The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

Us when the steed was stolen. What ,tatnd big Ohl " ok i a f r kad (Lord G. Bentinek) contended was there ka a been &grist demeans in the population, in consequence t o s 1 for affording sustenance to the people having kw , „d at ed and, though the means for meeting the deett katio night be elficimt now, they were only so when the owe CHANCE LLOR had been se reduced. The of the EXCHEQUER observed ...nue, was a fallacy in the comparison which the boo. '": bad drawn. The two months quoted as those • which the large quantity of meal had been supplied, wee immediately previous to the potato crop being is, and when the previosui crop was exhausted, two months during whiea the small distribution wa k i gace were those which immediately followed the har vest, who the supple of food, especially of the potato, had b ft a gathsred in. With regard to the depots also, had the hie. gentleman taken the trouble to inquire he would have mind the eiteumatances in that respect also so dissimilar as p Welt anything like a comparison being made. Previous *t he lest honest, the system seas to have soma few large esmree depots, and, at the some time, to constitute the m i ct o coast guard and constabulary stations small depots, ia which s few salsa of meal were deposited to supply, by f eted, tte people in the immediate neighbourhood. These m a depot' had been discontiuued, but the number of large depots had been more than doubled. The main fact, how- MT, was that the arrangements which had been made had Teen so successful in so far th it had brought full supplies a e grain* into Ireland. The number of rations which had p e p issued since January was 7,000,000, and the daily raises limed were 266,000. As a proof of the success of the course the government had adopted he would reed a letter from the Dean of Achunry, who though he had entertained strong doubts on the subject in the &et instance, Prom his eon experence, had become convinced of the bene ficial result of the plan pursued by the Commissary-General in providing food for the people—le : tat* m tats t hi s o pportunity' of tearing my teetimony to the jithineso of the views taken by the Climinimary-Cenral in reference so the nude ofpithv (ding fuel or ttligraer gel< y . I have hadop. tarree I hors of a i tia n irmg m ticenezpended in se ' llr4 tt m7M a ! s a lees blow ass pvlce, and ea sooner was the fund athausted than the remit dealenx who had been obligni in some iIIAULLION to give up selling, renromenced it unusually high price. to mintsizs g depot fusion time; and in tome ones the meal Diu' sold had been at the din while it continued open. Thus the poor were kit le a wormers than do if there at had been no interference. In my own ,tha althoegb had übts t est as to the expediency of thie nth. I basemen the benefinal mulls of acting in Accordance with the IVOilaktioo tithe Onamimary-lienerat I thee void at the theme ef a mammon my lied meal to the amount of NM (beside. rice, Jeer, and other provision") and this has not out Obi 011ie SW* ((except the inconvenience of keening about rim, A gi t). 6y adding V. per ton to the price paid at as thin the a deviance of fen I have covered all mg pievkled for • poor woman (with a family of twelve), =TAM pence who weighs and mils the melt (with eight in family), them to the amount .041. eseb within ten weeks. The advan tage so the neighbourhood has leen very great. Fora mile in every &m ice mad me the private dealers sell at a ITINOCIabit profit If IMO said at a ices (apposing I could have afforded it). I should have mp g be * th in &niers, and thereby have limited the supply in jumpily; mot if I had net sold at all, prices would have been wo e , i n to neighbourhood. as they are in other parts of the district. 1 nein , nem facth conelthive en the anitoet now so much dia. era. (Mar. hear.) Me. P. HOWARD suggested to the government, whether it was not persiMe to send out to Ireland a greater quantity of food, is the form of biscuits, by which means the evils analog from the want of firing to prepare bread stuffs for am would be avoided. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that already considerable quantities' of biscuits had been sent eat, and (as we understood) the supply would be continued. The order of the day was then rend, and the house re ethyl itself into committee on the bill, Mr. Gannet in the ale r. Clams 3 was agreed to without any discussion. On Chum 4 being put. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON moved an amendment, the effect of which was to take from the board of guardians the ap pointment of relieving officers, and to vest those appoint ment. in the poor-law commissioners. The amendment wu supported by Mr. Smith O'Brien, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, Mr D. Browne, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, and Mr. Grogan ; and opposed by Sir U. (trey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Shaw. After a short discussion, Mr. HAMILTON withdrew his amendment, and the , lotus was agr. ed tea Clause 5. Medical officers may be appointed.—Agreed to. Chose 6. Relieving officers ma give provisional relief until the next meeting of the guardian. Mr. HAMILTON moved the substitution of words giving the relieving power to a relief committee. Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN was understood to support the imendment Mr. W. S. CRAWFORD said that a relief committee would be a bad substitute for a relieving officer an I would occasion great trouble to the paupers. He ho ped that go vernment would retain the clauoe as it stood. „--- After a few words from Mr. BaaLsw, Mr. SHAW thought it necessary that there should be some authority interposed between the relieving officer and the guardians. Sir G. GREY said the proposed committee appeared de signed to meet the cue of great and sudden emergencies ; but its effect, in reality, would bete delay the administration of relief in ouch cases, thereby defeating its own object. After a short discussion, in which Mr. D. Browne, Mr. Ross, Mr. Grogan, Mr. John O'Connell (who urged the neces,ity of clergymen of all persuasions being on the boards of guardians), Sir. R. Ferguson, and Mr. Stafford O'Brien took The art, clause waa aereed to. Clause 7, providing relief to wife or child, to be relief to husband or parent, was then moved, and Mr. VESBY mowed an additional proviso to this clause, to the effect that no wife or child should be admitted into the workhouse without the husband or parent for more than week, unless with the sanction of the poor-law commis- Users. bit G. GREY opposed the introduction of this proviso, os the ground that it would render legal that which was ade illegal by the precious clause. Mr. Sesw and Mr. G. A. Ilawarow supported the addition of the proviso. The motion fur the additioa of this proviso we, then ue faired, and the clause agreed to. Clauses 8 and 9 were then agreed to, and Lord J. RUSSELL said that he hoped members who had ration on the paper for this (Tuesday) evening, would postpone them, in order that this measure might be farther proceeded with. The Cremator then reported progress, and obtained free to sit again. CUSTODY OF OFFENDERS BILL. Oa the motion for the committal of this bill, Mr. R. DENISON asked if the important question of trimportation was to be brought formally under the con sideration of the house ? Lord J. RUSSELL said it must eventually come under the consideration of the house, but the present bill would sot raise the question. Sir J. GRAHAM observed, that before he left office, he had strongly felt the necessity of some change in the system of transurtation. He was anxious to enter into the consi deration of the question, but he did not see at present how be was to do so except upon the present bill. If, therefore, the government persisted in prersing its consideration on Thursday morning, he must be there ; but at the same time be could not but feel that the arrangement would be attended with serious inconvenience. Sir G. GREY said he had named Thursday as the most mosecient day to members generally. Mr. HENLEY thought a subject of this importance ought sot to be discussed at a morning sitting. (Hear, hear.) After some further observations, Sir J. GRAHAM asked if the government would consent (this till being passed without discussion) to afford an oppor tunity after Easter for the consideration of the whole question in a distinct form ? Sir G. GREY said be thought such a discussion would be most desirable, and saw no reason why it should not take Place ; but it was fair that he should add, that the govern ment bad no measure in contempl►tion which was likely to we it. The bill was then committed pro furnid. The Louse adjourned at a quarter put one o'clock. ORIGIN or SAVINGS BA:VER.