The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-19 00:00:00

• I THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1848. 3 ....--_ - tsd boroughs have constituencies of men with d ram, h y or d er o f .... r.. mA nTiwg, beat for the mustering the commissioners published plain unambiguous elan troops in . Rolste . in received full power a few days since the preservation of peace and tranquillity to be put up in all I was 26,008, and in the other six cities and boroughs the F el"— • ' of the ir own ; the close boroughs of the na • and • wills and opinions bona guard, in an hour 200,000 citizens' statements of the extent of each forest, the purpose and, if needful, to on churches and chapels on Friday, the 21st inst., and on the l population was 1,344,134 These may be taken as the ate m ot stragglin g communities, subject to the bayonets bristledalong the line ofboulevardsand quays to which it is app li ed, the names and offices of the to hiis itc o ; e soco ndi r o a ns iextreme of each class. cos jjnandaof neighbounng magnates. The 18 members from one end of Pans to the other. It mattered not persons employed, the precise items of income and ag oo to th eir e rth m" er sire Ofth Eder. ilit es jy ry rfon - four following Sundays. iderations have hitherto compelled him to maintain his po - Mann la Oman Boroughs. HOMO. Populatioo, liattlent of Mr. Heath's analysis who represent that thousands of operatives h a d got into the ranks o.fr • ,of . .expenditure, and so forth, the nest of jobbery in the approach of the cavalry. 'Won on the Eider. These depended partly on the tardy which could not come by the rail- SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL la Foams Paan.— Last nieht a meeting of the inhabi oonstitnenetes are representatives th e peop l e ;of the national guard—nay, that some of them had " Woods and Forests" department could not have re- wey trains, and partly in the delays which took place in the --. tams of Lambeth was held in the Boys' School Room, Lam- H a nsen _ 111 4,297 the other 18 are only representatives o . fcertain members become o ffi cers. This, instead of being productive of mained so long undisturbed. It is time that the arrival of the troops expected from Hanover. The !simian bath green , in aid of the establishment of a local association Thetford tee 3,462 of t io uistocr/Cy. It is h erein . the anarchical effect hoped for by some, had, on the people should receive some intelligible information of • consists the virulence i r division h id and as just ordered several battalions of infantry, in that parish in connexion with the parent Society for the Chleertshom........----.... •-• at 5,270 o f that tainted majority of the representatives re- contrary, • conaervative result, for it communicated the management of their affairs from each depart- f eav ry, mounted artillery to proceed to Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Arch- Tou'w • ........... ----- ..... RI 2,303 Holstein. MIS 5,413 ta med by about one-fortieth of the adult population :to those national guards of the working class that meet of the government. x.. lluntlo bo gdsu rougt, He ...... _6,253 they represent not even that amount of popular will spirit of order, and that determination to defend pro- The King has accepted the resignation of hia minis- bishop of Canterbury in the chair. The right rev. prelate addreeeed the meeting in explanation of the objects et the 28,001 ter, Von Rothor, as President of the Chief Adminis- saeoctation, and expatiated on the claims the society had 12 Manahan to ....................^ 1,171 an d conviction, but the conflicting interests of an ex- perty, which is the sentiment of the corps. And the elusive aristocracy. anarchists found antagonists in the very men and GERMANY. to es* out . with inereased vig r the propagati tretion of the Treasury, as Chief of the Marine, and upon the sympathy snd support of the public to en d a n ble of th t e h m e Chief of the Prussian Bank. Mr. Von Lamprecht,Borussia ltholors la Dame. Grows repetition. The inquiries of election committees have recently the very class, from which they had expected counts- President of the Bank Direction, has been charged gotpel in British India and other fareign possessions under --.-. thrown some disgusting light upon the means by nonce and aid. PRUSSIA.—We have received our files of Germanthe trol otitis aovernment of this cmintry. The Lord with the administration of t h e latter office ad ice- Bishop of Medea+, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rev. C. B. wem'inatee ............ which these representatives of the titled or the monied The events of Sunday give great hopes of the papers. The dates from Berlin are of the 15th. The terun.Tower Hamlets ...... -....-...... 12.331 202,319 returned to parliament. One wealthy future ; not but that we shall hear of conspiracies Journals of the date of the 10th have reached us. The Dalton, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting in sup- L. „„,,,, 04 aristocracy are 12,974 7202 702 commoner, and would-be peer, has becu found tam- and struggles, but the wiser portion of the Pro- following are two letters from our correspondent at the meeting to support, both by their exec- Murylebone A letter from Aix-la - Cho lie , of April 15, says : port of the association, and resolutions were unani This evening our city is in the greatest commotion. The adopted. Pledging 11.623 ROM one and the same time with the consti- visional Government is evidently united and de- . Berlin : Manchester -.— ll3O 187,022 burgher guard is under arms. The commotion arose in con- ti ms and pecuniary aid, the objects of the society. A vote perinz at---. of two small English boroughs and two termined, and able to preserve order until the meet- BERLIN, APRIL 14. sequence of a dispute between some o f the reserve corps and of thanks was passed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who 12 Rimiest° resas 104024 tnencies In one he . purchased ing of the National Assembly, when they can derive ,_ get e Fously FirlffibUry small Irish boroughs. The Prussian democrats are not quite satis fi ed with a number of workmen. The soldiers were disarmed, and briefly replied, and the meeting broke up—a collection being electoral law but government is not dis dto two of them were killed. The workmen, armed with made at the dean. COUNTIES—SCOTLAND. l i mes, allowed his tenants to get into arrears, fresh force from the majority, and from the votes of "'.." change the system. Ministers, mo eover, attach importance hatcheu, spades, & 0., traverring the streets. The military INQUEST, YESTERDAY. —THE .MIIRDER 12.7 WEST- Three counties, having in all 2,192 electors, with an adult a d v anced loans of money to s.ll who asked : that body. The assembly, with the principal members to the fact that no protest against moreover, new electoral law has have been consigned to the barracks, and a promise has been MINSTER. —By Mr. Bedford, at t.e Feathers, Dean- male populating of only 12,338, vend three members to par. • his object was to make debtor-clients of aof the Provisional Government, can always reckon upon been modern the provinces , officially given that the reserves shall be sent off to-monow. street, Westminster, to inquire into the cause of death liament ; and three other counties, having 9,460 electors, lation of 171,120 mile adults, send the same num majority of the constituency. In another, he ri d the support of the army, and by pursuing a moderate . The concord between the working class! and their em- te Th i tit resents of tt i r te tl i t entered only on the day before yes- of Maria Edda's,. whe wee found stabbed in the neck and a pou bored railway appointments with a lavish hand in republican course, can command not only the su p. pit o i;z di rs e i n s s tr engthened oniii.eroiis e m veLy i lay tor m e o s re an a d n and more . The excited ill will by marching in with on Sunday morning, in Wilton-row Westminster. Richard her of representatives to parliament. other establish - a r bl e alL a a n itd i w a lle banner , y and audaciously tearing off the Bilden, agardener at Kensal-g , ii, statwd that deceased order that he might have a preponderance of salaried port of the citizen class, but of the more industrious .No of Make No. of workmen have enured their employers that, in return for a dime. black, red, sad gold cockades which were worn by the was 27 years of age, she was a single woman, and that Counties. above Electors in officials, dependent on himself, among the voters. In and orderly of the artisans themselves. • nution of the hours of labour and an increase of wages, they burghers. The disturbancet were renewed on the 17th, in she had put herself out of his control, The evidence of the i l d•P• . ° 20 yearn. 