The Express. — London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

d r which will not be forgotten in our history,' t he tirst Government . grant in aid %tas made, minute us . 11 was. We think y• tiun t i7 t ithappier day still when the vr :, l oc al rate adoptcd as a national theory st i prAtac. Perhaps' this ought to satisfy us for sad, perhaps, we can continue to be eiossril for a little vi hile—but only . for a little wey solar.* oui•selves with repeating „,. lyre uo pro% tsion fur the most dan- K 7 ,0 en d perishiog el/maw—no express encourage- Indotrial Schools—no indication of a ▪ ~stem. It the measure cannot be (7103,,,t „, av to comprehend these objects, our next g..!, w ait to be char eno u g h—to g et this measure ...L A a arr to obtain all that can be got—to 17.,,xe one town-counc.ls and rural residents to is :torso's and a/butter.' to the utmost, and to nivr.—noer resting till every child four was !lain his due place in his own e„,..;111, ar'oo..td, and his rights from the State. Ittit.ov has introduced a Bill for the better o t tbs helpless', the great feature of which A t e.: l.- %omen should no longer be left without wu .1.. t etto n s hick accorded to the lower irt teinals. The intention of the Bill, in fir. % ,r, to place women in respect of pro afi on • level nut worse than horses and this cm scarcely be considered as much, but K:s •step in the right direction, and we were pre vd to give It unr cordial support. The House of I twa.ans last night *cot into committee upon the b t wiu. as lUSISISS:Ut moved by Mr. BARROW I betti dispos e ef, Mr. PIIINN proposed a mendment, the subjee tic which has already t to. wi 1n3,111% cried upon in se coAnuns. Mr. 110 argues` tit was to the effect that assaults at jgu r u toiming a peculiar class of offences, should be dealt with in a peculiar manner. Ha etoe.mended therefore a deviation from the usual htu , c c mode of the administration of punishment is hoi,and. and advocated a return to the use of the w i g? , leis ameudintut, we arc happy to say, was Let as examine the logic of corporal punishment. Take the case of the man who halt murders his wife, slid who, not being able to pay five pounds for the b a g!, is under the present law sent to expiate his edsact for a few weeks in prison. The chance is that he is a drunkard, and he is now put upon the wry regimen which is most likely to produce an im p)' meet in his habits. He is kept to hard a n d re gular work; he is bound to be clean ; he is severed profligate companions. In short, he is intro tgreder;apraubancliwle6etti:tr ethree y ums ma t y ane h e i c i v e a n n o d e a ff lt ec ho t ug u h it pon yin in the way of conversion, they—except under gecuhsr conditions —will have no effect the other TAT. It bout very likely that he will return a much vase husband than be was at his entranceinto gaol. gut, suppose this man, instead of being placed under whoa,which has at least a tendency to refer were sentenced to be flagged. Mr. PUINS l otuses that eight days shall intervene between con *non and punishment, so that the prisoner will Ind an eight days torture by terror. It is in vain to third: of talking about reformation to a man when le knows that, in a few &ye' time, you are going to crab's back in pieces with a cat-o-nine-tails. He ha enough to do to prepare himself for the coming ithctica. Is he likely to think very tenderly of his in:e during this time that he is suffer uuder the agony of expectation ? ILI he look very amiably at her when b returns home with his wounds half healed? When he winces under the smart that has not yet parted will this do anything towards the promo raan of peace between the husband who has been tagged and the woman who has been the cause of the logging? No. The lash has roused a little more the fiend within him, and his wife will not be 'mg betore she finds it out. He will let her feel the dects of his anger again, and again he will be kought up. What will you do now ? If you are ecesistent, you must flog him again, but more severely than ever. Is there any reasou for supposing that your second experiment will be more successful than the first ? It it is not, what will be your re scree the next time that the man is brought up ? Toe must go on increasing your punishment until you have reached the very limit that the human frame will boar. Unless you do this you confess that your system is a failure, your corporal punishment is s snake. And if ygta do go this extent what conclusion have re arrived at ? Nothing kite, if you consider, than that increasing gradations of torture are the only msedies for hardened criminals. Is a heavy cut Id the lash much less painful than a slight turn of de thumb-screw ? is there not a great similarity ktwecn int‘rearing the number of stripes and giving more turns to the screw ? And, after all, is nut the rate a clearer, surer, easier, less disgusting mode of isictiug punishment than a whip dripping with hoed at meth of its thongs? The advocates of the whip, it they are 14144 moot stop short on this side of torture. If the Ma teabhment for cruelty is the infliction of Wily pun on tire criminal, it beim= a duty as look out for the most of lent methods of 'Acting pain. Call in the OM it ohm red invent a machinery of nil ad am* SINN worthy of the age, and burns meM akum Ow nip intisments of our forefathers. It wM he a SIN Mast for England that she has taken the hdtiative is the fibrillation and perfection of insteiments et *tin. We are glad to find that eemmay mime yoke oat test a proposal which was% is have n the commencement of a usloirsir seriemeat ia lagisiation. If, atter all the AMU of he rekesiere far centuries, we can do as brier than resort to the most primitive media of correction for offences, the fez Inbasa—if penishineot can only be adininiatered in ths shape of tartars—we may as well make a elan sweep d that pert of the penal law which mamma the correct* of ellenders, and give a eerie foienelie hriry cam tea magisterial Frail-de-Beef. It is puffing, -however, to find that there is no chance tlis taking plan at present, and that so many ambers recorded their votes against a proposidon laud, if sircessfal, would have resulted in an incl inable blot on our statute-book. We most cheek %panted aseaulta and their brutal perpetrate/a, let sot by outdoing them in brutality. , ELECTION COMMITTEES. Yesterday the general committee of electioci erasinted the following new coaimittem : ITSIIIOUTII.—Sir B. Hall (enairman), Sir W. Joilife, Mr. J. Martin, Mr. W. Forbes, sad Kr. Bass. Member mincer(' against, Mr. Hagh Taylor. COCIIILMOUTH.—Mr. 0. A. Huainan (Chairman), Mr. Neilsen, Mr. It. Moore, Hon. C. Berkeley, and lend J. Ilaaaan. Mention petitioned spinet, Mr. Agßooby and Wyodhiss. ATIILOII.