The Express. — London, England, 1848-07-01 00:00:00

ghe Orpregos. MAULS. The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nunn, Havana, Honduras, New Orleans, Vera (.Ims, 'Tampico, and Porto Rieo, and including those for Madeira, Jactnel, earth:wen+, Santa Martha, Chagres, l'anaroa, West Coast of South Americo, and St. Juan-de. Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the Tat. July. The mails for the Brazils, the River ''late, Monte Video, Perham. buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the evening of the 4tb July. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cad* and Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of the 7th July. The Mtli:, for British North America, and the United States, will be mate up on the evening of the 7th July. The overland ckr'od made, rid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, (long-Kong, &c., will be made up on the evening of the ;di July. The overland mails lot Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Mends, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, 'long-Kong, and China, cis Southamp ton. wilt be made up on the morning at the 20th July. The mails for New South Welles, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Slot July. The mode fur the Wt at - avast of Africa and Medeire will be made ap on the evening of the Slat July. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of On Stomp-orfice, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number issued to the Mornsng Herald, Morning Chronicle, enJ MOTtlifti Post, Am. PUT TOOETHEK. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Newnan? Paver, there were issued for the Evenits7 Edition, TUE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, then were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. HIGH DAVID AT LONDON SMOG& T.,. D,,—ltomtA, , ..!ala mot I; ittsgreu l 9 ANA.pul : To-soasem—Mamou. sia.uot 2: Afteneek, WA put 7. LONDON. SATURDAY, JULY 1. THE CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER last night communicated to the House of Commons two disco veries which ministers have recently made. One is, that the excess of expenditure over income in the pre sent year will probably be less by 1,335,0001. than was expected ; in other words, that instead of the excess being about two millions, it will be less than half a million. The other is, that he has " gone through the navy and ordnance estimates with the First Lord of the Admiralty," and "they have satis fied themselves that without in any degree impairing the efficiency of those services, a reduction on the year might easily be effected." Sir CHARLES also, in the name of his colleagues, held out hopes of some further economies. We have deemed it our duty as journalists to lose no time in directing attention to these important in timations. As to the prospect held out of a more favourable yield of revenue than was originally anti cipated, we must decline pronouncing an opinion till we have had time to examine more deliberately and minutely the CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER'S grounds for becoming more hopeful. We frankly confess that to us the time and circumstances in which the announcement is made, appear to warrant sus picion. With only a majority of 15 in favour of going into committee on a measure which must inevitably increase expenditure and diminish income, ministers most naturally be tempted to pat the best face on their financial prospects. The announcement respecting the contemplated re duction of expenditure in the naval and ordnance departments requires no delay before an opinion of its merits be expressed. Why was the inquiry which has shown that these reductions may "easily" be ef fected, " without in any degree impairing Me efficiency of these serrices," not earlier instituted ? It is impossible to recall the denunciations so recently uttered by ministers and their abettors against all who questioned the necessity of augmenting the ex pense of our defensive establishments without feeling indignant at the easy pick-tooth tone in which Sir CHARLES intimates the result of the late and ap parently perfunctory examination of the estimates which he and the first lord of the Admiralty have condescended to make. They have trifled egregiously with the public in a matter of vital importance. We trust that this confession of the desultory, reck less manner in which the national expenditure is dealt with by ministers will not be lost upon earnest re formers. If, to gild the pill of the ministerial We.t Indian measure, so much gold can be " easily" scraped off the navy and ordnance estimates, they may rest assured that closer inspection and resolute urgency will enable men in office to discover the pos sibility of still further curtailing expenditure. We will return to this subject. TIIE greatest enemies of the working classes are those who teach them to disregard economical laws, and direct their hopes towards impossibilities for the improvement of their condition. To this class alike belong the seemingly benevolent, who tell the sons of labour that they can obtain a greater reward for their toil by compulsory limitations of the hours of labour, thereby lessening its productiveness, and the land schemers, who from sheer ignorance, or with indirect objects, preach the occupation of two or four acres of land at extravagant rents as the salvation of the work ing classes. We have given our readers some notion of the delusive character of that modern instance of charlatanry, Mr. F. O'Corligoa's " Land Company," and of its ludicrous absurdity as a means of establish ing any considerable number of labour ing men as cot tage farmers. And though it is obvious that only a few of the subscribers to the " company can ever hope to obtain an allotment ; yet such is the confidence of each in his own good fortune, that we have no expectation that any amount of exposure will prevent many of the working men still becoming du f e"nd yielding to the temptation of a land lottery. It may be said that the impotence of the scheme to work out its professed objects will prevent it from being extensively mischievous. But that is a mistake. The number of Mr. O'CONNOBN illiOtteti may not be very numerous, but indirectly, the scheme will be most extensively mischievous. In the first place, the project places in the hands of a man not remarkable for sagacity or knowledge, larg e funds , which he may or may not apply to the p for which they were subscribed. He may amuse himself with buying farms, and laying them out in plots of two, three, or four acres, and employ the funds of the "company" in erecting cottages; or he may use the money in supporting " conventions" of foolish instigators to disorder and sedition. He may expend his collected thousands in illus trating practically to the people of Hertfordshire or Worcestershire, the evils of Irish pauperism; or he may assist—unintentionally, doubtless—in promoting turbulence in the streets of London. But, whatever he may like to do with the " company 'a" funds — whether to enact the squire Bountiful, and build pretty cottages, or to preside over a " national convention" of patriots paid by himself, he is abso lutely uncontrolled. The worst and most enduring evil, however, is, that it teaches large numbers of uninformed men to look to the realisation of the scheme as the means of improving their condition. Such a delusion may operate widely—far beyond the members, numerous though they be, of the " Land Company." Already we have seen that one proprietor in Lincolnshire has been endeavouring, under the auspices of Mr. O'CONNOR, to let out his land upon the same plan ; and who can tell that other benevolent landed proprietors