The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. Drasion to Conitre on . Ctagi mi glang power to ths guardians to grant outaitiar fto Ponfrems la fiod. tti• • Period of two moottis, Ayes, 24.2; b 431. A Acheson, Tint. Clay, Bic W. I Ma, Copt V. O i hririi. T. Arland, T. D. Clayton, Rise R. Hawes, B. 0 Connell, o.,jun. A'Court. Capt. Clrk, Sir 0. lloatlicoot, J. Moorish, 31 J. Arlanby, IL A. F iL llon. R. H.Henosge,O.H.W.Munaell, J. Aldaro, W. W. It. Ilunerre, Pa ()Moor Dos Allblatut Peter ale, Henley, J. W. Ogle, S. C. IL , Awn s ' Hon. ODLOotietenty, Lend Herbert, B. Owen, Sir J. Antroius, E. Cowper. lbs. W. Ilddyard, T. B. Valdosta; fib J. • Archbald, R. Crain; W. O. Hindley, C. Palmer, B. Arkerright, O. Cranes d,W. B. Hobbouse, for J. Parker, J. Arundel& aurriryCri a r . 4 . V. Hadrian, V. Patten, J. W. Earl at Ann! Hodgson, I:. Peel, Sir R. Marten, Col. Hanson, T. V. ]lope. G. W. Thunridf 10, ORA. Bailey, J. Denison, J. E. Welkin; K. Polhill, V. Mae, W. Dermintosiouill. Howard, Hon.C. Prothleres, A Mbar, J. M. Dieltrosoo, F. IL.Howanl, Its. E. Puecy, P. • llowsrazan, A. Disnreli, B. Howard, P. 11. Reid Bassani, Col. .1111ily. D. Dodd. O. Hodson. G. , Cot. Moldy, H. Douala., Slr H. Hutt, W. Repine, G.W. J. lAwfwAY. T. Douala', Sir C. &barna, Sir B. IL Moe, E. It. ianlorl,l. 0. Duncan, VIM- Jam , * Sir W. C. Bleb, H. Invinarlf. Duman, G Jennyri, Earl Ratans, Col. ligeborsilla, T.B. Donde., Admiral Jervis, iir J. Rom, D. IL BA X. Hondas, Fred. Jobitun, Oen. Burnell, Lord J. Palm LK, Damian Sir D. Johnstone, Sir J. Rome% J. D. .....s. P. Egerton, W. T. JolliVe, Sir W. O. P. BoolhoklardG. Ellice, Hoa. E. Jones, Capt. Shell, Serape, Rt. Ho. R. H.Ellioe, E. Bemb!e, H. Sibtkorp, Col. X.,ior Ellis, W. Intaucher.., H. Smith, J. A. Ilashoisg, C.ltrolyn, Vinevant Lanibton, 11. Smith, RLHAR. Ittsboisy, HACpt.i. utt, B. Lineelles,lln.W. S. 11( ns John P. Bsgberdtty,lbs.lLlErans, W. Lawler*, Hon. C. S unmet, ltd. G. R. Rwart, W. Layar Major Sonterrille,Str W. Bbolistase, W.S. Vielden, J. Inith, CC. Spooner, It. Make M. J. Ferguson, Cot. Le Marchaat, D. Stanley, lin.W.O. J. 3. rellnum. Sir R. Lemon, Sir C. Stuart, Lord J. I. Ferranti, W. B. Lennox, Lord G. Stuart, W.V. Branoils,Hco E. Pinch. George Lincoln, Earlof Strut; Hon. E. Morstrg, Dr. Fitrnerdd, IL A. Lindsay, Cot. Tancred, H. W. riergrigigr. H. ritamaurice, W. Lygon, Run. O. Thornely, T. lielholok J. Fitzroy, Hon. ll.Stansulay, A fro. T.Tollemache, J. Mows, W. Fitzroy, Lord C. ItiltCarthy, A. Towneler, 3. lowase, 1. D. Forster, M. M'Orginell, J.M. Trotter, J. ismer, Kn. W. Yoe, C. R. IltTaggart, earl. Tulte, H. M. Pooh. LW. Puller, A.E. Mang ea, U. D. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. DaMal7, Bit B. Caskell, J. 11. Manners, Lord J. Vane, Lord 11. Pdkr, C. Dipole, Pk S. Mare& Earl of Viliiers, Han. C. 1•11er, K. Gam, Hon. A, Manhall, W. Villiers, Mast. pealiilld, W. Goring, C. Marcia, J. Warkbasetoo,ll.S. Bram 0.5. Casolloo& 11. Naffle,Sim P. Wakkey, T. Callaghan, D. einkm,lllll. WYO. T. A. Walker, B. Cardwell, E. Gmbh Mina llsmahaa, 3. 11. W:aporle. I. H. Carew, IL & Only, WA G. Morris, D. Ward, 11. 0. Cow W. H. P. Ovorowor,LEM. Wady& Houk E. Ware, J. T. Hn.C.Onasegnoe, Hat Many, B. M. Williams, W. . &11. Clos& Pk 3. Mimi& 0, P. Wilzhere, W. Wog. H.B. Mr B. Nagirg, BI C. Wood. Sir C. ling OIL C. Worcester,Mary. =mak 11.11millo&W.3. =Vise. Wyse, F. =gm ILLMieriajbaelotOMilm, A.B. Yorke, H. A. lard A. 11•00, A. 011rtio. W. S. Trarnsou—inni Mar . rs BM sad Kr. Tam& .--- NOM M. CoL =too. iise. ll. Harkiltre. G. A. Milton, Thema Arldirlep,C. B. tik F. T.llitt. Lord Newry , Matt. T. Ow* lir Kirk, Peter Mikity, E. J. Breeke, Lard Clem h. 1,1110 1. A. liihirky, E. P. Brooke, Sir A. B.Domot. Co L Leslie, C. P. Taylor, E. DlVita. CAL Gm. O. liscruours, MALVerner, Sir W. rimbo m vt.m. one" W. U. MlunielLT. P. Tray, lion. T. Gregalk, 6. maxweu,ito..T.r. Wit b, sir J. B. flWeMet.lLJ.9ris4J. H. Milner, B.M. Wrightion,Vi.B. TozAska—Mr. Shaw aod kir. Young. lIIISIICESS OF THE WEEK IN THE LORDS. MONDAY, MAR= M. ORDERS OF THE DAY. bromm Rtommos—SanMoptcy sad ',Polemic", (No. 3) ; Drainage of Lend; Bills. Continua,—Markets and Fobs Clauses; Ossworka Clauses; Waterworks Clauses ; Ormealselessers Clamps; Dills. TUESDAY, Maas U. NO/10E Of MOTION.—Lard Mamagte. to more far a select earomblos an the re:OrAsmadatiosi of parliamentary ormarnittees and eommisions on the Irish poor ore to outdoor relief; the effects of outdoor relief cm the Irish poor and Irish pewter mumgrat on tato Great BMWs ; and the Whet. of enlarging elcetoul divisions for raising asaasementa under the poor-Mw. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE COMMONS. MONDAY, Kowa SI ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Coloorrrnos or Burro AND or Won Al. Moon. Bacon° Euaruncts.—Railways; Army Service: Poor Relief Super vision (Irebad) (No. 2); Commons Inclosare ; &Iv. Comma— Bir th s, Ice. (Scotland); Marrisg. land) ; Mutiny: Dana. and Piers Claims; Marion Mutiny ; Poor Relief: Customs Duties; Prisons; Custody of Offenders; In demnity ; Talmo Itranuion—Lindad Property (Ireland); General Resider Howe (Edinburgh) • BUM _ - NOTICKI OP IItiTION ON ORDERS OP THE DAY.—Rem& mq Isterm& k (Soormeo).— (On melee to go into committee) M. II mem te refer the MU to • West sesesnittee. LOIDFD Pasesserr (Imma) (ca third readias)— (le Crawford that el $4 ar1144 ho amuses& KIIIINT illL committee)—Sir De law Drees le awe memilmeet ea Us 4 elm& that troops on alimetamalt ho SeMbiel t belied ho as well prorisloord as to Plateblet J'ssn *oar (Immo) (le esemettm)-414r W. IL Mince to mem eillaseldmmesee smemilment; Kr. Kew le mem Net tbe tremseef Olio ma dew he need ea their set Inessmeohe ealleatelebamm est emmemme; Itr. lksett Serope to wad Mime!elemmr immulmsels; lie. Omer? to more additions! 411111111; Mr. W. KKK (Mimi to arms seKtionti clauses; SW Den bees *weep Is term aidWrl dessee; Hr. Villiers Stuart to more addiliastdesses; Hr. him O t Ommell to move additional dames sediMeembeem at tis*esaaals Is dere 4 (D); Mr. Ker to more sieltbeei sera e; elsiKard Kerte' to may the =Mmes of slew ; O . libmilem e mom sessedmsets seal the tektite lisa Ohre mw &Ms Kr ire I; lad Omeds Reetlask to more Miami& them ; Kr. Warp* MOM fallika of • erode* to deem 7; mem smamilmet dame Carmen Din l6t. s i O' slim tw Ckeisell ee Mis semmitise)—Lord en (Mores le. Mello* to none le refer am bill to a Meat townie's. DIDIPMIDMIT NOTICES.—(4O.. itiertrate bathe* pest. Illebtere, MI =we that the orders mein sat Maroh, to reter the Pipteltheeilem (Denham to Arketmed Ihthmeire), aed dee erbium make& Walebut. Ms easeellemetedeedet, be end =haws Mr. 1 1 / 4 /0/ 4 : 14 4••• that • peddles Oa tram semibeee et the be withdrawn. Mr. Borthwiek (oe maw the ere, et the fit% call ON elteetlea of the Secretory etitele to Omni *Waft reeeleatatico tth Mira. 1817. es Ceeehmile. 11r.ILMikle Ewe ler elepeft mimeo Mr. Loeser% te meek, Mime repehh etheelmiers be keeled who MI the is et emir shirk. Mr. leerea. Se new MO the wh en tam age ausellise. Med 111* Ms" be Wasted& the vela Me. P. he" adt Me ftlitr. tor the Chiseir • grartMe rdelhe be Mom t M 1 a ie. Mr. lI to st We Chereihr et the tibia step here bow taken to revert jpehille IMMO le the reeheMoe being employed In • prhiM hpeerhein MeLeetiess Dirsetory. 