—Kr. Brannon (chairman), Mr. Bright, Sir J. Dockwords, Mr. Z. C. Egerton, sad Mr . Tuition. Moa k* !claimed against, Mr. Keogh. THE PRINCE OF ARMENIA AND LORD CAMPBELL'S SPEECH IN THE HouSE OF LARDS. TO TIM 1111'101 Ur THI SIMON. Sift,—lbe epee& of Lord Campbell in the House IlLords on Monday lest, the 4th of April, is the Er- Pi's, of tbei 6th April, compels me to recnest your in union of this article to comet the errors which he has kmaitted. How amid his lordship, In presenting a peti tion on belpilf_ of the Armenians in India, soy : " The Armenians had erased to be a nation." A nation like Armenia, for having been divided Lodge's the three mighbouriog powers, preservesMill.its ustioasli". Poland P‘o , ll it. The noble lord, in speaking of the Armenian mat, has said, " Their priests had a confused notion of theeanon law. Such was the case with regard to civil rights, but is respect to criminal law, they were in a much wane! sedition. • In this ease I would refer his lordship to the I Armenian Isere made by my ancestors, Leo 11., Kiag of Anaemia in IVA ; Priem Leo de Lusignan, called te the tiros in Sine the coronation of this prince, the Iswo made by the priests have (timed to be extant ; and ander Leo VI. the laws are almost European. Besides, they bad no power, as the Armenian laws only hes the rights of citizens to those persons horn in Anne tta Mikir or Armenia Min•'r. The Armenians born in ham are not cionesquently is this ease. I remain, yours truly, LEO, Sovereign Prince of Armenia, now an Eailed of Emperor Nicholas. Ji, New Wed-street, liindon, April 6, 1843. BRIBERY AT ST. ALBANS.—Yesterday an official Slier stated that last year wu paid 9101. 9s. 9d. on account of the I;.(nses of the commission for inquiring into bribery at '4'...l:bans FRANCE. PARIS, WIDWIIDAT EYZNINO. M. Davergier de Humane, one of the ex-rewe sentatives included in the amnesty of August last, has arrived in Paris. ITALY . CRITICAL CONDITION OF NAPLES. NAPLES, blaticn 21. Notwithstanding the steams which are now brooding over venous portions of Europe, public 'at tention is here fixed upon what is passing near and around us. True is it that all the avenues of commu nication are so hermetically closed that what passes e iewhere is scarcely known in Naples; but even if it were the petty, disgusting hourly oppressions prac tised here are of such a character as to keep up a perpetual sore, and therefore a species of continual egoism. I have from time to time alluded to the nu merous and most illegal arrests which have been and still are being made. The prisons are said to he full. Amidst, however, the heartless and lawless acts which are being committed, we find interspersed other acts as irritating as they are ridiculous. Beards and wide-awakes are the horror of our police —mid armed with swords and shears the myrmidons of power now parade with all due solemnity the streets of Naples. To give you an idea of the moths operandi, the cook of an English gentleman was last week looking upon the novel scene of a policeman slotting up • wide-awake which had been just re moved from its owner's head. For the cook it might have been a good joke, especially when be put his hand to his paper cap and felt secure, but a po liceman touched hint on the shoulder, and in spite of remonstrances took him off to the prefettura amid the jeers of a mob, when a barber having been sent fur, he, in company with several others, was shaven and shorn, and received congratulations on his good looks into the bargain. One poor fellow who refused to submit had a slap in the face, and was threatened with the vicaria. The servant of another friend was stopped by . a commissary who took his hat off and cutting it into shreds threw it away. Resiatauce of course would be vain, and I have not heard it attempted except by a woman in de fence of her lover. They were from the provinces, and were strolling about the city, when the costume of the man invited the attention of a member of the police, who was about to commence operations when the woman gave him a blow in the face. A crowd assembled on the instant, and the policeman slunk 014 kW it was neither his policy nor that of the go eernment to encourage crowds. These are petty acts, it is true; but they are not the less irritating on thst account, and deeply significant are they of the fears and the weakness of a government which trem bles in presence of a beard or an imperial. More cruel and serious are these acts of power, however, when exercised in depriving a poor shopman of his stock in trade—as has been done in the case of several hatters here. The system of sending off people from Naples still continues, and five hundred passports, I am informed, were made out in one day. An incredibly large number of people are said to have been removed, but making every allowance for exaggerated state ments, doubtless a considerable number have been compelled to leave Naples. Fresh recruits for the foreign regiments are pouring into Naples, and sol diets and priests, who seem to be united in the most fraternal bonds all over Europe, are the great fea tures of the day. Similar scenes to those enacted here are being enacted in Sicily, where many , arrests have been made in every part of the island. The police pretend to have discovered a plot to assassi nate the Viceroy. I can send you nothing more positive at present. It is whispered about Naples, however, that two men had been shot. Holy week is just over, and fasting is giving place to feasting. There ha s been the same devout visiting of the sepulchres, and royal princes have even condescended to go to church on foot. His Majesty I did not see in the streets. He is still in Naples, perhaps in con sequence of the illness of one of his sons. Till with in the last two days the weather has been of the same stormy and inclement character that it has been for the last two months. The whole chain The number of municipal councillors who, in va rious portions of the empire, have refused to take the oath of fidelity to the Emperor, increases every post. The Emperor has been unwell for the last day or two, and for the greater part of yesterday kept his bed. His indisposition, however, is nut serious enough to postpone the ball to be given at the Tuileries to-morrow night ; at least, no notice to that effect has been given. The Bureaux of tho Corps Legislatif termina ed to day the examination of the Budget of 18:.4. At five o'clock five out of seven had chosen their com missioners. Notwithstanding hi. formal refusal, ex pressed in terms rather hostile to the government, M. Gouin was elected in the first bureau. The ten commissioners appointed are : let. Bureau,Barou deituasierce and M. Gouin. 