may not be smitten with a promised rental of 51. per acre, and over look the reversionary pauperism it will en tail ? For, let it not be forgotten that pauperism must increase in this country in an accelerated ratio, wheresover any number of labouring people shall attempt to make a living by the cultivation of plots of land of four acres and under. The greatest sufferers front this state of things must, of course, be the poor deluded workmen. Of this, we have no doub', Mr. o'oo:grimes opera tions will soon furnish abundant illustrations. We note that in the Northern Star of last Satur day, Mr. O'CONNOR gives a long account of what he has done with the funds subscribed, which, though not very explanatory, we shall on a future occasion advert to, as affording glimpses that may be useful; and, at the end of that account, he complains that nobody ever comes to look at his farms, simply because they are his, though all other " im provers" of land in any way notorious, are inundated with curious visitors : and then he proceeds to comfort himself and his neglected allottees in this strain : But, never mind, you and I will go on—your confidence and my exertions—undiminished b, the eland. r of the hy pocrite or the je.,lotoy of the rival, till I see every son of labour who is willing to live in the sweat of his brow located in his own sentry-box, upon hit own labour-field—my sys. tern making the rich richer and the poor rich—until I see net a pauper or oppressor in the lead. _ _ _ Brave promises these, butwhat of the performance? Now, it the reader will accompany us, we will con duct him over one of these settlements, and let him see what we have learnt in this present month of June, 1848. At Herringsgate, about two miles from Rickmansworth, iu Hertfordshire, there was a small farm of 106 acres, the soil being a light gravelly loam on a chalk subsoil ; the situation is elevated, and the value of the land could not have exceeded 20s. per acre. This farm was bought by Mr. O'CONNOR for rather less than 191. per acre, and forms his first settle ment ; the commencement of his plan for making " the poor rich." The fences and all the original buildings having been cleared away, the farm was allotted out into lots of two, three, and four acres each ; on each lot a cottage was built ; and in April, 1847, thirty fortunate prizeholders in the land lottery were located. Every lot had been in part planted with potatoes and barley, and 7!. 10s. per acre was allowed in money to each person. The rent of each was five per cent. upon the outlay, including the cost of purchasing, clearing, laying out, and planting the land, building the cottage, and the advance of 71. 1O per acre. This the allottees expected would be about 41. rr acre, but there was nothing defined, and no title whateter had been made to the settlers. A few of them had a little money of their own, but the greater number had nothing more than the sum we have named, and some of them were so poor that a part of their money allowance was ex pended in removing them to the location, then desig nated O'Connorville. _ . Last summer at harvest time the prospects of the settlers were not promising ; they had no outhouses, their crops were extremely scanty, and very few 01 them had the means of making any effective prepara tion for the next year's crops. Even then some were desponding, while others, finding that it was some thing worse to cultivate land without capital than to work for wages, had disposed of their lots at a pre mium to persons rather above the condition of labourers, and possessed of some money. Others, again, were hopeful, though their hope seemed somewhat of the forlorn. How they all con trived to get through last winter we cannot well understand. They, however, have not as yet been called upon to pay any rent—indeed their rents are not yet fixed—and they all had a further sum of 51. per sere granted by the " company " to enable them to get in their spring crops. Some boards and materials for rough outbuildings had also been brought to them. They may therefore be said to have been fully started on the road, according to Mr. O'CONNOR, to grow " rich." If so, their path is a thorny one. On visiting the settlement last week, we found that a few of them—six or seven at most—being men with some capital had fair crops of wheat, potatoes, and barley, but not better than those of the farmers in the district, who pay a rent of about 20s. per acre for the same kind of land. When,' therefore, the most successful allottees are called upon to pay their three or four pounds per acre, it is difficult for a practical farmer to understand how they can possibly pay such rents and live. Their cottages, though smart—stuccoed and white-washed—to the eye, are very slight, the walls being only four inches thick, will soon want constant repair, while their outbuildings are of the most fragile construction. If, therefore, the most successful con trive to live, it will be by incessant toil, or by adding some other °mutation to that of a cottage farmer. But the condition of the majority was really pitiable. There was not one, whose means had not been much beyond the " company's " allowances, whose crops would even pay the rest, should any rent be de manded, or keep him through the winter should there be no demand of rent. That four out of every five can go through the winter and crop their land for next year, to say nothing about rent, without extra neous assistance, is out of the question. They have scarcely anything beyond a few potatoes. Some of the oats and barley' will barely return the seed sown, and their wheat will not average ten bushels to the acre. Since last harvest several have left, and there are now eight of the settlers anxious to dispose of their allot ments and get back to their weekly labour and weekly wages, from which they have been so unhappily lured. Nothing but very high cultivation could en able them to live at all, and then only by growing market-garden produce, for which in fact they have no available market.. But they have no means, nor any chance of procuring the means, to cultivate their land highly ; and the moment any attempt is made to collect their rents they must become mere potato eaters, like the Irish, or fall back upon parish relief. Such is the aspect of " O'Connorville," where the " sons of labour " are to be made " rich," by farming without capital at a high rent. Our limits do not permit us now to give details which would illustrate the scheme, but we say to the incurious public, take Mr. O'CONNOR at his word and visit his location. No man need fear that he will be seduced by his visit from any industrious avocation, to become " rich" as a cottage farmer under the auspices of the "national bailiff." One word more: in the letter of last week Mr. O'CONNOR enumerates amongst his grand doings the erection of " four magnificent schoolhouses." Now at Herringsgate the schoolhouse has never yet been furnished with forms or desks; the master, who has been appointed only s few months, has no salary, and is unable to induce the settlers to pay for their children's schooling. He has two pupils only, and they do not belong to the settle ment. His only remuneration is the dwelling-house and two acres of the worst land on the place, hope lessly overrun with weeds, which obtained complete mastery before his appointment. BELGlUM.—Bauesms, JUNE 29.