The Express. — London, England, 1847-06-25 00:00:00

ebewiliami hiraliewall flak *neeli • ' Ol es t ele :=MlZlß rili t it r:g te n; I* _A. a seirbdrust to ra il way tat . On. .17 i i oink ethos tamely lik e each other, and to wo k me's self to their tractive power with all s piky which old gentlemen were in the habit of . . ess eieg gie with the remembered enjoyment of sitting ... „. is s m ...h o ese team, " all life and energy." But 10 7 — s kirtli mach of the force of this contrast is va jig, for those, at least , who have raid the evidence sobs Nntboorne inquest . From it we lear n t h at 1..., have their characters and paces as distinct 0 lidded?' asthma of the fastest team ever turned ot t g NIMION's yard, and that the handling. of aa Mao by the beet whip on the Brighton a , et thetiae.danWrerhianvethqeuietexclioteetm, " I 1.1 ; C is i ll a eto": the g his "I n u u li ntn at asit we ent e° of ilf M eas r: account of engine-driving. Mr. Hes go4. sobs knowing hand. He has been for lb years `ewe should now call the best railway stables. to have o ffi ciated as a sort of engine stud he the Brighton lines. "" My duty is to see eileaskw engines are right when they go out." He emmnined No. 40, and found her sound, wind ifilank sad as tit for her day's work as when she em haled in the foundry. ROBERT PEEL drove "Oa tbe morning. " Has never said that she would sassaisplechasing. She jumped about a little snore im the rest. We have four of STEPHENqON'S engines, " 40, 41, and 42. They all shake about a igit.wtthon the rest, and 40 shook a little more than die War three ! But I did not consider them Vii," Not at all. He looked upon this jumping as adya peculiar pace. "Of course," admits Mr. Heserrn are minutes after, " an engine that jumps is not so igh" as one that does not ; but " not su safe" and e asis are different things. It appears that many s igapdrivers have lately left this liue, and that one isi boa dismissed shortly before the accident for re tail& ride this very No. 40. Bat there is no getting Mr. HESKETH to con f ess trot this " long-backed" breed of engines is " un ea" The coroner puts the question point blank : "Did you ever say . tho engine was unsafe ?" Mr. Haman's reply is indirect but significant : " Why, when the engine jumps, she wants steadying." This arms very much to ROBERT Peet's view of the case. If the driver has nerve and nicety of perception seagh to know to a hair's breadt h how igh ea mese . meat jump to jump off the rails, asst can, into the bargain, shut off the steam st that precise moment, there is no danger. But 'apprising he make a mistake in this very deli cate calculation—eh, then indeed! But llorieer PEEL does not make mistakes of the kind, and would drive No. 40 to-morrow. All drivers, however, are not ROBERT PEELS. At all events, we should recommend all passengers on the Brighton lines, when they see a "long-backed" engine " put to," to ascertain, before taking their seats, that ROBERT PEEL as driving her. ROBERT PEEL, is the safe man, par excellence, in other places besides St. Stephen's, and for other kinds of driving beside that tithe great conservative engine. Perhaps this tone of levity may be thought un becoming such a subject. But we defy the most mattirnine soul to avoid it after being excited by pe nal of Mr. HESRETH'S evidence. It is given in such a s;rting style ! e venture, in conclusion, to ask, how long is the eddy of the public to be left dependent on the nice accuracy of observations and rare presence of mind of the ROBERT PEELS? How long are " jumping" engines to be allowed to play their tricks with scores of live passengers behind them? Why are not engines of this description confined to the slow work of the goods trains? We despair of seeing any practical answer to these questions, while railway companies are left to the mockery of penalties imposed by coroners juries, or the dim and distant chances of ution by sufferers or their relatives. We I never have the danger of railway travelling minimised until heavy pecuniary responsibility be laid directly on the company on whose line an acci dent happens. tinder the influence of such a system of direct and weighty penalties we should soon find the " long-backed" engines standing in the yard, or doing the safe and snail-pace work of the goods train, and the ROBERT PEELS placed in charge of machines very different from those whose tricks suspend the lives of passengers upon the promptness and perception of a moment, exercised under circumstances when nineteen men out of twenty become flurried and frightened. Nor should we keg, under such a change of system, have the safety of railway works, bridges, tunnels, and em bankments, left to be tested solely by the superficial and illasory survey of the government inspector. Direct money responsibility of the company is the only real security of the railway traveller. A CORRESPONDENT, zealous for the honour of the 'I society for promoting the amendment of the law, etppoees that in a recent article on the law of real property, we said that the society bad only reported on a system of registration ; and he informs us of various other subjects in connexion with the laws relating to land upon which reports have been made by the society. We had not overlooked such reports —ill to a certain extent useful and suggestive; and we distinctly recognise the value of the society as preparing the public, the owners of land, and the legal profession, for that complete change of s y stem in the law of real property which is daily becoming more and more imperative. The doubt we intimated, rather than stated, was, whether the active members of the society are prepared to go to the root of the evil, and whether they have the nerve necessary to recommend a complete remedy. Without that, no amendment in details of the system, however skilfully performed, will avail. To cheapen transfers of land, we must shorten titles. and the only effectual way , of shortening titles is still further to restrict the period daring which land can be rendered inalienable. We say still further restrict, because the principle of re striction is already in full operation. No one can limit land beyond a period commenzuntte with ex isting lives and twenty-one years afterwards, that is until an unborn child of an existing person shall• attain twecty-one. The further restriction necessary is, to take away the power of limiting to an unborn generation, by enacting that, where a life interest is given to any person with subsequent limitations to his unborn children, that shall amount in point of legal effect, to an absolute estate in the parent. There is one thing recommended by the society to which we attach great importance, namely, the making a general map of England and Wales, for the purposes of registration of titles. This, however, we apprehend to be indispensable to anything like a useful system of registration. We have also been supplied with a note of some valuable evidence given by a solicitor of great ability and experience, Mr. Pinace Msnose, upon the effect of the existing system of registration of deeds in Ireland, before the " Registration and Convey ancing Commission." From that evidence it appears that a general registry of deeds was established in Ireland in 1108, which does not differ very much from that of Middlesex or Yorkshire. The deed itself is not registered, but a memorial, which is, in effect, little more in most cases t h an "a notice that a deed between certain parties, and of a certain date, exists, and has been executed ; and even if the lands Conveyed by it be named, it is merely that certain lands are conveyed from A to B, for the considera tions