The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-21 00:00:00

motion of his honourable friend b owel to support -- uso Mee member for Finsbury. The main objections were M a looked for out of that house, and not in it, anal b:fad that it would s'be felt by the country that a,""clot.they were subject to no local prereurt, and only ; m eted tor the general benefit of the community, the ePage th• • of a t house shuald have due weight, and that m et e who, no d - übt couscientiousl y , opposed this measure ;a - ad Tette' b fere they committed themselves to a con ow.e p titian, and that reflection would convince them pe Chet the Mums which they had felt were unneomaary, and t h at they bed colijitred up phantoms of danger as arising e latch had no existence but in their own Gen this scheme. aeminations. Ile hoped they would see the danger of eea ir e g t hi. scheme he witnout teaming anoth noer. He alluded wit aere e advocates of doing thing, and who a med paliameitt he abstain nom any interference with edit mho wo uld ask them te reflect and ponder on the . aet atital intortuatiou which had been reterred to in this debate, sod he would ask them to remember that wale they were thinking how the people should • dhaated, thousands were being brought up in v ies and ignorano, and prepar d for the punishinen• which balloted vice awl igoeraece, who tniirit perhaps be trained op into useful mem .ers of society. He would ask them to t ha n e bear d.ngeroue it was that population should increase with such road stride., with iut any pniviaion being made to meet it with education. lie would address to them the words of Robert H .11. (The right hon baronet then road ea What from Vint author to the eB'..-ct, that it wag nut ask that a nation 'Mould he loft to he in the lap of igurrance; is while the seeds of mutation were so thickly sown, the s of improvement and gecurity would be the i d e ation a tee p ople.") This WY I n ge ige that he thought should now he echoed in that house; sett he t e ,. card t h a t m ea who wuhod to defeat this measure would think dtbe , , s ieit t ty thee incurred in trying to iaduce them to be spectators of • mend pestilence without an attempt to Le a ,. mora l h,alth and vieour into the %Maas of the mm .. 4. ( Haar, hear, and cheers ) Mr. HINDLEY, whir era very iinperfectly heard, owing to the contuam th et prevelled in the house, was understood may that he thought the nimenters had not taken the amet het or most prudent course with rig-rd to this Ile w ul I, however, tsk the house to look at the ge ms' efforts of the ereat body of dissenters, and give them credit for what they hub done to advance education. In MO &battle hal wen fought on the subject of education, end ue then Lit seaguine ae to the a n d principle being ri g a i aet . lie aid all he could to support and assist it. and be was at the heed of a board which had raised 120 000/. f or the purp own of ethic aloe. Bat, although there h ad ban bright eta elites of voluntary in ta, yet, if he were abed to give his honest optniem whether it was suthtient, he shotald say it was not. Allow ing t h at the education of the people was within the pr.,siact t the government, he must toy that he thought it M e ad be 11U•ede.i. so that it eh iuld not endanger the civil Lberty of the people He thought that the curb, bit, and bridloshould II- put upon the government. the gales of Elem . -hall end Crusby-hall might bluer more bitterly than oes ogreesile to some, but he thought th at they wafted son: truths hoe might be useful in that house. The noble lard said that the church catechism would be used only in he March sehotes. go t no hem could b.. done. He wee rim to ask the ethle bird himself whether he believed in the church catechism; for, supposing he did taut, what was he doing ? He was. calling on the Rolla to order that in a gnat number of the schools of the land, that which he did not be ieve in himself should be taught to the children in these schools. Could any one my that that was right? (!fear, hear.) He lid so ohtec . inn that children who believed in the church catechism should be erdered to receive instructions in it, but be strongly objected to the order being extended to diie 'enters. He believed that if they removed the word cate chism from the minter', the NI uplee of the diewentera would be more eaaily satisfied. and no injury would result to the March essablishol. There were some of the details of the hill is which he also objected. In the first place, he was eurprised that echo ,lma.ters were to b- pensioned by the privy council. He was also of opinion that it was an unneceaaary ' apenre to have an assistant school mash r for every twenty five 'Medan,. But his great objection was that the minutes were canielion-like, ever changing. His wish wee, that all classes, having one common object in view, might he able to meet on one common ground, for the diminetion of that emp.re of ignorance of which the noble lord spoke. Ile woe convinced the dissenters took rather an eretreme view of the eubject, and that they would have more chance of street,.& if they only attempted to get the minutes yet-sidle I. They might, then, have taken the oppor tunity afferded by the Sunda .schools for instructing the young with greater benefit and better results. He believed that a question wan raised which might be troublesome, but he yea sure this amid lead to another which would be more troublesome. Those who met in Crosby-h dl hit it now firmly impressed on their minds that the root of all this dis turbance was the connexion of church and state. (Hear.) He wished, hose ever, that church and dissent could join in the same e - reer 01 usefulness, and forget individual differ ences: and for his own part, it would be exceedingly great tying to him if he could honestly join on the present occasion in promoting the spread of education, and in nanowing the confines of ignorance. I Hear, hear.) On the motion of Sir W. CLAY, the debate was adjourned tin 'Thursday. IRISH DISTRESS. Mr. II AWE. 4id ;;;;Whies:despiiiM, eating that the legiAlature of Newfoundland had voted 5..0L (or the mitiga tion of the distress is [rebind. TENANT RIGHT. On the motion of Mr. PUrillY, the commit•ee on the Agri. enltursl Tenant Right kill wa4 deferred tilt We Inesday, the 9th of Mai. The house then ad . Murnetl, at a few minutes after twelve o'clock. 7: he rprosls• MAILS. The overland cloned mann, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, ggypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, Ito, will be made up on the owing of the 9th ApriL FM mails foe ieo. oporto, Linbon, Madeira, Culla, and Gibraltar. wig be made ono on the rooming of the 27th April. The mail- for New South %%atm Wan Lbemen'a Land, and New Zealand will be nude up on the evening of the 30th April. The Weot India mule, excluding dime for alexia!, Honduras, and ihe liarannith, will be made up on the morning of the let May. 11 overlay! trails for Gibraltar. Malta, Greece, the lonien blonde, Tyrol, Aden,Ceylon, laths, Hong-Kong, and China, roe Sontnampton, wlll be made up on the rooming of the 9rd May. the moils for Blitl.h North America, Bermuda, and the United Mates, will be made up on the evening MM. 3rd May. The math% for the Myrtle, the Hirer Plate, Monte VSlito, Perna., liso3, bah* Ma tetra. and Buenos Ayres, will be made ap en the ersalag cd the 4th May. HIGH WATEII AT lAKIUGH-15111DOR. TAH DAT—PAnntbkr, A AWL wt •; Afternoon, 31 Ada. put • Tallawow—MAssing, 37 mla. geft 6; Afternoon, 23 Nun. pan 7. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21. Tar entire science and practise of statesmanship in this country has been chiefly a painful and a care ful steering through the hosts of religious creeds and parties, which stud our political ocean like Cyclades, and which, unfortunately, render every possible coarse a devious one. As the state bark is navigating these narrow and intricate sees, advice, coupled with menace and entreaty, is heard to come with trumpet 'taper ition from every side. "Choose this channel." Cries one. " Touch at my port," exclaims another. To listen is to rug aground ; yet to slight such admoni tions leaves clam , uring foes on every strand. Lord Jowl RUSSELL'S political life has been a continued pilotage of this kind ; and although the pole-star, on which his eye has been ever fixed, has been that of religious freedom, intellectual develop ment, popular amelioration, experience has taught bow vain it is to sties straight even for these great head lands, through shoals and currents that defy all skill and baffle every force. Who forgets the sppropria tion.clause, that daring attempt to stil through a solid ist,mus. which ended nut only in failure to reach the goal of the actual voyage, but in sticking the vessel fat, so as to preclude any move in any direction for years. Statesmen have grown wiser. Tory and whig leaders alike adept the maxims of a practical age. Obstructions and influences, and possibilities, are care fully calculated end mapped out, and the feasible, more than the perfect or the desirable, becomes the object of their humbler aim. It is evident, too, that theory, abstract excellence, abstract rights, have lost their influence over !statesmen. More experience of society arid its work ing has discovered the most frightful ills, the most !Isnizemius and pestilential kinds of di-ease, especially in the lower classes. And instead of, 41. of old, being anxious, from a general and abstract feeling of philan t!lr"PY, to restore old rights or communicate new virtues, the conviction is that society is pressed into one universal state of sore in its lowest members; that it is a mass of fester and of poison ; and that lame dreadful result of moral and politic .1 pestilence must ensue, unless we can ventilate the dark and close haunts of English want and poverty, by education sad intellectual purifiers, as well as by acts of phy• meal succour. When we see, year after year, and in administration after administration, men of the most diverse parties, propped by the most divergent interests, and reared In must contrary political schools,—when we see them all and each successively turn their whole re- Sources of information and of power, even to the risking of that power, to such aims as those of procuring cheap food, cheap instruction, sod well being to the poor, we may feel assured that there is more which ie rikes the apprehension and actuates the conduct of these statesmen, than either they will mthnil, or we can divine. There is some evil prin ciple at work that requires to be neutralised; some active poison operatint, that requires its anti dote; some future growth of evil germinating, which these who are iii a position to judge and to know the state of the body politic, feel some imperative necessity for counteracting beyond what it is prudent or possible to explain. Of all the many reasons alleged by Sir ROBERT PEEL for the abolition of the corn laws, we will be bound to say that he never once revealed the true and most forcible reason. Nor did Lord JOHN RUSSELL, on Monday, in all his arguments for education fully reveal the strong motives which had urged him to ,verlook several distinct and valuable principles of religious equality in an anxiety to found some institution for the educatiou of the poor in this country. For many years have we laboured to inculcate the necessity which statesmen now have taken up; and it is only those who have watched the difficulties and the failure of each incipient attempt, who can duly appreciate and make allowance for present short comings. Nothing could be more plain, more sincere, more full, than Lord Jour; Itr'SMELL'S statement of the present position of the education question, and o. the different steps by which it had reached its present state. The birth an I progress of the English system of public education, like our parliament, our jury, our every thing, have not been the result of fore thought, hut the growth of circumstances, not the labour of a SOLON, but the work uftime. Mr. Bats ts, and Mr. DUNCOMBE, or Dr. VAUGHAN, might us well have risen in the days of SIMON de Morriowr, and criticised his mode of summoning the commons to parliament, as in the present day to censure our English education scheme as not squaring with certain theoretic principles of religious equality. But indeed, to dispute the conclusions of the enemies of the scheme we must look not within par liament, but without its walls. Mr. DUNCOMBE's was a witty and personal attack, showing how ministers had not done well, and might have mameuvred better ; but leaving the great question of the wrong itiflicted on religious freedom untouched. With re spect to the measure, dissenters have evidently split into two bodies: the one fearing that the patronage of schools and schoolmasters would raise proselytes from dissent to the established church; the other, that it would raise proselytes from both church and i dissent to catholicism. The policy and the answers with whish ministers have met both are the same. They are, that the present minutes are but the deeelopmeut of the old minutes; that the distribution of aid, influen r, and direction, is precisely made iu the same proportion as for the last years, and that 1846 is but a develop ment of 1839. At the same time Lord Jolts RussELL admits the hardship to dissenters and to Roman catholics. The hardship to the first is the insistina on the catechism in national schools of districts where the ditnienters are in insignificant numbers. To this Lord .1011 N remarks his disapproval of the catechism, and he added— " He should he glad to see a change in this respect, and further, if is any place there should be a small body 01 dis senters willing to seed their children to the church school but prevented from doing so by t►e catechism, this would form an additional reason for griming aid to the locality, so that a school might be opened where all the children of the place might so." The remedy of the ha•dship is here promised in the administration of the law; and the dissenters will be always powerful enough ' to obtain that remedy, when it is called for, from the government As to the dissenters, or rather those champions of the dis senters, who consider education a kind of rherul de in which they are to run down and tout the church, no ministry could satisfy them. Whether it was the dins nters who resuscitated education or not, the church of England has seized upon it, and by reason of its exclusive influence in rural districts, has made a more powerful weapon of it. This is not the fault of the government; nor can government be expected to undo it. The church of Englund sees the advantage of education, not merely to itself, but to the quiet and orderly conduct of the poor. The throniele would have us scout the scheme of education, because the bishops approve of it. We cannot condemn the bishops, as so necessarily made up of self and error, that we Fhonld repudiate what they approve. The majority of the dissenters, we are certain, like no such narrow, no such hateful views. ' If we consider the declaration of the government to have been wise and fair towards congregationalist objec tions, we cannot but think it was equally bound to meet and remove the fears of the Wesley ans. Puseyites and Roman catholics have, in many English towns, become very militant—very eager for proselytism. In many cases, school has been started against school, and races run, the object of which was not the exten sion of secular knowledge, but of peculiarly sectarian creeds. The ecclesiastical as well as the social govern ment of the catholic community is peculiar, and demands due and separate csnsideration, which it ev dentiv has not yet received. What is aimed at by the government is to extend the means