—The committee appointed by the senate to draw up the address in reply to the King's speech has already laid it before the chamber. The following extracts from it will show that it is something more than an echo of the royal discourse: "Belgium, calm, confiding, and strong, in the presence of the agitation which excites Europe, is happy to acknowledge that she is indebted for that situation as much to the wisdom of her King, who has understood and carried out the rules of constitutional government, as to the good sense and patriotism of her children. This attitude of the nation has gained for us the esteem and sympathy of all the powers; and, notwithstanding the changes which Wave taken place in the political state of our neighbours, our official rela tions with them have undergone no alteration. We congratulate your Majesty that our relations with France are established on terms of mutual good. will. • • • • The senate learns with satisfaction that the subsidise voted have been prudently employed, and that they will suffice to attain the end of the year, if unforeseen complications do not arrive. The taxpayers, after two bad years, can scarcely satisly the wants of the moment. They will only be able to respond to new calls by imposing on themselves the severest privations. In conjunction with your Majesty's government we recognise the necessity of fundamentally modifying seve ral imposts ; but in such matters it is nectssary to proceed with prudence and ripeueas of judgment. We acknowledge, above all, the necessity of seeking out the most suitable means of ameliorating the condi ion of the laborious classes. It is not, however, by artificial ani temporary measures, nor with the aid of dangerous utopias that such a result can be obtained, but by morally improving the working population, by restoring commerce and industry, snd by employing the unoccupied in the cultivation of waste lands. The sound practical sense and philanthropical sentiments of our fellow•citirens will cooperate with the government in securing the moral and material welfare of that interesting portion of our population." This afternoon the senate was occupied with the discussion of the address in question. Id. Verbaegeo has been elected president of the Chamber of Representatives, which is still occupied with business of a natal. Oen, and s the able arguments of hishon. friend (Mr. Bright) had not been answered, but merely met by a financial state ment of the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, w hich was very gratifying in some respect., it was but fair and tight that a qu. stion in which the public had so much interest should be bully dixussed. (Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said that as the able speech of the hon. member fur Manchester had not been answered he thought the hon. member fur the West Riding ought to be eatisfi , d with that, without snaking another speech in sup. por t o f it. (Laughter.) Mr. COBDEN aaiu the question was one of principle, and he thoug74 it ought W be discussed on its merits. After a few words trom Mr. M. GIBSON, Mr. BRIGHT said it was not at all neceisary that the measure should past before the sth July ; and seeing that gentl.men opposite had bad two debates and two divisions, be thought it hard th.t the advocates of free trade should be shut out from discussion by forcing the present debate to conclusion. The gallery was cleared, when, as we were afterwards in• formed, the mo•ion f r adjournment was withdrawn, and a division take.' o. the main question. The numbers were— For the resolution 302 Against it After a abort discussion, The CHAIRMAN reported progress. Report to be received no Mondry°. it, it being understood that the further discus sion of the pestir shaeld he concluded on that evening. ae was.. PARLI AM ENTARY ELECTORS BILL. Sir D:I::EVANS flaying moved the reports on this bill, Mr. FORBES moved that the house do sojourn, objecting to procee! with the measure at so late an hour. Co!. S 1 BTIIORP seconded tne amendment, which was supported by Col. Cottony, Mr. Henley, and other hon. gen tlemen. Capt. PECIIELL suppgrtcd the original motion. AMr some conver•ati.sn the repot was p daponed WI Monday neat, and the house adjourned at a quarter past 1. ELECTION Commirras—Dußurc—The scrutiny was rontinu d yesterday, aid Ilk Tat+ were struck off the sitting members' majonty. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1848. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY MORIIIXO. The event of yesterday wee the election of M. Marie to the Presidency of the Assembly, which I announced in my despatch of list evening. In many respects this election is significant. The Assembly desired to extricate the individual member of the late Executive Commission, who was eminently the representative of moderate opinions, the firm advocate of order, and the wetter of go vernmental authority, from the severe rebuke implied in the unceremonious measure by which that commission was thrust aside by the As sembly on the outbreak of the late insurrection, and it took this first opportunity of doing eo by raising him to the most honourable post vacated by the pre sent Minister of the Interior. M. Bastide has been appointed Minister of Marine instead of Admiral Leblanc, who has declined to take office; and General Bedeen replaces M. Bastide as Minister of Foreign Affairs. There are three generals of the army of Africa now in the government—Generals Cavaignac, Bedeau, and Lamonetere ; and a fourth general, Changarcier, will have the command of the national guard. One of the standards seised by the garde mobile on the barricades, and deposited in the assembly, bears the inscription " Pillage for three hours." The insurgent prisoners proclaim the meet detest able principles with all the energy and enthusiasm of a religious faith. Several of them have in this way declared that all proprietors were robbers, and that such was the principle for which they fought and died. ----- An anonymous letter, or address, which ap peared in the official part of the Moniteur a few days since, has excited much attention and not a little indignation. This document is addressed to the inhabitants of Paris by one of their fellow-citizens, and signed "a combatant of June." It was separately printed on I slips and sent to the different journals in the same manner in which the government is accustomed to send official documents which they desire to have widely circulated. It bore the imprint of the press of the National Assembly. Yesterday it was posted as a placard in all quarters of Paria, but not like a government document as when inserted in the Moniteur, but on blue and yellow paper, the government documents being, as is well known, distinguished by white paper. It is conjectured that this manifesto was the expiring breath of one of the socialist members of the late ministry, who at the moment of leaving office availed himself of tl.e Moniteur to give it an authorative circulation. The following are extracts from the document we refer to: PARIS, Jose 27.