The Express. — London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

e•-ta."'" -------- ..isso . d t b . i. to is the pomading desire of all parties in . ' wake,,, m id he repudiated the statement that the . people foe the opinion o ouse m untrue in itself, 11/4 _4 1 .*: . able to the peopl e cad to the house. (Hear, • ese member for Kmareaborough, in his two " bool ,W l3 b boa appie .. Ilan , fano' tidy raged against the govenerneet, and the house, and against the hon. member for Dorset road Whist the eight hon. member for Tamworth, and V i. everybody , as being disregardful of the poor, he, ' being their only true and genuine representative. did he represent of the p oor ? Their intellect? Car !!!? Thetre feehogs ? No. As • body they the bonoarahle member —as a body, they were iag reedy to have a distinction made between the end the dishonest poor. The workhouse test might so b a l erectioe, but let the hon. gentleman propose a No.tei.eg could be so detrimental to the character of o b ieglish peoole as their adoption of the wretched philo zarsVbe hon. member for Knarethorongh. The ken. d member, in conclusion, expreseed 'Me hope that memearaneent, in remodelling the l'oor-law Commission, g eali sot re. ippoint men whose went of steadfastness of had teeth . manifested itself, but would select gen =lien . should be in every way above suspicion. Ne. RANK ES said it was • pity the hun. and learned NOW for BAlli, if he held the hon. nesgober for Kneen- Well iii such Acorn, should tali.. , so much time in as- Matz. 1 he real VlM** Vetoes the bowie was the present comadessioners should be reappointed. Ig i nieh.randi ,g the enlivened ill opinion into which these ✓a egas-e, h el talks, the utter want of confidence in them l athe part of the country, the government, • which affected se s i poistherity of vicars, seemed disposed to continue their elites to then, o ith all the accession of dignity conferred a rs these Mike?, ine hiding seats in that house, a pried:etre, raw, naively commeible with those constitutional prim. 41111,11 a which the noble lard oppos.te was, in theory, so . • tampion: (Hear, hear) The grand impress of r igg e g ia gaverament ap p eared to be the creation of new . . Eetef now and, then there was an immenae . • l=b—a one patriotic prelude—l elbowed by same ' mail giving heaps of patronage to her Majesty's g aaasers, aid no profit to her Majesty's au jecta ; , sl ogees which he could otely suppose that the • si biske.l opoositc never himself read, or he would never morn toeir in reelection. The noble lord, however, Who y oga ',malady, would .! o well to wirchtho proceedings of jaslmme ece adherent. m ere clos,ly. .131eare Swift, in his Advise t, s Treats, pr .pounded ties rule. e Take care that gultrify ea, in year own deportment, expend the whets of a mmesteres income, for that es what will do him much .---- ab aaeill 'how your ran and respect for his honor." v a Bo the noble lord'a ancridatits, in framing I. stair • er mu deportment*, took care each b e to expend the whole of his master'. sur- Om /sae in e ew commiesioners and officers of all seem Tne introduction of two new placemen upon liaMisisteriei e ,chew a se a nest earruardinary cireum- MGM in a reform-d hou c of ominous. Yet this intros imalisi t, th • h ,age of the new commissioners, or of the amopia - 1, c entnissionere, was the only eelenteal change is the Alen, except, indeed, that the checks wilt& hei ro existed upon their conduct, nominally mg kart, ter.elly were now to be removed altogether. The Puke i of toe bind were excluded fr on that house, and la thought th it they we• e at least at important penomeges es the po r lax eatanaissionera If the latter wcro to have mats in the house, let them make their laws in the house, lad not in their secret council chambers. Let them have AO elhe'ars: the hies circular letter was enact of parliament. (Hear, hoer.) II e wanted to know why they had been made to wait :coil e, Lae a period of the se salon for the pro ps:dna of the sacrament. (H. ar, hear.) He must refuse hi consent to the second reading on conatitutiousl grounds. The bi I c eull ~o no further unless government expressed their intente ese to alter certain p stions of it which affected vital principles. A change of system was necessary, but not tech •e mile* as was now premien d. lie law uo change but a propoeihou to give the moaner ies in Somerset II muse seats in Parliatt•-at. On the grounds he had Sated ho must sup port the .racendenent of the hon. member for Knareshorough. Sir G. GitCY said that the hon. mismb r for K mares borough 1,,d eleeouneed tie poor-tow of 1834 ax one not fit to be on the statute-hook. but he had not stated a single ob jection to the resent bill. The hoe. member for Dorset shire did not object to Its act of 1834, but stated, and truly, that it was merely a mo ken adaptation of the principle laid down by S r M. Hale. 'f he hon. member for Knaresborongte had allege d that iu teeming the act of 1834,the then govern. ment Mostly perverted and effaced the statute of Elisabeth, but if he hod ea 1 the speeches of that time, he would find that any intention to overturn the statute was elisavowed. [The right ben. Larmeet read an extract from a speech of Lord Althoru el. livered in 1634, to the effect that time alterations intended referred to the adeein stratioa of *hetes and not. to the pew eiple.] He hoped that after those opinions of Lord Al harp, n . should bear no more of a design on the part of the promoters of the law of 1434, to deprive the peer of their r ght to relief. The real desigu of tne law was to get rid "f the grins abuse, which had crept into the ad ministraion of po..r relief. (Hear, h ter.) The honour able member had also charged the law of 1931 with having produccel Lamm Table evils, and had stated that before its introduction the people were loyal, peocenhle, and root- nte I. What, had there been no agreculeural ri its, no riek-burnings brier,: that time? (Hear, near., No wages down to six or seven shillings a week? Why, there wee: at this moment persons suffering 'andel a just sentence of transpiration for off.nce s committed before tho low of 1834. (Hear, hear.) The hoe. member had been accused of ignorance in the course of the debate, and eatainly 'lsm his a, o ch it would seem that his reeding on the subject matter had been confined to publications of but small authority. He had enumerate d the enlargement of the gook, lout the greater ta queney of gaol deliveries ies as con-equenceo of the amended poor-tew, forgetting the improremeets which both those measures h .d created In both the h-alth and morals of the people. He (Sir O. Grey) had th night that no one would haves been hardy enough to ei,oute that enormens abuses existed at the time of the chmege in the la., or to deny that the ob eel of that law wile the-ir n.formation. He would now shortly advert to the ebjectio le of the hon. mensh r for Donstshire. That hon. mother remitted th et central control was necessary, bat had not Boomed 'PIC house of what de 'creation of con trol he would have approved. In bringing in the bill, he (Sir G. Grey) had stated that all the reasons which had led to the fist estahliehtne ret of central control exieeted in fall force at to e ore,. nt time. The hoe. member aomiteed that ; bat he would give to the :pentane in whom this control was vested no pow r to in eke the laws, lie would ink the hon. member hew hi, principle was to be carried out ? If all the rules of the root law c emmisionera we re to be made by art of parl ament, hoar a odd he adept them to the ever-varying circumst mac, of the poor? (Hear, hear.) He thought there woe tenet, hew tit in gi,ing to the control authorities powers reabling them to ear) the workiug of the law accord ing to eireemstene a. The hon. member w old only give to the enmnissiemera power to propose laws to parliament. He would ink the hors, member whether every suspension o out-door Belief was to be the subjeit at a bill, with a minister of the crn en proposing it to pal ham , or. (Hear, hear.) The bon menther hoo also objected to the amount of patronage which the bill would throw into the hands of the government. This bi'd did not create any now =gee It provided for twelve assistant nemonssioners of nine ; but the chief otfice-e were only changed in same, net increased in number. While complaining of go vents/en, pate,. sat, the hon. member had also alluded to the Sanitary Bill, and seemed to wish that see should go on with disiseee epreading au -I mertalitity increasing, rather than that a hill should pas , leaving one or two places at the disposal of woven:meet. The hon. member's objections to the Pee or Bill were of a similar description. The hon. member also ohj tied to the ince using number of placemen in parliamect He should recollect that lot .ly four or five places hal been aboliehel which were usually held by members of perlitan nt. One herd of the Admiralty had been 'truck off, and the Lieut.