The Express. — London, England, 1848-03-31 00:00:00

T A 1 s I~ I I' O P ' 'ERIAL PARLIAMENT . ------- HOUSE OF LORDS.—TBURBDAY, MeICS . The LOAD CILAWCIILLOIL took his seat at 6 o'clock. PRIVATE ellatsaten. aLCOND ItEaDlleo.—Lenarda theme PUBLIC BUSINESS. SECOND READINCL—Borough Pollee Seperannuation lend Bill. PAPERS PBESENTED.—By the liarquiet of La/meows.; re vert relative to the espedieney altering the boundaries of Fax law unions and electoral diviners. in Ireland; also a list peat arms and a mmunition surrendered, and of those seized under the set el 11 Via INCREASE OF OFFICERS IN PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS. The Earl of ELLENBOROUG rose 'mistiest to notice to call the attention of the house to the abstract of the an nual account of increase and diminution in the number of persons employed, and in salaries, emoluments, &Sommer and experts in all public departments. The increased charge exhibited on the annual return was some so very larncage, that it appeared to him necessary that explana should be offered on the subject by her Majesta's ministers. art be rt- No doubt such exp lanation could b.: given, but it mu membered that the veer 1847 was one of great national ,0110 dike trees —a year in which it was necessare to borrow 8,000 of mony—and one in which there was a deficient reven. I While, e therefore, it W n th e duty of the g overnment at all times to practise every economy, it was more imperatively neeetsery at such a period. lie could recollect when it was considered a great point to obtain a reduction of the charge for one of the Lords of the Admiralty—namely, for the of 1,0001.,:but in the last year thei.net increase was as much as the salaries of 110 Lords of the Admiralty, viz., 110,0001. Twenty-four years ago the whole of the charges in the public departments were placed under the supervis ot thin of the Lords of the Treasury, and an explanation enormous increase could no doubt be given hj the noble lord opposite. There had been in 1817 a net tnerease 1,1090 f persons employed to the number of 1,250, of whom were in the Post-office • an d deducting that numbe r, 141 persons had been adde d to the various offices of the state, and the increase of charge connected with the officss which those persons filled was not less than 70,0001. The total in crease of salaries alone was 66,0001 J the increase of emolu ments, 14,5001 .: of expen ses, 31,0001. ; and retired allow ances, 7,5671. That was the net amount; and after deduct ing all diminutions and all the retired allowances there wee an increase of about 101,0001. In not less than 20 offices of departments in the list there was an incieue of salaries without au increase of the number of persons employed, and where there was a diminution of six in the numb, rot per seas employed there had been an increase of charge to the amount of 6,0001. Inasmuch a. all these offices had been placed 24 . years ago under the superintendence of the Tres shuj, it eerhgohlribecresseupveg. 1 1 11 Iteetiatutridentltsathlt the there ries had been augmented to the amount of 1,3001. without any increase in the number of persons employed. In the Colonial -office there was a small charge of 2221. fur increase of salaries, but there was a large amount for retired allow ances, no less a sum than 4,3231.; and it certainly did appear very strange that so many gentlemen should have been ren dered incompetent, by age or otherwise, in one year. It was a peculiarity which also applied to the Customs, where the retired allowances in 1847 amo Anted to 5,6161. In the Royal Military Asylum there bad been an increase of them, but he understood from the noble duke (Wellington) that it had arisen from an excellent arrangement by which instruction was given to the children of soldiers. There had also been a great increase in the Admiralty, a part of which pas for wore after office hours. Whet' he was in that de artment he suggested that the clerks might do a little more work, and he never heard complaints of the work which they had done in office hours or out of them, whilst the gentlemen who aniseed him had often worked until one or two in the morning without elm pay. But there had been a material change in the class of persons employed in public offices. No one could look through the lists of clerks in public offices without seeing among them the names of individuals highly connected, many of whom would, no doubt, make excellent officers in the army ; but he doubted whether they performed their duty u clerks, r that duty had been fulfilled by perms equally gentle men, in the proper meaning of the term, but, at the same time, who had not been accustomed to so much amusement as the class now so much employed. (Hear, hear.) la the Admiralty he found there had been an increase of 16 persons, whilst tluir increase of salaries amounted to 5,0001. In the naval and victualling yards at home, although the number of persons had been diminished, the salaries were increased by 3,0001. There bad also been a considerable increase in the naval and victualling yards abroad, although only five additinal rer bad been employed; mad altogether, under o these pu heads, the increase had been about 10,0001. The increased charge in the customs was not less than 49,0001., whilst the number of persons employed had been aug mented by 62. The itemsehowing the increase were Salaries, 1,8571.; emoluments, 16,5001. ; retired allowances, 5,646 i. and espenses, 26,0731. In the Excise there had been a re duction amounting to 6,6%/. In the stamps and taxes there had been a diminution of purr employed, but an increase of expenses to the amount of 4,1171. In the Post. office there had been an increase of persona employed to the extant of 1,109, and of exmoditure to he amount oi 38,3904 - .he retired allowances being about 5 t ,0001. This great i case in the number of persons employed ;bad taken place imust be borne in mind, in the year of a general election! rhe Post-office revenue, taking into consideration the enor mous deficit in the traesmarine postage, which anything millian sterling, could merely be e sad to produce and it was necessary that the greatest possible economy should be observed in that department as well as others. In the convict establishments there had been an increase of sa laries to the amount of 3,3001 , without any increase in the number ofpersons emplayed. lathe exchequer be found there was a diminution. Now this, altogether, was surely a state of things which, especially at a time of unexampled distress, required some explanation. (Hear, hear.) He hail not given a definite notice, and he was not, therefore, going to propose any motion which would excite opposition. that be lsired at present was a return of the salaries and emote- I aunts allowed to each person in every depart men t ; also a I return of the increased salaries and emoluments allowed i n I 1847, end the number of persons in each establishment at I the commencement of that year. If that return was not satisfactory, he should then move that a select committee be appointed to consider these various charges ; or perhaps, without a committee, he might move fur a copy of the tor- respondence between the Treasury and the different depart menu respecting such increased charges. (Hear, hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had no disposition to withhold any i n f orm ation on the subject. He concurred with the noble earl, that there had been a great increase In the expenditure of the year 1847, and that it was • ecerebels when the meat rigid economy was necessary. No unn sary appointments, however, had been made, and the great addition would be found in the Post-office, which hie noble f r iend near him would explain. There had been