therein mentioned, without stating what the considerations or conditions might have been; and if it is a mortgage, then the memorial will only state subject to the redemption, or subject to the conditions, therein stated." So of trusts, which are merely alluded to a " trusts and purposes therein stated." Such a registration is so obviously imperfect, that it is far sere likely to create difficulties of title than to lessen them. And such we find to be the effect, for Mr. M tuoey says, "In truth, for the purposes of clearing up and elucidating title, our system of registration embarrasses, and does no more than give a statutable notice instead of giving ac taal notice of the contents of the deed to purchasers, lice and thereby, while it increases the expense of treader, it does not give security to any party in the absence of the original deed." And he gave some ' , riling illustrations of the expense and vexation of the system. Of course, on every dealing with land, by at,, settlement, mortgage, and so forth, it is ne cessary to search the register. Such a search may be In official, or what is called a "negative" one, when the person on whose behalf it is made receives a cer tificate from the registrar of all the acts relating to the Property which are recorded, and that there are Ito others. This, however, from the amount of fees and stamp duty payable, is enormously expensive. ror statA, *it 016.1111) trammed* tamest to Lord DIINSANDISN estates, is which the Add seer& required to be trade for the Istillfactiiket this mortgagee, had It been insisted upon, weal hive sag 2,5001. ; rid is the matter of Lord PorrraListcrron's mortgage, the Idirial search could only have been obtained at an expert; of 5,0001. This has led to the adoption by tuprof.naiou of what is called "a common search;" kisat is, " the solicitor of the vendor makes a comma search, and all acts of the vendor he finds on record he seta down in chronological order [that the vendor's title]. He then transmits that search, with copies of the deeds he to the solicitor for the pur chaser. posses, Ten frame what is called the requisition for a negative search, by which they call on the registrar to give a list of all acts relating to the lands or the parties they name, except so and so, giving for exception every one of the acts of which they were conusant." The registrar then exa mines his records, and certifies any other than the excepted deeds which may be discovered, and that there are no others. Where the common search has been properly conducted, of course the non-excepted acts will be very few, and as the fees are paid upon the deeds, &c.. certified, the expense is comparatively I small. For example, in Lord PORTARLINGTON'II case, where an official or negative search simply I would have cost 5,0001., when mode a ft er a common search, and all ascertained acts had been excepted, it cost 37/. only. Bat then the cost of common search is no trifle. Thus in Lord DUNSANDLeeI case, by the parties consenting to a common search being first made, the cost of the official search was reduced from' 2,500/. to 181. ; the common search, however, having been made at the coat of 5201. In Lord PORTAR LINGTON'B case the common search cost about 1,0001. It is thus plain that mere registration of deeds with the existing length of title', and in a way that does not disclose fully the contents of the deeds, will not lessen the expense, even if it give, which we doubt, security of title. What, then, will at once give security, facility of transfer, and a minimum of expense? We gladly call, in support of the views on this point we have so often expressed, the testimony of so practical and experienced a witness as Mr. MAIIONY. He several times strongly recommended the adoption of a general map; and, as regards Ireland, thought the ordnance survey and map sufficient for the pur pose ; and said truly, that " a description in words would lead to great uncertainty, after the alterations which time must produce in the state of advancing civilisation. Who, by words 60 years ago, could deacribe, for the purposes of life in 1847, Hyde-park guidons, and that great town of which it now forms only a part?" When asked—" You make a new street, and build in that new street a great many new tenements; how would those be referred to in any Nap ? " Mr. MAHON Y replied in terms which have far wider application than the particular question, "We have now of record a public , that is, the ordnance survey. I do not assert, or believe, that any possible institution, suggested as applicable to the condition and description of property belonging to my generation, can answer for all future genera tions." And though Mr. MAHONY would not for a time make the reference to the map compulsory, yet ultimately, "that the registrar of deeds should insist, as the basis of registration, that the public maps should be referred to by all persons dealing with land, for it is of the deepest interest to society that the title to land s ho uld become as simple, and that the transfer of it should become as cheap , as possible. That cannot be accomplished except by a good registry system, and the chief agent in that system should be at all times an easy sad a certaia means for ascertaining the boundaries of the single acre or rood, or the thousands of acres, in relation to which individuals may be dealing." It is truly said that a public map of the country forms the foundation of the description of land in most European countries, in our own colonies, and in the United States. And after strongly urging that all deeds ought to be publicly recorded at length, Mr. MAHONY said, "If a registry is to be established for a public object, surely the chief of those public objects ought to be the establishment of common honesty between man and man. If parties will deal with land which belongs, in the abstract at least, to the state, let the community insist on the owners dealing openly with it." The late Mr. DUVAL was decisively of opinion that deeds should be registered at length, and that anything short of so doing would prove • failure. The objection sometimes urged against such a registry is, that the owners of land are averse to let the world know how they deal with their property. To this Mr. MAHONY'S answer, and it is the true one, was full and decisive. He said, " I think it becomes a great protection to the owners of landed property, that their real condition should be known instead of being guessed at. The consequences resulting from a system of secrecy . have been, according to my expe rience, highly injurious to those for whose suppoom beneyit it was acted upon. Those who desire conceal ment too often deceive themselves ; and I have never known a man dealing fairly and honourably with his property, who urged the slightest objection to the, publicity of his dealings. Publicity and honesty must accompany each other, secree , s and fraud too o ft en go hand in hand ; and being asked what he thought of the case of a man with a rental of 10,0001. a year, bat whose estate was mortgaged to the extent et 8,0001. or 9,0001. a year, whether such a man would not suffer by its being known that his real income W2B so much less than his nominal one ? the reply wee: " I think it would be only consistent with a system of perfect honesty that his real condition should be known. For instance, if I have 100,0001., and I want to make it a security, I mast transfer it—nothing short of that will answer the purpose : if I have rail- way stock, the delivery over of the certificates is no security, I must transfer the shares in the books of the company; and until then they are not a enmity. If you