1335-40. ',third, he advanced money to keep the dissolute. tthe workmen) will bestow double attention on their various consequence of which a proclamation was issued, exhorting witness!, Dowling, Keene, Wright, L. Carter and Cum- t 717 rade, and ignorant among the voters in a state of con- . .. . .. . _ _ occupations, and, by renewed industry and activity, fully in- the inhabitants to be quiet. There was an outward calm af- ming, given the previoui day at the examination of William Baulhhis• ---- .......... --- 1,1 , i 2 0 :54 16 ° 4 563 demnify the former for their kind concessions. It atforda terwards, and it was hoped that the reserves would be per- Temkin*, the accused party, at the Westminster police court, I .‘' bi ...... 1 giant intoxication for weeks previous to the election. WREN all the e ff orts of public men to reduce the 1,632 612 Tzln y ch ou p t l h e a les t u iii re y tO co e n tr ru m y un sta ie te ate me l. n U ti Ch areunro intelligence, undea t . nd to mined to depart in quietness. The burgher guard core- was then repeated; and Mr. G. Pearse, surgeon, 5, Regent- ........ ----- At election time bribes were lavishly distributed . from extravagant expenditure of our government are met pletely shut up the street, but the mob attacked them ; many street, in addition to his former testimony, stated that be had hint 3 1 12,336 2,192 his funds among the voters. At registration times, by assertions that here reduction is impracticable and In consequence of the interruption of steam navigation shots were fired, several persons were kled and others tbat morning made sposr-mortens examination of the body mu. , No. of Maim No. of his agents, at his expense, laboured to get voters of there impossible, people naturally ask why ? But the between the Schleswig -Holatein ports and Copenhagen, wounded. The cavalry was then called Qu i l l ed , cleared the of the deceased, in the presence et four other medical erode- Omaha a . „v • above Electors is . one party dto keep off voters of the other officials who the • on the rolhan . . . alleges impossibility of economy arc monde boats will run four times per week between Trove- streets, and the hated reserve were obliged to quit the city. men. The external appearance prevented a horizontal ''''" '''' .20 years. 163943. (Lubeck) and the above capital. At the time when the Ai.r.la.Chapelle Gazette was going to wound, three quarters of an inch in length, below the • When his nominee was rejected, the petition extremely costive in affording the information neces- 1 ! 42,3.81 3,181 it appears by the Berlinische Zeaung of this day, that in press the city was still in commotion. left collar bone. It penetrated the cavity of the chest, be- Aberdeenshire _ „ Ta int the sitting member was promoted by his sar y to test the accuracy of their allegations. fake several parts of the grand duchy of Posen, the Polish armed AUSTRIA.—We have Vienna papers of the 13th. tween the first and second ribs, half an iech from the breast- t e dt,nb'st r s e bue 1 :6,0.12 2,315 3.964 conflicts with the Prussian troops, and that The Emperor had accepted the resignation of Count bone, taking a direction downward, considering the body " ti stanainry .-met at the time, and a little inwards, wound- Total ted boroughs have constituencies of men with w ills and opinions of their own; the close boroughs ire sma ll straggling communities, subject to the emis mande of neighbounng magnates. The 18 members of rlisinent of Mr. Heste's analysis who represent t eal constituencies are representatives of the pee le ; the other 18 ar e only representatives of certain mem bers of the aristocracy. It is herein consists the virulence of that tainted majority of the representatives re turned by about one-fortieth of the adult population : they represent not even that amount of popular will and conviction, but the conflicting interests of an ex clusive aristocracy. The inquiiies of election committees have recently thrown some disgusting light upon the means by which these representatives of the titled or the monied aristocracy are returned to parliament. One wealthy commoner, and would-be peer, has been found tam perint at one and the same time with the consti tuencies of two small English boroughs and two s mall Irish boroughs. In one he purchased b o ws, allowed his tenants to get into arrears, advanced loans of money to all who asked : his object was to make debtor-clients of a majority of the constituency. in another, he distri buted railway appointments with a lavish hand in order that he might have a preponderance of salaried officials, dependent on himself, umong the voters. In "third, he advanced money to keep the dissolute, rade, and ignorant among the voters in a state of con stant intoxication for weeks previous to the election. At election time bribes were lavishly distributed from his funds among the voters. At registration times, his agents, at his expense, laboured to get voters of one party on the rell,and to keep off voters of the other. When his nominee was rejected, the petition against the sitting member was promoted by his agog' at his expense. Great indignation has been expmeed at the conduct of the mil,'iminaire to whom we allude: there has been talk of a penal action against him. But his crime is neither more no leas than attempting to get a control over the four boroughs, which members of the aristocracy actually exercise over both boroughs and counties. His crime is being a l eireess, and attempting to acquire power which the aristocracy consider their legitimate and exclusive right. It is in vain to expect that the House of Commons will act and legislate with sympathy, or in the interests of the general public, so long as this system of election prevails. 'l'be representatives of the inde pendent proprietors among the middle chases are an inco nsiderable fraction in that house; the intelligent and industrious non-proprietary class is not repre sented there at all. This above is not to be reme died by suspending writs or disfranchising a few small boroughs. By such means one eristocratio party, by convicting its rival of corruption, may oc casionally diminish that rival's strength and increase its own, but thete will be no gain f , r the people. Nothim; short of a large and bold extension of the electoral franchise and an abolition of all constitu encies so small as to render secret voting impossible, can give the people's voice any chance of being heard with effect in the House of Commons. !be struggle to accomplish this inevitable as indis pensable reform has begun. Mr. HUME has already given notice that after F.aster he will make a motion to have the state i.f the representation taken into con sideration. At Birmingham the householders are pre paring to submit their plan of reform for the consideration of their fellow-countrymen. A somewhat varied measure has been recommended from Leeds. At Manchester the middle classes arc inviting the non-electors to co-operate with them in an effort to popularise the House of Commons. Everywhere the people, is whose minds the conviction of the necessity of electoral reform has grown up without mutual communication and pre concert, are bestirring themselves to take counsel to gether with a view to agree upon some definite effective measure to be demanded by their united voice. It is now the time for all to express their views frankly, but without passion or exaggeration, in I order that every one may cont ribute his saggestion, and thus not only the efficacy but the general accept ableness of the measure that may ultimately be agreed upon be ensured. We feel convinced that this movement of 1848 will be characterised by the same generous mutual sacrifice of peculiar opinions, by the same majestic control of passion, as that of 1831. Respect to the deliberate convictions of every individual, readiness to concede non-essential points, is the temper which will secure success. The value of every obstacle must be weighed beforehand. And, above all, the power of resistance inherent in that aristocracy which sits its one house of the legislature, and returns more than one half of the members in the other, must be accurately estimated. There are legal checks upon the action of the Crown —there are legal checks upon the action of the Com mons—the Lords alone are without any cheek. While the constitution is left to work regularly, there is no constitutional mode of bringing them to acquiesce, when the othet two branches of the legislature are against them. All measures which go against the grain with the peers—such as Reform Bill or Corn Law Abolition—must be obtained by an effort so great, and a shock so