—These admirable institutions (says a correspondent of the Atheneum) are one of the many good works which we owe to tne practical and philanthropic body of Quakers. The first savings b ank was established at Tottenham (O c t. 22, 1708) by Priscilla Wakefield—a name unknown to our biographical diction aries. The success. remarks Mrs. Wakefield, in No. 84 of the "Report* of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor,") exceeded our expectation—above sixty children bringing their little treasure monthly; and, in coasequenee, a more extensive plan was adopted in 1804, when • regular savings bank on the present system was formed 'for the profitable deposit of the marines of la bourers and servants.' The books were kept by a lady; 5 1t trustees were appointed, who were each respon sible for 1001.; and for every additional 100/ that accu mulated, a new trustee was added. Five per cent was al loved oil every Mc which remained twelve months in the kinds of the trustees. The money received was invested each month in the funds, in the names of two trustees altar niatelY• This was the first distinct " bank for savings " pub '47 set on foot. It was founded by Mrs. Wakefield, and remained for many years under her management. It is still in existence. In 1813 J. H. Forbes, Esq. (a brother of Sir 1 S .Forbes), en active dir e ct o r of the Edinburgh Mendicity the having acquainted himself with the plan of we Tottenham Bank, proposed regulations, which l!tve at once adopted, for the establishment of • sale institution in that metropolis. In consequence of the rblished reports of this society accompanied b 7 "directions fir establishing similar hanks, with the mode O~Pig_the accounts and conducting the details of busi (Edinburgh, 1816), and et the puklicity given to them by an article in the Edinburgh Revived the same yeirt there institutions gradually spread throughout the °c uter It was not, however, until 1818, that they were ant established in London. In 1817 an act of parliament ntrased " for the protection and encouragement of Bulks utga" : since which time they have become universal JEngland. A plea somewhat similar was suggested by li mes,' Bentham, about the same time that Mrs. Wakefield ',Wished the Tottenham Savings Bank, though it was not, 4L ltitouitit, acted upon. IHE THEATRE AND THE CIUTICB.—A Berlin eel , "'Patient of the Leipsie Gaulle, gives an amusing in 'tame of iniannderetanding between a theatrical manager toil the critics. Knstner, the manager, for some offence, ''.drew several free tickets from the litteroteurs. No !sem had he done this, however, than he began to dread w e consequence'. To make himself secure, ho has ad ed a note to the critics, threatening that if they make ay Amber attacks upon him, he will retort to the severest 12" genishment—he will publish the mercenary letters Ma received. ghe eriortlig. 71b• wnelisd erred rails VI. daradUes to the Wedltermirri, gent, Adak Orlon. Ind* lire Kong, tr., will be made up on the swarm elide Ur Marie. The mar Ihe Vljs, Oporto. Urea. Madera, Clad* and Gibraltar, win he made re en the morn( et the *7th March. lir made lir new Swath Wales, Tea Direenbi Land, sad New Teerwl will b i ar up es Me WIS. et Os SIM Marsh. The War Whaling throe ter Mato, bleedtaru, and the ttavasned, wp es Hr nevem et the rd April. The add dr arida Meth Arrafm, Mmes, sal the United Mho, rid lemmas up en the ewers et re ire Aped. ire The effindril Eris Mr Cllhraltat, MaltsOrsee, the lonian Wanda, Art Adl in up as the rstrytim, Ind* HarrapiCons, rd Apri. sad Chia, via Southampro, mrag et Ur The rib he the kris the Inver Mate, Monts Video, Pffalllt. =. 6 llehle, llta4tira. rod Iltierei Arra, win is nude ap on the etre 3th April. TO CORRESPONDENTS. •.• Advertioments latooded br The Ilsprrs, landau evening piper, bust he Mb* Mos by Two o'clact oa Soo day at pablisatka. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE, - - - Tao ntin.poot E ; Afternoon, 35 min. mot f. 153.11fossow—llornfig, I: rain. poet 7 ; Afternoon, 52 Na. Peg 7. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 23. EcoNommrs, as far as they are represented by the Economist, will not let as do anything. One week they tell us, that we must not go out of the way to feed or employ the Irish, but let the poor wretches find out food and labour for themselves, in a country where both have ceased to exist. This week it tells no that we must not vote money to educate the English. Why ? Because of the serious injustice it would inflict on bachelordom! That interesting and provident section of society, having carefully abstained from the risks and burdens of matrimony, ought not, according to the Economist, to be taxed, in order to teach other men's children. We should like to know what tax a quiet old hunks of a bachelor ought to pay, according to this econo mical doctrine. Why should he pay a rate to the poor?—they are none of his children. Or a war-tax ? —he is of the " peace-at-all-price " party. Why should he contribute to pay the interest upon a debt which the aristocracy of half a century ago entailed upon the country ? All these burdens—the burden of the fundholder's debt, of the poor man's dole, of the ignorance of the destitute classes—all are the produce of the faults, the wants, the foibles of our nature; the inequalities of social position. Why should the eco nomist pay one stiver of them? The children of the country are not his children. The community have a strong interest in the ele vation of the lower classes : in their training and their education first of all, because this makes them more industrious, and the country more rich: it makes the dealings between man and man more secure ; it diminishes crime—the terror of the robber and the aassasin—the expense and trouble of criminal prosecu tion and punishment. At all this, the old bachelor economist snaps his finger, and says he will bolt his doors well, tako care that no one cheats him; and that, upon the whole, he would rather pay the hangman than the schoolmaster. Hereupon, some one may take up the argument in altogether another way, and ask the economist whe ther, although having and owning no worldly interest in the well-being and education of his fellows, there does not exist the moral as well as Christian duty of communicating the blessings of religious instruction, and intellectual amelioration, to the classes which most want them, and are least able to procure them for themselves ? We may ask whether this duty may not extend beyond our own children to other men's children ; and, above all, to the fatherless and destitute? Are we, because we do not marry, to close oar hearts, and avert our prospects from the next generation? Are the merry children, who play in our sight, enliven our thoroughfares, and lilt their glad voices, like cheerful prayers, amidst the dull and worldly ratiocination of such