a great addition to the staff in consequence of the multiplication of communications with every part of the country. The great demand had been for persons at very low salaries, and old ha had himself only asked his n oble friend to appoint an w oman in Wiltshire to the office of a letter wrier with the a eatery of 101. a year. ( A lau g h.) With respect to customs, he had a very detailed account of the increased ex he penditure w hich was t o o minute for him to detail, but should not object to its being placed before their lordships. One great increase in the customs department had arisen from the appoilitment of officers to examine steamers arriving at Southampton ; another cause had been the pest importation of bread stuffs, which had required an addi tional number of persons to be employed. There was a coma mittee at Use moment sitting in the House of Commons to exa mine into all this expenditure, and any re form which that committee could suggest, he was authorised to state, it would be ou t . (H anxious desire of the government to carry out. (Hear.) The noble earl had not adverted to the Inatome in the educational department in England and Ireland, because he supposed he was satisfied that it had been necessarily incurred. He could only, in conclusion, say that every information on the subject should be furnished ID the most satisfactory shape. (Hear, hear.) Earl GREY had not received notice of the noble lord's in tention to make any specific allusions to the colonial depart ment, and he was therefore, prepared to go into figures, but with relerence to th e um charged foe retired allowances, it was evidently an error, for in the year 1847 there had not been a single retirine officer tom the Colonlal-office. Mr. Stephen, whose loss all must deplore, bail retired in the early . part of this year, but that could not be taken into the previous year's account. There had been a very large in crease in the expenses of the Colonial-office last year, over which he had no control, it being almost entirely owing to the incenses in the Poroffice department. la eery branch of the public service the salaries of the clerks Nose progressively at the rate of 51. or 101. a year, and there fore a nominal return of the thorned' of persona employed with their increased salaries at the time named, in the form suggested by the noble lord,oord not conveniently be made; bat the government was quite ready to give the information which he w sated in the most conve nient way, and there w ould be no difficulty i n devising the form of a tion re return w ki c h would furnish su bstantially all the informa qu i re d. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of AUCKLAND complained of not haying re in- rived proper notice that the noble earl (Ellenborough) waded to allude to his department, so as to requite him to go into an explanation of figures or he should have been prepared te dose ; but he could say that no incresse hail taken place in the Admiralty department which had not been imperatively called for. (Hear, hear.) At Somerset house, last year, almost every book was found to be greatly in arrest, and it wan necessary to employ persons over-time and extra hands to bring up the arrears ; but every possible reduction had been made in the number of persons em ployed. With regard to the hour during which the clerks worked, he had often gone from that hour to the Admiralty at seven o'clock in the evening, and found the clerks then at work, and the same observations' would apply to Somerset House. (Hear, hear.) lie should be quite ready to grant any returns oa the subject of expenditure which the noble earl might require (Hear, hear.) The Marquis of CLANRICARDE did not find fault with the noble earl for calling attention to the increased expendi ture of the Post-office • but when he referred to the err fa which, as he said, the election bad taken place, it would lure been but fair to refer to former years, to which such an observation would not apply. (Hear, heoareliewhilet he did set agree with him that the Post-offir to be in stituted toe the purpose of revenue, he well that it formed a put of the revenue of tin; emery ; aad it would be well, perhaps, that he should call the attention of the noble earl le what had been the nett ansaant el the revenue cif the Pon-office for the leek these In OA met amounting tor the it had been 7498421. • bt 1848, SATZ end. la 1 84 7, 104.4951, (Hear, hear.) Armes*, tiny bead that the dileseses between the year 1844, r mewed with 1846, wrath of manna of 75,2181.; bat the ingress is 1847, or compitted with 1846, wet 149,3841. (Hear, 1 1::2 If, therefore, he were tele take the whit earl's tot, hip brie had right is 1847 Irfoolirtlio, amber of appoint- meats made in the previous year ;:but how stood the feet ? In 1846 the additional number of persona employed in the Poet-office was 1,241, whilst in 1847 the indrawn had bean only 1,109. Therefore, when the whole net inseam had been n early doubled, there were n ot quite es many persons em pWyed as there had been in the previous year. (Hear, Ister.l He did sot =MD to cut the lout blame ea his predeemeor, but he merely auctioned the feet to exonerate hiSsall. The great increase in the number o f letters began in 1839-4 h is In the latter leer, oonspered with the former, the 'a -1 muse in the number of letters bad been 109,000,000, and in 1841 the increase over the previous year was 196,000,000. Mr. K. Hill the retired freest the office which he held, and it wen remarkable that the increase lathe number of letters wag thee set so great, for it fell to 16 per cent., at which net nu it continued duriag 1843. Since Mr. Hill's return, the number of letters had again increseed. In 1844 they had risen in the ratio of 28 per cent. more than before the radon don of the postage; in 1846, 37 per cent., and last year the proportion had been about 30 per cent. It was right that he should mention that 400 of the additional persons engened were employed at receiving-houses, and CO of the number were messengers. He might also state that 1,300 villages bad bed deliveries established in them where no such accom modation carted before. (Hess, hear.) waxedeeply impressed with the necessity of economy in the dted e partment over which he presided, and he m i g ht be permit to say that a great deal might be done in avoiding expense which it would be difficult to bring before the public. (Hear, hear.) Whilst the increase in the money .order department had been at the rata of 12 per cent., the additional expendi tare had only been at the rate of 6 per cent. General economy bad been practisd, considerable saving having been Idected.in the stationery and other departmens ; and it was I needless for him to say that the Treasury exercised a strict seperintendence Over the rost.othce expenditwe. lie had omitted to mention that a very great increase of newspapers passing through the Post-office had rendered additional as sistance necessary. The noble marquis, in conclusion, ob served that he was quite prepared to give any returns whizh might be rerired on the subject of the expenaiture of the Post-office. Hear, hear.) Lord STA LEY said that while it was desirable at all times that strict guard should be kept over the expenditure of the public money, there never was a period when it was so necessary . as in 1847, in which year it appeared that there had been an Increase in the net expenditure of the public de partments amounting to 110,0001. The ezplanations which had been given might be very satisfactory to the noble lords who had made them, but it did not follow the country would be as well pleased as the noble lords seemed to be. They had each stated that they were wholly unprepared to explain the figures in