violent, as almost to neu tralise the good effects of the victory. Is this state of affairs to be allowed to continue 9 SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL Foamor4 Passim—Last night a meeting of the inhabi tants of Lambeth was held in the Boys' School Room, Lam beth-green, in aid of the establishment of a local association in that parish in connexion with the parent Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Arch bishop of Canterbury in the chair. The right rev. prelate addreaard the meeting in explanation of the objects of the association, and expatiated on the claims the society had upon the sympathy and support of the public to enable them to carry out with increased vigour the propagation of the gospel in British India and other foreign possessions under the control of the aovernment of this mnintry. The Lord Bishop of Madras, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rev. C. B. Dalton, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting in sup port of the association, and resolutions were unanimously adopted, pledging the meeting to support, both by their exer tions and pecuniary mkt, the objects of the society. A vote of thanks was passed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who briefly replied, and the meeting broke up—a collection being made at the door. INQUEST, YESTERDAY. —THE MURDER IN' WEST MINSTER. —By Mr. Bedford, at t:e Feathers, Dean street, Westminster. to inquire into the cause of death of Maria Edda's, who was found stabbed in the neck on Sunday morning, in Wilton-row, Westminster. Richard Eddon, a gardener at Kensal-green, stated that deceased wan t 7 years of age, she was a single woman, and that she had put herself out of his control. The evidence of the ' witnesses, Dowling, Keene, Wright, L. Carter and Cum ming, given the preview day at the examination of Williams Temkin*, the accused party, at the Westminster police court, was then repeated; and Mr. G. Penne, surgeon, 5, Regent street, in addition to his former testimony, stated that be had that morning made a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased, in the presence of four other medical gentle men. The external appearance presented a horizontal wound, three quarters of an inch in length, below the left collar bone. It penetrated the cavity of the chest, be tween the first and second ribs, half an inch from the breast bone, taking a direction downward, conaidering the body to be standing erect at the time, and a little inwards , wound ing the edge of the left bone, perforating the pericardium and wounding the pulmonary arteries. There were six ounces of blood effused into the pericardium, sad eight ounces into the cavity of the chest. These would cause im mediate death. The general appearance of the body indi cated perfect health. Mr. Penne produced a certificate from the other medical gentlemen who had witnessed the post marten; examination, concurring with his account —ln reply to inquiries from the coroner and jury, Mr. Pearse said that his impression was, that the female was standing upright, leaning a little forward, at the time the blew was struck. He did nut think it possible that she could have done it herself. It was his impression that the wound was inflicted by a per son standing up. The brain had not been examined, the appearances above stated being by all the medical gentlemen present deemed conclusive.—Mr. Bedford expressed himself perfectly satisfied, but thought that the hubn might as well be examined before interment, to see whether there was any effusion of bloat there.—The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against William Tomkins. PRUSSIA. We have received our files of German papers. The dates from Berlin are of the 15th. The journals of the date of the 10th have reached us. The following are two letters from our correspondent at Berlin : BERLIN, APRIL 14. The Prussian democrats are not quite satisfied with the new electoral law, but government is not disposed to change the system. Ministers, moreover, attach importance to the fact that no protest against the new electoral law has been madein the province,. The concord between the working classes and their em ployers is strengthened every day more and more. The workmen of numerous manufactories and other establish ments have assured their employers that, in return for a dimi nution of the hours of labour and an increase of wages, they tthe workmen) will bestow double attention on their various occupations, and, by renewed industry and activity, fully in demnify the former for their kind concessions. It affords me much pleasure to communicate such intelligence, and to assure you that any contrary statements are unfounded. In consequence of the interruption of steam navigation between the Schleswig-Holstein ports and Copenhagen, steamboats will run four times per week between Trave munde (Lubeck) and the above capital. It appears by the Berlinische Zeaung of this day, that in several parts of the grand duchy of Posen, the Polish armed corps have had conflicts with the Prussian troop. end that several persons have been killed on both sides. S even Poles, implicated in the former insurrection in Posen, have been Amsted in Cirandenz, on the charge of high treason. The game journal states that the royal commissioner, Gen. Von Willwen, is very unpopular amongst the German inhabit. ants of Posen, and that he displays every day more and more a leaning towards the Poles, whose society he almost exclusively frequents. It is added, in a private communica• tion from the Bernbaum district, that an immense number of Germans have already left the duchy, because the Poles intend to force them to march against Russia. The 6,000 armed Poles assembled in the neighbourhood of Gnesen have terror. A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, of April 15, says: This evening our city is in the greatest commotion. The burgher guard is under arms, The commotion arose in con sequence of a dispute between some of the reserve corps and a number of workmen. The soldiers were disarmed, and two of them were killed. The workmen, armed with hatchets, spades, &0., are traversing the streets. The military have been consigned to the barracks, and a promise has been officially given that the reserves shall be sent off to-monow. The reserves of the 34th entered only on the day before yes. terday, and immediately excited ill will by marching in with • black and white banner, and audaciously tearing off the black, red, and gold cockades which were worn by the , burghers. The disturbance' were renewed on the 17th, in c tge ns i e XaTi c ta e n o t f s * W h ll c e h q a uire r . wli Tt ati re on was w 7n in ou u t ed wiir e d l c h al . m rti af terwards, and it was hoped that the reserves would be per mitted to depart in quietness. The burgher guard com pletely shut up the street, but the mob attacked them ; many shots were fired, several persons were killed, and others wounded. The cavalry was then called out and cleared the streets, and the bated reserve were obliged to quit the city. I At the time when the Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette was going to press the city was still in commotion. AUSTRIA.—We have Vienna papers of the 13th. The Emperor had accepted the resignation of Count, Stadion, Governor of Bohemia. He has also been' pleased to appoint Leo Count Von Thou to be presi dent of the Bohemian Diet. lIANOVEIL—The if Zeitung of the 9th of April says that the minister declared, in a closed sit ting,that, according to an official declaration, England will maintain neutrality in the federal war against Denmark, if the federal army will guarantee the safety of English subjects and English property. Upon this the states voted the sum of 500,000 dollars for the expedition to Schleswig-Holstein. • FRANKFORT.