The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-20 00:00:00

~~ 2 for Satu►day's Markets aN last page. SHIPPING. • Moen; white, Iftel. W 17d. Oats, 90. to9ld. Barley, 101 d. to 114 d. Indian Corn, 81. Ilis. to 91. per Meal, 91. to ed. es. Amami.= Flour, 32e. per barrel; Irish, 34e. per bag. NIFITRY, Dee. 17.-Owing t. the extreme inclemency of the mother, we bad small supplies of grain at stir market 70tatdaTi Ltalloriees, of course, advanced a shade in some departments. We quote Wheat, white, however, without alteration, hardly any being forward ; but red sold about Id. per cwt., and Oats, 43. per stooe, on best descriptions, dower. The prices were, white Wheat, 10s. &I. to 10.. 9d. per ewt. ; red, 10.. to les. 4d. ; and Oats, 101 d. to 101 d. per atone. Barley is still quoted at 7s. to 7s. &I. per cwt., only the best samples of malting, however, reaching the latter figura. Flour, Irish, without alterati on, selling at 18s. per cwt., for first ; second, 16s. ; third, 14e.; an d fourth, 12s. American, also, still sells at 31a. per barrel , and Indian Corn Meal, at 9t. per cwt. Oatmeal, machine-manufactured, like- Via remains at 12s. 6d. per cwt., but country has dropped to I Is. 6d. to 12s , a rather large supply being forward at yesterday's market. WATRILFORD, Dec. 18.-The tempos uous state of the weather has materially reduced our country supplies of grain this week, and the arrivals from abroad have been small also. We have experienced a good demand for Wheat, and prices bare advanced fully h. per barrel during the week. Oats and Barley are unaltered in value. The trade in Indian Corn (Quad been large, but the best Black Sea qualities have !toyer, at an improvement of le. to Is. 3d. per barrol on the quotations of Saturday last. Superfine Flour is in good request at lull prices, but interior sorts are the turn cheaper. Indian Meal *ells slowly, without change in prices. The trade, on the whole, is more healthy than of Isto. Present prices of Orals, Flour, Wheat, undried, mitten', per 20 stone 263. to 295. ; shipping, 265. to 27e. Baarlory, maltino, per 16 stone, 15s. to 16. ed. ; grinding, 123. Li. to 13s. 6d. Oats, white, per 14 stone, lle. to 12a. Gd. ; black, Ile. 42. to 111. Bd. Prepared : Wheat, millers', per 20 stone, 293. 6d. to 30s. 6d. ; shipping, 28a. 6d. L 3 295. Barley, malting, per 16 stone, 161. to lls.; grinding, 144. to 15s. ed. Oats, white, per 14 none, 12s. to 13s. ; black, 12s. to 12s. 6d. Flour, super., per sack, 395. to 405.; seconds, 360. to 375.; thirds, 325. to 34..; fourths, 245. to 255. Am- rican, per barrel, 295. to 301. Indian Corn, Danube, per 20 stone, 221. to 22.5. 94. ; American, yellow and red, 20e. to 21s. ; Spanish and Portuguese, 20s. ; white, 21s. to 22..; damaged, for cattle, 16s. to 18s. Indian Corn Meal, per cwt., 91. ed. to 10s. Oatmeal, per cert., 13s. to 14a. Rye Meal, per cwt., 7e. to Be. Bran, per 6 stone, 3.. 6d, to is. Imports this week, excludes of arrivals at Ross : Indian Corn, 3,035 qrs. ; Indian Meal, 160 barren. KIRCALDLT, Dec. IL-The weather continues very wet. At our country markets this week we have still to report very small supplies of all kinds of grain. Wheat and Oats brought readily last week's rates. Barley was again le. per qr. &ant, and the demend much beyond the supply. Here, to-day, we had small inipplies of ell kinds of grain. We ex perienced a good demand for Wheat and Os's, at Is. per qr. advance. Barley, a quick sale, at fully Is. per qr. over last day'. rates. Wheat, 48e. to 6 2 .. per qr. Barley, 28s. to 335. Oats, 20s. to 255. Oatmeal, per bag of 2801b5., 345. to 355. POTATOES.—SOCTRWARK, WATERSIDE, DEC. 20. —The arrivals coastwise during the past week have been very limited, but there hu been a considerable quantity brought to London by the railways. The following are the Present prices York Regents, 130$. to 1405.; do. cc. condary. 120 s. to 12.55.; do. Shave. 100 s. to 120 ; Scotch Re. B,llos. to 1205. ; do. Whites, 9 0s. to 110 s. ; do. Cups and Blues, 100 e. Hamburg, 100 s. to 110.. Kent and Rues Regents, 120s:0;130k ; Shave, 100 s. to 120 ; Kidneys, 110 s. to 1303.; Blues, 120 s. to 130 s. Wisbech Regents, 1003. to 1205.; do. Shave, 1001. I),stch 703. to SO3. HOPS. BOROUGH MARKET, Two o' Clock. Mews. Patteaden and Smith, Hop factors, report that the market is wry firm fur all Hops of colour. Now Mid& K. Kiote 41. 0 to3l. 11' Yeatilog Kest4p.ewt. 21.10 to 31.10 New 001;11 of Route 3 161 n 401 Yearhng Sow: I3to 3 3 New SlLiae I farull.mos 4 4to 5 12 As DOVER, Dec. 18.—Some pockets of best Farnhares were sold this treat for the London maraet, at 51. ss. per cwt. ; moderate, 51. A few grown at Bentley at 41. ; others not so good, at 31. 10s. Hops of 1846, Farnbams,sl. to 51. 10s. NV INCH MITER, Dec. IS.—Several large holders offered this day. Best Farnharas, at 51. to 51. 10s., being on advance of ss. per cwt ; common, at 41. 10e. to 41. 15s. Best Alton; and Crondalls, at front 31. 10s. to 41. ; moderate quality, 31. to 3 guiaeas, 2a. to 3s. per cwt. higher. Sussex Hoot also in better request. IVOOL.—LONDON.—Both colonist and foreign have been dull of sale this week, and now little is expected to be done till the not , year. Arrivals are 1,510 bales co- lonial and 190 foreign. There is very little doing in English, and prices generally, where business is done, are lower. There has been several failure. of late in the trade, and there is still a great want of confidence. Down Moneta, ltd. t 3 le. ; Ewes, 10d. to ltd.; half. bred Heggete, 114 d. to Is. Id.; Kent Fleeces, 10d. to 104 d. ; Combing Skins, 71d. to 9d. ; Blanket Wool, sil. to &I.; and Flannel Wools, 81d. to 104 d. per lb. Asooveta, Dec. 18.—Trade seems rather more languid than last week ; a few offered this day to sell, yet buyers wanted the best, at a further decline of Id. per lb. Tr'txcusergh, Dcc. 18.—Trade remains in the same lan guid lute, the holders finding no staplers willing to purchase at any price. CATTLE, It.-8 31 IT nYIEL D, Two o' The number of Beasts, though not large, is quite adequate to the demand, moat of the butchers naming by this time completed their purchases for Christmas. Indeed, it is not usual to have a large supply either of Besets or Sheep for the market immediately preceding Christmas-day, so that we have to-day quite a sufficient quantity of both. The average quality, however, of the Beasts is not first-rate, and I of Sheep eery middling ; conmequently the best descriptions are making about the same a of late. Second-rate Beasts and Ewes and middling Sheep are very diffitult to be disposed of, and several of the.former remain unsold. Calves are goatee, and art readily sold, at Friday's quotations. Trade is ra ther better for Pigs. From Holland we have 219 Beuts, 1,450 Sheep, and 63 Calved. From Scotland, 100 Beasts. Per done of WA. I. d. 4. d. Per stone of 810 e. ad. ad. Beet Scots, llerefurda.. 60 3 6 Best Dm aWAAL Oh 9 0 0 Best garnet-horns ...... 4 8 5 2 Beet Les-wools 4 5 0 &mad quality Donets.. 3 9.4 4 Do. do. Shore Calves . ...... ......... 4 5 6 4 Ewe tad armed quality 3 4 4 Best Du.a Halt-breds 60 5 4 Lett. ...... .: 0 0 0 Doubt at market, 2.811 ; SaW4o o .d bk 17.660; Eh/m.1501 1 p. 330; MAILS Aaseven.—Dublin, 7 ; Waterford, 6 ; Denaghadee, 2; Guernsey and Jersey, 1; French, 2; Flanders, 2; Holland, 1. Lonnow, Dec. 20.—Wind this day at noon, N. 8., light breeze, dull hazy weather. DEAL, Dec. 18.-8. by W., strong and equally. 19th, S. to S.S.E.—Arrived and pawed to the river: Framjee Cowasjee, Calcutta; Punch, Mediterranean; Warlock, Mauritius • Hartland, Quebec, leaky, &c. ; Pearl, end Sophia, Q uebec ; Acadia, Halifax ; Eclipse, Mauritius ; Coamo, New York; Daphne, St. MichaePe. Arrived and sailed: Renshaw, from Newport, for Bremen; John, Rotterdam, for Cardi ff. Arrived from the river and sailed : Queen, China; Victoria, New York : Cuba, Cape Palmas; Matilda, and Columbine, Alcoa Bay ; Catherine Stewart Forbes, Sierra Leone • Sarah, and Hopewell, Jamaica; Barbara Gordon, Tobago; B. B. Greene, Mauritius; Watiga, New Orleans; Tatrioten, Constantinople; Amity Hall, Sierra Lune; Dublin, Trinidad; Bimini', New York; Dana, Boston ; Martha, Algoa Bar ; Scottish Maid, Callao. SUNDERLAND, Dec. 19.