The Express. — London, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

Were he the rseeeure of 1846, th the resent ma of the house abandoned the at princip p le of per jot sty raiment protection. He thought the hon, baronet bad somewhat overstated the ere r to the increased import of slaves as attributable to the act of 1848. He believed it would be found that the number of slaves exported from the GOOFS of Aries in 1811 scarcely ex ceeded the number in 1848, and that the increment export during the last t .o or three pen was owing rather to the act of 1814 than to that of 1816. (Hear, hear.) But the only way to put down the slave trails was to beat stare lab 'us 10 °pea conipetition by the superior cheapness of free labour production. They had tried all other means and failed ; and a war no argument against the e terse they were Low taking—the only course left, as he believed, fur effecting the object—that the number of slaves exported had increased under the operatiou of the act of 1846—even if it were a '. With regard to the amount of protection, he found that the committee on the coffee and fiver I lansations recommended a differmitist duty of 113 s. tor six years; butt if the hon. baronet's facts and a-gumeuts went to: anything, they went to show that there Wall a cost of 15s. 90. between the coat of slave labour sugar and free-lateen sugar, and that nothing short of a permanent protective duty to that amount se - void have the required effect of enabling the West India colonists to compete with slave labour countries. If that was the view of the hon. brow, he could understand why he was no 1 roger prepared to abide by the recommendations of the committee of which he wee a member. But the committee went further, and agreed with his (the Cheeei nor of the Eechequera) view, that the ultimate pro-parity of the British West India pes sessions must depeud on their means of cares scully com peting with the foreign prairie rather than on any per manent protection—(Oear, hear)—and unless they were to enabled to coicpete, were was but little hops of their being restored to p. manta prosperity. If it was still the opinion el parliament that sooner or later the British West Indies must compete with the slave-growing colonic', the question was how that competition could be brought about in the beet and safest way. Front the evi dence taken before the committee it was shown that greet reductions in the expenee et managing might he effected without any loss in the amount of production. In one cse the cost of management had been reduced from 2.3001. in 1813, to I,tiool. in 1846; and in another from 2.3001. in 1843, to 1.3001. in 1846. The evidence of Mr. B key, Mr. loon, Mr. Greene sod others, also went so show that if pro tection were unly combatted fur a short time, and arrange. ments were made fur • small Additional supply of labourer* —a few thousands in a continuer stream—the rate of wages might be considerably reduced withffut any real injury to the labourers who, in consequence of the very high rate of wages which they now received, enjoyed 'runes to which lemons in a much h , gher station iu life in thin country were stranger.. Iho loon. baronet had not stated what ho recommend. el in lieu of the government plsn in re gard to the emigration of lab curers to the Wet Indies, but he had eluded to contracts and had urg, d that permission should be givers to enter into contracts fur labour for three years. lie believed that the right hon. path man (Mr. Gladstone) had permitted such contracts to be entered Into. Mr. G LADSTONE—Hut excluding natives et Africa and the Went The CH ANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would not enter into the detail.,but believed ti et it depended on the cola laid le./Wirer, theinse.ves whether such contracts for labour should be intend into, and his noble friend (Lord Grey) since he bad Mee in office had nut refused his sanction to any act of the colonial legislature tor that purpose. But it was not quits certain that the contract system would act. Mr. Tollemaehe, in his evidence, stated that it had been tried in Antigua, ut he was not hiclined to think that it anoweted. Toe object of the contract was to compel the labourer to work for less than the oolinury rate et wages. (No, no.) To that the re was no objection, provided the labourer refusing to carry out such • coetraet was not treated as a felon. With regard to squatting, he heard no means srgested by which it could oe effectually orevented. There were plenty of laws on :he subject, but the difficulty was to enforce them; and he must say, that the wont kind of squatting was pro &teed by the proprietors themselves, who drove the negroes t.s a dishmice from their o states. The great difficulty was admitted on all hands to he the want of labourers, but the proposal they made of advancing money, or guaranteeing the interest of a loan, it the colonial; m sal it themselves, would enable them to meet that difficulty. But neither the intrudaction of labourer, nor the other measures prep:wed, would avail, utile ss they extendel to tee West India plantar further time than was centemplated by the act of 1846. In FO extending the tar, bow, see, he did not resider that there was any depart ur, front the principle of that act. (Hear.) It was stated as a matter of complaint, that, nwine to the present clarification of sugars, the colonists did not get that amount of protection which it was intendee they should have, tecause the whole et the colored sugars was exposed to competition with the best foreign sugar. That was stated very clearly in the eviite ace of Mr Green. To remove this ground of complaiut they pioposed to introit:me a new elaseification of foreign muscovado sugar, and to divide that which was now introdue,d under one denomination into two clews, to he called brown clayed and muscovado. The lion. gentli nom add that this plan w. uld be defeated, bee_use the line sugar would come in as ineocovaeo. Everything de pended on the puha at which they fixed the standard, and, after consulted. n that day with tae officers of the Bred of Trade aid Customs, they were of opinion—but they would not pledge themselves ateolutely to it—the the description co urger which was now 35e. 61. long price in the market sliould be the standard ut brown elayed sugar, and that all below that should be entered at the muscovado rate. It the present law remained uuchanged the West India planters would only have a protection of 64. By the plan which the goverion• sit propoied they would have a protec tion of 7s. ter the first y tar, Gs 6d. fur the second year, and 6s. fur the third year. But that was not all, for they pro posed to reduce the differential duty on rum, with respect to which he was curet, i•ed that no mention had been made in the recommendations of the committee. (Hear, hear.) And this was not altogether valueless to the West Indian interest, for a great increase hid taken place in the quantity of ran entered for home consumption. In 1846 the number of gallons entered amounted to 2,634,000; in 1847 to 3,330,000. And the quantity en tered was still on the iticrease ; for the number of gallons in troduced during the four first months of 1841 was 849,000, whilst for tho four tint months of 1848 no less than 1,010,000 gallons came in. (Hear, hear.) These were the advantages which they proposed to give the West Indians.' They proposed to give them a higher protection than they at present enjoyed, and to extend that protection three years beyond the time for which it now existed. They proposed to r•oluce the differential duty on rum, to advance money to facilitate immigration, and they were prepared to consider any suggestion for the suppression of vagrancy. Butthey were not unmindful of the Tote rests of the consumer in this country. (Hear.) He believed that the ieterests of the producers of sugar and of the consumers were identical, anti that the pro ducers must ultimately look to increased production with low prices for safety arid prosperity. (Hear, hear.) They proposed to reduce the duty un colonial sugar is., and to in crease the differential duty between foreign and colonial moor. He did nut think that the price would be thereby enhances to the consumer for the present or next year, be