—The dates from Frankfort are to the 16th. At the sitting of the Germanic Diet on the 14th, M. de Wangenheim was admitted as a deputy in the place of M. de Lenthe. The deputy from 'Denmark for the duchies of Holstein and 1/e Lauenbourg had given in his resignation to the ])iet the day before, in consequence c f the resolution passed relative to the affairs of Schleswig-holstein. Pro fessor Jordan had made official and confidential ex planations with regard to the recent events of Cassel. In consequence of those explanations the Diet did not see any reason for ulterior interference in the affairs in question. Order appeared to be completely re established by constitutional means. On the report of the committee of revision all the governments had been requested to make known, without delay, the shortest period in which all the deputies of the national assembly could be convoked. A proclamation of the committee of fifty has ap peared. It is addressed to the inhabitants of the grand duchy of Baden, of the kingdom of Wurtem berg, of the province of Rhenish Bavaria, and of the grand duchy of Hesse, and exhorts them not to pay any attention to a proclamation which has been cir culated in the circle of the Lake of Constance and in that of the Upper Rhine, inviting the people to realise their demands at the point of the sword and to as semble for the purpose at Donaueschingen on the 14th of Ap•tl, provided with ammu nition and provisions for a week, as there is an intention of proceeding to Kehl and there joining the body of French workmen who have just come from France. The proclamation of the fifty is expressed in the most energetic terms against this attempt, and while it asserts that the troops concentrated on the frontiers are destined only to oppose an invasion of this kind, it exhorts the inhabitants of the countries above mentioned to combat the despotism of a party which presumes to impose at any price its special opinion upon all Germany. The Gazette des Portes says :—" We learn from an authentic source that the Germania Diet is actively en gaged at the suggestion of the committee of the seven teen in the project of the establishment of a German war navy. NI e joyfully received this first indication of the renewed energyof the Germanic Confederation." BADEN.—A letter from Carlsruhe, of April 13, in the Cologne Gazette of the lith, says :—" We have just received intelligence that Flecker and Struve, ac companied by several officers, have arrived at Storkach, and are preparing for a revolt. The military here consists of from 9,000 to 11,000 men, and it is confi dently hoped they will be able to reduce the anarchists in a few days." W111:81 all the efforts of public men to reduce the extravagant expenditure of our government are met by assertions that here reduction is impracticable and there impossible, people naturally ask why ? But the officials who allege the impossibility of economy are extremely costive in affording the information neces sary to test the accuracy of their allegations. Take forinstance the Woods and Forests. A Cheshire cor respondent, struck probably with some particulars we lately gave relative to the New Forest, asks us " to furnish particulars as regards the officers, paid and unpaid, to whom the management of Delamere-forest, Cheshire, is intrusied ? " AVe can only reply by sta ting that we can give none of the particulars sought. Turning to the animal reports of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests, we find nothing, year after year, but a lumping sum charged as the " ordinary expenditure "of all the 15 royal forests and woods, and another sum given as the income of all the said forests and woods; and it is only by means of the return moved for the other day, by Lord DericAtt, that we learnt that the in come of l)elamere Forest is 4,706/. 16s. 2;d., and the expenditure, 2,652/. 10s. 114 d. How the income arises, and of what the expenditure consists, the com missioners have not thought proper to tell. Possibly they might say they were not asked, for it seems that, though Lord DeNeats moved for "the amount, in detail, applied to each forest," he did not interrogate them with all the minute particularity with which an equity draftsman often finds it necessary to " search the conscience" of a defendant unwilling to make a clean breast. The result is that nothing but the gross income and the gross expenditure of each forest has been disclosed. The particulars respecting the New Forest we lately published were furnished by two returns ob tained by Mr. TRELAWNY, to sotne very searching in quiries, which indicated considerable previously acquired knowledge on the part of the mover. For equally full information with respect to the other four teen forests and woods we presume the public must be content to wait until the committee appointed on Monday night shall have inquired and reported upon the subject. All that we have as yet been able to learn is that the annual charge for bread and cheese and beer to the foresters and other sylvan emplo. , s, betokens a comfortable state of health among these functionaries; and that in, at least, one year there is a charge of 1,2001. for pheasants' eggs—for the public service. In the meantime, it may not be useless to render the glimpses the annual reports of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests afford, available to show the eadmisap of public property. These forests and woods form part of the hereditary property of the crown, which, being practically un productive, is graciously made over to the public at the commencement of each reign, the crown receiving in return a handsome annual civil list from the na tional revenue. The civil list is a thing of substance, but the forests and woods, as hitherto dealt with, are but the shadows of property ; they arc mere patro nage preserves. Nor is any system of management of such property likely to make it a desirable invest ment for the public. The only proper mode of man agement is by out and out sale. Ily such means a fund would be raised that might be used to ease the over-taxed industry of the coun try. The annual reports of the commissioners are models of that style of official reporting which carefully avoids giving information that might prove inconvenient to the "department:' For instance, in the 11th annual report for the year ending the sth of January, 1840, the only part of their subject upon which the commissioners offer inure than a few bald sentences is that relating to the " supply of venison from the royal forests and parks." The recipients of royal forest venison, it seems, complained, and, as the complainants in that case consisted of royal duke., peers, and right worshipful 'squires, their complaints met with attention and redress. See how much in earnest the " Woods and Forests" can be in a matter of venison-supply reform. The report says : Various complaints having been made, both as to the quality and supply of the venison from the royal forests and parks by the parties who have hitherto, with the sanction of the Sovereign. been permitted to receive the same, we re ceived directions from the Lords Commissioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury to make inquiries into the supply and distribution of the venison from each of the royal forests and parks, and to advise their lordships as to the measures which should appear to us to be best adapted to remedy the evils complained of. The result of these inquiries was such a. to induce their lordships to submit to her Majesty the expe diency of placing the whole supply, including that for the royal table, under the supervision and direction of this board ; that the keepers should not be allowed to receive the fees and perquisites which heretofore had made a considerable portion of their income, but that they should he paid fixed annual salaries ; that they should be restricted in the keep of cattle its the parks to one or two cows, and to a sufficient number of horses only for the proper execution of their duties, to which they would de vote their whole time and attention ; and that they should send to the penis s having her Majesty's v..nison the whole buck or doe, a xcept the head, skin, and offal. These recommendations were approved, and directed to be carried into effect. For that purpose (say the commissioners) it has been found necessary to discontinue the services of some of the old keepers, and to award them superannuation allowances in proportion to their length of service. I'o Lieut.