deal with land, I know of impound reason that because it is land it should be treated differently as security between man and man from stocks or shares." I And he referred to a particular case of embarrassment I in which a landowner in Ireland, whose estates were worth only 60,0001., had got into debt to the extent of 90,0001., which would not have happened if all charges must have been registered. Nor need we go to Ireland for an illustration of such evils from m erely, of which Buckinghamshire has just furnished a most instructive example. We fully agree with Mr. MAHONT when he says, " I do not believe that con fidence can be produced by secrecy, while I can be lieve that confidence between man and man will be vastly extended through a fearless publicity of their acts." Oar limits preclude the notice of many other sug gestions by which the principles above announced may be worked out ; but the evidence concludes with a practical instance of the evils of the existing system so apt at this time that we must extract it. In October last the witness felt it his duty to repre sent the state of the Irish peasantry to a member of the present government, and of the necessity of immediately , procuring food through employment for the people.' The minister " pointed at the efforts made by the landlords of Scotland as an example to those in Ireland. I admitted the force of his obser vations, but I stated that the Irish landlords were deprived of all power to meet the crisis through the use of their capital, as represented by land, for the reasons I have stated to this commission, whilst the Scotch landlords were in a different condition, through their registry system. I stated a case in illustration thus : A had an estate of 14,0001. a year in Ireland, on which he was willing to borrow 10,0001. for the immediate employment and relief of the people then about to starve upon it. B was ready to advance the required sum, the abstract of title was complete and ready for delivery, bat the searches (notwithstanding that the greatest diligence might be exercised) would occupy three or four months, and I fain asked what was to become of the starving people it s he mean time ?" This is no imaginary case ; it is strictly true, and it aptly illustrates the system. In our Paris correspondence of yesterday we were enabled to announce the important decision given by the Chamber of Peers in the Girardin affair late on Tuesday afternoon. This result has produced a great sensation in all political circles in Paris, involving as it does the question of the inculpation of the cabinet. Notwithstanding the great influence exercised by the cabinet in the upper chamber, and the attendance in person of four or its members, viz., Marshal Sonit, President of the Council; the Duke of Montebello, Minister of Marine; M. Jayr, Minister of Public Works; and General Trezel, Minister of War, the chlimba dismissed the charge against M. de showier vplved ber, against have w tes as t i et to DP osible . the sits cabinet. Various rumours of ministerial and opposition movements were circulated in Paris consequent on the decision of the Chamber of Peers. A meeting was held at the house of M. Thies attended by all the leading members of the different sections of the opposition, to discuss the situation in which the ministry is placed by the disclosures of M. Emile de Girardin. After a lengthened discussion it was re solved that the subject should be brought before the chamber, when that item of the budget, which includes the subventions granted to the theatres, should be brought forward. It will be recollected that one of the charges of M. de Girardin is, that the ministry connived at the sale of tha license for the new opera house for 100,000 f. to be paid to support a ministerial journal. A report was circulated on Tuesday night and Wednesday, that the cabinet had resigned on the decision of the Chamber of Peers being announced, and the following list of a ministry was circulated. Marsha Begeaud, President of the Council and Mi , nister of War; M. Mole, Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Hyppolite Peggy, interior; Count Dam, finances; Milberg., justice ; Liadi&es, public instruction ; Maret de IBord, or Bignon, public works; Lanyer, agriculture and commerce ; and the Duke of Monte bello to retain the marine and colonies. It was observed, in the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday evening, that immediately on the arrival of the news of the division in the Chamber of Peers, M. Duchatel left the ministerial bench. In the appel nominal or call of the house in the upper chamber on Tuesday, previous to the Girar dm inquiry, the names of General Cutti;2res and M. Testa were observed to be omitted, having been erased from the peerage for the present. L' Union Monarehique, usually informed on each topics, says that M. Saragossa was hourly expected j from Madrid at the Spanish embassy, with a mission from the Moderado party to General Narvaes. The object of this mission was reported to be to induce the general to return without delay to Madrid ; the party:promising for the future strict obedience to him, and that he should meet a flattering reception at the palace. There appears to be nothing in our private advices to confirm this. Le Courtier Francais says that news was circu lated in the Chamber on Tuesday which spread con sternation through the ministerial benches. It was said M. Teete has threatened that, if the ministers who were his former colleagues, MM. Guizot and Duchatel, now desert him, he will himself make further disclosures, and declare before the Court of Peers all that he has known and seen while in office. MADRID, JUNE 18. The Faro had just confected two columns of its to day's leader, full of bitter pills for Senor Pacheco, bristling with indignant questions, sighing like a furnace for the fallen majesty of Portugal, when suddenly in the career of its foaming rhetoric it stopped all et once, threw itself on its haunches, and after five mysterious d0t5... .. wound up with an announcement that the Lisbon co urier had just rushed in with news that gave a new turn to matters alto gether, and that now, if the ministry acted with becoming spirit, it, the Faro, should be delighted to shake hands, and lay its columns at the feet of the cabinet. Yon will guess what this news was—nothing more nor less than the rupture upon the rejection by Donna Maria of the Marquis de LoulVs demands upon the part of the junta, the renewal of hoetilities, the sailing of the combined naval forces for Setubal, to put down Sades Bandeire, and the march of Concha upon Oporto. This intelligence, which has lifted the moderadoe out of the slough of their despair, has in flieted a corresponding blow upon the hopes of the Spanish liberals. Put in heart by the decree of amnesty, and the apparent triumph of the junta over the obstinate pretensions of the Queen, they had already drawn up an enthusiastla profession of their sympathy with the coistitutional addressed to Das Antes, lauding that patriot for his spirited protest against foreign intervention. This address was published in the Clamor Publico of yes terday. The precipitate rapture of negotiations and renewal of hostilities will, without doubt, excite suspicion that this was a result proposed beforehand, and that the allied powers snapt at the pretext of the Marquis de Loule's &mend on the part of the junta, that the Duke of Palntella and Li bra:ilia should be admitted into the ministry •, and at the riots in Lisbon (which aro attributed to Cabral and kis mouchards) to turn round upon the junta and trash the constitutional party. The tenor of Pacheco's instruc