of secular education. The Church of England has beer. induced to submit to changes, involving increase and furtherance of secular education. A retrograde step would be made in granting aid to schools where secular education was the least of objects and religious proselytism all. Many speakers expressed a regret, that government had originally accepted the religious inspection of national schools. But is not this very religious inspection a guarantee that the religious instruction of Church of England schools shall not be exclusively and narrowly directed towards prosely tism? The Church of Englat.d by aomitting this, has waived a power not acquired a right. And we should be glad, not of a similar, perhaps, but of some proportionate guarantee in the case of Roman catholic schools. But, as lord NIORPETH observed, we are not at all certain that the catholic hierarchy would consent to any inspection. That the catholic body and the government can, however, come to an understanding, and that the esthetic exclusion, so greedily seized on by certain champions of dish nt, is not considered so final an objection by the catholics themselves, we have sufficient proof in the manly speech of the Earl of ARUNDEL, and his support of the government scheme. We must say that we have been considerably disappointed in the present debate. We expected a stand-up fight. We looked to hearing the mani fold and much-noised objections of the congrega tionaloas expounded in a style more lucid and a logic more forcible than these hitherto displayed. But we have looked in vain. Mr. J)UNCOMBE played with the question : and Mr. BRiotur, so eloquent and powerful in the exposure of a real grievance, merely showed a want of temper and self-possession in his exaggeration of a sectarian one. Moreover, Mr. BRIGHT spoke against his brief. The majority of the nonconformists do not object with Mr. BAINES or Mr. BRIGHT to state interference, but object to certain consequences, which they dread as necessarily following the present mode of interference. This dread mid this objection have been proved futile over and over again is several speeches, so that Mr. BRIGHT f,ll back into the old radical objection to state education at all. Sir GEORGE GREY dis posed of this last night, as Mr. MACAULAY did the night before. It is painful to hear eloquence wasted in the exposure of so vulgar an absurdity. TUE committee appointed by the House of Com mons to inquire into the operation and policy of the navigation laws have availed themselves of the power conferred upon them to report, from time to time, the minutes of evidence taken before them ; and laid on the table of the house the first and second parts of the information they are collecting. These reports embrace the testimony elicited in the course of the sittings which preceded the Easter recess. Messes- LEFEVRK and MACGREGOR, the joint asiiiistant secretaries of the Board of Trade, have examined as to the actual form and pressure of the navigation laws of this and other civilized states. Mr. MACARTHY, collector of the customs at Turk's Island (Bahama group); Mr. 'form, vice consul for the Swedish and Norwegian government; Mr. S. Bitowtettio, extensively concerned in the colonial general South Set and whaling business ; Mr. BERGER, an extensive trader to the United States (formerly engaged in the Mediterranean trade); Mr. W. H. 009 CHEN, a Baltic trader; and Mr. JOHN BROOKS, who in his day has deal; largely with Ba tavia, have borne testimony as merchants to their experience of the working of these laws. We admit at once that the evidence of these gentlemen, instructive and weighty though it be, cannot be looked upon as conclusive. It is in a great measure part of the case against our existing naviga tion laws; the representatives of the protected ship ping interests on the committee will doubtless adduce witnesses of their own, after those of the free traders have been heard. Even regarded as evidence against the navigation laws, the testimony now before us is fragmentary and incomplete. Mr. LEIEVRE, who was examined on tho provi visions of the Navigation Acts, and the in terpretation put upon them by the executive government, was obliged to refer the committee for information on not a few points of practical importance to the Customs department and the India House. Mr. littowst NG and Mr.Torrt• filled in from their own experience some details of foreign systems of navigation law, with which it was not to be excected that Mr. Maeottecott's discharge of his official ad• ministeative duties sleiuld have rendered him conver sant. Many important witnesses remain to be examined, before the committee or readers of the evidence in general, can derive from it a compre hensive and commanding view ofthe nature and effects of our system of navigation laws. It may be said that the committee would have done better had they examined all their official witnesses first, in' order to obtain a thorou;h know!ed.,e of the existing law before they proceeded to examine practical mer chants as to its effects ; but committees, like less dig nified inquirers, must often be content to take in formation as it comes to hand. For the cooking of reports, " first este% your witness," is as important • maxim as "first elteh your hare" fur the cooking of soup. After these remarl.s, our readers will not expect that we are going to summit the solecism of summing up judicially upon a case as yet only heard in part But there is one Let which obtrudes itself from the perusal .of the minutes of evidence on the 'I navigation laws, and that is the number of modifica tions which these laws have undergone from time to time, in order t adapt them to the constantly changing phases of society and trade, and the neces sity, admitted even by the advocates of our system in its leading feature,, of further changes, to adapt it to the existing state commercial relations. As the navigation law originally stood, the class of " enumerated articles" embraced a considerable num ber now omit.ed,aiol passed over without notice some important commodities now named. Furrign salt, pitch, resin, pota-h, vinegar, and sugar, have been successively dropped out of the catalogue. Tallow, currants, tobacco, wool, shumac, madders, molder roots, barilla, brimstone, bark of oak, cork, oranges, lemons, linseed, r ipeseed, and cloverseed, have been in succession add d. In the course of time articiesof importation whi.ll were once of importance have ceased to be so, cad tier reran, and the list has been changed to suit the changing circumstances of trade. Again, the Is v originally ran, that " enumerated goods" could onit be imported " in British slips, or in ships of the count , sy of which the goods are the produce, or in ships of Vie country from which the are imported." But, since the law was enacteg "). , I s has been found that its strict enforcement would operate unequally, and thus excite against us the enmity of many states. Tiie facility of ascending rivers by steam navigation has opened means of commercial adventure to m my states in the interior of Europe and America, w'aich have no ports for sea-going ves sels. Again, it his been found—in the cane of Austria, for example—that Austrian vessels, clearing from ports in the Danube, often found it impossible to complete their cargoes, unless they should be allowed to load partly with Austrian and partly with Turkish pro duce. It was also found that much English capital was invested in tie steam-boats plying on continental rivers. All these considerations, combined, led to a relaxation of the !ow, and privileges have been given to the ships of so ae countries to come from the portal of other states, is the same manner as if they were ports of the states to which the ships belong. In like manner the peculiar position of the Hanseatic Towns has led to a relaxation in their case of the strictness of our navigation law as it originally stood in respect to the manning of vessels. Many and more essential changes undergone by the navigation la , c, since its first enactment, might easily be pointed 0 . . t. The existing anomalies in the law which urgentl, (211 for further modifization, even on the assumption that its general policy ought to be adhered to, are not difficult to discover. Flour, fish, fish oils, animals, sugar refined in Europe, and a number of other bulky articles of frequent oczurrenee in trade, not ii.auded among the " enumerated articles," are free from any restriction as to importa tion under the navigation law. Again, our navigation law and our restricte I colonial system are inseparable parts of the same p dicy. The latter has been sword away in justice to the colonies the former will re quire a wide revision. A still more important consideration is pressed upon our attention by a shipping return delivered on Monday with the " Votes." 