 10; shoemakers, 5; blacksmiths, 2; tailors, 2; joiner, 1 ; moon, 1 ; cotton spinners, 2; miscella neous, 18. Education—Cou read well, 2i; can read with difficulty, 19: cannot read at all. 20. Religion—Protestant, 34 ; Roman Catholic, 26 ; Unifarion, 1 ; none, 3. MrRDISIL OP A CHILD HY ITS FATHER.—A young wo man, residing at loglismaddie, had been the unfortunate dupe of a man named Robertson, a fle.m servant, to whom she had borne two children. The mother being unable to support both of them, Robertson undertook the charge if the youngest, for whom he said he had procured a decent person as nine, who resided at Craieend ot Careston, a small hamlet close by Findowry. With this assurance the unstop. cling mother consented to part with her child, and brought it to the house of one of Robertson's sisters, where he was in waiting. He immediately carried the infant away, under pretence of going to the nurse. A week or so alierwards the mother felt anxious to know how her child wee doing, and made a journey on purpose to the person whom Robert son bad named as having charge of it ; but the woman nei ther knew Robertson, nor anything of the child. The another then requested of her seducer to know with whom the child was living, when Robertson, taking the poor woman aside, made the awful disclosure that he had mur dered the infant, and buried it in a drain near Findowry. After Robertson's fearful disclosure of his crime, the mother and her brosher hurried home to Inglismaldie, and set the police to search for the body, which they, as Robertson had described, round tolled among a qu.intity of straw, and stuffed into the mouth of a field drain. Robertson was arrested. He is • young man from 26 to 30 years of age, and has rather a prepoesesaiog appearance.—Montrose Standard. PROVINCIAL. LANCAHIIRE. PETITIONS AGAINST AN ECCLESIASTICAL COURT.— Yesterday, at the Manchester Town Council meeting, peti- , lions were adopted by a majority of 23 to 11, to both houses of parliament, praying " that no ecclesiastical court may he established in the new diocese, with jurisdiction to grant probates, or letters of administration ; or in causes for uthes, rates, or dues of any description, or matrimonial causes, or for the punishment of what is called heresy, or for defame tion and (or the establishing of civil courts instead of eccle siastical courts, for regulating and deciding cases of the de scription above enumerated." The majority (says a corre spondent) would have been much greater, had it been atoll meeting of the council ; and the minority would have been smaller, but that some of the minority objected to the exemp tion of Manchester only, and expressed an opinion that other dioceses should be included. or none. THE LATE RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS AT MARCHES ren.—YeAterday, the adjourned hearing by the magistrates of charges against the parties apprehended for the late dis turbances in Manchester, took place, when one of the pri soners was discharged with a reprimand, three were required only to find bail for future peaceable behaviour, and four were committed for trial at the neat sessions, for an assault on a policeman. A LABOUR SUBSCRIPTION.—The inhabitants of Patricruft have lately erected a commodious and substantial building, to answer the purposes of a mechanics' institution, of day schools for boys and girls, and an infant school ; the total cat of which amounts to about 8.501. The greater part of that sum has been raised by subscription among the friends of education ; but still a debtremained of about 150/. with out any apparent means fer discharging it. Uu Friday last, the nuns, roue workmen in the engineering establishment of Messrs. Nasmyth, Gaskell, and Co , Bridgewater Foundry, held a meeting, for the purpose of devising the means for liquidating the debt, when they came to the resolution that, with the consent of their employers, they would work a quarter of a day overtime each day during tie fortnight following, and hand the proceeds over to the treasurer of the building ; thus at once evincing their hearty sympathy with the object of the institution. The ins itutvin will, by this praiseworthy act, be at once cleared from incumbranee. 'IIIE STEAMER BANSHEE.—This vessel, recently built in London for the royal mail service between Holyhead and Kingstown, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday after a rapid run of four hours from Holyhead. She made the pas sage (ram Milford to Holyhead in seven and • half hours. It in said that the Admiralty intend in a few days to place the Banshee and the St. Columb on the station between Liver pool and Kingstown, in lieu of two of the present steamer-, which will be sent to Woolwich to refit, and that then will continue to carry the mails until the wooden jetties and other improvements now going on in Holyhead harbour for their accommodation are completed. WORCESTERSHIRE. COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—Major T. C. Brock to be Lieut-Col , vice Coo • T. Clown ' wj E., late captain in the Bth or King's 'tent. of'Foot, to be Major, vice T. C. Brock ; li. Giles, gent., to be Ensign ; H. Gil a, gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Jeffries, who resigns the Assistant-Surgeoncy only—in the Worcestershire Begt. of LINCOLN ELECTION. Yesterday the nomination took place at Lincoln of • member to succeed Mr. Char!es Seely, who was unsea'ed for bribery and treating. The proceedings commenced at the Guildhall, but were adjourned to the new covered market. T. M. litywo ih, Esq., merchant, proposed Thos. B. Holthouae, Esq., seconded by Mr. W. Andrew. The mayor, W. Marshall, Esq.,nominal d L. C. Ilumfrey, Esq., seconded by Mr. C. Wari.