-Gmeral of the Ordnance ,• beside* which. there were the Treasurer of the Navy _and the Judge of ace Admiralty. In feet, he could hardly understand why the boo. member objected to the present bill at aIL He achniitt d that the re must he central control, and that the reormentatiee of that central control should Lave a gear in that house. The points of differ once between him end the government were so small, a.. d between hien and the hem. member for Kaartshorough, that be (Sir 0. Grey) wondered why the hon. meer.her did not support the bill. (Hear, hear.) Ile had stated, on a former occasion, the reasons or the government for pr..posiog the change. They felt that the l'oor-law Commewloners had had comparatively few opportunities of "certain lag the . opinions of the people. At the time of their appoieltment it was held that they shield keep completely al of, but experience had pre teed that that mune was attended with inconverdencs. It was felt that it would he to al.ll to hose one member of the commission in the house a, noose r changes, as no man could be ea well vin dicated by another as he c mid vi dicate hinsaelf. Oa such occasi ~ both for vieinieotion and em lan etion, a re spoceileh repose native was eanch better than a member of the et. , Wlt not co:them:eel with the department. He thought the Poor Law Commissioners had suffered much and mot.: u..jostiy in pablie opinion, in c ins-queues of no one of their own hody twine in parliament to give explana tions as to the working of the law when de manded. As he undentood the only hon. gentleman who had spoleea in opposition to the bill admitted the necessity of come central centred, and of that eontroul booing represented in parliament, and the only point of diffee ewe between him and the government was, that there should tie Lit one pertain connected with the commission is parliament, the secretary instead of the presideet and secretary. Tnis, he apprehended, was ra ther a question to be discussed in committee than upon the ate , 111 renling of the bill. The only other ohjection to be eitpueed of was, that the bill had been brought leeward at so Let, a period of the snidely. Now although that was ratite: all naivereal complaint on the 17th of May, if his hon. friend could look back to the mode in which the last three months bad teen spent, he would find that very little time had been lost in furthering the business of the sesieion. He would ask the hoas gentlemen whether, if the measure had been brought forward at an carlecr period, it would have been possible to give it that c maideratiois which it deserved, and as he was now reminded, his noble friend (Lord J. Russell) within two els) s of the commencement of the session had folly explained to the house the principle upon which the present bill would bo !minded, and surely from that time to the preeent there hai hems ample tine to consider it. Hi fully concurred wi:h the hon. and learned member for Bath, in believing that. noewielletandinie what had been raid by the hon. member 'or Kea, shorough as to the object and in tentions of parli amens i.e e . easing the measure of 1831. there was a d. vire n.l the pert of every member of that house, as well as e.f ee ro member of the government, to legislate in this matter not enle with a due regard to juicier* and 'maitre but vita a sincere sued earnest desire to do that which should be than !I , nelicial to the p or; and it sow his opinion that those ohject, wool a be moot eine:vette accomplished by an adhelent e in all its made feature,* to the act of 1834. (Hear, hear.) Ile called upon the house to give that character of wannest, to the hw white lie held to be mmatiel to its complete success and to the batman of the poor thismselme With regard to the Andover oonmaisise, be would not rein fsrtbu to that subject than to say that on looking at the report of that committee be found sot one word of objet• ion to the general prineiglo of the Poor-law Amendment Act. Is 030elasion he embed wpm the house to gin the bill a snood reedier._ _ _ - Cot EIBTRORP said, It the hen. member for Kamm borough be determined to take the acmes of the house against t►e second reading he should support. hint. On the Emotion of Mr. CHRISTIE, the debate was then adjourned until to•morrow (this day). Mr. WARLEY suggested that the Loan Discount Bill should he taken to-morrow, and the debate on the poor law adjourned till Thursday or Friday, especially as the country had been taken somewhat by surprise in regard to the latter Wu. Lord J. RUSSELL said that though it was desirable that the Loan Discount Bill should pass before the holidays, yet as that measure was not opposed, and the object being merely to continue the debate on the currency questi m, and as the hen. member for Knereiborourth had moved an amendment against the preamble of the l'oor-law Bill, he thought it better, provided hon. gentlemen who hod motions fur te morrow would give it precedence, that that question should be first decided. He could not admit that the public had been taken by surprise in respect to this mevaure, for he had explained fully what the general nature of the hill would be in January last, and he i.id not think what had taken place that evening would add much to the information they previously had. (Hear, and a laugh). ' The adjourned debate on the Loan Discount Bill was then fixed for Thursday next. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, Et; (SCOTLAND) On the order for the committee of this bill being read for the purpose of postponement, Mr. IL DRUMMOND inquired when the house might expect the discussion upon the bill would come on. The LORD ADVOCATE would give the earliest infor mation to the hnn. member as to the time. Mr. F. MAULE considered that such opposition was not founded on fair or just grounds. The existing system of registration won most imperfect. Mr. FORBES also spoke in opposition to the bill, and Anted that the feeling against it was universal in Scotland. The gallery was cleared fur a division, but none took plat*. After a few words from Mr. C. BRUCZ, Lord J. RUSSELL mid that the objection which bad been made to the bill might be a valid one, and he should like a discussion to be taken mit. The Irish Poor-law Bill would probably return to this house by the 31st May, when the discussion on the lords' amendments would be taken, and he would then take the discussion on that bill tither on that cloy or the following Monday. Mr. F. MACKENZIE then withdrew his amendment. The bill then passed through committee. DRAINAGE OF LANDS (SCOTLAND). The committee on this bill was postponed till Friday. SEDUCTION AND PROSTITUTION BILL. On the motion for the first reading of this bill, Mr. C. BERKELEY objected to proceeding with the bill at that late hour; and he should move that the house do now adjourn. Colonel Si tiTRORP, while giving credit to his hon. friend for his motirn, suggested that he would best obtain his object by inserting a clause in the Health of Towns' . . The house then divided—For the motion 7 Against it Mr. T. DUNCO ABE then snored that the debate be ad journed. The house divided—For the motion Against it 5B-51 Colonel S(BTItORP thought that the bill would better be placed in the hands of the government. He then moved that it he read a first time this day six months. Mr. NEWDEOATE thqught the best way to test the principle of the bill would be to allow it to go into com mittee. Sir G. GREY hoped the house would consent to this stage of this bill, which did net involve even the principle of the Mr. C. BERKELEY agreed that this subject, if it was to be legislated on, should be taken up by the government. At this hour of the night the discussion ought not t) he taken. and ho should, therefore, more that this house do now adjourn. Mr. FORBES thought the bill ought to be allowed to pass the first resiliog. The course adopted by the hon. gentleman who bad just spoken was a most unusual one. The house again divided—For toe adjournment 6 Against it ... 