tions to Senor Ay . llon, the Spanish ambassador at Lisboa, seems couched in a temperate and proper tone enough. But it becomes daily more avid( la that the portion of the protocol of May 21, which leaves the amount of Spanish troops intervening in Portugal to be settled by the govern ments of these two countries between themselves, was an error pregnant with mischief, and left a loopbele for aggression upon the liberties of the Portuguese, of which the Moister diplomacy of the Portuguese minister at the court of Madrid will not fail to take advantage. I have already called your attention to facts which show that the whole cabinet is gradually quitting its neutrality and marching to reoderadoum. Senor Bettavides, a mem ber of the party of Narnea, bestows upon the junta of Oporto the epithet of " sac- ilmious." The Heraldo, which is pointed out as the organ of Muffed.", another of the Nat , Teti party, ever since it heard of the amnesty has burst into wilder ejaculations of sorrow than Rachel weeping for her children, at concessions so " humiliatieg to the dignity, so menacing to the security, of the Portuguese crown. But since the latest news, instead of dealing any . longer in what French journalism calls de funestes oalicznations, it assumes suddenly to-day, like the Faro, a radiant aspect almost of t ri umph. The Faro, that modest and temperate organ of the moderadoe, has reapt at the doubt expressed by the Chronicle whether England would have any right to prevent Spanish troops from entering Portugal in answer to an application for assistance on the part of the Queen. If we surrender a point of this magnitude, we may enpect the very first moderado government in Spain to invade Portu gal; for there is no question but that Doane Mariawound be glad of as many Spanish bayonets as she could get, to back her arbitrary pretensions ; while, on the other hind, as little doubt exists with regard to the alacrity with which the moderacke would jump at such a summon' to snuff out the constitutional rights of the Portuguese. The " dignity and security" of the crown, whether of her most Faithful, or most Christian Majesty, means in the language of the moderado party, accor d ing to the daily avowal of their organs, an entire *empties from amenability to the laws of the constitution, and the maintenance of that irrespensibiiity, and the protection of its usur pations by an armed force. We may, therefore, ex pect to see the independence of the other con tracting powers which has been left in the protocol to Spain and P ortugal, terminate in arrangements between those two governments which may Imam esepowseir sabereareing for us, particularly if, as expecieffies ssaplna re ler weepect, France, while she is openly aiding with asi to presses fair terms for the Portuguese constitutionaliktNaltould be sseretly egging on Spain to set our policy at dsAnee, to pea into Portugal as many troops as possible, anitatntsthe'sdli tary occupation of that country, grog thei y r ads upon the pretended dangers which swum the " it' 'w rathy" of the crown, and ,epos the solicitations of the Portuguese queen. It is a subject of deep regret mai the friends of eensti- I ational principles here that yeoman* abseil set leave been made to prevent the mane of sagesiatians between , the two contracting pasties in ; seed dim loft one aide of the business which wean the least lopeddasse, end that is, that the speedy tenninedee of the . war by farm may lead SA Men as possible to the withdrawal of the Spanish troops. People talk of the dismiseal of six and among them of tho captaiargemerallr:Crin ' Barcelona. In their quicksilver ecentreet with the govern , mint the Foment() bank have been joined by the banks of Ultramar. the Probidad, the Iris, and the Senors Murat' and Jorda. The shares of each sompsny in the enterprise and the nominal capital engaged are In the following pro ' portlier Per mat. Nominal eepttaL 200,000,000 reale. Menu ..... ..... 16 ...„ Pnahleit ..... ..... 16 Iris MOW. Nora „. 100 BELOIUM.-111ttmEL 9 , JUNE 22.—A8 the 18th at September approaches the Free-trade Association of Commerce are becoming more active in their preptuntiona for the econo mical congress they have invited to meet on that day3n this city Towardsthe close of April, Mesars. Corr, Venderameren, , Fortamps, and Ad. C. Reedy de Beaulieu were nominated a committee to organise the free congeal, and make arrange— ments for the comfortable seeommt of the literary and scientific foreigners who should repair to it. Great pains have been taken by M. de Broacher*, the praideat of the association, and the secretarial, to give publicity to the pro jected congress. The success which has attended similar conventions of the cultivators of science in different parts of Europe—the general scientific assemblies in England and Italy, the assemblies of jurists, of philologists, as., in Ger many—is of good augury for the Belgian ampere& Thaw will probably be, as on all such occasions, a modicum et pre tension and quackery, but there will be a t..lid substratum of the useful and Intellectual—like a dish of whipped cream, where a palatable mew , is covered by the froth. GEItMANY.—Pitussin.—BERLIN, JUNE 18.— The discussion on the project of law relating to the Jews becomes every day more interesting and more important. This afternoon the chamber of the three estates voted, by • —.en it—by r a gs • lishing certain reetrlcdens on the °oatmea l :um/As rids,. Jews were voted rues. rots. Whilst the elective chamber wee thus adverting the principle of religious liberty, the hereditary Homo of Peers wee not idle to the clause ef eon stithtioual freedom. The reader, of the Doily Newt are aware that the former body, not content with the royal promise to ',lnvoke the Diet after the expired= of four years, drew up a petition to his majesty in favour of an earlier assembling of that body, and particularly in favour of a regular periodical convocation. All lovers of constitutional rights will be delighted to bear that, on this very afternoon, the House of Lords voted, by a majority of more than two thirds (the legally required number of votes), in favour of Count Von Arnim's amendment, which proposed forwarding a petition to the King, praying him to convoke the Diet periodically, according to the spirit of former laws, and also pro basso publico. This is, in fact, the mat important vote of the session, inasmuch as it was feared that the noble assembly would not coincide with the other house on the above point, and inasmuch as the reference to former laws proves now that both cham bers claim rights based on previous statutes, whilst they look forward for favours to his majesty's kindness, prudence, and wisdom. The pleasure which this vote will give to every English reader will be enhanced, when I add, that the abo lition of the Ausschiirse (committees to which, under certaia circumstances, the most important privileges of the embed diet were made over) was also voted this day in the Mond of Peers, by a majority nearly equal to the one which meted the other great question. This victory of the constitutioae I aline is the more important, inasmuch as H.R.H. the Primes of Prussia very warmly opposed Count Von Arnim's amend ment iu a long and studied speech. It is scarcely neceesary to add, that H.R.H. is the heir to the throne of him royal brother. The municipal elections In this capital have termi nated in favour of three or four well-known liberals, amongst others Professor Von &sumer. COCAIN CIILNIA--We have received from Singa pore, from an intelligent and trusiro pl eth i l u correspendent, the following notice of the French ge In the hay of Turon, already briefly noticed Evros : " My ise Torment is the French Roman catkins Mae% who Is now* board (the Irby Miry Wood), golag brae la Mame yak deepatehes, sad whir was on booed the Firenebeemineedimets ship daring the whale transaction. In ApellkielklielPeumels frigates, Ls Globe and V ictorierse, entered*, lay erfiron to seek redress Ave the persecution of sons ftwah mis sionaries. Hoeing sent a letter to the Wag ea 't subject, and receiving as reply, the French aormenedsee began to entertain . 