The Express. — London, England, 1847-11-08 00:00:00

Zile erproig. The overland elated maDe.eiTebilaiseillee, to the Mediterranean. Egypt, Ad., fusion, Ind* Hoeg Kong, kc., will be made up on the evening of the Bth Nov, The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madera. (odic, and Gibraltar will be made up en the morning of the nth November. Letters for the tinted States will be forwarded by the French mall vic.m-packet Union, espected to sail from Havre on the lOto lost. All lrtteia intended to be forwarded by this conveyance must be mareially addressed, " By French packet from Howe." The west ladle Hada excluding Bermuda, Nam., Havanna, Honduras, New Orleatui, Vera Cruz, Tampico, stet Porto Rico. and including time foe Junta, Carthame. Meth Herds., CUM*. ,Weed. on of South America, and St. Juart-de-Nendeguer will be made up on the morning of the I;th Wet lbe mode for British North Anieriaa Bermuda. and the Unite. Siam will be made op on the evening of the 18th November. Th. overland mails for Gibraltar. Malta. Greece, the lowan !shads. gavot, Aden, Ceylon., India, I 100s -Kong, and China. no 8041U1SOL011111, will be made up on the morning of the Ice November. The mails for New South Wales. COI tomato's Land. and New Tasiand will be made up on the evening of the 30th November. The mails for the Brasile, the hirer Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenas Amt., will he made ap on the ironing tithe lth December. 0.• at Alverifteuria the OMlee.l4 ! TO COllllllll,Olll/EPITI. Woodall • Tee [mod Loodo• l M. mart bp lonatonheuron. b, Two debark on Pm dap of publication. BIOS WATIA AT LONDO2I-1111001. Tess Pal—Mlocals. 4 INIAP44. M 44,644 4." = r.m.....—rww.ani.P.o I Ar44,••44."...P44, LONDON, MONDAY, NO V. 8. PRIVATE letters received by the last packet from Rio de Janeiro, contain intelligence of very consider able importance. It is now, our readers will remem ber, some years since the treaty of commerce which had so long existed between this country and the empire of Brazil was terminated by the latter in con formity with its provisions ; and, since its termina tion, all the efforts of oar diplomacy to conclude an other treaty have proved unavailing. So long, in deed, as the sugar of Brazil was excluded from con sumption in Eugland, it was unreasonable to expect that Brazil would give to our commercial relations with it any definite or permanent—still less any favourable—character ; and the failure of our special mission to Rio, under Mr. HENRY ELLIS, therefore surprised no one, except, per haps, the cabinet that were foolish :enough to send it. From that date to this, our im portant trade with the Brazilian empire has been conducted without a single interna•ional stipulation for its protection; an immense amount of British property in Brazil has been, and still is, at the mercy of laws, the administration of which is not distin guished by, to say the least, perfect purity ; and in cases of the deaths and intestacies of British subjects having pioperty in Brazil, it has passed into the custody of lira zilian auth.orities,from whose grasp it is not very easy or very economical to recover either part or whole. It is true indeed that the Brazilian government has not, as it had the power to do, placed any differential duties on British goods; but continues to admit them on terms as favourable as she does the goods of other countries. But this wise abstinence from retaliation has been caused by a regard to her own interests, in the same way as we have at last removed the prohibition on Brazilian sugar, because we became convinced it was for our own benefit that we should consume it, regard less of its mode of cultivation. That removal would, of course, under ordinary cir cumstances have dissipated all the objections previ ously entertained by Brazil to the renewal of a treaty of commerce with this country, and nothing, it might have been anticipated, would have been easier than its conclusion. Ail that we could desire arc the commer cial rights of the most favoured nation in Brazil, and such s,ipulations for the protection of British property in the empire as experience had proved to be needful ; and corresponding provisions on our part would, it may be supposed, have satisfied Brazil. But, unfor tunately, since the termination of the former commercial treaty, the relations of the two countries have, in other respects, assumed a most unusual character: and the imperial cabinet of Brazil has refined to entertain th- proposition, with which Lord Howden, the new British minister at the court of Rio, has inaugurated his mission for a new treaty of commerce : or creel to discuss any other subject of importance with his lordship. _ . _ The circumstances that have produced this refusal are these. Three years ago Brazil exercised the power, reserved to her by treaties, of terminating the mutual right of search over vessels engaged, or sus pected to be engaged, in the slave trade, which had existed between Brazil from the time of its separation from Portugal, and England, and of abolishing the courts of mixed commission at Rio and Sierra Leone. The Earl of ABERDEEN, then Foreign Secretary, did not contest the right of Brazil to release herself from these obligations: on the con trary, he fully admitted the legal power of Brazil to do so. But, by one of the most flagrant perversions of treaty-construction that diplomacy can furnish, his lordship induced, at the close of the session of 1844, the parliament, hurriedly and inconsiderately, to pass an act authorising British ships of war to search and seize Brazilian vessels engaged, or suspected to be engaged, in the slave trade, and British courts of vice admiralty to condemn such vessels when captured and brought before them. In vain M. De Lisnos, the Brazilian resident here, protested to Lord ABER DEEN against so unprecedented a violation of the rights of an independent state; in vain the present Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Mr. NIILNER Gin-oN, denied the legality by the law of nations of such a statute, and pointed out its inevitable conse quences; Sir ROBERT PEEL took the measure under his own special protection, and at the close of the session procured its enactment. Well; the law —no, the statute, for we will not call the enactment law —has been acted on : under its operations British ships of war have searched and seized Brazilian vessels, and British courts of vice admiralty have con demned them. Renewing from time to time the pro tests of their representative at this court, the ministers of the Emperor of Brazil have submitted to these out rages—outrages they really are—u acts of force and violence which they have not the strength to resist. But now that Lord HOWDEN has submitted to them proposals for the conclusion of a new treaty of commerce, the Brazilian cabinet has declined to entertain the negotiations, or to enter on the discus sion of other subjects between the two countries re quiring decision and settlement, until this art of 1844 be repealed. And Lord Hownex has been obliged to apply to Lord PALMERSTON for his decision on this point; and we rather think his lordship has been officially made acquainted with the fact, which he ought to have learned sooner, that the Emperor, senate, chamber of deputies, and people at large, men, women, and children, are determined to enter into no negotiation with England until Lord ABER DEP.N'S bill is withdrawn. For the present, we feel that we shall have done sufficient in stating these circumstances, and in calling the attention of our merchants and manufacturers connected with Brazil to them, in order that they may lose no time in pressing on Lord PALMERSTON the absolute necessity of immediately applying to parliament, on its assem bling, to remove the obstacle, which Lord ABERDEEN induced it to erect in 1844, to the renewal of commer cial relations between the countries; for they may rest assured that there will be no treaty of commerce concludes with Brazil until the act of 1811 be re pealed —an act in the teeth °revery acknowledged prin ciple of international law, submission to which would render Brazil unworthy of a place among independent nations. ON the ever memorable sth of November the Standard and 3rerning Herald, resolute to have • GUY of their own, hawked the luckless Lord STANLEY about from door to door. The noble lord was becraencd with the trappings