1171115122 T, Mama M _IamOFMOTIOL—Mr. artatit, to move far whet coormittee llivailsa la bib. Lord Oarroo Draeork, at more caa slinlisa sfli ta =lat kaa Se airs Elmetpaloirraan of Mr. MI/MOS new LID ft male ntall beer =rorleolart Omer to bur tM 12, p. a., like the n.... barratilm. Mr. Jim to moo WE for better at Mama Maas Owla imisa, to atm trrorositlot at ow teak sift Mir Mr. P. Ilartt. le move tor resat Orna wile* deo =man et Or L tlw Oman at Wm Ina Wu, ea Ma raararat at tmara4tly. Mr. C. Maim to moo tor riot ramestetre aut Via aananat d Oapt. Ni. Sort to lam lir Worms Marie to malt bernabopt, mod aoloissai hat fa lastsvat, theattmll. 011111 VS OF THE MT.—Seola Mustrera..—Tearoa. ]ovine. fob MMUS ; Naval imbed Bop; Moral Mass; NIL MUMMA! Mama 21. Nuncios OF MOTION.--lard b ECM kr Mot ataa lOW es • werezen mod autit b tho Ms*, Warm FEW Is Mr. I. to Imo kr int amotttoe = ak and samermara at as b e Badadortiod dvrllal Lard Jahn ilkeers Ram% to mote ansad OM ink. OMMII cta. awn Or THE DAY.—Onnorru--Pcor-nis NOTEZ Or Moncm ON ORDER OP THE DAY.--Pm (liZas - T—The--Mr - 7 - rgarqw,;;;;;;stig . Nulls IslimnalAs dim pail, ma dr Ms gsmis k meg dlddelk ad *Miami he "Tr. MOAT, Hamm It 011=07 I Hili DAT.—ammoi Illauttnon.--Rinth mad Perth ;M in or Linde; Lamas Asylums Comers.— lunar Right BM. NOME OF Oa ORDER OF THE DAT.—Arieul tural Taman Right. (Oa inelion to go into crannittee.)—Mr. 8. O'Brien, to zoom sit beamed* le fhb committee to extend the pro visions of the ball to bid. alit 6)4000. The eeedisa lined eieMa:leillea, to the Weiterreeeen, = sal.. =hi" bulk, Kee& 88 , 1, will be mete ap ea the Grow The nib far TIN, Was, Ilitheis, Cadiz, sad Gibraltar, Ile orb en es the et dr Ink Ihreli. e milk flit Illyw Ste& Tea Mem% Land, and New IleellaVell be left up at them** dal Slit lamb. Ile Woe bin le" Waft am dirlinket, SON6ITIS, and Ile thevemett, WI he mho op ea Ihimenisi 4WD lei Apr% The mils it Delleh Surat Anode% lbseastik. Ned the United Olsen vat le Ernie tip ea the swobe of dr Sri ANIL The eeleterA inetle Re 011indeir 74•Ps.,Ortese, Ile Iseles biode, MEPtiMak 0101.1011114BM114•160 air. Ws Iliellorpos. tem se web epee lee tmeesiee era* April. The mei belle Ileolle, the liver PIM* limit Mee, Perim :24thiti, deal Ozer* Ayres, will he wane up on th e tith TO CORRESPONDENTS. Chatermrr Aura" to rehrsed to the meet emehre of the Olortheor's Chretelele. where be eel IM Oteettine he he pre beetroot boved. hit pertlealerly to pep Ile d the het swelar. We Now vollse i g hezaz w eemenhellea i re le teat teas Ta aa = dr etelheer . 1012111=C11141011DUITAKE TO UMW ANT WIULTZTEL The hawed", Ohm et the " DAILY MTh" W " strums • have bus =MDT= hem PLIZT4TILIT. te Me. 10, DOUTEIIMATUZT.TIZIT esetteeee le th•Pdatiee rte Perialm Chem edoerdeeemie latesid hr The loproteaerita vreedsgpaper, hest be at the ease br The dint ea the ewe( pellleatke. warn AT LONDON-SWUM 46 sit. past 3 ; Attorma. IW. pest 6 umw—lituelm WA. put 6; Aftindm. 16 Ada. put 6. had 1 4 mueram akzummia mria m t.nenea. e two alternative there will be abuse and sal-administra- and the state. public credit. It is an act of friendship of the Eni: ma _„ , efter , these blei°eamellte were rea d , expla ined "- from Odessa bad 600 of these miserable men on bowl, el-. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 22. don beyond the power of any erwietant-commiesioner " Englishmen," asked the Leeds Mercury in 1839, peror of Eustis towar . ds . France which may be so- 177 twer l i Gene ralr the o f and t e . are now . compelled to beg their bread in the streets. Tan account given by us, in common with our co- to cope with. " will you allow the miserable No Popery cr y, which Dented without humiliation or compromise, and 'M a — , ofane VENEZUELA.—Aaeri At or , A Smiler( thence and insubordination the general, the minis- D'AFFAIalta. A Cameras paper, dated 13th of Feb., temporaries, of the nature of that • into Government, however, ought to be fully prepared, so long deluded you, to delude you still ? We are which France can . requite by a simi la r good turn felt that he bto be brought to trial before Yesterday arrived at La One from Sandler, GO which the menaces and manteuvres of the • of when boards of guardians split, or abdicate, to too much averse to the questionable morality of the when a fit opportunity offers; the transaction proves try competent • c 2 t minister justice • a sapsS,— th " Ir Spardsh i shi 80„ ir ei kes hosed err. D. tribunal The of also in- u p rano, en the Fazscu and his ambassador flung the young bike the business on themselves. For unless the patriot, which hazards falsehoods in order to give the confidence which the Emperor has in the stability ted Queen of gesix, bas proved unfortunately correct. obligation to maintain the poor be universal, effec- nicknames — u, when it said that our articles were of Louis Philippe's government and in the duration that tn the senate should adopt a prompt and iinos. B. 11_ 1 charaLrr ... 211 issnair i r earie l•- aw decisive resolution in the case, aging that the minis- " L ' s 6r ma 'r r Every letter from Madrid, many of them published, tire, and peremptory, its chief result will not be written under Unita r ian influence—to epaulet e on of peace. tells the same tale, gives the same picture of the attained. The two ireat difficulties of the Irish the infinenee under which the sentence we have Such is, in brief, the view taken of this transaction en forcing obedience to its try must have power of V. • newly-married royal couple. Don nutcase°, the Poor-law are : first, the breaking down of the quoted was written. But we do know that the by the semi-official organ of the cabinet of the orders, and that it was necessary that it should know CoLo NTAL. _ King Consort, after moping alone end unhappy all • which admini s t ers it. And f or thi s , p o li c y th us r i g ht eous ly con d emne d h as s i nce b ee , 1%i1 e ,i,,, whether it could count upon the sympathies and Bur SCDIDE.—A return Ma been publiraed by 110. day, listening to the prop 'es of an . inspired nun as we government must be ready with • adopted. We do know that it is to the In the course of Saturday, the astonishment be- Port of the upper chamber. The sitting was thud. of the Home of Cs s, easladatest the intimates at sP ar Me sad believing himself favoured by the visitation of the a substitute ; 'the second is, the insufficiency " misers e Popery cry" that Mr. BAINES is ginning to subside, the matter came to be regarded suspended for the purpose of appointing a mum ' " I P" "P a r" °the i sm "' I"'"" of 8.116 William. M Awe' Holy Ghost, dinplaying in short every symptom of of to meet the moralities of the poor. indebted for the delusion which secured him his with less simpicion and alarm, and of course with lion to report on the demand of the government. curses year 848-7. TM seenell at Fort mitting this estimate Is dm meet of directors ew; bigoted creep! to bed at ten o'eloek in If potato produce continue, it will be henceforth recent majority. He here himself set forth the pro. more unmixed satisfaction at the unquestionable ad- " Only the reveareim OM the aril portion of the &WO the evening. Her Majesty Queen ISABELLA retires liable to failure. In similar periods of famine, Lord hability of the endowment of the Bemish church in vantages which must immediately accrue from it, FRANCE.—Muitnrs.