75altioan that some treachery was intended, sea form looks and armed boats were co3= the entrame • creek near the anchorage. I also reached them that it was the intention of the mandarins te invite all the seems on shore to a banquet, ad thsss " to namencris she whole of the barbarians." A memos* wee seat to nquest the moseval of the junks and boats, whisk was refused. Herrpos a fire was opened on the vonebt dready collected, 110aellalag of five European woe's fitted up in Chine*. style, contsiaing from ten to twenty guns each, with the admiral en board. The ere was resolutely returned, but in seventy minutes all Ave were suck or destroyed, with the lose, it is aid, of 1,000 men. The French (who had one killed and one wounded) did not enter into any further com municatim,bat soiled away, leaving, as I understand, the other mustenades, fifteen in number behind. La Oloire went to Masao, o, the Victorieuse to Hong Kong, and just arrived in time to save the mails for Europe. The English find good and kind treatment from the Cochin Chinese, whenever shipwreck or any other cease drives them on their west, and a good trade is kept up between them and this port (Siagapore). It is to be hoped that nothing may arise out of this estreordinary bushier to destroy thetrgoed feeling t'ear's the English. AMERICA AND MEXICO. The following is a more detailed account than we were yesterday enabled to give of the news by the Henry Clay, Captain Nye, arrived at Liverpool :—We have New York papers to the 7th instant (inclusive). The Mexican dates are Brazos, 20th ; Vera Cruz, 22nd ; and Jalapa, 21st, May. Up to the date of the latest despatches General Scott wu atilt at Jalapa. Be had been joined there by Mr. Trist, the second officer of the State Department. The government at Washington had taken great pains to mystify the public on the subject of Mr. Trist's mission. He proceeded to New Orleans under pretest of going to see a sick brother in I,onisiana, and embarked for Mexico clandestinely in a re • venue cutter at the mouth of the Mississippi. The Washing ton correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer states, contidently, that Mr. Trist has carried out a draft treaty, and that Mr. Buchanan is prepared to follow him if the compliment of his presence would increase the readiness of the Mexicans to negotiate. To the desire on the part of the United States government to resume negotiations isk attributed General Scott's discharging so many regi ments of volunteers; it is alleged he seeks an excites SOT not pressing on immediately to Mexico, in order to wait the effects of his proclamation on the Meeke', and to learn whether the result of the presidential election is favourable to the peace or the war party. The tense to be offered to Mexico are said to be: That the United &atm shall claim no indemnity for their war expenses ; that New bfexico and (Upper ?) California shall be ceded to the United States ; and that three millions of dollars shall be paid to Mexico by the United States as compensation for the ceded territory. In the event of these terms being accepted by the Mexican government, it is believed that Mr. Polk weak' mammon, not the two hours of congress, but merely the senate, to ratify the treaty. General Scott is also un &Wood to be availing himself of his stay at Jalapa to obtain complete and accurate information respecting the 1114001C44 of Mexico. General Worth entered Puebla on the afternoon of the 15th of May, after a sharp skirmish with a party of lancers. It k said that Santa Anna, who was at the same time latish lag forward, at the bead of such troops as he bad drawn together, in the direction of the capital, only left Puebla a few hours before Worth entered it, and that the resistance offered by the lancers was meant to cover his evacuation of ilia town. By some he was reported to have halted at San Martin, 28 leagues from Puebla, on the new road to Mexico; by others to have advanced as far as Rio Frio, which is not much more than 12 leagues from that city. Different ybjects were attributed to his march: one version repre sented him as pushing on to overawe Congress by his troops, And thus secure his election as president ; another that he contemplated making another stand at the strong position of Rio Frio. The number of collected Mexican troops between the Americans and the capital was stated at 11,000 to 16,000 men. Gen. Worth entered Puebla with 3,600. A train of 270 waggons and 500 peck mules, laden with provisions, hospital stores, and specie, for the American army, left Vers Crus on the 11th of May, and arrived =- attacked at Jalapa on the 14th. HedfileataAanaremised in the neighbourhood of Onzabahe would hue bemaimeemeral Scott's rear s• soon as the main body* the ANIA*Mb Islay had entered Puebla. A reed from VMS Clew breech Cor dova and Orizaba, falls lute** road ban Vanier= drough Jalapa and Perote a little bum It saw Feeble; it is shorter than this latter, and though set wadeable for wag gem, wilts good for cavalry, irthatry, sad wales. At Ori zaba, bereWe, Santa Anna might 11444 hovered about the Am nia= rear-guard, threatened Vera Cruz, and as the twe web ere ambers more than 50 lagers apart, roasted the mast o efevery envoy from VerlentS to Pr i l li tamembee. his dawn himself between the brae ea Nada, lbws is little himself alike WWI serwateleso tie& with the west being _,sue.W eabwered. Gams' laweeir It is hadevei. eibesse to lila intention at throwing llmmyf typos the :resew atbe weary. es sew as he hes puma Jalapa . The relabressweas Or di, army ms to aims fore Vies Cris Is iletesirwate sack eve Way L ai n g awa dial The palastial election Abided matter for math If ISM Anna wee sleeted, the war, it wr beneval, mai be as ; if Heroes, a wee far. • Ilia esalidate was 441444 • he, kw. sae INK bat lm esablantly, to be dis port to 1111044. 111441**111 will set be a decisive ow, be aserlr v one half of die deka, being osespied by the wily, a Sr. saga to vote. At ma Crag, the anises who had led at first war wit to be daily retnasiek s A bead of 18 guerillas had bell op tared and peaking each a mamma es to render them jests et tidies& healthl of the city, and arse:oolm adisses we it towbar:J = l6llm Ibelemeissa des ' et were to the Tik el Mr. _Genial td base br taw days, bat bed aseriewb T sweet of Casa Deapan's WOW Ilmi bow remedel la a wailed Owl: it ye sit tire le bet nate be* uyeaasbaana, ea Marley of the lesernedoe in New Nexags. di that wee certain was, that up to the latest slaw kebab net reached Trawls amor la the for impales embed at St. Louis from the I:l4lUsseerl about be l& of Nay. They had pawed way from 400 to M wpm a emigrants for Vet Oa* ten in patio 040 wipes. eimaiderable exelffigsent in New York on the numnins et the 7th inst., _whoa 1164 Haney Clay said. It was be by et the jedida risslisas. Theexsasirret of deram the judges of the stile by maw voss, be sear es tie iron • f the executive nueastmist ad mini= 4104 Lie, is a new ea lawseasee n(i)ceTime hs been asset—MS by die lawyers, as by do whip, wri weber by be lemamen The gasamem W am wee same bra Ike whig and mkt hem be. deasseeede Whets, ad abet wen their hkeite tea thew We bed most be emarralive whlge_tawit wgea their seelbe el be pseW Ware kr bete wsilitsi earl* ming ilmemedi Ward eat sebeetei by the eadawless. This brebeise • sew lietabalbs et podia in the deft el New Tea. sia belittle number of asembsea that stets en turns to t h e Cespessiseel Haan el Assembly, this as scarcely fall te alma Ike pawl deadens. A wevastlea beil bow esmasewa es mast et Cbl2o. dramatises die best lea mats( the raw bar navigation et VW wept. The New Tea Cbraber Oem. memo had semis Mal a thaligeties nnetend, and were pee- 1 paring an edines, ea the skims New York to meet and assieste a deiegatloe for the same purpose. The recorte of the Z• 1494411 markets by the Hibernia, were Margins out the stages of the farmers. Some difficulty had been remission in forwarding them to the seaboard, Lut the rivers wen beginning to rise. A vessel had been freighted at Chicago, to protein direct by the lakes and St. Lawrence navigation to England. irittemgcs!, gm IMMO, nrtaris, Ise. v;4, • •eqs• 1i,.... ~ . ~.,,. sil .6 lB•44.