—Mr. liobhause having declared himself for extensive Ti forms, and Mr. Humfrey for a con servative policy, Mr. Seely addressed the electors on the cir cumstance of his debat. On a show of hand•, a large majority appeared on the part of Mr. llobhouae, there not being more than one hundred for Mr. Humfrey; the sheriff declared the choice to have fallen on the former, and a poll was demanded for the latter. The number of electors on the register is just 1,300, which is 33 more than at the last election, of whom 1,092 voted. But there are at least 100 whose name• are twice entered, b ing both freemen and householders. There are, also, several deaths and legal disqualifications, so that probably not 1,100 will vote. The contest is expected to be a close one. TILE INCOME-TAX AND MILITIA CIUESTIoNs. A public meeting of the opponents of the income tax, war, and the calling out the militia, was held last evening at the Gate-house Tavern, Highgate. The chair was taken hr bar. Ashu rat, in the absence of Mr. B. Osborne, M.P., who was unable to attend The chairman having made some introductory observations, Mr. T. Smith moved the first resolution : That:Alin meeting is of opinion that taxation, to be economical, should be direct : that property anti income should be lazed upon just and equitable principles, and that all should contribute according to their means; bu , tli..t the present income tax is unjust and unequal, beeause it makes sin difference between the income derived from pro- perty which !Weis, its possessor and the uncertain inerme derived from personal industry, and applies the Fame rate of deduction from the small income a, from the large—taking 3 per een:. from the Ile/. per annum, and 3 per cent. only from the 10,0001. per amium. The Rev. Mr. Birch seconded the resolution. He urged the preservation of its constitution as being the great safe guard for this country, and was opposed to the income tax and the raising of the militia, because he conceived them to be illegal nod unjustifiable measures.—The resolution was adopted.—Mr. Newman then moved, and the Rev. Mr. Lynch seconded, the following resolution : That it is usnecessary and unjust, whilst a standing army has been preserved during 33 years of peace and is stilt nuiimaimel. to isacrewe the expenditure of the country by calling out the militia and pre paring for war. This resolution was also adopted, and likewise a petition to parliament in accordance with the opinions expressed. The proceedings then terminated. ROYAL HUMANE SOClETT.—Yeltertlay the annual festival in aid of the funds of the above society took place at Freemasons' Hail. The Duke of Norfolk t..ok the chair, supported by the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the Bishop of Madras, the Dean of Westminster, B. Homes, Esq., M.P., and about 200 gentlemen, supporters of the society, or guests united its co .sequence of their successful exert:ons in saving human life, From the report it appeared that during the past season 22,500 persons had ventured on the ice in the parks, and that out of that number nineteen were immersed in the water, but subsequently saved by the exertions of the men in the employment of the Humane Society. A long list of subscriptions was read, the sum total of which amounted to nearly 6001. On " The Health of the Member& of the House of Commons" being proposed, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey returned thanks, but pointed out Mr. B. Hawes as the most distinguished member of the house present. He mid that if gentlemen present had wit nessed the reception which his hon. friend had that morning received on his return to the house they would have had no GOVERNMENT STEAMERS ANI) THE hesitation in selecting the most distinguished member pre- COM MITTEE ON THE NAVY. sent to return thanks for the House of Commons,—Mr. B. Sir,—The attention of the select committee tip- Hawes being loudly called for said, that the fact of hie hay- po • pointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the navy ing a seat its the House of Commons was mainly owing to estimates will, no doubt, be directed, amorgst ether things, the letters of recommendation which his noble friend had to the system at present pursued by the Admiralty in build sent to the Roman catholic clergymen in Kinsale and its ing steam-veraels. so many instance& having recently occurred neighbourhood. The usual procession of persons saved from in which vessels built both at our dock yards and by eon were drowsing then took place, after which the honorary medals distributed. tract (from the designs of government surveyors and en gineero) have turned out most lamentable failures. You BATAS AND WASTE-HOUSES von THE LABOURING have already referred to the failure of the Amphion steam- CLASSES. —Yesterday, a meeting of the committee and sup- frigate, as far es her machinery is concerned, and of the porters of the above undertaking for the benefit of the la- immense loss entailed upon the country by that single Mr bowing daises in the north-west district of the metropolis, ctunstanee. This, however, is only a s7secanien of a wholesale was held at the instituti in, in George-street, Euston-square, system of mismanagement, resulting, in some instances, in far for general business. The Rev. W. Dodsworth, M.A., in more serious tomes to the nation. The Janus is the chair. The general report stated that the institution another example of this kind, built some years sine was opened in August 1846, cad that its statistical and Oman- at Chatham, trim the designs of the Earl of Dundonald : cial progress up to the present period was highly satisfactory. she has remained ever since completely useless, and not only The number of persons who have availed themselves of its has the whole cost of her hull, machinery, and fittings been bench's are upwards of 179,000 male and female bathers, thrown away, but thevarioun alteratioss made in herengieee and 56.287 poor women have washed, dried, ironed, and the expense of docking and undocking, costs for numerous mangled the linen of themselves and families, to the average experimental trials, expense; of towing from one port to of nearly two millions of articles. The society is indebted for another, &c., &e.. have probably run away with as much loan and liabilities on account of the building fixed, to the money as would suffice to build and equip an ordinary amount of 815/.; when this isliquidated,the establishment will steamer for the packet service. The Trident is another es. be self-supporting. The receipts for the past five weeks ending ample. This steamer, of 350. horse power, was built about the 12th MM. amounted to 154/. its. 4d. • the expenditure to two years since, and her first and only service was that of 1 lel. Is. 7d., leaving • profit on the working of 351.135. 9d. being placed at the disposal of Lieutenant Waghorn to con- The donations during the same period were upwards of 60/. vey his overland despatehea from Alexandria to Trieste. The The increase of bathers during the same period (five weeks) Trident got as far FS Gibraltar, where her machinery gave corresponding frith the same month last year, was 1,253, way, and after being temporarily repaired she re and that of the washers, &c., 3,356. The building still re- turned to Woolwich, where she has remair.cd ever quires additional accommodation to provide for the increased since. During the whole of the period, therefore, that demands made by both bathers and washers, fir which the this vessel has been built—viz., two years, the service she has New River Company have most liberally granted an eaten- performed amounts to a run of some five or six days, as far !ion of ground, as soon as the r,ecessary funds for that par. as Gibraltar, beyond which she was unable, through the in pose are raised. The usual routine busice-s being trans- efficiency of her machinery, to proceed. It is perhaps acted, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting rather dangerous to enter into statistics without definitive separated. data to proceed upon, but it is Probable that the expense of THE ADDRESS FROM THE COLLEGE. TIIE Monet. M.P.