of a party leader, and cut quite as desolate and lugubrious a figure as the legitimate effigies of the day. Lord STANLEY, we learn from the sources of in formation referred to, has issued • circular inviting the members of his party to meet at his house on the morning of the 18th, preparatory to the opening of parliament. As to the character and composition of Lord STANLEY'S party the Standard and Herald appear to be rather at a loss. They are not even agreed upon its name, the one desigtwing it" the Conservative," the other "the Country party." Of its principles they appear equally ignorant. The Herald indeed boldly asserts "that all attempts to un-Christianise the House of Commons will find no sanction in the noble leader of the conservative party." But the Herald is by no means so certain of the intentions of his followers. With respect to them it falteringly stammers out that " it is hardly possible to conceive that the followers of that leader will be lees sensible of the obligations due to the religion we profess, and the holy church to which we belong." " one point, however, the STANLEY gazettes an agreed, viz., that this party, of whomsoever composed, to whatever principles attached, by whatever designa tion known, is to do nothing. "We advise," says the Herald, "no premature steps, no over-hasty abandon- , ment of laws to which the country is pledged, so bold plans for breaking down the hindrenei which free trade mismanagement has raised." "We are aware," adds the Standard, "that the country is not yet ripe for a retractation of the blunders of the last twenty-five years (although it is ri pening fast), and, therefore, we should depre -1 cate any present demand for the repair of these blun ders." The "country," or "conservative party," or whatever its name be, has no course of policy to re commend, and if the Standard may be credited it is equally unprepared to undertake the task of opposi tion. "We assume that the country party can have no purpose of displacing the present ministers, and we will add thst an honourable and high-minded party cannot design to embarrass a ministry which it could not displace, or eves meditate a refusal of just and necessary support to such a ministry, as far as this support can be given consistently with the main tenance of its own principles." This think-nothing, do-nothing, be-nothing stra tegy, is, in good sooth, all that the noblemen and gentlemen, who may assemble at Lord STANLEY'S on the morning of the 18th, will be capable of. They lack the essential ingredient of a political party. They have no hold on public opinion, or any section of it. They are neither ruseyites, nor evangelical low churchmen; they are neither for an exclusively me tallic currency, nor for inconvertible notes ; they are not going to tilt against the poor law. In all matters of ecclesiastical and economical policy they are at one with the bulk of the moderate conservatives, and not a few of the Whigs. They believe in the volumes of the statutes at large. Their only points of difference from either of the parties, we have named, relate to certain constitutional changes which no experience can drive into their heads have not already been effected, or are in the process of being carried into effect. They dream of restoring political relations, which all the rest of the world have agreed are as completely dead and buried as the divine right of the times of the STUARTS. Beyond their personal in fluence with a few friends, and their proprietary in fluence with a few dependents, they have no means of enlisting followers. They are political officers without a soldiery. The country or conservative party is moribund. A real living party might find an ample apology for in action in the nature of the impending session of par liament. It is summoned to arrange a definite simple piece of business, and be prorogued again. If pro longed, it can only be by the talking of ardent repeal er', and monetary theorists, whose talk can lead to no practical result. A party endowed with vitality might gain rather than lose by declining to take part in the discussions of such a session, and husbanding its resources for future struggles. But a party under going the process of evaporation cannot afford to adopt such tactics. It must speak out while breath is left in it. If it do not show front now, it may, by the time parliament meets again, be where last year's snow is. . . There is singular appropriateness in the installa tion of Lord STANLEY as the leader of such a party. The physical energy which characterises his declama tion when his passions are roused, and that wrangling propensity which made him ever foremost among the talkers of the lower house, lent him, for a time, the prert ige of a daring and energetic, if not of a trust worthy, politician. But his career in office dispelled the illusion. In every department he has filled, Lord STANLEY has been found shrinking from respon sibility with morbid anxiety. His game has ever been to procrastinate, except where he could transfer the responsibility of action to some other shoulders than his own. His paramount and paralysing weak ness is want of moral courage. The politician, who dare not ay, is most appropriately placed at the head of the party which cannot act. IN one aim, at least, of his unwearied struggles, DANIEL OThNNELL completely failed, that of bring ing about any common bond of feeling or interest amongst Irishmen of different castes and classes. Neier have these been so mutually adverse as they are at present, so decidedly mustered in different camps, each intractable and entrenched therein. The landlords meet in the Dublin Rotund° ; the tenants have their monster meetings, to assert their rights; to which if a landlord, like Mr. OiDORNE, boldly demands to be admitted and be heard, he is met by a cold refusal. The lower class of all, the labourers, fed on conacre in lieu of wages, have also their meetings, or at least their common and fearful understanding and law, which dwins the landlord, who denies tkenr their old natural livelihood and dearly-loved potato, to death. All those classes of the Irish population are in sepa rate camps. And there is another camp of the towns folk; of people deriving the means of life, not from land, or at least very indirectly from land. These are denounced by the landlords as far too well off under the new poor law, and as not found to contri. ' bate their due share of the public burthens. Nor are , these all the standards that rise and glitter in the field ; each church has its banners, its views, its preju dices, and its strength. Amongst all, the govern- ment has to intervene, with very small powers and force—for parliament has of late begrudged and denied the Irish government more than a few places to give, and some moral force to wield. Government has to keep peace amidst these contending parties, to protect the weak, menace the unruly reasoner with the sword. and bear the odium of all that each of these classes will not do and will not allow to be done. The worst of this complete separation into camps, this incipient state of war, is the suspension of all permanent and profitable arrangements. Every ose looks to the future; every one says the present is no' time to fix anything. Let as live from day to day, from hand to mouth. By-and-by, when it is seen whether the poor law will last,—whether the unions will endure,—whether the labour rate will beenforced, —it will be time enough then to give leases or make any settlement of land beyond the exigencies of the moment The great curse of Ireland is that every thing is provisional, unsettled, hopeless, and that all classes are looking through telescopes at the future, instead of thinking of the present Three-fourths of I the present insecurity of tenure, and other quarrels between upper and lower classes, connected with land, proceed from that cause. Neither landlord nor tenant knows what men, what law, what prospects, or what state of things to trust. The moat prominent subject of grievance and dis cussion at present is tenant-right. By tenant in this country people generally mean, we suppose, a tenant of above ten acres of ground. For he who holds less cannot be deemed to possess capital or to make im provements, or to entitle himself to compensation. The question of tenant-right ought to be carefully separated into that class which contains the real