The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-08 00:00:00

Alt it necessary to make some restaria in esseequemee of the bee of argument taken by Mirka& ski teirmigentle- Dan who had jest sat down. The ban. sad burold rea le- L ao had, two-thiids of bita epee* detailed to the h sae those penal laws which had ben repealed years ago. sirepathie• were with the tenant. bat the rights of pre p.m most be nisiotained, and the first principle of the hos. and learned member's bill violated the law of property. The boa. and learned member, while seleocatag the goes hoe of tenant right, had not condescended to explain what t iut was, anil it wu inspiiseible to define what Ulster tenant r e v; wa , tor not only did the tenant right M Ulster differ im ea u, part of the province, but it differed in every &ate, each haying °VII peculiar custom. How, th en , • r to .egaliie Ulster tenant right ? A variable matron could never become law for the whole of the land. is covelesiou, the hoc. member said that English repre natant,' should be cautioiu in sanctioning that prineple "nouly called Tenant Right, which if once adopted In h Ireland. English tenants would insist on being lirpibed to themselves. btu I. I.I.kLL condemned the preeminent bill and at tend luto that elimination of it to detail which visually el, traeteriwa the lieu-sloes only of the house in committee. If thi y voted to allow theme bills to go into committee, it ▪ the understanding that they altogether protested to ing a settlement of the question. BKOTUER lON moved that the debate he ad- Mr GEORGE then nee and attempted to address the bou.,, but eu met with loud cries of " adjourn." Mr. E.ll. ROCHE asked the Chaimnor of the Exche quer xi, as ka er us the house, he could fix a day ea which the ads .urntd discussion should come on. lac CHANCELLOIt of the EXCUEQUER rid he bat IP, clay at evototaad. All that be weld do was to is d.,e...a0 t for this day, which he had dose. Mr M•MA lIUN —la rising for the ant time to adieu It. housw— Mr. UKORGE —I riot to order— Mr. Id OSBOHN kl —And I rise to order. 1 believe the hon. gentleman on the ether aide of the taus is perfectly in order in speaking to the adjournment. Mr. *MAHON said if, in coufurnsity with the usages of the house, be could express his opinion on the sohjetv, he was ready to do so. The question wee of eineme im portance to the welfare of Zr, land and to the welfare of England else. He did not think thit the museum of the Attorney•fieseral for Ireland provided a seaSelest remedy. The tire wureriat bills, es they were told, consolidated, one of them 200 sad the calm 60 sets of parliament. Those 260 rasa parliament were 260 (salutes. They were fail aro. birstem the legislature. in enacting them, looked doily to the interest of the landlord, end neglected the ion nisi eV the other members of the community. These mid arts of parliament interfered with the freedom of con tract—with the treedons of action of both landlord and trust. He begged to suggest that as Mr. Sharman Craw ford's bill was supoieterl by .10 of the Irish members, it ought, n. courtesy to them. and to those whom thee retire. rented, to be sent awaits with the government bills. The ought to be viewed with the eye of statesmen •ho desired the permanent welfare and happiness of the empire. and not with the prejudices of Irish landlords or hiders. (neer, bear.) Mr. LUCAS wished to state what the object of the Irish wen:then was. They found that an examination of the agreement bill, which on the most plau.ible statement had appeared to theta to have been framed fur the purpose sit costiwatieg every particle of tenant property, only showed that it was i iota. ully calculated to promote discord and outrage. They wished therefore to base an ezolanatiou t etr a the night hoe. gentleman before they went back to their enedituents fiat tne recess, in order that they might know •hether they had been mistaken a to the asesnia4 of the measure. It had been said that one estraonhairy passage that occurred three times in the pr,p.ned bills was a printer's error. In his opines the whole was s groin blunder of some one, and be should be very glad to throw the blame on the: twister. (L tug ht. r ) Ile was anxious to take up the question is no party spirit. (Cheers, and cries of "oh.") Be used the words as solemnly as • man could was words ea any subject, when he declared that he would as soon take a yowl scrum from the right hon. gentleman as from any party in the house. (Cheen.) Ile had great hopes ut a tosernment which had cast a so many exploded pr. iudiceson.l obsolete polities ; and he only trusted that they would carry the same good feeling to Ireland (Hear, hear.) He begged to suggest that the debate be adjourned to this day. (Oh.) At all events, whatever evils might result from the government leaving the state. suit in the bon. and learned iserjeant unanswered, and the meaning of their own bill unexplained, the reeponaibi. lily would he thin. (Cheer..) The boast then divided on the question of adjournment. For the adjournment Against it Oa our re-admission to the gallery, 11.. WALPOLE was addressing the home. He said th.t, seeing the little time before the recess, he was willing to accede to a proposition that had been made, for sending too of the bills to a select eommittsc. The other two be desired to see pawed as early as possible. (Meer, hear.) lie seceded to thi. really with a view of settling the goes. hoe, as he saw no chance of making further progress with the hi, belt• the recess. Mr. Eot II hoped the committee would be named as ilr. " N l" A l t h iti,E said he should communicate with the hes. awl harmed gentleman (Mr. Serjeant ghee, so was um. dentoodo with n god to the composition of the committee, tes le to pee • fair pro,.ortion 01 Irish members. Mr. LL:CAS top d that the bill fee giviag leasing power. would &LA. be sent to a select committee, and that the committee would be empowered to take evidence, otherwise they would be legislating in the dark. Mr. GItOUAN was opposed to one of the bills, which he said had been rejected in previous sessions, going before • comuutti e O'FLAIIERTY wished all the bills to go before • commiti.e. mid have evidence taken on the whole. The SPEAKER remiaded the house that they had not aced • day for the adjourned debate , . TMCHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed Tuesday seat. Mr. R. M. FOX said if the Ms meat betas a Went committee they would be no mere beard Odds seeelea. Mr. NAI'IRR said he had intended ie gook just before the adjosuotn-sit was moved, and woe quite prepared to answer the objections of Mr. &Oast lbw Mr. KEOOII said it was moat eatzeogrdireary that the ease teietahe should have crept into all *ems bills. Oa the face of it the present bill wee a esuglete delusion. It wu first laid down that this composaatiai parted of enjoy. secret should be 31 can ; but eappeelog • Meese to have szpvt.ded lila on t he faith of the HMS MlMsisitglassabisie quent clause upon 'victims be yes w leave 40n re tamed to him. The right boa. gesilemeg Odd heave on the night elms he tatsedated these Ihat the boa of thrashed " added many homes out le a NstaaieW Lk no: unemployed." This wee a stagibtiL a Wit i t e bow, and, perheit amie lhe ••grapriati•MO heard of since this Or the Mies VIII ant the Unit remarkable. sew e nii MON he mpg. that the labours added to the ro f We had been supplied by the gligreadmhee of 4:11e• Wit did be say that Menem Owe wee beu• • pamphlet, by