61-4.5 Mr. SPOONER then consented to postpone the further consideration of the kill till Friday next. LOAN SOCIETIES. On the motionOTgh 7 li:BoM7tllY ILLE, leave was given to bring in the following bills;—Bill to, continue an ' act to amend the laws relating to loan smiths ; bill to con tinue the exemption of inhabitants of parishes, townships, and villages, (rum liability to be rated as such in respect of stock ia trade, or other property, to the relief of the poor ; bill to continue the copyright commission ; bill to continue certain turnpike acts; bill to continue an act for authorising the application of highway rates to turtpike roads. The house adjourned at a quarter to two. ghe eraret*S. t4AILB. The mails for Britt 41 North America, Bermuda, and the Celled States, will he mode up on the evening of the 18th May. Tbo °welting mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Grew*, the [Wan Wends, tweet, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilona -Kong. and China, efts Smatnampten, Wu be mule up on the morning of the 20th May. The oreriand closed motto, tie Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt. Aden, Ceylon. India, Meng Kong, Ac., will he made up on the Mang of the Sith May. be itudls Me 1 igo, uporto, LLYbon. Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar • ill be mode an en the morning of the nth May. The 1111.1 a. for New South Wales, Van Dlemen's lend, and New Eettlend will be made up on the evening of the Slat May. The West India ovals, excluding those for Mexico, Molders; and be tiaranuah, will he tootle up en the morningathe and June. The mails for the Brarila, the Kiser Plata, Monte Volee, t enemy bum, ttshla, Ma tetra, and Buenos Ayres, will be made op on the miming of the 4th June. 111011 when AT wrpor.litutwL Tin Dor —Morninir, 24 rale, pest 4; Afternoon. 41 mist. port 4. ro.lloasoir —Morning, 2 oda. poet 5 ; Afternoon, 21 ale. pat 5. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 18. M. Gtimor has narrowly escaped overthrow from the resentful feelings which his cavalier treatment of his colleagues, a' d especially of M. LACAVE-LAPLAGNE, excited in the Chamber, and especially in the ranks of the conservatives. Lour.-Pimaree, however, inter fered to soften the resentments of M. Lsesvk and the conservatives, and, their fury being mollified, the expected crisis ended in smoke. There is nothing more strange than the change which has been wrought in M. GUIZOT'S nature by his long tenure of office, and by recent events. Always austere in demeanour and unpopular in man ner, his conduct, at least, was marked by motion, and his policy was that of conciliation. To overcome by firmness, suavity, and unruffled temper the manta slly excited passions of French and English ; to corn bat conservative desires at home, and check democratic ones—in short, to act the policeman in foreign and domestic affairs, was the apparently humble, but, in such a country as France, the highly great and useful duty of M. GUIZOT. fortunate for him and for his memory would it have been, had he closed his career a year since with the full attainment of all that ho proposed. But un happily, the King, in pursuit of family ambition, impelled M. 0 two r to the perpetration of the Spanish marriages, to the crime of forcing the Queen to espouse a person, whose physical and moral nullity was notorious, and of thus condemning that princess, by the paternal right which Louts PHILIPPE claimed over her to a life of domestic misery or of open scandaL This, too, was achieved and accompanied by . such a mass of falsehood and treachery, the having gone ' through which, has altogether altered M. GUIZOT'S character and even his demcanour.• Instead of beiwg cautious in conduct, and measured in language, M. GUIZOT his become precipitate, pas sionate, and rude. He seems pursued by the ghost of that Anglo-French alliance, which he spent so many years in cherishing, yet consented to murder at last; the memory of the dead frights him from all self ion ; so that, in word and act, it seems no 1 1 I Fon s9 g e er eB M.Onizerr that speaks, but the" Young France" whom he had put down. Although France. beyond question, was the provoking party in the Spanish dif ferences, M. GUIZOT takes the just and natural resent ment of England to be wanton defiance ; and, instead l ' of endeavoiwing to allay it, helmets it with unreason- 1 ing and inconsiderate fury. His language with respect to Spain and Greece was intemperate and menacing. This habit of thinking and acting in matters of foreign policy, unfortunately for M. GUIZOT, be came communicated to his thoughts end actions in domestic policy, and he began to treat his colleagues and his brother deputies, as he was treating Lord PALMERSTON and Queen PtABELLA. Finally, he has kicked one of the oldest ministers, M. LacevE-Lastedss, out of the cabinet, with as little 1 ceremony, as he forced I.+ABELLA by mena'es to mairy j a nincompoop. This has brought upon M. GUIZOT a I severe lissom), and will teach him the neoessity of greater circumspection in domestic management. His foreign policy is at the same time likely to lead to as serious embarrassments, and to be attended with more impressive than agreeable lessons. Our readers are, perhaps, not aware what is the result of the grand act of M. Guizofa; policy—the saw nage of the Queen of Sr '. Six month have f elapsed sine the precipit , at marriage by ied Count Bitt.S , ON. The reset mand nickel/aid to the Court of Rome by tint Q ueen f or th e l ' nulli fi catioo of the marriage l ' The demand may not mei have been official. ~... THE But the POPE 6111 been applied to, and we regret to say that his Holiness, instead of being able to con tent for the right of an outraged and injured female, and to follow dictates of justice, teals it Impolitic and impossible in his position to thwart tee edited the wishes of the court of France. It has been a part of M. °vizor's, or rather of Louis Pniuree's, craftily concerted policy to get possession of the Roman osert, at the same time that they confiscated the Spanish throne. And IStEELLA has no more hope of au nn partial judgment from a pontiff in the interests of France, than HE•RY VIII. bad from a pontiff who was at the mercy of the House of Austria. Monarchs, howev. i, may dispense with papal sanc tion in the nineteenth as well as in the sixteenth cen tury. And difficult as it may be for the Spanish court to resist the dictation of the French King, who will persist in rendering permanent the iufamous match which he ace omplished, Queen ISABELLA will no doubt try it. This is the secret of Louts PHILIPPE'S anxiety, this the object of M. Guizor's menace from the French tribune,—that if anything happened in Spain inimical to French interests, ho wculd not shrink from interkring and dictating. This is the cause of the irritation against England so manifest in French ministerial speeches and in French policy, as if it was England's couesi I or interference that ren dered ISABELLA di.c4ntented with her husband, or anxious to break those odious links. Far from being meddling or urgent in such matter, the English cabi net would gladly leave things as they are, rather than create new s noses of centention. !tut it is Fr each policy and the French court which has itself sown the seeds of allthe scandal, and all these internal dissen sions; the profanation of holy rites and hole purposes perpetuated by Loris PHILIPPE, is, of its. bearing these fruits. The sacrifice of the domestic happiness. and probably of the domestic virtues of a royal orphan, by her relative acd seltealled protector, has already produced, and is exposing to the eyes of Europe the tenuity of Bourbon, with circumstances of such disgrace, as, however enticing to an Athenian audience, till an European public of the present day with disgust. And we need not record, that the tragedy of Madrid has already raised through