The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TmvasDAT, APRIL 20. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND BEADLNGS.—Dawson's Divorce (further coninilered): Leiceetershire Unlade Asylum ; Clifton Bridge; Bibs. T HIRD BEADlNOS.—Ketiering Small Tenements' Lei hating; cester Cemetery; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. THIRD READlNGS.—Ezebequer Bills; Public Works Comple tion (Ireland) ; Crown and CrtWernalent Enmity ; PLTITIONS.—By Lord BEAMONT, one huodred, and by the Mar quis of L. 441.01,411, several, petitions from various tads*. of Odd Fellow. in favour of the bill for legalising teem society. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE stated that he should, on Saturday move the adjournment of the house for tke Easter recut, until the following Thursday se'nnight. ChIsARITABLE TRUSTS. The Bishop of OXFORD inquired whether it wu the in tention of the government to introduce a bill in the pewit session, for the better regulation of charitable trusts ? The LORD CHANCELLOR intended to bring forward a measure on the subject, and hoped . to be able to pass a bill this session, which would effect the minor obiects. CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the third reading of this bill, on which Lord BROUGHAM took occasion to condemn the policy of the French Provisional Government, in abolishing capital punishment for political offences. Treason was one of the highest crimes known to the law, and if the punishment of death were taken away from every other offence, it ought always to be inflicted for high treason, the o bjec t ot o ob of w serve hich was to promote civil war. He was sorry, that the most grave political offences were regarded in this country with less horror than murder and other capital aims. Lord CAMPBELL said that treason was the greatest offence known to the law, and the most destructive of the beet interest, of society. and no doubt its perpetrators ought to suffer the highest penalty of the law. But at the same time he would adhere to the statute of William, and be thought all the safeguard of that act ought to be most care fully maintained. Lord CREMORNE thought the bill would be very likely to put a stop to the preaching of sedition, and h. was re joiced to find that such a measure had been brought forward by the government. He could not allow the bill t Pass without paving a well-merited compliment to the Lord Lieu tenant of 'lreland for the able and satisfactory mammy in Lieu which he had performed the arduous duties of his important office. (Hear, hear.) The Bishop of OXFORD wished to know whether the noble and learned lord Lord Brougham), from a doubtful expression which he had used, advocated the abolition of capital punishments for other offences than high treason ? Because there was a body of persons out of doors most im properly clamouring for the abolition of the punishment of death, and it would not he advisable that an opinion in favour of anything so unwi.e should go firth to the public from the noble and learned lord. Lord BROUGHAM could assure the right rev. prelate that he did not advocate anything so monstrous, and he was astonished to see able and ingenious men trying to find arguments from the Scriptures for the abolition of the pu nishment of death—by quoting the words " Thou shalt net kill," in favour of their views ; but forgetting those which said, " Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL, AND PUBLIC WORKS COMPLETION (IRELAND) BILL. Thin bills were read a second time; and the standing orders having been suspended, the committees on the bills were negatived, and they were severally read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned, at 6 o'clock, to Saturday at 2 o'clock, when the royal meant will be given by com mission to several bills. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. GAME CERTIFICATES FOR KILLING OF HARES BILL.—(IN COMMITTEE.) D,..0s in favour of Amendment, "'ghat it shall not he lawful for any person not haring a game errtlfkate to use say gre-arms or gun cf any deeriptioe for the purpose of killing any game or here." Ayes 49 ; Noes, 44. ATER Alexander, N. Clifford. H. 3!. Guest, Sir. J. O'Connell, M.. 1. Anster, T. C. Cliee, IL B. Hall, OM. Parke, C. W. Archdall, Cas. Coles, H. B. Harris, Capt. Pennant, Col. Arkwright, O. Davies, D. A. B. Henley, J. W. Pigott, F. lisldock, F.. H. Deader, W. Horaby, J. Plowden, W. H. lientinek,Lnralll.Doild, 0. Hudson, G. Pugb, D. Berkeley, H. F. Duneombe, A. Ingestre, Viact. Reid, Col. Bernard, Buncombe, 0. Johnstone, Sir I.Richards, B. Bowles, Adm. lin PrO, C. 0. Law, Hon. C. E.Sibtborp, Col. Bramston, T. W.Edwards, H. Long, W. Willougbby, 11. Brothertei,.l. Fuller, A. E. Lowther, H. CiLtplirl, W. 1. Gslway, Visit. Mecraghten, E. Berkeley, G. Clingy, S. Goddard, A. L. Minstar; Earl liiklyard, B. C. NOEB. Armstrong, R. &Greer.% C. W. Monsell, W. Turner. E. B.aines, 11. T. Grey, Sir 0. Morris, D. Villiers, Hon. C. Bellew, B. 3L Belford, Sir IL Pearson, C. Vcse, R. N. R. H. Garter. J. B. Hood, Sir A. Perfect, It. Walmaley. Sir J. Clements, C. S. Home, J. rimer, W. Walsh, Sir I. B. Cramps:l, W. S. Jolliffe, alrW. o.Seymer. H. K. Wilson, M. Cubitt, W. Lewin, G. C. Somerset, Capt. Wood, Sir C. East, Sir J. B. Littleton, E R. Somerville, SirW.Wyvill, M. Ether, E. Maenamars,llaj.Stafford, A. Elliott. J. E. Mahon, o'O. Strickland, Sir G. Tutees. Glyn,Melgund, Viett.. Sullivan, M. Kr. Goring, C. Mo.e.wortir, W. Thompeon, Cot. March, bat of The danger of communism, however, would be the impracticability of con fi ning it to a sin g le countr y . It is evident that capital, talent, and all the ele ments by which one man attains su pe r q t y superiority to an other, being banished from the communist nation, would abound in all nations around it, in which all kinds of production and foreign trade and results of skill would be necessarily superior; and .this would throw the communist people into a state of general poverty and inferiority quite insupportable. Nor could there be any remedy for this, save in the com munists taking up arms, and conquering country after country till they reduced the entire universe, or, at least, their own quarter of the world, to the prison uniform, diet, and grade of intellect which they had imposed upon themselves. Any communist society would thee be en ancient Rome, founded on a barren and unproductive spot in the midst of fertile Italy — that is, a nation which must fight for vanity and rob to live. For peace sake, as well as for a variety of other causes, it is satisfactory to learn that an immense majority of the French, and of the inhabitants of the capital, are determined to put down communism, of which un fortunately no fair trial could be made without a m omentary dissolution of all society, government included. As the experiment would be like that of the aged person allowing himself to be cut up into I bits and thrown into a cauldron, as preparation to being made young again, communism may safely avoid the reproach of failure, by denying that it has ever been tried. Mr. OWEN and the disciples of ST. SIMON have made their essays. And the Fourierites, it is to be hoped, will have an opportunity of fully displaying the utter puerility of their system. For our part, we respect Fourierism even less than commu nism. Considering communism to be the catho lic creed of the popular fanatic, Fourierism is the Jesuitry of that creed. It conforms to existing states of society, but merely in order to gain influence, to dominate, to sap, and to destroy. The only thing, indeed, that prevents its being formidable is the j puerility of its principles and its means. As M. Mien EL CHETALIER us tIy observed, FOURIER chiefly stu died cilildren, an d applied their wants, ways, conduct, and ea pcices to grown men , of whom,especially in the higher grades of either intellect ual or commercial society, FOURIER seems to have had no just concep tion. H:S plan of rendering labour