Mr. Mho amiallfriettigi Mira, the 2 , 1 of last mob fir. lithe WrMalag mom • gentleman who held the elk* ef asehheeSeearshary in Dublin Csqle), is midst wee bhe Ented Melia fur Whoa, and shoot Mao for lisle, all do feepsdlose of the right hon. gentleman. It was SO me ebald bare been pi un dssed without Mr. 24 API ER odd No ham_ owl pries Ido Ire lo wering the 'twit seeds ea We eireepei*ead Ye beams, as • goattensan—(cheers), sad which, if erould show that he was meat ever to mit la that Irma. Oa him honour as a gentlemen he deshered that ma sties the bill were introduced he war am taw the el Mr. Tube Hamilton—(iced atielseerlei say bills like those ea the tare.ls 1 the year IMO two biota ei li tr a ) ldeerra. Yawn mad Ferguson, wrote a hook Mid* wee yallbehed ander his (Mr. Napier's) superintemdmraj a 114175: 81 0 0 ( the materials of that hook were tandebed by bib beltatry ; sad be found the mmemmile off Seallale mai l as inby page. in dm_ paragiblet of Mr. Oetober, 1832. e. Beat, beer," sad time ) ?he beck contained the subeessee of the bills which bad been under (Incursion— (bear, boar)—and he trusted that that esplana bon vindicated hie character from She charge brought spinet him. Mr. ORE VILLE hoped the bones would not be diverted from the important question of tenant right by personal altereationa—(hear, hear)—and attributed what had just occurred to scone remarks of the fio li zitor•Oeseral for Ire land as • previous ocession. Ho would suggest to the Secretary of State for the Hoes* Department that the second bill ea well as the Bret should be referred to the select committee. I;.4AEici.E said the tassel 00 , 111111•Ife to refer all bills which related to the mate subject, sad that coarse would he followed is the present tastame. Mr. b. OSBORNE thought the persoual bitterness in• turd met the debate that evening was owls' to moo Kaye seed by the Atteeney-Orneral for Ireland on the Prov , om evening. It we. well known that the late govern• awn left in Dublin Castle a measure for the settlement of the quevion, and the hes. and learned member for Athlone, knowing what he did, was justified in suspeißng that that rit , attire had been made use of. (Hear, hear ) IL rein d that a seleet committee was only another way of euttouning the question. Mr. WHITESIDE regretted deeply that matures In tended fur the heriefit of Ireland should be made the subject et personal alienation. He dinned that the bills had not been rutentatted "out of the pigeon-holes of the castle," but ken prepared by Mr. Ferguson, under the supervision of ht, tient hon. fnend the Attorney-o,lmnd. The low elfi n r. of the crown would have explained the bills but for the 'lnc occupied by the hon. and learned member for Mr. EWE protested against the bills being hung up in a select econniiitee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER suggested that as the reference of the bills to a select comintittee had been approved of by the house, this irregular discussion 111 . , tal be put an end to. Seneant SHER wet willing to accede to the appoint ment of a .rivet committee, but hoped it would have power to send for prisms and papers. After some Lecher convermitioe the motion wee 'greed to. The huh were then severally read a woad time, and ' fainted to a i,lect committee. COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL. This bill was reed • third time and pmeed. LETTERS PATENT FOR INVENTIONS. The house went into committee, and passed Sing* raw latione eoeneeted with this subject. The house adjourned at half-past one. the entreM TO CORRIMPONDEITS. 4 demand Mama of " The Lipmees," use eeseinem " Gain*" le pahlimbel seem ! T ull DO; ka blame lee pee. tdmerumeneeem Weeded foe " The Inpreme," Ledge Incentne nem lay tart be et tam inane, 10, Illem by Tee Velma ea tam et pahlamtiee. NIGH WATER • T LONDON BRIDGE. fists Day —Mangos, Ilk. Na....—.....•••m0n. lib. U. Tmuoassw—Noralag. Qt. Oi. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8. Ma utmost possible effect that the Baevrea's Betxier can have on the people's beverage will be to reduce it one farthing a quart. That is its utmost possible effect. But, practically, no such reduction of the retail price of beer will follow the reduction of the duty on malt one-half. For, in the first plase, the maltster will still have all the Excise regulations, obstructions, and expense, to oppose to any re duction of his commodity. In the next place, Brewers having command, power, or influence over their immediate customers, will be in a position to arrest any reduction in its descent to them, and to retain it on their own esta blishments. And in the third place, as the profit at which they insist on tho retailers selling their beer is already so small as to require adulteration on the retailers' part to give them • living, they are in a position. should the reduction ever reach them, to deny it to the public. To palm off, therefore, the reduction of one-half the duty on malt as • benefit to the consumer of beer is the moat transparent fallacy ever perpetrated by any CHANCELLOR of the Exeueututa since the days when VANSITTART used to expect • great in crease of revenue from the rude and raw expedient of increasing any particular tax. But this is only fallacy the first. - For, if the reduction will not benefit the consumer of beer, how can it possibly benefit the producer of barley ? The farmers' friends seek to extend the growth of barley by extending the con sumption of beer. We have shown that no such ex tension of beer consumption will follow the transfer ence of 2,300,0001. of the revenue to the pockets of the master, the brewer, and the publican. But let us assume, for an instant, that the consumers beer will fall a farthing a quart, still the producer of barley will not be stimulated to further production. And for the reason ME. GOULOCRN pointed out; that, in such case, it will be impossible any longer to retain a prohibitory duty on the admission of foreign malt. The lowering of the duty on home malt being accompanied by the opening of our ports to foreign malt, any increased demand for malt will be met, not by an increase of domestic production, but by foreign importation. The same consequence will follow the reduction of the Hop 'fax. It is, we know, the fashion to say that foreign malt is inferior to our own. Perhaps it is at pre sent. But why P Because in England there has not hitherto been any market for foreign malt of a quality equal to our own. Create that market; and the supply from the floe barley lands of Belgium and of Holstein will quickly follow. The Brewer's Budget will not, therefore, give any advan!age either to the consumer of beer or to the grower of barley ; it will throw away two millions and a half to a class which already have a monopoly, and the large profits of a monopoly; and the towns, already under undue contribution to the great brewers, will have to be taxed in their houses, in their acquired property, and in their industry, be cause the most incapable of Chancellors of the Exchequer has been unable to comprehend the plainest principles of political economy and the clearest processes of business. To increase the production of barley in Eogland might be very easily accomplished, without in the least dis turbing the Malt Tax; and we will give the squires a hint on the subject. It is the brewers' monopoly that keeps up the price of beer and limits the growth of barley and hops. The stronghold of the brewers' monopoly is the licensing system. It