3rd. 4th. Baron Paul de Itichemont and M. Faure. Devinek and ltandoing. Mews. Lelut and Monier de la Sizeranne. of mountains at the buck of Naples and round to Sor rento are covered with snow. The French steamer from the Levant, due on the 24th inst., was compelled to put back to Messina, and did not come in till the morning ofthe26th. We have several English yachts here. The Sylphide, Captain Laland, with a crew ' of 40 men ; the Fairy and the Destiny. The Five per Cents. keep up wonderfully, being quoted at 108. Exchange on London, 363. PIEDMONT. In its sitting of the Ist, the Chamber of Deputies at Turin passed the Slavery Repression Bill by 70 votes to 33. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1853 EGYPT. . We have letters from Alexandria to the 22nd nit Tho commercial crisis mentioned in former advice, had passed over, bat business had not regained its ordinary activity. All eyes were turned towards Constantinople, and great alarm was felt for the result of Prince Monchikors mission. Mr. Murray. the British Consul-General, who but Shortly before had returned to Cairo, had received hts nomination to the post of English Minister to the Swiss Confederation, and was prepar ing to leave Egypt immediately. Mr. Paget was to replace him. at least for a time. M. Lenand Bey, a French engineer for many years in the service of the Viceroy, has been charged to make new surveys of the Isthmus of Suez. The results which he has ob tained confirm, it is said, those made four years ago. The difference of level between the two seas is not ten metres, as was at first calculated, but only one, the lied Sea being by so much higher than the Me diterranean. There is no news from Syria by this arrival, the French boat having twee delayed. The following statement is found in letters from Cairo of the 10th ult. : A young Moldavian Jewess had fled front the Irmae of a slave merchant, who thereupon went to the Russian con solute and claimed her as his property. The business of the consulate was temporarily managed by the Austrian con sul, who thought it his duly to deliver up the young wninen to the authorittes; but on the road from the consul- , house to the prefecture of police, the slave, thanks to the aid of the European population, who assembled in crowds, managed to escape, and took refuge in a private house. An iottlomnal police force was sent for, and the house was strictly searched, but in vain, for the slave had disappeared —a circumstance fortunate fur the peace of the town, as the Europeans were thoroughly exasperated. The young woman, it has been since ascertained, has taken refuge in the family of an English clergyman, and it is believed that the gem:mewl will not countenance any steps for her re . _. 6th. Nlebers. Alfrod Leroux and Bertrand de l'Yonne. - - ----- Several of these commissioners belong to the in dependent party, namely, Messrs. Gown, Baron de Bussieres, Baron de Itichemont, Monier de la Sizeranne, and liandoing. Count de Nlontalembert and M. Prosper de Chas seloup-Laubat declined accepting the functions of commissioner. Thu latter ass in 1832 the reporter of the budget of expenses. It was expected that they would have profited of the occasion to criticise the policy of the government, but they took no part in the discussion. The Bourse to-day was characterised by a general dulness in Rentes and Bank Stock. At the closing --... ... __._ of the Bourse the following were the quotations:— Three per Cents., cash, 79f. 30c.; for the account, 791. 40e.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., both for cash and the account, 103 L Bank Stock, 2,700. The market for railway shares was heavy. At the conclusion of business the prices stood thus; Northern., 891 f. 30e.• Orleans, 1,034 f. 30c.: Paris and Strasbourg, 8341. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 9451.30 c.; Parts and ltouen, 1,040 f.; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 803 f. The following are the latest quotations from other continental Bourses :—Berlin : Four per Cents., 991; Four-and-a.lialf per Cents., 103:. Bank Shares, 1091. Antwerp: Dutch Five per Cents., 103; Ditto Four per Cents., 100; Ditto Deferred, 664. Belgian Loan Four-and-a-Half per Cents49B4 ; Ditto 1840-42 Five per Cents., 981; Ditto 1848 Five per Cents., 981; Ditto 1852 Five per Cents., 1001. Austrian Metals, Five per Cents., 83. Spanish Deferred Three per Cents, 244 ; Ditto 1631, 434. Exchange I on London, short, 25.10. PARIS, TL ETENINO. At the sitting of the Court v Martial yesterday, on the trial of Colonel de Sercey, M. Henry (Miler, the prisoner's counsel, said he had just received a letter from a M. Jequin, the son of a notary formerly employed by the colonel, enclosing a bundle of papers found in one of his father's boxes. M. Jaquin sent them upon the chance of their having some bearing wen the trial. M. Celliez said that upon examine ien he found them of the highest importance, as proving that Colonel de Sercey lied really expended wa the tobacco establishment in Corsica large sums ef money, which he was accused of having diverted to his own private use. The officiating judge advo ftte, upon the production of this unexpected evi dence, asked the court to adjourn, in order that he might have time to examine the documents, and the mart adjourned accordingly till this day. It appears from a pamphlet just published by Dr. Veron, relative to the subject matter of his law suit with the Aguado family, that during the six months ending August 1, 1832 the Cunstitationnel lost ten thousand subscribers. Its circulation diminished in that time from 32,000 to 22,000. This disastrous state of things is attributed by the doctor to the new , legislation on the press, which not only kept the journals in perpetual fear of heavy penalties, but imposed upon them onerous fiscal charges, in cense rawtsehictrielthepriLeewss!axmr o ma me n i tlers he tid ow t; 3747 to of to the absence of political events, and the " prudent reserve" forced upon them, their columns were far from being very interesting. This curious revelation by one of the main pillars of Napoleonism at the period of the coup delat, speaks volumes es to the value set by the public upon the tirades of M. Granier de Ors sagnsc, and the homilies of M. Cauvain. Alarmed at the prospect of the annihilation cf the Congas'. tionnel, Dr. Veron called a meeting of the Counzil of Surveillance of the paper, and proposed what be forcibly styles an "heroic remedy . This was to reduce the price so low as to lose a considerable sum by every subscriber. The council declared that their powers did not extend to authorise any such measure, but they observed that Dr. Veron, es the managing director, was omnipotent, and expressed their private opinion that the heroic remedy pro posed by him was only another proof of his enlightened