the abetract which had been refeno tice rred tcoo ; buhave t he could not conceive that a more ample uld been given than that which his noble friend had put on the paper, and the noble lords ought to have been prepared to discuss every item. Instead of which, the noble marquis, with the exception of two items and the appointment of an old woman—(A laugh ) —did not go into any particular, being content generally to state that be was raddled no charge had been made which could be r v avoided con satisfactosistent w ith public economy. That be ey ry to the noble marquis, but it was no reason why the public should be content with such a declaration. His noble friend the Secretary for the Colonies showed by his explanation that he knew as little as his colleagues. What he stated amounted to this, that the 4,3231. alluded to by his noble friend (Lord Ellenborough) was for retired allowances, and not an increased charge for postage—the fact being that only one person had retired, whole allowance b longed to the accounts of 1848 and net to 1847. He believed also that considerable alteration had been made in the emi gration-office, which was included in the colonial returns. Then came the noble lord at the head of the Admiralty, who accounted for the increased expenditure by saying that owing to peat negligence on the part of the clerks the department had got into such a state of disorganisation and confusion that it became necessary to brine up the arreetr by making those clerks work extra hours, for which they received extra pay. Respecting the customs he (Lord Stanley) had net heard a word of explanation, although one would suppose that the removal of duties from such a number of articles as had recently taken place would have materially diminish ed the expenditure on that head. But he found, on the con trary, that in the year 1847 there had been an ircreasb of sixty-two persons ; an increase in the salaries of 1,8.571. ; in the emoluments of 16,5001.; in retired allowances of 5,6161. , of 25,0001. in "expense'." whatever that meant; and 49,0771. I in the expense of co ll ec ti on . (Hear, hear.) He did not think the explanation of the noble marquis respecting the Pest•office satisfactory. Last year there was an increase of 1,200 persons, and this year he said it was only 1,100; but he seemed to forget that the total increase was 23,000 over the numberemployedtwo yearsago. (The Marquis of Clanricanie made s remark which did not reach us.) Oh, if the noble mar quis assured term that that would be accompanied by a corm* pending increase in the revenue of the post-office and like wise in the accommodation afforded to the public, certainly no objection could be taken to the exercise of so valuable an amount of patronage. (Hear, and a laugh.) lie would sug gest to his noble friend not to ask their lordships to vordsh ote u pon his m otion in its present form but as their lipal and the public were entitled to the fullest intormation on the I subject, he hoped his noble friend would demand the fullest return that could be made, by a motion to the form of which no objection could be made, in order that they might have a full and satisfactory statement of the case, and the causes of this incre a sed expenditure to the country. lAA AUCKLAND having said a few words in explana tion, Lord ELLENBOROUGH withdrew his motion, stating that he would confer with the noble marquis (Lansdowne) on the subject of it, in compliance with the suggestion of his noble friend. Their lordships then adjourned at a quarter before 7 o'clock. ----------- depriving it of facilities of . approach . to the har bou of Lymingtou and Christchurch,' and he adds, "whyhy at this time it should be allowed to exist is inexplica ble.' Certainly the existence of the New Forest would be inexplicable upon any rational estimate of the uses and value of landed property ; but when we see gentlemen sacrificing thew own property we to the puerile purpose of p reservin g game, perhap the s ought not to be surp rised to see the property of public devoted to a preserve for aristocratic rangers and gamekeepers. A few facts from the returns will explain why this property is retained in its present useless and unpro ductive state. There is no great quantity of game in the New Forest, for game cannot be reared in large numbers on uncultivated land ; and the stock of deer ' is only 3,552, of which, in 1846, there were killed 102 bucks, and 857 does. And here let us note that if cornorest were brought into cltivation, besides the and p u lse, there should be g at least 30,000 sheep fed on the land now devoted to the maintenance of less than lour thousand deer. And to look after them 1 1 deer we find there is first a Lord \%arden, the Duke 1 1 of CAMBRIDGE, whose " fees, emoluments, and per lquisites," are twelve fat bucks annually. Whether his royal highness should he called upon to surrender his fat bucks, or should receive a compensation,would obviously be a matter of little importance either to himself or the public. Next, there are 13Simaster keepers, namely, B. M ORANT GATE, Es q ., ROSE, Lord PALMERSTON, Lieut.-General ROBBINS, M. MUNRO, Eel, the Earl of MALMENBU RY, WM. H A NS SLOANE TANLEY, Esq., KP. BUCKLEY, Eeq., G. E. BYRE, Esq., Capt. AITCHESON, Prince GEORGE o f CAMBRIDGE, Got. BERKELEY DRUMMOND, and H. C. COMPTON, jun., Esq. 'these officers are appointed by the Lord Warden, and their " perquisites" are two fat bucks per annum. Of course these offices are merely I honorary, conferring, we presume, certain rights of 1 sporting, the compensations for which could neither be onerous to the public no: important to the 1 " master-keepers." No one can suppose that the in terests of the master-keepers would present any ob stacle to the improvement of the New Forest. There are four verderere appointed by the freeholders of the county ; two rangers, A. It. DRUMMOND, Eeq., and Viscount CANNING, with salaries of 21. 13s. 4d. and a fat buck per annum ; and a " bow-bearer," BUGLE Ross, Esq., with 2/. yearly and a fat buck, appointed by the Lord Warden. Next we come to the salaried officers, the staff of the forest, to whom is intrusted the important duty of watching the three thousand five hundred deer. First, there is the Lord Warden's steward, Mr. TUOMAS WHITE, who occupies the QUEEN'S house, Lyndhurst, and seven acres of land, and re ceives, as salary and prrquisites, a year and a fat buck. Next a deputy surveyor— who is the surveyor does not appear—Lieut.-Colonel THORNHILL, whose residence is New Park, Lynd hurst, who receives the salary of 3501. per annum, and has as perquisites " keep for three horses and two cows and a fat buck yearly." There is an assistant deputy surveyor, who has a salary of 2001. a year. What the deputy sill veyor and the assistant deputy surveyor could find to do officially, seeing that there is no timber to be felled and no farms to be surveyed, somewhat puzzled us. But on I looking at another return we find that from the year, 1837 to 1846, both inclusive, there have been 108 acres, 1 r00d,14 perches of the forest land sold for sums amounting altogether to 2,0321. I la. 2d., and the preparation and arrangement of these sales have doubtless formed the sum total of the onerous duties of these well paid surveyors. As a matter of arithme tical curiosity, we may mention that their salaries for the ten years during which they have been oc cupied in these arduous services have amounted to' 5,5001. The purchase money received for these lands has been applied in part " in discharging the expenses of maintaining the forest." These surveyors are appointed by the Commissioners of the Woods and k orests. There are some minor offices, whose emolu ments are trifling. Now, here we have a valuable property