Birmer, the owner of stock, capable of what may be called farming, and the clans ofmere squatters. It is the latter who are clamorous for tenant-right and permanent occupation, who are menaced by clear ances, who avenge themselves by outrage. The great problem to be first solved in Ireland, is how to deal with the small holders. The landlord, with respect to them, is placed in a terrible dilemma. Government and the public call upon him to improve, to drain, to give extra employment on his land. Prudence tells him not to trust the potato crop, or feed his labourer on conacre, for such crop may fail, and then the poor-rates or the necessity of feeding the population gratuitously, will not only swallow up his rent, but the very fee of his estates. If, however, the landlord clears, giving half the labouring class means to emigrate, and promising the other half daily wages, he is mur dered because he refuses the potato and the con-acre. This was the case of Major MAHON, whose inhu man murder has spread horror throughout the land. What was the situation of this estate ? Mr. MAllO:4'9 evidence before the DEVON commission fully de scribes it. " From the circumstances of the 40s. freeholders, there was generally one member of the family in parliament, and in order : to make a number of votes, it wee set in very Mall divisions. On the estate there are 2,097 houses to 6,000 acres, the population being about 10,485. The average number of acres on the estate would be three acres and a half to each house. The acknowledged tenantry who pay rent are 745, and many of them era held in companies, or co.'s consisting of three pereenc" Here is an estate, of which the peasant popula tion was swollen, and the land subdivided to serve the political purposes of the landlord. Lord HART LAND having become a lunctie, the property fell into the management of Chancery, which never interfered with a tenant as long as he paid his runt To this property, on which pauperism bad been allowed to spread, succeeds as intelligent landlord, who gives largely for ernigrificrn. largely for relief, bat whose aim mrsit have been to detach the peasant from the land, not even allowing him the annual and casual lependence upon conacre, and to throw him upon fwatlor the rates. The Irish peasant has got no m either one or the other. We have seen the result in the dread catastrophe of Major MAHON'S murder. We have here stated fairly both aides of the ques tion—that for the landlord, that for the peasant ; • terrible and a trying one it is to both. Wl.ether par liament was all-wise in deciding that it was sufficient to impose • poor-law in order to reconcile or draw a line, between the interests of these classes, we have always doubted, and still do so. But the poor-law having been voted, through it and its supplement the redemption of Ireland must be worked. And it is to those supplements that the attention of the legislature must be directed. The council__ of landlords, which met at the Rotundo, proposes to meet the financial difficulty of a ' poor-rate, by converting it into a general Irish property tax, and at the same time to abolish the test, by giving relief to the able-bodied in exchange fur labour. For this purpose industrial workshop. and farms are to bo created ; and the guardians are to employ the poor upon the union farms, and make the townsfolk pay the labourers, whom they cannot put to work on their estates. These recommendations of I THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1847. tie Itotundo we shall consider on a future occasion. Our Paris despatches of Saturday have reached us. 'fhe D4bals says it has reason to believe, from information which it has received, that the " Caisse des Depots et Consignations" has come to a decision not to take any part in the new loan.—The Duchess of Valencia, wife of General Narvaez, left Paris yes terday for Madrid.—The I'rince de Joinville returned to La Spezia, on the 26th ult., from Leghorn. The Madrid mails of the Ist inst. have arrived. The day being the festival of All Saints, the Bourse was closed, and all public business suspended. No doubt seemed to exist'in any quarter that another ministerial modification would precede the assembling of the Cortes. The 3nm:trial des Pyr, , n , es publishes a letter from Barcelona, stating that Queen Christina was expected there, and mentions a rumour that she intends to go to Rome. A Bayonne journal announces the arrival of the family of the Duke de Rianzares in that town. A letter from Catalonia states that a detachment of gendarmes having gone down to the Ter to get across in the ferry-boat found on the bank some Carlists, whom they took for colleagues. They all went across in the same boat, but during the passage the Carlists got to the edge of the boat, and jumped first to land. When they had gone a little distance they turned round and fired at the gendarmes, wounding several and killing one. The entire population of Tuscany is roused into the greatest excitement and exaltation. In Leghorn, in Florence, in Pisa, in Sienna, in fine, in all the centres of wealth and intelligence, the population have with one instinct rushed to arms, demanding to march to the rescue of their fellows at Fivizzano and Pontre moll. The announcement which had appeared in .. - some journals, originating probably from Austrian agents, that the inhabitants of Fivizzano had resigned themselves to the consequences of the annexation of Lucca to Tuscany under the conditions of the treaty of Vienna, are destitute of truth. According to the latest advices it appears that the Modenese troops had occupied Gallicano, but the Tuscan com missioner had protested against this proceeding. This city does not make part of the territory of Fivizzano, though it is one of the points which, according to the treaty of Vienna, was to form the limit of the Duchy of Modena on the reversion of Lucca to Tuscany. Meanwhile the inhabitants of Fivizzano were pre paring to offer a resolute resistance to any attempt to seize their town. All the gates were occupied by the national guard and all the houses barricadoed. Every means of resistance were prepared in case the Modena :troops should attempt to occupy the town. Letters from Pontremoli say that the inhabitants of that place have seized the citadel, and have armed the city guard with the muskets found there. The Nuremberg Correspondent of the Ist gives the EAlowing from Rome as an instance of the state of feeling in that capital. About a fortnight ago a young Tuscan, in the uniform of a civic guard of his country, entered a coffee-house in Itome, followed by several persons attracted by curi osity. The coffee-house keeper, finding this to be an annoyance, requested the Tuscan to withdraw, which he did. But the Romaas took offence at this treatment of a civic guard of the Grand Duke of Tuscany ; and, telling the coffee-house keeper that his house was a rendezvous for the enemies of the liberal cause carried off the bust of Pius IX., which was there, in order, as they said, that it might not be disgraced. The keeper of the coffee-house found it ne cessary to shut it up, as the people were so excited ' against him ; but two daysafterwards made his peace with the liberals by opening his establishment under a new name " The Coffee-house of Progress " sod placing another bust of the Pope over his bar, with that of the Grand Duke of Tuscany by the side of it. The Qvotidiano of Rome announces that Mr. Eve rett will in all probability be named ambassador of the United States to the court of Rome. The Unirersal German Gazette mentions from Rome a rumour that the government of the United States has offered to enter into a treaty of commerce and friendship with the Pope ; and it is probable a nuncio will be appointed to Washington. The Gazzetta Piemonteee, of the Ist, contains a de scription of the public rejoicings which took place at Turin the day before, to celebrate the reforms sanc tioned by Charles Albert. The whole town was illuminated ; immense crowds of people filled every street and square, and cries of " Long live the King !" were frequent and universal. Not the slightest dis turbance took place. The Patric of Florence states, that Lord Minto had another long conference with the Grand Duke of Tuscany on the 28th ult. The Florence papers publish a decree of the Grand Duke, dated 29th ult., suppressing the agents of the inferior police, and