zeal in the interests of the journal. Thus encouraged, he carried out his own idea epos his own responsibility. The Conatitutionnel was af terwards sold to M. Mires, and now it appears the gallant doctor is to be called over the coals by some of the shareholders for having deteriorated the pro perty, and secured too large • slice edit for himself. The t rial has been postponed several times, but I believe the litigants will fairly fight their forensic battle this week. The report of M. Lignites, the deputy appointed by the comedies, to report up the bill for the defi naive settlement of the b on adget of 1830, has been distributed to mothers of the house. The ordinary and extraorNumy expenses for that year are fixed at 1 saillistd, 4811WIUme, 289,000 f. The reporter pro poses the adoption If distill without any alteretioo. A letter has been addressed by Count de Morey to MM. Masterless, [Weill, and Co. Roaring the =f pluitleat of the Grand Co., 7- lbe project in gasifier' is now behest the Coma, .d Mat e. It emarism five rest sesdemn united WOW. by itnet lines, which will %elude tfler -1111114-Ferrand, Montauban, Roden, Pettiest". Agen, Lyons, and Berthas', rind the sen easiea fbr 99 years. Rear-Admiral Fourrichon, the new governor of Guyana, arrived at Cayenne on the 23th o February. M. ilarda-Oareiga immediately resigned the govern meat iits kis Leads, and le g Dm , France in the Oer =dm, which brought Admiral Fourrichon cont.' M. Charles Dein, the ex-red republican member of the National Assembly, whose appointment as a l judge in Guadeloupe occasioned such serious disturb- 1 amnia the colony, has been recalled to France. There will be another grand ball at the Tuileries ea Monday, April 7. GERMANY. The treaties which re-constitute the Zollvereie with the Steurverein have been signed by all the plenipotentiaries, who have also given their gamin to the treaty of commerce concluded Weems Prme sia and Austria. Letters from Berlin of the 4th state arrests and Ibouse-searchings were continued by the police. The government preserves the greatest mossy on the wabject, permitting its journal to state bat the scan tiest details. The unions dissolved by the police were the benefit sick clubs of the working classes, which it is now declared were merely vehicles of democratic sympathies. Eight persons were shot at Csongrad, in Hungary, on the 19th, for drinking with three robbers, instead of informing against them. A ninth person was shot at the same place for giving a false name to a robber who was in danger of being captured by tbe gen darmerie. It may be needful to add that the " robbers" for which such unaccountable sympathy is manifested in Hungary are the guerillas, who con tinue, in their own way, and in hope of better times, the battle against Austria which was lost at Villagos. The Cologne Gaulle, under date of Berlin 2nd, says— The Minister of the Interior has addressed to the superior presidents of provinces a circular relative to passports. It is stated therein that the ctovertiment has been informed that at Lontion certain penov.s had received forged pass ports. This report is not calif...nand , but it is certain that some persons have made use of passports delivered to othen. These passports are delivered by the consuls of France sad Belgium, and cannot l* admitted in the Prussian states. AUSTRIAN ITALY. myst—oLetters from Vienna have brought to Milan intelligence which has pro duced the greatest sensation. They affirm as positive, that after a deliberation of the whole imperial family, the . young Emperor of Austria has adopted the fol lowing resolutions, relative to the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom—let., the substitution of the civil authority for the military power; 2nd, a full amnesty to the refugees, on condition of their immediately returning home; and 3rdly, the replacement of Marshal Ra detsky, who is to be placed on the retired list, with the title of Prince of the Blood, in recompense for his long and loyal services." The Cbrrespondanee Particulieee of Turin, without affirming the accuracy of these details, gives it as certain that the cabinet of Vienna h as decided to show clemency in Lombardy, and adds that some people feel happy in attributing this happy change to the advice of France. The Maw; Gazette of the 31st ult. publishes a no tification announcing that from that day the bastions round the city, which had been closed to publics cir eulation since the events of February, shall be again aseeesible from five is the morning to eight in the evening. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. state that in the sitting of the pevious day the senate was en gaged in discussing the vote of the minority of the committee on the represe ntation of Names. An amendment to the ee that " the senate decides that there are no grounds for deliberating on the representation of the Duke of Valeutia, because so long as there are no direct proceedings instituted against him, nor any sentence which indicts civil in capacity on him, he ham a right to come and take part in the business of the senate," was pre sented by Joaquin Maria Lopez, and opposed by Generals Sans and Peewit'. It was ultimately rejected by a piejoeity of 93 to 69. After some farther discussion on the question itself, it was again adjourned, In the Chamber of Deputies, the demand of the government for authorisation to col lect the taxes was met by three amendments from the o 'lion, but they appeared to have been pro solely to give an opportunity for criticising the acts of the government. No vote on the government demand took place. Accounts from Cuba to the let ult. state that the island was lying the most per fect tranquillity. An account w y ang has reached us by express, dated the let inst., states that the Chamber of Deputies had assembled in its bureaux, and elected a committee of seven members to make a report on the bill relative to the loan. Three of the number chosen belong to the opposition. The public funds had undergone a rather considerable decline, particularly the coupons. HOLLAND. RESTORATION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPRICS IN HOLLAND. The recent allocation of the Pope announced the fact that, with the consent of the Dutch government, the hierarchy of the Roman catholic church had been re-established in Holland. The prospect before them has aroused the fears of the protestant public in the Netherlands, and meetings are holding to give expression to the general opinion. At Utrecht, I on the 3rd, an address to the throne was adopted. Others are in the way of subscription at Amster dam, the Hague, Rotterdam, and other principal towns of Holland. FAST CIIILDREN.