cause in the first place there was a great quantity of sugar in hand as compared with last year ; and secondly, there was a tropect of a large production in the pres,ut year; and thirdly, it was probable, from the state of the con tinent that a gnat portion of the sugar in the foreign warehores would be brought to this country in the I first instance. The stock in hand in the live chief ports of the contirat and this country in the present ear as compared with the quantity held last year was 143,0e0 tons against 103,000 tons, belie a difference cf 40,000 tons in lavour of the present year. He did not, for these reasons, expect any enhancement of price during the : resent or folio-sing year. The hon. gen leman said that the production of the felonies was ens:L.l to the eon li months'. iu this country, and could be even more ; but did not the hon. gentleman see that if the colonies produced more than was consumed in this country the surplus must go into foreign markets, and therefore that the price must depend on the price in those markets? But if, on the other band, the colonies only produced fur this country, and tkat at a high price, it was quite clear that the consumers would not stand that high price, and that they would demand aa uilherence to the principles of the eels of 1444 and 1846. With regard to the effect of this measure oa the revenue, which it was said this proposal would endanger, he could only ash, if their proposition was likely to have any , such effect, what would be the effect of the recommendation of the committee ? The loss by their proposal would lie le. per cwt., or 11 per ton, on colouial sugar; and as their con emotion of colonial sugar, taking it at 24o what 0001. it But il was lasthe t yearre , was 240,000 tone, the loss would be , commendation of the committee were adopted, the loss would be 4s. a cwt., or 41. per ton, and on the whole consumption of colonial sugar, 960,0001. (Hoar, hear.) Ile dad riot know that there was any other point on which it was necessary fi r him to afford further information to the house. The question was, in what way permanent benefit to the colonies could be promoted ? He believed that could only be by a great consumption of sugar, and that that con sumption mutt take place in consequence of reduction in price. Mr. K. SEYMER said his object was to force upon the government a reconsideration of this important question. The right hon. baronet at the head of the late government always appeared to him to entertain sound and statesmanlike sic ws en this question. Ile viewed the question as one of justice. The state of the colonies was awful. People were every day falling into a lower grids. It was time for free traders to retrace their steps. Right as they might be in their decimals, th-y were proved to be wrong in their mil lions. lie should give his decided support to the amend ment of the bon. baronet. Mr. HUME concurred in the opinion that this was not • question within the category of free trade, which supposed that the parties acting upon it should be up .0 equal terms. (Hear, hev.) Mr. Deacon Hume, in his evidence before the committee, had given his decided judgment that while the West Indies were placed upon as good terms, in respect to free trade, as Cuba, Porto Rico, and other foreign colonies, they could compete with the whole world in the sale of their commodities; but that since the emancipation, which had placed them upon an inequality with the slave-labour sugar countries, they were not in • position to compete, without something in the shape of protection, until they had secured an ample supply of cheap labour. The whole annals of legisla tion did not present en ezamp.e of such monstrous injustice as that which the parliament of Great Britain had inflicted upon the West Indies. Every engagement we had made with them we had utterly violated, and an intelligent witness before the committee, Mr. Dines, had distinctly stated that so gross had been the bail frith of the imperial legislature to wards the West Inuies, that the colonies had lost all faith and confidence in that legislature. (Hear, hear.) As to 81 nrtry, there were no means of putting it down b ut b r ren uvulas tree labour weeper thins labour; and this was the object which the free-traders nad always in view when they advomted emancipation, fully convinced that free labour, it it had a fair trial, would beat slave labour in THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1848. Vie Orpregio. MAILS. The West India Malls, incitieling --- tierns tids, Nome, Mamma, Ilasiluraa, New Orleans, Vets Crux, T.anpico, and Perth Rico, and excluding those for !Weirs. Jaemel, Carthagenc, flairds Martha, Chum, ?anima, West Coast of South America, and 84. Jundi. Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 21st, June. The malls foe British North America, and the United Matmii will be made op en the evening of the 23rd June. The overland eloped malls, rut Marseilles, to the Mediterramen, Rapt, Aden, Ceylon, Ind* Hong-Kong, Ate., will be made up on the evening of the 24th June. The walla for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Oibraltar will be made upon the morning of tit. 27th June. The malls for New Muth Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up tot the evening of the 30th June. The nada for the W“t Win of Melee and Madeira will be made sip on the evening at the 30th June. The mails for We Basile, the River Plate, Monts Video, Pernam- Wow Itobia, Madeira, and Button Ayres, will be made up on the evening of the 4th July. The overland ma ll s for Gibraltar, Matta, Greece, the lonian Island., 124fypt, Aden, W7lon, India, llong-Kong, and Chins, rio eouthanir• tou, will be mode up on the monthly of the 20th Jail,. upon these natural supplies of water are that when stagnant they are unhealthy, and when deep they are dangerous. Although it would appear to have been an easy task. yet with all our anxiety about bathing, scarcely anything has been done to remove either the unhealthiness or danger of our places of commor resort for bathing. Amlngst the spots frequented by the inhabitants of the metro• pulls there is none so often visited as the sheet a water in Hyde-park called the Serpentine; yet, perhaps, of all waters in the kingdom this is the most unhealthy and dangerous. So dangerous is it that the Royal Humane Society keeps up an esta blishment ate great cost on its banks, for the purpose of preventing accidents in its waters. A tenth part of the sum thus spent would have put the Serpentine into such a condition as to render accidents almost impossible. The danger of this place arises from its great depth at some parts, so that every year during the bathing and skating seasons a number of lives are unnecessarily sacrificed. Nut only is the depth of this place objectionable on the score of danger, but the supply of water to it is so small that there is no current through it, and it is nothing more than &stagnant pool. The water which originally supplied it was a little spring rising on Hampstead-hill. Thin brook has long since been convened into a public sewer, flawing through a populous district, and after every shower, the filth from this sewer is allowed to overflow into the Serpentine. In addition to the water thus ob tained, a supply is procured from the Chelsea Waterworks Company, and a few springs here and there pour their contents into this lake. But all the water that is thus supplied is not suffi cient to allow of a current to pass through, the daily evapora•ion being as great as the supply. The consequence is that year after year the Serpentine developes increasingly the effect of a stagnant pond. It has been well known to the medical men of London for some time, that a walk near the Serpentine was anything but desirable for delicate persons, and there can be no doubt that serious disease has been contracted both by bathing in its waters and walking by its side. This arises from the fact that when water is thus confined, the vapour passes off, leaving an accumulation of vege table and animal matters, which, during their decom position, give off poisonous effluvia that are deleterious. This state of the Serpentine not only prevents many persons from enjoying the air of one of our most beautiful parks, but it has