'the number of British vessels of "the long soyage" that entered inwards dnring the year 1847, was 16,136 ; their aggregate tonnage, 3,622,808 toes; the number of their crews, 181,410. The number nf vessels of " the long voya.7" " that cleared outward in the course of 1817 was 15,196, their aggregate tonnage 3,091,348, the number of their crews 164,375. The aggregate tonnage of the vessels entering and clearing is upwards of six millions and a half Taking freights at the low average of 31. per ton gives a revenue (supposing none had sailed in ballast or partly luden)of twenty millions ; representing (at the rate of 10 per cent.) a capital of two hundred millions. The trade of Great Britain alone cannot nsure to all these vessels full cargoes from the time they leave this country till they return. Their best, their only chance is in their ability, if, when they arrive at their destination outwards, they can not immediately get a return cargo, to lo id for a third market, and there, it may be, for a fourth, until they find a cargo for home. But in order to do this they must engage in the carrying trade of the world; they . must be able to compete with the shipping of all nations upon equal terms. In this rivalry they can derive no aid froin the navigation la x, butt hey may be, ar d are often, placed at disadvantage by its tendency to enhance the coat of construction and navigating. The navi gation law actually depresses that section of the shipping interest wnich is engaged in foreign trade ; prevents the capital engaged in that branch from yielding full returns, or expanding as it might other wise do. _ . We challenge the attention of the members of committee friendly to the maintenance of the naviga tion law, to these considerations. The navigation law of to-day is not the navigation law of 1662. With all the modifications it has undergone, it is not a law adapted to the actual circumstances of the country. It has undergone much, and must undergo more change. Their business is to show, not merely that a navigation law is expedient, but what naviga tion law. The report of the committee, and the docu mentary and oral evidence appended to it, will go far to decide the question, what alterations of the navigation law are required, and w het her its entire abrogation may not be the best way of mending it. We remind them of this to put them on their mettle ; fur we want to have the ques• ion thoroughly sifted and settled with out any unnecessary loss of time. The Paris journals of Monday are chiefly occupied with reports and c, mments on the proceedings et Berlin, the news from the United States, and from Madrid. General Concha, on the occasion of his visit to Paris, was relieved from the necessity of informing Queen Christina what would be the probable cnnee quences of her return to Madrid, by her Majesty having incidentally mentioned to him in converse thin that her intentions were to pass the spring and summer in visiting het family in Italy. Le SWele, noticing the report of the intended visit of the Emperor Nicholas to Pszis, say a: " Our correeporl. nee or to-de7 co the report of an intended visit ..f the Emperor Nicholas to Penis. The pro mulgivi.m of the letters patent of the 3rd February, which have opened a new era to Prunia, are said to have ores tioned a change in the views of the Emperor. The Cigar desires to draw dotter tt Franc?, hoping to obtain the active concurrence of our s oeernment towards euppreming this budding liberty. Ought not France to blush at the very idea of such hopes being placed upon her , " No Madrid mail was receiv. d in Paris on Monday. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 1. The delay of one month accorded by the Porte for the settlement of the difference between the govern meat of the sultan and M. Coletti, having expired ' this day, relations have been suspended with Greece. M. Argyroupolo, the Greek charge d' affairs, will pos sibly remain here fur some time longer, in a non official capacity, and possibly the Greek consul will continue his functions, as it is not the wish of the Porte that this rupture should, for a time at least, affect the commercial relations of the two countries. The Porte, in its isolated po4tion, consented to the proposition made by Count Sturmer, that this affair should be referred for arbitr.ition to Prince Meter- 1 nick, and that no ulterior steps should be taken till the opinion of the Austrian cabinet was known. On the first news of the difference between Grey ce and Turkey reaching Vienna, Prince Metternich wrote both to Count Sturmer and to M.delVeis, the Austrian envoy at Athenti,oondemnieg the conduct of the Porte, as having acted with too much precipitation ; out four days ago a courier arrived here from Vienna, with despatches for Count Stunner, which entirely approve of the conduct of the Internuncio, in the sup port which he gave the 'Turkish government; aud• saying that the Austrian cabinet had come to its first conclusion from the hasty, and consequently imperfect,. report of the matter which it had received from NI.- de Weis. The despatch strongly censures the conduct of M. Coletti, and hopes that the Porte will remain firm in its demand for full and entire satisfaction. It was on receipt of this communication that Count Stunner proposed to the Grand Vizier that Prince Metternich should be appointed arbitrator in the difference existing between the two governments, or that at least his opinion should be taken as to the measures which might be eventuated by a suspension of relations. The Turkish government has consented to the proposition of Count Stormer, reserving, how ever, to themselves the power of rejecting the deci sion of the Austrian minister if it should not meet with the approval of the majority of the council. lkspatches have been sent from the Porte to Chekil Effendi, the Turkish ambassador at Vienna, which he will communicate to Prince Metternich. It is understood that these despatches speak in the most grateful terms of the conduct of Count Stormer, for the disinterested support which he gave the government of the Sultan, and that in a moment of extreme difficulty. The ministers of the Porte are fully aware that the clear and impartial statement of the difference existing between them and M. Coletti, sent to the Austrian cabinet by Count Stormer, is the cause of the warm support which they at present receive from Prince Metternich. A fact connected with this affdr has just come to light, which shows still more the bungling duplicity which for some time past has marked the policy of the French am bassador. Whilst he, with the representatives of the other great powers, was advising the Porte to de mand reparation for the insult offered to its repre sentative, he wrote secretly to Athens, saying that if Coletti resisted he would be responsible for the result. It was at the suggestion made by the French ambas sador through M. Piscatory, that King Otho wrote