—He lodges in Parliament-street, fitting, lass o ff capital, salaries of officers and wages o ft crew, The provost, fellows, el an— students, were just issuing from hut has his letters addressed to the Garrick or Fteform Club. during the me this vessel was in commission, wh the the college gates toe:lay, to proceed in a body to the Castle, to He enters the house invariably before prayers, and only interest on capital and deterioration of hull and machinery, presenttheir loyalanddifliful address to Lord Clarendon,when leaves it with the Speaker. Ho never misses a Wednesday. cannot be estimated at less than 6,0002, a sum sufficient a mounted orderly rode up and delivered to the provost ade He even attends on a Chisholm-Anstee night, or when the again to build and thoroughly fit out a steamer of 70-horse %patch, intimating that his Excellency would decline to re- Danish claims are brought forward. He is every great man power. Close by the Trident lies at the present moment eeive so large a body, or to s inetion the excitement which at the hustings, making the most lavish threats to amend the Myrmidon, another iron steamer of smaller size must necessarily be felt by its progressthrough the streets. The the constitution aud atop the supplies ; hut eotashow, when than the former, the history of which is pre. heads of the college, it is understood, proteste d . against this he gets into the house, he sinks into one of those hon. mem- cisely of the same character. This vessel hes per- interference with what they claim as " a right," namely, to be who= voice is always inaudible in the gallery. He rises formed a few months' service on the coast of Ireland, arid proceed in procession to the Castle ; but, under the circum occasionally, but sits down directly if any other member was sent from Portsmouth to Woolwich some 6 months stances, they elected to comply with his Excellency's re riees with him. He is not very ambitious, seldom going be- since as unfit for service. She was one of a batch of five iron quest. Accordingly, at 1 o'clock, e.m., a deputation, emn yond a " laueh." His favourite flight is to count Oct the steamers of 150. horse power each, built as ° despatch boats." posed of the provost, with several fellows, masters, &c., house on a Derby day. He has not a large conscience. She was commissioned in the early part 4;41846, and has con: waited on his Excellency at the Castle, fur the purpose of 'He votes unremittingly w ith „,,,,,,,,,,..,. an d ha , I n a sequently been built about two years and a half. The loss presenting an address, tendering their cordial =operation ' reward in a gracious bow tome ord John, and occasionally in her case may be estimated (et least) at three or four to his Excellency in the preservation of order and tranquil = invitation to dinner, when be is quite proud to see his thousand pounds. The looses in the case of the Trident and lity in the city. The deputation having been ushered into name in print, and despatches innumerable copies of the Myrmidon are estimated at the very low sum of 9,000/, or the presence, the vice-provost, Dr. Hall, proceeded to read paper to his constituents. He bas a profound veneration for 10,000/. ;but it must be boron in mind that this lose is stated the following address, which, together with his Excellency'. the British Lion, and loves to display his classical know- on the supposition that these steamers are still effective, and admirable reply, we subjoin. ledge by applauding every little bit of Letin and Greek. He that with a slight outlay they may yet be put in proper order "Nee it rums,: SOUS Excet.itscr,—We, the undersigned dnetore, masters, and other members of the University of Dublin, being of is deeply skilled in the parliamentary gamut, which he can to enable them to render efficient service to the state run up and down with the zoological flexibility of a Von Should this unfortunately not prove to be the ease (end rginii i , n n . r . t. t i a t t is s i t n i e . f e etten en t i r t r loyal subjects . o a f re hg u tdajosty t t : Joel, from a crow is C major to a donkey in D ,It . He is there is too good reason to fear this will be the result), the the passions of the unreflecting and m dtgect p ed, desire to aufsi m ire year an easy victim for a committee, and takes a pride in attend- loss may be doubled, trebled, or even quadrupled, according excellency, that whilst we nstain from pronouncing any opinion on to the extent of the sacrifice that may be made. Another resent political changes in France, we protest energetically ageing all ing the deputations of the Commons before the Lords. He is • stern upholder of the etiquette of the house, and is fond example of a still more glaring kind of mismanagement atte i t i opt t t ‘ii:duce t i r c oreica government to m i terlere, directly or Jodi of summoning innocent printers before the bar, or of lone- occurs in the case of the Riflemen, Sharpshooter, Minx, and j TM'c uak y i l l to the ihterte. c of al l` twee ,... e lln ntrhri-hhlt.lsn'e,,to7nuleelnu, se ma= cerating Irish members in eoalholes, for contempt. He ex- Tearer, four vessels propelled by screw machinery, the gunge which is calculated to diminish the *Mort ence with which Chet.- Sharpshooter and Minx being of iron end the Rifleman and Linemen one good citizens regard violence and bloochhed. That we have acute the little errands of his party, and on an emer- Tearer of wood. These vowels were built in 1846, the Riff .