been felt to be so great a grievance by the in habitants of Chelsea and Kensingtoe, that a crowded meeting was held a few evenings since at which the Earl of HARROWIer presided, for the pur pose of petitioning parliament to apply some remedy to this subject of general complaint. This meeting was attended by several medical men of eminence, who were unanimous in the expression of theii opinion, that the present state of the Serpentine was not only unfit for the purposes of bathing, but that it was a source of danger to those who frequented its banks. The evils complained of are of a nature to be easily remedied. In the first place the sewer, whose con tents so frequently overflow, could bed •eptned, or its course diverted. In the next place, the supply o water might be trebled or quadrupled from the Chelsea Water Wm ks,without increasing in proportion the expense. An artesian well might be sunk, which, at a much smaller expense than the present poor supply is obtained, would send a current of pure water through its whole breadth and length. Whatever is done, the present bottom of the pool should be cleared out, as in many places it is several feet deep, with a filthy pestiferous mud. Once empty, we see no reason why the bottom should not be considerably elevated. Surely five feet in depth would be enough to allow any person to swim, and such a depth would ensure that there would be no sacrifice of human life. The subscribers and friends of the Royal Humane Society Lave an expensive esta blishment on this sheet of water for the purpose of rescuing persona from drowning. Would it not be better to prevent the possibility of this taking place? We understand that a deputation has been ap pointed to wait oh Lord Mot:re:llr, who is anxious that something should he done on this subject ; and we trust that this place which is equally resorted to for the sake of health by the peer in his evening drive, and the butcher's boy for his morning's bath, may be speedily purified from its present filthy and disgust ing condition. MARSHAL RADGTSKT and General Nitnvsr2 are worthy brethren in the art of war. To shoot and massacre, pillage and bombard, levy contributions, and drag away citizens to prison—such are the mili tary feats of the two heroes. the Autirian Marshal seems now determined to close his career as he commenced it. His retreat from Milan was marked by pusillanimity and cruelty. He now retreats from the Mincio, and invades the inof fensive cities of the Venetian territory, which are nnfortified, not for the sake of holding them, of prolonging defence. or protecting his army, but palely for the sake of revenge, mischief, and pillage. Vicenza, and no doubt l'adua, will be subjected to the idle vengeance of this ruthless soldier, who, previous to his retreat from Lombordy, is no doubt anxious to grasp all that is valuable and portable, and to destroy what he cannot carry away with him. No military , object can possibly be gained by the movement of HADETSKI. He leaves, no doubt, a strong garrison in Mantua, but Verona he gives up, as he will successively Vicenza and Padua to retire behind the l'iave or the Tagliameato. Without a government, or reinforcements, or money, or supplies, it was no doubt impossible for RADETSKI to resist CHARLES ALBERT. But in obey ing the necessity to retreat, the Austrian Marshal ought to have refrained from idle vengeance, spolia tion, or cruelty. Such gratuitous cruelty on his part can have merely the elf et of inciting the Italians to retaliation, and to advance into the provinces of Friuli and South Tyrol, and thus add to the painful throes in which Austria, thanks to the imbecility of the NIETTERNICII reyinie, seems hopelessly expiring. cheapness as in every other quality. His complaint was that free labour bad tut had a fair trial. (Hear, hear.) He considered that all the distress of the West Indies had resulted front our policy since 1834, well. intentioned, no doubt, but wholly erroneous. He denied that the engagement of 1834 had been fulfilled. The full price had not been paid ; for the captured sheen under the treaty of search had been valued by arbitration at a much higher sum; and had the West Indian slaves been valued at that rate, they would have amounted to 101,910,0001. sides paying below the value, the apprentice ship had been curtailed—another instance in which the en fregement with the colonists bad not been etrried out. Instead of offering a round sum of 20 millions, the colonists ought to have been heard as to the measures which were neeemary for giving due effect to the enutocipatien. The colonists wire unable to act ; On y were deprived of labour, onethird of that exaced from the 'laves being taken away. Proper re gulati ~,, s wire also needed, which were never made. &early as 1834 Lord Glc nelg had written a despatch, urging the im portance of neekiute provisions against squatting and idlenese. before the eporcuticeship expired ; Onis shooing that it was then thought most importaut to keep up the supply of labour. The want of that single article had reduce d all the mischief to the colonists; they h ,c 1 even been forbidden, by orders in council, to bring labourers from Africa, Am' rice, or any where else. (Hear.) They were not even allowed to get labourers from Europe, could they have done so. The re strictions had been one by one relaxed, but without restoring the supply of labour which had been eat off by these orders in council, secretly issued from the Colonial-ofilee without the authority ot parliament. (Hear, bear.) Had they pm seseeddue !entitle s for obtaining labour. no doubt they might have competed with other pieces. The blame was wholly attributable to the Colonial office, which had Veen a nuisance from first to last. (Laughter.) Had the Colonial-efflce been lucked up; nd tree colonies allowed to mane ge their own !affairs, without the petty meddling and interference of ignorant men (for how could Lord Grey or Mr. Hawes, th fugh they might be as clear-headed and sherp•ighted at anybody, know intuitively what was requisite for the colonies), they would now have been in a very different state. (Hear, hoar.) Why, every two years almost there had been a fresh colonial minister, so that the colonists never knew what they had to expect fur two months together. (Hear, hear.) In one case rules had been drawn up, and sent out for the re gut lotion of the coolie', of which Lord Harris Ow Tired that they were not wholly faultless. Thereupon Hail Grey sent out an order immediately to cancel the rules; and the cone sequt nee was that the coolies wi re seen dying on the high ways from hut.g r. (Hear, hear.) The intentions of the legisivure in pas,ing the Emancipation Aet were clear, front the statements of Lurd Stanley, the Duke of Wellington, and others, all of whom contemplated the posing of proper vagrancy acts and other measures to secure a due supply of labour. Notwithstanding all this, almost as loon as the act was posed, difficulties had been thrown in the way, which had since been increased, till things had now come to the worst. It had been said the high wages in the colonies we re not the result of the want of labour, hut of the compe -1 titian between the colonies; but it wee clear the high wages could only aria. from a want of labour. As it wee, the negroes were the marten, and the masters had become the servants ; it was said the centrum went to their work in cat. and with silk umbrellas. (Great laughter.) He regrette d that in the case of Guiana, Lord Grey had stopped the supply of 1 tbourers, because the taxes were not voted—a very paltry prttext, in his opinion. Let the colonies be Placed in toe situation in which it was meant to place them in 1846. The act of that year had nut produced, though it had much aggravated, their difficultiee. Why not allow the colonists now to go to Attica, and obtain their own labour without the intervention of government? Now that the colonies were almost ruined, was it not high time that some thing was done for them? The plan of government would have no effect ; it would be much better to let the colonists die out at once. Let them have protection for a period sufficiently long to restore their confidence, and to enable them in the meantime to prepare them selves to compete with other