the world an universal cry of execration against the King of the FRENCH and his ministers. But all the horrors have not yet come. The future throne of the MONTPENSIERS, based on treachery and infamy and the most disgusting immorality, has yet to be cemented by the blood of civil strife. • That throne, like the altar of Juggernaut, can only be reared amidst a mass of sacrifice and crime, amidst discord, of which we may not see the end, and of bloodshed, in which the House of BOVILBON will be steeped to the lips, if not smothered altogether. LOUP4 PHILI PPE cannot spare M. GUIZOT from this task. He commenced, and must go on with it. It is but fair and just that the heroes who opined the tragedy should play their parts meetly till the close. WE cannot too strongly impress on the liberal party in every constituency the importance of at once selecting candidates for the forthcoming general election. Even should it be postponed until after harvest, or delayed until the pres-nt parliament shall expire by effiuxion of time, the importance of early arrangements for the occurrence, come when it may, is very great; for Thom first in the field have always an advantage over their tardier competitors; but it the elections are to take place before harvest, too much delay has already taken place in making preparations. We, therefore, urge our friends everywhere to imme diate exertions the sooner liberal &tidichates are fixed on, the better the chances of success; procrastination only encourages the hopes of oar opponents. In the city of London, fur instance, Alterman JOHNSON has been permitted to announce him,elf as an old tory before any official intim ution of candi dates to co-operate with Lord Join ItutisELL and Mr. PArrisoy. In Liverpool, too, Mr. CARDWELL is spoken of, but not a whisper has been heard of two liberals to re place Lord SANDuN and Sir HOWAItD DOCOLAS though there is every reason to believe, that were Lord PatamasTox and some other good name an nounced, Mr. CARDWELt. and Sir 110wARD DoUGLas would leave the certainty of defeat to Lord SANDON elan°. . _ _ Leeds has, up to the time we write, been left in a similar position: Mr. WILLIAM Beceerr, peruonally popular, is strengthened by every hour's delay iu Naming another liberal; but Leeds is unfortunately distracted by the mischievous dissenting prejudices fomented by Mr. BAINES. Wiser Manchester has taken time by the forelcck, and having secured Mr. BRIGHT, liberalism there wilt in all probability enjoy freedom from any opposition : a result that demonstrates the advantages of tally preparations. But what arrangements have the electors of the city of Durham made for a successor to Mr. Limey ? , Are they going to wait until a LONDONDERRY candi date takes the field ? In Mr. GRANGER they have an excellent member ; and as easily as they a few years ago returned Mr. BRIGIIT, can they now give Mr. GRANGER another congenial colleague if they will only look about them in time. A week's successful canvass for two liberals would nip in the bud the nascent hopes of Holderness-house. Cannot then the City electors imitate the excellent example they have before their eyes in the northern division of the county, where two liberal candidates—Colonel Rex/mere and Mr. SHAPTO—are already engaged in a canvass so successful, that the threatened invasion of Lord SEATIAM seems likely to be postponed, and Mr. LID DELL dismissed to the quiet rep mu of Edington. Will Sunderland, the creation of the Reform Bill, nentraliae its voice is the House of Commons by dividing, without a struggle, its representation be tween Mr. BARCLAY and Mr. HuDsoN, when it really appears not ashkely that the very appearacce of a resolute opposition would send Mr. HuDsoN to the suffrages of the more plastic electors of the city of York; or, perhaps, induce him to appeal in person to Nlaldon, which it is now attempted to convert into an Eastern Counties rotten borough ? The Shields—North and South—at the mouth of the Tyne, are, we believe, better provided for; so also is Gateshead (which hitherto has never failed to be ready for events), we presume ; butfrom the important town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne—the metropolis of the northern counties—no sounds of preparation to give Mr. ORD a colleague worthy of his opinions and ser vices hare yet reached n••, though there cannot be a person whose removal from parliament is more de sirable than Mr. Iforiosos HINDS. False to every party, true only to hims lf, Mr. HINDE's parliamentary career has been one long display of selfishness. The getting rid of each a man is a piece of civic purification that Newcastle owes to all parties in the state. Mr. IVATSON, the present member for Kinsale, who is well known and highly esteemed at Newcastle as a leader of the Nor thern Circuit, and who, during the expiring parlia ment, has distinguished himself greatly in the c Lures of religious liberty and of law reform, has been men tioned as a fit candidate, and a fitter candidate, in our opinion, the liberal majority of the constituency of Newcastle could not have. But to secure so gaud a candidate there ought to be no delay. Rising pablie men, like Mr. WATSON, are soon provided for. The want of preparation that we have noticed in travelling thus far north, exists elsewhere; and, with a view to its removal, we shall roam over other districts. The Paris journals and correspondence of Sunday are altogether destitute of intdligence of interest. The King and royal family had left the Tuileries for Neuilly for the summer season. Advices bad been received in Paris of the arrival of the Infante Don Henrique, with his newly married wife, the sister of Count Castellan, at Marseilles, travelling under the title of the Duke and Duchess of Seville. They were married at Rome on the let. The Augzbury Gazette and the Frankfort papers say that the Ruinieui minister at Constantinople has! been instrected to act energetically, in accordance ' with the English minister, in suctaiuing the cla:ma of the Porte in the existing diffcrente with the Court of Athens. The Madrid journals of the 11th have been received. The Qaeen and court continued at Araujutz. The King-consort had left Madrid for the Pardo. A miuisterial crisis continued to be spoken of. A cabinet combinin; MM. Oluaaga, Serrano, and Sala manca wea mentioned. ROME. MAT 8. On Wedoeaday, the sth, being the feast of St. Pius, whose beet achievement (his bringing shout the battle of 14panto) mice rescued the south of Europe, great doings were planned to honour the name in the per- EXPUSS, TUESDAY EVENitte, MAY 18, 1847. • son of its prang Ileassesx, who bids fair to effect a similar European resew Hearing of these projects (for strict ordep are issued to inform him of erery matter) our monarch at once intimated his wish that the waste of blue lights and Roman candles should be superseded by a general distribution of bread. To wish is to be obeyed. Sixty gentlemen met imme diately at the Dona palsoe, organised themselves for a combined effort among the affluent, and, though Dante has left on record : Quanta • duro calk, 11 scenario e nib* per sling perk. *soh member cheerfully climbed the stairs of the palaces allotted him in quest of donations. Seven tbnesand dollars were quickly forthcoming, and sixty thousand bread tickets put in circulation. The rem nant is kept to establish an infant school. Measures are in progress to reduce the price of salt to one-third of its present cost. The great salt seller, Teflon* must, of course, be compensated for his monopoly. The poor have long felt the hardship of being taxed for this article ; of course the cattle have never aspired to such a luxury. On the 29th of April, Prince Livio Odeschalchi paid down the ran som of the duchy of Bracciano, which had been in pawn since 1803, and reassumed the title which had gone into trade for over forty years. Do von recol lect Sterne's description of the French nobleman re suming his swoed on his return from commerce in the Antilles ? Lord Ward, whose eccentricities are accompanied I by many graceful acts, has just come out in the cha racter of a cognoscente, and paid over to the Prince of Canino 7,0001. for four pictures of acknowledged merit. One is by . Fra Angelico, and represents the " Last Judgment ; soother