—The Camilla Adeline, ef Bor deaux, was worked at the entrance of the harbour Teeter day ;• crew saved. The William Charles, of Yarmouth, and tbe Bedford (steam tug), have been wrecked. The brig Ann, of this port, is sunk. The following vessels have received more or lass damage: Louisa Ann, Emma, Leo, Falconer, Newton, Content, Miriam, Exertion, Express, Camilla, Sea- Bower, and Lady Peel, all of this port; the Stephen, and Nautilus, of Wisbeaeh ; and the Elise, of Stettin. CORK, Dec. 17.—W.—It has blown a heavy gale at south during the night end this day. The Henrietta Mary, of New Rea, from Quebec to Liverpool. which was abandoned, water-logged, on the II th instant, off Cape Clear, drove on the rocks yesterday, and it is supposed she went to pieces during the night, as part of her keel, &e. ' has come on shore. Arrived Maple Leaf. from Quebec, for Bristol. 'Arsenics, Dec. 18.—The Energy, of this rid, from Mi ramichi, drove on shore under 1(8cm:a Battery during the gale on the 16th instant, arid is likely to be much damaged. A steamer has gone to her assistance. RAMSAY, ISLE or MAN, Dec. 17.—The schooner KNIT, of Prince Edward's Island, from Liverpool to Douglas, has been run on shore here, leaky. CLONAILILTI, Dec. 17.—The Kete, of and from St. Ives, to Leghorn, is totally wrecked in the bay ; crew saved. And also the Nancy, of Waterford, from Ibrail to Cork, yea. torday ; cabin-bor only saved. Pouramourit. Dec. 18.-5. to S.W., very squally. 19th, B.S.E. to S. by W., fresh breeze and squally. Arrived : Anna, from Riga, for Brest; Maria Sophia, from Rotterdam, for Boston; Victoria, from Hamburg, for Malaga; Miles, from Hamburg, for New York. Sailed: 19th, Comet, Madeira. KINSALE, Dec. 16.—The Henrietta Mary, from Quebec to Liverpool, water-logged, and abandoned, was Linen in with to-day, bearing from the Ohl Head of Kinsale, S.S.E., distant 22 miles, by the revenue cutter, Hamilton, arrived at this port. Her three lower masts, and the bowsprit were standing, and rudder' gone : the heavy sea running at the time, which was making a breach over lace, prevented bee being boarded. WIVENROZ, Dec. 19.—The Earl Vane, of and from Sunderland for London, was wrecked on the Guotleet Band, last night- crew and salvers saved. The crews of twelve smacks hod been on board of her for two days. BALCCEEBB, Die. 18.—The Star, from London for Antigua, same on shore to the eastward of this harbour a complete I wreck : master saved, 8 men drowned. FALEOUTII, Dec. 18.—S.W. to N.W., light airs and fair ; 49th, S. to. E., very squally, heavy rain.—Put in from Lon don: Lancashire Lw, St. Michael's; Aurora, Terceira; Firineu, Bahia; Isabella, Sierra Leone; Burrells, Genoa; London Packet, St. Michael's, Rita, Bilboa. Pat in Or line, Antwerp, for St. Thomas's ; dJlport, Sunderland, for Barcelona; Friendship, Maldon, for Terceira; Fox, Jersey, :for Cardiff; Electric, from Jersey, for Seville. Sailed: An telope, Amsterdam; Plantagenet, Antwerp. The Rustiest Prosperitas, from Uleaborgs, for Marseilles, has been surveyed, sad will discharge. Put back: 19th, H.M. packet INegrall, foe Brazils. Sailed : Danish brig, Inditetrie, for = g Dee. Th e Four Sisters to , , ;:: Maryport, her was mew staliging Bay; :11 cargo lcargo ( pt iron) rirol; a nd being VIA to lighted her; she is expected off next IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. BUSINESS OF THE ND EK WE IN THE LORDS. MOAY, Dec. 20. Royal anent by eoroulienun. NOTICE OF MO HON.—The Loan PIIZAIDIVrt, to move the ad. Itusinent of the house to Thursday. the Sri of February next. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE COMMONS. IMO. fit a.DERS OF THE DAi. l slCdaitsNon of aonamittoe of Privilege.; oort of Committee of Supply. &mon Resuoro.—New Mislead Orderarfiesit Bill. NOTICE. OF MOTION ON ORDER OF THE DAT. Mr. J. O'Cosed. , on (make of beagle. up the mat of supply, to move that the Itch" been k eyes, le any reeniatkin of the committee to consider to pea, to le inetted to Mapiety, de rodeo iteelf Into a emulates et the week boon an the peanut dattnete condition of tlawraiketend. NOTICE&—Lard J. Rogroh. to mace the ad cif the boots until Illurrday, the 3rd of February next._ tr=0,..... to call the attention of the head t reat he report frem the taloa committee so private bdtheme, and to mo dove to the resolutions contained ha theiraid reiggt.-31r. Hens., return of the mount of tem retailed by the registrar. of the Meer der-antra for *sista Middlesex in each year, from 1839 to 1846 Melo-rye, copen•e otedleh end 'rootlet paid to the registrars and deputy. registrars al., the uses of such officers' dotes of appointment, ;el": of attend. ere leek any, and what duties, If any, performed by the registrars in preen et anytd them--Mr. C. Axerze, +defeat the number of oaken endsoldiersin garrison at Portamuutb,Dover, Pirmouthm dr:bottom, during the seven years ending 1847, distinguishing the coinp number, of measlier+ of the church of England, and the church of Rome, in each of such garrisons darino, each year, with the amount of salary or reward pod to any chaplain or minrster of each of the raid churches mpectively for Li,. spittle-el attend:mot in each go :don during each year ; copies of reports, petitions, and corresp iudenea, relative to the propos. d Avolum Harbour at Holyhead—Mr. Pero, that the million from the governors end guardians of the poor of Norwich for &committee on the l'oor Remove.' Act be printed with the voter —Mr. B. B. Commis. that the pethione or the lithitaro Rolobto of Wbadour, presented In 1848 and 1847, be printed with the votes; to ask question , of the President of the Board of Trade relative to ogre. spondence with the Commissioners of ileilwaya on the subject of the liungerford Extension Railway; and whether the Board of Trade intend to provide !moieties redreth for placing the town of Deviate on the proper"d line of Great Wretch Railway from London to Reeler by the bill still pending for the proposed Berke and Hunts (Hungerford Fatenalo%) Railway to Vr'e•tbury, with s branch to Devizes, as prayed by the inbubitanu of Devizes be:elite neighbourbood--Mr. Hundev, that it be at meteor-- lion to the committee on the rank Charter, de., to Inquire specially into the reasons which induced the directors of the Pant of England Os reduce their minimum rate of diacount on tbe 27th day of Auenst, 1846, to three percent, and to continue it at that rate WI t he 14th day of January, 1847; and to report their opinion thereon.-31r. O. iIIOMPSON, copies of the annual reports of the superintendent of reads and tanks within the presidency of Bombay, from the dot to the latest received in this country; correspondence relative to the proper", road from Viogorls to Belgaum ; oast of eendruetion of the Bhore or Kundtha gbant road, rates of Celle thereon and annuol pro duce from first imporiltioe; of engineeting ' particulate and oast of road from Beliary to !lime, and of Impart std export trade and annual produce of the customs of the port with which It ofrarmuaicatero from 1838 to 1846, both Inclusive. — Mr. Gianeross, to inquire of her Malatya government, whether the edger of Governor Grey, to that part of the despatch of Earl Grey, doted Dec. 23, 1816, which relates to public lands in New Zealand, has yet Oren renewed, and whether It is intended to ler It at on early period on the table of the house.— Mr. FONOTEt. tabular returns of the names of the contractor., with the date of contract, for the supply of forage (i oats, hay and straw), to each of the catairliwthr.tets under the of (Mnce, In and within the space of 20 miles round London, stating the qoantity and price of the articles supplied by "oh contractor, and the name. of the places where delivered, in each env from 1840 to l 817; and of the sue , of coal to each of the ogablishmente under the Board of Ordnance, In and within 20 miles sound Leedom staring the quantity, quality, and mid of the male supplied by each in To t h and the names cf the pines where the coal woo delirered, in ea^..li year from 1832 to 1847; also, similar re. tarns for each of the districts of the metropolitan pollor.—lfefor BLACKALL, that the petition of George Gun Hay, Req. (presented Dec. 17) be printed with the Votea.—Mr. Kee that the petition of guardions of Downpatnek Union (presented Dee!. 17) be printed with the Votes—Sir 0. Gesso to nominate the committee of privileges on petition, complaining of the undoe interference of Earl Fitahardinge at the late election for West Gloucestershire.