their duties are devolved upon the Royal Carabiniera. The preamble declares that a radical reform of the police department is in progress. The journals of Berne of the 4th, with letters from that and other parts of the Swiss confederacy, have arrived. Parties had not yet actually come to blows. The diet had not yet voted the formal decree for carrying into execution by armed force its resolu tions. Numerous families of Bernese farmers settled in Friburg were hourly seen crossing the frontier with their cattle, furniture, and moveable property, flying, as they said, from the menaces of murder and file denounced against them by the priests of Friburg. On the 31st the Bernese soldiers posted near the bridge over the Singine at Neneneck, crossed the river, and fraternised' during the day with the Friburg soldiers on the other side. The latter re-conducted their friends in the evening to their own canton, when the same convivialities and manifestation of friendly feel ing took place. The Bernese reserve, placed under the command of President Ochsenbein, consists of two brigades, one in the Oberland and the other in the Jura. The ar tillery, munitions and field equipage, had already been expedited to their respective cantonments. The committee of seven appointed by the l)iet on the affair of the Sonderbund had a meeting on the 3rd, at which the draft of a declaration of the Diet was agreed on, and wan to have been submitted to the diet on the following day. A report was circulated that the Friburg cantonal authorities had resolved, if the sacrifice were necessary for military objects, to cut down the two magnificent suspension bridges by which their city is approached. It will be recollected that these bridges, which are among the most noble monuments of art, connect two hills, which are sepa rated by a ravine several hundred yards deep, and are of extraordinary span, the greatest we belive in the world, except that which overhangs the Menai Strait. On the 30th, the council of state of Lucerne de clared that canton and its capital in a state of siege. A military tribunal was established in the town, the ordinary administration of justice beiug suspended. The mails coining from the adjacent cantons of Argau, Basle, and Berne, were stopped, and th e b ags of Lucerne taken in charge by tLe military post on the frontier. The catholic college, Corpus Catholicum, of the thisone had sent a petition to the Pope, to pray him to recall the Jesuits from Lucerne. The Atm du Pays of Geneva says that the Pope was about to convoke the conclave, to submit to it a proposition for the abolition of the Society of Jesus. Since the above was written, we have received the following copy of the proclam...tion addressed by the diet to the federal army. Hostilities were to have commenced on the sth. TROCLOUTITM. - —Ms DOT TO TH2 Mai ADDY. Soldiers—The Swine Cookderation, our common country, ban rated us to mm.. You baste responded to the •2111M002 with a promptness worthy of men of courage, ready to shed their blood in the accomplishment of the moot holy of clones the array of the coun try. You are DOW going to march against the separated alliance, called the Fonderbusd. This time again you will confound the 011011- lotions of theme who have done you the injustice to reckon mi your defection. The enemies% of the country arc endeavouring to make it believed that it I. in order to destroy the cantonal envereanty of the rates of the separate alliance that you are summoned to march; that it is to destroy their political and religious liberty—to subject them to the yoke of tyrannical majorities - to overturn the federal insti tutions—to coantitute a unitary government on their ruing, and to am the bases of social order. These are odious calumnies. You have to make the compact, which is the Wend constitution of soithertend, respected—to re-eetabliati order, tranquillity and the *malty of the country—to put down revolt—to preserve Switzerland from anarchy—and to bring back to obedience to the laws and to the federal authorities populations led away by those who turn their credulity toaccount You will have to deliver Switzerland from those eviLmoided Demons, who for More than half a century have been fomenting troubles, with a view to put down and faleify the principles of liberty, of equality before the law, and of justice, which our fore fathers establi,bed and set down in tie constitations of the confede rated states. That party, Under lying pretexts. has (occluded the separate alliance, known by the name of the Sunderhund, the real object of which is to undermine our principles, to keep the people In ignorance, and to bend the democracy to its yoke, in order to render it eubeervic at to odious design. This Impious league is • poison shall Swituriand ought to fling sway from her bosom. Thus, in order to prnerre the confederation from such a mum of dissolution, err. 6 of the federal compact declares expressly that the cantons cannot form union. prejudicial to the onifederation or to the right of the other Swim states.' But the Son derbund is one of the union. prohibited by the compact. A private political alliance, forming • confederation within a confederation, is destructive of the common alliance; it is a germ of rk-struction and death th•t nowt be extirpated, concluded or it is to resist by form of arms the I,..eisiona of the Diet, which are all founded on the provi sions of the compact ; the separate alliance is an net of rebellion by a factious minority apnea decrees passed by the competent authority. It a in consequence of that clear and rupees. declaration that the Diet, on July 20, 1047, pearl a decree mooning that—' 1. Tne semi rate allianoe of the seven states ul Lucerne, Uri, ,chwitz, Under. Walden, Zug, Friburg, and Valais, to &tiered incompatible with the prorisioes of the federal °impact, and, 001Weeilleady, dis solved. 2. These cantors arc reeponeible for the oteervares of the prevent decree, and the Diet reserves to itself the right to adopt, if circumstances demand it, ulterior measures to cause it to be re. epected. to place of t uhmitting to thin decision, the Sonderbund Protected against It, aldreesed to the people incendiary proclama tion, caused ormo and ammunition to be Nought from forelm cotintries erected fortifications, collected together anti armed troops. However, before having rOXiairae tWarms the diet attempted all that was in its power to prevent the effusion of blood. It addressed to the cantonal authoritit s and to the people of the eeven Rates a procla mation, full of kindling and reopeet for the sovereignty and rights, the liberty and religion, of these cantons. It delegated to them federal representatives. Nut In vain. Except at Zug, the federal repro genially., were not admitted to speak to the government, still has to the people. It was forbidden to publish the proclamation of the federal assembly ; the Lucernne goremment even went the length of menacing with impriomment and criminal pros% cut.on such eitioens no should di tribute it. Other attempts at conciliation have produc. d no result The deputies of the Sonderbund, by making enacoeptable propositions, by, above all, demanding a general hieing down of arms, have shown clearly enough that they desired to paralyse the execution of the 13W, to give them pelves the appearance of being antioue for peace, and to create a pre tent to quit the Diet, crying out injustice and tyranny. Tory have, in fact, withdrawn from the federal asaembly, mid qui'ted the Vorort, • on October 20, after handing in a declaration and a inanifeato already pt inted. Such is the manner in which the tionderband has raised the mask, and thrown down the gauntlet to the Swiss Conedemtien. Soldiers, you will know how to take it up! In presence of that de claration of war, and after having exhausted all pacific means, the Diet considered it its duty, in virtueof articles I, 6, and 8 of the federal compact, to have recourse to arms to enforce obedience, to obtain a complete retention, and reduce the abettors of rebellion and disturbance to a state of impuissance to injure Switzerland. The governments of the Sonderbund have acted contrary to their duty towards the Swim confederation in breaking with It, and in taking up arms. Thies, such rinser. of the fermate alliance as shall openly declare fir the confederation, shall enjoy full protection. Soldiers of all arms and