- full onngdence in your Excellency's e i-dom, an I bathe emotes o her geney acts as whipper-in. He sups ri gularly at Bel man and Sharpshooter having engines of rather more than Majestts government, in suppowing in,urrection and outrage ; anti lamy's, where his profound knowledge of chops we hereby declare our readmee to reader all the aid m our power to and steak' is highly respected, and his calla for 200 horse power, and the others of rather more than 120- the authorities in the preservation of public peace and elder. horse power. The history of these vessels affords a rather When t n he l aldress was read, his Excellency returned the " lemon peel " inetantly attended to. The clerks and door keepers look up to him as a clock, and put on their great melancholy example of bad management. After being the sub efts of numerous experiments at Woolwich, the Sharp a d N d f o li o 1 r r ..... . P r I v which !in : cl — lG e_ntle . m e en„— ore l thank .u., v . ou a mnet .. cordially for l t ht i , : coats and comforters immediately they see him come out. from In prieate life the Model M.P. attends public meetings, and shooter is declared to be the only serviceable vessel ; the seconds all sorts of charitable resolutions for the blacks, and engines of the Rifleman are found to be nearly twice the fact jilt yo ur ;,,,,', T T, Mg,";... tc. . ntst 2 tn : na nd ter ' fe f e o n ta ne in po m lio. , questions; and the exception you now make to that rule philanthropic expeditions up the Niger. He has 'been size they ought to have been. She is being fitted with the known even to take the chair at a benevolent dinner, when enines of the Teazer, of nearly half the power of her own I proves tat you justly estimate the circumstances in which the Duke of Cambridge has been absent by indisposition. en gines; and the Tenzer, built originally for a clipper mot ro them . ~ Like you, I entirely diectaim all pretensions we are placed, and that you are determined becomingly, to He subscribes liberally to hospitals , to all charities, mock steamer, is to be converted into a kind of lighter. of and real, to every new testimonial, and is too happy to for-though we cannot but sincerely and heartily wish that the changes lemntly made in France may lead to a prceperous issue, and that the Minx no: hin g is known except that she is a dead '"" P nu °tun.. on the any olbo'r 'nit"?' ward any absurd plan with the full strength of his two ini- failure, and remains idle at Woolwich. Thus, out I flak. He reads every newspaper, and dies in the poesession of four steamers, which probably cost about 60,0002, I they may consolidate the social happiness and tranquillity of a great onl one is an ordinarily e ff ective vessel. It is I pion, so tong and ao r ely intim connected with the progress of ht. Of his seat, very obscure, but universally regretted by the stated, n , I , i authority, that the cost of docking • telligenee and civill:ation . ve loyal subject, every man who party who has had his vote for the last fifty years.— Punch. o If '. • has a spark a [...ti c f the -,a - • ...., La Hogue , which has been for some months in a private li join ,,,. . eor nati honour and in SAVINGS BANK VOTERS.—Sir,—At a time when dock at Bfackwall, having her stern altered in order to be '''''' Y" ll ' ti'vel.tihe all attempts, come hon watt ' , Dane? they may, to induce a foreign government to interfere is the stairs of the public require an increase in the suffrage, which the fitted with a screw propeller, is 10/. per diem, the govern- this country. It is ini ibl not to view with abhorrence and die` conservatives object to on the ground that it would put ment it is alleged not having a single dock in all the 1 gust the efforts unceasingly made to excite the prelims power into the hands of the needy and unscrupulous, will various yards at their disposal. Some years since the of the people : and • stimWate them to sets of violence, in you allow me t h e uggest that the wishes of the one and the Admiralty gave orders for the building of three stcam. i r „. ..V.k)61111 dip Wild of the injury they may cause throughout having engines i for whatever objections of te other might be met by giving a vote to sloop., to be propelled by screw machinery, to be named 1 .1 0, rh, 10 ' 4 7 , 4 , but MOTO sp e cially to t the labouring visovns, erN i are a m mit interested e maintenance of order, every individual who, for six months prior to the period of the Niger, the Conflict, and the Encounter, feeling of isisecunty, or leads to the with eleetiOn, possessed a deposit of la. in • savings bank. This respectively of 400, 400, and 360-korse power. The Niger , drain' of capital, or esjaas fi oa o f ,b.p. t. I s j o y me cj a t e t, ua l mom seven*, felt by thow whose dailY ':eead, and that of their rani would much increase the suffrage, and also put it in the was built from the designs of 3dr. 0. Lang, master builder ! power of the bulk of the people, by exercising frugality, to of Woolwich dockyard, the Conflict from those of ; liee, depends'epon their labour, than by any others ; and if, owing to come voters. c oun try, lnvduals with 101. in the savings bank Sir William Symonds, and the Encounter from 1 a state of things which popular tumult is calculated to be atout, have a stake in the on a greater one, perhaps , compared . those of Mr. Finchatn, master builder of Portsmouth i 7 . 0 _ , , t.5a ( rem in hand are suspended, or even a single day's wage. with their incomes, than a richer man possessing 1,000/, dockyard. These three vet cols have all since been bulk and i eete ° , s he hl i. Poorer w c,:...l.;. ,, of c oir f e fioe.onn i itryr t e t ri i. it can b n u c t l ayr wage with of your confltknce, and the - ~:t• r of your Consols. The advantages of thus extending the suffrage launched, and the Conflict indeed has had her machinery would be, that it would promote toa great extent the viruses of fitted, when all atones it is found necessary to alter UM ', Bum" may be looked mmn as almost univereal • while the people frugality, temperance, and iiv:Austry among the working classes hulls of all these vesseis. They have accordingly been takers i should alwaye beer in m, that punishment usullly fele , upon the exis —persons would have a double motive to save. The money into dock, the whote of the after-run of the vessels cut away, I nous' Pepwtrators of outrage, rather than upon thee, on whom rests 'i tu titi:Z zd' eer b ir tw io kk fL o'ing an! a a be ‘ i tsm tin lt'P g 'n'a tla g ena o l f l'inf thazi: l"ul. y:u e si cir ncer "un ely - , spent in public-house pOLtice, if laid by , would give a person and the vessels ttamselves lengthened bodily. The reason I gentlemen, for the ern Uag I 'elf, but the means at the disposal , ! tae wavernment are antlii, emis!ance, of which if It should be necessary, I stise gtud.y avail my a vote in a year or two, to the .rreat saving of the eperatire's for these alterstions is sufficiently obvious. The govrinment health, money, and respectability. Betides, when a person builders ha , l been ,ceustomed only to build stc.mers pro had begun to save, money for one purpose he would grade- palled by t.sildles, and were utterly jinni ant of the theoryupon