is a sketch from the hand of Rembrandt, " St. Mtn Preaching in the Wilder- i now." I have not seen the others. Prince Massimo, our Post-master, is furious at some comments which from year paper have found their way into the illlgemeine Zeitung, and other organs on the continent, describing him as a " slow coach." His best course would be to accelerate the means of public conveyance, and thus shame the rogues. His sensitiveness was aroused in rather a comical manner by an English lady this season, who, knowing the an tiquity of his family (traceable as you know the gene massirna is to the earliest times of the republic), thought she was paying a delicate compliment by telling him that she had been that morning to see his " CLOACA !" The annual artistic festival of the " Gervera," occur ring on the lat of May, was this year quite a failure. The cause of this is attributable to the matter having fallen into German management; and the utter repul sion of the Roman population to say emanation from Austria, has found vent in this comparatively trivial celebration. The Prussian artists kept aloof, as if to show that all Germans were not inimical to social pro gress. The English scorned the whale affair, and the result was a melancholy but signiffeant tomfcolery. On Thursday night a seizure was made of eighty pounds weight of printed satires against the Pope, entitled " ./a jests delle Spighe in en giardino in Pistoia ;" also another, called " Articolo del snot° 47 copra le cone italiane." These, it appears, were written by the notorious monk DomenienAmbrosiani, and the package containing them was addressed to the Abbate Don G. Tamburmi. Both these gentle men have absconded. The treasonable trash was printed at Viterbo, and the carrier was instructed to drop it at the little pothouse at the Milvian bridge. But that spot, ever since the days of Catiline, has been unlucky for conspiracies; the landlord, Toffa nelli, smelt a rat, and the carrier has been pat into jail until he gives evidence respecting the whole transaction. The first number of a fresh newspaper was issued to-day : it is called La Bilancia, and professes to hold the Wane° even between the Moderates mad the Pro gressive party. It publishes a list of its collaborators, which includes ()Asir and several very distinguished native writers. Clever and graceful is the present specimen. The French government have just a signi ficant measure in the teeth of Aastria. a n ts re d nch vice coartl has been established (and received the Pope's ezeratur) in the frontier town of Ferrara of course, to watch every motion of the Kaiser's garrieon. Tkere is more in this step than apparent on the surface. That Pius IX. is a gnat and good man is pretty well known by this time of den bat the man of human ..ympathies, the man of feeling, ft predominant even above the statesman and the legislator. At the fare well audience of Bishop Wilson, previous to his return to the antipodes (where there are half a-dosen R.C. bishoprics), the Pope said, presenting him with • Jplendid golden chalice, " Be kind, my son, to all your flock at Hobart Town, bat be kindest to the rondenincd!" FRANCE.—PARIS, MAY 16.—The price of bread in Paris has been again augmented. Bread uf first quality has been fly d at 60e. the kilo., and that of the second qu tlity at 52c. The state of the crops in France is promising : a letter from Marotillea, of the 10th inst., says, that in the Upper Lingle doe, the harvest promises to be an unusually good one. The etops have also a promiaing app earanc e in Lower Languedoc, and in Provence. FOOD BloTs.—Quiet has been entirely restored at 1.41 e, but risings are enntboting to take place ; tho small towns of %Vsoemme and Eiuermea were is a state of ex citement, and severs! bakers' shops bad been attacked. In Finisterre, it was feared that troubles would oxur. At Qaimper, on the Bth MO., it wag only owing to the presence and prudence of the authorities, that a riot was prevented. lit the evening, groups ef people resembled together shout ing in the streets; they maltreated the chief police magis trate so much that his life is in danger. GERMANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLTN, MAY 14. The chamfer of the nobles wax engaged on the 10th instant with the further discussion of the law for excluding dime potable characters trom the diet : only part of the debate t. published in the official journal of this day. In the chamber of the three represeutative estates the debate on the moion arne..dment of the standing orders was re sumed, but not brought to a close. The following volun teered declaration of the cernmissary of the diet appears to deserve the attention of Sir James Graham:—" I am in formed from en important provincial town, that a report has In en dicseminatal there to the effect that the letters of one of its deputies have been opened at the Post.oklee. I take this opportunity to declare, in order to tranquillise the minds of the attembled deputies, and of the whole Prussian nation, that the government views with abhorrence such unworthy conduct. Either the report meet rest upon calumny, or on the dishonesty of tome subordiruee officer of the post-office. Should such an be brought and substantiated against any employe, his diemiteal is certain." FRANKFOT.T. MAY 13.—The legislative body have decided that in future their sittings are to be public, in such gains, that as many . tickets are to be distributed as there am plena in the galle ries, without any distinction to the chows of society. Women are excluded from being present. 1311F;LAU, MAY 6.—A letter from Bres . ka of the above dato say s: "Our situation is a most deporalde one, and the mune is anything but promising. Incendiary fires, houses broken into at night. and highway robberies are the current ' topics of the dny. Fear has, in some eases, no small share in the•lnescs experienced. Thus, a landed proprietor in easy circumstances, frightened by the alarming accounts for fear of having his store-homes pilled, sold all his grain at dirt prime. Misery has reach. d such an extent in some of the provinces that it is not an anusual occurrence to see troops of starving beings hurrying to any scene of conflagration to devour on the spot the cattle that perish in the-flames. In the fields the potatoes and peas which have heen sown are dug up ; and it makes one shudder to think of what may occur before the next barve,t. The manufacturers are obliged to turn off their hands, and this increases the univer sal misery and danger. The news that one of the principal manufacturers was about to dismiss 1600 workmen created such an alarm that the President of the province deemed it necessary to proceed to the spot to concert any measure requisite. POTA DAM, MAY 11.—The Grand Prince Constan tine of Russia is at present here as the guest of his Majesty. Tn. Queen is still indisposed, and wu unable to appear at the gr at dint er given to day in honone of the rtyal stranger ; but she received him before dkntr in her own suite of apartments. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAT 9. —The Austrian government has addressed a demand to this different states ca the Oerman confederation, and to the administrations of the Prince of Tone and Oasis, for a coaference on postal reform. This conference is to take place at Dresden in the course of the summer. Re,oiutione ►re to be taken at it, tending to facilitate correspondence by the reduction of the postage ; the reduction is to be obtained by the abolition of the transit charges, and in order to COMIMASIIIO for this, a sum is to be paid annually by the respective govt roments. . . . -. . WURTEMBERO.—The Swabia n Mreotry states, Ott the subject of the reform in the press of Germany, that propositions of Austria and of Pripsia, concerning these reforms, are said to rest on the following boo s :—The per sist laws on the press are to he done away with, bat each government is to have it in its choice to preserve or adopt the repressive system. In the first case, eetiend rules are to he established, to be adoptel in the legisteture of the states. Ouarantees and pledgee are required. end the tonceesioasare to be revocable at 'lesson. Under no pretext whatever easy the journal of* state attack moth r state, and the ceri small's 1. to rennin in force for all articles concerning ex sori tenni poi' . A certain systrm is to be owed upon. Jeri. • s era reit kit, being preferred to it. NJtwithstaud, ing t ed form pt these propositions, they are likely to th wrest opposition ; but the opposition will be fa a onty. Happily, many constitutional states will exer. sin at least the themselves a more extenrive liberty of the pre.. 0' COLONIAL. THE AUSTRALIAN GROUP. NEW SOUTH WALES.