to the Sultan, for M. de Bourqueney was of opinion that the flattering, but meaningless, expressions contained in the royal missive would dispose his Highness to accede to the counter-proposition subsequently made by Coletti. The whole of M. de Bourqueuey's little plo' has failed. Its clumsiness, however, has done much to change into ridicule the indignation which it has naturally excited. M. Guizot possibly foresaw the fate of all these blurdering intrigues, which, amongst experienced diplomatists, would excite notning but laughter, were it not for the intention in woich they are conceived. To counteract, therefore, in some measure, their effect at the Porte, he wrote to Tunis, urging strongly on the Bey the necessity of making some demonstration, from which it might be interred that he still lull; recognised the suzerainty of the Sultan. Even this stratagem has failed, aid bath the Sultan and his ministers are now fully alive to the little dependence which is to be placed on French professions. At the requi at of the Port?, Mr. Wellesley gave orders to the commander of her Majesty's steamer Ilecla to convey to 81mpsoon 700 'Turkish soldiers, I destined to form part of the army which is to operate I against Bedherhan Boy. The Heels having received the soldiers on board, and a Pacha, who is to have a command in the expedition, left yesterday for her destination. FRANCE.—The naval division under the orders of Prince Oscar of Sweden, composed of the brig Lordetgen and the frigate Eugenia, aretvod in the roadstral of Toulon in the night of the 13th fret. Genoa. On priming by the Hy . ares the Prince exchanged salutes with the Prince de J• Linville, who was stdl lying there. Prince Oscar c mid not land at Toulon until the 18 h, having to perform fire day. quarantine, in consequence of haring neglected to provide birwelf with dean hills of hsalth. The Chamber of Commerce of Lyons has just voted the sum of 5,0001. wiser& the necessary studies for cutting through the I xhinus of 8 oes.—D;egsts. MR. O'CONNELL.—We read in the Gazette de Lyon, of the 17th April: —" A consultation of physicians wan held yesterday, to decide whether it wan advisable or not for Mr. O'Connell to proceed on his journey, owing to the extreme state of weakness he was in." BAVARIA.—MUNICII, APRIL 13.—The king has just dissolved the committee appointed to draw up a sow law in civil a d criminal proceeding., and has appointed. new commimiun, presided by M. Nlaarer, assisted by M. Molitor. These gentlemen are zealous partisans of oral proceedings and trials in public. The Prince of Leiningen, who, during the last session. was president of the first cham ber of the Bavarian states, is on the point of leaving fur Lon don, ti fetch his august mother the Duchess of Kent, who ha. expressed a wins to visit the continent. ALGERIA.—CarTuRE OF 800-NfAzA.—News re ceived at Paris by courier, announces the capture of Bou ' Mass. It was this famous seheritf who, in 1845, caused the revolt in the Dah,a, which soon spread over the „hole of Algeria, and in which Abd-el-Kader only acted a seemadary part. He had such power at his command that the emir feared him as a rival, lest he should be regar ed as the anti- Christ of the Mossulmen, and it is said that he secretly at tempt. dto have hint assassinated. His daring attacks upon the French are well known. After having wandered for ' more than a year amongst the tribes of the south he had just returned to Debra, where ha pre.euce would not have failed to rekindle the fanaticism of the Kabyles of those moun tains. He was captured by Colonel de St. Arnauld, who was no doubt seconded by Captain Richard, the head of the Arab bureau at Olesnsvills. Thia capture is an important event, and will take a prominent place in the annals of the French domination in Algeria at the side of the submission of Ben-Salem. It is said that Bousfdaza will be sent to Paris. COLONIAL. JAMAICA.—The asperities of parties appear to have somewhat abated since the dispatch of the preceding cavil. The bill for imposing an income tax on civil officials, on going into commtte e, had a measure for the irnpodtion of a general income tax moved as an amendment. Ultimately both schemes were thrown out in committee, though it took a number of cross motions and amendments to bring this consucrimatiou ab .ut. One or two attempts were sub- sequently made to renew the proposal that the Assembly should not proceed to • third reading of any revenue bill amid tne Council weed the re'renchment bill, but they scarcely met with any support. Tilt House of Assembly were making judicious alterations in the island tariff. On the 25th of March Mr. Johnston obtained the appointment of a special committee to prepare a memorial and a petition to the Queen, praying that Jamaica might be declared a free port. The house went into committee on the state of the islacd the same day, and the result was, the adoption of a series of r, 'cautions, declaring that the house would provide funds to defray the expense of the Coolies, already on their way to the island, and. 10,000(. in addition to be applied to Alncan immigration, at the rate of 10/. for every negro sent to the 14.nd this year in the ezt.erimental steamer. A declaration was added, to the effect, that in respect of the contemplated immigration from the Kroo coas.:, Jamaica ought to he placed on a footing of equality with Guises and Trinidad ; and that the steamer ought on her first voyage to take to Africa, from Jennie., a number of the Kruo people, now settled there, to explain to their countrymen the advantages shich the island otters to emi grants. Though lit, not least, the petition of Mr. A. O. k'l Re, for a bill to enable him to establish central sugar manufactories and saw mills in the island, was received with marked approbation, when (the timo tor entertaining pri vate business having elapsed) one adverse vote would have thrown it out. Mr. Geddes said he " hailsd the projet. so the dawn of a new era ;" and the Morning Journal echoes the sentiment. We do, indeed, believe it will prove the dawn of a new era for all the British West India colonies. - . About the middle of March, the directors of the Jamaica Bank made a most eatisfactory report to their shareholders. The balance of profit in the year ending 314 Dec., 1846, °habit,' them to declare a dividend for the half-ye. rat the r►te of 6 per cent., and carry 1,326/. to the surplus fund, which, thus augmented, amounts to 9,6461. The report speaks confidently of the Wand'. commercial prove-to. • • • ST. VINCENT.—The legislature pawed the Tax Bill without opposition on the lith of M irch ; the rate wu fixed at 2 per cent. invalid of l j per cent—the rate in the bill previously paned by t►e ueenibly, and rejected by the council. On the 19th of March the legislature separated, without disposing in the businesa before them--a sufficient number of members to form a house cot being is attendance. ST. LUCIA.—The Independent Press announces that the second February mill had brought EA , I prey's confirmatiun of M. Wuter's removal from the legislative cout.cil and the appointment of Culvert Torrence as governor of the colony, with a salary of 1,2001. Press is in hysterics at the news. ARRIVAL FROM LIMA.—A vessel earned the lea bells arrie.d in the Mersey aderd.y from Lima, with specie in cargo to the amount o f 280,0001. ANOTHER IRISH STEAMER NEARLY LOST.—SOIITH- LnFTON, 830 foot.