touticirut for suppreesing any attempt to disturb the tranquillity ed ally get into the, habit, and thus, instead of being next door vrhictis screw-propelled steamer should be cons a ructed. They I heohne and lio e ta ta DO ODD WOO would MOM deeply lament or be tolieggaly all. his life, would accumulate a little fund, sufhi- hr.ilt their vessels with bluff square sterns, Seel experimental 1 r. , ,... , ',1 r . , : , :•_... ! ;_, e, base recount. to such means Ilmll Sri; their ciest, ase the LP tb'e event of being thrown out of work or of sick - 'trials have demonstrated that all screw st'eamers must have I anhoist r„.:,- be: eve that that irue int< . ta w will ° :ise superi or V to lr i l he evil oui , s. to S'epport himself until better times. It would also I very flue after-runs. Had these vessels peen hoed in their I coun.els they have received—that they will aot be m ale the dupes enlist s'ach voters iu the caused order and peace. Many °thee previous condition, lam juatflied in 'Saying that they could WA the TICINO of those wise seek tio dela= am., ea 4 *at aria wilt levy tolls on Saturday, whereupon the late earl memo rial-iced the government, and a patent was made out by William IV. authorising the holding of a market every day in the week in Ennis, with right of toll. The town commissioners say the patent is founded on misrepresentations, and consequently invalid. The trial is likely to be a protracted one. A gentleman from the north informed me that the " Ribbonmen" were determined to march in all their force on Patrick's-day. One good will result from this display—that the disturbers, having emerged into public light from the lodge and tke pot-house, will be noted, watched, and in good time punished, for their audacity. These foolish criminals form a very dangerous element in society. The commercial correspondent of the Freeman states, that the stagnation of business, including al most every branch of trade, is complete. " There is a general feeling of uneasiness and apprehension both in reference to the general position of affairs in a poli tical point of view abrcad, as well as of disturbance and not in this country, and the necessary . consequence of this indefined feeling of insecurity is a complete paralyzation of mercantile operation.' , Very little would tend to aggravate the growing distrust into a wide spread panic. THE DUBLIN CORPORATION. At the meeting of this body to-day, an address of sym pathy with the French people, on their recent triumph, was proposed and passed, not, however, without protest on the part of the conservative members. The address was pro posed by Mr. M. O'Connell, bI.P., and seconded by Dr. Carolan. The latter gentleman is a Young Irelander. The address studiously and of purpose avoids any approval of the principles of republicanism in government, and is con fined to approval of the triumph of popular principles over those of ilespotism, as exemplified in the latter years of the reign of Louis Philippe. It is to be presented in Paris by such members of the corporation as shall please to proceed on such a mission. Before the council rose, Mr. Alderman Hudson asked the Lord Mayor whether the government had hail any commu nication with him as to the preservation of the peace oa Friday next. Much alarm was felt out of doors lest the peace should be disturbed, and though he (Mr. H.) was convinced that no more than a riot, if any breach of the peace, would occur, still. he wished to know whether the Lo d Mayor would think it necessary to take any steps in consequence of the demonstration.—The Lard Mayor said the government bad not made any communication to him. lie did not dread any disturbance or breach of the peace. Me was as confident there would be none, as be was of his existence. Notwithstanding, and to quiet all alarm —though he repeated there was ground fur none—he would attend on to-morrow and swear in all citizens who presented themselves and were ready to afford their aid in preserving the peace.—Alderman Gavin said the coalheavers, corn porters, and persons of that class, he could pledge himself, would be assisting in keepina she peace. CARLISLE_ ELECTION. The polling commenced on Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, and continued with great spirit. Mr. Hodg son heading the list until four o'cleck, when the numbers were Hodgson (tory) Howard (liberal) 414 Dixon (liberal) M'Douall (chartist).... An extraordinary edition of the Carlisle Journal says: It was evident, almost front the first, that in consequence of the lamentable division in the liberal camp, Mr. Hodg son's return at the head of the poll was almost certain. A considerable number of the liberal party, in the early part of the day, divided their votes between Mr. Dixon and Mr. Howard, and this course of proceeding continued, with comparatively trifling exceptbms, until put one o'clock— many hoping, even against hope, that there was a chance for securing the two seats. But the " split " had done its work; and it then became a struggle between the liberals for securing to their res pective favourites the seat. Many pro crested to" plump ' for Dixon or for Howard, as the caw might be. At this period Mr. Howard was a n head of Mr. Dixon, and the further progress of the struggle was watched with intense interest. Bands of music and banners were paraded about all parts of the town, and the streets were much thronged by canvassers and lookers-on ; but all went on in extreme good humour. A second edition nt the Carlisle Patriot states that soon after 4 o'clock the successful candidates and th, it friends, and Dr. M'Douall, repaired to the hustings to be present at the mayor's declaration. The crowd in front was immense -12,000, at the least; and the pressure even upon the hustings was almost unendurable. After much dtfflenlty, and a good deal of inconvenience, the maser announced the numbers as given above. The result was received with considerable cheering ou the part of Mr liodgson's support ers, and some little by the persons who immediately sur rounded Mr. Howard. Mr. Hodgson then briefly returned thanks for the honour done him. cipally English during the voyage. lam convinced, from I their conversation, that they knew what had been ping on in Paris since they had left it; and although they did net say much about their family, they were aware that some of their children had arrived safely in England. His Majesty ap peared particularly anxious that his route from Paris to Havre should not be known, and that no ill should befall the kind and devoted friends he had left behind in France, who hod sheltered him, and facilitated