—A few days since you appeared to be divided into as many camps so there were among you passions and interests. Every day some new want created a new division. A volcano has burst under your feet; the cannon has thundered ; the hand of God lies heavy on you ; you, brothers, have fought amongst yourselves, and killed each other ; and you have found in presence of danger, in union that which will never fail to anion, power. I have seen you all united against being led away, against madness, against the criminal attempts of conspirators and anarchists fur the common safety, for the safety of the republic. Inhabitants of Paris, a republican government can alone sustain such struggles without falling. It is only in the name of all and with the common oonaent that the diseased arm can be removed to preserve the head and the heart. Union should not only create power but reason, judgment, patience, and justice. What would be union if neither just nor rational? Let this cruel lesson be read to the profit of all! Let us be humble before the rivers of blood which have flowed, and this union born of force; and may reason—that sovereign reason, that France has always found in extreme danger—preserve her. Unite yourselves, then, not for or against the past, of which none of you are innocent, but for the future, all of the rights of which, all the duties, all the guaranties, lie in three words,' Libene, Egalitf, Fraternitie.' The conquests of the republic should secure, should increase, the material welfare of those whom the order of things had forgotten, but the realisation of these material conquests can only be effected after more valuable conquests, because by these alone can they be assured. I speak of the conquest of those moral and political rights which consecrate the equality of all the citizens in the country, and which in a few years, if we please, will make Republican Franca the greatest, the most envied, and the mu at loved of all nations. The only Paris journal which palliates or ex tenuates the horrors perpetrated by the insurgents for the last week is that which is understood to ex press the sentiments of M. Ledru Rollin, and of which M. Flocon is the ex-editor. I mentioned yesterday a meeting of the members of the moderate majority, at which it was resolved to support any ministry who would adopt certain mea sures considered necessary to the restoration of order. This meeting, which took place in the Ruede Poitiers, and was attended by • large number of the ex-de puties and the moderate party of the new deputies, re solved that the following measures were indis pensable, and such as would alone entitle any government at present to their support.-1. The rigorous disbanding and disarming of those national guards who refused to co-operate in resisting the re cent insurrection ; 2. The maintenance of a garrison in Paris strong enough to resist such attempts as those of May and June; 3. The immediate dissolu tion of the ateliers naVonaux ; 4. The temporary closing of the clubs; 5. The provisional maintenance of restrictions on the press. A committee of seven were named, who put them selves immediately in communication with General Cavaignac, and it is understood that the ministry which his just been formed has received their ac- I quiescence. The following is the latest report of the superior officers killed and wounded in the insurrection:— General Negrier—killed. General Brea—assassi nated. General Francois—killed. General Reg naud—killed.—General Bourgea received a ball in the thigh ; amputation is impossible and his recovery very doubtful. General Corm wounded in the leg; his state is satisfactory.— General Damesme : his leg has been amputated. There are some hopes of his recovery.—General Du vivier : wound in the foot—more serious than was first supposed.—General Foucher : wounded in at tacking a barricade in Faubourg du Temple. Thus nine general officers have been killed or wounded. The number of colcnels and superior officers put hors de combat is immense. On Tuesday a sentinel observed a cabriolet in which were two men, pass by him, which attracted his attention. Thinking the springs were more depressed than they would be by the ordinary weight of two men, he caled on the driver to stop and, after some difficulty in which it became neees sary to call on other soldiers, he did so. The men were obliged to descend, and on searching them and the cabriolet, a large sum in gold, of Russian coinage, and a considerable quantity of cartridges were found. When interrogated, they pretended not to understand French, and made the sentinel understand that they were Poles. A National Guard addressed them in Polish, but no reply ; in English and German, no better success was obtained. They were arrested, and taken before the Commissary of Police. They were armed with dagger-pistols. A great number of the balls extracted from the wounded of the National Guard and the army were composed of pieces of iron, which, by a refinement of cruelty, were pierced, and a piece of copper wire introduced which projected on each side. In many cases this has prevented the extraction of the ball, and the wounded have consequently died. On Wednesday there were at the Conciergstio 1,685 prisoners, who had been arrested on the buds codes or in the houses. The report that General Bedeau had suffered am putation of the leg, is unfounded : he is in a satisfactory state. The usual weekly account of the Bank does not appear in the Moniteur of this morning; but a diM dend on Bank shares of 30f. for the first six months of 1848 is declared, and officially published in the Moniteur. The body of a man who was a most furious dema gogue, and who was president of the Club des Droits de Plionirne i attended by large numbers of the workin classes, and who had acquired the soubriquet of "Tate de Bronze," has been recognised at the Morgue. He was killed at the barricade in the Rue Rochechourt. At five o'clock yesterday not more than 100 pri soners remained confined in the cellars of the Tuileries. As every 100 of the original number were interrogated, they had their arms bound behind their backs, and were sent off under escort to the Ecole Militaire, in the Champ de Mars, where they are to be individually and more closely examined. On Tuesday, as some national guards were search ing a house in the Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, found in a cellar 37 armed men, with 167 muskets, and instruments for casting balls, in their posseacion. The men surrendered without resistance. A druggist, near the Barriere Fontainebleau, hay- Mg boom denounced to a oompaa,y of the zultional guard for making acme of the gunpowder used by the insurgents, the company went to his shop to in quire into the matter. His wife threw herself at the feet of the captain to demand pardon, and mean while the man committed suicide by stabbing him self in three places with a dagger. The Marseilles papers announced the capture of Achmet-Bey, ex-Bey of Constantine, and long a de termined enemy of France. A letter from Lyons, dated in the afternoon of Tuesday, the 27th inst., says : " We are not yet without disquietude u to the disposition of the work men. The Voraces have still even pieces of cannon at the Croix Mousse, and will not give them up. General Gellman has given them till this evening. It is feared that this disarming will cost dear. The general has received unlimited powers. He believes that he can count sufficiently on the army not to have need of the national guard. The aspect of the city is tranquil at present. ITALY.—Advices from the bead-quarters of the Sardinian army of the 22nd, say that on the 20th an attempt was made to recover the plateau of Rivo li by a column of 3,000 Austrians. They were repulsed and put to flight, with the loss of 400 killed and wounded, We have advices from Milan to the 25th. It ap pears that a body of Austrians had made a sortie from Mantua on the 21th, and were repulsed with considerable loss. Advices from the fleet off Trieste of the 16th June say that the continuance of the blockade would speedily cause a revolution there. The city was already declared in a state of niego Letters from Venice of the 20th J une say that the provinces were menaced with attack at Mazzorbo, Malghera, Tresina, and Brondolo by a corps of 15,000 Austrians. The garrison of Venice cot slated of 20,000 men, and the city was well provided. General Pepe had the command. The Madrid math, with the journals and cor respondence of the 25th, have arrived. Carlist move ments in Navarre continue to be reported, but nothing official on the subject had been published. Insurrectionary movements were also reported in Catalonia. A Queen's messenger had arrived with an order for the retirement of Mr. Otway, keeper of the archives of the embassy, and his assistants. Mr. Brackenbury alone remained as consul. GERMANY. FRANKFORT.