delightful is the most ludicrous of all ludicrous humbugs ; and his idea of a lady of rank and wealth being seduced to Fou rierism by het . penchant for darning old coats, is a fair sample of the vulgar and narrow circle in which FOURIER looked when he imagined he was studying the world. Communism, as developed by M. CADET and his school, is the most simple and frank expression of the desire of the labourivg classes to establish a domi nation over all others. /s or is it difficult to imagine how M. CADET arrived at his theory. Regarding two or three successive kinds of government in France, he saw that each government depended on a class, and, in return for the support of that class, favoured and fed it, divided amongst its members all the spare revenues and places of the state, and established a re eiprocity system of " Support me, pay thee," which was not confined to France, but which has flourished, and still flourishes, in our own happy country. It was easy to draw conclusions and examples from this. First of all, argued M. CADET, the lower or operative class want this state feeding even more than the wealthy class. They can give more valuable and efficient support in return for state feeding. Why not have a government of the lower class? "It will want," quoth an ob lector, " the stability of property : " On the contrary, it will be based on the necessity in which the labourer stands of his stipend. The clientelle of the labourer, attached to hie government, which is his employer, will be so solid, that nothing can shake it. It will resemble the cite/dells of the Roman patricians when they fed the people, except that they quarrelled patncian-like. But when the people elect their governors, and the governors in turn feed . and employ the people, there must be harmony, mutual confidence, and peace. Such is the scheme of CADET, which, we need not say, would sweep the entire middle class from the surface of France, cashier their industry, and make a man, in proportion to his wealth and industry, more and more a serf. In fact, it would be the government of a Turkish Sultan, who should profess communism in , lieu of Mahommedanism. The only difference would be in religion. The only aristocracy would be that of the functionaries, the only power would be the alternate exercise of it by the despot and by the mob. Such is the system of government and society against which the national guards of Paris, and the population of France protest, and protest wisely, with loaded gun and pointed bayonet. There is no reasoning with the communist. lie merely claims to take away all other men's pro perty and all other men's rights. He cannot pretend to enforce them by less than defiance and conquest. In this, too, like the Mahommedan, his faith can only be propagated by the sword; and by the sword or the staff can it alone be met. POOR dear Morning Chronicle! We have long felt for thee, long mourned for thee, long respected even thy inanity, and hoped that for the sake of old times, and the respect due to so reverend an organ of English liberalism, thy fall would at least to decorous. What, then, was our mortification, what our sur prise, to find the old organ of progress, the Morning Chronicle, come forth with the mumbling pa and nic stricken toryism of "my grandmother?" The Morn ing Chronicle deprecates and resists any extension of the franchise, in order to allow itself time to " interrogate the history of America, and watch the exp eriment of France. How long a time it demands to spend in its watchings and interrogations of history past and present, the Morning Chronicle does not say, but it would appear to contemplate a very long interval of repose, it we are to judge from another of its remarks. This is, that it would be very dangerous to extend the electoral franchise beyond the present possessors, owing to the dreadful lack of education amongst the non-electors. Now as the Morning Chronicle has been the most bigoted opponent of education amongst the lower orders, and the fiercest foe of go vernment or the state contributing efforts or funds for such purpose, it is manifest that the policy of the Nottin - I Chronicle is to refuse the people education lest they might fit themselves for the electoral fran chise, and to refuse them the electoral franchise on the ground of their not being educated. The circle is ingenious. But we should scarcely expect it in any English organ of opinion in the 19th eentury, and least of all from one that may have purchased te name, but has so perverted the spirit, of the Mornio h y Eke erprelso• MAI IA the for British North America, and the limbed U friii be made up on the evening , of the e 22 1 ApriL The oserlanil elceed via Marseilles, to the Meilitannems, Egypt. Aden, Cellos, India, Hong-Kong, Mc., will be made up on the evening of the 24th Aprd. The mail, for Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madeira, Odin, and Gibraltar will be made up on the moraine of the 27th April • The made for New With Wales, Van Dienian's Lead, and New Zoo and will be nude up on the evening of the bith April. The mails for the Went Oieet of Africa and Madeira will be made up on the evening of the 30th April. The West India Mails, including Bermuda, Naseau, Havanna, H on d u ras, New Orleans, Vera trim, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and aicluding them for Madeira. Jacmel, Carthagena, Santa Martha, Chace., Panama, Welt Caste of South America, and St. J usui-de- Nicaragua, will be made up on theevening of the 2nd May. The overland mails lot Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lon Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, vie Southamp ton, will be mode up utl the murniug of the 3rd May. The mails tor the Brazils, the River Plate, Monts Video, Peen:US. ban?. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the evening of the 4th Mn. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1647, to the DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,009 This, IN believe, is within eight per cent, of the number issurd to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and • Morning Post, ALL PUT TOOZTREE. O Ir. addition to the above, ironed to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued fir the Evining Edition, THE EXPRESS 778,714 wLia, was more, we believe, than weir) issued tither 1$ the Globe or Standard, Everting Papers. HIGH WATER At LOSDoN 11811)0E. Tote DA4-51rwom, 1 . 1 ova. past 3; Atl4vaoon. Isla. own 3. To•4loll,o,4—Morele, II Mi. pat nt .4; liteou. Is DAS. pat( 4. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 21. IN the Horse of LORDS yesterday, the Marquis of Lttisnowrir gave notice that, on Saturday, he should move the adjournment of the house until Thursday, the 4th of May.—The LORD CII INCELLOR, in reply to the Bishop of OXFORD, stated that he hoped to be able to pass a bill this session with reference to • tharitable trusts.