sugar-growing ooua trier, and thus give a fair chancel to free labour. lie believed that no shorter period than ten years of pr dee time would suffice to place the colonies in a fair position. But the right boo. baronet asked how be woo to snake up the loss in the revenue by adopting the proposal of the noble lord. He would tell him how. Let the squadron be with drawn lions the omit ot Africa, ante the afeeunt lost by the sugar duty would be saved in the naval estimates. If some thing were out done soon the colonies would relapse into a savage state. and this would be, a sad result fir the sacrifices Kngland bad made. He was uti..fied the government pro posal would never answer, and he therefore counselled the noble lout, if he was not prepared to do more, to take the course pointed out, and to leave the colonies to their fate. For these reasons he was opeosed to the resolutions at the noble lord, taking it for granted that the hon. baronet would follow up hie amendment it carried by a definite proposition. Mr. feloFPA'r e moved that the debate be adjourned. (Go on.) Mr. ROBINSON seconded the motion. Mr. CARDWELL, before tee snot on was put front the chair, begged to petit out that the number of stages of the Fill, being a money bill, required that no time should be lost in carrying it (inward before the 5.h of July, other wise the measure could not become law in time to supersede the sugar duties, which would come into operation on that day. The CIIANCELLOIL of the EXCHEQUER agreed that ' there woo a difficulty in point of time ; out the course pur ' sued by the hon. baron t opposite was in some respects unprecedented, and calculated to impede the lair progress of public business. leir J. PAK INGTON protested against such an impute dee being cue upon him as that just made by the right hon. baronet. Ale BARELY also vindicated the proceeding of the hon. member for Droitwich. The debate was then adjourned to Thursday neat. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. Viscount MORPETH moved that this bill be read a third Ease, which was agreed to. Mr. HENLEY moved the following clause to be added as a rider to the bill: And he it enacted, that if it shall appear to a majority of not less Sea three-fifths of the rated inhabitants of any parish or place eon ereebtg less than two thousand inhabitants on the then last census, In which this at shall not be In farce, remetabled at a public meeting to be called so is hereinafter provided, that it would contribute to the health and convenience of the inhabitants generally the . a public drainer sewer should be made, or a wed dug, or a pumg provided, for the public we of the inhabitants, it shall be lawful for the church warden, on I overseers to have an b40:021C of the cost of making sash drain, or stiggwg such well, or providing such pump rook, and to ley the mime before Another public meeting to he called as In here inafter provided ; and if the Fame shall be approved and sanctioned by a majority of nit lee. than three-fifths of the meeting, it stunk he lawful for the chutchisardens and overseers to have the same, or nay part thereof, sanctioned ea aformid, executed, and to pay the toot thereof out of the poor rates of the varlet. or place, provkled tawny% that notice of any such meeting aball be given by the church. warden. and overseer., as is by this act provided ti be given of meet. legs to be holden by the superintending bripectois ; alai the notice shell ales contain a statement of the motif propiniel sir intended to be submitted for the consideration and approval of the meeting. Viscount MOUPET 11 thought the clause would impede the action of the bill, but should not for that reason object to its insertion. Col. SIBTHORP moved that the house do now adjourn. Viscount MORPETH. hoped the hon. and gallant member would not ramjet in his motion. Mr. UItQUIIAItT hoped that the hon. and gallant member would persist in his motion. Mr. HUDSON hoped his hon. and gallant friend would not persist in his motion, but that be would permit the measure to proceed, as it had been fully and fairly discussed. The clause was agreed to and added to the bill, and the bill was passed. The house adjourned at 20 minutes to one o'clock. ELECTION COMMITTEES.—YKSTF.RDAT. DCBLlN.—Stvcral cotes were objected to, but in no case with success. Couasel for petitioners then inti mated to the committee that he would nut make any !lather objections on the ground of non-payment of the borough rate, and prayed an adjournment until this day to deliberate as to future cmposition.—Committee adjourned to this day. SLIGO.—The poll-books were put in and the elec tion of Mr. Townley proved. The remainder 01 the sitting was occupied in the diacurion of a preliminary objection as to whether due proclamation had been made of the election. The committ , e overruled the objection without calling on I counsel for the sitting member to reply. Sin Jolts IiORHOUSE.—Sir,—This being the an niversary of the battle of Waterloo, brings back many mili tary as well as political recollections to all true patriots. 1 am, thertfore, induced to send you a copy of certain resolu tions proposed by a member of the present cabinet at a Mid whichty meeting on the loth of December, 11130, it then adopted as t o basis of the Reform Bill would have done more good to the people of thin country than that celebrated hattle.—Sir John Hobhouss proposed : " That no House of Commons would be deserving of the confidence of the people stil the right of suffrage be extended to all hous . ho dens until each member of that house be chosen by a proportionate body of electors ; until the duration of parliaments be materially shortened; nor until each elector, without hope or fear of private lost 'or gain be allowed to vote by ballot." As I was one of the committee who, in conjunction with this cabinet minister, prepared these resolutions, and having been, as a military man, enlisted by that right hon. baronet into the cause of the reformers of that day, I have not forgotten those prin ciples, nor ceased to adhere to them. I hope he will be enabled to say the same on the approaching motion of Mr. Hume, who was then one of our county members, and as you are one of the few zealous advoest-s of those measures, you will no doubt be pleased at being afforded the means of bringing them to the notice of your readers on the Present occasion, and of reminding them of what they will also find recorded in the daily papers of Dec. 16, 1830, with regard to some of the sentiments by which this cabinet minister supported those resolutions. in order that himself and his colleagues may profit by them : " With these measures the ministers may do every thing for the good of the people ; without them, nothing ; and if you find ministers not disposed to do their duty, come forward boldly and tell them so; and, let me add, in the present state of the country this is a hint they must take, for without the people no administration can do anything." II Sir J. Hob house has any regard for his political character he will, of course, repeat these sentiments in support of the re SE solutions which he should consider as his ow n..--A MIDDLEX MA GISTRATE. A CHARTIST LEADER.—Mr. John Briggs, a mem ber of the town council of Sheffield, and lately a delegate from that town to the Chartist Convention, held in the Lew turwhall, John-street, exhibited last Sunday afternoon such unmistakeable symptoms of insanity that it woe found mammary to convey him to toe insane ward at the Sheffield Wokhouse, where he now fe, awaiting the order of the jus tioesr for his removal to the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, at Wakefield. NOTICE TO ADVEILTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities or the tamp-office, during 1847, to the DAILY NIMS was 3.447.009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent ot the number inroad to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, auJ Morning foie, ALL PUT TOOETBRkt, In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued tor the E.vonuni &Nan, THE EXPRESS 778.714 -- . • Which was more, we believe, than Inote usued either to the Glob* of Standard. Evening Papery. 61011 WATIR AT LONDON Ilillooll. Is U —Norms& 7 nu. post 4 a II•rmod, II mt.. put 4 Mersi•A 46 Ws. WI 4; AItIMIII. 