• l iiftl i io;•‘•• 1 AR dm ,chamber i• voryleiefittoromt - I *.j.tc-,,..:/). 4 =7 w . iv esinacidN ia whe l as" a we as . be. that weft which he hatt inittome int ' . 4 'r o lgi rft.regsges et the -Phidaa 1 d lay &regret at taatetalg . of ftte...itetit ,go m * '00044e Sat • tlifo &ilea alio and that the charges which. "be panutorat ,aisydri gill lime te lip gee al the highest im the mirdiday was capable of 00 0degee mormist. battle &mbar did am amp awe, ea mahrre . it C " I bave alleged," mid be, • facts of which 1 ,„,..,...Pasadat z tit i tr_,....T aa ' ar e r i alat g r a t i r i ltT. 2,1; .o complete a knowledge that the idea that it tb - lra m La ; t i a 01..... ft „, h yg ii „, 1 ,,. Jens possible that they could be, for a moment, coat bog ie l e,o f e s ie s . rog iii. h e w s any segot i n d il, never once occurred to me." Theme facto are 'obi a meal 1111410., mitileg 10 mai the ammo vote eta of corruption imputed to the Soult-Guizot idy arrived it by die wireml/7. flevutal ymgmbe &e. lishinir certain ifihnallM ea the ovahrmetill roma, oldie Ye. Webeter, , ertafeellfht lour lad bear inlaid by Indispenitim, was at New Yeah, ead is rememeed hadtk, Yr. Joka-141ssas bed arrived at Madmen, list nay &hair Wei esaditioa. • COLONIAL. ' . CANADA.—Thu lb irsid pawed moo ironed by rd Elegem . fiarggegAiee sopes ha- portaat La ief weak: • keM ereasiksi IreMblis aid the mat bombe grevibige, melba satrap peaallisa have essisalerief the grosea =t ahem yes bat bee Melestfe an risa ee uest aarmage die mediae' erathedlies the maselef dist tasotaters es by smart Magee Ike esesod imidelmes, sereamesonlb dab be mama esseeing lad& Iseth Amides the dm 'Mame art el peeeeMse ayes. %Vests ming the hi Wein 'Ms Imbliasele se• repasiMtall=telieeberiallere lemma la the climbs Is lawn et. mare. It Is Febable dal by maideatbis pewee yea May he milli te bsasa tbe weseeme TIMM legal le Me eseems. I seameall tide Waist le Ism am sibeellagteed lthat ky helm ma seal* seerawebadele Maio to I = l 18 " gelds" ilmati s t r UMW* lbassery Mae ler the eel Mem the Usetereserisseseases above Illeas sad NewlemeleaL Iliseseas Mil be seilmlesse ts yen fee ousamsa more gmenity werebeedsallefillim leaked perm, sod M other begeewereass ta aw eommerstel gasman id wilt* will, I as aim attendee. nma KONG.--During the month of April the warlike proceedings in the riser engrcreed almost exclusive attention. The inhabitants of Hong Kong were not, how ever, without apprehensions of having to do some fighting "on their own account." The populace at Canton freely ex pressed their belief that Hong Kong would be attacked and plundered during the absence of the forces. And in the island it wad more than surmised that an attack was con templated from the initiated of the Triad society by land, and the pirates by water. An assemblage of the Triads ac tually took piste at Hang Kong, and some of them were arrested, but liberated on finding security. Major Caine, of the police, made a judicious distribution of the small force left under his command; such of the Chinese inhabitants es had arms in their possession were obliged to deposit them for the time in the police-office, and ell the Chinese were forced to leave their houses between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Either owing to these precautions, or the imperfect combinations of the insurgents, the time of the governor's absence passed over without any disturbance. SINGAPORE. The steamers Nemeses and Hoogbly returned on the 4th of May from a cruise in aarch of the Lanem pirates, who had recently committed serious outrages at Lingm and the neighbouring islands. The ols ject of the cruise was defeated; the pirates had received notice from their spies, and betaken themselves to the man grove thickets. The extension of auger cultivation at idalacea continued to be vigorously carried on. News from Java to the 24tH of April had been received, but the only features of interest were the effrontery of the pirates in the vicinity of New Brussels, and violent hurricanes, with slight earthquakes, in the district of Modyo Redyo. CEYLON.—Sir James Emerson Tennent's cool minion was proclaimed on the 19th of Apia Sir Colin Campbell left Colombo on the 11th, and embarked at Galls at the 16th. The planting presgesb of the Wand us thus ted in the Colombo Übeerisar of May 10 : li =eferenoe to the Interior, we him Ms ers is still a essalse ' Mb ematity of area m the edam dataimet boa varier mum medirldmeas Mare tee estdar is et bar ma mma. vials ayeessete Maw ea lime. Cats en yesawalle Mompamhewl 7.me leek le Oniumee, eta. . lil ts. The meant Ms a Loft is fa sw at lbrelesa j aelfe. permit be amieseat mesa In the Deem baste a=iseet a.. =is Is mom el Maggetherai—Me NMI II a Memo* Mass beta eery tamer. allele Ma beellty. three Is magma sr • hem imp ea the UMm MeowMea•Meeinarr, sal we ma Ms exisksg morma will M beeensels Lhasa abarriaa s Omar' Thelma to slam Me seam are bedly =pp& Is Wig. 'at Cam The Queen held a court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palac3. Count de fit. Aulaire, Ambassador Extraordinary end Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of the French, had an audience of her Majesty on his return to his embassy at the British Court. His Excellency was introduced by Viecount Palmerston, G.C.B. her Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel the Hen. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her Majesty's Muter of the Ceremonial. The Queen was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, and Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, Groom in Waiting. Viscount Palmerston had an audience of her Ma jesty yeeterday. The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough-house. Tne Equerries in Waiting, Lad Alfred Paget and Col. Bouverie, attended on horseback. Their Majesties the Ring and Queen of the Bel gians visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough-house, the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester. house, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Cam bridge-house. Their RR. HH. the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge visited their Majesties the King awl Queen of the Belgians, yesterday, at Buckingham Palau. The royal dinner party. at Buckingham yesterday, included their Majesties the King end Guess the Belgians, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, tho Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Levu= Gower, the Countess Vanderstraten, Earl Spencer, M. de Moerkerke, and Dr. Canwell.—The Queen bad after wards an evening party. Their IMAM. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Sage-Weimar arrived at half-past nine o'clock, accompanied by H.B H. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Countess of Assenburg, Count de Beast, and Baron de ZS/reser. H.R.H. Prince George arrived soon afterwards. Their RE. HE. the Duke and Durban of Cambridge arrived at ten o'clock, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. E. Mildmay. A distinguished circle were honoured with inri. tations. Her Majesty's private band attended. Their ItR.HH. the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough-house. The Duchess of Gloucester honoured the Duke and Duchies of Beaufort with her company at dinner, lest even ing, at their residence in Arlington-street. The Duke and Duchess of tembridge honoured Vimount and Viscountess Combermere with their company at dinner, yesterday evening, at their reeidenoe in Belgeave square. Bishop Willson had an interview with Earl Grey, -coffics.—A deputation, consisting of l ia l i aLLXl th aa a cf fir. ..1!T. Clay, behalf of the Birken head Dock Company; Capt. CW'iwo a :d, RN., on behalf of the Cheshire Junction Railway; Mr. Rigge, on behalf of the Chester end Birkenhead; and Mr. Davies, on behalf of Mr. Vyner, had ea interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yeeiseday. Be.. W. Temple transacted busi ars at the Pareign4ffiss.—Mr. P. 8. Carey had an interview with Bir G. Grey et the Name-office.—&r R. Price, Dr. ',wring, and a depneaUss, bad an interview with the Right Hen- E. Strutt. The following ministers wets present at the cabinet dinner given by the Chaneelbw of the Ezchequer on Wed nieday :—Lord J. Mina, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Clarendon, S 4 G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston Earl Grey, Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Hobhouse, Lord ' Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, Marquis of Clanricarde the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right lion. H.'laboachere. The Ecclemaadml Commissioners for England had Drs meeting. a Despatches have been received at the Colonial office from the Governor of Hong Kong. Despatches were seat off last evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon. Viscountess Hereford and suite, the Hon. W. Cur zon, the Hon. H. Devereux, and General Farquharean and' family, were among the passengers that embarked at Black well yesterday morning, on board the General Steam Navi gation Compare steam-ship Sdbo, for Antwerp, en route to the Rhine. ELECTION or &num.—Yesterday, being Mid summer day, a common hall was held for the election of dealt, chamberlain, end some otken of inferior note. Mr. WiOlam Cubitt, citizen, and fishmonger , and Mr. Chance Hill, citizen, and specta cle maker, were elected Muriel for the ensuing fear, w ithout opposition . Mr. Anthony Brown war reelected d chamberlain; and aloconners were also elected. Tits CITY AcOouarTts.—After the Sheriffs of London bad been sworn in yesterdey, the Chamberlain headed is to the Court of Conmem Condi the umliteee mersple, et which the following is an abetted :—The banal Mush upon the p r eceding meonnt w ar , SAW. 121. the r omp!. for the year 11110, banding the SIM 1027,7011. Is. 4d., arising by the sole of stock and other peeperty, were, 20049924 11/s. lg.; the expenditure foe des old year, as appears by the several southern laid before the auditors by the Chamberlain amounted to 210,3881. 16a. 911., inehadiag 32,6821.9*. 104 d. applied in the purchase ef Me* and ether property, and 10,0001. in discharge of debt; leaving •behass of cash upon the account on the Met December, 1846, of 19,7281. 15e. Bd. MEMORIAL IN HONOUR or WILLIAM CAXTON.—We understand that his Royal Highness Prince Albert her subscribed 25 guineas to promote this object. EMIGRATION TO BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.—At half. can meeting ef the Canada Company, yesterday, Mr. C. Franks la the cheir, there were wiry satiatectory statements made bath cemeandeg the empeare ado and that et die colony to wly. gememieetommi that the moot input tent (ware masensei wile do emearet of remittingm which lad bins ask slum the hat report, and which were mat our hem peer witless an the eenspany's lands to their kiosk In the wiled Itimplem. Tree Feb. 19, up to May 21, 2,070 t. led boss reashed, stain a total of 13,6371. emit hem dm.' the seamory to be forwarded to patties in wine pert* et the estoray,hed ddelly . for Ireland, sine the month at Angst; 1848. Time remittances, from its *pseuds, had bees made by 9400.penons, from parsmte children, Whims to parents sad friends, to pus the meigrants in the colony, end upon other accounts. These hob showed that the settlers on the company's lends were ins i t s state. To this win to be attributed the ready for di desoiptiomeimulatiMmal pmedsea CZ=mode by the eerapecey la mho sod hada, st thus : —A bon keld wee had hem depeemil et average of 14s. 3d. per acre, moldeg a demo ' January to the 21st of May , mil ma et whist 19,455 acres in the I ns The receipts in Canada title star the Of had 21,2181. ;in the same period lam itery led hem 20, , The amount of overdue bills recsNe he lends told, war 114,1531., and of intermit, 47,6181.; total, r 162,0001. In Canada, a wed sa heye, the me rimmed ample tank to mod aII *Me with a surplus. Ueda - thee! AleoldsliettOs e W . more that the halt dhiMeed should •he f- Masai i Om *I U tiaaV! "FM - MMUS: ISM& sa to ahYe Masll44.lsilads ss wall i triVlAX lMilrgir to 11411"116" Ari . of the capital of the company. mama ef cestetwadhig &Meatuses was about 1211 OWL The lea luau milting& was steadily hietwasiag, and meseraily the ageditices of the settlers *as prosperous and happy. Tier dividend for the half year having been agreed to, mid essM vote of thanks passed, the meeting adjourned. INTERCOURSE Wl= THE CoNTIVENT.—The nada her of passengers to and from England through Boulofgue gm week Ending 19:h inst. Cu 1 , 589, against 1,302 in the terresponding week of last year ; through Calais it was 221, against 345. The Boulogne passenger of the week this year asap be thus arranged : —To Folkston., 406; to Dour, 162; to London, 151—in ell 719: from Folkston., 503; from Dover, 134; from London, 233—in all 870. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. OXFORD, THURSDAY, JUNE 24.—This was the Bret day for the business of the 'redone. Those confined to the comparatively dry, though to the philosopher most useful sud interesting departments of science, such as statistics and physiology, were but thinly attended. The rooms devoted to such subjects as geology, natural history, and mathematical and chemical merle?, were not without numerous and attentive audienors. The section for geology and physical geography, which is presided °vir by the Dean of Westminster, and had the advantage of the pre sence of Sir 11. De La Beebe, Sir It. Murchison, Professor Sedgwiek, and other eminent geologists, was crowded throughout the sitting. The ladies forming, in point of numbers, by no means an unimportant proportion of the essenalely. The division of the sections, the places of meeting, and the officers appointed to conduct the business are as follows Seems A.—Mathematical and Physical Seteace.—Rand. Iph Gal lery—President: Res. Professor Powell, M.A., IC R.S., tko. VW- Prosidests : J. Mich Adams, Isq. • Rev. Professor Cooke, ; tie David Brewster; Very Rev. the R eam of Fly ; Rev. James Challis. liseeteries: Rev. Professor Stevelly ; G. G. Stakes, Fay. ; Rey. B. Price, ILA. Committee MI excellency the Chevalier Woven; M. Oeu Dr. Cerim Dr. 