—The Crown and Government Se curity Bill, after a short discussion relative to the punishment of death, was read attird time and passed, as also were the Exchequer Bills, and the Public Works Completion (Ireland) Bills, and their lordships adjourned to Saturday, at two o'clock. THE struggle which has taken place in the streets of Paris, and which will, probably, be continued in the national assembly, is no longer the old content be tween monarchy and repnblica nism, bet ween democracy and the powers naturally antagonistic to it. The quar rel lies hetween the defenders of individual property and individual liberty on the one hand, and certain philosophers , on the other, who with musket and bayonet would march to the assault and destruction of 'both. Of all the stets which hope and pretend to revoln tionisesociety, and to substitute new laws, new habits, new notions of property, duty, pleasure, morals, and old ones, the most frank is certainly communists. They at least speak their their case openly. They scorn hypo ity with the existing . condition of do not seek to inveigle men of their community by promising mied mar. shall receive his re . FOURIER kindly holds out; nor 4ipulate, with the St. Simonians, shall have a larger proportion of re vt They proclaim, without 'mules or palliatives, that government • capitalist, the only employer, the 3r, the only trader ; and that the duty shall be to furnish the raw mate rients, the science and the quantum of 'the population, each one receiving share of the general produce. tilt of communism established by law assert, the disappearance of say other or condition of existence. No one can pale. As to private capitalists or land vesting of time and money in skill, exercise of intellect, snatch existences ible : and where government is to find :xperience for carrying on the system, Janded down in a school, or a leyitical impossible to conctiTe. ' 1 religion for the old the sect of the cotm I 1 mind, and state the critical conformity i l' ' things. They dc r ; property into tt I that the monied venues, a., M. F , yet do they stiv that capacity shall muneration than e 1 any circuitous phr must be the only only manufacturer of government al rial, the instrume work to each of t afterwards his sh The first result : is, we need not a 1 state of society 01 be beyond its pal ' Il 1, '' owners, to aTo knowledge, or e' become impossib , , I , the talent and el unlcee it be hare i . f caste, it is impos ..0 . k I ' s THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1848. opportune time to abet the neoessity of ridding the land of its shackles, and restoring a "free trade" in that prime commodity. At this the high Tory and aristocratic p rejudices of the new Morning Chronicle bristle up. - It stretches forth its hand most solemnly and protectively over the soil, and says to the English peasant and the English farmer—" This soil is not for thee. We must have a permanent aris tocracy, and the monopoly of the land is indispen sable to it ; therefore, if you want to procure land, or to buy it, or to spend capital in improving it, go to the colonies—there are waste lands at the Antipodes, go, my respected John Bull, and cultivate New Zealand or Australia. But here in Britain lies the sacred soil of an aristocracy, and thou must not even covet the possession, much less hope for it." Whilst writing in this ludicrously extravagant vein of toryism, and of toryism fitter really for the reign of Ecizaaniu than of Queen VICTORIA, the Morning Chronicle pretends to be a liberal organ, nay, of such exquisite liberalism, that it pooh poohe Lord JouN RUMELL and his colleagues, and accuses them of doing nothing. The press of England does certainly disgrace itself by an immense amount of hypocrisy and tomfoolery. But that of the Morning Chronicle really passes all the bounds of credibility and shame. Lord LINCOLN himself must be ashamed of so preposterous a help. Chronicle. This amphibious journal, after having demanded for itself and for the present 150,000 ele c tors of the empire, at interminable period to be spent, in reflection, and in doing nothing, has the consiste - acy to indite a diatribr against the House of Commons and the mi nistry for following its own recipe. "The home has done nothing, because nothing 'has been given it to do," How are either government or minister to do anything when the press sets up a pa nic cry, and frightens the timid into the belief that they were to have been swallowed up on a certain morning by revolution, had not consummate wisdom saved them. Government doing nothing ! Why, have not Times and Chronicle been telling us ever since, that ministers saved the country a d triumphed over faction on the 10 th of April? NVe may depend upon it that when a goverment undertakes to save a country by the army and the police, the necessary concomitant is legislation to repress, to intimidate, and to gag. The one is the completion of the other. And when we find a minister's two hands occupied, the one with a constable's staff, the other with a mar shal's baton, we may reckon on there being little of either time or inclination for doing anything beyond the wielding these symbols of power. The aronich, however, is valiant, and would "do something." It would extend, not the franchise, but the income tax, to the poorer classes. There should be no limit of 1501. It adopts Mr. BAIMAGeb doc- - 1 trine, that the rich should pay no more for protec tion than the poor, and that small men and small fortunes should be crashed , and mulcted, and taxed, `whilst any heavier burdens on the rich should be avoided as dangerous and subversive. Oh ! rare Monis!, Chronicle, liberal Morning Chronicle! you have left not merely radicalism and whiggism, but even Peelism far behind. Lord LINCOLN would disown you ; Mr. Balsices alone could be flattered by the support of such an organ. Some of the most generous inklings of the old Morn- Mg Chronwle were for throwing open the land to the economy and the industry of the moderately wealthy. ' Mr. POWLETT Senora has come forward at the present WE return to our military sage of the Quarterly, with a view to ventilating, with his assistance, the questions of the efficiency and cost of our artillery. Our readers will remember that on this head he ar gues for increasing the strength and efficiency of the artillery corps in order to effect reductions in the cavalry and infantry. He certainly succeeds in de monstrating that troops of the line are now employed where artillery would be mo re efficient. successful is his demonstration that much of the money lavished upon the royal regiment of artillery as at present constituted is shameful waste. We are in clined to agree with him that an augmentation of the artillery regiment is advisable, provided it be accompanied with a large reduction in the troops of the line ; but we think we are in a condition Ito show that the augmentation he asks for is excessive. One instance of lavish expenditure upon mere show is caustically pointed out in the following passage : We have no fault to find with the Royal Regiment as re gards the general seal and intelligence of the officers or the men; and being old enough to remember how their fathers bore themselves in the field, we are confident that, whenever the opportunity shall occur, they in like manner will make the most of it. But having censured the actual organisation of the corps, we cannot screple to support the correemem of our opinion, even though in so doing we blame by implica tion the authorities respoasible. At the same time let us do I justice to all parties. There is a branch of this arm, which, though it moot boast of having at hand every minute ar t title of equipment that would be required in case of war, may still sustain a comparison with any similar body in the world. Whatever may be the neglect of the field batteries, and the companies employed in garrison duty, the gentlemen at the Ordnance-office take care of the horse-artillery. But it unfortvnately ha; pe ns, that exce p t in the prosecution of an active campaign, a horse-artillery, in the proper sense of that term, is the sort of artillery which we can best do with out. And if is still more unlucky that, in point of expense, it costa very n early twice as much m any si milar amount of men, guns, anhorses , in the service. Moreover, the details of its drill differ, at least is essentials, so little from those of the field-botteries, that by the simple process of giving to the latter mounted pitmen and lighter guns you might convert each of them into a troop of horse.artillery in a day. We are constrained, therefore , w hile g ivin g all praise to the beauty and efficiency of the horwartillery, to express our opinion, that this country has no need, in peace, of any such costly soncern ; and that the .soonee it is merged into the general body of the corps the better. The remedy proposed for this abuse is the suppiss abort of the horec-artillery. "There ehould be raised no such distinct force during peace as a home-artil