is by means of hat restriction in the retail vend of beer that the brewers obtain command over public-houses and beer-houses also; it is their command over the houses in which their commodity is dispensed for consumption that enables them to fix its price, and that induces the retailer to adulterate the poor man's beverage. Substitute for the licensing system a proper police system (throwing, of course, the retail trade open), and the brewers monopoly will be broken up; fresh capital will flow into the manufactory of beer; competition in price and quality will follow; consumption will' he increased, and then • stimulus will indeed be given to the growth of barley. But to all this the prejudices of the squires are opposed. No doubt, some of the many imputation. against beer-houses are well founded; though cer tainly not all; probably not one-half. But for their evils the squires sod the clergy are chiefly responsible. The poor 11110), having few comforts and miserable accommodetioa at hose, will find some place to By to; ad he Ms gone to the beer-house because it is the &semi and plea santest within the reach of his peer mimes. Bat hr going there the squire and the parses hare mashed him. They predetermined that the bee-Los would be immonalplams ; they have OMR attempted to • this I on the contrary, they have de every ! who used thus. It is—we mud assissil—quito and easily posible by altera tion, sepervinine, sesperatise, and lunistesee on their part, to make bensiheeme shiest es morel as they are now said to belmnisrali and tide that would surely be a worthier sesepetina he the clergy and a more profitable sue he the spires, than to limit the 'encomiums of the laltssert, sad, consequently, to centrist the eassom4t o f bow. The Neewere wll also give to brewers the nee el steleeme—w is fallacy the third. To say, as the ems hoed, the& you will augment the produe ties et booby by Wwinft the duty on malt; and to peepers, as the other bead, a substitute foe the use of malt, is a sheep way of benefiting the Imam Bat the molars' expe dient is jog as gross a delusion as the iseniensil deemed for malt. Molasses might have boss sod in breweries when malt was at had.. pain I bet it cannot = now, when malt is as o r muses. Besides, t h e new prospects In our sugar colonies will, if realised, pre vent the importation of molasses. For, by means of Improved modes of manufacture, it is proposed there to extract from sedum all the ssocharins matter remaieicg thereto t and, as the peat of that proems will be make them the nine of mamas juste for brew's( ' Me. Datum mai net be abbe te catch unich moles= se a salatitate hr malt. This consideration further suggests the worthless- ness, as a practical measure of benefit to the West Indies,—however sound in theory,—of the proposition for refining sugar in bond at horse. What the West Indies, in their present condition, of all things would be moat benefited by, would be the profits of refining eager; and there seems every reasonable probability of their acquiring that profit. By refilling sugar in the colonies they would not only save the large profit which the middleman, or refiner, in England now reaps, but also the heavy loss of dnunage (equal to at least 10 per cent.) from their raw commodity on its voyage to England. To enable the British middleman to refine sugar in bond will be a great boon to him; but none at all to the West Indies. The profit consequent on the diminished capital required in refineries will go, not to the sugar grower, but to the home capitalist. Consequently to describe this item in the Budget as a great benefit to our sugar colonies is just as huge • delusion practised on the colonies u the throwing away the Malt Tax is on the consumer and the far mer. In sober.truth, the only part of the Budget which is not • delusion on some class or other is the House Tax. That, at least, is a pure unadul terated and a heavy infliction. }or, though the reduction in the duty on tea is sound in prin ciple ; by spreading the reduction over six years, opportunity will thereby ho given to the retailers to pocket the greater port of what the Treasury' gives up. And as to the Light Dues, their modification necessarily follows the death of the Duke of WEL LINGTON, who alone supported the Trinity Houses in their monstrous extortions from shipping. But, even in dealing with that question, Mr. IlisitAELl has avoided the sound principle of making the Coast Lights a national charge. However levied, or how- ever paid, it is th e consumers of the country on whom the burden ultimately falls; and by still keep ing up four separate organisations for maintain- • THE EXPREBB, WEDNESDAY kvEmtio, DECEMBER 8, •'1852. lag the Coast Lights, Mr. DISRAELI will continue to add to their real oat the unnecessary expense of four costly systems of management, and so lave untouched the real evils of extravagance in ma nagement and inadequacy of lights. What the Great Conjuror promised the country—what he Loured the nation " loomed in tho distance "—was a general revision of taxation. And the worst fea ture of his Budget, taken as • whole, as he wished it to be, is that, if carried, it may postpone for many years the possibility of any such revision. Ito say. That he hr boss isms as aosotiator ia, as • I lately wrote, a symptoms d a imp in the Aus trian policy, "ad warrants the easelialse that Austria 'has abandoned the plan of make( the Zeileereio difficulty pretext for violent political ventures, and will make the realisation of the general cus toms' union its direct and chief aim. In this case it is not improbable that Austria will pro pose a reduction of the tariff, not only in order to gain support in Prussia and Hanover, but because it has already found from experience that its present tariff, in spite of the late reductions, is far too high to admit extensive importations, bringing the desired revenue, or to check the systematic smuggling still prac tised on its frontiers. As regards pig iron and first processes, it is said that Austria will reduce the import duty to 3s. 4d. per ton, while Prussia levie s lb s . on Belgian and 20a. on all other foreign pig iron. Nevertheless, P russ i a can i n no ease enter into a customs' union with Austria ; and even were it to renew its customs' union with the southern states, which have become the declared allied, of Austria, it would entirely ruin its political potation, because it would, by such renewal, renounce the power of independently deciding its own commercial policy. And at a time like the present, when com mercial interests form so prominent a feature in international relations, in what a pitiable predica ment must a great power place itself by disabling itself, for twelve years to come, to cement alliances and secure political support by opening its market, or to increase its income and the people's wealth byfacilitating the interchange of supplies? There're not a few intelligent men here who clearly see all this, and who regard a renewal of the Zollverein, on any other condition, than that of a radical free trade tariff, as the greatest possible calamity for Prussia. But whether the king and the majority of the mi nistry are equally alive to the danger, and conse quently resolved not to renew the Zollverein, is doubtful. The passage in the king's speech to the chambers gives no guarantee to the effect ; neverthe less, it is highly important; because the manner in which it has been received, provee that a split of the