—In the sitting of the National Assembly, on the 27th, the divers proposals made as amendments to the original ono respecting the nomi nation of an executive power for t e whole of Ger many, came under discussiNt. The first proposal put to the vote was that of Baron Von Vineke, which was as follows:—" The National Assembly decides, reserving the consent of the German government; first, that, until the definitive foundation of a governmental power for Germany, a federal director shall be named to exercise that supreme power in all the common affairs of the German nation ; secondly, the federal director shall be named by the German governments. This motion was rejected, and that of the commis sion put to the vote and adopted. Though we have given the proposition of the commission in ez- Mnso we will here repeat that portion of it just adopted by the assembly. Until the defi , :itive creation of a . governmental power for Germany, a central provisional power will be named for carrying on the common affairs of the German confederacy. This central power will possess the attributes of supremacy in all matters concerning the security and general pro sperity of the German confederacy. It will have the superior direction of all the armed force, and will name its generalissimo. It will pro vide for the international and politico-commercial representation of Germany, and will name envoys and consuls. The central power will not con cur in the work of this constitution. An amendment to this motion, conceived as follows, was then put :—" The central provisimal power will pub lish and execute the resolutions of the National Assembly." This motion was negatived by 277 votes. against 261. Another amendment, to the following effect, was adopted by 408 votes against 143:—" The central provisional power ;e to decide, in conjunction with the National Assembly, on peace and war, and to conclude treaties with foreign powers." The latest account left the motion as to whether the central power should be confided to a president named by the free elections of the National Assembly in abeyance. AUSTRIA.—The Archduke John reached Vienna lon the 26th inst. _ We learn from lonsprack, under date Jane 24, that the Archduke Stephen, accompanied by two of the Hungarian ministers, arrived here quite un expectedly. The object of this visit is not yet known ; whether it be to escort the Emperor to the opening of the Hungarian Diet at Pesth, or to compel him to fulminate another decree against the Ban, is problematical. The diplomatic corps has nearly all left. PRUSSIA.—We have the Berlin papers of the 26th. The new ministers (whose names have been already published in this paper) have declared, in their programme, that they desire the permanent establishment of a constitutional monarchy, and that they are, therefore, partisans of the two-chamber system, and advocates of the principle that the two chambers and the King should jointly exercise the legislative power. The new cabinet, however, declares that the first chamber must be based on a more popular foundation than on the draft of the constitu tion laid before the National Assembly by the late government. Moreover, it announces several muni cipal and financial reforms, and a determination to I steer clear of the old political system as well as of anarcty. On the whole, the programme is a satisfac- tory one. The appointment of Herr Milde to the post of pub lic works (a very difficult one on account of the neces sity of finding employment for the working classes) has given great satisfaction. The new Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that there was nothing to cause anxiety for the present in the nature of the relations between Russia and Prussia. _ _ According to the Cologne Gazette, the preliminaries of peace between Denmark and Germany have been signed. Denmark and Schleswig are to be politically separated, and the right of stioceasion in the male line will be acknowledged. COLONIAL. NEW SOUTH WALES. We have received Sydney papers to the 4th of March. They are filled with complaints of the refusal of the emigrants, arrived in the Hyderabad, to engage u labourers, " except on conditions so absurd, that they would be impossible for the employers to fulfil." The Australian of 3rd March says: What will oar English readers think when they are informed that to the whole of the families who were disengaged on hoard the Hyderabad, on Monday bat, the following offer was made—and re fused by them— To each man a money-wage of 154. per annum, with 101. per annum additional for his wife ; whose only care (mare the almost nominal one of shifting the folds) would be to attend upon her husband ; together with the following ration, which we put down in the annual grins, ♦ia. : • Meat. Flour. Tee. Sugar. lbs. Its. lbs. lbs. Man's Ration Wife's ditto 620 620 13 104 Total .lbs. IWO 1040 96 206 /WI seals of moos aid Micas totegi4 goy, by lb* people .b i lernie bitbar Ira pidi by Ir^ mg whom gnat turoia ri In ur moat bays boo boollidoe 66 pei. la aEra owl kis wits foe ball of a Look radon at the Qtlal7 and Kole so cared sod w ripiteced. NEW ZEALAND. We have received Auckland papers to the 23rd of January. The following official notice is vehemently at tacked by the Southern Cross —the organ of the Bishop of New Zealand and the missionaries. To ns its object appears to be the substitution of a simple, expeditions, and econoini cal tribunal, for one remarkable for its complicated and ex penaies hems of procedure : The governor areas it to be notified for the hiformatton of the public, that no court of rsgaab will be holden kw the northern die. trlet or division of New Zaataa4 Irma and after the Sed day of February, 111411, and that Use (Moe el the said court wit dose upon Me 4th day of the said month and farther, that from and &Rent he said 4th d February, all claim and demands of a civil nature, whore the m or damp dallied shell not .arid 20f. my be heard and determined by the reddest magistrate, or any two or more justices of the pesos purenan. to the provolone of the resident magis trates' court atheism., session 7, Na 16.—8 y his eseellesay's com mand, Aunasw Ingez.tra, Odontal secretary. NATAL—By an order in council, lamed in last night's Gazette, agricultural implements may in future be imported lato Natal, Scull Africa, duty free. --- BUCKINGHAM PALACS, JUNE 27.—This day the Right Hon. J. G. Rrabason Rarl of B.uboroagh and the Right Hoe. 8. M. Phillipps were sworn of her Majesty . % Moat Honourable Privy Connell, and took their rupecuse pima at** board acoordiodlY. Cbt Court. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The royal diaper party yesterday at Buckingham Palace included the Duchess of Kent, the Marchioneeref Douglas, Lady Augusta Bruce, Bazoneu de Speth, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Bruce, Yemount Jootlyn, and Mr. Cl. E. Anson. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party on Thursday at Cambridge House. The company in cluded Prince George, Count Dietrichatein, the Austrian Ambassador, Baron de Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minister, Prince Wiliam Metternich, the Marchionew of Dangles, Baron Charles Hugel, the Marquis and Marchioness of pour°. Lord and Lady &muscle, and Mr. Henry and Lady Charlotte Lyster. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with their company at dinner yesterday evening at their residence in Arlington west. A deputation of gold and silver lace weavers, inclu ding Mr. Simpsoa, Mr. Jobs Bine, and Mr. D. Smith, had an interview with Sir 0. Grey yesterday at the Home office. Sir Henry Light had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Coloni►l-office. Colonel W. L. Freestuu, M.P., had an interview ' with Sir G. Grey yesterday Mr. Towneley had also an in terview yesterday with the right hon. baronet. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial. office for the Governor of Canada, and also for the governors of the other North American provinoes ; des- I patches were also sent off for the governors of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. D, snatchen worn received yesterday at the eOlO - from the Governor of Gibraltar. (From last night's Onzette.) FORETON-OVFICE, JUNE 28.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Senor Francisco Loustan, as Consul at St. Lucia tar the republic of Venezuela. FOREIGN•OFFICE, JUNE 28.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John G. Dodd, as Consul at New castle-upon-Tyne, for the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. WARAFITCE, Joan 30. 2nd Regt. of Life Gds.--Cor. and Sub-Lieut. E. F. Wingfield, to be lieut., by pur., vice King, who ret.; Coe. and Sub-Lieut. A. C. D. Ilawksley, to be Kent, by pur., vice Hesketh, who ret . Corporal- Major .1. Awty (ridingmast), to be oor. and Bent, without pay; 0. T. Heald, gent, to be ace. and sub.lieut, by pur., vice Wingfield; the Hon. C. B. Lyon, to be me. and sub-lieut., by par., vice Hawks. Ith Drag. Gds.—Lieut. T. Jones, to be cant, by par, vice Jacob, who ret.; Cor. J. Collingwood, to he lieut., by pur., vim Jones. 3th Drag. Oda.—Lieut. E. V. Mackinnon, from h..p. 16th Lt. Drag., to be paymaster, vice 11. A. Jackson, vtlOo reverts to Ms former 11.. p. let Ent of F.—Lieut.W.J.Baropfield to be paymest, vice Kitchell, . . . nun —AnaliM-Surg. A. C. Webster, hum 21st P., to be stug., vice J. Davtibion, who rev, on Wiley Stnd F.—Lieut. W. R. C. S. Wndeaforde, from 80th F., to be lieuL, vise Hume, who =changes. 67th F.—Ens. O. A. M.Nair, to be lieut., by par., vice Peel, who rev; C. Matthews, gent., to be ens., by par., vice Witrair. 7lst Dr...bigger, gent., to be ens., by pur., vice Canyng /tame, app. to Royal Canadian Ride Regiment. 7 Oh J. Corrigan, gent., to be au., by pur., vice Crawley, app. to the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards flOth F.—Lieut. IS. J. Hume, from 62nd F., to be lieut., vice Wanda. fordo, who exchanges. Royal Canadian itifie Regiment—Ens. W. C. Prend, to be lkaL, by our., vice Young, who rat ; Eon. W. A. M. Cunynghame, from 71st F., to be ens., vise Frond. EiIIiATUM in the Gazette of 23rd June, 1818.-33 th F.—For B. L. Craster, gent, to be ens., by pur., vice Blyth, who ret.; Road, via Blyth, promoted. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—Yesterday, the anti:tat distribution of prizes to the students of this college, in the department of litersture and science, took place, the Bishop of Lichfield in the chair. The following were the successful candidates : Department of General Literature and Science--Divinity: 0. Marten, 11. M. Maugham, J. li. Orde, F. N. Farrar, E. Thompeon. Latin Verse . C. H. Pearson. Latin Emmy : W. J. Itrodrihb. Classics : E. Thompson, W. J. Brodribb, F. N. Farrar, T. 'Umber. English Verne : Original Timm, G. Murray trenslation, G. Murray. lenglish Fray E. J. 8. Dicey. English Literature: H. J. 8. Dicey, J. IL Orde, F. N. Ferrer. Mathematics: R. Wilson. W. D. Gardiner, R. 8. Lam, C. W. Deeenirh, H. A. Morgan, H. T. S. Dicey. Hebrew C. F. Norman, J. Grietel, J. IL Knox. French: R. B. Lane. Ger man :E.J. 8. Dicey. Department of the Applied Sciences—Divinity: J. Hicks, R. W. Buckley, 0. Murray. Mathematics: F. Hilton, P. W. De ouctterille, W. Grain. Natural Philosophy : C. J. Spenser, P. Bolton, 11. C. Heath, W. Grain. Arts of Construction : J. IL Park. Manufacturing Alt and Machinery : S. B. Daniell, 11. C. Heath. Sur -9991111t J. 11. Park, H. C. Heath. J. T. Lepard, F. Bolton. Geometrical Drawling : H. C. Heath, T. Batton, W. Bubitrode. Che- =Wry : J. J. W. Watson, W. Bidatrode. Chemical lianipulatica H. Hooper, 1819, H. Whitcombe, 1817. Geology J. J. W. lA'atson, J. Melia Mineralogy : H. C. Heath, F. B. Miller. Workshop : H. J. Arthur, W.A. Boulton. Certilltatee of Honour.—Associates.—De pertment of General Literature and Science .7 G. Gaineford. J. Criebel, C. E. Harlow, S. F. Jones. H. M. MAUSI.II2, U. RumelL Department of the Applied Sciences: J. J. Barrow, W. Bulauode, F. A. Burgett, R. Deuce, .1. Hicks, IL Hooper, H. heeling, E. Kingston, J. H. Park, A. Simone, P. Boerne', E. IL Thomas. Scholars.—Department of General Literature and Science.—Senior Classical : 11. J. Brodribb. Junior ditto: C. IL Penman. Senior Mathematical: E. Wile in. Junior ditto: W. H. Gardiner. Department of the Applied Sciences. —Senior Scholar, : lobo Hicks, C. J. Spencer. Junior ditto : Thos. . . . _ At the conclusion of the distribution of prizes the Duke of Cambridge proposed a vote of thanks to the Bishop of Lich field, for his kindness in taking the chair; and said, the re port they had listened to that day of the state of the college was the most favourable one he had ever heard.—The Bishop of Llandaff having seconded the proposition it was carried, and the right rev. prelate having acknowledged the compli ment the proceedings terminated. THE SHERIFFS' ENTERTAINMENT TO THE JIIDOEB.—Last evening the Sheriffs of London and Middle sex gave their annual dinner to her Majesty's judges and a large number of distinguished visitors at Fishmongers'-hall. Among the t nests were the Bahop of Llandaff, Lord Ren dlesham, the Vice-Chancellor of England, the Lord Chief Baron, Baron Parke, Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Cromwell, Baron Platt, &e. The dinner, which was supplied by Messrs. Ring and Brymer, of Cornhill,was of a quality well worthy of the occa sion. On the cloth being removed the "loving cup" was administered by Mr. Harker the tout-master. After which Mr. Sheriff Cubitt proposed "The He alth of the Queen," which was drunk with every loyal demotration. The other routine touts were proposed by Mr. Sheriff Cubitt and Mr. Sheriff Hill alternately. The toast of "The Clegg , ' w as ac knowledged by the Bishop of Llanda ff ,and thatof "The Army" by Major Moore. "The Health of her Majesty's Ministers" followed, proposed by Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, and that of the Lord Mayor by Mr. Sheriff Hill, who regretted that the oh servance of civic etiquette prevented his lordship from being present upon the occasion.—Mr. Sheriff Cubitt then rose to propose what may be called the toast of the evening. He observed that one of the main elements of the security of the country was the right administration of the law. They had bad many opportuines of observing the manner in which those important duties were performed by the judges of the conntry —the jsatient investigation of details—theimpartiality which they displayed—their freedom from all external influences— and, lastly, the mercy with which their judgments were always tempered. Such were the attributes of those dim' tinguished individuals, whose business it was to perform the most important functions of the constitution, and with the company of several of whom they were that night honoured. Anything that be could say would fall far short of the merits of thus distinguished persons, and he felt that it would be something like impertinence to occupy the time of the com pany by tieing his notions upon the subject. He would therefore conclude by giving them " The Health of her Majesty's Judges." The toast was received with due honours. It was acknowledged by the Vice-Chancellor of England. To those who were acquainted with the history of England the manner in which the great