lery; but the field batteries should be put forthwith upon a proper footing, and all the men and officers so exercised with their guns, at their stables and in every other respect, so that, in the hour of need, by a mere change of pieces and a supply of horses where with to mount the gunners, the requisite number of batteries might be rendered fit to act ' with cavalry ; in other words to do the didy which is not dime at all, though in ease of need it my buinly could he done by our seven troops of horse artillery." The horse artillery numbers apparently about 1,000 men : the field-batteries are 30 in number, with nominally 100 men to each, bat they are never full. Of the large addition to the artil lery t orps, asked by the writer in the Quarterly, 1 nothing gess to the field batteries, for he estimates the requisite strength of the field or light artillery re quired at 2,500 men. In short, the 37,2191. per annreni which the horse artillery costs under the present system is, in the opinion of an experienced soldier, only so much thrown away on a toy er gimcrack of 1 the Board of Ordnance. This it is to have a Hussar officer at the head of that board—foe the horse artillery is the exact counterpart of these fantastic ally dressed regiments. Another source of uncalled-for expenditure in the artillery is the enormous excess of officers : Our battalion, of artillery are at present officered respec. Lively by one colonel-commandant, who is always a general, two colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, ten first captains, ten second captains, twenty first-lieutenants, and, if fully . appointed, ten second lieutenants. It seldom happens, however—indeed it never has happened ice the last twenty years—that the regiment has been full ; and the estimates. accordingly preside for no more than five second lieutensuits to each battalion. We should propose, in time of peace, to substitute for these per battalion—one colonel-commandant , one colonel, two lieutenanteolonels, ten captains, twenty first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, if any. lAA's ing the second-lieutenants at the reduced scale, this will 42 o fficers, i r o dZ i f en t i o ien th tl e y . present af estimate,ic.r acc o rding battalion al. vow, per battalion 38 otticen, liable to a like addition. °Seem that the reductions which we propose are in the ranks which receive the largest amount of pay; and that not one individual now in the service would suffer. We confess we do not see the use of two lieutenant colonels, and have our doubts as to the necessity of keeping. four second-lieutenants as a ce,rps de rNerre. But let that pass. Here we have a professional writer admitting that 52 officers are constantly borne on the estimates, and 37 insisted upon in theory as required for regimental completen can, where alt are amply sufficient. In every hatted; on of artillery there ere fourteen useless officers, and. these " in the ranks tehich receise the largest ammo , tor pay." So, on the assumption that the Royal Regiment of Artillery ought to be continued at its present strength, its ex-' pewees might be diminishee'e by the seven troops of horse artillery, and by at least fourteen officers in every one of its ten battalions. 'The augmentation which the -writer in the Qater terly thinks necessary in the artillery force is a large one. He would double it. This increase appears to us outrageous. It is advocated : first, on the ground that artillerymen cannot be improvised; secondly, that although (as we have seen) the actual numbers o. the field or light artillery are assumed to be pretty near the mark, the numbers remaining for garrison PARIS, THURSDAY, national 11 A.M. duty . are inadequate. We shall examine both This being the day for the great festival, positions. towards eight o'clock the line of the B oulevards p re a spectacle of great animati on. The le g ions of There can be no doubt that a good gun ner is much more difficult to manufacture out of the raw material the infantry of the national guard were seen marching than either a good foot or cavalry eoldier. But it is to take up the positions respectively assigned to them only in the heavy . artillery, or the gunners for garri- between the Bastille and the Madeleine. The cavalry son duty, that an increase is asked. Now, what says of the same civic troops also moved in squadrons our authority himself ? in different directions. Front time to time a No d o ubt you 'nay in six wee ks time teach any man, who coirocnt of the line marched along the centre of the is not deficient in common intellect, how to week, sponge, Boulevards beaded by its band playing the national load, lay, and tire a garrison gun. But these operations, a . s This was invariably the signal or enthusiastic though individually and c ollectivel y of vast importance, do f not make him an artillerist. The first accident that occurs— cheering from the national guards on either side, which the first shot that strikes his carriage or his rammer—renders was dulyreeponded to and acknowledged by the regular him powerless. lie could not fit on a new wheel, were you troops. 'lle guard mobile, notyet provided with uniform, to hand it to him ; he would not know how to make shift and therefore presenting a singular appearance of a with any other tool or implement than that which his drill body of armed O perativ es, a ppeared from time to master has taught him to handle. As to dealing with a touch-hole somewhat run, or throwing hot iliot, or keeping time. Cheers were likewise interchanged between his powder clear of sparks, his first attempt in either of these these and the national guards and regular troops branches of art would probable end in such au explosion GA must not only silence his gun hut himself too , an d man y of ms l pectively. owards 10 o'clock the entire line of the Boule his comrades. Observe that we do not apply this reasoning, y r. a . rels, the Place de la Concorde, and the Champs at least in its extreme sense, to [nose poitious of the dock yard battalions which are drilled by order of the government El sees presented such a spectacle as has been to act as artillery. The arti-aus in these establishments are, the lot of few ever to have witnessed. The vast area for the most part, men of much more intelligence than we just mentioned, in its centre roadway, was literally find in the ranks either of the line or of the marines. It is filled with armed men. The national guard exhibited comparatively easy to initiate them into mysteries which are . tne stranest . motley appearance ; not . above half just as mysterious to soldiers of the line after six weeks of explanation as they were at the beginning. Indeed, of the their number uniform—some worn blouses, others dockyard artillerists very many being wheelwrights, block- coats, cloaks, and vestments of every variety of fashion makers, aerates. and sail-makers by trade, possess the full and colour. The strangest confusion of classes was also amount of theoretical knowledge which is required to make obeervable. Individuals who from their bearing and good gunners before they take their places en the platform costume belonged evidently to the more affluent at all, and need no more than to be shown how to apply it to the implements before t hem. But in what way and degree c l as ses were seen bearing muskes beside men in would these b mations he fouild sirviceable in case of need ? blouses, porters, messengers, and guards i•.l uniform. They form an admirable protection to important posts In some cases the more provident of the guards had against surprise. We may, now that they are well advanced a loaf stuck upon their bayonets. in discipline, look up on our principal dockyards es placed At the moment I now write and ant dos beyond the risk of being taken b y a coup de-main. But . if we count upon the support of these battalions for more log ta7 despatches the extraord i .eary spectacle than this, we must make up our