so applied ea to be absolutely uselesi and unproductive : a large number of persons em ployed to watch a scanty herd of deer; a vast wil derness perpetuated in one of the best climates and situations on the south coast of England. A compa ratively few acres, when sold, would furnish the means of compensating all the persons now officially employed in the New Forest, and a large balance re main for public purposes. And this is a sample of what is now made and what might be done with the other woods and forests. - Tue Provisional Government of France encounters the difficulties of most or of all governments. It has not only horrified the Louis-Philippists and frightened the bourgeoisie, but discontented the clubs. The latter is a good sign. The gentlemen of the clubs were de termined not to put up with neglect, and they therefore have prepared a " demonstration," which common rumour has dignified into a conspiracy, for the purpose of ejecting from the government its more moderate members. Those threatened, fortunately got wind of the pro ceedings, and the entire of the Provisional Govern ment have unanimously determined on the mode of meeting it and of obviating such movements in future. Their first determination, and a most salutary one, is the establishment of a civic guard. It is only to consist of 1,500 men. But it is important, when we know, that such an establishment had hitherto been opposed by the mare democratic members of the government, who preferred trusting to the support of the people. Now, however, all feel the expediency of a civic police. Some one hundred desperate men might at a chosen moment effect a coup de main, and stifle the Provisional Government and the republic GERMANY. PRINCE METTERNICH. SAXONY.—The statement taken from the Ger man journals, to the effect that Prince Metternich had arrived at the chateau of Rheineck on the Rhine, a short distance from his own residence of Jot:tenni: berg, turns out to have been unfounded. The Prince jindfledin the very opp os ite direction. The Leipsig 'Deutsche Allgememe /eitung of the 28th, under the date of Dresden, the 26th, says that Prince Mette r . nick, with his princess, had arrived in the Saxon capital during the previous night, and started in the first train to Leipzig that morning. He would aot, however, touch at Leipzig, but leave the station nearest to it, and go from thence to Schkeuditz, th en by the next train to Magdeburg and llamburg, ta ro finally to England. He inscribed himself in the fremde bitch (strangers' book) under the name of Ha rr N. Meyer and lady and suite, merchant, from Grits. The resignation of the Prince, his departure from Vienna, and subsequent journey, are thus danalid in the Courier von and fir Deutschland: Prince Mettersich, who arrived on the morning sr cgs 14th inst. at the station of the Gloggnits Railway under fig e,c , rt of 60 hussars, went by rail to Wiener Neustadt, ad from that to Frohldorf, where, apparently, he hoped to gm a refuge. His expectations were not realised, however, and he then fled tc, , Feldsperg, one of the seats of Prince u g h. tensteio, on the frontiers of Moravia, and subsequently's his own property Kopstein. The ex-Chancellor of State stuck to the last moment to his old system. As the demo, tion of citizens on the evening of the 13th &mead at the court ' they passed through a suite of room into a spacious hall, where Archduke John re mired them. As the speaker of the deputation depicts; the unfortunate state of affairs, and urged the necessity of a speedy decision on the part of the government, As duke John quieted them, by ailing that the first measles would be the resignation of Prince Metternich. AA these words Prince Metternich came out of the adjoin. room,in which all the archdukes and ministersha &sandhi to deliberate, and leaving the door open he said in a load tone, " I will not resign, gentlemen. No, I will not resign:. Archduke John, upon this, without answering the prince, repeated what he had said, and cried in en earnesttone, "As At Itimehavewardsad tyhetoplrdinyceoue,xdParitseed M in et a teniich r tone ofes greaienst..".dis. scent, " What ! Is this the return I now get fee my 50 vow *avian?" At these words all the men forming the hag, , eouncil broke out into a loud laugh, which seemed to annihilate the unfortunate statesman. It was • laugh rising directly from those democratic elements and moral power which he had obstinately refused to acknowledge, and which baked coerced, and which had now throw n hire from the height which he had attained. The generosity evinced by the people towards the hated minister may be judged from the fact, that neither the palace of the State Chancery on the Ballplats, where he resided, nor the new palace on the Rennweg were destroyed. Not even a single window was broken in the Chancery, because it is the property of the state, nor in the palace on the Rennweg, because it had been bathe the princess. The only place belonging to the ex-chanotfilor which was attacked was the celebrated Metternich villa 011 the Rennweg, which was furnished with the splendour of a Lucullus, and in the park cf which the celebrated diplo matic fife w as given, and then only the doors and a few of the apartments were laid waste. AUSTRIA.—The Vienna Gazette of the 23th says: An address of the English residents at Vienna to the Austrians has excited the deepest emotion among all claims of our capital, and has confirmed the lively sympathy um prevailing among the educated classes of our country for the noble Britons, those first-bora eons of liberty among the great nations of Europe. The universal joy which thk warm and honourable acknowledgment of our service during the events of the late momentous week has earned has greatly increased by the fact, which we cannot comal from ourselves, that the English constitution, with itemize servative fundamental pillars, its inviolable attachment to the royal dynasty, and the gradual silent development of public affairs in a legitimate manner, ought to be our model , and shall be kept in view as worthy of our imitation in the new constitutional arrangement of our empire. Therefin, we cordially grasp the hand of friendship which has bun held out by you, ye brave strangers of the mighty sea get empire, and return our heartfelt thanks that you haveled the way to help us to enter upon the hitherto untrodda path of our newly achieved liberty, and to encouno le , with your profound experience asburghers of a glorioushad, which in these stormy times has stood firm and unshakenand , deem us worthy of your all. important approbation. We cnot at the same time refrain from expressing zeal of them our Lasers. t an ion at the political a isdom and indefatigable z men who now sit in the council of her Britannic blejlety, and wield the destiny of that great empire with such erns. ordinary prudence and skill. Once more our cordial dunks are due to you, ye noble sons of England, who Were the first to break silence, and t am hold out the right hand of E. lowship. May these first of the untettered pews d Austria penetrate to your blessed island, t ourtec phee of legitimate liberty, and may it bring to y fellow-ou trymen the happy intelligence that millions of men (*.welling* the banks of the Danube, who for ages had been condemned to silence, had their tongues unloosened, and were seamed to new life on the 13th of March. A letter from Presburg, March 24, says : " Yeti day the Prince Count Ludwig Bathyany made known the names of the new ministers antalon Szerone, Interior; Prince Charles Esterhazy, Foreign Main; Louis Kossuth, Finance; Meszaros, War; Coed Stephen Tzechenyii, Communication; Baron Joseph Eotvos, Religion ; Gabriel Klanzal, Trade and Mast facture; Franz Drak, Justice. The