philosophers as the Economist —are they nothing to us, who have not begotten them? If these children have rich parents, often uneducated, immoral, neglectful, or unwise, shall not we, legislators, or counsellors of legislation, not endeavour that such children shall be better, more morally, more profitably, educated than their parents? If these children have poor parents, shall we with hold our mite, in addition to our efforts and our counsel, that crime shall not grow oat of ignorance in their young hearts, and that education shall be the seed of virtue ? Mr. BAINES will have nobody taught, if priest or state functionary employ a finger in pointing out the alphabet. The Church of England used to say that none should be taught, unless it was school mistress and janitor. But the Church of England has become far more liberalised, whilst Mr. BAINES and his dissenting followers have oaten their own words, denied their own professions of a year or two back, or turned their liberalism to ilhberalism, in the cause of faction and for the furtherance of ignorance. The Economist, more consistent than Mr. BAINES, but scarcely more absurd, will have nobody taught, lest sixpennyworth of the expense might come out of the pockets of that sacred animal, the bachelor. We want but a married-man party to stand up and declare the illegitimate offspring of the licentious bachelordom shall be denied even the education of the workhouse. Does it not seem strange, that, in the nineteenth century, Englishmen should divide themselves into parties for the purpose of making war upon each other, and that the deadly weapon employed on both sides should be ignorance ? Certain of the dissenters now meet and strive, that thousands upon thousands of the rustic and agricultural population should not in any way, or in any conceivable future, be taught to read and write. Mr. BAINES will allow instruction to no children save of his creed; the Economist to none save of its own progeniture. We can scarcely condescend to reason with such absurdity and self ishness. THE inquest at Barnsley, concerning the recent coal-mine explosion near that town, by which seventy lives were sacrificed, has now terminated, the jury having expressed their opinion that the deaths were accidental," but that efficient regulations are not en forced in the district to prevent the use of naked lights in those parts of coal mines where inflammable gas is known to exist ; and that they are further of opinion that the recurrence of accidents involving so large a loss of human life demands the immediate attention of her Majesty's government, and would justify parliament in framing such a code of regula tions as would give greater security to persons em ployed in mining operations." We are satisfied that no unprejudiced person can doubt this. We are sure that a verdict expressing so distinctly and sensibly the true state of the case will have due weight both with the public in general, and with her Majesty's government and the houses of parliament. We wish, however, to recall the simple facts attend ing this melancholy accident at Barnsley, in order to place the subject in its proper light. There is nothing, indeed, very unusual in the affair ; and almost all the evidence adduced might have been copied from the records of the late accident at Oldbury, the previous one at Rises, or that which preceded it at Jarrow. But still we may learn something from the mere repe tition of the sad story. There are in the Oaks colliery two shafts : one used chiefly for drawing coal, and the other for producing an ascending current of air, and carrying away from the workings the air that has been used. It is quite clear that the air must pass down the drawing shaft before it can get into the underground works, through which also it passes before amending the other, or ventilation,shaft. Anything that interferes greatly with the current of air in either shaft must interfere with the ventilation : and yet it is acknowledged that " a circular scaffolding, nearly the width of the shaft, was let dawn into the ventilation shaft, about a month or five weeks before the accident, and was in the shaft at the time of the explosion." Thus, the freedom of the ventilation was completely checked ; but no one seems to have thought this extraordinary or dan gerous. There was no person officially called on to in terfere, and any interference, not official, would, in all probability, have been thought highly impertinent. It is clear, however, that efficielt inspection would render such a state of things as impossible aa it would be to have, on a railroad, an embankment or a cutting left knowingly in a dangerous state for an indefinite time. The workings underground in the Oaks pit were of two kinds, the old and the new ; the old workings were known to be in a bad state from foul air, and this was especially the case when the coal was being obtained from these places. The men were told to work with safety-lamps in certain galleries, or " breaks," but they appear to have been left entirely to themselves in carrying out these instructions, since the lamps were neither locked nor examined, and the only inti- I make of the existence of danger appears to have' been the placing of a shovel across a passage. It was I admitted also, that new men might not be aware of this eastern, and no 'punishment was inflicted when a foolish or obstinate man chose to risk the lives of the hundred who might be in the pit with himself, by going about wherever he pleased with an open light. Now, we have uo intention of declaiming against Dither the owners, the foreman, or any one of the sufferers. We are convinced that the fault is more in the system than in the individuals. But when we consider for a moment the constant imminent danger, the well known fact that in cases of this kind the foul air is likely to come suddenly and rapidly, into those places where the men are working—that the fall of a prop, the accidental approach to a small fault or dislocation of the beds, and a hundred other causes, may create a rush of explosive gas su ffi cient to endanger the lives of every one underground at the time, we do say that there should be some efficient underground police—something like inspection and superintendence, and some method adopted to ensure the observance of any plan that may be suggested, whether of improved ventilation, or of constant work ing with the safety-lamp. There is one point in the evidence on this inquest which seems at first sight so strange, and is eo regu larly repeated on the occasion of every . accident, that we cannot help alluding to it. It is in the evidence of Mr. E. Wniatev, a colliery viewer, who " had been in the pit in January, and the only fault he found with it was, that it had too much air." Now, without dwelling on the fact that the ventilation had been for more than a month impeded by a scaffold in the upcast shaft, we would just inform our non-pro fessienal readers that this apparent excess of air, sup posing it to exist, does not in fact very much affect the question at issue, for if there is enough foul air given off to render a pit fiery, and therefore dan gerous, the danger is by no means diminished by coursing the air rapidly along the main passages. If there is danger, it will then be only . more widely spread far, acoordiog to almost invariable custom, there are, even under the most dangerous circum stances, abundance of open lights about, and the air becomes explosive without much reference to the general ventilation. We believe that a number of moderate but short currents, well distributed,are really far more efficaeioua than the rapid blast that almost blows out a candle. At any rate, this mach is cer tain, that in working coal that gives off a large quan tity of gas, there is ix, real safety if open lights are used at