-Colonel Cheater, who held the office of clerk of the venison warrants, their lordships have sanctioned a retired allowance of 1501. per annum and to the gentleman who acted as his deputy 301. per annum. And thenceforth a warrant " for her Majesty's approbation and s.enature" would be prepared at the commencement of every season, which would in clude the whole supply of tha season ; and warrants would then be issued to the parties mentioned in such warrant on paying a fee of 1/.65. for a buck, and Ids. for a doe. The sums so collected are applied in payment of keepers' salaries and retired allowance. And the commissioners complacently hope that " this arrange ment will not be attended with any eunsidernhle charge upon the funds of our department." Thus the only semblance of useful purpose to which these forests were applied—the supply of venison to select members of the aristocracy—sous im perfectly fulfilled; and it required a sort of genteel agitation to procure what may be designated the forest charter of royal venison-eaters of 1840. But, though doubtless the reformed state of the royal forest administration has become more satisfactory to venison-eaters, what say the public ? The tax-payers who furnish the civil list, the equiva lent for them forests, are not exactly represented by the eaters of royal venison, or entirely satisfied that such a large amount of public property should be kept unproductive, that royal favourites may feast on fat venison. Our readers will remember that the New Forest has supplied no timber for the public service ; and the ether forests seem to have been equally useless in that particular. On this subject the commissioners in their 12th report for 1841, say: la Dean Forest and New Forest, being those of the greatest extent and value, the enactments a the statutes of Charles 11. and William 111., renewed and confirmed by an act of 48 Geo. 111., authorised 11,000 acres to be taken from to be inclosed, and kept inclosed, at one and t o ht of the lest thnoemworetes of the former, and 6,000 acres of the litter, ad Passing er full en. it was th n ose ot Lai r m sam en e ti t o i n m ed e ; bauctt that forced. roavniseironsthewere ev y Such are the results of the management of the andds Forests; and it would be for the w utmost ingenuity to contrive any other system by which so much land in England could be so unpro ductively and unprofi ta bly employed. And it has been under cover of secrecy and concealment that this state of things has been so lone sustained. Had IN IRELAND Greet inequality in the number of adults and of electors also exists. Fur example, the eo-inty of Kildare, with 27,62.5 adult moles, of whom only 1,152 are registered electors, sends two representatives to parliament ; whilst the city of Cork, having 171,873 mcle adults, of whom no more than 3,926 are electors, sends only the same number of repre sentatives to parliament Number' Counties. of dispersed. The l'osen Gazette of 7esterday hes just come to hand. It confirms the statement that the German inhabitants are very hostile to Gen. Von Willisen, and that they publicly displayed their feelings towards him on the night of the 11th and the morning of the 12th inst. So that he deemed it ad visable to hove the town. It appears that the Germane liaise Gen. Von Willisen for having displayed too much indulgence towards the Polish troops. The German committee in ltogasen has issued a manifest setting forth that the Poles may thank the Berlin defenders of the barricades for the prospects they now enjoy, and de nouncing the excesses which it is alleged the Poles have com mitted. The following extract from the manifest is im portant :—" It is not the soil - which determines the nationality of a country, but the people who inhabit it. In the circle of Czaroikau there are 56,700 Germans, and y 8,400 Poles ; in Citodziesen 44,500 of the former, and only 3,600 of the latter ; and in Obornik two-thirds of the inhabit ants are Germans and one-third are Poles, and soon in all the districts bordering on Neumark, West Prussia, and Silesia." Several papers state that the royal commissioner, General I Von Willisen, and the Commander-in-Chief Von Colomb, are at open variance, and that the latter had given orders to march upon the armed Poles if they had not laid down their weapons before 9 a.m. on the 11th. It appears that the German troops entertain the bitterest animosity to the Poles. The Gazeta Polska, on its side, continues to give accounts of numerous and frightful excesses committed by the Prussian troops on unarmed Poles. The directors of the Upper Silesian Railway have resolved to Rive free passes to all Poles returning from exile and en tering Silesia rid Breelaw. Forty-two Poles, who lett Berlin the day before yesterday for Cracow, availed themselves of this iheral offer. On Monday next 200 more volunteers will leave this city for Schleswig-Holstein. General Von Willisen, the royal commissioner for the na tional (Polish) reorganisation of the duchy of Posen. arrived yesterday in Berlin. Ile immediately proceeded to l'etodam, where a cabinet council was summoned. It is asserted that it has been resolved to declare the duchy of Posen indepen dent of Prussia, with the exception of those parts which are ail hut exclusively German. The Pelee, however, demand the restoration of their country in its ancient limits, and con tend that they have as much right to claim the so-called German parts of Posen, as Germany has to demand the so called Danish parts of Schleswig. Gen. Von Willisen has issued•circular, under date April l 2 stating that he shall consider his mission at en end, as soon as he finds that there is no longer any peaceful way of set tling the disturbances which exist in the grand duchy, and that he shall immediately resign his post when he discovers that, on the expiration of the second delay of three days (a delay which expired this day), the armed Poles do not dis perse. He state., moreover, that he will not sacrifice any of the rights of his countrymen—the Germans. Up to the de parture of the post no further news of any certainty had been received from Posen, or rather from Schrods, where the armed Poles are assembled. They had been summoned to disperse on the 11th, but at the request of Gen. Von Wil lisen a delay was granted till the 14th. Antic 15.—Further intelligence received in a well-in formed quarter enables me to repeat confidently the state ment—that Prussia is fully prepared to give up her portion of Poland, and that she only awaits a favourable opportunity for so doing. The chief obstacle to the speedy realisation of the plan was the vehement opposition to it on the part of the German inhabitants of that pert of the Prussian territory, but that impediment has been removed—whether finally depends upon the ultimate acquiescence of the Polee—by Prussia declaring that the so-called German districts shall be detached from the duchy and incorporated with the Ger manic confederation. The next great obstacle was the ap prehension that if Prussian Poland were too rashly or too quickly declared independent, it might be induced, in the first flush of success and under the first impulse of regained liberty, to venture beyond its strength, and by turning upon Russia bring down upon it, whilst still unprepared for so un equal a contest, all the gigantic powers of its inveterate toe. It was justly feared that if " Prussian" Poland sho Ad be una ble to cope with that enemy, its defeat would enly bring that antagonist closer than ever to Prussia proper —an approximation not at all desirable However, Prussia has now to choose between a civil war in the grand duchy—for the Poles have gone too far to yield—and the contingency of having the Russians nearer the national. limits of the kingdom ; and it is now all but official, that, whilst upholding the rights, at least whilst attending to the wishes of the German race in the grand duchy, it has fully resolved to allow the Poles to shift for themselves and depart in peace. Moreover, Prussia just now has quite enough to do in Schleswig Holstein, and it cannot afford to waste its blood and treasure in Posen. A somewhat serious division has sprung up between the hoard of aldermen and the common council of this capital, respecting the diminution of the hours of labour and the in crease of wages. Tho masons employed on the national and civic edifices in the course of conaruction or reparation, de manded that the hours of labour be fixed from 6 um. to 6 p.m., and their wages raised from 221 to 25 either groschen per day (about 2s. 6d.). The Minister of Finance has declared that if that rate of wages be demanded, the national works must cease. The board of aldermen having received a communication to that effect, has resolved not to sanction the required increase ; on the other hand, the com mon council has agreed to it. The masons—as well as their assistants or labourers, who also demanded a proportionate increase of wages—persist in their claims which will be, no doubt, ultimately recognised, both by the Minister of Finance and the aldermanic board. During the last few days considerable excitement has pre vailed at Stettin and Swinemunde, in consequence of the appearance of Danish 'resorts off both ports. Preparations were made or a large scale at the latter place to prevent any night landing on the part of the enemy. The citizens re mained under arms, chains were thrown across the harbour, and other precautionary measures were taken. Some surprise has been excited by the appearance of a circular, addressed oy the directors of the government lottery offices treprovincial agents, informing the latter that bills of exchange will no longer be taken in part payment, tepee seating the present condition of affairs in the blackest colours, and stating that even the best and most solid houses are obliged now-a-days to suspend their payments. It appears, by the l'osen Gazette of yesterday, that the German town of Maseritz, in the grand ducky of Po sen, has resolved to place itself under the protection of the civic .au thorities of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, as those of P osen , it is alleged, are either, unable o r unwilling to support its rights. The district of Polajewo has likewise pieced itself under the protection of Bromberg. The fallowing paragraph appears in the above journal : Poem, April 13.