—Mr. Wousoth, nomination of died onarnittee on petition of str W. Jones, M.P., relative to a petition presented spied hie return for Cheltenham.-111r. O. A. lianutuo, that peUtton of Edward Grogan, Faq., relative to a petition presented against his return for City of Dahlia, be referred to some committee. NEOYEYDAY.Drc. V. ORDER OF THE DiY.—Committee on Roman ()albeit, Rellef Bill, NOTICES OF AIOTIONS.—Mr. Lave, on motion fur going intoeorn. ellipse on the Homan thitboho Relief Bill, to move, os tin amendment, that this house do resolve itself into ■ committee upon the >aid bill this day sin months —Mr. WILLIAM Scull WE:OFM, in committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, to move a elstor fir repealing the dis abilities by whit Roman eatbolics are disqualified from Ailing the office of Lord Chancellor of 'retsina. THURSDAY, Dec. 23. NOTIC6B OP MOTlO:iB.—Lord 0. !♦mrrucx, select committee, to inquire into the present conditica and prospects of her 'Aiail.ty'S ERIK and Woo Indian pare•sioos and the Mauritius, and of the plant ing interest connected therewith, with o view to their relief.—Mr. Horr, in the event of the success of Lord George Bentinck's motion, for the appoint., nt of e velvet committee, " to inquire into the state of the Picot India latinda, and the Mauritius," to move " that this Noose will resolve nal( into a committee MI the hope Duties , Act of 1818; and to prop se in thecarismittee a resolution to the effect, that It is expedient that, pending sorb inquiry, the operation of such clauses of the set of .846 a. relate too descending scels of duties on foreign sugar shill be vn•pended and held in abeymitc, cod that the amount of duties 111011 levied on sugar shill be levied until parliameut shall have reordered the report of the select committee proposed to be appointed.--Mr. C. Avatar, address for paper. relative to Lord Palmenton's foreign policy. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT.—The bill to sue bend the operation of the New Zeeland Government Act (9 &10 Vic., e. 103) consists of 9 clauses. See. 1 suspends so much of the government act, and the letters patent pawed under it, " as relates to the constitution and establishment of two separate assemblies within the said island, and to the constitution and establishment of a general assembly in and for the said island," and their powers, privileges, dm, for five years. Sec. '2 reviews the act 3 4 Vic., c. 62, and the letters patent of 16th Nov., 1841, and the instructions of sth Dec., 1841, vesting the legislative as well as the executive authority in a governor and legislative council of officials and nominees. Sec. 3 authorises the governor to increase the number of the legislative council. Sec. 4 authorises hint to constitute provincial legislative councils in both provinces. Sec. 5 enacts, " that it shall and may be lawful fir the said governor-in-chief from time to time, by and with the advice and consent of the raid legislative c.uncil, by ordinance, to depart from the said fint-meatioced instructions, in so far as the same relate to the nature and extent of the said qualification" [i. e. the qualification to be posessed by the maycr, court of alder. men, and common council and burgesses of the municipal districts], " and to make and ordain such other or further rules and regulations, with respect to the nature and extent of the qualification for burgesses in the said municipal dis tricts, or any of them." Sec. 6 reserves to the crown the power of disallowing the governor's ordinances. The three remaining clauses are the usual formal clauses in such acts. POPULATION, POOR'S RATE, &C.—A return was issued on Saturday, "showing the population, the annual value of property rated to the poor's rate, the expenditure for the relief of the poor, the rate in the pound on the value of rated property . of such expenditure, the total number of paupers relieved, including casual poor, the proportion per cent. to the population of the persons relieved, and the rate per head of the expenditure on the total number of paupers relieved, according to the last returns which have been laid before parliament : Population in 1841 : England, 15,906,741 ; Scotland, 2,620,184 ; Ireland, 8,175,124. An nual value of property rated to the poor rates England, 62,540,0301. ; Scotland, 9,320,7841. ; Ireland, 13,204,2341. Expenditure for the relief and maintenance of the pone, year 1845.6: England, 4,954,2041.; Scotland, 295,2321.; Ireland, 425,1841. Rate in the pound of expenditure for relief, &c., of the poor on annual value of property rated to the poor's rate: England, Is. 7d.; Scotland, 74d. ; Ireland, Bd. Total number of paupers relieved, including casual poor : England, 1,330,557 ; Scotland, 96,320 ; Ireland, 257,236. Proportion per cent.. of number of paupers relieved to population: England, 8.4; Scotland, 3.7; Ireland, 3.1. Rate per head of expenditure on total number of paupers relieved : England, 31. 14s. 51d. ; Scotland, 31. Os. 94d. ; Ireland, IT. 13e. Old. FIRST REPORT FROM TIIE SELECT COMMITTEE ON PRIVATA 2itit.s.—The select committee appointed to con. eider what improvement can be adopted in tne mode of coo 'Jutting private business , have reported as follows " That the chairman of the committee of ways and mean, do examine ' all private bills, whether opposed or unopposed, and do call the attention of the house to all points relating thereto which q 're it.—That there be furnished t i nlei g =n h o i rt, t ,: eo re en u nlitte of ways and means, by the agents, espies of all private bills, copies of all amendments intended to be introduced in committee, copies of all bills es amended no committee ; and likewise copies of all amend nuts made its the House of L3rds and of all amendments M the lords' amendments intended to be proposed in the Howse of C,immons.—That the examiner of recognisance, with such aesistance ea may be found requisite, do aid the ' chairman of the committee of ways and means in the dis charge of the above-mentioned duties. DAYS OF CIIOO3INO ELECTION COMMITTEES.— , 'Notices have been Denied by the chairman of committees, that select committees for determining the matters of peti. Lions complaining of undue elections will be chosen as follows Great Yarmouth, Malden, and Cheltenham, Monday, 7th Feb., 1848, at two o'clock, in No. I committee room; West Gloucestershire and Great Marlow, Thursday, 10th Feb., 1848, at two o'clock, in No. I room. All parties interested are directed to attend as above, or by their counsel or agents. EDUCATION (INDIA).—A return bee just been printed by order of the House of Comment'. showing the number of rcholars in the several wheals and other establish meats for education maintained at the public expense, in the gorettdoefe4VA,oflBl4l.srittiterelnwdiear.. letighit'Priolk;nt up to onorttte western provinces, containing 2,186 children ; of these 82 were Christians, 1,597 were Hindoos, and 507 Mehomedans. In the lower provinces of the Bengal presidency there were 37 echools, with 7,036 scholars; of these 154 were Christians, 4,186 Iliudoos, 907 fdahomedans, and 1,789 other than these three clauses. In the presidency of Bombay there ere 10.5 schools, with 8,130 scholars ; of these 7,916 were Hindoos, and 272 Mahomedana. Is the presidency of Madras there are no educational establishments maintained at the public expense, with the exception of the medical school,containing l STATEMENT OP SUMS VOTED AND EXPENDED FOR Ratter AND INIWADVIINENT IN IRELAND. — This account shows that the sum of 10,342,5001. was voted by psrliament since Ist August, 1846, for relief and improvement in Ire land. Of this sum, 7,815,5521. has been expended as fol lows 4,914,000/. in labour relief ; 1,676.0001. for food relief and fever hospitals; 31,0521. advanced to parties for land improvements, but applications have been received for 1,763.0002 ' and loans have been sanctioned to the amount of 609,0001.; 339,0001. has been expended in the formation of railroads, and 281,0001. more has been appropriated, and will be expended by the sth of July, 1848 ; 250,0001. has been lost is commissariat operations, and donations to the amount of 19,0001. have been made to relief committees by order of the Lord-Lieutenant. The total amount of money which boo yet to be expended is 2,016,4181, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY E' ght erpreoo. MAIM The oevised mails for Gibraltar, Mahe, Orme; the lonian