—A horrible crime wits com- the preview exhibited therein can be relied ys~ rap to slumber about the hour when her husband Dos JOHN RUSSELL admits that each Irish union cannot Ireland as the chief ground of his lion to the whatever ha been the motives which prompted mined at Per* la the Marais, A oppos may ve Friday . man who proximations to the reality. The military o." FIANCI•00 is rising. Her scrupulous care is, if pm- suffice for its poor. If potatoes to be laced b Lis out • at Belleville had o secret amour with estimate . . „ The, are rep t plan of education ; and it is not disguised it ; many reasons sufficiently obvious ware disco- °lrma" . ePlosets, to MOH* fnooon- gide, never to meet him ;never to allow her regard to corn, mom wares or more land moat be given to the their la defeat Ma eyed lain the movement of the Em of m mortification for Lie on the y- v to exp a young woman at rani, lino WU, noweeer, a person or the "As in them aocumeate stems 01 isioo4oll Pero„ r lowest possible description. Aware that he had been col- net WI NN" I been kept sujiesestly distinct fell spud the odious personage to whom the nsorai labourer. Take the Wort • union, for exampl e , meth g ran t ha s been an animating ciple with Russia , without the necercitY of admitting far-latonect letting different sums of money tolarge amo else amply added let An Admit Xing of the Emmett moriliced her, a te with a population of 78^, and a net manned val of his folk U bendof treacherous designs. minedmurdering a re aa a • °it ' deter- " have i° 1 40611. many wen. of suppositions on him. She pe ed him to go home estimated revenues sad charges of the • .. • Tu! . assuring her, that if she did not marry Don FRAN CISCO, she should never marry any one. We shall not follow the young queen through her daily scampering and her midnight racket, which evince her royal eagerness to drown care in noise, domestic misery in bustle and in the aemblanoe of plea sure. No serious blame can be attached to her conduct, except that it is not of that dignified and orderly kind which Spaniards . require even in dissipation, and the want of which in that country monstrously diminishes the respect and loyalty . which should hedge the throne. When any courtier, bolder than the rest, ventures to hint that inconsiderate behaviour in her Majesty bath the terrible:effect of increasing the chances and partisans of the Conde de MONTE MOLIN, ISABELLA is said to reply, with a deep feeling of weariness and disgust, that her cousin is welcome to take • throne stuffed for her with thorns, and shared by an idiot. Louts PHILIPPE and M. Outtor are a pair of grave and moral gentlemen. And yet they perpe trated this domestic tragedy, this sacrifice of a woman, young, and a queen, and a BOURBON, to the base and selfish policy of securing the succession of the Spanish throne to a French prince. The great mass of the English public may care little for Spain, for Spanish independence, Spanish liberties or Spanish parties. But events of this kind, when happening in the humblest ranks of life, and bringing up their perpetrators at the Old Bailey, do attract moral indig nation. And such interest the Spanish marriages and their results ought to excite. The drama, too, has not been played out. We are yet but in the midst of it, and what horrors we may have to contemplate ere its close, it is difficult for imagination aptly to conceive. All we know and see at present is, that the result of that marriage is the mutual aversion of the spouses. The restlessness of the Queen, and the acerbity of the royal temper justly visited on all those who aided in her sacrifice, have rendered it impossible for those personages to remain at Madrid. Ceuta BREsSON has fled to Paris, and, to all the entreaties that he should return to Madrid, he declares that he will never put his foot in that kingdom, or embassy again. He durst not face the depth of Spanish execration. CHRISTINA, too, who sold her daughter's happiness and crown to France—she, too, has fled the reproaches of ISABELLA, the curses of the country, and its prospective ven geance, wisely taking with her her ignoble husband, and her illegitimate family. ISABELLA now is left to her fate : the more faults she makes, the more profitable it will be to the King of the FRENCH—the nearer will be the chance of his son and daughter-in-law's succeeding. That Spaniards may become completely disgusted with Isenem.• and ho leas of h a e c r c : r seny she can have none— and that they • ly may bow to the rising sun of MONTPENSIER in F rance: that is all the aim; that is the profound policy. Menrramoux will come. The Legitimists, the clergy, and the Absolutists will rally to him ; whilst the em's, obliged to seek a prince to lead them, can find one nowhere (especially since Don ENRIQUE has proved himself as incapable as his brother) save at Paris. Such is the plan clearly traced out and acted upon : as crooked, as infamous, and as diabolical a plan as ever dis graced the page of MACHIAVEL. In the remarkable documents laid before the Cortes by the Spanish government there is an emphatic letter of Mr. BuLwea's. That gentleman, addressing Senhor Imam, drops for a moment the diplomatic character, endear': "I wasinparliament at the period of Queen ISABELLA'S rkuwgnition, and I can affirm that did I then think her accession to the throne would have drawn after it such a state of dependence upon France as these marriages menace and evince, I should decidedly have given my vote and support to DOA CARLOS or his son." . . There is great boldness, frankness, and truth in I this declaration, which,coming from &British envoy, is weighty and remarkable. It would seem to assert 1 that in case of the young queen's being set aside—as is already the case, morally and prospectively—Eng land would prefer MONTEMOLIN and independence, to MONTPENSIES and dependence on France. The Conde de MONTEMOLIN is acting upon this supposi tion. His partisans, it appears, have organised a wide insurrection in the north-east of Spain ; and their present efforts are directed towards procuring the co-operation of the Liberals and the town popula tions, which have been crushed and maltreated equally with the Carlists by the Afrancesado Spaniards. An alliance of the kind, however unnatural and dila- cult, has taken place in Portugal, and is attempting in Spain. Should it succeed, the years of ISABELLA'S reign are numbered, unless the French intervene in her behalf, and wind up their years of diplomatic in trigue by taking military possession of the capital and the fortresses of Spain. . Nothing can have been more forbearant or tran quil than the British parliament and press on the question of these marriages. Silent disapprobation, firm, bat unirritating, has been the universal tone. Nor is any difference perceptible between parties. Mr. Siirrne alone, in the late debate on Cracow, I recommended a reconciliation with France. No one will quarrel with the vague advice to obtain so desirable an end. But what ought to be the terms— what the basis—where the possibility? Let the ex- Under-Secretary point them out. There never was a moment when it was more desirable, more for the interests of liberty, that France and England should agree, and lend to Germany their countenance. The fate of Europe is jeopardised by our disagreements. But how are we to terminate it ? The blind and selfish policy of Louts PHILIPPE and M. CIIIIZOT has gone, not merely to produce a quarrel of a day, between France and England, but one which has a century's strife in it, which is most lamentably and radically permanent, and which really one cannot see one's way out of. Whoever could point out that way, would do signal service to France, to England, and to Europe. Tut