—We are informed, and as we fully believe Mr. reedy so, that there are at present from 30,000 to 40,000 Prmnan troop. in the grand duchy, and still the Germans are he and ill-treated, still is the royal pent stopped, and still do the mad carts exhibit the disfigured Prowess eagle. Aforecieer, the . royal authori ties at Sunalhhawo are obliged ton e acroas the fronnere and to reek refuge amongst the RUSK.= d. Underatand those facts who can: It is now certain that the Prussian military shot thirteen , Poles a t Trzemeszno, and wounded many others during the collision on the 10th inst. On the withdrawal of the Prussian troops, the Polish inhabitants accused the Jews and the German inhabitants with having taken part againthem, and shot four or five of the former and several of the . latter. This evening we have no news respecting the Polish army in and about Salted': has taken place. Unfortunately the latest accounts from nor is it known whether any conflict Posen (up to the evening of the 12th) show that a very bitter animosity still exists between the two races. The Prussian StateGazrtte of the 16th, after giving the resolution of the Diet at F o rankfort respecting Schleswig-Holstein (published our journal on Monday), says : The execution of this resolve is imposed upon Prussia and the states and the ten federal army corps, which have been called upon to co-operate by the former decisions of the Diet. None can doubt that our government is ready and by the the confederation. A Prussian corps is already stationed to execute the mandate tmpoeed upon it mined energetically Eenideergee,tisealliweey we are eesurt4, all the endeavours of our gorereiment to effect an on the best authority, se ttlement have been fruitless.. The commander of the Pramicable o- Wexford Kerry Cork Aim Kildare DOllll Total Having thus stated to you the view I take of the course of proceeding by which the Complete Suffrage Union would best promote their object, I shall give efl,ct to that course by every means in my power, as I consider that much of the future prosperity and happim m i.f this empire depends on the att.:aim, of class legislation.-1 remain your obedient servant, JOSEPH Rom ANALYSIS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The following letter was addressed by Mr. Hume to Mr Jensen M. Wilson, the secretory of the National Com plete Suffrage Union of Birmingham, in 1844: LONDON, Fan. 8, 1844. Sir,—l have received your letter of this date, requesting, on behalf of the National Complete Suffrage Union Council, that I would urge the redress of the grievances of the people before the granting of supplies to her Majesty. In a letter to Joseph Sturge, Esq., I explained the principle on which the supplies were in former times stopped, until the griev ances of the people were redressed; and I pointed out the great difference in the situation of the country then and now, with the view of preventing an attempt being made in the House of Commons which would be necessarily unsuccessful. In farmer times, when the supplies were stopped by the Commons, a majority of the members of the house were for redressing the grievances of the people, and the crown sad its ministers refused to do ars. The stopping advances of money to be expended contrary to the interest, of the people and to the wish of the majority of their represen tatives was therefore the only means which the House of Commons had of constraining the crown; but, at present, I believe the sovereign would willingly re dress the grievances of the people if the majority of the re prmentatives in the House of Commons would advise her so to do. The council will therefore, if I have made my self understood, see that any attempt to stop the supplies at this time, would not only be useless, but utterly imprac ticable, until we can alter the composition of the House of Commons, as the state of the representation, the unequal ' taxation, and all the grievances of which the people justly complain, are sanctioned and supported by a majority of the present house. By the constitution of the house, mid, the Reform Bill of 1832, the middle class electors have the power of returning a large majority of the House of Cora moos, as retormers or free traders, if they will but act honestly for the public good ; and, therefore, in my opinion, the whole object and aim of the Complete Suffrage Union should be to induce the electors in cities and boroughs to act honestly, and to elect members that will put an end to class legislation and to all monopolies, political and com mercial. In that way the union can do essential good to the cause they espouse ; they should join the Anti-Corn. Law League, and the advocates of free trade, in their endea vours to convince the existing electors, that it would be equally for their own advantage and for that of the country at large to elect reformers and free traders for the next par liament. I despair of any effectual relief for the distresses of the people from the present parliament—l give up all hope of parliamentary or of any other useful reform from it and I therefore advise the efforts of all re formers to be directed to the return of a good House of Commons at the next general election. I think the conduct of the landed aristocracy and the conti nued sufferings of the middle and working classes, will greatly assist the efforts of the Complete Suffrage Union ; and I will now show bow completely it is in the power of even the present electors, if they will act honestly, to select a House of Commons that would redress the existing griev ances. There are 3011 cities and boroughs, the Lnited Kingdom, which return 405 members ; and there are 114 counties that return 253 members ; by which statement it will be seen how easy the cities and boroughs, in spite of the counties, could elect a large majority of liberal members. I take it for grouted that in cities and boroughs the power of electing is in the middle class electors, and thus they may, if they please, return a majority of 152 over the county mem- bets, supposing all these to be elected by the landed unit°. cracy and opposed to reform and fret-trade ; and the electors of cities and boroughs must be convinced that it will be for their advantage so to act. It is impossible for any reasonable man, who looks st the state of the representation as it now exists, to believe that it will long be quietly tole rated by the unrepresented portion of the people. The great inequalities in the representation are shown by the following : ABSTRACT FROM P THE REPORT ON ELECTION EXENSES B3B. DI sun APRIL 17. LA PLATA.—There have been later advice's re ceived in Liverpool from both Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. The dates from the latter extend to the 16th Feb. ; but with the exception of the capture of several vessels by the French blockading squadron, there is nothing new to report. THE star of LAMARTINE is as yet in the ascendant, and shines every day with greater brilliancy. His aims and his career could not be hitherto regarded without some mistrust, but courage and success cannot fail to rally to him thousands of passive and indif ferent people, who have but to believe that he can save them and the cause of order, in order to change their attitudes immediately from that i.f timid ob servers to the eagerness of warm supporters. When indeed M. LAMARTIN c first installed himself at the Hotel de Ville, end was obliged to accept as colleagues in the Provisional Government the corps of the R•ifornie journal; when 30,000 of the combatants of Paris enrolled in the garde nuhi , e, forbad the entrance of the regular soldiers, sod constituted themselves the sole garrison and the sole police ; when even the artisan class, abandoning their labour, crowded either to discuss the organisa tion of labour, with Louts BLANC, or gathered beneath the windows or in the halls of the Hotel de Ville to awe the Provisi- nal Government, and give the authority of terror to its more violent members; when the national guard was disorganised , and the journals, in fear of an invasion from the mob, uttered their . protests in fear and trembling—then, indeed, one might tremble for the days and the reputation, as well as