all. The absolute necessity of determining in each pit what would render those particular workings safest, and insisting on such things being done, must, how ever, act as a check upon positive general legislation with regard to method, and ought rather to suggest the appointment of efficient inspectors, whose judg ment could be relied on, and who would not insult on vexatious interference. Each district has its own method, and that method almost always has reference to some local peculiarities, which have suggested it. Whatever the present result may be, we feel eatis fied that, before long, the strongly expressed opinion of the mining districts will reader some measure of legislation imperative. AGAIN the Iron Duke! Even in bronze the hero of a hundred fights moons retreat, NAPOLEON used to object to the original WELLINGTON that he did not know when he was beaten. We may say the same thing apropos of his colossal effigy and its equally immovable sub-committee. The abomination has been seen and judged. The public eye, familiarized with its proportions, has lost all sense of their vast ness in a contempt for its bold and prosaic poverty of conception. It is the littlest big thing that ever paraded sham grandeur before the world. A dwarf magnified will not be a giant, nor will a giant viewed through the reverse end of an opera-glass sink into a dwarf. They are dwarf and giant respectively, as much by the relation of their parts and proportions as by their actual dimensions. Reduce MICHAEL ANGELO'S "Moses" to a scale of lines for yards and it is still a colossus. Blow out Mr. WYATT'S man on horseback, to its pre sent bulk, and it remains as paltry a statuette as ever disgraced a pendule in the Palais Royal. Fortunately for good sense and good taste, neither the public nor the "competent persons" have been led away by the childish awe of mere bigness. Even omnibus cads have ceased to criticize the horse. They feel he is on view only. The scaffold stands like a warning of instability. In this general defection, the committee alone are true to their idol. They will bow down to it still, if they bow alone. Sir FREDERICK TRENCII resembles the last priest of a decayed worship. Perhaps he rneaks out at quiet times to worship the statue, as the remainder Druid might snatch a half-hour's forbidden devotion at nightfall within Stonehenge. We should not be surprised to catch him and the Marquis of LONDONDERRY at their kotow early some fine morning, knocking their foreheads against the Fround in Grosvenor-place, or sitting under the arch in sackcloth shirts, and the contents of Holdernessc house dust-pan strewed over their holds. When 1 these respectable old gentlemen are attacked by devo tion to art, they take it in a very malignant form. Bat when they catch it in the WELLINurox-fever variety, it is hardly curable. However, the colossus must come down. Like Humpty Dumpty, of nursery notoriety, the statue has " sat upon a wall." Like him, the statue has " had a great fall." But here the analogy stops. - - - • - "All the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men," We are expressly informed in the poem referred to, - - •' 'Wouldn't Pet poor Rompty Thunpty op arum" In the present instance, the sub-committee ex pressly declare that if their humpty-dumpty is to be set up again, it must be by the very royal agency which failed in theoriginal instance. They won't set bim up again, at all events. They won't aid in ro dis el cwnin their own altar, to erect the image on an alien pede stal . They have bound themselves to take him down. But, as the Marquis of LONDONDERRY awfully declared on Friday night, if they do, " they will leave him at the foot of the arch." They probably rely ou the effect of such a statue in such a homeless, homeless, hopeless con dition. It will be a bronze Belisarius for this hard-hearted generation. Date obatana will be read date pedestal. It is clear, in fact, that this determined body hopes still to frighten the government from its intention of removing the Colossus. They have "dodged" him on to the arch, and trust to another " dodge" to keep him there. " Only let us pat him up," was their former cry ; " you will see what an effect he will produce. If you don't like him you can take him down. Give us three weeks' trial." . . .. . . The trial was granted, in spite of warnings con veyed in every form public opinion could assume. His bronze Grace was found " not to suit the place," and warning was duly given to his patrons to look out for another situation. " No, no," they say now, " that's not in the bond. We promised to take him down, but did not promise to set him up elsewhere." It is a very pretty piece of special pleading, and deserves to be put on a par with PORTIA'S answer to SUTLOCK, in the Merchant of Venice. We have been Laocoons from the first. We raised early the cry, " Equo ne credite Teacri." We felt the image carried in his belly, if sot armed warriors, at least dangerous preoedents,—if not sword and fire for Trojan hearts and houses, means of fatal offence to art and taste in London. We had acquired some previous experience of the stuff which composed the sub-committee. The job of the Exchange WELLINGTON statue had taught us with what men we had to deal in the TRENCH-WYATT affair. " Time° Donato et dons ferentes" was an inevitable result of our experience. Has our fear not been justified as much as our obj ections? The committee, we apprehend, are " o the windy aide of the law" in refusing to put up the duke again, or lend aid towards doing so. Their promise was, without doubt, to take kiin down only. Whether, under the circumstances, this premise involves an " implied obligation," as the law calls it, to put him out of the way at least, if not to erect him elsewhere, we leave to the law officers of the crown to determine. But the removal of the man-mountain from his present site will be a blessing, cheaply purchased even at the expense of a reconveyanoe to a new destination, and the erection of a new pedestal. Bad anywhere, en the arch he is intolerable. In Waterloo-place, he will be a brazen, big, mindless statue, but he will at least not parade his contrasted size of limb and smallness of conception on the moat prominent, and at the same time the most unsuitable, pedestal which London can furnish. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EYENTNG, MARCH 23, 1847. The financial movement of the Czar continued to be the prevailing topic in Paris on Sunday, exciting comments curiously discordant, timid and wavering, among the various political parties. The emancipa tion of the Bank from its troubles is, according to the views of some, but a poor compensation for the degra dation which attends the reception of relief from such a quarter. Amidst so much dissension and hesitation, the sentiments expressed by the semi-official organ of the court and cabinet, the Journal des Dibals, have been looked for by all parties with the curiosity and interest, the more especially greates tbecause it is well known that no important article touching international subjects appears in that journal without the approbation, not only of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Hotel des Capucines, but of another Minister of Foreign Affairs, occupying a more exalted station. The Journal des Dant., as we stated in our former correspondence, first maintained a mysterious silence on this subject ; next it stammered out some timid and scarcely coherent sentences upon it. Oa Sunday, however, it lets sentiments break out which indicate that the financial convenience produced the pecuniary accommodation received from Russia is not unmingled with feelings the reverse of agreeable. That we may not unintentionally impart a wrong colour to the comments of the official journal, we shall give textually what it said on Sunday