Zollverein, the very mention of which, a (year ago, would have irpread a panic, would now r ece i ve extensive approbauon it deliberately resolved on by the government. The popular sentiment is now rather in favour of such a measure, and that is a great point gained. The princes of Hohenlohe, who formed the first " state in the duchy of Gotha under the old consti tution, have laid before the Frankfort Diet a protest against the validity of the constitution cf 1848, by which their privileges were abrogated. The ancient feudal order of things was recognised by the federal treaties of 1818, whereby a federal guarantee was given that no change otherwise than in legal form should be tolerated. The privileg e of the states in Gotha, however, could not be le gal ly abrogated without their own free consent, for w hich, iii the revolutionary period, they were not asked ; they demand, therefore, their re-nistatemeut ; and it is not improbable that the federal Diet may accede to their request, and order the Duke of Gotha to annul the constitution and reestablish the old feudal arrangements. Since the reference made by the King's speech to the result of the harvest, rye has risen here from 365. to 395. per quarter. At Vienna, the firm of Joseph Leitner and Co., and at Laibach W. D. Moline, have failed, the de ficit being in each case about 50,0001. The fourth volume of Humboldt's " Cosmos" is under the press. The English agents instructed to make an offer to the Frankfort Diet for the six war steamers which remain of the "German fleet" have been informed that the ships are theirs at the price of 240,000 thalers. Colonel Rawlinson, the decipherer of the arrow headed inscriptions, has been elected a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in the room of Burnout. The Town Council of Hanau in Hesse Cassel was arraigned collectively before the Criminal Court on the 3rd Instant, to answer for certain expressions contained in an address which it had presented to the Elector in Sept., 1650, and reflecting on the odious minister Hassenpflug. At that date the Elector had fled to Wilhelmsbed by night, and the council in praying his return to Cassel spoke of the minister as "a snake in the bosom of the ruler," and worst of all alluded to him as " that man." The trial was not concluded when the mail left Henan. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. r""'""• - "'" Nov: 30. The envoys of the new Cgstal Palace have en ' trusted the German antiquarian, Doctor Braun, with the execution of an extensive series of casts from the chef declares of ancient and modern sculpture abounding in this city, a portion of which are already completed and will be shortly sent to England. Mr. Gibson's studio will contribute several splendid works, among which are his huntsman, statue of Mr. Huskisson, bassi.relievi of the hours and of Phaeton. No change has as yet taken place in Edward Mur ray's condition, and it appears to be too soon to hope for any diminution of his term of imprisonment. Meanwhile his treatment in gaol is not severe, and his lot may be oonsidered quite enviable when com pared with that of Roman subjects, to whom the sacred consults itself attributes a far len degree el culpability. Exchange on London, 401. Roman etmeab, 94. Cbt Coact. OSBORNE, ToZIDAY. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Bra bant, the Count of Flanders, and the Prince of Leiningen. crossed over to Portsmouth yesterday morning, in the royal steam-yacht Fairy, attended by the Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel &reverie, and Liest.-Colonel de Moerkerke. The royal party landed at the dockyard, where they were re ceived by Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, Major. General Simpson, commanding the district, and Captain Hender son, C.D., and walked to the steam b a si n to inspect the Wellington, three-decker, now fitting out, and from thence went to th e docks, when the Marlborough and other ships of war are building. They afterwards proceeded on board the Excellent, gunnery ship, to mitoses the exercise of the greet guns. From the Excellent their Royal Highnesses went on beard the Blenheim, steam biock.snip, and minutely inepeeted her armament and machinery ; and after a similar visit to the Neptune, 120, the royal party re-embarked in the Fairy, and returned to Osborne. M. Van de Weyer arrived from London yesterday, on • visit to her Majesty. The Belgian Princes and the Prince,. Charlotte, with their suite, will leave Osborne this afternoon, and pass the, night at Buckingham Palace on their return to Brussels. A deputation, consisting of the Esrl of Harrowhy, the Bishop of London, the Hight lion. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Jell', and Mr. Kingscote, had an interview with th e H ar i o f Derby yesterday, at his official residence in Downing•street. Ilr. Hired had an interview with Sir John Pshington yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Colonel Waldo Sibthorp, M.P., and Lcrd Rodney, hal interviews with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the IL/Ine•office. Mr. Macartney bad an interview yesterday with the Earl of Derby. Despatches were received at the Colonial.office yesterday from the Governor-General of Canada and the GOT. nor. of the other North American Provinces. Despatches were also received from the Governors of New Zealand, South Australia, Malta, and Gibraltar. Lord Palmerston luta been suffering from an attack of Mao. 011011 LAST NIOUT'S OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dgc. 7. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Brevet Major Thomas Acker. Shone to be lieut-eolonel, vice Palmer, retired on half.pay ; Second Captain Richard Henry Crofton to be captain, vice Shone; First Lieutensat George Bar stow to be seemed captain, vice Crofton ; Second Lieute. neat Henry Richard Porter to be first lieutenant, vice Barstow.______ NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS. Thomu Badger, 1144.,Crikellu;oartwright, Esq., John Maury, Esq., and James Ashwin, Esq. CROWN-OFFICE, Dze. 4.—Members returned to serve in this present parliament: William Johnson Foe. Esq., of No. 3, Sussex-place, Regent's-park, London, in th, room of John Hamill, Esq., deceased, for the borough of Oldham.—Junes Henry Porteua Oakes, of Newton, in the county of Suffolk, Esq., in the room of John Stuart, Esq., who has accepted the office of Vice-Chancellor, for :he ho. rough of Bury Saint Edmunds.—The Hon. Adolphus Fre. derick Charles William Van., commonly called Lord Adol peas Frederick Charles William Vaoe, in the room o: ['homes Colpitts, Granger, Esq., deceased, for the city of Darham.—The Honourable Montague Bertie, commonly called Lord Norreys, of No. 18, Grosvenor-street, in th, county of Middlesex, in the room of LieutenantAieneral James Caulfield, deceased, for the borough of Abingdon.