for the policy, of LAIARTINE. He has held on in his career, however, with wonder ful constancy and courage ; has harangued, has dis suaded, cottended. turned aside violence by gentle means, and now shows himself prepared to repel it by force. Nor in those momeutous weeks has I:AMARTINE condescended to push up his government and ascendancy by clap-trap promises, or by sacri ficing the interests of his country and of Europe to the maintenance of his personal position. I)unng the same period we have seen the King of PRUSSIA tad the King of SARDINIA sacrificing faith, friendship, alliance, and consistency to the mere selfish aim of acquiring a little popularity. LAM IRTIN E was more strongly tempted to appeal to Fi el.el. pasions. Yet no; in his replies to the Poles, the Germans, the Irish, the Belgians, his words as a public man have been as reserved, as disinterested, as noble, as private and chivalric honour could dictate. Notwithstanding this nobleness of conduct, fears for LAMARTINE'S influence were not diminished. The dictatorial insolence of the provincial delegates of the government, the wrong move of a piwtion of the na tional guards to protest against the abolition of their tank companies, the prevalence of the more demo `lithe portion of the government in their scheme of reorganising the national guard, and enrolling it it large numbers of the operative classes, —all these led one to fear that M. I,AmIRTINE was nearer the truth in those chapters of his history, where the pusillanimity and nullity of the bmtry , ois class is depicted, than when he attempted to restore order sad conduct government without apparently leaning on either middle or lower class. Fortune, however, in this instance, has favoured the brave. The constancy and courage of LAMARTINZ have need him. Not oaly have the moderate of the Provisional Government adhered to him, but men such as MARRAST, stern republicans, standing half -way between the bourgeoisie and the p eo p le ; they too have rallied to LAMARTINE, and left the anar chists to depend upon the clubs and the professional tevolutionists. , These, offended in the person of one of their chie fs, chose to commence an bneute on Sunday. No prepa rations were made beforehand to meet it ; no panic wo. excited—no precautions taken. But at the very moment when the iinente was gathering? the No. of 31.1.4 Scutland 8436.263 609,8 n 1,500.107 Groat Britain . In Ireland..... 10,4480141 LIMAN 17.473.750 !WM sad' I Boroatts j NV•latiss• ID Hogan I ........ F~iee . ..... 6.754.7 d 196.311 866.00 T Greet. Britain ... 5,1316, Ii 739.eirt Number of Males I Number of above twenty-one filietora in yearn 1839-40. 43,414 3,587 63,543 1,212 171,873 3,926 73,3141 3,922 27,623 1,152 92,999 3,729 463,042 17,418 I I' i tor ; l late of : ) much I ties are Breland; Lanes' re The ais id West ho ing 'tiers fa, no relan. Led Pr' ialys i s of orough"' seixlor', h ect w 1 1 eturn the rier cloo! 1 / 4 ectoro with e sv/th e for th arch ester row Alo A;io tb 'inatelF COLONIAL. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. We are in receipt of papers from Hobart Town to the 2nd of January ; from Port Philip to the 30th of December; and from Adelaide to the 11th of November. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—The conclusion of the year presented this colony in a very painful and dangerous state. The governor had contrived to denude himself of every constitutional coadjutor and agent. The Legidstive Council of the colony, the Municipal Council of Hobart Town, the Puisne Judge, had all been suspended. L'Etat c'est mei had been realised on a small scale by Sir William Denison. The feelings of the colonists in such a state of affairs can easily be conceived by Englishmen. The Colonial Times speaks for at least • portion of the community, and its words are these ,—" There is no representative of the people in any shape or form ; end to enforce the representative of the crown upon a people who have no such representative, is treason to the people. The colonists consequently are illegally and unconstitutionally and dishonestly made to pay the salaries of a parcel of government officers, when in fact there is no government in the island. We say, unhesitatingly, that the olonists are supporting an arbitrary unconstitutional form of govern ment, and from this date (3lst December), Sir William Denison is himself personally responsible to the people for every shilling expended on the drones and sponges who are called government officers." With regard to the state of business, and the supply of labour in this and the neigh bouring colonies, we refer to a private letter which has obligingly been communicated to us ; Doesn't' TOWN, Jan. 1, I SlS.—Within the lard year not less than 5,000 people left thin island for New South Widen, and, even with all this wages are there so enormously high, that it will materially affect the squatters' interests. You will have seen in the New South Wale. and Van Inemen'n Land papers that Mr Boyd, to meet the ur gent demands for labour, had imported about 250 South Sea Islanders to be employed as shepherds and they were answering very well, be ing most contented with their abundant rations anal improved condition, both morally and physically; when, under the sanction of the Colo nial Secretary, Mr. D. Thompoon, an enactment was introduced, an milling the agreements made with the islanders. This encouraged the old hands, seeing its ultimate erect upon their present exorbitant wages, to frighten the poor fellows from their occupations, and they are now employed on board whalers and other shipping out of the port of Sydney. As the colonial authorities will thus interfere with the labour question, It is to be hoped that the British government are prepared to carry out an extensive system of emigration by imperial funds, as the colony could not I , IIAIIIII a drain of its limited currency for this object. We are most anxious to know what the government are doing respecting steam communication between the mother country, Australia, and New Zealand, ria Singapore. Mr, Boyd's splendid steam-Whip the Juno in now keeping up the connexion be tween Sydney, Port Phillip, Van Diemen's Land, and South Australia, oricealfcalaight, and is rewarding her public-spirited owner most int Court. The Prince of Prussia arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty. A deputation from the ward of Cripplegate within in favour of corporation reform had as interview with Lord J. Russell yesterday in Downing-street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Ald. Challis, Mr. Smith (deputy), Messrs. Brass, lioole, Cash, Lort, Bennoch, and Dewar. The Marquis of Breadalbane had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday at the office of the ' Commissioners of Railways in the Board of Trade. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial- I office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope and South Australis'. A deputation, consisting of Mr. J. Cha p man of I Wells, Xr. W. Gardner of Wells, and Mr. R. Brereton of Blakeney, accompanied by Lord Sondes Lord C. Towns head, Hon. E. Coke, M.P., and Sir W. Jones, Bart., had an interview yesterday with. the Commissioners of Railways. ---.--_ . . - - ----- (From lut night's Gazette.) LORD CIIAXBERLAIN's-OFFICE, APRIL 17.—Notice is given that her Majesty will hold drawing-rooms at St. James's•palace on the following days, at two o'clock—viz., Thursday, May 11 ; Saturday, blay 27 (to celebrate her Ma. jesty's birthday) • Friday, June 2 next. Notice is al so given that her Majesty will hold a levee at St. James's-palace, on Wednesday, May 17, at two o'clock. PRAYER FOR PUBLIC PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY. — Last night's Gazette contains au edict, dated Osborne Howe, April IS, in which her Majesty directs public prayers for IRELAND. Thirteen young men, who had been quietly prae- Using military exercises in the rear of a house in Ship-street, were seized last night by the police and committed to custody. The charge entered against the d:hulants was for " unlawfully assem bling and practising military exercises." 