law relative to the Jews was liberal, yet on. derate in the fundamental principle ; equal rights are expressed, without which the welfare of the country cannot be consolidated, but the practical working of these bases cannot be carried out till the Christians are emancipated from their civic prejudioes and the Jews, on the other hand, shall hare rendered themselves worthy of their equalisation by their moral improvement. The debased excesses d several persons here cannot be contemplated witbosit the greatest indignation. The burgher guard of Presburg has been obliged to issue a proclamation, stating that in order to pe. vent further excitement the admission of the lead. Res into the national guard is suspended until the laws on this point shall have changed. A Wig proclamation stated that the Jews had of their own accord quitted the ranks of the national guard. The Presburg Gazette of the 22nd containe adobe ration of the assembled Diet, stating that the F.! Diet was not convoked for the purpose of a dais execution of those projects of law, which amble. pensable to the national welfare. That on theses teary, the Chamber of Representeives was persesid that after it should have legally declared the • ciples in conformity with which the reproach* , system is to be founded, it should refer to the Mile be held at Peath in the course of a few walk the creation of all those loans which relate espial! to the guarantees of internal peace and national SOP dom, and which do not call for immediate mesons That the present Diet decrees the following points a demanding prompt attention. 1. The legal determination and consolidation of the sal g overnment system of the responsi ble ministry. 2. !YI manner and procedure of the co-ordination of the Diet tela I shortly held at Beath, according to the f un d am ental . Pie ciples of the popular representative system 3. The MVP duction of general taxation and the equalisation of pa* 1 burdens upon the inhabitants of the kingdom. 4. 111 abolition of claims of private landowners for indemnifies.' I by the state. 5. The immediate constitution of the se tional guard for the maintenance of internal pesos tin liberty. G. The guarantee for the liberty of the pees with abolition of the censorship, and the in t r oductio ol trial br jury. TYROL.—At Insprack, a manifestation ageing the Jesuits took place. A shower of stones, am& most horrible imprecations, broke the windows d the convent. Benjanimo Siegwart Moller, the hir leader of the Sonderbund, having fallen under chi hands, was severely beaten. PRUSSIA.—We have received the journals of* 28th. The magistrates have issued a proclamatea stating that, in order to prevent any misunderstasS log, they have been commanded to make known del admission into the mounted burgher's gaard involve the condition of the poeseasion of a horse, as well 0 the equipment and the maintenance of the horse a the expense of the individual. WURTEMBERG.—The town of M'artemhal ha y s been thrown into conste rnation and moversidi b the bruited approach of a band of democrats beS Franoe. A letter from Tubingen, of the 24th, ofk, mates them at 2 0 , 000 ; one fro m Ulm, of the 256,1 40,000. These exaggerated statements have ma. all Wnrtemberg to arms, and spread t gold alarm. The alarm is completely unfounde he d, however and an official order, dated Carleruhe the 26th lasts makes a statement to that effect. BAVARlA.—Letters from Munich state, that Dr , Willich goes as Bavarian envoy to the Diet. Bring . Wallerstein was not to take office, but to go to I f c oie e T minion. The Augsburg Garotte discoeses.ol. expediency of electing a German emperor, but tom' I ea the pretensions of the King of Prussia. •—•••—_ I DIVONPOST ELECTION.—Mr. Romilly, the 2111 elidbx-Oenartl, has tamed an address to the votem, p 1 eggattion lie his roamed= is anticipated. The rioano" ie exposed to take glue on Monday. CMAIIMMT NAMDMILL CONVIXTIOII.—At I 13110 ing Mins Ins italli sarket-pleow in Leeds, on W day ma* ilk flamM _O'Conncsr, 24. P., and Mr. a!!! BI it Leeds weee eppointed deleget_sq; Leeds *MINK lb, Char4at Convention to be btu& _., _ , =, ~ .D. ______ THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EYRNING, MARCH 31, 1848. late entre/SO. 1 mew smelli MU L L IMeMew's LW. sad New ipt• mine let me& IV as ' Via gpsiaßg 4 t T he slet March. leolerfil be y woe me drollest Oteit a/ Mem red Madeira will be mad* na es the smear Ilte 11011emb. ..... u. x u. lia iltmlea.".llagem eftill on% Two% met Porto lUD= caliwalf lbw. aw . 1 1 . 1r1101 et er tb laemrf, (7.■LiL Nati lnetbde rl=ewl waft" aallaa, OTOWS. Me A r d ole Wands, aystaatet. 01111 a. WM Mameales, end China, •th Southway be mole fi r det aairralif 11 1 tho Ird pril. I tee t ub ta Mae dee Elver Plate. Monte Video, Pathos. brathilebArrib ad BOOM Are/. will be made up coo the l evu ra.:h. tot yyp. col .... Listaas. Medias, Cadiz, and Gibraltar wil be..wrea witbe at tbie Mk April. TM d i .' Zies elm, to the )(edit/moan, Wyk AM% Idle, Mang.gaeg. An, will be made op on the mein old:V= TM mail kr Mr& Amelia, and the United Natoli will be nude up mem mob* el the 7th April ---------- NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Starap-oelee, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cen of the number lensed to the Mo rning t ning Herald, Horning Cltronirte, and Mornir Post, ALL PUT TOOLTIIIIL In a ddition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Everting Edition, THE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to the Okdis or Standard, Evening Papers. IMMO fliv.llll i5t. 7 4. :0 ,..... E .. R n. r 8 b :0 .rer t i .... D .: E 6 . NT5. ... pom RION WATEN AT LONDON 11110011. it. Tsui W.posi IA Artiwia.32 W.W —MAW&la.wi 11U!100141. tW. IMat O. LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 31. TUE revolutions of the present epoch differ essen tially from those which have broken forth at any former period of history. We have already alluded to the small and insignificant part played by the military in the several outbreaks and catastrophes. In Prussia, where the force of the military was most relied upon and most actively called for—even there, more than anywhere else, the powerlessness of the armd andy to stem the popular current , w hen it is truly broa deep, and swelled by all classes, was most fully de monstrated. Another remarkable characteristic of the recent re volution is, the utter absence of any religious or anti religious feeling. In both our revolutions, and in both the French revolutions, religious feelings, motives, and commun ities played a great part. Of late we have scarcely perceived them. The Jesuits indeed have been dislodged at Lyons, and in Vienna and the Italian cities ; but this was exclusively in their political character, and even then without any symptoms of vindictiveness or frenzy. Everywhere the secular clergy have gone with the nation, and have had no feeling distinct from ; it. This is an important fact; for it shows that whilst religion has kept or reconquered its place and influence in society, and even in French society, the influence of monkery or political religion has dis appeared or is about to disappear altogether. Much of this is due to the noble character and policy of Pius IX. For he it was, after all, that gave the first shove, the chief impulse, to the present universal and onward movement. Talk of catholicism being retrograde !