—In an order lately issued by a Norman l'refect, to ease a low café, the following reason for doing so is assigned:—" Coi.sidering that, amongst other facts which have been clearly shown to us. three children, egad seven, eight, and eleven years, were served with coffee sod spirituous liquors for the sum of If. arsc., and that the woman who keeps the cafe herself gave them • match to light their pipes ; that, furthermore, they were all drunk when they left the premises, the eldest having become so ill as to cause Vic greatest anxiety to his parents, rte." CUBA. HAVANNAH, SIAILCH 13. Oar community is rarely free from a feverish state of excitement, which runs deep in the life current of our social being, and gives a shadow of insecurity to the government itself which there is no sunlight of hope to disperse. At the present moment the termi nation of the trials of forty-nine Cubans for high treason is causing mach uneasiness in our society, while the bonds of nature and affection are ruth lessly broken without the decent forms of pleading, merely upon the allegations of purchased malignity. The secret denunciations of hired assassins, supported only by the discovery of arms and ammunition, secreted in the woods and covers of vast estates, very likely by the very men who, for blood-money, assume the office of denouncer, are sufficient grounds fur the action of the tribunals. The parties con demned to die by the garotte are gentlemen of re spectability and wealth, and by all their interests identified with the prosperity of Cuban industry and the welfare of the people—men not likely to involve all they have to make life worth, and life itself, in an idle scheme of se creting muskets and powder, without any probabi lity of using them. Among the names given to Inc were those of Juan Gonzalez Alvarez, Lawyer Mi randa, Dr. Gazie, who has a large family, and is some 56 or 37 years of age; Hernandez Perdomo, son of the Conde Vallemar ; Captain Fortune, eon of Briga dier-General Fortune; and a Mr. Cristo, a young gentleman from the country. Others are also em braced in the finding of the military . tribunal, who are not here to answer with their lives. Sen. Estrampes, from the eastern end of the island, resid ing in the United States or England; M. Goicoria, Porfitrio Valiente, and Garcia Teyada. Some ten or fifteen days since we heard that 500 negroes bad been landed with some difficulty be tween Lague is Grand and Cardenas. The vessel bringing them was run on shore and deserted, and 97 were reported drowned. The 90 missing negroes have since been brought to Havana, under the ele ment observation of ben. Cando, and his secretary, Martin Gallen°, and here sold. Captain Hobble, of H.M. steamer Buzzard, has since found the vessel, with the dead bodies of six negroes on deck. He has placed the ship under guard. The story of the fns coloured boy, Charles Coll wood, who was kidnapped by Spaniards, sold at Porto Rico, and subsequently transferred to the Ha vannah for the purpose of eluding investigation, is too fresh in my memory to prevent my repeating it iu this connexion, as it shows a consistent determine d.. to hold no faith with any , people in honourable regard of treaties and stipulations on the part of this detached and, in wrong doing, independent, govern ment. The boy was born at Tortola, a British sub ject, and while on a fishing excursion from the island of St. Thomas, where he was visiting relatives or friends, was taken from his boat by a Spanish brig, carried to Porto Rico, and there sold as a slave. The boy was hurried to Hammel, to be as far from English observation as pos sible, re-sold, and taken to the country, where ho remains now concealed; the captain-general refusing to have him called before him, on the ap plication of persons duly authorised aniaceredited to seek him, furnished with proofs as to his identity, and all the facts in connexion with his fraudulent abduction and deprivation of freedom. The father came here, with an English justice from Tortola, and letters of application to General Caned°, for a hearing of the case, from the governor of the Wind ward Islands. This application was most ungra ciously refused, and the boy must needs wear away his life in chains. The notorious Pedro Fooird, whose name has been associated with baracoons and factories upon the coast for the last twenty years, was the subject of conversation last week. _He had taken a slay, to cross from Havanizah to "Casa Blanco," the " whip ping-post "of our city, for punishment with the lash. The negro was heavily ironed, but under the terror of the torments prepared for him, he watched his opportunity and, when about half-way won the bay, threw himself into the water, when, being weighted with chains, he sunk immediately. A boatman, under a !generous influence, spran g a ft er I him, sod brought lum to the surface, so lie was ' relined from death, but not saved from the cruelty of his muter. Fooard offered the boatman who had ha zarded his life to save that of a fellow-creature one dollar, to which the more noble sailor replied " that he had not saved life for a dollar." The anecdote having transpired and reached the ears of an aloalde, at his suggestion i lawyer of the city wu induoed to hunt up the sailor and make a case of salvage, in order to compensate the poor man for his proper conduct and to punish the master for his selfishness.' The suit was instituted, salvage awarded by the aloalde at SO per cent. on the valuation of 600 dollars, which, on notice from the law officers on the II th inst., Mr. Footed paid to the magistrate for the sailor, and the eoets of the proceedings. Zile Court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince's Royal and the Prisms Alio', took a drive in ea open l►ndau and four yesterday afternoon. The Equer ries in Waiting, Major-General Buckley and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, atteaded on horseback. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel F. B. Seymour. Tke royal dinner party at Buckingham Palma last eves *: included the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of flobenlotie. the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadel bane, Lord John Russell, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Ba roness de Staab, Major-General Sir George Bowles and Colonel Wylde. The Quaea's private band attended in Buckingham re late after dinner on Tuesday evening aad performed the following oompositioae : overture. " LiChsval de Drools" Asher. Duo bikini's', two ►arps, " Lao lloguesotg " Meows. Wright aid Oberthur • Sole=Faust" Mg ae,Bl %. Wm Urge. Mom Obertintr. Wright, anTrost. The Duke and Duchess de Nentoun visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at her residence, Clatencs-house, St. James's. The Earl of Rosebery had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence in Downing attest. Despatches were sent yesterday front the Colonial-office to the Governors of Australia and to the Governor of Gibraltar. The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of a Baronetcy upon Dr. Henry Holland, one of her Ma jesty's Physicians Extraordinary. OnnlNstrox.