upon this matter : We wish to avoid, for the present, recurring to the pur chase of renter from the Bank of France, made by the Emperor of Russia. When this proceeding became public, the first movement wan one of universal astonishment—we may almost say, distrust—so little was such a step expected from the sovereign of Russia. But the immediate and un questionable advantage attending it son silenced all other considerations, and we must acknowledge that, after • short hesitation, publio opinion generally concurred with those who approved the measure. This is certain. We shall not interrupt this unanimity, which so rarely occurs, by any forebodings which might appear inopportune and exaggerated. In the face of a succour, of which France, it seems, was more in need than we could have imagined, we will not seek after the eventual inconveniences which the service just rendered to us may produce at a future period. We shall not enter Into an y . polemic upon this delicate sab ject Several of the opposition journals chained'a have gives us an example of reserve on this natter. The /mental des Debate then proceeds to quote articles which have appeared in Le Canstihdionnel, and La Presse (which articles we noticed yesterday) on this subject, and it concludes its observations thus: Our intaation, we repeat, is to porpoise all political die• cussion upon an affair, the financial advantage , . of which only are looked at for the wiliest. Let it suffioe to say that L 4 l'resse has misunderstood us. When we praised the . . wisdom of our government we had then in Met; the entire policy which has prevailed for seventeen years in Frame, and the liberal and pacific spirit which has presided over the destinies of the revolution of July. As to the rest, the operation which hu been concluded with the Emperor of Rues* and which produce. the present Wow* of La Press*, gives, we must acknowledge, es wield to the levers animadversions of that journal upon the eating of our finances. We are free to unfree that we mead Nat ham believed that France could have been relayed to weigh with gratitude a foreign succour of fifty Wiliest. We no with regret that the financial question hen altegellsre mmithand the political question, and that, if we may so speak, no alternative was left. Such are the style, tone, and spirit in which the Journal des Debate, on Sunday, comments on the transaction which has engrossed all Paris during last week, has stimulated its commerce, and raised the public funds one per cent. Great must be the draw backs in the opinions of those who inspire the Debuts which can prompt such a notice of such a transaction ! Notwithstanding the great though temperer,. relief afforded to the financial interests of France by this measure, it must, nevertheless, be admitted that those interests, as well as those of commerce generally, still look towards England as the only natural and desirable alliance. The tendency of the comments of the Debate betrays a like feeling. The friends of M. Guizot affirm, emphaticslly, that he is English to the marrow of his bones. Th ey repeat, again and again, that the present Foreign Secretary is the sole cause of the existing estrangement between France and England ; that en the part of Louis Philippe there is a rooted and implacable aversion to him " which nothing can mitigate or subdue ; that during his visit to Paris last year he spared no pains to esta blish a friendly footing there, and to efface those re collections of the past which might produce inconve nience in the contingency which would restore the noble lord to office, but that, on the very morrow of ' his departure, Louis Philippe and M. Guizot shook their heads at each other, and mutually acknowledged that the urbanities of the noble lord had not oblite rated a single trace of the invincible aversion and abiding distrust with which they regarded him. This picture may appear strongly coloured, and perhaps exaggerated, but we arc assured that it is not overdrawn, and that it faithfully represents the actual state of feeling in the French court and cabinet—a feeling which, it would seem, nothing is likely to modify or efface. It is but right, however, to say, that none of those hostile sentiments are extended to any of the colleagues of the noble lord. Le Sleek, on Sunday, devotes a large portion of its leading columns to an analysis and review of the article which appeared in the Daily News of Tues day last, on the subject of our foreign relations. The disturbances in various parts of the provinces, arising from the dearness of grain, continue to pre vail. On Saturday afternoon, government received a telegraphic despatch from Orleans, intimating that in most of the communes of the Valley of the Loire, the population was in a state of alarming fermenta tion, and were menacing a descent upon that city. In the evening, a body of troops were sent to Orleans by railway. The increasing price of bread was assigned es the cause of these disorders. The Baron James de Rothschild has informed the municipal council that he has appropriated five mil lions of francs to the purchase of gram and flour for the supply of Paris, to be purchased in foreign markets, and sold at the current price in Paris. If the operation be attended with lose, the house of Rothschild will bear it. If, on the other hand, profit ensue, the amount of it will be appropriated to pay the supplement of the price of bread above 2d. per lb., to be distributed to the necessitous families in Paris. It is stated that the actual stock of flour at pre sent in Paris is about 1::0,000 sacks, or 22,500 tons. The daily consumption of the capital being 300 tons, this will represent a supply for above 70 days. The operation projected by M. de Rothschild will give a supply for about 30 days more, which will make, inde pendent of current arrivals, an actual stock suffi cient to feed Paris for more than three months. --- The debate on the project of M. Duvergier de Houranne, on electoral reform, was to have com menced in the Chamber on Monday. Friday being the evening of M. Ouizot's private reception, the salon' of the Hotel des Affaires Etrangeres were unusually crowded with fashion and rank. Among the visitors were observed the Duke of Montpcusier and Lord Normanby. This was the first occasion on which the British ambassador had presented himself at the hotel of M. Oub.ot since the reconciliation. All the members of the corps digl i oinatique were pressmt, with the exception of the c d'Affaires of Russia. Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated actress, died after a painful illness at ten o'clock on Saturday night She was born in 1778, and her age was therefore 89. Oar correspondent assures us—in corroboration of the doubt we expressed in reprinting it—that ho has good authority for stating that the letter signed Lola Monte*, addressed to the editor of the Times, is a fabrication. The Madrid mail, with the letters and journals of that city of the 16th, has been received. A great excitement had been produced on the sub ject of the proceedings adopted by the ministry to wards General Serrano, to which we alluded yester day. The Cabinet was determined to find some pretext for removing that senator from Madrid. The Duke of Sotomayor accordingly sent for him, and offered him the post of Captain-General of Navarre, which offer General Serrano declined. An ordon nance was next issued, ordering General Serrano, in his military capacity, to go to Navarre and the Basque provinces, for the purpose of inspecting the troops. He was ordered to leave Madrid in twenty four hours, being informed that specific instructions would be delivered to him at Pampeluna. This order the general declined to obey, and solicited an audience of the Queen, which was not conceded, upon the plea that her Majesty was at the moment leaving