—The Duke of Cambridge, an Irish steamer, crowded with pamene ers, , ran aground near the Needles, in the Isle of Wight, this morning at four o'clock, during a dense f•g. If it had hen rough not a soul would have been saved. She got off at about three this afternoon, and hos jus: entered Southampton Dock. Sho has expe rienced very 111th damage. THE HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL, ST. GEORGE, HAN ovea-mintas —Yesterday forenoon, • full meeting of the vestry of the pariah of St. George, II square, was held in the board-room of the warkhetuse, Mount-street, Gros venor-square, •• to consider what steps it was expedient to take in reference to the bill now before parliament, intitled a bill for the improvement of the health of towns." It was d eldest, on the moti.,ll of Mr. Christopher, th it a committee be farmed ut ora•ch the progeees of the bill in parliament; and that it report to a future vestry. THE EXPRI4AS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1847. Me Court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Trines,* Royal and the Princess Ahc., took an airing xe‘terdly afternoon in an open carriage and four. The io*al dinner_ party, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, in cluded H.K.H. the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies Baron and Barone.* de Beust, Lady Augusta Bruce, Ba roness de Speth, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord and Lady Willoughby dr Eresby, Lord Robert Gro.venor, the H.. 0. Francis and Lady Anne Charteris, and the Eight lion. Mr. and Mrs, Fox Manic. . . -- • - ----.-. Her 310jvbty the Queen Dowager took an airing Kent a carriage . and four. the Duchee uf Kent visited her Alikiery, on Monday, at Marlborough huum the Duchess of Kent took en airing in a carnage and four ye,terday. The roy4l duchees risked the Duchess of Gloucester yeet Mar, at tiloucesier house. A deputation from the Southampton and Dorches ter Railway had an interview with the Comniivvioners of her Majeaty's 'Woods and Forests yesterday, at their office, in Whitehall• place. A deputation from the Severn Commis sion and S affordable°, Worcester, ire, and Birmingham Canal Company had en interview with the Right lion. E. Strutt yesterday, et the office of the Como a.sonient in Great Grunge-street. A deputations from the I.,;ght Dues Associa tion had an interview with Lurd .1. Russell yesterday, at his official residence in D•oorning.street. Mr. G. Craig, M.l'.. and Lord &Trivial°, had an interview with the Right lion. E. Strutt vent. edgy. The Rev. R. Gray had an interview with Elul Grey yesterday. Mr. C. D. 11 tyv had Id. an in terview with the the noble earl et the Colonial-office. A deputation respecting fvctories had an inttrview with the Earl of Clotrand yes. rday, at the office ..f the Beard of Train. A deputation !rota the Boston and Stamford Rail way Company had an interview with the light Hon. E. Strutt yesterday. A deputation from the Southampton Gas-light and Coke Cow ...ay nod an interview with Vis count Morpeth, at the office of the W,vods and Forests. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Govt.:nor of South Australia. The Earl and Countess Granville have arrived in towu from Pu is. -• The following members of the new bishoprics commission yesterday attended a meting in Whitehall. place .—The Archhtshop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord J. Knoell, the E of Powis, the BAnp of London, the Bt.hop of Durham, the Bishop of Wm cluster, the Bishop of Uheoln, the Bishop of Chester, Sir G. Grey, end the eh ...cellar of the Exchequer. From last night's Gaulle. LEVEL—Notice in given in last night's Gaulte that the Queen sib hold a levee on Wednesday next, 2Sth in. .tent. Gentlemen intending to be present are informed that it is ab4olutely neevuary that their names, 'etch the name of the nobleman or gentleman who is to present them, should be sent to the Lord Chamberi.sio's office, on Monday, the 26th inst.. bet dte twelve o'clock, 1.1 or .er that they may be submitted fur the Queen's approbation. All person,. having petitions or addresses to preset to her Majesty at the levee, are to write on two cards, with their names, a state ment of the object of such petitions or addresses, and the names of the persons from whom they come ; one card to be delivered to the page in ace ante room, and the other to the Lord Chamberlain, who will read its contents, at the time of presentation, to h r Maje►ty ; and, on these occasions, no other statement is to be addressed to her Majesty. A depu tation at pr sent as address is not to race, d four persons. The state apartments will not be open for the reception of company until half-past one o'clock. The presentations will commence at two o'clock. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 17.—The Queen has ap proved of Mr. W. P. Robertson, as Consul-General in Great Biitain for the Republic of the Equator. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Aram 19. Royal Reg. of Artillery.—Fiint Lieut. G. Wilder to be Kt. emt., rice lion. F. Barite who ret. upon Hee. Lieut. W. 11. Blair to be first Rent., rice Wilder. Ordnance Med. Dep.—Assist...Sorg. R. Templeton to be *tug., vice Calcbester, Rb ,ret. DEATH OE SIR WALTER SCOTT.—Died of dysentry, at the Cape of O oil Hope, on his way home from Madras, Lieut.-Cul. Sir Walter Scutt, Bart., of Abbotefdrd, eldest aon and last surviving child of the author of " Waverley." Sir Walter was born in 1801, and was a lieut.-colonel in the 19th Humus. The baronetcy is extinct, but the Abbotsford property paws to Walter Baru Lockhart, a cornet in the 16th Lancers, the only son of the editor of the Quarterly Review. and the wile grandam of the author of " Wa. verley." Sir Walter was married in 1825 to a WAS Jdbson, or &chore, Fife, who still survives to lament, as all whu knew him must do, an excellent officer, with many amiable qualities sad much kindness of heart. SUICIDE OT Sift HENRY VASSALL WEBsTER.-- Thu. gentleman died at 12 o'clock yesterday morning, from the . &et* of a wound inflicted by himself tile previous d iy. Sir Henry Pad but lately returned from the continent, where he had been travelling L sdy Webster f,r change of scene, and had been in an indifferent sate of health since his return to his town residence, 31, Upper Brook street. He wan left in bed on Sunday night in his u• us! state, nothing particular being otury d in his el-. meanour. Net morning, at seven o'clock, his ser vant knocked at the door, but on receiving no reply went away. At half past eight o'clock he knocked again, and finding that his master still revalued silent, be came alarmed, and informed Lady Webster of the circum stance. Her ladyship itnmediately suggested that the door should be broken open, and this having been due, the man entered the room, and found his master lying on the floor senseless with a Revere wound on the left aide of hie throat, from which bleud was copiously flowing. The servant went toubtain medical aid, and ere many minutes had elapsed sev• sal medical gentlemen were in attendance and rendered all the assistance in their power up to hi. last breath. It appears that the gash, inflicted by a razor, wae • not a very large one, but as the jugular v. in was injured no hope could he entertained. The unfortunate gentleman, from the praiti di in which he wart discovered, must have got up hem his bed. Sir Henry Wehste r gradually linger, d up to 12 o'clock yesterday morning, when he hreathe,l his lost. Sir Henry was born in 1794, being the second son of Sir Godfrey Vsuall Webster, Bert, and uncle to the pre sent holder of that title, with which is connected the cele brated Battle Abbey, Sasses. His mother writhe late Lady Holland. She was the daughter and heiress of Richard Vault, Eaq , of the ialand of Jamaica, and married Sir Godfrey in 1786. The marriage was dissolvt d in 1797 by an act of parliament, and us the same yr sr she married Lord Holland. Sir Hence entered the army in 1810, being then 20 years of age. 101831 he wu prnmoted tothe rank of Lieut.