—the Pope has proved himself the first and greatest revolutionist of the century. Pius IX. has reconciled catholicism with liberty, and thereby has done mote for it in the generations that are coming, than all the court influence that Jesuits ever won. When we recollect the bold remonstrance of IioMILLY, Arch bishop of Milan, against the massacre of the popula tion by the police, and the solemn masses performed by the Pope for the souls of the victims, we must ad mit that the upper u well as the lower clergy of Italy , hdaeldsoonre about wthitheirdeedupotyticinelasiloiesngianginst th insurrection, and establishing national independence. It must be admitted, by whoever has observed the march of catholicism, that it has suffered immensely during the last centuries by allying itself with the the p h eo be p ral le. l Whilst such mistaken policy sunk catholicism, its great protestant rivals rose by siding and sympa &Ming with, and even forming, the great popular party. It has become now the new policy of a great portion of the catholic leaders, to abandon altogether the despotic and government side of opinion, and to fling itself into the sym. 1 pethies of the intelligent popular classes. Does it not behove proteetantism to do the same ? If catho licism metamorphoses itself advisedly from being a despot's creed tad a state religion, into a popular sen timent and a free manifestation of intelligence, would it not be highly imprudent in protestantism, or in the leading and influential sections of protestantism, to quit the old popular fields and paths, in which it conquered, to shut itself op in a lofty understanding with courts, in proud, exclusive sympathy and fellowship with upper classes, instead of coming down into the forum, and touching that mother and vulgar earth which alone gives force and youth to creeds and to men? Events have proved that Puseyism was a move is the wrong direction, that is, in the direction caw , pletely contrary to the tendencies of the age. Author i ty msover eigns and pontiffe,charters and creeds, isdwind- ling fast away. We may regret, but cannot recall. The systems of enlightened and paternal despotism in the political world have been shivered like glass. Those commencements of similar fabrics in religion have not stood an hour. Catholicism and its chief abandon that old high ground to build lower down, amidst the crowd and upon the popular eoil. Protestant ism must imitate or outstep its great rival. The days of high priesthood, as of infallible pontiffs, are gone. Whilst thus exclaiming against a despotic or aris tocratic system or colour of religion, we must be allowed to add, that there never was a time in which the planting, the deepening, and the invigorating of religious belief and sentiment in a people were more necessary than they are now; for although we see no anti-religious prejudices in the several European movements, we see an indifference to religion very prevalent in many places, that indifference always leading to aims subversive not merely of political government but of the social frame. This is meet natural. The moment an intelligent pople cease to believe in a religious dispensation, and in e the religious arrangement, management, and end of the universe, it follows that the effort must be made to reform and ameliorate human condition in this world, so as to remove all suffering, and desti tution, and ill. Christianity explains the exis tence of these. The negation of Christianity cannot admit the evils that result from individual freedom ; and the first step which non-Christian politicians take is to remove evil by suspending or coercing individual freedom. This is the origin, this the birth of communism, Fourrierism, Owenism. They would make man happy by amputating his will ; they would render him happy by declaring him a slave ; and force him to be prosperous and moral by yoking him to a social framework, where every step is a necessary consequence and compulsion. For our part we have no faith in any , such sys ch m i te t , as we repudiate the great negative from whi flows. We know of nothing so degrading and de preciating to man's nature as forced association. Convents have been a curse ; and social convents, which, however they may admit the union, or favour the promiscuity of the sexes, still substitute conven tual discipline for freedom of individual action, are to us worse than even political despotism. The first and indispenaable condition to the development of the human mind, of its intellect, its energy, its mo rality, variety, genius, and worth, is individual free dom ; and indeed without it, political f r eedom is impossible. What the communists therefore seek to eetabliah in Paris or Berlin is simply the mime of Dr. Fesecia in lieu of that of FREDERIC WILL.Ltis and LOUIE PUILU'RE. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuvesDAT, MARCH 30. The Brimless. took the chair at 4 o'clock. PUBLIC RUSIN MS. TETITIONS.-By Mr. C. LOSIIISOTOS. from Westminster, in favour of the claims of the Rajah of Sattark-Mr. Cotruai, be from the the name society of Odd Fellows at Burton-upoe - Tre nt , praying to put on footing ea other benefit sockties.-Mr. Dom, from Aberdeen, praying for =venial suffrage.-Mr. ti. CIAWFOILY, from Linlithgow, for an extension of the elective franchise.-Mr. AVISTET, from the attorneys of London, and Sir E N. Bi mon, from the attorneys of Itornford, for the repeal at the duties on attorneys' oertincatek- Mr. Battu; from Altos, Stirllngshfre, for the repeal of the rune laws, and from the beer retailers end beer sellers of Manchester, praying -Mr. for an equalit Or y of rights sod ivileges with the licensed victua ue m M. sox, from the charitible societies of Manchester praying to IA re lieved front the legacy duties on bequests.-Mr. Co ' wor, from the pm byteries of DonirrW, Ayr, and Hamilton, spawn the Diplomatic Re lations with Rune BUL--Sir E. N. Bemon, from the iithabiumts of Chelmstord and Weltharmtow, wand as bureau of the national de. ,-Captslii P sen au, from Bickerton, surrey , In fmour of the fences allotment system.-Mr. Roma, from Cork, for the repeal of the le lative union. NOTICES OF MOTION.-CLWLANCII or EIiTATVA (IiULLAND.)- Mr. P. Brawn on reading the order of the day for a 1:0111111ittet of I.Upply to-morrow (this day), to more a resolution that the mode of the clearance of estates existing in Ireland, by which numbers of r- Immediate ams were driven out of their occupations, stemmas the attention of parliament. Ykli1.1•11‘11TAIIT OATIIO.-Major BOSITOLD, more that it be (erred to the 'elect matinee, en the Goths of members, W Inquire and report in to the legality of the oath required to be taken by pro tenant members of this house. NEW WRITS. On the motion of Me. 011.0001 4 , • new writ was ordered for the election of a member to serve in the present pisrlia sant, f>r the county of Wicklow, in the room of Colonel , Aston, who had accepted the office of steward of the Chiltern hundreds. Mr FREWEN moved a new writ for the borough had 0111 Eye, in the room of H. M. Curteis, Esq., whose election limo declared void. Mr. HUME said that though this motion was made in the face of a motion he intended to make that no new writs should issue without previous notice, he would not interfere in this case. He, however, hoped that the noble lord oppo site (the Earl of ;blare's) would that t to-day the new writ for Horsham, but consent to postpone the motion until to-morrow (this day). The Earl of MARCH said that as there would be some discussion on the motion, he would consent to ha standing over until to morrow (this day) at five o'c The writ for Rye was then ordered. WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE ELECTION. On the motion of Mr. G. BERKELEY, the petition of inhabitant* and electors of the western division ef the county of Gloucester, praying for further Inquiry into the interfe rence of the Lord-Lieutenant at the last election, or for the re peal of the sessional orders of the house," be prin ted with to the conduct of peers at e l e ctions, was entered to the votes. ILLNESS OF THE SPEAKER-ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord SEYMOUR rose and said he had • motion to sub mit, which he was sure would meet the unanimous consent of the house. It could not but be observed that the right h o n. gentleman in the c': - air was suffering from th had une effects of a severe cold, and knowing the great labour he der gone daring the whole of the session, he (Lord Seymour) trusted the house would at once accede to his proposition, that the house do now adjourn. (Hear, hear). The Earl of LINCOLN seconded the motion, confident it would be agreed to without a dissentieet voice. (Hear, hear, from l .) The al members present then sees ea usaase and quitted the house. The house adjourned at lesauty minutes to 5 o'clock until to-morrow (this day). ELECTION COMMITTEE —Yes -reaper. BODMIN.