—Our dates from Sydney are to the sth of February. The governor was at Newca tie (Bunter's River), on a tour of inspection, on the 2nd of that month. Ilis intended progress is detailed in the journals ; it would carry him to Musswell Brook by the 12th, touching at every intermediate point of any consequence. Dinners and addressee were eve ry where preparing. The Bank of New South Wales has a paid-up capital of 104,2721. 10s. ; the rate of the last dividend declared was 10 per cent. ; the amount, 6 2131.125. 6d.; •••rid the reserved pro- fits after declaring it, 8,3321 12.. 511. The Bank'. liatsilities are: notes in circulation, 27,5731. ; deposiu, 241,7871.4..9c l; in all, 272,2951. 42.9 d. The atm to are: bullion and coin, 146,9771. Bs. 7d. ; debts due to the hank on bills, &c., 239,4771. 14s. 10d. ; in all, 403,4351. 3s, 6.1. The Union Bank of Australia has a paid-up capital of 820,0001. •, the rats of last dividend was 6 per cent.; the amount, 21,6001.; the reserved peofhl, 65,568/. 3s. The Bank's liabilities are : notes in circulation, 65.7711 21. Bd. ; hills in circulation, 6861. Is. 4.1. • balance s due to other bank., 1491. ss. Bd.; deposit., 34,092/. 3n. 3d.; in all, 4.58,698/. Its. ltd. The assets arc: bullion and coin, 267,9871.25. 3a. ; landed property, 22,3401.75, 10J. ; balances due from other hanks, 1,3011. 131. 101. ,• deb.' due to the bank on bill., &c., 317,9621. 70. BJ. ; in all, 649,911. Ills. 7d. Not the least cheering piece of news from this colony is the flourishing condition of the Sydney savings hank. Dr. Leichhard and party were atJimba in Darling Darns on the 6th of Decembor, and were to start next day. There were two stations beyond them, the last 22 miles from Jimba, on the Condamine. Thence till they reached the out settlements of Western Australis, their route would be tar from the haunts of the white man. The party consisted of nine, 7 whites and two blacks. The started with 16 mules, 12 horses, 170 gnat*, 'Arent 100 sheep. and 38 bullocks. VAN DIENIEN'S LAND.—By the last accounts the s x -governor was in a very precarious state of health. The Colonial Times, of Jan. 22, says : Although we deeply lament to state that Sir !antley Wilmot re mains in a veer critical omdition, yet he is, we believe, rather better. This is certainly • very favourable prognoatie, rpooking abundantly for the strength of his constitution; for the individual wbo can sur vive the nbrocking. of fuer doctors may net i!eath at defiance, even although he may suffer under the mental affection unavoidably con. scquant 01400 1114001ited persecution, unrsampkal to the annals of the world. NEW ZEALAND.—We have accounts, rid Syd ney, from Cook's Straits to the 10 hof January. Wegather from the following pa.cage in al. tier, dated Wanganin, 4th of January, that the Governor had left Wellington rather suddenly: '.11 . 1.e.in arrived here from Taranaki on the Mb ult., in expec tation of meeting the Governor. On the 30th, 11.11 S. Racehorse arrived from Wellington with troops, and the gun-boat from Pm lose, which were landed here. ohs 61010.1 on Ora Ist of January for Tara nakt A great deal of anxiety is felt here on account of Use Governor's sudden departure from Wellington, and various specula tions are indulged In so to the more; it is hoped, lumever, that nothing may occur to inter'oe with his present arrangements:a re gards this Dts e. —Spectator, Jan. 9. The Wellington Spectator of 9th January has the follow ing notice relating to Rsngibleata: We are informed that Rangihaestatipah hanwithin the last fewdaym been accidentally burnt down, nod most of the property contained therein, including several Mllgke'S, carte destroyed. lie fol lowers have taken to the beach, and have divithri themselves into small parties, occupying about three miles along the C 03,0, and inter rupting the communication between Manimatu and Wellington. Mr. Cook's pigs were driven hick, and several natives who were bringing their pigs to Wellington have been atoned by them, and forced to return. The most active man in dam proceedings is a chief named le AM. Rangilmesta ia deacribod an taking little interest in them. U 0 appears very miserable, and is almost bent doable. From the same paper we learn that a vessel which had sailed from Otago, on the 31s' Dec., reported that whales were plentiful to the southward, and several American whaler,' were busy fishing in Foyeaux Straits. The follow ing remarkable incident u told of Capt. Bally, of the Forti tude, a Roble t Town whaler Two boats firm the Portimute fastened to a whale, when one 'of them, commanded be Capt. Sally, upset, and two e f the crew were killed. Capt. Bally contnved to aim himself by clingingto the boat, and was found the neat morning by the mare of his morel nearly in sensible. lie had forced his finger into the plug-bole of the boat. and his finger swelling had prevented him from lowing his hold, and thus probably sat ed Ina life. WEST INl)lF,S.—BAllBAnoas.—Advices from this island to the 17th April have been received in Liverpool. The accounts continue login. a highly satisfactory statement of the sugar crops. The stocks were ta ing rapidly shipped off for British and other ports. Of the former, Liverpool is to be the recipient of the largest quantity. The Court. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager had an evening party yesteraay at Marllkurough House. The Queen and 1 Prince Albert, and the royal suite, arrived in three ear -1 riagee, at 9 o'clock. Her Majesty and his Royal Higbee-as were accompanied by H.S.H. the Prince of Leiaingen, and were attended by the Countess of Charlem'nt, Lady in Waiting, Hon. Mines Stanley and Dawsen, Maids of Ho nour in Waiting; Lord Waterpark, Lord in Waiting; Ad. mind Sir B. Codriogton, Groom in Waiting; Lieut.-Cul. the lion. C. B. Phipps, Equerry in Waiting; and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon, eEluerry in Waiting to his Royal Ilighnees,H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent arrived at Mol ly:3h Mos soon after 9 o'clock, attended by Logy A. , Barons do qpeth, and Sir O. Couper. Hit 11. Prince Gorge was also present. A select party of the no bility and gentry bad the honour of meeting the august circle. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Waler, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took an airing yesterilty in an open carriage and four. A deputation from the London and North Western Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Creed, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Twiadale, had an i nterview with the Right Hon. Edward Str utt, yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in Great George street. Baran de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, and Baron de Mon corvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yester day at the Foreign-office. A deputation from the steam shipowners, consisting of Mr. Williams, Mr, Wilson, Mr. Hall, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Bolges, and Mr. Morgan, the secre tary, had an iutervi-w with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yes terday. The deputation was accompanied by Lord Bandon, M.P., Sir IL Done's, M.P , Mr. Pattiaon, M.P., and Mr. Brown, M.P. Mr. G. C. Lewis had an interview wirh the Chancellor ef the Exchequer yesterday at his offici nei , donne in Downing -street. A deputation, consisting of Miner,. Anstruther, Hill, aid R Grahame, had an interview, yester. day, with the Right Hun. E. Strait, at the office of the Comnsisaioners of Railways. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a committee meeting T. sterday. BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. A special general meeting of the shareholders was held yesterday at the L'indon Tavern, to approve or other wise a bill now before parliament, intituled, A hill for amending an act passed in the fourth year of his late Majesty William LV , intitaled, 'an act for granting certain powsn to the British American Laced Company,' and for granting fur ther powers to the said Company." ALSXANDER GILLESPIE, Esq., presided, and in opening the proceeding., stated that when the directors met the pro prietors in March last, at the annual meeting, they had not anticipated a necessity for calling them together again so soon. The causes which had led to that step had been es. plained to the proprietors by a circular. He would, how ever, state that both previous to the meeting, and especially afterwards, the attention of the directors wee particularly directed to the position of the company's affairs, with a view to the prospective working of the company; and it then appeared to them that there were certain matters which it was essential should be cleared up, in order to place the company and the directors in a proper pasitien. They, th retort, took the opinion of onunsel, and communicated with the government on the subject; and the result was, that they were recommended to amity to parliament for the act in question. In their communication with the Colon'a'• office, the directors had received the most prompt attention and ready acquiescence in their views. It was the opinion in that office that they (the company) were only now ob taining those powers which they should have had in the bgrintiing ; and that the principle of paying interest out of the capital of the company was erroneous and should never have been in the charter. 'I he committee had also received great at tention from the bon. members who Introduced the bill into the House of C 'Tarpons ; and as it was requisite that they (the company) should do away with any doubt that might exist with reference to the back interest, he could not con ceive that there could be any duff refute in opinion on that point. The directors, then, considered that in going to par liament, toey should have some further powers, the nature of which they would see when the bill was read ; and with reference to which he would be happy to afford any further iuformation. lie would further rate that all their anticipa tion as to the improved coudition of the company had been fully borne out; and that they looked forward to the steady end continuous progress. of its affairs. The secretary then read the bill, the principal objects of which were, that from the date of the 20ih of March, 1839, any interest on any depneits or oath already or to be alter paid by the shareholders,should not be payable or paid ; and that any claims against the company on account of such non-payment should not be recognised. That the company, with the authority of three-fifths of the shareholders present, either penonally or by proxy, at a court of proprietors specially called per the purpose, iviould tie empowered from time to time to increase or diminish the capital of the com pany. That the company should be empowered by the same authority to declare dividends from time to time, dais regard being observed to the debts and en gagetmeats of the company ; and provided also that such dividend should not be paid out of the capital for the time being of the company. That the company should have authority to subscribe towards and become share holders in any undi rtaking for making, improving, main taining, or working any railway, cartel, road, bridge, mine, or other public works in the several provinces end colonies in North America mentioced in the charter, or their dein n dencies—the establishment or success whereef might appear to the company likely to further its obj eta ; end also to make any loans for that purptic ; and th it for the aid purples it shoold be lawful for the directors to apply sash parts at the assets of the company as m ght be required, provided That . the amount did not exceed of the capital et the company fur the time being.—The I ill having been reed. Mr. bARIT BALDWIYI, M P., begoed to koala It it* ad by which the company was c nistitutvd limited its imams of capital to 300,000& Mr Maentaerr replied that the capital was declared under ' eiewitimat to be that anionic, with power to iocrva e it to • and he believed that th, act of parliaustot con -74110 chant r. • B. BALDIVIN wished also to know the number of pojimis which had been nu:ital.—Mr. Emenorr was nu. ' Olds to unser the question. I B: BALD W I!! Leta pr ceeded to complain thst this' virealers which had been addressed to the proprietors said nothing whatever about the real object of the istettine, which was to clang, the en-ire position wetting of the company; and he asked whether the direr • 3 geld •iel ,e:gt, could come ai y as e beifte r y ti. th m a th en t pre e t g u t ries had re , U g b ren . n ina w nd i l d r a , sul tb h u i a l :f a t t hk . c t u h e l .:x. rise the passing of an act for the measures in question T Ile said for his own part, that any proxies used under such cir. cumstances were illegal, He objected to give the directory p term such as were demanded in the present condition of the company; for he conceived that if they entered kite the formation of a canal, or railway, or other speculation, they would go beyond their depth, and be compelled to return to the sharehniders for money to carry out their views. He concluded by stating that it was his intention to oppee the bill in every stage through the committee of the House of Commons; and that he only regretted that Mr. Mestermen moved its sec .nd rea ing in hie absence, es other wise he wou:d certainly have t ppoe -d It upon that occasion, He did not object to the other provis'oner of the bill, but belies ed them to be a mere precext fur going to parliameut for the additional powers. Mr. BISCIInFT objected to this laver view of the matter be Mg taken, declaring it to be tntally untrue. Mr. treetrwist said hr wou:d iu that case withdme the remark. The CHAIUMAN begged to remind Mr. Baldwin that the direceors did not seek for a v p teen theroakires by the bill s as all suet, powers were to be used at the discretion of the propri. tore After a few worth from Mr. Setneoens, who while agree ing with the main ohjeets et the hill, de pre , teal the seekiog of any powers beyond the possessions of the company, :Ir. S. It. RoBINSON void that he It id been rem. sled to move a resolution in favour of the I, 11, whist he woad do with cousiderable eels oct eye, expressing, ho i ever, bin hope that the directors would re consider that patine of it wlock had already been discuswd, AS he believed that it needed some qualification. After a few os.rrasions from one of the director; in sup port of the till, and some iitjectin.-s from ollni r gentlemen, Mr. BIACHOFF suggewed an add.tiou to the r solution, by which he thought all part i• a would be satisfied. Thc emula tion would then read tes f Rows: That this nweting approreont and sarettons the bill now nad; and tee dinettes are Leceby inithort.cd ant emiewereil to take all races rary steal for carrying the Sri c thrutigb parliament. Bat that the ath claw, and Mae amino-.eat thereon, be amnarkil and altered so as in limit the subscripti , n- to pubic works, sifeetlne the Lines of the company, being either within such knits or immediately tout.gueure tben-re. Mr. Betowrre, hove. r, still thought. it unnecesory that the constitution of the comp my droold he altered in any degree; units sufBcieut reaseu were given for such 3 course. ' The CHAIIINIAN considered that Mr. Baldwin was right in de mending a reeson fur obteining an extension of the powers such as was emu ht; and he (the chairman) would thin inform him that the dirt eters Lai taken tier.' in a railway that they emceed w old tend considerahly to the benefit of the company ; and also with the knee ledge of the otoprie ten tak. , n shares in some woollen fereories, which were butt au the land of the company, ar d would give em ployment to its pope's ion. They were empowered by par 'lament to build a factory or make a railway f•r Ceentselves, but as it was douhtfut whether dray were cvmpstent to take shares in auy such unicttaking, t hey had appaed fur the act. Mr. BALDWIN did net 7:member that he was one of the she, holders who hal approved of the proceedings Le question. Mr. BISCHOFF said the minutes would peeve the fact Aster some discretion, the resolution, with the addition, as given shove, was carried unanimously, no the motion or Mr. Robinson, seconded by Mr. It. Gillespie. Mr. ROBINSON then sun. red that the vault should bo immediately communicated to Mr. Bad* in (who had re tired before the resolution was put t-i the neetine), ac companied with a request that he would withdraw hit oppo ',Won to the bill. A n solution was accorthog:y carried to • the eff ct that the meeting was conviuced that no eseallt;ii difference existed between the views of the directors end . those expressed by Mr. Baldwin, ant earn. sly requesting that gentlennee's aid and aesistauce in carrying the tit • through parliament, it being of greet importance to the • suture welfare of the ceunery.