most hopeless quality of Irish nature is the absence of all sufficing, self- governing power. No matter what English law or institution has been ap plied to Ireland, demanding the co-operation of the Irish themselves in administering and carrying it out, that law has failed, that institution been perverted. To begin with the highest institution, parliament itself, such an assembly in Ireland answered not one of its ends : it was prodigal, corrupt, tyrannic to the lower classes—a shop of servility and jobbing to the higher. What the Irish grand jury system was turned to, all know: it was the same as parlia ment on a provincial scale. Petty juries in Ireland are marked by every quality save justice. Coroners' inquests dif i r,hring in the greatest bene factors of 'Mead • ty of murdering the starving poor, in regions w ere the workhouses are empty, and the poor-rate unlevied. Every attempt at Self government, even in the smallest matters, and on the smallest scale, has failed in Ireland; not from dif ference of race—we cannot admit the absurdity—but from habits of de nce, and from the absence of a sturdy, well • middle class. Every institution, every law, which has succeeded in Ireland, has gone upon a principle the reverse of that which has succeeded, or which would be tolerated, in England; viz., upon the prin ciples of centralisation and government authority. None have more lamentably failed than those which have been entrusted to landed proprietors : witness the grand jury, and the summary . authority of justices. Yet, the result of attempting to apply a remedy, by bringing a mixture of the middle clam to control the upper—this, too, has failed : witness the presentment lesions. In order to avoid the anarchy of this in the Irish poor-law, the landed proprietors are to be in adeaded majority. How will this work ? We fear not at all. In every board of guardians there will be a struggle, ending in the triumph or the de feat of the ex-officio members ; in either of which alternative there will be abuse and mal-adminiatra of rateable property of 39,0001.—a union, too, in which the proportion , of paupers must be enormous. What vnllbe the result here, sr in unions similarly situated ? Undoubtedly, the continuation of potato plantipg, and of periodical famine—to meet which, imperial resources will be looked to. We esznet bat admit that we sympathise with many of the fears and objections of the Irish members to out-door relief to the able-bodied. We do not think, however, that they have taken the right way to meet it. Relief—plenary relief—will be voted ; and, to make it effectual, out-door relief must be ordered when the workhouses are full. The aim, therefore, of the Irish party should be, we think, to provide that the workhouse be never full, and therefore in no case inapt for the application of the test. The first purpose of the workhouse is to be a test, in which, if it fail, the whole poor-law sys tem breaks down. In order that it should be a test, why convert it altogether into the hospital or the asylum? Instead of enacting that out-door relief shall be given to the able-bodied, when the workhouse is full, why not ordain that out-door relief shall be infirm given to the and sick, so as to leave room for the working of the test on the able-bodied, and on the vagrant ? In the evidence attached to the second and third report of the committee on the Law of Settlement, it is impossible not to be struck with the justice of the proposal of Mr. MEADOWS WHITE, which is, to give out-door and parochial relief to the aged and infirm, and hand the able-bodied over to be dealt with by the union and the workhouse. To some such arrange ment as this we must come in England ; and it would be advisable to introduce into Ireland rather our proposed amendments than our old and inveterate abuses. Instead of making some rational or tenable stand of this kind, the Irish landlords are exhausting their own strength, and the patience of both government and parliament, by vain efforts to throw out the only apparent mode of meeting difficulties, and fixing them to the oar of their duties. In this they will inevitably fail ; whilst, if their efforts were directed towards rendering the Poor-law wisely operative, and as effi cient a cheek upon the idle poor sa upon the lazy or avaricious rich, such efforts might be attended with good and important results. Tae opponents of national education in Leeds have won each a victory as the Jesuits obtained in Lyons some years ago, and as the enemies of educa tion in Ireland acquired in the early existence of the National Board. The three temporary triumphs were obtained by the same questionable means, by the same doubtful artifices, and by the use of very identical and glaring misrepresentations. To make the coincidence more complete, all three had under other circumstances advocated state-interference with education; the Jesuits supported it when Queues X. was on the throne; the opponents of the National Board had done the same so long as grants were made to the Kildare-place Society; and the Leeds Mercury had taken a similar course when, for sectarian pur poses, its proprietors deemed it expedieatto raise a cry against the Wesleyan Methodists. All these opponents o national education advocated the system so long as it seemed probable that their sect or order would be likely to obtain " the lion's share" in the "direction" of the system ; but the Jesuits turned round when they I saw that the University of France would have more power in the management than the hierocracy ; the violent protestants of Ireland made a similar evolu tion when they saw power transferred from their packed committee to the National Board ; and the Leeds Mercury commenced its coarse of self-refuta tion so soon as it appeared that the Established Church was about to abandon its claim to exclusive ness, and to join tke rest of the community on equal terms for the general education of the people. The cry raised by the anti-educationerts of France, Ireland, and England, is so nearly identical, that the peroration of the memorable pamphlet issued by the Jesuit DE-scatters would have served equally for the confraternities of Lyons, the Church Education Society of Dublin, or the majority at the late Leeds meeting. "In conclusion," says the worthy Jesuit, after having exhausted his vocabulary of vituperation, "we con jure the Catholics, and all good men everywhere, to sign together, and everywhere, petitions in sup port of freedom of instruction not an indefinite liberty, but such as exists in Belgium—a liberty in compatible with diplomas, testimonials of competency, and certificates of morality." For this Jesuit liberty Mr. BAINES is a strenuous advocate; he, too, opposes any inspection to ascertain the competency of teachers and the efficiency of their instructions. Like Desai- NETS, he is quite content that schoolmasters should be incompetent, and schools, consequently, worthless, provided they are left under the control of himself and his associates. The Jesuits contended for their order as Mr. BAINES does for his sect, aad both were equally consistent in their advocacy of state inter ference, and in their subsequent opposition to it ; just as PROTEIIS continued to be the same man, though self-interest led him to assume a variety of forms. Sectarianism, whether exhibited by an established church, or by a dissenting body, is a principle adverse to the best interests of society; it brings out selfish ness and exclusiveness with a rancorous strength which men would be ashamed to exhibit in their in dividual capacities ; and it too often suggests Thatneat Stake, a factious cry. Which Ws talky., anti Immo apply. It is, therefore, with serious sadness that we find ourselves obliged to bring the charge of sectarianism against the .