minds to let our usual pre- I have just described is presented antler the windows. parations sand still. The centre road of the Boulevr a rd is a forest of It is admittel. ;e. the first place, that the ercasional bayonets, and the side-walks are oceans of heads. training recti , kd by the dockyard battalions, is sofa- Front station to station along the line are placed the FRANC:'. cient to make them good gunners. It is admitted bands of the different regiments, which play patriotic that men trained to certain mechanical trades can be airs. Now and then, when &general officer is recog much more rapidly cenverted into e ffi cient artillery- raised , an enthusiastic shout is set up, and " Vive Is men than mere unskilled labourers. This is not ligne !" everywhere heard. only the case with the heavy or garrison gunner. Such is the state of thin at Boulevardsthe mo ment l on t le ho . Many of the mysteries of field gunnery. "to The myriads which fill t he ._. use a gin, knot a rope, construct a bridge, and point of marching for the Pamere de l'Etoile, at the, lay a platform," or to "sling and move heavy ordnance, remote end of the amps Elysees, where the Provi pass it up a hill and down a declivity," would be simple farina Government await them to go through the ' to the apprehension of many artisans. The essential ceremony of delivering their colours. parts of the theory and practice of the mechanical In my despatches of the afternoon I will complete' powers are well known to many of the labouring this report. I classes, of whom fresh supplies are constantly The Mcmiteur of this morning contains apr °clam , being trained, who, from the di ffi culty of finding tion by the Provisional Government, of which we su b- 1 employment, would be glad to grasp ant the offered join the substance. lib. good pay of the artillery corps. We dwell upon this, not as contradicting, but only as modifying ,I r r i v ie f he and for the citizens a right. The re p u h re lic u tiv i es e a b y libe rty y y— dis ion. The clubs governmentortp b i l s n pleased to see citizens assemble to die- the conclusions of the writer in question—as tending cue. he highest questions of polities. The government pro- to show that his estimate of the necessities of a peace tects the clubs. But that liberty may have its fruits, beware es tablishment is exaggerated. I of giving cause of elarm, remember that alarm gives rise to , If fre discussion m ay right I Next as to the garrisons. He asks for nineteen MIMI revutionary re -action. . battalions of heavy artillery of nine hundred and fifty poi nh arms in our hands be a u danger, it be. c° m en each. These he would distrib ute as follows: "Nine mos t e inviolable conquests of the revolution, armed clubs may tr m an oppression. If the liberty of the clubs is one of the I battalions should be kept at home. Portsmouth and to one battalion about civil war. com p ro mise that liberty, cseite the worst p assions, and bring Plymouth would give quart ers each. A third might be distributed among Jersey, It then interdicts the clubs from being armed dar- Guernsey . , and Alderney. A fourth, having its bead- ing their deliberations. quarters in Dover, would supply the whole Kentish We have received the Madrid mails of the 15th, and Sussex coasts ; and a fifth in Edinburgh castle do and are enabled to supply what we can guarantee as a similar service to all Scotland. Ireland would pro a correct report of the communications lately inter bably require two battalions ; thus leaving for Vi f o I- Mr. Bulwer and the Spanish Minister of wick, the Thames, the Medway, and the east coast c hanged .. by e oreign Affairs, which have already produced so four battalions, with the provisional battali formed n serv i ce. ; wide a breach between the Madrid cabinet and our out of the depot companies of those on forei g n representative and which seem likely to produce This, according to our arithmetic, is eleven battalion at leant some coolness between the governments. instead of nine. Waiving, however, this con- It seems that the communication of Mr. Bulwer sideration let us see where reductions may be had a tone as far as possible removed from dictation. made. O ' er author forgets his admission respect- It was the representation of a friendly power, made ing the efficiency of the dockyard battalions as in a friendly spirit, and was accompanied by an gunners; and he entirely leaves out of account extract from a despatch of Lord Palmerston, written the increased facility for transporting stores, oral- before the insurrection and proscription had bees 1 nance, and men rapidly from place to place. On the known in London. strength of these over-looked items, we would suggest The minister on receiving this communication held that three battalions might be found amply sufficient for a cabinet council. The wrath of Narraez was un- Portsmouth, Plymouth, the Channel Islands, and bo_ : u th nde n. d, add the answer resolved on was in harmony Dover, with its dependencies ; that the Edinburgh battalion might supply not only the rest of Scotland ''" Instead of justifying their conduct, government but the north of England as far as the Humber (in referred to the miseries of Ireland and denounced is elusive) ; that as the provisional battalion is admitted unmeasured language what they called British inter to be sufficient for Woolwich, two battalions would be ference in their domestic concern!, advised England enough for the Thames, Medway, and the east coast to mind its own business, for that it would have south of the Humber ; and that the two battalions fo r enough to do with the cha rt ist s and repeale r!. Ireland is a war, not a peace establishment. On these M r . B u l w er, entirely passing over the outrageo us grounds we would respectfully submit that seven bat petulance of this production, sent a second note, in talions with the provisional battalion are amply suf. which he stated that the parallel drawn between Relent for home service. England and Spain did not exist, in fact ; that Spain The proposed allotment for foreign service is ten had never contributed to found the throne of battalions of eight hundred and fifty men each (de- Queen Victoria, or to prevent it from being ducting the companies left at home.) Their proposed Malts, helped by civil war , nor had in any way distribution is : Gibraltar , two b attalions ; N helped to establish the British constitution, and one; Corfu and its dependen cies, o ne ; Canada , one ; much less entered into a compact with the British Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, one; Bermuda, one ; y h v o ernment for the maintenance of that constitution. the West Indies, one ; the Cape,one ; Ceylon, one —with grounds, then, upon which an absolute three companies at Hong-Kong. With respect to one reciprocal panty was sought to be established of these battalions—that which is allotted to Corfu— between the two governments, did not exist, and, it is to be hoped that the country will not much consequently, all reasoning drawn from such pie longer consent to be burdened by the task of governing raises must fall to the ground. He, therefore, con s group of islands which the Holy Alliance not being sidered that the answer returned to hie previous able to make any use of persuaded the British govern note would not prove satisfactory to hie government. ment to be at the expense of keeping in subjection. ii AUSUU, Amu. 15.—Three per Ceate. 