6 sin pal II LONDON, TUESDAY. JUNE 20. MR. HUME'S motion is evidently treated as a parvenu endeavouring to thrust himself into good society. The exclusive caste of the House of Com mons have first endeavoured to sneer at the new corner, and abash it to insignificance. Lord JOHN RUSSELL declared the thing utterly unknown and =prised in any class of society, even ill the lowest. The protectionist leader was just as rude and jealous as the whig one, and Lord GEORGE BCYTINCK stretched his ungainly figure to eclipse and hide the reform motion. In short, the new reform is just as unpopular as the old reform movement was until Lord GREY took it up: till then it was quite fashionable to confound BURDETT and HOBHOUSE with Hume and Connerr, and to treat reform as but a sneaking kind of treason. It ia amusing to observe the same men and the same parties who first po , h-pooped the old reform, then adopted it, and finally profited largely by it— it is amusing to see the in treat the new reform in the same way, putting on the same airs with respect to it, and looking down upon it from the height of a highly starched cravat. When lords and lordly com moners regard it with disdain, of course the gentle men of the press cannot bring themselves to tolerate, much less to recognise, such a flagrant specimen of vulgarity. The Times, having viewed it through its eyeglass, declared that it war a middle-class affair, and would come to nothing; those vulgar fellows caring merely for pounds, shillings, pence, and sub stantial profits. Even the Spectator, which was once so vorace in its hunger for liberalism that no whig measure could satisfy it, now talks of reform quite like a lord of the bedchamber. To introduce eo intrinsically vulgar a measure would, it seems, require a politician of rank and fashion to patronise it; and as the Spec tator finds it merely heralded by Messrs. IiUME and COBDEN, it bens the embroidered seams of its court coat upon the reform movement, and will none of it. Then, it seems, there are difficulties. The ques tion of electoral districts presents anomalies ; and as Lord JOBS Ituestar. could not remodel the income tax under a year's consid ration, nor Lord GREY concoct a squatting bill to please himself and the West Indians under u similar lapse of time, so the Spectator demands a y ear or two to excogitate the delimitation of electoral districts, till which time it would recommend the ballot and the extension of the franchise to go to sleep. It is, however, with the new reform as with the old. Parliament and the country rezarded that great question in the past en totally different prin ciples, and they now leek to the new reform move ment with completely different calculations and hopes. The country looked and looks to both as measures of justice and fairness, as a mode of contenting the dis franchised, of bringing more talents and interests to be represented in parliament, and allowing more discontent and distress a vent, and, consequently, an alleviation and a remedy there. As to parliament and its politicians, they look to these measures more to see their probable effect on the state of parties in the house, than from any results they are likely to pro duce iu the country. As to the chartists, the police may deal with them, coercion laws will tame the Irish, alien bills will free us from foreign contagion. Middle-class movements and discontent can be cajoled during the six months which precede a septennial election, and sneered down during the remaining six years. The old Reform Bill was carried by the par liamentary men to place the whig aristocracy in the same hold of power that the tories possessed. Bat a new reform would not serve the purposes of any party, except that of the people at large and of the country. To keep them out is, however, the first and last instinct of your parliamentary party man. And, there fore, Mr. Heate's motion is to be put down, slighted, sneered at, and attacked by all the efforts and all the mameuvres of all the combined parties in press and parliament. Even if the debate is unavoidable, care will be taken that there be no division, in order that the whole host of the epiceues, who are whigs in heart and reformers in profession, may escape com mitting themselves with either their friends or the country. Yet, there is one argument used by the opponents of reform that strikes us as a strong reason for their not being so inveterate in opposition. It is, that, after all, reform would make very little change in the constitu tion of the llouse of Commons ; that the same notalii lilies, the same men of talent and influence, would find their way to parliament then as now, for the great popular party has no new men to offer. We admit this to be in a great measure true. We do not kink that the reform to be proposed this night by Mr. HUME would effect any great revolution even in the members of the House of Commons, nor would the aristocracy lose its legitimate influence by the extension of the popular element in elections. But it would change, if not the personal composi tion, at least the spirit of the House of Commons: that body would not be, as now, divided into three avowedly aristocratic parth s, in awe of each other, or playing into one another's hands on all vital questions', whilst the few men devoted to really popular interests were intimidated and nullified by the prevailing spirit of the house. With the present House of Commons there is no use in any man's serving the people, or looking to the people. Obloquy, not Influence, awaits him in parlia ment, in consequence of such eminence. For, instead of sympathy, tuere is really antagonism between par liament and the public, although the antagonism is veiled over, and the overt politics of the house ate little more them a dramatic exhibition. Lord LANSDOWNE told the truth at the LORD Meron'a dinner, when the health of the House of Lords was drunk :—the House of Lords was nothing of itself, he said, as possessed of exclusive pri vileges: it was as forming part ola harmonious whole that the House of Lords was respectable and formidable. No doubt the House of Lords, as House of Lords, is powerful—powerful enough in the present session to reject and nullify every , measure of tolerance, free trade, and reform. But it effects this, not through its exclusive power as an upper house, but by its rikini& I cations in the lower, and, in fact , by its sp irit and its influence pervading all—elections, magistracy, society, the liberal press, and the LORD MAYOR'S table. The people of England are, in fact, nothing. The third estate is but nominally independent, and really a re flex of sentiments not its own. To make the people of England have a party, sentiments, and interests of their own, not predominant over those of other chianti but co-existent with them, and respected by them — such is the simple and humble aim of the present efforts of Mr. Hume and his friends. WIT7LcT earnest in our endeavours to procure for the poor, establishments for bathing and washing, we should not forget the natural arrangement by which ore of these wit rations may be canted on during the greater part of the year. Our ponds, sheets of water, lakes, rivers, and the ocean, can all be had recourse to for this purpose. The only drawbacks GERMANY. BOHEMIA.—The intelligence from Prague, re ceived front persons who had fled from thence to Leipzig, is to the morning of the 14th. On the 13th the main streets and squares of the best portion of the city were in possession of the troops. The posi tion of the insurgents was in the Carolinienthal, and in the afternoon of the 13th a messenger was sent from them demanding a parley. Prince Windisch grii,z demanded the immediate demolition of the , barricades. This they refused, and so matters remained, the fight continuing through the night. The postal communitions between Prague and Leip zig, Dresden and Vienna, were interrupted. A letter from Dresden of the 15th, giving some details of the affair on the 13th, says that Count Leo Thun had been taken prisoner, but whether by the troops or the peo ple is not stated. It is not known whether the wound of the Princess Windischgratz is mortal. One of the prince's sons was wounded in the leg. All tit a gates of Prague were guarded by the military, and cannon was constantly being fired on the town from the Wischerad and the Hradschin. The intelli gence of the first outbreak in Prague was known im mediately in Vienna by means of the telegraph. The ministry (says the Austrian Ga-ette of the 14th inst.) had determined to send two commissioners, one civil and one military, to Prague, to report upon the causes ' and object of the insurgent movement. HUNGARY.