—Monday next, the 11th April, is the last day for the transmission of the necessary papers by candidates for ordination by the Bishop of Chester, on Tri nity Sunday, to Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., his lordship's secretary, Chester. SOCIETY OF ARTS. THE MANUFACTURE OF FLAX. At the weekly meeting of this body held las; metes, Mr. R. disrastrsux, M.P., in the chair, an in timating paper "on recent improvements in the manufac ture of fax" was road by Profuse'. Wilson, F.R.S.L., late Principal of the Agricultural College at Cirencester. After describing the eppearanes of the growing plant, its time of flowering, and the geode of reaping, the professor stated the object of dressing the straw, which was to sepa rate the inner fibre from the two outer ones. Two methods of droning bad been hitherto resorted to, the mechanical sad the chemical; in the former the flax was dealt with In a dry, in the latter in • wet state. For a poor quality of the mechanical process was preferable, on account of the expense of steeping As this process did not touch the 1 asotised substance found in flax, it left it with the liability to fermentation, and consequent deterioration of the fabric, under certain conditions. Patents for improvements had been taken out in 1812 and 1819 ; but none of the methods removed the liability to fermentation. This could only be done br the chemical processes. In one the fermentation was if • excited ; in another, the axotised substances waved steeped out. Two principles bad been recently brought into operation which were likely to effect a complete revo lution in the manufacture of flax. Having described the method of steeping as hitherto practised in Ireland and on the Continent, by immersing in water, still or running, or by " dew-rotting," the object of which was to excite and exhaust the fermentative action—the profcesor observed that the use of hot water materially accelerated the process. This was known to and practised by the Malays and the Bongalcse. It was not however until 1846 that a patent had been taken out, by a German named Schenk, for the scalding or hot water process. It was introduced into Ire land in 1819, and now upwards of 40,000 tons of flax were prepared in this way every year in Ireland. That useful body, the Flax Improvement Society, bad instituted a series of experiments, the result of which was, that Schenk's process gave an advantage 0(20 per cent. in the yield, and a arid greater advantage; in the spinning quality of the flax. The result of a lorge rettery near Belfast was that 67 tons of straw yielded 391 tons after steeping, which when scutched were reduced to 5.9 tons, and about li tons of tow or plucking, a much larger result than was obtainable by other means. Another chemical process, instead of exhausting the fermentative qualities of the flax, made use of alkalies to dissolve out the "alibied substances. This had been first suggested so long ago as 1747, had been carried to a great extent in Prumis, and was well known to the French chemists Remounts., Gay-Lussac, and others. While the cold water process occu pied from seven to fourteen days, Schenk's process reduced the time to from 72 to 96 hours. Recently, however, Mr. Watts, of Glasgow, had patented a method of applying steam to the same purpoee ; and this was done with so much effect that the process might be expected soon to be come general. [Here the professor exhibited and explained drawings of the machinery employed.] The ad vantages of this process were—a great saving of time, from eight to twelve hours being rufficieut to bring the fist into a condition fit for seutching ; the operation of scotching was facilitated; the fibre was improved; there was extremely little waste ; and the production of noxious gases was avoided. Messrs. Leadbitter, of Belfast, bad adopted this process, and had invited the attention of the council of the Flax Improvement Society, who, in Novem ber last, reported that 101 cwt. of flax, after being steamed 11 hours, was reduced to 7 cwt. 11 lbs. ; after scotching it yielded 187 lbs. of fine flex, 12 lbs. 61 ox. of fine scutcbtug tow, and 35 Ins. 3 oz. of coarse tow—beiag about 18 lbs. of fine flax for every cwt. of tow. Only 36 hours were re quired for the whole process of converting the straw into fine flax tit for the spinner ; and the cost was not more tnan 101. per ton. Samples were sent into the market, and fetched from 561. to 701. per ton. [Specimens were exhibited of the flax thus prepared, the quality of which appeared to be extremely tine, and also of the linen woven from it.] No sooner had the committees pronounced in favour of this process, than another was patented by another ingenious Seotchman, Mr. Buchanan, who, ins:ead of employing steam, as in Mr. Watts's process, at once applied to the straw het water raised to a high temperature by means of condensed steam. The principle was to keep up a series of immersions in hot water, whereby a much greater effect was produced than by allowing the flax to remain in the same hat water. [Diagrams of the machinery were exhi bited] Ten such immersions were sufficient to produce all the effect of Watts's or Clansman's process, occupying not more than a few minutes each. By this process the steep hig water, instead of becoming the receptselo of noxious products, was nothing more than flax tea, and its feeding properties were quite equal to what was known as distillers' wash. In Ireland it was used for feeding pigs and cattle. [A sample was produced in a glees. The liquor is of a darkish brown colour, not much unlike that of bad port. The professor asked the chairman to test it by tasting. The hon. gentleman did so, at first sipping cautiously, and then, apparently approving the flavour, taking a hearty draught, amidst the ap planee of the audience. Mr. Davey, of Creditor, a flax grower. said he should be content with a smell of the liquid, hut was told that it was perfectly inodorous.] The pro. fessor said he had seem many experiments on the processes of Mr. Buchanan's patent, and he believed it would be highly successful, the quality of the flax being equal to that produced by any of the other processes, and a great saving of manual labour being effected. The process of scotching was thin described, and the superiority of mill-smacking ever the hand process pointed out. In Eng land there were 250,000 to 300,000 spindles at work; in Scotland, upwards of 