&eds Mercury and Mr. BAINES, junior; it is with painful feelings that we have to charge the paper and the person with the adoption of the same untiur courses, which all the honest journals and journalists of Europe have stigmatised with just re probation when pursued by the Jesuits of France. In 1839 the Wesleyan Methodists adopted certain resolutions on the subject of national education, in which they expressed some fear that the state would not make sufficient provision for the religious instruc tion of the children in the national schools. The Leeds Mercury, as the organ of a religions body strongly opposed to the Wesleyan Methodists, took the opportunity , of rebuking that very respectable body in the following courteous terms: " We call upon the public to observe that if cavilling like the above is to succeed in obstructing the government plan, the effect will be altogether to prevent any aid being given by government to the education of the people." The Wesleyan are then accused, not only of cavilling, bat of bigotry, and one of their most distinguished preachers is invidiously pointed out by name to public reprobation : " Let Bishop Ikon /Inn and Bishop BUNTING say what they please, we believe neither the Church nor the Wesleyan., much less the Dissenters, will take up arms against the amended project of the government, which is the only feasible plan for assisting and stimulating the all-important march of national education." We re member the resolutions thus condemned ; they were more temperate and candid than those which Mr. BAisse recently proposed at Leeds; we differed from them, then and now, but we deny that they were tainted with cavilling or sullied with bigotry ; and there certainly was nothing in them to justify the epithet invidiously and insultingly given to the Rev. JABEZ Burrrinti. Then, and now, we thought that the Leeds Mercury had allowed its sectarian rancour so far to mislead the judgment as to permit the calumnions misrepresentation of a large and respect able religious body,----a body to which we do not belong, and to which we may therefore the more readily bear testimony of having done much for the cause of rational freedom and its best security, social order. It seemed tha t the Leeds Mercury had learned some of the arts which the Jesuits practised spinet the Jansenists as a preliminary to the know ledge of those arts which the Jesuits have unscru pulously employed in France against the university and the state. popery leads to the same results that unreasonable ued of philosophy haa produced in France : but the question of Catholic endowment hes just as little to say to national education at this side of the British Channel, as that of the liberties of the Gallican church had at the other. There is a spite in England against the Maynooth grant, as there was a spite in prance against the revolution of July, and in both countries the spite was shown on the question of national edu cation, which had no earthly connexion either with the grant or the revolution. As their struggle grew more hopeless, the Jesuits of France showed themselves willing to fraternise with the republicans, the ultra-democrats and the anarchists of France : Mr. BAINES, in servile imitation of these tactics, appeals for support to the Chartists. To them he addresses his bug bear that the measure "is calculated enormously to in crease the influence of government, and to destroy the manly independence of the nation." Now Mr. BAINES knew well that the appointment of pupil teachers and stipendiary monitors is to be placed in the hands of the local managers, and not in the hands of the govern ment ; and he further knew that the measure dimi nishes the patronage of the government by securing for educational merit offices which are now given at pleasure. Mr. Csneurr, the " ditto to Mr. BURKE " of the scene, took up the statistics which BAINES has aban doned as hopeless, and described the results of a system unlike that of the Committee of Council —founded, in fact, on directly opposite principles—and thence argued for the rejection of the government measure. We readily acquit this gentleman of having studied Jesuit logic, or any logic whatever: we recommend him, however, just to inquire how a measure similar to that proposed has worked in the United States of America, and not to weary himself and others by idle disquisitions on the effect of a totally different system in Germany. In France, the Jesuits have succumbed : in Ireland, the opposition to the national board has died away: in England, we firmly believe that sectarianism can never be • guiding principle. It Mr. BAINES does not take care, he will stand in the ridiculous position of Mr. NANGLE, of Achill, whose appeals for protec tion against an imaginary Popish conspiracy have just ended in the conviction of his principal witness for perjury. It is not safe policy to hazard assertions capable of decisive refutation, but it is not easy to avoid each a course, when men begin with a deter mination to oppose the government, and trust to chance for supplying them with plausible excuses for their opposition. THE German papers bring ms the account of the commencement of a new era in Austrian legislature. A serious debate took place in the Chamber of the Landstande of Lower Austria on the etk of March. It has hitherto been usual to convene the body that kept up the shadow of popular representation, at Vienna, en the let of Octor. Some tact was shown by assembling the Diet of the other seven provinces on the let of September. These assemblies consist of a bench of prelates, one of nobles (herren), and one of knights (rider), sitting in their own right. In Tyrol, the peasants and deputies, originally the landstande, exerted a very serious control over the acts of the sovereign ; and, at the period of the Reformation, the landstande of Upper Austria, uniting with their brethren at Vienna, presented a demand to the bigotted FILIIDINAND 11. for tole ration for Protestants in his palace at Vienna. The tyrant was about to sign the paper granting the request, when the clarions of DAMPIERRE'S dra goons were heard, and the regiment, riding into the court-yard, drove the astonished members out of the palace. This regiment has, since that epoch, pre served the privilege of passing through the palace, which, like St.. James's, is open to the public, with music and flying colours. The same epoch marked the commencement of a aeries of persecutions Nptinst the Protestants, which depopulited Upper Austria and part of Styria, as well as Bohemia. The power of the Landstande was annihilated, and although the form of summoning them was kept, yet they only met for a single day in the year to hear the sum an nounced which the province to had pay in the shape of direct taxation. The Hungarian diet alone preserved its rights, and a few years back these were confirmed and strength ened by several popular concessions on the part of the crown. Since then, the diets of Lower Austria, in which Vienna is situated, and of Bohemia, have ven tured to rummage out of their archives some docu ments tending to prove