—The committee, having heard Serjeent Wrangham for the sitting members, decided that the ra tion of the validity of the recognisance' did not come within their jurisdiction. M r. Serjeant King lake then opened the petitioners' case. The charges are, egainst Wyld, insuf ficient qualification, and against both him end Yr. Lacy, corruptly influencing the electors by the didribution of ss. tickets. After the examination of one or two witnesses the committee sojourned to this day. GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS. Yesterday was fixed for striking the Cheltenham and Leicester committees ; twit they were spin postpined pend ing the Election RecorrusancespiSL Dubbin' end Longford, which - a - food - for hireday, were on similar grounds postponed for a week. WE view the condition of things in Ireland with solicitude, but without alarm. It is impoeuible to witness the efforts that are making by a certain knot of reckless and desperate men, to dale and delude the populace, without emotions of anxiety and regret. We fear for the safety of the week and the unwise. 'The study and the shrewd will take care of themselves. Bnukgre are in every commu nity many whom disappointment has embittered, end misfortune rendered melocatent, to say nothingotthose who are liable to be carried away by the contagion of example and the Tawniest vows of welklatilated enthusiasm; and when to these are added, as In the cam of Ireland then unhappily must be, a consider - - -----_ 'rill FIRST CLERIC OF TIM Hoods OF LORDS.— The rumoured appotatmeot of Sir David Dundee in the place of the late lamented Mr. Currey, as clerk assistant of parlientent, is, we understand, triton i, and the name of WOOLS!' gentleman, occupying a II racial Utsatioc , is cou ld's* inentioned ea likely to finuariOlibitat BOOTH SEA Hoods. —A ok court of the proprietor. of South Sea sto wee yesterday upon the usual routine badness. The &elms:nor, C. ira nks, Sm lest court were read ' and reallnned i and, ate the statement of the baud debt hattheen elm reed, the court adjeused. • element of h a bi tua l discontent arising out of a able vicious social system it is vain to pretend that we should look with stem, or equanimity upon what is paring betas our eyes. To us it affords little satisfacti on to be reminded that the exe cutive power of Irelan d is vigilant and prepared f or every emergency that may occur. We take granted. even without warning , it is their t hat for duty Ise to at all times ; and it; the present case there h to as been in all oonscience preluding! and me nice* enough to waken tie feast misgiving. But w h a t v all this to the question ? Our o nl y appre hension is, that here and there throughout the southern portions of the kingdom, the poor misguided aitc7of those who spout and swagger in the m et ro may dash themselves to pieces against L i ke iron trout of power. Among a population like the peasantry of Munster and Leinster, there have long existed secret societies for agrarian objects, fruitful in the best of times of daring deeds of violence, and capable of being turned with fatal facility to still more sinister and suicidal pur- It is for these that the United Irishman has Cit bidding in all its diatribes against property and men incentives to anarchical revolution. It is among the Itibbonmen and the Molly Maguires that its readiest listeners have been found. Hence the un concealed hostility and dread of Young Ireland ism—of which Mr. MITCHELL is the frankest and most faithful preacher--entertained by the catholic clergy. They know too well whither secret associations —bound together by unlawful oaths, and subjecting their members to the remorse less mandates of unseen and unknown directors — uniformly tend. To whatever extent their political advice or spiritual counsel operates, they uniformly strive to keep their flocks clear =terse e nucleus of thin deadly system; and to a great their efforts are successful. But herein lies the danger—not to the government, the idea is preposterous—but to the peace of the country, and to the lives of the mul titude. And hnce, no doubt, have arisen the silly rumours which a s such we noticed a day or two since, regarding the constabulary force. A better disciplined or more thoroughly reliable body of men do not exist in any country. Recruited from all classes of the people, and from every district of the kingdom, and officered by men well acquainted with the habits and feelings of the population, they have been rendered by educe cation and discipline singularly homogeneous and , rveLlously efficient for the rapid and decisive re of crime, and the maintenance of public Order. We do not recollect a single instance in which they have ever wavered before an outnumbering force, or evinced the slightest symptom of demoralisation. Side by side the ei-derant orangeman of Tyrone and Terry Alt of Clare march in their green uniform when ordered out on service ; and the lawless and disaffected well know that they are indistinguishable in the discharge of their duty. Hence the impudent pretence set on foot by the sedition-mongers, that the police were likely to fraternise with them. The motive is obvious ; the snare is plain. To work the credulous and unreasoning up to the desired pitch of rashness, it is palpably essential to raise vague feelings of doubt whether, after all, the constabulary, numbering ten thousand men, are staunch and loyal. Or if—as is perhaps more likely—the loquacious teachers of insubordination count upon being able to impose p uon the overn ment by a paradeof their powers of mischie g f, it is equally obvious that no device could be better suited to promote their purpose. Fortunately it is not likely to deceive either governors or governed. And here let us enter our brief but unqualified protest against the sena less and sanguinary cry which it has been sought to raise by some of our contempo raries on this side the channel against the whole po pular party in Ireland. the other day we were told with pain that it was much to be re gretted that corporal Punishment could not be in flicted legally on persons found guilty of sedition. This is not the first occasion on which the Times has been observed to have Rus sian tendencies. Every sentiment of decency and justice is outraged by such suggestions ; fittinge might, therefore, leave them to find their place in public contempt and disgust but every syllable of cowardly and brutal menace which proceeds from English tongues or pens, in the present Irritable state of public feeling in Ireland, is to be de precated as a serious evil. It is food—St and fair we are bound to own—for those who seek to alienate the affections of the people of Ireland from this coun try. If they could for a moment be taken as indica tive of the sentiments of any important section of the British public,they would gofer to rally the sympathies of all that is enlightened and humane in England round a cause