— George Hammond Whalley, Esq., In the room of the Hon. Richard Wataon, deceased, for the city of Peterborough. TELEGRAPH COMPANY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the share holders in the above company was held yesterday in the London Tavern, Bishopsgate•treet, at 12 o'clock, the Lord 11110 LIT in the chair. His lordship entered iato a brief explanation of the objects of the meeting ; after which the following report was read by the secretary, and unanimously adopted: ' n The meeting is convened in accordance with the terms of the royal charter of incorporation, by which the direc tors are required to hold the first general meeting of share holders in this company within seven days after the first Wednesday of the present month. The short space, how ever, of three months only having elapsed since the issue of the prospectus, and the subsequent formation of the com pany, the directors are not in a position to furnish the shareholders with any detailed statement of accounts. The directors have to regret the delay which has taken place in the construction of the cable ; but it is asserted by the manufacturers that greeter expedition has been rendered impossible, owing to unforeseen difficulties, and the im practicability of obtaining a sufficient supply of iron wire fee the coating of the telegraph rope. The cable is now completed, and in the mires of a very feu days the direc tor' trust that it will be coiled on board a steamer, and removed to Dover, there to await the first favourable wea ther for its submersion serous the channel. When this de sirable object is accomplished, the submarine wire' will be immediately jeinedlto those of the subterranean telegraph at Dover, and messages will be forwarded direct from Corn hill to Brussel., Berlin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and all the important towns of tho north-eastern portion of Europe, instead of passing, as at present, by the more circuitous route of Calais and Lille. The arrangements made with the Dover and Calais lines are most advantageous to the interests of both companies, and until a more complete and legal fusion an be effected, it has been agreed to work the two lines in perfect unison, the capital of the two companies being equal, the shares bearing the same value, and participating equally in expenditure and receipts. This amalgamation of interest will take place immediately apes the Deletian Submarine Telegraph being opened to the mettle he the transmission of messages, and arrangements an in progreas for allowing shareholders in the French line the 'gaga of exchanging their shares for those of the Charteted Cesay, when the Belgian line shall be in operation. The diastase are much gratified at being enabled to infant time abarisholders of the rapid increase of telegraphis anaaaleallea between Great Bri tain and the Coulees!. Is Dasealser ' 18.51, the number of memages traamaltemi betas= Dever and Calais was 878. In October last thejomumuteed to 1,819. In the week end ing teat Saturday, 81111 were forwarded from and received at Censllll, • return of 238 i. 12s. 11d. sterling for that week. The awaipts of the first six months :pa the aulaterino telegraph between France and E enabled them anagges to pay a dividend of 5 per pa anima ea 76,0001, the capital of that company, sad stem_ thetipeeed the omega& of lelletellee has been alma whim the agasidllaso. owing le very . bane- Saki eirsamana eaten& tam fee the transmission of messages frees Osseldll to Calais by did sisbterranean tele graph in easjasslisa with the enhmerlee line, has been greatly diminished. The diseases sansa, therefore, but feel isilguum as w the maker dispose and important enter prise. Taligmaiis asernallesiks is rapidly becomieg more and was insisgal both In Cheat Britain and on the Continent, sad bolaisi,al this company does, the exclusive privilege of trmsalralag weaves to and from all pare of Europe ode Frames mai Briaban. • very large return of prate nay with the el the deed of reeeleehly e li m e=ll eft the capital invested. In pauses '. with the Lewd de Manley, haw Oanalseael, Bart., Samue l Laing, lA., 111 P., sad the Ewa P Cadogaa will retire from the direcdon, sag respectively offer thems elves for re , electioa." - _ The teo ■ w4~ ranistine wen neeinowdy wined to : Tint Lied le 3firfaja ar Jana Oaallae!waio Ben.. Sagaaal sax., aad W if... Frederick Can gan, who wenn nth' ind of settlemeat, be re elected 4418611." _ " That the thous et the meet* be given to the dime. ton, and that they le to any into effect the several arraaeumwtaaAajle iii the report." " That the thanks a the swing be given to the chair• man for his hrdship's teat vet the chair." THE MARIONETTES. Thin clever company of wooden actors, after a successful tour In the provinces, have commenced another season in the metropolis; bat their entertainments are now given et the St. James's Theatre, instead of the little theatre constructed expressly for them at the Adelaide Gallery. This change of locality, however, is only temporary, we be lieve ; their theatre being to: the present used for • diffe rent purpose. The St. Jamey's opened last night, and is very nicely fitted up fur their performances ; the stage being reduced to the dimensions adapted to their diminu tive scenery and tiny figures. A snort introductory address was delivered by their manager, Mr..6.lbany Brown, allud- ' leg to their past success, and solieitiig a continuance of public, favour. Mr. Brown is really a gentlemanly little person, easy in his deportment, and not 40 shaky on his legs as when he first mule his bow to the audience. The same remark may be made of the performers loonier); their mechanism is improved, and they walk and gesticulate more like beings of Bosh and blood. Sometimes,indeed, the aluilion is complete, and you forget (or the moment that you hare not living actors before you. The performances seers similar to those of last season. There was in the first ph,ce " An Appeal to the Audience; or, the Manager in llifficul , ties ;" a dialogue between the manager and Mr. Vamp, au author, in the course of which several of the principal per formers are introduced to give "a taste of their quality." We were particularly struck with the singing of the "prima donna," who gave the great air in the "(hue Lathe" with remarkable: brilliancy and beauty The neat piece was the amusing burlesque called "The Sixth Act of Romeo and Juliet." It was folliwed by the pretty bur letta, "The Chalet," very nicely acted and sung; and the evening concluded with • new entertainment by a act of " Ebony Marionettes," an imitation of the " Ethiopian Serenaders," and other performances of that description. The Imitation was perfect ; and some of the music, accom panied after the negro fashion, was exceed.ngly characteristic and pleasing. Tho whole entertainments were received with great applause. Alit. LEDIIETTER, the respected Bow-street officer who was killed by •eab falling over his person on Thursday night, in !Italic is to be buried thin day in the Crompton Cemetery. Ile will he followed to the gravo by count of the surviving members of the old force, and several of the et ' peneaced °liken of the new police, by all of whom he was Wetly esteemed. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY ETININO. The Monitner gives tho following account of the official recognition of the Empire by her Britannic Majesty The Emperor has received at the Tuileries from his ex cellency Lord Cowley the letters from her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, confirming him as ambassador extraordinary and pleeipoten tiary to his Imperial Majesty. Lord Cowley and the members of the legation were conveyed to the audience of his Majesty in carriages of the court, and presented by Cuunt Bactiochi, master of the cere monies and introducer of ambassadors, assEted by M. Feedlot de Coaches, degnty•maater of the ceremonies. After the audience, his Excellency was taken back to his hotel with the same ceremonial. The Journal de rEmpire evinces its great satin faction at the prompt recognition of tho empire by the Queen of England in the following terms: The establishment of the empire in Franco, sanctioned at home by the vote of the nation, is accepted abroad with synipatMni just as marked. The Marquis d'Antonini, minister of the King of the Two Sieilsos, on the 3rd presented to his Imperial Majesty his new credentials, assuming by that solemn preseeding an initiative which everything concurs in rendering important. Yester day Lord Cowley presented his letters of credence, and we know that all the communications of his wart with our government, relative to the great act which has just been accomplished, have bone the imprint of • character which promises the maintenance and consolida tion of the mat friendly relations between the two cabinets. His Imperial Majesty will receive this day from the Mi nister of Belgium the same ansarenea of the earroises red coeßdence of the Court of Brussels. The adversaries of the new government which Freese bee given her sell, did not perhaps expect so prompt a recognition of the heir of Napoleon by the Queen of the great coutry which combatted to the last daj against t h e founder of his race, by a sovereign of the elder branch of th e B our b ons , Re d by • prince so narrowly connected with the house of Orleans. But events must remove that illusion, and show them all thtir weakness in view of these marked adhesions to the will of Francs. We had no doubt, indeed, of the sentiments of the rest of Europe, but the AM testimonies which the Emperor receives ought to he so mush the more precious to him that they will fortify in him the hope of acoomplishing the highest object of his policy, the anion of all Frenchmen round the new throne, which, in spite of the reminiscences and the affections of the past, three governments, so different as those of the Two !Nellie', England, and Belgium do not an instant hesitate to mogul*. It is expected that the Senate will sit every day this week to settle the new form of the constitution : We read in the Conalitutiotsnel: It is known that the constitution limits to 80, for the firs g year, the comber of the members of the senate bcycp i d those who are senators by right, such as the carcli.Jak end the Manhole of krance. M. de Tarsi* was by the date of his nomination the Blst, and be has not b e e n a bl e unt i l ' this time to take his seat; but the elevation of Cilen•Arals de Saint•Areitad, Merman, and de Castedane to the dignity of marshals hes rendered three seats vacant, verlieh may now be occupied by MM. de Tarim', Abb stuoti, and Carrelet. The lefoniteur denies that France has anything to do with the project of altering the Spanish consti tution. An sninesty is granted to deserters from the army. Lord Brougham arrived at Karmenles on Friday evening on his way to Cann , ,a, He slept at the Hotel de rOtient, and was to start next morning for Aix. The Gazette du Midi ears that the vivacity of the ex-chancellor's conversatifm greatly interested his travelling companions on the railway. The Bourse was soriewhat better to-clay. The Three per Cents. imprired a little, and the Four•snd a-half per Cents. only fell a quarter per cent. Most of the railways recovered partly from the hoary fall of yesterday. But the shares of the Societe Mobi here again fell, and closed 100 fr. lower. BELGIUM. TOISDAT Evinnro. The Chamber of Representatives voted this even ing, by a majority of 78 to 2, the bill granting to ministers the sum of 6,358,000 for the military de. fence of the country. The discussion of the budget of the interior was then resumed. SPAIN. DISSOLUTION OF THE SPANISH CORTES. The absolutist ministers of Spain, beaten on their first appearance in the Chamber, have dissolved the Cortes. Their candidate for the presidency of the Chamber, M. Tejada, obtained on the Ist but 107 votes; M. Martinez de la Rosa receiving 121. The dissolution, as the telegraph informs us, followed im mediately. What else followed we may yet have to learn. If the ministers acted with decision, the op position behaved with courage. Both parties knew their risk', and doubtless were prepared to play their part. It was no secret that the ministers were prepared to demand such "reforms" in des acestitu tion as would enable those whom intrigue/audacity had pined far dm moment in power to dispose of all the ....as et dm country, and to nuke its laws with or without the control of a Cost's. eed that the press was to he subjected to unhsardist restrictions. Brea a ftWcif amber scald sot 'adore this, and the e.lssfiaa ct Y. Martian de is Rosa as the repre sentative ot the sggssitiaa shows how powerfully the send.e.t et a amass hatred has masentrated men of ell ageism mast the government. In dimly ing the OM" IL Brave Murillo braves all the pruisigel paolarados, reitaaas. tbo pregraistaa, and a& do WNW/ Maw who ass polond to inflames vr4th the army. Whether Ira is opal to the reetset, a few days oust show. He has see volts& as paper, a new Oates for next spring; hat between sew and then much may happen. The Masiiewr oontradicta the rumour that the Nee& nt bad exerted some influence over et that with regard to its absolutist projects. The Aram of Madrid of ths 30th ult. has the following: • lavas ken Pimple= glees we the diagnosable tate lipase that • smapreep el Pres& &Awry, eonsissing of 00 jssie►see, sod asonsadad by throe offisses. hoe ti a tataitatt lwil. sad he a Mum "tease rimy serried ex seas woad w bass hews by =wheel, to don owoustalta It appears that the sa 1:1 411111111111111111 1111 this dstashosse Iris bons MI. mood to lean the Spanish territory. he omoserad that he we eating under NON ties hie presrameat. GERMANY. BERLIN, Du. 4. A regretable incident marked the proceedings of the Second Chamber this day. The chamber, you are aware, is at present engaged in verifying the oleo- 1 tiona of its members. Against the return of one of these, Prince Lychnowski, a protest was presented in the name of an elector, who called upon the cham ber to declare the return invalid, inasmuch u the freedom of election had been violated by a proclama tion of the Landreth Elsner. M. Graff proposed a reso lution, which bore the names of many members of the constitutional opposition and the Left Centre, and de clared the election of I'rinoe Lychnowski to be null and void. In his proclamation M. Elsner had maid, "Ile who votes against Prince Lychnowski is the enemy of the King:" "The government will know how to punish the constituency if the prince be re jected," and so on. Upon the debate the Minister of the Interior said, "The conservative cause is the cause of the government. I therefore before the elections called upon the landraths not to regard them with indifference, but to proclaim openly the desire of the government to hold high the banner of conservatism, and to do all they could to promote the election of good men. I am happy to be able to say that the landraths have done this, and that they have been eminently enema- ful." Having delivered him self in this wise the minister left the chamber. On a division M. Grand's motion was rejected by a ma jority of 96 in a house of 316 members. The catholic fraction voted against the liberals. M. von Bruck is expected soon to arrive at Berlin, on a special mission from Austria on the Zollverein affair. What proposals he will bring it is impossible TURKEY. The private correspondence of the Union of Paris serenest' the question of the holy places as being in a mast unsatisfactory state. The pretensions of the Latins are completely repudiated by the Turkish go vernment, and the Emperor of Russia has signified his intention not to sanction any concession on the part of the Greek church. This, however, does not agree with the letter from Jerusalem lately published by the Augsburg Garotte, essording to which the Greeks were disposed to make Nome concessions, but having inquired of the catholic if they would re- Immo every ulterior pretension, If. Bott said that, as the catholic church considered as heretics all ehusehes separated from it, it would always pretend to the exclusive possession of the sanctuaries. To that it was replied that since such wee the cam the Greeks would keep what they had. HEALTH OP LONDON DOMINO THE WISI.