a right to discuss taxation propositions. About two years beck the Vienna diet took heart, and complained, rather in tones of la ment than resentment, that their advice was never asked on the subject. To their great surprise, this piece of audacity seemed to occasion no anger. In stead of a rebuke, they were invited to prove their charter, which they had no great difficulty in doing. On the present occasion, their activity has been re markable. Not only was a petition agreed to that many articles of food nosy liable to excise duties should be exempted, end an income-tax on the rich levied instead; but a remarkable insight into a finan cial difficulty, that threatened to render a great im provement nugatory : was solved in a manner deserving of serious attention in other countries. The redemption of the labour rents in all the pro- I vinces has been an object of great solicitude. As it involves money payments both for rent and labour, provision has been made for an extension of the cir culating medium, and the erection of a bank for ad vancing on the security of land, whether the property of nobles or of peasants, has been ap proved. By the side of these two admirable pro positions, a debate on the propriety of allowing the citizens of Vienna a share in the deliberations of the diet does not lose in interest. The good burghers (it must not be forgotten that all bankers, large manufacturers and merchants can now take out letters of nobility) until last year stood under the door to hear the imperial taxation ordinance read. They were then allowed to sit down. It is now proposed that they shall both speak and vote. Count BREUNER and Baron Srurr are recorded as the first "Herren" who found the use of their tongues. We have received our Paris express of Saturday. The close of the week in Paris was marked by a degree of excitement and astonishment among the public which has rarely been witnessed, except in the case of some great popular movement 'When the annoriacement of the Russo-French financial trans action appeared on Wednesday night in the Moninsair Parisiss, it was regarded by many, among wham were individuals prominent at the Bourse, as a hem The press on Thursday was all but silent I . met • line of comment was uttered save by a angle rend out of the twenty which issue daily. On Friday emd Saturday, however, the subject engreeseithe attiwilea of the entire prem. The miniekeial . sews sr= it with timid and doubtinkapprobahon ; the organ gave it as a harbing er of that alliance be France which for so many years It has advocated. Most of the opposition josh . = their ingenuity to discover in it a politkals=se no insinuating that there must be secret known only to M. Ouizot and a higher persons.% to be fulfilled hereafter. Meanwhile, no deacnptlos se convey an adequate notion of the bewilderment at the Bourse. The mortification of the =L i ( *A arena at being kept in the dark iota geilkellion in the Moniteur, was extreme end in which Rothschild himself ebsswi es haply es ethics. The Journal des Dioats was of course sought with extreme curiosity and solicitude. Here is the sub stance of what it has put forth. It admits the universal astonishment, in which it shares; in a financial view there is cause for lion ; the bank will be relieved from its embarrass ments without deranging commerce or disturbing public credit. It is s' act of friendship of the Ern . , Among these intelligible motives the following may be mentioned as abundantly apparent : The circulation of Russia is a paper currency, the amount of which may be taken at about 80 milhor. s sterling. This is guaranteed by reserves in specie, deposited in the fortress of St. Peter and Paul at St. Petersburg, which at the commencement of the pre sent year amounted to above 100 millions of roubles, equivalent to 16 millions sterling, being one-fifth of the paper circulation. Owing to the large exporta tions of grain which have since taken place, and the still larger orders transmitted, a considerable increase of this stock of bullion is expected. France has little export trade to Russia, and consequently mast either procure the grain she wants in countries prepared to receive her exports or send specie to Russia. The drain of specie which has already taken place has nearly exhausted her coffers, and it was not improbable, therefore, that her custom might have been withdrawn by necessity from the ports of Russia and transferred to those of the United States. The eyes of the , Emperor and those of his advisers were wide open to this state of things. The unexpected expedient which has been so sud denly. adopted offered a combination of advantages to Russia. It supplied an advantageous investment for a mass of capital lying in the vaults of St. Petersburg. The French stock purchased by this would be obtained at a favourable moment, the funds being low. A rise would be almost certain, and, be sides the interest, a handsome premium would be realised on the principal. But what must have weighed much more powerfully with the Czar was that French commerce, about to be directed to the porta of the United States, would be brought back to Odessa, and that a market would be sustained for the enormous masses of grain which Russia produces, to the great profit of Russian commerce and the benefit of the imperial treasury. In addition to these substantial motives based upon financial considerations, it is impossible not to admit that the Emperor of Russia must be duly sensible of the advantages which must arise in the present rela tions of France and England, from an act which would mitigate the hostile feelings entertained in France towards the destroyer of Polish nationality. There is no road to the heart of a commercial nation so sure as through its pocket. The objection which has been advanced by some of the opposition journals that a dangerous power of acting on the public credit of France will be placed in the hands of a foreign, and hitherto unfriendly, sove reign, is rejected with something like contempt by financial men. Such appear to be the conclusions on this exciting question at which the most sensible and influential portion of the commercial world had arrived in Paris on Saturday. It bad been stated that the initiative in this pro- ceeding bad been taken by the Bank. This, however, is contradicted on authority by La Presse, which also ; states that the committee, before which the proposition of the Emperor was first brought, consisted of four, and not of three, members of the council, as had been previously stated; these members were—MM. Odier, Jaques Lefebvre, Pillet-Will, and Hottinguer. The Bank is to deliver an amount of 5 per cents., repre senting an annual interest of two millions of francs, and of three per cents. representing an annual in terest of 145,000 fr., and it is to be entitled to draw bills for the amount of the principal thus represented at from 35 to 90 days' date. Thus specie will not have to be directly imported. These bills will pan into circulation in the usual way, and will find their way through the usual channels of commerce to Russia, a considerable portion of them being of course transmitted in payment for the grain which has been and is to be imported. Among the establishments which will derive more immediate relief from this measure, will be the Bank of Marseilles. That institution, than which none can stand higher in point of credit, had been ea ex hausted of specie, that recently it had