—A letter from Peath, dated June 10, says: Last night the Archduke Stephen held a ca binet council, which lasted three hours. The subject under discussion was the intelligence brought by a courier from Agram that the Bane of Croatia, Field Marshal Jellachich, had not obeyed the positive com mands of the King. He not only did not repair to his Majesty, but on the sth opened in person the congrega tion of the country, which had been unlawfully con voked by him, and had caused himself to be installed into the office of Bann with great pomp by the Carlewitz Serviau Archbishop. The ministerial council has decided upon taking every measure in order to oppose the treacherous ?Senn with the most imposing military power. ARCHITECTS', &c., ANNUITY AND REVERSIONARY Itorsuesc Costrans.—The first general meeting of proprie tors wu held yesterday at the offices in Lombudatreet. Mr. Smirse presided. The meeting was called in compliance with the act of settlement, which provided that a general meeting should be held in tbciamith of June. It was stated that the society had been establi►hed in March last, since whiw time 87 life politico had been loaned, ..W 1 tosuran cc+ effected to the amount of 370. the statement of accounts wu partponed until the next meeting. A complimentary vote to the chainew. concluded the roctedinit. ITO Court. The Queen and Prince Albert visited the Queen Dowager yesterday'. at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Kent also visited the Queen Dowager yesterday. Prince Albert honoured the Duke of Wellington with his company, yesterday, at tho Waterloo Banquet, given by his grace at Apsley House. - - _ Lord Hatherton and Mr. Saunders bad an inter •iew with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade. THE WATERLOO BANQUE I' AT APSLEY- HOUSE. The anniversary of the battle of Waterloo having this year occurred on a Sunday the customary banquet, given by the Duke of Wellington to the distinguished officers who participated in it was nut celebrated until last evening. Punctually at half-put seven the repast was announced in the %V aterloo Gallery. On the right of the duke sat Prince Albert and the Mar quis of Anglesey, and on his left his Excellency Prince Casteleicate and his Excellency Count Kielmansegge. The dessert having been placed en the table, The Duke of W itttiNOTON rose and proposed " The health of their gracious sovereign the Queen," which was drunk wi'h all the honours. The Duxes then said he would next give the health of his illuatrio us guest, who bad honoured him by his com pany'. " The health of Prince Albert." His Row. Ilion seen, in acknowledgment, said be was highly gratified at having the high priyili ge to attend that annual festival, to meet those officers who had acted under their renowned chief Ile cordially thanked them for their kindness, and by their permission he would propose " The health of the noble host the illsistrior.s Duke of Wellington." The Dune, atter returning thanks, gave " The Army that fought the battle of Waterloo," which was responded to by the heartiest cheers. The Dunn said the next toast was one always drunk in silence at those anniversary meetings; it was "'o the memory of those brave companions in arms that fell at Waterloo." The Duet expressed his high genet, of the services ren dered by the cavalry at Waterloo, and particularly under the command of hie noble friend the Marquis of Anglesey. He would give, " The cavalry that fought at Waterloo and the Marquis of Anglesey." The Marquis of ANGLESEY thanked his grace and hie brothercomrades for the honour conferred on the cavalry and to him personaily. He believed they hod all done their duty, and, in conclusion, again thanked them most EE• Stray. The DEER then gave " The Infantry engaged at Waterloo and the Earl of Strafford," who briefly replied. The Done said that he could bear testimony of the con siderable claim the artillery had on this country, for its efficiency soil brilliantachievements at Waterffio, with which toast he coupled the name of a gallant officer who faced him, Sir Robert Gardiner, who, in reply, thanked the duke and company, and he believed the artillery were never employed to greater advantage than at the field of Waterloo, under their illuArious chief. The DUKE said he experienced great pleasure in seeing again amonit them the presence et • noble friend who had on many occasions eminently distinguished himself in the field, and what gave him more gratification was, that he had returned to this country in unimpared health. That gallant officer had been culled upon to go to a distant country to administer to the government, and in his military rank bad easisted Lord Gough. He (the duke) need not speak of his exertions during the trying scenes he took part in, for it was well known he had returned to his native country to receive the approbation of his sovereign and the admiration of his countrymen, from whom he had obtained the highest honnurs that could be bests/wed. He would give " The health of Viscount Hardinge." Lord HAIM, e expressed his sincere thanks for the fa vour contorted by the duke, and his brother companions in arms for the manner they had received the toast. Of the civil position he held in India be felt proud ; but as to his military services with the army of the Sutlej, he was confi dent that the brave army under their gallant and intrepid commander, Lord Gough, had done only that which might he expected from the example set them by the army which fought under their illustrious chief. He was sure nothing could be mere gratifying to the Indian army than the re peated expri scions of praise uttered by the duke and the country generally. The Deer, Riving the toast of "The Hanoverian Army that fought at Waterloo," said be would call on Count Kielmansegge. Count KIELMANSEGGE said he was proud to be again pre sent at the festival to meet his brother comrades in arms in that glorious battle, the success of which hail given them 30 years of peace. to the gallantry of the troops and the leadership of the illustrious duke they were indebted for that blessing. He thought the King's Germans, as they were then called, did their duty. Germany had been in a convulsed state to obtain • charge of con stitution, and he trusted the blessings of Prove !vice would secure them those lasting institutions which had rendered the British empire pre eminent among all other nations. England had withstood the storm, and he believed it was owing to the loyalty and practical sense of the people, and the devotion t f the army, at the head of which was the noble duke, that this country continued to retain those great hies. sings. He was deeply obliged, on the part of the Hanoverian army, for the favourable notice of the duke. The DUKE then gave " The Sovereign Allies !Enema . - . " ' at the battle of Waterloo," to which he coupled the nave o ',A na . Caste Weals, who returned thanks in a brief address. The Dees said he was glad to see the pretence of a gal lant officer who had been absent on the last anniversary, but who had rendered great serviCea to Lis country. He would give the health of Sir. F. Adorn.—The general returned thanks in a short speech. The Dv K R now rose and expressed his pleasure in giving the health of General Sir J. Macdonell, Lord Saltoun, and the officers pre-ant who so gallantly acted at the farmhouse of Hogoumont. Sir A. WOODFORD replied to the kind observations of the duke. The DUKE said be had another toast to offer. They all were aware that nothing was more important than to have active, zealous, and experienced officers on a staff, and it was never more clearly illustrated than at Waterloo; those officers hod nobly done their duty, and he would therefore give" the officers on the staff at Waterloo, and the Earl Cathcart." The Earl CATHCA RT replied in a few observations, and it being half-past ten the noble dale vacated his chair, ► signal which the Prince Consort and the gallant guests promptly I followed. PEOPLE'S LEAGUE.