Island., V.ftept, Aden, Ceylon, India, lions-Keep, and Chine. Ma Southampton, will be male up on the morning of the 20th Deeetaber. She overland dosed Mahe, ern Marseilles, to Me Mediterraneaa ,ir e c.. Aden. Ceylon, India, Hongwill homed. np on tb , "mune of the 24th De:ember. The malls foe Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Glbralta , will be made up on the moral= of the 77th December. The malls for New South Watts, Van Diemen's lend, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Slit December. Ihe made far British North Amerben, Bermuda, and the finite , • taus, will be made uponthe evening of the 21st December. The West lndia 21., ezeheibig Bermuda, Mamma, Havanna, }fondness, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico. and Porto Rim, and including those for Madeira, Jame, Carthagena, Santa Martha, Chimes., Parsuna, West Coast of South America, and M. Juan-de- Nicaragua, will be made op on the morning of the 2nd January. mails for the Brazils, the atm Plate, Monte Video, k 'enam el:oN Bald., Wedelns, and Buenos Ayres, will be made np on Os t vesting of the 4th January. TO COPIIESIPONDENTL Advertisements latasded Ire " The Ewan." Imam amain , mast a g o ., dou.e. and., lay Tare delay& ea tat day et on EMI! WATER AT LONDON 'moor. 0."-01Iming, mt. 'AN 0 ; Altarseoe.,3 00.1.4 To-Noasoß-2100004 2u. past I Afterneou. 2 ;AAA pan L LONDON, MONDA Y, DEC. 20. SOME ten days ago we directed attention to the unequal pressure of the stamp duty upon news papers, and showed how unfairly favourable the operation of the act was to the Times, and how pn judicial to its London competitors, and to the provincial press in general. The act has, indeed, all the appearance of having been framed to suit the purposes of the Tones. When it came into operation, the first supplement of the Times, which contains a superficial extent of letter press immediately within the maximum fixed by the act, was perfectly symmetrical. The first supplement of the Morning Chronicle, on the con trary, in the preposterous width of its margin bore token of the trouble it had cost it to bring the letter press within the statutory size of a halfpenny stamp supplement. Any person acquainted with the prac tical working of a printing office, will sec at once the embarrassment and expense which must be entailed on a newspaper whose superficial inches of letter-press a little exceed the statutory size is order to bring its supplement within the maxi mum allowed by the act for one halfpenny. But the case of a new journal is still worse. More than one half of the Times' sheet is on an average filled with advertisements—with matter, in short, which is paid for. A new journal cannot expect for many years to be able to fill a sheet of such magnitude with advertisements, in proportion to its news, of real importance and interest. If it adopts a sheet of the size of the statutory halfpenny supple ment (about half the size of the Times) or less, it pays double the duty that the Times does; and although it is thus enabled to escape the expense of a supplement stamp on extraordinary occasions by printing on a double sheet, more eestly machinery and engines are required to enable it to accomplish the occasional increase of size. And if ita news and advertisements require a sheet containing one square inch more than 763 inches of letter-press on a side it cannot publish a double sheet, nor can it publish a supplement within the statutory maximum except by adopting arrangements in making up and machining its contents which entail upon it serious additional trouble and expense. These are grave obstacles in the way of those who undertake to establish a new and cheap journal; and the experience of the luck less Chronicle might almost tempt the uncharitable to surmise that the SOLONS of Printing-house-square had had some band in the piece of newspaper legis lition which occasions them. There is another act of the legislature which, in a less glaring manner, but still with considerable effect, tends to repress that free trade in the production of newspapers which would be the best secu rity to the public for cheap newspapers, and for news papers really compelled to regard the public interest, in contradistinction to newspapers exclu sively devoted to the interests of a proprietary. Advertisements are the mainstay of a newspaper. The nines is paid about 250/. for every supplemental sheet it publishes. Now, a disproportionately heavy tax upon advertisements, by increasing the charge for their insertion, diminishes their numbur. The tax on advertisements ie an iniquitously unequal tax. The duty on an advertisement of three lines for the reco vering a lost reticule is the same in amount, as the duty on the long advertisement of our greatest and wealthiest railway company announcing its business arrangements for the next six months. This ine quality of taxation not only affects lejuriously that class of advertisers who haunt the top of the second column in the Times, pathetically Raking "Why does Frederic come no more to St. John's-wood ? '—it wrongs a much more valuable class of the community. Every newspaper reader is aware of the space occu- 1 pied in the columns of the Times by the advertise ments of servants out of place. The wealthiest insurance company in the empire is taxed no more for the publication of its long and tempting advertise ment. than the poor cook or housemaid for her notice that she wants a neer place. This advertising system must be found advantageous, for, in despite of the dis couraging influence of a heavy tax, it is extensively resorted to. Such advertisements average, one day with another, fully an advertising column of the Times: on Wednesday last they extended nearly to four columns, and we have known them as high as six—with 362 advertisements. By the operation of this duty these 362 individuals, anxious to earn their livelihood by honest industry, but lost in the crowd to the view of any who might give them employment, are com pelled to pay a tax, exceeding on an average 100 or 120 per cent, on the newspaper charge, for their pre sumption in seeking to make their wishes known. Advertising is also mach resorted to by teachers and governesses, and would be to a greater extent but for the expense, of which, in such short advertisements, the duty is a principal item. The tax upon advertisements increases the expense to adver tisers of humble means, and by discouraging the practice limits the number of newspars, tends to keep them high-priced and articles pe of luxury for the wealthier classes, and thus in turn diminishes the number of channels for efficient advertising. The newspaper is cramped in the sphere of its utility by the advertisement duty, as at present imposed, to an extent which only the honest and industrious of the poorer classes, who would fain work, but who, lost among the crowd of our dense population, are over looked by employers, can alone appreciate.. Turn our eyes to what R a g e of our registers of tax ation we may, we find fiscal influences at work to discourage the enterprise of the press generally, and of the newspaper press in particular. The excise upon paper, for example, less by the amount of duty which it compels paper-makers to pay, than by the ignorant and vexatious surveillance of government officials which it compels them to work under, keeps up the price of one of our principal raw materials, and prevents the exercise of ingenuity in devising new kinds and qualities fitter for our purpose. We should not have courage to recur again and again to this subject—as we have done and intend to do—did we not feel that is pleading our own cause we plead the cause of a large and varied com munity. The Times-begotten regulations of the S tamp Duty Act affect most injuriously the daily newe -1 paper press, though every journal in the empire feels their influence more or - less. The advertisement duty is felt to be most oppressive by the whole of the provincial press, as has been ably shown on different occasions by the Leeds Times ; and we have pointed out its unjust and oppressive character as regards menial servants, and all head-workers and hand-workers, whose only capital is their ability and willingness to work. The excise duty on paper presses unequally and harassingly upon all manufacturers of paper, for whatever purpose ; on all tradesmen