21 cash; Vise per Cents., Even on the theory of those who think our import- isre paper; Passives, 4f . paper; Coupons, 9 paper ; Ark of St. ance as a state dependent upon keeping garrisons in F,T003000, Parr 6 100 ( .0 101 fhc). E.eionle on 60 da ys , 41 Palm'. the Mediterranean, Gibraltar and Malta are quite By the Levant mail we have received the letters sufficient: the lonian Islands are a mere incumbrance. of our correspondents at Malta of the 11th, Alex- With regard to the Atlantic, Bermuda, with Halifax andria of the 29th nit, and Athena the 4th bust. on the one hand and Nassau o n the other, are sub- The Minister of the l'acha of Egypt, in conse clout to render us unassailable in that ocean. quence of the political events which had been For mere purposes of local protection the West announced from Italy, France, and Austria, ad- Indian and British North American colonies are dressed a circular to the consular body, with occasional assistance adequate to their own de- dated Cairo the 20th ult., on the subject of fence. The writer in the Quarterly himself pro- the manifestations which had taken place poses that St. Helena should be defended by a among foreigners from these countries. local artillery, and our Australian colonies and Our Athens letter says that a report was credited settlements in the Pacific by the marine artillery, that the King had signed a general amnesty. "till they , shall have grown old enough to supply and pay their own artillery." The Cape and the two clueters of colonies first named are surely old enough for this purpose. Ceylon properly belongs to our Indian establishment. These things considered, it would appear that two battalions for Gibraltar, one for Malta, with two for Ilalifax, Ber muda, and Nassau (or any of the West India islands that might be deemed eligible), with a couple of com panies from the provisional battalion for Hong-Kong, are quite as much as oar foreign service demands. In abort, the Royal Artillery Regiment, by being increased to 12 battalions of heavy artillery, with 2,500 light or field artillery, might, upon premises admittedby the writer whom we have been following, be, according to his notions, perfectly adequate to all the yenta of this country. 'ibis increase of the force might also, according to his views, be effected with a positive reduction of the number of officers. The ten battalion actually existing have 520 officers ; the twelve battalions and the field artillery officered in the proportion he recommends would require only 509. We should at the same time be enabled to dispense with that costly and useless toy, the horse artillery ; with ten thousand troop& of the line, even suppoeing we kept our army at its present preposterous entire strength• and with much less if we dispensed with the Balers kept in the colonies simply to coerce the colonists, and in different parts of this country to play the parts of policemen. The actual force of the Royal Artillery is 11,395 men; as we propose to increase it, it would be 13,900; and by this increase of 2,500 artillerymen, of whom a much less proportion would be officers than at present, we should be able to dispense with some 10,000 troops of the line. Here is a present possible increase of army strength and redaction of cost which a reform ministry could not find out the means of effecting, suggested by a soldier, and published by the Quarterly Review. We need not say that our views of ultimate possible retrenchment in our army expenditure go far beyoiid this. We look to rational legislation for 'lre land to enable us to dispense with our garrison there. We look to an equitable colonial policy to enable us to dispense with our garrisons in the colonies. We look to reforms in Great Britain to enable us to re lis -e our soldiers from the iiksome and invidious duties of policemen. And, lastly, we look to the consolida tion of petty states into large ones, and the develop ment of industry and commerce to diminish men's fighting propensities. History gives proof that large states are more cautious of involving themselves in wars than petty ones ; and trade and commerce, if they do not make men less quarrelsome, supply them with ether means of spending the time and dissipating ennui than fighting. ITALY.—Lettera from Rome of the 11th, say that M. Corbelli has left Rome for the head-quarters of the combined army with a view of establishing more strongly the league between the Italian sovereigns. The Patria, of Florence, of the 13th says :—The Austrians retired within the line of the Mincio have regained courage, and fight with fury. It is of no use to deceive ourselves, the war will be long and bloody. It is war to the death—a war of Spaniards against the Moors, of Greeks against Turks. The Patria contains a letter from Ferrara dated the 11th, which says the affair under Mantua was favourable to the Fiedmontese, and that the Austrians lost 8,000 killed, wounded, and prisoners. spoke decidedly to his royal father, and at — thi s juncture succeeded in producing a decisive hop e ", mon. King Ludwig will not go to Switzerland; f ee although guarantees would be given, his return um ee certain circumstances would be very problematic a l HESSE CASSEL.—The government of the else. torate has officially infotmed the states that t cow missioner will be shortly sent to Denmark to infona Prince William and Prince Frederic of Hesse Qu a d that they must quit the Danish service. It is scarcely nec essary to add that the latter is the heir pres arap ," tiv c e es t B o ar je throne of Denmark and to the electorate of Hesse Cassel. BRUNSWICK.—It appears that the government of Brunswick is making an effort to effect a junction between the Stenerverein (Hanover and Oldenburg) and the Zollverein. A conference it is thought wi a be shortly held in Brunswick. The ducal govern. ment entertains also the hope that the free cities of the north will enter the Zollverein. BADEN.—We have news from CarlsruheMann. heim of the 16th. We have already shown the abor. tive attempts made to raise a republican movement throughout Baden, Hesse, Nassau, Wurtemherg, an d in fact throughout the so-called Middle }thine die. trict. The Baden government has requested the per. mission of the second chamber to arrest one of its members, the well-known Reciter, who has already . assembled under arms a number of republicans. Th e motion was to have been brought forward on th e )sth inst., but whether through fear of the govern. ment, or through synipathy with Hecker, the mem. bers did not assemble in sufficient numbers to form a house. The motion was to have be er) , brought forward again yesterday. An order to ar. rest Struve has already been issued by the grand ducal government. Lieutenant-Oeneral Von Gagern, formerly in the Dutch service, has been nominated commander-in-chief of the Baden troops. Consider. able excitement prevailed at Mannheim on the even ing of t'm 16th. Numerous crowds of persons bled before the houses of Hecker and Struve (although it was well known that both were absent), and loudly cheered in honour of those two republicans. It may be added here that Hecker is extremely popular in NASSAU.—The troops have received orders to march towards the French frontiers on the 23rd. AUSTRIA.—The Vienna Gnat.lle,of the 13th, says that the Minister of the Interior is occupied with the project of a constitution, on which subject &liters, tions have taken place between him and several de ' puties from the provincial states. The constitution is to be framed in the most liberal spirit, including as. similation of political and civic rights without regard to difference of creed, equality of all citizens before the law, equal qualification of all citizens to municipal and state employments, freedom of opinions, persons, speech, and press, right of petition and meeting, similar laws for all classes, independence of justice, public and oral trials by jury, and the principh• of the representa tion of the people, based on the constitution, with two chambers, to meet every year, to possess a de ciding voice in legislation and taxation, and the right of taking the initiative, and finally responsibility of the ministry. The same journal states that it can assert from the surest sources that the elections for the German parliament will shortly take place. The Austrian government has ordered the Jesuits to quit Linz. This step has given considerable sa tisfaction even to the Homan catholic population. The leaders of the republicans at Trent have been arrested. The Cologne Gazette of the 19th says: " An en gagement between Hungary and Russia, on and re specting the deckles of the Danube, is considered in evitable. The independent liungarian government seems resolved upon the speedy armament of the people, and extensive warlike preparations. 