-Thanks were then voted to • the chairman; and the =envie wparatesL WESTMINSTER ELFCTION.—Last night, a meeting of the electors of St. George's " outwerd, " fronds of Cheri,* Lushington, Esq., Yeas held at the Delgrave 'Deere . Enures-street, to hear the political sentiments of that gentle; man. Sir W. Molerwerth, Bao , M.P. in the choir. Mr. Lushington, who was warmly received, entered into rum ra- - position of kis political (sill, which embraced all the libel et and popular measures of the day. The chairman and ser r 4 ether gentlemen having elver"' ed his claims to the suffrage, of the constitu. ncy of Westminster; and reolutiens to reimport him having been arlepttel, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting broke up. AgraRIGIVES PROTECTION SOCIETY.—The 10th anniversary meeting of this society took piece yester day, at Crosby-hall, Bishopegetestreet. Mr. Jehn Gur ney took the chair, and &screed that, although their meeting was net se large as these which frequently took place ith Exeter-hall, he considered that the eperatione of the society were of the highest importance, and well use: Red a more extensive reputation. The report, which was volunlidous g stated that the committee had published several pun phl:ts for the diffusion of the knowledge they have beets enabled to obtain, and have she c. mmeneed the pule:testi , * of a small month'y wrier:Vest e lulled l'Ae Coloaial /stet , ligeneer, or Aborigines' Friend; and went on to pie . sent sketches of the pr. scot state of the Aborigines in tre I British donsininns and other parts of the world. In moving , the adoption of she report, Mr. Burnett stated his convic tion of the importance of the sneasey. Ho cove's' , red to at the English seemed far too forgetful of the impertant fact that, with the acquisition of territory, th y acquire' in creased and heavy reponsihiliti a He could uot believe ' that the iustitution wan understood by the country. or it would be better appreeeted acid more eit•etively supper ed. With the adoption of the retort and other zusehatious of a routine nature the meeting closed. THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.—Tbe annual general meeting of the friends and subscribers of the above Is ciety g was held last evening, at Finsbury Chapel, Moottlells, th,er It gbt lion. Dr. Les' , ington in the chair. The Conde de Montemelin, and several other eminent pelmets were pre sent. Mr. Scobel, the secretary, read the rep re from wW.cte it appeared that the total remote of the society for the veer sure 1,7151. 13e. 6et, red the • xpeeditere 1,4261 4111. 41d. g thereby leaving in the hands et the treasurer a halayee o, 2891. 7s. lit. Sir Guo. Strickland, Dart., M.P. initiea that the report he adopted, ',riot d, and eirculvte d, yhtcs, WAS seconded by the her. Mr. Angus, and ft cried. Defiiils of the operstime of the soe'ety in various parts of 1 hoerceld, were read to the meeting, and several parsecs sp ke in fa vour of the society, after which a acres •.f reselueions wan petted, including ono of thanks to the chairman tor pee Udine, when the proceedings terminated. LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OP YOUNER Peu•Lts.- The anniv; vary fettiril of this si etety took plate yea• relay evenin g, at the Albion Tavern ' Velvet/ate street. Mr. J. G. Sp , les took the chair. It appesied, from the abstract of the report, that the society was toundel in the year 1831, for the purpose of giving proteei n to females under 15 years of age; and, ACC riling to the state ment of the secretary, every exertior bed been made to carry out this benevolent object. The report stated that there were at present upwards of seventy girls under fifteens years of age, fed, clothed„educattd, and fitted Fir respectable servitude, in the. asylum at T. i•enl.arnie The society had also succeeded in suppressing 195 i epee:her houses, and in saving from ruin 403 female children. Dunn; the last few months nearly 50 houses of the deeriptien al luded to had been suppresses& in the perishes of Whitechape Stepney, and Si, George, where poor sellers were most in th habit of visaing. In the course of the evening sulge riptiee were announced amounting to upwards of 3001. The fest: was intermix, dby vocal end instrumental music ; • awe written for the occasion vas so much admired that it wait encored. _ - _ -.—. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These gardens opened ye atcrdey with a number of additional attrac tions, the principal of which is a new picture of the Roe and Castle of Gibraltar: the representation of the skis beingthe medians of introducing the was! plrtechoic dw play. The [object. however, though at a fiat glance appearing to afford ample material both for a p'cture ogees der effect and the night exhibition, is in both respects loin felicitous than, perhaps, any former picture. Noe h any great pains been, apparently, taken to 11.1100600 these difficulties. The painting end roodd!ing. Monk ezaratted with that skill and knowledge of his art ilia we hare newer h card denied to Mr Danion, bat am 1111411111111111111eflasto and it:tromp'e tenets which does not ems- MIS INTlonsbly with his former rff ens. The burnieg of sestet of the ships and ether portions of the " fireworks."' orogurs effects which were well rewierid. For the rest, that pert of the exhibition was somewhat tense, and etrtaiuly not on splendid as on former OCtilliOi dB. The usual fretting of the gardens remain. CALCULATIONS CONCERNING BREAD, CORN, &C.— The following calculations have been sent us by a COE respoodent Supposing the popnbetian of ferret Britain. Whining Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, to be sad the oonsumption of tared to be one pound per wool, 2;000,000 E;r - dimedis 11,751,000 qta to ices p. dap, white, ii~ ms yew), wltsdoe---.-.. sa 1t,t65,73a,00C p. yr. Owe sidt et (31101110 MraTmi l Mall re quire r: rri 27,375,400 iseiset P. M. M. SIEGE OP BRUNSWICK-HOUSE:—A lady, tamed Munden, has recently recovered a judgment age:o4 the Duke of Brunswick, but by reason of the dukes keeping strict watch and ward over every entrance to hiv abode, tke sheriff officers were for some time unable to effect a Oa Saturday evening, however, a' nut serest o'clock, esstil the officer who held the writ of (avow ;ON succeeded he Offeeting an entrance into the n'uke's house by forcing Mesa in at the time the door was opened to admtbe some other preen to en the duke. The officer, however% was almost InsMataneou-ly ejected by the hot of males ans. plord la Ike Sake's merit* (about fi fteen in number, he no, keeping slay ihamlo servants). The o ffi ce r, howeNer, having ewe beta in yosamisa and forcibly tj. cted, was e twitted to a m a a sa k k aasi k an y pni n ibi n nay. Joel as the nova latblisa dies usiaressoniuuels ej ne d, the pl ei o tiff'. anat. wity,Mr. Toweellead, arrand;ead he and the officer, in spites , Web, dukes aineence, lowed open the ball door of Bruce. edsk rase, and tea petwowio e of all the ro•crty it cense ridged, bwitediny Ilea Ai* which wan ,tvot shut to efeeedavo Ilse MOO% Sam tal The duke finding the pules aliondssi, hiereslsa lieseretary to pay the antouot of th levy =SO W the 'seer under protest. Ih* seer tary todrereigns, which be oftred the eft ssrtiwr pow& The officer relived al to receive it, an attorsysed Se raw the nalnev in elocution, and .u.eseded to, eepturlaglll seeeerlans. The r.sult was, the leaving 'even)* Ism ie pimMilem si die Bake'' propeity, on behalf of thee shah The peessitiogs mated a coniniaable sensation i • • • 4.