the palace for a promenade. The general then 41:ad dressed to the Queen a respectful nee against the orders imposed upon him. The. brought the affair before the Senate, ' its sanction to institute proceedings spill** . Serrano for disobedience, which sanction aft en with one dissentient voice. The same question was to be brought before the representative chamber, the decision of which had not yet been obtained. " This mysterious affair, says El Clamor Public°, "in which the ministry are supposed to be prompted by improper motive*, has produced a great sensation. The ministry are reproached on this occasion, 1.3 well as upon others, with want of respect for the t'irone. Since the Afrahasado party has prevailed in Spain, we have had nothing but crises, scandal, and discon tent. This lea affair is the most anomalous, extraor dinary, and inexplicable which has yet occurred. We cannot solve the enigma." Private letters say that a report was current in political circles that the King had,on the 15th, defiled M. Salamanca not to return again to the palace, since his presence was useless there. It was said that overtures had been made to M. Pacheco to undertake to form a Progressista cabinet; that deputy, however, replied that he could not ac cept such a commission until the ministry had given its resignation. El Tiempo says, that on the 16th the Queen had sent for several distinguished personages, to et nsult them on the present ministerial crisis. CONSTANTINOPLE, Maecn 7. Yesterday the Turkish steamer arrived here which had been on the let inst. to Greece with the Sultan letter to King Otho. It appears that M. Coletti is determined to resist the demand of the Porte for an apology. The evil effects of the attitude assumed by the Greek cabinet have already begun to show them selves. The extensive coasting trade carried on between Turkey and Greece has nearly ceased, and the aspect of events has even begun to have a bane ful effect on the affairs of the Greek commercial houses of Pera and Smyrna. Without the intervention of some of the great powers, it is evident thatrAiletti will not yield. Supported by M. Placatory and the French government, he has hitherto considered himself a ar ranted in adopting this course ; and an event which has just occurred here will doubtless still further encourage him to preserve the hostile attitude he has assumed. On the 4th last- Count Sturmer, the Austrian internnncio, received by an extraordinary courier a despatch from Vienna, the contents of which he communicated on the same day to the Grand Vizier. Prinoe Metternich, by whim the despatch ismgned, condemns strongly the conduct of the Porte in the difference which has arisen betwres it and the Greek government. He pronounces the demand for an apology from Coletti for the insult offered to M. Musurus by King Otho, and his mill on its being refused, as a proceeding which displays a meat unwarrantable precipitation. This display of petulance on the part of the Austrian minister, is et :- dently the result of feelings excited by the refusal of Reichid Pacha to approve of the annexation of Cra cow. Upon England now falls the whole weight of preventing Russia from advancing its encroaching policy which is so eminently favoured by " the ran with the hare and hold with the hound" system of France, and the spitefulnera of Austria. The Porte has issued a finnan forbidding the ex portation of corn from Salonica. ITALY.—NAPLES.—TIIL PRINCE OP CAPCA AND rus Kis° OP NAPLE6.—Letters received at Rome on the 6th inst. from Naples announce that a reconciliation has taken place between the Prince of Ceps» and his brother, the King of Naples. The wife of the former is to be re ceived at court, and is to have the title of Duchess of Mes cal. The prince is to be allowed an appanage of 60,000 ducats and arrears to the amount at 160,000 ducats. His sons, as princes, are to receive the annual income of 6,000 ducats, and a marriage portion of 30,000 ducat/. An officer of the court left Malta to accompany the _prince to Naples. This news had canted a great sensation. The Prince Royal of Bavaria left Palermo on the 3rd inst. for Messina, from whence he will proceed to Greece. The Augsburg Cosine says that it is reported that Naples will he declared a free port. GERMANY.—We learn from an authentic source that before the letters patent of the King of Prussia, respect ing the mates, were published in Berlin, they were sent at full length, and in copies, to the Emperor of Runic and to Prince bietternich.—German Paper. VIENNA, MARCH 13.—The proceedings against the officers and cadets implicated in the conspiracy of 1839, most of whom belong to Count biazzakelli's regiment of infantry, an well as to some other regiments, are now concluded, and sentence has been passed ,• the punishment of death has been in every ease avoided, and in moat instances the sentence is confinement for five years in the fortress of Mankato, in Upper Hungary. HANOVER, MARCH IG.—The treaty of commerce and navigation with North America, respecting the import ance of which to our country and to Germany in general there is only one opinion, will shortly be followed by another measure from which we expect equally important advantages. The government has it in contemplation to declare the harbour I of Harburg, including the whole territory of the town of liar burg, and the Octet harbour, which is now constructing, to be • free port, and to obtain the assent of the states during their present session. We hear that the project of law on this subject will be presented to the chambers in a few days, sad there is no doubt that this new proposal of the government to encourage our commerce and navigation will be readily supported by the Mate. CUXHAVEN, MARCH IG.—All the Greenland whalers of Hamburg, Oluck.stadt, and Elmehorn, have put to acs. BAVARIA.—The King of Bavaria, according to accounts front Munich dated the 11th inst., is indisposed. lismsesn, Msncn 16.—The mild weather which has set in with a south-east wind, has greatly diminished the ice at Schulau and Blankenese, so that the Elbe is quite tree. BERGEN, Msecti B.—The herring fishery for this year may be considered as ended. On the whole, 250,000 tons have been put into salt. POLYNESIA.—A SHIP RUN AWAY FROM lIER Chew.—The following extract from the log-book of the Inca. communieated by Captain Jackson, will be read with interest. It is not often a ship is in a position t• run away from her entire crew On the 224 day of July, in lat. 69, 26 N., while laving off and on at Middle ton or Rose Island, the ship struck upon a sunken ledge of rocks, about four or five miles from the land, which the most part of the time showed no signs of danger, the water being very smooth ; but occasionally I there would be a heavy sea and breaker rise over them — but the man at the masthead, and some twelve or fifteen hands that were on deck, saw nothing of this until the ship struck. There are no such rocks or anything of the kind put down o. any charts that I have, or have ever seen—and I have good charts of the whole Pacific Ocean. When the breakers came up they would raise the ship and set her down with such force as to render it impos• Bible to do anything on board of her ; and the brat mate and the rest of the crew, being twenty in number, became alarmed (myself and the second mate, with two boats' crews, being at the time on shore) for fear the masts would fall upon them, lowered the two boats that were on the cranes, led all got into them and left the ship without taking anything with them except a few clothes. I discovered from the chore that there was difficulty on board, so I mustered a boat's crew es 60011 as possible, and started for her, but had not got far before I met the mate, who stated that the ship was going to pieces. I made no stop, as I felt anxious to secure something