- Col., but since be attained his majority in 1926, would app , or to have been on the unattached list. In 181:5, he was nominated a Knight of Hulhelm, of the Netherlands. This • honour, it appears, was conferred in consideration of the service which he rendered while acting as tide de-camp to the P, ince ref Orange at Waterloo. In 1 , 32, be was nom'- noted a Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword of t'uritigai, and in lasli revolved the ordrre of that of Sr. Bento d'Aris. In 1843, he received the only English title which he held, the% of a knight bachelor, by patent. He was decorated with a medal fur Warerloo. and would, of edurse, have been enti•led to the new Pen n.ular medal. The deceased married, some years since, the only daughter and heiress of the late Samuel Boddington, Esq., of London. Her latijabi:i left Brook-street, last evening, for Ruhrunpton. THE BRITISH SCHOOLS, COTENTRIN—We have to apo:ogiee to Mr. Cooper for the delay in puhlwhing the fol lowing Wien, which were mislaid: - - - CoIrENTIT Aram 01.—Sir,—A letter was publi.tied in your paper of the nth met:, in which a moat incorrect and limeiu representation is Riven of the clreuww4allees =wee fed with the return to the Treasury of a sum of MI., which hod been `Framed towards the erectint ot achoul-rooms in Vicur.lane, in the city. It is the object of that re presentation to deny that this money was rulentorily returned by the wiles who sent it. Your correspondent soya, '•as the school had never been used as • day-school, on any system, the money mem ordered to be returned." both these statements are [llse. The ,chool boa al awj• been used an • day reboot. The money was never ordered to be returned. WA thee your oorrespandent nit. eel: invented this secy. or was made the doe of any other pens" I am, of course, unable to may. I chat leoge him to substantiate it. I inclose a all of the letters I received from the committee of council on education, and which I shall he °baited to you to publish. They fully prove that the npayment of the government grant wan mitre!), robodery on the part of the penOlos connected with toe schools. With the other affirmations of the letter I have noconearn, it being my object sirs ly to place in Its true light the nature of the transaction which g ice toessiert to the reckless detractions on which I have animadverted. CfIOPM • . Privy (boned Oboe, Doentlngdtreet, March 23. —Par,—l have be taelmodleclim the reangt of your letter, dated Mardi 21, 1541 in whith y o u inform me that, at • meeting held In Coventry, on M elt Instant, the leaden and trionda of the lintiab "trona*, et Viser-den, in that city, unanimously resolved to return to het Melody . , You. Fury the glut of all., which they received from the yarliamenteny fund for the promotion of dublic education in the year 1.35. lem rented b onluabl, you that, although the term, upon whit* this grant erne given said received, dot not Include any condltion or power eif Mow meat, the lord, of the committee amnia! will receive thermosphere of the 2001. as • complete caro Iling of the grant ; ao that ever hate. after no claim of any kind whaboever tball be made by he r MOW, government upon the !Walsh whads in Vicar-lane, Coventry, in re. vett to the grant of 2001. 14 therefore, upon full omedtterat ion, the tee-ten and massacre of the schools dealer to retort the grant, aid to weer weir very slight connedue with the government, the mount may be bnoight to this °doe soy between eleven sad bur; and • full d charge shall be glees by. Irmo authoriaed on behalf of their lord hip —I em, air, your obedient 'cream, !!Lear CrlOßlM — Ednasd Cooler, Keck Park-atreet, Coventry. Pr tvy Ownell Oak*, kdrning-street, March --ftir—t have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated Mb Mareh, 1647, in which, on behalf of the trustees of the %lea-lane. Covencrv, I' rind. echoed, you endow • bid upon Mown Jones Loyd, end (b. (dated 25th Mai* 1647 and payable seven days Wier date) for 2014 (two smd hundred pounds), ha repayment, and Si a enmplete7enneelling of • runt of that IS. ands tonsedstleserecalma ...ChM. Wesel building by the Lords of Haat Mat=lbonsary In the yew . ISM My lords duvet me ton d, OM, the repayment of Mrs grant, no claim ce any Mad eitalesime= d e made himmiter by her Majoe lye government upon the brakes embeois in Vitnebene. efteentry in respect atilt grunt which the ..he received hon. the Leda tor ber Maja , tv'e Trevirary.— I sin, sir, yourulladlent•CMlllia, ii.4la. le urea. —Wanted Cooper, Fan., Coventry. PRINTERS' PENSION Sourrr.—The annual dinner of the Pnnters' Pension S• ciety took place yea., relay, at the London Tavern, Luke James Hansard, Hsq., pre ided. 1 he usual loyal touts having been disposed of, tee chairman proposed success of the Stationers' Company. The eh iir man then pr•posed the toast of the evening, tamely—" The Printers' Pennon Society." Lord Hanley Sines& pro posed the !testa) of the chairman, and Hr. Han sard returned thanks. The total am lint of subscrip- tions announced, was 3211. 16., including a list of suteerivions from lady authoresses, handed in by Lord 1). Coutte Stuart. amounting to 351. 16s. 6d. Pricy e Albert vent a donation of 251., and consented to he the patrol of the society. We find from the report of this a,mi ty, that its funded proprry amounts to nearly 4,5641.; its income for the lot year arising horn interest of the strive sum. Minawin. and subscriptions were upward* ut 111001., of w hien 5291. was divided amongst penstuuets; the sum of 4001. haying been fuuticd. SOCIETY FOR TE.SCHING THE BLIND. The an ' niversary meeting of this mci ty nos held yesterday at the Hsnovernquare rooms, the Bishop of Oxford in the chair. The children of the society's school having sung • hymn, the proceedings were opened by prayer. The secretary read the report, which set forth that • site in the Avenue res.& Regent's-park, had been tined upon for the building of the society's schools. These schools would coat about 4,0001., and so that building fund at present amounted to truly 1.3001., the committee to:neatly solicited liberal donations. It appeared by the report that the Tame& ations of the society were reaching even to the Last, and missionaries were about to be sent to China. T treasurer then rend the filinnrial account, by which it appeared that the receipt. of th- past year had been 1,197!., and the expenditure 1,138/., leaving a balance of 691. The treasurer announced that within that hour various donations amounting in all to 221 , had la en neeived. On the motion 01 the Bishop of Tasmania, the report was adopted The children read to the rneitin: different portions of Scripture, selected at toe t - me by the Bishop of Oxford, and a cute of thanks to the chairman closed the sky's proceedings. FIRE IN GREEK-STREET, St/Wt.—Last night, about 10 o'clock, a fire broke cu . . at 59, 0: etk-dreet, Soho. The firemen, by tint of great exertions, however, suc ceeded in getting the BIM!, subdued by half-past 11 o'clock, but not until a vary serious damage was done. It could not be ascenained now the fire originated. The workmen all left their employment at nine o'clock, at which hour the building wna locked up, when it appeared perfectly free from fire. None of the pities, it is believed, are insured. INQUEST YEsTERDAT. UNFOUNDED CHARON •OAINIST A PKIMICIAN.—Before Mr. Payne at the Hand anal-Shears, Cloth fair, on th- b dy of Henry Clark, aged 41, who, it waS repartei, bad been poisoned by mediethe *riven by Dr. Lynch, medical idlimr of the West London Union.—Ann Serjeant said, d ceased had been ill for some time past, and a little more loan a week ago, Lis wife &s -tained an order fur the attendauce of Dr. Lynch. On Ties day last, Dr. Lynch rent him some ma dicine, three table spoonful's of which were to be taken at a time, but the de ceased, alm st immediately after tannic the first dote, died. Witness tasted MOM of the medicine after the deceased had died, and found ate. hot ill it .ke hri b. spit it out. It burnt her mouth dreadfully and raised blisters which were ririblis the nest day. Tne remains et the medicine were throat away, and in a short time Dr. Lynch came again, and gave the widow, who was in grest dim res., half-a-crown sut of his own pocket, and the neat day she recsived from the parish one shilling and a loaf.