who use paper for packing; on all publishers, and on all authors. And the worst of these taxes is, that their original object has in many instances— sometimes avowedly—been to repress literary ac tivity, and above all, the newspaper branch of literary activity. Governments—the beet of them—are shy and jealous of newspapers, even when using some of them for their own ends. They fear the influence of the daily visiter which is welcomed every morning as bringing alike the serious news and gossip of the pre ceding day with comments grave or gay upon it, and as enabling those who want employers, and those who want workmen, to recognise each other in the jostling and bewildering crowd of our swarming land. In crowded communities like ours—in free communities like ours—the news paper is a necessary of life. It is not merely in a rhetorical or figurative sense a necessary of life. The shopkeeper requires the information he finds in the newspaper to enable him to regulate his pur- .G, DECEMBER 20, 1847. chases. The farmer needs it to keep him informed of the state of markets. Its advertising columns are the only means by which those who need employment and those who have it to give can find each other out in the crowd. Apart altogether from its political im portance, from its literary or gossipping interest, the newspaper is literally a necessary of life. And the depressing influence of the fiscal restrictions we have adverted to, by narrowing the sphere of its circula tion, prevents the full development of its capability to be useful. The Paris journals of Saturday contain little do mestic news of interest. The Union Monarch ique gives the following curious statement respecting the diplomatic note lately received by M. Guizot from the federal government of Switzerland : Without doubt yon already know that the letter which accompanied the reply to the notification of the French go ' vernment to the Diet contained these words at the end : tt M. Guizot is re quested to be kind enough for the future ant to communicate with the Swiss government through any other person than its charge d'affaires at Paris." It was in consequence of this that the recall of M. Bois to Comte was resolved on. But what you do not know, ptrhnps, is, that the Syria; chary d'affaires residing at Paris has received from his government orders to obtain by all means a retrae tation from the Journal des Ddmts of the different article+ which it has published on the affairs of Switzerland, and particularly these concerning the brief hostilities. A letter of the Swiss charge d'affeires will be, in the Sent place, ad dressed to the Alper, and, if that dues not procure sativfac- Lion, an application will be made to the tribunals to compel the Debars to afford it. I can, in conclusion, affirm to you that the views of the Diet are /seemly well known to the English ambassalor, who approves of them, an who will set in perfect harmony with the Swiss government. The Minister of Finance, M. Demon, is reported to be prepared with the coming budget, and to have signified his willingness to adopt some measure of postal reform, and a reduction of the salt tax. —The Marquis de Boissy was married to the Countess Guiccioli in the chapel of the Chamber of Peers at the Luxembourg on Thursday.—We read in the Patric of Friday evening—" At the general meeting of the refugee Poles on the 29th ult., at the Salle Valentino, M. Bakunio, a refugee, made a speech against the Emperor of Russia. M. Guizot has just caused to be given to M. Bakunin, by the prefect of police, an order to quit Paris in 24 hours, and France without the least delay." M. Pacheco, ex-president of the council of ministers in Spain, and ex-ambassador of the Queen at Rome, arrived at Marseilles on the 13th, from Italy. It is expected that the Bank of France will reduce its rate of discount to 41 per cent. early in January. L' Union Monarchiee affirms that the Due de Broglie is about to resign the London embassy, and is to be succeeded by the Duke of Montebello, now Minister of Marine. The Madrid mails of the 13th have arrived. A despatel;Ofthe Captain-General of Catalonia, announc ing the dispersion of various bands of Carlists, ap pears in the Gazette. The debate on the address was continued in the senate. Nothing of interest occurred in the chamber. The approaching arrival of General E partero was generally spoken of, and was expected early in January. Letters have been received from Naples to the Bth, which in some degree remove the obscurity of the pre vious reports of the events alleged to have taken place there and in Sicily. The modifications of the cabinet, which we reported long since, are confirmed. M. Sal Angelo, Minister of the Interior, has retired, and hie office is resolved into three, those of the Interior properly so called, of Public Works, and of Commerce and Public Instruction, to which respectively MM. d'Urso, and Spinelli have been nominated. These three appointments are eminently popular. M. Parisi was lately intendant of rtlessina, where rejoic ings have taken place on the occasion of his elevation to his new and important office. The same occasion called forth expressions of loud and general re probation of his successor at Messina, General L cedi, rendered notorious by his proclamation offering honours and pecuniary rewards for assassination. The hope which was entertained that Delcarretto, the odious minister of police, would be dismissed, is for the present at least disappointed. That functionary retains hie poet. On the arrival of the Sicilian steam-boat Vesuvio, from Palermo, at Naples, the King, wishing to obtain the most authentic information of the circumstances attending the recent demonstrations and tumults, sent I for the captain, and obtained from him a full narra tive of the affair : immediately afterwards a cabinet council was convoked. A Roman journal, the Co temporaneo, says that the King of Naples had written to the Queen of England to entreat her to order that no English ships shall cruizo off the coast of Naples or Sicily. Letters from Palermo report that several arrests had been made there, in consequence of the late popular manifestations, and by orders received from Naples. Since the above was written we have received the Nourelliste, of Marseilles, of the 16th, which contains a letter from Naples, of the Bth, eying various details of considerable interest. We select the following : The same distrust prevails between the government and. the population. The system of terror inaugurated by Del- Carretto has not for one instant ceased to weigh down the Two Sicilies. At present, as before, the prisons are over full; not only no political prisoner has been set at liberty, but many other guests have been conducted to the dungeons of this modern inquisition. Numerous and menacing troops sur round the royal palace at Naples by night and by day. At Palermo, all the popular chiefs who were conspicuous in the late manifmtations have been cast into prison, notwith 'tending the exemplary moderation which was the character of this movement. The people, disconcerted, murmur ; the arrest of their chiefs has created great distrust towards those nobles a d the bourgeoise, who had just been, appa rently, acting in concert with them, and had, in some mea sure, directed their demonstrations. If they were to take up arms a second time, it would be impossible to restrain them. I informed you in my last that the King had held a council of his ministers. In this 'juin', which was exceed ingly long, the honourable President of the Council, M. Pietracatella, spoke for three hours, before the King and his fellow ministers, is the most eloquent manner, to demon strate the necessity , of adopting, as soon as possible, a more liberal policy. It is painful to say that these wise counsels, dictated by a pure feeling of patriotism, met with little echo in the assembly. In the evening, it is said, the Prince de Sa lerno, and the Queen-mother, besought the King to listen to the wishes of his subjects, and to place more confidence in the wise and enlightened advice of his first minister. But Ferdinand, inflexible, declared that he would prefer to go and take up service in Russia, as a private soldier, than consent to have his royal prerogatives diminished. The police of Naples having been appris d that a popular manifestation was to take