'lhe secre tary of a rifle club was present at the inauspicious gathering. A search for papers was made, but none of consequence were discovered. It appears the thir teen formed a drilling section of a rifle club, presided over by the editors of the Unittql Irishman. Their military propensities had for some time been under the notice of the authorities, and had just reached a point at which it was deemed expedient to interfere. A report is appended of the inquiry to-day at the head police-office, when the thirteen were fully com mitted to trial fur drilling, training, and exercising to arms. The police authorities yesterday put a stop to the rifle practice on the North-strand, w here, as usual, the " national guard " muster% d in full force, for the purpose of drilling, &c. With the exception of one or two remonstrants against the order, the men of war quietly reversed arms and marched peaceably home. Contrary to general expectation, there was no =- usual display in Conciliation-hall to-day. The omis sion of " O'Connell's memory" from the list of toasts at Saturday's soiree, had angered the members for Limerick and Tralee, which, combined with the fra ternisation of moral and physical force, and the perils of falling within the Convention Act through the council of three hundred, has, it is said, estranged the real Old Irelanders, and must inevitably lead to the secession of the O'Connelle. To-day, however, matters assumed a less menacing appearance. Lord Miltown spoke at great length; so did the Rev. 1)r. Miley, who impressively warned the people against violence of any kind. Mr. John O'Connell commenced a review of his parliamentary conduct at half-past 4, and had not ended before post hour. Up to that time there were no indications of attack on either side. Messrs. O'Brien, Mitchell, and Meagher were to apply by counsel to-morrow for leave to appear by attorney, an omission on their part which might have been easily remedied on the informations having been sworn. The court would concede the favour if the Attorney-General consent. ARREST OF MEMBERS OF A RIFLE CLUB. Bean Pottes-orrice, DVDLIN.—The avenues leading to this office were thronged ti.day in consequence of a charge being pet down for hearing against thirteen individuals, for having violated the 60th Geo. 111., e. 1, sec. I. At one o'clock the magistrates (Messrs. Magee, Port. r, and Wyse) took their seats on the bench, but the proceedings did not commence for come time, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Kenimis, who (with Mr. Bourne) were solicitors for the crown. Messrs. Baldwin, Q.C., and Perrin were for the crown. The board-room was crowded, and several lawyers and other gentlemen were present—amongst them were Messrs. O'Hea, Doheny, Mitchel. At ball-past one the following prisoners were placed at the bar :—Patrick Gogarty, Andrew English, Patrick Kelly, John O'Brien, John Brennan, Michael Murphy, Bernard O'Sullivan, Peter Decoy, Patrick Farrell, Chas. M'Namara, Wm. M•Namars, Frederick Bridgeman, and Wm. Ball. The charge was set forth as follows—" With unlawfully as eembling and practising military movements in a house, in the rear of Great Ship-street, in the parish of Saint Bridget, contrary to the statute." Luke Prender examined by Mr. Perrin : Ii a sergeant of the metropolitan police charged the prisoners at the her ce with unlawfully assembling for the purpose of drilling and going through military exercise, and further charged Gogarty with drilling them. Went last night (Sunday) at near ten o'clock to the house, No. 11, Great Ship-street, through which he passed into a yard, at the ead of which was a step ladder, leading to a large loft which had been a workshop, and found the apartment lit with candles, and several men exercising. Saw flotsam drilling them. Heard him tell the persons to " fall in," to " stand at ease," " atten tion." and using other military terms.—Craesexaminedt How many persons were :hire present'?—Prender: I should say about fifteen. There were twelve exer cising, and Gogarty drilling them. There were a few boys there, one of whom, quite a child, said he was the brother of English, and he (Prender) let them go.—Where there any arms there?—Prender said there were not, to his own know ledge.—Mr. Porter asked Prender how lung he was in the room I—Presider : Not many minutes. He saw them " fall in," "stand at ease," &c. Sent constable Hilliard (who accompanied him, for the police, and had them all arrested. Mr. O'llea : Were you ev, r drilled yourself?—Prender : I was.—Mr. Porter : Did you hear or witness anything else 1— Prender Not on that oecaston.—Mr. Porter : Did they fall in line i—They did.— Mr. Purer: Did you ever see these proceedings before 1-1 did, mi Friday night last.—Mr. l'urter asked witness did be see any of the present prisoners on that occasion ?—Prender replied that he could not take upon himself to say that he had seen the ethers, but swears to sr 0' Mr. 0' ea argued that any previous transaction could not be brought forward to use in ref. react to this case. Mr. Porter said no time bad been mentioned in the in formation against these men. Mr. °lieu said it was very wrong that it should be so. It was a gross breach of the law not to specify the time, con cerning which the offence was charged. After some further conversation between Messrs. O'Hea, Doheny, and Porter, the latter said, the question confined itself to this, whether he should send the case to trial for drilling, training, and exercising to arms?? Weirs. O'Hea and Doheny again pressed their view of the case. Prender's examination was resumed. Re produced sere. ral papers found upon the prisoners Gogarty and English. On Gogarty was found a paper en which were drawn the figures of pike heads and pike handles. (The papers were handed round ; and the witness caused much laughter by eating, in reply to a question from Mr. O'Hea, that the figures were no " diagrams" at all, but pike heads and pike handles, nothing else.) In answer to Mr. Baldwin, Premier said he was banded four or five other papers by Englith, who acted as secretary to the club. [These papers consist ed of lists of contributions to the riffs club, lists of named, and small sums of money ; no Immo. papers, but the words '• Another paper contained in which it appeared latter. Mr. O'Hea here said IN THE ENGLISH BOItOUGHS, culated to blow up bet Six having 1,573 registered elect•ns, send twelve repre- (Laughter.) He would sentatives to parliament : whilst sr other cities and boroughs to a dancing school I—Pr with 79,524 registered electors tr.dy send the Name number of Yet in all dancing schools representatives. In the UV, six boroughs the population similar amnia's. 1)lo. of Llootors. iu.564 23.593 33.332 403.494 80.807 464.101 Abdract of 114 Cosaleaned p 17.473.7 a) Elocmr+ 464,01 253 A bdrut ' 43l ' B " r ' u g hM Population 6.855.952 and Electors 348834 4..5 Members- T0ta1.... CM 812.%36 INo. at lascioni. 14,649 1,309 31.333 317,290 31,646 I 309 0,64M962 406 i 348,831 Being in . Lreat I d trindolpeter . to 4 m dt tlei of 20 yrs and upwards. Or 1 Elector to every 7 Males of 40 y and upwl ' r ' do the United Marion , - - - - The analysis made in 1836, by a committee of the House of Commons, and stated to the house in their " Report on Election Expenses" in that year, proves that 331 members of the House of Commons were elected by 151,492 electors. The total number of electors registered that year in the United Kingdom was 956,272, and the number of adult males of 20 years and upwards, by the census of 1831, was 6,148,468. Thus one-sixth of the electors, and leas than one fortieth of the adult male population, have the power of mating laws to bind the other five-sixths of the electors, and the other 39-lortietbs of the adult male population. Let these facts be explained to the electors, and I think it would be impossible that much a state of the representation of the people in the Commons' house of parliament should long be endured. And the inequality of the number of electors in counties and boroughs is so great, that it ought to be pointed I out to every man whom the Complete Suffrage Union shall endeavour to convert to the principles of reform and free trade. I subjoin abstracts of the number of electors in seve ral counties, cities, and boroughs of the United Kingdom, that are worthy of the attention of the council, in proof of the view I have submitted to them. In the counties of Eng land, the following three, having only 8,677 registered electors, elect six members, whilst three other counties, with 62,189 electors, send only the tame number of repre sentatives. ENGLISH COUNTIES. I No. of male' :bove 2 No. of Electors in 1839-40. m.i. , .. liuniingdongure EM I Rutland..hFe . 11,453 4,633 1%432 Watmorel Dd... Total 26,441 Kiddlari rancsshire . Yorkshire W. o. of males above 20 yeara li.T.s. 63,23$ 9.1,184 166,146 ToisL SIS Sep 2,624 1,373 4,490 No. of Electors in 1131140. 13,919 .111,1411 30,123 62,119 r ; no purpose was mentioaed in these I 1 is " Rifle Club" were printet.t top.) Lined a list of receipitandiespenditu re, KI that Gs. 6d. •wu the =teat* the Id that VC/A tor a tiUsly ataebtti her hisjegy's gover nment in Ireddid. mid wish , oast Prender did Ito ever go —Prender I.gd he did notlrtift. 0'040: hook and Othias the ock4ioaspaVauglat j,\. 54.118,701 P:. ~i