300,000; in Ireland about 600,000; ' being a total of upwards of a million. The fixed capital in vested in the spinning and weaving process in Englaad was estimated at five millions. On the continent the greater portion of the manufacture was still performed by band labour. The requirements of this country consiaerably moseeded the production. About 70,000 tons of flax fibre were imported every year, besides 65,000 tons of linseed, mid 70,000 tons of °duke, for the feeding of cattle ; making a total of between 4,000,8001. and 6,000,0001. paid to other ormatries for an article which this country was well calcu lated to produce. The CH•ISIMAX in proposing • vote of thanks to the pro fluor, observed on the highly interesting character of the totem, and expressed a hope that the cultivation of flax would be more than ever attended to in this country, and particularly In Ireland. Mr. Drover, the gentleman referred to above, said he bad patented some machinery for preparing flax by the dry process, but had not yet brought it publicly forward ; the reason was, he did not wish to appear u a rival of Che valier Claussen. His plan was to get rid of the ligneous portion of the plant, which constituted three-fourths of its bulk, before proceeding to treat it chemically ; for he had never proposed to confine himself entirely to mechanical processes. He had seen some works at Belfast on Schenk's principle, but did not approve the flax flies produced. So lately as last evening, he had learnt from Mr. Cobden, M.P., In the lobby of the House of Commons, that a relative of his, who who had commenced the manufacture on Schenk's process, had abandoned it, and gone somewhere on the continent. Mr. Davey proceeded to point out some objections to the steam and hot water procures. After • few remarks from Mr. VNILLET, The Sienna': anneoneed that, in consequence of the interest suited by the late photographic exhibition, the council had formed a small collection of photographic appe rates, cameras, and otereoreopas, in the model room, PARISH OF ST. FAITH, The following notice bee been stuck all over the Winchester. St. Faith is the parish is which the =lof St. Cross is sittrated, and the incumbency of s connected with the latter charitable institution. Ti.. Berl of Guildford claims to be the roaster of St. Cross, and his right is that once has been for mote time past the subject of legal irrestigation : OP er. PAITH. " We, the undereagned, having been elected the church wardens of the above pariah qualifying um to act in our °Moe, hereby give notice that, in consequence of the incum bency of the said parish being void from want of canonical institution and induction ea the part of the Rev. Francis Earl of Ouildford, we caution all persons liable to pay tithes for the said parish to refrain from doing so to the said Rev. Francis Earl of Guildford, or his agents, or to any other person, wakes he is authorised by the Lord Bishop of the diocese to melee the same ; and we farther caution all parties from paying any fees, oblations, or Esater offerings to any one unless authorised by m ro receive the same, until a parish clerk and vaton sae legally appointed to resolve them. HINZ! HOLLOWAY ) Churchwardens. Hamar Warrsow " St. Faith, April 2,1857." MODEL LODOINO-HOUSES. TO TUT IDTTOI OP TIM moans. SlR,—May 1 request you to insert the following communication in your paper. I receive constantly anonymous letters, to which, there fore, I can send no reply, with suggestions such as this en tract will exemplify : " We beg you will endeavour to bring forward in your place in parliament, a bill to make it necessary for every town or borough that has a population of tea thousand to have a model lodging house, to accommodate not less than 40 or 50 men." Then follow many remarks as to the vari ous arrangements and the cost per week to each lodger. I avail myself of this op unity to state that an en abling act of this kind already exisu, 14th and 15th of the Queen, chapter 34, introduced by myself into the House of Commons in May, 1851. The general adoptioa of it would, I believe, produce very great benefits —I am, air, your very obedient servant, April 6. SHAFTESBU RY NAVIGATION OT THE LOWER DANUBE.—It may be of interest to travellers intending to visit the east to learn that a fast steamer will leave Vienna every Friday morning at nine, and reach Galati (about 1,100 English miles) on the following Tuesday at mid-day. At Galata the passeagen and goods will be immediately transferred to another steamer, which is to reach Constantinople on Thursday at noon. The first voyage will take place on the 29th of this month. The new boats are clipper-built ; the engines by Rennie and Co. THE INDIA MAIL--The Oriental Company's steam-packet Indus, Captain John Sty, Admiralty Agent Lieutenant E. P. Fuge, arrived at Southampton yesterday with the heavy portion of the ladia and China mail.. Iler dates ire—Alexandria, March 23; Malta, March 27 ; Gibraltar, April 1. Amongst her passengers were Lord and Lady Morton. On March 28, at 2 a.m., the Indus passed the French squadron of eight sail of the line and one frigate oil the island of Pantalario, steering S.E., with a strong breeze from the N.W. MILITARY. PORTIGIOCTH, APRIL 6.—The Master-General of the Ordnance, Lieut.-General Lord Raglan, G.C.8.; Lieut.- & I Sir J. T. Burgoyne, G.C.8., Inspector-General of Fortifications; Colonel Cator, Director-Geoeral of Artillery, accompanied by Colonel Sir J. M. F. Smith, com manding Royal Engineer of (hi. district, and other officers of the Ordnance department, proceeded in the Sprightly, steamer, Muter Commanding G. Allen, down the Solent yesterday afternoon, to view the new fortifications in course of construction at Sconce Point, returning in the evening. The Master-General has been stepping it few days at Angle sey, near Gosport, haying come down on the occasion of the marriage of a relative, and went on board the Sprightly, at Stokes Bay, where also he landed. This morning he paid a visit to this garrison and was saluted by the Victory, flag ship, with a salute of 15 guns. He returned to town to day. THE MILITIA. (From Tuesday's Gazette.) The following commissions have been signed : Jnhn Mahon Williams, gent., to be ensign, in the Royal Barks Militia. Thomas itanelagh John George Thomson. Eq., to be captain, vice Ogle, superseded, in the King's Own Light In fantry Regiment of Militia. Richard Rid Webster, Esq., to be captain, vice Bickford, resigned, in ditto. George Kitson, Esq., to he captain, in ditto. William Henry Taylor, E.q., to be captain, in ditto. Claseting Redman, gent., to be lieutenant, vice Cotton, resigned, in ditto. John William Gordon Woodford, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. John Feetham, gent., to he