300,000 fire-arms have already been ordered at Vienna." GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—We have received our usual files of German papers. The date of those from Berlin is of the 18th. Our correspondent writing from Co- - _ lope on the 18th says : rhe Prussians are beginning to call seriously into gela tion the right of Austria to place herself at the head of the Germanic Confederation, and consequently to act as the leader of the Germanic Diet. Several Prussian journals have of late analysed the population of the Austrian em pire, in order to discover comparison the various betwee inngr it edi and the com o n esng it, and to draw ain Prussia. The analysis has led to the following discoveries . —ln Hungary, Gallicia, Bohemia, Moravia, Steiermark, and Illyria, there are 14,200,000 Slavonians ; and in Hun gary, 4,000,000 Magyars ; its Italian subjects amount to 4,4410.0(10 ; its Wallachian to 1,300,009 ; its Jewish to 450,000 ; its gipsey tribes (Zigeuner) to 30,000 ; and its pure German to 6,300,000 only. In the following analysis, the general census of 1820 (31,624,688 inhabitants) was held in view. The population has increased since that time, but the above data will serve to show the relative numbers of the Germans and non-Germans. On the other hand, it is proved by fig ures that the population of Prussia, exclusive of the Polish inhabitants of the province of Prussia and that of Posen , i s 15,000,000 of true Ger mans, speaking the German as their vernacular, and tho roughly German in feelings, habits, sympathies, and origin. The Prussians place these two figures, 6,000,000 and 15,600,000, in juxtaposition, and proudly ask whether Aus tria with the former or Prussia with the latter should be Linked upon as the head of the Germanic Confederation and the President of the Diet. klection committer, are now in course of formation in nu. 114k.trOU5 town', hi order t steure popular del. gates for the forthcoming assembly at Fraukfert. It appears that the reserved troops that gave rise, through their misconduct, to the late sirious riots at Aix.la.Chapelle, were exclusively from Pomerania, a part of the monarchy where numerous influential individuals have attempted to produce a reaction, by representing that the Kiug was kept a state of constraint by his rebellious subjects of Berlin, and that he was not a free agent. In some parts of Pome rania the soldiers went so far as to tear off the German cockade from the hats of the inhabitants. Up to the 16th inst. Prussia had forwarded to Schleswig- Hoist( iu 14 battalims of infantry, the 20th infantry rPiti men*, one battalion of the 31st ; the 2.111 regiment of Cui rassisrs, two squadrons of the 3rd Human, six other .guad cons, 22 field pieces, and the 3rd Artillery brigade, altogether 13,000 men. Counting the Hanoverian, Brunswick, Olden burg, and Schleswig - Holstei n troops, the Gersaan army amounts eo 26,000 men, with 60 field pieces. The Danish torte is set dowu from 20,000 to 24,000, with 96 field pieces. The fleet, however, of Denmark mote than makes up for the interior number of its land army, which is, moreover, flaily on the increase. About 9 o'clock on the night of the 17th, at Cologne, a special engine arrived from Aix-la-Chapelle, bringing the intelligence that the troops stationed in that city, and the civic guard, were unable to repress tr e riot which had first broken out there on the 15th in consequkne . of the mis conduct of some of the reserved troops, and which continued during the two following days : Six rioters were shot on the evening of the 16th by the civic guard, and ushers wounded. Two battalions, with several pieces of artillery were imme diately despatched, on the night of the 17th, by special train, to Aix-la-Chapelle. The latest accounts from Posen (adds our correspondent) are up to the 16th inst. The Polish armed limps, who had not returned to their homes, were about to be incorporated with the troops of the Hoe. It has beta resolved by the Polish inhabitants to appeal to the (Aermanic Diet in favour of their national re-organisation. Bitter complaints are heard respecting the vacillating policy of the Prussian cabinet with respect to Posen, and also with reference to the excesses committed by the Germans. There is some talk of raising a Polish loan ia London. It is now fully ascertained that the majority of the Polish army at Schroth' have laid down their arms. The remainder, utaler the command of Mieroslawski, have taken to the forests. In several Owes the sithensen had conflicts with the Prussian soldiers. The Prusso-Runisn frontiers con tinue to be well guarded. A number of armed " Russian" Poles crossed the frontiers at Labaschin, but were driven back by a detachment of Prussian hussars. BAVARIA.—NIuNtcn, APRIL 15.—King Ludwig had resolved, as is well known , to proceed in the first instance to Switzerland, and afterwards to Aschaffenburg. It was stated that it was the royal intention to fetch the Countess of Landsfeld, and to take her to Aschaffenburg. When this was found to be the case several of the chief officers in the service of King Ludwig declared they would sooner take their leave than accompany their royal master on such an errand. The travelling carriages were all packed; nay, some of them had even started, and relays had been (deleted via the road. lidos Maximilian ROW DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. We have received the Hamburg journals of the 17th, from which we extract the following : It appears that the King of Denmark remained at Schleswig only two hours, and that he returned to Flensburg after having strengthened the fortifi cations at I.renewerk. The Danes seem disposed to take up their position at Schlei. The dam of Eckern forde, opposite Schleswig, was planted with cannon, and the ferry had been sunk. The palace of Prince krederick, in Holstein, had been totally destroyed. Danish ships of war were everywhere cruising in the east sea. A deputation arrived on the 17th at Hamburg from Flensburg, which had travelled under the protection of a pass from the Danish ministry. They came with proposals of peace, limiting the Danish demands, which had hitherto extended from Denmark as far as the Eider, to Denmark u far as the Schlei. The de putation, however, was not received either by the Prussian Colonel Bonin or by the Provisional Govern ment. On the contrary, it was commanded to leave within an hour. The deputation was, however, ver bally informed that there could be no question of negotiation till all the Danish troops had quitted the soil of Schleswig, and the Danish ships of war had withdrawn from those seas. Although the deputation did not bring any credentials, there can be no doubt (says the Maven Halle)that it was sent by the Danish leaders. The commission appointed by the King of Den mark for the maintenance of order and the adminis tration of Schleswig, endeavours to ascertain the sentiments of the civil officers of the different dis tricts, by putting seven questions ; and, according to the answers returned, they are continued or displaced from their post. The Dance, so far from pressing the inhabitants of Eckernforde, as has been asserted, to enter the Danish fleet, or using any violence to the inhabitants, behave with great moderation. It is true there was a threat to bombard the city if theftag with the federal colours was not removed within two hours, and replaced by the Dannebrag flag. The Danes honourably paid for everything that they required on chore. The Duke Von Augustenburg passed through Hamburg on-his way to Hanover, for the purpose of hastening the approach of the Hanoverian troops. The Prussian courier, who was