-441et week the mortality of London experienced an th erms ; the deaths, which in the two previous weeks had been 922 and 947 roes to 1,042. In the ten corresponding weeks of 1842 61 the average number wee 1,178, which, if raised in proportion to increase of population, gives a mortality of 1,296 for the present time. This avenge is augmented by influenza, which in the corresponding week of 1847 was 2,464 persona; nevertheless the last week's ntura com pared with these facts, stiil indicates a favourable state of the public health fora population in which a rate of mor tality, considerably higher than the avenge rate of Eng land, always prevails. With reference to the causes of death, the results of last week correspond nearly with those of the grevions return in the two principal classes, namely, epidemics and diseases of the respiratory organs ; but in .most of the other classes there is an increase, especially in "disease, of the nervous system," which rose from 96 to 134. Taking particular epidemics, measles has increased from 16 to 24, while scarlatina has declined from 72 to 59. Typhus was fatal is 47 eases, diarrheas in 21 ; there were none of cholera and only 4 of small-pox. Last week the births of 851 boys and 788 girls, in all 1,839 children, wen registered in London. The average number in seven corresponding weeks of 1845.61 was 1,398. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer in the week wee 29.710 in. The mean tens perature of the week was 42.4 deg., which is rather below the pof the same week in ten years. The mean daily temperature was below the average on three days, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and on the rut was above it. On Monday it was 6.9 deg. below the average; on Saturday it was 9.7 deg. above it. On Monday and Tues day the wind was in the north ; during the rest of the week generally in the south-west. The rain to the week was 0.33 in. --- DELIBERATE MURDER AT PENTONVILLL—Last night the neighbourhood of Pentonville was thrown into ounsternstion by the committal of • cold-blooded mu r d er i n Suffolls•plare, Chapetstreet, Pentonville. The murdored man was named Downes, and occupied a small house, in which his assassin, named Toole, resided as a lodger. Ihmnes, who was a dog-fancier, had gone to the back yard to attend to his dogs, according to his custom, and whilst there Toole suddenly rushed out and wounded him in the throat with a razor. The poor man expired in a few minutes. llis body was immediately conveyed to Clerk's well workhouse, to await the coroner's inquest. The mur derer, who made no attempt to escape, was imovellatoly muted, and takes to the Mullen polio, 'tattoo. CUSTOMS REFORM. DEPUTATION i 0 TIIE EARL OF DERBY. Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, a deputation from the committee of London merchant., fur the reform of the Board of Customs, had an interview with the First Lord of the Treasury, at the Treasury-ufllee, in D. - iwning•street, ea the subject of customs reform. The Right lion. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer was also present with his lordship to receive the deputation , which consisted of the following %Tie in: Thompson,. ; Alderman EscM William j n , Seq., Chairman; R. W. Crawford, deputy-chaitman; W. J. Hall, Eoq., Treasurer ; Thomas Tooke, P.sq. John Cattley, Earl. ;J. D. routes, En.; Sir J. Hell; i' egler, Esq. ; ft. Hutchinson, Esq. ; H. L. Morgao, E.g. ; J. I'. Oassiot, Esq. ; B. B. Oreene, Esq.; W. Hawn, Esq.; Sidney Smith, Sec. The deputation Laving been introduced— Mr. THAVEILS, as chairman of the committee, said that the present deputation had the honour of representing, on the present occasion, a very important association in the City of London, the object of which was to obtain a reform in the present mode of customs administration. The mem bers of that association representing • great variety of poli tical opinions, considered that it would be more respectful to his lordship, as well as more satisfactory to themselves, to explain their views in the :shape uf a memorial. These views he hsd the honour of transmitting to his lordship, and therefore it might nut be necessary to occupy his lord ship's time in reading it. the Earl of DZItIIY said it would not be necessary to do 60, as be had read the document. Mr. TYAVEILS said ho would then simply state that the commercial classes were in • condition of great anxiety regarding the question of customs reform, and (referring to the promise made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the subject should he taken into consideration before Christmas) they wished to be ler:allied whether it was the intention of her Majesty's government to proceed at once spots this matter. The Earl of DERBY said that be Will in great hopes that her Majesty's government would shortly be able to tome to some conclusion on this matter. It was impossible for him at that time to enter upon a consideration of the 17 or 18 paints enumerated in the memorial eve upon the specific reforms it was thought desirable to intro duce in the management of the customs. The whole ques tion had been entered into at great length by the committee of the Rouse of Commons, and the government had thought it right, after receiving their report, to refer it for the observations of the Board of Customs, in order that they might consider its different recommendations. The Board of Customs had made its observations upon that report, soma portions of which he believed had been already adopted. The general subject was under the consideration of the government. It was one of which it was imp oss ible to exaggerate the importance, or perhaps . the difficulty ' and no unnecessary time should be lost in giviug to it full and mature consideration. But on a subject of this kind they ought not to proceed hastily, and therefore ample time should be allowed for considering the nature of the altera tions to be proposed. In the meantime the solicitor to the Board of Customs was engaged in con sidering one of the particular objects they had in view, namely, a project for the coneutadation of the customs laws, with the introduction of such amend ments as the Board f Customs might think it desirable to recommend. The question would be submitted at an early period to parliament. It would not be right therefore that I at that moment he should enter into greater detail with re gard to the specific measures they intended to introduce. Mr. Brows, M.P., wished to know if they were to un derstand that the questions would be submitted for consi deration in the form of a bill to be brought before paths,- mat. The Earl of Danny—Of course the consolidation of the present acts and the amendments to them could be submit ted in no other way than in a bill to be brought before par liament. Neither the Treasury nor the Board of Customs, nor her Majesty's governeient had the power of setting aside existing acts d parliament. Mr. Alderman Tuoursos, M.P., wished to know if the bill when brought before the house would be submitted to a select committee, as there would probably be many points in it affecting the revenue on the one hand, and the mercan tile community on the other, which could be best dealt with in that way. The Earl of DERBY said that the object of the govern ment was to make the measure as satisfactory as possible ; but what course the House of Commons might sake with respect to the bill, when introduced, it was not for him to say. When there were measures of intricate detail, it was sometimes of advantage to refer bills to a committee up stairs, ; but he should deprecate the further reference to • select committee of a system which involved the whole system of the customs laws without there being a bill to go u pon. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON said that he had sat on a committee of the House of Commons for two years on this subject without having a bill before them. That commit tee bad made its recommendations to parliament after • full investigation. Mr. MITCHELL thought that the question was now ripe for legislation. The Earl of DERBY said that her Majesty's government were engaged upon those recommendations, and whenever they came to a conclusion as to the alterations they thought it advisable to make, they would be submitted in the shape of • ball without Toes of time, The Claim:ll.ton of the Excitant:lm thought that the government had the whole of the facts of the case before them. He had hoped before Christmas to be able to lay a Treasury minute on this subject on the table of the house, but (damns there were many points which a Treasury minute could not reach, sad he reserved to the government the right of taking that course which seemed to him to be best adapted to meet the merits of the question. There were some of these point' which might be carried into effect by the Commiseionere of Customs, and there were others which, as he said, could not be reached by a Treasury minute, and which must be dealt with by parliament. Mr. MITCHRLL silted whether he understood from the right hon. gentleman that he would lay a Treasury minute oe the table of the House of Commons before Christmas. The Curtner t.toa of the Excnssauza said that if the government wore to bring in a bill it would not be desirable perhaps; to deal with the same subject in two different ways—by bill and by a Treasury minute. The government would lose no time in investigating the necessary details. Mr. BROWN said that in this case something more com prehensive and stringent than a Treasury minute was re quired. Mr. CRAWFORD said It would be satisfactory to the depu tation if they were given to understand that the solicitor of the Customs was engaged in the consolidation of the exist ing orders of the Board of Customs and the Treasury, with • view to their being printed for the convenient. of the mercantile community. The Earl of DRURY said there was a monthly publication of those orders limited, but he believed nobody read them. (Laughter.) Mr. CRAWFORD said there were so many elders that it was a difficult task to go through them all. They ex tended over • period of 30 or 40 years. Mr. Mitcnitx said it was desirable to have an official digest published, because several of the orders were quite contradictory. If • bill embracing the whole code of the customs laws were to be introduced, it most, be thought, be submitted to the consideration of a select committee. The Crietscaxtota of the EXCEL:Wig said that if it was a question adapted for the consideration of • salsa com mittee there would be no objection to that warm ; bat if • mace of legislation were introduced of a satisfactory cha racter, no member of the House of Commons would pro bably require that it should be so referred. It was pre mature, however, to decide that point at the present time. Mr. M ircnitr.. said that the mercantile community would, be perfectly satisfied if a bill was brought is carrying oat to the full extent the recommendations of the committee which sat last year. The CNANCILLOR of the BICHIQUIDI said that some of them had bees already carried into offset Mr. Clamor said there was danger to the revenue from the manner in which they had been carried oat. In re moving impedimenta from the mercantile commonly it was not that the public revenue should b e en d aacersa l . The Bar of Dauer milked Mr. Guiana what he re (erred to. Mr. OASSIOT said he referred to the butane, of free goods and the mode of examination. The Earl of Daunt said that that was a point which ems pressed in the memorial as a grievance on the mercantile community. He did not know how they eould give any meter facilities for the passing of free good* without leaving room for great fraud. They must strike a medium. , between the protection of the revenue and the tionvenienee of the mercantile community. Mr. GASSIOT said the mercantile community did not wish for facilities which would injure the revenue. What he referred to had relation rather to the class of offleers wh• were appointed to conduct the buainess. Mr. Tnavnius could assure hie lordship, on the part of the mercantile body of the city of London, that they had no confidence whatever in the existing system. The more these changes went on, the more necessary it was that pre.- tical and mercantile men should be placed at the heads of departments, otherwise great loss to the revenue man ,or great injustice be done t o th e mercantile body. He believed he represented the feelings of the whole mer cantile community when he said that th e y h a d no conf i denee whatever in the Board of Customs or their solicitor. The Earl of DEnny—l am sorry to hear that. The deputation then withdrew. The memorial transmitted to his lordship contains the following : " We desire most respectfully, but most strongly, to urge upon your lordship the appointment of a special commistiom in winch the mercantile interests shall be adequately ripe,- i sea t e d, for the purpose, in th e first instance, of conso lidating and reducing into ono elder and intelligible code the present multifarious proCtions of the L aw an d P ractioe of the Customs ; and secondly, of recommending each reforms (the tariff included), as considerations of sound policy and commercial equity may suggest. We believe that an entire reconstruction of the present constitution of the department will be found nice:miry ; but, without further anticipating the conclusions at which the proposed commission might arrive, we would urge the immediate adoptiou in a Customs Bill of the principles embodied in the resolutions of one of the most numerous and iutiuentiel nit etings of the eons. mercial classes ever lied in the City of London, believing, as we do, that they faithfully interpret the general wishes of all parties upon the subject. We roe =mend du retire, " 1. That one commitsioner at least, hut the chairman if possible, should have a seat in the Huns, of Commons, ail be moveable with the government. "2. That one mrtuber of the board at least ditimprzi .6 taken from the mercantile clam. '‘.... - - — VT t; . ' .1 " 3. That promotion should be open i t: e g i nti w . ,1. ~.. e. °Soon, and that theta should not be any v, ~.,( ..; to i - r' ~ . t-1 , ,' -\. .; if l'i -.7. 5 .. \ ...! i t, '' C ;, t . r s • a: rkfi1,...&1:0110, 3 , I