out of her. I soon pereeive4 that every roller was driving the ship along over the rocks, and I tel in hopes that I might be able to do something with her:— When I got half-way from the shore to the ship, she drove over the ledge altogether, and filled away, headieg out to sea, the yards being trimmed that way when she struck, though the topsail halliards had been let go; but the jib and foresail were trimmed aft so as to draw well, and I there we.s a good beeeze at the time from the eastward, and the ship headed to the south-west, and want so fast that she got about ten or twelve miles from the shore before I could come up with her. As soon as I got on board, I hove the ship to u dead as possible, and took up my boat, and then ordered the men to start the pumps while I was ex &miming the damage done. The men freed her of water in shout ten minutes, and all the damage I found was the I rudder was gone, and planking about it considerably da maged, with the tiller and wheel broken to pieces, and the hurricane house over the wheel knocked to pieces. In about three-quarters of an hour after I got on board the second mate came, stating that the other two boats were close in shore when he left. We now began to study how we should get the rest of the crew off the island. The ship was drifting away from it fat, and the weather thick, so that we could not gee it. It was near night, and I knew if we drifted until morning there would be vary small chance that we should see the island if it were clear. S 5 I got the deep-sea line and sounded, and fund that there was only 60 fathoms water, with a smooth sea, with not much wind, and that was growing lighter. I ooncluded to anchor. I got up a kedge, and bent a hawser and both:my cutting falls to it, and let go and brought the ship up about 16 miles from the land. It was now nearly Berk, and the weather thick, so I thought it would not ba But to send a boat in that night ; but dill not know but they might hear a gain'on shore, so I fired three times and set the watch. At 2 a.m., on the 23rd, we called all hands, and got some breakfast, and then I sent the second mate 011 store to ( - etch the men and everything off as quick as possible. The ship lay very easy by the:kedge, and'only leaked about 50 strokes per hour. At 2 p.m., the boats with all hands came. It was now nearly calm, and the ship would be entirely unmanageable, without a rudder; so I let her lay, and went to work to make a rudder as fast as possible— but we had no blacksmith, and with the tools and materials we had to work with it was no easy job. We got it done on the 25th, and hung it about nine, p.m., then we took our antler (we had been laying all this tame by the kedge, with scarcely any wind) and got under weigh immediately, and started to the south-east. I did not know what the state of her bottom was, so I started for Oahu, and thought I would follow the coast down until I got near the latitude of the islands, in OM anything should happen, that U we were compelled to leave we would ant have so far to get with our boats. August 11, in lat. 43 N, long. 137, we had strong breezes and rough sea, which broke oar rudder loose from the false stern pat, so that we had to take it in and secure it again, which took us three days, the flip all the while drifting about, she being almost entirely unma nageable without a rudder. We fixed it much stronger this time, and then put away for Oahu."—From the Polynesian, Sandwich Island Journal. COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. GUIANA.—Ti ceent ofthe for t night intervening between the despatch of lait m sad that which preceded it, was a public meeting, at which the governor presided, to promote a subsertption for the relief of the starving poor in Scotland and Ireland. The generous: feelings of sympir.,:v expressed by the speakers—the sincerity of which has been shown by the activity of the committee and the proven. of subscriptions—show that distance only enhances the sense of British nationality. One passage in the opening address of the governor is striking enough, when we turn our thoughts hack to the anti-emancipation times, when such vehement appeals used to be made to our sympathies for the poor ne groee in the West Indies. " While I address myself gene rally," said his excellency, "to the present sumessobly, wh, require no exciting appeal to their generosity, I du most earnestly call on the Creole labourers of this colony— mast of whom Aare rampant:ire affluence and luxury— 'to think of the starving labourers of Ireland and Scotland. I call on the labouring population to show their gratitude for the benefits they have received, in due reward for their industry, and to prove that they can feel fur their white starling brethren who reside across the Atlantic, and who, whatever may be their in dustry, cannot obtain food." The first session of the supreme Criminal Court, under the system of trial by jury, had ceased. The following can did and honourable testimony to the working of the sys•on is borne by the Royal Gazette, which had beets sceptical as to the expediency of introducing it : The jurors cleverer credit; except, perhaps, in one instance, their verdkte were, according to the potadar irk 1, which we consider to 'rei always right in questions of justice, tale and nennibla. In thin ren;set there wan a great improvement over the 11.11,411+. We own we were among those who hal feat" in thin peculiar country," or we have no often beard it called, th;jury cycle', would prove unman ape. able, and a failure. We are agreeably dirappointed by Iwuld sea be ashamed to avow the teeth . Our intermit , e in, that if trial by Jury has worked so enoothly, MI with equal nmoottincos may work inning us other changes framed upon an Englinh model. One drawback the Gazette Li:dicer, the extreme prolixity of the proceedings; and sensibly suggests that circuits might, to a comiderable extent, remove this disadvantage: Surely it would he cosier for a or judge, with two or :Mee of tap elerlin of the public buildings, to travel occasionally tiro Malvelpl63, than for two or there hundred gentlemen to be enetantly dragged up tram the country to the public haddingn in tmoreetews, away from their homes and their Imminent in order to attend legal trial* for two or three weeks together, sin juices or anomie. A Coolie had been condemned at the SCIVIiOII , I to be hung for the murder of a female of his own nation. The coroner's inquest on the death of a Coolie, noticed in an extract from the Guiana Times, in our summary of the news received by the preceding mail, had terminated. The jury found that he had died of a disease of the lunge, and of no other cause. From the remarks of the Guiana Times it would appear that some rather discreditable efforts had been made to "get up" a case ageinst the police out of this incident. During the fortnight the weather hod been uncertain, though not unfavourable to the planter*. A great deal of ram had fallen, but there had been several very hot days. Cultivation was flourishing as much as could be expected under the restricted ripply of labour. The agricultural population were steady and quiet. • TRINIDAD. The ordinance " for promoting immigration into the colony of Trinidad, and the Industry of Immigrants," passed in the Leeislative Council on the 9th of February, by a majority of 9to 2. Mr. Fuller gave notice of pririen. The ordinance would come into effect on the let inst. The Attorney-General gave notice that at next sweetie' he would introduce an ordinance to carry into effect Mr. Marryat's eugmrstions to Earl Grey with respect to certain clauses in the Land Ordi nance. The governor thereupon observed that he thought it would be better to pay for immigration by increased taxation than to raise any loan at all. Inci dentally on the reading of that clause of the immigration ordinance which presides that any regiettred immigrant may commute his caesium back to his own country for its value in crown land at the up-set price, Mr. Burnley asked what was the up-set price of crown land, and whether, in fact, there was any upset price at all P—The Attorney General replied that the only law on that head was the Queen's will and plecaure.