—The members and friends of the People's League held the first of a aeries of fortnightly meetings for the promotion of union between the middle acd working damn, in favour of universal suffrage, lest evening, at the National Bell, Holborn. John Scuble, Esq , took the chsir. The speakers generally, including the chairman, the Rev. J. Burnet, and Mr . J. Robertson, repudiated the use of physical force. The last named gentlemen exposed to the meeting the unjust principle upon which the elect, ral power had been distributed by the Reform Act, and proved that by that act it was given in large proportions to the worst elector!, and in small proportions to the best electors. Mr. Lowrie and others having spoken in favour of the same principles the meeting separated. THE REFORM MOVEMENT THE WESTMINSTER REFORM SOClETY.—Yesterday eveting an influential meeting of the members of the West minster Reform Society was held at the York Hotel, Upper Wellington.street, Strand, "to consider the propriety of petitioning prliament in support of Mr. Hume's motion for a reform in the representation of the people," and to receive the report of the committee eppinted to revise the princi ples and rules of the society.—Mr. Oeesin having been called to the chAr, read the principles, as recommended by the committee, and which were as follow : Ilse extension of the suffrage to all persons paying a rental for a house wr any part of a house, and having been resident there for a period not less than six months previous to registration; the vote by ballot ; a more equal apportionment of m. mbers to the population; and triennial parliaments." On the report being received and adopted, together with a petition to the House of Commons, it was further agreed that it should be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meetir.g ; that Mr. Luakeington should present it; and that ()enema Sir De Lacy Evans should be requested to give it his support. BOROUGH OF MARTLEBON E.—Last evening a pub lic meeting of electors of the borough of Maryleboue took place at the ViCtori i Tavern, Morniogton-road, for the pur pose of considering the questions of the reduction of taxatifin and promoting a better representation of the people. Mr. Thomas, a eommitsioner of the South:mi ton Riviugs Trust, presided, and the following resolution was passed: That this meeting most cordially approves of the me ion given no tice of by Mr. Mine In favour fig the ba.tot, catenalen of the indfrage to householders, the return to the jtmt and whole...lie regulation of triennial parliamentts with a fair revision of electors. &Atrial. A petition founded on the resolution was curried tient. con., with a request that Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir B. Hall be requested to support the same. The meeting then separated. KINGSTON-oN-THAMES. — A petition to the House of Commons, from " the freeholders, tradesmen, and gentle. men of Kingston-on-Thames and its vicinity, has been nu merously signed, praying for shorter parliaments, vote by ballot, greatly extended suffrage, and equal electoral dis tricts. A correspondent adds. " The town of Kingston being a slow and backward place in political matters, and the neighbourhood under the benumbing influence of a con servative aristocracy, this early support to Mr. Home's new movement for representative reform may be received by Lord John Russell as another significant hint, showing that his lordship has over-estimated the submissive endurance of the middle classes in England. In deference to the rather timid apprehensions of the worthy mayor of the town, in oculated with the chartist-phobia, no public meeting was called, although desired those longer-sighted liberals who see that the best safegua rd of internal peace will be found in a reasonable reform supported by the order loving middle classes." AN IXWER.—A meeting was held at Atdover on Friday last, when a petition to the Commons House of lust., in favour of Mr. Home's motion on the 20th was adopted. COLCRESTER.—A numerous meeting of the inba: blunts was held last night, when a petition in favour of Mr Swim's motion wu adopted. MaDs•rosE.—A petilon has been forwarded from this town in favour of Mr. Hume's proposition for reform in parliament, to Thrum Law Hodges, MP. for West Kent, Risme . by near'y a thousand of the inhabitants. CANTER bU RT.— A p etition bas barn tons-wiled from Canterbury tc unse, in favour of his motion. It bears an aarregata of 1,068 signatures, of which 763 are those of electors. A oorreapondsms say' ;—" Many persons of the greatest respectability and of very considerable influ ence of all political denominations have signed the petition from a conviction that the necessity for timely and judicious reform was daily becoming more urgent. The principal members of the corporation are amongst the supporters of the movement; and very many of those who have been the active opponents of the liberal party hitherto hoer now be aten. its zealous assistants. It will surprise Lord J. Russell to find that the centre of a district so proverbially exclusive m East Kent should have set such an example as this, and that in the very heart of church dominion there are so many who dare to beard it. Such an aspect of affairs in a district like this must persuade all person+ that Vie days of class ascendancy are numbered." STAYFORDeIIiRti.—In the Potteries the movement has been taken up warmly. Family petitions, gen. nil peti tions, factory petitions, and memorials to the members have been sent from Barriem, Tanstall, Hanley and Shitten, and Stoke-upon• Trent. A correspondent says the n formers of Burelem—hitherto considered the stronghold of toryism— have decidedly taken the lead is this movement for farther reform. Up to Saturday eve 'sing last the gen. ral petition had received the signatures of upwards of 2,000 males above the age of 18. Four factory petitions and upwards of 1,040 family petitions bad been sent to the borough members; and the memorials to three gem :cozen, requesting them to sup port Mr. Hume's motion on Tueslay, had received the sig natures of a considerable number a eleceurs UPTON UPON-SEVERN.—A petition from the inha bitants of this town and Hanley Caelle has been forwarded to Mr. Ricardo, M.P., for presentation, praying " That the franchise may be placed on a mere just and equal basis." " The difference of opini .n," says a lee.' correspondent, " as it regards the extension of the euffrage, is the reason why the above expression was adopted, in order that both parties might, without compromise of principle, sign the same petition. That very great disestiseiction exists in this neighbourhood relative to the representation of the people can no longer be doubted, from the fact that the peti tion is signed by an extensive and highly-respected landowner (formerly high sheriff of the county), by upwards of forty freeholders, by the largest tenant farmer in the parish, and by the majority of the respectable tradesmen. The people of this oistnct will not give way to any as to loyalty to her Majesty, and as sincere and decided advocates of the public p-sos against all who madly attempt the advance of their principles by physi cal force, but they are determined that the noble lord at the head of the government shall not charge them with indiffer ence to the important measures of reform about to be intro duced by the member for Montrose." SWINDON.—There has been transmitted to Mr. Hume, for presentation to the House of Commons, a peti tion from 225 electors and 659 non-electors in the districts of the towns of Swindon, Crick] ide, and Wooten Basset, in the count, of Wilts, prayina for household suffrage, vote by . ballot, triernial parliaments, and an eqealisat:un of electoral J districts. The petition is signed by males only, of 21 years of i age and upward,. PAISLET.—The town council have passed the fol lowing reso!utions : 1. That this oeueeit regards the object of all government to be the Protection of life and property, and the promotion of the pesos and happiness of the community, end that the people are entitled to that form of government which will most effectually moire these. 