absolutely sus pended its discounts. The drain of specie from Mar seilles will now cease. The bills on the treasury at St. Petersburg created by the present transaction, will be transmitted in lieu of it. Although the present importation of grain has largely operated in producing the existing finan cial embarrassment at the Bank, it is far from being the sole cause of it. The extraordinary ex tension of public works, and especially railways, which are and have been in progress, have rendered necessary an increased circulating medium. The rapidly increased extension of general commerce through the country has contributed to the same effect. Now, it is well known that the currency by which these extensive operations are effected is com posed almost entirely in France of five-franc silver pieces. The relief which will arise from the present Rus sian transaction would be more than sufficient to ease the pressure for the . present on the Bank ; but when the law which has just been adopted by the cham bers, authorising the issue of notes for 200 francs, takes effect, followed, as it probably will be speedily, by a farther reduction of the amount to 100 francs, general ease and security may be anticipated. Advice, have been received in Paris from Odessa, which have had a still more favourable effect on the prospects of the country. Notwithstanding the enor mous quantity of grain exported last year, which, from that port alone, exceeded 1,700,000 quarters, there was still in store . there, at the commencement of the present year, little lees than 1,200,000 quarters. Before the beginning of April large supplies were expected from Cherzon and Bessarabia, and in May from Podolia and Kiew. The price of grain at Odeon last month was higher than it had been for the last forty years. The winter corn of the beet quality was sold at about 20 shillings per qr. It was estimated that the value of the corn exported in January was 1,400,000 silver roubles, equivalent to about 224,0001. The value of the imports in the same month was under 3.10,000 roubles, or 36,000/. The Madrid mail with letters and journaLi of the 15th has arrived. Tho cabinet continues at Madrid in an agitated and uncertain state. Each mail brings an account of a ministerial crisis which the next contradicts. The ministry tenders its resignation to-day, the Queen says she will consider of the matter, to-morrow gives no answer, and the ministry keep their seats. The Queen had signed the appointment of General Serrano to the captain-generalship of Navarre, who was accordingly ordered to leave Madrid for that province. He did not comply with this order bat had remained at Madrid. The ministry hastened to con voke an extraordinary meeting of the cabinet to deli berate on this delicate affair. This council was attended not only by the members of the ministry, bat also by MM. Narvaez, Martinez de is Rosa, Mon, Pick], Donoso Cortes, the Marquis de Girone, the Marquis de Villuma, Gonzalez Bravo, and other lead ing members of the Moderado party. The ministry before acting in this matter wished to consult with all these influential persona. It was decided that General Serrano must be brought to trial for having refused to comply with the orders of superior autho rity. On the 15th, at 3 P.M., all the ministers attended the senate, where they announced the official nomi nation of Generals Serrano, Ezpeleta, and Fernandez to make the military inspection in the provinces. The Gazette of the 15th publishes these resolutions. The ministry also read an exposition of General Ser rano, which gave an account of all that had passed during the last two days, between the cabinet and him, and which demanded of the senate to decide whether he ought to quit Madrid in accordance with the orders of the cabinet, or to continue to hold his seat in the senate. The cabinet further demanded the authorisation of the senate to bring General Serrano to a trial for disobedience of orders. The President of the Council, the Duke of Soto mayor, after these documents were read, explained with her, and there cut his throat with a sharp knife she had bought on purpose, nearly severing the windpipe, and with such strength that the knife broke and cut her fingers. She then rifled him. The unfortunate man endeavoured with the little strength that was leR him to stop the blood with WA shirt. A person in the house, attracted by his grow n. burst into the room and found him weltering in his blood. The woman was arrested by a commissary of police as she was leaving the house. On the following day she was Con ducted to the Morgue, where she was shown the corpse of the murdered man, and made a full avowal of her crim e. BELGIUM.- 2 BRUSELs, MARCH 18.—The tion of a free-trade in corn excites considerable intermt, especially as it is feared that the recent changes in Holland may be unfavourable to Belgium if the protective system is maintained. Yet there is little hope fur free-trade mealtime in the present chamber of representatives, which has a mejority in favour of protection. The Antwerp merchants, several leading manufacturers of Ohent, and the Brussels Anti-Corn-law League, continue their agitation for a f ree trade in corn. There has been a fall in the price of corn in several important market, of Belgium, although the genera/ average prices of wheat and rye show a alight increase, at. cording to the last quotations. S W ITZERLAND. SCARCITY. Accounts from Berne of the 15th inst. state that misery prevails to a fright ful extent in that canton, usually regarded as one of the mast opulent in Switzerland. One of the journals estimated the number of persona subsisting on public charity at no lam than a hundred and some thousand', which is equal to one quarter of the population of the canton. In some of the districts, especially in the Berneee Oberland, provisions are so scarce, and of so bad a quality, that some epidemic disease is feared in the spring. Bankruptcies occur daily, ao4 sales by auction increase on a similar scale. It was remareed that during the whole year of 1807 there 'were fewer bank ruptcies than are indicated in one of the last numbers of "Official announcements" of the canton. The budget of the town of Berne for the present year show d a deficit of 127,5760, or about one-tenth of the cantonal deficit. The scarcity of food increases. Domiciliary visits have been made by order of the authorities in the establishments of cer tain individuals accused of boarding up stores of grain, bet I they led to no other result than to prove the universal want In the midst of all this misery, party spirit is as violent as I ever. The organs of the Radical party, which had seemingly become quiet, have burst forth again with renewed violence, and a rising of the corps francs is expected, if the Catholic league refuses to disarm, which is more than likely. Th e canton of Friburg, which, owing to its geographical pod. lion, is more open to an attack than any of the other cantons, is making the preparations necessary for defer. ITALY.—ROME, MARCH 9.