—Other witnerav stated they had tasted the medicine, arid found it not in the least degree hot —Mr. Taylor, surgeon, said he had analysed the two or three drops of the medicine which remained at the bottom of the bottle, and found nothing whatever deleterious. The deceased died from disease of the lunge and heart.—Dr. Lynch said the medicine be gave was an infusion of quasha bark and camphor —T. e Coroner observed that the report, as it reached him, was that the medicine had killed the man, and that Dr. Lynch had given the widow half-a-crown to hush the matter up.—Dr. Ls nch assured the coroner and the jury that he gave the money out of charity.—The jury ex pressed themselves satisfied with the treatment the deceased had received, and vournei . a verrtic, of Natural death." IRELAND. DUBLIN, A►RIL 19. The Freeman of to-day contains a long and severe attack on the Irish government fur the coldness of its reply to Captain Forbes, who expressed his inten tion to visit the Earl of Besborough, if time allowed. The reply is considered too repellinir for the repre sentative of American generosity. fhe Flerniiiii's remarks would. however, hive savoured more of regret than of blame, had the probable cause of his Excellency's reluctance tu reeetve visitors—be they ever so welcome—been known. The truth is that the Earl of Besboroueh'm failing health has of late given rise, in his family, to some aneasiness. The captain, however, has fared quite sumptuously in " lovely Cove and Cork." In Cove he was feasted, and spoke at great length. Cork was to have followed with a " dining" demonstration, but the death of the mayor prevented the exercise of hospitality, and the captain must be contented with "a piece of plate" and an address, studded, as his own banner, with the stars of fancy and rhetoric. There will also be pre sented to President Polk "magnificent green standard with a wreath of gold shamrocks." The Macedonian, which was expected in Cork, will, it appears, anchor in the Shannon. Connected with this vessel Captain Forbes mentioned a fact, which may be interpreted in different ways. Captain De Kay will charge the British government full freight for the cargo. This will increase the funds of the Boston committee by that amount, for nothing will be subtracted for the working of the ship. Things are not done with that grace or tact in some of our public imititutmns which may conceal a defect without provoking public opinion or wounding pri vate sensibility. M. :Myer was made responsible, though very unjustly, for the exhibition which accom panied the opening of his model kitchen. He wus coarsely assailed for the folly or indiscretion of others. A still more offensive act than the platoons of paupt rs . marched up to the chained bowls, is the following ad vertisement in the morning papers, which fills one with disgust. Poor humanity should be treated with somewhat more revert : MON.I cua SUVFICII MUM. ITCH ROYAL RAYKACK EAILANADO.— ibis kite ,en will be open PO. dly I Hooday 1, for the peep...p o p a the ...ion,. wiu td f.ot wed at the tnendicity inatitut!on. The ebtldren of the Bawds, ooktempitkers knitters, o,U head dawry at teen clock toss fed. Adnio ,, otr , t•t t►e public, .opens each. REPEAL AMIOCIATION.—At the usual weekly meeting of the repeal simaciation held to-day, toe rent was announcEd to amount to 341. The Mail of this t ven;ne has the following:— '• loyal National Repeal Awciation, Corn Exchange Room( Dublin, April B,—Dear Sir: I an, thieved by the committee respectfully to remind you of the ditllicult ',engin in sadtb they are pLiod, in their erdeavour to uphold the meoctation. The deplorable state of the country, overwhelmed by famine, prevents the usual collection of ittpul Rent, and the committee must therefore depend, for some time to came, chiefly upon the support of those members of the theadation whose rneffin, are more Independent. The war has been reduced to three or four individuals, and ull oche , outgoings have been !bewared with or curtailed, for the present em, rgemy, to the lower amount hr which it G paasibie to keep the svon.iiiiin open. The committee, therefore, sincerely trust 7ou wiit lai.dly appreciate the exertion., they are makirrg comamtain this mighty and inv.duable organ of the public voice, and renew your guise illation for the present year, and that you will also sir sour influence among your fries& to realise any additional subscripiimie that may be powdble —I here the honour to remain, yours sincerely, T. M. Rae, beiretary. (An ,newer will oblige") Tun WATERFORD MECHANICS' INarert:Ta hat broken t i lzfround in the progress of such in.titutions. It ix pro to establish a school in co-me:ion with the institute, in which instruction adapted to scientific and practical pur •-uita will be affirded on terms of sineular cheapness. Their houn of attendance are Iwo in three days of each week, and the charges vary from 20v. to 152. per quarter, for lan guages, sciences, fine arts, &c. The highest charge is for oil painting, 20e. a quarter. SCOTLAND. kIIINBURGH, APRIL 19. - - - • _ . The opponents of the education FCheme have beat defeated at Aberdeen, and have been allowed to walk the course in Kele,. The nature of the Aberdeen defeat shows that Mr. Bsines's doctrines have made little progress in the university town of the north. At the outset a preliminary meeting of electors con nected with the voluntary interest was held, when matters looked so gloomy, that after several conflict ing motions, it was ultimately resolved to leave it to a committee to decide whether a public meeting should be held. That body did decide on a public meeting, and the consequence was defeat. Only about 230 persons attended, but these by " a large majority" condemned the adverse motion. The Kele° meeting was also thinly attended, and the fincue of the parties concerned oily be estimated by their se lection of Mr. Macaulay for the presentation of their petition. The shareholders of the Argyll Canal have agreed to transfer the undertaking to government, on the understanding that the government is to commence and carry . on the works on its own responsibility, and employ in its construction the people whom the different Highland proprietors may recommend. The shareholders also stipulate for the return of their deposits, minus the expenses. GLASGOW, APRIL 19. A requisition has been prepared for presentation to the Lord Provost, desiring him to call a public meet ing to elicit an expression of public opinion respecting the stoppage of Sunday trains by the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The annoy ance inflicted on all classes by the pragmatical legislation of these gentlemen in the matter of Sunday travelling has been found unbearable. This railway has put down all post-chalses, gigs, &c., along the road ; and their stoppage of Sunday trains has rendered travelling on that day, however urgent the necessity, impossible. The requisition has been most numerou-ly, respectably, and influentially signed, and the voices against Sunday trains, which sounded so loud at the snug family party in the narrow rooms of the railway company, wII sound small indeed among the assembled citizens of Glasgow. 1 believe the result will be a petition to parliament to compel all railway companies to run a sufficient number of trains on Sundays for the accom modation of the public. It would be well for the Edinburgh and Glasgow if this petition were granted. The Sunday train and anti-Sunday train parties among the shareholders are so equally balanced that neither will give in. They will ruin the concern by waging polemical strife when they ought to be at tending to budin is—exactly in the way their ances tors lust the Setae of Bothwell Brig. 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