'withers ;IL Let erns ;M. struve ; It. Birk 0n,.: Itev. Dr. Booth; Professor E. Hodgkiessi; Proles:emetic valler ; J. A. Dale, Esq.; J. Drew, req.; Sir J. W. V. Herschel ; W: Hap kiwi, Wt.; J.S. goys, Es.l Dr. Faraday ; Prolemorl.D.Foraes; Pro fess Gray; Dr. Green; Rev. It. Gresswell ; Sir W. B. Harris ; Sir W. Damn= ; Rec. E. Hill; Captain Jame; Professor Jarrett: Manuel J. Johnson, Es. ; Sr. Lee; Sir J. Lubbock; Rev. 11. Moseley : A. B. endear, Esq.; Y. Newman, Few. ; Rev. J. Nicol; the Marquis of • Northampton ; General Sir Charles Pesky; Captain Fir J. Rome; Professor l'hiuipe; F. (tonal* Fag ; Ksrl of Rare • Dv. J. Scott Rumell, hag. ; Liest.Col. robe* • Dr. booraly ; Cot. Sykes ; Professor Thomson; the Master of Trinity Coll., Cembrilge; Fro &rot Walker; Professor Wheatstone; Jks. W. Williannon. Swoon B.—Cliernind Se ence, inch:Wing its am ileation to Agri culture and the Arts —Taylor Buildlng.—Presideot • Rev. W. V. Harcourt. Vice-Presidents W. It. Grove, FA% , /1..5 , FAA. ; F. Pow, Esq., M3'. Lyon the application of .WvWy to agriculture sod the ens) ; Or. Lyon Mimi. Secretaries: Pros ewer ; IL Munt, Ee%; B. C. Brodie, Mc. Ounionittee : Praises Fenster ; Professor J Whores; Res J. Barlow, Sec. R. I. ; Mr. Kingsbur Mr. Osimiet . ; Mr. Pearsall ; Professor Way ; Mr. Welt ; Millet. Wanes e.—Geology and Physics , ' GrograPhY.—Olewwdron'bwwf -Prodelat : The Very Rev. Ds. Inaklancl, Dean el Westodis ter, to. ilsa-Preiania Bit R. I. Mannino (kir ChserePhY) • LW. 1 4/ 1 4 Keg.; Me eL Ds La Bache; the Dew of Llendati; Pnaismer Sonetarire •. Prolemor Awned, M.A., Flth. ; Profror =FAA.; A. C. Ramsey, F.G.S. ;J. )(Malin, Esq., F. 0.8. eloWelitlee : Dr. Burebeil; Major S. Oerke, ICAL, ?A.8.; the very Bor. Dr. Ocwybeare, FICA.; Rev. J. 0. CarilMinfr, M.A., F.G.S. ; C. Darwin, Zee., F.O.S. ; Dr. Deubeney• FICK ; Sir P. M. de Grgy EIS'S% Zsef s lLP., F.R.8.; the Earl of Lhulskillen,F.ii.b.; Proems E. redoes. 1,311 L ; Reiner J. Fortes, ELLS., L.& F s ; G. B. Green mail, Reg. P.LB. ; W. J. Hamilton, Waq., M.P., See, O.S. ; Retort MUM*, , DLR.LA. ; Rev. Professor Meadow, ILA.; L. Horner, Yale F.R.5...L. II E.: Capt. L. L. B. Ibbetnon, K.R.E., F.G.S. ; Sir C. Lows% Bort., M.P., 1.11.8.; C. Cron, Es., M.A., PALS.; 11. 1111181, Req.. Pres. G. A Deblin ; the Marquis of Nortkamptem, P ros. Itak ; Proems Nilsson. of Stockholm; Professor R. one% FAL& W. Onnerod, Fen,., P. 0.5.; S. P. Matt, Esq., F.lt.S.; John OW**, /sq., F.R.S.; Sir John Row. Samos D.—Zoology and Botiny.—Johowdeno Ifoleum.—Pren deM FL R. Wickland, Fp. Vke-Praidena : ter W. C. Tired", Bart.; P. B. Duncan ; Brown; Proleinoe Heasiow ; J. Wawa. am. Seentsries: Dr. iscikester; T. V. Wollaston, fieu • 0.. WA role. Committee Prince of Canino; Prates., Von elei Baron des Fresnaye; Profewor Nilese; Free Remark; lord Whop of Norwich; Protease Allman; C. C. H r Professor Bea; G. Buck; W. C lear ; J. Curtis; Professor R. Forbes; J. Z. Gray; A. Henfrey ; Sir W. Jardine; Rev. 1.. Moyne; Professor Owen; J. .Quieten ; Hwy Stricklmal ; A. Btaiekland ; W. Thomp son ; N. B Ward; W. Wallich; Capt. Widdrington; W. Terrell; J. yfogS; W. Ronne; 0. Newport ; Res J. B. Wade; Rev. E. MIL— Froleroerron or I:menu:ea.—Musk School—Presides% Professor H. H. Wilson. Vice-Prendents Sir Charles Malcolm; Dr. ?named; Dr. Herlekin; Dr. It. G. Latham. Secretary Prefteeor Buckley. Committee : Professor Nilsson ; Profeesor Jarrett; J. Crawford, 1.q.; J. Bost. Rai. Simon —PhyMology.—Writing Schoo.L—Preeklent : Dr. 0". Wice-Presidems Professor Owen, F.R.S. • J. E. Gray, E.g., G. n Newto. tee., F.R.S. ; John Simon, 'Es., P . R. I. frocretones ; Dr. Thomas K. Chambers; W. P. Ormered, Erg. *norm. Y. —inanatien—Natarol thiloeophy Sebeol.—Preeldeot Dr. Twins Vim-Presidents: Sir Charlie Lemon, Berk ; Lieut..o3l. Tyam; O. R. Porter, E . sq. •H. Ileum, Esq. Reeretarirr Rev. W. zt. Con, Vice -Prinapal of tit Mary-hall; J. e. Damson, Dia, 0. P. Nelson, EN. Steno,. O.—Mechanical Selenee.—Taylorhullding. — President; Bev. Pressor Walker. Vioe-Preeldeuts : J. S. Repel), Its. ; Profess Hodorknoes. Seeretary: Mr. Glyn. Committee Mr. Roberta. All the sections met to-day except O.; but the communi cations read, and the subjects discus aid , were for the moat wt of too technical a nature to interest the general reader, Toe 'objects treated by section A were: Report ef a Committee, consisting of Dr. Whewell and Capt Sir J. Rosa, to arrange an Expedition for completing our Know. ledge of the Tides, by the Master of Trinity College, Cam; bridge ; Final Report of the Committee foe Printing the Catalogues of Lalonde and De La Caine, by Sir J. lierschell ; On some Applications of the Calculus of Quater alone to the Theory of the Moon, by Sir W. Rowan; On the Moon's Matosehere ; On the Equilibrium of Float ing Bodies (communicated by Professor Braaehmann of Moscow); On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat; Account of Solar Spots, and the Comparative Powersof Telescopes in viewing them; and a Deseripdem et Agronomist.' Reeltnia— Section B. (Jo Protein raise Onnyounde, by Prof. Mulder, of Utrecht; On the Isisepais Oenstitainte of Rea Crops, rProf. ; s, Way; On DeesesperMis pedant Catalytic by ei and on the Morserer Case' of err, by Dr. Ie Playfair ; Boras ea the loam= of Light on the Gwortit of Plante, by Mr. Haat —adios C. dpaper by Mr. Z. Ciasbre es Anima Bea of another by O. Bram mil Mr. Moor en Use a the Nrigi leuebeed et Newham& end Sarked, es the Cohy voiles Slate Beda—la BeWmt D the Nye* mos On two mew Specie.. of Cowan, by Mr. J. E. Oa the null of =Sowerbii, by Dr. Melville; On to the mash by Mr. W. Thompson ; Reeneeke on Steen alleages newel the Alternation of Goaminiene, by Dr. =; Oa the Plant yielding Gotta Peirsim, by Dr. ; Oa the Use of Outte Fuchs in Stsirdibg Ob oe N History (with exhibition of syssbueno, n tr. B ask;On the Periodical Appareling Birds at , rent, by Mr. .1. Blackwell, P.L.S.—In Oration E. The • Corposcules of the Blood of the Aambioxus Laaceolatur, by Mr. Halley ; The Increase and Aggravatlaa at ve laScartina, consequent upon want of diet, b 7 Bee. T. Saida RIP marks on the Vital Principle, by Mr. Billet; mot in Section F, a paper by R. Velpy, Beg. The ansarces of the Irish Sea Fisheries, read by Mr. Porter, mad an account drawn from a renew prosaaal to th e India House in 1847 of the rermone, slatbelse, esseg, population, &c., of the Rath Woolen Provisos of British ametitating the Air" eversonint, were the subjects brought Onward. The Mae of Cameo, who, it will be observed, is ward ft the nseligkel section, is a constant esieriess a the briar of Ise evarriets. Numbers from minas parts of tie ai V' madase to wire, and name yens day I Owe ben bees ea increase in the assaltee M Hein" Wt "Oft Wijk Notirithatand te erriere seseennelidnin Waled 'the coUrgea, ledrimps in es • eeriarebie pram , and the taw isensesi thew anal es bNT: for a bed. Amongst the gar nerd rah a• M. wirier and K. Milne Edwards, hew Paris; Predissare—Ehrenberg, front Berlin; Blume, tea Goillialengrg *amain, ?TM Geneva; and Dr. Gibson, Profiteer of reggewp a the Hat venity of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Lob*. hilaillOadelphia. To-night Prot nor Powell is to deliver a Swum in the Radcliffe Library on Ailing stars. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BIRXINOMAY.—Mr. Kautz issued hie address to the slu ices mentos ;it very therasterisec of the man. .Tbe gindlenmsk en maid, heeds hie girds with a qua dded dna - smeeribs MIL Or dds musks Goldsmith is his choice, sod be sutras do woiLkimods lbw— Igeordmi lo to hr s. ergs* dr /OWN priors& By drelders dablerd to* wry* Mar. be Tbstakee : _ I didt ad soM sop pianoeNei.i arm bard( duo mob Nil %ORIN ildt mit amidst Yeassb to lielb the amid. tram mad Sr twells; tot I rosy Me Ma d i kb wig kr sta. 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