his mape from that country. We arrived off the coast of Sussex about sax o'clock in the morning. We had only been going at half speed, and kept dodging about until daylight. The King rose early, and entered into familiar conversation with the commander, called him his good friend Paul, and also with the chief mate. The Captain jokingly asked his Majesty how he should address him on shore, since his passport was made out in the name of " Smith." " Oh, my good friend, Paul," was the reply, "there are no passports in your country." The King seemed greatly pleased to think that shortly both himself and the Queen would be relieved from ell fear and anxiety about their per sonal safety. They both breakfasted about nine o'clock ; they then gave 200 francs to be distributed amongst the crew, and made particular inquiries respecting the children of the commander, and the name of the chief officer, Mr. Goodridge. The heavy box to which I have before alluded was filled with five-franc pieces, which appeared suite new, as if they were direct from the Mint. At ati •ut It o'clock, as near as I can guess, two boats were lewired, into which his Majesty, the Queen, and the attendant: were audited. One of the boots was steered by Captain Paul, and the other by the chief mate. The party was then rowed to the shore, and when the boat, returned the Express was steered for Southampton. CO court. The Duchess of Kent ♦ - isited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and Praire Albert. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne with their company at dinner yesterday evening at Lansdowne House, Berkeley- MUM.. Captain Erskine, It N., had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. A deputation of Commissioners of Property and Income Tax for the Tower Hamlets, consisting of Mr. G. Offor (chairmen), Mr. C. S. Butler, Mr. J. Humphreys, and Mr. T. 11. Block, accompanied by their solicitor, Mr. J. Humphreys, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in I)owning etrect. The deputation was introduced to ,he Right Hon. Baronet by Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., Sir W. Clay, Bart., M.P., and Mr. It. B. Osborne, M.P. WARWICKSIIIRF. BIRMINGHAM AND TILE FRENCH REVOLUTION.- Yesterday a public meeting was held in the Town-ball at Birmingham, for the purpose of adopting an address to the people of France "to (as the placard ran) those brave and generous people who have made so many sacrifices in the cause of liberty ; and to show that you sympathise with all who struggle for freedom, as the interests of all the indus trious classes of all nations are identical ; and also to petition the legislature for a full, fair, and tree representation of the people, as embodied in the document entitled the people's charter. Our motto is political equality and fraternity." At 12 o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. Councillor Bald win. The hall was at thattime well tilled with working men, but between one and two o'clock there could not have been less than nine thousand persons present. The town com missioners, who have the control of the hall, granted it, on application being made for it, with the understanding that the proceedings should not be protracted after six o'clock in the evening : every precaution, too, had been quietly taken for the preservation of the public peace.—Mr. Councillor Bald win, in opening the proceedings, enjoined the people to pre serve order. Ile rejoiced, he said, in the French revolution. l'he French people had trusted in monarchs over and over again, who had deceived them ; and the time came when patience was no longer a virtue. Louie Philippe had de ceived those who had elevated him, and had made himself odious to the people of his own country and to the world. lie rejoiced at this event as well for the French as for the English people, because he felt muted that there could not be a republic in France without the people of England gaining the charter. lf, as he had no doubt, this revolution was tally carried out, the people of this country would be bene fited by it. lie felt certain that but for the French revo lution we should have been saddled with an income tax of a shilling in the pound instead of id. The middle clais would now come forward and assist the working classes in obtaining their just rights. He characterised as genuine nobility of soul on the part of the French republicans the abolishing the punishment of death for political offences, and so far contrasted it with the conduct of the Duke of Wel lington in allowing the life of Marshal Ney to be sacrificed. For his part, he said, he would stand up for the rights of the people ; he deprecated anything in the shape of disorder or tumult, and expressed his firm conviction that the fullest political rights would be obtained by the people of this country without a single drop of blood being shed. A letter from Mr. Scholefield, M.P., was then read—the following is an extract from it: I regret that my parliamentary engagements make it impereible for me to be present I beg, however, to convey the emphatic ex pression of n. sympathy - with the intended mortrag with references to both is objects. Though I should be chargeable with a want of can dour if I disguised my conviction that the Provi-tonal Government of France—honest sad patriotic as I sincerely believe it to he, has com mitted grave errors of economical policy in v me of its late proceed ings, it u impassible to withhold the tribute of ardent admiration of its self-devotion to the great mum of freedom, for which the noble people of that country have made ouch hacrlfices. I ferveaty hope that a victory won by so much courage, and used with so much mo deration, may secure to the people of France (whatever form of go. cerement they may hereafter decide to adopt: ail the advantage. of well-ordered liberty, so long and ee unjustly denied to diem. N ith reference to our own country, we, too, have rightist° claim and rice antes to abate. Happily a perfectly free discuesion leaves , open t.. us at ar sof atiefesa, not liable to the fesirhd nsio± of violent change, alone available to the people of France—means of peace, law, sad order, which, steadily urged and honestly applied, will be intasistible rooms assure the meeting, skOW entirely I go with them for dia. .