2. That the British Constitution has from time to time received such modifications and improvements as the circumatatieve and ext. genciee of the age have required, sod whenever it is areertained that in any department it is defective or liquidate, then cunt remedies or ameliorations should be adopted is may be proved semewirv. 3. That while the council deprecate all attempts to obtain organic reforms in the cemetitution by turbulence and violence, as calculated to alarm the holders of property, and to cause great distress among the operative population, by destmying that nonfi.l'nce which is namery in a commercial community, they are at the Ca ne time of opinion that the House of Common., as at prevent ainatituted, does nut Indy present the minority of her Majesty's loyal subjects. • 1. That the present agitation, so hurtful to the industrad pursuits of the country and to the peace and good order of sod ty, will never gem until the elective franchise be gre itly extended, the vote be pro tected ballot. the electoral district, be mo equally distributed, and thd uratio n of parliament be restricted to a re period not exceeding Om years. HAMILTON.—On Friday night a public meeting was held in Hamilton, called by the provost, on a requisition from a large number of elector., at which retiolu'ions were passed in favour of Mr. Hume's motion for an extension of the suffrage, etc. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JUNE 18. Mr. Holmes, as we yesterday stated, has, in con sequence of the continued refusal of the benches of Queen's Inn to admit Dr. Gray and Mr. Dunne to the bar, resigned his benchership. This resignation by the father of the Irish bar, places the main body in a very awkward position. In the arguments which he ad dressed to the bench( rs on Friday, and which made no converts, he withheld the circumstance of resignation. Had he stated his intention, it is pro bable the benchere would have averted the misfortune by a special promise that Dr. Gray and Mr. Dunne should be called on the 9th of November. This the majority refused to do, and hence the rupture. A maser in chancery was the originator of this new test, which has led to such dibagrei able connquenees, and the possible reform of the whole I•ystem, which places judges in the odious position of giving verd i cts by an ticipation, ;,;id without the mediwn jury. zhts sailed in two days from Nearly 400 emig, Limerick during the past week. The ship agents conjecture that the emigrants who left the Shannon since the season commenced, carried on an average 151. each, exclusive of goads and farming imple ments. This would give a drain from the district of 60,0001. in specie within the last three months. Among the emigrants from the south were 200 crown witnesses from the counties of Cork, Clare, and Limerick, whose freights have been paid by the go vernment. SAVINGS BANILL—Mr. Pratt has at length made his award in the case of the depositors in the Killarney Savings Bank. The trus'ces are held dlscharged from all liability for deposits made since the 7th and Bth Vic., but they are charged with wilful and gross default for all sums deposited before that period. The total liabilities of the bank are 37,0001., to meet which there is to the credit of the trustees a eum of 16,0001. Of this amount 14,0001. will meet the legal claims of the depositors, and for the less fortunate claw there remains only 2,0001, which would give about 2s. 6d. in the pound. It is expected, however, that the property of the defaulting officer, together with the contribution of Lord Kenmore, Mr. Herbert, M.P., and others, will realise alto gether nearly 10s. in the pound. SCWILAND. A " right of way " case has been decided by the sheriffs of File 'n favour of the public, A road twenty feet in breadth had from time immemorial been used as a pathway to the parish church. The tenant of the landlord of the ground with which the road was parallel, levelled the boundary ditch and wall, and narrowed the road to three feet, sowing oats on the appropriated territory. Afterwards the landlord widened the road to six feet, but a blacksmith and his son persisted in traversing it according to its original breadth, and hence the action, which terminated as mentioned, in favour of the village Hampden. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.—At the meet ing of the council on Thonday the followin r was resolved upon as the subject for the first section of the proceedings towards effecting public economy and just taxation. The Financial Reform Association of Liverocril, in pursuance of their calling, proceed to t.ring before the especial and imme diate notice of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, the go vernment, and the two houses of parliament, the necessity, founded on the broad hai.is of ri.eht, (or a e.g . - irons attempt to convert the present a, Reis 'icy in the national revenue into an annual surplus. For the attainment of this vital otijeet eco nomy end retrenchment, as th , means to the end, forcibly present themselves. Ihe Financial Reform Association are convinced that, to be thoroughly effectual, and the example Ito be very generally followed, curtailment of ooin-adlture should originate in bigh quarters; and, accordingly, they now submit the limit within which the coat of royalty should, inn their opinion, bo confined. The painful requirements that suggest the peo priety of this measure re, we are happy to say, in some degree mitigated by the open assurance of her Majesty's prime minister, Lord John Russell, who has un hesitatingly declared that so large a sum as is now expended annually is not necessary for the comfort and happiness of the Queers, whilst beyond seeming these two impor tant objects to her Majesty, it is felt and contended that no further obligation can virtually rest on the people. See. 1. Present allow•ince to the sovereign, 385,0001 , proposed to be reduced to 200,000/. ; thereafter, to her Majesty's some,- soy, 160,0001. The Financial Reform Association, finding no details in the parliamentary i estimate of the objects com prehended in the above large item, have felt some difficulty in coming to a correct opinion as to what sum may be fairly er reasonably required ; but as this part of the civil list is generally n y un a dera . rod penwi tsiinocfluhdeerlitmtle. Majesty y on th d e t re he household siems and no reason to doubt that the sum proposed will be ample for all such purposes, and her Majesty's personal comfort be much increased by the ri doction. Sec. 2. The further allowances to different branches sit the royal family will be stated on future day. YORKESIIRE. A LEAGUE FOR DIFFUSING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. —The annual meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics * Institutes, held last week at Ripen, and including an excur sion to Studley and Brimham Rocks, was most gratifying. It appears that there are associated in this union no less than 81 institutes, containing from 15,000 to 16,000 members. Several of these institutes have been newly formed within the last year, whilst others have been revived from a state of suspended animation. The morning conference was devoted, to the reading of a report on the state of the institutes, and. to conversation on the befit means of promoting their ea. eiency and success. The Dean of Ripen (•cfn of Lord Chan cellor Erskine)presided.—The Leeds Mercury, which reports the meeting, says; " The annual meeting was terminated. with adebwit.ful excursion to Studley, Fountain's Abbey, and Brimham Rocks on the following day ; and, uoexoectedly and rather to the amusement tai those who had gone to the latter place for no station oa.y, an assemblage Js sine hun dreds tool place lIMUII4 the wain and UMW...4lVeilk rocks, of from the eumunding valleys who had neard that a rec t re was to be delivered on MeLhanics' Institutes, and who came to hear it. In order to prevent disappointment, dia wed wk. !kis- kept hem pro hich Lpeti. ,f the usteci stent It re erred reign meet ye to pee ntry. h ju t:444, only I. He boor. 1846. time Lmple. Nest liking )r the re the would n put I was ear it 'us in fear.) Lt was option W9ll house (O. prin abaur ember e hon. le wee L corn, d tor • elan to ma en in ro .