groin, Switzerland and the world hare their epos fiord on you. The nation places unlimited confidence in your courage, devotedness and discipline. To the fanatielem of your adversaries, you will oppose that wellsomidered ftrinneris that calm energy, that pelf-possessed valour. the serenity of enthusiasm, which the senti ment of a goo I muse and the enlightened conscience of duty Impart. • You will prove to your contemporaries and to posterity that you hare not degenerated from your valiant ancestors, and by your oinduct in battle you will add a fresh w. nth to that crown winch encircles the brow of our country; and you will inspire foreign powers with a edutary reflect for Switzerland and her army. You will conquer those who would read you, arms in hand, or who may have the boltinees to attack you. But, whilst obeying the ineso rabic lawn of war, you will know how to unite magnanimity to the necessitin of combat; you will never forget that your opponents ore foe tee moot tart misled men, confederates, and brothers, whom you hare to eau. to return to their duty. Your flag is that of the authority of the confederation, of the integrity of • cem mon meaty which shelters the c intone and their !sovereignty, of Swiss nationality, in a word, of liberty, order, and security. It is to put down toe standard of reparation, that you hare bussed to range yourselns ander the red and white banner of Selmer:and with Its federal crow —a banner which is the symbol of faith and of bravery; It is to extinguish the incendiary torches of differed and to save SlM serLind from anarchy, that you have risen en mese ; it is to ensure to 22 cantons a durable peace teat you hare taken up arms. A grateful country will recompense your services, and will take care of the widows, children, and parent. of such of you as shall have shed their blond for it. May the god of armies watch over you, fortify your hearts, enlighten your minds, strengthen your bodies, an I oupp or Soli in the fight May God protect Switzerland and Mee our cause A letter from Bale, of the 3rd, quoted by the Debated, says: The minor council of Bide has received peremptory ceden from General Deem to place its contingent at his dispo,l. Its battery of artillery is to be immediately marched to Liestlul, and thence towards Sulcure. The battalion of infantry is to remain for the want sta tionary in the city; but from the present moment hi to colander Bull as attached to the federal army, and wear the red and white braseanle on their urine. The minor anneal has taken upon itself to contply with this command, without consulting the grand council of the can ton, and orders hare already been given to the battery of artillery to move. We learn, by letter receired this morning direct from Zurich, that the battalions of the Grier:me have positively refaced to march to join the federal service. "hie radiance has been equ a lly p, ss tr a a,,o in the protestant and esthetic districte. The government of the Gri sone has decided upon sending a new deputatien to Berne with over. tares of a pacific nature, tending to a separate all ass. A Lucerne journal announces that the triple land- mth of Zug has decided, by a majority of 114 to 31, to adhere faithfully to its allies of the league against the federal government. As soon as this decision was known, says another account, Schwytz sent two companies of troops to occupy the town of Zug. At this moment, says the i'atrie, the division under the orders of the President cf the Diet, M. (khsen bein, occupies the canton of Neufchatel, which it appears to have entered without firing a shot. This occupation has the double object of forcing Neufchatel to fulfil its federal obligations by furnishing its con , tingent against the cantons of the Sonderbund, and to intercept the communications between Friburg, Lu cerne, and the exterior. Bale-Ville is said to have decided on sending its contingent to the federal army. The forces of the federal army, consisting of the contingents of the cantons of Zurich, Berne, Glaris, Solcure, Bale-Campagne, Schaffhausen, Saint Gall, Grisons, Argau, Thurgau, Tessin°, Vaud, and Geneva, are seven companies of sappers, twenty-four batteries de campagne, seven batteries de position, twenty-one companies of cavalry, twenty•eight companies of cara biniers, and fifty-eight battalions of infantry. The forces of Bale-Ville and Neufchatel, the neutral can tons, arc two batteries of field pie, s, two batteries of heavy guns, two companies of carabiniers, and three battalions of infantry. Those of the Sonderbund con sisting of the contingents belonging to the cantons of Uri, Schwytz, Unterwald, Lucerne, Zug, Friburg,and Valais, are three batteries of field pieces, one battery of heavy guns, two and a half companies of cavalry, twelve companies of carabiniers, and fourteen battalions of infantry. • COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. —By the Medway, Captain Sharpe, Lieutenant P. Rainier, RN., Admiralty agent, we have news to the following dates: Havana, Oct. 12; Chag,res, Sept. 25; Honduras, Sept 20; Carthagena, Sept. 27; Jamaica, Oct. 9 ; Demerara, Oct. 4 ; Trinidad, Oct. 6; Barbadoes, Oct. 9; Antigua, Oct. 13; Martinique, Oct. 12; Grenada, Oct. 10 ; Porto Rico, Oct. 13; St. Thomas, Oct. 15; Bermuda, Oct. 23; Nassau, Oct. 14. . . . _ The freight on board the Medway consiste of silver to the amount of 185,577 dollars, in dollars and bullion, gold dust and gold coin to the amount of 144,333 dollars, all on merchants' account, and of mineral ore 20 bales. and 62 small packages. The following is a list of passengers by the 'Medway : Mr,Baker, from Vera Cruz; Mr. Pezant, Mr. Le Bail, Mr. Gonzales, and Mr. Gracia,. from Havannah ; Captain Dsuglas, 2nd W.I. Itegt., from Nassau; Mr. Erne. Mr. Cox and child, Mr. Largara, Messrs. Romanic), Mr. Raskeagh, and Mr. Percy, from Chagres ; Mr. Lanai, from Santa Martha; Mr. Alves and Mr. Nesbitt, from Dem ; Mr. Dawson, from Trinidad ; Lieut. Ruston and Mr. Cleave, from Barhadors ; Miss Brassear, from Porto Rico; Mr. Hackett, Mr. Nathan, Capt. Dickson, Ist W. I. Regt., Ensign Phelan, ditto, and Mr. Turner, Jamaica; Mr. Terlonge, from Immo', Mr. Bell, from Grenada; Mr. Glandor and Mr. Torriani, from St. Lucia ; Mr. Brown and Mrs. Lynch, from Dominica ; Mr. Zeilla and two children, from Guadaloupe ; Mr. Armstrong, from Montserrat; Mr. Lence, from l'orto Rico; Mr. Petit, from St. Thomas's; Mr. and Mrs. Carswell and Lieut. Roe, from Bermuda. • It was again stated that Santa Anna had retired to wards Puebla, but in a very vague and indefinite manner. In the West Indies affairs are pretty much in the same state. Meetings, at which resolutions were passed to call the attention of the home government to the state of the West Indies, had taken place at Jamaica, and petitions drawn up at Trinidad and Bar badoes. The Barbadoes Globe, on the subject of the measures in course of preparation to remedy the pre sent state of things, has the following remarks: Intelligence tux reached us of the principal colonies being up and moving on the present alarming aspect of affairs. In Trinidad they have :Wonted a petition to parliament, in which they propose a Arias of remedies, the most conapicuoun of which is, of clung., martstricted immigration. Front Demme.. and Jamaica invitations have come for the enplaning* of neleptre from the several colonies to meet at St. Thomas, sad emit* sianeurea for strengthening and supporting the attempt that Is ha be Riede in the neat session to our behalf, as all parties seat to he went as to the near oily of • demonstration being made In the kit Miriam* by petition. We do not think that we shall brat all *dog lbw cause by saying that we object to the appointment d deliplee. We think, In the first place, that a great deal of valuable elm wield be lost before the delegates could ensemble on ,' &ad s .s wheel. be be dme—cettalely before the result of their deliberation@ wattle suds evellebbe le Lend. In the neat place, the most adYßifitem fie Ma OM a/NW are preeinaly those whose etreanurtanasa sr pmembe make Sas vul va pl ug or unable to attend. Then again agailingillgoit with dread and doubt to the character and lane of the amide= which must take place at the meeting, know- tog, as we do, bow widely the most intelligent and outetsntiol men in various colonies differ as to the measures of rebel to be demanded. wisest the whzt., b, thens p. adoptedrsued Is that tir to . le . p of b o i r c inion d tb ni i , it h t e h r e e on Monday last, and recommended to be followed by the other colonies, via., that we claim a general measure of relief, and leave it to our friendisst home to Mecum details, and to cite our cause their best sup. port after their best judgment. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica, held on the Gth of October, several commu nications were received from the Windward Islands, urging a combined agitatioo,with the view of bringing the depressed condition of these colonies under a free trade system before the British public, and laying before parliament the necessity of some immediate modification of the present sugar duties, in order to save the West India colonies from ruin. DEMERARA.—Commercial affairs would seem to wear a gloomy aspect in that colony. About 250 immigrants from Madeira had arrived during the first fortnight in Sep tember. Ity the following extract from the report of the colonial land and emigration commissioners to the Colonial office, it would seem doubtful whether the bounty of Ma deiran emigration to the West India colonies will not be dis continued altogether. The report says: We are obliged to mid, that oonsidering the additional light thrown upon the question by the mortality la British Guiana, where the en perience bas been on aso much larger reale Man in Trinidad or st. Vincent, we are led to doubt whether the bounty ought not further to be put an end 10 is all those colonies. We would recommend that the governor,. be called upon to report on this question, especially on the causes of the great mortality; and unksei it an to shown, by very clear evidence, that it may be ascribed principally to the season at w hi c h t h e arrived, or to usfilental causes, we think that the bounty should be at once discontinued. His Honour Thomas Norton, who was removed some three years since from the first Puisne Judgeship of British Guiana to the Chief Justiceship of Newfoundland, is said to have resigned the latter appointment, with the inn ntion of practicing at the English bar. Meddling in political matters, with which he busied himself much when in Demerara, is said to have led to this step, which was not a matter of choice, hut necessity—resignation or dismissal. BARBAI)OES.—From this island we learn that Governor Reid had returned from his tour among the islands. The Globe states that directions have been sent out by government for the abolition of all fees hitherto paid to the private secretaries of the governors and lieutenant-gover nors of the West Indian colonies, A favourable change had taken place in the weather. The planters were cheered with heavy and long-continued rains, such as had not been expe rienced far the lest twelvemonths. ANTIGUA.—The death of the Chief Justice of Antigua forms the principal item of news from that inland. Mention is made of the absence of the governor at Mont serrat. With respect to the object of his excellency's visit to that island the Herald says : Rumour gap, hi. excellency the governor has effected at Montserrat some striking memures of reform. Ilis excellency is reprexented as having carried successfully every recommendation be found it nee,. sary to make to the authorities of that colony. It is said among other contemplated changes, that delegates will be sent to represent Mont serrat in our lloue Assembly. The cathedral was to be opened for public worship on the 10th October, being " exactly two years from the day the corner atone was laid." Five hundred and thirty pounds sterling had been raised by subscription, and remitted to England towards the purchase of an organ for the cathedral. The weather c ,ntinuird favourable, with repented and heavy falls of rain. The quantity of sugar shipped to the 14th ult., was 1-i,h99 hhd,. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. - _ lAMAICA.—KINusrux, OcT. 9.—(From Ile Cordova's Mercantile Intelligterer.)— Since the 22nd ult. our market ha. assumed a more heavy and cheerless appearance than it had at thot period pressuteA. The frlnorny and uncertain asp - et of ererything connected with agriculture—the tightness of supplies— and the continued stritweney of the money market, bore all gra dually reduced our business tt purely retail trahmetiona. Ilow long ihis suite of things is likely to last it is impoe , ible to conjecture; but it I. certain that no improvement eon occur while th , market in Great Britain for British planation produce remains at the low ebb at which the accounts by the last four or five packets have been tepee renting It lobe. The Loge amount of nioneylving idle in the henry and almost unsaleable StOCIL of tondo, here and elsewhere—the consequent inability of factors and other" to draw on the strength of shipments, and other cans., which are to nding to limit the circulation of money and restrict the operations of planters, must eventually, directly and indi rectly, operate to a great extent against the mercantile interests. Perhaps it is most fortunate for importers that the supply of provi sions on hand dors not exceed the immediate demand for consump tion, for we do not suppose that any large wholewie operations could at this moment be etTscted. In this supposition we are strengthened by the fact that, while the market about the early part of the peat fortnight was almost bare of codfish, it was found impoeeible t a sell the whole of a cargo which came in at that time, and which the holder was at last compelled to parcel out in lot., in order to ettect a des. The following is the circulation of paper by the three banks, for the quarter terminating the 3otb September, 18 a : Colonial Bank, 83,320/.; Bank of Jamaica, 47,0851.; Planters' Bank, 81,9:234; total, 195,3981. Fthea.—On the 29th ultimo a vessel from Baltimore came in with a parcel of 700 brla, which, however, fated to command more than 40., and 425. per brl., in lota, notwithstanding that they bad arrived to an exceedingly lig ht market. This parcel would undoubtedly have realised a better figure, had it ant been generally anticipated that large receipts would immediately occur—the article haying fallen in the United Stud. Holders were, therefore, willing sellers, but the expected arrivals not haring taken place, a better feeling wan mani fested, and the next pareel from Phaladelphia of 140 brim. was readily moved at 44.. per brL CORN let.t..—The stock of this article has been conaiderably re dared under the brick demand for consumption, duetng the oantinu once of low rates ; th:s circumstance, together with the exceedingly light receipt. (the import dims Kince our bast having been only 210 brls.), has created an advance of rat,., and small sales of New Or leans are now being made at 15s. The market h. decidedly an up ward tendency, and holders are firm for higher pricex We have been told of a resale of 100 brie. New Orleans, at 13s. bid . Ilicr.—We have not any Wen to report In thin article. The market being very lightly eupplled, only retail trentae.keiv can OCGUr. - • - • • - - • - Aar D remains without change since our last. The stock hen been increased by an arrival of 691 bile. from PhiLvdelphia. TOBACCV.—Twenty bole. Csvendish., 32's, Misr changed hands at ;4d. per 10. Small parcels. 18's and 20's, are moved at the AY= rote, but the demand le very trifling. Leaf is in better request. Runs—The reduced supply of this at tide has bettered prices, and sales to the extent of .HI puncheons, of a favourite brand, have been made at as. ed. per pallor. SVUAIt has±lll further tattoo In value. . . . . _ licrim.—Tbe email quanoty Wan on band Ms prevented any reduction of atm I4d. per lb. was paid for 50 firkins in two lots. THE SOUTHAMPTON PORTION OF THE INDIA MAIL. —The Oriental Company's steam.packet, Erie, Captain Russell, arrived at Southampton yesterday with the South ampton portion of the India mail. She landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. Wilson R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are:—Alexandria, Oct. 22; Malta, Oat. 27; Gibraltar, Nov. 2. Amongst the passengers were Lady Cowley and family from C.onstantinortlA. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk.—The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, walked and rode out on ponies. In the afternoon the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, drove in a pony carriage to Frogmore-house. Prince Albert. attended by Hon. Captain A. H. Gordon, enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterday furenooa. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise this morning in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent. the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service in the private chapel of the Castle, The Hon. and Rev. C. L,.Courtenay officiated. ' Invitations were issued from the Lord Chamber• Ilia's office on Saturday lot for a large party at Windsor Castle to-morrow, in celebration of the birthday of the Prince of Wales. The guests of her Majesty assemble at the Castle to-day and remain till Wednesday. His Excellency Suleiman Pacha, ambassador from the Sublime Porte at Paris, strived at the Turkish Embassy in Bryanstoneugaare on Friday last, accompanied by his secretaries, Remsi Effendi and Mons. Antoine Fingher. Ilia excellency purposes remaining a few weeks in England. General Rolt had an interview with Sir G. Grey on Saturday at the Romuollice. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood left town on Saturday for llickleton-hall, Yorkshire. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIAL OF A NENTLY-PATENTED SyrAw.ENotten was made on Saturday at Deptford. A per fect rotary engine has long been a desideratum amongst those who use steam as a moving power. The penultimate emulator of Archimedes was the Earl of Duadonald, whose experiments excited with justice the attention and applause of the engineering world, although hie invention still fell short of the requisite perfection, that, namely, of obtaining a move ment which offered no dead point. It is creditable to the clam to which his lordship belongs that another member of it should have stepped forward and again challenged public attention upon this subject, in the person of the Hon. Capt. Fitzmaurice, who, if he be not the originator, is at least the patron, promoter, and patentee of a rotary engine which we shall endeavour to describe, and the inventor of which, we are informed, is Mr. Elijah Gallo way, whose name, as a practical engineer, is suffi ciently known. To those who are familiar with the construction of the various descriptions of steam-engines at present in use it is unnecessary to do more than to advert to the difficulty, hitherto deemed insurmountable, which is offered in the single and double cranks now in vogue. The oscillating and the revolving cylinders have failed in over coming the dead pull which occurs at that part of the circle described where the crank makes its ascent to the upper segment, and the consequence is a loss of power equal in the most favourable engines to 1-6th of the whole, and in others of from 25ths to 1-3rd. This will at once render it apparent to the non-scientific reader that the invention of a cylinder which should describe a circle without offering any point at which this "dead pull" was experienced would be the means of saving time, fuel, and space, each of which elements may be resolved into the simple one of £ s. d. Captain Fitzmaurice claims for the invention of which he and Mr. Galloway arc the patentees and constructors the merit of having at length conquered the difficulty ; and the following description will probably convey some idea of the manner in which this is effected, although from the absence of diagrams it is difficult to render the matter clear The cylinder of 'he engine consists of two parts—one, the steam chamber, the other the revolver. The steam-chamber is divided into five equal segments of the circle described by the cylinder, each of which is provided with an inductive and an eductive valve. The revolver consists of a solid mass of case hardened iron, cast in a form to correspond with the steam.chamber, the two forming an air and ream tight cylinder when in action. The five segments of the revolver fit into the corresponding segments of the steam-chamber, revolving within them, and thus, by alternately admitting and abutting off the stea m through the inductive and educ tive valves, • rotary motion is produced, and an eccentric c. rcle is described by the revolvers, the elements of which must be sought in the sum of the circles described by this five segments within the cylinder. Thus at one period of the revolution the inductive valve opens, and the steam rushee in; when having performed its work, the other half of the revolution permits it to escape by the eductor, and in this manner the equilibrium of rotary motion is maintained at a speed of from 300 to 1,000 revolutions per minute, these of course being regulated by the amount of resistance offered by the beam or other lever worked by the piston. The steam rushes direct from the feeding-pipe into the chamber, and its power is thus rendered immediately applicable at the force indicated by the index to the boiler. The advantages which this engine offer ►bove those Low in use will suggest themselves to all engineers. l'i.ey resolve them selves into economy of apace, fuel, and moving power, besides promising to enable steam to be used in situations and under circumstances where it is now precluded from being called into action. It is understood that Captain Fiternaurice has received instructions from Lord John Hay to send in an estimate for fitting the Minx, a war vessel, with one of these rotary engines for experi mental purposes, to be used as an auxiliary motor. Th e Minx measures 300 tons, and it is estimated that the rotary engine will be lighter by 50 tons than the engines of qua power to that about to be employed, which is 50-horse. The dimensions of the cylinder of an engine of this power will not exceed 31 inches by 16 inches in diameter. The revolver will he attached without any intermediate cranks or levers to the screw propeller, whereby the power will not be in any degree wasted. The experiment on Saturday satisfied the veoters to Mr. Tyrrel's factory at Deptford that in so far as a tour-horse power model could ri present the invention its principle was sound and the application of it successful ACCIDENT WITH FInE ARMS,—An accident of a fearful character happened on Friday evening to a lad named William Hamiltoa, aged about fourteen years. On the night of Guy Fawkes's-day he and some other Iris had assem bled at the back of his father's house, in order to celebrate that anniversary with fire works. They had discharged a considerable number of them when young Hamilton procured a gun, and severed times let it off. Unfortunately, from too large a charge, it at last exploded, and a piece struck him on the temple. He was knocked down, and his head fright. fully cut. As soon as possible he was conveyed to the West minster Hospital, when Mr. Phillips, the principal surgeon, was sent for, who found a most extensive frac'ure of the skull, and portions of bone were hanging about, exposing the brain. Everything that was possible was done for him, but not the slightest hopes are entertained of his recovery. INQUESTS, SATURDAY.—DEATH Of A Yount; WOMAN.—At the Black Horse, Kingsland-road, at the body of a young female unknown. The deceased was apparently about 20 years of age.—Mr. Frederick Wed.. bore, surgeon, of 10.0, High-street, Shoreditch, said he was called to see deceased about half-past 11 o'clock on Thursday night, at the Railway Coffee-house. She had then just es pired. His assistant, who was a qualified medical man, had seen her about 20 minutes previously ; at that time deceased was vomiting very much, bet although almoet in a state of collapse she was still sensible. She complaint dof severe pain in her stomach and aide. A cordial stimulant was ad ministered to her, but it had no effect, and she died a few minutes before witness arrived. Witness had since made a poet mortem examination of the body. He was of opinion that death arose from a fatal syncope caused by the sedative influence of the liquors the deceased had partekan of before death. The vomiting hadno doubt stopped the hearts action, and from the deceased's weak state she had not strength to recover herself There were no marks of violence on the body, and witness had no doubt death arose from natural causes.