—The sovereign puttiff . has appointed a commission to draw up the statutes for an . order of chivalry. The order is to be the reward of merit and good scions without regard to the faith and the country of the individual. It is to be divided into two classes. The first will confer hereditary rank, the mond nobility for the iife-time of the member. The order is a star with the motto: Virtue: et merito. M. Fornari, papal nuncio at Paris. has been recalled, and is to receive the cardinal's hat. Owing to the high price of provision, and not to deprive a number of persons of the meant of earning their bread, the Pope has authorised the theatres to remain open during Lent. This is the first example of such a measure. A law on the liberty of the press, drawn up in a rational and liberal spirit, is shortly to be promulgated. The difference which had arisen between the Holy See and the Abbe de Lamennsie, will be shortly settled. Great astonishment will be felt at this affair, which has as yet been kept a profound WIWI. NAPLES.—AN ANCIENT AMPRITHEATRE.—It is stated, in a letter from Naples ' that the ancient amphi• theatre of Polmsolei has been freed from the earth that var. rounded it, and may now be examined in all its parts. The dens of the animals, which are situated under the arena, are of extremely solid masonry, and in a state of excellent pre servation. Lamps, parts of columns, and remains of archi tectural ornaments, have been found in them. GERMANY.—A letter of the 13th from Berlin states that the health of the Queen of Prussia had become so much improved, that her Majesty had been able to leave her bed for several days. AOBTRIA.—VIENNA, MARCH 9.—FIIMT PUBLICS. ?lox or DEBATES or ens Ars-IRIAN Dien.—The Aar- Owl Gasette of the 14th inst., contains • remarkable an of the times. For the first time the debates of the assembly of the states of Lower Austria are published. The debates began on the Is% and were closed on the Bth lust. They were carried on with much spirit. Among them may be men tinned, In the first place, the royal rescript of the insulation of the states in June relative to the taxes for 1847. The eaks have resolved on an humble petition to the Ring, l that he would take into consideration _a reduction of the taxation, especially on the necessaries of life and on stamps. As a compensation to the revenue, an universal income-tax is to be recommended.—Another topic discussed by the esionahly was one on which the states have been intent foe some years, the improvement of cross country roads between the provincial towns, to communicate with the great roads. A committee has been appointed to draw ups report of plans of roads in other countries, to be laid before the next as sembly of the states, which will, probably, take place in May. The royal resolution of December 14, for the aboli tion of the roots and tithes (the taxation so complained of by the Galician peasant.] officially announced to the states, was most cordially received, and the states una nimously resolved to petition the king for certain regulations necemery in order to carry that &boll- • tion into effect as speedily as possible. A very interesting debate arose on the educational men sores of the government, and especially on the neces sity of means for the improvement of the condition of parish schoolmasters. For this purpose a committee was appointed. The most important point, however, was the question of the representation of the commons (den violets oder Biwyeretandee). All the share which they have hitherto had in legislation has been confined to attendance on the opening of the States-Assembly to hear the government statement of taxation, after which they are required to re tire before any discussion commences. A few years since they wine not allowed to enter the house, but had to stand in the doorway and listen to the proceedings. At the re cent session, on the occasion of a question of taxation, Count Breuner (a genuine Tory in the most liberal sense) pat a que-tion s i to the mode in which the commoners had been reduced from their old constitutional rights to their present minimum of representation. Count Brenner understood tla royal message calling the fourth state to the assembly as an admission that they bad a right not only to hear, but also to take a deliberative part in the proceedings. He proposed that it was now the duty as well as the right of the com moners, to claim a share in legislative measures. This pro- posal led Baron Von Stifft into an historical statement of the legislative functions of the commoners, from the opening of the Austrian Assembly to 1790. Several speakers followed in favour of the suggestion made, and Count Becomes proposal was unanimously supported. There is good reason, therefore, for supposing that we shall find the fourth state at the next assembly no longer in their late passive situation, but assuming a therein the discussions. HANOVER, MARCH S.—GAME-LaWa. —There are some particulars worth mentioning in the latest discussions in ' the assembly of the estates ; above all the resolutions of the I second chamber to propose the revocation of the enactment of the game-laws of 1840, by which it is allowed to fire at poachers who take flight. In the debate on this primal, several lawyers gave statistical information respecting the eoneequences of this enactment, which were so horrible that even thu authors of that law, many of whom have still sells in the chamber, were deterred from opposing its revocation. It is hoped that government will take advantage of this pro posal to ameliorate the law. HAVARIA.—A letter from Munich of the 11th, cape that now regulations in a liberal spirit will be shortly pro mulgated relative to the liberty of the press In Bavaria. The King was confined to his rooms from illness. According to the Cologne Gazette of the 19th instant, the A1161711E1 ambassador to the Court of Bavaria left Munich en the 14th, with the whole persormel of the embassy, leasing only a secretary behind. This sadden departure is said to be in connexion with the late event', and it was said that the ambassador left without demanding a farewell audience of the King. POLAND.—The Co/ogne Gazette announces that the Grand-Duke Michael of Russia is to be nominated Vies my of Poland, with the same power and attributes ewers exercised by the Grand-Duke Constantine up to 1830. To this rotten% in attached an agreement concerning the Catholic Church in Poland. A papal nuncio is expected It Warsaw. THE CAUCASUS.—TYPE MAsSACRE OF A TRIM —A letter received at Constantinople from Circa's% gives an account of a terrible sot of vengeance taken by Cl on the tribe of the Athena*, for in act of treachery en part of the latter. The Russians had persuaded the tribe of the Achenes, who had made their submission to them, 1 9 ✓ind messengers to Chamyl, demanding of him to send th em 1,200 men to aid them in rising against the &ciao. o=l, not suspecting anything, sent the 1,200 men ne , who were received in the most hospitable manner by the Athens. The 'mimed% was to take place on the 15th of January ; but on the night of the 13th, the aided by a regiment of Camels, fell the Joll=l Chamyl and measured the nu.ii; some, escaped, and carried the to the Ciresithea l = After the massacre, the Athena the Reedans r v it t a session of the village of Cassabas, whisk they Meantime, great activity prevailed in the Ckosillim Nob ' numbering 60,000 drone: they swore by Aids ass Mk= living soul. On the 27th January they applied Cambia ;on the following day th ey stormed ths l and man, woman, and child, Russians end Aries% ve a :a to the weed. On the evening of the 28th 5,000 Has been destroyed. The few Achenes who contrived% crossed the freatiow, and bare been distributed anseegel i t different Borman forte in the Crimea. The last two stosseto . THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1847. Pr'