—The Governor intimated that the instructions of the Secretary of State were, not to dispose of lands in less than lota of 200 quarries at a time, which were to be put up at the up-set price of 16 dollars per giants. From the rod of Spain Gazette we learn that an es- Quire tire occurred en the Friendship Estate, at North Naparima, on the 12th of February. A piece of canes recently cut, from 8 to 12 quarrges of fine standing canes, and a regress-house were destroyed. "In this case again, as in so many last dry season, the fire originated in • spark from the boiling-house chimney." The weather was propitious up to the time of the mail being despatched. The canes looked unwontedly well. Almost every mill was at work, and several estates had already made a large quantity of sugar. A better crop was t spested than in any year since the abolition of slavery. ' The Rev. Janie' Robertson, minister et Careoage, died on the 3rd of February. Ile was a licentiate of the United As sedate Chweh in Scotland, end get apart te the work of the ministry on his return to Trinidad. For more than seven years Mr. Robertson conducted the National Borg School, with credit to himself and advantage to his pupate. Many youn3 men, now occupying responsible situations in Trini dad, are indebted to his training for their position. Mr. Robertson's scholarship was respectable; his character firm and persevering ; his reli.rious principle vital anal efficacious. WINDWARD ISLANDS.—Tho only piece of news in our BARBADOS files relates to an ebullition of the aristocracy of colour, which has furnished matter for discus sion in the House of Assembly. A Mr. Belgrave, of what shade does not appear, but obviously not quit* white, ap plit d for some vacant sesta in the chapel of St. Jude's. The rector's reply was : "As far as I em individually concerned I would most readily rent you the Feats to which you , allude; but owing to the existing prejudices, aver which I have no controul, I think it would be imprudent" The circumstance was noticed by Mr. Premed in the House of Assembly, u propoo of the curate's bill. At nest meet ing Dr. Thomas came forward with an elaborate ecology for the refusal, in the form of a personal attack upon Mr. Bel grave, whom he accused of leaving his parish church because the clergyman was a Fuseyite ; of applying for the seats in question, bemuse those he occupied, being among the necmies, he wan annoyed by their stank, tote., dtc. These allegations, if true, only show that Mr. Be/erave was labour ing under the tame morbid ft clings of colour " gentility"— in other words that he waxes great a fool as the parties be com plains of. These feelings will survive for some generations in the British Antilles, but anything like a legal recognition of them must be ruthlessly trampled down, if the colonies are to prosper.—The intelligence from TOBAGO would seem to in dicate that the council and officials are still smarting under the rap over the knuckles administered by Governor Reid. As to agricultural prospects, the Tobago Chronkk states : That mast estates have commenced sur z liakiag, and, we are glad to say, with every prospect of making rrotri than those of lam year. Th ere is a general complaint that yielding of the cons is indifferent; it ix one, however, which an only be of .:•ort dura tion, if the present dry weather continues. A scarcity of tabour, partientitly in the Windward District, is a worth of aunoyanoe on several of the (suttee, for which, for the present, titer,: is no remedy. The sokiect of immigration will, no doubt, occupy the serious atten tion of the New Mouse of Assembly, when eon* Knanacnt provioke (or that purpose will be provided. The newspaper fends of St. Lucia continued to rage with unabated violence. The governor-general's decision in the case of the late acting governor, and certain officials who wrote against him anonymously in a newspaper, is a,i follows: I have so intention of implying that officers heldin p , situs nous are to abstain from contributing to the press. Men of eduentios and ability in our 0310niett have en opportunity of heiptag to raise the tone of the load prole, and thereby elevate the character of the moiety in width they floe, but the articles which you have brenght Mks* me have a contrary tendency, and arc diegracend to the tothorry be they whit they may. Th e public officers of St. Linea av a body ate Intorered In controlling, and if posethie discovering any amongst , hem who thus abase the invaluable privilege of the freedom of the I am now identified with the public oftteem of tit Lucia, and rr%) upon them as a body to strive to establish and nththtain • cha racter beyond reproach. The Legislature of Granada met on the 16th February. The speech of the lient.-governor, and the addresses of the house, contain little beyond an interchange of com pliments. The report of the Committee of Asri:mhly on Supply a , .d Ways and Means, recommends that 18,5491. be round for the service of the year 1846-7. It has been fennel necessary to raise the export tax from 11 to 3 per cent. ; and the asaessment tax from 11 to 3 per sent. ; and to impose • tax of 101. on transient traders, as io St. Lucia. A retiring salary of 4001. has been voted to the chief justice, although an appeal from the house against him is pending before the Privy Council. In recommending the vote, the lieut.- governor stated that the chief justice had expressed a wish "to retire for the public good." It is expected and wished that the next chief justice may be a professional lawyer. gbt eo ur t . H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. H.R.H. Prince Albert hoi.oured the Highland Society of London with hit company dinner, yesterday, at the Freemasons' Tavern. H.R.H. tie Duke of Cambridge also honoured the High lend Society with his company at dinner, last *selling. Her Majesty and H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence, yes. terday evening. H.R.H. the Duchess of /Moue ,ler visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, 5 t Marlborough-house. Sir Robert Ferguson had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing street. Sir Robert had also an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Stratt yesterday, at the office of the Cos mistioners Great ^ _ Schimmel business had an to Home•office. PLAN governo..ent c alled ;. Leave," Kiag's Armayard, Snow-hill. To these Meetings the clergy of all denominations were invited, as well as lay men of every elan stet, sad party; and the rides of the dm easion were, that speakers taking opposite views of the question should speak alternately, and have equal time. Amongst the speakers were the Rev. Mr. llinton, and sere- ;chimmelpenninck, the Netherlands Miuhter, trairuted ,laciness Festerday at the Fore'gn-ollice. The Earl of Devoe lad an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the c ome Ham A deputation of the willow untie, the rower Hamlets, had an interview with the Beer, s, ion yesterday at the office of the Board • Vt. The Ecclesiastical CommissioneralK Ilea- A committee meeting yesterday. Despatelice were received yeeterd tbe Ace frost the governors of the West In P. j latches were sent off last evening fro • -Offer • •71. or the governors of Sierra Leone and . 12 • ),7) MEETINGS IN FAVOUR OP TIT PLAN roe EDUCATION.—For five wifie eovernment plan for educating the people, pounded in the minutes of the Committee of Council, hu been discussed in the hall of the " Co-operative