lieutenant, in ditto. Leonard Strong, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. Francis Rawson, gent., to be lieutenant, in the Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia. Frederick Pzel, gent., to be second lieutenant, in the Royal Cornwall Rangers . Stepbeu Nuwell Usticke, gent., to be second lieutenant, in ditto. John Boehm, gent., to be second lieutenant, in ditto. Major Sir Thomas Mar on Wilson, Bart., to be colonel, vice Sir John K. Shaw, Bart., resigned, in the West Kent Regiment of Militia. Alfred Whitby, gent., to be lieutenant, in the Leicester shire Regiment of The Right lion. Charles Jitney Spenser °cargo Canning, Baron Garvagh (late captain in the 10th Hussars), to be captain, in th, E.se: Western Regiment of Militia. Matthew Henry Lister, gent., to be lieutenant, in the Essex Eastern Regiment of Militia. Frederick William Kirby, gent., to be ensign, in ditto. Captain Alfred Edward Hill (late captain aith Foot), to be captain, vice Marsh, tesianed, in the Shropshire Regi ment of ilitia. ..... Captain Henry C. Cotton (late captain 21st Fusiliers), to be captain, in ditto. Godfrey Russell, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. Roger G. C. Owen, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. John Bennett, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. Charles Phillips, gent., to he lieutenant, in ditto. Thomas Chalnuer Bias. Challoner, E'q. (formerly lieu ttnant-colonel commandant of the 4th Royal Surrey Light Infantry Regiment, Local Militia), to be lieutenant-colonel commandant, in the 3rd Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia. Lieutenant and Adjutant Michael Dickinent, to be cap tain, in the Cambridgeshire Idal'6.l. James Michael liankin Turrin, Esq., to bo lieutenant, in ditto. — .EMollippisley, gent., to he cornet, rice Blagrare, re signed, in the North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. NEW DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS. MIDDLESEX. Algernon Frederick Greville, Esq. BERKSHIRE. David Anderson Blaoe, Esq. TOWER Hammtve. John Holbert Wilson, Esq. SPORTING. LATEST CITY BETTING. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP 7 to 4 apt Contentment (t) 7 to 1 Ireland's Eye (t) 9 to 1 Snowdon Dunhill (offered) 11 to 1 Gadabout (t 12 to I) 12 to 1 Pug Orrock (t) 12 to 1 Deerhound (t and offered) 14 to 1 Richmond (offered) 100 to 7 Terpsichore 20 to I Peggy (offered) 40 to 1 Sappy Joe (t) 3 to 1 betted Contentment beam Deerhound in their places aceond, or third. CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. 3to 1 apt Longbow (t and offered) 6 to 1 Ethelbert Bto 1 Jouvence 9to 1 Pancake 100 to 6 Little David 100 to 5 Evadne 100 to 4 Varmint 240 to 6 Couvuhion TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 10 to 1 apt Lord Ezetcr's Filbert (t) &nom RACES, Tate DAY.—In addition to the hones mentioned in our paper yesterday, the following are on the spot :—Abdallah, Adine, Allegro, Benin, Candlewick, Cariboo, Cassigue, Charley, Chilton, Conmore, Cotton Lady, Deerhound, Durindana, Epaminond ts, Ephesus, Ethelbert, Exact, Faux Pas, Frantie,Glacis colt, Glenluce, Gold Dust, Guaracha filly, Hatchet,Himaleya, Hirsuta, Hebbie Noble, Ida, Ireland's Eye, Jouvence,Kste, Lady. in-Waiting, Little David, Londesborough, Madams Lsndeau, Madeline, Miss Delmer., Miss May, Nabob, Nerve, Nightshade, Pancake, Paragone, Pollard, Prime Minister, Psaltery, Richmond, Rssalba, Signor Velluti, Snarry, Spinaway, Stamford, Svlnhide, Tickron, Tobolaki, Terpsichore, Village Lass, Wedding Day filly. CHELTENHA M STEEPLECHASES. YESTERDAY. (ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) FREE HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added. Two miles. Tom Gamey (Price) 1 Pontiff Three others started. Won easily. GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE (Handicap) of 20 son. each, ls ft, and 5 only U declared, &c , with 100 added. Oscar Sir Peter Laurie 2 Peter Simple Seven others started. Woa by half a neck. UNITED HUNTERS' STALES (Handicap) of 5 soy,. Sub, 2 ft_ i with 25 added. Two miles over the flat. Thurstszton (Sfr Berkeley) 1 Tom Gurney Seven ran. Won by a head. Sawa° Sannerangass of 3 son. each, with 26 added. Bullfinch', • (C. Boyce) 1 'Huard Tea ran. Wes sonity. SCURRY HANDICAP of 2 sovs. ewe, with 10 added. One mile. Pawn I• 1 Tenbary lAni Nisi vas: • CROXTON PARK RACES.—YEsrtipsy. FARYIIIRS' HANDICAP of 50 sore., and 6 to the woad horse. Heats. Gentlemen riders. Onee round. Mr. Vincent's br h Frestrader, 6 yrs, li st 121 b (Cap yr t. Haworth) 1 1 ( Mr. W. Kirk's b g John Hamlin, 6 s. 9st 12Ib Mr. Boynton) 2 2 Mr. Woolkonse's b g Melton, 6 yrs, llst4lb (Mr. Blwes) 3 3 BELTOIII CASTLE STAKES of 16 SOTO each, 10 ft, with 40 son added ; for 3-yr old colts, Set 71b ; Blues, fist 51b. Al lowances and penalties. One mile. Three horseo to start or the money will not be given. (6 subs.) Mr. Osborne n Grapeshot (71h) (Osborne) I Lord Chesterfield's b c by Tne Emperor, out of Begum (Flatman) 2 CROXTON PAIL PLATE of 100 SOTS (handicap) for all ages. One mile. Gentlemen riders. (10 subs.) Count Bstthyany's br g Jack-in-the-Corner, aged, list lib (Owner) I Hon. W. E. Buncombe's ch c Alfred the Great, 4 yrs, 12st 7lb (Mr. Boynton) 2: Lord Chesterfield's b k Humphrey, 6 yrs, list 121 b (Mr. Clarke) 3 CCP of 501. in specie, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 6 only if declared, for horses of all denominations (two years old. mooted). TIN miles. (24 subs., 10 of whom declared.) Mr. Sason's ch h Caurire, aged, 10st 121 b (Mr.Elwes) 1 Mr. Condron's Smuggler Bill, aged, 10st 121 b (Capt Haworth) 2 Lord Chesterfield's b m Gladiole, 6 ces, list 31b Mr. Clarke) 3 Mr. Smith'sb m Harp, 5 yn, lOst 13Ib Mr. Scribe)) 4 t Mr. T. Dawson's br t Galvanism, 4 yrs, llst 4I (Mr. White) b 6 BILLESDON COPLOW STAKES of 6 sort each, with 20 added. Once round ; 12't each. Winners extra. (5 subs.) Capt. Forster's b g Kenniogton, I2st 7lb (Mr. Scobei) 1 Mr. J. S. Wheatley's b h Tom Jolly, aged (h b),l2st (Mr. Boynton) 2 Mr. Woodhouse's b g Libel. 12st (Mr. Elves) 3 Mr. T. Hunter's br m Linsley Lies, aged, 12st (Cipt. Haworth) 4 Lord Grey de Wilton's gr m Alice Grey, sped, 12st (Mr. Clarke) 6 7 to 4 on Kennington. Won in i canter. SUDDEN DEATH OF DE. RICRARD CHAMBERS.— Yesterday morning Dr. Richard Chambers was found dead in bed at half-past eight o'clock. Feeling slightly indis posed on Tuesday ni,rht, he had desired that his patients should not be allowed to sea him until balf•past twelve of the following morning. The deceased, who was in his sixty third year, was physician to the Royal Free Hospital, the Cancer Hospital. the Dispen-ary for Consumption and Diemen of the Cheat, and the Blenheim•steeet Dispensary. -r~or~ - :e~..ta. `~ .1 L A M ~t