• full for, and free represcntation " which I am sum they will so 1-.husiastically —Mr. Blialiind, a working man, said: We want the aristo cracy to pay their share of the tales. AU that the head of a family pays to the state is received back by the other branches of it by means of their commissions en the army, the navy, and other departments of the state. We must have a cheap government. We love the Queen, but we =snot afford to pay her so high. For my part, I think no monarch ought to have more than 3),0001. a year. I rejoice that the revcilutionary spirit is spreading throughout Europe. llnagary end Germany are on the verge of a revolution, and the seept:e of Austria totters to its fall. The speaker moved the following resolution : That this meeting halls with pleasure the triumph of democracy in FMK*, and hereby scuds Ito greeting, to those heroic citizens whose noble example must ere long result In the eubversion of nepo.i.s.su throughout the globe. —Mr. Ald. Weston declared his complete concurrence and sympathy in the objects of the meeting. lie rejoiced to find that the whole people of France had emancipated them. selves tram the thraldom of Louis Philippe, who had het i tkred away the rights of the public for the aggrandisement i of his own family, and thereby rendered himself unworthy of the high Soo* IN oceepieL &Inning to the pintoes vs bleb the people of this country were enduring, he said that the money taws were producing starvation amongst the work ing creases here. The triumph obtained by the people of France had been achieved by the union of the working with the middle classes. He hoped that the same union would benefice be e xhibited in England. For his part, he could only say that, having worked his way up, be now came forward to fraternise with the working men, and to go hand in hand with them; be suggested that a covenant should be enttred into, the work ing men not to abuse the middle-class, and the middle elms not to abuse them. Their mutual wrongs were great enough to produce unity, and it they would only carry out that prin ciple, they would win a great deal more than they at pre sent possessed. The resolution was carried amidst much acclamation, and at this moment • tricoloured flag hevin.t been exhibited in the hall, shouts of applause ensued which lasted several minutes. An address to the people of France was then read and adopted, embodying the spirit of the foregoing resolution, after whica Mr. Joseph Sturge came forward, and was greeted with loud cheers. He commenced by observing that he had left France on the previous day. and that the tint notification he received of this meeting conveyed also the its formation that an additional supply of troops had been ordered into the neighbourhood. Now he warned those who relied on physical force and not upon justice. Had they not seen an hundred thousand soldiers in France fly before the people, and forts which were deemed impregnable surrender without a strug gle being made? He, as a quaker, said, thanks to the soldiers who would not light," and he hoped that the day would never again arrive when the soldiery would fire upon a people engaged in peacefully demanding their just rights. Having been one of a deputation to present an address to the people of France through the Provisional Government, Mr. Sturge read the reply of M. Lamertine, and related various anecdotes of circumstances which had occurred in the course of the late revolution. Referring to'the peace question ' he said that M. Arago, the French Minister of Marine, had as stored him that as soon as he had ascertained that Englen would assume no hostile attitude towards the republic, he gave orders that there should be no increise of the French navel armament. lie did not believe (he mid) that there existed any national letling of antip drily to the English, and, re ferrina to the destruction of property in the course of the disturbances, he remarked that it was ascertained to have been the bargemen who destroyed the railway stations, be cause of the injury their trade experieueed by the working of the railways. One of the most beautiful characteristics, however, of the revolution was the determination of the people to preserve life and property ; and he enjoined the thousands who stood before him to form themselves into • sort of police to prevent orischievouz people committing out and depredations upon property. The peesent was • fitting opportunity f.r obtaining the people's charter. The people must not be misled, The fieht hi re was with the oligarchy, and if the maws were only firm and peaceful, and weir efforts well directed, their triumph was certain. — A number of working men addressed the meeting, after which the following resolution was passed That w hula this meeting rejoices at the glorious triumph achieved by French valour, it is at the same time aware of the fact that nearly oven millionsof Bt dons clank the degrading chains of serfdom; and they oonsider that with the bright es:aurae 01 emancipated France to. fore the world the pretest is the accepted time to prevo forward the great moral struggle for the peoples chatter, which, investing all with the panoply at the franchise, would prove the guarantee of na. tloaal prom.. ity, and the best security against the orisuLsitm of ro t volution. —Mr. Councillor Collins moved the adoption of a petition to parliament, setting forth the miseries under :which the people were suffering from class legislation ; that it was inex pedient to tamper with these, inasmuch as there were limits beyond which endurance would not go; and the people's charter was referred to an the only means by which the just representation of the people coul I be obtained.—Mr. John Mason concurred with the sentiments set forth in the peti tion, but contended that the people's charter would never be ca.ried by a House of Commons—it must be carried by the people themselves. He recommended that a national as sembly should be elected at once in this eountry—that it should decide upon the reforms required ; and, if the roiristry refused to make these cabinet measures, that the assembly should at once go to the throne ' itself and settle the differences of the people there.—The speaker read a long manifesto setting forth the grievances of the people, and " the destitution, want, and misery, which is the fate of our meritorious working population." In conclusion the memorial specified the reforms required as the basis and guarantee of property, honour, and national happiness. A somewhat animated discussion took place with reference to the memorial ; ultimately the mover agreed to withdraw it for the present, on the ground that a simulta neous movement to petition was going on throughout the country. The petition was adopted, and the meeting sepa rated orderly at live o'clock, the proceedings having been throughout of a peaceful character. EDUCATION AT EIRMINGLIAM.