question of the laws of the country bad been con ducted must be manifest; and he considered that its admi nistrators had produced a state of affairs in this country to which other nations might be approaching, but at which they certainly had not arrived. It was the opinion of those who had studied English history that the course of the law had been carried on with the greatest possible purity for the last 150 years. On the part of himself and the learned judges he could only express them gratification at the compliment which had been paid to them. He hoped before he sat down that they would allow hint to give one toast which was intimately connected with the earliest history of the law of this country, its earliest administrator, having been the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, whose health he begged to propose to them. The toast was received with all the honours and was briefly responded to by Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, who observed that although they had experienced during their period of office many compliments of a similar kind it had never before been paid to them by so distinguished an assembly. Among the other touts subsequently given were " Lord Rendlesham and the other Members of the House of Commons," "The City Magistrates," "The Ueda r Sheriff," &c. All of which were suitably acknowledged. The party broke up shortly after ten o'clock. EXCLUSION OF THE CITY FROM THE METROFO - Sonvar.—lt is currently rumoured in quarters not likely to be misinformed on the subject, that " the City " si to be excluded in the general survey of the metropolis and its environs, which is now being actively prosecuted. The present occupation of the cross of St. Paul's as an observing ' station, and the placing of objects on some of the church towers within the City is no proof that the rumour, improba ble as it may appear, is unfounded ; the occupation of the one being necessary, if not indispensable, for the reduction of the " bases" to be used in the metropolitan survey, from the primary " triangulation " of the country, and the erec tion of the objects being essential for the fixture of certain ascertainable points on the public buildings. The space it I should occupy upon the map is to be represented, if we are correctly informed, by about 24 square feet of blank paper. The Builder. PROCLAMATION OP OUTLAWRY.—At the London sessions yesterday the following persons were called upon to surrender, under process of outlawry :—S. Ellis Bristowe, late of Newark, Notts; Henry Petteson, and J. Godfrey Bellingham Hudson. FIRE NEAR FREEMASONS' TAVERN.—Yesterday forenoon, a little after ten o'clock, a fire brake out in a range of carpenter's shops in Wild-court, Lincoln's-inn-fields, at the rear of the Freemasons' Tavern, which besides destroying a considerable quantity of property for some time greatly jeopardised toe latter building. To prevent the fire from injuring the hall of the Freemasons persons were obliged to mount the roof and pour water down the wall. The engines of the London establishment and West of England promptly attended, and plenty of water having been obtained torrents weft midterm over the fire, in spite of which it con tinued to burn most fiercely for upwards of two hours. Ow ing to the strenuous exertions of the firemen they at length succeeded in getting the flalnta extinguished . The pried* sulkers in iararisl. THE REFORM MOVEMENT. EAST SCEREV.—A preliminary meeting of the re. formers of East Surrey was held at the Bridge.houre Hotel, London.bridge, yesterday, at three o'clock. Capt. Fitzroy took the chair, and opened the proceedings by stating that they met to give their support to the resolutions brought be fore the House of Commons by Mr. Hume, and ti originate • grand movement in the country to carry oat the objects which he and other liberal members in the House of Commons had in view in the event of his failing in the present instance in that house, Mr. Russell was one of those who thought that it was just the time to make such a movement u this. He thought that, owing to the fact that they had been progressing, how ever slowly, during a few years past, they were not now in the condition in which many of the neighbouring countries stood—(hear)—and he believed that the only true mode of putting down disaffection in this as well as all other countries consisted in extending to the people a furtker portion of what he was in the habit of cowl tering their rights. The propositions which they met to support bore everywhere the name of Mr. Hume, but they were known not to have issued from him alone, but also from a large body of the In sobers of parliament, having among them the leading in, tubers of the Anti-Corn-Law League ; and there were rainy ethers who were inclined to give them googol., but who, from their position, and their connex,on in some way or other with the present government, could not be induced to express or carry out their political views.—Several gentlemen tnen addressed the meeting, whose sentiments were embodied in the resolu tions which follow: I. That the meeting was of opinion that the present secure position and tins:nullity of England in the moist of European revolution and war la mainly attributable to the progress recently mods in the ex tension of popular rights and the removed of restrictions upon trade and that the earliest opportunity ehoukt be taken .111 further to cement the union of this great community by enlarging the bash of their rennownevinn. and ►y rendnrin, nnycenitex tne re"tioa of the corrupt Area at elections, the exposure of which tro tended so much to lower the existing parliament in public estimation. 2. That without denying the rights of the people ton larger eaten ' *ion of the suffrage than was there proposed, and with tit being is. different to the exertions of those who wete seeking to accomplish more complete reforms, the meeting was desirous that the should anomalies with which the Reform Act abounded Mould now be dis pensed with, that the franchise should be extended to nll, that the votes at elections should be taken by ballot, that in the arrangement of the electoral divisions the apportionment of members to consti tuents should be as equal so orshit4e, and that the duration of esch parliament should be limited to three years. 3. That for the accomplishment of the objeetstated in the preceding resolutions an Annieintioll be formed by thine warm, tt e cal= the "East Surrey Parliamentary lickerM League," not that a com mit= be appointed to form rules for the government of the =this thin, and to endeavour to secure the hewn of the organisation and =choler, of the Ent Surrey Free Trade Satiety, which In little more then two years sue ceded in changing the face of the register sufll - to return too reformers and fen tinders in the mace of two conservative. and protectionists, who had previously commai.ded a majority of 1,200 rotes. These resolutions were carried non. con., and the meeting separated, baring voted their thanks to the• chairman and the other gentlemen who brought them together. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Jews 29. There will be a special meeting of the committee of the Repeal Association to-morrow, to deliberate on the posture of affairs, and principally the question of dissolution. Mr. J. O'Connell persists firmly in his resolve. Very powerful influence, it is said, had been brought to bear on his obstinacy, but without avail. A patriotic tradesman describes, in the Limerick and Clare Eraminer, an interview between the Ft len Club of the City of the Treaty and Mr. S. O'Brien. The deputation set off to Cabirmoyle, and had a long interview with the hou. member. An address having been presented, Mr. O'Brien delivered a rira race to his " brother felons," in which, inter a/ a, he urged the necessity of organising clubs throughout all the laud. Having concluded the affair at Cabirmoyle the members dropped into military array, under their " commander,' and marched " down the hill." At the lastHanturk Sessians the criminal calendar was peculiarly heavy. There were over 300 cas. in which the offences were traceable to hunger. Among the offenders were numerous children, be tween 7 and 12 years, charged with transportable offences. The grand jury of lianturk passed a series of resolutions at the late quarter sections, in reference to this subject, which speak ill for the effective admi nistration of the poor law in the Mallow diarict : Resolved.—That te grand juror., assembled at the Kanturk Sessioett, in June, ISO, etall3l% separate without [Noosing their foreman to draw the attention of the dui-man and the bench of Inagurvies or tde iiit - ifiTOW Of LT.; Oo . ti - ntFOI . 6;;; to tOO - O - uni: her of man of larceny which have been returned to tbi4 1 , 418i01113 for trial, and of which many have been avowedly committed for the "- ' , purpose of obtaining support while in fraoL —That tenni. Bering that a number ut children of very tender yews hove been charged with such offences, especially from the distnet of the Mallow trnien, the grand jury earnestly request the chairman. for the sake of humanity, to take the trouble to bring this Sect under the notice of the proper authorities. Resolved—That we also earnestly request of his worship to make some representation to the government, with regard to such children, and others who may be convicted, where such convictions have retailed from crimes committed by the parties to earn themselves from starvation, iu order that each persons may he returned to their respective pow-law unions, and not remain a bur den to the county at large. Resolved—That we are unanimously of opinion that some power shoild be given to magistrates to deal sum ' marily with a eertarn dam of eases of petty larceny. ! - Mr. James Hartley, the active manager of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, is a candidate for Sligo on the conservative interest. Mr. Ball has gone down this morning to pay his respects " something more" than as a whig. The Freeman's Journal an nounces Mr. Thomas Dixon on the repeal interest. It is reported that Lord Alfred Howard will also pre -1 sent himself vice% . Townley. SCOTLAND. " Tee Thom FuNn."—The Queen has given ten pounds to the fund for behoof of the orphans of the Inverury Poet. The total sum raised by the loint effort. of the general committee in Dundee and the auxiliary committee in London already somewhat exceeds 2401. COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OP Itoxevuonemaz.—W. H. Viscount Melgund, the Hon. J. E. Elliot, R. K. Elliot, Esq., A. E. Lockhart, Esq., W.O. Rutherford, E q., M. Sprott, Esq , T. Tod, Esq., and W. S. Kerr, En., to be deputy-lieutenants. PROPINCIAL. COMMITTAL FOR ILLEGAL TRAININO.—On Thurs day last, a man named Ramadan, a butcher lately residing at Brad'ord, rccently known as the " William Tell," or " Cap of Liberty Man," in the late chartist demonstrations, was brought before the Mayor of Bradford, having been ap prehended at Leeds on the previous day, charged with luta isg taken part in the riotous proceedings at Bradford on Monday, the sth of June, and aao with having unlawfully commanded a sectien of the Bradford " (Chartist) National Guard," when marching from a meeting on Adwalton Moor, on Sunday, May 28. The prisoner was committed to York Castle for trial. WARI THE GODITA PROcifiiOri AT COVENTRY took place on Monday, when Madame Warton, in a t , ght-fitting pink silk dress, sustained the chief character by riding through the town on one of Mr. Batty's white horses. The Co ventry Herald says : " Large as was the influx of visitors contributed by common stages, herse, and foot, it was pro. digiously augmented by the torrent of human beings poured into the town in rapid succesnion by the railway trains, which, from authentic information, we are enabled to state, brought into Coventry on that day the amazing number of 15,600 persons, 3,800 of whom were by the Wswick and Leamington branch ; and by the ame authority we learn that there were more passengers by the trains to Coventry on this occasion than by these to the great agricultural show last year at Northampton. In fact, old Mventry at last presented one huge stulace of moving life. In various parts of the town had been erected triumphal arches of great height, ornamented with flower, and evergreens; and of whisk verdant materials wreaths were suspended aklol4 the public thoroughfares in =say other places. Many private houses were ale) similarly decorated in front. The cavalcade started at 11 o'clock, headed by M. Wombwell's elephant bearing a castle, and thus forming a living and literal representation of the City Arms of Coventry. The sagacity and docility with which the creature threaded its way in the midst of a dense throng through the streets for four hours was truly remarkable. Madame 18 arton's performance of Hoehn was regarded as highly satisfactory. She was attired in a close-fitting elastic silk dress, of pinky-white colour, entire from the neck to the toes, excepting the arms, which were uric, vexed; over this a simple white satin tunic, edged with gold fringe, completed her riding habit. Her only head-dress was the perlectly unartificial sod not very profuse supply of glossy black hair, simply braided in front, and hanging down, slightly confined behind. Mounted on a milk-white steed, a clever equestrian, and maintaining a pure demeanour, she was repeatedly cheered in the course of the route. Mr. Warton, her husband, rode • short die. tance in the rear, as Edward the Black Prince, clad in a suit of mail. Queen Margaret, Sir John Falstaff, Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, William and Adam llotoner, the celebrated Mayors of Coventry ; Sir Thomas White, its great benefac tor; and Sir W. Dugdale, the eminent local historian, also found representatives in the cavalcade. Last in the proces sion was a "sylvan bower bearing the Sheph. rd and Shep herdess,"—a capacious platform furnished with flowers, fountains, and foreign birds in golden cages. The fleecy lambs and faithful dog formed an object which attracted all eyes, while the arbour of evergreens rising and tapering off to the height of forty feet, formed a magnificent finish to the cavalcade. The show concluded at 3 o'clock." -- - --__ ANOTHER BOILER EXPLOSION.—A correspondent, writing under date, Dudley, Friday evening, says : " For the second time within .the short apace of three weeks we have to record one of those appalling accidents which have of late been of such frequent occurrence in this district, and attended with such terrible consequences. The scene of the new ciitss.rophe is the Bloomfield ]tuts Vir , ek• -* ''''-' Dear this place ; and it NM= ti"- was a condenser, sousewl•-• save that it was Bat at one thia part of it gave way, , entire baler, which was toned with considerable anon the easel, and into Mataat. fte soon as the ! after the bodies of the suffered by the Gamin writing the following Millington, aged, 19, Bloomfield Iron Works at Tipton, seems that one of the boilers in usn what resembling in shape en era, se end. From gsome -_. ~,,,,, •er . an explosion ..k isit k o ;,:l s about sewn ' • v ir 7 . ) Tiolenot in a. ;•. 'II' - ..4 o a brick-par...". . • •'" , „„ . first 'shock wu • '• 7 '''' '''',..i he unfortunate. • .it , J , L ,.• • . ~,, armee • and u Alti o , . v • - Lig had bean I • ~ -.ll t, tr. , Mad aim s . 414 'w —:. - i t ... . I~ i