place on the bth in the royal garden, a body of twelve hundred gene damns was stationed in this walk. As this demonstra tion was rendered impossible on this occasion, the police imagined it was put off till the Bth, to be held in the court of the palace. In consequence, the posts have been all doubled, and the guard of the palace, which is already so formidable, has been increased. Such is the political situation in which the country is now suffering. A tact has just occurred at Messina, which, though unimportant in itself, tends to de monstrate the profound aversion of the Sicilians for what ' ever can remind them of the yoke which the government of Naples now inflicts upon them. You know the cordial wel -1 come which foreigners ever receive in the festivi ties of Italy, and the proverbial tolerance a stranger meets with in their flies, which have so much charm for us. The Casino of Messina gave a bail in honour of the Intendant Pariel, called to Naples to occupy the place of Minister of the Interior. A numerous crowd of the most distinguished persons of the town had assem bled in the brilliant saloons, where some officers were pre terit. Bat at the commencement of the donee several of these officers, having invited some ladies, met with a humi liating refund, and were obliged to leave the Casino, from whence they were accompanied by the beatings of the gusts. The following day, dogs and other animals were sent into the streets with Gm-similes of the famous medal affixed to their ears and tail. I have been greatly surprised on reading in the Italian and other journals that ?d. Code has le ft the ' palace, and that the King has another confessor. The worthy prelate is as far from falling into disgrace as Delearretto. Ile confesses more than ever. The Neapolitans know it to their cost. Letters from Home 'mention some disturbances which had taken place among the working classes in the Transtavere, in consequence of foreign labourers being employed in competition with native opera-' tives. The movement had no political character, and was quickly repressed. The Patria of Florence announces that the question of Pontremoli is for the present settled. It is to conti nue annexed to Tuscany until the Duke of Lucca shall succeed to Parma. In that contingency the treaty of Vienna would transfer it to Parma, but nothing is said of that for the present. The provisional government of the Valais have pronounced decrees expelling the Jesuits from the canton, convoking a constituent grand council, and imposing a contribution of 8,0001. on the parties who were the chief instigators in the late war against the federal government. Among these the most pro minent are, the monks of the Great St. Bernard, the Abbey of St. Maurice, and the Bishop and Chapter of Sion. The question of the revision of the pact is discussed in several of the Swiss _journals with much modera tion and good sense. The impolicy of the Diet en gaging in such a measure precipitately is urged. The necessity, or at least the desirableness, of unanimity among the cantons is pleaded, as welt as a matter of legality as of prudence, in relation to the dis positions of foreign powers. To win over the lesser cantons to such a new arrangementby presentmeasares of conciliation is suggested, but in any event the postponement of the question until all irritation has been calmed down, vindictive feeling subdued by time, the sentiments of the new cantonal government expressed in their respective councils and the new federal deputies elected. In short, there is every reason to hope that this question of revision will be dealt with in a manner to afford no pretext for foreign interference, to which the population of the confede ration is in the mass strongly opposed. Letters and journals from Berne, of the 14th, have been received. Since the arrival of Sir Stratford Canning, and the intelligence of the declaration of Lord Palmerston against interference, England ha, become highly popular there. The ambassador had visited Gen. Dufour and all the membeis of the Diet present at Berne. The disbanding of the federal troops was taking place gradually, but it was under stood that a certain force would be maintained in a full state of efficiency until the cantons of the late league had liquidated the pecuniary indemnities de creed against them, and until all apprehension of armed interference by Austria and France should be removed. It is : ecnarkable that foreign interference was no where more decidedly unpopular than in the cantons of Friburg and Lucerne. A correspondent of La Presse, writing from Berne on the 14th, says: The troops are returning by degrees to th, it homes, every one resumes his weal avocations, the public mind recovers its wonted calm, trade ream arc, and justice is about to re open her sanctnary. The menace of an intervention in the midst of such perfect tranquillity is something so very ridi culous, that the moat simple shrug their shoulders when the journal, mention it. This is not a fancy pieture, but a faithful representation of the actual situation of the country. The government of the principality of Neufchatel has ratified the consent given by its deputy in the Diet, and has agreed to pay the fine imposed on it for failing to supply its military contingent. The expenses of the late war to be levied on the cantons of the League is five millions of franca, or about 300,0001. It is to be distributed in the following pro portions, and paid up by the 3rd January : Fr. nap. Uri ... 70.524- 8 Simla Zig Lamm ..... .......... ........ 1,171,499 -71 Mom rile Total: Pr.... ........... 3 011,00 a— „ AFRICA.—WEST COAST.—ASCENSION.—The Nau tilus, transport, arrived on Friday at Portsmouth, from the Falkland Islands and Ascension : the latter place she left on the Gth of November. The island had been peculiarly healthy of late ; there was abundance of water, and the amount of cultivated land bed been on the increue. The squadron (with the exception of the Siren, which had lost Lieut. Probart and nine ,nen at the Bahama Islands) had been very healthy. The slave trade is curied on with increased vigour by the slave agents; fifty vesicle have been taken during the last 12 mouths. None but the hest-sailing craft should be sent on the station, es frequently the slavers get away by superior tailing—three steam slave vessels having escaped with lull cargoes from the southern part of the station in September.—The F.,lklands were in the greatest state of diatreas in August, when the Nautilus left. She lay at the islands three weeks before she could get a bullock. All the improvements c•mtempated for giving &character and employment to the plays wire sopped, the government not having hands, or anything for them. the islands, in short, were in a fair way of being deserted. —Letters doted Oat. 10 havo been received from the Styx, steauasloop, Commander Chads, cruising on the coast of Africa. She had been again successful in capturing three more alive vessels, which had been sent inm put. In the course of her second cruise she hod made five prises ore the :ouch part of the coast. The crew were in goal health. It exp..cted the Styx will be home early in the spring. I'OLONIAL. AUSTRALIA. We have recervedjuunta;froni this eolony to the litth of July. The first session of the legislative council since the arrival of the new governor met on the 3rd of June. There was little of especial mark in his excellency's inaugu ral address. ilk assertion that a majority of the settlers were opposed to the introductica of convicts alone appears to have given rise to discussion. Little confidence is reposed by the colonists in the body, which is composed of five official and three unofficial members, the latter not being elective. It so happened that during the previous erasion there was only one unofficial member. On the 10th of June the Advocate-General gave notice of a motion for a c ,mmittee to inquire and report on what steps can be taken to induce and facilitate the immigration of Germans. If pervenament will do nothing to facilitate the immigration of Englishmen we can conceive the colonists looking out for German la bourers rather than want: but such a step on the part of go vernment is wanton mockery of our own unemployed labourers. TILE CALEDONIA, steamer, Capt. Lott, sailed on Saturday afternoon fur Halifax and Boston. She carries out no .pecus. THE WASHINGTON left Southampton on Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. She arrived from Bremen on Friday at 1 o'clock. Sloe had, therefore, to be coaled and to receive her cargo on board in a remarkably short pace of time. The Washington took out about 44 passengers. Clic Court. Her Majesty and the court will leave Osborne on Tuesday neat, for Windsor Cutle, there to paw the Christ mu holidays. A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right lion. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The council sat two hours and a half. A deputation of the committee of the Spaniab Bond holders Associa.ion, consisting of Mr. J. Capel, Mr. H. Chard, Mr. C. W. Stokes, and Mr. A. Whful.en, had an in terview with Viscount Palmerston on Saturday. Mr. Charles Bailer on Saturday took his seat at the board-room of the Poor-law Commiss i on-offi ce , Somerset- hows, as president of the sew board of poor-law oomrais sionera. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.-DEPUTA- VON TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. On Saturday a deputation, consisting of members of parliament and ethers interested in the success of a system of emigration to Australia, had an interview with Earl Grey, at the Colonial-office. Sir E. Mac Naosrrare opened the business by stating that on the previous Saturday a meeting of noblemen and gentlemen favourable to a plan of colonisation had been held in London, when the following resolutions were agreed to : That the oonny Australia, from the salubrity of its climate, the demand for labour that now exists, and is likely to increase, the abundance of food (or the support of the labourer, and its other ad. j vantage!, both social and phyelcal, ofPirs in the opinion of this meet. ' log en admirable outlet for emigration.—That this meeting will do Ito utmost to urge on her Majesty's government the propriety of giving pecuniary wisistavice in aid of an emigration to the eJlony upon a large seek, being deeply impressed with the conviction that the re lief that would thus be afforded to the distress in Ireland and Scot land, while it would secure a comfortable provision for the emigrants themselves, could not fail to lay the foundation of wealth and pros perity in an Important part of her Majesty's dominions, the benefit of which the mother country would ultimately Ivan—That the meeting feel oonadent that the colony itself will liberally contribute to any measure of pecuniary aid which the government of this country may Having read the resolutions the right hon. baronet curso rily dwelt to their contents, and endeavoured to show that the adoption of such a plan as the one suggested would re sult most advantageously, as well to the emigrants, the land owners in Australia, and the people of the British empire in general. A. conversation, which fasted upwards of an hour, ensued between the noble earl and deputation, the col loquy elucidating some interesting facts on the subject of our colonial settlements. It was held by the deputation that the emigration of small farmers and labourer, to Australia would eventually be productive of the greatest possible benefit to this couniry should the plan suggested be carried out. The attention of his lordship was called to the recent deplorable accounts from Canada and the British settlements in North America, according to which thousands of the unfortunate creatures who had left their native homes last year, arrived in a strange country merely to find the labour market already glutted. The noble earl having been asked whether the govern ment were inclined to render any pecuniary aid to carry out the plan suggested, replied that, however desirous the go vernment were to encourage emigration so far as lay in their power, he could not hold out any hope whatever that a grant of money for the purpose would be asked from parliament. A sum of money (100,0001.) would shortly arrive from Aus tralia ; that, he could say, would be appropriated to the encouragement of emigration, es weU as any other such stuns as he hoped would be received front the colony. No stronger hope, however, was he authorised to hold out. The noble earl subsequently informed the deputation that a plan which he hoped would be attended with succeu was under consideration—namely, that of sending out a considerable number of orphan boys and girls, to be trained, educated, and brought up in the colony. After some further conversation of no public important', the deputation retired. DEPUTATION OF IRISH MEMBERS TO SIR GEORGE GREY. Several of the Irish representatives having received certain urgent statements respecting the existence and increase of destitution in many of those dial:lots even where the Poor-law Act is in full operation. A dep atwa tT 7--- " . appointed to wait upon Sir G. Ur, y. Accordingly, pursuant to previous arrangement made n sa the right hon. baronet, the deputation waited upon pti eg Grey, et the Homc-office, on Friday last, and had adski„ t . and Sir W. Somerville, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, 7. interview of ounrideiable lei.gzh, and oae that they as of a most satisfactory nature. Sir G. Grq entered very fully into the subject, aid eared the deputation that the government bed, unmet. Tiered, at their diapoaal means sutheitnt for the prena: meet any case of destitution likely to occur sr an tety period, and which would not be provided for by Ineed7. sources, prodded those means were used only to c o " which the local rem:mimes of the undin had been ez.rei kt i h the fullest extent available and had been found inidgi at The deputation considrred the right Lou. genii , : astirvt planation moat satisfactory, and the detennutttion of t a t government calculae I to prevent anything evua approigna. last year's distress. They ermined themselve s in a frais`i meaniee pleased with the arrangements which Sir G. S nl assured them, were perfected iu order to aid th ose di st** where the poor law would bo found insufficient; and ha... thanked the right hon. geuttectein for his courtesy, gi , withdrew. MARYLEBONE Viterray.—Tug SUPPLY or (Av. On Saturday a report was presented from the committee ' s the vestry as to the terms upon which the We t t er , G m Light Company slonld be permitted to come into Ms* hone to compete with the Imperial and other mt. co reps The report recommended the adruiseion of the Waettq Company upon giving security to the amulet of 15edet. and that they should ha eon:pethd t lay down abu t m i l ; throughout the whole sixty whet of Msryleb .ne 'Went o w year from Dee. 31 neat. Three deputy ious wetted' '' . the vestry, for the purpose of urging them to make 1 6; favourable terms far the admissi .n of the company, n o first consisted of the directors of the Westi rn llalj, Company; the second was a deputation tom the pee l Q committee of St. blerylebone, expres.ing their Tureen** stringent terms of the repute al r protibit d the coming in, and the third deputation, to preemt a yes to a similar effect, signed by no less than 1,460 gm *memo and rate-payers of Marylehone —Mr. .I..te ph mond a i adoption of the report, which was seconded and sapper* * very considerable length by Mr. Oeo Daniell.—kl e c ue, g, chairman of the gas committee, moved the recomminalefge report.—After a long and stormy dieeueton, the wo ad motion was withdrawn, and the refers was ordered lake sent back to the committee.—Tee !nineteen:ea Pesg —A report was brought up from the unitary sannmineenlyt reference to the sue jeet of disinfecting fluids refereed b them. It stated that there were tour c uipeuads submittal to them—viz., chloride of lime, Sir Wm. Dunett's Woe which is chloride of sine, Ledoyen'e, which is nitrate offlu1; and Mr. Ell. rman's, couneting of a prow:aloe of iron. Ike committee were of opinion, from the tau applied, that* Ellerman's fluid was superior to either of the ethers, pun. lug as it dors greater powers of destrejieg oft nays and at the same time nut ietertyina with the effieacY of sa oul as a manure The committee canal no: recommend adoption of either upon a large scale, c nsid.ring that gee remedy which came most strictly within the previewed public board was a pl. ntiful supply of pure wake fk cleansing the drains, and thus preventing tie senunohne of filth and put r. went mutter. Mr. George Deeiell, se eltak. man of the committee, moved that the 'spirt ie read a d adopted, which haying been seconded, was carried neural. SUSPENSION OF TIIE COIL`e LAW. —Au considerable misconception appears to mist in the country sy to the ne w , of the present suspension ot the corn law, and tl.