—At a meeting of the council of Queen's College, held on the sth instant, the Itev. Chancellor Law in the chair, on the motion of the Maur. seconded by the High Bailiff; a re po rt as to the establish ment of a college of arta in connexion with Queen's College was unanimously confirmed and adopted, and it was also resolved that the sub.coretnittee be empowered to draw up a detailed pion of study, and form rules of collegiate disci pline fur a department of arts _ _ ESSEX. . . . . IMFORTANT TO MALTSTERS.—An information, in stituted by the cernmisre ners of excise, was a few days since heard by the magistrates of Dunmore against Mrs. Leonard, of Broxted-hall, charged with having compressed the grain within her malting cistern, by which she had evaded seer tain portion of the legal duty chargeable thereon. The pe nalties were laid at 2001.—Dr. Bateman, solicitor to the Board of Excise, conducted the prosecution.—The facts of the case were that in the mouth of December last an officer of excises went to the defendant's malt house at Bruited, having re ceired notice that some barley was about to be steeped, and on arriving there he found some barley in the cistern which had been recently damped. Ou proceeding to gauge the quan tity,hy inserting a dipping red in it, he could not without difficulty force the rod to the bottom of the cistern. This proved to him that the orders of the commissioners of exciae as to the placing of the barley in the cistern had not been complied with, and he ordered the whole of the grain to be taken out, which was done, having first ascertained the appa rent quantity the cistern contained. Upon being requested to return the barley to the cistern, the defendant's man rctuaed to do so unless it was thrown in in heaps, and the effect of this would be to compress a greater quantity into a smaller space than the law allowed. The man said if he returned the grant iu the manner requested by the othcer he should be discharged. After considerable delay the barley was re turned to the cistern, and on again dipping the officer found a great addition to the quantity. Another malthouse belong. ing to the same defendant was then visited, and with similar results. It was argued on behalf of the defendant that the system of throwing the barley into the cistern so as to occupy the greatest apace was never contemplated in the framing of the act of paid iment, and in a similar case to this at Croy don the magistrates bad refused to convict the parties.—Dr. Bateman replied, and remarked that the decision of the magistrates of Croydon was illegal, and had been so de clared by the judges.—The defendant was then fined iu the penalty of 501. SUFFOLK. EIII'LOYMENT IN NOIitNICII.—A few weeks back we (Bury P.st) stated that there was a strong probability that the spring trade with the hand-loom weavers would be very good. We rejoice to find that in this we were perfectly correct. We have not known it so brisk for many years pest as at present. The going works are chiefly amongst fancy nets, which cannot be moved by steam power. Of thus there arc plenty to be had, and at remunerating prices ; in deed nothing like hands enough can be found to take them. Of other works woven by hand there is also a fair supply; I so that those who are not capable et weaving the more heavy complicated nets are generally employee' on the lighter I works. Good hands are very much in demand. fflustt. SACRED HARMONIC SOClETT.—Mendelasohn's " St. Paul" was performed last evening at Exeter Hell. This oratorio having been frequently performed by the society the choruses were executed on the whole with creditable smoothness, and the solo parts were better sustained than usual, the singers being Miss Birch, Miss Dolby, Mr. H. Phillips, Mr. Lackey, Mr. A. Novella, and Mr. Smythson. Mr. Perry acted as conductor, holding that office ed interim, in the room of Mr. Surman, who hss lately been dismissed by a resolution of a general meeting. A statement has been circulated by the society explaining the grounds on which that resolution was adopted ; Mr. Sermon having, on hie part, previously published a statement com plaining of injustice, which, he alleges, has been dune him. With the merits of the dispute the public are concerned only in so far as it regards the competi ncy of the conductor. On this bead we mar observe that the society has certainly not made that progrets which might have been expected from it. Its performances ore not superior to what they were ten yearn ago ; both the chorus and instrumental orchestra betraying great want of judicious direction and dis cipline. Had these vocal and instrumental performers been professional musicians we should at once have laid the whole blame of their deficiencies on the shoulders of their conductor. But with the members of an amateur society the case is tlifferent—the difference being the tame as that between regulars end volunteers. The latter, not being un der complete control. will not readily submit to the drilling necessary for steadiness and precision. That the conductor of the Sacred Harmonic Society has had this difficulty to contei..l with we have every reason to believe but we believe also that a man of higher musical attainments and greater personal weight would have con tended with it more successfully.- Now that the society are changing their conductor, we trust they will consider that this change involves a Crisis in their affairs, and that they will MIMI, their choice with a due sense of its importance. The electi,n of a new conductor, moreover, is not sufficient. It ought to be accompanied by a set of stringent regulations respecting the admission of prop - into the orchestra and chorus, • • S • ants at every rehearsal, ant ductor's authority. There orchestra may not be an tact are actuated by a right 'spirit the world is to be heard at t' by a bend of three or of the first families of thai it with true German ts the most complete success. Mu. LUCAS'S MUI professor has resumed wiries which h e has giu, r performance of I ' leluunt muter.. The first took plr residence in Berners-street quartet in B Hat, from Op. D ; Mendelmohn's duet for liattoven'e quer et iu were pertortued by Mean. Lucas; and the duet by ' Lucas. A nua.ernu, ai patilild by WI reiima i of properly qualified perlormen orus, and enforcing stricLattand. and implicit sublo,Shn con- ire is no reason an montatir, -' excellent one, p its members spirit. The fines , Z *Meagan lathe " Singing "o /". f Bar. r four hundred la i gmtlantem — -ri . it musics i ty. In gnstboist,....: '''" iarnatness, and )pn usitmil# j . . 1 1 es. 0 . 4. ; : te .1 4 ! . 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