— George Brand, waiter at the Railway Coffee-house, said de ceased came to his master's house in campsny with a gen tleman about clove n o'clock on Thursday night. They en gaged a bed, and the female, who appeared fatigued, asked fir a candle almost immediately. The gentleman followed her upstairs in about • quarter of an hour. About five minutes after the gentleman asked witness to send fur a doc tor directly, an the young woman wes very iIL The deceased was in bed at this time, and vomiting very much. Mr. Wildbore's assistant was sent for, and he administered a pill and draught, ,and tken went away.-11r. George Brown was a railway contractor, and resided at Lynn, in Norfolk. He met deceased on Thursday evening, near Lowlonthridge, and accompanied her to several places, where they had re freshments,'e nd eventually to the railway Coffee-House,n here she died.—Police-constable G 47, proved having searched the deceased. She had no money in her pock,* nor anything calculated to lead to her identity. Ile bed heard that she was known in the Borough.—The jury re turned a verdict of " Beath from natural causes."— ALLTa.ED NEGLECT OC A MEDICAL UNION OCCICE/L—Be fore Mr. Baker, at the Bricklayer'-army, Mile end Old Town, on view of the body of Thomas Herrington, aged 12. —The mother rid that about five weeks ago she removed from St. George's-in-the-Hest, where deceased had been at tended by Mr. Watt, medical officer of the parish, for scarlet fever and hoofing cough. He recovered from the former. After she came to reside in Thomas -street, she applied to Mr. Watt, who directed her to go to the medical officer of the union she was residing in. She did not do so, so de ceased got better, till Saturday last, when she became alarmed at his appearance. She obtained on that morning an order from the relieving overseer for the attend ance of the surgeon of the union, Mr. Howlett. At eleven o'clock she sew his assistant, and acquainted him with the urgency of the case. As no one came she went again at five o'clock, when the assistant gave her some medicine, and directed her to come again at nine o'clock. She administered the medicine, and about meta o'clock her child died.—Several of the jury observed that there appeared to be some neglect, ewe they were of opinion that the inquiry ought to be adjourned.—The Coroner remarked that it was very possible that there was no intentional neglect, and that Mr. Hewlett was fully engaged in his medical duties.—The Foreman slid had there been • sufficient number of medical offices*, and properly remunerated, the deceased might have received assistance. He thought that they might embody in their verdict that the opinion of the jury was to that effect. —Verdict, "That the deceased died a natural death, and the jury are of opinion that a liberal compensation should be afforded to a competent number of medical officers, whose duties are to attend to the poor." MEETING AT THE ROYAL BANK, LIVER- POOL. On Saturday last the adjourned meeting of pro prietors was held at the Royal Bank, Liverpool, to receive the report of the committee which had been appointed to investigate the affairs of the bank.—On the motion of Mr. Samuel Holme reporters were admitted.—Mr. Josiss Booker occupied the chair, and in opening the proceedings, preliminary to reading the report, stated that the o'ticc• for which they bad met was to decide whether the bank should be resusci tated, or whether all the accounts should he closed at once, The delay which had resulted from the postponement of this very momentous question from last Saturday had enabled the committee to devote for a whole week their undivided attention to the aff.tirs of the bank, and that their rxertions had been in some measure beneficial was evident in the re port which they would then present.—The following report was then read : . . . . The first step taken by the committee was to reexamine the 0CC0111144 of the bank, and they hare the satisfaction of stating that after the necessary adjustment, transfer of debts and credit, the amount of liability will be considerably reduced. Your coomuttee have also the gratification of stating that the amount of early anal. able assets bad been mach underated in the former repast It will be seen that in the coarse thus taken, the Ma. mince have done nothing but what would be availatie Or any future proceedings. They are alike, however, ty Imprewed with the importance of re.openiog the honk ; and. by the conclusion before stated, a deputation of your committee pro ceeded to London with a view of ascertaining whether they could make any arrangement for that purpose. The deputation, being much restricted for time, were unable to bring the 'natter in quntioa, they wished, under consideration in a quarter where they bad ream to believe that their proposition4titz t te m favourably mite, Pained; lad , with the approbation of the the committee will Unman diately follow up that which lox been left incomplete. Your com mittee are now belly engaged in a revisal of the deed of settlement of the bank, with the object of placing the control and governments( the astablidiment on • footing of security to the proprietor., a men sure of great importance in any project for revivinc the tank. la conclusion, your committee recommend that • further attempt be made to revive the bank ; and, with this object, that power be taken to create 4,000 shares of 1007. each, the subenber to have preference to llw extent of 7 per cent. per annum, to take liability only on transactions of the tank from the date of renpromg, and subject to the revision of the deed of settlement. as recommended, such shares to be first offered to the present shareholders, and to be transferable as roan as paid up. Payment to be made on the 20th of January, and to s hear interest from the day of pm-nicht. —Jonas Boost., Chairman. Liverpool, oth Nor., 1447. The CHAIRMAN, in explanation, said that those gen tlemen who put down their names for preference shares would supersede the call, and that the money already paid woul.l go so • moiety in payment of the preference shares. The bonus shares had been cancelled, and the money paid for bonus would be carried to the credit of those taking preference on account of payment. If the preference shares were declined, then the call would have to be paid. Gentlemen might take their choice. Mr. Coo re it Suppose • person chose to take preference share*, but who had already paid up the bonus of 50/.—The CHAIR/4111N That would go in part of the call. The CHAIRMAN, after replying to several other questions, went on to say that the report had been most carefully drawn up, and, after the most mature consideration, the con clusion to which he had come Wia that, under exi,tins cir cumstances, the recommendation made was the very best to promote their interests. (Cheers.) He was cure that that report would recommend itself to every one of the intelligent proprietors present, and he could not refrain on the present occasion from expo cuing the gratification which the com mittee had experienced at the dignified forbearance mani fested at the meeting last week. He trusted that a similar tone would pervade the adjourned meeting, for he was certain that nothing would more tend to enable the committee to carry out the intentions of the great body of the constituency, and by restoring the bank to its former position, to sustain the high character of the merchants of Liverpool. (Cheers.) If there should be any person then present so far alarmed as to be ready to sacrifice his property to get rid of his liability, he would "I to that person, " Cease your alarm—struggle with your diffi culties like a man, and do not turn your back on them like • coward." (Applause.) It was true that they could boast of one of the wealthiest proprietaries in her Majesty's domi nions; but it was also undoubted that amongst them there were many individuals whose property would be very seri ously injured should a winding up of the concerns of the bank be inevitable. Ile would speak out, however—they had no cause whatever to be alarmed. (Cheers.) Walt fresh tackle and good management, with the blessing of Providence, the Royal Bank would weather the storm, and cast her anchor in a harbour of safety. There were two courses before them, and it was for them to decide which they would adopt; one is by restoration—which could only be secured by their united efforts—and the other was by liquidation. If they determined upon the latter, let them take a oompreheusive view of their interests, and lot a fixed period be named. (Hear, hear.) Mr. S. Hotaie had had the honour, at the preceding meeting, of moving that there be a postponement of the I 1: I