cursing despatches to the Danish comp, was detained by the Danes for several hours on the road. He then tore up the despatches himself, and returned without hiving effected anything. The Duke of Brunswick arrived at Altona on the afternoon of the 16th, and was to set out for Rends burg on the 17th. The chief quarters of the }fano verians would be provisionally at Neumunster. The suggestion that Schleswig should declare itself either German or Danish, originated in the first in stance during the late ministerial crisis at Copenha gen, when it was proposed that :he votes of each parish and districts should be taken upon the subject, and that the boundary line should be drawn accordingly. The letters from Copenhagen are of April 15. An official report from Commodore Palau to the Minister of the Marine, announces his arrival off Eckernforde, and his demand to the city to withdraw the troops, to hoist the Danish flag, and to innd the burgomaster and two other members of the magi,- tracy on board, and in case of refusal, threatened to bombard the city. As the whole of the munic 4 pol authorities and troops fled, the city was garrisoned by the Danish marines. The report further state , that communication is open with the Danish bat talions at Missuede. None of the enemy's soldiers were to be Been. Friedricks Ort was wholly nue' risoned, and Kiel but very weakly defended. itta King was said to have left Flensburg for Appeals& on the 15th. A private letter from Flensburg, in the Berli ger Gazette, accuses the commander-in-chief not only of cowardly flight and had disposition of his troops Flensburg, bat also of the malevolent p ur p ose ficing the German students, and of thereby awakening greater wrath among the Germans. The Ber linger Zeitung also says that the general sentiments of England are in favour of Denmark. COLONIAL. ----- BRITISH NORTH. AMERICA. CANADA.—The Canada Gazette of March Or contained a proclamation of the royal assent to the act foe repealing_ and consolidating the cuom' duties in that pro vince. The act was to come into operation on Os oth of April. On the 23rd of March the governor ia prw a prorogued the ftret session of the third provincial pf ered II rilsme °l to the Ind of May. The following is the speech deliv his excellency on the occasion : honourable Gentlemen of the Legirlativo Council. and _ 0 ° 14 1.1, of the Lcuidafive Aneerubly, —I hew_ rearm to Mlle. . 4 ' beet consult the public Interest and your convenience by Wok ing the prevent net reon to a close, with a view to the reenoP t : of our joint labours at en early period. In Pur -u " t ° tiot d ec l a red intentions, I have taken museum for the forta _ of a now administration, and I am enabled V 3 apprioe 7 ,43 : . Mat the arrangement.' neaunery for Unit purow *re l o plated. 1 trust OA Cie rowans which ham been movinciat and imperial parliament the odamtica by which Wet year strerided, may effect the objects t 'uneaten of the Ledslative Awn Oise for the readiness with wile which are requisite for the pubh, and gentlemen, your attention recess to vvriuus measures for dew .iron, and promoting the social we and sincere desire to co-operate wt important objects, and to abet by Tour* to establish and to Menefee her kfajesty's subjects in Canada. TO following are the acts I brought to a clan : hued to make better provision defraying the expenaes of support warding them to their place of therein mentioned. —Act to Comm the provisions of the act mutat in Canada were Intended to have for The City ut Kingston Oas t Lig Wril• Toronto Atheneram."—Act wardens of St. Pawn church, Oa oartain cooditions.— Act to remit dered by the late Courts of King' , incorporate The Institut Ca n na for regulating the shipping of seer the said act—Act to continue an tour and meal, and to provide h amend tke act to Incorporate th rate the Western Telegraph Too Tecer,ttunn.ofentittlict.ter ned ,induwebeemakeue of aprons of dams upon the ri Consumer's Gas company of Ti la 'tine to toe Incorporation eftn for limited time the several se and for other purposes—Act to for defraying certain einemee o for raising on the credit of the C !Maxey required fir the public re NO \ A Su) IlA.—Th dent recorded in the jourr.al bill for the future man e ha' been submitted to 0 general. We reprint the fo iron the Nova Scotian, as gence with which the new about the work of reform : One a the leading objects, of t of departmental government, public accounts than has brunches of the public arctic now rendered stoolutely nevesv merry levied al the customs, an and Impartial audit of 11 thereon, it is proposed tivx upon the following basis: Inted I. officey f ng e pay l ted ' l l, " i:. u e b , U r . 1 i receiver-generalu t i n b s to t. }' 77 ,t * f,7, without t h a l b n. a n t i a dp : 11 ,,,,t ( 1 illy of shalt appoint a lir during pleasure, with a salary , clerk, wdli a salary a Ak.i. pet e ssawy will embrace the c shall be paid by the neeiver-ge correct by the financial secret shall be president of the board nerat,areisted by three other fit. Members o f the provincial adm of the mice. by a member of i not prevent bi- re-election. SI sioner of crown Loots become pertments in the new mimed, general ; audit °Mee ' Mucci general Three, with the mor bers of council with, and three house and the country fur evil thence , system with the old, ft be considerably reduced, and earn* to the country will be el ut LAW me ano NT. Attorney-General SolirlWr•General TILLAPVILT. Treasurer Clerk Clerk B. Iteeenue atuse)or.s.oncral Corms Tuner WS.. and Luntingeociaa Fees on so.trches Cons. on Surplus Revenue Cape Brown Mace PROVINCIAL PECRYTARY.....• COUOIAOP of hAeier, Hanks- LAW DEJ'ARTMENT. Attorney ,6011e1.1.... SOliCitaMieDerai IRECZICIR- 01, FRILL'S OfTICI Receiver-Uent r“1 Cierk FINANCE I.F.P A Itill LN T Fleaocial eeeretrry Clerk FCldinre Commissioners ...... erk and Contingencks ALLoW&NCLI Morels B. W. Crawley Mr. Crawley, An .CCAVTARV ' tk Omar. P. Secretary Peasioa to sir Rupert It la the Intention ef the to arrange with oompb practicable. to receive m elem. If thie te effected tax will probably be rm. Making a difference of ' —to which may be adth land ofheers and Sir Rime new mode of collecting th NEW lIIUJNSV Tindal legislature was this occasion Sir Willi tory address. The cot possesses a general int Mr. President and lion Speaker and Gentlemen basing been pleased to re the last occasion on whit la the long period in wit government of this pros glary patisawe with whic Myles to your advancem and although the peat I (telly developed, I antic British capital and en Lisa appreciation of t Wal be highly conducive rwill eseentially be ood a due sepuritim peospect of carryins at a party divisions an Obi successful accompl libation, having unilor ba foster met e la there eventful en be none, t reel Baur hack *cradled a regard ; and in taking I ire for your welfare, Waned wish that these Omit province ilest 'not teak amongst the pros] PRINCE EDI c 4 a committee of th appears that at the c the balance against • 2 6.2.851. 15s. - at tho this adverse balance committee complain are in the habit of in their hands for others charge coma parliamentary warn AUSTRALIA Melbourne that thi separate colony, it gave universal sat Dees Thomson wa remised with him tailed among the leases. A stateme ever, somewhat sp "from a most re stated, leases will I pith them; the gx that right to the t the lease." Auto' to the inadequate how, labour, more SOUTH AU: llth of Novembe Perty in that co ittrwing, some th their hundreds of apprehend that t and work run / admit that it it wanted, and cool out the extensio 'manta, " industrh were actually con Supply of labour. NEW PROI March 18 have of Turks Island I Board of Council rent in Provides Prince had bees teountain in the FRANCE.— the Idanchester best indeed of to Count Poi He ems remarka and Pelle vermin thing understocn same career for end influence, Iv trod, of history 'wroPe possess s than Louis Mai 1,0 0 of diplor to eminence