• hrokabliOL of its being again permitted to come into operatien :a Mardi, we think it necessary to state tint it does net require my act of the legislature for that purpose, as many epees: le suppose. The ease is simply jhis : In 1846 eh .av wen passed, imposing a wale of duties until February, 1943, de which period it imposes a fixed nominal duty. The set If the last session suspended the operation of that law until the month ot March next, when, without any further set on the part of the government, the 1 iw of 1816 again comes into operation, continuing the scale of du;h a far eleven mouths longer. As there is not the slightest proleihilizy th a t their will be any such scarcity or high price as would justify the government asking parlisment to continue the r , pereum at the law, there can be no doubt that lieu March, 1848, a February, 1849. the acne of duties thargeabie under the law of 1846 will agoin come into operatieu. It should, how. ever, be remembered that maize. or I edian corn, is not fa. eluded in that scale, but is sat jeot the law ot 1913 who a permanent registration duty of Is. per (leen r, rind to meal to 41d. per cwt., and these will therefore centimes the same after March, 1848.—Economist. A REWARD OP 1;01. 'LW BEEN OTFERED POE TER APPREHENSION OP LORD WILLIAM PAGET, It &ppm that a true bill was found by the grand jury, at the elitist Criminal Court, on Sept. 20, against " Capt. Lord Willis Psget, R.N. for obtaining money under fah , pretnem" and rew ard ' ls adverliwi re he r•-`•t *- ••••••• .16 will apprehend and lodge, or cause to ha apprehended sat lodged, in any of her hfajcsty's gaols in Bugle id, the tell Lord William Paget, who was Iry ely M.P. for Atelowe." His personal appearance is described. Toe eolicilere lode Society of Guardians for the Protection of Trade we car Jounced as the parties seeking his apprehension. ANOTHER ROBBERY OP CAsH AT THE PADDI/10. Tow TERMINTS.—On Saturday information was circulate' throughout the visions divisions of the metropolitan polite, relative to another very mysterious robbery which tot plate on the previous evenuig at the Paddington railwq station. It appears that Mr. Fryer, a part of whore &styli is to pay the men belonging to the locomotive departme• left his office adjacent to the entrance gates at six o'clock, t gas to tea, and on quitting, locked, as usual, the outer dm. On his return, after an ah,ence of no more than tinkle minutes, he discovered that the office had been entered,u doubt by means of a skeleton key, and that upwards of in gold and Meter had been stolen from a drawer, the load which had been forced. Information of the robbery ve promptly communiemed to Mr. Collier, the superintends el the company's police, who is using his utmost endeavese to discover the gui ty parties.—Sun&iy pmer. INQUESTS, SITU RDAT.—ALLEGED NEGLECT OF MB POLlCE.—Before Mr. Bedford, at the Lord High Adman', Vaaxhall-bridge-road, as to the death of Lucy Spasm The deceased was the wife of a drayman in the invited Mews. Thome ' brewers. She had been in a wry id Mate of health, and was attended by the landlady st the house. On Thursday morning bee husband vendee)* work as usual at tire o'clock, and it would seem that* deceased got up and fastened the room door, fur os Modlady at eight going to see if she would bare her brae feet she could obtain no answer. Her hushaed west q, but was afraid to break open the door, and though he gets ladder he could see nothing through the window, m* blinds were down. Be sent to the police-station to say Me he suspected something wrong, but the answer was ifk broke open the door it would bc at his own risk. Ultimis, the husband was sent for from Chelsea, and on his about ten o'clock the door was forced, and the deemed's found lying in the bed with her throat cut in a druid manner. She had been dead tome time. A knife muted near her right hand, with which she had inflicted the and on her left was a steel for sharpening the weapon.—Bs Coroner said it seemed very strange the police did ridie terfere in this matter, and there was a poeObility the kid the deceased might have been saved. He hqd Hat some inquiry would be made, and that a port should be had.—The Inspector said he was ast• duty at the time, and could not tell what th stemage sent was, but it should be inquired MI — The jury returned a verdict of " Temporay Solemn PROM Moxonattia.—Before Mr. Bedford, ids Orange Inn, Cam -street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, tea dente el Mr. Patrick Murphy.-0. Cromfield, Oillapdgest, Red Lion-square, stated that the wee a writer, and lodged at his house. Lately he had Ms ender the impression that some one was purism; WI shoot him, and that a person of the name of Wright Eset parties after him to take hit life. At the latter . • Lei week he said if he had not employment some me assid tea it. He had been very much &tressed of lata—B" wife of the last witness confirmed this tenamony, aid 101 that the deceased repeatedly said he should be ihst e On Monday she went up to his room, and found it WM inside. Upon forcing a panel the deceased was fowl et the bed. There was bloat all over the bed sad doer; le ran for a doctor, under whose direction he was mania. the King's College Hospital. A razor was found on dli bed, by which the deceased had inflicted the injuries—/dr. Burden, the surgeon, said the wound was six Mem • length. The deceased had divided the wind-pits in tw places, first with one hand and then the other. He said b bad made the first attempt on his life at four o'clock in IS morning, and the second at two in the afternoon. He did from the injuries on Thurwlay.—The jury returned a Wr dint of "Temporary insanity." ----- DR. HAMPDEN'S LETTER TO LORD JOBS RUSSELL. The bishop elect of Hereford has addressed the* lowing letter to the premier in reply to his wears ! My Lord,—lt is indeed painful to an honest to answer a charge of unfaithfulness to a hie' what else is the charge alleged by certsi , reviving a clamour against me, an , ' with their jealousies and alarms, 1- - to my engagements to the church If a person holds not in sincerity to whose ministry he has been profeeedly in the church, bra' indifferent about, its faith , stance, as far as appears to sgainst me, but an imputation religious and moral duty ? In ordinary circumstances, with silent contempt. But mend a sacrifice of feeling. such an occasion, when by 4._ lordship, I shall at once discharge Majesty, and to yourself, my lord, crown, - and may hope, at the sea meat of the troth, to tranquilize earn' at Christians, who may have passioned appeals made to them s It is, es 1 have said, a painful such most groundless, but most devoted service in the miniart quarter of a century, of which been divided between the lab and parochial ministrations, ' replying to accusations under the eyes of men, Boeing God who tries the being required to deny having of oar holy faith, which it has uphold and enforce. Alas, my lord, how commonly burning' of the polemical spirit law, " Thou shalt not beat er in reply to ms arr...^. painful to an honest mind a liss sithfulness to a high trust leged by certtin parties who at me, and agitatina the gimlg alarms, but that of unfsiafellet church of which I am s nomity the doctrines of thee /all been called—if he is n OO4OlOl , but in heart dissents from, or; ; what is this, which is aim; o me, of what bat hero ado! dim of the grosiest derelict s Des, I might treat such d , reni at there are occssiom it, And the present appeal la by thus publicly addrunial 'scheme a duty to her mast my lord, the first Millii:ff t the shine time, hy a simple dt melodize the muds of basal.' my have been perplexed by** them against me. >sinful trial, to hare to WOO most unrelenting enmity. Ab g. doter of the gospel for mire Mt; which the Lit twelve yeas be labours of the Diradfr, ins, I might well be Woman which my whole life, and in the presence of thelLw as hurt, effectually refute-or awing Cim been my constant stair' "l a calmly in the jealousies awl I spirit Is that precept of tin so y" tar fan witness egaiontiP Pr pugned those vital! 11111