which hitherto has had nothing what ever to recommend it in their eyes. Nobody in Eng land believed that the proceedings of O'CONNELL in 1843 were justifiable or wise; but from the moment he was made the object of an unjust prosecution at law, his offence was half forgotten, and when he appeared in public here he was loudly and heartily cheered. Let SMITH O'BRIEN and his followers be now fairly tried, and, if convicted, punished according to the law already existing in bath countries, and not a voice will be raised on their behalf. But let any s ymptom of w eaknese or cruelty on the part of government be shown, and the cause of those about to be tried will be redeemed from universal contempt and condemnation. Let us have no new law of treason made for this or any other occasion. If Ireland cannot be governed by opinion, it cannot be governed at all. THE competition for farms has become so great that English farmers are induced to take or hold farms under conaitions alike unprofitable to themselves and the community, lest they should be altogether with out an occupation. At the same time no lees than fif teen forests in England remain altogether unproduc tive in the hands of one of our public departments. Such a misappropriation of land in the actual state of this country is wanton and criminal waste. The re-' turn of the income and expenditure of these forests, which has been published, will show the general re sults of the management, or rather mismanage mi. nt, of this part of the public property; but a glance at some of the details of management will place the matter in a still more striking light. Let us take the first on the list, the " New Forest," in Hampabire. The New Forest contains 65.992 acres, of which 5,500 acres have been inclosed for the growth of timber, and 2,307 acres have been inclosed for other purposes. The whole extent of land, then, which tias been attempted to be applied to any profitable purpose does not exceed 7,807 acres the uninclosed land amounts to 58,184 acres. On this vast tract of land, in 1846, the last year for which we have a return, there were kept 3,552 deer. A few stunted ponies and diminutive cattle—which may be curious to the naturalist, as showing, by contrast, how much the horses and cattle, of which we are so justly , proud, owe to care and abundant food, the result of artificial cultivation—also obtain a precarious sub. sistence. In the autumn some swine are turned into the forest to pick up the acorns and beech-mast which fall from the trees. The produce of " timber, &c., supplied for public purposes' is represented in the return by the signifi c ant monosyllable " Nil." ,Persons having land near the forest have cer- Tits Btsnor OP Elms AND lux REV. 0. B. tain rights of common, which they exerc i se Goaften. —Some time ago much a ttention was called to the case of • clergynilal (the Rev. Mr. Gorham) who had been by turning in cattle in the summer ; but t ite th . ! ri d i iress of Il i a re eta, bu .i tzbo: no farmer ever thinks of sending any stock of frar op te ' re e "mello w liahes the following as the sequel of the opprenion i " It will much value to herd with the miocellaneous occupants of the forests, and the deer, the ponies, and the no be recollected (says the editor of that paper) that Mr. Gorham, timber, form the main results from these 58,000 acres on his presentation by the crown to the vicarage of Scamp of unindosed land. This land is for the most part ford Spike, was subjected to an examination of several days' continuance one ene extending tiff: elevettLhoand summoneda h alf. covered with furze and fern, demonstrating its capa ten - city to grow corn ; for land which in a wild state pro- hi. Wi th in th e th e days Ln Lad ' s end, to ug enter n u pon anotx ditZem dams furze and fern, invariably becomes, when culti- tenon with the bishop, for it has long ceased to be an ex vatted, good wheat land. amination, and after having replied to nearly one hundred and fifty questions on the efficacy of baptism, Bishop Shill- Nov, this tract, if inclosed and cultivated, would .. potts has pronounced him unsound ia doctrine, and has give profitable em positively refused to institute him to the living at Brampford ployment to capital , from Si. to 101 per acre, and would afford occupation to an immense Speke. It is understood that proceedings will lame number of labourers. The rights of common, now of diately be commenced and vigorously carried on against our little value, would be extinguished, the owners receiv- rig reverend diocesan. This oppressive conduct of the lag compensations in land in the usual manner, and a Ms_ h p involves the most serious consequences to all lay p o r e tril t livings, ss well ss io the beneficed and other large property of great value would be made available to the public service, either by means of also- TY-SIX HOUSS IN A BMT-rt.—Yesterday morn - lute sale, or by granting it out upon leases at In; one of those extraordinary beings who gain a prime:am improved rents. The best mode of dealing with rat bsiMmos bypenetruting into the sewers of the me tr opolis, this tract wou ld be to make certain main and in search of coins or other valuables that may be WABWiAtO secondary roads through it, and then, after dividing them through thildeattui was taken out alba mai n sewer, in it into lots, . according to the nature of di e havin ead g thirty-six hours mulls ' ; lal osiring' - to fin d his way soil and situation, 50 to 50 0 acres, to offer it far out, which, from having advanced further than •14/ his stir y or t a aataty, his mi l s were heard by Mr. Tickle, cheesenson male by auction. In this way a large amount would tom, to recover some favor that had been dropped down a b e n ai a d, and a n un productive waste converted into vatic( user the Seven Dials, he was unable to accomplish. a thriving scene of industry. A ooeveapondent com plains that " a great evil of the extensive waste of the f i " , et the m ner o f nee7" -eteset end Br. o • 44 tree t, 01,Pc te wham house there as • man-hole, which he hest cal- New Forest is that it i:jrarsles a Populous and rich trived to climb ; and, amiseasses Wait pnscexed, he was district of the north Leap re from the coast, liberated. in a trice. In addition to the civic guard, the government is about to assume the offensive against certain active leaders of the clubs, by a revelation of their relations, pecuniary and other, with the ex•government. This war, both of paper and police, waged between the government and the clubs, will have the effect of giving the Parisians fresh confidence in their tem porary rulers. 1 'The provinces cause more disquiet tha n the ca p ital. In Lyons the commissary is even more embarrassed by the operatives than M. Louts BLANC in the Luxembourg. And the Gironde is in a state of open disaffection to the republic, which it will require more address than the government commissaries seem to have to remove. The Constitutionnel published a very circumstantial account of conversations with delegates, in which M. LEDKU ROLLIN expressed himself most dictatorially. But, as we yesterday observed, M. LE- I DRU ROLLIN has abated somewhat of his ultra-repub. lic zeaL Perhaps the most untoward event in the provinces is the circumstance of a mob of operatives having assembled in Rouen, and having proceeded to the gaol for the purpose of liberating BLANCHARD, the ruffian who set fire to the railway-bridge over the Seine. The national guard of that populous city, and the military, both showed such lukewarmness and want of zeal, that the mob succeeded in releasing the prisoner, thus triumphing over the force publique and the cause of order. ALL BE SI SLEB of ti MAU folla hag that Mein censt spite Dock but; On! WuCi See use.